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Tower a done deal?

By Roy Pilott

Pirongia residents have been told there is little chance they will succeed in their latest efforts to prevent a 5G cell phone tower rising in the village.

About 40 residents met in the town’s community centre last Thursday after a shock announcement from mobile tower infrastructure company Connexa that the tower would be built next month behind the Waitomo Service Station.

The company appeared unaware that strong opposition led to that site being put on hold pending other site checks when it was proposed in 2019 – and that Spark had indicated it would keep the town’s community association updated.

Waipā councillor Clare St Pierre, who attended the meeting, told The News last week she had been made aware of the decision to go back to the original site before

Christmas.

But it was only last week that a letter box drop – and a story in The News – updated residents.

Te Awamutu-Kihikihi Community Board member Sally Whitaker also attended the meeting.

Pirongia Community Association chair Ruth Webb said the meeting was almost completely opposed to the site – most saw the importance of improving the network service in the community, but concerns remained over health and safety issues as the site is close to houses and a school.

Some at the meeting supported having the tower, others were completely opposed because they feared 5G presented risks to health.

Ruth Webb said the meeting looked at two issues - whether or not a change in zoning for the site from residential to commercial had been carried out appropriately by Waipā

District Councill and whether or not there was a way an alternative option could be put back into the frame.

The council does not have the authority to prevent towers being built if they meet district plan rules and National Environmental Standards.

In its statement, Connexa said it had ruled out 14 other sites, and would have the tower erected by the end of next month.

In a statement last week Connexa chief Rob Berrill said the use of mobile services had grown 30 per cent every year since 2019 and the existing site was under significant strain.

More than 2000 people signed a petition opposing the site on corner of Beechey St and McClure St when it was initially proposed.

As they did then, residents have sought help from their MP Barbara Kuriger. Last week’s meeting ended without a figurehead

to lead the charge.

Some at the meeting had still not received notification from the company through their mailbox.

Webb said she was concerned that the 5G technology was still new and had not been thoroughly investigated. She referred to the use of thalidomide, a drug which stunted the growth of foetal limbs in the 1950s and 1960s as an example of the consequences of not carrying out thorough investigations.

Of the renewed battle to have the site moved somewhere else, she told The News “residents have not given up”.

We say…

Love thy council Our regular columnist Reverend Julie Guest often inspires us with her regular columns as Vicar of the Parish of St John, in Te Awamutu.

Today she challenges readers to think about how they can help others.

She refers to a situation in Paihia where the community stepped up solve a significant social problem - and asks what residents can do in Waipā.

“Waipā council’s finances are stretched, so rates will need to increase. Whenever that happens a torrent of criticism is released against council. If we took Jesus’ teaching to heart, we would instead be encouraging those people who are willing to make the hard decisions for us. Can Te Awamutu emulate Paihia’s community effort?” she writes.

See her Faith in Waipā column on page 7

Here we go again – residents in Pirongia meet to discuss the proposed site of the new cell tower.

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Recycling – it’s all for one

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The bad news is that your milk bottle tops, and millions of other blue caps, are going to landfill.

The good news is that a standardised kerbside recycling programme launched across the country this week should divert an extra 36,000 tonnes of waste away from those landfills.

Senior policy analyst Harry Livesey, responding to questions put by The News to the Ministry for the Environment, said the saving would amount to almost 30kg of recyclable material for every household each year.

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It will also reduce greenhouse gas emissions from landfill and generate more value from recyclable materials, he said.

But what about those milk bottle tops which I have always put into the recycling bin on the bottle having squeezed the air out?

Those and other caps may be made from recyclable material but there are two problems with them – firstly, they often arrive at a recycling centre still on the bottle – containing curdled milk or cream - and secondly, the recycling systems can’t handle such small objects.

Speaking of small, in most cases it requires a magnifier to read what recycling symbol is moulded into the cap – take a bow Pams and Sanitarium for giving us some of the smallest

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Have you ever panned for gold, dug up fossils or met a raptor called Tai in Te Awamutu?

Those looking for some school holiday fun in town last week found just that at Te Awamutu Museum Education and Research Centre.

Members of the museum’s kids’ club – Tui and Tama Club – were given a first look at a display put on by Legends Unleashed Dinosaurs Aotearoa on Thursday morning, before it was opened to the wider public later in the day.

Te Awamutu Museum Education and Research Centre exhibitions coordinator Henriata Nicholas told The News the morning’s peek for kids’ club members – of which there are about 600 Waipā wide – was a reward for those who had attended all six of the monthly Tui and Tama activity programmes held at the museum between July and December last year.

Those have included monthly themes such as Matariki, ancestry, Te Reo Māori and myths and legends. “This is just another way this fantastic space can be used for the kids to have fun,” she said.

For founder Darren Bell – or Dinosaur

logos we’ve ever not seen. We don’t need to check any more.

What about metal lids? They are out too – again, there is a likelihood they will be trapping contents in containers. So ice cream container lids get the heave-ho into the rubbish bin, too. In fact, so does anything smaller than 5cm square.

“Even small amounts of contents left in containers adds to contamination of the materials for recycling and can mean the materials recovery facility faces penalties or has bales rejected,” Livesey said.

The ministry says it is working with manufacturers, retailers, and recyclers to develop solutions for lids.

Nationwide, around 16 per cent of items put out for recycling don’t belong in the recycling bin – while 13 per cent of household “rubbish” contains recyclable material.

Food producers present a significant amount of their produce in plastic which is not recyclable – think shrink wrap on your Wattie’s baked beans three pack or the plastic bag holding your daily bread.

Livesey says facilities would need infrastructure upgrades to sort soft-plastics and at present they are not financially viable for recycling.

The industry have been tasked with designing a plastic packaging product stewardship scheme, which would include soft-plastics, and it is likely that industry will eventually cover recycling costs.

So there you go – it’s caps off to New Zealand’s standardised recycling system, and don’t say you weren’t told.

Hudson Griffin, 5, goes in search of ‘fossils’ at Te Awamutu Museum Education and Research Centre last week. Photo: Jeremy Smith

Darren – the genesis of Legends Unleashed Dinosaurs Aotearoa came from childhood stories of his tupuna and legends of taniwha recited to him by his grandmother.

Beginning in 2004, Legends Unleashed Dinosaurs Aotearoa takes tamariki on an educational journey back in time, not only to the age of dinosaurs, but the days when Darren’s tupuna encountered the mighty taniwha.

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Complex to open

A covered multi-sports turf at Te Awamutu College with a projected cost of about $1.6 million will be officially opened – and blessed - next week. The 1900 square metre complex was given a significant financial boost thanks to a $150,000 donation from the Rogers Charitable Trust. It was initially hoped the completed complex would be open before the end of last year. The opening ceremony will be held next Thursday.

Lake warnings

Te Whatu Ora Waikato have issued health warnings for Lakes Arapuni and Whangape. Warnings remain in place for Lakes Rotoroa (Hamilton Lake), Ngā Roto, Hakanoa, Waikare, Kainui, and Rotokauri. Scientific observation and monitoring of the water quality for Lake Arapuni suggests a recent rise in the concentration of cyanobacteria while Lake Whangape has seen a dramatic rise in measured cyanobacteria biovolume.

Operation Neptune

Waikato’s harbourmaster made 819 on water vessel stops and 179 on boat ramps vehicle inspections during its just completed Operation Neptune. There were 350 breaches, most relating to life jacket rules, speeding offences and towing without observers. At Lake Kārapiro, the harbourmaster conducted 24 individual patrols and stopped 145 vessels.

Work starts

A roundabout to tackle what transport minister Simeon Brown says is the least safe part of State Highway One has started at Piarere. The start of the work at the intersection of SH29 coincided with the announcement that the Waikato Expressway will be extended south to Piarere.

Promo strategy revealed

By Mary Anne Gill

Waipā District Council will set up its own “one stop shop” for district promotions, events and attractions due to declining numbers at the councilfunded i-Sites in Cambridge and Te Awamutu.

The move to align the i-Sites’ websites with the council’s existing online channels has been revealed in an agenda item considered behind closed doors in December and released to The News after a Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act (Lgoima) request by Good Local Media.

The Service Delivery committee decided to pull the council’s annual funding from July 1. Destination Cambridge wanted $190,000 and Destination Te Awamutu $174,000. The cost to council per visitor is $6 in Cambridge – based on 23,634 visitors a year – and $11 in Te Awamutu based on 11,355 people through the door.

Sixty per cent of the Cambridge visitors are from outside the town while it is flipped in Te Awamutu where 70 per cent are locals.

The decision – not supported by Cambridge councillors Roger Gordon, Mike Pettit and Philip Coles – will be the death knell for the two i-Sites unless they can attract alternative funding.

More details on why Cr Gordon did not support the paper, prepared by Customer and Community Services group manager Sally Sheedy going into public excluded, appear in the documents released to The News.

He argued in an email three days before the meeting to Governance manager Jo Gread that the item should have been held in public “for the purpose of transparency and accountability”.

Gordon was unhappy with the item’s name – Waipā i-Site Service Level Agreement Funding and Update – as it did not

reflect the true intent of the meeting, he said, which was to scrap funding, effectively closing both operations.

He also said elected members had in an earlier closed door workshop on November 21 told staff they did not want to see any reduction in services.

“The withdrawal of funding… means that these services will no longer be offered,” he wrote, noting it was going against elected member advice.

But his major beef related to the way the decision was to be made.

“There are persons whose employment will be affected by this decision and yet those persons have not been considered nor involved in this discussion to withdraw the funding.”

The agenda item, released to The News after our copy deadline, was sent to the two i-Site organisations the previous day. The News understands their requests to attend last year’s meeting where council made the decision were declined, and

they sought information under the Lgoima – on January 17 – more than a month after The News made its requests.

Editor Roy Pilott said given that time frame it was frustrating that the council responded to the i-Sites first.

The News also asked for background to Destination Te Awamutu’s lease on a council-owned building which the council considered under the Lgoima process and released to The News.

That reveals Destination Te Awamutu will not only lose i-Site funding but will have to renegotiate the lease on a building gifted to the community in 1980 for a Public Relations and Tourist Information Centre.

The building cannot be used for anything else while the council applies for a change of purpose under the Reserves Act. Destination Cambridge pays rent to the Cambridge Town Hall Trust and was renegotiating that when council decided to pull its funding.

Sally Sheedy

The News understands Destination Cambridge board members were unaware of the council’s move to set up its own online visitor information service. The organisation owns the cambridge.co.nz URL – but not cambridge. nz - and has invested significantly in content.

Destination Te Awamutu recently updated its teawamutu.nz URL at its cost. It is not known whether the council, which owns several strategic websites itself, would be prepared to pay for the websites.

Another chapter for Donna

By Viv Posselt

An overheard remark from a child entering the building had new Te Awamutu library supervisor Donna Wilson tickled pink.

Sighing audibly at the doorway, the youngster stopped and said: “Mum, I love the library and the smell of books”.

His enthusiastic sentiment delighted Donna … it seemed to perfectly encapsulate everything what she has always believed about books.

Donna is new in the job, having taken over from Sheree Gross who retired late last year after an impressive 28 years at the library.

“They are big shoes to fill,” Donna said.

That may be so, but nothing about library work is new to her.

She started at Te Awamutu Library

as a senior library assistant in late 2016, just before the facility moved to its current home in Mahoe St. Prior to that, Donna worked in a supervisory capacity at Hamilton city library.

“Books have always been my thing. I was an avid reader as a child and I’m the same today,” she said. “It seems to have gone down to my children and grandchildren, which is lovely. As I see it, a good author is worth his or her weight in gold. Books can be a wonderful escape from everyday life … even in the lightest of fiction there is an element of fact, which means you learn so much more by reading.”

Te Awamutu Library runs like a well-oiled machine, she said, thanks in large part to the hard work put in by Sheree Gross and the staff. The numbers using the library are climbing and there is excellent engagement from

the community around ongoing library activities, including the youngsters’ holiday reading programmes.

“There’s nothing crying out to me to be changed, but I do have a few ideas… a couple of things I want to tweak,” she said. “I want to find out why we have some people still registered with the library who have stopped coming in. I’m curious to know what’s behind that.

“I also want to look at the feasibility of establishing a service at the library offering people digital help with their computers and phones. Learning to be familiar around their use is essential today and I think it would make sense for the library to offer something in that area,” she added. “I’m working with a fabulous team here so I’m excited to see what we can do.

Recently appointed Te Awamutu Library supervisor Donna Wilson is a self-confessed bookaholic.

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Travis leads the way The hazard

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One month old Travis Coulter with his dad Max and mum Stacey.

By Jeremy Smith

It’s a meeting a few weeks in the making, but it doesn’t take him long at all to show somewhat inquisitive interest in The News’ camera.

Pirongia’s Travis Coulter, one month old today, has been named the first baby born in The News' area in of 2024.

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weighing 3900g - or eight pounds, eight ounces -Travis is the second child of Max Coulter and Stacey Littleworth, and a younger brother to 18-month-old Montana.

While Stacey said there had been a handful of sleepless nights so far, the family was adjusting to the newborn schedule.

“We almost can’t believe how fast the first month has gone.”

The sound of someone falling woke one of the grandchildren of Harry Turner, 71, around 3am on a Sunday in April 1911.

On entering his room he found Harry on the ground in an agitated but speechless condition.

With Harry’s wife Sophia he tried to get Harry back into bed, but he was struggling too much.

Sophia then suddenly collapsed and went down on the floor alongside her husband.

The young man, unable to help them, went for assistance, and with two other grandchildren left Pirongia for Te Awamutu to find a doctor.

Then another call came for another doctor regarding another strange collapse, this time at the home of the Joneses where two young boys were mysteriously seized.

By the time Dr Reekie arrived they were recovering. In the meantime the three youths who had gone in search of medical assistance also collapsed, so that Dr Henderson had five patients on his hands at the one time.

By Tuesday morning Harry was conscious and he and Sophia were both considered out of danger, while the boys were improving fast.

The doctors found the group had been acutely poisoned by honey which they had had with supper on the Sunday evening, after which the two Jones boys, also Harry and Sophia’s grandchildren, went home.

The honey was from a hive on Harry’s property from which considerable amounts had been taken previously with no ill-effects.

Despite his progress, Harry suddenly died.

Henry ‘Harry’ Pata Turner was Ngāti Maniapoto and lived at the foot of Pirongia Mountain.

He was one of those who welcomed the first European settlers.

He had had an adventurous life in the

Māori wars, and dodged a tomahawk more than once.

He was widely respected by European and Māori, and the deepest sympathy was felt for his relatives.

Newspaper reports stated that the honey had been obtained from whaurangi (or pukapuka) blossoms, which contained the deadliest of poison.

This was rebutted by Mr Hopkins, Supervisor of Government Apiaries, who said honey used by the Turner family was from the whauriki or native buttercup.

Whaurangi was a spring flowering plant.

Whauriki grew in swampy ground, flowered in the autumn, and from his experience extending over 35 years he was confident that the honey must have come from this plant.

The tangi of Harry was held over three days. A large assembly of friends and relatives gathered from all parts of the province.

Reverend Taimona Hapimana read a portion of the funeral service in front of the Turner’s house delivering a most eloquent address of hope and consolation.

Harry was buried at the Kaipiha family cemetery. On Saturday morning the Rev Hapimana held a service at Mrs Turner’s residence, a large number of relatives still remaining there.

He also baptised three infant great grandchildren of the late Harry and Sophia (Te Paea) Turner to commemorate the death of their beloved tupuna.

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By Jeremy Smith

“Another message is to keep looking while you’re cooking. A quarter of New Zealand’s house fires start in the kitchen.”

Smoke detectors too, Gouws said, can mean the difference between life and death.

“We recommend having smoke alarms in every bedroom, in the living room and in hallways in high places like the ceiling,” Lawrence added.

Having - and practising - an escape plan, especially with children, could also be hugely beneficial.

Pirongia brigade is preparing for the future – it is thought to be the only Waikato brigade with a cadet programme, led by Jodi Reymer.

Cadets, aged 12 to 16, are taught basic firefighting and first aid skills during school terms, and can attend for up to four years.

With 10 places available annually, Gouws said there is always a waiting list.

The brigade is also fundraising for a new emergency response vehicle – which will cost about $90,000. It has raised about $14,000 – thanks in no small part to the Pirongia Craft Day.

Brigade looks for more

Pirongia’s population growth - and an increase in the number of fire calls have prompted the village’s chief fire officer to search for more volunteer firefighters.

Pirongia Rural Fire chief fire officer Roan Gouws has a 15-year association with the brigade, and has been in the role for the last five.

He said the brigade, which has about 25 members, responds to 90 to 100 fire calls annually.

“We are looking to be ahead of the game and grow our volunteer numbers to meet our community’s future needs,” he said.

Another factor, he said, is Pirongia being a somewhat transient community.

“Outside work hours I have up to three quarters of our brigade available in an emergency.

"During work hours though, given the number who work of town, that drops to three or four.

To that end, a great start would be three or four new recruits.”

Gouws said people working from home, or running their own businesses from home, were well suited.

Fire and Emergency New Zealand Waikato community readiness and recovery advisor Abi Lawrence, left, and Pirongia Rural Fire chief fire officer Roan Gouws.

Photo: Jeremy Smith

He acknowledged the “entire network” a volunteer firefighter needs to have around them to serve their community that way.

“It’s not just my firefighters I appreciate, but their wives, their husbands,

their family and their partners who lend them to the brigade. The employers who allow their staff to attend calls also make a huge sacrifice.”

Pirongia also assists the Te Awamutu and Ōtorohanga

brigades with road crashes.

December was relatively quiet call out wise and there had been six in January.

Fire and Emergency New Zealand Waikato community readiness and recovery advisor Abi Lawrence

simplified a summer message being shared by the organisation as, “...check it’s alright before you light.”

She encouraged people to take steps to reduce the potential of hot embers setting other fires.

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A great sign of unity

The truth about diamonds

By Tom Roa, Tikanga Advisor, Waikato University

The hui at Turangawaewae on January 20 was more than a celebration of Māoridom’s assertion of tino rangatiratanga and mana motuhake.

The strongest of signals was sent to all who might pay some attention to Māoridom’s aspirations and hopes for themselves and all of Aotearoa New Zealand. The positivity in the gathering of more than 10,000 people, iwi Māori from all corners of the land, old and young, of all political and other persuasions, and significant numbers of other-than-Māori was palpable.

This was evidenced from the first karakia raising the Kīngitanga flags, to the last karakia lowering those symbols of the Kīngitanga whose purpose from its inception is to hold fast to the land; to stop the shedding of blood amongst the tribes, and to maintain and sustain mana Māori motuhake by uniting the people.

A principle upheld to this very day is the assertion by the first Māori King Potatau Te Wherowhero, ‘Kotahi te kōwhao o te ngira e kuhuna atu ai te miro pango, te miro mā, te miro whero.’

There is but one eye of the needle through which must pass the black thread (the Māori people); the white thread (the Pākehā – Europeans) and the red thread (red – the colour of the nobility).

That spirit was evident as people shared formally on the marae and in workshops, as well as in informal gatherings the importance of working together, bringing all threads together through the eye of the needle. And in that weaving create a new entity stronger for the fusion of the various threads.

By Janine Krippner

The Coalition Government’s stated intentions with reexamining (re-wording? re-negotiating?) Te Tiriti o Waitangi; with the privileging of English (devaluing of Māori Language?) and its assertions that their intention is to bring people together has captured the attention of ‘ngā hau e whā’, the four winds of Māoridom and other New Zealanders.

Far from the hui being, as the deputy leader of New Zealand First asserted it would be, a whinge session of monumental proportions, the overwhelming message was that of a unity amongst Māori, which would extend across the land in the unifying of all New Zealanders and the fulfilling of the promises in Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the assertion of Kingi Pōtatau Te Wherowhero’s vision of all threads coming though the eye of the needle. Each retaining its own integrity, but together creating something new with its own potential.

The calling of the hui is a model for democracy at its best. Māori rangatira sought the leadership of their King, with his proclamation via his Coat of Arms, Te Paki o Matariki, for iwi Māori to gather in the spirit of unity – kotahitanga – to ‘wānanga’ and to consider positive steps forward in the principled messages in Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and the support for the revival and survival of Māori language,.

King Potatau Te Wherowhero’s words are furthered in his succesor King Tawhiao’s ‘tongi’ ‘Ki te kotahi te kākaho ka whati; ki te kapuia, e kore e whati.’

The single reed singly will break. Bunched together, never.

Have you seen the inspirational quote “a diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure”? While I agree with the sentiment of not giving up, to keep going, and that we can evolve into something more beautiful by growing through hard times, the saying is bogus.

Diamonds are not coal under pressure. I assume that this comes from the fact that they are both composed of carbon, but the origin story of diamonds is actually way cooler.

Society has been convinced that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, and you must show your love through diamonds. Many reject this now, especially knowing the harm that diamond mining causes (please make sure they are ethically sourced), and the financial pressure this places on people.

Diamonds were brought to the Earth’s surface during mostly violent eruptions a very long time ago.

Diamonds do form under immense pressure, but in the mantle, around 200km or deeper. Much deeper than coal would survive. A rare magma type called Kimberlite rips apart chunks of mantle rock that contains the diamonds and carries them rapidly towards the surface. This is some of the deepest magma that reaches the surface, and by rapid, I mean it may travel around 150200km upwards in hours to a couple of days.

There has been a great deal of research done on Kimberlites partly because of their economic importance, partly because we love to understand every type of eruption, and also because they help us understand the deeper parts of our Earth. Diamonds are the hardest mineral, and with their thermal conductivity this makes them very useful.

Large amounts of diamonds are used for

industrial processes like drilling, cutting, and polishing. They are not the glamourous diamonds we think of.

Scientists have figured out that kimberlite eruptions may be related to the process of tectonic plates pulling apart, occurring 20-30 million years after the process begins.

Kimberlites at the surface are millions to 2.5 billion years old, we aren’t even a blink of an eye in these timescales.

On the smaller scale, many diamonds contain small dots or imperfections that make them even more interesting (and cheaper).

These are tiny time capsules called fluid or melt inclusions that were trapped inside as the diamond grew. Studying inclusions is an important part of unravelling their ancient stories. We understand that the magma likely started out at around 1350 to 1450°C, then cooled by a few hundred degrees during their ascent. This changes the magma in significant ways while it is moving. Just like other magma, this doesn’t always lead to an eruption. We also have intrusions that cooled to solid rock below ground and have since been exposed at the surface by processes including erosion over many millions of years.

While the inspirational idea of coal turning to diamond may be rubbish, diamonds are incredible parts of ancient eruptions of rare magmas sourced from deep below our feet, that formed in very high pressures and temperatures, then were brought to the surface at amazing speeds. A diamond ring symbolically means forever, and compared to our wee lifetimes, they pretty much are.

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Love your neighbour

By Julie Guest

Did you read the marvellous story about Paihia in last week’s news about how the community resolved a tricky problem?

They had problems with a reserve at the end of the town, around a headland, largely out of sight. It featured public toilets and a shingle carpark designed to allow beach access, but little else to attract locals or visitors to use the area. Instead, alcohol and drugs users gathered, rubbish accumulated, and antisocial behaviour escalated. Locals were completely avoiding the area, becoming more and more concerned at this dark blot on their otherwise inviting town.

What to do?

Rather than try to legislate against gatherings, fence the area off, or even add cameras or lighting as deterrents, Paihia residents decided on a positive rather than punitive response. They decided to make the area attractive - put in a playground, improve facilities, incorporate plantings, barbecues and picnic areas. The outstanding thing about this story for me was that there was no council funding available for this work, so the community achieved it through generous donations of money, equipment, and volunteer labour in community working bees.

Architects have long argued that the built environment can have a profound effect on human behaviour, which this Paihia project serves to affirm. But it is the underlying philosophy that I believe we can all learn from. It is that people and communities do best when the best is offered to them. Jesus emphasised this message over and over again. Even when faced with his ultimate betrayer, Judas, who was posing as an ally,

Jesus treated him with compassion.

When a rabbi asked Jesus which was the greatest commandment of all, Jesus answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and Love your neighbour as yourself.” (Luke 10:27) Surely, one way to love our neighbour is to ensure they have an environment to thrive in.

Are there areas in Te Awamutu that could benefit from a positive make over?

Community groups in the past have worked with council to create the parks and facilities we now have. Some are well maintained and well used, but not others. We know from recent reporting that our council is reviewing all its expenses, an already stretched budget exacerbated by the coalition government’s revoking of the Three Waters reforms means council will not now be able to rely on central government funding for management of water. Are there ways we can support our council, working alongside them to keep areas welcoming and to be a community where everyone can thrive?

Even more, can we take hold of Jesus’ teaching so that it changes our architecture, our attitudes, our hearts?

Waipā council’s finances are stretched, so rates will need to increase. Whenever that happens a torrent of criticism is released against council. If we took Jesus’ teaching to heart, we would instead be encouraging those people who are willing to make the hard decisions for us. Can Te Awamutu emulate Paihia’s community effort?

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Inflation – it’s mixed news

By Peter Nicholl

Many people here and overseas are scrutinising inflation data closely trying to predict when central banks will start lowering their official interest rates.

Late last year, most of the inflation news was positive. Though inflation rates almost everywhere were still well above the central banks’ target rates, inflation was falling rapidly. The idea that official interest rates could rise further in 2024 largely disappeared and commentators began to speculate on whether the first official rate reduction would occur in the second, third or fourth quarter this year.

Unfortunately the recent inflation news hasn’t been so positive. It hasn’t been bad - but it has been mixed. In the US, annual inflation was 3.4 per cent in the year to December 2023, an increase from 3.1 per cent in the year to November. US inflation this cycle had peaked at 9.1 per cent in June 2022 so to have it down to just over 3 per cent 18 months later is remarkable. But the uptick in December will probably cause the US Federal Reserve to be cautious about starting to reduce interest rates.

A similar thing has happened in the UK. Inflation in the year to December 2023 rose by 4 per cent, a marginal increase over the 3.9 per cent rise in the November year. UK’s inflation rate peaked at 11.1 per cent in the year to October 2022 so the slow-down in inflation in the UK has been similarly remarkable.

The other recent negative news from overseas is from the Middle East. In particular, the attacks on shipping in the Red Sea has brought back fears around supply chains and transport costs. This was one of the main triggers of the last

surge in global inflation.

These uncertainties will also make central banks cautious about putting their policy interest rates into reverse too soon.

In New Zealand, the latest inflation data did not disappoint or surprise analysts as it did in the US and UK. The annual inflation rate to December 2023 was 4.7 per cent, a significant decline from 5.6 per cent in the year to September (we do not publish monthly CPI data). The rise of 4.7 per cent was less than the Reserve Bank had forecast so it should be happy. Prices for about onethird of the items included in the CPI basket fell in the December quarter. This should also please the reserve bank. One element in the data that won’t make the bank happy is that it was imported tradeable inflation that fell the most – it was just 3 per cent.

Domestically-driven inflation continued to roar along at 5.9 per cent.

I still expect central banks to start bringing their official interest rates down in 2024, but the recent unfavourable inflation news has probably shifted those moves to the middle or second half of the year. The reserve bank was one of the first to move when central banks started to raise their official interest rates in late 2021.

Will they be one of the first to move in the reverse direction? The tone of most of recent comments makes that unlikely. The bank’s Chief Economist, Paul Conway was to speak about the inflation picture after I submitted this column and before it was published.

I think his speech will get more attention than usual as people like me try to sense the ‘tone’.

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Wheels are turning…

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Te Awamutu siblings Devon and Zara Howells are set on success – and at the speed of this sport, it won’t take either long to get there.

The pair are training for this weekend’s 2024 Banked Track Speed Skating Championships at Melville Park’s Hamilton Roller Skating Club, where they are members.

It is the first time either have competed, and 12-year-old Devon - a Te Awamutu Intermediate School student - and Zara, 10, who attends Pokuru School, are Te Awamutu’s only competitors.

They are among 15 representing their Hamilton club, and about 100 speed skaters nationwide expected at the championships.

The siblings got their first pair of inline skates in 2020 and learned to speed skate in early 2022.

They played inline hockey - on inline skates – which involved frequent travel to Whanganui to take part in competitions, then switched to speed skating after being approached by Hamilton

Zara, 10, and Devon, 12, Howells are training for this weekend’s Banked Track Speed Skating Championships.

Roller Skating Club stalwart Kathy Moody.

In preparation for this weekend, the siblings have been completing skate training three times a week.

Devon will compete in the cadet age group for 12-14-year-olds in a 200m, 500m, 1000m, and a 5km points elimination race - in

which lapped competitors are eliminated.

Zara will compete in the juvenile category for 10 and 11-year-olds, with a 200m, 500m, a 1000m and a 3000m race in her sights.

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She moved up to using speed skates six months ago - and now uses threewheeled skates with 90mm wheels.

Kim would like to see speed skating grow at school level in Te Awamutu.

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Table tennis programme planned Kihikihi’s table tennis club is looking for support for a programme to fund 10 selected Waikato players.

Barb Shepp and Hyrum Sunnex – both national champions – are promoting the plan and looking for 10 sponsors prepared to put up $1500 each.

“The primary objective of the programme is to enhance the skills of the most talented athletes in the Waikato region by providing them with unique opportunities,” Sunnex said.

“It offers a range of benefits, such as financial support for tournament entry fees, provision of sports attire, partial coverage of travel expenses, and assistance with equipment purchases, aiming to create a conducive environment that fosters the development and success of elite players.”

He said Kihikihi was the first club in the country to test the programme.

It is likely Waipā based players will be in the first intake of 10, and the criteria will be based on skill levels. Invitations will be sent out once sponsorship is secured.

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Peppy preserves Over the centuries, cooks and gardeners have used acids, sugars, salt and alcohol to preserve foods for out-of-season enjoyment.

Pickling is one of the oldest forms of preserving and has been traced back more than 4,500 years to Mesopotamia. Vegetables are usually salted first or placed in brine to draw out excess moisture to prevent the pickle from fermenting.

Vinegar is also a preservative, inhibiting the growth of microorganisms which cause foods to spoil.

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Most commercially prepared cooking vinegars do meet this criteria.

With fruit pickles more sugar is used as a preservative along with vinegar and spices.

Originating in India, chutneys were always intended to be eaten raw. However, as demand in the western world grew for these spicy condiments, so did the need for preserving them.

Kiwis love their tomato sauce and one report claims we consume, on average, three times our bodyweight of this saucy delight every year. I think perhaps that’s pouring it on a bit thick but there are some advantages. The American Cancer Society says that the lycopene (a cancer resisting ingredient) in tomato sauce is more easily absorbed than that in raw tomatoes.

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WINDSOR NISSAN CAMBRIDGE is a trusted and well respected motor vehicle dealership which offers full dealership facilities from sales of new NISSAN and used motor vehicles to after sales services.

The rare opportunity has arisen for a person to join our motor vehicle sales team.

The successful applicant will ideally possess experience within the automotive industry, although not essential the applicant must possess the following key skills and attributes. ● A sound knowledge and understanding of motor vehicles ● Have a passion for the industry ● Excellent communication and people skills ● Have a strong work ethic and be self-motivated ● Superior time management and organisational skills ● Have a high standard of personal presentation ● Full & clean drivers licence ● Computer literate with the ability to use new systems ● The ability to cope under pressure and time restraints ● Be a team player ● Ability to achieve monthly sales targets ● Confidence in approaching customers and prospecting for business ● Have fun – Smile and enjoy what you do everyday We pride ourselves in understanding and delivering on what our customers need. In being able to provide them with sound knowledge and a pleasurable customer experience.

If you are wanting an exciting new career in Motor Vehicle Sales then please express your interest in this position by submitting a covering letter along with your CV to Gavin Payne at admin@windsornissan.co.nz Please note: ONLY people with a valid work permit for New Zealand or have a NZ residency are requested to apply for this position.

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