Te Awamutu Courier’S Office Will Close This Thursday at 4Pm and Re-Open After Easter at 8Am, Tuesday April 18
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where are we? Te Awamutu 1585 Alexandra Street, Te Awamutu what do we do? Panel and paint specialists and Insurance approved repairs for cars, trucks & machinery - courtesy cars available Published Tuesday & Thursday TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2017 Couurier PH 871 6780 Your community newspaper for over 100 years EXTRA COPIES 40c Crash victim Death questions airlifted The Waikato Westpac Rescue Helicopter was dispatched to the isolated community of Marakopa yesterday morning for a 33-year-old man who had seriously injured himself after crashing off a motorbike Sunday night. He had spent the night trying to recuperate with friends and family. The victim had multiple injuries and was flown to Waikato Hospital for further treatment. Early close Te Awamutu Courier’s office will close this Thursday at 4pm and re-open after Easter at 8am, Tuesday April 18. There is only one publication next week, on Thursday, April 20. Art funding Funding is now open for creative projects in Waipa. The Creative Communities Scheme is aimed at supporting community arts initiatives that help grow and promote creativity through TC110417DT01 access and participation, POLICE and St John diversity and young people. Ambulance at the scene of an Funding can cover unexplained death in Hazelmere materials for arts activities, Cres on Thursday morning. venue or equipment hire, personnel and administrative costs for short-term projects, promotion of arts activities and more. Apply at https:/ /tinyurl.com/l9d5jcw Information sought on events in area BY DEAN TAYLOR He said people who were at post-mortem on the man. the home cordoned off and were the address when the man died As the incident unfolded on surprised at the level of police Police are investigating the had been spoken to and no one Thursday morning the road was activity. death of a 45-year-old Auckland else is being sought. partially congested with three Word had quickly spread of a man at a Hazelmere Cres address However, police would like to ambulances and up to six police fatality and disbelieving family on Thursday morning, which is hear from anyone who may have cars in attendance. and friends were also arriving to being treated as unexplained. heard or seen something in Families were trying to access show support. St John Ambulance was Hazelmere Cres on the morning nearby Te Awamutu Intermedi- called to the address shortly after of the incident. ate School as it started for the ■ Anyone with information is asked 6.30am. Ambulance officers in Detective Ian Foster of Te day and locals assisted with to contact Te Awamutu on 07 872 turn called police. Awamutu CIB confirmed the traffic control during the busy 0100 or provide the information Detective Senior Sergeant investigation was ongoing fol- time. anonymously to Crimestoppers on Nigel Keall is heading the case. lowing the completion of the Neighbours had woken to find 08000 555 111. 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Clearly, the Pavilion in March, to help Tuesday 2.03am 2.28pm we miss the point. The heroes of my time were values we once held dear, that the charity Flame Cambodia Wednesday 3.04am 3.23pm We now live in a society and people of personal substance, the helped define us as a people and rescue children from the Thursday 4.08am 4.39pm age vastly different to the one likes of Jean Batten, Charles nation, aren’t just slipping away slums in Cambodia. into which I was born in the early Upham and Edmund Hillary and they are being swept away in a Through donations and 1950s, and yes one can rightly today, though I struggle to use the veritable tsunami of personal the sale of paintings, wind- KAWHIA 2 DAY EASTER argue that that era is often words modern equivalent, we avarice and greed and we collec- chimes, craft work, bags and viewed through rose coloured have Ali Williams, Justin Bieber tively, are the poorer for it. scarves we made almost FISHING COMPETITION glasses, but I think it’s unde- and The Kardashians. Unless we find the courage to enough to keep four chil- niable that within one generation My heroes knew the meaning redress this loss of values, to hold dren in school for a year or TICKETS SOLD HERE - the major difference is that our of the words ‘service to the up and revere those who serve for provide eight children their CASH ONLY emphasis has changed from fo- community’ and their deeds and its own reward, I fear we are lunches for a year, plus cusing primarily on people to actions not only inspired a gen- destined to live in a world of helping a mother who is SAT 15 & that of property and possessions. eration but returned the real escalating crime and personal fundraising to put her SUN 16 APRIL In order to be accepted and tangible dividend of example. aggrandisement. daughter through univers- admired as ‘successful’ in today’s Not all wealth is measured in KEITH SMITH ity — about $2500 overall. GET YOUR Isn’t that amazing? TACKLE HERE! New Zealand Art for Charity really enjoyed sup- Reducing NZ’s benefit dependency porting local Te Awamutu woman Sue Hanna and her WINZ told me that there are locked the everyday consumer 3. Putting more funding into team who do the work over over 1 million Kiwis on a benefit. out of the market. trade academies and apprentice- there. Over half of those people are of Here are some ways that the ship programmes would decrease They pour so much of Stay Safe working age and over 200,000 of Government could intervene to the number of 18 to 24-year-olds their lives into helping these on the them are receiving a benefit increase disposable income and on a main benefit, while at the children who have so very because they can’t afford to live reduce the number of hard- same time growing and strength- little. One whom they sup- Water, without it. The cost of living is working New Zealanders ening our infrastructure. port is now a qualified doc- Remember skyrocketing, people can’t afford needing financial assistance: The three policies I propose tor, and another a brilliant to wear rents and mortgages, they are 1. Introduce a subsidy on fruit above would build a more photographer. your Life being priced out of the housing and vegetables funded by the sustainable New Zealand, reduce Thanks to all those who market, very few businesses are revenue from a sugar tax, thus benefit dependency, increase the are taking a special interest Jackets. willing to take on the next gen- making healthy foods an supply of housing, decrease the Flame’s work, and thanks to eration of workers, and healthy affordable part of the everyday number of illnesses related to the Burchell Pavilion mana- foods that were once common in diet again. poor dietary health, and increase ger for allowing us to hold the everyday diet are now a 2. Subsidise the installation of the consumer-base for Kiwi the exhibition in such a luxury. solar panels on buildings, by growers, producers and farmers. good venue. It is no surprise then that giving the owner free power and Things can’t keep going the way We hope to be back in the hard-working Kiwis must go to putting the rest back into the they are, it’s time for change, near future. WINZ for assistance. Basic grid, doing this would slash because Kiwis need solutions, not ROBYN JACKSON 166 Cambridge Rd, Te Awamutu economics shows us that un- power bills and increase dispos- excuses. New Zealand Art for Ph: 871 3474 (FISH) bridled market forces have able income. 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