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Milk collecting goes green

Māori-owned dairy manufacturer Miraka has launched New Zealand’s first green hydrogen milk collection tanker. The vehicle, a 700hp Volvo green hydrogen-diesel dual-fuel milk collection tanker, was launched at the company’s dairy plant at Mokai, northwest…

Company aim to ‘be a force for good’

Miraka’s story, from its inception in 2010 to its standing today as one of the world’s most sustainable dairy companies – one that achieved B Corp certification earlier this year – was outlined at a…

Growing interest in trees

A Waipā nursery is donating thousands of trees to rural schools across the North Island. Restore Native owner Adam Thompson says it’s an important social and environmental initiative specifically targeted at rural schools. His company…

Tourists spend more, stay less

Shorter stays with higher spending per visitor. That’s the summary of both domestic and international trends in the Waikato for the financial year ended June 30, Hamilton and Waikato Tourism general manager Nicola Greenwell told…

Band turns on a treat

Usually at this time of year the Cambridge Brass Band would be hard at work rehearsing for the annual Waikato Bay of Plenty regional brass band competition. Last year they hosted the event and collected…

Smoothing the way for Menz Shed

More than 50 Cambridge Community Menz Shed members are restoring a former dairy factory – which they will eventually call home. That building on the corner of Lamb and Carlyle streets in Leamington was built…

Looking for a water site

The Public Works Act may be enforced to find land for a new Karāpiro reservoir and pumpstation. Water Services manager Martin Mould told Waipā council’s Service Delivery committee this week the council had identified land…

Meat and greet at the movies

Matt Hicks has two newborn babies – Thomas who he left at home with wife Sarah and big sister Madeline, 2½, – and the movie Home Kills, which premiered in Waipā last week. The screenings…

Riding for respect

The sight of 16 horses and their riders trotting through Cambridge township on Saturday brought back memories for horseman Stewart Dromgool. Daughter Hope Spooner gave him the pooper scooper so the horses she brought together…

Aussie flights: It was always when – not if

Mark Morgan had a twinkle in his eye when he spoke about the possibility international flights could be returning to Hamilton Airport. It was the end of June and The News put the question to…

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