Cambridge News | August 1, 2024 by Cambridge News, King Country News, Te Awamutu News & Waikato Business News

The two towers Protecting their history

Cambridge is rising to the challenge - one to see an under-threat water tower remain, the other to hear its 143 year old church bells ringing again. Mary Anne Gill reports.

By Mary Anne Gill

A new Save the Cambridge Water Tower group signed up 50 members on Sunday and vows to have “meaningful” not “combative” conversations with Waipā District Council about the tower’s future.

Chair Peter Fulton told members the 24-metre-high tower – built in 1902 to provide water for the growing town in what was then a sheep paddock – is now at the centre of a buzzing area.

“Why knock it down?”

New national earthquake building standards - introduced after the Canterbury and Kaikōura earthquakes - forced councils like Waipā to assess its buildings.

The water tower failed the seismic test and estimates of more than $6 million to fix it prompted the council to poll the community through its enhanced annual plan process.

But Fulton argued the council only put two options to the community –bowl the tower over for $800,000 and use the bricks to build a feature on the site or restore it. Little wonder 62 per cent voted for the lower cost, he said.

There was a third option – keep it and find some investors.

“This is a great story for the community quite apart from the fact we want to save that building.

“We want to work with council, we are not going to be combative. The mayor has left the door open, so we

want to put forward some ideas to her and council about what they (heritage experts) call adaptive reuse.”

Tamahere resident John Waterhouse said he bought a unit in the neighbouring Resthaven Retirement Village – less than 20 metres from the tower – for his mother in 2018.

At the time of purchase he was told the water tower was coming down but was heartened to hear that because of its historic classification, it would remain. The circular structure has been listed in the Waipā District Plan since 2010 as a Category A historic building.

Resthaven opened in 1972 with retirement cottages. A geriatric hospital and an intermediate care wing opened in 1974, 1979 and 1985, encroaching ever closer to the water tower.

Waterhouse argues Resthaven, a community-owned trust, is worried about the risks the tower presents for its residents – but it was council which allowed Resthaven to expand right up to the water tower.

“The tower is capable of standing for at least another 10 years, whilst a more considered, less commercially coloured view of its future could be considered."

The tower was decommissioned in 1926 when the Moon’s Spring, from which the tower drew its water supply, was found to be polluted.

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What’s in the belfry?

By Mary Anne Gill

Pigeons and their toxic poo have silenced the six bells in St Andrew’s Anglican Church belfry.

One of the four kauri pillars holding up the bell tower at the historic white Cambridge church is rotten at the base – a victim of 143 years of pigeon excrement.

The only people allowed into the vestry are those who turn the church lights on – and campanologists – the formal word for bell ringers – are unable to access the belfry.

Engineers are preparing a report.

The cast steel bells, weighing 1524kg, are usually hand rung every Sunday before the first service and during the week when bell ringers practice.

Steve Riddell of the church’s building committee said the rot was discovered in the 300mm square kauri beam when they were preparing to paint the church.

“The other three beams are fine,” he said. Builders removed timber planks alongside the beam and were relieved to find the rot had not spread. Plywood has been temporarily put over the rotting timber.

St Andrew’s Church was built in 1881 by William G Connolly, and the bells were installed three years later for £360.

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St Andrew’s Anglican Church.

Photo: Brian Holden.

Save the Cambridge Water Tower group founders, from left, Dave Linthwaite, Elizabeth Harvey, Peter Fulton, David Griffin, James Casey, Mike Kilgour.

Photo: Mary Anne Gill.

The water tower

As a concerned resident having lived for 20 years close by, I definitely vote to keep it. You only have to look overseas to see the importance given to historical treasures... we here in New Zealand unfortunately demolish most of our treasures until we will have nothing left to value of an era where craftsmanship was highly valued. I truly fear for the future of our beautiful country and all the talent that has now passed on. The least we could do is preserve what is left for once it is gone, it is gone forever.

Vicki Power Cambridge

Cost issue

I happened to search for previous articles about the water tower and came across one from September 2022, where a figure of $1.69 million is required to bring the tower up to earthquake standards. I query where council gets their estimated figures from, given that this year’s estimate has gone up to $6 million. Why is there not a real quote from one or more expert engineers/builders so ratepayers and council can make an

On the beat with Senior

informed decision on this once and for all?

Cabby Keyte Cambridge

Our tower

For what it’s worth, I’d just like to lend my voice in support of finding a solution to keep Cambridge’s iconic water tower. Structures like the water tower differentiate Cambridge from other small Waikato towns.

Lawrence McGrath

Cambridge

Bikie trouble

Something has to be done about these cyclists who come out into the country early in the morning on their bikes. On these foggy mornings, they still ride three or four abreast, some don’t have their lights on because they are in a group while others wear black lycra, don’t have reflectors and are an accident waiting to happen because you can’t see them.

The other morning I had to tell some of them to get off the road and go home because it was so dangerous. Why can’t these cyclists use the cycleways that the

Constable DEB HANN

The problem with ‘auto’

It has been another busy week in Cambridge and a foggy one. Frustratingly, we continue to have drivers not using their headlights in the fog, which is madness.

council has paid thousands of dollars for?

Waipā has beautiful cycleways and they won’t use the cycle lanes. It’s time they got the message.

Shirley Keoghan Matangi

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On his bike

St Peter’s Cambridge school student Brady van der Bijl cycled for 12 hours and covered 265 kilometres as his contribution to the school’s fundraising for St John last weekend. A total of 45 students, all boarders as Oliphant House, took part and raised almost $3500.

Another round

The independent safety team which reviewed the design of the Shakespeare/Cook Street roundabout prior to construction has returned to undertake a post-construction safety review. The outcome of this review will be reported back to Council mid-August. Changes at the roundabout have drawn strong criticism.

Nifty shades of Gray

Hamilton Operatic Society life member and regular Waipā repertory supporter Francie Gray was farewelled on stage this week at the Clarence St Theatre - two days after the Hunchback of Notre Dame opened and with the set in place. Society chair Caroline Gill said she could not think of a more appropriate farewell for Gray than for her to have one last audience. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which features several Waipā people in the cast, runs till August 10.

Medals for butcher

Expleo Butchery in Te Awamutu has scooped three medals in the 100 per cent

New Zealand Bacon and Ham Awards. Expleo was category champion for their dry cured streaky bacon and sliced ham and won a silver medal for their boneless ham.

Help at hand

Outdoor enthusiasts will put up their hands to bring more local knowledge to search and rescue operations in the King Country bush. At a meeting held at Waitomo last week 20 people put down their names to assist Lansar - NZ Land Search and Rescue. Some will train as Lansar members, while others will join search teams as guides.

Sshhh…school is out

…but that’s news to the district council

By Mary Anne Gill

The new Cambridge primary school which was to address the town’s burgeoning population and cater for children with special needs is on hold.

The Education ministry made the announcement on its website on Friday – but did not communicate with Waipā District Council or The News which had been asking questions about the project.

It follows months of confusion since the coalition government came into office.

In a statement to The News this week, central deputy secretary Jocelyn Mikaere confirmed $8 million of taxpayer money had been spent on buying the land, ground works, professional, consultation, design and council fees.

She said the ministry had to prioritise its property investment to where the need was greatest and “the

catchments we’ve identified with the most urgent need are Ormiston (Auckland), Rolleston (Canterbury) and Massey Hobsonville (Auckland)”.

Roll growth construction and planning for Cambridge Middle and High schools will still go ahead.

The News revealed earlier this year there were construction delays for the 300-pupil school in the Bridleways Estate in Cambridge west despite the infrastructure being in place.

Waipā District Council had completed bus and turning bays, footpaths, crossings and landscaping at ratepayers’ cost because the government does not pay development contributions and rates. If the 4.026ha of land had been developed privately, the council would have received in the range of $3.2 million in levies.

District Growth and Regulatory services group manager Wayne Allan said the council was told in February

the government was reviewing construction.

“But we have not received any formal notice of the project not proceeding in its entirety.”

The school – for year one to six students - has resource consent for a two-storey 1354 square metre building with 13 teaching spaces, an administration building, library, resource room, hall, four spaces for learning and behaviour specialists, a learning support unit, caretaker’s shed, hard courts, playground and fencing.

A 2024 opening was originally touted then revised to term one in 2025 because of the tight construction market and then 2026.

Taupō MP Louise Upston was asked to comment but did not respond.

Earlier this year she said the school would be an important asset for Cambridge to help manage the demands of a growing population

and “I will be doing everything I can as local MP to advocate for its delivery”.

Bridleways is part of the council’s C2 growth cell which has consent for 2500 homes, a retirement village, water utilities and roading.

A destination playground next to the school site is nearing completion. Bridleways’ marketing focuses on the estate being part of an intergenerational community.

The need for a new school in Cambridge was identified in the 2019 Budget and funding was given for planning and design of this school in the 2021 Budget.

There are four primary and three full primary contributing schools in Cambridge, including one state integrated school (St Peter’s Catholic). Cambridge does not have a specialised learning unit. Students with special needs are either mainstreamed into existing schools or travel into Hamilton.

Council backs number cut

By Mary Anne Gill

Waipā councillors have voted three of their colleagues out of a job in a move mayor Susan O’Regan says will result in better governance.

But Roger Gordon, Philip Coles and Mike Pettit remain unconvinced and voted this week against the proposal to slash elected members’ numbers down from 11 to eight.

Pettit told the Finance and Corporate committee meeting this week it was unlikely he would meet the new criteria required of councillors - skill, diverseness and time commitment –and would probably not stand for re-election next year. He is principal at Cambridge Primary School.

The proposal to divide the district into four wards – Cambridge, Te Awamutu-Kihikihi, rural and Māori – will now go out to consultation by the community.

Feedback closes on September 5 and a final decision will be made by council the following day.

Under the proposal there would be three councillors in the Cambridge ward, which would include Karāpiro and its 190 electors who are now in the Maungatautari ward.

ElectionNZ’s Stephen Hill said the decision to bring 78 Karāpiro properties into Cambridge passed the fair representation community of interest requirement under the Local Government Act.

Te Awamutu-Kihikihi would have two councillors

while a new rural ward taking in Ngāhinapōuri, Pirongia, Ōhaupō, Kakepuku and Maungatautari would also have two elected members.

The Māori ward would have one councillor elected across the district, but the future of that ward remains uncertain pending the outcome of the Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies Amendment Bill which went through its third reading in Parliament this week.

If the bill is adopted, council would have to decide whether to scrap the ward

or have a referendum at next year’s local body elections.

The decision was a victory for O’Regan who had championed a representation review.

She argued the days of part time councillors spending a day a week on council business had long since passed.

There would be minor boundary changes to the two community boards in Cambridge and Te Awamutu and those members would provide the on-the-ground representation needed.

Cr Clare St Pierre, while

voting for the proposal, said she was disappointed to see one rural ward instead of two.

“I acknowledge the work and the leadership mayor Susan has shown. I’ve been swayed by the comments, it will be useful to consult on it,” she said.

Cr Roger Gordon said there was a risk the ward representation structure would not fairly represent the population distribution. Votes would have greater weight from the west of the district.

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Post case off to court

By Chris Gardner

Former Waipā posties Danny and Ian Kennedy are taking a claim for damages against New Zealand Post to the High Court.

The couple sold their Te Awamutu home and moved to the South Island in June after NZ Post cancelled their contract to deliver “all mail” in the RD3 Tamahere district in November 2023.

The cancellation followed the Kennedys’ complaint to NZ Post that some mail was being delivered by other contractors.

Although the couple failed to get a High Court injunction preventing the cancellation of the contract in November, Justice Ian Gault said there were questions around the termination notice and the Kennedys’ claims they had been promised an exclusive territory. These were best addressed by damages claim, he said.

“We are seeking substantial financial damages against NZ Post for unlawful termination of our contract, and failure to provide us with ‘exclusivity’ within the RD3 territory we purchased,” Danny Kennedy said.

“We believe NZ Post deliberately withheld its plans, for what it later in 2022 called its Multi Run Courier Business

model and its more recent One Network model, the nationwide Courierisation of mail and parcels into a single van, before we interviewed with its senior Waikato executives in December 2018 and February 2019.”

After conducting due diligence and fully reliant upon the contractual and verbal assurances from its senior executives, the couple mortgaged their house and purchased the RD3 run in April 2019.

They have sought extensive ‘discovery’ through the court and provided what they say is evidence of removal and re-allocation of their freight to third party couriers.

Last week the couple heard their request for a ministerial inquiry had passed from State Owned Enterprises minister Paul Goldsmith to Chris Bishop and onto Simeon Brown before it was dismissed in favour of a NZ Post board review.

Taranaki-King Country National MP Barbara Kuriger told The News the case needed to be looked at.

The News approached NZ Post for comment.

Senior external communications advisor Sarah Jarvis said: “NZ Post politely declines to comment on this matter, especially given it’s before the court.”

Lost and found…

By Viv Posselt

The lost Plunket record book that inspired a serendipitous search for its owners has found its family.

How the search came to an end is testimony to the power of the press and a hospice shop volunteer who describes herself as “a dog with a bone”.

Last week’s Cambridge News carried the story of the lost Plunket book which arrived at the hospice shop in a box of donated craft papers. It gave baby Sarah-Jane’s birthdate as ‘8-6-75’, but the surname was difficult to read.

Cambridge Hospice shop volunteer, who asked to be named simply as Rosemary, knew the book would be important for the family, so with the support of Hospice Shop manager Justine Well-Elliott, went all out to find its owner.

“I think I drove Justine mad,” Rosemary said, “I was like a dog with a bone, but I just couldn’t throw it out without trying everything to find the owner.”

She remembered the box of craft papers coming in, bagged into different colours. The care taken appealed to scrapbooker Rosemary – but little did she know that the Plunket baby’s mum, Sandra Maguiness, was also a scrapbooker.

Rosemary’s determination saw an appeal put up on a Cambridge social media page, then she propped the book up on the shop counter for about a month. No-one came forward.

Last week’s story was spotted online by the Raglan-based old schoolfriend of one of Sandra’s two sons, then in Whale Bay. The old school chum contacted Sandra’s son, who then emailed his mum.

Sandra, who picked up the Plunket book on Saturday morning, said: “Only by chance did I open that email!” She contacted Good Local editor Roy Pilott.

Sandra now lives just outside Cambridge. It is where she and her late husband Wayne settled on leaving Silverdale some 20 years ago.

Sandra is fastidious about keeping family records, including those relating to relatives’ wartime stories.

“I’ve kept the children’s Plunket books, all their school records and so on in folders, so I was surprised to see this Plunket book was missing. I regularly visit the Cambridge

Hospice Shop, but I didn’t notice it on the counter.”

It was her search for another family item she thought may have been inadvertently dropped off at the outlet that led her to box up the craft papers in the first place.

“I had been looking for a wartime badge and was worried it had slipped into another box of donations I had passed on to the hospice shop,” she said. “I turned the house upside down to find it, and it was during that tidying up process that I boxed up the craft papers.”

Sarah-Jane, who lives out of the area, is delighted her Plunket book has been found.

Super sleuth Rosemary is also delighted. “I’m a former teacher and used to drive my bosses mad when I got stuck into something I was keen on.”

Cambridge Hospice Shop manager Justine Webb-Elliott, left, with the Plunket book mum, Sandra Maguiness. Photo by Viv Posselt

Helping our guardian angels

By Mary Anne Gill

Naomi Carter was 10 when she contacted the Coast Guard to help her father who was scuba diving and having trouble getting back on the family boat.

So, it was a no brainer for her 25 years later to participate in The Big Swim to raise funds to help save more lives on the water.

Naomi is one of at least four WaipāKing Country people - and 1200 across the country - swimming a combined million metres in July to raise $1 million for Coastguard Tautiaki Moana.

The challenge finished yesterday (Wednesday) but when The News caught up with the four swimmers including Trina White, Richard Hill and David Wybourne at the weekend, they had raised just over $4500 and swum nearly 100km.

They did not know each other prior to the

challenge but are now talking about getting a team together for next year’s challenge.

Naomi’s effort is especially significant.

Five months after a September 2017 accident in Leamington, she had her left leg amputated below the knee.

She had been unloading her car parked on a grass verge in Bracken Street when a distracted driver hit her. She was put her in the care of the trauma team at Waikato Hospital in a critical condition with multiple fractures and injuries.

The physiotherapist now lives north of Ōtorohanga with husband Richard and children Hope, 3, and Bonnie, 2.

Her first experience with the Coast Guard was at Ōkiwi Bay in the Marlborough Sounds on a family holiday.

“I’d learned how to contact the Coast Guard from Dad so when we felt he was getting pushed out to sea (when scuba

diving), I contacted them.”

In fact, the boat was closing in on the rocks and the Coast Guard coordinated a successful rescue.

The family have a bach at Cook’s Beach now. “The Coast Guard provides such a great service and do amazing work,” said Naomi who always hated swimming before the accident.

“I was a runner. Swimming is gentle on the injuries and is very good for my mental health. I love it (swimming) now.”

Since the amputation she has faced “countless” surgeries because of what she describes as a “difficult” stump.

She has that in common with William Pike who lost his right leg after the September 2007 eruption on Mount Ruapehu when he got penned in Dome Shelter near Crater Lake.

They both want something more from their prosthetic legs –the ability to swim long distances, in Naomi’s case, and for Williamto climb, run, swim and scuba dive. They compare notes regularly, she said.

Her medical background means she can do her own rehabilitation and knows if the surgeons are trying to hide something from her. But because of ongoing issues and pain she is unable to wear the prosthetic as much as she would like.

She is a regular competitor in New Zealand Ocean Swim events

effortlessly swimming kilometres with the use of one leg, which even she admits takes some balancing.

Her sprint swimming has improved during The Big Swim – she can now complete 100m in 1m36s.

David has recently returned to Cambridge after 35 years in the United Kingdom where he lived in Hamble. The boating mecca has an independent lifeboat service which keeps vigil on the rivers Hamble, Itchen and Test near Southampton and famous for the 1980s television series

He intends to continue swimming and will do a Big Swim equivalent for the Royal National Lifeboat

Richard is Cambridge born and describes himself as a “water person” who regularly goes deep sea fishing off the Coromandel coast.

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LEFT: Naomi Carter is swimming for the Coast Guard. Photo: Supplied.

Big Swim time: from left Trina White (Te Awamutu), Richard Hill and David Wybourne (both Cambridge) at the Cambridge Pool. Photo: Mary Anne Gill.

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Running out of steam…

By Murray Smith, Bridges Church

I was amazed recently to discover a photograph dated from the 1930s featuring an old steam locomotive barrelling across one of Waikato’s main streets in Hamilton City. While aware to a degree how steam engines played a role in New Zealand’s development, I never imagined an era had existed when motor cars, cyclists and pedestrians made way for a huffing-puffing behemoth on Victoria Street! The photo seems to indicate pedestrians and cyclists nonchalantly navigating this monsterthough it must surely have created some hairraising moments. Steam locomotives weren’t renowned for terrific ‘braking’ abilities.

There were inherent dangers…as mentioned, stopping quickly was a ‘challenge’ plus with boilers exploding and messy derailments, this wasn’t hazard free technology!

Receiving a Hornby Trainset as a child one Christmas, imbedded a nostalgic admiration for these remarkable machines. They’re regarded as being among the most significant inventions of the modern age, helping nations in their development. Progress saw to it that steam locomotives ultimately were supplanted by the arrival of diesel and electric engines as steam locomotives could not match the efficiency of diesel locomotives. But in their day, from early beginnings in the 1830s through to the early 1950s, some extremely large and powerful steam engines were made. By 1850 the fastest train was topping 80 mph (129 km).

Steam locomotive technology was quite basic. Fuel (originally wood or coal, later oil) was fed into the firebox where the resulting hot gas entered boiler tubes known as flues, which heated surrounding water to form steam. That steam being fed into pistons, expanded and drove rods - (horizontal iron/steel shafts attached to the wheels), propelling it forward. The resulting hot gases entered a smoke box, to be funnelled out through the smoke stack of the locomotive.

The photo reminded me of a fascinating analogy I once heard, taken from an original message on an aged ‘reel to reel’ tape-recording. The speaker was a solid old time Bible preacher by the name of A W Tozer from the 1930s-1960s. He referenced the giant steam locomotives’ early strategic role on the East Coast of the United States. Tozer described these locomotives achieving maximum speed pulling their payload with a ‘full head of steam’; shutting the engine down, would result in them being able to coast on their own momentum for 400 miles!

Amazing as that is, no steam meant eventually grinding to a halt, rendering the locomotive useless.

Tozer illustrated an interesting reality… people, organisations, and leadership be they within businesses, churches or wherever, often coast on past inertia, drifting through the ‘motions’ of life without considering,‘What will keep me going?’ Coasting through life, it’s easy to forget where we derive our ‘life source’ from. A costly oversight. What sustains you ? Without steam, a locomotive was useless. Rivers and lakes need a source… be they springs, rains or melting snow from mountains. What is your ‘spring’? Humanity looks to various things for sustenance and replenishment- yet without JESUS at the centre, our ‘inner well’ inevitably runs dry. That said, I’ve made Psalm 87:7 my maxim… “Lord, all my springs are in YOU.”

History book

A book revealing the history of 30 Te Awamutu commercial buildings has sold 210 copies prepublication and is close to breaking even. A Bricks and Mortar Legacy – Stories of Commercial Buildings in Te Awamutu 1890-1997 tells the story of the economic history of Te Awamutu. A print date is expected to be announced soon.

Two placed

Cambridge bowlers were to the fore in the latest tournament at the Kihikihi Bowling Club. An event won by a Pirongia trio skipped by Denise Te Mono saw Cambridge Central represented by Robby Davidson (Skip), Mary Hughes and Chris Denton came home second and a Cambridge Bowling Club trio of Bill James (skip) Dave Lewis and Bill Edge place fourth.

Lots of Lego

Cambridge’s Riding for the Disabled is one of two organisations which will benefit from the Hamilton Lego User Group’s ninth show next week. The August 10-11 event at Claudelands will feature 78 exhibitors and highlights are expected to include a school competition.

Seeds planted for next fest

By Viv Posselt

The return this year of the Rotary Cambridge Garden Festival promises to be a highlight for the 2024-25 tenure of the club’s new president, Gary Smith.

The November 10 festival was launched last week at an event at Amber Garden Centre, attended by some of the exhibition garden owners, artists and festival sponsors.

This year’s launch included a tour around the centre’s behind-thescenes working areas.

Smith said the festival has been the club’s biggest fundraiser since

it started in 2019, bringing many thousands of dollars into the local community and becoming a much sought-after event around the region.

The festival was last held in 2022. The 11 gardens featuring this year are mostly new to fans. Only two have featured before, and one other garden was in the inaugural festival.

“There is a real mix – gardens big and small, some quite unusual. There is something for everyone,” Smith said.

The recipient charities for the festival will be Kids in Need Waikato, Interlock NZ Trust, and Cambridge Lifeskills.

Incorporated into the festival is a Passion for Art Trail, which will showcase 11 artists and two galleries.

While the garden festival will be a main event for Smith’s year as Cambridge Rotary Club president, he plans to keep building on other existing Rotary activities which are gaining in momentum, particularly Urban Miners and the annual Bookarama.

His own association with Rotary started in the 1990s when he was living and working in Whanganui. A career in the police force saw him rise to the top there, then move to Rotorua and finally to Cambridge in 2022 to

be closer to family. He is now retired, but one of the first things he did on coming here, was to join Rotary.

“It is a well-established club with strong membership,” he said. “I’d like to focus on building that membership further during my year in office. Rotary is a great place to meet like-minded people. It provides a ton of opportunities to get involved in all sorts of projects, hear good speakers and give something back to the community.”

He said Rotary’s international network also enabled those interested to support some of the organisation’s offshore projects.

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Cambridge Rotary Club members Phill Shakesby and Bev Maul-Rogers, left, with some of those who attended last week’s garden festival launch at Amber Garden Centre.

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Banging the drum

By Mike Keir, Tamahere-Woodlands Ward councillor

Time flies, I am coming up to two years as a first term councillor and it has been an interesting and enlightening experience. On one hand I have been very impressed by the many volunteers who give their time through community committees, hall committees and other organisations that selflessly work hard to aid and benefit their communities. Also many council staff are there for the right reasons and try to provide a quality community service.

On the other hand is a system that is highly bureaucratic, regulated and constrained by planning processes, many mandated by central government. It does not have to be this way. Tokyo, a highly functioning city of over 37 million is not overly constrained by restrictive planning regulations.

Local government often complains of being treated poorly by central government. Why? An interesting example of central government frustration is their current initiative to provide some cheaper housing options through the “granny flat” proposal. This would allow landowners to install a self-contained building of up to 60 square metres on properties with minimal consenting requirements.

It is a good initiative. We need to do something to stem the flow of our young people disappearing over the horizon as the opportunity of owning their own home in this country does the same (unless they have wealthy parents).

However, instead of seeing this as an opportunity, local government sees it as a problem. People cannot be trusted to build a self-contained building that has a kitchen and bathroom. The result will be new slums of substandard housing with all manner of

problems. Landowners are greedy exploiters! So we will regulate these buildings to the point where they are unaffordable.

Yes, there will be some who will build rubbish, but most will try to build something decent, and any house is better than living in a car, and if you take the shackles off it allows people to innovate, be creative and that is where the magic happens. Young people often have great ideas, give them the opportunity to try some out and even if they don’t work, they will have learnt something.

Councils do not have to be responsible for everything. If people want to put an unconsented building on their property let them, but also ensure they take responsibility for that building. Make sure it is put on the LIM or PIM so that any future prospective buyer is aware. End of story.

We try to cover all risks and all we end up doing is make everything incredibly expensive and a nightmare to oversee and certify. Traffic management in this country is a case in point.

New Zealand used to be a nation of can do, self-reliant, strong people. We are slowly turning into a nation of risk averse, insecure, second raters.

Risk is everywhere, risk is fun. If you want to manage risk the best tool is a team of well trained, well resourced, highly motivated people. Given that and we can take on any challenge and win most of time and if we don’t win, we learn. If you were guaranteed a win every time it would be boring. Let’s take the shackles off, take some risks, let people innovate and experiment and get some fun back.

Community Connect

August 1, 2024

WAIPĀ FAN FESTIVAL

A celebration of our Olympians and Paralympians!

Join us for an action-packed morning on:

Sunday, August 4, 9am-12 noon at Grassroots Trust Velodrome in Cambridge

We’ll be celebrating our athletes as they take on the world stage at the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics with fun activities for everyone!

WHAT’S ON!

• Kids activities and games

• FREE track have-a-go sessionsbook online!

• Watch the Games’ highlights on the big screen

• FREE Velodrome tours - book online!

• Dress up, we’ve got spot prizes

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Countdown to Cambridge pathway completion

The countdown is on to the completion of the new walking and cycling path in Cambridge. Most of the works have been completed down Alpha, Bryce, Duke and Wilson Streets. The remaining construction is set to be finished this month.

Work left to be completed includes:

• planting on Lower Duke Street

• reinstatement works (line marking, signs, tidying up),

• finishing construction of the pathway on Victoria Street just past Bath Street.

The pathway extension on Grey and Clare Streets outside Cambridge Middle School will likely start in October/ November.

We would like to thank Cambridge residents and businesses for their patience and understanding during this project.

A $6 million major upgrade of watermains in Te Awamutu is set to get underway to meet increasing supply needs and to improve firefighting capabilities.

These works are part of our wider plan to future-proof the district’s water supply. Once the works are complete, they should serve the community for around 100 years. Water services manager Martin Mould said over time the growth of our towns means that we need to provide more water to meet demand.

The project is expected to take up to 11 months and will be broken up into six sections. During the works, there will be some minor disruption but we will be notifying any affected residents and businesses ahead of time.

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What else is happening?

• Hall Street, Cambridge: The upgrades are nearly done! There are just the kerbs and footpaths at the main intersections to go, these should be completed in a couple of weeks.

• Kihikihi pathway: Our contractors are tidying up the new cul-de-sacs on Whitmore Street and will be moving on to working on the new roundabout at Herbert Street/ Flat Road and Rolleston Street intersection.

• Victoria Road roundabout, Hautapu: Work is on track to finish in September. Expect some ongoing delays while we finish the construction. Please allow extra time for travel in the area.

• Recycle your e-waste: Waipā Urban Miners will be at the Te Awamutu Sports Club on Sunday, August 4 from 9am - 11am and Cambridge Lions Market on Sunday, August 11 from 8.30am - 1pm.

• Growing your food workshop: A FREE workshop on the gardening basics. Friday, August 23, 1pm -3pm, Te Awamutu Food Forest. Scan the QR code to register now:

• Family History Month, Te Awamutu Museum: Attend the FREE drop-in session and learn how to research your family history on Saturday, August 3, 10am – 1pm.

• Mini Makers, Cambridge Library: Get a taste of Markerspace STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) activities on Saturday, August 17, 10am – 11am.

Policy at the crossroads

Monetary policy in New Zealand is at an interesting crossroads. The June quarter Cost Price Index (CPI) data on the surface looked positive. Overall, the CPI rose by 3.3 per cent in the year to June 2024. This was less than the Reserve Bank and most commentators were expecting. It is getting close to the top of the bank’s policy target range of 1-3 per cent. The CPI for the June quarter 2024 was only 0.4 per cent. That gives an annualised rate of just 1.6 per cent, which is below the midpoint of the reserve bank’s policy range.

Based on this positive news, many commercial banks didn’t wait for the reserve bank to start lowering interest rates, they started lowering their mortgage and deposit interest rates themselves. It is interesting that as recently as February this year, some of those same banks were predicting that the reserve banks would raise their official cash rate at least one more time.

They have had a sharp change in their outlook. Is this change justified? It is certainly justified to believe that the reserve bank won’t raise the cash rate further. But there are still some elements in the CPI picture that may cause concern. The main one is that most of the

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downward pressure in New Zealand’s inflation rate was due to downward pressure on prices from overseas. Inflation in tradeable inflation was only 0.3 per cent in the year to June 2024. On the other hand, non-tradeable inflation, which is the inflation we are producing within New Zealand, was 5.4 per cent for that year, and had fallen only marginally from 5.8 per cent in the year to March 2024. This should worry the reserve bank. It could worry the bank enough that they don’t lower the OCR at their next review on October 9 and instead wait to see if there is more downward movement in non-tradeable inflation when the figures for the September quarter CPI come out.

One other reason that they may wait until their OCR review on November 27 is that by themselves to pre-announce dates for reviewing their OCR, they have locked themselves into a very odd situation in October. Monetary policy is at a turning point with the question now being when will the turn actually occur?

The information that will be contained in the September quarter CPI will be important, possibly critical, for this decision. But the September quarter

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CPI data will not be released by the Department of Statistics until October 16 – seven days after the pre-announced date for the next OCR decision. This seems very odd to me. Policymaking should be influenced by economic conditions and changes in these conditions don’t fit neatly into preannounced timetables. A policy decision on interest rates is needed now. Given the reserve bank feels they have to wait until October 9, the commercial banks have decided to step in and take action. It is the commercial banks rather than the reserve bank that have decided that the turning point in New Zealand’s monetary policy cycle will be now.

So far, the reserve bank has not said or done anything to indicate they are unhappy with the commercial banks reducing interest rates. They have done this on at least one occasion in the recent past so I hope they are being consistent and we can interpret their silence to mean they do not object to mortgage rates coming down and that the turning point for monetary policy has arrived.

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Fraser comes home

By Mary Anne Gill

When Selu Fotu belted out Welcome Home backed by the Royal New Zealand Navy Band in the Cambridge Town Hall on Sunday, the tuba player could be forgiven for thinking it was for him.

Petty Officer Fraser

Robertson is the only Waipā member of the band and there were plenty of family members in the sell-out crowd there to see him.

Robertson, 30, was born in Te Awamutu and attended St Patrick’s, Te Awamutu Intermediate and Te Awamutu College.

Robertson got his start in the Te Awamutu Brass Band, not surprising really as the whole family plays in it and sister Sarah is the musical director. When he was 17, he auditioned for the New Zealand Army Band but heard there was a navy band as well which

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played more of the music he liked.

It is a decision he has never regretted.

“I’ve been all around the world with the band,” he said, including to Gallipoli this year and in the Pacific Islands.

“We do a lot of stuff for communities as part of defence diplomacy.”

That is when the military pursue foreign policy goals through the peaceful employment of defence resources and capabilities.

“It’s an awesome job. You get to meet a lot of people, and we play music for kids who have been nowhere near any instruments.”

“Playing in the Cambridge Town Hall is pretty big, plus it’s a sell-out.”

It was also the first time in 15 years the band had played in the hall.

Robertson’s choice of the tuba came after he tried the cornet and hated it.

“Worse decision ever and I saw Dad playing the tuba and I said, ‘I want to play the biggest one’ and the rest is history.”

Success includes playing in national bands and winning New Zealand titles.

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A personal thrill was playing Mahler’s Requiem in an Auckland cathedral.

“It was absolutely beautiful, lots of long notes. It was a big moment – playing something brassy in a big cathedral.”

Wife Zoe is a musician as well – they live in Devonport.

The set included some big band numbers – one called Hayburner especially for Cambridge because of its horse meaning – Duke Ellington, a 1970s set with 19 songs from the decade, Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffany’s movie and the Dave Dobbyn Welcome Home classic sung by Fotu, a Waikato boy who attended Hamilton Boys’ High School.

“That’s the fun thing about the navy band, there is so much variety and versatility,” said Robertson.

The band was on day nine of a 10day tour of the central North Island – which included performances in Te Kūiti, Marton, Taihape, Huntly, Waiouru and Taupō.

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Zach’s timing is dead right

By Mary Anne Gill

There is something about time travel which has always fascinated me and watching the St Peter’s School studentled movie The Case fed that interest.

The 52-minute murder mystery film opens tomorrow at the school’s Thornton Auditorium.

Director and producer, Year 13 student Zach Macaskill-Smith, says all stages from founding the project, pre-production to post-production and community screenings were student initiatives.

It is a dark film with references to H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine novel a clue to the film’s science fiction intensity.

It is filmed in and around Cambridge and at St Peter’s School – location recognition adds to the movie’s appeal.

Written by Zach and Emma Gray, it stars Geordan Coffey as a detective

who stumbles across a time machine while investigating an impossible murder case and involves 30 students whose talents are truly showcased.

The plot scenario says the film is about a detective’s self-destructive struggle to get by in a world of harsh competition, time travel, and a severed family relationship.

With his ambitions to get promoted and reconnect with his estranged mother challenged by a rival newcomer detective, the time machine gives him the upper hand needed to get ahead.

Toby and Leon Lee perform the credits’ composition – written by Toby – which is worth staying in your seat for.

Zach clearly has a bright future ahead – his fingerprints are all over the movie as producer, director, head of editing, promotional editor, sound design, colour grading, cinematography, marketing head, design and even has a cameo in the film as an IT whizz.

At Cambridge East School we believe in putting the learner at the centre of everything we do. We encourage our learners to strive for the school motto of “Always My Best” by stepping outside of their comfort zone and trying new things as opportunities arise.

However, as competition ramps up, and his plans collapse around him, he must question how far he is willing to go to succeed, and what he must sacrifice to do this.

We offer a range of options as part of our Enrich and Discover Programme, and strongly support the Learning Through Play ethos, along with Inquiry Learning.

The original score is by Toby Zaiser and music by Avalanche – the group is Emma Coley, Mitch Denne, Prarb Bulakul, Grace Cox, Ian Smith, Lacchie Wallace with support from Jason

We take great pride in the cultural work we are doing to learn about our local area and its history, and making Cambridge East School a culturally inclusive environment for all of our learners.

The final frame says it all really – The Case, A film by Zach MacaskillSmith.

Hamish Fenemor joined our school as Principal in 2014 and is passionate about teaching and learning.

All sales from tomorrow’s public screening go to the Cure Kids Cancer Foundation.

We understand that every child is unique, and by offering three distinctive teaching centres we can provide the learning environment best suited to meet the needs of your child, setting them up for success as citizens of tomorrow.

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Goodwood School’s vision is to empower caring, connected and curious lifelong explorers who will make a difference. This vision can be seen in action every day within the school’s park-like grounds just three kilometres to the north of Cambridge.

Goodwood explorers play an active role in leading their learning and making a difference in their school and community. Many of the facilities that set the school apart, including the extensive bike track and scooter park, were designed as part of authentic learning tasks.

David Graham joined the school as principal in 2015 and continues to be inspired by the high quality of learning and engagement that occurs every day. Every day is open day at Goodwood. You are very welcome to make a time to come and see the learning in action.

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Health expo draws the men

By Roy Pilott

They were regaled with an All Black lock’s story of playing Elephant Polo in northern Thailand and fed a diet of sizzled sausages and health tips.

More than 60 people attended the inaugural Menz Shed health expo in Te Awamutu’s Baptist Church on Saturday.

And aside from the stories and food, the consistent message was to communicate.

Te Awamutu born All Black Steve Gordon, 57, asked the gathering “how many adventures start with g’day?”

“It’s all about getting conversations started, participating, having adventures – and don’t forget about your mate stuck in the lounge watching television.

The onus is on us to get out.”

The expo was a step into the unknown for the Te Awamutu branch and it landed on firm ground. So much so that national chairman David Broadhead said he would be keen to see it run by Menz Sheds all over the country.

The event featured an expo with health group representatives available to discuss issues and a sit down session for a little over an hour where invited speakers shared information and health tips.

There were speakers on the subjects of heart health, strokes, prostate cancer, diabetes and dementia.

Several explained that their organisations relied on volunteers and had gone through restructures.

Te Awamutu branch head Richard Cato, concentrating on the communication theme told how he has been discussing writing the memoirs of Steve Gordon’s father Brian.

Gordon senior had subsequently been admitted to hospital in January 2023 after becoming unwell and told Cato the staff were wonderful – “but I just want to talk to a man”.

Gordon senior died a couple of months later aged 82 and Cato said he had never forgotten his words.

Cambridge’s Ron Greenwood summed things up nicely by encouraging men to get regular health checks.

“Get a warrant of fitness – we take our cars in and neglect ourselves.”

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The mission of Tauwhare School is to provide a balanced and challenging education for all learners to develop their potential. Great kiwi rural school traditions such as Calf Club are held every year, with a wide range of sporting, leadership and cultural opportunities throughout the school. Teachers nurture tuakana-teina relationships where students get the opportunity to be leaders.

At the ngakau/heart of our school is equity; providing the learning experiences needed to achieve our aspirations, reach our potential and be great citizens of Aotearoa New Zealand. Students are prepared to thrive in their future whilst keeping our traditional and rural roots. Our size allows us to focus on the individual and support their individual needs; empowering our learners to know who

Te Miro School stands out among Cambridge schools with its unique rural environment. Just a scenic 10-minute drive from the centre of Cambridge, Te Miro o ers a warm and friendly atmosphere where every child's individuality is celebrated. We are proud to support students from Year 1 to Year 8 with a holistic curriculum based on Nature Ed. Our Bush Class is now in its sixth year.

Connection with our people, our place and our future is a cornerstone of our learning. Belonging is key in our school vision. The school operates a local curriculum, engaging the students and providing diverse, challenging learning experiences inside and outside the classroom. You are welcome to come out, walk in our grounds, visit our rooms and get a feel for who we are. The children here are as awesome as the scenery surrounding us. It must be a wonderful community to keep an Aussie principal here for 10 years.

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“It’s a risk factor we need to assess.”

The council is required to use June 2023 population estimates rather than the final Census numbers. That means there could be more people in the Cambridge ward.

“We have to work with the statistics in front of us,” said Hill. Cr Mike Montgomerie - who voted in favour of the proposal saying O’Regan’s argument had convinced him – said it was possible the two rural members would come from the west of the district, leaving Maungatautari without a councillor.

“I have found it quite difficult. I can see arguments both ways. The structure we have is quite reasonable.”

But he said he was always keen on improving performance at the council table and a smaller group could be an improvement.

Cr Dale-Maree Morgan said there were many in the Waipā community who did not feel they were being listened to. Taking the proposal out for consultation gave them the opportunity to have their say.

“Let’s get people talking about what they want.”

O’Regan is part of a Local Government New Zealand working group looking at ways to improve voter turnout.

Within Waipā, there would be ways to work better as a team and take on professional development opportunities.

“This isn’t a one hit wonder. (It is) part of a bigger piece of doing better. That’s the context I wanted to place the discussion.”

Acting finance chair Bruce Thomas said he was concerned about how to engage with people.

Communications and engagement manager Lisa Nairne said while earlier consultation may have seemed disappointing – only 59 people fed back – there were more than 1500 clicks to the council website. “They just weren’t taking it to the feedback process,” she said.

Councillors Andrew Brown and Lou Brown of Te Awamutu were not at the meeting. Their previous comments suggest the vote was likely to have been 8-5 rather than 8-3, but still a majority.

Meanwhile Waikato regional councillors have voted to change the Waihou and Thames-Coromandel constituency boundaries. Population statistics indicated non-compliance with fair representation guidelines in Waihou which will now include the Waihi and Paeroa rural areas – currently in the Thames-Coromandel constituency.

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PUBLIC NOTICE

Of an application for On Licence India Today 2018 Ltd, 36 Lake Street, Cambridge 3434, has made application to the Waipa District Licensing Committee for the renewal of a on-licence in respect of the premises at 36 Lake Street, Cambridge known as Koi Spice Craft & Whiskey Lounge.

The general nature of the business to be conducted under the licence is retaurant. The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is sold under the licence are: Monday to Sunday 7am-1am.

The application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the Waipa District Licensing Committee, 101 Bank Street, Te Awamutu or 23 Wilson Street, Cambridge.

Any person who is entitled to object and who wishes to object to the issue of the licence may, not later than 25 working days after the date of the publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the objection with the Secretary of the District Licensing Committee at: Waipa District Council, Private Bag 2402, Te Awamutu 3840.

No objection to the issue of a renewal licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in section 131 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

This is the second publication of this notice. This notice was first published on 25 July 2024.

NOTIFICATION OF INTENTION TO CONSIDER TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURES

Waip-a District Council will consider an application to close the following roads to ordinary vehicular traffic, to enable Event Promotions Limited to run the Karapiro 100k Flyer event.

The application will be considered under the Tenth Schedule of the Local Government Act 1974.

Maungatautari Road, Cambridge – between Gate 1 and Gate 3 of Mighty River Domain Saturday 12th October 2024 from 7:00 am to 3:30 pm

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

Any objections to the proposal must be lodged with Waip-a District Council, in writing, to events@waipadc.govt.nz, before 4.00pm on Friday, 16th August 2024. Please include the nature of the objection and the grounds for it. See the Privacy Statement on the Council’s website for further information.

For more information, please contact Waip-a District Council on 0800 924 723.

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HITCHCOCK, Neville –Passed away peacefully at Lauriston Park Care Centre, Cambridge on Wednesday 24 July 2024, aged 91 years. Dearly loved and devoted husband of Joan for 67 years. Loved and respected father and father-in-law of Grant and Gaylene, Sally and Geoff, David and Rayleen, Megan and Steve. Dear Grandad of Jeffrey and Marty; Steven, Ryan and the late Matthew; Robert, Thomas, Andrew and Alice. Great Grandad of Amber, Jack, Ava, Fleur, Maya and Mackenzie. In accordance with Neville's wishes, a private service has been held.

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Waip-a District Council (“WDC”) proposes to grant the following community leases in respect of land owned and administered by WDC as Recreation Reserves under section 54(1)(b) of the Reserves Act 1977:

Memorial Park

Lessee: Hautapu Rugby Sports Club Incorporated

Leased Land: Approximately 6.9ha forming part of the Cambridge Town Belt recreation reserve known as Memorial Park, which is registered under Record of Title 451548 and legally described as Allotments 18, 18A, 19 and 20 Cambridge Town Belt.

Term: 5 years

Rent: Initial annual rent of $873.00 plus GST

Permitted Use: Sport and recreation rooms

Taylor Street

Lessee: Cambridge Dog Obedience Club Incorporated Leased Land: Approximately 2.1950ha and forms part of the Cambridge Town Belt recreation reserve at Taylor Street, Cambridge which is registered under Record of Title 451548 and legally described as Allotment 23 Cambridge Town Belt.

Term: 5 years

Rent: Initial annual rent $377.00 plus GST

Permitted Use: Dog obedience activities

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

Anyone wishing to make a submission or objection may do so in writing by post or by email, to be received no later than 5 pm Monday, 2 September 2024. please state in your submission if you wish to be heard in person.

Address all correspondence to:

By Post:

Waip-a District Council Private Bag 2402 Te Awamutu 3840

By Email:

Email: info@waipadc.govt.nz

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

POLLOCK, Marlene Isobel (nee Blackler) – Peacefully slipped away at home, surrounded by her family, on Tuesday, 23rd July 2024, aged 85 years. Loving wife of the late Bob. Adored and cherished mother to Annie and Craig. Devoted Nana to Allie, Shaun, Kerry, Jack, David, and the late Danielle. great grandma to 5 great grandchildren. The family extends their heartfelt thanks to Hospice Waikato and the District Nursing staff for their compassionate care and support during Marlene's final days. In accordance with Marlene's wishes, a private farewell has taken place. All communications to the Pollock Family c/- 262 Ohaupo Road, Te Awamutu 3800.

SMALE, Constance Jean (Connie) nee Tate – Passed away peacefully at age 83 on July 25, 2024. It is with heavy hearts that we advise the passing of Connie, following a bravely fought battle with cancer. Dearly loved mother of Kylie and mother-in-law of Gavin. Beloved wife of the late John. A dear friend to many. You will be dearly missed and forever in our hearts. Rest in peace. We will miss your stories. As per Connie’s wishes no funeral will be held, and Connie was laid to rest at Hautapu Cemetery on July 26th, together again with John. Tributes may be left at Legacy Cambridge. Messages to the family can be emailed to orders@ antkiller.co.nz. In lieu of flowers, any donations to the Mercury Bay Cancer Support Trust are appreciated.

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Funeral

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