Channel Magazine November 2017

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Bringing the high life to Takapuna STAYING HEALTHY: Shore Guide to Wellbeing

OUT & ABOUT On the Shore

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CHANNEL PEOPLE: MY DOG MY & ME: DOG AND ME WITHWITH DEBORAH TANIA RURI ALLAKER

Tania & Drama In association with our good friends a DogHQ each month we meet Shore people who's four-legged family members add a great deal of joy to their lives. Our very own dog-lover Aidan Bennett (he has two doggies of his own he spoils – Olive a cocker spaniel and Maisie a French bulldog) loves the task of putting this monthly feature together. This month he talks with Tania Ruri about Drama, her much-loved British Bulldog.

AIDAN BENNETT: How long has Drama been part of your life?

TANIA RURI: Nearly 5 years.

AB: What made you decide to get a British Bulldog?

TR: I Inherited Drama from one of my sons – Drama was imported over from Sydney when he was two years old.

AB: Is he your first dog?

TR: Drama would be my first dog in about 10 years – before that a Samoyed, Basil; years ago a Dashund, Tasha and many years ago a Pug. AB: Do you have any other pets?

TR: No. AB: What do you love about Drama?

TR: Drama’s loyalty and he is such a little character, full of bounce and very cute. Drama is a playful little boy.

AB: Does he have any bad habits?

TR: Only taking up too much room on the bed!

AB: What are his favourite things to do?

TR: Drama loves playing tug-of-war; he loves walking on the beach, playing, cuddling and he does enjoy snoozing and snoring.

Chomping food is on the A list for him as well and he’s quite happy to pose for photos.

AB: How long has he been going to DogHQ and does he love it?

TR: Drama has been at Dog HQ for about three years – He loves Dog HQ, he loves playing and the company. He is very lucky as Tania Ruri and Drama the British Bulldog. he gets a huge amount of attention, bum scratches, cuddles and love from the Dog HQ team. He has been known to have a girlfriend AB: Any words of wisdom for other dog owners or prospective there too! dog owners?

AB: Does he love the beach & swimming?

TR: Love and enjoy your pooch as much as you can. The little TR: Yes very much so, Drama loves the beach and likes to “trot” four-legged buddies are truly special to have in your life. through the waves. He only has Short legs so doesn’t like to go too www.doghq.co.nz far out – I'm not sure if his solid frame would float!

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Show Me Shorts Film Festival: Québec Focus, The Vic Cinema Cafe Theatre, Devonport, 8pm Two, The Pumphouse Theatre, Takapuna, continues until 5 Nov Egypt Tology, Northart, Norman King Square, Northcote. Until 15 Nov

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Rotary Browns Bay, The Bays Club, 2 Anzac Rd, 7am Exploring Sacred Spaces and Getting to Know Our Neighbours, St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Takapuna, 7pm

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Dementia Information and Support, The Memory Shop, Birkenhead, 10,30am Rotary Northcote, Northcote Citizens Hall, College Road, Northcote, 5.30pm

Zonta North Shore, Dinner meeting 6pm for 6.45pm, Lake House Arts.

For details call Gail (021 686516)

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Rotary Browns Bay, The Bays Club, 2 Anzac Rd, 7am TMC Nancy’s Afternoon, free entertainment and afternoon tea for people in rest homes, Takapuna Methodist Church, 2pm An Evening Alone with Lawrence Arabia, The Vic, Devonport, 8.30pm

Niamh O'Neill, The Bunker, Kerr Street, Mt Victoria, Devonport, 8pm

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Kids for Kids – Kiwi As, Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna, until 9 November, 7:30– 9:30pm Kids for Kids – Kiwi As, school choir performances, Bruce Mason Centre, 7.30pm. Until 9 Nov. Milford Baptist Kindergarten – open week, 9am-3pm. Until 10 Nov Morning Melodies - The Royal New Zealand Air Force Base Auckland Band, Bruce Mason Centre, 11am Rotary Northcote, Northcote Citizens Hall, College Road, 6pm

Every Monday Dementia Social Group, Takapuna Presbyterian Church, 2 The Terrace, 10.30-2.30pm. Call 09 489 3176 or 0272258893.

Rotary East Coast Bays,Pupuke Golf Club, Forrest Hill, 5.45pm Takapuna Rotary, Harcourts in Takapuna, 5.45pm Rotary Takapuna North, Milford Cruising Club, Craig Road, 6.15pm

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Every Tuesday Glenfield Laughter Club, Glenfield Senior Citizens Hall, Glenfield, 9:30am Rotary Milford, Pupuke Golf Club, Forrest Hill Rd, 5.45pm

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Commission for Financial Capability, free seminar: Thinking of Living In a Retirement Village?, North Harbour Hockey Stadium, Paul Matthews Drive ,Albany, 10:30am Hibiscus & Bays Art Award, Mairangi Arts Centre, opening 6pm. Until 10 Dec AIMES Emerging Talent & Junior Excellence Awards Evening, The Wharf (Pearl Room), Northcote Point, 5.30pm

Soroptimist International North Shore, monthly dinner & speaker Backyard, Northcote, 6pm for 6.30pm.

Contact Fay on 021 419 949 or email sinorthshore@siswp.org

Coping With Cancer, Glenfield Community Centre, 411 Glenfield Road, 10am

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Toddlers On the Move, Milford Shopping Centre, 24 Milford Road, from 9am Dutch Film Festival in Auckland, The Vic Cinema Cafe Theatre, Devonport, 8pm. Also 22 and 24 Nov

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Nanogirl Live! “Engineering Magic” – a live science spectacular, Bruce Mason Centre, 5pm & 7pm

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The Magic of Christmas, North Shore Chorale with Geoff Sewell, Bruce Mason Centre, 7.30pm

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Tea & Topics November - Chris Sanders, East Coast Bays Library, Browns Bay, 10:30am Messy Play With Mess It Up, St Peter's Anglican Church, 11 Killarney St, Takapuna, 11am CompanyTheatre presents Deathtrap.

The Rose Centre, Belmont, 8pm, until 18 Nov; also 11 Nov, & 22-25 Nov. Also 12 & 19 Nov 2pm

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Members’ Merit Exhibition & Awards continues, Lake House Arts, until 25 Nov

Every Wednesday North Shore Brass and North Shore Brass Academy, 13A Taharoto Road Takapuna, from 5.30pm www.northshorebrass.org.nz North Shore Chorale, St George’s Church hall, 2 The Terrace, Takapuna, 7:30pm

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Every Thursday Dementia Social Group, Mairangi Presbyterian Church, 10 Penzance Rd, 10am-2pm. Call 09 489 3176 or 0272258893.

Northcote Petanque Club, Northcote Bowling Club, Little Shoal Bay, 4- 6pm Takapuna Tennis Club, adults’ social tennis, 7-8.30pm, all welcome, takapunatennis.co.nz

Ray White Takapuna is proud to support our North Shore community

Channel Magazine Community Calendar November 2017

This Channel Community Calendar is published monthly for community events.

If you would like to include your event please email details to: christine@channelmag.co.nz

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Bayswater Kids Duathlon and Jolly 5 Jog, Bayswater School, Bayswater, 9am Round North Head Classic Swim, Windsor Reserve to Cheltenham Beach, 9:30am Welcome to Devonport, community & business expo, Devonport Community House, Clarence St. 10am-3pm Belmont Intermediate Orienteering Competition, 11am. Pre-entry only

SPCA Auckland Annual Street 10 Appeal, from 8am Laura Collins & The Back Porch Blues Band, The PumpHouse Theatre, Takapuna, 8pm Jacqueline Macleod: Memory for $ale, and Robyn Gibson: Solace in Familiar Things, The Depot Artspace, 6pm. Until 30 Nov. St John’s School Gala, 87A Penzance Road, Mairangi Bay, 4.39-7pm

St Leo’s Catholic School Village Fair, 11 Devonport, 11am-2pm Rosedale Wastewater Treatment Plant Open Day, 9am. Register @ eventfinda. co.bz Hauraki School Twilight Fair, Takapuna, 3-8pm Garage Sale & Repair Café, Takapuna Methodist Church

Devonport Craft & Fine Food Market, 12 Devonport Community House, 10am Auckland Mama Markets, Milford Senior Citizens Hall, 10am North Shore Male Choir, Hospice Concert, St Peter’s Anglican Church, 2pm AIMES Awards Gala Dinner, Bruce Mason Centre, 6pm

Probus Club of Milford, Milford 17 Baptist Church, 3 Dodson Avenue, 10am to noon. New members welcome.

Takapuna Friendship Club, Sunnybrae Bowling Club, 9.30am. New members welcome; ph 0274753058 or 09 4868025

RF Bennett Shield Rowing Regatta, 18 Sylvan Park, Lake Pupuke, Milford, 8am-6pm Birkenhead Artisan Market, Birkenhead Primary School, 9am North Shore Artists, Exhibition and sale, Milford Senior Citizens Hall, 9.30am-4pm. Also 19 Nov.

Shore Singers – A Musical Miscellany, St. George’s Church, 2 The Terrace, Takapuna, 2pm Isla Grant, Bruce Mason Centre, 7.30pm

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$1 Jumble Sale, Salvation Army, 25 Glenfield, 8am Scotty Brewer Skate Day, 10am-3pm (rain day Sunday 26 Nov) Ngataringa Skate Park, 27 Lake Rd, Devonport. All ages welcome. Info maria@devonportpeninsulatrust.nz

Drop-in Bike Skills & Maintenance, 26 Takapuna Primary School, 23 Auburn Street, 10am-12noon Soroptimist Walk the Talk – Community Against Family Violence event, Takapuna, 8am – 12noon

Every Saturday

Every Sunday

Show Me Shorts Film Festival: The Sampler, The Vic Cinema Cafe Theatre, Devonport, 8pm Wattie's Cans for Good, Belmont Primary School, Belmont, 9am

Highbury House Repair Café, Birkenhead Primary School. Bring broken items for repair. 9am-12pm Kids Learn 2 Ride, Greville Reserve, Forrest Hill, 10am Takapuna Primary School Fair, Takapuna Primary School, 11am-3pm Singing for Our Lives, St George's Church, Takapuna, 2pm

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Looking ahead to December 2 Dec, I Love Takapuna Christmas Carnival Through out December – Student artworks at Torpedo bay Navy Museum, Devonport

Every Friday Rotary North Harbour, North Shore Squash Centre, Shea Tce, 7am Club 55 – Tenpin Bowling, Xtreme Entertainment, Target Court, 10am Introduction to iPads, Seniornet, Mayfield Centre, 5 Mayfield Rd, Glenfield, 10am12pm

Devonport Toy Library, Devonport Community House, 9.30 -11am Devonport Museum, Saturdays & Sundays, 33a Vauxhall Rd, 2–4pm; also Tue-Thur 10am-12pm

Takapuna Markets, Anzac Street carpark, Takapuna; Browns Bay Sunday Market 25 Anzac Road, Browns Bay; Auckland Night Markets, Glenfield Mall Browns Bay Laughter Club, East Coast Bays Community Centre, Browns Bay, 9am

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CONTENTS COVER FEATURES

TAKAPUNA BEACH

32 Interview: Adam Bennett

30 Views from the Beach with TBBA

40 Staying Healthy

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FEATURES 01

Channel People - My Dog and Me

37 Shop the Shore 47 Channel People - I Love What I Do 50 North Harbour Rugby

- Deep Water Running 53 Hurricane Irma Report 64 Channel People - My Favourite Recipe 84 Channel Youth with Jessy Thurston 102 North Shore History with David Verran 103 The Healthy Channel: John Appleton 128 The Channel Crossword

Milford News

DEVONPORT 86 Destination Devonport

ARTS 22

The Vic

23 The PumpHouse 23 The Rose Centre 91 Northart

EDUCATION 91

Kristin School

OUT & ABOUT

94 Westlake Girls' High School

02 Community Calendar

96 Takapuna Grammar

08 Out & About on the Shore

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97 Rosmini College 98 Long Bay College

EATING OUT

99 Pinehurst School

24 Eating Out Feature: Madame Jojos

100 Westlake Boys' High School

26 Eating Out Feature: The Coffee Club 27

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FROM THE EDITOR

Janet Marshall

The Channel team: Aidan Bennett, Heather Vermeer, Crystal Sharp, Christine Young.

Seated: Leo Kitt Yeng, Lizzie Speedy-Willis.

Festivals, fitness and fun And as if simply being here, when the sun plays ball, the water warms up and the cafes are buzzing isn’t good enough, there’s heaps more to look forward to, as you’ll see in this issue.

Our guide to the Shore summer ahead has loads of events to lock into your calendars from cricket to community Christmas markets, book launches to beach polo. A new highlight is set to be the Takapuna Food, Wine and Music Festival. Adam Bennett, the man behind the February 10th event to be held at Smales Farm, talked to our Aidan Bennett (no relation!) for this issue. He gives readers an insight into what to expect and we can’t wait!

Staying Healthy - it’s a Shore thing. And we celebrate it with a section of content dedicated to looking after yourself well. In it, Aidan shows us the novel fitness technique he feels could be behind North Harbour Rugby team’s recent resurgence, we shine a light on a new Shore medical centre with an ‘unmedicalising’ approach to providing high-tech medical care,

and give readers a heads up on some of the group and individual fitness options available this summer on the Shore.

If you’re ready to update your wardrobe this season, check out some of the gorgeous summer fashion ideas inside, and get in early with your Christmas gift buying, taking inspiration from our festive-looking popular Shop the Shore pages.

Enjoy your November on the Shore.

- Heather

Thanks to all our readers who entered the Karen Murrell lipstick collection giveaway last month. Congratulations to Sarah Scholz who won the Princesses of the Golden Petals box set. We hear she’s been rocking the Fiery Ruby red…!

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OUT & ABOUT ON THE SHORE

SPORTS CELEBRATION AT THE POYNTON The annual Sports Dinner at The Poynton retirement village was testment to the hard work put in by Jan Ellin, The Poynton's sports coordinator. A "full house" of more than 100 diners gathered for drinks and to admire the replica America's Cup on display in the Poynton's lounge area before adjourning to the dining room, where dinner was complemented by an address from Glen Sowry. Glen, CEO of The Poynton's parent company Metlifecare, was a professional sailor until his early 30s, sailing with Sir Peter Blake's on two Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race campaigns.

Diane Mitchell, Jenny Delmont and Christine Rutherford.

Craig Peploe, Jan Ellin and Glen Sowry.

Pat Meiklejohn, Carol Jones, Warwick and Fay Spicer.

Phyllis Huckle, Robyn Sievwright and Terry Huckle. Dianne Davis, John McNaught and Brooke Williamson. Allane Duffee, Gail Wight and Alison Rennie.

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OUT & ABOUT ON THE SHORE

QUAY CRUISE LAUNCHES ON THE SHORE A luxury event launched a new luxury cruise brand to hit the Shore.

Champagne glasses were raised at BMW Continental Cars Takapuna to toast the arrival of Quay Cruise. The brainchild of Michelle Malcolm, Quay Cruise is born out of Quay Travel, as a cruise specialist catering for the high-end cruise market, which will sit alongside the luxury leisure travel brand. Michelle gave guests a taste of what Quay Cruise will offer in her speech, following an introduction by BMW's Wendy Jefferson. Close to 200 people attended the Lake Road event on Wednesday 25th October.

Trish Miller, Valerie and David Murray, Donal Miller.

Tracy Strudley, Ursula Elliott, Jill Eggleton and Jackie White.

Michelle Malcolm, Marco Marinkovich, Gilda Kirkpatrick and James Polhill.

Lisa Lilley, Paul Corbett, Donna Hill and Jayne Corbett.

Marc and Julie Bernicoff, Shaun Jackson.

Cindy Palmer, Cecilia McNicholl and Steve Darling.

New Luxury Cruise Brand on the Shore Seeing a gap in the market for a luxury cruise specialist has prompted Quay Travel to launch a new agency brand to the cruise market – Quay Cruise.

A very successful launch was held on Wednesday October 25th at Continental Cars BMW in Takapuna. Managing Director Michelle Malcolm said that the stand-alone division will support the existing Quay Travel luxury leisure business.

"We will be one of the few luxury cruise specialists in New Zealand, and are based in one of the largest growth areas for cruise - the North Shore, Auckland. We already have an amazing

client base of discerning travellers and see Quay Cruise as a complimentary specialist addition to our current travel business."

The core purpose of Quay Cruise is to create new experiences through the luxury of cruise, says Michelle.

Luxury cruise lines are taking on the world’s finest resorts, offering luxury on tap: restaurants by Michelin-starred chefs and something their land-based rivals can’t compete with - a new destination every day. A luxury cruise truly offers the ultimate, relaxing escape for travellers who love the finer things in life, and with many operators throwing in complimentary excursions, butler service, fine dining, and drinks, an all-inclusive luxury cruise offers incredible value, especially when compared to a similar land offering.

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Visit the team of cruise experts in their office at 2/49 Apollo Drive, Mairangi Bay, where there is parking available, or call 09 477 0212.

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TAT2THAT! 2017 AT THE PUMPHOUSE Colourful creations were on display at Tat2That! 2017 Awards Night.

Students from Wairau Valley Special School and Wilson School showcased their creative animal sculptures at a celebratory event held at The PumpHouse. The Takapuna theatre's auditorium was filled with proud pupils, parents and teachers who enjoyed learning about the animal sculptures made from a variety of materials during the course of term three. Wairau Valley Special School Transition Teacher Sarah Dann-Hoare helped to organise the evening and was delighted with the success of the event.

Angela Bloomfield, Sarah Dann-Hoare, Rachel Scanlan.

Tasneem Small, Tumai Cook.

Hamish and Mel Fergusson, Amitesh Prassad, Karen Ramsay.

Jenni Verity, Robin Taylor-Lyons, Jenny Bowen.

Fiona Tapp, Jayne Goode, Suzanna Voorham.

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OUT & ABOUT ON THE SHORE

REPORTING ON TAKAPUNA BEACH BUSINESS ASSOCIATION'S YEAR The Takapuna Beach Business Association held its Annual General Meeting at the Spencer on Byron Hotel, with Chair Julian Brown and CEO Terry Holt presenting their reports. Later in the meeting, Tony Dench of BNZ was elected new Chair of the Board. Terry highlighted activities that took place during 2016-17 (including 31 TBBA events) and reported that Takapuna is the "number three most Instagrammed destination in New Zealand". He also reported a record level of sales for the town centre. With plans for improvements and further development on the horizon, things are looking good for one of the Shore's leading retail precincts.

Greg Remmington, Jennifer Reid and Sophie Gilmour.

Chris Darby, Tony Dench and Richard Hills.

Rob Clark, Greg Remmington and Jeremy Bain.

Julian Brown, John Thatcher and Charles Davis.

Scott Donovan and Terry Holt.

Alex Bicheno and Dave Johnston.

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A YEAR'S BLOOM AT NEXT DOOR GALLERY Spring was a fitting season for a stunning show of botanical paintings entitled ‘A Year’s Bloom’ to be launched. The exhibition opened at Next Door Gallery in late October and featured 12 beautiful botanical artworks created by accomplished Auckland artist Holly Roach. The show celebrated the collaboration between Holly and Pauanesia for their 2018 Calendar. Inspired by the stunning blooms (often quite small) that our native New Zealand trees produce, Holly painted them in graphic yet painterly style. The calendar is on sale now at Next Door Gallery, Hinemoa Street in Birkenhead Point.

Richard Moulton and Tracy Kean.

Simon Blincoe and Richard Moulton.

Margaret Rawnsley, Fiona Sylvestre and Jeff Burtenshaw.

Wendy Crisp and Jennifer Broad.

Michelle Tolley and Tracy Kean.

Holly Roach and Michelle McIver.

Danielle van Rossam and Leonie Lander.

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OUT & ABOUT ON THE SHORE

GEORGE GAIR READING ROOM OPENING The new George Gair Reading Room, situated in the North Auckland Research area of Takapuna Library, was opened on what would have been the late George Gair’s 91st birthday.

His widow Fay formally opened the room after moving tributes to George, a long-time MP and mayor of North Shore, from Helen Gillespie, chair of the North Shore Libraries Foundation; Geoff Chamberlin, previous manager of North Shore Libraries; and Marilyn Waring, Professor of Public Policy at AUT. She supervised George Gair as he completed his Masters degree in his eighties, and endorsed the comments of his three children Warwick, Joanne and Linda, who spoke of his lifelong interest in learning, and his dedication to the North Shore.

Kirsty Webb, Erica O'Flaherty and Colleen Christie.

Marilyn Waring, Helen Woodhouse and Chris Darby. Grant Gillon, Geoff Chamberlin and Ian Parkes.

Gail Stevens, Helen Gillespie and Jocelyn Magness.

Jan O'Connor and Ruth Ell.

Linda, Fay, Warwick and Joanne Gair.

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NORTH SHORE MP MAGGIE BARRY

Maggie Barry.

HOMEWARES AND GIFTS: CRAVE HOME

Not the result people voted for

More than a million New Zealanders voted to continue with a National government, and the result we’ve ultimately ended up with is not the outcome the 23,009 people of North Shore who cast their party vote for National wanted. This election delivered a very disappointing result for our supporters and for the first time in New Zealand's electoral history, the party with the highest number of seats and votes is now in opposition.

Many constituents who've spoken to me are really unhappy at the unfairness that ultimately our fate was not delivered by the voters but at the whim and hubris of Winston Peters. He’s the clear winner with a large loot bag of baubles and a disproportionate amount of influence thanks to a Labour and Greens leadership which was prepared to trade everything and anything for power.

How stable will this three-legged stool of a coalition be when they disagree on so many fundamentals around the economy, trade, migration, health and education? What will happen to National’s goal of Predator Free 2050 when Winston First are against the use of 1080, the most effective tool to control predators and the Greens have control of conservation and climate change but only as Ministers outside Cabinet?

Of course we have to accept the outcome but through the peculiar coalition auction process led by Peters – awarding power to the highest bidder – ultimately National has retained its integrity and we did not sell our souls or betray our values.

It has been a privilege for me and a lifetime highlight to date to have had Ministerial portfolio responsibilities for conservation, arts culture and heritage and seniors over the past three years. I'm proud to have been elected for a third term as the MP for North Shore and to be part of a talented and energetic 56-strong caucus.

Jude Turner

What Stylish Shoppers Crave

When Jude Turner rang staff at her beautiful Birkenhead homeware and gift store to check in during her well-earned holiday, she heard news that she could never have imagined: There had been a ginormous landslip right behind the shop.

Returning to see the damage for herself was an emotional experience.

I'm proud to have been elected for a third term “It was very confronting where I came Customers ‘crave' as the MP for North Shore and to be part of back. To actually see the scale of it was Prosecco gummies! really, really difficult,” says Jude, who talented and energetic 56-strong caucus. has run Crave Home in Mokoia Road for the past six years, following previous two years in Hinemoa Street.

I will be a staunch advocate on behalf of you as my constituents Suffice to say, it’s been a hard few weeks since the landslip, which for issues that matter to the North Shore. I will be very focused on happened in the Rawene Road carpark on Sunday 8th October. Jude holding this coalition to account. In my opinion, Bill English won has felt huge frustration with the loss of parking space, responses the election campaign hands down and he was right when he from the authorities, and the worry of how far the slip would stretch. said National is in very good shape and will be by far the largest “I’ve been wondering if one day I’ll get here to find the whole shop’s and strongest opposition that parliament has ever seen. The 52nd disappeared down the hill!”

Parliament will be sworn in shortly and with the combined energy of Channel visited Jude to cheer her up and help give her business our re-elected MPs and the backing of our supporters, the battle to a boost. She was delighted to show us the stylish selection of get National back into government by 2020 will begin in earnest. homewares, accessories and gift ideas, and give us a sneak peak of Locally there have been two important arts and culture events the shop’s adjoining Christmas Cave, being created ready for opening recently. One of our prominent local arts patrons is being honoured on November 1st. this month. Along with the PumpHouse Theatre family, I salute “Our Christmas shop is a real attraction - it’s going to be gorgeous Genevieve Becroft who was instrumental in the rescue, renovation once again this year! It gives us the opportunity to really ‘go big’ on and redevelopment of our 112-year-old pumping station. In a fitting Christmas and have fun in this fantastic downstairs space. Our focus tribute this month the PumpHouse names its indoor theatre after her. is on stylish festive ornaments and decorations for the home.”

And Devonport’s grand old Victoria Picture Palace theatre has Jude is a great ambassador for her brand, and the village. “I just had her 105th birthday. Grant and I enjoyed the celebratory love this thriving and much-loved community of Birkenhead. It’s a event and it’s great for our community that she’s still going strong as wonderful village with great businesses, events and people. We hope a cinema and performing arts space. to give villagers and visitors a fun, festive shopping experience in the www.flyingsaucers.co.nz Like us on Facebook run up to Christmas here.”

If you want to discuss any issues either call my Takapuna office on 09 486 0005 or email us to make an appointment Upper Level, Shore City, Takapuna • 09 486 0848 Crave Home, 30 Mokoia Road, Birkenhead 09 419 9535 northshore@parliament.govt.nz.

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FLYING SAUCERS FOR POINT OF DIFFERENCE! NOW AT MILFORD SHOPPING CENTRE

Great clothes, fashion accessories sunhats, beach bags, KAGI, Kirstin Ash, Boh Runga, Sid Dickens tiles, Betty Basics, Surmanti

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THE TERRACE GATED DEVELOPMENT: TAKAPUNA

Introducing‌ The Terrace

A gated luxury townhouse development in the heart of Takapuna The much-used real estate term 'Location, location, location’ could have been invented for a new high quality gated luxury condominium development about to get under way in Takapuna.

Globally, the well-heeled and the well-known are flocking to gated communities. Justin Bieber is reportedly holing up in one and so is Jennifer Lopez, most are singled out for their highly sought-after locations, amenities and limited number of homes. Gated and walled residential communities are as old as city-building itself, the earliest gated residential communities in the US date to the 1850s - built for security and privacy of the uber wealthy.

The Terrace's gated community is unique and offer what estate agents term the three P's: privacy, protection and prestige.

The seven-home gated enclave, situated four minutes walk from Takapuna beach, boasts the ultimate lock-up-and-leave, 243m2 homes, four-bed, four bath (or with whatever configuration you choose), Matisse kitchen, private lifts, floor to ceiling windows, airconditioning, no body corporate.

The Terrace Takapuna development is on the northern part of the block of land long-owned by the St George's Presbyterian Church.

Seven three-storey luxury townhouses will rise in a secure complex on the corner of The Terrace and Collins St. The high calibre properties are being sold off the plans, with two of the townhouses already sold. The block of four and block of three will sit roughly where the St George's Presbyterian Church manse sits now. This is currently internally fitted-out as the development's display suite.

Easterly facing townhouses will look towards Rangitoto and the sea while northwest-facing ones will look over Lake Pupuke. A scaffolding tower onsite illustrates the views.

Developer David Gaze says the site is a level piece of land so close to so many amenities.

"Owners will be able to walk to the shops within a couple of minutes and to Takapuna Beach within five minutes. The site could have accommodated apartments built to a higher number of levels but we preferred a select, sophisticated seven-home development more sympathetic to the environment and meeting the demands of those wanting to down-size but not to apartments. We believe buyers want to avoid body corporates so owners of these freehold properties will instead manage a residents' society covering shared costs. This development will appeal to locals wanting to relocate to a spacious and luxurious home in the heart of Takapuna, yet also in a very quiet street, with lock-up-and-leave security."

David Gaze has been in the property industry for more than 30 years. The many projects completed by his design and project management company Gaze Holdings included the well-known rejuvenation of local Hurstmere Road stone castle-type house Merkesworth Castle as his former family home.

Townhouses enjoying end positions command a slightly higher price at $2.7 million than the remainder at $2.5 million each.

All residences have been conceived with the same floor-plan although David emphasises there's flexibility for buyers to customise layouts or materials as desired. For example, owners who don't see the need for a fourth toilet mid-level might extend the kitchen and those not wanting a full ground floor office/study or caregiver accommodation with separate entrance, could easily replace this with full gym facilities. The townhouses will be built of tilt-slab concrete with concrete floors and inter-tenancy walls for superior quietness, accented by extensive exterior use of vertical shiplap cedar boards.

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Each air-conditioned residence has its own personal lift, able to accommodate a wheelchair should owners want to continue living there as they age.

As well as the carpeted double garage the ground floor has an ensuited bedroom that could suit a carer or be a study. The first floor's open-plan living-dining-kitchen has a powder room and opens to a balcony. Upstairs' en suited master bedroom with walk-inwardrobe and balcony has a study or sewing area on the landing outside. This floor also encompasses a family bathroom plus two other bedrooms, including one with another walk-in-wardrobe.

Construction is due to start this month for completion late in 2018.

The houses are being sold by private treaty.

You can view the development's display suite and the site (Corner The Terrace and Collins St, Takapuna) on Saturdays and Sundays between 10am and 4:30pm, Wednesdays 10am to 2pm, or by appointment.

For more information Phone 02 999 31 600, Visit: www.gazeprojects.co.nz or contact your preferred real estate agent.

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TERRACE Q U A L I T Y, S T Y L E , L U X U R Y TAKAPUNA GATED COMMUNITY The Terrace is the bespoke, boutique development in the heart of Takapuna.

Seven luxury homes in a gated-community – the 243m2 residences have been designed for discerning purchasers unwilling to sacrifice space and quality. With no body corporate fees, double internal garages, private lifts and state-of-the-art interiors, they deliver the ultimate suburban utopia, built for the three essentials - privacy, protection and prestige.

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Address: Sale: Viewing: Contact Gaze on:

Ultimate lock-up-and-leave 243m2 Townhouses $2.5m - $2.7m 3 bedrooms plus study, four bathrooms 2-car garaging Matisse gourmet kitchen and sumptuous bathrooms Private lifts No body-corporate Ground floor study (or caregiver, Air BnB) with full bathroom, shower

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2.7m ceiling height Floor-to-ceiling windows Air-conditioned Glass-balustraded balconies Flexible and personalised layouts CCTV and sensor lighting 200m to Shore City 400m to Takapuna Beach

Cnr The Terrace and Collins St, Takapuna Private Treaty Saturdays & Sundays 10am - 4:30pm, Wednesdays 10am - 2pm, or by appointment 02 999 31 600 (or your preferred real estate agent) www.gazeprojects.co.nz www.channelmag.co.nz Issue 82 - November 2017

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ANDREW DORREEN

New Seaward Side Lock Up And Leave 1/18 CAMERON STREET, TAKAPUNA Located in the popular pocket very close to Takapuna Beach, 1/18 Cameron Street, Takapuna has just undergone an extensive rebuild from renowned Master Builders - QPC Builders and the result is spectacular! Now offering four bedrooms and two living areas as well as fantastic secure outdoor living, this immaculate townhouse is ready for you to move in and enjoy.

• 4 bedrooms or 3 plus a very generous office • Open plan living, facing north flowing to secure decking, offering complete privacy • Entertainers kitchen with great spec, island bench and plenty of storage

• Two living spaces separated by a feature double sided fireplace Immaculate spacious master suite with luxurious ensuite and walk in wardrobe • New double glazing, ducted air conditioning, good sea views from upper bedroom level A rare opportunity to purchase a quality family townhouse built to a high standard and brand new - never been lived in! Seize your opportunity and contact Andrew Dorreen without delay.

Expressions Of Interest closes Wednesday 8th November 2017 at 4pm (unless sold prior).

Andrew Dorreen / Precision Real Estate Ltd MREINZ Licenced under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008 Email: andrew@precision.net.nz / Phone: 021 747 334 / www.precision.net.nz / www.andrewdorreen.com

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ANDREW DORREEN

Best Of The Best, Auckland's Finest Waterfront Site 27 MINNEHAHA AVENUE, TAKAPUNA Boasting over 1,239sqm of land in Takapuna's most exclusive Avenue, number 27 Minnehaha is quite simply, the very best of the best! Surrounded by homes that are some of the most admired on the North Shore and situated adjacent to Thorne Bay Beach, this Takapuna landmark is the opportunity of a lifetime.

Two options are presented for purchasers to explore and we invite well qualified buyers to enquire if they are interested in either option.

Option two, purchase a consented cutting edge new home (off the plan) designed by Ron Dijkmans boasting over 700sqm of floor area.

Offering 5 very large bedrooms with four having their own ensuite, 8 car internal access garaging and a lift to all floors. Separate 65sqm pool house with lounge and breath-taking views. A gymnasium, large media room, cellar and spacious office with cutting edge interiors.

Resource consent has been granted so never before has there been an opportunity to secure a home at this level in this location.

Option one, purchase the waterfront property as is, and complete the building work to your own requirements or start afresh with a new design.

This is truly an opportunity of a lifetime.

For Sale by Negotiation.

At the top end of the market, there are large differences in where buyers see the value of property, and often homes are unique or setting benchmarks in their respective areas. Because of this, Andrew negotiates each sale price face to face, rather than selling by Auction, and has done for almost all of his 15 years in the business.

The current climate is seeing fewer people in a cash position so the need for a specialist high end negotiator becomes paramount to your success.

Andrew's personal sales last year alone totalled $106,207,000 at an average of $3,933,000 per property and has broken the $100 million for the last three consecutive calendar years. This makes him one of New Zealand's most successful residential sales people.

Sign up for Property Updates at www.andrewdorreen.com. Follow his facebook page and Instagram feed.

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PERFORMING ARTS NEWS

Company Theatre return with Deathtrap

The PumpHouse latest from Theatre Director James Bell.

Jekyll and Hyde – The Musical

James Bell

If Robert Louis Stevenson time travelled to the 21st century, he’d probably be astonished that his gothic novella, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, which is still in print, is as popular today as it was when first published in 1886.

Victorian era readers couldn’t get enough of it and by the early 20th century a new readership demographic had developed for the suspense/horror genre which has been largely triggered by this story.

The dichotomy of the human condition, good vs evil, spans millennia but in Stevenson’s hands the trope is less ethereal, less theoretical, more grounded in reality. Dr Jekyll’s battle with his dark side (Mr Hyde) becomes personal for Stevenson as it was written during one of the author’s many bouts with life-threatening respiratory illness.

He awoke from a feverish dream which provided the plot and within days the first draft was complete, written in his sick bed.

Over the past 130 years, Jekyll & Hyde has been adapted hundreds of times for the stage, radio, films and of course musical interpretations. The most recent musical theatre version debuted in 1990. A Broadway revival in 2013 has put the show back in the spotlight.

Laura Collins has the blues. It’s been a while since we’ve hosted a blues band so we’re rapt to have Laura Collins and her Back Porch Blues Band on stage for one night only.

Laura is a familiar face in the New Zealand blues scene and brings with her some seasoned musicians. Pianist Wayne Mason is a wellknown Kiwi songwriter. His hit from 1969, ‘Nature (enter me)’ when he was in the band Fourmyula is still a Kiwi favourite. John O'Connor on guitar, considered one of New Zealand’s guitar legends, George Barris on mellow upright bass and Pete Cogswell on Back Porch Drums make up the rest.

Join our Community Choir. This year’s Christmas Carols in the Amphitheatre will feature North Shore Chorale and PumpHouse Community Choir which celebrates its first birthday this month.

As the name suggests, the community choir is made up of locals.

Absolutely anyone is welcome to join. You don’t need a trained voice. Our choir leader, Matt Kereama will help you stay in tune. All you need to do is to come to rehearsals for a couple of weeks and be available to perform on December 17th. Please contact julia@pumphouse.co.nz if you wish to join.

PumpHouse Gift Vouchers make great Christmas gifts - just saying.

Cheers, James Bell

What's On...

Good day Channel Reader, I’m John Davies and I’m the new Manager at Belmont’s amazing Community Centre & Theatre, The Rose Centre. I’ve just arrived in the past month and already I feel at home. It’s a great venue full of diverse events and offerings. We’re on the hunt for more offerings for 2018 so if you’re looking for a Devonport-Takapuna John Davies location let’s talk.

Of course we are the home of Company Theatre and we’re delighted to have them back for November with the comedy thriller “Deathtrap”, written by Ira Levin and directed by Kate Birch. Running November 11 to 25, it’s a super fun time. Time Magazine wrote “If you care to assassinate yourself with laughter, try DEATHTRAP”. It’s an ingenious maze of twists and turns that keep you guessing till the very end.

Come November 29 & 30, Musical Theatre is the show du jour.

Former Takapuna Grammar Head Boy Andrew Coshan returns to The Rose Centre, one of the first places he performed, to show what time at a great performance school can do for you. Andrew’s returning to the hood to prove he has in fact learned to sing in tune, dance in time and make people believe that he’s someone else! You can grab tickets by emailing davecoshan@gmail.com The Rose Theatre is also a really off beat location for a wedding… there’s a thought you hadn’t had before now. Imagine building a set on the stage of the Grand Canal in Venice and getting married with your guests looking on as a gondola takes you down one of the grandest waterways of the world….or marrying on the Serengeti with Lion’s roaring in the distance. Theatre is the art of the possible, marriage is a union that creates the possible. Let’s talk about your possible if these ideas make you think of our venue for your wedding with up to 110 guests looking on. After the main event, we have a large reception lounge that will allow 100 guests to sit for your meal and drinks. From every seat there’s a lovely view of our garden terraces where your party can retire to fresh air and a relaxed gathering environment.

Look us up, facebook.com/rosecentre or www.rosecentre.co.nz.

We’re here for your class, event, show, business gathering or pretty much anything a multi-purpose venue offers.

The Rose Centre, School Rd, Belmont 09 445 9900 info@rosecentre.co.nz www.rosecentre.co.nz

@ The PumpHouse

Jan 20 – Feb 17 2018 Shoreside Theatre presents Auckland Shakespeare in the Park In the PumpHouse Amphitheatre on alternating nights ROMEO & JULIET THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Nov 18 – Dec 2 All sessions 7.30pm North Shore Music Theatre Presents December 17 at 6pm Adult $23 - $28 The PumpHouse presents JEKYLL & HYDE – the Musical Senior $20 - $24 Christmas Carols in the Weds – Sat 7.30pm PumpHouse Amphitheatre Student $18 - $22 Sat/Sun Matinees 2pm Entry $5 at the door – under 12s free Child $12 - $15 Adult $35 Group rates available Senior/Child/Student $30 November 10 at 7.30pm Laura Collins and the Back Porch Blues Band Jazz and blues All tickets $25

December 11 - 21 Tim Bray Productions presents THE SANTA CLAUS SHOW Two shows daily – 10.30am and 1pm (except Sundays) Tickets $22 - $25

BOOKINGS:

Ph 489 8360 or www.pumphouse.co.nz The PumpHouse Theatre (off Manurere Ave) Killarney Park, Takapuna. info@pumphouse.co.nz

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EATING OUT ON THE SHORE

Madame Jojos Milford

Meals to melt your heart “I can honestly say, I think I’ve just had the best bran muffin I’ve ever tasted,” declared Christine as she entered the Channel office. “You’ve got to try them!” So I did. And I left Madame Jojo’s extolling the place way beyond the beauty of the bran muffins.

Truffled mushroom risotto slice - what an idea! For most people I know, mushroom risotto is a winner, but making it into a slice and topping it with spinach, parmesan and more mushrooms for lunch on the go or as an easy dinner accompaniment, is genius. Talking of easy dinners, their selection of ready made meals is Madame Jojo’s bread and butter.

“It’s batch cooking of wholesome, nutritious home-made dinners,” says Jo Williams, owner and chef. The handwritten meal menu for the week ahead on display in their Kitchener Road window is quaint; a perfectly apt, homespun way to show locals what’s cooking.

With the support of her superfriendly store assistants, Shore locals Cathe and Chanelle, whom she describes as ‘gold’, Jo is running a thriving business.

Jo has received many offers of wholesaling the ready meals elsewhere. Her decision not to widen the business in this way indicates Jo’s refusal to lose the authentic, home-cooked reputation she has built over the past year in Milford, and which she has finely honed in Remuera at the store she created 12 years ago with her partner, Paris. “We don’t want to lose what makes our meals special.

We want people to come back to us and say, ‘That was delicious!’ We want customers to be able to enjoy something wholesome with the ease of not having to make it themselves.”

With the support of her super-friendly store assistants, Shore locals Cathe and Chanelle, whom she describes as ‘gold’, Jo is running a thriving business. When I visited, Chanelle whipped up some of the frothiest, best made coffee I’ve tasted on the Shore, with beans from Atomic Coffee.

Owner Jo and barista Chanelle at Madame Jojo's.

Hams for Christmas and the summer ahead are at the front of Jo’s mind this season. Pre-orders ideally need to be in this month - early December at the latest, as Jo can’t guarantee to have any available for order come the start of next month.

“We like to say yes to everything! But we have to say it’s ‘first come, first served’ on the hams. And it’s not your average piece of ham; she’s talking SPCA-approved, New Zealand ham, glazed to perfection. “It’s the same ham supply we have used over in Remuera for 12 years. We’ve tried many, but we absolutely like this one the best.” No deposit or pre-pay required, Jo just asks that people go into the store to order their Christmas ham during November.

Intriguing, multi-coloured salads, savoury crepes - it was a mushroom, lentil and spinach version topped with feta when I was in store, tantalising homemade sweet treats including delightful marshmallow cubes and so much more is here at Madame Jojo’s.

Up-spec your beach picnic, impress your dinner party friends, make an enviable buffet spread - eat really well this summer.

And the bran muffin? I have no more words.

Madame Jojo’s, 89 Kitchener Road, Milford 09 486 5711 www.madamejojo.co.nz @milfordmadamejojos on Instagram

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Your monthly restaurant guide…

THYME RESTAURANT ABOUT US: Located on the first floor of The Spencer on Byron Hotel, we’ve been a Takapuna favourite, delighting taste buds for more than 15 years. With a variety of options on the menu including our popular Flambé and Drinks Trolley and with friendly attentive service, Thyme Restaurant is the place to be!

THE FOOD: Our menu reflects a passion for seasonal fresh food with innovative dishes designed to tantalise your taste buds. Try our Flambé Trolley on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday night where our chef completes your dish at your table. We also have vegetarian, gluten free, and dairy free options.

NEED TO KNOW: NOVEMBER Celebrate with friends this festive season! Our Festive Season Set Menu is sure to delight, with 3 courses for $65 per person. For groups from 2-50 guests. A la carte menu also available. Bookings essential.

T&C’s: Subject to availability. Not available on 24/12, 25/12, 26/12, 31/12 and 1/1/2018. Not available with any other offer.

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FLORRIE M CGREAL'S CHRISTMAS @ FLORRIES: Florrie McGreals is a great place to hold your Christmas work function no matter how big or small your business.

We have a Christmas menu and function pack available, with platters and sharing dishes as options with a great range of tap beers and a pool table. Contact Vanessa on events@masterandapprentice NEED TO KNOW: NOVEMBER We are hosting The Sin Bin Reunion remembering the good old days with progressive pricing from 4pm Friday 3rd November. Everyone welcome. We will be showing all the Rugby League world cup matches and The All Whites World Cup Playoff vital first leg against Peru 7pm the 11th November Live and Loud on our Screens and Projector. Where else better to watch it than the #1 Irish Bar on the Shore.

Tuesday 7th November Melbourne Cup build up and the Big Race live and loud with in house promotions running throughout the day.

Open every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner Level 1, The Spencer on Byron Hotel, 9-17 Byron Avenue, Takapuna Beach 09 916 4982 www.thymerestaurant.co.nz

138 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna 09 486 6581 Open Every Mon-Sun 11am-1am Like our Facebook Page to receive our latest deals for you www.facebook.com/FlorrieMcGreals

MEXICO

MASTER AND APPRENTICE

ABOUT US: Drenched in bright colour and spiked with bold Mexican imagery, Mexico is an immersive dining experience inspired by street cuisine and culture of it's namesake nation.

THE FOOD: Mexico celebrates the vibrant, fresh and lighter side of Mexican cuisine, with a range of authentic and fusion Mexican dishes served to you in a fast paced and energetic atmosphere.

The menu is seasonal, changing every 3 months to ensure fresh flavours and produce but with customer favourites becoming a menu staple you'll never have to worry about missing out on Mexico's famous fried chicken.

NEED TO KNOW: NOVEMBER Mexico celebrates the vibrant, fresh and lighter side of Mexican cuisine, with a range of authentic and fusion Mexican dishes served to you in a fast paced and energetic atmosphere. The menu is seasonal, changing every 3 months to ensure fresh flavours and produce. You can now get Mexico's famous free range Fried Chicken to take away!

Open Mon to Sun 12pm - late.

Mexico, 4 The Strand, Takapuna 09 280 1487 www.mexico.net.nz

CHRISTMAS FUNCTIONS: Master and Apprentice is a great place to hold your Xmas work function no matter how big or small your business. We have a Christmas menu and function pack available, from platters and sharing dishes to 2 and 3 course set menus. Contact Joe on ops@masterandapprentice.co.nz NOVEMBER @ M&A: Rugby League Semi-finals and final.

TAYLORS ON HURSTMERE ABOUT US: Taylors – Takapuna’s newest hotspot.

Mouth-watering bites plus just the right drop to wash away the day and warm into the night.

THE FOOD: Sharing plates, wine and craft beers.

An inspired menu of fresh and local produce to excite the taste buds. ​A variety of bites to try that will keep you coming back for more.

All Whites World Cup Playoff vital first leg against Peru 7pm 11th November Master and Apprentice Comedy Night is back!! Thursday 23rd with local boy Brendhan Lovegrove and Australia’s Live at the Apollo Star Steve Hughes. Tickets at Eventfinda.com Tuesday 7th November Melbourne Cup build up and the Big Race live and loud with in house promotions running throughout the day.

PASS IT DOWN WEEKLY RITUALS:

Try our famous Kumara & Blue Cheese Arancinci, Snapper Sliders or Lamb & Mint Meatballs!

Monday: $13 1kg Pot Mussels, free fries, 3 delicious flavours – all day Tuesday: $5 for 2 Tacos – all day/ NEW Crafternoons 4-6pm Wednesday: All day create your own pasta Thursday: All Share Plates $10 – all day/ NEW Crafternoons 4-6pm Saturday nights: Live music from 9pm Bangers N Mashups Sunday: Brunch and Roast with all the trimmings

NEED TO KNOW: NOVEMBER Booked your Xmas party yet? We have a great venue available for private use! Can cater from 4 to 40. No venue hire! Please email for details.

FREE HIRE when you book your next function with us.

Contact us to see what packages we can arrange to make your special occasion even more special.

Open 3pm till late Tuesday to Saturday, Sunday 12pm till 9pm Taylor’s on Hurstmere, 168 Hurstmere Road 09 489 9510 www.taylorsonhurstmere.co.nz

136 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna Open Mon-Sun 11am-Late Follow our Facebook and Instagram page to receive our latest deals for you

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The Coffee Club Takapuna

The Coffee Club's Jaen Bosch and Ruan van Eeden.

The Coffee Club Turns Ten Ten years ago on 28 November, The Coffee Club opened in a prime position in Takapuna; it was the 14th of The Coffee Club franchised stores in New Zealand, and it remains one of eight flagship restaurant stores in the 63 store chain.

Ruan van Eeden and Jaen Bosch took over as franchisees in February this year, and are planning something special each week during November to celebrate the 10-year milestone. Watch out for innovations such as order-ahead takeaway picnic boxes for two that you can collect as you head down to the beach: perfect as we head into summer and aim to make the most of time outdoors.

Jaen and Ruan are real advocates of The Coffee Club. “It’s a great brand,” they say. As in all franchise operations, there’s a reliable consistency in the food. People know what to expect – and they can use the VIP Club privileges in any store, anywhere. Being a restaurant store, The Coffee Club Takapuna is fully licensed and able to offer chef’s specials as menu additions.

Until now, Jaen and Ruan have been focused on a mantra of “good food, great service and excellent coffee”. As they approach their first anniversary in Takapuna, they’re ready to offer patrons a few more “out of the box” options and will start adding some chef's suggestion dinner items.

“We want to become the number one store in New Zealand and set an international service level,” they say. To that end, they focus heavily on training their 18-strong team with emphasis on service delivery. “We don’t want to be just another eatery experience,”

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says Jaen, whose background is in hospitality management, both here and in in his native South Africa. (Ruan’s background is in finance; he focuses more on administrative and financial issues.)

Like other Takapuna cafés, The Coffee Club is busy during the 11am-2.30pm lunch period, and now that daylight saving is embedded and the weather warming up, dinners are also increasingly busy.

Most people order from the menu (rather than the cabinet offerings, which tend towards the sweeter end of the casual eating spectrum, and include various cakes and desserts). The menu includes a range of all-day breakfast options, sandwiches and wraps, kids’ meals, brioche burgers, pizza and nachos. Mains are also on offer, with various pasta dishes as well as variations on chicken, fish and beef fillet.

The Coffee Club stands out, says Jaen, because of its long trading hours (until 9pm every night), the consistency of its food, and its smart casual vibe which welcomes and appeals to all sectors of the community. “We’re re-establishing The Coffee Club as the go-to place in Takapuna. We’ve put a focus on service, but it’s also about ensuring good, fresh food is available all the time.

We’ll be decorating the store throughout November to celebrate the birthday, and will have special promotions during the month.

The Coffee Club, Lake Road & The Strand, Takapuna, 09 489 3677 www.thecoffeeclub.co.nz Facebook: @tcctakapuna Open 7.30am-9pm Mon-Fri, 8am-9pm Sat & Sun

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ABOUT US: The Coffee Club Café Bar Restaurant Takapuna is open daily for breakfast, lunch, dinner or just coffee and cake.

Good food, great service and, of course, excellent coffee with The Coffee Club's signature blend!

THE FOOD: Choose from a wide and delicious range of breakfast, lunch and dinner meals from our all-day menu as well as hot and cold beverages.

From classic favourites such as Lemon Pepper Calamari to our famous breakfast dishes such as The Coffee Club Big Breakfast, there’s truly something for everyone at The Coffee Club.

NEED TO KNOW: NOVEMBER It's The Coffee Club Takapuna's 10th birthday so keep an eye on our social media pages and join us in store to be part of the celebration!

Why not indulge in The Coffee Club’s famous Bacon & Banana Pancakes this month? Hot fluffy pancakes stacked with delicious caramelised bananas, grilled bacon and a side of luscious maple syrup. Available all day but only at The Coffee Club!

Open 7.30am-9pm Mon-Fri, 8am-9pm Sat & Sun. 1 The Strand, Corner Of Lake Road, Takapuna 09 489 3677 CAFE

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FRENCH RENDEZ-VOUS ABOUT US: Philippe, Hemanshi, Claire and Romain invite you to come into a beautiful, quiet spot in Takapuna.

Come down to Lake Pupuke for a delicious handmade meal (French style) with fresh New Zealand product for breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner.

French and Kiwi styles work perfectly together such as our fabulous Eggs Benedict or Kiwi Galette.

THE FOOD: A fantastic selection of traditional French Galettes and sweet crepes. For dinner, Philippe and Romain will cook for you our amazing beef bourguignon.

Menu available on our Facebook page.

ABOUT US: At Poké Poké we are committed to sourcing the highest quality premium ingredients we can find. We take sustainability seriously and use only responsibly sourced ingredients and organic products where we can. You can be sure to enjoy a delicious, fresh, nutritious meal every time you walk in and feel great about what you are eating at the same time!

THE FOOD: Hawaiian cuisine Poké typically consists of chunks of marinated raw fish tossed with seaweed. We have added our own twist of Japanese and Korean elements to the concept with the idea of Poké Bowl. With build-your-own style menu you can customise your own meal with the ingredients you love, to create your own delicious, fresh, healthy Poké Bowl!

NEED TO KNOW: NOVEMBER For the month of August and September, all Channel magazine readers will recieve complementary miso soup with their Poké bowl. Just mention Channel magazine at the checkout!

Poké Poké, Shop 6, Fortieth & Hurstmere, 40 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna, 09 486 5399

TOKYO BAY ABOUT US: Located in the Main Beach entertainment hub on The Strand at Takapuna Beach, Tokyo Bay is an international-class venue, offering modern Japanese. The diverse menu, created by expert chef Chikara Sato of Tokyo, provides options for all.

THE FOOD: Tokyo Bay offers modern Japanese cuisine with delicious flavours complemented by Japanese beers, sakes, and great international wines. Priced for the local market; you'll be happy with the value provided for a top class Auckland restaurant.

NEED TO KNOW: NOVEMBER New menu available.

NEED TO KNOW: NOVEMBER Enjoy donburi, bento lunch box or sharing dishes for lunch every day.

Christmas bookings open and filling fast.

French Rendez-Vous, Killarney Park, Takapuna 09 487 0009 facebook.com/French-Rendez-vous-23129221030897

Open 12noon until late 7 days 20 The Strand, Takapuna Beach, 09 390 7188 Book on www.tokyobay.co.nz

HEMINGWAYS ABOUT US: The stylish, peaceful courtyard garden at Hemingways is the perfect place to enjoy a stunning breakfast, lunch or dinner at one of Devonport’s upmarket eateries. Warm, friendly service, deliciously crafted coffee, fine wines and boutique beers are just some of the many reasons to step off Devonport’s main strip onto Rattray Street and enjoy hospitality Hemingways-style.

THE FOOD: With some of the best brunches around, lunches to suit every taste and an exquisite dinner menu, with extensive wine list to match, you’ll struggle to beat Hemingways for a quality dining experience in Devonport.

NEED TO KNOW: NOVEMBER It's the relaxing, spacious summer spot to enjoy some of the finest food available in the village this summer.

Hemingways, 2A Rattray Street, Devonport 09 446 0454 www.hemingways.co.nz @hemingwaysdevonport on Facebook & Instagram

SOUL SUSHI ABOUT US: Soul Sushi opened in Newmarket last year and now we are excited to announce our the opening of our store in Milford. We love making delicious, healthy food for your enjoyment - and sushi is just the beginning!

THE FOOD: Our goal is to delight your eyes and awaken your palate with delicious flavours. We have a delicious range of sushi for you to select from, and we also serve variety of hot food such as donburi, ramen, yakisoba, udon and salad, which will definitely warm you up this winter. Vegetarian and gluten free options are also available.

NEED TO KNOW: NOVEMBER Complimentary miso soup and green tea for our dine-in customers (50 cents takeaway charge applies) Soul Sushi, 83-85 Kitchener Road, Milford 09 489 7546

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AL FORNO ITALIAN ABOUT US: Al Forno Italian Restaurant is a favourite among locals and visitors. We’re known for our lively atmosphere, our welcoming staff and our delicious food.

Come and explore a taste of Italy right here in the heart of Takapuna.

THE FOOD: Spring is in the air, and summer is just around the corner. The weather is warming up which means customers turn to lighter meals. Our Calamari (pictured above) is one our most popular dishes. It’s pan fried in a house-made Napoli sauce with chillies and a touch of cream. It goes well with our newly arrived 2017 Peregrine Rosé which is soft and delicate, with creamy flavours of strawberry and white cherry.

NEED TO KNOW: NOVEMBER Christmas is now just one month away and it’s time to book your Christmas function.

If you are booking a Christmas function, give us a call to discuss your options.

We recommend you book early to avoid disappointment and follow us on Facebook for the latest deals and specials.@alfornotakapuna Open Tues to Sun 5pm-Late. 09 488 0179 32 Anzac Street, Takapuna, www.alforno.co.nz

CHATEAUBRIANT ABOUT US: A charmingly authentic piece of France in Devonport. This characterful, multi-award winning café is one of the jewels in the local café scene’s crown.

Eat in to enjoy the French ambiance and brush up your conversational French with the friendly staff, or take some delicious treats to nearby Cheltenham Beach.

THE FOOD: Freshly-baked authentic French food; from the best croissants around, to traditional Croque Monsieur, gourmet Boeuf Bourguignon pies, baguettes and classic French crepes. Excellent, locally roasted coffee is another of the magnets that draws crowds to this place.

NEED TO KNOW: NOVEMBER Catering for guests over the summer? Save time and wow guests with culinary delights from our French chef - from buffet nibbles to full dinners and spectacular cakes! Chateaubriant est magnifique! Bon appetit!

Open 7.30am–3:30pm Tues-Thurs, 7.30am–4:30pm Fri-Sun, Closed Mondays, 87 Vauxhall Rd, Devonport, 09 445 0021, www.chateaubriant.co.nz

BIRD ON A WIRE ABOUT US: Bird On A Wire is a destination for food that is both delicious and nutritious.

Set up by friends who wanted to bring the notion of a local "chicken shop" to Auckland, Bird On A Wire has a location on Hurstmere Road as well as Ponsonby Central and Orakei Bay Village.

THE FOOD: Handmade real food focused around free-range rotisserie chicken, breakfast, seasonal salads, sandwiches, burgers and sides. Our food is served dine in or takeaway and we also offer organic espresso, housemade sodas, smoothies, juices and fantastic New Zealand wine and craft beer.

NEED TO KNOW: NOVEMBER We have released our spring menu, which includes a delicious Chicken Falafel Wrap, Grilled Bird BLT Burger, Schnitzel Sandwich and Korean Fried Bird Burger.

Jump on our website or download the Bird On A Wire app to order online or come and dine with us, we'd love to have you. We are also delivering via Uber Eats on the North Shore folks! Great for the whole family, and a rare 'guilt free' takeaway option - simply put, we want to help you eat better food.

Open from 8am, 7 days, Fortieth & Hurstmere, 40 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna 09 486 5436 birdonawire.co.nz

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DANTE'S PIZZA & CASA PASTA ABOUT US: Dante's Pizzeria Napoletana was established 10 years ago and is wellknown for its genuine authentic wood fired pizzas. Dante’s has won Metro's best pizza in Auckland 4 years running, and best in New Zealand in 2015 and 2016. Dante's has now opened a new chapter by introducing freshly made pasta, which is made in-house every morning. We are very proud to be one of the few restaurants in New Zealand and one of the only restaurants in Takapuna to make fresh pasta daily.

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THE FOOD: Authentic, genuine, nutritious, sincere; based on tradition and made with lots of passion and love. With every bite, Dante's takes you to Italy and keeps you there each time you come back to visit.

NEED TO KNOW: NOVEMBER For ONLY $12, come and have a lunch of Panuozzi - the famous Italian Street Food Sub. We strongly recommend to try the Pork Belly one.

You will not regret it!

Open Monday to Sunday 11:30 'til late. Fortieth and Hurstmere, 40 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna, 09 486 3668, www.dantespizzeria.co.nz

LE DESIR JOJOS MADAME ABOUT US: For 11 years Madame Jojos has been providing customers with gourmet takeaway meals for eating and entertaining, and we are now open in Kitchener Road, Milford. We prepare everything in-house and specialise in fresh, seasonal food for you to eat at home. We also have a comprehensive catering menu ranging from canapés to gourmet banquets.

THE FOOD: Our selection of counter food features delicious salads, fritters, pies and tarts, and our famous burritos, along with options for vegetarian, vegan, dairy and gluten-free diners. Our packaged meals include moussaka, curries and pies, ready to heat and eat.

NEED TO KNOW: NOVEMBER Come into the shop to pick up a copy of our Christmas catering menu. Order your ham from us and buy yourself more time to relax this festive season.

Open Mon-Fri 9.30-6pm, Sat 9-3pm 89 Kitchener Road, Milford, 09 486 5711 www.madamejojo.co.nz

PUKEKO ABOUT US: Pukeko’s Food Store is a welcoming café and takeaway shop located at the heart of beautiful Mairangi Bay. We serve the best coffee at Pukeko's!

THE FOOD: We create our food using the best and freshest ingredients - just like Grandma used to make!

At the Pukeko’s Food Store you can buy the wonderful Pukeko Bakery breads, delicious pastries and sandwiches. We also offer gluten free desserts, natural vegan smoothies and fresh cold pressed juices as well as real fruit icecream! For those with a hectic lifestyle pick up an acai bowl to go. This is a perfect low fat, low sugar, high energy breakfast.

NEED TO KNOW: NOVEMBER Put a spring in your step this spring with our super-healthy acai bowl breakfast to take with you on the go!

Open: Mon to Fri 7:30am - 4pm, Sat & Sun 7:30am-3pm, Shop 1, Green Gables Shopping Centre, 376 Beach Rd, Mairangi Bay, 09 478 6984

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PUSHKAR INDIAN CUISINE ABOUT US: Pushkar Takapuna is the most popular newest restaurant on the North Shore at the moment. Located upstairs next to Glengarry Wines, we are known for our authentic cooking style.

Enjoy our great food and spacious welcoming décor.

THE FOOD: Very authentic menu, with food cooked from scratch over charcoal by a chef who’s travelled all over world and has 23 years’ experience. We even grind our own spices. All curries taste different. Try our specialities like SHANK ON BONE and other items you won’t find in New Zealand.

Our specials lunch starts from $11.99 seven days a week NEED TO KNOW: NOVEMBER We can arrange parties for bigger groups, with 100-plus seating capacity. We also have a corporate box for your special business lunch or dinner. Call or email to book.

Open 7 days 11.30am-2.30pm and 5pm till late 178 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna, next to Glengarry Wines 09 4862950 pushkarakl@gmail.com www.pushkar.net.nz

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FRANC'S THIS MONTH AT FRANC'S When springs rolls into summer in Takapuna it can mean only one thing: Takapuna’s award winning community event, Harcourts Beach Series, kicks off.

This means Tuesdays become base camp for this awesome event and as a sponsor we have some great deals up for grabs on a Tuesday.

This year we have “Tin Man Tuesdays”. Grab yourself a mini burger + fries + can of beer, all for only $10. That is Tin Man Tuesday!! Available from 4pm every Tuesday.

We have also only a week ago kicked off our new summer menu and it is proving to be super popular already. We still have most of the favourites on the food menu with some new special summer surprises, and the new wine list is a must try!!

We are ready for you and yours this Christmas so if you are looking to book a group function then contact us as soon as possible. 09 488 0016 Franc’s Bar + Diner, Main Beach, The Strand, Takapuna Mon – Sun, 9am-late, 09 488 0016, Francs.co.nz

ZOMER ABOUT US: The beachside atmosphere coupled with a seasonal menu and only the finest ingredients, alongside a coffee or a crisp Sauvignon. Whether you’re in need of a quality feed after a long walk on the beach or simply want a great coffee and a sweet treat on the way to work, Zomer has you covered.

Zomer offers brunch and lunch, plus out-catering and is available for functions in the evening.

THE FOOD: At Zomer we pride ourselves in serving the best seasonal produce and fantastic homemade baking fresh daily, as well as the best coffee in town.

You’ll be blown away by our fantastic marinated halloumi and vine tomato stack and you should definitely come and try our signature eggs benedict.

NEED TO KNOW: NOVEMBER Early Bird? Grab a $3 coffee before 9am Monday-Friday!

Open Monday-Friday: 7:30-15:00, Saturday-Sunday: 08:00-16:00, 4 The Strand, Takapuna Beach 09 488 7594 www.zomer.co.nz

SAKEBAR NIPPON JAPANESE RESTAURANT ABOUT US: We are a Japanese Izakaya Restaurant, also with a sushi train.

THE FOOD: Authentic Japanese cuisine Sushi sashimi, tempura and many other dishes.

NEED TO KNOW: NOVEMBER TUES, WEDS NIGHT SPECIAL $30pp 3 course set menu, includes 1 free drink, Sushi Train plates from $2.80….Private Room with Karaoke facilities.

Takeout available Dinners: Sun - Mon 5pm - Late CLOSED MON AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS 32-34 Anzac Street,Takapuna, 09 486 2249 www.sakebar.co.nz

ELEPHANT WRESTLER WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS MONTH As we get primed for the festive season we are sure you are too!!

Therefore we have launched our new summer menu, and it is receiving rave reviews from the punters. That’s you guys!! Yeah, you are loving the new sharing plates, and the new daily food rituals are a hit as well. We are Takapuna’s Social Kitchen!!!

FOOD RITUALS Monday from 5pm ALL STEAKS are ½ price Tuesday

Express Menu (11 items @ $15.90) is available ALL DAY

Wednesday

12” pizzas are only $12 ALL DAY

Thursday

300gm Sirloin Steak w/ Duck Fat Potatoes or Fries $19 ALL DAY

Friday

Fish + Chips (battered or panko crumbed) $15.90 ALL DAY

Saturday

Our famous burgers are $15 ALL DAY

Sunday

12” pizzas are $15 ALL DAY

(ALL THESE RITUALS ARE DINE IN ONLY) UPCOMING FEATURES Rugby League World Cup

As scheduled

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Sunday Nov 5th

Melbourne Cup

Tuesday Nov 7th

Takapuna Criterium

Sunday Nov 12th

Bitchin’ Bingo

Wednesday 22nd

Live Music

Every Thursday & Friday

DJ

Every Saturday

Open Mon - Sun 11am - Late.

138 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna, 09 489 8030 www.elephantwrestler.co.nz www.facebook.com/TheElephantWrestler

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Talking Takapuna We’ve had an exciting October here in Takapuna as we ate our way through the best culinary offerings in town with Taste of Takapuna.

We want to thank all the participating hospitality venues and everyone who tried a Taste of Takapuna special. And congratulations to the winners of our weekly Taste giveaways on social media! What a way to celebrate spring: with good food, great people, and amazing experiences. Taste of Takapuna will be back in April 2018!

As summer draws nearer, we are getting ready to welcome our favourite season with a full list of exciting events happening in town. This month, the Criterium National Championships are back and New Zealand’s top road cyclists are ready to race around Takapuna on 12 November. It will be exciting, it will be fast, and it is not to be missed! Make a full day of it with your family and friends by coming in early to enjoy the Sunday market and having brunch at one of our many cafés and restaurants before watching the race at 2:30pm. Afterwards, stroll along Takapuna Beach or Lake Pupuke and take in the amazing views.

After November comes our most awaited time of the year, Christmas! Celebrate with us in our annual I Love Takapuna Christmas Carnival on Saturday, 2 December, along Hurstmere Road and Hurstmere Green from 11am to 3pm.

The road will be filled with free and exciting entertainment for the kids and kids-atheart including a market, music, interactive performances, circus workshop, bubble shows, face painters, balloon twisters and roving characters, petting zoo, Sammy the Train, and a visit from Santa himself! So mark your calendars and don’t miss out, it will be a great day out for the whole family.

November Events:

4 November – Learn to wind surf/catamaran sailing (WaterSafe) 4 November – St. George’s Church: Singing for Our Lives 4 November – Front Up for Hospice Challenge 4 November – Takapuna Primary School Fair 5 November – 1 April – Les Mills BODYBALANCE series 6 November – Bruce Mason Centre: Kids of Kids – Kiwi As 7 November – Regatta Bar & Eatery: Melbourne Cup 8 November – 21 March – North Harbour Swim Run Series 10 November – The PumpHouse: Laura Collins and the Back Porch

Blues Band 10 November – SPCA Auckland Annual Street Appeal 11 November – Hauraki School Twilight Fair 11 November – Thyme Restaurant: Revelations of the Reef 12 November – Criterium National Championships 15 November – Takapuna Library: Great Minds with Strong Views Discuss

Big Ideas 15 November – St. Peter’s Anglican Church: Messy Play with Mess It Up 19 November – St. George’s Church: Shore Singers – A Musical Miscellany 23 November – Master & Apprentice: Stand Up Comedy Night 23 November – Bruce Mason Centre: Nanogirl Live! in Engineering Magic 26 November – Walk the Talk: Community Against Family Violence 2 December – I Love Takapuna Christmas Carnival

And that’s just the start. We have even more planned for the rest of summer so keep an eye out on what’s going on by visiting us at www.ilovetakapuna.co.nz. Takapuna is the place to be whether you love fun events, great food, amazing shopping, or fantastic views. So dust off your jandals and apply that sunblock and see you in Takapuna!

We would also like to welcome a number of new businesses in town including Auckland Guitar School, Big Tikka, Yeah! Bowl, Capricho, Kia Kaha Studios and Studio Pilates. Come check out these amazing businesses!

Make sure you keep updated on all the latest I Love Takapuna news by following us on social media @ilovetakapuna or signing up for our newsletters from our website (www.ilovetakapuna.co.nz) Don’t forget to share with us your photos/video/stories about Takapuna on social media to be featured!

Don’t forget to share with us your photos and videos by tagging us @ilovetakapuna on social media or using #ilovetakapuna on Instagram! www.ILoveTakapuna.co.nz PRINCIPAL SPONSOR:

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At Channel we love our vibrant Shore community and we love those who make it a better place. One such person is passionate Shore local Adam Bennett.

Known for creating great parties, Adam’s got an exciting new event under way for Takapuna this summer – the Takapuna Food, Wine & Music Festival. It’s happening on Saturday February 10th at Smales Farm, a fantastic venue. Channel Mag and Benefitz are getting right behind this new local event. In mid-October Channel Mag publisher Aidan Bennett went to find out a bit more about the event and Adam Bennett. They met on-site at Smales Farm.

Smales Farm ticks all the boxes as a venue for the R20 event, creating a relaxed festival vibe within an urban environment.

Adam Bennett will be well-known to most as the man behind the Highlife music events, with his Highlife New Years Eve parties pretty much legendary.

He says the concept for the new Takapuna festival was carefully created to combine the most-loved aspects of traditional food and wine festivals and music events to produce an entirely new experience.

“Our Takapuna Food, Wine & Music Festival will be totally unique to New Zealand and we’ve taken inspiration from offshore festivals to create an unforgettable day out for Aucklanders."

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Nathan Haines lead the 12-strong artist line up for the Takapuna festival.

“By fusing a strong music festival line up with the chance to enjoy award-winning wine from Waiheke, Kumeu, Marlborough, Queenstown, French champagnes, top local craft breweries, and premium cuisine providers, we can truly deliver a new and sophisticated event we know Aucklanders will love.”

Expected to attract a crowd of up to 5,000, the festival will also showcase the possibilities within the innovative ‘next generation neighbourhood’ of Smales Farm to host sizeable public events.

The Smales Farm team is also fizzing about the new event. “We are excited to be working with Adam to deliver this new and iconic event for the Shore and Auckland,” says CEO Paul Gunn. "With our expansive open green spaces, transport options and proximity to Takapuna and the city, we see this partnership as a key step in our journey to share our unique amenities here at Smales Farm with the wider community.

“This summer, we’re already welcoming in 2018 with New Zealand’s first-ever New Year’s Day experience in conjunction with Highlife, and we look forward to having a world-class food and beverage event to follow.”

Waiheke Island’s iconic Man O’ War Vineyard is also excited to be part of the inaugural festival. “We look forward to dragging ourselves

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away from our little island oasis to show off some of Waiheke’s finest on the Shore,” said Ben Coles, Man O’ War sales manager.

Hallertau beer will also be a popular ingredient and their 'Captain of Beer’ Steve Plowman says the summer buzz of the Festival was a huge attraction. “The whole summer vibe, mates hanging out, is what Hallertau is all about and something we wanted to be part of.

Showcasing seasonal brews at the festival will be a great way for visitors to explore what’s new and different in the local craft beer scene.”

Food will clearly be an important part of the mix as well, with New Zealand’s first wood smoked BBQ joint, Miss Moonshines, providing its uniquely Kiwi twist on iconic American BBQ cuisine. Pit Boss Ryan Clarke says the opportunity to share their much-loved delicacies across the bridge was an opportunity too good to refuse.

“We are stoked to be part of the first ever Takapuna Food, Wine & Music Festival in February. Bringing our distinctive smoky flavour and simple concept of meat, beer and fire across to Smales Farm will be a perfect fit for the festival.”

Tickets are very affordable, with general admission at $55 plus booking fee, or VIP at $110 plus booking fee. The VIP package includes side of stage seating and a complementary beverage on arrival. For more information and to secure your tickets, visit: www.takapunafestival.co.nz So that’s the event, but what makes Adam Bennett tick? I put these questions to him in an effort to find some answers.

AIDAN: This is one of two events being hosted at Smales Farm.

It’s a great venue isn’t it?

ADAM: Yes, we have a special New Years Day party happening there on January 1st as well. It will be the first of its kind in New Zealand as we bring a new international trend into the market.

Smales Farm is an amazing venue and Aucklander’s are so lucky they have opened it up for events of this nature and the Food, Wine & Music Festival.

AIDAN: You are well-known for creating great events. Can you share some of the secrets you have learnt over the years you have been doing it?

ADAM: I can’t reveal all of them but some things that have been key to the success of Highlife is to maintain the level of quality we deliver across all aspects of the event. We have always done our best to put people and the overall experience before profits which has helped to ensure the return of people. Evolving and coming up with innovative new ideas and events has also given us sustainability in this industry.

AIDAN: As a born and bred Shore and Taka boy, you are pretty passionate about your home patch. It must feel great to be establishing a new event for the area with great partners?

ADAM: To be honest, I am absolutely over the moon that I am in a position and have the opportunity to bring a unique event like this to the Shore and Auckland. Paul (Gunn) and the team at Smales Farm have been amazing to work with and having a premium brand like Mercedes Benz North Shore on board has added so much value to the event as well. We have some of the top wineries and breweries on board from across New Zealand that you wouldn’t usually see sitting under the same umbrella. We have hand-picked some of the best of the best along with some amazing food offerings as well and an incredible line up of music with something for everyone.

AIDAN: What do you love most about the Shore?

ADAM: Everything. The people, the beaches, the green spaces, picturesque spots and the nice unique vibe it has. I love the fact that we are out in our own world over here away from the city but still close enough to pop on over if we need to.

Adam Bennett (left) and Smales Farm CEO Paul Gunn.

AIDAN: Do you have a favourite spot on the Shore?

ADAM: There are too many to list but Devonport is by far my most favourite area on the Shore but Takapuna down to Devo is filled with so many nice places. Cheltenham beach is one spot in particular I love to relax in over the summer months.

AIDAN: Got any favourite eating out spots on the Shore at the moment?

ADAM: Honey Café Takapuna, Portofino Devonport, Niko’s Pizza Takapuna, Massimo, Taka Beach Café and the new Yeah Bowl on Bryon Ave. AIDAN: What is your favourite holiday spot overseas?

ADAM: Too many to list but either LA or Singapore.

AIDAN: Any favourite music you are listening to at the moment?

ADAM: Led Zepplin, Calvin Harris, Tupac, Crazibiza, Viceroy, Future, The 9-5ers, Dr Dre and Beastie Boys.

AIDAN: Where do Adam and the family go to relax and get away from things at summer holiday time after the traditional Highlife New Year parties?

ADAM: Sometimes we like to have a staycation around Takapuna / Devo or other times we will head to Waiheke, Omaha or Queenstown.

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DREAMING OF CHRISTMAS

Start Dreaming…!

Shore shoppers can start ‘dreaming of Christmas’ once again with the return of the store by the same name. The festive treasure trove, formerly located in Milford Centre, has moved to Glenfield Mall for the coming season.

Christmas treats and decorations have been imported from around the world, such as Italian and Polish candles, handmade Christmas cakes, special Christmas Ceylon black and green teas in decorative tins, many exquisite decorations and so much more.

Owner Jenny Hobbs was busy unpacking boxes and creating her stunning displays late last month, getting ready to be open for business for this most wonderful time of the year! From Christmas teas to Christmas trees, Jenny and her husband Doug have sourced affordable, beautiful items to fit with any festive theme.

Jenny said: “There are so many gorgeous items. I invite people to come and experience one of the joys of the festive season this month and next at Dreaming of Christmas!”

Dreaming of Christmas, Glenfield Mall, Glenfield and megastore at The Base in Hamilton, 021 404 345 Facebook: Dreamingofchristmasnz

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

“My life changed once I had a free hearing check” Ayse helped her dad understand how much better life is with healthy hearing

Free hearing checks for everyone aged 18 plus.

Glenfield Mall, Glenfield & Downing Street, Glenfield. Phone: 021 404 345 Open 9am-5.30pm Monday to Saturday, Sunday 10am-5pm.

Extended hours from December.

Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dreamingofchristmasnz

Call Bay Audiology on 0800 700 862 or visit bayaudiology.co.nz

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Take a punt on the Melbourne Cup at Shore City

Saturday 4th to Tuesday 7th November

Celebrate race day at Shore City.

Take your pick in the Shore City sweepstake for a chance to win.* 1st Prize: Race day prize pack valued at $1250* 2nd Prize: $250 Shore City Gift Card 3rd Prize: $150 Shore City Gift Card *Terms and conditions apply: Participants must be over 18 years of age. Race day prize pack includes tickets for two to races at Ellerslie, $450 to spend at Rembrandt Shore City, $450 to spend at Cue Shore City, $150 for Rodney Wayne Shore City and a makeover at Life Pharmacy Shore City, for a total value of $1250. For full terms and conditions of the Shore City Sweepstake visit www.shore-city.co.nz or Customer Services.

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52 - 56 ANZAC STREET, TAKAPUNA WWW.SHORE-CITY.CO.NZ

PICK ME Flowers and pure soy Kearose candles are the perfect gift.

447 Lake Rd, Takapuna 09 486 3672 www.pick-me.co.nz Instagram: pickmetakapuna

DESIGNER SUNGLASS OUTLET Through some shade in a stylish way. Tom Ford, Chloe, Pucci and Sass & Bide frames, pictured, at discounted prices @sunglassoutlet 1 Shakespeare Road, Milford #supportlocal #shoptheshore #sunglasses #aucklandfashion #northshore #weloveit 1 Shakespeare Road, Milford www.sunglassoutlet.co.nz

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CRAVEHOME Visit our beautiful Christmas Cave this year and snap up some of our stunning ornaments, crackers, cards, napkins, decorations, gift tags, wrapping paper, trees and advent calendars. We’ve got your Christmas covered!

30 Mokoia Road, Birkenhead 09 419 9535 cravehome.co.nz

PET & VET The SOFTIE TRILUXE collar combines classic design with a large dose of luxury.

Made of stunning and supple artificial leather, the collar sits comfortably but doesn’t compromise on elegance. For the complete look, the SOFTIE TRILUXE collar can be combined with the matching leashes from the SOFTIE range.

31 Shakespeare Road, Milford, 09 489 6263 www.petandvet.net.nz

NEXT DOOR GALLERY “The garden party” (acrylic on ply) by Deborah Moss features in her Encounters with beauty Exhibition Oct 30 – Nov 12.

You are invited to view the show and meet Deborah at a celebration on Nov 4 from 2-4pm.

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Shop the Shore for Christmas

THE FAIRY LIGHT SHOP Gorgeous gold fairy lights in lanterns are perfect for any occasion.

32D Barrys Point Road, Takapuna 09 486 1586 www.thefairylightshop.com

FLORIENNE Taking orders now for your fresh Wreath or Table Flowers for the festive season.

60A Hurstmere Road, Takapuna 09 486 6438 www.florienne.co.nz

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PAINTED BIRD Starting your Christmas shopping or looking for event wear? Make Painted Bird your first stop. Bespoke vintage fashion curated from Europe and private collections plus jewellery, scarves, socks and other accessories. Visit Painted Bird’s in-store stylist to express your own personal style.

164a Kitchener Road, Milford 09 486 2473

ARAZZO Arazzo in Milford stocks a range of beautiful and inspirational Christmas gifts and decorations. Get in early for heirloom decorations for your home.

154 Kitchener Road, Milford 09 489 5553

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WILD & WOOLLY Wild and Woolly Yarns ‌simple, honest and sustainable handknitting yarns.

93 Kitchener Road, 09 488 7039 fran@wildandwoollyyarns.co.nz Facebook: wild and woolly yarns

TOSCA & SALOME Summery Linens in store now and welcoming new brand ROWIE into our Takapuna boutique.

Visit us online or shop in store and collect loyalty points today. Laybuy now available.

2 The Strand, Takapuna 020 4095 3169 www.toscaandsalome.co.nz

WALLACE COTTON Tis the season to sparkle! Pop into Wallace Cotton for a range of Christmas gift ideas, including our gorgeous Sparkle Apron for $29.90.

34 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna 09 551 7767 www.wallacecotton.com

THE VAULT The Vault Takapuna now stocks fabulous Margaret Hema Skincare Oils.

9 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna 09 489 8008 www.thevaultnz.com

TANGO'S SHOES Dare to be different with our unique range from Romania and many more new and exciting brands. Drop in to see our fresh collection of beautiful leather handbags.

NOW OPEN SUNDAY'S. 164 Kitchener Rd, Milford 09 488 0495 www.tangosshoes.co.nz

HOMAGE Le Corbusier group called their LC2 and LC3 Collections (1928) “cushion baskets". Designed as a modernist response to the traditional club chair, with thick, resilient pillows resting within the steel frames, LC2 and LC3 offer all the comfort of a padded surface while applying the International Style’s elegant minimalism and industrial rationale. The resulting aesthetic is remarkably relevant to how we live today.

75 Barrys Point Road, Takapuna 09 488 9012 www.homage.co.nz

CRAFTWORKZ All you need for Christmas arts & crafts, plus buttons, haberdashery, fabric and yarn.

Open 9am-5pm Mon-Fri; 10am-4pm Sat & Sun 168 Kitchener Road, Milford 09 489 4279 Facebook @craftworkz1

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SPOTLIGHT ON: NORTHCARE ACCIDENT AND MEDICAL

High-tech medicine with a low-tech feel Northcare is a new seven-days-a-week accident and medical centre, on the axis of the main east-west and north-south routes through the Shore. Its recent completion was the culmination of a vision for the Shore’s Dr Peter Boot, and its light, airy ambience and aggregation of medical services is testament to his commitment to providing a facility that takes as much stress as possible out of accident or medical treatments for patients.

Peter grew up around Hauraki Corner and after qualifying, opened Takapuna Medical Centre. Reading about the advent of combined A&E and general practice facilities being opened in Sydney led to his establishing Albany Basin Accident and Medical 20 years ago, his involvement in Silverdale Medical as that area developed, and Shorecare Accident and Medical in the then-new Smales Farm development.

Peter and his wife Justine bought the land on which Northcare now stands 16 years ago, and he’s proud of what they have now achieved.

“Our absolute focus is on friendly fast service,” he says. Computer systems link Mercy Radiology to GP and specialist rooms, and prescriptions can be emailed direct to the onsite pharmacy so that all patients have to do is walk across the large central foyer and waiting area to pick up any medication they need.

Bookings can be made in advance online, and patients wishing to enrol at Northcare will very soon be able to do so online via their smartphones. That said, high tech is only used where it benefits patients. There is no automated phone system. “The phone is always answered by a person,” says Peter. Patients are able to access and feel welcomed to the facility in the way they choose.

“We have more than 20 years’ experience in providing medical services in Albany,” says Peter. “We know that doctors’ rooms and medical centres can be intimidating. I really wanted to make Northcare ‘unmedical’, family-friendly and stress free for all our patients.”.

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The “unmedicalising” of Northcare includes soft music throughout; a café (appropriately called Remedy) with external access for the public as well as direct from the waiting area; and artworks, the most stunning of which is an illuminated and ever-changing polycarbonate “forest”, that softens the reception and waiting area and also effectively provides a screen for the nursing station and administration area.

In addition to GP, pharmacy and high-tech radiology services, Northcare offers urgent care and emergency facilities, physios, dentists, lab testing, hand specialists, ENT and audiology professionals, Skin Institute and other specialists including renal, respiratory and sleep, spinal and orthopaedic services.

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OPTOMETRY: HAYDON OPTOMETRISTS, TAKAPUNA

Time to get your vision sorted for your summer holidays

HEALTH & FITNESS: WITH CLAIRE BELLINGHAM, LES MILLS TAKAPUNA

David Haydon

It’s time to act on all those visual concerns you have had during the year before your summer holidays.

Summer holidays are a great time to catch up on all those books you’ve been meaning to read. How are your reading glasses? Is your computer screen as clear as it could be? Do you get eye strain after using your computer all day? There are now wide selections of occupational lenses available that have kept up with our love of using technology in our daily lives. It’s time to see your local friendly optometrists and ask them what would help you.

The sun is shining finally! Have you been coping with your broken sunglasses or, worse still, you don’t even have a pair of sunglasses, let alone a pair you could use when driving or reading those books? Then stop! It’s time to get yourself sorted - let us help you! We have a solution for all your needs, all you have to do is ask.

We have added a great selection of Rayban sunglasses to our range and have all the latest Maui Jim sunglasses for summer. We also have the new Tom Ford sunglasses from Europe.

For those who wear contact lenses, make time to order your supply. Remember if you wear disposables and you purchase a six-month supply, then we will give you a 15% discount on your purchase, or 20% if you purchase a 12-month supply.

Haven’t got contacts but have thought about trying them?

Then now is the time! If you enjoy your summer sports, then pop in a pair and you can wear your sunglasses over the top.

If you have trouble reading with your current contact lenses, book in to see one of our optometrists and ask them about the new selection of multifocal contact lenses, which enable you to see clearly in the distance and to read. Contact lenses are brilliant for all those activities we Kiwis love to do on our days off.

We are open Saturdays 9am until 4pm for your convenience.

Don’t forget we stock a wide variety of contact lens solutions and dry eye drops.

So don’t leave it to the last minute - pop in to see how we can assist you today. We are all about making your life easier here at Haydon Optometrists.

Haydon Optometrists, 159 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna Ph: 09 489 5232 Fax: 09 486 5179 haydon@clear.net.nz www.haydons.co.nz

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Feeling Flexible?

Staying Healthy

Claire Bellingham.

Being flexible is a key building block for a fit and healthy body.

Unfortunately, flexibility is usually the poor cousin of the fitness regime beside cardiovascular fitness and muscle strength. As a PT, I find it quite hard to convince non-stretchers to start stretching.

Many require an intervention like an injury to get motivated!

When people begin an exercise regime they often don’t give much thought to either promoting flexibility or preventing injury.

Building fitness and strength is much more exciting, especially when it’s accompanied by weight loss. Building flexibility is much less exhilarating and doesn’t directly relate to shifting kilos on the scales so many people don’t prioritise it. But fitness and strength can only take you so far. They start out as a great partnership. The fitter you are the harder you can push yourself with your strength, and the stronger you are the harder you can push yourself with your cardiovascular fitness. Strong leg muscles help you run faster, running faster gives you stronger leg muscles. It’s an empowering upwards spiral until you become brittle and something snaps.

Then you plummet right down to the bottom of your spiral. Nothing derails a fitness plan like an injury and you’ll spend far more time at the physio than you ever would have in preventative stretching.

Being flexible doesn’t just protect you from injury, it’s also a great asset in everyday life. Many people spend most of the day sitting.

Whether they are in the car, at work or relaxing at home they are in a hunched over position. Without adequate stretching to counter this position the posture can become your new normal, reinforced every day of your seated life. Poor posture affects your health in several ways. It puts stress on muscles and joints which can create pain in your neck and back. It makes you more vulnerable to minor injuries from daily activities such as bending, stretching and even sleeping.

It also prevents optimal circulation. Some research suggests a link between poor posture and poor mental health. Good posture and general flexibility make everything easier.

Being flexible doesn’t just protect you from injury, it’s also a great asset in everyday life.

It’s normal to gravitate towards the things you are good at, so the naturally flexible people are usually more willing to stretch than the people who really need it. It can be helpful to stretch in a class situation where there is structure and interest. My favourite way to work on flexibility is a Les Mills BODYBALANCE class.

One of the best things about summer is that you can do this class outside, which has the added benefits of fresh air, sunshine and proximity to coffee and brunch! Les Mills Takapuna is running free BODYBALANCE classes from Sunday November 5th onwards. Join us on the grass outside the Takapuna Beach Café for a mix of yoga, pilates and tai chi against a beautiful beach backdrop. The year is only getting busier from now, so if your fitness habits have slowed a little then this could be the gentle start you need to claim some vitality for the summer. See you there!

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BUSINESS SPOTLOGHT: STUDIO PILATES, TAKAPUNA

A new approach to Pilates The instructor can work around any injury The country's first Studio Pilates or other issue so people can continue to studio opened in Takapuna in midcome.”

October. As the builder made final Everyone needs to attend an checks and new instructors worked orientation class before progressing to through a rigorous training programme general classes. Claire suggests you ahead of the opening, owner Claire attend three or four classes a week for Mitchell took time out to talk to maximum benefit.

Channel Magazine There’s no age limit, she says. “We Claire began attending Studio have some incredible 80 year-olds who’ve Pilates when she lived in Brisbane, was Claire Mitchell, owner of Studio Pilates Takapuna, been in classes for as long as 14 years in hooked, and eventually became an Bones (Studio Pilates' mascot), and Amy Trybula, Australia.” instructor. When she and her partner head instructor at Studio Pilates Takapuna.

“Pilates will keep you going much decided to move back to New Zealand, longer. It’s good for your joints, bones and muscles. It’s also great for she approached the Australian Studio Pilates founders and was rehabilitation and posture; it will help keep your body in peak fitness, rewarded with the company’s first international franchise. fix muscle imbalances, and make your general day-to-day life better.”

When Claire found the Takapuna site, she knew it was perfect.

You can book classes online, singly or in “packs”: for example, the She and her partner bought a house in Devonport and she’s a real “6 for $60” offer for new clients. You need that many, Claire says, to convert to the North Shore lifestyle: “I wouldn’t live anywhere else get the feel of it, and to see the benefits. now,” she says.

Early in the new year, if you’re game, you’ll be able to join While the Studio Pilates reformer workouts are designed by the instructors in a 30-day challenge: five classes a week, plus physiotherapists, the experience is like no other, with the high complementary fitness classes, a daily inspirational message and intensity workouts set to upbeat music, using a combination of nutrition advice. instructors together with a digital delivery system. This innovative Here at Channel we’re tired just thinking about it, but suspect technology allows participants to follow the moves shown on screen, we’d feel much better if we actually did it. “leaving the instructor free to give individual instruction,” says Claire.

While everyone follows the same programme, the instructor adapts the exercises for each class member, based on information Studio Pilates, 33 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna provided prior to the class: health and fitness goals, and any medical (behind Jam, opposite the library) conditions or injuries. That way, she says, “we keep everyone safe.

021 237 6307 http://new.studiopilates.com/studios/takapuna/

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Apprentices complete our programme as skilled qualified instructors with a deep knowledge of the work, and a strong confidence in their abilities.

The Romana’s Pilates team of highly experienced and dedicated instructors will mentor you throughout the programme, providing hands-on instruction, regular apprentice meetings, one-on-one lessons and group classes.

Under the guidance and teaching of our Instructor Trainers we will prepare you for a long and successful career of teaching the method - as it was originally intended by Joseph Pilates.

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CHANNEL PEOPLE: I LOVE WHAT I DO, SASKIA DAVIES

A passion for Body Therapies and Yoga Bays resident Saskia Davies has been practicing Body Therapies and Yoga for 20 years. She first trained in South Africa, then the UK and more recently New Zealand.

Saskia teaches yoga to mature adults, seniors and children.

Saskia was born in South Africa. After meeting her Kiwi husband Bruce in South Africa they moved over to the UK where they lived happily for 15 years, travelling the world, studying and then getting married and having Saskia Davies. three amazing children. Saskia and Bruce now live with their family in the Bays, together with their cats, bunnies and a black labrador puppy. She answered these questions for Channel’s Aidan Bennett, about her passion for Body Therapies and Yoga.

AIDAN BENNETT: How did you get into the business?

SASKIA DAVIES: My whole life I have had an affinity with helping people to heal. I am very interested in the human body and how we interact with nature and energy. I enjoy helping people to feel and be the best they can be.

AB: What type of massage do you practise?

SD: I practice a variety of different treatments, combining these therapies if need be during a session, depending on what people need. I have trained in holistic massage, reflexology, abdominal massage and Foundation for Cranial Osteopathy.

AB: Tell us more about yoga?

SD: I love to teach yoga as it creates good feelings of wellness, happiness and a lightness in the body and mind. Having trained in Iyengar-based pregnancy yoga, I then went onto study with Donna Farhi and Jo Phee, learning a deeper understanding about movement and also studying Yin yoga based on traditional Chinese medicine.

AB: How did you get into the wellness Industry?

SD: Once I decided to pursue health and began to understand the human body, an amazing incredible world opened up, offering so many options for wellness. I have worked in a prison medical department in the UK, in a clinic where we trained doctors to become acupuncturists and also in an ostepathic clinic for many years. Since moving to New Zealand I have my own practice and also facilitate wellness retreats with my husband.

AB: You must get satisfaction from improving people's lives?

SD: Yes I love to help people to find their "chi" (balance/lifeforce). To

also help people to create healing within their bodies and minds. We all have the ability to feel at home within our bodies and to live our best lives to the fullest. With the right support we can achieve this.

AB: What brought you to New Zealand?

SD: My husband Bruce is originally from New Zealand and we wanted to bring our children up in a safe environment surrounded by nature with lots of opportunity.

AB: What do you like about living in the Bays?

SD: I love the freedom of being close to so many beautful bays and beaches. I like that it is multicultural and there is a fantastic community.

AB: Do you have a favourite go-to spot on the Shore?

SD: It is difficult to choose. I love all the bays and walks, especially Okura bush walk and Milford to Takapuna beach walk.

AB: Do you miss South Africa at all?

SD: Yes, I miss my family, the bush and the wildlife.

AB: I understand you also have an interest in heatlhy food?

SD: I believe that what we put into our bodies determines how we feel and how our bodies work. We don't put diesel into a petrol car, so why put the wrong kinds of foods into your body? Our bodies thrive on nutrient dense food that is not processed and is real whole foods.

AB: Do you have a local favourite café or eatery?

SD: The food at Yaruki in Browns Bay is simply delicious, light and tasty. It is always very fresh. I also like eating at SiP Kitchen, raw wholesome divine food.

AB: If you could go on holiday anywhere in the world, where would you go?

SD: I would go to New York, to see the museums, galleries and interesting architecture. I would like to walk the streets discovering interesting cafes and shops in a melting pot of different cultures.

AB: Complete the following… At the end of the week I like nothing more than…

SD: A long hot bath and snuggling up with my wonderful family.

Saskia Davies – Email: saskia@mychi.co.nz

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Kiri Price working with a Deep Water Running group at AUT Millennium.

North Harbour Rugby takes recovery to new depths

Aidan Bennett may have discovered a key ingredient in the resurgence of Harbour Rugby

As a supporter and sponsor of the QBE North Harbour Mitre 10 Cup rugby team it is a thrill to see how well they have performed this year. It is clear they have been a well organised side, led by two very good co-captains and coached and managed well.

During October I may have discovered one of their key secrets. There is no doubt they have had improved fitness and conditioning, but it may be in their recovery where they have made a real gain. And it might be that this can be put down to the work of an incredible lady called Kiri Price who works at AUT Millennium, our wonderful local community facility where sports performance is a focus.

During the 2017 season the QBE Harbour Rugby team have joined Kiri for regular Deep Water Running in the National Aquatic Centre at AUT Millennium. The recovery sessions are adapted to suit the specific athletes in water.

"It’s biomechanically the closest activity to running and the weightless environment helps to support tired bodies after tough games,” explains Kiri. “I know the team finds it really good to offload the physical stress from playing and it’s a new challenge!”

Kiri’s got a big point of difference, she’s dedicated to designing sessions that are sport-specific and purposeful. Working closely with Harbour Rugby this season has allowed Kiri to refine and improve sessions to better support the teams’ recovery and improve fitness for players unable to train on land due to injury.

“Deep Water Running sessions change depending on who’s in the water. For marathon runners, we work longer intervals with a

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focus on technique and fitness. For the rugby guys, it’s all fast.

They have to imagine they’re running for the try line! 10 second efforts, ease off, repeat.”

It’s biomechanically the closest activity to running and the weightless environment helps to support tired bodies after tough games…

A number of the team actually started working with Kiri preseason to help rehabilitate injuries.

“It’s such a good opportunity to allow the entire team to bond, especially for the injured players who continued to train with the team despite being unable to workout on the training paddock,” adds Kiri. "It can help to speed up recovery because they’re still working hard while injured. It’s something alternative to sitting on a stationary bike and peddling away, it keeps the team together as a unit.”

"There’s a complete offload on the joints, so it’s great for people in contact sports. Getting the team into deep water has

NORTH HARBOUR RUGBY TEAM DEEP WATER RUNNING

been so much more beneficial than shallow water. We work on moving the body and mobilising the joints."

Team physiotherapist Matt Wenham knows that Kiri’s work has paid big dividends. “Kiri is the sort of gold nugget that every successful organisation must unearth to help yield its full potential. This programme, with Kiri’s enthusiasm, has helped our squad recover much quicker than expected and has also reduced our injury toll compared to previous campaigns.

In fact, I see so much value in it that I have joined Kiri for a weekly session!”

Harbour’s strength and conditioning trainer Alex King also has nothing but praise for Kiri’s work. “Kiri has been amazing for our 2017 Mitre 10 Cup campaign, she has provided water based training to injured players and as a result these players have not lost any of their conditioning along the way."

For Kiri, it’s been fascinating as the season has gone on.

"I’m watching the games closely to see how the boys move, where the injuries are coming from and adapting sessions to help them bounce back between games.”

For the Harbour players recovery is a 40 minute session dedicated solely to active recovery. Kiri gets the team using their entire bodies. The recovery sessions optimise the small downtime when the team is expected to play again in just a few days time. There are also high intensity trainings. Slightly

shorter, at 30 minutes, with a focus on driving the heart rate up and pushing all the energy systems.

Interested in trying Deep Water Running?

Visit www.autmillennium.org.nz/aquatics or call 09 477 2024 to find out more!

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Home to some of New Zealand’s elite swimmers, two pristine swimming pools and weekly fitness classes, this is the place to refresh and reinvigorate for summer.

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CHANNEL FEATURE

Former Westlake Girls' High pupil Imogen Francis is a journalism student at Miami University. She sent us her account of living through the recent Hurricane Irma in Florida.

Hurricane Irma

Imogen Francis

- Mayhem in Miami “Hurricane Andrew was the worst storm to hit Miami, I was one of the fortunate ones not to lose my house. I do not want to live through an event like that again.”

These are the words of my college professor, right before telling the class that we should all leave the Miami area immediately. This is when the panic started. 25 years ago Hurricane Andrew devastated Miami, and on the horizon was hurricane Irma, which was tracking to be almost twice the size of Hurricane Andrew. Miami was going to be hit hard and I was not going to stick around to watch.

Coming from the North Shore of Auckland, hurricanes are not something that I am familiar with and I am not going to deny that the panic the media was expressing was affecting me. I am currently a sophomore student at Florida International University, located about 30 minutes back from South Beach in Miami, Florida.

When people started to realise that this storm had a high chance of hitting Miami extremely hard, I went to Costco to get water. The shelves that would normally be covered were empty: they had completely sold out. The lines of people were going halfway to the back of the huge stores, so it was then that I decided that this wasn't going to be the best place to shop for one person. I was really getting nervous! I eventually found water after visiting multiple shops, and queuing with hundreds of others in endless lines.

Next up was the hard task of getting gas. Every gas station I drove past had lines out on the road and was running out of petrol rapidly. Having decided to bite the bullet and join the long line, I finally got to the pump 40 minutes later. The price of gas had escalated to its highest level since hurricane Katrina in 2005. I also stocked up on non-perishable foods but quickly realised my appetite was much larger than the amount of food I had bought, meaning my emergency supplies lasted around two hours. Let’s just say rationing isn't my strong point.

It became apparent that my best friend and I would have to evacuate the Miami area. So, along with 1.3 million Miami residents, we headed north. Our destination was Sarasota, which is about three and a half hours up the west coast of Florida. At that time, Irma was forecast to hit Miami and then make its way up the East coast of the state.

Staying with my best friend's family in Sarasota I felt much safer than in my apartment in Miami, which was still on course to get a battering by the strongest hurricane on record. As the week progressed, we came to realise that Sarasota was going to be straight in the line of fire as Irma decided to change her track towards the West coast. This meant hurricane shutters went up, all devices charged, non-stop Irma tracker on television and endless bags of water frozen in the freezer. We were prepared for the worst but still hoping for the best.

Irma was expected to arrive at around 2pm on Sunday, so the waiting game began. And we waited. And waited. Finally around 10pm we started to hear some wind but nothing like I

had prepared myself for. My professor had told the class how the winds would sound like a freight train and the snapping of branches would be terrifying. Fortunately, I did not experience any of these. The winds had dropped considerably from what had battered islands such as Barbuda and St. Thomas. They now sat at a “comfortable” 80 miles per hour, which meant we did not go one minute without power. Throughout the whole hurricane we could not stop talking about how lucky we were. How lucky Irma had been downgraded to a category two. How lucky we were to be able to be prepared. How lucky we were that we were alive.

Irma created a path of destruction far and wide, and created panic which stretched even further. My first hurricane experience was stressful to say the least and I am one of the lucky ones.

Clean-up is still underway here in Miami, following power outages and fallen trees having lined most roads. But what we experienced here in Florida is nothing compared to what those in the islands experienced; many lives have been changed forever.

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WINE: WITH LIZ WHEADON OF GLENGARRY

Selecting New Bordeaux To be completely honest, Bordeaux is not a region that I instantly fell in love with. More a region that I’ve grown to understand and, in doing so, now adore. I had the opportunity to be there again this year to taste the latest vintage, 2016, something that I’ve now done for many years. As well as looking at these very young wines with En Primeur (selling the wines in barrel before release) in mind, I tasted extensively through vintages that are in bottle and available for sale now.

The 2009 and 2010 vintages were ones that I was naturally interested in, being the greatest quality pair of vintages in recent times, if not ever. Not one to limit options, I also tried numerous other vintages and found that, in fact, it was the 2012 and 2014 vintages that were perfect. While 2009 and 2010 are exceptional, there’s no going past the fact that they are vintages that need a significant amount of time in the bottle. 2012 and 2014 were vintages that were considered classic; not exceptional, not poor, rather a very classic vintage for Bordeaux. Exceptional Bordeaux vintages are the ones that you want for the cellar, the great wines that will live for a long time. These classic vintages are generally earlier drinking and, as such, a great proposition for short term cellaring and enjoying young.

We have just landed a container from Bordeaux which includes many of the wines that were selected from these tastings. These wines have been shipped to New Zealand in temperature controlled containers; sadly, not something that is afforded to all wine that is imported into New Zealand. You can rest assured that all wine that Glengarry imports is shipped with temperature control. There are many new wines in this container, including this selection below.

Château Kirwan Petit Kirwan 2014 Château Kirwan is a classified growth situated in Margaux on the left bank. Petit Kirwan is the little brother of the third growth Château

Liz Wheadon

Kirwan, the fruit for this wine coming off the same site as the fruit for the grand vin, though from younger vines.

The resulting wine thus has lively fragrant fruits. This year is 45% Cabernet, 30% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc and 10% Petit Verdot.

Discussing this wine with Philippe, the technical director at Kirwan, he clarified that he is not a winemaker, rather a wine helper; that all the work happens in the vineyard: his job is to help the grapes into wine and in to the bottle. This is a brilliant wine, it’s approachable, ready to enjoy now Château Kirwan. and with fantastic fruit.

Château Saint-Paul 2014 Saint-Paul is a 21-hectare vineyard in the left bank, sitting on a mix of clay and gravel soil. The 21 hectares cover one parcel of land; the plantings are dominated by Merlot and average 25 years. Saint-Paul sits in a prime location between Sociando-Mallet and Charmail. The wine is classified as a Cru Bourgeois and is Merlot dominant; there’s a very good core of concentrated juicy red fruit, with a tight yet generous nature to the leathery tannins. The length is long, persistent and concentrated to the finish. A very smart Cru Bourgeois that currently has Stéphane Derenoncourt as its consultant, following a direction change in 2009 that saw Saint-Paul head for quality. In doing so there’s been a move to organic and far better selection, all of which you can see very clearly in the glass. Annual production is 7,500 cases. This was a real find; RRP is $29.99. Excellent value for money from a lovely elegant vintage.

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C H A M PA G N E : T H E A R T O F T H E B U B B L E

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GOT AN EXPENSIVE TEEN? DID YOU KNOW ONLY 57% OF ADOLESCENTS BRUSH THEIR TEETH AT LEAST TWICE A DAY? This means that around half of Kiwi teenagers are either only brushing once a day or not at all. That is why it is extremely important for teenagers to visit the dentist on a regular basis.

The combination of lack of motivation, high sugar diet (such as energy + soft drinks) and other lifestyle choices can lead to extensive early dental work resulting in a lifetime of dental treatments.

Our goal is to provide an environment where your teenager can enjoy visiting the dentist – to learn about good oral hygiene and to provide the dental care necessary to help them keep their teeth for a lifetime.

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RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT: QUINOVIC, TAKAPUNA

How can you improve the desirability of your rental property?

If you want to increase the value of your investment property, what are some of the things you can do? Sure, you can freshen up the property with a new coat of paint, carpet, general upgrades and tidying up the garden…. but have you thought of asking your property manager to review the property and make some valuable recommendations? You might very well be able to increase both your capital and income yields with some minor changes to your property.

As a simple example, enclosing a carport and converting it to a garage will increase yield and capital but will also make your property more desirable for new potential tenants. Additions like installing a heat pump, fitting out a study area or even installing new whiteware. We as the property managers can often give you additional ideas on how to improve your property as we will see the layouts over long periods of times and several times a year during inspection. Additionally we get the input from the tenants living in the property as to what would work best.

Madeleine Gilbert, Quinovic’s Business Development Manager says: ‘Not only is it important to think how to improve the value and therefore the yields of your investment it is also a matter of keeping it up to a high standard and not to let the regular maintenance slip.’

Landlords often underestimate the amount of maintenance that is involved to make sure the property is kept to the highest standard possible. Some simple examples are: Is your chimney swept annually? Are the gutters cleaned at least once a year? Is the roof and house washed annually? Is the property secure and are all locks, gates, garage doors in working order?

We at Quinovic Takapuna carry out thorough property inspections on a quarterly basis and make recommendations to landlords on improvements that can be done and how to keep maintenance up to date. We believe that your property should be kept to a high standard at all times. By conducting regular maintenance reviews and suggesting improvements we make sure that your investment is well protected.

Call us today and see if we can assist you with some ideas that may improve the desirability of your property!

For more information call Madeleine Gilbert or Graeme Henderson at Quinovic; Phone 449 2004 or 021 844 531 or Email madeleine@quinovic-takapuna.co.nz

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OPTOMETRY: WITH MORTIMER HIRST, TAKAPUNA

Treatment of Dry Eyes Have you ever…

• felt like your eyes are burning, stinging or feel gritty?

• felt like your vision fluctuates throughout the day?

• had difficulty with reading or working on a computer for an extended duration?

• had discomfort with contact lens wear by the end of the day?

If so, you are likely to be experiencing symptoms of dry eye, a condition that affects around one-third of the population.

Factors such as age, female gender, medical conditions and medications, the environment you work in and diet are just a few known associations. Most of the time it is a combination of these factors at play that causes dry eye. Severity can vary from mildly irritating to disabling and can adversely affect your quality of life.

Tears provide lubrication, protect and deliver nutrients to the eye surface. Dry eye can compromise these functions and have long term effects on overall eye health. Therefore ongoing tailored management strategies are often required.

The clinical team at Mortimer Hirst can help diagnose and formulate a treatment plan so that this frustrating condition will not compromise your lifestyle.

Treatment options in mild or intermittent cases involve the appropriate selection of artificial tears. We can give you advice on at-home therapies that you can perform yourself to encourage the healthy components of the tear film to occur naturally, in addition to the right food types and or dietary supplements.

More moderate to severe cases may require additional therapies, delivered by the clinical team, to help repair the eye surface. Therapies such as Blephasteam and E-Eye Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) are now available at Mortimer Hirst.

Your optometrist can advise if you would benefit from these.

Additional therapeutic agents can be prescribed to stop the ongoing cycle of dryness and restore the eyes’ natural balance.

If you have any concerns with dry eye or are not sure if what you are experiencing is dry eye, please consult our team of optometrists who aim to provide practical advice and will work with you to optimise your eye health.

Artificial Tears are eye surface lubricants, which aim to stabilise and supplement the tear film. There are a number of products available at pharmacies, often causing confusion as to which one to use. After your eye examination, your optometrist can recommend the most suitable eye drop or combination of lubricants specific to your eye condition.

Dietary Supplements: Essential fatty acids, found naturally in certain food types, are crucial for our tears. One of the most important components of healthy tears is a layer of natural oil known as meibum. This is released by the meibomian glands which line the eyelids. Often, dry eyes are caused by a lack, or poor consistency, of meibum. Your optometrist will be able to see if this is the root cause of your dry eyes and advise on the types of foods to eat more of and/or introduce the most appropriate supplement to help you add the right oils into your diet.

Blephasteam is a new treatment that can be performed by your optometrist. It involves wearing a pair of humidified and heated eye goggles for 10-15 minutes. This works to improve meibomian gland function. Once the heating is complete your optometrist will perform a manual expression of the glands to dislodge any blockages and increase the outflow of the meibum into the tears.

Emilie Langley

E-Eye Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) is new long-term treatment strategy for ongoing dry eye disease. It involves applying intense pulsed light to the area beneath your lower eyelid to help stimulate the meibomian glands to improve their oil producing function. We recommend that three sessions are performed to obtain the best results from this treatment. Top-up treatments can be applied if required.

Inflammatory eye drops: The optometrists at Mortimer Hirst are all therapeutically qualified. This gives them the ability to prescribe medications to help treat and manage the ocular surface inflammation that presents with dry eye. This can often kick-start the resolution of your sore, gritty or tired feeling eyes.

More recently the optometrists’ scope of practice has been expanded to allow them to prescribe certain oral medications that can help treat eye disease. Speak to your optometrist about whether these adjunct therapies may be appropriate for you.

Emilie Langley, Optometrist, www.emilielangley.co.nz Mortimer Hirst Takapuna

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TAKAPUNA COMMUNITY NEWS: WITH SARAH THORNE

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Takapuna Community News

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The weather is warming up and it’s great to see families out and about enjoying the lighter evenings and warmer weekends. There’s lots happening in our area over the next couple of months including Takapuna Primary School Fair on 4 November; Hauraki School Twilight Fair on 11 November and Takapuna Beach Christmas Carnival on 2 December.

Our free Summer Fun preschool play sessions start 4 December at Linwood Reserve in Forrest Hill. The first Families in Parks event will take place on Friday 12 January at Milford Reserve. You can find out about all our Summer Fun preschool play starts 4th December. preschool play and Families in Parks events via our website (link below).

Our Women’s Network (OWN) is organising a trip to see Sister Act at the Waterfront Theatre on Saturday 16 December at 2pm.

All welcome. For tickets and further information, please call Joan on 09 4839671.

Auckland Council needs your help to engage with a wide range of communities across Auckland: Auckland is diverse and its population is growing and changing. Auckland Council is taking some time to think about this and how it can ensure that Auckland is an inclusive place for everyone. The purpose of the project is to gain a better understanding of Aucklanders’ lived experiences of inclusion, belonging and participation. Once the Council has completed the community engagement there will be a further opportunity for you to analyse what they’ve discovered. ANCAD is hosting this event on 14 November from 10-11.30am at Channel View Lounge, Mary Thomas Centre, 3 Gibbons Rd, Takapuna RSVP: info@ancad.org.nz Phone: 09 486-4820 Kennedy Park WWII Installations Preservation Trust and the Kennedy Park Petanque Club are holding a joint open day on Sunday 12 November 11am-2pm at the Kennedy Park tunnels in Castor Bay. Discover the fascinating history behind the installations at the park, take a look inside the tunnels, have a go at Petanque and enjoy a sausage sizzle.

For more information on any of these events, phone Sarah Thorne on 486 2098 or email: office@takapunatrust.org.nz Visit www.takapunatrust.org.nz .

Facebook.com/takapunanorthtrust Sarah Thorne (Takapuna North Community Coordinator – Castor Bay, Milford, Forrest Hill, Sunnynook, Takapuna.)

PACK & SEND: TAKAPUNA

Is Your Christmas Sending Sorted?

PACK & SEND Takapuna is your "one stop shop" for all your Christmas Gift packaging and freight needs. When you need to send your gifts nationwide and overseas you can rely on PACK & SEND's experience to package it and get it delivered, safely and on time.

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Jane and Jeremy Bain, the franchisees at Pack & Send Takapuna have a "No Limits" approach when helping customers solve packaging and freight problems. Now you have a better alternative to NZ Post to get your Christmas sending sorted – stress free. “It’s a busy and stressful time of the year for many so we make it quick and easy to send your special items,” says Jeremy.

Whether you have one small gift or a mountain of goodies for Santa’s sleigh, PACK & SEND has a service that will fit your needs, from low-cost traceable courier to precision, sensitive freight services. Around New Zealand or the world they have a service for your needs.

Unfortunately the elves in the shopping malls do not wrap your gifts to stand up to the rigours of freight. PACK & SEND can safely pack your gifts into one of their super-strong cartons with bubblewrap or foam chips for maximum protection while they are travelling to their final destination. “We also sell packing materials if you choose to pack it yourself but many of our customer prefer us to professionally pack,” says Jane PACK & SEND provides service, systems and packaging to make your freight experience as simple and smooth as possible. You don't need to open an account; they send anything, anywhere and take care of the hassles.

We make it convenient to drop off your parcels for domestic or international delivery. With no long queues and friendly service it’s a great time to start planning something special for your family and friends. Give the team at Takapuna a call to get a price estimate. Now PACK & SEND has got your Christmas Sending sorted.

PACK & SEND Takapuna open Mon – Sat, located at 445 Lake Road, Takapuna with convenient parking outside.

Phone 486 3355 or email takapuna@packsend.co.nz and let them make sending easy.

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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: KITCHENS BY DESIGN, TAKAPUNA

Designed by Marianne Gailer.

The Awards Keep Coming Kitchens By Design’s Marianne Gailer has picked up yet more awards for her beautiful kitchen designs – this time, over the ditch in Australia.

The Kitchen and Bathroom Designers Institute (KBDi) Awards are the equivalent of the Oscars for kitchen and bathroom designers in Australia, and this year’s ceremony was held at the end of September in Adelaide, the City of Churches.

Designer Marianne Gailer, from Takapuna-based Kitchens By Design, flew over to be at the event after being shortlisted for one of the major awards on the night – and it wasn’t a wasted journey, as she picked up the award for the best large kitchen NSW category, plus was the winner of the prestigious title of Kitchen Designer of the Year NSW 2017. In addition, Marianne was named one of the six runners-up in the Australian Certified Designer of the Year 2017 category – another affirmation of her talent as a designer.

The project that won Marianne her title is this striking modern kitchen, designed for a small family living in a large city-centre apartment overlooking a park.

Marianne’s brief was to create a stunning, contemporary kitchen with a wow factor, and she did not disappoint. The inspiration for the bold cobalt-blue came from a painting the clients have hanging in their hallway, and this was translated into a high-gloss metallic finish on the cabinetry on the back wall of the kitchen and the under-bench cabinetry on the peninsula.

The kitchen peninsula is clad in mitred Corian Cirrus White, giving a stark contrast to the blue cabinetry behind. From the centre of the peninsula extends a built-in table (also made from Corian) whose height can be adjusted, depending on its intended use – informal standing or a more formal seated dinner.

A mirror finish on the central plinth lifting mechanism makes the table appear to float, adding a little more magic to the whole design.

An adjacent walk-in pantry was also a request from her clients.

It’s small, but very functional, and contains a sink, dishwasher, hot water tap and microwave. All interior walls are finished in white, apart from a swathe of hexagonal copper and stainless steel tiles that help the kitchen blend into the existing copper panelling in the living area.

Behind the scenes this kitchen is packed with all the latest Before returning to New Zealand and joining Kitchens By Design, technologies and appliances, including electrically operated Marianne, a North Shore native, had spent six years living and drawer mechanisms, an integrated fridge and freezer with pushworking in Sydney, and this award-winning design was one of the to-open doors, plus a special re-circulating extractor unit above last projects she’d completed over in Australia. the cooking area that cleans and deodorises cooking fumes.

If you’re looking for a new kitchen with a real wow factor, pop in and speak to Marianne in person at Kitchens By Design’s Takapuna showroom at TAKAPUNA SHOWROOM: 3 Byron Avenue, Takapuna | 09 488 72013 Byron Ave – she’s there NEWMARKET SHOWROOM: 7 Melrose Street, Newmarket | 09 379most 3084days between 10am and 4pm. 09 488 7201, kitchensbydesign.co.nz | hello@kitchensbydesign.co.nz wwwkitchensbydesign.co.nz

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MY FAVOURITE RECIPE: CHELSEA JOHNSTON

Chelsea's Lemon Ricotta Tart This month’s recipe is a bit of an inside job. Talented graphic designer and studio supervisor Chelsea Johnston is also wellknown as a champion baker with her Benefitz colleagues. The Benefitz team morning teas, often for charity but always for birthdays and special occasions, are legendary and it’s usually Chelsea who is leading the baking. So Channel Mag’s Aidan Bennett (who also doubles as MD at Benefitz) invited her to treat us with the recipe for one of her favourites. Chelsea chose her Lemon Ricotta Tart, yum!

AIDAN BENNETT: What is your recipe and where did it originate?

CHELSEA JOHNSTON: From a close family friend who was my next door neighbour when I was growing up. She always had the best home baking in the pantry.

AB: What’s the secret to making this recipe work?

CJ: Make sure you chill the pastry in the tin before baking. I’ve made the mistake before of not doing so and the pastry all slipped down in the tin.

AB: Why did you choose this recipe?

CJ: I love lemon and citrus foods, so this is a real favourite of mine.

AB: What do you love about cooking?

CJ: I find it relaxing and a way to unwind.

AB: Self taught, or did you have a cooking mentor?

CJ: I always baked with my nanas during the school holidays, and a lot with my mum. It’s in the family to be good in the kitchen.

AB: What’s the biggest disaster you’ve had in the kitchen?

CJ: I tried to make a chocolate bowl once. You pour melted chocolate onto a balloon and once set you can pop the balloon and you're left with a chocolate bowl. Unfortunately, when I was doing this the balloon popped before the chocolate set and the melted chocolate went all through my kitchen. It was on the ceiling, walls, floor, everywhere!

Chelsea Johnston and her Lemon Ricotta Tart.

AB: What foodie spots do you and (and partner) enjoy visiting locally?

CJ: Tukaha and I love Deep Creek Brews and Eats in Browns Bay. We usually get their Beachfront Platter with one of their craft beers and sit out in the courtyard enjoying the sun and beach.

AB: If you could dine anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?

CJ: Would love to dine in Mexico, and sip on margaritas while enjoying some authentic Mexican cuisine.

Chelsea’s Lemon Ricotta Tart Ingredients, Filling & Method…

1. 21cm flan ring tin lined with sweet short pastry and chill.

2. Blind bake with weights at 200C, lower part of the oven for 10-12mins. Remove weights and bake a further 2-3mins.

3. Set aside and cool.

Filling:-

AB: What’s your favourite cuisine?

CJ: I love Mexican food. Always have.

300gr ricotta cheese 150gr caster sugar Grated ring or zest of 2-3 lemons

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3 eggs at room temperature ¼ cup lemon juice Process the ricotta cheese till smooth. Pour in sugar (with machine running), process till well blended then add lemon rind.

Add eggs one at a time and scrape the sides down and blend in lemon juice.

Pour into the (cool) cooked pastry case. Place in 220C preheated oven and bake 10-15mins.

Turn down to 170C, bake for a further 20 mins or till the set. The custard will be slightly golden.

When cool dust with icing sugar.

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MILFORD CENTRE: NEWS

Creating Your Summer Look Late spring is an ideal time to clear out your wardrobe and make room for some new items for summer.

This season, the timeless floral trend is again a key player, coming in all shapes and forms. And Milford Centre has got your floral fusions look sorted, as well as carrying a whole heap of new accessories perfect for those warmer days.

Make sure you’re ready to hit the streets - and the beach - keeping it practical and stylish.

Red, Red, Red You can’t go wrong with red, so why not be doubly on trend with red floral? We love Witchery’s scallop lace blouse! The embroidery gives it added texture, and the high neck is very flattering. Pair this with a white skirt, shorts or capris and a small black cross-body back for everyday glamour.

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Cornflower Blue Cornflower blue is another trending colour this spring, which is soft and flattering on the skin while still being fun and lively.

Rollas blend this stylish colour and floral with their energetic Oasis Dress, perfect for a spring stroll outside.

Milford Centre has got your floral fusions look sorted, as well as carrying a whole heap of new accessories perfect for those warmer days.

Floppy Hat A floppy hat is essential for beach days, weekend walks and casual everyday wear. Not only do they protect your face and neck from the skin, they Stitch Ministry add a fashionable element to your outfit, too. Opt for a wide-brimmed felt hat to give yourself as much coverage as possible. Pair it with a summery dress and sandals and you’re ready for a chilled day out!

Small Bag Thankfully in summer we don’t need to carry as much stuff around with us. You can remove the sweater, scarf and gloves you had stored in your oversized winter handbag!

All we need for summer is a compact bag that can fit the essentials – sunglasses, makeup, keys, sunscreen, compact mirror and phone.

Dark Botanics There’s an edgier option to the floral trend this season, so if you aren’t a fan of wearing vibrant colours there is still plenty to choose from.

Veronika Maine’s Spring Peonies Pencil Skirt is a great example of how you can wear dark floral. The colour in the flowers is enough to enable you to wear black on top, as well. A more subtle way to infuse your outfit with the floral trend while still looking fabulous!

Cut-outs Cut-outs were huge last spring, and they’ve maintained an equal place this year.

Invest in a floral item with shoulder cut-outs, or a dress with waist cut-outs if you’re feeling more daring. Cut-outs add another layer of edginess to complement your floral fashion. Cut-out jeans look hot! Wear plain black or white shoes with the cut-out/floral combination so that you don’t overdo it.

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Open Shoes Finally, we can let our feet breathe a little and put our heavy winter boots aside. Owning a comfortable pair of open-toe heels Decuba is a must for summer. Choose a pair that aren’t overly high and are a more neutral tone so you can wear them to the office, the mall or your local café. Casual chic for those sunny days.

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It’s a Wrap Wrap dresses are very flattering and super easy to wear. There are plenty of lovely floral wrap dresses in stores this season, which are perfect for everyday wear when paired with block-heeled mules.

Colourful Sunglasses What would we do without sunglasses in summer? If there was only one accessory you could have this season, make it sunglasses.

They protect your eyes and are a key fashion accessory that makes a statement and adds a touch of glamour to your overall look. This summer the fashion world is embracing colour, so give your classic black or tortoiseshell eyewear a rest and buy a bright pair instead.

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Statement Earrings The must-have jewellery item for the season is statement earrings.

Now is the time to let your creativity shine – go as big, bold and crazy as you like! Think loud, contrasting colours, long tassled features and big geometric shapes. Wear them with a simple top so you don’t detract from this eye-catching accessory.

Create your look at Milford Centre www.milfordcentre.co.nz

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BUILDING & HOME MAINTENANCE WITH QPC BUILD GROUP

Design and Build with QPC QPC Builders is your North Shore based construction company that has been carrying out design and builds across Auckland for the last 10 years. We offer a complete start to finish design and build service for any kind of project. Each design starts with a blank page and is entirely unique. No two QPC homes are built to a set plan. We build in any style including contemporary, replica villas, architectural and lifestyle. We will work with you to select the best draftsman/architect depending on your ideas and budget.

We are committed to exceeding client expectations with our high quality workmanship and reliable and honest team of builders and subtrades.

We offer a complete start to finish design and build service for any kind of project.

OUR BUILDING PROCESS

PHASE ONE 1. Section & Ideas We visit your section with our project team where we can discuss and advise the feasibility of building options that are right for your site. We work together to determine the approximate size and style of your new home.

2. Design & Plans We then meet with one of our architects or draftsmen who prepare your concept design ensuring we factor in your budget, site requirements and wish list. Your design plans and cost estimates will be prepared, presented to you and amended if necessary.

3. Contracts Once scheme plans and an agreed quote is in place, we prepare a Master Builders contract. This is either a fixed price or cost plus contract depending on which you prefer and is presented to you for final confirmation.

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We also offer a full knock down and re-build service‌

PHASE TWO 4. Consent Once your contract has been signed, QPC will engage your architect to draw up a full set of working drawings and submit these to Council for building consent. This consent process can take up to 6 weeks.

5. Interior During the Council consent time it is a great opportunity for you to sit down with our interior design team to work through all your colours, materials, hardware etc for completing the inside of your home.

6. Construction You will meet with your Project Manager who explains the process of building your new home, talk you through the timeline and hold regular site meetings (with email updates) with you throughout the build process to keep you informed every step of the way.

I’ve always wanted to build my own home but the stress of managing multiple trades and suppliers as well as managing planning consents was overwhelming. QPC provided me with the perfect solution.

Geri Ellis, Heatcote Road Milford 7. Move In We ensure all final inspections have been done and that your 10 year Master Build guarantee and CCC (Code of Compliance) have been issued and now it is time to move in and enjoy your new home!

If you have a design and build in mind or to see more projects we have done check out our website www.qpcbuilders.co.nz or get in touch today for a no obligations chat.

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COMMUNITY EVENTS CHRISTMAS CABARET WHAT:

WHEN:

North Shore Brass Christmas Cabaret, featuring Arthur Close, baritone

Tell the Shore about your community events

Sunday 3 December 2.30pm

Let the Shore know the what/where/when and why of your community event in our Community Events page.

WHERE: Spencer on Byron Hotel ballroom ABOUT: Enjoy an entertaining afternoon with music from Queen to Neil Diamond performed by Auckland’s Champion Band.

Tickets $25/$20, tables of up to eight $150,

Advertise your community/fundraising event on our Community Events page and reach 25,500 households and businesses across the Shore. $100 +GST. Email christine@channelmag.co.nz or call 021 765 981.

NORTH SHORE BRASS

Bookings at www.eventfinda.co.nz or jsullivan@customcontrols.co.nz

COME HAVE A DAY OF FUN AT ST LEO'S

GARAGE SALE & REPAIR CAFÉ

WHAT:

St Leo's Catholic School Village Fair

WHEN: Saturday 11 November

Garage Sale 8am

Repair Café 10am-1pm

WHEN:

Saturday 11th November 11am - 2pm

WHERE: 102 Victoria Road, Devonport

SATURDAY 11th NOVEMBER

DETAILS: Come along for a day of 11am - 2pm fun and activities at St Leo's. There will be food, books, preVICTORIAhome ROAD, DEVONPORT loved clothing for sale, raffles, fun102 activities, baking and white elephant. There will be fantastic prizes on offer this year on FOOD BOOKS PRE-LOVED CLOTHING RAFFLES our Winning Wheel too!

ACTIVITIES HOME BAKING WHITE ELEPHANT

WHERE: Takapuna Methodist Church (TMC) 427 Lake Road, Takapuna ABOUT: Garage sale with bargains galore starts 8am at TMC. Then a new pop-up event – Repair Café – begins 10am. Bring your broken or damaged items and get them repaired for free, or learn how to fix them again in the future. It’s about saving money, bringing people together, learning new skills and reducing waste.

DETAILS: More info here: repaircafeauckland.com or Facebook

More info available on our facebook page: facebook.com/StLeosSchoolPTFA PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY

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COMMUNITY AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE WALK AND TALK WHERE: Walk – meet at Les Mills Takapuna – Cnr Lake Road &, Como St, Shore City, Takapuna Talk – meet at Mary Thomas Centre, after the walk – 3 Gibbons Rd, Takapuna WHEN: Sunday 26 November, Walk – 8am, Talk – 9.30am

THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS WHERE: Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna WHEN: Thursday 30 November at 7.30 pm ABOUT: North Shore Chorale and West City Concert Band present a Christmas concert for all ages!

Starring multi platinum selling artist, Geoff Sewell, and choirs from Kristen School.

Bookings via Ticketmaster www.ticketmaster.co.nz, Ph: 09 970 9700

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ABOUT: Join us and show your support to stop family violence in our community. Walk from Takapuna to Milford and return to the Mary Thomas Centre for your chance to win an “I Love Takapuna Experience”; everyone is welcome. Come with a friend or meet new friends on the way. Rain or shine, we’ll be there!

COST:

$10 donation to help support the Takapuna Community Hub, a collaborative service provided to victims of family abuse.

BOOKINGS AND INFORMATION: email sinorthshore@siswp.org or call 021 152 7174

GLENFIELD LIONS

Santa Parade 19TH NOVEMBER, 11AM START

Welcome Santa at 12:30 at Glenfield Mall for lollies, fun and photos.

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DIGITAL DELIVERS BETTER HEALTHCARE Digital technology has the potential to significantly improve healthcare, and at AUT one team is committed to delivering that improvement to communities across New Zealand and around the world.

The AUT Centre for eHealth champions change in the health and wellbeing of people and communities, with a particular emphasis on the use of innovative tools and technology. As well as forming interdisciplinary partnerships focused on transformational healthcare gains, the Centre also promotes and supports developments in eHealth through its annual awards programme and forum.

The Centre’s eHealth Innovation Leadership Award is conferred to recipients embodying innovation, implementation and forwardthinking leadership in eHealth in New Zealand. This year’s award was announced at the Centre’s eMental Health Expert Forum, the foremost event for eMental Health implementation science leadership in the country.

The unanimous recipient for 2017 was Dr Monique Faleafa, Chief Executive of Le Va, a highly regarded NGO supporting communities to have improved health and social outcomes.

“Monique is a wonderful example of leadership of health innovation that is deeply engaged with end users,” says Associate Professor Duncan Babbage, Director of AUT’s Centre for eHealth.

“Her values and commitment shine, she champions an evidencebased approach, and her excellent co-design of initiatives with underserved end-users have together led to new ways of achieving health and wellness. This has delivered positive outcomes for people who have often not accessed help in the past.”

Dr Faleafa’s outstanding leadership is evident in the success of the Aunty Dee app, launched by Le Va in 2016. This free digital wellbeing tool guides youth users through structured problem-solving based on

cognitive behavioural therapy principles, helping them work through concerns, brainstorm solutions, and write their own action plans.

Dr Faleafa sees the award as a major win for the Aunty Dee team. “I’m thrilled to receive this award, especially because I see it as acknowledgement of the hundreds of people who contributed to the Aunty Dee app – in particular our Māori & Pacific young people,” she says.

The awards committee praised Dr Faleafa’s leadership both in collaborating and co-designing with Pacific and Māori youth and communities, and in successfully rolling out the app. Over the last 12 months, 61% of users have rated their mood as better after engaging with Aunty Dee. It has also proven popular with non-youth users.

“As if her work with Pacific and Māori youth was not enough, the tools and approaches are already being taken up and are providing positive outcomes for people from across the entire New Zealand population,” says Associate Professor Babbage.

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Pro Vice-Chancellor’s Perspective AUT’s involvement in this month’s World Mental Health Day (WMHD) included a well-attended public seminar on the North Campus and the launch of a new Resilience App. WMHD was special for me as I was President of the World Federation for Mental Health when we proclaimed the day 25 years ago.

In 1992, I co-chaired the first World Mental Health Day with the director general of the World Health Organisation. It is pleasing to note its subsequent contribution to raising mental health awareness worldwide and encouraging governments to give Someone once mental health higher priority.

Pro Vice-Chancellor AUT North Campus

priority. Research shows that mental health promotion programmes improve employee health and reap large benefits through enhanced engagement, reduced staff turnover and increased productivity. With attention given to workplace mental health varying widely, there is huge potential to expand good practice. It is a win-win for employers and workers.

said the “ hardest job is not having one.

Someone once said the hardest job is not having one. This may be especially so for people with major mental disorders, many of whom are unemployed or under-employed.

Employment is important in promoting recovery and wellbeing.

In New Zealand today, mental health This may be especially so for people is more out in the open. Services with major mental disorders and support have greatly improved.

The new Resilience App is an eHealth initiative However, there are widening gaps, if to promote the mental health of more than not chasms, in service provision. Media 20,000 AUT staff and students. Designed to coverage prior to the recent general elections revealed that people help build mental strength and increase ability to withstand stressful are suffering needlessly. This requires attention from the incoming situations, this downloadable app includes guided tools to improve government. While there are obvious needs that warrant immediate health, relationships and overall wellbeing. The accompanying story remedy, longer-term planning will need to be guided by a wide-ranging describes some of the recent activities of the AUT Centre for eHealth, independent Royal Commission or Ministerial Inquiry. including its highly successful annual eMental Health Expert Forum.

New Zealand has made important contributions to eMental health The focus of this year’s WMHD was Mental Health in the Workplace, development. The challenge is to make these resources more widely where people spend much of their time. What happens there is a major accessible. They provide a means to reach hundreds of thousands of influence on health and overall wellbeing. Workplace mental health people, contribute to the treatment of mental disorders and enhance was recently recognised by the World Bank as a global development mental health and wellbeing.

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Master of Sport and Exercise By studying a Master of Sport and Exercise at AUT, Sam McKenzie is keeping ahead of the field in coaching. Sam uses the coaching theory taught at AUT in his job as junior coach development manager at Auckland Rugby Union. Sam says, “My studies had a huge impact on the way that I see my job, and I take these learnings to the community and coaches in order to make a difference in sport.”

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CHANNEL FEATURE: HEARTS & MINDS

The Hearts & Minds team: Front row - Rose Yumul, Sylvie Tierney, Julie Walker, Amberlee Wharton, Carol Ryan, Nichola Williams; Back Row - Sam Robertson, Sally Clarkson, Connor Hennebry, Xiaoying Zhang, Brigid Furness.

Compassion, understanding and hope This month marks a change of name for an entity well known on the Shore as Raeburn House. Channel Magazine spoke to Julie (Jules) Walker, Wellbeing and Resilience Programme Manager, about the name shift from Raeburn House to Hearts & Minds NZ Inc and about the work the organisation undertakes.

Hearts & Minds focuses on mild to moderate mental health concerns, and is a registered charity funded primarily by the Waitemata District Health Board. A year ago, it moved from near North Shore Hospital to a council building behind Northcote Library, and though it still provides some services at the ‘old house’, support groups are also now run in Orewa, Northcote, and Waitakere.

“The North Shore community has been very supportive of our work over the years and recently demand for our services has grown. However, we had received consistent feedback that our name may be a barrier preventing some people from accessing the services we offer,” says Jules.

“While the name Raeburn House has credibility in the community, it lacked any indication of the type of work we do, and many people who could benefit from our services may not have realised it was an option as they had no idea what ‘Raeburn House’ meant. We also noticed that migrant populations were contacting us asking if we provided housing. We are passionate about providing wellbeing support in our communities and wanted our name to reflect our core work.”

Hearts & Minds held a launch party in late October to celebrate the name change and launch its latest Support Services Directory.

“For the next few months,” says Jules, “we will use the phrasing ‘Hearts & Minds – formerly known as Raeburn House’ and ensure that the message about our new name is clearly articulated to the community and wider stakeholders.”

Hearts & Minds accepts self-referrals as well as referrals from agencies and health professionals. “We strongly believe that everyone deserves access to support regardless of whether they have been referred or choose to seek support of their own volition.

One of the key drivers of our organisation is to remove any barriers that may prevent people seeking support when they need it.” While anyone can attend the Hearts & Minds wellbeing groups (such as Overcoming Anxiety, or Moving Past Depression), these are totally

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free with a referral from a health professional – a GP, counsellor, psychologist or other health or mental health professional.

Jules says that the real benefit of Hearts & Minds is that it provides mental wellbeing support at a community level, and that individuals have the ability to address their psychosocial concerns without having to go through complicated processes or needing to access more intensive, expensive options. “Our services provide high quality professional support without the cost and the stigma associated with other services,” she says. “All our facilitators are well qualified in mental health, and our groups offer individuals the opportunity to develop skills to move them forward, and to prevent their mental health from slipping back. They also are a way for individuals to connect into their community and meet others who are going through similar issues. We offer an ongoing open group which people can come to fortnightly for a cuppa and friendship, under the guidance of a qualified health professional.”

Hearts & Minds believes that if people have access to information, advice and support at a local level, issues confronting individuals or families can be addressed and resolved before they escalate into crisis situations, thereby decreasing the rates of family violence, addictions, mental illness and suicide while simultaneously improving social cohesion and the overall health and wellbeing of diverse populations across the region.

Hearts & Minds’ team of qualified professionals includes psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors from a range of cultural backgrounds. They provide warm, welcoming, judgementfree wellbeing support to people of every socio-economic and cultural background. “Ours is a strengths-based organisation that understands that when 'life happens’ people need compassion, understanding and hope,” says Jules. “We believe in the potential of all people and in the capacity for growth and positive change. Our vibrant office space and team of friendly professionals encourages community connectivity and affirms their decision to seek support.”

Hearts & Minds (formerly known as Raeburn House), Norman King Community Hub, 65 Pearn Crescent, Northcote 09 441 8989

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Your monthly update from Murray Hill, Manager of the Milford Business Association.

Milford - the relaxed place for Christmas shopping We’re coming into the silly season of Christmas that we all love in Milford! So chill out and come on in to MILFORD for some relaxed shopping, great eateries and community life.

$4000 Travel Promotion

Yes, you’ve still got time to enter and win this wonderful prize sponsored by HELLOWORLD, Milford and supported by New World.

It’s easy to enter – any time you spend over $15 in participating Milford shops, you can enter to win this wonderful prize. (Just ask at the counter – there are over 85 Milford shops taking part in the promotion!).

The promotion finishes in Sunday 12th November, with the winner announced the following week.

Think of where you could go with $4000 of travel!

Christmas By The Lake

Our ever popular annual Harcourts Cooper & Co 'Christmas by the Lake' event is taking place on Saturday 25th November and tickets are available as from Monday 13th November at the following outlets: • Customer Service counter in the Milford Centre Mall • Harcourts, Milford • Helloword, Milford.

The same conditions apply as last year – for every $10 you spend in a Milford shop, you can get one ticket up to a maximum of six tickets per person. Dockets must be dated Monday 13th Nov or any date after that leading up to the date of concert. For the purposes of this promotion, New World, Countdown and The Warehouse dockets are not eligible.

Due to the size of the location of the event, tickets are limited to 3,000 in total – so they will be allocated on a first-in, first-out basis.

They will all be allocated before the event – keep watching our website – www.milfordshops.co.nz and our FB – milfordshops for details on tickets available.

Christmas Decorations

Our Christmas decorations should be in place by the time you read this column. An addition this year will be a Christmas tree in the Village Square and we will be inviting the local community to a Christmas carol evening closer to Christmas. Look out for the date/ time in the next Channel magazine and on our FB page.

Milford Welcomes 'The Source Bulk Foods'

Last month The Source Bulk Foods opened in the main street of Milford next to the ANZ bank.

Brother and sister, Robert and Andrea Watt have introduced this successful Australian franchise to the community. The premises have been completely refitted into a modern, bright and air-conditioned store, perfect for the retailing over 400 bulk foods.

Judging by how busy it has been since they opened, they've obviously got the formula right. You can purchase as much or as little as you like. It’s a modern take on the days when your grandmother would have gone to the local grocer and purchased her ingredients in the quantities that she wanted!

The Source has also created a new social hub in Milford, with customers connecting with one another as they are doing their shopping – a great community environment.

This is yet another new business in Milford that is reducing their carbon footprint – just like last months feature business. The Source Bulk Foods promotes zero waste shopping. Paper bags are on hand for your purchases or you can bring your own containers.

So if you haven’t been there yet, pop in next time you are in Milford and meet their friendly helpful staff.

Murray See you in Milford

Manager – Milford Business Association manager@milfordshops.co.nz 021 950 463 www.milfordshops.co.nz FB: milfordshops Inst: milfordnz

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BOOK REVIEWS: WITH THE BOOKLOVER, MILFORD

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Life in the Garden

Penelope Lively $40

The Passage of Love Alex Miller $37

Filled with wry humour, incisive observation and rare wisdom, Alex Miller brilliantly merges memoir and novel. Arriving destitute in Melbourne from Queensland in the late 1950s, stockman Robert conceives the ambition to be a writer, believing that writing might be the saving of him. Introduced to Lena – beautiful, rich and educated – his life takes a very different path. But in the intimacy of their connection lies an ‘unknowability’ that both torments and tantalises as Robert and Lena long for something that neither can provide for the other. Their passionate struggles lie at the centre of this powerful story.

In the Midst of Winter Isabel Allende $40

From the bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover, this is a beautifully crafted, multi-generational novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerising story that journeys from presentday Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. Thrown together by a Brooklyn blizzard, two NYU professors are faced with a shocking dilemma when a young Guatemalan nanny enters their lives. Isabel Allende’s vivid and captivating novel explores the timely issues of human rights and the plight of immigrants with passion, humour and wisdom that transcend politics.

The Rest of Their Lives

Jean-Paul Didierlaurent $33 From the author of The Reader on the 6.27, this is another enchanting adventure filled with largerthan-life characters. It is difficult to find love in a profession like Ambroise’s. And while Manelle, a home-help for the elderly in the same small French town, adores her days with her eccentric clients, she too spends her evenings alone. So when an unusual request from Manelle’s favourite client – 82-year-old retired chef-gourmand Samuel – sends them both on an unlikely road-trip to Switzerland, along with Ambroise’s cake-loving grandmother, it might just be time for the rest of their lives to begin…

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The two central activities in Penelope Lively’s life – alongside writing – have been reading and gardening.

This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large childhood garden in Cairo, her grandmother’s sloping Somerset garden, two of her own Oxfordshire gardens, and her current small urban garden in North London. It is also a wise, engaging and far-ranging exploration of gardens in literature, from Paradise Lost to Alice in Wonderland, and of other writers and the significance of their gardens, from Virginia Woolf to Philip Larkin. A treasure for gardeners and literature lovers alike.

French House Chic Jane Webster $65

The bestselling author of At My French Table and French Ties takes us on a private journey to reveal the never-before-seen stunning French properties that inspired the loving renovation of her Chateau Bosgouet: from supremely elegant Parisian apartments to lavishly upholstered sitting rooms in French country estates. From le salon to la sale de bain and every room in between, here is visual inspiration to achieve the most French look in any space. This is Jane Webster’s very personal story of a lifetime of cultivating an eye for style and bringing it to life in the home.

Hideaways

Sam Stuchbury $55 This stunning showcase of tucked-away escape spots all over New Zealand, and a statement to a simpler way of life, is a celebration of quintessential New Zealand holiday escapes – mountain huts, coastal baches, riverside cribs, converted silos, hunting shacks and more. Breathtaking photography and evocative text explore far-flung retreats from around the country, with a focus on the unique, secluded and romantic – each offering a change of pace, a chance to disconnect. Hideaways is a beautiful tribute to getting away from it all.

200 Women

Geoff Blackwell, Ruth Hobday & Kieran Scott $75 This magnificent landmark book is the realisation of an epic global journey to find two hundred women with diverse backgrounds, and to ask them what really matters to them. All were photographed against the same background and asked the same five fundamental questions. From well-known activists, artists and innovators to everyday women whose lives are no less exceptional, each woman shares her unique replies, revealing her deepest motivation, happiness, sadness and hope – and offering gifts of empowerment and strength, inviting us to bring positive change to our world. A coffee table book to be treasured and enjoyed by all.

MILFORD TRAVEL: WITH HELLOWORLD

Hello Active Holidays Live healthy, live longer. We are lucky enough to live on the North Shore and have the ability to maintain active lifestyles by the beach.

At helloworld Milford we have noticed that this interest in healthy lifestyles has been reflected Mary Buckley in the types of holidays that our customers are Owner/Director choosing. A strong growth area of the travel industry is Active Holidays. Here we feature a few of our favourite products. Contact one of the helloworld Milford team for more details and a copy of the brochure.

Avalon Active Discovery: A new and exciting way to river cruise, Avalon Active Discovery invites you to expand the horizons of your favourite activities with new experiences. Explore the culture, sights, and adventures waiting beyond the shore in the most active, engaged, and fun ways imaginable. Every port gives you a world of possibilities as you interact with the locals and choose the dynamic, interactive activities that appeal to you most. It's the Old World in a whole new way! Their Active Discovery Cruises unite you with your pastimes - and other like-minded enthusiasts - both on the ship and off.

Adventure World Walking & Cycling: Adventure World’s active adventures aim to suit all levels of fitness, featuring everything from leisurely walking tours to some of the most challenging and rewarding treks you'll ever undertake, all the while showcasing the most breath-taking scenery in the world. Tour destinations include: Central America, Alaska, India, Vietnam, Africa, France and Italy.

Intrepid Cycling Holidays: Intrepid believes the world’s at its best when there’s nothing between it and you. No big bus window.

No iPhone screen.

No maps or walls or guidebooks. Just the Mary, Grace & Chloe cycling along Canal de Briare, France. wind and the open road.

There’s a nice simplicity to cycling. You start at A and slowly ride your way to B, powered by nothing but your own legs. These trips are for people who really want to see a place, not just travel it. Cycling tour options include: French Alps, Croatia, Tuscany, Morocco, Jordan, Baltics, Vietnam, Cuba, and Tanzania.

Peregrine Walking & Trekking Tours: Peregrine expertise in this kind of travel is as old as the company itself, since making their first steps in Nepal in 1977. Today they have walking and trekking trips to suit all levels of fitness and ability. Every trip has a local leader and their more challenging treks include local guides and porters, who know the paths inside-out and have the expertise to make your tour both safe and rewarding. There are a variety of week or two-week long walking tours of both Italy and France. Trekking Tour itineraries can be booked for South America, Vietnam, and Africa. helloworld Milford, Corner Kitchener and Milford Road, Milford, 09 489 2597 milford@helloworld.co.nz

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HAIR & BEAUTY: WITH MOLTON BROWN, MILFORD

SKIN CANCER CHANNEL: WITH DR GRANT COE

Dr Grant Coe

MoleMan is a full service mole and skin cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment facility in Northcote Point. Their skin cancer doctors can map and identify skin cancers on the spot, as well as provide any necessary surgery, treatment and follow-up care. The team at MoleMan aims to provide exceptional patient care, at an affordable price, in a warm, welcoming and friendly environment. Chief MoleMan, Dr Grant Coe, has had extensive experience in skin cancer screening and surgery, both in New Zealand and Australia, and will be answering questions as well as sharing advice, tips and information each month in Channel Magazine.

Worried about a black stripe on my toenail Question: I’ve had a vertical, blackish stripe on my big toenail for a few months now. Originally I thought I may have kicked and bruised my toe, and that it had bled under the nail, but the stripe isn’t growing out or going away over time. Is there a chance this could be a skin cancer?

Dr Coe: Yes, this is something you should have checked out by a doctor or skin specialist immediately, as it could be a melanoma.

Called "subungal (under a nail) melanoma" this form of skin cancer occurs with equal frequency in males and females, appears most often in people over 50, but can develop at any age, and is seen most often under the nail of the thumb or big toe.

The most common warning sign is the appearance of a brown to black-coloured streak underneath the nail, which is often mistaken for a bruise. For this reason, a doctor is usually not consulted.

Subungal melanoma should be suspected whenever a nail streak appears without known injury to the nail, the nail discolouration does not gradually disappear, as would a bruise, or the size of the nail streak increases over time. Early detection is the key to a postive outcome from melanoma, and other skin cancers, so if you do have a mole or lesion of concern, it is always best to get it checked out as soon as possible.

Call the MoleMan team today to enquire about full body skin cancer and melanoma checks with digital dermoscopy (mole mapping) technology on 0800 DR MOLE (376653) or 09 480 6416 or visit www.moleman.co.nz for pricing and frequently asked questions. Male and female doctors available.

Dr Coe is also an affiliated provider to Southern Cross for skin cancer surgery and selected services.

Going to Great Lengths!

Molton Brown is the home of Great Lengths hair extensions on the Shore.

Great Lengths are widely considered the number one name in hair extensions worldwide and are Before and after 'Great Lengths' hair extensions. made from 100% human hair.

At our Milford salon, Julianne and Jessica are trained in applying both tape-in and Keratin-bonded extensions that will look natural, feel soft and last.

The difference can be dramatic with beautiful blended colours - more than 60 available - to create thicker, longer hair.

Since they are natural hair, extensions may be cut and coloured, providing a world of possibilities for your new longer, fuller look.

Molton Brown offers a free consultation and a free follow-up appointment two weeks after the extensions are applied. “We want our clients to feel comfortable with the extensions and be totally satisfied,” says Molton Brown salon manager, Nahid.

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HEALTH & BEAUTY: CACI

Combat Wrinkles At Any Age When is the best age to stop wrinkles, and start cosmetic injections?

There’s no right or wrong time, and it’s more common than you might think. Many of us have considered it, but have put it off because of the stigma, lack of information, or are concerned about when to have it.

So, we’re breaking it all down, and giving you all the info on exactly when’s a good time to consider having cosmetic injections, and if they are right for you.

IN YOUR 20s Although lines and wrinkles are not usually a concern when you’re in your twenties, appearance medicine can be used as a preventative measure to help slow the signs of ageing. As we all know, it’s easier to prevent wrinkles, than try and correct them later! “Treating areas before lines and wrinkles develop, relaxes the active muscles before allowing possible wrinkles to form,” explains Fleur Evans, Caci Training Manager.

IN YOUR 30S During our 30s, collagen and new skin cell production slows, skin becomes thinner and signs of ageing start to appear. The forehead wrinkles, crows’ feet and frown lines are often more pronounced because of constant movement of the skin. If you’ve noticed your makeup creasing and sitting in the fine frown lines, then appearance medicine treatments might be right, it will help smooth out the area and reduce the fine lines that have developed, while also preventing them from getting worse.

Although lines and wrinkles are not usually a concern when you’re in your twenties, appearance medicine can be used as a preventative measure…

IN YOUR 40S In our 40s loss of volume and firmness can occur; this is when appearance medicine and fillers can help rejuvenate our skin, by adding volume, reducing lines, and correcting the signs of aging.

It can help soften, but may not completely eliminate them, this is when filler can assist, by adding volume under the skin to smooth out the canvas and give a more youthful appearance.

Crow’s feet are one of the most commonly treated areas; reducing the lines around the eyes can make you look more refreshed, more youthful, and also make your eyes appear larger.

To have any specific appearance medicine questions addressed in absolute confidence, or for more information on the cost of these treatments, have a free consultation at your local Caci.

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OPTOMETRY & EYEWEAR: MELISSA HAY, VISIQUE MILFORD

Diabetes and Vision

Melissa Hay

Diabetes is a chronic disease associated with abnormally high levels of glucose in the blood. Around the world it causes significant sickness and possibly early death, but it is also one of the leading causes of blindness and visual impairment in working age people. A person with diabetes has 25 times the risk of blindness compared to someone without the disease.

Commonly diabetes is due to : 1. Inadequate production of insulin. Called type I Diabetes.

2. Inadequate sensitivity of cells to the action of insulin. Called type II Diabetes.

3. Diabetes while pregnant. Called Gestational Diabetes.

Unfortunately, diabetic eye disease is often asymptomatic in the early stages. This means that people don’t know that they are developing issues with their eyes. We believe it is important for a diabetic to get their eyes tested annually. Most diabetesassociated vision loss is preventable. This is helped by early detection.

To prevent diabetic eye complications it is important to have a healthy lifestyle, which includes diet and exercise. Also if blood pressure is not controlled adequately, this can also hasten diabetic eye disease. It is also important to report any sudden changes in your vision.

In New Zealand we have a very good health system. The retinas of diabetics are screened via trained nurses to find any problems. If they find anything untoward, then the person is referred to an ophthalmologist for care. The retina is the sensitive lining of the eye. To use a camera analogy it is like the film in our camera. If there is damage to this sensitive organ, it can mean significant difficulties in the way the eye sees.

Interestingly, diabetes is no longer our leading cause of blindness in working age people (it is now genetic eye conditions). This has changed due to the improved care we can offer our patients – unfortunately, this is causing a strain on our public health system.

Diabetes of the retina affects the blood vessels, and we are fortunate enough to be able to view these easily by looking into your eye.

In New Zealand we have a very good health system. The retina of diabetics are screened via trained nurses to find any problems. If they find anything untoward, then the person is referred to an ophthalmologist for care.

There are some other things that diabetes can do to your eye, which wouldn’t be screened for under our public health system. For example: • Dry eyes - this can range from being mildly annoying and needing to blink a bit more often; to using eye drops frequently; to developing vision limiting infections.

• Hypoesthesia of the cornea - ulcers can develop on the front surface of someone’s eye as the nerves aren’t working correctly.

• Small pupils - which can affect the clarity of your distance vision.

• Glaucoma - this is an eye disease where the eye is damaged by pressure inside the eye.

• Cataracts - these happen to everyone eventually, but are a problem for diabetics younger in life. Cataracts are the lens inside your eye going cloudy or opaque, making your vision blurry and needing surgery to correct it.

• Diabetic retinopathy - these retinal changes can range from mild to severe. This the most common complication from diabetes, at least a third of diabetics get this.

• Asteroid hyalosis - this is where there are floaters in the jelly inside the eye.

• Anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy - the optic nerve can become damaged.

• Cranial nerve palsies - the nerves that the eye uses for normal function can become damaged and can cause a range of problems, such as double vision.

• Orbital mucormycosis - this is a fungal eye infection.

As you can see, there are lots of ways diabetes can affect the eye and regular eye checkups are important for people who are diabetic. There are a range of eye issues which can happen from diabetes. The best advice we could give you is to get your eyes routinely tested, as early intervention if there are any problems can save your vision.

Melissa Hay, Visique Optometrists, 155 Kitchener Road, Milford, 09 489 4797 milford@visique.co.nz.

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CHANNEL YOUTH FEATURE

Looks for less!

Channel's youth writer, student Jessy Thurston, headed out on the hunt for some Shore shopping bargains, here's what she found...

Jessy Thurston

Purchasing clothes is an activity that the majority of us love, and there are more than a few places on the Shore where a quality shopping experience is promised. Not all of us can afford to be basing our look on hundreds of designer items, however, so I set out to find a cheaper way to maintain the perfect style, without having to spend an arm and a leg.

Those of us who are students know all too well how difficult it is to balance a tight budget, which makes it almost impossible to revamp our wardrobes with expensive items. It is a rare occasion when a uni student can splurge on new clothes! A lot of families in Auckland face a similar fate, with money being prioritised for food, paying off a hefty mortgage, and/or purchasing basic items for everyday use. All of our costly needs add up, and can sometimes leave us with little left to spend on things for ourselves, which definitely prevents us from buying designer items every season.

There are so many hidden places on the North Shore that provide a selection of alternate styles for affordable prices. Although buying new clothes straight from the stores is one of the most therapeutic feelings for some, there is a thrill that comes with being able to hunt down stylish bargains at second hand stores. There is nothing wrong with pre-loved garments, and you never have to look too far before you find something that is fitting to your style, and for a fraction of the original price.

Places on the Shore where you are sure to find Jessy in...(clockwise from top left) white off-the-shoulder body suit - Recycle Boutique $4.50, with ripped jeans - Hospice $5, grey ankle boots - Red Cross $3.50. Olive denim jacket - Red second hand collections are local op shops. They Cross $8, black t-shirt dress - Salvation Army $5.50, Adidas - Takapuna Markets $8. Black mesh have so many different styles that they're bound long sleeve top - Salvation Army $4, red high-waisted skirt - Salvation Army $4, heeled ankle to add some flair to your regular wardrobe. The boots - Red Cross $3.50. Hurley jumper - Red Cross $6. Photo by Ellie Price.

Salvation Army donates the proceeds that they make to help support the community, and have stores in Takapuna, have racks of clothes for small prices; you can get yourself a Birkenhead, Glenfield, Albany, Browns Bay, and Long Bay. They full outfit for under $20 if you are willing to look hard enough! also offer a $1 Jumble Sale once per month in the Glenfield area.

The atmosphere of the Sunday markets is one that a keen Hospice Shops, which use their profits to help fund palliative shopper will become immersed in, with gorgeous hand care for sick people across New Zealand, have nine stores dotted crafted soaps and trinkets, and the delicious aroma of various across the North Shore so you won’t have to travel too far to find food options while you walk through the stalls. It is definitely one. The Red Cross, which helps New Zealanders in a range of worth a visit if you have a spare moment to pop out and look different ways, has two stores: Glenfield and Browns Bay. These for the stands of clothes to land yourself a cheap buy. shops all offer a range of items, and take donations of clothes too.

Professional stylist Caitlin Taylor, based in Shore City, So as well as being great for low-cost buying, these local op shops Takapuna, offered me some tips on how to buy appropriately. present perfect opportunities to donate old clothes in your wardrobe When it comes to choosing what to spend your money on, to a good cause and make space for the new season's outfits. she says: “Only buy something if you LOVE LOVE LOVE it!

If you are after a more ‘chic’ look, there are stores which hold Don’t just buy something because 'it will do'.” good quality, second hand designer items for a fraction of their There are many times when we are faced with the value. You can find these stores dotted around the Shore: Recycle challenge of impulsive buying, and if you are on a budget, it’s Boutique recently opened in Takapuna, and The Clothing Collective important to only spend money on the things that will truly located at the base of Highbury Centre in Birkenhead (next to be assets to your wardrobe. “If you don’t have a big clothing Sal's Pizza) donates half of their proceeds to The Mental Health budget, buy smarter. Don’t buy that $20 top every week, Foundation of New Zealand. Save Mart in Northcote is also packed save up for a few weeks and buy a great jacket for the $100,” with hundreds of clothes, and although it takes patience to sift Caitlin suggests. through the long racks of garments, you are guaranteed to find a If you are struggling to buy a trendy, fresh wardrobe on marvellous new addition to your wardrobe among the vast selection a smaller budget, definitely head along to the Shore's great of items available. local second hand stores or markets and try your luck.

The Takapuna Markets run on Sunday mornings until 12pm, and are a hotspot for second hand bargain snatching. Many of the stalls Jessy Thurston, Year 13, Northcote College

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DESTINATION DEVONPORT

Devonport Business Association We welcome new columnist Toni van Tonder, Devonport Business Association's new Business Improvement District Manager...

Toni van Tonder

Update from the Chair

We’ve had plenty to celebrate in Devonport with the hugely successful Artweek Glow event.

More than 10,000 visitors, young and old, came to the area to be inspired by fabulous and playful light sculptures designed and executed by the hugely talented second year Architecture Students of Unitec. The 11 groups were given the brief to design something that used recyclable materials and importantly something that GLOWED! In addition, Clarence Street was closed for a fantastic ‘Open Street’ family-friendly party where the music inspired even the most reluctant to get grooving. Devonport has never been so alive.

Our thanks go out to the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board, Auckland Transport and Unitec School of Architecture. It was the best way to herald the coming of summer; the season that dresses Devonport in its most brilliant apparel.

Christmas is going to be something to really look forward to with a huge array of activities being planned to make Christmas shopping not just a breeze, but totally joyful. The Devonport Business Association will be working alongside the Devonport Community House to deliver a genuine Christmas experience for locals and visitors with the erection of an enormous village Christmas Tree (thanks to the men from The Clay Store who have the task of putting it up), family friendly Christmas events, a present wrapping service, a Santa’s grotto and even a real snow drop.

Devonport is a place adored by its residents and it’s at times such as these that we are reminded of those who do not have the same resources at their fingertips. This year, businesses will be working with Auckland City Mission encouraging shoppers to add something to a collection that can be delivered to those who go without at Christmas. Many of the guests at the City Mission Christmas lunch are isolated elderly, so items such as adult toiletries, slippers, warm under items are perfect.

Items for the under twos are also in much need. There will be collection points inside retail stores, as well as at the i-site in 3 Victoria Road.

So keep your eye on the DestinationDevonport Facebook page to stay in the loop.

Until next time…

Toni van Tonder

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Devonport

Community News

By Maria Teape – Devonport Community Coordinator, Devonport Peninsula Trust

Spring is here and there are plenty of activities happening around the Devonport peninsula to make the most of the warmer weather!

Summer Fun Preschool play commences on Thursday 2nd November in Bayswater and will be held every Tuesday in Devonport (Windsor Reserve) until 12 December and Thursdays in Bayswater until 14 December. Sessions are free and run from 9:30am until 11am. Bring a coffee and your little ones and enjoy our beautiful parks while the children play with big toys, be active and to make new friends. Caregiver supervision is required and sessions are weather dependent.

The first annual Devonport Community & Business Expo on Sunday 5th November is the perfect way to find out about services and facilities available in Devonport, all under one roof! The Expo is on at Devonport Community House with free entry from 10am-3pm and will include stalls, exhibitors and demonstrations from a range of business and community organisations. For more information contact Brigid on 445 3068.

Devonport Plunket’s annual Spring Gala & Market is taking place on Saturday 10th November, 10am-12pm at the Plunket rooms, 1/3 Wairoa Rd, Devonport. There will be plenty for children to do with toys for under 5s, facepainting, pet rock craft, market stalls, Thomas the Tank Engine and more!

We are spoilt for choice with two school fairs on Saturday 11th November. St Leo’s School Village Fair is taking place from 11am-2pm at 4 Owens Rd, Devonport. Promised are yummy food and treats, fun activities for the kids, bargain books, toys, plants, preserves and crafts. Hauraki School’s Twilight Fair runs from 3pm-8pm at 82 Jutland Rd. There will be lots of live music, kid’s entertainment, food, drinks, white elephant, crafts and raffles.

Company Theatre presents Deathtrap by Ira Levin – a comedy thriller directed by Kate Birch. Performances are taking place from 11th-25th November, Wednesday to Saturday at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm, at The Rose Centre, School Road Belmont. Tickets cost $25, concessions $22 and are available from iTicket, plus booking fees. Find out more at www.companytheatre.co.nz The Scotty Brewer Skate Day is happening on Saturday 25th November 2017, 10am-3pm (rain day Sunday 26th November) at Ngataringa Skate Park, 27 Lake Rd, Devonport. All ages are welcome with competitions for Groms, under 13, under 16 plus Opens and Girls. There will be great prizes too including the Scotty Brewer Memorial Trophy. Food & drink for sale - ‘BYO’ bottle for water.

For more info call Maria on 445 9533 or email maria@devonportpeninsulatrust.nz Hei konā rā Maria

DESTINATION DEVONPORT

Toni's The Business!

CM: What do you feel Devonport most needs?

TVT: I worry that Devonport is getting left behind in the city’s urban design. Our residents are opting to take their money to other areas that are more playful, multifunctional, and offer the experience they’re looking for as modern consumers. I think we need a big picture master plan that enhances the area, extends the opportunities that already exist, incorporating good urban design and more opportunity to get people out of their cars and onto bikes.

Everyone should be coming to Devonport to stay, play and spend and we need to offer them plenty of reasons to do so.

This spring, Devonport's business community gained a fresh face in the form of Toni Van Tonder. The local community and arts advocate, who resurrected Devonport Arts Festival, left her role with Kaipatiki Project to become the new Business Improvement District manager for her home patch.

We had a chat with the energetic mum-of-three about her new role...

Channel Magazine: So what's the new job Toni?

Toni Van Tonder: The Business Improvment District Manager is employed to provide management services for the Devonport Business Association and to implement the BID programme initiatives, which include things like local events, placemaking, advocacy, businessto-business networking and upskilling.

CM: In your role, by this time next year you’d like to...

Toni van Tonder TVT: ...have a clear picture of the challenges businesses face in their pursuit of excellence, as well as a solid strategy in place that will help them overcome CM: What most excites you about it? these. I would also like to build a strong ‘service experience’ that TVT: I’m most excited about making a measurable contribution is consistently brilliant regardless of business. And lastly, I would to local businesses. We need to hone the shopping experience like to employ strategies that help to generate a ‘shop local’ ethos delivered to locals and visitors alike, as well as build a strong for those of us who reside on the Peninsula. ‘shop local’ brand.

CM: How would you sum up Devonport in three words?

TVT: Creative. Beloved. Familial.

CM: We look forward to working with you Toni and wish you well!

Cooking and Community 'Can Do' A talented team of collaborators rolled up their collective sleeves to inspire local families to get cooking together this summer.

The Devonport Village Cookbook is a stylish celebration of Devonport's history, community, families and food, featuring recipes close to the hearts of its residents.

From a take on the classic Kiwi pav, to a fascinatingly spiralled Bulgarian cheese pie, this mouth-watering publication offers family recipes from breakfast through to dessert, spanning many cultural origins. Main meal wine matches are provided by Devonport-based Master of Wine Bob Campbell, who also writes the book’s foreword. Local Olympian Eliza McCartney is among recipe contributors in the coffee tablestyle cookbook, which has been beautifully designed by Stanley Point resident Ruth McGill with styling from artist Greer Clayton, and photography by Rachael Hamilton, both Stanley Bay residents.

Many Devonport businesses have got behind the book, which will act as a fundraiser for Stanley Bay School as well as provide a gorgeous collection of heart-warming recipes for local families, and visitors to the area, to enjoy.

Rarely seen images of Devonport’s past were loaned by Devonport Museum, adding to the

book’s depth and quality as a family keepsake, which organisers hope readers will find as beautiful as it is useful.

Project manager Justine Rowe rallied a small team of parents with relevant skills and attracted sponsorship for the publication, while Channel’s editor Heather Vermeer wrote and edited the copy. Tina Reid-Copus gave team support.

Stanley Bay School Principal Lucy Naylor said: “This gorgeous book is the result of a hardworking team of parents collaborating to make some special happen. It’s a gastro-celebration of Devonport and its people! I’m sure it will grace the kitchens of many homes in Devonport and beyond this Christmas, and for a long time to come."

The Devonport Village Cookbook is available to pre-order at www.devonportvillagecookbook. co.nz before it’s release later this month.

Stockists will be Devonport New World, Cosi Fan Tutte, Manuka Café, Chateaubriant and Devonport Flowers. It will also be sold at Devonport Christmas Festival, Windsor Reserve on Sunday 3rd December following the village’s Santa Parade. All proceeds go to Stanley Bay School.

Follow the book on Instagram and Facebook @devonportvillagecookbook

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BOWLS NORTH HARBOUR: NEWS

with Lindsay Knight

Bowlers win national recognition What have been 12 months of considerable achievement

by Bowls North Harbour has been capped by four of the centre’s players winning national recognition.

Seasoned international Tony Grantham, a member of both Birkenhead and Browns Bay clubs, has been recalled to the Black Jacks Three of the North Harbour Bowlers who have achieved national honours, front left: for November’s transtasman series Tony Grantham, Rory Soden and Paris Baker. on the Gold Coast.

A top performance in this event The fourth Harbour player to gain national honours this year should earn Grantham a place in the New Zealand team which has been Bart Robinson, from a notable Helensville bowls will return to the Gold Coast next April for the Commonwealth family. A centre gold star holder, Robinson was in the New Games.

Zealand Professional Bowlers Association team which in August Also going to November’s transtasman series are two of North played its Australian counter-part.

Harbour’s most promising players, Browns Bay’s 23-year old Rory A key role in much of Harbour’s recent success has been Soden and Glenfield’s 19-year old Paris Baker. Both have been the livewire chairman of the centre’s board, Dorreen. A tidy chosen in the New Zealand development teams. bowler himself with one centre junior title and 11 club titles It has been an amazing few years for both these youngsters to his credit, Dorreen has become an effective coach and as neither has been playing all that long. headed the backroom team which helped the one-to-eight year Soden, who hails from Great Barrier Island, only took up the representative team to consecutive national titles. sport in his last few years at high school and is still eligible for Having already won Harbour coach of the year titles in 2016Harbour’s one-to-eight year representative side. With him as a 17 and named Bowls New Zealand’s volunteer of the year in spearhead Harbour has won the national teams title in this event 2015, Dorreen this year had his exploits with the one-to-eight for the past two seasons. year representatives honoured with the national coach of the He has already achieved other national honours. He was in year accolade. the composite four which finished runners-up at the national The success of the centre and of Browns Bay in staging championships which in the 2014-15 season were held with such the 2014-15 nationals will see a return to the same venue for success at Browns Bay. Earlier this year he won the New Zealand this season’s national pathways club championships next April open triples title.

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One of his Harbour coaches, Graham Dorreen says of Soden: Meanwhile, Harbour has started the new representative “He’s very competitive but with a fantastic disposition and is season brightly with the open teams winning the recent Battle never ruffled.” of the Bridge tournament from Auckland. Harbour won a tight Baker only took up bowls to help her father recover from a stroke. competition 25-22, a thrilling climax coming when in the last She, too, showed a natural flair and in three successive seasons match David Eades recovered in his men’s singles clash with was in an Onehunga four which won Auckland’s one to five year Scott Cotterill from 18-22 to win 25-22. In their series the onetitle. Earlier this year she was third in both the national under 21 to-eight years squads trail Auckland and Northland but the oneand under 18 championships and in the Harbour one-to-eight year to-five year squads lead Auckland and Northland. representatives. But her greatest achievement came at the start of the new 2017-18 season when she overcame several more experienced bowlers to win Auckland’s open premiership singles. www.bowlsnorthharbour.com

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ARTS NEWS: NORTHART

November at Northart We have an exciting – and rather different – line up of artists this month: Eight Americans and one South African-born New Zealander.

‘Connect | Disconnect | Reconnect’ brings together multi media works by eight American artists who are connected through Brigham Young University, located in Provo Utah in the Intermountain West of the United State. While they share a common collegiality and belief system in their Mormon faith there is a peculiar nuance to their lifestyles and personal histories through their South Pacific experience, which makes the show all that more compelling.

The show will examine the artists' various connections, disconnections and reconnections to their Pacific experience and heritage, For some, the experiences are short lived, while for others it is a significant aspect of their identity.

Tali Alisa Hofoka is of Samoan and Russian-Jewish, German descent, “half Samoan, half White, raised in Hawaii, married to a Tongan from Utah, and living in Los Angeles,” she notes. “When I am asked what ‘I am’ I respond ‘I’m Samoan’. However, with the pride and gratitude I felt while I was growing up being Samoan, there was also sometimes selfconsciousness because I have only ever visited Samoa – never lived there. I do not speak the language, and I do not know and do many other ‘Samoan things’. …. my alternating cultural environments affect my personal sense of identity. I instinctively project this feeling onto people, places and objects that share my Pacific Island connection. And this is what I am motivated to make art about.”

Fidalis Buehler, whose delightfully whimsical paintings have been shown exhibited at Northart on several occasions over the past few years, is a hybrid of two cultural backgrounds – American and Micronesian (Kiribati). This art works are manifestations of identity seen through the complexities of both traditions. He comments “These ethnically charged narratives reinforce notions of the exotic through distortions of life experience – fear, anxiety, heroes and villains, satire, dreams and revelations, and nostalgia. My paintings expose the duality of skill and awkwardness; generating tension between craftsmanship and the naïve. They suggest instances of real life experience. Time impairs these recollections and allows for the fabrication of new meaning.”

Another artist, Jeff Ostraff, is not ethnically Tongan but has learned to speak the language and to participate in aspects of the culture, immersing himself into the ethos of Tongan island life. He concerns himself more with a need to locate himself within a human and physical geography, and to generate conversation.

Garry Currin, Light of One Day.

Claudia Cooper, Waiting 2.

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Lindsey Kirk, 2017, Rose.

Joe Ostraff, lost.

Untitled-4, Ideas_ from, France.

Chris Lynn, wall-fall-still.

South African born Claudia Cooper received her formal art training in Houston, Texas. On her return to South Africa she taught and exhibited mostly ceramic work. She held her first solo painting exhibition in 1988 and in 1995 moved with her family to Auckland. She has exhibited paintings occasionally in group shows at Northart and elsewhere in the North Shore and Auckland since then, and this is her first significant solo show here.

Her art practice tends to converge on formal musings of the natural environment. She has been working concurrently on two series of works for this exhibition, one relating to French landscapes with soft impressionistic colour and atmosphere, merging into the other series of more vivid abstract landscapes which ponder and explore the stark contrasts between that of the Karoo desert (her former home in South Africa) and her new home in New Zealand.

Two not to be missed exhibitions, which close Wednesday 15 November. Opening on Sunday 26th November at 4pm is one of Northart’s most popular shows of the year, ‘Pocket Edition. Small works for Large Walls’: 30 artists with up to 300 small paintings and drawings, as well as a multimedia show for Christmas.

Northart, Norman King Square, Northcote Shopping Centre 09 480 9633 022 102 2422 gallery@northart.co.nz Northart is supported by Auckland Council, Kaipatiki Local Board, the Birkenhead Licensing Trust and Lion Foundation.

Norman King Square, Ernie Mays Street, Northcote Shopping Centre Phone 09 480 9633 gallery@northart.co.nz www.northart.co.nz Northart is supported by Kaipatiki Local Board, the Lion Foundation and Birkenhead Licensing Trust and is open 10am – 4pm daily, evening viewings by arrangement.

Admission is free.

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Healesville Wildlife Conservation Centre.

Scienceworks Melbourne.

International Cultural Experiences at Kristin Year 7 & 8 Australia Experience Twenty excited Year 7 & 8 students met at Auckland airport on Sunday 1 October at 4:45am, ready to spend a week away in the beautiful city of Melbourne. On arrival and clearing customs, the group boarded a Murrays bus and headed to the apartment hotel in Flinders Street right in the middle of the CBD. This would be our home for seven days. After a welcome lunch and walk around South Bank, the group made its way to the Eureka Tower, Australia's tallest tower to the roof, standing at 297.3 metres. The observation deck is the highest vantage point in the Southern Hemisphere and the trip takes about 38 seconds to the 88th floor – an incredible 9m/s. The students could see the hotel and its proximity to major landmarks in Melbourne such as the MCG, the Rod Laver Arena and more. A highlight for many of the students was the EDGE experience where the students felt as though they were floating above the city of Melbourne.

Sovereign Hill, an old gold mining town in Ballarat on Day 2, was certainly a highlight with panning for gold, a brief 1854 classroom session, as well as going below ground into an old mine. The day culminated in the fantastic sound and light show, ‘Blood on the Southern Cross’ which told the story of the Eureka Rebellion, a dramatic battle between gold miners and Government forces at Ballarat. This also helped the students understand the name of the Eureka Tower they had visited the day before. Returning to the hotel at 11:30pm, the students fell into bed to recharge for the next day; Scienceworks and Planetarium.

Scienceworks offers an exciting range of experiences for students and teachers, with interactive exhibitions, the Melbourne Planetarium, Lightning Room, Science shows and the historic Spotswood sewerage pumping station. The afternoon provided much needed exercise, as the group travelled to the Dandenong Ranges to walk the Kokoka trail – 1000 steps uphill through the beautiful forests. This trail is used extensively by the locals and was built in memory of the Australian soldiers that fought against the Japanese in PNG during the second world war.

Day 3 saw the group travel to Belgrave to hop on a century-old steam train still running on its original mountain track from Belgrave to Gembrook in the scenic Dandenong Ranges. The railway is the major survivor of four experimental lines used to develop rural areas in the early 1900s. On to Healesville Sanctuary where the group

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managed to get up close and personal with the Australian wildlife, visit the vet hospital and take in the `Spirits of the Sky`, a free flight presentation featuring Australian raptors such as the Wedge Tailed Eagle, and colourful parrot species.

Much needed retail therapy was afforded the students on the Thursday morning at the Queen Victoria Market where many of the students tried to bargain deals, but all extremely happy with their purchases, both personal as well as gifts of thanks to mums and dads. A pleasant tram ride to the Melbourne Botanical Gardens for the Aboriginal encounter – Connecting to Country, was the next activity. Here the students were welcomed traditionally by a Smoking Ceremony; Tanderrum Ceremony, followed by some aboriginal art activities, a wander through the gardens learning about the ancient river landscape of the gardens and examining its value in sustaining a rich cultural life exploring the sensory quality of plants and their many and diverse uses in Aboriginal culture. A highlight on this day was surely the visit to the Old Melbourne Gaol where the group experienced a guided tour with the “hangman,” and then had a further 30 – 45 minutes to explore the Gaol themselves. The infamous Ned Kelly was hanged here and several students including our own Mr Kelly (James Kelly) tried on replicas of Ned Kelly’s armour.

The penultimate day dawned and the students woke early to get ready for the day out to Phillip Island. Visiting the sweetest tourist attraction on Phillip Island – the Phillip Island Chocolate Factory was a hit, with students making their own chocolate, test tasting, playing interactive games for chocolate rewards, as well as seeing the magnificent chocolate fountain. Surfing at one of Australia’s premier surf beaches was followed by a walk among the treetops to view wild koalas at the Koala Sanctuary. A walk along the boardwalks at the Nobbies, prior to dinner at Cowes, allowed the students to peer into the penguin burrows; squeals of delight when a fairy penguin was spotted. Following dinner, the much-anticipated Penguin Parade certainly did not disappoint.

Saturday. Day 7 arrived and the group packed up. After a leisurely walk around the famous graffiti art road, Hosier Lane, a somewhat sad, yet excited group, headed back to Melbourne Airport. Wonderful memories were made, and even more treasured friendships, alongside a great learning experience in every sense of the word. A truly memorable visit - thank you.

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The Great Wall of China.

The Centre of the Universe at the Temple of Heaven.

A Tour of Beijing Auckland Airport’s International Terminal was the setting for a stirring haka as we bid farewell to our parents before the 22 Year 6 students and seven teachers set forth on an epic adventure to Beijing, China.

After a change of planes in Sydney we arrived in Beijing, ready to experience the sights, sounds and smells of a unique cultural experience.

One of the first highlights was the opportunity to visit Western Academy of Beijing, an international school that, like Kristin, follows the IB PYP curriculum model. After a shared experience in the classroom, and on the sports field with our new WAB friends, we shared with them some of the features of our PYP Exhibition and the culture of New Zealand.

As well as the incredible people we met, the history and scale of the places we visited left the entire group spellbound. There was no end to the new experiences. Climbing the Great Wall was definitely a highlight, especially when we made it to the top and the students could see just how much work went into creating this massive structure. Tiananmen Square and its ability to hold one million people was also mind blowing, especially as it was decorated ready for a national holiday. So too was the vast size of the Forbidden City and the number of people it must have taken to construct and then maintain it.

There were many opportunities to practise our Chinese language skills, none more so than when shopping in the markets. When the stall owner had to ‘check with their boss’ we knew that our finely tuned bargaining skills had arrived close to the right price. There were many happy faces after each shopping experience, no doubt that joy was shared when the gifts chosen for loved ones arrived home and were unwrapped as well.

…the history and scale of the places we visited left the entire group spellbound…

This tour is much more than an opportunity to visit another country.

It is a chance for the students to spend time away from their families developing as individuals. Upon returning home the most striking feature that the parents of this group have commented on is the maturity and independence they have developed during their time away.

The students did exceptionally well throughout their challenging adventure. They embraced each new experience with courage and enthusiasm, pushing themselves out of their comfort zone at every opportunity to return home with a greater understanding of their place in the world as global citizens.

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Paola Gianturco sharing her experiences with Westlake’s Amnesty members in 2015.

Westlake’s Own Wonder Girls Two years ago Westlake’s Amnesty International group hosted award-winning writer and photographer Paola Gianturco who travelled to 13 countries to gather information for her inspirational book Wonder Girls: Changing our World. The book interviews activist groups of girls who are fighting for justice, peace and equality all around the world.

Wonder Girls was launched this year on 11 October, the International Day of the Girl, with a chapter dedicated to Westlake’s Amnesty members. As the largest student Amnesty group in New Zealand, 200 Westlake students actively supported the organisation’s mission to defend human rights.

In the book the students talk about their connections with specific issues and explain how they collaborate to tackle

these issues in a variety of ways. It’s all about pushing the boundaries and taking action to support a cause. As Molly Pottinger-Coombes says: “Women throughout the world are having their human rights snatched from them. When we stand united, we can show the world that women are worth more than this. Much more.”

As Wonder Girls clearly demonstrates, actions speak louder than words and the young girls in the book acknowledge their power to bring about positive change. Former Amnesty leader Romy Lee sums it up: “If you live what you believe, it’s a catalyst to get others involved.”

Wonder Girls: Changing our World is published by powerHouse books. The Global Fund for Women will receive 100% of the authors’ royalties from the book.

Research Fellowships for Alumnae Former Dux Dr Yvette Perrott has been awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship for her project 'Realising the Potential of Galaxy Clusters as Cosmological Probes'.

The Fellowships are designed to develop and foster world class research leaders in the New Zealand science and innovation system, providing funding of up to $800,000 over a five year term for each Research Fellow. Yvette studies centimetre-wave radio astronomical observations of galaxy clusters in order to understand the origin and evolution of the Universe. She returns from Trinity College, Cambridge to take up her Fellowship at Victoria University.

This is the third consecutive year that Westlake alumnae have received this prestigious award which aims to retain and repatriate New Zealand’s talented researchers. In 2015, Dr Emma Scotter (née Daniel) received a Fellowship for her Motor Neuron Disease research and she is now researching at the University of Auckland Centre for Brain Research. In 2016, former Dux and Head Girl Dr Nicole Roughan was awarded a Fellowship for her legal research 'Jurisprudence without Borders'. Nicole will come from the National University of Singapore to take up her Fellowship later this year.

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Music Dinner Celebrates Success The annual Westlake Music Dinner was a wonderful celebration to mark another stellar musical year for the two Westlake schools. The beautiful setting of McHugh’s of Cheltenham provided a perfect backdrop to acknowledge the impressive achievements and commitment of individual musicians.

The award ceremony was interspersed with student performances from singer-songwriter May Zeng, violinist Christine Lee and barbershop quartet Deez Notes. Guest speaker Dr Morag Atchison shared her personal journey to becoming one of New Zealand’s leading sopranos and vocal consultant. For the past 13 years she has tutored our awardwinning Choralation choir.

Barbershop Quartet, Deez Notes.

Guest speaker Dr Morag Atchison shared her personal journey to becoming one of New Zealand’s leading sopranos…

With so many students participating fully in the musical life of Westlake, there was a great sense of camaraderie. The evening was filled with tales of treasured experiences and amazing opportunities, and many expressions of thanks to everyone involved. The following Westlake Girls students were awarded cups and trophies for their outstanding contribution to music: Instrumental Music: Cecile McNeill Leadership in Music Department: Esther Simpson Leadership in Performance: Christine Lee Creativity in Music: Samantha Lim and Chelsea Naepi Choral Music: Veronica Lush and Samantha Lim Excellence in Music Performance: Paris Jagger Most Promising Songwriter: May Zeng.

Most Promising Songwriter, May Zeng with Principal Jane Stanley.

Christine Lee plays Kaprys Polski by Grazyna Bacewicz.

Badminton Players Compete in World Junior Championships Alyssa Tagle and Tamara Otene were selected as members of the New Zealand Junior Badminton Team which has just returned from Yogyakarta, Indonesia where they competed in the World Junior Championships. The event provides young players the opportunity to gain invaluable international playing experience. Alyssa and Tamara’s team played against teams from Armenia, Norway, USA, Malaysia, Canada and the Philippines over the course of the event. With three wins and three losses the team placed 20th in the world. This is the New Zealand team’s best result in the last ten years.

Prior to travelling to Indonesia, 16-year-old Tamara competed in both the New Zealand Under 17 National Championships and the New Zealand Under 19 National Championships. Tamara’s strength in the doubles format of badminton was clear and she came away with the Under 17 and Under 19 girls’ doubles and mixed doubles titles (with her respective partners). It’s an impressive feat to win not only two titles in her own age group, but also two titles in the age group above, where she was competing against players one to two years older. As Tamara says, “You need some fast feet, agility. Fitness is key and fast reflexes.”

Alyssa Tagle and Tamara Otene competing at the World Junior Championships.

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Chorale performance at Thanksgiving Service.

Thanksgiving Service.

High tea in the library.

Old Girls' reunion netball match.

Old Boys' v First XV rugby game.

Mary Nixon,

Thanksgiving Service.

The rediscovered rear wall of the hall.

The School Turns 90 Our 90th ‘birthday’ celebrations attracted 1062 attendees who all had an absolutely fabulous weekend of celebration connecting with old friends and colleagues.

It began with a delightful High Tea in the Ex Pupils’ Library for over 100 former pupils from pre 1950, on Friday afternoon.

The eldest attending is now aged 102.

What followed was a very noisy throng, over a thousand strong, congregating and socialising in the stunning refurbished school hall, a full day Saturday with school tours, decade photographs, and a Talent Showcase by current performing arts students. In the evening a Reunion Dinner - appropriately at the Bruce Mason Centre and on Sunday a Service of Thanksgiving led by Rev Charmaine Braatvedt and Bishop Richard Randerson. It ended with entertaining games of netball, football, hockey and a rugby match between the First XV and the “old boys".

The alumni includes many who have led amazing lives since their years at TGS who signed up for this celebration: From composer John Rimmer, to businessman Tim Williams, artist John Horner, Sir Stephen Tindall, All Black Don McKay, and TV presenter Pippa Wetzell, to name just a few.

The celebrations for the 90th year for the school have been a grand occasion and a wonderful success. Maybe a bit of a dress rehearsal for the centenary in a decade's time! If all the re-connections and promises made are maintained, 2027 is a date to put into the long-term diary.

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The celebrations for the 90th year for the school have been a grand occasion and a wonderful success. Maybe a bit of a dress rehearsal for the centenary in a decade's time!

As Reunion Chair Linda McKay said: “So much has changed over the decades - precious memories were shared by all at our Reunion and we thoroughly enjoyed watching all our ex-pupils and staff connect with old and new friends at the various activities.

Enormous thanks to Wendy Strain, Brian Wynn, William Scovell, Callum McNair, Melita Tu’isila, Mary Nixon, TGS PTA, Annie White, 2017 prefects, Carol Bashford, Louise Roe, staff, students and all the support crew who helped make our 90th Reunion such a major success. See you in 2027.”

EDUCATION: ROSMINI COLLEGE

Rosmini Senior Premier Basketball National Champions.

Rosmini: New Zealand Basketball Champions After six years of waiting, finally the Rosmini College Senior Premier Basketball team has again won the Schick Championships Secondary Schools Nationals title, beating Rangitoto College.

The final game was held at the Central Energy Trusts Arena in Palmerston North on October 7th, with the final score of 87 – 79. The team consisted of team captain, Matt Sokol, Reihana Maxwell-Topia, Will Heather, Kruz Perrott-Hunt, Mitchell Dance, Peter Jenkins, Marvin Williams-Dunn, Terence Abdon, Jayden Boucher, Sean Murphy, Taine Murray and Cian Emery.

The Rosmini College Senior Premier Basketball team is

coached by Matt Lacey with Sonny Tuaputa the Assistant Coach and Greg Barclay the Manager. Rosmini College's Teacher in Charge of Basketball, Ambrose Samuels says: "It has been a great season and the boys, coaches and management have all put in a lot of work to yield success. With a group like this, with not only talent but humility, it has been a real pleasure to watch them progress and take out the National title. With a young core of players, things are also looking bright for the next few years as we strive to develop the Rosmini Basketball programme even further, including the retention of Mathew Lacey who has been amazing."

Rosmini College Lacrosse National Champions.

And national champions in lacrosse The Rosmini College Lacrosse team is now the Northern, Auckland and National Champions. The team fought back against a very competitive Mount Albert Grammar, winning 11 – 9, to claim back the Auckland Championship Trophy.

The Rosmini College Lacrosse team consists of Sam Adolph, Sam Aschebrock, Marcus Brown, Josiah Brown, Seth Brown, Tim Carter, Henry Clarkson, William Clarkson, Max Collett, Oliver Crosbie, Riley Crosbie, Patrick Faulkner, Leo Ganley, Hunter Goodsell, Alexander Hanoush, Flynn Houlahan, Isaac Houlbrook,

Adam Kiernan-James, Hamish Liddell, Armani Martin, Angelo Marundan, Scott Moloney, Joseph Murahidy, Jayden Robinson, Isaac Rockwell, Ben Shaw, Joseph Shaw, Daniel Shoebridge and Blake Visesio.

Rosmini’s Head of Lacrosse, Mr Geoff Woods says: “All three cups are now in for engraving. We have had two exceptional years of being unbeaten. Thanks to New Zealand Lacrosse for organising the 2017 season and encouraging the growth of lacrosse at Rosmini and in the Auckland region.”

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Prefect Team 2018 Long Bay College is very proud to announce Blair McIntosh and Brianna Orams will be its Head Boy and Head Girl for 2018. Their deputies, Ben McMurtrie and Kira Corbeau, will support them in their new roles. The Prefect Body for 2018 is as follows:

International Leaders: Zoe Murray and George Ring.

Prefects: Hineira Wharemate, Owen Zheng, Ashleigh Proffit, Andra Mihailescu, Haoze Du

School and Community Culture Prefects: Asia Woodward, Ansh Passi, Samantha Mills

Sports Leaders: Brittany Allison Carnie and James Watson.

Prefects: Jessica Jones, Maddison Moore, Dene Vosloo, Couper Jones, Brook Marshall

Academic Leaders: Emma Hooton and Adam Clifford.

Prefects: Jess Stern, Amanda West, Alex Wood, Ben Matthews, Yoonhwa Choi

Sustainability Leaders: Daisy Dunn and Roxanne Allnutt.

Prefects: Jarred Peters, Madeleine Houston, Liam Breedt, Venice Kho

Arts Leaders: Hannah Davenport and Tamir Reznik.

Prefects: Emily Mason, Riley Druce, Nicola West, Tayla Alexander, Christoan Wheeler

Technology and Innovation Leaders: Charne Du Plessis and Harry Nalder.

Prefects: Ben Haywood, Meela Koizumi, Bara Kralova, Max Crawford.

Europe Classics Trip enlightens students Over the recent school holidays, a group of seven Long Bay College students and Head of Social Sciences Dean Thompson departed for two weeks in Europe, to study the classical civilisations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.

Long Bay College combined with Waitakere College for the

Sporting Successes • Brianna Orams competed at the world's largest Stand Up Paddleboard competition over the first weekend of the holidays in Dana Point California. The Year 12 student won a first place medal for the Open Women Technical semifinal and was the 4th Pro Junior woman for the distance and technical events.

• Congratulations to Madeleine Houston who won Gold in the Junior International Women's Synchronised Trampoline event at the 2017 Gymnastics NZ Trampoline Nationals. The Year 12 student also won Bronze in the Junior International Women's

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trip, the school’s second of this nature. Sites visited included the Acropolis of Athens, Delphi, Olympia, Mycenae, Pompeii, and many sites in Rome, such as the Colosseum, the Forum and the Pantheon. The trip also included visits to many of the world’s best museums.

Double Mini Trampoline. Lauren Billett placed 2nd in the Synchronised Trampoline 15/16 years and 7th in Individual Trampoline 15/16 years. Congratulations also to Brendan Bekker who came 3rd for Junior International Synchro Trampoline and for the Junior International Double Mini Trampoline, as well as 6th place in Individual Trampoline. Casamae Sinclair also placed 3rd in the Individual Trampoline 15/16 years and for the Double Mini Trampoline 15/16 years.

• Daniel Monckton was a member of the New Zealand Secondary School Orienteering team that won the Southern Cross Trophy against Australia recently. The NZ Senior Boys team also won the gold medal for the team sprint event.

EDUCATION: PINEHURST SCHOOL

New Zealand Economics Competition The New Zealand Economics Competition is a prestigious nationwide competition and Pinehurst Year 12 and 13 Economics students attained excellent results.

In particular, Josh Martel gained a score in the top 10% of his division.

Also, achieving distinction certificates were Rey Ian Acero, Louie HolgateSimpson, Hadley Barton, Mitchell Donnell, and Warren Smith.

DanceSport4Schools Foxtrot, Cha-cha-cha, Jive and Samba were just some of the dances that 30 Pinehurst Primary students competed in against other schools in the DanceSport4schools dance competition.

Pinehurst had many pairs making it to the Semi-finals with Year 6 students, Jack Potier and Amelie Wells winning the Foxtrot, Cha Cha Cha and Samba. Abby Wendelborn and Ryan Fan placed 2nd in the Jive and 3rd in the Foxtrot. Ryan Hughes and his dance partner placed first in the following Under 16 dances - Waltz, Tango, Quickstep, Cha-cha-cha, Jive and Samba. All the dancers gained points for their performance and helped Pinehurst win the Top School Primary Division for the second year running.

Duke of Edinburgh Silver Tramp The Duke of Edinburgh's Hillary Award programme is part of a worldwide network which provides young people with a balanced, non-competitive programme of individual challenges set at different award levels.

The Adventurous Journey Section of the Silver level develops an awareness of the environment and the importance of protecting it whilst on an expedition. Year 11 and Year 12 Pinehurst students undertook a 3-day/2-night tramp in the heart of the Waitakere Ranges, battling with heavy packs and extremely ‘boggy’ ground to complete this section of the award programme. The students covered 50km in the 3 days, tramping up hills, through bush and along black sand beaches.

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Major award winners, Kyle Shears, Blake Nicholson and Rodney Liu, with their proud parents.

2017 Westlake Boys’ Senior Prizegiving On the last day of term 3, Westlake Boys celebrated its 55th Senior Prizegiving – a special day on the school calendar, as we recognised our top achievers and the significant contribution our award winners have made to the school this year.

Academic prizes were presented to the top students in each subject in Years 11, 12 and 13. These were followed by scholarships and our Special Awards for exceptional contribution to various aspects of school life, culminating in the presentation of the four top awards.

Blake Nicholson received both the PTA Award for Head Prefect and the Arthur Schubert Award for Outstanding and Selfless Contribution to Westlake. Blake has been an outstanding Head Boy this year and has fully immersed himself in the life of the school, participating in various activities, especially music. He has been the Student Rep on the Board, captain of the Premier Sailing team and leader of the national-title-winning Choralation Choir. He has a strong sense of social responsibility, positivity and humility, and has earned huge respect from staff and students alike.

The John Patterson Memorial Award for Effort, Involvement and Loyalty was awarded to Kyle Shears, who has embraced the Westlake Way in countless ways. A top scholar, fine debater and loyal member of the Premier Water Polo, Swimming and Golf teams, Kyle has also been a member of the Community Service, UNICEF, Charity and Careers Councils and the Ball Committee.

Kyle has gone beyond the call of duty in his dedicated efforts to serve and to help others.

The final award was the Don Johnson Trophy, for the student who is 1st in Form 7. This year’s winner was Rodney Liu, who achieved an overall average of 89.6% in his End of Year exams, including 100% in Maths! Aside from his astonishing academic achievements, Rodney has been involved in the co-curricular life of the school, taking part in Table Tennis and Dragon Boat Racing and as a member of the Charity Council. He has been an impressive role model to other students.

A full list of the 2017 Westlake Boys Senior Prizegiving awards is available on the school website www.westlake.school.nz.

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SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS Azarish Ali

Pasifika Award for Excellence

Sam Baker

Lex Lewis Memorial Trophy for Debating

Nathan Barnes Douglas Foote Award for Special Endeavour in Engineering Stefanos Bokos

Wells Family Trophy for Senior Acting Excellence

Connor Charlesworth Juke Jamieson Memorial Award Brendan Patterson

Award for Excellence in Acting

Aidan Elliot

Pursuit of Excellence Award for Cultural Activities

Uwais Hussein

Wayne Reynolds Memorial Scholarship Award

Marco Javate

Bedford Award in Languages

Tej Joshi

Haxell Award for Special Endeavour in Form 5

Ethan Martin

Peri Award for Academic Excellence & Leadership in Senior Maori

Liam McAteer

Artie McVeigh Award for Excellence in Technology

Cain Nuttall

School Council 1977 Award for School Service by a 6th Former

Gautam Pathumanithy Rotary Club of Milford Award for Service to

School & Community Tymon Porter

Award for Service to the School Library

Oliver Ray-Chaudhuri Benefitz Scholarship Award for 7th Form

Graphics & Design Kazuhito Saito

WBHS Board of Trustees Teaching Scholarship

Joseph Scopas

Josef Humphrey Memorial Award for a 6th Former

Andrew Wickens

Chairman of the Board of Trustees Award for Special Endeavour

Isaac Winter

WBHS Board of Trustees Teaching Scholarship

Sean Yang

John Gales Award for Most Promising Senior Musician

Winston Yao

Takapuna RSA Award for Work in the School & Community

Jack Zhang Headmaster’s Prize for Personal Academic Excellence

EDUCATION: WESTLAKE BOYS

Westlake music staff at the 2017 Music Dinner.

A Celebration of Westlake Music The annual Westlake Music Dinner was held in mid-October at McHugh’s Restaurant at Cheltenham beach. This is always a very special evening, when both Westlake Boys and Girls High Schools celebrate the endeavours of their music departments and recognise the combined and individual commitment and achievements of their music students. Head of Music at Westlake Boys, Warwick Robinson, remarked that none of the schools’ musical success would be possible without the commitment of every individual – turning up to every rehearsal and putting in the necessary hours of practice.

The leaving Year 13 student leaders thanked the many people involved in making Westlake music such a huge part of their lives the itinerant music tutors, accompanists, vocal coaches, ensemble directors, administrators and music staff. They also acknowledged the support of their parents, who act as their taxi drivers, encourage them to practice, pay for the lessons, camps and tours and enthusiastically attend their performances.

Westlake Boys presented five special music awards: Excellence in Composition - Blake Nicholson Excellence in Vocal Performance – Aidan Elliot Excellence in Instrumental Performance – Henry Close and Sean Yang Most Improved year 13 Musician – Azarish Ali Greatest Overall Contribution to the Music Department – Gautam Pathumanithy

Sean Yang and Henry Close shared the award for Excellence in Instrumental Performance, presented by Head of Music, Warwick Robinson.

Henry Close, who plays both French horn and violin, was recognised not only for his Excellence in Performance but for his membership of numerous ensembles, including Camerata, Voicemale and Westlake Symphony Orchestra for his full five years at Westlake. This is an achievement only ever previously matched by his older brother, Arthur!

Enviro Council Survey Since 2014 Westlake Boys has had an active Enviro Council, a group of students who consider environmental issues and promote a more sustainable and healthy school environment. In a recent waste audit, they found that in one day the school produced 157 kg of rubbish and, of the 31 tonnes we sent to landfill over a year, only 14% should actually have been there.

Council member Year 12 student, Jay Ko, says ‘We need to teach students the environmental consequences of throwing

things away. Changing people’s mindset will take time, but we will start by introducing new, clearly labelled recycling bins around the school grounds. We hope this will cut down the amount of waste going to landfill unnecessarily and reduce the cost of the school’s waste collection.’

Other new initiatives the Enviro Council is considering include electricity- and watersaving measures, methods of recycling soft plastics and how to use the large amount of compostable waste we produce to the school’s benefit.

Enviro Council waste survey.

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Published by the Takapuna Borough Council for distribution at the International Exhibition held at Dunedin, New Zealand, 1925-1926, this photograph is courtesy of Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, NZ Map 8343 (part)

Travelling by car from Devonport to Deep Creek in 1926 The 20 April 1926 issue of the Automobile Association’s ‘New Zealand Motor Life’ features an article by Tom Walsh, describing a journey from Devonport northwards. My thanks to the Association for permission to publish.

“Until recent years the linked bays that stretch northwards from the Waitemata were a terra incognito to the motorists, the harbour being an impassable barrier… The enterprising Devonport Steam Ferry Company [then] put a ‘steam bridge’ across the Waitemata with the vehicular ferry [in 1910]. The first season’s revenue did not pay for the smoke created in the operation of the ferry steamer; the next summer the service was dropped; subsequently the trans-harbour vehicular service was resumed under more favourable circumstances and has since built up, until today the traffic boats maintain a continual connection. A policy of road betterment has accompanied the improvement of the water services and now the 25 miles coastline from Devonport is readily accessible. ...From Devonport, the concrete ribbon runs by North Head and Cheltenham past Narrow Neck (Vauxhall) to the East Coast Road, traversing Belmont, Takapuna and Milford. … Cheltenham is a magnificent stretch of unequalled swimming beach, a sharp edge of cliff separating it from Narrow Neck… [which had been] the resort of the unconventional gum digger, who eked out a scanty existence by hunting for the buried resin. Passing over Narrow Neck the concrete road climbs a wide ridge that tee-squares it; from the most elevated point, Belmont, may be viewed a seascape equal to any in the world. …Beyond Takapuna, down Milford Road, is Milford Beach… [with its] casual picnickers and... seaside bungalows… The northward end of Milford is bounded by the Wairau Creek… the main road no longer concrete rises abruptly over Sherrif’s Hill to follow a ridge that runs parallel to the coast… This is the old East Coast Road, officially

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known as the Takapuna-Redvale-Silverdale-Waiwera Road, between this main road and the sea is a new highway running along the sea side [Beach Road] and giving access to Castor Bay, Campbell’s Bay, Murray’s Bay [including Little Murray’s Bay or Mairangi Bay] and Deep Creek.

Once on the high ground above Milford the motorist may turn sharply to the right towards Castor Bay which is cut off from Milford Beach by a bold headland… its oily appearing beach [named for the castor oil trees grown there] … Campbell’s with its sand dunes masking a wide white sand; off the beaten track a tea kiosk and bungalows snuggled under the lofty pohutukawa that shade the headland. Over the ridge is Rothesay Bay … a secluded beach where the waves make merry; then comes Murray’s, with its wharf and bathing strand; the wrinkled valley dotted with ‘baches’; most of them built in fancy free style unrestrained by by-laws … shops, Post Office, newspapers, ice creams, … with the freedom of a picnic ground.

A fine road climbs up the hill side to drop down the other face to Browns Bay, with its streets, long white scimitar shaped beach and wharf…. [In 1918,] Browns was composed of two farms; now 400 baches and seaside shacks fill the flats and ornament the walls of the valley; the headlands are still clothed in native verdure and terraced rocks entice the wanderer to explore ‘beyond the point’.

This is a seaside resort in the full sense of the term; the beach is long and wide, … the hard sand is ideal for motoring or games; the flower embowered homes and tennis courts lend an air of homely comfort. The curious may travel … to the concrete ‘duckboard’ trail that leads to the north headland and from there gaze … on the bay and shattered point of Deep Creek, with its elaborate houses and pine groves scenting the warm air.”

By David Verran

THE HEALTHY CHANNEL: WITH JOHN APPLETON

I have been writing articles on topics related to our health for a number of years and in Channel I keep you up to date on ways in which we might improve our health by becoming more aware of the many options that are available to us.

Nutritional Options Almost Always Overlooked

John Appleton

As I see it - by John Appleton A recent front page headline in The NZ Herald caught my eye, “Probiotics help dodge baby blues”.

The article states that probiotics could help women avoid post-natal depression and that researchers involved with the Kiwi study were surprised at how much difference the Lactobacillus rhamnosus probiotic made. What surprises me is how long it has taken to ‘discover’ this.

Hippocrates said more than two thousand years ago ‘’all disease begins in the gut’’ and the ‘gut’ brain connection has been known for a long time. I have previously written about this with the gut being referred to as our second brain.

A lot of time and money has gone into the recent nationwide campaign highlighting the challenges of mental illness and while talking about it is clearly very important, simple nutritional interventions that could treat the cause should be taken very seriously. Let’s hope the Ministry of Health doesn’t ignore the findings of this well conducted probiotic study. Sadly at present all the talk seems to be about drugs and significantly more costly interventions.

As to why probiotics could make such a significant impact one only has to look at the way we are addicted to a diet of refined carbohydrates and ‘dead’ food. This has resulted in serious nutritional depletion and thus compromised gut health.

Add to this the overuse of antibiotics and chlorinated water which we drink and shower in every day, and it not hard to understand why our gut flora is so out of balance.

It’s not just mental health either. If a simple probiotic could have such a profound positive effect on post-natal depression, what about the many other nutritional interventions which are also readily available? We have some great researchers in this country who would almost certainly welcome opportunities to test dozens of common nutrients to assess their impact on illnesses that are currently costing our health system billions of dollars.

The first step, as I see it, is to somehow overcome the bias which is associated with using nutritional interventions.

Vitamin C is as important for the integrity of our blood vessels, the cartilage around our joints and for protecting us from the impact of toxins as it is for our immune system. Studies looking into the role of vitamin C in the prevention and treatment of heart disease would almost certainly show similar results to those of the probiotics study. For blood pressure and heart rhythm problems, magnesium, coenzyme Q10 and omega 3 are waiting to be ‘rediscovered’.

Heart failure patients who suffer from an energy depleted heart could be assessed when taking a simple cocktail of nutrients including Coenzyme Q10, D-Ribose, L-Carnitine and Magnesium.

Diabetics could be studied when embracing a diet based on raw food while taking a multi-vitamin containing key nutrients such as chromium, alpha lipoic acid and gymnema sylvestre.

There are a number of potentially powerful nutritional interventions for inflammatory diseases such as arthritis.

Nutrients such as curcumin (from turmeric) boswellia (frankincense) ginger and omega 3 have been putting their hands up for years.

For the eyes we could be looking into lutein, zeaxanthin and bilberry extract.

The list is almost endless, so there is a lot of work to do.

The first step, as I see it, is to somehow overcome the bias which is associated with using nutritional interventions. How will we ever find out what works and what doesn’t unless we are willing to open our eyes. I have previously written about Dr Paul Marik (U.S. critical care specialist) who discovered that he could save lives of sepsis patients by using a protocol which included intravenous vitamin C. Every day in the U.S. 860 people die of sepsis and it seems to be accepted as the norm.

In August I attended a conference at the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University. Dr Marik was a keynote speaker. To date he has saved the lives of over 500 people who would have otherwise died. It’s a very clear example of why simple nutritional interventions should not be overlooked.

“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” - Marcel Proust John Appleton, 09 489 9362 john@johnappleton.co.nz www.johnappleton.co.nz

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CARING FOR YOUR CAR: WITH CAR-FE

Rob Bonnici is the Car Guy. Rob lives, eats and breathes car cleaning products and services.

Having a background in chemicals, car cleaning products and now owning a seven day a week car cleaning and grooming centre, he is without a doubt the most passionate and the most knowledgeable car guy in New Zealand. Rob, along with his wife Siobhan, owns Car-fé facing the motorway in Barry’s Point Road, Takapuna. Rob is more than happy to help you out with any car cleaning issues. Email: Carfe.takapuna@xtra.co.nz or Phone 09 488 7000.

Summer Polish - Protect Your Car The most common question I get asked is “What is the difference between car wax and car polish?” The simple answer is, have you ever held a flame to wax?

Here is some basic information that should help you decide between a wax or a polish application for your car:

Basic facts about wax:

1: P oor resistance to heat: If your car is parked outside during work hours, your wax will deteriorate within one to two weeks during summer and a quality product may last a month.

2: P oor resistance to acid: Acid is found in our rainfall, bore water and also in bird droppings; it affects us daily when our cars are not under cover. Should your car ever get egged, the egg white also eats through wax.

3: Poor resistance to UV: During summer, waxes break down quickly and our car's coating, like our skin, does get sunburnt.

Basic facts about car polishes:

1: All quality polishes contain a wax, sometimes canuba (natural wax) and sometimes synthetic.

2: All quality polishes also contain resins to help the wax adhere to your car's surface.

They also contain various chemicals to aid with the shine. Sometimes silicones are added to enhance the shine. Let’s talk about resins – you could compare these to finger nail polish. If your finger nail polish had no resins, it would act a lot

like a wax: look great but at the first point of contact it would rub off.

3: Quality polishes have a higher resistance to acids, UV and hot and cold water.

How long will a polish last? I get asked this every day at the car wash. The answer... Again, it depends on a number of circumstances. Lets generalise and say approximately four to six months.

If you garage your car and wash it on a regular basis and you don’t leave it parked outside during its daytime life or leave it parked within 100 metres of the spray zone of a beach, you can expect to get four to six months out of a polish application. Any of these factors will have a negative effect on the longevity of your polish job.

As a basic rule, wax your car if you are selling it or if it’s being used in a wedding on the weekend. Polish your car if you are looking to provide extra protection to your

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car's painted surface.

I recommend always polishing as we come out of spring into summer and at the end of summer entering into autumn.

This provides your baby with the ultimate protection.

If you are unable to polish your car yourself, contact me to advise the best package for your car.

Remember, there are a lot of products on the market. The first thing to identify is: Am I dealing with a car younger than five years?

Has it been well maintained? Or am I dealing with an oxidised car or a car older than five years with little maintenance?

This will guide the supplier into giving you the right product.

Contact Rob Bonnici at Carfe Takapuna or via email: Carfe.takapuna@xtra.co.nz or Phone 488-7000.

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EDUCATION: DAVE SCOTT, KRISTIN SCHOOL

WILSON HOME TRUST: NEWS

Kristin School's Middle School Principal, Dave Scott.

Addressing mental health

Dave Scott

The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius is attributed with this quote: “Start each day by telling yourself, today I shall be meeting with meddling, ingratitude, arrogance, disloyalty, jealousy and selfishness”.

It’s a shocking quote when you think about it. What is the good of being a Roman Emperor if you must put up with all that? The whole attraction, surely, of working your way to the very top was that if someone gave you as much as a funny look you could have them, and their entire family, sent to the lions at the Colosseum while you sat back and ate as much lark’s tongue in aspic as you wanted.

The recent major studies into wellbeing that jumble together terms like depression, anxiety and mental health, make it very hard to formulate a clear picture. There is a world of difference between barricading yourself into your bedroom and listening to gloomy tunes because your parents have not bought you the latest iPhone, and believing that someone from Pluto is telepathically communicating with you on the design of a time warp machine.

A recent study from University College London and the UK National Children’s Bureau claims that 24% of teenage girls reported depression, in contrast to only 9% of boys. That does not seem quite right to me: my time spent in boys' education, and particularly boarding, showed me that boys can sulk with the best of them.

I must say, I find these figures low and ask why are not more teenagers depressed? Have any of us adults, anywhere, ever got through school or first love without some annoyance or damage?

Teenagers are, after all, starting the tricky business of getting to grips with adult life, so it is no surprise that they get disheartened occasionally. There are, despite expectations to the contrary, many things to get disheartened by. We all have to learn, just like Marcus Aurelius, that, now and again, you must put up with a lot of daily exasperation.

In New Zealand, we are constantly told that we are reaching a crisis point; the general election focused in part on mental health and the failings in addressing the issues surrounding this. I must say that I am relatively sceptical about a crisis point. If it is true, then why?

Why is depression spreading? Is it perhaps something to do with an entitlement society? Where has this come from? I think depression and teen angst get an unfairly bad rap at times. I can clearly remember school holidays in my youth at times being crushingly boring. Sometimes the most exciting thing to do was to go to HMV music store and leaf through records (really showing my age here!) that one could not afford but dreamt about being able to buy. In my early teenage years, the punk rock explosion was in its heyday and, for me, it was not so much about the clothes or the music but rather ‘the attitude’. I remember seeing a friend’s music magazine at my boarding school that showed the diagrams for three guitar chords with the words: ‘Now form a band’.

It was about doing it for yourself, getting off your ‘derriere’ and not expecting help. It’s a lesson every generation must learn. Forget clickbait and likes, get off the mobile device, look up and take some real action, do something to make a difference. Agatha Christie famously cited boredom as a powerful impetus for creativity and inspiration. There is little point therefore in asking what your country can do for you because, even in the best of circumstances, the answer is very little. Sulking in your bedroom doesn’t get you the results you want. I suspect that very few depressed teenagers will be reading this, but just in case allow me to offer the wise counsel of the famous composer Franz Liszt. Liszt’s argument was that if you did not have good health, you should go out and get some.

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CAM CALKOEN: BENDING PERCEPTIONS, INSPIRING CHANGE

YES DISABILITY SUPPORT CENTRE: NEWS Cam Calkoen is an inspirational speaker who is bending perceptions to inspire change and an attitude of awesomeness through simple, lasting human truths. Passionate about the Shore, this column reflects the awesomeness that surrounds us and the potential we all have to achieve a personal best.

From vulnerable to winning As I’m standing backstage at the Brisbane Convention Centre I hear the MC calling everyone's attention as he prepares to introduce me as the final speaker for the day. The MC who I’ve never met has my introduction in his notes, an introduction that creates my comfort zone and allows me to come out onto stage from a position of confidence, something one perceives to ‘need’ in order to speak in front of an audience of 700 people. As the crowd quiets, the MC decides not to read my introduction; he wants to keep things brief, and simply says “our speaker Cam, is from New Zealand”. As the spotlight followed me onto stage the heckling from the crowd of Australians began.

Sure, it was light hearted in the expected ‘Aussie vs Kiwi’ way but this was new to me and if I wasn't already a bit nervous it’s fair to say my vulnerability shot through the roof.

Vulnerability is a discomfort, an awkwardness and something we wish to avoid but it can also motivate the greatest win.

The next few minutes on stage were pretty uncomfortable as the knees shook and my voice trembled hoping that soon flow and momentum would kick-in, that I could get them comfortable with why I was there.

While I was feeling uncomfortable and weak it was actually building a deeper demonstration resilience, realness and ultimately it was building rapport; it was as if we had reached the calm eye of the tornado and we were in there TOGETHER. Vulnerability creates two options: ‘fight or flight’ or as I prefer to reference, ‘win or lose’. Winning is anything that exceeds expectation, losing is anything less than expectation and average is never a consideration.

I hate losing. I hate losing so much that part of my preparation before I step onto any stage is knowing what the things are that would allow vulnerability to beat me. As a speaker, in fact as anyone who tries something new and therefore open to critique, vulnerability is a certainty. To win I need to know my environment, audience and content, and remember that the most important thing of all is to enjoy the experience, for communication is so much more than what we say. It’s how we feel and in turn make others feel.

Because I knew what I needed to know, I could fight, I could win, I could build on my confidence as the talk progressed, which enabled the audience to experience an unscripted transformation from “what the… it’s a Kiwi, lets heckle this guy,” to... the strongest level of connection and a standing ovation to end.

Stepping outside our comfort zone can make us feel vulnerable and ignites a fear within but often vulnerability is the precursor to achieving something awesome.

So as we go into meetings, exams and each new situation, let’s be sure we know everything we should know (study and prepare), that we aim to create as much joy as we can, and trust that the unknown, the thing that potentially makes us feel vulnerable, could set us up for the the biggest win.

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Buses on the North Shore when you are a wheelchair user Learning to use buses can be rather daunting and confusing.

When you add having a disability to the mix it can make things all the more overwhelming. Rachel, a staff member at YES, who uses a wheelchair for mobility wanted to see what the buses were like as a means of getting around our community when you have a physical disability. To do this Rachel tried to catch buses to and from various points.

Her experience of getting buses was very mixed depending on what the end goal was. Trying to get to very specific places such as a gym or a friend’s house was often a struggle. This was because a lot of the buses were either not wheelchair accessible; had the ability to kneel but her wheelchair still couldn’t get access; or the driver was unaware about disabilities and therefore couldn’t or wouldn’t support access to the bus even if it was supposed to be accessible.

A lot of information out there says a vast majority of buses are accessible, however they were difficult to find…

A lot of information out there says a vast majority of buses are accessible. However they were difficult to find and many phone calls were made in order to figure out how Rachel could get around using the buses in her area. Eventually she found that using double-decker buses was more easy and efficient.

This also came with a downside, however, as there can often be hours between each double-decker bus. Another difficulty was when travelling to destinations that required transferring on to other buses as it was never clear if the next bus to catch would be accessible.

On a positive note, the bus stations that have express buses into the city were very wheelchair accessible. There’s just a matter of finding a way to get to these bus stations in the first place that can be a little tricky when catching public transport.

Our dream of making the North Shore one of the most accessible cities in the world continues to be our goal, what next? How about an accessible beach that enables wheelchair users and people with mobility difficulties to access not just the beach but to be able to get into the sea.

Yes Disability Resource Centre. Phone 09 414 5360, info@yesdisability.org.nz or by visiting our website www.yesdisability.org.nz

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LIFE LESSONS: WITH LIFE EDUCATION TRUST

The teenage brain - 'all acceleration and no brake'

Christine Meyer-Jones

At Life Education, one of the modules we teach is about body parts and their functions.

The brain is included, as you would expect.

New Zealand founder of the Life Education Programme Trevor Grice co-authored a book with journalist and cartoonist Tom Scott, “The Great Brain Robbery”, first published in 1996

and again in 2005.

The book contains a wealth of information not just about the brain but information on drugs and the effect on the brain. It’s a good educational resource for the family library as there is a great chapter for teenagers on how to deal with peer pressure and drug taking.

The chapter I have chosen to talk about for this article is “How the Brain Works” and in particular the teenage brain. Trevor states, “The last part of the brain to be developed to its adult dimensions is the prefrontal cortex, home of the so-called executive functions — planning, setting priorities, organising thoughts, suppressing impulses, and weighing the consequences of one’s actions.

In short the part of the brain that makes teenagers become responsible is the last to mature.

“By this time hormones have already been raging out of control for a couple of years. At puberty the ovaries and testes begin to pour oestrogen and testosterone into the blood stream. The sex hormones are especially active in the brain’s emotional centre — the limbic system — creating an appetite for thrills, strong sensations and excitement. Some argue that this thrill seeking evolved to cut parental bonds and encouraged them to leave their family nest and explore the wider world to find their own path and partner. In the modern world where fast cars, illicit drugs, gangs and dangerous liaisons beckon, it also puts the teenager at risk!

“Regions of the brain that shy away from dangerous impulsive behaviour are still under construction, while regions of the brain responsible for things like sensation-seeking and risk-taking have their foot to the floor. In short for quite some time the teenage brain is all accelerator and no brake.”

If you currently have teenagers or are about to enter that phase, I hope this small piece from Trevor and Tom’s book is helpful. At Life Education we are helping support you in keeping your teenagers safe with our substance module. We focus on the effects of alcohol and other drugs, both legal and illegal.

They learn how to identify the difference between helpful and harmful drugs, how drugs can change the way the mind and body works and the impact drugs can have on people’s lives. They also explore the power of advertising, peer pressure and social influences.

We want to empower the children who attend the programme to make informed decisions as they go through their teenage years.

Onwards and upwards.

Christine Meyer-Jones, Chair Life Education Trust North Shore Visit: www.lifeeducationnorthshore.nz

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WELL FOUNDATION: UPDATE

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New Mobile Health Clinic for North Shore Hospital Andrew Young.

Craig Donaldson.

When six-year-old Dayna Sepiti had her throat swabbed as part of a routine sore throat and health check by a nurse at her primary school, her mum Fuatino Sepiti was shocked by the streptococcal infection result as Dayna hadn’t been unwell.

By the time the lab results came back a few days later confirming Positive Group A Streptococcus infection (that can lead to rheumatic fever if left untreated), Dayna had developed a cough which had spread to her four-year-old brother, Daniel.

“I’ve always thought that only kids that live in damp, mouldy and overcrowded homes are at risk for rheumatic fever. We live in a warm, dry home so I had lots of questions. The first thing I asked was how it could happen to us?”

While children living in crowded housing conditions and areas of socio-economic deprivation have the highest rates of rheumatic fever; it is an autoimmune disease that starts with ‘strep throat’ – a throat infection caused by Group A Streptococcus bacteria. If strep throat is not treated with antibiotics it can cause rheumatic fever in children and the risk of getting rheumatic fever gets higher when someone has these repeated untreated throat infections.

In Dayna’s case, her strep throat infection was possibly picked up at primary school through contact with other infected children.

Unfortunately Dayna and Daniel suffered from recurring bouts of the illness which also spread to Fuatino, who was concerned for the health of her youngest son, Mason, who was only oneyear-old at the time.

Treatment for the reoccurring Group A Strep throat bacteria included receiving a Bicillin (penicillin antibiotic) injection which Dayna and Daniel had to have twice.

After spending months consulting with doctors, nurses and the children’s school, Fuatino has now managed to keep the Group A Strep throats away from her family through educating her children about hygiene and the risks of sharing food and drink bottles in particular. She also regularly gives her children probiotics which she credits for helping with their immunity, especially over the colder winter months.

Diagnosing and treating Group A Strep throats early will mean that more vulnerable children like Dayna and Daniel can avoid the dangerous consequences caused by rheumatic fever.

Thanks to the generosity of our community, this new Mobile Health Clinic is now out and about on the North Shore and West Auckland, swabbing throats to prevent rheumatic fever.

This new clinic will ensure that more vulnerable children like Dayna and Daniel will receive the diagnosis and treatment they need before it’s too late.

The Well Foundation relies on donations from people like you so we can advance healthcare in our local community.

Last year, we successfully fundraised for our first new Mobile Health Clinic which has been in the community performing free ear check-ups and treatments and has already seen hundreds of patients.

Fundraising is nearly complete for a third Mobile Health Clinic, which will provide dental services to the community.

Until next time, go well.

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PROPERTY LAW: LINLEY HAWKES, DAVENPORTS

TALKING TRUSTS: TAMMY MCLEOD, DAVENPORTS

Selling the Backyard: Subdivision

Tammy McLeod (BA LLB) is a partner at Davenports Harbour Lawyers. Tammy leads the Davenports Harbour Trust Team and enjoys providing clients with advice and assistance on a broad range of issues involving the establishment and structuring of asset plans, interpretation of trust deeds, duties of trustees and the management and administration of trust funds. A key part of Tammy’s practice is reviewing existing Tammy asset holding structures to ensure they achieve the needs McLeod and requirements they were established to meet. She is also experienced in Property (Relationships) Act issues and believes that the provisions of the Act are an important consideration in personal asset planning. Tammy is a past president of the Auckland Women’s Lawyers’ Association and is a current coconvenor of the NZICA Trust Special Interest Group.

Tony and Charlotte had held onto a large piece of land for over 40 years as an investment for their retirement. Their children had all left home so they decided the time was now right for them to subdivide and sell off part of the land behind their house which would give them some spare cash to be able to travel overseas.

Tony and Charlotte engaged a surveyor to prepare a survey plan and assist them with applying for resource consent for their subdivision from the local Council. Not long afterwards they were approached by their neighbour, James, who was keen to buy the spare section from them so he could build a new house.

James presented them with an offer on what looked like a fairly standard agreement for sale and purchase with a purchase price they were happy with. The contract was only conditional on a new title issuing for the section and settlement was in one month’s time. Tony and Charlotte were excited with James’ offer because they would soon have money available to book their dream holiday and they happily signed the agreement to accept James’ offer.

After the agreement was signed it was sent to Tony and Charlotte’s solicitor. Tony and Charlotte had not discussed their plans to subdivide the property or its sale with their solicitor earlier and they were unaware of all the paperwork that still needed to be prepared for the subdivision. Because of the short period until settlement, the solicitor arranged an urgent meeting with Tony and Charlotte to discuss their resource consent and the legal documents to be prepared and lodged with Land Information New Zealand before a new title could issue for their land.

Unfortunately it was not possible for everything to be completed for settlement to occur in one month and James became frustrated with the delays with the new title issuing and cancelled the agreement. James had found another section to buy in the meantime and Tony and Charlotte have sadly had to put their holiday plans on hold while they complete the subdivision and find a new buyer.

Subdivisions can be complex and it is important to seek legal advice and to discuss the timing of carrying out a subdivision with a solicitor. A solicitor will need to review the resource consent and survey plan and consult with the surveyor over the terms of the resource consent. If you want to sell your land before the subdivision is completed, a solicitor can help you to prepare an agreement with appropriate conditions.

Jenny and Tim, together with their brother, Bill, were beneficiaries of the trust their parents had set up twenty years ago. Their parents had subsequently died and upon their father’s death, Bill, the eldest child was appointed as a trustee to act alongside the family accountant. The trust owned a commercial property, a couple of residential properties and had some cash in the bank.

For the first few years after their father died, things were okay – Jenny and Tim each received some money from the trust each year which they assumed was income from the various properties. Jenny and Tim didn’t expect that the income to the trust was that much. The interest earned on bank deposits these days was low and they had no idea how much income the properties generated. They were grateful for the wee bonus the trust paid each of them at Christmas each year.

Until one day Jenny was driving past one of the trust’s properties in Forrest Hill and she noticed Bill’s son, Mark, getting into his car. Jenny hadn’t seen Mark for a while and stopped to say hello, wondering what he was doing at the trust’s property. Mark was pleased to see his aunty and told her that he was now living in the trust property with his girlfriend. He said it was great because the rent was really cheap, only $200 per week. Alarm bells went off in Jenny’s head. While she had no idea how much market rent was in the area, she knew that $200 was incredibly cheap for a house in that area. She went home and rang Tim who suggested that they ring the accountant who was the other trustee for the trust.

The accountant was very cagey when Jenny rang him. He told her that he had assumed that Bill was giving Jenny and Tim information about the trust. He said she should really talk to Bill. Instead of ringing Bill, Jenny rang her lawyer. Her lawyer told her that she and Tim were entitled to see the financials to the trust and that she would request them from the accountant.

Two weeks later Jenny and Tim met with Jenny’s lawyer to look at the accounts for the trust. They couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw the amount of income the trust was receiving from the commercial property it owned and that amount of money the trust had in the bank was far more than they imagined. They also saw that the amounts which had been paid to Bill and his children over the years far exceeded anything Jenny and Tim had ever received. What could Jenny and Tim do? By favouring himself and his family, Bill was clearly in breach of his trustee duties. Jenny’s lawyer advised Jenny and Tim that if talking to Bill about his failings as a trustee failed, they should make an application to the court to remove Bill and the accountant as trustees and appoint neutral trustees.

Linley Hawkes, Phone 09 915 4384 linley@dhlawyers.co.nz

Tammy McLeod, Phone 09 915 4386 tammy@dhlawyers.co.nz

Linley is an Associate in the Property Team at Davenports Harbour. Linley and the Property Team manage a wide range of property matters from simple residential sales and purchases through to complex apartment developments, banking security and restructuring.

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LEGALLY SPEAKING: SCHNAUER AND CO

Trust Law – major changes ahead

Legally Speaking with Anne Beeson, Schnauer & Co.

Are you a trustee of a Family Trust?

Since the abolition of gift duty in October 2011, some trustees of a trust have not continued to have an annual meeting of trustees.

This is not good practice. Even if there is no change in the Trust’s assets or liabilities or even any actions taken by the trustees, it is still prudent for the trustees to meet at least once a year to consider the Trust’s affairs. Any decisions made at this meeting should be recorded in written Resolutions of Trustees.

Many trustees are not aware that there are major proposed changes to Trust law. The Trustee Act 1956 is over 60 years old. For this reason, Trust legislation has been comprehensively overhauled in the new Trusts Bill that is currently before Parliament.

There are many proposed changes to current Trust Law and practice contained in the Trusts Bill.

The Trustee Act 1956 is over 60 years old. For this reason, Trust legislation has been comprehensively overhauled in the new Trusts Bill that is currently before Parliament.

Anne Beeson

One major difference is the new requirement for trustees to keep all beneficiaries of the Trust informed about the Trust’s affairs. There is a presumption that Trustees will provide information to beneficiaries of the Trust.

Trustees will be required to provide information to every beneficiary of the trust. This includes: • Confirmation that the person is a beneficiary of the trust; • The names of the trustees and their contact details; • That the beneficiary has the right to ask for and receive certain information about the trust; • Information about any changes to the trustees of the trust • The information that trustees will have to provide, if requested by a beneficiary, includes: • The terms of the trust (i.e. a copy of the Trust Deed); • Details of the administration of the trust; • Details of the trust assets What exactly this will mean in practical terms is not yet certain. Trustees should understand that now is not the time to be complacent. There will be greater transparency regarding Family Trust administration in the future. This will almost certainly result in greater accountability by Trustees for their decisions to the beneficiaries of that Trust.

If you are a Trustee of a Family Trust, now is the time to ensure that the Trust is correctly managed.

We suggest that you contact your solicitor to ensure that the Trust records and administration will withstand scrutiny from beneficiaries.

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ACCOUNTANCY: WITH NEERAJ PATEL BELLINGHAM WALLACE

Neeraj Patel of Bellingham Wallace explains accountancy and financial professionals…

What’s the difference between the CFO and controller?

Do you know the difference between the CFO and controller? Which do you need for your business? This is what each accountancy and financial professional offers your company: Internal Bookkeeper A bookkeeper follows existing processes to record data about your business, such as revenue and expenditure transactions, as well as looking after documentation relating to the company’s compliance obligations. They are often described as the “boots-on-the-ground” financial professional, as they tend to be the person who is at the coalface of data entry and collection. Essentially, they administrate your books and help you close them.

Who needs one? If you are just starting a business or only have a small number of employees, a bookkeeper can be all you need.

Internal Company Accountant An accountant can do everything that a bookkeeper can do, but can also translate that data into information. The difference being that data is simple recorded facts, whereas information is a little more useful and can be developed into business insights. Accountants create reports based on this information, and these reports in turn can provide the framework for forecasts and audits. What the bookkeeper records, an accountant processes.

Who needs one? As your business grows and becomes more complex, you may need to hire an accountant in order to ensure tax compliance and business efficiency.

Financial Controller A financial controller oversees all the accounting practices of your company and also implements some policies as well.

They operate on a more strategic level than other financial professionals, and can provide analysis and strategic advice as well. The biggest difference between a controller and a CFO is the scope of their role: a controller is in charge of the accounting department; a CFO is in charge of an entire company’s financials and its operations in regards to finances.

Who needs one? Companies of a certain size that are going through moderate to fast growth and are already wellestablished would do well to create a financial controller role.

Chief Financial Officer A chief financial officer performs the highest strategic financial role in a company. They don’t just provide advice and analysis though: they implement practices and processes as well. They work with external stakeholders, such as your bank, as well as your board of directors and auditors. They

Neeraj Patel

A financial controller oversees all the accounting practices of your company and also implements some policies as well.

They operate on a more strategic level than other financial professionals… also provide assistance in one-off discussions, such as mergers or acquisitions. Essentially, they provide strategic analysis as well as advisory support on all financial matters in your business. CFOs are true advisors and should be working closely with the board on all economic decision making.

Who needs one? If your business is reaching multimillion dollar levels of revenue and continuing to grow fast, or has hit a point of high complexity, you should look at hiring a CFO. Learn more about making the most of your CFO with our free ebook on www.bellinghamwallace.co.nz/your-guideto-the-modern-cfo. www.bellinghamwallace.co.nz

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COMMERCIAL PROPERTY: BAYLEYS NORTH SHORE COMMERCIAL

Catalina Bay…an artist’s impression of what Hobsonville Point’s new commercial and community hub will look like.

Big Plans for Hobsonville Point’s Commercial Hub What is being described as the water gateway to northwest Auckland is beginning to take shape at Hobsonville Point with a range of commercial projects underway around the wharf.

Development company Willis Bond & Co has commenced restoration work on a number of historic waterfront buildings on approximately 1.8 hectares of land at Catalina Bay at Hosbonville Point.

The buildings once housed and serviced Catalina and Sunderland flying boats and became part of an important air force base in WWII. They have sat mostly idle for many years but are now being rejuvenated into a mix of character office, food and beverage, and retail premises in the first stage of a mixed use development. Subsequent stages will include terraced housing and apartment complexes and further pavilion style commercial offerings.

The development will surround the new wharf, which provides a commuter ferry service to and from Auckland’s CBD, and is scheduled for completion by the end of 2021.

Willis Bond & Co secured the development rights over the land in a competitive sales process managed by Bayleys Real Estate on behalf of the Hobsonville Land Company Ltd (HLC). HLC was established by the government to oversee the development of the former Defence Department land as part of its aim to increase the supply of quality, medium density housing in Auckland.

HLC chief executive Chris Aiken says the Catalina Bay development will be a vibrant commercial and social hub for the rapidly expanding Hobsonville Point township which will eventually house over 11,000 people.

“We wanted it to provide an exceptional, world-class waterfront precinct for residents and visitors in what will be the main harbour gateway to the northwest,” Aiken says. “It was also important that any development celebrated the bay’s aviation and military history and retained the seaplane hangar and other key heritage buildings.

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concept ideas it came up with for the site and its extensive restoration experience in Wellington’s CBD and industry-leading waterfront development track record. At Catalina Bay, they have partnered with Cheshire Architects, which has played a leading role in the redevelopment of the historic Britomart precinct.”

Willis Bond & Co project director Wayne Silver says work on the refurbishment of six former airforce buildings of various sizes is well under way and should be completed by the end of the year. The largest of these will be the Catalina Workshops building developed in the early 1940s as a hangar and servicing facility for training Catalina pilots to assist British efforts against the Japanese.

The walls of the concrete building are being opened up with extensive glazing which will flood the premises with natural light. A mezzanine level is being added and the complex will provide highstud, character office space.

One half of the building will be occupied by HLC which will relocate its head office into the premises. The other half, comprising approximately 600 sqm of ground floor space and 400 sqm of mezzanine, is available for lease.

Bayleys North Shore Commercial office leasing specialist Dean Gilbert-Smith, who is handling the leasing of the Catalina Point office space for Bayleys with Auckland colleagues Brendan Graves and Mark Preston, says it’s the type of space that will appeal to tenants looking for West Auckland premises with a 'wow factor'. “There’s not a lot of character space available in the north west and this would suit entrepreneurial businesses looking for premises that are different and special.”

Other historic buildings surrounding the Catalina Workshops will house a waterfront café, a restaurant as well as a bigger base for the well-established Hobsonville Point Farmers Market, recently rebranded as Catalina Bay Farmers Market. “The Farmers Market

Office premises with a difference… Catalina Workshops building (artist’s impression).

Character office space… top level of GRP building (artist’s impression).

has been a very popular weekend attraction for some time now and its operation will be expanded to include week days for some traders keen to establish an increased presence,” says Silver. “This will mainly be sellers who provide fresh convenience products for commuters and residents such as fruit and veges, meat and roasted coffee. The traditional weekend-only stall holders will still be an integral part of the market and space will be created for them inside and outside the buildings. The new look market opened last weekend as the first completed tenancy at Catalina Bay.” On the eastern side of the Farmers Market will be the GRP building where technicians once worked with glass reinforced plastics. Dean Gilbert-Smith says this will provide approximately 400 sqm of character office space over two levels.

“This is a very striking, stand-alone character building with a high pitched roof. It would suit a service related business looking to brand itself in West Auckland, and wanting a high profile building, such as real estate company or an architectural, legal or accounting practice.”

The centrepiece of the Catalina Bay redevelopment will be the Sunderland Hangar built in 1939 by Teal for its new Trans-Tasman sea planes. With the onset of World War II, its operations were relocated to Mechanics Bay and the building became home to the Short Sunderland aircraft.

The massive British flying boats were critical to New Zealand’s war effort, patrolling the Pacific and rescuing downed allied airmen.

The RNZAF was the last organisation in the world to keep the Short Sunderland in service, retiring the aircraft in 1967.

The construction of the hangar used a state-of-the-art, lightweight steel roof truss system to leave the interior free of supporting posts so it could accommodate large planes. This structure has been retained although stripped back to its membrane to enable asbestos cladding to be removed. The large hangar is being reclad in keeping with its original external look and internally will contain a new mezzanine office floor and combined

manufacturing and retail space at ground level.

Australian craft brewer Little Creatures will launch its expansion into New Zealand at Catalina Bay establishing a micro brewery and dining hall on the ground floor. Lion New Zealand, which owns Little Creatures, is to lease 1500 sqm space which will accommodate this as well as a café and premium fish and chip shop. ‘’A full-height void will be left at the front of the building so that visitors can see the roof trusses, a spectacular 13m above, and the 8m high mezzanine office level under these will look down through glass walls over all the activity below,” says Wayne Silver.

Dean Gilbert-Smith says the 1300 sqm mezzanine level can be divided in a number of ways and would suit smaller office businesses or co working operations which thrive in character buildings which offer the opportunity for social connection and a strong interaction between occupants.

The rebuilding of Sunderland Hangar is scheduled for completion by the end of 2018. A public plaza in front of it will ensure sight lines to the harbour remain and that the hangar itself is always visible from the water, says Silver.

The next stage of the development scheduled to commence in mid 2018 alongside the Sunderland Hangar will encompass around 80 apartments and seven terraced houses.

“Our aspirations for Catalina Bay are very high.” says Silver. “All great cities have nodes of interest often centred on sites of historic significance which are an important part of their fabric – the Hudson Yards in New York being a good example. We need more of these in Auckland encompassing high quality mixed use communities tucked away from the congestion but still close to good public transport services which Catalina Bay offers with its ferry and bus terminals.”

Silver sees it becoming a regional destination as well as the centre of the Hobsonville Point community. He imagines when cruise ship passengers arrive in Auckland in the future and are given a list of excursions, “taking the ferry to Catalina Bay will be near the top of the list of recommended day trips, just like Waiheke Island is now”.

BAYLEYS NORTH SHORE COMMERCIAL Devereux Howe-Smith Realty Limited, Bayleys, Licensed under the REA Act 2008 D +64 9 489 0999 | F +64 9 489 0990 29 Northcroft Street, Takapuna, Auckland 0622

Dean Gilbert-Smith 021 445 290 dean.gilbert-smith@bayleys.co.nz

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COMMERCIAL PROPERTY: COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL NORTH SHORE

Jimmy O’Brien, Colliers International North Shore.

Syndication deal adds to huge year for North Shore property sales The $60.8 million sale of a prime Takapuna office campus shows the commercial property market on Auckland’s North Shore remains hugely buoyant.

The sale of 2-4 Fred Thomas Drive to a local syndicator, which settled last month, is the single largest property transaction on the North Shore so far this year. It brings the total value of North Shore transactions brokered by Colliers International in 2017 to more than a quarter of a billion dollars.

The deal reflects the tremendous strength of the North Shore market and our team is thrilled to have been involved in such a landmark transaction in what remains a highly competitive market.

We’re seeing huge demand for quality properties on the North Shore, especially as prime industrial and office vacancy rates remain near record lows.

Vendors are delighted to be able to achieve low yields, while investors are continuing to reap the benefits of strong tenant demand.

Matt Prentice of Colliers International’s North Shore office brokered the deal with Capital Markets Director Jason Seymour, North Shore Director Shoneet Chand, and North Shore Commercial Sales Manager Janet Marshall. The sale price represented a yield of 6.96 per cent.

The 1.5ha mixed use property comprises three fully occupied buildings – two recently refurbished and a third newly built. Located at the edge of the popular Takapuna town centre, the property brings in $4.32m in annual rent from a variety of quality medical and commercial tenants.

The strong and diversified income stream, highly visible location and excellent condition of the buildings made it an enviable package for buyers.

Over months of negotiations, the syndicator's due diligence was very impressive and meticulous and our team has been impressed by the care taken throughout the sales process.

The North Shore commercial property market is moving ahead with confidence and our team maintains a focus on results, taking a collective approach to working with clients and their specific requirements.

Our North Shore office has completed over a quarter of a billion dollars in transactions over $300,000 in the year to midSeptember, with a significant number of these sales over $3m.

We’re noticing the lack of available commercial and industrial zoned land on the Shore is helping to drive demand.

Prime properties remain tightly held, which is contributing to a shortage of stock coming to the market.

As a result of the strong demand, there has been an uplift in off-market sales and leasing, with tenants often paying full rents and landlords offering few incentives.

Among the recent off-market transactions was the sale of the Caltex service station at 21 Constellation Drive.

The buyer had been looking to invest in prime located stock, and through our strong relationships we were able to secure an excellent off-market deal for both parties.

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The North Shore commercial property market is moving ahead with confidence and our team maintains a focus on results, taking a collective approach to working with clients and their specific requirements.

The 3,170sq m freehold property sold for $3.475m, representing a yield of 4.6 per cent. The deal was brokered by Prentice and Chand.

Another off-market sale was a 3,961sq m mixed use property at 138 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna, the home of some of Takapuna’s great hospitality purveyors including The Elephant Wrestler, Master and Apprentice and the Hurstmere Road Brewbar. The property was sold for $25m. The deal was brokered by O’Brien and Euan Stratton.

There has also been strong activity in the auction room.

The May 31 auction of the Resene Paints premises at 8 Croftfield Lane, Wairau Valley saw intense bidding from more than 20 interested parties.

After a tense back-and-forth between the final two bidders, the property sold under the hammer for $5.6m, representing a yield of 3.1 per cent. Prentice marketed the 2,594sq m freehold property with Chand and colleague Ryan de Zwart.

Among the North Shore team’s most significant transactions this year was the sale of 71 Apollo Drive, Mairangi Bay – a well-finished modern industrial property on long-term lease.

The 5,254sq m freehold property sold for approximately $11.4m, representing a yield of 5.75 per cent.

The Apollo Drive deal shows investor demand for prime industrial stock with good fundamentals on the North Shore remains strong.

Our Takapuna-based office covers Auckland’s North Shore, the fast-growing North West, and the wider northern Auckland region through to Northland.

Jimmy O'Brien, Colliers International North Shore 488 4783 www.colliers.co.nz

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SHORE’S TROPHY LOCATION FOR A TROPHY DEVELOPMENT 3, 5, 7, 9 ANZAC STREET, TAKAPUNA

Takapuna is one of the most sought after areas to live in Auckland, boasting a high socioeconomic demographic, close proximity to the motorway, quality schools and the natural beauty associated with Takapuna Beach and Lake Pupuke.

3, 5, 7, 9 Anzac Street are located within walking distance to a number of Takapuna's award-winning restaurants, boutique retail and the iconic Takapuna Beach.

Zoned as Metropolitan Centre which encourages intensification and development of residential apartments throughout central Takapuna. A Resource Consent, valid until March 2020, is currently granted for a five-level apartment development on 3, 5 & 7 Anzac Street, with ground floor commercial units, and two levels of underground parking.

9 Anzac Street was secured subsequently to the consent and provides considerable additional land over which the planned development can be expanded.

• Prime corner site in the heart of Takapuna • Combined freehold land area 3,257m2 • Four separate office buildings on four titles with combined building area of 2,448m²

• Consented development in place for part • AUP zoning Metropolitan Centre - Sub Precinct A

• Zoning encourages intensification and development of residential apartments • Information Packs are available from the Sole Agents

Tender Closing 4:00pm, Wednesday 15 November 2017 (unless sold prior) Ground Floor, 129 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna www.barfoot.co.nz/76644 Bruce Jiao 021 818 077 | b.jiao@barfoot.co.nz

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Contact the record-setting Barfoot & Thompson North Shore Commercial Team Barfoot & Thompson North Shore Commercial – 129 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna.

Phone 489-3880 or visit: www.barfoot.co.nz/commercial

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PUMP UP YOUR PORTFOLIO D/7 TRITON DRIVE, ALBANY

This genuine opportunity to purchase an affordable, low maintenance investment in the heart of Albany should not be overlooked by any investors looking for a stable return.

The attractive complex, developed circa 2006 with quality materials and attractive design, is home to nine retail units and 60 car parks.

The complex is fully occupied by established brands, providing a one stop shop for homewares and furniture outlet shopping.

Unit D, at 167m2, comprises high stud retail, mezzanine office/retail and rear warehouse with roller door access.

• Secure national tenant on long term lease • High profile location within the Albany Interplex

• Returning $60,000 net per annum plus OPEX and GST

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First time to the market for many years, here is an opportunity to secure a freehold commercial property with road front exposure, on a main arterial, on one of North Shore's popular suburbs.

The existing package contains approximately 715m2 of building, comprised of three separate tenancy areas, two tenanted and one vacant, offering options to both investors and owner occupiers, all contained on a freehold parcel of land of 1,037m2.

The Unitary Plan has rezoned the land to Business Mixed Use which provides greater opportunity for both residential and commercial activity in the future.

• Located in the popular beachside suburb on the North Shore - Browns Bay • First time to the market since 1993 • Road front to a main arterial • Industrial building of 715m2 containing three tenancy areas • AUP zoning for residential and commercial activity • Freehold land parcel of 1,037m2 • Information Packs are available from the Sole Agents

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GOOD + TITLE TAKAPUNA

Making the Title Good After Good + Title opened recently in Takapuna, Channel Magazine talked to Karen Overend and Good + Title Business Development Manager Hamish Frizzell about just what this new company does. We discovered it’s offering a service that many will have wished was available as they tried to find an easy way to convert an old cross lease or unit title to a fee simple title.

Cross leases and unit titles were a great solution to development in burgeoning suburbs across the North Shore from the early 1970s.

But these titles have proved problematic in a practical sense, requiring consent of all owners for any alterations you may wish to do; they can also result in your home begin worth less than it would otherwise be.

Fortunately, time and new legislation have meant that owners of property in multi-unit developments can now convert their property to a fee simple title. Unfortunately, this can be a complex process – which is where Good + Title comes in. The company has been designed to offer services that convert your cross lease to fee simple, and give you a “good title”. Good + Title manages the whole process for you, from planning, consenting, surveying and engineering (if necessary), through to the legal work, and even dealing with your mortgagee and your neighbours if you wish.

Good + Title is a collaboration of two professional service firms – Survus Consultants and Overend & Associates. Working together, they carry out all the activities you need to change your title and makes it simple (in more than the legal sense) for you.

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Karen Overend and Hamish Frizzell of Good + Title.

discount being applied to them. Any amendment to a building outline since the original cross-lease plan was done is required to be rectified with a new Unit Plan being prepared. This is a common problem often discovered at the time of sale and inevitably holds up the sale process. In addition, such a process requires the signatures and agreement from the other unit owners, which can also cause issues, particularly with absentee owners and the like.”

Having a fee simple title rather than a cross-lease means that you have much greater flexibility in what you can do with your property, she adds. “It can help avoid disputes, and, if and when you decide to sell, it generally increases your property’s marketability and sale value.”

Overend & Associates, she says, is somewhat unusual for a law firm. “We know that most lawyers are unwilling to have conversations about pricing, or to offer fixed price deals. We like to be different. Don’t get us wrong – we are not ‘cheap, cut price’ lawyers. We are top quality highly experienced property law specialists. But what we also are is transparent and efficient – we offer fixed prices so that we are incentivised to properly cost our work, and take the risk on underperformance.”

Survus Consultants is also different from the average survey company. “We run the subdivision process like a production line.

Each job is worked on by no less than eight different staff, each one doing the part of the process they specialise in. This brings in greater efficiencies, expertise in each role, providing a quicker process and better value for you.

“We can therefore offer fixed prices based on our previous experience in these types of developments. We have done dozens of these so have them down to a pretty fine art.”

All property owners have to agree to converting the title, and once that agreement is reached, says Hamish, “how the fee is split is completely up to you and your neighbours. Usually, we find that the property owners want to share the fee equally, as everyone is being advantaged.”

Hamish or one of the team is generally in the Takapuna office Tuesday to Thursday each week, so if you’ve ever considered converting from your current cross lease or unit title, don't hestitate to pop in and chat to him.

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SPOTLIGHT ON: SEALY POSTUREPEDIC BEDS FOR CHARITY

The art of sleep

Famous Kiwi's design one-of-a-kind Sealy Posturepedic beds for charity The Sealy Posturepedic Designer Bed campaign returns for the fifth consecutive year with four well-known New Zealanders getting creative all in support of charity.

The Sealy HQ for New Zealand is based right here on the Shore.

World champion kayaker Lisa Carrington, actress Antonia Prebble, musician Stan Walker and rugby player Ardie Savea have each created a one-off fabric design to cover a bespoke Sealy Posturepedic Exquisite bed.

The beds will be auctioned on Trade Me to raise funds for Breast Cancer Foundation New Zealand (BCFNZ).

“Our ambassadors have created distinctive designs this year," explains Sealy marketing manager Jenni Gaze. "They have drawn on a theme of nature and recovery, producing four unique beds for auction, with Lisa Carrington, Ardie Savea, Stan Walker and Antonia Prebble have each the aim to raise as much money as possible designed one-of-a-kind Sealy Posturepedic beds that will be auctioned to raise funds for Breast Cancer Foundation New Zealand. for Breast Cancer Foundation New Zealand.”

“We are so grateful to Sealy for their “For me it was an easy decision,” she said of the design. “I support over five years with this amazing fundraiser," adds Breast wanted to use an image that was both reflective of my taste and held Cancer Foundation NZ CEO Evangelia Henderson. "It’s fantastic to have so many well-known New Zealand celebrities show their heartfelt some personal meaning, and this design encompasses both those elements. A couple of years ago my parents commissioned Karl support to the cause.”

Maughn, who is my favourite New Zealand artist, to paint a section Lisa Carrington took her design inspiration from the silver fern, a of the garden of our family home, and this image is taken from that symbol she wears when competing on the world stage. painting.”

“I decided on the fern frond, as it represents new life, growth, “It is a beautiful piece of art and I’m thrilled with how it has strength and peace. It’s also never-ending and conveys rejuvenation. translated into a bed design. In both life and in art I am drawn to Rejuvenation is essential and relates to sleep, as well as my lifestyle, bright, vibrant colours, the more the better, and I love botanical and training and performance as an athlete,” she explains.

Carrington added she was pleased to do her part for the campaign. floral themes. I don’t think I could pick a favourite part, as all the elements complement each other.”

“The Foundation does so much for so many women and this has When musician Stan Walker was approached to create one of the been such a great opportunity to give something back.”

Sealy Designer Beds, he said he mused about what his own dream Meanwhile, rugby player Ardie Savea’s ‘Hibiscus and Huskies’ bed would look like. bed design was inspired by the things he holds dear – his family and “The first thing I thought of was a beautiful beach on a tropical Samoan culture. He said the design combined those, through the use island,” he said of his ‘Island Beach’ design. “It’s where I always want of colour and flowers. to be – falling asleep in paradise!”

“They represent my culture and the choice of four flowers Walker said the Sealy campaign had personal significance for him represents my family - my partner, myself and our two ‘wolves’,” after his own mother battled breast cancer. he added.

“Mum said, ‘I never thought cancer would get me,’ but it did.

Savea was keen to contribute to this important cause.

She’s an inspiration, and now that she’s in recovery, she’s focusing “The chance to make people more mindful of breast cancer, on speaking about her health journey, particularly to Maori-Pacific especially among our Samoan community, is really important to me. women, and raising awareness of cancer.”

And for people who may be too shy or embarrassed to seek help, we The four Sealy Posturepedic Exquisite Designer beds were listed do need to raise as much awareness as possible.” on TradeMe from mid October, giving the public an opportunity to It’s also a cause close to actress Antonia Prebble’s heart. own a bespoke bed, designed by a prominent New Zealander.

“I know women who have experienced breast cancer - some The beds will be auctioned over a two-week period, with all who have recovered and others who sadly haven’t,” she explains. proceeds donated to the BCFNZ to aid their work in education, “Women’s health and raising awareness around this topic is very research and patient support. important to me.”

Her striking bed design for the campaign is symbolic in a number of ways. www.sealy.co.nz

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The Channel Crossword

Set locally by Mãyã, especially for Channel each month. No. 31

Across

Down

1

My life is in ruins (13)

1

Jelly like film, in short (5)

9

Stoop, losing right for a head-hunt (5)

2

Food for man at lunchtime (7)

10 Pasta's in tomcat? I digress (9)

3 What is the possibility of life after death?

(1,5,2,1,6)

11 Santa with model and drink? In your head!

(9)

4

Chairman returning a Russian to Otago town (6)

12 Without doubt, in sum (5)

5

Love in torment, with no alternative for location of insect (spoiler!) (8)

13/18 Hangover cure could be shed (4,2,3,3) 14 Venerate serpentine jade (8)

6 Nine microphones pick up bewilderment (15)

16 Deride an evil act, reportedly for an item

of footwear (8)

7

Bottom lover is a giant amongst others (7)

8

Quantities of drink and the city, say, beat poet (8)

18

See 13

21 Dry drug placed before vault (5)

13 Main online location is in call (4,4)

22 Direction of longitudinal intersection east

- and not in fact? (4,5)

15 Harken to 10+1, roughly speaking (6,2)

24 Flipping Bogan to join NASA? Flip! (2,7) 25 Pale moon before statesman (5) 26 Mysterious organisation widow's liable to

pan, in a way (13)

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17 Deer to transport half a cartoon bear, you

say? (7) 19 Where the dubious surf? (4,3) 20 US, sir? A different country! (6) 23 Thus a chicken joins the church (5)

Solution to last month's crossword

This month's crossword will also be uploaded to the creator’s blog at: channelcrossword.wordpress.com There, Mãyã will kindly attempt to answer any questions or comments that may arise from the crosswords each month.

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