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Te Awamutu New Location CourierPublished Tuesday & Thursday TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2017 The Hire Centre Te Awamutu Landscape Lane, Te Awamutu Your community newspaper for over 100 years EXTRA COPIES 40c 0800 TA Hire | www.hirecentreta.co.nz Vocal venue A convincing win Te Awamutu performers are busy preparing for the 65th Annual Festival of the Performing Arts. MP proud of her leader after testing campaign The vocal section venue has been changed — it is now at the St John’s Anglican BY DEAN TAYLOR Church on Arawata St. Sitting National MP Barbara Kuriger cele- The festival runs from brated a convincing win in the Taranaki-King Saturday, September 30 to Country electorate at her election party in Te Thursday, October 5. Awamutu on Saturday night. Programmes are $8 from Also evident in Taranaki-King Country, in both Te Awamutu Paper Plus and candidate and party votes, was increased support the Te Awamutu i-Site Visitor for Labour at the expense of minor parties. Information Centre. This trend was evident throughout New Zea- land as the election became a two-horse race for Tennis invite the post and a two-horse race for the minor Te Awamutu Tennis Club placings. is up and running for the new Preliminary results give Mrs Kuriger 21,372 season. votes over Labour candidate Hilary Humphrey The club is holding a free (7378), Green’s Robert Moore (2347) and 497 for open day on Saturday, Allan Thomson of The Conservative Party. September 30 from 10am to Party votes stand at National (19,046), Labour 1pm. (7344), New Zealand First (2983) and Green (1296). There will be free The new Opportunities Party came in fifth with professional coaches at the 627 votes. event to help you enjoy the While Mrs Kuriger and National maintained a similar level of support to 2014, Labour was well up morning of tennis. on the results of 5555 votes for candidate Penny Racquets are available Gaynor and 4483 party votes from three years ago. and there will be a New Zealand First’s party support was also complimentary BBQ and similar to 2014, but everyone else suffered. refreshments. Despite predictions of a huge turnout following All are welcome including the most interesting campaign for some years, children and adults. voter numbers as a percentage of enrolled electors was only slightly up on 2014. Book launch Mrs Kuriger says Saturday night’s national Local author Kat result is a win for regional New Zealand. Merewether is launching her She says she is immensely proud of Bill English two latest books Kiwicorn and for leading a campaign that was difficult, but in the Kuwi’s Kitchen — a kids’ end convincing New Zealand that steady and cookbook — in Te Awamutu sound is the best way forward. on Saturday, September 30. Mrs Kuriger adds that the voters also showed There will be book signing, there is a mood for some change and now it is up to spot prizes and special her party’s senior team to demonstrate flexibility giveaways. if they want to successfully negotiate a coalition Head down to Te that will return them to power. And while she personally believes National Awamutu Paper Plus from could work with the Green Party, and it could be a 10am to join in on the fun. successful coalition, she says it is obviously never going to happen. Mrs Kuriger also said she felt sorry for the Ma¯ori Party — biggest losers on Saturday night — especially co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell, who had been a significant contributor over four terms. Despite the outcome of coalition negotiations and the final result in two weeks, after the official count and special votes, it was back to work yesterday for Mrs Kuriger. As a Junior Whip she is involved in training new MPs with Parliamentary Services. National Caucus also meet today and Mrs TC260917DT01 Kuriger says the next fortnight will be busy as both RETURNED Taranaki-King Country National MP Barbara Kuriger relaxing in Te major parties vie for partners to allow them to Awamutu on Sunday before returning to work yesterday. govern. $750 TRADE-IN. NO QUESTIONS. 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Sunday 7.31am 7.49pm And while most of that estimated 212 new houses each discussions. Across New Zealand, Monday 8.23am 8.46pmpm money will be returned to the year. Much of the new develop- In addition to new Cam- councils were struggling to Council by land developers ment will be on flat land where bridge housing areas, around attract specialist water and and others, there are concerns soakage is poor. $22 million will also be needed technical staff. Many profes- SCALLOP the wider infrastructure in- Mr Bergin said the council to provide water, wastewater sional consulting firms, used dustry may not have the cap- would also be required to meet and stormwater to the to support council staff, were SEASON NOW ON! acity to get the work done. much tougher discharge stand- Hautapu industrial site. Road already at capacity, he said. In its 2015-2025 10-Year Plan, ards. upgrades are needed to open “We already have an A range of Council budgeted close to $220 That would help improve up the site and provide enormous capital works pro- Scallop Dredges million for water, wastewater water quality but drive up connections to the Cambridge gramme in front of us and instore and stormwater work. That stormwater costs. section of the Waikato growth across the district is work is now underway, includ- Waipa must apply to the Expressway. adding to that challenge. It’s a NEW Tidee TimesTim ing an upgrade of the Karapiro Waikato Regional Consent for On the other side of the very positive challenge to have books instore! water treatment plant and a new district-wide district, Council must also but we will need to think very plans to upgrade the Te Awa- stormwater consent in 2022. build a new wastewater con- carefully about priorities and 166 Cambridge Rd, Te Awamutu mutu water supply. “Discharge standards are nection from the expanding funding.” But massive growth, par- now much higher than they Waikeria prison to Te Awa- “Those will be issues that PH: 871 3474 (FISH) ticularly in Cambridge, means were,” he said. mutu. elected members, as the Waipa ratepayers will need to “We’ve looked at a range of The cost — around $25 decision-makers, will need to finance huge, new infra- options and there’s no cheap or million — will be paid by the weigh up when they consider WANT TO VOLUNTEER? structure projects to allow easy stormwater fix for Cam- Department of Corrections. Te options for the 10-Year Plan.” Think pink! housing areas to develop in bridge west. Awamutu’s wastewater plant Councillors have yet to dis- The annual Pink Ribbon appeal is coming up fast! How time for projected demand. “The work needed to open will be upgraded to cope with cuss the capital works pro- about lending a hand to collect donations? It’s the Group manager service de- up that area for development is Te Awamutu’s growth as well gramme in detail. Discussions perfect short term volunteering role! livery Barry Bergin said much significant.” as the Waikeria extension. The will be held before a first cut of Hey Coach! of the proposed new spend — At this stage, physical new wastewater connection is the 2018-2028 draft 10-Year Plan Got horse and riding knowledge to share? Then you are around $62 million — was ring- drainage works in Cambridge likely to be in place by 2020. is developed before Christmas. needed to coach our riders and look after our trusty steeds. 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