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Te Awamutu TRUSTED PROPERTY MANAGEMENT ENQUIRE NOW CouPublished Tuesday & Thursdayurier THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2017 07 872 0927 Your community newspaper for over 100 years EXTRA COPIES 40c Rosetown Realty Ltd Licensed (REAA 2008) Upgrades for water Help out on Daffodil Day Can you help out on Daffodil Day? Local co-ordinator Kathy Te Awamutu needs more now Keighley would appreciate help for Daffodil Day, the Cancer Society fundraiser on Friday, August 25. If you have any fresh daffodils to donate, drop them off at the Baptist Church hall on Thursday, August 24. Helpers for the day are also required. Contact Mrs Keighley on 872 2852 or 022 066 4250. Sweet life of beekeeping Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a beekeeper? You can find out at the Te Awamutu Library next month when guest speaker Tim Hansen talks about his fascinating life as a beekeeper and the busy lives of bees. The free event is held in the Community Room at the Te Awamutu Library on Saturday, September 2 from 10.30am to 11.30am. Need a JP? Anyone needing the services of a Justice of the Peace can call in to Te Awamutu CAB office Monday, Wednesday or Fridays TC170817DT01 between 9.30am and 12.30pm. WATER WORKS: Waipa District Council network team leader Bevan Heath (left), manager water services Tony Hale and manager project JPs will be on hand and no delivery Lorraine Kendrick consider plans for upgrading Te Awamutu’s water supply system. appointment is necessary. At other times the Justice of Preliminary work will begin in mittee meeting Tuesday morning, expected to meet Te Awamutu’s Councillors agreed to release the Peace group ask that earnest within the next month to councillors brought forward a fresh water needs for the next 30 funds to allow initial design and people make an appointment upgrade Te Awamutu’s water $500,000 spend to begin an upgrade years. It will provide a resilient land negotiations to begin. The and please do not turn up at a supply. of the Parallel Road water treat- long-term water supply, enable new supply could be up and JP’s home unannounced. In Te Awamutu Waipa District ment plant, take water from the growth and when complete, will running by 2020, depending on Council struggles to supply enough Waikato River and pump the address taste and odour issues. the outcome of the 2018-28 water during summer. Water cur- treated water to Te Awamutu. Council held off pressing go 10-Year Plan. rently comes from the Mangauika The meeting heard that staff on the project until it had The total project is expected to Stream on Mt Pirongia and an and independent consultants had exhausted a search for new water cost around $25 million. underground bore on Frontier considered nine different options for the town via bores. The project will also end Road. to source water, including chal- Despite sinking five bores, seasonal taste and odour issues Under its resource conditions lenging the existing regional coun- only two sources of quality bore which, depending on weather from the Waikato Regional Coun- cil resource consent. water were found, one at Fron- conditions, can impact on cil, Council is restricted in how Based on a range of factors tier Road and the other at Tay- Pirongia and Te Awamutu for a much water it can take from the including cost, resilience of supply, lor’s Hill. The Taylor’s Hill bore few weeks each year. stream and will be restricted even projected growth, technical and has not been fully commissioned However, these issues would further by 2030. regulatory compliance and timing, but test results show it can only not be resolved until 2020. Given growth predicted for the this solution was judged best. service around 1500 properties. Councillors were advised that town and dry summers, Te Awa- The project, which was first But that’s not enough water to taste and odour issues could be mutu needs more water now. outlined and budgeted in the Coun- keep up with Te Awamutu’s resolved 12 months earlier, but at At the Service Delivery Com- cil’s 2015-25 10-Year Plan, is projected growth. an additional cost of $3 million. Honda XR190 RRP $4,778 plus gst www.qubik.co.nz Honda’s brand newne model - the only fuel injected ffarma bike in its class Check it out now... • Purchase Waikato Milking Systems Rubberware from Qubik. 462OHAUPORD,TEAWAMUTUPHONE8717317 • Register on the Qubik website. Shane Blackwell 021 740 890 - [email protected] • Nominate your chosen school. www.thehondashop.co.nz 2 Te Awamutu Courier Thursday, August 17, 2017 CourierTe Awamutu Time running out to enroll Community Newspaper of the Year 2014 Time is running out for period. It gives you every- vance and election day voting Ms Wright, “but you’ll need to Your community newspaper for people wanting to make thing you need to make voting places,” says Ms Wright. make a special vote.” over 100 years. voting easy in the September easy, including your “Enrol now, and make “A special vote takes a bit Circulated free to 14,055 homes through Te Awamutu 23 General Election. personalised EasyVote card.” voting easy.” longer and means filling in an Around 450,000 eligible The Commission is encour- It is also the deadline to be extra form. and surrounding districts. New Zealanders still haven’t aging young and first-time included on the printed elec- “That’s why we encourage CIRCULATION 14,055* (7136 urban, 6919 rural) enrolled to vote and more than voters in particular to get toral roll, which is used in people to get enrolled now. half of them are under 30. enrolled by August 23. voting places and for sending “We want to make voting as We welcome letters - preferably via email. They “Make voting easy this “Your EasyVote pack is out EasyVote packs. easy as possible for every- should be under 300 words and must have the year by getting your enrol- especially important if it’s Anyone enrolled after 23 one.” sender’s name, address and phone number. No ment sorted now,” says chief your first time voting, because August will have to cast a “Enrolling is easy. Freetext pseudonyms are accepted and names will only be electoral officer Alicia it gives you all the informa- special declaration vote. name and address to 3676, get withheld in special circumstances at the discretion Wright. tion you need in one handy “You can still enrol right a form from a PostShop, of the editor. Letters are not usually acknowledged “Enrol by August 23 and place — a list of candidates up until the day before elec- Freephone 0800 36 76 56 or and may be edited, abridged or discarded. you’ll be sent an EasyVote and parties, and addresses tion day, including at any enrol or update details at pack at the start of the voting and opening hours of all ad- advance voting place,” says www.elections.org.nz” SALES MANAGER Belinda Wolland [email protected] Funds for heritage Water consent on hold EDITORIAL NZ Pure Blue Springs’ con- This follows receipt of in- Dean Taylor (editor) sent application to take water formation and advice from [email protected] projects in Waipa for bottling purposes from the Raukawa that they consider Colin Thorsen (journalist) Blue Springs has formally water within the Blue Spring [email protected] been put on hold by Waikato “…is pristine, and Te Puna is Bethany Rolston (journalist) Ten groups have been trol at Lake Nga¯roto, to the Regional Council. the place the water is most [email protected] allocated $35,000 to support Anglican Parish of St An- The company has been ad- sacred and its healing powers heritage initiatives in the drews in Cambridge to pro- vised that, in relation to the most powerful, both spiritu- ADVERTISING Waipa district. tect the pipe organ from application, the Raukawa ally and physically”. The money comes from earthquakes, to the National Settlement Trust and a num- “The council is committed [email protected] Waipa District Council’s Wetland Trust to help ber of affiliated parties are to following proper process at heritage fund which sets reintroduce the brown teal deemed to be “affected all stages in the handling of CLASSIFIEDS aside $70,000 annually. and for weed control around persons” for the purposes of this application and we will Tania Cortesi-Western, The fund supports natural Lake Rotongata. section 95E of the Resource provide further public updates Alanah Harvey, Tania King heritage projects, built heri- Sanctuary Mountain Management Act. as appropriate.” [email protected] tage projects and cultural or Maungatautari received archaeological heritage. $2000 to assist with camping Tuesday’s Service Deliv- facilities and $1500 apiece DELIVERY QUERIES 0800 111 200 ery Committee approved was provided to the Not guilty murder plea POSTAL ADDRESS grants for the ninth funding Mangaohoi Stream Care 97 Sloane Street, PO Box 1, Te Awamutu 3840 round after 14 applications Trust for restorative plant- were received requesting ing and the Tyer Family The man accused of pleaded not guilty to the OFFICE HOURS nearly $160,000. Trust to assist with wetland murdering Anthony charge when he appeared Monday - Thursday 8am - 5pm, Fri 8am - 4.30pm The largest grant of $7000 restoration. Hallmond, who died after in Hamilton High Court PHONE 07 871 5151 went to the Pirongia Other grants went to- an altercation in North St Tuesday morning. Playcentre to help paint a wards wetland restoration at on July 23, has pleaded not The start date for a heritage building.