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A helper from Te Kowhai Community Group

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Email: info@commsafe.co.nz

Incredible

This is a little out of our area but one of our Te Kowhai readers asked if we would publish this incident on his behalf. Our man is a Surveyor and last Thursday he was working on the Waikato Expressway in the area of Long Swamp which is between Te Kauwhata and Hampton Downs. He had his tripod and his GPS Base Station all set up. He was working away nicely when at 1.30pm his handheld remote all of a sudden stopped working. Now the GPS Base station, contained in a yellow and in a black pelican case, will be of no use to anyone without the use of the handheld our man still had in his possession. One minute he was using the hand held and the next minute, gone. He goes back to the tripod and,…. gone. Plus the 2 cases containing the base station….. gone.

Keep a lookout people. Could have been tossed into a drain somewhere……maybe.

Interesting that the same Thursday evening the site offices at Long Swamp were also broken into and a Wacker Packer stolen along with computers.

Townsend Road Wharepapa Sth.

Thursday / Friday last week. Someone unhinged a locked farm gate. They then broke the locks on the Diesel and the petrol tank and stole 1/2 the contents from both tanks. They then entered the farm stay building but appears nothing taken from there.

Waharoa

You may ask as to why we are reporting on Waharoa. The answer being that Open Country has been observing what Commsafe has been doing. They were suitably impressed and said they would sponsor us by providing a vehicle and associated costs on the proviso we helped get Neighbourhood Support up and running in the Waharoa area where their H.Q. is situated.

So.

3 burglaries in the Jones Street area in the past week. One house completely ransacked. Lady living on her own, now too scared to sleep in her bedroom and prefers to remain in her lounge where the offenders broke in by smashing a window.

Another house and the offenders cut a hole in the garage door first so they could see as to what was inside.

Mitre10 Ladies night and gardening night

This Thursday evening folks at Te Awamutu. Mitre 10 have kindly picked Commsafe again as the recipitants of your kind gold coin donations. You all enjoyed yourselves at the event last year so please come again this year. It is a good night.

Altrusa Te Awamutu

Thank you to these kind ladies who wanted to say thank you in some way to our team of Community Patrollers at Te Awamutu. It is not often that our patrollers get to mix with each other socially so the High Tea these ladies put on for us on Sunday was just the ticket. Very much appreciated.

Thanks folks. To be made aware is to be made alert. Keep your news rolling into us.

Darryl Nix

Trustee Commsafe