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Te Awamutu Houses, Farms, Property Management List your property or rental with Ray White and we will advertise Courier your property on TRADE ME rwteawamutu.co.nz Published Tuesday & Thursday TUESDAY,THURSDAY SEPTEMBER JANUARY 18, 19, 2012 2012 TM YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER FOR OVER 100 YEARS Ph: 871 7149 CIRCULATED FREE TO 12,109 HOMES THROUGHOUT TE AWAMUTU AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS. EXTRA COPIES 40c. BRIEFLY Olympic - sized welcome 60th syllabus GOLDEN TIMES: The Te Awamutu Competitions Society will be Te Awamutu staging its Diamond Jubilee Festival this year. Courier The event which kicks off reporters on September 29 will celebrate 60 years of Colin Thorsen performing arts competitions and Cathy Asplin in Te Awamutu. Copies of the syllabus are were among now available from Paper Plus and the Te Awamutu Visitor hundreds of Information Centre. Open day people who Camellia Resthome is turned out to celebrating the completion of a new wing with an open day on meet Waipa Thursday. The Rewi Street resthome Olympians at is in its 33rd year of serving the community with residential Selwyn Park last and respite care for the aged. Members of the public are week. invited to inspect the new wing and view individual rooms, BY COLIN THORSEN then share morning tea The extraordinary feats (between 9.30am - 11am). of our Olympians in TC180912CT01 For more details phone London warmed our hearts HIGH FIVES: Olympic gold medallist Hamish Bond with local school children who turned out for the ‘meet and Camellia Resthome (ph 871 and brought tears to the greet’ at Selwyn Park. 5505). eyes of emotional New Zea- landers. Hamish Bond, Joseph Sulli- Bailey Bardsley said it was they look on TV,’’ said Te Paralympic swimmer Spring lunch On Friday it was our van, Rebecca Scown and a once in a lifetime oppor- Awamutu Primary School’s Nikita Howarth (13) does The Te Awamutu regional turn to honour the Waipa Juliette Haigh and tunity to see the Olympians Ethan Kiernan (9). her winter training at Liv- group of Dairy Women’s Olympians. Paralympic swimmer (she had been so inspired by On the Breeze FM stage ingstone Aquatics at Te Network will be meeting at the Hundreds of children Nikita Howarth a hero’s watching them perform on during the speeches, the Awamutu Events Centre. Persimmon Tree Cafe in and their teachers from welcome to the Rosetown. TV) in real life. two Olympians to receive Howarth was the Pirongia on Tuesday, schools including Te Awa- There is no doubt the Kihikihi youngster Lena the biggest ovation, ironic- youngest competitor at the September 25. mutu Primary, Pekerau, youngsters who attended Moeke said it was amazing ally, both have Te Awa- London Paralympics. The Members and anyone else Kihikihi, St Patrick’s, the ‘meet and greet’ public to get the opportunity to see mutu connections — gold Year 9 Cambridge High interested in finding out more Pokuru and Korakonui function on Selwyn Park her New Zealand sporting medallist Hamish Bond student lives at Roto-o- about this group are invited to primary schools, armed will remember it for many heroes with their medals. regularly rides in Te Awa- Rangi and her attend (11.30am - 1.30pm). with gold balloons, gave years to come. ‘‘The medals are a lot mutu Sports Cycling Club’s grandparents live here. To RSVP (by September rowers Peter Taylor, Pekerau 10-year-old heavier and bigger than summer road series, while ■ Continued Page 5 24) or for more details contact regional convenor Sue Forsythe ([email protected]) Mining guest Council pleased with surplus Te Awamutu Continuing Education welcomes Kit Waipa District Council ended Chief financial officer Ken financial reporting with high Mayor Alan Livingston said Wilson from Newmount Mines, its 2011/12 financial year with a Morris said contributing factors levels of satisfaction across a the adoption of the Annual Report which operates the Waihi gold general funds cash surplus of to the $104,000 surplus were a number of significant areas being was a significant milestone. mine, as guest speaker $104,000, close to its goal of a higher than expected rating base reported in the year’s NRB survey ‘‘The bottom line is when you tomorrow. break-even position. and the revaluation of roading of residents. see a surplus of $104,000 from the Mr Wilson will give a video This surplus forms part of a infrastructure. Audit New Zealand associate millions of dollars of activity that presentation of the mining $7.7 million operating surplus ‘‘We are pleased to have only a director Clarence Susan said it council is involved in it shows operations and will field which includes a number of non- relatively minimal cash surplus was a very good result for the there is very tight financial con- questions. Members of the cash items such as pipes and as our main aim is to only rate our council. trol,’’ he said. public are welcome to attend roads gifted as part of develop- ratepayers for the amount we It had been a very busy year ‘‘It is a very pleasing result the meeting at Waipa ment work, first time recognition need to run our business,’’ he with the 10 Year Plan and Waipa considering we as a council are Workingmen’s Club from of assets, gains on revaluation of said. was one of the first local authori- often faced with unplanned 10am. forestry and cash received for Waipa District Council had ties in the country to adopt its expenditure throughout the asset-related spending. also performed well in its non- annual report, he said. year.’’ Working for you WEEKDAY SUNDAY 8890139AA and with you! 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Council has no control over observation to make. protest and I offer the fol- In terms of the 2012 the revaluations. However, the Courier reported a lowing observations. Annual Plan the increase of I am left quite clearly protest group of some 300, Mike Lewis I acknowledge Robin 4.3 percent was spread with the view that those claims the Mayor said there were 150 FULL RANGE Duncan for raising the con- across the district. This was who took responsibility for whilst Malcom Hume claimed 600 pro- INSTORE NOW! cerns for the people she impacted on by the changes the protest did not under- testers? purported to represent. The in the finance and revenue stand the full situation and Who can verify the truth, why should focus on the rate increases policy which particularly instead orchestrated an the readers be subjected to such a wide has been placed on the affected Te Awamutu this occasion based on misinfor- range of unverified figures, can we Get your reels serviced impact on lower or fixed year. mation rather than any believe anything we read? NOW so they are income ratepayers. On the day of the protest clear focus on the real Another largely overlooked fact is I certainly understand I spoke to a number of reason for such substantial that rural ratepayers do not enjoy the ready to go and catch that message but through people about their concerns variances. advantages of water reticulation, sewer- those fish! this whole process the and I made a commitment I am certainly critical of age, street lighting, footpaths, parks issues have been far more to get back to some of them. the suggestions cited for close by, slow traffic speed, ready access complex. In fact other rate- I visited people in Kihi- cost reductions which to a library, museum (why do we need payers have worn the brunt kihi after collecting seemed short sighted. one?) and many other council services. of significantly higher information and I found I accept we can do better Of course the majority of voters are rates. That is the issue. they received rate but I don’t accept the way town dwellers so it is no surprise they Therefore there is a lack increases around 3 percent Pat Bishop took over the are well looked after, regardless rural of understanding about the as opposed to the much protest, openly rallied the rates are on par with town rates it 166 Cambridge Rd, Te Awamutu, Ph 871 6793 real situation.