‘Half bits’ and sirens
By Viv Posselt
Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan’s quip that volunteer firefighters should be commended “for all the half-bits you do” couldn’t have been better timed last weekend.
Speaking at the Cambridge Fire Brigade’s annual honours evening, she thanked the crew for “all the half-drunk cups of tea and half-finished dinners” left in the wake of their swift response to the local fire siren.
“It doesn’t go un-noticed, and we thank you,” she told
guests, little more than an hour after three callouts had prompted many of the assembled firefighters to abandon their meal and shoot off into the darkness.
Those three callouts proved minor, but O’Regan’s later comment underscored their ready commitment to serve.
The annual awards evening celebrates the progress made by firefighters, honours their milestones and acknowledges the support of
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Who are they?
Police investigating a burglary at a supermarket are asking Cambridge News readers to help identify these five people caught on CCTV camera
About 3.40am on September 30 the five arrived at the Fresh Choice supermarket on Cambridge Road in a Mazda Demio which had been stolen earlier from nearby Victoria St.
They smashed a window to get into the store, and in doing so activated a fog cannon. They then fled in the same car, found in Abergeldie Way later that morning.
Police believe the five are from the Cambridge area and are appealing to the community to report any information which could help identify them.
One was wearing a twotone jacket with a small grey crossbody bag. Another was wearing a grey baseball hat, red hoodie under a black jacket and sunglasses. Another wore a black Nike vest over a black and grey Adidas hooded sweatshirt and black New Balance trackpants.
If you can help, contact Cambridge Police.
Senior station officer Richie Gerrand, centre, receiving a gold bar marking more than 25 years’ service. He is pictured with chief fire officer Dennis Hunt and Taupō MP Louise Upston.
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their families and employers.
Chief fire officer Dennis Hunt said both the brigade and the number of calls they attend continue to grow.
“Reports issues recently by Fire and Emergency show that Cambridge is the eighth busiest volunteer station in New Zealand,” he said.
“For the year ended June 30, we had attended 359 calls. What is frustrating for us is that 37 per cent of these are false alarms relating to businesses’ private fire alarms.”
He said Cambridge had a higher number of call-outs to motor vehicle crashes compared with most other volunteer brigades. Although the installation of median barriers along parts of State Highway One have reduced the number of serious head-on crashes, the brigade still attends a high number of incidents with single car accidents more the norm.
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Hunt also thanked employers, local businesses and charitable associations for their continued support. He preceded the presentation of awards by outlining the stepped process firefighters take to achieve the various honours and said only two of their number – the late chief fire officer Don Gerrand (53 years) and the late deputy chief fire officer Winston Steen (56 years) – had reached their 50-year mark with the brigade.
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Also attending Saturday’s event was Taupō MP Louise Upston and deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk, and Alan Doherty, Fire and Emergency NZ Waikato regional manager.
Speaking before presenting the final two awards, Upston thanked the firefighters for the contribution they make to the local community “every day, every month, every year”.
“It is important to acknowledge the many people and organisations who make this station the great one that it is.”
She presented a 14-year Long Service and Good Conduct medal to station officer Leon Vincent – a medal given on behalf of the New Zealand Government. Upston also presented a gold bar to senior station officer Richie Gerrand for his 25 years’ service.
Other awards went to Mark Oliver (threeyear certificate); five-year service medals to Dion Williams, Kase Gerrand and Ethan Mckee; and two-year silver bars to Henry Whittaker (7 years), Peter Crawford (13 years), Leon Vincent (15 years), Richard Crease and deputy chief fire officer Glenn Philip (both 17 years), and Peter Wright (19 years).
Also at the ceremony were past members, life members and representatives from the police and St John.
More parking
A switch from parallel to angle parking will add a handful of ‘long stay’ parks to the centre of Cambridge. The change will be made on the south side of Kirkwood Street where the existing 13 parallel parks will become 20 angle parks.
Reserves call
Community input is being sought to help shape the management of four iwi-owned reserves in Waipā. The four reserves are under the administration of Ngā Pae Whenua, a joint management body made up of iwi representatives from Ngāti Koroki Kahukura and members of Waipā District Council. The reserves were part of the Ngāti Koroki Kahukura Treaty settlement with the Crown.
Matters outstanding
Seven necessary, one urgent and one beneficial management actions remaining outstanding from past Waipā District Council annual reports, staff told the Audit and Risk committee. The urgent item is from 2022/23 and relates to ensuring frequent checks are made to the council’s fixed asset register. Staff said it would require a full system redesign across various functions.
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In good news for the week, we have made a great catch with the apprehension of four youths who were responsible for attempting to take motor vehicles.
All are now going through the Youth Aid process and being held to account. Investigations into the other car crime that has recently occurred, are ongoing.
This week I want to go back to the topic of Family Harm. In New Zealand it is estimated that only 33 per cent of family harm incidents are reported and research suggests as much as one in two New Zealand women have experienced intimate partner violence, when psychological abuse is included. Indications are that where a man is the victim of family harm, it may be as low as 10 per cent of incidents that are reported.
In so many such incidents, children witness the harm in the home. Children who are in bed or in a different room at the time of an argument or assault, are equally affected and may feel conflicted emotionally about what they are experiencing. We know that when a child appears unaffected following an incident at home, it suggests that the abuse happens often enough for it to have become normalised in their lives. I feel as a community we each have an obligation to speak out to stop or prevent harm when we believe it is occurring.
This is particularly true when we are talking about protecting our most vulnerable, the young and elderly.
If you know family harm is occurring in your neighbourhood or extended family, please let the right people know. Where there is immediate or likely danger, call 111 at the time. If you have concerns for the general wellbeing of a child, you may also make a report to Oranga Tamariki.
You can remain anonymous if necessary, however if you feel able to provide your contact details, the information you give can then be verified and further detail obtained if required. The outcome of a police visit following a family harm call out depends on what has happened and the offences that may have been identified. At the very least, a full report is submitted for review by the Integrated Safety Response panel. This group - composed of key government and non-government agency representativesensures appropriate follow-up and safety planning can be carried out. With family harm known to only escalate over time without intervention, the risk of serious physical and psychological harm is real where it continues to go unreported. We all deserve to feel safe in our relationships.
Waipā District Council is still awaiting a response from the Ombudsman regarding a Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act complaint made by The News seven months ago, Internal Assurance advisor Janice Downard told the council’s Audit and Risk committee this week. A case manager from the Ombudsman’s office has been assigned but the workload is “very stretched.”
The heritage protected National Hotel in Cambridge, built in 1912, is having a facelift. Owner Jonny Schick says the hotel will remain open for business while the work goes on and the building’s character will be protected.
Legal proceedings
A Kihikihi ratepayer is seeking more than $2.5 million in damages, interest and costs from Waipā District Council dating back to 2001 when the council completed stormwater system work in the town. The action before the High Court in Hamilton says council has been negligent, in relation to a private drain on the plaintiffs’ property.
Numbers good
Passenger numbers on the Cambridge regional bus service to and from Hamilton have hit five figures for the fourth time in three years. A total of 11,462 people caught the service last month, down 2269 on the record 13,371 in August and 126 caught the Tokoroa Connector in Cambridge.
Report delayed
For the second consecutive year, Waipā’s annual report has been delayed by Audit New Zealand. It was to have been presented to the Audit and Risk committee this week but will now go to a meeting later this month.
Charter school: the next step
By Mary Anne Gill
The application for a Cambridge charter school has passed the first stage and the applicants will now be assessed for their operational fitness and capability.
Ray and Maxine Nelson, who have owned and run Ignite Arts Academy in Cambridge for 13 years, worked with education consultant and former principal Alwyn Poole on their application.
They hope to open one of 15 new charter schools after $153 million was approved in this year’s Budget for charter schools over the next four years. Thirty five state schools will also be converted.
A charter school is a statefunded school that operates on a 10-year contract and can set its own curricula, hours and governance structures.
“We have received a significant amount of feedback from Cambridge families regarding the lack of middle school and early high school options for their children and [who] have voiced their support for a schooling option that would cater for children needing to have a different approach to their education,” said Maxine Nelson.
The couple are also receiving teacher applications and are calling for letters of support from the community.
In their application, the Nelsons said Ignite Academy had recently been approved as a charitable trust and it was within that they would run the charter school.
The school would be called Ignite Arts Academy and be a year seven to 10 composite school with 90 students next year rising to 120 in 2026.
“Our firm belief is that every person is creative at their core and that adding that to high quality academic development young people
have an opportunity for a fulfilling and contributing life,” the application said.
“We desire to nurture and grow confident, self-aware students that will be an asset to any learning/work environment they choose to be a part of.”
The school would have an academic morning and an arts and activities afternoon. Class sizes would be 15:1.
Associate Education minister David Seymour last month said half of the 78 applications received were unlikely to proceed.
The Nelsons need to get their stage two application through by the end of the month.
From Leeds to a leader
By Steph Bell-Jenkins
When he was 14, Scott Bult was invited to trial for Leeds United.
“But dad wouldn’t let me go,” said the 51-year-old, who lived in Auckland until moving to Cambridge with his family about seven years ago.
“He wanted me to finish my education first and then go abroad. I regret it every single day.”
Bult spent most of his playing years with Waitakere City winning two Chatham Cups and the national men’s league in a team “full of All Whites” in the mid-1990s.
Today, the emergency management advisor for Waikato District Council is head women’s coach at Cambridge Football Club.
Bult’s team won WaiBop Football’s W-League this season and will play in the Northern League next season.
Achieving equality within the club environment is a passion for Bult, whose daughter Olivia, 17, is in the team.
“The equality with the women’s game compared to the men’s game has to be clear and precise,” he said.
“If the men play on the first team pitch, then the women play on the first team’s pitch; the facilities cater for the females as well.
Female footballers get what the men would get… there’s no reason a women’s first
team should get a handmedown men’s strip.
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“I’m very staunch on equality, and it’s caused me a few headaches over the years, but I don’t back down. It all stems back to the fact I want the same for my daughter as for my son.”
Bult got into coaching through son Jacob, now 21, and switched to coaching girls when Olivia was 10.
Since then he’s learnt a lot about what makes female footballers tick.
“Boys… you can have a harsh discussion with them and demand things, but with females, it’s a different approach,” he said. “I try and get them to find their own solutions to a problem with a little bit of guidance, so they have ownership of it, whereas with boys you can say here’s the problem here’s how to solve it.”
It’s an approach reaping outstanding results: Bult achieved a second league win this season coaching Olivia’s premier Sacred Heart Girls’ College team. Cambridge might be a far cry from Leeds United, but the dedicated dad has found his happy place.
• A goal for young footballers, see page 18.
Shock find - a wall of golden clams
By Mary Anne Gill
The removal of an old collapsed retaining wall at Lake Karāpiro last month revealed tyres full of golden clams.
A landscaping and construction company was to replace the wall with a new sandbag wall during the lake’s annual lowering. Workers contacted Biosecurity NZ for advice
when they found the clams and the government agency gave permission for the tyres to be moved off site to dry before recycled.
The tyres had to be cleaned on site first with silt removed and the trucks used to transport the tyres lined to prevent water leakage while enroute to the depot.
Community groups with wash stations allocated by Biosecurity New Zealand
made them available to wash the tyres before they were loaded onto a truck for removal.
The Lake Karāpiro Check Clean Dry team have had a busy start supporting the North Island and national masters rowing events.
Leading the team this season is Janette Douglas of Cambridge.
“I look forward to leading the on-the-ground work to
support what Biosecurity New Zealand does at the national level, over the coming season.
“For me, it’s just as important that our lake users understand the ‘why’ as the ‘how’ of the Check Clean Dry message.”
The gold clams are prolific breeders – up to 400 every day. They were found at the Bob’s Landing area of the Waikato River near Lake
Karāpiro in early May 2023 and identified as corbicula fluminea.
Since then, clams have been confirmed in the river from Lake Maraetai Landing to Tūākau.
Niwa will be funded $10.2 million over five years to improve understanding of Corbicula fluminea. The aim is to come up with solutions to control the clams.
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Corbicula fluminea are small, invasive clams which pose an environmental threat.
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Record year for Op-shop
By Viv Posselt
Cambridge’s Jumble Around op-shop is distributing a record $200,000 to 106 non-profit organisations and clubs in the community.
The funds were raised at the Leamington-based outlet which is manned entirely by volunteers.
Jumble Around president Marianne Jarvie said last week: “We feel very proud to have achieved this… and we’re especially grateful to the 40 volunteers who keep our shop ticking over. One hundred percent of our profits go back into our community, plus a few regional groups that include Cambridge.
“Some of our larger recipients this year were Cambridge Community House, the Cambridge Menzshed, Cambridge St John, Interlock Trust, Kiwi Outreach, Riding for the Disabled … we also support schools, clubs, kindergartens support groups, and many more.”
Jumble Around started in 1968 in the old Leamington Hall, set up initially to help support the construction of Cambridge Resthaven. Once that was built, it was decided the venture should
continue to raise funds for wider community benefit.
As Cambridge’s population and need have both grown, so Jumble Around has risen to the occasion, returning well over $1 million to the community.
“Many organisations and smaller groups can continue to operate because of our grants,” said Jarvie.
“In turn, many of the donations we receive come from people who have benefited from our grants.”
The Cambridge Menzshed applied to the Jumble Around funding round for the first time this year and received $12,000. Their membership is restoring a former dairy factory on the corner of Lamb and Carlyle streets,
readying it for use as a well-equipped community Menzshed.
Menzshed committee member Barry Harding was delighted with the windfall, and said the group was extremely grateful for the grant.
“It will help tremendously,” he said. “The community has been wonderful in the support it is giving to us.”
Long term recipients of Jumble Around funding, Cambridge Community House, also signalled their appreciation at the op-shop last week – they received $15,000 this year.
General manager Gabby Byrne said Jumble Around’s support, not only in terms of funding but
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also in kind when meeting whānau needs, was invaluable.
“Jumble Around recognise that we operate with limited government funding to meet community needs that continue to grow,” Byrne said. “We rely heavily on community support, and Jumble Around is a huge supporter of ours, particularly on the whānau support aspect. We are very grateful.”
Another sizeable chunk this year went to the Philips Search & Rescue Trust. They received $18,000.
“That is for all of us,” said Jarvie. “None of us knows when we might need their services.”
Meeting over Kennedy case
By Chris Gardner
NZ Post chief operating officer Brendon Main has agreed to meet ProDrive chief executive Peter Gallagher to discuss the long-running case of Waipā posties Ian and Danny Kennedy.
The couple were contracted by NZ Post to sort, process, uplift and deliver “all mail and other items for delivery” for the Tamahere RD3 rural post run from April 1, 2019.
They invested $500,000 into the business which ran six vans with five staff. Their contract was cancelled on November 10, 2023, after they asked why other contractors were sorting, processing, uplifting, and delivering mail in the district.
Main agreed to the meeting after deputy leader of the House Simeon Brown declined Gallagher’s call for a ministerial inquiry into the case. The case is heading to court.
‘Courage’ acknowledged
The conviction of a former teacher has prompted a statement from St Peter’s Cambridge recognising the “courage of alumni witnesses”.
Geoffrey Coker, Director of Music at St Peter’s School Cambridge from 1974 to 1976, was found guilty last week of historic sex offences.
“Our School Trust Board wishes to acknowledge these alumni survivors for their willingness to speak out about their deeply personal experiences of abuse,” chair John Macaskill-Smith said.
“The witnesses were crucial in ensuring that justice was served in this case.”
The trial against the former staff member came
about following the school’s acknowledgement and apology in November 2021 to alumni survivors of historical abuse. At that time, the board said the school failed to protect alumni survivors from abuse occurring, and for that it was profoundly sorry.
A listening service was set up and is still active.
Macaskill-Smith said it was likely the conviction of Coker could prompt other St Peter’s alumni to want to report their experiences of historical abuse to police.
“The board pledges that the school will continue to fully cooperate with police on any future investigations into historical abuses that may arise.”
Marianne Jarvie, second from right, with Gabby Byrne, Barry Harding and wife Dot and volunteer Jane Bell.
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Mayoral awards presented
Three Waikato district residents in The News circulation area were presented with Mayoral Community awards by mayor Jacqui Church last week.
Lockie Verner of Tauwhare, Jane Manson of Tamahere and Ian Wallace of Matangi were among 23 people from around the district to be acknowledged.
“Despite all the pressures we face in our own lives here in New Zealand, it’s occasions like this that serve as a reminder of how lucky we are to be living in our wonderful district here in New Zealand,” said Church.
“With that in mind, the value of community spirit has perhaps never been higher.”
Verner has been involved with the Tauwhare Hall committee and community committee for many years. As committees have come and gone, he has been a steady presence and has chaired the hall committee. He has put in volunteer hours drawing on his building experience and a wide skillset to do repairs, maintenance and upgrades.
Verner’s dedication was a key factor in completing the Tauwhare sculpture project this year after it was first mooted by the community committee more than seven years ago.
He sourced materials, dealt with the permits and built it to artist Marti Wong’s design.
“This project will be my ultimate legacy which says, I did
this and I was here,” said Verner.
Jane Manson is a member of the St Stephens Tamahere Anglican Church and was the initiator and foundation convener of the Tamahere Country Market established in October 2004.
Profits go to the church and Anglican Action Mahi Mihinare
Charitable Trust. She has been a member of the Tamahere Community Committee since 2017 and is also a member of the TamahereWoodlands Heritage Committee. Ian Wallace retires as chair of the Matangi Hall this year after 15 years. He has also served as a
member of the Matangi Community Committee, and he is still a member of the Matangi Drainage Board – one of the last volunteer drainage boards left in the district.
Wallace leaves the hall in very good condition - with a new roof - and with a steady number of bookings.
School awards
By Viv Posselt
Twenty-four school students were recognised last month in this year’s Town and Country Literacy Awards run by Altrusa International of Cambridge.
The students – two each from 24 primary or intermediate schools –were each awarded a bookmark and a voucher. They were nominated by their schools for having demonstrated an exceptional effort to be the best reader they can be.
The club’s Town and Country Literacy Awards – so-named because they extend to cover schools outside the immediate town area – began in 1992.
They are run each year to coincide with International Literacy Day on September 8, a day declared by UNESCO in 1966 and marked for the first time in 1967 to highlight the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies.
The recipient schools for the Altrusa International of Cambridge Town and Country Literacy Awards this year were Cambridge Primary, St Peter’s Catholic, Kaipaki, Goodwood, Karāpiro, Cambridge Middle, Cambridge East, Te Miro, Hautapu, Roto-o-Rangi, Leamington and Horahora schools.
A senior school-level award – the Altrusa International of Cambridge Literacy Award – will be presented to a Cambridge High School student at the end of this month.
From left, Charles Fletcher Tamahere Community Committee chair, Cr Crystal Beavis, Cr Mike Keir, Lockie Verner, mayor Jacqui Church.
Realising a vision
By Mary Anne Gill
The success of a maraebased health clinic at Mangatoatoa Pā, just inside the King Country boundary near the banks of the Pūniu River, shows the power of collaboration.
And if you are looking for visual proof, the makeshift waiting room, outside the three consultation portacoms, with its ‘always on the boil’ water urn, outdoor heater, snacks and health professionals readily at hand, provides that.
Marae committee co-chair Derek Roberts describes the past two years setting up and then maintaining the clinic as hectic with support from Te Awamutu Medical Centre, Pinnacle Group and Tainui essential to its success.
“They’ve maintained the interest right from day one. By working in partnership, you can make that vision happen.
“Pinnacle have been the enablers. They’ve enabled us to do what we want to do for our whānau,” he says.
The Wednesday we visit both clinical care coordinators – Jenny Sutton from Mahoe Medical and Whitney Te Wano from Te Awamutu Medical – are on hand as is Mahoe GP Shivam Deo. When the clinic started in 2022 it was held fortnightly. Last year Mahoe came on board, and it became weekly.
The marae is nine kilometres from Te Awamutu on Te Mawhai Road, off SH3. Its primary hapū are Parewaeono, Ngutu and Paretekawa of Ngāti Maniapoto. A portrait of Rewi Maniapoto - hangs in the wharenui Te Maru o Ihowa, built 10 years ago next to Te Aroha o Ihoa, the original 1908 wharenui.
Te Awamutu Medical Centre general manager Wayne Lim says providing free community health services for Māori away from the practice and in marae had always appealed to him as a model that would work.
The marae committee was keen and with assistance from Raukawa Charitable Trust, Te Awamutu Medical Centre funded a three-month trial that established the service at Mangatoatoa Pā. The initiative notched up a gear in October 2022 when Waikato-Tainui and Pinnacle saw how the Te Whare Tapa Whā centric model of care - that encompasses western and traditional Māori practices – was working. Both committed funds to keep it going – Tainui money for the facilities and patient procedures, Pinnacle for the cost of clinical delivery.
Mahoe came on board in January and the clinic’s
free services have been fully subscribed every week since providing GP, diabetes nurse and pharmacist consults, cervical screening and prescriptions.
Roberts hope they will soon be able to add immunisations for tamariki.
Lim says word is spreading across the affiliated network and as the clinic becomes more popular the nurses and GPs have been receiving an increasing number of drop-in patients as well as the patients who have made scheduled appointments.
Pūniu River Care – an iwi-connected environmental restoration organisation – has its nursery next door.
The nursery approached the marae several years ago wanting funds for their first irrigation and has since grown into what it is today, says Roberts.
Another funding boost from Tainui has resulted in wooden planters being installed to grow vegetables for visitors and patients.
Some whānau had stopped going to the GPs in Te Awamutu because they owed money. The funding helped pay off those debts so they could access specialist help and speed up clinical investigations.
“It fits in with Tainui’s health and wellbeing strategy,” says Roberts.
Te Wano is on a fixed term contract as part of Pinnacle’s Comprehensive and Community team and will be active at the clinic and around the region.
The team provides primary care with a focus on improving equity of access to care and health outcomes for Māori, Pacific people, disabled and people living in rural and highly deprived areas.
Te Wano was previously a public health nurse, and her mother Tania is charge nurse
manager at Te Kūiti Hospital. The community team has also backfilled a clinical pharmacist position allowing Rachel Bell to spend more time supporting the marae clinic.
Other partnerships include Rongoaa Tuku Iho Healing, Selina Paerata a health improvement practitioner from Kokiri Trust, Diana Johnson - clinical psychologist Te Amohia Health (Quit Smoking), Ko Wai Au (Rangatahi Service), Māori Women’s Welfare League and Kainga Aroha.
The initiative includes medical visits, bowel screening, mental health assistance, dance and movement sessions and health food preparation workshops to ensure whānau have a holistic hauora experience.
The clinic has attracted attention from researchers who have secured a grant from the Health Research Council to look at how the healthcare delivery has made a difference.
Another successful partnership is at the marae itself where Roberts, a pākehā, works closely with kaumatua and marae cochair Hone Hughes. There is a family connection –Roberts’ wife Moe is Hughes’ cousin.
Roberts met his wife to be in 1972 after moving from Australia and trained as a psychiatric nurse at Tokanui Hospital. He worked for Hauora Waikato Kaupapa Māori Mental Health Service up until his retirement in 2018. Since then, he has devoted time at the marae.
“There’s been a lot of interest in this marae-based programme,” he says.
In the first three months of this year, the clinic saw 77 patients, 14 of them for the first time. In the next quarter the patient numbers topped 120.
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Visiting Mangatoatoa Marae to see how Waikato/Bay of Plenty Cancer Society can help was Charlie Poihipi, right, Iwi Partnership manager and Supportive Care nurse Leoni Lawry, left, with marae co-chairs Derek Roberts and Hone Hughes.
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Too good to be true?
By Peter Nicholl
When I was deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the Reserve Bank’s investment committee proposed an arbitrage deal.
I decided to discuss it with the governor, Don Brash, who had a merchant banking background. Don’s response has stayed in my mind ever since. He said if an arbitrage deal looks too good to be true, that’s usually because it isn’t true. You need to look at the whole deal, not just one part of it.
Waipā District Council in their recent press release said that the arbitrage deal they had entered into was ‘low risk’ because the ‘interest rates were locked in on both sides of the transaction’.
term of the loan. The loan matures on April 20, 2029. The interest rate on that side of the deal has been locked in for almost five years.
A profit will be made on the arbitrage deal between now and April 2025, but whether or not the whole transaction will be financially advantageous won’t be known until the loan side of the transaction has reached its end.
Waipā told us they had made a $400,000 profit from this arbitrage deal. This is like the All Blacks putting out a press statement saying they had won a game when they were ahead after 20 minutes. This game is far from over.
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The News sent some follow-up questions, and the answers confirmed the rates were locked in – but not in for the same length of time. Their deposits with ANZ and BNZ mature on April 14, 2025, so the interest rates on the deal are locked in for eight months. The loan they have borrowed from the Local Government Funding Agency is fixed for the
Most mortgage holders in New Zealand have faced a similar question regarding borrowing to the one Waipā has just faced: do I borrow long-term at a lower interest rate now or borrow shortterm at a higher rate in the expectation/hope long-term interest rates will be lower in a year or two? Most mortgage holders I know have decided to borrow short now in the expectation that long-term interest rates will come down
Waipā has adopted the opposite strategy. They have borrowed at a fixed rate for five years now. If Waipā has made a miscalculation on borrowing rates, it won’t show out in their financial accounts over the next four years. They will suffer what economists call an ‘opportunity cost’. That is, if they had waited, they could have borrowed the $50 million at a lower cost – and that would have been good for ratepayers.
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Ahu Ake: A vision for our future
Message from Susan O’Regan, Mayor of Waipā
As Mayor of Waipā, I’m very pleased to share the Draft Ahu Ake - Waipā Community Spatial Plan with you and ask for your final input and feedback. This plan represents the collective vision of mana whenua, iwi, key stakeholders, and the wider community for Waipā -a blueprint that reflects our aspirations and sets a clear path for our district’s future.
Ahu Ake is more than just a plan; it is a commitment to our people, our environment, and our heritage. It represents our shared values and our vision to build a future that is inclusive, sustainable, and vibrant.
This plan will guide us as we navigate the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead, ensuring that the Waipā District remains a place where we are proud to live, work, and play.
Our journey to this point has included extensive consultation and collaboration. The voices of our community have been instrumental in shaping Ahu Ake, and I am grateful to everyone who contributed their time, insights, and passion.
Your input has been invaluable in creating a plan that truly represents the heart and soul of Waipā. As we move forward, it is important that we continue to work together, creating strong partnerships and maintaining open lines of communication.
We’re in the final stages of finalising the Draft Ahu AkeWaipā Community Spatial Plan, which will determine what our district, towns, and villages will look like in 2050.
This plan will cover how we’ll manage future growth while protecting the district’s unique environmental and cultural heritage for future generations.
We want your feedback
We want your feedback on five key packages of activity.
The Ahu Ake plan includes five key packages designed to address the diverse needs of our community:
1.Future Development and Housing Package: By 2055, Waipā is expected to welcome 22,000 new residents who will require adequate housing, employment opportunities, educational facilities, and recreational spaces.
2. Placemaking Package: A comprehensive approach to placemaking, investing in community infrastructure and activation that attract high-quality businesses and employees.
3.Strategic Framework Package: This will help the council to reduce risks and allocate resources efficiently in the long run.
4.Community Places Package: Facilities and spaces will evolve to encompass a broader range of functions that are increasingly relevant to the communities they serve.
5.Karāpiro Programme Package: By enhancing Karāpiro’s accessibility to surrounding areas, council would facilitate improved movement for residents, visitors, and businesses.
Drop-in sessions
Join us at our upcoming drop-in sessions to learn more about Ahu Ake and share your feedback.
• Saturday, October 12:
Te Awamutu Library Community Space (9am–11am) Pirongia War Memorial Hall (1pm–2.30pm)
• Tuesday, October 15:
Te Pahu Hall (5pm–6.30pm)
• Wednesday, October 16: Webinar (12.30pm–1pm) Te Miro Hall (6pm–7pm)
• Saturday, October 19: Cambridge Farmers Market (8am–12noon) Karāpiro Hall (1pm–2.30pm)
• Monday, October 21: Ngāhinapōuri School (6pm–7pm)
• Tuesday, October 22: Rukuhia Hall (6pm–7pm)
• Tuesday, October 29: Ōhaupō Sports Hub (6pm–7pm)
• Wednesday, October 30: Kihikihi Hall (5pm–6.30pm)
• Online: waipadc.govt.nz/ ahu-ake-have-your-say and complete a submission form.
• In person: attend one of our drop in sessions and complete a submission form waipadc.govt.nz/ahu-ake-have-your-say
• Drop in: pick up and complete a submission form from your local library or council o ce
• Social media: find out more and engage with us on Facebook and LinkedIn Your voice matters.
South Waikato work continues
State Highway 1 between Tīrau and Putāruru reopened on schedule last week while emergency road repair work continued at the intersection of SH1 and SH29 following heavy rain.
It was a busy four weeks for NZ Transport Agency
Waka Kotahi on the 10km South Waikato stretch of SH1 and will now continue between Ātiamuri and Wairakei.
Waikato and Bay of Plenty Maintenance and Operations regional manager Roger Brady praised the team effort required to achieve this.
“The team had some major weather challenges, and while there was some inconvenience to those travelling on SH1, we’re delighted that the rebuild work has been a success. Residents’ co-operation has been a big part of getting the work done as planned.”
SH1 remains closed at nights between Piarere and north of Tīrau. This work is expected to be completed next week, dependent on weather.
The fourth closure, expected to be in place for up to six weeks, started on Monday between Tokoroa,
Kinleith and Ātiamuri.
This is the biggest section of work undertaken and is the longest closure so far. This site is one of the larger and more complex parts of the work programme, spanning 17kms and encompassing four separate work areas, ranging from 2.9km to 5.7km in length.
The Piarere roundabout opened to traffic last month with two temporary approaches in place.
The surface of these approaches deteriorated as a result of recent weather, requiring urgent repairs.
Peters to speak
By Chris Gardner
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters will speak at a public meeting in Hamilton at the end of the party’s convention on Sunday.
“It's just a really good opportunity for the party leader to say what we have been achieving,” said Pirongia-based New Zealand First board member Pip Eyre, who also works for the party leader's office.
Peters will speak at the Distinction Hotel in his capacity as party leader, rather than his deputy prime minister role which ends in May 2025, when the baton is passed to ACT party leader David Seymour.
Eyre is focused on supporting Peters.
“We think he's pretty awesome and we just want to carry on as we have done. We've got a great working relationship and in Parliament and great team and we're just getting on with it, progressing New Zealand First policy.
“We're excited to hear what he's got to say and what updates he's going to bring to the public in that capacity,” Eyre said. “We're excited to get everyone together and round out a
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Eyre was most proud of the progress NZ First had made in getting a second broader phase of the Royal Commission Inquiry into New Zealand’s Covid-19 response into the coalition agreement with the ACT and National parties.
Phase two will start next month and be the independent, full scale, and public inquiry.
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Eyre was also proud of the $1.2 billion Regional Infrastructure Fund headed by NZ First member of parliament and regional development minister Shane Jones. Councils, iwi, businesses and community organisations with infrastructure projects that support regional priorities are invited to
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The roundabout at Piarere opened last month but more work was required after heavy rain.
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What can you be certain about?
By Murray Smith, Bridges Church
This time last year I had booked travel to Europe, through the Middle East with an itinerary that encompassed touring Israel. Having visited there a couple of times previously, my anticipation was high.
Sadly it wasn’t to be. On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched coordinated armed incursions from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, with unspeakable atrocities claiming multiple lives, hostages being taken and collateral damage evident to this day. That event ignited a continuing war that has changed so much about Israel, truth be told the entire region, as tensions and uncertainty continue to ramp up.
Traveling into Israel at that time was taken off the table. It highlighted the volatility of the days we live in as world peace hangs precariously in
the balance. We’ve witnessed globally how things can change in the blink of an eye. The very real threat of a third world war looming, pandemics, social breakdown, economic and financial collapse are observable, causing multitudes to fear an uncertain future.
I don’t want to be misunderstood as a doomsday sayer or pessimist because I see a hope filled future. Not that I carry optimism as some do, of things naturally improving and bad stuff just disappearing. But it is possible to have a sense of hope and assurance about the future, despite the world reeling out of control with evil and violence increasing daily.
We need an overview… a bigger picture that transcends fear and uncertainty informing our
limited perspective. The Bible provides that bigger picture. It’s not just history but it is history pre-written. It describes the future of the earth’s nations and its peoples. What makes the Bible astounding is the fact that though physically written by men, it was divinely inspired by God who lives outside of time and sees the beginning from the end. Much of its content is prophecy - statements written down long ago describing situations in minute detail, which were to come to pass, often thousands of years later. Just a cursory look at a few of the hundreds of Bible prophecies that have already been fulfilled, should be enough for anyone with an open mind to take notice.
Explicit details Jesus gave concerning troubled ‘last days’ occupy today’s headline news as deception, wars, natural disasters, famine and pestilences escalate. On the horizon a ‘one world order’ under a yet to emerge statesman, initially hailed as a peace-making ‘saviour’ looms closer. This ‘antichrist’ system will change ‘times and seasons’ while demanding total submission, enforcing rigid compliance to buy or sell and share basic entitlements.
For a person whose trust is in God, the certainty of challenging and dark days ahead is mitigated by His many promises of protection and provision. Nothing is more certain or more reassuring than personal relationship with this One who is totally in control, who lights our path, whose peace banishes fear and anxious thoughts concerning the future.
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Language programme push
Sigrid Christiansen
Farming families are being called on to help connect Filipina women with an online new English language programme.
Founder Lyzanne said she owes her life to speaking English well and easily making friends in New Zealand. It saved her after she nearly went off a cliff: a real one, not a metaphor.
The course is coming north after a successful South Island pilot.
Topics include Kiwi slang, dairy farming vocabulary, migration rules, schools, and programmes like the ACC and Kiwisaver. It covers ways to access mental, emotional and physical wellness support.
“It helps facilitate trust and bridge the initial huge language barrier,” Du Plessis said.
She said isolation was the challenge: students often do not drive, so can’t leave their farms easily to attend English classes. Cultural norms make it hard to speak up and the language barrier makes it hard to find New Zealand friends, or understand the teachers at children’s schools.
Du Plessis, who is from South Africa and lives in
Christchurch, knows that a new country takes getting used-to.
When she first arrived, she broke her foot but didn’t go to the doctor “because I didn’t know about the ACC”. Later, it needed surgery.
She thanks the online language learning business
Te Puna Reo Māori, owned by Anita Gill, for offering its platform free, and connecting her with Philippines-based English teachers through existing staff.
The pilot launched two weeks later. Despite the timing, during calving, it got an “overwhelming” response.
“The improvement in the students’ confidence was incredible. Afterwards, they felt comfortable to approach a Kiwi and say something.”
Through recent funding from Rural Women Southland Interprovincial, the next course starts next month.
So what about that cliff?
While dairy farming at Te Miro near Cambridge, Du Plessis’ second child was born - and “didn’t sleep at all”.
She fell asleep driving and woke as her car was approaching a cliff.
Lyzanne Du Plessis
“But my Kiwi friends told me about Plunket and a sleep clinic.”
Without those conversations, she might not be here.
“21 years ago, I was a rural migrant wife that had to go through all the adjustments to settle in a new country, new climate, new culture, and isolated form my normal support networks back in my home country. It was my ability to speak English that helped me integrate into the rural community, make Kiwi friends, and find the support I needed, in those early years in New Zealand.”
Experiencing hurricane Helene
By Janine Krippner
“This is really bad.” My friend Danni was watching the water cross the highway towards the hotel where she was staying with her dog. Her home, not too far away and at a lower elevation, was in at least 1.2 metres of water.
“Is there a higher floor you can get to?” I ask.She goes and finds one. The next video she sends me has a lot of water, sirens… is that a building on fire in the background? It’s so windy. After she stopped recording there were explosions.
The devastating effects of Hurricane Helene will be felt for a long time. Thankfully, Danni is alive and physically unharmed. She is also utterly exhausted. Piles of belongings, the insides of homes, grow alongside her street. Now just heartbreaking water-damaged trash that needs to be dealt with.
What you can’t see in the photos and video is the oppressive mugginess in the heat, the downright stagnant air of the waterdamaged house, now deemed unliveable.
The impacts of a hurricane are so, so much more than the death toll.
Danni lives in Tampa, Florida, within an area that was under an evacuation order. The official advice to those who couldn’t evacuate was to write their name and birthday in permanent marker on their body for identification. Over 1,000 km away my friends there are impacted too. That’s well over the length of the South Island. This was a massive storm.
People are quick to scoff at those ignoring evacuation orders, but the reality is that there are many factors that result in people staying.
Having pets made it too difficult for Danni to leave with her available resources. She is not alone. When storms are barrelling towards hundreds of thousands of people or more there is so much human complexity to take into account.
In 2017 I watched from states away as many places in Florida ran out of petrol during the mass evacuation.
I had friends who could not leave ahead of that storm too. Sometimes the failure to evacuate is from a lack of understanding of what is coming, but other times it is a logistical nightmare than
simply cannot be overcome. If you survive the storm, you then face the absolutely overwhelming clean up. “It feels like it will never end honestly” she says, I can feel the total exhaustion through her words and my heart aches for her.
Conversations over the years with people who have lived through eruptions, earthquakes, and hurricanes has made these hazards and disasters feel less of a distant event, and seem more like colourful, complex, and very dangerous possibilities. They will keep happening around the world. People will keep dying. Lessons that have been learned will continue to be ignored by governments (it costs money) and not passed on to communities.
Through this mess my friend has expressed gratitude for support, love, kindness, and generosity. It is yet another reminder that in our toughest times our neighbours are who show up for us. If we make our communities stronger and better connected now, it can pay off if we happen to face our own disaster down the road. We are not powerless.
A right royal ball
By Mary Anne Gill
It might have been a celebration for the clients but staff and care workers from Waikato-King Country disability organisation Enrich Plus had a ball too.
The second Client Celebration Ball was held on Friday night in the Cambridge Town Hall and the theme Prince and Princess gave plenty of scope for creativity.
More than 200 clients from Te Awamutu, Cambridge, Hamilton, Tauranga and Ōtorohanga bopped to the beat of DJ Spin Daniel Cox in costumes which must have tested the stock in various Op Shops around the region.
The big announcement
of the night was for King and Queen of the Ball. It was a close thing for the men – Zane Johnson won but had left by the time the announcement was made.
Huge cheers erupted when Maddison Gay won the Queen of the Ball. Her family, including mother Tracey Gay, had excelled themselves creating a carriage – complete with two horses - built around her wheelchair for their princess. Ian Cotterell was there too – he is an original client from the 1990s when Enrich Plus, then known as Gracelands Community Trust – was founded following the closure of Tokanui.
Team leader Ngawai Hamblin said the night was
a huge success and very well received by clients, whānau and Enrich Plus staff.
“Everyone had such a great time and the venue was perfect for the theme,” she said.
Interim chief executive
Janne Nottage thanked staff for their contributions saying
they not only supported the clients by dressing up but their “creativity and enthusiasm made this event a huge success.”
Awards were given to: King and Queen of the ball: Zane Johnson and Maddison Gay; best dressed: Leanne Cummins,
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Bruce Corin, Claire Van der Goes, Naomi Bertrand. Best dancers: William Pett, Matthew Shirley, Luisa Paletua, Abshir Khalif, Peter Crawford. Best dressed staff members: Jo and Tim Barclay, Patrick and Julie McLennan, Deannah Potaka, Kim Potroz.
Briefs…
Collier stars Cambridge canoeist Nick Collier finished first in the Under-23 and second overall in the K1 event – where the athlete sits in a kayak with a double-bladed paddle – and second in both Under-23 and overall in the C1 event, where the athlete kneels and uses half a paddle, at the canoe slalom champs in Palmerston North last weekend.
Roigard back
Cambridge’s Cam Roigard, 23, is back in the All Blacks after being sidelined after picking up a serious knee injury playing for the Hurricanes during the Super Rugby season. He scored two tries for provincial side Counties Manukau at the weekend in a successful return to competitive rugby, and joins veteran TJ Perenara and Piopio’s Cortez Ratima among the squad's three halfbacks.
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Greeters from Enrich Plus were on hand to greet guests at the Cambridge Town Hall, from left Mercan Kazankiran, Janet Steffert, Jo Barclay, Ellen Beetson, Rebecca Baldwin, Allannah Walford, Sarah Lawson.
Photo: Mary Anne Gill.
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EXPERTS ON THE GREAT OUTDOORS
Taking care of the furry family members
The cafE with a difference
Kiwis are per capita, the biggest lovers of outdoors in the world.
Kiwis are per capita, the biggest lovers of outdoors in the world.
Hunting,
The Irish groomer, as her repeat clients a ectionately call her, is one of only a handful of internationally quali ed petgroomers in New Zealand and runs her business Paws and Claws from 9b Anzac St, Cambridge.
The Lily Pad is known for its great coffee and some of the best home cooked foods in town.
Hunting, fishing, camping – you name it, we are out there doing it every month of the year.
For more than 25 years, Lisa Byrne has been attending to the needs of both cats and dogs, o ering a full top to bottom service.
Situated at 1234 Kaipaki Rd in Cambridge, the cafe has been renovated, and along with the fabulous service, what’s on offer leaves nothing to chance.
To get the best of our pursuits, and the often-rugged terrain we play or work in, we need the best gear available. And that’s where Hunting & Fishing come in.
To get the best of our pursuits, and the often-rugged terrain we play or work in, we need the best gear available. And that’s where Hunting & Fishing come in.
“I spent my early years while studying as a veterinary nurse and worked in Ireland, England and New Zealand,” she says.
The service for both species includes nail trimming, which can be done without an appointment. For everything else, though, bookings are necessary.
Spring is a great time to emerge from hibernation and choose a great breakfast or lunch – there is plenty to choose from for every taste. Or you could pick sweet or savoury delicacies straight from the cabinets if you are pressed for time.
Since 1986, the chain has built a second-to-none brand in the sector, and they’ve done this by making sure every product they sell has been well tested in the environment it is designed for, before it gets onto the shelves.
“For dogs, we o er full and mini grooms, from shampoo and dry to cuts or trims –even teeth cleaning,” Lisa says.
Cats also require grooming, although not as regularly as dogs.
The product ranges are now extensive, starting with fishing.
Since 1986, the chain has built a second-to-none brand in the sector, and they’ve done this by making sure every product they sell has been well tested in the environment it is designed for, before it gets onto the shelves. The product ranges are now extensive, starting with fishing. From the river, lake, land and sea, we feature everything from the latest technology through to specialized gear and rigs.
What makes The Lily Pad so versatile for its patrons, is that the design means it’s a great place for any special occasion, from birthdays with the small ones (there is a great play area
“Short or long haired, they should come in about four times a year for a full stripping of the underfur which helps stop matting, helps relieve furballs being regurgitated and it’s also good for them to have a hygiene trim around their bottoms to keep that area clear.
From the river, lake, land and sea, we feature everything from the latest technology through to specialized gear and rigs. small game for young ones such as
Monday to Friday, and one Saturday a month.
for them to enjoy and special menus too) to a reserved area for that special lunch for friends or loved ones. The cafe does have licensed facilities so is popular with the Christmas work functions (now is a great time to book those).
You can also order specially made cakes and biscuits to suit any occasion; The Lily Pad has plenty of fabulous reviews emphasizing how great their food and service is.
you walk into the store with a query, they can direct you to the best possible product to suit your actual needs and your budget.
you walk into the store with a query, they can direct you to the best possible product to suit your actual needs and your budget.
“So while we can do walk in nail trims, anything that is based upon a groom for either animal will need to be booked ahead.”
Come in and talk to Brooke and the team at Hunting & Fishing in
Come in and talk to Brooke and the team at Hunting & Fishing in
If you have a catering need, just talk to manager Sandi Miller –whether it be charcuterie boards through to a corporate lunch or a wedding, they are there to provide you with just what you need.
“December 2024 is already fully booked,” Lisa says.
Clients can contact Lisa via email at lisabyrnegroomer@gmail.com or phoning 0211714716.
The Lily Pad is open six days a week, from Tuesday to Friday 9am till 3pm and Saturday and Sunday from 8.30am till 3pm.
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A goal for young footballers
By Steph Bell-Jenkins
Women’s football is on the crest of a wave in Cambridge – and pathways are being created to help the next generation of players.
The club ran a mentoring programme for youngsters this season – enabling 10 to 14-year-olds rub shoulders with the top women’s team.
Two players involved in the playoff victory over Onehunga Mangere to win promotion to the Northern League last month, Brooke Suisted and Sienna Frethey, also helped Cambridge High School win the national Grant Jarvis tournament in Palmerston North last month.
Among the former Cambridge players, Manaia Elliott has a full-time contract with the Wellington Phoenix and Natalie Young has been selected in the Football Ferns’ squad for this month’s U17 Women’s World Cup starting on October 16 in the Dominican Republic.
Elliott, a year 11 Cambridge High School student on Hamilton Wanderers’ books, began playing football at Cambridge Football Club when she was five and is a
member of the RH3 Football Academy, run by former All Whites player and coach Ricki Herbert.
Rachel Lilburn from WaiBop Football’s marketing and communications team said girls’ and women’s football had grown 13 per cent on average across the region from 2023 to 2024.
Cambridge Football Club’s head women's coach Scott Bult says providing visible pathways for girls into top-level football is vital.
He conceived the club’s mentorship programme for girls this season. It was set up and managed by senior player Hilary Eyres.
Participants watched each other’s games and had regular contact through the week.
“The young players go into the changing sheds, have a look at the set-ups and the warm-ups and what that looks like and they’re invited to come and have the after-match meal with us and just be in the environment, so they have someone to look up to,” Bult said.
Eyres said it provided a pathway to senior football for young players.
“We can see and hear the
difference on the sideline each week at home games,” she said. “It’s so much fun to see our players connect with one another.”
Eleven-year-old Ada Blackstock was one of a dozen players to take part.
Keen to learn more about the game and develop her kicking technique, she was paired with women’s first team goalkeeper Aimee Archibald, 28.
After receiving one-to-one training with Archibald and watching her home games, the Cambridge Middle School student was inspired to take up goalkeeping.
“Aimee taught me how fun it is and she taught me how to do it and it just got me more and more into it,” said Ada, who has a poster of Aimee on her wall.
Archibald said taking part in the mentorship programme and “being able to give back to the women’s football space” had been the highlight of her season.
“When the rest of the team is warming up, we’ve made it a thing that I have the young girls taking shots at me.We treat them almost like they’re equals in some way. We try to involve them as much as we can.”
She said Ada had been
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fantastic and “a real treat to mentor” and felt it was important to have female players involved in coaching and teaching girls.
“It shows players there is a pathway and a future,” she said.
Ada’s mother Bex, who helped with the programme, agreed.
“It’s important to have strong female role models who are also accessible,” she said.
Cambridge goalkeeper Aimee Archibald with the junior player she mentored this season, Ada Blackstock.
Photo Selina Oliver.
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BARNETT, John Trevor (NZ 11415) – Passed away peacefully with his family by his side on Thursday 3 October 2024, in his 94th year. Much loved and loving husband of the late Tui.
Loved father and father-inlaw of Brian and Jacqueline, Murray and Robyn, Sharon and Nigel, Roger and Debbie (deceased), Allen (deceased) and Barbara (deceased). Adored Poppa and Opa of Damien, Rebecca, Joey, Brad, Hannah and Brad, Tina, Haydyn, Caleb, Izzy, and their families. A service to celebrate John’s life will be held at St Andrews Anglican Church, 85 Hamilton Road, Cambridge today, Thursday 10 October at 1:00pm.
KEARNS, Barbara – Passed away peacefully in her sleep at Cambridge Life on Wednesday, 2nd October 2024. Aged 75 years. Dearly loved mother and motherin-law of Aaron & Tracey, Mike, Jared, Joe, and Ben & Lorena. Much loved nana of Renea, Jasmine, Zara, Gage, Samara, Casey, Jacob, Penny, Lillian, and great-nana to 11 great-grandchildren. ‘Special thanks to the team of Cambridge Life for the care shown to Barbara over the past three years.’ The service for Barbara has been held. All communications to the Kearns Family, c/- 3 Hallys Lane, Cambridge 3434.
Jono Gibson Funeral Director
OF MASS AND SPEED LIMITS ON BRIDGES Heavy Motor Vehicle Regulations 1974, Regulation 11
NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to regulation 11(3) of the Heavy Motor Vehicle Regulations 1974, the Waipa district Council has fixed the following maximum mass and speed limits for heavy motor vehicles and combinations including a heavy motor vehicle on the bridge(s) described hereunder:
Attention is drawn to the applicable infringement fees set out in Schedule 1 of the Land Transport (Offences and Penalties) Regulations 1999, which apply to infringements of these limits.
Steph O’Sullivan CHIEF EXECUTIVE, Waipa District Council
The result for the 2024 Trustee election that closed at 5pm on Tuesday 1st October 2024 is outlined below. I confirm that the official result was determined after the scrutiny of all returned voting papers and counting of all valid votes. Trustee Election (6 vacancies) Votes Received MATTHEWS, Sarah GOWER, Marcus MCLEAN, Dave MILNER, Ray GODFREY, Jarrod Cameron COLES, Philip KEMPTHORNE, Pip WEBB, Rollo INFORMAL or BLANK 3,653
I therefore declare Philip COLES, Jarrod Cameron GODFREY, Marcus GOWER, Dave McLEAN, Sarah MATTHEWS and Ray MILNER to be elected as Trustees of the Waipā Networks Trust. The voter return was 14.80%, being 4,312 votes cast. Warwick Lampp Returning Officer 0800 666 033 iro@electionz.com
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LYCEUM HOUSE INC
After over 80 years of activity, Lyceum House, formerly the Lyceum Club, will be closing permanently, in early December 2024.
Over the years items of value have been given to the club for its use or decoration, by former members. We would like to return these items to the family of the donors.
To arrange collection please email the President: barbararomana49@gmail.com by 25 October 2024
Any unclaimed items will be disposed of by sale or donation.
FOR SALE
The Waipa Community Facilities Trust is holding its Annual General Meeting at 6.00pm on the 15th October 2024 in the ASB Community Room at the Perry Aquatic Centre. Business of meeting:
The annual general meeting shall carry out the following business:
(a) Receive the minutes from the previous annual general meeting; and
(b) Receive the Trust’s statement of accounts for the year ending 30/06/2024; and
(c) Receive report from the Chairman of the board and from the CEO; and
(d) Announce retirement of current Trustees and the appointment of new Trustees; and
(e) Appoint an auditor; and
(f) Consider and decide any other matter which may properly be brought before the meeting.
Ruby McPhail - Secretary
Resident Caregiver
We are looking for a carer for our elderly mother in Cambridge, to keep her company during the day over the weekends and on a couple of week days. The successful applicant will generally be required to be with her 9.30 am to 5:30 pm. Mum has an agency carer from 7:00-8:00am each morning to help with showering and breakfast and again from 6:00-7:00pm to help with dinner and her evening routine.
Caregiver Responsibilities:
•Initiate and participate in Mum’s daily leisure activities including short walks outside using her walker.
•Responding promptly and positively to any requests for assistance and following good procedures in the event of any emergency.
•Maintain records daily; documenting activities and any incidents; reporting any changes in Mum’s physical condition and/or behaviour, and promptly reporting all changes to the Family.
• Maintaining a clean, safe home environment for Mum.
Work Hours & Benefits
• General working hours 9.30 am to 5.30 pm Saturday and Sunday and a couple of week days.
• Son and daughter-in-law live a house next door.
• Scope for flexibility.
• $25 per hour.
• Start as soon as reasonably possible.
Caregiver Qualifications/Skills:
• Trust worthy.
• A good companion and listener.
• Able to foster a happy and safe environment.
• Physical ability to support our mother. This may involve the need to maintain balance to lift and support her to avoid potential injury.
Experience
• Must have current driver’s license and have own motor vehicle.
• Minimum 2+ year(s) professional or personal experience supporting elderly or individuals with disabilities in New Zealand or comparable experience.
• Must have references and referees particularly relating to demonstrated honesty and trust worthiness.
Submit Application
•applications, resume, and other supporting documents, including references and contact details of referees, may be emailed to homeofboswell@gmail.com
