I was talking in the street one day to a young man who was a Hare Krishna ‘devotee’. He’d approached me when I smiled at him which I guess encouraged him to ask me if…
I was talking in the street one day to a young man who was a Hare Krishna ‘devotee’. He’d approached me when I smiled at him which I guess encouraged him to ask me if…
It’s been a busy week for mayoral candidates scrambling to secure one-on-one time with voters before voting papers arrive. Candidates’ Facebook pages – some virtually unused until now – have been brimming with posts featuring…
Number check Recently the future of regional councils has been raised and my immediate thoughts were that is only part of the question so I decided to find out just how the Waikato Regional Council…
Starting with a few good catches, last Wednesday, Cambridge Police executed a search warrant in Leamington in relation to a Ute that had been stolen from the Coromandel peninsula two weeks prior. The ute, and…
Right now, my work is focused on assessing geological hazards across vast expanses of the seafloor, encompassing volcanic activity and deposits, earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, and just about everything else you could imagine. The learning curve…
Hide your rubbish I’m a Hamilton resident who very much enjoys weekly visits to Cambridge and regards your small town as surely one of the prettiest destinations in New Zealand, save one aspect – the…
Observing the hustings in action is a cross between a third-grade rugby scrum and a beauty competition. The well-run Grey Power meeting last week became very boring – due to the repetition of the candidates…
Travelling through Turkey one day, I encountered a fascinating bazaar selling diverse products. One store boldly paraded a strange sign which made me laugh. This sign offered “genuine fake watches” for sale, featuring designer watch…
Receiving lost and found property is one task undertaken by our Station Support Officers, at the Cambridge and Te Awamutu Public counter. Over the years we have had a wide variety of items handed in,…
As we move through our days, much of our experience comes from different forms of energy, carried by waves. We detect light with our eyes, temperature with our skin, and sound with our ears. Sound…
