The Inglewood Page 2 Moa Mail Issue 200 Page 3 Page 4 Moa Mail Development Trust Moa Mail is a free Editor’s Comments Shade-by The River Junior Smallbore Rifle News (Lou Donnelly) How Blue Will You Do? (Linda McIntyre) Issue 200 fortnightly It is interesting to hear the promises made publication delivered 200 Issues over eight years, what a The very popular Wednesday Its September again, time to unite in the fantastic effort. The paper started out by political parties as they vie for our votes Moa Mail 13 September 2017 to all households in Night Junior section of I.S.B.R.C. fight against prostate cancer. Here in in the lead up to an election. The the Inglewood with just eight pages and only black and has now finished it’s season and Inglewood you can do your bit by inviting white. Now it averages 16 or 20 pages incumbents make pledges to do things in the Moa Mail Celebrates 200th Issue District. prize giving was held last week. a few friends or family members to join you for lunch and has colour. We are always saying future, some maybe should have been A large influx of new members at Fern Lodge 12 noon on Sunday 24 September. Printed by The the Moa Mail is your community addressed while in power. The opposition this year has seen up to 50 Inglewood Rotary are organising this event again – Inglewood newspaper, it relies on your input, you makes promises that they are not really sure Development Trust. that they can carry out as they have not yet students competing each week and this has made for good fourth year running. It is a good cause, come and help are the journalists and photographers competition in our grades. These students come from both raise awareness of prostate cancer. Enjoy a Sunday Office 25 Rata Street and this is true without that input there got the purse-strings. The minor parties can the Inglewood town and rural areas, New Plymouth, roast dinner for just $25 per person while supporting (Inglewood would not be a paper. It is always great promise just about anything as they will not Waitara, Urenui and as far south as Stratford. the cause of fighting prostate cancer at the same time. Information Centre) to see what is going on in our busy be in a position to carry them through. Winners of our 10 Week Championships are; There will be a cash bar, a lucky door prize, raffles and Circulation 2800 district, what's coming up and who has However, we should be wary of the minor Junior Grade, Group cards off a rest: a prize for the BEST BLUE OUTFIT. Lots of fun. been achieving what. As a community party’s promises as some of their ideas The Moa Mail can be 1st Isaac Mitchell -987, 2nd Scott McDonald - 980, 3rd Lucas REMEMBER DRESS IN BLUE, anything will do, just we are a strong one and there is always become the bottom line when they align viewed on the web at Barkley - 974, 4th Becci Phillips - 973, 5th Leighton Koch - make it blue, blue and blue. To get tickets contact something happening. themselves with a major party to form a www.inglewood.co.nz 966, 6th Karl Phillips - 958. Gloria 022 4570258 or [email protected] and on Face Book Thank you to our advertisers and government under the MMP system. It is Intermediate Grade, Full cards off a rest: Bookings close Thursday 21 September. contributors without you there would highly unlikely that an MMP election can give News and Advertising a clear majority to any one party to form a 1st Kendin O’Byrne - 957.31, 2nd Taylor Russell - 950.28, Contacts: not be a paper at all! Thanks also to our 3rd MacKenzie Stewart - 945.31, 4th Corban Butler - delivery people (who deliver your Moa government. The result is a coalition with Editor 945.22, 5th Mikee Foster - 940.23, 6th Luke Russell - 935.24. Mail rain, hail or shine). one or more of the minor parties. It is after Phillippa Peters the election that the haggle gets started in The Inglewood Smallbore Club recently hosted the annual Phillippa Peters - Editor Office Phone earnest, and after several elections it has Taranaki Secondary Schools Sports Association Rifle 06 7567030 been Winston Peters with the power to Shooting Championships in association with Sport Taranaki Lions Book Fair Donations and Shell Taranaki Ltd. Fax decide who governs. Two and a half million Seed Savers Network Point 68 students from nine Taranaki schools took part. 50 boys 06 7567864 people vote and then one person decides RSA Badges $10.00 the outcome. That can’t be right! and 18 girls. These ranged from experienced junior Email McGillie/Pumpkin Books: $15.00 Cast your vote wisely. The electoral vote members of the four Taranaki Smallbore Clubs, to new shooters having their first introduction to our sport. [email protected] Printing/Photocopying/Booklets decides which candidate in the local Another good result for our Junior members. Office Hours (Stapling/Colour): Up to A3 electorate will be elected. The party vote Teams; Daily 10.00 am to Local Artists Gift Cards: $5.00 decides on a nation-wide basis numbers of 1st N.P.B.H.S. One Alex Stuart, Mikee Foster, Cameron May and Dylan Smith - 739.15, 2nd Inglewood H.S. One 4.00 pm Fun Ho! Toys/Souvenirs MacKenzie Stewart, Taylor Russell, Corban Butler, Jack Bishop - 728.10, 3rd Hawera H.S. One Tenniellle Crump- each party in Parliament. The balance of AA Guides/Brochures/Cards Points and views each party’s percentage is then made up by Conchie, Matt Peters, Mirahyme Beare, Mason Fleming - 697.8, 4th N.P.G.H.S. Eleesha Phillips, Ella Stuart, Kiera expressed are not Available at: List MPs appointed by their Phillips, Phillis Nikotemo - 695.11. necessarily the views of Inglewood Information Centre Individuals; The Inglewood own party. Fun Ho! Toys/Moa Mail T.S.N.Z. Graded shooters: Development Trust 7567030 (25 Rata Street) Food for thought, eh? 1st Tennielle Crump-Conchie Hawera H.S. - 189.3, 2nd Alex Stuart N.P.B.H.S. - 188.8, 3rd Mathew Peters Hawera H.S. - 183.3. Non Graded Shooters in jacket and sling: 1st Dylan Robinson Opunake H.S. - 161.1, 2nd Grace Chapman Coastal H.S. - 147.3, 3rd Erik Chapman Coastal H.S. - 143.0. Non Graded off rest: 1st Equal Mackenzie Stewart Inglewood H.S. - 190.5 and Kendin O’Byrne Stratford H.S. - 190.5, 3rd Cameron Broadmore Inglewood H.S. - 190.3, 4th Equal Mikee Foster N.P.B.H.S. - 187.5 and Cameron May N.P.B.H.S. - 187.5, 6th Eleesha Phillips N.P.G.H.S. - 186.4, 7th Taylor Russell Inglewood H.S. - 184.2, 8th Ella Stuart N.P.G.H.S. - 181.5. Aging gracefully is like the nice way of saying you're slowly looking worse The older I get, the earlier it gets late Issue 200 Page 5 Page 6 Moa Mail Issue 200 Page 7 Page 8 Moa Mail Purangi Kiwi News (Karen Moratti) Norfolk WI News (Maureen Bunn) Gardening With Sue From Hammer (Sue Marsh) Lions News (Viv Adamson) Two of this year’s recipients to receive funds from the 2017 Maize Maze were presented with their After celebrating the fantastic news of The September Typical early springtime weather continues, cold, cheques. Past Maize Maze Chairman Kevin Knowles presented Denise Loveridge, representing our kiwi population explosion we have meeting was held in wet and new snow on the hill, but we are forever Marinoto Rest Home, a cheque for $5,000 to purchase a shower chair and also some chairs for the some other exciting news to share! After the home of Alison Paterson, Inglewood. keen to get into our gardens. Last time we looked resident’s rooms. Bill Malmo representing Inglewood Fire Brigade was given $2,500 to go towards seven years of hard work by the team Maureen Bunn presided over a good at the traditional way of planting our potatoes, their van replacement fund. we will be receiving 40 kokako into our attendance on a fine day. The Aspirations and hopefully, you will have decided on a couple of crops to plant this season, Two other organisations that also received funds from the Maize Maze were the Inglewood Primary Pouiatoa conservation area over the next three years. were read. Motto “I have reached the age and have them sprouting. School - $1,500 for school sports uniforms and The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ - $2,500 to assist them with We couldn’t have achieved this without the support of where my train of thought often leaves the There are plenty of ideas for the smaller garden, and most of them involve their ongoing sight-restoring work which is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, our new kokako foundation partner Methanex NZ. station without me” Betty Wisnewski read planting in pots, buckets, tyres, hay bales, enclosures made of wire netting to foundations and governments. Their vision of the world is where no one is needlessly blind. Methanex staff have come on board keen to be actively from “Home and Country” magazine. Nola name a few. The only thing you need to remember, is to start off in whatever It seems to be a repetition of last year as our Lions members once again battled the wind, hail, thunder and rain to involved in the kokako Verry reported on the “Pepi Pod” project you choose to plant in, with compost and potting mix, then the selected seed deliver over 3700 phone books to the Inglewood district The Lions Clubs NZ Child Mobility Foundation are project and we look for maternity needs and wants – blankets potatoes with their shoots upwards, and as they grow, keep covering them over with more running throughout New Zealand “Walk for Kids” on Sunday 8 October starting at 10.00am.