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Te Awamutu Ph (07) 871-5069 email: [email protected] Your community newspaper for over 100 years Thursday, August 8, 2019 410 Bond Road, Te Awamutu C A/H 021 503 404 Rocking out Agencies on move at Bandquest The Waikato round of this year’s Rockshop Bandquest is in Hamilton on Monday, August 12. Young bands from the region will take to the stage at Clarence St Theatre from 6.30pm. Among the bands performing are Te Awamutu Intermediate bands Waxy Thursday and 6 minute noodle and Te Pahu¯School bands Freeze Point and Five Savages. They will be among 200 intermediate and primary school bands taking part in the competition in towns from Auckland to Dunedin. Get support The next La Leche League breastfeeding support meeting is on Wednesday, August 14 at the Kindergarten Room, Presbyterian Church, Mutu Street from 10am to midday. Meetings are held every second Wednesday of the month. Zone scheme Te Awamutu Intermediate is planning to implement an enrolment zone scheme for 2020, due to growth in the Blank canvas at 204 Sloane St that will be a dual home for Government agencies Work and Income and Oranga Tamariki. Photo / Dean Taylor district. The community is invited to a consultation meeting on Landmark building demolished to make room for site Wednesday, August 14 in the library/hub. There are also forms BY DEAN TAYLOR building has been demolished begin preparations for the co- available at the school office. and the site cleared for the new location.” A landmark building in facility. The new site will Oranga Tamariki — Ministry Sloane St has been demolished to Ministry of Social Develop- for Children media support per- Child care provide better Te Awamutu RSA is make way for a purpose built ment regional commissioner Te ‘ son Sally Page confirms the block which will house the Min- Rehia Papesch says in order to children’s agency will be operat- hosting a one-hour seminar cohesion and make istry of Social Development’s better serve the Te Awamutu it easier for families ing from the Te Awamutu site on the Care of Children Act on Work and Income and Oranga community Work and Income is alongside the Ministry of Social Tuesday, August 20 at Tamariki — Ministry for Chil- looking to co-locate with Oranga to seek help and Development. 10.30am. dren. Tamariki at a new purpose-built engage with both The agencies are still in the The seminar is presented No 204 Sloane St was most site. organisations. early stages of planning and by Community Law Waikato. recently home to J.A. Russell “The new site will provide preparation and say it is too RSVP to Billie Dell, 0800 Electrical and Data Supplies — better cohesion and make it TE REHIA PAPESCH’ early to say exactly when they 529482 (option 3) or now relocated to 60 Vaile St — easier for families to seek help will be moving into a new loca- [email protected]. and for many years prior Rickit’s and engage with both organisa- tion. Gold coin entry. hardware store, the forerunner tions,” says Te Rehia. However, they envisage the to Te Awamutu Mitre 10. “Staff and members of our dawn ceremony on Monday to move will take place some time Over the past two weeks the local community attended a bless the proposed site as we in 2020. 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Kiwis are now facing, and meant they had a bit Government continues to forge ahead with this When you add up all of the new taxes, and more in their wallets at the end of the week. policy. take into consideration the cancelled tax relief, The economy is continuing to weaken Not only is the price of electricity up, but so is Kiwi families are looking at $7000 out of their because of this Government’s poor policy the cost of living, rents are up an average of $50 pockets over four years. That does nothing to decisions. But it’s a strong economy that pays for a week, and petrol is on the rise too. increase the wellbeing of an average family. wellbeing. A weaker economy means the It is very clear that New Zealanders cannot New Zealand households will be $1750 a Government has less for health, education and afford this Government. [email protected] year worse off on average, just because of the infrastructure. The Government is taking more and money, taxes being piled on. Electricity prices will rise as a result of the but isn’t spending it wisely. Taxpayers are forking The Government has increased fuel taxes Government’s renewable electricity policy, Kiwis out more than $2 billion for fees-free, which has [email protected] three times since it came into power, it’s added could have to pay an extra $300 a year to heat resulted in fewer students, $3 billion for Shane on a regional fuel tax in Auckland, introduced ring their home. This is going to hit low income Jones’ slush fund, and $2 billion on KiwiBuild. [email protected] fencing of losses on rental properties, Amazon households and vulnerable families in poor National has announced we will index tax Tax, GST on overseas roaming, extended the quality housing, the ones who are least able to thresholds to the cost of living. This means [email protected] bright-line test and increased Worksafe levies. All afford this increase. This is just as we start to hit income taxes would be adjusted every three this, and the Government cancelled the previous the worst of winter. years in line with the cost of living. [email protected] ■ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Wayne Michell 027 494 7770 Pip Jensen It’s critical to discuss vaccination 027 569 4317 Maraea Jamieson 021 023 59612 With the measles outbreak causing immune system broadly, reducing or my patients did cause regressive encepha- some concern among public health enhancing susceptibility to unrelated dis- lopathy with features of autism spectrum officials and doctors, and musings about eases. Hence the vaccine sceptics have a disorder.” mandatory vaccination circulating, could right to point out that we do not know the The techniques are available to try and I present some comments from experts. full effects of vaccines on overall health. It identify these at risk children and modify [email protected] Dr Christine Stabell Benn, Professor of should therefore be a human right to the vaccination schedule for their safety. Global Health and vaccine researcher at weigh pros and cons and unknowns to It won’t happen if we can’t talk about it. The University of Southern Denmark make one’s own decision.” Robert Kennedy Jnr has done an wrote in The Times of London on March 2, On September 7, 2018 Dr Robert interesting presentation on Gardasil and I 2019, “As a vaccine researcher, I strongly Zimmerman, a paediatric neurologist and would recommend anyone to watch it. The oppose mandatory vaccination. The autism expert, signed a sworn affidavit results are amazing. vaccines that are in use were only tested saying, (Section 9) “in a subset of children Simply search “Robert Kennedy We’re online at nzmecommunitynews.pressreader.com for effects on the vaccine-targeted disease with an underlying mitochondrial dys- Gardasil Science Day Presentation”. and on side effects in relation to the function, vaccine induced fever and im- It remains critically important to be vaccination, However there is increasing mune stimulation that exceeded the meta- able to discuss all aspects of vaccination. 2016 evidence that vaccines also affect the bolic reserves could, and in at least one of JANION HEYWOOD Thursday, August 8, 2019 Te Awamutu Courier 3 Set net ban proposal would affect Ka¯whia BY SAVANNAH WELSH Waitomo News A proposed set net ban for all west coast harbours from Maunga- nui Bluff to New Plymouth drew 200 people to a meeting at the Ka¯whia Community Hall on Friday afternoon. The proposal is part of the five- yearly review of the Hector’s and Maui dolphin Threat Management Plan due to be updated in 2021. Local residents Boy Davis and 702 Rukuhia Rd, RD2, Ohaupo, Hamilton Alan Rubay arranged Friday’s 07 825 2893 | www.vilagradwines.co.nz meeting, because a series of publi- cation consultations by the Department of Conservation and the Ministry of Fisheries had not included Ka¯whia. The organisations are asking for the public’s feedback on the proposed options for managing human-induced threats to the dolphins. The majority of those present said they had never seen dolphins in the Ka¯whia Harbour so putting Inshore Fisheries manager Steve Halley (left) and advisor Laura the set net restriction in place Furneaux led a public consultation in Ka¯whia on Friday to discuss a would not beneficial and nega- proposal of prohibiting set net fishing in the harbour.