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FOR MARKETING THAT SEL LLS Linda Simmons 027 459 0957 No.1 BAYLEYS DEVONPORT 2021/2022
A LT O G E T H E R B E T T E R
November 4, 2022
Museum gives up Domain shed lease... p2
GP Heidi MacRae’s plea for Hospice... p4
Interview: New local-board chair Toni van Tonder... p30-31
Local-board workshops staying open to public Workshops of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board will be kept open to public scrutiny, says new board chair Toni van Tonder. After being officially installed as chair last week by unanimous decision of the six-member board, van Tonder told the Flagstaff she had over time shifted from her previous opposition to open workshops.
“They’re a good way to give information to the community,” she said. This means members of the public and the media can sit in on workshops, which are typically held several times a month. Auckland Council staff, and others from council-controlled organisations, attend the sessions to background issues for board members.
This provides the opportunity to ask questions ahead of monthly business meetings, where decisions require the board’s voting sign-off, but are often less extensively debated. Van Tonder said she would love to see more people – “as many as possible” – turn up at the board’s various meetings. To page 5
An eye for fashion
Runway ready... Auckland councillor Richard Hills in the make-up chair, before his modelling debut at another successful Fashion on the Wharf show. Stories and pictures, pages 8-11.
2B Church Street, Devonport
4 bedrooms, 2 lounges, 2 bathrooms, 2 garages, 3 off-street car spaces. Completed in 2007, only 50 metres from the beach and a stroll to the Devonport village and ferry terminal. To be sold by negotiation.
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