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Marilyn Yeates remembers it clearly. It was July 1977 and part of the original Pirongia School became redundant for school purposes. So, a community meeting of about 60 people was held to discuss repurposing the buildings for Pirongia Playcentre. Marilyn – who had had an association almost since it began life in 1973 because one of her children attended - was there. Pirongia Playcentre had been gathering in Pirongia Memorial Hall, but seeking to preserve the school building - a key part Pirongia’s cultural heritage - a committee including founding chair Barbara Walter was formed to investigate moving it to a new home. Marilyn became building project convenor, land on Franklin St was made available by the then Waipā County Council and ultimately the “western room” of the school, built in 1904, and a “little room”, which had been between two other school rooms, were moved there. That “little room” was the only original part of the Pirongia School built in 1878. A newspaper report said it had cost about $9000 to shift them - $5600 funded by the Waikato Playcentre association, $3700 by the Pirongia community. On Saturday Marilyn and Barbara were there as Pirongia Playcentre celebrated its 50th
The frustration in Shane Walsh’s voice is patently obvious. With less than a week to go a proposed Business Improvement District rate in the Te Awamutu central business district looks dead in the water unless those who claim to support it get out and vote. Walsh, the Te Awamutu Business Chamber’s chief executive, is the man behind the idea which has worked well in other parts of the country and overseas by reinvigorating retail through a targeted rate. The chamber hopes to raise $50,000 in its first year, adding to owners’ rate bills but spending that money on marketing and promotion for their tenants. Voting forms went out to 96 business owners and by Monday 19 replies had come back - 13 against the proposal. It needs a 30 per cent return – so another 10 returns - but within the returns, 60 per cent need to be in favour. “We are confident we are doing the right thing for the retailers,” said Walsh who was brought up in Te Awamutu and worked overseas for several years before returning home around the time of Covid. He took on the chamber chief executive role last year and now also chairs both Go Waipa and Destination Te Awamutu, hoping he says, to make a difference in the community. Walsh said the problem was many of the buildings in Te Awamutu CBD were owned by trusts and out of town people and it was they who vote. “It’s very, very frustrating,” he said. “You know it’s the right thing to do but getting people to actually do it, I tell you what… I’m trying not to get despondent.” Council deputy chief executive Ken Morris said the votes were being returned to the council. “This is a two-stage process. If they can meet the threshold, councillors are committed to including this proposal in the draft Long Term Plan meaning people can submit further.” Voting closes on Monday (November 20).
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anniversary. “How special is this, it’s a sort of full circle moment?” Marilyn – now a long-standing Pirongia Heritage and Information Centre manager - said. Also present were past Pirongia Playcentre preschoolers who recalled “special memories” of edible playdough, a characteristic tree in the backyard and an underpinning sense of community. Among several families representing three generations of involvement with the centre were mother and daughter Caroline and Kelly McMonagle and Kelly’s son, two-year-old Ryan. The trio were called on to cut Saturday’s celebratory cake, and afterwards Caroline and Kelly told The News of their love of the playcentre community. Caroline had a nearly 20-year association from 1991, when Kelly was a preschooler there, then as a teacher and helper through until 2011. Ryan is a preschooler at the Marilyn Yeates signs Saturday’s commemorative board. centre – the “special chapter” that was Kelly’s time there who have gone before us for Saturday. prompted her to want the same persevering to make Playcentre “It’s such a valuable asset for for her son. happen, and then keeping it Pirongia even all these years “I have fantastic memories of going all these years. later,” Emma said. this place,” Kelly said, “…and I “They no doubt faced Renee Coutts, part of Pirongia love that he gets to have those challenges along the way, just Playcentre’s present day same experiences.” as we do today, but pulling leadership team and involved “It’s quite impressive really,” together as a community and with the centre for four years, Caroline said of Saturday’s whānau to overcome makes us said it has always been a celebrations. who we are. We will continue to community-driven initiative Sisters Marcia Flay, Emma hold that true in the future.” organised by parents, with !" #$%&'(')*"$+), -./0()1%2")3&%44)35%6")#7) Hodge and Reanna Peterson, A commemorative mural parents as teachers. who collectively attended was commissioned to mark “That philosophy remains 89:;&&)<=2<)>)8?&&)$=7"), 9@!" A6(/B".)CDCE)=++'" the playcentre between 1983 Saturday’s occasion. today,” she said. and 1990, were also there on “We just thank all those Continued on page 2
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Playing for 50 years Project marks 200,000 plantings Continued from page 1
Parent Janie Neal spent two weeks designing and drawing it as, “a family tree of sorts”, Renee said. “The design centres around our play, learn and grow together philosophy at Playcentre as well as embracing our flora, fauna and our maunga.” • See more photos at teawamutunews.nz
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The Taiea te Taiao project has completed 200,000 plantings in its first two years. The initiative, founded in 2021 and funded and planned out for the next five years, seeks to establish an ecological corridor between Maungatautari and Pirongia. The two maunga, 40km apart, have successful pest control and restoration Clare St Pierre, left, and Bexie Towle weed one of the plantings programmes and in Te Awamutu’s Daphne St Reserve. Photo: Jeremy Smith are linked by the Mangapiko Stream. Taiea te Taiao project co-ordinator rated the stream in the worst 25 Bexie Towle told The News of the percent of all test sites for water figures achieved to date in the quality. roughly 45,000 hectare catchment At its inception, Taiea te Taiao area ahead of a day planned for led by the New Zealand Landcare Sunday when the public can help Trust - received funding for two staff with work in Te Awamutu’s Daphne members, Bexie and Māori facilitator St Reserve. Te Ao te o Rangi Apaapa, from the About 200 plants – including flax Ministry for the Environment’s and pittosporum - were planted Freshwater Improvement Fund. at the reserve to help improve the Four years of funding has also water quality of Mangapiko Stream been received from Waikato River in August. Authority for tree planting and Land, Air, Water Aotearoa data maintenance.
Three generations of the McMonagle family, Caroline, left, Kelly and two-year-old Ryan McCormack cut the 50th anniversary cake.
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Ryan Fleming looks at how each day panned out last week for Te Awamutu police. Monday - Police attended four family harm incidents, a shoplifting case was reported and we searched a property for a male who was the subject of a warrant to arrest – and found several cannabis plants leading to an arrest. A male who had previously been trespassed attempted to enter a store and a male reported a scam email. Tuesday - Two burglaries of commercial premises and a family harm incident were reported. Police attended a minor vehicle collision on Airport Road after a vehicle failed to give way at an intersection. Wednesday - Police attended a mental health incident, a vehicle failed to stop
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Destination post
Te Awamutu Business Chamber chief executive Shane Walsh has joined the board of Destination Te Awamutu. Walsh also chairs the Waipa Community Facilities Trust – Go Waipa – which looks after community facilities such as Te Awamutu’s Livingstone Aquatic Centre and ASB Stadium and Cambridge’s Perry Aquatic Centre.
Kennedys’ contract terminated By Roy Pilott
Fonterra role
Andrew Myers has been elected as a new cooperative councillor representing the Waipā ward for Fonterra. Shareholders re-elected directors Brent Goldsack and Cathy Quinn to the Fonterra board and shareholders Simon Couper and Shirley Trumper were elected unopposed to the Directors’ Remuneration Committee. Myers, a Cambridge Community Board member, writes for The News in Country Life today on Page 11.
Record sale
Dingley Dell the Maungatautari Rd farm featured in last month’s Country Life – fetched $12.9 million at auction earlier this month. The sale of the property, purchased by a dairy investor group, set a record mark for Cambridge Real Estate.
Funding safe
Waipā’s $12.8 million Transport Choices funding has not been affected by Waka Kotahi’s decision last week to freeze its funding for cycling, walking and public transport initiatives while it waits for a “clear direction from the incoming government on its transport investment priorities”. The money is being spent on the Cambridge Pathways project and in Kihikihi to connect the town centre with the primary school and domain.
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A Te Awamutu couple say they are devastated beyond words by a High Court decision to deny them an injunction against NZ Post. Danny and Ian Kennedy sought to stall NZ Post’s plans to terminate their rural delivery contract and allocate mail and parcels to third party contractors. Justice Gault released his decision last week – and the Te Awamutu couple’s contract was immediately terminated. The hearing centred on a notice to terminate their contract, but was part of a bigger picture which potentially impacts on RD runs all over the country. Kennedy said she and husband Ian were devastated by the outcome for their $500,000 Three Hills Group. More than 500 customers on the RD3 run had signed forms backing them
issue on this application”. Pro Drivers Advocates chief Peter Gallagher, who has backed the Kennedys, said NZ Post has a de facto national ‘courierisation’ strategy. “If allowed to proceed…it could well see over 500 rural delivery businesses and 750,000 rural people become the collateral damage of its restructure plans,” he said. He says moves are underway to reduce their workload to three day weeks instead of the traditional six and a new One Network concept will be introduced early next year. It will also see a Multi Courier Business model implemented and its courier network expanded through the purchase of PBT Couriers freight volume as NZ Post responds to increasing online shopping, he said. Gallagher said it was intended to continue to pursue the issue through political channels and he believed it warranted a Ministerial Review.
Remembrance day double blessing By Viv Posselt
Sunday’s Remembrance Day service at the Pukeatua War Memorial Church was made particularly special with the blessing of a new bell and two new brass shell casings. The shell casings were donated by the Hauraki Chapter of the Patriots Defence Force Motorcycle Club, which has had a link to the church for several years. Their members are former and current servicemen who regularly attend services there, and the club has
donated to the church in the past. Lay minister Kathie Claypole told Sunday’s gathering the church community had been rocked last year with the theft of a brass cross and two candlesticks. The cross was subsequently returned, left lying on the church’s back steps, but the hand-beaten Indian silver candlesticks were long gone. She said the generous decision by the Patriots club to donate the shells, which hark back to 1941 and 1942 respectively, was deeply
Danny honoured
Station officer Danny Smith was named Te Awamutu Volunteer Fire Brigades Firefighter of the Year at the brigade’s annual awards last weekend.
just a couple of weeks ago. At the heart of the issue was whether or not the contract the Kennedys entered into, initially in 2019, gave them exclusive rights to RD3 – the largest rural delivery area in Waikato. The two parties were so far apart they even disputed whether or not a meeting was held between them in November 2018. Issues arose over exclusivity soon after the initial contract was signed. In April NZ Post accused TGH of undermining it and announced it was terminating the contract. Justice Gault noted court proceedings were a last resort – but the hearing took place only 11 days before the six months’ notice of termination was due to take effect. He agreed there was a serious question to be tried in the case of exclusivity but accepted NZ Post’s view that he “should not effectively decide the merits of the substantive
Mike Neville of the Patriots Defence Force Motorcycle Club, talks to the congregation about the two newly-donated shell cases held by fellow Patriots member Warren Banks. With them are the Te Awamutu RSA padre Rev Murray Olson and lay minister Kathie Claypole.
appreciated by the church community. Before the service started, there was a blessing outside for the newly installed church bell. Church committee chairman Margaret Main said the history of the bell is tied to St Stephen’s Anglican Church in Tamahere. When the church was rebuilt after the 1970 St Stephens fire, her father-inlaw Alfred Main was given a replacement bell from Morrinsville. However, the original bell was recast and subsequently mounted in St Stephens, and the smaller replacement bell went into storage on the Main family farm in Tamahere. When they moved to Pukeatua, the bell came too. “During lockdown, I was at the church when we had a piper playing for Anzac Day, and I thought, wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a bell to ring,” she said. “In 2021, when we sold the farm, I approached St Stephens to see if we could donate the replacement bell to the church here at Pukeatua, and they agreed.”
During Sunday’s service, Rev Olson cited a sentiment linked to Simone Veil, the protagonist in the film ‘Simone: A Woman of the Century’ and a woman who survived the Holocaust to become an influential politician and human rights campaigner. “She said ‘remembering is not about the past, it is about the future’, which is something that emphasises how important it is to realise
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Tourism bonus for farms
By Mary Anne Gill
A partnership between New Zealand’s largest rural tours’ operator and the Cambridge i-Site will result in a significant boost to Waipā’s tourism industry and give farmers an added income stream. And the idea came from a Japanese woman who “married a Kiwi guy”, settled in Cambridge and saw first-hand, while working in the town’s visitor centre, the opportunity to capitalise on a tourism upswing post Covid. Seiko Wilson, who worked for Rural Tours, took the seed of her idea to Destination Cambridge general manager Ruth Crampton and Rural Tours manager Melissa Beets. On Monday she was among the toasts with Destination Cambridge’s board and volunteers when Rural Tours owners Russell Alexander – also chief executive and co-owner of Hobbiton – and Tony Boot announced the $45,000 a year partnership. It was just the fillip the struggling tourism organisation needs on the eve of a decision by Waipā District Council whether or not to continue funding the two i-Sites in Cambridge and Te Awamutu. That funding uncertainty Destination Te Awamutu and Destination Cambridge both get $147,868 this financial year while Hamilton-Waikato Tourism gets $171,864 – was an issue hanging
It’s a deal: Rural Tours and Destination Cambridge at the partnership announcement, from left: Ruth Crampton, Russell Alexander, Lucy Young, Seiko Wilson, Melissa Beets and Tony Boot. Photo: Mary Anne Gill.
over Destination Cambridge and explained the board’s decision to become more entrepreneurial. At the announcement, chair Lucy Young said tourists, particularly from the Japanese market, were coming back. “We can’t sit here and expect business to come to us,” she said. The partnership with Rural Tours was an exciting opportunity to “nurture our rural community”, give tourists the chance to connect with the land and have genuine experiences while showcasing Waipā’s rural sector. In addition to Japanese students, adult tourists from lucrative Europe, UK and North American markets like the opportunity to stay on New Zealand farms with
“genuine” working farmers. New hosts would be needed and with milk payouts down and costs up, it was a chance for another income, said Young. Sustainability is a big thing and the modern world of farming in Waipā was all about that. Boot explained a change in the Japanese education curriculum gave New Zealand the chance to provide more rural tours for teenagers. The government mandated that every school must offer an excursion to its students either domestically or internationally. Several schools chose to provide their students with a rural experience in New Zealand. Rural Tours’ forerunner was a
1980s operation run in Cambridge out of what was then the pink church but is now Good Union. Joy Thomas and Helen Hicks persuaded farmers’ wives to open their spare rooms for guests and went on to cater for more than 1000 tourists a year. Boot, who worked with that Cambridge company, went on to link up with Alexander in 2014 when Hobbiton was getting requests to provide farm stays. “It didn’t make sense to compete.” The men, who attended Waikato University together, caught up at a conference and joined forces to become Rural Tours which pre Covid was a thriving multimillion business operating out of Cambridge Raceway. It now turns
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Council Tee time for Joe and the boys agenda questioned By Jeremy Smith
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Waipā District Council is continuing to hold behind-closed-doors workshops and briefings despite chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier telling councils last month to “open up”. A public section of a workshop on Tuesday, held as The News prepared to go to print and which started 20 minutes late at 11.40am, included discussion about a Cambridge Library feasibility study, Ahu Ake Spatial Plan, draft financial strategy and fees and charges. But providing coverage from the meeting was hampered because The News was denied access to agendas and papers – which provide context to comments made by presenters, councillors and staff. We were told they would not be released to the public until they were presented to council. That flies in the face of usual practice to make that information available to the public well ahead of meetings. Last week the council held an unadvertised closed door workshop, after the Strategic Planning and Policy committee meeting – to discuss the Long Term Plan. Given the economic storm clouds facing the council, The News has argued that discussion was of public interest. In response to Boshier’s challenge to councils, a response from the council’s Governance team said the council was taking an “indepth look” into its processes around workshops and meetings and some changes would be made. This would likely include publicising all workshops and, if they were publicly excluded, the reasons why.
“That’s golf I suppose.” Rotorua’s Joe Flavell had a rather honest assessment of the changing nature of his round of golf as he was on the back nine during the first day of the 2023 Disability Golf New Zealand Open in Te Awamutu on Monday. As The News visited, he was excited though because his two sons, Marino and Taonga, had come from Auckland to join him. “They have been to some of the other tournaments I have played in to watch before, but this is the first time we have all played together,” he said. The trio were among a field of about 40 disability golfers at the two-day tournament this
week at Te Awamutu Golf Club. It’s the first time the open has been held in town – largely thanks to the drive of Mick Henderson – the Te Awamutu club’s sole “official” disability golfer. Henderson was diagnosed with a hereditary blood circulation problem in his 40s shortly after running his sixth marathon, and both his legs were amputated below the knee in an 18-month timeframe when he was in his sixties. About 120 competitors from all over the North Island took the course over two-day open which was also open to ablebodied golfers. Alongside the tournament, Henderson is helping raise $50,000 so Disability Golf New Zealand can purchase a
Taonga and Marino Te Moni with their dad Joe Flavell on the Te Awamutu Golf Club course on Monday. Photo: Jeremy Smith.
paragolfer cart. It is designed to help golfers living with a disability play and has the user strapped in the cart’s seat which can be adjusted from a seated position to suit various playing stances. Disability Golf New Zealand secretary Cathryn Bristow said
Te Awamutu was proving a fantastic venue. “Part of our goal is to not only provide people with the opportunity to play golf but also to bring the open to different parts of the country. On both fronts, this has been a fantastic success.”
Recounting the tragic price of battles By Viv Posselt
Te Awamutu RSA marked Armistice Day on Saturday, with RSA committee member and Waipā District Councillor Lou Brown dedicating his address to those who lost their lives in war, and to those who returned. A gathering of war veterans and members of the public listened
intently as he explained how on the 11th hour or the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, World War One came to a ‘bitter and bloody’ end. “The New Zealand Expeditionary Force had received its baptism of fire at Gallipoli in 1915, and went on to drench the soil of France and the Western Front with the blood of young New Zealanders for the next
three years. “The total number of New Zealand troops and nurses that served overseas during the 1914-18 First World War, excluding those who served in the British and other dominion forces, was 103,000 from a population of just over a million people. “Forty-two percent of all men of military age served in the New
Zealand Expeditionary Force. Of these 16,697 were killed and 41,317 were wounded during this war, which represents a fifty-eight percent casualty rate. We remember their sacrifice … we remember those who fought, those who fell, and all those who served.” The service was conducted by RSA padre Rev Murray Olson, with
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A Ambush at Mystery Creek Snip in An astonishing attempt at highway robbery was made near Ōhaupō when two bank officials driving in a horse and buggy were suddenly peppered with shot. It was customary for these Hamilton officials, a clerk and a manager, to go to Ōhaupō on Tuesday each week, carrying with them sums of money. The clerk was driving, and when in a dip of the road at what was locally known as Mystery Creek, which was approached on either side by a somewhat steep rise, the report of a gun rang out from a clump of bushes on the left side. The manager received the charge of shot and collapsed against his companion. The horse immediately bolted, but the clerk succeeded in quietening it and then drew a revolver which he always carried on the trip. He looked around for evidence as to the origin of the shot, but none could be seen. There was no smoke, making it appear that smokeless powder was used. It was a wonder both men were not killed outright. The clerk miraculously escaped without a scratch, although he felt the concussion of the shot and the force of it blew his false teeth out. The man accused of the crime lived with his mother in her boarding house whose lodgers were clerks in local banks. He was able to ascertain who would be driving out that day and how much money would be carried. It was alleged that he indulged in a lot of literature of the ‘blood and thunder’ variety, and that the tales of
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American ‘dare deeds’ had affected his mind. The pantomime Cinderella was produced by the Te Awamutu amateurs before a large and demonstrative audience, the stage management and scenic arrangements giving every satisfaction. The performers received great praise for their successful efforts, especially as one part had to be left out at the last minute owing to the sudden illness of an actor. Despite this, songs and local gags were relished to the full and fairly brought the house down. The cast were supported by a large number of huntsmen, peasants, courtiers, and ladies-in-waiting, and the music supplied by the Te Awamutu orchestra, under the able direction of Herr Moeller. Auckland’s ‘Butter Land’ – the Valley of the Waipā – had a newspaper correspondent waxing lyrical over the district. Rich alluvial flats came down in noble steps to the edge of streams, the correspondent wrote. “Carefully bred herds fed on meadows as velvety as any in England, or munched their cud in the shade of imported trees”. Endless lines of willows fringed the water’s edge and virgin forests blanketed the ranges. Te Awamutu and Kihikihi’s beautiful farms were rich, prosperous and well-tended, the report read and “one could well believe oneself on the rolling loam country of Lincolnshire”.
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Help for families By Julie Guest
I was part of the team running a Friday Mainly Music session in our church hall. After the music session, a story and kai together, the toys come out, especially the ride on toys. Parents and caregivers chatted while the children play. It’s an opportunity to meet other caregivers, to share the challenges of parenting life and to give and receive care and support. I am writing about this because wherever I am in Te Awamutu, I hear people expressing their despair about the contents of our Community Constable’s weekly report. Week after week we read of call outs to incidents of family harm, of self-harm and for assistance in cases of mental ill-health. People raise their despair about this with me, because they have such concern for those in their community and wonder what we might be doing to help that they could join. Whilst I recognise that there is not one answer and that nothing is simple, I want to suggest that Mainly Music and other such groups are part of an answer. Families need support. In many communities where families live, most of the homes are empty during the day as parents work and children are in care. Those who are parenting or caregiving at home often find themselves in social isolation. Churches are one of the few places in our society where members of all generations gather. Our Mainly Music has grandmothers and great grandmothers helping to run each session whilst mothers, fathers, grandparents and caregivers bring the children in their care.
All the helping team are there because they know how hard the work of parenting is. They want to support anyone doing that work. The team dedicates themselves to getting to know and to caring for those who attend. Caregivers can share their burdens. There is always someone to listen, to pray with if that is wanted. Ongoing support outside of Mainly Music is also there is needed. It is faith in God that underpins and holds together the team and makes it so effective. We believe that God cares passionately about every child and every caregiver. The room is full of chatter, ride on toys in all directions, coffee is poured, biscuits being dunked and in the corner a mother shares her exhaustion and frustration that her partner is not sharing the load. She is at breaking point and considering leaving. But she wants her son to grow up with his dad. We pray together, that she will find the words to gently express her despair and ask him for help. A couple of weeks later, she reports that things are much better. Not perfect, but better. She was able to ask her partner for help and he is helping enough to make the difference she needed. Faith our faith shared with her, and God’s love for her - has got her through. Imagine if all those committing family harm had been able to learn to ask God for help before things escalated beyond their control? God is available to everyone, not the press of a button but at the heartfelt cry for help. “God if you’re there…I need you. Please let me know you.” Give it a go next time you’re at breaking point.
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Twelve months ago, Waipā’s Monavale Blueberries was dealt the cruellest of blows. The 2022-23 crop from a 44ha orchard boasting than 30 varieties of blueberries in flower was literally frozen to death by a five degree October 7 frost. Where Monavale planned to harvest five tonnes of berries a day from January to March, it was looking at just 100kg. Then, to complete the orchard’s worst season in its 38 year history, Cyclone Gabrielle arrived in February to do more damage. Orchard manager Oliver de Groot told Country Life the 2023-24 crop is – weather permitting – poised to be a good one. But it, too, has had challenges. “By the end of our season last year, we had lost 98 per cent of our crop and unfortunately Cyclone Gabrielle had a significant impact,” he reported. “This year we had a couple of close calls, with two instances where helicopters were called out
to protect our crop. Thankfully this time there was an inversion layer and the helicopter was able to protect our crop with minimal losses.” He said about half the orchard’s plants have produced fewer flowers this year as a result of the 2022 frost shock. That does present hope that with the plants growing vigorously without as many flowers, they will produce a lot more fruit in the 2024-25 season. But, de Groot said, there will be fruit available in summer. “Due to the recent cooler spells, our early season fruit has been delayed by several weeks, and instead of picking in the first week of November, we are expecting to be picking from the first week of December. “The fruit itself looks to be of excellent quality and we are excited about the coming season.” Monavale is selling it first berries of the season – from its tunnel houses - at the Cambridge and Hamilton farmers markets and it is planned for its café, Café Irresistiblue, to be open for pickyour-own berries over the summer this year. The first berries of the season were on sale at last weekend’s Cambridge farmers’ market.
Youngsters get tips from the top Pirongia School called in a couple of trailblazers for last week’s second running of the school’s Young Farmer Competition.
Principal Kelly Bicknell invited 2023 Young Farmer of the Year winner Emma Poole and her husband Chris, to set up the competition. Emma made history in July when she became the first female champion
Emma Poole with the winners of the Pirongia School Young Farmer Competition – Dexter Kurtin, Nixon Taukiri and Padden Mylchreest. Photo: supplied
in the contest’s 55 years. Chris was runner-up in the 2022 FMG Young Farmer final - pipped by Emma’s brother, Tim Dangen. The trio have an impressive suite of farming credentials between them, and Emma is keen to use her historic win to encourage the next generation into the industry. It was through family ties to Pirongia School that Emma heard about principal Kelly Bicknell’s interest in encouraging students to learn about agriculture and horticulture. Inviting Emma and Chris, who farm in Waipā, to help with the competition was a master stroke, especially as 2023 marks the school’s 150th anniversary. Kelly, who was formerly principal at Galatea School, also has a farming background and said she introduced the Pirongia School Young Farmer Competition last year because so
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It’s the end of an era as Ōhaupō School prepares to say goodbye to its long-serving principal, Sue McLocklan. When she closes the door to her principal’s office for the last time at the end of the term, she will take with her the voices – and memories - of generations of children. McLocklan steps down from the top job after spending 27 years of her teaching career at Ōhaupō. She has been principal since 2001, first arriving as deputy principal in 1996. Her teaching career began at Hamilton’s Fifth Avenue Primary School and includes time at Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Bernard Fergusson in Ngāruawāhia, Whatawhata School, Cambridge
Middle School and Tamahere Model Country School. “Ōhaupō is a beautiful school community in which everyone is important, everyone matters and everybody has a contribution to make,” Sue said. “The input into our school is generational – third fourth and fifth generations of families have been here.” That “strong sense of history” underpins the school – which Sue said opened 154 years ago in 1869 and is believed to be the first school built in the Waikato – as much as it does the entire Ōhaupō community. The nearby Ōhaupō Memorial Hall celebrated its centenary earlier this month. “In my time at school, we have gone from 140
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Outgoing Ōhaupō School principal Sue McLocklan in front of the school values display in the main office. Photo: Jeremy Smith
First on her list of priorities when she leaves is family time. “The greatest thing I’m looking forward to is having more choices regarding what I do with my schedule. “After 27 years, how do you go about thanking all those who have made such a broad range on contributions to school? “Absolutely everybody contributes. We all sow seeds that are watered by others. “What is the most important thing in the world? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata It is the people, it is the people, it is the people.” Current Te Awamutu Primary School deputy principal Chris Rennie will succeed her at Ōhaupō. Bruce Mitchell, now at Paterangi School, will become Ōhaupō School’s new deputy principal.
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Andrew Myers has succeeded retiring Waipā ward member Mike Montgomerie on the Fonterra Cooperative Council and shares his thought today.
Over 900 submissions were received by Waipā District Council on the Waste-toEnergy incinerator consent application in Te Awamutu. That’s a record number. A large majority were in opposition. So why the concern? The proposal, yet to be considered by an independent hearing panel, is to incinerate 150,000 tonnes of waste a year. The waste will include used tyres, general rubbish, and plastics. The electricity generated is expected to power 15,000 local homes. The waste-to-energy incinerator concept was first developed in Germany in the late 19th century. It’s not new technology. In fact, It’s a crude method of generating energy. Basically, a steam engine. As examples, incinerating one tonne of waste generates around five million BTUs (British Thermal Units), whereas, recycling a tonne of waste can produce over 15 million BTUs. Burning 50 tonnes of waste a day produces one megawatt of power, whereas a single wind turbine can produce over two megawatts a day. Not surprisingly, this issue has sparked up the locals. For starters, industrial-scale incinerators destroy junk, but while doing so they produce novel, toxic substances. Highly toxic substances. Substances like dioxins. In fact, when trash is burned, the toxic residues are compounded. In Germany, the toxic ash is placed into specially designed bags and buried in salt mines. It’s classed as hazardous waste. Dioxins can lead to cancer, interfere with the immune system and hormones, and cause reproductive and developmental problems. They accumulate in the fatty tissues of animals – like humans – and can impact the food chain. Independent off-site monitoring
For those of you that don’t know me, I live in Roto-o-Rangi between Cambridge and Te Awamutu with my wife and two children. We lead a third generation dairy business supplying Fonterra. Waipa has been home for a long time and hopefully will be well into the future. I’ve decided to get more involved in the representation space because I care about our district’s future and how it affects our ability to operate. I wish to share with you some of my thoughts. Dairying has a very long history in our area and therefore is made up of a lot of farms, many of these are now smaller than the New Zealand average. These farms are especially vulnerable to fragmentation and can miss out on economies of scale. Land values are high such that younger farmers struggle to be attracted to a low rate of return. These factors are impeding continuation. Arguably nowhere more than Waipa are we seeing pressure on dairy land use and reduction in dairying area. Fonterra has decided to take a lead on improving how we farm in terms of environmental effects in attempt to give us the best shot at claiming our right to continue doing what we do. I support this. However, it feels like Fonterra farmers have been asked to shoulder the brunt of public scrutiny and do the country’s heavy lifting to reduce emissions. The previous government’s rhetoric was simple rhetoric – create a sinking lid on cow numbers and dairy land will reduce emissions. This works on face value, except that
urban expansion continues unabated and has become a new panacea turning the economic engine. Urban and lifestyle conversion from pastoral land uses emits far more emissions – forever – than the farming land ever did. Hence the hypocrisy of the need to reduce dairy farm area, carbon sink green pastures, to become carbon dioxide hotspot subdivisions. The Waipa area has significant character and natural features which are the envy of many. Quaint towns, numerous lakes and waterways, forested mountains, and rolling landscapes. Local leaders are already using these to creating a better future for Waipa. Farming needs to be more integral to that future. Conversion of pastoral land to that which houses people moves us away from this. It doesn’t focus on productivity, rather the opposite. In urban areas there are more people, demanding more infrastructure, consuming more, making more emissions. Conversely on the farm we are driven to do more with less, less cows to do the same output and have less wastage. Fonterra has rightly picked up on this with its new emissions metrics per unit of farm output. I believe in working as a team, my aim is to listen to and to encourage all Fonterra farmers to stay united and try to work together to move forwards. There is far more that we have in common than what differentiates us. There is a lot at stake, including the future of our co-operative.
in Spain and France, near to incinerators, detected dioxins in chicken eggs at unsafe levels. Women can eliminate in-body dioxins, but only by passing them on to their unborn child during pregnancy. Men cannot. The Te Awamutu plant is planning to combust 480 tonnes of waste a day to produce steam, which will propel a turbine, which in turn produces electricity. Twenty-three tonnes of ash will be generated a day, most of which will need to be disposed of in a dumpsite approved for hazardous waste. The hotter the temperature gets, the more toxic the ash. Nearly half the cost of an incinerator is consumed by air pollution control and monitoring. However, should this consent be granted, self-regulation and monitoring, as we see in other controversial industries, would not be appropriate. Independent oversight will be vital. Unintended consequences must be expected, as in the other industries producing and distributing toxic substances. Zero Waste strategies are cleaner, more effective, and more community friendly. Zero Waste strategies achieve up to 80 per cent diversion from landfill, as opposed to incinerators, which reach a 75 per cent reduction in waste, accompanied by 20 per cent hazardous ash. More focus and planning needs to be put into recycling, reusing, and repairing. Once on board, industry has plenty to contribute. We need a future with cleaner solutions, not ones that leave a toxic legacy. Thanks to Professor Paul Connett and Reality Check Radio for their input and expertise. This is my personal opinion.
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A second home for citizens By Mary Anne Gill
Fashion statements in praise of the countries new citizens have come from and the country which they now call home have become an integral part of the Waipā citizenship ceremonies. Bright colours and Kiwi fashion designers had their moment in the sun at the third of this year’s citizenship ceremonies held in the Cambridge Town Hall. Sixty nine New Zealanders sang the national anthem in Māori and English accompanied by Australian pianist Joy Hood. Mayor Susan O’Regan welcomed them, acknowledging some new citizens had gone through struggles to get to New Zealand. They could now call two places home, she said. “We have a lot to learn from you.” Waikato Regional Council policy analyst Susan Brennan came to New Zealand from Pennsylvania in the United States when she was 12 but her soft northeastern American accent is still obvious. Finally becoming a Kiwi after more than 40 years was the right thing to do, the Pirongia resident said. Albert Ocay, a nurse for Corrections, came from the Philippines, six years ago and lives in Te Awamutu with wife Genevieve – yet to take the citizenship plunge herself – and their New Zealand born daughter Hiraya, 2. Totoo Tekee and Memeri Berenan have lived in Cambridge for 10 years and are originally from Kiribati in the central Pacific Ocean.
The new citizens were: Tracy Ann Aldridge (South Africa), Githesh Balakrishnan (India), Armando Ricafort Bautista (Philippines), Nafiza Bi (Fiji), Lana Botha (South Africa), Dirk Cornelius
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American Susan Brennan of Pirongia finally celebrates becoming a Kiwi with husband Greg and daughter Fiona. Photos: Mary Anne Gill.
New Kiwi citizen Albert Ocay of Te Awamutu with wife Genevieve and Hiraya, 2, after the Waipā Citizenship Ceremony.
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1000W - 3600l/m - 72 dB(A) - 7.4kg Compact and user-friendly cleaner, with washable PET filter, a smart lifting handle on the container, and a robust design. 20L container capacity (11L liquid), 2.5m hose length.
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$499 PW 235R
1800W - Max Pressure 135Bar Water Flow 350-520 Ltr/Hr An all-round high pressure cleaner with robust and purposeful design. Remote control, two swivel functions for nozzle adjustment and quick connection. Supplied with: 8m hose, foam sprayer, variable flat jet and rotary nozzles.
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