Ngati Haua will sign a deed of settlement with the Crown at the Te Iti o Haua Marae, Tauwhare, on Friday, May 24, which will acknowledge the Crown’s breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi dating back to 1863.

To be attended by King Tuheitia and Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson, the ceremony will start at 7am with the raising of the king’s flag.

Tamahere’s earliest person of note is Wiremu Tamihana, a chief of Ngati Haua, known as the Maori Kingmaker and revered as a peacemaker.

“As a child growing up in rural New Zealand I remember the huge, rustic, metal mailboxes before the cattle stop at the front gate of the wild and beautiful Taranaki farms of my grandparents.”

Such memories and more inspired Tamahere woman Jenny Scown to stage the latest exhibition, Rural Delivery, at her Inspirit Studio and Gallery, from June 2.

“The concept for the exhibition was in part inspired by my own rural background and the book ‘It’s in the post’ – the stories behind New Zealand stamps, by Richard Wolfe,” says Scown.

They are likely Hamilton’s biggest brothel keepers, with 500 girls on their books in the seven years since they began their foray into the sex industry.

Tattooed, shady characters with underworld connections? Far from it.

She’s the secretary of the school PTA and an active parent at the high-decile country school in the wealthy Tamahere mansion belt where they live.

A Hamilton lawyer who acted for a conman for the illegal sale of an Auckland church has been suspended from practising for two years.

Fletcher Law director Charles Fletcher, of Tamahere, acted for Charles Hohepa and helped facilitate the sale.

In its decision released yesterday, the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal said Mr Fletcher’s suspension would begin from May 24.

Tamahere Community Committee chairman Dallas Fisher has urged the Waikato District Council to be “commercially savvy” about the controversial Hart Rd homes being built by Chinese developer LV Park.

Hart Rd residents have raised concerns that eight massive houses being built on their road were intended to be used as hostel-type housing for Chinese students.

At its May meeting, the committee heard that the Hart Rd neighborhood group believed issues, including a potential overload of traffic, sewer and stormwater systems should be fully investigated rather than ignored by the council.

The monthly chance to bump into neighbours and friends over the pickles or persimmons, pasties or paintings, aka the Tamahere Market, is on this Saturday.

There will be a treat in store for muesli munchers as a new stall selling the wholesome breakfast joins the wonderful and varied line up at the market.

Others contributing to the ever-changing food and drink variety this year have been the tempting hot chocolate and fruit syrups which have joined regulars such as gourmet pies, Indian vegetarian food and freshly made crepes.

Want to report a barking dog? Need to change your rates notice mailing address? Noticed a pothole in the road?

The Waikato District Council has launched an Online Services portal on its website to enable people to report local matters, change their personal details or make a service request 24/7.

Among the categories to choose and track online are road maintenance, dog control, rubbish collection, water readings and rates queries.

Mystery couple Arthur and Glad whose 1920 wedding photo, apparently taken at Tamahere, puzzled a British woman when she found it in her family’s papers in London has been solved.

“The couple are Christopher Arthur Teague and Gladys Teague (nee Crahart) on their wedding day on 26 October, 1920, in Palmerston North,” emailed their daughter-in-law, June Teague, this week.

“They arrived from Cornwall, England and after their marriage they farmed on Woodcock’s Road, Tamahere,” June wrote, finally establishing there was a Tamahere connection, and solving the months old mystery.

A passionate advocate for walkways and community connection was fittingly remembered in a ceremony today at the future site of a walkway that will link Tamahere and Matangi.

Around 30 people – family, friends, workmates and community members and representatives – gathered to remember the late Allan Turner, a long-serving Waikato District Council environment planner, who died in March 2012.

The service was held on Tamahere’s Woodcock Rd which by mid-2014 will be linked to Matangi’s Fuschia Lane by the Allan Turner Walkway.

Tamahere’s Inspirit Gallery and the NZ Lifestyle Farmer magazine are inviting entries for a competition to coincide with an upcoming exhibition at the Pencarrow Rd gallery.

To celebrate a century of NZ Post’s Rural Delivery Service, the competition organisers are looking for the most creative and original rural mailboxes in the country.

Entrants are asked to take and submit a high quality photo of the mailbox they wish to enter in the Rural Delivery Mailbox competition.