Waipa District Council is being asked not to spend thousands of dollars replacing around a dozen wooden benches at Te Awamutu and District War Memorial Park – and put money into bollards instead. But the…
Waipa District Council is being asked not to spend thousands of dollars replacing around a dozen wooden benches at Te Awamutu and District War Memorial Park – and put money into bollards instead. But the…
As RSAs around the country prepare to mark Armistice Day on November 11, one 105-year-old with links to Te Awamutu will be sifting through her own wartime memories. Armistice Day relates to the ending of…
Wandering and barking dogs continue to test Waipā’s animal control team. In the three months from July 1, the council fielded 1115 calls on behalf of the team with 580 of them relating to animal…
Armistice Day plans across the region are in place to mark November 11 – the day on which guns fell silent in 1918 at the end of World War 1. Te Awamutu RSA will begin…
Organisers of the Te Awamutu Rose Society’s 60th anniversary spring rose show hope a new generation of enthusiasts will grow from this year’s 339 exhibitors. The November 1-3 show at the Te Awamutu Rugby Sports…
Avleen Kaur has a reputation at Te Awamutu College for solving problems. The Year 13 student, who won the dux award last week, is tackling the problem of a shortage of medical professionals after winning…
On line stats Our teawamutunews.nz website continues to gain new readers led by our best post last month, Chris Gardner’s piece on Viability ‘destroyed’, about the pressure farmers are finding themselves under. In yet another…
The value of Waipā District Council’s shareholding in Waikato Regional Airport dropped by 1.7 per cent in the last year against a backdrop of falling profits. The value of the council’s 777,110 shares in Waikato…
Maungatautari Ecological Island Trust lost $500,000 – most of it in depreciation – in the financial year to June 30. The operator of the world’s largest predator proof fence of 3363 hectares around Mt Maungatautari…
A community board on one side of Waipā wants plans to put fluoride on the other side on hold. Waipā District Council has been asked to push back against the Director General of Health’s directive…
