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More quarries planned

By Mary Anne Gill

Beacon Hill Contracting has unveiled plans for four quarries extracting 125,000 tonnes of sand a year from its Maungatautari base.

In a resource consent, filed with Waipā District Council last week, the company reveals there may even be a fifth quarry planned which would include the one operating illegally for at least five years before the council closed it down on April 13.

The consent, lodged by Hamilton resource management and planning specialists Mitchell Daysh for the Oreipunga Road sand quarry, acknowledges quarrying had already begun on the site but does not say when.

It just seeks to “address any associated activities retrospectively” as part of its scope.

And further information has come to light about when Waipā District Council first knew about the quarry.

In a written response, a council spokesperson said Beacon Hill shareholder Elwyn Andree-Wiltens contacted a council planner in March 2019 to discuss a proposal for a sand quarry.

Andree-Wiltens was the Maungatautari ward district councillor at the time. She resigned last month because of her involvement in operating a sand quarry without a resource consent.

The planner told Andree-Wiltens in a March 22, 2019 email that to “establish a sand quarry on this site, a land use consent would be required.”

The planner went on to say regional council consents may also be required for the “proposed activity.”

Nothing further was heard about the proposal nor were any pre-application meetings held between Beacon Hill and council staff.

The first the council knew about the illegal quarrying came on April 1 when The News alerted the council to the existence of a quarry at the site.

During a site visit on April 13, Beacon Hill shareholders told a council enforcement officer there had been delays because of “various Covid-related” issues.

The resource consent application is for four stages, including the existing stage one. A technical report suggests a fifth stage is planned on the Waikato River’s • A longer version of this article appears online lower terrace. www.teawamutunews.nz

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Art centre stalwart’s work displayed

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By Viv Posselt

Linda Bannister is the next Rosebank Art Centre artist displaying her work at the Te Awamutu Library’s current series of art exhibitions.

She is displaying and selling 21 of her works at the library until May 31. They are a combination of acrylics or oils on canvas, representing sweeping landscapes and a selection of buildings. All, she says, represent her love of colour and some her addiction to painting seascapes. She has recently taken her love of art one step further, by starting lessons in clay sculpture.

Linda is an acknowledged linchpin in helping bring the Rosebank Art Centre back to life.

A drop in membership put the group into recess about six years ago, but through an active programme aimed at fostering local art— encouraged by the Rosebank Art Centre Charitable Trust — there are now some 35 members who meet regularly at the centre in Churchill St. As one of the convenors and the publicity person for the centre, Linda is often seen at the administrative end of the operation.

She has exhibited her works before at several of the exhibitions held by members, but this is her first at the recently established rolling exhibitions being held collaboratively with the library.

Linda has been painting in earnest for around eight years.

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few hours painting can actually be quite tiring.”

The exhibition is the fourth involving Rosebank Art Centre members. The others were Charles Stewart, Margaret Dixon and Peter Korkie.

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artist Wayne Sinclair and things took off from there. “I find painting to be the most relaxing thing … it was great during the lockdowns. I get totally absorbed in it and am quite a quick painter, but I do find that a

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Continuing on in my discussion about family violence, this week I am going to expand on the use of intimidation to condition a victim to stay in a relationship.

Threats can be physical or emotional.

Typical phrases such as “If you love me you’ll…” or “I’ll leave you if you don’t… ”Often this type of coercion or intimidation is sexual in nature and can be a tool to slowly break down your boundaries.

Alcohol or drugs is a huge factor here too, intimidating a victim to using drugs is a common tool abusers use. One of New

Zealand’s worst family violence offenders used opiates for decades to get a successive partners addicted in order to exert his power over them.

Intimidation can also take the form of non-verbal threats such as gestures (raising a fist, or a look that often precedes violence) in order to control the victim.

Protection Orders can help here. I have successfully charged abusers who have exhibited this type of behaviour all without the need for a complaint from the victim.

Threatening pets is also a common red flag

that is seen, sadly too often by police. The emotional draw people feel towards their pets makes them an easy target and is also a barrier to leaving an abusive relationship.

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Water deal

Waipā District Council has signed up to a two-year project involving seven other organisations who say they will work on a catchment-wide approach to improve water quality. The Manga-o-tama catchment encompasses Ngā Roto, Lake Mangakaware, Lake Ruatuna, Lake Rotomanuka and the stream flows from Ōhaupō in the east to the Waipā River

Kihikihi dry

Kihikihi will be without water from 10pm today (Thursday) until 2am tomorrow to enable work to replace the old watermain which feeds houses along Rolleston Street. Waipā water services manager Martin Mould said residents should store water for drinking and other essential use during the four-hour shutdown.

Reconnection may result in temporary changes to water clarity.

Going electric

Waikato Regional Council is preparing tender documents for revised Waipā regional bus services from Cambridge and Te Awamutu to Hamilton.

Key to the nine-year contract will be Waipā being able to find bus charging locations in each town. Transportation manager Bryan Hudson said every effort should be made to find sites as there are significant environmental advantages with an electric bus fleet.

Numbers up

Cambridge and Te Awamutu regional bus passenger numbers have started to increase but are still nowhere near pre-Covid numbers.

Quarter one figures for Cambridge were 12,854 people while Te Awamutu had 14,674. Nine per cent of the Cambridge trips are intertown while fewer than two per cent in Te Awamutu are to and from Kihikihi.

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Report knocks our ‘culture’

By Mary Anne Gill

Waipā’s brand as Home of Champions has taken a blow in a report into the high-performance model used by Cycling New Zealand cycling.

The inquiry released this week has criticised the culture at its Cambridge home of cycling base saying it is “fragmented” and that life in such a small town exacerbates loneliness and one-dimensionality.

A 104-page report released to The

their capacity to develop an identity outside of cycling, cultivate other interests/friends and therefore cope with poor performance or challenges within cycling.”

The report was commissioned following the death of Olivia Podmore last year and was co-chaired by former NZ solicitor general Mike Heron and Massey University Professor Sarah Leberman.

The former Olympian cyclist died in Cambridge on the evening of August 9 aged 24. Her death is a suspected suicide and was referred to

the coroner. Hours before her death, she posted on Instagram about the pressures of high-performance sport.

Waipā deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk had not had time to read the report in full but said the athletes she knew “appear to be well supported.”

Cambridge would want to support athletes in whatever way it could, she said.

“We are a town like any others. We have networks in place to help.”

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Not your average piano

By Benjamin Wilson

There are only two Wurlitzer Model K Photoplayers left in the world, and one of them can be found in Pirongia.

Before they came with their own soundtracks, Photoplayers were used to give silent movies, previously known as photo plays, their sound.

Piano tuners and restorers, Kevin Hanna and Nathan Smith from the Pirongia based Hamilton Piano Company, have cumulatively put in over 8000 hours of restoration work to get a 1915 Wurlitzer Model K “millimetre perfect.”

It weighs more than a metric tonne and can replace a 15-piece orchestra.

“For a lot of people, this will be their biggest one-off legacy,” Smith said.

Photoplayers can be played manually, or automatically, using paper rolls which have the music, and the instruments to use, programmed into them. The Model K uses suction and

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Brad Ward has been appointed Waipā’s Community Services manager after working in an acting capacity for several months.

News says the centralisation model used by cycling in Cambridge – also used by rowing and kayaking – is not generally positive for athlete wellbeing and “requires reconsideration.”

The report said athletes should be able to train in their home locations in lieu of long-term centralisation which should only be used when necessary.

Being immersed in a centralised programme in a small town like Cambridge reportedly led athletes feeling “trapped” within a high performance environment 100 per cent of the time. This “diminished

Piano restorers Kevin Hanna and Nathan Smith.

blow to actuate thousands of valves and pneumatic motors to do this.

In addition to its traditional style piano and (not so traditional) organ, the Model K uses pipes to imitate the sounds of other instruments, like violin and cello, and has a range of instruments built in, including cathedral chimes, glockenspiel, xylophone, castanet, flutes, and trumpets.

Only 292 Model Ks were ever made, seven of those were exported.

New Zealand received one, which was purchased in 1915 by Auckland’s Strand Theatre for $US4850.

It played until it went into storage in 1948 and was later stripped for parts.

In the 1960s, it was acquired by collector Pat Newman, who kept it in in storage for over 50 years.

The water damaged remains were discovered in a garden shed after Pat died in 2010, along with over one million (now invalid) dollars.

“As soon as movies came out with their own soundtracks, these were literally just boarded over…

At the time, they didn’t know that these were going to become obsolete and collectable,” Smith said.

Shortly after it was rediscovered, the Opotiki Photoplayer Restoration Trust approached Hanna and Smith - who each have

There is only one other functional Wurlitzer Model K left in the world.

over 15 years of restoration experience - to restore the Model K’s centre unit.

The Photoplayer was deemed to be of national historic significance by a conservator, and received funding from the Lottery Environment and Heritage Fund.

“As funding would come along, we would do jobs.”

Originally, we were only commissioned to do the middle bit… we ended up doing everything.” Smith said.

To understand how the Model K worked, and how to restore it accurately, the pair made three trips to Chicago and spent over 100 hours each taking sketches and tracings of what was the world’s last functioning Model K, owned by the Sanfilippo Foundation.

Smith said that without

the generosity of Jeffrey and Rusty Sanfilippo, their restoration efforts wouldn’t have been possible.

“If it wasn’t for them, this wouldn’t have happened.”

They managed to source original instruments from other scrapped Wurlitzers for the project, and recreated the cabinetry, motors, and valves by themselves.

“Everything you hear, whether it’s a pipe, a beater, or a bar, everything you hear are all Wurlitzer originals,” Hanna said.

“We have just made all of the motors that drive them.”

The Model K is now fully functional, and with the exception of some decorative facades, their restoration work is complete.

“We are pretty chuffed really, to think that we started with nothing, no blueprints, we just had to do it. It is a

pretty cool achievement,” Smith said.

The Model K was supposed to go to the proposed Wellington Film Museum, but this has since been put on hold.

“In the meantime, we are going to have to plan as if it is going to stay,” Smith said.

“We want to be able to host small groups to put on little silent movies for and do tours.”

The Hamilton Piano Company has a range of other mechanical instruments and pianos on display, including a recently purchased 1919 Coinola Model X, which is the Photoplayer equivalent of a jukebox. They’ve also brought the piano that was used in the Netflix movie ‘The Power of the Dog’, after they had initially restored and tuned it for the movie.

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Election strategy outlined Council keeps

Local Government New Zealand has pledged to involve community newspapers in a campaign to attract more candidates and voters to this year’s local body elections.

LGNZ announced last week it wanted to make the country the “most inclusive and active local democracy in the world” as it promotes the October local body elections.

A statement from Local Government New Zealand’s

Chief Executive Susan Freeman-Greene said a Vote 2022 campaign would be “rolled out across the country via social media, video and radio with the support of communitybased partners”.

The statement was not shared with the New Zealand Community Newspaper Association and Good Local Media news director Roy Pilott raised the issue with Freeman-Green.

‘We made the point that

in Waipā we circulate 25,000 copies every Thursday and are the only media which provides independent coverage of local body issues, as distinct from cutting and pasting council media releases,” he said.

He told her Good Local Media coverage in the Te Awamutu News and Cambridge News of the Māori ward issue and the value of community boards in Waipā was hugely influential – “even though

Fibre shop planned

By Benjamin Wilson

Te Awamutu Creative Fibre – who make products from fibre and encourage the learning of fibre related skills – are launching a pop-up shop next week.

“We do anything with fibre,” said member Annette Whittle.

Whittle said that many of their products are made from scratch, and for her work, she often starts with raw wool, and spins and dyes it herself.

They will be selling both new and excess products. Handmade socks, scarves, rugs, hats, wraps, and other woven, knitted and felted items will be available.

She said the time the group members spent making their products wouldn’t be represented in the cost that they would be sold for, but they do hope to recuperate some of their expenses.

Except for a 10 per cent group cut, the items are to be sold individually, and the

money made from them would go to their respective creators.

Whittle has been a member of Te Awamutu Creative Fibre for 22 years and says the group is all about “trying to encourage people to have a go.”

“Members get friendship, knowledge, and the skills and ideas to sell things and to improve upon what they’re doing,” she said.

Their pop-up shop is to be held at varying times next week, in the Enrich Plus facility.

Creative Fibre member Marian Partington spins wool for a blanket.

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we were for the most part a lone voice on the issue”.

Pilott suggested the advice from communications advisors to do everything on social media was short sighted. FreemanGreene responded almost immediately.

“We are totally supportive of community publications – they are very important in our campaign,” she said.

“The media referred to in the campaign is just part of what the public will see, so social media etc is not in place of print and community publications but are examples of the general approach going broad.”

Susan Freeman-Greene says her organisation want to significantly increase voter and candidate numbers.

“This is the bold ambition, and we know it will take more than one election cycle to make lasting changes.”

Waipā District Council says it will maintain online coverage of meetings following questions from The News.

Last week’s Te Awamutu Community Board meeting was the first in person since August – but was not livestreamed to the public – though board members could log in remotely - and it was fortuitous that The News had a journalist present.

The previous week the council failed to alert The News to the fact that the two-day Annual Plan meeting was being held in person for the first time since the Covid lockdowns.

A News reporter was across the road from the council chambers at the time and would have attended.

The News asked questions last week when the council indicated two committee meetings would not be livestreamed.

Good Local News director Roy Pilott said had that been the case, he would have objected.

“We have provided coverage, using Zoom, of virtually every Waipā council meeting and

committee meeting this year – and have been the only media to do so,” he said. “It would have been impossible for us to put staff into council chambers for all of those meetings. Zoom has enabled our readers to be kept up to date.”

In a statement released on Friday, council’s governance manager Jo Gread confirmed live streaming would continue – and only the Cambridge Community Board would miss out because it was not possible to broadcast from its present location.

The council would look at resolving that issue.

In February, Waikato DHB provided The News with Zoom log ins so our reporter could dial into its two committee meetings.

Meanwhile, The News is also pushing the Waikato Regional Council to improve its online services around meetings – which are presently shown on a delayed basis if at all.

“Decisions made by the regional council have a major impact on Waipā, and we can’t see them live by Zoom,” Pilott said.

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THURSDAY MAY 19, 2022

Museum numbers up

TALKING ECONOMICS

Looking at the budget

By Benjamin Wilson

By Peter Nicholl

When I was living in Wellington (last century!!) most people tuned into Radio NZ on budget night - some of us even had budget night parties. The analysis of the budget most people did at that time was largely of the form ‘what’s in it for me?’.

I don’t think there will be many budget night parties being held this year. In part that is because the government now makes a stream of policy announcements throughout the year.

A recent New Zealand Herald column on the 2022 budget had the headline ‘Robertson’s big dilemma - to spend or not to spend’. In my view, the Minister of Finance doesn’t have a dilemma at all for this year’s budget. With inflation at the highest level it has been for nearly 30 years and unemployment at the lowest level it has been for many years, a big spending budget should be out of the question. Yet the minister has said he intends to allocate an additional $6 billion in annual operating funds in budget. Hopefully, he has rethought that, as a large increase in government expenditure is the last thing New Zealand needs at present.

The minister has recently described the current rise in inflation as ‘a spike’ and said he expects it to be on the way down next year when he will do his election year budget. I think he is going to be disappointed. Inflation looks like going higher and staying higher for much longer than a year.

The minister has said that the increased spending in this year’s budget will be focused on two areas – health and climate change. They are the right focus and I am sure the Budget will say all the right things about both areas. But the budget needs to

be judged by the actions and policies it contains, not the words. This government has been better at policy statements than policy delivery. So, I will reserve my judgement on what the government proposes to do in these two key areas until I have seen the details.

Some of the things that are unlikely to be in the budget are more important than what will be in it. One such area is taxation. There are two big tax issues which this year’s budget should address.

The first is what is called bracket creep.

Tax rates don’t change but as people’s incomes rise, they move into a higher tax bracket and the government collects a larger portion of citizen’s income as income tax. In a fair tax system, these brackets would be indexed so that bracket creep is eliminated.

But the minister has previously said that there won’t be any move on this issue in this budget.

The second major tax issue is the need for some form of wealth tax. Wealth inequality has become a serious issue in New Zealand in the last decade or two.

Consumption is taxed through GST. Income earned from working is taxed. But income earned by watching your assets grow in value is mainly tax free. Such a tax system is unfair, regressive and perverse. But the government has also ruled out doing anything about a wealth tax in this year’s budget.

Will they address these two tax issues next year? Of course not – next year is an election year. So these two big tax problems will get even worse and be even harder for the next government, whomever it is, to address.

Attendance of Te Awamutu’s Museum is starting to increase, as they go through the process of finding their post-covid normal.

Following a stagnant start to the year, the museum saw a boost in general visitor numbers last month.

It counted 428 general visitors in April, which was higher than its previous two months combined at 335.

However, this is still much lower than pre-covid levels, as in April 2019, the museum counted 764 general visitors.

“Museums nationally, along with other providers in the tourism, events and hospitality industries are still in the process of understanding what a new normal might look like, this makes it an interesting time to see how and when visitation might return to pre-covid levels for these types of facilities,” said Museums and Heritage director, Anne Blyth.

Despite the uncertainty, Blyth is positive about the slow return of domestic tourism.

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new exhibits and the Tui and Tama programmes, we expect this to be an organic draw for people, as people become comfortable with visiting public facilities again following Covid-19 limitations.”

The museum is hosting Raukawa, an exhibition that portrays the history and journey of Ngāti Raukawa.

Blyth says the team is also looking forward to their Mātakitaki exhibition. “(It is) a collaborative Iwi exhibition providing an immersive display of korero tuku iho sharing the lives of Māori living within and around the three Pa – Mātakitaki, Tauranga Kohia and Puketutu,” she said.

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She said their April school holiday Easter and Anzac activities were very popular, and led to an increase in families coming through the museum.

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HE WHAKAWHITIWHITINGA WHAKAARO

The history of our names

By Tom Roa, Tikanga Advisor, Waikato University

What’s in a street or even a town name?

In a previous column I commented on names and naming, quoting Shakespeare’s ‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.’

A poetic narrative that has stood the test of time and resonates now as it did when the Bard first coined the phrase.

With personal names, family names I recently asked a group of people I was engaging with whether they knew the origins of their names.

Not surprisingly, most did. I then asked if they knew the origins of the names of the town, and the street names, they live in, and/or were born. Again not surprisingly, most did not.

Driving along the main street of Te Awamutu, Alexandra Street, how often do we pause to consider the origins of the street name, the name of the township?

Te Awamutu I understand was named for the fact that the use by canoes of the Mangapiko River (awa) as a primary highway between the mountains Pirongia and Maungatautari ended (mutu) here. Another story has it that the river (awa) and the region was full of snares (mutu) to trap food.

Alexandra street is a pathway to travel primarily in getting from one place to another, or to pause to transact business, or, as I did recently, to listen to a street musician, and drop a koha in his hat.

Alexandra St ‘becomes’ Pirongia Street, the main road between Te Awamutu to Pirongia, formerly Alexandra.

The township at Alexandra/Pirongia was named in the 1860’s for Queen Victoria’s daughter-in-law Princess Alexandra of Denmark who married Albert Edward Prince of Wales.

On Queen Victoria’s passing she became Queen Alexandra, her husband then becoming known as King Edward VII. In the 1960’s, because of the postal confusion with the township of Alexandra near Queenstown,

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the local community decided to rename the township Pirongia after the outstanding landmark nearby, Pirongia Mountain.

And then, what of other streets which adjoin Alexandra St? There is an excellent page on the Te Awamutu Museum website which explores the origins of Waipā streets. I discovered there that Jackson St was named after William Jackson, an officer in the Forest Rangers who later became a member of the House of Representatives.

In the context of re-visiting and reconsidering our past, the names and naming of streets (and towns) is receiving some considerable, and considered, re-thinking. As a historical personage who played a role in our early Pakeha history William Jackson and others of his ilk should be remembered. But then is the naming of a street an effective way of memorialising him? Indeed is the naming of streets an effective way of learning about our history?

The history of a place is important. How that history is to be presented can be well-served by story boards or through the Waipā District Council’s ‘Te Ara Wai Journeys’.

Using both storyboards and smartphone technology self-guided tours of culturally significant sites throughout the Waipā District promote that learning for locals and visitors/ tourists.

The Maori name in full of Mount Pirongia is “Pirongia-te-aroaro-o Kahu”. A politically correct, sensitive, translation of that is sometimes given as ‘the scented presence of Kahu’. The word ‘piro’ however has another less flattering interpretation, whereby the Bard’s smelling of ‘the scented presence of Kahu’ can not be described as ‘sweet’.

It’s easy to rest when you’re perched above the Raglan Harbour, watching the sun glisten off the silky water. While the current runs deep and swift, the surface looks like a million mirrors that reflect the glorious day.

This is where I find myself today as I capture my thoughts, and it’s a refreshing tonic I well need.

Finding a slower pace in order to catch my breath is not something I’m inclined toward, but I find it essential in order to manage the pace of life and its demands. Life stands still for no one, and we are continuously buffeted by burdens, buffoons, brainwaves and breakdowns. Well, I am.

Why is it that I keep trying to carry the weight of the world on my shoulders – do I think I am the Great Atlas? And why do I worry about the things of yesterday, today and tomorrow, as if an ounce of worry can change a thing?

The words of Jesus seem fitting here. I have always found comfort in the way poet Eugene Petersen paraphrases His words – they just seem to dive deep within me.

“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.” (You’ll find this in the book of Matthew, at the end of chapter 11, if you’re interested.)

What a contrast between my way and His way. Here I am competing against myself as I wrestle inside a yoke that wasn’t made to fit me. Here I am weighed down by the perceived opinions of everyone in the world,

while punching myself in the face with a selfconcept that is far from real. It’s no wonder I’m so tired and worn out with all this self-harm I hide under my cloak of public persona. You, too?

And yet, Jesus offers friendship and good company while promising to teach me to live freely and lightly. Don’t miss the invitation; He makes the same offer to you.

The key, I am learning, is to walk with Jesus and work with Him, as the tender words of the poet so beautiful poses. I must confess, like a novice surfer, I’m still trying to navigate the unforced rhythms of grace – but this grommet is having fun trying!

And so here I am, drawn to the sound of the water and the peace it brings. It’s as if the silence has drowned out the noise of the world and the space between my ears is free to linger on nothing and everything, with no burden of outcome.

Do not be fooled; the absence of noise is not going to give us lasting peace and rest from our weariness. Jesus warmly invites us to come to Him.

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A family-owned business going places HTSL Diesel Mechanical (Hobbs Transport Services) has more than brand recognition, it’s a family name that locals trust. Directors Kevin and Cathy Hobbs are well-known around the area having been born and bred in Otorohanga. Their client relationships often merge with personal friendships dating back to school days. Customer loyalty is strong, and most of their bigger clients have been with them since day one.

In a small town customer service is more important than ever as owners are operating among their neighbours and friends. The couple don’t take anything for granted. They appreciate the support of locals, value their loyalty, and always strive to deliver a premium service.

Cathy and Kevin founded their Otorohanga business in 2003. A qualified mechanic, Kevin had driven a variety of commercial trucks and vehicles for 13 years. He realised there was an opportunity to open a local mechanical business after seeing that all the work was being done out of town, which meant a lot of inconvenience and down-time for drivers and businesses. He and Cathy set

They specialise in diagnostic fault finding, gearbox services and rebuilds, wheel bearings, electrical repairs and upgrades, brake servicing and repairs, general service, PVA and COF checks, and diesel engine rebuilds. HTSL Diesel Mechanical is an authorised Cummins dealer for engine rebuilds.

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about remedying the situation when they opened their first workshop at 27 Progress Drive.

Over the years they’ve gone from being a husband-and-wife team to employing a staff of around 20 and opening a second workshop at 18 Riverhurst Drive, Te Awamutu. This growth reflects the demand for their services, the repeat business that HTSL generates, and the respect they’ve earned as a grassroots family-run business.

HTSL offers a variety of services to a wide

range of heavy vehicle owners and operators.

Their state-of-the-art COF lane allows them to carry out COF inspections, pre-COF checks and brake test vehicles from the 3-ton mark up to the largest trucks on the road.

Prior to March 2016, local truck owners had to drive between 22-28km to a COF testing site, either in Te Awamutu or Te Kuiti. This meant a staff member was off-site for 2-3 hours.

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Mindful that businesses are usually on a tight timeframe, the team aim to complete the job in a short turn-around as possible. Moreover, in an industry where time off road is money, HTSL always has someone on call. Mobile mechanics and a fleet of fully equipped utes are available 24 hours a day seven days a week. These truck and heavy vehicle mechanics are licensed and experienced professionals with the ability to fix a host of issues and get vehicles back on the road in a timely manner.

A specialised career, diesel mechanics is diversified and has a global reach. “It’s a fabulous career for young people,” says Kevin who is always looking to hire apprentices and qualified mechanics. Supportive of nurturing young talent and interest, HTSL Diesel Mechanical currently has six apprentices at different stages of development and with the Te Awamutu workshop growing fast, staffing opportunities are available. The business has everything new employees need to gain experience and be successful.

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Original show nears debut

By Benjamin Wilson

The Te Awamutu Light Operatic Society is just weeks away from debuting their original musical, Tell me a Story.

The show was written by the Te Awamutu mother-daughter duo, Fiona and Rowan Miller, and uses books to explore different places, times, and scenarios.

Although mostly comprising Te Awamutu talent, the show has attracted actors from Cambridge, Pirongia, Hamilton and Ōtorohanga.

The youngest member of their cast is nine and the oldest is in their 70s.

Te Awamutu’s Karen Phillips plays the grandma who reads to the grandchildren.

She has a background in education and said, “I have a passion for books anyway, so it’s perfect.”

The grandchildren are played by 11-year-old Lily Hayward (Te Awamutu intermediate), and nine year-old Charlotte Holmes (Pirongia School). It is their first time acting in such a play and they will be sharing the role on alternating nights.

They are both excited, “but kind of nervous.”

One of the musical’s most notable songs is Qongqothwane, also known as The Click Song in English, it is a traditional Xhosa wedding song, and is sung by the cast’s Cyril Morris.

Cyril, who is from South Africa and lives in Ōtorohanga, isn’t new to performing, but this will be his first time singing in Xhosa to a New Zealand audience.

Last Sunday was the cast’s first time rehearsing without scripts, and Fiona says there is still some fine tuning to go.

She hopes their June 9 premier comes quickly, as two of their cast are currently away with Covid.

“We are hoping that Covid doesn’t ravish us in the next three weeks, we have been pretty lucky until now,” Fiona said.

From left; Karen Phillips, Julie Gray, Charlotte Holmes, Jaime Bayley, Samson Growhurst, Nathan Growhurst and Lily Hayward.

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Cyril Morris sings traditional Xhosa song, Qongqothwane.

Waipā has a new mobile vaccination service.

The Waikato District Health Board closed its Te Awamutu clinic yesterday saying it was “taking vaccinations to where they are most needed”.

Site supervisor Alene Vincent, said while the old Bunnings building at the intersection of Arawata St and Scout Lane had served the 12-strong team well, it was time for a change.

This transition mirrors one in Morrinsville where the team based at the Knox Presbyterian Church in Canada St moved to a mobile vaccination service this week.

“The Te Awamutu team will be visiting local halls, sports clubs and other sites to provide MMR (mumps, measles and rubella), Covid-19 and flu vaccinations,” said Alene.

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RSAs benefit Cambridge and Te Awamutu RSA clubs have benefitted by just over $1000 each from an Anzac auction.

The auction for a painting gifted to Good Local Media for Anzac Day was promoted through the Te Awamutu News and Cambridge News – and the winning bid from an anonymous Cambridge resident was $2001.

The painting ‘In Flanders Fields’ is the work of Cambridge artist Carole Hughes.

Good Local Media advertising manager Janine Davy said the two papers also donated a portion of every poppy advert sold in each paper to the RSA. “We are thankful to all the businesses who participated to make this possible,” she said.

A total of 31 Cambridge and 35 Te Awamutu businesses took part.

Jam session

A ukulele jam session in Selwyn Park outside the Te Awamutu Library will run from 11am on May 28.

The event is being put on for New Zealand Music Month by Waipā District Libraries in conjunction with the Kihikihi Ukulele Club and follows last year’s successful jam session held inside the Te Awamutu Library.

The event is expected to include players from the Riverside Ukes in Cambridge and the Morrinsville Ukulele Club.

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Championship honours decided

By Andy McGechan

In eight championship races over four rounds there were just three different race winners this season, but plenty of motorcycle category trophies were still to be decided when the 2022 New Zealand Cross-country Championships finally wrapped up at the weekend.

Remote farmland at Porangahau, in Central Hawke’s Bay, was the scene on Sunday for the fourth and final round of the 2022 season and, while the two main titles had already been sealed at the previous round near Dannevirke a month earlier, there was still the matter of determining who would take home silverware in the individual bike categories.

Oparau’s James Scott (Honda) won each of the three rounds of the Yamaha-sponsored nationals that had already been staged, easily clinching the senior crown overall for this season at round three near Dannevirke last month, with Napier’s Tommy Watts (Yamaha) and Taupo’s Wil Yeoman (Yamaha) forced to settle for second and third overall positions respectively.

Cambridge’s Jared Hannon (Kawasaki) was similarly impressive in wrapping up the junior title on the same day in April, Easter Monday.

But this did not diminish the significance of Porangahau’s final round on Sunday, with a few more chapters still needing to be written.

It was business as usual for Scott on Sunday, who again won the three-hour senior race, making it an unbeaten string of four wins from four starts for the series.

Runner-up to Scott was Yeoman, with Watts settling for third place on Sunday.

As team-mates they will tackle an International Six Days Enduro event in France in late August and early September.

Senior class winners were settled at the

weekend, with Scott taking the four-stroke over-300cc class honours and Watts winning the four-stroke under-300cc class.

Other senior class winners were Yeoman (two stroke over-200cc class); Dannevirke’s Ben Paterson (Yamaha, two-stroke under200cc class); Waipukurau’s Stephen Sergeant (Kawasaki, veterans’ 35-44 years class); Feilding’s Hugh Lintott (KTM, veterans’ over45 years class); Auckland’s Charlotte Russ (Yamaha, women’s class) and Te Awamutu’s Jack Carmichael (Husqvarna, under-19 class).

Sitting second in the junior points before the start of Sunday’s racing was Te Awamutu’s Nixon Parkes (KTM) and, with Hannon opting not to travel to the race on Sunday, it left the way clear for Parkes to step up and take the junior race victory at this final round, thereby joining Scott and Hannon as one of only three riders to win a race outright this season.

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Porritt trip for Te Awamutu Te Awamutu takes on winless Hamilton Wanderers at Porritt Stadium on Saturday as the WaiBop premier league resumes following Chatham Cup games last weekend.

The reds were beaten 1-0 at home by Auckland club Metro last Saturday – courtesy of one of the types of penalties referees are obliged to give for “hand ball” when a shot hits

the arm of a defender.

On the back of what observers considered an outstanding performance against a top-rated Auckland outfit they will be looking for three points in Hamilton against a side which has managed a draw from its opening four games.

Te Awamutu sits in the pack chasing unbeaten leaders Unicol who have a derby against Melville.

It might have scored three or four in the first half last

weekend – and was also kept goalless the week before, so it’s clear where the priorities will be against Wanderers.

In other Chatham Cup first round matches last weekend social club Sperm Whales stunned Northern League club Ngaruawahia 2-1 in Auckland, Taupo won 5-2 at Hamilton club Northern United, Claudelands won 4-3 at Beachlands Maraetai, Cambridge beat Onehunga Mangere 2-1, Tauranga beat Unicol 4-1 and West Hamilton beat Waiuku 7-1.

Tech clears out Table tennis comes to town Te Awamutu hosts the Table Tennis New Zealand 2022 Country Club Championships this weekend.

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The Kihikihi Table Tennis Club last hosted the Country Club Championships in Te Awamutu in 2020. The 2021 event was cancelled because of Covid.

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Reigning champions Fraser Tech have extended their winning streak, and lead, in this year’s senior Waikato club championship.

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The beginners guide to heat pumps The demand for heat pumps has surged significantly over recent years. This is largely due to their high energy efficiency ratings, their easy use, and environmentally friendly benefits. Most have excellent climate control capabilities and can be used to provide space cooling by simply reversing the process of space heating. A heat pump can heat one room, or many rooms depending on the system. In terms of providing year-round comfort, they’re hard to beat.

Different types – what to choose?

Heat pumps come as highwall units, floor consoles, ceiling cassettes, and as ducted or multi-split systems. Although highwall units have dominated the market, evolving technology and innovation gives consumers increasingly better options.

Easy to install, highwall heat pumps are generally very efficient and well-priced. In the main, they’re cheaper to purchase and free up floor space. They can heat and cool greater extremes in temperature, provide excellent levels of performance, are quiet, and sometimes more cost effective.

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They’re ideal in homes with tall windows and are an excellent replacement for an open fire, log burner or fixed gas heater. Floor consoles can be positioned unobtrusively in a room and installed almost anywhere because the cables and pipes can be run underfloor.

They’re quiet, powerful, and highly efficient, and their floor positioning makes accessing and cleaning the filter much easier, which is helpful for the elderly or disabled.

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Package come with showers It was a fate that on the day a support package was announced for Waikato because of drought conditions it rained in Waipā and forecasters were predicting a lot more to come during the week.

Drought conditions affecting the primary sector in Waikato and South Auckland were classified on Monday as a mediumscale adverse event – opening the door to a package of support for farmers and growers.

“This is recognition that a severe dry spell over the autumn months is taking its toll on the region’s primary sector and additional

support is needed,” MPI’s director of Rural Communities and Farming Support Nick Story said.

“The lack of any consistent rainfall since the beginning of the year means dry conditions in the region have reached the point where assistance is needed to help the rural community get through.”

This week’s rain will have encouraged some green shoots, but it’s come after a long dry spell.

“Farmers in these districts have been closely monitoring the situation and making early decisions about stock levels, culling

Fighting the predators Rats, mice and possum continue to prowl the fences of the country’s premier inland conservation island, Maungatautari – but they are being picked off.

This week’s Maungatautari Reserve Committee heard at its quarterly meeting 18 pests had been caught in traps in the January to March period.

Mice were detected in the northern, Tautari wetland and QE2 enclosures, rats were detected on tracking cards or camera and trapped at various points and two possums had taken poison bait.

There had also been 15 “fence breaches” in that time.

More native species than introduced pests are making their home on the maunga.

A total of 14 western brown kiwi chicks were released in March, taking the total to almost 400.

Chief executive Phil Lyon’s report for the January to March

and buying in feed, but the lack of rain is starting to have an impact as winter looms,” Story said.

The adverse event classification was made by the Minister of Agriculture Damien O’Connor following a request from primary sector organisations in the region.

This decision unlocks a package of support including tax flexibility with Inland Revenue, and the Waikato, Hauraki-Coromandel Rural Support Trust will receive extra funding of $30,000 to run events to connect people and provide mentoring support.

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period also noted the six takahe on the mountain were in good health – but there was no sign of successful nesting.

Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari is chasing almost $680,000 of funding towards the modification of its predator proof fence to pave the way for kākāpō to be moved onto to the mountain. It is hoped as many as 10 could be moved there by the end of the year.

“As soon as funds have been secured, the fence modification will start. This will take 10 staff/contractors 47 days to complete,” Lyons said in his report.

Sanctuary Mountain will also start receiving birds from the North Island Kaka captive breeding programme, while the count of titipounamu – the rifleman – has reached about 60.

A Hochstetter’s frog survey is planned this month.

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“I encourage farmers to seek professional advice from the Rural Support Trust, DairyNZ, Beef and Lamb New Zealand and their business advisers who can provide information about managing dry conditions,” Nick Story said.

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DairyNZ says the Government’s commitment of $339m to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions will help dairy farmers remain high-performing.

The Government funding announced this week includes the establishment of the new Centre for Climate Action on Agricultural Emissions.

“Additional funding and the new Centre will add to the significant investment already being made by the sector into research and developmnt – so, collectively, it will accelerate the development of technology and tools to really drive further emissions reductions by the ag sector,” DairyNZ chief executive Tim Mackle said.

“Because Kiwi dairy farmers are already so efficient, there’s no silver bullet. We need new high-impact technologies and to accelerate their uptake to continue reducing our environmental footprint, while enabling farmers run successful businesses.”

He said DairyNZ had worked consistently with the Government to ensure they understood the scale of the climate change challenge affecting farmers, and the opportunity to remain world-leading sustainable dairy producers.

“DairyNZ has advocated strongly for Government to invest significantly more in supporting the sector to play its part to address climate change. So it’s great to see our work on behalf of farmers coming to fruition,” says Dr Mackle.

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When governance is tested

By Andrew MacPherson , Waikato Regional Councillor, Waipa King-Country

Recently, as many of you know, the Waikato Regional Council took the very difficult decision to replace our chair. Not one councillor would have found this an easy decision to take and indeed there were strongly held views expressed on both sides of the debate. I know that both Stu Kneebone and I as your representatives were torn by the enormity and complexity of the decision and listened carefully to all the views of our colleagues.

Good governance is about determining purpose, developing an effective governance culture, holding executives and governors to account and finally effective compliance. It is my opinion that the council has developed a good working culture and will hold people to account and have demonstrated that throughout this term.

There are some who would like you to believe this decision was about Three Waters, as it serves their political agendas.

Let me assure you that is not the case.

Three Waters refers to district councils’ infrastructure for the delivery of drinking water, and the disposal of storm water and wastewater. This infrastructure is owned and operated by district councils. It is not the regional council’s business, and never has been.

This is about trust and confidence in the chair. The chair has a responsibility to set an effective tone from the top down and establish an inclusive governance culture that encourages all councillors to work to their best. As a customer focused organisation, WRC needs a chair who can foster good relationships with our stakeholders, and fairly represent the views of the council.

Many will have taken note of the fact that the new chair Barry Quayle was nominated by Russ Rimmington and seconded by Stu Kneebone. This is significant.

Choosing a new chair who is respected by both sides of the debate is sending a strong message. It is evidence of a council that has recognised change is needed, to enable making good quality consensus decisions for the region.

I want to recognise and thank Russ Rimmington for the huge contribution he has made to local body politics over a number of years.

I have been quoted and stand by my comments that Russ has taught me a few skills and can always be relied on for some friendly banter. It’s also appropriate to thank Barry Quayle for agreeing to accept the chair’s role for the remaining short period of the term.

WRC acknowledges the importance of good governance and is able to debate difficult and complex issues and come to a consensus. As your constituent councillors, we felt it important to respectfully share some of our views and reasoning behind this recent council decision.

On another note, as mentioned last month, WRC is holding a series of one-day water workshops around the region before we make changes to our Waikato Regional Policy Statement and Waikato Regional Plan, to align with new central government directions. You can register for a workshop on the Waikato Regional Council website.

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Te Awamutu teenager Sebastian Crain’s time at a police Blue Lights Life Skills programme at Whenuapai was capped by him winning the Peers’ Choice Award.

The five-day programme at the Whenuapai airbase this month covered everything from ironing to changing a tyre, leadership, teamwork and physical activities.

And it confirmed to him that his future lay in the Army – his application form is now being completed.

His award was voted on by his peers, Defence Force and Blue Light staff.

Sebastian was referred to the programme by Marg Apiti, Youth Coach, Te Wananga o Aotearoa.

Sebastian was also supported by Waikato police Senior Sergeant Scott Miller from Te Awamutu Blue Light.

“Sebastian has realised that he is a natural leader which has opened-up new paths where he is preparing his army application with his youth coach now.”

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Roading call

Well done Mary Anne Gill for her well thought out reporting on the proposed on and off ramps at the southern (golf course) end of the expressway. (Cambridge News, May 5).

Jo Wilton from Waka Kotahi says the Victoria Road interchange provides connections to the Cambridge Township – and completely misses the point and that is, it’s the township that motorists wish to avoid when travelling north from the other side of the river.

I agree with Mr Beard we should “argue, scream and yell at Waka Kotahi for an on ramp to go north” So denizens of Cambridge, if you agree then note and vote for councillors that support this view, and lobby local politicians to represent your voice. (Abridged) Peter Moore Cambridge

Governance issues

With local body elections coming up very soon it might be pertinent to understand exactly what we can expect from those who are elected and their role if elected. Are they elected as figure heads or to represent our needs and wants?

It had always been my

understanding that the people elected to council were elected with the expectation that they would act on our behalf. Do we want them spending time pouring over lengthy reports of dubious worth or do we want them actually looking into how we can get our needs met?

Declarations of Conflicts of Interest are very important and we don’t want a councillor for argument sake, involved in property development and then making decisions on those developments without it being made known first.

However, abusing the Declarations of Conflicts of Interest terminology as a means of stopping a councillor from doing what he/she sees as being what the rate payers they represent really want and need, can be a dangerous course of action and nothing but nothing should ever be done to impede our elected representatives from actually representing us as opposed to the “organisation” Hopefully with these upcoming elections our candidates will be asked in an open forum type of meeting some searching and revealing questions so we can all make informed decisions as to who we want representing us.

(Abridged) Brenda Stamp Cambridge

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Remits are to be submitted to the Secretary and close on Friday 4st June 2022 at 5.00pm Voting forms will be available, if required, from Saturday 11th June 2022 until 5.00pm Friday 24th June 2022.

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HENDERSON, Alan Murray, (Bob) – Suddenly passed away on Sunday, 8th May 2022, aged 43 years. Most humbled dad to all his children, and loved by all those who crossed paths with him.

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