November 2018

Reviving Carter’s Reserve Volunteers wanted More than three years ago Pat McLean and Duncan Moore started “We have a lot of fun,” Duncan said. to work in the willow-infested Waikoukou Stream of Carter’s Reserve. “Weeding is a forever job,” Pat said. “We just want to return They were joined by Robert Hicks and Steve Carson. whatever was here before.” The men are killing weeds – ivy, blackberry and others – planting If you think you would like to join this great community of native sedges along the river bank and gradually clearing the main volunteers and help restore Carter’s Reserve, get in touch with Pat problem, willows, which block the stream, causing the water level to McLean 027 406 6767. rise and native trees to drown. Of the reserve’s 34 hectares, ten of “We’re here every Thursday,” he said. them are covered in willow. Jan Farr At first they drilled holes in the willow and filled them with herbicide. Now they ring-bark the willows to protect the waterways from herbicides. To prevent an explosion of weeds when the tall trees go, they are putting in a ground-cover of native plants. “The aim is both to suppress weeds and provide shade for the stream and its inhabitants,” Pat said. “A guiding principle in clearing willows is to work gradually to give time to correct mistakes, learn from experience and ensure minimal disruption to the habitat of native fish – the kokopu species, tuna and lamprey.” Jamie Harbord, DOC biodiversity officer, is delighted to have been given Carter’s Reserve to care for. “The reserve is a rare piece of original Wairarapa Plains forest,” he said. He’s excited at the prospect of the fish species regenerating. I asked if the enormity of the job made them dispirited. “We don’t think about it,” Robert said. Pat McLean, Duncan Moore, Robert Hicks and Jamie Harbord. Missing Steve Carson.

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Gina Collings www.housepoint.co.nz Leanne Carlton Licensed Real Estate Salesperson Licensed Real Estate Salesperson Editorial About us The Carterton Crier is a community magazine, written, edited and distributed by volunteers. Carterton’s eco Feel free to join us. Send your stories and letters to crier.ed@gmail. com (See Contributions below.) If you want to become a deliverer, warriors email us at [email protected] On a recent visit to Carters Reserve I discovered a group, led by Contributions Pat McLean, who told me that they meet once a week to clear the We want unique, local stories about the community. Stories about wetlands around the Waikoukou Stream, which is choked with weeds individuals must demonstrate the subject’s connection to the and causing the death of native trees. community. [email protected] Patiently and with support from DOC – week by week, weed by Word limits: Stories 300 words. Letters 200 words. What’s on 50 words. weed, regenerating branch by regenerating branch, tree by tree Photos should be sent at their largest size and attached to the email, – they are clearing this repo of weeds, allowing the native trees to not to a document. breath and giving the gift of their time and energy to the people of Deadline is strictly the 25th of the month. All contributions are proof- Carterton and to generations to come. read and subject to editing. Later I discovered that not only do these people work selflessly on Carters Reserve, but many of them are also part of another team Advertising Pat leads, which clears weeds every week at Fensham Reserve. They See inside back page for prices, sizes and contact information. are well organised, independent, witty, optimistic and clearly enjoy each other’s company. Any time spent in their company is a tonic. See articles, front page and page 26, this issue. Another eco warrior, Nigel Boniface, conservationist, pest trapper and DOC volunteer, recently became Age Concern Wairarapa’s Senior Citizen of the Year. As far as I’m concerned, they’re all citizens of the year – every year. Jan Farr

At Carters Reserve, Robert Hicks ring-barks a large willow, while Duncan Moore works on the dam the tree’s roots have created. Photos Jan Farr. Heart of Arts Painter Natalia Vidyakina – change and inspiration Natalia Vidyakina’s solo exhibition at Heart of Arts runs until November 21. Natalia is from Yekaterinburg in the Russian Urals and is now a NZ citizen. Her background is as varied as her work. She puts this down to her natural curiosity and her love of change. She has been a civil engineer, a swimming coach, has run a retail women’s clothing shop, is a New Zealand trained hairdresser and still works part-time. This is Natalia’s fourth solo exhibition. To add more variety to her ever-changing work she recently completed a workshop with Viv Walker on the use of inks and has several lovely works in the exhibition in this medium. She also works in oils, water colour, acrylics and mixed media. “I am completely self-taught,” she said. “Now, after a gap from art, it looks like the time to come back. I enjoy it so much. I like exploring Natalia Vidyakina, backed by paintings from her solo show at Heart of and evolving. Some people advise me to just stick to one subject. I Arts and holding one of her new ink works. would get bored probably. You can see that I have explored with my flower tree, animals and clouds. “I admire art. I have a collection at home. I am in a romantic wonderful. Personally, I like what I am doing. impressionist style – not so much realistic and contemporary. “Inspiration is the most important thing,” Natalia said. “If you get Drawing in black and white – etching – I like very much. bored, you can’t force yourself to work. You become like a craftsman. “It’s good when people like your art, but still, you do it for yourself. I am a free spirit. I like to be inspired.” I enjoy the process. If thirty per cent of people like it, I think that’s Jan Farr Ra’s korero Senior Person of the Carter Reserve’s Year Award rhythm Sometimes in a tangi I want to spend time alone and I like to do this in the taiao. Taiao can be broken into two words, tai or tide and ao, the earth, so taiao is the environment, the earth’s rhythm. The Carter Reserve is walking distance CUSTOMERfrom the TAmarae,KE NOTE Hurunui--CARTERTONRa Smith. PUBLISHING 18/01/17 o-Rangi. SALESIt honours REP L.HARTNELL Charles Rooking Photo Masterton PUBLICATION WAIRARAPANEWS District Council. ADVERTISINGCarter. ThisDESIGNER place has OUTSOURCERan earthly rhythm. SECTION ROP BILL ONLY PROOF Carter ReservePROOFED had17/01/2017 a pre-European 10:30:00 a.m. SIZE 9.1X9 character as a repo or wetland. Aotearoa’s tallest tree is the Kahikatea. WE-7355373AA (100%) It grows in wetlandsAD ID with roots in loose soil. It is a family tree that FAX needs to grow in clumps of other Kahikatea so the roots of all the trees PLEASE APPROVEcan THIS grow ADand ASinterconnect. SOON ASThe trees POSSIBLE. on the outside NOTE are supported THATA NY ALTERATIONS MUSTby the BEroots FINALISED of the other’s. In BY its OURrhythm MATERIAL the giant is stabilized. DEADLINE. In its rhythm I have been stabilized. Carter Reserve was a place I visited in winter and I heard it sing. Now that I think about it, a wetland’s time is when it is wet. The flow of water through plants like harakeke make the earth’s rhythm come alive. Only three percent of Wairarapa wetlands have survived. They are places where our indigenous fish grow. The Waikaka or the cheeky kaka of the wai or water, commonly known as mudfish, is one of the characters of the repo. Conservationist, DOC volunteer, pest trapper and tramper, Nigel Boniface, Now Wetlands could be a remedy for some of our freshwater receiving Age Concern Wairarapa’s Senior Person of the Year award at the troubles. Repo plants can take out nutrients. Kuta can take methane Old Courthouse in Carterton on 30 October. Photo Jan Farr. out of backwater soils. There are trials to look at the effects of manuka roots on the pathogen ecoli. Raupo take up nitrates. Enterprising farmers use this knowledge in constructed wetlands that maximise the number of plants the water travels through so the water can be cleansed of nutrients, sediment and pathogens and the rhythm restored. Ra Smith

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Children at Pūkaha open day. The sustainable-enterprise team at work. Dalefield Horse Wairarapa Shafts & Wheels Christmas dressage Riding Park opens We’re excited at the Wairarapa Shafts & Wheels Driving Association Located at the top of Dalefield Road in the Kaipaitangata Forest, (affiliated to The New Zealand Carriage Driving Society Inc.) The the horse riding park is a collaboration between Carterton District Christmas graded-dressage weekend is quickly approaching. It Council which owns the land, Forest Enterprises which manages it, is held during the last week of November at the lovely Clareville and the local horse riding community. Showgrounds on the outskirts of Carterton. Access is only at weekends for safety reasons and to ensure that This annual event attracts between 20 and 30 entries and is a there is no impact on current forestry operations. It will be managed weekend not to be missed. A wide range of equines, from miniature by a booking system with key access. horses, normally driven as singles, to teams of standardbreds, Further details can be found at the Dalefield Horse Riding group’s compete in several grades of dressage (much like ridden dressage). Facebook page: After that there is a fun class: ‘Scurry’ which is a bit of relief after the https://www.facebook.com/groups/178041366356225/ strict discipline of dressage. Then there is the cone course where the carriage units navigate through the marked course, being careful not to knock the balls off the top of the cones. Penalty points are given if this happens. On Sunday there is the marathon. This is much like cross-country and has obstacles, such as water hazards; a good place to be with your camera. There is no gate-charge. Please keep your dogs on a leash for everyone’s safety, including your dog’s. Judy Pawson A weekend not to miss.

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Community Rotary Club of Carterton Christmas Parade Christmas dinner On Saturday November 24 at 12.30 pm, Santa will, as usual, drive The annual Carterton Christmas dinner on Christas Day at the his reindeer down Carterton’s High Street along with the town’s other Events Centre is free and open to anyone in the community who floats. Christmas in Carterton is the theme of this year’s parade. wants to come. There is no entry fee for floats. There will be three categories of It is planned and delivered by a team of capable and hard-working prizes: Business, Non-business and Street/neighbourhood. Floats will volunteers. “We prepare between 80 and 100 meals,” said Sue Fleet assemble in Wakelin Street at 11.30am. Prizes will be awarded after who has organised the dinner for about ten years now. “A big thank the parade at Club Carterton, Broadway. you to our wonderful volunteers. We couldn’t possibly do it without As well there will be a display by the Volunteer Fire Brigade and a them. decorated window competition for Carterton retailers. “We also have generous donors. There’s a farmer who donates the And don’t forget the High Street stalls, the music and the lamb. Premier Bacon donates the ham and as well we have chicken. entertainment. The volunteers donate vegetables and desserts. All we ask is a koha If you want to enter a float, contact Pam Robinson, 06 379 7637, to help with next year’s dinner.” 021 111 6629. Sue knows of two branches of one family who are to meet in If you’re interested in running a stall, contact Bryan Geurts: Carterton this year at the Christmas dinner because Carterton is 06 379 9364, 027 440 0631. between their homes. Email for both floats and stalls: [email protected] “I’ve got places I could go for Christmas dinner but I would go along to our community one, even if I wasn’t running it,” she said. “It’s nice to share Christmas with others.” Sue said that she continues to be involved because she has always believed in giving back to people. If you’re interested in joining this great event as a volunteer, or you intend to come along and enjoy the dinner, please phone Sue on 379 8850 (leave a message if she’s not there) or email her: sue. [email protected]. To find out more see their Facebook page: Carterton NZ Community Christmas Dinner. Jan Farr Sue Fleet. Photo Jan Farr. Santa visits Carterton (2016). Photo Jan Farr. Foodbank collection: November 14 The Foodbank is run by dedicated volunteers who do a wonderful Health issues: let us know on the phone message if you have job. We are supported by businesses, the Council and individuals in special requirements such a diabetes, food allergies, are gluten free, Carterton. There is a yearly Foodbank evening collection this year vegetarian or vegan. on November 14 which is helped by the Volunteer Fire Brigade, the You have a limit of three parcels before you need to seek help from Police, the Ambulance, Rotary, Lions and other volunteers, during a budget adviser. We have one available at Haumanu House. which fire engines and cars drive around the town collecting bags of We aim to help older people in by having a parcel with things that food people have put out. We appreciate all that is given. are easier to open and to cook. If you require a food parcel, we have a few hints for you to make Carterton is a great community to be part of and we would like to the process easier. thank all people who volunteer and donate to us. Please speak clearly and slowly on the answer phone so we can We are open Monday to Friday, 06 379 4092. All calls need to be write down your details. made before 11 am on the day and pick-up is between 11.30 am and Let us know the age of your children so we can put appropriate midday at Haumanu House between Carters and the clock tower on items in for them. High Street. We are closed on public holidays. Bring along identification of your name and address. Yvonne O’Dowd Carrington Bowls and Croquet Club Carterton Golf Club Give it a go! Breezy bucket Our season is well underway for both bowls and croquet, with both croquet and bowling greens looking good thanks to the efforts by the tournament greenkeepers and helpers who spend many hours preparing them. On the Saturday of We have been removing trees and the Council has removed the Labour weekend, Carterton laurel hedge in front of the croquet green. We will be erecting new Golf Club held their Annual fences along the boundary. We welcome interested people to come Bucket Tournament. A good and have a look at either bowling or croquet and maybe give it a go. field of golfers turned up to Below are contact details: play and, despite the wind Croquet: Golf croquet is played Wednesday and Saturday that prevailed at times, had afternoons 1 pm for 1.15 pm start. fun putting into bucket Please contact Steve Davis if you are interested in learning croquet sized holes. Thank you to or just come along and have a look. Association croquet is played our sponsors: Carterton Tuesday and Sundays 9.15 am for 9.30 am start. Contact Robin Brasell New World and Premier 06 222 4000 Beehive. The men’s winner Bowls: Roll up every Tuesday and Saturday afternoons 1 pm. Phone was James O’Connor and Rex Kenny or just come along and give it a go. We can supply bowls. the women’s winner was Business House bowls starts November 13. For further information Marilyn Beetham. Marilyn Beetham and James O’Connor, phone Ray Beale 379 8242. Start time 5-45 pm – three games of 35 Wendy Wills Bucket Tournament winners. minutes. Make up a team of three with friends, family or work mates. FootGolf kicks off Wairarapa’s only FootGolf course is now available for play at Carterton Golf Club, Chester Road. Just as it sounds, FootGolf combines the skills of football with the concept of golf. Players kick a soccer ball from tee to hole, counting shots along the way. Costs are reasonable with a round of FootGolf costing $10 and ball hire only $5, or $25 per family for two adults and three children under 16. The course takes about an hour. Masterton Mayor Lyn Patterson was there for the opening of the Footgolf course on Sunday, October 28. As well there were families and lots of keen, young people. Come along to the club to support the this new sport in Wairarapa Further information about Carterton FootGolf is available at www. cartertongolfclub.co.nz or by phoning 379 8457. Greg Martin, President, Carterton Golf Club

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What’s on November, December, 2018 Events Arts Aratoi. 12 Bruce St. A photographic essay from Uganda, ends November Aratoi. 12 Bruce St, Masterton. 10 am–4 pm. Closed on Christmas Day, 25. Minkisi, ends November 25, meet Collector Desmond Bovey, November Boxing Day, New Year’s Day. Admission: gold coin donation. 24, 2pm. 100 Years, 100 Lives, ends December 9. That’s How the Light Gets Book Club. Carterton District Council Library. Events Centre, last Monday of In, ends December 2. Rail Land, December 15, 2 pm. month. 10.30–11.30 am. Anne Hughes [email protected] Carterton Rose Show. November 16 and 17. Phone Graeme Renall Book Group. University of Third Age. Fourth Friday of month, 1.30 pm, 379 7065, The Village Hall Mauriceville Country Fair. Sunday December 2 from 9 am to 4 pm Clarke Rosevilla Drive. Sue Burns 379 6506. Memorial Domain Mauriceville. Stall sites available. Phone 06 929 7685 or Community Choir. Thursdays, 7.15–9 pm during school term, Carterton email [email protected] School Hall, $4 unwaged, $6 waged. [email protected] Manawatu Rose Society, Judging School: Sunday, December 2, 2018, Wai Art Group. First Monday of month, 10 am, Carterton Golf Club. Jane Palmerston North Community Leisure Centre, 569 Ferguson Street, Giles 379 6559. Palmerston North. Cost $20 pp (pay on the day). RSVP to Peter Elliott Wai Art Scape. For $20 a month Jane Giles places artists’ work in publicly [email protected] or 06 358 0071 by November 26. accessible spaces. [email protected], 379 6559. Open Air Life – Friluftsliv, invites you on a journey of discovery. October Wairarapa Music Co-Creation Meetings. Multi-generational, interactive, 20–November 18 (or until the rain comes). Masterton CBD, HQ at Te improvised, amateur orchestras at Aratoi Museum every Tuesday at 6 pm. Patukituki, 15 Queen Street. Blog: cbdnaturetrail.wordpress.com. Free. Koha entry. Hundreds of instruments provided. No experience required. Rose Trial Ground Awards 2018, Palmerston North, Sunday December 2, Facilitated by multi-instrumentalist Jonáš Koukl. Supported by the 2.30 pm, Dugald Mackenzie Rose Garden, Victoria Esplanade Gardens, Masterton District Arts Fund. www.connecting-music.nz | 0210 842 1552. Palmerston North. If wet, in the Manawaroa Pavilion. RSVP by November Write On Masterton. A monthly meet-up for writers to get together and 20 to Charles Foulds, 2a Crewe St, Pahiatua 4910, Ph 06 376 8436, email explore creativity through the written word. Free and open to anyone [email protected] who loves, or longs, to write. First Thursday of month at Masterton District Rotary Club of Carterton Annual Christmas Parade. Saturday Library from 6.30–8 pm. November 24. Theme: Christmas in Carterton – Let’s make it joyful. Great prizes, no entry fee. 4 Sections: Business; Non business; Schools and Services preschools; Street, neighbours, family and friends. Stall sites available. 3Mile. Weekly workshops showcasing smart entrepreneurs with experience Contact Pam Robinson 021 116 629 | 06 379 7637, christmasparade@xtra. and skills to share with our business community. Wednesdays 5.30–7 pm. co.nz Sign up via our Facebook or Meetup pages. Members free, $10 koha for South Wairarapa Indoor Bowls. Annual General Meeting, South Wairarapa non-members including a glass of wine and AWESOME networking. Workingmen’s Club, 7 pm Wednesday, November 28, 2018. All members Adele Pentony-Graham wants information about Carterton ancestors invited. Gail Miller, Secretary. 06 379 8341. buried at Featherston Military Cemetery or trained at Featherston for WWI. Stonehenge: Explore the Stars: 7 pm second Saturday of each month at [email protected] Stonehenge Aotearoa. Using images from space-telescopes we explore the Age Concern Coffee Mornings Carterton/Greytown, third Thursday of each universe. After each special presentation we observe the wonders of the month, 10 am, Courthouse, Holloway Street, Carterton. Various speakers. night sky through our large telescopes, weather permitting. 06 377 1600. Cost $3. Raffle $1. Contact 06 377 0066 for more information. Sunset Cinema, Friday December 7, The Brand New Testament, Belgian Alcoholics Anonymous. 8 pm Mondays. Salvation Army community Comedy, Fantasy. Carterton Events Centre. Website: sunsetcinemacarterton.com rooms, 210 High Street South. Dennis 377 5355, Martin 372 7764. Carterton Baptist Church. Service 10 am, Sunday morning. Come and find Education, youth, children a friendly home and meet our new minister, Wayne Poutoa. All welcome. Carterton Community Toy Library. Events Centre Holloway Street. Open Carterton Community dinner. Reformed Congregation Church Hall, library hours. Toy Hire for 0 to 8 years. Facebook: @carterton toy library. 6 oward Street. Every fourth Thursday of the month at 6 pm. All welcome. Carterton Kindergarten. 3 Victoria Street, 8.30–2.30 pm Monday to Friday. $6. RSVP 379 7937. Fantastic learning for twos and over. Phone: 379 8102 or call in to enrol. Carterton Foodbank: Answerphone: 379 4092. Website: wmkindergartens.org.nz. Email: [email protected]. Carterton Friendship Club. Last Tuesday of month, 10 am, Events Centre. nz. Also on Facebook. Jeanne 379 5444. Carterton Playcentre. Monday, Tuesday , Thursday, 9 am–12 pm at Howard Carterton District Historical Society, 44 Broadway. Local history archive Booth Park, Belvedere Road. Email [email protected], and on and resource room open Tuesdays 2–4 pm. Also open by appointment: Facebook. Maureen 379 9021 and Ann 379 9233. [email protected] Carterton Scout Group. Keas: Mondays 4.30–5.30pm, Sylvia Morgan Central Lions. First and third Wednesdays, Club Carterton, 35 Broadway. 379 7153. Cubs: Mondays 6–7.30 pm, John Sage 379 6882. Scouts: Thursdays First Wednesday, dinner meeting, 6 pm. Third Wednesday, supper meeting, 6.30–8.30 pm, Sarah Chapman 379 9238. 6.45 pm. Nita Edwards 027 247 8441. Dalefield Playgroup. Tuesdays term time 9.30 am–12 noon. Under fives. Club Carterton. club-carterton.com | Facebook. Dalefield hall, beside Dalefield School. Renee 022 315 3374. Epilepsy Support Group. Mondays 11 am, Salvation Army office, 210 High Girl Guide Groups. Guides, Mondays 6–8 pm, Sharon Aston 379 6067. Street South. 0800 20 21 22. Brownies, Thursdays 6–7.30 pm, Sharon Aston 379 6067. Pippins, Thursdays Freemasons. Greytown St Marks Lodge No. 53 meets second Tuesday of 4.30–5.30 pm, Debbie Fryer 379 6588. the month (except January) at the Lodge Hall, Holloway Street, Carterton at Kiddie Gym. Under threes. Wednesdays, term time, 9.30–11 am. St David’s 7.30 pm. New member enquiries contact Doug Johnston 379 8972. Church corner High and Victoria Streets. Lorna or Abby 379 8325. Justices of the Peace. Every Friday, 12 noon–2 pm, Carterton Library. Longbush Playgroup. Wednesdays, term time, 9.30–12 noon. Under fives. Kieran McAnulty. Labour list MP based in the Wairarapa, new offices 1135 Longbush Road. Eileen 372 7861. at 157 Queen Street, Masterton. [email protected], Rangatahi to Rangatira Youth Group. Rangatahi to Rangatira, a free 04 817 9999. Carterton youth group getting young people involved in their community. Lions Club: Second and fourth Wednesdays, Club Carterton, 35 Broadway. Every Wednesday evening, Carterton Youth Centre, 5.30–7.30 pm. 5.45 pm, socialising. 6.30 pm meeting, followed by dinner. Contact: Facebook: facebook.com/r2rcarterton Des Heath 379 6483, 021 0237 5286. South End Kindergarten next to South End School. Monday– Masterton Toastmasters Club. Every second Tuesday, Salvation Friday 8.30 am–2.30 pm. Vacancies 2018 for over twos. 379 7723, Army Rooms, High Street Carterton 7.30 pm. Next meetings Tuesday, [email protected] or call in. November 20, November 27. All welcome. Pam 027 669 9666. St John. Penguins (6–9 year olds) Tuesdays, 4:30–5:30 pm. Youth (8–18 year Rotary Club. 6.15 pm Mondays. Club Carterton, 35 Broadway. Kevin Conroy olds) Tuesdays 7–8:30 pm. Youth room, Events Centre. Maria Tankersley 379 9304. 379 6479. Senior Citizens. Now at Club Carterton, 35-77 Broadway. Second and Wairarapa Montessori Playgroup. All Welcome. Tuesdays in term time fourth Wednesdays, 10–11.30 am, Friday afternoons, 1.30 pm–4 pm. New 9.30–11.30 am, Carterton Plunket rooms. Bring a piece of fruit to share at members welcome. Yvonne Brown 379 9298. morning tea. Social Services Hub – Haumanu House: Courts, Community Law, Wairarapa Tai Chi. Wednesday 9.30–10.30 am. St Mark’s Hall, Richmond Rd. $6 per Free Budgeting, Care NZ, Pathways, Probation, Workwise, Hauora, Whaiora, session. Inland Revenue. Entrance behind clock tower. The Dance Shed. 450 Belvedere Road, rock’n’roll and line dancing. South Wairarapa Working Men’s Club. 304 9449, swwmc.org.nz, Wendy Walker 027 319 9814. [email protected] Wairarapa Dance Club. Club Carterton. Second Fridays, 7.30–10.30 pm. Russell 377 1609. Fairs, markets Wairarapa Dog Training Club. Rally-O, obedience and agility classes. Carterton Farmers Market. Memorial Square every second Sunday 9 am– Google us. 12.30 pm. Next market: November 18, December 2. info@cartertonmarket. Wairarapa Shafts & Wheels Driving Association. Clareville Showgrounds, co.nz 027 291 6846 meets monthly with a variety of club days. Christmas, graded-dressage Mauriceville Country Fair. Sunday December 2, Clarke Memorial Domain. weekend, late November. Carriage driving trials, early February 2019. Stallholder enquiries phone 06 929 7685 or email mauriceville85@gmail. The most fun you can have sitting down. For further information com. text or phone, 027 318 3359. Yoga with Odette, 75 Brooklyn Road. Bookings, Odette 0211809452, Sport, fitness, movement Classes: see website: nzyogasnug.com Clareville Badminton Club welcomes adults and kids of all ages and abilities. Tuesdays at the A&P Hall, Chester Road, 7–9 pm until mid-October. Special Interests $5 a session or $100 for the season. Reductions for students. Contact Julia, Cards On Wednesdays. Join an enthusiastic group playing 500 on 06 304 8157, [email protected] Wednesday afternoons 1.15 pm to 4.15 pm, Carterton Club. Barbara Cycling. Casual cycling, e-bikes and ordinary bikes. Wednesdays 9.30am 027 387 9236. at Howard Booth Park. Irene Price 0276 349 167 or Wendy 379 9034. All Garden Group. Every second Tuesday, 1.30 pm. Vicki Waller 379 9080, welcome. [email protected] Basketball. Mondays 7 pm, Kuranui College gym. $2 koha. Carterton Rose Society. Every third Monday. Graeme Renall, President, Facebook: Wairarapa Basketball Society. 379 7065, Vivienne Hawken, Secretary, 379 5564. Clareville Badminton Club. Clareville Stadium. Racquets available. Holdsworth Women’s Institute. Venue, Tom Bubb Lounge, Clareville $5 casual. $100 for season. Steve Ruscoe 027 333 3975. Showgrounds, meeting first Thursday of the month at 1.30 pm. Maureen Carrington Bowls and Croquet Club: Bowls, Tuesdays, Saturdays 1.30 pm Daysh, 379 5975. start. Croquet is played over the winter months. Association croquet Mah Jong: We play Mah Jong on Tuesday afternoons in the dining room on Sunday and Tuesday, 1 pm. Contact Veronica George 379 8644. Golf of Club Carterton, 35–77 Broadway from 1.15 pm to 4 pm. New members croquet, Saturday and Wednesday 1.15 pm. Contact Steve Davis 304 7155. welcome. Contact Margaret Stevens 379 8681 | [email protected] Carterton Golf Club Inc: Affiliated golfers welcomed to club days: Tuesday Mangatarere Society. Help breathe life into our river: Jill Greathead, 9.30 am tee-off (18-holes, vets/men/women); Wednesday 10.00 am 0274 884 376 [email protected] (18-holes, women), 11 am (9-holes, women); Friday noon tee-off (11-holes Menzshed. Tuesdays 9 am–1 pm, Thursdays 9 am–1 pm, Clareville complex, men/women); cartertongolfclub.co.nz for Saturday Club competition and A&P Showgrounds. Follow the signs. other events. Green fees $30/18 holes, $20/9-11holes. Railway Museum. Station. Sundays 11 am–4 pm. Website: Carterton Scottish Country Dance Club. Carterton School Hall, cartertonrailwaymuseum.org.nz Holloway Street. Mondays 7.30–9.30 pm. Contact Michael 06 377 0322 | South Wairarapa Bridge Club. Two weekly sessions, Monday and [email protected] Thursday, 6.30 pm. Visitors welcome. If you have learnt bridge and want to Carterton Swimming Club. Russell Geange 379 7750, Dean Adams start playing again we would love to hear from you. Website and email stay ph 021 190 9437. Water aerobics Monday–Thurs 10 am. Indoor pool and the same. Contact Katherine 027 243 3495 key hire, Grant Crawford 379 6431. Stonehenge Aotearoa. Open 10 am to 4 pm Wednesday to Sunday. Carterton Tennis Club. Junior session on Thursday afternoons from Storytelling guided tours, 11 am weekends. 06 377 1600. 4 pm. Senior’s club night Thursdays 5.30 pm. Tuesday mid-week from The Wairarapa Herb Society. Third Tuesday of the month,1.30 pm at the 9 am till midday. Weather permitting. www.sporty.co.nz/cartertontennis, old Courthouse, Holloway Street. Christine Paul 06 3701170 Val Richardson [email protected]. 06 3772035. Dalefield Hockey Club. Looking for coaches for all teams for 2019 season. Wairarapa Labour, Masterton Branch. First Monday of the month, Please contact Gail Miller, Secretary, for more information. 06 379 8341. 5.30 pm. Phone 379 8021 for venue and details. Free Fit Club. Carrington Park. 6 am Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays. 11 am The Wairarapa Woodworkers Guild meets 7 pm on the fourth Thursday Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays. All welcome. Di Bailey 027 498 7261. of the month at Carterton Menz Shed, Clareville Complex. All welcome. Gain Momentum: Pilates with Linda Penlington. See gainmomentum. Secretary 379 9198 or email [email protected] co.nz for details or the advertised timetable in this issue. Aging Gracefully Wairarapa Vintage Car Club. Every first Monday 7.30 pm, except statutory movement classes with Linda Penlington at Gain Momentum Holloway holidays, Clareville Showgrounds, Chester Road. Gary or Barbara Lang Street, Mondays and Tuesdays, 10 am. 372 7593. Dimensional Fitness classes (previously HIIT). Fitness training with Anaru and Dallas Te Rangi. Carrington Park. Facebook: Dimensional Fitness – Strength, Cardio, Circuit. Let us know what’s on: [email protected] Karate. South End School Hall, Thursdays 6 pm. Thomas Duncan 027 302 8923, 06 308 8844. Modern Jive dance classes. Every Tuesday 8 pm, Carterton School hall. Contact Lance 021 1345 661 or check out our Facebook group, Wairarapa Modern Jive. Ruamahanga Ramblers. Social running and walking group. All welcome, no costs. 6.15pm Tuesdays (summer months) and 2pm Saturdays (winter months). Full program and event locations on sporty.co.nz/ ruamahangaramblers. Paul Furkert 379 5355. Scottish Country Dance Club, Carterton. Beginners’ classes, 2019, CYCLE WITH US! Carterton School Hall, Holloway Street. Monday evenings 7:30 to 9:30. January 28 to March 18. $20 for eight evenings. Dress code: smart casual, soft shoes. No partner required. Secretary Meet Wednesdays 9.30am 06 377 0322. Howard Booth Park. [email protected] South Wairarapa Tramping Club. Club night is the second Tuesday of Casual cycling, e-bikes, ordinary bikes. the month,7.30 pm, St John Hall, Main Street, Greytown. For upcoming trips: Barry Kempton, 06 304 9353, 0274 305 935. For the club: Carol Major, 06 304 8210. No cost. All welcome! Squash Club. Wednesday and Friday evenings. Irene Price 027 634 9167 or Wendy 379 9034. [email protected] Carterton Kindergarten Lions Club of Carterton Making sense of the ‘Spud n Bag’ world competition Throughout this term our Pa-Harakeke Healthy Heart Award will The annual Lions Club of Carterton ‘Spud n Bag’ competition be renewed. Our focus will be to continue to develop our already is ready to start, with The Garden Barn in Masterton coming on well-established habits of healthy eating and physical activity. board to supply the seed spuds this year. The warm weather has enabled the children to further explore our A single spud must be planted in the bag you are provided but outside environment as they continue to challenge themselves, you can use any medium to grow your spud in. build confidence, take risks, develop body-awareness and learn to Entry is $5 per ‘Spud n Bag’ which can be purchased by make sense of their world, in their own way. contacting either Paul Reid, 021 511 816 or Brian James, Renee Hawkins, Teacher, Carterton Kindergarten 027 606 6963. The weigh-in will commence on March 31, 2019 at 10 am and will close off at 12 pm in the Club Carterton carpark, Broadway, Carterton. Numerous prizes are available for children and adults, with prize giving commencing after the raffles are completed. Top prize for 2017 was a lawnmower. Spin da Wheel raffles will also be run from 12 pm – 2.30 pm or until sold out. Club Carterton will have lunch meals available to purchase. Many families enjoy the competition to see who can grow the Carterton kindergarten tamariki: learning to make sense of their world in most amount of spuds between family members. their own way. Give it a go. Even if you don’t win a prize you are guaranteed a fun day out. All profits from the competition are returned to the community. Mufti days at Roseneath Steve Cretney Roseneath’s staff and residents recently took part in three mufti days – Daffodil Day, Onesie Day and Pink Ribbon Day. Donations received have been given to the NZ Cancer Society, Wellington Free Ambulance and NZ Breast Cancer Foundation. Visitors always welcome: Ph: 379 7699

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“HEY” 31 Augustus Street, Carterton Looking for a new interest? • High Teacher • Primary Caregiving WHY NOT have a go at to Child Ratio • Nurturing & • Natural calm Respectful Indoor Bowls surroundings WHERE? : SWWMC • Specialised WHEN? : Every Thursday, • Family Focused Centrewelcome: starting 15 March at 7.30pm & Flexible Full tuition, Friendly company, Warm Venue “We care while we educate See you there ~ Ph (06) 304 9365 and educate while we care” NZ Young Farmers Clock ticking for CBD Good Yarn workshop Steady progress has been made recently as buildings within the CBD undergo necessary earthquake strengthening works. “Many property owners in the Carterton CBD have started the builds confidence process of having their buildings assessed and are planning repairs Greytown dairy farmer, Rachel Gardner, is encouraging young to make them compliant by May 31, 2021,” said Chair of the Carterton people to talk about mental health. Earthquake Action Group, Bruce Robertson. The South Wairarapa Young Farmers member was one of 14 “This is great to see our High Street slowly changing. However, for people who took part in a free Good Yarn workshop in Carterton, those yet to start the process, the clock is ticking. The deadline of 2021 organised by NZ Young Farmers. sounds a long way off but things may appear more straightforward “I now have the confidence to recognise signs of stress or mental than they are in reality. illness in those around me and how to approach the issue,” Rachel said. “Simply put, time is running out. If building owners don’t start the Good Yarn workshops, developed for farmers and rural professionals, process now, they are going to run out of time to get the assessment equip people with the tools to recognise if a family member, farming done, get remedial drawings completed, arrange the necessary colleague or customer is struggling and where to seek support. consents, engage a builder and have the repairs completed.” “It was a really good workshop. The group was open to sharing The Wairarapa building industry is going through a frantic phase and many trades are fully booked which could put pressure on the their experiences, which generated some great discussion,” said timelines. Bruce encourages building owners to make 2019 the year Megan Bates from NZ Young Farmers. of action and start liaising with Council now. Adverse weather events, animal health problems and relationship “Discussions with the Carterton District Council indicate they are issues can all have a negative impact on a person’s ability to cope and willing to work with building owners, but can only do so if they are make good decisions. People who aren’t coping may lose interest in engaged and have the process underway.” activities, struggle with daily challenges and their personality may change. Bruce sees action as a growth opportunity for the CBD. “All of those signs can vary in severity, but if you’re worried, “Cartertonians are proud of their township. However, it will not encourage that person to seek professional support,” said Megan. be good for Carterton or the building owners if, come 31 May 2021, “The key thing is that you don’t need to be an expert on mental properties are boarded up. Getting buildings to standard will attract health to have a chat to someone about it.” new tenants which will create more business for High Street. This can The workshops also teach participants how to look after only be good for our local economy and the people of Carterton.” themselves. Building owners can get in touch with Council if they need more “It was great for learning tips to improve your own mental health information about the process. during times of stress,” said Rachel. International research has found that people who thrive have five things in common. They feel connected with others, give regularly, keep learning, are physically active and enjoy the simple things in life. NZ Young Farmers has a network of almost 80 clubs across the country, which hold meetings, social events and competitions Brad Markham

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Good Yarn workshop. Robert Algie Memorial Sports Trust Protection Trust goes digital The Robert Algie Memorial Sports Trust has gone through some with Enduring significant change this year. What is this trust all about? The Robert Algie Memorial Sports Trust Power of Attorney is a Wairarapa trust that assists talented sporting youth under the age Life can be fragile, so arrange for someone you trust and who of 20. In the 28 years since its establishment it has returned $150,000 understands you to become your attorney to make decisions for you (interest from the capital) to more than 1000 individuals, covering if you become unable to decide for yourself. It’s important to choose 32 sporting codes. It is only through donations that it can boost the your attorney carefully. capital investment and therefore increase the interest it returns to An Enduring Power of Attorney (EPA) is a legal document and the talented sporting youth of the Wairarapa. protects you and what is precious to you. It will save your family the Why was it established? It was established by the Featherston cost and stress of getting a court order to make decisions about you. District and Featherston Sports Clubs, particularly wrestling and There are two types of EPA. The first covers your property, i.e. your rugby, as a memory to Robert Algie a talented athlete who died money and assets. It can come into effect before you lose mental too young. Robert was recognised as one of New Zealand’s most capacity. The second covers your personal care and welfare and comes popular wrestlers. He competed successfully in New Zealand and into effect only if a medical professional decides you have become internationally. He won silver medals at Commonwealth Games and mentally incapable. Once an EPA comes into effect, your attorney can gold medals at World Wrestling Champs. He had been selected to make most decisions about your care and welfare and your property. represent New Zealand at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, but this was When you’ve decided upon your attorney and what you want not to be. them to do, you need to arrange a lawyer, a qualified legal executive The Trust is comprised of representatives from each area. At the or a trust corporation like the Public Trust to be your witness. You AGM the it farewelled some long-standing committee members who can change your EPA at any time you are mentally capable. There are have retired after 10-15 years of service: Alistair Spieling, Greytown, standard forms you must fill out to set up an EPA. You can get them Kim Juno, Honorary Secretary/Treasurer, Karen Burt, Featherston. from superseniors.msd.govt.nz or ask us at CAB. We welcomed Clare Crawford, Greytown, Dayle Clarkson, Masterton, We also have pamphlets for you and your attorney, published by the Danni Sargent, Featherston, Chris Hicks, Honorary Secretary/Treasurer. Office for Seniors. Call in or phone and we will send them to you. If you These new committee members joined Barbara Playle, Chairperson, use a computer, there is more help at www.superseniors.msd.govt.nz Bernard Lett, Carterton and Libby Paterson, Martinborough. Wairarapa Citizens Advice Bureau 43 Perry Street, Masterton, Up until now the application forms have only been in a very 06 377 0078, 0800 367 222. Monday to Friday 9 am to 4 pm. cumbersome PDF form but now everything can be obtained Email: [email protected], www.cab.org.nz electronically from the website: https://robertalgietrust.org.nz/ or e-mail [email protected] or you could follow us on Instagram: robertalgiememorialtrust and facebook: Robert Algie Memorial Sports Trust Inc Youth MP for Wairarapa MPs across the country have been selecting young people aged 16–18 years old to represent their electorates at the national Youth Parliament 2019. Lily Lewis will represent the Wairarapa electorate on behalf of Alastair Scott, MP for Wairarapa. She will be charged with bringing youth issues forward from across the Wairarapa – from Waipukurau to the Rimutakas. Her tenure will run March to August 2019. She will develop a strategy over the next few weeks and undertake training early in 2019.

Limelight Theatre Company Community Christmas social As we mentioned last month, we are busy planning ahead to 2019. But we haven’t quite finished with 2018 yet. On Friday, November 9, 7-8 pm, we are having a Christmas social. This is a chance for the community to come together, discuss the past year and hear what 2019 has in store. Please RSVP to find the location, either on the Facebook Event or by emailing [email protected] Robert Algie. Limelight Theatre Committee Aratoi Why did kids get sick Rail Land, Anthonie from compost? Tonnon A not too difficult question to answer. Composting recycles organic matter (compounds like proteins, carbohydrates, fats and the Anthonie Tonnon, who toured with Don McGlashan in October, rest) by breaking them down into tiny pieces; snip, chop, cut. Bacteria will perform at Aratoi on December 15, one show only. and fungi do most of the work. His new five-stop Rail Land tour of Aotearoa celebrates the Each single-celled tiny creature has a different way of chopping passenger railway. It visits some of the world’s most beautiful big chunks into bite sized pieces depending on how much oxygen passenger rail lines, including the Wairarapa Line. is around. They also poop and fart just like us. Those smelly bits Our railways are miraculous, poetic and mysterious things, Tonnon contain sulphur and nitrogen called mercaptans and amines. And writes. They are gifts from the past to the future and if they didn’t they stink! Some have names like putrescine (from putrid smelling) exist now, they would be impossible to build from scratch. Each has a and cadaverine (from cadavers, the smell of death.) Your nose detects story and this tour will tell a little of each one. these at parts per billion which is like comparing 20mm to a long In the long twilight of the summer holidays, Rail Land will travel haul flight from Wellington to London. on all of the rail networks that still offer public transport in Aotearoa. Of course there are lots more compounds. Scientists identified There will be five shows: Waitati (near Dunedin, for which a special about 80 major ones. Some of the ones which are the biggest health train has been chartered), Palmerston North, Paekakariki, Masterton risk we can’t smell very well. (Aratoi, December 15, 2 pm) and Ellerslie. Most people want to know, does it hurt me? The answer is YES! Tonnon asks, “How is it that there is no train between Hamilton They affect how you feel, make you want to throw up, your heart and Auckland and yet Masterton with a population of only 25,000 beats fast, muscles ache and you can’t think straight. Sounds people holds its interurban rail service with Wellington? When familiar? Next question, “are there long term effects?” As you’d almost all other services were closed, Masterton even had a service imagine when air smells this bad, everybody who can, leaves. So no to Palmerston North as late as 1988. one knows because there are no long-term studies. Based on short “However they’ve done it, a trip through the engineering marvel term exposures, probably everyone will be fine. that is the Rimutaka tunnel and through the sunny fields and country So when someone tells you it’s too expensive to keep our air clean, towns of the Wairarapa is a true wonder and something to celebrate.” tell them “try counting your money while holding your breath” or as Doors at Aratoi open at 1.30 pm, music will start at 2 pm and the the Romans said “Ill air slays sooner than the sword.” show will finish by 4 pm in time for concertgoers to catch the last Carl Reller train back to Wellington. Tickets at www.anthonietonnon.com

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23 Years Experience A Colonist’s Gaze Book Review No matter how long or how short a time you Carter’s Legacy are here, the world is ever so slightly different The Book because you existed. This fascinating biography of Charles Rooking Carter connects Flo is 84 years old and has strong opinions. the English Victorian world and colonial New Zealand, particularly She has had a fall and as she waits on the floor Wellington and the Wairarapa. Through Carter’s colonial ‘gaze’ it to be discovered she imagines who might find draws out the contrast between the old world of Europe and the her and what will happen. Looking back on new antipodean world. From humble origins in England, Carter her life, she worries about her big secret being emigrated to Wellington in 1850 where he worked as a builder, revealed. We learn about her early life and contractor and architect, becoming a foremost contributor to the about her life at Cherry Tree with Jack and her best friend, Elsie. town’s development of harbour reclamation and public buildings. In Three Things About Elsie, by Joanna Cannon, is a lovely read, the Wairarapa he promoted the settlement of working settlers on the examining themes of ageing, grief, loneliness, loss of autonomy and land, was acknowledged for his work by having the town of Carterton the heavy burden of secrets and guilt. There’s a complex mystery at named after him and founded a large estate on the Taratahi Plain. the heart of Flo’s secret which was satisfying to puzzle out with her. Elected to political office, he served the province of Wellington I thought the big twist at the end was quite obvious from the start and the Wairarapa well, helping Wellington to become the capital of of the book, but there’s also another twist, just alluded to in the last New Zealand in 1865. When he returned to London he continued to couple of paragraphs, which absolutely lifted the book for me and promote New Zealand’s interests. added more depth to Flo’s tale. His legacy included his generous philanthropic support of I love how all the lives in this story interconnect. Sometimes those Carterton, in particular the establishment of the Carter Home, his connections seemed a little contrived, but I didn’t care. The characters donation of the fabulous Carter Collection of books to the Colonial involved don’t always see the connections, but I love it that we got to Museum (Te Papa), and his bequest to the Carter Observatory in see them. Characters who barely met had such a massive impact on Wellington. each other’s lives. Small interactions had life-changing effects. I think the hardest part of losing anyone is that you still have to live The Author with the same scenery. It’s just that the person you are used to isn’t a John E. Martin has part of it any more, and all you notice are the gaps where they used researched and written to be. It feels as though, if you concentrated hard enough, you could about New Zealand find them again in those empty spaces, waiting for you. history over the past 40 Andrea Darbyshire, Assistant Librarian years. He taught at various universities and worked in the Historical Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs before 15 years as parliamentary historian. He currently works from ALASTAIR SCOTT Wellington as a freelance historian. For more information: MP FOR WAIRARAPA [email protected] or Tel: A Colonist’s Gaze was launched 06 377 1359. recently at the Events Centre. Offices: Dannevirke, Featherston, Masterton, DO YOU NEED A PROMPT AND RELIABLE Pahiatua, Waipukurau - if you would like to meet please make PLUMBER? contact by phoning 0800 687 596 • Roof repairs • Spouting • Burst pipes “Your job Phone: 0800 687 596 • Kitchen/ bathroom upgrades is always • And all other maintenance plumbing in safe Waipukurau: (06) 858 5326 Certified Craftsman Plumber hands Competitive hourly rate with us” Wellington: (04) 817 8264 All Carterton based jobs are Mileage FREE Email: [email protected]

Contact Steven now: 021 605 603 [email protected] www.safehandsplumbing.co.nz www.national.org.nz WE-7724635AQ Carterton Playcentre back at home Nau Mai Haere Mai Friends, whanau and community members of Carterton Playcentre were welcomed into the warm and newly-renovated space of Carterton Playcentre on a wet, cold morning at the end of the school holidays. As the building work reached completion, Playcentre volunteers and the Lions finished the painting. Then, with a few final fittings, it was ready to go. Council and Ministry of Education inspections happened during the holidays just in time to celebrate the reopening. Sessions began Monday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 9–12 pm at the beginning of Term 4. The building is located next to Howard Booth Park, off Belvedere Road. A new kitchen and resource room have been pushed out to the south west. New tamariki bathrooms have been placed where the entrance was previously and a new entrance-way brings you The latest technology in straight into the play space. This makes it far more welcoming. With a gutter cleaning systems new heat-pump and ceilings relined and insulated, the whole space is warm, fresh and spacious. Visit us to see our fabulous new space! Special thanks to everyone who helped us achieve this renovation: Mike Sharpley, AMOS Construction, PHS Plumbing, McKenzies Electrical, Resene, Neil, Mico’s, Carters, Tom Conwell, Mitre 10, Bosch family, Lions, Trust House, Pelorus Trust, On a Roll, Carterton District Council, Carpet Court,Van den Bosch family, Blue Bucket Express, Playcentre Aotearoa and all the Carterton Playcentre families who pitched in before, during and after the project to get us back up and running. 23 Years Experience Liz Crow

Advertising – Christine Miller 027 625 7765 Carterton’s fires Kuranui College Destructive fires marked Carterton’s early years. The first recorded All aboard the RNZN one was in February, 1870, eight years before a fire brigade was formed. It destroyed five houses and 150,000 feet of timber. Two years later fire burned many houses at the northern end Pinafore of the town. All the properties were uninsured. Insurance was just RNZN Pinafore set sail with singing, dancing, live music and with coming in to the country and few could afford the premiums. a wonderful exhibition of acting at Kuranui College this week. This In 1886 a fire, on the corner of High Street and Belvedere Road, highly-energetic show was revamped from the original HMS Pinafore heading south, burnt six buildings including a temporary town hall. script and updated to include social commentary on today’s world. A lane between the Marquis Hotel and a barber shop saved the hotel. “The decision to update HMS Pinafore was made for many reasons,” In 1898 an enormous fire burnt the White Hart Hotel on Belvedere said director, Juanita McLellan. “Not only was it outdated with its jokes Road. It was the Club Hotel and is now a private home. The brigade and ideas, it was also the first show performed at Kuranui College. We did all they could to save the hotel but the hoses were rotten and thought it would be nice to do a tribute to our past pupils as well as split open. A spark from a defective chimney landed on the drapes. acknowledge the world as it is now.” Nothing was saved except a few bottles of liquor and several barrels At its heart is a love story with a unique New Zealand flavour from of beer, enough to satisfy the thirsty brigade. This home also had a vote for women sashes, to Kiwiana music that the audience knows fire on the top floor in 2008. and loves. For many performers, this was their first foray into the There was a blaze at Willie Weavers in 1967. Built in 1875, it served world of dramatic arts and they are loving every moment of it. as a major bakehouse until 1966. There were some stand-out moments from this ensemble cast. In 1918 the borough offices in Holloway Street were destroyed. Corban van Manen’s solo piece was lovely (as was his hair). Grace Voice, The 70-year-old former Kings Theatre in Belvedere Rd burnt in 1983. Awhina Southey and Jazz Houghton-Swain showed their repertoire of vocal ranges. Amelia Barton’s cheeky Boson and AJ Southey’s It was used by Amity Industries which made plastic bags. Their motif characterisation of Sir Joseph had the audience in stitches. was ‘Grand Dad Bags’. The set, worked on by the students, was a visual treat, with activity Hughans Garage, the Rugby Club’s change sheds, four shops next pouring out from every nook and cranny, assisted by superb lighting to Take Note, the Daily News Office and Booths Mill drying sheds and the wonderful live music. Costuming was bright and cheerful; went the same way. certainly what one would expect to see onboard a navy sailing ship. The last, and biggest, fire was in 1995. The former Carterton The school’s Cultural Awards will be held this Thursday November 1, Furnishing Co, on the site next to Wild Oats, was completely destroyed where some of these young performers are sure to be recognised. along with all historic records. Catherine Rossiter Stead Vivienne Hawken

Anna Laybourn, Jonty Spicer, Oliver Penman and Hayden Tankersley sing Kings Theatre, Belvedere Road, 1983. along with AJ Southey.

South Wairarapa Workingmen’s Club entertaining night. During the evening our President Phyllis Gulliver cut the birthday cake, complete with candles. Workies Whispers Club 60: Our next monthly get-together is something special on Club News: The Social Club’s trophy night will be on Friday, Monday November 26 at 1.30 p.m. This meeting will be preceded November 16 for the presentation of trophies won by the adjunct by our AGM. We are looking for a new secretary and hopefully a victors throughout the year. Following the presentations, the group chairperson, so please think about putting your name forward. ‘Fungus’ will be performing in the club bar area. Pool: The women’s singles have been held. The winner was Tui The club’s 141st birthday was celebrated on Saturday Maraki, from Joan Bateman. September 29 with an almost full house of members and guests. The women’s pairs were won by Gill Mitchinson and Joan Bateman, Entertainment for the night was from Marian Burns and Karl Perigo. from Brony Thomas and Schnell Lemon. Their repertoire was a variety of country and western, pop, 60s Indoor Bowls: The winners in club pairs were Colin Gulliver and and 70s hits, classical, operatic and Irish River Dance. Karl’s voice Paul Millar. Runners up were Roy Innes and Gail Millar. and Marian’s songs and violin playing had the audience up and Darts: Mixed pairs held recently resulted in a win for Brian Bright dancing and foot tapping all night. and Odette Doherty. Runners-up were Tre Manapori and Jojo Ratapu. For those who did not make it along, you missed a great and John Goodwin November rose notes November is when we get the big spring flush of flowers and we reap the rewards of all our hard work. Continue to stake and tie all basal shoots which will be next year’s framework. Cut off faded flower heads and trim off twiggy growth that appears from the bud union to encourage the plant to produce good basal Running the shoots rather than letting it grow on weak growth that will not come to much. Cut off ripening hips as they will hinder further flowers. A very light feed after the first flush of flowers will be good. If the Greytown-Woodside soil is kept moist, another flush of flowers will come in December. Keep up the spraying to prevent black spot which can get a good trail hold in the humid weather. Black spot cannot be cured but it can be The Greytown Woodside Trail is now used by the Parkrun prevented. organisation as a location for their weekly run. If you plan to enter your roses in a show, you may decide to dis- Every Saturday starting at 8 am there will be a 5km walk, jog or run bud some roses. This means removing all but the centre bud so that finishing by 9 am. And it is free. the remaining bud grows in size and quality. The event is starting at the Woodside end of the trail. Participants Do visit your local rose show and see which roses do well in your can park in the Woodside Station carpark. area. The Carterton Rose For further information about this event see www.parkrun.co.nz/ Society has details of greytownwoodsidetrail/ dates and venues and If you have further questions e-mail Dave White, will be able to supply you with a rose schedule [email protected], mobile 021 056 2889. which tells you the To find out more about the Greytown Trail see: classes you may enter. www.greytownrailtrail.org.nz It’s a lot of fun and you The trail is proving extremely popular as a destination for a great get to meet locals who walk on a summer’s day. love to grow roses. Ted Ward Phillippa Edwards, Carterton Rose Rose of the month, ‘Strawberry Blonde’. Society Photo Hayden Foulds.

CARTERTON ROSE SHOW Friday, Saturday, 16 & 17 November Old Regent Theatre High Street North Public rose entries welcome FREE ADMISSION Friday 12pm-4pm, Saturday 10am-3pm raffle, produce & plants

President: G H Renall 06 379-7065 Show Secretary: Vivienne & Ian Hawken 06-379 5564 Holdsworth Women’s Institute Remembrance service Many people comment that, after 15 or 20 years they still find it Lonely bouquets hard to cope at Christmas as they remember a loved one. Richmond Funeral Home invites you to a remembrance service which will finding homes include participation from clergy and others. It is a chance to take time out to remember those you have lost and those you have cared An unusual request from their national body to make bouquets for, or to support bereaved friends. and leave them around the town for people to take home, brought Following the service, there will be a time to chat over a cup of Holdsworth Women’s Institute members together on October 8. tea. If you wish to know more, please feel free to contact Peter and At Carol’s invitation I visited the women – Margaret Shead, Joan Jenny Giddens or one of their staff, at the Richmond Funeral Home Ward, Carol Manson (local secretary), Gill Reid, Maureen Daysh (local ph (0800) 379-7616. See advertisement on the back page for details. president), Noeline Evans, Rita Adair, Colleen Bunny, Anne Wiblin and Denise Richardson – at Anne’s house. Anne’s garden is abloom with beautiful flowers. Inside the house, around the dining table the Resilient Carterton women sat, making bouquets. The room smelled of spring. By the time I arrived, a small table in the sitting room was covered with completed bouquets. The card attached to each of them said “I’m Community Survey a lonely bouquet. Please take me home.” It also gave women interested Cartertonians, we want to hear from you! It’ll only take you a few in joining Holdsworth Women’s Institute a contact number to ring. minutes of your time to tell us about your experience of living in this community. Need an incentive? If you wish, you can go in the draw I put the story and a photo of some of their work up on the Crier to win one of two $100 vouchers from Carterton New World. The Facebook page later that day. In a very short time it had had 343 hits information you provide will be invaluable for a lot of people and and some complimentary remarks. Two days later it has had 454 hits. groups in our community. On October 9, Carol placed the bouquets around Carterton. I hope The Carterton Community Pulse is a short public survey of our that they all found appreciative homes. If you are interested in joining community that Resilient Carterton is undertaking to understand this busy, happy and useful group please phone Gill Reid, 379 7245 how people see our Carterton community. We’d like to know what and you will be made very welcome. you love about Carterton and what changes would make it an even Jan Farr better place to live, if any. We will be publishing all the results for use by clubs, organisations and individuals in our community, so they can get a better understanding of what you are thinking. The results will also inform the Community-Led Development Programme that is kicking off this month. You can do the survey quite quickly, just answering the options, or you can take your time and share with us your good ideas and opinions. All information you provide will be confidential, but we will need your contact details if you want to go in the draw. The survey will run from November 15 to 30. It will be online and we’ll have paper copies at the Information Centre at the Events Centre for those who can’t access a computer. You’ll be able to access the survey from the Resilient Carterton website: www.resilientcarterton.nz and from our Facebook page @ResilientCarterton. The more people who complete the survey Holdsworth Women’s Institute members, Margaret Shead, Anne Wiblin, the sharper the picture we’ll get. Please give your community five Noelene Evans, Joan Ward, Denise Richardson, Colleen Bunny and minutes of your time and do this. Rita Adair prepare the lonely bouquets. Photo Jan Farr. Mike Osborne, Resilient Carterton

What is it like to live in Carterton? We want to hear from YOU!! Resilient Carterton is conducting a survey The Carterton Community Pulse to find out from our community what you like and what you'd prefer different in Carterton. The results will go to our clubs, community organisations and our Community Led Development Programme to help make our town and district even better (is that possible?). Go in the draw for one of two $100 vouchers from New World. * From 15th to midnight 30th November * Online link from our Facebook page and website * Quick and easy to complete * Paper copies at Information Centre or call Mike on * Open to all ages - young and old 379 6733 with your address and we'll deliver to you

@ResilientCarterton www.resilientcarterton.nz Wings opens aerodrome to Carterton youth Community Wings over Wairarapa Air Festival 2019 has developed an initiative to engage youth. Because the ‘practice day’ on the Friday of Wings is typically quieter, the team agreed it would be a great opportunity gardening in Zambia to provide a STEM-based learning experience (science, technology, At Kayube River Estate resort in Zambia in the manager’s private engineering and math) outside the classroom at Hood Aerodrome. home my addiction to gardening for friends overseas resurfaced. Working with REAP Wairarapa, every school in Wairarapa has been Kayube had a decaying carved wooden Makoro boat garden invited to this schools’ day for free. Tranzit Coachlines and Earthcare propped up beside the kitchen and already growing mint and parsley Environmental have generously provided transport options. with inviting gaps in the dusty, dry soil. There will also be interactive and engaging displays, Gardener Junior from the Losi tribe, who spoke some English, demonstrations and hands-on activities. Most activities will be ‘free- appeared from nowhere with a stunning smile. He was not clear flow’ but limited spaces in workshops will be offered in rocketry, about the word ‘compost’ but showed me a heap of debris behind digital fabrication and coding and circuitry workshops. Students will a shed. Yes, please! He wheeled batches to the canoe garden. Now, be able to talk to experts with a range of aviation experience. can he find me some sticks please? He and co-worker Josephat set In response to a looming shortage of pilots and other STEM- off, returning with a bundle of sticks and a huge machete to cut them related careers, students will have opportunities to engage with to equal length. organisations and programmes that provide aviation training. As Sometimes I could see Junior discreetly peeping through the well there is our Careers and Training Marquee and the New Zealand kitchen to look for me – he would never knock on the door. He called Defence Force’s Recruitment Bus will bring people to inspire and me Ma’am, although I told him my name. We became a team. engage. I planted NZ Spinach as it is easy to grow, Mitsuba (Japanese On stage there will be rolling presentations and teachers will parsley) also easy, and climbing beans suited to drying to keep for participate in professional development sessions. A big highlight will winter (do they have winter here?). It’s August and over 30 degrees C. be Nanogirl and her team appearing to do the most amazing, fun He asked if he could have a photo of our work to show his and educational science experiments. grandfather whom he lived with at weekends. I printed ten for him. If you want to run an interactive, engaging programme for youth, Five minutes before I left for the plane to South Africa, Junior there is still time. Or maybe you are an engineer or pilot and have watched me plant a handful of avocado seeds and some Tromboncino some time to give back to inspire youth in STEM or aviation related Squash to climb a water tank frame. He watered carefully with a new- things. If so, email Chris found watering can. He promised to regularly water and then did a Tracey: [email protected] crazy dance with the female staff, singing and waving - to farewell us. These activities will be The dogs went ballistic. available throughout the I’ve never had a better assistant than Junior. He’ll be a good festival which runs 22, 23, 24 February, 2019, Hood caretaker.© Aerodrome, Masterton. Fionna Hill Yvonne Way

Keep Carterton Beautiful Group A major project we have sponsored is an historical photo of St John’s Cadets which is now on display at the St John’s Garage in Holloway Street. We have been pricking out seedlings ready for planting out for the baskets and gardens in town. We have combined two gardens of native grasses into one at the entrance to Carterton School and planted Nandina shrubs in the bed on Holloway Street, a busy corner of town. The fence at our Wyndham Street park has been finished and spraying and tidying up is an ongoing task. We have planted Agapanthuses at the entrance to Carterton School and Azaleas next to the public toilets. This time of year spraying and tidying up our parks are our main activities. Fionna and Junior. Mabel Smith, Chairperson, KCBG Russian Agent detected at Fensham Reserve On a recent Tuesday, Barry Pragnell, a volunteer at Fensham completed, we all went round to the picnic area for our usual late Reserve, was checking the tracks when he came across a woman morning coffee and gossip. Nadya hails from a provincial town in planting trees in an obscure corner of the Reserve. Having European Russia and until recently was working as a plant ecologist determined that she was not one of the regular volunteers, Barry for government agencies in the South Island. She has since bought a put her in his truck and brought her round to where the rest of we small house located somewhat mysteriously on the ‘Otago Southland volunteers were working. border’, and has a small business conducting tours of New Zealand On interrogation, Nadya (for that is her name) explained that she for Russian tourists. was visiting the district and, since she had not been able to plant To us she seemed to have constructed a rather wonderful life that any native trees this year, had bought kahikatea, rimu, titoki and suits her rather private style and complements her obvious passion other plants from Clareville Nursery and had selected Fensham as for plants and conservation. So Nadya, it was a pleasure and honour the best place to plant them. to meet you. We will look after your plants this summer and will look She still had a couple of plants with her, so we found places for you as the days shorten and planting season begins; we have a for them. Nadya knows her plants. Here was wet enough for the whole nursery of native plants awaiting your return. kahikatea, she said, but the rimu needed a drier spot. Planting Pat McLean

Fensham Reserve volunteers: l to r: Eric Pedersen, Warren Harland, Nigel Linda Sexton, Jude Brown and Pat McLean prepare to attack hawthorn Thorp (front), Steve Carson (back), Jude Brown, Graeme Corbett, Pat at Fensham Reserve. Photos Jan Farr. McLean, Linda Sexton.

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Jo Kelly Gaylene Brooke Dear Agony Aunty After a stressful year of solving problems and answering letters I found myself in need of a break. Yr les My doctor sent me to an out-of-town rehab facility for recidivist advice-givers. I met lots of great people there but unfortunately they Dances in the all had problems and I found myself trying to help. Library Now I’m back at my desk and more stressed out than ever. I’m Here is a cutting about our starting to talk to myself and I think I’m losing my grip on reality. library from The Dominion, Thursday Please help! December 7, 1950. Mr Vaughan says Frantically, AA that he looked into the minutes books Dear AA back to 1873 and discovered that our We seem to have fallen down a recursive well, possibly at the heritage building once held dances Inception level. Fourth walls are crumbling at every turn! The only in the reading room. The first library solution is the tried and true method: a cup of tea and a lie-down. started in the Town Hall. Give it a month or so, and I’m sure the stresses of constant This newspaper cutting will be deadlines will ease... especially as there’s no Crier in January! offered to the local Historic Society, Desperately, AA for them to keep safe for future Please send your questions for Agony Aunty to: generations. It was among a lot of [email protected] old newspaper cuttings I was given by ex-Carterton folk some years back: Trevor Gardner and wife Averil Copyright Information of Park Road. The latest book about Charles We at The Carterton Crier are happy to interview you, write articles Rooking Carter has been launched for you, take pictures and lay out your community what’s-on ads for at the Events Centre. I have enjoyed no charge. The work The Carterton Crier does is free to groups in the community but it is still copyright. You may not send it on to other assisting the author, John E. Martin, media outlets without our permission. Contact [email protected], in the last five years, not just here in phones 379 8810, 027 406 1562. New Zealand but also in my home Editor country, England, as we travelled around Westmorland and Charles’s Advertising rates for The Carterton Crier home town of Kendal. Contact Christine Miller, [email protected], Adele Pentony-Graham, Clareville 027 625 7765 (paid advertising only). Specs: 1/8 page = 95mm wide x 65mm deep Corrections, October, 2018 1/4 page = 95mm wide x 135mm deep Once again, we apologise for the double-up of a page. It was 1/2 page = 195mm wide x 135mm deep a rare error, beyond our control, made while the magazine was Full page = 195mm wide x 280mm deep Banner = 195mm wide x 75mm deep being printed. Thanks for the support we received from our printer, Lamb‑Peters Print, and from readers. Pricing, black and white: Pricing, colour: The name of the woman on the front page of the October issue was 1/8 page = $46 + gst 1/8 page = $75 + gst 1/4 page = $80 + gst 1/4 page = $140 + gst Bridget McLaren with her dog Goldie. We apologise for getting it wrong. 1/2 page = $140 + gst 1/2 page = $230 + gst The caption on the photo in Fionna Hill’s blog should have read Full page = $230 + gst Full page = $400 + gst ‘Enamel bowls, tins and woks I buy to drill holes in their bottoms for Banner = $100 + gst Banner = $160 + gst drainage and plants.’ Deadline: last day of the month (No Crier in January) Apologies to those who didn’t get their articles printed. We had Circulation rural and urban Carterton: 3,835 over sixty articles submitted for the October issue.

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CHRISTMAS

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