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Speeding buses and a lack of parking are two of the problems facing teachers, parents and children in early childhood centres in Wainuiomata.

There is little to no road signs outside of many centres in the valley warning drivers to slow down.

Jack and Jill Kindergarten has been fi ghting with New Zealand Buses for many years, fi nally asking Hutt South MP Trevor

Mallard for help.It is only since he got involved

the bus company has responded.The kindergarten has two signs

warning drivers of the centre, but these were only put up after a child was hit by a car a few years back.

“It is only a matter of time before someone gets hit again.” says head teacher Chris Moses.

“I understand the drivers are on a schedule, but they are going so fast.”

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Jack and Jill Kindergarten Teacher Rosanne with three students at the Early Childhood Centre.

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Community of Learning Seven of Wainuiomata’s eight school principals gather at

Wainuiomata Intermediate School.

By Emma McAuli� e

The principals from Wainuiomata schools are looking for public input as they seek to develop a Community of Learning in Wainuiomata.

A Community of Learning is a group of schools representing the pathway from primary school through to college.

The Community, with the help of Boards and outside input from the community, will come up with a shared achievement goal based on the needs of students attending the schools.

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By Aaron Meredith

Wainuiomata High School’s top athletes were recognised for their achievements throughout the year at last week’s sports awards.

Awards were handed out to ath-letes in all sports, many of whom have represented Wellington and New Zealand.

Sportsman of the year was given to Raymond Seumanu for his achievements in boxing, winning multiple national titles as well as the Australian Golden Gloves.

He became one of the youngest winners of the award.

The sportswomen of the year award was awarded to Sieni Samau for her achievements in a wide range of sports.

Sieni was also the top player in volleyball, girls rugby, was the top scorer in football, was the best back in league, played for Wainuiomata in club rugby and league, going on to represent Wellington in both sports.

On top of that Sieni was also selected for the New Zealand rugby league Kiwi Ferns side to play Australia next year

The MC, Phillip Kauika who

says that the school has achieved to a high standard this year in all sports.

“Many teams have made fi nals, won championships or have represented the school at regional tournaments.”

Teams who won their grades included the girls cricket team, the football fi rst XI, teams two and three in netball, the boys fi rst xv in rugby and the junior boys league team.

This year was also the fi rst year that Ignite Sports presented two special awards, both recognising character in an athlete and coach.

Trust co-ordinator Kevin Goldsbury says that the awards are given to those that embodied Ignite Sport’s values.

“Despite the attention that poor behaviour and bad sportsman-ship attracts, there are great examples of athletes who demon-strate positive character in sport and coaches who effectively model it,” Kevin says.

This year’s winners were Paa Mailangi who won the character athlete award and Ngaire Blake who won the character coach award.

Both showed great passion for

Sporting achievements recognised

their sports and teams, helping their teams achieve their best.

Kalena Hura was also recog-nised by the school, receiving the principals award after 20 years’ service to school netball.

Other award winners were Stephen Graham, Joel Carman, Atiria Semmens, Jade Hum-

phrey and Brooke Tauaneai.School Principal Martin Isberg

says he was not surprised by the achievements of the students this year.

“We have spent the last three or four years changing the culture of the school, and the results this year are recognition of this.”

One sure sign of summer arriving is the call of the shin-ing cuckoo, a series of upward notes followed by one or more long downward slurring notes. The birds have come back to New Zealand to breed after wintering over in the Solomon Islands. They can be heard calling from forest, scrub and farmland, which are also the habitats of their host birds, the grey warbler. Like cuckoos around the world the shining cuckoo lays its eggs in another bird’s nest.

Also called the bronze shining cuckoo, scientifi c name Chryso-coccyx lucidas, or in Maori the Pipi�Wharauroa, this sparrow-sized bird is usually not seen due to its cryptic markings and its size. It’s New Zealand’s only iridescent green bird and has green and white bands across its chest. The shining cuckoo lives on grubs and insects, including hairy caterpillars and ladybirds that other birds avoid.

It lays a single egg in the nest of a laying grey warbler, and the chick when it hatches ejects

the warbler eggs and chicks. The host then seems not to notice it’s parenting another species and continues to raise the chick. Fortunately for the grey warbler species, it has usually already raised a brood in August/September before the cuckoo arrives back in New Zealand.

A few years ago we heard a sound from the bush that could have been a bird or an insect, but even with the neighbours’ help we couldn’t fi nd what it was coming from. One day

however, I heard it in the beech tree outside the window, and looked out to see the cuckoo chick flitting from branch to twig noisily demanding food from a smaller and very busy grey warbler.

The two major threats to the shining cuckoo are fl ying into windows and being taken by cats. You can hear its call and learn more about it here. www.radionz.co.nz/nation-al/programmes/thiswayup/collections/birdwatching/shiningcuckoo

The call of the shining cuckoo

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Wainuiomata Primary School Gala

This Saturday Wainuiomata Primary School is hosting a School Gala.

The school is fundraising so that all the senior students get the opportu-nity to go the school camp this year.

This will be taking place down the school between 2 and 6pm on Satur-day. For more information about this

please contact the school.

Last week the Wainuiomata News reported that Lynette Stewart was in a phot with Bonnie MacBeth when it was Cherrie Tinetti.

Cherie did a lot of hard work in the process of planning for the jubilee and the school would like to thank her for this.

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Continued from page 1The principals in Wai-

nuiomata have put in an expression of interest to the Ministry of Education on developing a Community of Learning and will be setting a student achievement goal following a public discus-sion next month.

Wainuiomata High School principal, Martin Isberg, and Wainuiomata Primary School principal, Allison Burdon, said the group was interested in hearing what

the community had to say about student achievement goals.

“We’re really keen on pub-lic input,” Martin said.

“We want to fi nd out what the community wants,” Allison added.

Wainuiomata Intermedi-ate school principal, Pearl Murti, said the schools had all been working together for some time but being part of a Community of Learning would formalise their col-laboration.

Their current focus was fi nding an achievement chal-lenge helpful to all schools, she said.

“How do you get an achievement challenge rel-evant to the needs of all schools? We thought we’d

like to see what the com-munity thinks.

“One of the things we all want is a strategic plan for the valley that we all subscribe to and believe in and work towards.”

The Connected Commu-nity, Successful Learners discussion will take place at the Wainuiomata Com-munity Centre on Tuesday, April 12 at 7pm. All are welcome to participate and share ideas in the discus-sion.

Community of Learning on the cards for valley schools

By Emma McAuli� e

Wainuiomata High School students had the chance to meet Prime Minister John Key last Tuesday at the Farm Heritage Golf Club in Boul-cott.

Approximately 150 student leaders from every Lower Hutt and Upper Hutt secondary school were invited to take part in the event hosted by Na-tional List MP, Chris Bishop.

Chris said the purpose of the event was for student leaders of the various high schools to get to know each other have a chance to meet and question the Prime Minister.

He said the Prime Minister later told him the questions asked by the students were “really insightful”.

“He said the future of the Hutt Valley was in very safe hands,” Chris said.

Chris said questions for

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Mr Key ranged from youth mental illness, to child pov-erty, to the fl ag.

“It was a really good ses-sion,” Chris said.

Chris said it was the second time he had held this after-noon tea and he planned to make it an annual event.

Following the afternoon tea

Chris and Mr Key headed to the Naenae Boxing Academy to have a question and an-swer session with its students and watch a boxing work out.

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inbrief newsLeading the way in ECE participationEarlier this month National List MP, Chris Bishop, congratulated Lower Hutt as it helped the Wellington region be-come one of the � rst three in the coun-try to achieve the Government’s Early Childhood Education (ECE) participa-tion target. The Wellington region has achieved the 98 per cent participation target set by the Government for the end of this year. Lower Hutt recorded a participation rate of 98.1 per cent. “This is due recognition of the work that parents and ECE providers do in and around Lower Hutt,” Chris said.

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More than 500 people gath-ered at the Fitzroy Tavern last weekend to celebrate Ataahua- Journey’s life.

Ataahua’s mother, Krystal Nikara, organised the event in remembrance of her daughter, who died in February after a long battle with bronchiectasis.

K r ysta l sa id fol lowing Ataahua’s death, she had been approached by locals who wanted a chance to celebrate her daughter’s life.

Many of the locals who attended last week’s event brought along their children and Krystal said children were

a real focus of the celebration. “The day [was] all about the

children. We had young talent and games for all age levels.”

She said the event was made possible thanks to generous donations from the commu-nity, which included pizza, baking and popcorn.

“Every single person that came ate for free, enjoyed for free. Everything was donated by locals.”

She said there was also a va-riety of performances on offer.

Krystal thanked the commu-nity for their support and said the day could not have gone ahead without their generosity.

Memorial day for Ataahua

Ataahua’s friends and family. PHOTO: Dan Heald

By Emma McAuli� e

The “Get Your Talent On” youth talent festival, which took place for the fi rst time last Saturday, has been labeled a “great success”.

The festival was organised by the #TAG’s, a group of youth in Wainuiomata who work to spread positive messages to young people in the community.

The festival, which was held at Queen Street Reserve, was organised in an effort to encour-age youth to showcase their talent among their peers.

One of the organisers, Leah Clarke said the day went re-ally well with dozens of people showing up.

“[It went] the way we imagined it- just fans sitting around listen-ing to local talent.”

Te Puea Morgan, #TAG’s facilitator, said the day had gone well and she was pleased the weather turned out nicely.

Performers at the event in-cluded local musicians, singers, the Hutt Valley Rock n Roll

Club and the Wellington Region Karate Academy.

The closing act was performed by Wainuiomata High School Kapa Haka group.

The #TAG’s worked along-side Smokefree in handing out spot prizes and surveys around Smokefree initiatives on the day.

Stalls on the day included the #Hallelujah- Church of the Lat-ter Day Saints, Jitta Bugz and Neighbourhood Support.

The Wainuiomata High School Stage Challenge core group also fundraised for their upcoming performance in this year’s com-petition with a sausage sizzle.

Leah said the event could not have gone ahead without spon-sorship from local organisations.

She said the #TAG’s would start organising the 2017 event soon and would be looking to bring back previous performers and fi nd even more local talent.

Were you at the Get Your Talent On festival? What did you think? Send us an email – [email protected] #TAG’s representing Smokefree.

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CONSULTATION ON HUTT CITY COUNCIL’S 2016/17 ANNUAL PLAN IS UNDERWAY.

We are continuing to invest in the rejuvenation and growth of Lower Hutt. This year’s Annual Plan continues work on projects like the Town Hall and Events Centre, upgrades to Avalon Park, and new learn-to-swim and hydrotherapy facilities for Huia Pool.

Council’s draft budget shows we can continue the programme of rejuvenation with an average rates increase of 2.7%, expected to be the lowest in the region.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO HAVE YOUR SAY Pick up a copy of the Consultation Document at:

Any Hutt City Library, Council’s Admin Building on Laings Road, or visit huttcity.govt.nz/annualplan

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TO SPEAK TO A COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE IN PERSON VISIT:Saturday 2 April, 8am – 1pm, the Riverbank Market

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Saturday 16 April, 8am – 1pm, the Riverbank Market

ADDITIONAL PROJECTS IN THE PLAN FOR 2016/17 INCLUDE:• One-hour free parking in time-restricted HC2 car parks in

the CBD.

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By Emma McAuli� e

Wainuiomata High School and Wainuiomata Intermediate School welcomed exchange students from Bangkok earlier this month.

International Student Dean from Wainuiomata High School, Virginia Wilson, said the students would be in New Zealand for four weeks.

“Some of them are thinking of study-ing in New Zealand if they have a good time,” she said.

All students have been partnered with a family for the duration of their visit and will attend school each day with a buddy.

Declan Reid-O’Connell is one of the Wainuiomata High School students with a buddy from Bangkok.

He said he had been playing lots of football with his buddy, Mongkorn

Phumsawai, who goes by ‘Dragon’ whilst in New Zealand.

“I’ve been showing him around my area down the coast. I introduced him to new food like fi sh and chips. He likes fi sh and chips,” Declan said.

Dragon said he liked New Zealand so far.

“Everyone in your country is very friendly,” he said.

As part of their trip the exchange students got taken around Wellington tourist sites.

Virginia said there would be a trip to Rotorua over Easter weekend. Wainuiomata High School is always on the lookout for more homes wish-ing to o� er full board to international exchange students. For more information contact Ali Saunders at 9383224 ext. 7015 or at [email protected] with his exchange student, Dragon

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By Emma McAuli� e

The results are in. New Zealand will keep its current fl ag.

The preliminary results for the second fl ag referendum were released last Thursday night, with 56.6 per cent of New Zealanders voting to keep the current fl ag.

Over two million eligible voters partici-pated.

Hutt South MP, Trevor Mallard said he supported keeping the current fl ag and said a slight majority voted for the current fl ag

in Hutt South.Voter turnout in the Hutt South electorate

was 33,991 which amounted to 70.3 per cent of its total eligible voters. Of those who took part 57 per cent voted to keep the current fl ag.

“I think people were really upset about what was being spent on it, the designs were amateurish and none really grabbed [New Zealand’s attention] like the maple leaf did for Canadians,” Trevor said.

He said he originally wanted to change the fl ag but disagreed with the process and

context of the referendum.He said the result of the referendum did

not mean New Zealand should never change the fl ag.

“It should be done in the context, maybe in 2040 when it’s the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.”

He said the referendum was a distraction from the “real issues” New Zealand was facing.

“Inequality and child poverty are the is-sues the government should be addressing,” Trevor said.

New Zealand votes to keep current fl ag

Wainuiomata Community Library is hosting a puppet making workshop this Saturday, April 2. The family event will have people making their own puppets and creating a puppet show. The workshop is free and all materials will be provided. Event starts at 2pm. All welcome.

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Public consultation for the Hutt City Council’s annual plan opened earlier this week. This year‘s Annual Plan is focused on projects including the Town Hall and Events Centre and upgrades to Avalon Park and Huia Pool. To have your say, pick up a consultation document at any Hutt City Library or online at huttcity.govt.nz/annualplan by Friday, April 29.

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Councillor Margaret Willard has announced she will stand again this year to represent the Wainuiomata Ward on Hutt City Council at the October elections.

“I very much enjoy being part of the work rejuvenating Wainuiomata and the wider city, and believe I have made a constructive contribution,” she said.

“I’d like to continue working with Mayor Ray Wallace and my council colleagues and staff who are com-mitted to developing the potential of our community and the city.”

Margaret said she found working with many community members rewarding and with them achieved projects and events like Wheels

Over Pukeatua, the Anzac wall hanging in the refurbished hall, Hub open days, youth projects and events, and Wainuiomata’s rejuvena-tion plan.

“We have a lot of residents with ideas and a desire to help enhance the community, and I get a lot of satisfaction from connecting people and organisations so amazing things can happen and others get enjoy-ment and fulfilment from being involved.”

Margaret said she was keen for residents to be involved in the political process, particularly as consultation on the 2016-2017 an-nual plan would soon be underway.

“Until we hear from ratepayers my

mind is open about what our priori-ties should be for the coming year. But we do need residents’ views.”

She said she had worked to sup-port Council in encouraging young people to learn about civic matters and to have their say.

Margaret was clear she would be standing totally independently, free of any political party affi liations.

“I’ll be simply representing resi-dents, without obligations to any political organisation. I’ll be clear and upfront about other candidates I support and work with, and most importantly will be standing on my solid record of integrity and hard work for the community and the city.”

Margaret Willard to stand again for Hutt City Council

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The fi rst Lions book fair took place last weekend at the old Wainuiomata College school hall.

The Lions took over the fair from Rotary this year.

Project manager for the event, Dave Gulde, said the Lions did not make too many changes to the fair.

He said there were approxi-mately 15,000 to 20,000 books on sale over the weekend and around 2000 people visited the popular

fair over the two days.Dave said funds raised from the

book fair would go back in to the community through schools, the local volunteer fi re service and Ronald McDonald House.

The volunteer fi re service helped the Lions pack the books into the hall on Thursday before the fair.

Leftover books from the event were re-sorted and saved until the next sale or given to book charities.

Book Fair fun in the valley

Book fair goers enjoy the fair. PHOTO CREDIT: Dan Taylor

Letters on issues of community interest are welcomed. Guidelines are that they should be no longer than 150 words. They must be signed and a street address provided to show good faith, even if a nom de plume is provided for publica-tion. The editor reserves the right to abridge letters or withhold unsuitable letters from publication. Send or fax them to the address on page two, or email them to [email protected]. Please note that your name and street address must also be provided in e mails.

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Q: What is your favourite way to spend the long weekend?

readers have their say... Find out the WORD on the Street.

Abigail Riini,Wainuiomata

Playing rugby and spending time with my family.

Annie Reilly,Wainuiomata

Painting my porch and doing some family history research.

Sue Jury,WainuiomataWith family.

Pearl Murti,Wainuiomata

Bit of school stu� and time at home.

Tai Wendt,Wainuiomata

Here at the library. Good spending time with the family.

Quinella Kawana,Wainuiomata

Painting, seeing friends haven’t seen for a while. Having a barbecue.

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Dear Ed, Wouldn’t it be lovely if each of the individual shop fronts in our Wainuiomata Queen Street were painted in brilliant bright colours, as is done in vil-lages in Ireland and some other European countries? I think these bright colours would not only help to ‘lift’ the moods of our

Wainuiomata shoppers during the forthcoming cold and dark winter months, but also attract visitors from over the hill to Wainuiomata and its shops. So, come on shop owners, spruce up your shop fronts and be proud to be servicing Wainuiomata.

Marion Bolli-Guerin

Queen St. spruce up

Dear Ed , I believe that the re-taining of our fl ag has been in the main, a protest vote, we should have been asked if we wanted our fl ag changed in the fi rst place. B. Bain (Mrs)

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ACROSS 1. Dubious (7) 5. Liberated (11)11. High up (5)12. Large tent (7)13. Counter (5)14. Hung (9)15. Bears witness (9)16. Poet (4)17. List (7)19. Daintily odd (6)23. Free (6)26. Lionize (7)29. Against (4)30. One-horse carriage (3)32. The ... Commandments (3)34. Image (4)35. Inheritance (7)36. Wanaka ‘warbird’ collector, Sir Tim ... (6)39. Hard coating (6)40. Numbs (7)42. Crooked (4)46. Hateful (9)48. Pompous (9)50. Leg bone (5)

51. Eighth of mile (7)52. Patent (5)53. Confirmation (11)54. River mouth (7)

DOWN 1. Switches (5) 2. Supporter (7) 3. Respect (6) 4. Fear (8) 5. Nobleman’s estate (7) 6. Grown up (5) 7. Fold (6) 8. Accesible (8) 9. Based on custom (11)10. Adores (5)16. Charm (7)18. Areas (5)20. Parched (7)21. Lively dance (3)22. Towards stern of ship (3)24. Fear of open spaces (11)25. Akin (3)27. Accustom (5)28. Cemetary tree (3)31. Set (3)

33. Negative vote (3)37. Backs away (8)38. Snare (8)41. Damn(sl) (7)43. Aboriginal spear (7)44. Young calf (6)45. Skilled (6)46. Change (5)47. Italian city (5)49. Way in (5)





ACROSS 1. Dubious (7) 5. Liberated (11)11. High up (5)12. Large tent (7)13. Counter (5)14. Hung (9)15. Bears witness (9)16. Poet (4)17. List (7)19. Daintily odd (6)23. Free (6)26. Lionize (7)29. Against (4)30. One-horse carriage (3)32. The ... Commandments (3)34. Image (4)35. Inheritance (7)36. Wanaka ‘warbird’ collector, Sir Tim ... (6)39. Hard coating (6)40. Numbs (7)42. Crooked (4)46. Hateful (9)48. Pompous (9)50. Leg bone (5)

51. Eighth of mile (7)52. Patent (5)53. Confirmation (11)54. River mouth (7)

DOWN 1. Switches (5) 2. Supporter (7) 3. Respect (6) 4. Fear (8) 5. Nobleman’s estate (7) 6. Grown up (5) 7. Fold (6) 8. Accesible (8) 9. Based on custom (11)10. Adores (5)16. Charm (7)18. Areas (5)20. Parched (7)21. Lively dance (3)22. Towards stern of ship (3)24. Fear of open spaces (11)25. Akin (3)27. Accustom (5)28. Cemetary tree (3)31. Set (3)

33. Negative vote (3)37. Backs away (8)38. Snare (8)41. Damn(sl) (7)43. Aboriginal spear (7)44. Young calf (6)45. Skilled (6)46. Change (5)47. Italian city (5)49. Way in (5)

Solution last week, 28 October

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Our Youth soon will adults be.Their future, will the world decree.So they must pick which � eld to plough.When to start it could be now. At Hub the Centre they will learn.To play it fair, and feel concern.When to reap and when to sow.Soon must choose what seed to grow.

AGMTuesday 10 November 2016

7.00pm - 8.30pmWainuiomata Bowling club,

1 Moohan Street,Wainuiomata.All Welcome

By Aaron Meredith

Fernlea Primary School got a little bit scary last week, holding a spooky disco to raise money for the school.

Students dressed up as ghosts and gob-

lins, staff at the school say the costumes were some of the best they have ever seen.

In this photo, teacher Anthony Kleinjan and students Ruby Keomary, Sophie Neary, Lily Carr and Prashvi Shankar show off their costumes.

Fernlea gets freaky

All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

FACTOF THE D AY

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Wednesday November 4, 2015


SOLUTIONFor November 24, 2004

ACROSS 1. Vision (9) 6. Insurance evaluators. (9)11. Rate. (5)12. Import illegally. (7)13. Loosen. (5)14. “Once were warriors” actor, Temuera ... (8)17. Legitimate (5-5)18. Lyric poem. (3)20. River in Africa. (4)22. Naval rank. (7)24. Cattle-dealer. (6)26. For. (3)28. Of the British race, ... Saxon. (5)29. Interviewer; … Parkinson (7)32. Minister to. (5)33. Mineral spring. (3)34. Give leave. (3)35. Poet, Edgar Allan ... (3)36. Lace loop. (5)37. Stillness. (7)38. Passes lightly over. (5)39. Variety of lettuce. (3)41. Beguile. (6)42. Of the stars. (7)44. Dispense. (4)47. U.S Spy Agency(abbr) (3)49. Referee. (10)

51. Most rare. (8)55. Latin American dance. (5)56. Add to. (7)57. Burn slightly. (5)58. Adjourned. (9)59. Expedient. (9)

DOWN 1. Jury spokesman. (7) 2. Helicopter blade. (5) 3. Dull. (6) 4. Fervour. (5) 5. Not slack. (4) 6. Universal arithmetic. (7) 7. To bundle wheat. (6) 8. Inflexibility. (12) 9. River mouth(pl) (5)10. Narrowness. (11)15. Fish eggs. (3)16. Wither up. (4)19. Theatre seats, dress ... (6)21. Reasonable. (7)23. Territory. (6)25. Fresh foliage. (7)26. Ongoing varsity academic. (12)27. Llama wool. (6)28. Outward impressions (11)30. Movie, ... Alibi. (3)31. “... the Hun”. (6)

40. Killer whale. (4)43. Gossiped. (7)44. Son of(Scot) (3)45. Beseech. (7)46. Long tirade. (6)48. Rainbows. (6)50. Real name Thomas Woodward, singer, Tom ... (5)52. Hinder the inspection(cryp) (5)53. Lassitude. (5)54. Sullen. (4)

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Wednesday November 18, 2015

PuzzleWR OO RC S DS CROSSWORD By Russell McQuarters




ACROSS 1. Result (5-6) 7. Scoundrel (7)11. Pulls (5)12. Deviousness (7)13. Excellent (5)14. Alert (9)15. So (9)16. Directs (6)18. Skull (7)21. Disorder (4)23. Racket (3)25. Take by sips (3)27. Stake (4)28. Artlessness (7)30. Low chair; Chaise ... (6)32. Expert; ... hand (3)33. Strange (3)34. Zealous (6)35. In brisk time(music) (7)36. U.S. state (4)37. Biblical vessel (3)39. Curve (3)41. Cupid (4)43. Exposed to air (7)45. Female relatives (6)48. An endless time(Lat) (9)49. Left handed people(inf) (9)

51. Angry (5)52. Solidify by cooling (7)53. Anaesthetic (5)54. Humbleness (7)55. Friendship (11)

DOWN 1. Sound (5) 2. Sent (11) 3. Shy (8) 4. Of public revenue (6) 5. Turn outwards (5) 6. Constrict (7) 7. Has high morals (8) 8. Reduce (6) 9. Sanction (7)10. Audacity (5)16. Arrange in steps (7)17. ‘Old Blue Eyes’ Frank ...(7)19. Competitor (5)20. N.Z. Prime Minister 1975-84 Sir Robert ... (7)22. Boils (7)24. Catch (3)26. Group of whales (3)29. Topic (5)31. Uninvited guest (4-7)32. Deoxyribonucleic acid

(abbr) (3)33. Sphere (3)38. U.S. horse race; ... Derby (8)40. Restrained (8)42. Casual (7)44. Annual calendar (7)46. Scoffs (6)47. Manservant (6)48. Form of expression (5)49. Water vapour (5)50. Gambol (5)





ACROSS 1. Result (5-6) 7. Scoundrel (7)11. Pulls (5)12. Deviousness (7)13. Excellent (5)14. Alert (9)15. So (9)16. Directs (6)18. Skull (7)21. Disorder (4)23. Racket (3)25. Take by sips (3)27. Stake (4)28. Artlessness (7)30. Low chair; Chaise ... (6)32. Expert; ... hand (3)33. Strange (3)34. Zealous (6)35. In brisk time(music) (7)36. U.S. state (4)37. Biblical vessel (3)39. Curve (3)41. Cupid (4)43. Exposed to air (7)45. Female relatives (6)48. An endless time(Lat) (9)49. Left handed people(inf) (9)

51. Angry (5)52. Solidify by cooling (7)53. Anaesthetic (5)54. Humbleness (7)55. Friendship (11)

DOWN 1. Sound (5) 2. Sent (11) 3. Shy (8) 4. Of public revenue (6) 5. Turn outwards (5) 6. Constrict (7) 7. Has high morals (8) 8. Reduce (6) 9. Sanction (7)10. Audacity (5)16. Arrange in steps (7)17. ‘Old Blue Eyes’ Frank ...(7)19. Competitor (5)20. N.Z. Prime Minister 1975-84 Sir Robert ... (7)22. Boils (7)24. Catch (3)26. Group of whales (3)29. Topic (5)31. Uninvited guest (4-7)32. Deoxyribonucleic acid

(abbr) (3)33. Sphere (3)38. U.S. horse race; ... Derby (8)40. Restrained (8)42. Casual (7)44. Annual calendar (7)46. Scoffs (6)47. Manservant (6)48. Form of expression (5)49. Water vapour (5)50. Gambol (5)

Solution last week, 11 November

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SECURE STORAGE 14sqm $42 per week. Wainui Self Storage, Waiu St, 0274805150.

FOR ALL ELECTRICAL repairs and installations by top-qualifi ed electrician with record of over fi fty years of giving locals the lowest cost “around-the-clock” service, just phone 977-8787 or 021-0717-674 or email [email protected]

Deliverers Required inArea 1: Momona, Mohaka, Kawatiri - Kaponga.

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POOLS OF SATISFACTION

Composed by Tony Watling 11th. Nov. 2015

Our summer pools were built by us.Blends in well did cause no fuss.With hydro slide will cause a splash.And to it many people dash. Through native bush we twist and wiggle.From the children brings a giggle.Severn days a week the place is open.Hot summer days we all are hopen!

FACT OF THE DAY

51. J.K. Rowling chose the unusual name ‘Hermione’ so young girls wouldn’t be teased for being nerdy!

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Solution last week, 23 March


SOLUTIONFor November 24, 2004

ACROSS 1. Vision (9) 6. Insurance evaluators. (9)11. Rate. (5)12. Import illegally. (7)13. Loosen. (5)14. “Once were warriors” actor, Temuera ... (8)17. Legitimate (5-5)18. Lyric poem. (3)20. River in Africa. (4)22. Naval rank. (7)24. Cattle-dealer. (6)26. For. (3)28. Of the British race, ... Saxon. (5)29. Interviewer; … Parkinson (7)32. Minister to. (5)33. Mineral spring. (3)34. Give leave. (3)35. Poet, Edgar Allan ... (3)36. Lace loop. (5)37. Stillness. (7)38. Passes lightly over. (5)39. Variety of lettuce. (3)41. Beguile. (6)42. Of the stars. (7)44. Dispense. (4)47. U.S Spy Agency(abbr) (3)49. Referee. (10)

51. Most rare. (8)55. Latin American dance. (5)56. Add to. (7)57. Burn slightly. (5)58. Adjourned. (9)59. Expedient. (9)

DOWN 1. Jury spokesman. (7) 2. Helicopter blade. (5) 3. Dull. (6) 4. Fervour. (5) 5. Not slack. (4) 6. Universal arithmetic. (7) 7. To bundle wheat. (6) 8. Inflexibility. (12) 9. River mouth(pl) (5)10. Narrowness. (11)15. Fish eggs. (3)16. Wither up. (4)19. Theatre seats, dress ... (6)21. Reasonable. (7)23. Territory. (6)25. Fresh foliage. (7)26. Ongoing varsity academic. (12)27. Llama wool. (6)28. Outward impressions (11)30. Movie, ... Alibi. (3)31. “... the Hun”. (6)

40. Killer whale. (4)43. Gossiped. (7)44. Son of(Scot) (3)45. Beseech. (7)46. Long tirade. (6)48. Rainbows. (6)50. Real name Thomas Woodward, singer, Tom ... (5)52. Hinder the inspection(cryp) (5)53. Lassitude. (5)54. Sullen. (4)

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All Politicians need a tick.Does tea and hotdogs do the trick.We need work. So to us Feed.Facts to help us in our need. What we want is work to do.A job that helps our country too.This will need both brain and muscle. Time is short so please do hustle. Composed by Tony Watling 23rd. March 2016

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GROBBELAAR, Johannes Jacobus (JJ): March 27, 2016.


“Be the change you want to see in the world” - Mahatma Gandhi

Come and share your ideas with us!

You are all invited!We have a great opportunity to work together to develop a

Community of Learning in Wainuiomata.

We would like to have a conversation with you about the possibilities and opportunities for learners in the

Wainuiomata Community.

Connected Community, Successful Learners!

7pm-9pmTuesday 12th April 2016Wainuiomata Community Centre

Hosted by:Arakura School, Fernlea School, Konini Primary School, Pukeatua Primary School, St Claudine Thévenet School,

Wainuiomata High School, Wainuiomata Intermediate School, and Wainuiomata Primary School

“Be the change you want to see in the world” Mahatma Gandhi

By Emma McAuli� e

Grey Power had a special visit from a local sergeant at their most recent monthly meeting.

Sergeant Bradley Allen was one of the guest speakers at the Grey Power meeting, which took place last Wednesday.

Other speakers at last week’s event included Alan Shaw, a respiratory nurse from Hutt Hospital who spoke about Asthma, and Councillor Mar-garet Willard, who spoke on developments in the Wainuio-mata Retirement Village plan.

Bradley talked about crime prevention in Wainuiomata and how this affected older members of the community.

“Youth crime is quite high

and a lot of it is youth nuisance rather than thefts,” he said.

He said reasons for this were social issues and the police were taking action to investi-gate why youth were commit-ting crime.

Bradley encouraged Grey Power members to take pre-cautions in their homes to prevent opportunists from seeing property and being encouraged to take it.

He said all crime needed to be reported for police to be able to take action.

“People moan about crime on Facebook… but don’t report it,” Bradley said.

Grey Power’s next meeting will take place at Life City Church on April 27.

Grey Power visited by local police at monthly meeting

By Emma McAuli� e

Clive’s Chemist celebrat-ed International Happiness Day last Friday with free cupcakes and a special draw to win a happiness gift basket.

The International Day of Happiness is a campaign to celebrate the United Na-

tion’s focus on happiness as being a fundamental human goal.

Its official celebration date is Sunday March 20 but the pharmacy decided to celebrate it earlier.

“Every day is happiness day here,” staff member Angela MacKenzie said.

Angela and co-worker

Kim Allardyce baked the cupcakes given away on the day.

Owner, Clive Cannons, sometimes known as the ‘Happy Chemist’, said the pharmacy celebrated the event every year.

“It’s just to make people smile,” he said.

Clive’s celebrates Happiness Day

Kim, Clive and Angela with Happiness Day cupcakes

The full fi re ban on all out-door fi res in the Hutt Valley will be lifted from 6am this Thursday, March 31.

A Restricted Fire Season will be in place following the lift on the ban.

The Restricted Fire Season would cover all rural and urban areas in Lower Hutt.

It would also include all land administered by the Depart-ment of Conservation within these areas.

A Restricted Fire Season

means no fi res can be lit in an open space with the exception of controlled outdoor cooking methods such as a hangi, umu, charcoal BBQ or brazier.

Permits or exemptions may be required for one-off events, such as a cultural celebration or Scout/Guide camp fi re, fi lming or training exercises.

For further information contact Hutt City Council or the Wellington Rural Fire Authority.

Total fi re ban lifted—Restricted Fire Season in place

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By Emma McAuli� e

Wainuiomata High School students had the chance to get close to the Webb-Ellis cup last Monday.

The Webb-Ellis cup is the the trophy awarded to the winners of the Rugby World Cup.

The All Blacks won the world cup for the third time last year.

Rugby teams and other interested students from around the school and Wainuiomata had the opportunity to pose with the cup and take selfi es with it.

Rugby development manager for Wellington rugby, Rick Whatarau, said Wainuiomata High School was the last of four schools the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) visited with the cup.

He said NZRU aimed to grow the numbers of youth playing rugby with

the tour.Rick said NZRU chose Wainuiomata

High School as they saw it as a school with potential to “grow their rugby presence”.

“It’s a great way to promote the game,” he said.

Rick said he was pleased to see the girls go up to get their photo taken with the cup fi rst and the college was trying to get a girls under 15’s team up and running.

He said he was impressed by the sausage sizzle the school ran for the event and the amount of students stay-ing around the school after having their photos taken to throw a ball around.

“It’s simple but awesome.”Following its trip to Wainuiomata,

the cup headed to the Wairarapa as part of the tour to engage more young students.

Wainuiomata High School’s Boys and Girls Futsal teams have come away with wins in the fi nals of their respective divisions.

Futsal is played indoor in the style of football, with fi ve players on the court at a time.

It is so popular at Wainuiomata High School the school runs a Wednesday school-based Futsal programme for the 35 boys they could not take into the main league.

Over the past six weeks the Boys 1 and 2 teams have played in the Futsal competition at St. Patrick’s Silverstream.

Team 1 competed in Division 1 and won all their games in pool, continuing their success to the Finals.

They won the Finals in a penalty shootout against Naenae College.

The Boys team attended the Futsal Regionals last Saturday and made it to the Plate.

Highlights included beating Wellington High School 2-0 and playing the 2015 National Futsal winners, St. Patrick’s College Wellington.

The Boys are now focusing on the Nationals which will take place in Wel-lington early April.

The Girls team played in the Welling-ton League in Division 3 and won all the games in their pool.

They faced Onslow College in the Finals and came away with the win after going into penalties.

Jocelyn Reddy, Futsal Coordinator for the schools said the school was “incred-ibly proud of our Futsal players, their coaches, managers and support crews.”

The winning boys squad. Supplied.

Futsal at High SchoolThe winning girls’ squad. Supplied.

Wainuiomata High School has a visit from the Webb-Ellis Cup

Novak Djokovic's com-ments about men deserv-ing more prize money than women in tennis are based on facts.

After claiming victory at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, 11-time major winner and world No 1 Djokovic said the men's tennis tour "should fi ght for more".

The 28-year-old said wom-en "fought for what they deserve and they got it", but claimed prize money should be "fairly distributed" based on "who attracts more atten-tion, spectators, and who sells more tickets".

There has been equal prize money in all four majors - the Australian Open, US Open, French Open and Wimbledon - since 2007, and combined Masters events such as Indian Wells and Miami pay the same to men and women.

Maybe that's too simple thinking? More work equals more pay. It's hard to argue with those comments and

when you consider men play fi ve sets in grand slams and women play three, it seems men should be paid more for playing more tennis.

I'd love to see women's ten-nis matches go to fi ve sets at grand slams.

It would be a game changer for women, it would put an increased importance of stamina and fi tness and force many of the top names to play regular tennis to maintain that fi tness, unlike Serena Williams, who has been guilty of picking and choosing her tournaments in the past while being ranked No 1.

It would also provide qual-ity sporting theatre, men's five setters have so many subplots and are often grip-ping encounters as one player often surges back into con-tention and the other clings to control of the contest.

Sport is an entertainment product and this would cer-tainly increase entertain-ment.

There's money in fi ve sets of women's tennis

By Emma McAuli� e

A Wainuiomata woman is tak-ing part in the Wellington Relay for Life next month for her son who was diagnosed with cancer.

Relay for Life is a 24 hour community event hosted by the Cancer Society in an effort to celebrate cancer survivors, remember loved ones and fi ght back to raise awareness and funds for further cancer re-search.

This is the third year Jak

Aberdein-Tapuai is taking part in the event after her son, James, was diagnosed with leukemia at 10-years-old.

“He’s such a brave young man, he took in its stride,“ she said.

James was now in remission, but Jak said it was important people understood cancer could change lives quickly, as it did when her son was fi rst diagnosed in 2011.

“It’s unexpected, it’s not some-thing you think is going to happen. These [organisations]

are really important- it’s really hard when you have a child with cancer.”

Jak, a social worker with Barnardos, said she would be relaying with colleagues and their team was called ‘Slow But Steady’.

She said her team had a fund-raising goal of $2000 and had held a fi lm fundraiser at Petone Lighthouse. Jak said further donations could be made to the team through the Relay for Life website.

‘Slow But Steady’ relays for life

Team members of the Barnardos team during a previous relay. PHOTO: Supplied.

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4 BEDROOMS AND SELF CONTAINED FLATSet on 1027m2 with an amazing outlook of lush native trees and bush reserve you willenjoy this private setting. This quality home is big in size at 120m2 and boasts 4 largebedrooms. Lounge is warmed by logburner and heat transfer system to all bedrooms.Large rimu bathroom with separate bath and shower. Lovely modern kitchen.


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GLENDALE 17 Russell Road

CALLING ALL INVESTORS/FIRST HOME BUYERSNeeds some work but potential plus on this 3 bedroom home. Situated in a cul-de-sacStreet that the neighbour know each other. Close to School and public transport. Buyme - fix me up and realise a good return.


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AFFORDABLE FIRST HOMETake this opportunity to get into your first home. 1 careful owner of 27 years, thisoriginal home offers 3 large bedrooms, all with double wardrobes. Open planliving/dining and a lovely kitchen with wooden joinery. Separate bathroom with showerover bath, separate toilet and separate laundry. Insulated in the ceiling. Set on 614m2.


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PARKWAY 20 Mataura Grove

SUNSETS YOUR THING?Watch the sun go down every night on the balcony of your nicely elevated, 3 bedroomhome in a quiet cul-de-sac Parkway Street. Heated by woodburner plus all afternoonsun, and great views. Fully fenced section at rear, garage under with extra storagespace for all your toys. Don't miss this one!


For sale by BEO $279,000

Paul Butcherp 04 564 5318 m 021 209 5645 e [email protected]


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