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Relief in Sight for Tauranga Bus Network with New School Service
Bay of Plenty Regional Council is exploring alternative school bus options to help make the Tauranga Urban bus service more reliable.
Matinees on Sundays: 31st March and 7th April
Work, love and life are just one long, hard slog for the fish-filleting foursome Pearl, Jan, Shelley and Linda.
What is Real Love?
Many of us believe love is a feeling of infatuation we get for someone we are attracted to, but what about the...
A Christmas Working Bee
Christmas day was a busy buzzy day at this clinic. Five dogs were seen that day and every single case was because...
Pain? Tension? Soreness? Headaches?
When the body is moving and functioning well, life can be productive. An integral part of that functionality is the nerves in...
Local Felters Fighting Fit for National Competition
A small group from Tauranga Creative Fibre have entered a National Creative Fibre Festival Competition, one of 13 teams nationally.
Eldernet – NZ’s leading Online Knowledge Base for Older Adults
Bay Waka first met with Eleanor Bodger at the Tauranga Successful Aging Symposium hosted by SUPA NZ in October 2018.
Surf Club Names Boat After Sports Official
Tauranga resident and Omanu Beach Surf Club member Bruce Matheson has been around surf boats for many years having started in...
The Happy Puku is Much More than Good Kai
The Happy Puku as a concept came about when Te Tuinga Trust realised that to be a self-sustaining not for profit organisation...
Hashtag Street Food: Street Food at its Finest
So, a Swiss guy, a Filipino girl and a Japanese girl walk up to a food truck…no really, it’s no joke!
Lemon Tart – Creamy, zesty-Sweet and Rich
Kia Ora everyone!
I must say what an amazing summer we've had. Absolutely marvellous. Now that everyone is back...
Zara McIndoe Principal, Otumoetai Primary School
He aha te mea nui o te ao?
He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
What is...
Jamie de la Haye Principal, Welcome Bay Primary
Ma te huruhuru ka rere te manu
Adorn the bird with feathers so that it can fly!
Tane Bennett – Principal, Maungatapu Primary School
I am honoured and humbled to be the new principal of Maungatapu school starting in 2019.
I would...
Anisha’s BaySwim Experience
I first started lessons at BaySwim with Anisha when she was 10-months old.
At our first lesson the...
Water, water everywhere…
Cr. Paula Thompson
Regional Councils are primarily responsible for the management of the region’s natural resources –...
Tauranga Boxing Academy – The End Game is to Get Them into Work
In our Spring 2018 issue we wrote an article, “Turning Kids Lives Around Through Boxing”.
“Bearing in mind, some...
Grassroots Politics at its Finest
Where have the summer holidays gone? It’s almost as if you blink and miss it.
While our community...
Regional Council all at Sea in its Dealings with NZ Bus
Bay Waka investigation – Monday, 11 February 2019, 10:00 PM
Cr Thompson refers to bus service as a...
Candida May Cause Memory Loss
There are many different types of yeasts one called Candida albicans can cause mild or severe health problems.
Candida...
Cyber Resilience
Kiwi businesses and individuals have long held the belief that “she’ll be right” and “it won’t happen to me”.
Running Your Business in the Cloud
We continue to see businesses moving to the cloud for more of their business processes.
The cloud...
The Relationship Between RV and the Market Value of a Property
One of the enduring features of discussions with property vendors is they want to talk about their RV, whereas my focus...
Changing Chairs
For co-owner of L.J Hooker BOP, Neville Falconer, entertaining an approach from Tremains was a big call. He says every business comes...
Expect your Real Estate Experience to Sharpen Up
New entrant in the property market makes quick impact.
With Tremains Real Estate entering the Bay of...
Innovation Is What Tauranga People Will See
Anton Jones is well-known locally within real estate. An Otumoetai College old boy, Anton trained in valuation and property management before heading...
Pest Free Te Puna kicks off
Te Puna is launching a rodent attack next month to start the ambitious goal of a pest-free Te Puna.
A Pinch of Reality to Go With Your New Year’s Resolution
At the start of a new year
many business owners dust
off the business plan and
rethink their priorities for
the year. Whether you call it
your new year’s resolution
or setting a new plan for the
year, it’s tempting to believe
that a new year is like a
blank page where anything
becomes possible and all
you need to do is write, say
or think the magic words.
The Mobile Library Bringing Books to the ‘Burbs’ and Beyond
The Tauranga Mobile Library delivers library services to the City of Tauranga, 6 days a week.
Assemble Your K Valley Biking Crew for 3rd March
Assemble your K Valley biking crew.
Identify a Smart Team to Govern Tauranga 2019-2022
This city now more than ever before, demands a Council comprising a strong diverse team of individuals, dedicated to improving the whole of the City, not just its centre. For me the answer lies with us – the constituents – we are the ones who vote the Councillors in.
Matua Residents Now Receive Bay Waka
The residents of Matua welcome the opportunity to join the publication Bay Waka and share with the city the colourful history and stories of our suburb.
Technology of Today is Winning Older Friends
As Freemasons, we try to find useful and appreciated gifts for our Lodge widows each Christmas.
Towers and Lines Over Our Harbour
Our dispute with Tauranga City Council and Bay of Plenty Regional Council with regard to their issuing of a Resource Consent to Transpower to erect super poles at either side of the Maungatapu bridge and sling 100,000 volt lines across the harbour at this location continues.
More Flooding! Would You Like a Tsunami With That?
Many ratepayers
received notice from
Tauranga City Council four
months ago that their
properties had changed
and were now considered
more likely to suffer the
consequences of a once in
100-year rainfall event. This
set off a trail of diminished
valuations, insurance policy
exclusions and concern.
‘Ardern Confiscations’ Set to Hurt Tauranga
Over the next few months I will
write articles that are designed to
give people of Tauranga background
information about the collusion at the
core of the highly questionable treaty
deal with a group of very small iwi
from Hauraki known as the Hauraki
Collective.
High Voltage Lines in Urban Areas
In 1994, State
Owned Enterprise Transpower
became owner of the national
grid, which connects power generating
stations to local power companies
throughout NZ. Transpower wanted
to upgrade its existing high-voltage
line which went through Maungatapu,
across Tauranga harbour on a large
pylon in the middle of the estuary,
and on to the Matapihi sub-station
to supply power to the Mount and
Papamoa.
Crutches Amnesty Issued at Tauranga Hospital
Tauranga Hospital is running a crutches amnesty after spending $500 a week replacing those not returned by patients.
Trouble Coming…
For the people of Ngāi Te Rangi Iwi, the largest of the three iwi in Tauranga, 2019 will be focused on killing-off the intrusion by a group of Hauraki iwi who are trying to push their way into Tauranga.
Island Air’s Pride & Joy – ‘Whisky Whisky Hotel’
Every aircraft engine is only permitted to fly for a given number
of hours before it must be totally overhauled, remanufactured
or replaced with a new one. This regulation is referred to as
TBO or ‘Total Before Overhaul’.
Island Air’s pride and joy is a six-seater Cessna U-206 G (ZKWWH) and its Continental engine was coming to the end of its
TBO in 2018.
