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All their world’s a stage Shakespeare comes to Te Awamutu tomorrow. Te Awamutu College will host Friday’s Waikato Regional Sheilah Winn Shakespeare festival – and it will be the first opportunity students have had to gather face to face since Covid intervened two years ago. The Shakespeare Globe Centre NZ University of Otago event has been in digital mode during that time. Schools taking the Waikato challenge of preparing five and 15 minute scenes from Shakespeare plays include Cambridge High, Hillcrest High, St John’s College, Sacred Heart Girls’, Hamilton Girls’ High, Hamilton Boys’ High, Te Aroha College and Te Awamutu College. A total of 32 regional events – in the 32nd year of the event – will lead up to a national festival over King’s Birthday Weekend in Wellington.
Selected students will then participate in the National Schools Shakespeare Production in the August school holidays leading to potential selection for the Young Shakespeare Company which travels to London every April to study and perform at the Globe Theatre, London. Last year, Year 13 Te Awamutu student Sophie Jackson was selected to participate in the National Schools’ Shakespeare Production (NSSP) held in Dunedin. After a controversial decision by Creative NZ to not fund last year’s festival the Ministry of Education stepped in to enable the festival to continue. The regional Shakespeare in Waipā will be at Te Awamutu College from 10am – 2pm tomorrow and is open to the public Year 12 Te Awamutu College students, from left, Avé Culpan, Millie Thackray, Grace Armstrong and Martha Newland will perform an excerpt from Much Ado About Nothing. for a small door charge.
Audit rebuke for council
By Mary Anne Gill
Audit New Zealand has rapped Waipā District Council over the knuckles in its annual Management Report for approving expenses to the chief executive and mayor without the proper authority. The instances involved deputy chief executive Ken Morris who signed off on payments for former mayor Jim Mylchreest and chief executive Garry Dyet. The sign offs should have come from different sources
– two councillors in one case, to safeguard councils – and prepared to wait until June matters management should the mayor in the other. ratepayers - and ensure to see that letter.” address to enhance control They came to light when money spent is approved As part of the audit, environment and reporting. Audit NZ reviewed the appropriately. auditors checked elected Auditor Leon Pieterse council’s expenditure as part There was a twist in the members’ interests. said his office recommended of the council’s annual audit tail – because the office was Morris said “one or two one-up approval on all for the 2021-2022 financial also delivered a rebuke. slipped through the cracks” sensitive expenditure and year. It issued an audit report and staff would not “just” the approver should be Audit NZ’s René van Zyl in December and said a final rely on elected members’ independent of the benefits. and Kayode Oloro appeared report would not be given declarations in future. The council said two of before the Audit and Risk until June, a consequence of They would search the the instances picked up committee this week. staff shortages. Charities and Companies by Audit NZ involved The body acts as a Independent chair Bruce registers and do a complete expenditure from the watchdog for ratepayers – Robertson said that was -./0()1%2")3&%44)35%6")#7) check as Audit NZ does. Mayoral Discretionary !" #$%&'(')*"$+), there were no questions over unacceptable. Details of the expenses’ !" #$%&'(')*"$+), -./0()1%2")3&%44)35%6")#7) !" -"ABC Budget. 89:;&&)<=2<)>)8?&&)$=7"), 0">()=0+".(=/0)9@ the integrity of the expenses 89:;&&)<=2<)>)8?&&)$=7"), “Your pressures are not payments to Mylchreest !" 0">()=0+".(=/0)9@ -"ABC “Any expense incurred signed off, only who actually our pressures,” he said. and Dyet were included in is considered by staff as signed them off. “You’re providing the the Management Report being entirely at the mayor’s The process is designed service to us and I’m not where Audit NZ highlighted discretion. The budget is
limited to a relatively small per annum amount and the senior staff member providing the final financial approval of the mayor’s discretionary wishes is cognisant of the need for the expense to be reasonable given that it is of ratepayer funds.” The funds usually go to community groups, the council said. “A requirement for further ‘approvals’ to be obtained from councillors in this instance would defeat the intent that the mayor
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