A sign at the northern entrance to Te Awamutu is to get a $1725 spruce up
Te Awamutu and Kihikihi Community Board decided, at its September meeting, to allocate the cash for repairs to the Ōhaupō Road sign.
Te Awamutu’s welcome sign needs updating.
The state of the sign has been discussed at the June, July and August board meetings.
A faded sign carrying the moto “For home and country” is all that remains of the town’s Women’s Institute, the Waikato having three institutes in Hamilton and one in Te Pahu. Another sign is completely lost, with no clue of what group it commemorates, leaving a blank white plaque behind.
The board also allocated $2,300 towards battery recycling and a further $2,300 for its own projects.
The expenditure was proposed by Waipā District Council member Lou Brown and seconded by board member John Wood.
The decision prompted a brief discussion on what organisations qualified to have their name on the sign.
Board chair Ange Holt said Altrusa had expressed an interest in fixing up the sign.
“They have a couple of little ideas about giving it a clean.”
She had also received a new design from a reader of The News.
“Who do we ask and where do we stop?” said Holt. “Something to think about.”
