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By Jesse Wood
Jill Taylor is challenging groups and individuals across the region to get in the kitchen and whip up muffins for the new mothers in Waikato Hospital’s New-born Intensive Care Unit. The Te Awamutu resident started the voluntary initiative Muffins for Mums 17 years ago. She saw a need and provided a recipe for success. There are 40 mums at one time in the unit. Taylor and her volunteers provide at least 80 muffins per day, every day – in excess of 560 individually wrapped and labelled muffins weekly. “The receptionist holds onto them and gives them to the mums,” Taylor said. “One of my grandsons had ended up in the newborn unit there for three months, 17 years ago. He was born with a condition called Hirschsprung disease. He needed to be in there and had two major operations to save his life. “I noticed that the mums weren’t being fed and they would be staying with their babies all day. “There were out-of-town mums and the hospital provided accommodation for them, but not food. “My daughter would go back to the accommodation and because the area wasn’t locked, the food was all gone by the time she got back.
“I thought, what can I do?” Taylor and her husband Alan would visit on alternate days to take food to their daughter. They saw many of the other mums were in the same situation, so the delivery drops got bigger. “About a year later, it was still really bothering me. I contacted the hospital and asked what I could do about it,” Taylor said. “I eventually got through the hospital red tape, and they agreed that they would give the out-of-town mums breakfast and Meals on Wheels vouchers for dinner. “I could do something at lunchtime, but there were a few limits. It couldn’t be sandwiches or anything that would have to be refrigerated. “I came up with the idea of muffins, and we decided to feed all the mums.” Taylor said it’s a great cause for any community group to get involved in, whether it’s regular or a one off. “I spoke to the Lions about it at a recent convention and the Te Kūiti Lions have done three bake-offs now. They’ve baked for the day, and the muffins have gone through for Muffins for Mums,” Taylor said. “The year before last, Altrusa Te Awamutu had working bees where they would have a bakeoff at somebody’s house and make about 24 dozen muffins. “It’s huge community
initiative. Any group can do it. “It could be a high school project or the Girl Guides completing a community work badge. “I love baking myself so I’m quite keen if a group needs me to help them as well.” Taylor said she’s always been lucky with volunteers. Some take muffins to the unit themselves, others drop them off to her. “A lot of them are mums who have been there and received them over the last 17 years. “Others are family members who knew about it and how much it worked for the mums. “Sometimes it’s just caring people in the community. I’ve got one Te Awamutu lady who has brought me muffins every Sunday for more than a year.” When Muffins for Mums first began, Taylor had a regular volunteer for five years. Many others have done similar. “Every week when she cooked a roast dinner, she would bake a couple dozen muffins and freeze them,” Taylor said. “On the last Tuesday of the month, she would bring them all to my husband Alan and he would take them to the unit. They called him the muffin man there. “It doesn’t have to be regular or in bulk amounts. It’s just great that we can do something helpful for the mums.”
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A mother and daughter team from Ōtorohanga have taken top honours in the Waikato Home & Garden Show’s Landscape Design Awards, while a Cambridge landscaper impressed judges with a climate-conscious concept that earned him third place. Tidy Gardens owner Katrina Christison, who writes a regular gardening column for Good Local Media, and daughter Kaylee Christison won the gold award for Full Circle, an edible garden inspired by the show’s theme, A Garden for the Future. Their design featured plants chosen not only for their beauty but also for their edible, medicinal and practical uses. The pair spent months planning and researching before building the garden over several days at Claudelands in Hamilton. “We’re thinking forward to the future,” Kaylee said. “With the way things are going, the prices of vegetables in the supermarket, all your sprays and chemicals on your food, it’s about going back to how it used to be in the olden days, growing food and growing plants for food.”
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when we’re coming into El Niño”. Low-maintenance gardens were increasingly important as people became busier and urban sections became smaller. “Small gardens are going to be it,” he said. “I really like the limitations of a small build.” Eason is a third-generation landscaper with more than 20 years’ experience. His projects have ranged from work in Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens to a 10-hectare native gully restoration at Takapoto Estate, while closer to home several family members, including his mother Mary Ann, also work in the landscaping industry. Judge Gary Bjerring of Ōhaupō said selecting winners from the four entries had been difficult because of the high standard. “All four sites were very impressive,” he said. Bjerring, who helped establish the Landscape Design Awards more than three decades ago, said judging came down to how well designers interpreted the brief and how the spaces felt to visitors. “We all know the incredible effort that goes into it. The judging itself came down to how people understood the brief and how it worked and how the design actually felt to sit in and be in.” More than 300 exhibitors took part in the four-day show, which featured the returning Landscape Design Awards, Habitat for Humanity workshops, artisan food producers and the new Style Stage. The stage included Cambridge interior designer Kerryn Elwin, who shared decorating tips alongside Australian interior designer Shaynna Blaze and Auckland stylist Evie Kemp.
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Waipā will celebrate Christmas with annual parades on successive days at the start of December. Te Awamutu’s parade will be held on December 5 with a “Kiwi Christmas” theme and Cambridge will host Santa the following afternoon.
German celebrations More than 50 people from the Huntly, Raglan, Tauranga and Pūtaruru areas gathered late last month at Fencourt Hall, Cambridge, to celebrate spring with the Waikato Goethe Society.
Pie fundraiser
A record-breaking fundraising campaign delivered for Waikato children in care, with The Breeze Waikato breakfast hosts Stu Smith and Camille Guzzwell joining forces with Oxford Pies and the community to raise $31,030.50 for Kids in Need Waikato.
Garden warning
Health New Zealand is urging spring gardeners to take precautions when handling potting mix and compost after 152 cases of Legionnaires’ disease were recorded nationwide in the year to August 31, including 38 cases in the Midland region, which covers Waikato. The disease, caused by legionella bacteria, put 135 people, including 32 in Midland, in hospital last year.
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Waikato Waters has appointed Barry Harris and John Bridgman to its board, increasing director numbers to five. The pair have extensive governance, infrastructure and commercial experience. The appointments come as the council-controlled organisation continues integrating water and wastewater.
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Five Wintec journalism students have commenced an end of year internship with Good Local Media. They are Hafsa Hussain, Holly O’Donnell. Mathew Pearce, Morris Nafu, Paul Michael and Cheryl Voss. Good Local editorial director Roy Pilott tutors journalism at Wintec.
Tamahere’s festival link By Mary Anne Gill
New Zealand’s biggest music festival, is poised to move from Gisborne to Tamahere, multiple sources say. The News understands Rhythm and Vines organisers have identified a Hooker Rd property adjoining the Waikato River and Te Awa River Ride as their preferred venue. The site, close to the Waikato Expressway and Hamilton Airport and in the Waikato district, is in the area earmarked for a thoroughbred racing headquarters. If confirmed, the move would see thousands of festival-goers welcome 2028 from the paddocks of Tamahere rather than the vineyards of Gisborne. The news comes in the same week Waikato District Council chief executive Craig Hobbs announced his resignation after just 18 months in the role. Mayor Aksel Bech revealed the timing of that announcement had been brought forward following what he described as baseless and deeply personal social media attacks. A complaint has been lodged with both Facebook and police under legislation dealing with digital harm.
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The issue echoes a recent dispute involving Waipā District Council executive Kirsty Downey. Although the online comments related to Downey’s former role at Tauranga City Council and the failed Bella Vista development, Waipā District Council funded legal action and later confirmed it had spent $88,343 on associated legal costs. Posts relating to both Hobbs and Downey have since been removed. While speculation about Rhythm and Vines has been circulating for months, Bech would neither confirm nor deny the Hooker Road location when contacted by
The News this week. He confirmed no resource consent application had been lodged with the council but acknowledged he was aware of the rumours. Pressed on whether council had been involved in discussions about a major event in the district, Bech said organisers were generally encouraged to engage with councils before entering formal consent processes. “The flip side of a rural area is you inconvenience fewer people,” he said when speaking generally about the suitability of large events in country locations. Any proposal would need to address traffic management, access to the
expressway, wastewater, drinking water and noise impacts, he said. The location identified by sources is also in the area being promoted as a potential site for a new Waikato thoroughbred racing headquarters. The riverside property and surrounding land have increasingly become the focus of large-scale development proposals because of their size, accessibility and proximity to Hamilton Airport and the Waikato Expressway, signalling growing interest in the district as a destination for major events and investment. Bech noted that separate
projects had already identified the same area as offering opportunities for large-scale developments. “It is not an area that’s completely random,” he said. The Waikato possibility follows reports that Rhythm and Vines organisers are preparing to announce a new venue after signalling the festival’s future lies away from Gisborne. Festival founder Hamish Pinkham told Radio New Zealand last month that discussions over a new location were progressing and an announcement was expected before the end of the year. Mystery Creek has also been linked to the search for a new venue because of its established events infrastructure and experience hosting largescale gatherings, but sources say the Hooker Rd site has emerged as the preferred option. Should the move proceed, it would represent one of the largest events ever staged in the Waikato district, bringing tens of thousands of visitors into the region over the New Year period and delivering a significant economic boost to accommodation providers, hospitality businesses and tourism operators. Organisers have yet to comment publicly on the reported move.
Neighbouring councils think big By Chris Gardner
Ōtorohanga, Waitomo and Waipa district councils are among 15 local authorities investigating forming New Zealand’s second-largest building consent authority. The project was commissioned by the Waikato Chief Executive Forum in response to building sector reform and facilitated by the multi council-controlled Co-Lab (Waikato Local Authority Shared Service) involving councils from the Waikato, Bay of Plenty and
Gisborne regions Waitomo District Council chief executive Ben Smit updated his council on the Building Control Collaboration Project at last week’s council meeting. “The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has instructed all councils to actively consider voluntary consolidation and is progressing legislative change intended to remove existing barriers to collaboration,” Smit said. The project began earlier this year, and the design and decision case is
due to be completed by the end of the year. “Collectively, the participating councils could design what would become New Zealand’s second largest Building Control Authority, creating scale and capability that individual councils cannot readily achieve on their own,” Smit said. “The strategic goals of the project are a consistent and predictable customer experience, faster processes and improved productivity, stronger decision quality and regulatory integrity,
greater capability, resilience and shared capacity, improved financial sustainability and value for money, and stronger data, information management and continuous improvement.” The project team identified potential benefits from collaboration, including reduced accreditation costs if councils are able to group together, greater resilience and access to specialist capability, opportunities, and greater ability to respond to future regulatory, technology and market changes.
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Gala for firefighters By Jesse Wood
The Te Awamutu Volunteer Fire Brigade will be celebrated by their community at Albert Park in mid-November. The fourth annual Te Awamutu Community Gala will bring families and friends together as well as raising funds for the important organisation. The gala committee comprises of Te Awamutu Sports’ Linda Sprangers, Ollie Ward, Alana Fisher and Laura Saunders as well as Georgina Christie from Koi Wai Au, Kane Rangitonga from Kainga Aroha and staff from major sponsor Waipā Networks. “It started off as the Gumboot Gala but we wanted to bring it back to local groups. Last year it was Hato Hone St John,” Sprangers said. “We start straight after school hours so the kids can come straight here. It will be set up around Albert Park field one with food vendors, a climbing wall, other inflatable activities, a Hungerball, a Waipā Networks cherry picker bucket ride and about 20 market stalls with community organisations
involved.” Entertainment will include a Te Wharekura o Ngā Purapura o Te Aroha kapa haka performance, the Highland Pipe Band and musical duo Rowdy’s Rose. “Everything that people participate in is just a gold coin donation because we want to make it affordable, while supporting our volunteer firefighters,” Sprangers said. “We’re creating a community vibe so that people can bring their picnics and beanbags. Senior firefighter Lisa Atkinson said being part of the community gala is something the Te Awamutu brigade members look forward to. “It lets us connect with our community on a good day. We get to share some fire safety messages, play a few games and simply enjoy the company of the people we serve,” Atkinson said. “That’s especially important for our young people. Unfortunately, most of the time when we arrive at someone’s home or school, it’s for a bad reason. That’s often a child’s only impression of us. “The gala gives them the chance to see the other
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side of our brigade, that behind the helmets and the truck are people who love being out among their community, having a laugh and getting to know them. The 40-volunteer brigade all live and work in Te Awamutu.
Funds raised through the gala will go towards training equipment for the station. “Better training means a better prepared brigade and that benefits every household in this town,” Atkinson said.
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Screens spot skin issues By Jesse Wood
A total of 32 people were screened when the Lions Skin Cancer Bus visited the Waipā District Council carpark in Te Awamutu on Father’s Day. Thanks to the voluntary work of Mahoe Medical Centre’s Dr Alexander Slesarenko, 15 of those were referred to their GP for a closer look. Te Awamutu Lions Club secretary Alan Taylor said the time and expertise Slesarenko donated for the community was appreciated. “Melanoma is a major problem in New Zealand,” Taylor said. “We do this all for free. By doing that, we reckon people are more likely to take the opportunity to undertake this screening process. “That means that they will be picking up issues at a much earlier stage. “Because it was on Father’s Day, we promoted the message that more people were gathering together, so why not all come down and get screened? “People took that positively.” Te Awamutu Lions Club members helped with administration and booking processing. “In August and September, the Lions Cancer Bus was around the various areas of
the Waikato and Bay of Plenty, screening more than 1300 people,” Taylor said. The bus is now working its way to Wellington and then it will go to the South Island, and a second vehicle will then be driven to Hamilton. Lions members are excited about the new van being available on a permanent basis the North Island. “Our next major project is to gain screeners, people who can do the actual screening, because they need to have qualifications and expertise,” Taylor said. “It’s not just something that can be done by any person without the necessary qualifications and training. “The medical sector is under a lot of pressure at the moment and so those people that are able to volunteer, their assistance is very much appreciated. The Lions National Screening Trust is developing guidelines on what criteria, what qualifications, a medical practitioner needs to become a screener. Across the district, the Lions bus also parked outside the Cambridge Town Hall recently. Twenty-seven people received free screenings from health professionals and several of those were referred for further medical checks. Advertorial
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Fundraiser for mental health
By Viv Posselt
Gardening has long been recognised as having a positive effect on wellbeing, both physical and mental. You’ll get no pushback on that from Te Awamutu
Web statistics A report seeking witnesses to a rail tragedy was the most-read story on the paywall-free Te Awamutu News website last month. The article comfortably led our news in brief columns, this one from September 9. Third was the story about former Prime Minister Helen Clark returning to her roots at Pirongia Forest Park Lodge to honour the volunteers followed by the bleak future for several Mt Pirongia walking tracks. Finally, news a new $958,000 pump will be installed to strengthen water supply resilience for western Waipā rounded out the top five. The home page was the most visited page overall, while the e-Editions page came in next.
Altrusa Club crew involved in the annual Home and Garden Ramble. A recent brush with one of life’s sorrows reminded members of that and led to the decision being taken to link this year’s ramble with the 2026 national Mental Health Awareness week. While the dates don’t exactly align, the sentiment does, suggested one of the ramble’s key organisers and longtime Altrusa Club member Robyn Atherton. “Strong connections – with whānau, neighbours, community, and the places around us – can help people feel supported through life’s ups and downs. In a rural district like Waipā, those connections are often found not only around kitchen tables and sports fields, but also in gardens, paddocks, walking tracks and quiet outdoor spaces.” New Zealand will mark Mental Health Awareness Week next week (October 12-18), with the theme ‘Belonging Matters’. Altrusa’s Home and Garden Ramble on November 1 – which is its 31st ramble – will support that message by inviting the community to reconnect with the healing gift of nature by visiting 12
Te Awamutu homes and gardens. Ticket-holders will be able to wander through established plantings, seasonal colour and a variety of outdoor spaces. Some of the participants are opening both their home and garden, while others are opening just one or the other. Te Awamutu Altrusa is part of an international non-profit network of Altrusa clubs improving communities through leadership, partnership and service. A goal shared by all focuses on improving literacy, and the Te Awamutu club runs projects each year to promote reading. The Home and Garden Ramble is the club’s major fundraiser, regularly donating many thousands of dollars to the community. Last year alone it raised more than $14,000. Proceeds from this year’s event will go towards Te Awamutu Riding for the Disabled, and the Te Awamutu Information Centre, as well as other Altrusa community and literacy projects. Robyn Atherton, who has been a member of the club for 25 years and coordinates the ramble, told
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Te Awamutu Altrusa club president Christine Melville enjoying the relaxing benefits of gardening.
The News she is always surprised at how readily people are prepared to open their homes and gardens in support of Altrusa. “Every year I worry about not being able to find enough gardens to keep the ramble fresh,” she said, “but people are very generous
and I never have any problems in the end.” She said the ramble route is fairly spread out around Te Awamutu and surrounds. “That is quite deliberate. We get around 450 to 500 visitors on a ramble, and we want to avoid having too many in just one area at a
time.” Organisers said the fundraiser is a reminder that wellbeing can be nurtured in small, everyday ways, and that spending time outdoors, sharing a cup of tea with others in a garden can create a welcome break from daily pressures.
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How low can we go? By Peter Nicholl
At the end of September, the New Zealand dollar bought 5.1 per cent less United States dollars and 3.1 per cent less Australian dollars than a month earlier. The New Zealand dollar has been losing strength throughout most of this year but the drop over the last month has been large and rapid. The positive impacts from a weaker currency are that New Zealand looks even cheaper to foreign tourists and New Zealand exporters’ incomes go up if the price they receive overseas doesn’t change. The negative impacts are that the price of everything we import will be dearer. New Zealand imports a lot. This will clearly have an impact on New Zealand’s inflation rate. Another negative impact is a trip overseas will cost more. The fall in the value of our dollar to Australia is significant given the close links between the two countries. Our currencies have usually moved broadly together. There were a few times in the last 30 years when our two currencies got close to parity. Policymakers in Wellington won’t be thinking about parity parties today. They’ll be wondering how low the New Zealand dollar can go. In their latest forecasts, Treasury and the Reserve Bank think the recent decline in our exchange rate will be temporary. The Treasury’s most recent forecast of our trade-weighted exchange rate index in a year’s time is 67.7. It is currently at
64.3. The Treasury’s forecast implies our exchange rate will rise five per cent over the next year. The Reserve Bank have the exchange rate rising by around 4 per cent. I can’t see it rising at all. Our international terms of trade, especially the prices we get for our exports, often drive our exchange rate. At present they are strong, so they don’t explain why our exchange rate is falling. The answer is in our interest rates. The latest CPI rate in the US was 3.4 per cent. Australia’s CPI was 3.96 per cent. New Zealand’s was 4.06 per cent . The US Fed’s official interest rate is 3.5-3.75 per cent. The RBA has an even higher rate at 4.6 per cent. The Reserve Bank ’s official cash rate is at a much lower level of 2.75 per cent . Most media debate in New Zealand about interest rates refers to our current interest rate levels as high. When you look at where interest rates are in our main trading partners, New Zealand rates are low. This is what is driving our falling exchange rate. The falling exchange rate will feed into future inflation. This will probably force the Reserve Bank to raise their cash rate by more over the next year than if they had acted sooner and more strongly. One important characteristic of humans is said to be that we learn from our mistakes. Unfortunately, the Reserve Bank in 2026 has made the same mistake that they made in 2022. – moving intertest rates up too little and too late.
While performing his priestly duties in the Waikato, Father Luck became ill after riding through a terrible storm. Over time this developed into the lung disease consumption. His Kihikihi flock, who deeply loved him, raised £I00 so he could take a trip in May 1898 to Australia in the hope of his health being restored. But by October the 57-year-old’s health was no better and he returned unable to resume his parish duties. He stayed at Bishop’s House in Auckland where two doctors, the Sisters of Mercy and Miss Murphy gave him their constant care. Father Frances Augustine Luck was born in 1841 at Peckham, London, one of seven children who all gave themselves to the service of God. He was born of wealthy parents but renounced a life of affluence for a religious one, studying in England and then Rome. He was ordained priest in 1869 and after serving for many years in England came to New Zealand in 1880. In 1882 one of his brothers, John, was appointed Bishop of Auckland. Father Luck initially lived in Hamilton and in 1884, helped by locals, built the first Presbytery in Kihikihi. He was a talented craftsman and made the building’s ornamentation on a foot lathe. His parish, which covered
Rangiriri to Taumarunui, was a model of order which he conscientiously attended to despite trying circumstances. In 1884 when the road from Rangiaowhia to Kihikihi was in a very bad state Father Luck had the misfortune to fall into a hole and had to swim out. He constructed the grand organ imported for Auckland’s St Patrick’s Cathedral with great skill and care in 1885. Three years later when St Benedict’s church in Auckland was rebuilt after a fire, Father Luck made all the interior decorations. He also began work on a high altar for St Benedict’s, a job which would occupy his leisure moments for the next five years. Father Luck’s duties led him on horseback into many scattered parts of district and in 1889 his Kihikihi parishioners presented him with funds to purchase a buggy and harness so he could travel in comfort. “I think I may safely say,” said Father Luck “that the nine years I have spent here have been as happy, if not the happiest, in my life.” During his pastoral visits Father Luck had been troubled seeing the labour involved in loading heavy sacks of wheat and potatoes into wagons at harvest time. Pondering the matter, he came up with an invention that could lift 600 heavy sacks into a wagon in one
day. The Waikato Times called it ‘one of the most remarkable inventions of the age, and one likely to startle not only the whole of the colony, but of the civilised world.’ He patented the appliance but negotiations with hardware firms fell through. In 1893 Father Luck’s work on the magnificent new altar for St Benedicts was finished, being a masterpiece of exquisite carving and inlaid work. Father Luck’s health started to falter in 1894 and the death of his brother Bishop Luck in 1896 seriously affected him. By December 1898 Father Luck was in a very critical state and received the last rites. He died at Auckland in February 1899. At his funeral mass the bishop referred to the deep and reverential love that Father Luck’s parishioners at Kihikihi had for him. He was buried near his brother at Onehunga Catholic cemetery.
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Making all the right moves By Mary Anne Gill
Two-year-old Bo Heaney was not quite old enough for Cambridge’s newest sports attraction but that did not stop her giving it a go. The toddler was among three generations of the Perry family trying out PlayLab at the Grassroots Trust Velodrome last week ahead of its public opening later this month. “Even she was kicking the soccer ball around,” said grandfather Simon Perry, whose family foundation and company have been major supporters of the project. Across 10 interactive stations visitors can cycle, paddle, shoot, run, react and problem-solve while controlling games on screens around them. No sporting background is required. In fact, that is precisely the point. PlayLab manager Camryn Jeffries, a personal trainer who joined the team last month, said the attraction had already been tested by school groups and older residents. “It is designed to get people moving without thinking that they’re
moving, without realising that they’re moving,” Jeffries said. “They’re just having fun and they’re moving while they’re having fun.” The venue has already welcomed groups ranging from secondary school students to visitors aged over 80. Some were drawn to physically demanding activities such as cycling and kayaking simulators while others preferred reactionbased games that test coordination and speed. “There isn’t really an age limit,” Jeffries said. “Everyone can kind of give it a go.” For Velodrome general manager Miff Macdiarmid, PlayLab is another step in the transformation of a facility that has undergone significant change in recent years. Since arriving almost two years ago, Macdiarmid has overseen the installation of a new cycling track, the development of PlayLab and work on the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, which is due to open next year. “It’s a lot of change,” she said. Artefacts from the New
Three generations of the Perry family at PlayLab, from left Marlene Julian, husband Simon Perry, Bo Heaney, nearly 2, Georgia Perry, Emma Russell and Tiffiney Perry. Photo: Mary Anne Gill
Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, transferred from Dunedin, will sit alongside PlayLab, creating what Macdiarmid hopes will become a destination attraction for both locals and visitors. As schoolchildren test PlayLab downstairs, elite cyclists continue training on the track overhead. Retirement village residents attend regular Get Going classes focused on balance, co-ordination and social connection, while trike riders
and recreational cyclists continue to use the wider facility. Macdiarmid paid tribute to the late Alan Livingston, an early champion of bringing the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame to Cambridge and of the Velodrome itself. “It’s a bit of a shame that he won’t be here to see it come to fruition because he was a big part of getting us over the line,” she said. The wider vision goes
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beyond tourism. Macdiarmid is particularly excited about educational opportunities and has been working with schools to create curriculum-linked programmes around both PlayLab and the Hall of Fame. “What has been super exciting with the school user groups is all shapes, all sizes, all abilities,” she said. “People aren’t selfconscious when they do it, they just get really engaged
in what they’re doing and they have fun moving.” PlayLab also aligns closely with the philosophy of the Perry Foundation, which has long supported recreation and community initiatives throughout the Waikato. Perry said the project used modern technology to tackle a very traditional problem. “We’re working with Sport Waikato and using technology to get kids off the couch and back into sport,” he said. Perry, who lives in Cambridge, chairs the Perry Foundation and serves on the Velodrome Trust. Through the foundation, the Perry family has supported a range of recreation and community projects across the Waikato, including Te Awa River Ride. He sees PlayLab, the Hall of Fame, the river ride and the Velodrome itself as part of a growing recreation hub. Looking around at three generations of his family trying out the games, Perry said that was exactly what PlayLab was designed to achieve. Even Bo, still a few months short of her second birthday, was already having a go.
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ON SHAKY GROUND
Himalayas to seafloor By Janine Krippner
What goes up must come down. Sometimes that is very quick, in the blink of an eye. Sometimes it takes centuries or even millions of years. Gravity always wins eventually. Here in Aotearoa we are becoming much more knowledgeable about landslides as wild weather whips its way across our landscape. Those are examples of fast geologic processes. The slower processes can be much more immense. As rock breaks down into smaller bits of rock, becoming smaller down to millimetres and smaller, we call that sediment. That sediment is moved by wind and water across the landscape and into our oceans. Currents and other processes move this sediment across the ocean floor. Where river systems reach the ocean, we see some of the more significant examples of this, called submarine fans. The largest of these is the Bengal Fan, offshore India and Bangladesh, extending well past Sri Lanka into the open Indian Ocean. This enormous pile of sediment spans three million square kilometres reaches 16.5 km thick. This results from the slow but powerful push of India into Asia, pushing crust upwards to form the Himalayan mountain range. This process is too slow for us to see with our short human life spans, but the effect is astounding. The fact that the summit of Mount Everest is limestone that holds fossils from a long-gone seafloor shows us just how much change is achieved with enough time. As these enormous mountains and the surrounding landscape are worn down by wind, ice, and water, the remnants are carried
to the Bay of Bengal mostly by the Ganges and Brahmaputra river systems. The seafloor across the Bengal Fan is beautiful. It hosts a series of underwater river channels that meander generally southwards, transporting sand and silt deeper and deeper. Some of these channels are more than 200km long and carve beautiful patterns into the seafloor. If you think of how our rivers on land form s-shaped bends and turns, that is what we see on the seafloor. Weather systems and climate also have a part to play. Glaciers grind down the rock into smaller and smaller bits. Earthquakes can trigger landslides and rockfalls into the system. Monsoons and storms carry larger volumes of sediment-laden water downslope. Larger-scale sea level change also plays a part in the sediment supply and where it goes. Turbidity currents are watery surges of sediment across the seafloor that can carry the material further from the river mouth where it began. This gigantic mix of complex processes that has been evolving over many millions of years is part of a beautiful cycle. The top of Everest formed on the seafloor, and now the very mountain range is slowly eroding with the resulting sediments making their way to create new seafloor. One of many large cycles that shape our planet while we go about our everyday lives. As generations make their way through life on this spinning ball of rock, these vast geologic processes continue quietly in the background.
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Greatness awaits By Phil Strong, Retired Minister
Okay, so this headline doesn’t have the same ring as MAGA, and you can be happy I do not have branded hats for sale, and, thankfully, I don’t have a bright orange comb-over. But the idea is great all the same. As my wife and I wandered through downtown Te Awamutu we commented on the empty shops, closing sales, and the generally dreary and drab appearance of the town centre. We asked, “how could Te Awamutu become vibrant and thriving again?” Like a scratched record I come back to the same principle I have most likely penned here before; he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. We, the people, are what will make Te Awamutu vibrant and thrive again. When the people of God were exiled from their homeland, they were prisoners subject to colonisation under the eye of the Babylonian king. God was not absent from their cries and lament for what once was. In the midst of their sentiment of suffering, He gave them a new perspective. “Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.” This instruction, on the back of the exhortation to thrive in family and business, was a simple one. The principle applies to us today. A healthy economy matters. Full shops matter. Jobs matter. But God has always been interested in something deeper than economic prosperity. In the days of the spreading New Testament church, Jesus’ friend Peter was walking from village to village spreading
the message of peace through preaching, prayer and practical good works. This is another reminder for those of us with faith to believe that God wants to see Te Awamutu great again. Peter visits the house of a man called Aeneas who has been paralysed and bedridden for eight years, looks at the man and says one clear statement in faith; “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you! Get up, and roll up your sleeping mat!” The Bible says the man was healed instantly. But what the Bible says next is relevant to our thesis. The people of this large agricultural region saw what God had done, and they turned to the Lord. The miracle wasn’t the end of the story. It was the signpost pointing people back to God. This is the ultimate form of thriving, to return to face your Heavenly Father who formed you for friendship. When the angel Gabriel announced an impossible future, Mary received a simple reminder: “For nothing will be impossible with God.” If Te Awamutu is to thrive, someone has to carry hope down its streets. Someone has to pray. Someone has to care. Someone has to believe God still heals, restores and changes lives. Perhaps that someone is you. If you see me around town and would like prayer, please stop me. I’d be glad to pray with you. I’ve seen enough of God’s kindness to believe that impossible situations are not always as impossible as they first appear.
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Maiden seniors expo a success
By Jesse Wood
Fire, Police and St John vehicles were parked all around the Te Awamutu Presbyterian Community Centre last Thursday – all in a good cause. The first Te Awamutu Seniors Expo brought visitors, gold card holders, organisations and community entities together in one spot. The event was led by Te Awamutu Grey Power president Michael Cullen, with support from the Waipā District Council as well as various other people and organisations, including Arvida Retirement Village, Volunteering Waikato, Meryl Reardon and Jill Taylor. It attracted 712 visitors and 41 exhibitors – including the emergency services, Hospice, Te Awamutu Continuing Education, Citizens Advice Bureau, Rosetown Funeral Services, Taumarunui Community Kokiri Trust and the Te Awamutu Community Menz Shed. Seminars, fire safety demonstrations and information was
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Reflecting on Waikato’s war
By Chris Gardner
Historian Vincent O’Malley will speak about the Waikato War, its enduring consequences, and why
understanding this chapter of the nation’s history remains vital in Te Awamutu. The talk by O’Malley, 59, who won the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Award
for non-fiction and received a Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in the same year, forms part of Rā Maumahara, a three-day programme of free events organised by Te Whare Taonga o Te Awamutu Museum. The commemorative series invites the community to remember, reflect and learn through kōrero, local history, film screenings, and visits to significant Waikato sites. O’Malley will speak at The Regent in Te Awamutu on October 22, marking a decade since the publication of his book The Great War for New Zealand: Waikato, 1800-2000. The anniversary provides an opportunity to reflect on both the creation of the book and the ongoing significance of the events it chronicles, O’Malley said. “Many people have contacted me over the years to tell me how much the book means to them and how they never knew this history,” O’Malley said. “It is kind of shocking that so many of us went through school not learning any of this history.” O’Malley began researching the 1863 invasion of Waikato about 20 years ago and has since become one of the country’s most recognised
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authorities on the conflict. His wife, Victoria University professor Joanna Kidman, is of Tainui descent. His presentation will also discuss his more recent companion volume, The Invasion of Waikato/Te Riri ki Tainui, published in 2024. He said the Waikato War was not simply a regional conflict but a defining national event whose effects continue to shape New Zealand. “Those who lack awareness of the history of this country also lack the means to fully understand the present,” he said. “It is not ancient history but the story of how we got to where we are today.” O’Malley said all New Zealanders should have some understanding of the Waikato War because of its influence on the nation’s political, social, and economic development. “The Waikato War is something that all New Zealanders should know something about because it had a profound influence on New Zealand as a whole,” he said. “It is not a small regional story but one of national and even international significance given the number of British troops involved.” Among the lasting consequences, O’Malley points to the extensive land
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key battle sites. “Hopefully even those who might be familiar with the history will come away having learned one or two new things,” he said. “But I also hope it gets people thinking about what we do about this history in the present.” The talk is one of several free events scheduled during Rā Maumahara 2026, offering opportunities for community members to deepen their understanding of Waikato’s history and its continuing relevance today.
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Fairways flourish in Waipā By Jesse Wood
Two Waipā golf clubs are helping drive a resurgence in the sport, which has memberships growing, more women and young people taking up the sport and community connections underpinning the game’s future. The success reflects a wider trend across the region. Waikato Golf chief executive Terry Booth says membership has grown by about 27 per cent year-on-year since Covid, and club membership across the Waikato has risen from 9519 in 2019 to 16,256 this year. “That’s all-time record numbers. “Another great excitement for us is that we’ve seen a growth in women and girls in golf.” National initiatives such as She Loves Golf and Futures Waikato have helped attract new players, while clubs have worked to make the game more welcoming and accessible. At Ngāhinepōuri Golf Club, that growth
is being fuelled by a strong local focus. Club secretary Sanjay Weerasinghe says the club has become a hub for a rapidly growing rural community. “We try to work in with the school and the community. This is a golf club, but it is a community club as well,” he said. Ngāhinapōuri School uses the course for its annual cross-country event, and the club helps maintain community facilities and supports local organisations. As more young families move into the district, membership continues to ebb and flow with the seasons. “There’s a lot of young families here. They don’t play a lot of winter golf but in the summer they join up again,” Weerasinghe said. The club also benefits from strong support from local businesses through sponsorship and corporate golf days. For Weerasinghe, maintaining a quality course remains the priority. “We’d much rather have a $1 million golf
course and a $10,000 clubhouse. As long as the golf course itself is primo, then we will continue to attract people.” At Cambridge Golf, attracting new players and visitors has been about creating positive experiences both on and off the course. General manager Keith Vincent says corporate and charity golf events are helping introduce the course to a wider audience. “It’s great to have businesses and fundraisers using the course,” he said. “The Rock’s Mates Matter Trust golf day was a great example. The radio promotion introduced us to people we may not otherwise have reached.” The club has also refreshed its public image in an effort to make golf feel less intimidating and more inclusive. “We’ll always be a golf club and our members will always be at the heart of what we do. But membership alone isn’t enough,” Vincent said. “We want more people from Cambridge, the Waikato and beyond to experience the course.”
Both clubs say their growth is tied closely to their communities, whether through supporting schools, charities, local businesses or social events.
Cambridge Golf general manager Keith Vincent said corporate days help promote the course. Photo: Jesse Wood
Opening day at Ngāhinepōuri Golf Club this year was well supported by the community.
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DEATH NOTICES ATHERTON, Robert Neil (Neil) – Passed away peacefully on Saturday September 26th with family at his side. Loved husband of Robyn for 55 years and loved father, father-in-law and grandfather of Kelly & Shane, Scott, Sandra, Sonya and Connor (London). At Neil’s request, a private cremation has been held. Friends and family are invited to celebrate Neil’s life on Sunday October 11th at 3pm at the Waipa Workingmen’s Club (Albert Park Drive Te Awamutu). MOLINA, Ireneo Avanzado, (Boyet) – Passed away while on holiday in the Philippines on Tuesday, 15th September 2026, aged 51 years. Dearly loved husband to Jeannette, and cherished dad to Neo and Jaiden. A Requiem Mass Memorial Service will be held at St Patrick’s Catholic Church, Alexander Street, Te Awamutu on Saturday, the 10th of October 2026 at 11:00am. Messages to the Molina Family can be sent c/- 262 Ohaupo Road, Te Awamutu 3800 or in Boyet’s online tribute book at www. rosetown.co.nz. Rest in Peace.
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