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Te Awamutu COMPUTERS, NOTEBOOKS, SERVICE, SUPPORT, SOFTWARE, ACCESSORIES Published Tuesday & Thursday WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2017 407 Sloane Street, Te Awamutu Couurier P 07 871 3837 | F 07 871 3807 Your community newspaper for over 100 years EXTRA COPIES 40c E [email protected] | www.computeraid.co.nz Welcome to Dedicated to polo the New Year Welcome to the first issue of 2017. This week there is just the Kay credited one issue — we resume our regular twice weekly publication and usual deadlines from next with raising week. Contact details for display and classified advertising and sport’s profile the editorial team are published on Page 12. Te Awamutu dentist Dr (James Richard) Snap happy Paul Kay has shown his value on the Te Awamutu Courier’s national stage after being awarded a Snap Happy page is a chance Queen’s Service Medal for his service to to see how local people enjoy polo. their holidays — from the Queen’s Service Medals recognise valu- beaches, streams and rivers able voluntary service to the community or to the fields, hills and region — and Dr Kay has done just that. mountains. If you have a He has significantly raised the profile of photo you would like to share polo in our community and in New Zea- with our readers, now is the land. time to do it. Dr Kay has been involved in polo since It can be anything you have he was in his teens and is now a renowned taken over the summer, breeder and trainer of polo ponies. showing how you or your family In 2003 he was a driving force behind transforming the 16 hectare Kihikihi enjoy ‘time out’, a scene of your Domain into a community sport and favourite spot or perhaps recreational facility. something that has caught your He developed and funded the world- eye. class polo pitch Nga Rakau on his farm, Please make sure the photo which is made available to the community is as large as possible (size/ at no cost. resolution), it is clear and Dr Kay organises annual international includes caption details and polo test matches and allows visiting teams contacts. You need to tell us to use his own ponies for the event. who took the photo, where it is His hard earned knowledge has helped and who is featured (name, age many other clubs develop superior etc). Don’t forget to tell us what grounds. is special about the scene/ He also provides his own machinery to moment/person you have maintain five grounds in the Waikato. captured. Dr Kay helped develop a polo pitch on Email dean.taylor public land in Cambridge, which doubles @teawamutucourier.co.nz or as a large open recreational ground for drop a print into the Te public use. As a player he has competed in New Awamutu Courier office (97 Zealand and internationally, and has Sloane Street). achieved a four goal handicap. He is president of the Kihikihi Polo Club Lotto winner and past president and life member of the A Te Awamutu Lotto player New Zealand Polo Association. enjoyed a Christmas bonus of He has served as president of the $19,742 as one of 19 players regional committee, Northern Polo who shared second division in Association. the Christmas Eve draw. Now in his early 60s, he still plays The local winning ticket was competitive polo on a two goal handicap. purchased from Movie HQ. His wife Jenny Kay describes him as Five lucky players also won “quiet and extremely humble”. Powerball Second Division, taking their total winnings to TC110117SPPAUL $21,891. RECOGNITION for Paul Kay, who has been awarded a Queen’s Service Medal for his service to polo. WE ARE PUMPING g.a.s 24/7 Rosetown Holden’s TYRE FITTING after hours selfpay is the with all tyre purchases* easy way to fill up We accept the • We Service All Makes & Models following cards: • WOF’s Eftpos • BP Fuel • Visa Mastercard • Amex Your LOCAL Suzuki & Diners • RD1 • Farmlands Kawasaki Road Cardlink • Evia Bike Dealer FF Card *Conditions Apply ROSETOWN HOLDEN YOUR ONE STOP MOTORING SHOP FINANCE g.a.s ROSETOWN HOLDEN 2 Kihikihi Road, Te Awamutu P 07 871 3069 E [email protected] 93 Churchill Street • Te Awamutu • Ph (07) 871 5143 2 Te Awamutu Courier Wednesday, January 11, 2017 SALT WATER LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SPORTS FISHING KAWHIA HIGH TIDES What’s with the German connection? Add fi ve minutes for Raglan Harbour Wednesday 10.01am 10.21pm Being reasonably new to the were chosen, the folks involved search, there are no standard- power in 1933 the black, red and Thursday 10.55am 11.15pm area we just couldn’t make out realised the identity connection? ised designs for provincial flags white colours of pre-1918 Im- why there seemed to be so much Just interested to know the — but many adopt the colours of perial Germany were Friday 11.43am ‘support’ for Germany here? history behind it! their sporting codes. reintroduced. Saturday 12.08am 12.30pm Flags, letter boxes painted to MARGARET LOVELL The Waikato Rugby Union Germany’s flags continued to Sunday 12.57am 1.16pm match, etc. then recently we Editor’s note: The ‘Waikato’ was established in 1921 and the evolve over the years, with East Monday 1.42am 2.03pm visited friends who had a flag (below) is in fact the official team wore either black and and West flying differing ‘German’ wind-sock billowing colours of Waikato rugby com- white (Pirongia colours?) or designs. The current design was near the entrance. bination of red, gold and black. black and blue (Frankton col- only officially adopted as the flag Perfect opportunity to en- According to my flag re- ours?) — then in 1928 adopted of unified Germany in 1990. LOVE THE quire what the great German the current tricolour, a combina- connection was? Only to be told tion of Hamilton School’s gold OUTDOORS? that those colours represent and black and Hamilton Old Waikato too. Boys’ red and black. Check us out! I know there is a limit to Germany’s tricolour of black, • Sleeping Bags colour combinations and we red and gold (right) was adopted • Portable Toilets and wouldn’t want pink, pink, pink as the national flag after WWI, Accessories or even ‘shades of grey’, but I replacing black, red and white. • Cookers and Cookware wonder if/when those colours When the Nazis came to • Freeze Dried Bait • Headlamps and more! Kiwis struggling to get by Israel vote upsetting I come from a working-class Privatisation makes this cent. How can we expect an family, a family that for gen- even harder. increase in social mobility While visiting North America erations have been labourers First it was the phone net- when every cut targets vital this Christmas, I felt ashamed to be a and grafters. works, then the power com- areas? New Zealander when I was Working-class folk doing panies and now even our Decreased funding in educa- confronted by the news that our the best they can for their prisons are becoming privately tion and an iron grip on the country — in its arrogance — had family. run. purse strings of the health not only been party to, but also voted Back when my great- Every three years we exer- sector. for, the recent resolution against the grandfather was a boy it would cise our democratic right to Unemployment is rising, it only truly democratic country in the have been possible for a family elect a government that will just doesn’t look like it because Middle East, namely Israel. to live comfortably on one have control over our over the last two years our What was Murray McCully wage. Nowadays it’s a struggle institutions, but if they keep population has increased by thinking when he made the biggest LURES on two. selling off the staples of dem- 200,000. bungle of his life in taking sides with NOW It’s getting harder for Kiwis ocracy, what will they control? But more families than ever worst terrorist nations on earth by INSTORE to get by. How long before we have no are struggling to put food on voting against the state of Israel? Over the past decade we public health system? How the table. I suggest the best thing he can do have seen the private capital of long before New Zealand no A government’s purpose is is resign immediately from the the top 10 per cent skyrocket, longer owns any of its assets? to serve and protect its people. office of Minister of Foreign Affairs meanwhile the nation’s most This unbridled fiscal man- But right now hard-working and that someone else repair the vulnerable live in doorways agement is seeing the rich get Kiwis aren’t getting a fair go. damage done to New Zealand by this and under park benches. richer and the poor get poorer But together we can change very serious lack of judgment on his 166 Cambridge Rd, Te Awamutu They struggle day-to-day — 70 per cent of our nation’s that. part. 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