Te Awamutu Te Awamutu Your Vodafone Local Dealer Published Tuesday & ThursdayTHURSDAY TUESDAY, JANUARY APRIL 9, 19, 2013 2012 Courier We are now at 1/119 Alexandra Street (Old BNZ Building) YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER FOR OVER 100 YEARS Ph: 07 870 6031 Fax: 07 870 6032 CIRCULATED FREE TO 12,109 HOMES THROUGHOUT TE AWAMUTU AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS. EXTRA COPIES 40c. BRIEFLY Rugby dinner Tragedy reunites trio Tickets for this Friday’s Te Awamutu College rugby dinner are available from the By ANDREW MCALLEY Te Awamutu Courier office. Guest speaker is All Blacks Three former Te Awamutu assistant coach Ian Foster and College students were reunited as an auction will offer a variety of part of the multi-agency team involved in the recovery of Eric goods and services. and Katherine Hertz, whose plane The dinner begins at crashed into the sea near Gannet 6.30pm at Te Awamutu Sports Island, between Kawhia and Rag- Club. lan. Te Awamutu Police Strategic Table tennis Traffic Sergeant Warren Shaw Kihikihi Table Tennis Club was incident controller, Waipa- will start its season on based Detective Bill Crowe was Monday, April 15 in the Kihikihi the police liaison officer and ran Hall. the file and Lieutenant Comman- For more details phone 871 der Trevor Leslie is the command- 7397 or 0210687017 or visit ing officer of the navy’s oper- www.kihikihitabletennis.co.nz ational dive team based in Te Rahu Table Tennis Club Devonport, which was deployed also starts its new season on to the recovery. Monday at 7pm in the Te Rahu Mr Crowe and Mr Leslie Hall. played sports together at the col- lege before the latter joined the Winter market navy directly from school in 1987. The Te Awamutu Twilight His service throughout the world includes operations in Farmers Market at Selwyn Lebanon, Malaysia and the Park closed for the winter last Middle East week. Mr Crowe stayed in Te Awa- However, a new produce mutu for a couple of years playing TC090413SP01A market will be operating in the rugby before joining the police in OLD BOYS: Former Te Awamutu College students (from left) Lieutenant Commander Trevor Leslie, Homeward carpark every 1989. He has also served in East Detective Bill Crowe and Sergeant Warren Shaw played leading roles in the multi-agency team working on Thursday from 2.30pm to Timor. the plane crash near Kawhia. PHOTO ANDREW MCALLEY 5.30pm. As well as working in CIB, he is a member of the Waikato Books wanted Search and Rescue squad. Te Awamutu Rotary’s Mr Shaw was a couple of years annual Book Fair and Garage behind the other two and joined Sale isn’t until June 7-9, but the police in 1991. they need your unwanted As officer in charge of the books, records, CDs, DVDs operation he said, in terms of and sheet music now. inter-agency input, assets and Drop items off at Mitre 10 national and overseas interest, it Mega, Paper Plus or Z service was one of the most significant station. Garage sale items go operations he had run while with the Waikato Search and Rescue to the old Farmlands building squad. between 9am - 11am Monday ‘‘To be able to lead a team in an to Friday or contact Murray as complex an operation as this (027 234 6533) or Chris (ph and recover the aircraft and 872 7795). return the occupants of the plane to their loved ones is a significant Missing piece success, albeit tinged with sad- Although over 400 pieces ness at the loss of Mr and Mrs were returned to Showcase Hertz. 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Like the rest of the can get more material on your hand-held because the risk of starting a business here universe, obviously it is but will take a long device than ever before and in a few more and the council ‘‘red tape’’ is too much for a time to do so. years, libraries as we know them will be person to manage. Another reason is because The reason for this slow, torturous death virtually extinct. Reading will be a thing of landlords choose to set rents too high and so is because of the stranglehold that the Waipa the past. Everything will be read to us by a they miss out and earn no rent on a building District Council and others who claim to machine. Siri, the voice, or recordings of rated to pay for libraries. know best, like Alistair Kerr, have spent too Stephen Hawking will take over the world. Perhaps another reason is because the much time in the library and not enough time Good. I for one do not need to experience art world is already overloaded with the things honestly figuring out what people actually or culture or all of the supposed necessities people once wanted to buy in shops and New Automatically allows baited need and want. found in libraries. My vistas have been Zealand has run of of international credit to hooks to traces to feed out Instead they continue to waste borrowed opened up far enough. buy these things. money on luxuries like libraries. Rather than I can survive quite happily without seeing We are at the bottom of an economic cycle unassisted! Mr Kerr attacking Mr Hume who is all the TV stars’ babies on magazine covers heading for a large increase in a population advocating the frugal use of public money, he and most of all I can survive without people funded by pensions which will be funded by should be surveying people to get the facts telling me what I need or should read and more borrowing. Stealth Auto before imposing his own desires on them, where I should do it. Things like libraries and gargoyles from dressed up as fact. The cramming of more and more books the art shop in the street are luxuries people Feed Longline, One simple fact is that the big libraries of into a smaller space is nothing new. like Mr Hume and me cut from our budget the world are ‘‘going digital’’, no, have gone Miniaturisation is everything. You can even first. If we need books, we buy them at garage 25 hooks digital and are making their material avail- store your material on Mr Dot Com’s ‘‘cloud’’. sales. So should the rest of the community. $335 able online. On the subject of down-sizing, one reason JAMES PARLANE Students’ enterprise impresses Thermal Wear I recently had the privilege of attitudes about how a successful passion for their product. 40 students might go with their $99.99 being one of four people asked to business operates. These enterprising abilities, will be in very good judge the Te Awamutu College Each team had 10 minutes to participants demonstrated their hands, and the township of Te Young Enterprise Business Chal- convince me of their business knowledge, skill and ability to Awamutu can feel very, very lenge Awards. plan, from presentation of their make good financial decisions, to proud of the college and the The eight groups of five business card, their leadership, undertake projects of importance pupils that are coming through students presented their business branding and display, goals and and difficulty with untried their education process. plans following a three-day inten- analysis, their product, and their schemes. My heartiest congratulat- sive and highly interactive busi- enthusiasm. We four judges all agreed that ions to each of the pupils that ness education workshop, The outcome for me was to be the eight products put before us participated. You have a great designed to introduce students to totally blown away by these were worthy of promoting, such future ahead of you. Keep the world of business in a fun and young adults and their ability to was the standard of the presenta- going, you are great role engaging way.