25 February 2022 Devonport Flagstaff

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Pensioner housing site turns into developer’s dream A multimillion-dollar former pensioner-flat site in Narrow Neck is on the market again less than a year after being sold, as a developer aims to cash in on a government law change to increase housing density.

The Handley Court block of pensioner flats was sold to developer Handley Invest-

ments in April 2021 for $6.391 million.

Another company, Handley Capital Ltd, later applied to Auckland Council to develop 16 two-level townhouses on the site.

Now the site is back on the market.

Handley spokesman Cary Bowkett said the ‘housing-enabling’ bill passed by the

government in December allowed “a wider range of development options” than was possible when the land was acquired.

“We have decided to list it for sale on the expectation a new developer can utilise the new rules to their greater advantage.”

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Millions evaporate due to Covid Covid cost Devonport more than $10 million in the 21 months to the end of 2021, the Devonport Business Association says.

Association manager Katherine Downs said she had used figures from Marketview, a consumer-spending analyst, to compare the 21 months from April 2020 to December 2021 with the same period in 2018–2019.

“Revenue in hospo and retail dropped by well over $10 million. Local spending remained fairly steady on average, but with dramatic peaks and troughs due to lockdowns.

It was, of course, international and national visitor spending that dropped drastically.”

The latest figures showed December had been a good month for businesses, as it usually was, Downs said.

“With no further government support in sight for our hospo and retail businesses they are very concerned about the next few months, with staffing issues due to self-isolation likely to impact them as well.”

Meanwhile, six in 10 people who drive to Devonport to shop go only to the supermarket and then leave again, association board member Ian Cunliffe told a community meeting,

hosted by the Devonport Community Trust.

One of the big challenges was the lack of new developments going into the village, he said While Devonport wants to maintain the village’s older heritage, other areas like Takapuna had new apartment blocks going in, Cunliffe said.

This sort of development would fuel the local economy because residents would spend money where they lived.

“Devonport’s got a bigger challenge because of course we’re not going to get high-rise lots, hopefully, in our heritage-protected area.”

Fullers and Auckland Council could be pressured to help facilitate more people taking the ferry across from the CBD, Cunliffe said.

“A family of four might be paying $50 before they get here in ferry fares.”

Downs confirmed efforts had been made to set up package deals between Fullers and local businesses.

“With numbers being so low on the ferries, Fullers said it wasn’t viable to offer new products at this time, but would be happy to consider it in six months’ time.”

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Preschool closed Belmont Montessori Preschool was closed last week, with children identified as close contacts of a positive Covid case. Centre owners and teachers Renata McIlroy and Grace Frewin said the contact took place on 10 February, with their Covid plan quickly in action. No children tested positive and the school reopened on Monday. They praised the community for supporting isolating families with offers to drop supplies.

Family recovers Members of the Corbett family of Hauraki have returned to work and study after recovering from Omicron.

The family of four shared their Covid story with the Flagstaff (11 February) after becoming early sufferers of the latest Covid variant. Since then, case numbers have grown rapidly. Mother Rachel Corbett said it was a relief to be cleared to return to “real life” after more than 20 days at home.

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The key changes in the new legislation provide for development up to three storeys in height, and up to 50 per cent site coverage, Bowkett said.

“In addition, the shareholders now have a range of larger projects on the go, which they would prefer to focus on.”

Since purchasing the property, the Handley group had removed the old buildings and associated asbestos, so it now presented as a clean and clear development site, Bowkett said.

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Hatrick! North Shore win T20 title for third year

Champagne cricketers… North Shore premier reserves are Auckland T20 winners: From left to right: Ben Wall, Carlo Robb, Matt Strain, Christian Scott, Rory Bessell, Hayden McKay, Jordan Gatley Kneeling: Sam Hinds, Joe Moore, Will Clarke (captain), Max Clarke, Angus Nicoll North Shore Cricket Club premier reserves put on a top bowling and fielding display in beating Parnell at a Devonport Domain on Sunday to take out the Auckland T20 title for the third successive year.

The reserves T20 competition is now three years old with North Shore undefeated, having beaten Cornwall and Eden Roskill in preceding finals. This season, North Shore beat East Coast Bays, Hibiscus Coast and Takapuna in pool play, then Suburbs New Lynn in the semi-finals.

Matt Strain, Angus Nicoll and Will Clarke have been in all three winning sides.

In the final against Parnell, Shore batted first and scored 94/10 off 19 overs – a comparatively modest score.

The highest batting partnership was 27 which was scored between the teams oldest player Ben Wall (32) and the team’s youngest player 16-year-old Christian Scott who topscored with 21.

The bowlers ended with figures to die for:

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It’s also apparent that NZ is a low-wage economy compared to other OECD countries who are all seeking skilled labour just as we are, but we have lower wages and more difficult entry requirements. This brain drain is likely to have a dampening impact on the property market, along with other headwinds of increased supply, higher interest rates, higher inflation and cost of living, and tighter credit – latest data suggests weaker sales numbers and prices in Auckland particularly.

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Matt Strain took three wickets for seven runs including one maiden in his 3.5 over stint; Angus Nicholl took three for eight; and Hayden McKay two for six.

Captain Will Clarke said although the side posted a modest score it dug in to continue the legacy of the last two seasons.

“There’s a lot of fight in the team” many of whom were “first timers” in a T20 final, which showed the depth of talent coming through the club, Clarke said

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Tennis club issues safety advice after attack A woman attacked at Stanley Bay Park was only about 100m away from Ngataringa Tennis Club courts, where members were playing at the time.

The players were unaware of the attack until the next day. The assault took place two weeks ago on a well-used but path to the Navy sports fields.

“It’s really unnerved a lot of people, it’s really unsettling,” says Janine Jones, a long-standing club member and office-holder.

“A friend of mine said ‘a bubble has just burst’,” Jones said. The evening attack had punctured the community perception of living in a safe neighbourhood.

Police are still calling for the public to come forward with clues to help them catch the offender.

They have described the attack on the woman, aged in her 30s, as a “serious assault.”

It occurred around 8.30pm on 8 February, while the woman was out exercising.

Police say she was left very shaken, but was working with them and had been offered support. They have advised other women exercising alone to be alert and aware of their surroundings.

A nearby Glen Rd resident said she had been advised by police in the early stages of their investigation not to go out alone at night. The tennis club has asked its members to escort teammates to their cars.

The offender is described as a man of athletic build, aged in his 40s, clean-shaven and with brown hair. He was wearing a black cap, black shorts, a black running T-shirt and black fabric gloves.

By 11pm on the night of the attack, the police helicopter was circling overhead. The park was taped off the next morning.

Jones, the club communications officer, said it learned of the attack on the Wednesday morning.

The club had provided police with its CCTV

footage, as have a number of neighbours around the park.“I understand that the victim heard that tennis was taking place at the time,” she said.

“We really need lighting nearer the Navy playing grounds where the attack took place, Jones said.

After evening play – including scheduled Tuesday-night training sessions and women’s inter-club competition on Thursdays – court lights were normally switched off by 9pm, said Jones. This left the park area with little light.

After the police advised increased vigilance and to avoid using earbuds, the club committee met and recommended members leaving late walk together, she said.

Previously, it was common that “the lads all leave the girls to pack up the dishes and they head off,” said Jones.

Paths lead into the park beside the courts from Calliope Rd, down from Glen Rd opposite Stanley Bay School, and up from the Navy fields.

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Poor lighting a long-time concern Concerns about inadequate pathway lighting around Stanley Bay Park have been highlighted by residents for years, with some saying they got nowhere taking the issue to Auckland Council. Overhanging trees have been an ongoing problem, with some obscuring and damaging lighting.

Among issues neighbours have raised are: • A light on the pathway leading towards the cricket/football storage shed beyond the tennis courts left out of action for two to three years after tree branches broke its bulb, socket and pole.

• Another light not working on the walkway from Glen Rd, which a neighbour rang the council about in May last year. After this month’s attack she called back to find her original complaint had not been logged. She understood officials had decided it was not a

matter for the council, but for the Ministry of Education, given the walkway gives access to park playing fields used by Stanley Bay Primary.

It is believed responsibility for lighting can also fall to different parts of council, including Auckland Transport.

Last Friday morning there was a flurry of action at the park, with council, AT, and board representatives in attendance. The tennis club president, Alister Irving, had earlier asked the Local Board chair for a lighting update.

Contractors fixed all but one of the faulty lights, with that likely to be moved from under a large tree to a new location.

The unlit section of the park leading to the Navy grounds remains a concern, with two local residents approaching the council to request a light pole there.

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Police are continuing investigations at Stanley Bay and say they are particularly interested in hearing from a cyclist who was in the park at the time of the assault.

Waitemata East investigations area manager Detective Senior-Sergeant Nick Poland said they would also like to hear from anyone who may have been at the Stanley Bay Wharf between 6.00pm–9.30pm on the evening of the attack.

Police earlier asked residents to check their CCTV and dash-camera footage for the same time period, not just from properties around the park fringe, but also those in Jim Titchener Pde, Patuone Pl, William Bond St, and Calliope Rd. Anyone with any information is asked to call Police on 105 and quote file number 220209/0390. Or it can be provided anonymously by calling Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.

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Voices of lost Navy sailors heard again Devonport World War II serviceman Howard Cooper is among those whose crackly messages for loved ones at home are included in a poignant new audio installation at the Navy Museum.

Cooper and 763 crewmates died when the HMS Neptune was sunk off the coast of Libya just a few weeks after the messages were recorded.

The recordings of New Zealand crew members aboard the Royal Navy ship were made to air in New Zealand at Christmas, 1941.

In his message, Cooper, a 21-year-old supply assistant, greeted his family, wished them well and said he was sorry he could not be with them for Christmas, signing off: “Next Christmas is a certainty.”

The Neptune struck Italian-laid mines and sank on 18 December, 36 days after the recording session.

Cooper was one of 150 New Zealanders who died in what remain this country’s largest single naval loss of life.

He is remembered at his old school, Takapuna Grammar, on a memorial for those who lost their lives in service. His name is etched in glass on an approach to the school hall.

The brief messages of 50 Neptune crew members were recorded on large acetate discs during a stopover in Alexandria, Egypt.

After the disaster, the recordings were kept in the archives, rather than being played as intended on New Zealand radio during a popular weekly feature hosted by broadcaster Arch Curry, With the Boys Overseas.

The mini exhibition about them, Neptune Calling, opened at the museum this week and runs until the end of the year.

A curtained-off area has been set up where people can sit and listen to the recordings ,which are loaded onto devices inside vintage phones.

“It’s a bit intense,” says Leading Musician Michael Jamieson, who does stints as a guide host at the museum.

While some family members have over the years been given the opportunity to hear their lost loved ones’ voices on the recordings held

by Nga Taonga Sound and Archive, others have never heard them. Radio New Zealand has also broadcast snippets over the years, but this is believed to be the first time the full recordings have been made available.

Museum communications manager Jane Cotty has been in touch with around 20 families for whom contacts are still known.

“We’ve got family members coming from all ends of the country,” she says.

Nearly a quarter of the New Zealanders aboard Neptune were from Auckland, with further strong contingents from Canterbury and Otago. An Otago group still gets together to remember the men, but Cotty says she expects the display may bring forth more people with connections to the Neptune than she has been aware of.

Yesteryear calling... Navy Museum guide host Leading Musician Michael Jamieson listens to a recording from 1941 “A lot of the guys were very young and did not have kids, so their survivors now are great-nieces and nephews.”

Cotty has worked on Neptune Calling with colleague Marica McEwan. The pair sourced the war-era phones from MOTAT and had a sound engineer transfer the cleaned-up recordings to a digital chip.

“It’s high quality considering it’s 80 years old,” says Cotty.

Although the sound is slightly crackly, the men can be heard clearly, greeting their family and friends and passing on messages from 36 other servicemen. Many of them sign off with “cheerio”.

McEwan arranged for a calligrapher, Margaret Woollett, who lives in Narrow Neck, to write each of the men’s names on pieces of paper, which are framed on the wall. No ranks are included, with the principle being all are equal in death.

Covid delayed the exhibition, which was originally meant to open last year, to mark 80 years since the sinking and also of the formation of the Royal New Zealand Navy.

Cotty says she is pleased the museum is able to offer a reflective remembrance that at

last allows the men’s recordings to be heard in their entirety.

“They are extremely poignant and we of course feel an enormous responsibility towards sharing them in a respectful way,” says Cotty.

“They are a very real, tangible link to 150 young men who never made it home.”

Before the public opening last Tuesday, a private blessing was held.

For those wanting to learn more about the Neptune, Jamieson says the museum also has a model of the ship on display.

Medals from six of the crew are among its collection.

The New Zealand crew are remembered on the Memorial Wall at the Devonport Naval Base and individually on memorials around the country.

“This was a huge event in New Zealand naval history,” says Cotty.

The site of the sunken vessel was discovered in the Mediterranean in 2016 and is an official Commonweath War Grave. The Neptune is remembered in the United Kingdom at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.

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“Where do you put signs, where is 30 and 50? Will residents be receptive to an extended area of 30km/h?”

Community buy-in and understanding are needed for big changes to work, she says.

AT says reducing speeds saves lives and reduces trauma from crashes involving drivers, pedestrians and cyclists. A 30km/h limit is significantly more effective at doing this than a 40km/h limit, its data shows.

Lower town-centre speed limits have already been introduced over the last 24 months in Mairangi Bay, Torbay, Ōtāhuhu, Orewa, West Lynn, Mission Bay and St Heliers. AT has picked Devonport and Takapuna to be first for the treatment in the local board area, but a roll-out in Milford is expected later. Other traffic-safety measures will be consulted on separately mid-year, including pedestrian crossings, kerb alterations, road markings and signage.

AT’s programme director, Nathan Cammock, says the proposed safety improvements target areas of known safety risk. This includes the Calliope-Victoria Rds intersection and around schools.

AT says that for Auckland roads where speed-limit and safety measures were installed in mid-2020, there was a 67 per cent reduction in deaths and a 19 per cent reduction in injury crashes in the 12-months that followed, compared with the previous five years.

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The proposed 30km/h zone, which Auckland Transport (AT) is promoting as a Slow Streets safety measure stretches as far west as Glen Rd and east to Church St. It runs from King Edward Pde north to take in Victoria Rd and its side streets, picking up Devonport Primary and St Leo’s schools.

Except for a short section leading into the junction with Victoria Rd, Calliope Rd is exempt from the go-slow plan, with its speed to remain at 50km/h. But north of Calliope Rd and west of Albert Rd and Lake Rd, the 30km/h zone include smaller suburban streets as far up as Mozeley Ave. A working group, including business and community leaders, has been consulting with AT about the plans forsome months to ensure their development takes note of local issues and feelings.

The draft zone – obtained by the Flagstaff ahead of its release for community consultation from 28 February – goes further than some expected.

Devonport-Takapuna Local Board member Trish Deans, who is on the working group, she says she supports the safety initiative generally, especially in the town centre. But was surprised when the proposed zone was expended to take in sections of Stanley Bay and parts of central Devonport.

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Athletics fun (and sausages) draw a crowd

Snack of champions... Edward McCarthy, 2, and sister Charlie, 4, refuel between activities. Keen runner Rocco Riggall (above right), 8, thinks the series is “really cool because everyone can do it”.

Fun times... Jacob Hodgson (left), 3, is excited to be attending the athletics series for the first time. TGS Year 13 student Sascha Brenner (above) has helped at the event for the past three years.

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Watching brief... Devonport mothers Brittany Phillips (left) and Hope Miles take in the action from the grassy bank. Above right: Bella Shannon, 5, and Jack Gladwell, 4, in a close finish approaching the line.

Devonport’s long-running Kids Athletics Series got off to a good start for the year, with a big turnout at the Vauxhall sports fields last week.

Around 80 children, from pre-schoolers to intermediate age, turned up to have a go at a range of running, jumping, throwing and agility activities. A sausage-sizzle fundraiser for Calliope Sea Scouts rounded out the weekly event, which is run by the Devonport Peninsula Trust.

Devonport real-estate agent Ian Cunliffe has been helping at the series for 18 years, since his own now-adult daughters attended. Urging on a steady stream of youngsters at the high jump, he said: “Our job is to just encourage them.” Athletics is good at helping youngsters to learn to wait their turn and help each other out, he says. Students from Takapuna Grammar School also help supervise children split into age groups.

Several parents told the Flagstaff they had taken their children to the athletics as a way to meet more people in the area. Lockdowns and restrictions on school gatherings had made this tricky, so a relaxed event in the local area was welcome.

The free series runs Tuesdays 4-6pm at the Vauxhall Sports Reserve.

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Up and over... Dani Ballard (left) and Ollie Oliver, both 6, clearing the bar at the high jump

Twinkle toes... Max Fry, 3, steps through an agility challenge

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Golden glow cast on career in architecture Julie Stout joins an elite group as recipient of a top architects’ award. The Narrow Neck resident talks to Helen Vause about a lifetime practising and teaching – and helping shape the city.

Architect and advocate... Julie Stout at home in Narrow Neck Looking out over Narrow Neck beach to Rangitoto from her airy, covered upstairs deck, Julie Stout grins. Yes, she says, she is very honoured indeed to be the newest recipient of the highest individual award for an architect at this stage of her career, the Gold Medal given annually by the New Zealand Institute of Architects.

Colleagues, fulsome in their praise of her contribution to the profession, consider it

timely recognition for Stout, who already has a long list of awards to her name for notable projects and a great reputation for advocacy. The Flagstaff meets her during a week of celebrations.

The architectural practice she is part of has long been Devonport-based, although she might be best known in the area for the striking design of her award-winning house in Old Lake Road.

But Stout’s story and projects have taken her far and wide, and involved many other houses.

As she tells it, the woman from Palmerston North had a lucky day back in the middle of her studies at the University of Auckland, when she met the late David Mitchell, an architect and lecturer who would become her partner in life and in professional practice.

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Stout has collected many awards herself, but working alongside Mitchell, she was part of a winning team that brought home the accolades for a portfolio of at least 15 public buildings and private houses – including two of the couple’s own homes.

Some of their most noted projects include Te Uru Waitakere Gallery and Lopdell House in West Auckland, and the Tauranga Art Gallery.

When Mitchell died in 2018, Stout acknowledges it took her time to catch her breath and realise that she could go on working without the support of her closest collaborator.

“We had worked so closely together for so long, at first I wondered if I could carry on designing without him.

“I feel so lucky to have had the life we had together. David and I shared the same sensibilities, the same way of looking at the world.”

Some outside their office may have wondered who had contributed what to their projects. And Mitchell himself was a Gold Medal winner in 2005. But for Stout, this latest recognition is for her, and her entire body of work. Last year, she was one of a handful of the country’s most prominent architects featured in the television series Designing Dreams.

Stout was just 25 and a new graduate when she met Mitchell, who was already established in his field, 17 years her senior and a father of adolescent kids. He was also a keen sailor and before she knew it, Stout was happily immersed in his seafaring plans.

Mitchell it turned out, had found quite the sailor in the girl from the Manawatu – once she’d boned up fast on things nautical.

“When he put the idea of a voyage to me, I had no hesitation,” laughs Stout who has years of colourful memories of adventures alone at sea with her mate.

The couple first took off in their boat Rogue for six months in 1988, sailing around the Pacific Islands and firming up plans for going further afield. Happily, their professional track records ensured clients and future work also lay ahead.

That trip was mostly recorded, the couple taking it in turns to write as they went. Much of the detail would scare the average landlubber further into the corner of their sofa.

But as it has been for others who tackle big seas on small boats, the truly terrifying bits seemed to be erased the next morning by sunshine, calm waters and safe harbours.

They recorded grappling with terrible weather, huge seas, busted gear, sleepless nights, sheer terror, near misses with solid objects and, often, dark little doubts.

Stout wrote in one section on the homeward leg: “By now we were totally exhausted. Two hours sleep every 24 hours and two light snacks a day for 12 days, coupled with the nerve-shredding task of beating into the sea was almost too much. Always the fear

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Striking design... the late David Mitchell outside the Narrow Neck house he and Stout designed, and where Stout still lives of something going wrong that you couldn’t cope with. Lying down below at night I was totally convinced that if I took my clothes off to go to sleep then we would hit a container, so I would remain fully dressed...

Outside, Rogue would be straight and true, in total control of herself.”

Stout always got herself back together, and the scary bits fell away at the promise of another sea voyage with Mitchell.

“I mean, just look out there at the beauty of it all.

Who wouldn’t want to live here, by the sea?”

Back home once more, they were in demand for plenty of exciting projects. But the wanderlust won out and, in 1992, they headed off again through the Pacific, then to Hong Kong.

Stout laughs at the memory of tying up in a nook in a Hong Kong harbour they’d be calling home for months, finding their land legs and scuttling into Marks & Spencer department store in search of suits.

Smartly kitted out, off they went into the city to find jobs. Stout remembers just ‘getting on with it’ to meet briefs for apartments and shopping malls she can no longer recall.

“But it was an amazing time working there, living on the boat.”

Then the call came for another amazing job in Auckland. A gallery this time, the contemporary wing of the Auckland Art Gallery. The work kept coming, and Mitch-

ell and Stout won national awards.

But once again, the duo departed, taking the boat back to Hong Kong and through Asian waters. In 1999, they sailed across the Indian Ocean and eventually into the Mediterranean.But in Turkey they discovered David had prostate cancer – news that brought them home.

Julie recalls discovering Narrow Neck, and the site of her home, a few years later after venturing over the bridge nearly 20 years ago to meet a client.

It was, she says, the beginning of their very happy commitment to a life in the neighbourhood – featuring swims, walks and many new friendships.

“I mean, just look out there at the beauty of it all. Who wouldn’t want to live here, by the sea?”

Ever the advocate for leading development on sound design principle, Stout has always spoken out, notably as chair of Urban Auckland.

With that group, she led the charge in a campaign through to the High Court to successfully chase off the development threat of built expansion into the Waitemata Harbour, forcing a rethink on the future of Auckland ports.

While no one foresaw the growth of Auckland, says Stout, people now understand urban issues and intensification.

The worry is, she says, the city’s future development seems to be in the hands of planners and managers. A design-led entity with a vision of how the city could be and a hub that could push and promote public understanding on how our future city could look is urgently needed, she says.

Stout wants to be part of putting this entity in place, ensuring that creative people have a voice in future development.

Her 2021 Gold Medal will give her opinions even more heft in the conversation.

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February 25, 2022

Hot off the press: ironing board dumped at bookstop The Wicklow Rd Bookstop is a community initiative created during lockdown by a lady in the street. Her son, a builder, put up the shelves and made artistic additions.

The facility is much loved by locals and at almost any time of the day you can see two or three people browsing among the books.

The Bookstop is for books you have read, enjoyed and wish to pass on.

Recently, there has been a problem with indiscriminate dumping.

About 80kg of unsuitable material has been removed, including university text books, very old encyclopaedias, best-wine guides from decades ago, magazines, anti-vax material, CDs and plastic toys.

There was even an ironing board.

Please don’t leave boxes of books on the ground as they create a mess after rain.

Unsuitable books can be sent for recycling via your own domestic fortnightly recycling

Huge kudos to the Corbetts for their courage in telling us about the way Omicron impacted their family (Flagstaff, 11 February), and also to the Flagstaff for printing such an important story.

There is so much fear and misinformation around, and articles like this help to reassure us that most of us will cope if we become ill. Yes, Covid is miserable and scary, especially for those who are vulnerable, but the Corbetts’ story gave a clear, common-sense picture of what happens.

It would be amazing if other local people could share their experiences as well and tell us their stories. Knowing the facts, when presented in such a balanced, thoughtful way, really does help.

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Regarding Devonport-Takapuna Local Board member George Wood’s opposition to rubbish-collection standardisation (Flagstaff 11 February). I agree wholeheartedly and want to oppose changes. But how do I do that? We are trying to reduce rubbish, but if it is pre-paid, especially in rates and by landlords, why would folks care? Let’s not fix a non-existent problem.

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Place council houses into a community trust In regard to the Auckland Council dilemma on what to do with the run-down heritage villa at 55 King Edward Pde (Flagstaff, 11 February), there is a very simple, practical solution of considerable benefit to our local community: a community-controlled property trust.

At the very first meeting of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board under the new Super City regime, I put on the table the concept of a community trust taking over the heritage community-owned properties in Devonport, with the rental income going into a fund for local “good works” and community-group support.

Direct operational control would be with a practical and community-minded trustee group, such as Devonport Rotary, who renovated the Officers Mess at Fort Takapuna some years ago to help the Sculpture On Shore event.

The concept arose from a visit as a history buff to New Castle, Delaware in the US, a town, established in 1651 by the Dutch West India Company (taken over by the British in 1680).

In the practice of those times, a large parcel of land was established as the common for communal agricultural use. In 1792, the Trustees of New Castle Common organisation was established, its purpose to preserve and protect the historic common lands with income derived from property rentals and

investments. It has an interesting mix of heritage properties and commercial rentals with a current asset value of US$17 million, and income of US6 million.

Panuku has already taken $6 million out of the community from the sale of the Handley Ave senior housing, and collects the rents from the other two King Edward Pde villas.

A similar community trust exists in Masterton, the Masterton Trust Lands Trust, established in 1871 to manage surplus land not sold to working-class settlers. It now has 80 properties valued at $68 million, and in 2021 paid out $910,000 in grants.

Ironically, Devonport had a similar situation with a number of council-owned properties, including the three houses in King Edward Pde. We are very thankful that both North Shore City Council and our local board recognised their heritage value and prevented their disposal.

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And in due course, the value of the trust and benefit to the community would carry on into the future in the same way it has in New Castle and Masterton, for the benefit of our children and grandchildren.

This is a concept in the old Devonport community tradition, whose time has come.

Surely we can match the vision of the New Castle and Masterton community leaders of hundreds of years ago.

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Pump track takes shape thanks to community effort

Pitching in… Bob McGuigan, centre, with Rotary and community volunteers at a working bee to build a pump track at Woodall Park A new pump track for Woodall Park is about a month away from completion, Devonport Rotary says.

Rotary, with the support of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board, local businesses and volunteers, is building a concrete BMX track at the Narrow Neck green space. “It’s just a great community

gathering place for the kids, and it’s been proven that there’s a need because they built their own,” Rotarian Bob McGuigan says.

On Saturday, a community working bee laid a further layer of dirt that was shaped into jumps.

The local Board, Gill & Gundry, Brett Garea, Devonport Timber and Fitzi the

drainlayer all contributed. Volunteers wielded rakes and shovels.

McGuigan says they hope to complete the project by the end of March.

“There’s a definite need all over Auckland for these tracks,” he said. “I think it will attract kids from all over the North Shore.”

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New mural highlights school’s maunga location

Big-picture thinking... Welcoming the new mural at Devonport Primary School were (from left) teacher Maria Zivkovich, Su Fippard and grandson Henry, 10, principal Beverley Booth, artist Jessica Pearless with sons Jacob Organ, 8, and Dylan Organ, 6, and Restoring Takarunga Hauraki’s Lance Cablk A new mural celebrates Devonport Primary School and its connection to the land.

The mural was created last year – and finished the day New Zealand went into Level 4 lockdown.

“The name of the mural is Tamariki of Takarunga,” said Jessica Pearless, an artist and school parent who led the creative process. “We really wanted to celebrate the unique location of Devonport Primary School on the maunga (mountain).”

All school students had a chance to do some painting on the four-metre by 12-metre piece, she said. “It took a full term plus additional hours for us to complete things.”

The mural includes native flora, fauna and birds, such as piwakawaka (fantail) and puriri, as well as including the sea and the sky.

Rather than being told what to paint, pupils were guided through the creative process, including learning the history of the school, the land and the original people of the land “and really acknowledging and honouring them”, Paerless said.

Pearless, whose sons, Jacob and Dylan Organ are students at the school, attended it herself in the 1980s. “It’s this really nice circular contribution, I suppose, to the school and wider Devonport.”

She is extremely pleased with the mural,

Rolling with the mahi... Devonport Primary principal Beverley Booth with Alex Johnson-Learmonth and Thomas Robinson, both 5 which can be seen from Kerr St. “I really feel including the moko of chief Eruera Maihi that we have captured the spirit of the place Patuone.

School principal Beverley Booth said the and the school through the mural.”

Teacher Maria Zivkovich said the school wall had been bare since the building went could not have been happier with the end up in the 1970s, “waiting all those years – 50 result, which incorporates Maori culture, years, I guess – to have something like this”.

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20 years ago from the Flagstaff files • An estimated 34,000 people attend the Devonport Food & Wine Festival over two days with around 20 arrests – a much lower total than in previous years. More than $100,000 is raised for charity.

• Dozens of flag-waving children, war veterans, members of the public and Navy staff welcome Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh onto Devonport Naval base for a two hour visit.

• Devonport couple Leagh Miller and Clinton Stanger kiss passionately for two hours, winning $5000 in a ZM radio competition.

• Devonport fire station plans to spend $8000 on a defibrilator, the latest in new

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Restoration work at O’Neill’s Point cemetery is put on hold due to staff shortages at North Shore City Council.

Complaints are made over Dan Dufty and his Clydesdale-cart tourist attraction holding up traffic.

Mick Gannaway, Popular former deputy chair of the Devonport Community Board is farewelled by around 300 people at a funeral service at Holy Trinity Church.

A three-bedroom bungalow in Beresford St, Bayswater is on the market for $449,000, while $339,000 buys a do up villa in central Devonport.

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• One of Devonport’s oldest residents, Elsie Macalister, dies aged 100.

• Dix Ozier trains for for the World masters swimming champs in Christchurch, where he will compete in the 50-metre freestyle, butterfly and backstroke events in his age group.

• Prop Paul Vegar is set to eclipse Peter Thorburn’s record of 246 games for North Shore Rugby Club premiers. Vegar starts the season on 241 games.

• Takapuna Grammar School crews win five events at the Head of the Harbour regatta raced at Lake Pupuke.

• Takapuna Grammar School principal Paul Dalley is the Flagstaff interview subject.

Petition launched in bid to save dinghy ramp

Toni van Tonder said she had wanted Norman Rd – which extends onto Purchas Rd – included in the safe-speeds plan that AT is bringing in to reduce speed limits around schools and in town centres, but other board members had resisted the idea.

“That whole area is a massive problem,” she said.

A local resident has launched a petition Van Tonder has asked AT to look at installing to save a Queens Pde dinghy ramp in a a stop sign at the intersection. last-ditch effort to prevent demolition by Auckland Council.

David Simes wants council to repair or replace the ramp, which is adjacent to the Queens Pde dinghy lockers, near the entrance to the Navy base.

The ramp, which dates back to pre-1940, was damaged in June 2020 and has been unusable since.

“These traditional facilities are an important part of the heritage character of Devonport, and the reason that people choose to visit or live here,” says Simes.

However, the ramp’s days appear to be numbered.

In a message to another ramp user, Auckland Council said: “The budget to remove the ramp and footing is now secured, and disestablishment will be undertaken shortly.”

Rebuilding the ramp was too expensive, it added.

The future of the nearby waterfront dinghy lockers is also in question.

Council says only a few of the lockers are used to store dinghies for mooring access and that an alternative safe-launching and storage option is available at Stanley Bay. “The Harbourmaster’s office is supportive of relocation to an alternative site,” council said in the message.

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Auckland Transport (AT) has been asked to consider putting a stop sign on Purchas Rd, Hauraki, due to safety concerns.

At a community meeting in Devonport early this month, Hauraki residents attended to tell of near misses at the intersection of Purchas and Hart Rds. “I know somebody that’s had a car absolutely written off,” Geoff Andrews said.

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Career craftsmen create kitchens and more Do it once. Do it right. That is the mantra of the craftsmen at Neo Design, a familyrun boutique kitchen-making and interiorfitout company based in Wairau Valley.

Focusing on quality and sustainability, owners Wayne Church and Derek Saward put their current business success down to their early days as furniture-building apprentices straight out of high school, working for the company they now own.

Wayne, a former Westlake Boys High School student, started his apprenticeship with Neo Design in 1997. He was able to secure a small interest in the business before heading off to England for his OE – guaranteeing him a position on his return. While in the UK, Wayne worked for a bespoke furniture company in Wimbledon.

Derek, a former Takapuna Grammar School student, followed in Wayne’s footsteps, starting his apprenticeship at Neo Design in 1999 and later working in Wimbledon for the same company as Wayne.

Wayne says it was their time in Wimbledon that reinforced their resolve to build an endto-end boutique firm back in New Zealand.

“In Wimbledon, we were required to create high-end furniture for discerning high-end customers, from design to creation,” he says.

But when they returned to New Zealand in the early 2000s, and particularly after the fall-out from the global financial crisis a few years later, it became clear that competing with cheap, overseas furniture manufacturers was not a good long-term strategy for the company.

“That’s when we decided to change the company name from ‘Forest to Furniture’ to

Neo Design to reflect the change in direction, from custom New Zealand-made furniture to bespoke kitchens and interior fitouts,” says Wayne.

After 31 years in business, they still have the solid-wood craftsmanship skills and the specialised machinery in their factory to work with solid wood, enabling them to create highquality and sustainable interiors that others can’t. This gives their company a strong point of difference.

Just one business handles the entire project, in-house design, manufacturing and installation, making for a seamless customer experience. And because the owners are very hands-on they develop a close working relationship with their clients throughout the project.

“Our main focus is kitchens, because they are the heart of every home,” says Wayne. And that focus has proved to be a winning strategy for their business.

Neo Design handles the whole end-toend process of creating a new kitchen, with the company owners personally leading

each phase, making the most of their close relationships with other trades.

Wayne oversees the design, from concept to creating refined 3D renders of each space, while Derek drives the production and installation phases.

Though they have a team of 16 people, Neo Design remains very much a family business, with Wayne and Derek’s wives, running the accounts and administration of the company.

Creating a kitchen will typically take six weeks, says Wayne: design, manufacturing and installation each taking around two weeks.

The business was quick to adapt to Covid restrictions, separating teams and creating the ability for the design and administration teams to work remotely.

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Board backs Queens Pde free-camping ban A freedom camping ban on Queens Pde has been supported by the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board, but some residents also want Narrow Neck to be made off-limits.

Under a proposed new Auckland Council freedom-camping by-law, due to come into force this year, rules would include having to use a certified self-contained vehicle, staying a maximum of two nights in the same place, leaving by 9am on the third day and not returning to the same spot within two weeks.

At its meeting last week, the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board endorsed a ban on Queens Pde, noting that 14 local feedback submitters supported it, with three residents opposed.

A new problem – with vehicles parking every night on Queens Pde with doors open and playing loud boombox music – had emerged, one submitter said. “In spite of

police being called, no one polices this.

Allowing freedom camping in these areas will only encourage more of this behaviour.”

Several residents also called for freedom camping to be banned at Narrow Neck.

“The reality is that none of the rules will be policed,” one submitter said. “There are already rules about dogs and not erecting tents on reserves, but it happens daily.

“The carpark at Narrow Neck Beach always had (prior to Covid) around a dozen freedom campers daily over summer, with their washing hanging in the trees.”

Woodall Park car park had no room for weekend campers, another said. “The car park is already overcrowded on those days with boat trailers and general public – having freedom campers in addition would be untenable.”

Board chair Ruth Jackson said: “I don’t want to be mean to freedom campers but we

have to look after our local businesses and local residents.”

Feedback also asked that the council look into charging freedom campers, which was opposed by member Toni van Tonder.

“Our government has a right to offer this as an opportunity for Kiwis to fall in love with their own country,” she said.

Member Trish Deans warned of people looking to abuse loopholes in the proposed rules, while member Jan O’Connor opposed freedom camping in urban areas altogether.

The board also called for banning freedom camping within two kilometres of a licensed camping ground The local board’s feedback will go to Auckland Council’s bylaw panel which will make recommendations to the governing body, ahead of a final council decision in June on whether to adopt the proposed changes.

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Board still on fence over unoccupied cottage A heritage cottage on the Devonport waterfront will sit empty for some time yet before the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board decides what to do with it.

At a workshop earlier this month, Auckland Council staff sought direction on what to do with 55 King Edward Pde. The property had been tenanted until mid-2020, but it will now cost upwards of $1 million to repair. The local board needs to decide its intended use for the property – whether to leave it as residential or change it to community or commercial use.

Making the cottage ready for residential use would cost $1.128m, council leasing manager Yusuf Khan said. For community use the bill came in at $1.250m and for commercial purposes the fixes would cost $1.410m.

Rental income – estimated at $850$1000 a week – goes into an Auckland-wide council pot, and increases the amount the board gets in its asset-services budget.

The board can choose to change the cottage’s use away from residential, but that will affect the budget, Khan said.

Board member George Wood called for the property’s safekeeping. “It’s part of the

history of Devonport and Cheltenham,” he said.

Board member Toni van Tonder questioned why the building had been passed to the community facilities department – and thus under the board’s remit – by Panuku, the council’s economic-development arm.

“It seems like we’ve inherited an expensive building when we don’t have much money.”

Khan said the reallocation was done in 2018 and the property changed hands as it sat on council-managed land in the board’s remit – Devonport Domain.

Board chair Ruth Jackson said members needed a lot more information before making a decision. She said after the meeting that, in reality, it may have to be a commercial tenant. “Whoever takes it on is going to have to take on the bulk of the funding of doing the work.

“Our preference would be for that to be a community use – that would be my preference. But with the best will in the world, we haven’t got a million dollars to do the place up.”

Council staff will come back to the board with information on where to go from here.

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Soaring costs leave church project short of funds Escalating costs have left Devonport’s Holy Trinity Church with a $1 million shortfall for the community-hall upgrade it has just begun.

A loan from the Anglican Diocese of Auckland will ensure the project can continue, but the extra funds must be found.

“We thought we had raised enough, but with the Covid thing and price hikes we find ourselves with a deficit we have to close,” the church vicar, Rev Charmaine Braatvedt, said.

The project to upgrade and expand the heritage hall so it can better cater for community needs was now expected to cost $4 million, up from initial estimates of $3 million.

Grants are being applied for and business and private donations sought.

“There’s an opportunity for people who think the hall has got good purpose in the community to support it if they wish,” Braatvedt said.

A blessing was held at the Church Rd site last week to mark the start of building work.

This follows a big clear-out of the art-deco-era hall, with unwanted items sold and donated, and an unexpected find. (See story below).

Containers on the property are being used to store pews and other furniture during the upgrade, and some activities that normally take place in the hall, such as tai chi and dance classes, will be transferred to the church during the project, which is expected to take around 10 months.

The work includes replacing the hall’s leaking roof, removing asbestos, repointing heritage Duders bricks, and building an extension. The side extension with skylight will open to the grounds, and have better kitchen and lounge facilities for events, including weddings. It will also include office and meeting space.

“It will enable us to really connect with the needs of the community.” said Braatvedt. Interest in using the upgraded hall had already been expressed.

The hall façade will remain unchanged.

Over the years, the hall has been used as a polling station and hosted youth groups and

Upgrade begins... Rev Charmaine Braatvedt (right) during a blessing held to mark the start of work on the Holy Trinity Church hall social dances.

“Many Devonport people met their partners here,” Braatvedt said.

She hoped that once again more youngpeople may be attracted to one of the biggest gathering spaces in the area. Soundproofing would be part of the design, to allow for people playing and listening to music.

“I feel particularly strongly that the church needs to interact with the community and the hall is a very good bridge.”

The impetus for the renovation came after earthquake assessments done on church buildings in Devonport found that the hall and St Augustine’s church in Calliope Rd were below code. The wooden Holy Trinity itself – which dates to 1886 and replaced the first church built in 1856 – was found to be “absolutely fine”, Braatvedt said, but not so the other two brick buildings.

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Stash may be golfer’s treasure A mysterious miscellany of items in an old suitcase was one of the finds made in a big clean-up at Holy Trinity Church.

“We discovered some interesting bits and bobs under the church,” said church vicar, Rev Charmaine Braatvedt, showing the Flagstaff the suitcase’s contents.

These include a selection of old pewter and silver tankards, with at least one a golf trophy, judging by its inscription.

This reads: ‘Bermuda Amateur Golf Championship 1st Flight 1936’, but has no winner’s name.

Another of the tankards features a tropical scene and a third carries writing

in what appears to be Japanese script.

Braatvedt hopes someone may come forward to claim the items.

“If the owner doesn’t show up we’ll likely put them up for sale,” says Braatvedt.

The suitcase was found in a general clean-up sparked by upcoming renovations on the church hall.

It also contained an artist- style linen smock.

Old bottles and an axe head were also unearthed.

Pot luck ... Rev Braatvedt with the mysterious finds

upgrade efforts on the hall, given its long support role to the main church.

“We chose the hall over St Augustine’s because this was a community facility.”

St Augustine’s was sold, returning around $1.1 million to help fund the hall project. The former church, now a private residence, is being renovated.

An appeal to parishioners raised around $850,000 in pledges over five years. The diocese also contributed and a grant was received from the Lotteries Board, but there is still a shortfall. The exact amount was not yet known because building costs had shifted and tenders had not yet been called for.

However, Braatvedt said: “The project is definitely a goer and we’re excited and keen.”

She hopes the wider community might pitch in, given the building’s landmark status and the plans to throw the doors open for wider use.

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February 25, 2022

Pack of speedy pooches mooches in for charity gig Greyhounds replaced beer hounds at Vondel on 13 February for a Pat & Chat promotion to raise money towards the cost of homing retired dogs.

Around 12 animals turned up with their owners.

“We wanted to hold an event that gives Auckland greyhound owners the opportunity to meet as well as providing visibility for retired racing greyhounds and what amazing pets they make,” Greyhounds as Pets (GAP) spokesperson Emelia Lake said.

Most greyhounds require little exercise, sleep 18 hours a day and need minimal grooming, she said.

Some people travelled up to two hours to meet them.

Vondel had a ‘Speedy Noodle’ dish on the menu for a week, with $5 per meal going to GAP. Money raised goes towards flea and worm treatments, behavioural and physiotherapy consultations, and unexpected veterinary costs, as well as collars, leads, beds and crates for foster care.

If people are interesting in adopting, volunteering or donating, go to greyhoundsaspets.org.nz Happy hound…Ron Fraser and his greyhound Jack (right) were among a group of of happily matched owners and pets at Vondel

Help save Bayswater Marina: donate today 93% of the over 730 public submissions made to Auckland Council opposed Bayswater Marina Holdings Ltd’s resource consent application for residential development at Bayswater Marina.

BUT The quality of the community’s opposition argument is critical – not just the quantity. Expert evidence now needs to be prepared and presented during Auckland Council’s hearing, set down for late March 2022.

Survey results said open green space was the most valued aspect at the marina. At public meetings at the end of last year the community unanimously supported the need to hire experts to fight on behalf of the community.

BCC has hired leading Planning, Legal, Traffic and Landscaping & Unban Design experts to provide evidence that represents the community’s view and objections to BMHL’s proposed development.

The experts’ evidence needs to be submitted to Auckland Council by Friday 18 March 2022.

We’ve raised over $10,000 but still need $65,000 for the Community Fighting Fund to pay these experts for their work.

Expert evidence is critical and without your financial help we face the real risk of losing Bayswater Marina and the coastline as a community asset for current and future generations.

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February 25, 2022

STANDING AGAIN

Board split – even over election options

RICHARD HILLS

CHRIS DARBY

RUTH JACKSON

JAN O’CONNOR

UNDECIDED

TRISH DEANS

The often-divided Devonport-Takpuna Local Board is split again it seems – this time over their various political futures.

A Flagstaff survey of sitting members reveals Trish Deans, Ruth Jackson and Jan O’Connor will stand again in the October local-body elections.

But Toni van Tonder, Aidan Bennett and George Wood are so far undecided.

Jackson, O’Connor and Deans will run again under the The Heart of the Shore ticket. Jackson said new candidates joining

TONI VAN TONDER

the team this year would be announced at an official campaign launch.

Van Tonder and Bennett, who ran on the ‘A Fresh Approach’ ticket in 2019, said they were in the process of deciding whether to run for a second term.

“We are conscious that there are a number of exciting projects and opportunities we would like to see progress and don’t think our work is done yet, however a lot can change in the year, so we consider it too early to give you a definitive yes,” Van

AIDAN BENNETT

GEORGE WOOD

Tonder said.

Aidan Bennett was the top polling candidate in 2019, followed by Jan O’Connor.

George Wood, who polled third, said he had been to “a couple of meetings... but I have not decided at this stage .”

Both Chris Darby and Richard Hills indicated they would be seeking re-election to Auckland Council. Hills was tipped to be a chance for mayor, but discounted himself in part due to family committments as a new father.

Concerns aired over proposed Seacliffe seawall Key boundaries between the sea and waterfront properties where a protective wall is planned on the coast between Devonport and Takapuna should be clearly established before any work is approved, says the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board.

Allen Peters has applied to build an 8-metre by 10-metre (at its widest) rock-masonry seawall at the coastal edge of 66 and 68 Seacliffe Ave.

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Disagreement exists over where high tide falls in relation to the proposal, the board said in its submission on the plan.

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whether the wall would actually protect the cliff from further erosion any better than the rubble at the site already.

In the 1970s, a large slip occurred across both properties leaving a large pile of rubble on the coastal edge, including concrete and steel beams used for cliff stabilisation.

Auckland Council officers have questioned whether the wall is needed, beyond creating additional outdoor spaces for the property owners.

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February 25, 2022

Navy exhibition showcases links with Devonport

Devonport scenes are among paintings by the Royal New Zealand Navy’s official artist Colin Wynn on show at the Navy Museum at Torpedo Bay. Most of the paintings show vessels in service both in New Zealand waters and overseas. As well as the nautical scenes, Wynn has also captured two familiar local buildings: the Navy marae, Te Taua Moana Marae, on the Ngataringa fields, and the a historic building on King Edward Pde. Twenty works were collected for the Painting the Navy exhibition now on show in the museum’s foyer gallery to celebrate the Navy’s 80th birthday, which officially fell on 1 October 2021. They provide a snapshot of the service’s richly varied history, including on active duty and delivering supplies in both the tropics and icy waters.

Wynn has been the Navy’s official artist since 1983, after establishing himself as a leading sea and landscape painter. His approach mixes artistic licence and attention to detail, across a variety of media, but primarily in oil and acrylic. He has completed more than 100 works for the Navy, done both in the studio and on location.

His 1990 painting of the former Ventnor Hotel in Devonport catches it in ear-

ly-morning light, showing the handsome two-storey building that was used as a barracks during World War II to house the new Women’s Royal New Zealand Naval Service – known as the Wrens.

In 1951, the Navy bought the hotel for the Wrens, renaming it Elizabeth House in honour of the then Princess Elizabeth, two years before she became Queen.

For 25 years, Wrens lived at Elizabeth House until their service was disbanded and servicewomen were thereafter accommodated on the base, having joined the Navy directly.

Wynn’s painting of the marae recognises its significance to Navy life. It was painted a year after its opening in 2000, an effort achieved through much volunteer labour.

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