Today marks the final day of the tangihanga of Kiingi Tuheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII, who was this morning was to be taken to his final resting place on Taupiri maunga.
The head of the Kīngitanga died early on Friday morning aged 69, surrounded by the whānau pani (the bereaved family) including his wife Makau Ariki Atawhai, three children Whatumoana, Korotangi and Ngawai Hono i Te Po, and his mokopuna.
An official statement from the Kīngitanga announced the news.
“He kura kua ngaro ki tua o Rangi-whakamoe-ariki. Moe mai raa.” A chief who has passed to the great beyond. Rest in love.”
The king’s death followed a heart operation on Tuesday, from which he did not recover. Many tens of thousands of mourners converged on Tūrangawaewae marae at Ngāruawāhia over the past week to pay their respects.
Throughout the week, pōwhiri took place twice daily, at 8am and 2pm.
On the paepae, speakers referred to the enduring impact of the King’s leadership, especially in the past year, when his call for a series of hui-a-motu, nationwide meetings, unified te ao Māori and represented an outpouring of pride and mana motuhake, self determination.
One word on everyone’s lips was “kotahitanga,” or unity: the word that encapsulated the King’s legacy and message.
Many speakers also mentioned the love Kiingi Tuheitia had for kapa haka – as the patron of the national
The king of kotahitanga
Matatini festival, but also his own stands with the Matatini winning kapa Taniwharau (a reference to the many taniwha of the Waikato river) in his younger days.
As well as immense grief, many whānau expressed a sense of disbelief: just last month, the King spoke several times at the Koroneihana festivities, which, each year, acknowledge the anniversary of his coronation.
The mourning period began on Friday, when Kiingi Tuheitia was moved to the mahau of Māhinaarangi, the ancestral house of Tūrangawaewae Marae.
Immediately, the Kīngitanga and the people of the Tainui Waka began planning the tangihanga, supporting it in all ways, from duties at “the back,” marshalling in the carpark to making sandwiches, to the front, including the whaikōrero, formal speeches, and supporting waiata on the paepae.
The first few days of the tangi were reserved for the Tainui Waka peoples to show their love and support, before other iwi and others in the community including the GovernorGeneral, Dame Cindy Kiro and the Prime Minister Christopher Luxon arrived on Saturday.
Kiingi Tuheitia had just marked the 18th anniversary of succeeding his mother Dame Te Atairangikaahu as the head of the Kīngitanga.
The king was born in Huntly on April 21, 1955. As a child, the man who would become Kingi Tuheitia accompanied his mother at her own 1966 coronation, standing alongside his father, Whatumoana Paki.
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Kiingi Tuheitia and Makau Ariki Atawhai walked to the Poukai at Mirumiru Pā ki Marokopa, earlier this year, having flown back early from the Cook Islands.
Kiingi Tuheitia at this year’s Poukai at Te Kūiti Pā, together with Te Miri Tamaki who is handing him a jaguar tooth necklace gifted from the indigenous people of Sao Paolo, Brazil. Photo: Sigrid Christiansen
The toddler son of King Country businesswoman Tasmyn Roach, Kahika, met Kiingi Tuheitia after the coronation of King Charles in London, last May, and the two shared a relaxing moment.
The King was pictured two years ago reviewing the latest stages of the Waikato Expressway project around Hamilton. Photo: Mary Anne Gill.
Tēnā te whaitua nui, Ka pū te taha wānanga, Ha āpiti nuku, he āpiti rangi, Ha whakaotinga aroha ki a koe, Kīngi Tūheitia, Kīngi o Te Kotahitanga.
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I write this as we are in the throes of farewelling our Māori King, Tuheitia. The speeches on behalf of the iwi, of the thousands who have gathered and continue to gather on Tūrangawaewae Marae have been memorable for their eloquence, but more for the genuine expressions of regret for his passing. One such sentiment was from the University of Waikato, given in Māori. Here is my translation: ‘Tuheitia - ancestor who became a taniwha; Tuheitia - ordinary man who became a King; Tuheitia - truck driver who became a Doctor of Philosophy’, having been awarded the very highest honour a University can bestow on anyone.
Another recognised how uncomfortable Tuheitia clearly was when he was selected by the Rangatira o Te Motu to be their King, and how he was considered to be ‘the man for the job’, who grew into the role over time and affected ‘the job for the man’.
This is perhaps a major point of difference with the Kīngitanga – the Māori King Movement –
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Luxon reaction
Interesting to read the reaction of our two mayors to Luxon’s rant last week.
One has the feeling the Pime Minister should get on his bike and the other is still happy to lick his boots. All 67 councils should have taken him to task there and then and should have stood as one group and turned their backs toward him.
Luxon raved about localisim but is acting totally opposite to the mantra and they are now moving to take over Auckland transport.
I also note that local mayors are now jumping on the three waters band wagon, the only difference is there will not be any Māori involvement even though there is a large number of Māori living in the catchment.
Gordon Walker Piopio
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Over the period of the tangihanga, dignitaries from near and far, will gather to pay their respects. Today – Thursday - the Rangatira o Te Motu – the Chiefs of The Land – will meet in Turangawaewae to decide who will be the King Tuheitia’s successor. Tainui Waka – Waikato –Maniapoto – Raukawa – Hauraki will play no part in those discussions, asserting that we are the guardians of the Kīngitanga, which is the Taonga o Te Motu.
Kingi Tuheitia’s calling for unity has captured the attention of many locally, nationally, internationally.
A legacy recognised in his being referred to widely as ‘Te Kīngi o Te Kotahitanga’ – the King of Unity, a legacy to which speakers have expressed their personal as well as tribal commitment.
Ka tauwehe te Pō, ka pō, Pō, ka ao, ka awatea, Paimārire ki a tātou katoa.
“The atmosphere at the marae today was overwhelming - in terms of the sheer numbers of people representing various iwi and entities across the nation and the region, plus the Cook Islands Prime Minister and his contingent who attended to pay respects to King Tuheitia and the bereaved family.”
“What was especially moving was to hear the compliments regarding the King urging not only Māoridom but all New Zealanders to rally together. That is kotahitanga going into the future, instead of the threat posed by some of the Government’s coalition partners to disempower Māoridom going forward. The King’s principal speaker, Rahui Papa who spoke late yesterday summed up beautifully what the King meant by kotahitanga, that there’s a space for everyone going forward together.”
Logging truck rolls on highway
By Paul Charman
The driver of a truck and trailer carrying logs escaped injury on Monday afternoon when his rig rolled on highway 30 near Crusader Meats, just east of Benneydale.
The truck rolled near Mangaokewa Road’s intersection with SH30 and diversions were still in place five hours later.
Benneydale fire chief Murray Paterson said the incident blocked both lanes and felled power poles, cutting power to the area.
“It was a big job. We arranged for a tow truck to take away the damaged machine and a truck to pick up the logs. We worked with the police to divert traffic and coordinate scene safety, while Lines Company staff set about restoring the power supply.”
Through traffic was diverted at Kopaki, travelling a long section of metal road to return to SH30 just after the crash site. The diversion was in place from early afternoon though till about 7 or 8 pm. One car was involved in a minor crash on the diversion route.
“This was the first logging truck rolling here for a while, but for me in the last 20 years they have been one of the commonest truck callouts,” Paterson said.
“They seem to go in spasms; nothing for a while and then several. We have had a previous logging truck roll in exactly the
same spot, and over the years several similar incidents a couple of kilometres either side of this crash site.
“There are heavy volumes of logging trucks on our roads in this area – just on the road I live on about 20 a day - so it’s something we have to live with.”
The truck and trailer spilled its logs, downing power wires and blocking both lanes for hours.
One for the bucket list
By Andy Campbell
He’s called a colourful character, and after having his hair dyed blue for Blue September, he’s thinking about going pink for breast cancer awareness month in October.
But September is for bringing attention to the blue bucket he will be collecting donations for prostate cancer. Every day 10 mates, fathers, sons, brothers, grandfathers will be told they have prostate cancer.
“It’s blue because of prostate cancer awareness month,” Blakeway said. “Everybody is getting shafted by Pharmac, and the government is not doing too well. I think the only way to actually do it is supporting your own fund raising.
“I think everybody knows somebody who’s lost somebody. I’ve lost two workmates who had it.”
Blakeway is the current president of the Te Kūiti Quota Club, which has a membership of about 50/50 men and women. He’s planning to dye his hair pink for October.
Hairdresser Katrina Hussey at Aurora hair and beauty spa said the colour was a combination of midnight blue and blue lagoon dye.
“I mixed them up together then I put them on straight away, because luckily his hair was nice and white. Nice and easy I tell you. It will last
quite a while,” Hussey said.
“He wants to do his hair pink. I’ll have to strip the blue out and then go pink.”
He received a special rate for a good cause Hussey said. Anyone else will have to negotiate.
Blakeway’s fundraiser is for the Prostate Cancer Foundation which supports men and their families across the country who are living with prostate cancer and receives no government funding.
It relies on generosity to help the foundations significantly reduce suffering and death from Prostate Cancer.
The Foundation works to achieve this by raising awareness about prostate cancer and the importance of getting regular checks for men over 50.
It funds research into better diagnosis and treatments for prostate cancer, and advocates for improved healthcare services for men with prostate cancer.
“Blue Do” fund raising events can be organised and supported through the foundation’s website.
The foundation also provides support for men and their families living with prostate cancer via a network of support groups, information and counselling services and access to other assistance.
Petition bears fruit
Following an online petition calling for restoration of the Big Apple at Hangatiki, owners of the landmark have agreed to maintain it.
The chief executive of THL, Grant Webster, said this work would be done, “as the weather allows coming into drier months”.
Webster has thanked Piopio resident Karen Barrett who launched the petition, last month noting the big apple had deteriorated, with peeling paint, rust, moss and graffiti now to be seen on it.
Her petition had attracted 184 signatures when this edition went to press. Webster wrote to Barrett last week thanking her for bringing the state of the landmark to his attention.
“It’s great to see the collective passion for what many
community members identify as a key community icon at one of the gateways to the Waitomo Region,” he said.
Barrett responded that she would be waiting for the big apple landmark “to get its polish” before closing-down the petition.
“I am really happy that he came straight back (after writing to him); THL obviously pay attention to communities,” Barrett said.
She added that it paid to act when you see something deteriorating.
“But all said and done this is a large publicly listed company that should have the resources for a coat of paint and a water blast.
“So far so good. When I see that the landmark has been fully restored, I will post a picture and spread the word.”
Guard chased
Te Kūiti police want information about a bizarre incident involving a security guard last Thursday. They say about 1am while the guard was making rounds on Rora St, a group of men approached him in a silver people mover in a menacing manner. They may have been holding weapons.
The incident occurred “at a point roughly outside the BNZ Bank”.
Fearing for his safety, the guard took off in his car and was chased by the group in their vehicle into Waitete Rd. The security guard crashed his vehicle there but was not injured – and the group of men left the scene.
Police say part of the incident was captured on closed circuit television – but they would like to hear from anyone who can identify the group.
They say they have no idea what the men’s motives were.
Mark Blakeway is on a fund-raising campaign for prostate cancer
The big apple landmark has stood at Hangatiki since the mid-1990s.
A celebration of Cessnas
Waitomo Aeroclub hosted seven models of Cessna during a recent weekend.
It was said there was every model from 150 to 192, club secretary George Thompson said.
Since 1927, Cessna has produced nearly 160,000 single-engine piston aircraft, more than any other aircraft in the world. American founder Clyde Cessna designed and built the first one and crashed it 13 times before getting it off the ground in June 1911 – and crashing into trees. Cessna continued to teach himself to fly over the next six months and in December 1911, he made a successful 8km flight and a successful landing at his take off point.
A Cessna 192 owner stopped at Te Kūiti on his way from New Plymouth to Whitianga, and that prompted aeroclub members to set up the photo, Thompson said.
Meanwhile, Piopio farmer and long-time flying enthusiast John Carter has been awarded life membership of the Waitomo Aeroclub - he has held the posts of president, secretary and instructor and is the club Safety Officer.
The club will host the Flying NZ central regional rally on November 16, when pilots from Waikato, Tauranga, Rotorua, Taumarunui and Waitomo aero clubs compete in up to 15 events for places in the nationals next March.
Getting down to the basics
By John Robertson, Waitomo Mayor
At the Local Government Conference last month the Prime Minister sent a clear message to Councils.
“Ratepayers expect local government to do the basics and to do the basics brilliantly. Pick up the rubbish. Fix the pipes. Fill in potholes.”
He added, “ratepayers are sick of the white elephants and non-delivery. So, my challenge to all of you is to rein in the fantasies and to get back to delivering the basics brilliantly.”
Tough words, but hard to disagree.
Let’s provide basic services well and in a climate where ratepayers are feeling the pinch, not add on “nice to haves”.
However, just what the “basics” are is not well defined.
Roads, water, and rubbish account for most council expenditure.
But then there is a second grouping including libraries, aquatic centres, recreation centres and public toilets. There are town halls, and in Waitomo’s case, the Les Munro Centre. And there are parks.
Libraries, aquatic centres, public toilets, town halls and parks all need a significant contribution from ratepayers for ongoing maintenance. In Waitomo’s case, the Gallagher Recreation Centre is the exception, with revenue covering operational costs.
Councils can only do so much to reduce the cost burden on ratepayers of such amenities.
We can reduce the size of parks and the number of public toilets. But such reductions will cause public protest. We
can share facilities with neighbouring councils.
The Les Munro Centre for large public gatherings, the Gallagher Recreation Centre for indoor sports, and Te Kūiti’s dog pound are facilities used by residents from both Waitomo and neighbouring councils.
In a third grouping there are the “nice to haves.”
These include holiday parks, tourism promotion, economic development, and grants to regional organisations.
During my tenure our council has been reducing such expenditure year by year out of financial necessity.
What the Prime Minister did not talk about was the reconfiguration of council boundaries. Such reform last took place 35 years ago.
There are growing conversations led by mayors in both the North and South Islands about opportunities to reduce the burden on ratepayers further by way of amalgamating council administrations. Sharing services between councils achieves some rationalisation of costs. Some of this is done now.
But it is when district councils with a low population bases combine their organisations to reduce duplicative overheads that larger savings for ratepayers can be achieved.
The seven aircraft were lined up for this photo.
Crossing the electoral canyon
By Andy Campbell
If Ōtorohanga residents vote to abandon their Māori ward at the 2025 local body elections, it will prompt a reconstruction of the whole council.
Graham Bunn, the council’s business enablement group manager said Ōtorohanga cannot revert to the arrangements applied for the 2019 election, because the district’s population has shifted, voiding a “ten per cent rule”.
The electoral Act requires voter numbers for each council seat to be within 10 per cent, but the Local Government Commission has told the council its Waipā and Wharepūhunga wards -12.58 per cent and -14.51 per cent don’t fit the rule with 2023 population estimates.
“Irrespective of what happens with the poll we must hold a representation review prior to the 2027 elections,” Bunn said.
The decision to have Māori wards was separate to the representation review.
“If you establish a Māori ward you must always have a representation review, because you are changing the make-up of your council, so you are adding more councillors or if disestablishing, you are taking councillors away.”
Following a decision to have a Māori ward, the formula deciding how many Māori ward councillors there would be was based on the percentage difference between
electors on the Māori roll to the general roll - but also on the number of councillors.
“The previous review found the council was right on the cusp, if we reduced by one councillor, then we would only have had one Māori ward representative. If we retained the same, we got two.
“The problem that we have then is that we ended up with quite a large council for a small authority.
By reducing one councillor it causes mayhem with the fair representation rule. You would have had to move boundaries all over the place to get that fair representation.”
Or wards could be dispensed with, and all councillors elected at large. Because council has opted to continue with Māori roll representation on council, a binding poll will be held at the 2025 election, and the result of that poll
will shape the council for the next six years - two electoral terms.
A ‘yes’ result will mean the Māori ward remains for the 2028 and 2031 elections.
If the community doesn’t support its council’s call, Māori wards will remain in place for the 2025 election but will be gone for the 2028 and 2031 elections.
The next opportunity to reconsider Māori wards will be
ahead of the 2034 elections.
There are no rules stating the criteria councils must consider when deciding whether or not to disestablish Māori wards. The special consultative procedure does not apply to decisions to affirm or to disestablish Māori wards.
And the Local Government Act has nothing concrete other than to advise each local authority to follow their Significance and Engagement Policy and take into account decision-making and consultation requirements of the Local Government Act 2002.
That law requires local authorities to establish and maintain processes to provide opportunities for Māori to contribute to the decision-making process of the local authority.
The ŌDC’s iwi partners’ preferred option is for a Māori ward and a binding poll at the 2025 local body elections.
Māori are guaranteed the right to make decisions over resources and taonga they wish to retain, under te Tiriti. Decisions local authorities make can impact on resources including lands, waters, and taonga. Examples include Resource Management Act (RMA), zoning, placement of infrastructure and levels of service.
Bunn said there was also a risk that with no guaranteed Māori representation the council would make decisions that led to treaty breaches and to making decisions that weren’t adequately informed.
Voters will influence the make-up of the Ōtorohanga District Council for the 2028 and 2031 terms.
Solar project celebrated
A project to install solar panels at two King Country marae has won the Best Community Energy Project award at the Sustainable Energy Association of New Zealand Awards last week.
The Lines Company-Te Nehenehenui project helped Māniaroa marae north of Mōkau and Taarewaanga marae in Ōtorohanga. The project previously won the Community Initiative of the Year at the 2023 New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards.
Solar energy powers the entire marae infrastructure with some energy left over which is gifted to kuia and kaumatua
associated with the marae.
In some months the gifts cover up to 90 per cent of their energy needs and each recipient household has seen average annual energy savings of around $500.
An 18kW solar array was installed at both marae, enabling energy sharing through Ecotricity’s peer-topeer platform. The systems combined generated 45,000 kWh of renewable solar. Recipients of surplus solar energy received a total of $4860 in kWh credits.
The project, co-designed using kaupapa Māori principles, also provided education on how to be more energy
efficient, both at the marae, and at home, where energy assessments were undertaken.
It was “fantastic” for a King Country initiative to be recognised again, TLC chief executive Mike Fox said.
But he said a more meaningful payback would come from potential long-term benefits across the rohe.
Te Nehenehenui general manager Ashleigh Turner attended Friday’s awards. She said others were unable to attend because of the death of the Māori Kiingi, Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII.
Learners get it write
Sigrid Christiansen
Around 10 adult and teenage learners in the King Country will receive a gift in the mail this week.
Spoiler: it will be a hard copy of a student writing booklet, featuring short stories and nonfiction pieces, many of which are tributes to loved ones.
And it’s a sign of lifelong obstacles, overcome.
The students are writing and having their work published after previously struggling with literacy.
“It showcases the incredible progress our students have made in improving their reading and writing skills, despite facing significant challenges,” Community Support Coordinator Lillian Haskins said.
The booklet was timed to fit with International Literacy Day on September 8 and the Festival of Adult Learning Ahurei Ākonga from September 2 to 8.
The Rural Youth and Adult Literacy Trust provides free reading and writing coaching to teenagers and adults, focusing especially on reaching those in rural or isolated areas who cannot access traditional literacy centres.
Many of the volunteer coaches are retired teachers, and coaching is usually done on Zoom.
The service has run for 14 years, and many clients are referred by Winz or Oranga Tamariki – though it receives no government funding.
Most clients of the service prefer to remain anonymous, but farm manager Michael Kingipoti from Invercargill is its ambassador, having published a book last year.
Members of the Māniaroa Marae project team involved in the solar sharing project.
A much better-off college
Pouring better-off funding into Ōtorohanga College is paying huge dividends, principal Lyndsay Kurth reported to the district council last week. Ōtorohanga College received $1.64m of the first tranche of better-off funding allocated via the district council as part of the previous government’s Three Waters inducement.
The College has spent $641,143 so far and it’s paying dividends in the effect on the students, Kurth said.
“Prior to the better-off funding our food room was for want of a better word, disastrous.
The better off funding provided 12 brand new ovens, a mobile barista machine and a fully kitted out food room.
“We introduced a module whereby the kids get to tutu with cars and motorbikes. And for some of our kids that makes their day,” Kurth said.
“They are not in English, they are not in maths, they are not in science. They are pulling apart a car and rebuilding parts of it.
“They get to tutu with motorbikes they get to go and ride them down the bottom field. Health and safety is a nightmare, but the kids get to go and do this and when you go to these classrooms and see the kids that are in there, and the smiles on their faces, because that’s their passion and that’s what they are getting to do – it warms your heart, it really does.”
A new gym has taken over a balcony area in the hall. The photography room is now fully kitted out with new cameras and computers on wheels enable students to go into any classroom and “hook into” a device.
“If you are a teacher and you go into a classroom and the technology doesn’t work, or you don’t have the resourcing, it makes your job even harder. What we have got now works.”
Also planned is an expansion of agriculture and horticulture. There are sheds, a greenhouse and garden beds and the college is now offering agriculture and horticulture for the senior school at level one.
Kurth said the intention is to demolish the college C Block, re-purpose and move a former boarding hostel building, and fully kit it out as an ag and hort centre.
The better-off funding has also enabled the college to invest in learning support teachers, a share in Te Kūiti High School’s counsellor and their own attendance officer.
Based on the feedback more than 10 new modules have been delivered at Ōtorohanga in mechanics, hospitality, art, digitech, information technology, agriculture and horticulture, physical education and health, food and wood technology.
Other recipients of Ōtorohanga’s better-off funding were Mauri o Waiwaiā I te Awa o Waipā, $100,000, Kāwhia Seawall Defence $730,000 and Ōtorohanga Ora $130,000.
Musician honoured
Friends of Waitomo music teacher Martha Ash will celebrate her 80th birthday at a concert at St Bride’s Angical Church, Ōtorohanga, on Sunday afternoon.
Martha and her husband John have lived in the district since first arriving as teachers in 1974. In the 1980s John was active in estblishing black water rafting at Waitomo and Martha was involved in establishing the present day Waitomo Caves Choir, and many other choral groups.
She has actively coached and promoted choirs and choral music right up to the present.
Among many other projects Martha has jointly convened the Te Awamutu Festival of Performing Arts’ vocal competitions, along with friend and colleague Beatrice Hofer. She has musician contacts around the country and across the globe.
Beatrice said Martha’s contribution had been enormous over the years and many of her choral works would be reprised on Sunday, with the Caves Choir and Martha’s own “Silver Bells Woman’s Choir” performing brackets.
John and Martha Ash arrived in the district as teachers in the early 1970s.
Ōtorohanga College principal Lyndsay Kurth.
Pay as they grow
By Mary Anne Gill
Lucy Ryan is confident Hamilton Gardens will continue to be popular with Waipā residents despite the city council’s decision to introduce an entry fee for out of towners.
The gardens’ director estimates about a third of the record 537,584 people who visited the enclosed gardens in the year ended June 30 were domestic visitors.
And anecdotally she knows a big percentage of those were from satellite towns like Cambridge, Te Awamutu, Morrinsville, Matamata, Ngāruawāhia, Ōtorohanga, Te Kūiti, Putāruru and her own hometown – Huntly.
The cost - $20 to visit the enclosed gardens which accounts for only 10 per cent of the gardens themselves – is unlikely to put people off, she says.
She compares that with what visitors pay when they visit Kew Gardens in London or Hunter Valley Gardens in Australia.
The award-winning Hamilton Gardens – which regularly features in Tripadvisor’s list of top things to do in the world – are Kew’s equal after a $12 million investment.
Ryan knows Waipā well – she taught at St Patricks Catholic Primary School in Te Awamutu.
The Te Parapara fertile land, where the gardens are, was covered in food crops and was confiscated during the Waikato Land Wars of the 1860s.
It went on to become a rifle range, a sand quarry, a dog dosing area, a
go karts track and the city’s rubbish dump.
Since the Rose Gardens opened in the 1970s, followed a decade later by the first enclosed gardens, Hamilton Gardens has become the most visited place in the city.
But it was Hamilton ratepayers who paid to develop and maintain the gardens and despite politicians repeatedly saying they wanted to introduce an entry fee, none of them were brave enough to take that final step.
Until two years ago, about the time Ryan took over from the longserving Peter Sergel.
It costs around $6 million a year to run the 50 hectare site which includes the Indian Charbagh, Surrealist, Ancient Egyptian, Chinese Scholars’, and the Italian Renaissance gardens.
Under development are the Medieval, Pasifika and Baroque gardens.
Police attended six family harm incidents.
August 26: Two Facebook scams were reported in which a people paid for items they did not receive. A third Te Kūiti resident reported their Eftpos card had been cloned and used. The victim was advised by their bank that their money would be returned.
August 28: At 4.45pm a group of youths took a 13-year-old boy’s bicycle while he was on his way home in Hill St. The incident was posted on social media by the boy’s parents and the bike was returned. Police are following leads.
August 28: A man and woman staying at an Air BnB in Lees Block Rd allegedly left without paying. Police are following positive leads.
August 30: At 7.39pm a petrol drive-off was reported at Mobil Te Kūiti. About $89 was taken.
August 30-31: A car taken from an address on Lawlor St was recovered on Edward St.
September 1: At 2pm a man entered New World, put items down the front of his trousers and left without paying. At 7.19pm a car drove away from the Mobil station after its driver failed to pay for $73 worth of petrol.
Ten family harm incidents were reported.
August 29: At 1.54 pm police attended a non-injury crash on Ormsby Rd, Pirongia, after a driver lost control at a bend.
August 30: At 4.39pm police were called after a truck carrying palm kernel rolled at an intersection in Wharepuhunga Rd. There were no injuries and the load of palm kernel landed on grass at the side of the road, eliminating the need to sweep the road.
August 31: At 2.12 am a Phillips Ave address was entered and a vehicle taken. It was located later that day in Te Kūiti.
Police attended one family harm incident.
Police attended two family harm incidents.
August 30: A Pomarangai resident reported that his letterbox had been damaged by vandals.
September 1: Police received reports that neighbours were at war at an address in Ōpārau. Investigations are continuing.
One family harm incident was reported.
September 2: The brigade was called out at about midday after a vehicle went off SH4 and into a drain. The crash occured about 4km from the Eight-Mile-Junction. Fire fighters removed a door with jaws of life equipment, freeing a woman driver who suffered moderate injuries in the crash. She was taken to Waikato Hospital by air ambulance.
August 31: At 11.05am the brigade was called out after a car went off the road and hit a fence in Rangitoto Rd. The occupants of the car were out when the brigade arrived. Fire fighters secured the scene and did traffic control.
August 29: At 3.30pm an automatic fire alarm was activated at a commercial premises in Rora St. The brigade investigated but found no sign of fire. They left the incident in the hands of the business’s manager.
August 28: At 9.07 am a fire appliance was dispatched to Hetet St after a tree fell there, pulling down powerlines. The brigade did scene protection, while Lines Company staff began clearing the debris and working to restore the electricity supply. This work took much of the day.
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Looking for a place in history
By Paul Charman
Hundreds of thousands of images representing the photographic history of the Taumarunui district are in search of a new home.
NZ Post recently notified the Taumarunui Historical Society must shift an archive representing about half a million historic images out of the old Post Office building in Miriama St.
“We have no problem with NZ Post - they have treated us very well,” Society treasurer Audrey Walker said.
“But the post office does not comply with health and safety and fire regulations and so the society has been
given about a month to complete the move.”
Ruapehu District Council had agreed to help, but they only had room to house about half of the archive in the upstairs in the councilowned railway station building in Hakiaha St.
“As for the other half of the archive, we have thrown this challenge open to members of the public to suggest a place we can store it,” Walker said.
“It would be great to find a place that is secure, dry and if possible, downstairs.”
She added work was now underway to transfer hundreds of boxes of negatives and prints out of the post office and into at the railway station, which was about a block away.
The archive was assembled by Taumarunui historian and publisher Ron Rooke and a professional photographer who spent about 60 years working in the district, the late Colin Seccombe.
Now in his mid-eighties, Cooke said he had been taking photographs since receiving a camera as a birthday present when a teenager.
He went on to work as a sports photographer and had been getting his own copies made of historical photos
since the mid-1960s.
“Our oldest prints are from about 1885, then there is a long gap of years till about 1900,” Cooke said.
“By the time the railway arrived in 1903 we were getting more and more images of the district as it was then. We also have images of our district which were published in the Auckland Weekly News.
“I knew these images of daily life would be irreplaceable so I’d ask families if I could borrow their photos and get them copied, then I’d return them,” Cooke said.
He published “Roll Back the Years”, an acclaimed series of books on King Country history during the 1980s, and went on to compile, write or coauthor about 20 books on the aspects of the district’s history. Subjects ranged from the hospital to sawmills and transport companies.
“Before it got placed in the post office, we had already shifted the archive from the old ANZ Bank (the so-called Memory Bank Building) to containers at Matapuna. I hope this will be the last time we have to move everything. The trouble is that there is room for only about half of it at the railway station.”
Historical Society members Don Tidswell (foreground) and Audrey Walker unload photo archives at the railway station. Photo: Ron Cooke
Much of the archive was assembled by Taumarunui historian and publisher Ron Cooke.
Champions – but stuck in league
By Roy Pilott
They are WaiBop League One football champions – but they can’t get promoted.
Buk Lines Ōtorohanga wrapped up the title with a resounding 3-0 home win over Northern United from Hamilton on Saturday knowing rules about club depth would tie them down.
Ōtorohanga, whose most famous player, former Australian international Archie Thompson turns 46 next month, doesn’t have the depth to field an Under-23 team, and that is a condition of playing in the Southern Conference League.
Ironically, the team at the bottom of the conference is neighbour Te Awamutu, whose struggles are a mirror image of Ōtorohanga’s fortunes in this campaign.
The Ōtorohanga Domain club won the title with 17 wins from 18 outings – but Northern would have been celebrating promotion had they managed a draw on Saturday.
Te Awamutu has battled gamely throughout the season but finished the 21-game campaign 15 points behind the field with points from four draws.
The latest was a surprise 3-3 draw with Claudelands which allowed Taupō to ensure it would finish second on goal difference barring a monumental thumping at home to Papamoa next weekend.
Two late goals at Te Awamutu denied the hosts their first win of the season – an early one at the domain set Ōtorohanga on its way to victory.
When news of the goal filtered through to the Wanderers ground in Hamilton, it didn’t take much guessing to pick who had scored it.
Tawhirimata -Tawhiri - Ball has scored goals for fun when ever he has been on the park this season – and is clearly a level above the competition.
The goal was set up by up by his brother Waikato Ball and he held off defenders in the penalty
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area to score from close range.
It was the only goal of an even half where both teams could have added to the goal tally on a challenging park where conditions were heavy underfoot.
Northern had dominated the first 15 minutes, getting behind the Otorohanga defence, but found centre backs Jackson Allen and Jacob O’Brien in top form.
The visitors were also caught in the second half after a period of midfield dominance as Bailey Croad found space on the left, beat the defence and goalkeeper and slotted home from a narrow angle with just over 25 minutes to play.
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Football’s top WaiBop league and the Southern Conference could get a summer shake up.
Ōtorohanga can’t be promoted while it doesn’t have an Under-23 team, and it would be surprising if an exception was made for the Southern Conference when clubs in the Northern Conference must abide by the regulations.
But at least one club Ōtorohanga pipped to the Waikato title could still go up if the cards fall a certain way.
Southern Conference champions Cambridge face a home and away clash with Northern Conference winners Waitemata or Waiheke United for a place in the second tier of the Northern league – and success for the Waipā club would open a conference space which Northern United would want.
When Waikato Ball’s outstanding header from a Croad corner found the net five minutes later the healthy home crowd were watching their side put the finishing touches on a successful league campaign.
The game was preceded by two minutes’ silence Kīngi Tuheitia’s passing – the Ōtorohanga team has seven players of Māori descent.
Earlier in the curtain raiser played at Ōtorohanga College, the Ōtorohanga Reserves lost 3-0 to Ngaruawahia.
The club now turns its attention to its Summer Soccer Competition starting next month.
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It would also see Cambridge, Melville, Wanderers and Ngāruawāhia in the same Northern League division.
Matamata, who finished third in WaiBop League One, are also thought to have ambitions of playing at a higher level.
Te Awamutu was one of several WaiBop clubs promoted to the Southern Conference for 2023, but while the club has excelled in bringing juniors into the game it has found it difficult to match opponents at conference level.
If the Reds don’t keep their conference place on the back of this season’s struggles, Matamata might be keen to replace them.
Football authorities are likely to want to get decisions made early. Last year the Northern Conference was started a second time after the belated promotion of Central following a ruling by the Sport Tribunal of New Zealand in March.
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Ōtorohangas rain dance – coach Mark McKenzie and Jamie Walker joined the 2024 WaiBop champions as they celebrated with their trophy on Saturday. The rain started just after the final whistle.
Valley enjoy spoils in Te Kūiti
By Norris Woodbine
Thames Valley came down the highway to Te Kūiti on Saturday for their match against the King Country Rams and left with an unblemished Heartland Championship record courtesy of a dominant victory.
It was an historic occasion as the local ground hosted the first ever first-class match under the recently installed floodlights which saw a large crowd create a great atmosphere especially from the packed-out grandstand.
It was also King Country’s first defence of The Bill Osborne Trophy dubbed The Heartland Ranfurly Shield.
With intermittent rain and a slushy field this was a great example of old-fashioned wet weather rugby and as can be expected forward dominance proved to be the catalyst for overall success.
The Valley Swamp Foxes appeared to relish conditions and began the match in a positive fashion and applied all the early pressure, but it was the home side who posted first points and led 6–0 after 20 minutes.
Fullback Patrick Hedley, who enjoyed a wonderful 100 percent kicking record, slotted two excellent penalty goals as The Rams enjoyed brief appearances in The Valley
half.
In the 28th minute former King Country player Alex Thrupp scored arguably the try of the match when he latched onto a loose ball in his own half and showed tremendous pace to race away down the embankment touchline to score.
Hedley soon slotted a third penalty to put the Rams back in front 9 – 5 but The Valley pack was looking ominously dominant by now and it was no surprise when their skipper Matt Axten crashed over under the bar gifting Fletcher Morgan an easy conversion.
Up by 12–9 Valley, began the second half as they finished the first and Morgan extended the lead with a penalty before Hedley slotted two more of his own and with 20 minutes to go the scores were locked at 15–15.
From here The Swamp Foxes forward pack took complete control, winning crucial scrums and lineouts and, as The Rams discipline slipped, gained good field position from penalties and it was no surprise when the powerful Laulea Mau crossed for a well worked try.
Replacement Quinn Collard then put the issue beyond doubt with a long-range penalty kick before Hedley earned his team a bonus point with a penalty goal with time up on the clock.
In a beaten pack Rams prop Toby Tukaki enjoyed a fine game and featured in broken play while number eight Caleb Foote was as usual in the thick of everything.
Zac Wickham-Darlington and Baven Brown Jnr, although receiving limited attacking opportunities, both looked sharp and went looking for work, the former’s battle with the speedy Thrupp was memorable.
Fullback Hedley was the star Rams player who complimented his goal kicking excellence with sound defence and an eye for counter attacking opportunities when they presented and was my MVP from either side.
Earlier in the day Thames Valley emerging players proved too strong for the Bighorns 37 – 19 and both the Under 16 and Under 18’s won their respective encounters.
The Valley men returned home with all the silverware and an unbeaten record in Heartland Rugby while The Rams slipped from four to seventh on the table and face a daunting task travelling to the South Island this week to play the champion South Canterbury on their home patch.
• King Country product Josh Balme, who plays for Hamilton Marist, made his Waikato debut in the 39-21 NPC win over Auckland last Saturday.
Hundred up for netball
Sigrid Christiansen
Ōtorohanga netball centre is celebrating the sport’s centenary in New Zealand with a party in October.
It’s 100 years since the sport of basketball evolved into netball – and took off in its own right as muchloved sport.
The netball centre’s Dot Carr, daughter of the grand dame and patron of netball in Ōtorohanga, Marjorie Carr, said it was a “community celebration and an anniversary” rather than a reunion as such.
The semi-formal function will have games, activities, displays of photos and memorabilia through the years.
“We want to get people talking.”
“We’re hoping to see people who have left the community as well as people and families who are currently here,” she said, adding that whenever Ōtorohanga players went to tournaments around New Zealand, they often met people who spoke fondly of their memories of playing netball in the community.
Over the years, the centre played host to many memorable netball moments – like games for married versus single players.
These days, the sport was still evolving: “over time, there’s more on offer,” Dot said.
Most recently, a challenge was to welcome men and boys into the mixed competition, while still
holding space for women and girls who preferred to play only against their own sex.
Meanwhile, many of this area’s rangatahi are representing the community in the sport at a high level this week.
Teams from Te Wharekura o Maniapoto in Oparure and Ōtorohanga College left together for this year’s national schools netball tournament in Waitakere, Auckland, which runs until Friday.
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Cancer: a stage four talking
By Sigrid Christiansen
Stu Brewer is an exnewspaperman, tattooist and artist with stage 4 cancer who six months ago “farewelled” his P addiction to help others.
The Te Kūiti man has three missions.
Raising awareness about prostate cancer symptoms so men can get treatment before it’s too late, is one.
The second is to draw, paint, carve and sculpt as much as possible.
The third is bringing joy through art, his lifelong passion.
At the Maara Kai (community garden) in Te Kūiti, he approached manager Michelle Wi offering to decorate pots and garden items to reinvigorate the space. He also decorates helmets for the newspaper delivery kids, replacing them first if they’re in bad nick.
The cancer mission is the most urgent, because Stu doesn’t know how long he has.
He wants those who might still have time to get help before its too late.
Pain when urinating and getting up for the toilet often at night are deadly signs for men.
“I often see faces fall when I talk about the symptoms of prostate cancer,” Brewer says.
“But the sooner they get it checked, the better.
“Men are afraid the doctor will stick a finger up their bum… and if that’s your worry, you’ve got bigger problems.”
Born in Dannevirke in 1959, he loved drawing, but his father wouldn’t let him study art – in rebellion his school performance dropped, and he was sent to work at 15.
He went to the town’s Evening News as “cheap labour” as an apprentice hand typographer: setting the old-fashioned type, made with molten lead.
Exploitation at work was soon stopped by a senior colleague, the late Labour MP Parekura Horomia: “a hell of a nice guy.”
“He made them train me properly.”
Stu later worked in Wellington then at the Waitomo News, in 1989, at the old Craigs building on Taupiri St.
That was when the first Apple Macs arrived.
“We were the first newspaper in New Zealand to get them. I asked how they worked, and the bosses said,
‘You tell me.’
He also helped set up the town’s motorcycle club –riding a Kawasaki 1300 at that time.
For seven years, he worked on a special drawing of scenes from the town, including the Te Kūiti war memorial arch.
“Every lunchtime, I’d take a sandwich and go out and draw what I saw.”
After returning to the Wellington papers, he took a redundancy, his employment relationship having survived earlier getting caught smoking weed in the paper room.
That’s when he became a tattooist, changing careers after friends in the bike scene suggested it. An already heavily inked Stu once tattooed a large tiger on his own stomach.
“I nearly passed out.”
Tigers are a recurring theme of his, but he doesn’t know why.
They’re “the most dominant cat” but he doesn’t wish he was more like that.
Through it all, his drug habit was a big part of his life, mostly P but also ecstasy.
When he was diagnosed with cancer in 2019, he “went hard” – but now doesn’t touch drugs.
He says the hardest thing about cancer had been people’s reactions.
He relationship of 17 years ended and close family “don’t really keep in touch”.
And he laments that lack of communication. He learned, belatedly, that his dad died of prostate cancer.
It’s information that may have saved his life had he discovered that earlier.
“But we don’t communicate.”
He hopes his story might change that.
Stu Brewer, pictured at Mangaokewa reserve, is raising awareness about prostate cancer.
Getting big ones at Mōkau
By Paul Charman
Canny Mōkau fisherman Geoff Preston is leading a national competition for longest snapper, with a very nice 90cm fish.
He has numerous national snapper titles to his credit, has been seen on television - and mates at the Mōkau Fishing Club suspect he has caught more 30 pounders than anyone else in the country.
After 20 years of surfcasting and kite fishing, which involved sending out a baited line using the power of an offshore wind with a kite, Geoff took up boat fishing in 2008.
“Living in Mokau you are controlled by tides and a river mouth bar to access the sea by boat - so I decided on a small 3.6m pontoon boat and to beach launch it,” he said. “This allows me to go at any time, providing conditions are good.”
Over the years Geoff has perfected the art of stray-lining from his little boat. He casts big unweighted fresh baits in water 10-20 metres deep. He has caught hundreds of snapper over 20lb (9kg) this way, and regards a big trophy snapper as one over the 30lb mark (13.6kg).
Boats come around him and their skippers try their luck but the way Geoff fishes means they seldom catch what he catches.
“It comes down to a lot of patience, knowing the area and knowing how to get them. Off Mōkau is always my area. If I was
to fish a competition out of another area I wouldn’t have a clue. I just know when the fish come I can go out there and say to my mates or my brother, ‘the big ones will be here in half an hour. And they are’.”
He joined the Mōkau club seven years ago and has won numerous
competitions for contesting biggest or longest snapper in the boat section. Currently he is unbeaten for first places. He is also a member of the Waikato Sportfishing Club, winning many of the competitions there which allow fish to be caught
anywhere in the North Island.
On the national scene he generally contests competitions using a measure system which involves placing your fish on a measure mat, photographing and then submitting the photo showing the fish’s length. This enables anglers the option of releasing their catch for survival after the photo. It also enables the angler to fish their home patch.
Geoff has one of his NZ record snapper on display in the Awakino Hotel. Just under one-metre-long, it won a national title and featured on the front cover of fishing magazines.
Geoff Preston’s pontoon allows him to go out at any time.
Meth in the madness
It’s not a job they asked for, but it has to be done. Paul Charman talks to grandparents who are raising grandchildren – and a Support Group which helps them.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Trust NZ (GRG) comprises about 10,000 caregivers and their partners raising around 25,000 children across the country.
In the wider Waikato/ King Country region more than1000 GRG member families care for about 2000 children and teens.
GRG chief executive Brad Clark said from humble beginnings on Auckland’s North Shore in 1999, the voluntary organisation had grown enormously. Issues leading to family breakdown spanned substance abuse/ addiction, incarceration, death or illness and sometimes abuse or neglect.
“But, the main culprit is methamphetamine or ‘P’,” Clark said.
“Before I joined GRG, I’d heard and read stories about P-related crime and gangs, but didn’t understand or see
the impact. Now at GRG we see that impact every day. Meth addiction is the main reason grandparents become full time carers for grandchildren.”
Clark doesn’t play down the challenges of becoming a parent again later in life.
“A typical scenario is for our grandparents and carers to be retired. They may have downsized to a smaller home and be living on a fixed income. Then, all of a sudden, life is turned upside down, with two, three or more grandchildren arriving in their homes, having experienced major trauma.”
This impacted relationships, and many marriages did not survive such traumatic life changes.
Where grandchildren had landed on their grandparent’s doorstep with little warning, GRG could provide care packs, and direct support.
And after assessing needs its specialist advocates and support group coordinators guided and linked grandparents to their local group and provide tailored support for individual members.
GRG’s Specialist Advocates are based in Thames and Te Awamutu where they assist grandparents from all over the country. They helped grandparents navigate access to entitlements such as the unsupported child benefit, or to manage a legal process such as court orders, or access other community support. Court orders to counteract intimidating behaviour from estranged parents were at times a sad necessity. However, help could also be arranged to put boundaries around access.
Support group coordinators arranged regular meetings where
people came together to share stories and experiences. There were sometimes guest speakers.
“Peer support is a huge help for grandparents facing significant life challenges – it is uplifting to know there is light at the end of the tunnel, a way through, and that their mokopuna can thrive. The feedback is amazing, it means so much for people to know they are not the only ones in their situation.
“Membership is free and our needs are many, but we receive funding from some generous foundations and trusts and donors. We have a modest contract with Oranga Tamariki that helps too, but we are always in need of, and grateful for support.
GRG offered a core programme called Salt (Simply Acquired Learning Techniques) workshop that was free to members.
It helped them understand the psychology of trauma, how to manage challenging behaviour and to better care for themselves.
SALT workshops were planned for King Country area members in 2024/25.
A tough role with rewards
By Paul Charman
Moepātu Borell is the new coordinator of the Te Kūiti Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (GRG) group, having taken over from Kay Higgins, who resigned from the position two years ago.
Both know the relief of finding a group made up of older people facing similar challenges in caring for grandchildren following family breakdown.
Six-to-10 grandparents attend the group, though the women say many more are out there who could do so.
Without speaking too much of their own situations the women said for an older person suddenly raising grandchildren every day can be a struggle.
For Kay the biggest challenge initially was not being invited out by friends because she had children to look after.
“You become isolated as you have gone right back to those days when you had to stay home to look after children.”
The sense of isolation persisted when the children joined sports groups.
“I was the oldest member of the group and all of the younger mums would congregate together, and there you are (on your own). It’s very hard to join in with celebrations of this or that when others leave you out. It’s not all bad of course – there is joy in knowing you are helping that child become an adult. Accomplishing something the second time round can be very satisfying.”
Moepātu was pleased to be coordinator for the Te Kūiti district
having received so much help from the service.
“The ongoing feeling of isolation grand parents often experience when taking in their grandchildren is real. But it is often pushed to the back of the queue for the sake of immediate needs, such as child safety, food, clothing, bedding.
One grandparent who lived rurally recalled a national child service delivering their grandchildren to them in the middle of the night: no clothing, nappies nor formula for the baby.
It was left to the grandparents to find all necessary items when they could.
“The children often want to go home. Clearly, we grandparents want the children to go home to a safe and loving environment where the parents are still full of playful energy. But the positive development of that environment is totally up to the parents.”
GRG members were tired of people asking them what was needed to help their families reunite safely. Moepātu said the unanimous reply from the group, was: “we are merely the‚ picker-uppers - ask the parents”.
“Yet, even as ‘mere picker uppers’ and regardless of the improved life the children live, we are sometimes despised by our own. This perhaps for having accepted our grandchildren under Oranga Tamariki’s veiled threat that they will take the children elsewhere if we don’t take them immediately. Our urgent need for assurance of the safety of our grandchildren is what takes us to the courts for parenting orders. This action is sometimes the cause of
grandparents going into financial debt when previously they were mortgage free.”
“GRG provided useful legal advocacy and guidance on filing court documents. Our financial advisors are well versed in the ever-
changing WINZ policies concerning what a fulltime caregiver is entitled to, both financially and socially. We are ever grateful for the groups and organisations that we work alongside of and that support our cause in diverse ways.
“If you are a grandparent caring fulltime for your grandchild, I encourage you to register online as a member of GRG and give yourself a break; come to our local Te Kuiti meetings at Te Kuiti Community House, even if just for a chat.”
GRG chief executive Brad Clark
Te Kūiti GRG coordinator Moepātu Borell (right) and past coordinator Kay Higgins. Photo: Paul Charman
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Waiwera Street, Kawhia
A great opportunity to combine work with coastal living. This freehold property has a two bedroom owner/manager’s accommodation with open plan living and an office attached; seven cabins; three powered caravan sites; 4-5 unpowered tent sites; 29 permanent caravans on powered sites (individually owned); ablution block; 9x8 shed (2 bays and workshop). List of chattels and financials available to serious potential purchasers. Kawhia township has all the essential services covered and Otorohanga, Te Awamutu and Hamilton are approx one hour’s drive away through scenic country.
Piopio 26 Kea Street
Casserole comforts
Last week we were invited to a ‘pot-luck’ dinner. “Please bring a casserole.” I wondered if anyone else was going to provide a Tex-Mex casserole — beef and beans — but knew they probably wouldn’t add tamarillos as I did. However, it was a fundraising event and it was fun. Casseroles are perfect for sharing especially in winter. Long low-heat cooking mellows the flavours and enhances colour. And vegetable accompaniments can be baked at the same time if the casserole is oven-cooked.
Casseroles cooked on the hob were once differentiated by the old-fashioned name ‘stew’. It is best to employ a heavy, cast iron pot on the hob and use a low cooking temperature. The cast iron diffuses the heat and the ingredients cook more evenly. With thinner, lighter saucepans the ingredients often stick to the base providing an unwanted ‘barbecue’ flavour. There is much debate when making a casserole over whether to brown the meat and vegetables first before adding the liquid. I believe prior sautéing of the ingredients does improve the flavour but if time is scarce then the ‘all in together’ method is fine as long as the cooking temperature is kept low allowing for robust flavours to develop.
TEX-MEX BEEF
3 tablespoons olive oil
1kg stewing beef, cut into 3cm cubes
1 onion, sliced
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 tablespoon each: plain flour, black treacle
1 teaspoon each: ground cumin, chilli powder
3 large tamarillos, peeled and thickly sliced
400g can each: diced tomatoes, black beans (drained)
3/4 cup beef stock
Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Heat the oil in a heavy saucepan suitable for the oven. Brown the beef in batches and place aside.
Sauté the onion until softened then add the garlic. Return the meat to the saucepan. Stir in the flour. Add the remaining ingredients. Bring to a simmer then cover and place in the oven. Cook for 1 1/2 hours. Potatoes could be baked in the oven during the last 45 minutes of cooking.Great served topped with sour cream, corn chips and chopped spring onions. Serves 6.
66 On land (6)
RED WINE LAMB SHANKS
4 small lamb shanks
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 each: large carrot, onion (finely diced), bay leaf
1 teaspoon each: dried thyme, rosemary, oregano
3 cloves garlic, grated salt and pepper to taste
400g can diced tomatoes
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 cup good red wine
Preheat the oven to 160°C.
Trim the lamb shanks. Score the shanks as you would a ham, at about 2.5 cm intervals.
Heat the oil in a heavy pan suitable for the hob and oven. Brown the shanks on all sides. Remove to one side. Add the carrot and onion and sauté, until golden.
Return the shanks to the pan with the remaining ingredients. Cover and cook in the oven for about 2 hours, until very tender.
Add a little more red wine or water if the mixture gets too dry. Great served with polenta or mash. Serves 4.
HUNTER’S CASSEROLE
1kg lean pork steak
freshly ground black pepper to taste
2 tablespoons each: plain flour, olive oil
3 rashers bacon, chopped
1 large onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, crushed
4 tablespoons tomato paste
400g can diced tomatoes
1 teaspoon each: dried basil, oregano 1/2 cup each: red wine, water
Cut the steak into 3cm cubes. Season with the black pepper and dust with flour. Heat the oil in a large heavy saucepan. Sauté the pork in batches, until coloured. Remove from the pan and set aside.
Add the bacon to the pan and sauté, until cooked. Add to the pork. Sauté the onion and garlic gently, until softened. Add the remaining ingredients, mixing well.
Stir until boiling. Return the pork and bacon to the pan, cover and simmer gently for about 1 hour or until tender. Serves 6.
MONDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER 11.30AM 105 TAHAIA BUSH RD, OTOROHANGA
Comprising:
• 160 R2yr Jersey Bulls
- Bulls ideal for both Heifer & Cow matings
- Come forward in excellent condition
- Formed on hills, fit & active rearing to go - Double vaccinated & booster shot for BVD
Delivery options: Option 1
50kms transport subsidy if purchaser takes bulls day after sale date. Option 2
Free grazing until 20th October, nominated delivery days (every Monday & Thursday) until 20th October, pick your delivery date.
Great opportunity to purchase quality Jersey Bulls for Herd & Heifers.
Tiroa Station is a 3200-ha effective property situated near Benneydale, 35 minutes from Te Kūiti and part of the Tiroa Te Hape group of farms covering 7500ha effective. The station winters 32,000 stock units made up of a high-performing breeding ewe flock and breeding cow herd.
SHEPHERD
The successful applicant would require 4-5 good working dogs, have a broad skill base and have had experience with finishing both lambs and cattle. You will need to have excellent stockmanship, an eye for detail, clear written and oral communication, be able to take responsibility, have a ‘can do’ attitude, be able to adhere to farm Health & Safety policies, and be able to work both independently and in a team environment.
This position comes with competitive remuneration, a great work environment and good housing. Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa and will be required to have a clear pre-employment drug test.
PGG Wrightson’s offers Defer-a-bull to help our clients manage their cashflow while purchasing their bulls.
Get in contact today to find out more.
Enquiries:
Shay Egan 027 473 5856 Dean Evans 027 243 1092
For further information please contact Wayne Fraser 07 8784815, or email your CV to sharon@tiroatehape.maori.nz
Applications close Friday, September 20, 2024
PHOTO COMPETITION COMING SOON
Calling all budding and experienced artists Theme of the competition Unseen Te KūitiShine a light on unseen Te Kūiti. Competition runs from September 1, 2024 - 11.59pm October 31, 2024
Two entry categories: Student 17 years of age or under Open 18 years of age or over Main prize - the winning photo from each category will be enlarged onto boards and used to beautify empty shop windows.
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In accordance with the Tenth Schedule of the Local Government Act 1974, notice is hereby given that the Ōtorohanga District Council, for the purpose of holding the Elevate Ōtorohanga Christmas Parade 2024 proposes to close the following road to ordinary vehicular traffic for the period indicated hereunder:
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2024
The following roads will be affected by either full closure or restricted access:
Maniapoto Street, from Te Kanawa Street to Ranfurly Street, Tūrongo Street (from Kakamutu Road to Balance Street), Pine Street, Wahanui Crescent, Whittington Lane and Cowley Lane.
Period of Closures:5 pm to 8pm
There will not be any detour in place.
Access for emergency vehicles will be allowed in the event of an emergency.
Pursuant to the Transport (Vehicular Traffic Road Closure) Regulations 1965, any person objecting to the proposal is called upon to lodge notice of their objection and grounds thereof in writing before 4pm Thursday, September 19, 2024 at the offices of the Ōtorohanga District Council, 17 Maniapoto Street, Ōtorohanga, or by contacting Andrea at andrea@otodc.govt. nz
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Proposal for temporary closure of road/street to ordinary vehicular traffic
PURSUANT to the Transport (Vehicular Traffic Road Closure) Regulations 1974, notice is hereby given that the Waitomo District Council, for the purpose of the Targa Car Club Rally 2024 proposes to temporarily close the following roads/streets to ordinary vehicular traffic for the periods indicated:
Date: 25–26 October 2024
Period of Closure: As indicated at each stage section below: Streets/Roads:
STAGE NAME SS1 – Haurua-Waitomo Valley Road: 8am–12noon Friday 25 October 2024
- On Haurua Road, 250mtrs from its intersection with Waitomo Caves Road
- Past Waihohonu Road (no exit)
- Left into Waitomo Valley Road
- On Waitomo Valley Road, at the one-way bridge by Woodlyn Park
STAGE NAME SS3 & SS6 – Kawhia Harbour Road: 9.55am–5.55pm Friday 25 October 2024
- Start: On Kawhia Harbour Road 350mtrs from its intersection with Kawhia Road (SH31)
- Past Te Kauri Road (no exit)
- Past Berntsen Road (no exit)
- Past Kihi Road (no exit)
- Past Hauturu Road
- Past Rakaunui Road (no exit)
- Past Whenuaapo Road (no exit)
- Past Owhiro Road (no exit) and Waipuna Road (no exit)
- Past Waitaumanu Way (no exit)
- Past Kowhainui Road (no exit)
- Past Willow Point Road (no exit)
- Past Brown Road (no exit)
- Left into Te Waitere Road
- Left into Taharoa Road
- Past Taumatatotara West Road (no exit)
- Past Taumatatotara East Road (no exit) (no exit)
- Finish: On Taharoa Road 350mtrs from its intersection Marokopa Road and Te Anga Road
STAGE NAME SS4 & SS7 – Te Anga Road: 10.45am–6.45pm Friday 25 October 2024
- Start: On Te Anga Road 350mtrs from its intersection with Taharoa Road & Marokopa Road
- Past Speedies Road (no exit)
- Past Marae Road (no exit)
- Past Appletree Road (no exit)
- Past Kokakoroa Road (no exit)
- Past Waipuna Road
- Past Hauturu Road
- Past Ngatapuwae Road (no exit)
- Finish: On Te Anga Road 350mtrs from its intersection with Tumutumu Road
STAGE NAME SS8 – Rangitoto-Barber Road: 8.10am-12.10am Saturday 26 October 2024
- Start: On Rangitoto Road 150mtrs past Number 87 –
- Te Kūiti Meat Processors
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- Past Tate Road (no exit)
- Past Ahoroa Road
- Past Ngapeke Road
- Past Pururu East Road (no exit) and Pururu West Road (no exit)
- Past Thompson Road (no exit)
- Right into Barber Road
- Finish: On Barber Road with its intersection with Otewa Road
Note: To assist with the stage security, the closure is also to include 300 metres of each adjoining road, from where it intersects with this road closure being applied for.
Any person objecting to the proposal is called upon to lodge notice of objection and grounds thereof in writing, before 18 September 2024 at the office of Waitomo District Council 15 Queen Street, Te Kūiti
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PROPOSAL TO CLOSE ROAD TO VEHICULAR TRAFFIC Elevate Ōtorohanga Christmas Parade 2024 ŌTOROHANGA
Meetings
Rangitoto Tuhua 33C3B1F2
Farm Block Trust
Date: Saturday, September 28, 2024
Venue: Board Room, Te Kūiti Community Trust House, Level 1, 28 Taupiri St, Te Kūiti 10.30am start
Agenda
1. Receive AGM Updates
2. Election of three new trustees
Enquiries: Lorraine Anderson, Chairperson
Email: andersonlorraine@xtra.co.nz
Mob: 021 137 6208
Wiari Green Ahu Whenua Trust AGM
Date: September 29, 2024
Time: 11am
Venue: Te Kūiti Bowling Club, Tammadge Street, Te Kūiti
AGENDA: Opening karakia
Previous minutes
Matters arising
Chairman’s report Treasurer’s report General business
Resignation & election of new trustees Review of trust deed Closing karakia
Afternoon lunch provided
Enquiries
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Public Notice
ADVERTISEMENT OF RATING SALE
In the High Court of New Zealand
Hamilton Registry
ROHE NO. CIV-2022-419-051
In the matter of the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002
Between Waitomo District Council Local Authority And: Richmond Edward Chase The Owner
Sale of freehold property under Local Government (Rating) Act 2002; property situated at 77 Ellis Road, Maniaiti/ Benneydale
At the request of the Waitomo District Council in the exercise of a power of sale under the provisions of the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 for the non-payment of rates, the Registrar of the High Court at Hamilton (the Vendor) offers for sale by tender the freehold property situated at 77 Ellis Road, Maniaiti/ Benneydale, being described as Lot 19 Deposited Plan 7726 being the land comprised in Certificate of Title TN212/93. 77 Ellis Road, Maniaiti/Benneydale is a bare block of land that may contain a small usable shed.
Tenders close at 5:00pm on Friday, 11 October 2024 and are to be submitted to Tauranga High Court, McLean House, 26 McLean Street, Tauranga or posted to The Registrar, High Court, DX HX11034, Tauranga.
Please note that a reserve price may apply.
Particulars and Conditions of Sale
Particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained from the office of the Registrar of the High Court at Tauranga where the contact is stephen.hewlett@justice.govt.nz at any time during office hours, or from Debt Management Central, DX PA84005, Feilding or email dmc@mw.org.nz
Dated at Tauranga this 26th day of August 2024
Stephen Hewlett
Registrar / Deputy Registrar High Court of New Zealand
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Meetings
Kahuwera B2B7A2B2 AGM
Saturday, September 21, 2024 at 11am at Napinapi Marae 57 Napinapi Rd, Te Mapara, Piopio
NB proxy forms available via secretary and must be received before the hui starts. For further details please contact the secretary, Anna Roore ph 027 282 7369 or email annasonny123@yahoo.com
All beneficiaries are urged to attend
Kahuwera B2B7A2B1 Ahu Whenua Trust AGM - 2023/2024
- Matters arising from minutes - Presentation of financial reports for 2023 & 2024
- Matters arising -Dividend payout
- Chairmans report
- Karakia whakamutunga
ADVERTISEMENT OF RATING SALE
In the High Court of New Zealand Hamilton Registry ROHE NO. CIV-2022-419-050
In the matter of the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 Between Waitomo District Council Local Authority
And: Kiley Ian Robert Whatarangi, Eric Van Crown, Marsha Wana te Rongomau
The Owners
Sale of freehold property under Local Government (Rating) Act 2002; property situated at 14 School Road, Maniaiti/ Benneydale.
At the request of the Waitomo District Council in the exercise of a power of sale under the provisions of the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 for the non-payment of rates, the Registrar of the High Court at Hamilton (the Vendor) offers for sale by tender the freehold property situated at 14 School Road, Maniaiti/ Benneydale, being described as Section 69 Block X Mapara Survey District being the land comprised in Certificate of Title TNG1/8.
14 School Road Maniaiti/Benneydale is a flat section containing a cottage in need of major renovation.
Tenders close at 5:00pm on Friday, 11 October 2024 and are to be submitted to Tauranga High Court, McLean House, 26 McLean Street, Tauranga or posted to The Registrar, High Court, DX HX11034, Tauranga.
Please note that a reserve price may apply.
Particulars and Conditions of Sale
Particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained from the office of the Registrar of the High Court at Tauranga where the contact is stephen hewlett@justice.govt.nz at any time during office hours, or from Debt Management Central, DX PA84005, Feilding or email dmc@mw.org.nz
Dated at Tauranga this 26th day of August 2024
Details of upcoming meetings can be found at www.otodc.govt.nz/ about-council/meetings
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Public Notices
ADVERTISEMENT OF RATING SALE
In the High Court of New Zealand
Hamilton Registry
ROHE NO. CIV-2016-419-199
In the matter of the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002
Between Waitomo District Council
Local Authority
And: Josephine Taku-Aroha Panapa, Lorraine Raiha Rakei, Nan Tamaiwhaho
Alice Hanna Turner, The Owners
Sale of freehold property under Local Government (Rating) Act 2002; property situated at 21 Georgetti Street, Benneydale
At the request of the Waitomo District Council in the exercise of a power of sale under the provisions of the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 for the non-payment of rates, the Registrar of the High Court at Hamilton (the Vendor) offers for sale by tender the freehold property situated at 21 Georgetti Street, Benneydale, being described as Section 106 Block X Mapara Survey District being the land comprised in Certificate of Title TNJ2/1052. 21 Georgetti Street, Maniaiti / Benneydale, Te Kuiti is a Residential property built in 1942 with 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and 1 parking space.
Tenders close at 5:00pm on Friday, 27 September 2024 and are to be submitted to Tauranga High Court, McLean House, 26 McLean Street, Tauranga or posted to The Registrar, High Court, DX HX11034, Tauranga.
Please note that a reserve price may apply.
Particulars and Conditions of Sale
Particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained from the office of the Registrar of the High Court at Tauranga where the contact is stephen hewlett@justice.govt. nz at any time during office hours, or from Debt Management Central, DX PA84005, Feilding or email dmc@mw.org.nz
Dated at Tauranga this 30th day of July 2024
Stephen Hewlett Registrar / Deputy Registrar High Court of New Zealand
Stephen Hewlett Registrar / Deputy Registrar High Court of New Zealand
Public Notice
Meetings
This Saturday, September 7 8am-12 noon
Carpark 85 Esplanade, Te Kūiti
$10 per space - Sellers and buyers welcome
Please phone to book a Stall 021 201 0355 / 027 243 6312
SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING
PUKEROA A50 HANGATIKI
To elect trustees to re establish the Trust General Business
Sunday, September 22 10am Te Korapatu
For all enquiries Michael Kawerau Ph 028 403 1527
Ōtorohanga Outdoor Bowling Club Opening Day
Saturday, September 7 at 9.30 am 52 Te Kawa Street, Ōtorohanga
All new Bowlers welcome Enquiries David 021 1363 455
DAFFODIL DAY APPEAL
A legendary thank you to our community for the fantastic support of this year’s Daffodil Day Appeal.
To the collectors, bakers, those who donated raffles, daffodils, manned the stalls and everyone who made a cash donation, we appreciate your kindness and generosity. Collectively $5493.70 was raised for the Cancer Society. An incredible result! Raffle Results:
Daffodil Bear: # 63 Irene Straker
$100 New World voucher: #77 T. O’Keeffe Garden Hamper: #89 Heather Templeton Kitchen Hamper: #55 Shelley Mitchell
New World Hampers 3 draws: #67 Sue Sands, #75 Rosie, #67 Tanya Williams. Drawn under police supervision
POTTER, Bill: 15/7/29 - 29/8/24. Passed away peacefully at Hillview Resthome, Te Kūiti, aged 95 years, surrounded by his family and his Hillview family for the last six years.
Dearly loved husband of Julie for 65 years. Much loved father and fatherin-law of Alan and Sasa Potter, Neil and Helen Potter, Suzie and Warrick Denize.
Proud grandad of Peter and Matthew Denize, Alex, Sian and Sam Potter. ‘Time to walk in greener pastures’ A private cremation has taken place and a memorial service will follow at a date to be advised. In lieu of flowers, Bill requested donations to Hillview. All communications to Potter Family C/- PO Box 241, Te Kūiti 3941. VJ Williams & Sons, Funeral Directors Association of NZ
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Centre, 5 Tuhoro St, Otorohanga 07 873 8890 I 027 493 0117 • harvest.pc@xtra.co.nz Pastors Peter & Carole Coventry (An Assemblies of God Church)
Faith is a muscle that grows by stretching (Nicky Gumbel)
Millar, Bonnie: A loving mum and nan who passed 39 years ago yesterday.
Memories are like Threads of gold
They never tarnish Or grow old
Forever missed by Kathryn and family
COLEY, Glenys Helen: Peacefully at Waikato Hospital on Monday, September 2, 2024, surrounded by her loving family. Loved wife of Trevor for 57 years. Adored mother of Phillip, Roger, Bevin, Kelvin and their families. A loving grandma to all her grandchildren. A celebration of Glenys’ life will be held at St David’s Presbyterian Church, Ōtorohanga on Tuesday, September 10 at 11am followed by private cremation. All communications to Coley Family C/- PO Box 241, Te Kuiti 3941. VJ Williams & Sons, Funeral Directors Association of NZ.
DEMPSEY Colin Ross: Peacefully at Te Kūiti Hospital on Tuesday, 27th August 27, 2024, surrounded by his loving family. Aged 79 years. Dearly loved husband of Margaret for 57 years. Loved and cherished father of Helen (deceased), Ross, and Isla. Much adored pop to his many grandchildren and great grandchildren. A celebration of Colin’s life has been held, followed by a private cremation. All communications to Dempsey Family C/- PO Box 241, Te Kuiti 3941. In the care of VJ Williams & Sons, Funeral Directors Association of NZ
MORRISON, Dorothy Jill (Jill): (nee Sutcliffe). At Waikato Hospital on Tuesday, August 27, 2024.
Dearly loved wife of Bryan; mother of Peter and Carolyn, David and Trish, Kimberley and Michael, and Janine; grandmother of Alice and Mark, Nicholas, Hayley and Lachlan, Belinda, Matthew, Andrew and Samuel; great grandmother of Pypah, Harper, Sophie, Olivia, Isla, Rose, Finn, Bethany, Peter and Charlie. A private service has been held to celebrate and give thanks for Jill’s life. “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Philippians 1.21). All correspondence to The Morrison family, C/PO Box 276, Hamilton 3240 or leave a tribute at www.hamiltonfuneralhome.co.nz
