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Trust names new chief

The Cambridge Resthaven Community Trust has appointed Michael Martin as its new chief executive. The appointment, which will be effective from December 1, was announced last week by Cambridge Resthaven Board chairman, Greg Liddy.   Martin…

Finding treasure…

Some astonishing and valuable treasures have often been uncovered purely by chance. One such incident occurred near a village in Suffolk, England in 1992. Eric Lawes had recently retired and was gifted with a metal…

Rural women unite

Rural Women New Zealand members and invited guests have celebrated 100 years of the movement at Mystery Creek. Around 200 members and guests arose to their feet in the Bledisloe Building on Friday to recite…

Rep hockey

Waikato Hockey Association’s U16A boys’ and girls’ representative teams took on Bay of Plenty  sides at Gallagher Hockey Centre on Sunday. The warm-up matches were a chance for the newly selected teams to test their…

Waipā council’s last stand

It was the last Waipā District Council meeting of the term yesterday, and the 284-page agenda offered a mix of controversy and some tantalising public-excluded items. Staff advised councillors not to approve a notice of…

Shooting a hat trick

Cambridge High School’s shooting team has won the Inter-Secondary Schools Inter Island match for the third time in a row. The school’s top team, Annabel Goodrich, Zach Wood and Chelsea Bau, delivered a commanding performance…

News in brief

Site for sale The former Bunnings site in Cambridge is on the market. The 2616 sq m building on a 6851 sq m site is on the corner of Lake and Queen Sts and was…

Oli lifts the fundraising bar

Kaipaki School made such a significant contribution to the recent Cancer Society appeal Waikato Bay of Plenty official Heather Connolly attended the end of school assembly to say thank you. And one pupil, Oli Schick,…

A Dangerous Delusion

Two significant items of economic news came out last week. Food price inflation had risen by 5 per cent over the past year. That would have surprised nobody. Gross domestic product fell by 0.9 per…

Jets return, Waikato soars

The last time an Air New Zealand jet flew commercially from Hamilton Airport, Russ Rimmington and John Hewitt were mayors of Hamilton and Waipā. A quarter of a century later, their successors Paula Southgate and…

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