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Team vie for Photographer reaps awards kapa haka honours

By Savannah Patterson The Te Ra Whakamana Rangatahi annual Kapa Haka Festival today will see 16 teams from Te Awamutu and the wider community perform at the Te Awamutu Event Centre.

The event has been running since about 2007 and each year is hosted by a different school. This year it is hosted by Pirongia School.

Principal Jan Cullen says this event has become a very significant occasion for kura to perform in their community for whanau, other kura and community members.

“This is an opportunity for students to perform in front of other schools, to see other schools’ performances, to learn new aspects of kapa haka and have the pride of performing for whanau."

Cullen says the students have been working towards this all this year with weekly practices.

Schools taking part include Te Awamutu College, Ohaupo, Pekerau, Apakura Te Kakano, Te Pahu, Te Kotahitanga (Pokuru and Korakonui), Te Awamutu Intermediate, Te Purapura o Kakepuku, Nga Purapura o Te Aroha Teina, Nga Purapura o te Aroha Tuakana, The Barnyard, Paterangi, Kihikihi, Kawhia, Waipa Christian and Pirongia.

A Te Awamutu photographer has picked up three honours in the Rise International Photography Awards.

She won two bronze awards in the new born category and bronze in the family category.

Angela Murray, proprietor of Life Lab Photography, said she entered the awards after being “pushed” by another photographer friend, and was glad she did.

“I didn’t really think about it until a couple of days before the announcements,” she recalled.

The daughter of a photographer, Murray didn’t get into photography seriously until her 40s, and soon found it to be a “constant avenue to create”.

“I had four of my own children and have a little grandson, and for me the new born and toddler stage were such an enjoyable time for me as a young mum, and with my dad being a photographer, I loved getting the photos that he use to take,” she said.

“Safety is a massive thing with all babies, I am very grateful that I have been able to learn the best from the best.”

She said her passion, most of all, laid with her subjects.

“My passion with photography is most certainly in the people, the families

that I work with, and I’ve found that the newborn stage, as opposed to any other genre of photography, really leaves me fulfilled.”

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On the beat Snapping shoplifters: here’s how with Ryan Fleming

I have recently begun working with local retailers to combat shoplifting.

Lately we have seen a surge in shoplifting complaints from businesses in Te Awamutu.

At the last survey of retailers in 2017 it was discovered that retail theft costs $1,085 million annually. That’s a sobering statistic.

CCTV in each store has been very successful lately in helping us identify offenders however there a few pitfalls for the unwary. If you use CCTV, you must have a sign which is clearly visible to patrons to read, before they enter your retail premises.

This gives people the ‘heads up’ that they may be recorded. The sign must make clear who owns and operates the CCTV system.

It must also briefly describe why the CCTV system is being used.

For example: Crime prevention cameras are in operation.

If you don’t have a readily available sign and policy like this, you can’t disclose the information unless an exemption applies – and if you publish photos of customers, even if they are criminals, you could run foul of the Privacy Act. You should have a copy of the policy in-store and on your company website, if anyone asks for more information.

If you do have a sign and policy, then under the Privacy Act, you are able to publish photos of criminals on the internet, put them up on your window, or send them to nearby retailers.

There are a number of tips retailers can do to protect themselves from shoplifters. The simplest one is: If you think a potential thief

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Don’t be afraid to approach a suspect a second or third time, asking if you can be of assistance. Thieves feel uneasy when they are approached by attentive staff - it makes them feel that you are aware of their intentions.

Genuine customers will not mind the attention of your staff.

If you are a retailer in Te Awamutu there is an active Facebook group; Te Awamutu Retailers Group. This group shares information alerting its members to potential shoplifters in real time. Through this page I have been able to identify multiple offenders and arrange for them to be either charged or at least trespassed.

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‘Winged’ candidate primed for action Bill Izard, whose wider family tree includes international comedian Eddie Izzard - despite the extra ‘z’ involved - will host the first public meeting of the Te Awamutu Action Group at Robert Harris in Te Awamutu, at noon next Wednesday.

By Viv Posselt He admits he’s still smarting a little over his local body election loss in Te Awamutu.

“I do feel a bit winged,” recreational aviator Bill Izard confessed, “but I’ll get over it. Actually. it’s probably a good thing I didn’t get in. Now I can get on with the Te Awamutu Action Group I’ve been trying to get going for a while.”

Izard kicked things off this week by linking the group to the free international phone app, Meetup. That is the conduit through which he hopes to engage with younger people in his area, perhaps newcomers to town … realistically anyone interested in seeking new ways to meet up regularly and find different pathways to helping their community.

“I’ve seen similar groups running in other areas, and very successfully too. Taupo has six or seven groups going well, Tauranga has about 11. I’ve been blown away by what they’re doing and I’d like to see it start here.”

Izard has researched the idea for well over a year. He has an agricultural background and has worked across a raft of managerial and sales roles; he took early retirement at age 48 only to find he’s almost as busy as ever. Adding to that mix of skills is more than 30 years’ experience with Rotary, several in a leadership role.

The idea to form the Te Awamutu Action Group took hold when he saw the success of a casual lunchtime group linked to Rotary. “It was made up largely of young mums who got together casually to discuss what they could do for their communities. They ended up doing all sorts of things … it gave them

satisfaction and a social outlet and served the community at the same time.”

The concept took hold further while Izard was campaigning in the recent Waipa District Council elections. In seeking to fill a slot in the Te Awamutu ward, he walked the streets asking people of all ages whether they were voting and if they thought things needed doing.

“They generally said no they weren’t voting - particularly younger people - but yes, they were discontented. Most people said they weren’t voting because they didn’t know the candidates. It’s all about face recognition, being a known commodity. I was the new boy on the block, so I’m not really surprised with the election result.

Now, I’m interested in exploring how we get people under the age of say 50 connected with their community – that’s what this initiative is all about.”

Izard isn’t launching the Te Awamutu Action Group with a view to standing again; he has pretty much ruled that out. What he really wants to do is re-energise people to thinking about their communities, to engage more with others in a way that appeals to a different demographic from his own.

“I’m 62 now, the old bloke in this game.

Those under me are all on social media, it’s where they run their lives.

“The idea is for them to get on to the Meetup app, and link into the TA Action Group by meeting each other online and planning regular get togethers. We’ll take it from there … if it goes well, I’d like to get it going in Cambridge and perhaps in other centres in this area.”

Kihikihi man Bill Izard hopes that by getting people to upload the free Meetup app on their phones, he will be able to kick off the Te Awamutu Action Group at a meeting next week.

Big bangers for Kihikihi races

By Savannah Patterson

More than 2500 people are expected to attend this year’s McDonalds Kihikihi Speedway and Fireworks display tomorrow.

The Opening Speedway meeting for the 2019/20 season will feature superstocks, saloons, stockcars, ministocks and a huge fireworks display in association with Waipa Home of Champions.

Kihikihi Speedway spokesman Darren Powell says this speedway racing and community fireworks display will see high level racing by some of the best drivers in the country.

“As most other speedway tracks stage their fireworks event close to November 5, we made the decision a long time ago to do ours at least a week earlier and combine it with our season opening meeting.

“We believe our fireworks display is the biggest and only display in the Waipa district.”

He says there are many cogs that turn the wheel to make sure the event is a success.

“Most people are volunteers, either club members appointed or general helpers and lots of families - two and sometimes three generations helping in the lead up to an event or on the day.”

Powell says this event will see visiting competitors from Huntly, Tauranga, Rotorua, Napier, Gisborne, Stratford, Foxton, Wellington and Christchurch.

“Headlining this year’s event are premier full contact race class superstocks highlighted by current World Champion Benji Sneddon and former New Zealand champions Jared Wade and Peter Rees as well as Peter’s sons, Asher and Ethan who are both ex NZ stockcar champs.

“There are 26 superstocks scheduled to attend, 30 stockcars and at least 16 saloons.”

He says youth ministocks and quarter midgets will also be racing.

“This is an opportunity for families to pack a picnic, get together with other families and friends and watch the action on track.

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FRIDAY OCTOBER 25, 2019

Breast cancer solution in ‘your’ hands

By Savannah Patterson Hundreds of volunteers took part in this year’s Pink Ribbon appeal across Waipā and Waikato to promote breast cancer awareness month.

People in Cambridge donated more than $5000. The total raised in Te Awamutu is yet to be calculated as a few buckets will remain in stores such as Kids Collection, Sanders Pharmacy and the Z service station until next week.

Cambridge co-ordinator Nikki Blackmoore says 60 volunteers collected on outside the Warehouse, Countdown, Paper Plus, Mitre 10, Fresh Choice and the farmer’s market.

“For a small place like this to raise more than $5000, it just shows how generous we all are.”

She says Mitre 10 provided a fundraising sausage sizzle while the TDM group donated sausages to two other sites and Fonterra staff volunteered for the whole day at one of the sites.

The largest donation made in Cambridge was $200, and the smallest donation was 10 cents.

“A lot of people said sorry, it’s not much, but every little bit counts,” says Blackmoore.

The chief executive of Breast Cancer Foundation NZ (BCFNZ), Evangelia Henderson, agrees.

“It amazes me how generous people in smaller towns like Cambridge and Te Awamutu are.

“So many people have been touched by breast cancer - it’s a cause close to people’s hearts. We invest the money from our street appeal in education for early detection; research and treatment; and vital patient support.”

Te Awamutu co-ordinator Debbie Bowler says about 20 volunteers were set up for the appeal at Countdown, Pak’n Save, Mitre 10 and The Warehouse.

She says the public were very generous with their donations.

“There were lots and lots of notes rather than coins this year.”

She says the Lions Club members always help volunteer each year and Waipā local businesses have been supportive.

“The Lions do a wonderful job helping with collections by rotating themselves around at the main sites and it’s great that local businesses have kept buckets in store.”

“It’s also good to see the amount of men donating who must have wives, daughters or other family members who may have faced the disease.”

She says she hopes next year more people will volunteer to help with the street collection.

BCFNZ spokeswoman Glenda Kane says breast cancer is the most common cancer type for Kiwi women, with 3,300 women a year – or nine a day – diagnosed.

“Of those nine, one will be Māori, and one will be under 45.”

She says around 300 New Zealanders across the Waikato are diagnosed with breast cancer each year and more than 50 Waikato residents die with the disease.

“Although rare, even men can get breast cancer. About 25 Kiwi men a year are diagnosed with the disease.”

BCFNZ is the biggest non-government funder of breast cancer research in NZ, investing around $1.2 million per year in research and medical grants.

“For example, a five-year partnership with Victoria University of Wellington’s Ferrier Institute is aiming to develop a ‘therapeutic vaccine’ for breast cancer.

“In the meantime, early detection is your best protection. Regular mammograms can pick up cancer when a lump is just 2mm – smaller than a grain of rice.”

Kane says if breast cancer is found by a regular mammogram, victims have a 92%

The Breast Cancer Foundation NZ had a Pink Caravan set up at Equidays at Mystery Creek to educate people during breast cancer awareness month with nurse educators such as Trish Sole (left) and Janice Wood.

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chance of surviving 10 years or longer.

“That drops to 75% if a lump is the first sign. Deaths have dropped around 30% since free breast screening started in 1994.”

BCFNZ also provides vital support to people going through breast cancer. It offers free expert advice via phone and online, and funds rehab after surgery, counselling and lymphoedema treatment across New Zealand including in the Waikato.

“BCFNZ’s vision is Zero Deaths from Breast Cancer. We believe that, one day, our vision will become reality.

“This October, your breast health is in your own hands – literally.”

The new innovative app Pre Check from the BCFNZ has been developed to give visual, tactile and audio cues to help people search for the signs of breast cancer. So far, nearly 7,000 people have downloaded the app.

“Once you’ve explored all the symptoms, a ‘how-to’ guide will teach you what to look for when self-checking.

“You’ll even have the option to set your own reminder for regular self-checks. This will send a push-notification to your phone, urging you to ‘touch, look and check’ and showing you how.”

Henderson says Pre Check is a significant new wellbeing tool for women in New Zealand.

“It’s an innovation that empowers women and gives them confidence to take control of their own breast health.

“We urge women of breast-screening age to stay vigilant between mammograms, and younger women to be breast aware at all times.

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FRIDAY OCTOBER 25, 2019

`Rugbymoon’ for newlyweds Tamahere home wins award

By Viv Posselt

Nicole and Ryan Cameron are Japan-bound for windfall holiday they initially thought was a scam.

The Cambridge couple leave New Zealand next Wednesday for five days and nights of World Cup magic in Japan – complements of a nationwide ANZ Bank competition they didn’t know they had entered.

Not long after returning to New Zealand after their August 24 wedding in the UK city of Portsmouth, Ryan received a call from Cambridge ANZ bank manager Jane Rush to say he and Nicole had won the ANZ Bank’s Rugby World Cup 2019 Cash Passport Competition.

The canny Englishman admitted to being a little suspicious at the news, particularly given that neither of them remembered entering any competitions.

“We were at a contract for work when Ryan told me,” said Nicole. “We googled it and couldn’t find anything… we both thought it was a scam. It was only after we went into the local ANZ branch the next day that we realised it was true.”

It seems that the couple had gone into the nationwide draw when they had loaded money on to their cash passport to cover their wedding trip to the UK. That move had netted them a much-coveted prize that has now segued into a very welcome honeymoon.

The prize comprises two economy flights, five nights of five-star luxury accommodation, all transfers, a double pass with Category A tickets to the Rugby World Cup final in Yokohama, pre-match hospitality and $2000 equivalent in Japanese yen loaded onto their cash passport.

“It is just so exciting … we can’t wait,” said Nicole, who is the granddaughter of Cambridge Grey Power president Val Massey.

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“Students get expert coaching on their vocal technique, arrangements and showmanship, from Hollie who provided invaluable feedback during her residency at Wintec last year.”

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When the home design was first commissioned in 2017, Hamilton firm Red Architecture was asked to create a modern, sophisticated house with generous space and volume – sparking Cox to adopt the Japanese discipline of shibui, which celebrates complexity and restraint.

It inspired a balanced and sculptural composition intended to capture a “quiet feeling” through simplicity. The home includes concrete floors, painted gib walls, insitu concrete work and cedar siding.

Cox was one of nine designers recognised at the 2019 ADNZ Resene Architectural Design Awards held last week in Queenstown. The Supreme Award went to a small family home in Gisborne.

and residential cleaning business – 5 Stars Solutions – in January and have barely taken a day off since then.

“It’s been very full-on,” said Ryan. “We managed to organise time off for the wedding, but there was never a chance we would be able to extend that and fit a honeymoon in immediately afterwards. Realistically, that was going to have to go on hold for a while.”

The couple met in the UK when Nicole – who had completed a degree in music and German - was working in London, and Ryan was living and working in Germany. Once they realised a long-term future together was in their stars, they decided to settle in Nicole’s hometown of Cambridge.

This has been a magic year for the Camerons.

They started a business, got married, are now buying a house and going on a prize-winning trip they couldn’t have dreamed of … and it turns out they’re expecting a baby, to bootee.

“I can’t see us having another year like this Inspired by the Japanese art of shibui, the award-winning Tamahere home features simple design elements to one,” Nicole laughed.

“It will be quite hard to top,” agreed Ryan. invoke a “quiet feeling”.

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Hollie Smith has returned to Wintec for a second year as Musician in Residence to inspire and lead Wintec Music and Performing Arts students.

Smith will hold performance, songwriting and production workshops for students to get a real-world experience of the music industry in practice at Wintec School of Media Arts.

Last year Smith mentored first year student band The Meraki - who have gone on to be a regular gigging band - by guiding their social media presence and assisting them with song arrangements. She has also performed backing vocals.

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A Tamahere home has earned a Waikato architect a winning title in the 2019 ADNZ Resene Architectural Design Awards.

The “Shibui House” earned Tane Cox, who was schooled in Cambridge, the winning Architectural Design Award in the Residential New Home over 300m2 category.

Judges described the family home as “reminiscent of a stage set for a lifestyle”.

“It is an exceptionally beautiful sculptured building. It celebrates the inconsistency of the use of different timbers. This is an aspirational design that responds well to the client brief. It leans hard into what it needs to do and jumps distance with the technique demonstrated. A rich design with a subtle use of colour to enhance the use of timber.”

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FRIDAY OCTOBER 25, 2019

Land Wars story to be told

New Zealand Land Wars will be remembered over Labour weekend with commemorations taking place in Waipā.

For the last two years the Waipa District Council and Nga Iwi Topu O Waipā have acknowledged the New Zealand Land Wars with services and wreath laying at significant locations in the district.

This year Waipa District Council’s director of museums Anne Blyth said Council will take a different approach to mark the event,

with the museum’s ‘Resistance, Resilience, Remembrance’ exhibition opening at the new Te Ara Wai Gallery.

The Te Ara Wai Gallery is a precursor to the Te Ara Wai Journeys product that will launch in December.

Journeys will take visitors on pathways through natural landscapes, battle sites and early settlements in Waipa that formed the community and helped shape Aotearoa New Zealand as a nation.

The exhibition also covers stories of the Waipā district, encompassing the people, their struggles, innovation and resilience and the battles for land and sovereignty during the New Zealand Land Wars.

“With advice and discussions with mana whenua, it was decided that a formal service this year was not appropriate due to the significant commemoration that will be held in Taranaki that most dignitaries and iwi representatives are attending.”

This year’s national commemoration in Taranaki will focus on battle sites around Waitara, in particular Te Kohia pa where the first shots of the New Zealand Land Wars were fired.

“It’s still important to us that our community can acknowledge the New

Zealand Land Wars and reflect on how our lives were fundamentally changed. People lost their lives, land and their way of life.”

She says the community is becoming more aware of what took place, but there is still a lot of work to do to educate New Zealanders about the past, how that defined who we are today, and how that shapes our future.

On Monday, five wreaths will be laid by Council across the district. The public will be invited to lay their own wreaths at St John Te Awamutu, Rewi Maniapoto Memorial, Kihikihi, Rangiaowhia and O-Rakau.

Signs will also be placed throughout the district to promote the Te Awamutu Museum exhibition and flags will having been flying in Te Awamutu and Cambridge since Wednesday.

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The amount is available for distribution for projects and activities that take place within the Otorohanga District and produce benefits which are largely experienced within the Otorohanga District.

Eligible projects will be assessed according to whether they create opportunities for local communities to engage with and participate in local arts activities, support the diverse arts and cultural traditions of local communities by enriching and promoting their uniqueness and cultural diversity and whether they enable and encourage young people (under 18 years) to engage with, and actively participate in the arts.

Otorohanga District Council spokesman Colin Tutty says the Creative NZ Scheme provides funding to communities so New Zealanders can be involved in local arts activities with a particular focus on young people.

“Creative NZ works with local city and district councils to deliver the Creative Communities Scheme.

“Creative NZ supports the local administrators by providing guides, promotional material, meetings, workshops and advice.

“Council’s appoint an administrator and an assessment committee made up of councillors, board members, community reps and iwi reps.”

He says the benefits are to encourage as many people as possible into some form of art related activity.

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By Savannah Patterson

St Patrick’s Catholic School students are on the hunt for books ahead of a fete to raise funds for the new playground.

Principal Shelly Fitness said the fete had been a success when it was launched last year and will now be held annually on the last week of November.

“It’s a big event for our community but we also get a lot of external stall holders in such as people from the Tamahere Market.”

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“Council has two funding rounds each year which are usually in November and April.”

Projects applied for must take place within the district where the application is made and/or provide benefits to that district.

When an application has been approved and the project completed an accountability form must be completed by the applicant and returned to Council.

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A total of 20 stall holders have secured sites, but she expects a lot more.

Fitness says the fete is to help the school raise money for their new playground as their current playground is outdated and will be closed down.

The school has three designers who will present ideas for the replacement playground.

Organiser Hannah Blake says a secondhand book fair as part of the fete will be open and the school is going to receive donations of quality books.

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FRIDAY OCTOBER 25, 2019

Cousins in Arms

By Savannah Patterson

Andrew Brown took exception with one line in last week’s Te Awamutu News election coverage.

We suggested he and fellow councillor Lou Brown, who was elected last weekend, were not related.

“In fact, we are first cousins,” he explained.

So, we are happy to put the record straight.

Their fathers are twins and both families grew up around Te Awamutu.

“Andrew is the youngest member of his family and I’m the oldest of mine,” says Lou. Andrew is 65 and Lou 73.

Lou says when they were younger, they always visited each other on their family farms.

Since they’ve grown up the rest of their family has left Te Awamutu, with only a few of them remaining in the town.

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They say it will be a good and interesting experience to work together.

“I know that we will both have our own points of view just like everyone else around the table,” says Lou. “I come from a very different background, my interests are sport, the community and the RSA which I am president of.”

Andrew says he also has some involvement with sport.

“I’m a golfer and I was president of the golf club until I got elected to council.”

They believe they will bring both similar and different views to council.

“My view is just about making good decisions for the district,” says Andrew.

Lou says he is will be very aware of costs and where money will be best spent. He says he is new to the whole process but is eager to get on board.

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Elections

Election results for Waipā Cambridge community board have been confirmed – has had a full refresh with the district has four new Elise Badger, Jo Davies-Colley, councillors and seven new Jim Goddin, Alana Mackay, community board members.

Mike Montgomerie and exiting Incumbent mayor Jim councillor Sue Milner making Mylchreest and councillors up the six representatives from Elwyn Andree-Wiltens, Cambridge and Maungatautari Hazel Barnes, Andrew wards.

Brown, Marcus Gower, Susan Jill Taylor and Kane Titchener O’Regan, Clare St Pierre, Liz join experienced community Stolwyk, Bruce Thomas and board members Gary Jim Mylchreest Grahame Webber retained Derbyshire, Angela Holt, and their current seats following Richard Hurrell for Te Awamutu the declaration of final results on Tuesday. and Kakepuku wards.

This will be Webber’s seventh term as Te Awamutu led the election returns race councillor and he has also held the position until the last day with Cambridge voters of deputy mayor for the past three terms. racing in on Saturday to cast the last votes.

Lou Brown and experienced community Cambridge closed the elections with 39.19 board members Philip Coles, Mike Pettit and per cent of voting papers returned, and Te Roger Gordon will take the seats vacated by Awamutu finished on 37.53 per cent. exiting councillors Judy Bannon, Vern Wilson Voting for councillor representation did and Sue Milner, as well as an additional not occur in Maungatautari, Kakepuku and seat created for Cambridge following a Pirongia with Andree-Wiltens, O’Regan, representation review.

Thomas and St Pierre elected unopposed Chief executive Garry Dyet said a following the close of nominations on 16 challenge for this Council will be helping August. the community understand Council services Dyet noted the lack of choice had an and its role in making sure Waipā is a great impact on remaining lower returns results. district to live in that’s geared for growth.

“In previous years, residents have been “This Council is going to face some able to choose representation for mayor, real challenges, especially as we deal councillors and community board but this with climate change, rapid growth and year there was only four elections across aging infrastructure, while keeping rates three wards.” affordable” he said.

“The results speak for themselves when “While councillors deal with those you look at the returns. There is a huge drop challenges, they’ll also be making decisions in votes received for the wards where only that not only impact on our daily lives, regional council representation was able to but keep our towns thriving. Maintaining be voted on.” safe drinking water, flushing your toilet, Election returns and final results are roads, footpaths and cycleways, public available at waipadc.govt.nz/elections. The toilets, drinking fountains, recycling, council also presents information about how playgrounds - they’re all the result of its working affects daily life at waipatikitour.

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MP’s plan for Piarere

By Sophie Iremonger

Waikato MP Tim van de Molen says he will invite Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Transport Minister Phil Twyford to visit the “dangerous” stretch of State Highway 1 between Cambridge and Piarere.

He will also call for electronic speed reduction signs, orange poles along the centre line, a wider median, “high crash rate” signs, and a higher police presence along the road.

His pledge followed a meeting on Monday with Karapiro residents and stakeholders about safety issues along the 16km stretch of road.

Some residents expressed concern that once the Hamilton and Huntly sections of the Waikato expressway were completed, Auckland-to-Tauranga traffic would reroute from State Highway 27 and use the Karapiro stretch to the SH29 turnoff.

Van de Molen reminded residents that $8M worth of safety upgrades had been planned for the road and were supposed to have been finished, but weren’t completed “partly due to weather”, he’d been told.

The previous National government had spent $4.8M planning to extend the Waikato expressway to State Highway 29, but the project was scrapped by the new Labour

government.

“Even if we are to get back in next year… once we do start on an expressway extension, it’s still going to be years before it’s completed,” van de Molen said.

Residents complained of cars ploughing through their fence – three times in the case of one property.

There was a fatal crash on the fence line of Karapiro School which principal TinaMaree Thatcher said the children were, unfortunately, fully aware of.

She said they would consider one resident’s suggestion to have the children write letters to the PM and transport minister, if the school community supported it.

Others suggested traffic lights and speed cameras for the Karapiro Rd – SH1 intersection, and several supported installing a roundabout. Others thought that would cause too much congestion.

“Traffic on Karapiro Road is only going to get worse, with Hobbiton getting the increase in patronage that’s allowed to go there (from 600,000 per year to one million a year), something has to happen. And not on election day, prior to election day,” one man said.

Van de Molen highlighted that part of Hobbiton’s consent for increased numbers required them to contribute toward road

safety improvements, which hadn’t been done.

He credited Waipa District Council for the work it had done to reduce speeds around the district.

“The challenge though is that this is a state highway, so largely the district council doesn’t have a lot of control.”

Waipa District Council’s roading manager Bryan Hudson was given a unanimous “yes” when he asked if they supported speed limit reductions on Karapiro, Taotaoroa and Buckland roads.

“The reality is that the government has made it very clear they don’t have funding for roading, so we’re not going to see a large roundabout put in unfortunately,” said van de Molen. “I think the opportunity is to get some electronic signs in the first instance, and certainly look at median type work in terms of those little orange posts, high crash rate signs … Traffic volumes aren’t decreasing, its only going to get worse. We need a solution.”

He promised to take the concerns back to government –and said another public meeting would be held along with TaupoCambridge MP Louise Upston, who was unable to attend the meeting.

He told the meeting Police and NZTA had also been invited, but declined to attend.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 25, 2019

Scouts jamboree for Mystery Creek

By Savannah Patterson More than 3000 Scouts will be attend a jamboree at Mystery Creek Events Centre over the New Year.

Jamboree programme director Mandy Merson said scouts groups in Te Awamutu, Pirongia, Cambridge, and Ohaupo will attend.

“This is the flagship event of New Zealand Scouting. Scouts come from as far as Invercargill, to the top of the North Island – they are traveling from everywhere.

“We also have internationals coming from places such as Australia, UK, Bangladesh and the Pacific Islands.”

The Jamboree will be based at Mystery Creek for the 11 days, but scouts will be going off site to Hamilton, Putaruru, Cambridge and Otorohanga.

As part of the Jamboree activities, one night will include 600 scouts camping at Karapiro.

An open day will be held on January 1 for the public to visit.

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Gardeners are being encouraged to enter the 81st Otorohanga Beattie Rose and Flower Show in the town early next month and organisers hope to add several thousand dollars to the cause.

“Last year we raised $4600 and the year before $5000 so we hope to continue to raise a great amount of funds,” organiser Katrina Christison, the owner of Tidy Gardens in Otorohanga said.

Christison, who is an Otorohanga District Councillor, said gardeners can also enter their veges.

“We have a section for people who have never shown a rose before, we also have children’s classes and sections for any flowers.”

Entries are limited to three a person.

“We encourage everyone to bring along their flowers or roses and we will show them how to stage them.

“We expect to stage well over 100 flowers and we usually get more than 100 people visit to look at the exhibition.”

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FRIDAY OCTOBER 25, 2019

Billy and the kids

By Savannah Patterson

One hundred and thirty people attended the sold-out screening of the film Billy and the Kids at the Regent Theatre on Monday presented

by The Te Awamutu Youth Development Trust.

The fundraising event started at the Te Awamutu Boxing Academy followed by the film.

Te Awamutu Boxing Academy manager Erinna Lane says they were very excited to host the film Billy and the Kids in Te Awamutu.

“It was so popular and well received with a great mix of people from community, our kids from the Academy and some of their whanau attending.”

She says this film documentary was made by award-winning director, Mark Albiston and was first released at the NZ Film Festival this year.

“Billy and the Kids is a documentary about troubled kids that have been caught by the rock-iron mitts of boxing coach Billy Graham.

“Billy Graham himself joined us from Naenae and we were able to do a Q&A session following the film.”

Billy Graham is the older brother of Chris

Graham who is the head coach at Te Awamutu Boxing Academy.

“This film is the story of why Billy started the first academy in Naenae and the stories of several of the young people who have been through there.”

She says Billy grew up rough but was saved by his boxing coach Dick Dunn. Now he has seven boxing academies that are saving kids just like him.

“This has led to these other academies across NZ working with the Billy Graham Youth Foundation who follow this same model each funded by their own local trusts.”

Billy and the Kids tells the story of an overstayer from Nauru, an extreme anxiety sufferer, an Afghani refugee, a young runaway and truant teens who’ve all found a safe haven at Billy’s gym.

“This event was a great opportunity for people to have a look around our local Academy and then enjoy the film together.

“We would love to give Allan Webb at the Regent Theatre a massive thanks for allowing us to show the film at his stunning cinema.”

For more information visit www. billyandthekids.com

Four-and-a-half-year-old Benji McElrea enjoying a ride among the Cambridge Library bookshelves on one of the trikes made by Jim Kerr.

Jim’s toys moves History made by EquiBreed to Te Awamutu Te Awamutu equine reproductive United States and Europe by storm. company EquiBreed NZ have made history “This technique will allow Kiwi breeders with the birth of New Zealand’s first foal to overcome fertility problems in their produced by an in vitro fertility treatment mares and access better genetics from all using intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). over the world as well as produce embryos It is a watershed moment for both at a fraction of the cost of a regular embryo EquiBreed and New Zealand, company transfer programme,” said Dr Morris, who principal Dr Lee Morris said. “The ability to has been working on perfecting the technique produce foals using this fertility treatment for a number of years. puts New Zealand on the world stage. Now it will be possible to breed horses using a single sperm cell and to culture the embryos in the laboratory until they are ready for transfer.”

The imported warmblood mare Wonette is owned by Te Hihi Farms at Karaka and had been unable to carry a pregnancy due to damage sustained from a previous foaling.

After many failed attempts, ICSI became her only option. Sperm was used from showjumping stallion Bravado Ego Z to produce a gorgeous chestnut filly in Sienna.

The ICSI procedure used is very similar to that used in humans and involves recovering eggs from the mare’s ovaries while she is sedated. The eggs are cultured in the laboratory until they are ready for fertilisation. Then a tiny amount of semen is washed and a single sperm cell selected for injection into each egg. The resulting embryos are cultured for 8-10 days in the laboratory before being transferred to a surrogate mare or frozen for future use.

That ICSI can now be done in New The successful fertility treatment produced a Zealand has opened up a whole new world gorgeous chestnut filly, Sienna. Photo – Cheleken for Kiwi breeders. It is already taking the Photography.

Local toymaker Jim Kerr spent some time with fans of his toy collection at Cambridge Library last week before it moved across Waipa to spend a month at Te Awamutu Library.

Some of the many hundreds of items in Jim’s collection had spent several weeks at the Cambridge Library. Jim has carefully crafted the toys either from

scratch or as rebuilds over the many decades he has lived in Cambridge. They first went on display at the local PGG Wrightson outlet before being moved to the library.

Staff at both libraries spent much of last weekend shifting the display to Te Awamutu Library, where it will remain for the next month.

Toymaker Jim Kerr during his open session at Cambridge Library.

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There’s gold in Kihikihi’s snarlers

By Savannah Patterson Kihikihi butchers Deane and Tania Pitcon have continued their sizzling run in the national quest to find New Zealand’s best sausages.

The Meat Factory collected gold at the Devro Great New Zealand Sausage Competition in Auckland last week for their pre-cooked beef sausage.

It was their fifth major award in the six years they have owned the butchery.

The couple won gold and silver medals in 2015 and 2016 for middle bacon in the New Zealand Bacon and Ham Awards and two silver medals in the same event in 2017 for ham on the bone and shoulder bacon.

“From a small family butchery, we are always trying our best and it’s great to get

recognised for it,” Deane Pitcon said. “It’s huge to get our store's name out there with awards like this so it’s a really cool feeling.”

More than 90 butcheries from around New Zealand entered their best sausages and judges were presented with more than 500 sausages across 13 categories being tasted.

The Pitcons produce all of their products in-store and say the secret is working to traditional butchery standards.

Deane Pitcon says the key to good flavour is using plenty of meat, plus they prefer natural skins for their sausages as they cook better.

He says the beef sausage was the best to gain an award because it is the base recipe for their traditional beef sausage - beef and onion (which was highly commended) and beef and garlic traditional sausages.

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FRIDAY OCTOBER 25, 2019

Drummond second Rowers line up for regatta at Oceania

By Savannah Patterson

Te Awamutu track cyclist Michaela Drummond has finished second in the elite women’s 30km Madison at the Oceania Track Cycling Championships in Invercargill, alongside Hamilton’s Jessie Hodges.

The 21 year old finished close behind the Australian combination of Amy Cure and Alexandra Manly in the final.

Cycling New Zealand high performance director Martin Barras regarded the New

Zealand team’s campaign as a success with 19 medals in all – one more then Australia’s total – and called it a “great form guide” ahead of selection for the World Cup season.

“For us it’s been a success, there’s no doubt about that. There’s two main things I’m looking at; how we handle ourselves in the pits - how the team operates off the track and how the team operates on the track, and it’s been satisfying on both accounts.”

International rowers and novices will be on the water at Lake Karapiro early next month for the Te Awamutu Rowing Regatta.

Te Awamutu Rowing Club spokeswoman Ann Edmondson says as many as 600 rowers from schools and clubs throughout Waikato and Auckland will compete at the November 2 regatta.

Events will cater for schools, club and master sections for competitors aged 14 to 60.

“The Te Awamutu Regatta is known as a friendly event where enjoyment of the racing experience counts for more than anything else,” she said.

“It’s the first regatta of the season so it is an opportunity for experienced rowers to test themselves against their potential competition in the major regattas, and for new rowers to have a go at racing.

“Some of the novices will only have been rowing for a few weeks so the prospect of racing on an international course can be a daunting experience, one that the organisers go out of their way to make a positive one.”

A feature of the Te Awamutu Regatta is the premier events in which club rowers get a chance to race with and against elite athletes.

“The quadruple sculls (four people) events have been particularly popular, with national and regional representatives making up crews with club rowers,” Edmondson said.

Twilight bowls series starts

Michaela (left) with Jesse Hodges in the Madison.

Photo – Dianne Manson.

The Te Awamutu Bowling Club launched its ‘Twilight Bowls and Dinner’ combo on Friday October 18 with 26 players and a few extras making for 32 in total enjoying the evening. Bowlers and non-bowlers were put into teams that played two games of 40 minutes each. The winners on the night with two wins were Shane Hargreaves, Gae Young and Christine Osment. Runners up with one win and one draw were Ken Parker, Clark Ambury, and Ron and Vonnie Powell. Four more similar evenings are planned for Friday evenings over the summer months – November 8, December 13, February 14 and March 27 next year. Enquiries can be directed to Judy Cato on 07-871 5388.

Otorohanga riders in the frame Eltham on Saturday and Sunday.

The spectacular track within easy view of State Highway 3.

It could again be a big weekend for Taranaki fans of the sport, with two brothers from nearby Stratford expected to shine.

Camo and Scott Keegan have, between them, shared the premier title over each of the past four years and they will be favoured to wage a terrific battle for top honours again this weekend, especially on home turf.

Camo Keegan has four national title wins to his credit in the premier grade – having

By Andy McGechan The revving engines will reach fever pitch at The Hack Track near Eltham over coming Labour Weekend as the nation’s elite All Terrain Vehicle bike racers head into battle.

Otorohanga’s hopes of success rest with Shane Robinson and Amy Corston.

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won the title for the first time in 2013 and then scoring three in a row, winning in 2016, 2017 and 2018 – so he knows he’ll have a target on his back this weekend.

In addition to his brother, other challenger in the premier grade will likely be Otorohanga’s Robinson, while Christchurch’s Taylor Graham, Egmont Village rider Cory Whitelock, Gisborne’s Ian Newman, Eltham’s Shane Hurliman and Stratford’s Kim Reid might also fancy their chances.

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Otorohanga’s Amy Corston, Christchurch’s Lori Graham and Stratford’s Nicola Reid (along with her with daughters Ashlee and Dannielle) to be among the leaders.

The event is being run by the Taranaki Quad Riders’ Club, in conjunction with the Taranaki Motorcycle Club and has attracted a wide spread of experience from both ends of the spectrum.

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McCarroll maintains strike rate

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Ross McCarroll may have retired his two most proven gallopers, but he showed at Rotorua last Saturday he has another round of ammunition to ensure he maintains a good strike-rate.

The Cambridge trainer operates a boutique stable of no more than a dozen horses and maintains an impressive strike-rate.

Four seasons ago he recorded 11 wins from just 36 starters and last season he again had 11 wins on the board from 63 starters.

From just 13 starters this term, he has recorded two wins, the first with Just Treasure in early August, and last Saturday he came so close to picking up a double on the day. Inscription flashed home to finish second, beaten by a long head by Torre Del Greco, then Initiative, a newcomer to his stable, unleashed a similar finish, also with Ashvin Goindasamy aboard, to win the final event.

“We had a frustrating time for a while with a few things going wrong, so it was good to see them go so well on Saturday,” McCarroll said.

“I’ve lost the two open-class horses in the stable, Calligraphy and Chicane. They’ve gone to stud so basically I’ve got a team working through the grades.”

Calligraphy, a daughter of Perfectly Ready, won six races and recorded 10 placings from 25 starts, while Chicane, a daughter of Coats Choice, notched five wins and seven placings from 21 starts.

Both have been sent to Australia to Darley’s young sire Impending, a son of multiple Group One winner Lonhro.

Inscription, a half-sister to Calligraphy, is now the highest-rated member of McCarroll’s team with a record of five wins and five placings from 14 starts.

She was resuming since completing a hat trick of wins over 1600m on dead tracks at Ellerslie in May and struck a heavy10 track for the first time on Saturday.

“I was a bit worried about her in the ground, but luckily she got through it,” McCarroll said.

“It’s a little bit tricky now where to go with her next. I’ve got three options and still have to work out which is best. She is better with her races spaced.

“I think she’s going to stay more than 1600m this time. I’ve only tried her over 2000m once and that was at Tauranga (in January) when she ran on for fourth to Rondinella. The only reason I kept her at a mile last season was because she was winning.

“Obviously we’d like to win black-type with her so that will be the aim if she’s good enough, and I think she is.”

Inscription is lucky to still be racing after suffering a hairline fracture of her pastern at Ellerslie nearly two years ago.

“Jason Collett rode her that day and he realised something was wrong and pulled her right up,” McCarroll said. “It was his quick thinking that saved her. She was in a box for three months after that and didn’t race again for 10 months.”

Initiative is a gavelhouse.com auction purchase, having been bought as a tried horse in March for $15,000 and is raced by a syndicate which includes former jockey and retired Te Awamutu racecourse manager Greg Chitty.

“It was Ralph Manning that put me on to her,” McCarroll said. “He trained her mother, Innovation, (a triple Listed winner) who was a good mare for him. We were going to $8000 for her then some mates got involved and we ended up getting her for $15,000. She almost paid that straight back with her win on Saturday (earning $14,060).”

Initiative was originally trained by Lisa Anderson and won over 1560m at Rotorua then was set on a path to the Gr.1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m). She contested the Gr.2 Royal Stakes (2000m) when ninth and the Oaks bid was called off after she failed in the Listed Oaks Prelude (1800m) at New Plymouth.

“I looked back on her Royal Stakes win and she did go a good race in that,” McCarroll said. “I’ll just take her along quietly, but she looks promising.”

McCarroll is also pleased with the progress of Pimms ‘N’ Pearls, a winner who resumed with a nose second at Hastings earlier this month.

“She’ll goS to Te Rapa on Monday for a 1200m,” he said. “She’s a chance to do better if she can get a mile. She has run second over 1400m and is a bit stronger this time.”

McCarroll will be looking to maintain his strike rate with maiden graduate Lowprofile and two-race winner Aileen Grace at Tauranga on Friday, but stablemate Pinched, who is unbeaten in two starts (both over 1300m), had a setback and won’t be back racing until early December.

“I had Pinched ready to go, but she had a problem with her foot and I’ve had to back off her,” McCarroll said. “I really like her and she gives the impression she’ll run a strong 1600m.”

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Greg Thomas (right), pictured in the New Zealand WWII uniform, and son Avon Thomas-Lee, dressed as a WWII British paratrooper, are ready for this year’s battle re-enactments – toting a WWII sub machine gun and a MK 2 Bren gun.

Nearly 200 makeshift soldiers from Waipa and around New Zealand will bring history to life at Armistice in Cambridge next month.

Donning uniforms from British paratroopers to Anzac soldiers, reenactors will play out some of history’s most iconic battles, from World War II to much older wars from years gone by.

This year’s event over November 9 and 10, held at Karapiro’s Mighty River Domain, will feature battles from the Boer War, the Russian civil war, the battle of Monte Cassino, battles from the eastern front, the New Zealand Land Wars and even Romans versus Vikings.

“It’s remembrance, it’s keeping history alive, and it’s a hell of a lot of fun,” said Greg Thomas, a Waipa resident and organizer of the historic battles at Armistice in Cambridge.

He describes the 200-odd fanatics who travel from around the country to take part in the re-enactments as “nerdy, history loving people” who are “reasonably eccentric”.

“We are geeks, we’re nerds, we like to dress up and pretend we’re in a different time period. But somebody’s got to keep history alive.

“Computer games and historical movies quite often get things wrong, so it’s our challenge to make sure history is exact.”

Thomas has been involved battle reenactments at Armistice in Cambridge for the last four years, and has since

recruited his teenage son Avon ThomasLee into the ranks.

Asked why he gets involved too, the 14-year-old said it’s fun, and, “why not”. Several more teenagers take part in the local re-enactments, adding to the authenticity of soldiers from history.

“They were largely all young guys. In fact the youngest casualty in World War 1 was 14 years and nine months old,” said Thomas. “Usually we make them wait until 16, but I just take him along anyway since I’m running it!”

Anyone could get involved in battle re-enacting, he said, females included.

“I don’t think they should be excluded from battle re-enactment, because its only re-enactment. If they want to be a nurse, they can be a nurse, if they want to be a soldier, they can be a soldier. Just put your hair up, put a helmet on, and put on the uniform.”

Spots were still open to get involved in this year’s battle re-enactments – just visit the Armistice in Cambridge Facebook page to get in touch, Craig said.

“And if they turn up on the day I’ll have spare uniforms sitting around too.

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“It’s great, for a weekend you’re transporting yourself back to living in a different time period. It’s living history, it’s fun, it’s enjoyable, you get to hang out with like-minded people, and the public get to see it too.”

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The 150th Reunion for Ohaupo School takes place this Friday and Saturday at Ohaupo School, State Highway 3. A social gettogether will be held from 6pm on Friday, with memorabilia and entertainment planned for 10am - 4pm on Saturday followed by a social dinner at 6pm. Register to receive an info pack and tickets – visit the school website or phone 07 823 6736.

The 2019/20 speedway season kicks off this Saturday at the Kihikihi Speedway with the annual Waipa Home Of Champions Fireworks Opening Meeting. Featuring superstocks racing, super saloons and saloon classes, stock cars and ministocks, and fireworks. 5-9pm, Kihikihi Speedway, 53 Grey Street. Gates open 3pm. Tickets at the door: $20 adults, or $10 for students (with ID), seniors and children aged 6 - 16. Under 5s free. Family passes available.

The monthly Pirongia Market returns to the Pirongia Community Centre, Crozier Street this Sunday, 9am - 2pm.

Featuring a selection of craft made by locals, inside and outside stalls, and the local volunteer fire brigade running a sausage sizzle, fundraising for a commnuity defibrillator.

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One of the greatest epic movies of all time, a story of both tragedy and triumph.

In 73 B.C., a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a gladiatorial school run

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Their plan is to acquire sufficient funds to hire ships from Silesian pirates who could then transport them from Brandisium, in the south, to other lands. The Roman Senator Gracchus (Charles Laughton) schemes to have Marcus Publius Glabrus (John Dall), Commander of the garrison of Rome, lead an army against the slaves who are living on Vesuvius. When Glabrus is defeated, his mentor Senator and General, Marcus Licinius Crassus is greatly embarrassed and leads his own army against the slaves. Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) and

the thousands of freed slaves successfully make their way to Brandisium only to find that the Silesians have abandoned them. They then turn north and must face the might of Rome. Your only chance to see this magnificent spectacle on the big screen so make sure you make the effort.

An all-time epic masterpiece: rich, engrossing and beautifully moving.

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