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Te Awamutu Ph (07) 871-5069 email: [email protected] 410 Bond Road, Te Awamutu YourC community newspaper for over 100 years Thursday, March 18, 2021 A/H 021 503 404 BRIEFLY Life Education AGM Wednesday, March 24 will present an opportunity to be involved in the Life Education Trust Waipa¯/King Country AGM which will take place at the offices of GW Accounting on Mahoe Street, Te Awamutu. Life Education Trust Waipa¯/ King Country has been successfully delivering the Life Education programme to many children throughout the region since 1992. Anyone who would like to see what is involved or may be interested in supporting the work of the trust is welcome to attend the AGM or contact the secretary, Mandy Rasmussen - 0274 930928, (07) 872 0236 (wk), Police controlling traffic at the wake at a Cambridge Rd property for car crash victim 21-year-old Te Awamutu man Kyle Ross. Photos / Dean Taylor [email protected] Author workshop ’I have a novel in me’ - How to make that a reality. A workshop with Julie Thomas will take place at the Te Awamutu Library tomorrow Police use tough night from 6.30pm-8pm. The Cambridge author will share practical advice on plotting, pacing, characters and dialogue and how to end. Julie has worked in the media for over 25 years in radio, TV and film. She has written three tactics on racers novels and seven feature film scripts. Seven cars impounded to date after mourners turn Cambridge Road into a skid pad Numbers are limited so please register on the Waipa¯District Belinda Feek Libraries website. aikato police say they will continue to target Balloons in Waipa¯ illegal boy racer activity Te Awamutu will host a range and have teamed up of hot air balloons when the Wwith a neighbouring district to help popular Balloons visit Waipa¯ combat problems. event heads to Albert Park A section of Cambridge Rd was left tomorrow night. covered in skid marks after the There will be a rare funeral of 21-year-old Kyle Ross who opportunity to walk through was killed in a crash at Gordonton last the Waikato Sunrise Rotary month. hot air balloon in exchange for Many of Ross’s friends were photo- a gold coin donation, all graphed doing burn outs and driving money will go to KidsCan dangerously, which left a large Charitable Trust. amount of damage to the road and Police apprehended the driver of a passing vehicle for alleged sustained loss of traction and confiscated the car — the This free family event will run other motorists fearing for their safety first of three impounded on the day of Kyle Ross’ funeral. Four more cars have since been impounded. from 5pm-8pm. as they moved to the wake near Saturday night will see the Gleneagles Drive on March 3. vehicles had since been impounded funeral and they had been working number of tactics” never previously ZURU Nightglow from 4pm- Police were called and three with their owners now facing action to try and prevent it from happening. been used by police before. 9pm at the University of vehicles were impounded. in the Te Awamutu District Court. They had an investigator dedi- Waikato. Waikato road policing manager He said they were aware of grow- cated full time to the issue and boy Inspector Jeff Penno said four more ing concern from locals since the racers could expect to start seeing “a continued page 2 SUZUKI DR200SEL5 TROJAN INCL $5,995 GST $600 ON WAIKATO MILKING MINIMUM TRADE-IN SYSTEMS CUP REMOVERS ANY TRADE DEAD OR ALIVE See instore for details Te Awamutu Otorohanga Putaruru 2 Livingstone Brothers Ln 12 Progress Drive 89 Tirau Street P: 07 871 6781 P: 07 873 8500 P: 07 883 3423 2 Te Awamutu Courier Thursday, March 18, 2021 Boy racers’ cars taken away Circulated free to 14,045 homes in Te Awamutu and surrounding districts. continued from page 1 so we can best formulate a tactical response.” “boy racer activity was something that really Vehicles that get impounded were locked up affects local communities’ quality of life and CIRCULATION 14,147* Penno said for obvious operational reasons for 28 days. wellbeing”. he couldn’t disclose the tactics and while they Given the wide reach of boy racers, Waikato “The Te Awamutu community have PHONE: 07 871 5151 were actively trying to prevent it, they encour- police would be working with neighbouring supported police by providing images and POSTAL ADDRESS: aged members of the public to continue to send police districts. video of a recent incident, resulting in seven 97 Sloane Street, PO Box 1, them footage — if it was safe to capture — of “We’re working with neighbouring districts vehicles subsequently being impounded. Te Awamutu 3840 it happening so they could chase it up. and we’re just going to do some different stuff “Police can act on incidents of boy racer “We’re always reviewing our tactics and to ensure that we are best impacting this type activity after the fact, including impounding OFFICE HOURS: always listening to the public’s concerns. We of anti-social behaviour.” vehicles. Photos and videos are great, but only Monday - Friday 8am - 4pm have always responsive to our locals and A key factor was prevention and the most if they can be taken safely. Members of the Closed Public Holidays mayors and we are constantly managing our effective way of doing that was to upset the public should not put themselves at risk. DELIVERY QUERIES: 0800 111 200 demand with our resources and applying tac- environment which attracted boy racers in the “Even times, dates and places are critical for tics that will prevent this behaviour.” first place. police to complete an intelligence picture to EDITORIAL Police had strong legislative force to react “Prevention is the model we police by and enable us to best respond.” Dean Taylor (Editor) to situations which blow out of control. in a lot of cases we need to do crime prevention Loughrin said community meetings in the “If these people are going to engage in that and change the environment to ensure this Western Waikato district were being organised Ext: 67705 0274 819951 anti social activity and do significant damage doesn’t occur. to begin next month. He hoped it would give [email protected] to our roading infrastructure and annoy the “Changing the whole roading infrastructure concerned residents a chance to provide Caitlan Johnston Ext: 67710 public then we will certainly be taking strong including putting up barriers. feedback. [email protected] enforcement action. Burnouts do massive dam- “Just something that makes it unattractive “Community feedback helps ensure police Jesse Wood Ext: 67713 age to the roads and that costs every taxpayer. or unusable for that criminal activity.” get our tactics right to so that everyone feels [email protected] “But we need the intelligence pictures, we Western Waikato Area Commander Inspec- safe and is safe at home, work and when out SPORT need people to tell us where they’re seeing it tor Will Loughrin commented on Facebook that in their communities.” [email protected] ADVERTISING Leon Green 027 2393864 Waipa¯to consult on Ma¯ori wards [email protected] [email protected] Waipa¯District Council will undertake district Council last considered the option in 2017 ment had to be district-wide, but added that CLASSIFIEDS wide engagement in relation to the establish- and decided to look at alternative options for independent consultation with iwi was also Tania King Ext: 67708 ment of a Ma¯ori Ward following the outcome engagement with Ma¯ori rather than establish taking place. of Tuesday’s Strategic Planning and Policy aMa¯ori ward. Mayor Jim Mylchreest said it was best to [email protected] Committee. There have been ongoing discussion with iwi keep and open mind and not be presumptuous. We welcome letters - preferably via email. Councillors approved three recommenda- since that time, which will make up part of the He said the advice was to consult widely and They should be under 300 words and tions presented by manager governance Jo engagement data. he believed the more points of view that were must have the sender’s name, address Gread: to receive the report; approve commun- In late 2020 four iwi representatives, known gathered, the better the decision making would and phone number. No pseudonyms ity consultation and on-going discussions with as Te Kanohi, were appointed to four formal be. are accepted and names will only be Ma¯ori prior to making a decision regarding committees of Waipa¯District Council to bring Councillors Andrew Brown and Lou Brown withheld in special circumstances at the establishing a Ma¯ori Ward in time for the 2022 aMa¯ori world view to each committee and be concurred with the Mayor. discretion of the editor. Letters are not elections, and; approving the consultation docu- a voice for mana whenua interests across the The consultation document — Me Waipa¯ usually acknowledged and may be edited, ment. district. Whakauru i Te Paroita Ma¯ori? — is available now abridged or discarded. The report stated Ma¯ori are typically under- In the discussions Cr. Hazel Barnes disagreed and submissions need to be received by represented on councils compared to popula- with the engagement being district wide, saying Monday, April 19. We’re online at tion figures. “we all know what the outcome will be”. nzmecommunitynews.pressreader.com Currently Waipa¯ District Council has no She said that outcome would hurt Council’s For more information go to www.

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