Te Awamutu Courier Thursday, June 15, 2017 Courierte Awamutu Lake Search for Woman Community Newspaper of the Year 2014
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Te Awamutu Know How Numbers count in property management Benefit from experienced managers with market insight backed by the collective strength of over 1000 CouPublished Tuesday & Thursdayurier THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 2017 offices and countless training sessions. EXTRA COPIES 40c PH 07 872 0927 TE AWAMUTU Your community newspaper for over 100 years Rosetown Realty Ltd Licensed REAA (2008) OTOROHANGA Free healing A free healing meeting is Kim’s car found being held at the Pirongia Memorial Hall, Franklin Street, tonight at 7pm. Previous dairy farmer and now healing evangelist pastor Geoff Winter, of Manifest Love Church, will lead the meeting. He invites you to receive prayer and hear about how God can transform your life. Cows or you? Which is the greater polluter of rivers and waterways — cows or humans? Malcolm Lumsden will speak at Te Awamutu Continuing Education about TC150617DT03 water usage and quality. TE AWAMUTU Constable Come along to the Waipa Jessica Lacy mans the Arapuni Lake Road Workingmen’s Club on cordon onto Arapuni Landing yesterday afternoon. Wednesday, June 21 at 10am. See ad in today’s paper or phone 871 6434. BY DEAN TAYLOR Police divers searching Lake Arapuni The future over the past two days for missing Wharepapa South woman Kim Richmond of Pironiga have found her vehicle. Former Waipa District The National Police Dive Squad divers mayor Alan Livingston will were in the water at Lake Arapuni yester- speak at the AGM of the day and Tuesday as part of the investi- Pirongia Community gation into the mysterious disappearance. Association on the topic: Yesterday afternoon Police had Pirongia — Where to from cordoned off the entrance to Arapuni here? Landing on Arapuni Lake Road and last The meeting will be held in evening Waikato CIB Detective Senior the Pirongia Community Sergeant Ross Patterson announced a Centre, corner of Crozier and major development in the 11-month-old case Ross Streets on Wednesday, — the discovery of the silver Ford Ranger June 21 at 7pm. All welcome. ute Ms Richmond was believed to have been driving prior to her disappearance. Best of our Specialist equipment will be used to help salvage the vehicle. Once the vehicle is businesses recovered it will undergo a forensic The 2017 Waipa Networks examination. Business Awards are Ms Richmond’s family has been informed of yesterday’s developments and approaching and now is your are being supported by Police. time to enter. Ms Richmond disappeared from her Entries are open for the home on the morning of July 31 last year. following categories: When interviewed at Lake Arapuni on excellence in business, best Tuesday, Mr Patterson said the dive squad customer service, emerging was searching areas of the lake ‘that business leader of the year require further investigation’ — mainly and outstanding services to areas where a vehicle could have been business. Entries close on driven into the waters. Friday, June 23. Visit “Despite our extensive inquiry we still waipabusinessawards.co.nz hope to find her, though we now believe she for more information. is dead,” he said. TC150617DT04 ■ Continued on Page 2. ONE of the boats police were using to search Lake Arapuni for Kim Richmond. 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They and Mercury Energy craft. when a young girl picked up two should be under 300 words and must have the Ms Richmond and her part- bank cards on the side of the sender’s name, address and phone number. No ner Corey Jefferies had been at a road near Otukou, on State pseudonyms are accepted and names will only be social at the Arohena Hall on the Highway 46 between Rangipo withheld in special circumstances at the discretion night of July 30. and State Highway 47. of the editor. Letters are not usually acknowledged Sometime in the morning Ms “A subsequent check and may be edited, abridged or discarded. Richmond drove off in her ute resulted in a farm card belong- SALES MANAGER Belinda Wolland TC150617DT05 [email protected] BOATS and divers return to Bulmer’s Landing after searching Lake Arapuni causeway. EDITORIAL ing to Ms Richmond being found lowered Lake Arapuni, Ms Dean Taylor (editor) in the same area,” says Mr Richmond’s extended family [email protected] Patterson. and dozens of people from the Colin Thorsen (journalist) Police deployed the Specialist community. [email protected] Search Team, however nothing Bethany Rolston (journalist) further was found, and that find ■ Police would still like to hear [email protected] remains part of the intrigue. from anyone with information about No one can explain the disap- Kim Richmond’s disappearance — ADVERTISING pearance and her whereabouts contact Acting Detective Sergeant remain a mystery, despite a Ian Foster or Detective Senior [email protected] massive search by police, land Sergeant Ross Patterson at the Te TC150617DT06 search and rescue, the police Awamutu Police Station — 8720 CLASSIFIEDS NATIONAL Police Dive Squad divers check gear and fill tanks Eagle helicopter, a specialist 100 — or in confidence at Tania Cortesi-Western, ready for further searching Tuesday afternoon. dive squad who searched a Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. 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OFFICE HOURS Monday after a two-week manhunt session of a firearm in connection A 23-year-old woman was Monday - Thursday 8am - 5pm, Fri 8am - 4.30pm in connection with the fatal shoot- with the shooting. charged on May 31 over the shoot- PHONE 07 871 5151 ing of a man in Hamilton last Police say he was avoiding ing. month. them and warned the public he She is alleged to have used a The man died of a gunshot should not be approached. makeshift weapon which acciden- ISSN 1170-1099 (Print) ISSN 2253-4075 (Online) wound at a house on Seddon Rd in He was arrested in Te Awa- tally discharged and killed the *Circulation Source: Audited Bureau of Circulation, 1 YE Dec 2012 ANTHONY Brett Clegg Frankton on May 30. mutu on Monday and appeared in man. S DEAL ! 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