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Devonport Heritage pursued for costs by developer
Devonport Heritage has been hit by a $21,000 bill for court costs after the Environment Court battle to save the Masonic Tavern in 2010. Costs were awarded to Redback Develop – the company that has built 10 apartments at the Masonic site – and it has decided to pursue
Devonport Heritage for payment. Letters of demand have been sent to Heritage by debt recovery company Baycorp. Heritage president Trish Deans said rather than dissolving it has decided to continue as Devonport Heritage Inc in the short term. “We have done and are continuing to do
a lot of Unitary Plan presentations and by dissolving we would need to withdraw our submissions.” Deans said its aim with the court case had been to retain the Masonic building and prevent the apartments dominating the corner site “which was best practice for heritage.” Editorial, page 7
New Zealand Music Month kicks off in Devonport with art
Something fishy… a striking portrait of former prime minister and UN Secretary-General aspirant Helen Clark turned heads at the opening of Seen & Heard at the Depot Artspace last Saturday, to launch New Zealand Music Month. Liam Gerrard, who created St Helen and the Eels, is a former Veils member and is pictured with girlfriend Greta Gotlieb, who has portraits exhibited at the the show, including Benjamin the library cat Phil Clark P 09 446 2125 M 021 940 041 E phil.clark@harcourts.co.nz Peter Ayton P 09 446 2109 M 021 336 300 E peter.ayton@harcourts.co.nz
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Apartments on Bayswater Marina land hit rough water Residential development on Bayswater Marina land has hit another obstacle – the Environment Court, according to evidence presented at the Auckland Unitary Plan Independent Hearings Panel. Bayswater Community Committee (BCC) barrister Kitt Littlejohn submitted to the panel on 18 April that Framework Plans – a resource consenting process promoted by council in its
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Home is where the art is
Supporting Vauxhall school… artists Greer Clayton, Rob Tucker and Jenni Stringleman Local artists Greer Clayton, Rob Tucker and Jenni Stringleman will be returning for a second time at Vauxhall School’s biennial fine-art exhibition. In previous years, the event has received overwhelming support from the community, with people specifically asking after Tucker, Clayton and Stringleman, says event manager Melissa Jenkins. All three artists say that they feel a very strong sense of connection to the school. Tucker’s father and girlfriend both attended Vauxhall School, while Stringleman’s friends have kids that attend Vauxhall. “I have met so many people and received so much encouragement. I love being able to give something back to the community,” says Tucker.
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Alternative sites for artificial soccer field considered Doubt has been cast over the provision of a new artificial-turf field at Allen Hill stadium. Auckland Council officers are looking at alternative sites, such as Belmont Intermediate School grounds, Becroft Park in Forrest Hill and Taharoto Park in Takapuna, the Flagstaff has learned. A $2.4 million upgrade for the grounds of North Shore United, a soccer club bursting at the seams with nearly 1,000 members, had been approved by the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board last year. But it has since been challenged by a group of neighbouring residents. A contamination test of the soccer ground soil is also under way, to determine whether artificial turf would be a safe playing surface
at the park, says Devonport-Takapuna Local Board (DTLB) chair Joseph Bergin. DTLB member Mike Cohen says that even though the board’s plans have in theory not changed, there is “no question that there is a heightened uncertainty around this now.” He says no one had spoken to the soccer club about it yet. Elaine Sawyer, a spokesperson for the residents opposing the development, says her group was in “ongoing dialogue with council representatives” on the matter and was waiting to hear the outcome of the engineering and contamination reports. Any proposal to reallocate the funding to another field would be “controversial and political,” says Bergin.
North Shore United says it is in desperate need for the artificial turf to accommodate ever-growing numbers of young and older players. The club had 950 members last year. A dearth of quality nearby fields makes it impossible to accommodate all players for games and training sessions, regularly sending local families as far as North Harbour Stadium to play. United representative Steve Browning says the club is aware that council is progressing with contamination assessments, which have to happen before a resource consent for the artificial turf is granted. It is also appropriate for council to continuously review how it spends public funds, he says.
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I’d be interested to know what readers think of Redback Develop’s decision to pursue $21,000 in costs from Devonport Heritage over the 2010 Environment Court hearing into the historic Masonic Tavern being turned into apartments. While some criticism could be levelled at the court for the finding of costs (it was a case based on legitimate concerns – protecting a heritage building) Redback could have decided not to pursue these. However at the Environment Court hearing, Redback was clearly angry that it was being dragged through the legal process when it argued it was following the letter of the law. The wider issue of the financial exposure that local protection groups – or individuals – face when challenging developers remains. It has been an unaddressed imbalance for years and puts wealthy corporates and businesses at a huge advantage when they push ahead with developments that local communities dislike. With Ryman Health, Bayswater Marina and Ngati Whatua all moving ahead with major works on the peninsula, community groups are being forced to gear up legally. Bayswater Community Committee had to launch a Givealittle page to help pay for legal costs.
For its part, Devonport Heritage has considered winding up and launching under a new name, but for the time being it is battling on with the debt hanging over its head. Its a sad indictment of the system, though. What ever the ins and outs of the Masonic case, Devonport Heritage has worked tirelessly over the last two decades to retain what is the essential fabric of our suburb. Redback on the other hand has built ten apartments. I’ve been to the Vic twice in the last month to see movies. But increasingly it’s a ferry trip to the city for cultural life: the Auckland Comedy Festival running now, the Auckland Writers festival next week and the increasingly popular film festival in the coming months. In years gone by there have been writers’ events in Devonport, linked in or held at the same time as the main festival. The same went for comedy acts. Some comedy shows are being held at the Bruce Mason Centre, but nothing in Devonport, just a short hop away from the central city where all the action is based. An ideal opportunity locally would have been a Devonport slot for local comedian Paul Ego and his son Gabe who is just launching his comedy career. Auckland Council and the programme organisers seem to focus the events on the central city, but locally we need to be more proactive. There are dozens of comedians in Auckland for the festival. Surely a few would be interested performing here. Devonport needs to make itself part of the city. Maybe in 2017.
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It’s all about ‘Lifestyle’!
Real-estate agents are incredible linguists (some would say cunning..), and I find myself in rapt amazement at the descriptions spewed forth on advertised properties. ‘Lifestyle’ features prominently as a term, and it seems it is central to the existence of all potential homebuyers. Although let’s be honest in this market they may as well write: ‘Here’s a house, buy it this week or it’ll cost you more next week’. Man, I wish car prices worked like that, I would be ‘Lifestyling’ it up all over the place! So I got to thinking about this whole ‘Lifestyle’ thing, and which cars, and what else, such as drinks and pets, went with what ‘lifestyle’. I started with a convertible white Maserati, which I see ideally outside a Mediterraneanstyled villa, couple of palm trees, Marguirita in hand, (with paper umbrella), and maybe a Shih Tzu, something frivolous and fun-loving, like the car. Or how about a classic Beetle, outside a Lockwood home, while enjoying a microbrewed real ale and the company of your loyal basset hound? Or your ‘Rod and Gunn’-dressed gent might favour a Range Rover, and garage it at his ‘Lifestyle Block’ (there it is again, and he has replica lead-light windows and a crunchy driveway), admiring it while sipping his singlemalt and stroking his German Shepherd (dog, not a German sheep-herder). It’s important to get this stuff right, you know. For sound advice on your perfect ‘Lifestyle vehicle’, you know who to call!!
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Continuous four-lane stretch investigated for Lake Rd Four lanes along the entire length of Lake Rd is one of the options under investigation by Auckland Transport as it moves to improve the carriageway. The four lanes would be likely to include two high-occupancy vehicle (HOV), bus transit lanes and cycle lanes, with the intention of improving traffic flows. A lengthy list of potential fixes for Lake Rd’s traffic congestion is being prepared by Auckland Transport over the next six months
for the now top-priority project. The list will help in the preparation of costings for any major improvements along the peninsula’s arterial road, an Auckland Transport (AT) report says. The public will not be consulted over the list. The report, tabled at a recent meeting of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board, says that AT has to talk to key stakeholders, wider public consultation will only be done once the list has been narrowed to a “preferred approach.” The Devonport Peninsula Stakeholder Group
– which includes Tony Keenan (BelmontHauraki Community Association), Barbara Cuthbert (Bike Auckland), Chris Werry (Bike Devonport), Ken Davis and Judy Grieve (Devonport Business Association), Gay Richards (Bayswater Community Committee) andAllan Pollock (owner of Belmont Pharmacy) – has been identified by AT as having an interest. The group formed in November 2014 to lobby Auckland Transport (AT). The local board are the second key stakeholder group.
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Buses to meet late-night ferries – but it will take a while Bus services will meet all ferries at Devonport wharf – including the late-night sailings – but not until 2018 when the changes are introduced. The number of night-time ferries has doubled over the past year, from an hourly to a half-hourly service. However, many passengers are frustrated that there are no buses in one of those half-hour slots to meet them in Devonport. This has been remedied in Auckland Transport’s review of North Shore bus
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Hilson added that the numbers of bus users who had written personal notes advocating the retention of the service up Victoria Rd had swayed AT’s decision. But as part of the review, the 815 bus service from Seacliffe Rd and Ngataringa Rd to Devonport Wharf will be canned, primarily due to a lack of patronage. The review also concluded: “there was significant concern raised around the reliability of ferry-feeder services to both Devonport and Bayswater, because the proposed routes were longer than those currently operated.” The Devonport service was also proposed to terminate at Smales Farm but submitters felt this route could become congested ,threatening reliability. AT has now decided to terminate the service at Akoranga Station, to provide a link through Takapuna. It was proposed that the Bayswater ferryfeeder service would operate through to Constellation Station. However, as a result of concerns about service unreliability, the route has been split in two: Bayswater to Takapuna and Takapuna to Constellation Station. The Bayswater to city universities service via Esmonde Rd is largely unchanged, but with trips increased from three to four during the morning peak.
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Strumming in the Kiwi sun… Finn Andrews during one of his trips to New Zealand The Veils are finishing their upcoming fifth album in Los Angeles and are featuring in the new Twin Peaks series. Meanwhile Finn Andrews, the band’s lead singer and songwriter has been back in Devonport twice this year. In February, Andrews posted a photo of St Francis de Sales Catholic Church on Instagram, and said: “Grazie Papa – it’s good to be back home in the most unwittingly peculiar suburb on earth.” Then in April, he returned for Bowie: Waiting in the Sky, a series of tribute concerts to the late David Bowie. Held in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, he shared the stage with Eddie Rayner, Jordan Luck and other Kiwi musicians. Andrews was born in 1983 in Camden Town, London. His mother is an Auckland-based sociology lecturer Vivienne Kent. His father Barry Andrews had been a vocalist and keyboard player in the 1980s bands XTC and Shriekback, and later played alongside Iggy Pop, Robert Fripp and David Bowie. Andrews grew up between his dad’s home in London and his mum’s in Devonport. He attended Takapuna Grammar School, where he met Veils bass player Sophia Burn. He left for London shortly after his 16th birthday, but says he still calls Devonport home. He answered a few questions the Flagstaff put to him via email: What have you been up to on your two recent trips to New Zealand? In February, we filmed a music video in the dunes of Bethells Beach. It was a very surreal evening, filming a priest being strangled by a large tentacled puppet. I’m not sure I need to say any more than that. It’s for the first single off our new record and should be floating around on the dark web pretty soon. In April, I came to play the Bowie tribute concerts. Bowie has been a prominent part of my life in many ways. Dad played with him a bunch, but that was before I was born.
The Man Who Sold The World was one of the first songs I ever learnt and it was a real pleasure playing it the other night. Were you at the Brit Awards where fellow Devonport musician Lorde sang her Bowie tribute? No I was in the States then, but I watched her on the telly. Nailed it. Looking back, what role did Devonport play in your musical life? I think about it a great deal and I think it had a huge influence. I guess the location of your youth always does. It’s so quiet here. I think you sometimes have no choice but to fill the silence up with music. Are you still in touch with the local music scene? Is Devonport still home for you? Yes indeed. There’s still some very precious people there. So long as mum’s here, Devonport will always be home I guess. I’m not sure we can afford to ever live in Devonport again. The real-estate agents won that war. Sophia and I will still be floating around though, visiting our mums. Any advice to budding young musicians? Wear a big hat, it really helps!
It is Mother’s Day on Sunday… one of the best days of the year! We have been wrapping quite a few lovely presents for well-deserving mums and nanas including PJs, warm socks, and cosy dressing gowns. It’s because of my own mum that I decided to open Devonport Lingerie 10 years ago. I started working for mum in her lingerie store – Shelly’s Lingerie, in Milford – when I was still at school. Mum ran her store for 17 years, and when she closed some of her customers started coming to us and still ask how she is when they pop in. I learnt a lot from mum while helping in her business. Not just how to fit a bra, but most importantly to listen to what customers want and help people, plus all the other stuff like buying, admin and taxes (that inevitably get done at night), and resilience. So THANKS MUM. You are fabulous and have taught me lots, not only about bras, but also about how to be a mum and make time for family while still balancing work. My mum is getting a new pair of shoes from Village Shoes this Sunday (not a secret I got her to choose them). I find half the fun is going shopping together. So if you can bring your mum in we’ll get her sorted. Or if you can’t, mums always love new sleepwear and we would love to help you choose something. Spoil and love your mum – she’s number one!
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Bayswater kitesurfer sets New Zealand jump record Bayswater’s Lukas Walton-Keim has set a New Zealand kitesurfing record with a 16.4 metre jump at Takapuna Beach. “Technically it’s the New Zealand record,” says Walton-Keim, who was wearing a GPS device that tracked the height he jumped, the air time he gained and the G-force with which he landed. He says he did it just for fun. The sports gadget he wore is currently the only way to verify the height of kitesurfing jumps, he says. Results are published online on a daily leader board. The world record sits at 20.4 metres. People tend to get those highest jumps in Cape Town, says Walton-Keim. But on March 23, New Zealand conditions were favourable. “On that particular day I knew I could get the New Zealand record, and so I wore the Woo. I am generally more into freestyle and tricks, so jumping is not something I do every time. It was more of a fun thing,” he says. Walton-Keim’s girlfriend, New Zealand pole-vaulter Eliza McCartney, was there to film the jump. He landed right next to the Takapuna Beach boat ramp. The video is Fixed village fee
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Board stands up for cardboard surfing The decades-old childhood tradition of sliding down Mt Victoria or North Head should be saved, says the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board. The board noted with concern “recent public speculation that there may be steps taken to prohibit” cardboard surfing by kids on the local volcanic cones. The board “has seen no evidence that would
suggest there is any damage of significance by this practice,” it says in a recent submission to the Maunga Authority, “If there is any truth in such speculation, the board asks for a dialogue with authority representatives in an effort to find ways for such informal play to continue on the maunga,” the board submission says.
Mt Victoria maintenance budget gets a major boost The annual maintenance budget for Mt Victoria/Takarunga has leaped from $34,000 to more than $160,000. For 2016/17, $161,100 has been set aside with funds going towards capital projects, operational and maintenance costs, and strategy, policy and planning work. The biggest expense is the maunga’s vegetation with planned spending including: • $23,000 towards an assessment of all mature vegetation and its maintenance • $15,000 for vegetation control around pits and terraces • $11,000 for pest management • $2,000 towards fire prevention. Structures on the mountain are the next biggest spend, and include: • $21,600 for building maintenance of the Kerr Street Artspace, Michael King Writers’ Centre and Devonport Folk Club • $5,000 for a cultural heritage “assessment of all current assets to identify redundant assets for removal,” such as old and redundant bollards, seats, noticeboards
or signs •$ 13,000 for new signage • $5,000 for signs to discourage off-track activities on the mountain. Signs will also be installed on the summit “to inform visitors of the significance of the maunga,” the draft plan says. • $ 8,000 has been earmarked for the development of sign and design guidelines as well as installation of entry and way finding signage. The replacement of the tennis court fence remains to be confirmed but is estimated to cost around $30,000. The Maunga Authority, which now administers the mountain, also inherits two contracts. One is with Global Security for gate closure and openings, at $735 per year. The second is Recreation Services for $34,000, which includes mowing and weed eating, path maintenance and rubbish removal. The Maunga Authority’s net operating budget for its 14 Auckland cones is $2,863,020.
Local Board “frustrated” by Maunga Authority treatment Thinly veiled frustration at its treatment by the Maunga Authority has bubbled over at the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board (DLTB). The board and its predecessors – the Devonport Community Board and the Devonport Borough Council – have paid key roles in administering Mt Victoria, and to a lesser degree North Head, which was controlled by Defence, then DOC. The management of Auckland’s volcanic cones, including Mount Victoria, now lies with the Maunga Authority, a statutory body, independent of council, which co-manages Auckland’s 14 maunga alongside council staff. The board says it is now being treated like a member of the public. “While the board respects the fact that the authority is a body that has a statutory independence from council, it is frustrated and concerned at the inference that it (the local board) has no greater interest in the operational plans for the maunga than the public generally,” it said in its submission on the future of the maunga. The board had received a copy of the draft plan on 23 February. It was asked to submit its feedback by March 24, the same day public submissions were due. The DTLB asked to be fully consulted on the future development plans specific to Mt Victoria and North Head.
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Lake Rd – let’s hear from the people responsible I enjoyed your correspondent John Duder’s take on creating an alternative access to the peninsular between Esmonde Rd and Bayswater Rd (Flagstaff, 22 April) and thought a causeway would be the most logical way of creating a ring road to give traffic in both directions options. The fact is the uproar from all those no-exit street residents would kill the concept dead. The load on Lake Rd hasn’t even begun and most don’t realise just how bad it will be. All of the proposed developments are on narrow side roads, but ultimately all construction traffic will need to go up and down Lake Rd.
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I have recently been to our local transfer station in Lake Rd, previously run by Living Earth and taken over by Global Action Plan Oceania. As usual, the vehicle and trailer were weighed on arrival and departure and the weight was 360kg. I was then billed for 400kg. When I expressed surprise at the price I was told: “We charge by the 100kg and we move from the lower hundred to the higher hundred at 40 kg or more”. It was not like this
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Time to listen to the community The Council/Opus Consultants proposal for a “major playground development along Victorian and Edwardian lines” for our Windsor Reserve is another over-the-top scheme put forward without any apparent consideration of the core heritage and community values and needs of Devonport. The current popular children’s playground, which fits in well with the space and ambience of the reserve, may need an upgrade. But to have a “long-term staged investment” with a carousel with horses or a lighthouse structure with slides as a centrepiece is several steps too far. A complete lack of sensitivity is reflected in the proposal to remove the “relatively young” oak tree “to optimise the space”. The tree is 60 years old, and was planted by the Devonport Borough Council to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953. The tree is part of the rich heritage fabric of Windsor Reserve. It is ironic that as the country, indeed the world, recognises the 90th birthday of the Queen with respect and affection, Auckland Council want to obliterate our local recognition of her part in our local history. Windsor Reserve is a remarkably wellbalanced community park and people place. It is probably unique in Auckland, with its blend of open space and activity areas with the library, war memorial, bandstand, and playground, plus the magnificent trees, beach and proximity to Victoria Rd shops. It is also a heritage site of major significance, with the Navy being established there in 1841. The reserve must not be overdeveloped or cluttered up as a “visitor destination”. Having a Victorian and Edwardian theme is just a twee nonsense. The heritage ambience of Devonport has been largely diminished by the other council development of the Marine Square area in front of the ferry building, which has a Scandinavian touch, and the library which was designed by
Athfields without any briefing requirement to reflect the Victorian heritage environment it is in the middle of. It is time council stopped promoting Devonport as a “destination” for tourists, and focused on the local-community needs, and recognised our important local heritage. A much better idea for a major children’s playground would be to have one at the Narrow Neck beach area, on Woodall Park, or Fort Takapuna Reserve, which has large amounts of space. Grey Power in its submissions to the Fort Takapuna Management Plan proposed exactly that, with a “Grandma’s Centre”, – part of the old barracks buildings now restored being a lounge where Grandma could have a break and a cup of tea, with a playground adjacent to where the grandchildren could play as well as going to the beach. Nothing happened, of course, but the concept of a major playground at Narrow Neck should be revisited and put back on the agenda. Your 11 March Flagstaff reported a tough week for Devonport heritage. As well as the council enthusiasm for cutting down a healthy historic oak tree, the vintage ferry Kestrel – initially saved for preservation by a group of largely Devonport enthusiasts – sank at her moorings. You also advised that the Masonic Hotel was no longer required to have a café as part of the premises, initially included in the resource consent to recognise the 150 continuous years of being a licensed premises. Our local board has to become much more proactive in making sure our heritage and Devonport lifestyle aren’t swamped by the council’s over-enthusiastic gung-ho approach to tourist-focused development and is more aligned to what our community wants, reflecting local ambience and community values before it is too late. Bill Rayner
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Reuben Muir rises above the rest of NZ Reuben Muir, a former yachtsman and America’s Cup sailmaker has just won his third gold medal at the national paragliding champs. This year he was also among competitors who completed the longest course ever set in a competition. He spoke to Maire Vieth. Physical endurance and knowledge of aerodynamics built up from years of America’s Cup racing were key to Robert Muir’s recent win at the New Zealand Paragliding Open. The longest race in the two-week title battle was a 214 km course, which Muir navigated in just under six and a half hours. It was the longest course set in any competition. Muir was one of only 26 competitors out of 120 entrants who finished the epic 214 km race. “It’s a bit like a 3D yachting race in the sky, using only thermals and ridge lift to gain height. Basically you have a course from A to B with certain turning points. Except that any major tactical mistake puts you on the ground, and once you touch the ground, it’s all over,” says Muir. To avoid touching the ground, paragliding pilots wear a brick-size flight recorder and use a GPS system. “It’s a simple version of what you would have in a plane. You use it to navigate where you are going but it also records your flight and your altitude at all times. When you are done, you download the information and send it off to the competition committee to verify your flight,” he says. The first week of the event was held in Manilla in New South Wales, a world-class paragliding venue. This location was chosen to attract a wider field and higher level of paragliders, says Muir. “In New Zealand you’re lucky to get 60 competitors. There we had 120 and it’s great to race with a lot of high-calibre people at a good venue with great weather,” he says. At the end of the week, Muir came 10th overall and was the top Kiwi. In the New Zealand leg of the competition, held in Nelson, Muir’s focus was to hold onto his lead. The 40 Kiwi competitors raced between Murchison and the Nelson Lakes and had to negotiate intimidating traverses of large forests and lakes. “I had to fly well and keep an eye on my Kiwi competitors to make sure I did better than them,” he says. And he did. Controlled air-space restrictions mean
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Paragliding champ… Robert Muir blitzed courses in Australia and New Zealand to win the national title paragliders have to stay below 10,000 feet. But the general rule for paragliding is the higher the better, says Muir. “It means you can fly further. You can also see further on a cloudless day, which is quite special.” Being up high is also safer. “It’s actually scarier when you are lower and looking for thermal sources. That’s when the air gets rough, the glider becomes active and you really have to concentrate. Up high, you have safety below, and time to react and manoeuvre,” he says. Paragliders don’t fly in winds faster than 30kmh. “While with good wind you can accelerate up to 60 kmh, and with a tailwind maybe to 80kmh, speed works the other way too. You would be very slow sailing into those winds,” he says. Muir won the national champs last year as well, and even brought about a rule change. “Pilots compete in three different classes (fun, sports and serial) based on the grade of their gear. In 2015, I took a fun-class glider and won the serial class, which meant I officially also won the fun and sports classes as well. It basically shows that you can still fly really well on good beginners’ gear. But they changed the rules so it won’t happen again,” he says.
Following a lengthy America’s Cup career, Muir launched into paragliding – a sport he had first tried in 1989. “While I lived in Germany, I went skiing and saw paragliders. I followed them up on the gondolas and saw them take off.” The sight inspired Muir to take a course and spend his weekends learning to paraglide. In San Diego, Muir met future partner Eva Keim, who also loved to paraglide. The couple moved to New Zealand to launch a business teaching paragliding in Waiuku and were soon competing at national level. “Eva did the New Zealand nationals first and placed top woman. In 1993 she went to the worlds in Japan as part of the New Zealand team. “I was a bit chicken and did my first competition in 1995 in New Caledonia. I came fifth and was the top New Zealander,” he says. Muir’s consistently high national ranking placed him in the New Zealand team for world championship races in Castejon de Sos, Spain in 1997, Neukirchen Bramberg, Austria in 1999, and Valle de Bravo, Mexico in 2009. After four years together Muir and Keim separated as a couple but remained friends and business partners. “For the next few years,
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we spent the summers in New Zealand and the winters in Europe, teaching and learning,” says Muir. “We did the New Zealand nationals every year and competed in the British Open and the Nordic Cup,” he says. In 1996, they moved their business, Wings and Waves, into the old Takapuna Boating Club building at Bayswater Marina and ran it from there for the next 16 years. Muir says in the world of paragliding, New Zealand’s scenery is on par with Europe’s. “The views here are just amazing. Half of the joy of flying is that you get to see things other people don’t see. You have a special perspective. Plus the clarity of the air here lets you literally see more,” he says. Born in 1963, Muir grew up as one of eight children in Waiuku, a country town on the edge of the Manukau Harbour. Muir’s father John worked as a bricklayer at New Zealand Steel in nearby Glenbrook. Mother Audrey regularly took in foster children, three of whom the Muirs adopted. The water played a large part in Muir’s childhood. “We had the Manukau Flying high… Robert Muir in action Harbour right there, the West Coast 1984 Los Angeles (LA) Olympics, where he beaches and the Waikato River close by,” he and sailing partner Patrick O’Reilly came 10th. says. The Muirs had a small fishing boat and “There were only glimmers of glory. In the last liked to go whitebaiting and flounder-fishing in race we led at the top mark,” he says. Wakatere the harbour, as well as collecting mussels and Boating Club sailor Peter Evans and sailing scallops at low tide from nearby Clarks and partner Sean Reeves won and were selected. Grahams beaches, or go fishing while camping They placed 14th in LA. at Tapu Bay on the Coromandel. Muir moved on to keelboats as a sailor and Muir took up sailing at the age of 11. also as a sailmaker. “I changed from Lidgard, “I guess I bleated about wanting a boat for where they made dinghy and smaller boat so long that one day we went to the Waiuku sails, to Ellerslie where they produce the Yacht Club and my dad bought a P-Class for larger sails.” me. Then I just went out and sailed with the The move kick-started Muir’s America’s other kids in the club. I started out following Cup career. In 1986, Chris Dickson and the them and eventually was out in front. I really 12-metre-long boat Kiwi Magic became the liked the racing aspect of sailing,” he says. country’s’s first America’s Cup entry as New Muir raced mostly in local interclub sailing Zealand Challenge, a team funded by Michael events. “No further away than Hamilton (in a Fay. Lidgard was the syndicate’s official lake),” he says. sailmaker. “I paid my own way to Perth and Before long sailing became a family affair. worked for the Kiwis temporarily. Then I got “Dad got a two-person Frost Ply and my mum a job as a sailmaker for the South Australian got her own little catamaran for a while. I team. It was a smaller syndicate led by Sir moved on to a Starling, and my brothers and James Hardy and their four boats got knocked sisters came through sailing in the boats that I was coming out of,” he says. Muir left Waiuku College after fifth form. “I initially worked for my former scoutmaster as a house painter. He eventually helped me get an apprenticeship as a sailmaker at Lidgard Sails on Wairau Rd,” he says. When he was 17, Muir moved to Murrays Bay and initially lived with his grandmother. “She was pretty strict and I would get teased at work about my lunches full of cakes and biscuits, so I soon moved into a flat in Campbell’s Bay. Before too long friends from Waiuku moved in with me,” he says. Muir continued his sailing on the North Shore. He moved to the 470 Olympic Class ESTABLISHED ESTABLISHED 1971 1971 and competed in the qualifying event for the
out, but I was more involved on the boat and in the tenders, etc, which was great,” Muir says. After a brief stint as a sailmaker in Ireland, Muir returned home for the 1988 New Zealand Challenge in KZ1, the 23.5 metre “Big Boat” still on display at the Viaduct Harbour today. It was one of the most controversial campaigns in America’s Cup history. The Americans raced a catamaran in San Diego and won. A court battle ensued, which the American team eventually won in the New York State Supreme Court. “Meanwhile we took our boat on a big ship to New York and sailed it around the harbour there as a publicity campaign for the case,” he says. Muir moved on to work as a sailmaker for North Sails and the Irish entry in the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989/90. He was stationed at the Bavarian Starnberger See, Germany, from where he followed the team to its race ports in countries including England, Uruguay, Australia, New Zealand and the US. “It was the year Peter Blake won every leg in the round the world race with Steinlager II,” he says. “The last America’s Cup I was involved with was San Diego in 1992. We had a twinkeel rudder-system boat and got knocked out by the Americans. I was a sailmaker and grinder,” he says. Muir had had enough by then. “Being on an America’s Cup team is a bit like going to the army where your life becomes theirs,” he says. He was ready to have his own life, which quickly began revolving around a new sport – paragliding. Has he ever injured himself? “Not really. I have the odd landing where I get up and think, bloody hell that hurt. But I have never broken anything,” he says. Muir, a father of two, has been taking son Maaki (11) and daughter Kiki (9) tandem paragliding since they were both one year old. Naturally, he met his wife Yuka while paragliding. Does he do anything else? “I do a bit of kitesurfing too. I get fulfilment from that because I don’t sail any more.”
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Local architects support intensification if set back from Victoria Rd Most people really enjoy looking at the wall Yellow: 13 metres ground. above ground. Yellow: 13above metres 12 metres back from Victoria Road boundary 12 metres back from Victoria Road boundary. of heritage buildings down the west side of Red: 9 metres above ground at Victoria Rd, and they don’t want it to change. Red:Road 9 boundary metres above ground Victoria at Victoria Road boundary. Looking at the east side is not all delight, but the Victoria Theatre and the new library are noteworthy, and the old post office building would come right if the late addition of a colonial gazebo was lopped off the roof. This is the public face of Devonport. Now slip down Clarence St to Wynyard corner, and look around the true heart of the place. You feel you have been transported to the newer reaches of Whitianga, or the urban wastelands of Tokoroa. Here, mocktrad Clarence House, the sheds of Glengarry, Views up Victoria Rd would remain largely unchanged under 13-metre Hammer Hardware, New World supermarket high buildings say architects, who claim view shafts would still be and various one, two, and three-storey buildings largely retained in Wynyard St (below) stand around a truly vast parking area. A few trees are dotted along two of the edges, but the fixed furniture is mostly kerbs and supermarket trolley parks. The urbane precedent of Victoria Prepared by Mitchell & Stout Architects Ltd Rd has been abandoned. and Herriot + Melhuish Architecture Ltd In any self-respecting European city, most parking would be underground, and above it would be shops, offices, and apartments. That could be done in central Devonport of course, but paying for it would require a significant population to move in, and live and work there. Judging from the views I read in Flagstaff letters, that might be asking too much. Auckland may be getting a million more residents in the next 30 years, but none of them seem to be welcome on the Devonport-Bayswater peninsula. Local architects Jeremy Salmond, Ken Davis, Geoff Richards, Julian Mitchell, Julie Stout and I believe that buildings on Victoria Rd should be built to a 9-metre height limit, since that if the existing 9-metre building height limit is an addition to Lake Rd traffic. Yet if we want a more energetic Devonport, is roughly the height of the present heritage increased to 13 metres (second photo). buildings on the road edge. But behind them, Part of the charm of the streets that run up the we should recognise that it is already an inner12 metres back from the road, new buildings hill from the harbour is that they give contained, city offshoot, with a terrific ferry connection that Prepared & Stout Architects Ltd could be built to 13 metres high, and barely beby Mitchell focused views of Mt Victoria. None of these is much-valued by visitors and by commuters and Herriot + Melhuish Architecture Ltd seen from Victoria Rd over the present street are damaged by the more intensive, higher to the city, and that central Devonport could fronts (see first photo). Views of Mt Victoria development that we support. Of course, people be invigorated by an injection of intensified would be virtually unaffected. Even the view of devoted to the private car above all, tend to see housing and commerce. the mountain up Wynyard St is barely altered any increase in population as nothing more than David Mitchell
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Remembrance and peace marked on Anzac Day
Peace, love, and hope… the banner held by Devonport peace activist Ruth Coombes at the Anzac evening vigil Long-time Devonport residents Ruth Coombes and Jude Lowry were at the heart of a candlelit peace vigil held on the night of Anzac Day. Participants lit candles and wore white poppies. They silently held peace placards while
standing next to the Untidy Soldier sculpture, which was surrounded by wreaths from the morning’s Anzac Day community service attended by hundreds of people. The vigil was held for the second year and organisers said it was an appropriate part of the
100th anniversary commemorations of World War I. The vigil remembered all the casualties of war, all who resisted war, and those who called for an end to war and promoted peace. Coombes said: “The white poppies represent all the victims of war, not just the combatants.”
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Barry recalls poignant memories
Honouring the fallen… North Shore MP Maggie Barry, who gave this year’s Anzac Day commemoration address, was wearing replicas of the medals – the 1914/15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal – her grandfather Trooper Vincent Barry received for serving nearly three years in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Joseph Glover, a Venturer with the 1st Devonport Scouts, laid a wreath on behalf of the club
Once again, young and old joined together in the Anzac Day parade down Victoria Rd
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Dianne Hale (above) read the Anzac Dedication as one of her last official duties as a DevonportTakapuna Local Board member. Hale plans to retire from local Hundreds attended the Anzac Day parade in Devonport. But falling in the government in October middle of the school holidays, the crowd was smaller than last year North Shore MP Maggie Barry took centre stage at this year’s Anzac Day service, reading poignant excerpts from her grandfather’s war diary. Trooper Vincent Barry served in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force from 1915 to 1916 on the Gallipoli and Sinai peninsulas. His service ended in 1917 in a Gaza cemetery, where a Turkish sniper fired at him. Barry, the Lead Minister for New Zealand’s First World War Centenary (WW100) programme, wore replicas of Vincent’s three medals at the service, and read from her grandfather’s diary about the day of the attack. “I was fired upon by a sniper. Having survived the latter half of Gallipoli, I know all about snipers, and forthwith smartly dived for cover alongside the nearest Muslim gravestone. He methodically shot pieces out of my cover defence. He was cunning and Royal New Zealand Navy Captain Richard Walker and daughter was up in an olive tree. For his third shot at Caitlin (14) singing the national anthem, with Navy Chaplain Peter me he climbed up another branch and shot me through the right lung over the top of the Olds (left) and former Minister of Defence Wayne Mapp (behind) gravestone. It was curtains for me for some time.” Vincent eventually recovered, and back in New Zealand fathered eight children, one of them Maggie’s father David.
Remembrance a family affair…Fiona Morris and husband Andrew Morris, North Shore Rugby Football Club J1 player James Fairbairn carries a wreath with the support of Kobe Kaino, rippa rugby player and son of a Seaman Combat Specialist, Blues and All Blacks flanker Jerome Kaino with sons Rhys (11) and Dylan (4)
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Bringing home the beacon The green starboard beacon in the waters off Narrow Neck, lovingly referred to as “the green stick” by many local swimmers, has disappeared. It marks the beginning of a reef structure between Narrow Neck and Takapuna. Auckland Transport spokesperson Mark Hannan says the marker belongs to Ports of Auckland, which says the beacon will be
reinstated shortly. “A navigation warning has been issued,” he says. The Harbourmaster’s Office had noted in its Weekly Local Navigation Warning Summary (19 April) that the beacon was missing. Wakatere Boating Club member Greg Lee told the Flagstaff the beacon “disappeared in a big storm a few weeks back. We were out on the water on several days either side of
the storm – one day it was there and the next it had gone,” he said. The beacon, or something similar, has been warning mariners since the 1800s, it seems. Richard Hofstetter’s map of Auckland’s volcanic field was drawn in 1859 and shows a “Black Cask Buoy” where the beacon was recently located.
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Pauline’s love of sailing sparked Wakatere rebirth Pauline Ellingham, a life member of Wakatere Boating Club, where she held many roles, has died. Pauline and I moved to North Ave, Devonport in 1988. Pauline lived there until she passed away on April 3, 2016 at the age of 56. During that time she was an active and well-known member of the community. For a number of years Pauline was on the Junior Committee of the North Shore Rugby Club, as well as being a team manager and Junior Club Captain. When our children Garth and Kate began sailing in 1996, Wakatere Boating Club was at a low ebb. Rather than taking the easy option and going to another active club, we decided to put the effort into growing the local club. Along with a few like-minded friends, we introduced the Optimist class, which is now the world’s most popular junior sailing class. The tide changed – today Wakatere is one of the most successful clubs in New Zealand. From that point, Pauline had a strong presence at the club, running the locker hire, the kitchen and generally being involved in every aspect of club operations. She was known for her great organisational skills and her “get on with it” attitude, and played the role of commodore-ess for three years when I was commodore. Pauline was honoured for her contribution, when she became a life member in 2010. Away from the club Pauline loved keelboating life, cruising the Hauraki Gulf on the family yacht, surrounded by family and friends. She was a real people person, who always had a keen interest in others, and was always ready for a chat. Her other love was colour and fashion – never one to look dowdy, colourful clothes were Pauline’s forte. Pauline had her first melanoma removed early in 2013. Approximately a year later, she discovered it had unknowingly returned and had spread extensively. She underwent six surgeries, three of which were on the brain. At the same time, we tried various alternative medicines with some success, until Keytruda became available. This “miracle” and “yet to be
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Triumphant Tchaikovsky and Cornfield A magical afternoon of piano-playing by Patrick Cornfield, alongside the Devonport Chamber Orchestra, was held at Holy Trinity Church, Devonport on April 17. The orchestra was conducted by Peter Thomas and led by Helen Crook. From the opening notes of Mendelssohn’s Ruy Blas Overture, it was apparent that this was to be a spectacular concert. The brass opening was both authoritative and arresting. There was an immaculate blending of brass tones and it was followed by accurately articulated pizzicato [plucking] in the strings. Of particular note was the rich melody carried by the cellos. The timpani were important in this concert and accurately played. This was a sparkling and exultant opening for the concert with all sections of the orchestra getting an opportunity to shine, and they grabbed the chance with gusto. Last year, when Cornfield performed for the 12th time, he announced his retirement from playing concerto concerts. Yet such was the pressure from fans to continue, he relented. This concerto must surely have been the best yet. His choice this year was Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor. As the piece is so well known, the pianist faces the problem of an informed audience
following every note. Cornfield immediately impressed with a magisterial opening to the first movement. He was in full command of the demands of the work. Sweeping romantic themes moved between piano, muted strings and woodwind sections. Questions were asked by the pianist and answered by the orchestra. The solo oboe was especially evocative. The longdescending themes for both piano and orchestra had hints of the 1812 Overture. They were played with total precision and confidence. In the second movement, there was opportunity for more serene ensemble playing in the woodwinds and the muted cellos revelled in the lush romantic theme. Thomas kept the large forces together with an energetic but precise conducting style, and the orchestra was quick to respond. The pull and tug between the piano and orchestra was gone in the third movement with both united in the final theme. A standing ovation was accorded both pianist and orchestra. There was a generous encore of Debussy’s L’Isle Joyeuse played with true French romantic flair. Fans were very pleased to hear from the concert organiser that Cornfield is already considering what to play next year. by Rogan Falla
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The Final Curtain has come down on the old school-hall stage After many years of drama productions, The Final Curtain gained its name from being the final show to be performed in the existing school hall before renovations begin. This made the show a very important and significant one for all those involved and for the many exstudents and staff in the audience. Brie Young, a Year 13 member of the Musical Theatre class said: “It was amazing to perform alongside such talented students in our small production. To be able to watch them grow as performers was so rewarding!” Directed by Jane Horder, The Final Curtain consisted of songs from each of eight hit Broadway musicals, including Cabaret, Ragtime, Urinetown, A Chorus Line and more. Chorus, duet and solo performances, boys in drag, Monty Python skits, songs about peeing, and a wide range of other numbers stunned and greatly entertained audiences, with many deciding they would just have to come again the next night! The cast comprised eight Year 12 and 13 Musical Theatre students, and 10 invited guest
performers from Years 11-13 who participate in choirs and singing lessons. Also performing were the Junior Choir (The Taka Crooners) and the Boys Choir (The Sultans of Sing). The show was a huge success and an amazing experience for all of us involved. Thank you to
everyone who came along to support, to our Director Ms Jane Horder, and the Performing Arts department. We hope to be back in business and continuing the legacy of TGS performing arts in the new hall. By anneka SCholTz
Everyone should go on an exchange Part 4: Lily Hannington
The scorching Resistencia sun has enriched the life experience of one 15-year-old New Zealand girl, and now she is enthusiastic to share the A-Z of her year-long exchange in Argentina. Lily Hannington, who is currently studying NCEA Level 2, went on a heart-racing student exchange to Argentina at the beginning of 2015. “I used to have a real desire to get myself fluent in another language and make life-long friends when I was little,” explains Lily. “And I had done some exams to gain enough credit for Level 1 a few months before my exchange year.” Spanish is spoken by more than 350 million people worldwide. Lily took a Spanish course for two years prior to her departure. She
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Takapuna School NewS
Grammar MAY 6, 2016
Competing at the largest schools’ sports event The prestigious Aon Maadi cup was as spectacular as ever. With 2,112 athletes from 119 schools competing in over 550 races, it is the largest single sports event for secondary schools in the southern hemisphere. Spread out over six days, it was held at the atmospheric Lake Ruataniwha, in Twizel. TGS sent a squad of 25 rowers, with 50 per cent of our crews making finals. There were some great results for our rowers, as the club gains momentum. Top result goes to the Boys Under-16 coxed quad crew of Dougal Burden, Tom Blathwayt, Evan Williams and Dan McLean, coxed by Niamh Chalmers, who made the B final, placing 8th. This was an excellent effort placing them 16th in New Zealand. “I think that overall the under-16 quad did really well, and it was an amazing time away with great water and weather” said bow seat, Dan McLean. This was a great outcome especially for Year 9 student Evan Williams, who is in his first season. Evan was competing against rowers, most of whom are in their third season, showing that he has great potential. was the star student in the class because of her diligent work and contagious interest in Spanish. Once she arrived on Argentinian soil there was no option but to, “speak Spanish 24 hours a day, it’s compulsory,” disclosed Lily, who recorded the experience of her massive language barrier. “In my school there were only four international students; three of them from Thailand, plus me.” Lily’s exchange school, José Manuel Estrada, was in the northern Argentinian town of Resistencia, Chaco. Like our school, it also offers students a wide range of subjects and after-school activities. “I made a lot of friends there. They helped me with my Spanish and I taught them English.” “I love my homestay family! They were such a nice couple and they have a daughter a year younger than me. Every dinner time we sat around the table helping ourselves to heaps of food, chatting and laughing. Most important of all was my spoken Spanish improved at a rate it would never have done without my family.”
There were also five C finals, with the Boys Under-15 double sculls crew of Evan Williams and Jack Featherstone coming second, as well as Tom Ferguson in the Under-18 single sculls, and Dougal Burden in the Under-16 single sculls placing these crews 18th in New Zealand. “The competition was fierce,” said head coach Jacqui van Dam. “But Takapuna Grammar certainly stepped up to the challenge, showing that they were there for good quality racing.”
In the school holidays Lily’s homestay family took her travelling: to Misiones, Salta, Jujuy, Mar del Plata and Buenos Aires. “It feels like they’re another family of mine,” grinned Lily. “I still keep in touch with them, and one day I’ll go back there and visit them again.” Lily’s Argentinian sister, Cyn Correa Marosky, wrote:
This comes off the back of performing well despite smaller numbers. At the Mighty River Power regatta, TGS had 14 crews in A and B finals and at North Island secondary schools there were three A finals, three B and three C finals. “They are great results overall for the club as we begin the rebuild phase and look forward to next season,” said Jacqui van Dam. By Dougal BurDen
“Te queremos demasiado hermosa Lily, sos muy especial y dejaste algo hermoso en cada uno de nosotros! Te vamos extrañar...allá va Lily, gracia por estos momentos vividos...” You’re special Lily. You’re the real blessing. Now you are going to leave us today, you’re going to be in every one of our memories, we’re gonna miss you... thank you for the year you spent staying with us.” By Ming yang
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Paul Stroobant had big boots to fill when he stepped in to plug the gap left by the late Dan Dufty, who had offered Clydesdale horse and cart rides in Devonport for more than 20 years Stroobant and his daughter Billie (11) brought two Clydesdale horses and a small wagon from Helensville to Devonport and offered village rides from Marine Square. “I lost count of how many people told us they were happy to see a horse and cart back in Devonport,” he says.
Customers came in a steady stream too, says Stroobant, who plans to return on sunny winter weekends and then for regular business come summer. He and Dufty knew each other well. “He helped me get started 10 years ago or so and I used to look after his brood mares in winter. Dan and I toured the South Island together in a car, looking at horses. It was just fantastic,” he says. Meanwhile three of Dan Dufty’s Clydesdales have gone to Rotorua’s Agrodome.
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SLSS Swim School, 11 Evan Street, Belmont (off Eversleigh Road). Specialists in preschoolers. Phone 486 6728 for more info.
CLASSIFIEDS $20 for the first 15 words, then 50¢ per word thereafter. Classified ads must be submitted by email to devonportflagstaff@orcon.net.nz, or in person at The Flagstaff office (Suite 1, Level 1, 9 Wynyard St, Devonport)
BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTION 2016
BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTION Nominations are invited for the election of five parent representatives to the board of trustees. Nomination forms can be obtained from the school office. Nominations close at noon on 20 May 2016 and may be accompanied by a signed candidate’s statement. The voting roll is open for inspection at the school and can be viewed during normal school hours. There will also be a list of candidates’ names, as they come to hand, for inspection at the school. The poll closes at noon on 3 June 2016. Apply to office@belmont.school.nz or ring 09 445 6605 for more information
Nominations are invited for the election of five parent representatives to the board of trustees. You can nominate another person to stand as a candidate, or you can nominate yourself (make sure you sign both parts of the form). A nomination form and a notice calling for nominations will be posted to all eligible voters. Additional nomination forms can be obtained from the school office. Nominations close at noon on 20th May 2016 and may be accompanied by a signed candidate’s statement. The voting roll is open for inspection at the school and can be viewed during normal school hours. There will also be a list of candidates’ names, as they come to hand, for inspection at the school. Voting closes at noon on 3rd June 2016.
SIGNED Jaye Stewart, Returning Officer, Stanley Bay School
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Manuka Cafe owners buy the building Jane and Quan Tran, the proprietors of Manuka Cafe, are the new owners of a prime Devonport corner. The sale of 49-51 Victoria Rd and 12 Clarence St, sold as one package, went unconditional a couple of weeks ago. The section includes the 1880s two-storey Category A Heritage building, which is the home of Manuka Cafe, as well as the 1950s Clarence St one-storey buildings rented out to
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a jewellery shop, Chinese takeaway business, veggie store and bakery. An initial $5.5 million conditional offer made by a family from China last year fell over and the Trans, a Vietnamese couple who have been running Manuka for the last eight years, stepped in and sealed the deal instead. While the section was marketed as an investment asset with room to add value
through residential development along Clarence St, Quan said he and Jane had no plans to make any changes to the buildings at this point. The section was one of two that had been owned by the Poor family for decades and sold in recent months. 14 Clarence St, the home of Ike’s Emporium, sold for $2 million to a local family last year.
Devonport projects win architecture awards Devonport Library and a Belmont Garden room have both been recognised in the Auckland Architecture awards announced last week. The libary, designed by Athfield Architects, was cited in the Public Architecture cateogory, with judges saying it was: “a controversial project on a wonderful site. “The library has won over many critics with its open, accessible planning, connection to street and park, and low-key impact. With a character and materiality reminiscent of residential projects, the library has a welcoming domestic atmosphere and provides a variety of spaces for interactive activities, research and quiet study. “Attention to control of natural ventilation, shading and acoustics provides low-tech
comfort, while views through the building connect it to sea, park and town,” judges said. In the Housing Additions and Alterations category, a Belmont Garden Room designed by Mitchell & Stout Architects was cited. Judges said: “Small and significant, this addition reflects the complementary abilities of its architect owners. “In a reversing of the traditional process, the extension has been firstly constructed as garden, then a new addition has been deftly grafted in, around and over this landscape. “A small, staid state-house duplex has been enlivened and the new animates the old. Discreet pockets of occupation have been opened out to the garden, neighbourhood, sky and school fields beyond,” judges said.
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Seacliffe Ave asbestos removal heading to court Charges have been filed in the wake of a Worksafe New Zealand investigation into the demolition of a Seacliffe Ave property last August, but the case is yet to be heard. Worksafe investigated the demolition of 37 Seacliffe Ave for potential asbestos contamination last year. A spokesperson said the organisation could not say who was charged or what the nature of the charges are until after the first hearing. The house at 37 Seacliffe Ave was demolished in August last year to make room for a new building. The site has since been cleaned up and earthworks for what looks to be a swimming pool have been undertaken.
Devonport yachties on world stage Olympics-bound Wakatare sailors Paul Snow-Hansen and Daniel Willcox finished sixth overall in the men’s 470 event at the 2016 Sailing World Cup held in Hyeres, France, last weekend. Two young Devonport 49er sailors, Logan Dunning Beck and Jack Simpson, ended the regatta in 32nd place. The top placed 49er crew, Peter Burling and Blair Tuke, finished first. Sara Winther, who was brought up in Devonport, came 11th in the Laser Radial class.
Shore continues its winning ways North Shore Premiers rugby side thrashed Marist 66-7 last weekend to continue its unbeaten run to five matches. Shore scored 10 tries in the romp, taking the club to top of the table in the Buck Shelford Trophy first-round competition. North Shore plays Northcote at Vauxhall Rd this Saturday in what should be an intriguing match. Northcote has been one of the surprise packages of the season, and last weekend beat a resurgent East Coast Bays 21-19 to take second place on the table behind Shore. Kick-off is 2.45 pm
United drops to mid-table A 3-1 loss to Mt Albert-Ponsonby on Saturday has seen North Shore United slip down the Northern first division table after a promising start to 2016. Shore is now in fourth place on the table in a season it had high hopes for after narrowly missing promotion in 2015. North Shore plays Waitakere at Allen Hill Stadium this Saturday at 3pm.
PARENT ELECTION NOTICE DEVONPORT PRIMARY SCHOOL Board of Trustees Election
Nominations are invited for the election of five parent representatives to the board of trustees. A nomination form and a notice calling for nominations will be posted to all eligible voters. You can nominate another person to stand as a candidate, or you can nominate yourself (make sure you sign both parts of the form). Additional nomination forms can be obtained from the school office. Nominations close at noon on 20 May 2016, and may be accompanied by signed candidates’ statements. The voting roll is open for inspection at the school and can be viewed during normal school hours. There will also be a list of candidates’ names, as they come to hand, for inspection at the school.
Voting closes at noon on 3 June 2016.
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