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A fine winters day presented itself for the 25th anniversary match for the New Zealand Parliamentary Rugby team against the Centurions. The match was held over the weekend at William Jones Park Wainuiomata and attracted a massive crowd, with some keen on shaking the hand of Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield.

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Wainuiomata Rugby club supporter Des Smith took the opportunity to shake Dr Ashley Bloomfield’s hand during the 25th Parliament rugby match on Saturday.

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Sports stars abound Continued from page 1 The annual parliamentary rugby match pits a New Zealand parliamentary rugby team against a Centurions team. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield played in the Centurions team alongside former All Blacks Stephen Bachop and Jason Eaton, while former opposition health spokesperson Michael Woodhouse represented the Parliamentary team.

He was joined by former All Black Piri Weepu, his brother, former league player Billy Weepu, and former Blues and Hurricanes player Ofisa Tonu’u to name a few.

Speaker of the house and local, Trevor Mallard, was the team’s manager and rugby

commentator Ken Laban the waterboy.

Former All Black captain Andy Leslie and player Earle Kirton coached.

The original NZ PRT played a Wainuiomata side at their very first game in 1995.

With a diverse level of skills among the of former rugby and league stars in both lineups, the rules were altered to level the playing field. Among them, players were not allowed to run for more than 15 metres before offloading the ball, and there was no jumping at lineouts.

The Centurions got out to a healthy 14-0 lead, with tries to Bloomfield and Waldrom, before the Parliamentary XV hit back through William Crowe and Richard Potton to close the Parliament staff security member Mark Barker makes it across the line for the Parliamentary All Blacks. Photo: Gerald Rillstone gap to a 14-10 score line.

High end manufacturing needed Chair of the National Maori Authority and Executive Director of the New Zealand Maori Council, Matthew Tukaki, has urged all political parties to come out with a policy that will see the return of a high end and high production manufacturing sector. Tukaki has said that “for decades now we have seen the manufacturing sector take a significant hit in favour of cheap imports and that has put our economy at risk”.

“Covid19 has taught us a very important lesson that unless we re-tool and re-think our focus on manufacturing our economy and own domestic needs will continue to be under pressure.

A report last year also showed just how much of an impact the decline of manufacturing had on small town and city New Zealand.

T he nu mber of p eople employed in manufacturing between 1976 and 2013 de-

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clined from 25 per cent of the workforce to just 10 per cent and you just need to look at places such as Upper Hutt to see that with the closure of Dunlops. The number of people working in Tokoroa dropped by 44 per cent between 1976 and 2013, Greymouth by 7 per cent, Whanganui by 5 per cent and Oamaru by 2 per cent. Levin experienced no growth and Invercargill lifted just 1 per cent.” Tukaki says.

“And the impacts on Maori have been significant. Maori traditionally held jobs in the blue collar sector that were rich in trades and apprenticeships and that’s what we must focus our energy on – job creation in the regions and small town New Zealand will fall off the back of a reinvigoration of the trades sector but more than that, by doing so we add to securing our domestic consumption needs.” he says.

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inbrief news Banking sector embraces Living Wage The banks have become New Zealand’s first Living Wage sector in New Zealand.

Seventeen banks have adopted the Living Wage as the minimum rate across the business for those who are directly employed and those who are contracted to deliver services on a regular and ongoing basis.

A spokesperson for Living Wage Movement Aotearoa NZ, Marlon Drake, said this is a milestone for the Movement that began with just ten, small to medium sized businesses, coming on board in 2014.

Westpac was the first bank to sign the license to become an accredited Living Wage Employer and since then the Bankers Association has led the way to ensure the whole sector meets this minimum standard, Marlon said.

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Volunteers get busy with planting some of the 2000 trees. Photo supplied.

Iwi celebrate partnership with planting day Greater Wellington Regional Council, Taranaki Whanui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika iwi, MIRO and other local volunteer groups have begun planting 2000 natives plants to celebrate eight years of partnership in the co-management of Parangarahu Lakes area.

The Taranaki Whanui planting day is an annual event at East Harbour Regional Park that brings iwi back in touch with their land, and acknowledges the various groups joint efforts in supporting the co-management of the lakes.

Greater Wellington councillor, Prue Lamason says, “This partnership between Greater Wellington Regional Council, Taranaki Whanui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika iwi, MIRO and other volunteers is fundamental to the wellbeing of the park.

“This nationally significant area is comprised of Lake Kohangapiripiri, Lake Kohangatera their associated wetlands and the surrounding land. This area is home to rare plant and animal species that rely on the unique ecology of the area,” she says.

The event opened with karakia, recognition of the extensive work accomplished, discussion of the future direction and much needed kai to provide energy for a day of planting.

Ropu Tiaki member, Vince Robertson says the annual Planting Day was a great opportunity for Taranaki Whanui to join up with Greater Wellington and MIRO, and connect with the Parangarahu Lakes.

“The co-management plan objectives of Ropu Tiaki are really brought to life at this event.

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This year was very special as there was a blessing ceremony for a commemorative plaque donated by Greater Wellington for the late Sam and June Jackson, esteemed Taranaki Whanui kaumatua who worked with Greater Wellington in this area over many years.”

MIRO’s local nursery has grown the 2000 native plants, which they have raised from seedlings. It is estimated that 500 plants were planted on the day with the remaining to be planted over the winter

Family Planning will receive $427,000 to help reduce wait times by increasing hours for existing staff, hiring new clinical and administrative staff, and other cost pressures. This is the largest cash injection in more than a decade.

Family Planning continues to deal with a patient-backlog created by a month of appointments that had to be postponed due to COVID lockdown, and fewer people seeking out primary healthcare and other sexual and reproductive health services during COVID-19 Levels 3 and 4.

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Choral group looking for new members For almost 45 years the Hutt City Choral group has been entertaining audiences but with numbers declining they are now singing out for new members.

The group has gathered members from Wainuiomata and the Hutt Valley and was initially led by well-know choir master John Knox.

Chairperson Prue McIvor says they currently have around 18 members but could accommodate more than double that number.

“We have had forty in the past and to get the membership up is part of the reason for our fundraising events,” she says.

Having fun and enjoying yourself is the main thing for people wanting to join and they don’t have to know how to read music she says.

Founding member Hazel Callow

was at the very first concert in 1975 and says the group grew from there.

“They had put a notice in the local rag looking for people to start a choir and we had a meeting and started singing that very night,” Hazel says.

Their first concert was held at the Wainuiomata Community Centre in 1975 and being the festive season they sang Christmas carols.

Hazel puts the falling in membership down to the fact it is not promoted as much in schools as it used to be.

“There are also a lot of other things available to people now, Sunday shopping, Saturday shopping, sport and the sorts of hours people are working,” she says.

The choir practices every Thursday 7:15 to 9:15 at the Saint Ste-

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Left: Prue McIvor and Hazel Collow set up for a movie night to raise funds for the choirPhoto: Gerald Rillstone phen’s Church in Wainuiomata.

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the Saint James Church.

Any funds raised are used to pay the musical director and accompanist and

for music and venue hire.

“We generally try to have six fundraisers for a year,” Prue says.

Wainuiomata welcomes wrestling This Saturday will see what is touted as the biggest wrestling event in the region for the last ten years.

After four successful years competing all around the globe, NIWA returns to New Zealand to take on his former mentor, Project Mayhem stablemate, Roddy Gunn.

What will happen when two of the fiercest, hard hitting competitors this country has ever seen lock horns in Wai-

nuiomata at Valiant Pro Level Up. The two former New Zealand Heavyweight Champions are no strangers to each other, competing up and down this country on the same and on opposite sides of the ring, however the NIWA Guts faces on August 1st will definitely not be the NIWA he remembers.

The event will take place this Saturday at Wainuiomata Intermediate 6:30 to 9:30.

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Ulalei Pua overpower Convent Old Girls By: Vaegaau Isaac Ulalei Pua were back to their exceptional best with an emphatic victory over Convent Old Girls Ma 83-47. Ulalei Pua led from start to finish dominating all facets of play.

A full court defensive effort from every player on the Ulalei Pua team put COG under immense pressure forcing the opposition into a myriad of errors.

It was a case of raining intercepts and deflections for not only the defensive unit of Lace Tangianau, Alofa Aberdein-Tapuai, Nykala Toheriri and Alicia Hina but the mid-courters Brittany Antipas, Mary Tomokino and Alicia Tomokino also chimed in with a few of their own.

Ulalei Pua capitalised on the turnovers with some beautiful and accurate long range shooting from goal attack Crystal Tomokino and goal shooter Sarah McLeod-Venu.

A feature of the game was the seamless rolling of the subs and smart decision-making by coach Alicia Colledge, positioning her players to increase the speed of attack and to amp up the power of the Ulalei Pua defence, allowing them to establish an unbeatable 44-23 lead at half time.

A stand out MVP performance by goal keep Alofa Aberdein-Tapuai contributed to the onslaught.

She played a smart game on defence using her fast feet, quick

positioning and acceleration to set up for an abundance of intercepts and deflections. Aberdein-Tapuai was able to box out the opposition at will, to pick up a bucketful of rebounds.

She was strongly supported by Lace Tangianau who played a flawless game at wing defence applying pressure on the Convent mid-courters, subsequently forcing passes that were intercepted by the Ulalei Pua circle defenders. On attack Tangianau brought the ball through court with confidence, continuously driving down the court to make herself available for the next pass.

Ulalei Pua’s new combinations are blossoming and the team are starting to hit their straps.

In the Senior 1 match, Ulalei Fuesina played the previously unbeaten Upper Hutt Rams Pango. Ulalei Fuesina proved too strong with a convincing 48-31 victory. The connection between the midcourters and the shooters is growing in confidence. The feeds from Faimafili Tamaalii and Angela Milovale were pin point accurate, at times threading the ball between two defenders. They showed good patience, driving to the circle edge to feed the ball to their shooters who finished off with superb accuracy.

The player of the match Goal Defence Cerie Milovale was relentless on defence, taking intercepts all over the court from

Ulalei Pua WD Lace Tangianau bringing the ball down against COG Ma.. Photo: Lahraine Sagaga

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the centre third to the circle. She picked up a number of rebounds and was strong in bringing the ball down the court on attack for her team.

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Skills building women’s group By: Gerald Rillstone For the last three years Wainuiomata’s Women’s Club facilitators Denise Anglesey and Gaylene Pluck have been teaching local women new skills and have had their first funding boost to help with costs.

The pair formed the group jointly as co facilitators and came up with the idea to start the group after Gaylene moved to Wainuiomata a few years ago from Hamilton.

She had previously been involved as an art facilitator in a women’s group and was keen to do something similar in her new home town.

“That move coincided with Denise wanting to start a women’s group, it was all very timely,” Gaylene says.

The group meets every Friday 10 am till 12 noon and the most

important part of it is connection and relationships, Gaylene says.

“We do arts and craft, lifestyle topics and also teach frugal living, the way our grandfathers and mothers used to do. Things to get the pressure off spending a lot of money on groceries,” Gaylene says.

Denise says everything they do at the club is designed to teach members a new skill.

“It’s more about skill building than arts and crafts, the whole concept is you can have a small income and still be living well,” Denise says.

Gaylene says for example in the past they have talked about two women who have $40 a week for food and collectively going halves in a one kilo block of cheese or halves in milk and other things.

Gaylene Pluck and Denise Anglesy, who have a plethora of ideas to help wonem live a good life spending little money, experimenting with colored chalk paint on glass.Photo: Gerald Rillstone

“It’s about teaching them how to be clever with what they have,” Denise says.

They say the funding boost from

the community engagement fund will go towards paying for resources.

The group meets every Friday

10 am till 12 noon at Valley Church, 21 Fitzherbert Road, Wainuiomata and all women are welcome.

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Wainuiomata College wins By: Gerald Rillstone They were evenly matched teams but Wainuiomata College had the edge on the day winning 83 to 73 against

Wellington High.

With a slight lead from the start Wainuiomata kept the pressure on Wellington High right to the finish of a well played game from both sides.

Wainuiomata College’s Kahukura Te Rauna gets ahead of Wellington High Wellington High’s Ishvan Milsabo blocks Wainuiomata.

School’s Rowan Hayam.

Wainuiomata’s Benjamin Lesniak busy under the goal fending Wainuiomata’s Benjamin Lesniak blocks Wellington High’s Lutha Te reto’s shot off Wellington Highs Rowan Hayam. at goal.

Wellington High’s Rowan Hayam on the attack with Wainuiomata’s Wainuiomata College players close in on Wellington High’s Harry Smith.

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GARDENING THIS WEEK Strawberries: By Wally Richards Because of lockdowns in May strawberry plants were not available at the normal time and have only in more recent times become available.

Existing strawberry beds should be tidied up now and plants that have produced for more than three seasons removed and replaced with new runners or new purchased plants.

Firstly there will be a number of dead leaves on your plants so these should be trimmed off from the base with a pair of scissors.

Runners that have rooted in can be lifted to start a new bed, replace old plants or given away.

If they have not rooted in then unless you want them better to cut them off the mother plant and put in to the compost.

Once the bed is looking clean and tidy you can then spray the plants with Mycorrcin.

This will encourage new growth and help start early flowering which will result in early fruit.

It is also a good idea to spray the plants with Perkfection which helps prevent disease such as dry berry and Botrytis. The two sprays can be mixed together.

A month later you can again spray with Perkfection at the lessor rate and only use again if any disease problems occur during the growing season.

The Mycorrcin should be sprayed every two weeks till end of the season as it not only feeds the soil life and plants it also will increase the possible harvest of berries by 200 to 400%. Cropping earlier, with more bigger berries and cropping longer.

I find that the sooner you can get your new strawberry plants into their new beds the better results you have in the first season. Like all things planted it is root establishment that is so important.

When planting place

Strawberries at North Willamette Research and Extension Center's 2017 Strawberry Field Day in Aurora.

about a teaspoon of Wallys Unlocking the Soil in the planting hole with a pinch of BioPhos for each strawberry plant.

If the existing strawberry bed is not congested with old and new plants and there is ample room still for all the plants to grow and produce, then you can get away with not lifting the runners or only lifting those that are too close to existing plants.

Strawberries are easy to grow and can be grown in open ground or containers.

In open ground the most practical way is to make a bed with wood surrounds 16 to 20 cm tall and have a hinged frame over the bed that has either plastic bird netting or wire netting over the lid.

This keeps the birds off eating the berries.

The whole frame needs to only sit on the soil so it can be moved if required.

If using tanalised timber for the surround then after cutting to size; paint all the wood with a couple of coats of acrylic paint to prevent chemicals leeching into the soil.

Strawberries can be grown in troughs about 16 to 20 cm wide and similar depth; length as long as required. I like to hang these off the top rail of a fence.

Special strawberry planters made from clay or plastic are not very good and your results are likely to be poor. (Thats the types where plants are placed in holes around the container as well as on top.)

Polystyrene boxes with holes in the bottom are also ideal containers for good crops if they have a rooting depth of 15cm or more.

The growing medium should be a good compost such as Daltons or Oderings to which you can add untreated sawdust and a little clean top soil or vermicast (worm casts from a worm farm).

A mix of about 75% compost, 20% sawdust and 5% vermicast is good value.

Mix the above in a wheelbarrow then place a layer of the mix 5 cm deep in the base of the trough or container. Now sprinkle a layer of chicken manure, some potash, BioPhos, Unlocking you Soil and Ocean Solids.

Horse manure is also very good.

If you do not have chicken manure available use sheep manure pellets and blood & bone.

Cover with more compost mix to a depth suitable for planting your new strawberry plants.

A similar process can be

applied to a open bed with a frame, though the frame height may need to be taller than previously suggested.

Ensure that the soil at the base of the frame is free of most weeds and then place a layer or two of cardboard over the soil. This will help prevent weeds from coming up in the bed, then fill as suggested.

There are a number of different varieties of strawberry plants available to the home gardener, sometimes the older varieties such as Tioga and Red gaunlet (both are hard to come by now replaced with the newer varieties such as Chandler, Pajaro and Seascape).

Different varieties will do better or worse in different climates so choose the ones most suited to your area of the country.

To enhance your strawberries and increase the crop yields by 200 to 400% drench the bed with Mycorrcin after planting and repeat again in a couple of months time.

Then spray the plants with Mycorrcin every two weeks till end of season.

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SPORTS TALK With Jacob Page

Back on the Phoenix bandwagon The Wellington Phoenix are now must-watch television.

After years of ho-hum results, I have no shame in admitting I had continued to follow their results but rarely tuned into a game.

So jaded by their mediocrity, I planned for the worst but hoped for the best.

Even this season, when results were tremendous, I waited for the bubble to burst.

It was how I was programmed

to think.

I’m a casual football fan.

I’ll watch the English Premier League, Champions League and the World Cup but if I’m honest, New Zealand football has, at times, been a little dreary in execution.

Too often, I’ve seen Kiwi teams defend against conceding goals rather than try to score them.

In that sense, the Phoenix of 2020 are a breath of fresh air.

They attack with purpose and intent, they have pace on the wings.

Coach Ufuk Talay seems to have his attacking third of the pitch sorted.

Liberato Cacahe and Ulises Davilla have formed a formidable combination while David Bell and Gary Hooper have provided excellent support.

Luke Devere offers a calming influence at the back.

If they can find their feet in Australia and play a good brand of football without complaining about being home sick, then they could go close to winning the A-League title.

They currently sit second and have proved difficult to disrupt since February.

I’m back on the bandwagon and happy to go along for the ride.

There is something special brewing if the team can get a

little luck.

A promising team which started under Mark Rudan appears to have only got better with added time and some wise signings.

No longer are the Phoenix the cellar-dwellers of Australasian football.

They are now one of the big boys and they deserve a heap of support for what they are trying to achieve away from their home, The Cake Tin.

Sarah McLeod-Venu selected in the Central Manawa Squad

By Vaegaau Isaac Ulalei Wainuiomata Netball congratulates our very own Sarah McLeod-Venu on her selection in the Central Manawa training squad to play in the Beko League 2020.

She is the only player selected from the Netball Hutt Valley Centre. She also plays for the Wainuiomata High School netball team.

The Beko League is a Netball New Zealand development competition that under pins the ANZ Premiership, as a key pathway for New Zealand Netball players. The Beko league is an essential development tool in producing the next level of elite ANZ Premiership players.

Above: Sarah McLeod-Venu sets up to receive a long pass against Naenae Blue. Left: Sarah McLeod-Venue steadies for a shot against Convent Ma. Photo: Vaegaau Isaac

The Hutt Valley Sports Awards for 2020 Given the events of the past few months it is more important than ever that we make an effort to celebrate sport. The performance eligibility period is 15 April 2019 – 15 April 2020.

Categories are Sportswoman, Sportsman, Team, Coach, Administrator/Volunteer, Young Sportswoman, Young Sportsman, Young Volunteer, Officials and Disabled /

Special Athlete.

The awards are to be celebrated on September 3rd.

Criteria – Nominees should live in the Hutt Valley or generally identify with Hutt City (Lower Hutt) and or Upper Hutt City (Upper Hutt).

Please follow the Hutt Valley Sports Awards Facebook Page or go to the Website for any information or further announcements.

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