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APRIL 4, 2024
Waipā’s own home show Waipā will host its first Home and Leisure Show next month. Good Local Media – publisher of a trio of community newspapers – Cambridge News, King Country News and Te Awamutu News - has organised the show to be staged at the Sir Don Rowlands Centre at Karāpiro from May 10 to 12. The event is being billed as a first for Waipā, but will
also give King Country, South Waikato, Waikato and Matamata-Piako residents a first opportunity of attending such an event without taking on the Hamilton traffic. It completes a hat trick of developments for Good Local Media. At the start of this year the publishing company released two new Apps – in Cambridge and Te Awamutu - and on Easter Monday it
added the King Country News - and its app and King Country Farmer - to its stable. Good Local also publishes Waikato Business News, having purchased the masthead late last year. The April edition came out on Tuesday. “Good Local Media Ltd is always looking at ways
to innovate and create more ways for our customers to talk to more customers. The launch of a Waipā Home and Leisure Show does this,” publishers David Mackenzie said. “The Waipā Home and Leisure Show provides locals more ways to shop local.” The inaugural show is already a sellout – all 80 stands available have been
taken and most will be filled by Waikato based businesses. Home shows are promoted as highly beneficial sales and marketings tools and are regular fixtures on calendars in New Zealand cities. “Good Local Media Ltd is staunchly local in everything it does, and all its products reflect this in how they serve the communities they operate in,” Mackenzie said.
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Shunned Hoyle keeps asking questions By Mary Anne Gill
After Craig Hoyle was excommunicated from the Exclusive Brethren, he was lost as he had been taught not to challenge authority nor ask any questions. “We were told if you don’t understand it, don’t question it,” said Hoyle who went on to graduate from university and become a journalist. He was helped by 60 Minutes reporter Sarah Hall of Tamahere who became his parent figure outside of the church. “I couldn’t have come further from the brethren,” the chief news director for Stuff’s Sunday Star Times told The News. Hoyle, 34, describes journalism as a really rewarding profession; one that makes a difference every day. His newsroom, like many around the country, has the threat of redundancies and cost savings hanging over it.
Craig Hoyle looks across Hautapu Cemetery where the bodies of dozens of his family members are buried, including his great great grandfather Robert Hoyle. Photo: Mary Anne Gill.
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But without journalists, mistreatment and corruption would flourish in the darkness, said Hoyle. “You need people challenging the official narrative. “Anyone can challenge people in power, but you need people with training and the skills to ask the right questions and when people in power are not exactly being truthful, you need people who have the ability to go through all those documents and have the ability to question decisions and then explain to people why things maybe aren’t what they seem to be.” Hoyle, who was born in Hamilton and spent most of his holidays in Waipā after the family moved to Invercargill, contacted The News following the publication of his book Excommunicated. Four generations of his family lived and worked in Waipā and many are buried in district cemeteries. • See: Mary Anne Gill’s exclusive interview, page 9.