We were Out and About again in April – at Anzac Day commemorations around the Waikato, breakfasts, dinners and award ceremonies.
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At the Kingdom Initiatives Hamilton Christian Business Breakfast, from left: retired pastor Graham Ferry, CSC Group’s Jason Masters, Grime Off’s Jason Linch, Farmgate’s Andrew Sing, leadership coach Tracey Olivier, and Interseed’s Murray Beer. Photo: Chris Gardner
Hamilton West MP Tama Potaka moves forward to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph during the city’s Anzac Day civic service. Photo: Jessie Meng
Hamilton mayor Paula Southgate, presiding at her last Anzac Day civic service, lays a wreath at the Cenotaph with Colonel Olly Te Ua. Photo: Jessie Meng
Renowned te reo Māori translator and linguist Te Haumihiata Mason, 74, (Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Arawa, Ngāti Pango) was bestowed an honorary doctorate from the University of Waikato. She became a registered translator and interpreter in 1993, and started working for Te Taura Whiri i Te Reo Māori, the Māori Language Commission, three years later. Mason had four sons while she was living in Tokoroa and in her 30s, she enrolled in university where she did a BA in education and te reo Māori.
Hamilton-based artists Sandra Turner-Barlow, left, and Italian-born Elena Brambilla spoke about their work at a recent afternoon of informal conversation around Welcome Swallow Gallery’s exhibition ‘Out of Italy’. The gallery directs its profits to nonprofit organisations supporting children. The current exhibition, which ends on May 9, is the gallery’s 36th. Pictured with the artists is gallery curator Clive Gilson. Photo: Viv Posselt.
Three long-serving members of the Te Awamutu Justice of the Peace branch were presented with certificates at a special luncheon. They are pictured here with Te Awamutu Justice of the Peace Branch chairperson Janet Livingston, right. The long-standing JPs are, from left, Norris Hall (19 years), Paula McWha (26 years), and Nicholas Prendergast (19 years). Photo: Viv Posselt
Long-time Waipā district councillor and Federated Farmers leader Grahame Webber received his KSM from Dame Cindy Kiro for his services to local government and farming governance.
Hamilton community psychologist Ingrid Huygens, who co-founded the education programme ‘Tangata Tiriti – Treaty People’ in response to calls by refugee and migrant communities for treaty education, received her MNZM for services to education and Māori from governor general Dame Cindy Kiro.
Paula Baker, manager of Braemar Trust, with Governor General Dame Cindy Kaio at an investiture ceremony in Wellington where she received her MNZM for services to health governance and the community.
Long-time New Zealand resident David Karrol became an official Kiwi las month. Karrol, the Three Waters manager at Waitomo District Council attended the citizenship ceremony at the Cambridge Town Hall with wife Sharon because the couple live in Te Awamutu.
He has had more than 30 years’ experience in management, operations, maintenance in catchment, treatment and reticulation in water, wastewater, stormwater and trade waste systems, including swimming pool industries. He has worked with regional, city and district councils, consultancy services and contracting in his native Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Australia. David joined Waitomo in October 2022 for the second time; prior to that he was with the council for 21 months from August 2018.
Waipā District Council staffers Debs Holmes, left, and Veronica Huxtable provide valuable support on Anzac Day. Photo: Mary Anne Gill
Cambridge Community Board chair Jo Davies-Colley, right, is reflective while Air Force Cadet Lachlan Copeland and RSA president Tony Hill, centre, salute before the Cenotaph. Photo: Mary Anne Gill
Tony Hill, Wolf Hucke and Allan Rodrigues at the Anzac Day Dawn Ceremony 2025
Te Awamutu Community Cadet Unit members Kaiārahi Quinn, left and Pikirangi Rangiawha laid a wreath at the Pukeatua Anzac Day service. Photo: Viv Posselt
Taranaki King Country MP Barbara Kuriger with members of the Patriots at Pukeatua. Photo: Viv Posselt
Waipa mayor Susan O’Regan at the Anzac service in Te Awamutu to lay a wreath. Photo: Jesse Wood
Te Awamutu Brass Band drum major Alan Patterson at the front of parade as they solute the notorieties. Photo: Jesse Wood
Meanwhile on the other side of the world, Waipā councillors Philip Coles and Liz Stolwyk represented the district at their own cost at the Le Quesnoy Anzac Day commemorations. Le Quesnoy is Cambridge’s sister city. Waipā deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk, second left, and councillor Philip Coles outside the Le Quesnoy Museum in France for the Anzac Day commemorations with the town’s deputy mayor Axelle Declerck and mayor Marie-Sophie Lesne. Photo: Supplied
Students Against Dangerous Driving held its 40th conference at Cambridge High School last month. The event brought together 68 student leaders (aged 13 – 18) from schools across the North Island to tackle key road safety issues like alcohol impairment, fatigue, speed, distractions and rural driving. Working in teams, students created new campaigns which will soon be shared on the SADD website for use in schools nationwide.
