Next to Te Awamutu The Hire Centre Te Awamutu Landscape Lane, Te Awamutu Thursday, June 3, 2021 0800 TA Hire | www.hirecentreta.co.nz BRIEFLY Voyager Reporter of the Year #MeTooNZ Editor Alison Mau of Stuff won the prestigious Voyager Reporter of the Year title at the Voyager Media Awards held Friday night. Her Stuff colleague Carmen Parahi was named runner-up. Judges described her stories about sexual harassment as “fearless, determined pursuits that deserve the highest commendation”. Te Awamutu Courier editor Dean Taylor was one of five finalists selected in the pre- judging process. Stalwarts of the annual media awards believe it is the first The man who died following a collision last week with a truck on Kakaramea Rd near Pirongia was 62-year-old Paul Kelvin Tristram. Photos / Caitlan Johnston time a regional or community journalist has been a finalist in the top reporter category. O¯ haupo¯market day O¯ haupo¯village market day, run by O¯ haupo¯/Nga¯hinapo¯uri Lions Club, is this Saturday (Queen’s Birthday weekend) Fatal 48hrs on from 9am-1pm at O¯ haupo¯ Memorial Park. The market is on the first Saturday of every month. For site enquiries, contact Ross Karl on 021860900. Te Awamutu Waipa¯roads Courier Instagram The Te Awamutu Courier is now on Instagram. Search and follow Serious Crash Unit inquiries continue after four people die in three separate accidents teawamutucourier for updates. olice have released the names of some of the people who died in fatal truck and More help for car collisions on Waipa¯ Muffins for Mums Proads last week. Bakers needed to make There were three truck and car muffins for Mums’s lunches at crashes within just 48 hours and four the NICU unit at Waikato people died. Hospital. On Wednesday, 50-year-old truck This has been going for 10 driver Marc Andrew Gauntlett, of years now and the Mums Hamilton, died at the scene of a fiery really appreciate having collision with a car on O¯ haupo¯Rd. muffins for their lunch each The crash occurred about 1pm day of the week. between Te Rahu Rd and Greenhill So if you have some spare Drive. time and enjoy cooking The following day, 62-year-old The first of three truck-car collisions on Waipa¯roads last week occurred on O¯ haupo¯Rd. A truck driver died at the muffins, or want more Paul Kelvin Tristram died following scene. information, contact Jill Taylor a crash involving a stock truck on - 027 415 4908 or Kakaramea Rd near Pirongia. 2.40pm. He died at the scene. the early hours of the morning. The The cause of each crash is now [email protected]. He was from Banksia Grove, West- And on Friday two people died accident was reported to police about subject to investigation by the Serious nz ern Australia. following a crash between a truck and 1.40am and the two occupants of the Crash Unit and these can take months The accident occurred about car on Tirau Rd near Cambridge in car died at the scene. to conclude. It’sthesafeand easywaytoclean your woodfire! No more ladders, no expensive chimney sweep bills … cleans FREE FIRST better than a brush! Get yours at SERVICE www.sooteater.co.nz H NYOU BUYA KINGQU D LIMITED STOCK 2 Te Awamutu Courier Thursday, June 3, 2021 OPINION Circulated free to over 14,000 homes in Te Awamutu and surrounding districts. Not convinced reform needed Jim Mylchreest issue. (although the indication is it made decisions on the level of CIRCULATION 14,180* Waipa¯mayor At the time of writing this the will be between three and five investment in their Department of Internal Affairs for the whole country), what infrastructure based on their PHONE: 07 871 5151 overnment reforms (DIA) is likely to release their the legal or governance community’s ability to pay and POSTAL ADDRESS: are moving ahead at initial detailed plans in the next structure will look like (even the regulatory regime in place 97 Sloane Street, PO Box 1, a pace seldom seen few days, with cabinet making though we are told it will be at the time. For many decades in our history and its decision in mid-July. publicly owned), or how the central government has Te Awamutu 3840 G many of these impact directly From a local government existing assets, owned and criticised local government for OFFICE HOURS: on the services traditionally perspective, we are looking paid for by the local any rate increases and Monday - Friday 8am - 4pm provided by local government. forward to specific details so community, will be required, through the Local Closed Public Holidays The three waters reforms, that we can start our transferred. Government Act, that local the replacement of the discussions with our Will the new entities government deliver their DELIVERY QUERIES: 0800 111 200 Resource Management Act communities to determine purchase these assets at services at the cheapest or EDITORIAL with three new pieces of whether or not individual valuation or is the expectation most cost effective price. Dean Taylor (Editor) legislation and a complete council areas wish to be part that they will be transferred at My personal point of view review of the functions of local of the reforms. no cost? is that central government has Ext: 67705 0274 819951 government are at the forefront From the very start of this Central government is not yet established the [email protected] of council’s work programme at review process, Minister saying, as justification for the necessity for the scale of Caitlan Johnston Ext: 67710 the present time. Mahuta has maintained her reforms, that local reforms proposed nor what [email protected] A primary concern of council stance that these changes are government has not invested the increased costs will be – Jesse Wood Ext: 67713 when responding to these to be voluntary. sufficiently in the three waters it does not matter whether it [email protected] radical reforms is how to keep A number of councils infrastructure for many is increased rates, taxes or SPORT our community informed, and around the country have decades and there is now a unit charges it is all coming out where possible, gain fundamental concerns around funding deficit that is causing of the same pockets. I am also [email protected] community input. the rationale for the reforms risks to human health, extremely cynical that scale in ADVERTISING Whilst there are well and that the problems have not decreasing environmental the new entities will provide Leon Green 027 2393864 entrenched statutory been adequately determined standards and damage to the forecast savings. requirements for council to or justified. property due to flooding and The problems identified by [email protected] involve the community on There are also concerns inundation as a result of the DIA could by and large be [email protected] significant policy changes that over the costs of the proposed climate change. resolved simply by increased CLASSIFIEDS will impact on the level of changes and the almost total Whilst there may be some enforcement of regulatory Tania King Ext: 67708 service, there are no similar reliance on the scale of the substance to the DIA’s standards, which is restrictions on central proposed new water entities assertions, in a limited section universally accepted by local [email protected] government decrees or providing the operating of our communities, I would government, and establishing We welcome letters - preferably via email. changes to acts and efficiencies to offset these suggest that the problem is not a financing and funding They should be under 300 words and regulations which direct the increases in cost. sufficiently widespread to regime that enables councils must have the sender’s name, address day to day operation of At the present time local warrant the cost and to get on and provide the and phone number. No pseudonyms councils. government still does not disruption to our communities services their individual are accepted and names will only be The three waters reforms know how many new water proposed by these reforms. communities desire. withheld in special circumstances at the are currently the most pressing entities will be formed Councils have always Too simple? discretion of the editor. Letters are not usually acknowledged and may be edited, abridged or discarded. We’re online at nzmecommunitynews.pressreader.com ISSN 1170-1099 (Print) ISSN 2253-4975 (Online) *Print run as 01/04/2021 ;; < && =>=> & $$ ?? D DD DD ! " # # ! ! 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Thursday, June 3, 2021 Te Awamutu Courier 3 Kihikihi War Memorial Hall, Kihikihi which includes the clock that was previously part of village plan Te Awamutu Post Office. ready for Photo / Dean Taylor Te Awamutu’s feedback second Post Office, on the corner of Waipa¯ District Council will seek Sloane and feedback on priority projects for Kihi- Alexandra streets, kihi, following a decision at the coun- with the clock cil’s Strategic Planning & Policy Com- tower.