“Personally it’s hugely satisfying to have recounted memories of so many people born and raised in the Clarence – and those who have come to love it.” Tim Fulton

By Tony Orman

Plenty of twists and turns in the valley

If ever it falls to your lot to be driving south of Blenheim on State Highway One, after about an hour’s driving, you will cross a sweeping bridge spanning a big river – the Clarence River.  From the highway bridge the river is about 230 km to its source in the cool, clear waters of Lake Tennyson, high in the Spenser Mountains.

The river from its source follows a complex tortuous course, twisting and turning its way through rugged mountain country of a desolate, but impressive kind.   Farming editor and journalist, Tim Fulton, spent three years researching a book on the valley, its history, farming and people.

The author’s background

Tim grew up around farming in Canterbury’s Waimakariri which taught him much about rural people and issues. “And a career of more than 20 years as an agricultural journalist has taught me even more,” he added with a smile. Tim’s name will be familiar as editor of the New Zealand Farmers Weekly for 10 years and he also had an insight into politics working on the Parliamentary press gallery as well as working for the NZ Farmer and Straight Furrow.

“Rural journalism exposes you to a huge variety of people and issues, from farm management concerns to international politics. It’s also a job that requires patience, an analytical outlook and good people skills,” he says.

As an author he’s had three books published – a family memoir Straight off the Tussock (2005), Kiwi Farmers Guide to Life (Bateman Books, June 2021) and now The Clarence – People and Places of Waiau Toa.

A long history of settlement

“Everything about the Clarence is daunting,” he writes.

Long before European settlement, the Clarence Valley had an important Maori settlement, firstly by the Waitaha people who reportedly pre-date the great migrations of the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. 

They were peaceful people, mainly moa hunters and kumara growers but were dispossessed in the 16th century by an invading tribe, the Ngati Mamoe, from the North Island. The Ngati Mamoe were subsequently attacked and conquered in the 17th century by Ngai Tahu and driven off to the south. 

Often dominating the skyline is New Zealand’s tallest mountain outside of the Southern Alps, commonly known as “Tappy” but more exactly Tapuae-o-Uenuku. Captain James Cook as he sailed through Cook Strait, noted “a prodigious high mountain.”

A fine book based on extensive research

Tim Fulton’s three years of research, interviewing and photographing has resulted in a fine book enhanced by Bateman’s typically quality publishing.

Tim Fulton touches on the tension between private and public land management in the high country. There’s intriguing reflections on the last big sheep muster on Molesworth in 1937, the history and culture of Maori settlement including a long lost kumara growing area near the mouth of the Clarence – but above all, profiles of the farmers and their families are the main focus.

It’s been a labour of love for Tim over three years of research and writing. “Personally it’s hugely satisfying to have recounted memories of so many people born and raised in the Clarence – and those who have come to love it,” he says.

With informative text and often breath-taking photos, The Clarence: People and Places of Waiau-toa is highly recommended. It is published by Bateman Books; RRP is $79.99

by Wally Richards

DECEMBER GARDENING

This week I got two e-mails which maybe of interest to some gardeners.

The first was from a gardening couple, which read;

Hi Wally, Your advice and weekly email’s worked great. I got first in the Veggie Section and my wife won in the Rose categories. Jerry.

What can I say? If you use natural products that enhance the soil, giving the plants all the possible minerals that they may need to be healthy and stop using chemicals that are harmful to both soil, plants and yourself.

Over the years I have received a few similar stories about how gardeners have turned their gardens into award winners by simply observing and using the above information.

The second e-mail is of concern this time of the year and it read;

Hi Wally, I have a problem with a brown beetle infestation. I was finding the leaves of my newly planted plum trees and almond tree were getting stripped bare almost. I wasn’t sure what it was but think the culprit is this brown beetle.

I have since found hundreds (literally) in one of my raised beds and quite a few wherever I have placed the garden mix I bought a month ago.

Is there something I can do to get rid of these beasties? They are now attacking my raspberry plants and feijoa trees. Because they are in the soil – and potentially quite deep (some of them were 20cm deep) – I’m not sure how to fight them. Please help!

The writer sent me an amazing photograph which show hundreds of these brown beetles drowning in a container of water, along with photos of her plants badly damaged.

The beetle is the Grass Grub beetle and this is the time of the year that they emerge from pupating deep in the soil to feast on the foliage of a number of plants, mate and lay eggs back in lawns for future generations.

In my first book, Wally’s Down to Earth Gardening Guide, I suggest a trap to aid control of these pests.

Here is an extract from the book:

‘Grass grub adults emerge in October, and are active until about mid-December, depending on weather conditions and exactly where they are in New Zealand. The cooler the temperature, the later they emerge.

The adults will start to emerge in mild conditions, when the soil temperature reaches about 10 degrees they then mate, fly, eat and lay eggs in the short space of time between dusk and early evening.

As they tend to fly towards light, you are most likely to know they’re there when the flying beetles hit your lighted window panes.

This very attraction for the light has become one of our best weapons in controlling the pest in its adult stage. You can set up a grass grub beetle trap by placing a trough, such as the one used when wall-papering, directly underneath a window near a grassed area.

Fill the trough with water to about two-thirds of its capacity, then place a film of kerosene on top of the water. Put a bright light in the window, the beetles fly towards the lit window, hit the glass and fall into the trough.

The kerosene acts as a trap, preventing the fallen beetles from climbing out.

You can extend this method to areas away from the house by using a glass tank, such as might be used for an aquarium.

Place the empty tank into a tray containing several inches of water (and the kerosene), and position a light inside the glass tank.

By adding a sheet of ply or something similar over the top of the tank, you will ensure that the light shines only through the sides of the tank above the waiting water and kerosene.

It is better to use a dome-shaped battery-powered light rather than an ordinary torch for this job as the bigger light makes the trap more effective.

If the tray and tank are raised off the ground and placed on something like a table, you will get an even better result.

However you set up your beetle trap, this is a very good method to dispose of the pests. Simply get rid of all the beetles caught the next morning.

Run this system (call it Wally’s Grass Grub Beetle Catcher, if you like) from just before dusk to about 2 or 3 hours after sunset.’

Spraying the plants that are been attacked with Wallys Super Neem Tree Oil will help to also control the populations.

This should be done late in the day after the sun is off the plants. When a beetle chews on a leaf they get some Neem into their gut and that shuts off their ability to eat.

Problem arises, if there are hundreds of beetles then there needs to be hundreds of bites.

With the likelyhood of more beetles emerging every day it is an on going battle over the next month or two.

Another way is to go outside just after dark with a torch and check your plants for beetles.

If you see a good number on any plant then a spray at that time with Wallys Super Neem Tree Oil and Wallys Super Pyrethrum added, sprayed to hit the beetles rather than the plant itself.

Another very good natural spray to use late in the day is a solution of Wallys 3 in 1 for Lawns.

This is a combination of Eucalyptus oil and Tea Tree oil, nice to use and deadly on pests.

If you repeat your nightly spraying and use a light trap also, then you will make a big dent in the grass grub beetle populations and thus suffer less damage to your plants and lawns.

The season is still poor weather wise which helps keep insect populations lower than normal but care should be taken with your potatoes and tomatoes by placing

Neem Tree Granules on the soil in the root zone and spraying the plants occasionally with Wallys Super Neem tree Oil.

Visit your local garden centre to obtain some good ideas for Xmas Presents.

Problems ring me at 0800 466464
Email wallyjr@gardenews.co.nz
Web site www.gardenews.co.nz

‘This is my son before and after he got a transfusion of poisoned blood. We begged the hospital to let us get pure blood. They refused and gave the blood to him without our consent. He developed a blood clot instantly that stretched from his knee to his heart. He made it two weeks before he died.’

She told Liz Gunn of FreeNZ that her son Alexander was born in January of this year, and died on 17 February.

‘Medical staff gave him the blood around the 1st of February.

‘What happened was he had an operation, he needed to work on his throat and they told us it was very rare that babies would need blood. We have been trying to get directed donor blood for a while, but they told us it was impossible because of how expensive it was, which turned out not to be true, and we were able to get a directed donor blood.

‘He went through the operation, did not need a blood transfusion. We had signed saying that basically we only granted the use of blood in the emergency that they nicked an artery.

‘So, the doctor then gave him the blood later, after the fact, just after the operation, without our knowledge.

‘I walked in probably 20 minutes after they stopped giving him the blood, and it was kind of shock because we had clearly stated we didn’t trust their blood. The doctor said ‘not to worry, nothing’s going to be wrong with his blood.

‘I felt very violated because we hadn’t agreed to that use of blood. She just did it anyway, saying his haemoglobin levels were low. The next day (or later that day) they discovered a blot clot had started to form.

‘My husband had told them the reason we didn’t want a blood transfusion from the blood bank was because of blood clots. We were afraid that would happen. And it did, like instantly.

‘And then they told us blood clots in babies are very rare, but blood thinners will just fix it. But that did not happen.

‘The clot just continued to grow and they had him on the highest amount of blood thinners they could legally give him, and it did nothing. It started in his knee and went all the way up to his heart. When it started inching towards his heart they told us we had to start preparing for death.

Text from the Daily Telegraph NZ

When will the Jacinda government do this? Of course, much productive farmland has already been converted into pine trees — ‘You vil eat ze bugs,’ says self-appointed King Klaus.

See also this story on Summit News

We know Facebook has and does censor opponents of the Jacinda regime in NZ at its insistence, so it’s probable that Twitter has been doing that too. What info do readers have?

Info. Allusions to the Guru Gateway of Kapiti apply.

Steve Kirsch is the Executive Director of the U.S.-based Vaccine Safety Research Foundation and because this challenges the dishonest narratives of Big Pharma and corrupt governments in their pockets, is much disliked by these, which is of course the reason why he needs to be listened to. He considers Jacindaland’s covidiocy response to be worse than that of the U.S.

He is currently in Queenstown, NZ on vacation and was one of the interviewees on Counterspin Media‘s marathon in support of Baby Will today.

by Steve Kirsch on the Establishment’s attempt to discredit the documentary Died Suddenly

Jonathan Jarry, McGill University of Canada’s official covid “fact checker,” is back with yet another underwhelming “fact check,” this time on Died Suddenly.

The movie now has almost 12 million views on the official Rumble link alone.

His fact check starts with a statement that is easily verifiable as false and goes downhill from there. This is pretty much the best that they can do.

Jarry’s arguments in bold (followed by my commentary not in bold):

The producers of the movie don’t want you to do your own research. It’s right in the subtitle of his story. What do you think…did Jarry even bother to ask the producers that question? I’d like to hear the recording of him asking them that question!! I’d be amazed if he ever contacted them at all. Why bother to even try to contact a source when you can just make up what you want them to say? So how does he know what they want? I talk with Stew frequently and he wants impact. If the fact checkers went to Ryan Cole’s lab and looked at these clots first hand, I’m sure Stew would be 100% supportive. He wants the facts to get out. That’s why he made the movie.

You can’t trust embalmers who have been embalming for 40 years to know what they are doing. Wow. Stunning conclusion. Lacks evidentiary basis. Yes, they are not medical doctors. But that doesn’t mean they are stupid.

You can’t trust a room full of 100 embalmers who are seeing these unusual clots for the first time since the vaccine rolled out. Same comment. It’s just stunning how he can write all this stuff off because he said so.

You can’t trust one of the most experienced pathologists in the US who is also an MD who has seen these clots first hand. Jarry is only going to trust his hand-picked MDs who have NOT seen the clots. Why rely on the testimony of Cole? Cole is a very experienced pathologist and he’s seen the clots and he’s an MD too. What’s not to like? Nah! Better to trust the MDs who have not seen the clots. That’s what a fact checker is supposed to do: find people who agree with you and ignore people with first hand knowledge of the evidence under consideration.

You can only trust some MDs who have never personally seen any of these clots to assess what is actually going on. Actually, the criteria is whether they agree with you or not… whether they have seen the evidence under consideration isn’t really important.

If there is footage put in the movie to illustrate a concept, if that footage is flawed in some way, it’s grounds for dismissing everything else, especially the most important parts. A favorite fact checker technique is throwing the baby out with the bath water, so if there is bad footage that is misleading, use that to discredit the entire film including all the excess deaths we are all seeing and the clots seen by the embalmers. Throw the baby out with the bathwater. By focusing on the technical errors, he can avoid dealing with the big issues.

There is no need to take Ryan Cole up on his offer to actually go to his lab and look at these clots. After all, why would you ever need to actually look at the evidence? Yup, a good fact checker will avoid seeking out any evidence that goes against the views of the people who pay his salary. Stew Peters would love it if Jonathan Jarry were to take Ryan Cole up on his offer to look at the blood clots. What did Jarry do to verify that these clots were unusual? He believed people who never saw these clots, and disbelieved people (like Cole and the embalmers) who did. He made no effort to obtain a clot and analyze it himself. He made no attempt to contact one of the embalmers and observe it himself. He never reached out to Stew.

Would he ever take Dr. Cole up on his offer to have a look first hand at the clots? No chance. Not only that, but Jarry criticizes me for confronting Dr. Lee. OK, so what did Jarry do to find out why Grace Lee doesn’t want to see the Israeli safety data? Answer: he did absolutely nothing. He did just the opposite: he’s actually to ridicule people like me who attempted hold her accountable for looking at the safety data of the covid vaccine which is her #1 most important job. So I guess Jarry would have me keep trying techniques that didn’t work. By going to her house, I know have proof of service; she can’t say she didn’t know about the offer. None of those other methods worked. But if Jarry had a better suggestion, he didn’t disclose it. Why not?

Summary

Jonathan Jarry, McGill’s covid fact checker, is simply more interested in promoting the false narrative than he is in finding the truth. It’s pretty obvious from reading his “fact check” that this is what is really going on.

I predict that none of the “fact checkers” are going to be able to explain these clots. The only way something this extreme is going to get into so many people’s bodies is with an injection of some sort that is done on a massive scale. As far as I know, the covid vaccine is the only intervention that could be the possible cause. Even Jarry can’t propose an alternate explanation for what has happened. I haven’t seen anything that comes anywhere close to explaining the clots from anyone. Did I miss anything?

It can be argued that Fauci actually intended everything to happen that happened and was no mistake.