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Te Awamutu Te Awamutu CouPublished Tuesday & Thursdayurier FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016 07 870 2455 Your community newspaper for over 100 years EXTRA COPIES 40c Clocks back SH3 interchange New Zealand’s daylight saving period for 2015-2016 ends this Sunday, April 3, when clocks are turned back one hour from 3am to Wetlands make way for safety improvements 2am. People will probably find it more convenient to put their clocks back an hour before going to bed on Saturday night. As well as changing clocks, the end of daylight saving is an opportune time for people to check their household emergency plans, survival items and home smoke alarms. Good luck for awards Several local individuals and businesses are finalists in the Wedding Industry Awards being held this evening at Novotel Rotorua. Amongst them are: Stylequeen Bridal & Formal Wear for oustanding bridal attire, Lee Smith for oustanding makeup artist, Iona van der Pasch for outstanding florist, Kylie McKay for oustanding marriage celebrant and Vilagrad Winery in the People’s Choice category. More about Maungatautari Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari is an exciting place to visit, offering scenic hikes, bush walks and guided tours through the APRILFOOLCREATIONS abundant flowering bushes, ARTIST impression of the SH3/Jary Road/Lake Rotopiko Interchange. trees and plants. BY DEAN TAYLOR way systems, segregated on and Trucks and other heavy minutes to the commute time General manager John off ramps and over and under vehicles will have their own lane between Te Awamutu and Simmons will address Te Continued damage to the cen- bridges to make travelling safer. — limited to 70km/h — and new Ohaupo. Awamutu Continuing tral safety fence between Jary The first interchange is by-pass lanes will be built for Once all the interchanges were Education Group’s meeting and McFall Roads has prompted planned for Jary Road to McFall agricultural machinery and any completed, SCAM expect the com- next Wednesday, talking the Safety Committee of Auto- Road and will provide access to vintage or slow vehicles, or mute time from Te Awamutu to about species of native motive Movement (SCAM) to Lake Rotopiko (Serpentine people who wish to drive at Hamilton would be about an hour. birds and other creatures in recommend a drastic new inter- Lakes) — the high profile 50km/h. Miss Fortune says such a the sanctuary, and past and change. wetlands of national importance. Part of the interchange will travel time would likely put many future developments at Committee chair Mary For- Miss Fortune says the system cross the Lake Rotopiko reserve people off making the trip, reduc- Maunga. tune says motorists in the Wai- of roads will provide SH3 travel- — although not the waterway ing traffic on the road and there- See ad inside today’s kato cannot be trusted to drive lers with unhindered right of way itself. fore reducing accidents, injury edition for more details. correctly, so SCAM is proposing a north and south, although the Miss Fortune says if approved, and deaths. series of interchanges, with speed limit will obviously need to total cost of the project would be “In other words, our mission median and side barriers, one be dropped to 80km/h. enormous and it would add 5 to 10 would be complete,” she says. Hurry: Ends April 15 Get your farm’s accounts sorted with Figured. RINNAI INFINITY AIR CON SERVICE WATER PUMP Save on hot water costs. 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Tel 871 3176 The divisions of Audit | Tax | Advisory www.crowehorwath.co.nz/te-awamutu *conditions apply 2 Te Awamutu Courier Friday, April 1, 2016 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CourierTe Awamutu Community Newspaper of the Year 2014 Road madness makes it less safe Your community newspaper for over 100 years. I note the abusive tactics of side will no longer shop in Te the lack of access. There are for more important Circulated free to 14,055 homes through Te Awamutu the road controlling authority Awamutu as they take a risk Who would want to live next issues related to the safety of for SH3. The installation of side when trying to make ‘U’ turns to a rat trap? SH3 without adding wire bar- and surrounding districts. barriers, also known as ‘spite into traffic. The only reasonable protest riers which are unforgiving and CIRCULATION 14,055* (7136 urban, 6919 rural) strips’ by those who know about Instead they will simply action that can be taken is for all down right dangerous. property and roads, and the drive to Hamilton to shop and residents/readers to make an Another observation I make We welcome letters - preferably via email. They installation of more center wire face a complicated turning trick effort to write to their MP and to is that this road has been should be under 300 words and must have the barriers, will make the road far to get in their gate. the Minister of Transport, resealed as five lanes, but only sender’s name, address and phone number. No less safe and the medieval tor- Likewise those on the eastern Simon Bridges, freepost. marked as three. This is what pseudonyms are accepted and names will only be ture machines will more than side will mostly have to negoti- Without pressure from these happens when government withheld in special circumstances at the discretion inconvenience those who must ate a dangerous path with ex- representatives the controlling agencies are given too much of the editor. Letters are not usually acknowledged access the road. cessive distance to get home. All authority will simply do as it public money to throw around. and may be edited, abridged or discarded. Those living on the western of that land will de-value due to pleases. JAMES PARLANE MANAGER Alan Price [email protected] It’s asking Fearful of CCO bureaucracy EDITORIAL Dean Taylor (editor) Councillors Vern Wilson yet most councillors feel confi- Why have a community en- [email protected] for trouble and Clare St Pierre’s letters to dent enough to vote to an gagement strategy if it is going Cathy Asplin (journalist) the Courier on why they voted agreement in principle to the to be ignored? [email protected] I feel compelled to write this against the waters CCO cover a concept. Perhaps they think the Colin Thorsen (journalist) letter as I can’t understand why lot of the concerns that are held Once again Council has com- wider community cant under- [email protected] have they removed more of the within the community. pletely ignored their own com- stand complex projects and passing lanes between Te Awa- A big fear amongst some of munity engagement strategy cant make rational judgements. ADVERTISING Dorinda Williams mutu and Hamilton. the community is that over that states ‘on major issues The CCO project is probably [email protected] Obviously who’s ever idea it time the CCO could become an community engagement will the major item that the com- was doesn’t use that road on a overblown bureaucratic organ- take place at the beginning of munity will have to make a Ange Holt daily basis. isation that the community has the project’. decision on within the next [email protected] I travel to Hamilton every day. lost control of. It appears Council think that 20-30 years as it not only Bookings They first removed the pass- Council have had no con- community engagement means includes water but also waste [email protected] ing lane just as you leave Te sultation or feed back with the they tell the community what water. CLASSIFIEDS Awamutu and shortened the community over this project, they are doing and that’s it. KEN GEORGE Rhonda Oosterman, others before Ohaupo and now Tania Cortesi-Western, they have shortened the one just Julie Montague north of Ohaupo. [email protected] There is going to be more Thanks to Relay For Life participants crashes I feel as people are all On behalf of the Waikato/ Mystery Creek Events Centre. excess of $120,000 this year. DELIVERY QUERIES 0800 111 200 jockeying for position to get past Bay of Plenty Cancer Society, I Thank you also to our won- This money will stay in the POSTAL ADDRESS the slower cars as they know they would like to extend a huge derful sponsors, staff, event vol- Waikato/Bay of Plenty region 97 Sloane Street, PO Box 1, Te Awamutu 3840 haven’t got much time/space to thank you to everyone who unteers, and lastly the teams and help the Cancer Society to OFFICE HOURS overtake, so everyone is rushing supported Relay For Life 2016. that participated in the event provide supportive care for Monday-Thursday 8am-5pm, Fri 8am-4.30pm the others or squeezing in at the Our volunteer organising and those who donated funds to people with all types of cancer, PHONE 07 871 5151 | FAX 07 871 3675 end of the passing lane because committee worked hard to de- them.