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BENEFITZ NEWS

Career & Work Opportunities at Benefitz Benefitz, the publishers of Channel Magazine, currently have several opportunities that may interest local people looking for a new role, or for a change.

XL and Large Format Division – Printing & Finishing Benefitz is New Zealand’s leading manufacturer of big images. We print these big images on a variety of substrates and materials, and they are used for permanent signage as well as event and exhibition signage.

We are looking for people to help us print these big images (so experience in the industry would be helpful) and also for people to help us finish these big images. Finishing doesn’t require experience, but there is a need to be good with your hands and accurate.

Commercial Sewing & Finishing – Fabrics We are also looking for people who are experienced in commercial sewing and general fabric finishing.

Benefitz produces lots of printed fabric images that are made into such items as flags, display stands, cushions, promotional throws/table cloths etc. These all require sewing and finishing.

If you are experienced in sewing and want a job or to provide contracted services to Benefitz in this area then we are keen to hear from you.

Signwriters & Signage Applicators Signage is a growth area for the Benefitz team. We are looking for new team members for our signage area.

We do all sorts of signage including graphic application, fabrication, installation etc.

If you are an experienced signwriter or someone looking to come back into the industry, then this is an opportunity to join a company that’s growing and investing in this part of our business.

Lots of our signage work is like building – maybe you’ve had enough of building and would like to try something a bit different and interesting while using the same skills – where you are doing something different every day?

If you are keen to join our signage team then make contact today.

Part-time work for retirees and others We also have part-time work available in all these areas for people who have good skills but want to work part-time only.

This may suit recent retirees who are still fit and want to do some work to keep busy or others whose family circumstances mean that part-time work is best.

Age doesn’t matter – as long as you are fit, healthy, good with your hands, and willing to work – we are keen to hear from you.

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About Benefitz Benefitz is a local North Shore business that is family owned and operated. The business was started in 1988 and will celebrate 35 years of business in 2023. Over this period, we have built a strong reputation – with a focus on innovation, giving back to our community and investing in technology and our people. We have a team of over 70 people, all working from our new solar-powered BenefitzHQ, just off Constellation Drive in the heart of the Shore.

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CHANNEL MAGAZINE COMMUNITY CALENDAR September 2022

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

MS Auckland Awareness Week 12th-15th September Monday

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Indoor Bowls – St Joseph’s Church, Takapuna 7.15pm

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Volunteer in your community - Pupuke Golf Club, Takapuna. Dinner & Speaker, 6pm $25pp.Bookings in advanced.

Speaker only 6.40pm $5 (walk-ins Ok)

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Hōtoke/Winter Fun Tamariki Play – Bayswater School, Bayswater 9.30am Creative Drama Classes Birkenhead – 7 to 16yrs – TheathreWorks, Recreation Dr, Birkenhead 4pm North Shore Music and Keyboard Club – Takapuna Bowling Club, Takapuna 7pm Abhi Chinniah: Melanin Rising opens (runs to 28 Sept) - The Depot, Devonport, 10am

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Indoor Bowls – St Joseph’s Church, Takapuna 7.15pm

Art Exhibition – Seasons Art Class Takapuna – North Shore Squash Club, Lake Pupuke 6pm

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Ukulele + Vocals & More – Presbyterian Church Hall, 45 Anzac Rd, Browns Bay 1.30pm

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Creative Drama Classes Birkenhead – 7 to 16yrs – TheathreWorks, Recreation Dr, Birkenhead 4pm

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Volunteer in your community 20 - Pupuke Golf Club, Takapuna.

Dinner & Speaker, 6pm $25pp.

Bookings in advanced. Speaker only 6.40pm $5 (walk-ins Ok) Hōtoke/Winter Fun Tamariki Play – Bayswater School, Bayswater 9.30am Creative Drama Classes Birkenhead – 7 to 16yrs – TheathreWorks, Recreation Dr, Birkenhead 4pm

The Whale Rider – Live on Stage – The PumpHouse, Takapuna 10.30am & 1pm

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Music for Inspiration – St George’s Church, Takapuna 10am Creative Talks: Matthew Diesch Intimacy Advisor and Actor – The PumpHouse, Takapuna 7pm Indoor Bowls – St Joseph’s Church, Takapuna 7.15pm

Volunteer in your community 27 - Pupuke Golf Club, Takapuna.

Dinner & Speaker, 6pm $25pp.

Bookings in advanced. Speaker only 6.40pm $5 (walk-ins Ok) Hōtoke/Winter Fun Tamariki Play – Bayswater School, Bayswater 9.30am The Whale Rider – Live on Stage – The PumpHouse, Takapuna 10.30am & 1pm

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The Campervan – The PumpHouse, Takapuna 7.30pm

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Meet the Candidates - Devonport Community House, 6pm

Adult Beginner Ballet – Senior Citizens Social Centre, Torbay 6.30pm Shakespeare’s Will by Vern Thiessen – The Rose Centre, Belmont 8pm

The Market Collaborative – Smales Farms, Takapuna 9am

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Creative Drama Classes Birkenhead – 7 Volunteer in your community - Pupuke Golf to 16yrs – TheathreWorks, Recreation Dr, Club, Takapuna. Dinner & Speaker, 6pm $25pp. Birkenhead 4pm Bookings in advanced. Speaker only 6.40pm $5 Adult Beginner Ballet – Senior Citizens Social (walk-ins Ok) Centre, Torbay 6.30pm Hōtoke/Winter Fun Tamariki Play – The Campervan – The PumpHouse, Takapuna Bayswater School, Bayswater 9.30am 7.30pm Creative Drama Classes Birkenhead – 7 Kevin Bloody Wilson F.U.P.C.NZ Tour – to 16yrs – TheathreWorks, Recreation Dr, Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna 7.30pm Birkenhead 4pm Welcome to Hellansville - the chance of an The Campervan – The PumpHouse, 'after'-life time - The Rose Centre, Belmont, 8pm Takapuna 7.30pm

Indoor Bowls – St Joseph’s Church, Takapuna 7.15pm

Diablos Caravan (Live Show) - The Vic, Devonport, 8pm

Ukulele + Vocals & More – Presbyterian Church Hall, 45 Anzac Rd, Browns Bay 1.30pm

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60s Up Takapuna/Devonport – St Joseph’s Church Hall – New Members Welcome 10.30am

The Campervan – The PumpHouse, Takapuna 7.30pm Welcome to Hellansville - the chance of an 'after'-life time - The Rose Centre, Belmont, 8pm

Little Beat First Aid Course Devonport Community House

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The Vic Open Mic Night – The Vic Theatre, Devonport 8pm

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Creative Drama Classes Birkenhead – 7 to 16yrs – TheathreWorks, Recreation Dr, Birkenhead 4pm Adult Beginner Ballet – Senior Citizens Social Centre, Torbay 6.30pm

Ukulele + Vocals & More – Presbyterian Church Hall, 45 Anzac Rd, Browns Bay 1.30pm

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Adult Beginner Ballet – Senior Citizens Social Centre, Torbay 6.30pm

The Whale Rider – Live on Stage – The PumpHouse, Takapuna 10.30am & 1pm

The Whale Rider – Live on Stage – The PumpHouse, Takapuna 10.30am & 1pm

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The Human Kind and Speech Act Theory (Live Show) - The Vic, Devonport, 8pm

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Birkenhead United Football Club – Shepherds Park, Beach Haven 3pm

Devonport Roller Skating Classes – Devonport Community House, Devonport 3.30pm

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Pop & Rock Vinyl Record Sale – Highbury Community House, Birkenhead Browns Bay Sunday Market 10am – Browns Bay 6.30am Crystal Visions Holistic Market – Milford Senior Citizens Hall, Milford 10am

Takapuna Sunday Market – Takapuna 6.30am

Devonport Market – Devonport Ferry Terminal, Devonport 9am

Crystal Visions Holistic Market – Milford Senior Citizens Hall, Milford Limen Lab: Blue Radius opens (runs to 28 10am Sept) - The Depot, Devonport, 3-5pm The Campervan – The PumpHouse, 9 Hugh Pop and Rock Vinyl Takapuna 7.30pm Record Sale – St Anne’s Hall, Browns Bay 9am

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Shakespeare’s Will by Vern Thiessen – The Rose Centre, Belmont 8pm The Campervan – The PumpHouse, Takapuna 7.30pm

The Campervan – The PumpHouse, Takapuna 7.30pm

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Welcome to Hellansville - the chance of an 'after'-life time - The Rose Centre, Belmont, 8pm

Esoligh (Live Show) - The Vic, Devonport, 8pm

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Devonport Roller Skating Classes – Devonport Community House, Devonport 3.30pm Browns Bay Sunday Market – Browns Bay 6.30am Takapuna Sunday Market – Takapuna 6.30am Crystal Visions Holistic Market – Milford Senior Citizens Hall, Milford 10am The Campervan – The PumpHouse, Takapuna 4pm Play Readings at The Vic: Making a Meal of It and Always My Sister - The Vic, Devonport, 4pm

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Devonport Roller Skating Classes – Devonport Community House, Devonport 3.30pm Browns Bay Sunday Market – Browns Bay 6.30am Takapuna Sunday Market – Takapuna 6.30am Adults’ Casual Drop-In Improv – TheatreWorks, Recreation Dr, Birkenhead 5.30pm Long Bay Village Market – Long Bay Village, Long Bay 9am Play Readings at The Vic: Un-Bloody Believeable - The Vic, Devonport, 4pm

Crystal Visions Holistic Market – Milford Senior Citizens Hall, Milford 10am Huge Pop & Rock Vinyl Record Sale – Albany Village Community Hall, Albany 9am Huge Pop & Rock Vinyl Record Sale – Windsor Park Baptist Church, Mairangi Bay 9am The Campervan – The PumpHouse, Takapuna 2pm & 7.30pm Hotel California The Eagles Experience – Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna 8pm Singles Night on the Shore – Takapuna Cricket Club, Takapuna 6.30pm Conversations with Morph Artists - Northart, Northcote, 2-3pm

Highbury House Kids Market – Northcote War Memorial Hall, Rodney St 8.30am

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Greenhithe Tennis Club – Love Tennis Open Day – Greenhithe War Memorial Park 12pm Devonport Roller Skating Classes – Devonport Community House, Devonport 3.30pm Browns Bay Sunday Market – Browns Bay 6.30am Takapuna Sunday Market – Takapuna 6.30am Adults’ Casual Drop-In Improv – TheatreWorks, Recreation Dr, Birkenhead 5.30pm The Campervan – The PumpHouse, Takapuna 4pm Play Readings at The Vic: The Body Politic - The Vic, Devonport, 4pm

The Whale Rider – Live on Stage – The PumpHouse, Takapuna 5pm Morphing Wearables Workshop with Artist, Northart, Northcote

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COVER FEATURES

DEVONPORT

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Imogen Ayris: Bronzed and Brave

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Celebrating Spring

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Community Gardening with Kerry Chamberlain

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Retirement Living

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Real Estate People

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Talking Takapuna

Devonport News

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Community Calendar

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Out & About on the Shore

EATING OUT

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Northart

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The PumpHouse

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The Rose Centre

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The Vic Devonport

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Kristin School

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Rangitoto College

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Westlake Girls’ High School

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Westlake Boys’ High School

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Takapuna Grammar

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Rosmini College

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Eating Out Guide

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FROM THE EDITOR

Janet Marshall

Members of the Channel Mag team: Aidan Bennett with Tui, Kim McIntosh and Liz Cannon.

Ahhh, love September…

For me September is a month when things start to get brighter all round. It’s warming up, the sun comes up earlier in the day, business is usually stronger, and that summer feeling is in the air. And September 2022 just feels good – much better than 12 months ago when we were all locked down!

Having said that, business is very challenging for most at the moment. Costs are higher across the board, staffing is tougher and stock and materials are more expensive and harder to get. In 34 years of running our business I have never known a time to be challenging from so many different angles.

Very few businesses that rely on staff and supply chains are unaffected. Make sure you support our local businesses, they need you more than ever.

Producing this monthly magazine is no different.

It’s been as challenging as ever which is why I take my hat off to our team of Crystal, Kim and Liz for turning out another great issue. 116 pages of good stuff that’s happening on the sunny side of the Harbour Bridge.

As you see on our excellent cover Heather Barker Vermeer has done a very good interview with our young Commonwealth Games Bronze Medallist, Northcote Point’s Imogen Ayris. Just one of our young athletes who performed well in Birmingham. Christine Young has an interesting piece on community gardening at Ngataringa

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Organic Gardens at Devonport, talking with their chair Kerry Chamberlain. I really enjoyed catching up with community champion Marilyn Glover at her Northbridge apartment to talk retirement living and her lifetime of service to the community on the Shore.

Your monthly Channel Mag is loaded with all the usual monthly features as well as features on Spring, Retirement Living and we chat with some of our movers and shakers in the real estate sector.

As my one-term local body political career draws to a close I wish all the candidates every success in the elections that are coming up over the next month or so. Putting your hand up for public office and scrutiny certainly takes you out of your comfort zone and I say well done to you all.

If I have one piece of advice for voters, it’s don’t believe the candidates that tell you they are going to turn everything upside down and fix it. That just won’t happen, the system is not shaped that way.

They are telling you what you want to hear, not the reality. My advice is to vote for the candidates who can build the relationships required to have an influence on the process and get things done.

Aidan Bennett, QSM Publisher, Channel Magazine Founder & MD, Benefitz Email: aidan@benefitz.co.nz

Aidan Bennett, Phone 021-500-997, email: aidan@benefitz.co.nz Liz Cannon, Phone 021-204-3395, email: liz@channelmag.co.nz Kim McIntosh, Phone 021-419-468, email: kim@channelmag.co.nz Crystal Sharp - crystal@benefitz.co.nz Leanika Starbuck - leanika@benefitz.co.nz

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It’s our opportunity to acknowledge the people and experiences that have shaped our school over its inspiring 50-year history.

Our school was founded by families, for families and we place huge value on the spirit, integrity, passion and diversity of our community from our visionary founding families to our resilient, proud yet humble present-day students.

Together, we are Kristin.

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OUT & ABOUT ON THE SHORE

The Thrill of Love - drama with a bang at The Rose Centre Company Theatre's production of 'The Thrill of Love' at The Rose Centre in August was yet again another tour de force of outstanding drama. The direction (Kathy Gent), performances and production as a whole exemplified the high quality local theatre we have right on our doorstep – we are indeed very lucky! If you were lucky enough to see this outstanding show, you were certainly in for a treat. Based on the thrilling true story of Ruth Ellis who, after shooting her lover, was the last woman to be hanged in 1950s Britain. Performed in film noir style, the cast delivered an emotionally-driven, absorbing exposé of real-life drama that still resonates today. Company Theatre's next production will be the critically-acclaimed play 'Jerusalem', written by Jez Butterworth and directed by Kristof Haines. If you can't wait until November, support outstanding local theatre at the Auckland Fringe Festival hosted at The Rose Centre during the first 2 weeks of September.

Alastair Fletcher and Suzy Sampson.

Matthew Diesch, Meg Andrews, Natasha Ross and Catherine Maunsell.

Cathie and Tony Sandy, Yvonne and Neil Burgham.

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Steph Curtis, Āria Harrison-Sparke and Monique Rabie.

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North Harbour Club hosts Innovation Summit The North Harbour Club's Leaders Innovation Summit, an after five event held at The B:HIVE at Smales Farm during August, was an opportunity for attendees to glance into how businesses are shaping the future. The free chat-style Q&A session featured an industry expert panel including Sir Peter MC Courtney Davies with the panel – Sir Peter Maire (ex-Navman Maire, Steve Newman, Murdoch Thomson. and Ivenco), Steven Newman (ex-Navman and ERoad) and 2021/22 North Harbour Club AIMES Innovation Award winner Murdoch Thomson. Guests were welcomed by Peter Hall of sponsor Simpson Western and the event was MC'd by AIMES Alumni and 2019 Supreme Winner Courtney Davies and drew a mix of North Harbour Club members, business leaders and Courtney emerging leaders and was followed by a networking opportunity at the Peter Hall.

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OUT & ABOUT ON THE SHORE

Bells & Whistles playgroup returns to Devonport Community House Bells & Whistles, a well-known community playgroup managed by the Devonport Community House, has been running successfully for many years. Sadly, the well-loved group came to a grinding halt in 2020 when the first Covid-19 lockdown forced it to temporarily close. However, much to the joy of babies, toddlers, kids and parents alike, Bells & Whistles is back up and running! The new dedicated coordinator, Sharon Bailey, is passionate about providing a fun and engaging playgroup to meet the needs of all ages under five years. Local and further-afield caregivers are loving the renewed opportunity to join in, meet others and relax over a cup of tea or coffee while the kids are entertained and happy. All are welcome to join the fun every Wednesday from 9.30am to 11.30am for just $2 per family. We believe groups like Bells & Whistles provide such an important service to our communities, so do pop along with your wonderful preschoolers and enjoy!

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Stiebel Eltron launches their new showroom in Takapuna German water heating and renewables manufacturer, Stiebel Eltron celebrated the launch of their new showroom in Barrys Point Road on Tuesday 23rd August.

Customers can now experience Stiebel Eltron's hot water, heating, and ventilation products in an interactive showroom space. In this North Shore showroom space, a wide variety of products from the business are on display; across energy-efficient hot water, renewables technology for heating, and balanced heat recovery ventilation. The company's New Zealand operations began over twenty-five years ago with agents representing the brand, mainly selling hot water and heaters.

After over a decade of success in New Zealand, the company decided to open its own subsidiary under the leadership of Stiebel Eltron New Zealand's Managing Director, Jason Kerr, in 2016.

Tom Richards, Brendan Johnston and Shane Lofroth

Stefanie Trembath, Blair Reed, Kimberly Jayne, Marti Smith, Amanda Kerr, Andrew Whitney, Jason Kerr, Roland Hoehn, Grant Anderson and Bhawesh Singh.

Jason Kerr, Peter and Kim Varga.

Peter Downey and Grant Chester. Thomas van Raamsdonk, Tanya Unkovich, Simon Cator and Christy Carter.

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HARBOUR HOSPICE NEWS

Bruce Spooner, Helen Rice, Bob Leveloff.

Elizabeth Dillon, Neil Crawford, Jan Dawson.

Lyn and Murray Blair, Graham Dowd.

Matt Mimmack and wife, Margaret-Mary Crawford. Marc Mitchell, Simon Watts, Jess Mitchell, Shannon Watts, Anne Vacek and Becs Kelleher.

Robbie Walmsley, Jay Clement, Ian Shields.

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A(nother) great Sunday at the Hospice Vintners’ Brunch

MC Pippa Wetzell.

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By Aidan Bennett

For the past decade or more I’ve had the privilege of attending the annual Hospice Vintners’ Brunch. This is Harbour Hospice’s annual flagship fundraising event, usually held on a Sunday every August, that raises significant money for our local hospice. Unfortunately, due to the size of the sit-down event (that also includes crowd movement), it is held over the bridge at big hotels in the city. The 2022 Vintners’ Brunch, held on Sunday August 21st at The Pullman Hotel, raised $385,000 for Harbour Hospice.

The MC and Host for the 2022 Vintners’ Brunch was Devonport local Pippa Wetzell, with Master of Wine Vic Williams also assisting as the Wine MC, talking through the food and wine matches – something he has been doing for Hospice since the inception of the event 25 years ago. The crowd was welcomed

by Harbour Hospice Chair Ann Tod. Mickey Smith of Devonport provided attendees with her families experience of Harbour Hospice when her husband Aaron Pollock passed away as a result of brain cancer in 2017. Her emotional address made it very clear to all the important role and fantastic job that Hospice does.

So what is the Vintners’ Brunch?

Harbour Hospice Vintners’ Brunch is an exclusive food and wine matching event that brings people together – including foodies and wine connoisseurs – to enjoy and celebrate some of Auckland’s best restaurants/chefs and New Zealand’s world-class wineries.

In its 25th year, Vintners’ Brunch is a flagship fundraiser for Harbour Hospice, with tickets always selling out quickly, despite having a significant price tag. People know it’s a great event and the money is going to a very important cause. The event sees the 400-plus guests enjoy the privilege of sampling stunning

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AUDIOLOGY WITH TERESA BURNS

By Teresa Burns, Doctor of Audiology.

Director and owner of Teresa Burns Hearing Ltd.

The pros and cons of discreet hearing aids - are they right for you?

Teresa Burns.

Eight of the original North Shore Hospice women’s fundraising committee who were responsible for launching the Vintners’ Brunch in 1996. From left – Susan Tutill, Pam Moore, Lesley Monk, Louise Galbraith, Margaret Mary Crawford, Shirley Tobin and Joan Finlayson.

About the Harbour Hospice Vintners’ Brunch Eight of the original North Shore Hospice women’s fundraising committee who were responsible for launching the long-running event were on hand for this special photo at the 25th Harbour Hospice Vintners’ Brunch held in August. The North Shore Hospice (now Harbour Hospice) fundraising committee held their Inaugural Vintners’ Brunch in 1996 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. Bill Spence from Matua Valley Wines had attended a wonderful Vintners Brunch for charity when overseas and on his return spoke about it to Aileen, a past Hospice committee member, who suggested that North Shore Hospice could be the beneficiary of this Brunch.

Bill agreed and the fundraising committee worked hard to sell this new concept to the community. They successfully sold 34 tables of 10, at $125 per ticket! – a price unheard of in those days for the inaugural Hospice Vintners’ Brunch. A truly amazing achievement. Restaurants who participated in that first event were some of the iconic restaurants of the time – Ramses Bar and Grill, Hammerheads, Katsura, Harbourside, The Hunting Lodge, Iguacu, Cin Cin. Wineries included Matua Valley, Coopers Creek, Nobilo, Villa Maria, Corbans, Montana and Kumeu River.

New Zealand wines, matched perfectly to dishes created by top local restaurants and chefs.

They are invited to meet the personalities and chefs behind the wine and food matches and also vote to decide who takes home the annual Harbour Hospice Vintners’ Brunch Wine and Food Match Award.

The 2022 supreme Harbour Hospice Vintners’ Brunch Wine and Food Match Award went to Birkenhead restaurant Moxie and Te Motu Wines, owned by the Dunleavy family from the North Shore. This was for a Classic Beef Wellington matched with Te Motu’s 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon blend.

Both silent auction and live auction items are donated to Hospice by generous supporters, and the live auction held after the culinary treats is a real highlight of the event. The 2022 auction was conducted by entertaining auctioneer Robert Tulp and this raised a significant amount of the total funds raised on the day.

Considering hearing aids but worried about how they might look? Some hearing aids are virtually invisible, but does that make them the right fit? There are some pros and cons to these uber-discreet devices.

The pros of discreet hearing aids Let’s start with the positive. Invisible-in-the-canal (IIC) devices are custom made just for your ears, so they fit perfectly. Because they sit so deep in the ear canal, they are easy to use with the phone and there’s very little wind noise, allowing you to better enjoy your favourite outdoor activities. There is nothing over the ear so they don’t get tangled up with masks. And let’s not forget the biggest advantage – these devices are virtually invisible once properly seated in the ear canal.

The cons of discreet hearing aids Despite these great benefits, these tiny devices have limitations that need consideration. They are not suitable for all types and degrees of hearing loss.

If you have good hearing at some pitches, these devices will completely block your ears, creating an artificial loss, and any time we plug the ears, we block sound energy in the ear canal so you might notice your own voice sounds different.

Everyone has different needs Your body chemistry can create unique challenges as well; if you’re someone who generates a lot of earwax, perspires easily, or is prone to external ear infections, these devices can break down more quickly. When it comes to performance, the small size means they lack some of the fun features like Bluetooth and wireless connectivity and they can’t adjust microphone direction.

Unlike many other styles, these devices are not rechargeable, and batteries need to be replaced frequently.

If you’re wondering whether you might be a good candidate for hearing aids and want to explore different hearing aid options, don’t hesitate to book in for a consultation. I’ll walk through the advantages and disadvantages to help you navigate the best possible solution for your hearing and listening goals.

For more information or to book an appointment call us on 09 475 9849 Teresa Burns Hearing Ltd Location: Inside the Health - I Care Medical Centre 215 Wairau Road, Glenfield, North Shore 09 475 9849 www.teresaburnshearing.co.nz

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SIMON WATTS: NORTH SHORE MP

By Simon Watts, North Shore MP

New Zealand is in danger of missing out

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Simon Watts.

The weather has been nasty lately, but there’s no mistaking a change of seasons is imminent: the daffodils are coming up and Auckland has welcomed its first cruise ship in two and a half years!

P&O’s Pacific Explorer brought around 1,000 passengers to the city with money to spend. Unfortunately, our hospitality sector was hardly in a position to maximise the benefits, as crippling staff shortages have meant many cafés and restaurants are running with restricted opening times.

The President of Carnival and P&O Cruises said: “Cruising in our part of the world is experiencing a strong rebound; much better than elsewhere.”

But are we ready for a resurgent cruising industry? Nowhere near it. Across the Tasman there’s been an aggressive campaign to attract working holiday makers since January, but our government has only now launched its new plan for the Working Holiday Visa.

Despite the evidence that New Zealand’s post-Covid rebound was being strangled by government complacency, Labour refused to act.

When Immigration Minister, Michael Wood, was questioned about the staffing challenges in hospitality he said: "Employers in sectors that continue to pay low wages with insecure working conditions also need to consider what changes they will make to be genuinely attractive places to work."

Minister Wood chose to ignore the fact that unemployment is at an incredibly low 3.2%. At that level every industry is crying out for staff, not just hospitality. Healthcare workers, engineers, and workers for the primary industries are all in short supply.

Tourists are making their own beds, aged care vacancies are at record levels and in June the NZ Herald reported a shortage of over 4,000 nurses throughout the country. There are also about 400 bus drivers missing from Auckland’s roads. This isn’t just about whether you will be able to get a flat white at your favourite café; every employment sector in the country is struggling.

The point is, we all knew that Covid lockdowns wouldn’t last forever; eventually the border would open and we would all be rewarded for playing our part during the pandemic. Well the world is opening up and we’ve been left behind. So what’s Labour’s Plan B – more tax payer-funded bailouts instead of the vibrant economy that’s really needed?

The government has had plenty of time to develop a strategy for a post-pandemic economic resurgence. They knew that businesses had barely made it through the lockdowns and that they needed the cash to start flowing as soon as possible. Business owners large and small needed a plan similar to Australia’s at the start of the year, not a halfhearted approach at this late stage.

Labour’s politicians have let all of us down. The economy has been abandoned while the government has expended valuable time on local government changes that are still dead in the water.

Ensuring New Zealand was ready for a world that’s opening up should have been a key government focus and a core element of planning for a resurgent economy. Imagine how we could be leading the world right now if Labour had seized that opportunity.

Take care, Simon Watts.

Email: simon.watts@parliament.govt.nz Call my office on 09 486 0005, Facebook: @simonwattsmp Instagram: @simonwattsmp

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WILSON HOME TRUST: NEWS

NORTHART

Jessica Pearless and Jonathan Organ, Co-Directors, Northart

Northart Gallery in September

Supporting families with children and young adults with physical disabilities It’s that time of the year when we start to see the days get longer and feel some warmth in the air.

Having had one of the wettest winters, it is nice to start to think about getting away and having a break to look forward to.

The Wilson Home Trust offers holiday grants for our families and if you know of anyone who would qualify for grant funding and would like a holiday to look forward to, then please check out our website www.wilsonhometrust.org.nz or call us on 09 488 0126. We have a list of accessible accommodation that offers our families good rates.

It’s great to be able to get out and about more and Chris enjoyed the opportunity to attend the recent Show Your Ability Expos in both Auckland and Hamilton. This was a great chance to meet with a range of service providers, therapists and schools.

It was also great to meet some of our families. This month we are looking forward to attending the Disability Connect Transition Expo on 7th September. This is a great chance to find out more about transition, employment options, education and recreational opportunities. For more information please go to the Disability Connect website – www.disabilityconnect.org.nz A reminder that our gorgeous St Leonards Chapel is available for hire. This special facility is not only available for weddings, but if you are looking for somewhere to hold a small event, concert or celebration, then please contact us or if you would like to come and have a look around, please contact Justine on 022 1211 477 or email weddings@wilsonhometrust.org.nz If you would like to know more about the Wilson Home Trust and the work we do, please check out our website www.wilsonhometrust.org.nz or Facebook page www.facebook.com/wilsonhometrust1/

Jessica Pearless and Jonathan Organ.

Gravitas | A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture. Gravitas is a group exhibition of sculptural artworks in bronze, fabric and metal that reinterpret ‘seriousness’ while expressing dignity, leadership and the importance of restraint and conceptual rigor in works by Elliot Collins, Te Waka McLeod, Gregor Kregar and Hannah Valentine. On view until Sat 8 Oct. MORPH | A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Jewellery by Handshake 6. MORPH represents the final body of work created by the twelve participants of Handshake 6. A creative mentoring programme, Handshake has for over ten years connected emerging jewellery practitioners from Aotearoa New Zealand with a mentor to help develop their creative practice over a two-year period. MORPH refers to transformation, this exhibition seeks to demonstrate that quality through the development of each participant’s practice that came together with both the engagement of the mentors and each other. On view until Sat 8 Oct. Northart Objects – keep an eye out for our new small retail space opening soon!

Northart Digital – contact us for details about displaying your art on our digital screens operating 24/7 Dates for your Diary: Sat 17 Sept, 2-3pm. Join our free conversation with artists from MORPH. You’ll have be able to ask questions and visit the exhibition with an artist on site Sat 24 Sept. Morphing Wearables Workshop with Artist Michelle Wilkinson and Northart Educator Carolyn Pomeroy. You can bring friends & whanau or meet new friends as teams design and create a wearable piece of art using found and recycled objects.

Cost: $20, Members $15, Children $10 or group/whanau rate $50.

RSVP staff@northart.co.nz Friends of Northart Northart welcomes volunteers to learn about our exhibitions, guide visitors, keep everything spic and span, and help out with events. Training will be provided.

Participants at Northart’s artist-led Interested in membership? You’ll workshop with Rozana Lee. receive advance notice of events and exhibitions, a discount on art and professional development workshops and at Nothart Objects.

We look forward to welcoming you to Northart in September to experience outstanding contemporary art practice from Aotearoa.

Keep up with our upcoming events and projects on our Instagram: @northartgallery and our Facebook: @northartnz, and join our mailing list on our website www.northartgallery.net Northart Norman King Square , Ernie Mays Street, Northcote 09 480 9633 / 022 390 7203 Opening hours: Tues-Sat: 11am-4pm (closed Sun/Mon) facebook Northart Gallery instagram northartnz

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PERFORMING ARTS NEWS: THE PUMPHOUSE THEATRE

PERFORMING ARTS NEWS: THE ROSE CENTRE

News from The PumpHouse from James Bell

Blooming-good theatre this Spring!

This month at The Rose Centre with Michelle Male, Performing Arts and Community Co-ordinator

September at The Rose Centre

James Bell.

The PumpHouse Theatre is filled to the brim with theatrical goodness this September.

We are very excited to be a satellite venue for the Auckland Fringe Festival this month and invite you to come and see one or more of these Fringe Festival shows.

Nau mai haere mai ki te Ahurei Mōwaho o Tāmaki Makaurau – Welcome to Auckland Fringe Festival. Bookings Open Now.

We kick off the warmer months with an absolute banger, The Campervan by Kathryn Burnett. This world premiere by Tadpole Productions is directed by Simon Prast, with a cast of five renowned actors. Andrew Grainger and Lisa Chappell are joined by Milo Cawthorne, Greg Johnson and Catriona Toop.

A comedy about the absolute havoc that can be caused by good intentions, combined with the realisation that time is catching up with what we might want to achieve in life. Successful businessman Hugh and his younger second wife Tamsin live a life of luxury, but when Hugh decides something is missing and he wants to give away his millions as a legacy to a good cause and live in a campervan, the family wheels are bound to fall off…

The Campervan is on 8th - 18th September – don’t miss out!

Wednesday 7th and Saturday 10th September, ‘Shakespeare’s Will’ by Vern Thiessen, directed

by Robert Tsonos with Suzy Sampson as Anne Hathaway. Bookings at www.iTicket.co.nz.

Returning home from her husband’s funeral, with his Will and Testament in hand, Anne Hathaway is overtaken by nostalgia and begins to reflect on her life with and without the world’s greatest playwright and poet, the man she fell pregnant to when she was 26 and he was only 18. “...a remarkable creative imagining” – Theatre Scenes.

“Sampson delivers a riveting performance“ – NZ Herald.

Friday 9th and Sun 11th September, ‘Austen Found’, the undiscovered musicals of Jane Austen.

Bookings at www.iTicket.co.nz. Addicted to Darcy?

Bonkers for big balls? Lost all Sense & Sensibility?

Well stop watching Bridgerton and get ready to enjoy an entirely improvised musical in the style of Jane Austen! Starring Penny Ashton, Lori Dungey and Ross Devereux, who will spin your suggestions into instant literary magic. “… seamless mastery of genre and skills” – Theatreview.

Tuesday 13 September, Klutch Productions presents ‘Squibbs Live’. Bookings at www.ticketfairy.com. In the lead up to the anticipated release of Squibb’s Sophmore album, “Squibbs II”, the Auckland-based songwriter and producer invites friends, family and fans to witness what it’s like to engage with the machine that is the music industry and watch the rise and fall of Squibbs unfold in the space of 20 minutes before your very eyes.

Wednesday 14th, Thursday 15th and Friday 16th September, ‘Welcome to Hellansville’ by James Carrick, directed by Liz Cannon. Book at www.iTicket.co.nz. Heaven and Hell need a re-set.

Overcrowding has reached critical mass in both after-life options, so a more selective approach is urgently required. Come and see this this very tongue-in-cheek examination of faith. It will be a great night out and an experience that will draw out lots of laughs and perhaps some healthy post-theatre debate too. *The final show will include a post-show cheese and wine event where you are invited to a Q & A session with the writer and director.

As part of the 30th anniversary celebrations, The Rose Centre will host a variety show on Saturday 17th September, filled with wonderful acts and performances.

Tim Bray Theatre Company are thrilled to bring Witi Ihimaera’s classic story The Whale Rider back to the stage in a children’s theatre show unmatched. This beautifully rich story of whānau and tikanga is masterfully translated into a live performance that will absorb the viewer, from start to end. A poignant tale of forging paths and self-belief, this is the show all children need to see. Destined to become the leader of her tribe, no matter how hard she tries to show her worth Kahu’s koro (grandfather) won’t accept that a kōtiro (girl) can take over his role of chief, but a rescue of the ancient whale beached in the Whāngārā Harbour changes everything. Hailed as the ‘most intelligent Tim Bray production’ in 2014 by KickArts – you won’t want to miss this beautiful storytelling on The PumpHouse stage.

Catch it from 24th September – 15th October.

Next up in our Creative Talks line-up for 2022 is actor, director and intimacy advisor Matthew Diesch. Matthew was introduced to intimacy coordination and direction at a workshop by Jennifer Te Atamira Ward-Lealand in 2019 and realized at that point how vital and effective this work is. Since then, he has provided intimacy advice to short films and stage plays. Matthew will talk about what intimacy coordination is and how it is used in the arts. This free event takes place on 26th September – RSVP on our website!

Ngā manaakitanga.

James Bell

BOOKINGS: 09 489 8360 or pumphouse.co.nz

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DEPOT ARTSPACE

The Vic Devonport

Philipp Jaser, General Manager

Depot Artspace with Amy Saunders

Philipp Jaser.

Auckland's heritage picture theatre FOCUS ON FILM

Three Thousand Years of Longing 1 September

Depot Sound Whether you need a space to rehearse, cut a mix or discuss a project our in-house engineers will work with you to get the best result. They like nothing more than a collaborative approach, so if you have an idea and want to test it out, drop a line to our very own local sound legends Noah or Alex. depotsound.co.nz

See How They Run 15 September

Everything Went Fine 8 September

DC League of Super Pets 22 September

Creative Careers "This programme has changed my life! I’ve finally found my tribe and know what I want to do.” If you’re a creative looking for help to get your business started and are looking for like minded creatives to connect with, look no further. Wayfind Creative is a free programme designed to teach you the business skills you need to develop a creative business and test ideas for the future while developing a mindset that will ensure success. wayfindcreative.co.nz

Play Readings at The Vic 11, 18 & 25 September

Depot Galleries Central Gallery: Blue Radius is a thoughtprovoking group show that sees science and art address climate change and rising sea levels.

Bianca Ranson’s larger than life ‘Carbon Stack’ sculpture sits at the centre of this exhibition which presents work from a diverse group of artists and scientists.

Play Readings at The Vic, 4pm Sundays Play readings are returning to The Vic this September with a feast of comedy, drama and satire. Featuring the works of four experienced playwrights, with plays performed over three consecutive Sundays.

The Vic Open Mic Night, 29 September Everybody is welcome!

Email openmike@thevic.co.nz if you are interested in performing.

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Amy Saunders.

With Spring upon us we’re thrilled to open our two September exhibitions, which include an ecological deep-dive into climate change and an empowering exploration of culture and identity.

We’re also excited to be hosting a series of artist talks and public events this month, so please check out our website and socials for more information and sneak peeks! depotartspace.co.nz

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Ticket to Paradise 15 September

Depot Artspace, Devonport

Streetfront Gallery: Abhi Chinniah returns with a deeper dive into her 2020 photographic exhibition exploring colourism.

Melanin Rising uses portraits, essays, and interviews to understand skin-lightening practices and media representation of dark-skinned people. At the core of this photo series sits an important message: love your melanin.

Full exhibition details here: depotartspace.co.nz/galleries/

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ANDREW DORREEN

Unparalleled Luxury Panoramic & Beach Access 249 HURSTMERE ROAD, TAKAPUNA Located in the middle of the North Shore's famed Golden mile this spectacular brand-new waterfront property is one of the best homes to come to the market this decade! Designed by Isthmus architects and carefully built with exceptional attention to detail by Crate builders, this three-level cedar and pre-cast concrete home offers panoramic views on every level, and is the epitome of high-end seaward side living with no compromise!

The site is breathtaking, level from the road and offers framed views of Rangitoto, Thorne Bay and right up the harbour from every level. The property has the unique advantage of offering private access to the beach via a stunning new boardwalk walkway. The property sits above another waterfront site however, it is well outside your sightline from every floor - superb.

The main living is on the top floor and offers a generous kitchen with a stunning solid stone island and Miele appliance suite. This flows to an open dining area with gorgeous high studs and then onto a light-filled

lounge with a gas fire. Each of the three levels offers hydronic underfloor heating. Dramatic views are observed from the expansive deck large enough for a carousel lounge setting. The views are some of the very best views you will ever witness in the Golden Mile namely the close imitate views of Thorne Bay. There is also a powder room on this floor and a cedar lift, easy access for all age demographics. Mid-floor living offers two double bedrooms and two bathrooms. The master bedroom has spectacular views and a stunning window seat to relax and watch the ships and boats in the harbour. A large walk-in robe and a gorgeous ensuite with a bath underneath a picture window offering panoramic views. There is also a ducted heating and cooling system ensuring cool nights and each of the three floors has underfloor heating. There is another double bedroom on this floor, which benefits from a separate full bathroom. Downstairs, there is a further bedroom, bathroom and living/den area or a fourth bedroom if required. www.precision.net.nz/ID #541759

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ANDREW DORREEN

Unrivalled Beachfront Position 15 ARAWA AVENUE, CHELTENHAM Occupying one of, if not the best position on Cheltenham Beach, number 15 Arawa is an exquisite and unique example of a modern, very high-end character home spectacularly renovated in an unmatched beachfront position! Seldom is there an opportunity to secure such property on this beach, let alone one that is ready to occupy with little to do other than move in and enjoy the exquisite architecture and benefits of true beachfront living.

The original character home has been repositioned on the site and fully upgraded over the last ten years. Interior and exteriors have been modernised and the result is simply breath-taking! The home has expansive living on the ground floor designed to capture both sunlight and the superb beachfront vistas the site enjoys. The home, which is on almost 1,000sqm offers four bedrooms and four bathrooms in the main dwelling, plus a separate self-contained studio with ensuite which would

make a great guest bedroom - space for the entire family. The master suite is spectacular and has its own balcony to take in the very best views in the home. A mixture of causal and more formal living areas flank the entertainer's kitchen and in turn, both of these areas flow out to covered verandas making for superb alfresco entertaining.

Four-car garaging houses cars and water toys. The site is extensively landscaped with manicured lawn and established gardens fronting Cheltenham Beach. Arawa Avenue in Cheltenham is highly sought after. The subject property is situated within close walking distance to shops and cafes and is an easy 15-minute walk to the ferry service.

What more could one want? www.precision.net.nz/ID #541872

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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STIEBEL ELTRON

Stiebel Eltron launches brand new showroom in Takapuna German water heating and renewables manufacturer, Stiebel Eltron recently celebrated the launch of their new showroom in Takapuna, Auckland. Customers can now experience Stiebel Eltron's hot water, heating, and ventilation products in an interactive showroom space.

Auckland is the headquarters for the New Zealand team and home to seven employees. In this North Shore showroom space, a wide variety of products from the business are on display, including energy-efficient hot water, renewables technology for heating, and balanced heat recovery ventilation.

The company's New Zealand operations began over twentyfive years ago with agents representing the brand mainly selling hot water and heaters. After over a decade of success in New Zealand, the company decided to open its own subsidiary under the leadership of Stiebel Eltron New Zealand's Managing Director, Jason Kerr, in 2016.

Jason Kerr says: "The main aim of the showroom is to create a space where architects and designers can come in and visualise

the products, which allows them to specify them and present them to the owners. Installers can also come in and participate in training in-store."

A central feature of the showroom is hydronic heating which is powered by a Stiebel Eltron air-sourced heat pump. This heat pump technology has been tried and tested in Germany for nearly fifty years, consistently delivering energy, environmental and financial savings. Stiebel Eltron began developing heat pump technology as early as 1976 for energy-efficient hot water, heating, and cooling.

On August 23rd, key industry stakeholders celebrated the launch of the new Stiebel Eltron showroom opening. The guests enjoyed drinks and canapés and had the chance to learn about different green energy products in the brand-new showroom space.

Jason Kerr concludes: "It is really great to see Germany invest in New Zealand with interactive showrooms and employing key staff. This allows us to show the industry what's available in the market here in New Zealand in terms of energy-efficient products."

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HOME ESSENTIALS

RECIPE OF THE MONTH September's recipe of the month is perfect to warm you up at the end of winter, or serve with a tossed salad for a delectable spring meal. Home Essentials offers a wide range of Staub products. Use your 10% discount flyer for all in-store purchases (except those already on sale or in a promotion).

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1 hour 15 minutes

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1.1 Preheat oven to 200°C 2.

2 Soften butter to room temperature.

3 Line the Staub cocotte with rings of onion and halves of lemon flesh3. side down.

4 Set the whole chicken breast side up on the bed of onions and 4. lemons. Gently stuff the area between the breast meat and skin with half of the softened butter, being careful not to tear the skin. Stuff cavity with one lemon half and one half of garlic head, if desired. Pat skin dry and season generously with salt and black pepper. Truss the chicken with string or simply cut a slit in the excess skin around the opening of the cavity and tuck each drumstick leg through the slit.

Ingredients

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5 Arrange carrots (slicing into smaller pieces as needed), garlic halves 5. and thyme sprigs around the sides of the chicken to fill the pan.

6 Drizzle all with extra virgin olive oil and season vegetables with salt and 6. pepper.

7 Roast in a preheated oven for 45-60 minutes until the internal 7. temperature is 74°C, basting chicken and onions with the remaining 1/2 cup of softened butter every 15 minutes.

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8 Remove whole chicken, carrots, onions, garlic and lemon and set aside on foil or parchment-lined cookie sheet. Pour liquids into a heat-proof bowl and set aside.

9 While it is still hot, place the Staub cocotte on the stove on high heat.

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Sear lemons to char the flesh and remove. Add back in liquids, chicken stock and white wine. Squeeze in charred lemon juice and add back in onions, garlic and thyme. Bring to a light boil. Reduce heat, simmer sauce and reduce for about 20-25 minutes.

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10 Serve chicken with vegetables and ladle jus over. Garnish with fresh thyme.

Recipe by

Kari Michelle Young

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Dining Out & Eating ON THE

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Here on the North Shore we are so fortunate to have such a fantastic and diverse range of options to whet the appetite and provide everything needed for dining out and eating in to suit all occasions, events and celebrations. Here at Channel we love 'Doing It Local' and we're proud to support our local hospo businesses in our monthly Dining Out and Eating In Guide. Enjoy!

Owner operated eatery in Devonport, NZ. Serving vegan and omni eats alongside small batch wine, beer and spirit drinks.

Buona Sera Restaurant

We hold weekly specials, along with wine makers dinners, makers markets and private events.

Sign up to our mailing list on our website to keep up to date with all goings on at Vondel.

Offering Persian and Mediterranean cuisine in Devonport Village.

5/15 Victoria Road, Devonport, 09 600 2125 www.akdenizdevonport.co.nz Great Italian cuisine from great ingredients. Mangiamo - Let's Eat! 99 Victoria Road, Devonport, 09 445 8133 www.buonasera.co.nz

Cafe Hung Viet

Traditional flavours of Vietnamese cuisine brings authentic Hanoi meals to the North Shore.

101 Victoria Rd, 09 446 3368, www.cafehungviet.co.nz

Corellis

Great tasting home-style fare at a great price.

46 Victoria Road Devonport, 09 445 4151 www.corelliscafe.co.nz

Devon on the Wharf

A little slice of heaven for tastes of Mediterranean and Turkish cuisine.

1 Queen's Parade, 09 445 7012 www.devononthewharf.nz

Fish Kitchen

Manuka Cafe and Restaurant

Mediterranean inspired cuisine and friendly customer service.

49 Victoria Road, Devonport, 09 445 7732 www.manukarestaurant.co.nz

Portofino Devonport

Very popular Italian Restaurant in the heart of Devonport Village.

26 Victoria Rd, 09 445 3777 www.portofinodevonport.co.nz

Signal Hill Restaurant

Serves classic NZ fare with an extensive drinks list in Devonport’s most iconic homestead.

24 Victoria Road, Devonport, 09 445 0193 www.signalhill.co.nz

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Khana Devonport believes in serving fresh & authentic Indian food for the local community and visitors.

Our menu offers a wide range of Indian specialties such as Butter Chicken, Goat Curry, Lamb Rogan Josh, Paneer Saag, Dal Tadka and many more. We use free range chicken, fresh hapuka, fresh vegetables and fresh spices. Curry bases and gravies are made in-house from natural ingredients and spices. View our menu at www.khana.co.nz You can order food easily through our online system for takeaways and home delivery. We look forward to serving you at our restaurant.

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Honest and simple authentic Indian cuisine.

97 Victoria Road, Devonport, 09 445 7721 www.flyingrickshaw.co.nz

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Open Hours: Tuesday - Friday 4pm - late Saturday 10am - late, Sunday 10am - 4pm 09 446 6444 hello@vondel.co.nz www.vondel.co.nz instagram Instagram @vondel_akl facebook facebook.com/vondelakl

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Extensive seafood menu plus their signature 'fish 'n' chips' - the best fresh fish in the best location.

1/1 Queens Parade, Devonport Wharf. 09 445 1777 www.fishkitchen.co.nz

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The Patriot

Vic Road Wine Bar and Cellar

Enjoy a glass of wine from the ever-changing wine list, chosen from a selection of interesting New Zealand and International wines.

53/55 Victoria Road, Devonport. 09 445 0194 www.vicroadkitc.co.nz

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If you don't feel like venturing out, try their new delivery option where you can receive all their baked goods delivered the next day.

Dailybread.co.nz 43 EVERSLEIGH RD AUCKLAND 0622 7am - 3pm daily hello@dailybread.co.nz www.instagram.com/dailybreadnz/

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8848 Restaurant & Bar

Authentic Nepalese and Indian cuisine in the heart of Takapuna.

17 Huron Street, Takapuna, 09 489 9911 www.8848indiancuisine.co.nz

Alforno Italian Restaurant

Dantes Pizza & Casa Pasta

Wood Fired Pizzas & sensational Pasta in the heart of Taka!

Eat Street, 40 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna. 09 486 3668 www.dantes.co.nz

El Humero

Traditional Colombian-style barbecue restaurant – yum!

Eat Street, 40 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna. 09 489 9973 www.elhumero.co.nz

Florrie McGreals Irish Pub

The best place in Takapuna to have a beer, meet some old friends or make some new ones. Great food as well!

Hurstmere Road, Takapuna. 09 486 6330 www.florriemcgreals.co.nz

Francs Bar & Diner

Beachside diner smacks of fresh fish, crisp lager, flopping jandals and easy service from sunrise to sunset.

Main Beach, The Strand, Takapuna. 09 488 0016 www.joylab.co.nz/francs

Madam Woo

Takes inspiration from traditional Malaysian hawker food, drawing influence from Malaysian, Chinese and other Asian cultures.

486 Lake Road, Takapuna, 09 489 4601, www.madamwoo.co.nz

Mamak Malaysian Street Food

Tasty Malaysian Street Food eatery under the Sentinel building.

Huron/Northcroft Streets, Takapuna. 09 486 0122 www.mamaktakapuna.co.nz

Sakebar Nippon Japanese Restaurant

Premium European and Mediterranean style dining 129 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna. 09 489 3104 www.aubergine.co.nz

Located under the Monterey Cinema.

Big Tikka

An authentic Japanese Izakaya restaurant with a friendly and lively atmosphere, private area for groups with karaoke and buffet style menu.

Indian cuisine… using bold flavours & reinterpreting classic dishes in a contemporary way.

458 Lake Road, Takapuna. 09 974 2241 www.bigtikka.co.nz

Burger Burger

Eat Street, 40 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna. 09 390 5348 www.burgerburger.co.nz

Catnapper Arms

A favourite local with great food with great daily specials 136 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna. 09 486 6330 www.catnapperarms.co.nz

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BOOKINGS: www.sakebar.co.nz GROUP BOOKINGS: joy@sakebar.co.nz Open Tues-Sun, Closed Mondays and public holidays.

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

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Aubergine Restaurant

2a Manurere Avenue – Right next to The PumpHouse Takapuna 09 487 0009

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Delicious Italian and Mediterranean food cooked with passion.

34 Anzac Street, Takapuna. 09 488-0179 www.alforno.co.nz

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

Book at www.french-rendez-vous-caferestaurant.business.site

Daily Bread's freshly baked loaves and perfect pastries are made every morning at their Belmont outpost where their new sit down menu, petanque court and kids' playground gives locals even more reason to visit.

A popular Italian eatery, serving Takapuna for over 27 years Anzac Street, Takapuna. Phone 021 910 999 www.botticelli.co.nz

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Serving up fresh, seasonal NZ produce in a rustic Mediterranean style.

57-59 Victoria Road, Devonport. 09 445 9797 www.vicroadkitchen.co.nz

Botticelli Restaurant & Wine Bar

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Vic Road Kitchen

Daily Bread

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French Rendez-Vous

Your Devonport Pub - owned by locals, for locals.

14 Victoria Road, Devonport, 09 445 3010 www.thepatriot.co.nz

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Takapuna's award-winning Nanam Restaurant recently voted as best neighborhood restaurant, Metro Top 50 and NZ's 100 Best Restaurants by Cuisine is humbled to offer an array of Filipino (Asian and Spanish-inspired) tapas and delectable wine and cocktail selections for our locals.

Shake Out

Serving up a highly addictive menu of burgers, sides, shakes and sundaes – fast.

Goodside at Smales Farm. 09 489 8223 www.shakeout.co

Soho Thai

Taking the art of traditional Thai cooking and giving it a modern twist.

Goodside at Smales Farm. 09 972 2711 www.sohothaikitchen.com

The Grange Bar & Bistro

A favourite all-day bar and bistro. Making the most of the best & fresh NZ produce.

Goodside at Smales Farm. 09 972 9060 www.thegrangetakapuna.co.nz

nanam.co.nz nanam.reservation@gmail.com 09 488 9976 Regatta Bar & Eatery

Your slice of Ibiza, right here on the Shore. Stunning sea views, premium beer, bloody good wine and fresh seafood.

Main Beach, The Strand, Takapuna. 09 488 0040 www.joylab.co.nz/regatta

The Elephant Wrestler

Your larger than life local in the heart of Taka with an outdoor courtyard to boot.

Selection of crafty beverages and food that’s undeniably Kiwi.

Hurstmere Road, Takapuna. 09 489 8030 www.joylab.co.nz/elephant-wrestler

Tok Tok Kitchen

Modern Japanese cuisine from kitchen run by experienced sushi master Mr Chikara Sato, a ‘fugu’ blowfish licensed sushi chef.

Main Beach, The Strand, Takapuna. 09 390 7188 www.tokyobay.co.nz

An all day cafe/restaurant in the historic building that includes Bridgeway Cinema. You’ll love it!

124 Queen Street, Northcote Point. Phone: 09 480 9600 www.clarencerdeatery.nz

Northcote Tavern

Birkenhead Brewing Company TA K

Classic 100 year old kauri villa with a tavern atmosphere for true kiwi hospitality.

17 Birkenhead Avenue, Birkenhead. 09 320 5055 www.bbc.kiwi

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

Clarence Rd Eatery

Authentic Italian cuisine as warm as the Mediterranean sun.

13 Birkenhead Ave, Birkenhead. 09 418 4202 www.abruzzi.co.nz

Healthy, fast, fresh dinners or lunches with yummy chicken a focus!

16 Anzac Street, Takapuna. 09 486 0755 www.winnerwinner.co.nz

Wine tasting with Soho Wines!

Tuesday 6th September. $40 includes 6 tasters and antipasti. Bookings essential

Since 2006, a neighbourhood bistro that is simply one of the best in NZ! 115 Queen Street, Northcote Point. Phone 480 9502 www.engineroom.net.nz

Abruzzo Ristorante Italiano

Winner Winner Takapuna

Perfect for private parties no venue hire!

The Engine Room

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Tokyo Bay

NEED TO KNOW: Sunday roasts are back! $35 includes a glass of mulled wine.

Every Sunday in August and September. Bookings are essential!

N ORTHCOTE POINT

We reckon one of the best places for pub food on the Shore!

37 Queen Street, Northcote Point. 09 480 7707 www.northcotetavern.co.nz

Always busy, a unique restaurant with Asian fusion cuisine near the beach.

129 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna. 09 489 3988, www.toktok.co.nz

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

Fantail & Turtle

A popular bar and eatery with alfresco vibe and great food!

Goodside at Smales Farm. 09 486 0644 www.fantailandturtle.co.nz

Book and dine with your special date, a group get-together or stop by for their locals $40 Lunch set menu.

Taylors on Hurstmere

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Blitza Pizza

Authentic Italian pizzas and mouthwatering Mediterranean cuisine.

9 Birkenhead Avenue, Birkenhead. 09 480 5006 www.blitzapizza.co.nz

Burrito House

Passionate about providing delicious and high-quality Mexican food.

17 Mokoia Road, Birkenhead. 09 418 2095 www.burritohouse.co.nz

Chef Rasa Sayang

Finest authentic Malaysian food.

25 Mokoia Road, Birkenhead. 09 419 9788

Dutch Delight

A bite of Holland right here in Auckland - the only Dutch restaurant in NZ. 3 Birkenhead Ave, Birkenhead. 09 418 1390 www.dutchdelight.co.nz

Jose's Cantina

Jose's Mexican food is compulsive and the margaritas are addictive.

12-14 Birkenhead Avenue, Birkenhead. 09 218 6162 www.josescantina.co.nz

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Birkenhead's newest joint, Duo’s owners Sarah & Jordan's vision of a small neighbourhood eatery with breakfast and lunch available five days a week (Wednesday - Sunday) & dinner three nights (Wednesday - Friday). You can expect some cafe classics as well as some more contemporary dining durning the day & an intimate bistro style menu in the afternoon’s & evenings with all the offerings showcasing high quality produce & artisanal products. Duo is fully licensed with a wine list that ranges from wild natural vino to a more conventional offering as well as offering craft beer and cocktails. hello@duoeatery.co.nz www.duoeatery.co.nz instagram duo.nz

Authentic flavours of South East Asia with home-style Malaysian cuisine.

243 Hinemoa Street, Birkenhead. 09 480 2806 www.mulan.co.nz

Primerose Thai Cuisine

Traditional Thai dishes known for excellent aroma, flavour and taste.

6 Mokoia Road, Birkenhead. 09 418 0555 www.primerosethaicuisine.co.nz

Tasty Tiny Thai Restaurant

Unique Thai experience with authentic dishes bursting with flavour.

52d Mokoia Road, Birkenhead. 09 418 4999 www.tastytinythai.co.nz

China Hong Kong Cuisine

Tasty Chinese and Asian food.

64 Mokoia Road, Birkenhead. 09 480 1168 www.hongkongchinesecuisine.co.nz

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Anokha Indian Restaurant

Long been a destination choice for Indian food lovers, specialising in North Indian Cuisine – authentic curry, tandoori dishes and freshly baked breads.

140 Kitchener Rd, Milford. 09 489 1499, www.anokha.co.nz

Thai Yum Food Hut

Cave À Vin

Authentic Thai food in Birkenhead.

23 Birkenhead Avenue, Birkenhead. 09 480 6799 www.thaiyum.net.nz

Natural wines and food to share – locals love this place!

146 Kitchener Rd, Milford. www.caveavin.co.nz

The Curry Master

Jazzy’s Cafe & Pizzeria

Experience Indian food at it’s finest.

18 Birkenhead Avenue, Birkenhead. 09 480 7211 www.thecurrymaster.co.nz/birkenhead

Serving breakfast, lunch & dinner. Cafe style brekkie, Fresh HomeMade pizzas, delicious Sri Lankan meals and more!

5 Milford Rd, Auckland. 09 486 1582 www.jazzys.net

The Good Home

Langkawi Restaurant

Honest homestyle cooking at its best.

83 Birkenhead Avenue, Birkenhead. 09 480 0066 www.thegoodhomebirkenhead.co.nz

Popular Malaysian local that has been here for around 25 years. BYO restaurant and also offers a range of well-priced wines.

122 Kitchener Road, Milford. 09 486 2700

The Junction Eatery

Monthien Thai Restaurant

Fully licensed cafe and bistro, sourcing the best local produce.

39 Birkenhead Avenue, Birkenhead. 09 480 8111 www.thejunctioneatery.co.nz

Popular Thai eatery in the heart of Milford. Real Thai real taste and best service!

142 Kitchener Rd, Milford. 09 488 0409 www.monthien.co.nz

Moxie Restaurant

A much loved restaurant serving modern cuisine and setting high standards at Birkenhead Point.

82 Hinemoa Street, Birkenhead Point. 09 419 9082 www.moxierestaurant.co.nz

Musashi Japanese Cuisine Milford

Serves everything you expect from your authentic Japanese restaurants but with a twist. Menu of Japanese cuisine, built around local taste and ingredients.

212 Kitchener Road, Milford. Phone 489 5977 www.musashirestaurant.co.nz

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Chef-made, gourmet meals crafted from NZ’s finest ingredients – free-range chicken, New Zealand beef & pork, and the freshest herbs and vegetables.

Enjoy a nourishing meal whenever you need it! Blake’s meals are perfect to keep in the freezer for when you want a treat or just a night off cooking.

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Blake's Providore

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With over 30 meals on the menu, there is something for everyone. Catering is also available. Enjoy convenience without compromise. Pop in store or order online for click & collect at www.blakesprovidore.co.nz Monday to Thursday: 9am-6pm, Friday: 9am-5pm Saturday: 10am-2pm 89 Kitchener Road, Milford 09 486 5711 www.blakesprovidore.co.nz

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The popular neighbourhood Milford Village bar & eatery. Excellent drinks selection with simple but great food.

154 Kitchener Road, Milford. www.pymsofmilford.com

Talay Thai Restaurant

Delicious authentic Thai cuisine. Using only the freshest ingredients with vegetarian, vegan options and Gluten free dishes.

83-85 Kitchener Rd, Milford, 09 489 9568 www.talaythai.co.nz

Stanley Avenue

Stanley Avenue is a relaxed, smart, wine bar and bistro where people can come and enjoy a light snack or sophisticated meal paired with an interesting wine offering.

52 East Coast Road, Milford 09 410 0066, www.stanleyavenue.co.nz

Don Japanese Restaurant

Local Japanese that offers great service, a variety of authentic dishes with good drinks list to match.

1 Milford Rd, Milford. 09 379 2834

The Milford Cafe, Bar & Restaurant

For brunch, lunch & dinner. Classics, re-imagined and modernised – the best in fine coffee, wine and delicious food.

7 Milford Road, Milford. 09 488 9388 www.themilford.co.nz

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Venice Italian Restaurant

A friendly local of Italian cuisine lovers passionate about cooking Italian food combined with a splendid collection of fine wines.

91 Kitchener Road, Milford, 09 486 4157 www.venicerestaurant.net

WANT YOUR CAFE/ RESTAURANT TO BE NOTICED?

E AST COAST B AYS El Greco Greek and Italian Eatery

A touch of the Mediterranean in the Bays! – the locals try to keep it a secret, it’s good!

1 The Esplanade, Campbells Bay. 09 475 5772 www.elgreco.co.nz

Paper Moon

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One of the Bay's favourite dining and drinking spots – for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or drinks into the evening.

437 Beach Road, Mairangi Bay. 09 479 8872 www.papermoon.org.nz

Montrose Cafe, Bistro & Bar

A Mairangi Bay local known for consistently good food and hospitality!

1 Montrose Terrace, Mairangi Bay. 09 478 9610 www.montrose.org.nz

Ristorante La Spiaggia

One of the best Italian restaurants on the Shore – Maria and Emilio never disappoint!

470 Beach Road , Murrays Bay. 09 475 5643 www.laspiaggia.co.nz

21 Days Bar & Brasserie

Named after the process of aging beef 21-28 days. Great food, some say best meat on the Shore!

37 Clyde Road Browns Bay. 0800 21 3297 www.21days.co.nz

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PACK & SEND: TAKAPUNA

By Jane and Jeremy Bain, franchisees at Pack & Send Takapuna.

Top tips from Amanda Graham, Newhaven Gardens.

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

September is bee awareness month

Amanda Graham.

Bees all around the world are in decline due to pesticide misuse, as well as habitat degradation taking away the bees' food source of nectar and pollen. There are three simple steps you can take that make a huge difference: The number one thing you can do is to avoid spraying harmful pesticides that are having a dire effect on bee populations across the globe. Neem granules are a great alternative, effective against a range of sucking insects, including aphids, thrips, whitefly, mealybug, scale and mites. Add granules to the soil around the drip line and water in. Repeat every couple of weeks until resolved. If you really must spray, you can minimise harm by spraying at sunset, when the bees are less active.

Just as important is providing plants that feed bees; bee-friendly plants and flowers. Seeds, such as bee balm, hollyhock, penstemon, salvia, sweet alyssum, wildflower mixes, or zinnia, are great. Or pick up seedlings from the garden centre. Great edible choices include rosemary, basil, mint, sage, thyme, fennel, parsley, coriander and nasturtium.

Trees such as bottlebrush, cabbage tree and camellia are wonderful for attracting bees, as are natives shrubs such as New Zealand flax, hebe, and rengarenga.

An often overlooked need is water – you can also help by leaving a small saucer or bowl of fresh water for bees to drink from in the garden. It helps to leave a few pebbles in there for them to rest on while they sup.

Want to do a little more? Perhaps you want to give your veggie garden a boost, or maybe you just like the idea of helping out the local bee population? Why not set up a bee nesting box?

Oderings.co.nz has some beautiful options, but you can make them yourself or have a look at your local garden centre or DIY store. Want to bring some bees into your garden but worried about pets or little ones? Leafcutter bees are idea; they pollinate most fruit and veggies, and they are safe around children and pets.

See https://beegap.co.nz for more info.

Sending art somewhere?

PACK & SEND Takapuna is your "one stop shop" when you need to send artwork, sculptures, ceramics and antiques - anywhere. No matter how large, awkward, valuable or fragile the item is, you can rely on PACK & SEND's experienced operators to package it and get it delivered, safely.

Jane and Jeremy Bain, the local franchisees at PACK & SEND Takapuna have a "No Limits" approach when helping customers solve packaging and freight problems around art and antiques. "Many of the items we have dealt with are valuable" says Jeremy.

"Not only in the monetary sense but because the pieces may have been handed down through the family for generations. It's irreplaceable on so many levels" It doesn't matter where it's going. New York, London, Sydney, Dunedin - the same care and attention is given to every consignment.

We'll collect it, package it, take care of the documentation, track it right through to the destination and get it signed for" says Jane.

As well, PACK & SEND customers can use their Freight Plus Warranty cover against loss or damage to secure that extra peace of mind something not generally available when freighting artworks.

For those really delicate items like fine antiques or ceramics, Pack & Send can use its state of the art "Foam in Place" packaging system, which forms a protective mould around the item, for safe transport.

"We also produce custom made boxes to any size or shape" adds Jeremy.

"Because we treat each consignment as unique, designing packaging and the freight solutions to suit, we're finding that more and more people benefit from our services.

PACK & SEND provides service, systems and packaging to make your freight experience as simple and smooth as possible. You don't need to open an account; they send anything, anywhere and take care of the hassles.

PACK & SEND Takapuna are supporting our client Flagstaff Gallery Devonport at the Art in the Park Exhibition again this year September 8-11th. Held at Eden Park, Art In The Park is a world-class contemporary art show in Auckland's cultural calendar. Over 100 NZ best artists and 1000 pieces of art will be on display. At this year's show, go behind the scenes with the artists, hear them talk, watch them create, and be inspired.

Tickets start from $15 and can be purchased from www.artinthepark.co.nz Pack & Send Takapuna open Mon – Sat, located at 77 Barrys Point Rd, Takapuna with exclusive and convenient parking outside.

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

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

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Our round up of posts from local businesses on IG that we’ve double tapped (liked) and a Q&A with Nyrelle from @cityhall.store

Nyrelle Rowan.

Nyrelle Rowan has recently opened a beautiful homeware store, City Hall, on Lake Road. She’s a Shore local and lives in Hillcrest with her partner Jeremy, who’s an architect, and their three kids, Mimi, Frankie and Ed. Nyrelle has a history with the area, having been the creative lead on the much-loved Fortieth & Hurstmere (Eat Street) development during the design and construction process and then continued on as Operations and Property Manager there for a number of years. After an 18-month break, she’s just opened City Hall and it’s the perfect addition to Takapuna.

Channel Mag talked to Nyrelle about the store and what she loves on the gram.

Channel Magazine: Tell us a little bit about your business and how it came about…

Nyrelle Rowan: City Hall is your new local homeware, lifestyle, gift store thoughtfully curated with beautiful international brands for effortless yet elevated living like The Poster Club, Oyoy and Kinto and so many wonderful local brands that we are very proud to have in store like Sophie, Sans Ceuticals, Light & Vessel, Arc, Poet Botanicals, Otto Loom and Harry & Co among others. The store really just came about after wandering down the road from Kinship with a coffee, spotting the vacant space and just thinking it’d be the perfect spot for what I had in mind. It’s about creating a hub for the community really, a lovely place to be, a store with all your home and gift needs, and a great space to bump into familiar faces.

CM: Is Instagram a source of inspiration for you?

NR: Instagram is definitely a source of inspiration for me. I tend to gravitate towards architectural and interiors pages usually coming out of Australia, Denmark and Germany. It’s so good to have direct access to interior spaces and trends happening overseas. I’m a big fan of Pop and Scott, The Design Files, Imma Galiana, Modernister and Suzanne Hoyne for business advice and inspo.

CM: Which other local businesses/artists do social media well?

NR: A few locals that I enjoy following are @arcatelier.co, @tuesdaylabel, @junkndisorderlynz and @simon_devitt (mostly for the excellent memes).

CM: What can readers expect to see at City Hall over the next few months?

NR: We will be continuously growing and changing over the next few months as we settle into our new home at 406 Lake Road, Takapuna. Expect to see loads of new gorgeous pieces for the home or that perfect gift arriving from our amazing local and international suppliers. @cityhall.store 406 Lake Road, Takapuna

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ILOVETAKAPUNA: NEWS

Talking Takapuna Hello Spring! While there still might be a little rain around, we’re so excited for some clearing skies and warmer weather!

It’s the perfect time to freshen up the spring/summer wardrobe, with some of the fantastic fashion and accessories available in Takapuna.

From dresses, sandals, hats and bags, to wallets, shirts, shorts and sunglasses – no matter your fashion style, taste or preference, Takapuna has the store for you! Check out a few of our top picks here, or visit our website for a full list of fashion stores and spots in our Shopping Directory!

Shore City Shopping Centre is also a fantastic place to stop in for the whole family’s fashion needs! With Farmers for the kids, Mirrou, Glassons, Duck Ltd, Country Road and Cue for the ladies, Barkers, Rembrandt, Just Jeans and Rodd & Gunn for the guys - then of course Platypus for all your footwear needs!

Spring is the best time to shake off the winter blues and cobwebs, to get back out there and enjoy the beauty that we’re so lucky to have right on our doorstep – Takapuna Beach.

Why not head out and make the most of the warming weather and walk the breath-taking coastal beachside from Takapuna north to Milford – known as the ‘lava’ trail! It can be walked at any tide (allow 45 minutes each way), winding its way over rocks, along beaches, and interesting pathways, overlooking the Hauraki Gulf and out to Rangitoto Island the entire way. The Takapuna-Milford walk is included in the Te Araroa Trail, a continuous 3,000 km walking track spanning Cape Reinga in the tip of the North Island and Bluff in the South Island.

Setting off from Takapuna beach you will see at low tide, by the boat ramp, parts of a fossilised kauri forest, a very rare sight anywhere in the world. These fossils were formed by lava flowing from the nearby freshwater volcanic crater lake Lake Pupuke, and engulfing a kauri forest.

Lake Pupuke is another great walk, or a picturesque family picnic location – just head down off Killarney St to Killarney Park, find the perfect spot of grass to enjoy some snacks, let the kids run off some steam and take in the beautiful lakeside views!

This month we also celebrate the wonderful Father’s in our lives, with Father’s Day on the 4th of September. We’d just like to say a big thank you to all the Dad’s out there – from ‘bonus’ Dad’s, to adoptive Dad’s, to cat Dad’s, angel Dad’s and all the Dad’s in between, thank you for all that you do for your loved ones and families, and we hope you have a wonderful Father’s Day! Don’t forget – Takapuna has some great places to book in and celebrate the Father in your life – Check out dinner options at Regatta

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Whatever you’re up to or enjoying in Takapuna, 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!

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER EVENTS IN TAKAPUNA • 2 Sept – Bruce Mason Centre: Afrikaans is Lekker • 7-18 Sept – The PumpHouse: The Campervan • 9-11 Sept – Brue Mason Centre: Disney’s The Little Mermaid • 12 Sept – Bruce Mason Centre: Morning Melodies – G&T Productions: Musical Classics • 14 Sept – Bruce Mason Centre: Kevin Bl***y Wilson F.U.P.C NZ Tour • 16 Sept – Bruce Mason Centre: The Bee Gees Night Fever • 17 Sept – Bruce Mason Centre: Hotel California – The Eagles Experience • 24 Sept-15 Oct – The PumpHouse: Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera • 26 Sept – Creative Talks at The PumpHouse Theatre: Matthew Diesch • 1 Oct – Bruce Mason Centre: TINA Simply the Best • 15 Oct – Bruce Mason Centre: She is Bollywood • 17 Oct – Bruce Mason Centre: Morning Melodies – Base Auckland Brass • 18-29 Oct – The PumpHouse: Flying with The Eagles • 21-22 Oct – Bruce Mason Centre: Urzila Carlson • 23 Oct – Bruce Mason Centre: Shabnam Surya & Qais Ulfat Live in Concert • 28-29 Oct – Bruce Mason Centre: Tutus on 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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COVER INTERVIEW: IMOGEN AYRIS

Bronzed and brave The Shore’s Commonwealth Games Medalist Imogen Ayris

Commonwealth Games medal-winning pole vaulter Imogen Ayris met Heather Barker Vermeer at Devonport’s Fish Kitchen to debrief on digging deep and flying high in international sport.

Using crutches is helpful in building upper body strength, Imogen Ayris is finding. Although an unwelcome mode of transport for the newly minted Commonwealth Games medallist, this athlete has a habit of turning travesty into treasure.

Born at North Shore Hospital and raised in Northcote Point, in the family home where she still lives, Ayris opted for Takapuna Grammar School following Northcote Primary and Takapuna Intermediate.

A certain Eliza McCartney was a senior pupil at TGS as Ayris was weighing up her high school options.

“I was big into netball at the time; I always wanted to be a Silver Fern. Most Harbour players were going to Westlake but when I did my TGS visit, I liked it. I knew Eliza was there and had just gone to World Youth Games, so she kind of drew me in!”

As a promising track and field athlete, as well as netball player and gymnast, Ayris held McCartney in high regard and came to know her through the local sport scene. The switch to athletics came after Ayris found she was acing meets without any preparation for the sprint hurdles, long jump, and triple jump events she was entering.

“I’d just go along to club nights at Takapuna Athletics Club, without doing any training. I couldn’t – I was already jam-packed!” Up to 20 hours per week gymnastics training alongside rep netball, competing in basketball, volleyball and ‘any other land-based sport I could’, didn’t leave space in the training mix.

“I’d started to realise I was quite good at athletics, though. So I went along to North Island Secondary School Champs in Y9 and did really, really well, with next to no training. It was at that stage that I decided to drop gymnastics in favour of athletics.”

Training at the Millennium Institute in Mairangi Bay, Ayris was working on improving her sprint hurdling and triple jumping techniques when she was presented with an idea.

“My coach asked if I’d like to try pole vault. Eliza was training there at the time. I knew who she was because I’d seen her at school but being in Year 9 and her being a Year 13, we didn’t really mix.”

Ayris was introduced to pole vault specialist Jeremy McColl, and he’s been her coach ever since. Fellow young North Shore athlete Liv McTaggart also got bitten by the pole-vaulting bug around the same time, taking up the sport the same year.

Launching yourself metres into the air while only clutching onto a freestanding pole, demands an unusual amount of courage and commitment, in anyone’s books. So how did she begin?

“At first, you just get used to holding a pole, having it in your hand, stepping over it and swinging it. Then I started to get used to landing on my back. Then they chuck a bungy cord up and say, ‘get over that’!

Eventually they switch that out for a bar and off you go!” Easy?

“I did pick it up really quickly, I found. I really enjoyed it. I soon realised I was finding it addictive!”

When McCartney needed competitors for a local pole vault meet, Imogen found herself a novice addition to the bill. “I didn’t even have spikes on, I was just winging it in my running shoes,” she laughs.

Clearing heights up to 2.90m in that first competition she felt was ‘a "decent start".

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Imogen at home on the Shore with her dog, Boo.

Still a newcomer to the sport, she had a pop at secondary school nationals and jumped 3.50m, placing third. She also placed second in triple jump.

In 2014, she entered U18 and U20 nationals, and won both. This led to her flying to Australia to compete in the Australian U18 and U20 National Championships. Again, she won both age groups, notching up a new personal best of 3.75m. “It all started to happen,” she smiles.

Nudging up the heights, she reached 4m at age 15. “I knew it was coming,” she recalls. “…that big four metre mark. I first jumped it at secondary school champs, which felt quite a big deal.”

In Year 12, she headed to Germany for her first overseas invitational comp. She came third. The joy of achieving a securing World Junior Championship qualification height of 4.05m during an Auckland comp later that season, fell fast. Landing on the track during a pre-comp training jump left her with a significant heel injury and a heavy heart.

“I was in excruciating pain. I went along on comp day with every intention of competing but knowing that it was unlikely given the injury I was carrying. I could barely stand on my foot – it was purple! Anyway, I took some strong pain killers and stepped onto the track for what I could manage as a warm-up jog and thought, ‘I’m doing this!’”

At the astonishment of her coach, and herself, she somehow found it within herself to manage a full run up and got over the bar, at 3.95m.

“I was hopping away from the mat. I couldn’t even walk properly. It was straight back into the ice afterwards. I’m not even sure how I did that!”

World University Games in Italy followed in 2019, 4.11m cleared.

“Leading into 2020, I was jumping really well. I made a 4.30m PB and things were going great.” She won the New Zealand nationals and was planning to go to Sydney for Australian nationals and to Queensland for the Brisbane Track Classic when the pandemic hit.

Despite lockdown landing when she felt her star was on the ascendancy, Ayris used her downtime wisely, working on her baseline fitness and focusing her attention on her science studies, with her academic abilities supporting her aspirations of becoming a doctor.

Frustration became a factor once Auckland athletes were unable

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to compete alongside other Kiwis, following Championships in Oregon in June, feeling in regional lockdown. But once Ayris was back the form of her life. On landing in the USA, she amongst it, in 2021, she was pleased to find found she’d gained significant sprint speed. she could still clear the same heights she could “I’d done a tough three-week training block pre-pandemic. at home prior to leaving for the US. When I got In December last year, she began chasing there, I found I’d gained a whole load of speed. qualification for August’s Commonwealth The temparture change from winter to summer Games and the Covid-postponed World was nice to train in and I just hadn’t seen the Athletics Championships, in July She jumped speed impact of my recent training until I arrived three Commonwealth Games qualifying heights there. That meant there was this disconnect, of 4.45m over summer but needed more jumps mentally and physically, because I suddenly had to solidify this and make ‘Worlds’. “I was looking all this extra power. It was great, but I was, like, really good,” she says, “until I had a pole snap ‘OK, so how am I now going to manage this?’ in training. It’s never happened to me before. It Despite warming up well, and enjoying mixing shouldn’t happen, but sometimes does in elite with the world’s best athletes in the athletes’ pole vaulting.” village as well as the stadium, when it came to Splitting the webbing between the palm and competing, Ayris failed to fire. She ended up ‘no Imogen sharing her medal success on thumb, precisely where the pole sits in her hand, heighting’. a school visit last month. meant immediate stitches, then rehab on her “The biggest thing for me was that I didn’t (Photo: TGS sports department) grip strength. Intense physio work and some really know what had gone wrong. I’d felt so miraculous healing left Ayris feeling ready to compete again just two good. I’d warmed up well. But I found I just couldn’t clear the bar. I was weeks later. Nationals had fortuitously been pushed back, working in quite upset after that.” her favour. “But I failed the 4.45m height. I was still hanging in there in Discussions with her sports psychologist followed; Ayris questioning the top 32, though, and got conditionally selected for Worlds, which I her ability to perform, while harbouring concerns about the judgements was very excited about!” of others. “I started worrying that people would say I couldn’t compete Second place at the Oceania Athletics Championships in early June on the big stage. It started to get into my head. And I knew I only had gained Ayris the points she needed. “That was enough to get me to two weeks before the Commonwealth Games. the World Champs. That was really exciting, especially because that “My sports psych reminded me of a few things, like the fact that was never actually the goal! I’d just wanted to be able to get back into everybody I care about still loves me, regardless of how I jump. And that jumping again after injury.”

I, and they, know what I’m capable of. That was important in helping me Without expectation, she headed to the World Athletics gain perspective.”

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CHANNEL INTERVIEW: IMOGEN AYRIS

Imogen enjoying some downtime on the Shore.

Ayris relaxed, spending downtime with fellow Kiwi athletes ahead of Birmingham’s Commonwealth Games. “I didn’t really get nervous at all, right up until it was time to jump. You warm up, get introduced to the crowd and there’s a lot of time waiting around. That’s too long to be pent up – it gets tiring! But I was so scared of ‘no heighting’ again, I knew just had to get over that bar. So when it came time to jump, I got really nervous.”

The competition opened at 3.90m, way below Ayris’s PB. She chose to come in at 4.25m. “My first attempt came, and I didn’t convert it. I saw my coach looking at me with this puzzled look. I was determined I wasn’t going to let myself leave it to my final jump to clear this height I knew I could clear. I was so determined I was going to clear that bar, whatever it took!”

On her second attempt, Ayris cleared her doubts and the bar. “The height was never the issue. For an opening jump, I knew it was relatively easy. Once I cleared that first height, I was so relieved! I just started having fun after that.”

When the fun starts, so does the success, Ayris found. (As Olympic bronze medal winner McCartney, and her now world-famous smile, can attest.) After clearing 4.35m and 4.45m, Ayris found herself alongside her fellow North Shore athlete Liv McTaggart in medal contention.

“When I realised there were just four of us left in the competition, I was like, hold on, I’ve got a chance here. Going into the final jumps, I knew if Livi missed hers, I was guaranteed a medal.

“I cried straight away! I had to jump again, but I didn’t care less what happened on that jump. I hit the bar, but I didn’t care – I’d got a medal!”

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fellow TGS alumni McCartney’s at the 2016 Rio Olympics, when Ayris ran to hug McTaggart after her final jump. Pipping her compatriot to the medal podium was bittersweet for both, but a moment Ayris will never forget. She recalls looking over to her younger brother, Harry, and her boyfriend (former TGS head boy and North Shore Cricket Club premier captain, Will Clarke) in the stands. “We were all just looking at each other in disbelief before that final jump, knowing I’d won a medal. It was surreal!”

Further disbelief followed the next day, when Ayris eventually conceded to a scan on a ‘niggly’ lower limb complaint. She discovered she had been harbouring a broken foot for weeks.

“It was crushing. I went from such a high to such a low. I was aiming to improve on my Commonwealth height in European competitions following the Games. I felt like I had this momentum, like I still had this really big jump in me. As soon as I found out I was confined to a moonboot and crutches for six weeks, I just wanted to come home.”

On the plane back, she had time to think. “I had 36 hours by myself.

I wound down and I was able to actually process everything that had happened. It sank in; despite the gutting injury news, I’d won a bronze medal.”

The domestic athletics season restarts in December. Once the moonboot is off, Ayris will begin training again, alongside her third year Exercise Science degree studies at Auckland University.

“I now need to qualify for the World Champs in Budapest next year,” she says. Automatic qualifying has been set at 4.71m. “I know I’m capable of getting into the 4.60s this season - I still have those big jumps waiting to come out! And 4.70m, and beyond? I wouldn’t rule it out.”

More success for local athletes The North Shore was well represented at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Bronze medals proved to be the colour of the moment, with several local athletes returning with this shade of medal.

Another former Takapuna Grammar School pupil, Jacko Gill, brought home bronze in the shot put behind Kiwi silver medallist Tom Walsh. Former Westlake Boys’ High pupil Cameron Gray won a swimming bronze medal – in the 50m butterfly. The Silver Ferns brought home bronze in the netball, with the White Ferns also matching their medal in the T20 cricket competition.

Siblings Liv and Cam McTaggart also both competed strongly, with Cam’s sixth in weightlifting adding to Liv’s fourth place in the pole vault.

In total, New Zealand brought home a record 49 medals from this year’s Birmingham Commonwealth Games: 20 gold, 12 silver and 17 bronze.

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MILFORD SHOPS NEWS

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

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Have you car cleaned while you shop at The Clean, level 2 of the mall car park. Check out our newest cafè, Dear Friends in

Finally, work has started on fitting out the premises on the corner of Dodson Av and Kitchener Rd. What’s going in there, I have still to find out, but keep watching this space.

That leaves only one space left in the main street – the old Westpac. It’s pretty big but if you’ve got a business that you want to have represented in our busy premium shopping centre, get in contact with me. Great space for a bike shop – an opportunity to link in with our tourism initiative, Explore North Shore, and run hire bikes from there!!

Uptown MILFORD, and whilst in the main street, you will find delicious sushi at Tomo no Ura near the central crossing. The MILFORD is the place to go for a meal or drink at any time of the day and you’ll find one of the best book shops just along the road – The Booklover. If they don’t have it, they will try their darndest to get it for you. New World MILFORD is a super up-market grocery store and what can I say about Harcourts Cooper & Co, that Martin hasn’t already said. Great people –

SHOP & WIN Promotion – runs til 15th Sept. Spend $20 and enter the draw for 1 of 5 x $50 shopping vouchers each week.

Great Service. And YES, we do have some banks in MILFORD and BNZ is open 7 days per week in the mall.

Milford 30 Year Centre Plan With the local body elections about to hot up, here’s a friendly reminder to be familiar with the plan designed by Milford people for our MILFORD community, but quite often overlooked by our politicians’. Water care, environment, outdoor spaces and of course the awesome Wairau Estuary Boardwalk project are all in it. It’s been in place since 2015, some things have been done but check for yourselves how much needs to be done. Then you will be well-equipped to ask questions at meetings of people seeking election. Go to our website www.milfordshops.co.nz and you will see the complete document. Click ‘Future Plans’ on the landing page.

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And do they have to live/work in the area? – the choice is yours.

Vote wisely if you want good governance!

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What is Ingage? Ingage is an action-packed therapeutic kids program designed and run by Immerse for the tamariki and rangatahi (children and youth) in their care. The day involves a balance of therapeutic activities followed by the opportunity to practice these during afternoon outings. Each tamaiti is paired with an adult volunteer, so they have a one-on-one connection throughout the entire day.

The Ingage programme strives to teach valuable life skills, enhance creativity, boost confidence, build trust, and make wonderful memories for the tamariki and rangatahi attending.

As the Ingage coordinator, I have the privilege of organising and running the Ingage days. So far this year we have enjoyed wonderful trips to Kiwi Valley Farm, JUMP, and the ice skating rink to name a few.

The tamariki have also decorated cupcakes, learnt to juggle, and painted pottery.

Alongside participating in group games such as ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf’ and ‘Simon Says.’

Throughout my time at Ingage I have been able to establish close connections with the tamariki and rangatahi who attend. I have seen their confidence grow as they have improved their ability to selfregulate and use their words to express their needs. Furthermore, their high spirits and lust for life, despite their often tragic circumstances, are a constant reminder of how we should all approach life; positively and with our arms open wide.

As the saying goes, it take a village to raise a child. Ingage allows our tamariki and rangatahi to build a wider village of supportive and trusting relationships. I owe much of the success of Ingage to all our wonderful volunteers who sacrifice their Saturdays to spend time with us.

We are always looking for more people to volunteers at Ingage. So if you would like to get involved, contact us at Immerse.

For more information about Immerse and becoming a foster parent visit our website: www.immerse.org.nz or email: info@immerse.org.nz

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Electrical Safety: how to childproof your home

Lewis Rudall.

The moment you bring your baby home from hospital, start thinking about child-proofing your entire house.

“Don't wait too long. Before you know it, your child will start crawling, exploring the house, investigating everything they can put their little hands on. The sooner you hide hazardous items and potential dangers away from your child’s reach, the better,” says Lewis Rudall, master electrician and director at Lake Road Electrical.

Here are some recommendations: 1. Residual Current Device protection – RCD is vital, especially if you have young kids and pets. RCD is a life-saving device designed to protect you and your children from fatal electric shock if they touch something live like an uncoated wire. RCDs are designed to quickly and automatically disconnect power when an electrical change is detected, preventing serious injury. If you have an old switchboard consider upgrading it, as new ones offer RCD protection and multiple other safety features.

2. Avoid extension cords and multi plugs – If possible, avoid using long extension cords and multi plugs that sit on the floor.

Kids tend to chew on things you don’t want them chewing on something electrical, or playing with accessible cords and wires, or knocking over appliances plugged into them.

Consider using a multi-plug cover which has an opening for the cords to hang out safely, or install multi-plug points on the wall out of reach.

3. Use electrical plug-point caps – The cheapest way to prevent your child from sticking objects and fingers into outlets is to use electrical outlet caps. Made of plastic and plugged directly into your plug-point, the exposed area of the cap is completely flat making it difficult for a child to grip on it. If your child cannot poke anything into outlets, the safer he/she is. It’s that simple.

4. Use nightlights – Use a nightlight to provide illumination in the dark for your child’s safety, perfect for kids' bedrooms and the bathroom, so they won’t stumble if they wake up in the night.

Nightlights come in a variety of styles, such as outlet-mounted, table mounted or low-level recessed wall lights.

5. Regular electrical maintenance – Take care of loose and frayed wires that are located in accessible areas of your home. At least once a year, have a licensed electrician check your home’s electricals.

Visit www.lakerodelectrical.co.nz for more news and tips.

Lake Road Electrical is a family-owned business that specialises in residential electrical services. We currently offer 10% off for new customers up to $1000 & $250 off switchboard upgrades.

So don’t wait call us now!

Phone: 09-242 2204 Text: 0291287494 or email: Lewis@lakeroadelectrical.co.nz

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SHORE TRAVEL

Beautiful Baltic experience The most efficient way to explore the Baltics is on a cruise. Mary Buckley from Shore Travel has just returned from a European Oceania Cruises Medieval Baltic experience. This is a brief summary of the highlights: Copenhagen, Denmark: The day before the cruise we enjoyed a day in this beautiful Danish City, visiting Rosenborg Castle and Amalienborg Palace Museum; the old Nyhaven harbour and Tivoli Gardens.

Berlin, Germany: The best way to see Berlin in one day is on a hop on, hop off bus. Visit the Victory Column, Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag Building, Berlin Wall and Check Point Charlie, St Mary’s Church and Charlottenburg Palace.

Ronne (Bornholm), Denmark: We visited Bornholm Museum which told the interesting story of war time and when the island was under German and then Soviet occupation.

Gdansk, Poland: Enjoy the old medieval quarter of this Baltic jewel and see the lovely Golden Gate, the 15th century Artus Court and beautiful St. Mary's Church as well as Oliwa Cathedral.

Klaipeda, Lithuania: An easy city to walk around straight off the ship.

Highlights include: The Meridianas Sailing Ship, Theatre Square, and City Hall. We hired an electronic boat for an hour which was a nice way to see a section of the canal.

Riga, Latvia: We joined a two-hour Free City Walking Tour which is a great way to learn a bit of local history and get

orientated. We also went to the Museum of Occupation which told the story of what happened to the people of Latvia during the Soviet and German National Socialist regimes from 1940 to 1991.

Tallinn, Estonia: Highlights include: Toompea Castle, Cathedral of Saint Mary the Virgin, St Alexander Nevsky – Russian Orthodox dome church. We walked up the 200+ steps of St. Olav’s Church for the great views, then went into the KGB prison cells.

Helsinki, Finland: We went inside the dominating Helsinki Cathedral on Senate Square and walked through the historical centre of town. A must-do is a canal cruise through the harbour and local waterways past forests, beaches, villas, the giant Icebreaker ships and a ruined Suomenlinna fortress that spans five islands.

Stockholm, Sweden: One day was not enough time to explore this beautiful city.

We visited the medieval Gamla Stan, the elegant royal palace, and the impressive Vasa (17th century warship that sank). We also went to the fun ABBA museum.

The full version of this Baltics travel blog can be found at www.shoretravel.co.nz or contact the team at Shore Travel to plan your own Europe experience.

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Shore Travel is here to help you explore the world, your way.

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SPRING SEASON FEATURE: LE VISAGE

Le Visage - the best advanced skin care therapy on the Shore Le Visage is an oasis of calm in Milford offering the latest in advanced skincare treatments and products. Channel Mag's Liz Cannon chats to owner Terry Taylor, the mum-half of the dynamic mother-daughter duo.

Channel Magazine: Tell me about Le Visage.

Terry Taylor: We’re Terry and Sarah, a mum/daughter duo who are passionate about skin health. We created Le Visage in January 2014 as a space where we could focus on clients' skin health and wellbeing from an holistic perspective, encompassing gut health as well as lifestyle, along with our Ultraceuticals skin care range and Bestowe beauty supplements to improve, correct and repair from within.

CM: What are you passionate about in your work?

TT: Our passion for skin has led to careful thought and consideration in choosing skincare products and treatment rituals that offer clients the best results, but are also kind to the skin. All our treatments and products are results-focussed and we provide our clients with ongoing support and education.

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CM: What do you specialise in?

TT: All things skin… As a bespoke skin clinic our treatments include advanced skin peels for hydration and fine lines, as well as Dermapen 4 for pigment control and acne too, and also IPL and laser for skin rejuvenation. Technology is an important tool for us to ensure our clients get the results they are seeking.

Our Observ skin scanner allows us to take a 3D look beneath the skin before we treat or recommend any skin care or supplements. The beauty of this is that we scan at regular intervals on our clients' journeys so they have an ongoing update on where they're at, and input on what they’d like to improve.

Prophyllo, and more. Our clients rave about Helen’s attention to detail and knowledge in her field. Then we have Sharon from Entyce Beauty who also shares our space as a cosmetic tattooist. She is the best at enhancing brows and eyeliner, and she offers lip shading and blushing as well as lash lifts and brow lamination too.

CM: Who else is part of your Le Visage family?

TT: As a skin health centre, we are pleased to work alongside Helen, a registered nurse from Beautyfy Me cosmetic injectables, who shares our space and provides cosmetic injectables including Botox, Dysport,

Le Visage, Level 1, 161 Kitchener Road, Milford 09 486 6880 info@levisage.co.nz www.levisage.co.nz

Sarah and Terry Taylor.

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SPRING SEASON FEATURE: HEALTH HEROES NZ

Health Heroes NZ

- the well-being super power provider on the North Shore As we move out of winter, we start to think about getting our minds and bodies ready for the spring and summer seasons ahead.

Channel Mag's Liz Cannon chats with Yvonne Gitt about how Health Heroes can help improve people's health and well-being.

Channel Magazine: Can you tell us about Health Heroes?

Yvonne Gitt: Many of our patients know us from our Mobile Massage Service, but Health Heroes NZ has become so much more! Health Heroes is a collective of amazing health professionals such as massage therapists, Reiki practitioners, and nutrition and health coaches, who work closely together with osteopaths and acupuncturists. We are dedicated and passionate about the health and well-being of our patients and we follow a holistic health approach.

We not only treat the physical body, but also take care of the mind, as body and mind work and heal together.

CM: What does Health Heroes do?

YG: Primarily we are here to help. Our aim is to enable our patients to live a healthy, relaxed, and happier life. We offer therapeutic massage, nutrition and health coaching, stress management, Reiki, and many more treatment types. We provide home visits, office treatments, nutrition and health coaching in person and online, and of course we also offer treatments in our collaborative practices.

Our aim is to enable our patients to live a healthy, relaxed, and happier life.

CM: Why should people use the services Health Heroes provide?

YG: At Health Heroes NZ we know that a 'one size fits all' approach is not possible, especially when it comes to health. Even though our bodies are basically built the same, we are all highly individual. Every person has different needs, different goals, and different strengths.

We advise each of our patients individually and we work out the best ways and possibilities together, to achieve the desired goals. Our treatments do not end after 60 minutes. We explain to our patients what they can do additionally at home to support healing processes and reach their goals faster and in the long term.

CM: What are your core values?

YG: Health Heroes NZ stands for imparting knowledge and personalised treatments. We pass on qualified health-related information to our patients so they can understand their bodies and regain responsibility and control their health. We believe that everyone should be able to make the right decisions for themselves and their health.

Yvonne Gitt.

can have multiple causes. Sitting in front of a computer for too long is one of the reasons but many other reasons can add to the pain. If we only treat the neck pain and don't fix the cause, the pain will just come back after a while. We help our patients in a sustainable way.

CM: You're from Germany - what brought you to New Zealand?

YG: I was running my own practice for osteopathy and naturopathy in Hamburg for many years and I loved it. In 2016 my partner said, “Let me show you a place called Godzone,” which as I learnt, is an abbreviation of the phrase 'God's Own Country' that's been used for more than 100 years by New Zealanders to describe their homeland. When we arrived, I immediately fell in love with New Zealand and its people, so we decided to stay, even though there have been tough immigration hurdles for highly qualified professionals from overseas. For me it's really exciting to observe the differences in education between the continents and it’s a great advantage for our patients to be able to receive additional healing methods from outside the New Zealand box too.

Health Heroes NZ Phone: 021 0835 8867 Email: info@healthheroesnz.com Web: https://healthheroesnz.com Partner Clinics: Happipuncture 512a East Coast Road, Windsor Park, Auckland 0630 Peace and Performance Osteopathy Unit M/86 Bush Road, Albany, Auckland 0632

CM: Can you tell us a little more about your areas of expertise?

YG: We are all highly qualified massage therapists, naturopaths, and nutrition and health coaches. We work holistically and causally, not symptomatically, considering both body and mind. For this reason, we have developed a holistic concept in which, depending on the patient's needs, the respective specialties are applied in combination; we call this our “Fusion Health Treatment”. Neck pain, for example,

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SPRING SEASON FEATURE: ISLAND INTERIORS

Island Interiors opens in Devonport We love supporting new businesses in the area and are delighted to welcome Island Interiors to the Shore. Channel Mag's Liz Cannon chats to owner and principal designer, Susannah Matheson about the superior service Island Interiors offers their clients.

Island Interiors are really excited to open a beautiful new showroom space at 67 Victoria Road, in the heart of Devonport village. We are a full service interior design business who can help you with any area in your home. A professional team made up of fully qualified interior designers, production managers and showroom assistants, we will help you at every step of the way to update your space.

We love transforming homes and want your home to feel unique to you, your family and your style.

We offer a free measure and quote to all our window treatment clients.

We are happy to visit you at your home with a wide range of samples to give you the best advice for your window coverings; it could be drapes, including sheers or fully thermal lined drapes, blinds including venetian blinds, roller blinds and fabric roman blinds, as well as wooden shutters.

We work directly with New Zealand based suppliers and manufactures and provide the best advice for your home and budget. We offer a wide range of fabrics in every style and colour to fit with your vision, or we can work with you to enhance what you already have. As most of our manufacturing happens right here in Auckland we are able to turn your order around quickly and have your window treatments installed when you need them.

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We also offer a full interior design service.

This service is bespoke to you and your requirements. It could be just one area that you need help with, or new furniture, decor, rugs or even a full revision of your floor plan and layout. We work closely with amazing kitchen and cabinetry manufacturers plus a large range of suppliers for kitchens, bench tops, splash backs, hardware and more.

For all our interior design projects, we offer an end to end service including recommending or managing trades people on your behalf.

We can help transform all kitchens and bathrooms from small to large, and can provide detailed advice about where it is best to spend and where to save. Together, we can create the kitchen or bathroom of your dreams.

If you have a vision, we can make it happen!

From our new Devonport showroom we are able to offer our services throughout the North Shore and Auckland wide.

Please call us on 021 343 299 or visit our website at islandinteriors.co.nz

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FEATURE INTERVIEW: KERRY CHAMBERLAIN

Kerry Chamberlain with brussel sprouts, leeks, potatoes and braod beans in their rows.

Community gardening @ Ngataringa Community Gardens, Devonport “Gardening refreshes and energises you,” says Kerry Chamberlain, chair of Ngataringa Organic Gardens in Devonport.

And “you produce stuff from your garden”.

As housing intensification increases, and more of us live in apartments, fewer of us have a substantial space to indulge any inclination to develop a garden. Kerry is among those who, having moved into an apartment with only a balcony, sought out an alternative. And with spring’s arrival reminding us that there’s nothing quite like getting our hands dirty – and harvesting the results –there will others like Kerry who find the solution in a community garden.

Yet Channel Magazine’s research reveals as few as four community gardens on the North Shore: two in Devonport, one in Beach Haven and the most recently developed in Forrest Hill (featured in Channel’s October 2020 and August 2022 issues).

Ngataringa Organic Gardens originated as a garden run by Framework Trust to support people with mental health and intellectual disability issues. The history of the gardens is not well recorded, but some years ago Framework Trust moved on, and a group of locals took over the already established plots. More recently, Kerry and a committee of six have revitalised the organisation of the gardens, built several new plots and been able to include more locals in their passion for growing.

Ngataringa Organic Gardens (NOG) now boasts “60 plots of varying sizes around the garden, and roughly 70 people involved as plot custodians, with an extended number of people involved as family members of plot custodians (maybe another 20 or so),” says Kerry.

There’s no formal structure (some other community gardens are set up as incorporated societies) but, says Kerry, “We operate quite formally, with a committee, bank account, AGMs with Chair and Treasurer reports, plus operating rules for plot custodians“. Again, unlike some community gardens, NOG has managed to cover operating costs for the last few years without membership fees, relying on internal fundraising activities such as the sale of eggs from the communal chicken

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run, and the sale of seedlings and rhubarb – but fees have “been a topic of discussion amongst the committee”.

NOG’s members come from all walks of life, and a wide age range.

The oldest gardener is over 100. He tends his plot with assistance from his family. Others share plots to share the workload and rewards.

Fewer than half, contrary to many expectations, are retired, and many juggle time at their plot with work and busy family commitments.

More recently, Kerry and a committee of six have revitalised the organisation of the gardens, built several new plots and been able to include more locals in their passion for growing.

Gardens are similarly diverse, as a guided tour with Kerry demonstrates. Gardening styles vary from permaculture to almost no culture at all – it has to be said that some plots are overgrown, their caretakers at least temporarily distracted by other commitments, Covid, or other personal or family challenges. With a waiting list for plots, Kerry keeps in touch with members who may have lost interest or are no longer able to tend their plot, and works to offer prospective members a space as soon as one is available.

A couple of gardens are full of lupins or mustard, ready to dig in ahead of spring planting. Others have plants and seedlings marching in straight rows; still others are an equally productive jumble of plants self-seeded or planted randomly in whatever free space is available. One member doesn’t believe in using water so plants only in winter; others grow only in summer, when their plots have more sun and growth is faster. Most gardeners have their own compost bins adjacent to their plot.

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Kerry says when he started he was told there were just two types of gardens and gardeners at Ngataringa: people who plant everything everywhere, and people who plant in rows. He is among the latter, reflective of the way he has moved very quickly from volunteer waiting for a plot, to committee chair systematising what it seems had previously been a very informal arrangement of gardeners. “I like order and equity,” he says. “I like all people to be treated the same.”

Kerry is a highly regarded and widely published academic. He is Professor Emeritus of Social and Health Psychology in the School of Psychology at Massey University Auckland; and Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. His Twitter profile describes him as “Critical social scientist, researcher, writer, editor, mentor, and Kiwi” with research interests in “health in everyday life, disadvantage, media, medications, [and] food”.

When he moved to Devonport nearly five years ago, he was about to retire – a factor that led the previous chair to hand over the reins.

That retirement has morphed into semi-retirement, and he continues to work as a researcher.

Kerry and a fellow committee member, both elected largely as a result of asking too many questions at an AGM, started taking minutes, instituted an induction process, and developed a small booklet that outlines the gardens’ ethos and expected behaviours – rules, perhaps, but more a way of relating to your plot and to others around you. They also discovered there was no record of who tended which plots. Solution: take an aerial drone image of the gardens, number each plot and attach a name to each. Kerry now uses this to ensure correct allocation of plots to new members, though admits, with great chagrin, to once misallocating a plot and having to remedy the situation.

As chair, Kerry makes a point of meeting all prospective members at the gardens. He shows them the plot they may get (not all plots are equal; some are larger than others, and some are densely shaded by trees from the adjacent Council reserve), and the facilities for communal use: kitchen, toilets, tool shed with large tools, hot house for potting seeds and seedlings, and the piles of mulch and grass clippings near the entrance, supplied to the gardens by contractors who leave them for gardeners to use when they need.

Completely volunteer-run, different aspects of the gardens’ upkeep is taken on by individual gardeners (who Kerry calls plot custodians to emphasise the fact that the gardens are on Council land, and a communal activity, and not the preserve of any individual, despite the specific allocation of plots). They take on looking after keeping

A well-ordered garden with an abundance of brassica.

specific parts of the gardens weed-free, cleaning the kitchen, keeping the hot house tidy, looking after communal plots… – and even caring for the resident chickens, whose eggs are sold to members for .50c each to cover the expense of the chicken feed.

Like most community gardens, NOG is about growing things – mostly vegetables for personal consumption, though there are also communal plots of rhubarb and asparagus as well as number of fruit trees. All members are also encouraged to grow flowers, to encourage bees for pollination. (Beehives on-site are owned and managed by a beekeeper.)

And like most community gardens, Ngataringa is about much more than gardening. It’s a social and community enterprise. Workingbees are concluded with a shared lunch, and pre-Covid other social functions made use of the impressive pizza oven near the centre of the gardens. Kerry hopes that they’ll be able to resume more such activities as the worst of Covid recedes, and he has dreams of running workshops, initially for members, but expanding to open them to the wider community of which he sees the garden as an integral part.

Much more than “producing stuff”, Kerry says, his involvement in NOG has resulted in his becoming part of the Devonport community, to which he was new when he first approached the gardens, and getting to know a lot of people. “It’s a social place, and it’s like that for most people.”

To volunteer or join Ngataringa Organic Gardens, leave a message for Kerry Chamberlain in the book at the gardens (just ask any of the gardeners; there’s likely to be someone there between 10am and 2pm most days) or leave your details at the neighbouring recycling centre.

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KITCHENS BY DESIGN

Entertainer’s Delight If you were given complete freedom to design the perfect kitchen for your dream holiday home, what would it look like?

Well, whatever is on your wish list, the chances are they are all in this beautiful example by Kitchens By Design.

Full outdoor kitchen-BBQ? Tick; Bar leaner to hang out at with your mates? Tick; Enough entertaining space and storage to cater for multiple families? Tick; Great connection to the interiors and the outdoors? Tick. Bombproof materials? Tick. Stylish design?

Tick.

Our clients, Bonnie and Gavin, asked for all of the above and more. Designed by our in-house designer, Jane Fergusson, a Platinum Designer of the NKBA, this kitchen is located in a modern home on the Pauanui Waterways.

The clever design incorporates two kitchens side by side. Floorto-ceiling glass sliding doors divide the two workspaces but, when opened up, provide an extended kitchen space that combines both areas into one large entertainer's delight.

The inside kitchen is for Bonnie to prepare meals; the adjacent outdoor kitchen is for Gavin to cook his BBQ feasts, and their

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young brood can access the pantry and small appliance garage without interfering with the prep, cooking, or cleaning areas.

Oak veneer cabinetry gives the indoor kitchen a sense of luxury, texture and warmth, whilst the Dekton Lunar benchtop delivers a practical, durable surface and keeps the palette light.

Dekton Bromo was used for the fronts for the overhead cupboards, which are continued to the outside kitchen for connectivity – and durability.

The sculptural raised leaner in beautiful Arabescato Orobico Grigio marble delivers the wow factor. This stunning feature compliments the kitchen tones and adds that 'special' element to the kitchen for friends and family to gather around whilst entertaining. LED lighting under the leaner and adjacent areas provides a softness at night and illuminates the entertainment area.

If you're looking for a new kitchen, pop into Kitchens By Design's showroom, located at 3 Byron Ave in Takapuna, or call one of its designers on (09) 379 3084. For inspiration, take a look at some fabulous projects at www.kitchensbydesign.co.nz

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HEALTH AND FITNESS WITH CLAIRE BELLINGHAM, LES MILLS TAKAPUNA

By Claire Bellingham, Personal Trainer and Nutritionist

Moving into Daylight Savings

Claire Bellingham.

The last Sunday in September is the much anticipated start of daylight savings. We give up an hour of sleep for an hour of daylight, but as the year goes on we get progressively more daylight anyway.

Depending on where you are in the country there’s 5 to 7 hours of difference in total daylight hours between June and December.

As we move through springtime, most people find it progressively easier to exercise. More evening daylight gives more opportunities to exercise outside after work. The lost hour of daylight in the morning is soon compensated for by the growing amount of total daylight. As the weather warms up it also becomes easier to consider morning exercise.

More daylight means more vitamin D and this affects a variety of different areas of physical and mental health – bone density, immunity, disease prevention, mood and appetite. So the good news is that the end of September puts us on the trajectory to better times. But the bad news is that there’s a bit of a time lag.

The move to daylight savings can throw out your circadian rhythm, the 24 hour internal clock that’s running in your brain’s hypothalamus. This clock is very reliant on light for cues. A sudden change, even just an hour, can disrupt healthy hormone production, particularly when combined with the sleep deprivation associated with moving into daylight savings.

Many people experience challenges to mood, appetite and metabolic rate following the shift. It’s common to feel tired, demotivated and prone to overeating. In addition to this, many people are coming up towards the change of clocks already a bit unsettled in sleep as they recover from the tail end of Covid symptoms. It’s very common to suffer insomnia, brain fog and fatigue.

Fortunately a good exercise regime can assist on all fronts. It helps regulate your confused clock by supporting the appropriate release of the hormones needed for settled sleep. You need a balance of melatonin (sleep hormone) and cortisol (stress hormone). Melatonin needs to peak at night for you to wind down and cortisol needs to peak in the morning for you to perk up. Exercise not only promotes more restful sleep, it also helps bring your internal clock back to equilibrium.

Exercise also helps with the mental grogginess associated with the shift to daylight savings. It stimulates: Human Growth Hormone (HGH) which encourages the regeneration of brain cells. It also promotes the production of the four happy hormones that impact how you feel – endorphins (the euphoria hormones), serotonin (the security hormones), dopamine (the motivation hormones) and oxytocin (the bonding hormones).

If you’ve been a bit sedentary over the winter months then it’s a good idea to start easing back into exercise before the daylight savings transition occurs. As with all transitions, the best type of exercise to help you is the one you enjoy most. Just get your blood circulating, you can worry about the correct balance of strength/cardio/flexibility once you’re settled into the summer time-zone. If you’ve had Covid anytime in the last couple of months it’s particularly important to go gently with intensity to avoid the risk of Long Covid. Resuming appropriate exercise is important for regaining muscle strength and cardiovascular capacity, and for resilience in case you get Covid again.

Your body is designed to move about during the day and sleep soundly at night. Appropriate exercise gives you physical and mental resilience. You’ll need this for the daylight savings transition but it’s useful for all areas of life.

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FEATURE INTERVIEW: MARILYN GLOVER, QSM

When we decided to have a focus on retirement living in this issue we decided to combine this with a feature interview. An interview with Shore local Marilyn Glover who has served her community for most of her life, was awarded with a QSM in 2019 for her service to the community and education, and just happens to be enjoying life in one of the Shore’s many retirement villages. For Channel Mag publisher Aidan Bennett interviewing Marilyn Glover also has a personal touch. He and wife Michelle now enjoy the central Takapuna home that Marilyn and her late husband Lew developed to a very high standard 25 years ago.

Always doing things for others

Talking retirement and service with North Shore community champion Marilyn Glover

By Aidan Bennett As the intro to this featured suggests, The day I went to visit Marilyn Glover there is a personal connection between at her third floor Northbridge Retirement myself and Marilyn Glover QSM. Every Village apartment it was teeming down. That time I think about how much I love living didn’t stop her greeting me at 10.15am; as she in our Takapuna home, I think of Marilyn. said she would at gate two, despite being in Marilyn and Lew did a major renovation of recovery from a knee replacement operation the home in the '90s, and did it to such a and getting around with the use of a walker. high standard that it remains very modern Marilyn moved into Northbridge around and sturdy today. As I have discovered three years ago following the passing of her over the 12 years since we purchased the husband Lew. She says the move is one of the home, doing things well is what Marilyn best things she has done and she doesn’t have Glover is all about. Most of her life her one regret. focus has been on doing these things “It’s a very friendly place to live and from my Marilyn Glover during her 77th birthday celebration for others. She is indeed a community lounge I can see Rangitoto,” said Marilyn as we organised by friends and family in 2021. champion. entered the spacious two-bedroom apartment.

“One day my husband Lew came home and said he wanted to Although on the day I visited you could hardly see over the other side buy and renovate a house on the corner of Gibbons Road in central of Akoranga Drive the weather was so bad – but I’ll take her word for Takapuna,” explained Marilyn when we discussed the house. “He it! “There is a wide range of activities I can join in here which keeps me added, ‘Don’t worry we can do a lot to it’ which raised alarm bells with busy.” me. It was nothing like the house today when we bought it. Thanks to In true Marilyn Glover fashion one of the activities that keeps her an amazing architect and fantastic builder it was transformed into a busy is one she started herself. A knitting group (of about 15 residents) lovely home. One recollection I have is Lew one day being in a line of who meet and initially knitted a wide range of resources for Wilson cars and next to him was a van advertising pebble finishes for homes.

School and Wairau Valley Special School. More recently the group Lew managed to flag him down and he followed him back to the have been knitting beanies for the oncology ward at Auckland City house and told us what he could do. He subsequently made a wet mix Hospital. Marilyn is on the Residents Association Committee at of concrete, added pebbles and threw it at the house with a tool like a Northbridge and is also a ‘shelver’ at the village library, a library she coal shovel!” says is fantastic for residents.

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Marilyn Glover at home at Northbridge.

“We also have a wonderful café that has very good meals and is a great meeting place for company. It is open seven days a week for breakfast, lunch and dinner.”

Marilyn Glover was born in Hamilton, the family moved north when she was two, and she has lived in Takapuna for 67 of her 78 years.

She was the middle child of three and has a sister with an intellectual disability.

Marilyn’s mother was very involved in IHC, was on the Hauraki School committee and the first woman to serve on the Belmont Intermediate School committee. Marilyn was a foundation pupil of both schools.

“I moved to Te Aroha when I married Lew, and then we came back to Takapuna in 1977,” explained Marilyn. "Lew and I have two sons – Aaron who has just turned 50, and Miles who is two years younger. I have two awesome daughters-in-law and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.”

It was clearly the example set by Marilyn’s mother that set her

on a path of community service and service to the special needs education sector. Marilyn received her Queen’s Service Medal (QSM) for services to the community and education in 2019. The explanation for her receiving the award said: ‘Marilyn Glover has held a number of leadership roles within the Takapuna Rotary Club, including President and Secretary. She has served on the Boards and Committees of Takapuna Kindergarten, Hauraki Primary School, Belmont Intermediate School, and Takapuna Grammar. As Chairperson of the Wilson School Board of Trustees, she led the fundraising and construction of the new playground for Wilson School, which specialises in educating young people with physical disabilities.

She has also volunteered with Adults in Motion, Age Concern, and Auckland North Community and Development. Mrs Glover is Treasurer of the Friends of Takapuna Library.'

Marilyn Glover is also a Life Member of North Shore Community and Social Services, which was the forerunner to Auckland North Community and Development (ANCAD).

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Marilyn explained her community focus to me. “I grew up believing that the things I enjoyed in the community had been made possible by people before me – therefore it was my responsibility to work for the community to provide things that my children and future generations could enjoy. My parents were great role models, particularly my mother. She encouraged me to always do things for other people and I loved it. I love giving people my time.”

Marilyn says she became involved with a number of organisations because of what their focus was – disability, education, reading and generally supporting people that she could relate to. She joined the Plunket committee in Te Aroha even before she had kids of her own!

Wilson School has played a big part in her life of community service, as was detailed when she received the QSM. Marilyn was the chair of the school for 17 years, and despite retiring from that role some years ago still takes an interest. The involvement with the school came via her position as the Co-ordinator of the Auckland School Trustees Association. Marilyn has been a a Rotarian for 26 years, has been secretary a few times and has also served as president. It was while she was president that Takapuna Rotary became involved in the funding of the school's new playground.

The Glovers have a disabled grandson which led Marilyn – along with her daughter-in-law, to get involved in the early establishment of Adults In Motion (AIM) in Warkworth. Marilyn was on the committee for many years. AIM provides an individualised day programme for young adults with intellectual and physical disabilities from the age of 16 years upward.

So with almost 70 years living on the Shore, what does Marilyn Glover love about it?

“Its casualness – being so close to everything but having the freedom to move about relatively easily.

And what can we do better on the Shore?

“Ensure it is easily accessible, especially for those with a disability.

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Our population is also ageing; we all need to be mindful of that when planning buildings, carrying out roadworks, kerb cuts and where designated parking for people with disabilities is placed.”

What is Marilyn’s advice for those thinking about choosing a retirement village lifestyle?

“Think about it well before you decide to choose one. Put your Marilyn Glover, enjoying her retirement name down sooner village lifestyle. rather than later. If you leave it too late it may well transpire you cannot get a place in the village where you want to live. I also suggest you choose one that has ongoing care.”

Marilyn Glover is certainly one special person the Shore community can be thankful for. She says she is definitely slowing down, but as I was leaving she told me she had recently agreed to be on the board of Project Employ (a wonderful organisation training young people with disabilities for work) that has just opened their first training café (Flourish) in Takapuna! She says she is as busy as she can be but is mindful of letting go and therefore allowing younger people in the community to step up. But if she feels she can still make a valuable contribution then she will, as she believes that life experience counts for a lot.

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NICK KEARNEY, DAVENPORTS LAW

Nick Kearney (LLB, LLM, Dip Pol) leads the Property Law team at Davenports Law. Nick specialises in residential and commercial property, general commercial work and contributory mortgage investments. He works across a broad range of clients, including real estate agents.

Nick’s focus is on getting the deal done for his clients, and ensuring complex legal matters are explained in simple terms.

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.

There are statutory obligations on village operators to provide prospective owners with a disclosure statement setting out the rights and obligations of owners.

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.

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.

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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, or reinstatement of, the unit (but not fair wear and tear). 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 can continue until a new owner moves in. This often 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.

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, Special Counsel, Davenports Law

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RETIREMENT LIVING AT NORTHBRIDGE

Northbridge Retirement Village

Making retirement easy, affordable, and very comfortable Northbridge is an iconic North Shore The onsite Café 45 is open 8.30am to 3pm, village that was established in 1976. Set then from 5.45pm for dinner seven days a on 16 acres of park-like gardens opposite week. There is plenty of space to socialise; AUT on Akoranga Drive, it is owned and a resident's lounge, private function rooms, administered by a not-for-profit charitable library, snooker room, movie theatre and trust offering a real point of difference for arts room, and a bowling and croquet green residents. with its own recreation pavilion. To keep fit The trust operates under a clear set of there is a gym and a swimming pool with spa, Shanan Halbert MP, Elena Olsen Northbridge founding principles and guidelines. A big and there is plenty of space in the gardens Sales Consultant, Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall and plus for the Northbridge community is for residents to have their own allotment Geet Sharma, Northbridge General Manager. that the money stays with the trust for the gardens. Northbridge also has a hair benefit of the trust. The third stage of the Northbridge’s apartment salon, GP clinic, podiatrist and physiotherapist. Regular activities at redevelopment has just been completed, comprising 48 spacious Northbridge include a games night, housie, table tennis, yoga, Tai Chi, two- and three-bedroom apartments with basement car parking. aqua exercise, painting, card making, line dancing, singing, and card The Kowhai Pavilion near the new apartments is a wonderful space games including bridge, 500 and poker. for activities in the village as well as special functions for friends In August, Northbridge welcomed Hon. Dr Ayesha Verrall Minister and family. The new state-of-the-art buildings have many leading for Covid-19 Response and Seniors, and Shanan Halbert, MP for environmental features, including rain water collection for use in Northcote. They addressed a gathering of Northbridge residents the village’s grey water system and an extensive solar panel network followed by a Q&A session, then viewed the recently completed new contributing power to the buildings. apartment building.

Northbridge has a range of modern one-, two- and three-bedroom To learn more about Northbridge, visit the website apartments which are for independent residents who are able to look www.northbridge.co.nz where there are videos of apartments and after themselves, all fully refurbished and modernised internally and full details of what they have to offer, including details of apartments available for purchase. There is also a care facility comprising Rest available for purchase.

Home, Memory Care Centre, and Continuing Care Hospital.

Northbridge Retirement Village, Northbridge offers an extensive range of recreational facilities 45 Akoranga Drive, Northcote. and activities which provide an important social hub available to be Email: admin@northbridge.co.nz or telephone 09 488 3080 used by residents for a wide choice of organised and casual activities.

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Q&A: REAL ESTATE PEOPLE

The real estate market is one that is subject to movement and change depending on what is going on with the economy and the world in general. The local real estate market remains strong with the North Shore being New Zealand’s most desirable place to live. In this issue we talked to people in several different sectors of the local housing market about what is happening in their world and what they love about the Shore.

Simply NZ's best place to live Talking real estate and lifestyle on the North Shore

Andrew Dorreen – Precision Real Estate

Andrew Dorreen from Precision Real Estate lives in Takapuna with his wife Sarah and two school aged children, Ruby and Jack. He specialises in high-end residential property from Milford to Takapuna and has recently showed his commitment to the area by opening a brand-new office in Killarney Street. 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. He holds the highest ever recorded sales in both Milford beachfront and lakefront, Takapuna beachfront and lakefront as well as Campbells Bay Beach, Campbells Bay clifftop and Stanley Point. Channel Magazine talks to Andrew about his new office and what is happening in the local market.

Channel Mag: You recently opened a new office in Killarney Street. Tell readers about that and why you’ve made the commitment to Takapuna?

Andrew Dorreen: I specialise in high-end residential property between Milford and Takapuna and 2 Killarney Street is in the centre of the “Golden

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Andrew Dorreen out front of his new Killarney Street Takapuna office.

Mile” away from any traffic congestion, meaning it is easy for my clients to get to with the added bonus of plenty of parking. At any one time, I am less than five minutes from any of my vendors' properties, which makes life much easier. The office is situated across the road from the beach and within walking distance to all the cafes and restaurants in the area. Being only 10km from the CBD, our buyers from the other side looking to move to the “good side” are only a short drive away. As soon as the opportunity to renovate the space came along, I didn’t hesitate.

CM: What sort of experience can clients expect at the new office?

AD: We have an executive but relaxed architectural space with polished concrete floors, good size boardroom plus a causal lounge/ conversation setting. Depending on the style of the meeting and the demographic of the clientele we can adjust to suit – this is very important for making people feel more comfortable. Parking in Takapuna continues to be an ongoing issue. I have parking for up to five cars and the ability for people to pull up and leave safely at all times which was a major factor in my decision to invest in the location.

CM: What is your assessment of the current climate and market conditions when it comes to buying and selling in our local area?

AD: The short version to a complex question is that prices have cooled over the last six months from the peak late last year around 10% as a round number – less in some cases. Volumes of listings are up substantially, so buyers have more selection of high-quality welllocated homes compared to the same period last year. Surprisingly, I am doing similar numbers of sales to last year but on four to five times the numbers of listings, meaning the duration or time on the market is rising for our clients (and in turn my workload is higher).

There have been a few levers being pulled from the central

government that have slowed the residential market and these are well documented, but one and the largest The new Andrew Dorre factors is interest en Precision office is an executive but relaxed architectural space. rates. The cost of upgrading or simply renewing fixed mortgages has doubled over the last few years. This causes people to pause and be more selective with their purchasing decisions. The period of transition (prices flattening) causes people to want to wait for “the bottom of the market”. I do not think prices will ease much further if at all from here, so in my opinion, the transition in the market has now occurred. We may, however, see flat values for a period until such time as we get lower interest rates, more immigration and restored consumer confidence.

My clientele generally will make purchasing decisions for long haul reasons. I encourage purchasers to be less focused on trying to “buy well” –instead, focus on buying well located homes that suit their family’s needs and for them take a long term view on value – history will say they will always increase over time.

CM: What’s your focus over the next six months now that the new office is open?

AD: Our main focus is, and will always be, obtaining great results for our vendors and giving them great service and that will never change. However, now that we have the new space we are expecting and encouraging more clients both past and future to drop in and discuss their plans with me in confidence and comfort. I am out and about 50% of the time showing houses and meeting clients at their residences but in general, it’s just great to have a new light-filled space

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that gets you in a positive mood and helps support staff to get them wanting to come into work.

Confidentiality is a large consideration. Having a space offering complete privacy for my clients is a great bonus I know my clients value.

Visit Andrew at his new Andrew Dorreen Precision Real Estate office, 2 Killarney Street, Takapuna.

Megan Lockwood

– Willis Bond/Takapuna Central Apartments Megan Lockwood is a Shore local and Senior Development Manager at Willis Bond, the company developing the muchanticipated Takapuna Central Apartments in the heart of Takapuna. Megan’s working alongside a talented team of experts – including Architectus and contractor LT McGuinness, to deliver the project. Now living in Northcote Point (and having grown up on the Shore), she’s very excited to be involved in this project after enjoying the beautiful sights and beaches surrounding Takapuna. Channel Mag asked Megan about the development, why Willis Bond had the confidence to invest in Takapuna and what we can expect from the development.

Channel Mag: Takapuna Central Apartments looks like it’s going to be a special place to live Megan?

Megan Lockwood: We’re really excited to launch Takapuna Central Apartments to market in 2023 within a landmark building comprising of 109 residences. This residential offering forms stage one of a five stage masterplan that will also see a careful curation of new office, retail and hospitality spaces across the remaining four stages. If I

Megan Lockwood and her young son Billy.

were to liken this to any other project we’ve done before, it would be our work in Wynyard Quarter with Eke Panuku. At Wynyard Quarter we regenerated what once was a derelict, contaminated site into one of New Zealand’s most sustainable award-winning residential precincts. In partnering with Eke Panuku here in Takapuna, we’re able to build on this established relationship and all the great work they’ve already got underway in the area including the Waiwharariki Anzac Square which will be a key feature within our Takapuna Central development.

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CM: Why does Willis Bond have the confidence to invest in Takapuna?

ML: Takapuna has so much to offer with its natural environment being connected to green spaces, parks, beaches and the lake. For us, it just makes sense that we build on this with a master-planned community worthy of its location. This is a huge undertaking and one we want to get right which is why we’ve engaged the best in the business including Cheshire Architects who are leading the masterplan and Architectus who are the architects for Takapuna Central Apartments. Our trusted construction partner, LT McGuinness has also been involved from the outset too. We have longstanding relationships with everyone involved in this project which is so important for a project of this scale – it ensures everyone is on the same page and working towards a common purpose.

CM: What can readers and locals expect from the development?

ML: For our Takapuna Central Apartments project, you can expect timeless coastal luxury paired with considered amenities both within the building and the surrounding areas.

Takapuna has so much to offer with its natural environment being connected to greenspaces, parks, beaches and the lake.

CM: What do you love about the Shore as a place to work and live?

ML: You can’t beat the Shore on a summer’s day. We recently opened our information centre at 34 Hurstmere Road, and since then, I’ve really appreciated all the wonderful spaces there are to eat lunch, catch up with friends or do some impulse shopping. It’s nice being within a stone’s throw of everything you need.

CM: Any local spots that you think are best kept secrets and why?

ML: My ultimate Takapuna experience is taking part in the Tuesday evening summer swim series followed by a burger on the grass overlooking the beach. It doesn’t get any better!

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Ian Cunliffe

– Harcourts Cooper & Co, Devonport Ian Cunliffe is well known in the Devonport area. He’s a real estate sales specialist in Devonport, Bayswater, Belmont, Narrow Neck and Cheltenham. Along with this, he’s heavily involved in local community groups including being a president of Rotary three times over, sitting on the board of the Devonport Business Association and he also runs the Bike Devonport Facebook group. Originally . liffe Ian Cun from the UK, his move to real estate followed a career in the legal profession and educational services. He says he transferred many of these skills over to succeed in residential property. Channel Magazine talks to Ian about the local market and his passion for his community.

Channel Mag: Why do you enjoy your role as a real estate agent on the Shore?

Ian Cunliffe: The Shore is a wonderful place to live and work. There is so much to enjoy in this area filled with amenities. People who buy homes here tend to be those who want to be part of an active and vibrant community. In my role as a real estate sales specialist, I meet people from many diverse backgrounds and often form lasting friendships with them through community involvement.

CM: Tell us about your previous career as a property lawyer and how those skills have worked well in your role as an agent?

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IC: I worked as a property lawyer in both London and Brighton. The conveyancing systems in the UK are not too dissimilar to those in New Zealand and so my experience as a property lawyer gave me an in-depth understanding of land law and contracts. In the legal profession, there was a lot of negotiation on contracts etc. and these skills have proved invaluable to me in my 17 years of real estate work on the Shore.

CM: You’re involved in the Bike Devonport Facebook group as well being heavily involved in local Rotary, the Devonport Business Association and the Devonport Peninsula Trust. What makes you passionate about those things and how can locals get involved?

IC: I have been president of Devonport Rotary Club three times and also sit on the Board of the Devonport Business Association and Devonport Peninsula Trust. Bike Devonport has about 700 members on its Facebook page and it is a celebration of health and wellbeing through cycling and general all-round fitness. Bike holidays are also advertised on that site. I have found that the local communities on the Shore are superb contributors to the many facilities and amenities that we have come to enjoy; people of all ages are able to get involved and make a difference. A sense of community and wellbeing is essential in the fast-paced world in which we live.

CM: What do you love about the Shore as a place to work and live?

IC: The Shore is a fabulous place to call home, wonderful beaches, lots of green spaces, great shops and boutique restaurants/cafés, and generally a good climate weather wise! The Auckland CBD is easily accessible and there are myriad things to do here.

I have found that the local communities on the Shore are superb contributors to the many facilities and amenities that we have come to enjoy…

CM: Any local spots that you think are best kept secrets and why?

IC: Take your pick! We are so spoiled for things to do. Personally, I like to keep fit with a leisurely bike ride around the Devonport, Narrow Neck waterfront then onto Stanley Point and the track around the Navy Sports fields. A choice of any one of about 10 superb local cafes for coffee, a chat with locals and maybe an indulgent date scone is a good reward!

Libby Greenwood

– Bayleys Residential, Takapuna Libby Greenwood is a highly successful residential sales specialist at Bayleys Takapuna, having recently relocated to the Shore from Remuera. After an earlier career owning a lunch bar (Libby’s Kitchen) and working in radio sales, she decided to challenge herself pursue a career in real estate after her children left school. Libby started at Bayleys Remuera six years ago selling residential and lifestyle properties. Now living back in the area, she has joined Bayleys Takapuna and is looking forward to assisting locals to achieve their real estate goals.

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returning to the Shore and her successful new career in real estate – she’s already joined the Bayleys $50m dollar club!

Channel Magazine: What was growing up in Takapuna like?

Libby Greenwood: Looking back on my childhood, it was very uncomplicated, wholesome and at the same time very privileged – enjoying the beach and the local community. From five years old, I attended St Anne’s School for Girls on Takapuna Beach until it closed. I loved biking to Milford Tennis Club, enjoyed Brownies and Girl Guides in the hall on Sylvan Park Avenue, and was even a St John's Ambulance cadet in the local hall in Killarney Street.

My teenage years were spent sailing and sunbathing on Takapuna Beach. I was very fortunate.

CM: You recently relocated back to the Shore. What do you love about living and doing business on the Shore?

LG: Our children were born in Takapuna and we frequently returned to walk on the beach so we have all really enjoyed returning home to Milford. On a daily basis, I love bumping into familiar faces from my childhood and people in the community I got to know through Libby's Kitchen, at Pilates Unlimited and cafés etc.

There is something about being back and belonging here that feels so right.

CM: How have you seen the real estate market change throughout your career and specifically in relation to the Shore as an area?

LG: Absolutely. Real estate tends to go in seven-year cycles. When I started, it was a slower market that gathered momentum until it took off unexpectedly through the covid years. I love the changing market as it challenges me to continually grow and improve.

CM: What tips do you have for local buyers and sellers right now, given the changing market and post pandemic economic conditions?

LG: Good property sells in every market as there are always active buyers out there looking and vendors who want to sell for a variety of reasons. The low levels of listings and the unknown has certainly slowed the market during June and July which this year has gone from FOMO (fear of missing out) to FOOP (fear of overpaying) so it is incredibly important to engage an agent who will work hard for you and is committed to your selling process. Negotiations are likely as motivated vendors accept the current market and buyers understand they are unable to 'steal' a good property. With robust marketing and a strategic plan, which is essential to expose your property to all the passive and active buyers in the market, optimum results can be achieved.

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TAKAPUNA NORTH COMMUNITY NEWS: WITH GRACE SAMUELSON

By Grace Samuelson, Takapuna North Trust Manager

Kia ora! I am very excited to have the opportunity to work with Takapuna North Community Trust. My background is marketing and event management, and I really look forward to helping the Trust grow and support the well-being of our community through events and programmes to build a thriving community who love where they live.

Pupuke Birdsong Project: Pupuke Birdsong Project offers free events, workshops, and volunteering opportunities for all the local community. We work in parks, schools, homes and businesses. This past year the creation of Ecological Halo projects to protect and enhance our natural environment have focused our attention on the areas that need protecting. Ecological halos are a buffer zone surrounding an area of significant ecological value, within which stakeholders work together in pest animals and pest plants control to restore the natural environment and protect local biodiversity.

These have been established in the following locations: • Castor Bay Ecological Halo: Focus on Rahopara Pa, Braemar Reserve, and Campbells Bay Primary School • Milford Ecological Halo: The halo focuses on the Wairau Creek and Estuary • Pupukemoana Ecological Halo: The Halo surrounds Lake Pupuke, the parks and residential property • Smiths Bush East Ecological Halo: Wraps around the ecologically significant Smiths Bush East • Patuone Ecological Halo: Protection of the upper Shoal Bay estuary beside Patuone Reserve • We partner with residents' associations and park care groups in all the Ecological Halo areas

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Make a difference to nature in your own backyard by joining the predator free movement, just ask us for our free traps and bait stations.

In the past year over 80 traps or bait stations were lent out to residents, which makes our backyards a safer place for nature. Join a local park care group to restore your local park. We have groups in Castor Bay, Forrest Hill, Sunnynook, Milford and Takapuna. In the past year volunteers have planted more than 2,500 natives over 11 planting days.

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LOCAL BUSINESS

Mark Jago and Bronwen Newcombe.

Bronwen Newcombe takes senior leadership role with local motor vehicle group Mark Jago, CEO of Northern Bays Motors – which incorporates North Shore Toyota, North Western Toyota and Lexus of North Shore – has recently announced the appointment of company lawyer and operational expert Bronwen Newcombe to the position of Chief Operating Officer (COO) and General Counsel.

Bronwen adds considerable experience to the leadership team at the longstanding North Shore headquartered business, that represents the iconic Toyota and Lexus brands in the North and Western areas of Auckland.

For the past 12 years Bronwen has been with North Shorebased law firm Davenports Law, latterly as a director of the firm.

She has been instrumental in providing strategic and operational advice concerning governance, leadership, legal and regulatory compliance, recruitment, HR, and people and culture for marketleading organisations, including Northern Bays Motors. Before practising law, Bronwen graduated with an LLB and BA from Victoria University of Wellington.

Bronwen will report directly to CEO Mark Jago and will be part of the Executive and Senior Leadership Team with a focus on facilitating operational excellence through oversight of the company’s internal activities, engaging high-performing teams by leading, coaching, and ensuring continual improvement. Bronwen will work directly with Mark Jago and Matt Oxnam as the Executive, as well as the rest of the Senior Leaders to help set the strategic direction of the organisation.

“We are very excited to welcome Bron to our team,” says Mark Jago. “She brings a huge range of real-world experience and knowledge with her many years of assisting and growing businesses.”

“It also helps greatly that Bron knows our business very very well.

For over a decade she has been our company lawyer. She is also a

current member of the Auckland District Law Society Employment Law Committee and regularly presents at seminars and conferences about strategic, business, employment, HR, and leadership issues.

She is also part of our community, having served as a board member of Business North Harbour, an organisation that provides support for local businesses.”

Bronwen adds considerable experience to the leadership team at the longstanding North Shore headquartered business, that represents the iconic Toyota and Lexus brands in the North and Western areas of Auckland.

“I am thrilled to be joining such a fantastic team and company that has a proven track record and prides itself on exceptional customer service,” says Bronwen Newcombe. “I am a firm believer in the power of teamwork and look forward to joining forces with the team to further develop and extend their already extensive product and service suite.”

Bronwen Newcombe joined the Northern Bays Motors group in late August and will be based at their Link Drive headquarters.

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COUNCIL TALK: RICHARD HILLS

DEVONPORT NEWS

With Councillor Richard Hills, North Shore representative on Auckland Council.

Don’t forget to vote for the future of the Shore

Devonport Community News for this month with Nigel Bioletti, Trust Manager, Devonport Peninsula Trust Richard Hills.

From the Peninsula

Nigel Bioletti.

Our community really pulled together these last three years. It has been incredibly tough but to see what our community did to support each other is something I will never forget. Thank you all for all you did for each other over this time.

It is a privilege to be a councillor for the North Shore, thank you for your support of me and for working with us to get positive outcomes for our community. I feel lucky to meet so many great people through this role and I look forward to working with more of you in the future.

This term I was appointed Chair of the Environment and Climate Change Committee and led important plans such as the Auckland Water Strategy to improve water quality, ensure sustainable use of water and prepare for future droughts. I also led Te Tāruke ā Tāwhiri – Auckland’s Climate Plan which received unanimous support from councillors and local boards. This puts us on a path to reduce our emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Through the plan we secured funding for initiatives such as; electric buses, new EV and low emission ferries, shoreline adaptation plans for our entire coast and approved budget for the largest ever urban tree planting plan and 200ha of native forest in our regional parks and more.

Water quality has been a big priority for me again, Chris Darby and I heard loud and clear from you that cleaning up our beaches is important, so we have dramatically increased spending in these areas.

This term we ensured the Takapuna wastewater pipeline and manhole upgrades were completed, pipe replacements are underway in Shakespeare Road, Alma Road pump station upgrade and significant stormwater upgrades happening at Kitchener Road this is nearly $13m of investment into our water infrastructure in Milford which will make a significant difference to water quality and capacity.

The extensive work done prior allowed us to remove permanent no swim warnings at the Wairau Estuary/Milford Beach, which had been in place since the early 2000’s.

Our $14m stormwater and street upgrade at Hurstmere Road is complete and the business association reports significant uptick in retail and hospitality spending, recent data shows retail spending increased twice as much as other similar centres. Many events and markets have taken place in the new space, with Takapuna Winter Lights being the largest, 35,000 locals celebrated in the space when it was closed at night.

Our $100m Northcote and Takapuna town centre upgrades are much-needed and are a big investment for the Shore. It will make those areas more people-focused, will create new public spaces, community facilities, homes and jobs. The Lake Road upgrade is currently in detailed design, and we look forward to that kicking off soon too.

There has been a lot done this term under tough conditions but I hope you can support and vote for me again at the end of the month so I can continue to be your voice for the Shore on Council and get things done for our community, with our community.

Make sure you vote and encourage others to vote too, you can take your envelopes to the library, any Countdown Supermarket or send it back through the post before October 8th.

Art Trail Project In my July Channel column, I included images of the Dan Tippet mural installed on the wall of the Devonport Senior Citizens Hall (Harmony Hall). Here is the second wonderful mural, completed by Ross Liew and Rita Vovna, on the eastern wall of the Devonport Community House.

The project was completed with the support of the Local Activation Fund at Auckland Un-limited. It is also exciting that lights may be able to be installed, to light this mural during darkness. The two murals have certainly kindled further interest in Street Art, and it is to be hoped that the Trust, in collaboration with Devonport Arts Festival, can attract funding in order to add more murals to the Trail.

Feel free to continue to contact me about local issues on Richard.hills@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

If you wish to make contact with me, please email nigelbioletti@devonportpeninsulatrust.nz

Devonport Peninsula Trust Programmes Youth Forum – run by Trust staff member Hana Catterall, involves secondary students from those schools attended by peninsula young people. The group meets alternately at The Rose Centre and The Barracks. It is a vibrant group, with a sense of commitment to their youth community on the peninsula.

Inter-generational Dialogue – run by wonderful volunteers, members of the Devonport community. Meets regularly and informally to simply bounce ideas around, with younger and older members of the group sharing their perspectives, and importantly, sharing a ginger slice!

Senior Form – run by me, meets monthly, at Devonport Library.

This is a great group of people, with a wide range of career, interest, and community involvement history. The group is looking forward to its afternoon with North Shore MP, Simon Watts, on September 2nd.

Community Network – this is a long-running quarterly opportunity for any members of the community to meet together, to hear from guest speakers, to hear updates from Local Board members, and to share in discussions about local issues, opportunities and developments.

Community Partnerships – this is a monthly opportunity for the leaders of Peninsula organisations to share their work, their upcoming events, but more importantly, to plan collaboratively for regular events. At our recent meeting, the group started initial planning for Matariki 2023, building on the success of this year’s celebration.

Meanwhile, our new Community Events Manager Abby Jones, is finalising the details of the 2023 Bayswater Halloween Trail, happening Friday 28th October, 5pm to 7pm. Look out for details soon, if you and your children are into 'tricking and treating'.

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NZ – DEVONPORT

Local Life

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 Kate, Justine and Tom.

Kate “My first client was Luna, a miniature schnauzer. She looked so cute in the photos. I like photographing animals because of their expressions. Sometimes it’s almost like they’re posing for me.

“I used to use my Mum’s phone to take photos but then I saved up for my first camera from the money I made from selling handmade cards when I was four. I’ve always liked creating stuff and saving up for things.

“I’m hoping to do a pet photography course - that’s my goal.

I can spend hours playing with people’s pets to get the right shot – it helps that I have treats.

“I mainly photograph dogs but I sometimes do cats. I’ve even done cows. I’m in the photography club at Carmel College and I like taking part in creative competitions so I can learn new things."

– Kate, 11-year-old student and pet photographer @misspetfolio, with her Golden Retriever Ruby.

Justine

“The Swap Shop idea came from my time living in London, where I used to attend similar events at pubs and community halls. I loved the concept and how it engaged the community in such a fun and worthwhile way. It’s really a win-win for everyone.

“Our first event back in April was an amazing success. We had over 750 items donated before the event and more swapping happening right the way through. Over 220 people came through the doors of the Community House on the day, and most of them left with piles of pre-loved gems.

“Volunteers are so important for events like this, and we couldn’t have done it without them. They were so busy swapping, sorting and hanging clothes - they were the best group.”

– Justine Kinsella, Devonport Community House marketing and activations manager. The next Swap Shop will be held in November.

Tom

Originally designed and hand-painted by Tom Smith in 1985, the sign at the entrance to Devonport has been smashed up, vandalised, covered in graffiti, used for target practice and borne the brunt of impact by cars and trucks over the years. It was even stolen once.

Tom has had to re-touch whole areas and replace panels too many times to count. The sign has now been digitised so Tom can fix any part that may get damaged.

A graduate of Manchester Art College Design School, Tom worked as an art and creative director in advertising in London before moving his family to Devonport in the '70s.

Now, he says, he “couldn’t live anywhere else”.

Although the sign structure itself is older than 1985, Tom’s work was ready in time to coincide with the run-up to the Devonport Borough Council’s centenary in 1986. The profile of the Devonport Peninsula inside the lettering is based on a photo taken in the mid-19th century when there were only a handful of houses in Devonport and Mt Cambria was still intact.

– Tom Smith, Designer If you have a story you would like to share or know of a local hero, contact Kate Dobbin & Lauren Lulu Taylor at hello@localifenz.com Follow Local Life NZ on Facebook and Instagram – @LocalLifeNZ

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DEVONPORT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: NEWS

DEVONPORT COMMUNITY HOUSE: NEWS

By Katherine Downs Devonport Business Improvement District Manager

Highlights from Devonport

By Justine Kinsella, Marketing & Activations Manager

Katherine Downs.

On July 30th, we held a marketday style Super Sale Saturday with many of our shops offering bargains aplenty outside their stores. An idea kicked off by our fashion retailers, the atmosphere was fabulous, and lots of happy shoppers had a great time snapping up deals at their favourite Devonport boutique retailers.

AT hosted drop-in sessions at Devonport Library, giving locals the opportunity to learn more about their proposed Devonport Town Centre safety improvements which include raised pedestrian crossings, a cycle lane, repositioning bus stops and a new configuration for the intersection at Victoria Rd and Calliope Rd. Public consultation has now closed, and we look forward to news of the outcome of this process.

It’s wonderful to have Ann O’Sullivan back operating a café in Devonport. Many people will remember her as a previous owner of Corelli’s Café & Bar. She has returned with a new venture in the centre of Devonport Village. At Minnies, Ann is serving up her delicious signature recipes and selling her much-loved handcrafted ceramic ware again. I hear the cheese scones are to die for!

We’re super excited to be holding the Devonport Fashion On the Wharf on Thursday 20th October, for the third time running. This year this signature event is presented by Harcourts Cooper & Co in support of the Breast Cancer Cure charity. Tickets are available at iTicket but be quick. Only 300 are available, and they sell out!

The fabulous glamourous vintage cabaret trio The Madeleines are our star performers, and our models are ready to strut their stuff!

It promises to be another unforgettable night of bubbles, canapes and entertainment in the transformed ferry terminal. You won't recognise it!

Congratulations must go to Rob Vickery for his innovative use of his prime window space. Rob recently moved the offices of his venture capital company, Hillfarrance, into a street front shop in Devonport Village. Not being a retail business, his storefront window space was unused, so he offered it up free for start-ups to display their product lines. The first lucky recipient is Rachael Neale of Solve Group, who snapped up the opportunity to showcase her Compostaway range of products. Can’t wait to see who Rob’s next window display tenant will be! Such a great idea.

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Justine Kinsella.

We've got lots happening at the House so make sure you check out our website for the full term timetable and to keep updated with what events are coming up www.devonportcomhouse.co.nz Meet the candidates We're excited to host a Meet The Candidates event on the 8th September from 6:00pm (doors open 5:30pm). So come along and meet the candidates standing for the Auckland Council North Shore Ward and the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board. There will be an opportunity for questions from the floor towards the end of the night, so have a think about what you might like to hear about and pop your question in the question box in the foyer as you come in on the night. See you there!

Little Beat First Aid This course on the 22nd September will cover child and infant CPR and choking plus information on other common incidents in children under five years. This is perfect for parentsto-be, parents of little ones or even grandparents! Email events@devonportcomhouse. co.nz for ticket info.

Babysitting workshop It's back! Due to popular demand, we're running our next Babysitting workshop on the 29th October at the House in partnership with Plunket. For tickets - https:// babysittingworkshop.eventbrite. co.nz Devonport Community House, Clarence Street, Devonport (09) 445 3068 www.devonportcomhouse.co.nz info@devonportcomhouse.co.nz

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EDUCATION: KRISTIN SCHOOL

Significant action in Year 7 Nelson Mandela once said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” At Kristin our Year 7 students begin their Middle School journey exploring a topic all about changing things for the better. It’s called “Being Significant”.

The key outcome of this unit is to investigate an issue that the class feels passionate about and consider ways to address it, contributing small but meaningful actions. They develop their sense of agency, self worth, advocacy and compassion. This year, our Year 7s uncovered myriad ways they could ‘be significant’....

Supporting the good work of our local charities is a great place to start. 7ACL selected Littlemore, a charity that helps provide warm baby gear to families who need a helping hand. The class collected a huge range of special items, including clothing, soft toys and games.

Karishma Sharma-Barrow said, “It was an experience that brought our class closer together and it was a lot of fun and a great way to start off 2022.” 7JTR took on the issue of wellbeing, creating positive messaging all over the school and supporting Youthline by raising over $1100 through a sponsored run. 7HGO supported Kids Can and collected sports equipment to donate to children who don’t have access to the gear they need, helping reduce inequities.

7HHN selected Starship as their cause, using their artistic talents to create their own ‘colouring and activity packs’ for the children at Starship. It was a wonderful collaboration. Teacher Heidi Horne reflects on the project: “While doing our service project we learned to plan, manage ourselves, work as a team, think of others etc. All very important life lessons. But most importantly we learned that even though our action may seem small to the children at Starship we will be brightening their day and that is huge."

Being ‘innovative’ with the actions you take will make an action more impactful. Members of 7JST spent their energies creating ‘care packages’ for families supported by the Salvation Army. But our students didn’t just ‘collect cans’, they generated their own meal bags, with messages of encouragement and helpful recipes. They branched out, creating ‘school packs’ and ‘pet packs’, with donated items that they had carefully considered. The Glenfield Salvation Army team was overwhelmed at the level of care and thought that had gone into these donations. Yr 7 student Diana Zhang said, “It felt great to help others and we hope that others will continue this in the future”.

Finally, we didn't forget the environment, with 7KHI dedicating their time to the issue of food waste and supporting the charity Fair Food.

Using their powers of persuasion, they set up an exceptionally well signed compost bin, where even the most ‘disinterested’ kid couldn’t help but learn about this important waste issue.

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“Being Significant” was a wonderful learning experience for everyone involved. It is part of our “Service As Action” curriculum, central to the Middle Years programme in IB. It empowered our students, allowing them to see the impact when they show compassion, work collaboratively, plan and problem solve. Nelson Mandela also said “It is in your hands, to make a better world for all who live in it.” If our future is in the hands of our youth, at Kristin we are growing hands of care and compassion.

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From Kristin to the Globe In a plot twist only Shakespeare himself could have dreamt up, we had FOUR talented Kristin alumni and students at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, performing scenes from Julius Caesar as part of SGCNZ's Young Shakespeare Company.

2020 graduates Alex Gordon and Cam Scott were due to travel to London in July 2020, but were prevented from doing so by the start of the Covid 19 pandemic.

During the time that they have patiently waited for travel to be possible, current Year 13 students Isla Sangl and Rebecca Weatherly were selected to join the 2022 SGCNZ Young Shakespeare Company, thereby ensuring an outstanding Kristin Rebecca Weatherly, Cam Scott Isla Sangl and Alex Gordon. presence in London this July – an extraordinary accomplishment!

On the evening of Friday 22nd July, after the evening performance Seeing the Kristin students of The Tempest had finished, both performance groups took to the Globe stage to present their scenes. Early in the Julius Caesar perform with such confidence performance Cam Scott played Antony, before taking the role of and skill on such a special Caesar himself for the pivotal assassination scene. Alex Gordon played Caesar at the start of the performance, and one of the stage was a huge privilege. conspirators (Cinna), later in the performance. Rebecca played Decious Brutus who persuades Caesar to attend the Senate on the Shakespeare as the culmination of a journey that was three years in Ides of March, and Isla played Antony in the aftermath of Caesar’s the making. assassination.

It’s incredible to see that a love of performance, the ability to work Seeing the Kristin students perform with such confidence and skill hard and the patience to wait out a global pandemic has taken these on such a special stage was a huge privilege. It was a very special Kristin students all the way from Albany to the Globe stage in London. experience to see these students perform in the spiritual home of The sky is the limit after such an amazing accomplishment.

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Students, parents, grandparents, teachers, board members, staff - past and present are all part of the rich tapestry of our school.

Together, we are Kristin.

50 years of progress, with vision, integrity and love.

FOR MORE INFORMATION & TO REGISTER, VISIT WWW.KRISTIN.SCHOOL.NZ/50TH

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EDUCATION: RANGITOTO COLLEGE

Winning in the water: Success swells for Rangitoto College water sports Whether it is something in the water or on the water, this year has been very successful for water sport athletes from Rangitoto College. Teams and athletes in sailing, swimming, and water polo have achieved remarkable results in 2022.

Sebastian Menzies.

Sailing

Rangitoto College Year 13 students Sebastian Menzies and Caleb Armit have achieved outstanding success on the world sailing stage recently.

At the Junior World Championships in Lake Como, Italy, Sebastian Menzies and his sailing partner George Lee Rush took first place in the 49erFX fleet. On top of this, they also competed in other prestigious events in Europe—winning the 29er at Kiel Week, the 29er European

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Championships, and bronze in the 29er at the Youth Sailing World Championships in The Hague.

In the Laser Youth World Championships sailed at the Houston Yacht Club on the Gulf of Mexico, Caleb Armit secured a bronze medal. Caleb won five of his 11 races, as well as three other top three results which contributed to his bronze.

Swimming

Congratulations goes to the Rangitoto College Swim team who successfully defended the Top Co-Ed School title for the third year in a row at the New Zealand Secondary School Championships in July. The Girls Relay team also secured Top Relay team for the second year in a row. This team also took home six gold, 11 silver and eight bronze individual medals, along with six golds, one silver and two bronze in the relay events.

Continuing these successes, three of our swimmers embarked on their international campaign to represent New Zealand in the Junior Pan Pacific Swimming championships this month. Summer Osborne, Melissa Cowen, and Charlie Twose took to the water at the K. Mark Takai Veterans Memorial Aquatic Centre in Hawaii in August.

Water polo

At the National Secondary Schools tournament for water polo, both our Premier Girls and Boys team achieved gold! A truly remarkable and outstanding achievement for Rangitoto College with our girls’ team first defeating the long-time unbeaten Diocesan, and our boys’ team defeating Hamilton Boys. Double national champions in an afternoon will remain deeply embedded into the sporting history at Rangitoto College. A special congratulations goes to Rangitoto players, Darcy Spark and Luke Blackburn, who were named MVPs of the tournament.

More recently, Premier Girls players Darcy Spark, Ava Cooper,

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Gabrielle Doyle, and Samantha Bentley were selected to represent New Zealand at the Youth World Water Polo Championships in Serbia. Premier Boys players Caiden Brown, Kama Morton, Boston Frost, and Oli Pritchard were also selected to represent New Zealand at the Youth World Championships in Serbia. Current Rangitoto College coach Nemo Radjen is also involved with the team as a coach. Congratulations to these players and coach on this fantastic achievement.

We look forward to the continuing successes of all of these fine sportspeople.

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A celebration of Chinese and Korean culture at Rangitoto College Over two thrilling nights, Rangitoto College celebrated the diversity of our community through extravaganzas of Chinese and Korean culture. These annual events showcase the talents of our students through traditional and modern aspects of the cultures of these two countries.

This year, Korean Night was packed with a variety of captivating performances including haka, doll dance, fan dance, taekwondo, nanta, mask dance, traditional dance, rap, K-pop dance, and bands.

Chinese culture was brought to life on Chinese Night through traditional acts such as lion dance, sleeve dance, fan dance, guzheng, and diabolo. There were also the more modern hip hop and singing acts. The vibrant food market that was set up allowed the audience to fully immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the night, including foods from local vendors like bubble tea, pork buns, and candy art.

Rangitoto College is proud to showcase the hard work and dedication of all the students involved in these two nights to put on brilliant displays of culture and pride.

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EDUCATION: WESTLAKE GIRLS

Kaitiaki safeguard the land Our Environmental Prefects have launched a new initiative this year, working alongside Auckland Council. Essentially, Westlake Girls has ‘adopted’ Smith’s Bush, next to Netball North Harbour and Onewa Domain.

Under the leadership of Akoranga House Environmental Prefect Anja Filip, more than 60 students signed up to become kaitiaki (guardians) of the land under Auckland Council’s “Adopt a Park” scheme. The first trip to Smith’s Bush was held in June, where students met with park ranger Anna. There they learnt about the history, biodiversity and threats posed to the land.

After some classroom sessions, the group headed back to Smith’s Bush for animal pest monitoring. Alongside a park ranger, the students laid tracking tunnels and chew cards to identify some of the predators living in the bush. “We were able to use our classroom learnings about introduced animal predators in Aotearoa New Zealand and put these into action,” says Anja. “Along with learning about the role of monitoring tools, we also gained skills in how to set these up ourselves, identify animal tracks and animal bites, and the ways to maintain and reset tunnels and cards.”

Most recently the Westlake kaitiaki planted native trees in Smith’s Bush. A total of 60 trees were planted, which will help to restore and regenerate the area for future generations.

To keep updated with the group’s progress, check out their Instagram page:@westlakekaitiaki

The best in the Country!

You might remember in the last edition of Channel we featured talented orator Isabella Drummond. Well, we are back this edition with more good news. Isabella has won the New Zealand Lions Young Speechmaker Competition final in Palmerston North.

Isabella competed in the final after winning the Auckland District competition earlier this year. At the final, participants presented a five to six-minute prepared speech, as well as a two-minute impromptu speech. Isabella’s prepared speech was titled ‘Let me be a young person today; I'll be a leader tomorrow’. “I decided to stick with the topic of my prepared speech from regionals, as it was something I was still passionate about,” she says.

The topic for the impromptu speech was ‘Should New Zealand host the Commonwealth Games?’ “I said we should as it would be a great opportunity for Aotearoa to gain representation and global attention,” says Isabella.

Many thanks to Hillcrest Lions Club for sponsoring Isabella. Her win not only gives her the national title, but also a cash prize of $2,500.

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Isabella Drummond.

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Making the most of student opportunities One of the great things about being part of Westlake Girls is the myriad extra-curricular opportunities available to students.

There are more than 60 clubs on offer, along with a range of dance troupes, music ensembles and sporting teams in every code you can think of.

Term 3 has started strongly, with our combined Westlake instrumental ensembles and their directors having a fantastic week at the annual KBB Music Festival recently. At the Gala Concert they received awards including the following: • Westlake Symphony Orchestra: Gold + Best Performance of a Romantic Era Work • Westlake Chamber Orchestra: Gold + Best Performance of a Baroque Era Work • Westlake Concert Band: Gold + Best Performance of a Work written specifically for Concert Band • Westlake Big Band: Silver • Taharoto Orchestra: Bronze • Westlake Girls Symphonic Band: Bronze Back on site at Westlake, our Prefects held the first-ever Westlake Variety Show, showcasing 16 performances by students and staff. The Event Centre was buzzing and the night was enjoyed by performers and audience alike.

There were prizes - with third place going to Shivani Arivuchelvan (Bollywood dance), second place to our Jazz Troupe (dancing to Poker Face), and first place going to Nikka Caraig singing 'Someone New'. Thanks to our supporters Escape HQ, Shore City and Platypus.

Hot on the heels of our Variety Show was the annual Westlake Dance Showcase. It was the first time it had been held in three years (thanks to Covid) but was well worth the wait. Westlake Variety Show photos by Alison Fan.

Reaching new heights As we go to print, there are some fantastic sporting achievements worthy of note. Our netballers beat Rangitoto in the final to become the 2022 Year 9 Harbour Netball Champions. Furthermore, of the nine Year 9 grades at Harbour Netball, Westlake Girls won gold medals in five grades, a silver and a bronze.

Two more of our talented athletes have recently been selected to represent New Zealand. Congratulations to Lucy Cadness-Aspinall who has been selected for the New Zealand Secondary Schools Squash Team. And congratulations also to Emma-Kaye Schroeder who has been selected for the New Zealand Under 15 National Basketball Team heading to Guam in November to compete in the FIBA Oceania Champs.

Our Premier Basketball team (of which Emma-Kaye is a member) is currently leading the Auckland Secondary School Premier League and heads into the New Zealand Secondary Schools Zone 1 Qualifying Tournament at the beginning of September as #1 seeds. Watch this space.

Emma-Kaye Schroder.

Lucy Cadness-Aspinall.

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EDUCATION: WESTLAKE BOYS

A night in New York On Saturday 30th of July, the combined Westlake Year 13 Ball took place. Over 950 excited students, dressed in their finest, descended on the Cordis Hotel. Headmaster David Ferguson and Head Boy Michael Wassell greeted guests on the red carpet before they entered the ‘Night in New York’ themed ballroom, complete with navy and silver balloons, fairy lights, and even a Statue of Liberty.

It was a wonderful night, enjoyed by all. The dance floor was always busy, and students enjoyed several food stations and a chocolate fountain. The lighting and special effects were fantastic, and thousands of photos were taken in front of the three themed backdrops and out on the dance floor.

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Towards the end of the night prizes were awarded, amongst them were: • King of NYC – Badyn Dixon • Best Dressed Man of Manhattan – Tyler Dixon • Cutest Couple – Alexander Wilson and Audrey Guo A huge thank you to Bob and his team from Monstavision and Jeremy Hill Photography. We would also like to thank Oplinx for their generous donation for the prizes and to Benefitz which prints our tickets. Finally, well done to the Ball Committee for their efforts in ensuring a successful night.

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ker Guest Speaker, Westla Rhys Mathewson.

Laughs abound at annual Mother Son Breakfast Our annual Mother Son breakfast, held each year to celebrate our Westlake mums and caregivers, was held this year on Thursday 29th July. Five hundred-plus attendees enjoyed a delicious breakfast, while sharing in an energetic and fun morning of laughter, thanks to our guest speaker – comedian, tv presenter and Westlaker Rhys Mathewson – a fabulous way to start the day!

The event was well supported by local businesses, and we would like to take the opportunity to thank them for their support in assisting with this annual fundraising event: Goju, Mitre 10 – Glenfield, Douglas Pharmaceuticals, Smith and Partner Lawyers, Muse Hair Salon and Edible Blooms.

We are now looking forward to the annual Father Son breakfast, which is happening on Thursday 8th September with guest speaker Westlaker Bruce Pilbrow, the CEO of the Spirit of Adventure Trust.

Westlake Boys 1st XV had a great time hosting the Black Ferns pre-test camp.

Black Ferns take on Westlake Boys 1st XV August was Rugby Central with Westlake Boys High School hosting the Black Ferns for their pre-test camp. The New Zealand women’s rugby team are playing Australia in Christchurch on Saturday 20th August.

To host this team was a privilege and with the coaching pedigree of Sir Graham Henry, Wayne Smith, Mike Cron and Whitney Hansen (daughter of Steve Hansen) sharing their expertise, it was an added bonus. The team showed why they are amongst the favourites for the World Cup, displaying their top rugby skills, along with being friendly and approachable.

The 1st XV were challenged in their team run with the Black Ferns and at times exhibited why they sit on top of the North Harbour competition. The Year 10 Rugby Academy got a special treat having a photograph with a great All Black in Dan Carter.

It was a great experience for Westlake Boys and for the Black Ferns and we will look forward to their up-coming test matches and World Cup campaign.

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EDUCATION: TAKAPUNA GRAMMAR

Formula 1’s Angela Cullen speaks at Achiever’s Breakfast On the 15th August we were honoured to have alumna Angela Cullen (nee McNaughton) speaking at our Achiever's Breakfast in Te Poho hall.

Angela (class of 1992) is a former Deputy Head Girl and later a NZ hockey representative player. Since 2015 she has worked for Hintsa Performance and is attached to the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula 1 Team. She is now best known as the physiotherapist and confidante to seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton.

Angela spoke about her fond memories of TGS including her many sporting interests, her experiences as a prefect leader and the wonderful friendships she made with both staff and friends who she still keeps in touch with now, especially when back home from France where she now resides with her family.

The school acknowledged her achievements in the international sporting field by adding her to our Distinguished Alumni Honours Board for Services to Elite Sport.

Maggie Squire returns home from the Commonwealth Games To kick off the awards ceremony part of the proceedings the school welcomed Year 12 Maggie Squire onstage only hours back in the country from the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The school congratulated her on representing NZ on her biggest stage yet with a bouquet of flowers and of course her Special Achievement Certificate.

Congratulations to Alumni Imogen Ayris & Jacko Gill The school would like to congratulate TGS Alumni Imogen Ayris & Jacko Gill on their outstanding performances at the 2022 Commonwealth Games by winning a Bronze Medal in the Pole Vault (Imogen) and a Silver Medal in the Shot Put (Jacko).

An outstanding achievement after a decade of hard work both in and out of school out on the athletic tracks of Auckland, New Zealand and the world. We look forward to hearing all about their experiences in the coming months when they return home from further competitions.

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Rosmini College football promotion Rosmini College’s 1st Xl Football team had a hard fought 1-1 draw at Western Springs College on Tuesday 16th August. The team headed into the game with 12 wins from 12 games and this draw against Western Springs College was enough to secure the Auckland Secondary Schools A1 League title, and promotion to the Premier League with a game to spare.

Rosmini College Old Boy, Callum Simmonds, who coached the team, says, “The pivotal moments in the season were a 5-3 win at home in a fiery encounter with Western Springs, and home and away wins (4-3 and 4-1) against otherwise unbeaten Rangitoto. The team has been led by consistently strong performances from defenders Dylan Sahinkaya, Zach Gabriel and Liam Playfair. Team captain Curtis Hughes and midfielder James Marshall have provided the match winning moments when really needed. Striker Brendan Acfield has top scored with 21 goals, including 6 in a 10-1 win at Kings College.”

Callum continues, “The success this year has been a culmination of three years of hard work. All 23 players in the squad have contributed in some way throughout the year. Khris Hughes' tireless work as team manager has been invaluable, as has the behind the scenes efforts of school staff, Jon Dale and Bojan Stanojevic.”

Ms Bellis and the cast.

Rosmini College 1st XI.

The team also successfully navigated through a difficult qualification process to earn a wildcard entry to the New Zealand Secondary Schools Premier National Tournament in Napier, with elimination playoff wins against Selwyn College (2-1) and Whangarei Boys (5-0).

Oscar Nichols, Matthew Lay and Rupert Carter.

Rosmini College school production: The Hound of the Baskervilles Rosmini College’ Year 13 Drama students performed their production of the Sherlock Holmes classic, The Hound of the Baskervilles, at The Pumphouse from Tuesday 9th August to Thursday 11th August.

Rosmini’s Head of Drama and Year 13 Dean, Ms Karen Bellis says, “The students have worked tirelessly in rehearsal for the last term. Regular after-school rehearsals were needed to ensure the performance was of a high standard. The cast and crew did not disappoint the audience. The actors were outstanding in their portrayal of the characters, presenting “one of the best performances Rosmini has produced,” according to several members of the audience."

Congratulations to Ms Bellis, the Director and Producer, Rosmini Old Boy Cameron Smith, the Assistant Director, and to the cast and production crew for an outstanding performance.

Ethan D'Souza and Matthew Lay.

Matthew Lay and Rupert Carter.

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Preparing for a sustainable world AGE School takes a truly future-focused approach to learning by helping prepare students to engage in the world around them. We develop skills that will enable students to understand the people and environment they will be interacting with. AGE School is for any child (or the parents of any child) who want to equip themselves for the future by expressing themselves in the present.

These traits are critical for the world our children

The Journey of an AGE Learner

will live in, where innovation and an awareness of the environment go hand in hand. Our learning model provides a framework to help students build their knowledge and make an impact on the world around them. AGE School learners spend around a third of their time outside of the classroom, exploring, understanding and contributing to our communities.

Sea Week Each year in Term 1 our AGE wonders spend a dedicated week down at Takapuna beach for Sea Week. The annual tradition of SeaWeek sees our learners diving (literally!) into our coastal marine systems and discovering our local marine environment, exploring our impact on the

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ecosystem, participating in a community beach clean up, and creatively sharing the message with

This year, we launched AGE Outdoors to focus on

our community to protect our taonga.

student’s outdoor wellness by engaging with the natural environment at our 80-acre farm on the

Plant Boxes

Mahurangi River. The purpose of AGE Outdoors is to

Out in our AGE garden spaces you will find plant

provide an alternative learning opportunity based

boxes and seedling beds that our students are

in nature, where individuals can learn more about

working hard to maintain. Our wonders have begun

the world around them and focus on purposeful

planting some edibles in the plant boxes such as

projects in sustainability. Learners are encouraged

mesclun, tomatoes, and herbs. The children set

to develop new skills and knowledge, take risks,

up the planters with coconut fibre and soil and

and put their ideas into action to have a positive

then chose which seeds they wanted to plant. The

impact on the environment. This purposeful day

children are now eagerly watching as we water

in nature will see learners working on real-world,

them and “turn on the sun” each day to see if the

hands-on projects in sustainability, seed to forest

seeds have begun to sprout. Their goal is to grow

regeneration, a seed to table programme to feed

various vegetables and plants to help support our

our community, and riparian planting to regenerate

nourishing plant based lunches each week.

our waterways.

Plant Based Lunches Our Nourish to Flourish plant-based meals cause a flurry of great excitement at lunchtimes. Our families know that 3-days a week our wonders will enjoy fresh ‘home cooked’ meals made in our fully equipped kitchen with sustainable ingredients.

Each meal is made up of completely plant based ingredients. Nachos are a great hit with some students unable to believe that it is all veggies!

Plates are more often than not licked clean with

When students complete AGE School, they’ll leave empowered to build further on their learning. They’ll feel connected to their community, conscious of the environment, and have developed fundamental skills for the world they are moving into.

students queuing up for more.

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Breakfast, leather and a taste of Italy in September!

September is a busy month for the North Harbour Club, with three charity events held through the month – a fantastic business breakfast, another after-5 innovation event and a wonderful Viva L’Italia charity dinner.

Mike Bush for Breakfast – Sept 6th The first of these events is the Business Excellence Network (BEN) Breakfast with the guest speaker being Mike Bush CNZM, Takapuna local and former New Zealand Commissioner of Police. Mike had a career of over 40 years in the New Zealand Police and finished with a role leading the operational arm of the Covid-19 all-of-government response group. Since retiring from the force he has been working in governance, leadership and risk management via his own business, Bush Consultancy.

The North Harbour Club’s BEN Breakfast series is sponsored by Westpac, Schnauer & Co Lawyers, BDO, Continental Cars BMW and Regatta Bar & Eatery. Regatta is also the fantastic venue for the breakfasts.

This breakfast event is being held on Tuesday September 6th, starting from 7am.

Tickets are just $65 plus GST per person. Visit www.northharbourclub.co.nz or email: events@northharbourclub.co.nz to order your tickets.

Mike Bush.

The Yu Mei story with Jessie Wong – Sept 22nd

Jessie Wong.

Jessie Wong, entrepreneur and founder of luxury leather goods brand Yu Mei, will be the guest speaker at the North Harbour Club’s informative evening for business and emerging leaders being held in The B:HIVE at Smales Farms on Thursday September 22nd.

This is a free event, with one free beverage on arrival, for local business people who wish to network with like-minded people who are keen on innovation and learning from like-minded entrepreneurs.

The Yu Mei brand is an extension of Jessie Wong’s desire to simplify life through functional, utilitarian design. With her impressive strategic outlook and vision for the future of regenerative leathercraft, Jessie is as dedicated to business as she is to design.

She is set on international expansion of the brand after establishing three flagship NZ stores and getting Yu Mei into 30-40 stores across Australasia. Jessie was awarded the Women of Influence Business Enterprise Award earlier this year.

This FREE after-5 business innovation event is being held from 5:30pm – 6:30pm at The B:Hive, Smales Farm, followed by networking at the Fantail & Turtle Bar. Numbers are limited so you must register. Visit www.northharbourclub.co.nz or email: events@northharbourclub.co.nz to secure your spot. All local business people are welcome.

Viva L’Italia at Regatta Bar & Eatery – Sept 28th

Regatta Bar & Eatery will be the venue for the North Harbour Club Viva L’Italia Charity Dinner being held on Wednesday September 28th. This will be a memorable culinary evening with Italy at the heart! Mixing great food from Italy with quality wines and other refreshments.

This fun-filled Italian themed night will include live entertainment, and fundraising fun, with attendees encouraged to dress up Italian-style!

Bookings are essential as this event will sell-out. Tickets are $180 per person. Visit www.northharbourclub.co.nz or email events@northharbourclub.co.nz to book your tickets or table.

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ACCOUNTANCY WITH BELLINGHAM WALLACE

Accountancy with Mike Atkinson of Bellingham Wallace.

Tips when purchasing a business Being your own boss may be an investment or career opportunity which may appeal to you. Like any opportunity, it is always good to do some homework before hitting the go button.

This homework will help save you time, heartache, and even save your house by ensuring you are making a well-informed decision.

Below are some key considerations when embarking on this journey: Complete your due diligence When completed by a competent advisor, financial and legal due diligence engagements will give you an idea of how the business currently operates, identify any internal or external risks or issues you may need to be aware of, assess the likely impact of those risks, and ideally provide you with a road map or comments on what you may expect in the future as a result of purchasing this business. Examples of the areas which will likely be looked at include existing registered securities over the assets of the business, quality of the assets, staff remuneration and whether these are aligned to market expectations, financial performance compared to prior trends, and then applying those historical indicators as an indicator of future performance. In addition, a due diligence review should also be able to comment on the cash cycle and funding requirements and/or general market comparison of the business’s performance measured against its peers.

A due diligence report will also help when applying for any funding requirements to enable a purchase to be settled, along with setting the business and banking facilities required to operate from day to day, including potential seasonality risk or foreign exchange risk.

Ultimately a due diligence report should be clear on the type of business you are acquiring, the risks associated with that business along with demonstrating how your own knowledge and expertise will help mitigate any risks and what the next chapter for the business will look like.

Prepare a business plan A business plan will help map out the journey you are about to take.

You should take an objective approach to this, thinking about what you want to achieve, and how you are going to achieve it, what resources and support you will need to achieve this, and the likely timeframes. The existing vendor is often the starting point as a great source of knowledge to tap into to help shape your initial plan.

However, remember to remain objective and mindful of what they are telling you as they are wanting to complete the transaction as much as you do. Test any messages to ensure you can implement and deliver on them. Trust your gut instinct; do your own research or to come up with your own plan B. Alongside a business plan, you will also need to complete a cash flow forecast as part of this process as it will help formulate some key performance indicators for you post-settlement. The cash flow forecast will also demonstrate that you are able to afford and fund this deal going forward. It's vital that you have a well-built threeway forecast presenting on a month-by-month basis, a profit and loss, balance sheet and statement of cashflows. It's critical that any new acquisition can be funded from future cash flows, and that as a purchaser, you are aware of the cash cycles. A buyer certainly doesn’t want to be in a position of having to go back to their funder requesting more cash after only just settling on a purchase.

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Mike Atkinson.

How much is too much?

Obtaining advice on the valuation of the business would help assist you in determining whether the asking price by the vendor is reasonable and how this value compares against similar businesses. A higher price is often still worth pursuing if there are some intellectual property, resources, or customer contracts which you value and which provide synergies for you as a buyer to unlock.

Typically, there will be a gap in expectations of what a business is worth between a seller and a buyer. To mitigate this, using an a cash up front plus an earnout provision can be used to bridge any valuation gap. The earnout provision will be payable at a future date on the basis that the ongoing business achieves one or more measures post-settlement. Examples of this may include the business reaching a certain level of sales, staff retention, and/or key customer retention.

The benefit of an earnout provision may also assist with cash flow management by providing staggered payment terms.

Provisions/warranties in the Sale and Purchase Agreement helps It is common practice to include some warranties and provisions in the Sale and Purchase Agreement as this will give a buyer a level of comfort or recourse if something pops up down the track.

Fundamentally these provisions/warranties exist to protect the buyer to ensure that as much as possible the business remains consistent under the buyer’s ownership and true to what has been presented and communicated by the vendor during due diligence. Examples include the vendor continuing to operate the business as per usual up until the settlement date, vendor guaranteeing and paying for any warranty claims on existing products, or having the vendor available post-settlement to address any questions or queries to assist with a smoother business ownership transition.

Pre-settlement planning Often, the hardest part of purchasing a business is getting everything sorted before settlement date. It would be good to sit down with your trusted advisor to create a to-do list. Tasks may include incorporating a company and registering it for all relevant tax types with the Inland Revenue Department, contacting all suppliers and setting up a trade account with them so that you can commence ordering supplies on day one, entering into any premises lease agreements, arranging for appropriate insurance cover, and creating a handover road map with the vendors. This to-do list will ensure you are taking proactive steps to ensure a less turbulent start to owning your own business.

The journey of purchasing your own business can be full of challenges. Often these challenges may seem daunting but is nothing new. This journey is often easiest travelled alongside your trusted advisor.

For more information about this process, or if you don’t have a trusted advisor, reach out to the team at Bellingham Wallace.

Visit: www.bellinghamwallace.co.nz

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LEGALLY SPEAKING: SCHNAUER & CO

Anna graduated from the University of Otago with a Bachelor of Laws and Arts at the end of 2021. She has since been admitted to the Bar and is excited to begin the next stages of her legal career in the family law team at Schnauer and Co.

EDUCATION: DAVID BOARDMAN, SENIOR SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, KRISTIN SCHOOL

Anna Graham.

Relocation – what happens when guardians disagree?

If you are separated and have children and you want to move with them outside the area you currently live in, this is called relocation.

Deciding where a child lives is a guardianship issue which means the guardians must consult and agree when making this decision.

Disputes can arise when one parent objects to the proposed relocation, often citing the significant impact on their contact with the child as reason for their objection.

Decisions such as those related to relocation must be made in accordance with the Care of Children Act 2004 (“the Act”). Particular care should be taken to ensure the welfare and best interests of the child are the first and paramount consideration, in accordance with section 4 of the Act. There are two actions that can be taken to resolve a relocation dispute. You can apply to the Family Court for a guardianship direction and for a parenting order. If you already have a parenting order, you can apply for a variation to this order.

The Court will look at the principles relating to the child’s welfare and best interests as enshrined in the Act. The kinds of principles considered include the safety of the child, continuity in arrangements etc.

The individual circumstances of the child or children affected will be at the heart of the decision. There are a great number of factors that may be considered. For example, the following factors in a proposed location that may enhance the child’s wellbeing include: • Strong network of extended family support.

• Clear plan of how the relationship with the parent left behind will be continued.

• A parent who is supportive of the children’s relationship with the parent left behind.

Whereas examples of factors which go against the proposed relocation may include: • Negative/hostile attitude to the other parent.

• Children already well settled in the status quo.

• Heavy burden of travel.

• The attitude that you will leave either way i.e. without the children.

It is important to take a child-centric approach, making decisions that are in the best interest of the children. Relocation may or may not be harmful depending on a combination of risk and protective factors. It is important to consider all these different factors when making a proposal of relocation.

It can also be helpful to ‘reality test’ what is being proposed. This involves questioning whether what is being proposed is realistic. For example, proposing that a very young child travels a long distance weekly would be unlikely to work in reality. What may be more appropriate is daily online contact and monthly visits.

A big move can be stressful and overwhelming for children, but can also present exciting opportunities. What is key, is thinking about your children and deciding what is genuinely best for them.

If you have any questions about relocation or guardianship issues generally, please do not hesitate to reach out to our family law team at Schnauer and Co.

By Anna Graham Schnauer & Co, 1 Shea Terrace, Takapuna 09 486 0177, www.schnauer.com

School sports in decline

David Boardman.

While many of us are aware of the impact that the past two years has had on schools and the academic achievement of some students, an area often overlooked is how sport and participation in sport has been affected.

School Sport New Zealand reported in 2020 that the overall number of students participating in school sport declined to 48%, the first time it had dropped below 50% in over a decade. Teacher participation had dropped to 29%.

Many students, staff and volunteers persevered though, and ensured that sport continued as best as possible during this time. While traditional team sports show a decrease in participation, these are being replaced by newer disciplines, such as skateboarding, surfing, sport climbing and snowsports. As the sports that students are exposed to in events such as the Olympics change, their interests also change. Regardless of this change, the important thing is to get students and teachers supporting sport wherever and whenever they can.

Sports help teach various skills such as leadership, patience, team working and social skills.

Sport not only enables students to build fitness and maintain their health, but also to develop skills, establish identity and provide balance to the demands of academic work. Sports help teach various skills such as leadership, patience, team working and social skills. They encourage students to drive themselves to not only improve and chase the win, but also to be humble and accepting when they lose.

Sports and the interaction between player and coaches or parents, encourage students to develop a positive mindset. This in turn boosts emotional fitness, as players enjoy the interaction with others, celebrate their successes and get a feeling of happiness, reducing stress and maintaining mental health.

Regular exercise and having a routine assists in developing focus, which supports the academic studies of students and combining this with being able to see the improvement that comes with regular training, boosts self-esteem and confidence.

Students in Auckland have access to a wide range of sports, with our easy access to the water, mountain biking trails, well supported sports centres, Snowplanet, a growing range of climbing and bouldering centres and skateparks, all of which supplement the parks where it is possible to practise touch, football and often basketball or netball.

Sports play a central role in student life at Kristin and their benefits stretch far beyond the enjoyment of competing with friends and colleagues. These benefits can be seen in the classroom and will help support and provide our students with skills needed to make the most of their abilities after they leave Kristin. I implore any student who is not currently involved in a sport to talk to their sports department or investigate what is available to them locally, find out what is available, get out there and have some fun. It’s definitely worth it.

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PEST PLANT OF THE MONTH: ENGLISH IVY

Do you have this pest plant in your backyard?

SEPTEMBER PEST PLANT OF THE MONTH: English Ivy Pest plants, such as ivy 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.

English ivy is a fast-growing, creeping vine with hairless, dark green or green/white leaves. Roots and stems can reach up to 30 metres, strangling and killing host trees, smothering the forest understory and preventing native forest regeneration. Ivy is spread by birds dispersing the seeds as well as by dumping of garden waste, as it can regrow from stems.

If you notice English ivy on your property, take action as soon as possible: • Dig out small infestations, trying to remove all parts of the root system – ivy can regrow from stem fragments that are left in the ground.

• Hand release off native trees where possible. Make a cut at the base of the stem and apply a thin film of Met Gel to both ends of the cut stem – can be purchased from most garden centres and hardware stores.

• Large vines can be left on the tree after applying Met Gel to both ends of the cut stem.

• For large infestations and ground cover, spray the leaves with 0.5g/L metsulfuron with glyphosate (15ml/L) plus 2 ml/L penetrant.

Always wear appropriate personal protection equipment and read the manufacturer’s label for guidelines and recommendations.

• Follow up in three months to reapply herbicide and ensure all regrowth has died.

• Dispose of any seeds, roots and stem fragments 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.

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• Talk to your neighbours and encourage them to take action too!

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 https://www.pfk.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 Waitematā Ecology Network (UWEN) info@upperharbourecologynetwork.org Facebook.com/ @upperwaitemataecologynetwork For advice on chemical-free alternatives, Kaipātiki Project community@kaipatiki.org.nz kaipatiki.org.nz Facebook.com/kaipatikiproject This monthly feature is a collaborative initiative between Restore Hibiscus & Bays, Pest Free Kaipātiki Restoration Society, Pupuke Birdsong Project, Restoring Takarunga Hauraki, the Upper Waitematā Ecology 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.

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BOWLS NORTH HARBOUR: NEWS

with Lindsay Knight

Purple patch for Takapuna’s outstanding women’s bowlers Capped by a sterling effort by the club’s Black Jack Selina Goddard in securing two bronze medals at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, Takapuna’s outstanding women’s bowlers have enjoyed a purple patch of success in the past few weeks.

Selina played an influential role as lead in the New Zealand fours team which gained a bronze in that discipline, then was just as effective in the pairs leading for her close friend, Queensland-based Cantabrian Katelyn Inch, to secure another bronze. This added to the national title won together two seasons ago and added to the bronze Selina won at Glasgow in 2014.

Earlier, in late July, a Takapuna four of skip Lisa Dickson, three Lauren Mills, two Robyne Walker and lead Anne Dorreen, won the national champion of champion fours title in Hastings.

And just as Selina had in winning her medals, the four Selina Goddard (left) with Katelyn Inch after receiving their bronze medal in the pairs at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. also had to overcome considerable hurdles to achieve their success.

A harsh critic might suggest that Selina’s double might have been luck to be one of those drawn for the play-off game. That meant a more deserving of celebration had the medals’ colour been gold or start at 8am so that by the time they had played two more games to silver. But that has to be balanced against the problems faced by the reach the final the Takapuna ladies were still playing at 7.30pm.

New Zealand bowlers in Birmingham.

The short gaps between each round were an added difficulty for Lisa, who is a type one diabectic and therefore needs to be careful in maintaining her sugar levels.

So it was a remarkable feat of stamina, composure and mental Selina played an influential role strength for Takapuna to prevail so impressively by winning seven as lead in the New Zealand games on the trot. The play-off game was won against Taranaki’s Paritutu 19-2, a staggering effort as this was a team which had won a fours team which gained a national title. bronze in that discipline…

Then followed wins over Hunua (Counties), Palmerston North and finally over Waikato’s Pirongia, another worthy opponent which earlier The greens were much slower than New Zealanders are used to had ousted Auckland’s Carlton-Cornwall, the defending champion. and required a large degree of readjustment. The playing standard, For all four players it was their first national title, and especially too, was much higher than it has been in even the recent past, due satisfying for Lisa and Anne, who while much-decorated at centre largely to the spectacular rise of nations like Malaysia and India. levels, had previously come tantalisingly close to national honours Though different, the obstacles confronting the Takapuna four without success. Just the year before, indeed, Anne had finished in Hastings were just as formidable. Anne and Robyne had only just runner-up in this event in another Takapuna four of Wendy Jensen, recovered from Covid and on the tournament’s second day, one which Trish Hardy and Skye Renes. thankfully they weren’t required to play having already qualified for For Takapuna board chairman and North Harbour life member post-section on the first day, Lauren was unwell.

Graham Dorreen it was another feather in his coaching cap. He And the tight schedule of games imposed by Bowls New Zealand orchestrated the four’s win in Hastings, then soon after departed for meant another major challenge on the final day. With nine qualifiers Britain and as her personal coach gave her the utmost support, albeit for post-section there had to be a play-off to decide the eighth spot as a spectator. for the quarter-finals.

Visit: www.bowlsnorthharbour.com Byes were allocated to seven of the teams and it was Takapuna’s

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SUNNYNOOK COMMUNITY CENTRE: NEWS

HARBOUR HOSPICE NEWS

By Bronwyn Bound, Sunnynook Community Centre Manager

Greetings from Sunnynook Community Centre

Bronwyn Bound.

We were thrilled to hear that Parklane Village did a food drive during August for the Community Food Pantry. I collected lots of wonderful items from the lovely staff and residents.

Thanks to Patsy Fisher for listening and spreading the word “Charity Begins at Home! There really are a lot of folk who are struggling out there. At Parklane we could have a ‘food drive’ and show them that we care! So spread the word to others and encourage them to ‘chip in’. Let’s all help to make a difference and do it with a grin!”We have had some really interesting workshops happening at the Community Centre. A public meeting was held on Thursday 4th August about ‘intensification’. From that we then ran a ‘Submission Writing’ Workshop on Monday 29th August. Thanks to everyone that was involved and allowed our Community to ‘have a voice’.

Don’t forget we have the CAB pop up Clinics on the second and fourth Thursday of the month – 1.30pm to 4.00pm – mandarin speaker available.

We also run a monthly Crimewatch Meeting at the Community Centre, this is run by our Community Constable Brent Stewart, who is just coming to terms with how busy this community is! Meetings are on the first Tuesday of the month, 7pm start.

Have you joined our Walking Group? A wonderful group of locals meet at the Centre on a Wednesday morning at 9.25am, they then walk for an hour and come back to the Centre for a cuppa and a chat. Sometimes they catch a bus to a surrounding area and have a cuppa at a local café. If you are interested in joining them please email: snook.com.cen@xtra.co.nz and we will pass your details on the Sheryl.

Please check out our website for up to date information about all of the classes that are run at the Community Centre. If you would like to put your children on the Waiting List for the Sunnynook Holiday Programme or Kennedy Park Youth Programme, please email: snook. com.cen@xtra.co.nz If you would like to go on the online mailing list to receive our Community Newsletters please email: office@sunnynookcomcentre. co.nz or click on the ‘contact us’ link on our website.

We hope you are all enjoying doing the ‘September Marathon’ throughout the month of September 2022, for more info: www.sunnynookcommunity.org.nz/marathon Kind regards Bronwyn Bound, Centre Manager, Sunnynook Community Centre 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.

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Harbour Hospice to benefit from Devonport homes tour The Homes of Devonport Tour is a popular fundraiser run by the Devonport Rotary Club in association with Bayleys Devonport – and this year, for the first time, Harbour Hospice is one of its beneficiaries.

The home owners who graciously open their homes to the public for the bi-annual tour rarely say no when asked to participate, organiser Lynda Betts reveals. “And the reason is the causes we fundraise for resonate with them. With Harbour Hospice, it’s a place that most of us have had dealings Lynda Betts with and we’ve very much appreciated what Bayleys Devonport. hospice has done for us.”

Such is the case for Devonport couple Annie O’Donnell and David McQueen, who are showing their transitional bungalow/villa, which they renovated a year after purchasing it.

Both lost their spouses to cancer in 2013. David’s family was supported by hospice in Australia and Annie’s family by Harbour Hospice. Annie says, “I was a nurse and cared for Gordon at home, but I wouldn’t have been able to do it without the Hospice nurses. They were amazing.

I had such an incredible relationship with them.

They were so supportive and would come in behind Annie and David with Annie's son Barnaby. me to allow me and my children to look after Gordon.”

Annie admits it has been “a bit of work” getting their home to “open home level presentation” for the tour. “But for hospice it’s absolutely worth it. We agreed that we really wanted to do this.”

As a real estate agent for Bayleys, Lynda has been responsible for sourcing the homes since the tour’s inception in 2013. However, she was so taken by the idea when Bayleys was first approached to sponsor it she joined the Devonport Rotary Club and has been an enthusiastic member ever since.

Rotary has long supported Harbour Hospice and when it heard that only $600,000 is still needed to be raised of its original $10 million fundraising target to complete its North Shore redevelopment project, members were unanimous in their decision to make it a beneficiary, Lynda says.

For $80 a ticket you can spend the day on November 4th making your way around 10 of Devonport’s most interesting homes. The tour map includes great cafés, and stalls are set up at the homes selling baked goods, Christmas puddings and decorations, and highly sought-after goody bags.

Homes of Devonport Tour, 4 November 2022 – to purchase tickets go to eventfinda.co.nz www.harbourhospice.org.nz

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YES DISABILITY SUPPORT CENTRE: NEWS

YOUNITE YOUTH COUNCIL: NEWS

By Genevieve Lai, journalist for Younite 2022.

By Sonia Thursby, CEO, Yes Disability

The Empowered programme

Sonia Thursby.

With winter coming to an end and spring just around the corner, the team at Yes has been on the move around Auckland and the country. The Empowered programme that Yes has been providing with the extraordinary partnership of Cam Calkoen, completed its second workshop in Queenstown.

The views and scenery were breathtaking, but it was Cam’s enthusiasm and passion during the workshop that was the highlight of the trip. ‘Bending perception and eliminating assumption’ was the theme of the workshop and the trip, wiith participants exploring places they have never been to before, exploring their fears and testing their limits. The workshop was all about looking at your own life journey and turning it into a story, with life’s ups and down’s and being able to structure your story for the listener to relate to and understand.

While some members of the I.Lead team were at the Empowered programme, some of the Yes team were at King’s College presenting the second launch of our Future Ready website to young people and adults in the South Auckland region. Future Ready is a platform for young people to use as a supporting tool during their transition from high school to their future endeavours. The team held a workshop for the participants with fun robotics and Lego activities, which was a great way for our team to engage with the young people and get their creativity flowing. The team then presented the Future Ready website, discussing in more detail what Future Ready is and how it can help individualise a plan for that all-important time of post-schooling transition. The platform is a tool to be used continuously and help ease the pressure of finding services and support that are needed to be able to make informed decisions independently. If you are wanting to check out Future Ready, you can visit the website on www. futureready.org.nz.

In our last article we discussed the Duke of Edinburgh scheme.

Yes is an accredited provider of this scheme and, having successfully completed our Adventurous Journey, our participants had their sights set on completing their sections and achieving their Bronze Awards.

With support from our team and regular catch-ups they are well on their way. The major Auckland award ceremony is in November, and we are excited to be able to hold a smaller, individualised, award ceremonies for our group to acknowledge the hard work and commitment they have displayed. This is also an opportunity for the participants to recognise how far they have come from when we started and provide them the motivation to continue in their process as they progress to the Silver Award. If you, or anyone you know, would be interested in participating in this scheme we’d love to hear from you!

Stay updated with our programmes and events through our social media and websites: https://yesdisability.org.nz/ https://www.ilead.org.nz/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ileadconferencenz Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/i.leadnz/

Younite hosting ‘Meet the Candidates’ event

Genevieve Lai.

Kia Ora everyone, Spicy September is here with Younite and we’re inviting you to come along to our Younite x Hot Ones show. It's a show with hot questions and even hotter wings for spicy talks with our special guests: local North Shore candidates. That’s right, Younite will be co-hosting, with Devonport Community House, the ‘Meet the Candidates’ event set to be held on Thursday evening (5.30-8pm) 8th September at the Devonport Community House. This is a great opportunity for you, as part of our local community, to meet and learn more about the candidates and what values they represent, all while receiving golden entertainment as North Shore local candidates burn through hot wings (in the promotion video) and any questions you fire away at them.

This is a great opportunity for you, as part of our local community, to meet and learn more about the candidates and what values they represent…

As politi-cool as Younite gets, we are also ecstatic to share our social initiatives and grants set for the upcoming months. Just as we announced in our previous column, Younite will be holding a rangatahi creatives gala later in October, with further details to be confirmed. This will be Younite’s very first live youth-oriented creatives-music event and is open to our local youth, 12-24, of the Takapuna-Devonport community. We encourage our youth to showcase their creative talents so keep a close eye out for applications!

With the same focus of young creatives, Younite has also created Rangatahi Creatives grants. These grants aim to be used as a financial backing for a creative project that a local youth individual or group wishes to create. The only requirements are that a portion of the money is spent within three months, and that the project is undertaken within, or in collaboration with people/ organisations within, the DevonportTakapuna region. There are two $700 grants for solo artists and one $1400 grant for a group project. The form to apply can be accessed through the QR code below! We encourage you to get involved with this awesome opportunity if this is right up your alley!

If you ever have any queries or would like to contact us, please email younitechair@gmail.com.

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DEVONPORT ROTARY'S HOMES OF DEVONPORT

Dining room flanked with geometric oak wall panels and bevelled sliding doors.

Main lounge featuring one of the iconic river stone chimneys and fireplace, plus multifaceted lead light windows.

Devonport Rotary's Homes of Devonport raising funds for our communities Devonport Rotary is once again hosting its hugely successful major fundraising event on Friday 4th November. Channel Mag's Liz Cannon catches up with Paul Treacher President of Devonport Rotary, and owners of one of the homes, Tennille and Kris Pedersen.

Paul Treacher, President of Devonport Rotary 2022-23 is delighted to announce their new Homes of Devonport tour.

Starting back in 2013, this is the fifth Homes of Devonport tour and will offer a widened range of properties to include an eclectic mix of Devonport's magnificent homes.

Aiming to raise in excess of $60,000, this year's chosen recipients are Harbour Hospice and Dementia Auckland, both very Paul Treacher. deserving charities that serve many North Shore community members. Money raised will also be donated to the Devonport Rotary Charitable Trust who disperse muchneeded funding to local clubs, schools, groups and those in need.

One of Devonport's iconic homes will be Tennille and just one of ten fabulous houses on the tour.

Kris Pedersen.

Owners of the property and of local business Devonport Flowers, Tennille and Kris Pedersen chat to Liz Cannon about their unique home.

Channel Magazine: Why have you decided to open your house to be one of the featured Homes of Devonport?

Tennille Pedersen: When we purchased the property, we understood that we were mere custodians of this special piece of history and that the house belonged to Devonport’s rich and long story. We felt that we had an obligation to give back and share that with anyone and everyone who was interested.

CM: What do you love about your home and its history?

TP: Our category-two listed home was commissioned in the 1920s by a financially independent and unmarried business woman who had built her own long term financial security, substantial enough to fund and build this grand architecturally-designed three level home. The largest commission the architect had ever received, it was purposely built as two separate households in order to generate an additional income source, very sensible given the Great Depression would be soon upon them. For its time, the original design incorporated a very modern,

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open-plan living approach with unconventional design aesthetics. The iconic river stone chimneys and four fireplace surrounds were hand laid by the original owner’s brother, with the stones allegedly sourced from a ship's ballast from the Firth of Thames and transported by sea to Devonport. These beautiful river stones make the house one of the most recognisable and unique homes in Devonport, even to this day, and it remains largely unchanged from how it was almost 100 years ago.

CM: What are the features you love most about your home?

TP: Where do I start?!

The unique, multifaceted windows incorporate many different shapes and lead light patterns, which allows plenty of wonderful natural light to pervade the whole house, which changes throughout the day and into the night.

These stunning windows elevate the exterior of the house with a picturesque storybook look which I love.

Inside, the staircase and landing bring in beautiful light and warmth and is one of my favourite interior design Original bronze Hermes staircase elements of the house. We light feature. have recently had the original bronze Hermes staircase light feature restored and reinstated back to its original space for the first time in decades.

The master suite is a true escape, an ultimate adult's retreat with luxury ensuite with a free standing nickel claw-foot bath looking out to views over the harbour, a lady's and gentleman’s dressing room, plenty of space for relaxing and sleeping, plus city views to die for.

That said, my favourite room has to be the dining room which is flanked with the most amazing geometric oak wall panels and bevelled sliding doors that allow the dining and living area to be either open plan, or two separate rooms. This room brings back the gilded age of fine dining and elegant dinner parties for entertaining guests.

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Free standing nickel claw-foot bath in the luxury ensuite.

Master suite luxury retreat encompassing the third floor.

CM: What has been your favourite 'new find' in your house?

TP: The 1920s commercial grade 350kg gas cooker which the previous owner added as part of the kitchen extension. It cooks better than my previous oven! I also love the modern comforts the previous owner added as part of the extensive restoration; central heating, gas fire, filtered water systems, and LED lighting to name but a few, all while being very sympathetic to the house’s origins. And for a family of six, the house is surprisingly, exceptionally practical and functional for day to day modern living.

1920’s commercial grade 350kg gas cooker.

CM: Can you tell us a little about your decorating style?

TP: Elegant, polished and bold classicism with an eclectic edge.

CM: What's your best decorating tip?

TP: Work with a reputable interior designer and renovation and maintenance contractor. We worked with Kate O’Connor from The Look Interior Design, and Dean Larritt from Maintain To Profit. They made the entire process so easy and pleasurable. I would not have been able to complete the finished look without them.

CM: What's your best budget tip?

TP: Take your budget and double it!

CM: What advice can you offer on choosing art pieces?

TP: Make sure that you love it, but also that the house will love it too. Add some custom furniture pieces that are made bespoke for the house. Certain art pieces should be specifically selected for the house and, ideally, they should all remain with the house.

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EVENT

• SAVE THE DATE • Mark your diaries and gather your friends for a fun and fabulous event

Friday, November 4th an early-bird opportunity to get inspired for Christmas and beyond.

From classic villas to architectural gems, award-winning spaces and eclectic, colourful explorations – our hand-picked homeowners welcome you into their unique and personal abodes.

Not only will you get a look behind the keyhole of exciting homes, but Christmas displays and homemade goodies will be on offer – all in aid of raising funds for important causes – Dementia Auckland, Harbour Hospice and Devonport Rotary Charitable Trust.

S P O N S O R E D BY

Tickets on sale September 1st.

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Easy access to East Coast Bays, motorways north, CBD and western, this is an exceptional opportunity.

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COLLIERS NORTH SHORE YOUR SALES & LEASING TEAM JIMMY O’BRIEN General Manager | Director M 021 979 001 E

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RYAN DE ZWART Associate Director Industrial Sales & Leasing M 021 575 001

As we approach Spring the commercial property market on the North Shore has seen a number of purchases from businesses looking to own their own premises. Both Unit F2, 27-29 William Pickering Drive and the large 1154 sqm industrial property at 13 Tarndale Grove were sold after being on the market for some time.

what is required by the bank and the approximate timeframe for a finance application, this will hasten the process for any purchase. Solid quality investment stock is sought after, so if you would like a no-obligation appraisal please contact us.

Recent leases in the area for those larger floor plates which includes 1650 sqm at 55 Corinthian Drive, Albany and 1300 sqm at 2 Fred Thomas Dr, Takapuna reflects the confidence from larger office tenants attracted to the North Shore.

There continues to be demand from commercial investors looking for quality investments. However, tighter LVRs and increasing interest rates have seen a cautiousness from investors. We recommend that buyers contact their bank prior to looking for property to ascertain LD

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COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE, WITH BAYLEYS NORTH SHORE

Social and economic factors underpin demand for industrial property in Auckland Supply chain continuity and the positive impact of inflation are driving demand – and yields – for industrial property on Auckland’s North Shore.

As New Zealand progresses further down the track of operating in a Covid-disrupted commercial environment, the importance of supply chain continuity is becoming ever more prevalent – particularly with its implications in the industrial property sector, and the role the sector has to play in how businesses adapt and respond.

Both domestic and international supply chains are creaking under the strain of goods delivery. Shipping reliability of stock and product to New Zealand is running at less than half it was a year ago.

Domestically, logistics and freight forwarding firms are challenged with maintaining their delivery schedules while having to operate with employees self-isolating for stand down periods.

Bayleys North Shore General Manager Jayson Hayde, and Bayleys sales and leasing agents Matt Mimmack and Laurie Burt, said that throughout the past two-and-a-half-years of functioning in a Covid environment, demand for industrial property on Auckland’s North Shore had remained consistent – ramping up further since the Omicron variant came into focus at the beginning of the year.

“With product supply chain issues now impacting on many sectors of the economy, we are receiving enquiries from many businesses seeking bigger warehousing premises to hold more stock to underpin their supply continuity plans,” said Hayde.

243-247 Bush Road, Albany.

Unit A, 344 Rosedale Road, Albany.

…demand for industrial property on Auckland’s North Shore had remained consistent…

In response over recent months, Bayleys North Shore has negotiated multiple lease renewals in medium to large industrial properties in the area. These have included: 243-247 Bush Road in Albany – tenanted by a dental products importing and manufacturing firm occupying some 3,152-square metres of warehousing and office space 16C Piermark Drive in Albany – tenanted by a foodservice firm supplying New Zealand supermarkets, occupying some 946-square metres of warehousing and office space 23F William Pickering Drive in Albany – tenanted by a large electrical services firm operating in both the commercial and residential sectors, occupying some 1,707-square metres of warehousing and office space 28 Tarndale Grove in Albany – tenanted by plastics and electronics importing company occupying some 992-square metres of high stud warehousing and office space Unit A, 344 Rosedale Road in Albany – which will be tenanted later this year by a bakery which has expanded its operations, and will be occupying some 822-square metres of high stud warehousing and office space 228 Bush Road in Albany – tenanted by an engineering and electronics importing company which has amalgamated three companies into one, occupying some 1,140-square metres of high stud warehousing and office space Unit B, 237 Bush Road in Albany – tenanted by a local louvre firm utilising the premises as secondary storage for its existing

15 Orbit Drive, Albany.

operations, occupying some 1,001-square metres of modern high stud warehousing and office space; and 15 Orbit Drive in Albany – tenanted by a manufacturing firm utilising the premises as overflow storage for its existing operations, occupying some 2,392-square metres of modern high stud warehousing and office space.

Meanwhile, Burt said that the sharp rise in inflation over the past nine months had delivered a positive impact for many industrial property landlords – who had seen tenant rents increasing as a consequence.

“With the consumer price index clocking in at 7.3 percent in July for the second 2022 quarter, landlords with properties whose Jayson Hayde. lease rates are tied to the consumer price index (CPI) are broadly smiling,” Mimmack said.

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NORTH SHORE HISTORY: WITH DAVID VERRAN

The Devonport and Mount Victoria Domain Boards 1880-1901

By David Verran

As part of the Mahurangi Purchases from Māori, around 21 acres of Flagstaff Hill (now Takarunga/Mount Victoria) and around 20 acres of what is now the Devonport Domain and Vauxhall Reserve became Crown Land. Thomas Duder, the initial signalman at the signal station, had grazing rights on the maunga until the 1870s, while, amongst others, Roderick Alison (1850-1882) who was the proprietor of the Willow Grove Strawberry Gardens tearooms, had a lease on part of Devonport Domain which Map 3404, courtesy of Auckland Libraries Heritage Collection. Dated 1899, this map shows the tennis courts at that time was still largely a swamp. on the south-west corner of the Domain, while rugby football is on the north-west, bowling in the middle of The Devonport and Mount Victoria Domain the Domain and cricket to the east. Note the Devonport School on the south-east corner of Mount Victoria.

Boards were gazetted on 14th December 1880. On the tennis, cricket and football grounds. Some fences had palings while 8th January 1881 the members of the two boards, (they were the same others were just heart kauri or pūriri posts with horizontal strands of iron people), met as one committee and the minutes are still preserved with wire strung between them.

Auckland Council Archives.

The Auckland Harbour Board paid for a path to the signal station It’s fascinating to read back through those early minutes. From the and in the early 1880s a surveyors’ trig station was erected. From 1886 start, the Boards took direct responsibility for maintaining the grass, the football club was allowed to charge admission fees to their leased trimming trees and hedges, eliminating dock weed and gorse, draining grounds and other sports soon followed. the “raupo swamp”, fencing, and laying paths. They also issued tenders The Mount Victoria Domain Board continued to engage with the for grazing sheep, cattle and horses, and later cropping. In 1885 and Devonport school committee regarding shared boundaries, including 1887, the Devonport Domain Board took over the remainder of the an extension of the school site for a playground. The Board also swamp area. dealt with the Devonport Borough Council (formed in 1886 from the What is also interesting is the Board’s ready support for local sport.

Devonport Road Board) regarding excavation work developing Kerr At that time, this was the recently formed Devonport lawn tennis club Street. along with more established cricket in summer months and rugby In 1889 an Order-in-Council added the Mayor of Devonport football in winter months. One early addition was a roller for the cricket Borough as an ex-officio member of the two Boards and this heralded pitch, the laying of which was part financed by the North Shore Cricket a closer relationship with the Council into the 1890s. In the early 1890s Club. drainage work on the eastern half of Devonport Domain required the One problem arose in 1887 with the rugby football club using the Boards to pick up a third of total costs. Later, in the mid-1890s the tennis club’s changing rooms without permission. A tender was then let Boards worked with Council over water piping from Lake Pupuke to the for a separate changing room for the football club. In 1888 the Boards reservoir on the summit of Mount Victoria. issued a five pound reward when all the glass windows of the tennis The two Boards appointed a caretaker in September 1895 and in club’s shed were broken by vandals. The tennis club lasted until 1963, May 1897 the government combined them together as the Devonport while the bowling club was formed in 1895. The North Shore Athletic Domain Board. and Cycle Club also met on the cricket grounds from the 1890s.

Board meetings had often lapsed for lack of a quorum and the Board tree planting was almost exclusively of exotic trees, including Boards were underfunded. Accordingly in July 1901, the Domain was blue gums, poplars, willows, oaks and insignis, mainly along the vested in the Devonport Borough Council, as had already occurred with boundaries. Some trees were donated. the Rangitoto Island Domain in 1890.

There was fencing along the boundaries with Devonport School and ‘the burial ground’, and local residents had private gates onto the david.verran@xtra.co.nz domains. Fencing also ensured that grazing animals didn’t take over

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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 thought-provoking column for Channel ever since the very first issue (well over a decade ago!).

Grumbles galore and ramping up!

I cannot believe the madness around town with road closures, and traffic control. The prime example was in Vauxhall Road, Devonport last month, with contractors digging up perfectly good asphalt paving and replacing it. There was a man on a digger loading a truck, a couple of men detailing the excavations and no fewer than 10 traffic control people directing traffic out of five different streets with road cones and lollipop men spreading over at least 200 metres. My men at the coal face tell me that the road control costs were more than the actual cost of replacing the asphalt. This absolute madness cannot go on, who is paying for it? We are.

We had a problem down on the foreshore opposite the lovely old Masonic Hotel and the Devonport Sea Scout den, where again the wooden ramp has broken away from the main structure due to the easterly winds and wakes from ferries passing. This is probably the last ramp on the Devonport waterfront, now that the one at the foot of Huia Street has disappeared, leaving the locals unable to launch their dinghies. Devonport Yacht Club wharf has been reduced to a fifth of its former glory, and we are rapidly losing all our ramps and boat launching facilities in Davenport, much to the delight of Auckland Transport.

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I am part of a working party to rebuild the Sea Scout boat launch ramp, along with a local Engineer and another contractor and we need all the help we can get from the local Community. If you look around the North Shore there are very few places for people to launch their power boats and retrieve them safely. This Sea Scout ramp is so important for the Devonport Sea Scouts, without it they are almost homeless.

At the moment the slipway is very, very unsafe for young people.

Just thinking about this, and the growing population of the North Shore and their love of boating, there are very few decent facilities that people can launch their power boats for a day of cruising, water skiing, fishing etc. There is a facility at Bayswater Marina which is in danger of being lost due to development there. There is a very small launching ramp at Torpedo Bay Devonport, and there is a facility at the northern end of Cheltenham Beach. There is another by the Takapuna Beach Cafe which become chaotically busy each weekend.

There is a facility at Narrow Neck beach, which can be quite dangerous, with the backing down of large trailers mixed with beach users, as there is no designated area to launch a boat. Sooner or later there is going to be a dreadful accident. It seems like the powers that be, like Auckland Transport and the local Council, are dead set on stopping us all from accessing our Harbour.

Here's another, I have a friend who has a boat down at Bayswater Marina, and a few weeks ago he had a letter from Auckland Transport and the letter contained information about the condition of the antifouling on his boat. He was asked to supply information to Auckland Transport about when he was going to renew the antifouling on his boat. This again is madness, we have spies underwater now, looking at the condition of our boats and we are paying for it. The vast majority of boat owners are very responsible and don't need these underwater spy Nazis keeping a watch on our boats. And again, who is paying for this? We are.

I read somewhere that kitchen waste which includes potato peelings, broccoli stalks, cauliflower stalks, carrot peelings, and the lemon slices that were added to the gin and tonics, make up to 50% of our rubbish that we put out in our waste bins. I find this is a load of crap, there is no way that this could be right. I now see that the Council will be providing us with extra two bins, per household, to collect this kitchen waste, one for our kitchen benches and one to be collected at the street. Personally, I have a well functioning worm farm that uses up all my kitchen waste, but the thought that Council personnel are walking around the streets inspecting and policing our rubbish is ridiculous.

Let's be honest about this, all the so called recycling ends up with the vast majority of it in landfill anyway.

Another question that begs an answer, what the hell has Ireland done to deserve Trevor Mallard, who is no doubt soon to be our latest Knight of the Realm. And, if our children are all to learn Te Reo at school and take exams in this and the Treaty of Waitangi, when are teachers going to have time to address our terrible rates of literacy and numeracy in our children. I saw a cartoon recently from Tremain, depicting a teacher at the front of her class saying "This term, we are going to learn to say "I failed English, Maths and Science" in Te Reo".

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Not only was it my 38th birthday (hip hip hooray!) but it was the first day we ever had young people in at Shore Junction.

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I will finish with a quote from a Year 10 student when they came here after a particularly hard day at school: “Even though I had a hard day today, Josh; I knew I could still come to Shore Junction because I feel safe, I always have a good time and it’s like coming home to see my family. Except it’s even more fun.”.

We are only two years into this important and exciting work with young people, some who identify as Māori, the forgotten Pasifika, queer, disabled and lower socio-economic, and though there’s been huge wins for the rangatahi there is so much more we want to do alongside young people to continue making a difference on the North Shore and beyond.

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The Channel Crossword “A Man's a Man for A' That” Set by Māyā (https://mayaofauckland.com/), each month for Channel. No. 79

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10 Relaxed about Channel Islands University's metal (7)

...and another giving us this talent for self- observation - a combination of 8 and e-fit? (3,6)

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Lip of advocate caught bowler, perhaps (8)

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Tell Chad I'm not exactly unsuitable (3-7)

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As the bell told John, we are all interdependent - demolish mansion and put after slain, roughly (2,3,2,2,6)

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Retreat from storyteller having change of heart (4)

12 See 1 Down 14 Mean to use tinned bananas (6) 15 See 27 18 Girl's record swim to obtain pesticides (5,3) 19 Class flipping central poles for John, Lucy's elevator (6) 21 Stone Hearts to escape holding Amazing Trio (10) 23 See 27 25 John, perhaps, and 4th century invader finding time for organised search (7)

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26 Deposits everyone posh has to go through (7)

20 Minor collision after son freed from prison (6)

27/23/15 Second Witch's digital intuition indicates approach of candle, perhaps (9,6,4,3,5)

24 Post-person raised 10 with the French (4)

22 Connect endless hesitation to a herbaceous plant (5)

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