North Waikato Whakapai

28/01/2023

⚠️ Stay safe everyone and sing out if you need assistance! ⚠️

Severe Thunderstorm Warning

Forecast: These severe thunderstorms are moving towards the south, and are expected to lie near KAIAUA, MARAMARUA, FIRTH OF THAMES, MIRANDA and THE HUNUA RANGES at 12:45 am and near HUNTLY, MARAMARUA, TE KAUWHATA, OHINEWAI, WAITERIMU, WAERENGA and TANIWHA at 01:15 am.

These thunderstorms are expected to be accompanied by torrential rain.

Impact: Torrential rain can cause surface and/or flash flooding about streams, gullies and urban areas, and make driving conditions extremely hazardous.

The National Emergency Management Agency advises that as storms approach you should:
- Take shelter, preferably indoors away from windows;
- Avoid sheltering under trees, if outside;
- Get back to land, if outdoors on the water;
- Move cars under cover or away from trees;
- Secure any loose objects around your property;
- Check that drains and gutters are clear;
- Be ready to slow down or stop, if driving.
During and after the storm, you should also:
- Beware of fallen trees and power lines;
- Avoid streams and drains as you may be swept away in flash flooding.

Issued: 12:29am Sun, 29 Jan
Next update: 1:15am Sun, 29 Jan

27/01/2023

🫡 Thank you to our awesome community heroes!

Just wanted to give a massive shoutout to our emergency services crew!! You are all absolutely amazing, call out after call out & having to stand in this torrential rain - thank you for your service to our communities. 🫡

21/01/2023

新年快乐! Happy Chinese New Year to all those in our community who celebrate. We wish you good health & happiness for the coming year of the Rabbit! 🐇

23/12/2022

From all the team at North Waikato Whakapai, we want to wish you a very Merry Christmas!

Our office will be closed from today and reopen on Monday 9th January 2023.

18/12/2022

Happy Hanukkah to all those celebrating the Festival of Lights! 🕎

Another tradition of ours! From my family, to yours - wishing you a very Happy Hanukkah! Chanukah Sameach 🕎

14/12/2022

This is madness! And our new Waerenga-Whitikahu ward councillor is calling it “great news”? Auckland has shown that lowering speed limits does not have a positive impact on making safer roads, the problem is not the speed - it’s the condition of our roads.

We wouldn’t have voted for this… Instead, we would’ve voted for improving our processes in contracting people to maintain our roads so that it was done right and not just a money-making exercise.

You know what to do next time, vote North Waikato Whakapai for

Speed limit signs are now being changed throughout the district.

They’re being changed after councillors adopted the latest round of proposed amendments to the Speed Limit Bylaw 2011 earlier this year.

Roads with lower limits have been done in Matangi, Huntly, Raglan, Gordonton and the very north of our district.

Crews are now going through Ngaruawahia and Tuakau. Taupiri and Pokeno are due to be started tomorrow.

For a schedule of changes and an interactive map of where the latest lower speed limits are, go to http://ow.ly/xLk150M2Ii3

26/10/2022

North Waikato Whakapai sends our best wishes and congratulations to our new Waikato Regional Council Chairperson - Cr Pamela Storey!

Chairperson Storey was elected for a second term as the Waikato Regional Council - Waikato constituency councillor this year & elected Chair by her fellow councillors at their inaugural meeting for this triennium today.

23/10/2022

Namaste, Shubh Deepawali and happy Diwali from Tremayne Thompson & the North Waikato North Waikato Whakapai team!

Best wishes to our Hindu, Sikh and Jain communities, and all those coming together to celebrate Diwali this year. 🪔

07/10/2022

THANK YOU! 💙

Last sign coming down now… What a campaign!

Thanks so much to all my supporters, my legendary campaign team, my family and of course - you! Our fabulous communities!!

Regardless of the result tomorrow, this experience has been incredible and unforgettable - it’s been an honour and privilege to be able to meet with or reconnect with so many amazing people across our Waerenga-Whitikahu ward, all doing outstanding stuff to make our communities the place it is.

To Matt & Di, Denise & J, Grant & Trish, Kulthum, Helen, Rosemary, Jacqui, Kristan, Hayley, Jarrod, Casey, Dean, Caitlin and everyone else who has helped me along the way - you all should be proud of where we have got, you guys are the best team I could ever ask for 🙏

This is the last campaign post you’ll see from me for this campaign, but we will be live-streaming a post-election speech late tomorrow afternoon/evening on this page… So keep an eye out for that!

Until then, the only 2 things that’s left to say are;

1. If you’ve not yet voted, go to the library tomorrow before 12pm and vote for Tremayne Thompson for Waerenga-Whitikahu ward councillor
2. THANK YOU!! 💙