New member Former Christchurch City Council chief financial officer Carol Bellette – current finance director at AgResearch – will become an independent member of Waipā District Council’s Audit and Risk committee. She is already deputy…
New member Former Christchurch City Council chief financial officer Carol Bellette – current finance director at AgResearch – will become an independent member of Waipā District Council’s Audit and Risk committee. She is already deputy…
The operator of Pirongia’s Five Stags Restaurant and Bar has closed the business after it lost its appeal against Waipā District Licencing Committee’s decision not to renew its on-licence. The doors have been shut for…
Fire and Emergency have become noticeably more involved in the vetting process for new liquor licences in Waipā. In his annual report to the Alcohol Regulatory and Licensing Authority, Compliance manager Karl Tutty said the…
The late Sally Uerata’s contribution to the Pirongia Heritage and Information Centre was recognised with a posthumous presentation to her whānau. Uerata, who died on December 6 last year, was a foundation member of the…
“Send him down to the Shed” is the theme for this year’s Menz Shed week being held throughout New Zealand in early September. Activities are being organised by sheds in the Waikato to promote the…
One hundred and fifty years of Te Awamatu Library history, of stories told and minds expanded, were celebrated at the facility last week. The Te Awamutu Library Sesquicentennial kicked off last Friday night with a…
Waipa Māori ward councillor Dale-Maree Morgan made an impassioned plea supporting Māori wards ahead of her colleagues’ decision to retain them this week. The decision will spark a binding poll at next year’s local body…
Supporters of the Cancer Society’s annual appeal this year, may well have bought a daffodil from Waikeria Prison. Around 200 bulbs were planted and harvested by prisoners, which were then donated to the street appeal,…
Kaumatua Tom Roa blessed the opening of Hospice Waikato’s new retail store in Te Awamutu so that those at the end of their life could also be blessed. Roa, an ahonuku/associate professor in the University…
The company behind the application to build a waste-to-energy Paiwera Recycle Plant near the Mangapiko Stream in Te Awamutu has joined objectors in welcoming the news the decision will be made by a board of…
