Hillcrest, Hamilton

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845 days ago

Poll: What do you reckon about the All Blacks coaching situation?

The Team Reporter from Hamilton Press

After a second loss to Ireland, All Blacks coach Ian Foster has faced questions about his future in the role.
Hamiltonians spoken to on Sunday reckoned he should go.
What do you think?

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What do you reckon about the All Blacks coaching situation?
  • 45.5% Yes, we need a change after losses like that.
    45.5% Complete
  • 19.7% No, there's not enough time before the next international games.
    19.7% Complete
  • 22.7% I don't know, I'm not a sport person.
    22.7% Complete
  • 12.1% Other - explain in the comments below.
    12.1% Complete
66 votes
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825 days ago

The Broons Annual 2016 (80 years)

Cordwainer from Melville

The Broons Annual 2016 (celebrating 80 years)

2015. DC Thomson, Card covers, excellent condition.

Comic strip of Scotland’s happy family.

Price: $8

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826 days ago

The Handmaid's Tale (book)

Cordwainer from Melville

The Handmaid's Tale (book)
Margaret Atwood

2017 edition. 324 pages, excellent condition.

The bestselling dystopian classic that became a cultural phenomenon and inspired an award-winning TV series

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she… View more
The Handmaid's Tale (book)
Margaret Atwood

2017 edition. 324 pages, excellent condition.

The bestselling dystopian classic that became a cultural phenomenon and inspired an award-winning TV series

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.

Price: $8

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826 days ago

American Aircraft of World War II (book)

Cordwainer from Melville

American Aircraft of World War II (book)

David Mondey. Hardcover, 256 pages, colour illustrated. 2000 reprint

Excellent condition.

This colourful and compact volume provides a useful guide to some 120 aircraft that served with the US Air Force from 1939-45. Both combat and non-combat … View more
American Aircraft of World War II (book)

David Mondey. Hardcover, 256 pages, colour illustrated. 2000 reprint

Excellent condition.

This colourful and compact volume provides a useful guide to some 120 aircraft that served with the US Air Force from 1939-45. Both combat and non-combat aircraft are covered by text detailing each type's origins, history and variants, followed by a full technical specification.

Additionally, each type is illustrated in colour and with a three-view diagram, the more important types also receiving large-scale colour treatment.

Price: $12

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827 days ago

Aged terracotta pot

The Team from

It’s easy to age a brand new terracotta pot using Karen Walker Chalk Colour and Vintage Wax from Resene.
Find out how to create your own.

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827 days ago

The local elections are coming up!

Orange Guy from Electoral Commission

The countdown is on! Make sure you’re enrolled and your details are up to date by 12 August to make voting in the local elections easy.

Visit vote.nz or call 0800 36 76 56 to find out more.
Find out more

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828 days ago

It’s Youth week at the Red Cross Shop Five Cross Roads

The Team from Red Cross Shop Five Cross

We have all sorts of good things for the youth of our community in store! Be it warm clothing for these winter days or books and toys to keep them entertained.
Come on in and browse around there really is something for everyone here.
We are open 9-4.30 Monday to Friday
9-4 Saturday
10-3 Sunday

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829 days ago

Canna plants

Colleen from Tamahere

Free Canna Lily plants, red leaves with apricot/orange flower.
Tamahere area.
Text or phone 021 102 4735

Free

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838 days ago

HCC Land Grab

Arthur from Melville

Am I the only one bothered by Hamilton City Council’s land grab? Yes emotive talk but that’s the way I feel about the Significant Natural Area (SNA) designation that has been placed over part of our property. If you have trees and a gully aspect it’s likely you’ve copped it too.

Check … View more
Am I the only one bothered by Hamilton City Council’s land grab? Yes emotive talk but that’s the way I feel about the Significant Natural Area (SNA) designation that has been placed over part of our property. If you have trees and a gully aspect it’s likely you’ve copped it too.

Check out the SNA provisions of Council’s District Plan Change #9.

The Council proposes that I can no longer manage my trees as I see fit despite having done so for close to 30 years. My trees, I sourced them, I planted them, and my time in caring for them since. Now the council has wrapped them in red tape and I can’t do anything, or practically so, without first having a resource consent from Hamilton City Council.

A stated purpose of the District Plan’s SNA provisions:

“The Act identifies the protection of areas of significant indigenous vegetation and significant habitats of indigenous fauna as a matter of national importance. This chapter of the District Plan identifies areas of significant indigenous vegetation, biodiversity and habitats of indigenous fauna which qualify as Significant Natural Areas – these areas can be held in public and private ownership or ownership may be split.”

Which is all very well but over the 2 to 3 decades of living in Hamilton all I’ve seen is enhancement of gully vegetation, so why do we do we now need red tape to achieve what’s been happening anyway?

Another statement in the “Purpose” rubs salt into the wound.

“The costs of protecting areas and habitats are local and often specific to an individual, yet the benefits may be local, regional and national.”

So all this cost of getting consultants to survey for bat habitat and prepare resource consent applications and planting plans and management plans should be borne by the community as a whole. But no, the boffins involved side step the reality of the cost imposed by this red tape.

Like many things that are young, little plants are easy to adore and give you a warm sense of having done well by the environment. But they grow up shutting out the sun and block roof gutters with leaf litter. You now need an expensive planning consent before solving such problems.

It’s all just more cost and bureaucracy to contend with.

829 days ago

Bake new friends

The Team from Red Cross Shop Hamilton East

Bake a bargain and get 25% of all cook books,casserole dishes

and platters

This week only,so don’t miss out !

😄

Red Cross Shop Hamilton East

829 days ago

Come and take a look!

Wintec

Wintec Open Day welcomes people from around the rohe and beyond to our City and Rotokauri campuses.

This whānau-friendly event is the perfect opportunity to explore our courses, meet our tutors, tour our campuses, discover our student support services, visit our on-site accommodation, and even… View more
Wintec Open Day welcomes people from around the rohe and beyond to our City and Rotokauri campuses.

This whānau-friendly event is the perfect opportunity to explore our courses, meet our tutors, tour our campuses, discover our student support services, visit our on-site accommodation, and even enrol on the day!

There will be free kai, games, prizes, and interactive activities across both campuses.
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829 days ago

Bring Hope to the table!

Life

It’s time to start thinking about what you can do to help out those who need it most this Christmas. 1 in 5 Kiwi children are currently living in households that don’t have enough food. Christmas Box is a food box that caters to a family of 4-6, helping supplement breakfast, lunch and dinner … View moreIt’s time to start thinking about what you can do to help out those who need it most this Christmas. 1 in 5 Kiwi children are currently living in households that don’t have enough food. Christmas Box is a food box that caters to a family of 4-6, helping supplement breakfast, lunch and dinner meals over a week.

For just $40 you’re not only providing food essentials and treats but you’re also giving hope to families in need.

To sponsor a box, go to christmasbox.co.nz.
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829 days ago

Keep trying

NumberWorks'nWords Hamilton Central

It doesn't matter how much you fall, the most important thing is how strongly you try to get up and try again. ?

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830 days ago

”A CULTURAL HISTORY OF DEATH“ with Peter Dornauf

todd from EarthDiverse

• An 8 week course that meets Fridays 11:00am-1:00pm beginning 5 August 2022 (NZ Time).
• In-Person classes in Hamilton, New Zealand or live-streamed via Zoom anywhere!
• Time Zone equivalents for other locations can be found on our website.

This series of eight talks, from our Selected… View more
• An 8 week course that meets Fridays 11:00am-1:00pm beginning 5 August 2022 (NZ Time).
• In-Person classes in Hamilton, New Zealand or live-streamed via Zoom anywhere!
• Time Zone equivalents for other locations can be found on our website.

This series of eight talks, from our Selected Topics in History series, explores, historically, the subject of death from the perspective of several different disciplines: religion (both traditional and contemporary), philosophy, art, literature, music and film.

DESCRIPTION:
Sex used to be the great taboo. Up until the modern era, open talk related to the subject of sexuality was actively frowned upon. The subject of death, however was freely canvased. This situation has now been reversed. Death has become for modern men and women the new taboo, spoken of in hushed terms, if at all, kept concealed behind closed doors and largely unacknowledged.

However, recently this trend has been challenged. More and more people are wanting to speak openly about the subject of death. Indeed so pressing has become the need, that within the last few years a new ‘strange’ global phenomena has occurred that has seen the emergence of what are called “Death Cafes.”

These “cafes” are simply pop-up meeting places where small groups of people gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss the topic of death. Death has at last come out of the closet.

Info on this course, and all of our other courses (art, environment. health & wellbeing, history, humanities, languages, world cinema, world literature, philosophy, and religious diversity) can be found on our web site at earthdiverse.org.nz...

REGISTER NOW!

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830 days ago

Elderberry gummies ❤

Naturally Healthy

Jan has been busy experimenting with a new way to incorporate elderberries into our daily prep-for-autumn routine, and she's made these delicious elderberry gummies, chock full of vitamins and antioxidants. Elderberries are such a good anti-viral and thus a fantastic support for the immune … View moreJan has been busy experimenting with a new way to incorporate elderberries into our daily prep-for-autumn routine, and she's made these delicious elderberry gummies, chock full of vitamins and antioxidants. Elderberries are such a good anti-viral and thus a fantastic support for the immune system. Recipe is as follows:
Elderberry syrup
• 1½ cup fresh berries
• 1 tsp cinnamon / one whole stick
• 1 cup apple juice
• 2 tsp grated ginger
• 1 tsp cloves
• Dash of black pepper
• 2 tsp turmeric
• 1 Tbsp. white sage
• 1 cup honey
Simmer berries, spices, and apple juice for 20-30 minutes, then strain and add honey. Adjust spices to taste (we're thinking to try and double the amount next time!)
Elderberry gummies
• 1½ cup elderberry syrup
• 4 Tbsp. gelatine
Mix the syrup and gelatine well until gelatine is dissolved, then beat together. Fill ice cube trays and store in the fridge. You can eat one a day.
- Millstream Gardens
NZ Made Millstream Gardens ointments are now available at Naturally Healthy - Hamilton

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