Waipā’s immunisation rates for pensioners is well below the Waikato average as a season marked by severe flu takes hold. And in the face of growing numbers of flu cases, numbers of people lining up…
Waipā’s immunisation rates for pensioners is well below the Waikato average as a season marked by severe flu takes hold. And in the face of growing numbers of flu cases, numbers of people lining up…
Te Awamutu Māori Women’s Welfare League (MWWL) president Rosemary Murray described Saturday’s Matariki lunch for seniors as an “auspicious moment” for all concerned. This year’s lunch was held in the league’s neighbouring Anglican Church hall….
Waipā District Council will provide a $750,000 loan guarantee to the trust behind an application to bring the New Zealand Sporting Hall of Fame to the district. In briefing councillors about the proposal, deputy chief…
When Tegan Crotty’s friends told her she should try out swimming, she was initially reluctant. But the minute she got in the water “it was just like that,” the 27-year-old Te Awamutu retail assistant and…
Matariki made history last week as the world’s first indigenous celebration to be recognised as a public holiday – and for local iwi Ngāti Apakura it was historic for other reasons. They celebrated Matariki with…
How does a train enthusiast get their steam engine fix once they have been phased out? They build their own. That’s exactly what Cambridge Model Engineering Society member Dennis Searle did. Searle’s love of steam…
At 71, Nicholas Bartosiak is the Te Awamutu Pakeke Lions Clubs’ youngest member. He was appointed their president last week, following the resignation of the club’s previous president, Myrtle McDowell. “I am delighted, I have…
The roles of Waipā’s two community boards in water and dog issues are in the spotlight this week. Te Awamutu Community Board’s submission on the council’s draft Water Supply Bill sent earlier this month referred…
Waikato Regional Council has granted $2.076 million to four landscape scale predator control projects in the region – including one at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari and another which benefits from it. At last week’s council meeting…
A discharge into the Mangauika Stream near Pirongia, which supplies treated drinking water to Te Awamutu and Pirongia, has copped Waipā District Council a formal warning from Waikato Regional Council. The stream, which arises from…
