Armistice in Cambridge in pictures

It was a mixed bag for the Armistice in Cambridge event at Karapiro over the weekend, with beautiful weather welcoming 2000 people through the gate on Saturday for the 20th annual event. Then there was…

Cambridge Hire Centre owner Seton Kibby says thieves are cashing in on the absence of round-the-clock policing in the town. His comments followed a raid which saw thieves destroy a fence to get into the…

New Zealand’s first takahē chicks of the 2019/2020 season have hatched at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari. A set of twins – i.e. two chicks in a single clutch – hatched inside the mountain’s southern enclosure, and…

Waipa’s new and returning councillors pledged their allegiance to the district recently in a swear-in ceremony to officiate four new councillors and ten returning councillors. It was a new experience for three of the five…

The St Andrews Church Hall will become the centre stage for Cambridge’s artistic talent this weekend when the Cambridge Society of Arts (CSA) holds its Annual Art Exhibition. The free event, where all featured works…

School staff across Cambridge are praising the move to lower speed limits which came into effect on Monday. Speed limits through town centres, on busy rural roads and outside many schools have been dropped Waipa-wide…

Police located a driver in hospital after they left the scene of an accident last Sunday morning – their car smashing into a power pole on Kaipaki Rd. The impact of the crash was so…

Over 100 military vehicles, hundreds of militaria items and 200 people, from battle reenactors to souvenir sellers, will assemble at Lake Karapiro this weekend to welcome in hundreds of visitors to the annual Armistice in…

Cambridge concentrated on showing its community spirit to deny Pukekohe a win in the race to be named the country’s most beautiful large town. A team comprising Miff Macdiarmid, Michael Jeans, Josh Easby and Philip…

It has been 30 years since Waipa District Council was formed in 1989 with the nationwide amalgamation of 850 borough and county councils into 86 district councils. Councils have come a long way since, “and…