By NEEMS, Jeff; BRENNAN, Nicola Wild spring weather contributed to a car crash, caused surface flooding and cut power to some parts of the Waikato yesterday.

Coromandel Iwi are to receive part of a $97 million Government payment to settle aquaculture space allocation reached in 2004. The Crown had until 2014 to provide the iwi with the equivalent of 20 per cent of aquaculture space created between 1992 and 2004, or the financial equivalent.

A 19-year-old Kihikihi man injured in a fatal car crash in Te Awamutu last Tuesday is now recovering in Waikato Hospital. The 23- year-old passenger in the unwarranted, unregistered Mazda, Matthew McDonald, died at the scene. (c) 2008 Waikato Times. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.

Radio New Zealand will stage an election debate on health issues at the Founders Theatre in Hamilton on October 12, from 5 to 7pm. It is one of series of public issue debates to be broadcast by Radio New Zealand National during the 2008 election campaign on Sundays, from October 5.

We turn back the Times 99, 50 and 25 years ago to see what Waikato Times readers were reading about. From Hamilton City Library files -------------------- 99 YEARS AGO Huntly. On Thursday night the washhouse attached to Mrs Archer's boarding- house was destroyed by fire.