15 May 2015 Devonport Flagstaff

May 15, 2015

Three black belts in one family… p3

Devonport cyclists take it to the Aussies… p7

Interview: new local board chair Joseph Bergin… p18

New Treaty claim at Fort Takapuna

An historic building at Fort Takapuna is deteriorating rapidly because it is caught up in the Treaty of Waitangi claims process.

Auckland Council has recently restored two Fort Takapuna barracks – with considerable publicity and a budget of $1.5 million.

It is understood to be subject to the Marutuahu But the nearby watch-house lies in a derelict Collective Treaty settlement, which has been state.

The Flagstaff understands the building is part agreed in principal but with the legislation still of yet another Treaty claim, which has been to go before parliament.

The building is in a state of limbo as the negotiated behind closed doors with no open public debate or input.

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Bike to soccer scores well with young players

Kicking off a cycle habit…Misha (9), Janek (6) and Leah (6) Wakulu and mum Andrea Struik were cycling to soccer and between the different grounds last Saturday in a Bike Devonport initiative. With racks provided

by Auckland Transport, more than 100 bikes were parked at Allen Hill Stadium.

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Navy recruits want to help the wider community New Navy recruits are keen to reach out and lend a caring hand in the Devonport community.

Sub-Lieutenant Fletcher Dunning, who looks after new recruits, says a community-service project for new recruits was prompted by chatting to colleagues at the Air Force, which does something similar.

“And then one day my boss saw an old man in Devonport, who could no longer keep up with his lawns, and he said to me that we could help him out,” says Dunning.

Dunning reckons Navy recruits would be great candidates for small and individual good deeds as well as for larger projects such as beach clean-ups, weeding and maintenance projects. He has already contacted Rotary and the Devonport of Conservation.

“It’s a win-win. While we help where help is needed, it will instil a sense of pride with our recruits and be something they really enjoy and also show the community that we are here to From page 1,

help,” he says.

Dunning says the Navy is open to any suggestions but may not be able to take on every project. “We are keen to stay local and start small and see how it goes,” he says.

The Navy could potentially offer up to 80 helping hands.

“The last intake of recruits was quite small with 36 of them, plus there will be a few people like me as well,” he says.

Recruits have diverse backgrounds and come from across the country and all over the world.

“Many are people who came to New Zealand as children and are now citizens. About 30 per cent are women, a few have Masters degrees and some are older,” says Dunning. Not so many recruits come from New Zealand’s countryside as they used to, he says.

You can contact Fletcher Dunning with ideas or requests at fletcherdunning@nzdf. mil.nz.

Building caught in claim negotiations

collective would not be able to restore it until it actually owned it.

As final details of the negotiations are confidential, it is not known if the settlement will include the officers’ mess at Fort Takapuna.

However in 2012 the Marutuahu Collective opposed lease plans for a cafe and function centre at the officers’ mess on the basis it was an area of interest for future Treaty settlements.

The Marutuahu claim is also understood to include Defence waterfront land at Torpedo Bay, with a controversial reduction in marginal strip for the public, as revealed in the Flagstaff last month.

The amount of property to be transferred to the Marutuahu Collective as part of its $30 million settlement is huge, with many blocks in Devonport, according to a record of agreement signed in May 2013.

Included are: New Zealand Defence housing blocks: Alamein and Lake (3 ha); Corella (1.5ha); Tennyson (1.2ha); and Navy houses at 45, 47, and 49 Calliope Rd. The Navy Musuem site at Torpedo Bay has

In need of TLC… watch-house missed out on council restoration as it is understood to be subject to a land claim been jointly offered to Marutuahu iwi and Nga Tai Ki Tamaki. This comprises 0.35 ha, subject to survey and marginal strip requirements, which are being worked through now.

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Black belts run in the genes

Black-belt… (From left) dad Brett, Ben and Theo Sawyer Arguments amongst the Sawyer family males over who does the dishes are settled very civilly.

Ben (12), Theo (15) and Brett Sawyer all have black belts in Karate, with Ben achieving the grade last month.

Ben picked up Karate five years ago and still remembers the day. “Dad and Theo had started before me and one evening they said our sensei had invited me to come along to the class. I was already in my PJs and just I went off in those,” he says.

Since then, Ben has progressed through the different coloured belts. “All the belts you get are a bit like life. As the colours change it’s a sign that you have matured,” he says.

Two years ago, brother Theo and dad Brett achieved their black belts. Ben was inspired.

“When I got brown, I looked at dad and Theo and I thought I want that to be me,” he says.

Last month, he was assessed for five full days before a visiting Japanese grading instructor, Sensei Naka, handed him the black piece of cloth. “Naka made it real fun and enjoyable. We had a three-minute break every twenty minutes. It’s like a big family,” he says.

Theo is equally enthusiastic. He says Karate has helped him mature. “Karate has made me the person I am today. I used to be a bit of a story teller. Karate has given me a lot more confidence,” he says.

Brett, who works as a counsellor at Belmont Intermediate School, has nothing but good things to say about the family sport. “It gets you super fit, makes you mindful, helps with your memory, confidence, self-control, respect for others. And it’s self-defence too,” he says.

The family belong to the Devonport Karate Club, which trains at St Paul’s Church Hall.

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Late-night baa-fiti found on Victoria Rd

National chess champs in Devonport again The New Zealand Chess Congress will be staged at Devonport’s National Chess Centre, for the second year running.

The 123rd Congress will run from January 2nd-12th 2016, and will incorporate the New Zealand Open Championship, a Major Open, the New Zealand Rapid and Blitz events, as well as a new New Zealand Junior Open and junior training courses.

It is unusual for the Congress to be staged in the same city in consecutive years. New Zealand Chess Federation President Paul Spiller said one factor was the popular venue at Devonport St Paul’s, combined with the warm reception the participants had received locally. The federation also appreciated the positive support of the Devonport Business Association.

National Chess Centre Director Murray Chandler said he was delighted Devonport was hosting the official New Zealand champs once again. “The players come for 12 days, so a bespoke chess venue combined with a charming village atmosphere is a big attraction. I believe there may be potential for Devonport to become the permanent home of the championship, though we would need extra sponsorship to achieve this. At the moment we are playing it one year at a time.”

Last January, entries to the Open Championship included a 19-strong Australian contingent of players, club strength and higher.

“Positive international publicity from the 2015 event meant the seven invitation spots for 2016 were instantly snapped up. “It was great to get immediate acceptances from exciting young Grandmasters representing France, China, England, Brazil and Lithuania.

Everyone wants to come to New Zealand.”

“A group of foreign students were excited to finally see a New Zealand sheep. I told them yes, we have them, even in our towns, with graffiti on them.

“Then we went back to the grass and she followed us like a little lamb. She didn’t utter a sound the entire time.

“She calmed down and had a bit of a chew on the ornamental plants and peach tree while we waited for police to arrive and she was quite happy towards the end.

“She was a lovely animal, very friendly and police and the animal welfare guy were very good with her,” says Sheen.

Waitemata Police attended the scene and Auckland Council’s animal management team took the sheep to its Silverdale shelter. By Thursday afternoon she had been identified as Gracie, a pet sheep stolen from a property on Roland Road in Greenhithe on Wednesday.

While ISIS refers to the Islamic extremist terror organisation, 420 can be a code for the consumption of cannabis or a reference to the Northern Motorway Devonport/Takapuna offramp, exit 420.

What are ewe doing here…?

Simon Sheen and Gracie on Victoria Rd

Sheepgate witnesses wanted Police are as mystified as anyone as to how Gracie the sheep was graffitied and how she got to Devonport.

Waitemata Police are investigating and are asking the public for help. “We would like to hear from anyone who may have seen

anyone with Gracie on Wednesday night, between Devonport and Greenhithe,” says Waitemata Police District Communications Manager Beth Bates.

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When Devonport resident Simon Sheen ran into a graffitied ewe on Victoria Road last Wednesday night at around 8.30pm, he couldn’t quite believe what he was seeing.

He and wife Kate had been listening to a local band at Corelli’s Café. “After the first act, I went down to the BNZ ATM to get some cash.

“As I was walking back up, there she was, a sheep walking down the garden path of Viva La Vintage. I met her at the fence, said hello and thought it was a bit strange,” Sheen says.

The adult female sheep had ‘ISIS’ spraypainted on one side of her body and ‘420 Devo’ on the other side.

“She was agitated and breathing quite heavily and I thought she might be about to give birth, which would have been a challenge,” he said.

“Then she tried to cross the road and I herded her back onto the grass and tried to barricade her in with a board, but she kept jumping over it.

“So she walked up the road with me as I went back to Corelli’s to get my phone and call the police. When I banged on the window to alert my wife, I got a few looks.

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Devonport cyclists top in Australasia Oscar Elworthy won Australia’s prestigious Under-17 Boys Canberra Junior Tour last Sunday.

His classmates Harry Waine and Jacob Kench placed fifth and sixth in the 50-strong field, which featured the best junior cyclists in Australasia.

Oscar, a Year 11 student at Takapuna Grammar School (TGS), rode the race as part of the New Zealand Under-17 Development Squad.

Oscar dominated the tour from the start.

He established a 22-second lead in the first stage on Saturday, a 15.5km individual time trial. He held on to the lead in a bunch finish for the following stage, a 38km road race.

On Sunday, Oscar and fellow Kiwi rider and Auckland Grammar student Aaron Wylie broke away in the tour’s third stage, a 48km road race, and gained a minute on the rest of the riders, with Aaron outsprinting Oscar by less than a second. Oscar then finished the final stage, a Criterium, five seconds behind the winner of that event – his mate Harry Waine, who also came third in the Determination… Oscar Elworthy stage-one time trial. took charge of the yellow jersey The TGS trio were part of the six-member national team. fifth and sixth. That’s dominating. It shows TGS Sports Director Sharon Davies says New Zealand and Australia what hard work she is “totally rapt with their placings of first, and dedication can do.”

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By Rob Drent I don’t think I’ve ever had someone come up to me in the street and give me money before.

But it happened last week in Wynyard St on the way back to the office after lunch.

A woman I know (not well however) walked past me then quickly turned and shoved four dollars in my hand: “For the official information fund,” she said, slightly furtively.

“Sorry,” she added, almost apologetically: “that’s all the money I have on me.” Then she rushed off.

I was slightly gobsmacked standing there with the coins, but what I should have said is “don’t worry, every little bit helps.”

The response to our investigative journalism fund Keeping the Bastards Honest, launched by the Flagstaff in the last issue, has been fantastic.

In the first few days we had receieved pledges for $600: in the first week it had topped $800. A couple of Flagstaff readers even dropped in with cheques. What has been a surprise is the level of pledges – $20, $25, $50– even $150.

But I was just as happy to receive the $4 in the street – every little bit really does help.

To recap from last issue: we have noticed over the years that the number of substantive reports coming through council to the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board have become less and less.

There is also a marked lack of early engagement between the Government and Devonport residents, particularly on land issues that affect the area.

We want to be more proactive in getting hold of the information on the spending and decision-making processes that council and Gov-

The Flagstaff Notes ernment bodies want to keep from the public.

The trouble is that it comes at a cost. The bill for our Official Information Act (OIA) request to Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) for documents over the sale of the Bayswater Marina reclamation was $350. And that was a relatively straightforward request.

We have four OIA requests in the system at the moment and are expecting bills of between $400 and $1000 for each to be actioned.

Through the Keeping the Bastards Honest fund, local people can contribute directly to an increase in the freedom of information available to our community and the accountability of Government and Auckland Council.

The Flagstaff is paid for by advertising and delivered for free so we hope people will contribute – a grass-roots response to keeping democracy alive and kicking. Every dollar will go towards Keeping the Bastards Honest.

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it gave residents an insight into what was happening crime-wise in their area. Readers may recall the Flagstaff canned its On the Beat column because this type of information was not forthcoming and it had been diluted down to police PR-speak about things like locks, security and cycle safety.

We will be sending the Ruapehu column to the powers that be in the police in yet another attempt to get something similar in the Flagtaff.

Crime reports are a proactive way of helping a safe community work together at being even safer still.

And wouldn’t it be nice to have some explanation of what the police were doing when the sirens were blaring and the police helicopter was hovering.

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Own magic show no illusion for schoolboy Floyd

Money to burn… Floyd Langdon burns a hole in his dad’s wallet, under the watchful eye of illusionist Andre Vegas Floyd Langdon is going to put a sword through someone’s throat next month.

“He’s never done it before, but he has to start somewhere,” says professional illusionist Andre Vegas, who has been mentoring Floyd for two months. In June, the two will be sharing the stage in Takapuna.

The two tricksters met in January at Rainbow’s End where Floyd (9) saw Vegas perform. “He had a hand guillotine that went through someone’s neck,” says Floyd, beaming. On a second visit, Floyd waited for Vegas after the show and the two got chatting. They decided to work on a stage show together.

Vegas says he was instantly taken with Floyd, a Devonport Primary School student.

“I could tell he was the real deal. I have a lot of kids approach me who want to do magic, but their interest lasts about five minutes.

This guy knew his stuff and had a million questions. I thought I would be happy to show him a few of my tricks,” he says.

Floyds loves being on stage. He has busked in Devonport and performed at a couple of friends’ birthday parties. “Amazing people is what I like,” he says.

He got into doing magic tricks two years ago, after he found a pack of cards in his room. “I played with them, and played with

them, and played with them,” he says. Mum Vicky says this quickly turned into an obsession with all kinds of magic tricks.

The family now seeks out magic shops whenever they are on holiday. They have been to the Magic Convention in Auckland, and watched The Illusionist at the Civic, where Floyd was asked to come on stage. When at home, he loves to watch tricks on YouTube.

“Floyd is basically studying magic,” says Vegas.

Floyd reminds him of his younger self, Vegas says. Born in a Gore sheep-farming family, Vegas learned about magic at age 12. “At first I was using our farm animals, like our rooster, for tricks that I would do in local pubs. My dad helped me build props and drove me everywhere because I was still underage,” he says.

He vividly remembers his own first performance in front of a crowd at age 14. “I did not sleep that night. I knew it was what I wanted to do and people in the audience actually booked me afterwards,” he says. Now Vegas drives a Bentley and is a New Zealand’s Got Talent semi-finalist.

On June 5, you can see Vegas and Floyd perform in two shows at The Pumphouse.

“One is a family show and the other one is for

families with a taste for a bit of horror-comedy. It’s PG but there will be chainsaws,” Vegas warns.

• Tickets for both shows are from $15 and are available at www.pumphouse.co.nz.

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Police manhunt target found asleep in girl’s bed

A 12-year-old girl came home from school to find a man who had sparked a huge police search asleep in her bed, with a bottle of wine and wearing her mother’s clothes.

Earlier that day on May 5, the 36-year-old Northland man had failed to stop for police on the motorway in Auckland. A morning rush-hour police pursuit ensued, first to Glenfield, then to Belmont, where the man abandoned the stolen golden Toyota in a driveway on Diomede St and ran off.

Twelve police cars, police dogs and a helicopter searched the area without success.

It seems he had snuck into the Bayswater family home only a short distance from where he absconded. It was empty with Hannah off at school and mum Nicole Rogers already at work. “One of our windows wasn’t shut properly because of a faulty lock. He got in by getting his fingers underneath and forcing it open,” Nicole said.

“He hid out in my house all day, ate my food and drank a bottle of my wine,” she says.

The intruder also changed out of his clothes into some of Hannah’s and Nicole’s. “He put on my runners, a pair of my jeans, a hoody of mine and one of Hannah’s tops,” says Nicole.

When Hannah came home from Belmont Intermediate School, where she is in Year 8, she didn’t notice anything at first. “She put her bag down, had something to eat. When she went into her room, she saw the man lying in her bed,” says Nicole.

Hannah quietly left the house and went

to a neighbour for help, who called police.

“When the police arrived, he was still asleep.

They arrested him in my clothes and they still have our clothes,” she says.

Nicole said the man hadn’t broken or stolen anything, “but I feel like encouraging everyone to make sure their windows are shut properly,” she says.

Hannah has recovered well from the initial fright and now “just wants to forget it all,” says Nicole.

The man, who has name suppression, allegedly stole one car and attempted to carjack others during the chase.

He also damaged vehicles, ran red lights and came close to running over pedestrians, according to police charges Last week, he faced 11 charges at North Shore District Court, including entering a property without consent, taking a vehicle without claim, theft of car keys, dangerous driving and failing to stop after an accident.

Second man arrested

While police searched properties on Diomede St for the runaway carjacker, they arrested a second man on “totally unrelated charges as a wanted person,” said Police Senior Sergeant Steve Pivack.

TENDER

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NEW LISTING

Devonport 10 Wesley Street

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"One For Double The Fun" Options abound with this special "two for one" on offer for the first time in 35 years including an original 1950´s Cottage plus a totally separate 2 bedroom Council approved Minor Dwelling.

This exciting opportunity will appeal to extended families, investors or builders ready to take advantage of the rare 706m2 freehold site to renovate the cottage or maybe demolish and build a new home. The time has come for the elderly vendors to reluctantly divest both of these homes which are now being offered to a single lucky purchaser on Sunday 31st May. Don´t delay, inspect today!

Auction View Open

On site, Sunday 31st May 2015 at 3.00pm (unless sold prior) www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7834 Saturday & Sunday 2.15 - 3.00pm Peter Restall P 09 446 2114 M 021 808 808 E peter.restall@harcourts.co.nz Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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OPEN HOME

PRICE REDUCED

Takapuna 28a Harley Road

Takapuna 1/50 Taharoto Road

Hauraki Corner - It Just Makes Sense

Vendors Keen To Move On - Price Reduced

What a great opportunity to take your first step in to this great location.

Handy to the vibrant Takapuna centre, an easy stroll to the beach, in the Takapuna Grammar zone and close to transport options to the city. Come and have a look, this home will NOT be sold prior to auction.

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Auction View Open

On site, Sunday 24th May 2015 at 12.00pm (will not be sold prior) www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7784 Saturday & Sunday 12.15 - 1.00pm

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OPEN HOME

Freshly renovated designer kitchen Three bedrooms, two bathrooms Plenty of storage space Sunny and peaceful back courtyard Ideal Families, Downsizers, Professionals

For Sale View Open

$945,000 www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7667 Sunday 11.30 - 12.00pm

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OPEN HOME

Campbells Bay 41b Channel View Road

Devonport 39 Glen Road

Affordable Buying In A High Demand Area

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Affordable buying in this convenient location; Built in 1987 in cedar, the home is full of charm; Plenty of privacy, sun and views of the channel and Rangitoto Island; Excellent storage, garden and covered carport parking; In zone for Campbells Bay or Mairangi Bay Primary, Murrays Bay Intermediate, Rangitoto College and Westlake Boys and Girls

Auction View Open

On site, Sunday 31st May 2015 at 12.00pm (unless sold prior) www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7824 Saturday & Sunday 12.30-1.00pm

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Situated in a peaceful and private setting overlooking Stanley Bay Park, this generous villa embodies all the requirements you need for a relaxed family lifestyle. The proximity to the Park and the adjoining Beach, the popular local Primary School and the convenient ferry to Auckland CBD. Entertaining spaces flow from the heart of this gracious home.

For Sale View Open

By Negotiation www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7755 Saturday 2.00 - 2.45pm

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OPEN HOME

OPEN HOME

Devonport 15 St Aubyn Street

Devonport 22 Anne Street

Deceased Estate Seriously For Sale

Home & Income Winner

This 4 bedroom home with an office and 2 bathrooms is ideal for those looking for a property to add value to. In need of a makeover, this home has been a rental for the past 10 years. Fantastic views from much of the home, excellent storage options, and wonderful indoor/outdoor flow to a great garden and entertaining area.

What a rare buying opportunity to purchase a heart Devonport Home and Income. This is a brilliant buying opportunity for investors, extended families or downsizers wanting an extra income. The primary home has five bedrooms, two bathrooms and three living areas plus verandas, the secondary flat has two bedrooms and a garage, all this within the village, nearby the ferry service, Navy, shops, schools, cafes and restaurants.

Auction View Open

On Site, Sunday 24th May 2015 at 1.00pm (will not be sold prior) www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7759 Saturday and Sunday 2.00-2.30pm

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Auction View Open

On site, Sunday 31st May 2015 at 2.00pm (unless sold prior) www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7826 Sunday 11.00 - 11.45am

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NEW LISTING

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Devonport 32 Regent Street

Cheltenham Launchpad!

Spacious 4+2 Home And Income

Launch yourself in to the Cheltenham property market with this super trendy singles pad. Just across the road from Cheltenham Beach, take a swim before and after work! This apartment will NOT be sold prior to auction, so get yourself here and have a look at a cool renovation, just waiting for a lucky new owner.

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Auction View Open

On site, Friday 29th May 2015 at 12.00pm (unless sold prior) www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7798 Saturday & Sunday 11.00 - 11.45am

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1950s original dwelling 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, 222 sqm, rendered brick Plus 2-bedroom apartment, 79.5 sqm Warm and sunny with great entertainment areas Workshop and plenty of storage Freehold site 625 sqm

Auction View Open

On site, Sunday 7th June 2015 at 2.00pm (unless sold prior) www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7822 Saturday & Sunday 1.00 - 2.00pm

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Letters

May 15 2015

Need to champion free speech

Off-pitch work needed

I went to watch some of the first soccer games on the newly resurfaced pitch at Bayswater Park a couple of weekends ago. The new pitch is absolutely fantastic. I went in search of some water to drink and wandered into the change room. What greeted me was a scene from something that I would have expected in Somalia. It was an absolute mess with a filthy toilet, and an equally filthy basin where I managed to get some water to drink. Graffiti on the walls. Bags of empty beer bottles. Outside the gutters are falling off. After having spent a small fortune on the pitch I really think they need to spend a bit on the change rooms – they are an absolute embarrassment for Bayswater.

Ian Cunningham

Thank you for being a champion of free speech, seeking open, honest and intelligent management of our community affairs, trying to keep the buggers honest. John Campbell does it on the TV and he’s under threat from a powerhouse of cunning people we all could do better without, who claim falsely the numbers that are tuning in don’t justify the air time.

Frankly I don’t believe much of what we are told by the powers that be.

Your call for local support of the paper is noted, and I’m guilty of not spending much with you. I hate to have people thinking I buy paper space to air my views because I have not. When it comes to local politics and deals pertaining to ratepayers, it is clear that for all of history there has been an underhanded self-serving force, dumbing down the public and using scaremonger propaganda to silence the masses. It sadly does not end there. A chain of beneficiaries positioned by corrupted political backers, ensure they win contracts for public works that always fail to be openly tendered and the priced approved contract is likely to be double its worth.

Ratepayers have been screwed over. The (proposed) removal of flowers from Devonport’s street gardens is a sick joke. For a start, I watch a truck carting water, hand watering, when the beds are newly planted. Literally 10 people do the work of one-man work day, arriving in five trucks, and then they plant advanced sized flowers at retail prices, usually too late in the season for the selected species,and their colour palette is vile. The company flogs us end-of-line specials. In the good old days, a gardener with colour sense would plant small plants out of trays at a fraction of the cost to the potted colour we get, and they would do the summer season and the winter. The small seedlings grow to

Stop spoiling our mountain Over the last 10 years or so I have voiced my concern with regard to the state of Mt Victoria.

I was relieved when mountain bicycles were forbidden and, since that time, the autumn rain and gentler sun has encouraged the grass to grow on the footpaths. Kikuyu has re-established itself over the uneven ground and grassy shoots are appearing.

Last weekend a mountain biker appeared, via the graveyard, and informed me that he was allowed to ride on the mountain again. This was confirmed when I read an article in The Flagstaff and I ask myself whether a member of the Maunga Authority ever actually walks on the paths where the damage of years can be clearly seen.

I would like to align myself with other protesters and say, “Stop spoiling our mountain,” to the short-sighted authority that has changed its mind about the use of the mountain to the detriment of its original purpose of ‘passive recreation’. Susan Poulter

flower within weeks. The summer range would be heat and drought resistant, the winter cold and wet resistant – simple stuff. The flower garden and the even more vile scrubland planting at the ferry terminal are a classic example of council allowing ratepayers to be ripped off in backroom deals – these gardens are as ugly as sin. I am sure I could do the contract at a big profit at half the price. We don’t get a look in.

Devonport is faced, collectively with all city ratepayers, with the next insult coming, to our integrity. At present we suffer a mindlessly managed Auckland Transport Stop-Go outfit as we battle our way to the city in the mornings.

The system is designed to choke you onto a bus or to convince you Len’s road tax is good for you added to your rates The Stop-Go system has failed and been removed in other cities of the world before we got ours, but in Auckland we had to have it anyhow. Now we stand poised to watch the council give us the dumbest possible road design to supposedly relieve the congestion on Lake Road. It will look like Pakuranga Highway, because the powers that be lack vision or innovation. These road designers and contractors only know one way of doing the job. And they have no interest in looking at any innovative design solutions they have not seen before. I hope that within my lifetime, for our kids’ sake, open honest public debate and decent governance takes over. It never ceases to amaze me the audacity of leaders that pull hair and say at seven o’clock in the evening, most people want light entertainment rather than investigative journalism. I guess some weaker minded people don’t want to face the sad reality that our politicians deliver before bedtime. It’s the stuff of nightmares.

Ron Dykman

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Damage to our environment starts with Crown disposing of coastal land Picture this…The disposal of the 6,000m2 of land upon which the Navy Museum is sited will probably mean that the trust that runs the museum will lease the premises from the new owners. Past practice has been for terms of lease for five years. Experience with the apartments on the former railway land in town is that rent review at the time of lease renewal brings hikes, which make it uneconomic for some to continue living there.

The Torpedo Bay site at the time of lease renewal would have astronomic value for its high-rise, high-density potential. If the owner asked and were given that zoning by a compliant council, the trust may be forced by economics to abandon the site and move the museum.

If this were to occur, the ground coverage of high-rise apartments could be up to 35% and up to the top of the cliff. Public access to the Torpedo jetty has already been reduced to a very narrow marginal strip, some of which

will be occupied by the sloping sea wall to the mean high-water mark. The blot on Devonport’s heritage would be much worse than the Masonic apartments.

You may call me a conspiracy theorist but then no one foresaw the disposal of the reclaimed land at Bayswater Marina and what has happened since. As always, the damage to our living environment starts with the disposal of Crown land to developers.

This is the third block of coastal land in Devonport, used by the public, which has been disposed of by the Government to developers in the term of the present government. In each case the process occured during the tenure of our local MP. Of course by the time this development happens we could quite likely find our present MP as a backbencher on the opposition benches claiming no responsibility for what happens, but we will know who to blame.

Graham Pettersen

Getting behind the Flagstaff I applaud the Flagstaff’s campaign to set up an investigative journalism fund. The paper has always been proactive in terms of its news gathering and holding the powers that be to account - and its Keeping the Bastards Honest fund is another example of this.

People are always moaning about the falling standards of journalism in newspapers and television. But with falling revenues,

wages and production costs are difficult to cover.

The Flagstaff is free but must cost thousands to produce every month.

I’d encourage everyone to give up a few dollars of their coffee spend and get behind our great local paper. It will benefit knowledge and democracy in our community.

Mary Taylor

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COAL DRIVE 2015 25KG BAGS OF HUNTLY’S FINEST Fundraising for 1st Devonport Scout Group Buy 1 to 9 bags - pay $20 each. Buy 10 or more bags - pay $18 each. Price inclusive of free delivery to Devonport/Bayswater/Takapuna area.

Delivery outside this area subject to arrangement. Order before Wednesday 13th May for delivery on Sunday 24th May. Contact Katherine on ph: 445 7473 or email fundraising@adventureplus.co.nz

WELCOME TO DEVONPORT Monday 18th May, 10:30am Devonport Community House, 32 Clarence St New to Devonport in the past few weeks or months? You are warmly invited to Welcome to Devonport to find out more about what’s on and meet some new faces. For more info, contact Rebecca ph: 445 3068 or Maria ph: 445 9533.

TEEN HOUR @ DEVONPORT LIBRARY Last Tuesday of every month (next meeting Tuesday 26th May), 4-5pm Devonport Library, Victoria Rd, Devonport If you are a teen and love books of any sort and enjoy sharing with like-minded people, come to Devonport Library for books, food, activities and whatever else you would like to be doing at our book-centred club.

Bring your ideas too, so we can make this group even better than a good thing!

USED CAR, TRUCK AND BOAT BATTERIES COLLECTED FOR CHARITY Devonport Lions are collecting used car, truck, motorcycle and boat batteries to aid the CMF (Lions Child Mobility Foundation). They will pick up anywhere from Devonport to Hauraki, simply phone 445-6338 or 445-2401.

STREET GET-TOGETHERS Devonport Peninsula Trust has some funding available to encourage neighbours to get together and develop neighbourhood connections. For further info please contact Maria on ph: 445 9533.

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May 15 2015

Graham’s an inspiration at 80 A hole-in-one, the Otago Rail Trail and 1000 gym visits are three milestones already reached in 2015 by 80-year-old Graham Peters.

The first came in February, with the hole-inone on the 12th at the Waitemata Golf Club, just days before Peters’ 80th birthday.

The Otago Rail Trail was completed over Anzac weekend with daughter Sue and her partner Bruce Neville. And Peters found out this month he’d notched up 1,000 visits at Devonport Gym. His first ever hole-in-one was probably the biggest surprise.

“I didn’t see it go in, but one of my mates said he heard it drop.

“When we got to the hole I was looking around each side of the green for the ball but in fact it was in the hole.”

It was a bonus for other Waitemata players as well, as it was a Saturday and the club traditionally shouts free drinks for the whole bar if a hole-in-one is scored.

Peters played golf as a young man but gave up for around 30 years after family and work took over. He returned to the game in recent years.

“My family bought me a temporary membership, so I got my old clubs out. I broke two with wooden heads and asked for them to be replaced with steel ones as a present.”

But instead his family bought him a whole new set of clubs and he began playing more regularly, especially after retiring aged 78 from his job as Birkenhead College sports coordinator.

He now plays weekly on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, on a 23 handicap.

“The hole-in-one was the highlight of the round that day, which was pretty average.” he said.

Alongside his golf, every Friday Peters has been cycling from the ferry building to St Heliers and back – supplemented with sessions on a gym cycle machine – to prepare Pratice makes perfect…after his for the 150 km Otago Rail Trail.

He was worried that a knee injury might hole-in-one Graham Peters is hold the family team up, but it gave him working on his putting no trouble and it’s rumoured he may have A6 POSTCARD PROOF dragged off his daughter on parts of the trail. and quiet in the South Island. “In Ranfurly I “Bruce reckons that on one slope I was think we saw one car.”

Peters has been delighted with this year’s Member of the Real Estate Institute of NZ going down it at 45 km per hour, but I find Licensed Real Estate Agent (REAA 2008) milestone events, which have kept him going that a bit hard to believe.”

Peters enjoyed the cycling so much that following the death of his much-loved wife Real Estate Sales he and his companions doubled back to their Edna last December.

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May 15 2015

Young blood steps into the hot seat

Young politician at the helm… Joseph Bergin, the new chair of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board Joseph

Bergin became New Zealand’s youngest elected localbody politician in 2010, when aged 17 he was voted onto the new Devonport-Takapuna Local Board. Re-elected three years later, Bergin became Auckland Council’s youngest deputy chair.

At 22, this month he became the city’s youngest local-board chair.

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At his first local-board meeting as an elected official, Joseph Bergin turned up in his Rosmini College uniform. Four years later, with a few rough-and-tumble years under his belt, Bergin often wears a suit and is the new Devonport-Takapuna Local Board chair.

Bergin ran for the board during his last year as a student at Rosmini College. In 2010, he won 5,877 votes and wore his school colours at the board’s November induction.

“That was three days before I sat my NCEA Level 3s and it’s been non-stop ever since.”

While most of his peers had a big blowout summer after high school, “I spent it reading council plans and agendas,” he says.

Four years later, Bergin has matured. He has filled out a bit, but the boy in him perks up when he pulls out his android phone with its timer impatiently counting down until his chairmanship begins. There were eight days, fifteen hours and roughly 45 minutes to go when we started the interview.

In November 2013, Mike Cohen and Bergin agreed to share the role of board chair – Cohen was at the helm for the first half of the three-year term and Bergin takes charge for the second half. Bergin says he wants the handover to proceed without much fanfare. “It will be business as usual. If we do it properly, no one will notice,” he says.

What Bergin will notice is a near doubling of his annual salary. It will increase from the $39,200 paid to board members to $73,000

awarded to board chairs. “That’s pretty surreal. It probably indicates how much more I will have to work,” he says.

When we met, Bergin was evaluating leadership styles. “There are basically two schools of thought – that of being more of a facilitator and that of leading the discussion and setting a more prescriptive agenda. I will aim for a happy medium,” he says, but admits that he admires politicians who follow the second approach.

Bergin is not known for his diplomacy and his leadership skills are likely to be tested, with Grant Gillon as his deputy. A year ago, he took legal advice and filed a formal complaint against fellow board members Jan O’Connor and Gillon. He claimed they had “closed minds” for wanting to save Bayswater Marina and the Takapuna Holiday Park from development. Auckland Council Chief Executive Stephen Town rejected the complaint and Bergin subsequently apologized to both members.

Bergin is not without a leadership trackrecord though. Deputy Head Boy at Rosmini, he was also Head of Special Character, leading the Catholic extracurricular activities as “first among equals,” he says. That year, he also chaired Youthfund, a non-profit organisation that seed-funded North Shore youth initiatives with grants from the Tindall Foundation. “I loved Youthfund. We asked young people for good ideas and gave them

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May 15 2015 cash to realise those,” Bergin says. He is a fan of the projects that kept going, including Devonstock (the youth concert that started on Mt Victoria) and the first Walk the Line Fashion Show, which is now part of Fashion Week.

Bergin is a member of the National Party and was the youngest National Party North Shore Electorate Chairman, alongside Maggie Barry in 2013/2014. Throughout 2013, he contributed to the online blog “Abrided”, voicing his “socially conservative and free-market economic views,” next to the more left-leaning Richard Hill.

In 2013, Bergin ambitiously ran for council on the “Deal for Shore” ticket alongside George Wood. Wood had been a North Shore Ward Councillor the previous term and was re-elected but Bergin did not make it. With 6,377 votes in the local-board election, he was only seventh most popular candidate and scraped into the six-member board because Chris Darby was elected to council, leaving a spare seat.

Bergin says he does not want to be a “lifelong politician” and that law is where his passion lies. While on the board, he studied for a Bachelor of Law at Auckland University of Technology and graduated this year. Last summer he worked as a summer clerk for law firm Kensington Swan’s property team. The previous two years, Bergin clerked at Kiely Thompson Caisley, a firm specialising in employment law and industrial relations. Peter Kiely has represented Prime Minister John Key in the past.

Bergin says he got into law to advocate.

“It’s great to be able to give your voice to someone who has no voice,” he says. He took inspiration from the grandfather he is named after, Joseph Bergin I. “My grandfather was a very good judge. He lived in Castor Bay and many people still remember him,” he says. “Plus all the other jobs were already taken by my siblings,” he jokes.

Bergin’s sisters and brothers are a doctor, a nurse, a police officer, a banker, a scientist and an aid worker, he says.

Law makes things happen, Bergin says.

“My ultimate goal is to be an in-house

counsel at a large company like Fonterra and to be the guy who tells people how you can get something done. I like putting ideas into action.”

Bergin’s legal training has come in handy.

“I do use my law experience every day on the board,” he says. During board meetings, Bergin can often cite details of Standing Orders or the Resource Management Act. He has them right at his fingertips, in his iPad library. Bergin also flicks through council plans, reports, agendas and minutes on the touchscreen. “I went paperless years ago,” he says.

As the youngest of seven children, Bergin is used to holding his own among those older and more experienced than him. He remembers growing up all over the North Shore. “My oldest brother James is 12 years older than me and our family moved a fair bit as more room for more kids was required.

We moved from Northcote to Takapuna to Hauraki to Milford,” he says. These days Bergin flats in Milford.

Bergin speaks fondly of his parents and the family platform they created. He says mum Kerry Bergin likes to call herself a “House Executive” while he says “Saint” would be more fitting. “Mum is from a mining and farming family in South Australia.

She was runner-up for Miss South Australia in her day, has a Psychology degree, runs Dad’s business accounts and has raised us all,” he says.

Bergin describes his father as creative, industrious and entrepreneurial. “He runs his own fundraising and media consultancy business and travels a lot. He used to be an ad guy in radio and he imported and sold wine and also cars; I guess anything to get the money to raise seven kids,” he says.

The Bergins are devout Catholics. “We are big Irish Catholics, go to church every Sunday. My siblings and I all went to St Joseph’s Primary and the girls to Carmel and boys to Rosmini,” he says. Bergin still fits church in on Sundays one way or another.

“I go to a different church service depending on my schedule. There are all sorts of services between 8.30 am and 7 pm, starting

in the morning in Milford, then St Joseph’s in Takapuna, Northcote’s St Mary’s and St Francis in Devonport. There is a service at the Cathedral at 4.30pm then in Northcote and Takapuna again in the evening. Or I go to the vigil on Saturday night,” he says.

On the board, Bergin hasn’t shied away from taking an independent and critical stance. During his first term in office, he held the board’s portfolio for Libraries and Community Facilities. On the Devonport Library, he says: “It took me a while to see why we needed this legacy project. I went back and researched why we do it, why on its site, what the future role of libraries will play. Then I became a big advocate for the project.”

Initially, he did not support Mike Cohen’s proposal to open the board’s workshops to the public and the press, but says he will keep them open during his time as chair, unless confidentiality is essential on certain items.

Bergin has been pushing for a dedicated youth facility on the North Shore ever since he was a member of the North Shore Youth Forum at the age of 15. “Technically I am actually still youth. The New Zealand definition of youth is so ridiculously broad, from 12 until 24 years old,” he says.

The facility needs to be a local model, tailor-made for the region, he says. “It might not even be made from bricks and mortar.

It might be a container-like facility that we can move around. The needs of young people change so quickly, the facility has to be adaptable to it and be able to change organically,” he says.

Spare time for youth activities is limited in Bergin’s life. He used to play basketball at school, excelled at Judo and played the baritone saxophone in Rosmini’s Jazz Band.

He hasn’t had time for any of that since he joined the board.

But whenever the Breakers do well, he makes sure he acknowledges them at the opening of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board’s monthly business meeting, a tradition that the board’s youngest chair is certain to continue.

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Magnificent Brick Villa in Dream Location This attractive, well-maintained and spacious double brick villa has four double bedrooms, a formal lounge, and from the kitchen, a second expansive open plan living area flows out to a large north-facing entertaining deck into a lush organic garden. A spacious lawn and good off-street parking are also provided.

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Pins and needles – old-school sewing skills return

A stitch in time... Rye Brady (Year 3) carefully practises her needlework to decorate a paper bookmark A lunchtime sewing club, where children learn how to thread a needle, sew on a button and make small patterns, has been a surprise success at Belmont Primary School.

Year 3 teacher Lindsay Dobbinson says she learned how to sew in high school and hated it. But a couple of years ago she joined an Auckland quilting group. “When we made a small Anzac pattern, I thought I could do something like that with the children at school,” she says.

More than 50 children from Years 3 and 4, including four boys, responded to a notice Dobbinson issued at school and said they were keen to spend Monday lunchtime sewing. “There were so many, I had to split them into groups. We started with 15 and just added another 11 for a new project.

Eventually everyone will get a chance,” she says. Her first group made a small pillow with an Anzac poppy on the front and their name and year embroidered on the back.

The second group is making a large flower.

The children are learning a variety of techniques, including running, back, blanket and applique stitches. “The most important thing is to learn the correct words and to be safe and not stand on a big needle,” says Dobbinson during the second group’s introductory lesson.

She quizzes the kids about the difference

between needles and pins, thread and string.

After the students threaded a needle, they practised the running stitch on a piece of black paper. “But you will do it slowly, so it might be more of a walking stitch at first,” she jokes.

Dobbinson, who has been teaching at Belmont Primary for 27 years, gave each child a small pincushion she had made. “That’s where your needles live when you don’t use them,” she says.

And the children are loving the class. You could almost hear a pin drop, so quiet is

Room 14 as the children concentrate while threading their needles.

“I did this with my mummy once,” a girl tells her friends.

A handful of children are working on a padded felt toy. They trace small patterns, cut out fabric and finish the edges with a blanket stitch.

Dobbinson says she could not run the club without the help of other teachers and teacher aides. Parents have also put their hands up to help, donating time, fabric and even a sewing machine, she says.

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Bringing home the reality of war

Connecting soldiers to home…Penny Clark has painstakingly chronicled Devonport homes and the places the fallen left behind Documenting the Devonport addresses to which fallen World War 1 (WW1) soldiers never returned has brought the Great War into focus for local artist Penny Clark, who is drawing each property with a fountain pen.

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Depicting each home where fallen soldiers lived makes the number of those who died feel tangible, she says about the Lost Men of Devonport project.

“At some houses two or three men did not come back. It’s not just about the soldiers but about the families who were left behind in the community and suffered through unimaginable stress and endurance. You just can’t believe how many families were affected,” Clark says.

She has been working off a 1916 address list of the 202 Devonport Borough men lost at war. The list was compiled by the Devonport RSA’s Fred Wilson.

Clark has looked up a few addresses on Papers Past and at the Devonport Museum and says she has uncovered “dramatic stories of despair.”

To mark Anzac Day, 52 of her drawings formed part of a recent exhibition at the Depot Artspace, but Clark wants to keep going until the last man is accounted for.

Each drawing takes her about three hours.

Clark heads out whenever she finds the time, rain or shine. “I just want to get the project finished because I feel it needs completion. I feel that I owe it to them now. I love the idea that they are still relevant today,” she says.

The significance of the post-WW1 era has grown for Clark since she put pen to paper.

“There is so much to compare between then and the world a hundred years ago and how the war has influenced us today,” she says.

“Have we changed or become wiser or whether we think about getting involved in conflict more these days?” she says.

Underneath each picture, Clark briefly notes the world events occurring on the day she drew it, including conflicts in Syria, New Zealand’s involvement in Iraq and trade negotiations. “The same tension between principles and pragmatism of getting involved in the world that was around in New Zealand in 1914 is still there today,” she says.

Clark says the series is part of a larger focus in her work on how local values relate to what goes on in the wider world. “I have been documenting what is important to us, such as sports fields, roadworks, house prices, parking spaces, and I wonder how to relate it to what’s going on at the UN and places like that,” she says.

• The drawings can be viewed at: www. thelostmenofdevonport.com. Clark also wants to assemble a folder with copies for the library.

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May 15 2015

BIS cyclists crank it up in Auckland racing

Chain gang… cyclists learn skills and safety on the fields before heading out on the road Belmont Intermediate road cyclists have won conpetition medals – just two weeks after a new racing training programme was launched at the school.

At an Auckland schools cycling race at Pukekohe, Alexander Wright (Year 7) won Silver in the Under-13 boys race and Adam Little (Year 7) won Bronze. Among the Under-13 girls, Lucy Buckeridge (Year 8) came 4th.

Programme coordinators, parents Ian Lochhead and Blair McPheat, say they were “blown away” by the results, “especially as we haven’t been out on the road yet, just on grass fields a couple of times.”

Since the programme started, 30 students have been polishing their bike handling skills before school. The first session included a safety check, goal setting, drills, and finished

with two sprint races around the lawns.

Belmont Intermediate (BIS) teacher in charge, Wendy Hay, said pupils don’t go out on the road until “we are confident that they have the necessary skills. We have a list of skills that we check off for each child.”

“We basically want to make cycling as accessible as possible, so we don’t require they wear a cycling uniform, to keep the cost as low as possible,” says Hay. McPheat and Lochhead had the idea for a local intermediate school programme at last year’s road cycling nationals in Palmerston North. “We were down there with Takapuna Grammar riders and noticed that quite a few intermediate schools participated as well,” says Lochhead. He and McPheat have children at both TGS and BIS and liked the idea of including the younger ones in the school sport.

Safety first: neon part of uniform at BIS High-Vis vests are now compulsory issue for students cycling to Belmont Intermediate.

For the 200 children who cycle to Belmont Intermediate School (BIS) every day, the vests are part of their uniform.

When the school introduced mandatory cycling vests this year, staff expected a dropoff in the number of kids cycling to and from school. But they were surprised how well the children accepted the new safety measure.

“Now everyone is wearing them and it is not a problem,” says BIS teacher Wendy Hay. BIS has consistnetly been the top interme-

diate school in New Zealand for cycling to school. “We are the largest cycling school by a country mile, so it was a big choice for us to introduce the vests,” says Hay. That the vests were donated by Auckland Transport, were brand-new and the right size helped, she says.

“We expected a bit of resistance because they are not necessarily cool.” A couple of parents questioned the new rule, citing ‘freedom of choice,’ but Hay says the vest is making cycling safer and is mandatory, just like school uniform, while the children are in the school’s care.

“We copied the way the high school does it, train three times a week and basically plagiarised their health and safety plan. TGS has been very generous and told us all we need to know,” Lochhead says.

He and McPheat see the programme as a feeder into the now well-established TGS programme, which celebrates its 10th anniversary and has 53 cyclists signed up this year.

Over the last couple of seasons TGS has produced a number of nationally ranked cyclists.

McPheat said it was early days for the BIS programme and some might drop off, “but with the 30 kids we have at the moment, that’s as many as TGS had four years ago.”

But BIS may have a chance to get one up on TGS. McPheat is planning to organise a “Principal’s Challenge” between Simon Lamb at TGS and Nick Hill at BIS.

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Devonport campaigner and pioneer celebrates 100th birthday Eileen Hamilton, who spent much of her life living in Devonport before moving into residential care, recently celebrated her 100th birthday at Anne Maree Court, the Northcote rest home where she now lives.

Hamilton was born on 27 March 1915, a month before the start of the Battle of Gallipoli.

She recently celebrated her 100th birthday.

For many years Eileen and her husband Ian Hamilton lived in Ngataringa Rd, Devonport, where they were actively involved in local affairs, including the protest against reclaiming land at Ngataringa Bay to build a marina in the 1970s and the local campaign for recycling.

Ian Hamilton (1905-1991) was a conscientious objector during World War II and subsequently wrote the book Until Human Voices Wake Us, in which he described the harsh treatment received in the prison camps of the 1940s.

Eileen and Ian Hamilton were committed organic gardeners long before it became popular. In the 1950s they bought a piece of land in Birkdale where a small house was designed and built for them by friends from the ‘Group Architects’. They built compost bins, and grew fruit and vegetables, which they delivered weekly in their small truck to their many artist and writer friends.

In the 1940s and 50s, before the Harbour Bridge was built, the North Shore was relative-

Marking 100 years… Eileen Hamilton, with the Queen looking on ly isolated from Auckland and was a haven for creative people. The Hamiltons were close to Alison Duff, Molly Macalister, Theo Schoon, Ron (R.A.K.) Mason and Frank Sargeson.

Maurice Duggan, Gordon Walters and Colin

McCahon were also among their friends.

Eileen’s daughter Bev Melville, and her eldest grandson Tim Melville were present at the birthday party given to her by the staff of Anne Maree Court.

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May 15 2015

Devonport Sea Cadets win regional title

Devonport Sea Cadets have won a northern regional title and placed second in the national champs.

Every year, seven teams of eight cadets, from Whangarei to Tauranga, journey to the Navy base at Whangaparaoa Peninsula to compete in the Sea Cadet Northern Area Regatta.

Devonport cadet unit Training Ship Leander was the 2015 winner, coming first in many of the activities at the regatta.

The water-based activities in the competition included sailing races, rowing and a seamanship race (a mix between rowing, sailing and capsizing), while the land-based disciplines were shooting, first aid and navigation. The Devonport team went to the nationals in Wellington, where it placed second.

First regionally and second in nationals, Training Ship Leander…

From left: Ensign Sonya Porter, Leading Cadet Tymon Porter, Able Cadet Nina Smith, Able Cadet Kayla Peden, Able Cadet Trishie Gilvray, Chief Petty Officer David Gilvray, Leading Cadet Rix Donaldson, Able Cadet Sean Flower, Able Cadet Drew Spark

THe navy CommuniTy newsleTTer THank you For undersTanding

CANterBury DePlOymeNt tO VANuAtu HMNZS Canterbury has an extensive range of capabilities, including the ability to land personnel, vehicles and cargo by landing craft, helicopter or ramps, as well as conventional port infrastructure. It also has a working surgical unit on board capable of conducting vital operations and saving lives.

The Navy had been preparing the ship since the cyclone struck to be ready for a possible deployment, said its Commanding Officer, Commander Simon Rooke.

“We made a real difference over there. We delivered over 150 tonnes of food and water, as well as emergency supplies and construction material. With Ministry of Health teams and Army engineers deploying from the ship carrying out damage assessments, clearing debris and making repairs to critical infrastructure.”

After four weeks of providing critical assistance to Vanuatu, Canterbury returned home to Devonport.

“Our mission was a huge success, and it was great to be able to support Vanuatu in a time of crisis.”

The devastating Tropical Cyclone Pam struck Vanuatu on March 14, 2015. The very next day your Defence Force was in Vanuatu providing assistance to our close Pacific neighbour.

When the Government announced that the Navy’s amphibious support ship HMNZS Canterbury would be despatched to support relief efforts, your Navy was ready.

However, we recognise that the loading and unloading of equipment and personnel results in increased traffic through our community.

Getting vital aid and supplies to nations struck by disaster is a vital component of what we do, and when we sail not only do we represent New Zealand, but we also represent the Devonport community, which has been our home for over 100 years.

Whenever the unthinkable happens and we need to reach out to communities on far-off shores in times of trouble, your support makes a huge difference. Thank you.

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May 15 2015

Devonport residents turn out for second port protest

Devonport was well represented among the 1,000 plus people who protested on May 3 against Ports of Auckland expansion plans.

Unequivocal… North Shore Ward councillor Chris Darby drew popular support for his condemnation of Mayor Len Brown and Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse and their roles in Auckland Council’s climbdown, that will see one wharf extension constructed. Local board member Mike Cohen also attended.

Making their point… Anthea Dunning (left) and Rhonda Steele are strongly against the onefinger wharf extension compromise

Not impressed… Paul Dunleavy was one of many local protestors on the Devonport ferry

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May 15 2015

Takapuna

Grammar

School NewS

MAY 15, 2015

The girls are back After five years of slumber, the girls are back, ready as ever, to tackle the challenges of a new season. Girls rugby has returned to TGS. “I feel this is an important start for girls rugby in New Zealand especially to the NZ Sevens rugby team at the Olympics next year,” teacher and coach Mr Hayden Viles says.

The first training session started with a bang. More than 20 eager girls showed up on the field. This means there is a very high chance the girls will be registered into the tournament. “Not only are the girls learning new skills but they have the willingness to participate. They are having lots of fun,” remarked Viles.

Although the girls are new to the game of rugby they are prepared to get down and dirty. They are ready to put in the time to learn the essential skills needed for rugby.

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The girls are currently coached by Chelsea Alley, who works with local schools to

encourage more girls to get involved with rugby.

The school was hoping to register a Tens team into the season’s tournament. However, due to previous commitments and after vigorous deliberation, the girls have decided to play in the rugby Sevens tour-

nament later this year. They are hoping to form a rugby Tens team for next year. As Mr Viles noted, “Hopefully with the positive start we will grow the number of girls willing to play at TGS. It has definitely shown that rugby is not just a male sport.”

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Learning in A three-day camp at Eastern Beach. Excitement and anticipation filled the air.

In the early hours of a Monday morning our Year 12 IB class stood huddled together by the netball courts. We were awaiting the arrival of our bus to take us away for three days of thrilling activities.

The first activity was to create an iMovie for the IB Learner Profile. This profile is what describes different characteristics of academic success: inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, caring, risk-takers, balanced, and reflective. These attributes develop a strong, inquisitive and successful learner.

Throughout this activity we were encouraged to step out of our comfort zone and interact with people we didn’t know very

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rotunda was a once-in-a-lifetime performance to honour and celebrate the Anzac spirit, as 2015 commemorates the centenary of the Anzac landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. The staff and students of the Performing Arts department were in the audience to witness run by the New Zealand Dance Company, as part of their Australasian tour.

Rotunda pairs contemporary dance with a live brass band to form a poignant masterpiece. Featuring a cast of eight talented dancers and the New Zealand Army Band, staff and students alike were transfixed for the 90 minutes of magic. “I particularly liked

the range of New Zealand music that was showcased,” says Grace Cowley, a Level 1 Music student. The themes of courage, loss, kinship and peace were explored among the swirling energy of the production. rotunda was created over the course of three years by Executive/Artistic Director Shona McCullagh and Musical Director Don McGlashan, who is also a celebrated singer, songwriter and composer. “The performers’ journeys go to the heart of change and crisis, where compassion and kinship are illuminated by a haunting, humorous and deeply felt score,” says McCullagh.

The 24-piece marching band brought

a new environment well who were within the IB programme.

“I would say that the only way to properly get to know someone is by being put in an awkward situation and being forced to work through it and that’s what we did at camp,” observed Geena Lee. On Tuesday, we were split into groups of three and in a big hall there were 14 activities posted on the wall. In a clockwise formation our groups of three spent three minutes on each activity. The activities consisted of brain-teasers, and trick questions.

While we sweated over trying to figure out the answers, we also bonded in a way we wouldn’t have if we were asked these questions individually.

We also took part in a beach clean-up on Eastern Beach. We started from one end

of the beach and finished at the other. The amount of trash we picked up with just one walk of the beach was truly baffling.

It made us take a step back and truly understand how harmful litter is in our world, and made us think about what we can do to help out.

We also worked on our Group 4 Project, which is essentially a science project.

The only guideline we were given was the topic, “Footprint.” When the teachers told us that there were no other ‘rules’ some of us thought they were joking. Never have we been given so much freedom for a project. Since in IB our Group 4 subjects are sciences, we were jumbled, mixing Physics, Chemistry and the Biology students, which gave us a good combination of knowledge

to life the rich brass music of New Zealand composers Gareth Farr, John Ritchie, John Psathas and Don McGlashan as well as works from Elgar and Brahms, woven together with traditional hymns to convey a deeper sense of the unique New Zealand landscape.

“The unmistakably New Zealand choreography integrates shadow play, mace twirling, a brass band, and a fusion of waiata with dynamic contemporary dance theatre.” All who attended left with a sense of pride and remembrance for the fallen soldiers of 1915.

BY EMILLY FAN to start to come up with ideas. It finally became less complicated than we thought it would be. Mr. Buckley’s Year 12 Computer Science students also joined us in this project. It was interesting to see all of our ideas flow into one since we all came from different backgrounds of sciences. It ended up being extremely entertaining and informative learning.

Overall it was a hugely enjoyable experience. We were able to develop a deeper friendship with our fellow students outside of the classroom. “I very much enjoyed deepening the connections between our IB peers and teachers. Teamwork activities were particularly enjoyable as well as the beach clean-up as it provided a sense of helping the community as well as the wider environment,” said Mia Bigalk Shanks, Year 12.

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Teacher and councillor left her mark on Devonport Val Kearney, a much-loved primary school teacher in the Devonport area over more than two decades and a former Devonport Borough Council councillor, died on April 10 aged 87 after several years of illness.

Val lived almost all her life in Devonport.

Born in 1927, she was baptised Marguerite Valerie. Her parents Elizabeth and William, a butcher at Hellaby’s, moved Val and her older sister Maureen from Auckland city to Devonport in 1930, where Val recalled their life on the waterfront, initially at 22 Queen’s Parade, was a happy time for her family.

The Kearney family moved around Devonport with William made redundant as Queen Street manager of Hellaby’s after the Depression. He, like many others, was grateful to find relief work at Clemow’s Orchard in Rosedale Road, Albany, where he would ride his bicycle daily from Devonport, sometimes balancing a sack of the windfall apples Clemow offered. By 1936, Val’s younger siblings Bruce and Betty had also joined them.

The Kearney family were all very good swimmers and loved living so close to the water. Maureen and Val would often go out fishing with their father in his boat. William himself was powerful and athletic and would row them out sometimes as far as Rangitoto.

Then, on the row home with the wind on the nose and the boat full of fish, he would encourage one of the obliging children to jump in and swim home alongside the boat to lighten the load.

At other times, prior to the Second World War, they would fish for whitebait with a short-handle net under the Naval Base.

Val started school in 1932 (in the junior Devonport School across the road from the current school in St Aubyn St) aged five, but was sent back home because of the Depression’s lack of teachers and told to come back when she was six.

From Devonport School Val went on to Takapuna Grammar, where boys and girls at that time in New Zealand high schools were kept completely separated. Val excelled

academically and at sports, getting into the school cricket team in her first year thanks to the amount of time she had spent playing cricket with boys along the waterfront. She was also Auckland and South Auckland Swimming Champion in breaststroke from 1943 to 1945.

In her second year at TGS, Val was hospitalised with pleurisy and her parents decided that she should give up school. Then incredibly, a young American soldier, who her parents met while he was here on leave, asked to pay Val’s school fees and this continued until she left school at sixteen. Val was still writing to him in 1993 when she recorded her history for the North Shore Oral History Project.

In 1954, Val began teacher training at Ardmore Teachers College and her first job was as a primary teacher in Putaruru in 1956. She returned to the Devonport area in 1959, and for the next 16 years taught as Senior Mistress at Bayswater School, Devonport School, Forrest Hill School and Belmont Intermediate.

In 1975, until she retired in 1985, Val Val Kearney… a full life (1927 – 2015) returned to Devonport Primary School as the Senior Teacher of Junior Classes.

After her retirement the popular teacher Shore Bridge Club.

Val didn’t marry but had lots of friends frequently had the pleasure of being visited and relatives and a series of companions in by many of her former pupils.

In addition to her 30 years of teaching,Val her Jack Russell dogs Lucky, Dudley and had many other interests: she loved to sing, Jack. She also invested in her lifelong love paint and sculpt and to travel overseas; of horses, particularly co-owning winning she was secretary of the original Victoria pacers like Just Payson and Katrina Maree, Theatre Trust to save the Victoria Theatre; who she loved to visit at their trainers’ stables treasurer and teachers’ counsellor for the NZ and at the Alexandra Park trots.

Val settled in Kapai Road in 1987, just Educational Institute; executive member of Government Superannuitants; councillor for around the corner from her former homes in a term on the Devonport Borough Council (a Garden Terrace and Queens Parade. Dealing member of the Social Services and Planning with mounting health problems in the last Committees involved in anti-amalgamation five years of her life, she spent a lot of time and toxic spraying); a devoted parishioner of in Ward 14 at North Shore Hospital, but she St Francis de Sales and All Souls Catholic got her final wish to go home to Devonport Church; a member of Devonport Sixties where she felt happiest.

Up, of Mercy Associates helping to set up by Terrie Gray, libraries at Mercy Hospitals and of the North neighbour and friend

Ngataringa Tennis coach has Davis Cup success Ngataringa Tennis Club’s head coach Gilles de Gouy has had international success with his Pacific Oceania team gaining promotion to the Asia World Group 3 of the Davis Cup. The team, made up of players from the Pacific Islands countries (excluding New Zealand and Australia) beat United Arab Emirates in Bahrain to gain promotion from World Group 4.

In the Davis Cup there is the World group for the top countries and then subsections across the Americas, Asia/Oceania and Europe/Africa.

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Borough chambers reopen

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS Until 27 May

SMALL DOG GALLERY Lyndsay Brock: Cirque

There are glimmers of hope for continued community use of the old Devonport Borough Council building at 3 Victoria Road.

The former Borough Council Chambers and Devonport Community Board meeting room, which has been locked up since the first days of the amalgamated Auckland Council, is open to the public again.

Devonport Business Improvement District Manager Judy Grieve says the room is available to community groups during business hours and can be booked thorugh the Devonport Community Coordinator Maria Teape.

Auckland Council’s property department, which is in charge of the building’s future, has also told Grieve she could temporarily use one of its upstairs offices. “So for now I am based there,” Grieve says. Devonport

House of Travel had been giving Grieve the use of a back room.

But whether the community use of 3 Victoria Road will continue permanently is still up in the air, Grieve says.

She and a local stakeholder group have done all they can to save it, she says. They have put together a feasibility study on how the building could be used by the community and as a tourism hub. That study is currently going through council review. “There was a lot of interest to use the building among tourism operators and community groups and Auckland Property has been very cooperative, as has the local board,” she says.

A date for a decision has not been set.

To book the meeting room, contact Maria Teape at dportcomm@xtra.co.nz or 445 9533.

Fence to be replaced on Mt Vic Cirque evokes the exoticism and mystery of female circus performers in multiple roles. The characters in Lyndsay Brock’s parade wear wonderfully elaborate costumes & each painting has, in turn, brought a hand painted ‘Viennale style’ mask to life.

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The old wire and baton fence running along the bend of the Mt Victoria summit road, bordering Devonport Primary School, is to be replaced.

It has been in a poor state of repair for some time.

Roger Giles, who walks across the mountain daily, picking up rubbish and weeding among many other things, says he has contacted council repeatedly on the issue over the years, without success.

However Maunga Authority spokesperson Mike George says that Giles, the school and couple of others recently raised

their concerns that the fence wasn’t strong enough to protect the schoolchildren from a car running off the road.

“We are currently in the planning stage of replacing the fence with a more suitable roadside barrier and are seeking a civil engineer’s recommendation.

“Due to the ongoing planning and consent requirements, the timeline of this project will be long enough that a temporary barrier was deemed suitable in the interim,” George says. He could not confirm a date when the new fence would be built.

Letter box theft at Stanley Point

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Five days of mail, including private bank and home valuation statements, were stolen from the mailbox of a long-time Stanley Point resident and found more than a kilometre from his home.

Murray Loudon of 59A Stanley Point Road, says in the 19 years he has lived at the address he has always felt extremely safe, until now.

A resident found Loudon’s mail strewn around at the corner of Waterview and Glen

Woodblock and books An evening of Japanese Woodblock and Illustrated Books in Auckland Libraries will be held at Devonport Library on May 21, from 7.30 to 9.15 pm.

Dr Lawrence Marceau will present a glimpse into Japanese graphic arts and design between the years 1870 and 1885, through a collection of Japanese illustrated books, block-printed on mulberry paper.

The collection of rare books is now held in the Sir George Grey Special Collections of the Auckland Library.

At the Devonport Library Associates event drinks and nibbles will start at 7.30pm and be followed by the speaker.

Rds and returned it to him. Loudon found another bank statement crumpled up closer to home.

“We went away for five days. Usually, we cancel our mail but this time we didn’t. I am concerned about this because lots of private information was in there and I don’t know what else is gone,” he said. Loudon said he would report the theft to the Devonport Community Constable.

Winter dance Dance to live Irish and Scottish music with the Gaidhealtachd band to ring in the winter season. The Devonport Seasonal Ceilidh is open to novices as well as experienced dancers. It is being held on Saturday 16 May, 7:30 – 10:30 pm at Holy Trinity Church Hall, Church Street. Adults $10. $20 per family.

For more information, call 445 3757.

Belmont death A 63-year-old woman was found dead in a swimming pool at Belmont last Tuesday.

Police were called at around 6.10pm after a family member found the woman in a swimming pool at the address.

Police said there were no suspicious circumstances and the death will be referred to the Coroner.

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Situated on a sunny rear site close to parks and the Bayswater Marina this three bedroom modern home offers great buying. Excellent car access with lots of off street parking, room for the boat or campervan and a large single garage with secure internal access. Open plan living, kitchen and dining with easy flow to private sunny gardens and courtyards.

Good quality bathroom, separate toilet and modern kitchen. Easy walking and in zone for Takapuna Grammar, Belmont Intermediate, Bayswater Primary and steps to the local kindergarten. Easy flow flat access to the house and garage, Ideal for elderly people if required. The house has been well maintained since new. This house will suit a variety of buyers from single people through to families.

View and appreciate the value, location and sunny aspect of this home

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St Leo’s and Vauxhall joint Waterwise winners

Getting ready for racing… the end-of-season Waterwise regatta St Leo’s and Vauxhall Schools were joint winners of the annual Devonport Primary Schools Waterwise regatta.

Bayswater, Devonport, Hauraki, St Leo’s and Vauxhall Primary Schools took part in the end-of-season regatta at Narrow Neck Beach. Four children from each school participated in relay races.

The races were very competitive, and the children enjoyed sailing in the brisk wind.

The winning crews were: Oliver Nuttall, Vincent Moataane, Klara Sharplin, Will Maloney (St Leo’s); and Grace Collier, Samantha King, William Blick-Moroney, Maaki Muir (Vauxhall School).

Simon Rooke, Commanding Officer of HMNZS Canterbury, presented the children with their certificates.

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May 15 2015

Life lessons – Nepal quake comes alive for students

Disaster zone… Rosy Herstell points out rubble strewn across a track she was walking along, after the recent earthquake in Nepal Rosy Herstell was trekking with a group of friends outside the Nepalese village of Namche when the Anzac Day earthquake hit the country.

Last Monday, she related the experince to a class of Year 5 Stanley Bay School students.

Herstell, from Hauraki Corner, said she had celebrated Anzac Day at dawn, singing the New Zealand and Australian anthems. The earthquake hit at around 11.30am – sneaking up on her. “At first I just said to my friend that I didn’t feel well, a bit dizzy. Then we thought a helicopter was coming because of the noise.

But it was the noise of the earthquake. And then the ground started to shake.” she says.

Herstell said she was lucky to be in a relatively safe spot. “We stood behind a tree and held onto it while rocks fell around us and we could hear the ice cracking. We were lucky we didn’t get hit,” she said. Herstell walked on to Namche to see if she could help. “The thing is that Nepal hasn’t had an earthquake in 80 years. As Kiwis, with the recent experience of the Christchurch earthquake, we were more prepared for what to do,” she told the kids. In Nepal she advised locals on what to do during the aftershocks.

Namche was not as badly hit as Kathmandu, Herstell said. Around 20 per cent of the houses were destroyed there, compared to many more in Kathmandu, she said, showing the children photos of the decimated houses, tracks and religious sites she had come across.

Herstell was stuck for six days in the mountains and then two days in Kathmandu. She said the hardest part was not being able to get in touch with her New Zealand family and friends while still in Nepal. “When we finally got onto the rescue plane to Kuala Lumpur, we left much of our luggage behind, so that the plane could take on more people instead,” she says.

She also told the children about her trekking adventures in the days before the earthquake.

Herstell had trekked to Everest Basecamp six days before the earthquake and climbed Island Peak (6,200 m above sea level) as well as a number of smaller peaks. She talked about how she coped with small bouts of altitude sickness by eating lollies and how a Yak carried her tent.

Herstell had spent the previous three months in Nepal teaching English, and brought Nepal alive for the students. The kids were interested to learn that unlike in Devonport, there were no oceans in sight, that it was hard to breathe because of the lack of oxygen, that the Nepalese are named after the day they were born and the job they do, and that Lukla’s airport is so short and dangerous that the airstrip goes uphill to slow down the landing planes.

By the end of her visit, every child in Room 7 said they wanted to travel to Nepal one day.

A day after her school visit, Herstell graduated from Victoria Universitywith a BSc in Environmental and Development Studies. Next year she is off to Africa and the students want to have a return visit.

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A Sound Investment | Strong Development Potential An amazing quarter acre (1012m² section) in fabulous Seacliffe Avenue with an original one level three/four bedroom bungalow with a wide road frontage of approximately 23.5m.

Options to be considered: • Under current operative plan, subdivide and build two homes, zone residential 4 A - 450m² per site.

• Create your own masterpiece; a fine home with outdoor entertaining, pool, cabana, gardens.

• Land bank for future development under proposed Unitary Plan.

• Renovate this spacious, special bungalow steeped in history, add, reconfigure, landscape.

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