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Parking: it’s chaos, pain

By Mary Anne Gill

If the answer to Cambridge’s parking crisis is to build a car park building, then be prepared to pay for parking right through the central business district.

That was the message from Waipā Transport manager Bryan Hudson at a packed Chamber of Commerce-organised parking workshop last week.

Chaos and growing pains are how chamber chief executive Kelly Bouzaid described the current Cambridge parking situation with projects like the Town Hall Clock, Cambridge Pathway in Wilson and Duke streets and power company upgrades now underway.

Sixty two car parks are gone from the CBD as a result.

The narrative in Cambridge six years ago was retail rotation with businesses asking for more parking enforcement, which they got, she said.

But now, while there are 3000 public car parks in the CBD, the town had more than 3000 workers – many travelling from around the region - using those at the expense of customers, she said.

One meeting attendee said that would result in people shopping at The Base in

Hamilton which has free parking and choice.

The meeting endorsed Bouzaid’s call for the council to remove no further car parks or change any restricted parking without consultation with the chamber and the business community.

“This is now the start of being heard,” she said while urging businesses to provide the chamber with data to help it make a submission to the council’s long term planning.

“Parking isn’t going to get any easier. It is likely new or expanded businesses will develop over land that is currently used for private parking and the national rule changes mean there are no minimum parking requirements, so the pressure is just going to happen.”

But building a car parking building for $40,000 per car space above ground and $100,000 below ground, would be “extremely expensive” to build and run, said Hudson.

It was generally only councils that build them because there was not enough return for private investors.

“To own one, you’ve got to have that revenue coming in to pay for it, to pay off the loans, to

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pay off that operation.”

Solutions to getting people out of cars included providing cycleways, walkways and better public transport.

“Just be aware when you look at other growing towns or cities, the more parking you put in your CBD or central area, the more congested it becomes.

The longer the periods of peak traffic trying to get in and out.

All of those things are realities of expanding parking,” he said.

Cambridge could become like Hamilton where staff park out of the CBD and either walk in or use the Lime scooters people did not want here.

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The crest of a wave The community might be tired of seeing streets lined with cones – but Mary Anne Gill reports that a teenager’s bright nature has provided some light relief.

Motorists might have entered orange cone capital in Wilson and Duke streets in Cambridge unhappy at the weekend, but they left with smiles on their faces thanks to Tamati Katipa.

The 17-year-old’s version of the Mana Wave while guiding cars through the cones was a welcome respite for drivers as workers continued construction on the Cambridge Pathway.

Waipā council should consider recruiting Katipa full time as community outrage continued unabated last week.

Hamilton Road from Grey to Bryce St path is complete and work is now progressing in Bryce, Wilson and Duke streets.

The west-bound lane of Duke Street (travelling towards Victoria Street), between Dick and Wilson streets was closed for two days while workers completed the roadside kerb and channelling.

Another contractor will soon start building the raised boardwalk along the narrow section of Duke Street.

This will mean restricting traffic and creating detours for some traffic during the boardwalk build until mid-May. Meanwhile results of an online survey which ended on Saturday run by the Waipā Ratepayers and Renters group has found dissatisfaction with the Cambridge Pathway project.

Sources say the scientific validity of the survey has been called into question by the council. Mayor Susan O’Regan, deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk, some councillors and staff reportedly received emails saying they had

Tamati Katipa in action on the Cambridge Pathway project.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill.

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Organiser Brenda Stamp told group members everyone who submitted the survey would have their names kept private.

“Apart from myself only one other person will see the completed surveys as he is the person who will be collating the data,” she told the group.

Lack of consultation and usage are common themes running through the responses.

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Already paying…

As a cyclist I disagree with Pam Bennett (Make them pay). Most cyclists do pay road user fees as they are also car owners and drivers.

However, by choosing at times to cycle instead of drive they are reducing their impact as drivers on the road infrastructure and the environment.

Additionally by taking exercise and keeping healthy they are less likely to make demands on overstretched health services.

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Get real

This statement “Why is so much money wasted on cyclists when they pay nothing towards using the roads?” fails to acknowledge the reality that some, possibly many, cyclists are also motorists - like me. I’m a recreational cyclist who uses the cycle-ways at every opportunity because they’re a safer option than the roads.

This seems especially relevant in view of the strong feelings being expressed by some motorists. So just like every other law-abiding New Zealand motorist, I pay my vehicle registration, ensure my Warrant of Fitness is up to date and I top up with petrol (fuel tax). Additionally, as a New Zealand citizen I pay my taxes and as a Cambridge resident, I pay my rates. Not sure what else I can do to appease the unhappy motorists but I hope they’re a little more tolerant of all cyclists.

Patrick Clarke Cambridge

Time for action

I must admit I feel very strongly about the poor devils in Hawke’s Bay and other badly hit areas, in the way both governments have let them down. After watching programmes on the anniversary of the storm I can’t believe the forestry companies have not done a blind bit to clear their mess. If you or I made a mess in the area we live in we would soon have everybody on our back demanding we put it right.

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So, instead of “make them pay” I would say, good on them, and let’s have more of them.

Mike Gast Cambridge

On the beat with Senior Constable DEB HANN Keep it to yourself…

Continuing on my recent retail theft topic, we have become aware of a spate of thefts of handbags and wallets.

What has made these thefts easier, is the habit many people have of putting them into the front of the shopping trolley while they do their grocery shop. It takes just a moment, while your back is turned to select an item of the shelf, for an opportunist offender to grab a wallet from the handbag and nonchalantly walk away. By the time you reach check-out and realise it is missing, your credit cards can already have been used to purchase items elsewhere. The easy way to avoid becoming a victim of this crime, is to keep your handbag on your person at all times when shopping.

As with any crime, the easier the pickings are in Cambridge, the more attractive we become to out of town offenders.

On the retail topic, I’d like to also shout out

to members of the public who have called police or alerted retail staff to theft this week, providing valuable information around offenders and their vehicles. It is great to see everyone working together.

And finally, last week a member of the public had a near miss in the Waikato river.

We were called by concerned friends after they had seen their friend jump off a platform at the boat ramp on Dominion avenue. He had not reappeared - even after an hour of searching - so they called Police.

As resources were being despatched, the male was located walking back to the boat ramp area. He told how the current was stronger than he expected, causing him to be washed further down the river. By sheer luck he managed to grab hold of a low hanging branch on the opposite side of the river. After a period of time, he succeeded in pulling

are making mega money but it’s the New Zealand taxpayer who will foot the clean-up bill and it will be massive, people have lost homes, livelihoods, not counting the trauma aspect.

So come on you lot in charge, get moving and start fining these companies, please don’t leave it till next time because it will happen again unless you act now.

Michael Jones Tauwhare

Parking: it’s chaos, pain Continued from page 1

“People love Cambridge because of the way it looks because it’s a great use of space,” said Hudson who cited the trees, parks and gardens as being just as important as parking spaces.

Meanwhile The News understands concerns about car parking spaces being taken from outside businesses in Wilson, Victoria and Bath streets as part of the Cambridge Pathway project have been partially allayed by the council.

Thirty two spaces were to have been taken from that stretch. The council intend removing a power pole to change the pathway design south of The Warehouse saving eight car parking spaces outside Riverside Dental, Triton Hearing and Shelley Tweedy and Associates.

The council was also considering introducing restricted parking in nearby Fort Street.

himself out of the river and climbed the bank.

He was then able to walk back around over the high bridge to the boat ramp, where Police found him.

It goes without saying that the male was extremely lucky that events worked out the way they did. I again strongly advise against swimming at the Dominion Ave boat ramp.

As I have mentioned on other occasions, the currents in the Waikato river are frequently strong and unpredictable. The water level can also change without notice subject to dam water releases. Any water rescue requires a considerable and diverse emergency services response. If we remain vigilant to the risks around water and swim in safe, recommended areas, this will reduce the number of avoidable callouts. Have a good week and as always, stay safe.

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Viv Posselt reports on some of the stories being told during heritage month in Waipā.

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Don’s Drive

A collector road at the end of Hugo Shaw Drive in Bridleways Estate, Cambridge, which The News revealed last month was to be part of Taylor Street, will be named Don Gerrand Drive, Waipā District Council confirmed this week after the name secured support from Ngaati Koroki Kahukura and Ngaati Hauaa. Gerrand was the Cambridge fire chief and had served in the brigade for 53 years at the time of his death in May 2022.

Talks bear fruit

An agreement between Ōhaupō lifestylers Nick and Vanessa Jennings and Kiwifruit Investments Ltd over the landowner’s appeal to the Environment Court is close, according to Waipā Consents team leader Quentin Budd. The consent for artificial structures and shelterbelt plants at a kiwifruit orchard in Parallel Road, next to Jennings’ property, was granted in March last year.

Cup winner dies

Melbourne Cup winning jockey James McDonald is mourning the loss of the mare Verry Elleegant who died this week following complications giving birth. The jockey had been expecting a call with good news about a colt or a filly. “…to get that call she had lost her life, I couldn't believe it at first. It brought tears to my eyes,'' he said.

‘Gems’ from our history

By Viv Posselt

A few colourful tales have emerged from recent events linked to Waipā district libraries’ Heritage Month.

Saturday’s talk on ‘Small town, Big stories – Photographs from the Museum’, presented by Cambridge Museum manager Elizabeth Harvey, told of an intrepid police constable who in 1875 leapt into the flooded Waikato River to successfully lasso and land the fastdisappearing low-level bridge of its day.

Another tale was around a photograph of WW2 soldiers serving overseas, holding a variety of items posted to them by local woman Minnie Rippon.

Minnie owned a sweet shop, and her touching gesture throughout the war was her way of sending home comforts to the Cambridge lads who had been her young customers.

Harvey’s presentation began with the showing of an image of a mother and child, taken on August 19, 1839, six

months before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. It is one of the museum’s earliest photographs, but the identity of the individuals in the image remains a mystery as it is simply labelled ‘old photo’.

“The documentation of photographs coming to the museum was nothing like it is today,” she said, impressing upon her audience the importance of writing things down – long or short – to document events or to name people and places in material given to the museum.

Some 7000 photographs make up a huge part of the museum’s collection, and many of those taken by Reg Buckingham through the 1960/80s are of significant national value. “Some are held in Te Papa, others at the Auckland Art Gallery. We are the copyright holders of that collection … we’re very proud of that.”

Many chronicle Cambridge’s progress through the decades, and show events linked to its residents. They include remarkable images of bridge

building, floods and fires, street celebrations marking the end of WW1, and visually portray the creation in the 1940s of Lake Karāpiro and the hydro power station.

Harvey’s talk at the Cambridge Library was the second in the Heritage Month series. The first, which took place a week earlier, featured a talk by local author Celine Kearney on her book ‘Southern Celts’.

Kearney initially wrote it as an academic work for her PhD, which was awarded through Victoria University in Melbourne in 2017. It included the stories of 38 people she interviewed through her travels around New Zealand. After recontacting them about a decade later, this time with the book ‘Southern Celts’ in mind, the number of final stories published ended up at 23, among them musicians, writers, a master carver, sculptor, sports people, a church minister, a Treaty of Waitangi educator and a museum archivist.

Kearney’s own story, as the granddaughter of three

Month lineup is a talk at Te Awamutu Library on March 13, entitled ‘Unveiling History: Te Awamutu Cenotaph’.

The Cambridge Museum is also presenting ‘Finding the Photographs: Michael Jeans Exhibition’ from March 15-21, and ‘Capturing Cambridge: Reg Buckingham Exhibition’ from March 18-21 – both in the Town Hall.

A game changer for Cambridge

Eagle-eyed readers may spot the perilously-perched workmen on the high-level bridge in 1907 – notably minus any of the safety features that would be required today.

By Viv Posselt

Domain plan

Changes have been made to the Leamington Domain master plan after consultation.

Proposed angled parking on Scott Street will become two parallel mobility parks and traffic control options to relieve traffic conflicts, particularly during the netball season, will be looked at. The toilet block will be moved to the Wordsworth Street side of the domain. The steaming bay area at the southeast corner will be rearranged and extra seating and cycle racks installed. The plan goes into the Long Term Plan pot for funding options.

Irish-born grandparents and one born to an immigrant Irish family in Central Otago, is among them.

She went on to work as a journalist and researcher, and now works in applied linguistics.

She said the book explores the ways Kiwis with Celtic connections bring those cultural aspects to their lives in New Zealand.

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Elizabeth Harvey talks about one of the Cambridge Museum’s oldest photographs, taken six months before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.

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The story of the Victoria Bridge – or high-level bridge – is one crucial to Cambridge’s development.

Cambridge Museum records show it was built over a seven-month period in 1907, using a kitset sent out from Kansas in the United States. The bridge was built out from both sides of the Waikato River joining in the middle to perch some 35.4 metres above the water surface.

It was the first braced steel arch bridge in Australasia, and came into service not long before the motor car replaced horse travel.

Part of Elizabeth Harvey’s presentation last week showed the bridge’s usage over just one week six years after it opened. A survey done in 1913 noted that 2422 motors, 3831 adults, 687 children, 485 bikes, 384 dogs, 1346 vehicles, 326 sheep, 809 cattle, two traction engines and two wagons crossed the bridge between August 3 and 9, proving its value to the fast-developing town of Cambridge.

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More cycle friendliness

By Mary Anne Gill

Grey Street in Cambridge from Hamilton Road to Williams Street will become cycle friendly in plans confirmed by Waipā council this week.

The layout will eliminate through traffic and substantially reduce motor vehicle volumes around Cambridge Middle School, says Waipā Transportation programme engineer Erik Van Der Wel. The most significant change will see Grey Street to the north of Hamilton Road turned into a cul-de-sac.

The $600,000 cost for the changes is covered by an agreement between New

Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi and the council.

Transport minister Simeon Brown’s recent announcement pulling the brakes on cycling and walking initiatives around the country came too late for the Waipā work which escaped the freeze because the funding agreement was signed and sealed.

Van Der Wel told the council’s Service and Delivery committee this week staff presented three options showing a broad range of street layouts for the Grey Street/ Middle School section of the Cambridge Pathways project. The agreed layout is different to the protected cycleways elsewhere in the project.

The two key reasons behind the decision were the location and desire to retain roadside trees on Grey Street between Hamilton Road and Clare Street. Creating a cycle friendly street required less infrastructure with less cost and disruption to residents.

Students, the public and an online survey gave members of the public the opportunity to provide feedback.

While many of the respondents wanted the pathway extended in Grey Street towards Williams Street, project funding constraints meant this was not possible, said Van Der Wel. Work should start in July.

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Driving home a safe message

By Mary Anne Gill

A near miss involving a Fonterra tanker and a Ōhaupō Primary school cyclist last year has had a positive outcome.

The dairy company and the school asked Waipā council’s Road Safety team for help.

Thirty-one students from the school attended a cycle truck awareness workshop which focused on blind spots that certain trucks have.

Students learned where the safest place was to ride on the road and placement around trucks.

Each student sat in the truck cab so they could see blind spots for themselves.

In other road safety news in his report to the Service Delivery committee this week, Transportation manager Bryan Hudson said 30 billboards were refreshed before Christmas last year with the message ‘Slow down mate Make it home’.

“The use of Te Reo on previous billboards was deemed successful. However, timeframes and translation issues didn’t allow it for this placement,” he said.

It was difficult having both Te Reo and English on a sign due to a seven-word limit recommended

by New Zealand Transport Agency.

Meanwhile another campaign urging people not to get a ride home with police, St John or a funeral director was well received, said Hudson.

The team’s job is to provide ongoing liaison with road safety organisations, police, NZTA, the community and council staff to establish and foster a safety culture.

Other activities in the three months since November 1 have been cycle skills training, Students Against Drunk Drivers planning for a regional workshop, shared programmes with Hamilton City Council and scooter safety programmes.

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Take me home…

By Mary Anne Gill

Archie Griffin grabs his ukelele and starts strumming the first chords of the John Denver classic Take Me Home Country Roads.

The 75-year-old reveals it is the song the Riverside Ukes will play as his coffin gets carried out and taken to Hautapu Cemetery where the plot he and wife Linda have chosen for themselves has a view towards Te Miro.

“Looks out to our farm,” says Linda who then reveals she thought the funeral would have been last week so bad was her husband of 51 years’ health after she called the ambulance out earlier this month.

The couple moved into Summerset Retirement Village in November last year after 10 years living in nearby Boulton Place. When they sold the four-bedroom house they had a big clean out, filling two skips and donated the furniture that was just too big and bulky for their new two-bedroom villa. Prior to that they farmed for years in Te Miro.

Archie kept his agricultural interests by working as groundsman at Fieldays.

Both are Waikato born – Linda, 74, is from Piarere

Linda and Archie Griffin at the Summerset Summer Fete with the ukelele at the ready.

and Archie from Matamata.

Archie, who has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Copd), started smoking at 15 when he became an apprentice jockey.

“They said to me ‘to keep your weight down, just smoke’. So, I did.”

He had a reasonably successful career in New Zealand and Australia with trainer Jack Hayes where one of his jobs was as a strapper, dressed in a three piece suit, taking the horses

into the birdcage.

It was from there he saw Australian gelding Gatum Gatum go past the post at the Melbourne Cup in 1963.

On his return to New Zealand, he met Linda at one of the Caledonian Society’s dances in Matamata.

Archie played rhythm guitar in a band called Old Time whose staples were songs by the Everly Brothers, Bill and Boyd and songs like Put Another Log

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After years working in the Kaimai Tunnel, powder factories and sawmills – where there was lots of dust – plus the smoking - Archie’s health and breathing today is precarious.

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“I was sitting on the end of the bed and thinking to myself there’s got to be something better than this,” said Archie.

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The answer was no, a stark reminder to get things sorted.

They signed up with Hospice Waikato which delivers specialist community palliative care in the community looking after those who have terminal or life limiting illnesses.

A hospice bed has been moved into their Summerset two bed villa. The couple, who have two children and four grandsons, have arranged their finances and written down what sort of funeral they both want.

“The kids thanked us.

They said ‘that’s one less thing to worry about Mum and Dad’,” said Linda.

The couple believe the decisions have given Archie more time in Summerset where they have settled in effortlessly even agreeing to be hosts with other residents at the Summerset Fete on Saturday.

“They look after us, they even shifted us in here while I was in the hospital,” said Archie. “You can’t kill weeds,” laughs Linda.

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2024

More fun on the run

The line-up of eager runners at the start of last year’s main event.

The annual Waipā Fun Run organised by Cambridge’s St Peter’s Catholic School is attracting a growing number of out-of-region participants.

This year’s family fun walk and run event, which has Cambridge News as

one of its gold sponsors, takes place from 9am at the town’s Victoria Square on Sunday March 3.

Among those already registered are runners from as far afield as Gisborne, Thames and Te Kauwhata, and hopes are high that the overall number of

Photo: Michael Jeans.

participants will crack last year’s 647.

With the exception of a Covid hiatus in 2022, the event has been run since 2012 and is well-supported by both the school and business community.

What’s new in 2024 is the announcement

of a new naming rights sponsor. Independent Traffic Control has taken over from Lugtons as the event’s key sponsor. Lugtons has left Cambridge.

More-re is the new 10km race sponsor, and Evans Doyle Accountants

the new 2km Schools Challenge sponsor.

Cambridge Vets have remained the 5km sponsor, and Cambridge Steel Fabricators stays as the 5km Teams Challenge sponsor – the latter is normally something of a dress-up affair.

CAMBRIDGE NEWS | 7

Trio face court over robberies One of the three teenagers charged in connection with two aggravated robberies in Cambridge earlier this month has been remanded in custody.

The three males are scheduled to appear in the Hamilton District Court on different days.

An 18-year-old from Cambridge has been remanded on bail to appear on March 7, one 17-year-old has been bailed to February 28 and the third, also 17, is in custody awaiting a hearing on February 27. The 17-yearolds are from Hamilton.

The arrests, made last Tuesday, were revealed in the Cambridge News.

Police said the incidents were regarded as priority cases and were treated with urgency “due to community safety” and the result showed the hard work detectives from the Criminal Investigations Branch had done alongside Cambridge Police staff.

Both robberies were carried out around dawn – the first on February 2 and the second on February 7. The robbers made off with cigarettes and vapes. In the first robbery at Challenge in Cambridge at least one of the robbers was armed and in the second a staff member at BP in Leamington was hit with a crowbar.

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2024

15th March to 24th March 2024 Thursday Night Blues with Grant Haua After extensive touring in Europe and Australia, Grant Haua looks forward to bringing his acoustic show of blues, rock, and soul to the festival. From acoustic ballads to riff-grinding, foot-stomping music.

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Jazz, Blues, Bluegrass and more

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J-pop, Cubano, Pacific infused Jazz instrumental ensemble! Miho’s unique style, open storytelling and delightful stage presence draws from a mischievous mix of musical influences, international travel, and everyday life.

“An Evening of Musicals” with Dane Moeke and Fiona Greaves blends their passion for musical theatre in an unforgettable showcase featuring Les Misérables, Hairspray, Cats, Chess, Mamma Mia and many more.

New Zealand’s original bluegrass band, the Hamilton County Bluegrass Band, will present a programme of bright and entertaining songs, smooth harmonies, and dazzling instrumental work that will be enjoyed by all ages.

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2024

U3A reaches milestone Briefs… meeting as and when they like. A series of short seminars has been introduced, which is presented by an external speaker.

Carey said the coming year would see several new offerings coming on stream.

She presented gift vouchers to Cambridge U3A committee members at this month’s meeting – the first for the year – in recognition of the hundreds of voluntary hours they have put into the group.

Priority shortlist

The long list of transport ideas for Cambridge has now been assessed in detail and the project team has completed a shortlist which along with traffic modelling information will be presented to key stakeholders next week for feedback. Known as the Cambridge Connections business case, it will include a programme of the next steps and be complete by May. The News will have more information next week.

Units refreshed

Three Waipā pensioner flats in Cambridge have been fully renewed and are now occupied. Two are at Dr Tod Court and the other at Dallinger Court. Other units in Wallace, Vaile and Dallinger courts required general maintenance before they were occupied. Meanwhile work on cracks in the brick cladding on some of the pensioner units at Dr Tod Court, as well as some roofing work, will be completed later this year.

Road works done

Thornton Road speed calming measures and crossings between the shops and Te Koo Utu playground in Cambridge are now complete. Meanwhile a new rejuvenation product has been added to the 24-year-old asphalt surfaces in Oaklands Drive to restore waterproofing. The product is an alternative to chip sealing over asphalt.

Whoops

Workers had to redo the driveway parts of a new 284m $60,000 footpath in Milton Street, Cambridge when the concrete was laid the wrong way and would have cracked under the weight of cars going over it. Fifty footpath repairs were completed across the district since September 1.

Cambridge U3A founder Carey Church, at right, with committee members Carole Hughes, Diana Swarbrick, Vicki Jacobsen, co-founder Lyndall Hermitage and Bruce Hancock at this month’s meeting

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Cambridge U3A (University of the Third Age) might just be one of the town’s fastest-growing groups.

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A relaxing time in the sun

Friends come in handy particularly when they order a sunny day and deliver plenty of activities.

That is what the Friends of Resthaven Foundation Trust achieved on Saturday for the Market Day fundraiser at Payne Park outside the communityowned retirement village and alongside the Water Tower.

Proceeds from the day – which featured music, food, raffles and stalls - go towards equipment for the village’s care centres.

Senior writer Mary Anne Gill was there with her camera.

Stallholders were kept busy at the Cambridge Resthaven Market Day on Saturday.

Picnic time for the Hall family at the Cambridge Resthaven Market Day where children Phoebe, 3, and Maxwell, 5 who attends Cambridge East, got their faces painted and parents Scot and Kimmy tried the Thai food and coffee.

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Tucking into a coffee and ice cream at the Cambridge Resthaven Market Day were Victor and Anthea Fester who moved to the town after emigrating from South Africa 17 years ago, briefly tried living in Hamilton but were tempted back by Cambridge’s charm.

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2024

ON SHAKY GROUND

Fissure eruptions

By Janine Krippner

We volcanologists love our terminology.

Having specific words with defined, agreed upon meanings helps us to effectively communicate ideas, and compare events at different volcanoes and through time. Often though, the meanings are lost and jumbled when shared online and in headlines. “Fissure eruption” is something hitting headlines over the past few months as several eruptions have occurred in the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland, so let’s clear this one up.

If you have been watching the fissure eruptions in Iceland you may have noticed a pattern in how they progress, and you may have seen the same thing reported at volcanoes like Kīlauea in Hawaii. They begin when lava erupts from long cracks (fissures) in the ground that may or may not have been there before. These fissures are different to cracks that can form during unrest, where the deformation of the ground from magma moving below, this is what has happened through the town of Grindavik. We call something a fissure once lava emerges from it. This can start out as small bubbling, or it can erupt violently as a lava fountain, where lava shoots high up into the air reaching potentially hundreds of metres or even several kilometres above the vent. A fissure can be one long fracture, or multiple fissures can occur close together.

Leading to a fissure eruption, magma moves towards the surface as a long sort of sheet that we call a dike or an intrusion. This can happen over many kilometres, making it difficult to know where exactly the eruption will occur. This is why we can get these eruptions occurring at multiple spots along a line, or through long fissures. Eruptions are always driven by what is happening below.

When lava fountaining is occurring across

a long fissure, this can be called a “curtain of fire”, even though there is no fire involved. Remember that volcanoes don’t produce smoke either, the plumes we see above this type of eruption are often a mixture of volcanic gases and some ash (pulverised rock). These eruptions often don’t produce much ash. The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull fissure eruption that grounded flights across Europe was different because the lava mixed with glacial water to make it more explosive and fragment (blow apart) to form the ash. The gas, however, can cause issues.

The number and size of fissures can evolve throughout an eruption, like at Kīlauea in 2018 where 24 fissures formed in around three months. Activity usually eventually focuses in on one location and begins to form a spatter cone, where blobs or splashes of lava accumulate around one or more vents and lava flows from there. If you travel around somewhere like Iceland, you may see many smallisha cones that might have formed in this way. Fissures can reactivate, like Fissure 8 at Kīlauea that led to around 22 square kilometres of land and hundreds of buildings being overrun by lava. There is never a good time to get complacent.

In Iceland we have been watching fissures open in different locations across months, with periods of inactivity between them.

There has been speculation that there could be a series of these eruptions into the future, and hopefully this helps clear up a few of the words used to describe them. As always, my heart is with those being impacted by the eruption and we should always keep in mind that none of us are immune to disasters of the geological kind.

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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The Russian writer Leo Tolstoy is acclaimed as a giant in world literature and his epic work War and Peace is recognised as one of the finest novels ever written.

Tolstoy wrote in depth about Napoleon’s battle plans for invading Russia in 1812, as the military strategist detailed specific orders, choreographing the way he envisioned the battle should go.

Tolstoy asserts, in the final analysis that battles are won by the spirit, passion and willingness of individual soldiers themselves. War and Peace raises questions about what matters in life and what comes after war, with the author debunking conventional top-down leadership, placing weight on the bottom-up importance of soldiers themselves who ultimately fight battles.

This connects to complexities being faced in Israel right now. Who will be the rulers of a post-war Gaza, should Hamas be removed from its powerbase? What might the continuing role of Israel look like in Gaza?

And of course, what will be the impact on Israeli society once the smoke clears, as it were, when tough questions and painful realities are confronted?

About 20 years after he’d written War and Peace, Tolstoy wrote another book in 1879 titled A Confession. He was still seeking answers to tough questions about the meaning and purpose of life. “Who am I..?

Where did I come from and where are we heading..?”

And here we are today, 145 years on from Tolstoy pondering life’s issues…I checked to see how many wars have been fought beyond Tolstoy’s day when he struggled for meaningful conclusions to life - there’s been hundreds - nothing has changed with time

passing. The world is still lost, lacking direction and wilfully bungling along, alienated from the goal and purpose for which we were put on earth for - that is to live in relationship with God. Without that relationship there will always be a void, an emptiness and profound lack of purpose.

Things are seriously wrong… something is missing and it all comes down to God being relegated to irrelevance and man asserting his own ability to make life work - on his terms.

In another field altogether, was the creative phenomenon Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the group Queen. He asks in one of the last songs written for the ‘Miracle’ album, “Does anyone know what we are living for?” In spite of amassing a fortune and fans galore, Freddie stated in an interview shortly before his death in 1991 that he was desperately lonely. He said, “You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man and that is the most bitter loneliness. Success brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds but it’s prevented me from having the one thing we all need- a loving, ongoing relationship.”

He was right to speak of an ‘ongoing relationship’ as the one thing we all need.

No human relationship will ever satisfy entirely, nor can it be completely ongoing.

Life will resemble a war zone until we find the missing peace, drawn from knowing God personally.

Jesus said, “I am the Way”…He alone offers peace and hope through relationship with God, now and into eternity.

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2024

HE WHAKAWHITIWHITINGA WHAKAARO

Putting it in context

By Tom Roa, Tikanga Advisor, Waikato University

A ‘preamble’ to a treaty or a contract in general terms provides the context of what led to the parties’ engaging in a contract or treaty process and the goals they will pursue in their continued engagement following the conclusion of the signing of the treaty or contract.

Although not ‘enforcable’ legally, the preamble is an important aid in gaining an understanding of that context. As such it is an integral part of the record. The material of a preamble can be reviewed by a court to determine if a party has acted in concert with that context.

The Preamble to Te Tiriti/the Treaty o/of Waitangi is very often overlooked or merely of passing note when Te Tiriti/The Treaty is discussed. Yet the context and the principles it asserts should be of more than a passing interest in the present call for Aotearoa-New Zealand to give more time and effort into what Te Tiriti/The Treaty was, is, and should/could be.

There is some concern for and controversy with the accuracy of the Maori translation, especially in the Articles. The contra proferentem rule asserts that an ambiguous contract term should be construed against the drafter of the contract. In the Te Tiriti/The Treaty context that means that should there be a dispute in the ambiguity of meaning in Te Tiriti/The Treaty the reo Māori version is given a precedence.

Interestingly the English and the Māori texts of the Preamble express similarly high level aspirations on the part of Queen Victoria and her representative drafters of Te Tiriti/The Treaty.

Both versions state clearly that Queen Victoria ‘s intentions were firstly to protect Māori interests from encroaching British settlement; to provide for that British

settlement; and to establish a government to maintain peace and order.

The Māori text including similar statements places another emphasis in suggesting that the Queen’s main promises to Māori were to secure tribal rangatiratanga and to secure Māori land ownership.

That Māori version provides a context for the rangatira of that time to consider in light of the earlier Declaration/He Whakaputanga with growing concerns for the very bad behaviour of certain British citizens and how they might in the context of that excellent relationship work together with Queen Victoria’s representatives whereby both could benefit from a binding agreement of this nature.

I would assert that this context played a major role in the fact that more than 500 Māori signed the Māori version and less than 50 signed the English.

In the context of this Waipā District, in particular in the township of Rangiaowhia, the 10 years following the signing of the Treaty saw a burgeoning realisation of the promise of a shared prosperity where Māori and Pākehā worked together to mutual benefit.

And then the unconscionable avarice of powerful businessmen and women and corrupt politicians who created opportunities for them to seize that prosperity for their own.

The commemoration of the ‘pāhuatanga’, the invasion and subsequent atrocities committed at Rangiaowhia on February 21, is a reminder of the potential that was beginning to be realised.

Knowing our history leads us to an understanding of how we got to be what we are today; and can guide us to what we might be should we learn the lessons of our past.

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It’s about an hour’s drive south of San Francisco.

My friend met his wife more than 60 years before when they were students at Stanford University – a magnificent campus created from a 3,240ha stock farm belonging to Leland Stanford.

He had become amazingly rich by supplying provisions to the gold mining 49’ers and later - when he was a major investor in the creation of the Central Pacific Railroad which (with the Union Pacific) joined the two main coasts of the USA – causing California to boom as a result.

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academia – not for them the sportsstrength prowess prevalent at the eastern Ivy League colleges.

My friend and his wife had always resided close to Stanford and were hugely involved with the continuance of a highly successful alumni. In fact, when we toured the campus, we were honoured to visit a magnificent new art gallery.

The creation of it was causing the university elders grief as they dared to name it after the benefactor (named Anderson) and feared they would upset the Stanford family.

Stanford rests on enormous financial reserves thanks, in the main, to alumnirelated sponsorship or donations.

A sad reflection is the lack of such largess in this country where our universities are struggling with the ability to keep staff – or courses – due to lack of funding.

The ridiculous ‘free’ first year over recent years (instead of dangling the carrot for the final year) brought to the universities a plethora of young people who squandered away a year with no intention of continuing.

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antics (and politics) of the possible creation of a third medical school at Waikato.

This, a university in the heartland of agriculture, which scrapped their mainstream agricultural courses for reasons that were never fully explained.

Now they want to become famous for a seat of medical learning aimed at producing second-level medical doctors to patch up the growing chasm apparent in the GP arena. And where will the money come from?

Coincidental to this is a notable number of very bright young Year 13 students who yearn to become medical doctors and are held out of the opportunity by the crazy government rule that keeps places for some of lesser academic talent due to their ethnic background.

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Cambridge’s unique sister city relationship with Le Quesnoy in France will be in the spotlight at the annual Global Cities two-day conference in Blenheim next month.

Sir Donald McKinnon, who chairs the Le Quesnoy Liberation Museum Trust, is the keynote speaker at the conference’s opening day on March 14.

He will talk about the relationship between Cambridge and Le Quesnoy which culminated in the opening of Te Arawhata – New Zealand Liberation Museum in October last year.

Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan and Cambridge Community Board chair Jo Davies-Colley represented the district at the ceremony.

The board has responsibility for Waipā’s sister city relationships with Le Quesnoy and Bihoro in Japan.

Final costs of $4361.51 - $108.66 under budget - for the trip to France by O’Regan and Davies-Colley were tabled at the Cambridge Community Board meeting last night (Wednesday) after The News went to press.

Costs for trips to Cambridge by delegations from Le Quesnoy and Bihoro were also received. The French group visited for

Armistice Day and other activities for $8286 - $3072 under budget - while Bihoro’s mayor Koji Tsuchiya brought an eight-strong group later in November costing $6520, nearly $4000 under budget.

Sundry costs and gifts cost $1442.

Davies-Colley said she and the board valued the sister cities’ relationships and will attend the Global Cities conference hosted by Marlborough District Council. The budgeted cost is $1600 plus GST. The conference will also feature speeches by the Australian, British, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and United States high commissioners and ambassadors on the importance of citizen diplomacy through sister city connections.

It will wrap up with an awards prizegiving.

Earlier this month NZ Rugby donated a carved All Blacks bench to Te Arawhata.

The ceremony was attended by Caroline Bilkey – New Zealand’s ambassador to France, Marie Sophie Lesne – mayor of Le Quesnoy, former All Black Andrew Mehrtens, and more than 300 Le Quesnoy locals and visiting Kiwis. Mehrtens first visited Le Quesnoy with the All Blacks back in 2000.

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Sidhu’s farm commission Andrew Flay is not sure why his farm was selected for a visit from Australian High Commissioner Harinder Sidhu, but he made certain she had a real ‘down on the farm’ experience.

Sidhu, who was appointed two years ago, brought along suitable attire last week to Flay’s Waipā dairy farm - a pair of Skellerup Red Band gumboots.

She showed her experience swatting away flies as she watched Flay’s herd of 379 cows head into afternoon milking at the Sutton Road dairy farm’s rotary cowshed, six kilometres northeast of Te Awamutu.

She arrived too late to see Flay’s star milk producer – cow number one who delivers more than 40 litres a day.

“She’s been milked and is back in the paddock. She’s an aggressive eater and an aggressive walker,” said Flay.

Sidhu was on a two-day trip to the Waikato hosted by the Waikato Chamber of Commerce.

The trip to the dairy farm was her last before she flew back to Wellington vowing to come back for Fieldays later in the year and visit Maungatautari, the largest mainland fenced project in New Zealand.

She was told the mountain had a 47 kilometre pest-proof fence aimed at restoring endangered native flora, fauna and wildlife by eliminating predators like rats and possums.

“I’ll have to come back for a week next time. It’s amazing you’ve been able to achieve that.”

Flay is part of the Taiea te Taiao ecological corridor project which stretches from Maungatautari to Pirongia via the Mangapiko Stream connecting two ecologically

significant maunga and enabling native species to move safely between the two.

Intensive farming over the years has seen the degradation of the stream, part of which flows through the Flay farm. As part of the project, he has riparian fencing and planting alongside the stream and any tributaries on the farm with an average setback of five metres.

Existing tree stands, such as the large kahikatea one he planted several years ago, are fenced off.

“There’s certainly a lot of pressure on farmers, we’re in the spotlight, in the cross head when the rivers are not right,” said Flay.

The planting along the ecological corridor helps with run off by absorbing it and keeps the stock away from the stream and provides shade.

Flay has been on the farm since 1983. He originally supplying the Waikato Co-op Dairy Company and latterly Fonterra.

He produces about 170,000kg of milksolids a season. At the end of last month, he was about four per cent behind after eight months of the season but 15 days into February, he was 16 per cent ahead for the month to date.

Sixty percent of the herd is still milking twice daily and 90 per cent of the cows are in calf.

Flay and his daughter Holly Forbes, who works on the farm with her husband Jesse, had just started feeding out maize for the first time in the season and by this week they expect to move onto the silage grown on the farm.

Depending on cow condition and the climate, they expect to still be milking by the end of May. Forbes, who attended Te Awamutu College and did an undergraduate degree in science at Massey and then her masters while working at Dairy NZ, returned to the farm

this season with Jess and their daughter.

“We’re still learning but Dad’s pretty open to learning too,” she said.

Like the trial underway in one of his paddocks with Barenbrug, formerly Agriseed.

The seed company is running a trial in one of Flay’s paddocks, planting 40 per cent of it in a mixture of tetraploid (dark green) and diploid (light green) rye grass – 60-70 varied species planted out in squares.

Flay is not sure what the mix is but has noticed the tetraploids are darker green and growing at various times of the year than he is used to seeing.

“I just treat it like a paddock. They were interested in doing the trial so if I allowed them to do the trial here, they would pay for (sewing) the rest of the paddock.”

Barenbrug regularly return to see how the grasses do over the seasons. Next year the company will do a hybrid rye grass trial in another paddock.

In addition to her trip to Waipā to see a working dairy farm, Sidhu visited Waikato University, Visy in Rukuhia, Tatua Co-op, Hamilton City Council, Gallagher Group, Tira (formerly NDA) and Innovation Park.

Chamber chair Senga Allen said the high commissioner’s visit was a precursor to closer connections between Waikato businesses and opportunities in Australia.

The purpose of the visit was to continue to develop connections between the countries’ business people, give Australia a better understanding of what goes on businesswise in the Waikato and look to facilitate introductions at events such as Fieldays.

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The new Government has signalled they intend to make changes to national rules around freshwater regulations on farm in an effort to make things more pragmatic for farmers, however we as a council are yet to understand the details of what this will look like.

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Regardless of any changes in central government regulations, the regional council supports the implementation of farm plans as a really good way to enable the uniqueness of individual farms and their systems throughout the region to continue while demonstrating good management of the environment.

To refresh, farmers in the Waipa Freshwater Management Unit (FMU) or Waipa catchment need to submit a Fwfp for certification by February 2025. For those in the middle/upper Waikato FMU, the final date is July 2025. These dates are part of the phased rollout of Fresh Water Farm Plans (Fw-fp) in both the Waikato and Southland regions, and cover all farmers with 20ha or over in arable or pastoral use, 5ha in horticultural use or 20ha of combined use.

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significance and so on. This then enables a farmer to understand the issues and challenges in their catchment and use this information to design their Fwfp to manage or reduce the impacts of their farming operation on the health and wellbeing of the catchment. All of this information is available on the regional council website.

A lot of work is also happening to ensure as best as possible that there is consistency across regional councils with this stuff. Te Uru Kahika (representing regional councils) is working with the Ministry for Primary Industries and the Ministry for the Environment to develop a Fwfp template for farmers to use. Our council farm engagement team continue to engage and work with industry stakeholders to ensure constant messaging, consistency where possible, and be as supportive as we can to help the sector with this process. This includes working with farmers that already have farm plans to enable these to meet new regulatory requirements.

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With a theme combining The Year of the Dragon and the dairy industry, the 2024 Waikato Dairy Industry Awards dinner promises to be an evening not to be missed.

One of the highlights of the dairy industry calendar, the winners will be announced at an Awards Dinner at Claudelands Event Centre on March 13, with categories for Share Farmer of the Year, Dairy Manager of the Year, and Dairy Trainee of the Year.

For the first time, regional nominees of the Fonterra Responsible Dairying Award (FRDA) will be acknowledged at their local dinner.

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“It’s also an opportunity for the volunteers and sponsors to be acknowledged as they provide invaluable support in so many ways to the entrants and the Awards.”

The New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards attracted 340 entrants from across the country, working in all levels of the dairy industry.

The three categories give entrants the chance to challenge themselves, earn a regional or national title and to share in substantial regional and national prize pools.

Waikato Regional Managers Rachel and Brian Basi say the regional awards dinners are always a night of celebration, and not just for the winners.

“The regional dinners not only focus on the regional winners and those in other categories, but provide another opportunity to meet, network and socialise with like-minded

The theme of the dinners centres around ‘The Year of the Dragon’, which according to the Chinese zodiac, is associated with strength, prosperity, and good fortune and signifies the beginning of new adventures and the realisation of dreams.

“The dragon’s energy reminds us of the strength we find within ourselves to persevere in our daily work on our dairy farms which are not merely businesses; they are a source of sustenance for our families, our communities, and beyond,” Rachel says.

“Just as the dragon soars into the sky, we too can aim for new heights in our farming practices. We can embrace innovation and sustainable methods to ensure that our dairy farms thrive for generations to come.”

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“The overwhelmingly positive feedback we receive from entrants is how much they learnt during the process and how glad they are they entered,” he says.

“Entering the Awards really is a learning journey – about the industry, about your business and about you as a farmer.”

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The ultimate experience The past three years since Pete and Ann Morgan won the 2021 Responsible Dairying Award have been fantastic, the pair say.

“To be recognized by your peers, to have what you are doing endorsed is definitely the ultimate experience, no doubt about it,” Pete says.

“What it’s allowed us to do is refocus, with the keyword being responsibility across all areas at our stage of life.”

The Te Awamutu farmer says the nomination for the award was humbling - and not particularly easy, because unlike other awards, nominees have to get up and talk about themselves and what they are doing to a familiar industry sector who are all looking for new concepts and ideas going forward into the future.

“We were at an established phase in our career, having gone down the traditional pathways from sharemilking and so forth, what we’d learned along the way encompassing everything

from environmental sustainability to managing of staffing resources.

“So we were having to present our hopes and dreams to our peers and it was, in retrospect, a huge privilege to being doing this,” he says.

The Morgans have a lot to be proud of. Their farm is an open book to many, with groups coming almost every week and not only from different parts of New Zealand, but internationally as well.

“We do provide an industry interface with a variety of groups, we had a set last

week from the United States looking at our technology, we’ve had environmental groups – even animals rights.”

The unusual latter group isn’t as rare as one might think.

“It’s really great to have them – the great thing is, we are able to teach what our reality is, and they often go away realising we do care for our animals, for our environment, for our communities and often, much more than they thought.”

Pete says the intergenerational approaches ranging from economic and environmental sustainability through to more precise

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farming via technology has always been there for many farmers, it’s just a question of educating such groups as to how that’s being achieved.

always surrounded by people; field days, on the farm or on the phone with those exchanges of ideas and concepts.”

“The Responsible Dairy Award [is an excellent way] of achieving this; it allows us as farmers to talk through tangible concepts and develop definitive sustainability practices for all the resources we have.”

The importance, he says, can’t be over-emphasised.

He says this starts with the economic sustainability, which allows them to reinvest themselves, their staff and through into the wider community.

“It allows us to have conversations about what we are passionate about, and what we can achieve in those areas.”

Perhaps the biggest plus as he says it, is the networking.

“It’s one of the central tenets of New Zealand farming; the really successful transference of ideas and concepts – you can run with ideas that best apply to you and where you are going.

“For me, one of the biggest advantages of winning the Responsible Dairy Award has been the contact, something that is critical for me. I’m

“There so much happening, from regulation changes, climate change, technology – I’m in the middle of a new virtual farming programme which is in equal parts extraordinary and challenging, that is rewriting how we do things; it’s both inspiring and daunting.”

Pete encourages others to look towards the Dairy Industry Awards, both as something to aspire to, and as a huge opportunity to come away with ideas and concepts that can be shaped to fit better farming practices going forward.

“It opens the door to wider conversations, normalizing explorations and nudging us out of our comfort zones.

“We need to be preparing for the future which includes everything from climate change, inflation, regulations as we as the ongoing requirements for environmental improvement and sustainability.”

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Old traditions combine with today’s technology One of the key phrases that has come much more into use in the dairy sector is that of ‘precise farming’.

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It allows farmers to be able to pinpoint with absolute accuracy areas where attention is immediately required on any aspect of the operation from paddocks to animals. And technology such as CowManager is helping change of the face of farming by integrating traditional farming methods with the very

best of today’s technology when it comes to the care of cows.

After four generations of farming in The Netherlands, CowManager founder Gerard Griffioen knew farming could be done easier. His drive was to find a way to measure a cow’s health, fertility and even recognise heat stress and transition issues before these things became a problem.

He changed the dairy business forever by inventing

the first ever cow monitoring ear sensors in 2004, which in essence, always keeps a detailed eye on every head in a herd, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

CowManager, a system now used in more than 40 countries around the world and being implemented in many farms around New Zealand, is built and continuously upgraded on years of knowledge, university research and worldwide on-farm tests.

But that doesn’t mean Gerard isn’t still passionately involved in improvements and research himself.

“We actively listen to our customers. We have CowManager allows customers (and local a farmer to keep an representatives) eye on every cow in worldwide who their herd 24 hours a day. actively think along about innovations and test them onfarm.”

The key to this success? Ear temperature, in which Gerard says the answer lies to most things.

“Back in the day, whenever dairy farmers would doubt

if a cow was feeling well, they would first feel her ears to check for a change in temperature,” he says.

“Cow's ears are full of information that tells us how they’re actually doing.

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CowManager monitors tagged cows 24/7 in real-time, wherever they are.

“The data graphs show you the ear temperature of the specific cow compared to the average of the total herd.

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Benefits for farmers include the monitoring of cows’ rumination, eating, inactivity, activity, ear temperature and high active behaviour.

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It also helps in terms of time management.

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With the MultiView function, dairy farmers can easily share important data with veterinarians, staff, herd managers, AI specialists, nutritionists, and researchers. This lets them monitor the herd’s performance as a team, completely changing the way business is done for the better.

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$619,000

340/14 Terry Came Drive

11 Hemans Street

$760,000

102/14 Terry Came Drive

14 Celeste Terrace, Peacocke

28 Southey Street

$699,000

54/14 Terry Came Drive

$635,000

15/14 Terry Came Drive

Sean Senior

Peter Matthews

021 023 17949

0274 905 383

sean@realtyhq.co.nz

peter@realtyhq.co.nz Realty HQ ltd Licensed REAA 2008

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

St Kilda - Style & Family Fun , Pool

Modern Luxury Meets Sustainable Living

$1,250,000

Negotiation

4

6 Lewis Way, Cambridge

2

2

- Layout is thoughtfully designed to offer comfortable living/dining spaces with a separate snug, welcoming deck and covered portico.

- Master bedroom has outdoor access and his & hers walk in robes.

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Style And Prime Location - Peake Road

4

2

2

3

2

1

26 Alan Livingston Drive, St Kilda

- Open plan living provides fantastic indoor/ outdoor flows to a choice of entertainment areas and heated inground pool.

- Separate lounge and a third sitting room includes a study nook.

Open Homes Saturday & Sunday 10.00 - 10.30am

Location, Outlook & Privacy

Negotiation

Negotiation

4

99 Peake Road, Cambridge

2

2

52 Campbell Street, Leamington

- Open plan living in this 2020 built, 316m² home - four spacious - Open plan living, with native and polished Tawa flooring, opens through to a large deck perfect for entertaining and alfresco dining bedrooms & two expansive living rooms and dedicated study/office. and attractive fenced front yard.

- Dining seamlessly integrates with the modern chef’s kitchen - Fully fenced & gated section, lock-up garage & off-street parking. boasting a large scullery.

Open Homes Saturday & Sunday 11.00 - 11.30am Open Homes Saturday & Sunday 11.00 - 11.30am

Like A New Home

Corker Location On Princes

Negotiation

Negotiation

37 Princes Street, Cambridge

3 2

2

- Private, covered outdoor living with roll down blinds are ideal.

- Internal access double garage and an attractive, manageable 533m² (more or less) section.

Open Home Saturday 12.00 -12.30pm

5

9 Shadbolt Drive, Leamington

2

- Combination of two warm, spacious living areas, highly favored open plan layout and indoor-outdoor flow provides flexibility for family living and entertaining.

Open Home Sunday 12.00 - 12.30pm

Heart Of Town - Neat, Secure & Peaceful

Private, Sunny, Pool - Cowley Drive

Negotiation

Negotiation

3 Manuka Place, Cambridge

2

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47A Cowley Drive, Leamington

5

3

- Built in 2021, the neutral décor and quality chattels make for warm - An attractive and spacious five bedroom home plus office; configured with a sizable flat (1 bed, office, ensuite, lounge and indoor/outdoor flow & a covered outdoor area perfectly positioned. kitchenette) with heated inground pool.

- Features: carpeted garage; ultra fast broadband; double glazing; 2785m² (more or less) section with space for another shed. covered outdoor entertaining area; spacious living & modern kitchen.

Open Home Sunday 2.00 - 2.30pm Open Home Sunday 10.00 - 10.30am

07 823 2300 sales@more-re.co.nz www.more-re.co.nz

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More Real Estate Ltd Licensed REAA 2008

74 Victoria Street Cambridge

Peter Tong 021 987 867

Wendy Tong 027 555 0633

Lily Hooker 027 870 3317

Jason Tong Rebecca Napier 027 755 2902 020 404 74120

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Featured Listings 47 Alpha Street, Cambridge | 07 823 1945 | sales@cambridgerealestate.co.nz

TO VIEW ALL OF OUR CURRENT LISTINGS VISIT WWW.CAMBRIDGEREALESTATE.CO.NZ NEW LISTING

OPEN DAY

$780,000

389 ORIEPUNGA ROAD ENTRY LEVEL LIFESTYLE LIVING

3 BED - 1 BATH - 4 CAR

Seize the opportunity to get your foot on the lifestyle ladder!

Open plan living with north facing deck to take in the rural views Ample storage with 2 garages plus carport

OPEN DAY: SUNDAY: 11.00-11.30AM

NEW LISTING

$930,000

21 BOLLARD ROAD CREATE YOUR TAMAHERE DREAM! 5000m² Tamahere section Stunning mature trees and flat building site Location plus!

CONTACT ELE OR DAVID

CONTACT DAVID

OPEN DAY

2/400 FRENCH PASS ROAD RUSTIC CHARM AT IT’S BEST Perfect craftsman/artist’s home and workshop Magical rural views Fantastic outdoor entertaining area Potential is huge, must view to appreciate OPEN DAY: SUNDAY: 11.00-11.45AM

697 & 699 MAUNGAKAWA ROAD

$1,175,000 1 BED - 1 BATH - 2 CAR

OPEN HOME: SUN 13TH 12 -12.30PM

RURAL BLISS Your choice of 5 stunning Te Miro sections Sizes ranging from 6050m² to 6470m² Impressive native bush views Just minutes to Te Miro school and local mountain bike park CONTACT DAVID

CONTACT MATT

PBN

“KARAKA” VIEWS

Two stunning sections, only 10kms to Cambridge Spectacular views Both approximately 1ha in size Covenants apply

$599,000

GRAY ROAD SECTIONS

INTERNET ID: CRR2254 CONTACT CONTACT PETER DAVID PAGE SOAR

CONTACT MATT

13 HOGAN ROAD

$1,750,000

FAMILY FAVOURITE

1 POOL - 2 LIVING - 5 BED - 2 BATH - 4 CAR

Amazing heated saltwater swimming pool & private bathing area Very generous 5 bedroom family superbly located close to Cambridge Easy care manicured gardens with four garaging and plenty of off-street parking Great schooling options

INTERNET ID: CRR2243 CONTACT MATT SEAVILL

OPEN DAY: SUNDAY: 12.30PM-1.00PM

CONTACT MATT

David Soar

Matt Seavill

Ele Duncan

RURAL/LIFESTYLE

RURAL/LIFESTYLE

RURAL/LIFESTYLE

M: 027 284 9755 E: DAVID@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

M: 027 444 3347 E: MATT@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

M: 021 041 2161 E: ELE@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Featured Listings 47 Alpha Street, Cambridge | 07 823 1945 | sales@cambridgerealestate.co.nz

TO VIEW ALL OF OUR CURRENT LISTINGS VISIT WWW.CAMBRIDGEREALESTATE.CO.NZ NEW LISTING

OPEN HOME

NEW LISTING

OPEN HOME

PBN

55 ROBINSON STREET

DEADLINE SALE

11 KOTARE GROVE MODERN ELEGANCE

2 LIVING - 4 BED - 2 BATH - 2 CAR Modern masterpiece nestled in the premium St Kilda subdivision Breath-taking views of the wetlands Light-filled open plan living and dining with gorgeous kitchen & scullery Retreat-like master with ensuite and walk-in-robe Elegance and functionality combined with fantastic storage and tasteful features

OPEN HOME: FRI: 5.30-6.30PM & SUN: 11.15-11.45AM

CONTACT EILISH OR AMY

NEW LISTING

OPEN HOME

27D HAMILTON ROAD

PBN

LOCATION AND POTENTIAL

3 BED - 1 BATH - 1 CARPORT

OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 1.00-1.30PM

CONTACT DEBBIE OR TREVOR

569m² Freehold Section Substantial covered deck Generous, fully fenced backyard 3 Bedrooms / 1 Bathroom home and open plan living

NEW LISTING

NEW LISTING

OPEN HOME

PBN

23 BURR STREET BLISSFUL ON BURR

2 LIVING - 4 BED - 2 BATH - 2 CAR

OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 1.00-1.30PM

CONTACT PAULETTE OR GRAHAM

NEW LISTING

OPEN HOME

PBN 19 IHIMAERA TERRACE

PBN

OPEN HOME

2 LIVING - 4 BED - 2 BATH - 2 CAR Tranquil country living near town in the highly sought-after Cowley Drive Enjoy striking high timber ceilings and a seamless indoor-outdoor flow Designed for families and entertainers with open plan living and spacious second lounge Situated on a large 2103m² beautifully landscaped section INTERNET CRR2254 Durable and well-maintained with brick construction and new double glazingID: throughout

COUNTRY LIVING ON COWLEY

OPEN HOME: SUN 13TH 12 -12.30PM

3 BED - 1 BATH Freehold section Wooden floors Garden shed DEADLINE SALE: Closes 4:00pm, Thursday 14 March 2024 at the office of Cambridge Real Estate, 47 Alpha Street (unless sold prior) OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 12.45PM-1.45PM CONTACT LENIE

Two living areas Seamless indoor / outdoor flow Well fenced 756m² section (approx.)

Cul-de-sac living

64 COWLEY DRIVE

OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 1.00-1.30PM

CUTE COTTAGE - IDEAL LOCATION

CONTACT CONTACT PETER DAVID PAGE SOAR

CONTACT EILISH OR AMY

ABOVE THE REST

2 LIVING - 4 BED - 2 BATH - 2 CAR Sophisticated design made of brick and fully double-glazed Modern kitchen complete with scullery Second living upstairs with balcony that offers gorgeous views Additional powder room downstairs for guests Private patio and fully fenced section, great for pets and kids

INTERNET ID: CRR2243 CONTACT MATT SEAVILL

OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 1.45-2.15PM

CONTACT EILISH OR AMY

Eilish Russell

Amy de Clifford

Rachael Seavill

RESIDENTIAL

RESIDENTIAL

RESIDENTIAL

RESIDENTIAL

M: 027 300 0002 E: EILISH@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

M: 021 022 6622 E: AMY@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

M: 027 722 4235 RACHAEL@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

M: 027 247 1900 E: LENIE@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

Lenie Senekal

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Featured Listings 47 Alpha Street, Cambridge | 07 823 1945 | sales@cambridgerealestate.co.nz

TO VIEW ALL OF OUR CURRENT LISTINGS VISIT WWW.CAMBRIDGEREALESTATE.CO.NZ NEW LISTING

OPEN HOME

PBN 5 CURNOW PLACE

5 ALBA PLACE PICTURE PERFECT

719m² Section Private back garden Lovely indoor/outdoor flow 3 Bedrooms / 2 Bathrooms Open plan living with heatpump

CONTACT DEBBIE OR TREVOR

OPEN HOME

OPEN HOME

WINNER ON WORDSWORTH

3 BED - 2 BATH - 1 CAR

CONTACT DEBBIE OR TREVOR

OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 11.00-11.45AM

CONTACT RACHAEL

OPEN HOME

PBN

2 LIVING - 1 STUDY - 3 BED - 2 BATH - 2 CAR

INTERNET ID: CRR2254 CONTACT CONTACT PETER DAVID PAGE SOAR

CONTACT PAULETTE OR GRAHAM

A CHARMING LOCATION

2 LIVING - 4 BED - 2 BATH - 2 CAR

Spacious layout Separated family bathroom Partially fenced Convenient access

INTERNET ID: CRR2243 CONTACT MATT SEAVILL

OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 12.00-12.30PM

Graham Ban

Paulette Bell

Debbie Towers

Trevor Morris

RESIDENTIAL

RESIDENTIAL

RESIDENTIAL

RESIDENTIAL

M: 027 448 7658 GRAHAM@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

2 LIVING - 3 BED - 2 BATH - 4 CAR

$969,000 11 NAOMI PLACE

2 FLORIDA PLACE

OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 11.15-11.45AM

YOU’LL LOVE THIS ADDRESS

OPEN HOME

NEW LISTING

OPEN HOME: SUN 13TH 12 -12.30PM

PBN

Premier location with spectacular views Fully double-glazed mid-century home 2 double garages 1328m² (more or less) fully landscaped section

Very tidy townhouse 3 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, Open plan living Private, sunny back yard Close to the greenbelt, sports venues and cycle track

Plenty of space for a growing family Covered outdoor living Well fenced 702m2 section (approx.)

Cambridge East cud-de-sac location

GRAND DESIGN

PBN 75 PRINCES STREET

109B WORDSWORTH STREET

FAMILY HAVEN

DEADLINE SALE

1 POOL - 2 LIVING - 4 BED - 2 BATH - 2 CAR Stunning architecturally designed 352m² (approx) brick and cedar home Magnificent 3113m² approx. section with rural aspect and mountain views Pool, Flare outside fire, pétanque court Double garage with handy third toilet + shed (3 phase) Deadline Sale: Closes Thursday 22nd Feb 2024 @ 4pm at the office of Cambridge Real Estate (unless sold prior) CONTACT RACHAEL

2 LIVING - 3 BED - 2 BATH - 2 CAR

OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 2.00-2.30PM

OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 11.00-11.30AM

FINAL NOTICE

M: 021 245 6888 PAULETTE@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

M: 027 689 8696 DEBBIE@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

M: 027 205 3246 TREVOR@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

CONTACT LENIE

Marisa Grassenis RESIDENTIAL

M: 021 170 0728 MARISA@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Featured Listings 47 Alpha Street, Cambridge | 07 823 1945 | sales@cambridgerealestate.co.nz

TO VIEW ALL OF OUR CURRENT LISTINGS VISIT WWW.CAMBRIDGEREALESTATE.CO.NZ OPEN HOME

$995,000

26A WELD STREET X-FACTOR ON WELD

3 BED - 2 BATH - 2 CAR Double bedrooms with French doors opening out to the garden Double Garage with separate laundry Sunny and charming home in sought-after location in Cambridge East Private established garden with lovely views Two air-conditioning units for year-round comfort OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 12.00-12.30PM CONTACT RACHAEL

OPEN HOME

TENDER

57 BOWEN STREET A FINE VINTAGE

4 BED - 1 BATH - 2 CAR Enchanting 1914 bungalow in desirable Bowen Street Floorplan maximised for family living Set over a 1,698m² (approx.) section with possible subdivision potential Pressed metal ceilings and charming fireplaces TENDER: Closes on Thursday 7 March 2024 at 4:00pm at the office of Cambridge Real Estate, 47 Alpha Street, Cambridge (unless sold prior) CONTACT EILISH OR AMY OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 12.15-12.45PM

OPEN HOME

$979,000

3 IHIMAERA TERRACE PRIVACY AND TRANQUILITY

4 BED - 2 BATH - 2 CAR

496m² Section with private backyard Built in 2013 – double glazed and good heating 4 bedrooms / 2 bathrooms Spacious living and excellent storage Quality Chattels

SETTLE OR INVEST, GREAT LOCATION

OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 11.30AM-12.00PM

$1,090,000 16 DUKE STREET

14 GROSVENOR STREET

4 BED - 2 BATH - 1 CAR

1910 Villa with spacious open plan living Additional outside room with ensuite Covered deck providing seamless indoor/outdoor flow Close proximity to Cambridge CBD, schooling & Lake Te Koo Utu

OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 1.45-2.15PM

INTERNET ID: CRR2254 CONTACT CONTACT PETER DAVID PAGE SOAR

CONTACT PAULETTE OR GRAHAM

CONTACT MARISA

OPEN HOME

OPEN HOME

OPEN HOME: SUN 13TH 12 -12.30PM

3 BED - 2 BATH - 1 CAR

Great location near schools Renovated kitchen and Bathrooms Open plan living area Paved outdoor area and garden space.

Land area 756m² more or less

CONTACT DEBBIE OR TREVOR

CHARMING EASTSIDE VILLA

PBN

5 RICHMOND STREET

DESTINATION DUKE STREET

DEADLINE SALE 2 LIVING - 4 BED - 2 BATH - 2 CAR

Close to CBD & Schooling Excellent Garaging, Storage and Lift Commercial Zone DEADLINE SALE: Closes 4:00pm, Thursday 7th March 2024 at the office of Cambridge Real Estate, 47 Alpha Street (unless sold prior) INTERNET ID: CRR2243 CONTACT MATT SEAVILL

OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 2.00-2.30PM

CONTACT DEBBIE OR TREVOR

Eilish Russell

Amy de Clifford

Rachael Seavill

RESIDENTIAL

RESIDENTIAL

RESIDENTIAL

RESIDENTIAL

M: 027 300 0002 E: EILISH@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

M: 021 022 6622 E: AMY@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

M: 027 722 4235 RACHAEL@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

M: 027 247 1900 E: LENIE@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

Lenie Senekal

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Featured Listings 47 Alpha Street, Cambridge | 07 823 1945 | sales@cambridgerealestate.co.nz

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OPEN HOME

OPEN HOME

$1,180,000 42 SOUTHEY STREET

6A MADISON STREET GARDEN OF EDEN

2 LIVING - 4 BED - 2 BATH - 2 CAR

Private 867m² landscaped section Spacious open plan living areas Additional formal dining room and lounge Excellent location to all levels of schooling

OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 3.15-3.45PM

CONTACT EILISH OR AMY

PBN

A PRACTICAL START

3 BED - 1 BATH - 1 CAR

3 bedroom starter with superb street appeal Singe garage plus workshop Double glazing, Heat-pump, HRV, Woodburner (as is) Fully fenced 675m² corner site Generous covered outdoor living OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 1.00-1.30PM

OPEN HOME

OPEN HOME

25 JASMINE PLACE SECURE YOUR FUTURE

PBN 2 LIVING - 4 BED -2 BATH - 2 CAR

Modern family home in a great cul-de-sac Spacious, light-filled living areas Effortless indoor-outdoor flow Palatial master with ensuite and walk-in-wardrobe Close to town and all levels of schooling

CONTACT RACHAEL

PBN

28A POPE TERRACE ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL

2 BED - 1 BATH - 2 CAR

Elevated views Double glazed Immaculately presented Single garage with additional carport

CONTACT EILISH OR AMY

OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 1.45-2.15PM

OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 2.30-3.00PM

CONTACT PAULETTE OR GRAHAM

OPEN HOME

PBN 6/6 FLORIDA PLACE

10 GARLAND LANE CONTEMPORARY TOWNHOUSE LIVING

Timeless brick exterior Sun-soaked north-facing patio Secure, easy-care, ideal lock up & leave Spacious living with executive office nook for convenience

OPEN HOME: SUN 13TH 12 -12.30PM

OPEN HOME: SUNDAY: 3.15-3.45PM

2 BED - 1 BATH - 1 CAR

INTERNET ID: CRR2254 CONTACT CONTACT PETER DAVID PAGE SOAR

CONTACT PAULETTE OR GRAHAM

DEADLINE SALE

ENTRY LEVEL - BRICK UNIT

1 BED - 1 BATH - 1 CAR Cambridge East location Lock up garage Open plan kitchen and living DEADLINE SALE: Closes 4:00pm, Tuesday 5 March 2024 at the office of Cambridge Real Estate, 47 Alpha Street (unless sold prior) INTERNET ID: CRR2243 CONTACT MATT SEAVILL

Graham Ban

Paulette Bell

Debbie Towers

Trevor Morris

RESIDENTIAL

RESIDENTIAL

RESIDENTIAL

RESIDENTIAL

M: 027 448 7658 GRAHAM@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

M: 021 245 6888 PAULETTE@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

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M: 027 205 3246 TREVOR@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

CONTACT LENIE

Marisa Grassenis RESIDENTIAL

M: 021 170 0728 MARISA@CAMREAL.CO.NZ

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HARRY, Nicholas Walter, (Nick) – Passed away peacefully in the presence of his wife and daughters at 9.50pm on Sunday, 18th February 2024. Much loved husband, father, father-inlaw, and grandpa, he will be missed.

Forever with the Lord.

An interment for Nick will be held at the Leamington Cemetery, Wordsworth Street, Leamington, Cambridge on Friday, the 23rd of February 2024 at 11.00am, followed by a memorial service at St George’s Anglican Church, MacKay Street, Thames on Saturday 24th of February 2024 at 11.00am. All communications to the Harry Family, c/- 14 Sarjants Road Te Puru RD 5, Thames 3575.

SCOTT, Gloria Alice May, (nee Spice) – Peacefully slipped away in her sleep on Sunday, 18th February 2024, aged 78 years. Wife of the late Don. Dearly loved mum to Tamsin & Rex, Hamish & Shona and Grandma to Kahleb & Pip, Dontae & Tammin, Rebecca, and Nicole. A celebration of Gloria's life will be held at Woodside Estate, 130 Woodside Road, Tamahere, Hamilton on Thursday the 22nd of February 2024 at 1:30pm, followed by a private cremation. All communications to the Scott Family, c/- 3 Hallys Lane, Cambridge 3434

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WAIPA DISTRICT COUNCIL MEETING NOTICES Pursuant to Section 46 of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 notice is hereby given that: The following meetings will be held in March 2024 – Monday 4 March 2024

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Wednesday 6 March 2024

Monday 11 March 2024

PUBLIC NOTICES 2024 Cambridge Miniature Rifle Club Inc Notice of AGM

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MEETING NOTICE Pursuant to Section 46 of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 notice is hereby given that a meeting of Nga Pae Whenua the Joint - Koroki Management Body for the Taumatawiiwii, Ngati Kahukura ki Hinuera, Waikaukau and Te Reti Reserves will be held on Monday 26 February 2024 at 10am in the Kaipaki Meeting Room, Waipa- District Council, 23 Wilson Street, Cambridge.

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TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURE – Alpha Street – Dick Street – Duke Street on Sunday 3 March 2024 Please note that the roads listed below will be closed to ordinary vehicular traffic for the Waipa- Fun Run, between 0600 am and 12:30 pm on Sunday 3 March 2024 • Alpha Street – between Victoria Street and Bryce Street.

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