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Know How Te Awamutu 9611723AA Numbers count in property management Benefi t from experienced managers with market insight backed by the collective strength of over 1000 CourierPublished Tuesday & Thursday THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2014 offi ces and countless training sessions. EXTRA COPIES 40c PH 07 872 0927 TE AWAMUTU Community Newspaper of the Year | APN Regional Media Awards 2014 Rosetown Realty Ltd Licensed REAA (2008) OTOROHANGA Shuttle needs Library plan next garaging Te Awamutu Health Shuttle is in urgent of need of garaging for two vehicles — a Ford Transit van and people mover. The service operates to transport people to and from medical appointments at stage for project Waikato Hospital and private specialists in Hamilton. If you have a secure space, BY GRANT JOHNSTON close to town the trust would be pleased to hear from you — A submission to Waipa Dis- phone the co-ordinator on 870 trict Council’s Draft Annual 6633 or 021 178 7997. Plan hearings last week from former employee Brian Statistics in Hudson provided plenty of food for thought. the spotlight It was the former Waipa Continuing Education will District roading manager’s have a Government Statistician first ever submission. as guest speaker at its meeting Mr Hudson said as a former next Wednesday (May 21). frequent user of Te Awamutu This is a change from the Library when his children earlier advertised epilepsy were young, he is well speaker, Annette Stott. acquainted with the value that For more details about the it can provide for the commun- meeting see classified ad in ity. He said while there was today’s issue. definitely a need for a new facility, there was also a need Early entries to build better community understanding. get discount ‘‘What are we buying? What Entrants for this year’s Te is its size and what are its Awamutu Marathon Clinic 30th features? Council should be Anniversary Fun Run and Walk promoting the benefits. What on June 22 have four weeks left about a middle option of to get their discounted early bird 1000m2 — the size of four large entries in. modern homes — but future Entries received after June proofed so it is easy to expand 13 and on the day will incur a and add features to when the $10 addition to the entry fee. need arises. It should include This year’s special event solar and PV (photovoltaic) offers a commemorative medal power to reduce running costs. for all finishers. ‘‘Let’s make it something See classified ad for details. special. I am familiar with the library at Papamoa, having Open Uni lived there for a number of The University of Waikato is years prior to my wife and I shifting back to Te Awamutu. opening its doors to young and It is attractive on the outside old on Saturday as it hosts its and light and airy on the first Community Open Day as inside.’’ part of the University’s 50th Council received 61 celebrations. comments from submitters in The event is a family-friendly relation to the options public showcase of the proposed for Te Awamutu University’s facilities. Library — 28 of those related to More information at retaining the status quo (which www.waikato.ac.nz/ was not an option provided for 50/community-open-day on the submission form). A — TC140110CA03 FLASHBACK: Bruce Wooten reads a story to his children Zoe (left) and Xanthe at Te Awamutu Library Continued Page 5. during Book Week in 2010. All your favourite Bullseye products are now available at Pratts Plumbing! 0800 772 887 100 Roche St, Te Awamutu 2 Te Awamutu Courier Thursday, May 15, 2014 CourierTe Awamutu 9611703AA LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Community Newspaper of the Year 2014 HFA opinions just that — opinions Your community newspaper for over 100 years. The opinions expressed The phosphoric acid co- that level naturally. HFSA dissociates into fluor- about hydrofluorosilicic acid product is utilised in the soft Fluorosilicic acid breaks ide ion, silica, and hydrogen Circulated free to 12,336 homes through Te Awamutu (HFA) in a Letter to the Editor drinks we consume, and in down and one of the break- ion. He also states that you can and surrounding districts. on Tuesday are completely fertilisers which become down products is silicic acid, not measure something that false and are not supported by incorporated into the foods we which is an intact acid mol- doesn’t exist at the tap. CIRCULATION 12,336* (7044 urban, 5292 rural) any valid evidence. eat. ecule at the typical pH of The writer has made a point The substance most com- The HFA co-product is care- drinking water. of saying that ‘we are advised We welcome letters - preferably via email. They monly used to fluoridate water fully diluted to a 23 per cent Who has measured silicic to use fluoride at 1450 PPM in should be under 300 words and must have the systems is HFA, which is solution and utilised to raise acid at the tap? our toothpaste.’ By whom? sender’s name, address and phone number. No extracted from naturally the level of already existing The CDC National Fluori- The council and the people pseudonyms are accepted and names will only be occurring phosphorite rock. fluoride ions in water by a few dation Engineer, Kip Duchon, are quite happy for the com- withheld in special circumstances at the discretion It is a co-product of the parts per million, up to the like his predecessors, state munity to use fluoridated of the editor. Letters are not usually acknowledged process which extracts the optimal level of 0.7 parts per that none of the water at 0.7 PPM, look at the and may be edited, abridged or discarded. other co-product, phosphoric million, in those water sys- hydrofluorosilicic acid (HFSA) vote. acid. tems which are not already at remains intact at the tap. CHRIS PRICE MANAGER Alan Price [email protected] Well done EDITORIAL HFA prepared specially Dean Taylor (editor) [email protected] for saying no Cathy Asplin (journalist) [email protected] for water supplies At the recent submissions on Colin Thorsen (journalist) the Annual Plan the Avantidrome [email protected] requested $2 million from Council Your newspaper and sand (silica). decay. secondary level of ADVERTISING for some addition to the building. published a letter No HFA is left Every formal public health, but its Dorinda Williams Councillors told them there entitled ‘fluori- once added into scientific review implementation is [email protected] was no money available due to dation is false secur- water, only a safe worldwide has only as good as the Julie Jackson high costs to repair/renew core ity’ which I believe and beneficial trace affirmed the effec- targeting. [email protected] infrastructure and Council have is misleading. element at con- tiveness and safety Some children to be very careful where money is Hydrofluorosilic- trolled levels. of community water and adults may ‘slip- Bookings spent. ic acid (HFA) is no The relative con- fluoridation with through-the-cracks’; [email protected] Sincere thanks from this rate- more toxic than centration of fluor- most, if not all, fluoridation doesn’t CLASSIFIEDS payer. other products that ide in toothpaste V major health organ- have that problem Tania Cortesi-Western, Personally I am sick of these are used in water fluoridated water isations in New Zea- since it is universal. Rhonda Oosterman, Nicola Yuile groups coming to Council for treatment, such as alluded to by your land being for it. Differences (or [email protected] massive amounts of ratepayers’ sodium hydroxide correspondent is a Population-level inequalities) money. and chlorine. red herring. public health between the dental POSTAL ADDRESS I seriously think that if any HFA is prepared Toothpaste com- interventions such health of those 336 Alexandra Street, PO Box 1, Te Awamutu 3840 future Council hands out money to stringent quality panies only started as community water disadvantaged and OFFICE HOURS to these groups I would challenge requirements speci- adding fluoride to fluoridation are those well-off people Monday-Thursday 8am-5pm, Fri 8am-4.30pm it in court. fically for fluori- toothpaste in the foundational for tend to be lower in I am sure I would not be on my dation of water 1960s, after the dis- maintaining a areas with fluori- PHONE 07 871 5151 | FAX 07 871 3675 own for long. supplies. covery in the 1940s healthy population. dation than in those Keep up the good work Mr It is essentially a and 1950s that fluor- Individual without fluori- ISSN 1170-1099 (Print) ISSN 2253-4075 (Online) Mayor and elected Councillors. water-based acidic ide in drinking targeting of care is dation. *Circulation Source: Audited Bureau of Circulation, 1 YE Dec 2012 KEN GEORGE solution of fluoride water reduces tooth also an important DANIEL RYAN Improve Your Property’s Outlook - Let us make your vision a reality - It’s easy! 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