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Water use is not a bad thing Ford Every Stream

Gerald Ford I really don’t understand opposition to water storage. Opponents, such as Nga Kaitiaki o Wairarapa – a subcommittee of Te Patukituki o Wairarapa – seem to be driven by the ideology that farming is intrinsically bad (see story page 27). People just assume that more water use will mean poorer water quality downstream, that “intensification” – a loaded term if ever there was one – means an automatic deterioration in water quality. What is missed in all of this is that we’ve all got to eat, and when the ground is dry, it doesn’t produce, or doesn’t produce as well. More water used means more food grown, whether directly through food crops or indirectly through pasture or crops for livestock, supporting the red meat and dairy industries. As long as there are safeguards in place to prevent extra runoff to waterways, this is an opportunity, not a liability. At the same time, I don’t have much time for the Federated Farmers line that things are either improving or staying stable in most waterways, or pointing to urban pollution as a co-contributor (page 30). Both arguments are irrelevant and minimising.

A farmer’s “wet paddock” with its plant life is potentially an ecosystem’s natural water filter, and draining the few of them left to increase grazing area can only have a negative effect on waterways. I just think we need to choose our battles, however, and not confuse the issues. As far as water storage is concerned, the region has potential to increase the amount of food grown in our valley through collecting water in times of high flow for distribution in times of low flow. This is not an intrinsic evil. We all ultimately eat from the land. Water quality is a separate issue to water availability. Conflating the two unfairly taints a group of people who are doing their best to make the region we depend on more profitable – profit being a good thing. It also devalues the important work that farmers do in producing food for the planet and bringing in export dollars for the country. It is true that towns also contribute to water degradation, but every waterway is different and every waterway has its own story. More can be done to protect our waterways from agricultural run-off, especially in the area of riparian (riverside) plantings and wetland filters. A clear view of the issue of water quality is still important. More research is needed into what is causing waterway degradation, and where it is farming, into what we can do about it. But water storage means storing water, conserving it even. Since when is conservation a bad thing? FOR NEWS Editor Gerald Ford (06) 370 0925 gerald.ford@age.co.nz

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Buses may be Wellington bound BY DON FARMER

Tranzit Group is on the brink of securing a massive deal to service the Wellington public bus network which would mean building 228 new buses and employing a further 380 bus drivers. The Masterton company that started life as Blue Bus Services and remains familyowned has been named the preferred bidder to secure a contract, embracing eight separate contracts, with Greater Wellington Regional Council that could extend to 15 years. The company already runs GWRC’s Wairarapa services. Tranzit fought off more than 80 rival bids from nine tenderers, including several from overseas, to gain preferred status. Securing the contract would mean spending many millions of dollars renewing

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the bus fleet and on staffing, both of which would, to a degree, benefit Wairarapa. Managing director Paul Snelgrove, a third generation Snelgrove family bus man, said he was “rapt” with the outcome which was decided at a regional council meeting on Thursday. The meeting decided to name Tranzit Group as the preferred bidder for the eight contracts with UZAbus, Palmerston North, the preferred partner for a bus contract in Kapiti. The bus company was started by Paul’s grandfather Albert (AJ) Snelgrove 93 years ago, and carried on by his father Bert and his uncles. “I am third generation and we already have the fourth generation involved,” Mr Snelgrove said. Tranzit is aiming to serve Wellington commuters with a new bus fleet giving smoother and more comfortable rides – but is not leaving Wairarapa out of the loop. “We are bus people and this is a bus-keen region. “People rightly expect a lot from their buses and we are going to deliver on our promises to them,” Mr Snelgrove said. The six or seven buses being used on urban routes here, including the Martinborough link and the Featherston to Masterton connection, will all be replaced. New buses that should be appearing in Wellington from the middle of next year will be mostly built in Tauranga, but the sheer volume needed means some will be built in Britain and a few in China.

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Mr Snelgrove said although it was not proposed to increase driver numbers in Wairarapa, there would be extra staff employed at the head office in Masterton and in the workshop. “We will need extra people in accounts and finance, in human resources, and in marketing. “In the workshop we will look at employing more apprentices to train in the body shop,” he said. Although it was too early to put an accurate figure on the investment needed, Mr Snelgrove said it would easily be the biggest investment Tranzit has ever made. New buses can cost between $350,000 and $600,000 each, which when multiplied out by 228 would suggest a ballpark figure of around $90m to $100m to secure the new fleet. Tranzit’s HR and legal director Renee Snelgrove said she anticipated hiring another 380 drivers to join the company’s

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1000-strong “family”. She was the country’s youngest ever female bus driver when she qualified at 18, and said the company’s success was due to a strongly-knit team culture. Tranzit would be looking to take on drivers now working for the existing Metlink services. Regional council chairman Chris Laidlaw said Tranzit and UZAbus would bring environmentally friendly bus fleets that would improve air quality across the region, reducing harmful emission of pollutants by at least 38 per cent in Wellington and 84 per cent in the Hutt Valley. He said over the next year new routes would be made public, along with measures to reduce congestion. For now timetables would remain the same. Barry Kidd, chief executive of the Bus and Coach association, said the news of the contracts was a “great result” for Tranzit, the regional council and bus users. He said the company had an outstanding pedigree running efficient, safe and comfortable bus and coach services throughout the country.

Couple hospitalised after crash BY HAYLEY GASTMEIER

An overseas couple are “lucky” to be alive after their vehicle flipped onto its side and skidded along the road, before crashing into another vehicle on Lake Ferry Rd. A 27-year-old man was flown to Wellington Hospital in a serious but stable condition, following the two-car collision at 10am on Sunday. A woman in her 20s, described as being in a “moderate condition” was taken to Wairarapa Hospital by Wellington Free Ambulance. Martinborough Volunteer Fire Brigade senior firefighter Garry Jackson said the injured couple were from overseas, and had been travelling in a people mover. “The vehicle had over corrected and they went up on their side and actually

careened along the side of the road, before taking out that other car.” He said the people mover had collided “head-on” with a RAV4. Its female driver suffered minor injuries. Mr Jackson said the crash had been the “worst accident” he had seen in his career. “I’ve been to fatalities and the vehicles haven’t been as wrecked as what the people mover was. “It was pretty awful. They’ve got to thank their lucky stars that they even got out of it.” He said the crash victims had been initially helped by bystanders, including a doctor. The man’s seat belt had been cut to free him from the vehicle. Life Flight Westpac Rescue helicopter

crewman Mike Beausoleil said the crash occurred about one kilometre past Pirinoa, toward the Lake Ferry township. “We responded, as well as police, fire, and a road ambulance.” He confirmed that a male patient had been flown to Wellington Hospital in a serious but stable condition. “We were on the ground for about 45 minutes just treating the patients and stabilising them, getting them ready to go,” Mr Beausoleil said. “I think everyone was very lucky in the crash, that the injuries weren’t any more serious.” Police said the Serious Crash Unit were not required.

The wreck of a vehicle which flipped onto its side and crashed into another vehicle on Lake Ferry Rd yesterday morning. PHOTO/SUPPLIED

• This was the second multi-vehicle crash last week. On Thursday, an elderly man was critically injured in a two-vehicle head-on crash on State Highway 2 just north of Carterton. The man later died in hospital.

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Waimeha: Camp ‘village’ plan

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A mostly dry stream bed on the South Wairarapa coast has become the symbol for a new tourist venture, opening up hosted accommodation less than 2km from Ngawi. Coastal farmer and cray fisherman John Priest is preparing to launch Waimeha Camping Village – a 30-person camping ground with cabins, powered and tenting sites. The venture will be officially launched on Saturday, June 3. Waimeha can be translated as “water that tries” according to Mr Priest’s partner Sissy Pickering, who teaches Te Reo Maori at nearby a local school. The cabins, which are being completed in stages, will sleep four to six occupants and also being constructed are a separate office, bathrooms, kitchens and potentially a common area, subject to consent. The venture also has the potential to increase to 50 guests in future. A third-generation farmer in the area, Mr Priest himself lives on the site, in a farmhouse shifted there from Whangaimoana. Several years ago he researched the landscape which includes the family farm, with a view to subdividing a block for the purpose. This required some care checking for potential sites of archaeological significance, to avoid including them in the subdivision. Historically an area of Maori settlement, there are middens, rubbish sites and other signs of this period of history nearby, but not on Mr Priest’s 4ha block itself. Mr Priest is a sheep and beef farmer but now spends much of his time cray fishing on a leased quota. He is no stranger to tourism business, often hosting volunteers such as WOOFers, (Willing Workers on Organic Farms) and a shorter-term equivalent. He has also constructed the “Carbecue”, a built-in barbecue in the back of a stationwagon, having obtained a food licence to sell fresh food down on the beach or at social functions. The vehicle comes complete with sound system. Waimeha, however, is the biggest venture Mr Priest has attempted. It has involved getting numerous consents from South Wairarapa District Council, who are “doing their job, and want to get it right”. “The wastewater took the longest”, Mr Priest said. The European system involves a series of sediment tanks and the discharge of treated effluent to land to be recycled back into the system. Freedom campers often come to the South Wairarapa coast, and Mr Priest sees his venture as providing an alternative. The tourism venture has approval from the council’s Maori Standing Committee, and from residents of Ngawi. “The support from locals was really

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good,” Mr Priest said. David Hancock, chief executive of Destination Wairarapa, said he had visited Waimeha with Pixie Tipoki, team leader of the Masterton and Martinborough i-SITE Visitor Centres. “We were pleased to be able to offer some suggestions on the segmenting of the product and making the most out of the various levels of accommodation,” Mr Hancock said. “The i-sites are constantly pointing visitors to the south coast and we’ve seen the popularity of the Lake Ferry Hotel and Campground and the Gateway Motel & Holiday Park. “This property’s size and style are just right for the market and will be a valuable addition to the handful of holiday house style properties which currently make up the accommodation inventory down there closer towards the Palliser Lighthouse and Ngawi. “There are already thousands of tourists heading down there who can now stay with this added capacity. But there are also other user groups like surfers and people fishing. Mr Hancock said the development could encourage an operator of a Maori cultural experience in the area. “There’s certainly a wealth of stories to work with down there.”

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A Wairarapa tour operator is an Auckland this week taking its ventures to new heights. Green Jersey Explorer Tours is at TRENZ 2017 in Auckland to promote a guided walk trip to The Pinnacles Scenic Reserve at Cape Palliser. The company has until now offered bike hire and a range of cycle tours through the wine village of Martinborough, on the Rimutaka Cycle Trail as well as bespoke tours further afield. Green Jersey owner Stuart Edwards has been granted a Department of Conservation concession to run daily guided tours to The Pinnacles, an area of spectacular natural geography that featured in Sir Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings: Return of the King movie. The guided walk to the Pinnacles is part of a new full-day tour called Palliser Bay Coastal Explorer Walk and Tour. The tour can start from Martinborough or Wellington, with participants catching the Wairarapa train and being met at Featherston Railway Station. The tour takes in other landmarks along the coast including Ngawi, Cape Palliser Lighthouse, the seal colony and Lake Ferry. “I’m excited to be launching this officially at TRENZ 2017,” Mr Edwards said. “To get Green Jersey in front of these buyers, who are the most influential in terms of

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The revolving door of crime BY CHELSEA BOYLE

Masterton District Court can be likened, without exaggeration, to being simply a revolving door for some of Wairarapa’s most persistent criminals. Over the past three years, roughly twothirds of people appearing in the dock have had a previous conviction. It is a number that does not surprise former Masterton police officer Dr Kim Workman who says prison is a “great place to network with other criminals”. Born and bred in Greytown, Dr Workman is one of the country’s leading advocates for reform in the corrections system. The evidence shows people are more likely to reoffend when they go to prison, especially if they go for a while, he said. The Times-Age asked for the numbers of reoffenders going through the Masterton District Court dock in an Official Information Act request. In 2014, of the 868 people who had charges finalised in Masterton, 633 had been previously convicted. The following year it was 577 of 778 and last year it was 582 of 786. Masterton District Court.

Often people leave and they are never really quite the same, they have been traumatised by the experience of prison. In these statistics, only convictions since 1980 were counted as a previous conviction. For Dr Workman, prison is a big part of the problem that is keeping people coming back to the court dock. “About two-thirds of all people that go to prison, for example, will reoffend within five years of release,” he said. “The question then is: ‘Is prison the best place to deal with offenders?’” “There is plenty of research around what you need to do to make prisons more effective but the larger question is who should go to prison?” It was a complex issue to address but it was worth considering alternatives such as community-based treatments or programmes that might produce better results, he said. “The problem often is, for people who are criminally inclined, prison is a great place to network with other criminals. “The old saying that prisons are a university of crime, is true as well.“They start to pick up ideas about how to commit crime with a lesser chance of getting caught.” Prison can also be a violent place, he said. “Often people leave and they are never really quite the same, they have been traumatised by the experience of prison.”

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Corrections: Reoffending in decline BY CHELSEA BOYLE

Department of Corrections Deputy National Commissioner Rachel Leota says the number of offenders who reoffend had been declining over the past five years. Compared to 2011, there were almost 25 per cent fewer reoffenders in the system now. Factors elsewhere in the criminal justice system, such as the prosecution rate, conviction rate, and the type of sentences imposed had resulted in less serious offenders being diverted out of the justice system, she said. Of those who remained, there was now a “larger proportion of people more likely to reoffend and more difficult to work with”, and a smaller proportion of first time and lower-risk offenders in the system, she said. The combined effect created the drop in the reoffending rate. Dr Kim Workman one of the country’s leading advocates for reform in the corrections system said that a high number of people were being incarcerated — about 210 per 100,000 of the population now, compared to about 100 per 100,000, 20 years ago, he said. Nationally, the number of adults sentenced to prison has increased over the past four years. Statistics NZ figures show that the number of adults imprisoned nationally are 7480 in 2013; 7506 in 2014; 7502 in 2015; and 8204 in 2016. Dr Workman believes too many people are bailed in custody, who could be

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Flowering Sasanqua Camellias are coming into ˛ ower now. This is the perfect time to buy and plant – see the ˛ owers and colours before you buy! This is really the last month for planting spring ˛ owering bulbs. Mix bulb food into the soil when planting – this will get them o˜ to a good start once the roots start developing.

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The above refers to planting in the garden from seedlings, bulbs or tubers. If sowing from seed, allow about a month for seedlings to appear and reach a growth stage equivalent to the ready-bought seedling.

Fallen autumn leaves from deciduous trees are best because they break down easiest, but you can use any leaves from any time of year. For best results, shred thicker evergreen leaves before adding them to the pile. It also pays to remove leaves from groundcovers and succulents (a leaf blower comes in handy here). When looking for leaves, you don’t need to restrict yourself to your own property. Leaves from grass verges, neighbours (politely ask ÿ rst though of course!), and parks will do. Just avoid leaves on the road as they may contain contaminants like oil and petrol.

Next, give the leaves a quick spray with water before putting them into plastic bags. Use a garden fork to poke a few holes in the bag

and then close the bag (use a heavy object like a brick to ensure it stays closed). Store it in a hot, sunny location for at least a year. If you have a lot of leaves you could make a leaf bin instead, and store your leaves in that. You’ll know that your leaf mould is able to be used when it is soft and crumbles to the touch. How long you leave the leaf mould to decompose for will mean that it can be used for di˜ erent things. Younger leaf mould can be used as a soil conditioner, or mulch. Sprinkle it around your vegetable gardens, shrubs, and perennials to a maximum depth of 7 cm. But, if patience is one of your virtues, leaf mould that is over two years old makes a fantastic seed-sowing compost.

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Region’s Men’s Sheds reach a “full house” BY KEVIN BALL Seven members of Wairarapa’s newest Men’s Shed, based in Pahiatua, travelled down the valley yesterday (Tuesday), catching up with and picking the brains of fraternal groups in Masterton and Carterton. The opening of the Pahiatua Men’s Shed last week represented a “full house” of sheds in Wairarapa, with each town now having a facility where mostly-retired men can meet, socialise and make things for

themselves and the community. The Pahiatua shed is based in the Tararua Youth Centre and after just a week has a dozen men on its books. It has the backing of the local Rotary Club and Pahiatua On Track, in effect the town council. After a pizza lunch at the Henley Men’s Shed in Masterton the visitors headed on to the Carterton Men’s Shed and a family reunion of sorts. Ken Russell pointed out that his brother, Tony, was a founder of the Carterton facility.

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but these haven’t prevented his overall progress and each one has taught him valuable lessons. At Microsoft there was a standing joke that to get ahead in the corporation you needed to have a major failed project. Michael Jordan attributed his success to his numerous failures and has a famous quote: “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” So the first thing you learn in improv is to embrace failure. The catch cry is “Again!” and off we go for another crack. In improv performance the audience wants to see the actors fail and they get a laugh by retrieving a dire situation or going down in flames; the entertainment value is the same. Being concerned with looking good and preserving our reputations inhibits us tremendously in all areas of life. One of the participants last year summed up the real value of the improv weekend, “made me more comfortable being me”. Limelight Improv Weekend May 13-14 at the Carterton Events Centre - information at www.limelight.org.nz some places may still be available. There are two shows: Saturday night 8pm at Greytown Little Theatre, Best on Tap are putting on “Who? An improvised show about who you are” and Sunday, 5pm at Carterton Events Centre there’s the workshop participants’ show.

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The sun shone over Carterton on Tuesday 25th April as the community gathered to remember the fallen during the 2017 ANZAC service. The parade, led beautifully by the Masterton Brass Band, and supported by the NZDF marched proudly down High Street towards Memorial Square. The moving wreath laying ceremony, led by Carterton RSA was followed by the memorial service at the Events Centre.

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CARTERTON CELEBRATES 160 YEARS 2017 marks the 160th anniversary since Carterton was established by Charles Rooking Carter. Carterton District Council has recognised this anniversary by creating a 160 year logo which can be used for marketing and advertising council activities.

Carterton businesses and organisations are welcome to incorporate the logo into their own marketing campaigns and can locate the image on the council website www.cdc.govt.nz

CARTERTON SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAMME Carterton children enjoyed another amazing Carterton District Council Holiday Programme which featured indoor sports, cheerleading, hip hop dancing, arts and crafts, waiata, baking, circus juggling

The second term of the hugely popular children’s coding club meeting starts again on Saturday 6th May. This course will last seven weeks and is from 2pm until 3pm. We have a waiting list, so contact us and you can get involved in the fun. Ring 06 379 4080 or contact Quintin on quintin@cdc.govt.nz

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KAIPATANGATA STREAM REPAIRS ALMOST COMPLETE Repairs to the water infrastructure at the Kaipatangata Stream intake which were damaged during the February 18 ° ood, are almost complete. Operations Manager, Garry Baker took local media on a tour of Carterton’s water supply on Tuesday 2nd May. Major works have been undertaken to repair the damage, but huge improvements have been made.

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HOLLOWAYS SEATS Holloway Street has been a hive of activity in recent weeks. The Parks and Reserve team are installing two seats, which have been commissioned by council and the Lions Club Carterton in recognition of the volunteers of Carterton. An o˛ cial unveiling of the seats will be held this month.

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The collected works of Mum Above the Line Heidi Hendrikse Allow me to introduce a few (fictitious) ‘friends’. Susan, working as a Personal Assistant [PA] for an important CEO. All day longs she does what is needed, answering the phone, making coffee, organizing meetings, getting growled at when the boss is grumpy [again!] She picks up his suits from the drycleaners, takes notes at meetings, sends letters, emails, organizes luncheons and a hosts of others things. Oh and did I mention Susan will order flowers for the boss’s wife’s birthday and anniversary? People admire her for her organizational skills and resilience. Emily works as a nurse in a care home. Emily’s morning is taken up by getting people up and showering them, changing their (usually wet, sometimes soiled) beds, getting their meal in to them (sometimes literally!) and making sure they are safe and comfortable. Emily gets yelled at, called nasty names by residents who have forgotten who they are and who Emily is. She often needs to repeat herself, hears the same stories over and over and deals lovingly with the cries for help from those in her care who are confused, lonely and helpless. Emily often works the short shift because of staff shortage and is known to

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Monthly News from the Wairarapa branch Sunday, May 14 is Mother’s Day, a wonderful opportunity not only to honour mothers, but also to reflect on the experience of motherhood in our society which has changed hugely over the last hundred years, reflecting changes in society. Many areas of inequality relating to mothering have been transformed, but many areas remain to be made more fair and equal… As we honour mothers’ hard work, perhaps we should ask, “Is it really right that they have to work this hard? Are we honouring martyrdom, or are we creating better options?” There is still a significant imbalance between men and women’s work in the home. There has been much discussion on structural economic barriers to women’s economic empowerment. Concern has also been expressed at the lack of value placed on women’s unpaid work, and the social norms that portray unpaid care work as “women’s work” need to be challenged. Some argue that the traditional division of housework and employment maximises each partner’s skills, but women point out

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Nelson back as principal St Mary’s principal Tim Nelson is moving on to become the principal of Lakeview School next term. Mr Nelson was deputy principal at Lakeview for five years. He said he first became interested in teaching while travelling in his early 20s – which made him appreciate the quality of education in New Zealand. He has been passionate about teaching ever since. ” It’s incredibly rewarding. It’s nice to have a job in which you sense you have a real purpose,” he said. His four years leading St Mary’s has been a special chapter in his life. Mr Nelson said he was incredibly proud of the St Mary’s pupils, who were respectful and polite – embodying the four school values of aroha, integrity, respect and excellence. The school had recently had some sporting success, particularly in cricket and Rippa Rugby, and bad won a Wairarapa Times-Age sports award. Mr Nelson said the school had also excelled in kapa haka, with every pupil taking part in some “phenomenal” performances. ” The feedback we get from parents and the community is pretty amazing.” But the stand out for Mr Nelson was taking the year 7 and 8 pupils to Rarotonga last year to give them a taste of travel.

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‘Down with speed’ Road Safety Week 2017 in Wairarapa will take place 7-14 May, and will coincide with the 4th Global Safety Week focusing on speed, and locally also on seatbelts.

Speed facts don’t lie! • The likelihood of a casualty crash involvement doubles for every 5km/h above a 60km/h limit & every 10km/h above a 100km/h limit • Around town, the likelihood of killing a pedestrian increases from 10% at an impact speed of 30km/h to 70% at 50km/h (SLOW DOWN around schools and pedestrian crossings) • The slower we go, the greater chances of stopping short of the hazard ahead • Winter is coming and it takes a further 25 metres to stop on a wet road than a dry road at 100km/h (drive to the conditions)

‘UP WITH SEATBELTS’

On Sunday 7th May the Wairarapa Road Safety Council are teaming up with Mitre 10 Mega Masterton (am) & Martinborough (pm) to raise awareness around speed & seatbelts. Come and engage at the stall or try the ‘seatbelt demonstrator’, and be in to win an automotive prize pack from each store, and one of two child restraints or booster seats from the Road Safety Council. Chocolates, information & giveaways for the kids as well. Schools, kindys & early childhood centres have access to road safety resources to run activities around road safety to make the kids aware of safety on and around the road. The road safety council will also be out and about at our 5 towns over the week talking to locals, listening to their concerns & handing out giveaways as well. Bruce Pauling, Road Safety Council Manager and ex 30 year Police road policing veteran, wants locals to focus on reducing speeds and ensuring seatbelts are worn by….’everyone…. every trip…..every time’ ‘Our biggest issue locally are crashes resulting from speed and loss of control on our rural roads. Not only that, but we also lag behind the national ‘seatbelt compliance’ rate.’ Pauling says that over the years we have made great strides in drink/ drive attitudes and behaviour, but sadly

our ‘lax’ attitudes to speed and seatbelts are responsible for far too many deaths and injuries both locally and nationally. ‘We have to change mind sets such as ‘we are only going up the road, I’m a safe driver, or I’ll decide what I’ll do in my own car. You cannot predict what other drivers will do and what may happen. Mistakes happen, BUT if everyone is ‘belted up’ and you are travelling at a safe speed for all the conditions, then the outcomes WILL be better for yourself and your passengers.’ ‘Families don’t have to suffer the emotional and physical pain that serious crashes bring. ‘Ninety three deaths could have been prevented in 2016 on NZ roads, by simply wearing a seatbelt. These are avoidable tragedies. It takes a few seconds to put on your belt, doesn’t cost anything, and saves lives. Why wouldn’t you wear one?’ As far as the safety of our ‘littlies’ in vehicles go, Pauling says ‘positive modelling’ reinforces safety with children. ‘Kids will copy adult behaviour for sure. Be the role model by ensuring you and they are properly restrained. Inform them it is for every ones safety, and it’s the law’. Finally, Pauling says, ‘As locals, we all travel the same roads…do the right thing and reduce your speeds, and do the easy thing and wear your seatbelts’.

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Sport codes combine BY JAKE BELESKI Greytown’s sports clubs are coming together to provide better facilities for players in the codes of rugby, netball, and hockey. Realising the fact that numbers in sport are growing in Greytown and land space is very limited, the Greytown Rugby Football Club has handed over the keys to their clubrooms in East St to Greytown Netball and Kia Kaha Hockey. Greytown RFC chairman Andy Holmes said it was a necessary adjustment. “The community needs a fit-for-purpose clubhouse and neither netball nor hockey have a place they can call home. “A recent taskforce recommended greater sharing of club facilities.” The Greytown clubs had proud histories as they were were some of the oldest in New Zealand, and major improvements were planned to redevelop the clubrooms owned by the rugby club, he said. “Sadly, many valuable memorabilia are currently locked up, but with the improvements, this situation will be rectified. “Allowance has been made for television screens, giving the clubhouse flexibility to project images which will reflect the fact that it is a multipurpose facility.” It was hoped the upgrade would provide the community with a fit for purpose multi-sport facility that would improve community relationships and networks. The facility will be managed by the Greytown RFC committee for the benefit of the Greytown community. “As is the case with the rugby club, Greytown Netball and Kia Kaha Hockey will have access to the clubrooms for their monthly meetings, prizegivings, AGMs

Greytown’s rugby players will share their facilities with their netball and hockey counterparts. PHOTO/FILE

and any other potential fundraising or functions in general,” Holmes said. “They will also make use of the changing rooms and kitchen as they wish.” After-match functions can be hosted at the venue for all three codes, where the

televisions will be used to display matchday photos and memorabilia. “Without a doubt, come Saturdays, this facility will be the sporting hub and gathering place of the town,” Holmes said.

Tourism less seasonal in Wairarapa Wellington region - including Wairarapa, is the least affected by seasonal variations in domestic travel, according to an AA survey. The Automobile Association and Auckland-based company Fresh Information run a joint research programme, the AA Traveller Monitor, which includes a survey of AA Members that attracts nearly 40,000 responses a year. The survey shows that in 2016 New Zealand residents made 2.6 million shortterm trips overseas – double the number made in 2000. this was less than a tenth the volume of Kiwis’ overnight trips within New Zealand – 28 million in 2016 or 80 million nights away from home. Kiwi overnight domestic tourists spent $20.2 billion while overseas tourists spent $14.5 billion in the 12 months to March last year. AA travel and tourism manager Grant Lilly says with six or seven domestic trips a year per person on average, “the challenge is to find ways to get people more engaged with what is available to them when they’re on the road”. The survey shows significant seasonal variation in travel. Coromandel Peninsula hosts nearly 10 times more domestic visitor nights in January than in August, while Central Otago hosts nearly 12 times more visitor nights in January than August. The variability was true for most regions, Mr Lilly said, “although Wellington is the least impacted by the phenomenon, likely because of a higher share of business-related travel throughout the year”.

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YOUTH & TRUTH

When they’ve lost a phone

OutZone of

School Enrolments Terms 3 & 4 2017

BY AROHA WITINITARA

“Someone left their cell phone behind.” “Oh no. I hope they come back to get it.” The above is an example of an everyday conversation. It’s something most of us would say without thinking twice. But if you examine the sentences closer you would notice that the world ‘they’ is used to refer to a singular person. This is not something we would generally expect of ‘they’, in primary school we were all taught that ‘they’ is used exclusively to refer to groups of people. But in the times of Shakespeare and Dickens, ‘they’ was more frequently used as a gender-neutral pronoun, and it can be found in many of their works. Although as time has gone on ‘they’ has regressed into a strictly plural form the gender-neutral pronoun is making a comeback, despite the grammar enthusiasts avowing it is ungrammatical. Language is fluid and changes with the times, which is why “thou dost speak in a manner such as this” and selfie is a word in the dictionary. Our language is simply evolving to better suit our times. Many people struggle to make the conscious decision to use ‘they’ in the place of “she or he” even though doing so is convenient. Notice whenever someone uses ‘they’ in a gender-neutral context, use it yourself and notice how much other people don’t notice. Gender expression is much more fluid in our society than it was 10 or 20 years ago. As a result many people have an

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androgynous appearance. When encountering a person of an indefinite gender the reaction of many is to speculate, often in rude ways. “What are you?” isn’t polite and never, under any circumstance should you refer to another person as ‘it.’ But why do some people feel that they need to know what kind of genitals the people around them have? It’s none of your business. The gender of a stranger will rarely influence how you interact with them. Why can’t we just refer to the person as ‘they’ and move on with our day? So next time you need to address someone and you don’t know their gender, remember that using they is the easiest and most comfortable way around the problem for everyone.

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES WILL HOLD A BALLOT FOR OUT OF ZONE STUDENTS FOR TERMS 3 & 4 2017. The ballot will commence in May 2017. Enrolment at the school is governed by an enrolment scheme, details are available from the school office. There are up to 30 places available across all year levels for out of zone students during this enrolment period.

KITTYCAT REHOMING TIMELINE: PRE ENROLMENT IS INVITED BUT DOES NOT GUARANTEE ENROLMENT.

12th May

Applications close 3:00pm

Orchard kitten Snowy is an extraordinary ex-feral kitten. He became tame faster than any other kitten we’ve worked with. Possibly because he loves cuddles and attention so much he decided he wasn’t going to miss out! Snowy was trapped in Hawkes Bay by a kind orchard owner. Unfortunately his two pure sisters were euthanased by a vet because they were supposedly “too wild” to rehome. He was brought to KittyCat Rehoming by an ex-Featherston resident now living in Hawkes Bay. He’s now safe and happy and looking for his forever home. Snowy is a relaxed and laid back boy of about 12 weeks of age. He’s a loveable bundle of white and his foster carer recently thought he’d gone missing – but found him well-camouflaged in her linen

closet snuggled in her white sheets lol. His adopters will need to be prepared to always put sunscreen on his ears and nose when he goes outside as he would be at risk of getting skin cancer. Snowy is desexed, vaccinated, microchipped and up-to-date with flea/ worm treatment. His adoption fee is $140. If you’re interested in Snowy, please call Lee on 021 0843 8935 or email kittycatrehoming@gmail.com  KittyCat Rehoming Wairarapa is a non-profit initiative based in Featherston that works to find loving homes for stray and abandoned cats and assists owners who need to rehome their cats. See them on Facebook at KittyCat Rehoming Wairarapa.

“We chose Douglas Park School because it has a positive and nurturing environment. Our children are encouraged to think critically and creatively and benefit from working across a range of classrooms. They are not just encouraged to learn, but to want to learn. Douglas Park staff are welcoming and committed taking time to talk to parents and families, with the entire teaching team showing up to work at fundraising events!!”

15th May A ballot is held if necessary 19th May Parents are notified 31st May Confirmation of acceptance by parents

Application forms are available from the school office. Further details are available from the school office: 06 370 0189 or office@douglaspark.school.nz Dick Brown - Principal

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CELEBRATING WAIRARAPA’S

SMOKEFREE CAFES Compass Health and the Wairarapa Smokefree Network[1] bring you the results of the 2016 Wairarapa outdoor dining smokefree survey. Of 703 surveys completed at eight Wairarapa cafes, 85% said they supported smokefree outdoor dining, with 15% saying they did not support.

We thank the eight cafes from Mt Bruce to Greytown, who joined last years promotion and distributed the surveys, Pukaha Wild Cafe, Dish Cafe, Entice Cafe and Catering, Ten O’Clock Cookie Co, Iberia, The Village Grinder, Wild Oats and 2 Short Whites. Cafes were so happy about their experience they chose to continue with the smokefree signage on tables beyond the promotion.

Pam Dick, Dish Cafe.

Participating cafes enjoyed a very positive response from customers about their smokefree outdoor dining.

Nicky Brindle & Sue Wright, 2 Short Whites Cafe.

Some cafes had one or two grumbles from customers, but didn’t find the experience problematic, and one cafe actually noted that increased numbers of diners were choosing to sit outside because tables were smokefree.

Why are cafes with smokefree outdoor dining a good idea? Many Australian restaurants and cafes are currently enjoying increased patronage and revenue. How? Because they have smokefree outdoor dining, and place smokefree signage on outdoor tables. Sounds odd, but if you think about it, most people don’t smoke and most smokers want to quit, so diners could potentially be avoiding smoky tables and may not even want to walk past them and into a dining establishment. It may be some time before NZ follows Australia’s lead and legislates for smokefree outdoor dining, but why wait? Let’s go after increased local revenue, look after the health of our staff and diners by protecting them from second hand smoke and help smokers quit and stay quit by increasing smokefree environments.

Do you have a cafe and would you like to try smokefree outdoor dining? • You can try out the signage free of charge. Email or phone for your signs: Kathryn.Tomlinson@compasshealth.org.nz or 0274 577 471. • All you need to do is put away the ash trays and pop up the signage, some people may still choose to smoke, but most won’t. • You don’t need to ‘police’ smokers or ‘tell people off’ the signage is enough.

[1] The Wairarapa Smokefree Network is a collective who support Smokefree Aotearoa 2025, smokefree services and smokefree environments. Partner agencies are; Compass Health Limited, Cancer Society, Heart Foundation, Regional Public Health and Whaiora.

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FRIDAY 12TH - SUNDAY 14TH MAY 2017

WORLD-CLASS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS YEAR’S BOOKTOWN A fabulous programme of events has come together for Featherston Booktown 2017. Thanks to booksellers, writers, craftspeople and the Featherston community, this year’s Booktown is the biggest yet.

Booktown as an opportunity but a must-do on their calendar.”

Booktown 2017 will feature a record number of booksellers in the ANZAC Hall, close to double the number of the ÿ rst Booktown, says Treasurer Pete Monk.

“We have a wide range of specialist and antiquarian booksellers and we have speciÿ cally asked them to have more books for sale that are suitable for children.”

“This is our third year and though we’ve had fantastic support right from the start from local booksellers like David Hedley, we’re now drawing much wider interest from around the country. A strong indicator of our success so far is that booksellers are now not just seeing

This year an anonymous Featherston resident has donated $10 to every single child in Featherston’s primary schools to spend at Booktown. “The intention is to encourage them to come along, broaden their exposure to books, reading and to be inspired.”

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Children are receiving even more focus as part of Featherston Booktown this year.

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There will also be a number of children’s book authors taking workshops for children and adults including Joy Cowley and Lee Murray. “Joy Cowley is a national treasure living in Featherston, so a workshop with her is a world-class opportunity. Lee Murray is another outstanding writer with a huge following, particularly for her children’s ÿ ction.” Featherston Library is organising a range of activities aimed at children including a Literary Treasure Trail, Superhero craft session and dress-up competition, Kids’ Literary Quiz and Madhatters Tea Party in Narnia at Onward & Upward Shop.

Interest in Featherston Booktown is growing every year, Pete says. “We run surveys and do head counts at the venue sessions and it seems that we are drawing thousands of people, not just from Wellington and Wairarapa, but from as far as Auckland and even the South Island. Booktown’s annual festival is broadening its reach as a national event.”

The full Featherston Booktown 2017 programme can be viewed at www.booktown.org.nz

BOOKS - new and 2nd hand • Literary T-Shirts • Collectibles retro vintage mid-century on Featherston's main street next to C'est Cheese. www.mrfeathersden.com Open 6 days 10am - 5pm • Closed Tuesdays

In search of lost tastes? Sweet - Kitchen & Delights has honey and marmalade, coconut ice and fudge, french tartlets and panforte. And Shoc chocolate. Proust would be impressed. On Featherston’s main street next to C’est Cheese.

Open: 6 days a week 10am - 5pm • Closed Tuesdays. E: susanjaneryan@gmail.com • P: Sue on 0274942289 or leave a message on the Facebook page.

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FRIDAY 12TH - SUNDAY 14TH MAY 2017

TRISH HARRIS

A FASCINATING LINE-UP Featherston Booktown 2017 is full of captivating highlights. Here are some of them that will catch your fancy! There’s plenty more at www.booktown.org.nz THE PRINTING MUSEUM WHEN: Saturday & Sunday, 10am–4pm, WHERE: Featherston School, Lyon St, ENTRY: Free (koha) This Museum began life 30 years ago with a group of enthusiasts and professional printers, at the time that letterpress printing was coming to an end. Had it not been for their foresight, many of these machines - some listed as items of historical interest - would have been lost. Fast forward, and The Printing

Museum has entered a new phase. There is a huge revival of interest in letterpress, particularly in the USA and Britain. The team’s vision is a combination of working printing museum, book arts centre, community workshop, specialised printery and type foundry that will be an international attraction. You can witness their machines at work, at Booktown. THE MAGIC LITTLE SHED WHEN: Saturday & Sunday 10am-4pm, WHERE: St Ter esa’s School, 63 Bell St,ENTRY: Free (koha) “It’s long gone 3pm and several ˜ agging schoolkids are meandering their way home along a semi-industrial street in the Wellington suburb of Newtown – a prosaic journey punctuated by a burst of joyful whimsy. Nestled in a row of ÿ ve gritty garages is Norac Salad, New Zealand’s only dedicated origami bookshop and studio,” North and South July 2016. Yup that’s Caron Dallas (Norac Salad is

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her name backwards). Caron spends her days in that garage making art using “rescue” books by folding the pages, no cutting involved at all. No books are harmed in the process. Caron makes books to order including names, numbers or special shapes as well as exhibiting the works along with fellow artist Meg Prebble. These two extraordinary artists met at Booktown 2016 and had an exhibition at the end of 2016, and have another one coming up in a pop-up space in Newtown and are working on having their biggest one yet in Pataka, Porirua. Caron will be doing one-on-one sessions throughout the days of Booktown, so if you’d like to learn a little of the “magic” bring an old book or two along and she’ll happily teach you. www. noracsalad.felt.co.nz www.facebook. com/noracsalad LOIS CONNER’S PHOTO EXHIBITION WHEN: Saturday & Sunday, 10am-4pm, WHERE: The French Quarter, 29 Waite St,ENTRY: Free (koha)

Lois Conner’s photographs are largescale panoramas that relate to the global landscape. They are characterised by their narrative sweep, a sense of place, and their implicit attention to history and culture. Many of her projects have an arc of decades, including her work in New York, the Navajo Reservation, the American West and in China. Conner’s work is currently included in The Poetics of Place exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in the exhibition “Downside Up” at the Temple in Beijing, China. Her book “Beijing Contemporary and Imperial” was published in 2013 to coincide with her Cleveland Art Museum exhibition. PLAYSHOP FAIRY TALES WHEN: Saturday, 2pm, Sunday 11am & 2pm, WHERE: Country Tea & Cakes, ANZAC Hall complex, 62 Bell St, ENTRY: Free (koha, or why not buy a cup of tea or co˜ ee and a cake, to support Booktown, while you enjoy the show?!)

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CARON DALLAS

GEREMIE BARMÉ

PlayShop is a Wellington-based performance company that create spontaneous, thrilling theatre. They create opportunities for people to experience the joy of playful interaction through theatre, storytelling, education, and improvisation. They are risk-takers, open to the potential of every moment, so that the actor and audience share meaningful stories that arise from the present, and stay in the memory for time to come. Led by Artistic Director Lori Leigh, PlayShop is characterised by intelligence, energy, solid stagecraft, theatricality and emotional honesty. They believe the skills and philosophies of performance can be used to create exciting, risky, accessible theatre of all types. Three of Playshop’s wonderful improvisers are gearing up to play and delight, create and enchant. The stories they will tell, act out (and maybe even sing!) will come from not only their heads and hearts, but also from those sitting right in front of them. These inclusive and interactive tales,

BILL MANHIRE, HANNAH GRIFFIN, NORMAN MEEHAN

created on the spot, derive from fairy tales. Immerse yourself in their madeup worlds; be a part of the story with them, or sit back, enjoy, and get ready to laugh. During their shows you will never see the same story twice! THE MORNING SUN AND GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE WHEN: Saturday, 2-4pm, Sunday 1-4pm, WHERE: The French Quarter, 29 Waite St, ENTRY: Free (koha) Geremie R. Barmé is an historian, cultural critic, filmmaker, media commentator, translator, editor and web-journal editor who works on Chinese cultural and intellectual history from the early modern period (1600s) to the present. Geremie has written and edited many books and worked on two acclaimed documentary films, which are showcased this weekend. Geremie left formal academic life in late 2015 and is now an independent scholar based in Featherston. In December 2016, he launched China Heritage (http:// chinaheritage.net), the online home of

Wairarapa Academy for New Sinology (http://chinaheritage.net/the-wairarapaacademy/), founded with the Sinologist and translator John Minford. His latest book is on the crisis in universities, titled An Educated Man is Not a Pot. Geremie’s two respected documentaries will be introduced over the weekend. NZ POETRY, SET TO MUSIC WHEN: Saturday, 3-4pm, WHERE: St Andrew’s Union Church, 64 Fox St, ENTRY: Free (koha) Composer and pianist Norman Meehan and vocalist Hannah Griffin have been collaborating for more than 10 years, performing poetry as song. That collaboration has seen them work extensively with New Zealand’s inaugural Poet Laureate Bill Manhire, releasing six CDs of song-settings. “I felt that he [Meehan] had somehow found new cadences and melodies in the words that were as true as anything I felt was there originally. And I love Hannah’s voice”, said Bill Manhire. For Booktown this year, the pair are joined

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by multi-instrumentalist Blair Latham, to perform poems by a number of New Zealand’s many interesting writers: Hone Tuwhare, James K. Baxter, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Eileen Duggan, David Mitchell and a few of Bill’s poems, too. THE WALKING STICK TREE WHEN: Sunday, 12 noon-1pm, WHERE: The Royal Hotel, 22 Revans St (corner of Martinborough turn-off), ENTRY: Free (koha) Trish Harris has worked with words over the past 30 years – writing, editing, creating and tutoring. She has a Bachelor of Applied Arts (Creative Writing) from Whitireia New Zealand. Among other places, her writing has been published in SPORT, New Zealand Listener, the School Journals and broadcast on Radio New Zealand. The Walking Stick Tree is a memoir about growing up with acute arthritis – about pain and loss, creativity and knitting body and soul together.

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FRIDAY 12TH - SUNDAY 14TH MAY 2017

AN INSIGHT INTO THE WORLD OF A BOOK COLLECTOR JOHN ARNOLD People are being invited to bring along books they own to Featherston Booktown to ÿ nd out more about them from John Arnold. John has been collecting, buying and selling books in Melbourne for over 40 years. He’s worked as a bookseller, librarian and academic. John will be appraising books at the Kiwi Hall, ANZAC Hall complex, 62 Bell St, Featherston, on Saturday from noon to 1pm and on Sunday between 10am and 11am. We asked John a few questions about his journey through life with books. What led you into the world of books and why have they become such a vocation and interest to you? My brother - Peter Arnold - is one of Australia’s leading antiquarian booksellers. He started his own business around1969 and still runs it full-time. Being younger, I used to help him from time to time so I guess

that link sparked my interest. And my mother - a mature-age PhD and research scholar - was always a proliÿ c reader, so books have always been part of my life. And, like my brother, I have a very good memory, something that is a great help when looking for and buying second-hand books. Are you more interested in books to read or as collectable objects? All readers are book accumulators but not all readers are book collectors. You become a book collector when you start to specialise in one area and want to collect all the books by, say, a favourite author and you want the best copies etc. Do you have a speciÿ c area that you collect in? I used to collect books by Jack Lindsay, the son of the artist Norman. He ran the Fanfrolico Press in Sydney and then London. I also collected all the Fanfrolico titles and wrote a history of the press. Having

virtually everything, I donated the collection to the State Library of Victoria under the Cultural Gifts scheme. At present I am collecting books published by the Scholartis Press and books written by its founder Eric Partridge, the great New Zealand lexicographer. I am mainly interested in his career before he became a fulltime word man (c1935). What’s the rarest book in your collection? A novel by Eric Partridge which he published under a pseudonym - Corrie Denisson. It is called Why Not? Supposedly only two copies were ever issued, both bound in vellum. But I have located a third copy. I bought if o° the Internet about four years ago from a dealer in America. What is the most surprising book that someone has ever brought

to value? Probably a copy of Jack Lindsay’s Fauns and Ladies, published in 1923, the ÿ rst book of what was to become the Fanfrolico Press. This one was given to Jack’s closest friend PR Stephensen. What makes a book valuable? Is it the age or the rarity or the subject matter? Content, author, condition and, signed or association copy, rarity and demand. You could add age to the above but age on its own is not a factor. It has to have some of the other attributes listed. After 20 years or so of the Internet and digital media, do you feel the interest in physical books is increasing or decreasing amongst the public? A question that is often asked. I would say that the physical book is holding its own despite the Internet. The one area in book publishing that has been killed o° is the reference book.

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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Wairarapa Midweek

Thousands made for chemotherapy

BY HAYLEY GASTMEIER A successful effort to sell off unused equipment and odd items has taken Wairarapa DHB one step closer to bringing chemotherapy treatment to the region. An auction was held on Saturday at Wairarapa Hospital, with organisers “hopeful the $10,000 mark was cracked”. The money raised through the sales will contribute to the introduction of a Wairarapa chemotherapy outreach service. Project manager Jill Stringer said patients needing chemotherapy now travelled the Wellington Blood and Cancer Centre, the outreach service at Kenepuru Hospital, or to Palmerston North Hospital. She hoped the service would be up and running by the end of the year. She estimated it would serve the needs of about 80 per cent of those in region who needed the treatment. Items up for grabs at the auction included an old mortuary trolley, a WW2 ambulance stretcher, shelving, furniture, and vintage teaching charts of body systems. Ms Stringer said about $2000 had been raised through cash sales, and she would be able to confirm the total figure once Eftpos sales had been calculated later today. Volunteers of the Cancer Society Wairarapa, Masterton Host Waipoua Lions, Masterton Rotary clubs, and DHB staff, had played key roles in the

What a fantastic community we have, and of course, it wouldn’t have been possible unless our buyers turned up, and we had a line-up of people waiting at the door when we opened them up at 10am.

Kevin and Pam Basher, from Masterton, with their new vintage filing cabinet. PHOTO/SUPPLIED

fundraiser coming together, with David Ross from Property Brokers volunteering his time as auctioneer. “What a fantastic community we have,” Ms Stringer said. “And of course, it wouldn’t have been possible unless our buyers turned up, and

we had a line-up of people waiting at the door when we opened them up at 10am.” Ms Stringer said she was “amazed” at what people bought. “There was a young man there who obviously understood his chemistry, he gleefully took away a $10 box of very carefully selected glassware.” Two old microscopes were also snatched up, and two vintage filing cabinets sold to “very excited” bidders. “People were incredibly generous. “We sold one of our fantastic really old wooden trollies for more than $500.” Ms Stringer said items which did not sell could be put to a follow-up fundraiser. “I’m thinking that an upcycling challenge would be really cool.”

Support Advisor Willie Simonsen receiving a cheque from Wairarapa Times-Age Commercial Manager Andrea Hay. PHOTO/SUPPLIED

RSA fund boosted

The Wairarapa Times-Age has donated a percentage of the proceeds from their Anzac advertising feature to the Wairarapa RSA. Masterton’s RSA Support advisor Willie Simonsen said the money would be put towards the welfare of former and current service people, their spouses, and partners. It a fund that is drawn upon for a huge variety of support services such as hearing, vision and dental care for former service personnel. They are all factors Mr Simonsen believes are crucial for maintaining their independence. The fund had also previously helped a veteran buy fire wood to heat her house over winter. The fund can be drawn upon in urgent situations. “If somebody is in dire straits we can provide immediate relief.” Mr Simonsen said people did not need to belong to the RSA to benefit from the funds, they just had to be an ex-serviceperson.

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Friday 19 May 7 pm St Luke's Church Greytown Saturday 20 May 2.30 pm Rathkeale College Masterton George Frederick Handel’s

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This is a rare opportunity to hear Handel's masterpiece with a harpsichord, Baroque orchestra, four soloists and a full choir. Not to be missed! $30 Before 1st May, $35 Door, $25 Group Contact: Sally Chamberlain 06-378-8104 or 021-244-4130 wairarapasingers.weebly.com

How can we help? If you have been diagnosed with cancer or are struggling with the legacy of cancer treatment we may be able to help: with support information or transport to treatment. Ph: (06) 378 8039

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Moving On after Breast cancer: NEXT full day workshop commences Saturday 27th May. To register please call the Centre.

Cancer Society Wairarapa Public Update Lecture : June 8th 2017 Where :MastertonClub 5-7pm The new Bowel Screening project for the Wairarapa will be launched in July by your GP. Come and find out more about who is eligible and what you need to do to participate in this new screening service. Speakers are: DR Paul Manual General Surgeon Wairarapa DHB and DR Annie Lincoln GP Carterton Medical Centre. This is an opportunity to ask questions about the programme. Numbers are limited so please RSVP to Cancer Society Wairarapa.

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Minstrel in Martinborough BY EMILY NORMAN

Monty Bevins is set to play Martinborough on May 13.

the first couple of years of touring he had dealt with “a lot of uncertainty and vulnerability”. “Now that I’ve established a circuit and a network of friends and supporters, it has become a lot more joyful. “The tough times are not so rampant.” Before hitting the road in his people mover, Bevins did a stint around London playing gigs for a couple of years, and then Wellington for about a year and a half. “But I wanted to be hardcore, I wanted to be on the road fulltime, and there was no reason not to,” he said. “I was just daydreaming outside too many windows to not have a crack at it. “I wanted to be doing what I was imagining, rather than just dreaming of it.” A touring highlight for the musician was when, in 2015, he cycled from the very top of the North Island to the very bottom of the south — “from the Cape to the Bluff”. “It was about 3000km and I carried my amp, guitar, mic stand, and leads in a bob trailer behind me. “I did 20 shows along the way and about 70km a day, which took two months.” Bevins heads to Europe at the end of May. To get tickets to his intimate Martinborough performance, visit ventanacreativecollective.co.nz. Musicians featured in other upcoming sessions will soon be revealed by the venue, but it is understood that performances will include Eb and Sparrow and Amiria Grennel. TTT music festival is set to take off again in 2018.

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Singer songwriter Monty Bevins has been on the road for four and a half years. With no fixed abode, the nomadic folk musician travels in his people mover, which he has lovingly dubbed Toyota Sensible, playing gigs all over the country. But Martinborough, where Bevins is set to play this month, is a special place for the musician. It’s a “little home” for him on his circuit around New Zealand. Bevins, originally from Auckland, hit the road at the end of 2012 and has been travelling ever since. On May 13, he will be kicking off the first Tora Tora Tora session at Ventana Creative Collective in Martinborough. The sessions will take the place of the annual Tora Tora Tora (TTT) music festival which is on a rest year for 2017. The TTT sessions at Ventana is a spinoff of the coastal music event aimed at recapturing intimate moments where festival goers can experience singer songwriters up close and personal. Bevins recalled playing at the TTT festival last year, and was excited to be the first musician to kick off the TTT sessions for 2017. He also played at Ventana Creative Collective on Kitchener St last year. “It was just a perfect show for me,” he said. “It was one of those shows that reaffirmed why I’m doing this. “The guys at Ventana really care about hosting musicians and did everything they could to make me feel welcome. “I went away thinking Martinborough would be another little home for me on my circuit around New Zealand.” Bevins said he had become used to the nomadic lifestyle he led, but for

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Petition against water storage Call for a stop to use ratepayers’ money for water project BY BECKIE WILSON An environmental group has started an online petition demanding the regional council stops using ratepayers’ money to fund the controversial Wairarapa Water project. Greater Wellington Regional Council has spent $3.7m on the project since July 2011. Now, it is discussing its future involvement in the project as current funding is due stop at the end of the next financial year. The petition gained more than 190 signatures last week. Jade Waters, chair of Te Patukituki o Wairarapa — of which lobbyists Nga Kaitiaki o Wairarapa are a subcommittee for running the petition — said the regional council was not thinking about the people in Wairarapa and the future generations. The waterways would only get worse if the scheme went ahead, so “we should not be supporting the damming of our waters”. “The salient fact here is that the storing of water is going to be used to intensify agriculture — I know they say that’s not the case,” Ms Waters said. Water Wairarapa’s proposed scheme involves building a dam at either Black Creek near Kaituna, or Tividale near Masterton. Water would be stored and used for a range of options across the region, including the irrigation of up to 30,000ha, supplementing town water supplies and stock drinking water. Water Wairarapa was established in

Black Creek irrigation storage lake affected residents on Falloon Settlement Road, Masterton. View of the start of the valley. PHOTO/FILE

2010 by GWRC, and is funded by the regional council and government. The petition says the council should be spending ratepayers’ money on cleaning rivers — not polluting them further by subsiding irrigation schemes. “That’s the main concern here: you store the water, you use the water on the land, then put more stock on the land and then there’s more effluent run off into the rivers, and more nitration etcetera leaking through the soils and getting into our waterways.” “They say they need to store it for when its dry, but the fact is because of

the cost of building dams they need to recoup that money someway.” Ms Waters hopes that the petition will raise awareness within the community about the negative effects of the project. “Who knows what we will have to do if the council progress the proposal any further — we are hoping common sense will prevail.” Regional council Environment Group manager Nigel Corry said the council had always been aware of Wairarapa’s strong interest around the water storage project. “That is why we are taking a cautious

approach to the investigations and any decisions about what might happen in the future,” he said. The regional council’s use of ratepayers’ money has covered a broad range of work including feasibility studies, financial assessments, and engagement with communities and local councils around the potential sites of the project. “The council will have to make a decision if they want to fund past 2018, and if they do then that will be part of a consultation package in the annual plan,” Mr Corry said. Councillors have heard from those for and against the project in the past, and would take the petition into consideration as it planned its future involvement, he said. Wairarapa Water project director Michael Bassett-Foss said GWRC was one of the biggest funding contributors to the project, along with the central government. “The council will, as it has done a number of times through the project, assesses what sort of support it will give the project,” he said. “It’s not just funding, it’s in other ways as well. A project like this is tied in with the wider management of water resources in the region.” Wairarapa regional councillor Adrienne Staples said all questions around funding of the irrigation scheme were currently being worked through. “They are very welcome to deliver us the petition, and all I say is that councillors will give the petition due consideration through the funding process — no decisions have been made at this stage,” she said.

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Flash ﬂoods test workers

A digger moving some of the debris that has come out of the stream.

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BY CHELSEA BOYLE The flash flooding that wiped out the water intake infrastructure on the Kaipatangata stream has been called a “once in 20 years” weather event, and its cost to the Carterton District Council is yet to be known. Carterton has been relying on its supplementary bore system for almost three months after the February 18 downpour brought massive beech logs tearing down the stream. The logs are thought to have caused a lot of the damage to the infrastructure. Further downstream, the flooding closed Dalefield Rd.Carterton District Council (CDC) operations manager Garry Baker said a staff member who had been working “40 odd years” for the council had never seen anything like it. Mr Baker said that they “could be looking at $10,000 to $20,000” for the cost of his staff ’s wages and materials alone. They had hoped to fix the problems with the Kaipatangata water supply within weeks, but Mother Nature had other plans with two metres of gravel refilling the dam bed in early April during heavy rain. Mr Baker said the setback was disheartening as contractors had made good progress in clearing the area. “We were a fair way done, and then it came through and put another two metres over the whole area again. “It was quite frustrating.” For Carterton people watering their gardens on alternate days due to water restrictions, it might

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Councillor Mike Ashby and CDC operations manager Garry Baker surveying the progress that has been made clearing the stream.

be hard to imagine that there have been any lucky breaks. But the first deluge happened before council staff were due to install four fish ladders, in a process that was estimated to cost $67,000. The fish ladders were to be installed in accordance with the Greater Wellington Regional Council consent process. The GWRC website states that artificial structures such as flood gates, weirs, and dams can prevent native fish from completing the migration phase of their life-cycle that allow fish to reproduce. “Artificial barriers to fish movement have contributed to the decline of our native freshwater fish populations, and the quality of our freshwater ecosystems.” Fish passages were needed to protect native freshwater fish. Mr Baker said they would now re-evaluate the fish ladder strategy because they did not want to put in something that would crumble during extreme weather.

One silver lining has been the amount of “good fine metal” workers have collected while clearing the stream. This material will be used later, laid over tracks around the wastewater plant and filling the area around a new pipe that will run around the plant. “We are stockpiling it ready for a job we are doing there. “It is cost-saving because we would have had to get the material from somewhere.” Mr Baker remains optimistic the work now being done on the Kaipatangata Stream is almost at an end. “It’s getting better and better all the time,” he said. More flushes of freshwater have been coming down the river and have helped clear the silt, he said. “It’s more or less operational now — we haven’t sent it off to town because of the odd bit of dirtiness in the water. “By next week we should be fully operational up there again.”

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Wairarapa Midweek

By Dr Nicola Haglund BVSc

from Vet Services Wairarapa

SNIP ‘N’ CHIP The aim of this initiative is to help all Wairarapa cat owners to provide the best possible life for their cats. To do this we want to:

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Apple pie time If you love making scrumptious apple pies, crumble and strudel (of course served with a large dollop of cream or custard – yum!) then tart green ‘Granny Smith’ is the best variety of apple to use.

They’re still tasty after being cooked and when eaten fresh they’re crisp and full of ﬂavour. Granny Smith apples are late maturing, which means they are fresh and in season in mid to late autumn and also store well. Granny Smith apple trees do best in areas with cool winters and grow to around 4 m tall. Dwarf varieties, reaching around 2 m tall, can be grown very successfully in large pots, making them ideal for a sunny courtyard. Granny Smith will need to be grown

near a suitable pollinator, like Gala or Fuji, to help achieve the best possible harvest. There are dwarf varieties available of these pollinators as well, so you can have your very own mini apple orchard. Apples are often planted during winter as bare rooted trees however can also be available as potted trees at other times of the year and so are great for planting during autumn. Visit www. waimeanurseries.co.nz to ﬁnd your nearest stockist of Granny Smith apple trees.

Growing lemons year round If you find yourself regularly buying lemons from the supermarket it might be time to consider growing your own lemon tree. It won’t take long to pay for itself and you’ll have a supply of fresh tangy lemons to use in the kitchen. One of the most popular and hardy lemon varieties is ‘Meyer’, which is a cold tolerant lemon that produces lots of juicy fruit. Thankfully it doesn’t have many thorns and once established will give you lemons for most of the year. Lemons make a very attractive addition to a garden, with glossy green leaves and beautifully perfumed white flowers in spring, followed of course by sunshine yellow fruit. Meyer lemons can be planted into the ground, growing to around 4 m tall, or grown in pots in a sunny spot. Look out for dwarf varieties, which are ideal for containers. When planting citrus into containers, choose a well-drained pot that’s at least 50 cm in diameter and use a good quality potting mix. It’s also beneficial to apply a few centimetres of mulch over the surface, which will help the potting mix stay moist. Keep the mulch a few centimetres away from the trunk to allow good air flow and reduce the chance of collar rot disease. While citrus trees are maturing their fruit during late autumn and early winter, continue to feed

• Reduce the number of unwanted kittens – happier cats all round! Our clinic is currently participating in the Snip ‘n’ Chip initiative that was launched by the Wellington SPCA at the end of March. It is also supported by the New Zealand Companion Animal Register, 2 local councils and 7 local vet practices throughout the region.

• Help all lost cats find their way home – happier owners all round!

• Snip ‘n’ chip your cat or kitten for just $9 – this includes desexing, microchipping and registration of the chip on NZCAR.

This is a fantastic opportunity which is far too good to miss. Be in quick as it has been very popular and is booking up fast, so don’t miss out and book your favourite feline in today!

• Offer sound advice on how pets and native wildlife can better share their urban and suburban surroundings.

This offer runs until Wednesday 28th June and you can buy your It offers heavily discounted vouchers from the clinic desexing and microchipping or at the SPCA Op Shop for your cat: in Masterton.

• Vet chippin’ your pet for $4 – this includes microchipping your cat or kitten and registration of the chip on NZCAR.

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citrus each week with a complete and balanced fertiliser that’s been specially designed to promote healthy citrus trees and help create good quality fruit. Yates® Thrive® Citrus Liquid Plant Food is an easy to use liquid fertiliser that’s ideal for feeding citrus. Dilute 2 capfuls of Yates Thrive Citrus Liquid Plant Food into a 9 L watering can and apply over the root zone each week.

Tough love tip: as harsh as this might sound (and diﬃcult to bring yourself to do), remove any developing fruit from young citrus trees for the ﬁrst 2 years after planting. This will direct the tree’s growth into leaves, stems and branches (rather than using energy to grow fruit), which will help the tree attain a larger size quicker and promote more fruit in the future.

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Stay welcome, Feds urge hunters, anglers BY GERALD FORD A Federated Farmers spokesman warned ahead of Saturday’s duck-shooting opening day on Saturday, that some anglers and hunters may not be as welcome as last year on farms. In an open letter to news organizations, national Feds board member Chris Allen criticised Fish and Game in some regions, including Manawatu and Hawkes Bay, for using licence revenue “to make the life of landowners that much more diﬃcult”. “As a result, some Fish and Game licence holders may not face the same friendly welcome by their farmer friends this year,” he said. As examples, Mr Allen cited Fish and Game’s court action against Horizons Regional Council on water quality. “Wellington Fish and Game took the regional council to court on a legal technicality – ignoring the wishes of the wider community and in the face of the

fact that improvements are being achieved. This move will simply add cost for dubious environmental benefit.” In Hawkes Bay, Mr Allen said, “your local Fish and Game Council is seeking an extremely broad definition for a wetland that will severely restrict farmers’ ability to farm wet paddocks”. “Many farmers are over the constant claims that New Zealand has terrible water quality and farmers are largely at fault when in fact 80 per cent of New Zealand’s waterways are stable and improving and all communities – across rural and urban – are part of the problem and therefore need to be part of the solution.” Mr Allen said Federated Farmers members “urge all Fish and Game licence holders to support the men and women who support you in providing access to great fishing and hunting experiences and encourage their organisation to work with, not against, the farming community”.

As Martinborough saw more than three times its average rainfall for April, wine growers experienced a challenging harvest compared to last year’s “great growing season”. Growers have had to work around severe rain periods, taking the question of when to harvest out of their hands. Last month was Martinborough’s wettest April since 1924, according to data released by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) yesterday. Palliser Estate winery chief executive Pip Goodwin said the rain wasn’t ideal for April impacting on their harvest period. “We had a very cool ﬂowering period which is the end of December, and quite a cool summer as well. “Then we had some nice weather, but unfortunately the rain arrived in harvest time,” she said. Last year was the “total opposite” with drought-like conditions that oﬀered a great growing season. “We weren’t put under pressure then . . . there was no rain, so no disease pressures. “With the rain you get disease pressure, so you have to react quickly.” Martinborough usually has one of the longest autumns in the country meaning growers could leave the fruit out until it was at ripeness, she said. “This year, that decision was taken out of our hands a wee bit.” “It’s heart destroying, because all this work has gone into vines over a whole year and then over a two-week period it put that under jeopardy,” she said.

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A passion for rest home care Moyra Te Whare has worked in operating theatres, brain injury rehabilitation units and hospital wards. But one of her most satisfying roles has been as an Enrolled Nurse at Carter Court rest home and hospital in Carterton. It was Moyra’s mother who pointed out a few weeks ago that she started her nursing career working with the elderly.

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“Greytown Hospital was close to where I lived and I was mostly in the geriatric ward which I always did enjoy.” That experience led Moyra to train as a nurse at Masterton Hospital, graduating in 1975. “I was offered a position in the operating theatre at Masterton Hospital which I absolutely loved but in 1976 I left to get married and moved to Greytown where I worked at Greytown Hospital.” Moyra has spent most of her career in Wairarapa, joining Carter Court in 2002. “A lot of the staff have been here for a good length of time because of the culture of the rest home itself and the care people receive here.” Carter Court has 41 beds, 16 of which were turned into hospital care beds a year ago, leading to some practical changes including 24 hour registered nurse cover. This means there are both Enrolled and

Registered nurses on the floor at the rest home at all times. “We all work very well together with the very experienced support of our Nurse manager Lynley Batson.” Moyra is a front line nurse involved in the direct provision of all areas of clinical care and holistic support to the residents. She also provides direction and delegation to the care staff team. Moyra provides the leadership for the Falls Project implemented over the past two years with the aim of reducing harm from falls. She also participates regionally in the Wairarapa DHB Falls and Pressure Injury group. This helps to keep Carter Court up to date with current best practice. She has recently gained her

registration as a Workplace Assessor for Careerforce in order to support the caregivers to achieve their NZQA qualifications. Working with elderly is something you have to be passionate about, Moyra says. “It is a very complex area, partly because you are dealing with so many different personalities. This can be challenging at times, but generally is rewarding”. A lot of new residents go through a grieving process as they say farewell forever to their homes, she says. “So it is up to our staff to try and alleviate that, and make people feel a part of what is going on, on a dayto-day basis. It is very much like you are looking after your grandmother or grandfather in their home. I love my job”.

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Hi my name is Megan and I returned back to the Wairarapa to commence a new journey as a Practice Nurse at Carterton Medical Centre. I had been nursing for the past 3 years at the Children’s Ward within Wellington Hospital. My passion is child and youth health, however, I enjoy all aspects of “General Practice”. An important part of my role is the Immunisation Nurse in which I work closely with families and other health agencies to ensure our children are immunised on time. I am the designated Maori Health Nurse for the Practice and am here to support and provide a full range of services for you and your Whanau. I am looking forward to meeting you all and assisting with your health care needs.

CORINA:

Tena Koutou Katoa, Greetings to you all Ko Corina Ngatai toku ingoa, my name is Corina Ngatai. My nursing journey started in 2007, in 2015 I completed my Masters of Nursing Science and in 2017 became a Nurse Practitioner, Primary Health across the lifespan. My role focuses on acute presentations, complex triages, long term conditions and general consults. I also provide clinical mentorship and support for CMC nurses. I practice both in collaboration with other health professionals and autonomously to promote, prevent and manage your health needs. As a Nurse Practitioner I will always keep, you the patient, firmly at the centre of care. I look forward to meeting whanau as your Maori Health Nurse Practitioner.

MELLISA:

Healthcare Assistant My name is Mellisa. As a Healthcare Assistant, I assist the clinical staff and reception, and help clients to manage their health.

Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri 8am - 5pm, Tues 8am - 7.15pm CALL US FOR ALL YOUR FAMILY HEALTH NEEDS 159-163 HIGH STREET, CARTERTON

PHONE 06 379 8105

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Nurse Practitioners making history

INTERNATIONAL

NURSES

DAY

FRI 12 MAY 2017

A growing new force of advanced nurses are working or in training as nurse practitioners throughout Wairarapa. They are all highly qualiÿ ed with masters degrees and advanced clinical training and work in medical centres in the community and in Wairarapa Hospital’s emergency department.

“Every community appointment takes up to an hour – older people need time to talk and have their concerns listened to. For me the rewards are to work alongside patients from initial assessment to the end of life, guiding them and their families and walking with them through the transition.”

Nurse practitioners are advanced nurse specialists who care for patients and their families in a holistic way. They often have more time than a GP to spend with patients and can apply a nursing lens to their care.

At Martinborough Medical centre nurse practitioners see anyone who walks through the door in their busy practice from babies to elderly patients.

Nurse practitioners assess, diagnose, prescribe and treat patients. They have their own patient case loads and can diagnose and order blood tests, x-rays and investigations, prescribe medicines within their practice scope, and refer to secondary services when required. Two years ago there was only one nurse practitioner in Wairarapa and now there are eight fully ° edged nurse practitioners, with one other well on the way to completing her training. Anna Reed was Wairarapa’s ÿ rst nurse practitioner and she specialises in the care of older people. Anna says, “I like to build relationships with registered and enrolled nurses in rest homes, hopefully giving them conÿ dence to make sound clinical assessments and ensuring they have an appropriate plan of care in place for each resident.

“We are busy,” says Rachael Pretorious. “I think we provide a valuable service and make a huge contribution towards the care of patients –working in a team with GPs and practice nurses improving a patient’s access to appointments, medications, tests and referrals to secondary services and private specialists.” Katie Inker, a Nurse Practitioner at Whaiora Medical Centre in Masterton, sees mainly Maori and Paciÿ c people and Masterton people who have found it di˛ cult to access or a˝ ord healthcare. “I work in a small team and I help ease the load of our busy GPs. I work alongside mainly Maori, Paciÿ c and low income patients and communities to make health journeys less complicated. “I am able to perform full assessments, work through diagnoses, select appropriate investigations, prescribe

medications if required and follow up patients in a timely way which helps to reduce barriers. “Working collaboratively as a nurse practitioner within a General Practice is a cost e˝ ective way for our team to improve access to health care, patient satisfaction, service delivery and health outcomes.” There are two Nurse Practitioners in Wairarapa Hospital’s Emergency Department - Fay Tomlin and Lucy McLaren. They are both experienced nurses in acute services and emergency care. Fay loves the autonomy of her role and working in a team. “It’s satisfying seeing a patient right through the treatment process and there’s lots of variety which I enjoy.” Fay can treat the majority of cases coming into ED including minor to moderate injuries (“walking wounded”). Her role is about reducing the waiting time in ED and keeping the ° ow of patients moving through. “No one wants to wait – they want MacDonald’s health care –fast.” Employing nurse practitioners is an innovative and cost-e˝ ective way of reaching communities and meeting health needs across all sectors, as well as building on and complementing existing services. They o˝ er a highly e˝ ective model of health care delivery.

“MASTERTON MEDICAL RECOGNISES AND THANKS ITS WONDERFUL TEAM OF NURSES ON INTERNATIONAL NURSES DAY” At Roseneath Lifecare, we pride ourselves on providing a warm, inviting home away from home environment for all of our residents.

WELLNESS CLINICS Concerned about your Blood pressure? Want to check your cholesterol Want to lose weight Family history of health issues Generally want to stay well

Masterton Medical

Get all these things checked by phoning today

370 0011 or 0800 222 505

We offer a broad range of specialised care from rest home, hospital, dementia, short term/long care, Day Care, Palliative Care and Health Recovery.

Proud to support our nurses 227 High Street South, Carterton Phone 06 379 4018 • Fax 06 379 4024 admin.roseneath@hll.org.nz

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Listening with my Heart – the poetry of Aotearoa New Zealand nurses The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) has commissioned a book of poetry as part of the Visibility of Nursing project which is about promoting and valuing nurses and the work they do. “Listening with my Heart” contains selected verse by nurses in Aotearoa New Zealand and expresses a variety of views of nurses and nursing through experiences of people, place and circumstance. It is insightful and evocative. Professional Nurse Adviser Loraine Ritchie is the editor of the book. She has had an interest in arts and health for a long time.

“By their involvement in the arts, whether poetry, painting, or writing novels, nurses and other health professionals have the opportunity to express a side of themselves which is not always possible in their day-to-day work. It is a creative way of reflecting and thinking about what they see and do and feel in their daily contact with patients. “Also, there has never been a book of poetry written by nurses about nursing in New Zealand, so this will be a first and tremendously exciting for all involved and a boost for nurses too.” The poetry book will be released on International Nurses’ Day, Friday 12th May in Wellington. It will be for sale in selected book stores and from the NZNO website.

INTERNATIONAL NURSES DAY FRI 12 MAY 2017

Some of the Wairarapa Nurse Practitioners (from left) Katie Inker, Corina Ngatai, Lucy McLaren, Cara Laing (in training), Rachael Pretorious, Fay Tomlin, Nicole Kolvenbag, Anna Reed

International Nurses Day is a great day for nurses as they celebrate their work and with the communities they work in, says NZNO Manager Nursing and Professional Services Jane MacGeorge. “Nurses are the largest profession in the health system and without them the health outcomes for people receiving care and treatment in the health system would not be improving as they are. “I often reflect that nurses hold the world together. We are in every community, culture and society the world over. “

Jerry Mapusua and Hope Sexton are embracing Student Volunteer Week. PHOTO/HAYLEY GASTMEIER

Lending a helping hand BY HAYLEY GASTMEIER

Meeting new faces and learning life skills is what volunteer work is all about. That was the key message from two Wairarapa youths who embraced Student Volunteer Week (SVW), which ran from May 1 to 7. Hope Sexton and Jerry Mapusua spent some time last week helping with duties at the Wairarapa Community Centre. Miss Sexton, 19, who is on the Wairarapa Youth Council and who is studying event management part-time, helped co-ordinate SVW and volunteered at a holiday programme. “You get a lot of life experience. “You learn so many new things about the community and you never know what’s going to happen.” Miss Sexton was greeted with an unexpected opportunity while volunteering at Featherston Booktown in 2015. “Some people over from Clunes [Australia] were so impressed with my volunteering skills they invited me to do a six-week internship all paid for.” “It was just amazing. “Volunteering opens up lots of roads and you never know where they’re going to go.” Mr Mapusua, a Rathkeale College student, is no stranger to volunteering, regularly helping out with Wairarapa-Bush training sessions. “I go along every Tuesday and help out by going around schools with Stacey Grant coaching touch rugby. “I go along and help out and learn along the way.”

Last week, he gained some work experience through Connecting Communities Wairarapa. “I enjoy getting the life experience and meeting new people.” Wairarapa Volunteer Centre manager Beverley Jack said there was a lot to be gained through volunteering. “We want to challenge youth and inspire them to give it a go.” Mrs Jack has arranged several volunteering opportunities for young people to take part in this week. On Thursday, Mrs Jack is inviting the region’s young people to meet at the community centre at 3.30pm, when they will head to Masterton’s Riding for the Disabled centre to volunteer for the afternoon. Another challenge which young people can take part in is helping the Heart Foundation by handing out pamphlets on Wednesday for the Mother’s Day fun run. Mrs Jack said anyone else wanting to participate could contact the volunteer centre and do the pamphlet drop on their own street. She is also urging people to take part in a community garden working bee next Saturday from 9am until 12pm, at Lifexchange Church on Oxford St, Masterton. She said Hadlow School had welcomed SVW by contacting the volunteer centre and requesting volunteering projects for its Year 7 and Year 8 students. • National Volunteer Week starts on June 18.

WHANAU CENTRED services available for our community Tamariki Ora - Family Start Medical Centre - Pae Ora Health Promotion Quit Smoking Support

Some of Whaiora’s practice and community-based nurses Whaiora’s Registered Nurses work in our medical centre and in the community to contribute towards the wellness of our people. As a teaching practice, we also support student nurses with their training.

5 Park St, Masterton | 0800 494 246, 06 3700 818

www.whaiora.org.nz | Wairarapa – he waiora | Wairarapa – a place of wellness

Riding for Disabled is one of the places student volunteers can help out this week.

PHOTO/FILE

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0 in Business 2 years Evans - two decades and going strong This month Evans celebrates 20 years in Masterton - with a store full of Locally owned and operated, Evans of Masterton is proud to be a part of the community. With knowledgeable staff dedicated to giving fantastic service, we are proud to be celebrating two decades of specialising in all your sewing and furnishing needs. Already well known throughout the Wellington region, Evans

came to Masterton in 1997. Originally situated in Queen Street, the store moved to its current location on the corner of Bannister and

Dixon Streets in 2008. Evans of Masterton has always been locally owned and operated, that has continued with the current owners Lindsay and Nicola Wright taking over the business in 2014. Nikki quickly developed the business, extending the curtain selection and updating the range of

products Evans sells. Last year, Evans of Masterton won a Bernina ‘Top Store’ award. While a lot has changed, you’ll still find some familiar faces in store today. Staff members Wendy and Raewyn have been there from the very start, so you can be sure they know their products. This month, to celebrate 20 years in Masterton, Evans is full of birthday deals, including discounts on: - All Bernina and Bernette sewing machines - Luxaflex blinds - Dress and patch fabric - Rugs - Knitting wool - Plus many more in-store specials

All Bernina and Bernette sewing machines and overlockers reduced

Chartered

Accountants Bernina sewing accessories* Offer valid unitl 31 May 2017, or while stocks last. *Offer excludes spare parts, needles, bobbins and bobbin cases.

Talk to us for a fresh approach to the success of your business. Congratulations to Evans of Masterton on celebrating 20 years in business

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of business

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in Masterton birthday specials. for the month of May Faye and Nikki are your curtain consultants and offer a full service from selection to installation. Evans has an extensive range of curtain samples you can take home to approve in your own time. You can choose your favourite fabric from our many and varied ranges and have our sewing room make them or you. For those interested in DIY, there is also a large range of curtain fabrics and linings instore, as well as everything else you need to make your own curtains or roman blinds, along with great advice. Call in to see Faye or Nikki to arrange your FREE measure and quote. If knitting is your thing, Evans is the

RJ TEXTILES Fabric Wholesalers

We specialise in fabrics for Daywear, Theatre-wear, After Five and Sportswear From left: Suzanne, Faye, Raewyn, Nikki and Wendy store for you. Knitting wool is always a popular product, but even more so coming into winter. Local knitters will know Evans for its large range of wool and knitting patterns for all ages. Evans is proud of its 20 years in

Masterton, and proud to be locally owned and operated. Come in and see us to help celebrate two decades of great service, extensive knowledge, a fantastic range of products - all in a family-oriented business that caters for all your craft and home decor needs.

Congratulations to Evans on reaching 20 years in business RON WHELAN RJ Textiles Ltd 14 Ward St, New Lynn 0600 PO Box 317105, Hobsonville 0664 Ph Ron 0274 746 259 09 412 9123 Email: ron@rjtextiles.co.nz www.rjtextiles.co.nz

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SHALARI GIFT VOUCHERS AN OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE THE UNIQUENESS OF THE MUM IN YOUR LIFE

OUT & ABOUT IN

GREYTOWN

A mother of teenage children herself, Shalari owner Tina Dunlop has an interesting perspective on the value of giving a more person-specific gift like lingerie on Mother’s Day. Woman tend to lose all focus on themselves once they become mothers, and refocusing on their own lives as their children grow up doesn’t come quickly or easily, she says. “Giving a gift like lingerie encourages a woman to think of herself as important again as an individual and not just a mother.” The easiest option is to simply purchase a voucher from Shalari to give to the mum you know on the day. That way they can choose the lingerie or swimwear she wants, and also enjoy a personal fitting from owner Tina. Tina also has the details of her customers who shop at Shalari regularly.

104 Main Street, Greytown • Ph 06 304 7170 www.shalari.co.nz Private fittings are available by appointment

With autumn here, Crighton ITM in Greytown is offering some great home insulation deals. Crighton has a range of insulation products including Pink Batts, Terralana Wool and Novaform. You can purchase these to install yourself, or the team at Crighton is able to put you in contact with recommended installers. The hardware store also has great deals for smoke alarms and all other building supplies you may need - come in and see the team today.

The biggest night of the week is the Wednesday Draw night. There is usually live music once a month on a Friday Night with a variety of styles from country to swing era. The club is popular for weddings, funerals and anniversaries. Its restaurant has an excellent reputation, offering full dinners on Saturday and Sunday and snack meals on Wednesday and Friday.

Reciprocal visiting rights to over 330 Clubs throughout NZ Members Children and Grandchildren Education Trust

Shalari Boutique Lingerie

When you buy apples – and many other fruits – at Pinehaven’s shop just north of Greytown you can be certain they were home-grown. Pinehaven Orchards marked its 104th anniversary this year and is still owned and operated by the Meyrick family. It grows and sells many Kiwi classic varieties including Gala which was first discovered in one of its orchards, along with 11 other varieties of apples. Pinehaven Orchards grows six varieties of pears, stone fruit including nectarines, plums and peaches, berries, and some vegetables. There’s always a wide selection of other fresh fruit and vegetables in store, as well as some gourmet foods, and basic groceries like eggs and soft drinks. You can enjoy its real fruit ice cream – or some home grown fruit – in the picnic area beside the shop which is open 8.30am to 5.30pm every day.

It has a full TAB facility, two full sized snooker tables and three pool tables, and 10 dart boards.

Join our Club and enjoy these benefits

“It’s what’s underneath that matters”

GREAT WINTER INSULATION DEALS AT CRIGHTON ITM

South Wairarapa Working Men’s Club invites anyone thinking of joining the 137 year-old club to pop in and see just what it has to offer.

The World’s Quickest Makeover

Gift vouchers available

PINEHAVEN KEEPS GREYTOWN’S FRUIT GROWING TRADITION ALIVE

GUESTS INVITED TO EXPERIENCE WHAT CLUB HAS TO OFFER

• Meals Saturday & Sunday Nights • TAB & Gaming area • Free Pool and Snooker • Darts & Indoor Bowls • A Senior Members Section for outings & sports days • Modern Bar and Full TAB facilities • Big Screen TV for all that Live Sport For details on joining phone the Secretary 06 304 9448 or email swwmc@wise.net.nz

120 Main Street, Greytown

Ph (06) 304 9448 | www.swwmc.org.nz

THE ONE STOP MOTHER’S DAY SHOP AT GOOD MOOD

A TRUE BAROQUE EXPERIENCE OF THE MESSIAH AT ST LUKE’S CHURCH

We get very excited about Mother’s Day here at The Good Mood Company. We are pretty much your one stop shop!

If you love music then keep Friday 19th May free for a rare performance of Handel’s Messiah with a full Baroque orchestra and harpsichord supporting the Wairarapa Singers at St Luke’s Church, Greytown.

We have great cards, we will wrap your purchases beautifully and you will receive a wrapped soap as a free gift with any purchase for Mum. We have special Ecoya gift packs and also have a great gift with purchase available with any purchase over $50 on Linden Leaves (while stocks last). Candles, bath bombs, massage oils, bubble baths, soaps, hand cream, lotions, journals and much, much more - not just for Mum come on in and treat yourself!

Hearing this popular work performed by a full orchestra is rare enough, but hearing the harpsichord, which was the instrument Handel played when performing the piece, is even more uncommon. Usually only a church organ is used. The orchestra and soloists have been sourced from the Wairarapa, Wellington and Palmerston North by musical director Angela Cook. Tickets for the concert which starts at 7pm are $35 or $25 each for groups. Contact Sally Chamberlain 06 3788104 or 021 244 4130.

Put Mum in a Good Mood this Mother’s Day All gifts beautifully wrapped & a FREE soap with every purchase for Mum

PINEHAVEN GROWN FEIJOAS Just $2.95 per kilo! Ph: 06 3049736 2471 State Highway 2, Greytown

Angela Cook

Gorgeous candles. Beautiful essential oils. Fabulous soaps and much, much more!

Music Director

Friday 19 May 7 pm St Luke's Church Greytown

George Frederick Handel’s

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Phone 06 304 7193

Creating great moods 86 Main Street, Greytown P 0800 666 326 E info@thegoodmoodcompany.co.nz www.thegoodmoodcompany.co.nz

Saturday 20 May 2.30 pm Rathkeale College Masterton

Messiah $35 Door, $25 Group

Contact: Sally Chamberlain 06-378-8104 or 021-244-4130 wairarapasingers.weebly.com

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FREE GIFT AND GREAT SUNDAY ROAST DEAL FOR MOTHER’S DAY AT TURKEY RED

MINI EXCAVATOR IDEAL FOR HARD TO GET TO PLACES

Turkey Red is celebrating Mother’s Day this Sunday with a two for $30 Sunday Roast deal and a free gift for all mums, plus the Main Menu will be available all day.

Pope & Gray now has its own mini excavator which is ideal for drain laying, landscaping and other projects around your home or business. It is especially suitable for hard to reach places as it has a very small width and tracks that are adjustable to get into even tighter corners, for instance between buildings and boundary fences. The excavator (pictured) is quite light at 1.7 tonnes and so is easy on the ground underneath and easy to transport to jobs anywhere in the Wairarapa.

You can enjoy $20 steak deals every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 5pm. The meals include high quality steaks with eggs, chips and onion rings. Friday is “Locals Night” with live music from a variety of local bands, and a ticket in the Jackpot Joker with every drink you buy. Turkey Red’s music gathering - Down on Main Street - a “blackboard concert” is held on the third Wednesday of the month hosted by Dr Rob and Stefan.

Mother’s Day 14th May 2 roasts for $30 Book now and receive a gift for Mum Courtesy Van Available

OUT & ABOUT IN

GREYTOWN

• Subdivisions • Driveways • Concrete Kerbing • Chip Sealing and Asphalt • Farm Tracks • Draincleaning • Drainlaying • Septic Tanks • Water & Sewer Connections • Landscaping • Lawns • House Sites

The One Stop Shop Please contact

Pope & Gray on 06 304 8911 or Visit: www.popeandgray.co.nz

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HUGE RANGE OF READY-MADE WINTER WARMING FOODS AT GREYTOWN BUTCHERY

QUIZ NIGHT FOR NEW MOBILITY VAN FOR ARBOR HOUSE

WASH CREEK ORGANIC BEEF & LAMB NOW AT FRESHCHOICE GREYTOWN

Greytown Butchery stocks an excellent range of prepared heat-and-eat foods for colder nights including large family pies, Wakelin House Venison Pies and freshly made manuka smoked bacon hocks, plus traditional English Pork Pies.

Join us at the Greytown Lion’s and Lioness Fun Quiz on Friday 26th May at the South Wairarapa Working Mens Club, starting at 7pm to raise funds for a new mobility van for Arbor House.

Keep an eye out for the Wash Creek Organic Beef & Lamb display at FreshChoice Greytown. Located in North Canterbury, the farm and its livestock are certified organic by BioGro. The animals are free to roam, eat organically grown food, and are treated humanely, giving the meat outstanding flavour, colour and texture.

Their casserole range includes Beef & Pumpkin, Smokey Beef & Bacon, and Mongolian Lamb, along with curried sausages and a range of traditional curries. Winter is a time for roasts of which Greytown Butchery has a great selection. For lamb lovers there are traditional whole lamb legs, as well as rolled shoulders seasoned with rosemary and pepper, plus a selection of mini lamb roasts.

Get your team of quiz wizards together. You can enter by going online from the Greytown Lions Facebook page and website, or you can contact Kim on 06 304 9483 or email arbor-house@xtra.co.nz for an entry form.

Greytown Butchery also supplies its awardwinning sausages and a range of meats to Pirinoa Store on the Lake Ferry road, Eketahuna & Solway Four Square Supermarkets, as well as Pinehaven Orchards north of Greytown.

April was a busy month with Easter weekend and ANZAC day. Some of our residents went to the ANZAC parade in Greytown with their families.

Community Owned right in the heart of Greytown

GREAT

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• 26 Bedrooms (6 with ensuites) • Very handy to Greytown shops • 2 spacious lounges, one with a gas fire • Covered deck for Residents and visitors to enjoy

Butchery & Seafood Manager Richard Anderson has put Wash Creek’s product to the test with a lightly pan-fried steak. His verdict - “a really nice meat, as good as you will find, with the added buzz of being organic.”

greytown

Arbor House is a small, friendly facility. Our resident’s wellbeing is paramount. Our experienced staff enjoy caring for people alongside family & friends.

WE OFFER –

DAY ACTIVITIES RESPITE CARE PALLIATIVE CARE HEALTH RECOVERY REST HOME & HOSPITAL LEVEL CARE We invite you to come and have a look. Contact our Nurse Manager, Robyn Brady. Arbor House, 48 Main Street, Greytown 5712 Ph: 06 304 9483 • Email: arbor-house@xtra.co.nz

Your local full service supermarket 12 Hastwell Street, Greytown Phone 304 7237. Open 7am – 9pm, 7 days

Owned and operated by locals

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Leatherwise—Protecting your Investment If you have invested in the luxury of leather, then you know that like fine wine, good leather ages beautifully with time. But unlike wine, leather upholstery can deteriorate from the ravages of sun damage, pets, or poor maintenance.

Has your much-loved leather become faded or lost its lustre? Do you still love its style but wish it were a different colour? Don’t replace it—refinish it!

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Powerco Approved Contractor CONTACT BREN: (06) 378 8278 or 0274 504 294 KEV: 0274 698 531 “N No t ee e oo all or oo small”

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The good news is that the majority of upholstery leathers can often be restored to showroom condition through refinishing. All for much less than the price of recovering or replacement! We can revive the original colour or in some cases

BEDS

actory priced beds direct to the public SingleSheets, bedsPillows, from $439 Mattress Protectors, Queen beds fromDuvets $699 Call see us ustoday today Callin in and and see

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even completely change the colour of your old leather, as shown in the examples. Our full range of services includes leather cleaning, protection, repairs, recolouring, and refinishing. Leatherwise business owner André Mendes da Costa is Wairarapa’s leather care and restoration specialist, and he is sought after by discerning leather owners for his attention to detail and pride in workmanship. Leatherwise is an approved insurance and warranty repairer. For more information, visit www.leatherwise.co.nz or contact Andre on 027 565 9244.

CARAVANS & CABINS

RENT A RETRO Caravans & Cabins for Hire Short or long Term Family Functions, Holidays, Events, Spare Room, & Club Activities

Phone: Steve 027 259 1683 Email: meridianrv@xtra.co.nz Web: rentaretro.nz FURNITURE REMOVALS

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Professional Leather Cleaning Recolouring - Repairs - Restoration For our complete range of services visit

www.leatherwise.co.nz Call Andre 06 377 5868 or 027 565 9244

Refrigeration & Air-Conditioning Domestic Commercial Mitsubishi & Hitachi Authorised Dealers

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Roof Painting Roof Re-Screwing Roof Maintenance Property Maintenance Phone 06 377 4291 Mobile 027 665 9566 carlkitchenham@yahoo.com

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ROOFING

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WINDOWS

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For a no obligation FREE QUOTE phone: 0800 587 836 Contact Jim Upward P (06) 379 5619 M 027 5599 155

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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

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COMMUNITY EVENTS THURSDAY,MAY 11 Ruamahanga Music Club: Meet at 7.30pm, at the Gladstone Inn. Enjoy an evening of rock, folk, blues, country and jazz. Housie: At Carrington Bowling & Croquet Club (Carterton), behind the Clocktower, at 1.20 pm. Call Pauline Hodgson 379-5923. Drop in Centre: Pop in for a cuppa and a chat, gold coin donation for tea/coffee and a biscuit, 2-4pm, at St Johns Hall, Main St, Greytown. Call Bronwyn Hallot (06) 304-8442 or (027) 228-8651 or Pam Lloyd (06) 304-7997. Wairarapa Model Aero Club: 9am-noon, at the Masterton Aerodrome. Red Star Table Tennis Club: Meet 5-7pm, at Red Star Sports Association, 10 Herbert St, Masterton. Call John 370-2511, or Hugh 377-4880. Opaki Tennis: Clubnight 7pm. Call Greg 3774261 or 377-2201. Featherston Menz Shed: 61 Fitzherbert St, open from 6.30pm. Whakaoriori Shufflers: Line dancing, Red Star clubrooms, Herbert St, Masterton, intermediate, 1-2.30pm. Call 377-5518 or 377-1135. Oasis Network Inc: A free service for all people who need advocacy and support for their mental health issues and well-being. Mon-Fri 10am-3pm, Wairarapa Community Centre, 41 Perry St, Masterton. Call Gaylene (06) 929-0961 or (0274) 604-796. Feldenkrais: 5.45-6.45pm, Featherston Community Centre. Call Rupert (027) 585-3822. Carterton Community Choir: Meet 7.15-9pm, at Carterton School hall, Holloway St, school terms only. Email cartertonsinging@gmail.com Westside Playcentre: Open 9-noon, 165 Renall St, Masterton. Call 378-2224. Martinborough Playcentre: Open 9-noon, 38 Venice St. Call (06) 306-9068. Carterton Playcentre: Open 9-noon, Belvedere Rd (next to Howard Booth Park). Call 379-7875. Mums & Bubs Fit: Open to everyone, 10am. For details text ‘Fit Mums’ to (027) 349-8962. Masterton Taekwon-Do Club: 5.15-6.15pm, Te Runga Scout Den, 45 Harley St, Masterton. Call Simon O’Hara 370-8844. Masterton Senior Citizens & Beneficiaries Association: Meet 1-3.30pm for cards, Scrabble and bowls, Senior Citizens hall, Cole St, Masterton. Call Ngaire Walker 377-0342. Wairarapa Fern & Thistle Pipe Band: Band practises 6.30-8.30 pm, Savage Club Hall, Albert St, Masterton. Tai chi for Health: Martinborough, St John’s Hall, 9.30-10.30am. Chair Yoga: Breath lead movements. The Spot, 365 Queen St, 1.30pm. Call Karina (021) 0820-0132. Yoga Beginners: Course-bookings essential, 5.30-7pm , St Andrews church, Greytown. Txt Tulletha (022) 176-4296. Carrington Bowling & Croquet Club: Association Croquet: 9.15am for 9.30 start. Call Veronica George 379-8644. Aquarobics: 11am at Lansdowne Village. Pilates: Power 9am, Beginners 10am, 50s Forward 11am, Core Plus 5.30pm at Bodymind Pilates, 6 Queen St, Masterton. Call 370-1121. Judo Classes: Kids (4 to 9) 5-6pm, Cadets (10 to 16) 6-7pm and Seniors (14+) 7-8.30pm, Masterton Judo & Ju Jitsu Academy, 149 Queen St. Call Simon (021) 248-6111. Self Defence: Ju Jitsu, 7-8.30pm, Masterton Judo & Ju Jitsu Academy 149 Queen St. Call Simon (021) 248-6111. Masterton Toy Library: 2.30-4.30pm, at rear of Masterton YMCA, 162 Dixon St, Masterton.

Alcoholics Anonymous: Masterton, 7.30pm, Soulway Church, 227 High St. Call Darren (027) 334-2685. FRIDAY,MAY 12 Justice of the Peace: Service centre available at Carterton Library 11am-1pm. St Matthew’s Connect Group: 9.30-11am, informal, coffee and speaker, St Matthew’s Community Hall, Church St, Masterton. Call Yvonne 377-4929, Wendy 378-0035 or parish office 370-8589. Dance: At Carterton Club, Broadway, at 7.30pm. Call Liz 379-5108. Gentle Yoga: 9.30-10.30am, bookings essential, at the studio, 268 High St N, Carterton. Call Colleen (021) 177-1956. Needlework & Craft Drop-in: 10am-noon, Featherston Community Centre. Call Virginia (06) 308-8392. Masterton Tennis Club: Club night from 5pm. Free Community Fit Club: 6am and 11am, Carrington Park, Carterton. All ages, all fitness levels. Call Di (027) 498-7261. Carterton Craft Market: Open 7 days, 10am2pm, High St, Carterton, opp Almo’s Book Shop. Call Robyn 379-7099. Kids’ Song And Story: Fun songs, finger plays and stories for under-5s, during school terms, 9.30-10.30am, at Epiphany Church Hall, High St South, Masterton. Call Jill 377-4614. Greytown Music and Movement: For pre-schoolers, 10am, at St Luke’s Hall, Main St. Contact: email admin@stlukesgreytown.co.nz Wairarapa Steampunk: We meet as required, 10.30am-2pm, at Kingstreet Artworks. Call Gaylene 377-4865 evenings or (0274) 494-596. Dance Fit: At Carrington Park, Carterton, at 6-7pm. If weather not good it’s in youth centre of Event Centre. Text dance groove to (022) 321-2643. Masterton Social Badminton Club: Play 7-9pm, all year round, at Masterton YMCA gym (371 Queen St). Contact by text Hamish (021) 259-7684 or Sam (0210) 552-113. Linedance: Greytown: 10.30-11.30am at St John’s Hall. Hatha Yoga + Yin Mix: 5.30pm , St Johns Hall, Greytown. Txt Tulletha (022) 176-4296. Yoga: Greytown: 9-10.15am, St John’s Hall, Greytown. Call Nicki (06) 308-6598. Carterton: 9am, at Gain Momentum, opposite the Event Centre. Call Odette (021) 180-9452. Pilates: Men Only 9am, Core 10am, 50s Forward 11am, Core Plus 12.10pm, Core 5.30pm at Bodymind Pilates, 6 Queen St, Masterton. Call 370-1121. Masterton Masters Swimming Club: Club night 6-7pm, Genesis Recreation Centre back pool. Call Graeme 377-0507 or Lucy (021) 0204-4144. Masterton Croquet Club: Golf Croquet 9.15am, behind the Hosking Garden in the Park. Call Norma Wilton 377-3165. MONDAY,MAY 15 Ballet for Women: Noon-1pm at St Andrew’s Church, Greytown. Call Maree (06) 304-9913. Masterton Brass Band: Rehearsals at 7pm, in the Band Room, Park Ave, Masterton. Call Ted 377-0625. Not Your Nanna’s Sewing Circle:7-9pm, Cobblestone’s Administration Room, 169 Main St, Greytown. Call Christine Healy (06) 304-8110 or Lynda Saint-Merat (06) 304-7026. Yoga: St Johns Hall, Martinborough, Beginners/ Seniors 4-5.15pm; General 5.30-6.45pm. Call Nicki (06) 308-6598.

Chair Yoga: Breath lead movements. The Spot, 365 Queen St, 1pm. Call Karina (021) 0820-0132. Hatha Yoga: Suitable for anyone. REAP House, 6pm. Call Karina (021) 0820-0132. Yoga and Pilates Fusion: For joint mobility and core strength, 11am, St John’s Hall, Martinborough. Call Odette (021) 180-9452. Kundalini Yoga: 7-8pm, Carterton. Call Odette (021) 180-9452. Pilates: Martinborough: 9am St Andrews Hall, Dublin St. Call Jane (027) 630-4132. Pilates: Core Plus 8am, Core 9am, 50s Forward 11am, Core 12.10pm, Core 5.30pm, Beginners 6.30pm at Bodymind Pilates, 6 Queen St, Masterton. Call 370-1121. Alcoholics Anonymous: Masterton: 7.30pm, St Matthew’s Church Hall, 35 Church St. Call Anne 378-2338 or Pete (020) 4005-9740. Carterton: 8pm, Salvation Army Community Rooms, 210 High St. Call Dennis 377-5355 or Martin (06) 372-7764. Girl Guiding: Brownies (7-10 years) 4.30-6pm. Guides (9-14 years) 5.30-7.30pm. Call Chrissy Warnock 372-7646. Self Defence/Ju Jitsu: 7.30-9pm, Masterton Judo & Ju Jitsu Academy, 149 Queen St. Call Simon (021) 248-6111. Karate: Masterton Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate-Do, 6.30pm, 49 Te Ore Ore Rd, Masterton. Call Steve or Sharron Riley 378-8814 or (027) 680-7738. Karate-Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Wairarapa Inc: Greytown: St John Hall, 73 Main St, at 6pm. Call Paul Cantwell (06) 308-9839 or (027) 376-9804. TUESDAY,MAY 16 Wairarapa Spinners & Weavers: Meet in the Wool Shed, Dixon St, Masterton, at 7pm. Call Trish 378-8775 or Lynette 377-0236. Masterton Toastmasters: Meet at the Carterton Convention Centre at 7.45pm. Call Lesley Hurst 378-8801. Alanon: A group for anyone affected by another’s drinking, meet at 6.30pm at Cameron Community House, Church St, Masterton. Call 0508 425-2666. Drop in Centre: Pop in for a cuppa and a chat, gold coin donation for tea/coffee and a biscuit, 2-4pm, at St Johns Hall, Main St, Greytown. Call Bronwyn Hallot (06) 304-8442 or 027 2288651 or Pam Lloyd (06) 304-7997. South Wairarapa Badminton Club: 7.30pm, at the Featherston Sports Stadium, Underhill Rd. Red Star Table Tennis Club: Meet 9am-noon, at Red Star Sports Association, 10 Herbert St, Masterton. Call John 370-2511, or Hugh 3774880. Featherston Menz Shed: 61 Fitzherbert St, open from 10am. Juesday Art: 10am-1pm Featherston Community Centre. Call Julia (06) 308-8977. Tai Chi for Health: 9.15-10.15am, St John’s Hall, Greytown. Carterton District Historical Society: Open 2-4pm, Cnr Broadway & Masson St. Call 379-7827 or 379-7150. Clareville Badminton Club: Main Stadium at Clareville, 7.30pm -9pm. Call Steve 379-6999. Central Indoor Bowls Club: 7.30pm, Hogg Crescent hall. Call Mathew or Graeme 378-7554. Carterton Playcentre: Open 9-noon, Belvedere Rd (next to Howard Booth Park). Call 379-7875. Dance Fitness Classes: Greytown, school terms only, with Justine Eldred at Kuranui College Dance Studio, 6.30-7.30pm. Call Justine (0274) 761-996. Masterton Taekwon-Do Club: 5.15-6.15pm, Te Runga Scout Den, 45 Harley St, Masterton. Call Simon O’Hara 370-8844.

Masterton Senior Citizens and Beneficiaries Association: Meet for social indoor bowls, 500 cards, or a chat 1-3pm. Call Ngaire 377-0342. Free Community Fit Club: 11am, Carrington Park, Carterton. All ages, all fitness levels. Call Di (027) 498-7261. Carterton Tennis Club: Midweek tennis 9amnoon. Carterton District Historical Society: 44 Broadway, Carterton, open by appointment. Call 379-7827 or 379-9021. Woops A Daisy Marching Team: March for fun, friendship and fitness, 5-6pm. Call Cheryl 372-5522. Yoga Works: Masterton 9.30am. Greytown 5.30pm. Call Robyn 377-1802. Hatha Flow Yoga: 5.30pm, 22 Dixon St, Masterton. Txt Tulletha (022) 176-4296. Pilates: Power 9am, 50s Forward 9.30am (at Lansdowne Park), Beginners 10am, 50s Forward 11am, Core 2pm, Power 5.30pm at Bodymind Pilates, 6 Queen St, Masterton. Call 370-1121. Karate Classes for Children: Masterton Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate-Do. 5.30pm, 49 Te Ore Ore Rd, Masterton. Call Steve or Sharron Riley 378-8814 or (027) 680-7738. Judo Classes: Kids (4-9) 5pm to 6pm, Cadets (10-16) 6-7pm and Seniors (14+) 7-8.30pm, Masterton Judo & Ju Jitsu Academy, 149 Queen St. Call Simon (021) 248-6111. Self Defence: Ju Jitsu, 7-8.30pm, Masterton Judo & Ju Jitsu Academy 149 Queen St. Call Simon (021) 248-6111. Karate-Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Wairarapa Inc: Martinborough: Martinborough Primary School Hall. Under-12s at 5-6pm. Call Corina Ngatai (027)432-6870. All at 6pm. Call Anna Börjesson (021) 163-8867. South Wairarapa Workingmen’s Club:Games afternoon, including cards, board, darts, pool etc. Call Doff 304-9748. Girl Guiding: Pippins (5-7 years) 3.45-5pm. Call Chrissy Warnock 372-7646. Carrington Bowling & Croquet Club: Association Croquet at 1pm for 1.15pm start at clubrooms behind the Clock Tower, Carterton. Call Helen Smith (06) 3048840 or Stella Smith 379-9259. WEDNESDAY,MAY 17 Heart Help Group: Join us for information and sharing, 4-5pm, Wairarapa Community Centre, 41 Perry St, Masterton. Call Kit (06) 370-3890. Heart of Arts: 10 Minute Bites, 12.10pm, BYO sandwich. Ukulele Classes: 1-3pm, Featherston Community Centre. Call Neil (06) 308-9341. Featherston Amateur Wrestling Gym: 52 Fitzherbert St (behind Totem), kids wrestling classes, term time only, 5.30pm, 5 to 8 years, 6.15pm, 8 and over, first class free. Call Dannii (027) 920-6751. Whakaoriori Shufflers: Line dancing, Red Star clubrooms, Herbert St, Masterton, intermediate, 5.30-7pm. Call 377-5518 or 377-1135. Kiddie Gym: For 0-3-year-olds, 9.30-11am, at St David’s Church, corner High and Victoria Sts, Carterton. Call Lorna or Abby 379-8325. Longbush Playgroup: 9.30am-noon, school terms only, 1135 Longbush Rd, Masterton. Call Eileen (06) 372-7861. Westside Playcentre: Open 9-noon, 165 Renall St, Masterton. Call 378-2224. Martinborough Playcentre: Open 9-noon, 38 Venice St. Call (06) 306-9068. Rangatahi to Rangatira Youth Group: Join us for sports, food, and leadership, Carterton Events

Centre. Text “R2R” to (027) 742-2264. Wairarapa Spinners and Weavers: Meet 10am-2pm, in the Wool Shed, Dixon St, Masterton. Call Trish 378-8775 or Lynette 3770236. Masterton Art Club: Open 10am-2pm for browsing or painting, at 12 Victoria St. Call Sue 377-7019. Dance Fit: 6pm at the YMCA Masterton. For details text ‘Dance Fit’ to (027) 349-8962. Walk Fit: Open to everyone, 9.30am. For details text ‘Walk Fit’ to (027) 239-9001. Age Concern: Sit and Be Fit, 1.30pm followed by gentle exercise class, Senior Citizens hall, Cole St, Masterton. Wairarapa Asthma Society Inc: South Wairarapa, Easy Breathers Gentle Exercise Group, 10.30-11.30am, at the St John rooms. Call Sylvia 377-1175 or Cathy (027) 359-3625. Club Carterton: Two-course barbecue meal, 6.30pm. Belly Dance: 1-2pm, at St Johns Hall, Greytown. Call Tamara (06) 308-8343 or text (021) 02231893. The Dance Shed: 450 Belvedere Rd Carterton. Rock N Roll Class, 7-9pm. Call Wendy or Don 3796827 or (027) 319-9814. Carterton Women’s Golf: 9-hole golf at 10.45am. Call Colleen 377-0841 or Alison 3775709. Quit Smoking Support Group: Run by Whaiora quit coaches, free, noon-1pm, at 22 Dixon St, Masterton. Recreational Walking Group: 9.30am, Essex St car park. Call Ann Jackson, 372-5758, or Ann Duckett, 378-8285. Chair Yoga: At Wairarapa Village, 140 Chapel St, Masterton. Gentle movements, 9.30am. Call Karina (021) 0820-0132. Yoga Works: Masterton 5.30pm. Call Robyn 377-1802. Pilates: Core 9am, 50s Forward 11am, Core 5.30pm, Beginners 6.30pm at Bodymind Pilates, 6 Queen St, Masterton. Call 370-1121. Yin yoga + Restore: 6.30pm, 22 Dixon St, Masterton. Txt Tulletha (022) 176-4296. Call 370-1121. Beginners Yoga: 9am, Carterton. Call Odette (021) 180-9452. Pregnancy Yoga: 12.30pm, Hot Yoga Studio, Kuripuni. Call Karina (021) 0820-0132. Te Runga Scouts: Cubs, 6-7.30pm, 45 Harley St, Masterton. Karate: Masterton Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate-Do, 6.30pm, 49 Te Ore Ore Rd, Masterton. Call Steve or Sharron Riley 378-8814 or (027) 680-7738. Self Defence/Ju Jitsu: 8-9.30pm, Masterton Judo & Ju Jitsu Academy, 149 Queen St. Call Simon (021) 248-6111. Wairarapa Singers: 6.45pm, at Rosewood, 417 Queen St, Masterton. Call Pete 370-4574. Soulway Cooking and Crafts: 10am-noon, High St, Masterton. Call Nikki Smith 370-1604 (church office). Alcoholics Anonymous: Martinborough, 7.30pm, 9 Jellicoe St. Call Mark 906) 306-6013 or (021) 02442870. Karate-Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Wairarapa Inc: Featherston: Primary School Hall, at 6pm. Call Paul Cantwell (06) 308-9839 or (027) 376-9804. Masterton Petanque Club: From 5.30pm, at Masterton Bowling Club, in Queen Elizabeth Park. Call Graeme 378-7331. and 12.45pm. Call Ian Wyeth 378-6425 or 377-5762. * To have an event listed please email event@age. co.nz

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Wairarapa Midweek

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Wairarapa Midweek

Notices Employment Motoring Property Buy & Sell Trades & Services

Local Classifieds Garage Sales

Public Notices

GREYTOWN

Public Notices

LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION

5 NORTH STREET

06 370 8032

FEDERATED FARMERS WAIRARAPA

TO VISIT VISITED

AGMs

At Masterton Club 98 Chapel Street then

PROVINCIAL AGM 4.30PM

MASTERTON

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4 PHONE 06 377 4961 3 Wanted to Buy $285 Street OR EMAIL $295 822Surrey Stout St 33 office@mastertonrentals.co.nz BUYING NOW - Estates, Collections, $295 22 Stout St 3 CARTERTON MASTERTON PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LTD

$100 345 Waihakeke Rd CARTERTON

Antiques, Silver, Gold, Jewellery etc. Phone Charles 06 929 8266

(Storage Shed) 0 Business $75 345 Waihakeke Rd Opportunities Shed) 2 30 $245 (Storage 3396 St Highway

$335 $335 14 14 Hornsby HornsbyStSt 33 Phone Chrissy Osborne 06 377 4961 MASTERTON PROPERTY EXPRESSION MANAGEMENT LTD OF INTEREST

Café Services Wairarapa Campus UCOL – Universal College of Learning is a polytechnic constituted under the Education Act 1989 and is the major vocational and applied education provider serving the lower North Island with campuses in Palmerston North, Whanganui, and Masterton. Expressions of interest are sought from organisations interested in providing café services to the Universal College of Learning (UCOL) for its Wairarapa Campus located in Masterton. We require a service that adds value, is consistently of a high standard and where necessary configurable to meet our operational needs. We are also keen to discuss innovative solutions to meet the needs of our students and staff. The Expression of Interest needs only to contain the name of your organisation, personal background and experience, contact person, address, phone, email and web site address (if applicable). We will then contact you with more information. Respond by 4:00pm on Friday 12th May 2017 to: Sheree Evans – s.evans@ucol.ac.nz UCOL reserve the right to decline any or all registrants and to not proceed with the process. No correspondence will be entered into with any declined registrants.

WAIRARAPA BRANCH AGM Sunday May 21 2017 2.00-4.00pm All Welcome Guest Speaker Adelia Hullett (Editor of Carbon News) www.carbonnews.co.nz

3.00pm Wednesday 24th May Starting 3.30pm Meat & Fibre and Dairy Section

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Public Notices

WAIRARAPA A&P SOCIETY AGM Sunday 28th May at 1.00pm in the VCC Rooms Clareville Complex All Invited Any further enquiries Phone 06 379 8124

NEED EXTRA CASH Have a

Raffles

Employment

ALFREDTON PLAYGROUP

Master Bowl Ltd require a BOWLING TECHNICIAN/ CUSTOMER SERVICE PERSON for nights and weekend work, 35-40 hours/week. Mechanical experience preferred but not essential as full training will be given. Applicants must be well presented, reliable and trust worthy. Drop your CV off to 12 Queen St or call 06 377 7352 during our opening hours.

wish to congratulate the winners of the Mother’s Day Raffle, Drawn May 4th 2017 by Donna Oliver Eketahuna Police. Basket one # 540 - Kylie King Basket two # 517 - Marina Christie We would also like to thank the generosity and kind donations of support from the following local businesses: Lorna Potter, The Villa, Regent 3 Cinemas, Strada, The Lazy Graze, Bullick & Blackmore, McDonalds, Countdown, Southend Pharmacy, The Sanctuary, Paper Plus, Paper Road, Maison, Mitre 10 Mega, Annabel Langbein, Farmlands.

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WAIRARAPA COLLEGE TEACHER AIDE We require a teacher aide to work in our Alternative Education centre full time. Position to start immediately. Contact: Pam Redpath, Deputy Principal Phone (06) 370 0402 Closing date of 12 May 2017. Shelley Power PRINCIPAL

Garage Sale

Deadline Thursday 3pm Phone Classiÿ eds 06 370 6033

Public Notices

Akura No. 17 Urupa Hui

Those with whakapapa links to this urupa to attend only. Sunday 14th May 2017, Reap House at 1pm Agenda: • To discuss and stop any further interments without proper rites or notification. • Apply for Maori reserve • Other business Enquiries: Phone 027 241 4862

Dalefield Hockey Club SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING

CLIENT CONSULTANT WANTED We are looking for a client consultant/estimator to work with our new home clients to finalise their electrical plans and liaise with them throughout the building process, plus a range of admin and support duties in the mix. Are you someone who is great with clients, partial to design elements, totally computer literate, enjoys attention to detail, and remains unflustered when the pressure is on. You will have an excellent sense of responsibility and humour. This is a full-time position and, at this stage, to cover maternity leave.

Entertainment

To be held on Monday 22nd May 7.30pm at Carterton Fire Station To discuss the Investment Fund set up when Dalefield Clubrooms were sold. Also to advise past players and supporters of possible decision’s to be made by the Club in the near future. Murray Nielsen Club Captain Phone 379 9233

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Greytown Little Theatre AUDITIONS

A Community Theatre Production of

Steel Magnolias written by Robert Harling

By special arrangement with Samuel French and New Zealand Play Bureau

AUDITION DATES 16 May 7.30pm 21 May 2.30pm PRODUCTION DATES 13-23 September 2017 CAST REQUIRED SIX FEMALES: x2 18-25 years old

x2 25-45 years old x2 45 plus years old

If you’re out and having a few drinks, make sure you’ve got a sober driver to get you home safely.

Please send your CV without delay to d.norman@laserelectrical.co.nz

A Southern American accent will be required, but we will provide coaching to help you along.

To collect a script for viewing contact Vic Ross 021 289 0779 Any questions contact Director Miles Eckford 027 857 3436

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Sport

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Netball start grading rounds Netball Wairarapa staged the first series of grading round games for the 2017 season at the Colombo road courts in Masterton on Saturday. No premier one matches were played as they will get underway at the Trust House Recreation Centre this week. Celtic and the Wairarapa representativeunder 17 squad will meet on Thursday at 6pm while two matches will be played on Friday, Wairarapa College A and Gladstone Helloworld Gold at 5.30pm and Carterton New World Red and Harcourts at 7.15pm.

Saturday’s results

11am games: Harcourts Elite 38, Pioneer Blue 12; St Matthew’s Junior A 51, Makoura Junior A 1; Wairarapa College Senior Blue 33, Kuranui Junior B 4. 12 noon games: Martinborough 31, Pioneer Nuggets 20; Wairarapa College Intermediate A 57, Carterton New World Blue 4; St Matthew’s Year 11 Gold 33, Makoura College development 14; St Matthew’s Senior 1 35, Wairarapa College

Charlize Carton-Butler gathers possession for Wairarapa College junior A in their fixture with St Matthew’s Senior 1. PHOTOS/SUZANNE OLIVER

Destiny Mila of Wairarapa College Intermediate A picks up a pass during her team’s grading round fixture with Carterton New World Blue.

Two teams take first win Dalefield’s winning streak continued and Featherston and Kia Kaha picked up their first wins of the season when round one matches in the Wairarapa women’s hockey division one competition were completed on Saturday. The top-of-the-table clash between Dalefield and East Coast was expected to be a close-fought affair but, as it happened, it was Dalefield who called the tune, winning by a comfortable 6-2. East Coast were still well in the game when trailing by just 1-2 at halftime but Dalefield piled on four more goals in the second spell to put the result beyond doubt. Goal scorers for Dalefield were AnaMay Gudsell (2), Nicola Harwood (2), Jayne McNae and Amie France while Charlotte Whyte and Lucy Griffith netted for East Coast, Kellie Browne and Leah Kershaw both impressed with the

solidity of their defence for Dalefield while Laura Hartwell and Immy Bird were the standout players for East Coast. Featherston were too good for Red Star, winning 4-2. The first half was all Featherston and they scored all of their goals in that period to lead 4-1 at the break. The experience of Tracey Donald up front was a big factor and she scored two of the goals while Tash Johnston picked up the other two. Kirsty Saba was the goal scorer for Red Star. The second half saw play see-saw up and down the field but no more goals came until late in the piece when Ariana Reiri scored for Red Star. Emma Butterick had a strong game for Featherston along with goalkeeper Ashleigh Long while Amanda Potieger was player of the match for Red Star.

Kia Kaha had been knocking on the door for a win in their previous few games and finally they were rewarded with a 3-1 victory over Gladstone. It was Gladstone who took the early lead through a field goal to Hene Morris but it wasn’t long after that Casie Haeata scored from a penalty corner for Kia Kaha to level things up at 1-1. Dani Gray then converted another penalty corner for Kia Kaha to give them a 2-1 advantage at the break and they exended their lead to 3-1 when Haeata scored from the field midway through the second half. Gladstone did their best to bridge the gap but they were unable to do so. Sally Le Roux, Paige Goodin and Casie Haeata all had solid games for Kia Kaha. Current points are: Dalefield 15, East Coast 10, Red Star 6, Featherston 5, Kia Kaha 4, Gladstone 3.

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Junior A 24; Chanel A 40, Carterton New World Special 6; Kuranui Junior A 23, Wharekura 18; Wairarapa College Intermediate B 31, St Matthew’s Junior B 3; Wairarapa College Senior C 28, Chanel Senior B 10; Wairarapa College Senior Red 31, St Matthew’s Junior Gold 5. 1pm games: Carterton New World Legends 39, Gladstone Helloworld Black 23; St Matthew’s Collegiate A 30, Makoura College A 20; Greytown White Swan 24, Wairarapa College senior B 12; Wairarapa College Year 11A 22, Lansdowne 19; Coasties 40, Featherston 10; Nga Iwi 35, Lansdowne All Sports 9; Wairarapa College Masters 23, Greytown Top Pub 18; Solway A 26, Wairarapa College Yellow 10; Wairarapa College Senior Green 46, Wairarapa College Intermediate Blue 2; Chanel Diamonds 41, Wairarapa College Junior Red 0. 2pm games: Mitsi Magic 35, Carterton New World White 18; Kuranui A 26, St Matthew’s A reserve 24; Hiona 25, Carterton New World Panthers 17; Greytown Fresh Choice 21, Pioneer Gold 16; Gladstone Helloworld Yellow 28, East Coast 20; St Matthews Year 11 Green 22, Kuranui B 6; Solway Junior A 9, Wairarapa College Junior B 4; Wairarapa College Junior Blue 6, St Matthew’s Junior Green 4; Chanel Hearts 10, Solway Green 6. Meanwhile more than 30 players trialled for the year 8 Wairarapa representative side and the team is: Aja Walker, Boaz Hing, Kavjahnah Thompson, Kitty Regnault, Maia Cullen, Paranihia Tamakehu, Sian Wheeler, Tahlia Reiri Te Rito, Taylor Riwai-Couch, Whai Pine. Team trainings will be on Wednesdays at the Colombo road courts from 4pm to 5.30pm, starting on May 10. Coach is Amy Williams.

Fun run hosts Olympian

Jennian Homes is hosting the Mother’s Day Fun Run/Walk this Sunday at Henley Lake – and has secured the attendance of a top international footballer. The event is scheduled to start at 9am at Henley Lake (off Colombo St) with registrations being taken from 8.30am. Sarah Gregorius has recently retired from football but has played 82 games for the Football Ferns, the New Zealand Women’s football team – and scored 25 goals making her the third-highest scorer for the team. She played in two Olympic Games, London 2012 and Rio 2016 – making the quarterfinals in London which she describes as the highlight of her career with the Ferns. Gregorius has also played professional club football in three different countries: Germany, in the Bundesliga for two seasons; England for a season with Liverpool FC which won the Championship; and Japan for two and a half seasons as well.

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Sport

Wairarapa Midweek

United battle back to the top FOOTBALL

BY GARY CAFFELL Wairarapa United defied the odds to beat Lower Hutt 2-1 in their Central League men’s football match played at Lower Hutt on Saturday, the victory taking them back on top of the standings. Trailing 1-0 at halftime and down to 10 men with Cory Chettleburgh having been sent off, Wairarapa United played what coach Phil Keinzley later described as their best football of the season to score two goals without reply in the second half. “I don’t think I’ve seen a team more determined to turn things around, they got stuck in and played some really good football,” Keinzley said. Going into this game Wairarapa United had worked hard on enhancing their defensive structure after conceding five goals in their defeat to Wellington United the previous weekend. Happily, there was a marked improvement in that area with newcomer Andrew Coad having a “blinder” and others such as Taylor Hall-Jones, Brian Kaltak and Daniel Allan making a huge impression as well. “Being a player short put a lot of extra pressure on the defence but they seemed to thrive on it,” Keinzley said. “The composure was great, just what

we needed.” On attack too, the more the game progressed the more assertive were Wairarapa United with goal scorers Sam Mason-Smith and Paul Ifill generally leading the way. In other matches played on Saturday Stop Out and Wellington Olympic drew 2-2, Palmerston North Marist and Western Suburbs drew 2-2, Wellington United beat Taranaki 3-0 and Miramar Rangers and Napier City Rovers drew 2-2. Wairarapa United now lead the points table with 15pts, followed by Stop Out and Western Suburbs 14, Wellington United 13, Miramar Rangers, Wellington Olympic and Taranaki, all 10, Napier City Rovers 5, Lower Hutt 4 and Palmerston North Marist 2. Hopes that the Wairarapa United women’s team could score their first win in their women’s Capital League series when they met fellow cellar-dwellers Stop Out at Memorial Park, Masterton on Saturday night were dashed with Stop Out scoring twice early in the game and holding on for a 2-0 victory. The match was an evenly-contested affair in terms of territory and possession but whereas Stop Out took advantage of a couple of their scoring chances, Wairarapa United’s finishing lacked the necessary precision.

Wairarapa United’s Sam Mason-Smith (seen here against Western Suburbs) scored a vital goal against Lower Hutt on Saturday. PHOTO/JADE CVETKOV

At the same time, however, nobody could quibble at the determination of the Wairarapa United side, especially on defence where Teagan Andrews-Paul, Sophie George and goalkeeper Emma Kruszona were standouts. Andrews-Paul halted many a promising Stop Out foray with her strong tackling while Kruszona tipped at least a couple of powerful shots

Greytown beats Pioneer 29-7 RUGBY

impressive. It was a continuation of the

BY GARY CAFFELL

Greytown first-five Raneira Peterson dives between the posts for a try.

Greytown turned in a blistering secondhalf performance on Saturday, scoring 24 points without reply against Pioneer to come away with a commanding 29-7 win in their Wairarapa-Bush Tui Cup premier division rugby match at Jeans St, Masterton. It was a couple of old heads in Nick Olson and Tavita Isaac who lifted Greytown from what had been a pretty ordinary first 40 minutes for the defending champions. Fullback Olson has long been one of the of the most dangerous counter-attackers in the Wairarapa-Bush region and he thrived on the fact that a shaky Pioneer defensive

structure regularly allowed him the time and the space deploy his mix of clever footwork and rapid acceleration. Very seldom in that second half was he ever stopped by the first tackle. Generally, he left three or four defenders in his wake before his momentum was slowed, let alone halted. No 8 Isaac was as equally effective as Olson on attack but in a more direct fashion. His ability to burst tackles in close quarter situations and link with the likes of fellow loosie Chaz Matthews, who seemed to be forever on his shoulder, was most

PHOTO/KYLIE ALEXANDER

excellent form he has shown all season. Greytown were also well served by the inside back combination of Hamish Meyrick and Raneira Peterson who both became more prominent as the game progressed. Regan Pope was another forward to shine in a pack who at times struggled to maintain parity with their Pioneer counterparts in the first half but were clearly dominant in the second. Pioneer would not have been happy with their overall effort. Through most of the opening 40 minutes they looked the better

over the crossbar. In other women’s games Upper Hutt beat Wellington United Diamonds 7-0 and Palmerston North Marist beat Seatoun 3-0. Upper Hutt leads the competition on 15pts, followed by Wellington United Diamonds and Palmerston North Marist 10, Seatoun 6, Stop Out 3 and Wairarapa United 0. team with backs Nikora Ewe and Joseph Thompson showing any amount of flair and determination but they clearly faded in the second spell. Olson scored 14 of Greytown’s points with one try, one penalty and three conversions. The other try scorers were Raneira Peterson, Kurt Simmonds and Michael Te Whare. Nikora Ewe scored the only Pioneer try which was converted by Joseph Thompson. Ten tries were scored at Martinborough where the home team caused a minor upset by toppling Marist 35-33. Chris Raymond scored two of the Martinborough tries with others going to Wiremu Haira, Coby Kershaw and Tristan Flutey. Tipene Haira added five conversions. Soli Malatai (2), Malatai (2) and Harmas Potoro were the try scorers for Marist. James Goodger landed four conversions. Carterton ran in tries by Ethan Pinfold (2), Francis Mueller, Cory McFadzean (2) and Thomas Kainuku in beating East Coast 41-18. Daryl Pickering also kicked one penalty and four conversions. Friday’s match under lights at Eketahuna produced a surprise 20-19 victory for Eketahuna over competition leaders Gladstone. Tom Meuli scored both Eketahuna tries with Dion Havea adding two conversions and two penalties. Andrew Mclean (2) and Scott Day were the try scorers for Gladstone and Inia Katia kicked two conversions.

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