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Te Awamutu Courier Te Awamutu CARING FOR YOUR SAFETY Autorobot Straightening Courier Body Alignment Systems Published Tuesday & Thursday THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011 24 Hour Salvage Ph (07) 871-5069 Bond Road, Te Awamutu, P.O. Box 437 8023399AA Fax (07) 871-4069 A/H (07) 871-7336 CELEBRATING 100 YEARS AS YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER email: [email protected] CIRCULATED FREE TO ALL HOUSEHOLDS THROUGHOUT TE AWAMUTU AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS. EXTRA COPIES 40c. BRIEFLY Country fete Helping Cullen to fly Te Pahu is holding a fete in the community hall on Saturday (9am -12 noon). The annual flower show will be staged and there will be a number of craft stalls to view which will feature art, baking, plants, garden ornaments etc. Extravaganza Pirongia Playcentre is staging a fundraising Christmas Shopping Extravaganza on December 1 in the Pirongia School Hall (7pm - 9.30pm). A range of stall holders offer some great Christmas present ideas - including arts, crafts, jewellery, homewares, cards, cosmetics, clothing, toys and photography accessories. Guests can enjoy a glass of wine and light refreshments, while browsing the selection. There will also be spot prizes and raffles throughout the evening. Insurance update Want to find out about the impact on insurance companies since the Christchurch earthquake? Listen to Dave Richardson from AMI speak to Te Awamutu TC171111SP01 Rotary on November 29 at Te BABY Cullen fighting for his life in Waikato Hospital’s new born intensive care unit. Awamutu Club (5.20pm start). Contact Chris (ph 872 7795) BY CATHY ASPLIN out of his body and we believe he before 12 noon on November deserves his chance to ‘fly’. 28 for further information or to Cullen Gilbert had a tough ‘‘We carefully researched book a meal. start to life. options and found two places When he was born in June last (Dominican Republic, China) that Fun car rally year he had birth asphyxia and offer stem cell transplants, which If you’re looking for a fun has Cerebral Palsy as a result. can help regenerate healthy His parents Bill and Shaye tissues in the brain. activity for your family or friends (previously from Oparau, now ‘‘This would reduce the leading up to Christmas, how Taupo) watched nervously as he implications of Cerebral Palsy, about a car rally? spent four weeks in the new born but needs to be done as young as The organisation has all intensive care unit at Waikato possible to be more effective. been done for you - all you Hospital. ‘‘This treatment is very have to do is collect a Car Rally ‘‘At one stage it was touch and expensive, though. CD ($25.00) from the Te go. According to the doctors he is ‘‘We need to raise $60,000 for Awamutu Information Centre. one very lucky little boy to be here the treatment programme as fast The disc has 40 questions today. as possible. and answers, ideas and hints to ‘‘However, they have said his ‘‘Cullen is able to have steam make for an enjoyable event. abilities in the future are by no cell treatment on December 2 in If you’re keen and looking to means guaranteed. America, which would mean we get some exercise the rally ‘‘We have been told that he would need to fly out at the end of could easily be done on bikes. may not walk, talk or be able to this month to get to the centre in All proceeds from the CD go feed himself.’’ Santo Domingo.’’ to the Te Awamutu Fire His parents are determined FUNDRAISERS Brigade to help raise funds for this won’t be the case and want to To help Cullen get the treat- its 100th Centennial next year. give him every opportunity they ment he needs a number of can. fundraisers are underway. TC171111DT01 ‘‘We want him to get the best Continued Page 10. CULLEN GILBERT at last week’s ‘shear-a-thon’ in Oparau. 8431117AA 8431106AA 2 TE AWAMUTU COURIER, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011 YOUR LETTERS Supplementary system best CourierTe Awamutu This election will be very important as vote, under MMP we had ACT in govern- for it. The next two are too complicated for we are been given the opportunity to vote on ment who at the last election received 10.000 voters who don’t take a close interest in CONTACTS how we elect people to parliament. less votes then NZ first, but because NZ politics. The best system is SM or Supple- MMP has been an abject failure, and has First failed to win a seat or achieve the 5 per mentary Member. MANAGER not delivered good government. cent they missed out. The Greens have only Under this system given our present Under MMP the policies that you vote ever won a seat once; their MPs are numbers of 120 MPs we would have the Alan Price for, change as soon as the election is over, as appointed by their party and are not majority of MPs elected by the people as e: [email protected] the party with the most votes have to representative of the people in the true constituent MPs, about 90 with the balance immediately compromise, in order to form a sense. maybe 30, been party appointees. EDITOR government. So we end up with policies that ‘Democracy’ is surely about having our Those who fail to win a constituent seat we did not vote for. representatives elected by the people, and should not be allowed to come in as Party Dean Taylor MMP supporters would argue that it is a not by a party, MP’s must be answerable to appointees, and no member should be e: [email protected] fair system, since when has democracy been the people they represent. allowed to change parties during the term about fairness, and even if it was MMP is So for those of us who don’t want MMP they were elected for. REPORTERS not fair. what is the best choice of the four options Would this deliver better government? I Under ‘First Past the Post’ we had a that we are being offered? believe so. Cathy Asplin Government elected with 48 per cent of the FPP won’t fly as people just won’t vote DENNIS CATCHPOLE e: [email protected] Colin Thorsen e: [email protected] Thanks for Challenge Searching ADVERTISING I would like to say a big thanks to the my daughter Grace kept giving me lots of for Leslie local Rotary club for putting on a great encouragement from the back of my bike, Dorinda Courtney Maunga Cycle challenge. especially going up Hairini hill, next year e: [email protected] The weather was perfect and it was she can peddle. In 1954 there was an International awesome seeing so many people from our I’ll try the 30K course next year! Camp in the UK near London to cel- Julie Jackson community out enjoying themselves and Thanks Rotary. ebrate the centenary of the Boys Bri- e: [email protected] supporting the event, my family loved it and MARCUS GOWER gade. After the two week camp the New Bookings Zealand contingent visited and stayed [email protected] in Nottingham. Health check successful A young man called Leslie from Te CLASSIFIEDS Awamutu spent some of his time with my family. Tania Cortesi-Western, Rhonda Bird We would like to thank all those that Shiatsu, Life Education Trust, Nurse I was seven-years-old at the time and Anna-Marie Holmes attended the Health Check and Informa- Nutritionist, Te Awamutu Hearing he must have been about 17. [email protected] tion Event at Methodist Church hall on Association, Mainly Music, Kainga He made a great impression on me Monday, November 7. Aroha Community House, Marshall and before leaving gave me his cloth NZ PRINTERS It was very successful thanks to the Pharmacy, Te Awamutu Medical badges and silver fern which I wore organisations that attended. Centre. with pride on my outdoor gear until APN Print Ellerslie Special thanks to St John’s Ambu- Thanks for the many positive very recently. Published Tuesday & Thursday lance and volunteers, Wintec student comments, as this was a first for our I will be visiting my daughter who nurses and their tutor, Immunisation group to organise it was good to get now lives near Kerikeri in January/ Circulation 12,109 Advisory Centre, Maori Immunisation feedback. February 2012 and wondered if I could Advisor, Rosetown Physiotherapy, Ear Thanks also to the Courier for your find Leslie who must now be in his mid PHONE: 07 871 5151 FAX: 07 871 3675 Health, Arthritis New Zealand Educa- great advertising of the event and to the seventies. tor, Asthma Waikato Educator, Stroke many who displayed our posters. 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