I’m writing this week’s column against a backdrop of feeling troubled as I’ve wrestled over issues that plague today’s world. We live in seriously tempestuous times. It’s challenging attempting constructive comment on the plethora of…
I’m writing this week’s column against a backdrop of feeling troubled as I’ve wrestled over issues that plague today’s world. We live in seriously tempestuous times. It’s challenging attempting constructive comment on the plethora of…
This article differs from the print version and includes the Reserve Bank announcement yesterday cutting the official cash rate by 0.25 points to 5.25%. On August 5 the Japanese stock market had its biggest daily…
‘The Captain of all these men of death’ – the dreaded tuberculosis – every so often visited the Te Awamutu district. The unflagging efforts of Isabel Pope in February 1911 could not save her husband…
As Cambridge Community Liaison officer, one of my roles is to be the police liaison officer for our Cambridge Community Patrol (CBCP), part of the national community patrol network. Every week, CBCP puts out a…
Sitting back in Te Awamutu, working through jet lag on the other side of my trip to the Canary Islands, I am thinking about the incredible people I met over the past six weeks. I…
Growing up as a kid, I’d hear my parents describing people who ‘had a good name.’ With a bit of maturity and understanding, awareness as to what it really meant to have a good name,…
Waipā District Council is being driven by the mayor to consider reviewing the numerical membership at the board table. And full marks to her for putting that matter up for discussion. This begs the next…
Last weekend police were called to a male sleeping in a vehicle south of Cambridge in which drug utensils had been seen. Police found the drugs in clear view. The male was identified and found…
I was amazed recently to discover a photograph dated from the 1930s featuring an old steam locomotive barrelling across one of Waikato’s main streets in Hamilton City. While aware to a degree how steam engines…
Time flies, I am coming up to two years as a first term councillor and it has been an interesting and enlightening experience. On one hand I have been very impressed by the many volunteers…
