Vehicles collide
Car accident Victoria St
Police, ambulance and Cambridge Volunteer Fire Brigade all attended a crash involving two vehicles following a collision in Hamilton Road on Sunday afternoon. The vehicles collided about 550m west of St Andrew’s Anglican Church. It is understood one driver suffered a medical event. The other driver suffered minor injuries. Emergency services helped clear the vehicles off the road, direct traffic, arrange towing and provide medical assistance. The road was cleared by 3pm.
Roads named
Basaltic Rd, Karā Place and Frances Hunt Lane are new names approved by Waipā’s Service and Delivery committee for Karāpiro and a private road in Cambridge’s Kelly Rd extension. Basaltic and Karā refer to types of volcanic rock found beside the Waikato River near Karāpiro. Frances Hunt was a landscape artist who was born in Cambridge in 1890 and went on to become one of New Zealand’s most popular artists. The private road name replaces Ulmer Lane which did not secure approval from the family.
Candidate withdraws
Fabio Rodrigues has lived in Pōkeno since he was 8.
Fabio Rodrigues has withdrawn as a Waikato district mayoral candidate throwing his support behind former deputy mayor Aksel Bech’s second all or nothing bid to be mayor and oust incumbent Jacqui Church. Rodrigues, 19, will stand as a councillor in the Pōkeno-Tuakau ward.
Leases extended
Tasman Wakelin in action at the Cambridge BMX track.
Cambridge and District Senior Citizens’ Association and Cambridge BMX Club have had their leases extended for council land in Victoria Street and Milton/Lamb Streets. Annually, the association will pay $192 plus GST and the BMX club $653 with a $405 and $392 administration fee.
Liquor bans
A section of the large crowd during the Waka Ama Sprint Champs pōwhiri held at Lake Karāpiro.
A temporary alcohol ban for specified events will again be in place at Lake Karāpiro during events from this month through to May next year. Before 2011, alcohol consumption at events caused a high level of disorder. Since then bans have mitigated this and alcohol-related disorders substantially reduced.
Financial result
Waipā District Council’s expenditure for the financial year ended June 30 was $12.8 million more than budgeted mainly driven by non-cash adjustments for assets written off ahead of the revaluation of council’s assets for the annual report as well as a loss on investment properties and forestry assets. Operating income of $163.5 million came in at 99 per cent of forecast revenue.
By elections?
The orange man is used extensively in Electoral Commission publicity to advertise elections
A lack of community board nominations could force costly by elections in Maungatautari, Cambridge and Te Awamutu/Kihikihi. When The News went to press there were no nominations for the one Maungatautari seat – although Andrew Myers previously confirmed he would restand – one in Te Awamutu and two in Cambridge for the four seats on each board. Elections are confirmed for the mayoralty and council positions in Cambridge and Te Awamutu/Kihikihi.
Money owed
Ratepayers owed $1.2 million at the end of Waipā’s financial year on June 30 and $183,000 from previous years. Water rates owing were $936,000 with 94 per cent collected.
