Cambridge News | April 20, 2023

Dragons in the picture

Claudio Schermi, President of the European Dragon Boat Federation, right, joins an Italian contingent – from left: Alessandro Piccardi, Jolanda Gamberini and International

Breast Cancer Paddlers Commission (IBCPC) vice president Lucia De Ranieri - for a selfie after the Pink Parade of Nations.

More than 2500 competitors

from 37 countries participated in the IBCPC Dragon Boat Festival on Lake Karāpiro at the weekend.

Last Friday they and their supporters participated in the

Pink Parade of Nations down Cambridge’s Victoria Street and into Victoria Square for the Opening Ceremony.

Mary Anne Gill was at the parade down the main street, in

Victoria Square for the opening ceremony and at Lake Karāpiro for the final day with her camera and notebook.

See pages 5, 6 and 7 and online, cambridgenews.nz.

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Jerome says thanks

Cambridge firefighters were able to celebrate the value of their work when Jerome Crawford called in to see them.

Last October Cambridge crews were called to a serious crash at Mystery Creek where Jerome was badly injured.

The combined efforts of firefighters and ambulance officers gave him a fighting chance - time to get to hospital where lifesaving treatment was provided.

“Most of the time after an incident we don’t hear what happened to the person or people involved, but sometimes we get a call or a visit and recently we got the pleasure of meeting Jerome in person,” fire chief Dennis Hunt said.

Jerome met volunteers who attended his crash, and his mum Bianca also sent a

photo of him in the hospital and allowed the brigade to publicise it.

“His parents Bianca and Deane wanted to come with him to thank the crews personally and they said he is extremely lucky to be here, his injuries were life threatening, and it’s taken many months recovery.”

Praise for nan

Best article this week, (Cambridge News) April 12? Ram raiders are given the push. What a gutsy woman, A++, anonymous person for ramming the ram raiders, wish it had been filmed . Did you grit your teeth and the steering wheel as you did it?

Brilliant lady driving with horn blaring that’s fantastic. A wine to follow? I will shout you. I would like to know you - such character and determination and sheer guts.

Good one Cambridge News, should have been front page - paper just gets better and better.

Carole Hughes

Cambridge

Editor’s note: Thanks Carole, that’s the consequence of having so many great stories to tell – many of them could go on page 1.

Help on offer

On the beat with Senior

Countering the criminals

We have had an eventful couple of weeks in Cambridge. Staff executed warrants at two Cambridge addresses around methamphetamine supply and again recovered evidence not only for drug offending, but also multiple items from Waipā burglaries. As a searcher, it reiterated to me again the importance of marking your belongings to enable them to be clearly identified.

Under the Search and Surveillance Act 2012, police are in some cases able to seize items as being of uncertain status to enable us to determine whether they may be lawfully seized. An example of this could be where the occupant at an address being searched is unable to prove ownership of what is under the circumstances, a likely stolen item – for example, a high-end mountain bike. You may have seen a Facebook post in the past week looking for owners of items that fall under just that category.

More generic items such as tools, however, are often left behind in the absence of proof they are stolen. Engraving your drivers’ licence or other personal identifiers in addition to knowing the make, model and serial numbers of such items makes our job easier and increases the likelihood of your stolen items being returned.

In other recent activity, we also had a number of vehicles stolen or interfered with on both sides of the river, around the time of

the Spark Ram Raid. In this day and age, it is well worth considering setting up CCTV at your home, covering entrance points and driveway/parking areas. This is especially true where your vehicles are routinely parked outside. Always ensure vehicles are locked and keys are not kept in visible locations.

CCTV can give us key information as to the identity of the thieves, their clothing and exact actions at the time of the offence. All of this is helpful for our investigation. I do however recommend you get an understanding of private CCTV use guidelines. One example is that under privacy law, you may not aim your CCTV camera so that it looks into a neighbour’s property where privacy is expected (for example, over the high wooden fence into their back garden).

Once your CCTV is in place, Community Cam is the website for you. When you register the existence of your CCTV with Community Cam, police will be able to quickly identify possible sources of local CCTV coverage in the event of a crime. This then allows us to contact you to help with an investigation.

At the present time only a handful of local CCTV sources are registered here. It would be great to bring that number up to date.

Regarding the lady in your town who heroically took action against these ramraiders … I and several friends are wondering if her insurance company rejects the car damage claim, as I suspect they will, I would like to suggest a Givealittle page be set up to cover any financial losses she may incur.

A great way to help her out but needs to happen within your community…

Denise Wedderburn

Cambridge

Editor’s note: See story on Page 11.

I’m stumped

I have to concur with Charles Morgan’s “Money well spent” rumination.

I understand the impetus for maintaining and developing Cambridge as a true gem, among small town gems. However, cutting down trees, and spending millions of dollars, for what amounts to opulent first world titivations amid the Hawke’s Bay devastation, seems anathema to traditional Kiwi common sense.

And remember, Hawke’s Bay is one of our national food baskets. We’re already caught in a supply driven inflation spiral, why aren’t we repairing local?

(For the record, RBNZ OCR increases are for demand driven inflation, and will/ can not address supply driven inflation.) Should we support our fellow Kiwis and eat? Or are we going to somehow justify footpaths and cycleways at the continued expense of our trees?

Why not give Hawke’s Bay the funds, and if Wellington squawks, we’ll take it up with them in October.

Shaun Robinson Cambridge

Jerome survived the crash this vehicle was involved in at Mystery Creek.

Constable DEB HANN

Firefighters from left Geoff Leslie, Kase Gerrand, Michael Morton, fire chief Dennis Hunt, Jerome Crawford, Phil Johnston, Richie Gerrand, Peter Wright, Leon Vincent.

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Briefs…

Tritt retires

Waipā business development manager

Steve Tritt has retired after nine years at the council. Tritt’s role involved leading business growth and investment in Cambridge and Te Awamutu.

Rates owing

Ratepayers owe Waipā District Council $77,000 in outstanding rates from before July 1 last year. The final instalment of this year’s rates will be levied on May 22. Outstanding water rates stand at $933,000.

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Waikato Regional Airport

Ltd, owned by Hamilton city, Waipā, Waikato, MatamataPiako and Ōtorohanga district councils, has made a half year operating surplus of $17.7 million. Land sale profits have driven the increase from the previous year. The results include Titanium Park, Hamilton & Waikato Tourism and Jetpark Hotel.

Market to CBD?

Les Velutich, has banned plans to re-establish a street market in Cambridge’s main shopping centre after the Lions Trash ‘n’ Treasure market post-Covid move to Memorial Park. The Lions have applied to renew its permit to operate on the second Sunday of each month in the CBD.

Web statistics

There was only one story in town in the last week and that has been reflected in web statistics. Our story about “Super Gran” and the ram raiders captured 95 per cent of all visits to cambridgenews.nz. Flyover advocate John Hansen standing firm on his plans for the Piarere roundabout was second followed by Where’s the Playground

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Ambassador walk-off puzzle

Mystery surrounds why Chinese ambassador Wang Xiaolong left the stage midway through the opening of an international dragon boat festival in Cambridge last week, but sources say he took exception to the presence of the Taiwan flag.

The ceremony in Victoria Square for the International Breast Cancer Paddlers Commission (IBCPC) event at Lake Karāpiro was halfway through the flag raising ceremony when Dr Xiaolong got up and did not return.

We asked the embassy to comment. They did not respond in time for our deadline.

Also on the stage was National Party leader Christopher Luxon, Taupō MP Louise Upston, Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan and IBCPC president Meri Gibson.

More than 2500 competitors - who are fighting or have fought breast cancer - from 37 countries, including China - were present for the

official Opening Ceremony. Flagbearers took the flags in alphabetical order across the front of the stage and officials set them up behind it. Sources told The News there had been discussions between organisers and the ambassador’s officials about the Taiwanese flag prior to the ceremony.

China sees Taiwan as a breakaway province and part of its territory under the One China principle. Taiwan considers itself an independent country.

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As the Croatian flag bearer walked in front of the stage, Dr Xiaolong could be seen in deep conversation with an aide behind him. He then got up – before the Hong Kong flag was brought up - and went behind the stage where he appeared to be briefed. One female aide seemed particularly upset.

The ambassador then went into the crowd to talk to the Chinese dragon boat team and posed for photographs while the Taiwanese flag was the last moved – out of

alphabetical order – past the empty chair.

As Gibson was making her speech, the ambassador left the square. No announcement was made as to why he had left.

Gibson told The News because she was on the stage, she was unaware of what was going on.

“We as an organisation do not discriminate, breast cancer or any cancer does not discriminate, and we do not engage in political conversations.”

We Say Get it signed and sealed

Waipā residents are being asked to help fund a $27 million museum in Te Awamutu – but there is no legal agreement in place to actually house the significant collection it is being created for.

For several weeks The News has sought information from the council and the Te Awamutu Museum Trust about the plans for Te Ara Wai. We have no doubt that there is goodwill and that the trust intends to see the collection it owns in the new building.

But at $27 million, we expect more than an assurance from the chair of the trust, which is basically all the council has.

The trust was established in 1987 to care for the collection originally held in the name of the Te Awamutu Historic Society on behalf of the community. It has no obligation to report publicly. The funding to care for its collection comes from the Waipā District Council and ratepayers pay for the collection to be looked after. The council museum staff comprises seven full and part time staff. The council’s website says the collection “remains in community hands under the auspices of the Te Awamutu Museum Trust Board”.

Council appoints members to the trust – but the trust meets rarely and our questions have already exposed a situation which culminated in a councillor being told he had not been a trust member for several years – even though he had still been receiving trust emails.

Waipā district councillors who have sat as members of a trust which plans to hand over the collection, voted as councillors to spend $27 million housing it.

To quote a line from mayor Susan O’Regan from a meeting last year when we raised questions about an old boys’ network – it’s all a bit cosy. Our questions about the situation have riled the council and led to suggestions The News is intent on undermining the Te Ara Wai project – or is engaged in an attack on chair Dean Taylor because he is the editor of a rival newspaper. Our questions have also coincided with a trust briefing for councillors – which left one, Roger Gordon, asking the same questions we posed.

We believe our questions, and raising issues, will ensure the project goes ahead as intended. That is what a real newspaper does.

Housing the collection is something this newspaper endorses and supports as is learning about the New Zealand Land War battles that shaped the region and country.

Ratepayers should have the comfort of a formal agreement, not a verbal undertaking given by one person, that the collection will be made available.

We welcome the council’s statement to us this week they now intend to put a legal agreement in place with the trust covering future arrangements for the collection.

We suggest any organisation which is asked to help fund this project would expect nothing less.

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Poppies knitted by New Zealand Motor Caravan Association (NZMCA) members at a ‘knit in’ have been presented to the RSA Cambridge in time for Anzac Day. The poppies were made during the association’s recent national rally in Te Aroha and given out to motor home friendly towns in the Waikato. Making the presentation this week to RSA president Tony Hill, second right, and Brigadier Jon Broadley, right, were from left, NZMCA Waikato chair Michael Cullen and members Chrissy Cullen, Nena Hergatt and Carole Talbot.

The women strike back

By Mary Anne Gill

Dragon boat teams from 37 countries, including more than 2500 competitors who have or are battling breast cancer, were welcomed to Waipā in a moving Opening Ceremony for the international festival on Friday.

The competitors arrived at the ceremony in Victoria Square after a Pink Parade of Nations down Cambridge’s main street where they were cheered by retailers, bystanders and Mooloo cowbells.

Present in the crowd was Rose Print who had travelled from Palmerston North when she heard a friend from the United States who she had not seen for 40 years was competing.

“I just jumped in the car,” she said and headed to the race venue at Lake Karāpiro to book accommodation and ask where Diane Salfelder was staying. The two first met in the US when Print was riding through America on a motor bike and friends put her in touch with another Kiwi.

Salfelder is originally from Kaikoura and met her husband to be when he was a sailor on the nuclear-powered cruiser the USS Truxtun on its controversial visit to New Zealand in 1976. She now lives in Champaign, Illinois and competes for the Prairie Dragons.

“Seeing all these flags here, everybody happy and cheering each other on. The spirit and the atmosphere was incredible,” said Print.

“We never seem to give these things enough publicity. We get so much coverage of rugby but these events come through, and nothing.”

She had not been to Cambridge “for a long

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time” but was blown away by how beautiful it was – the trees in particular – and praised the atmosphere in the town during the parade and the wideness of the roads.

“And Karāpiro is just spectacular, an incredible complex.”

In his welcome, Waikato-Tainui’s Rahui Papa said more than 95 per cent of New Zealanders would have some experience of the struggles, trials and tribulations of breast cancer.

“Breast cancer does not know political barriers, it doesn’t know race or creed, or religious denomination,” he said.

“We are a big family from across the world who have come here, yes some competition in there, but it’s the relationships that are ultimate in our gathering.”

International Breast Cancer Paddlers Commission (IBCPC) president Meri Gibson, a competitor and breast cancer survivor herself, said the festival represented the biggest contingent of women athletes anywhere in the world this year.

New Zealand had the highest number of dragon boat teams per capita but not because there was more breast cancer but because “we are a water people” and just get on with life in a typical Kiwi way, she said.

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New Zealand ever since.

It was to be held last year but was postponed a year due to Covid, something which was a blessing because they were now match ready.

“My heart is full, it is exploding with happiness, to finally be here.

“We hug, we laugh, we cry, we sing, we dance a lot.”

It showed what an incredible life women could have post a diagnosis, said Gibson.

Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan spoke about her mother Katherine O’Regan, who died five years ago and was diagnosed in 2008 because of a national breast cancer screening programme she helped establish as associate minister of health in 1990.

“If she were here today, she would be beyond thrilled to absolutely delighted to see the joy and the veracity on the faces of you all. Today I’m channelling my mother. Your tenacity for being role models, your strength and your fortitude. You are the very people

my mother fought for,” said O’Regan. National Party leader Christopher Luxon said he was inspired by the gathering noting the “unbreakable spirit of camaraderie and team work” required to compete. “He urged competitors to lean on each other, be patient and persistent, keep the banter and jokes going and have fun.

Festival patron Tureiti, Lady Moxon, a breast cancer survivor also spoke about the courage of each competitor.

The teams competing were from: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Fiji, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, Panama, Philippines, Qatar, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States and Uruguay.

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“Breast cancer does not know political barriers, it doesn’t know race or creed, or religious denomination,”

- Rahui Papa, Waikato-Tainui.

Dragons Abreast from Canberra in Australia after the parade: from left front row: Jeannie Cotterell, Maureen Wild, Clare Purcell, Jenny Milward-Bason, Lyndall Milward-Bason, Anne Baynes, Julie Chynoweth, Donna Lennon. Back row, from left: Lucy Cheetham, Denise Brown, Anita Godley, Megan Davis, Gigi Lungu, Elly McGinness, Alison Kesby, Julie Kesby, Clare Smyth.

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Tainui Waka Tourism board member (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Ngāti Ranginui) Lee Ann Muntz with dragon boat festival patron Lady Tureiti Moxon at rear.

Mayor Susan O’Regan talks emotionally about her late mother Katherine O’Regan’s contribution to the national breast cancer screening programme.

Caleb Te Kahu, left, and Pete Mitchell, right, were part of a team tasked with bringing dragon boats from all around New Zealand to Karapiro.

Chinese Ambassador Dr Wang Xiaolong joins the Chinese team for a photo during the Opening Ceremony.

The flags from 37 countries with flagbearers at the Opening Ceremony. The Malaysian team head through the Duke St roundabout.

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Former Kaikoura resident Diane Salfelder now lives in Champaign in Illinois, USA and had not seen her friend Rose Print of Palmerston North for 40 years until the Opening Ceremony.

Photos: Mary Anne Gill

Members of the Waikato Treasure Chests sang the waiata - ‘Tutira Mai Ngu Iwi’ - calling all people to come together at the festival.

The Cyprus dragon boat team Pink Mouflons march in the Pink Parade of Nations.

The Italians had a big welcome outside the Alpino restaurant.

Anzac Day events in Cambridge

Anzac Day preparations have been underway for months, both for the commemorative services on Tuesday and for a preceding Anzac Concert being held in the Cambridge Town Hall on Monday evening.

The Anzac Concert, entitled ‘Ake Ake Kia Kaha E! An ANZAC Salute’ will present a musical programme to reflect all three sections of the New Zealand armed forces – the navy, air force and army. In addition, it will pay tribute to the Māori contingent who served at Gallipoli, which predates the 28th Māori Battalion who will also be commemorated. It is for that reason the programme title reflects the marching song of the 28th Māori Battalion –Ake! Ake! Kia Kaha E!

The concert will break new ground in that it will feature the Cambridge High School

kapa haka group, Te Piringa Māori o Tauiwi, performing for the first time alongside the Cambridge Brass Band and the Hamilton Auxiliary Brass Band.

That event will start in the Town Hall at 7pm on Monday, and will be free to patrons, with the option of a gold coin donation for the Cambridge RSA.

On Tuesday, Anzac Day commemorations will take place as usual in Cambridge, with the 6am Dawn Service and the 9am service at the Town Hall, followed by wreath laying at the Cenotaph.

Cambridge RSA president and district support advisor Colonel Tony Hill said Anzac Day 2023 would also focus on the recovery following recent weather-related disasters experienced in New Zealand.

Gill up for two awards

The News senior writer Mary Anne Gill has been named a finalist in two categories in the country’s major media awards.

Gill is in the running for the Community Journalist of the Year award and Best Reporting, Local Government in the Voyager Media Awards.

Gill, who has been honoured with several awards during her career, is a previous two-time winner and finalist in reporter of the year.

In 2022 she broke a series of major stories. One series resulted in the resignation of a Waipā district councillor – and it was only then other media

began reporting the issue.

She also produced the lion’s share of the 90 exclusive stories Good Local Media produced for the 2022 local body elections.

That was almost 10 times the combined total of stories produced about the Waipā elections by other media.

Good Local Media publisher David Mackenzie said the nominations were just reward for a year of outstanding work, and he noted that The News did it without tapping into the Government’s lucrative Local Democracy reporting fund.

Gill said she always

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Mackenzie said the nominations also underlined the growing profile of Good Local Media publications in a week when one of its stories about a ram raid smashed its online viewing records.

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It’s a no from Waipā

Susan O’Regan says the revamped Three Waters plan from the Government does not come with a meaningful change.

And the Waipā mayor says no amount of tweaking to an alreadyflawed Three Waters model will keep Waipā assets under local control.

She and Hamilton Mayor Paula Southgate released statements after the Government said it would increase the number of water entities from four to 10 to assuage local body councils.

The two mayors were on the same page.

Southgate called the announcement a good step towards a stronger local voice for future waters management, “but hasn’t yet assured Hamilton has the ability to control its own destiny as a high-growth metro council”.

she said.

Waipā would be grouped with Hamilton, Waikato, ThamesCoromandel, Matamata-Piako, Hauraki, Ōtorohanga, Waitomo, and Taupō under the new proposal – which has won support in Hawke’s Bay.

O’Regan said more effort had been made to recognise and enhance local voice, with each council now given a place at the table.

Mylchreest stands firm

By Roy Pilott

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will pick up the tab for improved water structure, twice. Our council and its ratepayers have already invested substantially in this space. We installed water meters district-wide in 2015-16 and we’re just about to invest more than $100 million in a brand new wastewater plant in Cambridge. Those investments absolutely must be recognised.

Former Waipā mayor Jim Mylchreest – a firm opponent of the Government’s Three waters proposal – remains unconvinced by the latest iteration of the plan.

“I’m in the Chris Luxon camp,” he told The News.

“You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig”.

had was that councils which had invested heavily in water infrastructure – and Waipā had - would subsidise those who had not.

“I’m not picking on anyone,” he said

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“We have strongly advocated for an entity design which works with existing communities of interest, to champion Hamilton’s best interests,”

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“But there is no real meaningful change in terms of control of our locally-owned assets. We will have 10 councils represented with the same number of mana whenua representatives. It’s an improvement on what was originally proposed but will still severely dilute the control of Waipā’s waters infrastructure away from those who own it - and that’s our community.”

O’Regan said the issue of cross subsidisation was not addressed.

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“I would have felt more comfortable with two waters and not three and I know others around the country feel the same. And given there are now going to be 10 entities, rather than four, I think the savings being bandied about are also looking questionable. It’s clearly going to cost a lot more to run 10 entities and I doubt the savings will be substantial.”

Mylchreest was heavily involved in the opposition lobby to Three Waters as mayor and having read and heard the latest media reports on the revamped proposal, still is.

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“Waitomo and Ōtorohanga will struggle because of their size –but if you have income redistribution to consider, that’s a central Government issue.”

He noted the backdrop to that was that Local Government minister Nanaia Mahuta said there was no more central government cash available “so it’s local government that pays”.

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Supergran ‘humbled’

By Roy Pilott

Cambridge’s Supergran says she has been overwhelmed by support she has received since The News told readers how she had thwarted a ramraid.

Supergran was on an early morning Easter Monday coffee run when she saw a ramraid in progress at the Spark shop in Victoria St –so she took matters into her own hands and rammed the rammers’ stolen getaway car.

She spoke to The News on condition we would not identify her.

Her story and recounting how the ram raid crew, all masked, came running out of the Spark building and made off in the damaged car caught the imagination of the country –and was followed by readers overseas. Media picked up our story and referred readers to our website – which received a whopping 230,000 in a matter of days.

This week Supergran told The News she had been unsettled when a Give a Little Page was set up to help meet her costs to repair her damaged car. About $10,000 had been pledged by Tuesday.

She had received all sorts of help from other organisations and individuals who wanted to see her Rav 4 repaired.

But she was torn about the setting up of the donations page and how to respond - initially taking the view that there were far more worthy causes.

Supergran, though, does think of others.

“I want to receive the money with gratitude, fix my car and then help fix the car I rammed.

“There were two other people whose cars were damaged on the day, and I can’t help thinking about them,” she told The News.

“And we also should be mindful that there are a group of young people who must be held accountable for their actions.”

The owner of the rammed car said he appreciated the offer from Supergran – but if money was made available, he would probably donate it to an animal related charity in Cambridge.

Spark told The News it has “reached out” to Supergran to say thank you.

Despite an apparent time difference in Supergran spotting the raid and police being alerted, Spark was comfortable police were alerted when the ram raid happened.

“As soon as any of our stores are damaged, this triggers our monitored alarms and security systems. Police and our security firm were on site shortly after,” a spokesperson said.

While Supergran’s decision to tackle the ram raid burglars was lauded, the police stance is that members of the public should not put themselves at risk.

Spark echoed those views.

“While we appreciate and share the frustration of the lady who intervened in the ram raid on our Cambridge store … we would not want anyone to put themselves in harm’s way on our behalf.”

Meanwhile Supergran will be happy when the noise around her ram raid efforts dies down and is trying to keep a low profile.

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The aftermath of last week’s ram raid was posted in this picture by Taupō MP Louise Upston on Facebook

Distraction packs presented

By Viv Posselt

Boxes of toys and activities intended to distract children caught up in challenging situations were presented last week to members of the Cambridge Police and Cambridge Volunteer Fire Brigade.

The ‘Distraction Packs for Tamariki’ were put together over the past few weeks by members of Cambridge’s Altrusa Club. It was part of a national Altrusa initiative aimed at providing first responders and emergency service personnel with distraction packs that can be used to calm children in difficult situations. Donations were received from the community to help make up the age-related packs with items of interest for boys and girls.

Cambridge Altrusa Club president Glenda Little said club members and volunteers had put

together an initial 52 packs, but the intention is to do more as required.

Altrusa Club members presented the packs at the Cambridge Police Station last Tuesday.

In receiving a box for local police, senior constable Deb Hann said they would be particularly useful at the station when interviewing people who come in with children to make statements. “It will be great to have them here … it will certainly make our jobs easier to have the children occupied with the toys.”

Cambridge Volunteer Fire Brigade deputy fire chief Glenn Philip said he understood toys for youngsters used to be carried in fire response vehicles, but that hadn’t been in the case locally for some time.

“It is good to be able to bring it back,” he said.

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With the boxes of distraction packs are, back from left, Bronwen Byers, Janet McComb, Cambridge Police Senior Constable Deb Hann, Alison Burr, Cambridge Voluntary Fire Brigade’s Glenn Philip, Marie Davis and Jenny Shaw. At front is Hamilton Police Youth Aid Constable Danica Hibdige and Altrusa Club president Glenda Little.

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Alarm to go off?

By Mary Anne Gill

When Youth Orchestra Waikato played in the Cambridge Town Hall recently, fortunately for everyone in the sell-out audience, the fire alarm did not go off.

The noise inside the hall would have been overpowering, a patron joked after the concert.

But it now appears the Cambridge Town Hall Community Trust and the town’s fire brigade are close to coming to an arrangement after what both describe as “positive” talks.

Fire chief Dennis Hunt confirmed he and trust general manager Simon Brew met recently to discuss isolating the siren, which sits on top of the Town Hall, during major events.

“At this stage we have not been asked to do so for any Town Hall bookings,” said Hunt.

But it appears it might happen for Les Voisins – a journey into French music through the ages - on April 28 and Double Shot –featuring acclaimed percussionists Yoshiko Tsututa and Jeremy Fitzsimons - on May 26.

“There have been some positive talks,” said Hunt.

“It was a positive discussion,” said Brew.

“In the case of our upcoming concerts, if there is an emergency, the fire siren will still be used as a backup if the other forms of communication fail.

“But we understand the likelihood of this happening is low,” he said.

Hunt said the brigade was using a new turnout system which from time to time could fail. In that event there would be a need to activate the siren.

The siren is turned off between 10pm and 6am.

When The News broached the subject of the fire alarm with the late fire chief Don Gerrand last year, he was adamant turning off the alarm for major events was not an option.

The alarm was still the main and most reliable call to firefighters, he said at the time.

The pager alert used before the turnout system sounded after the Town Hall siren went off.

The Town Hall trust is endeavouring to “activate” the 114-year-old hall which struggles to attract big events partly because of its ageing facilities and appearance.

Orchestras Central Trust chief executive Catherine Gibson said Youth Orchestra Waikato found the acoustics at the hall “fabulous.”

And the toilet facilities are reasonably modern but elsewhere in the hall, there is a tired look, the trust has admitted.

It wants to bring the hall back to its former glory.

Putting temporary pauses on the fire siren during major events is one thing which will help, said Brew.

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Common sense goes up in smoke

While meeting with good friends in a coffee shop over the weekend we discussed the growing spate of burglaries – many of which are directed at suburban dairies. We discussed the CCTV footage that shows mainly hooded younger people intent on stealing cash (sorry all gone earlier) and cigarettes.

Now there are several issues here but the link between younger people and very expensive cigarettes appears to me to be paramount. But what is it that drives teenagers (and sometimes pre-teen) to steal an innocent citizen’s vehicle and use it in an abusive way - to not only damage the car but to create extensive structural cost to the retail premises, and thus, drive up insurance premiums?

Imagine if you will an earnest – and often Indian – dairy owner

who works extremely long hours to support his family. Often from 6am through to 10pm, with brief meal breaks where his wife will take over. The Indian community are not fearful of hard work in order to live and better themselves. They appear to have inserted themselves in the dairy industry and, here in Cambridge, retail premises where liquor is the main product on the shelves.

Why is it that, in an industry with very thin profits, they must arm themselves with baseball bats, fog canons and ugly metal posts outside the shop? Why is it that they must risk life and limb to face incursions – even in broad daylight? And why is it that the offenders are driven to this desperation?

While cigarettes and booze are major attractions to these invaders what is happening back in their

By Peter Carr

homes, especially where dad, grandad and even great-grandad may have never known the luxury of permanent employment. The household suffers, and the largesse of Work and Income swells disproportionately. Which brings me to Work and Income. I do not envy the staff for they have a hard road to walkcontinually besieged by people of low financial opportunity. And by young mothers where the male parent fails to front for his role in the matter. At the same time Work and Income tries hard to persuade out-of-work people to apply for jobs in order to reduce the financial toll.

Recently a well-respected Cambridge café owner interviewed people for two roles in her establishment. To the café owner’s horror, during an interview, the

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applicant’s phone rang twice, and she answered it - completely ignoring the meeting. She did not get the job (surprise) but then demanded that the café owner sign a piece of Work and Income paper to state that the applicant had applied. Sorry folks but we are surrounded by a mentality of free-loading and lack of desiring to earn a decent crust. And where does that leave the hard-working dairy owner? He supplies a convenience establishment normally with many loyal supporting customers. If cigarettes are a big drawcard for the fledgling thieves perhaps my coffee pal’s suggestion that all nicotine sales should take place from a kiosk directly in front of the police station has merit.

The Cambridge locations of three community closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras containing automatic number plate recognition technology have been changed so police can detect cars coming from both directions.

Waipā District Council approved locations across the district – in Te Awamutu, Pirongia, Ōhaupō, Ngāhinapōuri, Te Awamutu and Cambridge - at its December council meeting.

The sites had existing cameras with power and fibre communications, said Transport manager Bryan Hudson in a report to the Service Delivery committee meeting this week.

However, some locations could only detect cars from one direction.

In talks with its CCTV provider, the council chose a better Cambridge location on Tirau Road near the Fergusson (Low Level) Bridge in place of cameras in Victoria, Queen, Duke, Shakespeare and Cook streets.

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Full of fear and doing it anyway

By Janine Krippner

I clearly remember my last night before I moved out of home to Hamilton for the start of my university education. I was terrified and struggled to get to sleep. Having lived in the same home my entire life, the thought of leaving it was the scariest thing I had faced so far. I have now lived in two other countries, visited around 30 volcanoes in about seven countries, and moved houses on average once per year.

A common reaction to my adventures is “I’m not brave enough to do that”. The thing is, being brave is not the absence of fear. I moved to the USA to start my PhD having never visited the country. I was scared. It was scary moving back home too. My way of coping has been focusing on what could go right.

One of the hardest scary times was heading to Kamchatka, Russia, for the second time to work on a couple of volcanoes. My first trip had gone horribly wrong. A plane was shot down over Ukraine when we were in the middle of nowhere with limited communications and little idea of what it meant. When I was back in the city of Petropavlovsk the pavement collapsed below my feet to expose an entire room below me. I miraculously caught myself with only minor cuts but was left with a lasting fear of walking across underground places like manholes. On top of that, near the end of the trip I experienced throat-tightening anaphylaxis with no help around.

Heading back the following year I was nearly paralysed with fear. I was in such a major state of denial, unable to face returning, that I prepared for the trip

on autopilot, hoping that my visa wouldn’t show up so I couldn’t go. Once the plane took off I settled into a state of acceptance of my fate. I needed the data for my PhD. This ended up being one of the most amazing trips of my life with incredible Russian colleagues, a scalding hot two-year-old lava flow, bear encounters, and a diet of fresh salmon and caviar. I even witnessed a tiny eruption!

A lesson had been deeply ingrained from this experience – even when I’m feeling physically sick with fear, I can put one foot in front of the other and keep moving forward. We actually can get through scary things, and we can go forward stronger because of it, once we have done the inner work to recover from the ordeal.

We can do great things even when full of fear. People doing amazing things can still be totally unsure of themselves - we all have our silent battles and challenges to overcome. To understand volcanoes we go to some scary places with everything in place to reduce our risk of harm, knowing well what can happen if things go wrong. This isn’t unique to volcanology - look at our first responders, loggers, the deep-sea fishing industry. When you take a step back and look at humanity, we are far more impressive than we realise.

You can do the hard things, even when you don’t believe in yourself. You are stronger than you think.

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Returning to your silver screen…

By Mary Anne Gill

Kevin Hanna and Nathan Smith have a huge surprise for members of a trust whose dream it was to restore the only photoplayer of its type left in New Zealand.

The two men will fire up the 1915 ‘K’ style Wurlitzer photoplayer – one of only two in the world – that they’ve spent more than a decade working on, for a special viewing on Saturday at their Pirongia property.

There will be tears, Hanna acknowledges,

particularly when guests hear what the photoplayer sounds like. Photoplayers gave sound to silent movies, previously known as photo plays, before talkies made them redundant. They replace a 15-piece orchestra. The News was given a preview and is not about to ruin the surprise. But suffice to say having a Charlie Chaplain silent movie playing in the background was the icing on the cake.

The four current trustees – John McLeod, Don Paynter, Graeme Duthie and Michael

Wilson – will be there as will Deearna Leshams of Auckland, who gave the photoplayer to the trust in 2010.

Then it was in the back of her property damaged by the weather and a far cry from the model which had pride of place at the Strand Theatre on Queen Street.

Now it is on the Ministry for Cultural and Heritage’s Nationally Significant Object Register after having more than $600,000 spent on its restoration. It cannot be removed from New Zealand.

Another 20 plus supporters will also be there to see the photoplayer and a collection of other mechanical musical instruments owned by the late landscape artist and trust patron Jonathan White, who died nearly two years ago.

Hanna and Smith were given the pick of White’s collection to purchase after his death.

Once the guests get past the photoplayer, they will hear a nickel-controlled banjo orchestra comprising piano, banjo, snare drum, tambourine, triangle, wood block, castanets, bass drum, and cymbal.

The Photoplayer Restoration Trust was formed in 2010 by a group of businesspeople in Opotiki whose aim was to carry out restoration work on the photoplayer, maintain it for future generations and raise funds.

After two years of research and an extensive feasibility study, they engaged Hanna and Smith to undertake the restoration.

“Nobody else in the world knows how to look after and repair that instrument,” says Paynter.

They found missing parts around New Zealand and travelled to the United States and Australia for more.

Many of the parts and the side cabinets have been made by hand. The plan, once they were finished, was for the photoplayer to be moved to a film museum but Covid put paid to that and the market for the instrument dropped.

Instead, Hanna and Smith have built their own temperature-controlled showroom come museum.

There is another reason for the celebration on Saturday. The trust is transferring ownership of the photoplayer to Hanna and Smith.

The men will celebrate their 20-year anniversary on Queen’s (now King’s) Birthday Weekend – they joke there have been plenty of times in the last decade when the Wurlitzer tested their relationship.

Now they own and operate Hamilton Piano Company at their Pirongia lifestyle block. They were formerly based in

Kevin Hanna inside the front of the Wurlitzer photoplayer.

Chartwell, Hamilton.

Hanna, an experienced piano tuner and technician, is in huge demand and has worked on servicing and rebuilding pianos for years.

Smith is New Zealand’s only full-time piano technician.

They bring in from Japan second-hand pianos which they refurbish and on-sell.

After they get through the weekend –preparation for which has involved weeks of long days – they will turn their attention to adding to the musical room so they can host groups.

It will be appointment only with the maximum number set at 12. They are in the process of adding a storage room, toilets, bathroom and catering facilities.

“The rest homes are queuing up,” said Smith.

The drawcard will be the Wurlitzer. Guests will get to see a silent movie and witness what moviegoers used to queue for early last century.

“This is our legacy, who else is going to do this?” says Smith.

“We got handed this rotten photoplayer. We got a contract to build a piano and look where it’s led to.”

Hanna, 47, and Smith, 40, are conscious there is no-one else who can maintain the Wurlitzer. So skilled are they, they are heading for the US soon to work on another photoplayer.

Asked what is to stop it ending up like it was 10 years ago, they shake their heads in disbelief. Not on their watch is the answer. So, here’s hoping they live long enough to pass on their skills.

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Kevin Hanna, left, and Nathan Smith with the restored Wurlitzer Photoplayer

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The consequence of progress

By Peter Matthews

The growth of Cambridge in recent years has been almost bewildering. When I first moved here 23 years ago the journey from Bruntwood into town was mostly through open country. Now it’s a different story. The new Waikato Expressway has brought Hamilton within a few minutes’ drive, there are new subdivisions everywhere you look, new retirement villages, medical centres, gymnasiums, (or is that gymnasia?) and it doesn’t look like slowing down anytime soon.

It has the look of an uncontrolled explosion but there must surely be some planning going on in the background. New water mains have, and are still being installed, we have a new swimming pool development, new cycleways and roading arrangements, and the Cambridge Town Concept Plan has some pretty big ideas for the future.

There is a lot of talk about a third bridge, despite the outcome of a regional transportation model indicating Cambridge’s two bridges will cope with projected traffic capacity in the longer term. One wonders how much time the architects of that regional model have spent sitting in traffic waiting to get close to, let alone across, either of the existing bridges at certain times of the day.

There does seem to be a bit of argy bargy which comes along with progress. The changes to the traffic flows in and around Cambridge designed to improve safety for children on their way to and from school were by no means universally popular. It seems there are plenty of people who were happy, in principle, to live

with the existing levels of risk to children as long as they didn’t have to drive round the block. And the outrage at the appearance of large coloured dots on the road surface at some intersections was something of an overreaction, in my opinion of course.

I heard a conversation not long ago about the absurdity of the need to erect a cell phone tower close to someone’s place of work. The largely subjective objections were all manifestly reasonable when taken in isolation, but collapsed in a heap when one of the participants bemoaned the lack of cell phone coverage in the area. Then there’s the much-discussed imminent arrival of social housing between Norfolk Downs and Victoria Road - somewhere, but nobody is actually saying exactly where it might be. That gets people up in arms. ‘Not in my backyard’. Fair enough, but where, then?

By the way, it’s always seemed a bit odd to me that the area in question is called Norfolk Downs. Whose idea was that? ‘Downs’ means ‘gently undulating hills’ but it’s as flat as a pancake - as is Norfolk. The name is a perfect oxymoron.

Progress is inevitable, and we must all go with it or go bush. We can’t all go bush because then bush would become town. If we are to live in close proximity to each other, and that’s the way it’s heading, we will have to be more tolerant of the aspects of progress which we don’t much like.

Thousands attend big race

By Mary Anne Gill

The presence of extra police resources from Hamilton and a 50-strong security contingent averted any major issues at Cambridge Raceway on Friday but chief executive Dave Branch said he will still undertake a thorough debrief.

The Race for Grins meeting attracted a record crowd of just under 4000 people –twice what it got last year.

Cheering loudest were Karāpiro couple Wayne and Fiona Keoghan who

won $50,000 in Cambridge Raceway’s sweepstake after drawing champion pacer Copy That. The six-year-old took out the $1 million feature slot race slashing the 2200m track record in the process in a time of 2m36.3s.

Driven by champion driver Blair Orange, Copy That won $450,000 for his owners Merv and Meg Butterworth and more kudos for trainer Ray Green.

The Keoghans, who paid $100 for a sweepstake ticket and drew Copy That, knew little about the horse.

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Race for Grins winner Copy That parades in front of the sell-out crowd at Cambridge Raceway.

Photo: Angelique Bridson.

Queen and Victoria Sts

Wayne, who works for a company that imports motor home equipment, and Fiona who runs the laundry at St Peters School, now know all about the horse that cost only $7000 as a pony and has won more than $2 million in career stakes.

Before Copy That’s impressive win, the biggest cheer on the night went to the Matthew White Cambridge trained and driven Zlato, a rank outsider which won the race four mobile pace. The Zlato Syndicate owners packed ringside as the three-year-old, with a beaming White, came back to the winners’ circle.

Other Waipā success came with driver Benjamin Butcher, who won the race five handicap pace behind Cos I Can.

Throughout the night police and security guards were kept busy as punters took to the sponsor’s drink with great gusto.

The club had a special liquor licence for the meeting which allowed for transactions of two drinks a transaction, rather than two drinks a person for each transaction. And that, along with an electrical overloading issue in

the drinks marquee, resulted in long queues throughout the night.

“You want some line there to slow down people drinking and the line seemed to be moving, but the long line was not ideal,” said Branch.

“There were a few isolated incidents,” which police and the club’s own security detail were able to clamp down on.

Ambulance staff attended to two incidents –one involving a trainer involved in a car crash on the way to Cambridge and a security guard who had a seizure.

Catering staff struggled to keep up with the food requirements.

“It was an eventful night,” said Branch. “We’ll have our own staff debrief and talk to the police about the night.”

New Zealand singer-songwriter Mitch James, who is about to embark on his first global tour playing 30 dates in Germany, Ireland, France, Netherlands, UK, Australia and 13 shows across New Zealand - wrapped up the night.

Shock of the night was Zlato’s win in Race 4. The three-year-old bay gelding gets guided in to greet its many owners with a pleased trainer/driver Matthew White of Cambridge in the sulky.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill.

Mr Muscle gets congratulations from his owners after the five-year-old bay gelding driven by Michelle Wallis takes out race three at the Race for Grins meeting.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill.

It’s fun time in Leamington

It was the kids’ turn to have their say on Leamington Domain’s future at a family day on Sunday and they did it in their own unique way, as Mary Anne Gill found when she visited to check on feedback.

Comments such as “we like slides” and “keep the trains” written in colouring pencils and lots of pictures represent valuable feedback, says Waipā District Council.

Feedback closes tomorrow (Friday).

Briefs…

Three in

Three candidates have been nominated for the vacant Māori ward seat on the Waipā District Council. They are Raukawa trustee Gaylene Roberts, who also stood in the 2022 election, Barney Manaia of Ngāti Maniapoto and environmental indigenous advocate Dale-Maree Morgan of Te Awamutu. The seat has been vacated by the resignation of suspended lawyer Takena Stirling and The News expects the nomination number to grow before they close next week.

Minister visits

Police minister Ginny Anderson has visited Hautapu to see a government subsidised fog cannon in place. The cannon was installed by Watchu Security at the Hautapu dairy as part of a scheme run

by MBIE to combat a spate of aggravated assaults. “We have installed several locally, and I think more knowledge of this subsidy would be helpful for residents,” company spokesperson Lee Turpitt said. The minister visited Hautapu last Wednesday.

Arsonist strikes

A toilet block near the playground on Thornton Rd, Cambridge, has been the victim of an arson attack. Meanwhile, police in Te Awamutu have arrested two young teenagers after a fire was lit at a commercial building in Rickit Rd. Early assessments suggest the damage will run to $1 million.

Right: Rocking it - Florence Hubert, 17 months, rocking it at the Family Fun Day at Leamington Domain to the music of entertainer Jack Wallis. Photo: Mary Anne Gill

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“They will not be forgotten…”

By Murray Smith, Pastor, Bridges Church

Next Tuesday it will be Anzac Day. With the exception of April 2020 when Covid-19 constraints halted commemoration services throughout New Zealand, Anzac Day had been publicly observed every year on 25th April since 1916. This national day of remembrance summons us to commemorate the time in 1915 when Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) landed at Gallipoli in Turkey.

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I’d highly recommend over the Anzac period, taking time to view Peter Jackson’s excellent 2018 documentary, “They Shall Not Grow Old.” It conveys aspects of the nightmare that was the Gallipoli campaign. Atrocious battle casualties, contagious diseases -particularly gastrointestinal ailments, took a toll on New Zealand and Australian troops. A fly-borne epidemic of intestinal infection ravaged the troops, compounded by defective sanitation and rubbish disposal. Lack of clean water was an issue and while latrines were built, rubbish was burned and bodies were buried, it was inadequate to arrest the continual spread of disease among troops -especially as their nutritional status waned.

In this woeful, ill-conceived episode engaging some 16,000 Kiwi soldiers, about 60 per cent were to become casualties. Australian allies similarly suffered huge losses with the Turkish defenders at the tops of the hilly cliffs suffering horrendously as well.

Loss of life, destruction, misery and the inevitable collateral damage following in the wake of war presents nothing to glorify. Yet stories of courage and bravery - of those who laid down their freedoms, whose personal hopes and aspirations of a future were put aside, warrant being remembered and honoured. And ‘remembering’ is essentially

what Anzac Day is about.

Inscriptions on memorials up and down our nation read “We will not Forget”, or words to that effect. Our thoughts are drawn towards the many stories of bravery, of sacrifice and comradeship that rightly deserve to be recounted and remembered. Soldiers from our town made a significant contribution to both World Wars, as well as other interventions, many making the ultimate sacrifice, losing their lives on foreign soil.

The commemorations taking place to honour their service are entirely appropriate. I remember as a child sitting somewhat in awe, at the feet of an aged great-uncle who’d served in various battle fronts in France during WW1. A quiet, gentle man, he’d ‘survived’ the war, but then in a sense, he really hadn’t. Family said he returned home to New Zealand a totally different man. Rarely speaking of his experiences, a standout image is nonetheless etched in my mind. He told of mustard gas canisters flying into the trenches, with ill-equipped soldiers lacking gas masks, screaming oaths as the gas burned their lungs. My uncle’s account of soldiers cursing God, contrasted vividly with those he said called out for God’s merciful intervention.

Faith made a difference and ‘Unkie’ was a man of faith. I’m thankful he pointed family members towards remembering history’s supreme act of a life laid down in sacrifice. Meaningful to him, was Christ’s death on the cross for the salvation of mankind.

How prone we are to forget sacrifice made on our behalf- hopefully this Anzac Day will stir many to remembrance.

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Honey couple in clover

By Viv Posselt

Ben and Robyn Stinson’s family business in Horahora, Black Shepherd Apiaries, has been named an award-winner in this year’s Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards.

The gold and silver medals they won for their Pure NZ Manuka Honey MGO 400+, and their Pure NZ Clover Honey respectively place a satisfying stake in the ground for the couple. Now in their fifth production year, and with Covid interrupting a burgeoning export market, the couple are delighted with the wins and hope it will provide the leverage they need to expand the operation and broaden future exports.

This wasn’t their first crack at the Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards. That was in 2021, when they won three bronze medals for their Kanuka, Tawari and Manuka MGO 286 honeys. Making the 2023 win much sweeter, however, is the fact that they were the only honey producers to be awarded gold this year… and it doesn’t hurt that their silver-medal winning Pure NZ Clover was described by judges as “a sophisticated classic clover that takes you on a journey”.

“We’re thrilled. It’s great to get the recognition, especially as we’re up against so many much bigger commercial operations,” Robyn said. “When you’re a small, all familyrun business like we are, it’s important to take the wins where we can.”

Like their classic clover, the Stinsons’ own journey has been one where they’ve added a little more value with each measured step.

Ben almost ‘fell’ into beekeeping years ago when he took a summer job at the then Cambridge Bee Products. “I had been a snowboarding instructor for three years… got really sick of the cold,” he said. “I took on this job and found I loved it.”

Robyn, meanwhile, was using her fashion design qualification to good effect at the Cambridge store she opened, Ooby Ryn. She and Ben grew up on the same road, it turns out, and when they got together and the first of their two children arrived, Robyn gave up the shop and designed wedding dresses from home. By then they had purchased their

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Horahora home with beekeeping in mind and had started Black Shepherd Apiaries, named after their black German shepherd, Pebbles.

The pair now work side side-by-side for the most part, but with added roles that draw on individual strengths. Ben, who now has 13 years’ beekeeping experience under his belt, is the primary beekeeper while Robyn uses her skills to market the business and does furniture restoration on the side.

Spurring them on are their children, Kiedis, 6, and Juno, 4, who can often be found in bee suits helping their parents. Ben and Robyn see their learning experiences as important, and actively promote the importance of bees at the children’s schools and at community

events.

They also manage every step of the business, covering the hives, and the production and packaging of their products, which is relatively rare in the industry. It ensures they keep their finger on all aspects of the production cycle and that all the honey is traceable to its source.

It all takes place in the North Island, with many of their hives placed with landowners from Northland to Taihape. Honey is harvested at the end of summer, tested to MPI standards and packaged in a recognised food safety standard facility.

The Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards, which were first held in 2017, were this year judged by a team of 25 specialist

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judges who looked closely at product quality, sustainability and the story of each brand.

Environmental considerations are high on the Stinsons’ priority list. The first-class care Ben affords his bees means they are always in good health and free from preventable diseases – they are also used for pollination around the Bay of Plenty and Waikato.

Ben conceded that while the awards have been great for the company, the year so far hasn’t been the best for the bees themselves.

“This has been one of the worst we’ve had in terms of bee behaviour. They don’t respond well to the sort of weather we’ve had, and the hive behaviour reflects that. They are much more likely to come flying right at you.”

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2023 award-winning honeys.

Making a stand

By Stu Kneebone, Waipā-King Country councillor

Waikato Regional Council recently adopted a new strategic direction which sets out its priorities for the next three years. It replaces our earlier strategic direction the previous council adopted and reflects there is a new council in place, and priorities change.

A high-level review of progress towards the goals contained in the previous document, a review and refresh of the evidence base the previous document was based on and engagement with various stakeholders all formed the basis on which the new strategic direction was built from.

The 2023–25 Strategic Direction is not significantly different from the previous one. This reflects that many of the priorities contained in these strategic documents are long-term in nature and ongoing, and many of our longer term challenges have not changed significantly during the past three years.

Our council’s vision for the region is “The Mighty Waikato: Caring for our place, empowering our people”. Woven throughout all our priorities is a focus on wellbeing and how we respond to climate change. Our changing climate has significant ramifications for all of us, both from an adaption perspective (for example, rising sea levels and increased weather events) and how we make a just and fair transition to a low emissions economy. This will undoubtedly be a key focus for us going forward. This leads into our purpose which we define as “Working together for a Waikato region that has a healthy environment, vibrant communities and a strong economy”.

We have adopted six strategic priorities. In no particular order, they are:

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Water - We want to achieve clean water and healthy aquatic ecosystems that meet iwi aspirations and community needs within defined environmental limits.

Biodiversity and biosecurity - We want people to be working together to protect and restore our unique native plants and animals and the indigenous ecosystem they live in.

Coastal and marine - Our aim is to have healthy marine ecosystems that provide us all with many benefits, such as recreation, food, improved water quality, increased resilience to climate change and sustainable economic opportunities.

Sustainable development and infrastructure - We want resilient communities that plan for intergenerational wellbeing, develop with nature in mind and are able to respond to and recover from adversity.

Community connections - This is about enabling vibrant communities that are well connected with each other and to services.

Transition to a low emissions economyWe want to work with others to transition to a competitive low emissions economy that’s fair for everyone and enhances community wellbeing for the future.

The document is available on the Waikato Regional Council website. The priorities are listed with a more comprehensive commentary explaining what the goals for success look like.

This document will help form development of our upcoming Long Term Plan, 10-year work programme and associated budget.

A photograph of a young heifer cooling off in a water trough has taken out the People’s Choice Award for the Cambridge Autumn Festival photo competition.

The winning image gained just over a third of the 230 people who voted.

The theme of the competition was “A hard day’s work”.

Theresa Wyber’s winning caption was “After a hard day’s work on a very hot day having been milked at the cow shed, cow number 44 made her way to the paddock with the rest of the gals opting to stop for a quick dip to cool off.” Wyber, who sharemilks with husband Darryl in Ōhaupō said that the photo was not photoshopped.

“She (cow 44) must have been feeling super hot and decided to cool off in the trough. She was quite happy doing laps of the trough before we got her out.”

Or she could have simply been nudged into the water and needed rescuing, said Wyber. Open to photos taken across Waipā, the competition attracted several rural scenes, and a number of images of the Cyclone Gabrielle clean up among others. The top 23 photos were exhibited in the Cambridge Town Hall.

Lucky, as she is now known, cools off at her Ōhaupō farm in February.

Photo: Theresa Wyber.

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Rangiaowhia… time for the resurrection

By Roy Pilott

Plans to resurrect Rangiaowhia as a world heritage site – and home to iwi again, have been unveiled.

Labour MP Angela Roberts travelled north from her Taranaki base to meet iwi representatives at Kihikihi last week – and hear what Ngati Apakura and Ngāti Hinetu have planned for their traditional home 4kms east of Te Awamutu.

The details were provided in a verbal briefing by Anglican

archbishop Sir David Moxon who spoke of the historic links between iwi and the church and the thriving horticulture and agricultural business Māori had developed more than 150 years ago.

“The orchards were feeding Auckland, fruit and vegetables were being traded with Sydney, and trading was starting with California.”

Between 1838 and 1864 98 per cent of workers there were Māori, it was a success story, and in Moxon’s

words “it was going places”. The orchards and vegetables covered about 400ha and the village was described as being 3km long with a population of 700.

But on February 21, 1864, that came to an end as colonial solders raided the community.

The dawn attack has been described as one of the worst war crimes perpetrated by the Crown against Māori.

Harris says Māori were taking part in a service in a whare

karakia – a house of prayer - when the building came under fire. A kaumatua came out waiving a white sheet – and was shot. He says those left inside were then too frightened to come out – and died when the punga and canvas whare was set alight.

What was clearly a strategy to destroy the Rangiaowhia economy was a success. Ngāti Apakura and Ngāti Hinetu were left homeless and provided with shelter by neighbouring iwi – and have never gone back to live at Rangiaowhia.

Moxon spoke of the grief and huge burden felt by the church which had close relationships with the community before the attack – and how in the last year it had played a part in securing 4.7ha of land at Rangiaowhia back, with a view to presenting it to the iwi.

The land had been auctioned, and the church’s efforts to buy it fell short. But following discussions, the successful party agreed to sell the land to the church.

“I couldn’t believe it - I was deeply moved,” Moxon said.

He also revealed the involvement of ministers Nanaia Mahuta, Kelvin Davis and Andrew Little in assisting with steps to enable the iwi to return.

Some of that information has been reported previously in The News – but the extent of the planning for what Moxon called a resurrection, was fleshed out at last

week’s meeting.

There are plans for the iwi to return to Rangiaowhia, plant new orchards and set up kaumatua housing.

When that happens, one constant from the 1800s will be there - St Paul’s Church, which was built between 1852–1856.

But the handover of land has yet to be done – and Moxon was keen to hear from Roberts what steps could be taken in anticipation of that happening, given there had been strong support from government ministers already.

The MP saw a number of potential allies who would probably want to be involved in the project and provided advice.

She said the development would be a good example of how partnerships would like with cogovernance – “every example will be different”.

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Keals, Robert George (Bob Snr) – 10.02.1927 –18.04.2023. Bob passed away peacefully at the Cambridge Resthaven Retirement Village surrounded by family. Bob was a loving and devoted husband to the late Pamela, Father to Rob (Bob Jnr) and Jill, Donald, Greg, Glenda and Howard Cole. He was a treasured Poppa to Danelle and Anthony, Sean and Haley, William and Rachel, James and Brie and his great grandchildren.

“Forever in our hearts”

A service celebrating Bob’s life will be held at the Woodside Estate, 130 Woodside Road, Matangi, Hamilton on Saturday 22nd April 2023 at 1:00pm. Special thanks to all the staff and carers at Resthaven on Vogel Street for their wonderful care and support to Bob.

KIBBY- Alfred Ross

2-07-1942 – 22-04-2022

In loving memory of Ross who passed away a year ago. His service to the community from his busy life in the family business “Paramount Recaps” will always be remembered. His duck shooting days are gone, but the fun times he had will always be cherished. As a family we share our love and loss and miss you dearly. Loving wife of Karen. Dad and best mate to Shane and Karen- Marie. Grandad to Heather, Lucy-Jane and Amy.

‘Always in our Hearts’

BRIDGLAND, Alice June –June’s family would like to express their sincere thanks to the ED doctors and nurses at Waikato Hospital for their compassionate care of June during her final days. Also thanks to everyone for their support, flowers, phone calls, attendance at June’s funeral and to friends and family around the world watching the livestream. Also an appreciation for Legacy Funerals and their staff for their care and attention during this difficult time and special thanks to Fran and Mick Borsos for the outstanding catering.

WAIPA DISTRICT COUNCIL MEETING NOTICES

Please visit the Council website for all meeting information. Electronic copies of Council agendas are available on the Waip-a District Council website prior to meetings.

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ANZAC DAY SERVICES & NOTICES

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CAMBRIDGE, TE AWAMUTU & DISTRICT

TUESDAY 25 APRIL 2023

Residents and visitors to the Waip¯a district are cordially invited to attend the ANZAC Day Commemorative Services.

PUKEATUA – 24 APRIL

The Pukeatua Memorial Church service will be held Sunday 24 April at 11.00am

CAMBRIDGE DAWN & CIVIC SERVICES

The Dawn Service will be held outside the Cambridge Town Hall commencing at 6.00am, muster at 5.45am on the eastern side of the Town Hall Piazza.

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There is no indoor wet weather option. We will parade regardless of weather.

The Civic Commemorative Service will be held inside the Town Hall commencing at 9.00am, followed by placing wreaths at the Cenotaph. Families who wish to lay a wreath are welcome to do so after the official wreaths have been laid.

Members of the public and community who wish to participate in the Civic Commemorative Service Parade are asked to assemble on Alpha Street outside Onyx Restaurant at 8.30am. Group Leaders and Markers are to report to the Parade Marshal at 0820 outside Cambridge Vets.

Parking will be available for the aged and infirm in Kirkwood Street for both services. Please note that there will be limited seating for older veterans at the Dawn Service.

KIHIKIHI

Returned and Service personnel and members of the public are invited to a memorial service to be held at the War Memorial, Main Street, Kihikihi at 9.00am.

OHAUPO

Returned and Service personnel and members of the public are invited to a memorial service to be held at theOhaup¯o Memorial Hall, Great South Road,Ohaup¯o at 10.30am.

PIRONGIA

Returned and Service personnel and members of the public are invited to a dawn service to be held at the Pirongia Memorial Hall, Franklin Street, Pirongia at 6.00am. Organised groups that would like to march assemble at 5.45am at the Five Stags Car Park. Light refreshments will be served in the hall after the service.

KAWHIA

Returned and Service personnel and members of the public are invited to a memorial service to be held at the War Memorial, K¯a whia at 1.00pm. Returned service and members of the public that would like to march assemble at the Town Hall at 12.45pm.

TE AWAMUTU - DAWN PARADE & CIVIC COMMEMORATION SERVICE

The Dawn Service will be held at the Sunken Cross War memorial, Mutu Street at 6.00am. Ex service personnel will parade outside the RSA Clubroom, 381 Alexandra Street, Te Awamutu at 5.45am. Light refreshment will be served at the RSA Clubrooms after the service.

Wet weather venue RSA Clubrooms.

The Civic Commemorative Service will be held at the War Memorial, ANZAC Green, commencing at 11.00am. Members of the public are invited to join the returned and service personnel there. Returned, service and members of uniformed groups are requested to parade at the RSA Clubrooms, 381 Alexandra Street, Te Awamutu at 10.45am.

Wet Weather venue Te Awamutu Events Centre.

RSA requests that medals be worn. Medals worn by family on behalf of deceased service personnel should be worn on the right chest. Wreaths will be laid at the memorial and organisations desiring to place official wreaths will report to the Marshall in Teasdale Street on arrival at the Cenotaph. The RSA Clubrooms will be open for all members, invited guests and members of affiliated clubs from 1.00pm. Entertainment at 2.30pm. Restaurant open at 1pm.

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Col (Ret) Tony Hill, MBE

President Cambridge RSA

22nd April 12pm

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