May 2018

ANZAC Day Māori dead acknowledged Every year the crowd attending the ANZAC parade and ceremony in Carterton grows bigger. This year the square was packed. In a welcome addition to the usual ceremony, Carterton’s Anaru and Dallas Te Rangi were officially invited to contribute. On the podium, Anaru held a photo of his mother’s grandfather, Tom Brown, who died in World War 1 and Dallas addressed the crowd in te reo. Carterton School children then performed the haka, Ko Wairarapa. With tears in his eyes, Anaru and Dallas’s father, Hone Te Rangi, embraced them when they stepped down from the podium. “I’m so proud of my boys,” he said. It was a beginning for the town: an acknowledgement of the active role local Māori played in the country’s wars. It is only right that the RSA and the Council have taken an initial step to recognise the Māori contribution to this country’s past. The casualty rate for Māori was much higher than for pakeha and the ANZAC ceremony is only complete when there is an acknowledgement of this. Dale, Hone and Anaru Te Rangi with the photo of their great grandfather, Tom Brown, who died Jan Farr in the first world war. More pictures in this issue. Photo Jan Farr.

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Talk to Nanny Frances I will be in this district explaining the reasons why those of Maori descent have the option to be registered to vote either on the Maori or General Roll and in the Maori or General Electoral District. From May until August 2, I will cover key sites in Wairarapa towns; talking to whanau at marae, organisations and sports functions and to ‘foot traffic’. If you see me, shadowed by the promotion-script banner, approach me or welcome me to your venue for a more detailed presentation. Mihinui, Frances Reiri-Smith (Nanny Frances) You have until August 2 to choose whether to be on the general or the Māori roll.

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www.national.org.nz Go By Bike Week Carterton District Council The Huri Huri Festival brought us fresh and interesting shop windows Ten-year-plan and a covey of councillors on their bikes. Nellie Bertram dressed the Heart of Arts window, which won the shield for the best shop window display. consultation begins The mayor and councillors met for breakfast at the Clareville Cafe Mayor John Booth said that he and his fellow councillors are looking and biked to work from there. A great example to us all! forward to engaging with the community over the recently adopted draft ten year plan and consultation document. “It has taken some time, but we have got there. Signing off on the draft today was the final step before starting the consultation process. We are now looking forward to getting out and about and chatting to our community about the detail of the plan.” A late change, tabled at the Council Meeting, was a disappointing one percent increase in average rates on top of the previously stated 8.4 percent. John Booth explained that the late change was due to the new model which Council uses to calculate their financial information. CUSTOMER TAKE NOTE -CARTERTON PUBLISHING“Our18/01/17 auditors were clear that they are very happy with the final SALES REP L.HARTNELL PUBLICATIONinformationWAIRARAP andAN howEWS the plan will be presented to the community. ADVERTISING DESIGNER OUTSOURCER SECTIONTheyROP noted BILL that ONLY starting a financial model from scratch is a complex PROOF PROOFED 17/01/2017 10:30:00 a.m. SIZEprocess9.1X9 and takes time.” AD ID WE-7355373AA (100%) FAX“They also noted that Council is in a far better position to produce Councillor Rebekah Vergunst leads the council into Carterton town. accurate financial information than it was three years ago. This is very PLEASE APPROVEBehind THIS her AD (hidden) AS SOON is Councillor AS POSSIBLE.Jill Greathead, Mayor, NOTE John THA Booth,TA NYreassuringALTERATIONS for my fellow councillors and me.” Deputy Mayor, Russell Keys, Councillors Greg Lang and Mike Ashby. The consultation document will be made available on the Council MUSTPhoto Toni BE Bingley. FINALISED BY OUR MATERIAL DEADLINE. website from 5 pm Tuesday, April 24 with hardcopies available at the Council and the District Library on Holloway Street from Friday April 27 and available from councillors throughout the consultation period. “I encourage everyone in the Carterton District to have their say. If anyone is unable to access the Consultation Document online and cannot pick up a copy from the Council office or the District Library on Holloway Street, please let us know and we will arrange to get one to you,” John Booth said.

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Heart of Arts Carterton Golf Club Found Twilight Golf ends Martin Doyle’s cartoon of the opening night of Heart of Arts’ Found The last day of our 11-hole Twilight Golf was played on a warm exhibition says more than a thousand words (and a lot more than Wednesday evening. Duncan Pincock set up six par threes for the 300). competition that night which we played twice. It was a very amusing It omits, however, the fact that original artworks sold at bargain night. There was a very generous prize table followed by a very nice prices, most of them under $100, for less than half of their expected meal prepared by Jamie Morris and Alan Wall. price. Marie Gudsell of Heart of Arts said “It’s fair to say that there were Best points throughout the year: Jamie Morris 375, James a lot of happy faces walking out the door at Heart of Arts that night.” O’Connor, Les Cherry 370, Greg Hilston 370, Nic Craig 368, David Wills 363, Maxine Moss 336. Best Stableford scores: Tina Bailey 245, Greg Hilston 244, Les Cherry 238. Most Twilights attended: Nic Craig, Jamie Morris, James O’Connor. Best Putting: David Wills, Greg Hilston, Nic Craig. Most Consistent scores: Maxine Moss, Brian Field, Mark Graham. A big thank you to Jamie Morris and Duncan Pincock for their hard work and commitment in running Twilight Golf. Thanks also to sponsors Barry Bentley, Flair Flooring Xtra-Carterton, Hunting and Fishing- Masterton, Ticehurst Timbers, Iain Shephard, Carterton New World, Premier Beehive and Chris Dunpley. Twilight Golf will start again on September 26, 2018. Wendy Wills Heart of Arts Found exhibition as seen through the eyes of Carterton artist, Martin Doyle. L to R: Putting Trophy David Wills , Twilight Cup Jamie Morris. Wallowing Heights – hauntedCarrington no Bowling more Club Bird’s Park When Leanne and Clayton Brown bought their life-style block in Jack Attack Tournament Stage 1 of Bird’s Park, which runs between Frederick and Charles St, Somerset Road, Carterton, Leanne wanted to raise pedigree pigs has been completed. while Clayton wanted to make model helicopters. What happened All the seating and play areas and play equipment are in place. At after that persuaded them to take another path. at Carrington the Charles Street entrance there is a striking NZ plant garden with In 2012 a hot air balloon crashed close to the house, killing eleven At the end of April Carrington Bowling Club held a Jack Attack mosaic sculptures featuring NZ birds, the work of various Carterton people. Two of the victims, Chrisjan and Alexis, died on the property. tournament on two consecutive Sundays. This is a shortened version people under the guidance of Anna-Marie Kingsley. “The place felt haunted and sad,” Leanne said, “So many sad of the traditional game of bowls and much quicker. A team consists relatives coming here. We decided we would change that.” of three players and all players are at the same end, no skips. Each People were already leaning over the fence to look at the pigs, so player has two bowls. Clayton suggested bringing in more animals and opening the place to It has proved to be a lot of fun and enjoyed by all players especially the public. The mother of one balloon victim suggested a petting zoo. on one stunning Autumn day. We also have Housie each Thursday afternoon which is very popular. “Now we have hundreds of animals,” Leanne said. “We spend a Come along at 1 pm for an enjoyable time, afternoon tea provided. lot of time bonding with them so they are safe with children.” PaulineMinnie and Donald Duke are two of Wallowing Height’s miniature They had to build shelters for the animals and facilities for the ponies. Photo Rebekah Farr public. In this they were helped by Bruce from East Taratahi Building Supplies who worked from Leanne’s drawings and pictures. Looking after the animals is a full-time occupation, but Leanne also has two other jobs to help with the mortgage. As well the couple help to care for Cassius, their dearly-loved, disabled grandson, who has a disease called lissencephaly which means ‘smooth brain’. The family’s care and patience has enabled Cassius to do things not expected of children with his condition. He has his own Facebook page: Master Cassius – the battle of lissencephaly and his own Give a little fund to help with his care. Wallowing Heights is open to the public on Saturdays from 10 am till 4 pm and extra days in the holidays: Adults, $8, children, $5. They do birthdays parties. Like them on Facebook. Phone 3795667. JackLeanne’s Attack pedigree has proved pigs, to bein apiggy lot of heaven.fun. Photo Photo Pauline Rebekah Donald. Farr Stage 1 of Bird’s Park has been completed. Photo Don Farr.

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Farming for the future Wairarapa farmers get climate-ready “Wairarapa farmers have never run away from a challenge,” said Wairarapa list MP, Kieran McAnulty at the Farming for the Future Seminar, a collaborative effort hosted and organised by South Wairarapa Biodiversity Group, Mangatarere Restoration Society and supported by Perception Planning and the Greater Wellington Regional Council. Held at the Carterton Events Centre with Radio New Zealand’s Susie Ferguson as MC, the day showed how the farming sector can manage the risks around climate change, while taking advantage of “Wairarapa farmers have never run away from a challenge,” said the opportunities it presents. Wairarapa list MP, Kieran McAnulty at the Farming for the Future Seminar. Alex Pezza, Climate Scientist, Greater Wellington Regional Council emphasised the need for Wairarapa farming systems to change and adapt to the conditions. CRS Software, Moore Stephens Markham and Beef and Lamb New Julia Jones, Farm Enterprise Specialist, KPMG noted that climate Zealand. change is also an opportunity to work smarter. See: www.farmingforthefuture.org.nz Greg Hart wowed the audience with Mangarara Station’s Contact: Heather Atkinson, 06 378 8479, 027 303 5334 transformation towards a regenerative farming model that is producing healthy food while restoring ecosystems. Paul Crick, Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre detailed how his organisation was teaching the next generation of farmers to respond to environmental and market changes. New Office for Dot Bissett, showcased Wee Red Barn’s innovations in water efficiency and waste management. Kieran McAnulty Leader of the Farming for the Future collaboration, Heather Labour list MP, Wairarapa’s Kieran McAnulty, has opened an office Atkinson was delighted with the turnout, the high calibre of speakers in Masterton on 114 Queen Street, in the remaining part of the old and the quality of the information shared. Centrepoint shopping mall. Other sponsors were Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre, He is also considering using Three Mile, High Street, Carterton as a Akura Plant Nursery, Morgans Road Nursery and Steens Honey, place where he can meet up with people in the community. The party’s over Living the Change, We filled the main auditorium at the Events Centre for the movie Living the Change, brilliantly produced by New Zealanders, Jordan What’s Next? Osmand and Antoinette Wilson. It shows people who are defying the Having seen the film Living the Change recently at the Events overlapping threats to human existence by turning their backs on Centre, a bunch of people met to reflect on the film’s message of our consumer culture. It is devoted to solutions. how to live more sustainably and the things people are currently Its subjects are sustainable farmers and people who compost, doing and what we can do next. reduce their waste and promote community action and local currency – a topic eloquently covered by Carterton’s Helen Dew. It turns out, to the group’s surprise, that there are lots of things going on in our own local community that we may not Frank Van Steensel and Josje Neerincx turned a patchy piece of the know about. Did you know that the WaiWaste has redistributed Wairarapa into the bio-diverse Wairarapa Eco Farm, a pilot scheme for 25,000kg of usable food, the equivalent of 70,733 meals, in the community-supported agriculture, providing weekly bags of organic last three years, food that would have gone to piggeries or the fruit and vegetables to members. landfill. Robert and Robyn Guyton created their forest-garden from a poor Great things are happening locally. Resilient Carterton will be piece land in Riverton. It is a beautiful, layered, biodiverse paradise, protected by native trees, and growing fruit trees, berries, vegetables putting these up on their website www.resilientcarterton.nz so and alive with native birds and insects, all helping nature. that you can find out what’s happening and get involved if you want to. If you’re doing something that enhances sustainable The experts had sobering messages. Senior lecturer in freshwater living or want to start something in the area of sustainable living, ecology and environmental science at Massey University, Dr Mike Joy you can send the details to [email protected] and said we are at the end of a 100-year binge. We have been consuming we’ll post it up on a web page. A Google Group has been set up to as though there’s no tomorrow. allow people to communicate with each other. Email us and we’ll Dr Susan Krumdieck, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at add you to the group. Canterbury University said, “We have to leave 80% of available fossil fuel in the ground for at least a century. Without oil none of the It’s refreshing to see how many people are doing things to shift renewable energy technologies – solar panels, windmills – can be us towards a sustainable way of living. The group will be having produced.” a catch-up at Heart of Arts, 47 High St at 7 pm Thursday June 14, all welcome. The message from all of the experts and practitioners was that we must learn to live more responsibly, eat less meat and buy less in Like our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ResilientCarterton order for the human race to survive. Helen Dew Thanks to Resilient Carterton, Te Kura O Papatuanuku Wairarapa Earth School and Sunset Theatre for an inspiring, heart-warming and free evening out. HELP CREATE AN EXTRAORDINARY SPACE See: livingthechangefilm.com TO GROW, CONNECT AND LEARN Jan Farr

Haumanu Community Garden redevelopment The current R2R garden behind the Carterton Police Station is about to undergo a major transformation. There is a steering group working closely with the R2R group, Lions, Keep Carterton Beautiful Group and Rotary and consulting the wider community on design ideas. Anna-Marie Kingsley, Audrey Sebire, Gerry Brooking and Aranu Rangi HAUMANU will be designing and project managing the current space around COMMUNITY GARDEN Haumanu House into a showcase community garden that Carterton can be proud of and add to the Outdoor Gallery. This exciting project is volunteer based and community group PUBLIC DESIGN WORKSHOP funded. HAUMANU HOUSE, CARTERTON If anyone is interested in having input into the design process we (BEHIND THE POLICE STATION) would be delighted if you would send us an email at annakingsley@ inspire.net.nz and we will add you to our database for workshop 10AM-12PM, THURSDAY 24TH MAY date notifications. If you don’t have time to attend brainstorming Morning tea provided, please RSVP for catering: workshops, then email us your ideas. Contact Anna Kingsley: [email protected] The first brainstorming workshop is on Thursday 24th May 10am – 12noon at Haumanu House. A gold coin donation from attendees would be much appreciated to help pay for tea & coffee. Driving safely to independence In April, the Wairarapa Community Driver Mentor Programme thanked their mentors with a get-together at REAP House. The mentor programme, set up by Masterton Mayor Lyn Paterson, coaches young people from four local colleges whose circumstances prevent them from getting a drivers licence. A team of four professional driving instructors and 19 trained, volunteer mentors is led by Bruce Pauling, manager of Wairarapa Road Safety Council and coordinator, Julia London. Instructor, Geoff Phillips of Street Taught Defensive Driving, explained that instructors go out with a mentor and a learner and teach some basic skills. The learner remains with the mentor until The Wairarapa Community Driver Mentor Programme thanked their they master the skills then returns for a second lesson with more mentors with a get-together at REAP House. Photo Jan Farr. advanced skills. When those are mastered they come back for a pre- test drive with the instructor. and think ahead.” Mentor, Fraser Mailman, told the gathering that, as a result of the Southey Honda lent the programme their first two cars, servicing programme, 40 students from local colleges have now passed their them and paying all costs, after which they bought the cars. Their restricted licences and another 20 are ready to go. Successes include third car is on its way. Caltex Chapel Street donates their petrol. improving some previously driverless families’ lives, making it easier The programme is also supported by the district councils, The Sign for the young people to find work and reducing youth offending. Factory, NorthCo Insurance, Trust House Foundation, REAP House, Colin Clark (aka Nobby) said he had learned a lot from mentoring. the NZ Transport Association and the police. He admitted to being grumpy when he taught his own children to Jan Farr drive. “You can’t do that with these young people today. I’m trying to Interested in mentoring? Contact Bruce Pauling, encourage them to do what I do on my motorbike – use their vision [email protected], 06 377 1379, 027 480 5630.

Boomerang bags Carterton is a community initiative to try and reduce the use of plastic bags by making bags that people can borrow in the shops and then bring back in their own time. Don’t be a Boomerang Bag hoarder! We’ve had another very productive working bee this month with about 20 people of all ages turning up and happily working together. We made plenty of bag kits so we now need some keen sewers to make them into bags. Thank you to those who donated fabric in the last month. If you have old duvet covers, old curtains (without thermal backing) or strong fabric you no longer need, we are always happy to re-purpose them into bags. Next working bee will be on Saturday 19 May from 1pm to 4pm at South End School. We will be making bag kits, so bring your scissors. Another productive working bee. Photo Lucia Zanmonti If you can’t come to the working bees but are keen to help, or if you would like to donate some fabric or thread, please contact [email protected] / 02102410165 and we will deliver bag kits or pick up donated fabric. If you would like to make a small donation to cover the costs of the project, our bank account is: Boomerang bags Ctown 38-9004-0859470-05. Alternatively you can buy a beautiful “Bought to Support” Boomerangs Bag. You can find them on our Facebook page (Boomerang Bags Carterton) or if there’s none available you can order them by messaging us. To date we have made about 2200 Boomerang Bags (more than enough for every household in Carterton!) but the supermarket still often runs out. So please make sure you don’t hoard them in your house. A good way to remember to bring them back is to put your wallet, shopping list or car keys in them! Lucia Zanmonti Aratoi Adrian Jackman: very contemporary Adrian Jackman moved from Auckland to Carterton over two years ago which might seem like a massive change yet, to a painter, the studio is the universe. Jackman’s life as an abstract artist remains that: abstract, very contemporary, and large with ideas. His paintings on canvas, linen, and paper are also large, sometimes reaching two square meters. They burst with shape and colour, rhythm and pattern, line and movement, geometry and geography and music too. These are constants. Living in the Wairarapa has brought one significant change. Jackman works as Exhibitions Coordinator at Aratoi, meeting exhibiting artists and personally handling their work. In the past month alone: Elizabeth Thomson, Kiri Riwai-Couch, Wayne Youle, David Lupton, Leonel Alvarado and jewellery by 13 contemporary artists. Born in Te Kopuru to a family with links to Whanganui, Adrian graduated in 1997 with an MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts. He has exhibited nationally, a major solo show being Minimal Wave at Adrian Jackman’s Sequential Circuits. Sarjeant Gallery as the 2013–14 Tylee Cottage Artist-in-Residence. His paintings are held in public, private and corporate collections taken of a location, running them through the eye drop function of across Aotearoa and abroad. Photoshop to isolate and identify the palette of that place and then His first solo show in Wairarapa – Minimal Wave Revisited, at Aratoi painting only with those colours. until June 17, gives insight into his methodologies, imagery, and Minimal Wave Revisited includes 18 hand-painted swatches of his techniques over the past decade. The exhibition begins in the foyer Whanganui palette, each given a local name. Durie Hill Green. River and continues into the Wesley Wing. Gold. Kai Iwi Ironsand. Velodrome Blue. Papa Clay Ground. One practice that intrigues is the use of digital photographs Madeleine Slavick

Wairarapa Word World War I poems, Known Unto God and also Voices of Erebus which he was commissioned to write for an anniversary of the disaster when Sir Ed, an atheist, was to speak and needed something to replace a An hour with Bill Manhire prayer. When asked about the ceremony later, he said that Bill Manhire Poet, Bill Manhire, brought his witty, astute and wide open view of had written a poem for him, “...and I quite like it, actually.” the world to Carterton in early April. Wairarapa Word supporters Introducing the title poem from the book Some Things to Place in a packed the Courthouse to hear him read and talk. Coffin, he explained that he was a pall bearer at Ralph Hotere’s funeral. Bill read from his recent books of poetry, Some Things to Place in a Ralph was a slight man and the coffin was unexpectedly heavy. He Coffinand Tell me my Name. His quirky first poem was How Memory Works. discovered later that it contained, among other things, two bottles of ‘Come over here/we say to the days that disappear/No, over here.’ He said Scotch. He finished with some of his riddle poems. that he would like to have it published in a book with the first two lines at It was a trip around Bill Manhire’s whimsical and curious mind. An the front and the last line at the back, separated by blank pages. hour with him was much too short. When asked which poems he was most proud of, he mentioned his Jan Farr

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Lindsey Ward Your friend in Real Estate 06 3048688 Mike Pero Real Estate Ltd Licensed REAA (2008) What’s on May, June 2018 Events Community Choir. Thursdays, 7.15–9 pm during school term, Carterton School Hall, $4 unwaged, $6 waged. [email protected] Aratoi: Abstract Paintings: Adrian Jackman’s painting, Sequential Circuits and other large abstract paintings at Aratoi until June 17. Open daily. Free New Zealand Pacific Studio, Mt Bruce. A non-profit arts centre entry. Richard Gilewitz: Fingerstyle guitar with support acts: Rimutaka All available for residencies. One week minimum, three months maximum. Star Dixie Swing Band and Bob and Kate. Tickets Eventfinda. ZULU LOVE, Fellowships available. artistresidency.org.nz/ May 25, 7 pm. Tickets Eventfinda. Wai Art Group. First Monday of month, 10 am, Carterton Golf Club. Jane Heart of Arts, 47 High Street North Carterton. Lyndsay Durrant, sea and Giles 379 6559. landscapes, from May 18. See article this issue. Wai Art Scape. For $20 a month Jane Giles places artists’ work in publicly Stonehenge Aotearoa. Trek around the Cosmos 7 pm Saturday May 19. accessible spaces. [email protected], 379 6559. Explore Jupiter, its alien system of moons and the great cluster of galaxies Wairarapa Fern and Thistle Pipe Band. Practice Thursday nights in Virgo. Telescope viewing, weather permitting. Phone 06 377 1600. 6.30–8.30 pm. 1st Floor, Savage Club Hall, Albert Street, Masterton. All Sunset Cinema, Carterton Events Centre. Last Friday of month, welcome. Free drum lessons from 6.30–7.30 pm on ground floor (snare, 7 pm for 7.30 pm. June 1, After the Storm, M, adult themes, Japan bass and tenor). All ages and experience. Bring your drum pad and sticks (2016). Membership available on website. Door sales cash only. please. Great for kit drummers too. sunsetcinemacarterton.com Wai Word. March 4, Wai word will join Celebrate Carterton. April 8, Wairarapa Word. Sunday, June 3, 3 pm, Carterton Events Centre. A panel Poet Bill Manhire will be the guest author at the Carterton Community of media-world participants will look at the role of local and national Courthouse. For information: 379 7103 | Facebook: Wairarapa Word. journalism. Entry by koha, all welcome. Write On Masterton. A monthly meet-up for writers to get together and explore creativity through the written word. Free and open to anyone Education, youth, children who loves, or longs, to write. First Thursday of month, beginning on Carterton Community Toy Library. Events Centre Holloway Street. Open April 5, at Masterton District Library from 6.30–8 pm. library hours. Toy Hire for 0 to 8 years. Facebook: @carterton toy library. Carterton Kindergarten. 3 Victoria Street, 8.30–2.30 pm Monday Services to Friday. Fantastic learning for twos and over. Phone: 379 8102 or Adele Pentony-Graham wants information about Carterton ancestors call in to enrol. Website: wmkindergartens.org.nz. Email: carterton@ buried at Featherston Military Cemetery or trained at Featherston for wmkindergartens.org.nz. Also on Facebook. WWI. [email protected] Carterton Playcentre. We are open Mondays and Thursdays 9 am– Age Concern Coffee Mornings Carterton/Greytown, third Thursday of 12 noon at Howard Booth Park, Belvedere Road. Details on Facebook or each month, 10 am, Old Courthouse, Holloway Street, Carterton. Various contact Liz Crow 022 312 0677. speakers. Cost $3. Raffle $1. Contact 06 377 0066 for more information. Dalefield Playgroup. Tuesdays term time 9.30 am–12 noon. Under fives. Alcoholics Anonymous. 8 pm Mondays. Salvation Army community Dalefield hall, beside Dalefield School. Renee 022 315 3374. rooms, 210 High Street South. Dennis 377 5355, Martin 372 7764. Girl Guide Groups. Guides, Mondays 6–8 pm, Sharon Aston 379 6067. Carterton Baptist Church. Service 10 am, Sunday morning. Come and Brownies, Thursdays 6–7.30 pm, Sharon Aston 379 6067. Pippins, find a friendly home and meet our new minister, Wayne Poutoa. All Thursdays 4.30–5.30 pm, Debbie Fryer 379 6588. welcome. Kiddie Gym. Under threes. Wednesdays, term time, 9.30–11 am. St Carterton Community dinner. Reformed Congregation Church Hall, 6 David’s Church corner High and Victoria Streets. Lorna or Abby 379 8325. Howard Street. Every fourth Thursday of the month at 6 pm. All welcome. Longbush Playgroup. Wednesdays, term time, 9.30–12 noon. Under $6. RSVP 379 7937. fives. 1135 Longbush Road. Eileen 372 7861. Carterton Foodbank: Answerphone: 379 4092. Rangatahi to Rangatira Youth Group. Rangatahi to Rangatira, a Carterton Friendship Club Last Tuesday of month, 10 am, Events Centre. free Carterton youth group getting young people involved in their Jeanne 379 5444. community. Every Wednesday evening, Carterton Youth Centre, 5.30– Central Lions. First and third Wednesdays, Club Carterton, 35 Broadway. 7.30 pm. Facebook: facebook.com/r2rcarterton First Wednesday, dinner meeting, 6 pm. Third Wednesday, supper Scout Group. Keas, Mondays 4.30–5.30 pm, Sylvia Morgan 379 7153, meeting, 6.45 pm. Nita Edwards 027 247 8441. Cubs, Mondays 6 pm–7.30pm, Josh Hunter 027 481 6523, Scouts, Club Carterton. club-carterton.com | Facebook. Thursdays 6.30–8.30 pm, John Sage 379 6882. Epilepsy Support Group. Mondays 11 am, Salvation Army office, South End Kindergarten next to South End School. Monday–Friday 210 High Street South. 0800 20 21 22. 8.30 am–2.30 pm. Vacancies 2018 for over twos. 379 7723, southend@ wmkindergartens.org.nz or call in. Freemasons. Greytown St Marks Lodge No. 53 meets second Tuesday of the month (except January) at the Lodge Hall, Holloway Street, Carterton St John. Penguins (6–9 year olds) Tuesdays, 4:30–5:30 pm. Youth (8– at 7.30 pm. New member enquiries contact Doug Johnston 379 8972. 18 year olds) Tuesdays 7–8:30 pm. Youth room, Events Centre. Maria Tankersley 379 6479. Justices of the Peace. Every Friday, 12 noon–2 pm, Carterton Library. Wairarapa Montessori Playgroup. All Welcome. Tuesdays in term time Kieran McAnulty. Labour list MP based in the Wairarapa, new offices 9.30–11.30 am, Carterton Plunket rooms. Bring a piece of fruit to share at at 157 Queen Street, Masterton. [email protected], morning tea. 04 817 9999. Lions Club: Second and fourth Wednesdays, Club Carterton, Arts 35 Broadway. 5.45 pm, socialising. 6.30 pm meeting, followed by dinner. Book Club. Carterton District Council Library. Events Centre, last Monday Contact: Des Heath 379 6483, 021 0237 5286. of month. 10.30–11.30 am. Anne Hughes [email protected] Toastmasters. Second Tuesdays, Salvation Army Hall, High Street Book Group. University of Third Age. Fourth Friday of month, 1.30 pm, Carterton, 7.30 pm. Next meetings May 8 and 22. Fun-filled, motivating The Village Hall, Rosevilla Drive. Sue Burns 379 6506. and supportive evenings. See Masterton Toastmasters Facebook or Carterton Scottish Country Dance Club. Carterton School Hall, phone Pam, 027 669 9666. Holloway Street. Mondays 7.30–9.30 pm. Contact Michael 06 377 0322 | Social Kitchen. Senior Citizen Hall. 150 High Street North. Every [email protected] | third Saturday of the month at 6 pm. All welcome. Gold coin donation. Modern Jive dance classes. Every Tuesday 8 pm, Carterton School 379 7937. hall. Contact Lance 021 1345 661 or check out our Facebook group, Rotary Club. 6.15 pm Mondays. Club Carterton, 35 Broadway. Wairarapa Modern Jive. Kevin Conroy 379 9304. Senior Citizens. Now at Club Carterton, 35-77 Broadway. Second and Wairarapa Dog Training Club. Rally-O, obedience and agility classes. fourth Wednesdays, 10–11.30 am, Friday afternoons, 1.30 pm–4 pm. New Google us. members welcome. Yvonne Brown 379 9298. Yoga with Odette, 75 Brooklyn Road. Monday, 9 am Acu yoga: Social Services Hub – Haumanu House: Courts, Community Law, experience recommended. Monday, 7 pm and Wednesday, 9 am Wairarapa Free Budgeting, Care NZ, Pathways, Probation, Workwise, General Kundalini: destress, core strength. Tuesday, 7 pm Sampler Class: Hauora, Whaiora, Inland Revenue. Entrance behind clock tower. explorative. Wednesday, 10.30 am Nourish, restorative, 90mins, $20, South Wairarapa Working Men’s Club. 304 9449, swwmc.org.nz, (discounted ten-trip ticket available). Other classes $12. Bookings, Odette [email protected] 021 180 9452. Fairs, markets Special Interests Carterton Farmers Market. Memorial Square, Sundays 9 am–12.30 pm. Awaiti Gardens. The gardens will close permanently on May 31. Open 027 291 6846, [email protected] Thursday to Sunday and public holidays 10 am–4 pm. Gift shop, half- price sale until May 31, adults $8, children under 13 $4. Sport, fitness, movement Cards On Wednesdays. Join an enthusiastic group playing 500 on Basketball. Mondays 7 pm, Kuranui College gym. $2 koha. Facebook: Wednesday afternoons 1.15 pm to 4.15 pm, Carterton Club. Barbara Wairarapa Basketball Society. 027 387 9236. Clareville Badminton Club. Clareville Stadium. Racquets available. $5 Garden Group. Every second Tuesday, 1.30 pm. Vicki Waller 379 9080, casual. $100 for season. Steve Ruscoe 027 333 3975. [email protected] Carrington Bowls and Croquet Club: Bowls, Tuesdays, Saturdays Carterton District Historical Society, 44 Broadway. Local history archive 1.30 pm start. Association Croquet, Tuesdays and Sundays, 9.30 pm and resource room open Tuesdays 2–4 pm. Also open by appointment: start. Golf Croquet, Wednesdays and Saturdays, 1.30 pm start. Coaching Diane 379 7150, Chris 027 271 6280, [email protected] available. All welcome. Bring flat soled shoes. All else provided. Rex Kenny, Holdsworth Women’s Institute. Venue, Tom Bubb Lounge, Clareville 379 7303. Housie every Thursday 1 pm at club rooms behind Carters. Showgrounds, meeting first Thursday of the month at 1.30 pm. Maureen Carterton Golf Club Inc: Affiliated golfers welcomed to club days: Daysh, 379 5975. Tuesday 9.30 am tee-off (18-holes, vets/men/women); Wednesday Mangatarere Society. Help breathe life into our river: Jill Greathead, 10.00 am (18-holes, women), 11 am (9-holes, women); Friday noon tee- 0274 884 376 [email protected] off (11-holes men/women); cartertongolfclub.co.nz for Saturday Club Menzshed. Tuesdays 9 am–1 pm, Thursdays 9 am–1 pm, Clareville competition and other events. Green fees $30/18 holes, $20/9-11holes. complex, A&P Showgrounds. Follow the signs. Carterton Swimming Club. Russell Geange 379 7750, Dean Adams ph Railway Museum. Station. Sundays 11 am–4 pm. Website: 021 190 9437. Water aerobics Monday–Thurs 10 am. Indoor pool and key cartertonrailwaymuseum.org.nz hire, Grant Crawford 379 6431. Rose Society. Every third Monday. Graeme Renall 379 7065, Chris Stewart Free Fit Club. Carrington Park. 6 am Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays. 379 5959. 11 am Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays. All welcome. Di Bailey 027 498 7261. South Wairarapa Bridge Club. Beginners’ Lessons, ten weeks from Greytown Community Gym. Work out for $25 a month. Modern July 25 to September 26, 7 pm – 8.45 pm. Fee $40 (pays for lessons and equipment, open 24/7, no joining fee. Andrew Baily Gibson 021 227 6634. 2018 membership). Refresher lessons also provided. swbridge@xtra. Dimensional Fitness classes (previously HIIT). Fitness training with co.nz | southwairarapabridge.org.nz/ | Secretary 377 4738. Anaru and Dallas Te Rangi. Carrington Park. See interview and summer Stonehenge Aotearoa. Open 10 am–4 pm Wednesday to Sunday and timetable page 13. Facebook: Dimensional Fitness – Strength, Cardio, public holidays. Guided tours weekends and holidays, 11 am. Phone Circuit. 06 377 1600. Hutt Valley Junior Roller Derby. No-contact roller derby for children The Wairarapa Woodworkers Guild meets 7 pm on the fourth Thursday aged 7–17, 4a Railway Ave, Upper Hutt. 6.30–7.30 pm, gear up from of the month at Carterton Menz Shed, Clareville Complex. All welcome. 6.15 pm. huttvalleyderbybrats.com | Facebook huttvalleyderbybrats | Secretary 379 9198 or email [email protected] [email protected] Wairarapa Vintage Car Club. Every first Monday 7.30 pm, except Indoor bowls. South Wairarapa WC Thursdays 7.30 pm Jackie statutory holidays, Clareville Showgrounds, Chester Road. Gary or Whittington 377 1512. Clareville, Mondays 7.30 pm, Tom Bubb rooms, Barbara Lang 372 7593. Clareville Showgrounds. Colleen Larkin 379 8399. Karate. South End School Hall, Thursdays 6 pm. Thomas Duncan Let us know what’s on: [email protected] 027 302 8923, 06 308 8844. 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. South Wairarapa Tramping Club. Club night is the second Tuesday of the month,7.30 pm, St John hall, Main Street, Greytown. For upcoming trips: Barry Kempton, 304 9353. For the club: Carol Major, 304 8210. Squash Club. Wednesday and Friday evenings. howardboothsquash@ gmail.com Tai Chi. Gain Momentum (across from the Library). Three classes including a class for beginners, Sunday mornings at 10 am. See Gain Momentum advertisement, page 3, or their website. Tai Chi. Wednesday 9.30–10.30 am. St Mark’s Hall, Richmond Rd. $6 per session. Tennis Club. Midweek: Tuesday 9 am–noon and Thursday from 5.30 pm. all year round. Google us. Facebook. New members welcome. The Dance Shed. 450 Belvedere Road, rock’n’roll and line dancing. Wendy Walker 027 319 9814. Wairarapa Dance Club. Club Carterton. Second Fridays, 7.30–10.30 pm. See Lyndsay Durrant’s landscapes and seascapes from May 18 at Heart of Russell 377 1609. Arts this month. Photo Jan Farr. Kokomai’s Heidi Holbrook leaves lasting legacy After establishing and successfully running three Kokomai Creative festivals, Heidi Holbrook is standing down as festival director to pursue other interests. Ms Holbrook, who initiated the idea to have a 10-day biennial creative festival in the Wairarapa in 2013, said she was proud to have created a quality and recognisable festival for the region that celebrated local talent and brought international acts to the Wairarapa. “When I first dreamt up Kokomai, I wanted to celebrate the very Kokomai’s Heidi Holbrook is standing down as festival director to pursue best of creativity right across our region, as well as entertain and other interests. inspire local residents with a wide range of events and acts across all genres of the arts,” she said. “I am proud to say, with huge help projects in Masterton and Martinborough. A Masterton mural was from my amazing team, our sponsors and patrons and a large army created by renowned street artist Sean Duffell, while in Martinborough of volunteers, we’ve done it!” a variety of artists contributed to eight murals around the wine Ms Holbrook said the 2017 festival, which was held from October village, thanks to a partnership with the Ventana Creative Collective. 13th – 22nd 2017, made a profit of $18,877.73 and in a post-festival Ms Holbrook is now looking forward to working as a volunteer for survey, 92 percent of respondents were extremely satisfied with the Kokomai while establishing a new project on the outskirts of Carterton. festival and 94 percent said they would attend the festival again. Her job has been advertised and an announcement on the Festival In addition, a Kokomai 2017 legacy will remain with two mural Director will be made in the coming weeks.

Lions Club of Carterton Spud n Bag competition The James family are now famous amongst our Lions Club members for growing no spuds at all from their seeds for the Club’s annual Spud n Bag Competition weigh-in. They might need to steal some of the Fauvel family’s growing secrets. Lachlan Fauvel was our junior winner and John Fauvel our adult winner. We will try and find a better seed spud for our next competition which looks like it might be a grand event, as the local Garden Barn has expressed interest in sponsoring it and supplying the seed Four scores of zero spuds for the James family. Photo Steve Cretney. potatoes. The Club managed to raise around $600 through entries and a further $400 from raffles on the weigh-in day. Jensen Plumbing, Carters, Tryst on High, Headquarters, Flair Flooring, We thank Faye and Diana for their help on Sunday at the judging Clareville Nursery, Clareville Bakery, Massons Implements, Double day and also the large number of Carterton Lions Club members who Dollar Plus, Carterton District Council, Wairarapa Electrical, RD1 Farm turned up to help. This enabled things to be run very smoothly. Supplies, New World, PGG Wrightsons, Mobil Garage, Wild Oats, It was great to have Mike Topp open his kitchen for meals and to Coopers, Carterton Pharmacy, Sargent Motorcycles, Solway Meats, be able to use Club Carterton’s facilities. Premier Beehive, H Gray, J Fauvel, B James, R I Rayner, John and Jan Thanks to our sponsors Parkvale Mushrooms, JNL and Reid Family, Rose and the Cretney Family. Video Ezy, Silkenwood, Noel Reid, Paua World, Take Note, Dean Steve Cretney

Greytown Little Theatre King of All and Master of None When you control all of England and half of France who do you invite against brother to decide the best son to inherit his Kingdom, he also to celebrate Christmas? uses his mistress, Alys of France (Jade Rodger), as his political pawn It’s 1183 and the Plantagenet family tears itself apart. King Henry II, to maintain his power in France against Philip II, King of France in the (James Riley) controls his lands but not his Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine ultimate game of one-upmanship. (Victoria Ross) and Geoffrey (Egan Tearle) in Greytown Little Theatre’s This is likely to be the final production at the current home of production of James Goldman’s, The Lion in Winter. Greytown Little Theatre before they move onto the phase of building This is no boring historical play but a play full of wonderfully witty a brand new theatre. The season runs from June 20–30. Follow us on dialogue and vivid, vibrant characters that you’ll love or hate. Director, Facebook for updates and ticketing information. The first night is sold Lynn Bushell says the play’s strength is how relatable the characters out already, so be quick. are on a personal level. As Henry pits mother against son and brother Yvonne Way Awaiti Gardens, end of an era On May 31, Awaiti Gardens, a well-loved Wairarapa tourism destination, will close. Only one month is left for locals and tourists to see the autumn beauty now on display. Jeanette and Allan Gates will leave the place that has been in their family for five generations. They have developed the six acre garden’s outstanding features over the last 48 years. Jeanette and Allan started married life in the cottage on what was originally a 130 acre dairy farm. Some years ago, during renovations of the cottage which was formerly bushmen’s accommodation, newspapers from the 1880s were discovered lining the walls. Today the tearooms are warm and cosy. The Gates family created the gardens in the 1980s. Jeanette moved her Carterton-based ceramics business there. Over time, as more and more people visited, the place just grew. In the early Jeanette and Allan would love locals to come and share the magnificent stages, the couple’s three children also helped turn the property into autumn colour as they bid adieu to this chapter in their lives. a full-scale tourist centre. Even a deer farm was added, with 300 deer helicoptered in Jeanette and Allan would love locals to come and share the from the Tararuas. Visitors can still encounter a magnificent stag magnificent autumn colour as they bid adieu to this chapter in their affectionately known as ‘Big Boy’. lives. Jeanette says that visitors from all over the world, especially The property has already been sold and the new owners wish to Britain, America and Australia, regularly enjoyed the destination. close it to the public. Jeanette and Allan will continue to be Carterton When the Christmas shop at Kirkaldie and Stains closed, many more locals and look forward to active retirement on their new one acre Wellingtonians trekked over the hill to see her year-round treasure property. trove of festive decorations and gifts. A sale is now on until the shop Barbara Gladding closes.

Winter hours for Happy birthday from Carterton Farmers Market The end of daylight saving heralds a change from long hot summer the Bowling Club days to cooler nights, occasional morning frosts and the first of the When Janet Steffert turned 85 fires being lit. the Carrington Bowling Club The Carterton Farmers Market will move to our winter site on June made a surprise presentation 1. You will find us on the High Street in front of Café Istanbul and Flair of a birthday cake at an event Flooring Xtra. Please note: we will be open every second and fourth held to view the new flag for the Sunday of the month only. This will give our stallholders a chance club. Photographer Toni Bingley to re-charge, revitalise and replenish their stock. We plan to stay in caught the moment the surprise Memorial Square during May, but if the weather turns to custard, cake was brought in and Janet look across the street, we will be under the awnings on the High realised what was happening. Street. Follow our Facebook @cartertonmarket for updates. Thank you Cartertonians and visitors for the fantastic support of our Easter Market. The children enjoyed egg decorating, a treasure hunt, and glitter tattoos. The hopping Easter Bunny was a huge hit, as were the chocolates eggs she delivered. A big thank you to Wairarapa Eggs Limited for providing the free- range eggs and to New World Carterton and Wairarapa Web Design for donating the chocolate eggs and lollies. What a caring, involved community we live in. Thank you everyone for making this The hopping Easter Bunny was a huge a special, fun-filled day. hit at the Easter market. Photo Iris Pauline Donald brings in the Janet responds. Iris Christopher Christopher. birthday cake. Photos Toni Bingley. TEN YEAR PLAN Te Mahere Ngahurutanga 2018 – 2028

CONSULTATION ISSUE EXPANSION OF WASTE AND RECYCLING SERVICES Managing waste and ensuring good outcomes for the community and the environment is a complex task. We need to provide an effective waste service, at a cost acceptable to the community.  Enhancing kerbside recycling by providing 240-litre wheelie bins for co-mingled recycling, using the existing crates for We are glass collection on alternate weeks. committed  Setting up a system of kerbside food waste collections.  Establishing an electronic waste (e-waste) service at t“o working the transfer station, or an advertised collection service with the scheduled throughout the year. community to create a healthy, safe, CONSULTATION DOCUMENT and vibrant AVAILABLE NOW ON OUR place to live. WEBSITE Mayor John Booth cdc.govt.nz/plans/tenyearplan

HOW TO FIND OUT MORE The Ten Year Plan Consultation How to make a submission:  Online submission form Documents and supporting cdc.govt.nz/plans/tenyearplan SUBMISSIONS CLOSE 12pm, Wednesday information is available to view  Post to Carterton at our offices, the Carterton District Council, PO Box 9, 23 May 2018 Carterton 5713 District Library and on our  Deliver to Council office, Holloway website cdc.govt.nz/plans/ Street, Carterton tenyearplan.  Email to [email protected] cdc.govt.nz/plans/tenyearplan

Connect with your Councillors over the next month #CDC10YP HAVE YOUR SAY – check the website for a list of dates and times. Historic photo, last issue Pat was concerned about the plight of people who struggled in society. He is mentioned in ‘Fine principal’ recognised Hansards (1981) parliamentary debate, Vol 437, pp 522. ‘He was A photo of a 1939 Training College rugby team in the April issue of the a fine Principal. He said that there Carterton Crier sparked memories for Barbara Gladding of Gladstone was an increasing gap between who recognised her former school principal, Mr Pat McCarthy. the haves and have-nots. He Barbara went to Heretaunga Intermediate School, Hastings as a said the haves always wore new Form 1 pupil (year 7) in 1969 when Mr McCarthy was principal there. clothes, they biked to school, and He was still principal when she joined the staff as a first year teacher in had lunches prepared or plenty of 1981. “He was very fondly regarded by pupils and staff alike,” Barbara money to buy a lunch. ... recalls. “He was interested in everyone. I remember the speech he ‘The have-nots were in a ... gave at his farewell dinner for staff. He spoke to each of the 20-plus different position. They wore staff members personally and as he knew them all so well he was second-hand clothes and walked Pat McCarthy, enlarged from the able to encourage their strengths and interests. to school. If they had any lunch original of the 1st IV. “At the time he was Principal his role was benchmarked for an at all they were given money to equivalent level of responsibility with similar roles. The staff were buy it from the pie shop. They frequently arrived at school without impressed when they found he had the same level of responsibility having had breakfast. ... Such children have no … prospect of home as the Captain of the Cook Strait ferry.” ownership and little prospect of a job’.

Carterton District Historical Society Soldiers Memorial Square, Carterton Back in 1857, when Mr. William Parker and his wife Hannah Underhill Our Memorial Square is a great place to stop and watch the world purchased the land which is now Memorial Square, it had only go by and a place where the Sunday Farmer’s Market attracts many to recently been surveyed into lots. This particular plot was lot 1. the town. The Carterton District Council staff maintain the lawns and On their arrival from Birmingham England, William, the first gardens immaculately. It is a beautiful square and one that Carterton librarian at Carterton Library, set about building a home for his residents are proud of. family. The land boundary was High Street, Park Road, Dixon Street Alison Underhill and Nelson Crescent – a large plot to maintain. Later a hall was built near the house where dance lessons were held. In 1910 the local council purchased the area from the Parker Estate. Mayor Howard Booth raised over $3,000 in funds towards setting up a permanent memorial to the soldiers who fell during World War I. With support from many local people, sufficient funds were raised to ensure a memorial could be erected on the site. The Soldiers Memorial Square was opened on February 13, 1921. The gardens were set out, the red granite pillar, erected on a plinth, was put in place, ready for the grand open occasion. The top of the pillar was made, as if tuesday TO FRiday 9am - 5pm broken off, to symbolise saturday 10am - 1pm the young lives that were ended prematurely. An act of Parliament in 1932 saw the land vested in Corporations of the Appointments Borough of Carterton and County of Wairarapa South as a public park. In 027 524 1908 1949 a black plinth was added to recognize the sacrifice paid by so many during the World War II campaign. 42 Main Street The top of the pillar was made, as if broken off, to symbolise the young lives that were ended prematurely. Photo from Carterton Historical Society archives. Carterton (UK) Celebrates Carterton, New Zealand recently played host to Celebrate Carterton, a fabulous event that saw over 160 of the town’s organisations championed. Over in Carterton, United Kingdom, something very similar is planned. Last summer Sue and Kayleigh James had a brochure through the door for Burford Festival. This got them thinking, “If Burford can do one, why can’t we?” They set about the process of pulling together all of the In Carterton UK they have their own Carterton Crier and now they’re wonderful things that go on in Carterton, showcasing for one week celebrating their town, just a few months after we celebrated ours. what the town has to offer. It has fairly quickly become apparent to both women what a mammoth task this is. But as they have more ideas and find ever more groups, activities, clubs, societies and organisations, the motivation for Carterton Celebrates has only got stronger. The aim is to put Carterton on the map, to elevate it alongside other TOP MARK nearby places that seem to get all the press. Planned for the week from ACCOUNTING SERVICES Saturday June 23 to Sunday July 1, the festival will be bookended by Open Gardens at the beginning and Armed Forces Day at tail end. Affordable • Friendly • Prompt There’ll be displays throughout the week, lovingly put together by Rental Property, Business and Small Farm different venues. One in the library will proudly show off our link with Accounting Carterton, New Zealand, from which library manager, Andrew Bayliss, Income Tax Returns hopes to establish a pen-pal scheme for primary school kids. The GST PAYE Returns history of Carterton will be on show in the Town Hall, as well as that of RAF Brize Norton, to tie in with the RAF’s 100-year anniversary. Reviews of Sports Clubs & Other Community Organisations Carterton Celebrates promises to be an eye-opening, rewarding and joyful carnival of all things Carterton. It will be an unmissable Phone: 06 379 7579 Reduce your opportunity to get Carterton on the map and remind residents just Email: [email protected] accounting costs quite how rich this community actually is. Toby Hambly, Features Writer, Carterton Crier, UK Neighbourhood Support Rekindling community spirit In February this year Deb Tarr invited her Augustus Street neighbours to a meeting to set up a Neighbourhood Support Group. About 20 people turned up, met one another and heard from Sue Tennent, Neighbourhood Support coordinator. Deb planned to follow up with a street barbecue but had to put it Augustus Street neighbours meet up at Deb and Lance Tarr’s house in on hold when her father died. She still intends to have it, but in the March this year. Photo Jan Farr. meantime the bonus from the street meeting has been recognising her neighbours and being recognised. “These days there is a loss of community spirit. People don’t know “After I got in touch with Sue Tennent about hosting a their neighbours. Both sets of parents work. People don’t get out of neighbourhood meeting I went around every neighbour and their homes and walk down the street any more. Even a lot of new introduced myself. It was a bit confronting at the start, going up Mums don’t take their pushchairs down the street these days, making to strangers’ doors. But once the doors opened I had an amazing connections; they strap the baby into a car seat and they’re away. welcome from everyone and positive feedback to get the meeting Deb put her surplus apples out with a sign saying ‘Free apples’. started,” she said. They all went. A neighbour rang to say that the street lights had “I wanted to get involved in the community, specifically close to been out for days. Deb’s husband, Lance, phoned the council and the home. I wanted to live in a safe and friendly community. It doesn’t problem was fixed. “If there is a problem in the street, we can come take much to knock on someone’s door just to connect. I met some together to solve it,” she said. wonderful people in the street. Jan Farr Wings over Fix-it Lab for Wairarapa, 2019 Carterton It has been over a year since the 2017 Wings over Wairarapa Air Inspired by the screening of the movie Living the Change, the Festival (Wings) was cancelled due to unprecedented rainfall. Fix-It Lab, Carterton is a community-run workshop hosted by “Planning for the 2019 Festival has been underway for some time,” volunteers with the skills to help make repairs for people in the said Wings chair, Bob Francis. community. The Lab will offer repair services in a variety of areas “Our focus immediately after the cancellation was to refund all like sewing, toy repairs, bike repairs and more. The community ticket holders and to work through the insurance complexities. can access the lab to have repairs made and learn a new skill by “Our first key milestone has arrived, with tickets now on sale nationally and internationally for the 2019 Air Festival to be held 22, donation, koha or the use of the local green dollar system. 23, 24 February 2019. The Lab has reached out to a variety of groups in the “We will have night flying to music and pyrotechnics lighting up community all keen to help and teach skills from woodworking, the skies. This will be a real family event; folks can bring along a picnic sewing, DIY skills and more. It will help promote better dinner and experience a truly magical evening.” consumerism and sustainability by reducing the impact that Features of the 2019 Air Festival include the much loved WWI and waste has on the landfill and connect people through learning WWII aircraft, such as SE5a, FE.2B, Fokker DVII, Fokker DVIII, Sopwith and sharing expertise. Pup, Sopwith Snipe, Albatros D.II, Albatros DVA, RE.8, BE.2c, Bristol F2B, BE12, Sopwith Triplane, Nieuport 11 BEBE, LVG C.VI, Fokker EV, The current plan is to host the Lab once a month on a Sopwith Camel, DH4, Airco DH and Fokker DR.1. Saturday through the Carterton Events Centre in the Scout For more information visit wings.org.nz, Wings Facebook or Hall space. If you’d like to volunteer please contact Hayden contact Jenny Gasson – [email protected] Mischefski at [email protected], detailing your skills, equipment and the tools you can bring; eg. sewing machine or tools. You’ll need to supply your own equipment. If you’d like to use the Lab to have repairs made, suggestions are welcome – everything from upholstery to DIY repair ideas are welcome. We are even working on having our own registered electrician on-board to donate time for simple repairs and advice. The Lab is also looking for a bike repair mechanic for children’s bikes, scooters and skateboards. Once a team of skilled volunteers is on-board, the Lab will open to the public. Check out the Lab’s Facebook page at @ fixitcarterton for updates. UK ‘Airborne Pyrotechnics’. Hayden Mischefski Doctors urge locals to get ready for winter With the official start of winter just weeks away, local doctors are urging Carterton locals to get ‘winter-ready’ to help avoid the usual rounds of seasonal colds and illness. Doctors are particularly encouraging people to get a flu vaccination this year to help protect against this serious illness following a severe flu season in the northern hemisphere. “This year could be particularly bad for winter illnesses,” said Carterton GP Annie Lincoln. “A flu vaccination is one of the best ways to stay well during winter and avoid the spread of flu in the wider community.” A recent study found that around 25 percent of the population get Carterton Medical Centre practice nurse Corina Ngatai with Mere Kerehi. the flu virus each year with about four out of five people (80 percent) Local doctors are urging people to book in for a flu vaccination to help showing no symptoms. stay well this winter. “This means you could be spreading the flu virus without knowing contact their local medical centre to check if they’re eligible and to it or being unwell,” Dr Lincoln said. “Having a flu vaccination not only book an appointment. Flu vaccinations are also available at Carterton helps to protect you from this highly contagious disease – it also Pharmacy. helps to keep your family, friends and co-workers well too.” Dr Lincoln also urged locals to get ‘winter-ready’ by checking they This year’s vaccine provides protection against the strain that have a ready supply of regular medication, including asthma inhalers. caused the severe illness in the northern hemisphere during the “If you or someone in your family gets asthma or has COPD recent winter there. (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), now is the time to check Flu vaccinations are free for pregnant women, for those aged you have inhalers ready to use if you need them. Make sure you have over 65 and for people with certain medical conditions. People can a good supply at home, in your bag and at work or school.”

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A new library box outside Jo & Kelly’s offices on High Street north. Photo Don Farr. Rose Society South Wairarapa Workingmen’s club Time to clean up Workies’ Whispers Check your rose beds, remove any weeds and rework the soil. Last month Taranaki’s premier female duo, Just Us performed at the Spray roses if you still have diseases. The cooler weather should club. They attracted dancers onto the floor, right from the opening put an end to further disease. number. Clean up all rose beds. Remove all dead leaves as fungi will form The Emerald Brothers will perform on May 11. This is also a ‘must- over winter on fallen leaves so it’s important that all this material is see’ show, highly recommended by the executive who saw them at burnt and NOT put in the compost heap. their recent conference. The roses will be approaching In July the entertainment committee is planning another ball, so dormancy so there will be no watch this space for details. need to water or feed unless it is Club 60: Our next get-together is on Monday May 28. This month extremely dry. we are hosting the Upper Hutt Cossie Club. They arrive about 11 am You should be able to pick lots and we welcome all who are free to join us. Following lunch we will of roses from repeat flowering play pool, indoor bowls and cards, then have a cuppa and a chat cultivars. It is too early to prune at afternoon tea time before the Upper Hutt folk return home. We but a good time to spread a thick would particularly welcome our more senior, newly-joined members layer of mulch over the beds. of the club to come along on this day. We’d also love to see you on There is no need to dig this in. our regular meeting days, the last Monday of the month at 1.30 pm. You can start to collect ripened Indoor Bowls: has started again for the year. We meet on Thursday hips if you want to try growing evenings from 7.30 pm. Come along roses from seed. You can take for a roll-up. cuttings of roses now. Tuesday club: This card club Phillippa Edwards, Rose Society You can start to collect ripened continues to be popular for those See ‘What’s On’ for Rose Society hips if you want to try growing wishing to play alternative card contact details. roses from seed. games. We meet Tuesday afternoons at 1.30 pm. Popular card games are Bolivia, Five Crowns, and Phase 10. Club Carterton However, other card and board The Emerald Brothers will games are available. Have a meal, win a perform at the club on May 11. raffle! Membership renewals are in progress now. We are getting a few new members now, so come along and check us out. As a member you have full access to our library which has lots of amazing books. We have entertainment every Friday night. Come and have a meal and be in to win a raffle! On Sunday July 15 at 2 pm the wonderful entertainers, Dennis Marsh and Wayne Heath, will play here. It will be a fab afternoon! We have Housie on Monday evenings which is very popular. You can hire one of several rooms for a function. Hope you have a good month! Water Bowls Plant Pots Furniture Karen Chalmers, Club Secretary.

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Patrick and Scott Ltd REAA 2008 Dear AA I have a friend who I’m quite worried about. She’s one of those Yr les people to who everyone else turns to when they’re having difficulties or dramas. It’s got to the point now where random people write to her. Carterton’s Surrey I think they’ve started calling her the Distress Diva or some silly name. Just want to say thanks for the colour photo and the piece on the I’m concerned that taking on the problems of others is having an Surrey and the opening of the carriage house a few weeks ago. effect on her own mental state. The constant pressure of deadlines in So many people have been involved in the concept and the answering can’t be helping either. What can be done? realisation of Eion’s dream that whenever it is mentioned in the Yours sincerely, press it gives them all a pat on the back. These are so often the silent, Naomi De Plume ‘behind the scenes’ people and organisations that rarely get the cheers they so richly deserve. Keep up the good work of the Carterton Dear NDP Crier, another great local success story! I understand your consternation but, like all incredibly heroic figures Sally Barrett across the wide gamut of history, there is only one thing your amazing Thanks Sally. Ed. friend can do: dig deep and find that extra inner energy to power on. Nobody said solving all the world’s problems in two inches Researching Carterton of column text would be easy. However, being blessed with wit, I did wonder when my husband died in March 2000 how was I to fill intelligence and astonishing good looks does come with a large the hours of each day. I never dreamt I would be so busy researching weight of responsibility. I’m sure your friend will be fine. and helping folk throughout the Wairarapa which I thoroughly love Regards, doing. Since I first began researching the early settlers of Carterton AA District, I’ve met such great folk willing to share their family history Dear Agony Aunty. We hear your cry for help. Ed. and I’ve made some great friends. Please send your questions for Agony Aunty to: My research was to be lodged with the local group but, due to [email protected] circumstances beyond my expertise, Gareth Winter has offered to take it all up to the archives in Masterton. In your article on The Travelling Correspondent, Carterton 1885- 1891 they give the date for a dinner attended by Mr Carter for the naming of Carterton as 1859 rather than between the years 1885- Advertising rates for The Carterton Crier 1891. Surely this must be a mistake. Contact Ken Fairs, 022 362 6342, Adele Pentony-Graham, Clareville Researcher [email protected] (paid advertising only) Specs: Smoke pollution 1/8 page = 65mm deep x 95mm wide 1/4 page = 135mm deep x 95mm wide I agree with previous writers that Carterton has a smoke pollution 1/2 page = 135mm deep x 195mm wide problem from outdoor fires in some areas. 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This lists five easy Circulation rural and urban Carterton: 3,835 steps to reduce wood smoke, describes material that should not be burnt and details health risks from exposure to smoke. It also says, ‘no outdoor burning from May 1 to August 31.’ As requesting residents to refrain from outdoor burn-ups seems ineffective here, can Carterton District Council and Wellington MASTER BUILDER Regional Council consider writing to offenders and taking action with with over 50 years’ experience a by-law that will be beneficial to all in helping to keep our air clean? Jean Corlett, Carterton DECKS | FENCES | BATHROOMS & MORE Copyright Information We at The Carterton Crier are happy to interview you, write articles for you, take pictures and lay out your community what’s-on ads for PHONE ROD 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 027 457 6891 media outlets without our permission. 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