Downer awarded roading contract
Downer has been awarded Waipā District Council’s $30 million contract to maintain the district’s roads for the next three years. There was an onsite blessing of the contract and the crew before the tenure began….
Downer has been awarded Waipā District Council’s $30 million contract to maintain the district’s roads for the next three years. There was an onsite blessing of the contract and the crew before the tenure began….
Many of you will have read before that I am a mother of five children – all now independent adults, and to the delight of my husband and I, all living in New Zealand. Even…
Last weekend I was having breakfast with friends who experienced Cyclone Gabrielle in the Hawkes Bay area. As is natural for many conversations in my life, it started out talking about eruptions, then moved on…
Tenants in Waipā District Council’s pensioner housing units will see a modest rental increase from next month. The rental increases were received at Tuesday’s council meeting, following an independent rates assessment based on market rental…
When a mystery horse came back from the Punui River in November 1888 without a rider it was taken into Kihikihi where it was identified as that of Sir Willoughby Dixon. He had last been…
In what has been dubbed an ‘evolutionary move’, six cul-de-sacs have been given the green light to advance as part of the development of Te Ara Rimu, Kihikihi pathway. The decision to create cul-de-sacs in…
A proposal to construct a waste to energy plant in Te Awamutu has been reactivated. An application to build the plant at 401 Racecourse Road was first lodged with Waipā District Council by Global Contracting…
Three of four spots for mana whenua representatives on Waipā District Council committees have been filled. Mana whenua representatives, known as Te Kanohi, sit on council’s Strategic Planning and Policy, Service Delivery, Finance and Corporate…
Thieves broke into Te Awamutu Cemetery in the early hours of Sunday morning, stealing $3000 worth of tools and causing $4000 worth of damage to the sexton’s shed. Waipā District Council community services manager Brad…
A Welcome Home social at Pirongia for the seventh contingent of men returning from the South African Boer War was an eminently successful one. The public hall had not for many a day contained so…
