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CHANNEL MAGAZINE COMMUNITY CALENDAR

August 2021

This Channel Community Calendar is published monthly for community events.

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

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Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Learn Writing for Theatre with 30 Gary Henderson – The PumpHouse 7pm Art & Tea – Seniors – Highbury Community House, 110 Hinemoa Street, Birkenhead 11am Boggie Nights, Dance in the Decades – Regatta Bar & Eatery, Takapuna 6pm Yoga Classes – Birkdale Hall, Birkdale 6pm English Conversation Group – Sunnynook Community Centre 10.30am

Hōtoke/Winter Fun Preschool 31 Play – The Rose Centre, Belmont 9.30am Glenfield Laughter Club – Glenfield Senior Citizens Hall, Glenfield 9.30am Art Class for Children – Highbury House, Birkenhead 4.45pm Carpet Bowls – Glenfield Senior Citizens Club 1pm Snooker – Glenfield Senior Citizens Club 1pm

Art & Tea – Seniors – Highbury 2 Community House, 110 Hinemoa Street, Birkenhead 11am Wriggle and Rhyme for Babies – Takapuna Library 9.30am & 11.30am Yoga Classes – Birkdale Hall, Birkdale 6pm, Also 9th, 16th, 23rd English Conversation Group – Sunnynook Community Centre 10.30am

Hōtoke/Winter Fun Preschool Play – The Rose Centre, Belmont 9.30am Rhymetime for 2-5 Year Olds – Takapuna Library, Takapuna 9.30am Glenfield Laughter Club – Glenfield Senior Citizens Hall, Glenfield 9.30am Art Class for Children – Highbury House, Birkenhead 4.45pm Carpet Bowls – Glenfield Senior Citizens Club 1pm Snooker – Glenfield Senior Citizens Club 1pm. Also 10th, 17th, 24th.

North Shore Music & Keyboard Club – Takapuna Bowling Club – 6.45pm

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Feisty Feet – Dance Classes for Seniors – St Peter’s Anglican Church, Takapuna 10am The Mousetrap – The PumpHouse 7.30pm Lego In The Library – Takapuna Library 2pm Kori me te ruri - Wriggle and Rhyme – Birkenhead Library 10am Sign & Rhyme Classes for Toddlers – Term 3 – Meadowood Community House 10am Low Sensory Hour – Birkenhead Library 3.30pm Nobody to Watch Over Me – Massey University Albany Campus 6.30pm Auckland Pop-up Book Fair held by NZ Red Cross & Rangitoto College – Rangitoto College 9am TGS Cricket Information Evening, Takapuna Grammar School, 6-7pm

Boggie Nights, Dance in the Decades – Regatta Bar & Eatery, Takapuna 6pm Yoga Classes – Birkdale Hall, Birkdale 6pm English Conversation Group – Sunnynook Community Centre 10.30am

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Hōtoke/Winter Fun Preschool Play – The Rose Centre, Belmont 9.30am Glenfield Laughter Club – Glenfield Senior Citizens Hall, Glenfield 9.30am Art Class for Children – Highbury House, Birkenhead 4.45pm Carpet Bowls – Glenfield Senior Citizens Club 1pm Snooker – Glenfield Senior Citizens Club 1pm Heart Disease and Heart Health Management – Takapuna Library 11am

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Feisty Feet – Dance Classes for Seniors – St Peter’s Anglican Church, Takapuna 10am Lego In The Library – Takapuna Library 2pm Low Sensory Hour – Birkenhead Library 3.30pm. Also 18th, 25th.

The Crucible – The PumpHouse 7.30pm

Art & Tea – Seniors – Highbury Community House, 110 Hinemoa Street, Birkenhead 11am Boggie Nights, Dance in the Decades – Regatta Bar & Eatery, Takapuna 6pm English Conversation Group – Sunnynook Community Centre 10.30am Sean Sinnott & Friends – The Bunker on Takarunga, Devonport 8pm Fair Pay Agreements Roadshow — hosted

by Simon Watts MP and Hon Scott Simpson MP – North Harbour Netball Centre, 7.30am

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Hōtoke/Winter Fun Preschool 17 Play – The Rose Centre, Belmont 9.30am Glenfield Laughter Club – Glenfield Senior Citizens Hall, Glenfield 9.30am Art Class for Children – Highbury House, Birkenhead 4.45pm Carpet Bowls – Glenfield Senior Citizens Club 1pm

Learn Writing for Theatre with 23 Gary Henderson – The PumpHouse 7pm Creative Talks: Alexandra McKellar – The PumpHouse 7pm Boggie Nights, Dance in the Decades – Regatta Bar & Eatery, Takapuna 6pm English Conversation Group – Sunnynook Community Centre 10.30am

Hōtoke/Winter Fun Preschool 24 Play – The Rose Centre, Belmont 9.30am Glenfield Laughter Club – Glenfield Senior Citizens Hall, Glenfield 9.30am Art Class for Children – Highbury House, Birkenhead 4.45pm Carpet Bowls – Glenfield Senior Citizens Club 1pm

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Northcote College Talent Quest 5 ’21 – Northcote College, 7pm Get Messy Browns Bay – St Anne’s Hall, Browns Bay 10am Art for Beginners – Highbury House, Birkenhead 10.45am Let’s Clay! – Kids – Mairangi Arts Centre, Mairangi Bay 4.30pm

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Morning Melodies – Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna 11am Art for Beginners – Highbury House, Birkenhead 10.45am Let’s Clay! – Kids – Mairangi Arts Centre, Mairangi Bay 4.30pm The Crucible – The PumpHouse 7.30pm Devonport Community Network – Devonport Yacht Club 10am

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Stephen Hoadley on Global Politics – Takapuna Library 6pm Public Meeting – US Responses to a Rising China with Dr Stephen Hoadley – Takapuna Library 6pm You Make Me Feel Like Dancing – Operatunity – Windsor Park Baptist Church, Mairangi Bay 11am Feisty Feet – Dance Classes for Seniors – St Peter’s Anglican Church, Takapuna 10am Lego In The Library – Takapuna Library 2pm Kiwi Saver: Planning for the Future – East Coast Bays Library, Browns Bay 10am Neville’s Island – The Rose Centre, Belmont 8pm

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Get Messy Browns Bay 19 – St Anne’s Hall, Browns Bay 10am Art for Beginners – Highbury House, Birkenhead 10.45am 60s Up Takapuna – St Joseph’s Church Hall 10.30am (new members welcome) Let’s Clay! – Kids – Mairangi Arts Centre, Mairangi Bay 4.30pm Neville’s Island – The Rose Centre, Belmont 8pm

Feisty Feet – Dance Classes for 25 Seniors – St Peter’s Anglican Church, Takapuna 10am Lego In The Library – Takapuna Library 2pm Poetry Day Prelude: Shore Words – Takapuna Library 6pm Neville’s Island – The Rose Centre, Belmont 8pm

Engage Your Brain- Auckland 26 – Torbay School, Torbay 7.30pm Art for Beginners – Highbury House, Birkenhead 10.45am Let’s Clay! – Kids – Mairangi Arts Centre, Mairangi Bay 4.30pm Neville’s Island – The Rose Centre, Belmont 8pm

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Takapuna Sunday Market – Takapuna 6am Browns Bay Sunday Market – Browns Bay 6am The Mousetrap – The PumpHouse 7.30pm Crystal Visions Holistic Market – Milford Senior Citizens Hall 10am Birkenhead Night Market - 6 Highbury Bypass, Birkenhead 4.30pm TSU – 6 (The Sky That Lights Upon Us) – The Depot, Devonport 11am The Painter and the Emperor Revisited (artist talk) – The Depot, Devonport 1pm

Wonderland Glow Show – Bruce 6 Mason Centre 10am & 11.30am Housie – Glenfield Senior Citizens Club 1pm Creative Drawing – Kids – Mairangi Art Centre, Mairangi Bay 4.30pm. Also 13th, 20th, 27th.

Huge Pop & Rock Vinyl Record Sale – Albany Village Community Hall, Library Lane 9am Newcomers (Migrants) Book Club – Takapuna Library (term 3 – 8 Saturdays) 10am, register aucklandnorth@newcomers.co.nz Newcomers (Migrants) Book Club – Devonport Library (term 3 – 8 Saturdays) 2pm, register aucklandnorth@newcomers.co.nz Learners Licence Workshop (for ages 19-24yrs) – Highbury House, Birkehhead email: admin@highburyhouse.org.nz Browns Bay Laughter Club – Browns Bay Community Centre 9am Community Shared Lunch – Glenfield Library – Bring a Plate 11.30am Cath Cocker – Enlightenment and other Catastrophies (opening) – The Depot, Devonport 2pm Devonport Repair Café – Devonport Community House 12pm Newcomers Bookclub for Migrants – Devonport Library 2pm

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Takapuna Sunday Market 8 – Takapuna 6am Browns Bay Sunday Market – Browns Bay 6am Birkenhead Night Market - 6 Highbury Bypass, Birkenhead 4.30pm Messiah – For Ever and Ever and Ever – St George’s Church, 2 The Terrace, Takapuna 2pm

Housie – Glenfield Senior Citizens 13 Club 1pm The Crucible – The PumpHouse 7.30pm Health and Wellbeing event for Creatives – The Depot, Devonport 10am

Newcomers (Migrants) Book Club – Takapuna Library (term 3 – 8 Saturdays) 10am, register aucklandnorth@newcomers.co.nz Newcomers (Migrants) Book Club – Devonport Library (term 3 – 8 Saturdays) 2pm, register aucklandnorth@newcomers.co.nz Kids Learn 2 Ride – YMCA, Northcote – 1pm Huge Pop & Rock Vinyl Record Sale – St Anne’s Hall, Browns Bay 9am Browns Bay Laughter Club – Browns Bay Community Centre 9am The Crucible – The PumpHouse 7.30pm Abhi Chinniah – A Migrant’s Path (opening) – The Depot, Devonport 2pm Newcomers Bookclub for Migrants – Devonport Library 2pm Neville’s Island – The Rose Centre, Belmont 8pm

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Takapuna Sunday Market 15 – Takapuna 6am Browns Bay Sunday Market – Browns Bay 6am Birkenhead Night Market - 6 Highbury Bypass, Birkenhead 4.30pm Visual Poetry Jam – Glenfield Library 10am The Crucible – The PumpHouse 4pm Neville’s Island – The Rose Centre, Belmont 2pm

Probus Club of Milford – Milford 20 Baptist Church, 3 Dodson Ave, 10am (new members welcome) Ta Moko Talk in English & Chinese – East Coast Bays Library, Browns Bay 1pm Housie – Glenfield Senior Citizens Club 1pm Neville’s Island – The Rose Centre, Belmont 8pm

NZ Amateur Pole Performer – The PumpHouse, 7pm Newcomers (Migrants) Book Club – Takapuna Library (term 3 – 8 Saturdays) 10am, register aucklandnorth@newcomers.co.nz Newcomers (Migrants) Book Club – Devonport Library (term 3 – 8 Saturdays) 2pm, register aucklandnorth@newcomers.co.nz Dress for Success – Highbury House, 110 Hinemoa Street, Birkenhead 3pm Crystal Visions Holistic Market – Milford Senior Citizens Hall 10am Huge Pop & Rock Vinyl Record Sale – St Anne’s Hall, Browns Bay 9am Browns Bay Laughter Club – Browns Bay Community Centre 9am Newcomers Bookclub for Migrants – Devonport Library 2pm Neville’s Island – The Rose Centre, Belmont 8pm

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Beethoven and Schubert – Orchestra Auckland – The PumpHouse 5.30pm Takapuna Sunday Market – Takapuna 6am Browns Bay Sunday Market – Browns Bay 6am Birkenhead Night Market - 6 Highbury Bypass, Birkenhead 4.30pm Crystal Visions Holistic Market – Milford Senior Citizens Hall 10am NZ Tai Chi & Martial Arts Society Demonstration – Takapuna Library 10.30am Neville’s Island – The Rose Centre, Belmont 2pm

Phantom National Poetry Day 27 2021 Open Mic Event – East Coast Bays Library – Browns Bay 10am Housie – Glenfield Senior Citizens Club 1pm Me & Mom Art Workshop – Meadowood Community House, Unsworth Heights 7pm Neville’s Island – The Rose Centre, Belmont 8pm

Newcomers (Migrants) Book Club – Takapuna Library (term 3 – 8 Saturdays) 10am, register aucklandnorth@newcomers.co.nz Newcomers (Migrants) Book Club – Devonport Library (term 3 – 8 Saturdays) 2pm, register aucklandnorth@newcomers.co.nz Huge Pop & Rock Vinyl Record Sale – Albany Village Community Hall, Library Lane 9am NZ String Quartet – Holy Trinity Church Devonport 7.30pm Browns Bay Laughter Club – Browns Bay Community Centre 9am Newcomers Bookclub for Migrants – Devonport Library 2pm Neville’s Island – The Rose Centre, Belmont 8pm

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Last Night of the Proms – 29 The PumpHouse 2pm Takapuna Sunday Market – Takapuna 6am Browns Bay Sunday Market – Browns Bay 6am Birkenhead Night Market - 6 Highbury Bypass, Birkenhead 4.30pm

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CONTENTS

TAKAPUNA BEACH 32

COVER FEATURES 38

Celebrating Sir Wayne ‘Buck’ Shelford

44 Retirement Living on the Shore 84 Talking Post-Covid Positivity 89 Bruce Mason Centre’s 25th Birthday

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Talking Takapuna

MILFORD 40 Milford News

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DEVONPORT 96 Devonport News

FEATURES 24 Shop the Shore

ARTS

26 Shop the Shore – For Dad

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The Rose Centre

66 An Interview with Peter Wolfkamp

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The PumpHouse

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Depot Artspace

North Shore History: David Verran

113 The Healthy Channel: John Appleton 128 The Channel Crossword

EDUCATION 99 Massey University

OUT & ABOUT 02 Community Calendar 06 Out & About on the Shore

100 Carmel College 102 Kristin School 104 Rangitoto College 106 Westlake Boys’ High School

EATING OUT

108 Westlake Girls’ High School

20 Eating Out Feature: Daily Bread

110 Rosmini College

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Eating Out Guide

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Takapuna Grammar

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FROM THE EDITOR

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A lot of Post Covid Positivity Welcome to our August 2021 issue of Channel Mag. Another great issue celebrating all the good things happening on the North Shore.

In this issue we have three particularly interesting features. One celebrates 25 years of the Bruce Mason Centre. Christine Young looks back how the community played such a big part in the establishment of this wonderful facility back in the 90s. Heather Barker Vermeer catches up with Devonport local, celebrity and ‘resident builder’ Peter Wolfkamp, fresh from his latest stint on The Block. Following on from our focus on supporting local enterprise we talk to five local business people in our ‘Post Covid Positivity’ feature about their experience during this challenging period and how they are tackling the future. Some good reading.

Retirement living is also a focus in this issue. It is a fact that we live in the best place in the world and only natural that people would want to retire in comfort here and enjoy everything living north of the Harbour Bridge offers. We have some fantastic retirement facilities on the North Shore and proudly highlight many of these in this issue.

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We love celebrating success and achievement, so are looking forward to the special event coming up at Eventfinder Stadium (North Shore Events Centre) in October, recognising one of the Shore’s favourite sons, Sir Wayne Shelford.

‘National Tribute – Wayne Shelford’ will be a great night. Information is in this issue.

Channel Mag always has something for everyone and this issue is no different. Highlights from the community in our Out and About pages; tasting offerings in Eating Out on the Shore; advice from many sector specialists with interesting columns; shopping snippets in Shop the Shore; news from many local schools and the education sector; and grizzles from Gundry!

Happy reading, don’t forget to prepare for spoiling dad on Fathers Day in early September we’ve got some great gift ideas in this issue.

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OUT & ABOUT ON THE SHORE

High Tea for Haiti at The Officers Mess NPH New Zealand hosted their very first ‘High Tea for Haiti’ at The Officers Mess in Narrow Neck on the 4th of July. It was a great success raising over $30,000 for the St Damien Paediatric Hospital in Haiti. The panel discussion on ‘Women in Leadership’ was very interesting as was a zoom call with the director of the hospital, Dr Jacqueline Gautier. After some delicious treats, a live auction was led by Anil Nathoo from Ray White Glenfield. Everyone left with a big smile on their face, a happy stomach, and a heart full of inspiration.

Patsy O'Sullivan and Rose O'Sullivan.

Tui Gilling and Rachel Mancini.

Maree Wilson, Marita O'Sullivan, Loren O'Sullivan, Liz Gillette, Jane Addington and Caroline France.

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Angela Howie, Billy Perez, Satra Browne, Dr Lesina Nakhid Schuster, Dr Camille Nakhid and Carolyn Providence.

Michael, Natalie and Kay Paltridge and Julia McFadden.

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Mary-Therese Caldwell, Jane Baker, Gabriele Wehler and Jan Crews.

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OUT & ABOUT ON THE SHORE

North Harbour Club’s Bastille Day fundraising dinner at Regatta Regatta Bar & Eatery on Takapuna's waterfront hosted the North Harbour Club’s Bastille Day fundraising dinner on Wednesday July 14th. One hundred and forty guests – many looking very French – enjoyed a seven course degustation menu with matching wines provided by valued club sponsor EuroVintage. Seafood on the night was provided by Intersea and the meat by Carve Meat Co. to support the charity. Host Andy Ruzich of Regatta spoke about the menu, Ben Longhurst of EuroVintage spoke about the wine matches, Kate Luxton of Carve spoke about the sensational meats provided. Club President Phil Brosnan welcomed and thanked the attendees as well as the generous event sponsors. Funds raised during the hugely enjoyable evening went towards the North Harbour Club’s annual AIMES Awards – scholarship grants awarded annually (since 1995) to young people achieving excellence in the areas of the Arts, Innovation, Music, Education, Sport and Community Service. AIMES Award recipient and singer Tayla Alexander entertained the lively and colourful crowd that included members of the Benefitz and Channel Mag teams. Benefitz was also a sponsor of the event.

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OUT & ABOUT ON THE SHORE

Westlake Enterprise Academy launches at the B:HIVE Westlake Boys School hosted the successful launch of their new Westlake Enterprise Academy (WEA) at the B:HIVE, Smales Farm on Thursday 8th July. The WEA is a fully immersive business programme for a group of year 13 Westlake Boys students starting in 2022 that will provide a third way of completing school, alongside University entrance and NCEA Level 3. The WEA Team behind this innovative enterprise is Bill Smale and Nick Kearney, both ex-Westlakers themselves, plus Keryn Russell, Director of the WEA. The launch evening saw many successful Westlaker business people and guests from the wider business community mingling with the WEA team, Westlake staff and students. Hartley Atkinson, CEO and Founder of AFT Pharmaceuticals attended the event as key-note speaker and guests were engaged and enthused, with many supporting the venture by becoming involved as mentors and contributors. We'll watch the progress of WEA with great interest and can't wait to see the participating boys develop and grow from this wonderful opportunity. Well done Westlake!

John Stroobant, Meredith Marshall, Fiona and Bryce Scanlen and Euphymya Lavelle.

Chase Zheng, Tom Garden and Jason Smale.

James Houliston, David Ferguson, Graeme Markwick and Luke Cameron.

Lester de Vere, Paul Kelly and John de Vere.

Adam Wynia, Hartley and Marree Atkinson and Jason Kay.

Adam Howlett, Bill Smale and Tyler Goosen.

Ron and Irene MacRae and James Skinner.

Richard Pemberthy, Josh Henderson, Jackie and Ben Ashley, Simon Farland and John Algie.

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OUT & ABOUT ON THE SHORE

Shoreside Theatre's The Mousetrap - sell out success!

The gala opening night of The Mousetrap was held at the PumpHouse Theatre on Thursday 29th July. Shoreside Theatre has been running their annual Agatha Christie season since 2014, with The Mousetrap being their eighth production. Agatha Christie balances suspense, social commentary and a dangerous wit all within one play - no wonder it remains one of the most popular plays in the English language, enjoying a 69 year run in London. The Channel team are always excited to support our vibrant local performing arts scene here on the Shore, and we're absolutely delighted to congratulate Shoreside Theatre on their run-away success with this current production - all shows were sold out two weeks in advance. Watch out for the 2022 Agatha Christie season and get in quick next year if you missed out this time!

Russ and Kay Boyes, Steve and Julie Gray.

Sam Harris, Georgina Townley and Cath Boniface.

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Sonya Sage Exhibition at The Poynton The Poynton, Metlifecare's wonderful retirement village in Takapuna often has art exhibitions with contributions from residents. We went along to the opening of their latest exhibition by resident Sonya Sage on Tuesday July 20th. This was an exhibition of Sonya's work from 2006 through to the present day. The work represented a painter’s response to elements of our visual environment in a variety of settings and scale. As a painter Sonya’s purpose is to create expressions stimulated by but varying from the actuality of seen images, often with symbolic reference to wider issues.

Some of her pieces were the result of personal requests.

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OUT & ABOUT ON THE SHORE

Art in the Park Opening at Eden Park Members of the Channel Mag team went over the bridge to Eden Park on Friday July 23rd for the opening night of Art in the Park, a uniquely curated Art Show developed by Sofija Matich and Cary Cochrane of Flagstaff Gallery in Devonport. We seldom venture over the bridge for out and about's but we thought we should for this ambitious new art event, organised by Shore locals. The concept for the new show was to offer a platform for New Zealand Artists annually at Eden Park. What a big hit it was! A big crowd was there on opening night – we snapped these photos – and members of the Channel Mag team tried to get into Art in the Park on the other two days, Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th, but sold-out signs were up. Needless to say it was a huge success – well done Sofija, Cary and the team.

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TAKAPUNA NORTH COMMUNITY NEWS: WITH SARAH THORNE

HEALTH AND FITNESS WITH CLAIRE BELLINGHAM, LES MILLS TAKAPUNA

By Sarah Thorne Takapuna North Trust Manager

By Claire Bellingham, Personal Trainer and Nutritionist

The chaos of Covid

Claire Bellingham

As Covid chaos continues internationally, health has become a constant concern. Good physical health – the absence of illness and disease – is the highest goal.

But as the months have dragged on we’ve also become more aware of emotional health. Emotional health is the ability to enjoy happiness in good times and show persistence in challenging times. Good physical health plus good emotional health creates enduring resilience.

Resilience isn’t a trait that people either have or they don’t – it’s a set of behaviours, thoughts and actions that can be practised by anyone.

But first, you need your mind and body in the right place with five foundation healthy habits.

The first of the foundation five is exercise. It increases blood flow, oxygen and nutrients to your whole body, including your brain’s prefrontal cortex. This part of the brain helps you keep track of your goals. It supports you to over-ride the impulses and excuses that stand between you and achieving your intentions. So your exercise programme is the starting point for the development of healthy habits in other areas. It strengthens all of your muscles including your willpower muscle.

The second of the foundation five healthy habits is free and it’s easy.

Drinking more water is one of those healthy habits that makes more time than it takes. Being hydrated provides a physical, mental and emotional boost by helping your blood transport oxygen and other essential nutrients to your cells. Good hydration will help you get the most out of your exercise, and further strengthen your willpower muscle to add power for the next healthy habit.

Habit three is sleep. Even getting to bed 15 minutes earlier each night can improve both long and short term physical and emotional health.

Healthy movement and healthy sleep work in tandem – being physically tired helps with sleep and being rested helps with physical performance.

Sleep helps exercise stamina by improving energy, intensity and co-ordination. It’s also an important recovery practice to support the growth of lean muscle mass for a more resilient body.

Habit four is nutrition. This area tends to require a bit more planning and organisation so it’s often best left after your willpower muscle has had some development via effective exercise, water and sleep practices. An optimal diet is one oriented towards basic nutrients from products close to their natural sources. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t enjoy treat foods or eat for efficiency sometimes, but when you’re not eating for joy or convenience it’s important to eat for reliance fuel. This improves your gut health which further supports mood, motivation and sleep.

Stress management is the fifth foundation habit. If you’ve made a start on the other four habits then your resilience to stress will be starting to take care of itself. You’ll find it easier to take challenges in your stride and to organise the rejuvenating activities that further improve your quality of life. In addition to this, exercise positively influences the production and release of the four happy hormones - endorphins (euphoria hormones), serotonin (comfort/security hormone), dopamine (motivation hormone) and oxytocin (bonding hormone).

The chaos of Covid is a marathon not a sprint, currently with no end in sight. Your physical and emotional health is an important investment for the months ahead. Start your resilience practice with exercise and then spiral upwards through the foundation habits for optimal holistic health and wellbeing.

Les Mills Takapuna, Rooftop Level, Shore City, Takapuna 0800 LES MILLS lesmills.co.nz clairebellingham.co.nz claire@clairebellingham.co.nz

What’s on in August/September

Sarah Thorne

Free Sustainable Living workshops Join us for our free sustainable living workshops during August and September. Topics include Growing food in small spaces; Making beeswax wraps; Backyard chicken keeping; Waste-free parenting and composting.

To find out more and register to attend, please visit www. takapunatrust.org.nz Pupuke Puriri Forest is critically endangered: Sylvan Park and Kitchener Park on the shore of Lake Pupuke in Milford are the homes of the last surviving fragments of the critically endangered puriri forest ecosystem in the Takapuna-Milford area. Local residents are restoring the forest and wildlife by controlling pests and weeds. Over just three months, one resident trapped 32 possums and the forest is now starting to regrow and regenerate.

A rat baiting programme has been helping to decrease the number of rats, which not only annoy residents and spread disease, but also kill native insects, bird chicks, eggs and eat the seeds of the native trees. Residents are also weeding to remove the invasive plant pests which are trying to take over the parks. Save the date for the Puriri Forest hui on 1st September at Milford Kindergarten (please visit www.facebook.com/pupukebirdsong to find out the time). The aim is to bring the community together to help plan for the future of the parks critically endangered forest ecosystem.

Toy hire: Exciting news! You can now hire a toy package for your preschooler's birthday party.

To find out more about what's in the package, availability and costs, please visit www.takapunatrust.org.nz/toy-hire/ or email roanna@takapunatrust.org.nz.

Winter Fun: If you’re keen to get your toddler out and about over these winter months come along and join us for FREE preschool play sessions with a huge selection of toys for your little one to play with. Sessions are held every Monday and Wednesday morning, 10am to 12noon. Location varies, so please see our website: www.takapunatrust.org.nz or facebook page www.facebook.com/summerfunplay for programme details.

Takapuna North Community Trust board: We are looking for new volunteer board members to join our board: If you’re passionate about serving your local community and want to help people thrive, we want you to join us with your enthusiasm and new ideas. The role would be around two-three hours a month and involves attending monthly board meetings and providing a governance role on the Trust. For more information, please contact us on the details below.

Where can you find out more about what’s happening?

Visit www.takapunatrust.org.nz Facebook/Instagram @takapunanorthtrust Phone Sarah Thorne (Takapuna North Community Trust Manager) on 486 2098 or email: office@takapunatrust.org.nz

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ANDREW DORREEN

The Epitome of Coastal Waterfront Living 31 CHELVERTON TERRACE, RED BEACH Elevated and private, this near-new residence boasting over 6,000sqft of living, is the epitome of coastal modern living. Offering quite possibly the most exclusive and intimate beach views you will ever see on the Hibiscus Coast.

The use of concrete and stone throughout, including a concrete mid-floor, has given this magnificent dwelling a very permanent feel. From the moment you set foot inside, you know you're about to witness something truly special. This magnificent dwelling occupies the very best position in Red Beach, is designed around the views, and is finished to an exquisitely high standard with the use of only the best of the best materials.

All flooring throughout the house is fully underfloor heated, and stunning fixtures and fittings complement to give this classy home the x-factor. The orientation is very unique, facing North over the beach, and offering full sun from sunrise to sunset - simply spectacular! An access way will have you on the sand in a few minutes' walk. What more could you ask for? Opportunities to secure homes of this ilk, do not come around often.

The home offers a vast array of key features:

• Five generous double bedrooms with four elegant bathrooms • Triple garaging - featuring a customised, oversized garage for a 7m hardtop boat. Additional onsite parking for at least another four to six cars • Expansive outdoor loggia area covered by louvres, with outdoor kitchen/bar enjoying panoramic views • Gorgeous main living space with Hewe-designed, SERVO-DRIVE kitchen and a large scullery. Framed views looking over the beach itself, from the entire level • Large separate or children's lounge with semi-kitchenette on the ground floor, also with uninterrupted views. This space flows directly to the pool area and fire pit, with built-in seating • Fully integrated and functional home theatre with six electronic chairs, projector, and exquisite sound system • Heated infinity pool with huge plant room and room for additional storage • C-Bus and Dali smart system with automation, cameras, and smart lighting • Lift to all floors, providing easy access Those buyers looking for one of the very best homes on the Coast, must get in touch for further details. PRICE BY NEGOTIATION. www.precision.net.nz/ID #514839

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ANDREW DORREEN

Minnehaha Magic Sublime Cape Cod Waterfront 29 MINNEHAHA AVENUE, TAKAPUNA Our motivated vendors who have owned the site since 1995 are re-locating and have instructed us to present all serious Tender offers by 26th August 2021. A once in a lifetime opportunity to secure a home of this ilk, in this location. Do not miss your opportunity to purchase one of the North Shore's most loved and admired waterfront homes. Minnehaha Avenue in Takapuna has long been regarded as North Shore's most exclusive address.

Number 29 offers over a quarter acre of land running to the water and has no immediate Northern neighbour giving you the ultimate in privacy.

The home offers extensive accommodation with five ensuited bedrooms, four car garaging, a fantastic large games room with a full-size billiard table, and a large indoor heated pool and spa. The main living space on entry has a spacious kitchen and informal living which flows out to an expansive terrace spanning the width

of the home. Adjacent to the main living area is a spacious formal lounge and formal dining with ample space for the grand piano.

Also on this floor is a library or could be a second home office. On the third floor, the master is superb. It features a spacious bedroom with its own private office, large walk-in wardrobe, and ensuite.

Those wanting a home that can only be described as "The best of the best", must get in touch to discuss the viewing instructions and Tender documentation.

2017 Council Valuation $11,800,000 TENDER OFFER CLOSES 26TH AUGUST 2021 (UNLESS SOLD PRIOR) www.precision.net.nz/ID #514153

Andrew specialises in marketing homes on the Golden Mile between Milford and Takapuna and around the waterfront. In the last six consecutive calendar years, Andrew has sold over $100 million each year, at an average of over $4,500,000 per property - one of the highest (in volume and average sale price) residentially in the Country. Whilst he is renowned for dealing with higher value properties, Andrew has also carved a niche within the seaward side streets in and around Milford and Takapuna, especially with the lock up and leave market. He sees a strong correlation between larger homes and the downsizer market assisting those vendors with their next purchase. If you are thinking of selling your home or purchasing a new one, please contact Andrew for a confidential discussion.

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PERFORMING ARTS NEWS: THE PUMPHOUSE THEATRE

PERFORMING ARTS NEWS: THE ROSE CENTRE

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News from The PumpHouse from James Bell

Is it really August?

Or are Julying to me?

This month at The Rose Centre with Operations Manager Geoff Allen

James Bell.

Witches, pole dancers, Beethoven… what a delicious mix!

We have events a-plenty for you to enjoy this month at The PumpHouse Theatre. Keep reading to see if anything takes your interest.

The Crucible: 11th – 15th August: “I am not sure what 'The Crucible' is telling people now, but I know that its paranoid centre is still pumping out the same darkly attractive warning that it did in the fifties.” – Arthur Miller, 1996 Using the Salem, Massachusetts, Witch Trials of 1692 as the historical basis for an allegorical warning against consequences of false accusations and baseless rumour, Miller responded to the era of McCarthyism and the US Government persecution of those accused of having communist sympathies.

But in the age of internet rumours, social media and cancel culture the fundamental elements of hysteria, accusation and blind faith are still hugely relevant in our society today.

New Zealand Amateur Pole Performer Auckland Heats: 21st August: A competition showcasing the incredible talent of local pole dancers. With pole dancing becoming mainstream there are a lot of amazing dancers and performers this year showcasing their amazing talent and representing many wonderful studios.

Beethoven & Schubert: 22nd August: Hear leading New Zealand musicians in rarely performed ensemble versions of Franz Schubert’s Symphony No.5 in Bb major and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.2 in Bb major.

This concert features the exceptional piano skills of Xing Wang and a 16-piece chamber orchestra, Orchestra Auckland, in the first of five concerts featuring the five Beethoven piano concerti performed by five different pianists.

Learn Writing for Theatre with Gary Henderson: 23rd August – 11th October (Mondays): Join award-winning New Zealand playwright Gary Henderson at The PumpHouse for an eight-week course that will introduce you to the essential skills of writing for theatre.

You’ll emerge from this course with your own original script for a ten-minute play which will be performed before an audience in our Coal Bunker Studio.

Creative Talks: Alexandra McKellar: 23rd August: Alexandra has been involved in the performing arts her whole life. She has the exciting role of directing Wicked at SkyCity for North Shore Music Theatre this year.

Come and hear her talk about her passion for the arts at this free event. RSVP on our website to secure your seat.

Last Night of the Proms: 29th August: Dress in your red, white, and blues and bring your singing voices to join the North Shore Concert Band for a celebration of the Best of British.

Cheers, James Bell.

BOOKINGS: 09 489 8360 or pumphouse.co.nz

The month of August with new Operations Manager Geoff Allen

E rere ana tēnei mihi hou ki a koutou. It’s a mixed bag this month. We start in sadness.

Shannon Mc Cauley has unfortunately had to return to Australia. I thank her for passing on a lot of the new work that has been done by our team to make Te Whare Rose as easy as possible for me to begin my long association with it. I’m well known in the Auckland theatre scene as director of Devonport Drama and Galatea Theatre and as kaiārahi of Pitt St Theatre. After Elam school of fine arts I worked on films, TV, theme parks and as a drama teacher for 30 years. I’ve been a hirer of The Rose Centre for 16 years and know well the resident group – Company Theatre. So I am new but familiar! I’m a person who likes to get things done and with the wonderful guidance of our new board I’m looking forward to helping grow this puāwai, Deb Farmer, Geoff Allen, Hannah Catteral and Tasha Wehrle. this bloom of a centre.

School has returned and that means our regular programmes return: • Chinese kids language classes - Monday/Wednesday • Bricks 4 kids - Thursday • TGS Drama – Monday/Tuesday • CMA – Thursday • sKids – Every day after school • Rebus – third Monday of every month Any questions about signing up, contact: hello@rosecentre.co.nz Neville's Island: A farcical and hilarious evening out. Four out-ofcondition clueless middle managers are forced to go on the Outward Bound weekend from hell. Shipwrecked, wrapped in thick fog and cut off from civilisation with one cold sausage between them, Gordon, Angus, Roy and the hapless Neville are about to experience the misadventure of their lives.

Neville’s Island info: www.iticket.co.nz/events/2021/aug/nevilles-island Kaiwhakahaere rauemi / Operations Manager Geoff Allen: Nō Tāmaki ki te uru, ko Waitematā te awa, ko Amelia Thompson nō Plymouth ki New Plymouth / Ngāmotu te waka 1841.

He whakatauki (proverb): Iti noa ana he pito mata ~ From the withered branch a flower grows.

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Geoff Allen.

DYLAN KAY: AUCKLAND GUITAR SCHOOL

Why Guitar?

A very warm welcome to this new column! In the coming months we’ll be focusing on many different aspects of playing this incredible instrument, from general concepts to specific playing tips. I hope that you’ll find value in it wherever you are in your guitar journey.

I’ve been playing guitar nearly 35 years, and teaching for more than 25 of those, including many years teaching at the UK’s biggest guitar school. Along the way, I’ve had a busy and varied performing career, which continues to this day. Moving to New Zealand from the UK nine years ago, I set up Auckland Guitar School to fill a much-needed gap for a dedicated specialist modern guitar school in Auckland – our unique approach means we now have thriving schools in both Takapuna and Howick.

DEPOT ARTSPACE

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Wayfind Creative – free business support for creatives Depot Artspace’s new government-funded creative careers programme Wayfind Creative is offering a series of workshops and one-to-one mentoring to creatives wanting to develop a sustainable career in the creative sector. The programme includes workshops on business and financial planning, social mediaand marketing skills and funding and investment strategies. Also on offer is access to industry mentors and networking events. Join this free programme now and take part in our August in-take.

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Dylan Kay.

Why guitar?

Music is a unique art form, as it’s very hard to find anyone who doesn’t like some style of music. You may not love ballet or poetry for example, but the language of music is universal. Music has enormous power to communicate and cause an emotional response in the listener. If you’ve ever had the hairs stand up on the back of your neck when listening to a song, you’ll know what I mean. Some people are content to just listen, while others are compelled to pick up a guitar and learn to create that response themselves – actually being able to do it is truly magical.

Learning any instrument is not for the faint-hearted, but the effort you put in will be more than rewarded. In my experience learning guitar is something anyone can do at any stage of life (something we’ll explore next time), whether you want to be a rock star or simply pick out a few tunes for your own enjoyment.

See you next month!

Dylan Kay Auckland Guitar School, Howick and Takapuna, Auckland "Transform your playing."

09 533 5246 www.aucklandguitarschool.co.nz

Full details: depotartspace.co.nz/events Depot Sound Songwriting competition finalists:

Congratulations to our inaugural Depot Sound North Shore Schools Songwriting competition winners!

L-R: Maia Potter (Albany Primary), Eva Steckler (Belmont Intermediate), Freya (Takapuna Grammar School), Cameron Beattie (Northcross Intermediate), Grace Allis (Albany Junior High) and Leigh Edmeades (Albany Junior High) depotsound.co.nz

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Soroptimist International celebrating 100 years of being a global voice for women North Shore celebration: 1pm-3pm Saturday September 18th, Mary Thomas Centre, Takapuna The name Soroptimist was coined from the Latin soror meaning sister, and optima meaning best. Soroptimist is perhaps best interpreted as ‘the best for women’. From the founding of the first Soroptimist club in Oakland, California, in 1921, through to the present day where over 3000 clubs are flourishing throughout the world, Soroptimists have continued to strive to achieve ‘the best for women’ in every sphere of their lives.

Part of a global volunteer organisation, Soroptimist International Aotearoa New Zealand has 19 clubs with 377 members. Providing women and girls with access to the education and training to help achieve economic empowerment from national scholarships such as the Betty Loughhead Soroptimist Scholarship (www.blsst.co.nz) to local initiatives such as the SI North Shore ‘Educate to Lead Award’ (www.sinorthshorenz.com/educate-to-lead-award).

Soroptimist North Shore members Hantie Theron, Sylvia Heywood and Petra Thoma.

…all our women have one thing in common; they volunteer their time to our projects and to better the lives of women and girls in both our local community and around the world.

SI North Shore was founded on the 8th of March 1975.

Soroptimists work with other non-government organisations (NGOs) and various United Nations agencies to bring about changes to help make the world a better place for this and future generations. Raising awareness is often the first step: identifying a problem or need and informing others in the larger community to gain as much support as possible to work towards finding a solution to resolve the situation.

With backgrounds spanning from busy mothers to business professionals, all Sorptimist women have one thing in common; they volunteer their time to projects and to better the lives of women and girls in both the local community and around the world.

On the North Shore Soroptimists International holds dinner meetings monthly with local organisations providing informative speakers on subjects close to the hearts of women and girls. We celebrate International Women’s Day in March and organise a local silent walk in late November or early December to draw attention to the high rate of domestic violence against women and girls.

Every dollar Soroptimists raise is returned to the community to help women and girls. We also collect barely used bras from our network of women and friends, wash and pack them into various sizes and donate to women in need.

Please join us on 18 September at the Mary Thomas Centre, Takapuna to celebrate 100 years of Soroptimism and find out what we have been up to over the last 47 years!

Sylvia Heywood, President, Soroptimist International North Shore.

Email: sinorthshore@siswp.org Visit: www.siswp.org

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EATING OUT ON THE SHORE • Your Monthly Eating Out Guide…

Ready to Rise As one of Auckland’s most preeminent sourdough bakeries, Daily Bread’s Belmont outpost (based at 43 Eversleigh Road) is the perfect addition to the North Shore community.

The large open windows at the entranceway provide the ideal front row seats to watch the bakers and pastry chefs in action. Head through the bakery and out the back you will find a brand new petanque court and playground area which will keep adults and kids alike entertained for hours, while feasting on the new all-day menu, cabinet treats and fresh brews from Coffee Supreme.

2015 New Zealand MasterChef winner Tim Read is Daily Bread’s newly appointed food director and creative mastermind behind the refreshed sit-down menu. Read has curated a unique menu that reflects everything Daily Bread stands for: simple, sustainable and tasty homegrown food.

With Daily Bread utilising quality produce, presented without the fuss, customers can treat their taste buds to slow-cooked eggs and bacon on Daily Bread’s signature sourdough, house-made kimchi with fried eggs or toasted oat porridge with tamarillo – to name just a few options.

Head baker, Patrick Welzenbach coowns the Belmont site along with Tom Hishon and Josh Helm – the team behind popular Ponsonby eatery, Orphans Kitchen and Kingi in Britomart. For a man of his stature, Patrick becomes almost ballerina-like the moment he steps inside the bakery, drawing on 600 years

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of family baking knowledge to perfect his craft.

He’s moulding proofed dough with his hands, and then spins on the balls of his feet to slide a tray of golden sourdough from the oven. Flour is tossed around with dramatic effect, amidst his profound calm and concentration. Patrick’s graceful dance is one that shows innate knowledge of his craft, passed down to him from his grandfather, who learnt from his grandfather before that.

The magic is beholden to Daily Bread’s signature sourdough starter. Patrick can trace his starter through 21 generations of his family back in Germany. His ancestors once worked the village oven in his hometown close to Würzburg, and bread-baking has stayed in the family ever since.

It took several attempts to clear his starter through customs, followed by a shipping container full of novelty bread-baking paraphernalia. When young Patrick finally settled in New Zealand with his wife Moni, he got straight to work. Here, he met fellow cofounders Helm and Hishon, to start their shared dream of making delicious and high-quality staples accessible to communities, which they’ve been doing since 2018. They now have two production bakeries located at Belmont and Point Chevalier and host satellite bakeries in Ponsonby, Britomart, Federal Street and Newmarket. With sourdough breads, sweets and pastries in abundance, Daily Bread is certainly worth treating yourself almost as often as its name suggests.

Open Mon-Sun 7am — 3pm 43 Eversleigh Road, Belmont hello@dailybread.co.nz 09 217 3673, https://dailybread.co.nz/

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Soho’s chefs dedicate their love and experience of food to doing things differently, delivering an all-star experience for the taste buds. The menu (to share) includes ‘Small Plates’ and 'Big Plates’.

Tuesday to Sunday 11.30am til late. Monday closed.

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There is something different every day as the menu and winelist are changing constantly. Locals love it!

Stanley Avenue is a great for dinner, as well an excellent spot for afternoon drinks and offers a brand new lunch menu.

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Stanley Avenue Wine Bar & Bistro 52 East Coast Road, Milford Open Tues & Wed 3pm to 10pm; Thurs 12pm to 10pm; Fri 12pm to 11pm; Sat 12pm to 11pm.

Closed Sunday and Monday.

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"8848 was some of the best Indian fusion food I’ve had in a long time and a really nice introduction to Nepalese cuisine.

I'll be going back there to dine in and also on the nights I want takeaways.” - Channel Magazine, April 2021 Dine-in or take away. Also catering for large group bookings and functions. Parking is easy as well with the new 420 space Toka Puia carpark only metres away.

8848 Restaurant & Bar, 17 Huron Street, Takapuna OPEN Monday to Sunday 10am - 10:30pm 09 489 9911 www.8848indiancuisine.co.nz

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Daily – Happy hour 3-7pm; Kids eat free from 3pm; $20 lunch special. Monday – receive two complimentary drinks when purchasing a large charcuterie board; Wednesday – Super Champagne Specials from 4-6pm; Friday – Live music from 5pm; Saturday – The Great Bottomless Lunch; Sunday – Roast $35 per person, Sunday Pasta $25 with glass of wine, Live music from 2-5pm.

Open Daily 9.30am till late.

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SmokePit & Buoy (located inside The Spencer Hotel on Byron Avenue) is an American style BBQ restaurant with a Kiwi twist.

An extensive menu with something that appeals to every taste, including the popular grill platter for two; featuring BBQ wagyu beef brisket and pork ribs.

Open daily for lunch and dinner, and a worthwhile visit on Sunday for a full breakfast buffet 8-11.30am, plus great value burger + beer meal deals on big sports weekends.

Thursday & Friday cocktail hour features $8.00 cocktails 4pm – 7pm Open Daily Level 1, The Spencer Hotel 9 – 17 Byron Ave, Takapuna, Ph 09 916 4982

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The popular new neighbourhood Milford Village bar & eatery opened by a trio of passionate locals – Craig, Jacqui and Sarah.

Try their Pym’s Classic Prawn Cocktail and a Pimm’s Royale – their signature drink. Excellent drinks selection with simple but great food, including burgers, sharing platters, chicken liver pate, Limoncello cheesecake (and more!).

GROUP BOOKINGS: joy@sakebar.co.nz

This is one of Milford’s best locals – visit their great website (www.pymsofmilford.com) or just drop in. You’ll love it.

Open Tues-Sun, Closed Mondays and public holidays.

32-34 Anzac Street,Takapuna, 09 486 2249 www.sakebar.co.nz

Open 7 days a week, 4pm until close.

Lunch time group bookings available upon request.

154 Kitchener Road, Milford. www.pymsofmilford.com

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NEED TO KNOW: Sunday Roasts every Sunday in August! $30 includes a glass of mulled wine. Bookings essential.

Wine Tasting with Pyramid Valley! Tuesday 31st August. $35 includes 5 tasters and antipasti for the table.

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Welcome to our French restaurant in an amazing and unique lake view location at the heart of Takapuna.

Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner (to be booked 24 hours in advance) with traditional French dishes like onion soup, beef bourguignon and also lots of gluten free galettes and sweet crêpes.

This month: truffle season.

Try our lamb shoulder with foie gras and truffle.

Book at www.french-rendez-vous-caferestaurant.business.site Or via our Facebook and Instagram accounts: facebook: FrenchRendezvousTakapuna Instagram: @frenchrendezvoustakapuna

Sakebar Nippon Japanese Restaurant

Takapuna's friendliest little wine and tapas bar and everyone's favourite local just around the corner from the Bruce Mason theatre.

168 Hurstmere Road Takapuna 09 489 9510 www.taylorsonhurstmere.co.nz taylorsonhurstmere@gmail.com

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THE SHEEPSKIN FACTORY

Say goodbye to the winter chill with these soft and cosy sheepskin gloves!

5pm Mon - Sat and 10-5pm Sunday 34 Barrys Point Road, Takapuna Ph 09 486 2679 www.thesheepskinfactory.co.nz

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FU/NIS

Popular boutique EMS Personal Training studio, fu/nis, is now open on the North Shore.

Time-efficient and individualised for proven results, fu/nis uses small impulses to activate your muscles giving a high-intensity workout in just 20 minutes. It’s ideal for all ages and everyone from the occasional weekend walker, through to professional athletes.

09 242 1780 funis-emstraining.co.nz 178 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna

TANGO'S SHOES

Spring arrivals 164 Kitchener Rd, Milford • 09 488 0495 facebook instagram www.tangosshoes.nz

WALLACE COTTON

Brighten your winter mornings with sleepwear in stunning florals. Made from fine certified organic cotton, our Emily sleepwear is a soft, breathable and sustainable choice and lovely for gifting.

Visit our Takapuna store where our friendly team are looking forward to showing you the beautiful range of PJ separates in our Emily sleepwear collection.

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

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COSI FAN TUTTE

Always the destination for something beautiful and out of the box, Cosi Fan Tutte brings the highly coveted Magnolia Pearl range of artisan clothing to Devonport.

These exquisite limited edition pieces are handmade from natural fabrics and laces and delicately embroidered or hand distressed. The range weaves femininity and romance into wild and carefree designs. Check out the range in store.

Cosi Fan Tutte, 73 Victoria Road, Devonport, 021 247 2469, www.cosifantutte.co.nz

THE FAIRY LIGHT SHOP

Make sure you put your feet up with a cup of tea and some our beautiful star fairy lights this weekend.

Come and visit us at our showroom 32D Barrys Point Rd, Takapuna 09 486 1586, thefairylightshop.com

CRAVEHOME

Let your little one fine tune their motor skills with this sweet set of silicone stacking cups. Available in either cat or bear design and instore now.

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

FLORIENNE

Pop in for a little ray of sunshine or pop online for preorders for collections or delivery.

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

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SPERO CLOTHING & FOOTWEAR

ZETA - 100% soft cotton shirt will take you to the beach or out to lunch New Arrivals - LEMON TREE DESIGN SUMMER 2021 Spero - Clothing & Footwear 13a Mokoia Rd, Birkenhead 09 4199781 www.spero.co.nz

Create a sanctuary in your home with this collection of beautifully coloured patterns with the Resene Sanctuary Wallpaper Collection with a mix of flora, fauna, geo and swirl inspired designs to choose from. View the full wallpaper range at your local Resene ColorShop.

1 Auburn St, Takapuna, 09 489 1540 2 Tawa Drive, Albany, 09 414 6500 8 Croftfield Lane, Wairau Park, 09 444 4387

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FIFTH AVENUE DIAMOND EXPERTS

Luxury and elegance of Montblanc.

Not only famous for writing instruments, Montblanc offers a fantastic range of affordable luxury leather goods. Key rings, belts, credit card holders, cufflinks and wallet make an ideal gift for any Dad. 5 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna www.fifth-avenue.co.nz

HALLENSTEINS GLENFIELD

Hallensteins Glenfield is where comfort meets fashion, with a great range of clothes. Come and shop something stylish for your Dad this Father's Day. Hallensteins Glenfield work hard to keep the store filled with the latest trends.

See you in store soon.

Glenfield Mall L3 09 441 7580 www.hallensteins.com

DEVONPORT CHOCOLATES

Delicious handmade chocolate selections and treats your Dad is sure to love.

17 Wynyard St, Devonport Shop 34, Queens Arcade, 34-30 Queen St devonportchocolates.co.nz

SHORE PHOTOS AND GIFTS

Perfect gifts for your dad this Father’s day.

25% off in the month of August www.shorephotogifts.co.nz

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SHORE PHOTOS AND GIFTS

Perfect gifts for your dad this Father’s day.

25% off in the month of August www.shorephotogifts.co.nz

FIREFLY LIGHT AND DESIGN

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Sway Table Light by Nordlux.

Smart and practical, just like Dad. The Sway lamp features a swivelling head for excellent directional control of light as well as an integrated USB socket for charging devices. Ideal as a bedside or desk light.

09 446 0934, info@fireflynz.com www.fireflynz.com

Affordable and exquisite art work for Father's Day at Creative & Brave. Father's aren't blank canvases, they have hopes, dreams and a deep sense of nostalgia. Our Kiwi artist Barry Ross Smith captures this with masterly strokes in his dreamscape works featuring baches, birds and holiday hideaways.

Perfect for Dad. Price range: $57-$357 Creative & Brave Shore City Mall 09 4898671 takapuna@creativeandbrave.co.nz www.creativeandbrave.co.nz

FIFTH AVENUE DIAMOND EXPERTS

Spoil Dad this Father's Day with a quality Tissot Swiss watch.

Pictured are the latest Tissot 'Seastar' sports watches. The 'Seastar' series combines the practicality of a fully water-resistant sports watch, with Style. Available in both Automatic and Quartz options.

5 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna www.fifth-avenue.co.nz

YARNTONS

Spoil your Father this Father's Day from Yarntons, official stockists of RM Williams - we've always got a great selection of boots & clothing. RM Williams worldrenowned for premium handcrafted footwear made to last.

Devonport Menswear & Womanswear 79 & 69 Victoria Rd, Devonport Birkenhead Menswear & Womanswear 18 - 22 Mokoia Road, Birkenhead www.yarntons.co.nz

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PHOTO GIFTS MADE EASY

Now you can shop local on the Shore for your online photo and gift products!

Channel Mag and Benefitz have recently launched a new initiative called SHORE PHOTOS & GIFTS. This is an online site where you can build your own photo gift items that are then produced right here on the Shore – at Benefitz. This is an opportunity to shop locally online for a wide range of personalised (one off) items, rather than purchasing from suppliers that are based offshore. Shop local!

When you visit this site you will be able to buy traditional photo and gift items, such as photobooks, canvas prints, calendars, photo prints, photo blocks and printed mugs etc.

It was time to offer this range of products to people right on our doorstep, here on our home patch.

Due to our investment in technology we can produce virtually anything so our plan is to expand the products on the site.

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You will also be able to create and order a range of other items that the Benefitz team is capable of producing due to our range of technology. Items such as printed feature walls, wall decals, banners, lifesize cutouts, printed cushions, stickers and magnets, to name just a few.

“We have been producing photo and gifting products for many years, for our clients and for re-sellers/retailers,” explains Benefitz General Manager Rob Gunston. "It was time to offer this range of products to people right on our doorstep, here on our home patch.

Due to our investment in technology we can produce virtually anything so our plan is to expand the products on the site.”

“The whole process is online and we will deliver to your door – just like overseas based suppliers. But due to our location we can also offer the option of picking up the order from our central North Shore

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The new Benefitz manufacturing facility in Parkway Drive is powered by solar energy. The entire northwestern roof of the building includes dozens of solar panels that provide power to an internal battery bank. This solar power is used to run all the machinery in the busy plant. So your photo and gift products you order will be made using solar power.

At Benefitz we are focused on a sustainable future!

25% off during August, so only $28.50!

25% OFF ALL production facility which is powered by solar energy. We will also be quicker than suppliers based in Australia or further afield. Most similar products are manufactured offshore.”

The Benefitz Web Development team has created an online system called PrintCloud to manage the SHORE PHOTOS & GIFTS orders. It is super easy to use – to create your product, order, pay and arrange delivery or pick-up.

“We produce lots of printed fabric and adhesive items and can print to some pretty big sizes, so this is an area where we can offer North Shore people some really interesting product options,” adds Rob Gunston. "Wall adhesives to create an entire feature wall at home is just one example. Wall adhesives can also make kids rooms and bedrooms pretty special, so the potential is enormous.”

The new SHORE PHOTOS & GIFTS site was launched on August 1st. There is 25% off all products right through the month of August on all orders as a special introductory offer.

Take a look and order today… www.shorephotogifts.co.nz

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CANVAS PRINTS

Stretched on to a frame & ready to hang!

PHOTOBOOKS

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THE SPENCER HOTEL

The best function and events venue on the Shore!

The Spencer Hotel – serving the community for two decades If you’re organising conferences, meetings and events on the North Shore, the Spencer Hotel in Takapuna has to be top of the list as a venue. The crew there have a proven track record of two decades and offer a wide range of flexible options to cater for events for up to 500 people.

Located in central Takapuna and just 500 metres from the iconic Takapuna Beach, the Spencer Hotel offers a location that ticks all the boxes and a venue with accommodation – for visitors from outside Auckland or guests wishing to make a night of it. It's located close to public transport connections and just a short drive away from the central city and other parts of the North Shore.

The Spencer plays host to award evenings, to high profile sports teams (the Māori All Blacks were recent guests), black tie dinners, school balls, business conferences and meetings, presentations, trade shows and more!

With the second half of the year in full swing and Christmas just around the corner, now is the time to ensure you have your events booked and organised. The Spencer offers a range of flexible conference, meeting and event spaces with neutral decor, natural light, black-out curtains, catering and AV onsite. Staff include experienced dedicated event organisers who will be assigned to ensure your event goes off without a hitch.

The Spencer Hotel function space options include: • Spencer Ballroom (up to 500 people) – For events or functions on a grand scale, the Spencer Ballroom has proven to be one of Auckland’s most capable spaces. From very large weddings to gala events and awards evenings, you’ll find the space and facilities enable you to deliver your function comfortably and with ease. This space can also be separated into four other configurations.

• Pacific Room (up to 180 people) – Perfect for business presentations or functions. With natural daylight and opening

bi-fold doors from one side if desired, fully controllable lighting, ample power points and neutral decor, you’ll be able to tailor the space to perfectly suit your event or function.

• Normandie Room (up to 90 people) – Perfect for smaller meetings or as a breakout space from the main event, giving the flexibilty to host multi-room functions or conferences.

• Kestrel Room (up to 70 people) – Another premium space, perfect for business presentations, smaller functions or as a breakout space.

• Spencer Boardroom (10-12 people) – The ideal space for an important meeting, with natural daylight and fresh air if desired by opening French doors.

• Pre-function area – To help guests relax and settle in prior to the event commencing, there is a pre-function area located just outside all of these function rooms. Your choice of beverages and pre-function nibbles can be served, with the space suitable to accommodate a large number of people.

Talk to the functions team at the Spencer Hotel today Talk to the functions team at the Spencer Hotel today Phone: 09 916 4978 or Email: meetings@spencerbyron.co.nz or Visit: www.spencerhotel.co.nz

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Takapuna Business Profiles – Supporting local

Abbie Rose and Izadora Campos BizDojo, Takapuna

What is the best advice you have received?

A lack of organisation and preparation on someone else's part does not necessitate an emergency on your part.

The office environment certainly has changed in the last 18 months. How do you Abbie Rose and Izadora Campos. think co-working can best serve businesses in the post-Covid world?

Co-working can offer flexibility and agility for businesses to work from anywhere. Shared spaces can offer solutions closer to your team’s homes, not only positively impacting a better work life balance but also reducing carbon footprints from day-to-day commutes.

What are the biggest misconceptions about co-working spaces and what would you say in response?

People are under the impression that if you take shared/co working space that their company may lack individuality which is completely untrue! We have a great feature called Design Your Office where you can create a bespoke design to suit your company needs!

Why do you think BizDojo Takapuna works so well for this community?

It's the perfect spot for people looking to break up their day with a swim, a trip to their favourite restaurant or a little shopping. Our thoughtfully designed areas have been created with you in mind.

Whether you like to sit, stand, or stretch, we've got you.

We're already a community to everyone. We help each other out with connections and advice with real focus on giving back to the community as a whole.

Decklyn Thomson, Broker - Business Development Crombie Lockwood

What are you most likely to become famous for?

Maybe not world famous, but I’m a massive foodie so would love to open an all-day bistro in future that served some of my favourite foods.

In your downtime where’s your favourite place to hang out in Takapuna and why?

Honey café. The staff there are incredibly friendly and are amazing at remembering regulars and their coffee orders. Great place to check in on weekends, or to read the papers before work.

What kind of businesses use an insurance broker and how do you get the best out of using one?

Any business, whether it be a sole trader to publicly listed companies, can benefit immensely from using an insurance broker. To get the most out of your broker, make sure that every aspect of your business (and the relevant exposures) are discussed with your broker on a regular basis. The more information brokers have, the better protected businesses are.

What’s changed in business insurance since the pandemic? What do companies need to watch out for?

Global events over the last year have had an impact on insurance companies’ results, and this has had a flow on effect to the New Zealand insurance market. With the effects of Covid-19 and lockdowns

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in New Zealand, we are seeing that many businesses are finding ways to adapt to trading in the new environment; however, these changes come with new risks and exposures.

Companies should be discussing with their broker as to how their insurance programme can adapt accordingly, as well as what the market impacts on their business will be.

Decklyn Thomson.

Cyber-attacks have been in the news a bit lately, is this a new thing? What do you need cover for?

Cyber risks have been identified as one of the three main business risks today. As can be expected, this is a growing area of concern for many companies as more business is conducted electronically than in the past. With technology at the heart of almost every business, data protection and network security are serious risks for most organisations.

Anyone with a website, computer, email address or eftpos terminal is a potential target, and businesses need to be prepared for cyber risks such as ransomware, viruses, or data loss and privacy breaches. Cyber insurance policies are designed to cover a business’ losses as well as their liability to others as a result of cyber breach and should form part of every business insurance programme.

Talking Takapuna… your ultimate destination This month we celebrate 25 years of the Bruce Mason Centre!

We are thrilled to have the Bruce Mason Centre as an integral part of our Takapuna community, and we look forward to another fantastic 25 years and more of quality entertainment at the Bruce Mason Centre.

The Bruce Mason Centre is hosting a few celebratory events in light of its birthday, so why not head along a join in the fun?

Sunday 8th August is a whole day of FREE entertainment, starting off with some Pick & Mix fun with The Ice Cream is Melting!

The there's an afternoon of toe-tapping, head-spinning, leaping, laughing dance performances at the Auckland Dance School’s Showcase.

And the brilliant Te Pō will be performed for the first time in Takapuna. It draws on the characters of Bruce Mason’s legacy of plays and reimagines them in this contemporary work – all set in Takapuna - where Bruce spent his childhood years. A policeman, a priest, and a blind man look for clues that will lead them to the missing playwright Bruce Mason. Where has he gone? What made him leave his desk and vanish into the night? And what is that seagull at the window trying to say? Te Pō is an eloquent and surprising comedy punctuated by Māori showband songs. It’s about searching for someone you have loved and lost and finding them again.

Make sure you check out the Bruce Mason Centre website for all the upcoming shows and events on offer – and if you’re planning on heading along to one, why not make a night of it and head in to Takapuna early for a bite to eat, or head out after for some late night snacking?

Takapuna lends itself well to the perfect date night location – treat your significant other to a show at the Bruce Mason and dinner at one of the 150 different places to eat and drink!

Closest to the theatre are the likes of Taylors on Hurstmere offering tapas and easy sharing plates, as well as Nanam where you can find Filipino cuisine at its finest! Heading down Hurstmere there’s local favourites like The Elephant Wrestler and Catnapper Arms, with hearty, casual meals that definitely hit the spot. Or if you’re after dinner and a view, head to Regatta Bar & Eatery, Tokyo Bay or Franc’s for the best views of Takapuna Beach, while enjoying some of the finest meals in Takapuna! We also can’t go past other gems like Madam Woo, Smokepit & Buoy, Nam Nam or Thai Takapuna, all in the heart of Takapuna.

We know it’s still a little chilly outside – but you still can’t beat a walk along Takapuna Beach to clear the mind, refresh the soul –

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Whatever you’re up to or enjoying in Takapuna this winter, we’d love to see it (the dogs you meet, the places and businesses you love to visit, or your favourite spot to relax for a moment!), so please tag us: @ilovetakapuna when posting on social media and we might just re-share your snaps!

EVENTS: AUGUST/SEPTEMBER • 6 Aug – Bruce Mason Centre: Wonderland Glow Show • 6 Aug – Regatta Bar & Eatery: Boogie Nights • 8 Aug – Bruce Mason Centre: The Ice Cream is Melting!

• 9 Aug – Bruce Mason Centre: Morning Melodies - Auckland Principal Brass Quintet • 11-15 Aug – The PumpHouse: The Crucible • 13 Aug - Regatta Bar & Eatery: Boogie Nights • 13-14 Aug – Bruce Mason Centre: The Resilience Project • 20 Aug - Regatta Bar & Eatery: Boogie Nights • 22 Aug – The PumpHouse: Beethoven and Schubert – Orchestra Auckland • 27 Aug - Regatta Bar & Eatery: Boogie Nights • 29 Aug – The PumpHouse: Last Night of the Proms • 3 Sept - Regatta Bar & Eatery: Boogie Nights • 6 Sept – Bruce Mason Centre: Morning Melodies – Caitlin Smith Trio • 8-19 Sept – The PumpHouse: The Campervan • 10 Sept - Regatta Bar & Eatery: Boogie Nights • 17 Sept - Regatta Bar & Eatery: Boogie Nights • 24 Sept - Regatta Bar & Eatery: Boogie Nights • 25 Sept – 16 Oct – The PumpHouse: The Twits by Tim Bray Theatre Company • 26 Sept – The Elephant Wrestler: The GeeBee’s Tribute • 29 Sept – Bruce Mason Centre: Kevin Bloody Wilson – F.U.P.C NZ Tour

Check out all the fantastic photos shared to us by fellow Takapuna lovers! Tag us @ilovetakapuna or use #ilovetakapuna on Instagram to share your pics with us.

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SIMON WATTS: NORTH SHORE MP

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Simon Watts.

The announcement by Chris Hipkins that there is going to be no change to managed isolation requirements for the rest of the year and probably into next year was delivered under cover of the surging pandemic in Australia, but the writing has been on the wall for months.

Thanks to Labour’s shambolic vaccine programme we’re having to rely on a Covid strategy that came into place in the first days of the pandemic and our economy is paying the price. Despite the global efforts of the world’s smartest scientists in developing incredibly effective vaccines, New Zealand is still having to guard its borders as if no such advances in science had been made. Rather than demonstrating to this virus that we are indeed smarter than it, that we have the vaccines and the knowledge to combat it, we’re instead relying on strategies that have their roots in the pandemics of the last century.

This situation has arisen because of two reasons. Firstly, the Government sheltered behind its majority in Parliament and refused to take advice from business leaders or experts outside of their cosy circle. Then this Government cynically traded on the fears of New Zealanders, so it could stick with a lazy strategy that hasn’t evolved to keep pace with developments. Labour simply didn’t have the smarts to think its way beyond an existing MIQ strategy and that’s the truth of it.

Auckland University Professor of Medicine, Des Gorman, went on record recently as saying that the intention to stick with the current MIQ requirements is illogical. This isn’t an MP from the opposition saying this – this is the verdict from an expert. Professor Gorman specifically linked the Government’s entrenched approach to locking down the borders to the fact that so many of us are still unvaccinated.

That’s an indictment on Labour. But even given the consequences of Labour’s mishandling of the vaccine rollout, there are still things that can be done now. Professor Gorman suggests using alternative isolation methods for people who meet a range of criteria, these being: fully vaccinated, from low-risk countries, and producing a negative Covid test prior to boarding the plane. Gorman says it makes no sense to send people who meet these criteria into an MIQ facility. They are just occupying spaces that would be better used for people who pose a real risk.

Chris Hipkins has signalled that he has no intention of listening to the science or to the thousands of businesses that are struggling through skills shortages thanks to a border that is effectively closed.

So how does he suggest solving the housing crisis when we can’t get enough tradespeople into the country, and what’s his solution for the critical shortage of pickers in our orchards?

Labour’s approach is a handbrake on the economy today and a crippling blow to what we could achieve tomorrow. Imagine the talented people who would love the opportunity to live in New Zealand? We could be welcoming the best and brightest in the world, if only we had the best and brightest in our own Government.

Take care, Simon Watts.

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Alison has a wealth of domestic and international experience that she applies to all her clients’ legal situations.

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COVER FEATURE: NATIONAL TRIBUTE, SIR WAYNE SHELFORD

Bringing Back Buck!

Thursday October 7th – A wonderful evening celebrating Sir Wayne ‘Buck’ Shelford Iconic All Blacks captain Sir Wayne ‘Buck’ Shelford will be honoured at a special function in early October. 'National Tribute – Sir Wayne Shelford' is an evening celebrating the achievements of the inspirational Shelford both on and off the rugby field.

The televised function will be staged at North Shore’s Eventfinda Stadium on Thursday October 7th, with Shelford’s family, friends and former All Black and North Harbour colleagues sharing their favourite ‘Buck’ stories. Proceeds from the event will benefit North Harbour community rugby.

He is a man of great mana, a true legend when it comes to North Harbour and New Zealand rugby. He continues to inspire many Kiwis through his community and charity work. We feel absolutely privileged that he has chosen to support community rugby in the province.

The Sir Wayne Shelford event follows the successful staging of 'National Tribute – Sir John Kirwan'. That 2019 function was a sell-out with seven hundred guests entertained by Sir JK’s closest ‘mates’ sharing amusing anecdotes about the guest of honour. Sir John nominated proceeds of his event go to support junior rugby at his beloved Auckland Marist Rugby Club.

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Event promoter, Sports Inc.’s Kelsen Butler, is looking forward to bringing the special function together. “The evening is going to be very entertaining with plenty of great stories to be shared. I’ve no doubt the likes of Eric Rush, Glen Osborne and Frano Botica will have a few ‘Buck’ yarns that have never been heard before,” said Butler.

'National Tribute – Sir Wayne Shelford' will see around 700 guests treated to a three-course meal before the attendees become the live ‘studio’ audience as the 80-minute event goes to air on Sky Sport, (with a free-to-air replay on Prime). Included in the evening’s activities will be an auction of memorabilia and money-can’t-buy experiences with proceeds benefiting North Harbour community rugby, Shelford’s chosen cause.

David Gibson, North Harbour Rugby CEO, is delighted to be involved. “He is a man of great mana, a true legend when it comes to North Harbour and New Zealand rugby. He continues to inspire many Kiwis through his community and charity work. We feel absolutely privileged that he has chosen to support community rugby in the province.”

Sophie Moloney, Sky CEO says, “Sky is delighted to be associated with the national tribute to celebrate the incredible contribution Sir Wayne (Buck) Shelford has made to the sport and the wider whānau. It will be our pleasure to ensure fans throughout Aotearoa can join in this auspicious event.”

National Tribute is all about sharing entertaining and inspirational stories. Event attendees and Sky Sport viewers are in for a memorable evening as the legendary Sir Wayne ‘Buck’ Shelford is honoured by his family and friends.

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In the Queen’s Birthday Honours this year Wayne Shelford received a Knighthood. This was the official government announcement...

SHELFORD, Mr Wayne Thomas (Buck), MBE For services to rugby and the community Mr Wayne ‘Buck’ Shelford is recognised for his time with the All Blacks as a player from 1985 and Captain from 1987 to 1990, where he is credited for bringing the mana back to the All Black haka and leading a record-setting 14 consecutive test victories as Captain.

Mr Shelford has given freely and tirelessly back to the community through numerous charitable works, most notably through men’s health. He is a committed ambassador for the Prostate Cancer Foundation. His numerous fundraising activities include golf tournaments, ‘Pedals4Prostate’, ‘Shear4Life’, keynote speaking and charitable auctions, such as for Child Cancer Foundation. He was involved with Ministry of Health’s ‘Life Keeper Suicide Prevention’ programme and ‘Waimarie – Whatever it takes’ community housing for the disabled. He recently became involved with ‘Te Kiwi Māia’, a charitable trust involved in offering respite care for emergency first responders. He is member of the Northern Region Lion Foundation Grants Committee. He is on the Executive of Auckland RSA and Patron of the Passchendaele Society. He is President of Northshore Rugby Club, having been involved for more than 40 years as player, captain and coach. He is Patron of New Zealand Navy Rugby, New Zealand Defence Force Rugby and of Māori education programme ‘Te Reo Tuatahi’, supporting Te Reo Māori in mainstream schools. Mr Shelford is well regarded for his standing and mana within Aotearoa and within Te Ao Māori.

For more information please contact: Kelsen Butler, Managing Director, Sports Inc. 021 270 2549, or David Gibson, CEO, North Harbour Rugby 021 707 208.

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MILFORD SHOPS NEWS

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

What's NEW in MILFORD? MILFORD

Murray Hill

Plenty to do in Milford!

Well, we’ve really stepped into winter conditions now, but there’s plenty to do in Milford. With just about every retail space full or being refitted, there is such a good range of businesses in Milford, including many service-orientated businesses.

Prize Winners

Thanks to everyone who entered our recent competitions – here are the winners: Consumer Competition – Winner Julie Mason, who made her purchase at Blakes Providore Thanks to the support of Peugeot North Shore & the Hilton Taupo.

Milford Staff Competition – Winner Puni Saini (Manager of La Tropezienne).

Dinner for 2 at The Milford, Cafe Bar & Restaurant Thanks to Ali and the team at The Milford.

Business Owners Competition – Winner Tony Sands, Sands & Associates, Accountants & Advisors.

Thanks to Mercedes-Benz North Shore.

New Weekly Prize/Reward Program Starting

Over the years we have built up a wonderful database of local customers – some 7000 at last count. Each month we send a newsletter to them about happenings in Milford. We’ve now decided to reward all these loyal shoppers by introducing a weekly prize – and if you are already on the newsletter mailer, you don’t have to do a single thing.

Each week we will draw a winner on Wednesday from this database and notify the winner by email. Look out for the prizes and winners on our Facebook page – milfordshops. It could be you!

Make sure you are getting our Newsletter

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• Go to the Milfordshops website • Click the ‘CONTACT’ button at the top of the Home page • Fill in your details – name, email & mobile • Write ‘NEWSLETTER' in the enquiry box And you will be added to the list.

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Follow Milford on Social Media Tables and Seats In Village Square Refurbished

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The new bright colours have garnered plenty of praise and more people seem to be using the seating.

Another win/win for Milford and the community!

Be sure to follow Milford on our social media pages. Our new partnership with Naked Marketing is providing fantastic insight into our local businesses and both pages have just taken off. If you haven’t checked them out lately, you’re missing out!

Our Facebook is ‘milfordshops’ and Instagram ‘milfordshopsnz” See you in Milford! Bye til next month!

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BOWLS NORTH HARBOUR: NEWS

with Lindsay Knight

Takapuna’s Sue Rossiter was named Umpire of the Year.

Graham Dorreen, for the fifth time was named Harbour’s coach of the year.

Robyne Walker, one of Takapuna’s high achieving womens bowlers and named administrator of the year.

Takapuna’s Black Jack international Selina Smith had a stellar season.

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Takapuna’s vintage 2020-21 season was recognised at Bowls North Harbour’s annual awards function when it was proclaimed the centre’s club of the year.

The club achieved many successes, both on and off the green, but the honour was due in large measure, at least in a playing sense, to the exploits of several members, especially the Black Jack international Selina Smith.

She might not have matched her 2019-20 feats when she was twice a national champion, but still had a stellar season and won North Harbour’s top individual accolade in being named its supreme bowler of the year.

She finished runner-up in two national championships, the pairs and fours, made the semi-finals of the national champion of championship singles, won both of the centre’s women’s singles titles and was in Takapuna’s winning women’s teams in both pennants and sevens.

At the one-to-five years levels a newcomer to the club, Skye Renes, had a record that was almost as impressive and she was proclaimed the centre’s young bowler of the year. She won the centre’s one-to-five singles, was runner-up in the champion of champion singles and was skip in winning the “any combination” one-to-five pairs from a field which included several promising male bowlers.

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In just her third year in the game she also won her first open centre title, playing at lead with Wendy Jensen, Anne Dorreen and Trish Hardy when Takapuna won the champion of champion fours.

Our board mantra this year was to embrace change, adapt and respect the past…

I believe we have fulfilled this.

– Graham Dorreen

It was especially memorable season for the club’s women’s players.

A powerhouse line-up of Smith, Jensen, Dorreen, Lisa Parlane, Robyne Walker, Adele Ineson and Connie Mathieson comfortably won the centre sevens inter-club title, then finished a commendable second in the national final, beaten only by a strong Nelson side. Ineson and Walker also made the national pairs quarter-finals.

Just how competitive Takapuna’s women’s bowlers have become was illustrated in the club’s singles final, which was contested by two

Takapuna Bowling Club members celebrating their success.

internationals in Smith and Jensen.

The club’s male bowlers were far from overshadowed, though. John Janssen and Jerry Belcher won the centre’s champion of champion pairs title and Jeremy Brosnan, Bevan Smith and Ian Hardy won the centre’s Dick Bree triples championship. In national championships Smith, Brett O’Riley and Graham Skellern were highly placed.

Other successes included winning the Harbour 3-5 competition and a double for men and women in the centre pennants.

As a coach, chairman of the club’s board, Graham Dorreen, has inspired much of the women’s success and as an administrator, he has helped revitalise the club, overseeing much of the refurbishment which has enhanced the club-house and the outside facilities. His management, plus a prudent treasurer, Connie Mathieson, enabled the club to have an excess surplus on its operations of more than $72,000.

And in a reversal of what is the trend in most sports codes, the club membership, instead of declining, has increased to nearly 200.

For the fifth time Dorreen was named Harbour’s coach of the year, with the administrator of the year award going to the club’s retiring secretary Robyne Walker, who was recently elected to the centre board and for the new season will take over as Takapuna’s president.

This award especially recognised her role in directing the club’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Two other Takapuna members were honoured at the Harbour awards for their contribution to the game in general. Sue Rossiter, often seen on television’s bowls coverage, was made umpire of the year for the third year and the writer of this article as centre publicity officer was given a lifetime achievement award.

Dorreen, however, points out that while successes at the top level have been important, equally significant for the club has been its community role in catering for the recreational roll-up bowler. “Our board mantra this year was to embrace change, adapt and respect the past,” he says. “I believe we have fulfilled this.”

Other centre award winners were Bart Robertson (Helensville), male bowler of the year; Ron Cowper (Helensville), volunteer of the year; Matthew Higginson (Orewa), male one-to-five year bowler of the

Bowling at Takapuna is for fun, friendship and competition.

year; Jenny Daniels (Orewa), official of the year; Lesley Langer (centre secretary- events manger), President’s Cup; Norman Klaassen (Manly), life-time achievement award); and Brendon Kelly, green-keeper of the year.

Another highlight of the awards function was the induction of three outstanding bowlers, Ivan Kostanich, Brent Turner and Carole Fredrick, sadly all of whom have passed away, into the centre’s official “Legends”.

Though most of Kostanich’s remarkable feats, including three national titles, were within the Auckland centre, before the formation of North Harbour, he has been always identified with the celebrated Helensville club.

Turner was always a Harbour stalwart, playing for the Silverdale, Orewa, Browns Bay and Helensville clubs, and winning 28 centre titles, as well as being in the Harbour representative side which won the national inter-centre championship in 2005.

Fredrick, too, was involved with several Harbour clubs, but latterly with Birkenhead, with whom she was especially proud to have won the second of her national titles with her club-members rather than as a compositive. Like Turner, she finished with a swag of centre titles (27).

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RETIREMENT LIVING ON THE SHORE

Spoilt for retirement living options north of the bridge Retirement living is becoming a real focus as our population ages. The emergence of a superb range of modern retirement lifestyle options over the past decade has opened up a whole new range of possibilities for those into their retirement years. As you will discover on the following pages we have some wonderful options here north of the Harbour Bridge.

We are spoilt for choice.

A decade ago the writer lost his father suddenly at the age of 81. The loving husband and life partner of my mother for close to 60 years. As those who have gone through an event like this will know, this was a tough period for my mother.

Around a year after dad died, my mum made a decision to sell her home and move to a brand new one bedroom apartment at one of North Shore’s leading retirement villages – along with her much-loved pooch. The sale of the home resulted in some additional funds left over for her to enjoy in her later years.

Eight years on this move has proven to be a very good one.

For mum the retirement village provides her with everything she needs. A lovely modern lock-up and leave home with all the bells and whistles. Comfort, security, friendship, social contact, great location, all the amenities – including the onsite cafe/restaurant and barbecue area/outdoor facilities that we often use as a family.

The dog loves it as well!

There are those focused on a capital gain out of property who point to the financial ‘licence to occupy’ situation as not being a good one. But we don’t buy into that. What this retirement village offers for our mum and our family is a great solution. While it needs to be affordable (and it is), financial considerations are on the list, but not at the top.

Retirement villages as an option for retirement gets one big tick from our family.

PALM GROVE REST HOME

We provide holistic, person-centered care in a warm, safe and nurturing home environment in a beautiful historical villa in Devonport that is within walking distance to the beach, cafes and parks.

Our goal is to provide you with high quality life experiences in a peaceful setting, with excellent care giving. We are making positive changes in the day to day lives of our residents. Please pop in and have a cuppa with us, we’d love to meet you and show you around. Or join us for free on a Monday or Thursday at 10.30am for an hour of gentle movement, music and socialisation.

Contact July Pili, Manager • 8 Grove Road, Narrow Neck • Tel 09 445 0009 Email manager@palmgrove.info

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Fine living on the North Shore At Norfolk Apartments we aim to provide a relaxing environment for independent living that complements your lifestyle Norfolk Apartments is a boutique lifestyle village with style, just 200 metres from the Mairangi Bay shops, restaurants and cafés, close to Mairangi Bay Beach and all the suburb’s amenities, including easy public transport access.

Residents enjoy a relaxed environment and independent living in apartments set in a quiet oasis of native trees. The mature manicured gardens creates privacy and a park-like setting, right next to the local bowls and tennis clubs in the heart of Mairangi Bay. The complex, independently owned and operated since 1992, prides itself on its friendly family feel. With just 23 apartments residents have the opportunity to enjoy the company of close neighbours, as well as the independence and individual lifestyle of a contemporary apartment complex.

Security is assured, with a gated underground carpark, and an on-site manager to help with anything you may need.

What really sets Norfolk Apartments apart from other Retirement Village’s living options is that when you buy into one of these highly sought-after residences, you will receive a share of the capital gain when it comes time to move.

Norfolk Apartments are designed for active over-55s, wanting to make the most of the East Coast Bays lifestyle and maintain work, leisure and social contacts – without the maintenance of a stand-alone property.

Norfolk Apartments, 7-9 Ramsgate Terrace, Mairangi Bay Ph: 021 450 299 E: Katrina.williams@hughesandtuke.co.nz

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C RAFTED L EGAL ADV ICE FOR PE ACE OF MIN D.

Buying into a retirement village?

What you need to know.

Retirement villages can offer a great lifestyle and peace of mind, but the legalities of buying into a retirement village are vastly different to buying a residential property.

There are many different things to consider beyond feeling comfortable and happy with the unit, including the type of ownership, resale process, ongoing fees, and the availability of other services and facilities such as a rest home.

The Retirement Villages Act requires prospective residents to receive independent legal advice before entering into an agreement, so contact us today.

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NICK KEARNEY, DAVENPORTS LAW

Nick Kearney (LLB, LLM, Dip Pol.) is a Property Law expert specialising in residential and commercial property, and general commercial work, and holds a Master’s degree that focused on real estate agents and their role in property law. After spending twelve years at another firm on the North Shore, with seven of those years as a director, Nick has joined Davenports Law at the helm of their growing property team.

Nick Kearney.

Retirement village living New Zealand’s ageing population has led to a proliferation of retirement villages, and the trend is only upwards. They’re a very convenient way of life for retired people with a vast range of amenities usually available.

But there are pitfalls on the legal and economic side of the ledger.

Consequently, prospective owners need to consider their financial and other needs before signing up for a retirement village.

The most important issue is ownership. Most villages do not allow ownership of the property. This means there are restrictions around the sale and renting of it, which is usually prohibited, and any capital gain on the re-sale is captured by the village. Instead, villages operate a “licence to occupy” arrangement, which gives the resident the right to live in a unit for their lifetime, and indeed for the lifetime of the survivor (if the owners are a couple) upon payment of a monthly or weekly fee, which is generally quite affordable. This fee is usually fixed for the term of the agreement, or in some cases increases are linked to inflation increases. Some agreements permit villages to increase the fee upon adequate notice. If you are unable to pay these fees, some villages will let the fees accumulate until the unit is sold.

In addition to the monthly fee, residents are also responsible for payment of telephone, power, internet and other such utilities.

Prospective owners will sign an application and then pay a nominal deposit. There is a 15-working-day cooling off period in the legislation, which allows for owners to safely sign the full agreement, yet decide it’s not for them with the ability to cancel it within that 15 working days and obtain a refund of any money paid.

Most villages do not allow ownership of the property. This means there are restrictions around the sale and renting of it…

There are statutory obligations on village operators to provide prospective owners with a disclosure statement setting out the rights and obligations of owners. This disclosure document also describes the financial matters, and provides details of village rules, policies and the like.

Lawyers have a legal duty to explain the detail of the agreement to owners, and they are further required to sign a certificate to confirm that they have explained the nature and effect of the documents to the owner, and more importantly, that the owner understands them.

One of the pivotal aspects of any occupation right agreement is the application of a ‘deferred management fee’ payable upon the resident exiting the village.

Village operators don’t make their money from the monthly fees paid by residents: These cover the day-to-day costs of operation,

and little else. The management fee is usually 20%–30% of the original purchase price, and is applied on a pro rata basis of, say, 10% per year over the first two or three years, with a cap of the 20-30%.

When the unit is sold, the village will pay to the owners, or their estate, the original purchase price, less the management fee, and less any fees and other costs of repair to reinstate the unit. This means that when you leave the retirement village, you will almost always receive a financial payment that is significantly less than the price that was paid at entry. This is usually well explained by village operators to prospective owners at the outset, but is worth repeating.

As explained, on termination the deferred management fee and any other costs are deducted from the repayment sum. But the monthly fees usually continue until a new owner moves in. This frequently causes concern from surviving family members, and most agreements limit this period to six months.

In the event of a transfer from one unit to another in the same village, the village can charge a transfer fee. Also on termination, the unit is inspected and owners are responsible for any repairs and upgrades (but not fair wear and tear).

Retirement villages are increasingly popular, if not a little controversial. They can be a comfortable retirement living option for many people. However, it is generally beneficial for families to be aware of the decision by their parents and/or grandparents to commit to this living option, due to both the legal and economic ramifications.

For advice around buying into a retirement village contact the Davenports Law Property Team.

Nick Kearney, Davenports Law

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Our pioneering approach to retirement living includes our Peace of Mind Guarantees designed to give our residents greater confidence to live the way they want. They provide freedom and flexibility that lets you choose when, where, and how you want to live your life.

The deferred management fee (DMF) is your contribution to the continued maintenance and management of the village, including your unit and the village amenities. It’s deducted when your occupancy advance is repaid, which is the amount you’ve paid to occupy the unit. Your DMF will be no more than 20 percent – one of the lowest in the retirement sector.

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Retirement villages: How much do they really cost?

By Paula Bishop - Managing Director, Village Guide

It’s a question I get asked all the time: ‘How much does it cost to live in a retirement village?’ Every village is different, so there’s no one-size-fits-all answer. But I can give you an overview of how the pricing structure works and what fees you might be charged.

Entry costs

Periodic or weekly costs

Most villages require new residents to pay both a deposit and an initial capital sum to secure an occupation right agreement* for a unit. The initial capital sum is typically lower than the average freehold property value in an area. Ideally, when you sell your home, you’ll release equity that covers the initial capital sum and allows you to add to your retirement savings.

Also known as ongoing fees, periodic or weekly costs cover day-to-day village operating costs such as:

*An occupation right agreement (ORA) sets out the terms and conditions under which a resident can occupy or live in a retirement village unit. ORAs differ from village to village and every intending resident must receive independent legal advice from a solicitor.

• Village services

Deferred management fee The deferred management fee commonly covers the long-term costs of living at a village. For example, the maintenance of facilities and communal areas, as well as the re-licensing and refurbishment of your property after the licence ends.

Under a licence to occupy, most village operators retain a portion of a resident’s initial capital sum – usually 20-30% – as a deferred management fee. This amount is typically accrued between 2-5 years depending on the village and type of home you occupy.

See example of deferred management fee accrual below.

If you paid an initial capital sum of $750,000 for a licence to occupy a home and the operator of the village had a deferred management fee of 20% accruing at 4% for each year over five years, then:

• Rates • Insurance • Grounds maintenance • Staff wages Fees may stay fixed throughout a resident’s entire residence at a retirement village, or they may increase over time. It’s important to discuss the possibility of fee changes with the village sales manager and under what conditions they would increase.

What are other costs to consider?

In most cases, residents will need to budget for additional charges that are excluded from village fees. Additional charges usually fall into two broad categories – personal costs and add-on services.

Personal costs refer to personal living expenses such as contents insurance, phone & internet, and household power.

Add-on services refer to optional services which are payable over and above your weekly fee, such as housekeeping, meals, laundry, daily medical supervision, physiotherapy, podiatry, and hairdressing services.

After year one: Your deferred management fee would be $30,000. On repayment from the operator, $30,000 would be deducted from the initial capital sum you paid for the home.

After year two: 8% of the deferred management fee will have accrued (8% of $750,000 is $60,000).

After year five: 20% of the deferred management fee will have accrued (20% of $750,000 is $150,000).

In this example the deferred management fee is capped at 20%. Therefore you wouldn't pay more than $150,000 regardless of how many years you reside in the village.

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METLIFECARE: GULF RISE

Bob and Dianne Burch and Brian and Mary Aldersley at Metlifecare’s Gulf Rise.

Gulf Rise gardening group.

A Fertile Ground for Friendship A unique friendship forged half a century ago has taken on a whole new dimension at Metlifecare’s Gulf Rise.

When Mary and Brian Aldersley moved into the village last November, Diane and Bob Burch could have sworn their faces were familiar. But it wasn’t until Bob and Brian got chatting at the village Christmas party that they discovered quite how deep their connection was.

“My wife Diane was born deaf, and Brian asked me if we happened to know Mary’s late brother John, who was also deaf,” says Bob. “I was flabbergasted. John was like a father to Diane, we’ve known him for 50 years, and for many years lived just a couple of streets away from him in Te Atatu South.”

It was an emotional revelation.

“When I told Diane, she burst into tears. She and John were so close, and they were involved in lots of things together, both through the deaf community and their shared passion for sports.”

A talented athlete, Diane coached two netball teams in Avondale and was also captain and coach of the New Zealand deaf netball team which competed against Australia in Trans-Tasman Games on both sides of the ditch. Meanwhile John was a champion New Zealand wrestler, competed in the World Deaf Games and was even selected for the Olympics.

“It’s such a small world. Diane had a marvellous friendship with John and now we have this fantastic friendship with Mary and Brian.

It’s been very special and clearly it’s meant to be. John will be looking down on us and loving that we’ve all got together!”

Mary and Brian are equally delighted.

“Diane often says I remind her of John – especially when I wave

my hands around when I’m talking,” says Mary. “It’s been wonderful connecting with Diane in this way, and Bob and Brian have also become great mates; they go walking together and catch up regularly for happy hour.”

And while not all village friendships stem from such a unique shared history, there’s no denying the strong sense of kinship Gulf Rise residents enjoy.

Artist and avid gardener Denice Symons has just celebrated her first year of village life – and with a ground floor apartment that opens straight onto the community gardens, she couldn’t be happier.

“Before moving to Gulf Rise we lived in an apartment. I was always keen to get a community garden going there but nobody shared my vision,” says Denice. “When we visited Gulf Rise and saw the gardens and glasshouses, I was sold!”

Now she spends much of each week planting, watering, weeding and nurturing.

“Our gardening group tends the planter boxes and hothouses – I love to contribute in this way. Residents can wander along and tweak a few leaves for their dinner or pick some beans. That’s where all the companionship happens. I’ve made lovely friends through this garden."

And now she looks set to make even more.

“I’ve been savoring the warmth of the hothouses over the winter months and had a spontaneous idea to encourage others to enjoy this space. I’ve brought in a table and some chairs and named it ‘The Winter Garden Café’. BYO coffee and friend! It’s a nice way to get to know people better.”

Like a well-earned holiday, everyday • A vibrant, ungated community overlooking the sparkling Hauraki Gulf • State-of-the-art amenities, beautiful natural landscaping and a tranquil coastal atmosphere • Sun drenched apartments and villas bring you the best in modern living.

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Gulf Rise, 89 Symes Drive, Red Beach Contact Adelina on 0800 005 877 Visit gulfrise.co.nz

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METLIFECARE: THE POYNTON

Friends for Life When Metlifecare The Poynton residents Robyn Arblaster and Alison Bird say they’ve been friends for life, they’re certainly not exaggerating. In fact, it could be argued that their unique bond stretches across more than just one lifetime – it spans entire generations.

Born just a month apart, the two women first met as babies at the local Takapuna Plunket group. They went right through kindergarten and school together (usually in the same class!) and are now living in Robyn Arblaster and Alison Bird. the same apartment block (directly below and above each other) at Metlifecare’s The Poynton. Their mums were friends (also ending up in the same retirement village in their golden years), and their kids (three each other’s apartments and Robyn and I have just started learning each) are all the same ages.

Mahjong together. We also spend a lot of time chatting in the carpark “Despite living at opposite ends of the world at times, we have because our car spaces are opposite each other! maintained our friendship to this day,” says Alison.

“Robyn has time for everyone and I feel fortunate to be able to “When my husband Philip and I got married, Robyn was our matron count her among my closest friends. We don’t see each other every of honour and her husband Rob was one of the groomsmen. Our first day, but we know that the other is only a text or a lift ride away.” children were born just three weeks apart, and next year we will even For both women, moving into The Poynton has marked the start have grandsons attending the same intermediate school!” of an exciting new life chapter, and the continuation of a rich and It’s not surprising then, that when Alison and Philip began rewarding friendship. considering village life, they looked to Robyn and Rob – already well Adds Robyn, “So often people do not make this move until it is too settled at The Poynton – for advice. late and often when they have just lost their partner and are grieving.

“After a few visits, they moved in too,” says Robyn.

It has been the best decision we have made as now we have so many “It’s so lovely. We are all there for each other should someone friends and associates, the gardening and building maintenance are all need a baking ingredient, a chat, or assistance with something. It’s done and there are so many activities to do.” the culmination of a wonderful long friendship.”

Connected by a lifetime of shared experiences, Robyn and Alison are now creating fresh memories together, as village life gives them even more opportunities to do what they enjoy.

Says Alison, “The Takapuna Primary school - Year 2, Robyn 2nd row from Westlake Girls Year 10 Alison 3rd row from front on left, four of us catch up front, Alison 2nd on left in striped sweater and collar.

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Get set for the good life • A stylish, upmarket village with a cosmopolitan feel • Stunning location near Lake Pupuke, Smales Farm, Milford Mall and beautiful beaches • An active community with an abundance of social activities and wide range of premium facilities • Light, bright, comfortable homes.

The Poynton, 142 Shakespeare Road, Takapuna Contact Suzee on 027 218 7985 Visit metlifecare.co.nz

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METLIFECARE: GREENWICH GARDENS

Judy Versalko, Mary Ann Boys, Beverley Kelly and Ann Fitzgerald.

Friendships forged through four-legged friends Over the last few months Metlifecare has been celebrating fabulous friendships at its retirement villages. Here’s a great story about four residents who have formed a close friendship as dog-walking buddies.

Mary-Ann Boys and Judy Versalko first met the day Judy moved into Metlifecare Greenwich Gardens, when she and a team of furniture movers were trying to manoeuvre a new couch into her apartment.

Although the couch eventually went back to the shop, the chance hallway meeting with neighbour Mary-Ann proved far more fruitful.

Both women quickly realised they shared a common bond – MaryAnn’s beloved West Highland Terrier Danny, and Judy’s rescue Bichon Rosie, a picture of cuteness, all the way down to her pink pearl collar.

“Having a pet introduces you to people, it opens up a whole new social life,” says Mary-Ann. Soon the pair became dog walking buddies, and before long they’d befriended four other Greenwich Gardens residents – Alfie the Poochon and his mum Beverley Kelly, and Ann Fitzgerald and her beloved Bertie.

“Now we have coffees together in the morning, wines in the

evening, and also catch up for dinners together. We’ve created a really close friendship.”

Known by many of the village residents as “the dog ladies”, the four women couldn’t be happier.

“We’ve got a lovely little routine going,” says Beverley. “There are lots of different parks nearby to walk the dogs, or we can jump in the car and take them to the beach at Mairangi Bay.” Adds Ann, “It’s wonderful companionship. We solve all sorts of problems together and it’s very supportive , not just for us but for the dogs too.”

They also share a lot of laughs.

“We’re a little bit naughty,” admits Judy. “We’re always the noisy table in the café!”

Bonding over their four-legged friends has opened up a whole new dimension of life at Greenwich Gardens.

“We are all on our own and we’ve gravitated together because of the dogs,” explains Judy, who moved to the village from West Auckland to be closer to her daughter.

“It’s the best thing, I’m really happy here. I’ve met some lovely people - and some lovely dogs too.”

The friendliest village on the North Shore • 4.4 hectares of beautifully landscaped grounds • Premium amenities include pool, gym, bowling green, putting green, veggie plots and more • Contemporary homes, built to a 6 Homestar rating • Socially connected with over 40 weekly activities.

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METLIFECARE: THE ORCHARDS

When Nothing Beats a Good Laugh When Pauline Meek moved into The Orchards two years ago, Jill Miller was the first resident she chatted to. Now the pair are as thick as thieves and couldn’t imagine village life without each other.

“My late husband Neville and I had only been in the village for a couple of days,” says Pauline. “We were sitting upstairs having a cup of tea and Jill came over and asked if we would like to join her table. We’ve been best mates ever since!”

The pair have a shared passion for indoor petanque and croquet, and catch up at least three times a week, often more.

"We got on really well from the first time we met each other, and our friendship has just grown from there. We like to have our few little drinks together and we were in each other’s bubble after lockdown. I’m a lot older – I’m 82 and Jill is in her 70s – but we really just hit it off.”

Jill puts it down to their ability to have a good laugh.

“Pauline and I have similar personalities and we like to share a joke. Like me, she has a wicked sense of humour.

Some may find our humour weird, but we find it hilarious,” says Jill, who moved into The Orchards six years ago shortly after the village opened.

As well as companionship and camaraderie, the two women provide each other with invaluable support.

“I teach line dancing at the village every week and Pauline and a couple of other ladies always come and watch. It means Pauline Meek and Jill Miller. a lot to me.”

For both women, life at The Orchards is rich and rewarding, and has been the birthplace of treasured new friendships. stories of the lifechanging friendships they’ve made since moving into “Because we are a small village of just over 120 people, you sort of their village, as well as tales of reconnecting with old mates from work, get to know everybody. It’s really lovely. Whenever I go to the local school or even kindergarten! shops, I always run into a couple of residents I know and say hi,” says Jill.

Nearly 6000 Kiwis chose to call a Metlifecare village their home Pauline couldn’t agree more: “The thing I enjoy most about village and the opportunity to make friends with likeminded people, who life is that everyone who lives here is so nice. Nobody walks past have common interests and with whom you can share the joys of without saying hello. I feel very lucky and am so happy to be living life, is one of the great benefits of retirement village living. To read here.” more fabulous stories of friendships and to get a taste of what In the lead up to International Day of Friendship on Friday 30 July, village life is about, download your copy of The Villager magazine residents from Metlifecare’s 26 retirement villages have been sharing at metlifecare.co.nz.

Find your perfect fit North Auckland Open Day. Saturday 14 August 10am-3pm Take a day to discover five exciting retirement destinations. From urban vibes to beachside bliss, you’ll be amazed at just how unique each village is.

With each one offering an enticing array of features, it’s all about finding the one that YOU connect with best. Can’t get to all five? Simply call your local Sales Executive to arrange a personal appointment.

Visit metlifecare.co.nz/northauckland to learn more about Metlifecare’s North Auckland villages.

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KINGFISHER HOUSE

Kingfisher House - setting a new standard for dementia care in the heart of Devonport Kingfisher House, opened on 7th June 2021, offers private luxury Dementia Care with a firm and proven point of difference. The innovative model of care that underpins all aspects of Kingfisher House is an alternative to traditional aged care facilities. This fresh new approach is embedded in the Eden Alternative – care that recognises the importance of treating a person’s heart as well as heart condition; while doing their best to heal bodies, the dedicated Kingfisher House team feed the spirit too.

Research shows that health outcomes in smaller environments are superior to traditional nursing homes, with smaller care environments proven to increase quality of life, Georgia Pert, Alka Chetty, Belinda Brice and Dayna Pert. reduce rates of depression and reduce hospitalisation for people living with dementia. With this in mind, Kingfisher House is first and Kingfisher House is part of the Kumeu Village family, privately owned foremost a home — it's warm and open with the familiar atmosphere and operated since 2015. Professional services offered by the team of a traditional home. The decor purposefully creates a sense of a includes: traditional Devonport villa with period features and personal touches • Dementia Care which work alongside the layout, specially designed for easy and We work closely with the families of our residents living with convenient living, socialising and enjoying the best out of life. dementia to choose the right home based on care needs and common interests. This helps residents to engage with others in the home and form beautiful connections.

• Clinical Support Our highly skilled registered nurses are on site or on call 24/7, and can help out with all complex clinical care in your home or in our group homes.

• Respite Care We offer a range of respite options from day to overnight care.

Our Support Team will work with you to accommodate your preferences around location, dates and availability.

Kingfisher House promotes and prioritises the well-being that comes with taking part in the usual routines of normal life, and the residents enjoy and greatly benefit from the comfort this approach brings.

Unlike other larger residential aged care facilities, Kingfisher House doesn't run to rigid schedules – residents wake up in their own time, set their own meal times, have visitors when they want and are free to enjoy the outdoors. Normal day to day life is encouraged with residents living as closely as possible to how a normal household is run; residents and guests or family members come together to socialise, cook, enjoy quiet time together, look after pets, gardening and enjoying the outside spaces, often popping out to a local cafe or restaurant for a cuppa or a bite to eat, or taking a stroll on the beach.

Kingfisher House promotes and prioritises the well-being that comes with taking part in the usual routines of normal life, and the residents enjoy and greatly benefit from the comfort this approach brings.

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If you would like to visit us, we would love to meet you and proudly show you our new way of living with dementia here in Devonport.

Please contact Belinda and organise a time to pop in during the week.

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LIFE STORIES MADE EASY

Fay publishes her life story Well-known Takapuna identity Fay Freeman has recently completed the publishing of her life story.

Titled ‘Fay Freeman – Life is one long adventure’, the book was put together by local company Benefitz, using their online ‘My Life Story Book’ system.

Aged in her early 70s, Fay decided to write her life story in response to members of her family asking questions about her life and the family in general.

“While this is my life story, my motivation was to tell the story of our family as much as anything and that’s what the completed book has achieved,” says Fay.

As a result of doing the book I have reconnected with relatives. Family reunions will result from these connections. Putting in all the hard work, undertaking the research that was required has been very rewarding.

“Growing up in a family of 10 there was a lot to cover and many stories to tell. Along the way I have learnt many things about our family that I never knew. Such as my grandmother being an illegitimate child raised by her grandmother. I also discovered that my dad had a brother that we had no idea about.

“As a result of doing the book I have reconnected with relatives. Family reunions will result from these connections. Putting in all the hard work, undertaking the research that was required has been very Fay Freeman and her recently completed book. rewarding.”

The project took Fay around 18 months from start to delivery of the books. She says the hardest part was working out to tell. There is a great deal of time and effort that goes into writing where to stop. these books and organising the content and photos. Our My Life Fay’s book is 230 pages with over 30 chapters. Around 50 copies Story Book system now makes it easier to turn this content into a in both hard and soft cover options have been printed and the quality printed book and we provide the full support required to content is also online. Being handy on the computer, Fay built the make it easy along the way. We have considerable experience as book online with close assistance from the Benefitz team. we’ve been publishing books for over 30 years.”

“I had been keen to do my life story book for a while and saw that Benefitz prints and finishes all the My Life Story Book’s at their Benefitz were doing them,” adds Fay. “I was well aware of their good production facility based on the North Shore. reputation and work in the community so was only too pleased to engage with Aidan and the team for my book. It hasn’t been totally For more information contact Aidan Bennett, plain sailing but I am thrilled with the end result and the assistance I email: aidan@benefitz.co.nz or Phone 021-500-997. have been given along the way.”

“My motivation for developing this system has been to make it easy and affordable for people to tell their life stories,” says Aidan Bennett of Benefitz. “There are so many people with great life stories

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CHANNEL FEATURE: PETER WOLFKAMP

Peter Wolfkamp.

The Wolf of Shore streets As filming was wrapping up on season nine of The Block NZ, the television show’s site foreman spoke to Heather Barker Vermeer about his love of his work, his family and his Shore life…

Peter Wolfkamp’s love of heritage houses means he is perfectly at home in the North Shore suburb of Devonport and has been for almost 25 years. His wife Debbie’s family history stretches back over 130 years in the village. The couple live with their early teenaged son Joseph in a renovated villa.

Born in New Zealand to Dutch parents, Peter grew up in Papatoetoe. He attended De La Salle College before being taken on as an apprentice with a local builder in 1987. His first project was working on a subdivision of new-build homes in St John’s. He has been self-employed since the late 80s and has now trained to specialise in heritage house restoration.

He says, “It’s always been something of an interest of mine - the craftsmanship involved in heritage buildings. I have an interest in preserving and protecting that.”

His foray into television came about after he saw an advert about TV3 having secured the rights to produce The Block here in New Zealand. “I had already been a big fan of this show, so I wrote off and asked to be the host,” says Wolfkamp.

“They didn’t give me the host’s job but said I could help out on the show, using my building expertise. And ten years later, I’m still there.

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“I really do genuinely enjoy working on the show. I’m often the translator between the TV production side and the construction side. From a practical background, I know what’s involved in the building and I know what it takes to make a TV show, so I often find myself being a meditator between the two sides.”

His favourite season was the fourth, where contestants renovated homes in the suburb in which his building career began. “We achieved a seven-star energy efficiency rating for those houses in St John’s,” he says. “Being part of that, with my interest in building science, was fantastic from both a personal and a professional level.”

As well as TV, Wolfkamp’s velvety voice has also lent itself well to radio for over seven years, as host of Newstalk ZB’s Sunday morning talk show, The Resident Builder. He’s been involved in broadcasting from a young age, getting his first airtime as a stand-in announcer on Newstalk ZB after training in radio broadcasting with the Christian Broadcasting Association.

He speaks passionately on topical issues around housing.

“There’s currently a real thirst for knowledge from people on how you get their homes warm, dry and comfortable. And housing affordability is a huge issue. We have a young son and wonder what it will be like for him when he comes to want to buy a home.

It’s something we discuss with friends, it’s a concern for many people.

Peter Wolfkamp.

“There are issues around social justice: if housing is increasingly unaffordable, do we get people who are constructing housing to fit around the needs of communities.

Or do we create more security around the rental market? If developers are building to rent, perhaps people can rent these properties for ever.

“There is also the complexity around what we create and where we create it in terms of urban renewal and building multiple homes on large sections. You drive down Lake Road and that begs the next question: if it’s already congested now, what is it going to be like with more homes being built? “That question around what’s being put in place to manage that needs to be answered. Are people going to jump on public transport to reduce congestion? I’m not sure.”

Choosing a trade career is something Peter is keen to promote to young Shore people. “I would encourage people to consider it. It’s an area of some considerable interest to me, of course.

The education system 30-plus years ago moved away from the trades; they were not at all aspirational careers for our children.

People started to want a job for their children where they didn’t get their hands dirty.

“Typically, in New Zealand, we don’t often respect what tradespeople do. It’s a marked difference to the attitude towards the trades in Europe, for example. My own father was a Dutch tradesperson and, over there, people had a tremendous sense of pride in their trades.

“It seems the English immigrants to New Zealand wanted to escape the trades. And inadvertently perhaps, we have steered young people away from that. Everyone I speak to in the trades today says I could take on more new people, so the need is there.”

Peter once took on a 40-something who had previously worked on the airlines and fancied a career change. “If you’re in a career and you’re thinking ‘this isn’t really for me’, then I’d encourage anyone to consider it.”

There’s currently a real thirst for knowledge from people on how you get their homes warm, dry and comfortable. And housing affordability is a huge issue.

“One of my favourite quotes is from Warwick Quinn, CEO of the BCITO (Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation) who said we need to look at the trades as ‘a pathway to prosperity’.”

Which Shore projects have been personal favourites to work?

“I’ve been lucky enough to do some really outstanding renovation projects in Devonport. In 2019, my wife Debbie and I bought a small cottage, which was very run down and needed a lot of work.

We’ve made it into a warm, dry, comfortable home. It’s nice to do my own work in my own time and be able to put a personal stamp on it.”

The North Shore has won ‘The Wolf’s’ heart for many reasons, he says. “I feel incredibly fortunate, grateful and thankful living where we live, here on the Shore. I think that we have tremendous lifestyle here in Devonport, with the proximity to the beaches, the mountains and the city.

“I love going for walks that take in the seascape and landscape and, of course, I love the heritage. I’m really grateful to the people who have stood up over the years to protect the heritage buildings in the area.”

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LAKE ROAD ELECTRICAL

Don’t wait for sparks to fly - upgrade your switchboard now!

What is a switchboard?

Your switchboard is the ‘central hub’ for all the electrical circuits in your home. It receives electricity from the street and distributes it through various circuits in and around your home. It is important that your home is electrically safe and it all starts here - at your switchboard!

If your switchboard is faulty or overloaded, this can affect the rest of your home's electrical components, and it could be a safety hazard and a fire hazard.

Why do I need a switchboard upgrade?

Safety, safety safety! Did we mention safety?

To ensure that your household isn’t at any risk from an old switchboard that doesn’t meet current New Zealand electrical safety standards, it is very important to assess whether it is time for an upgrade. Old unsafe switchboards are not only a shock hazard but a fire risk!

If you live in an old house, chances are that your switchboard is not just outdated but also overloaded and highly unsafe.

The way we’re using switchboards is changing over time. Thirty or 40 years ago when many switchboards were installed, people only used a fraction of the appliances they do today. Over the years though electricity demands have increased substantially, yet switchboards have remained the same. Most homes are using the same number of circuits as they were decades ago and they are now unable to cope with the increased load.

The problem with outdated switchboards is they have both aging components and increased demand – a potentially hazardous combination.

“Besides causing annoying blackouts, degraded wiring, faulty fuses and overloaded electrical circuits can also cause fire and shock hazards,” says Lewis Rudall, master electrician and director at Lake Road Electrical.

“If you have old and non-compliant switchboards, the chances of the fuse base getting extremely hot and almost ‘frying up’ the cables are very high. This can result in a house fire. So, the sooner you get your old switchboard replaced by a new one, the better it is for your personal safety and the security of your property.”

Did you know that old switchboards don’t have RCD protection – protection against electric shocks?

An RCD, or residual current device, is a life-saving device that is designed to prevent you from getting a fatal electric shock. Specially, if you touch something live; such as a bare wire or any metallic electrical appliance that has come in contact with a live wire. They will shut down electricity when a change in the electrical current is detected.

When electricity comes in contact with your body, it can travel through your body. When this happens, the electricity can damage tissues and organs. This damage can be mild or severe – and it can even cause death. RCDs offer a level of personal protection to you and your family, that ordinary fuses and circuit-breakers cannot provide.

Did you also know that the back panel of many old switchboards are made of asbestos?

Another reason to upgrade your switchboard don’t you think?

With winter here, there’s no perfect time than now to upgrade your dangerously ancient switchboard. So don’t wait - call Lewis and the friendly team at Lake Road Electrical today.

Switchboard special offers At Lake Road Electrical, we are passionate about educating homeowners of the importance of electrical safety – which we believe is paramount but often overlooked. A common cause of house fire is bad electricals. That’s why the team has two special offers for you: 1. Get a free Home Electrical Safety Inspection, usually priced at $99.

2. And for a limited time, you can also take advantage of our Winter special, allowing you $200 off your switchboard upgrade with this ad. Due to popular demand, this promotion has now been extended until the end of August.

The team at Lake Road Electrical are ‘Master Electrician members’ with a $20,000 workmanship guarantee. We believe that there is no substitute for quality, and reliability, honesty, and integrity are our key performance indicators with customer satisfaction at the forefront.

“We’re extremely personable and easy to talk “At Lake Road Electrical, we are to. We will work with you to passionate about educating home owners of the importance of find the best solutions for electrical safety. That’s why we your electrical problems and have two special offers for you: needs, whether planned or as 1. Get a Free Home Electrical Safety Inspection, usually an emergency. So, chat to us priced at $99. today about your needs.”

2. And our Winter special $200 off your switchboard upgrade has been extended until end of August.

So contact us today and upgrade your switchboard in time for winter”

Lewis Rudall

Master Electrician / Director

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We were engaged by Jenn and Will to design and build their family home on a piece of land they purchased on the North Shore. We worked with them and the architects at Designate to create a stunning lifestyle home with juxtaposing materials to create depth, interest and warmth to their home. The outside cladding is a mixture of horizontal bevel back cedar and board and batten.

Split across two levels, the kitchen and dining flow seamlessly to the outdoor entertaining area and pool. The outdoor covered patio area has statement macrocarpa trusses which perfectly frame this outdoor setting.

We caught up with Jen and Will to see how their build went and what it was like to work with QPC. “We had heard of QPC through word of mouth through friends who had built with QPC and heard fab things about the company.

We did go to other companies before choosing, but always loved the look of the QPC builds. Also liked the idea of working with a company that were family based. We found the whole process fab – easy – exciting – enjoyable. Even through Covid! We felt calm and never felt like anything was too much to ask of the team.

We’re very happy with our family home. Thank you! Loved working with you guys.”

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65 Rock Isle Road – Waiake Waterfront Magic With Waiake Beach Access

Extensively renovated resulting in a stylish, inviting and thoughtfully designed home to suit families of all stages. This fabulous layout has a beautiful master suite upstairs and two more large bedrooms on the upper level, with the fourth bedroom downstairs with its own private deck. The hub of the home centres around a stunning entertainers kitchen with large open plan areas either side creating fabulous flow for entertaining; leading to a gorgeous private garden on one side, and large decks overlooking the spectacular view of Waiake Bay & beach on the other. Downstairs offers plenty of space and joins the double internal access garage. At the end of the garden you can either wander down to the beach via the steps or stop at the little retreat area with views out to sea. • ID7910 • Price $3,995,000

4 Bed | 3 Bath | 2 Garage | 1230m2 land

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NORTH SHORE HISTORY: WITH DAVID VERRAN

Map 3404 courtesy of Auckland Libraries Heritage Collection; dated February 1899, note that significant parts of Devonport hadn't yet been developed.

Auckland Council archival databases As well as volunteering at Birkenhead and Devonport Museums, and writing this column, I also volunteer at Auckland Council Archives. Specifically, the latter involves the transcribing, or checking previous transcribing, of various former Council’s rate books and War Memorial rolls. I have just finished working on the Devonport Borough rate book for 1900/1901, and starting that for 1901/1902. In 1901 Devonport Borough had 3,823 residents (1799 male and 2024 females) living in 730 houses.

Rates were paid on various parcels of unoccupied land, or land and houses where appropriate, but also on land and shops or stables, along with enterprises such as workrooms, bakeries and even a timber yard.

All those paying rates at that time are named and nearly every entry has readily identifiable details as to the land block and allotments, with all having their rateable value as at that time, along with how much was paid in that year, by whom and when. What is notable for that time is that there were a number of women listed as owners: widows, wives and the unmarried.

What is also interesting is the accumulation of land by certain families.

By the early 1900s, Ewen and Alexander Alison were being described as the owners of the largest amount of property in Devonport Borough. In fact, for the financial year ending March 1898, the Alison family along with their Devonport Steam Ferry Company accounted for around 5% of the total rate income for the Borough. However, one third of the 5% came at that time from Devonport team Ferry Company land leased to the Takapuna Jockey Club (its chairman was Ewen Alison). The Jockey Club was on the land where the Waitemata Golf Club now is.

Also at that time, the Devonport Steam Ferry Company leased land from the Auckland Harbour Board along the Devonport foreshore, along with land for a coal shed and workshop as well as leasing land from the Board on the city side. I retrieved these land ownership details

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from the online Devonport Borough valuation rolls, which cover 1887 to 1898.

The Council website makes available databases for Borough Council rate books as well. For the North Shore area these are: Birkenhead for 1912 to 1914, Northcote for 1910 to 1919 and Takapuna for 1926 to 1927.

These are taken from the earliest held for each borough, and there is also an online Birkenhead Borough valuation roll for 1913 to 1914.

When researching the development of Takapuna’s Tennyson Avenue and generally the Esmonde Road area, I have particularly found the Takapuna Borough Council building permit register from 1913 to 1950 very useful in determining the growth of that area. There is also a list of Takapuna and Milford beach frontage property owners for 1916.

As well as this there are four local Rolls of Honour or War Memorial indexes, for Birkenhead (at the War Memorial Park), Northcote (at the Rodney Road War Memorial Hall), Takapuna (at the War Memorial at Number 1 The Strand) and Devonport (on the local War Memorial).

The databases also include a Waitemata County Council bridge register covering from 1890 to 1940, along with that County’s wine licensing applications for 1916 to 1934. Both those databases include the East Coast Bays and Glenfield and other parts of the North Shore outside of borough boundaries. There is also a database for Devonport Borough Council wage worker pay records from 1916 to 1924.

Also, if you want to see if there are any no-longer-current Council documents or files at Auckland Council Archives, whether from the old Rodney and Franklin District Councils, North Shore, Waitakere, Auckland, Manukau and Papakura Cities, and the old Auckland Regional Council, you go to ‘Search the Archives – Auckland Council’ at the Council website and ‘Search the archives database online’. david.verran@xtra.co.nz

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POOL COVERS: COVERS4POOLS

An automated pool cover for swimming all year round!

Overseas holidays are out, but you can still invest in an automatic cover from Covers4Pools to turn your pool into your own resort pool – right through the year.

A swimming pool spells summer fun for everyone – and after the year we’ve had you will want to use it to its maximum this summer. Installing an automatic pool cover makes things super easy: maintaining, keeping it warm, clean and affordable.

Covers4Pools is a family business, run by Charles, Paulene and Shayne Olliver. They offer one of the most extensive range of automated pool covers in New Zealand, being the sole distributor for the internationally popular Coverstar Eclipse brand.

“Coverstar Eclipse covers can take the weight of an average sized person, offering complete peace of mind that your family is always safe around your pool,” says company manager Charles Olliver.

“Our new ‘Roll Out Roll Under Slatted Cover’ has quickly become a big seller for us. These covers feature a polycarbonate profile that actually heats the pool via the sun’s rays throughout the summer months and retains heat during the colder months, therefore extending your swimming season and substantially reducing your

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heating costs. We are proud to assemble these covers here in New Zealand.”

Charles explains that automated covers also play a big part in reducing cleaning and maintenance by keeping unwanted items out of the pool.

“They really are a game-changer. Our advanced covers keep dirt and leaves out of the pool and also eliminate up to 90% of evaporation. This avoids wasting thousands of litres of water and reduces chemical use by up to 70%.”

Covers4Pools has good stocks of both Coverstar Eclipse Covers and Roll Out Roll Under Slatted Covers so will have one to suit your pool. They will come to your property and do a free measure and quote and provide advice on the best solution for your requirements. Do it today!

Contact Charles, Paulene or Shayne today.

They will make it very easy and affordable.

Phone 09-426-0625, email sales@autopoolcovers.co.nz or visit www.covers4pools.co.nz

LC DESIGNER HOMES

LC Designer Homes - top three questions LC Designer Homes is a boutique residential design and build company, delivering unique bespoke new homes on the North Shore. Established in 2009 as Leonard Construction, the company is led by husband-and-wife team, Michelle and Adam.

Adam, a third-generation Carpenter and Michelle, an Architectural Designer.

Talking to new clients on a weekly basis, it’s clear there are questions everyone wants the answers to. Here’s our top three and the answers to help.

Can I change my downstairs to a granny flat or a rental space?

Many families are wanting to reap some reward from their large family homes when children start to move out, whilst also thinking about the future where potential older family members might move in. Using the ‘downstairs’ which often already has large spaces and plumbing seems the logical step.

Auckland’s Unitary Plan zones the majority of the North Shore as mixed housing suburban, which doesn’t allow minor dwellings.

Instead it permits a second or third dwelling, which is a march larger project including new services, own metering, extensive fire and acoustic rating etc... all of which can start to make the project cost prohibitive.

I am building a new home, how are you different to a group home?

Everything we do for our clients is unique. No stock plans, no stock fixtures, specific architectural features, stand out kitchens, everything is optional and down to personal taste and preference!

This means we have to get to know our clients really well and what they want out of their home early on for both design and functionality. Hence, allowing clients to have their input and influence from the start and spending more time making decisions and being more involved, resulting in each home being special. We are a small team and enjoy that very personal journey each client goes through.

How much will it cost; can you give me a ball park?

We can, in the same way that you would struggle to give us a ball park for our weekly grocery shopping. It’s crystal ball gazing and not useful as a place to make decisions from as there are so many unknowns. If you want a good basis to move forward with your home, invest some time in putting together a brief so we can put together a concept. Once we have a clearer picture of what we could be building, we can start to look at what it might cost. Changing the unknowns into knowns is the only way of truly understanding costs.

These are our top three, if you have others, get in touch and we will do our honest best to answer them in a useful way so you can start creating your dream home.

GARDENING: WITH NEWHAVEN GARDENS

Top tips from Amanda Graham, Newhaven Gardens.

North Shore Hedge Trimming, Garden Tidy Ups, Planting, Pruning and Garden Maintenance.

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August is a great month to get ahead before the spring rush and make sure your garden is in tip top condition.

Now is a great time to really get stuck into the weeds. Make sure to pull out the whole of the weeds including roots.

Many common weeds such as tradescantia can grow back from the smallest sliver left in the ground. Weeds like oxalis are even more of a pain; if you try to pull them out, you actually release a cluster of smaller bulbs which surround the base, and so removing one can result in a dozen fresh weeds in its place. Instead you can snip the stalk close to the ground – this doesn’t kill the oxalis but starves it of energy so it will grow back weaker, each time. For larger areas ‘Death to Oxalis’ spray does a similar job by burning the leaves, or if you’re not using the bed for a while you can also cover with black plastic.

If your Roses are prone to disease it's a good idea to spray with copper a couple of times over winter as a preventative measure.

For long term weed control, and for optimal soil health, the best defense is a nice deep layer of mulch. It won’t eradicate weeds completely, but it will make a huge difference. Once your weeds are under control, its a good time to clean up your plants, removing any damaged and browned leaves, and checking for signs of pests or diseases.

If your roses are prone to disease it's a good idea to spray with copper a couple of times over winter as a preventative measure.

Similarly, if you struggle with pests in the warmer months, now is a good time to start adding Neem granules to the soil, adding every month through to summer to build up resistance in the plants.

If you haven’t already, there’s still time to prune roses, hydrangea and other shrubs. It’s also a good idea to check staked shrubs and trees – are the stakes still needed or is the tree rooted in place? If stakes are still needed, make sure they’re securely in the ground and the ties are not too tight and digging into the bark as the tree grows.

Amanda Graham Newhaven Gardens Ltd Ph: 021 378969 amanda@newhavengardens.co.nz www.newhavengardens.co.nz

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KITCHENS BY DESIGN

Future proof your kitchen Think about the long term – your new kitchen should be designed to outlive current fads and trends, and built to withstand the rigours of family life.

We all love our kitchens, and so we should. Without overstating their role in our lives, the kitchen is the single most important room in the home, not only helping to nourish us on a daily basis, but also acting as the social hub of the family and the focal point of activity when entertaining.

It’s no surprise, therefore, that when it comes to replacing it, we spend an inordinate amount of time on our devices researching, long evenings sitting on the sofa buried in brochures and magazines, and countless lost weekends in the car driving to every conceivable showroom, poring over everything from taps to tiles, and sinks to splashbacks.

However, over and above the mammoth task of whittling down the myriad options of its constituent parts, the fundamental decision you have to get right is settling on a kitchen design that’s going to work well for you and your family. Without good design, everything else is just a collection of stuff, says Kitchens By Design’s Richard Cripps. And he’s right.

“Your kitchen is going to outlive any trends that are currently floating around, so you need to think carefully about that. Don’t get too caught up in trends that are happening right now,” he says. “Focus on the design. Design is your single-most important consideration. Get the design right and everything else will usually fall into place – so it’s vitally important to engage a designer who fully understands your specific circumstances.”

At its Takapuna-based showroom, Kitchens By Design has three qualified and certified designers who not only have the relevant skills and experience in designing kitchens, but also have a current and comprehensive knowledge of products, hardware and materials.

“Classic design lines, whether they’re traditional or modern, will stand the test of time,” says Cripps. “That doesn’t necessarily mean you have to go with an uninteresting or boring design – just be mindful that you’ll probably be looking at your new kitchen every day for the next 15 years. If you want to have a bit of fun with the design and the colour, choose parts of the kitchen that can easily be changed out in years to come – pendant lighting, tapware, drawer and cupboard handles, etc – but at the same time choose carefully the big ticket items, such as your benchtops and cabinetry style.

"No matter what stage of life you’re at – a young couple with no kids yet, forty-somethings with a couple of teenagers in tow, or empty nesters contemplating retirement – things are going to change. So, when you’re weighing up the wants and needs for your new kitchen, don’t get too bogged down agonising over the latest appliances, benchtop materials or fancy tiles, go and talk to a qualified designer who will help to future-proof your kitchen for what life will look like at the end of the next decade."

If you are thinking about putting in a new kitchen, give one of the team at Kitchens By Design a call, or pop into their showroom at 3 Byron Ave, Takapuna (09) 379 3084. And for inspiration, take a look at their website at www.kitchensbydesign.co.nz

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Join us at Shore City for an energising week of wellness.

Find your zen and get refreshed with free massages, Les Mills demonstrations, health drink tastings and store offers. Plus join us on August 15 at 2pm to learn from Claire Turnbull on how you can double your energy and boost your immune system this winter!

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This month at SHORE CITY NEW COUNTRY ROAD TAKAPUNA STORE REOPENS WITH A RANGE FOR KIDS

It’s exciting times at Shore City with the reopening of the Country Road store after weeks of transformation.

The newly renovated space has been designed to create a sense of community and inspire modern living at every touch point. The new store includes many new features such as carpet crafted from recycled fishing nets, parquetry flooring reclaimed from old buildings, fitting room hooks revitalised from ocean plastic and fitting room stools handcarved from solid teak.

As part of the refresh, the completely transformed store will house Country Road’s Child range for the first time, alongside its existing range of Woman, Man and Home.

Head into Country Road in Shore City for the totally new store experience.

Country Road Takapuna – Level 2, Shore City Shopping Centre, Open 7 Days from 9am.

WELLNESS EXPERTISE 50 YEARS IN THE MAKING AT LIFE PHARMACY IN SHORE CITY

Channel Mag readers seeking assistance with wellness during these colder months should get along to see Shariar Jaber and his team at Life Pharmacy Takapuna in Shore City. Serving the community with the personal touch is something the Shore City pharmacy has been doing for 50 years.

"Prevention is really the best cure,” explained Shariar when we popped in to see him in mid-July. “Staying active, washing hands frequently, making sure you are hydrated and ensuring you are vaccinated are four key points. We can help with such things as multi-vitamins. Vitamins C and D are very important and zinc is good for the immune system as well. We recommend 1000mg of vitamin C daily with an increase to 2000mg if you are feeling unwell."

Life Pharmacy Takapuna stocks no less than three vitamin C sachet options, with all three supplied by local North Shore businesses to satisfy those who are keen to support local. Shariar says these are the best ways of delivering Vitamin Shariar Jaber.

C and other nutrients as they are easily absorbed by the gastro intestinal tract.

“Daily use of these vitamin C sachet products supports the immune system, encourages a healthy nervous system, increases energy levels and vitality, supports iron absorption, helps support cells from oxidative stress and also supports collagen production for the normal function of bones, teeth, skin, gums, cartilage and blood vessels.”

Life Pharmacy in Shore City is a big store with everything you need from a pharmacy and more. But Shariar Jaber see’s their role as more than just transactional. It’s a relationship with personal service and advice.

Life Pharmacy Takapuna – Level 2, Shore City Shopping Centre, Open 7 Days from 9am.

WELLNESS WEEK AT SHORE CITY, AUGUST 9TH TO 15TH

Shore City will have a focus on wellness during this week in August. There will be a focus around energy, boosting immune systems, healthy eating, addressing tiredness, nourishing the gut, coping with stress and achieving better quality sleep.

A key event during the week will be a presentation by qualified nutritionist and best-selling author Claire Turnbull at 2pm on the Sunday, 15th. Claire will be talking about ways you can double your energy and boost your immune system. She is passionate about making it easier to create a healthier life. Claire has been working in the health and wellness industry for over 16 years and regularly features on Breakfast TV, Fair Go, Seven Sharp, and Newstalk ZB sharing her thoughts on wellbeing.

There will also be Les Mills demonstrations and a Zen Zone set up on Level One which will include free massages and health drink tastings throughout the week. There’ll also be a range of wellness promotions happening throughout the Centre.

Claire Turnbull.

To find out more about Wellness Week and book tickets for Claire Turnbull’s presentation visit: www.shore-city.co.nz/wellnessweek21

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MOTORING WITH LEXUS OF NORTH SHORE

Lexus of North Shore opens new ‘five-star’ home Hot on the heels of founder Bob Jago’s induction into the prestigious North Harbour Business Hall of Fame, Lexus of North Shore is taking its commitment to excellence to an entirely new level with the completion of an amazing new showroom on Link Drive. The Lexus of North Shore team are ready for local lovers of high-end motor vehicles to come and experience the elevated ‘five-star hotel’ level of comfort, quality and service that now exists at the site “The Lexus ethos is all about the passionate pursuit of perfection and this has been totally applied to our new Lexus of North Shore showroom,” explains CEO Mark Jago. “The project was completed in late July and we are absolutely thrilled with the result. We have created a warm and comforting new dealership with a customer lounge we reckon you’ll never want to leave.

The quality is indeed like a five-star hotel. We are inviting those who appreciate fine motor vehicles and the pursuit of luxury to come and experience this wonderful new facility during August.”

The Jago family have a strong history on the North Shore.

Bob and Pauline Jago established Toyota New Zealand’s first independently owned motor vehicle dealership, North Shore Toyota, back in the late 1980s. Success led to an invitation to open one of the very first Lexus dealerships in New Zealand when the premium brand was launched by Toyota. Lexus of North Shore opened its doors in 2001 and the partnership with the Lexus brand and Lexus New Zealand is one they treasure.

Bob Jago led the business for well over two decades. During that time he established a reputation for being a business leader, and also for the role his business plays in the community. This resulted in his recognition by the North Harbour Business Hall of Fame in May this year. Bob was proud to become one of only 31 laureates to receive this honour since its inception in 2004.

Lexus of North Shore has always been involved in the community. A prime example is the long-standing sponsorship

Lexus of North Shore Sales Manager Ash Pateriya.

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relationship with the North Harbour Club and Charitable Trust.

The ‘Lexus of North Shore Charity Lunches’ are a key series of annual lunches – attended by 300-plus people – that raise money to fund the North Harbour Club’s annual AIMES Awards scholarships. These scholarship grants – over $200,000 annually – are presented to young people achieving excellence in the areas of the Arts, Innovation, Music, Education, Sport and Community Service (AIMES). Lexus of North Shore has been the sponsor of this annual lunch series since 2010 and a supporter of the North Harbour Club since its inception in 1995. Bob Jago was a founding trustee of the club.

The ‘Lexus of North Shore Charity Lunches’ are a key series of annual lunches – attended by 300-plus people – that raise money to fund the North Harbour Club’s annual AIMES Awards scholarships. These scholarship grants – over $200,000 annually – are presented to young people achieving excellence in the areas of the Arts, Innovation, Music, Education, Sport and Community Service (AIMES).

Lexus Vehicle Consultants Helen Wang, Tristan Liu and Julie Grgicevich.

Current CEO Mark Jago joined the family business in 2005.

After succeeding his father Bob as CEO in 2012 he has overseen further growth in the business. The Jagos now have motor vehicle operations on the North Shore, in West Auckland and Hobsonville, meaning they have convenient sales, parts and service operations for a large percentage of Aucklanders.

“Unsurpassed attention to detail underpins the customer experience when you drive a Lexus and our investment in this new showroom goes hand-in-hand with that commitment,” adds Mark Jago. “At Lexus of North Shore, superior quality runs deeper than simply having the very best motor vehicles. It is an obsession lived by everyone and applied in every aspect of our business.”

The new dealership was officially opened with a function on Thursday July 22nd. At that function Ash Pateriya acknowledged the support of Lexus New Zealand in helping to create their sensational new home, as well as design and build partners Lanta Construction and Brand Partners.

The Lexus of North Shore team includes Lexus Vehicle Consultants Helen Wang, Tristan Liu and Julie Grgicevich. They are supported by Kelsey Keegan (Reception/Customer Care), Joyce Vaz – (Customer liaison) and Service Advisors Steve Shannon and Patrick Duddy. The entire team is ready and waiting to show off the fantastic new facility!

Lexus of North Shore founders Pauline and Bob Jago.

Bob and Jennie Jago, Simon Watts, Lesley and Rod Slater.

Lexus of North Shore – 4 Link Drive, Wairau Valley, North Shore.

Phone 09-442-3670 Visit: www.lexusofnorthshore.co.nz Note: The next Lexus of North Shore Charity Lunch is on Thursday August 19 and will feature Nick Mowbray of Zuru Toys telling the “Zuru story”. If you are interested in attending please contact one of the Lexus of North Shore team or visit www.northharbourclub.co.nz

Lexus ambassadors Adrian Hailwood and Ben Bayley enjoying the new customer area.

Lexus New Zealand GM Andrew Davis talked about the exciting new vehicles that are coming up for Lexus of North Shore customers.

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Lexus of North Shore, Charity Long Lunch Thursday 19th August, North Harbour Stadium The North Harbour Club Trust Board is thrilled to host Nick Mowbray of global powerhouse Zuru for our second Lexus of North Shore Charity Lunch for 2021.

At Zuru innovation is action, and innovation is what allows Zuru to take a fledgling idea and make it into an award-winning, best-selling brand.

Joining us as our keynote speaker is Nick Mowbray, the 36-yearold CEO of international consumer goods giant Zuru, the business he co-founded in 2003 with brother Mat, and later sister Anna, that’s now one of the most profitable start-ups in the world. Zuru has grown organically from just $20,000 in the bank to over $1.3 billion in annual revenue, all the while eschewing outside investment as a wholly privately owned entity. Now with three arms – Toys, Edge and Tech— Zuru employs over 8000 staff in 27 offices around the world and its products are distributed in the biggest retailers in 121 countries.

Joining us as our key note speaker is Nick Mowbray, the 36-year-old CEO of international consumer goods giant Zuru, the business he co-founded in 2003 with brother Mat, and later sister Anna, that’s now one of the most profitable start-ups in the world.

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Mowbray is considered one of the most exciting entrepreneurs in the space: his vision, business acumen and pursuit of the new and next has seen him inducted into the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year Hall of Fame (having been named EY Entrepreneur of the Year twice) and landed him in Forbes, BBC News and the Wall Street Journal. The New Zealand native is regularly called to speak at industry summits both at home and abroad, and is a staunch supporter of a range of charities including Auckland’s Starship Children's Hospital, Foodbank New Zealand and Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation.

Join us for a fantastic long lunch as we raise funds to support our AIMES Awards programme. Tickets are $150+gst per person and can be booked online. Doors open 11:45am. Formalities begin 12:30pm Formalities end 2:45pm. Guests welcome to stay on and network. Bar closes 4:00pm

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POST COVID POSITIVITY

Like many enterprises that rely on events and people being able to interact, Channel Magazine has been challenged by this Covid-19 period. Along with many other business enterprises we have risen to the challenge and worked hard to ride out the turbulence. It’s called resilience. Along the way we have done everything we can to assist local businesses and not-for-profit entities to do likewise. 18 months on from the start of this Covid-19 challenge we thought it was time to catch up with some of our business people to probe them about their own experiences through this period and to share their learnings. Local people in the hospitality, logistics, building, construction and business sales sectors. We’ve called this our 'Post Covid Positivity’ feature.

Riding out the Covid turbulence

Steve Taylor – Taylors on Hurstmere Steve Taylor has been in hospitality all his working life, working in London, Melbourne and Portugal. He is the proud owner/ operator of Taylors, a much-loved local Takapuna wine bar and eatery that has been operating for four years on Hurstmere Road, near The Promenade and Bruce Mason Centre. Steve talks to Channel Mag about getting through the initial Covid lockdown, the support of family, friends and regulars and the importance of staying calm during unprecedented times.

Channel Mag: Looking back to March/April 2020, did you think that Covid-19 would be still playing this part in our lives 18 months on?

Steve Taylor: I think no one knew exactly what was happening and for how long, but it felt this was going to be around in some way for a few years.

CM: What helped you get through the initial Covid-19 lockdown period of March-May 2020 and come out the other side?

ST: Great support from family and friends and our amazing regulars, constant social media interaction and an online voucher system for small businesses called SOS where you could support by buying vouchers in advance. The support as soon as we opened back was unbelievable.

CM: Complete the following… When we have beaten Covid-19 I am going to…

ST: …take a well-deserved holiday to somewhere hot!

CM: The up and down uncertain nature has been a real challenge for business. What key things have you implemented to keep your entity focused on the challenge?

ST: Being a small team and having an understanding landlord certainly helps! We built up a loyal customer base before Covid which helped us bounce back better, and we are still thinking ahead and positive with events and functions etc.

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CM: What have been the positive things to come out of this challenge?

ST: It makes you appreciate how things can change so quickly. I managed to spend time with family over lockdown which is hard to do in the hospitality business.

CM: If you had one key learning from the period that you would share with others, what would that be?

ST: Stay calm; a lot of things are out of your hands and positively work on the things you can control.

CM: Why are you feeling positive about the future for your business and the North Shore?

ST: I believe the Shore is going through some transition at the moment, the high street and related businesses are finding it really tough but I believe this summer will be better than ever for those that stick at it!

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Taylors on Hurstmere, 168 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna Beach, Phone 09 489 9510 or visit: www.taylorsonhurstmere.co.nz

Michelle Leonard has a background in corporate architecture and has joined her husband Adam in his building business. Michelle leads the architectural team, designing and documenting their clients new homes and significant renovations, Adam then manages the construction of the homes Michelle has designed.

The couple believe that the collaborative way of working gets the best outcomes for their clients. Michelle also works with clients on their interior fixtures and fittings, colours and finishes to create cohesive homes inside and out. She talks to Channel Magazine about the business, weathering the Covid period and positivity about what’s ahead.

Channel Mag: Looking back to March/April 2020, did you think that Covid-19 would be still playing this part in our lives 18 months on?

Michelle Leonard: Not at all.I think we were all so focused on how we were going to get through the next three to six months.

CM: What helped you get through the initial Covid-19 lockdown period of March-May 2020 and come out the other side?

ML: Microsoft Teams. It meant that we could catch up with our team, third parties and clients remotely and discuss what we were working on, what we needed to focus on etc. It took a bit of getting used to, but it now allows us to work remotely when we need to. Meeting

clients online was natural for us as we were just finishing a new build with a client who was living in Hong Kong at the time so we had that sorted! In addition, with two young children to manage, it was Adam that got us through! Because our sites were not operational, Adam was home and could look after the children as I worked.

CM: The up and down uncertain nature has been a real challenge for business, what key things have you implemented to keep your entity focused on the challenge?

ML: While we could work remotely, we found that we much preferred working together in the same space, so in February of this year we

these would have taken us a lot longer to implement.

CM: If you had one key learning from the period that you would share with others, what would that be?

ML: Just go with the flow! You need to be flexible. At the start of our lockdown we spent the first few days not doing too much work, giving our staff (and ourselves) time to find their new normal and daily schedules with families before we got stuck into our projects. That was really useful.

CM: Why are you feeling positive about the future for your business and the North Shore?

ML: The North Shore is humming. There is so much going on. The Unitary Plan is allowing for more intensification, and it is happening with great fervour. As our housing stock gets older it sometimes makes sense to remove it and build new than extend and renovate, which is where LC Designer Homes can help.

CM: Complete the following… When we have beaten Covid-19 I am going to…

ML: …we took a well-timed 2019 European trip with the kids and had a ball so when we have gotten on top of Covid-19 we will definitely be off for an adventure with them overseas somewhere.

LC Designer Homes, visit: www.lchomes.co.nz

Michelle Leonard.

Jane and Jeremy Bain – Pack & Send Takapuna

bucked ‘working from home’ trends and moved into our studio space in Sunnynook, where we have a purpose-built space to have design workshops with our clients. This change has really re-focused our business and stepped up our level of professionalism. The team love having a customised space to work in versus being jammed into our basement home office!

Jane and Jeremy Bain are the local Pack & Send franchisees.

They are the owner/operator of the retail packaging and freight logistics business based in Barry’s Point Road, Takapuna. They offer a broad range of freight and courier services sending anywhere around New Zealand and the world. They speak to Channel Mag about their journey, building resilience in the way they operate and the place they’ll visit once Covid is a thing of the past.

CM: What have been the positive things to come out of this challenge?

ML: We used the time so productively and re-branded (from Leonard Construction to LC Designer Homes), rolled out a new website and built our own customer portal. Had we not had the lockdown period

Channel Mag: Looking back to March/April 2020, did you think that Covid-19 would be still playing this part in our lives 18 months on?

Jane and Jeremy Bain: Yes. Seeing Italian hospitals overrun and with

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no cure or reliable treatment available at the time, it was likely to have a massive effect on the world population and economy for some time.

CM: What helped you get through the initial Covid-19 lockdown period of March-May 2020 and come out the other side?

JJB: Support from family, friends and local business groups. Talking to and supporting each other. The Government financial support package for businesses being implemented so quickly certainly provided some breathing room.

CM: The up and down uncertain nature has been a real challenge for business. What key things have you implemented to keep your entity focused on the challenge?

JJB: Good communication and support within the business. Executing operating plans at different alert levels. Building resilience in the business to cope with sudden changes.

CM: What have been the positive things to come out of this challenge?

JJB: There is no ‘business as usual’ so need to build resilience in operations and have broader product options to service more customers to move where demand is.

CM: If you had one key learning from the period that you would share with others, what would that be?

JJB: Build key relationships with staff, suppliers, bank managers and especially customers. Be sure to provide a high level of customer service and get to know your customers to help maintain and grow our business as well as theirs.

Jane and Jeremy Bain.

CM: Why are you feeling positive about the future for your business and the North Shore?

JJB: We have a strong supportive local community. It is heart-warming to see local businesses adapt their operations to service and support their customers. In turn, it has been good to see the community support our local and small business. The heart of Takapuna is rejuvenating and the growing population living in Takapuna itself is boosting the community.

CM: Complete the following… When we have beaten Covid-19 I am going to…

JJB: …have a Fijian holiday.

Pack & Send Takapuna, 77 Barrys Point Road, Phone 09 486 3355, email: takapuna@packsend.co.nz

Call for Entries!

Mairangi Arts Centre is calling for entries from artists working in all media for the prestigious Hibiscus and Bays Art Awards.

This annual awards exhibition, sponsored by Auckland Council’s Hibiscus and Bays Local Board celebrates artistic and creative practices in New Zealand.

Exhibitors will be selected by a panel of respected arts professionals.

The work will be on display in the 8th Hibiscus and Bays Art Awards exhibition from 13 – 29 November 2021.

Prizes include: $1,000 (x3) cash prizes plus the opportunity to exhibit at Mairangi Arts Centre in 2022, Art sponsor vouchers for 2D, 3D categories Under 21 & People’s Choice

Entries are open to artists throughout New Zealand.

Entry deadline: Monday 11 October, 4pm Visit www.mairangiarts.co.nz for more information.

Images: (above) Gavin Chai, A Flight from Town (detail) (below) Kym Burke, On My Way Back

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Phil Brosnan – Brosnan Construction Phil Brosnan moved to the Shore from Dunedin in 2004 to build a construction business for a national contractor. Together with wife Michelle, Phil has gone on to found two construction businesses: a commercial construction company, Brosnan Construction, that is focused on remediating buildings and a carpentry subcontracting business, Bettabuilt, that makes life easy for main contractors. Phil’s role in the group is Managing Director and he focuses on supporting the CEO and CFO to run these businesses. Collectively Phil’s businesses employ around 300 people with offices in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown. Phil gives Channel Magazine an insight into riding the highs and lows of Covid-19, the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people and his view of the long term implications of the pandemic on our economy.

Channel Mag: Looking back to March/April 2020, did you think that Covid-19 would be still playing this part in our lives 18 months on?

Phil Brosnan: Like most, the initial reaction was that this was an offshore problem, but I quickly came to think of this as our modern plague. While our understanding of medical sciences has increased beyond proportion since the 14th century, I think we will be fighting with this for most of this decade and the economic effects will be felt for a long time after that.

CM: What helped you get through the initial Covid-19 lockdown period of March-May 2020 and come out the other side?

PB: I look back on that period with a sense of pride. Pride in our team and what we achieved. We worked so hard and achieved so much

during that lockdown period.

In short, the thing that helped was the unwavering support of a loyal and hardworking team.

CM: The up and down uncertain nature has been a real challenge for business.

What key things have you implemented to keep your entity focused on the challenge?

PB: We are fortunate to Phil Brosnan. have a very focused strategy driven by our CEO, Geoff Nash. When Covid hit our shores we were very clear about the path we were on, and while we didn’t get everything right, that strategy was an unwavering guide.

CM: What have been the positive things to come out of this challenge?

PB: Our group has always been highly mobile with almost everything in the cloud. The pandemic taught us all how to work remotely and now ‘working from home’ has become the norm.

CM: If you had one key learning from the period that you would share with others, what would that be?

PB: Have a good strategy, by all means when the unexpected happens, question relevance but otherwise, follow it toward your own success. Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you are and capitalise on their individual strengths.

eclectic/- deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of source

Art by the Sea Gallery The Promenade, 162 Hurstmere Rd, Takapuna, Auckland Ph: 09 445 6665 www.artbythesea.co.nz

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CM: Why are you feeling positive about the future for your business and the North Shore?

PB: At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we have a good strategy and a high performing team.

CM: Complete the following… When we have beaten Covid-19 I am going to…

PB: …be old!

Brosnan Construction, visit: www.brosnan.co.nz

Lester de Vere – ABC Business Sales Lester de Vere is in his sixth year as a Business Broker with ABC Business Sales. He says the role is about sitting down with the vendor and understanding the business they have been running and what they are selling. Lester says the stories are always interesting, and finding the right fit between vendor and purchaser is incredibly important. The pandemic has been an interesting time for the business sales industry. He talks to Channel Mag about the quicker than expected bounce back, selling on Zoom and feeling positive about the future.

Channel Mag: Looking back to March/April 2020, did you think that Covid-19 would be still playing this part in our lives 18 months on?

Lester de Vere: I think this pandemic has taken everyone by surprise, both in the length of time it’s had a global effect and the ensuing lockdowns, without having a clear and concise pathway back to what used to be called ‘normal’.

Simon Watts MP for North Shore

National Party Spokesperson for ACC & Associate Health

As your local MP, I’m here to help.

Contact my Electorate Office at 187c Hurstmere Road, Takapuna.

Email northshore@parliament.govt.nz or call us on 09 486 0005. simonwattsmp

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CM: What helped you get through the initial Covid-19 lockdown period of March-May 2020 and come out the other side?

LDV: I actually quite enjoyed the Lester de Vere. sense of ‘back to the future’ where nature was left to recover and air pollution was not a feature along with listening to the quiet and adjusting to a slower pace of life where time was no longer the pressing issue. In business broking, we went through a stasis field where pretty much everything was on hold with a wait and see approach to what length of time it would take to recover.

CM: The up and down uncertain nature has been a real challenge for business. What key things have you implemented to keep your entity focused on the challenge?

LDV: The obvious businesses that suffered the most have been hospitality and tourism related. At ABC Business Sales, we kept in touch with our vendors to see how they were coping, some well, others not so well, relative to the nature of their operation. Seeing month by month changes was incredibly interesting... the majority bounced back quicker and stronger than any of us expected.

CM: What have been the positive things to come out of this challenge?

LDV: Kiwi business owners by and large are prudent, they know how to watch overheads and are good at managing through an unexpected crisis. Their preference was to hang on to staff as much as possible, many doing so by reducing hours and all parties agreeing to the adjustments to make it work. As the bounce-back was a lot quicker than many expected, being cautious without throwing out the bath water was better in the short term for most business owners.

CM: If you had one key learning from the period that you would share with others, what would that be?

LDV: It was a unique time. As we were all on the same new page, there was a lot of tolerance given between parties in all aspects of business. In business sales, we sold a business using Zoom and that was a transaction between a Kiwi buyer based in Queensland and vendor in Takapuna... all done and dusted without having actually physically met each other.

CM: Why are you feeling positive about the future for your business and the North Shore?

LDV: You will have gathered reading through this, that business hasn’t just got back on track, the majority have beaten expectations and many exceeded expectations. The sales of business is again in a unique position, there is a shortage of quality listings and a surplus of buyers, mix this with extraordinarily low interest rates and it's without doubt a sellers’ market.

CM: Complete the following… When we have beaten Covid-19 I am going to…

LDV: …enjoy the concept that I have the freedom to go wherever I wish, whether I choose to or not.

Find out more about Lester and ABC Business Sales here: www.abcbusiness.co.nz

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BRUCE MASON CENTRE, TAKAPUNA

The Dust Palace.

25 years at the heart of the arts - 25th anniversary of Bruce Mason Centre Nestled in the heart of Takapuna, the Bruce Mason Centre has been the beating heart of the North Shore’s arts and community celebrations for a quarter of a century. Today, locals are increasingly likely not to recall a time before the Centre stood proudly on the corner of Hurstmere Road and The Promenade.

Its opening, however, was a hard-won victory that took 12 years to realise, and 25 years later is a cause for celebration with a flurry of community events to mark the occasion.

The dream of a world-class home for the arts in Takapuna was first mooted in 1984, with the North Shore Theatre and Conference Trust formed to helm the project that worked 'towards a community cultural and civic amenity for North Shore City'. Under the leadership of arts champion Angela Antony, the group set about establishing relationships with local stakeholders and securing a site to realise the local community’s dream.

While the Trust knew it might take a few years to build the Bruce, what followed was a dozen years of planning, fundraising, and navigating ever-changing local governance as Takapuna City Council was amalgamated into a larger North Shore City Council. The Trust, however, was resolute and well-organised, and not even a threat to take over the land to build a supermarket and car park could rattle them as they charged through choppy waters to create a home for local arts.

In 1996, the Bruce Mason Centre was finally opened in memory of

Auckland Dance Schools’ Showcase.

one of New Zealand’s most-beloved playwrights, Takapuna local Bruce Mason. The heart of the centre has always been its community, and it remains the largest dedicated theatre and performance venue on the Shore, attracting over 100,000 visitors annually to performances and programmes of theatre, music, dance, comedy, and more.

Thirty-seven years after the idea was first floated, the Trust has been dissolved, North Shore City Council has been absorbed into the wider Auckland Super City, and Auckland Live now steers the ship at the Bruce Mason Centre. The essence of the venue, however, remains for the locals for whom it was built.

Auckland Live welcomes everyone to join in the celebration of this community milestone with a line-up of both ticketed and free familyfriendly events everyone can enjoy. This includes: • Auckland’s favourite circus company, The Dust Palace; • a bevy of local dance schools showcasing their talents in free performances on Sunday 8 August; • and the Auckland Principal Brass Quartet offering locals a chance to hear reimagined musical classics with a cuppa and a biscuit on Monday 9 August at the popular Auckland Live Morning Melodies.

To learn more about the performances and book tickets, visit aucklandlive.co.nz

Auckland Dance Schools’ Showcase.

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Happy 25th to the Bruce Mason Centre Christine Young takes an in depth look into the history of the Bruce Mason Centre, that actually spans almost four decades.

The Bruce Mason Centre celebrates the 25th anniversary of its opening this month. But there were times it seemed it would never happen. It’s 37 years since the North Shore theatre project was initiated through North Shore Operatic Society and other community arts groups, and nearly 30 years since North Shore City Council, taking over from Takapuna City Council, agreed to The Promenade site for development of a theatre and pledged $3 million towards construction costs. The saga of its development, if not lost in the mists of time, has faded from community memory as those who drove the project for so long to ensure its success have aged or moved out of the area.

Christine Young looks back at what was involved.

The drive to develop the theatre was led by the North Shore Theatre and Conference Centre Trust (NSTCCT), which was formed in 1984. The first sod was turned nearly 11 years later in 1995, and around the same time nine individuals from diverse business, community and arts backgrounds were appointed by Council to the Bruce Mason Centre Board of Management Trust to run the theatre, replacing the NSTCCT.

In June 1996, just 15 months after construction started, the first performance in the new centre took place – the North Shore Competitions Choirs Festival ¬– and in August the then-Governor General Sir Michael Hardie Boys officially opened the centre ahead of a performance of Takapuna playwright Bruce Mason’s solo play ‘End of the Golden Weather’.

Geoff Clews is a senior Auckland barrister specialising in tax and trusts matters. Outside his legal practice, and over almost 40 years, he has also been involved in the development, establishment and governance of three performing arts venues: The Rose Centre in Belmont, the Bruce Mason Centre in Takapuna and Q Theatre in Queen Street. His involvement in the Bruce Mason Centre development began in 1984 when he was president of Company Theatre (a community theatre group in Belmont) and a newly minted partner in a major law firm. For Company Theatre, Geoff had already been involved in the establishment of The Rose Centre and as feeling on the Shore built that something more than The PumpHouse and The Rose Centre was needed to foster the performing arts on the Shore, he was deputed to attend a public meeting to discuss the need for a

Geoff Clews, was on the steering committee and became chair of the North Shore Theatre and Conference Centre Trust (NSTCCT) that was established with the aim of building the Bruce Mason Centre in 1984. He was then appointed by Council to chair of the Bruce Mason Centre Board of Management Trust to run the theatre, replacing the NSTCCT, when the theatre was opened in the mid-90s. He remained Chair until 2009.

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Angela Antony (centre), pictured with Sir Roger Hall and Heather Sharples, was a leading figure – “providing boundless energy” – in the NSTCCT and Bruce Mason Centre Board of Management Trust that established the Bruce Mason Centre.

The Bruce Mason Centre site on the corner of Hurstmere Road and The Promenade before the build in the 90s.

larger-scale performing arts centre.

He missed that meeting because his twins (now aged 36) were being born, but his name was put forward “as someone who could help the cause”. Geoff found himself on the steering committee, doing the legal work to establish the NSTCCT, and elected to chair it. Over the next 15 years the NSCCT lobbied, and then worked with, the North Shore City Council to establish what became the BMC. “The NSTCCT was in every sense of the phrase a ‘community action group’,” Geoff notes. “It was made up of a wonderful group of people (many of whom have sadly passed away), who were all committed to the idea of creating an asset of lasting value for our community.”

“My role as Chair required me to with deal with politicians of all stripes,” he adds, “some of whom were supportive of the concept of an arts centre but many of whom were not (one mayor of the time wanted a supermarket to be built on the site where the BMC now stands). We had champions in Takapuna Mayor Wynn Hoadley and in North Shore Mayor George Gair, but there was sometimes real friction with others.”

Alongside fundraising and lobbying, the Trust, calling on the help of “true local experts”, had to become “experts on trends in theatre design, acoustics and the conferences and events industry….

The commitment of time was simply enormous. Over the 12 years before the BMC opened, I invested many thousands of hours and to this day I am grateful to my then law partners for their generosity in allowing me to pursue this effort.

“The shape of politics also gradually changed on the Shore to our advantage. The amalgamation of seven North Shore local authorities into a new city in 1989 meant that there was more of an acknowledgment that a city required a certain level of amenity in which venues such as a theatre and conference centre, and a stadium, had an important role to play. It is no coincidence that the BMC and North Harbour Stadium developed at about the same time – they were part of the Shore ‘growing up’,” says Geoff.

“The arguments gradually changed from whether a performing arts centre should be built to where it should be located.”

The shape of politics may have changed – but funds were still needed. The NSTCCT ran a fundraising effort that raised almost $10 million towards the construction budget (then one of the largest efforts of its type in New Zealand). Key contributors were Sir Steven Tindall and Canon NZ. Despite the success of the campaign, however, in the latter stages of construction “we were introduced to the painful process of ‘value management’ – what happens when you realise you don’t have enough money to have everything you thought you could”.

Having led the effort to establish a venue, Geoff then moved to leading a business start-up in the venue. “I helped establish a charitable entity to act as the BMC Management Board, with members appointed from Council and the community. This was an intricate job to ensure that the BMC could retain independence and not have to consolidate into the North Shore City finances.”

Geoff was also asked to chair that Board and he remained as Chair until 2009. By that time, he had left his law firm to practice as

Bruce Mason Centre during construction in the 90s.

a barrister and had worked on and in the BMC for 25 years. “I felt it was time for someone else to take over.”

Community expectations of cheap access to the BMC were high.

North Shore Council also had its own expectations of the BMC’s financial independence, and the Board walked the delicate tightrope of operating a commercial model and encouraging community access. Managing both sets of expectations was, says Geoff in what one suspects is masterly understatement, “a perennial challenge”.

The Board (and the NSTCCT before it) benefited from the presence of experienced business people “like Graham Hitch, Dr Ian McPherson, and Gordon Lamont” and “the boundless energy of Angela Antony as well as many others”. With a comparatively modest but welcome annual operating grant from North Shore City, the Board consistently met the city’s financial expectations to be cash positive by each year-end. “We were amazed and somewhat envious of the level at which the operating deficits of Aotea Centre were subsidised by Auckland City.”

Geoff says the 13 years during which he led the BMC Management Board taught him “an enormous amount about the performing arts”.

As the design became reality, “I felt huge satisfaction seeing how the Centre could change quickly, for example, from theatre mode to hosting a seated dinner for several hundred people. The intimacy of the auditorium continues to surprise me every time I take a seat there.

It makes performances really proximate and tangible, and its acoustic quality is great. These were all objectives [the NSTCCT] insisted on and got right.”

Of course, it wasn’t all about the arts. Innovative work by the Board established partnerships with various Shore establishments, such as the Spencer on Byron, to attract conference business and package show deals. “These are now par-for-the-course in the industry,” Geoff notes, “but were new then to Shore businesses. By the time I stood down from the BMC Board, to concentrate more on the development of Q Theatre in Auckland, we had a solid arts and conference business.”

In 2015, after almost 20 years of operation, the centre was honoured as the Medium Venue of the Year by the Entertainment Venues Association – “so it was still seen after that time as an innovative and flexible mid-range venue”.

“However, by 2014 I think two things had undermined the earlier business success of the BMC. First, the creation of the unitary Auckland Council meant that operating capital available to support the BMC became more of a problem. A Local Board could not independently support it as a priority in the way the former North Shore City had. Secondly, the competition from Aotea Centre, the Town Hall and the Civic became more intense. Under a single city, the arts venues in the central city were attracting the big names and events. Over time the BMC developed an unhappy reputation as presenting a diet of tribute bands and imported dance companies.

This was unfair but the perception began to take hold, so that it became more difficult to attract shows and audiences.”

By 2014 the Centre faced a significant debt that the Auckland Council was not prepared to meet without governance of the Centre being brought under the wing of Auckland Live. Geoff remained involved – as a member of the Board of Regional Facilities Auckland

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(now part of Auckland Unlimited), which ran Auckland Live. While he was on the RFA Board, he watched closely how the BMC fitted into the business plan for Auckland Live. He stood down from the RFA board at the end of 2019, as required by Auckland Council, after his second term. While Geoff says some of the local oversight may have been lost in the transition to Auckland Council, he has “great confidence in Auckland Live to make the best possible use of the BMC for the benefit of Auckland as a whole”.

Geoff notes that in addition to the BMC playing a role as an important arts venue in the wider Auckland region it has also played a significant role as a civic venue, such as for graduation and naturalisation ceremonies, which aligns with the original idea that the venue should be a modern Town Hall for the Shore.

Some events on the Shore over the last 25 years, he adds, could not have happened without the BMC – such as those by professional arts companies, the Royal New Zealand Ballet, the NZSO and Auckland Philharmonia. “But I am not sure that it has become the hub of community performing arts that we envisaged. That may be because the balance between financial success and lower cost community access has been very difficult to achieve and the design requirements for financial success (such as seating numbers and stage size) mean that the ‘step up’ for community performers can be challenging.”

And despite its current success as a dedicated “variety” venue in the Auckland Live stable, there are still challenges to be faced, Geoff notes. “This is now an older public building and there is a need for ‘next generation’ thinking about how to prepare it, and use it, for the next 25 years.”

But for now, 25th anniversary celebrations take ‘Centre’ stage. The anniversary celebrations started with performances on 30 July and culminate over the weekend of 7-9 August. Key among these were Nightsong theatre company’s performances of ‘Te Pō’ – a play that had not previously been performed on the Shore but which centres around three characters searching for Bruce Mason – who (spoiler alert) is eventually found on Te Parenga – Bruce Mason’s fictionally titled but very recognisable [Takapuna] beach from his own play ‘End of the Golden Weather’.

One of the trustees of Nightsong is North Shore born and raised Rachel Antony, CEO of Greenstone Pictures, award winning television production company responsible for, among many other productions, ‘Vegas’, Dog Squad’, ‘Border Patrol’, and ‘Hudson & Halls A Love Story’.

She is delighted that Nightsong and ‘Te Pō’ are part of the Bruce Mason Centre celebrations. Daughter of the redoubtable Angela Antony, she grew up in a household “of endless meetings” as moves to get the new theatre were beginning. “I was only 11 when Mum first became determined to get a ‘proper’ theatre built on the Shore, to allow for productions of scale,” Rachel recalls. “The house was very regularly the venue for Board meetings for the steering committee, so I remember being relegated to my bedroom while the lounge was taken over with the group of hugely committed people who, over the dozen years it took to make the Rachel Antony, being the daughter of BMC a reality, became close Angela Antony (and the late John), grew up in a household “of endless meetings” to our whole family. as moves to get the new theatre were “I was 23 and living beginning. She is now CEO of award in London the year the winning television production company Greenstone Pictures and a trustee of theatre finally opened – so I Nightsong Theatre Company. Nightsong missed the milestone of the and ‘Te Pō’ are part of the Bruce Mason Centre’s 25th celebrations.

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The centre was named after Bruce Mason who grew up in Takapuna.

Bruce Edward George Mason CBE (1921-1982) was a significant playwright in New Zealand who wrote 34 plays and influenced the cultural landscape of the country through his contribution to theatre. He was born in Wellington and his family moved to Takapuna when he was five. Mason's most well known play is The End of the Golden Weather.

Another significant play is The Pohutukawa Tree written during the 1950s and 1960s.

opening! But in 2000, Dad [the late John Antony] directed the NSMT production of Les Miserables at ‘The Bruce’ and I was his production assistant, which was really special.”

Rachel’s early memories include “wreaking havoc backstage at rehearsals for shows (almost knocking over scenery by running where I shouldn’t, that kind of thing); being transfixed by the incredible performers in the musicals Dad was involved in and watching him craft a show; and Mum designing and sewing costumes.”

She was in several plays and musicals in her teens and twenties, but ultimately, she says, “I am a far better producer than I am a performer! Being surrounded by all that creativity as a kid undoubtedly influenced my choice of career though. I was really lucky to grow up in that world.

“I think it’s really special to have had this work staged at the Bruce Mason Centre while celebrating the centenary of his birth and the theatre’s quarter century; ‘Te Pō’ reunites characters from two of Bruce Mason’s most famous works – Detective Inspector Brett and Werihe Paku from ‘Awatea’, and Reverend Athol Sedgwick from ‘The Pohutakawa Tree’, who explore themes of grief, memory and the afterlife. It’s an extraordinary play,” she says.

(For those who missed the live performances at the end of July, that the play’s creators, writer Carl Bland and director Ben Crowder (from Nightsong) have just released a shortened version of Te Po which played on RNZ National in mid-July: https://www.rnz.co.nz/ collections/dramas/audio/2018802277/te-po-by-carl-bland.)

Rachel believes that arts venues – large and small – play an important role in any community. “I hope Shore residents can appreciate how much aroha and dedicated, unpaid mahi went into creating the BMC. I love that it’s in the heart of Takapuna, directly connected to Bruce Mason’s beloved beach – and how lucky we New Zealanders are, in the time of Covid, to be able to go to live theatre and concerts.”

The Bruce Mason Centre marks its 25th anniversary until 9 August with Te Po kicking off the celebrations, followed by performances over the first week of August ranging from The Dust Palace's new family show ‘The Ice Cream is Melting!’ to an Auckland Dance Schools’ Showcase and Auckland Principal Brass Quintet’s performance as one of the BMC’s Morning Melodies programmes. See https://www.aucklandlive.co.nz/event/brucemason-centre-25th-birthday for details.

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Local Life Glenda Kane

In Channel Magazine we love highlighting people in our community who make a difference. Two local Devonport Peninsula people, Kate and Lauren, have created ‘Local Life NZ’ a social media entity doing similar online. We love what they do, so we’re now collaborating with them to include content in Channel Mag. This month they profile Glenda Kane, Caroline Everitt and Hillary Condon as well as eateries Cafe Chateaubriant, Five Loaves and Waitemata Golf Club.

"I was an avid reader as a child. My books were my treasures. I kept my five current favourites at the end of my bookshelf between two small rocks. Every night before falling asleep, I would mentally rehearse what I would do if my house caught fire – leap out of bed, snatch the five books and run to safety. I used to agonise over which ones made the cut at any given time.

My love of reading led to a passion for writing from an early age. I remember getting a few things published on the back page of The Herald back in the day.

But from the beginning I dreamed of writing children’s books. I guess it stems from the fact that children’s books were my first love.

There are more things on the horizon – new writing, another book being republished. I don’t think I’ll ever stop.

Try as I might, I can’t NOT write. I just love it."

– Glenda Kane, writer and author Mangrove by Glenda Kane and illustrated by Lisa Allen (first published in 2007) has been republished in 2021 by Bateman Books. It tells the story of the life cycle of a mangrove, offering an alternative view of the world and conveying the importance and beauty of nature.

Her second children’s book, Anzac Day Parade, is due to be republished shortly.

Devonport Chocolates

“People often ask me how we got through last year – a small, family-run business dealing in a niche product was bound to take a hammering in the face of a global pandemic.

It was all down to the locals, I say.

And I mean it. We couldn’t have gotten through last year without the support of our local community. It makes me realise how lucky we are to be here.

It was probably the Prime Minister saying that the Easter Bunny was an essential worker during lockdown last year that marked our greatest turning point. Despite having to close both shops, we completely sold out of all our Easter stock. I worked for 16 days straight fulfilling online orders. It was madness.

I never thought I’d end up in chocolate. Mum and Dad bought the business back in the '90s and were very hands-on but I was focused on other things – I did a communications degree and then started work in the cosmetics industry. I remember Mum going off to Chocolate School in Melbourne and coming back with all these great ideas. But she always says you have to be careful not to have too many flavours. You can’t be all things to all people.

Everyone reckons working with chocolate is the ultimate dream job. And it is. “ – Caroline Everitt, Devonport Chocolates Devonport Chocolates is celebrating 30 years of business this month, and has launched a special Anniversary Selection box made up of customers’ favourite chocolates to mark the occasion.

The Bunker

“I’ve had so many fabulous nights up at the Bunker, too many to say which was my favourite. I’ve been going to the Bunker since 1970; it’s like my second home. My father was a bass player in dance bands and he really got me interested in music. I used to play the Appalachian dulcimer, like Joni Mitchell. It only has three strings but makes a very sweet sound.

If you really listen to the lyrics of a folk song, you’ll hear a story, a slice of history. Tuppence on the Rope is a great example – during the Depression, out-of-work and homeless people would sleep sitting with their arms over a rope if they couldn’t afford a bed for the night.

Even during lockdown, we kept the Bunker sessions going via Zoom calls from home. We’d play music and chat, a cat would walk across someone's desk, it was so comforting. We had folkies from America, England, Australia that we hadn’t seen in decades dropping in and jamming with us. Those Covid sessions were like a mecca in the middle of nowhere.”

– Hilary Condon.

Hilary is the secretary and treasurer of The Devonport Folk Music Club which holds club nights every Monday evening at the Bunker on Takarunga/Mt Victoria and special performances on Sunday evenings (see club page on Facebook for details).

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We still have a few copies left that can be purchased. If you missed out and are interested in a copy then email us at hello@locallifenz.com.

The book is available for purchase at Paradox Books, Devonport for $30.

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Foodie Finds is a monthly column by Kate Dobbin and Lauren Lulu Taylor which profiles local food producers and their products in the Devonport area. If you have suggestions of products or producers for us to consider, please email Kate on kdobbin7@gmail.com or Lulu at Lulu@secretkiwikitchen.com

Tucked Away: Tantalising Takeaways The art of surprise reinvention is one of our favourite restaurant qualities, and here in Devonport we have that in spades at Café Chateaubriant on Vauxhall Road. By day, café owner Alan and chef Yannick serve a range of coffees, pastries and baguettes but every Thursday evening they transport customers to the culinary regions of their homeland with a tour of their grandmothers’ favourite dishes.

Recipes and ingredients match the various pockets of France, including carbonnade briskets from the flatlands of the north; hearty coq au vin and beef cheeks with pinot noir sauce from wine-rich Burgundy; duck cassoulet from the historic market towns of the Languedoc; and pork belly, pommes sarladaise and cepes mushrooms from the hot and dry southwest.

Occasionally they’ll step over the Meditterean coastline with an offering of Greek Moussaka or Moroccan Lamb Tagine. Each week a different hearty and comforting dish is served, along with wine pairing suggestions (French, of course) so you can dine in true European style. Served with pasta, potatoes, salad or greens, this new take on a takeaway dinner oozes with flavour, flair and a whole lotta love.

Café Chateaubriant takeaway dinners are available from 5-7pm every Thursday. Vegetarian options and kids’ menus are available and all meals are gluten-free. Pre-orders are essential!

Other hidden takeaway gems include the delicious Thai takeaways from Five Loaves (pre order and pick-up by 6pm) and Friday Specials from the Derby Street restaurant at the Waitemata Golf Club (preorders suggested).

Café Chateaubriant 87a Vauxhall Road, Devonport https://www.chateaubriant.co.nz/ Tel: 09 445 0021 Monday: Closed Saturday - Sunday: 7 am - 2.30 pm Takeaway dinners are $22.50 each.

Five Loaves 29 Church Street, Devonport Tel: 09 445 8954 Pick-up before 6pm daily

NORTH SHORE’S FAMILY CLUB FOR SAILING, BOATING & SOCIALISING

• The best sailing waters in NZ • Conveniently located beside Milford Marina • Affordable membership • Sailing, Boating & Social memberships • Strong Junior Sailing Programme • Social events for members every week • Fantastic Venue for Hire

Milford Cruising Club, Craig Road, Milford Email: milfordcruising@xtra.co.nz Phone: 09-489-6837 Visit: www.milfordcruisingclub.co.nz

Waitemata Golf Club 15 Derby Street, Devonport Tel: 09 445 8716 Kitchen open every day (Friday 10am-8pm)

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DEVONPORT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: DEVONPORT NEWS UPDATE

By Shaulyn van Baaren Devonport Business Improvement District Manager

Devonport Community News for this month with Maria Teape, Devonport Community Coordinator, Devonport Peninsula Trust

Devonport I don’t mind the winter! Yes…I said it! But it’s really true! Events in August Shaulyn van Baaren.

Comfy layers, beanies and puffer jackets…. Warm coffees, hot toddies and soups…. Fluffies and hot chocolate for the littles….

And arriving in Devonport village feels like you’ve left the city behind; the pace, as you visit the village, seems just a little slower…as if everyone is just taking life in!

Because there’s plenty to do in Devonport village in the winter months. We have range of art galleries and studios filled with creations from New Zealand’s up-and-coming to our finest artists.

On rainy days, visit Torpedo Bay Navy Museum, catch a movie at The Vic (one of Auckland’s oldest theatres), or cozy up with a book on the couches at Paradox Books or BookMark. On sunny days, give segwaying a go with Magic Broomstick Segway Tours, shop our beautiful boutique and outlet shops, or set up your picnic in Windsor Reserve where our Bean Rock inspired playground is situated. With an eclectic range of cafés and restaurants there is something for every picnic blanket and food to warm every palate.

We’re excited to welcome a few new businesses that we know locals are going to love! For the gents, we have two new barbers, White Scissor (inside the Arcade) and Indigo Barbershop (67A Victoria Road). If you’re in business, And Now digital agency and venture partner has taken up office where Cushla’s once was (38 Victoria Road). Or maybe you’re looking at starting a business or have a business idea… pop in and have a chat with Rob Vickery of Hillafrance Venture Capital (in the Old Post Office Building).

But I get it, I am secretly excited for spring to arrive. And when it does, a few events that you’ll want pre-marked in your calendar are: • PARKING DAY: Did you know that Devonport’s 2019 Park(ING) Day event won the AT Travel Choices Award for EVENT OF THE YEAR? Covid stuffed up our plans last year, so we’re talking with the team who delivered that award-winning event to hopefully revive Park(ING) Day in Devonport this September 17th.

• GLOW@Artweek 2021: Another Covid event casualty in 2020, the DBA, Unitec and Artweek Auckland can’t wait to bring this fantastic family event back to Windsor Reserve for it’s sixth year on October 15th & 16th.

• Friday After 5 Street Party: We loved the pre-summer vibe of holding this event in December so much that we’re doing it again. As a kick-off to a weekend of Christmas in Devonport, get your flip flops ready for a whole lot of festive fun in Clarence Street on Friday, 3rd December.

Now that you too are dreaming of warmer weather, keep your eyes on Devonport.co.nz or visit our Facebook Page @DevonportVillage - for details to come on this fantastic spring line-up!

For now though, layer yourself up, grab whänau and friends, your warm beverage of choice and make your way down to see us!

Until next time, — Shaulyn van Baaren Visit: www.devonport.co.nz

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Devonport Community House is hosting Devonport Repair Café on Saturday 7th August, from 12pm to 4pm. You are invited to bring along toys, furniture items, clothing or small appliances in need of repair.

Devonport Repair Café is about repairing broken items together, getting professional advice, spending time with and helping your community. There is no cost and Devonport Repair Café will become a regular monthly happening at Devonport Community House on the first Saturday of the month. Contact Chris for more info - 021 380 845 or devonportrc@bravegen.com.

A newcomers book club for migrants is taking place at Devonport Library, 2 Victoria Rd, Devonport every Saturday from 7th August - 25th September, from 2pm to 4pm. The book club is for all migrants and an opportunity to study great New Zealand writers as a window to New Zealand culture. A qualified English teacher from English Language Partners New Zealand takes the group. There is no cost to join - register by email: aucklandnorth@newcomers.co.nz

The Devonport Community Network meeting is taking place on Thursday 12th August at Devonport Yacht Club. The meetings are held to promote networking amongst residents and community groups…

The Devonport Community Network meeting is taking place on Thursday 12th August at Devonport Yacht Club. The meetings are held to promote networking amongst residents and community groups, with guest speakers joining us to talk about topical happenings. This month members of The Rose Centre's Board will talk to us about The Rose Centre's new direction.

Meetings commence at 10am with morning tea and informal networking then guest speakers start from approximately 10:20am.

Make sure you see Sean Sinnott and friends singing songs of Jimmy MacCarthy at The Bunker on Takarunga, Devonport.

Sean has been singing in Irish pubs for decades, and will be joined by some very special friends on Monday 16th August at 8pm. Bookings are essential: phone: 09-445-2227; tickets cost $20.

Another must-see event this month: Company Theatre presents 'Neville's Island' - a farcical and hilarious evening out.

Running from 14th-28th August at The Rose Centre, School Rd, Belmont, tickets cost $27 ($22 concessions) and are available at www.iticket.co.nz. From critically acclaimed 9R writer, Tim Firth, of 'Calendar Girls' VID-1 ecover y CO fame, this production of an awardnominated West End comedy is the perfect entertainment for a winter’s evening at the theatre.

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HARBOUR HOSPICE NEWS

$250k grant supports Hospice rebuild Harbour Hospice relies heavily on the support of many individuals, businesses, community groups and Trusts to see the successful completion of its $20 million redevelopment project at 7 Shea Terrace, Takapuna.

In previous columns we’ve shared stories of some of these remarkable gifts, with the Douglas Charitable Trust being one of these generous supporters. Founded in 1967 by Sir Graeme Douglas, Douglas Pharmaceuticals supports local communities in many ways through the Douglas Charitable Trust and has generously gifted $250,000 over three years to this vital North Shore project.

Douglas Pharmaceuticals Managing Director, Jeff Douglas, says they’re passionate about supporting organisations that benefit the health of New Zealanders and acknowledges that raising such a significant amount of money is an incredibly difficult task for a charity like Harbour Hospice.

“Organisations like hospice aren’t able to meet this demand and raise such significant capital costs without help,” Douglas says.

Douglas has a strong connection with the work of Hospice having been a trustee for Hospice West Auckland, where he’s now the patron.

Harbour Hospice works closely with the West Auckland service, supporting patients who need inpatient care. “By working together, they help more patients who need beds, which is a really crucial part of its care.”

With one in three people in our community needing hospice services, Douglas acknowledges that almost everyone has a friend or family member that’s been touched by hospice at some point in their lives. “The work they do is absolutely vital, and we want to support the work of hospice to enable them to look after more patients at the end of their lives, as best as they can.” Harbour Hospice Chief Executive, Jan Nichols, says that without the support of Trusts like the Douglas Charitable Trust, this vital community need wouldn’t be met. “With the rapidly growing number of patients and families needing support, and our Inpatient Unit at North Shore needing an urgent reclad, we simply couldn’t do this major project without them,” Nichols says.

“It’s an honour to be associated with one of New Zealand’s most iconic and innovative healthcare businesses. Douglas Pharmaceuticals provided many of the medications we used in my early days at hospice and were generous sponsors of training and family caregiving resources,” Nichols says.

“We’re incredibly grateful to the Trust for acknowledging the impact we have in our community and for helping to secure our future as the needs of our community become more complex and urgent.”

To date the North Shore redevelopment project has raised more than $8 million towards its fundraising goal of $10 million. To find out how you can help, and to keep up to date with progress visit harbourhospice.org.nz/shore-project

“Thanks to you and your team for hosting our wedding in January. We had a great time, and the Takapuna Boat Club was an amazing venue.”

Rochelle and Brian.

Venue hire, facilities and full catering service for private and business events.

39 The Strand, Takapuna Beach, Auckland Phone: 09 489-6941 info@takapunaboating.org.nz takapunaboating.org.nz

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KIWIHARVEST NORTH SHORE

KiwiHarvest – Our journey By Janice Blomgren From small beginnings (December 2016, and my brainwave!), a food rescue service for the North Shore!

The initial feeling was that the North Shore was too affluent, we wouldn’t get the community’s support, how would we pay for it? As they say, the rest is history.

It started as a project with a small group of enthusiasts from Takapuna North Rotary Club. The KiwiHarvest parent had started three years earlier in Dunedin, and we adopted their practices and disciplines on food standards and structures, which was a great help. From the outset we have been different, depending 100% on volunteers with low operating costs, working closely with our recipients and suppliers. The key is to balance each day’s demand with available supply so that the food is always fresh and wholesome.

We started deliveries in May 2017 with three recipients and KiwiHarvest's two tonne refrigerated truck at the Rosedale warehouse. a volunteer’s Highlander station wagon. Volumes built quickly, and we realised a station wagon could not cope. Two of our volunteers funded the purchase of a refrigerated van and this went covered most of the North Shore up to Orewa and the Whangaparaoa into service in late June. We built up eventually to 30 volunteers, 30 peninsula. Suppliers included local supermarkets, food kitchens and recipients and 12 supermarkets with support from five local sponsors. local manufacturers. We proved conclusively that there was a real need We worked three days a week, 8am to 2pm. We were lucky enough to for supplementary food to those needy areas on the North Shore, and have a shed and a yard to house the van and provide a small amount of that the community responded wonderfully through volunteers driving chilled and frozen storage. The aim was an empty van at the end of the and assisting in the van. day. It was busy, rewarding and at times tense!

In 2019 the scale of the KiwiHarvest service had grown to be Four other Rotary clubs then joined Takapuna North to fund the van national, North Shore continuing in its volunteer based retail service purchase, repaying the original seed funding. The arrangement was as one of five branches, with the rest of the country moving to a bulk formalised with KiwiHarvest in a Memorandum of Understanding that distribution wholesale business. As part of this change, we employed provided for the operation to cede to them, including ownership of a professional driver, moving to a five days a week service. With the the van. In September 2018 that duly took place. By this time our area onset of Covid-19 in March 2020 this proved to have been a life saver.

We were deemed an essential service. However, with the majority of volunteers aged over 70, we could now still continue, but with very limited volunteer involvement. With lockdown, demand for food sky-rocketed. Government funded a national bulk food distribution business that was complementary to KiwiHarvest, and in addition provided us with significant short term operational funding.

In February 2021 we moved into a large warehouse in Rosedale with ample chilled and frozen storage space. The Hiace van has been replaced with a two tonne refrigerated truck, and we now have the logistics for a central bulk supply with direct delivery to the North Shore. It is a major change. The region we supply has now extended to Wellsford in the north and Helensville in the west. The role for volunteers is less, but with the physical demands of a near doubling of food demand, better materials handling and a greater focus on eliminating food waste, the change is positive. We are always looking for ‘robust’ volunteers!

To date the North Shore has delivered more than 290,610kg to food hubs, mainly churches, marae, foodbanks and community centres.

So we have come a long way. My abiding memory is of the smiles from the children at Belmont Primary when we made the first delivery of bread and apples. Also that of Francis, the Milford New World logistics manager, when he heard we were delivering to The Fono, the Pacific Islanders food bank in Northcote. It’s been a great and rewarding journey.

Special thanks to our sponsors who have made this all possible: Partners Life, Benefitz, Pak'nSave Albany, Countdown, and the New Worlds, as well as many in-kind supporters. We could not have helped so many families on the North Shore without your support.

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Dr Cadey Korson used unique drone footage to give viewers a unique view of the land.

MASSEY UNIVERSITY NEWS

New film rethinks how land use is classified in New Zealand A new film that explores the complexity of human environmental relationships was premiered at the Massey University stand at the 2021 Fieldays.

The film, titled “The Spatial Awareness Project”, is the culmination of two years of work by Massey University Senior Lecturer in Human Geography Dr Cadey Korson.

The film features stunning drone footage of New Zealand landscapes with voiceover narration from academics and students.

Dr Korson says the idea for the project came about through her work with students where she said she was shocked by how little they had explored their own backyard.

“Talking about pollution, tourism, climate change and urbanisation in far-off countries was irrelevant when they had little experience with the spatial patterns and complexity of these issues in their own backyard."

Dr Korson, who is originally from Michigan, says she wanted to create something for her students that used examples and landscapes from their own country.

“I wanted to create something that could be a basis for common understanding – a starting point that we could use to talk from.”

The Spatial Awareness Project critiques Aotearoa’s current Land Use Capability (LUC) classifications, where our landscapes are divided according to their ‘capacity to support long-term sustained production after taking into account the physical limitations of the land.’

The classification was first devised in 1969 with only two revisions since, in 1971 and 2009.

“Aotearoa and its people are constantly evolving and this way of thinking of our land and its use needs to move along with it.”

“While they may seem like harmless categories, these classifications are underpinned by a set of values that speak to the ways in which we prioritise certain economic activities over the intrinsic value of natural environments.”

The film uses drone footage to highlight Aotearoa’s beautiful and diverse landscapes and gives viewers a unique perspective of our country.

“Using drones and the technology we did has been so amazing to help further understand our land. No other way can we see how ecosystems and habitats are connected and how humans’ impact on one area effects other areas ‘downstream’.”

Dr Korson says the collaborative nature of this project was amazing and helped feed into the film’s question; “How can richer perspectives create opportunities to realise new human/environment futures?”

One way the film suggests this, is through inclusion of

Hairy Feet Waitomo features in the film.

mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) in our classification of land and its use, says Associate Professor Krushil Watene, one of the collaborators on the project.

“Much of our land-use assumes and constrains the way that we utilise land. If the aim is to relate to land as stewards, then we need to rethink how current land-use is enabled.

“Māori communities are both guardians and hosts and their relationships with local environments are grounded in rich knowledge and understanding of our natural environment.”

Dr Watene says kaitiakitanga (guardianship) plays a fundamental sustainability-guiding role in restoring our socio-environmental relationships.

“We see how land-use can enable deep connections to land and water in marae communities through reconnection projects like Pa to Plate that centre relationships and responsibilities grounded in those relationships.

“This is reconnecting people and place in important ways and does so by rethinking the value of land and water.”

Notes The Spatial Awareness Project is a collaborative effort between Dr Korson, Associate Professor Krushil Watene (Philosophy), Dr Alice Beban (Sociology), Nicole Ashely (postgraduate student, Sociology), Rowan Stanley (Bachelor of Arts graduate, Philosophy), Bronte Taylor (Bachelor of Arts graduate, Geography) and Sam Smart (undergraduate student, Sociology).

Andrew Korson (Multimedia Developer) also helped with some of the filming and editing.

This project was funded by the Massey University College of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Flexible Learning and Innovation Fund, which funds education-related research and resources. The project would not have been possible without the support of this grant, Lisa Emerson (Director of Teaching and Learning) and the countless individuals, families, organisations, iwi and businesses who agreed to let us film on their property.

Project organisers would like to acknowledge and thank the Department of Conservation and Auckland Council for waiving the filming permit fees for this project. www.massey.ac.nz/cohss

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EDUCATION: CARMEL COLLEGE

Pyper Lodewyks, Maxine Stoute, Faith Lumsden, Isabella Cattermole and Tayla Dalton.

Career events at Carmel College

Many of our students have been engaged in career events during the past term Our Year 11 cohort were involved in study skills and CV writing workshops before heading to the North Shore Pathway Expo held at Albany Stadium.

On 23rd June, Carmel College Year 11 held their Careers day. This involved two 2½ hour sessions of highly beneficial workshops where we learnt the necessary skills needed for productive studying during our first year of NCEA. These included honing our organisational tools by cleaning our Google drives and efficiently using Google calendar.

We also learned a multitude of studying tips to achieve the best grades possible.

The second session taught us workplace skills including communication, interpersonal, organisation and leadership and using these, we created CVs which will be invaluable in our search for employment. After these informative and highly relevant sessions, we headed off to the Careers Expo where universities such as Victoria University, Auckland University, AUT and Otago University exhibited information about their courses to capture our interest. Consultants presented expert advice and informed us of a wide variety of options at each course and university, which also helped us gain an understanding of the different jobs available in the future. It was a bonus that we received free pens, bags and drink bottles! Overall, our Careers day was a fantastic success and taught us how to effectively apply our study to NCEA. The Expo was an amazing way to interact with future possibilities and I can firmly say that the whole of our year group at Carmel College will have walked away feeling positive about their career choices.

Skyler Anderson, Year 11, Carmel College

At the beginning of June, our Year 12 students were engaged in a two-day Leadership, Wellbeing and Career programme before embarking on a two-day work placement opportunity.

The in-school programme consisted of leadership, wellbeing and tertiary workshops as well as students listening to recent graduates speak about their journey from school. Keynote speakers were Mrs Cath O’Brien and the Right Honourable Helen Clark. For Year 12 work experience I chose a business career pathway and was lucky to secure a placement at Shekou headquarters. Shekou is a trendy clothing

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brand with sustainability as part of their business plan that is evidenced in their product range. It was a fun, informative two days. I was inspired by the fact that one of the founders, Briana, is a young female who set up this successful business. Some of the tasks I undertook were product placement on social media platforms, marketing outreach and concept boards. Overall, I learnt that choosing a career pathway that you are passionate about and believe in yourself are steps in the right direction to success.

Christabelle Watson, Year 12, Carmel College

On Wednesday 30th June, Year 10 students enjoyed a day learning about career pathways and what they can expect from certain fields.

We listened to three women working in science fields Kimberley Dobbie (speech and language therapist), Helena Armiger (marine science) and Dr Amanda Dixon-McIver (cancer research). We took part in the ‘Carmel Challenge’ where we had multiple activities to complete as a team. These activities were designed to show us what line of work we were more inclined towards, using categories from John Holland’s six personality traits such as artistic and investigative. We learned about subjects needed to do certain careers and we talked about credits and endorsements that are needed for NCEA.

We took part in the ‘Carmel Challenge’ where we had multiple activities to complete as a team.

These activities were designed to show us what line of work we were more inclined towards…

Overall, this was a great day to help us with future career choices and we gained a lot of information about careers while thoroughly enjoying the experience.

Maia O’Callaghan, Year 10, Carmel College

CARMEL COLLEGE Our Vision

Empowering young women through a Catholic education in the Mercy tradition to pursue personal excellence and to be prepared to challenge and shape the future.

“We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

Catherine McAuley

Enrolment Applications for Year 7 to Year 9 in 2022 are welcomed.

For all enrolment applications and enquiries please contact Mrs Deborah Goudie or call (09) 486 1132 ext 704 Address: 108 Shakespeare Road, Milford, Auckland Email: admin@carmel.school.nz Website: www.carmel.school.nz

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EDUCATION: KRISTIN SCHOOL

Further sport successes Kristin Basketball bounces high with three gold medals Kristin Basketball is bouncing high, with three gold medals after the semester one (Term 1 and 2) competition!

The Kristin Year 7 Jade team won their semester one Intermediate Boys League 5 season in Basketball, and the Year 8 Kea Basketball team continued their wonderful form with a convincing win in their League 3 final against Belmont Timberwolves.

Led by Alex Goodwin, the team were fast on the break and secure with the pass to ensure the comfortable win 34-19.

Kristin Kotare in League 8 also went unbeaten and congratulations also to the Year 7/8 Doves basketball team who placed third in their league. The second semester competition starts up again in Term 3 Week 3.

Kristin Jade team.

Kristin Junior School wins the 2021 Northern Bays Cross Country Cup On Wednesday 30th June, with runners from 11 schools participating, Kristin’s Juliane Janke started a trend on the day with a strong run and first place in the eightyear-old girls' race.

This was followed by a tremendous run into first place by Alex Leigh in the eightyear-old boys. Marlene Janke, even after a tumble, managed a powerful finish and gained first place in the nine-year-old girls. Other students who placed well in the first six were Junya Wang, third place in the 10-year-old girls and Isobel Holdsworth, fourth place in the eight-year-old girls.

The Kristin Junior School Cross Country team.

Kristin’s Juliane Janke started a trend on the day with a strong run and first place in the 8-year-old Girls.

Kristin makes a big splash at the Swimming Champs Our Kristin swimmers made a big splash at the Auckland Schools Individual Championships at the end of June. Congratulations to Rebecca Wilkins (Year 12) for winning all four of her events. Rebecca won the 200m freestyle, 100m and 200m breaststroke and the 100m individual medley. Joining her on the podium were Oscar Greenwood (Year 11) who won silver in the 200m individual medley, Eloise Raper (Year 10) who won bronze in the 200m backstroke and Jason Hua (Year 10) who won bronze in the 400m freestyle.

Success at the Auckland Ski Championships

Oscar, Rebecca, Eloise and Jason.

Our Kristin swimmers made a big splash at the Auckland Schools Individual Championships at the end of June.

The Auckland Secondary School Ski Championships were held indoors at Snowplanet on Thursday 24th June. Year 12 student Mikayla Smyth won both the Senior Girls Slalom and Dual Slalom, with Michol Hinton (Year 12) runner-up in both events and also in the Slopestyle. Harrison Messenger (Year 13) also won the Senior Boys Slalom and Dual Slalom; and Kalyan Evans (Year 10) won the Junior Boys Slopestyle. Hugo Morganti (Year 10) placed second in the Junior Boys Dual Slalom followed by Stan Urlich (Year 10) in third place. Nicole Wang (Year 10) placed second in the Junior Girls' Slopestyle.

Such great results also led to Kristin being awarded the following: First Overall Girls Team – Charlotte Baker, Emma Gentry, Michol Hinton, Steffani Moore, Mikayla Smyth and Nicole Wang Second Overall Boys Team – Harry Bailey, Kalan Evans, Harrison Messenger, Hugo Morganti, Maique Pang and Stan Urlich

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The Kristin Ski Champs team.

Mikey, Junyi, Matthew and William.

Kayla, Sorcha, Wilson and Sophie.

Kristin student success in Mathex Competition In mid-June, some of our Junior and Middle School students took part in the North Shore Mathex competition at Northcross Intermediate. Mathex is a fun-filled 30-minute word problem solving mathematics competition and students work in teams of four to answer 20 questions.

Congratulations to Junyi Guo, William Huang, Matthew Lee and Mikey Li (all in Year 8) who took out first place in the Year 7/8

competition - answering all 20 questions in just over 15 minutes!

We also had a Year 7 and another Year 8 team get all 20 questions finished in the 30-minute time limit – both placing in the top six.

Congratulations also to our Junior School team of Kayla Fan (Year 5), Wilson Lin (Year 6), Sorcha Mauger (Year 6) and Sophie Xu (Year 6) who placed second in their category answering all 20 questions correctly, against over 60 other teams!

2022 Senior School Production Announced It is with great excitement that we can announce Kristin’s Senior School Production for 2022 is the smash-hit musical, Wicked.

Currently unavailable for schools licensing in New Zealand, Kristin has been approached by MTI, the world’s top theatrical licensing agency, to offer us the opportunity to be the first school in New Zealand, and one of the first in the world, to stage this magnificent production. This recognition is a huge testament to all the past and present students, staff and parents who have contributed to the standard of excellence achieved by Kristin productions that has created our outstanding reputation in New Zealand, and globally.

International Celebration Week During the last week of Term 2, we celebrated the diversity of our school by taking time to further acknowledge the different cultures and nationalities of our Kristin community. This included events such as an ‘Other Languages Speech Competition’, ‘International Kahoot!’, ‘Why you should learn another language’ poster competition, an ‘International Food Fair’, an international themed mufti day and most significantly our ‘International Peace Night’ shows.

In our International Peace Night shows, Middle and Senior School students creatively collaborate to bring music and dance from their cultures to the school community. Audiences enjoyed watching students on the Japanese taiko drums, the Korean fan dance and other traditional as well as more contemporary performances representing many of the backgrounds that weave together the multicultural tapestry that is Kristin.

For nearly 20 years, this popular show has excited millions upon millions of audience members – and reigns as one of the longest running and most successful musicals on Broadway and the West End. With an indescribable score and tremendous characters, Wicked will be another benchmark in Kristin’s proud production history in May 2022.

Kristin Jazz Troupe Success Over 11th-13th June, the inaugural National Dance Challenge competition was hosted in the Kristin Auditorium, bringing together thousands of dancers to compete for their studios, and introducing a new Interschool section.

Top row L-R: Zoe Chia, Brianna Lee, Millieke An advanced jazz troupe McKay, Abby Wendelborn, Hilda Xu and Lucinda of Kristin Middle and Senior Cotton. Bottom row L-R: Jaimie North, Willamena Holdsworth, Adriana Field and Saskia Reid. Not School students entered, led pictured: Vanessa Khun. and choreographed by Year 13 dance student Vanessa Khun.

The Kristin troupe presented an impressive performance on Friday night with their dance 'Leave the Door Open', taking out third place in the Secondary Schools Jazz Category. Congratulations Vanessa and dancers – and bring on the next competition!

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Korean Night - Fan Dance.

Korean Night.

Chinese Night - Lion Dance.

Chinese Night - Sleeve Dance.

Korean Night - Taekwondo.

Chinese Night.

Chinese and Korean Nights Rangitoto College’s annual Chinese and Korean Nights are hotly anticipated events on the school calendar. These student-led performance evenings allow students to celebrate and share their cultures with our school community.

As always, both evenings were hugely popular, with performers taking the stage with sold-out crowds. Once those curtains opened and the night began, the amount of hard work and dedication put in by every performer could be very clearly seen.

Highlights from Korean Night included everything from doll dance to the traditional mask dance, the elegant fan dance to the masterful taekwondo, and various K-Pop, rap and nanta performances. On Chinese Night, Chinese culture was brought to life through traditional performances such as the lion dance, sleeve dance and fan dance, as well as more modern hip-hop and singing acts.

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Choralation.

Choirs end competition on a high note At the end of June our school choirs converged at the Auckland Town Hall to compete in the annual NZCF Big Sing Auckland Regional Festival.

The Big Sing Secondary Schools Choral Festival is the largest choral event in New Zealand and each year close to 10,000 young people from more than 250 schools participate in regional festivals with the ultimate goal of being selected for the Big Sing Finale. Our training choir Momentum, premier choir Voicemale and combined choir Choralation performed admirably, with Voicemale taking out the top award for the best recital by a male choir, and Choralation for the best recital by a mixed choir.

Voicemale’s rendition of 'I See the Heaven’s Glories Shine' received the adjudicator’s runner-up award for the best single item of the festival from a total of 180 performances during the entire festival.

Following the regional competitions, the Westlake schools' three premier choirs, Voicemale, Choralation and Cantare received an invitation to attend the national Finale of the Big Sing in Christchurch at the end of August. This honour has placed them amongst the top 24 choirs from over 250 competing choirs around the country and they are very excited at the prospect of performing in the restored Christchurch Town Hall where the acoustics are considered among the best in the world.

Voicemale.

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Students celebrating their success.

Chinese Night Delights The Westlake Chinese Night is an annual celebration of Chinese culture within our wider community. It is an event that is proudly organised and run by a group of students from Westlake Boys and Westlake Girls High Schools.

This year’s event was attended by over a thousand enthusiastic people, eager to see what the students had been working on. The performances ranged from modern Chinese pop dances to traditional fan and lion dances which received rapturous applause. We were especially delighted to see a big turnout from our Chinese community including parents, grandparents and many younger children.

Jasmine Tsai and Richard Jia, the 2021 Westlake Chinese Night leaders, said, “The night was a great success, and we are extremely happy with how it went, from the organisation to the performances, and we hope to see everyone back again next year!”

The Chinese Night crew.

Westlake Enterprise Academy – a new pathway of learning The Westlake Enterprise Academy is a new pathway of learning that will be available to Year 13 students in 2022.

The primary aim of the WEA is to provide a pathway between academic theory and learning, and the practical reality of running a business.

The Westlake Enterprise Academy will allow students to not only gain NCEA Sam Viskovich, Hartley Atkinson, Bill Smale and Level 3 and University Entrance but also Michael Allpress.

Prefect helpers for launch night. equip them with skills so they can start their own business while they are still at school.

Westlake Enterprise Academy, could have helped them earlier in The programme was recently launched at the B:Hive with an their careers. information evening for guests to learn more about how it will This new initiative has already gained a lot of interest from our operate. The event involved a Westlaker panel comprising Bill Westlaker community who are keen to get involved and offer their Smale, Hartley Atkinson and Michael Allpress, who discussed their expertise and insight to all budding entrepreneurs eager to start their entrepreneurial experiences and how a school programme, like the own business journey.

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$10,000 raised for World Vision Thanks to an outstanding effort by Year 13 student Sarah Binnie and her 40-Hour Famine Committee, more than $10,000 was raised by students for World Vision this year.

“We held two really effective lunchtime events where we had a guest speaker and held an information event to inform the students about what is happening in Sub-Saharan Africa,” says Sarah. “Our other event was a lunchtime quiz and simulation event which also attracted a lot of students.”

The 40-Hour Famine Committee went around classes to promote these events and to also encourage students to sign up for the famine. The hard work paid off, with $10,088.90 raised – exceeding the $10,000 goal.

“Last year I attended a scholarship summit through the school and this meant that this year I got the opportunity to have an interview through LifeFM as they were running a 40hour broadcast for the 40-Hour Famine,” says Sarah. “It was an awesome opportunity to talk about what the 40-Hour Famine committee had done this year, and also enabled me to encourage the listeners to participate in the famine.”

Pictured with Jonine at the piano are from left: Hannah, Lisa and Melody.

Sarah Binnie with LifeFM presenter Eloise in Percy the Caravan.

WGHS students (from left) Hannah Jones and Alanah Jones with members of Voicemale and Choralation after their wins at Big Sing.

Music takes centre stage after Covid disruptions It’s been a tremendous year to date for the Music Department at Westlake Girls High School, following most events and performances being cancelled in 2020.

Firstly, Westlake schools cleaned up at the Auckland Regional Big Sing competition held in June. The Big Sing Festival is the largest choral competition in the southern hemisphere with around 10,000 high school students singing in 200 choirs around New Zealand.

The Auckland regionals is the largest centre with three full days of competition and 60 choirs.

It was a tremendous time of choral music with outstanding performances by Westlake Girls, Westlake Boys and combined choirs: • Winner of Best Festival programme by a mixed choir – Choralation (Director Rowan Johnston) • Winner of Best Festival programme by a female choir – Cantare (Director Fiona Wilson) • Winner of Best Festival programme by a male choir – Voicemale

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(Director David Squire) • Runner up for the Adjudicators Award – Voicemale • Winner of the Spirit of the Festival Award – Cantare Shortly after the Big Sing, Year 13 students from Westlake Girls have been awarded first, third and two highly commended awards in the NZCF Federation Choral Composition competition.

Jonine Tiakia won with her composition piece Invictus. Lisa Qian came third equal with A Night Thought, while Hannah Jones and Melody Zhang both received a highly commended for Voices of the Air and Tree at my Window respectively. The NZCF-SOUNZ Choral Composition Competition was introduced to mark the third millennium, with a trophy presented by NZCF Auckland Region.

The competition is run in conjunction with SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music, and awards a prize for the best choral piece composed by a New Zealand secondary school student. There were 23 entries in this year’s competition.

New Rotary Interact Club making a difference in the community Earlier this year, the new Westlake Girls High School Rotary Interact Club was launched. As an official youth group, the group of students operates based on the Rotary model, and is sponsored by local Rotary Clubs.

The club’s first project was collecting blankets for the City Mission, with 50 blankets handed over at the end of June. The next project is a Beach Clean-Up on Saturday 21st August – and we’d love you and your family to be a part of it.

It will just be a couple of hours out of your day - from 12 to 2pm (or as much time as you can spare) and there will be a draw for prizes. Lots of fun guaranteed as you join our group walking along the shoreline collecting rubbish from Mairangi Bay to Browns Bay beach. Bags will be provided, but please bring gloves. A gold coin donation will be gifted to Keep New Zealand Beautiful.

You can find out all the details on the @Rotarywghs instagram page or just turn up at Mairangi Bay and look for the large group of enthusiastic volunteers. We'd love to see you there!

Members of Westlake’s Rotary Interact with the blankets for the City Mission.

A record medal haul for snowboarding team Westlake Girls won a record number of scintillating start. Her competitor fought hard to medals at the 2021 Auckland Secondary close the gap, but Harriet held on to cross the Schools Snowboarding Championship in finish line 3/100th of a second in front.

June.

The medal haul began with Year 9 student, Competing against 13 schools, the fiveMeadow Mauger, who won Silver in the person team of Harriet Gowing, Coco Mauger, Junior Girls Slopestyle. Slopestyle is the root Meadow Mauger, Jorgina Mackenzie and of snowboarding and riding rails with heart Saffron Frost-Macky won 12 medals, consisting skipping jumps that are difficult and scary. The of seven gold, three silver and two bronze brave youngster also won a Bronze medal in the medals, to be crowned the girls Auckland Junior Slalom race.

Jorgina Mackenzie, Meadow Mauger, Secondary School Snowboarding Champions.

The other individual medals went to Harriet Gowing, Coco Mauger and Eager to improve on last year’s second place, Meadow’s older sister Coco and fellow Year 9 Saffron Frost-Macky. they produced several standout performances. student, Jorgina Mackenzie. Coca won Silver in However it was the final of the Girls Dual Slalom which produced the the Senior Slalom race and came third in Dual Slalom. Jorgina did biggest cheer. Year 11 student Harriet Gowing met a student from extremely well to come second in the Junior Slalom Race, the young Long Bay in the final race of the knockout event - the competitor Westlake Team, under the guidance of April Ieremia, has created a she had lost to last year. Flying out the gate, Harriet got off to a great foundation for years to come.

Westlake for the win after nail-biting finale The final game of 2021 Auckland Secondary Schools Squash Championship had spectators on the edge of their seats as the defending champions, Westlake Girls, met Takapuna Grammar in a cliff-hanger championship decider.

Levelled at two-all with one match to play, TGS won the first two sets of the best Anna Jowsey, Tayla Harre, Lucy CadnessAmie Hampson-Tindale, Shannelle Maria Fassioms, Georgia Aspinall, Aishah Lotfy and Myriam Lotfy.

Heron, Sharon Winson Jacob and Lilah Ion. of three matches and were looking set for an early finish. However, Lucy CadnessAspinall, the WGHS captain, surprised all when she produced some Secondary Schools Championship held in Tauranga from 6th-8th August. miraculous game play and took three sets in a row. The final score In Division 2, the Senior A Westlake Girls team worked hard to was 13-15, 8-11, 11-7, 11-6 and 11-3. finish third with a Bronze medal. Captained by Georgia Heron, the The Premier team of Cadness-Aspinall, Aishah Lotfy, Myriam Lotfy, team only lost to tournament favourites, MacLeans and Western Anna Jowsey and Tayla Harre are preparing for the New Zealand Springs Colleges who went on to finish first and second respectively.

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Rosmini Day On Thursday 1st July, Rosmini Day was celebrated at Rosmini College with two Masses, shared form class morning teas, a variety show, dodgeball and a prefects vs teachers’ football game.

The Young Vinnies and the Catholic Character group also held a sausage sizzle and a bake sale to raise funds for Caritas. The two Masses also provided the perfect opportunity to sadly farewell the school’s current School Chaplain Father Craig Dunford. Father Craig became Rosmini College’s School Chaplain in 2010. Rosmini thanks Father Craig for his many years of outstanding service and we wish him all the best with his new parish of St Lukes in South Auckland’s Flat Bush. Rosmini College’s new School Chaplain is Father Nathaniel Brazil.

Father Craig Dunford and Father Nathaniel Brazil.

Chefs for Compassion On Saturday 26th June, Rosmini College’s Chefs for Compassion volunteers spent a very busy afternoon prepping and cooking for some VIP guests from the Child Cancer Foundation.

This was a very special celebration, being the 90th meal served by Chefs for Compassion since its inception in 2010. The students prepared a threecourse gourmet meal for the Chefs for Compassion. families, with approximately 15 students working in teams to cook and serve a variety of dishes to their guests.

The students were joined by MP Shannon Halbert in the kitchen and there were big smiles and warm hearts all around when food was

RAPA Cast of Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf.

brought out to the table. Some of the students gave speeches and towards the end of the night there was the presentation of courage awards to the families.

The Seven Dwarfs.

The Big Bad Wolf and Grandma.

RAPA Performance The Rosmini Academy of Performing Arts (RAPA) was set up in 2017 to provide a fun, learning experience for those students interested in the performing arts. We offer this opportunity to students of Rosmini College, Carmel College, and Westlake Girls High School with both a Junior and Senior programme. The Senior RAPA students have just completed a very successful season at The PumpHouse with the show, ‘Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?’ The show was written and directed by the tutors,

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Rosmini’s Head of Drama, Karen Bellis and Rosmini Old Boy, Roman Shipton.

The cast of 18 brought the detective story alive, sending the audience on a journey to discover who the Big Bad Wolf really was.

The show used well-known fairytale characters and traditional stories woven together in a ‘film noir-esque’ style performance.

The cast worked tirelessly on the show during their weekly sessions and produced a fun, energetic and lively performance.

EDUCATION: TAKAPUNA GRAMMAR

Young composer shines in national contest Year 12 Takapuna Grammar student Matthew Spooner has been picked as one of the top five in the country in a young composers competition run by the New Zealand Choral Federation.

His work, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, will be workshopped by the New Zealand Voices choir at the federation’s annual conference, Choral Connect, this week. Matt was up against students nationwide, as well as some entries submitted by school choir teachers. They were judged by leading composer David Hamilton. “This is a wonderful win for him,” said the school’s head of music, Lauren Raby. The same composition won third-equal at the The Big Sing composition competition.

It has been a busy time for Matt, who sings in both TGS’s Chorale and the Sultans of Swing choirs. He also accompanies the Leonessa choir on piano.

Matthew Spooner.

Environmental Group clean up St Leonard's Beach and plant Kawerau Reserve During this winter 15 students from the Environmental Club went to do a beach clean-up on our beloved St Leonard’s Beach. It was the coldest day of the year with the thermometer showing three degrees at dawn. But our students did not let the cold air defeat their burning passion to make a difference in our community.

We wandered down to the beach, along the coast and filled our bucket with things that don’t belong in our ocean. Wipes and pieces of plastic were the common items we picked up. It reminded us that we all have to reduce the use of these items in our life. As we made our way to the rock pool, we saw a

couple members of the public also cleaning up the beach.

It was great to meet some like-minded people doing the same.

Earlier in the term, 33 students from the club made their way down to Kawerau Reserve to plant native trees along the coastal fringe ecosystem of Ngātaringa Bay which is of special ecological importance. These mangrove areas provide important habitat for wading birds such as the poaka (pied stilt). Participation in this sort of planting is critical to the restoration of this habitat and is part of the wider Ngātaringa Eco-Corridor project.

IB Students present their Theories of Knowledge Our students completed their Theory of Knowledge (TOK) presentations at the end of Term 2. As part of this IB component, each student chooses a knowledge question and delivers a presentation where they explore all relevant aspects of theories and philosophies they have learnt and apply them to a real-life situation.

In the Theory of Knowledge course our students are able to showcase their critical thinking skills and familiarise themselves with philosophy and metacognitive concepts that they can then apply to all areas of learning. The topics for their presentations included ethical and religious considerations around the Covid-19 vaccine, the role of artificial intelligence, and the genetic engineering of human embryos.

Leo Sbai, TGS IB2 student, delivering his TOK Presentation.

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HEALTH AND WELLBEING: 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.

More money won’t necessarily result in a healthier nation

John Appleton.

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As I see it - by John Appleton

I have written about this in the past, but I remain very concerned that the goal of having a healthier nation continues to elude us.

When it comes to our health, the dollar figures become ever larger as we hold on to the view that more must be better. While our rapidly expanding population does create additional demand, any sage observer must surely be wondering if the current ‘model’ is in need of some new thinking.

Back in 1998 taxpayers forked out $6 billion for health but now, just over 28 years later in 2021, we are spending four times that amount – $24 billion. This colossal sum amounts to nearly $68 million every day. Despite this massive expenditure, the waiting lists for surgery grow and demand for health care services is outstripping our ability to keep paying. It seems to me that our health system itself is sick. I wonder how anyone could think that we could anticipate a different outcome by simply doing more of what we have always done. The reason that our hospitals are filled to overflowing is that we have ever-increasing numbers of sick people.

Quite plainly if our objective by spending $68 million every day is to have a healthier nation, the statistics certainly don’t suggest that we are even close to achieving this objective. The problem is that instead of promoting health and everything that is involved with keeping people out of the health system, we keep pouring money into the treatment of sickness.

Years of study and reading of the medical literature has convinced me that the goal of having a healthier nation will continue to elude us until we implement preventive measures…

As many a grandma said, "an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure". Currently we are spending $24 billion on the ‘cure’ side of the ledger and almost nothing on prevention.

Rather than a health care system, what we have is little more than a disease care system.

Years of study and reading of the medical literature has convinced me that the goal of having a healthier nation will continue to elude us until we implement preventive measures, and we give people the freedom to choose the type of health care that they want. This would necessitate allowing doctors to use treatment options that they believe would achieve the best outcomes for their patients.

The Declaration of Helsinki 1964 (of the World Medical Organisation) states, “It is the mission of the physician to safeguard the health of the people. His or her knowledge and conscience are dedicated to the fulfillment of this mission. A physician must be free to use the most appropriate treatment if in his or her judgment it will result in the alleviation of suffering or the restoration of health or saving the life of the patient.”

Sadly today, doctors who choose to practise along these lines using their knowledge and skill to find the best way to help a patient, can risk ridicule and censure by the Medical Council. In New Zealand we have some of the finest doctors and specialists in the world but until we give them freedom to look beyond what they were taught in medical school and learn more about nutrition, and how to prevent the onset of disease, we will almost certainly continue on the path we are on.

With an aging population. the need to consider preventive healthcare options becomes even more important. Nutritional interventions for heart disease, arthritis, diabetes infectious diseases and respiratory illnesses already exist and are based on simple biochemistry. Given that end of life care is so massively expensive one would think simple inexpensive interventions would be welcomed. Unfortunately, they are not.

When it comes to our health, we should not see the need for change as a threat but as a challenge that can be embraced in the best interests of all New Zealanders.

More information – John Appleton – (09) 489-9362 appletonassoc@xtra.co.nz www.johnappleton.co.nz

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WILSON HOME TRUST: NEWS

By Sonia Thursby, CEO, Yes Disability

Education with Yes and I.Lead

Sonia Thursby.

The transformation to education is full steam ahead, with Yes and I.Lead in the driver’s seat, helping to drive the change where it matters most.

In one of our last issues, we covered how I.Lead was invited to a panel interview with trainee teachers looking to upskill in their teaching careers. I.Lead representatives shared their experiences through the education system in the hopes of informing our next generation of teachers on finding solutions to alternative education and learning, assisted learning resources and support, and better outcomes for young people with disabilities at all levels of education.

From this platform, we have had further opportunities to collaborate with both Massey University and Auckland University of Technology to share our experiences with more trainee teachers in the same way.

Along with the panel interviews, we are also working with Massey University to put together video resources that would be featured in their online modules.

I.Lead and Yes also had a stall at the latest ATSNZ Expo, with our very own Committee Chair, Kramer Hoeflich, featuring as a guest speaker. The turnout was amazing, with lots of those who attended coming to our stall, eager to know more about I.Lead and what we do.

And along with all of this, we still have our I.Lead Conference to look forward to in September! Not only are we looking for expressions of interest for those wanting to attend the conference, but we are also looking for those who want to be part of the movement, wanting to be a member of I.Lead.

If you want to know more about I.Lead, and are thinking about attending our conference or even joining up as a member, head over to ilead.org.nz. Our site also has a blog featuring all that’s going on in the world of disability, so come through and take a look!

Busy month for the Wilson Home Trust It’s been a busy month getting out and about. Felicity, Services and Support Coordinator, enjoyed the chance to meet with a number of service providers and families at the recent ATSNZ Disability Expo.

It was especially great to connect with families and catch up with Koah as he tries out a standing frame.

This month we have also been travelling further afield to Rotorua and Taupo. This provided a great opportunity to be able to raise the awareness of the Wilson Home Trust to organisations, service providers and families.

Thank you to our wonderful group of gardening volunteers. We were able to thank them during volunteer week for the great work they do across the site. This small group of committed volunteers assist all year round and in all weathers to keep this site looking lovely.

If you or you know of someone who would like to join this group, please contact Chris at: Christinejones@wilsonhometrust.org.nz or call 09 488 0126.

Thank you also to our amazing knitters and crocheters; the beanies and blankets have been appreciated by our families especially during the cold spells.

If you would like to know more about the Wilson Home Trust and the work we do check out our website www.wilsonhometrust.org.nz or facebook page https://www.facebook.com/wilsonhometrust1/

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By Sonia Thursby, CEO, Shore Junction

Shore Junction

- a hub that brings youth together in a safe and welcoming environment

Sonia Thursby.

This was once again highlighted in July when YOUNITE hosted the Auckland Youth Voice (AYV) Network meeting at our centre with youth representatives from all the Local Boards around Tämaki Makaurau who came to share their learnings and their journeys from the past year with a view to work together to make an impact right throughout Auckland.

The website description says “Auckland Youth Voice is the peak body for youth participation groups in Auckland. We are a regional organisation and our members represent a diverse range of young people and youth voice groups who are committed to increasing youth and civic participation locally, regionally and nationally.”

That’s how the website describes AYV but what this looks like practically is a group of 80+ youth from around Auckland who stand up and speak on behalf of the young people in their local wards.

They are a representing body of passionate youth who want to make a positive difference in their community for their generation and the generations to come.

EDUCATION: JAYNE DE LA HAYE, JUNIOR SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, KRISTIN SCHOOL

Positive Parenting

Jayne de la Haye

There can’t be a parent who hasn’t at some time wished for an instruction manual on how to “operate” their child. Whether it be seeking advice on how to get them to sleep through the night, toilet training, dealing with anxiety, helping them make friends and then navigate the increasing complexities of social interactions, or gaining some control over screen time.

There’s a whole industry dedicated to supporting parents on these and a multitude of other issues, through books, webinars, podcasts, blogs, and workshops. However, as anyone who has a relationship with more than one child can attest; children come in many different “models” and the operating tricks that successfully work with one, often fail to work with another!

Once your children start at an early learning centre or school, you are also able to access the insight of teachers, who can offer additional words of wisdom gained from their years of experience working with this wonderful variety of children. At Kristin, we know how valuable parents find the support systems a school can provide.

We actively seek to build strong relationships both between teachers and parents, but also between parents. We also know that having specialist teachers for subjects such as PE, music, art, languages and drama allows us to gain insight into what might make your child tick outside of the regular classroom.

We actively seek to build strong relationships both between teachers and parents, but also between parents.

Imagine being a high school student so passionate about change in your community that you raise your hand to be a voice for the youth in your local area. You give up your time on a weekly basis, you develop plans with local youth and present them to local boards, You challenge norms and stereotypes, You believe that change is possible and You believe that together with other young people, you can make a significant difference in the lives of Auckland youths.

This is Amy Usherwood and Henry Pinder, our Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson of YOUNITE, the youth voice network of Takapuna and Devonport. They advocate for better public transport; they share their concerns over lack of and under-utilisation of green/ public spaces; they host events for local rangatahi; and they work with Local Board members to develop plans toward making the region safer and more accessible for young people.

It’s thanks to the voice of YOUNITE that our Local Board heard the need of our rangatahi and continues to support Shore Junction which in turn allows us to be a hub that brings youth together in a safe and welcoming environment.

Visit: www.shorejunction.nz

The main message I would give any parent is that the positive approach that we use towards getting the best out of your child at school, is also the most effective approach to parenting. It allows you to tailor your approach to each individual child, and stay true to your own values, while staying committed to your child’s success.

Children always do better when we frame our parenting around positive, strengths-based approaches. This means focussing on our excitement about the people we want to help them become, and not on our fears about the bad qualities we feel we must protect them from developing.

“Defensive parenting”, where energy is used to monitor children for signs of weakness or faults, is also best avoided. When children sense that we have fears about them turning out badly, they start to believe that’s a possibility. Ironically, our anxiety can fuel their selfdoubt, and set off a chain of undesirable behaviours. Alternatively, if we show we have faith in them; and believe they have the capacity to make good choices, they in turn will develop confidence in their ability and move in a positive direction.

Like every skill, parenting takes practise. I urge you to practise positive parenting, and encourage you to share with your child, whatever their age, your belief that they are full of wonderful qualities. Remember too, to celebrate your achievements as parents and move forward together as a family.

Hurihia to aroaro ti te rā tukuna to atarangi kia taka ki muri i a koe Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you - Māori Proverb

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PEST PLANT OF THE MONTH: CLIMBING ASPARAGUS

Do you have this pest plant in your backyard?

AUGUST PEST PLANT OF THE MONTH: Climbing asparagus Pest plants, such as climbing asparagus and moth plant, are invading Auckland’s North Shore – your gardens and your nearby bush reserves. Controlling them when they are small is easy and cheap.

If they are left to grow, they can spread across your property onto your neighbours’ gardens and to nearby reserves.

Auckland Council has recently introduced new rules that require people in some areas to remove some pest plants from their property, in order to protect our native biodiversity.

Climbing asparagus is a scrambling vine that is capable of smothering and shading out seedlings, eventually creating thick mats throughout the forest understory and prohibiting indigenous forest regeneration. This pest plant is of high threat to our native biodiversity, as the vine is able to grow in shaded areas – invading throughout the bush, not just around the edges. The berries ripen from green to red-orange and the seed is spread by birds. It can also be spread by dumping of garden waste.

Take action as soon as possible: • Report the weed using the EcoTrack.nz app.

• Dig out small infestations trying to remove all parts of the root rhizomes – climbing asparagus can regrow from rhizomes that are left in the ground.

• If using herbicides, they’re most effective in spring and early summer before the seeds have ripened. Hand pull any climbing vines off non target plants and seedlings before spraying. Spray with glyphosate 10ml/l (plus penetrant). Always wear appropriate personal protection equipment and read the manufacturer’s label for guidelines and recommendations. Talk to the Restore Hibiscus & Bays Ecological Restoration Advisor for further guidance.

• Follow up in three months to reapply herbicide and ensure all regrowth has died.

• Dispose of seeds, rhizomes and roots in your rubbish bin to go to landfill, securely tied inside a plastic bag - to stop it spreading to other areas.

• Stop pest plants invading again by replanting with non-pest plants (preferably native plants) once regrowth is no longer a problem.

• Talk to your neighbours and encourage them to take action too!

• For more information and guides on weed control, visit restorehb.org. nz/resources-pest-plants/

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• Download the Forest and Bird weed control guide at bit.ly/forestandbirdweedguide There are several environmental networks across Auckland’s North Shore that support communities to recognise, report and remove pest plants and restore our native wildlife.

East Coast Bays and Hibiscus Coast, Restore Hibiscus & Bays info@restorehb.org.nz, restorehb.org.nz/resources-pest-plants/ Facebook.com/RestoreHB Kaipātiki, Pest Free Kaipātiki (PFK), enquiries@pestfreekaipatiki.org.nz pestfreekaipatiki.org.nz/pest-plant-resources Facebook.com/pestfreekaipatiki/ Takapuna, Pupuke Birdsong Project enviro@takapunatrust.org.nz, Facebook.com/pupukebirdsongproject Devonport Peninsula, Restoring Takarunga Hauraki pestfreedevonport@gmail.com, Facebook.com/ restoringtakarungahauraki/ Upper Harbour, Upper Harbour Ecology Network (UHEN) upperharbourecology@gmail.com Facebook.com/UpperHarbourEcologyNetwork For advice on a chemical-free approach, Kaipātiki Project community@kaipatiki.org.nz, kaipatiki.org.nz Facebook.com/kaipatikiproject This Pest Plant of the Month feature is a collaborative initiative between Restore Hibiscus & Bays, Pest Free Kaipātiki Restoration Society, Pupuke Birdsong Project, Restoring Takarunga Hauraki, the Upper Harbour Ecological Network and Kaipātiki Project. Building on Te Ao Māori principles of kaitiakitanga and whanaungatanga, these environmental networks bring our communities together to foster guardianship, care and respect towards our whenua, natural world and indigenous wildlife.

LIFE LESSONS WITH LIFE EDUCATION TRUST

SUNNYNOOK COMMUNITY CENTRE: NEWS

By Bronwyn Bound, Sunnynook Community Centre Manager

News from Sandra Jacobs

Harold working hard educating students

Sandra Jacobs.

Legislation now requires signage in all schools prohibiting smoking and vaping. Yet many students continue to experiment with vaping, not realising the full extent of the dangers they place themselves in.

Through its Healthy Harold programmes, Life Education is working hard to educate and inform our young people of the realities of vaping on the body. Our aim is for young people to become aware of what happens within the body when vaping occurs, to enable them to make informed choices if presented with vaping situations.

Peer pressure is a known factor for younger students to start experimenting with vaping, mainly as they know little of the harmful effects on the body. Our concern is the increasing number of primary and intermediate aged students reportedly involved in this unhealthy habit.

Life Education Trust chief executive John O'Connell said in a recent interview in The New Zealand Herald that the organisation had seen an increase in the number of schools asking for support in addressing vaping among 10- to 13-year-old students in years 7 and 8.

Data collected by the trust found 45 per cent of leaders at primary and intermediate schools in central Auckland saw vaping as a significant issue.

Our children are our future, and for this reason, we are determined as a trust to keep Harold and our educators in front of as many students as possible. Our programmes inform students of the realities of what vaping does to the developing human body of children.

Vaping, along with substance abuse, is not part of our future!

As a trust, we are still looking to recruit trustees from the education sector.

Should this appeal to you, please get in touch; we would welcome your contribution!

Contact us: secretary@lifeeducationnorthshore.nz Visit: www.lifeeducationnorthshore.nz

Greetings from Sunnynook Community Centre

Bronwyn Bound.

Well, what a busy month it has been. Our holiday programme was incredibly busy and children and staff had a wonderful time.

Highlights were a visit from staff from Bunnings Constellation Drive, who did a fantastic activity with the children, and trips to Extreme Edge in Panmure and GloPutt in Takapuna.

If you would like to add your child/ren to our waiting list please email their name and age to office@ sunnynookcomcentre.co.nz.

We will be running a two week programme in October.

Our Holiday Programme was incredibly busy and children and staff had a wonderful time. Highlights were a visit from Bunnings Constellation Drive…

Our Indoor Bowling group had a delicious mid-year lunch at Brigham Creek.

Our Monday morning painting group would love you to join them. This is not a class, but is an opportunity for people who enjoy creating works of art to come along and have some company while doing what they love. We even have some of their paintings on display in the foyer of the Community Centre. Contact the office for more info.

Sunnynook September marathon – check out the Sunnynook Community Association Facebook page for more information All the best, Bronwyn Bound, Centre Manager Check out www.sunnynookcomcentre.co.nz where you will find more information about the classes that are being run at the Centre. Email: office@sunnynookcomcentre.co.nz for more information or phone (09) 410 4902.

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ACCOUNTANCY WITH BELLINGHAM WALLACE

Accountancy with Graham Lawrence of Bellingham Wallace.

Tax: The changing landscape of residential rentals Much has changed for residential landlords in recent years.

From a tax perspective the landscape has changed considerably.

For many years negatively geared landlords received a tax refund after mortgage interest deductions were claimed against assessable rental income along with other deductible expenditure. In recent years, this position has changed considerably.

To illustrate we will use the following example: Rebecca has a modest rental property in Glenfield with a reliable tenant, so she has kept the rental in line with the original agreement.

The rental income of $450 per week results in gross annual income of $23,400. Rebecca has an annual mortgage interest expenditure of $25,000 linked to that property. Council rates are $3,000 per annum.

Repairs, maintenance and other deductible expenditure amount to $2,000 per annum.

Residential rental refunds In the income years prior to 1st April 2019, Rebecca would have had a loss of $6,600 for the year. This would have resulted in a tax refund of $2,178 if Rebecca was on the top marginal tax rate from other income, like a salary.

Ringfencing losses From 1st April 2019 ringfencing rules were introduced and from the 2019/2020 income year Rebecca would not have received a tax refund as those losses could not be offset against her other income.

This meant that Rebecca was paying into the mortgage and could not claim the expense not covered by the rent received from the tenant.

Some landlords relied on the refund to reduce the mortgage principal, but many just used it to compensate for the other expenditure that was required in maintaining the property. The ringfencing rules had an impact as this was also the period when the Healthy Homes standards required them to upgrade their rental properties.

Tax on gross rental revenue The changes being proposed at present by Government are to remove mortgage interest expense as an allowable deduction. Put another way, landlords will no longer be able to claim a full deduction for their mortgage interest paid on a mortgage over a rental property.

Deductions will be phased out between 1st October 2021 and 31st March 2025 as follows: Income year

Tax liability

1 April 2020 – 31 March 2021

100%

1 April 2021 – 30 September 2021

100%

1 October 2021 – 31 March 2022

75%

1 April 2022 – 31 March 2023

75%

1 April 2023 – 31 March 2024

50%

1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025

25%

1 April 2025 onwards

0%

Of crucial importance is that the sliding scale above only applies to “grand-parented interest”. This is interest on debt funding that was used

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to purchase a property prior to 27 March 2021. For new mortgages, all interest is disallowed from 1 October 2021. An exception to this rule will probably apply for property developers and those who acquire “new builds”. The details are being finalised at time of print.

Going back to our example above, assuming the interest relates to a mortgage that was taken out prior to March 2021, the reality for Rebecca is that her loss will no longer be ringfenced as the interest expense will no longer be allowed as a deduction.

Instead, Rebecca will start to have a tax liability on the property which will grow year on year as the percentage of interest expense allowed is reduced. The result will look like this: Date interest incurred

Percentage claimable

1 April 2020 – 31 March 2021

Loss of $6,600 ringfenced

1 April 2021 – 31 March 2022

Loss of $3,475 ringfenced

1 April 2022 – 31 March 2023

Loss of $350 ringfenced

1 April 2023 – 31 March 2024

Income of $5,900 (tax of $1,947)*

1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025

Income of $12,150 (tax of $4,010)*

1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026

Income of $18,400 (tax of $6,072)*

*Based on individual earning more than $70,000pa but under $180,000pa **For simplicity of illustration we have not offset carried forward losses.

Rebecca will have an extra cash expense of $6,072 per year that she needs to factor into her cashflow.

Further consequences There will be many landlords who have never been provisional taxpayers before because of the way the tax rules operated historically. Provisional tax applies to taxpayers when their residual income tax for the previous tax year exceeds $5,000.

In our example, Rebecca will be a provisional taxpayer from the 2026/2027 income year.

Provisional tax due dates differ according to whether the landlord uses the AIM method and whether they are GST registered. If neither apply, then the landlord needs to make three provisional tax payments each year. The due dates are generally 28th August, 15 January and 7th May. These payments are made in addition to the end of year payment due on 7th April (if you have a tax agent) or 28th February if not under a tax agent.

If provisional tax is not paid correctly, or on time, then late payment penalties and use of money interest can apply (7% currently).

Seek tax advise if you are not sure, as interest and penalties can pile up quickly.

By Graham Lawrence (Director) And Carla Cross (Senior Associate) Phone: 027 271 0242 Visit: www.bellinghamwallace.co.nz

TAMMY MCLEOD, DAVENPORTS LAW

Tammy McLeod (BA LLB) is the managing director at Davenports Law and a trust and asset structuring specialist. Tammy leads the Davenports Trust Team and enjoys providing clients with advice and assistance on a broad range of issues involving the structuring and establishment of asset plans, interpretation of trust deeds, the management and administration of trust funds and trust disputes. An important part of Tammy’s practice is reviewing existing asset holding structures to ensure they achieve the needs and requirements they were established to meet. She is also experienced in Property (Relationships) Act issues and advises clients on both contracting out agreements and separation.

Tammy McLeod.

Bill and Jane Bill and Jane were in their early 70s. They had been living in their house in Takapuna for 35 years and that is where they had brought up their children.

They had run a very successful business which they sold ten years ago.

Initially they had the sale proceeds in term deposits but because of the low interest rates those moneys were now invested in managed funds.

Bill and Jane’s house had increased hugely in value since the time they bought it in the late 1980s. It still bewildered them to think that the house was worth so much more than the business had been when they sold it. They had worked so hard in the business and yet with the family home all they had to do was to continue to own it. The house and the managed funds were both in a trust which had been established when they had their business.

Bill and Jane were the beneficiaries of the trust together with their three daughters and their children. The trustees were Bill and Jane and their accountant.

Bill and Jane had decided that they might move into a retirement village. The house in Takapuna had been getting too much for them. The grounds were extensive (they were one of the few sites which had not been sub divided) and the stairs were starting to get a bit much for Bill who had had a knee replacement.

They had friends who were in a retirement village on the Shore.

They loved it and raved about the lifestyle they now had. Bill and Jane discussed this with their daughters, spent many weekends looking at the different villages and finally settled on one.

Bill and Jane were told that they needed to get legal advice on the occupation right agreement. They went to see their lawyer, who they had needed to visit infrequently since the sale of the business. She said that they should take the opportunity to review their wills and their trust documents at the same time. However, she said that trusts had become quite a specialty area and she thought it would be a good idea to get some expert advice. She referred them to a lawyer who specialised in trusts.

When they went to see the lawyer, she explained that trust law had changed quite a lot since they set their trust up in the mid 1990s. Back in the 1990s, trusts would often have extensive beneficiary lists. This would often include spouses and de facto partners. When the lawyer looked at Bill and Jane’s trust deed, she saw that not only were their children and grandchildren’s partners and spouses potential beneficiaries, but also any carers for those people. This would include the nanny of their eldest daughter’s

children. The lawyer said this wasn’t necessarily a common inclusion, but she had certainly seen this before. Clearly this is not what Bill and Jane had intended when they set the trust up.

Bill and Jane were particularly concerned as their youngest daughter was going through a messy divorce and it was a worry to them that her ex-husband was a beneficiary of the trust. Unfortunately, the lawyer said, that given the age of the trust, there was no power to remove beneficiaries. She said that sometimes in these cases the trust deeds could be varied to include a power to remove beneficiaries which could then be exercised. But again, in their case there was no power to vary the trust deed. The only options open to them were to resettle the trust which meant setting up a new modern trust with a smaller class of beneficiaries and settling the assets onto that trust or winding the trust up and put everything back into their names.

Bill was reluctant to wind up the trust given the effort and cost of setting the trust up and maintaining it over the years. However, the lawyer advised them that the right to occupy the villa in the retirement village wasn’t able to be owned by the trust in any event, and now that they didn’t have the business risk or any obvious family issues that would necessitate a trust, winding it up would be the sensible option. She said that the trust had done its job and they could still protect their daughter’s inheritance with well-crafted wills.

So, Bill and Jane agreed to wind their trust up and put in place new, more extensive wills. They sold their Takapuna home, and purchased the occupation right to a villa in the retirement village.

The balance of funds from their Takapuna home were added to their managed funds which were now just in their own personal names, which meant that their tax returns were more straightforward and there was no need to go to the extra cost of preparing a set of accounts for the trust annually.

Bill and Jane were very happy with the outcome, still understanding that their trust had done a great job for them and given them peace of mind when they needed it.

Tammy McLeod, Managing Director, Davenports Law

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GUNDRY'S GRUMBLES

Simon Gundry is a Devonport and North Shore identity, and character, who is known for calling a spade a spade. He is a director of contracting company Gill & Gundry, is an enthusiastic sailor (past crew-member of Ceramco New Zealand, Lion New Zealand and Shockwave) and is a life member of the North Shore Rugby Football Club. He has been writing this thoughtprovoking column for Channel ever since the very first issue (well over a decade ago!).

A privilege to have the opportunity to write for this two-bit magazine…

We’re nearly two thirds of the way through the year again; what a funny old world we are living in and God knows where it is all going to end.

A big decision for us all is, do we get the vaccine or not? Do you want to travel again or do you never really want to step offshore again? I have had a pretty good look at the world, at times through the end of an empty glass. I’ve still got a lot of New Zealand to look at.

It seems like our lives are in limbo and have been for the past 18 months. I think people of my age may have had the best of it, travelling the world at will, hopping on an aeroplane and hopping off, entering new countries at their arrival gates to be greeted by friends. Now, what drama it is to go travelling anywhere, let alone return back home.

Currently, I think it’s in the “can’t be bothered department”. We all took it so much for granted, the freedoms that we had.

Bayswater Marina – I wonder what is going on down there. I have heard that there are going to be 90-plus apartments, then I’ve heard also that the owner is going to split the land into super lots to be sold to different developers to develop as they wish. This could be a long-drawn-out process, creating a construction site for many years, fundamentally to the detriment of marina berth holders, who now have no information on their rights, parking areas or in fact the whole future of the marina as it stands today. What sort of pressure is a development of this size going to put on the current infrastructure, roads, sewers, water etc. which basically hasn’t been upgraded since after the Second World War, when Bayswater was transformed from market garden areas to residential. I have had it on very good authority that there are going to be an extra 3000 houses in the Takapuna to Devonport peninsula area in the next 10 years because of the change in the Unitary Plan. I’ve discussed all this before, we have a Government and a Council that are bent and determined to pack as many people in as they can.

I’m really gutted to see that after lying idle and in a state of disrepair, the wharf at the Devonport Yacht Club has finally been demolished. Also, the slipway at the end of Huia Street Devonport, adjacent to the Naval Base, has been demolished. The wharf and the slipway serviced local boat owners at the yacht club and around Devonport; it’s an absolute disgrace that these facilities have been demolished with no plan to replace them. Again, another erosion of our amenities, yet they can find a quarter of a million dollars to erect an unwanted sculpture, which was unceremoniously dumped upon us, again to the detriment of the view at the end of Devonport Wharf.

They found enough money to erect dozens of signs all along the waterfront, for dog walking, bird protection etc though.

I got caught up on the Harbour Bridge recently, in my diesel ute, in the howl of a protest, and I was pretty proud to be part of the farmers and contractors demonstration against Government policy with regards to farming regulations. It was a great demonstration right throughout the country showing the enormous frustration people have with Government policies.

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I’m really gutted to see that after lying idle and in a state of disrepair the wharf at the Devonport Yacht Club has finally been demolished.

Also, the slipway at the end of Huia Street Devonport, adjacent to the Naval Base, has been demolished.

The Wharf and the Slipway serviced local boat owners at the Yacht Club and around Devonport, it’s an absolute disgrace that these facilities have been demolished…

I believe there are a few more things people could demonstrate about. I don’t understand how unemployment could have doubled since Labour became Government. I talk to many small business owners and the biggest pressing problem they have is labour. So how do we have a big unemployment problem and yet we cannot get workers?

Congratulations to the North Shore Premier rugby side on their Championship Final victory at North Harbour Stadium in July, which saw them defeat their arch rivals, Takapuna, on a rainswept filthy afternoon, the final going down to the final second with a score of 1211. A great victory for the green and whites.

Also I see that the rabble rouser bar owner Leo Molloy is putting his hand up to be Mayor of Auckland. What a fantastic thing that would be. He’s a straight-shooting businessman originating from the West Coast of the South Island, who would shake a few people up. It’s also rumoured that Mayor Goff will be shunted off to Washington as our new Ambassador. God help us.

And here’s another one: it is time Metro buses stopped running their huge diesel dinosaur buses in and out of Devonport and up Lake Road, carrying sometimes up to six passengers at peak times. It’s time we had smaller passenger buses and here’s a thought, maybe connecting with the ferries.

Well that’s it for the month of August. Next month we will be looking down the barrel at Christmas again. Thanks for reading for my column and to the people who come up to me at the supermarket, in the streets, the hardware shop, and the footy club and vent their frustrations at what is going on. It is a privilege to have the opportunity to write for this two-bit magazine.

Ed's note: Simon, I loved your grumpy last sentence so much it had to be the headline!

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Unit 3, 1 William Pickering Drive, North Harbour Quality Investment for Sale – All offers invited

Returning net $45,675 pa + GST

Rental upside next ROR March 2022

Long established national tenant since 2009

Ground floor, 146.3 sqm + 7 car parks

Rare investment opportunity

Low office vacancy levels

Whether you’re looking for your first commercial property or an easy bottom drawer investment to add to your growing portfolio, this quality investment should not be missed.

Unit 3 has been leased to an established insurance tenant since 2009, currently returning $45,675 net pa + GST. The next market rent review is due March 2022.

Comprising 146 sqm plus a very generous 7 allocated car parks plus a café on site. The building has undergone a major upgrade including a new roof plus new airconditioning.

There is continued demand from North Shore’s residential population looking to work and live on the Shore, as well as small to medium businesses wanting to establish themselves within North Harbour’s sought after commercial hub. With land diminishing and minimal new office builds planned for this size office, this tidy investment opportunity should not be overlooked.

Contact the Sole Agents for more information or to arrange a time to view. Kerry Cook 021 194 3949 or Janet Marshall 021 684 775.

Janet Marshall 021 684 775 janet.marshall@colliers.com

Kerry Cook 021 194 3949 kerry.cook@colliers.com

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For Lease - Office

2-4 Fred Thomas Drive, Takapuna Naming Rights Various options available from 310 sqm to a larger floor plate of 1310 sqm.

Opportunities for modern office space with generous carparks are rare in Takapuna.

Offices from 310 to 1310 sqm

This well-known building is in an excellent location, close to CBD, with a cafe on site and minutes to Takapuna beach. Seperate car park building providing generous car parking.

Minutes to CBD

Competitive Rental

Generous Car Parking

Customise your fit out and layout, excellent resources to hand.

Contact Janet Marshall 021 684 775 for more information.

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For Sale - Deadline Private Treaty Thursday, 19 August 2021 at 4pm (unless sold prior)

B8, 210 Dairy Flat Highway, Albany Small Office - Must be Sold Calling all owner occupiers and investors. Colliers is pleased to market for sale this rare office opportunity in the sought after, high growth Albany area.

This 92m² road front office is located in Albany village within a popular retail/office development with residential apartments close by. The development is surrounded by quality neighbouring tenants including SBA Accounting, Domino’s Pizza, Bay Audiology and Albany Village Dental. Only minutes to Albany Westfield, Ramada Hotel and easy access to the motorway.

92 sqm first floor office

Road Frontage good signage

Own and occupy or invest

Allocated carparks plus share of common carpark

With rising values in the commercial property market and low interest rates, affordable office properties in this location are hard to come by.

There are very few opportunities to purchase an office of this size - don’t miss out.

Contact the Sole Agents for more information or to arrange a viewing.

Janet Marshall 021 684 775 janet.marshall@colliers.com

Kerry Cook 021 194 3949 kerry.cook@colliers.com

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Matt Prentice 021 464 904 matt.prentice@

Colliers NZ Limited Licensed REAA 2008

colliers.co.nz/p-NZL67015607

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WHO'S WHO...

Services

ELECTRICAL

ON THE

Shore

COM P U T E R S

Your one stop computer service shop

Residential Specialists in New Housing Alterations Additions Lighting Garden Lighting Switchboard Upgrades

JOHN SCOTT

OWNER / ELECTRICIAN

P: 0800 527 001 E: john@jbselectrical.co.nz W: www.jbselectrical.co.nz

A I R CON D I T I ON I N G

VEH ICLE S/T YRES

COMMERCIAL • RESIDENTIAL • MARINE 09 915 0796 • www.auckland-aircon.co.nz

Heat Pumps / Air Conditioning D R I V I N G S E RV I CE S

Driving Miss Daisy Interested in advertising in our Services on the Shore section? To advertise here please contact: Kim McIntosh kim@channelmag.co.nz, 021 419 468 Liz Cannon liz@channelmag.co.nz, 021 204 3395

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Companion driving service on Auckland’s North Shore.

• Medical Appointments

• Pets to the vet

• Hairdresser / Shopping

• ACC contracted supplier

• Airport / rail / bus transfers

• Pre-bookings essential

Glenfield/Northcote: Milford: North Bays: Albany:

09 442 4334 09 551 3050 09 473 8186 09 476 0011

FLAGS & FABRIC!

PLUM BING

Plumbing, Drainlaying & Gasfitting 0800 369 832 BUILDING AND REN OVAT I O N

Bespoke Architecturally Designed Homes

At Benefitz we design and produce just about anything that assists communication. Business Cards, Magazines, Signage, Websites, Books, Brochures, Posters, Banners and lots lots more! www.qpcbuilders.co.nz

0800 772 266

CO NC RETE CONSTRUC T I O N

ALL COMPONENTRY IN CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION:-

Over the past 18 months we’ve made a massive investment in fabric – and we love it! With our state-of-the-art machinery we produce lots and lots of flags and many other items with vibrant printed fabric – like exhibition items, display stands, media walls etc. etc.

Talk to Aidan Bennett (021500997) or email: aidan@benefitz.co.nz

Foundations

Part of the Shore community for over 40 years

Blockwork Retaining Walls Excavations Pre-Stressed Floors

www.benefitz.co.nz Phone us on 09 477 4700 Find us on

Phone Simon Gundry 029 944 0700 • Email: simongundry@xtra.co.nz

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BENEFITZ NEWS

HP Indigo 10000 B2 Digital Press.

Two new technology investments added to solar commitment by Benefitz Hot on the heels of Benefitz commitment to solar energy, August/September will see the installation of two new pieces of technology at the recently opened new BenefitzHQ, providing additional production power and further reducing the businesses environmental impact.

The first of these machines is the installation of an HP Indigo 10000 B2 Digital Press, this replaces the companies B2 JetSX Press which has provided the capability to produce A2 and B2 size sheets digitally in volume.

“It was time for us to update the JetSX and we believe that the HP Indigo 10000 Digital Press using ElectroInk was the best replacement option for us at this time,” says Benefitz MD Aidan Bennett. “Printing B2 in size (750mm x 530mm) the Indigo 10000 prints to the same size as our conventional offset printing machinery, but digitally, using the very robust Indigo ElectroInk liquid ink.

“The combination of the new HP Indigo 10000, our three offset machines, and our Fujifilm SRA3 toner based digital machines will be a great one for our business, ensuring quality, substrate versatility, and production flexibility. These presses will enable us to print both larger volumes and short print runs efficiently and cost effectively.”

The second piece of technology that is being installed at

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BenefitzHQ is a brand new Fujifilm 6-Colour Revoria Digital Press. Benefitz will be one of the first in New Zealand to install this completely new technology. It complements the companies existing Fujifilm 6-Colour Iridesse Digital Press that was installed in 2019. Both are SRA3 presses (450mm x 320mm) with the ability to print longer ‘banner’ sheets up to 1200mm long.

“As printing volumes adjust and the demand changes we are also constantly changing and this technology upgrade is being undertaken to significantly enhance our print power in the small format digital space.” adds Aidan Bennett. “The new technology is being provided

by HP and Fujifilm, two of the biggest players in the market globally.”

BenefitzHQ – 5-11 Parkway Drive, Mairangi Bay. Email: info@benefitz.co.nz or Phone 09- 477-4700.

Visit: www.benefitz.co.nz

HP Indigo 10000 B2 Digital Press at a Glance • 750mm x 530mm/29 inch sheet size.

• Prints 4600 B2 sheets per hour.

• Delivers offset-matching quality.

• Uses HP Indigo ElectroInk Liquid Ink (not toner).

• Prints 7 Colours, including White and other special effect inks.

• Prints on paper (from 65gsm) to thick card (up to 400gsm).

• Includes Quality Automation Suite.

• Registration cameras maintain tight registration.

• Intuitive on-press software.

The combination of the new HP Indigo 10000, our three offset machines, and our Fujifilm SRA3 toner based digital machines will be a great one for our business, ensuring quality, substrate versatility, and production flexibility.

Fujifilm 6-Colour Revoria Digital Press at a Glance • 450mm x 320mm sheet size (SRA3).

• Also prints banner sheet option 320mm up to 1200mm.

• Toner based printing process.

• 6-colour print engine.

• 2 Specialty toner stations.

• Prints Clear, Gold, Silver, White, Pink.

• High-definition resolution at 2400 x 2400 dpi.

• Prints on Paper (from 52gsm) to thick card (up to 400gsm).

Fujifilm 6-Colour Revoria Digital Press.

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The Channel Crossword “Bob that is David” set by Mãyã (https://mayaofauckland.com), especially for Channel each month. No. 68

Across 1 Hippies' passive resistance to hydroelectricity?

(6,5) 9 Information: a modicum comes from the right

wing (4) 10 Film starring 27's magical realist story and essay

collection (10) 11 Artist was Buddhist leader (not a Lama) (4) 13/21 31 and 11's collaboration launched a union

group (2,5,7) 15 Revel in having relation to chrysalis,

retrospectively (3,2) 17 A small part of the sex trade (5) 18 Nice and cold, and so on (3) 20 Reckon war god's arrived in time (7) 21 See 13 22 The Spanish maiden may suffer from a Dutch

disease (3) 24 Pastorale held back by "Lavender Blue, Dilly

Dilly" (5) 25 We have time for tradition (5) 26 She has a large drink, I'm told... (7) 29 ...a large drink that makes son lose control (4) 32 Japanese entertainer almost came in to marry

Sue, which could split the group (5,5) 33 Coward at Christmas? (4) 34 Rupert saw the crime? (4,7)

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Down 2 Unreal ruler? (4) 3 These sound like Ernie's reasons (4)

Solution to last month's crossword

4 Have power to nearly cause a flare up (5) 5 Won a drawing contest? (7) 6 Cash boy with directions to follow? (5) 7 "Tra-la!" lent a flourish to the dance (10) 8 Apes heard to transport jazz enthusiast to rivers in

the UK (11) 12 Sad and alien work created by 27 (7,4) 13 15's a new Swedish city (7) 14 Required massage exhaustive, say (7) 16 Political divisions (with invitations written by 26?) (5,5) 18 Inspect headlight with lashes (3) 19 Raincoat turned back an English river (3) 23 Girl mounted and rode back in 1930 film (4,3) 27 Bob - that is, David (5) 28 Chief Justice Nicholas imprisons Britons (5) 30 Identifier 'e lost from Ibsen play (4) 31 Lutetium is first name of maker of 23, and second

name of author of 10 (4)

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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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