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Open day – and taggers tagged

What a great turn out we had at the Cambridge station community engagement day on Saturday. See: Full house at Police Station I hope everyone enjoyed looking inside our new base.  I was hanging out…

A Battle of the Bridge: Messam vs Watt

Hautapu and Leamington will go head-to-head in a corporate ‘fight night’ next month. The boxing event will be headlined by a matchup featuring  Hautapu’s former All Black forward Liam Messam. For the second time in…

Inflation is out of control 

Mervyn King, a former Governor of the Bank of England, said publicly in late October that ‘central banks have lost control of inflation’. I agree. All central banks were very slow to take action to…

Company plugs Christmas shortfall 

A windfall donation has given a boost to this year’s Christmas Cheer initiative. After hearing Cambridge Community House’s Amy Watkins talk at a recent Rotary Cambridge gathering, club member and Legacy Funerals’ Cambridge funeral director…

New playwright wins praise 

Fred Simpson’s first play, centred on the woes of MIQ entrapment may well have set the Cambridge doctor-turned author onto a new path. ‘Stop, Watch’ followed the testy musings of seniors Joan and Henry, locked…

Karāpiro safety work starts 

The national transport agency has started making road safety changes it promised in a letter to Karāpiro School, reported by The News last week. The highway through Karāpiro has been the acene of several fatal…

Armistice event draws crowds

More than 2000 people attended the two-day Armistice Day Cambridge event at Lake Karāpiro at the weekend which organisers say is on a par with past years. And that’s despite bad weather on the Sunday…

Airport comes flying back

Hamilton Airport says passenger numbers have bounced back to pre-pandemic levels ahead of the first post-pandemic summer. Numbers varied greatly during the pandemic and the April-June 2021 quarter, when international borders were closed, saw a…

Road safety… and we’re engaging

You will have seen publicity around the reduction in the speed limit from 100 kph down to 80kph on part of State Highway 1 near Hickey Road. If you have driven it since then, you…

Communications break down…

A review discussing how to make local government more relevant to people has itself highlighted a glaring communications’ failure. The Department of Internal Affairs informed national media and Government funded local democracy reporters about the…

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