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Cool Cats of Hutt Technology CEMETERY FULL EV GOES FREE Head north Park up for final and plug rest P3 in P24 The Hutt News Tuesday, June 14, 2016 Ailsa Webb won a prize for science education. She was snapped with MindLab’s Malcolm Clarke, Education Minister Hekia Parata and Hutt City Mayor Ray Wallace. The best technology companies are bright, nimble and flexible and so was the entertainment for the awards night - as was ably demonstrated by the gymnastic Mim Syme, of Moe (Makers of Entertainment). Cool cats of Hutt technology BLAKE CRAYTON-BROWN Valley’s best and brightest. recognised,’’ Parata said. classroom working with NIWA. observed the differences they saw. ‘‘The contribution they are ‘‘I was especially impressed by Her passion for science carried This showed them the impact The top cats of business and edu- making to the STEMM sectors on Wilford School, which is doing a over to her students, with four of stormwater drains and pol- cation in the Hutt Valley gathered a local, national, and global stage fantastic job of nurturing future Wilford School pupils winning lution on the oceans. at the old Ford factory in Seaview is why the Hutt Valley is Tech- scientists and innovators.’’ this year’s primary Young Sci- for a celebration of their success. nology Valley.’’ Ailsa Webb, a teacher at the ence Achiever award. ❚ Other winners on the night were AROTEC This year’s Technology Valley Education Minister Hekia Petone school, was one of the The pupils, Harvey Butler, Diagnostics as Business of the Year; Avalia Awards last Thursday were held Parata said she was highly award winners on the night, Ethan Neru, Jemma Allwood and Immunotherapies as Emerging Business of as part of the Valley’s STEMM impressed. taking home the school category Joshua Herne had recently stud- the Year; Jerome Leveneur as Outstanding Festival, designed to highlight the ‘‘Even though ... Chris Bishop of the Outstanding STEMM Edu- ied marine reserves. Individual; Jessie Bird as Emerging Valley’s prowess in science, tech- had told me how impressive the cator award. To see the difference marine Individual; AQUI-S as STEMM Project of the nology, engineering, mathematics finalists were, I was blown away Webb was so passionate about reserve protection made, the Year; Karyne Rogers as Outstanding STEMM and manufacturing. by the outstanding and passionate science education that she applied group snorkled at both Lowry Bay Educator (tertiary/community), and Zavier Mayor Ray Wallace said the students, teachers and for a Royal Society Fellowship (unprotected) and Taputeranga Boyd from Naenae College as Young Science evening was a celebration of the entrepreneurs who were and spent six months outside the Marine Reserve (protected) and Achiever (secondary). WE’VE GOT WINTER COVERED! 2 HUTT NEWS, JUNE 14, 2016 stuff.co.nz YOUR PLACE, YOUR PAPER did you know... 1/ GAP WALK There are more than Hutt Valley leg of the Great Global 950,000 visits to Hutt City Greyhound Walk sets off from Council’s six pools each FROM Petone Wharf at 2.30pm, on Sunday. year. THE Theme is carnival. EDITOR 2/ JUST EAT IT! Screening of the anti-food waste doco Just Eat It! at Petone he district’s drive to be a Lighthouse also features a Q&A with T Technology Valley has Capital’s Love Food Hate Waste INSIDE moved far beyond brand team. Profits to Community Unity. Conversations ......................................... 16-17 wishful thinking to be solid reality. 1 Monday June 20. More, pg 54. What’s On ..................................................26-27 As Mayor Ray Wallace proudly Movie Review ............................................... 28 trumpets in a foreword to the 3/ KNIT Your Money ................................................... 63 programme for this year’s STEMM Fluffy Robot collective have been Dr Libby ............................................................ 64 Festival – itself a thoroughly making Little Creatures for months Crosswords .................................................... 64 worthwhile showcase of our in the lead up to the World Wide Knit Cooking ............................................................ 65 science and engineering sector – in Public Event Day, this Saturday, Sport ............................................................ 70-72 the Hutt has the fourth largest 10am-2pm. Check out displays at 4 number of Kiwi workers in Laings Rd, Lower Hutt. medium to high-tech manufactur- to do list This newspaper is ing. That’s more than 3,800 full- 2 3 4/ HILL CHALLENGE subject to NZ Press time employees in 897 businesses. Have you registered for the July 3 Council procedures. Just one of the enterprises King of the Hill walk or run from A complaint must first honoured at the Tech Awards (page Wainuiomata up to the hill summit be directed in writing, within one month of 1) is Avalia, a collaboration and back. See kingofthehill.co.nz publication, to the editor’s email address. between Victoria University, the If not satisfied with the response, the Gracefield/Callaghan Innovation- 5/ MUSIC, MUNCH complaint may be referred to the based Ferrier Research Institute 12.15-1pm Wednesday concerts at St Press Council. PO Box 10-879, and Malaghan Institute, which is Mark’s Church, Woburn Rd are back. The Terrace, Wellington 6143. making good strides furthering Or use the online complaint form at This week: Calvin Scott (oboe), www.presscouncil.org.nz Please immunotherapy technology for 4 5 Hannah Darroch (flute), Robyn include copies of the article and all treating cancer and other diseases. Jaquiery (piano). Koha entry. correspondence with the publication. And on page 14, we cover the efforts to set up another Manufacturing Accelerator Contact us EDITOR: Simon Edwards, [email protected], Ph 589-7622 programme in the city and on BUSINESS MANAGER: Grant Davidson, [email protected], Ph 5897617 pages 22 and 23 we take a look at a EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES: 570-2040, 22 Raroa Rd, P O Box 300-29, Lower Hutt. Classifieds, 570-2040, 1st Assembly-based enterprise that [email protected]. DELIVERY each Tuesday to 43,561 homes and buinesses in Lower Hutt (including Wainuiomata, Petone, Stokes is on the road to exporting. Valley and Eastbourne). www.facebook.com/huttnews – Simon Edwards Millen June Special WE-7230222AG It’s all about warmer, drier, safer homes – recent law changes mean that working smoke alarms will be compulsory in all residential rental properties from 1 July. There will also be a staged process that requires insulation be JJadeade installed. Social housing (where tenants pay an income related rent) must be insulated by 1 July 2016 and all other rental homes by July 201. for good health WINTER SPECIAL Only $45/hour Landlords and tenants – you need to know your rights and Valid until end of July responsibilities for keeping a warmer, drier and safer home. Learn more at tenancy.govt.nz Come and see our experienced team soon! 274c Jackson Street, Petone, New Zealand RTA002FFXR2 OPEN 7 DAYS 9.30am to 7pm • Ph: 04 568 8128 WE-7291684AA stuff.co.nz JUNE 14, 2016, HUTT NEWS 3 Taita Cemetery at end of its life Natural burial SIMON EDWARDS Taita Cemetery is full but people site costly will continue to be laid to rest there for decades yet. Development of a natural burial That sounds like a contradic- site at Taita Cemetery rests on tion but it means no new plots are public demand. available at the 17-hectare site An area at the top of the old where people have been buried cemetery, above the historic since 1892. lychgate leading to the first RSA However second and third section, has been hit by fire a few internments, where people are times and is ‘‘prime for laid to rest on top of family revegetation,’’ reserves officer members already departed, or in Shelley Donoghue says. the 30 or so pre-purchased plots Burials to a traditional depth yet unfilled, ‘‘will still be going on can’t be done there because of the for a very long time,’’ says city terrain, but it may be suitable for council reserves technical officer natural burials (shallower Shelley Donoghue. internments in a manner that Second and third internments does not inhibit decomposition even happen in the old section of but allows the body to recycle nat- the cemetery, where Kate Bertha urally). Makara, on the Karori Hone Bell (aged 36 years) was the coast, hosts the region’s main first to be buried 124 years ago, natural burial site and Kapiti and where influenza pandemic Coast District Council is develop- victims, famous horticulturalist ing one at Otaki. Thomas ‘Quaker’ Mason, and four About 130 people have been of the city’s mayors also lie. buried at Makara since the cem- There’s also plenty more room The ‘new’ section of Taita Cemetery has plenty more space for burial of ashes in the memorial garden but no more first etery opened there in 2008. for internment of ashes at Taita, internment plots are available. A recent report to Hutt City and given that around 70 per cent Council said it could cost of Kiwis who die are now Hutt City Council bought land in About 17,000 people are buried very quickly. We weren’t the only $100,000-$200,000 to develop a cremated, the cemetery that Akatarawa, which is currently in the old section of Taita Cem- ones – Whenua Tapu (Cemetery) natural burial area at Taita. nestles in the lower slopes of hills being grazed. etery and 15,000 more in new had the same. These things seem ‘‘Demand for this sort of burial to the north of Naenae will be the Under a cost-sharing deal with blocks further east, the most to go through stages.’’ has not seen a significant last home of many of us yet. Upper Hutt City Council, Hutt recent being numbered 13 and 14. Before the cemetery closed for increase since 2011,’’ the report Donoghue says the council folk will be buried at the existing Donoghue says there was a first interments, it was catering said.
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