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The advert featuring a restored classic 2017, it has confirmed. car and its occupants surveying Auckland, “Filming took place in November 2017. is currently screening on television. The As you are aware, this was prior to the Tupuna Maunga Authority granted a filmTo page 6 ing permit to Mercury Energy in October

Turning back the clock at St Leo’s

Old style… Scott Barnett and Sarah Sparks at a St Leo’s School Victorian event to celebrate the school’s 125-year anniversary. More pictures, page 42.

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Art of this World out of Devonport One of Devonport’s oldest businesses is shifting out.

Art of This World – one of the suburb’s leading galleries since it was established opposite the ferry wharf 19 years ago – is moving to Albany. It closed in Devonport this week.

Owner Angela Lush-Randle said Lake Rd traffic was increasingly impacting on the gallery’s customers, who came from all over Auckland. “The traffic issue on Lake Rd has been significant,” she said.

And the business had failed to fully recover from disruption caused during the ferry-

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More trees cut down without consulation Three more trees in Devonport’s main street have been removed by Auckland Council without being consulted local body politicians.

The trees were taken out in Victoria Rd around a week ago. The felling follows the removal of a number of trees from the street, cut down in the early hours of the morning a few months ago.

That incident created a furore, and led to calls for more consultation between council and the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board and Devonport Businesses Association

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building and Marine Square upgrades near its original premises.

Art of this World “retreated” to a smaller site at the Old Post Office, where it has been based for three years. But “we have struggled to regain the momentum,” she said.

Lush-Randle added that Devonport had “changed hugely” since the gallery first opened. Smaller retail centres were in decline in Auckland and around New Zealand.

The new Art of This World store would open in September, and the business has retained its sister gallery in Kohukohu, Hokianga.

before such work in Devonport’s heritage and tourist area.

Local board member Mike Cohen said he was disappointed but not surprised at the latest tree felling.

He conceded one of the trees – outside Westpac Bank – was not in particularly good condition.

“But that is not the point. They say they willl talk about replacement trees but there needs to be delegation to the board and the business association on decisions that affect our most important street,” Cohen said.

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TGS First XV wins last match prior to semi-finals Two tries by star Takapuna Grammar First XV captain Lockie McNair spelt the difference in its 22-14 win over Whangarei Boys High School last weekend.

The first try was a gritty pushover, with McNair buried in the tight.

The second was an open-field spectacular, which saw McNair effectively seal the match with a 45-metre sprint to the line after a second-half intercept.

It was a solid win for TGS, going into semi-finals of the North Harbour secondary schools championships at home this weekend against Rosmini.

The victory was important following the first TGS loss this season to Westlake the week before.

It was an evenly contested match, but TGS cut down its handling errors and its pack went from strength to strength as the game progressed. TGS soaked up a spirited second-half comeback by Whangarei. The home team scored four tries to two, which reflected the difference between the two sides.

TGS forwards Vise Siasau and Bill Halo had impressive games, while centre AJ Frost was the best of its backs, solid on defence and scoring a smart try in the first half.

• TGS plays Rosmini at midday at home on August 11.

Standout performance… Lockie McNair scores a runaway second try for TGS last Saturday

Sunday Showcase of local talent A smorgasboard of young Devonport talent is on show at the Victoria Theatre on August 19.

The Devonport Youth Forumproduced Sunday Showcase, from 1pm-3pm, will include: Freya, Sons of Swing, Dance Sprite, BIS Kapa Haka, Devonport Drama and short films made

by Takapuna Grammar School media students. Entry is free.

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DevonportProperty.nz Report — July 2018 Quieter property market sees sales exceed new listings Whilst our thoughts may be turning to Spring and the hope of warmer weather ahead, the property market has yet to see any Spring shoots.

The real challenge for those thinking of buying is, without doubt, the current shortage of properties. For the first time in the past year, sales have exceeded new listings, a situation that cannot be sustained for long!

At the end of July, there were just 33 properties for sale across Devonport.

This though is likely to improve in the coming months as the Spring market arrives.

For those thinking of selling, a lot more thought and analysis needs to be applied to the process, so as to maximise marketing impact in order to attract the right buyers. There are keen buyers out there who are looking for the right house.

Property sales in the three months to July totalled 54, down just 4% compared

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11%. However, with only 44 new listings coming onto the market, the inventory of just 23 properties provides little choice for buyers. The median sales price was $1.7million, down just 1% when compared to the same time a year ago.

to a year ago. Within the mix of these transactions, the sales of family homes continue strongly with 45 transactions, representing a year-on-year rise of 11%.

The median sales price overall for the three months to July was down 6% at $1,482,500.

House sales This segment remains active with 45 sales in the past three months, up

Properties Properties on the market Listed (as at 31 July) (May/Jun/Jul)

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uNIT sales As has been commented on in prior months, the market for investment and owner-occupied units continues to be subdued, with just four sales in the past three months, down 61%.

As sales remain subdued (and a limited supply of new listings), the median price remains fairly static. In the three months to July, the median price for those sales was $745,000, down 4% compared to the prior year.

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Vicars rally behind hospital in Zambia Holy Trinity vicars are in Zambia for a car rally to raise money to build operating theatres in the country’s north-west.

Former vicar Murray Spackman and Charmaine Braatvedt, the current Holy Trinity vicar, left for Africa last week to take part in the fundraiser, which aims to contribute $150,000 to the theatres at Mukinge Hospital in Kasempa, Zambia.

Ten 4x4 vehicles carrying four people each will take part in the 900km rally to the hospital from Zambia’s capital, Lusaka.

Each team has been asked to raise $15,000 towards the cost of the new operating theatres.

“We have had an astonishingly good response from the people of Holy Trinity Church, Devonport and the wider community, and have raised $27,000 for the cause,” Braatvedt says.

“It will be a great adventure because we go on dirt roads, through game parks and very remote areas, cooking and sleeping in our vehicles. Each vehicle is totally selfsufficient,” says Braatvedt, who is taking a two-month sabbatical from Holy Trinity.

“We have named our vehicle The BraatSpacks because I have invited Murray and Beryl Spackman to join us.”

Surgeon Richard Harman of North Shore Hospital came up with the idea of a road trip to Mukinge as a fundraiser for the hospital.

“The link with Devonport is that David Friend, an ex-TGS boy, is the chief surgeon in this very poor area. Richard has visited this hospital on previous occasions as have Geoff [Braatvedt’s husband, who is also a doctor] and I, to work and support David’s efforts there,” Braatvedt says.

Holy Trinity supports Friend financially through its Op Shop, individual contributions from church members and in other ways.

Braatspacks… (from left) Murray and Beryl Spackman with Charmaine Braatvedt, depart Auckland Airport for Africa “Our ladies knit jumpers for the neonates in Mukinge and make bandages from recycled sheets, which they send to the hospital.”

The Braatvedts and Spackmans start the rally from Lusaka on 10 August.

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Flagstaff Gallery celebrates 25 years

Opening Day Sunday 26 august at 3pm

Visitors welcome!

Your local tennis club in Stanley Bay Park, 166 Calliope Rd, Devonport, celebrates the start of the 2018-19 season with mini tennis and other games for children, and fun mixed doubles for adults.

Free sausages for kids. adults please ByO picnic (bbq available for your use) and refreshments for a social afternoon.

Discounts on subscriptions available until August 31. new SeniOr anD juniOr memBerS inViteD.

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The Flagstaff Gallery is celebrating its 25th year in Devonport.

To mark the occasion the gallery is putting together Twenty Five – a group exhibition showcasing new works from 40 artists including Michael Smither, Tony Ogle, Gillie and Marc, Mary Taylor, and more. It opens on August 23.

The Flagstaff Gallery was established in October 1993, when Kath and Alan Jenkins opened the doors to the first contemporary art gallery on the North Shore. The gallery started its life opposite the library at 25 Victoria Rd. The original gallery logo (an elongated triangle) can still be seen in the floor of the Anna Stretton store.

It has had four owners in its 25-year history.

Current proprietors Cary and Doug Cochrane purchased the gallery in September 2015, and have since refurbished the space, bringing with it a wave of new artists.

“This exhibition is an opportunity to tell a new story within the context of a long history in

Devonport. Inspiring young minds, making art accessible and relevant to contemporary viewers and maintaining the art culture in Devonport, which is part of its heritage – this is really important to us,” Cary said.

The Flagstaff Gallery currently represents more than 60 artists and holds approximately 800 artworks. Historically, galleries were community spaces where people met to have a chat, show one another their work, have a drink and enjoy each other’s company and anything they had made.

“Our mission is to create a space like this, where everyone feels welcomed, everyone feels relaxed and everyone wants to come back; a gallery for the community, a gallery that supports artists, a visually lively gallery, a destination.

“There is no doubt that art galleries would not be able to exist without the support they receive from their community. Local support is really important and Devonport and the wider Auckland community have been amazing,” said Cary.

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Spending by international visitors to Devonport in the last quarter dropped by 20% on last year.

International visitors spent $1.03 million from 1 April to 30 June in 2018, compared to $1.29m in the same period in 2017.

However, spending from New Zealand customers held up well, with a 3% increase in the same period, according to a Market View business survey.

Local and wider New Zealand customers spent a combined $24.72 million in the June 2018 quarter.

Most of the Devonport spending – 88% of the New Zealand total – came from north of the Auckland Harbour Bridge, with 81.2% from the Devonport to Hauraki Corner.

Of the international spend over the quarter, 29.6%, came from Australian visitors, with the US accounting for 22.2% and the UK 12.5%.

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The Devonport Flagstaff Page 15

August 10, 2018

A healthy dose of intolerance needed On the deafening sound of some Devonport folk patting themselves on their backs for their “tolerance” regarding the “care or ownership” of Mt Victoria being handed over to Maori. I didn’t notice a stampede of Maori to remove

the obnoxious scribble from the guns on their “sacred” mountain North Head. Should I also tolerate the million-dollar expenditure of the “search for design” for a monstrosity to be erected on Bastion Point? No I don’t; any more than I tolerate the asinine decisions that are now made daily by politically correct, self-serving and dishonest prime ministers, politicians, mayors and councillors!

We have been far too “tolerant” for far too Re: the report in the Flagstaff of 27 July long. What this country needs is a healthy about a study of and monitoring of seaweed on dose of intolerance!!

Cheltenham and Takapuna beaches. I believe Helen J Sharman this report was not presented in a meeting open to the public and so the opinions of those directly affected by this problem have not been heard. Could a full copy of this report please be made public and submissions from the public invited on the subject?

The “monitoring to date” was obviously not Re the Sir Peter Blake Marine done in the 2017/8 summer, as the seaweed Education and Recreation Centre remained for weeks on Cheltenham Beach, at Long Bay. greatly affecting the use of and enjoyment I see Auckland Council proposes revoking its Reserve status under of this beach by locals and visitors, who had the Reserves Act 1977 and bringing to scrape away the decomposing, smelly and it under the Local Government Act ‘hopping’ debris to find a spot to sit.

2002.

The comment that the “beach has a thin Is this a ploy by council to water veneer of fine sand and is therefore vulnerable down the sacrosanct provisions to sand removal” was definitely not made by of the Reserves Act 1977 to a local, as we see regular sand deposits on the make it easier to sell this and beach to the extent that steps once visible are other similar areas in the future? now completely covered.

Bruce Tubb As there is a machine currently used to clean the beaches on Tamaki Drive (presumably without removing their sand) why is this machine not available for North Shore beaches?

Popular beaches overseas are regularly groomed and are a pleasure to be on. Perhaps their councils could be asked for advice, and the wishes of the majority here listened to.

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A life of keeping many boules in the air Cam Calder’s a dental surgeon and a doctor, a businessman and an entrepreneur, a former MP and a man of many interests. He’s passionate about France – and Devonport too. He talks to Helen Vause.

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Scrub cutting and working on road construction helped fund him through dental studies at Otago University. He practised in New Zealand, Australia and the UK, financing his subsequent medical studies at Cambridge University, from where he graduated in 1988.

Calder and his wife Jenny loved the life in Europe and began their lifelong connection with France. But they wanted to come back to New Zealand to have their children, and Devonport looked like their sort of place.

They arrived in 1989, when Jenny was pregnant with their first daughter. Calder brought with him a set of boules and thoughts of a new business venture.

“I had it in my head that petanque would be a great game for New Zealanders,” he says.

Calder can take credit for being one of the first to introduce the game here. Because he was working up to 70 hours a week as a house surgeon, it took a while to secure agencies from the French manufacturers of boules. But in time, they were arriving by the tonne in containers from France.

The game found a following. Calder, along with Devonport locals Jorg Schulze, Mick Sharpe and others, founded the national petanque association.

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New Zealand sent two teams (Calder was in one of them) to the 1995 World Petanque Championships in Brussels. A natural promotions man, Calder fondly remembers getting great airtime with radio sports host, Murray Deaker, and taking the chance to talk up petanque.

He recalls coming home after a long day’s work to start packing boules until very late at night to meet orders that were coming in as the game attracted players here.

Calder’s proud to still be hosting the annual Christmas petanque tournament in Devonport, which he organised on the waterfront shell path for the first time in 1994. He is still in the boules business, and that over the decades has led him into KiwiFrench business activities.

Occasionally, he can be seen folded near double behind the wheel of his cheery bubble car, a 1959 BMW Isetta 300, sporting his boules brand, of course.

When Calder’s daughters were in their primary-school years, he questioned the lack of flexibility and the very long hours of practising medicine in the hospital system.

“I’d had the privilege of delivering my second daughter while working at North Shore hospital. But at the same time I was also aware I’d hardly seen my first child. I wanted to be there while my children were growing up. Childhood is so fleeting.”

To carve out more family time, Calder started to work in accident-and-emergency clinics, where a greater choice of shifts was offered. Ever enterprising, at one clinic he promoted petanque with a notice on the wall of the staff lunchroom. This was a doctor with work-life balance in mind.

By 2001, it was time for a family adventure and France beckoned the Calders. Off they went with their daughters, with a promise they’d be home in time for the start of the next school year, about a year later.

The family rented an old farmhouse in the countryside, near a small village. The

vulnerable New Zealanders,” he says.

The year before entering Parliament, Calder had surgery for prostate cancer. The importance of men taking responsibility for their health was an issue he championed.

“We blokes think we are invulnerable and we are not. All men should visit their GP in their early 40s, have a general check-up and a simple blood test for prostate cancer.

If prostate cancer is picked up early, lives can be saved.”

In his own case, Calder asked for testing himself. “If I hadn’t done that, I wouldn’t be sitting here today talking to you.”

He was re-elected from the National list in 2011, and was asked to stand again in 2014, but decided it was “time to get my life back”.

When the girls had grown up, the love affair with France was still burning bright for their parents. Years ago, they had been captivated by a 12th-century ruin in a small hamlet in south-western France. They bought it, with a view to spending as many seasons as it took to restore to a condition they’re happy with. Ever enthusiastic, Calder is doing a lot of the work himself – a nasty bruise on his finger attests to his toils with dry-stone walls.

It’s a very different life in Devonport, but he’s passionate about his home village too.

Calder is one of the core group taking the Tupuna Maunga Authority (TMA) to task over consultation issues on the management of Takarunga/Mt Victoria.

“The TMA set-up legislation requires the TMA to consider all the people of Auckland in the management of our maunga. I would like to see evidence of all Aucklanders being considered.”

Calder’s life remains very full and busy,yet there’s room for new adventures in his mid60s. There will be a trip to the Himalayas next year.

And maybe that little round boat, the coracle hanging in his garage, will get onto the water again this summer.

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“I figured my options were to go back to France, stay here and moan, or join the political party that best represented my views.” people were very warm and welcoming but the winter was freezing. The girls attended a one-room school, embraced all things French and got a very good grip on the language that they’ve both fostered into adulthood.

“It was tough for our girls being uprooted from all their friends. But they soon settled in and we packed a huge variety of experiences into our year,” Calder says.

When the family came home in 2002, Calder was uneasy at the direction the country was heading in under the government of the day. “I was concerned at the future my daughters would inherit.

“I figured my options were to go back to France, stay here and moan, or join the political party that best represented my views,” he recalls.

He joined the National Party, and in 2008 he was selected to stand as National’s candidate in Manurewa, a strong Labour seat. He entered Parliament from the party list in 2009, basing himself in the Manurewa electorate.

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The Flagstaff Notes

Flagstaff having been excluded from the proceedings – and the cheese scones – at a

By Rob meeting between the Maunga Authority and Drent the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board.

They sent us scones and a note: “We will always encourage you to represent us at our marvellous information centre – unlike [local board chair] George Wood, who wouldn’t share Some very strongly worded messages his scones. These gifts are from our Info Centre have been placed on cars parked ‘for sale’ on morning tea. Thank you for your support.”

Memorial Drive. A reader dropped in a couple, It’s good to see Vista Linda, the owners one of which read: “Take your second-hand car and bugger off. I don’t pay my rates for of The Arcade, in the middle of a midwinter the streets of Devonport to be a used car lot. revamp. Let’s hope a realistic rent is being Decent people use Trade Me, car auctions offered to prospective tenants so the mall can etc, but that is not you – you are selfish and a be filled by summer. drain on society – do us all a favour and please Congrats to Belmont Park squash players emigrate to another country. You are in breach of Auckland City by-laws. If you are here next Matthew Lucente and Gabe Yam for their weekend, I will have the Council tow you. So performances in the World Junior Squash champs. They both made the fourth round just bugger off.”

Another read: “Nothing is permitted to of the tournament and spearheaded New be sold on Memorial Drive – that includes Zealand’s ninth placing in the teams event vehicles. It is a city by-law, lest we forget.” – including a great win against arch-rivals I suppose the writer has a point, but the tone Australia.

Back in New Zealand last weekend, they does seem a bit heavy-handed, particularly just down the road from the cheery ‘Welcome to backed up the effort by leading Westlake Boys High School to a New Zealand Secondary Devonport’ sign.

Schools squash national title.

It is a fantastic reflection on the amount of Twenty-five years is a long time to be in business, especially in Devonport, given the work the boys have put in over the years and economic uncertainties posed by long, wet the support they have received, particularly winters, the vagaries of up-and-down tourism from coach Manu Yam and the Belmont Club. I numbers in summer and the fickleness of hope they both carry through on their potential consumers increasingly tempted by online to become professional squash players. shopping. So congratulations to Flagstaff Gallery, which this month is celebrating a quarter of a century of trading in Devonport.

The gallery was a supporter of the Flagstaff in our early days as well. I’m pleased it is still going and offering an outlet for a widespread range of artists.

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Rhythmic gymnast Hannah prepares for world championships It’s August and the year is flying away on us! We’re looking forward to a big month with our friends at Company Theatre.

Oscar Wilde is back in town with The Importance of being Earnest. It’s a classic comedy of manners, and will tickle even the coldest hearts after a trip through a chilly night to the theatre.

Company Theatre transports you to the 1890s, to Victorian England, for a performance of enchantment and hilarity. The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde’s most brilliant tour de force, a witty and buoyant comedy that has delighted millions in countless productions. This superb satire is one of the funniest plays in the English language – the delightful repartee and hilarious piercing of hypocrisy and pomposity will make you laugh out loud.

Two bachelor friends, the dandy Algernon Moncrieff and the utterly reliable John Worthing, lead double lives to court the attentions of the exquisitely desirable Gwendolyn Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. The gallants must then grapple with the riotous consequences of their deceptions, as well as with the formidable Lady Bracknell. After a simply brilliant turn in Deathtrap last year, Adam Pomeroy returns in the role of Algernon. August 11 to 25 is the season and you can grab tickets at iticket.co.nz

Our first RoseTalk with Dave Veart on Archaeology of Ma-ori Settlement of Devonport Peninsula was amazingly well attended. We were embarrassed by its success. Now we have a new talk: Professor Geoff Lealand will show the film he produced and debuted at Doc Edge in 2017, The Reel People of New Zealand. This 30-minute documentary takes a look into New Zealand’s independently owned cinema theatres, still thriving in the cities and small towns of New Zealand.

It’s much more than an exercise of nostalgia for traditional film-going, as it shows that this South Pacific nation of little more than four million people continues to support a surprising number of small, arthouse cinemas, with more than 100 listed on www.cinemasofnz.info, the website inspired the film.

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Competing in a blue-ribbon event... Hannah Kelly (left) hopes for a strong showing with her fellow Kiwi rhythmic gymnasts Rhythmic gymnast and Takapuna Grammar student Hannah Kelly (16) is preparing to head for Europe for a series of events that she hopes will culminate in selection for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

Hannah, along with five teammates from around New Zealand, has been selected to compete in the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria this September. They are the first senior group from New Zealand to compete at that level since 2007.

Finishing in the top 24 at the championships would give them entry to the Olympics. “That’s the real vision,” says Hannah, “to make it to the Olympics. But even qualifying as a group from New Zealand is such a great achievement.”

Hannah has been a gymnast for eight years and enjoys being part of a team. “I love working as a group. You become best friends for life after all the stuff you go through like injuries and tears. You really connect with each other.”

One member of the group, Katherine Paton, from Howick, is on dialysis following a kidney transplant, and is a very special and inspiring

member of the team says Hannah. “She’s my role model. Even when I feel like I am going to pass out, I just look at her and she reminds me to keep going.”

The team are away for six weeks. They attend two World Cup events in Minsk, Belarus, and Kazan, Russia, a training camp in Bulgaria and then the world champs on 15 September. Hannah is very aware of the stiff competition they will be facing. “It’s a passion for us,” she says. “We do it because we love doing it. But overseas it is their job.” Teams from Eastern Europe, Japan, China, America and Australia will compete.

Hannah, the youngest on the team, trains between 24 and 48 hours a week, depending on her school timetable.

“I go straight from school to training. I don’t get home until 10pm, and then I study until I go to bed at 1am and get up and do it all again the next day.”

Hannah recently received a letter from the TGS Dean congratulating her on her school results. She plans to study medicine at university, but if selected for the Olympics will first take a gap year.

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Going the extra mile for clients is a passion for Brynyce Owen of Moving Made Easy, a family-owned business proud to be part of the North Shore community.

Brynyce and her son Tom moved to New Zealand from the north-west of England and have always lived on the North Shore.

The pair started the business in 2013, following a bad accident that left Brynyce unable to work for a period of time.

“We based the business off a UK model, which puts the client at the centre of everything. Their wants and needs are put ahead of everything else” she says.

Brynyce, whose professional life was previously in education, has spent decades carrying out moving-related work on a voluntary basis. “I have always worked in the community, helping with reorganising and whatever else was needed.”

Son, and now business partner, Tom, studied Architecture at the University of Auckland, and continues to tutor and lecture there. Tom specialises in the marketing and administration for the business, as

Brynyce’s business philosophy puts clients ahead of everything else. well as spatial planning for clients. “Tom does a lot of planning, most of which he does for free. It’s part of our pay-it-forward policy” says Brynyce, who is always volunteering to help clients in any extra

way possible. Moving Made Easy is proud to work alongside a number of local charities.

Brynyce and the team have completed many jobs in the Devonport area, and she enjoys grabbing a quick coffee and working alongside other local businesses.

“I went into Bookmark to sell a book about plumbing for a client, and by the time I had walked out again I had purchased two books for Tom,” recalls Brynyce.

Brynyce and Tom’s business delivers a high quality, ethical, and human service that takes stress and hassle away from clients and their families. They offer a range of services, all built around the client – no job is too big or too small.

A reorganisation project, sale of items, downsizing and relocating, partial or whole house move, estate closure, home sale preparation are just some of things they do.

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Hello readers, For the month of July we have had some really good results in apprehending offenders for a variety of offences.

Overnight on 25/26 July, five mopeds/ scooters were stolen from areas around Devonport and Stanley Point. All five mopeds were recovered and two offenders were apprehended on the night.

Additional to this, two other mopeds were stolen earlier in the month (overnight 17/18 July). One has been located, and one is still outstanding.

Five bicycles have been reported stolen and three have been recovered. Please remember to record your bicycle serial number and keep it locked securely with a D-lock. If you locate any bicycles that appear to have been abandoned, please call us as we will hopefully be able to reunite

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These are a great results, and often it is the information that we can get from members of the public that helps us to quickly solve these crimes. We continue to ask our community if they witness anyone acting suspiciously not to hesitate to call us – we would rather show up to a job and it turns out there is nothing wrong, than to have missed the opportunity to prevent a crime.

Police are always asking our community to remain vigilant around scams. A recent scam that has been reported to Police is where the caller identifies themselves as a technician from Spark and claims people are trying to hack into your bank account.

If you receive a call from anyone asking questions such as your personal details, your bank account or computer, politely say “no thanks” and hang up the phone. Call the organisation where the person is claiming to be from if you are suspicious. Often these criminals will target vulnerable people, such as members of our elderly community, so make sure you are passing this prevention advice on to friends and family. We don’t want to see anyone ripped off by these people.

Never ever send money to people you haven’t met in person. Call Geeks on Wheels 0800 4 A GEEK (0800 424 335) for free expert advice about scams.

If you witness a crime or suspicious activity, please phone 111 immediately. Remember to use our Crime Reporting Line (non-urgent) 09 839 0600 or Crime Stoppers (if you wish to provide information to Police but want to remain anonymous) 0800 555 111.

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277 Beach Road Campbells Bay

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258m²

Three minutes’ drive from Milford, a hundred metres from Centennial Park and just four minutes from the beach, this is a superb location all right. And this is an equally exceptional property. This remarkable house was designed by architects Gillespie Newman and West.

It’s one of their iconic 1970s homes, wrapped around a stunningly peaceful courtyard, looking over the pool and surrounded by a neat tropical garden. From the first view of the unique wrought iron window frames and doors around the wonderful central entertaining atrium area, absolutely everything about this house is special. You’ll discover beautiful details everywhere; like the skylight in the polished rimu kitchen, the small ‘secret garden’ terrace, and the relaxing lounge, where two ceiling heights and the tall window set into the wall add to its cosy ambience. This is luxurious single-level living, yet its gently descending floor levels cleverly fold the whole building around the pool and courtyard, so that everything centres there. Each of the bedrooms is poolside, too, and the chic master bedroom has an equally smart ensuite shower room. The main bathroom has an elegance all of its own, created not least by the deep, deep bath and the refined practicality of a genuinely walk-in shower. You’ll also find a library to relax in, and a mezzanine office/study with its own rather distracting views. Light and airy each room may be, but rest assured, this house is very solidly built of concrete and reinforced block with adobe style rendering.

This place is rare, tranquil, and private. You could move in, kick back, and enjoy entertaining here. If life and style is what you’re after, this house will certainly give you both.

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10A Appleyard Crescent Meadowbank

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Designed by award-winning architect Ken Crosson, this sunny, sheltered and private property is absolutely flooded with light. Bifold doors run along the whole length of the house downstairs and from the curving balcony upstairs you look out onto views from each of the three double bedrooms. This place is genuinely low maintenance. It’s built of cedar cladding on treated timber framing and even has an easy care, mudfree ‘Tiger Turf’ lawn. Inside is where you can all relax as it’s as delightful. As well as looking great, this is a very practical property. Elegant use of marine ply in the open plan kitchen/dining/lounge is the perfect complement to this house’s location. Which is very handily just a few minutes walk from the train station, in zone for Meadowbank primary and Remuera Intermediate and only a 5 min drive from Kohimarama beach.

The location is fantastic; the plans are finalised, and the Licensed Builders have been signed up. These three new townhouses in Belmont’s Corrella Road will deliver a modern urban lifestyle with easy access to Bayswater, Takapuna and Devonport, favourite shops and cafes, and the Shore’s wonderful beaches. The practical layouts have been finalised by the talented architectural designers and the Kiwi developers - plus buyers will be able to add their own personal touch to their townhouse with wall and floor finishings of their choice. The high-end development’s crisp, clean design for the townhouses focuses on ease of living.

Every step of the design stage has focused on keeping maintenance to a minimum with layouts that deliver maximum space with a choice of living areas.

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August trapping pulse and spring clean

Green Pages

August 10, 2018

Beach rubbish haul a worry

We are hoping for an abundant spring for our birdlife, after one full year of our residential trapping project, and two years of volunteer work trapping and baiting in local reserves.

August RAt-tRApping: If you are not keen on trapping all year round, we encourage doing a ‘pulse’ of trapping in August, and again in November. This is to support the spring breeding period for our birdlife. Our top baiting suggestions are Pic’s peanut butter (this has a stronger smell and remains fresh for longer than cheaper brands), with Nutella or cheese as an alternative. Don’t forget to record any rat catches on The Urban Rat Project, www.ratproject.org (Restoring Takarunga Hauraki project). spRing CleAn: If you have any environmental weeds in your garden that might spread into local parks, Spring is a good time to have a go at these – our top-five contenders for worst weed for the area are moth plant, woolly nightshade, morning glory, madeira vine and phoenix palm seedlings, though there are a few others that could easily be on that list!

There will be a few weeding days over the next month or two in some local reserves, to get on top of some of the weeds before Spring growth gets out of control.

We are also gathering a team of casual volunteer weeders for occasional weekday blitzes. Contact pestfreedevonport@gmail.com if you are interested in adding your name to the list.

Weeding bee Jutland Reserve Sunday 19th Aug, 9.30–12.30 End of Jutland Rd in Jutland Reserve Bring gloves and a spade if you can.

Sausage sizzle at the end.

Weeding bee Achilles Reserve Sunday 16th Sept, 9.30–1.00 Bring gloves, spade and secateurs.

Morning tea provided.

Pollution… the rubbish found on a small area of Narrow Neck Beach Local resident Delayne Salthouse is alarmed by the amount of rubbish she collected while walking her dog on Narrow Neck Beach recently.

Salthouse regularly walks her dog on the beach. It is usual for her to fill one to two doggy bags with rubbish each time, but she says the amount she picked up on this one occasion was particularly worrying.

The rubbish (pictured above) was

collected along just a five-metre stretch of beach.

“Some further attention really needs to be brought to the problem of plastic pollution on our beautiful coastal beaches,” she says.

“If every person who walked their dog along the beach filled up one doggy bag full of rubbish, we would go a long way towards solving the problem.”

Zero-waste workshop at wharf A zero-waste public workshop will be held on August 20 from 7pm to 9pm, at Level One HQ, upstairs at Devonport Wharf.

The community workshop is aimed “at creating a roadmap towards a zero-waste Devonport,” one of the

organisers, Devonort BID manager, Toni van Tonder said.

“This is going to be a professionally facilitated workshop that’s aimed at delivering a manageable set of priorities for individuals, the community and our businesses,” she said.

For more information, email: manager@devonport.co.nz

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Eva has plastic-free Devonport in the bag

Bagging plastic... Eva Dallimore has created a canvas alternative to plastic bags Takapuna Grammar School Student Eva Dallimore’s alarm at the number of plastic bags being used in Devonport has prompted her to create an eco-friendly alternative.

The 14-year-old is behind the production of 500 reusable canvas bags – stamped with “I love Devonport” – that she hopes will provide an alternative to plastic.

Eva’s idea came while she was making bags out of old T-shirts for the Devonport Hospice Shop, as part of working towards a Duke of Edinburgh award.

“Being plastic-free is so important for

Devonport” she says. “We are right by the sea and it’s important to look after it.”

Eva and her family are originally from London, where the use of plastic bags has drastically dropped. They were shocked by the amount of plastic used here. “New Zealand is based around the sea, so you’d think it would be more important to people here,” she says.

Eva knew that she wanted to give back to the hospice in some way. “I saw how passionate [Hospice Shop manager] Tess McGregor is about the environment,” she says. “I decided I actually wanted to help

make money for the hospice too.”

The design process began and a prototype was created. Eva took the idea to local real estate agent Linda Simmons, who was keen to sponsor the bags, meaning that all of the proceeds can be donated to the hospice.

Eva hopes that local businesses will stock the bags, which will sell for $8 each. “I hope it will raise a lot of money for hospice, but I also hope that these bags will end up replacing plastic bags” says Eva. “Buying a bag will be showing your support for plastic-free Devonport.”

The writing’s on the wall!

Literally the writing is on the wall! Driving out of Devonport town centre you couldn’t miss it – plastic-free July, big pictures, big statistics saying we put an 8-tonne rubbish truck of waste into our oceans every few minutes.

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DevonporT Andrew Walters, Director Devonport Community Recycling Centre

July has seen a constant media barrage about waste issues – noticeably plastic – on TV, radio and in the newspapers. More than 25,000 kilogrammes of plastic are littered in New Zealand each day. Not all from Devonport, but our local actions and behaviours are contributing to this problem.

Let’s recognise that we’re part of the problem, but also part of the solution. Some people are making the change: the chalk fairies writing on the wall in Devonport sharing their message about zero waste, the unsung local heroes walking dogs picking up your litter waste on a daily basis, the people dedicating decades to zero waste in Devonport. You know who you are and I salute you!

Yes the writing is on the wall, the writing is on the wall for waste. But, all in all we’re just another brick in the wall. What can we do?

Think about what you buy.

After a plastic-free July, I’ve changed my buying habits. I try to avoid single-use items.

If I do buy them, the packaging goes back to the supermarket for them to manage. It’s only a small thing but it puts pressure on the bigger cogs in the machine to take action.

Consumer is king, our behaviours matter, they are listening –the daily digital intrusions into our lives from Facebook, data collection, Google tracking, store loyalty cards, etc. They listen because they want to know what makes us buy things, to sell us what we want.

What do we want? We want a waste solution.

When do we want it? Now. When we buy a product, we also buy the waste associated with that product. We are all responsible for our waste. It starts with us and ends with us.

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Green Pages

Peninsula residents young and old brought together by conservation

Already an old hand at trapping… Monty Scott with his rat trap, made by Tom Stead (below) Birds are being given a helping hand by some of Devonport’s oldest and youngest residents.

The Restoring Takarunga Hauraki/PestFree Devonport project has volunteers aged 90 years apart – 96-year-old Tom Stead and six-year-old Monty Scott. They are two of the many residents who have been doing their bit to help the birdlife in the area.

Tom, who turns 97 this month, has been at the Devonport Claystore making wooden tunnels for housing rat-traps. The Claystore volunteers have worked on the tunnels free of charge, basing their design on those made by Predator Free New Zealand. These tunnels are in turn being donated to local residents as part of the Restoring Takarunga Hauraki peninsula rat-trapping project.

The youngest resident keen to try out a tunnel is Monty, who goes to Hauraki School. Monty is already an enthusiastic trapper, who says: “I love helping the native birds and trees and it’s really exciting to run downstairs in the morning and check my traps to see if I’ve caught anything.”

Monty got into trapping when the free plastic traps were being given out at the library last year, and has been surprised at the number of rats he’s caught in his backyard on Eversleigh Rd. He loves showing his friends his different traps and

how to bait them.

Now he’s getting creative, inventing homemade traps, drawing up plans and building them. He is going to take his new trap tunnel into school for news on Friday.

If you would like one of the wooden trap tunnels, email your details to the PestFree Coordinator, pestfreedevonport@ gmail.com.

(The Devonport Claystore workshop (27 Lake Road) is open from 9 am to midday, Monday–Saturday, and the volunteers are always happy to help with any woodworking projects. A donation covers their costs and helps support their ongoing work.)

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Takapuna SCHOOL NEWS

Grammar AUG 10, 2018

An artistic celebration The Lake House Arts Centre is the venue for the school’s Senior Student Art Exhibition entitled, Just Hanging Around. Opened on July 24, a special weekend celebration was held on Sunday 29th, to showcase the exhibits by 145 senior students, with over 180 works for sale. The works are all pieces created for NCEA or IB portfolios and the exhibition ran until August 4th.

Family, friends and many teachers of the students were welcomed to the celebration with nibbles and drinks, and speeches by TGS art teacher, Mrs Linda Sew Hoy, Principal, Mrs Mary Nixon, and exhibition coordinators, Grae Burton and Diana Smallfield (a former HOD of Art at TGS). Prominent art collector Sir James Wallace also attended.

It is an enormous undertaking to hang such an exhibition and special mention must be made to Mr Phil Sew Hoy for his expertise.

Lin Li Yeoh, a Level 1 NCEA student said: “Seeing my work on the wall being shown to so many people, has boosted my confidence to create and present more.”

BY ANOUSHKA COULTER

A truly UNforgettable week An incredible four days of debate and workshops were on offer to five students, who attended the annual New Zealand Model United Nations held in Wellington over the July holidays.

Each student was assigned a member state of the UN and allocated places on three committees to represent their country’s perspective on a given issue. The debates were based around this year’s theme of ‘UN+forgettable’ with topics ranging from cultural erosion, to the Venezuelan Crisis, to the incitement of terrorism via the media.

Along with improving our public-speaking skills and knowledge of current world issues, we had the

opportunity to visit some of Wellington’s famous landmarks. The opening ceremony of NZ Model UN was held inside the Beehive and the annual ball was held at Te Papa Museum.

Participant Ailish Dodd said: “It was such a great experience that I would highly recommend to anyone interested in debating and politics. I met some really great people who are now some of my closest friends.” Rhain Lisk also thoroughly enjoyed his experience, saying that he, “got to meet new people and learn new skills, as well as gaining an insight into global affairs and different cultures.”

BY LIBBY LORD

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Takapuna SCHOOL NEWS

Coats for Kids

With the cold weather settling in, the Takapuna Grammar Peer Service Team (PST) united with the Bald Angels Charitable Trust to work on the Coats for Kids project for the second consecutive year. This campaign aims to collect as many items of winter clothing as possible for Northland families in need, where many live in small rural communities and often lack the necessities to face the chilly winter conditions.

The school library was the collection point and dozens of boxes were filled with donated clothes. The team, led by teacher Mr. Steve Smith, were overwhelmed by the generous contributions made by students and staff members to such a meaningful cause.

The trust is based on the spirit of goodwill and the motto: “It just takes that one pebble to cause a big ripple”.

An active member of PST, Madeleine Malone, states: “It was wonderful to have the opportunity to help these The items have now been collected by families and children in need, and it made us feel so fortunate and grateful the trust and distributed to families.

BY LILLIE BREWER for what we have got”.

Our own TED Ed showcase

Ten people. Eight speakers. Three performers. One Night. The annual Ted Ed Showcase.

With a cheerful audience of about 25 people, and two teachers, everyone left impressed by the presentations and performances. Whether it was William’s strong presentation about having the right mindset, Lin Li’s awe-inspiring speech about how her favourite superheroes push her to be the best person she can possibly be, Mila’s soothing Chinese dance or Theo’s powerful singing.

The speakers were all very well prepared with not a hint of nervousness. Danny’s relatable talk on aesthetics and Josie’s eye-opening speech on sharks and trying

to conquer her fear of them were both impressive presentations.

There were some socially engaging topics as well, such as the presentation on racism, and how it prevails regardless of humans advancing greatly.

Year 13 students Ming Yang Li and Curtis Tiau, started the TGS Ted Ed Club, and have run it successfully for two years. Ming Yang said: “The showcase was beyond my expectation as the speakers stepped out of their comfort zone and enhanced one of the most important skills for their future. The audience were thoroughly engaged. Moreover, for me, it was a great opportunity to practise leadership skills.”

BY LAIBA BATOOL

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L i on ’ s D e n THE LATEST IN SPORT

ON THE COURT: Natalie Sayes (Year 9) won the South Island U19 and U17 squash titles.

ULTIMATE: Nicole Svendsen is in the New Zealand Women’s team for the Junior World Championships in Waterloo, Canada.

ON THE MAT: Chiemu Iioka won four medals at the Karate NZ National Championships: Boys 14-15 years Open Kumite 63kg Premier 1st; Boys 14-15 years Premier Kata, 3rd; Boys Team Kumite, 2nd; Boys Team Kata, 1st.

IN THE POOL: Andrei Soldatovic has been selected to play for the North Harbour Waterpolo Club for three international tournaments.

ON THE PITCH: Boys First XI Football had a win against Selwyn College 4-2.

ON THE TRACK: At the North Island Track Cycling Champs, the U16 Girls Pursuit cycling team of Elisabeth Dooley, Erin Cutts, Ella McKinney and Charlotte Chamberlain won silver.

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Turning back the clock 125 years at St Leo’s St Leo’s school stepped back in time for a Victorian-themed party as part of its 125th-year celebrations.

It was all bustles, huge floral displays, ornate antique lamps and a stage showing off Devonport Museum treasures at the event held at St Leo’s Hall on Saturday 28 July.

More than 60 parishioners of St Francis de Sales and All Souls gathered for a shared dinner and the party, dubbed Historic Hoop-la.

The hall, the original classroom of St Leo’s Catholic School, opposite the church at the foot of Takarunga/Mt Victoria, turns 125 this year. Many party goers wore Victorian clothing, hiring, importing or making their clothing to mark the occasion.

Each July, parishioners stage a party in the hall, with previous themes including M i d w i n t e r C h r i s t m a s a n d Wi n t e r Wonderland, and a Spanish concept when parishioners attended World Youth Day in Madrid.

Florist Margaret Pereira designed the themed event and worked with a group of people to transform the hall.

This year, builder Scott Barnett (whose firm completed changes to the hall) constructed a 2m by 3m frame hanging from the ceiling, from which giant monstera leaf foliage, camellia, ferns, ivy, roses and alstroemeria were draped to create the centre-piece floral ‘chandelier’.

At the bottom of many hall windows, the talented florist created individual floral displays. The walls at the entranceway were covered in floral art, with the enclosed window that faces the street displaying a decorative floral cross.

On Saturday 10 November, the annual St Leo’s School Fair will be held, followed by formal celebrations, including a Mass with Bishop Pat Dunn on Sunday 11 November.

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Curtains & Roman Blinds Free measure, quote and design advice. 20 years’ experience. Phone Sara 027 625 5844.

Custom-Made Lampshades An easy & effective way to update your interior decor!20yrs+ local known business serving commercial & residential customers, specialising in new creations or reviving old favourites & vintage. Free quote & design advice.Contact: Claire, Oscuro NZ Ltd on 021 0249 7428, oscurolampshades@gmail.com, www.oscuro.co.nz D e v o n p o r t u p h o l s t e r y.

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Company Theatre goes Wilde with a real Oscar winner Devonport actors Adam Pomeroy (Algernon Moncrieff) and Trudy Thumath (Miss Prism) are among the cast of Company Theatre’s latest production, the timeless classic The Importance of Being Earnest.

The Oscar Wilde play is about the adventures of the wealthy and eligible bachelors, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, and the outrageous deceptions they find themselves in over love.

Jack has invented an imaginary brother, Earnest, who he uses as an excuse to escape from his dull country life and cavort in town.

Algernon has a similar alibi.

His imaginary friend, Bunbury, provides him a reason for taking adventures in the country.

Just dandy... Devonport’s Adam Pomeroy (left) plays Algernon Moncrieff in However, the pair’s deceptions Company Theatre’s production of The Importance of being Earnest inevitably cross paths, resulting The play is on at the Rose Centre in (played by Rebekah Talsma). in a series of crises that threaten Wilde’s witty language and scathing satire, Belmont 11-25 August and tickets ($27, to spoil their romantic endeavours; Jack of his love for the ravishing Gwendolen Fairfax together with the play’s social commentary, or $22 for concessions) can be booked (played by Kelsey McEwan), and Algernon’s is as relevant today as when it was written on www.iticket.co.nz or by phoning 09 361 1000. for the beautiful and young Cecily Cardew in 1895.

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August 10, 2018

Eloquent cello with Devonport Chamber Orchestra What a privilege it was for concertgoers at the recent Devonport Chamber Orchestra (DCO) concert at Holy Trinity Church to hear the brilliant cellist Catherine Kwak performing Elgar’s heartfelt Cello Concerto

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in E minor.

Having attained the highest grade in the Royal School of Music exams at the age of nine, and graduated with a performance degree in music from the University of Waikato at 18, Kwak is without doubt a cellist of rare ability and promise.

Elgar wrote the concerto shortly after the end of World War One and its pathos and poignancy represent the world’s loss of innocence Fortunately, a problem with the wedge in the soloist’s bow occurred after only two or three notes, so it was possible to exchange her bow and restart the work without any loss of emotional tension.

Kwak’s command of her instrument was very impressive – resonance and richness of tone in all registers. Her phrasing and intonation were immaculate and she was able to maintain pianissimos with great sensitivity. It was a passionate reading of the concerto with Kwak plumbing all the

The Devonport Flagstaff Page 45 nuances of the work – grandeur, nobility, tragedy and beauty.

The orchestra, led with precision by Joseph Chen under the baton of Canwei Li, was a polished partner, always supportive and empathic. The rapturous applause for the performance was rewarded with a very sensitive version of Danny Boy from Kwak.

The concert opened with a spirited reading of Rossini’s Barber of Seville overture.

The overture falls into two parts – the first is slow and rather measured, the second is lively and shows plenty of examples of the famous Rossini crescendo. All sections of the orchestra had plenty of work – the woodwinds and horns, especially the oboe, were particularly eloquent and the polished bowing and phrasing of the strings made for a very lively opening to the concert.

Congratulations to the DCO for attracting such a talented soloist and offering her the opportunity to perform with an orchestra.

The Devonport audience was the beneficiary.

The DCO’s next concert is on Sunday 2 September at 2pm, when it will join forces with the Holy Trinity Church choir and local rock group Wonderfish.

by Rogan Falla

ThE NAVy COmmuNiTy NEwSLETTER Sailors will benefit from new waterside facility A new waterside training facility moored at the Devonport Naval Base allows sailors to develop seamanship skills in a realistic working environment that has the look and feel of a Navy ship.

The facility, accessed by a 35-metre bridge, weighs 145 tonnes, is 24 metres long, and includes equipment such as decks, rails, lines and ladders, along with winches, cranes and hydraulics needed to raise and lower sea boats.

“Exposing our sailors to this training in a controlled environment before they go to sea adds another level of safety,” says Lieutenant Commander Ange Barker, who has overseen the development of the new waterside training facility, which was opened last week.

The facility enables sailors to train in waterbased seamanship skills such as manoverboard recovery, launching of rigid-hulled inflatable boats by crane, pilot ladder use, and life-raft launch and recovery.

“Now we can have standardised seamanship training for all of the New Zealand Defence Force, not just the Navy, in an environment where these skills can be practised day or night – allowing repetition that develops experience before going to sea,” she says.

The new waterside training facility at Devonport Naval Base

“Our people no longer need to rely on classroom work or heaving lines across the parade ground. They can now train in these evolutions on site and for real,” says Chief of Navy, Rear Admiral John Martin. “This will make a difference to the fleet and to the Defence Force in how we prepare to go to sea.

“This facility ensures we have the capability and equipment to train our people, not just in the basic evolution of skills, but also in developing experience and managing risk.”

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Combined with the existing indoor mock ship’s hull for practising other skills and drills, the Navy’s modern Bill Morley Seamanship Training complex is now almost complete.

The training facilities are named after retired Lieutenant Commander Bill Morley, who served for 40 years in the Navy as both a gunnery instructor and an officer, and was recognised for his bravery after an accident on HMNZS Waikato where he and two colleagues were washed overboard.

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Looking Back

August 10, 2018

Twenty years ago: a selection from the Flagstaff files • A plan to shift Devonport Library from Windsor Reserve is put to the Devonport Community Board by North Shore City Council. It goes out to the public for submissions.

• A cell-site transmitter, proposed for a residential property in Mays St opposite Devonport Primary, is rejected by a North Shore City Council committee.

• Claims emerge that donated or loaned pieces to Jackson’s Muzeum were sold as part of the $2.3 million auction. Auctioneers received one letter that claimed a bridal dress in the auction catalogue did not belong to Bryan Jackson.

The 4000-lot auction of Jackson’s collection took four days and attracted 11,000 visitors during pre-auction viewing. Jackson himself bought back about $300,000 worth of items from his former collection. Auction sale prices range from under $100 to $165,000 for a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost.

• A public meeting is planned to discuss a second harbour crossing. One option is a four-lane bridge from Judges Bay to Interview subject… Martin Jones had big plans for Bayswater Marina Esmonde Rd. premises in Clarence St, after around six in the North Harbour Championship final; • A section in Albert Rd is for sale for years on Victoria Rd. but the senior reserves beat Takapuna 21-6 $210,000.

• Bayswater Marina Ltd developer Martin and the under-21s beat Takapuna 17-16.

• The number of near misses of walkers on Jones is the Flagstaff interview subject. He • Devonport Hammer Hardware wins Store of pedestrian crossings is increasing. speaks about the 25-year odyssey to open the the Year ahead of the 65 other shops in the • North Shore Rugby Club misses out by a marina and the plans for a marine village on chain. It is the first time it has won the award. whisker on a championship triple in its 125th the land.

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August 10, 2018

North Shore United wins 5-0 over Manurewa North Shore’s emphatic 5-0 win against Manurewa at home last Saturday has put the side in the box seat in the promotion race to the Northern Premier League.

The side is now in clear second place, three points ahead of Waiheke with three games to play.

Manurewa was the bottom team in the league and Shore, on current form, was expected to win. However, it had lost to Manurewa 1-0 in the first round in May and sometimes these matches can prove difficult.

It was not to be last Saturday, with Shore dominating from the start and Rocky Bashir scoring early, as forward Sean Latimer and midfielder Sam De St Croix began to take control.

The key point in the match, was in the middle of the first half, when Shore goalkeeper Kallum Lunn was penalised after what appeared to be a fair challenge for the ball. He saved the resulting penalty though, which allowed the home side to go to halftime 2-0.

Shore has now won its last five games, moving from fifth to second. It is playing a good brand of attacking, confident football.

Top-of-the-table Melville has already gained promotion and logged its first loss of the season last Saturday against Waiheke

He shoots, he scores… Rocky Bashir scores North Shore’s first goal in their 5-0 win over Manurewa at Allen Hill Stadium on Saturday 3-1. It was a poor result for Shore as it kept at Allen Hill Stadium on August 18. Both Waiheke in the promotion hunt.

Hibiscus Coast and Waitemata are mid-table.

Shore plays Hibiscus Coast at Stanmore Shore’s final match is a tricky one – against Bay this weekend, followed by Waitemata Forrest Hill, which is currently in fourth.

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