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Lester and Ruth Davey are avid believers that 

regular exercise and physical activity can keep 

you feeling young and healthy. 

At 88 and 92 yearsof-age 

and with no 

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are prime examples of why 

exercising during your senior 

years is so important. 

The couple have been 

members at UniRec, the 

University of Waikato’s 

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centre, for more than 

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sessions which are held on 

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During the sessions the 

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“We really enjoy coming 

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“Max and the rest of the 

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On top of the two supervised 

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workouts each week and 

Ruth attends a range of exercise 

classes at the Hilda Ross 

Retirement Village where 

they now live. 

“I try going into UniRec 

to train at least five times a 

week,” says Lester. 

“I start by doing cardio 

on the exercise bikes before 

doing resistance training 

on the machines. I think it’s 

good to keep your heart and 

respiratory system tuned up, 

while also strengthening the 

important muscles in your 

arms and legs.” 

As well as maintaining 

good health and mobility, 

the couple use their time at 

UniRec as a way of catching 

up and socialising with 

friends. 

“It’s like a fraternity and 

that’s what we love about it,” 

says Lester. 

“All these people are our 

friends, we’ll meet outside 

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activities and that social 

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of coming to the gym.” 

The couple, who have 

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Hamilton greypower Magazine – November 2016 3

President’s report 

Welcome to my last report for the year which 

has been interesting and full of events. 

Of note the mayoral 

and council elections 

which have just taken 

place . 

As I write this we don’t 

quite know who will be our 

mayor. As Andrew King the 

mayor elect has only a slender 

lead of nine votes with a 

recount due any day. 

Our membership has 

remained steady with slightly 

more than 200 unpaid members 

and 1440 paid up members 

to date. It would be nice 

to think that we could hit the 

1500 mark before Christmas. 

Talking about Christmas I 

look forward to seeing as 

many of you as possible on 

Monday, December 5 - contact 

our office 07 834 0668 

to book your place. 

Sadly I lost my father Ken 

on October 9 after a short 

Funeral Director 

Ana-Maria 

Richardson 

Assisting Hamilton and Waikato families 

for many years with professionalism, 

friendly service and compassionate care. 

For personal service you can trust, 

phone Ana-Maria on: 

07 211 4654 

Mobile: 021 881 229 

Email: ana@ana-maria.nz 

Located at: 

Woolertons’ Funeral Home 

127 Boundary Road, Hamilton 

illness. He was 94. He was 

a well-known character and 

over the years an avid letter 

writer. He will be sadly 

missed. It’s still hard to accept 

even though he had a long 

life. 

We lost Walter von 

Oettingen, a previous committee 

member, and my condolences 

go to his wife Bev 

and to all members who have 

lost loved ones this year. 

I’m looking forward to 

Grey Power’s next year with 

Central Government elections 

and all its challenges. 

I would urge you to participate 

in our functions as the 

comaraderie is good. 

We will be running a competition 

to join a friend next 

year and hope you will take 

this opportunity to do so. 

It’s not just the discount 

book or the power discounts 

but belonging to an organisation 

that functions to represent 

superannuitants and 

those 50 plus. 

Being part of Grey Power 

means that you are not just 

supporting your local branch 

but, through our national 

body, you are supporting a 

nationwide advocacy group 

representing you at Central 

Government level and it’s 

about the bigger picture. 

Hamilton Grey Power 

expects a busy 2017. New 

members are continually joining. 

And April is the busiest 

time for our office volunteers 

with everyone renewing. 

Join us again next year and 

on behalf of the committee 

and office volunteers I wish 

you a very Merry Christmas. 

Best regards 

Roger Hennebry 

President 

Hamilton Grey Power. 

Hamilton Greypower Newsletter is published 

quarterly by Waikato Business Publications, 

12 Mill Street, Hamilton. 

Publisher: Alan Neben 

Managing Editor: Mike Blake 

Advertising: Barb Hambling 

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Phone (07) 838 1333 • Fax (07) 838 2807 

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Hamilton Grey Power Inc. 

Celebrating Age Centre 

30 Victoria Street, Hamilton. 

Office Hours: 9.30am to 12noon, Monday to Thursday. 

Phone: (07) 834 0668 

Email: hamgreypower@clear.net.nz 

Nine important facts to 

remember as you grow older 

#9 Death is the number 1 

killer in the world. 

#8 Life is sexually transmitted. 

#7 Good health is merely 

the slowest possible rate 

at which one can die. 

#6 Men have 2 motivations: 

hunger and hanky 

panky, and they can’t tell 

them apart. If you see a 

gleam in his eyes, make 

him a sandwich. 

#5 Give a person a fish and 

you feed them for a day. 

Teach a person to use 

the Internet and they 

won’t bother you for 

weeks, months, maybe 

years. 

#4 Health nuts are going 

to feel stupid someday, 

lying in the hospital, 

dying of nothing. 

#3 All of us could take a 

lesson from the weather. 

It pays no attention to 

criticism. 

#2 In the 60’s, people took 

acid to make the world 

weird. Now the world is 

weird, and people take 

Prozac to make it normal. 

#1 Life is like a jar of jalapeno 

peppers. What you 

do today may be a burning 

issue tomorrow. 

Don’t ignore this message. 

This is your only warning. 

A friend sent this to me 

-- must have mistakenly 

assumed I was aging? 

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Retirement Villages 


Call us 

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residents are moving in this November. We have a 

range of new, high quality, one and two bedroom 

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These apartments are great value for money, priced 

from $360,000 to $470,000. St Andrews Care 

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Important information flows through 

Grey Power Monday morning seminars 

For many years Hamilton Grey Power has held 

Monday morning seminars in the Celebrating 

Age Centre, except for the summer months 

from December through February. 

On one Monday morning 

in May we hold 

the Hamilton Grey 

Power AGM. 

On four Monday mornings 

throughout the year we have 

held a working bee for the 

newsletter mailout. This year 

we have had many interesting 

speakers from within the 

Hamilton community covering 

a wide range of subjects. 

We have also had Winston 

Peters, NZ First Party leader 

and James Shaw, co-leader 

of the Green Party as guest 

speakers. 

This year the task of getting 

speakers for our Monday 

morning meetings has been 

a very challenging one. 

Your committee has decided 

that next year we will have 

one meeting a month with 

a guest speaker. An additional 

meeting will be held 

each month which will be 

in the form of a discussion 

group and social event. More 

detailed information will be 

announced later. 

As a matter of interest and 

putting the above changes 

into perspective, Tauranga 

holds monthly meetings with 

a speaker every other month. 

Wellington Central holds 

four meetings a year with a 

speaker. 

Dunedin now holds no 

meetings at all as on average 

only nine members were 

attending. 

We thank and appreciate 

all members who regularly 

attend our seminars in 

Hamilton. 

We hope many more members 

will make the effort to 

come and support our seminars 

in 2017. 

Our vice president, Jack 

Thomas has been organising 

the seminars for the past three 

years. Unfortunately Jack has 

been battling health issues for 

the past three months. 

We are seeking a volunteer 

to either assist Jack in carrying 

out his responsibilities or take 

over from him as the seminar 

coordinator. In the latter case 

Jack would be happy to act in 

an assistant role. 

GREY POWER SEMINARS 

Celebrating Age Building, 

Victoria St, Hamilton 10.30am 

start 

21 November - To be 

announced 

28 November - Family 

History for Beginners – 

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Librarian, with Hamilton 

City Council 

5 December - Christmas 

lunch. Starts at 11.45 am 

27 February 2017 - To be 

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6 March 2017 - Newsletter 

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Another view: we devalue 

democracy at our peril 

Parliament must make an urgent stand to 

defend local democracy. 

BY STEVE GOLDTHORPE 

Our elected representatives 

must not give the 

Government sweeping 

new powers, which would 

allow the minister-of-the-day 

to ride roughshod over local, 

democratic planning processes. 

The Government’s Resource 

Legislation Amendment bill is 

in the Select Committee stage, 

which means that it is on track 

to become law soon. Among 

various proposed measures to 

further castrate the Resource 

Management Act, are radical 

new executive powers set out 

in Section 360 part D (http:// 

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S360D would mean that the 

Minister for the Environment 

would have exclusive powers 

to dictate the planning rules of 

local authorities and to change 

existing planning rules retrospectively. 

The defining purpose of 

the Resource Management 

Act is to delegate responsibility 

for planning matters to local 

authorities. This means that 

locally elected territorial councils 

make planning rules that 

best suit local circumstances. 

That arrangement can 

result in much time-consuming 

debate over proposals, but that 

is democracy in action. 

The Resource Consent process 

ensures that affected people 

and local communities are 

consulted about developments 

and ultimately have the right 

to elect local councils to implement 

their wishes. 

S360D would override that 

local democratic process with 

executive powers of a government 

minister. That is a dangerous 

and retrograde step for 

New Zealand to take. 

In 1947 Winston Churchill 

said: “Democracy is the worst 

form of government, except for 

all those other forms that have 

been tried from time to time.” 

A recent example of democracy 

is the Brexit referendum 

in the UK, which to everyone’s 

surprise resulted in a decision 

to take the UK out of the 

European Union. Despite severe 

problems, the UK Government 

is following the will of the people 

to implement that decision. 

To do otherwise would have 

effectively transformed the UK 

overnight from a democracy 

into a dictatorship. The British 

democratic government is 

the model on which the New 

Zealand system is founded. We 

deviate from that model at its 

peril. 

We all want efficient and 

effective decision-making. But 

S360D is not needed to deliver 

that. More importantly, the 

powers the Government wants 

Parliament to hand over would 

expose local economies to 

planning uncertainty. 

The minister-of-the-day 

could intervene at any time 

with wide discretion. S360D 

has been labelled a “constitutional 

outrage” with good 

reason. 

History illustrates time and 

again that executive power, 

unmoderated by democracy, 

leads to corruption and disaster. 

It is enchanting to imagine 

a benign, wise dictator capable 

of acting solely in the best interests 

of all but, in practice, history 

tells us that that does not 

happen for long. Instead any 

dictatorship becomes captured 

by vested interests or greedy 

self-interest. 

For example, there is great 

pressure by overseas corporations 

to establish Genetically 

Engineered (GE) seeds and 

crops in New Zealand. It would 

be in their best interests not 

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Exercises to improve balance 

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Five of the exercises are 

done seated while two are 

done standing. For the seated 

exercises, begin in a chair 

that won’t move or slide 

easily. Start slowly and only 

proceed to the next exercise 

once you’ve mastered or are 

comfortable with the previous 

one. 

1. Toe taps on cup: Place a 

plastic cup, opening down, 

on the floor between your 

feet. Starting with your right 

leg, lift your leg up to gently 

tap the top of the cup with 

your toes, then place your 

foot on the opposite (left) 

side of the cup. Lift your right 

foot back over the cup, and 

set it down on the right side. 

Repeat 10 times with each 

leg, alternating sides. 

2. Seated leg lifts: Lift your 

right leg with the knee bent 

at 90 degrees. Hold your leg 

up with your foot about 6 to 

10 inches off the floor for five 

seconds. Repeat 10 times, 

then switch legs and do 10 

repetitions on the other side. 

3. Seated march: While seated, 

march your legs 20 times, 

lifting your feet at least a few 

inches off the floor. Be sure 

to focus on maintaining good 

posture while marching. 

4. Hand-eye coordination 

and balance: Place a plastic 

cup (opening facing down) in 

your right hand. Stretch your 

arm out in front of you while 

balancing the cup in your 

open hand. 

Slowly move your arm out 

to the side and back to centre. 

Repeat 10 times with 

each arm. When you’re comfortable 

with this exercise, 

you may try doing it with 

your eyes closed. Be sure to 

remain seated, and if necessary, 

have someone help 

keep you upright, and/or be 

ready to stabilise you if you 

get dizzy. 

5. Seated arm reach: While 

seated, simultaneously lift 

your right arm up high and 

raise your left leg, knee bent. 

Hold for a few seconds, then 

alternate sides. Repeat for a 

total of 20 times. 

6. Side leg raise: Stand 

behind a chair, with one 

or both hands on the back 

of the chair for support. 

(Alternatively, keep one or 

both hands on the counter). 

Lift your right leg out to the 

side. Repeat 10 times for each 

leg. If you’re comfortable, do 

the exercise without holding 

on to the chair or counter. 

7. Staggered stance 

balance: Place your right foot 

forward and your left foot 

behind, then slowly shift your 

balance from your front leg 

to your back leg. Repeat 10 

times, then switch leg positions, 

placing your left foot 

forward and your right foot 

behind. If needed, do this 

exercise standing next to a 

chair, or between two chairs, 

with the backs of the chairs 

toward your body, so you can 

grab on to them for support. 

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Walking into the Hospice Waikato Frankton 

Mega Store you could be forgiven if you 

thought you’d just entered one of those highend 

fashion and home decor outlets. 

Yes, but no. Hospice 

Waikato provides an 

essential palliative care 

service to people in the final 

periods of their lives. Providing 

this level of service costs a 

lot and while the organisation 

receives around 70 per 

cent of its funding from the 

Waikato District Health Board. 

The remaining shortfall of $2.5 

million is made up about 50/50 

from donations from individuals, 

businesses and charitable 

groups, and the organisation's 

network of shops. 

Acting as 'Project Lead' 

for the Frankton Mega Store 

is former TVNZ personality 

and marketing professional 

Sharyn Cawood. With a small 

crew of paid staff and about 

650 volunteers, Sharyn, has 

converted the former Mico 

Wakefield premises into one of 

Hamilton's foremost recyclers 

and re-sellers of used goods. 

The task began in 2014. 

"The building had been 

empty for 18 months. We got 

the building in January and 

opened in April. It took off 

straight away. Our latest thing 

is to open on Saturday. The 

downstairs section is open 

Thursdays and Saturdays. 

We literally have traffic jams 

because of the numbers of 

people coming in.'' 

The largest of Hospice 

Shops around Hamilton and 

Waikato the Frankton store 

provides a vital service giving 

residents another option 

when disposing of unwanted 

goods or clearing out houses. 

It attracts all sorts of people, 

''hunters and gatherers,'' 

Sharyn calls them, some even 

turn up several times a day. 

The basement area 

has been taken over by a 

group of enthusiastic volunteers 

who have divided it 

up into sections catering to 

such things as used electrical 

equipment and linen, clothing 

and duvets. There is a corner 

catering to CDs, DVDs, vinyl 

records and cassette tapes 

run by a former owner of 

Tracs Records. A retired bank 

manager makes the shop up 

to $2000 a month selling 

on TradeMe. One chap even 

comes into sort out donated 

sewing machines. 

All bedding and linen 

is laundered and all electrical 

equipment is checked for 

function and safety. Those 

items that don't make the 

grade are processed for recycling. 

Volunteers sort out 

donated clothing, a huge 

job Sharyn says, as the tide 

of material is relentless and 

quickly becomes a mountain if 

there is any hold-up. Clothing 

makes up 30 per cent of sales. 

Some things are almost 

impossible to get rid of, 

"we've got 60 boxes of coffee 

mugs, what do we do with 

them,''? Sharyn asks. 

The Hospice Mega 

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St. Hospice Waikato also 

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¾ cup caster sugar 

½ tsp salt 

2 eggs 

½ cup sour cream 

½ cup milk 

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As one of New Zealand’s 

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my radar is travel insurance 

medical claims with a particular 

focus on pre-existing 

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This subject features in 

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policy wordings determine 

whether a payout is made or 

not. Travel insurance is no 

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There is a global travel 

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of cruise ships leaving our 

shores, huge savings in airfares, 

and the relative strength 

of the New Zealand dollar are 

all making Kiwis itching to 

travel. 

By definition this same 

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in travel insurance medical 

claims and the frustration, 

and disappointment, of people 

who receive a negative 

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Holiday interruptions due to 

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would-be travellers need to 

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If you, or someone you 

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When any claimant is given 

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that the decision given by the 

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There is also a sense 

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Warning… obesity epidemic already upon us 

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons 

has issued a dire warning to Australians and 

New Zealanders about their countries’ weight 

problem, as alarming statistics highlight the 

prevalence of the problem in young people. 

This warning came as the 

Obesity Surgery Society of 

Australia and New Zealand 

(OSSANZ) held its Annual 

Conference in Sydney to discuss 

some of the more difficult 

areas of Bariatric Surgery and 

as the Committee of Presidents 

of Medical Colleges (CPMC) 

prepared to convene a National 

Health Summit on Obesity in 

Melbourne in mid November to 

discuss ways in which obesity 

can be reduced. 

According to projections, 

by 2025, more than one in 

four Australian children aged 

between five and seventeen 

will be considered overweight 

or obese. This is up from one in 

five at the turn of the century, 

with a clear trajectory towards 

a one in three figure. 

The numbers are even worse 

in New Zealand, where the 

one in three figure will almost 

be reached by 2025, when it 

is expected approximately 32 

percent of children will be considered 

overweight or obese. 

RACS Fellow and President 

of OSSANZ, Mr George 

Hopkins, said that the increase 

in Australia and New Zealand 

had reached crisis point. 

“We often refer to the obesity 

epidemic as a ticking time 

bomb waiting to go off, but 

the reality is it already has. You 

don’t have to spend long in 

any public shopping centre to 

work out how widespread it 

has become,” Mr Hopkins said. 

“This is having flow on 

effects for the rest of the health 

system. There are strong links 

between obesity and a myriad 

of other health problems, 

including type 2 diabetes, heart 

disease and certain types of 

cancers.” 

“Furthermore, obese people 

have a 50 -100 per cent 

increased risk of dying prematurely 

compared to people of 

normal weight.” 

Mr Hopkins works as a 

gastrointestinal surgeon in 

Brisbane, where he has performed 

weight loss surgery on 

thousands of patients. 

He says there had been a 

noticeable increase in the number 

of obese patients requiring 

surgery, but most startling has 

been the rise in the number of 

children. 

“When I am required to 

operate on younger people 

it is usually after every other 

weight loss strategy has failed. 

Compared to when I first started 

working as a surgeon it is 

alarming how common it has 

become for people to require 

this sort of intervention at such 

a young age.” 

“With so many people now 

overweight this is not just placing 

an enormous strain on individuals, 

but it is also creating 

an untenable situation for our 

health system. There is only 

so much pressure it can take 

before it collapses.” 

“Childhood obesity is preventable, 

but something needs 

to change urgently. Weight loss 

surgery has proven to be an 

effective measure, but it should 

not be viewed as a silver bullet 

or a cure. 

“We need to look right 

across the spectrum for how 

we are going to tackle this crisis, 

from education, to nutrition, to 

promoting more active lifestyles. 

Those figures are damning, 

clearly what we are doing at the 

moment isn’t working.” 

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We have a number of members 

who are not financial. 

We understand there are 

many reasons for this but 

most often members just 

forget. 

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financial member of 

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while its fresh in your mind. 

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Bank account number is 03 

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Address: 30 Victoria Street, 

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We would be very grateful 

for your co-operation and 

hope to see as many as we 

can at our up-and-coming 

Christmas Party. 

Seasons greatings 

Season’s greeting to all Hamilton Grey Power 

members and your families 

FROM SUE MORONEY 

LABOUR LIST MP 

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Monday, December 5, at 11.45am 

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On September 28 I had the privilege of 

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installed as our new Governor-General. 

On September 28 I had the privilege of 

attending the ceremony on Parliament’s 

forecourt at which Dame Patsy Reddy was 

installed as our new Governor-General. 

TIM MACINDOE 

MP FOR HAMILTON WEST 

By convention, outgoing 

Governor-General Sir Jerry 

Mateparae did not attend 

the event, but his immediate 

predecessors were present, 

including Sir Anand Satyanand, 

Dame Silvia Cartwright, Sir 

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state, I was very disappointed 

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have enjoyed watching the 

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With Christmas fast 

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your many significant contributions 

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of our city this year. 

It was a pleasure to 

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Hamilton has long been 

referred to as ‘The City 

of The Future’. Now, 

more than ever, we are seeing 

what a city of future 

looks like, embracing all that 

it means. A great example 

being that Hamilton was 

the first connected Ultra- 

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first city to benefit from the 

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Hamilton based company 

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order to facilitate this important 

infrastructure rollout 

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Plenty and Taranaki, a business 

which is growing as the 

rollout progresses across the 

country has a positive impact 

in perpetuity for Hamilton. 

Minister for Communications 

Amy Adams recently confirmed 

that almost all 

non-standard UFB residential 

connections will be 

free until December 2019, 

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which essentially increases 

the accessibility of UFB and 

allows the Government to 

fulfil its commitment to making 

residential UFB connections 

free. 

In any developing city, having 

fast, reliable access to the 

internet is a valuable piece 

of infrastructure – one which 

certainly has the potential to 

add to the value of property. 

Using communication 

applications like skype and 

facetime – the world’s borders 

shrink. I was told of a 

recent wedding, the bride’s 

London-based grandmother 

was beamed into the room 

on a television, so that she 

too was able to enjoy the ceremony 

and celebration of the 

day. We can see and speak 

to family members who live 

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using that same technology, 

all made possible through a 

sound, speedy internet connection. 

Our businesses certainly 

benefit from being able to 

seamlessly connect to trading 

hubs across the world, and 

many healthcare providers 

and social assistance agencies 

are starting to use applications 

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and monitor progress – in 

some cases, book an appointment, 

all from the comfort of 

your lounge chair. 

The challenge now is to 

think about how Hamilton can 

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Isn’t it great to see some sun, it’s been a 

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the warmth from the sun plants are now 

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As the days get longer 

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granules and slow release 

fertiliser like our Thoroughbred 

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Remember to give your 

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An old man and his wife had 

been married for more than 

60 years. They had shared 

everything. They had talked 

about everything. They had 

kept no secrets from each 

other, except that the little old 

woman had a locked chest on 

top of her closet that she had 

cautioned her husband never 

to open or ask her about. 

For all of these years, he had 

never thought about the 

chest, but one day the little 

old woman got very sick and 

the doctor said she would not 

recover. 

In trying to sort out their affairs, 

the little old man took down 

the chest and took it to his 

wife's bedside. She agreed that 

it was time that he should 

know what was in the chest. 

When he opened it, he found 

two crocheted dolls and a stack 

of money that came out to 

about $95,000. 

JOKE CORNER 

He asked her about the 

contents. 

She replied: 'When we were 

to be married, my grandmother 

told me the secret 

of a happy marriage was to 

never argue. She told me that 

if I ever got angry with you, 

I should just keep quiet and 

crochet a doll.' 

The little old man was so 

moved; he had to fight back 

tears. Only two precious dolls 

were in the chest. She had 

only been angry with him two 

times in all those years of 

living and loving. He almost 

burst with happiness. 

'Honey,' he said. 'That explains 

the doll, but what about all 

of this money? Where did it 

come from?' 

'Oh!' she said. 'That's the 

money I made from selling the 

other dolls.' 

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JOKE CORNER 

Medium Sudo 

“Hospital Regulations” 

Hospital rules state that patients 

checking out must have a 

wheelchair. 

One day a newly graduated 

nurse assistant came into the 

room to find an elderly man 

fully dressed. He was sitting on 

the bedside chair, with a piece 

of packed luggage at his side, 

all ready to go. 

When he was shown the 

wheelchair, he was adamant 

that he was fully capable of 

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walking himself to the parking 

lot. 

But the assistant told him 

rules were rules, so he relented 

and let her wheel him out. 

In the elevator, the assistant 

asked the elderly man if his 

wife was coming to meet him. 

“I don’t think so,” he replied. 

“It takes her awhile to change 

her clothes, so she’s probably 

still upstairs in the bathroom 

taking off of her hospital gown 

and getting dressed.” 

“Write It Down” 

authority of the Minister for 

the Environment to prohibit 

rules that take a precautionary 

approach to any release 

Regardless of the dangers 

of GMOs in the New Zealand 

context, removal of the local 

level of democratic control 

and freedom from the legislative 

process is a dangerous 

SUDOKU ANSWERS


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