Pair charged after house raid
Police have charged a 20-year old woman after an early morning wake up call for a Te Kūiti resident resulted in a car and money being taken.
And a 13-year-old female was also caught by police after the stolen car, clocked at 130kph just south of Te Awamutu, was abandoned and a search started.
Police car. Photo: Pixabay
One has been remanded in custody and the other has been referred to Youth Aid.
Police say a woman they described as elderly, woke to find a hooded woman in her bedroom at 3am last Friday.
The intruder, whose face was covered, asked for keys to a car and took $425 and a card from a wallet.
The card was used to pay for petrol and later in the day police recorded the vehicle speeding. They say the driver refused to stop, and the vehicle was found soon after, crashed on Pokuru Road.
A police dog unit and other police staff then found two women.
A 20-year-old female was charged with unlawfully taking a motor vehicle and three counts of using a document unlawfully. She was remanded in custody to appear in the Hamilton District Court on July 15 and further remanded to appear in the Te Kuiti District Court on August 8.
Time on
The Westminster chimes on Cambridge’s Town Clock returned this week and the timepiece has been lit up to celebrate the completion of the $721,000 Waipā District Council restoration project. Hoarding came down on Monday and work will soon get underway on paving around the tower building.
Sheedy elected
Sally Sheedy
Waipa Customer and Community Services group manager Sally Sheedy has been elected the Midlands Area representative on Taituarā Local Government Professionals Aoteaora executive.
It follows her appointment as Civil Defence Emergency Management Local Recovery manager for Waipā earlier this year.
Flats open
Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan handed over the keys to the 10 one-bedroom pensioner units in Leamington to Habitat for Humanity central region chief executive Nic Greene last week.
The council will own and maintain the units and Habitat for Humanity will manage the tenants and rental process. The new units will add to Waipā’s existing 93 pensioner units spread across Cambridge, Kihikihi and Te Awamutu. These will now house a total of 117 tenants.
Official handover of Vaile Court pensioner housing units
House grant
Cambridge Community House Trust has been given a $1000 funding to support training and qualifications for a support worker in the latest round of grants announced by Rural Women New Zealand. The organisation assists initiatives for rural communities that support children, the elderly, community, conservation, counselling and education through two funds – Scotlands Te Kiteroa Charitable Trust and Cynthia Collier Grant.
Ritchie wins
Cambridge horseman Frank Ritchie. Photo: Kenton Wright (Race Images)
Cambridge trainer Frank Ritchie was thrilled to collect a winning double on the synthetic track last week. Stunning Maire was the first followed by Lemon Curd, who backed up her stablemate’s performance in the following event. Meanwhile an extraordinary performance by Sister Ping at had Chad Ormsby excited about the filly’s prospects for her three-year-old season. The two-year-old was sent out as a $3.30 favourite against older opposition, but she appeared to have lost all hope when she reared at the start and was languishing five lengths behind the second-last horse. Sister Ping’s recovery had to be seen to be believed. She was still at the back of the field at the home turn, but jockey Kelly Myers angled her to the outside and she charged home to win by half a length.
Sister Ping. Photo: Race Images
