Local Opinion

Letters to Editor – 3 October 2024

Arbitrage It was a relief to read a letter (Cambridge News, September 26) which rightly challenged the earlier comments by Waipa District Council’s deputy chief executive, Ken Morris, with regard low risk arbitrage deals involving…

Allegations of penny pinching

Meghan Hawkes reports on headline news in Waipa – from 1909   Recent railway reforms riled a passenger who, on arrival at the Te Awamutu train station, was accosted by the station master demanding sixpence…

On the move … again

In a car crammed full of my belongings I sat counting on my fingers the times I have moved house or apartment, not counting the times I lived in a backpackers or hotel. In 21…

The Greenhill tragedies

Thirteen-year-old Kenneth Taylor was riding home from school at a canter along with Charles Cruickshank around four on a September afternoon in 1897. The boys were between the Cross Roads and Greenhill – the Taylor…

Did you feel the mountains tremble?

On September 23, 1995, I was waiting at Wellington Airport for a German exchange student to arrive on the 8am flight from Auckland. When he landed, he was very excited because he had seen a…

Letters to Editor – 26 September 2024

1080 issue Cr Graf’s anti-1080 rant, yet again, in the regional councillor column (The News, September 19) represents a very small view of a few individuals, and cannot go unchallenged. If the silent majority who…

Our local rock celebrities

We have five geological features in New Zealand that have recently received recognition for being “of the highest scientific value”, with “the world’s best demonstrations of geologic features and processes”. That’s pretty cool. The International…

See you later …

This week’s column will be my last for a while as I am taking up a development opportunity in Hamilton for six months. At the time of writing it is unclear who will be taking…

When the ground moves

Last week I discussed our tectonic plates and the Hikurangi Subduction Zone (HSZ). It’s important to understand these processes and not just as a geologist. If you’re a Marvel movie fan, to quote Peter Quill…

Trains, planes and weddings

The marriage between Eleanor, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs H de Lacy Peake, of ‘Denbigh’, Hairini, and Brian Malcolm Hague, third son of Mr and Mrs A Hague, of Leeds, Yorkshire, England, was solemnised at St Paul’s Church. The bride wore…

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