10 February 2017 Devonport Flagstaff

February 10, 2017

Writers’ centre $100,000 roof replacement… p2

Volunteers take on Mt Victoria rats… p14

Interview: reluctant activist Iain Rea… p18

Council investigates tree-chopping on waterfront reserve The Flagstaff fielded several calls from A pohutukawa tree on Cheltenham Beach reserve has been trimmed back without con- locals last Friday appalled that a council tree sent, sparking outrage from residents and had been chopped back.

However, Julie Minns, the owner of the prompting a council investigation.

property next to the tree, at 52 Cheltenham Rd, believes she is within her rights to have the tree trimmed.

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The historic Signalman’s House on Mt Victoria is getting a new slate roof at a cost of $98,889.17.

Now housing the Michael King Writers’ Centre, the 1898 villa is having its original slates replaced after nearly 120 years of weather wear.

Centre manager Jan McEwen says she is putting some of the old slates aside for artist projects and as historical evidence.

The original ceramic roof joints are still in good shape and will be reused, says McEwen.

“They are taken off, numbered, and then put back exactly like before,” she says.

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Fledgling magpie rules the family roost Pet magpie Mandy has been stealing the show at the Cumiskey home in Belmont.

She gets along well with all of the Montgomery Ave family – parents Wendy and Andre, their adult sons Hayden and Rowan, and daughters Charlotte (13) and Hannah (12). Mandy is also on good terms with the other pets: Cody the German shepherd, Rosie the beagle, two quail, four zebra finches and numerous fish.

And with her adult feathers yet to arrive, Mandy has flown to the top of the family pecking order.

“She likes company, but she is the boss,” says Wendy. “And a real attention seeker,” adds Rowan.

Mandy can whistle the tune to Pop Goes the Weasel on command. She’s also learned to wolf-whistle, which she has been known to do when someone takes an outdoor shower at the family bach.

She plays hide-and-seek with Cody, and likes to collect things lying around the house. For a change of pace, she plays dead, lying on her back.

“And she likes people with brown hair and tries to make a nest in it,” says Hannah.

Mandy is vocal when she’s hungry and still needs spoon-feeding at least every hour during the day.

“She eats about a can of cat food per day,” says Hannah.

When at home, Mandy spends mornings in her cage and the afternoons in the openplan living area with the rest of the family.

The Cumiskeys used to let her fly around the neighbourhood. She would sit on the power lines and come back when called, until she once got lost and was frightened by a cat and dive-bombing mynahs, Wendy says.

Mandy has since been tagged with a ring around her ankle to let people know whose pet she is.

On weekends Mandy, can fly freely around the Cumiskey’s bach in Mangawhai all day. “She just comes in to roost at night,” says Wendy.

It was on the way to Mangawhai three months ago that Andre found Mandy, sitting with a broken wing at the side of the road. He taped up the wing with electrical tape and Mandy surprised him with a nearcomplete recovery.

Andre is the family’s “bird man.” As a young lad growing up in Devonport, he rescued a floating egg from the duck pond by the golf course andclass nursed hatched timesthe on website duckling into his pet duck.

“He called it Duncan the Duck of Devonport and sometimes would take him to school in his bag,” says Wendy.

Mandy hasn’t been to school yet, but she does have her own Instagram account.

“And she posts on it regularly,” Rowan says. @mandy_the_magpie already has 50 followers, but isn’t tweeting – yet.

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February 10, 2017 From page 1

Reserve tree chopped by neighbour

Minns says in easterly gales the tree regularly sheds branches on her property.

“It packs a real punch when the storm throws them against the windows,” she says.

In a recent storm, “the pots on my deck were smashed by branches.”

“Sure as hell I will get a broken window one day.”

“I was told by my real estate agent that when trees go over the fence you can trim them off at the boundary line,” she says.

Two smaller branches were chopped right at the boundary line, but the largest of three branches is cut off more than one metre into reserve land. “We couldn’t get at it from over here, but it was hanging over the boundary line so we had to come out here to do it,” she says.

Minns says that in the eight years she has lived on Cheltenham Beach, she has contacted Auckland Council three times asking them to trim the tree.

“They said they would but they never did,” she says.

“What are you to do when the authorities in charge don’t do anything and your house is getting smashed up?”

The tree-trimming was not carried out by an arborist but by “an experienced landscape and tree person,” she says. “It was done purely to protect my property, not my view.” .

“My neighbours claim I am chopping down the tree for future generations, but this branch will be back over my property in two or three years,” she says.

Cheltenham Rd neighbour Lisa Langdon says she told Minns off about the trimming.

“We have reserve trees outside our house but we wouldn’t touch them because they are not our trees,” Langdon says.

Devonport-Takapuna Local Board parks portfolio holder Mike Cohen says council is investigating the incident. “The by-law person had a look at the tree already and the arborist will look at it next week and then they will decide whether this was “an incident of vandalism on public space,” he says “And if it is, we will throw everything we have got at it...this is a real disrespect for the community.”

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Wanted! Serial tree-killer still on the loose A Stanley Bay street tree has been vandalised for the fifth time over recent years – less than six months after a fourth specimen was planted by Auckland Council.

Last month, the young tree in Calliope Rd was stumped once again, its top broken off.

Auckland Council spokesperson Joanna Glasswell says: “If anyone has information regarding the damage, we would like to hear from them.”

Last July, council went a step further, sending letters to nearby residents asking for help to identify the culprit, who seems to have had it in for the tree for years.

Unlawfully damaging or destroying a council-owned tree is an offence under the Resource Management Act. The replacement cost for a tree like this one is estimated at around $500.Phone the council on 301-0101 with any information.

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February 10, 2017

By Rob Drent

There appear to be very reasonable legal grounds on which to challenge the approval of the Ryman Healthcare village on Ngataringa Rd. The first is that the independent commissioners ignored a Ryman offer to reduce the height of some of the village buildings to mollify residents’ concerns. Why not take up a developer’s offer of compromise?

The second is that one commissioner out of three voted to reject the consent. Hardly clear-cut then. On a different day, with different commissioners, it could have been three votes against.

Possible solutions to Lake Rd rumble around the corridors of Auckland Council. Auckland Transport (AT) had a secret briefing with the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board just prior to Christmas, in which it presented its latest options. AT is refusing to say what those are, but will put a full report to the board in March.

I’m not holding my breath that there will be any long-term solution in place before the Ryman work starts. I do hope a best option for Lake Rd – which would include trams – is considered. Solely putting more lanes on the road won’t solve congestion: it will simply encourage more cars.

The departure of Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED) head Brett O’Reilly after five years won’t be mourned by many in Devonport.

Tourism development in Devonport has been set back years under O’Reilly’s tenure by ATEED’s determination that the suburb was a destination backwater.

The ongoing non-event of the i-Site on the wharf, highlighted by a Flagstaff sting, was never acknowledged by ATEED. It eventually closed without a replacement. A debacle over rent for a council-owned building has ensued, meaning Devonport has not had a visitor information centre for almost 200 days.

In its early days, ATEED decided the Devonport Food and Wine Festival was not a regional event – despite it being patronised by visitors from around New Zealand and overseas.

ATEED cut sponsorship, which made the event non-viable financially.

Little has been spent by ATEED on Devonport promotion either. Much of its money goes on highlighting events in the city and downtown precincts. Waiheke Island has become its promotional destination of choice.

Still the tourists keep coming to Devonport – just a 10-minute ferry ride away from the city – with little to no promotion from council’s tourism arm. Another example of the big bureaucracy of Auckland Council not working for its smaller communities.

We attempted to contact ATEED about our Destination Devonport publication. We got no response.

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Volunteers get involved in rat control on Mt Victoria Local volunteers are now in charge of a Takarunga/Mt Victoria rat-control programme following an official handover last week by Maunga Authority manager Scott De Silva.

Takarunga’s unofficial guardian Roger Giles, Church St resident Michael Fielding, Takapuna Grammar School Year 13 student Ngaire Metcalf and her father Peter are now in charge of monitoring 20 bait stations on the maunga.

The initial baiting programme was set up by private company Te Ngahere.

Last Wednesday morning, the volunteers were briefed on health and safety issues, handed bait station keys, gloves and a large bucket of Ditrac rodent bait and usage instructions.

Maunga Authority field officer Shane McNeill said the bait does not pose any risk to dogs being walked on Mt Victoria. The stations are locked and only animals that repeatedly eat the bait are affected, not those eating a poisoned rat.

A “pulsing” approach to baiting is being used.

Baiting will alternate every other month with non-baiting, to avoid rats becoming “bait shy” or resistant to the poison.

During the “on” month, the volunteers will check the stations every other day.

If “pulsing” works, this method of baiting is likely to continue indefinitely.

Nearby property owners with rat-bait stations are also a huge aid to rat control on Takarunga, De Silva says.

He says it is hard to quantify the rats on the

Rat trap… at the Maunga Authority rat-control volunteer programme launch. From left: Ngaire Metcalf, Shane McNeill, Michael Fielding and son Alex, Scott De Silva, border collie Jess and her owner Roger Giles. mountain but that it was likely to be a large number.

The Maunga Authority was established more than three years ago to co-manage 13 volcanic cones in Auckland with council. De Silva said the delay in targeting rats and getting volunteers involved was due to first reducing rabbits, because their burrowing endangered archeological sites, and then possums.

Takarunga doesn’t have a rabbit problem and no possums were trapped on Mt Victoria, despite there being sightings.

With other local community groups – such as the Devonport Environmental Network – now pursuing a rat-control programme as well, De Silva says he has “high hopes” for a sharp decline in the numbers of rats on Mt Victoria.

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Trailblazers: BIS student leaders suit up for new roles Belmont Intermediate School’s first head girl and head boy are launching a new era of student leadership.

Last Friday, Alice Breen and Ben Hayde tried on their new navy blazers for the first time before heading off to lead their first school assembly.

Ben said the new role “is definitely a big challenge, but I’m always up for one”.

Alice wants to give students “more of a voice” and make sure that Year 7 and 8 kids mingle more. “Because we are not two communities here. We are one big community,” she says.

Principal Nick Hill says setting up the roles was part of a general move to grow leadership at the school. Alice and Ben “happen to be the figureheads” of other school leaders,” he says.

“We don’t plan to make those roles too serious or too much of a status thing. We hope they enjoy it and learn something from it. It’s about giving students more of a voice, to see their view and increase their agency.”

Hill says Alice and Ben are expected to be school ambassadors, advocate for students, occasionally attend Board of Trustee meetings to pitch ideas, mingle during lunch breaks and lead the student council meetings. A leadership workshop is planned for all school leaders.

“We also want them to lead all our

If the jacket fits... BIS Principal Nick Hill helps Ben Hayde on with his head-boy blazer, while head girl Alice Breen looks on assemblies to make them more student- and less adult-driven,” he says.

Hill says Ben and Alice were selected because they “have very strong values, are very natural, have the support and respect of the other kids and are well-rounded people.”

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to have head boy and head girl roles, he says, mentioning Murray’s Bay and Te Awamutu intermediate schools.

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0 H 9:54am Do-it-yourself promotion in the face of woeful council inaction L 3:26am Thanks for your support of local businesses and pointing out in your editorial (Flagstaff, 27 January) that we are woefully under-served

by Auckland Council’s tourism department.

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handed removal of pavement signs, which we have.

Fri De were not really a problem in the way people Many visitors to Devonport m are Kiwis 3 their 6 9 noon were using them. exploring Auckland. They4are am using The idea of shared space is only for real Super Gold card for the first time and using estate signs and strawberry sellers, it seems, public transport to do it. 3 Sun Dec 11 Mon Dec 12 Tue Dec 13 Wed Dec 14 Thu Dec 15 not for With Island capacity, 6Sun 9 noon 3 ratepaying 6 9 pm am 3 Mon 6businesses.

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1 the right places and the cost is a factor.

I’m sure the oversupply of eateries would 0 Devonport is unfamiliar to visitors and be thankful.

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Corruption risk calls for vigilance Is corruption in the public service becoming more widespread?The recent debacles of the apartments on the Bayswater Marina and the Ryman Development raise concerns at a central and local government level. Because the “so called” Independent Planning Commissioners are paid by Auckland Council, how can they possibly be seen to be “independent”?

Human nature being as it is, the tendency to approve projects will ensure continuation of employment.

Planning commissioners evaluating major projects of concern to the community should be paid by a central government agency, to ensure independence.

One of the tenets of the former public service was officers gave advice “without fear or favour”. However, with permanent heads and

most staff now on short-term contracts, the tendency must be to give “favourable” advice to ensure extension of one’s contract.

The recent State Service Commissioners appear weak and focused solely on having their contracts renewed.

The recent conviction of two former Rodney District Council and Auckland Transport officers for accepting “backhanders” over roading contracts is of equal concern. Perhaps Audit New Zealand needs strengthening to ensure these isolated cases do not become more widespread.

New Zealand is reported as being one of the least corrupt countries in the world. As a society, we have to be ever vigilant to ensure this continues.

Bruce Tubb

Tree preservation a heritage reminder J. Leighton’s letter (Flagstaff, 27 January) on the historic background of the Windsor Reserve oak tree is very timely and highlights the problems that the heritage of our community faces in the new Auckland Supercity, where the one universally acknowledged failure is the loss of community linkage and ambience.

That the oak was grown from an acorn from an ancient Windsor Oak, living in the time of Queen Elizabeth I in the 16th century to mark the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, is one of those delightful heritage cameos that makes Devonport such a special place.

The fact that the council parks staff focused on expanding the playground just lacked the long-standing community background “institutional knowledge” of Devonport, and were unaware of the history of the tree in spite of a memorial plaque next to it. The non-resident gung-ho “we know best” attitude Auckland Council/Auckland Transport has to most things, is just not acceptable.

Being one of the country’s oldest European and Maori settlements, Devonport has many such historic sites and features. We are now at grave risk through development and populationgrowth pressures of losing the unique ambience and character, both heritage and environmental and social, that makes Devonport such a pleasant place for us all to live in, and the envy

of those who don’t.

It is important that the Devonport community takes steps to stop the rot, particularly our newer residents who often come from ancient urban environments, mainly British/European, where heritage and history surrounds them as part of everyday life, and are valued and taken for granted.

We need community awareness and assertive action, with a strong proactive lead from our new local board, and support for the old community groups such as Devonport Heritage and the Devonport Museum, who have led the way for years, to ensure we don’t lose any more of our key heritage features through council ignorance or apathy. This is a problem across the whole of Auckland.

2017 should be the Year of Community Heritage.

The heritage dept of council has a threemember team assessing and recording all the Maori sites of historic and cultural significance across the city. This admirable project should be partnered by a similar programme identifying all the heritage sites of Pakeha European significance in Auckland.

Then and only then will our Windsor Oak and all the other valuable heritage features, large and small, have some chance of survival.

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Grass-roots protest still alive in Devonport Reluctant activist Iain Rea is gearing up for an Environment Court challenge to the approval of the Ryman Healthcare development in Devonport. He spoke to Maire Vieth.

Iain Rea never planned to become a community leader. But the Ngataringa Action Group he set up on Facebook last September has catapulted him to the forefront of Devonport’s opposition to the six-storey retirement complex Ryman Healthcare wants to build on 4.25 hectares of coastal former Navy land that now belongs to Ngati Whatua o Orakei and is leased to Ryman.

Rea says the fact that the Independent Hearings Panel was split in its decision to grant Ryman’s resource consent application plays into the hands of the opposition.

Commissioners Kitt Littlejohn and John Hill approved the application. Dissenting commissioner Dave Serjeant rejected it outright, arguing that what Ryman wants to build is too big and bulky and not in context with the local area.

Rea says Ngataringa Action Group can make good use of Serjeant’s dissent and bring a strong case to the Environment Court.

“Now is not the time to give up hope but to gird your loins,” he says, with the aim of “a complete overturn of the Hearing Panel’s decision and a rejection of Ryman’s application.”

Rea lives in Ngataringa Rd, directly opposite Wakakura Cres, where Ryman wants to build up to six storeys. His property’s view would be taken, but Rea says that is not what drives his opposition to Ryman’s proposal.

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Rea is concerned about the ripple effect the consent could have across the area.

Wakakura Cres is one of seven blocks – almost 30ha of land – Ngati Whatua now owns on the Devonport peninsula and plans to develop. With six storeys already approved at one location, the same could occur on all of the sites, Rea fears.

Commissioner Serjeant, a group of local architects and Devonport heritage proponents are also worried the Ryman decision would set a dangerous precedent for other developments on iwi land along Vauxhall Rd, and in Bayswater, Belmont and Hauraki.

Ngataringa Action Group has also met with members of Forest and Bird, Grey Power North Shore, Auckland 2040 and the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Institute of Architects to discuss a challenge to the decision.

“It is time to talk to as many groups as possible, to see what our common interests are and what can be brought to bear on this particular case,” says Rea.

“It’s a test case and I think it is quite important. I think there is a responsibility to do something.”

Rea is one of 330 submitters who opposed the application. Anybody who wrote a submission on Ryman’s application can challenge the approval.

“They have to pay $500 and then can put Serjeant’s dissenting decision in front of the court to make their case. That might be enough to have the whole thing rejected, so why wouldn’t you?” he says.

Rea’s call to action has grown louder over time. Last September, when Ryman’s application was publicly notified, Rea says he initially thought about doing nothing at all. “But then I imagined myself sitting there afterwards and thinking back that I possibly could have changed things,” he says.

He was inspired by Devonport’s tradition as a community of standing up to developers or other outside influences.

“It’s impressive how people have cared about this place,” he says. He cites four examples: In the 1970s, locals formed the Ngataringa Bay Society and successfully fought the Ngataringa Bay Development Scheme that had consent to infill the bay to

The Devonport Flagstaff Page 19 He and his partner Lucy Bucknall bought their house in 1999.

“We can’t quite figure out when it was built. It originally was a small cottage put forward of all the other houses on the road.

It then had verandahs added on and in the 1930s they were enclosed in a bit of an odd renovation,” he says.

The couple’s two sons George (16) and Gabriel (14) also live there. Bucknall, a sculptor working in metal, has an artist studio they built at the rear of the property.

Before the Navy flats were removed from Wakakura Cres, Rea liked having Navy sailors as neighbours.

“There is a bit of rough and smooth in Devonport and you find the rough particularly at its fringes. I quite like it. It’s part of the Devonport history and adds a flavour,” he says.

He knew the Navy was only a temporary neighbour. “We were very much aware

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Rea loves the Mary Barrett Glade, a band of native forest at the bottom of the Wakakura land, which was largely planted by the late Mabel Pollock and goes by the unofficial name of Polly’s Park.

“It is just wonderful to have that so close by. When friends come over for lunch on weekends, we often take them round that bush afterwards,” he says.

Preservation of the bush was at the core of Rea’s Ryman submission, as well as that by his teenage son George, and they are pleased the commissioners responded by putting a condition on Ryman’s consent that safeguards the bush and public access to it.

“Being able to show George that you can participate and make a difference has been very positive for a 16-year-old boy,” says Rea. It hasn’t escaped Rea that several nearby houses have gone up for sale recently. But selling is not something on his mind at all.

“I think it’s the wrong time to sell. I think once the Wakakura land is all settled and developed, people will start doing up their houses because the question mark of what will happen is finally gone.”

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“I thought I could start a Facebook group, at least I can do that. And then one thing just led to another and by December I was up at 4 am answering emails about it and back at it in the evenings after work.”

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build 370 homes with water access; in 1981, the borough council declared Devonport nuclear-free; in 2004, the Independent Devonport movement unsuccessfully resisted the amalgamation with North Shore City Council; in the late 1990s, Crown land around Fort Takapuna was earmarked for parkland after locals took court action to save the wider headland. It was sold to Ngati Whatua in 2012 under a Treaty Settlemtent.

So instead of doing nothing, Rea took to social media. “I thought I could start a Facebook group, at least I can do that.

And then one thing just led to another and

by December I was up at 4 am answering emails about it and back at it in the evenings after work.”

Rea is a member of Bike Devonport, a Facebook group run by cycling lobbyist Chris Werry, and he used Werry’s model, opening the group to all. “Because if people can contribute and say whatever they want, there is a real energy to it and a lot can happen when people share and just do their bit,” says Rea. Rea is proud of the forum’s transparency.

“We now have four moderators and our policy is to admit anyone who wants to be a member of it, because who are we to judge why they want to be there,” he says.

He is certain that council officers and Ryman associates are members.

“When you make something completely open, there is a real freedom there and your conscience is clear. There is authenticity and that’s really important. It is why our local board should not have closed meetings, because it just breeds distrust and disunity.”

Rea works as a senior creative for NZME (New Zealand Media and Entertainment), where he produces advertising for radio. He has degrees in psychology and drama and occasionally acts in film and TV, having had stints on Shortland Street and Xena Warrior Princess, and has appeared in The World’s Fastest Indian and last year’s Hillary TV series.

Growing up in New Plymouth, he was part of a youth theatre group that also counted Minister of Finance Steven Joyce and Labour Leader Andrew Little among its members.

Rea’s mother, a potter, taught him about neighbourly relations, he says. “We had a Magogs motorcycle gang living next door and she would send me over there to let them know she was about to fire her salt-based kiln so they could close their windows when the chlorine gases were coming their way,” he says.

For the 29 years Rea has lived on Ngataringa Rd, he has cared about his neighbours and his neighbourhood.

“We are on the edge of what used to be the old Borough of Devonport and you do feel as if you have a look back at Devonport from here,” he says.

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Letters

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Devonport betrayed over Ngataringa retirement complex Ryman Healthcare are vandals in Ngataringa can cope knows nothing about the poor state of to the goldrush we see on the share markets, Bay. The independent commissioners, along the system (hence the poo in the sea after rain). speculating on family wealth. Soon there will be With crap and gridlock, you add in gross oversupply and cost escalations in these places, with some council staff and contractors, our local MP and our local council representation, development on an obscene scale untypical of or they will go broke. the area, and you get environmental degradation. have all betrayed Devonport.

It surprises me that Ryman and others haven’t What’s worse, this one exploits the elderly fitted crematoriums. It’s lucrative business and Some wield slogans, such as “I’m here to help you”. Clearly nonsense. The local MP and and transfers wealth out of their family into if they haven’t done the calculations yet, I’d be our mayor all know, as do all the people with corporate profits. surprised. These people know no limits and our Socially, it’s a disaster, atracting masses of council is the same. half a brain or more who have partaken in the consultation process, that it was a retrospective low-paid workers, all on the road, and corporate Ron Dykman builders cornering development profits. farce, a mockery of democracy.

The benefits to the community are nonPanel chair Kitt Littlejohn and others need to explain why they would back such an existent. Our local businesses are strangled by congestion. environmental atrocity.

A letter the other A6 dayPOSTCARD said how nicePROOF it was that Imagine Ryman backing up the horse, offering lower building, etc, and then the common poor people will be able to retire to a independent commissioners ignoring the offer. nice area with a view. The writer clearly doesn’t understand that the prices exploit old people, It’s outrageous.

From the outset, any moron could see that the who will probably be the likes of Hanover Member of the Real Estate Institute of NZ Licensed Real Estate Agent (REAA 2008) late allowing of public consultation was set up investors rather than astute decision-makers.

I’m picking we won’t see Maggie or Richie to avoid legal issues for Ryman.

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February 10, 2017

Streets ahead – neighbours bond through running

In the running… from left: Nicola Shannon with daughter Isabella, Ed Tappenden, Stafford Kimber, Paula Dacey, Mariane Wray, Leonie Carter, Tania Wood and Wendy McEwen

Shortly after arriving in Stanley Bay, Mariane Wray and Nicola Shannon started a social-running group as a way to meet people. Eight months on, Ngataringa Runners meets every Wednesday at noon for about 30 minutes and now numbers around a dozen.

Wray and Shannon returned to New Zealand last year after living in Asia – Wray from Singapore and Shannon from Malaysia. Running groups were a big part of their expatriate communities in both countries.

Both are fit. Wray, a Navy psychologist, is also a personal trainer. Shannon, who had a baby 11 months ago, is a certified Ironman coach and has competed in numerous half Ironman races.

But it’s the social aspect of running that is key to the group. “We welcome anyone and at all levels; walkers, runners, mums, dads, people can bring along buggies or kids on bikes,” says Shannon.

The group often does interval training on the Navy’s Ngataringa Bay Sports Field to keep the programme flexible for runners of all levels. “Interval training is hard to do by yourself because it is just so hard and a group can really motivate you.

It’s also a great way to make sure no one gets left behind,” Wray says.

Wray often offers a bit of coaching advice.

“Today I talked about the effects of heat on running. Basically the hotter it is the slower you run,” she says. Shannon adds that running in 38 degrees in Malaysia taught her a lot about that. Wray also coaches members on posture, form, warm-up and recovery.

The day the Flagstaff caught up with the Ngataringa Runners, they had just returned from a 5km time trial as a baseline fitness test.

Tania Wood, who joined the group about six months ago, says she could only run 200m then. “Today was the first time I ran 5km in one go. I suspect I will die tomorrow,” she says. Wendy McEwen, who is recovering from an injury, adapted by leaving out the last lap.

Meanwhile, Wray and Shannon can’t seem to stop running.

After their Wednesday lunchtime workout with the Ngataringa Runners, they often join in on the JETS run with their older children on Wednesday evenings. Wray is training for an upcoming 10km running event and Shannon is aiming for the Napier Marathon.

Those ambitions don’t get in the way of the Ngataringa Runners though.

“Anyone keen just turn up on a Wednesday at 12.05 pm at the entrance to the sports field. Bring your babystrollers or your older kids on bikes. We’re fun and it’s free,” says Wray.

• The group also has a Faceboook page called Ngataringa Runners.

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February 10, 2017

Devonport character brought joy to many The absence of Benjamin the library cat has been felt across Devonport. He was run over by a car two weeks ago at the age of 17.

Benjamin adopted the library as his home 11 years ago. He spent much of his time surrounded by books and library patrons, snoozing on chairs, bean bags and window sills and was a regular attendee at library events.

Benjamin had a bed in the staff office, a special cat door that worked just for him, and a “cat kitty” that staff members and locals contributed to for food and vet costs.

Benjamin was equally at home across the street at the Devonport Pharmacy, where staff regularly fussed over him. The fish and chip shop, Seven Stars restaurant and Subway liked to offer him treats. He was a regular at Bookmark, ASB Bank, Anna Stretton, Barfoot & Thompson and many other local businesses.

Around the corner, Glengarry had a wine of the week chosen by Benjamin. He was also known to dominate the couch at Tiny Triumphs bar on occasion. Before Auckland Council was created, he often attended the meetings of the Devonport Community Board too.

Long-time Devonport librarian Anne Bucholz was Benjamin’s main caregiver. “I clearly remember the day he arrived,” she says.

Buchholz was the one who learned of his death first too. “A woman came in the library and said ‘the cat is dead’ and I just knew.”

Cars proved to be Benjamin’s undoing in the

end. Usually they would stop when he crossed Victoria Rd, which most often was at a zebra crossing. If not, pedestrians would often “leap out and save him,” says Buchholz.

Benjamin “had a dangerous habit of sleeping in the gutter, often sleeping under cars or near their wheels,” she says. She and many other locals picked him up countless times, carrying him to a safe spot. But on the afternoon of 27 January, his luck ran out.

Many others looked after Benjamin over the years. Devonport Pharmacy’s Sonya Sulaiman says she would regularly return him to the library after closing her shop. “I would go in and say ‘free delivery’. It was our little ritual.”

Dogs won’t miss him, she says. “He was very territorial, hated dogs and would kind of bark at them. And I have seen him killing huge rats three times. Once he was sitting out back and eating almost all of one of them.”

Local builder John Excell cared for Benjamin when he was badly injured a couple of years ago, letting him sleep in his flat for three months. “I saw him once climb those Phoenix palms and come back with baby sparrows,” he says. For a time, he was on the receiving end: a Kingfisher liked to dive-bomb him.

Seventeen years old, Benjamin was getting on in cat years, says Devonport vet Neill Waddell, who treated him for many years. “In the early days we would just keep him over

One out of the box… Benjamin the popular Devonport Library cat long weekends and during the Food and Wine Festival. But as he got older, he had a few injuries and arthritis.”

Benjamin had originally been the pet of Virgil Evetts, a local young father of two who passed away last year. When his cat adopted the library as his preferred home, Evetts generously let him go.

Benjamin is being cremated and a small ceremony is planned in his memory at the library on February 9 at 6 pm.

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Fairburn’s artistic curtain call in Devonport Rex Fairburn, one of Devonport’s bestknown literary figures, has a collection of his artworks featuring in an exhibition at the Depot next month.

In 1954, the poet made 12 sets of fabric curtains in his King Edward Parade study with hand-printed images of Maori rock drawing.

Eight sections of those curtains are part of a Fairburn Rocks exhibition this March to commemorate Fairburn’s death 60 years ago at the age of 53.

Dinah Holman, Fairburn’s youngest daughter who grew up on Mays St and now lives in Northcote, is putting the show together.

She inherited the curtains and has researched their history.

In 1947, Fairburn was sent tracings of prehistoric Maori drawings by his friend Theo Schoon, a Dutch-Indonesian artist who was recording South Island rock drawings for the Department of Internal Affairs by sketching and photographing them, she says.

Fairburn turned the images into lino blocks to help preserve them. He first made calico images that sold at the UN Gift Shop in New York. Fairburn’s friend John Male, who worked for the UN Human Rights Commission at the time, was the go-between her father and the shop, says Holman. Fairburn also gave prints to Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier when they visited Auckland in 1948.

Fairburn hand-blocked the drawings with Morrison printing ink onto a dozen creamy white curtains for Male, who hung them in his Connecticut home until 1964 when he returned to New Zealand. The curtains became a feature in Male’s Mahurangi East home. When Male died in 2003, Holman inherited them.

“I looked at them one day and even though they were all a little bit damaged, they also all had some good parts,” says Holman. She decided to get the best preserved sections framed behind conservation glass, giving four to her sons Tristan and Nathaniel.

The remaining eight, all of them in a different size, will be on display, and for sale, at the Depot. “They are the last examples of A.R.D. Fairburn’s rock drawing works,” says Holman.

She remembers her father working on the curtains at 7 King Edward Parade, where he also wrote on his typewriter. “He had a big table on which he put a thick blanket and then a top sheet. The fabric was so coarse that he had to hit it with a mallet to transfer the ink.

My two sisters and I and my brother were his assistants. We would hand him the mallet or the roller,” she says.

They will be presented in a “community context, because no one does things just on their own,” Holman says. Her father was surrounded by a group of other creative people living in Devonport between 1946 and 1957, when it was his home.

These included Katherine Mansfield biographer Antony Alpers, author and activist Sarah Campion, Shakespeare scholar Sydney

Artistic and literary legacy… Rex Fairburn (above). Dinah Holman (below) is keeping her father’s Devonport connection alive Musgrove, clarinettist Frank Gurr, pianist Lili Kraus, painter and guitarist Keith Patterson, potter Barry Brickell and his mother Shirley, pianist Tessa Birnie and architects Ivan Juriss and Bruce Rotherham.

Holman remembers them all and says most were friends and would come for dinner regularly. “The Devonport community allowed my father his eccentricity,” she says.

Fairburn’s Devonport connection took root when he married Jocelyn Mays, whose father built the house at the bottom of Mays St. The Fairburns moved there when Holman was nine.

Jocelyn’s great-grandfather Oliver Mays was one of Devonport’s early settlers.

• Fairburn Rocks runs March 4 – 22 at the Depot Artspace.

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On the Beat

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with Devonport Community Constable Jasmine Bundle Hello readers and Happy New Year to you all.

Our peninsula is a beautiful area to police and I have observed many residents and visitors enjoying the scenery and everything our area has to offer over these long days of summer.

Recently both Takapuna Community Constable Andy Young and I had the pleasure of cooking at a barbecue for the Devonport and Takapuna Library Dare to Explore summer reading programme. It was lovely to meet so many young keen readers from our community on such a fun-filled afternoon.

Since the beginning of January, Police have received 15 reports of burglaries: 1 January, Cheltenham Rd (outdoor area disturbed); 2 January, Church St (life jackets taken from a boat); 3 January, Vauxhall Road (a wine cellar); 4 January, Winscombe Rd (cash from bedroom); 7 January, Northboro Rd (tools); 11 January, Clifton Rd and King Edward Pde (tools from building sites); 12 January, Jubilee Ave and Hastings Pde (vehicles entered, cash and sunglasses taken); 16 January, Roslyn Tce (bicycle); 22 January, Plymouth Cres (debit card); 24 January, Lake Rd (tools from building site); 28 January, Huia St (bicycle); 31 January, Eversleigh Rd and Northboro Rd (jewellery).

Two attempted burglaries were reported: 27 January, Herbert St; and 1 February, Church St.

February 10, 2017 The burglaries in which tools were stolen have been substantial, with multiple items taken, including nail guns, batteries and chargers, grinders, polishers, drills, heat guns, clamps, laser levels and more. If you know of anyone who has suspiciously acquired new tools or is selling tools cheaply, please contact us. Please record serial numbers of your belongings – take a photo and save the details so it is easier for us to return your property if it is located.

On two occasions, a single male offender was disturbed by property owners and on another a single male offender was seen leaving the scene. Police ask that all residents keep a watchful eye for any suspicious behaviour and report it immediately.

Investigations are continuing.

Four vehicles were reported stolen: 5 January, Ngataringa Rd (a trailer); 10 January, Northboro Rd; 27 January, David St; 31 January, Sir Peter Blake Pde. On 8 January, an attempted theft of a vehicle was reported on Hart Rd where a quarter light was smashed and ignition barrel damaged.

Two bicycles left securely locked at the Stanley Point wharf on 31 January were stolen while the owners were swimming. On 24 January, a commuter who mistakenly left her bag at the bus stop returned to find her wallet missing from the bag.

During the evening of 19 January, the North Shore United Football Club building at Bayswater was subjected to wilful damage. Windows were smashed and panels damaged.

Police have received multiple reports of lost property around the Devonport area.

If you have found any items while out and about please drop them to the Takapuna station as a lot of these belongings have sentimental value to the owners.

If you witness a crime or suspicious activity, please phone 111 immediately.

Remember to use our Crime Reporting Line (where there has been an offence committed but there is no immediate risk to any person or property) 09 477 5000 or Crime Stoppers (if there is no immediate risk to any person or property and you wish to remain anonymous) 0800 555 111.

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Manuka coffee artist Bryan Turoa Fraser dies Popular Manuka barista Bryan Turoa Fraser has died suddenly at his Manurewa home.

Fraser (47) became something of a Devonport icon during the six years he worked at Manuka Café.

He was well known for his big smile and the intricate coffee designs he liked to produce in the steamed milk. His partner Paula says “he could draw or write anything” and often would write customers’ names into his designs to surprise them and put a smile on their faces.

A notice on the Devonport Locals Facebook page has seenan outpouring of disbelief about Fraser’s early death.

Fraser used to commute to Devonport by ferry for years, but has been living in a flat above Manuka during the week more recently, says Paula. He loved Devonport’s community and would often tell her stories about locals, she says.

Paula says Fraser was “a man of very, very few words”, who liked to express himself in other ways. He transferred his barista skills into visual art, creating coffee-froth inspired images onto cardboard and light boxes.

The Manurewa club where he was a regular

Vauxhall Rd accident Police and ambulance offices attended a car crash on the corner of Moata Place and Vauxhall Rd on January 27 just after 8 pm.

Police said a vehicle was turning right from Vauxhall Rd into Moata Place and failed to give way to an oncoming vehicle travelling along Vauxhall Road.

No injuries were reported, police said.

Well known around Devonport…

Bryan Fraser on Friday nights, held a special dance evening last Friday, a day before his memorial service and cremation.

Fraser died on January 27 of a heart attack.

The Navy CommuNiTy NewsleTTer

Navy CoNTiNues TraDiTioNal iNvolvemeNT aT waiTaNGi The Royal New Zealand Navy continued its traditional involvement and support in Waitangi Day activities in the Bay of Islands this year.

The Navy is invited annually by the people of Tai Tokerau to attend Waitangi Day activities, and plays a significant part in the commemorative ceremonies.

The RNZN representatives this year were Rear Admiral John Martin ONZM, the Chief of Navy, and his Deputy, Commodore Dave Gibbs.

This year the Navy warship, HMNZS Canterbury, anchored off Waitangi from 4-7 February, while HMNZS Wellington was alongside Opua Wharf from 2-7 February.

A Beat Retreat and Sunset Ceremony took place at the Treaty Ground flagpole on Sunday, 5 February. A 100-man Royal Guard of Honour conducted the ceremonial lowering of the White Ensign, signifying the end of the day. This was reviewed by Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy.

At midday on Monday, 6 February, HMNZS Canterbury fired a 21-gun salute at Waitangi to observe the 177th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.

The Navy Band, under new director Lieutenant Michael Dowrick, performed several public concerts in the region from 3-6 February, including at Kerikeri on the evening of Friday, 3 February and two concerts on Paihia Village Green, at 11am and 2pm on Saturday, 4 February.

At midday on Monday, 6 February, HMNZS Canterbury fired a 21-gun salute

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Out and About with your local North Shore MP Member of Parliament – North Shore Minister for Conservation, Arts,Culture and Heritage, and Seniors

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funding and self-resetting traps so while NZ On Air contributes about $4 Devonport has always been renowned that we can achieve the dream of a million a year towards a range of music for its close-knit and active community New Zealand is the fourth-safest in the world –See we Eventhis though we oneas ofwe the safest communities predator-freecountry Devonport Peninsula. products. and and comes tohave the fore want to make it the safest place on earth. lowestthe crime rates www.doc.govt.nz for the Action Plan. enter season toin bethe jollycountry, with anI know from meetings with my North Shore constituents are conIt’s been a busy few months myMP, I had a lively Sunday morning officially As yourwith local impressive lineup of festive events that many cerned about security and law-and-order issues.

There Having presented papers the WinMinisterial responsibilities and I’m sending off the 100th anniversary Vintage CaratClub – the Lions’ Santa Parade, Dance in was welcome news last week when the Prime Minister, Billto spending Edinburgh Festival, looking forward more Tour from terless North outside Cultural Devonport New Our World. the Park, and the Christmas window English, announced a half-billion-dollar package 40 cars took part in this re-enactment of a 1917 Oceans Conference in Washington, time in tailorthe ‘hood’ overSome the summer. display competition. We are looking made to make our communities safer places live, with fromParliamentary tour. The North Shore Car Club Antarctica for SirVintage Ed’s heritage hut and I’veto just returned an international forward to going to Takapuna Beach a range of measures including 1125 extra police over the host organisers did a great job and I enjoyed a spin in a restoration, and biodiversity in convention on biodiversity in Mexico on Christmas day for the annual next 4 years. That includes 500 to go out on the beat and couple ofplan these venerable ladies.

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We’ll mark the centenary of the shape, polishing up the paddleboard tide of species and habitat loss and hear this witty, erudite Aucklander.

Battle of Passchendaele on October 12 commemorating Response rates and delays in responding to so-called skills, and fingers are crossed for BBQ counter the predator threats to our the 842 New Zealanders who died that day. minor crime has been a growing concern, which we’ve dinners courtesy of the son and heir. vulnerable native species. Our targets It’s great to see that Depot Artspace listened to and will address with several new targets. The As Minister I had two productive days in I laid the groundwork with last year’s and strategy includes Predator Freeof Conservation, will be hosting the internationally new Minister of Police, Paula Bennett, is confident this will announcing a majorpresent expansion of Ipredator conChristmas when unashamedly 2050 committing us toNorthland ridding New celebrated travelling exhibition improve response times. The increased police numbers trol work in Northland’s native forests.

An extra $380,000 included a voucher for a BBQ-cooking Zealand ofbe rats, possums.

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With reproduction “remastered” reflect seconds, to be achieved by to June 2018. can achieve our ambitious upgrading tracks in kauri forests.

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You will be able sample all that’s on offer at the best iwi,that communities, private landowners, Minister Arts, 24/7 Culture and Heritage, to phonefor a new number.

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Fund. I‘ve just announced nine Auckland groups, which My Takapuna office will be closed being broken into overnight. thriving arts and culture sector. will get funding for projects such as weed control, a new overIsland, the statutory breakCoromandel but we’ll I’ve recently announced a stellar kiwi ranger on Motuora transferring Twenty ethnic liaison officers will support Chinese, Indian, be back in 2017 refreshed and board lead the newBrown crown-owned The hascommunities nurtured many kiwi to Motutapu andearly restoring Maori and historic and Peninsula other ethnic and businesses totostop ready to greet the year with gusto, so organisation that’ll make decisions musicians including Lorde, along sites on Motuihe. crime in these communities. please don’t hesitate to contact me about the landscape pest controls with budding garage bands, honing Our Prime Minister has set September 23 as the date for It’s been identified that there is a 3am crime spike in if Ieven can help. family, needed to secure a long-term, their skills. I was pleased to welcome the 2017toxinelection and at thisI hope early you, stageyour I’d encourAuckland, when the Police ‘Eagle’ helicopter stops operathaveeligible an enjoyable free future. As the MPage for you North aing. music economic to make sureand youfriends and your family festive memTheindustry Eagle will now bereport funded to run 24/7. season and a relaxing and what safe summer Shore I’m very encouraged to see theor update showing the sector’s $245 million bers do enrol, your details or check details The end result, when the extra police are in place, will be holiday. enthusiasm of our local groups to be contribution to the economy. Music the Electoral Commission has at www.elections.org.nz that 95% of New Zealanders will be within 25 kilometres predator free. In the New Year, Doc’s makes a rich contribution culturally, of 24/7 police support. Reducing crime and keeping all of Warm Regards, Warm Regards, threatened species ambassador, Nicola economically, and socially, and our us safer won’t be easy, but we are not here to shy away Toki, will be helping pull together Government contributes $1.85 millionon what’s Hon Maggie Barry ONZM from tough issues and are delivering important.

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Shore denied by the bounce of the ball

Safe pair of hands… Shore outfielder Matt Selby makes a catch at the tail end of the Suburbs innings

Sideline analysis… Peter Coleman (left) and former New Zealand bowler Martin Snedden have a chat during the match

Cricket is one of the cruellest and unpredictable sports – no better evidenced than in North Shore’s cliffhanger loss to Suburbs New Lynn in the T/20 Auckland semi-final played at Devonport Domain last Wednesday.

In a rollercoaster match, the two sides were locked on 126 after the 20 overs.

Suburbs won in a bowl-off to oust Shore, the defending champions.

Locals were left wondering if there had ever been a more dramatic match in 150 years of cricket on the Domain.

With a crowd of close to 500 spectators, Shore were put into field. With two overs left and 112 on the board, Suburbs looked likely to post a big score but lost six wickets to be all out on the last ball for 126. Perhaps not enough.

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Ominous signs… the early departure of Shore captain Graeme Beghin, could have spelt disaster for the home side. But the team rebounded to force a bowl-off.

But then the Shore top order failed – three wickets down for 14, including high-scoring captain Graeme Beghin. The game was drifting away into the failing light until Gus McKenzie, Sam Hinds and Ryan Thomson all chipped in with valuable runs as the small total got within reach.

It was Thomson and Carl Brungar who

A suit has been mysteriously abandoned at Ngataringa Park.

Two of the Flagstaff team were out jogging on Saturday morning and spotted what seemed to be a tall man in the bushes.

On closer inspection it was a suit jacket, pants, shirt and tie – all wet and muddy from what looked like a mud bath in nearby Ngataringa Bay. There was no indentification in the pockets, or shoes or other clothes nearby.

We sent the photo to police, just in case a person had gone missing.

went into the last over needing eight to win, with the home crowd sensing victory.

With Shore needing three to win off the final ball, they ran two to tie the scores.

The umpires consulted the rule books and a bowl-off followed – five bowlers each bowling two balls. The team that hit the wickets the most, wins.

Shore’s fate was cruelly decided by the 3-1 bowl-off defeat.

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