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1471 days ago

Ready for a Hot Summer? Need Cooling?

Pratts

Looks like are in for a long hot Summer :)

Do you have adequate cooling for your home or business?

You may have read about stock issues our businesses are facing due to overseas shipping delays. Unfortunately most NZ air conditioning manufacturers are also affected. Our advice is to get in … View more
Looks like are in for a long hot Summer :)

Do you have adequate cooling for your home or business?

You may have read about stock issues our businesses are facing due to overseas shipping delays. Unfortunately most NZ air conditioning manufacturers are also affected. Our advice is to get in quick and install your new heat pump while stock is still available.

Pratts are accredited dealers for the best air-conditioning brands including Mitsubishi Electric, Toshiba and Hitachi. Our team of industry trained consultants and accredited experienced installers will ensure your installation is completed to the highest standard of workmanship.

Call our team for a free no obligation quotation or visit our showrooms to view the largest selection of heat pumps in the Waikato! We look forward to being of service to you.

FREE phone 0800772887 or send us a message through our website
www.pratts.co.nz...

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1482 days ago

FridgeFreezer

Eddie from Hamilton Lake

Looking for a good fridge freezer to buy

1472 days ago

Work off Christmas dinner in 23,573 easy steps

Smiths City

As we head into the eating season, you might want to think about tracking your fitness. Check out our range of wearable tech, from FitBit, Huawei and Samsung, in-store or online today. smithscity.co.nz – keeping Xmas honest. Visit us online

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1473 days ago

Frances Hodgkins - European Journeys Never read. Unwanted gift.

Marylou from Melville

New Zealand-born Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947) arrived in London in 1901 and, by the 1920s, had become a leading British modernist, exhibiting frequently with avant-garde artists such as Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. This book explores Hodgkins as a traveller across cultures and … View moreNew Zealand-born Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947) arrived in London in 1901 and, by the 1920s, had become a leading British modernist, exhibiting frequently with avant-garde artists such as Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. This book explores Hodgkins as a traveller across cultures and landscapes - teaching and discovering the cubists in Paris, absorbing the landscape and light of Ibiza and Morocco, and exhibiting with the progressive Seven & Five Society in London.

Complete with a rich visual chronology of the artist's encounters abroad, alongside over one hundred of Hodgkins' key paintings and drawings, the book is an illuminating journey that moves us from place to place through the writings of a number of distinguished national and international art historians, curators and critics: Frances Spalding (University of Cambridge, England), Alexa Johnston (Auckland-based writer and curator), Elena Taylor (University of New South Wales, Australia), Antoni Ribas Tur (Ara newspaper, Spain), and Julia Waite, Sarah Hillary, Catherine Hammond and Mary Kisler (Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand).
This would make a lovely Christmas Gift. RRP $75.00 Please phone me on 843 4421 or message me. Thank you.

Price: $50

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1473 days ago

Disaster on Four Small Paws

Dee from Cambridge

Just a reminder of tonight's event with Carolyn M King at Cambridge Library. Starts 6.30pm. Includes small presentation by Predator Free Cambridge who will also be bringing rat traps for a koha donation.

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1473 days ago

This week's latest Blueprint

Hamilton Harcourts

View Hamilton Harcourts' latest interactive Blueprint.

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1474 days ago

Love a good op shop?

Heather Moore from Volunteering Waikato

We recommend spending some time on the other side of the counter as an effective treatment!
Get yourself to an op shop and volunteer to lend a hand. There are treasures to be sorted and displayed and lots of customers to be assisted. All you have to do is find the shop that supports the cause … View more
We recommend spending some time on the other side of the counter as an effective treatment!
Get yourself to an op shop and volunteer to lend a hand. There are treasures to be sorted and displayed and lots of customers to be assisted. All you have to do is find the shop that supports the cause closest to your heart and apply!
We're look for op shop helpers in Tuakau, Hamilton, Huntly, Ngatea, Waihī, Te Awamutu, Whangamatā, Whitianga, Paeroa, Matamata, Coromandel, Te Aroha, Taupō, Thames, Cambridge AND Morrinsville - whew!!

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1474 days ago

Buy a Christmas Gift Hamper and help breast cancer research

Jenni from Dinsdale

The Waikato Breast Cancer Research Trust is selling Christmas hampers full of delicious snacks to raise funds to help complete the final two years of follow-up and analysis for one of our sentinel node biopsy surgical trials called the “SNAC 2 trial”. This Breast Surgeons ANZ sentinel node … View moreThe Waikato Breast Cancer Research Trust is selling Christmas hampers full of delicious snacks to raise funds to help complete the final two years of follow-up and analysis for one of our sentinel node biopsy surgical trials called the “SNAC 2 trial”. This Breast Surgeons ANZ sentinel node biopsy trial (which is Waikato led in NZ) is looking at the safety of this reduced armpit surgery in women with larger or more than one cancer in the breast and more aggressive cancers.
The Christmas Gift Hamper includes delish local food products which come in a handcrafted wooden tray. The hamper retails at $177 and we are selling for $150 per gift hamper. For further information and TO PURCHASE + FOR MORE INFO VISIT: brightasabutton.co.nz/best-of-hamper-fundraiser

Give a gift, support local, save lives from breast cancer 12.11.20.pdf Download View

1475 days ago

We Say, You Say: Fire burns in Waikato landfill since August

Neighbourly.co.nz

The Waikato District Council has issued a health notice to residents living within three kilometres of Puke Coal’s construction and demolition landfill in Pukemiro, where a fire has been burning since August.

The dioxin warning is a precautionary measure and the number of people the notice … View more
The Waikato District Council has issued a health notice to residents living within three kilometres of Puke Coal’s construction and demolition landfill in Pukemiro, where a fire has been burning since August.

The dioxin warning is a precautionary measure and the number of people the notice affects is low, with a total of 212 households within the buffer zone. Abatement notices have been issued to the landfill owner in relation to breaches of the Resource Management Act.

What extra precautions do you think should be introduced to prevent another environmental incident like this happening again?

*Please type NFP if you do not want your comment printed in our conversations section.

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1475 days ago

Fraud Awareness Week

The Team from Neighbourhood Support New Zealand

This Fraud Awareness Week we are encouraging Kiwis to take a moment to stop and think ‘is this for real?’ when contacted unexpectedly and asked for personal info.

New Zealand Police's Financial Intelligence Unit estimates New Zealanders lose $20-30 million annually to scams.

HOW TO AVOID… View more
This Fraud Awareness Week we are encouraging Kiwis to take a moment to stop and think ‘is this for real?’ when contacted unexpectedly and asked for personal info.

New Zealand Police's Financial Intelligence Unit estimates New Zealanders lose $20-30 million annually to scams.

HOW TO AVOID A SCAM:

+ A genuine bank or organisation will never contact you to ask for your PIN, password or to move money to another account.

+ Never click on a link in an unexpected email or text – you could be giving access to your personal and financial details.

+ Always question uninvited approaches in case it is a scam. Instead, contact the company directly using a known email or phone number.

+ Don’t assume an email or phone call is authentic – just because someone knows your basic details (name and address, or mother’s maiden name) it doesn’t mean they are genuine.

+ Don’t be rushed into making a decision or financial transaction on the spot – a genuine bank or trusted organisation would never do this.

+ Listen to your instincts – if something feels wrong then it generally is.

If you believe you are the victim of a scam you can contact Police and report the matter via 105.

For more info on how you can prevent yourself, family and friends from being scammed, visit:

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1475 days ago

Lawnmowers, weedeaters

Colleen from Temple View

We have four four-legged weedeaters, (pet goats) available to eat your weeds and your kitchen scraps. Pets of 95 year old lady who can’t care for them any more. Small and friendly. Would like donation of $20 per goat for the collar and rope/chain etc.
Call 021-617-003

Price: $20

1480 days ago

First home buyer burned by sunset clause finally secures dream house in Lower Hutt

Kylie Klein Nixon Reporter from Homed

Remember Bailey Ross, the first time buyer who missed out on the property she'd been saving since she was 16 to own because of a sunset clause? Well, great news! She's secured a home in Lower Hutt.
I caught up with Bailey for an episode of First Rung, our podcast for first time buyers. … View more
Remember Bailey Ross, the first time buyer who missed out on the property she'd been saving since she was 16 to own because of a sunset clause? Well, great news! She's secured a home in Lower Hutt.
I caught up with Bailey for an episode of First Rung, our podcast for first time buyers. She ended up giving me a bit of a masterclass in tenacity and not giving up on your home owning dreams.
Find out how Bailey found her first home, and what it means to her after such a big let down.

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1475 days ago

Craft Supply Swap - Now accepting items

Dee from Cambridge

Waipā District Libraries very first craft supply swap is on this Saturday! Items need to be brought to our libraries prior in order to prepare for the swap between 11am and 12.30pm on the Saturday in Te Awamutu. Terms and conditions apply. Please support this new initiative. We hope it will be a … View moreWaipā District Libraries very first craft supply swap is on this Saturday! Items need to be brought to our libraries prior in order to prepare for the swap between 11am and 12.30pm on the Saturday in Te Awamutu. Terms and conditions apply. Please support this new initiative. We hope it will be a lot of fun. Displays and demonstrations by Te Awamutu Quilters and Creative Fibre.

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1475 days ago

Watch Stuff Circuit’s new documentary, Emma

The Team Reporter from Stuff

At two weeks old, Emma was left at an orphanage in Russia. After three years, Emma was adopted by a New Zealand family and brought here for a new life - but that didn’t work out how it was supposed to. Emma was diagnosed with foetal alcohol syndrome and reactive attachment disorder. Parenting her… View moreAt two weeks old, Emma was left at an orphanage in Russia. After three years, Emma was adopted by a New Zealand family and brought here for a new life - but that didn’t work out how it was supposed to. Emma was diagnosed with foetal alcohol syndrome and reactive attachment disorder. Parenting her became a nightmare, and it ended in tragedy.

Emma has faced more challenges and rejections than most people could cope with. And now, she wants to take on the biggest challenge of her life - finding answers to those most fundamental questions: who am I? Where did I come from?
Watch now

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1477 days ago

Happy Diwali to New Zealand!

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

Diwali has different meanings worldwide depending where you live but primarily it celebrates the triumph of good over evil. Whether you are celebrating at home by lighting lamps & eating treats, or you are going to a nearby festival, we'd love to hear about your Diwali celebrations. Feel … View moreDiwali has different meanings worldwide depending where you live but primarily it celebrates the triumph of good over evil. Whether you are celebrating at home by lighting lamps & eating treats, or you are going to a nearby festival, we'd love to hear about your Diwali celebrations. Feel free to share your photos and best wishes to your community below.

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