10 July 2015 Devonport Flagstaff

July 10, 2015

$49000 for Lake Rd survey… p2

More cuts at Devonport i-SITE … p5

Interview: dancer Alisha McLennan… p18

Porn images on-line at Devonport Library Porn can be viewed on Devonport Library’s free internet service using a simple Google image search.

The Flagstaff was alerted by a reader that porn was accessible on the public library’s internet.

We tested the theory using the Devonport

Library’s ‘AKL ON’ free WIFI network on an iPhone both inside the library and just outside.

We Googled the word “porn” and clicked on a handful of sites. They were all blocked by content-filtering.

However, a simple Google image search for “porn” brought up dozens of explicit and

non-pixellated images. The search results seemed entirely unfiltered.

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$49,000 to see why people use Lake Rd

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A $49,000 Lake Rd survey by an international consulting firm has been conducted instead of a free one offered by a local residents group.

The survey – to determine how people use Lake Rd – was commissioned by Auckland Transport and executed by Opus Consulting.

The Belmont-Hauraki Residents Association had offered its services free to Auckland Transport in May. Association chairman Tony Keenan said at the time: “We told them (AT) we want to be involved from start to finish and they said they want us. We will do interviews and are even helping to develop the interview format.”

However, soon after AT hired the international consulting firm to carry out the survey.

AT spokesperson Mark Hannan says the reason for the spend is that the survey was “a significant piece of work. Surveys and data collection were undertaken over several days and at various times.

“It was much better for Auckland Transport to commission the work because of the tools we have available, including traffic modelling and HOP data,” he says.

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Bias was a consideration too. “We have to be careful about the validity of any survey. We have to make sure it is statistically robust and independent. Surveys using self-reporting can lead to claims of bias so it is best practice to use independent specialists to do the work,” he says.

Hannan says that “the cost of the survey was never an issue for Auckland Transport but we did reduce the group’s expectation as to what was feasible. They initially wanted to stop traffic and interview drivers (something only police can legally do).

“We suggested a range of other ways of measuring and monitoring travel patterns,” he says.

More than 1700 interviews or survey forms were completed.

The Lake Road survey results are now complete and AT will present them to the Belmont-Hauraki Residents Association in late July.

The survey is part of Auckland Transport’s generic Corridor Management Plan (CMP), which has a budget of $200,000.

Lake Road survey questions: The Lake Rd Origin-Destination Survey comprised 14 questions developed by Auckland Transport and the Belmont-Hauraki Residents Association.

Questions included the person’s gender, age, home suburb, location of journey start and location of journey destination.

Questions about Lake Rd specifically asked whether people had travelled on Lake Rd that day and what their reason for the Lake Rd trip was. Answer options included work, tertiary education, school pick-up and drop-off, shopping, personal/medical, entertainment and sporting.

Further questions asked how often people made that trip and what their main mode of transport was and why.

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torised travellers were on their own or with passengers and whether their vehicle was a private or work one.

It asked if a different mode of transport was available for that trip, which of the following would be their first choice? Answer options were: walk; private car as passenger or driver; company car; cycle; bus; train; ferry; scooter; other.

Finally, if people travelled mostly by car, what would encourage them to switch to public transport, walking or cycling instead?

The options here were: if it was more convenient/easier than driving; if the trip was the same or shorter than driving; if it was less stressful than driving; cheaper public transport; dedicated bus lanes; separated cycle lanes; other.

Porn at library just a click away

of the instances your reader suggests occurring at Devonport Library,” but conceded that “it may have been possible to view the site he/she mentions.”

Soljan said Devonport Library operates under the same policies and guidelines as the rest of the Auckland public library network to comply with the Films, Videos and Publications Classification Act 1993. The Act included material viewable on the internet, she said.

“In line with industry best practice, our blocking and filtering software is regularly updated to protect the public from the likes of pornography.

As with all such software globally, nothing is 100% foolproof,” she said.

Library staff will intervene if they notice objectionable content being viewed, or if customers alert them to such use, she said.

Prior to using the library’s free Wi-Fi service customers first need to accept its terms and conditions, including “that they will not use the free Wi-Fi to view objectionable material.

We rely therefore on users notifying us of any objectionable site they are able to access so that we can take action,” Soljan said.

In the United States, as a condition for federal funding. the Children’s Internet Protection Act requires libraries to use internet filters and other methods to protect children from harmful online content.

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Learning how to play your cards right

Holding all the cards…Mike, Ollie and Harry Strong The sometimes secret world of card collecting, trading and playing is set to go public with a free event for enthusiasts to be held in Devonport.

Ollie and Harry Strong are passionate about trading and playing cards. Harry (8) likes Magic: the Gathering cards and older brother Ollie (11) is into Pokémon cards.

Both card sets are used to play complex strategy battle games. So complex that dad Mike Strong is organising a tutorial event for other kids and parents on the rules of the games.

“A number of school parents have come up to me recently because they knew my kids are into the cards and their kids were interested in them too, but both kids and parents were unsure whether they knew the right rules on how to play with them,” says Strong, who has booked the Devonport Yacht Club on Sunday, July 19 from 1.15pm until 3.30pm for the free event.

Takapuna’s Hobbymaster store sells the cards and runs regular tutorial sessions, but Strong wants Devonport’s younger kids to be able to stay closer to home. “Most of the kids into Magic and Pokémon are still quite young and I thought something local and more controlled would be better for them,” he says.

Ollie has been collecting and playing

Pokémon cards for two years. “It started when I watched the Pokémon series on TV and then went to the mall and got my first pack of cards,” he says.

Ollie now owns 2,080 cards. Each has a different named creature and Ollie remembers all the names. Says Mike: “It has definitely been good for Ollie’s memory. I haven’t found a card yet that he doesn’t know the name of.”

Harry became interested in Magic: the Gathering cards last October, when visiting Auckland’s annual gaming and entertainment expo Armageddon. “I went with my dad and we learned how to play Magic. Now I have around 400 cards,” he says.

Magic: the Gathering cards are aimed at children aged 13 and older and have recently been banned from Devonport Primary School for that reason, says Mike. Pokémon cards are suitable for younger children.

“I think the rating is there mostly because the concept of the game is battling and fighting, but at the same time it teaches the kids a lot about strategy, maths and reading too,” he says.

Battles and fights are nothing new to the Strong brothers, who love to argue with each other about their cards. Harry insists that Magic cards are superior, “because they

have lands and planewalkers that destroy everything.” Ollie counters that “Pokémon cards have artwork that is more unique, and are generally better and people just don’t understand.”

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Library costs unquantified months after opening More than four months after the Devonport Library was opened Auckland Council still can’t say how much it cost.

The library opened in February to much fanfare, with a construction budget of $8.3 million.

However the Flagstaff has been told there were significant cost overruns towards the end of the project. Under the Official Information Act we asked council to supply final reports on the project which detailed a full breakdown of the final costs and expenditure including any contingencies. The Flagstaff also asked for a breakdown of yearly operating costs for the library.

A council officer responded saying: “I’ve been advised that the costs for Devonport Library are not yet finalised and could still be a few months away. Unfortunately I’m not able to give a clearer timeline at this stage.

“The team are going to follow up your second query regarding operating costs for the library for 2015/16.”

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Library budget still needs scrutiny

While the jury may still be out on the exterior of Devonport Library, its interior and upsurge of patronage is testament to its unqualified success with locals since it opened.

However Council costs, in an era of ever-increasing rates bills, need to be closely scrutinised. I was surprised therefore when council came back months after the library opened saying final figures for its build were not yet available.

Is this really acceptable? Or the right way to account for ratepayers’ money? If Devonport residents were building or renovating a home would they have final cost four months after the work was finished? I’ll be interested to see what the final figures reveal.

Rob Drent, Editor

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Devonport Library has made it into the top five in a world’s best public library competition.

Five libraries are competing to win the Systematic – Public Library of the Year Award 2015. The award was established by the Danish Agency for Culture and was sponsored this year by the IT company Systematic.

In addidtion to Devonport libraries from Sweden, Australia, Kenya and Spain are also in the running for the honour and US $5,000 prize money. The winner will be announced on

August 16 at the annual meeting of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) in Cape Town, South Africa.

In the Devonport Library nomination it said it was “based on its strong historical and cultural roots relating to the lifestyle of the Maori people. The building is shaped with respect for the surroundings.

“Wood is the main material. It reflects the locality of the library and contributes to the creation of a very sustainable construction. The library has had an extended and rigorous consultation process, involving a broad cross-section of the community.”

The award is a part of the Danish Agency for Culture and Realdani Model Programme for Public Libraries.

The programme aims to develop the library of the future with a focus on digital development, user demands, local culture, and the desire to accommodate diverse population groups with an open and functional architecture.

The library must be newly built or refurbished in buildings that have not previously been used as a library. The opening of the new library must have taken place between 1 January 2013 and 15 June 2015.

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July 10 2015

Cuts at Devonport i-SITE continue Cuts continue at the Devonport i-SITE – this time it is reduced opening hours.

In an unpublicised change, the i-SITE’s small office at the end of Devonport Wharf has since May only opened from 10 am until 2 pm on weekdays and from 8 am until noon at the weekends.

Previously, it was manned from 9 am until 5.30pm on weekdays and 8 am until 4.30 pm on weekends.

Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED) manager Vivian Bridgewater says the new hours align with the tourist season. “Over the last two years,

ATEED has adjusted the opening hours of all our i-SITEs, excluding the International Airport, to align with seasonal visitor flow.

In Devonport the i-SITE opening hours during winter reflect the peak times for that season, she says.

Bridgewater says opening hours will revert to the previous opening times later in the year to meet summer demand.

When at its previous location at 3 Victoria Rd, the i-SITE was manned by four staff with the help of local volunteers. The office was open from 8:30 am until 5 pm, seven days a week.

South Auckland criminals target Devonport Criminals from South Auckland appear to be using public transport to come to Devonport, committing crimes and then stealing cars to get home, according to police.

Flagstaff editor Rob Drent had his car stolen from outside his house on Abbotsford Terrace overnight on June 20.

It was later recovered at Manukau Institute of Technology the following Wednesday.

A police officer called Drent to alert him to the recovery and said it was most likely the offenders had bussed or trained in from South Auckland and caught the ferry over to Devoport, and would commit crimes such as graffiti,

vandalism or burglary and then later steal a car to get home. The Mazda had its small back window broken, a door tampered with and the ignition smashed.

• There have also been reports of other cars being broken into and contents stolen over the last two weeks.

Infrared Flower photos on show at the Depot Pink and purple North Island bush and paddocks are showcased in Tim Flower’s photography display at the Depot Artspace this month.

The 30-year-old Hauraki Corner photographer used rolls of discontinued Kodak Aerochrome 35 mm infrared film to document landscapes around the Ureweras, Taranaki, Port Waikato, Waitomo, Lake Waikaremoana and other central North Island locations.

The film turns New Zealand’s lush green land pink and purple. “Infrared is a different wavelength of light that we can’t see. It reflects off chlorophyll so anything green – like grass, ferns, leaves or moss – turns pink,” he says.

The rest, like the sky, the sea or the lake, stay blue or the way we know them.

“I love how that means there is still something natural and organic about the photos, which are also zero-photoshopped,” he says.

Flower, a professional cinematographer, has been taking photographs as a hobby since the age of 18 and this is his first show.

He bought a dozen of rolls of film, discontinued in 2007, online.

“It’s kind of hard to come by. I got it on eBay from someone in California, who has been keeping a stack of it,” he says. Flower also sends the films back to the US for developing.

“It’s lot more sensitive than regular film, so Always on the lookout for images…Tim Flower you have to load it really carefully and develop it in a specialist lab,” he says.

Exposure is tricky too. “I have to take each way for me to judge the level of infrared light the Depot Artspace from July 18 until August 5, with an opening on Saturday July 18 from image with three different exposures to make with my own eyes,” he says.

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Heritage group slams taller-buildings plan Proposals to increase the height of commercial buildings in Victoria Rd have been slammed by Devonport Heritage as myopic and self-defeating.

The Devonport Business Association (DBA) wants the maximum height increased to 12.5 metres – up from the current eight-metre allowable limit.

Central to the debate on heights is how any developments may affect the sight lines to volcanic cones - in Devonport’s case the view to Mt Victoria.

Devonport Heritage says the DBA proposals are “ludicrous and self-defeating” and “will lead to the erosion of views of Takarunga/Mt Victoria and interfere with Devonport’s relationship with the maunga – a relationship that has existed for nearly one hundred and fifty years.”

The DBA has argued that the only way growth and vitality can continue is for new buildings to be 12.5 metres high and allow two more storeys to be added to all the heritage buildings.

Devonport Heritage says “this is a ‘destroy the village to save it’ mentality, “The DBA is keen to draw more tourists to the Devonport village yet it is ignoring the very features that attract visitors there,” Devonport Heritage says in its submission to Auckland Council’s draft Unitary Plan on volcanic cone viewshafts.

“One of Devonport’s main attractions is the way the main centre nestles on the slopes and around the base of Takarunga/Mt Victoria. It’s the heritage ambience of the village and the way the main street winds its way up the maunga.

The mountain and the road are intertwined, one reinforces the other and together they make up the identity of the Devonport centre.”

Devonport Heritage says during the cruiseship season thousands of visitors come over daily to Devonport to enjoy the “low-key heritage seaside suburb.”

The DBA was shooting itself in the foot with the idea that getting rid of the current height restrictions will improve the Devonport centre.

Mt Victoria and the commercial centre of Devonport are intrinsically linked, says Devonport Heritage “It will in fact ruin its main attraction.”

“Devonport village is all about the lowkey, low-rise heritage streetscape. Allowing 12.5-metre high buildings throughout the village would destroy the heritage value.”

Height restrictions have protected Devonport’s main centre since the 1970s, says Devonport Heritage.

“It has prevented four-storey buildings from being built on the non-heritage sites and it has allowed the heritage buildings to remain at two storeys and free of pop-tops and unsympathetic extra storeys, which have ruined the heritage ambience of Wellington’s Cuba Mall for instance.

“It is one of the key reasons why the centre has remained so intact,” Devonport Heritage says it its submission.

“The historic value of Devonport’s main

centre is not in doubt.

“Heritage New Zealand has submitted that Victoria Road be included on the historic schedule as an Historic Place.

The current “height and heritage go hand in hand.”

Devonport’s relationship to Mt Victoria is very signficant, says Devonport Heritage.

“The maunga is at the very centre of the suburb. We watch the sun and light move across it every day. We can see people climbing over it.

“It is a physical presence that is a fixture in our movements, especially as we walk around the village centre.

“The DBA’s is a myopic view that should not be seriously considered by this Panel.”

Devonport Heritage agreed with council planners, who said any new developments should have no adverse effects on volcanic cones.

The importance of Mt Victoria to Devonport and Auckland

Takarunga/Mt Victoria is of extraordinary value and is much loved by the Devonport community, says Devonport Heritage in its submission to the draft unitary plan.

“It has enormous value in its relationship to Auckland’s other cones and especially to North UCTiOn Head and Rangitoto – these cones are the great trio that sit like sentinels at the mouth of the Waitemata Harbour.

“Historically the views of and between these maunga have been recognised for their beauty and significance. These views have already been greatly whittled away over the years and so what remains has become more precious.

“We ask you (council) to treat Takarunga/Mt Victoria the same as all the other volcanic cones.

“We ask that you support the recommendations of council’s consultants on this topic and give Devonport’s maunga the respect and protection of the Volcanic Viewshafts and Height Sensitive Areas.

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The Flagstaff Notes

By Rob Drent

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side of course. This somewhat lame joke of my childhood sprang to mind when it emerged Auckland Transport had spent $49,000 on a survey to find out why people are using Lake Rd. I know it’s simplistic to say to get to the other side, and some information on why people use the arterial road (travel to sports, family gatherings, shopping or work etc) would add to the fabric when considering improvements to traffic flows.

But $49,000? That’s a lot of ratepayer money to answer questions that could have been contracted out to a group of university research students or locals for much the same result.

Also galling when there is limited money in the council coffers to improve Lake Rd structurally.

The Lake Rd survey is all the more hard to bear as residents will be just receiving the latest council rates bills in the mail. Some of the increases in the new bills will be huge.

Council spends millions per year on scoping reports, studies, surveys, investigations and the like. A local example is the proposed Bayswater ferry terminal. Hundreds of thousands of dollars was spent on plans and consultations and it has never been built. These types of spend need to be more carefully looked at if council is really serious about saving money.

The only real way to ease Lake Rd congestion to a major degree is to have less cars on it and have public transport leaving every ten minutes.

Do Devonport families really need (rather than find convenient) four cars a household? More common than peninsula residents care to admit.

(According to the last census 14.5 % of residents have three or more vehicles.)

One local observed to me that Aucklanders’ attitude to car usage is deeply entrenched like a civil right. He compared it to the right to bear arms in the United States, which has made the introduction of gun-control laws so problematic.

It will take an incredible shift in mind-set to change car usage habits.

My father didn’t have a drivers licence and or own a car. Neither currently does my 22 year old son (who lives in the city). My father used public transport extensively. My son does as well and carpools with others at times. Are they oddities or is my generation the one out of step?

It was a strange feeling to open the curtains on a Sunday morning to see my car gone from its parking spot. There was a dry spot left on the road where the car had been hours before. Had I driven it home? Had I looked it? Reporting it to police the first incident taker was quite matter of fact. When I rang up later in the day though, asking if it had been found, the police staffer was sympathetic. In general car thefts from Devonport weren’t too regular, she said, Nine hundred cars had been stolen in the last three months in the Counties Manukau area, she added almost cheerily.

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The Devonport Car Column

‘Don’t look back in anger’, so sang 90’s brit-rock legends Oasis. ‘What’s that got to do with cars?’, I hear you ask. Well, it’s my personal belief that if you don’t sneak an admiring backwards glance at your ride on a regular basis, you may just have the wrong one. Sorry, but it’s a fact.

In a world where form, fashion and function are joined at the hips, your car is often the conjoined triplet of a canny sense of what’s current (white with black wheels, anyone?), what works for you (drop the2-door coupe when the kids arrive, it just makes your bum stick out when trying to strap in a car seat), and what just looks, you know, ‘right’.

Japan is awash with models that never make the journey to NZ, because we would laugh at them. Occasionally one slips though, and those unfortunate enough to buy one spend their time explaining ‘It’s sort of like one of these, and a bit like one of those….’ I pity them.

The point is, your car does talk about you behind your back, and wouldn’t you like it to be saying nice things? If your car doesn’t turn your head, perhaps it’s time for a fling with a more stylish model. Sort of like Tinder for drivers. Go on, you know you want to!

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Ngataringa Bay bridge an unrealistic pipe dream A series of reports on Ngataringa Bay show that a proposed pedestrian bridge across the bay would cost a fortune and may be no go due to geological factors.

At the Ngataringa Park side of the planned bridge, refuse from the former Devonport dump is underlain by “estuary sediments, which extend to an approximate depth of 29m below ground level”, says a 2009 report to North Shore City Council on leachate management and water issues.

A 1974 environmental impact report on the planned Devon Isles – a Ngataringa Bay development for a marina and residential housing – raised issues of “soft soils” in the bay and says “in many places the rock was reported to be covered by 50 feet or more of soft marine deposits.”

“On this poor foundation it would be extremely difficult to construct stable bunds or other structures to retain fill,” it says.

The proposed location of the bridge could also run into conflict with heritage sites.

A 1994 Cultural Heritage Inventory lists the 27 heritage and historic sites in the bay, including five of the Duders Brickworks sites – near where the bridge would end on the Wakakura land.

Long-time Ngataringa Bay resident Lyndsay Brock, who has collected reports on the bay over Building real bridges…council needs to talk to residents first, says the years, and has been involved for decades in long-time Ngataringa Bay campaigner Lyndsay Brock campaigns to preserve the bay, could not believe the Greenways proposal to a build bridge from Ngataringa Park to Wesley St when she read about it in the Flagstaff.

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She says council should stop spending ratepayers’ money on staff coming up with What is Pilates?

Pilates is a safe system of exercises using a unrealistic pipe dreams.

“They cost a fortune and once on paper they floor mat or a variety of equipment. Pilates are hard to get rid of. It seems the ratepayers are can transform the way your body looks, feels paying for a lot of dreaming at the moment,” and performs. Building strength without excess bulk. she says.

Pilates elongates and strengthens – improving Fully trained instructors A footnote in the Devonport-Takapuna muscle elasticity and joint mobility. A body Our Pilates classes are taught by Greenways Plan says the bridge across Ngata- with balanced flexibility and strength is less fully trained instructors. We have a maximum of seven participants in our ringa Bay was “high level” and “aspirational” likely to be injured and less likely to be in pain. mat classes and a maximum of five and that “further investigation will be required Our personalised Pilates sessions and participants in our reformer classes. for the project as the route may be influenced by dynamic Pilates classes are designed to: topography, vegetation, land ownership, timing • relieve pain associated with conditions such Both private and ACC as back pain, arthritis, and osteoporosis of renewals funding and the like.” appointments available But Brock says the idea for a bridge across • improve your posture and prevent injury Ngataringa Bay would not have seen the light • enhance your balance and flexibility Reformer starter-packs • tone and strengthen your muscles to stabilise of day had any of the reports been consulted. and class concessions also your body “Why don’t they ask us with local knowledge available • help you to prepare for and recover from first? There are key groups in the community pregnancy that know about many things. There is De- • help you breathe and reduce stress FREE on-site parking! vonport Heritage, for example. I am the go-to Our classes are also great for post–operative person for Ngataringa Bay and can tell you all Online booking! Class timetables! rehabilitation as they are low impact and fully about it,” she says. devonportphysio.co.nz supervised.

“Instead they come and ask us after they designed something that doesn’t work or is anything but perfect, but they (council staff) still get perfect pay for it,” she says.

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This home, built from heart Kauri has been re-roofed, re-gibbed and repiled. The landscaped cottage gardens at the front and side have been lovingly tended and planted over many years with English classics such as Foxgloves, Hollyhocks and Bluebells.

Genuinely for sale by Tender closing on the 27th July, this special home is available for inspection by appointment only. Please note there are no open homes.

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Closes Monday 27th July 2015 at 4pm (unless sold prior) www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7894 Viewing by appointment only Peter Restall P 09 446 2114 M 021 808 808 E peter.restall@harcourts.co.nz Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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OPEN HOME

July 10 2015

OPEN HOME

Bayswater 57c Norwood Road

Devonport 17 Rattray Street

English Classic This stunning, much admired Bayswater property offers four bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, multiple living areas, double garage plus water and city views.

Captivating Classical Central Devonport Immerse yourself in this 1885 Double Bay Kauri Victorian Villa standing proudly in 2015 as an enviable family home with 5 double bedrooms.

Auction On site, Sunday 19th July 2015 at 2.00pm (unless sold prior) View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7924 Open Sat & Sun 12.00 - 12.45pm Gary Potter & Glenice Taylor P 09 446 2106 M 021 953 021 P 09 446 2112 M 021 943 021 Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

Auction On the 19th July 2015 at 1.00pm (unless sold prior) View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7865 Open Sat & Sun 12.00 - 1.00pm Peter Restall P 09 446 2114 M 021 808 808 E peter.restall@harcourts.co.nz Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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NEW LISTING

Belmont 42 Williamson Avenue

Devonport 44b Old Lake Road

Inspired By Excellence Sensational, Exquisite, Impressive - Superlatives that will pale into insignificance when you view this contemporary home.

Perfectly Positioned - Peaceful & Private Home Perfectly positioned down its own private shared drive way this well presented single level three bedroom home will tick all your boxes.

Auction On site, Sunday 12th July 2015 at 4.00pm (unless sold prior) View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7879 Open Sat & Sun 11-11.30 & 3.30 - 4.00 Peter Restall P 09 446 2114 M 021 808 808 E peter.restall@harcourts.co.nz Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

Auction On site, 2nd August 2015 at 4.00pm (will not be sold prior) View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7928 Open Sat & Sun 12.00 - 12.45pm Peter Andrews P 09 446 2105 M 0274 931 826 E peter.andrews@harcourts.co.nz Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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Devonport 3a Wesley Street

Devonport 11 Patuone Ave

Coastal Masterpiece Contemporary four bedroom home on a secluded, low maintenance, well landscaped site with views to the city and private access to the water.

Chocolate Box Villa Beautifully presented 3 bedroom central Devonport Villa with its front door wide open to welcome new owners. Wonderful outdoor flow at the rear.

For Sale By Negotiation View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7885 Open By Appointment Gary Potter & Glenice Taylor P 09 446 2106 M 021 953 021 P 09 446 2112 M 021 943 021 Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

Auction On Site, Sunday 12th July 2015 at 2.00pm (unless sold prior) View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7857 Open Sat & Sun 1.30-2pm Jane Hastings & Jackie Mark M 021 735 263 M 021 458 797 Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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July 10 2015

AUCTION SUNDAY

OPEN HOME

Belmont 3/1 Bellcroft Place

Belmont 20b Coronation Road

Rear Unit, Great Location A very rare spacious cosy 2 bedroom unit in a fabulous quiet cul-d-sac location can’t be beaten!

Land And Potential What more could you want? 1333m2 plus fully renovate large family home with basement development potential. Ideal work from home. Very sunny.

Auction On site, Sunday 12th July 2015 at 1.00pm (unless sold prior) View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7742 Open Sat & Sun 12.30 - 1.00pm Maria Stevens P 09 446 2111 M 021 979 084 E maria.stevens@harcourts.co.nz Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

For Sale $1,275,000 View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7794 Open Sat & Sun 12.30 - 1.00pm Jane Hastings & Jackie Mark P 09 446 2116 M 021 735 263 P 09 446 2113 M 021 458 797 Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

AUCTION SUNDAY

AUCTION SUNDAY

Devonport 13 Hanlon Crescent

Bayswater 4 Birkley Road

Charming Transitional Villa Narrow Neck villa. Three beds, new bath, high stud ceilings, timber floors, central heating, insulation, fenced gardens, close to the beach.

Bayswater Beauty Affordable buying of this 1950’s 3 bedroom home on 434m2 of land.

Sellers have purchased and are eager to get this sold!

Auction On Site, Sunday 12th July 2015 at 5.00pm (unless sold prior) View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7867 Open Sat 1 - 1.45pm, Sun 4.30 - 5pm Gary Potter & Glenice Taylor M 021 953 021 M 021 943 021 Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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Auction On site, Sunday 19th July 2015 at 12.00pm (will not be sold prior) View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7896 Open Sat 1.15-2pm, Sun 11-11.45am Maria Stevens P 09 446 2111 M 021 979 084 E maria.stevens@harcourts.co.nz Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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Letters

July 10 2015

Keeping Lake Rd two lanes allows for better transport in future It’s time to plan for the future and that is where cars are not the priority but follow in the rear behind pedestrians, cyclists and buses.

The reasoning is simple in that feet and pedals are not using anything but people power, buses efficiently carry many passengers and cars are a waste of space and fuel, especially when the driver is the only occupant.

The most annoying thing about living in paradise is Lake Road.

I’ve heard every argument and put some up myself, but am now resigned to planning my trips up and down this road to avoid the crush.

There is no point in widening the two lanes between Hauraki Corner and Belmont, as the carpark will just get bigger and probably make the rush hours stretch even further, as every man and his dog will join in.

New winter dog rules will be a waste of time and money

To prepare for the future we need to retain one way in each direction for cars, the same for buses and widen the footpaths to include cyclists as white lines aren’t safety rails.

With raised cycle paths and footpaths beside each other they can share the space and perhaps keep left as road traffic to offer common benefits.

Let’s wake up and smell the roses.

Ian Ferguson

Dogs off the lead on rocky parts of Narrow Neck could offer solution I am a dog owner and cyclist and from my experience both these groups tend to have a sense of self-entitlement when it comes to walking their dog or cycling on our roads and pathways.

On the issue of walking dogs on our beaches in the winter, I first want to say that it is not just non-dog owners that find other people’s out-of-control dogs a nuisance. I too dislike other people’s unruly dogs. The solution to this is training and feedback to the owners. As far as having dog-free times on the beach in the winter, while I sympathise with the problem I don’t think that banning dogs from 11am to 2.30pm during the winter is the answer.

If the tides permit I often walk on the

I am not a dog owner! My wife and I walk on Cheltenham beach most days and have yet to see dogs misbehaving – playing, yes dogs are pack animals, but enjoying themselves.

The hours proposed are a nonsense and clearly those personnel who are “sponsoring” this nonsense have yet to walk on the hours between 11.00 and 14.30 or they would be aware there are very few walkers on the beach at these times.

There are enough restraints on our freedom without one that would have no impact whatsoever. I assume that the council will appoint a dog ranger to police the by-law at more cost to ratepayers. An unnecessary expense just like the security guards on our wharf that were appointed for the Rugby World Cup and are still there.

Ian Brown

beach at this time during the week, and there are very few people or dogs on the beach at this time of day.

Most people tend to walk their dogs earlier or later in the day to fit in with work hours (about 65% of people in the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board area are of working age). The ban from 11am to 2.30pm during winter seems to be redundant.

Requiring dogs to be on a lead when on the main sandy part of the beach, and allowing dogs off the lead on the rocky parts of the beach (such as the northern end of Narrow Neck beach or the southern area between Narrow Neck and Cheltenham) might be a more effective solution.

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Letters

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Dog plans leave Ron’s best girl barking Reading the Flagstaff not long back, I saw that our area has been RISK-assessed. God knows who wrote this report, but clearly at best the writer was a bloody idiot, an authoritarian, who hates free speech; we have a few of those around these parts who have stuck their heads up, or rather, down in the sand, you know who you are ...

Imagine saying we have risks of troublemakers, protester types in our community amongst other ridiculous asserted ideas.

This idiot was likely paid by a government organisation, using your tax to make up such stories, and they are deadly serious I might tell you. These people are a hazard in their own right. Whilst the report set out to identify risks of all kinds, the fact is we live in world where your opinions are recorded and if the high and mighty don’t abide your ideals, they register them as a threat.

Anyone who has too much to say can now be identified as a terrorist, or similar, and can be subjected to detainment without a warrant. If you’re like Campbell Live, the PM organises through a mate put in the job prior, who writes the report that says you’re not commercially viable and makes you redundant. The DEVONPORT report-maker is one of those people helping in creating a police state. The report is in effect propaganda and a threat to democracy.

The risks the report failed to identify were Auckland Transport’s likely mindless degradation of our peninsula, by way of building a superhighway down Lake Rd, which is not required. I have real and viable solutions they ignore. There is the serious risk of degradation of the amenity values of the town, with a looming ugly monumental structure proposed to grace the gateway of

Devonport, a facility designed to suck the cash out of the elderly, a retirement village placed by stealth and backroom deals involving corporate speculators, who have no regard for the community, and the deals have been backed by our MP. There could be no worse a threat to the area than that, other than a supermarket eyesore on Lake Rd, a massive iron shed for corporate control of food supply.

And now we have the DOGGONE fiasco of where you can and can’t take the bloody dog. I’ve not bothered to read the detail but I heard that there are some other authoritarians at work again, likely the author of the Risk Report, who reckons we can’t take our dogs anywhere any more, unless he says so. My dog is actually not a dog any more, it’s had, like a gender change some people elect, but instead it’s chosen to be person, not a dog.

I know she still looks like a dog, but I’m telling you she’s now a person, and you must respect her right to be a girl. She uses my shampoo, eats people-food and is learning to drive the car; she goes cafe-lounging and has taken a voluntary job of clearing food scraps off the floors, to keep vermin from proliferating. She sleeps around in any bed she can work her way into, using her charms, typical of good-looking girls. If any authoritarian insults her integrity and calls her a dog on the beach this summer, I’ll likely smack them one for insulting my best girl. You can see it now like parking wardens, a plague already: we will have men in black combat gear with cuffs and cameras and ticket books on the beaches this winter trying to gather revenue and encouraging the *555 brigade to guide them in on the target.

Ron Dykman

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Letters

July 10 2015

Bee loss traced to garden spray Someone used garden sprays on the peninsula that have neonicotinoids contained in them.

How do I know this? Well, I have a beehive in my back garden, here in Stanley Point. I’m not the only person. It is professionally managed by a government-registered beekeeper. It has been here for 18 months, carefully managed by my personal self as well as by my beekeeper, and causing no issue for the neighbourhood.

This highly successful activity has collapsed – my beehive died this past week.

How do we know this horrific event, that is incredibly upsetting, was caused by pesticides?

Because there was no Varroa mite present. The only survivors in the beehive were a tiny little

huddle of freezing cold bees and their queen, whom I rescued and have in a tiny little box in my bathroom to try and keep warm to restart the hive in August. And there were literally no bodies of dead bees anywhere to be seen – which means the neonicotinoid-based spray was used somewhere within 5kms, which directly interferes with a bee’s navigation. My babies got lost, and died in the cold. Lastly, my queen and her dozen workers are still alive a week later, so there is no disease or virus involved. That leaves one culprit: spraying with neonicotinoids – readily available in local stores, even though most of Europe has banned their use and Australian research has undeniably connected the sprays to bee-population decimation.

As a result of the colony collapse disorder, the very large wasp population on the peninsula takes full advantage of the weakened hive and

raids it. I’ve tried to find the wasp nests nearby that lurk in most people’s backyards, but to no avail.

This past week has reminded me of the most disturbing and frightening reality. There are literally no bees (other than a few bumble bees) in any of the surrounding gardens where I live.

My hive was the only supply of bees in this part of Stanley Point. Western honey bees no longer exist outside of ‘farmed’ hives. They die.

This is an alarming situation.

I ask that people refuse to use pesticides that contain neonicotinoids. I use pesticides for hedges and the like myself, being an avid gardener, however, I choose carefully what I use.

You should see the research as to what will happen to our civilisation if we lose the western honey bee.

David Hare

they proposing to ruin the character of our village with tall buildings that will block the views and spoil the character that local and overseas tourists come to Devonport for? The main street is already a hotchpotch of different styles of building and varying quality of hoardings and signage.

Wouldn’t the DBA be better off focusing on attracting some more diverse and interesting

gering and spending their cash? Or how about doing something to support those many local businesses struggling with exorbitant rents?

DBA, why not leave building heights to the architects and heritage people and get on with making Devonport a more interesting place to shop and a more profitable place to trade.

Mary Taylor

Skateboarders need to be dealt with at New World DBA losing the plot on Devonport’s value Has the Devonport Business Association retail and hospitality options for Devonport, car park (DBA) completely lost the plot? Why are where visitors and locals alike will enjoy linWith the school holidays about to commence, undoubtedly the normal influx of teenage skate boarders will migrate to the seat out the front of New World. Over the past school holidays, weekends and after school, these teenagers ride and flip their boards with no consideration to shoppers entering and leaving New World. I have witnessed people (often elderly) almost hit by skateboards. The elderly often appear frightened and hesitant to go near these teenagers.

One day someone will be seriously injured.

I spoke to the New World owner who admitted this was an issue. I suggested he place one of his staff members out there or hire a security guard to prevent the skateboarders from gathering. His response was negative due to cost. Surely with the amount of profit he must make from New World he can ensure the safety of his shoppers. Another option would be to remove the seat but this disadvantages the shoppers and public.

David Murray

Board shows its a true chumpion Hurray for our local board!

What better use of its time than trying to restrict beach access time for Devonport’s prized pooches?

It’s right up there with trying to stop kids wharf jumping and giving the thumbs-up to unsuitable tree plantings that were later ripped out.

Lake Road’s still a mess, the ferry timeta-

ble’s patchy and bus drivers often don’t wait when the ferries run late.

Never mind, ratepayers can trudge home from the ferry terminal in the dark, safe in the knowledge their trusty board is focused on the important stuff – banning a few dogs from near-deserted beaches in the middle of the day. What chumpions!!

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Up in broken arms about footpaths A Plunket nurse, who has broken her left arm three times after tripping on Devonport streets, is calling on council to urgently upgrade footpaths.

Elly van der Zwaag, who works at Devonport Plunket, first broke her arm falling outside Brumbies in Clarence St around four years ago.

Then last year she tripped on bad paving on Albert Rd, smashing her arm in two places.

And three weeks ago she fell in Anne St after stumbling over asphalt that was left raised after a pavement repair. The last two accidents happened around dusk.

“I’m not a clumsy person and keep myself fit…I do a lot of tramping and I’m not a frail old woman who has fragile bones.

“And I do not want to stop walking because the streets are in bad repair.”

Van der Zwaag believes council needs to address the poor state of Devonport’s pavements as a priority and also ensure contractors and utility service providers repair footpaths properly after they have done maintenance work.

“Our rates are increasing so people should be able to have good pavements,” she says.

The government has just announced millions of dollars of funding for cycleways in Auckland, which van der Zwaag supports.

But she says good pavements are equally important to keep people active.

Dangerous footpaths are worse at nights and residents shouldn’t be restricted to walking in daylight hours; it was dark at 5.30 pm in winter, she said.

Uneven paths also make it difficult for people in wheelchairs, frames and mobility scooters to get around, van der Zwaag said.

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Interview

July 10 2015

Dance takes centre stage in McLennan’s life Alisha McLennan is an award-winning contemporary and aerial dancer with Touch Compass, a professional company based at the Wilson Centre. She is also a champion skier. McLennan has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair. She spoke to Maire Vieth.

Alisha McLennan is a hands-on dancer and choreographer.

One of her creations is a hand solo she performs regularly as a professional dancer for Touch Compass, a contemporary company open to disabled and non-disabled performers.

McLennan’s hand solo is based on a story she wrote about moving into her own home at the age of 23. “I wrote about all sorts of things – packing boxes, figuring out where to put everything and not being able to get to sleep.

From those words I created the movement. It is nice making work that has different layers to it,” she says.

Last month, McLennan’s hand solo became the basis for Brought is to Bring, a performance

by Takapuna Grammar School’s Integrated Dance Company at the school’s annual dance evening at the Bruce Mason Centre. The group comprises 20 disabled and non-disabled students.

McLennan (27) has been involved with the TGS event for four years as a Touch Compass community and school project tutor. “This year I actually went in there with an idea. I wanted to take my hand solo and teach it to the students, so they had some material to work with and make their own.

“Everyone got to work with a partner and chose four of their favourite moves from the solo and change them how they wanted. I had done the solo on the floor, but they could stand up and put new bits and pieces into it,” she says.

Becoming a choreographer is McLennan’s long-term plan and working with the TGS students is part of it. “Each year I feel like I’ve had more input. I have gone from being a support tutor to being more of an equal tutor with the other person from Touch Compass.

It’s been really nice,” she says. This year, that second tutor was Georgie Goater, who also worked with McLennan on the original hand solo choreography.

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Forging a career in dance… Alisha McLennan ance and control of her muscles as well as her speech. She uses her wheelchair when out and about because it’s a lot quicker to get from A to B, but in the company’s latest work she has created a solo where her chair does not contain her.

McLennan works with Touch Compass year-round on a series of dancing and teaching contracts. In August, she will go on tour with the company. “We are taking two pieces – Undertide and Watching Window – to Hamilton and Wellington,” she says. In October, Touch Compass will show new work at the Q Theatre during Auckland’s annual Tempo Dance Festival.

McLennan grew up on the North Shore and developed her passion for dance when she was 10, while at Belmont Primary School. In 1998, she attended a Touch Compass community workshop held at Unitec Institute of Technology. The dance company had been founded only a year earlier and Karen Fraser Payne, its general manager and a family friend of the McLennans, encouraged McLennan to try it out. Until then McLennan had done a little bit of swimming and a lot of physio, which wasn’t fun, she says.

McLennan instantly enjoyed the new level of physicality in her life. A year later, now at Belmont Intermediate School, she took an aerial dance workshop and was hooked. “I think the appeal was that it was fun to start with, real fun.

Then it became a lot about the physical side and how it helped me to maintain strength. Actively dancing changed my ability to do everyday

things; simple things like put my wheelchair into the boot of my car and then walk to the front seat. When I go somewhere and I need to get up some stairs, I can do that. And as long as I have someone with me, I can go to the beach for a swim or go pretty much anywhere,” she says.

McLennan’s first performance with Touch Compass was in 1999 at the Auckland Art Gallery for the company’s official launch. She was 11. In 2002, aged 14, she became a company member while still a student at TGS. She went on tour performing Lusi’s Eden in Taupo and Christchurch and featured in Lighthouse at the Aotea Centre. A year later, she performed in Acquisitions ’03, and in Nightswimmers with Splash Flying Dance and Company.

At 15, McLennan’s dancing career took a knock when her family moved from Devonport to Christchurch. McLennan’s mother Kathe, an interior designer, and her father Murray, a builder, had renovated eight houses around Devonport and Takapuna and now wanted to buy farmland in North Canterbury. “I didn’t particularly like this idea. When we were moving down, I thought I’ll come and I will finish school and then I’ll come back. It did not quite happen that way,” she says.

In Christchurch, McLennan became interested in adaptive skiing through Disabled Snowsports Canterbury. “They had a really great programme where they would go from Christchurch up to Mt Hutt on day trips three times a week. They had a helper programme, so one day me and my twin brother Harry decided

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McLennan went on a skiing week at Cardrona with a Canterbury skiing team. “From there, I kept meeting and skiing with different instructors down there.” Skis are specially adapted for her. “I started off with a sit-on bi-ski and then tried a mono-ski for which you need more balance. You sit and get strapped in. Your ski is under you and you have two outriggers like mini poles with little skis at the bottom,” she says.

She competed in the Cardrona disabled national champs and won gold medals in the junior division in 2007 and 2008. A year later, she won the event’s open female division.

She also won the Viv Martin Trophy for Most Outstanding Female Skier in 2008 and 2009.

After school, McLennan enrolled in Canterbury University. “I started out doing a law degree and then I changed to do a BA in politics but I didn’t finish. It just wasn’t for me,” she says.

While still at university, McLennan lived on the family farm in the Hurunui town of Amberley with her older sister Sada. Their parents had taken off to the UK for a three-year working OE and the older siblings had left home.

“My sister went away for a couple of weeks and by that point she had gotten a dog and some chickens and I had to look after them. I’d drive to the chicken coop to collect the eggs and clean out the straw. I’d get the dog to chase the car so he got some exercise or I’d throw sticks off the patio down the hill,” she says.

In 2010, McLennan decided that if law and politics weren’t for her, dance was. She moved

back to Devonport and started working and touring with Touch Compass again, with a renewed focus on aerial dance.

She started out using a bungee cord. She straps herself into a modified rock-climbing harness, attached to a bungee hanging from the ceiling. “I can still touch the ground and if I push off a bit more I can also jump. To be able

“To get up really quickly and jump is a freedom like nothing else,” says Alisha McLennan about aerial dance to get up really quickly and jump is a freedom like nothing else,” she says.

In 2011, McLennan, received a North Harbour AIMES special judges’ award of $8,000.

She used the grant to travel the world. She worked with performance and inclusive dance companies in England in 2012. In Liverpool she joined workshops with Wired Aerial Theatre, who trained with bungees and vertical walls.

“You are in a harness quite close to a special

The Devonport Flagstaff Page 19 wall that is kind of like a trampoline and you can bounce off it and do flips and stuff like that.

It’s really cool,” she says.

She returned to London the following year.

“I was with a dance company called CanDoCo for one workshop and did another aerial dance workshop there. We were working with silks, cocoon and trapeze,” says McLennan, who particularly enjoyed the cocoon work.

“Cocoon is quite similar to silks. Silks are two pieces of material that hang straight from the ceiling, a bit like at Cirque du Soleil A cocoon is a loop of material so you can climb inside it and with that extra support you don’t have to only rely on upper-body strength. You can stand up in it too and you don’t need a harness,” she says.

The intense work in aerial dance earned McLennan the Artistic Achievement Award at New Zealand’s annual Attitude Awards in 2013.

The awards aim to recognise and celebrate achievement in the disability sector.

Does she want to keep dancing? “Yes, I want to keep dancing and want to keep making work.

That is what I really appreciate about the work at TGS. It’s becoming really close to me being able to be on the outside creating work rather than only being a dancer in the work,” she says.

When not on stage or the piste, McLennan loves to paint and write the occasional poem.

In a couple of weeks, she is off to Nelson to visit her brother Reuben and sister Sada. Her boyfriend Joel is coming with her. “He has only been to Blenheim on the South Island, so I said, let’s go to Golden Bay. You are going to like it!”

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Devonport 9 Tudor Street Glamour, Grandeur and Grandstand Views.

Located just off the Devonport waterfront, this magnificent landmark 7 bedroom Villa sits proudly among the celebrated heritage buildings of the area and boasts an unprecedented 2238m² land size, as well as panoramic views from its grandstand position.

Devonport 36 Kawerau Avenue Carol Wetzell M 027 245 3392 A/H 09 488 7559 Devonport 09 445 2010 Ian Cunliffe M 0800 248 521 Devonport 09 445 2010

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Style, Sophistication and Sunsets This beautiful sunny and spacious renovated home with 3 bedrooms, an office and 2 1/2 bathrooms is quite simply an adorable dwelling where you can enjoy magnificent sunsets and enviable views of the Harbour Bridge and Waitakere Hills from your expansive ‘alfresco’ deck. This home will tick all of the boxes.

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D L SO Devonport 4 Flagstaff Terrace Magnificent Central Devonport Residence This astonishing double brick and Welsh slate residence with swimming pool is positioned above the Devonport Reserve in a private and secluded central village location, has sea views from East to West, and a full length upper balcony to enjoy the majestic vista beyond. A truly majestic, regal and iconic home.

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Exceptional Opportunity - 890m² Site ... is the most accurate description of this 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom immaculately presented home. On a full 890m² freehold section the opportunity for possible subdivision, subject to the usual council consents, or land bank for the future means the property will lend itself to a wide range of buyers with an eye to future.

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D L SO Devonport 8 Old Lake Rd UNBELIEVABLE BUYING BY THE BEACH! Just a few doors up from the beach, Wakatere Boating Club, Narrow Neck cafe and just a short stroll to the golf course, tennis courts and sought after Vauxhall Primary School.

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Bayswater 67 Norwood Road Toni Gregory M 021 044 3663 A/H 09 446 1023 Devonport 09 445 2010 Linda Simmons M 0274 590 957 A/H 09 445 6337 Devonport 09 445 2010

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Stop You Need to See This Come on down to this rare Waterfront opportunity and experience the ‘Kiwi Dream’ that so many people come here to find on a full 1,090m² section on the highly sought after Norwood Road. Bring the kayaks, fishing rods, picnic gear, bird watching binoculars and any other ‘Bay side’ equipment.

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Devonport 9 Tudor Street Located just off the Devonport waterfront, Tudor Street is the setting for this magnificent villa and expansive garden estate. This landmark property sits proudly among the celebrated heritage buildings of the area and boasts an unprecedented 2238m² land size, as well as panoramic views from its grandstand position. As the floor-plan shows the house is currently divided into four quite separate dwellings, there is potential to utilise the flats for rental accommodation income or guest/ staff quarters. Alternatively, it could be easily reconfigured back into the original layout and become a stately family home once more. This is an extraordinary opportunity for a discerning buyer with a passion for heritage homes and the historical Devonport lifestyle. Stroll to the ferry and local boutique shops, restaurants and cafes of Devonport.

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Rackets blast into town and ask for Lorde

Rocking the mountain…Rackets: (from left to right) Jeremy Hofman, Vince Farron-Diamantis and Oscar Davies Central Auckland band Rackets, bombed into Devonport for a rapid-fire set on Mt Victoria last Thursday to launch their third CD. The band – Vince Farron-Diamantis on drums, Oscar Davies on vocals and Jeremy Hofman on guitar – played for about half an hour with the music loud enough to be heard at the ferry building.

Local who went up the mountain to check them out found the drum set squeezed into the back of a trailer and CDs for sale for $5.

In between songs, Davies shouted: “Where’s Lorde? She lives here, right?”

The performance was part of a six-day, 22-gig tour across Auckland to showcase the band’s latest album.

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Jill Gannaway – in harmony with Devonport

Jill Gannaway became the President of Devonport Senior Citizens Association four years ago. She was handed a challenge straight away. The club, established in 1948, had only a dozen members left and they struggled to look after its home, Harmony Hall on Wynyard St. Four years on, the club is back in good shape, says Gannaway. “Now we have 38 members and the local board just gave us a grant of $5,000 to do some maintenance work on the hall. We are going to do quite a bit of painting and timber repairs,” she said.

When Gannaway isn’t busy running the club, she trys her luck at its Monday and Friday morning Bingo sessions. “Last week I did quite well. Someone said I could go home now,” she laughs.

Gannaway has lived in her Glen Rd home since 1960. She reads thrillers and spends a lot of time in her garden. “It’s small but full of veggies and fruit trees and whatnot,” she says.

“I also cook a lot, for myself and for family and friends. Plus I bake a lot for our Trading Table at the Senior Citizens meeting,” she says. Gannaway ran the old Lanes Bakery on Victoria Road (now Hoxton’s Café) during the 1970s.

The mother of three sons and grandmother of five, her family is nearby. The sons all live in Devonport. Michael works across the street from Harmony Hall as an accountant, Happy at Harmony Hall…Jill Gannaway Mark helps as a maintenance man with the hall, and Nigel works locally as a painter.

The Gannaways have been part of Devonport life for six decades. “We were always SCHOOL NEWS mixed up with politics,” she says. Jill’s husband Mick was a popular long-time deputy chair on the Devonport Community Board.

“When he died in 2002, all the flags on the North Shore were at half mast,” she says.

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Passionate about engineering and Devonport

Dr Joe Deans, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Auckland University and long-time resident of Devonport, has died. Joe loved living in Devonport and with wife Trish happily settled in Tainui Rd after having had an international career as an industrial engineer. Joe came to New Zealand in 1985 and was employed as the Construction Manager of the cold rolling mill at Glenbrook Steel Mill. He was responsible for completing Stage 2 of the Glenbrook Project. This project was the last of Robert Muldoon’s “think-big” projects, and Joe proudly completed the build on time and within budget.

Joe’s early life began in Darvel, a small village in Scotland, where he attended the local school. However Joe couldn’t be contained in this environment and left school aged 15. He became an apprentice engineer in a nearby foundry and it was quickly established that Joe had found his vocation. He completed apprentice night-study courses and was admitted as a student of engineering to the University of Strathclyde, completing his PhD. in 1972.

He loved to tell the story that the Scottish Educational Trust, set up by Sean Connery, in which Connery donated 10% of his earnings from the James Bond films, had awarded a scholarship to Joe to complete nd University. his university studies.

By 1988, after the Glenbrook Project was 1972. completed, Joe began looking for a way 67. to stay in New Zealand. He approached re, 1965. the Engineering Department at Auckland University and an offer of employment was made. Joe’s areas of teaching and research at the university quickly became heat transfer and design, as these subjects (UK). reflected his industrial interests. ew Zealand. Joe’s breadth of experience and extensive interests in engineering problems led him to be involved in many research projects, particularly those solving problems that were encountered by local industry.

These included developing an analytical model of a tumbler dryer for Fisher and Paykel, designing solar wall panels, im-

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the University of Auckland Human Ethics and Safety Committees. But his main contributions to the university organisational structure were at the Faculty and Department level. Joe became chairman of the Faculty Practical Work Committee.

The main activity of this committee was the development and implementation of a scheme that enabled the 1100 practical work reports completed by students each year to be marked by subcontractors.

Joe was never shy of a challenge and he was instrumental in creating the Vehicle and Fuels Research Unit and for the subsequent creation of a postgraduate scholarship fund from the excess income generated by the unit’s commercial activities. In more recent years Joe became the Undergraduate Student Adviser within the department and in this role he assisted students with their pastoral and educational problems.

Joe’s enthusiasm for maintaining dialogue with other universities led him to be a participant on the scientific committees of four international conferences on engineering design. This led Joe to be invited to deliver lectures on ammonia/water condensation at the universities of: Cambridge, Oxford, Queen Mary College (London) Manchester and Strathclyde.

Joe balanced his academic life with active involvement in community service through his membership of the Devonport Rotary Club. He was a past president of the Rotary Club and a past chairman of its fundraising Engineer, academic and active in arm the Devonport Food and Wine Festival the Devonport community…Dr Society. He took great pleasure in watching the club distribute the funds raised to a Joe Deans 12.6.1944–20.6.2015 well-deserved charity and for local groups proving heat sinks design methods for PDL to receive grants to assist their goals. Both th th and refining curing of powderJune coatings2015 12 Junethe1944 - 20 Joe and Trish were foundation members of for Enerco. Joe also worked with Laurence Devonport Heritage and together helped Carter, another local resident and academic, preserve the character of Devonport. on the thermometric methods of landmine Joe’s family would like to thank the comdetection. munity team of Hospice North Shore, the Joe’s life as an academic was energetic Devonport Medical Centre, the Devonport and he participated in various university, 7 Day Pharmacy and the many friends from faculty and department committees. He the Devonport community for their care and enjoyed the depth of the discussions on assistance during Joe’s period of illness.

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Curtains & Roman Blinds Free measure, quote and design advice. 20 years’ experience. Phone Sara 027 625 5844.

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Devonport a breeding ground for fantasy novels Sam Blood has captured his magical Devonport childhood in his first book.

Shadows, self-published last month, is the first of a series of four fantasy novels he is working on. They are set in an Auckland inhabited by magical creatures.

Blood (23) has been working on the books since he was nine and spent the last 14 years rewriting and honing them.

“All the magic of Devonport that I grew up with as a child was the breeding ground for these story ideas. For example the North Head tunnels felt like they could be a dragon lair to me,” he says.

Blood first developed the plot while telling bedtime stories to Gaby Miegeville-Little, who lived in a house that opened onto Mt Cambria Reserve. “The garden gate reminded me of the wardrobe door in The Chronicles of Narnia. It was like there was a magic door into a fantasy world around the corner,” he says.

Once at Belmont Intermediate School, Blood wrote the story on paper. “During lunchtime I would run around daydreaming about the world I was creating and get out a piece of A4 paper and write down words that went crazily in all directions across the page,” he says.

“I still have all those scraps of paper,” says Blood. He put some examples up on the wall at the Ponsonby book launch for Shadows.

At Takapuna Grammar School, his handwritten plot lines continued in school exercise books until Year 11, when friends helped him transcribe them into a computer.

“Since the beginning, I have rewritten the entire thing almost every year. The story and characters remained the same, but the theme and the events changed over and over again,” he says.

“When you are young you basically mature really quickly. So by the time I read a new version, I often felt that I already could do a much better job now,” he says.

When his best friend Dean Stroobant died last December, Blood stopped rewriting. “Dean was my best friend and the story’s main champion. His passing away was a catalyst for me to start publishing it now,” he says.

Shadows can be purchased on Kindle and in paperback at www.amazon.com.

Blood says he is going to publish the second book in the series later this year.

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We know real estate isn’t a matter of life or death, but if you are looking to sell your home – we have the country’s BEST auctioneers here at Harcourts Cooper & Co. Congratulations to Andrew North – NZ Grand Champion and Sam Walmsley – Most Promising New Auctioneer at this year’s REINZ Auctioneers Championship.

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Construction projects continue apace around Devonport

Raising the roof…Wharf roof replaced (above) and the restoration of the Masonic begins in earnest (below) Upgrades to the Devonport wharf building are racing ahead with the roof of its first section replaced last week.

Auckland Transport (AT) spokesperson Mark Hannan said: “The front section of the wharf will be re-roofed as a variation to the Downers’ contract for building of the promenade deck.”

Hannan had no update on future tenants of the renovated space. Expressions of Interest closed on June 16 and during the following week AT was evaluating the offers and selecting a preferred tenant or tenants.

Last week, AT was “still going through internal procedures to properly evaluate offers and then gain board endorsement for

any recommendation,” Hannan said.

A grand opening of Marine Square is planned for July 26.

Meanwhile the scaffolding is up as renovation work on the old Masonic Tavern on King Edward Parade begins in the second stage of an apartment development at the site.

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Takapuna

Grammar

SCHOOL NEWS

JULY 10, 2015

The delights of dance Dance Evening is a highly anticipated event every year, and this year was no exception.

Held at the Bruce Mason Centre, it showcases the amazing dancing talent TGS has to offer.

There were incredible performances from the two TGS dance companies, Tempus and Cactus. These dance companies are an additional part of the students’ dancing and do not count as part of their classes. Students had spent countless hours rehearsing, to put together some spectacular dances.

Also featured were performances from the Year 11, 12 and 13 dance classes, and numbers from the Musical Theatre class. Professional company, Touch Compass, is an organisation that has set up a programme at TGS that has Year 10 dance students helping to teach a dance to the students in the Special Education classes, which they also performed. Touch Compass also presented a small section of their upcoming show, in an amazing performance for the almost packed-out theatre.

BY JORDAN BLUM

Top young speakers take the stage Seven up-and-coming speakers anxiously waited for their turn on the stage, and with two judges and over 250 of their peers filing into the hall, they had good reason to be nervous.

The 2015 Year 10 speech final was under way with, first up, Angus Fotheringham’s strong claim that ‘Our generation is the best generation’.

However, top spot was taken out by Barnaby Watts on ‘Why we deserve better politicians’.

“Barnaby was very charismatic and had great use of humour,” said Mr Chapman, Year 10 dean and judge. “We might just have had a future politician on the stage,” the other judge, Mrs Walker, said, when announcing the winner.

Runner-up went to a speech on ‘Technology and how it prevents social interaction’, cleverly delivered with no cue cards, by Jessica Pausch.

Messages for teenagers was a common

theme, often surrounding topics about technology and social media. Third-place getter, Samuel Ong, however, took a different note with his speech on ‘How to be a superhero in real life’.

The other finalists were Georgia Barron, Ella Vu-

kovich, Aeron Conger and Kate Lee. “The quality of speeches was really high this year,” said Mrs Walker. “All the speakers did really well.”

BY DOUGAL BURDEN

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Takapuna SCHOOL NEWS

Grammar JULY 10, 2015

Takapuna student on the world rugby stage

Noodles for Nepal Steaming cups of noodles were served to students during lunchtimes recently. ‘Noodles for Nepal’ was a creative fundraising event that aimed to provide monetary support to the victims of the 7.8 magnitude Nepal earthquake that killed thousands and displaced millions.

Yutong Cheng had been collecting donations around school with a group of her friends for this cause when she heard about this event happening in other schools. She collaborated with Mrs Annie White (school librarian) to hold ‘Noodles for Nepal’ at TGS. Mrs White and a group of 10 student volunteers were responsible for the smooth operation of this event. “It’s great to see so many students aware of the plight of the Nepalese people and being prepared to spend their own personal time fundraising,” says Mrs White.

Packets of Maggi 2-minute Noodles (beef and chicken flavours) were served to students who made a one-dollar donation. “Noodles for Nepal was a great success and we raised $347 in total. I’m very proud of our efforts and we had a lot of fun as well,” says one Year 11 student.

This event was made possible due to the generous donations of the noodles from Sheree McGregor of The Warehouse (Milford) and the cups provided by the TGS tuck shop meaning that 100% of the profit was able to go directly to Nepal.

“No matter how far away we are from Nepal, we feel close to the people there and stand together with them in their times of need. I would like to say thank you to everyone who donated resources and money and also, in particular, acknowledge the tireless help of Mrs White and the whole team who spent their intervals and lunchtimes to run this,” says Yutong.

BY EMILLY FAN

The Maori All Blacks squad, scheduled to play Fiji and the New Zealand Barbarians, has been announced and includes Sean Wainui, an ex-Takapuna Grammar prefect and 1st XV captain, who also represented New Zealand on the world stage in the championship-winning New Zealand Under-20 Rugby World Cup team, in Italy.

Wainui played in the successful pool matches, against Scotland and Argentina. During the Scotland game, Wainui came from reserve and played for 30 minutes, and the team won 68-10. Wainui started on the wing against Argentina, scored a try, resulting in their win 32-29.

The midfield back signed to Taranaki Rugby, and was selected to play in the Taranaki ITM Cup Premiership team in 2014. Sean stated to ‘Stuff’, after the signing of his Taranaki contract: “I just thought if I trained as hard as I could in the development programme then you never know where things can go and so it’s proved.” The team won the league. Sean also played in the Chiefs Super 15 development side in 2014.

He had spent 11 weeks over the summer recovering from a stress fracture in his foot, and as a result missed the Under-20 training camps and trials. Wainui was called late to the squad, and proved his worth scoring two tries against Japan in the Oceania Cup. Wainui returned to Takapuna Grammar for a Q&A session after the Under-20s’ win, and was welcomed by the current 1st XV team. He presented a NZ U20 jersey to the school, stating the day, “was an honour.” Takapuna Grammar wishes Sean Wainui all the best for his future in rugby.

BY CIARA CONNOLLY

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July 10 2015

‘Time-trial beast’ cycles against the best When Sam Gray got back on her old road bicycle two and a half years ago, little did she know it was the first pedal stroke towards competing at the masters cycling world championships.

Once back in the saddle Gray turned out to be so good that in April she was handed two of New Zealand’s 10 wild-card entries for the UCI World Cycling Tour Final in Aalborg and Hobro in Demark. Gray will compete in both the time trial and road race events.

“It’s going to be incredibly hard to cycle with the best masters cyclists in Europe. It will be a massive challenge for me but I just had to take the opportunity offered to me and go for it,” she says.

The challenge has already begun. She rides five days a week and tries to juggle the ten-plus hours around her family – husband Callum and their two boys Archie (7) and Angus (9) – and work commitments.

The cost of competing is another hill to climb for Gray. She expects airfares, accommodation, meals, transport for two bikes, hireage of equipment, entry fees and cycling kits to add up to about $6,000.

But the fundraising support she has received already has blown her away. Belmont Primary School, where both Archie and Angus are students, is riding the equivalent of the Tour de France as a fundraiser for Gray. Children will cycle to and from school attempting to collectively clock up 3,360km during July. It is the same distance every Tour de France rider covers.

Gray’s coach, Commonwealth Games medallist and five-times NZ Elite Road Race champion Gordon McCauley, ran a spin class and cycling gear sale at Takapuna Grammar School for her.

Gray also set up an online Givealittle page that by last week had raised $3,500 for her adventure.

The 45-year-old Belmont resident had been a road biker at university. “When my youngest

Off to the world masters cycling champs…Sam Gray with dog China turned five we spent the summer in Central Otago where we have a family place in Clyde and we cycled a bit there on the trail and the road.

“Back home, I wanted to get back into it and dusted my old bike from uni off and went out,” she says. Gray soon realised she needed a newer model. Then 18 months ago, she hired a coach and started to race. “Then about a year ago my coach said I should give time trialling a go. He

literally said I could be a time-trial beast. So I bought a second-hand time-trial bike and started training in January.”

At the Club Road National Champs in Napier, Gray placed third at the time-trial and fourth in the road race in her Women’s Masters 3 age group.

“And that’s when Cycling New Zealand handed me the wild cards.”

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Cubs raise $2300 for Westpac Helicopter COMING UP 18 July – 5 August

Opening Saturday 18 July 2 – 3.30pm

Tiny Travelling Gallery Created by Scott Savage and Colleen Pugh the Tiny Travelling Gallery is a suitcase-sized exhibition which showcases over 30 artists from the Lowbrow arts community in New Zealand.

Hiking for a good cause…Devonport Cubs Devonport Cubs raised $2,346 for the Westpac Helicopter Trust in a 16km hike from Onehunga to Devonport.

Since 2009, the Devonport Cubs have raised over $13,000 to help charities and good causes such as the Red Cross, Radio

Lollipop at Starship Hospital, the North Shore Bird Rescue Centre and tree planting on Motuihe Island.

The Cub Scout motto is still ‘think of others and do a good turn every day’, which was the theme of the walk.

Meghan Geliza, Rebecca ter Borg & Malangeo Misfits

Misfits is a group exhibition featuring three New Zealand artists who identify their practice as being in the Lowbrow/ Pop Surreal space.

A great spot to grab a PRE or post Film Festival drink

Tim Flower In a Different Light

In this series, Tim has travelled throughout New Zealand documenting the landscape using rare Infrared film – turning the green New Zealand landscapes we are all used to, into surreal explosions of pink and blue.

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Local volleyballers in NZ team off to Thailand Devonport volleyball players Ashton Howard and Matt Howe-Smith have been selected to represent New Zealand as part of the Youth Men’s Team taking part in the Thailand Age Group Championship this month.

The 16-year-old Westlake Boys High School students have been playing the game for four years. Ashton is a setter, who sets the ball up for the attack, and Matt an outside spiker, who then smashes it over the net.

They are spending a fortnight in Bangkok, training for one week and competing for the second.

Volleyball is a minority sport in New Zealand yet big on the North Shore, says Ashton’s dad John, who coaches the boy’s Westlake Boys Premier team.

“We have 1,200 secondary school kids playing at North Harbour. For girls it’s the biggest summer sport,” he says.

Two years ago, the team won the North Island Secondary School Junior Volleyball Championship. This year, they came third in the senior champs.

Matt and Ashton have been at a couple of training camps with the New Zealand team. “We’re off-season now, so we only train once a week at High Performance North Harbour. During the season, it’s five days a week,” says Ashton.

For both boys, the sport is a family affair. Matt’s uncle and cousin played volleyball for New Zealand.

Ashton’s dad John also played volleyball for New Zealand, and so did his mum Pauline, who played in Thailand in 1989 in the Women’s senior team.

Playing for New Zealand…volleyballers Ashton Howard and Matt Howe-Smith

THE NAVY COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER

NATTY NAVY KNOTTERS School holidays are here so come on down to the Navy Museum and make your own Natty Navy Knotter!

Knots are essential to every sailor; they are practical and also fun. Whether tying them to throw a lifeline, berthing a ship or just whiling away the time, there is a knot for every occasion.

Join us at the Navy Museum to learn a few knots and make your own Natty Navy Knotter.

We will use the reef, half-hitch and thumb knot to make a cool Natty Navy Knotter to hang from your bag.

Not good at knots? Don’t worry, the reef, half-hitch and thumb knots aren’t tricky, with our help you’ll be tying them with ease in no

time.

You get to draw your own Navy Knotter face and choose the colour of your Natty Navy Knotter, and we’ll show you how to do the rest.

The best thing is, once you have learnt the skills, you can use these knots to make all sorts of things, from bracelets, key rings to headbands…move over loom bands.

So see you these July school holidays at the Navy Museum.

To pre-book call 09 445 5186 or email education@navymuseum.co.nz Walk-up spaces may be available on the day. Groups over 10 people must pre-book.

Please note: this activity is only suitable for children aged 4 years and over due to the small parts being used.

Adult assistance may be required.

Dates: 4-19 July 2015 Session Times: 10:30, 11:30, 1:30, 2:30 Duration: 40 minutes approx Cost: $3

NAVY BASE TEST LOCKDOWN The Devonport Navy Base recently held an exercise to test our ability to lock down and secure the base. The exercise was a success, and later in the year we will conduct a similar exercise to make sure we continue to maintain this capability.

During exercises like this we rely on the cooperation of our neighbours and the Devonport community, as traffic can sometimes be disrupted. We thank you all

for your patience and we know we’re lucky to have such understanding neighbours.

We try hard to be a good neighbour and play an active and meaningful part in the Devonport community. However, we know from time to time we might get it wrong and do something which is unnecessarily disruptive. If this is the case please call us on 445 5999 and speak to the Officer of the Day. They will do whatever they can to fix the issue.

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Nestled in the heart of Devonport village is Meatery, your most recent addition to the Devonport food scene.

A family-friendly, ambient, eco-industrial chic décor showcases versatile seating areas, so that you can choose your preferred experience. It is suitable for all ages and direct off-street disabled access is available.

Communal tables outside provide a shared dining experience and are ideal for casual eating and drinking. For a more formal experience, you can dine inside, which is both comfy and stylish.

Meatery is fully licensed and you are guaranteed the best quality single-source Black Angus at affordable prices.

You can treat yourself to sous-vide cooking in your own neighbourhood.

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The ribs are slow cooked for eight hours in the chef’s secret marinade and grilled to perfection before being served to you.

Your fries are cooked in a combination of duck fat and canola, hence they remain crunchy, flavourful and crisp outside.

There are daily specials available at the restaurant as well as $12 lunch specials on Saturday and Sunday for the winter months.

Meatery is open seven days for takeaway. You can order a delivery and we can bring the Meatery experience to your home.

We invite you to a Meatery experience to dine-in or takeout, Mondays to Fridays from 3pm and on Saturday and Sunday from 11am.

The Meatery Grill and Bar Fully licensed 3 pm late (Monday - Friday) 11am to late (Saturday - Sunday)

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July 10 2015

North Shore on fire as play offs loom North Shore thrashed potential semi-finalists Western Pioneers 34-13 last Saturday, sending out a warning that back-to-back premiership titles may be more than a pipe dream.

Shore have probably been the biggest improvers over the 2015 season – perhaps a strange thing to say about the 2014 North Harbour champions. But at the start of the year the team was up and down from match to match, lacked consistency and recorded a couple of unexpected losses.

Not any more, on the evidence of the five-tries-to-one caning of Western at Helensville.

But the true merit of the win was the way Shore achieved it through a solid forward display, gritty defence and good option-taking and finishing when on attack.

Although Shore was up 15-3 at half-time, the game was very much in the balance and a number of Western attacks, which could have easily been rewarded with points, were repelled. Shore on the other hand were almost clinical when near the Western line.

It looked like Shore would keep Western tryless, but the plucky side who never stopped attacking, got over between the posts just on full-time.

Strong games for Shore again from veteran James Hinchco and Josh Blucher, Leigh Thompson and Alex Woonton in the pack.

Lock Adam Betts lifted the side when he came on off the bench in the second half.

It will take a very good pack to dominate Shore in the type of form it was in last weekend.

And then there is cool and classy Shore first-five Willie Walker. He controlled

North Shore United has everything to play for North Shore United drew 1-1 with Hibiscus Coast last weekend to cling to top position in the Northern League, but is now joint equal with Forrest Hill.

With nine games of the season left, the young side has everything to play for.

Coach Paul Temple said: “There is still lots of time for twists and turns…all the top teams still have to play each other.”

However Shore was at full strength and aiming to get promotion to the Premier League.

“Our aim is to win the division, but the top two teams get promoted,” Temple said.

In a recent Chatham Cup match against Eastern Suburbs only two of the Shore side were older than 25, six players were under 20 and three players under 17.

The team has made massive strides in 2015 and if it stayed together it had the nucleus of a top side, Temple said.

• Shore’s next championship game is against Mt Albert Ponsonby at Allen Hill Stadium on 18 July at 2.45 pm.

Rapt up…Ben Stewart (above) and the classy Willie Walker (at right) the game, varying his passing and kicking expertly. He also proved a vital link man in two of Shore’s second half tries. A former Highlanders Super Rugby player, Walker probably more than any other holds the key to guiding Shore through the rest of the 2015 to what looks increasingly like a finals spot

and possibly the title.

Shore is now in second place and faces top-of-the table Massey this Saturday at Vauxhall Rd at 2.45 pm.

It will be a true test of how far Shore have come this season and a good performance is vital going into the semi-finals on July 18.

Former North Shore juniors make Blues squad Former North Shore junior club players – Donald Coleman (Takapuna Grammar), Jacob Pierce (Rosmini College) and Luke Dewar (Westlake Boys High) – have been selected into the Blues under-18 development side.

Free Squash Join us every Thursday from

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7:30pm for free squash at the Devonport Squash Club

BRAD JOHNSTONE

(opposite 70 Wairoa Rd)

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021 881 925 OFFICE: 445 3414

Racquets and squash balls provided For more details contact: Dietmar 445 8839

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