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Uh O...If you thought Tuesday’s

page 2 heading about Tim Gud-sell and Peter Latham winning bronze in the team’s pursuit was a bit weird, you were right.

‘O’ is not normally a headline we would use. On our system it reads ‘Our athletes in the medals’, but at the press end in Tauranga we got a very differ-ent and unexpected result.

Even the experts are stumped and no explanation has been given yet. All we can say is ‘s’ - that means ‘sorry’.

KK rate scareAny Kihikihi residents who

studied Tuesday’s ‘Word on Waipa’ could be forgiven for having a coronary.

Designers of the Waipa District Council publication accidentally transposed an indicative rate for a $2 million Te Pahu property in the column for a $185,000 Kihikihi property.

The good news is the rate won’t be around $3000, it is about $1585 (including for the fi rst time the standard sewer-age charge of $436).

Tidy Kiwi kidsSeveral local street verges

were much cleaner and tidier after a recent outing by the Te Awamutu Every Girls Rally.

The group of 50 girls and their leaders went on a mystery 50 minute walk recently, col-lecting rubbish along the way and taking team photos.

At the end of their walk they had collected 20 grocery bags full of rubbish from streets around the Te Awamutu Bible Chapel, as well Hazelmere Cres, Elizabeth Ave, Turere Lane, Rickit Road and points in between.

Concert organiser wants to pack them in for Gina

By Dean TaylorFriends, family and strangers

have all rallied behind Gina Bisset to help her pay for vital cancer treatment.

Mrs Bisset featured in the Cou-rier a month ago because she had made a commitment to pay for her own treatment with the new drug Herceptin.

Lately public pressure to make Herceptin more widely available in New Zealand has been stepped up, but in reality Mrs Bisset says that will never happen in time to pay for her treatment.

She is keen to keep support-ing the drive to have Herceptin introduced, the drug being hailed overseas as the biggest break-through in cancer treatment for years.

The 44-year-old Plunket nurse and solo mother of four found out a year ago she had breast cancer, one of 30% of sufferers with the aggres-sive HER2 positive forms.

Despite chemotherapy, followed by surgery, more chemotherapy then radiation therapy, Mrs Bisset was told there was a 70% chance she would die within three years.

Herceptin gives her a 65% chance of living, something she says she owes her family.

So she plans to raise money and sell her house to fund three weekly treatment through Palmerston North’s private Aorangi Hospital at a cost of $105,000. Mrs Bisset is already well into the course of treatment.

PLAY FOR GINASince then Mrs Bisset’s good

friend Cathy McBride has rallied the forces to put together this Sunday afternoon’s ‘Play For Gina’ fundraising concert at Te Awamutu War Memorial Park.

A dozen local acts have volun-teered to play, plus there will be food and drink for sale.

David Botting is donating his time and expertise to run a PA sys-tem and sound gear loaned by his friend Fret Hoet and his employer, The Rock Shop. Stage is provided by Couplands Transport and MC is Jason Fitzgerald.

Mrs McBride says lots of other businesses, service clubs and individuals have also contrib-uted to Sunday’s concert or the fundraising in general, which has been most heartening.

The concert starts and 12.30pm

this Sunday and music will run continuously until 5pm.

Line up of acts are Eqwanox, Shenaniganz, Pulse, Red Alert, Mainly Music Kids, Cassia Dono-van, Sue O’Brien, Pirongia Coun-

try Music, Peter Talbot, Ross Ward, Rosetown Singers and Romelli.

Charge for the show is $15 for adults, $10 for students and chil-dren under 13 free.

Organisers would appreciate

people entering the concert from Mutu Street to assist with secu-rity.

Concert goers are welcome to bring blankets, chairs and picnics to the event.

‘PLAY FOR GINA’ concert organiser Cathy McBride (right) wants to see Te Awamutu War Memorial Park behind her full on Sunday afternoon to help raise money for vital cancer treatment for her good friend Gina Bisset (left). 082061AD

‘Herceptin heroes’ went to Parliament last week to support a petition asking that the breast cancer drug be publicly funded for patients in the early stages of the disease.

Among them was Nicola Russell, 32, an Irishwoman who came to New Zealand nine years ago.

Her three-year-old daughter died of an aggressive bone cancer last year, the same year Ms Russell was diagnosed with HER2 positive breast cancer.

Her oncologist advised her to start treatment with Herceptin if she could afford it so she could see her son grow up’.

Aletia Hudson, 33, was also fund-raising for Hercep-tin and needed to pay $25,000 for chemotherapy.

In tears, Ms Hudson said her oncologist had told her Herceptin would be good for her.

“I feel unsupported by the Government at the mo-ment, by the Labour Government I voted for and I won’t be voting for next time. They’ve let me down in a lot of areas since I found out I’ve been unwell.’’

Government funding for the drug Herceptin is

available to treat patients in the advanced stages of breast cancer.

But Breast Cancer Advocacy Coalition (BCAC) Lib-by Burgess said Herceptin was not yet funded in New Zealand for those who have early breast cancer.

“Patients could only get Herceptin if they could raise between $80,000 and $190,000 a year to pay for the drug,” she said.

“Women had sold or were mortgaging their homes or organising huge fund-raising activities in their communities to pay for the drug,” she said.

The petition was started eight weeks ago by breast cancer sufferer Anne Hayden, who delivered a box of more than 18,000 signatures to National MP Jackie Blue, a former breast physician.

Ms Hayden and her husband were borrowing $127,000 to pay for one year’s treatment with the drug.

She had started the petition after hearing of Ms Russell’s struggle to raise funds to get breast cancer treatment.

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Saving $4M I’ve seen some political

‘kicks for touch’ in my life, but the reported statements by WDC, concerning ‘their ten year solution for the truck problem’, takes ‘the cake’.

When you have a political problem that doesn’t seem to want to go away, political wisdom says ‘bury it some where.’ Central Governments usually put ‘the problem’ before ‘A Commission of Enquiry’; a Royal one if you really want to bury it deep! These Commissions have covert instructions ‘not to report back to us until after the next election’.

Sound familiar? We’ve had ‘The Consultants Report’ and the General Managers warning that “a four mil-lion price tag would be attached to making alternative routes easier for trucks,” and we’re no further ahead.

Now WDC has reached for it’s ‘never never ten year plan’, and tells us in 2008 ([the year after Local Body Elections; surprise surprise!) design work will start, and improvements in 2009. The cost will be close to the $4M John Inglis, WDC GM, has warned us about previously.

You’ll be glad to know that we will all be consulted; wow!

The Chamber has some questions:● How did you reach the magic fi gure of $4 million

for this?● What have all the meetings with us and the con-

sultant’s reports been, if not consulting?● What more do you need to know about the problem

of ‘one truck a minute’ travelling up and down our main shopping street?

● Has one of your highly paid consultants done the progression of numbers of trucks that will rumble and snort down our main shopping street, which a fi fth former could easily tell you will probably triple by 2009?

● Has one of your engineers done any work on the damage these ‘44 toners’ are doing to building founda-tions in Alexandra Street?

● Will you still be GM in 2009 or will retirement have caught up with you?

Please stop messing with the people who pay your sal-ary package of in excess of $200,000 and do the simple thing of telling truck drivers that, ‘between the hours of 9am and 5pm Alexandra Street is closed to them.’

Easy peasy; wont cost $4 million; and we’ll get off your back.

By Chamber of Commerce executive officer Michael Cox.

Enough say instructors

Waikeria Prison CIE instructors (above) walked off the job last week in protest at the miss-handling of pay promises over the last four years.

While CIE (the Corrections In-mate Employment branch) Instruc-tors from Waikeria prison returned to work at the end of the 24 hour strike, offi cers warned more indus-trial action was planned if the cur-rent pay dispute was not resolved. Offi cers stated that they are one of very few Government organisations who have not received a pay rise in the past four years.

More than 20 CIE programme instructors from Waikeria Prison programme joined more than 150 instructors nationwide in the action to support a 9% pay claim (3% per year over three years).

The instructors are all NZQA, and Highly qualifi ed tradesmen and women in various industries, including catering, farming, forestry, joinery, and laundry as well as being prison offi cers.

Waikeria CANZ information of-fi cer, Mike Subritzky said the pay dispute had been bitter and ongoing since 2004.

Mr Subritzky said earlier claims by the government that the pro-

gramme was running $7 million over budget and its performance was sub-standard had seen instruc-tors ‘roll over’ in the dispute, so as to support their employer.

Mr Subritzky said ‘goodwill’ and ‘a lot of overtime’ on the part of all instructors had seen the blowout turned around within a year.

“However, the work put in by in-structors had gone unrewarded in terms of promised pay,” he said.

The introduction of unit stand-ards, and training offered to pris-oners through the New Zealand Qualifi cations Authority has also seen instructors’ workloads increase signifi cantly in the past two years, he said.

“Our Instructors have fi nally had enough, and walked for a 24 hour period, with more action planned between March and June, or until our good employer has a change in heart,” said Mr Subritzky

Corrections Association of New Zealand president Bevan Hanlon said instructors had been offered nothing in terms of a pay rise since the programme began in 2002.

“Corrections had also demanded a cut to workers’ bonuses, which was effectively a pay cut of 2%,” said Mr Hanlon.

WAIKERIA Prison CIE instructors protest more work and less pay for the past four years. Photo supplied.

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By Dean TaylorPolice say an incident Tuesday morn-

ing which saw a young female driver crash into the back of a loaded, station-ary school bus is indicative of the atti-tude of many drivers on our roads.

The driver, who will face charges, including driving outside the termsof her licence, should have slowed to 20km/h to pass a stationary school bus.

Instead she and her three passengers crashed into the rear of the Hamilton based Go Bus school bus when she was unable to take evasive action because of slow moving traffi c in the outside lane.

No one from the car or any of the 40 St John’s College students were hurt in the crash.

Traffi c sergeant David Hall says many drivers still do not drive to the conditions of the road with regard to hazards, in particular with children near the road.

“Within the past couple of weeks there have been several accidents in the Waipa District involving children either as pedestrians, cyclists or passengers in school buses,” he says.

“One of the accidents resulted in a fatality. Drivers still do not slow for school buses stopped to allow children on or off the bus when it is stopped. The speed limit for passing a school bus that is stopped to pick up/drop off children is 20 km/h.”

He says drivers on rural roads that are narrow often fail to allow room between themselves and cyclists in case of emergency or unpredictable actions on the behalf of the cyclist, motorist or any other road user.

A cyclist or pedestrian struck by a vehicle at 70 km/h or more is almost certain to die from the injuries received. As most rural roads have a speed limit

of 100 km/h the combination of vehicles and cyclists has the potential to be a dangerous mix.

The potential for danger increases with younger children who have trouble judging speed and distance of other vehicles.

“Motorists need to take more responsibility to identify potential hazards, such as children playing, walking or cycling near the road and adjust their driving appropriately,” he says.

“All too often people get behind the wheel of a vehicle and either go into automatic pilot mode or adopt a macho, beat anything type of behaviour.

“The public attitude to driving must change if the roads are to become safer for everyone. Driving a vehicle is an enjoyable experience but is not a right, it is a privilege.”

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Playcentre in the park

Don’t be alarmed if you see tigers and fairies chasing each other on Anzac Green tomorrow.

It’s all part of the fun for Playcentre Awareness Week with children coming dressed-up to the outdoor event.

Five local Playcentres will round off a week of open days with a ‘Read-out on the Green’ from 9.30am to 11.30 am.

All families with pre-schoolers are welcome to drop in and enjoy the activities being organised as part of the national Playcentre Awareness Week.

This year, the focus is on pre-literacy - how Playcen-tres support children’s learning of literacy skills - and giving practical tips for parents.

Storytelling sessions will take place throughout Friday morning’s ‘Read-Out’, courtesy of Te Awamutu Library.

Local children’s author Sharon Holt, local illustra-tor Deb Hinde, Mayor Alan Livingston and Playcentre parents will all be reading to the children.

Also on offer at the free event will be collage and bookmark making, face-painting, playdough and an obstacle course.

Up to 100 pre-schoolers are expected on Anzac Green, but if wet, the ‘Read-Out’ will be held at Te Awamutu Playcentre, 99 Bond Road.

“We hope people will take the time to call in and fi nd out what Playcentre is all about, and what we can of-fer their family,” says Rachel Blake from Te Awamutu Playcentre.

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By Cathy AsplinIf there was a man missing after an eruption on

Raoul Island during Ian McGregor’s time there, there’s no way he would have left the island.

The former Offi cer In Charge (1976-77) says he would have sent the rest of his men off the island, but would have remained despite the risk.

“I’m no hero, but if one of my boys was in trou-ble I would have stayed.

“There’s no doubt we would have all been told to leave. I certainly would have made sure the oth-ers got off the island safely, but they would have had to catch me if they wanted to take me off.”

Mr McGregor feels saddened by the current situation on Raoul, with Police, scientists and Department of Conservation personnel now back on the island searching for missing man Mark Kearney.

Kearney was checking the crater lake tempera-ture when it erupted last week.

“I feel very sad to think he has been caught in that eruption and, if that’s the case, he’s probably gone by now.”

Those returning have found destruction on the island, with trees blown apart, boulders strewn across a large area and a thick layer of ash around the eruption site.

Mr McGregor remembers Raoul as a very dif-ferent place when he arrived there in 1976, 12 years after the previous eruption on the island.

“It’s a beautiful island that we called a Pacifi c Paradise - even if the radio operators in New Zea-land referred to it as Rock ‘n’ Roll Raoul due to the constant seismic activity.”

Mr McGregor now lives in Kihikihi, but was living in Pirongia and working at Craik Motors when he applied to work on the island for a year.

As an ‘A’ grade mechanic, former farmer, gen-eral handyman and fi t tramper he was an ideal person to work there.

“In those days it was a Minstry of Transport expedition - believe it or not.

“We had nine on the island at that time and we were like a big family - we got on really well.”

At 40 Mr McGregor was the oldest on the island and had the role of Offi cer in Charge - as well as postmaster, SIS agent, ranger and registrar.

As contact was by way of radio, the communica-tions were much more secretive then, with code names for people on the island and messages sent by code or with the use of a scrambler.

Drops to the island were also secretive - no radio announcement was made so that boats in the area had no idea when the Orion would pass over.

“Planes just fl ew low over the island with their landing lights on so we knew they were going to drop something.

“They didn’t announce their arrival as they would also be checking for illegal fi shing vessels in the area. “

During his stay visitors were few and far be-tween - although they ranged from eccentric art-ist Friedensreich Hundertwassar. (who is known for creating the Kawakawa toilets) to a Russian research group that brought cream cans of vodka with them.

“We had some great barbecues during the Rus-sian’s stay!”

Mr McGregor’s daily diaries contact a fascinat-ing account of life on an isolated island - from medical and Met Service reports to conservation work carried out.

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FORMER Officer in Charge on Raoul Island, Ian McGregor of Kihikihi, with a map of Raoul (aka Sunday) Island and a photo he took of the crater lake in 1977. Raoul Island is around 1000 km north-east of Auckland and is the largest (only inhabited) of the Kermadec islands. 082065AD

FLASHBACK: Ian McGregor with a kingfish caught from Raoul Island in 1977.

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She believes she is the only student living in Te Awamutu to be selected for a year long AFS trip this year, and plans to leave for Canada in August.

Funding the trip is going to be her biggest immediate challenge.

Her mother and step-father have a small busi-ness, but derive most income from benefi ts because of disabilities.

Tiffany says Hamilton businesses and agencies aren’t very interested in helping because she is from Te Awamutu, and to some extent the reverse applies because she goes to school in Hamilton.

She has been success-ful in obtaining a $1500 grant from the Maori Education Trust towards the total cost of $14,000 and is saving everything from weekend work at Te Awamutu McDon-ald’s, plus car washes and selling chocolate.

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has ties with AFS, but not through the ex-change programme, but through their enthusi-asm for Model T Fords.

AFS offers a school based exchange pro-gramme for young peo-ple to build and foster international under-standing and peace.

It developed after the American Field Service ambulance volunteers from World War II de-cided something was needed to alleviate suf-fering caused by war.

The American Field Service had grown from ambulance volunteers giving service alongside French combat divisions in World War I.

In New Zealand AFS uses a Ford Model T American Field Service Ambulance as their symbol.

The ambulance is an actual working vehicle, which Ken Jonathan has worked on in his business in Te Awamutu.

Anyone interested in assisting Tiffany is asked to contact the family on 871 3854.


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New Zealand guitar-ist Owen Moriarty took a ‘year off ’ from playing music during 2005 to relax and travel.

So he will be bringing a refreshed enthusiasm and newly honed skills to Te Awamutu for his concert on April 2.

“I feel a lot more ‘solid’ now - this break from music has helped ironically.”

Not surprisingly, how-ever, while overseas he just couldn’t keep away from the guitar.

He went to an Alexan-der Technique School in the mountains of Gre-nada, where he learnt how to use his body and posture to play music and get the best sound out of his instrument.

“It confi rmed a lot of things for me.

“The guitar is such a solitary instrument, you’re on your own and making up ideas, so it’s great to have someone to say what you’re doing is on the right track.”

Moriarty will be using a new guitar on his cur-rent tour.

He describes it as a fantastic instrument made by a polish luth-ier (guitar maker) who lives in Sydney.

“It didn’t come cheap mind you.

“I used every cent - and then some - of the money I made from CMNZ tours in 2004.”

He is looking forward to performing pieces in Te Awamutu that are a little outside the norm for classical guitar.

“The programme is a bit of everything and includes many pieces I have wanted to play for a long time.

“They’re not your

standard pieces - they’re more on the fringe of a musical style.”

The Te Awamutu Music Federation con-cert featuring calssical guitarist Owen Mo-riarty starts at 2pm on Sunday, April 2 at the Methodist Church (note change of venue from Waipa District Council Chambers).

Entry to the concert is by door sales only -

Adults $25, Seniors $22, Students (15-20 years) $10, children under 15 free.

This is Moriarty’s third visit to Te Awamutu and his last New Zealand tour be-fore heading overseas again.

Later this year he will be travelling back to England for more competitions and con-ferences.


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Leeks, Parsnips, Carrots, Silverbeet etc.

The end of daylight saving brings home the fact that the hours of daylight are reduc-ing, as we head towards the shortest day, in 3 months time. To back this up we can feel the colder temperatures as the nights become cooler and even on sunny days the sun has lost its bite of heat.

Plants relate strongly to the amount of light hours and start to prepare them-selves for the winter chills.

There are a number of things one can do at this time, to help their gardens and plants to be more capable of handling winter's cold and wet conditions.

The first and foremost is to strengthen the plants cells with liberal applications of potassium, Potash or Potassium sulphate is sprinkled onto the soil in the root zone of all plants that you care for. On fruit trees and shrubs this is applied from the trunk to the drip line. Potassium helps balance out any heavier use of nitrogen

you may have applied during the growth time. It firms up sappy growth which is the first casualty to winter colds, winds and wet. You no longer apply any nitrogen rich fertilisers instead only use the milder ones such as sheep manure pellets, blood and bone.

Frosts will damage the frost tender plants outdoors and even in glasshouses. Frost cloth can be used to cover these plants when it looks like frost that night. Often the conditions can change during the night while you are sleeping, resulting in a frost in the morning, when the previous evening because of wind, clouds or even rain there was not going to be a frost.

The easy answer is to use the spray on frost protection called Vaporgard. It will give protection down to minus 3 degrees, within three days of application for a period of about 3 months (from one spray application).

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CLASSICAL guitarist Owen Moriarty is returning to Te Awamutu with newly honed skills and enthusaism for a concert on April 2. Photo supplied.


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Environment Waikato plans to shift to a differential rating in order to smooth the effects of different council revaluation schedules across the region.

In presenting the key ele-ments of the 2006-2016 Long Term Council Community Plan, chair, Jenni Vernon said differ-ent revaluation schedules across the region mean periodically dis-tricts have higher than average regional rate increases.

“We plan to base our rates on a three-yearly average of property value changes in each district. Places where values went up will still see rate increases, but not as large as they would other-wise have been,” she said.

“In effect, we will do away with ‘winners and losers’ based on which properties were revalued in a particular year.”

Mrs Vernon said the key princi-ple that underpins Environment Waikato’s 10-year vision for the region is that ‘a healthy and prosperous economy depends on a healthy environment.’

“Our natural resources - clean air, fresh water, healthy soils,

predator-free forests and attrac-tive beaches - are the fuel that powers our region’s economic and social growth,” she said.

“But these valuable environ-mental resources are not an inexhaustible supply. Environ-ment Waikato’s role is to help sustainably manage these natural resources, so that our re-

gion’s prosperity and growth can continue for the long term.

Key projects for the next 10 years include providing for the sustainability of agriculture and reducing fl ood risks.

One of Environment Waikato’s responsibilities is to sustainably manage the allocation of water in the region and cater for in-creased and competing demands for water.

Council is also keen to improve the public transport network.

Environment Waikato plans to keep a close eye on the impact of the use of resources, such as taking water for irrigation, or discharging emissions into the air which require a consent under the Resource Manage-ment Act. The holders of these resource consents pay an annual fee to Environment Waikato for administering that consent and ensuring its impact on the envi-ronment is understood.

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The business began its role as a New Zealand Post agency yesterday, offering all mailing servic-es, including buying stamps as well as parcel post and overseas mail, from its main counter area.

Postal displays are on show listing services available.

It is the fi rst time since the unfortunate fi re at Oparau Store that a mail counter service has been offered at Oparau.

Oparau Roadhouse co-owner Bill Rogers re-ports brisk sales of Lotto products since that service was offered recently, with plenty of mod-est ($100-$150) prizes won to date, as well as new customers frequenting the shop.

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The Ellerslie Gold Award winner previously worked from home, but a growing demand for her services (and further demand on space at home) has seen her set up an offi ce to meet with clients, view samples and prepare plans.

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Treasured win for paddlers

BREAST CANCER survivors, from left, Lynne Soepnel, Lynn Tomlinson, Sue Harris and Rosa Peake with their gold medals and trophy from the national Dragon Boat championships. Photo supplied

Four Te Awamutu women were an integral part of the victorious Waikato Treasure Chests team at the Dragon Boat national champi-onships in Wellington.

The team, all of whom are breast cancer survivors, won the social grand fi nal competing against mixed teams.

The Waikato Treasure Chests have only been established for two years.

They train twice a week on Ham-ilton Lake and are always looking for new members - those who would like to share in fun and comradeship with an amazing group of women.

Anyone interested contact Lynn Tomlinson on 871 6148 or Rosa Peake (07) 873 1828.

The team would like to thank Waipa Networks and Te Awamutu Altrusa for their support.

Future of Kawhia Pony Club in good hands

Kawhia riders performed with distinction at the North Island Showjumping Championships in Cambridge.

Kelsey Rothery, on debut in the senior ring riding her new mount Jumbalar, won the fi rst event out of over 80 riders.

She also won another fi rst placing, along with an eighth placing.

Ryan Pikia (riding Star) was up-graded to the Intermediate ring and held his own against riders up to four years his senior.

Juniors Ahu Carnachan and

Ngahinaturae Armstrong-Nield competed well, with Ahu claiming a third placing.

All the Kawhia Branch Pony Club riders had at least one clear round, proving their ability against the best riders in the North Island.

They trained hard for the champi-onships, with several coaching ses-sions proving very worthwhile.

Coach Gina Rothery was thrilled with the results of her riders.

“I can’t wait for next year when they all have a little more experi-ence under their belts.”


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It will be all action at Kihikihi Speedway this weekend as 33 drivers race for the New Zealand Midget Championship,.

The two-day meeting, spon-sored by Te Awamutu McDon-ald’s Family Restaurant, features qualifying races on Saturday.

The top 20 on points will then race for the title on Sunday.

Television will be covering the title heats on Sunday - to be shown on the Shell Helix Sports programme at a later date.

Speedway spokesperson, Terry Campbell says fans can expect fast and spectacular rac-ing from a fi eld including fi ve past titleholders, all looking to dethrone the current champion, Carl Worboys.

Picking a winner from this fi eld is diffi cult, with 10 major contend-ers, along with three or four other drivers with the talent and equip-ment to cause an upset.

“Let’s be realistic,” says Camp-bell.

“Strap 33 race drivers into 350 horsepower ‘missiles’ weighing less than 400kg, set them racing wheel to wheel on an enclosed 400 metre track and accidents are inevitable.

“Throw in the extra incentive of a sought after title and luck is going to play a large element in the result.”

The top 10, in no particular order, are:

Carl Worboys: Defending titleholder, won

at Stratford last year. Races a Breka chassis with a Ford/Gaerte engine. Always performs well at Kihikihi.

Michael Kendall:Five times NZ midget champion

and can’t be written off for a sixth title, especially at Kihikihi. Races

an Essunger engine.Graham Standring:At 49 he is probably the most

experienced driver in the fi eld. The three times NZ midget cham-pion is experiencing a career re-vival in a new Essunger powered car. Still Mr Excitement, his driv-ing style suits Kihikihi.

Tony Fabish:Best chance for a repeat NZ

title since his win at Kihikihi in 1996. Home track advantage plus modifi cations to his Gaerte pow-ered car put him in contention.

Neville Basalaj:Second at Straford last season,

third in 2003 and second in 1998. This Nelson-based driver would like to see No 1 on his Ed Pink Ford powered car. Handicapped by lack of experience at Kihikihi.

Lance Beale:Mr Consistency. Third at Strat-

ford last season. Usually still run-ning and well up in the points at the end of a championship. Team-mate of Basalaj and also runs an

Ed Pink Ford.Shaun Insley:Second in this season’s na-

tional series at Western Springs. Runs a Mopar powered aggres-sor chassis built by his brother. Knows his way around Kihikihi.

Bryce Townsend:Dominated the TQ midget

ranks during the 1990’s. Familiar with Kihikihi. His Fontana motor is probably 50 h.p. or so down on power but his driving ability could make up the difference.

Michael Pickens: A year ago would have been

odds on favourite for the title. Has spent much of the past 18 months racing in USA and Australia. Has the talent. His title hopes may depend on the chassis/engine combination he has available.

Steve Currie:Won this season’s national se-

ries at Western Springs. Drives an Ed Pink Ford. May be hampered by rarely competing at Kihikihi.

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Brad Mosen:A young man with

a bright future at 19 years of age. Aggressive driving style in a rapid Mopar powered car.

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ring car this season and has impressed with his pace around Kihikihi.

FIVE-TIMES New Zealand midget champion Michael Kendall leads Michael Pickens, Graham Standring and Tony Fabish in one of last season’s championship events at Kihikihi Speedway.

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package for their entrance fee.The annual Ministock Stampede will be run in

conjunction with the New Zealand Midget Champi-onship fi nals, with racing starting at 1pm.

The ever increasingly popular Stampede has attracted 40 cars from Auckland, Rotorua, Huntly, Mount Maunganui and Hawkes Bay.

Minisprints and Superstocks round out Sunday’s programme.

LOCAL NZ midget title contender Tony Fabish.


Te Awamutu golfers Ray and Sally Davies ß y out for South Africa tomorrow for their son BruceÕs wedding at Zara Park, near Dur-ban.

While in the republic Ray and his wife plan to have a round of golf at Capetown and attend a Super 14 rugby match in Johannesburg.

Ray should attack the fairways and greens at Capetown with conÞ dence.

The 16 handicapper shot a personal best 79 off-the-stick in Sat-urdayÕs scramble at Te Awamutu Golf Club, despite a couple of double-bogeys.

His winning 63 net secured 43 stableford points. He was out in 39 and home in 40.

Ray had broken 80 before at Pirongia but never previously at Te Awamutu.

Stan Fredrikson was the stand-out player on Veterans day at Te Awamutu with a hot 60 net - shoot-ing 86 off a 26 handicap.

The clubÕs representative teams are enjoying mixed success.

The division Þ ve team are equal second after two rounds, the junior pennant team are joint leaders, while the handicap pennant team are off the pace after two rounds.

Club scramble: R Davies 63, D Johnson R Western 66. Two: S Gilbert.

Best of the Vets: S Fredrikson 46 stabl-eford, C Green 40, B Bain, M Claydon, L Hagenson 39, R Hickey 38, D Johnson 37, J Neilson 36.

Open midweek tourney:Women’s net: M Strack, S Gooch 69, J

Stevanon 70.Men’s gross: W Taitoko 75. Net: B Bain 69

b/l, E Hughes 69, T Carthy 70. Stableford: Simon Gibson 39, J Emery 37.

Twos: M Nolan, B Bain, L Keightley. Te Awamutu women’s golf:0-23: K Bayes 68 net, A Waters 72, R

Coleman, M Johnson 74, M Fraser, K Buck-eridge 75. 24-plus: N Poppe 67, H Spiers 69, E Dowthwaite 70, M Strack 71, R Green, S Gower 72. Best gross: R Norris 78. Twos: M Strack, R Norris, S Gower.

LGU winners: R Norris (silver) 69 net, K Bayes (bronze I) 68, N Poppe (bronze II) 67.

Saturday, stableford scramble: R Nor-ris 40, L Fenwick, V Dunlop 36. Previous week’s winner, J Furer 40.

Monday scramble: D Hall 36, J Green, N Hollard, J Pollard 32, A Waters 30.

Nine holes: V Arnold, R Roberts 20, J Powell 19.

Championship pennants underway: Division two team (R Norris, H Bryant, J Gillespie, V Dunlop) lost to Walton at Matamata. R Norris only winner. Division four team (E Neilson, R Coleman, M Fraser, J Scown) beat Lochiel at Walton.

★ ★ ★ ★ Don Livingstone tightened his

grip on the SecretaryÕs Trophy with a second round 66 net at Pirongia Golf Club on Sunday.

His two round total of 133 has him four shots clear of Charlie Coles and Ross Scown, with Gus MacIntyre a further shot back on 138.

MacIntyre rocketed into conten-

tion for the trophy with an outstanding 75 gross for a 63 net.

Final night of twi-light attracted 104 starters.

Most interest centred on the drawing of the $1000 travel voucher, sponsored by House of Travel, which was won by Kitty Kanters.

CKL Surveys sponsored scramble:

Seniors: G MacIntyre 63, D Livingstone 66, E Hughes, K Appleby 68, R Scown, C Coles, P Pitcon 69.

Juniors: C Finlay 68, I Grey, M Caie 69, R New-lands, J Dunn, A Mitchell 70, J Alston, D Dean, B Duffy 71, T Charlesworth, S Med-dings 72.

Twos: G MacIntyre, D Livingstone, G Bowman (eagle), A Mitchell. Longest putt: R Shaw. Century 21 nearest pin: G Bowman.

Twilight, sponsored by House of Travel:Ladies: I Caie 22, S Refoy, K Kanters 18,

L Fenwick, A Ellis 17, G Quarrie 16, M Cav-anagh, F Haberfi eld 15.

Men, front nine: D Smith 26, D Ryburn 23, G Johnston, A Mitchell 22, B McDougal, P Poland, M Smith 21, L Quarrie, J Creek, G Scott, G Hodgson, K Appleby, P Findsen, S Meddings, A Robertson 20, K Trass, A Liv-ingston, B Connolly, G Tocker, R Refoy 19, P Pitcon, S Ryburn, S Thackray, P Brownlie, B Winders, A Peihana, D Livinstone 18, C Coles, M Barclay, D Matson, J Higgie, M Ar-randale, P Robertson 17.

Men, back nine: L Foote 25, J Apeldoorn 23, J Yeeles, T Newson 22, S Rushbrooke, S Gielen, R Picken, R Scown, D Peryer, R Goodhew 20, A Dyet, D Granthan, G Liv-inston, B Cavey, W Foote 19, D Latham, I Grey, T Watts, W Cann, K Bardsley 18, G Watts, B Hollinshead, B Duffy, E Mitchell, K McFarlane, K Leach, H Nieremeijer, C Tainui, M Caie, W Fox 17.

Grandparents tournament, held since 1962:

Pirongia Cup winners: B Parsons and R Scown 132 net. Parsons 77 gross, 62 net, Scown 70 net. Runners-up: C Finlay and N Graham 134, G Watts, K Kanters 135.

Individual winners on net, men: S Med-dings 62 b/l, G MacIntyre 62, S McDonald 64, I Grey, D Livingstone 66. Ladies: A Miers 9, E Blackwood 70, G King 72, P Hughes, M Turner 73. Longest putt: A Mitchell (men), P Hughes (women). Nearest pin: G MacIntyre (men), M Turner (women). Twos: E Hughes, K King, J Kendall, M Cavanagh.

Fay Haberfi eld Rosebowl, top qualifi er: J Webber 69 net.

Scramble on par, division 1: J Webber +3, E Campbell +2, E Blackwood +1, B Parsons even. Division 2: N Hancock +3, N Graham, H Major +2, A Meyers +1, S Eggleston even.

★ ★ ★ ★ Bev Herbert upstaged the men

with 22½ stableford points at Stew-art Alexander Golf ClubÕs twilight tournament, sponsored by P.G.G. Wrightson.

Men: K Heke, S Hill, R Shilton 21½, O Heke 21, S Gibson, M Campbell 20½, M Gibson 20, M Brown 19½, C Douglas, P Gibson, G Scott, S Meddings 19, B Bouma 18½.

Ladies: B Herbert 22½, B Walker 21, H Parker 20, B Roigard 19, A Shilton, M Bouma 17½.

Previous week, men: J Bowers 25, D Smith 21½, G Cotterell 21, D Heke 20½, S Gibson 19½, C Weinberg 19, B Bouma, B Russ 18½, R Shaw, G Scott 18.

Women: B Walker 19, D Griffi n 17½, A Shilton 15½, A Ford 15.

Career best 79 by Davies at TA

RAY DAVIES

Harness racing meet should be a cracker

Cambridge/Te Awamutu Harness Racing Club has drawn excellent Þ elds for their Supporters meeting at Cambridge Raceway tonight.

There is an added bonus for patrons - the Waikato Greyhounds are running their meeting in conjunction with the harness racing.

The two codes will run alternative races. First greyhound race starts at 5.20pm and Þ rst har-ness race at 5.55pm.

For those inclined to have a wager on the hors-es, some of the likely looking runners include Waingaro Flyer, a six-year-old gelding trained by Sean McCaffrey, in race two, the Pia Zadora Pace over 2200 metres.

He has shown excellent form over his last starts and won well at the workouts last Saturday.

In race three, the Yarndley Farms Pace over 2200 metres for maiden runners, Bronze Lady appeals.

The four-year-old mare, trained by John Dickie, has shown excellent workout form and should go well on debut.

Gotta Go Cullen, a colt sired by champion race-horse Christian Cullen, from North Auckland is a notable starter in race four, the NZ SiresÕ Stakes Two Year Old Heat over a mile.

He has the form to back him, having had Þ ve race starts for three wins and two placings. Nicole Thorn will do the driving.

Race six is the feature race of the night, the Supporters Pace over 1700 metres.

Jaka, trained by Sean Mc Caffrey, has the one draw and on previous form he looks the one to beat here.

Pace Away, trained by Mike Berger, goes from the Þ ve draw and has excellent gate speed.

She has Þ ve wins to her credit but should be paying a reasonable dividend in this company.

Race seven is a heat of the Nevele R Fillies Se-

ries for three year old Þ llies. This race has drawn a very good Þ eld with

Western Dream, trained by Tony Herlihy, Straw-berry Fields and Blackbird Fly, both trained by Barry Purdon, all having claims.

In the last race of the night, the Kelly & Bryant pace over 2200 metres at 10.21pm, Imperative could be the one to beat.

The talented gelding, trained and driven by Todd Mitchell, ran a good fourth last week Þ rst up after a spell and should be improved for the run.

Make the trip to Cambridge and enjoy the rac-ing.

Club spokesperson, Christine Leonard says there are a number of dining options on course, either in the raceway lounge or at the Clubhouse Cafe and Sports Bar on course which will be open late after the races.

ÒMake a night of it - we look forward to seeing you.Ó

Injury plagued Robinson on rugby comeback trail

Ex All Black Keith Robinson was spotted play-ing for the Thames Valley Rugby Union against Clifton Rugby Club from Taranaki on Te Awamu-tuÕs Albert Park No 3 ground.

Robinson was playing only his second game in a comeback bid following a series of serious inju-ries, necesitating three operations on his back.

Larry Tremewan reports that the match was a pre-season hit-up for both clubs before their respective seasons commence.

The game was held in Te Awamutu by mu-tual arrangement to avoid excessive and costly travel.

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sociation representative cricket team clinched the Waikato Valley Court Cup with a four wicket win over South Waikato on Sunday.

In doing so, they ended Northern Zone’s four year stranglehold on the trophy.

Victorious team cap-tain Andrew Parsons was understandably stoked.

“We’re relative new-comers to the competi-tion, having only joined when Midlands and Thames Valley merged three years ago.

“The fact that our team is selected from just one A grade team and four B grade teams makes the trophy win all the more meritori-ous.”

Parsons attributes the success to the en-thusiasm of the young-er players, who want to compete at this higher level, and the senior players leading from the front.

South Waikato won the toss in the fi nal at Te Awamutu College and elected to bat.

They got off to a rela-tively good start scoring at more than four runs an over before the fi rst wicket fell in the sev-enth over with 29 runs on the board.

The next 20 overs bowled by Andrew Parsons and Hamish Forsman saw three wickets fall for just 53 runs, putting pressure on South Waikatos mid-dle order.

Waikato Valley repre-sentative Scott Hudson held the middle order together before falling one short of his 50.

South Waikato then staggered along losing wickets regularly.

Opening bowler Mal-colm Seekup mopped up the tail when re-

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After a great lunch put on by Lyn Fors-man and her team, the opening pair of Mark Harrison and Richard Douch featured in a 44 run partnership before Te Awamutu lost their fi rst wicket.

Douch continued his fi ne club form, anchor-ing the innings, before being caught on 66 in the 26th over with only 35 runs required and fi ve wickets remaining.

A solid partner-ship between Andrew Parsons (11) and Sam Stretton (14no) saw the home team through to victory with four wickets and 14 overs to spare.

Douch was man of the match.

Scoreboard:South Waikato 147: N Cordes

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Te Awamutu 150/6 in 36 overs: R Douch 66, S Stretton 14no, B Fursdon 2-20.

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YMI toiler Waikato Volunteer of Year

Paul Hudson is the type of be-hind the scenes toiler that every club needs.

The Te Awamutu YMI Badmin-ton Club player/administrator has taken out Waikato Badmin-ton Association’s Volunteer of the Year award.

YMI club president, Susanne Paalvast says the award could not have gone to anyone more deserving.

“Paul is a quiet, unassuming person who does a power of work for the club.”

He is club secretary, produces the club newsletter, organises club publicity notices and sto-

ries for the Courier, attends and organises the club’s annual trip to East Coast Bays in May, and always travels to Hamilton in support of teams making inter-club fi nals.

Paul’s biggest commitment is running junior badminton, despite being one of the furthest travelling club members. He farms near Otorohanga.

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