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Heritage walk unveiled By Sophie Iremonger
Te Awamutu historians have spent the past three years researching the stories behind the town’s heritage commercial buildings, and a walk and talk next week as part of Waipa Heritage month will reveal their findings. It’s the first time a heritage walk has been held in Te Awamutu, with about an hour and a half dedicated to exploring the history of the CBD on February 14. It was an important project for the Te Awamutu
Genealogy group, telling the story of Te Awamutu’s development, so when Waipa District Libraries contacted the group about conducting the walk for Waipa Heritage Month, it made perfect sense to finally share their findings. The information will also be shared at a talk in the Te Awamutu Library community room on February 5. “Learning about local history, when you walk around the place afterwards it’s a different place, it makes it a more interesting place,” said Alan Hall, an historic researcher who will conduct the walk.
“Our history around here is very rich, and we haven’t given it enough acknowledgement really,” said Sandra Metcalf, who has also spent extensive hours researching the project. “If you don’t preserve knowledge in some way then it just gets lost over time. That’s what we do as family historians, try to make sure that information is there for our future generations.” Many of Te Awamutu’s iconic buildings had become “sweethearts” during the research process, Metcalf said. “They’re all special, they’ve all got some story to tell. “I think it’s pretty impressive the work we’ve managed to put together. “It’s really just increasing the awareness of the history of Te Awamutu and how it’s developed.” Having trawled through council archives, museum documents, old newspapers and the likes to put the research together, they plan to make the body of work available to a museum, or turn it into a publication for future references. “It’s been very interesting, the bits we’ve picked up along the way,” said Hall. “Seeing how buildings evolved is fascinating... Over time the business had to change to survive, so that’s fascinating as well, seeing how buildings can continue to become relevant over time. … Like when you walk into the hairdressers, you can see where it used to be a garage. “Then when people go into these buildings they know part of the story, and it all makes a lot more sense. “They’ll take away a bit more about the town in which they live.” To find out more or to register for the free Te Awamutu Central Heritage Walk, email Dee Atkinson on Dee.Atkinson@waipadc.govt.nz or phone 07 823 3838.
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On the beat Meeting the team looking after you… with Ryan Fleming
This week I thought I would do something a little different for my column and write about the staff that work here in Te Awamutu. We have a number of workgroups that perform a diverse range of specialities based in Te Awamutu. PST - Public safety teams are the backbone of the police, the first line responders to 111 calls, emergencies and incidents. Typically speaking when one graduates from Royal New Zealand Police College in Porirua they will be posted to a PST section. Here in Te Awamutu they are mentored by a more experienced constable and led by two sergeants. Prevention - This is the workgroup I am assigned to. We have a Youth Aid Constable whose role is to hold youth offenders accountable and where possible look for other means of resolving matters. Often this means liaising with other agencies. There is also a Youth Education Officer whose responsibility is to deliver training packages to schools. Then there is my role; Community Constable. My role involves community engagement. We are led a Sergeant. Watch house - This workgroup is staffed by two civilian employees. Their main focus is on interaction with the public at the front counter. The staff here are extremely knowledgeable and our two watch house officers have worked for the police longer than most. Prosecutions - We have one prosecutor and one support officer. The prosecutor is a Sergeant who argues for the police in court. The support officer assists him by ensuring our arrest files are up to scratch. AO - Authorised Officer is a non-sworn
employee with particular powers under the Policing Act 2008. His or her main function is to manage custody of offenders, transport prisoners to and from Waikeria for court duty etc. CIB - Criminal Investigation Branch are the detectives, We have a team of detectives based here in Te Awamutu who after receiving specialised training at RNZPC investigate crimes of a more serious nature. Although based in Te Awamutu, they cover a large part of the southern Waikato. Attached to CIB is a Prison Enquiry Officer. STU - Strategic Traffic Unit. This workgroup is primarily responsible for enforcing traffic infringements investigating serious crashes and reducing the trauma of crashes. They also cover the southern Waikato. CVST - Commercial Vehicle Safety Team are a national workgroup that work out of Te Awamutu, They are primarily responsible for enforcing legislative requirements around the trucking industry and other commercial vehicles such as taxis. Te Awamutu is the area headquarters for the Waikato West police area. We have executive staff who make the area work. For example our area executive officer who is responsible for ensuring the police buildings, vehicles etc are up to scratch, uniforms ordered for staff. We are all led by our area commander, Inspector Andrew Mortimore. So there you have it, a small glimpse into the workings of your local police staff.
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Mangapiko Stream in Te Awamutu is now home to a raft of new international visitors working to combat weeds. A release on Wednesday morning involved caterpillars, originating from Japan. They will grow into Honshu White Admiral butterflies which have a keen appetite for Japanese Honeysuckle, a serious environmental weed prominent around streams and rivers across New Zealand. Waipā District Council’s service delivery group manager Dawn Inglis said the weed or pest plant has hindered riparian and native planting efforts in the district in the past. “Our team has been looking forward to this day for some months and we are certainly pleased to be underway. We expect the butterflies to establish a viable colony in the Te Awamutu area over the next couple of years, which in time will move out into the surrounding catchments providing both environmental benefits and weed control assistance to landowners. “With Honeysuckle growth under control long-term, we will be able to introduce new riparian planting next year which is part of our resource consent conditions for Te Awamutu Wastewater Treatment Plant.” Japanese honeysuckle Lonicera japonica is an aggressive weed, featuring small yellow and white flowers, which typically blankets neighbouring vegetation as it climbs. The caterpillars were released by Waikato RiverCare operations manager, Kevin Hutchinson, who manages riparian planting programmes across the Waikato region. Honshu butterfly colonies have already been established in sites across the Waikato and Canterbury following successful trial releases. The released caterpillars are reared at Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research in Lincoln, Canterbury and have a lifespan of up to three weeks. White admiral butterflies survive on only a very narrow range of host plants and breed only under optimal conditions. “Female honshu butterflies can lay up to 200 eggs each and the caterpillars have a good appetite for Japanese honeysuckle. Rather than spraying honeysuckle with herbicides, these caterpillars and butterflies are an excellent long-term biological control with proven results,” Hutchinson said. The Environmental Protection Authority approved the release of the butterflies in 2013.
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Waipā District Council today moved to Alert 3 in the wake of dry weather and increased demand for water. Eleven days after alert level 1 was put in place the council has announced further restrictions on outdoor water use for the whole community; residential, commercial and non-residential properties, including reserves and sport facilities. Handheld hosing is still allowed but no sprinkler use is permitted at any time. The water alert applies to Te Awamutu, Pirongia, Ohaupo, Kaipaki and surrounding areas in Waipa. Cambridge and Kihikihi do not face restrictions yet. Waipā District Council’s waters services manager, Martin Mould, said last week’s water alert level 1 did not drive a change in behaviour. “Dry conditions coupled with low stream and dam levels means we’ve now hit the trigger level for water alert level 3 on both Te Awamutu and Pukerimu water schemes. “We need people to conserve water now. To have an increasing demand, despite moving to alert level 1 last Monday is incredibly disappointing.” At water alert level 3, large industry businesses are also required to implement water conservation measures. An increase of taste and odour complaints also highlights the low stream and dam levels, Mould added. “Algae is a naturally occurring organism found in fresh water which can become abundant when there are periods of high sunlight and low turnover, such as the
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Justim Rummel loves his chillis.
By Savannah Patterson Te Awamutu’s Justin Rummel has managed to eat his way to becoming the chilli eating champion of the world. The Auckland Armageddon’s League of Fire (LOF) Chilli Eating Championship was held in Auckland on Saturday at Sweat Shop Brew Kitchen. The event involved a regular chilli eating contest followed by a belt match between Justin “The Thunder From Down Under” Rummel and a former New Zealand champ, Jess “The Chilli Fillie” Gardner. Rummel was excited to be a part of this competition after competing and coming second at the World Chilli Eating Championship in the United Kingdom last year, where UK winner, Shahina Waseem, gave him the belt to bring back to NZ to spread awareness of the sport.
The spray-painter by trade says this competition involved eating up to eight chillies per round that ranged from one million scoville units plus. He says he did a bit of training before the championship by eating super hot chillies like these to bring his tolerance level up. “Jess only lasted four rounds but I think we did 17 chillies in under 10 minutes.” The battle can last up to 10 rounds in which competitors go to a final speed eating round if needed. The father-of-three says he is among one of three to make it that far in the world. “Eating so many hot chillies in such a short amount of time puts your body into shock and you get a massive endorphin rush.” He says he will be defending his title on May 31 when 76-time-undefeated champ Shahina “The UK Chilli Queen” Waseem comes over for the NZ Hot Sauce Festival.
Project in the pipeline
Work on the Albert Park pump station is a visible sign of water works for Te Awamutu residents. The station, next to the Hot Rod Club, is being upgraded as part of the Waikeria pipeline project which started last September. “The Waikeria pipeline project is a major piece of infrastructure that will move wastewater from Waikeria through Kihikihi to Te Awamutu for treatment at our modern wastewater treatment plant,” Council’s service delivery group manager, Dawn Inglis said. Visitors using the Pioneer walkway,
Pioneer Playground and the Rose Gardens may notice an increase of construction activity throughout February and March as the new pipeline from Albert Park is laid underground between Albert Park Drive, Arawata Street and Mutu Road. As the works progress, new pipes will be laid along residential streets, including Mangapiko Street, Factory Road and Daphne Street. Work on the new wastewater pipe that will connect Waikeria Pump Station with Kihikihi is also progressing well within prison grounds and is due to reach Waikeria Road at the end of
January. The majority of both sections of pipe will be installed using directional drilling techniques rather than the traditional open cut method, which is more visible. Once completed, the new pump station will be capable of moving more than 9,108m3 (or approximately three Olympic sized swimming pools) worth of wastewater flows a day at peak times. The project was outlined in the 2018-2028 10 Year Plan to upgrade the wastewater network across the district. For more information go to www. waipadc.govt.nz/waikeria.
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Young talent recognised
Alex Mather began playing the cornet at Te Awamutu Intermediate and is now a member of the Te Awamutu College band. And now he has been honoured by the Te Awamutu Brass Band at its awards night. Alex collected the prestigious John Pye Award, which recognises musical excellence in youth.
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It's Beer O'Clock
Over the long weekend I sampled some Stoke ales, the McCashin’s post-Macs offerings. The number four springs to mind – because the ales were all under the five percent level which has become the New Zealand norm. I grew up in a time when beers were not as potent as today, and I wonder why more effort isn’t made to produce more hoppy low alcohol brews – like Mid Vicious. And why a government can’t be proactive and tax lighter beers more, er, lightly. Which brings me to this week’s Beer O’clock offering. I decided to take the team the first sample in a glass. I believe the extent of my beer expertise is that I like the stuff. “I have long figured that if you gave me a Rheineck on a hot day I could be fooled into thinking it was a Kingfisher,” I told the team. “So what’s this?” Pale Ale, declared Gary. APA, David reckoned. Overall reaction – not bad, but not amazing. But 10 minutes in, the team was calling for a second, and praising the beer. I unveiled the reptilian bottles – one of the best you will find from a Kiwi brewer – they were Tuatara IPAs, launched last April. Tuatara is based in Kapiti and one of a range of breweries producing top quality ales. I’m an occasional Tuatara imbiber, and my session with the IPA was most pleasant – too bad six divided by three means there was only two each. But what was the twist in the Tuatara tale? I suspect it was the 6.1 per cent alcohol content. Maybe that’s why those beers with bigger numbers always seem better.
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Weavers praise workshop By Viv Posselt
An introductory weaving workshop at Te Awamutu Museum, led by weaving master Kahutoi Te Kanawa, proved so popular that museum staff organised a second, and have fielded enquiries for more. Eleven people attended the first of the threeday raranga weaving workshops, held from January 14-16. A second was held from January 20-22, arranged principally to cater for those who couldn’t get into the first one. The programme covered the basic knowledge of weaving harakeke (flax), its harvesting and preparation, and construction techniques of whatu (cloak) making, piupiu (dyed skirt), kete (basket), kono (bowl) and other items. It also covered the traditional protocols, history and foundational concepts. The workshops were organised to run parallel to Kahutoi’s Te Ohanga Ake exhibition, which forms part of the artist’s PhD on the intergenerational knowledge transfer of Maori fibre weaving arts. The exhibition will remain open until the end of March. A renowned master weaver, Kahutoi is the daughter and granddaughter
of renowned Maori weavers Diggeress Te Kanawa and Dame Rangimārie Hetet. She started weaving as a young child and went on to gain a masters with honours in art and design from the Auckland University of Technology; she has also published numerous academic articles and has exhibited widely throughout New Zealand and internationally. Some of Kahutoi’s pieces are on show in Edinburgh, and while presenting at the British Museum in London, she had an unexpected opportunity to talk about her work to international broadcaster and natural historian, Sir David Attenborough. She described the workshops as offering Maori and non-Maori alike
an opportunity to waken the mind to the backstory behind Maori fibre weaving arts. “Traditionally, it was about survival and function,” she said. “Both genders did the weaving, the children learned it while young. We walked through the 170 years of its history during the first day of the workshop … we talked about its meaning and value today. There is a huge interest and need in this country to revive it.” The museum’s exhibitions co-ordinator Henriata Nicholas said: “We have had a call to do this thing for years, but had to co-ordinate with Kahutoi, or someone with her depth of knowledge. We’re thrilled to have finally brought it here … it’s something the museum is very keen to support.”
Carolyn Rau, who moved recently from Tokoroa to Ohaupo, described the weaving workshop as special and said she particularly enjoyed the fusion of practical skills with the ethos of Maori weaving.
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While most people are out and about enjoying the beautiful summer weather, at Owl Farm we are putting systems in place to ensure our cows are as cool and comfortable as possible, as well as the team working on farm. Grace Wisnewski, a student at St Peters, knows this well as she focused her NIWA science fair on heat stress in cows last year and presented her findings to local farmers at a recent Focus Day on the farm. Grace found that: In the past two seasons, there were around 80 days that all breeds of cow were heat stressed. Climate conditions in the Waikato suggest that the level of heat stress appears to have been increasing for the last 12 seasons by 3.5 days per year. That the estimated loss of income due to heat stress increases year on year by $1,000. We were milking twice a day but once it started getting hot and dry in early January the decision was made to switch to 3-in-2 milking. This means the herd is milked twice on one day, at 5am and 6pm, and then once the next day, at 11am. This method takes the pressure off cows and people. Cows spend less time walking to and from the shed in the heat and people spend less time milking. This has limited impact on total production, but reduces work time by 10.5 hours/week. This fits in well with one of Owl Farm’s goals - to achieve an average working week per person of 45hrs over the year. The wellbeing of people is becoming a key focus of the industry. With this in mind, Lincoln University is carrying out research looking into 3-in-2 milking, either for part or all of the season, and the impact it has on a variety of indices including milk production, people and cow welfare. Tom Buckley (Owl Farm Manager) says “the milking routine works well as less time is spent siting behind cows in the heat of the day. Cows are slow to move when they’re hot. Cow flow through the shed is improved and it’s more comfortable for us milking the cows”. Cows generate a lot of heat digesting food in their massive rumen. They are most comfortable in temperatures around 4-20 degrees. They start to get uncomfortable around 10-15 degrees before we do. As well as reducing the amount of time walking and milking during the hottest time of the day Owl Farm aim to feed cows low dry matter feeds like turnips in the morning and provide a bigger feed of high fibre pasture and silage at nights when it’s cooler and the cow is able to handle the heat produced from
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its rumen better. At Owl Farm we have sprinklers operating on the yard to aid in cooling the cows and whenever possible we offer day paddocks with shade so cows have the choice to find a cooler spot in between grazing bouts. To be most effective this should be around 5m2/cow. We are continually looking at adding more shade planting options on farm. A new addition this season has been adding access to troughs along the races so that cows can stop for a drink to and from the milking shed or their walk to the crops. Cows will drink up to 100L/day so providing lots of access during the hot summer is crucial. Cows are kept cooler and milking is more enjoyable for everyone so that we can choose to be out enjoying the hot summer days at the lake or with family.
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What’s On… Te Awamutu Interdenominational Morning Prayer – Our Christian Community from all Christian fellowships are worshiping for our Town and Nation. Held daily from Monday-Friday 6.30-7.30am at the Baptist Building, 106 Teasdale Street. Info: 022 305 8353 Arthritis Support Group – Meetings on the 4th Wednesday of every month, 10.00am at the RSA, Alexandra St. Info: 07 871 4426 Te Awamutu Toastmasters – Every first and third Tuesday of the month, 7.30pm - 9.30pm at the Waipa District Council building, Bank St, Te Awamutu. Info: Katrina 0274 762 843. Te Awamutu Seriously Social Cycling Group – every Wednesday, leaving at 9.30am from the Mitre 10 carpark, Cambridge Road, Te Awamutu. Wear: bright clothing and a helmet. Includes a café stop at the end. All ages involved (30 to 80). All welcome. Info: Betsy 0274951138. Te Awamutu and Districts Highland Pipe Band – The band practices on Monday nights, 7.00pm to 9.00pm in the Hairini Hall, Rangioawhia Road. Tuition for pipers and drummers, from learners to those with more experience. All welcome. Info: 021 240 5275. Te Awamutu Quilters – meet every second Tuesday at Alma Brotherhoood Court, 28 Herbert St (opposite Moule St), Kihikihi. Session times are 9am-1pm and 6.30-9pm. Info: Sally 07 871 3125 Ratepayers Society Market Day – Aotea Domain,Sunday 2nd February from 9-12, local arts and crafts, produce, preserves, bric a brac, car boot sale.Info Sue Forsythe 0276482574 Te Awamutu Bridge Club - 888 Te Rahu Rd: Monday 7pm, Tuesday 11am (bring lunch), Wednesday 7pm, Friday 1.15pm, start January 28. Youth Bridge 10yrs +, Tuesday 4pm-5.30pm (school term only) $10/term start February 18. Adult lessons Thursday 7pm, start February 20. Tutor Sally Whitaker - 871 6570. Info Alison Snell - 871 6656 Rosebank Art Centre – A friendly group of local visual artists meeting at Churchill Street every Friday 9.30 – 1.00pm approx. New members of all levels welcome. For more info call in for a chat or contact Sue Gordon 871 3300 or 0274 849 143 Te Awamutu RSA Mahjong Club is an autonomous group affilliated to TARSA through membership subscriptions. This is a friendly social group that enjoys playing on Tuesday evenings at 7pm sharp and/or Friday afternoons at 1pm sharp at the RSA. A beginners course is coming up soon. For more information contact Robin Jackways 027 266 2259 or Pauline Chidlow 027 632 6733. Kihikihi Car Boot Sale – Sunday 2nd February, starting at 9am. $5 per car. Cars to be located adjacent to Temple Cottage and the Maori Women’s Welfare League house.
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