Te Awamutu Rural Your community newspaper for over 100 years Thursday, May 28, 2020 Farms and lifestyles C Nev 027 271 9801 and Noldy 027 255 3047 Health Shuttle in operation Te Awamutu Health Books Shuttle has resumed under Level 2. Due to restrictions and safe distancing, there are limited seats available. Phone 870 3258 to make a booking flood Zirka Circus comes to town Zirka Circus will be at Te Awamutu’s Albert Park from Saturday, May 30 until back Monday, June 1. This is their sixth tour - Into the Future which features the world's first Hologram Aquarium. Operating under strict Level 2 restrictions. For tickets and more information visit www. zirkacircus.com/ Office closed Tomorrow, Friday, May 29, the Te Awamutu Courier office will be closed. Check, clean, dry equipment Waikato Regional Council’s biosecurity team Te Awamutu Library assistant Allyson Stock working out of the Community Room to process the backlog of books returned after Level 3 and 4 lock-down. are urging all hunters to thoroughly ‘check, clean and dry’ all their equipment when moving between waterways to ensure unwanted Huge influx of library returns after lookdown freshwater pests do not spread throughout Waikato Dean Taylor operating 9am-5pm on weekdays. the physical collection, a staggering waterways. A limit of 50 people are allowed number of people took advantage of s Waipa¯’s libraries in the Te Awamutu library and 30 in the free e-resources in place until this Sports reopened this week, staff the Cambridge library, for a week. had to set up temporary maximum of 20 minutes. Sally says over March e-resource picksters work spaces to process the “Unfortunately, magazines, loans were up from 162 in 2019 to 673 Picksters be prepared for Ainflux of books being returned newspapers, and computer terminals this year, in April 1867 titles were the start of the revised following level 3 and 4 lockdowns. won’t be available and residents borrowed compared to 356 in the Investec Super Rugby In Te Awamutu over 1000 books won’t be able to sit and study in the same month last year and until the Aotearoa and ANZ Netball were returned on Monday, adding to library,” says Sally. end of last week 1246 titles compared Premiership competitions on the more than 3700 booked returned All library visitors are required to to 241 last year. This represents an during the previous week. sign in before entering any council- increase of 418 per cent. June 13 and June 19 Cambridge staff had to deal with operated facilities for contact tracing About 84 per cent of loans were respectively. First Super nearly 2200 book returns on Monday purposes. And hand-sanitising eBooks and the remainder were Rugby picks will be run in the and they had over 6100 returns the stations are set up at all entrances. Audiobooks. June 11 edition and ANZ previous week. While the doors were shut library Premiership in the June 18 Council community services staff were carrying out stocktakes of Stacks and boxes of returned books ■ Residents can take advantage of its edition. manager Sally Sheedy says both library books. in the library’s Community Room. digital collection at www.collection. libraries reopened from Monday, And while readers couldn’t access Photos / Supplied tamuseum.org.nz/explore We’ve covered for winter warmth. 2 Te Awamutu Courier Thursday, May 28, 2020 Rebuilding Waipa¯after lockdown Circulated free to 14,045 homes in Te Awamutu and surrounding districts. Jim Mylchreest advanced if funding was available wishing to relocate to Waipa¯for the Waipa¯mayor to promote economic activity, standard of living and high amenity CIRCULATION 14,045* retain jobs and hopefully create value. PHONE: nother additional opportunities. Why would you continue to live Avantidrome, NZ Fieldays, Lake 07 871 5151 great It is important that all of the in a highly built up city environment Kara¯piro or the numerous POSTAL ADDRESS: week in proposed projects are not only when you could just as easily live equestrian or other events across 97 Sloane Street, PO Box 1, A keeping shovel ready but also shovel in our district and work from home? the district. It is easier to re- Te Awamutu 3840 Covid-19 under worthy — that is they will provide This has largely been a establish these events and utilise OFFICE HOURS: control with only one new case ongoing benefit to the community. theoretical opportunity prior to our existing infrastructure than reported from a contact of an Of the 23 projects put forward Covid-19 but in a few short weeks establish completely new Monday - Thursday 9am - 4pm existing cluster. by the sub-region, 22 have passed has become a reality for many. attractions. Friday 9am - 3pm It is hoped that this continued the initial scrutiny and have gone The unemployment situation is Towards the end of June this DELIVERY QUERIES: 0800 111 200 good news will lead us out of forward for more detailed predicted to deteriorate over the year we will begin to get a better restrictions in the near future and evaluation. next few months — particularly in picture on the economic impacts EDITORIAL we can focus on our recovery, Te Ara Wai was not accepted the visitor and hospitality and factual information on the Dean Taylor (Editor) albeit without international visitors for this next evaluation stage and industries. unemployment rates. Ext: 67705 0274 819951 for the medium to long term. it is likely that this is one of the Our first opportunity to reverse The council will then be able to [email protected] As mayor, my immediate projects that council will defer until this trend, as soon as public target relief to those sectors of the concern is for residents of Waipa¯. external funding is available. gatherings are permitted, is to work community most in need. Caitlan Johnston Ext: 67710 However, fighting the negative This is an unfortunate situation with all businesses and community Waipa¯may look different in the [email protected] health and economic impacts of for all of those that have supported organisations to promote coming years but I would suggest Jesse Wood Ext: 67713 this pandemic will only be achieved the project for many years. community sporting and social that we will continue to have a [email protected] by taking a wider regional and even However, it does not detract from events that attract large numbers strong primary producing sector, SPORT national perspective. the importance of telling the stories of visitors to Waipa¯. and along with the support to the It is for this reason that council of Waipa¯and in particular the A particular emphasis will be active visitor industry, we need to [email protected] worked with Waikato District and untold stories around the New placed on multi-day events which continue to support our farmers ADVERTISING Hamilton City councils to put a sub- Zealand Land Wars. require people to stay overnight and horticulturists. Sarah Verran 021 345 951 regional package of 23 projects to I am still extremely positive and hopefully spend on This pandemic may even [email protected] central government for funding about the future for Waipa¯asa accommodation and hospitality. provide opportunities to assist in assistance. great place for people to live and Prior to Covid-19, 80 per cent riparian plantings to improve water [email protected] The vast majority were based bring up their families. of our visitors were New quality and biodiversity and further CLASSIFIEDS on projects already included in our This confidence is supported by Zealanders visiting for these enhance our reputation as a great Tania King Ext: 67708 10 Year Plans but could be the continued interest of people events whether it be at the place to live. [email protected] We welcome letters - preferably via email. They should be under 300 words and must have the sender’s name, address Big businesses struggle with complex Holidays Act and phone number. No pseudonyms are accepted and names will only be Hamilton City Council is the latest discovery some organisations — The Hamilton council error part of an employee’s regular take- withheld in special circumstances at the big business moving to rectify including police, Fairfax Media, means about 1995 current and home pay, where an employee has discretion of the editor. Letters are not errors in Holidays Act payments. Cadbury NZ and MBIE itself — had former council staff hired between cashed up a portion of their annual usually acknowledged and may be edited, The council errors were incorrectly applied the complex August 21, 2012 and August 18, 2019 leave, or where an employee has abridged or discarded. confirmed after an audit of payroll Holidays Act legislation. will receive an additional holiday left partway through the year We’re online at processes by the Ministry of The police identified a $39 payment. The amount each person before further entitlement to nzmecommunitynews.pressreader.com Business, Innovation and million underpayment affecting receives will be different, but the annual leave has arisen. Employment. about 15,000 staff. Cadbury, Fairfax total owed is $560,606.30. The audit had confirmed all the The audit was part of a national and MBIE also made payments after The error applies where there council’s other core payroll compliance review after the an audit. are variable hours and payments as practices were fully compliant. Truestyle Improvements covers all your property needs From calf shed clearing with our Terex bobcat to pole sheds and concrete to your beautifully landscaped pool. We do it all. Call Craig on 021 2470900 for your free quote.