584 days ago

Poll: Are you worried about safety and crime in your neighbourhood?

Libby Totton Reporter from Waikato Times

An 84-year-old was left www.waikatotimes.co.nz...
|feeling insecure and vulnerable in one of Hamilton’s “bad neighbourhoods” after police cut down her wire fence chasing suspected robbers|.

More than four months after the incident the woman, who mostly lives by herself, says she is “disgusted with the police” and their lack of action - especially as her section backs onto a gully often used as a thoroughfare for people up to no good.

In a strange twist, police contacted her son about the repairs only hours after being approached by the Waikato Times for comment.

Are you worried about safety and crime in your neighbourhood? Tell us your thoughts, and please include NFP if you don't want your comments used in print.

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Are you worried about safety and crime in your neighbourhood?
  • 69.6% Yes
    69.6% Complete
  • 26.1% Not really
    26.1% Complete
  • 4.3% No
    4.3% Complete
46 votes
More messages from your neighbours
1 minute ago

GLEN AFTON/PUKEMIRO COMMUNITIES SOCIETY QUARTERLY MEETING

Bill from Ngaruawahia

GLEN AFTON/PUKEMIRO
COMMUNITIES SOCIETY INCORPORATED
QUARTERLY MEETING

Wednesday 11.2.26
@6pm
at
The Blue rooms.

7 days ago

Poll: Are you a Te Huia fan?

Libby Totton Reporter from Waikato Times

All three Hamilton MPs appear to be united behind the retention of the Te Huia passenger rail service between Hamilton and Auckland, as well as potentially expanding it to Tauranga.

But whether Hamilton East’s Ryan Hamilton, Hamilton West’s Tama Potaka and soon-to-be Labour list MP Georgie Dansey have the combined power to shunt transport minister Chris Bishop and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon onto their line of thinking remains to be seen.

Are you a Te Huia fan? Tell us more in the comments (adding NFP if you don't want your words used in print).

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Are you a Te Huia fan?
  • 82.8% Yes
    82.8% Complete
  • 17.2% No
    17.2% Complete
64 votes
6 days ago

Tenants trash home, spray graffiti inside and outside

Libby Totton Reporter from Waikato Times

A Hamilton landlord has been awarded thousands of dollars after tenants left a rental property riddled with graffiti, damage and piles of abandoned furniture, then failed to show up to their own Tenancy Tribunal hearing.

The Tenancy Tribunal has ordered two former tenants of the Inverness Ave property to pay $2,585.83 after their bond was applied to cover unpaid rent, cleaning, rubbish removal, lock changes and repairs.

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