By Peter Nicholl New Zealand has had very low inflation for over a decade. Yet many New Zealanders who return from living overseas or people who immigrate here often say that New Zealand has a…
By Peter Nicholl New Zealand has had very low inflation for over a decade. Yet many New Zealanders who return from living overseas or people who immigrate here often say that New Zealand has a…
Rural New Zealand is keeping New Zealand afloat, yet the government continues to strip services away from rural heartland communities like Cambridge and Te Awamutu. That’s a big concern for Waipā mayor Jim Mylchreest who…
The Waipā Youth Awards ceremony has been cancelled for a second year in succession – and a decision has yet to be made on how the winners will be announced. The event was scheduled for…
Uncertainty over Covid restriction levels has resulted in St Andrew’s Parish postponing celebrations marking its 150th anniversary. Sesquicentennial celebrations were set to take place at Cambridge’s St Andrew’s Church from August 27 through to September…
Taranaki-King Country MP Barbara Kuriger says she understands why mayors like Waipā’s Jim Mylchreest are coming out against the government’s Three Waters Review. She just wishes more councils would do likewise rather than sit back…
Cambridge Lions’ new president Warren Beard is taking a three-pronged approach to his role at the top – share, care and serve. Keenly aware that many of the club’s 88 members are either retired or…
“This is the cool thing about animals, they love you unconditionally and they’re always there but right now humans require them more.” “Animals are cool.” A Waipā dairy farmer has compared the Covid 19 Delta…
By Peter Carr Those who have had the benefit of spare time may well have attended (as the public) meetings of the local council. Not, I hasten to add, just the Waipā Council but any…
By Peter Matthews It seems trite to moan about recycling soft plastics in Cambridge New Zealand when across the world people are dealing with such crises as the earthquake in Haiti, unprecedented rainfall and flooding…
Tauwhare Military Museum in Pukemoremore has been saved from closure thanks to an eleventh-hour lifeline thrown last week to its owner Grant Moreland. Grant is the son of the private museum’s founder Andy Moreland –…
