12 August 2016 Devonport Flagstaff

August 12, 2016

Quick exit: bridal company owners up sticks… p 3

Unitary Plan – what it means for Devonport… p 8-10

Interview: Sevens fitness coach Mark Harvey… p 18

Intensification begins – first Hillary consent lodged A 10-house street will be replaced by 30 of land identified for development by Ngati dwellings in the first consent application lodged Whatua’s business arm Whai Rawa.

And Rutherford St in Belmont is the first

by Ngati Whatua for its Devonport peninsula stage of the wider intensification of the land. landholdings.

Currently the street has 10 sections ranging The 8.4 ha Hillary Block is the first section

from 696 sqm to 1199 sqm. The proposed development has 30 lots, with an average size of about 250 sqm, but ranging from 131 sqm to 610 sqm.

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Rescued boat lucky to escape serious damage

Keeping damage at bay... Rob and Jaye Stewart’s yacht Maharo was lifted off Stanley Bay Beach on Monday at high tide. It ran aground on the beach after it broke free from its mooring on Saturday night.

The yacht appeared to have suffered limited damage.

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August 12, 2016

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Statistics on the numbers of people using Takurunga/Mt Victoria are being collected by the Maunga Authority and vehicle and pedestrian counters have been spotted by locals over recent weekends.

Maungawhau/Mt Eden has been vehicle-free for some time, and has seen a large increase in the number of walkers using the mountain.

However, Scott De Silva, Manager Tūpuna Maunga, said there are no plans to close Takurunga/Mt Victoria to vehicles at this stage.

“As part of the ongoing integrated management programme, the Tūpuna Maunga Authority is undertaking general counts on the most-visited maunga to get a snapshot of how many pedestrians, cyclists, motorists and tour operators are visiting these sites.

“We have good data for Maungawhau/Mt Eden for example, but we don’t currently have that data for Takurunga. This was the reason for the counts this past weekend,” De Silva said.

The counting method varies for each maunga, because each mountain has different access ways.

“On some of the maunga we are using mechanical counters for vehicles and on others we are counting pedestrians manually.

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Bike theft: extra CCTV cameras on wharf Extra CCTV cameras will be installed on Devonport Wharf, due to an increasing number of bike thefts.

One of the extra cameras will directly cover the bike parking area on the wharf.

An Auckland Transport (AT) spokesperson said that if a bike is stolen it is important for the theft to be reported to the police as soon as possible, as CCTV footage can then be used to investigate. The camera is also intended to serve as a deterrent.

In addition to the extra cameras, an education campaign will highlight the importance of buying effective bike locks.

The AT spokesperson said no lock is foolproof. “But a good-quality lock will reduce the chance of having your bike stolen.

People are encouraged to use two locks if possible and take a note of their bike’s serial number,” he said.

The serial number of a stolen bike can be reported to police, who can alert second-hand shops, where stolen property can sometimes end up.

AT and Bike Auckland are planning to be at Devonport ferry terminal soon, handing out cards for riders to record bike serial numbers.

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“The data we collect will give us a better understanding of how people access and use the maunga,” De Silva said.

The Flagstaff, in its 29 July edition, called for an end to vehicle access to the top of Takurunga/ Mt Victoria.

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August 12, 2016

Devonport couple plan flights as debts mount The Devonport couple who fled New Zealand leaving their bridal company Primrose & Finch in disarray had been planning their departure for at least a month before the company was put into liquidation.

Kerry and Mark Smith gave away their pets and sold household items weeks before their flight from Auckland to the UK on 22 July. They filed for liquidation on 27 July. Liquidator Bryan Williams, of BWA Insolvency, has determined the Smiths owe 59 brides more than $110,000.

The Smiths’ two cars were last week still parked near the family’s former home on Huia St. It is understood rent is owed on the property.

Flagstaff investigations show that the couple were preparing to leave from late June.

On 5 July, Kerry Smith posted on her Facebook page that she was looking for a home for four family pets. “We have two rabbits looking for a lovely home. Anyone interested?

They are extremely cuddly and come with all the equipment needed for them. Free to a good home.”

A second post said she was also looking for a local home for designer Selkirk Rex cat Kitty as well as Pebble, the family’s domestic short-hair cat. “Both live mainly outdoors but would love a cosy home to live in. Give me a shout if you are interested. Free of charge to the right home.” They are also said to have left a pug puppy with a friend.

Facebook friends expressed surprise that the family was leaving.

Since June, Smith also sold numerous household items on TradeMe, where she told the buyer of a fridge on 28 June: “We purchased the fridge 4½ years ago. Only reason for selling is because we are moving to the UK.” She told another buyer on 12 July that they “must collect [their items] by 20 July 2016.”

Planned departure for UK… Kerry and Mark Smith The TradeMe sales included several items of “shabby chic” and garden furniture that were sold from June onwards; a large dog crate sold Rental arrears… The Smith family on 29 June; a cat scratching post on 4 July; and had been renting 9 Huia Street a bunk bed on 12 July.

Auction feedback on Kerry Smith’s since January “fourpoppets” account is mostly positive, apart from comments on the bunk bed and fridge purchases.

The buyer of the fridge commented on 25 July: “Do not trade. Seller has sold a broken fridge, lied about the age and condition of the fridge and is no longer returning my emails nor texts. Will be taking them to the small claims court.”

The buyer of the bunk bed echoed the sentiment a day later: “This trader owes me $50 (my husband accidentally overpaid). We Cars… The Smiths’ two cars rang within an hour of pick-up, he said he was remained parked on Huia St, just happy to transfer the money back to us. Not down from the couple’s home, after returning emails, calls or texts.” their departure.

Williams, in his first liquidator’s report, said the total debt owed by Primrose and Finch was lived at three different Devonport addresses $319,108. since then.

The Smiths have lived in Devonport for In March 2014, they moved from a rental at years, and their children attended local schools. 61 King Edward Pde to another at 32 William The couple set up Primrose & Finch Limited Bond St. in January 2013, with each partner owning 50 In January this year, they moved to 9 Huia per cent of the shares.

St, which they rented, and from where they Company Office records show the Smiths left for the UK.

Bridal company had ongoing financial problems Primrose & Finch had been running into severe financial problems since 2014, according to the liquidator’s report.

Following relocation to a Parnell shop in May 2014, the company began to experience financial problems despite extensive website and social-media marketing. Not enough sales resulted, and an expansion into Melbourne “was a mistake of fatal consequences,” said liquidator Bryan Williams.

Discounting in 2015 failed to bring in enough money. All it did was defer the collapse and meant more “economic harm falling upon a larger pool of customers and providers”, says the report. Primrose & Finch entered 2016 “with strained financial arrangements with its designers and surfacing bad publicity”.

Things went from bad to worse. Its Melbourne shop closed in May 2016, due to flagging sales.

“The directors embarked on a campaign of liquidating assets available to them and

borrowed money to meet the working needs of the company,” Williams said.

“A local designer brought matters to a head by withdrawing any association with the company and uplifting its property.”

By this stage, staff members were not being paid and rent was in arrears.

The company was then placed into liquidation by its directors.

Williams told the Flagstaff that the Smith’s had contacted him from England to act as liquidator. They had found his company online.

The Flagstaff asked if airline tickets had been paid for with company money and when the last wedding dress deposit had been made.

Williams said he could not answer until after a full investigation of company bank accounts had been made, which was likely to occur this week.

The Smith’s cars – one personally owned and the other with loans against it – would be picked up this week.

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First Ngati Whatua SHA consent application

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Belmont Park players lead Westlake to national title Belmont Park Racquets Club featured prominently at the New Zealand secondary squash champs, with three of its players in the winning Westlake Boys High School team.

Matthew Lucente, Rafa Yam and cousin Gabe Yam joined Tom Taylor, Akil Afghan, and David Matthews to retain the title Westlake won in 2015.

Westlake topped the 32-team competition held in Palmerston North.

Both Matthew Lucente and Gabe Yam were selected for the New Zealand Trans Tasman secondary schools squash team.

It’s been a memorable year for all three players, but for Gabe especially. His success at the schools champs comes shortly after winning the North Island under-17 title last month.

Formidable team… schoolboy A-graders from Belmont. (From left to right) Rafa Yam, Matthew Lucente and Gabe Yam spearheaded the Westlake team which took out the national secondary schools title last weekend.

Keep up with our local Olympians It’s showtime next week for Devonport’s three Olympians Paul Snow-Hansen (sailing) Eliza McCartney (pole vault) and Jacko Gill (shot put).

The event times for the three athletes are:

From Wednesday August 13 : Paul SnowHansen sailing (over several days) Wednesday August 17, 12.45 am: Eliza McCartney pole vault. Friday August 19, 12.55 am: Jacko Gill shot put.

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August 12, 2016

Housing shortage, yet council homes remain empty Eighteen council retirement units are empty in Devonport at time when Auckland is undergoing a major housing crisis.

Auckland Council has confirmed 77 senior rental units are vacant on the North Shore.

It could not give a breakdown for the Devonport peninsula, but a Flagstaff investigation has found: • Seven of 16 ‘own-your-own units’ are vacant at Garden Crescent on Bardia St. • Five empty rental units at Preston Court, four at Belmont Court and one each at Cambria Court and Kings Court.

North Shore ward councillor Chris Darby concedes there is a senior-housing crisis on the North Shore.

Inadequate budgets to manage the upkeep of senior-housing units under North Shore City Council (NSCC) prior to Auckland’s amalgamation are coming home to roost, he says. “It is now catapulting remedial works in our ward to the top of the list, above works in the two other wards, Waitakere and Manukau.

It’s another ingredient to our housing crisis.”

Darby says the discussion on housing needs to be broader, and not only about land supply and taxation. “It needs to be about density, requirements to build, the skill base to enable more construction, the Unit Titles Act, ‘ghost’ houses, and more,” he says.

Darby was a NSCC councillor from 2004 to 2010 and says he accepts partial responsibility for what’s happened.

“It turns out we had completely inadequate

Catch-up work… much-needed maintenance is in progress at peninsula pensioner housing units budget for renewal works, which is different to maintenance, and I have seen units that look uninhabitable,” he says.

“At this council, we have had to almost double the senior-housing budget just to keep pace with housing needs for older people.”

Kings Court is among four North Shore senior-housing projects that are considered as needing urgent attention, Darby told the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board.

The 12 units, built in 1970 at 65 Lake Road, will each get a $7000 upgrade.

Kim O’Neill, head of council’s community relations, told the Flagstaff that of the 77 rental unit vacancies in the 19 senior housing villages on the North Shore, 26 are getting refurbishment upgrades. A further 38 are undergoing minor works, four are recently vacant, three are just being cleaned and six are ready to be occupied.

In a separate ‘own-your-own unit’ portfolio on the North Shore, 13 vacancies are currently spread across three sites, she says.

Of those 13, one is ready for sale, but no offers have been received yet. Three need an assessment prior to sale, six are being refurbished and three are in legal proceedings, she says.

Council is looking into a partnership with the Selwyn Foundation for its pensioner housing.

Darby says one of the planks of the policy was that it would be: “significantly inconsistent for council to now be selling its social housing assets in the open market so that they could be used for non-social housing purposes.”

However, concerns have been raised by some local board members on what the future holds for pensioner housing in Devonport once council enters into external partnerships.

The Flagstaff Notes

August 12, 2016

legalese. It is poorly structured, unclear in the extreme and it appears to be written by lawyers and planners for lawyers and planners, sometimes in what seems like a language foreign to English. Moreover, making it all available online has its pitfalls. The report and plan relate to a multitude of overlays and evidence. These There’s been a lot of chest-beating all very difficult to follow unless the user from Auckland Council about getting the has multiple computer screens and a lot of Unitary Plan hearings and recommendations patience. finished.

But the independent hearings panel Takurunga/Mt Victoria has been in the report and findings are a disappointment for news, but don’t let’s forget Maungauika/ Devonport locals on many levels.

North Head as well, which is in the process Firstly local submissions have been of being transferred to Maunga Authority largely ignored. guardianship. A long history of improving The independent hearings panel the conditions on this mountain – including has become almost a cheerleader for the removal of a Ministry of Defence fence, entrepreneurs like Bayswater Marina which for decades prevented access to the owner Simon Herbert or Ngati Whatua’s summit – precedes this change. commercial arm Whai Rawa. The panel even For some years, Friends of North Head (a puts a personal note of appreciation to Whai group of mainly dog walkers that included Rawa in its report.

Kevin Ireland and Robyn Langwell) No such thanks that I could see for local campaigned to keep the mountain as free community groups, which put in countless from intrusion as possible. They fought (an unpaid hours to put forward submissions unsuccessful) court action to prevent DoC for the greater good, rather than solely moving its Auckland head office onto the economic gain. mountain.

Scant regard seems to have been given to residents who have lived in the area for People outside Devonport sometimes ask decades, who are concerned about what me how the suburb has changed over the development on Maori landholdings at years and if it still retains its independent Hauraki, Belmont and Bayswater will do to spirit. I would say yes it does – embodied in communities and Lake Rd congestion. institutions such as the Depot, the Flagstaff On this issue the panel is putting an and Devonport Heritage. But yes it has absurd level of trust in Auckland Transport changed as well.

(AT) evidence that it will find a solution to When I moved to the suburb 25 years ago the increasing numbers of cars on Lake Rd. with young children, a significant number of The fact is it won’t. AT’s tinkering around kids in the classes at Devonport Primary had with bus timetables and scheduling are not solo parents, mostly mums attracted by good set to come into effect till 2017. And any schools, family-friendly facilities, low crime structural change to the road is years, if not rates and, at the time, manageable rents. decades, away.

Along with the escalation of property In the meantime, Ngati Whatua land prices, the massive rise in rents – it would developments are before council, and the be difficult to find anything south of the golf Unitary Plan opens up vast tracts of land course for under $500 a week – is excluding north of the Waitemata Golf Course for more single-parent families along with writers, housing, including multi-storey apartments artists, musicians and others who are not around Belmont shops. cash-rich.

Finally a personal gripe: the independent However, diversity is happening at the hearings panel final report is appallingly higher end. Wealthy immigrants from all written. It is full of planning jargon and over the world are equally attracted to what Devonport offers. It marks a definite shift.

INVITATION FROM I paid my car registration last week: $88.63 for a year. It was a surprisingly small amount and a reflection of changes in the way the government funds ACC. The Board of NSUAFC is holding a public meeting at the club to discuss the current However, the comparatively small cost (it issues with pitches and the latest plans for was well over $200 a couple of years back) an upgrade at Allen Hill Stadium. does nothing to deter car ownership or help We will be joined by officials from pay for much-needed upgrades to public Auckland Council, who will present their transport infrastructure in Auckland. latest plans to solve these issues.

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By Rob Drent

North Shore United Football Club

TIME: 7pm on Friday 19th August VENUE: Allen Hill clubrooms Club members and non-members, who have an interest in sports facility development in our community, are all invited.

A further chapter last week in what is turning into one of the world’s great sporting rivalries. Belmont Park took down Devonport 3-2 in the C grade section of the Auckland Squash superchamps competition.

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1/08/2016 (currently leased to the Navy), across the building height to increase the intensity of services and safety concerns for pedestrians development within the sub-precincts.” The and cyclists, especially schoolchildren,” the road from single-lot houses.

The plan creates a Devonport peninsula provisions are designed to ensure that the effects report says However, the panel heard evidence “from precinct for the 27.9ha of Ngati Whatua land generated as a result of the additional height and both Watercare and Council that their networks intensity are mitigated,” the report says. and divides it into six sub-precincts: However, the panel rejected the concerns of have the capacity, or have programmed • Marsden St (4.1ha) upgrades (in the case of Watercare) to address opposition submissions (183 out of 196).

• Birchfield Rd (1.9ha) Key issues raised by submitters were: traffic any constraints.”

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• Wakakura Cres (4.3ha) region and that they will be investigating a programme of improvements identified in the Lake Rd Corridor Management Plan to address congestion, including transit lanes, and focus on Mixed Housing Surburban Zone: up Terrace Housing and Apartment public transport improvements.” to two dwellings per site. Two-storey Buildings Zone: four- or five-storey The panel was glowing in its praise of Ngati dwellings. Three or more dwellings require residential apartment buildings, most resource consent. commonly near town and local centres.

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Mixed Housing Urban Zone: up to “The panel appreciates the work done by two dwellings per site. Three-storey Ngati Whatua Orakei Whai Rawa Ltd… it has dwellings allowed (detached, terraced or Note: These are general zones only. been most helpful to the Panel.” three-storey apartments). Three or more Various restrictions and constraints will • Council decisions on the plan are due to dwellings need resource consent. apply to individual sites. be announced on August 19.

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What it means for your area Hauraki

Mostly Mixed Housing Suburban, with a few blocks of Mixed Housing Urban around the Hauraki Corner shops.

(Belmont see page 8)

Devonport north of the golf course

Up to Belmont, this area has been zoned Mixed Housing Suburban.

Devonport south of the golf course

This residential area is a Single House Zone and has protections under the special Coastal land is Single House Zone, while character zoning. The Single House Zone the middle of the peninsula west of O’Neill’s also applies to land abutting the coast at Point Cemetery is Mixed Housing Suburban. Bayswater, Seacliffe Ave and Clifton Rd. East of the cemetery and north of Roberts Ave towards Belmont shops, has been zoned The Devonport Mixed Housing Urban, allowing for more business centre and development.

Bayswater

Bayswater Marina

Bayswater Marina has been given a green light to develop apartments on its reclaimed land at Bayswater, which was purchased from the Crown.

The hearings panel rejected opponents’ submissions that the land should be solely for marine-related development.

Prior to selling the 3.34ha of land to Bayswater Marina Ltd (BML) for $3.7 million, Land Information New Zealand said there was no reason not to grant freehold title to BML, provided the company makes land available for a ferry terminal and keeps a 15m strip free for public access.

“The panel considers that those requirements are provided for in the Plan provisions and to that extent the public interest has been provided for,” it said.

Some opponents of residential development at Bayswater, including the Bayswater Community Committee, had been clinging to the belief that the panel was bound by the findings of a 2009 Environment Court decision, which said the land should be used for marine purposes only.

However, the panel threw this out, saying the land should now be treated differently, effectively because it was privately owned.

“The Auckland plan and the Unitary Plan have a consistent, overriding strategy to achieve a quality, compact city and the development provided for in the Bayswater Marina Precinct will help achieve that outcome.”

There is some hope, though, for the Takapuna Grammar School rowing club, which has for years been hanging on by a thread to its base at Bayswater.

The panel has recommended the inclusion of “marine sports activities”. This aligns with concerns raised by the rowing club that water-sports use be included, the panel said.

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The shop frontages of Victoria Rd, and some on Clarence St, will have a 9m height limit. But behind the frontages buildings can rise to heights of 13m.

This means that buildings backing onto Wynyard St, Fleet St and parts of Clarence St, would be able to rise to heights of 13m.

Part of the 13m zone goes across some of New World car park, which in theory could allow for a car-park building.

Allowing greater height behind the main street shops has lead to fears of ‘facadism’, as just the street frontages could be left to make way for taller and more rent-lucrative buildings behind.

Light-industrial zone gone The light-industrial zone of Wynyard St has gone. The area is now included in the Town Centre Zone in the Unitary Plan, with the hearings panel saying general business zones serve the purpose of the area just as well.

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Wins and losses in Unitary Plan says Devonport Heritage

Doesn’t fly with the hearings panel… a Devonport Business Association proposal to allow heights of shop frontages to more than 13m has been ruled out. But 13m for some other areas has been allowed.

“We will be calling on North Shore councillors and others to leave the (Devonport) height at nine metres, so it is in line with all other volcanic cones of Auckland.”

Devonport Heritage is also disappointed the

Ngati Whatua-owned Vauxhall Rd land next to the historic Fort Cautley has been given a six-storey building limit by the panel, “which was unsympathetic to the site and inconsistent with the residential neighbourhood.”

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Protection of residential heritage will remain in Devonport in the Special Character overlay (which replaces the residential heritage zone.)

The controls on demolition as well as alterations and additions to pre-1944 houses remain strong, says Devonport Heritage. (The independent hearings panel into the Unitary Plan has deleted pre-1944 overlays for areas outside the older suburbs of the city) The older business areas of the North Shore – including Devonport – will continue to be protected under the Special Character Business.

Devonport Heritage dislikes the term ‘Special Character’ which the panel has used to replace Historic Character.

“We want the council to reject this and continue to include the word historic in these overlays, because this is the reason for the extra protections,” Heritage said in a newsletter to its members.

The panel decision to allow a 13m height limit for parts of the Devonport Business District is “a loss” according to Devonport Heritage.

“We campaigned vigorously to reject Devonport Business Association’s proposal to replace the nine-metre height limit with 13 metres for the village.”

What the panel has decided would allow “four-storey buildings in and around the main street, and Victoria Rd’s heritage buildings to have two extra storeys added to them.”

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Kids disciplined after alcohol incident in Hawaii A group of Takapuna Grammar students has been disciplined on their return to school following what is believed to be an alcoholrelated incident on a geography trip to Hawaii.

Pupils from Takapuna Grammar (TGS) Geography Department departed for the two-week trip on 9 July. The group included 48 students and around half a dozen teachers.

The Flagstaff began fielding calls about indiscipline on the trip last week.

TGS principal Mary Nixon confirmed some of the “boundaries put in place” for students were not met on the trip.

The school had disciplined some students, but Nixon refused to say what measures the school had taken, citing privacy issues.

The indiscretion only involved a “small

group”, she said, and declined to confirm exact numbers.

While those involved may have made poor choices, Nixon was pleased with the response to the situation from staff and other students.

Around 10 overseas group trips are undertaken by TGS students each year and they are an important way for pupils to learn about the wider world, Nixon said.

She was surprised the Flagstaff had been contacted about the issue, saying it was a matter more appropriately dealt with internally by the school In 25 years of publication, it is the first case of an incident on a TGS overseas trip that the Flagstaff has been contacted about by members of the community.

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Shoplifter arrested at New World

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McDavitt was the MetService Weather Ambassador for 20 years, focusing on promoting the service to weather users.

Now he is in semi-retirement, but continues to talk with weather users and to help sailors cruising around the South Pacific.

An alleged shoplifter left Devonport New World in handcuffs last Thursday.

He was taken away in police custody.

New World owner John Ashton said theft of any kind was not tolerated at the supermarket.

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Letters

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‘Local’ duties of an MP

For lesser issues, such as the effects of the Unitary Plan, that is the business of elected councillors to ultimately decide. When it gets to even more narrowly localised issues, such as the location of a hardstand for elite yachtsmen on a reserve for which the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board has been delegated the authority as landowner, that is a matter for that local board.

Neither of these latter issues are for decision

by Parliament or the government of the day, and an MP should play no part in their solution.

Nor should MPs be publicly supporting any particular candidate(s) for local-body office.

Any such MP would be the first to complain if councillors or local-board members use their positions to lobby for particular persons to become their MP. Our current three-tier electoral system is in place for good and proper democratic and accountability reasons. We cross those boundaries at our peril.

Terry Dunleavy

In his comments about North Shore MP Maggie Barry’s “cone of silence or ignorance of local issues”, Bruce Tubb (Flagstaff, 29 July) needs to define “local”, lest he fall into a trap all too commonplace these days.

An MP is elected by voters in a constituency to represent us in Parliament in the governance of the country. It is neither proper nor desirable that MPs seek to intrude into fields that are the responsibility of the two we elect to represent our ward as councillors; or at a lower level, the six we elect to the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board.

For an MP, “local” issues do occasionally arise when, as happened with the sale of Takapuna Head to Ngati Whatua o Orakei, local residents got annoyed when an MP had to defend an action that is part of her Government’s policy: the settlement of Treaty of Waitangi grievances. But manifesto policies on which a government has been elected must be and remain paramount.

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Precious gem of space should be left alone The arrogance of some members of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board is alive and well, as evidenced by the decision to sell public land at Hauraki Corner. As reported in your paper last edition (Flagstaff, 29 July), the board was split over what action to take.

Why they can’t just leave it alone, is beyond this writer.

It’s a well-conceived piece of pleasantness in a sea of traffic fumes, and a tiny barrier against ever-encroaching intensified buildings.

It is not long since someone in Auckland Council employ thought it was a good idea to spend thousands of dollars creating this little oasis.

The board was split, so chair Joseph Bergin used his casting vote to ensure a bad idea became even worse.

The sale might fetch $300,000, which will be swallowed up by the massive debt Auckland Council adds to every waking moment.

The only recourse will be at the upcoming local-body elections, when I for one will not be voting for Bergin or Alison Roe,who think it’s a good idea to sacrifice this little precious gem of space.

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The difficulties created by vermin I would like to congratulate Maggie, our conservator, on her new policy to rid all vermin from Devonport (indeed the country), to protect our flora and fauna, but not our air and water.

She says the year 2050 is the target date, long after her reign has passed. Who said there’s no legacy or good work done by this team? Certainly her attention to that portfolio has been non-existent over her time, and there’s nothing better than getting promises of action pre election. Maggie’s target: 2050, total extermination using new-age sciences. Whilst I am cynical of promises made, given all the other factors, at least the idea is good.

There are other vermin about though, who will escape the poison or won’t be fed any. We all know who they are. The ecological disaster for Devonport and Auckland will be that created by greedy, ad hoc developers cramping us into ghetto housing and choked roads. I’ll be hanging on the end of the peninsula hoping Len doesn’t put a bridge over from town to choke up Stanley Point too.

It’s so lovely and quiet there. The so-called Unitary Plan is a turnaround from the policy of avoiding low-quality living spaces for Kiwis.

The reality is this is not being done for Kiwis or families. Property won’t get affordable for decades, until Auckland is a polluted hole we all want to escape. There will be glut of houses that will fill as fast as they are built. But filled by foreigners that come from populations of

billions. We can’t comprehend the destruction they imposed on their own lands. Clearly, if you have half a brain you could see this policy of cramming in 70,000 new people per year, from foreign places, is all for greed and profit.

And it will lead to the mass destruction of our town. We seem to be so thick or retarded that we allow John Key politics to drive this plague, until all things we used to value are trashed. It’s as I said before – devolution.

There may be no real rats or ferrets left by 2050, but the harbour will be trashed further by silt – like we see today caused by the Ports of Auckland reclamation, after they were told to stop. City filth and our air will be thicker by 2050, given the local and governmental policy. The benefit of electric cars will be outweighed. The speculators will pour into our town, with foreign people escaping crowds, exactly what we are creating here. They are coming to fill these infill houses and there will be visual pollution on a scale not dissimilar to the retirement monster, the pending death row hotel in Ngataringa Bay. Parliament has created the housing problem.

I am sick of seeing the endless political tripe.

The Unitary Plan is stupid and falls short of being visionary. Growth could be bearable if it’s well designed. This plan has no design flair of merit. We need to vote for change and common sense .

Ron Dykman

Sorry reading in MP’s half-term report The half-term report for our MP Maggie Barry makes sorry reading.

Maggie’s ‘no comment’ on the following issues of concern to her loyal constituents is very disappointing: 1. Torpedo Bay marginal strip: why as Minister of Conservation did Maggie approve the reduction in width of the mandatory 20-metre wide marginal strip to 6 to 10 metres, on the land currently owned by iwi and leased to the Navy museum? The net effect of this decision is that when the current lease to the Navy museum expires, iwi may apply for high-rise residential and or commercial buildings on the site.

2. What are her views on the: a. Numerous attempts by the owner of the Bayswater Marina for high-rise apartments

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on the reclamation. These are not marinerelated uses as provided for in the initial consent for the reclamation, which was formerly public open space. b. Impact on the quality of life for current and future residents of the: (i) proposed high-density retirement village on iwi-owned land adjacent to Wakarua Crescent. Lake Rd and the current infrastructure cannot cope with the existing level of development, let alone more intensified uses. (ii) proposed intensification of uses on iwi-owned land adjacent to Hillary Crescent.

Similarly, Eversleigh and adjacent roads and infrastructure cannot cope with the existing level of development, let alone more intensified uses. Local schools and open space are also at capacity. c. Why Auckland Council appeared to be colluding with Yachting New Zealand to close the existing Takapuna Beach holiday park, to allow Yachting New Zealand to build its grandiose headquarters on prime reserve land? d. Why, as Minister of Conservation, apparently no action is being taken to remove more than 30 squatters occupying baches on prime reserve land on Rangitoto Island scenic reserve?

The old adage of “service before self” seems to be going out the window.

Bruce Tubb

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Trainer preps SBW and co for shot at sevens heaven New Zealand Sevens fitness-and-conditioning coach Mark Harvey is in Rio de Janeiro as the first men’s rugby sevens games at the Olympics are about to kick off. The former Navy physical training instructor and Stanley Bay father of two spoke to Maire Vieth on the eve of his departure.

Hanging out… Mark Harvey spending time with son Jackson (middle) and Jackson’s friend Lewis Bower the day before leaving for Rio If Sonny Bill Williams’ fitness level is anything to go by, the New Zealand men’s Sevens team should have a solid chance of success at the sport’s first Olympic Games.

Fitness-and-conditioning coach Mark Harvey says the All Blacks star is in better shape than ever.

Williams’ fitness was apparent during the team’s game-intensity simulation exercises at a recent training camp. But it

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became blatantly obvious when the players performed a simple ‘beep test’.

“Sonny got a PB on the beep, the best he’s ever done. His goal this year was obviously to make the Olympics, so he came into the team fit. But he has also come along pretty well,” Harvey says.

While the beep test doesn’t always translate into on-field performance, Harvey was impressed. “Sonny is one of the most professional athletes I have ever seen.

Everything he does is to make him better.

He is very focused right now and that rubs off on the other guys.”

Harvey has worked with the Sevens for the last four years.

“I basically facilitate and coordinate the fitness training off the field and outside the training camps,” he says.

It is up to Harvey to make sure the players stay fit while on their home turf. Before the games, six were based in Auckland and most of the rest in the Waikato or Bay of Plenty.

They trained at high-performance gyms in Auckland, Cambridge and Tauranga. One player, Sam Dixon, was in Christchurch and worked with the Crusaders.

Harvey ensures players are able to follow their training programme with the help other trainers, nutritionists and physios. “I keep a broad overview of their training programmes and try to individualise it for each player as much as possible,” he says.

Harvey happily stands in the shadow of Sir Gordon Tietjens, who has been the team’s long-serving head coach. “When we come into camp, Titch is on the ground and runs everything while I work with the guys who are injured, coordinate the physio, that sort of thing,” he says.

“Titch has had this team for 21 years and his whole philosophy has been that a fit team is going to have a better chance at winning tournaments. And he has been successful for so long because of it,” Harvey says.

New Zealand has won 12 of the 17 World Rugby Sevens Series titles since the competition’s start in 1999, and four Commonwealth Games gold medals since 1998.

The team has come third in the world series in the last two years. But Harvey says it’s not for lack of fitness.

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August 12, 2016 “Titch works them pretty hard and that hasn’t changed. I think the world has caught up with us in terms of being fit, so then you have to work on other things.”

In the lead-up to Rio, all of the players’ physical activity was carefully monitored, Harvey says. “You can imagine that if they have to walk 500 metres to the dining hall, they will be clocking up an extra 10km during the week and when you are about to perform you don’t want that.”

Harvey arrived in Devonport in 1982, when he joined the Navy at the age of 18.

“I came straight from the South Island and have never left,” he says Born in Invercargill, Harvey grew up on a farm. His parents moved to Cromwell in Central Otago and bought a pub in Lowburn when he was 15. “It was the Welcome Home Hotel, a bit of an iconic place. But it got sunk when the dam came through in the 1990s,” he says.

Harvey was a sporty kid. “I did pretty much everything, which you have to in a small town. On Athletics Day, I played in every event: rugby, soccer, you name it. I wouldn’t say I was good at any of them, but I played most of them,” he says.

Defence Force recruiters came through every six months while Harvey was at Cromwell College. “I took a shine to the Navy for some reason and never looked back. I joined as an ordinary rating, a gunner, and went on a few trips overseas to see the world, then became a physical training instructor and eventually an officer,” he says.

He left the Navy in 2001, after 21 years.

Harvey got into rugby coaching through local Devonport connections at the North Shore Rugby Football Club.

In the 1990s, he helped coach North Shore alongside former All Black and Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) old boy Brad Johnstone, in the lead-up to the club’s 2001 championship win.

When Johnstone became Fiji coach for the 1999 Rugby World Cup in Wales, Harvey helped him out again, along with another TGS old boy and former All Black, Gary Cunningham. “I didn’t stay in Fiji and travelled back and forth whenever the Navy would release me,” Harvey says.

Johnstone left Fiji to coach Italy in 2000. Harvey followed, before returning to Devonport in 2001.

“That’s when I decided to leave the Navy and see how the civvies would treat me,” he says.

He picked up a job training the North Harbour provincial team the same year, then moved on to train the Blues in 2004 under coach Peter Sloane, staying with the team until he joined the New Zealand Sevens.

The Blues had won the Super Rugby competition in its first two years, 1996 and 1997, and again in 2003. “The year I came in the team had just won, so expectations were high. Rugby was getting a lot more professional at the time and we didn’t win

again while I was there, but it was a pretty enjoyable time anyway,” he says.

Harvey also works with the All Blacks occasionally, a role he attempts to play down.

“Yeah, I put out the cones and carry the water bottles for them from time to time. If they have a test in Auckland and my Sevens

“Titch has had this team for 21 years and his whole philosophy has been that a fit team is going to have a better chance at winning tournaments.

And he has been successful for so long because of it.” commitments allow it, I help out during the week behind the scenes as an assistant trainer. It’s pretty low key,” he says. He also travelled with the team on their 2013 end-of-year tour.

Harvey keeps in touch with players he has trained, including Devonport local Jerome Kaino, who he was having a coffee with straight after our interview.

“And some of the coaches and trainers I keep up with too. It’s quite a good network.

We are always discussing ideas and get on pretty well,” he says.

Harvey is coy about his own fitness regime. His time at the Navy got him into the habit of exercising most days. He enjoys going to the gym and plays touch rugby.

Other than that, he likes to spend time with daughter Eva (14) and son Jackson (11). “Eva is taking time out from hockey and netball and is frequenting the gym a bit.

Jackson probably enjoys rugby the most. He is in the J3 rep team. But as long as he is at the club with his mates, he is happy,” he says.

Harvey watches his son play rugby from the sideline. And he occasionally cycles with him. “Jackson just took up road cycling at BIS and I already can’t keep up with him on my mountain bike.”

In Rio, Harvey will try to get Jackson’s cycling top signed by a top rider, such as Britain’s Mark Cavendish.

The Sevens job has meant a lot of travel this year.

“I worked out that by the time this year is finished, I will have been away from my bed for about 240 nights. By the time you take the World Rugby Sevens Series and chuck in the Olympics and the camps, it does add up and take its toll,” he says.

Did he ever imagine he would be such a globetrotter? “I was travelling the world with the Navy and now I am doing it with rugby, going to similar places, catching up with old friends, just not staying on the ship,” he laughs.

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From coal shovel to heat pump at BIS

Jack of all trades… Graeme Blackmore in his office, which he calls ‘the executive garage’, and from where he coordinates school operations, including preparation for the school discos During his first 12 years as property manager of Belmont Intermediate School (BIS), Graeme Blackmore had to shovel coal daily. “We had a coal-fired boiler and I had to fill a large hopper full of coal and clean out the ashes in the burner every afternoon,” he says.

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The school has now been modernised.

The power board that was once four square metres now fits into a small box on the wall, even though a lot more electricity is coming into the school to power modern technologies, he says.

Blackmore has been in the job for 20 years and under three principals.

School caretaker is his third career.

Originally from Blenheim, he started off in 1963 as a traffic officer for domestic airline National Airways Corporation (NAC), which operated out of the local air force base. At age 27, he transferred to Rotorua and became sales manager for the area once NAC and Air New Zealand merged in 1978.

Blackmore changed direction in his late 30s and became manager of a Rotorua travel agency, which he bought a few years later.

“Blackmore Galaxy grew from being one of the smallest agencies to one of the biggest.

We had a staff of nine at one point and won a number of national awards for it from Air New Zealand, cruise lines or coach tour operators,” he says.

In 1996, Blackmore sold up and moved to Bayswater, where he saw the BIS property manager job advertised. He applied, was selected and started work the next day. “I thought it would only be temporary, but I guess I ended up staying around,” he says.

Blackmore has been keen on sports all his life. While at school and working in

Blenheim, he played rugby for Marlborough.

“I played 47 rep games for them between 1968 and 1971 on the wing. I got dropped when Brian Ford came on the scene. He was so good he ended up getting in the All Blacks,” says Blackmore.

In Rotorua, Blackmore went from playing rugby to coaching at the Kahukura Rugby Club and becoming President of the Wasps Rugby Football Club.

He also took up playing indoor bowls.

Not one to take a sport lightly, he played on the Bay of Plenty rep team. Since moving to Auckland, he has played for the St Joseph’s Catholic Church club in Takapuna and has won two Auckland-wide Catholic singles championships, despite not being Catholic himself. He has also played bowls for North Harbour.

Blackmore still loves watching rugby, but says in today’s game he wouldn’t stand a chance. “I was a fast little winger at nine stone. I’d be killed at that weight in the crash and bang of today’s rugby,” he says.

Blackmore follows both the Blues and the Tasman provincial team. “It’s the merged Marlborough and Nelson team. It’s funny because in my days it was World War Three when those two played each other,” he says.

About to turn 70, Blackmore says he wants to retire at the end of the year.

The day the Flagstaff caught up with him, he had started putting notes in a folder for his successor.

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Devonport Physio in Rio Top sports physiotherapist Darryl Reid is in Rio – the second Olympics he has been to – fine-tuning the bodies of world-class athletes.

Darryl, who has worked at Devonport Physiotherapy for three years, will be head physio for the 10-member Seychelles Olympic team.

While the Seychelles has never won a medal at the Olympics, Darryl is looking forward to preparing the two female and eight male team members to achieve their potential.

And he’s relishing the prospect of being in the Olympic Village soaking up the games atmosphere.

“I will be pretty much on call for the three weeks I’m there.”

He was invited to be part of the Seychelles team through a Kiwi doctor who had worked with the country before.

And his past experience at Commonwealth and Olympics Games stood him great stead.

Darryl was part of the New Zealand medical team at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

At Beijing, Darryl was one of around a dozen physios working with the Kiwis. He was attached to the rowing team, which featured the likes of Mahé Drysdale and the Evers-Swindell twins.

‘I was right there at the finishing line when they won (the double

sculls) – I had been riding my bike alongside them the whole way.”

While it may seem glamorous working with elite athletes, much of their strains and injuries are just the same as those of Devonport patients.

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No protection for Fort Cautley Fort Cautley was given an unfamiliar title in the Draft Unitary Plan of “Sub-precinct E Vauxhall Road”. The significance of its military history was overlooked.

At the hearing for the precincts, Devonport Heritage argued that Fort Cautley needed to be recognised as a place of national significance, equivalent to the two abutting reserves, which are registered as Category 1.

We presented the evidence of the Fort’s pivotal role in the nation’s coastal defence system since the 1880s. We reminded the Commissioners of the 2005 Heritage Management Plan that the Ministry of Defence and North Shore City Council had signed.

You would have to be an ostrich not to appreciate the story that was being told to you. But the panel have put their heads in the sand and have disregarded their duty and obligation to protect this invaluable site.

The panel has recommended a height allowance for six-storey development for Fort Cautley, which will be unsympathetic to the surroundings and disrespectful to the significant historic site.

Trish Deans, chairperson of Devonport Heritage

Letters Street-cleaning witnessed at last Further to my letter (Flagstaff, 8 April), I finally saw the truck cleaning Regent St on my walk this morning. I took a picture to prove it wasn’t a mirage. I hope he finds his way to Bayswater, where the streets are full of leaves and rubbish.

Dennis Manson

Thank you...

On behalf of the Depot Artspace I’d like to sincerely thank our local community for their support of the current exhibition, titled ‘I Am the Art & The Art is Me / Ko au te toi. Ko te toi ko au’ featuring carving, clay, painting and photography works, and providing an insight into the art of some of Auckland’s rough sleepers.

The exhibition was initiated by Depot Artspace and two of the volunteer art tutors of the Mission Activities Programmes, Clare Caldwell and Peter Lange, culminating in over 130 works on display. It has been a meaningful and fulfilling initiative, and an honour to work with committed tutors and

August 12, 2016

Mt Victoria reforestation Facebook page launched Owing to the overwhelmingly positive feedback in your magazine, in person, and online about the idea I put forward to reforest Mt Victoria, I have started a Facebook page @TakarungaVision2040. People can help make it happen by following and liking the page, and also add to the discussion there.

Michael Fielding talented artists, many of whom have never before exhibited or sold work publicly. So far 70 works have been sold.

We felt this exhibition broke down barriers in terms of perceptions and expectations for both the contributing artists and locals, and that our community has opened their hearts and minds to the issue of homelessness and to the people who have maintained a life of productivity and meaning in the face of incredibly challenging circumstances.

Thank you Devonport. Thank you also to our Local Board who saw this issue as city-wide and financially supported this exhibition.

Linda Blincko

23 July to 10 August

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New crossing outside BIS

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AWAKEN VITALITY QIGONG 9:30-10:30AM THURSDAYS 1-22 SEPTEMBER A moving meditation that generates mind/ body/heart awareness and healing.

Shaarina Taylor will guide you through these exercises that combine gentle, slow, repetitive movements and relaxed breathing. Suitable for all ages and conditions. $20 per four-week seminar.

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AGM MON 29 AUGUST 7.30PM Come and find out more about the Community House and Creche and the work we do.

FREE POWERHOOP TASTER CLASS SUN 28 AUGUST 2PM Safety first… Nick Hill taking a stand at the spot where BIS will get its first proper zebra crossing It has taken Belmont Intermediate school principal Nick Hill two years to get his stripes. Zebra stripes that is – a student pedestrian crossing outside his school.

He says getting the school’s first zebra crossing has been a long, drawn-out process.

“We have had half a dozen meetings since 2014, with council officials, surveyors, Travelwise and parents. But what’s

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important is that we are having a result at the end of the day.

“As principal, I felt obligated to have the kids come to school safe. We have had a few accidents on the road, plus the traffic volume and the volume of our students are large and growing. Having the zebra crossing is making me feel a whole lot better,” he says.

Construction of the raised zebra crossing platform outside 9 Winscombe St will take place during the next school holidays, Auckland Transport has confirmed.

Year 8 students and a teacher will be patrolling the crossing mornings and afternoons. Using it will be compulsory for all BIS students who are walking or cycling to school and crossing Winscombe St. “It a bit like the high-viz vests our students have to wear when biking, which is going really well. We are having 200 kids riding their bikes to school in the summer and want to keep encouraging walking and cycling to school. So the crossing is part of our duty of care,” Hill says.

“Takapuna Grammar School students will also be encouraged to use the crossing.

But because of where it is located, it is a bit more accessible to our kids.”

Neighbours next to the crossing have been consulted by Auckland Transport.

“I have not received any complaints across my desk,” says Hill.

Powerhoop classes are a fun, effective way to exercise and a great way to get a total body workout. The weighted powerhoop will help tone muscle, improve cardio fitness and build core strength.

Hoops limited so booking essential Ph Kat 021 075 96 28 or email powerhoopwestauckland@gmail.com to reserve your place

VOLUNTEER VAN DRIVERS NEEDED WEDNESDAYS 10AM We run a van service for local seniors to do their shopping at New World on a Wednesday morning. One of our lovely ladies is partially sighted and requires assistance with shopping. Van pickup 10am from the Community House, back by 12pm. It’s a great way to help people stay independent, and we are really reliant on fabulous volunteers to help us provide this service. To find out more call us on 445 3068.

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When we purchased our first home 5 years ago, Glenice Taylor and Gary Potter were our sales consultants. Buying a first home was really intimidating, and my wife Toni was 7 months pregnant at the time. The negotiation on the sale was made really easy by Glenice’s kind and gentle nature and her patience in the process. When it came time to sell our house, with another baby on the way. It was an easy decision which agents to go with. Gary and Glenice made the selling process even smoother than the purchasing. They took us through everything step by step, never rushing, to ensure we were well informed and well prepared for the open market.

They went round the house with us prior to preparing for open homes and gave use advice on where to put our energy. They discussed selling options clearly, laying out the advantages and disadvantages of each model. When we decided to go to auction, they immediately secured one of the best auctioneers in the business. The marketing was well presented, and they did their utmost to ensure the best components of our house were presented to possible buyers. They provided frequent and frank updates on how our campaign was tracking. With Gary’s professional sales and negotiation skills, and Glenice’s kind but clear advice and constant support throughout the process they are an excellent team. They do not over promise on sale price, but they over deliver on service and work ethic to get you the best price.

Moving is stressful and I hope I don’t have to do it again soon, but if I do my first call will be to Glenice and Gary.

We continue to be innovative and lead the industry with cutting edge technology and training.

You may wish to look at our website at www.devonport.harcourts.co.nz as it has a large amount of very useful information which could be of interest to you. Please come and talk to us about selling and buying homes, rentals and property management. Our focus on detail and our dedication to excellence is shown every day by our team and we would love to see you.

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Grave-marker mystery 13 to 31 August

Simon Kerr: eddie ramshackle and the blackboard series

Buried treasures… the unearthed objects, including what appears to be grave markers (at right)

When Graeme Carter dug up his new garden beds, he came across a number of heritage objects. But it is two numbered clay grave markers that have the owner of 49 King Edward Parade puzzled.

“We found horseshoes, an inkwell and two grave markers with numbers on them. I

have no idea how they got here. A neighbour thought they could have come as ballast on a ship from the Crimea, but I don’t know about that,” Carter says.

If you can help solve the gravemarker mystery, please contact us at devonportflagstaff@orcon.net.nz

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Classifieds

August 12, 2016 ACCOMMODATION Cheltenham Beach Studio.

Stunning studio with new fit-out only metres from the beach. Available for short or long-term holiday accommodation. Self-contained with separate access and private garden. Wi-Fi included. Phone Mike 021 747 526.

Cheltenham: 2 dbl br. Private Beach access, daily or weekly rent. Fully furnished. ph 445 3008.

Cheltenham cosy two bedroom town house fully furnished in quiet sunny street. Close to beaches and 7 min walk to ferries and shops. Great courtyard, spa, and indoor outdoor living. Usually $140 a night but negotiable if taken for whole period.

Available 19th August till 19th September. Owner going overseas.

Call 021 662 325.

Classy 3 bedroom, 2 full bath, fully furnished Devonport house on Achilles Reserve near Narrow Neck. More information go to www. devonporttuihouse.weebly.com or www.sabbaticalhomes.com.

Ph: 445 7895.

Garage rental required – Local company requires garage for a small company car and storage for a few tools of trade. Please phone Barbara on 972 0614 or email accounts@redfortgroup.com Holiday Accommodation, Bayswater. Norwood studio. Private, well presented. $95 per night. Ph 446 1203. flexmans@gmail.com Holiday Accommodation Cheltenham, absolute beachfront. One double and two singles, shady setting, everything supplied.

Ph 445 3008.

Office room for rent. Belmont shops. One sunny office room with bathroom, includes two carparks. $250/week. Contact Simon 027 284 1622.

Relatives visiting? Spacious garden studio with en-suite and kitchenette; minutes to Narrow Neck beach. Reasonable rates.

Ph Pauline 445 6471.

Stunning Cheltenham Beach Cottage, metres from the beach. Available for short or long-term holiday accommodation. Beautifully refurbished, one bedroom, self-contained cottage with a private garden. Phone Rebekah 027 694 3933 or email devonportbeks@gmail.com REST HOMES Ascot House Retirement Home, quality care with dignity in a friendly, family atmosphere. Phone Shona, 445 2518.

Komatua Care Centre – We care for older people who have memory loss and behavioural difficulties.

Professional care is given in a nurturing environment. For all enquiries phone 445 1707.

RESULTS TGS Girls’ 1st IX Football Raffle Results: 1st Prize Jan #88, 2nd Prize Cindy #0285, 3rd Prize Graham #0223.

SERVICES OFFERED 10 years’ experience. Home cleaning. Husband and wife. Honest, reliable, careful workers. All equipment supplied. References available.

Ph Joyce 022 073 1550.

At Your Request Home Cleaning.

Our local team is ready to deliver 5-Star services in your home for weekly cleaning, spring, moving or open-home cleaning. Call Yvonne for a free quote 415 0028.

Builder available Small-job specialist, repairs and maintenance.

Skilled, reliable and local. Please phone Clive Melling. Hm 445 2485, Mob 027 29 222 84.

Cars wanted dead or alive. Top dollar paid $360 to $1700 for any small car, $800 to $15,000 for vans, utes, 4WD and trucks. Free retrieval 0800 3333 98.

Cleaning Maid Easy Use own cleaning products and gear.

Reliable/trustworthy/mature lady.

References available Please contact Sharon - 021 405 596.

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

Devonport upholstery. Recover specialist. Antiques and contemporary styles. Recycling furniture for 36 years. John Hancox, phone: 446 0372.

SERVICES OFFERED Dog grooming available. Full groom, bath and blow dry, puppy introduction to grooming. Devonport-based.

Call Barbara 021 141 0331.

Devonport Window Repairs. Sash and casement windows, wooden doors. Rotten sills and window components repaired or replaced. General carpentry. For your local window specialist. Phone Hubert Strang 446 6174 or 021 274 4191.

Gardener Available Qualified and experienced landscape designer.

Enjoys getting his hands dirty. Good plant knowledge. Hard-working, reliable and creative with plantings. Contact Paddy 022 502 2122 or 446 6188 paddyvogt@gmail.com Gardening. Do you need regular help? No time for a tidy-up?

Let me help. Experienced gardener. Ph Carolyn on 446 6517 or 027 292 8167 for a free on-site consultation.

Housekeeper. Home cleaning, including windows. Experienced. References. $25 per hour.

Ph 442 2273, 027 492 6220.

Housewashing. Get your house clean for the holidays by contacting Bubble Boys house washing. We clean windows, doors, weatherboards, garages and outbuildings.

Support local, hard-working and reliable high-school Devonport boys by contacting us at seanslreeves@ gmail.com or call 021 0621 750 to get a free quote. We are very reasonably priced. We protect paint by using soft brushes only. We can also provide water blasting for concrete driveways, paths and patios if needed.

Housewashing, prof. service, 10 years-plus experience, reliable and prompt. Free quotes, also decks, driveways, paths, fences, roof moss treatments etc.

Phone Rod 021 390 800.

Inside house cleaner Devonport, Belmont, Takapuna and Milford area. Phone Chris at Lifestyle Plus on 09 488-7279 or 027-245-6264.

Or you can email chris@ lifestyleplusltd.nz Landscaping – Format Landscapes, 18 years’ experience, Dip. Landscape Design. Design and build. We undertake all aspects of hard and soft landscaping including decks, paving, fences, retaining walls, planting etc. Small to large projects. Free quote www. formatlandscapes.co.nz. Call Matt 021 599 107.

Locksmith, Devonport’s own Scott Richardson. Mob 021 976 607.

New Barber Shop located at 131 Lake Road, Belmont Shops. ALL CUTS $15! 021 042 4630.

Professional Make-up Artist School Balls, Weddings, Fashion & Special Occassions. Stephanie Jane 021 116 8842. email SJASharp@gmail.com Tagbuster, graffiti looked after Devonport to Hauraki Corner. Call the Tagbuster 0800antitag, 0800 2684 824.

Window Cleaning for houses and businesses. For a free quote call Ivan 473 6631.

SITUATIONS VACANT Business Opportunity. We have a business opportunity for a local person to promote and deliver ‘The Freshest Fish Online’. It would take approximately 3 hours (schoolfriendly to enable school drop-offs and pick-ups), 2 days per week with scope to expand. If you are organised, enthusiastic and would like to build a ‘Healthy Business’...

Please Contact Chris at Oceanz Direct. email: freshfish@xtra.co.nz or 021 906 966.

TUITION Art Classes @ D’Port Community house: Wednesday night, life drawing; Friday morning, mastering art. Ph Lucy Bucknall – 446 0389.

Art Classes for Children, Wednesdays 3.20 - 5.30 pm, Devonport artist’s studio by the sea. Term 3: Maps and Travel. Contact Erica Soman MFA, Dip Tchg, 021 127 9671, erica_artist@xtra.co.nz. Adult classes also available Wednesday, Friday mornings

TUITION Art Travel Sketching for beginners. Learn to find your creative side in a fun learning environment over 10 weeks. Kerr St Artspace Tuesdays or Saturdays. Ph Tony McNeight 021 925 031.

Learn piano/keyboard. Lessons from $19.00. Private, Professional, Affordable, Enjoyment for all ages.

Competitions, Practical, Theory Exams. NZ Modern School of Music 0800-696-874.T

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TUITION Learning Support Specialist NZ qualified primary teacher and registered teacher of dyslexia.

Offering tailored tuition during or after school. Ph 027 391 3716. www.squigglesdyslexia.co.nz Mathematics Tuition, Sensitive tutoring offered at all levels of the secondary school curriculum.

NCEA, IB and Cambridge welcomed. 100% pass rate in 2015.

NCEA 3 calculus specialist.

Ph Peter Ridge BE, Dip Tchg (sec) 445 2283.

TUITION Mathematics Tuition Available for years 9 to 13 by a retired maths teacher. Phone Graeme 445 8575.

NCEA science/chemistry/biology tutor. 20 y/o, male, studying BSc at Auckland University. NCEA levels 1/2/3 achieved with excellence, prior experience. 020 409 88983. T Piano Lessons. Piano & music theory tuition from classically trained pianist. Devonport-based and can travel to your home.

Ph 021 079 0005 or email windarc.darius@gmail.com

TUITION P r i m a r y Tu t o r M a t h s , English, Health & Wellbeing and Drama for 5-11 year olds.

School prep also available. Visit www.gschuwertutoring.com for further details. 027 410 6871, gschuwertutoring@gmail.com Singing lessons in Devonport.

Contract Dr Sue Braatvedt 473 9113 or 027 340 2884. All ages.

SLSS Swim School, 11 Evan Street, Belmont (off Eversleigh Road).

Specialists in preschoolers. Phone 486 6728 for more info.

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Grammar

SCHOOL NEWS

AUGUST 12, 2016

Excitement at YES product launch With the school library lit up and busy figures running around until late in the evening, this was not your average Thursday night on the school grounds. The evening of 7 July brought with it the highly anticipated Business Product launch. The night held an air of excitement but also an easy atmosphere, as parents, business figures and students alike showed up to support the different businesses.

For the first six months of the school year, all Year 13 business students who are participating in the Young Enterprise Scheme had been manically preparing their business concepts to launch at the event.

A range of products were brought to the occasion, including cheeseboards and wine holders recycled from barrels, customised cupcakes, a unique dry-cookie mix in a jar and a successful app.

People browsed, mingled, ate and wandered by the different stalls, looking to see what each business offered. Once it became clear that everyone had arrived, each group presented a marketing pitch, regarding their business. The seated crowd listened attentively, with a concluding speech given by a passionate Hilary Robotham (the Regional Coordinator for the Young Enterprise Scheme). A small gift of appreciation was also presented to Mrs Emma Johnson, a truly dedicated business teacher who has been with the Year 13 students throughout their business journey.

With all presentations completed, the time the students had been highly anticipating arrived; their products were officially available for purchase. The crowd wandered around each stall, making enquiries regarding the products, and were generous with their purchases.

It was a fantastic opportunity for groups to begin forming long-term relationships with future potential customers as well as interacting with those who had come to show their support. Every guest at the event offered positive responses and reinforcement, boosting confidence in the potential the business concepts possessed.

BY MARYANNE THATCHER

From Disney to Donald at speech final Respect and prestige were offered to eager speech-makers as seven students took centre stage in the Year 10 speech final, which took place before hundreds of peers in a chilly sports hall on a recent Friday afternoon.

Each speech covered significant topics with witty and original analysis. Nadia Veljanovska opened, giving insight into her life with immigrant parents. Esther Howie, Giorgia Doughty, Hannah Kim, Claudia Toxopeus, Ella Mishan and Patience Davis followed.

Claudia Toxopeus was the winner, with a thoughtful speech about Disney shaping our beauty standards. Giorgia Doughty’s rundown of Donald Trump’s ‘qualifications’ for the US presidency was the runner-up, and Hannah Kim’s explanation of distorted Asian stereotypes gained third place.

Red Socks Day

“It was the best that I’ve ever spoken.

The audience were really engaging and I was really pleased with how I did,” said Claudia.

Judge, Acting DP, Miss Catherine Knowles, was particularly impressed with the confidence of the speakers and the communication of their writing. “I loved the way they all had an originality to them, and the way they were able to present was very impressive.”

BY DANIEL HOWIE

the next generation of leaders, adventurers and environmentalists, to pursue their Students arrived in red socks to support passions. Besides having red socks, the the Sir Peter Blake Foundation on the final badges with the Sir Peter Blake logo were day of last term. Red socks were refreshing available to be purchased, and this was instead of the normal regulation socks taken to, with great enthusiasm. Pupils were worn on a daily basis. They are now a supportive of the event. “It was exciting to yearly reminder of Sir Peter Blake’s legacy see so many aspiring young leaders eagerly to dream big, and to celebrate the resolute getting their own Red Socks badges. I look Kiwi spirit. Donations from students and forward to seeing everyone developing staff towards the trust for Red Socks help further in their leadership skills,” exclaimed many young Kiwis.

Iris Wan, a Year 12 student.

The purpose of wearing red socks is to

BY SELENA ZHOU show a willingness to inspire and motivate

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Grammar

SCHOOL NEWS

AUGUST 12, 2016

Memories made at NZMUN NZ Model UN promises thrilling debate, engaging guest speakers and various events proven to be educational, exciting and fun.

One energised TGS student, Maya Neupane, flew to Wellington on the last Friday of Term 2 to attend this premier event.

A fulfilling schedule from 1-4 of July was set for Maya, beginning with a traditional opening ceremony hosted in the halls of Parliament. She soon became overwhelmed by her busy four-day agenda in Victoria University, inquiring into global issues such as the use of social media to promote terrorist activity, the Moon Treaty and the Antarctic Treaty. Assigned to Botswana, on the African continent, she represented this region when attending lectures and committees.

“Model UN was a memorable experience – giving me an insight into the inner workings of the real United Nations. It was a chance to discuss serious topics in realistic and fast-paced committee sessions. It is a great opportunity for students to liven up their leadership and negotiation skills,” Maya said.

Maya at conference – kneeling front left Delegates were rewarded with a ball held at Te Papa to celebrate their achievements, followed by the closing ceremony on the final day. NZ Model UN unites students from all geographical boundaries – like Maya, who has

been a Devonport local for most of her life – by gathering them in the heart of Wellington for a weekend of political exchange, intellectual controversy and global citizenship.

BY KATE LEE

Joseph Iosefo inspires Student Ambassador, Joshua Iosefo, empowers teens across Auckland with zealous words of encouragement. Popularised as the boy who appeared on Campbell Live in 2012 delivering his speech ‘Brown Brother’, Iosefo was welcomed into the TGS sports hall by Year 11 TGS students assembled on a shivery Wednesday morning.

They were soon to be electrified by this young man of Samoan-Niuean descent. In his inspiring talk he shared three personal stories that traced his accomplishments in life.

Students were immersed in his overarching deep message: to believe in yourself because with the right mindset, you can achieve remarkable things.

Year 11 student, Loretta Riach, revealed that it was a special and memorable moment for her as she feels to have gained a new perspective on life through his past experiences. “I’m so glad that we were provided with the opportunity to listen to Joshua’s talk. I believe

this event has definitely impacted people in our year,” she shared.

One member of the Fuji Xerox Next Generation Leaders Programme, Francesca Edmonds, eagerly developed a project to make positive changes by instituting inspirational resources into her own school. Joshua Iosefo became her prime target as a guest speaker, deciding that his unique persona and achievements, such as obtaining an Excellence Endorsement in NCEA Level 1 and 2 in the same year, would easily capture the attention of 15-year-old students.

When questioned if she felt accomplished with what she was striving for, Francesca responded delightfully: “I loved it! I really appreciate how personal his story was, and how openly he shared it with hundreds of students. It was very entertaining and gave me so much joy to see everyone taking part, engaged and sharing a good laugh.”

BY KATE LEE

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Broken goods in a safe re-pair of hands

Handy…Glen Chapman (left) and Vicky Salvador tended to Mike Cohen’s Roman gloves, while (above) Jodi and Ivan Letica attempted to get a dodgy doorbell repaired A coffee machine got its fix at the Repair Café recently held in Bayswater. The machine turned up at Bayswater School, along with another 50 broken items. Almost 30 left in a better state than they arrived in.

Since the early days of North Harbour Sea Local residents were invited to bring along Rescue, there has been a volunteer marine any broken items to the Repair Cafe. And search and rescue crew and craft ready sewers, electricians, bike repairers and woodand waiting to respond to the call 24hrs, workers were there to help fix them.

365 days a year. Your own Coastguard North Shore is amongst the busiest, if not Sara Zwart had bought the espresso machine the busiest rescue vessel in service on the with Flybuys about three years ago. “It’s just not Hauraki Gulf. Some folks reading this article making coffee anymore,” she told Bruno Hess We have an amazingly supportive community may well have seen the rescue boat up and Jerome Lobo, the two electricians on call. and we’d like to offer you the opportunity to close whilst out boating for the day – some, “I have soaked it and tried all sorts of things, but have a tangible part in building this boat. unfortunately for them, may have had the We have launched “The Boat the Shore none of them have worked,” she said. experience on more than one occasion!

Built” campaign and the inaugural sponsor Within minutes, Hess and Lobb had a diagto come on board is Harcourts Cooper Our mission is to save lives at sea – and nosis and a cure – a new seal was needed. Lobo and Co, Browns Bay, who have been very we’ve been doing this aboard our current says the machine costs $350 new. “But you generous and supportive of our quest. We boat since 2007 – in all weather conditions can buy a new seal for $20 and easily put it in now invite you to be a part of our journey. and sea states – which, as you can imagine, yourself,” he said to a smiling Zwart.

Any donation or suggestion that you can give has taken its toll. So, we are having a new Christian Wehrle was another lucky customto help us make this happen would be very rescue vessel built which, when launched er. He brought along a broken toy car his kids gratefully received and can be made via our later this year, will continue the service of love. “But since it broke it has been sitting in Givealittle Page https://givealittle.co.nz/ her predecessor – but we need your help. the corner,” he says. Dylan Walters, a voluncause/theboattheshorebuilt or by contacting We have fundraised extensively over teer at the Devonport Community Recycling us via our webpage www.cgns.co.nz several years and have planned for this Centre on Lake Road, found the fault lied with Thank you for your part in making this a replacement. We have most of the funds the battery hold. He put a screwdriver to work reality and for helping us to keep you and this we need to be able to launch the vessel late until it was fixed. community safe on the water. this year and maintain our finances to the Glen Chapman and Vicky Salvador, two of point of being able to remain operational.

The volunteer group, four sewers on hand, worked on a treasured The reality is that we are $100,000 short Coastguard North Shore. leather glove that had a small hole in it. Devonof our target. The total cost for the build is port-Takapuna Local Board member Mike Co$665,000, which is a lot of money to raise – hen had bought it 41 years ago in Rome. “The especially for a volunteer organisation – and pair can’t have been very expensive. I was on we are so nearly there! my OE, 25 years old and operating on $10 a day.

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Upcycling… Mark Davies (left) inspects Steve Southall’s bike repair work

Flat white machine fixed… Sara Zwart (right) with Bruno Hess and her broken coffee machine But I wear those gloves every morning on my winter walks,” he says. Chapman happily fixed it, while telling Cohen she was on her OE in Rome in the 1970s too.

Annemarie Carr, another seamstress, fixed holes in pants and made a toggle bag out of a scrap of material a woman brought to the event.

Richard Biddle, a repair volunteer from the Takapuna Methodist Church, took apart a toy train that had stuck wheels, which Madeleine Thorne (12) brought along. A bit of glue got it chugging along.

Local furniture maker Jamie Spencer had a busy morning. “I have fixed a lot of chairs, split seats, wobbly legs, that sort of thing. A few of my customers said they would come back with more chairs in the afternoon,” he says.

Mark Davies brought along a bike for his four-year-old son Patrick, who had learned to ride the week before.

Steve Southall from the Bike Kaipatiki team fixed its broken pedals and brakes and it was good to go.

One item beyond repair was the small doorbell of a children’s playhouse that Jodi Letica and son Ivan (1) handed over. The playhouse has served Ivan’s four older siblings well, but its bell was too corroded to be fixed.

Repair Café organiser Steve McLuckie said the day was a big success. “It was so cool to see so many people connecting and sharing skills and such a lovely atmosphere.” The pop-up event was certain to return due to its popularity, he said.

Motoring along… Natasha and Christian Wehrle with Dylan Walters (left)

Back on track… Madeleine Thorne and Richard Biddle making the wheels of the train go round and round again

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Tree vandalism under investigation A pohutukawa street tree has been replaced four times after it has been repeatedly damaged.

Auckland Council is investigating the incident and recently sent letters to nearby residents asking them for help in finding the perpetrator.

“We so far have no leads in this case despite investigations by council’s compliance team,” says Martin van Jaarsveld, Manager of Local Parks.

Unlawful damage or destruction of a council-owned tree is an offence under the Resource Management Act. It is also an “unwanted cost to ratepayers and one that is viewed seriously by the council,” van Jaarsveld says. He is asking people who have information regarding the damage of the tree to call council.

Each replacement tree costs around $150.

However, the actual cost of replacement is close to $500 once labour is included, he says.

North Shore ward councillor Chris Darby, who lives nearby, says he notices the continued vandalism while out walking. “I think the first one disappeared about five years ago.

It was just severely pruned at first and then disappeared completely,” he says.

“We get upset about graffiti or damage to bus stations, and this is the same – it’s vandalism of the natural environment. Street trees benefit us all and we shouldn’t be decimating them.”

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North Shore roll call is ever stronger

North Harbour under-14 reps…

Left: Prop Shea Bratton (left) and flanker Taine Walker-Blanchette A record seven North Harbour reps have come through the North Shore Rugby Football Club junior teams this year.

Ian McIntyre, the chair of the junior club says: “it’s the best the club has ever done, with five Roller Mills and two North Harbour Under-14 reps coming out of this year’s J1 grade.”

J1 coach Mark Fairbairn says the high number of players selected this year is partially due to the club’s recent investment in quality coaching.

“Over the last two years, we have put a lot of our coaches through International Rugby Academy New Zealand courses, and I think it shows,” he says.

With five of its players in the Roller Mills, North Shore is second most represented behind Silverdale, which has seven players in the team of 24.

Roller Mills is a northern regional tourna-

Record representation… From left: Tai Blair, John Steel, Hunter Rice, James Fairbairn and Hayden McKay. North Shore players make up much of the Roller Mills back line, with Tai at half-back, John at full-back and Hunter at first-five. James is a blind-side flanker while Hayden is a hooker. ment for Under-13 intermediate school boys weighing less than 57 kg. Since it began in 1925, it has included more than 60 players who went on to become All Blacks, including Kieran Read, Keven Mealamu, Stephen Donald and Sonny Bill Williams. This year’s tournament

kicks off in Taranaki on 25 September.

Shea Bratton and Taine Walker-Blanchette both aged 13 and in Year 8 at Belmont Intermediate School, have been selected for North Harbour’s Under-14 Cardinal team. Taine was in the Roller Mills last year.

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