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Rates: where to now for council?

By Mary Anne Gill

An early return to the debating chamber today for Waipā councillors to flesh out double-digit rates increases has been cancelled so staff can grapple with a longterm plan thrown a huge curve ball last month by the new government The Three Waters reforms, opposed by most local authorities including Waipā, is off – so costs from 2027, which were to be transferred to the mega water authority are back in.

The impact on the council’s long-term planning and rates is significant, Strategy manager Melissa Russo warned councillors at an emergency council meeting four days out from Christmas.

A campaign discussing the rate increases, signed off by councillors last year, will be in “black and white”. Council public relations staff say it signifies a no-frills approach and would enable the campaign to stand out in an advertising “sea of colour” environment.

One councillor – Clare St Pierre – is already on record as saying she is concerned the long-term plan consultation is happening the same time as discussion on Ahu Ake, Waipā’s blueprint spatial plan for the next 30 years. It will say the district’s future looks bright.

D-day for councillors to get a handle on how the books look now with water back in is only 12 days away. Sources say the proposed cumulative three year rise of 38.9 per cent is at risk of creeping up to 50 per cent.

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The old Te Awamutu museum building was closed, but there are plans to build a land wars museum.

Cambridge wants a new library…

Residential • Rural Commercial • Tennis Courts

Good Local heads south Good Local Media – the company which publishes The News – has added another masthead to its portfolio.

Owner David Mackenzie announced this week he had purchased the King Country News, which had been part of the Beacon Media Group based in Whakatane.

In November he extended the company’s footprint north by buying the Waikato Business News.

Mackenzie said the King Country publication was a natural new sister operation to the Te Awamutu News and Cambridge News and it would continue to drive local news and issues.

He was “delighted” to have the King Country News and all its staff as part of Good Local Media.

“The King Country News has been publishing for over 110 years and is respected and well read in Te Kuiti and Ōtorohanga,” he said.

The King Country News – formerly known as Waitomo News - also produces the King Country Farmer, a website and app.

“King Country News will continue to serve these communities alongside Te Awamutu News and Cambridge News, with no cross over of distribution,” Mackenzie said. “No other media has this reach and readership across the Waipā and King Country regions.”

Good Local Media brings a raft of experience to the King Country News.

Advertising and commercial activities will be led by advertising director Janine Davy.

“We have customers who have business interests in Te Kuiti and Ōtorohanga so by adding the King Country News we are able to provide great advertising solutions assisting them with their marketing needs,” Mackenzie said.

Good Local’s editorial is headed by Roy Pilott and includes highly experienced journalists Viv Posselt and Mary Anne Gill.

“We see a strong future for community newspapers, and will continue to stand up and be voice for our communities we serve,” Mackenzie said.

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Te Awamutu is proving to be full of people out and about having fun in the summer sun. Among them on Tuesday was four-old Shaya Stanton, pictured on the seesaw seat at the playground next to Selwyn Lane’s Livingstone Aquatics Centre. After stopping for a quick photo for The News, she and her dolly - Doc McStuffins - headed off to get some ice cream with mum, Madelyn.

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Cyanobacterial levels at Lake Ngā Roto are still at a level which represent a health risk to the public. The predominant cyanobacterial species present is a type that is known to produce toxins and can cause serious illness.

The cyanobacterial bloom extends to most parts of the lake and toxins can trigger asthma, hayfever, skin rashes and stomach upsets.

Te Whatu Ora Health Waikato “strongly” advises against water-based activities on the lake. See: Jade sets a Maadi target, page 9.

Rates: where to now for council?

Finance staff will present a revised budget at a council workshop on January 30.

Councillors will look again at capital heavy projects in Cambridge - the Town Hall upgrade, new library/ community hub and Water Tower - and district-wide the Te Ara Wai land wars museum in Te Awamutu and recycling.

St Pierre said at one of the council workshops last month that Cambridge featured too heavily among the projects. “It’s a little bit skewed,” she said.

Mayor Susan O’Regan said at the same workshop she was concerned Waipā had too many big projects on go.

“I’m anxious in the climate we are in financially… I just want us to bear in mind that is where those dollars are falling currently,” said O’Regan, who favoured pushing the new Cambridge library/community project out further.

Councillors will drill down into other costs such as community grants and funding of external organisations.

Costs for Cambridge’s new $105 million wastewater treatment – due to be up and running by 2026 - will come back to council.

Waikato Regional Council put stringent conditions in place when it granted a 35-year

resource consent for the plant last year.

There could be thousands of dollars in savings from Local Government Minister Simeon Brown’s announcement council’s consultation documents will not have to be audited.

Waipā would look to “peer review” instead using what it says would be from a qualified and credible third party.

But that is at odds with a warning from Auditor-General John Ryan last year that there is a lack of transparency in some councils’ finances.

Waikato Chamber of Commerce chief executive Don Good said he would look

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closely at what Waikato councils would settle on for their rates and which “pet projects” would be dumped in favour of core functions.

Ratepayers should be asking what led to double digit rate increases and which decisions “led to this state of affairs and who authorised the overspending.”

Could it be an issue of governance, he asked members last week.

“For voters, fiscal prudence and hard decision-making will be among the key performance indicators for our local politicians over the next two years.”

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Tuia leaders

Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan is on the lookout for another aspiring young Māori leader to join her Tuia programme. Te Awamutu’s Maude Rewha came under O’Regan’s wing last year and came a long way. Candidates must be between 18 and 25 and be available for the first wananga at Te Kuiti Pā from March 1 to 3.

Dam road shut

Mercury contractors closed the Karāpiro Dam Road a week before scheduled on Sunday due to unexpected additional critical work on the refurbishment of a penstock unit. The road was to have been open during the annual Waka Ama championships on the lake but Mercury decided it was best to close it to keep people and the community safe.

Waka Ama organisers were told of the late change, the company said.

Traditional support from ACC

ACC is providing rongoā Māori – traditional Māori healing - at this week’s national Waka Ama championships.

Its partnership with Waka Ama is part of a strategy, Huakina Te Rā, which has the vision of Tōnui Ake Nei – A Thriving Aotearoa.

So the thousands of competitors at this week’s event at Lake Karāpiro have access to the biggest tent on site, a whānau zone where they can get a traditional ACC health message.

Rongoā Māori includes herbal remedies, physical therapies and spiritual healing.

Māori are twice as likely to suffer a serious

injury than non-Māori, but 34 percent less likely to make an ACC claim. Similarly, Māori clients generally account for 12 percent of new claims but account for 16.7 percent of the population.

The agency wants to balance those figures up and has made efforts to lift its profile at Karāpiro.

About seven in 10 competitors in Waka Ama events are Māori or Pasifika and this week’s event is the biggest of its kind.

“Waka Ama as an event is truly unique,” ACC chief executive Lara Collins said. “In the sense that multiple generations of one whānau can compete at the same event, from tamariki through

to kaumātua, that’s what makes Waka Ama – mā te katoa, mō āke tonu (for all, for life).

Deputy chief executive – Māori Tumuaki Whakarae Renata Blair (Ngāti Whātua Ōrakei) said ACC was focussed on providing a better service to whānau Māori and Māori communities.

If ACC has agreed to provide support for an injury, claimants can request rongoā Māori as part of their rehabilitation.

Rongoā Māori claim volumes more than doubled in the 12 months to November 2023 to 5649. Rongoā services are also being accessed by 59 percent of all clients.

Out on the water

Kerbside recycling

A standardised collections system for recyclable products will be introduced across the country from February 1. Plastics marked 1, 2 and 5 will be recycled along with ice cream containers, some food trays and plastic bottles – while plastics marked 3,4 6 and 7 and containers for biscuits, bottle lids, pottles and soft plastic bags will go into the rubbish bin.

Construction begins

A new roundabout is underway in Kihikihi at Whitmore and Oliver streets as part of the $8.04 million Te Ara Rimu-Kihihiki pathway project. Whitmore St is closed from Whitaker to Dick St with a detour in place. The pathway is part of transport agency Waka Kotahi’s $17.4 million investment in the district from the Climate Emergency Response fund offering more transport choice. The other work is in Cambridge.

Mighty River Domain at Lake Karāpiro has been a hive of activity as the 2024 Waka Ama Sprint Nationals progress. The week-long event, in its 34th year, is the largest event on Lake Karāpiro’s annual sporting calendar and the biggest waka ama event. It attracts paddlers from all over New Zealand and offshore and is expected to inject millions into the Waikato economy. More than 3000 paddlers – 500 up on 2023 – will be watched by up to 12,000 spectators daily during the course of the event’s nearly 300 races. More than 500 paddlers this year are younger than 10. Junior paddlers were the first to compete on Sunday, and pictured is competitors in one of the day’s final races as they head over the finish line. Photo: Jeremy Smith

John, a man of many words

By Jeremy Smith

John Herbert has commentated on so many races he’s been called the voice of waka ama.

The Waka Ama National Sprint Championships head announcer has only missed two years in the event’s 34-year history, calling “thousands” of races in that time.

He missed one when he shifted to Australia about 12 years ago, the other was because of covid-enforced restrictions in 2021.

He now flies back from Perth each year to lend his voice to the championships.

“I’ve lost count of how many races it is now,” John said when speaking to The News from the commentary booth on Sunday.

“But it’s an incredible job. If the

racing gets exciting, I can’t help but get excited too and let loose.

“People often chuckle about how much they hear that in my voice.”

This week, as the 2024 national championships unfold at Lake Karāpiro, there are more than 300 races to add to John’s commentary resume.

He has a team of eight commentators around him to share the race calling load.

“It’s absolutely teamwork these days, I couldn’t do it without them.”

John first started paddling competitively in 1988 for Nga Hoe Horo o Pawarenga Outrigger Canoe Club in Northland.

It was one of only three waka ama clubs in New Zealand – but the sport was booming when he commentated at the nationals in

1992.

More than 3000 paddlers from around New Zealand and offshore are expected at this week’s nationals.

From his vantage point, the commentary booth at the “world class” Lake Karāpiro, he can only remember two dead heat finishes during his time at the nationals.

“And that’s incredible, because these we have cameras on the start line capable of a thousand frames a second.”

John’s commentary journey has taken him worldwide.

One highlight among likely hundreds, he said, was commentating during the International Va’a Federation sprint championship, held at Dorney Lake in Windsor, England in 2022.

Head announcer John Herbert has called races at all but two of the past 34 Waka Ama National Sprint Championships. Photo: Jeremy Smith

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Why I say usually

By Janine Krippner

Lava flows usually don’t kill people, but they do inflict significant damage infrastructure and homes.

Being the focus of my research as I get into the new year, this is adding to my work on how the La Palma eruption impacted local communities and applying those lessons to Auckland.

On the surface we see buildings that are bulldozed, burned, or buried. Under the surface there are homes, livelihoods, communities, and memories. Beyond the obvious impacts to buildings is the damage to infrastructure. Responding to an eruption requires a range of utilities providers to work with information given by emergency managers and volcano monitoring agencies.

Volcanologists have to figure out important details so that people can make critical decisions.

Measuring a disaster by fatalities alone ignores the immense loss and trauma associated with these events. We can usually outwalk lava flows - but what happens when we can’t?

Nyiragongo is a volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that has an active summit lava lake, where very hot and fluid lava is cycling up and down within the vent, maintaining its fluid form. Goma, the capital of the North Kivu province, is about 15 km away. In 1977, when the population was around 50,000, an eruption of rapid lava flows from the lava lake draining down through fractures in the flank covered 16-20 square kilometres in a couple of hours, killing around 75 people.

On January 17, 2002, the ongoing eruption changed again. Lava began to extrude

from a large system of fractures across 10km on the southern flank, draining the lava lake.

Two lava flows entered communities, destroying 15 per cent of the city and leaving around 120,000 people homeless by the next day and ultimately up to 150 people died. Another similar event in 2021 also resulted in fatalities These are some of the few eruptions where lava flows have directly caused fatalities.

Those lava flows moved at speeds of tens of km/hour with the composition of the lava being a controlling factor here. This particular volcano produces magma (below ground) or lava (above ground) that has very low amounts of silica or SiO2. Generally, the higher the SiO2, the stickier or more viscous the magma/lava is, so these low contents mean it can flow faster.

When I talk about any hazard there is pretty much always a “usually” in my description. There are always those examples of when a volcano did something different, something unexpected, something disastrous. Those times have come with many harsh and painful lessons. It is our responsibility as volcanologists to take all of these into account to determine if they could happen at a given location, and to keep all the possible options in our minds as we focus in on which more likely hazards people should prepare for.

For just one word, “usually” holds within it these powerful stories, reminders to be mindful of all the possibilities and to be adaptable during an evolving situation.

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History in our bones

By Norris Hall

Undoubtedly many readers will have read in local media, or heard through word of mouth, of a time consuming yet productive project detailing the history of various buildings and businesses in Te Awamutu’s central business district of times gone by.

This worthwhile endeavour, spearheaded by local historian, Alan Hall (no relation I’m sorry to say), and genealogy enthusiast Sandra Metcalfe, will culminate in a midyear publication of a detailed history of retail and mercantile effort and vision. It will be something which long-time residents, amateur historians and others will take pride in; as well as benefitting from the information so carefully and industriously assembled, a reference for the future of the past. Full marks go to those who have taken the time and energy in recording this uniquely important legacy for posterity.

Our district of Waipa is steeped in history, some of it not so good, while other parts record the development of the area in the past – local politicians, farmers and business owners. The historic churches of St. John’s in the cradle of Te Awamutu, and St Paul’s in the fertile rural Rangiaowhia area are both reminders of our shared heritage. Some of us may have ancestors who were those original settlers and shopkeepers, soldiers and others.

Family history is important in our lives, although to some it may be as dry as dust and of no significance. That very personal history informs us, through the lives of previous generations, of who we are, what we are, where we come from, and how we are shaped in our respective lives by other forces at work.

Ideally, and hopefully, it also engenders

within us family pride, a knowledge of geography in addition to providing a basis for onward and beneficial personal development.

History on occasion can also be a harsh teacher if we do not learn from the past.

“Where do we come from?” is a, if not the, defining question that we may be called upon to face and consider.

Very much like our Māori residents and citizens who place great importance to their family lineage, so too do the Jewish people.

That acquired and treasured knowledge gives them a special sense of belonging, of family and extended kinship, and of cultural and ethnic heritage.

Both Matthew and Luke, as they wrote their respective Gospels, began their offerings by establishing the credentials of their one central focus, Jesus of Nazareth, by providing his genealogical lineages. For Matthew, it was paramount since he was writing for a principally Jewish reading audience. And for Luke, from a historical viewpoint. By doing so, they set the stage as it were for what was to follow, giving a background to the persona and ministry and teachings of that one influential individual.

Hopefully the soon-to-be published account of one part of Te Awamutu’s history and progress will inspire many of us to examine our own unique and respective heritages, to trace our own ancestral lineages, if not to emphasise how and where we belong and how family history has shaped us to be what we are today.

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Change at top for rūnanga

By Jeremy Smith

One of the first Māori to serve on a Waipā District Council committee has stood down as Ngāti Apakura Rūnanga Trust chair.

A statement on the trust’s website confirmed Bill Harris resigned at the end of November - just weeks out from 160th Rangiaowhia commemorations being planned next month.

“Trustees have met,” the statement said, “and appointed a new executive committee.

“Orrin Kapua will step up as chair, George Griggs has accepted the role as deputy chair and Julia Martin is continuing as financial officer”.

Calls by The News to both Kapua and Harris for comment were not immediately returned on Monday.

Griggs though told The News it was a privilege to be chosen for his new role At the same time Harris resigned as chair, trust secretary Erina Stockman resigned as trust secretary.

The trust statement said both resignations had been accepted “with great reluctance”.

“We gratefully acknowledge the long commitment through leadership and hard work both have given. They can take pride in their roles.”

Some “wonderful milestones” had been achieved during Harris and Stockman’s tenure, the statement said, including

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negotiations with Te Arawhiti on land at 61 Rangiaowhia Rd which resulted in it being returned to the iwi.

Some of the new executive’s key priorities, the trust statement said, are to work with trustees to deliver on Ngāti Apakura Rūnanga Trust’s 10-year strategic plan and the 160th commemorations at Rangiaowhia.

On February 21, 1864, British soldiers attacked Rangiaowhia village, four kilometres east of Te Awamutu. At that time the community had been an industrious centre of agriculture – exporting food around the country as well as to Australia.

Harris has been a driving force behind the resurrection of the Alpha

Hotel in Kihikihi, a move helped greatly by the benevolence of its owner, former politician Arthur Anae who is based in Auckland.

The project has seen the Alpha given a new lease on life through a steady as she goes work project which ultimately aims to turn the hub into a community centre.

In August, Harris was named as one of three mana whenua Te Kanohi representatives on the Waipā District Council. He sits on the Strategic Planning and Policy Committee.

Te Kanohi representatives sit on council’s Strategic Planning and Policy, Service Delivery, Finance and Corporate and Regulatory committees. Each has voting rights on their committee.

Harris – who is of Ngāti Apakura, Ngāti Maniapoto and Pare Te Kawa descent - has previously also been on council’s Service Delivery Committee.

Harris has stood twice for election to the council’s Māori ward seat.

There is little doubt that during the February 21, 1864 attack at Rangiaowhia, soldiers shot Māori who attempted to surrender – and later returned to loot the village.

Ngāti Apakura and Ngāti Hinetu say terrified villagers fled, a few shot at the troops, and some sheltered in prayer houses.

Some in those houses were gunned down as they tried to get out of the building when it began to burn down and at least seven died inside.

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Waka ama boost for Waipā

By Jeremy Smith

Accommodation providers district wide are reported to be “packed” as a consequence of Waipa hosting the national Waka Ama Sprint Nationals at Karāpiro.

The event, which started on Sunday, has attracted almost 3300 competitors – aged five to 83 - from more than 70 clubs. About 12,000 spectators will be at Karāpiro watching.

Mighty River Domain site manager Liz Stolwyk said eftpos transaction data from Waipā in previous years showed the event contributes at least $6 million to the region’s economy.

She expects that figure to be higher this year.

A team of 12 is working across 16-hour days this week at the domain – and the event has almost 200 volunteers.

“This week, halls, marae, sports clubs and a wide range of accommodation providers are all fully booked – it’s fantastic opportunity for our district to be showcased and I hope we roll out the red carpet for the many thousands of visitors expected,” Stolwyk said.

Waka Ama New Zealand CEO Lara Collins told The News waka ama is the fastest growing water sport in New Zealand and organisers love returning to Lake Karāpiro each year.

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Thousands of youngsters are preparing to check off a milestone in coming weeks – the first day of school.

Among them are two Te Awamutu friends Brax Morris and Emlyn Richards, who attended Learning Links Childcare together – and are preparing their Batman and Spiderman backpacks In Brax’ case he reckons he knows what the most important item on the ‘to do’ list is as school preparations ramp up – a Batman backpack.

And by that metric, it’s job done.

Mum Sam though isn’t so sure – there’s still the school uniform and required stationery to collect next week, before Brax starts at Te Awamutu Primary School at the end of the month.

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“It will be fun,” Brax said.

Brax’ sister, eight-year-old Ella, is also looking forward to another year at Pokuru School.

In Kihikihi, Emlyn is delighted to have got his new uniform, which he proudly displayed for The News.

While mum Shayna said Emlyn has “mixed feelings” ahead of term 1, there is a theme developing which she reckons will help make the transition easier – a Spiderman backpack, lunch box and drink bottle.

“What can I say, he just loves all things Spiderman,” Shayna said.

Another positive is the fact Emlyn will join his brother, eight-year-old Desmond, at Kihikihi School.

“It is a great environment and the fact it’s nice and close to us makes it really helpful.”

Meanwhile, 2023 marked the completion of Te Awamutu College’s first year under an enrolment scheme, which appears to have run smoothly.

Soon after college students return, they can expect to make use of the newly completed multipurpose sports complex.

There were delays in opening the complex, which was originally slated for completion in October.

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Health New Zealand’s chief clinical advisor Is encouraging people to look only at “trusted sources of information” when trying to find answers to health questions.

Sharon Sime, Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Chief Clinical Advisor Health Protection - was responding to questions form The News about a pre-Christmas post on the New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science website which asked if the government was using a measles outbreak to create a “fear for compliance” again.

The website referred to the Covid vaccination programme as a “terrible three year jabicide”.

It was responding to a statement from health minister Shane Reti who reported plans were in place for a response to an outbreak, most likely measles, over a defined period – December 23 to January 7.

The planning was in place – but in fact there have been no new measles cases reported in New Zealand since November.

“Misinformation can spread very easily in

a range of different ways, such as through social media, websites, pamphlets, posters and letterbox drops, and even via television, radio and print,” Sime told The News.

“One of the best ways to stop misinformation spreading is by only reading official sources… we all have a responsibility to do this and if people see any examples of misinformation about health issues… we encourage them to report it.

The website said a vaccine will decrease the chance of catching measles, but that it used to be called a ‘childhood disease’ until there was a vaccine to sell “and then it became a serious, highly contagious, lifethreatening disease”.

A measles epidemic in 2019 infected almost 2200 people in New Zealand and resulted in two deaths.

In Samoa where 5700 people caught the disease, 83 died. At that time vaccinations rates there had dropped to under 35 per cent - three months later it was up to about 94 per cent.

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It’s Tyler to the rescue

By Roy Pilott

Te Awamutu College old boy, tanker driver Tyler Lindsay, spotted Elwin the kākāpō late at night.

Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari neighbours are being offered “aversion training’ for their dogs – as part of the project to establish the North Island’s first breeding colony for over a century.

Community support for the sanctuary has been a key to its success – and thanks to the publicity it generates, one of its taonga is back in safe hands after hatching an escape plan.

Since being moved from the bottom of the South Island, the colony of male kākāpō have been working out ways to breach the perimeter fence on Maungatautari. Several have managed it, putting themselves in danger from dogs – and vehicles.

Elwin the kākāpō breached the security fence on the mountain last week – and was found thanks to an eagle eyed tanker driver.

“At first I thought it was a turkey,” Tyler Lindsay told the News It was after 1.30am and he was on his Fonterra milk pick up in Scott Rd when he rounded a bend to see Elwyn in the process of crossing the road.

Lindsay was thankful his

speed was slow enough at the time to stop. He got out of his vehicle, but Elwin had already gone bush.

“It took me a second to work it out because I’ve never seen a kākāpō, but I have come across posts about them escaping – that’s what made me think it was one.”

He alerted the department of conversation hotline and emailed Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari.

The conversation on the hotline clearly took the call centre by surprise – “she said it has to be a kea – but I explained the big green parrot had come out of Maungatautari and she realised what had happened.”

Rangers found Elwin, none the worse for his outing.

Tyler, 32, a former Te Awamutu College student, lives in Rukuhia and works as a tanker driver and contract slaughterman.

Ten kākāpō were originally released on the maunga, but since the escapes three have been returned to the South Island.

A media release from Sanctuary Mountain applauded Tyler Lindsay’s help and noted “we have been recently reminded that

Kākāpō Elwin.

conservation is and must be a community effort.”

“Trialling new habitat for kākāpō is an important step in the wider kākāpō recovery programme and we are grateful for the ongoing collaboration between the Kākāpō Recovery team, Ngāi Tahu, Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari and iwi and the vigilance of our community.”

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Now that work could see dogs in the area trained to be part of the caring programme too.

“For residents surrounding Maungatautari, we are in the process of contacting you and offering the opportunity for dogs to have kākāpō aversion training as this is considered an area of risk,” the media release added.

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A welcome spot of rain

By Jeremy Smith

Rain on Monday was the first a Parawera dairy farmer has seen this month – now consistency will be key to making further in roads towards combating a hot, dry summer.

“Up until just before Christmas, we were really pleased with the regular rainfall we’d been getting.

“And, some rain on Christmas Day was a fabulous Christmas present too,” Jennie Macky said.

Jennie and her husband

James have been farming at their 220 effective hectare property 15 kilometres southeast of Te Awamutu since 2008.

They became farm owners there in 2022 and have about 1000 cows.

A second smaller farm the Mackys lease in Kihikihi is about 74 effective hectares.

Rain gauge data at the Macky’s Parawera property shows more than 50mm of rain fell in October, November and December respectively.

At last check on Monday,

roughly 10mm of rain had fallen.

There are times though, Jennie said, when she and James can watch rain falling in nearby areas such as Pirongia from their property, but it ends up bypassing them.

“Given the high heat we’ve been having, and the wind, any moisture dries up very quickly.

“We’re not necessarily after big downpours. Rather, consistent, separate rainfall events of anything just over 10mm are what really make a cumulative difference.”

Beer O'Clock

Another beer, please It’s been a long time between beers.

The last edition of this column ran before the Covid lockdown.

“I’ll get it up and running soon,” I have regularly told Gary and David between beers.

You might recall the column came about because David Mackenzie, the publisher of Good Local Media – and Gary Bulling, the man who designs and lays out the pages in the Cambridge News and Te Awamutu News – enjoy discussing the pros and cons of a good ale once the papers have been put to bed.

No claims to fame of expertise, we just like a good beer.

So, at our end of year gathering, Gary’s contribution was enough to motivate me.

Gary arrived with a six pack of a one-off run of low carb Epic ales. Beers that no longer exist

The Three Beers – David, Roy and Gary

from a brewer who stopped brewing. What’s more, it was called Beer O’Clock.

This was a special run for the Trade Tested crowd – at the same time Epic had it under the Blue brand. It surprises me that more companies do not get special runs of beer made with their logo attached as gifts.

It surprised me even more to hear of the demise of Epic – liquidation was announced in July - was a real shame – they produced great beers constantly.

This one might not be as memorable as some which were available at the Tap Room in Nelson St – but it was a nice drop and an even better conversation piece. And those low carb numbers are getting popular.

In August it was announced the Epic Beer had been bought by the Russell Group and Hancocks Group - so fingers crossed, we will see the brand on shelves again.

In the meantime, I’ll be reporting on what’s being sampled around me – I might even look at a zero alcohol wine and some offerings from the Williams Warn home brewing world.

Jennie, an experienced dairy vet, told The News there are two key considerations she has been telling clients to be aware of at this time of year.

And they are foremost in her mind on farm too.

Those are the importance of avoiding heat stress on cows – the Mackys have sprinklers installed in their cow shed yards to this end – and having an awareness of any possible increases in “excessive” spores which cause facial eczema in light of this week’s rain.

Facial eczema spores are fungal spores in the pasture.

They produce a toxin which damages a cow’s liver and can cause skin irritation.

Cows which have facial eczema often display lower milk production than cows which don’t, and it can sometimes result in death.

And, night temperature above 12 degrees Celsius, coupled with rainfall, can result in high humidity – potentially giving rise to rapid spore count increases.

“That obviously means now is a good time to start monitoring spore counts,” Jennie said.

Jennie Macky

Two unfortunate accidents

By Meghan Hawkes

Edward Brennan was very cold having just come off guard at the Armed Constabulary camp at Kihikihi on a June morning in 1873.

To warm himself he began skylarking about with John Verner, wrestling with him in fun.

But John, who had been cutting tobacco, had a penknife in his hand and when Edward fell forward, he was stabbed in the heart and died within minutes.

Edward, 29, had formerly belonged to the 18th Regiment Royal Irish, nicknamed Paddy’s Blackguards, which came to New Zealand in 1863. The Regiment was formed mainly of volunteers from the Irish Militia and was soon involved in skirmishes in Drury and surrounding areas of the North Waikato. Paddy’s Blackguards were the last regiment to leave New Zealand, in 1870, although some, like Edward, stayed and became part of the Armed Constabulary.

Edward and John were inseparable friends and John was greatly depressed by the loss of his mate. Great sympathy was felt for him. An inquest absolved him of any blame and returned a verdict of accidental death.

Edward was buried at Hairini Catholic cemetery.

While danger was ever present on the battlefields, for these men it could also lurk within the relatively safe confines of daily life.

Ten years after Edward’s ‘melancholy accident’, Trooper James Neill, a bandsman in the Waikato cavalry corps, was marking the butts - mounds of earth on which targets are mounted - at the Te Awamutu rifle range.

The firing party consisted of seven men, and after one trooper missed the target, Bandsman Charles Alexander prepared to fire. No danger disc was visible and as it was unusual for the marker to leave the butts after a missed shot, he was assumed to be safely out of the way. After a short pause Charles

Alexander fired. As soon as he did, he saw James Neill fall forward. He had been shot through the right shoulder.

No one had seen him and no danger flag was waved.

The firing party ran up to the target, and discovered all three danger discs still inside the marker’s butt.

The bullet had struck James and was supposed to be lodged in the left lung, as no point of exit was visible. James told his father that, thinking that he might discover where the previous shot had struck, he was coming out of the butts with a danger disc in his hand and when he was shot this disc fell back into the marker’s butt. The 34-yearold said he blamed no one. James lingered for three days and was attended to by Dr Blundell for shock before a fatal rheumatic delirium set in.

The inquest investigation was a most searching one and found that the danger flag having been stolen from the butts, a disc was substituted as a danger signal. The Coroner directed the attention of the jury to the definition of homicide by misfortune, pointing out that the evidence showed that the man who fired the fatal shot was doing a lawful act, and had no intention to hurt any person.

A verdict of accidental death was returned, and a rider added that no firing should be conducted without danger flags. Charles Alexander was held blameless. James was buried at Rangiaowhia cemetery with military honours.

In a curious coincidence his father, himself a member of the corps, had been accidentally shot at target practice some time before.

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Jade sets a Maadi target

By Jeremy Smith

Sitting in the skiff on Sunday, an excited Jade Hood is all smiles.

The 12-year-old Pirongia School student is about to go for her first doubles row – under the watchful eye of the experienced Tony Edmondson.

The News was there as the pair – both Te Awamutu Rowing Club members - set out for the training row on Lake Ngā Roto on Sunday.

“Her coaches have already told her she’s better than I was, and I’m absolutely fine with that,” mum Claire says as the pair depart.

Jade took up rowing barely four months ago in September, likely encouraged by the fact her mum – a former competitive swimmer - is already a masters rower with the Te Awamutu club.

Claire reckons Jade, who will attend Te Awamutu College next year, has already set her rowing sights high.

“She does lots of other sports at the moment, but I’m sure rowing is the sport she will stick with most in the long term.”

Jade has already mentioned wanting to compete at the Maadi Cup – New Zealand, and the Southern Hemisphere’s, ultimate secondary schools rowing event.

Last year, more than 2000 rowers competed in over 400 races across 52 events at Lake Karāpiro. All told, 156 medals were won by 49 schools.

And, when she’s eligible, Jade wants to be one of those future winners.

Other Te Awamutu Rowing Club members out for an early morning training session on Sunday included Aaron and Pip Leppard, who row as a mixed double.

The pair are among 12 Te Awamutu club rowers – eight women and four men - preparing to compete at this weekend’s masters regatta, the 2024 Dewar Shield Blue Lake Regatta held on Rotorua’s Lake Tikitapu, or Blue Lake.

Te Awamutu Rowing Club regatta secretary Ann Edmondson said this weekend’s event will be a good gauge ahead of other events which are on the club’s competitive radar - including the North Island Rowing Club championships at the end of the month, and next month’s New Zealand Rowing Championships.

Club members are being extra vigilant to clean and wipe down rowing skiffs after each training session in light of a public health warning in November following a significant increase in the lake’s cyanobacterial levels.

The cyanobacterial species present produces toxins which can cause serious illness.

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TALKING ECONOMICS

Letters…

No confidence

In my opinion, the extortionately high proposed rates increases are neither welcome nor acceptable, nor are Waipā District Council’s feeble excuses why there is a need for massive increases in these austere times.

Comparing us to other broke/broken councils - is this the new benchmark standard? Why compare us to, say, Hamilton with their proposed 25% increase in rates?

Simply, inexperience, incapable, unable to deliver, council staff and councillors are to blame for this travesty, who have now made the district financially unsustainable - these are not my words but the council’s own words as per their ‘Audit & Risk Reports’ - the same repetitive reports being ignored by our leadership. Their actions clearly demonstrate they are not fit for purpose to administer or financially manage the district – yet willing to continue spending up large, fly to France and hold a lavish party on our tab.

Council is ignoring, nor adverting, nor planning for these known events post Covid, actions considered negligent, just as ignoring expert warnings and advice from financial experts and leading economists on repeated occasions, instead racking up more debt on unnecessary nice to haves.

When will this madness stop? When our annual rates bill is a staggering unsustainable, unaffordable $5000 or $10,000?

I have no confidence in our council, or elected council. People should voice frustration and concerns if they are not

happy with the current regime and neglected district. (Abridged) Hayden Woods Te Awamutu

Close call

If you were one of the four cyclists on State Highway 3 near the Te Rahu turnoff at approximately 12.15pm on January 13 travelling north, then you need to have a sharp look at your decision making. What you did beggars belief. Putting your hands out to the right to signal you were moving that way from the left hand side of the road to the middle of the road, which is also dangerous, might be okay in the confines of town but on a highway where cars are doing 100 kms an hour it is suicide.

Luckily only three of you proceeded and the fourth stayed put. If that person had also gone, I would have had nowhere to go but through one or all of you. If I had been a few seconds earlier things could have had a tragic outcome.

Heather Gibbs RD3 Hamilton

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Where do we start?

I decided to write my first column for 2024 about the big economic problems New Zealand faces. There are many, and some go beyond big – they are enormous.

None have arisen suddenly they have been slowly building up, sometimes for decades.

Shocks from the rest of the world play only a very small part in any of them. We have succeeded in creating these enormous problems ourselves. I will look briefly at four of the biggest problems.

The infrastructure deficit: almost every day we read stories about infrastructure deficits in important sectors: roads, water pipes, hospitals, sewage pipes.

This week saw a story on the Department of Conservation.

They have an estimated $300 million of deferred maintenance.

This may force them to close tracks or huts or sell off conservation assets.

Infrastructure NZ’s chief estimated recently that our total infrastructure deficit was around $200 billion.

Our annual GDP is around $400 billion so our infrastructure deficit is now 50% of our GDP. It has taken decades of underinvestment to reach this level. It will take decades to solve.

What worries me is that there doesn’t seem to be any mechanism in New Zealand

By Peter Nicholl

for solving it. We have no medium- or long-term planning processes. The debate on these issues often involves central and local government arguing whose responsibility the investment is or saying “we can’t afford the investment”. Not making these types of investments is usually a classic case of false economy.

The problem won’t go away and delay is almost sure to make it more expensive.

A bloated and inefficient public service: the number of people on the public payroll (staff and consultants) has risen substantially in recent years.

But citizens’ and businesses’ satisfaction with the performance of the sector has fallen substantially. The sector seems to focus on reports and advertising campaigns rather than on final outputs and outcomes. People argue about the effectiveness and fairness of the raft of reforms that were labelled Rogernomics in the late 1980s. But one element of those reforms that I don’t think should be argued about was the introduction of strong performance criteria and monitoring systems throughout the public sector.

At that time, New Zealand was regarded as the world leader in this area. I have no idea what performance criteria and monitoring systems are being used in the public service today.

Whatever they are (and I am hoping a system does exist) they don’t seem to be producing effective performance.

Inflation and high prices: the inflation beast that central banks created and fed with their low interest rate policies has at least stopped growing. But it hasn’t yet been tamed and I think New Zealand has a bigger problem in this area.

We have become a high price economy in almost all areas.

Excess regulation, with little or no cost-benefit applied, low productivity and weak enforcement of competition laws all play a role.

Falling educational standards: some may say this isn’t an economic issue. But if our educational standards continue to fall, there will undoubtedly be economic consequences. The country will continue to get relatively poorer.

That’s what we have been doing for the last 30 years or more. Our GDP per head is now the 52nd highest amongst developed countries. I am old enough to remember when we were fourth.

Unless the above problems start to be addressed, we will continue to slip further. Welcome to 2024.

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She gets her wish when the enigmatic Lucy invites her to join two other girls in a shared house for their second year. But as Margot gets to know the girls, she begins to realise that something’s off about Lucy, she’s not quite what she seems.

Six months later, Lucy is missing and a boy from the frat house next door is dead, leaving Margot in the wake of the investigation. But as the police continue to dig, they realise Lucy isn’t the only one with secrets.

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2 shallots, diced 1/2 cup risotto rice 2 cloves garlic, crushed 1 teaspoon finely grated root ginger 2 1/2 cups well flavoured fish stock, boiling Topping: 25g butter 2 cloves garlic crushed 1/2 green capsicum, diced 1 rasher bacon, diced 1 small smoked chorizo, thinly sliced 200g squid rings, halved if large 2 tomatoes, diced 2 teaspoons Asian-style sesame oil Heat the peanut oil in a non-stick frying pan. Sauté the shallots, until softened. Stir in the rice until coated in the oil. Add the garlic and root ginger. Stir in about a half cup of the fish stock.

Stir until the rice has absorbed the fish stock. Repeat this procedure using a half cup of boiling stock each time, until the rice is just cooked.

Meanwhile, melt the butter for the topping in a heavy pan.

Add the garlic, green capsicum, bacon and chorizo. Stir-fry until the bacon is just cooked. Add the squid rings and stir-fry for 1 minute. Add the tomatoes and sesame oil. Cover and remove from the heat. Stand for 2-3 minutes until the squid is cooked. Place the rice in shallow bowls and top with the squid mixture. Serves 2.

SEAFOOD SALAD WITH LIME DRESSING 300g skinned and boned cooked fish eg: snapper, hoki, monk fish and mussels, squid, prawns or crayfish 1 carrot, julienned 1 cup each: mung bean sprouts, watercress 2 cups mesclun salad leaves Lime Dressing: finely grated rind 1 lime, makrut (kaffir) lime preferably) 1/4 cup fresh lime juice 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 1 teaspoon each: Dijon-style mustard, caster sugar freshly ground salt and pepper to taste Cut the cooked seafood into bite-sized portions.

Combine the carrot, sprouts, watercress and salad leaves in a large bowl.

Whisk the ingredients for the dressing, until the sugar is dissolved. Toss the salad ingredients with the dressing.

Stack the seafood and salad onto serving plates. Serves 4 as a starter or 2 as a main.

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