View from above

13 Feb 2025 • By Mary Anne Gill Share:

Work developing a new $1.5 million playground at Leamington Domain has begun with all equipment – bar the iconic steam roller – removed.

Cambridge News 13 February 2025

Work will finish in May.

Meanwhile Jayco Huxtable, 8, of Leamington Primary School and Milah Hotene, 11, who has recently started at Cambridge Middle School took in the view from the top of the two-storey, octagonal band rotunda built in 1910 and moved from the corner of Bracken St and Te Awamutu Rd to Leamington in 1921 to prevent vandalism.

Leamington Domain playground upgrade with equipment removed except for the steam roller. Photo: Mary Anne Gill

Enjoying the Bloom twilight market at Leamington Domain on Saturday were Jayco Huxtable, 8, left of Leamington Primary School and Milah Hotene, 11, who has recently started at Cambridge Middle School. Photo: Mary Anne Gill

Leamington Domain’s iconic steam roller. Photo: Mary Anne Gill

More Recent News

Counting the birds
22 May 25

A first official bird count was done recently at the Lake Rotopiko wetland near Ōhaupō. The count was organised as part of restoration efforts being done in the area by the National Wetland Trust.  Providing…

Prison work almost done
22 May 25

The Department of Corrections has nearly completed a 21-hectare building project to add nearly 600 beds in 28 new buildings at Waikeria Prison. Increasing the size of the prison also comes with a staff increase…

A family that pulls together
22 May 25

Among the most passionate participants in the Fieldays Tractor Pull is Ōhaupō farmer Daniel Reymer who is part of a family with a long-time involvement. What began as a modest contest in 1975 with two-wheel…

Scholarship for Katie
22 May 25

Cambridge student Katie Hollands has won a $5000 Meat Industry Association scholarship. Hollands, who did not grow up on a farm but spent a lot of time on schoolfriends’ family farms which sparked her interest,…