Cambridge News | July 6, 2023

Cup hope looks Sharp

By Mary Anne Gill

Save yourself the anguish in November, the Melbourne Cup winner will be Sharp ‘N’ Smart.

Well, that’s the inside word from former Cambridge trainer Graeme Rogerson and part owner, Horsham Downs rally car driver Todd Bawden.

If the 3-year-old gelding wins, Cambridge will not be adding to the 14 locally bred winners since the race, which stops two nations, was first introduced in 1861.

Sharp ‘N’ Smart is a Westbury Stud Karaka product - sired by resident British stallion Redwood out of the now late-dam Queen Margaret. Rogerson bought him for $55,000 and retains ownership with breeder Gerry Harvey and Bawden.

The $NZ650,000 2023 Melbourne Cup was in Cambridge on Sunday night as part of a seven country, 41 destination tour by the Victoria Racing Club, to highlight the upcoming Melbourne Cup Carnival.

Owners, trainers, breeders and race commentators were at Alpino to hear from club executive general manager Leigh Jordon and the “Keeper of the Cup”, Joe McGrath.

McGrath rattled off the names of all 14 Cambridge-bred winners of the Group One race saying: “14 in one particular community is not seen in any part of the world.”

It helped he had been in town all day and saw the plaque in the main street which listed them all: Hiraji, Foxzami, MacDougal, Galilee, Silver Knight, Van der Hum, Gurner’s Lane, Kensei, Empire Rose, Might and Power, Jezabeel, Brew and Ethereal.

Missing is Efficient, which in 2007 became the third Melbourne Cup winner sired by champion Cambridge Stud sire Zabeel following on from Might And Power (1997) and Jezabeel (1998).

Melbourne Cup winner, one day.

“It’s the race to win.” – Graeme Rogerson

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Former Cambridge trainer Graeme Rogerson, who trained Efficient the last Cambridge-bred winner of the Melbourne Cup, with the 2023 Melbourne Cup he hopes to hold again in November.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill.

Thompson on top

Waikato – and Waipā –was to the fore in the at the Primary Industries New Zealand Awards on Monday.

Adam Thompson, of Restore Native Ltd, was presented with the Kaitiakitanga/Guardianship and Conservation Award.

The former mortgage broker is regarded as one of the country’s most passionate advocates for native trees and biodiversity.

His Cambridge nursery grows more than a million native trees to plant on farms and he is on course to meet a personal target of digging in 250,000 trees on his own beeffinishing farm.

He was among teams and individuals whose efforts to help farmers, foresters and fishers thrive were acknowledged at the PINZ Summit. The awards attracted a total of 65 nominations

Clam work

across nine categories and winners were announced at Wellington’s new Convention and Exhibition Centre.

AgResearch staff collected three trophies. The Science & Research Award went to theAgResearch Endophyte Discovery Team for its development and commercialisation of strains of ryegrass with improved insect protection and plant persistence, coupled with fewer adverse effects on animal health.

Waikato based scientist Dr Louise Hennessy (Ngāti Maniapoto) claimed the Emerging Leader Award for her efforts at AgResearch and other crown research institutes.

Hennessy was recognised for championing support for early career researchers and a learning approach that blends mātauranga Māori with

As the only regional paper in these parts, it‘s fair the Waikato Times has a chance to set the record straight on The News‘ claim that “MPI handpicked a regional newspaper to break the story and take photographs in the lake last month – but did not approach The News.”

A Times reporter heard about the arrival of this pest in our waterways on May 25 through the old journalistic practice of talking to sources. This was soon stacked up through

Adam Thompson

Western science. Another Hamilton AgResearch scientist, Dr Dave Leathwick, was presented with the Primary Industries Champion Award. The judging panel praised Leathwick for his knowledge sharing and effective communication, saying he demonstrated “an unwavering commitment to the rural sector” in particular, for championing parasite control and anthelmintic drug resistance management.

questions put to the regional council and MPI, who then subsequently put out press releases to other media outlets - but that‘s their job. Finding news first is ours.

The reference to taking photographs in the lake‘, appears to refer to a Waikato Times story on June 8 where NIWA and MPI officials were interviewed and photographed at Bob‘s Landing.

Again, a Times reporter did a basic journalistic task by going to check out some popular spots in a hunt for the clams himself. He co-incidentally found not only clams but a host of officials at work and gathered a story while our photographer took pictures.

This option would also have been available for Cambridge News if a reporter had cared to burn the shoe leather to go looking.

Jonathan Mackenzie Editor, Waikato

Region, Stuff

Editor’s note: Congratulations to the Waikato Times for some excellent journalism. We acknowledge errors were introduced into our story on June 22 in the editing process. MPI did not “handpick”, it emailed media including The News on May 25 to report the presence of the clams. We apologise and are happy to set the record straight. We have updated the online version of this story.

Tamahere rate

A letter in the News last week referred to the recently approved targeted rate to continue restoring and preserving the Tamahere gully network. The rate to be charged by the Waikato District Council is $1 a week – a total of $52, not $520.

Let’s start with some good news again this week. We have recently had a couple of car theft sprees. Fortunately, police located most of the vehicles very quickly. Two search warrants were executed. During the second warrant, police recovered a vehicle from a Piarere property that was stolen in Cambridge earlier in June.

Offenders had entered the garage of an address and were able to steal the vehicle, using keys left in it. Two youths have been held to account for their actions as a result. In addition, a stolen car from Cambridge was stopped by Palmerston North police and three more youths are being dealt with by Youth Aid. It is a good reminder to hide keys for any vehicle away from the vehicle itself. Many people have a key hook or bowl for keys somewhere near the front door; while not the case in this incident, it is another way that criminals can be enabled to commit further offending.

Still on vehicle related topics, disappointingly, drunk driving is featuring more than we’d like in our shifts again recently. For under 20-year-olds, the legal limit is zero, so a driver cannot have any alcohol before driving. At 20 years and over, the limit is 250mcg/litre of breath. Some of you will have seen the Waikato Impairment Prevention team in action with alcohol checkpoints to police this.

We are still regularly catching people driving when their breath alcohol is well over the limit. In recent weeks drivers of all ages have been stopped with results in the 500-800mcg range. Even a small amount of alcohol can increase your reaction times and reduce your awareness when driving. It doesn’t matter whether your journey is long or short, there can be no justification for putting yourselves and other motorists at risk of harm.

If you know someone is getting into a vehicle to drive when they have been drinking, we all have a responsibility to take action. If you are unable to prevent them from leaving yourself, phone 111 and provide details of the vehicle they are driving and the person themselves. Provide a direction of travel and if known, their intended destination. If you are hosting friends, be sure to offer food and even a bed for the night. If you stop a mate from drink driving, you are a legend.

Road works

Works on the final stage of safety improvements, including a crossing with signals, at the Tamahere interchange will continue this month and at Karāpiro the construction of a turnaround bay at the intersection of State Highway 1 and Hydro Road will involve temporary speed limits in place near the work site. There will also be several nights of works under stop/go traffic management through to early August.

Final countdown

Pirongia’s Emma Poole is competing in the final of the national Young Farmer of the Year competition in Timaru. The event started today and runs for three days. Poole, 28, representing Waikato-Bay of Plenty, is seeking to emulate her brother Tim Dangen, who won the 2022 event.

Museum events

Te Awamutu museum has unveiled a six month programme of events, starting with Matariki in July. Events include helping people digitalise family history, craft workshops. Monthly activities will be connected to a theme and a museum mascot.

Rates dispute

Almost 400 property owners have objected to the new values put on their properties in Waipā by Quotable Value. Some complain their values are too high, others that they are too low. QV’s value of Waipā properties as at August 2022 was 45.4 per cent up on 2019. The 384 objections amounts to about 1.5 per cent of owners in the district.

Matariki events

Cambridge’s Town Hall Community Trust and Ngāti

Koroki Kahukura will host the inaugural Matariki ki Te Oko Horoi – Matariki celebrations – in Cambridge on July 14. Ngāti Apakura will host Mānawatia a Matariki at Kihikihi Domain the following day.

Morgan takes her council seat

By Mary Anne Gill

Tears flowed as DaleMaree Morgan’s whānau handed her over to Waipā District Council following a pōwhiri welcoming the new Māori ward councillor on Friday.

Both Morgan and mayor Susan O’Regan were visibly emotional as the handover

took place in the packed Te Awamutu council chambers.

It was less than a week since Morgan had been confirmed as the new councillor replacing Takena Stirling who resigned earlier this year after his suspension by the Law Society. When she sat down at the council table – despite an initial technological hitch –

Morgan looked ready to hit the ground running.

The agenda gave her little opportunity to follow up on the issues she identified as being important to her when The News had an exclusive interview last week.

Council is taking a month’s break from meetings which gives her a chance to find her way

around the building and for O’Regan to confirm what her responsibilities will be.

The Strategic Planning and Policy committee meeting on August 1 in Cambridge will be Morgan’s first chance to get stuck into some debate.

Stirling had been the councillor with an iwi portfolio which saw him earning $47,177 a year.

Chasing voters: no pain, no gain

By Mary Anne Gill

The almost indecent haste Waipā District councillors decided to continue with First Past the Post for the next two local body elections, given the woeful 39.65 per cent turnout at last year’s election, came as a surprise.

No doubt they were influenced by neighbours Hamilton City Council – which has the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system - with its 29.4 per cent turnout.

STV is straight forward once you realise it is not compulsory to rank all the candidates – just vote for your favourite - but First Past the Post also has obvious benefits. When the polls close, a result is not far away unlike the ponderous STV.

Out of 78 councils in New Zealand, only 15 councils used STV voting for last year’s elections.

All up the agenda item took just a whisker over two minutes.

Lou Brown moved the motion to stick with First Past the Post and made supporting comments, which are impossible to hear on the council’s livestream as his microphone was not on.

But The News was there, and he cited economic reasons for the decision to stick with the system.

Councillor Mike Montgomerie (or Monty as he is now called in the debating chamber) seconded and so it was passed with no dissension or other commentary.

“Reasonably painless Jo,” mayor Susan O’Regan observed to Governance manager Jo Gread.

The News asked the council whether the agenda item had been “workshopped” previously giving councillors an opportunity to discuss it outside of a “formal” setting.

But no, that was it. Two minutes’ discussion

His key responsibility was assisting in the building of strong engagement and collaboration between council, mana whenua and iwi together with particular responsibilities for representing council on various committees and external groups which seek to work with mana whenua and iwi.

coming a week after an election turnout of 13.11 per cent in the Waipā Māori ward by-election.

To be fair to O’Regan, earlier in the meeting she had commented on the recently released report into the future of local government which among other things raised ideas on ways to lift voter turnout including giving 16-year-olds the vote.

She hoped the document would “encourage further conversation” but that it was a good start.

There were “thumbs up” for some parts, lukewarm for others, she said.

The News has been told holding a discussion about the system used for voting is not the appropriate place to start a discussion on Waipā’s woeful voter turnout.

So, when is? We want to be there.

Dale-Maree Morgan, front right, with her supporters during the karanga at the start of the pōwhiri. Iwi Relations advisor Shane Te Ruki speaks. Photos: Mary Anne Gill

Fallen soldier’s history revealed

By Mary Anne Gill

More details have emerged about John Patrick O’Brien, the former New Zealand soldier buried at Hautapu Cemetry in May after his body went unclaimed in Waikato Hospital’s morgue.

Tauranga reader Wendy Napier-Walker is an amateur family historian and her

interest was piqued by our May 25 story.

Through family history forum Rootschat.com she found out the man his friends knew as “Aussie”, because he told them he was born in Australia, was in fact born on March 14, 1943 in Paddington, England.

His parents were Patrick Gerald O’Brien and Rose Elizabeth Cochrane who

married in England in 1935, both died in Australia – in 1973 and 2008.

They had two children –Margaret Rose O’Brien, born 1942 in Dublin and John Patrick O’Brien, a year later in England.

The four of them emigrated to Australia from London on the P & O ocean liner Strathnaver and arrived in Freemantle in July

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1957. What is unknown is why the family subsequently moved to New Zealand and returned to Australia, without John, in 1963.

John went on to join the New Zealand Army, serving in the Service Corps in Vietnam. All told he had a 20-year army service.

Research by other distant family members show that Patrick O’Brien had two

other children, Theresa born in 1936 and Anthony born in 1938. They too moved to Australia.

The News has contacted family members in Australia for further information.

John O’Brien died in Hamilton on March 2 this year and his body went

unclaimed in the hospital morgue until Cambridge funeral director Jim Goddin made a formal declaration so he could be interned at the Hautapu RSA cemetery on May 18. His service medals remain unclaimed in Defence Headquarters in Wellington.

Rates to rise 5.4 per cent

A rate rise approved by the Waikato Regional Council will amount to less than $1 a week for 85 per cent of ratepayers.

The council set a budget of just over $200 million – a 5.4 per cent revenue rise from rates – at its meeting last week.

“Keeping costs down for ratepayers was at the forefront of councillors’ minds this year,” council chair Pamela Storey said.

“But we were also conscious of the commitments made to our communities and the costs associated with delaying prudent investment.

“This year, extreme weather events like Cyclone Gabrielle really demonstrated the risks to lives and livelihoods posed by climate change and the importance of the flood protection and catchment restoration work we do to help mitigate and address its impacts.

We also know that proactively investing in our partnerships and exploring emerging technology will help us realise new efficiencies in the long run.”

The increase exceeds the 1.6 per cent forecast in the council’s 2021-2031 Long Term Plan but the council noted it was below the 7.2 per cent inflation rate.

Jim Goddin, Jon Broadley, Tony Hill, Mike Madden, Lionel Orr, Rob Good, Sharon Smith, Janine and Darren Sutton (Te Awamutu), Julie Strawbridge, Dawn Babbington, Andrew and Cathy Cuming, John Taylor, Ants Hawkes.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill

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Challenges we face

By Mike Keir, Waikato District Councillor, Tamahere-Woodlands Ward

The independent panel appointed to carry out a review into local government reform has released its recommendations.

I agree with the panel’s summary of the challenges facing the sector including significant funding issues. These pressures are exacerbated by unfunded mandates from central government to perform more roles without additional funding. The local–central government relationship is strained and competitive, in part due to misalignment of operating environments and decision making processes.

Citizen participation in local democracy is declining, and people have lost confidence and trust in the current democratic process and institutions. Engagement between councils and communities is often transactional rather than relational. Council systems are under pressure due to constrained resources and challenging political and regulatory environments which makes change difficult and slow.

Local government in New Zealand gets approximately 10 per cent of the national tax take. This is low by international standards and is no longer viable. A rates based approach to funding the investment required into our infrastructure assets and local communities is not enough, hence the need for three waters reform (among others). However these reforms further erode confidence in local government. As the panel states: “The lack of certainty around local government’s permanent place in our democracy is concerning. The current legislative framework for local government is highly prescriptive, reflecting low central government trust in the sector”.

So, I agree with the panel about the need

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for change. I agree that local government’s core purpose should be enabling local democracy and promoting intergenerational wellbeing. This aligns with the legislative purpose laid out in Section 10 of the LGA:

a. to enable democratic local decisionmaking and action by, and on behalf of, communities, and

b. to promote the social, economic, environmental, and cultural well-being of communities in the present and for the future.

These are noble aims and I support them. Now we come to the panel’s recommendations and roadmap for how to achieve this.

There are aspects of the report that are ideologically driven that will polarise, divide and potentially further reduce confidence and engagement in local government. For example, the panel takes the position that the democratic idea of one person, one vote is not suitable for New Zealand and we need a different form of democracy.

Civics education, which I believe is key to getting people to understand, support and entrench these changes, is not mentioned in the Panel’s 17 recommendations. The funding aspects are good but don’t go far enough, and will only have value if supported by central government. This is unlikely unless they become an election issue. My view is that without major change in the way local government is funded the whole report is compromised. I would advocate that interested citizens raise the funding discrepancy with their local politicians and make it an election issue.

Market drops trust status

By Mary Anne Gill

The organisation behind the weekly Cambridge Farmers’ Market has confirmed it no longer operates under a charitable trust status.

This follows revelations in The News last week that Waipā District Council intends extending the market’s ‘community lease’ in Victoria Square by five years with two rights of renewal for five years each.

The annual Licence to Occupy lease cost for the trust, if approved, would be $357 a year – roughly $7 a week.

The trust then on charges its 30 stallholders between $40-$80 per stall each week – more than $1200 a week. Stallholders who are members of the trust also pay an annual membership fee.

Meanwhile Hamilton City Council charges the trust commercial rates to operate from Claudelands Events Centre every Sunday.

Submissions on the Waipā council proposal are due with the council on Monday.

Cambridge Chamber of Commerce chief executive Kelly Bouzaid said her organisation would like to make a submission but had not been consulted and wanted to know what was being proposed.

The key question was whether market stallholders were getting an

unfair competitive advantage over other Cambridge businesses who pay commercial rents and rates, she said.

The council says the market is operated by a charitable trust and qualifies for council’s standard community lease rate. The council also pays for repairs to the surface where the market operates from.

Last year it spent $2750 to reinstate the ground.

The statement from trustee Greg Kirkwood on Monday contradicts one he made to The News on June 19 when he said:

“The Hamilton and Cambridge Farmers Market Trust currently operates as a Trust. The Trust was established in November 2011, we

operate under the guidelines of the Trust Deed and H&C Farmers Market Charter.”

He refused to comment on whether Waipā ratepayers were subsidising the Hamilton market by charging the trust less. The trust has also refused to provide financial details or say where any market profits go.

Kirkwood said trust members receive the annual accounts.

“They are not a public document, the contractual agreements we have with Claudelands are also not for public notice so I feel it inappropriate to disclose the information you are requesting.”

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The popular Cambridge Farmers Market. File photo: Mary Anne Gill.

AERIAL DRONE SURVEY

We’ll be carrying out an aerial drone survey of our network power lines over the next few months.

From April until August 2023 we will be surveying power lines across the Cambridge, Te Awamutu and Kāwhia areas.

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next steps in moving my research forward. This is a glimpse into what international research looks like.

It is definitely not sipping cocktails by the pool in the Canary Islands, but it is so very rewarding working towards our goals with likeminded friends and colleagues who truly care about people and volcanoes.

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It’s a juxtaposition being in such a gorgeous place and being solely focused on the devastation and loss I am examining on my laptop.

Yesterday sitting around ta table, a group of us worked past 10:30pm, the days are long. My colleagues Sharon and Ben are working tirelessly to put together part two of a documentary, Lava Bombs, on the impacts to the communities (I recommend watching part one), and the suffering they are still experiencing.

My colleague Elodie is back at NASA in the USA, working with me on satellite data that shows the impacts from space. My colleague Arianna is back in North Carolina, thinking about the lava flow itself that caused so much loss.

My colleague Tamsin has been organising drone footage collected in the field to give an important link between the information gathered on the ground by us, and from satellites in orbit.

Messages and emails go back and forth discussing issues and observations that are popping up as we go.

Emails have been fired off to colleagues in New Zealand asking about work done at home to help people through the issues I am seeing here, as well as setting up the

The planning process for this trip began over a year ago, now we are starting to see results.

Our goals revolve around learning as much as we can, then putting our results into a format that is useful for the local people, and communities that will be impacted by eruptions in the future – including in New Zealand.

Too often research is undertaken then published in academic journals with no thought of getting the results to people who need it, in a format that can be useful. This is partly because it is not an easy task, but my team and I are dedicated to this process. The images I am focused on are of people’s homes and businesses, banana plantations, a school, neighbourhoods…now with cracks and holes from dense, hot, thick lava flows bulldozing their way though. In many cases, there is no sign of the house that once stood there at all.

I walked across the sharp lava flows with satellite images taken prior to the eruption in my hands. Many times, I experienced a sinking feeling when I realized I was standing on someone’s home, or I should have been looking right at someone’s front door. If I ever needed more motivation to push forward, this is it.

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Waikids to get the full Monty

By Jeremy Smith

“Well then, that’s not something you see every day, is it?”

Meet Monty – Cambridge Riding for the Disabled’s (RDA) therapy pony.

Fast becoming known for lifting people’s spirits, he’s now taking his personable nature to new heights – and has learnt to use one.

He and handler Raewyn Risi, a Cambridge RDA volunteer, are regularly asked to visit Cambridge rest homes and now there’s a new location on the list.

There are hopes Monty can visit children on Waikato Hospital’s Waikids ward, but because the hospital floors are on various levels, there is one hurdle to reaching them – the lifts.

Enter St Andrew’s Retirement Village staff, who allowed Monty, Raewyn and Cambridge RDA coach Sam Ogden to take some training trips up and down the lift at the village’s Moxon Centre last Friday as practice.

As the Shetland pony did so, St Andrew’s Retirement Village resident, 95-year-old Jean Outram, was among those Monty said hello to.

Following Monty’s visit, Jean – who has lived at St

Andrew’s since November – expressed her delight that Monty, Raewyn and Sam took time to wander around visiting residents in between trips between floors.

“I love experiencing a wide range of new things in life. He’s a great gift – he came right up to me and we had a little talk,” she said.

St Andrew’s Cambridge village and care manager Rachael Hall told The News it was a pleasure to have Monty visit.

Sam and Raewyn were happy too – saying Monty

passed the lift training with “flying colours and an A plus”.

“Monty hasn’t experienced lifts before, and whilst he’s incredibly good when it comes to new experiences, this is something we wanted to train him in,” Sam said.

“It’s a pretty confined space for a little pony, which is outside of his comfort zone. But, in typical Monty style, he just waltzed on in.

“It was nice to see how excited the residents were too. When Monty popped in, their faces lit up and many asked

for a selfie.

Raewyn added that while Monty has had experience with forward and backward motion in a horse float as he’s travelled around, up until Friday a lift was a new experience.

Walking on lino is relatively new too, so Raewyn also found some for Monty to practice walking on on Friday. Monty, 19, has been at Cambridge Riding for the Disabled since June 2016.

“Though, he’s got such a fun loving, personable nature, you’d never guess

his age really would you?”

Raewyn said. “He’s pretty young at heart.”

Monty isn’t the oldest horse at Cambridge RDA - that title goes to a horse 10 years his senior, at 29 years old.

Monty began heading off on visits before the trips were stopped because of the Covid pandemic.

“The more he visits people,” Sam said, “the more it seems others want him to come and see them too.”

Te Whatu Ora, Health New Zealand’s, Waikato operations director of

women’s and children’s health Cath Anderson said there had been positive feedback about Monty‘s potential visit.

“Patients often find joy in interacting with animals during visits. We are in the very early planning stages, and will be working with Cambridge RDA on the obvious challenges presented by a pony visiting a ward,” she said.

This year is Cambridge RDA’s 40th anniversary, and an open day in October is planned to mark the occasion.

Cambridge Riding for the Disabled coach Sam Ogden (left) and volunteer Raewyn Risi take a ride in the lift at St Andrew‘s Retirement Village’s Moxon Centre with Monty last Friday.

TALKING ECONOMICS

University challenge

Many organisations in New Zealand that come under financial pressure blame government under-funding.

The health sector has for a long-time and is probably justified in making the claim. The latest set of institutions to make this claim is our universities. It’s harder to say if they are justified.

New Zealand has eight universities. Last financial year, six had financial deficits. The two with a financial surplus were our biggest, Auckland, and our smallest, Lincoln. So, the results weren’t due to the advantages of scale that being big can provide.

The government has accepted the claim of government under-funding in part. They announced a rescue package of $128 million last week. But the funding has strings attached, a requirement to do a thorough review of the whole sector. Some thought part of the problem was too many universities. I did a comparison with Australia and Canada. New Zealand has one university for each 640,000 people. Australia has 43 universities, one for each 615,000 people. Canada has around 100 universities, one for each 390,000 people. Eight universities in a country the size of New Zealand does not therefore look to be out of line with

similar countries.

By Peter Nicholl

The main reason why many of the universities slipped into deficit is that their revenue is heavily dependent on student numbers - and student numbers have fallen over the last few years. The drop in foreign students coming to New Zealand for university study was dramatic due to the borders being closed. The borders are now open and the universities are hoping the number of international students will bounce back quickly. It is a huge international market, but also a very competitive market. The most important influences on students’ choices are the cost and quality of the overseas study. New Zealand probably compares favourably on the cost side but not on quality. There’s an annual international survey that ranks the world’s top 1500 universities. The latest ranking came out recently. New Zealand universities proudly announced that all their rankings rose. That’s good. But when you look at the rankings, the picture isn’t so good. Auckland University was the highest ranked New Zealand university with a ranking of 68. To put that in context, there were six universities in Australia with a higher ranking. Waikato ranked 250th. That

put it sixth among the New Zealand universities

The number of New Zealand students also fell by about 6000 students last year. Interestingly, the number of people in apprenticeships or traineeships rose by a little more, 6,700. Having many young people switch from studying for a university qualification to studying for a trade qualification is probably a good thing for the country but it’s not a good thing for the universities.

The forthcoming review could ask if universities should offer such wide ranges of courses? For example, seven of the eight Universities offer MBA courses and there are six law schools. Some universities have opened campuses in the regions of other universities. Won’t they just poach the other university’s students with the end result being higher costs but no additional students overall?

The staff ratio of academic/research staff and other staff is around 1/1. That is a usual ratio in other countries too but it seems high to me. Maybe universities everywhere have an overheads problem.

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Final spot for Crutchley

Nikki Crutchley has been named among the long list of 14 prestigious Ngaio Marsh awards for her latest novel In Her Blood.

The awards have celebrated the best New Zealand crime, mystery, thriller and suspense writing since 2010.

Judges in United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand are now considering the entries with finalists announced next month.

French recollections

The Friends of the Cambridge Historical Society and the Cambridge Le Quesnoy Friendship Association are teaming up to present a pre-Bastille Day event with author Nathalie Philippe.

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Crutchley, who lives in Cambridge with her husband and two daughters, has been a finalist in the awards before.

She told The News her sixth novel is with her publishers and she has started writing her seventh. Both are small town mystery novels set in New Zealand.

In Her Blood tells the parallel stories of two 17-yearold girls, disturbingly similar in appearance, who have disappeared; one 20 years after the other.

Gilmore Hotel, featured in the book, is based on the Waitomo Hotel.

The awards are named for Dame Ngaio Marsh, who penned bestselling mysteries that entertained millions of global readers from her home in the Cashmere Hills in Christchurch.

One-two for Waipā

Hautapu Sports will play Hamilton Old Boys in the semifinals of the Waikato Draught Breweries Shield Premiership at Memorial Park on Saturday.

In the other semi-final, Te Awamutu will host Hamilton Marist. Hautapu went down 25-21 in a close encounter at Marist Park, Hamilton while Te Awamutu had the bye.

Leamington will play Putaruru in Division One’s Mooloo Shield and Division One B, both away in Putaruru, while the under 85kg will play on Leamington’s Field 1 against Kio Kio United in their semi final. Pirongia will play Southern United in the other Mooloo Shield semifinal and Southern United in the other division one B semifinal, both on the Pirongia Domain.

Originally from Paris, Nathalie Philippe has been living in New Zealand for 30 years and is a historian and lecturer in French at the University of Waikato.

On July 13 in Cambridge, she will share stories from her new book Death Among Good Men - First World War Reflections from New Zealand Major General

Lindsay Merritt Inglis was a young man who found a talent for soldiering with the First New Zealand Expeditionary Force, commanding a Machine Gun company and rising to the rank of Major.

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A keen observer and prolific writer, Inglis‘ large collection of papers include letters he wrote throughout

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Our exclusive front page story on new Cambridge All Black Cam Roigard was the best read page on cambridgenews.nz website last month.

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It will be hard to top our top story of the first six months of the year – our article about Super Gran giving ram raiders a taste of their own medicine accounted for 65 per cent of all page views.

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the war to his future wife May Todd.

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Facing the future with hope…

Do ostriches really bury their head in the sand to avoid trouble, or to hide? Surely it’s a bit of a pointless method of escaping danger or predators, if they can’t breathe? Like our kiwi, these flightless birds are unable to build nests in trees so they lay their eggs in burrows or holes dug in the ground. Ostriches occasionally stick their heads into the nest to rotate the eggs to ensure they are evenly heated, which makes it look they are trying to hide - hence the myth!

Today with so many issues troubling society, there’s neither point nor place for trying to hide. Little wonder though, that many people might want to emulate the ‘proverbial’ ostrich, given the deeply soul troubling, concerns weighing on them. Recently I came across a company building bunkers (underground survival-shelters), that was promoting

its services. All of the motivational pitch pandered purely to people’s fears. And who could condemn anyone for feeling afraid as we survey our own national landscape, contemplating what the future holds and what is looming on the global horizon?

Deep levels of pervasive uncertainty exist due to international tensions, our own factious political scene with democracy under threat, freedom of speech in jeopardy, racial disharmony, imposition of dangerous ideologies, economies on a knife-edge, crime levels rising, public services disintegrating, legislation promoting increased liberalism, education under threat and there’s just so many other points of extreme vulnerability.

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broken. I risk getting labelled as a negative doomsday sayer, in believing the ‘old world’ has gone… things won’t return to ‘normal’ and we’re headed for even greater levels of difficulty and trouble. And sorry folks, you can’t look to a government to fix everything. But it’s not ‘checkmate’ and it is far from hopeless. The Bible contains much detail about the darkness that will fill the earth as this age draws to a close. But it also speaks powerfully of the light, joy and hope that is found in a personal relationship with God who rules ultimately over everything. The ‘hope’ the Bible speaks of, is not just a cross your fingers, “touch wood”, hope-for-the best optimism. It is a very powerful force, undergirded by peace and assurance - a deep soul-rest conviction that God has ‘got‘ our lives, our very best

future in His hand and when everything is shaken, we remain solid, since He is totally in control. When things are shaken; it needn’t surprise us, or cause us to fear, as He has final say.

Jesus said, “In the world you will have tribulation but be of good cheer, I’ve overcome the world.” Remember the only firm foundation is Jesus; every other foundation that people build on crumbles.

You can face the future with hope - not fear. Your ‘inner’ life can be at peace as the world struggles and unravels. Hearts filled with fear, can be stilled and calmed by accepting Christ, thereby confronting that which is the root of our problem… our separation from Him.

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Hong Kong calls Tyler

Hautapu Sports’ forward Tyler McNutt will become an international player when he makes his debut for Hong Kong China at July’s World Rugby U-20 Trophy tournament in Kenya, the club has reported on its website.

It reported the 20-year-old has been selected for Hong Kong China, where he was born and joins a squad drawn from local players and imports from England, Scotland, Australia and New Zealand.

“We’re a bit of a melting pot of players, many from ex-pat families,” McNutt said.

Hong Kong will face Spain, Samoa and host Kenya in Pool B at the eight-team tournament that runs from July 15-30. Pool A has Uruguay, Zimbabwe, United States and Scotland, who were relegated from the World U-20 Championship.

The winner of the tournament will qualify to take part in next year’s Championship tournament in South Africa, which will feature all but one of Argentina, Australia, England, Fiji, France, Georgia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa and Wales.

McNutt, who is a psychology student at Waikato University, sees the tournament as a great opportunity to play and visit part of the world he might otherwise never visit.

He says his selection was pure chance as the Hong Kong coach is Logan Asplin who coached him at Hamilton Boys High School when he played for their first XV.

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“He (Asplin) had no idea I was born in Hong Kong until he was having a beer with someone else from New Zealand who just happened to mention it,” McNutt says.

That chance conversation has now opened up McNutt’s rugby horizons, and he’s keen to see where it might lead. The only disappointment is that he will miss

Hautapu’s push to win the Breweries Shield for Waikato Premier Rugby’s top competition.

He says he’ll be in Kenya, looking to find a way to watch Hautapu via a live-stream.

He makes his debut for Hong Kong in their tournament opener against Spain on July 16.

The Hong Kong China side has three players with Cambridge connections.

As well as McNutt, Dominic Hedley is a former St Peter’s student studying at Canterbury University, while Theo Mag is a student at St Peter’s.

Hedley and Mag are members of Hong Kong’s HKU Sandy Bay club.

Asplin told Hong Kong Rugby: “We also have a lot of qualified talent living and training internationally, so it’s great to be engaged with those guys and provide them the opportunity to represent Hong Kong on the world stage.”

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Cambridge High celebrates

By Steph Bell-Jenkins

Cambridge High School’s U15A hockey team made history on Sunday morning, winning its first game at the Tanner Cup in Hamilton.

Fifteen teams from around New Zealand took part in the prestigious invitational tournament, run annually for New Zealand’s top boys’ U15 hockey teams.

Cambridge High, which won the Waikato boys’ U15A grade last year, was first invited to take part in 2022 and was the only public co-ed school competing this year.

The team won their first game against Dunedin’s John McGlashan College on Sunday, conceding a goal in the second quarter but fighting their way back with goals from Maz McIndoe and Patrick Gordon to win 2-1.

This year’s Tanner Cup squad members were Andrew Coutts, Blake Urbahn,

Quinlan McCarthy, Flynn Jenkins, Riley Jenkins, Flynn Parker, Heath Rogerson, Theo Goodwin, Patrick Gordon, Winter Froger, Oliver Lee, Benn Judge, Robert van Heerden, Alfie Stowell-Sneyd, James Rouse and Maz McIndoe.

U15A team manager Karen Hills said just being invited to the tournament was “a massive privilege and really exciting for Cambridge High”.

“I think hockey is still emerging at Cambridge High and it’s emerging at a very fast and furious pace.”

She said player numbers at the school had tripled since 2018, representing a 204 per cent increase over five years. Most growth was concentrated in U15 age groups.

Tanner Cup games were completed today in Hamilton at St Paul’s Collegiate School and Hamilton Boys’ High School.

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DORSET, Sheila Florence

– Dearly loved mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and friend to many. Passed away peacefully at Arvida Bethlehem Views Tauranga at 11.30pm on the 29th of June 2023. Eldest daughter of the late Charles and Florence King. Older sister to Ian, Maureen, Joan, Marilyn, and the late David. Mother to Steve, Nigel, Denise and mother-in-law to Sheryl, Karen and Roz. A farewell service has been held at Legacy Tauranga. Communications to the Dorset (Bridger) Family c/Legacy Funerals, PO Box 3136 Tauranga 3142. A memorial service will be held at Waikumete Cemetery 4128 Great North Road Glen Eden Auckland 0602 at 11.00am on the 18th November 2023 Rest In Peace Now.

JEFFRIES, Garry Brian –

Passed away peacefully at Cambridge Resthaven on Monday, 26th June 2023.

Aged 85 years. Dearly loved husband of Faye. Loved stepdad to Nicola, Rosemary and Maxine and grandad Garry to eight grandchildren. At Garry’s request a private burial has been held. All communications to the Jeffries Family, c/- 3 Hallys Lane, Cambridge 3434.

IN MEMORIAM

PITTAMS, Ivan William (Jed)

Eight long years have passed without a special husband in my life. Our abode is looking brand new again. The challenges just keep rolling in but find comfort in the memories we shared. Always in my heart and thoughts. Treasured Dad of the late Pedro. Missed so very much.

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Te Wharekura o Ngā Purapura o Te Aroha. Enquiries 021 225 7577

CAMBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL

EXAMINATION SUPERVISORS

Cambridge High School are running our Senior School Practice NCEA Examinations from Thursday 7 September to Tuesday 19 September. We are looking for applications to fill the examination supervisor roles. Duties will involve working with the Principal’s Nominee and other CHS staff, supervising students entering and exiting the examinations and monitoring the examinations whilst they are in progress. Full training will be provided, and the number of days involved can be flexible, based around your availability. If you would like to be involved in supporting the CHS school community, where you will meet an awesome crew of local people, we would love to hear from you.

Please contact Joanna Bartch (Principal’s Nominee) with your CV and cover letter.

Or if you have any queries regarding the role(s), including pay rates. jbh@camhigh.school.nz

Applications close Monday 24 July

CAMBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL

Pouako - Kura Takawaenga (Tau 7-8)

“He Taonga te Tamaiti”

He tangata mōhio ki te manaaki i te mauri me te wairua o te tangata? He tangata e ngākaunui ana ki ngā tamariki? He pūkenga pouako rawe āu? Kei taumata kē tō arero tūpuna me ngā kōrero tuku iho? Tēnā, tono mai!

E rapu ana mātou i tētehi pouako e kaingākau ana ki ngā mahi whakaako tamariki. Me mōhio hoki te tangata ki ēnei kaupapa:

• Behavior Management (PB4L)

• Differentiated teaching and learning

• Te Marautanga o Aotearoa

• Mahi tahi, hei painga mō te katoa o ngā tamariki o te kura mai i te tau 0-13

We are seeking a kaiako to support the wellbeing of our tamariki. Our aspirations are to uplift, inspire and nurture our young leaders within the context of our Poutikanga and kaupapa matua, he taonga te tamaiti.

Our kura is located within the takiwā of Ngāti Apakura, Raukawa ki Wharepuhunga. If you are interested in being part of a dynamic team who focus on the mauri of our tamariki and strive for excellence.

Tukua tō Tātai Oranga (CV) ki te Tumuaki: tari@npota.school.nz

Tukua mai mā te poutāpeta rānei ki: attention: Te Wharekura o Ngā Purapura o te Aroha.

Enquiries 021 225 7577

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INFORMATION FOR PARENTS OF MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS WISHING TO ATTEND CAMBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL IN 2024

Enrolment packs will be available from Monday 17 July at: Cambridge Middle School reception, Cambridge High School reception, or Cambridge High School website www.camhigh.school.nz

CAMBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL’S OPEN AFTERNOON

Thursday 27 July from 3.45pm-6.30pm

Tours starting from the Hall will be available over this time with a formal presentation by the Principal at 4.00pm and again at 5.00pm.

This will provide parents/caregivers and students with an opportunity to meet the Principal and teaching staff, and be informed about our learning and co-curricular programmes.

Enrolments for 2024 out-of-zone students will close on Thursday 31 August

All enquiries: Tel: (07) 827 5415 ext. 0 Email: enrolments@camhigh.school.nz www.camhigh.school.nz

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