8 September 2023 Devonport Flagstaff

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risks ‘turning passengers off for good’

Poor bus services for passengers soon to be bumped from a shelved Bayswater ferry service could lead to commuters opting out of public transport altogether, Auckland Transport (AT) has been warned.

And Lake Rd could become further congested if the options AT has come up with

do not work for passengers, members of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board told AT staff who outlined options for when the ferry service ends on 1 October.

AT’s preferred choice is not to provide a shuttle from Bayswater to the Devonport ferry and to add only an unspecified number

of extra peak-hour, weekday-only buses on the 802 route from Bayswater to the city, between existing scheduled services.

Board members at a workshop on the topic quizzed the AT officials on whether the buses would have sufficient capacity.

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Golden voices take top honour

Hitting the right note... Takapuna Grammar School girls choir Leonessa, with Year 12 student Si’ai Faulalo taking solo duties, was awarded gold in the prestigious annual Big Sing Finale, held this year at the Auckland Town Hall. Story, more pictures, pages 38 and 39.

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Mischa on top of the world

Local freestyle skier Mischa Thomas won bronze in the junior world championships at Cardrona last week – in her first time competing on the global stage.

Mischa (pictured, above, on the podium and, right in action) said it felt “pretty amazing” to finish third in the slopestyle event, especially with the home crowd behind her.

The Bayswater 16-year-old said the run that put her on the podium went “pretty much to plan”. She was stoked with her rail tricks and an aerial trick that she landed.

“We planned for not the most technical run but a clean and well-executed run.”

Being the second-youngest in the field didn’t faze Thomas, who finished behind German Muriel Mohr in first and Italian Flora Tabanelli in second.

Competitors are scored on their execution of tricks on the slopestyle course.

Mischa won the national junior freestyle Series in 2020 and 2022, but the international competition was something new and a big step up, she said.

“It was definitely very nerve-racking but it was a really cool experience being able to compete against different nations.”

Thomas comes from a keen skiing family and first took to the slopes of Ruapehu at just three years old.

She trains at Snowplanet and on a trampoline during the summer months, but last year was in Laax, Switzerland, with her coach for three months’ training during the New Zealand summer. “It was unreal,” she said. “It’s a way bigger mountain and the atmosphere is completely different.”

During the New Zealand ski season Thomas is based in Wanaka. She’s aiming for more success at the Youth Winter Olympics in South Korea next year and to win selection for the Winter Olympics in Milan in 2026.

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Trial starts over Lake Rd bike fatality

The trial of the truck driver who was charged after the death of a cyclist in a collision on Lake Rd more than two years ago began at the North Shore District Court last week.

Simei Mose has been charged with careless use of a motor vehicle causing the death of triathlete Warrick Jones in March 2021.

During the prosecution case, a police witness said that information recovered

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from the cyclist’s Garmin device showed he was travelling at 54km/h at the time of the accident near the corner of Montgomery Ave, Belmont.

The trial opened on Tuesday last week and adjourned on Thursday, after the prosecution case. It was due to resume on Thursday this week, after the Flagstaff went to press.

Outdoor sculpture event returns after five-year absence

Participation by hundreds of volunteers along with local school children help make NZ Sculpture OnShore – returning to Fort Takapuna after a five-year hiatus – such a special event, says event chair Sally Dewar (pictured).

A launch to herald the return of the two-week outdoor event in November was held for sponsors and supporters at the Depot Artspace in Devonport last week.

Stanley Bay resident Dewar later told the Flagstaff that after the break due to Covid the organising team were back in force to continue what is the major fundraiser for Women’s Refuge.

“There’s a groundswell of support in this community,” she said.

The regional-calibre event was one of the biggest hosted on the North Shore, drawing crowds to its coastal site at Narrow Neck.

Founded by Genevieve Becroft and Lynn Sumpter 26 years ago, it is held two-yearly, showcasing artistic talent and offering art works for sale. More than $2 million has been raised to date. An online sales platform launched during the Covid years had helped broaden its reach, Dewar said.

Many of the 600 volunteers involved were locals.

Her own involvement began in 2008, when the former travel-industry staffer with a background in sales and marketing was casting around for something to occupy her time with her children at school. Since 2014 she has been the chair.

Dewar began by organising the event’s schools exhibition, which this year has grown to involve 16 schools showing in the historic fort building on the site.

Helping women overcome domestic violence is the aim of event fundraising, but Dewar said there was also often a spin-off for the helpers. Many volunteers, often local mothers, who had been given references for their work on the event had gone on to find paid jobs.

This year, the event will feature more than 200 art works, ranging from giant sculptures on the clifftops to smaller pieces on display inside the Officers’ Mess building.

A gun emplacement will be used for an artwork (see story in the arts section, page 37), and another former military building is being opened up for the first time by arrangement with the Department of Conservation. • Tickets for the 4-19 November event, are on sale at nzsculptureonshore.co.nz

Wire barriers installed at Fort Takapuna

Temporary fencing at Fort Takapuna in three places where slips or cracking occurred after last summer’s heavy rain has been taken down and replaced with permanent wire barriers.

The Department of Conservation, which owns the historic military reserve, said a temporary fence put up by Auckland Council around a gun emplacement had been replaced with a barrier that no longer extended around the entire perimeter.

The council told the Flagstaff its staff had completed inspections of the main slip, near the Officers’ Mess, and it had no plans for remediation.

The slip carved out a section of clifftop, bringing down a large pōhutukawa, onto the rocks and sand below, south of the main part of Narrow Neck Beach.

“The slip was a natural event, caused by

the intensity of rain run-off, and there are no plans to remediate the area,” said the council’s parks and community facilities northern area operations manager, Sarah Jones.

Asked about how the cliff conditions might affect the crowd-pulling New Zealand Sculpture OnShore event, Jones said organisers would need to carefully consider artwork placement in relation to the cliff edge and possibly additional fencing.

Event organisers told the Flagstaff they were factoring in safety measures.

Meanwhile, council staff were assessing repair options for the public stairs at Westwell Reserve in Belmont, Jones said.

Stairs at Kennedy Park, Castor Bay, were also washed out.

Detailed investigations were expected to take six months to complete, due partly to limited availability of geotech specialists.

Honoured geoscientist has long view on floods

For a Devonport resident just honoured for his services to geoscience and environmental science, the devastating floods that struck the North Shore early this year were much less of a surprise than they were for most locals.

Emeritus professor Paul Williams’ long career at the University of Auckland included research in 1976 into the likely impact of urbanisation on the Wairau Valley, and the probability of flooding there.

Williams, who was named an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) in the King’s Birthday and Coronation awards, received his award at Government House this week.

His long-term perspective on recent flooding woes are just one example of the varied issues he has traversed in more than 50 years in the field of landscape studies.

In the 1970s, he says, “we were ripping the place apart with rapid development around the North Shore and no one really knew what they were doing.”

While the case against building on flood plains or clifftops has been widely understood for many years, says Williams, politics and social and economic pressure have dictated otherwise. “It’s the same problem the world over,” he notes. “But I am an optimist by nature.”

Williams first joined the university in 1972, becoming head of the Geography Department and by 1975 helping establish the teaching of environmental science.

He is internationally known for his research and knowledge of karst landscapes, the rocky terrain of limestone and chalk with caves and underground waterways common in Europe. His books on these landscapes are seen as foundational textbooks.

His work has contributed to many sites being awarded natural World Heritage status.

In New Zealand, he helped preserve the

Waitomo Caves in the 1970s, leading a project to restore the delicate life of the caves.

In 1983 he directed an important study of the upper harbour for the then Auckland Regional Authority, providing guidelines for sustainable land and water management.

British-born Williams had previously completed his PhD at Cambridge University, then taken a job in Australia. On a visit to New Zealand, he was hosted by a family in Bayswater, and was sufficiently charmed by the location that he secured a job at the University of Auckland and settled on the North Shore.

“I loved it here and adapted to New Zealand life very quickly. I liked the egalitarian way of the place.”

These days, he is retired from the uni-

versity, but still involved in a number of projects. One of his studies, on sea-level rise takes him on research trips to the Chatham Islands.

He says the Chathams are the ocean’s “dipsticks” and give scientists an important site for observations.

The long-term former Stanley Bay resident today lives at the William Sanders retirement village, where he has established a home office and personal library that includes records and handwritten notebooks dating back to field trips and research in the late 1950s.

He is president of the local branch of U3A.

• Next generation geologists, page 9; and Williams’ enterprising son, pages 16-17.

In the archives... Emeritus professor Paul Williams has handwritten records of research dating back to the 1950s

Bayswater-Devonport shuttles ruled out by AT

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Members were also concerned about how off-peak passengers, such as students, would easily get to the city without the ferry.

“My biggest concern is capacity and making sure we don’t leave people on the roadside,” said member Gavin Busch.

AT said it had decided against putting on shuttles from Bayswater to Devonport so people could ferry to town, because this could overload Devonport ferry services.

But board members said feedback from the public indicated this might occur anyway, with some commuters preferring to arrive downtown, if this was where they worked or travelled on from, rather than midtown, where the 802 route terminated. Others might drive to the city.

In either case, this would mean more cars on Lake Rd. They called for AT to reconsider the shuttle option and return with data on Bayswater passenger numbers.

AT said it was still working on finding a replacement ferry operator to take on the Bayswater service, after Fullers360 chose to end its contract. For passengers faced with a service that has struggled for staff and been much reduced in frequency and reliability since Covid, the uncertainty continues.

AT stakeholder planner Edward Newbigin said talks were under way with a potential operator and he hoped to report back this month. Transport planner Dave Hilson added: “If we don’t have a new ferry operator from 1 October we’re going to need to cover those peak trips.”

Board member Gavin Busch asked AT what sort of ferries would be on the

Bayswater run. Hilson said he was not sure what size they would be. “The timetable may be a bit thin at the start, but could improve over time.”

AT has not calculated the time difference for people using the 802 to get to the city, compared with a shuttle to catch the ferry from Devonport. “The 802 is the favoured option – a lot of that is around the Devonport ferry being crowded,” said Newbigin.

Busch asked if Fullers could be asked to put a bigger ferry on the Devonport run to avoid this. “We can ask,” said Hilson.

Board members were told AT had also considered extending back to Bayswater the route of the 805 service that travels from Belmont to Devonport via Ngataringa Rd.

But it had disadvantages, Hilson said. AT had also discounted adding frequency to the 801 half-hourly connection to Takapuna because this had fairly low demand.

It believed more 802 buses would serve passengers best. Some might even choose to use the bus instead of a ferry in the future, Hilson said.

Bus users closer to Belmont also had the option of the 814 running between Devonport and Takapuna, he said. Passengers could also go through to Akoranga station and connect to frequent busway services.

The end of the Fullers service from Bayswater coincides with the school holidays, providing a week to bed in changes to buses before commuter use peaks again.

Horns salute former harbour workhorse on final passage

The Kea ferry, well known to decades of Devonport commuters, took her final voyage last week, being tugged through the Waitematā Harbour on her way to Whangarei, where she will be scrapped.

Retired from service at the end of 2019 after more than 30 years on the Devonport run, she was given a special send-off, being accompanied by the catamaran ferry Torea and with passing Fullers360 skippers sounded their vessels’ horns in her honour.

Fullers chief operating officer Paul Trotman said crew and staff were sad to see her go, but pleased to know she would be recycled – “so she can start another phase of her journey in a different form”.

Local return flagged... but not to Devonport

Auckland Transport (AT) plans to return on-demand ride service AT Local to the North Shore, but not to Devonport, where it first trialled the concept over two years until early 2021.

The goal of extending the service beyond Takanini and Papakura, where it currently

operates, is in AT’s draft regional plan.

Potential North Shore locations were identified in the Birkenhead and East Coast Bays areas, with a roll-out between 2025-2027. The ride-share service, for which people book a vehicle pick-up via an app, is designed to fill gaps in bus services. In Devonport, it

transported passengers to and from the ferry terminal.

When the service was withdrawn, AT said it could not afford to keep both AT Local and the 806 and 807 buses. It opted to retain the bus routes. Retaining AT Local would have cost an extra $200,000 a year.

Last sailing... Kea, which had more than 30 years on the Devonport run, sets off for Whangarei and scrapping

Brrr-illiant idea! Fundraisers take the plunge

Bumper crowd signs up for Stanley Bay mud run

Stanley Bay School’s annual ‘mud run’ has sold out for the second year running, despite 200 extra tickets being on sale.

Organiser Sarah Ostergaard said many people were disappointed to miss out on the event last year so a decision was made to scale up participant numbers from 800 to 1000. “The demand is getting bigger and bigger,” she said.

This will be the fourth year the school has run the event, which will include other activities to keep people entertained, along with

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Activity has certainly picked up for existing house sales (although prices are still pretty flat) as new build consents/construction has fallen off given the high costs of land and building - it will surely come back at some stage though as 80,000 net migration numbers need to live somewhere.

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food and drink options.

“This is a Stanley Bay community event but also a wider peninsula community event as well so everyone is welcome,” Ostergaard said.

The Fire Brigade will be on hand to hose down participants after they have completed the course, which includes an improved mud slide and ‘slime’ pit.

Participant t-shirts introduced last year will again be on offer.

In a good cause... (from left) Ollie and Ginny Palmer and Emma and Nina Barlett were among swimmers who took the plunge at Cheltenham recently to help raise money for charity Kenzie’s Gift. Story, more photos pages 18-19.

TGS squash guns in national team triumph over Australia

Four Takapuna Grammar students were in the 20-strong New Zealand secondary schools squash team which defeated its Australian counterparts, by 17-13 matches last week, retaining three trans-Tasman titles.

Pictured (above from left) they were: Charlotte Bowden, Max Bailey, Aggie Griffiths and Justine Pausch.

Manu Yam of the Belmont Park Racquets Club was one of the two

coaches for the competition held in Sydney over five days last month. Senior players, including Year 12 student Pausch, who won all her matches, excelled for New Zealand.

The Australian juniors proving stiff competition across the 20 singles and 10 doubles matches played to decide which nation was the champion side.

Briefs

Second youth charged

A second 14-year-old youth has been charged by police after a series of at least 25 car thefts and break-ins on the Devonport peninsula. The WaitemataEast Area Commander, Inspector Stefan Sagar, said police had been investigating a small group since a spike of vehicle crimes early last month in Bayswater, Belmont, Devonport and Hauraki. “We have put this second teenager before the Youth Court on at least 11 charges of unlawfully taking a motor vehicle, Sagar said last week. Police had been greatly assisted by the public reporting offences quickly, he said. Since the arrests, more car thefts have been reported in Devonport over the last two weekends.

350 respond to plan

A call for public submissions on the draft Devonport-Takapuna Local Board Plan drew 350 responses, compared with 297 in the same process in 2020. The feedback will be presented to the board this month, along with some data analysis. Workshops will be held to consider any changes to the plan based on feedback, with the document due to be adopted by late October.

Local cliffs scanned for erosion analysis

Geology students are mapping the cliffs and shore platform south of Narrow Neck Beach, looking at erosion and the potential for landslides.

About 20 students in the final year of their science-degree studies at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) visited the area recently to analyse the structures and defects that will affect how the cliffs erode and recede over time.

A drone equipped with ‘lidar’ ranging technology has been used to create three-dimensional models of sections of the cliff.

Senior lecturer Helen Williams told the Flagstaff that Narrow Neck was a good place to study the rocks that make up much of the coastline of the Auckland region.

These rocks were “inherently unstable”, as many Aucklanders had experienced, especially during unprecedented recent weather events. “These hazards can have a significant impact on private properties and other coastal assets, such as walkways and public spaces,” she said.

“I wanted to get the students to think about the environment they live in, and the processes that are acting now and will likely be exacerbated in the future due to climate change.”

The Flagstaff covered many examples of slips on cliffs around the Devonport peninsula after periods of heavy rain early this year.

Williams said the rocks at Narrow Neck – of the ‘Waitematā Group’, which is mostly composed of sandstone and mudstone –made a great case study showing rapid coastal change.

The students are analysing the data they have collected in combination with the information from the drone photogrammetry.

Williams said the information collected by the class and on future field trips could eventually be made freely available through an online repository. Whatever was learned could be applied to other areas with the same geological make-up. “There is a lot to be gained by sharing this information.”

Rapid changes on cliffs could be catastrophic. “It’s really important we can predict that as much as possible.”

Williams said major weather events and the damage they caused

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were influencing the teaching of geology and contributing to a growing demand for earth scientists.

“It’s important that what we teach is relevant to the processes that are impacting on society now and into the future and also that what the students learn is relevant to their future career paths.”

Engineering, geotechnical and environmental consulting firms had all told of struggling to find enough graduates with a background in earth science. Many were having to look overseas for suitable trained staff.

“We’re actively working with industry to try to address this problem of the lack of graduates coming through, but also to ensure that the content we’re teaching our students is appropriate to the projects and problems they’re likely to encounter during their careers.”

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subject… Senior lecturer Helen Williams (centre) at the cliff south of Narrow Neck with marine geoscience specialist Marta Ribo and geospatial and drone expert Graham Hinchliffe.

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focus on reading

Last week was a bookworm’s dream at Belmont Intermediate School, with reading-related activities taking over the school.

They included talks by visiting authors, a poetry slam, scavenger hunt, school-wide ‘lit quiz’ and a dress-up day and costume parade.

For a ‘book tasting’ in the school library, the space was set up like a restaurant, with a menu of books on each table. Students were invited to read the first seven minutes of a book and write down their thoughts.

Teacher Angela Winslade, who organised the week, told the Flagstaff it was about “fostering a love for reading” by making it fun.

“It’s a nice celebration of books and enjoying literature.”

She said all the activities were aimed at exposing the students to more books they might enjoy.

Couple of things... Cat in the Hat characters Thing 1 Delilah Pezaro and Thing 2 Scarlett Aitchson; and Thomas Paterson (left) dressed as Pokemon Eevee, with Marly Rewi as Gandalf from Lord of the Rings

Wings and wizards... Teachers Mari van Zyl, Aimee Rothwell, Sarah Bothamley and Tayla Francey joined in the dress-up fun

School garden produces unexpected cash crop

A St Leo’s Catholic Primary School programme on how food is grown has been so successful the school is selling its excess produce.

The vegetables have been grown as part of a garden-to-table initiative in which students grow food on the school grounds, then prepare meals from the harvest.

It’s a programme that many primary schools across the North Shore have adopted, but St Leo’s garden has been surprisingly productive.

Office manager Renee Mossman, who runs the programme alongside year 3 and 4 teacher Lucia Dawbin, said the idea to sell the bumper crop of kale and spinach was hatched because they were “overrun with it”.

The school sold six bags of spinach and four bags of kale in a few days, raising money Mossman says will be a big help when the next round of seedling plants is needed.

She said the programme has taught children how food gets from the field to the supermarket shelf.

“A lot of them thought veggies just appeared in the supermarket.

“We were growing broccoli and when we pulled it out one of the kids said, ‘Oh, that’s how broccoli grows’.”

Year 4 pupil Tommy Sosa (9) told the Flagstaff he’s enjoyed learning about seasons and how they relate to what can be grown

and when.

He was one of the students who bagged the spinach and kale for sale.

Fellow year 4 Grace Rumble (8) said she had learnt that some plants she thought were vegetables – such as eggplant and tomatoes

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Last year the school had to offload chokos it had too many of.

Mossman said the school is open to selling more produce to locals if the opportunity arises.

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Green thumbs... Grace Rumble (8) and Tommy Sosa (9) beside the St Leo’s vegetable garden

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Eco-friendly glue latest focus for homegrown

Devonport-raised Tim Williams fell into the world of start-ups in Japan, where he made his fortune. The Belmont resident tells Helen Vause about his unplanned career and latest venture in partnership with Ikea.

Shaking hands recently on a deal with the Swedish furniture and homewares giant Ikea was another exciting milestone in the entrepreneurial life and times of Tim Williams.

While New Zealanders wait for the popular stores to open their doors here, Williams and his team are well on the way to providing an essential component in Ikea’s wood-fibre board products.

Multimillionaire Belmont resident Willliams is an expert in business start-ups with a formidable string of success stories to his credit.

But his latest venture he hopes will be the one he is most proud of when he’s looking back in his “deck chair days”.

He is the managing director of Nilo, a young company based on the North Shore that is turning plastic waste into an adhesive that could replace the widely used glues commonly made with harmful chemicals such as formaldehyde.

Williams and his team of engineers and chemists started experimentally repurposing plastic waste about six years ago, aiming to meet a major international market for an environmentally acceptable adhesive.

They decided they could take the early versions of their adhesive to Ikea as a likely partner in big-scale production of woodbased board.

Ikea recently took a 12.5 per cent stake in the company and a seat on the board to help accelerate development of the product.

“It’s gone from being a moon shot to just being an engineering exercise before we should be good to go,” Williams says.

He chuckles in pointing out the fast-paced learning curve so far, with Covid disruptions

and other unforeseen obstacles along the way.

As a start-up specialist, Williams long ago learned obstacles were something he had to chew for breakfast on a daily basis.

Looking back, he believes many start-ups have failed because someone gave up on them too soon. He notes the short history of attempts by others to develop adhesives without the ‘bad’ chemicals is a graveyard of tryers.

Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) old-boy Williams has since 2016 been on the school’s board of trustees.

He studied molecular biology at university, and his working life started in laboratories in Auckland.

company, Shuttlerock), who would become his business partner of 30 years.

“As Kiwis do everywhere, we started having a few barbecues in Tokyo and we started tossing around lots of ideas. I’d had notebooks full of stupid ideas and grand schemes since I was a kid. We both did, but he could speak the language much better than I could then.”

It didn’t take the duo long to work out where an opportunity or two could be found.

“It was the mid-90s and the internet was really just starting to move,” Williams says.

Although they didn’t understand the technology, they could see the internet would bring with it an explosion of growth in new services as it rolled into everyday life.

“We knew nothing but we started out anyway.”

They hired a programmer, created a hosting system and became a reseller of domain names. In the early stages, Williams held onto his teaching day job and another side hustle assisting used-car exporters.

Both only in their mid-20s, and with timing and tenacity on their side, they progressed fast as the internet boomed.

One business opportunity quickly led into another.

For example, the businesses they were hosting on their system soon wanted to know how many people were landing on their new sites, and how they could drive those numbers up.

But in his early 20s he went to Japan to visit his older brother and he was quickly enchanted with the country and the life there. Unable to speak the language, his options for making a living in the early 1990s were seriously limited, but he found a job teaching English in a junior high school for four days a week and on the fifth day each week he learned Japanese and explored the world where he had chosen to make his home.

It was his stepping stone into living in Japan, but Williams wanted more of a challenge.

By chance he’d met up with another former TGS student, Bayswater-raised Jonny Hendrickson (now CEO of global media

Then there had to be a way for them to gather data on what visitors to their site would do next and their patterns of interaction. And if a business had more information about the visitors to their site, what could they do with it?

Expanding their business model to meet the demand for all this was a logical next step, says Williams.

The way it all kept unfolding and the pace of the action is a “pretty ridiculous” story in retrospect, Williams says. They were early tech entrants in Japan and fast making money from their ventures. “Yet we weren’t really capitalists by nature,” he reflects.

They created history in Japan as foreign

“I was very happy to be here but I was wondering what on earth I was going to do next. If we saw our lives being just about the money we would have stayed in Japan.”

start-up whizz

nationals listing on the stock exchange there, with a public launch in a record time of just two years from start-up.

Williams spent 17 years in Japan, where he met his wife Yuri (now a private maths tutor).Sons Chris (19) and Connor (16) were born there.

He’d come to love Japan but he had a hankering to return to New Zealand and give his boys a Kiwi-style upbringing.

The family returned to Auckland in 2010, and built their family home in Seacliffe Ave, just a stone’s throw from the grounds of TGS.

Along with his involvement in TGS, Williams is a key figure in the Auckland business incubator Icehouse, and through that has supported the success of many other start-ups.

“I’m definitely a start-up person. That’s become my specialisation. I’m good at that early stage, where you are going from zero to 50 staff and hanging in there to tweak everything and try everything you can with what has the makings of a good business idea.”

Back in Auckland he was unsure what his own future business direction was going to look like.

“I was very happy to be here but I was wondering what on earth I was going to do next. If we saw our lives being just about the money we would have stayed in Japan.”

The Nilo involvement came through a contact who was “playing around with endof-life plastics”. While the world struggles to deal with millions of tonnes of plastic waste, a volume that’s expected to near triple in the next 25 years, Williams wanted to be part of working out what to do with it.

A couple of years on from a first approach to Ikea, the company is getting into final trials. All the signs are good that it could be another success story. New Zealand, Williams says, will be a showcase, but the international market for environmentally friendly wood-fibre boards is huge.

Williams says there’s obviously scope for many other products to be developed from the successful repurposing of plastic waste.

“I tell the yachties I know that plastic composite could be the way to go with the next America’s Cup boat.”

Wacky wigs and colourful costumes warm

Swimmers who have raised more than $7300 for charity with regular dips through the coldest months rounded off their campaign in colourful style at Cheltenham Beach at the end of last month.

Wigs and costumes marked the final Sunday swim of the winter by the “Cheltenham Little Black Book Dippers”, a group taking part in a challenge organised by charity Kenzie’s Gift, which helps young people affected by serious illness or grief.

The group is keen to top $8000, which would fund 12-session grief counselling programmes for four children. Donations can still be made at winter-swim-challenge-2023. raisely.com/the-cheltenham-black-bookladies

Making a splash... (clockwise from above left) Kelly Sadler Seaburg and Caroline Chapman Smith; Ollie Palmer; founder and CEO of Kenzie’s Gift Nic Russell; and Gabrielle Goodin, Shelley Ogle and Asher Winchester

up chilly Cheltenham dip for a good cause

Cool fun... (clockwise from above) Gail Simons and Sarah Burgess; Emma Bartlett; David Clouston, Bartosz Sielewicz and James Pritchard; and a team shot on the beach.

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Playcentre kids have good messy fun

Things got messier than usual at Narrow Neck Playcentre recently.

For a “messy play” week, children were encouraged to get stuck into as many untidy slimes, foams or any other materials as they wanted with no consequences for the mess they caused.

Sam MacDonald, who has a one-year-old at the centre, told the Flagstaff messy play allowed children to express themselves and discover the textures and weight of different items and liquids, which helped with sensory learning.

“Also, a lot of it is fun. They get to do stuff they don’t at home.”

During the week, extra supplies of goop,

sand and paint were set up for play, alongside other activities such as the sand-pit play and painting.

“We basically had an amplified version of what we do every week,” MacDonald said.

Lisa Wilkinson, who has had three children go through the Playcentre, said messy play lets children discover things themselves rather than being guided towards certain paths. “It lets them really have a go and explore their world which is really important for early childhood education.”

Wilkinson said messy play had been a key part of the Playcentre programme since her eldest started there five years ago. The “free range” approach fostered creativity, she said.

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After much anticipation, the new waterfront Bayleys office on the corner of King Edward Pde and Church St opened in early August, an event celebrated in style at a VIP launch last week.

In the striking new waterfront premises, invitees soaked up the multimillion-dollar views through the floor-to-ceiling windows, while the Louis Roederer Champagne flowed freely. Glasses were clinking in celebration, as a who’s who of Devonport mixed and mingled with noteworthy visitors, including Bayleys chairman John Bayley himself.

Branch manager Debbie Jones didn’t miss a beat as MC, keeping the room buzzing and energy levels high. Even a power cut couldn’t dampen the excitement, with candles and classical tunes providing a romantic twist.

Leading economist Cameron Bagrie was guest speaker, chatting about the evolving property market and economic trends. Young Sailor of the Year Seb Menzies talked about some of his yachting achievements, and John Bayley told of the humble beginnings of his business and his community focused professional philosophy.

Neighbouring new café Dulcie served a buffet of delicious food, and judging by the happy faces and lively discussions, the night was one to remember for everyone in attendance.

For Bayleys Devonport, it marked the beginning of a new era in a glorious harbourside location. The office’s top-performing salespeople are enjoying settling into their new base and getting on with the business of selling Devonport homes. Their new office raises the bar for real-estate premises on the peninsula – and they remain a team ready to go above and beyond for their valued clients.

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Fishing Report for September ’23

Alas, the conditions continue to be pretty average, but this last week has seen some improvements, so fingers crossed we are getting closer to some more settled, warmer times.

We’ve still managed to get out a couple of times and the best fishing we have had has been out in the workups. It takes a bit of patience to find them, but when you do it is worth it.

We generally will listen out for any reports of where the workups have been. Come down and chat to us, we have a lot of fishos come through the store who we extract intel from – it usually takes a coffee or two. Then we head to that area, always looking for birds, preferably gannets. You’ll notice they all will be flying the same general way. We just continue to follow them, stop, pull out the binoculars and scour the horizon for any large gatherings of these amazing birds. Other good signs are the dolphins and numerous whales out there feeding up large on bait schools. They are an amazing sight to have right in our back yard. I would have seen over a dozen large whales on one trip last week.

Once located, approach the feeding frenzy gently from the outskirts. The last thing you want to do is fly through the middle of the bait school and stop the workup all together. You need to figure out which way the current will be going – this is key. Why? Because all the bait scraps that are falling down to the seafloor will be going with the current, so that is the side of the workup where the snapper will be. We find the Ocean Angler Fish Fingers, G-Bombs and Sliders are excellent deep-water lures for this style of fishing. I like using a heavily weighted lure around 100-120 grams and a rod with a bendy tip. These are slow jigs designed to move slowly up and down, not jigged like a soft bait.

It is an incredible experience if you haven’t been in a workup before – pulling in hungry snapper, gannets diving all around the boat, dolphins flying past and the whales engulfing large amounts of bait right next to you. Areas that are common for this type of action are east of Kawau Island, top of the Firth of Thames, north of Waiheke and north of Tiri. Generally, you need to be in at least 40 to 45m of water.

Normally we know where they are, so come on in and talk with us. We just purchased another large freezer so we won’t run out of salt ice this season. Send any pics of your catch to devonport@ hammerhardware.co.nz to be in to win a free Ocean Angler Slider.

Fish for breakfast... A photo taken early in the morning on the way to Little Barrier, when this whale appeared, scooping up mouthfuls of pilchards

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Illegal Kerr St parking putting children at risk – resident

Traffic congestion on narrow Kerr St needs addressing with a yellow-line prohibiting parking on one side of the road, a frustrated resident says.

Lynn Dawson says she worries about the safety of children coming and going from Devonport Primary School and that “mad”parents stopping illegally, including across the footpath and driveways, are part of the problem.

She also fears emergency-vehicle access could be compromised.

A trade vehicle recently parked over the new pedestrian crossing outside the school, Dawson told the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board at its community forum last week.

She said the crossing, installed by Auckland Transport (AT) as part of its town centre safety project, was a very good idea. The problem was compliance with road rules.

From 2.30 to 3.30pm the situation could be chaotic, with sightlines compromised. SUVs and utes added to the issue, endangering children who were hard to see.

She had walked children down the middle of the road to ensure they could be seen.

Dawson said the road was narrow anyway. With cars parked on both sides, vehicles struggled to get past at the best of times. They could often only travel in one direction at a time, while others waited.

Those approaching from the east struggled to see over the brow of the hill.

Dawson believed the best solution would

be a no-parking yellow line on one side of the street, providing greater visibility and space.

Children should also be encouraged to walk to school, she said. “It has been a serious issue for some time and my principal concern is the safety of the children and people who can’t get into their own driveway.”

Board member Gavin Busch, a volunteer fire-fighter, agreed with Dawson that Kerr St could be difficult to navigate, especially for large fire trucks. He wondered if making Kerr St one-way, along with Mays and St Aubyn Sts, might be a better option than banning parking on one side. “Kids would only have to look one way and you could keep parking on both sides.”

Without AT enforcement, yellow lines might not stop people parking illegally for

short times, he said.

Member Peter Allen said the issue with parking at school pick-up time was one a number of schools grappled with. “You need policing out there the whole time, and the confrontations are terrible.”

To a question from member George Wood about whether people used Kerr St as a thoroughfare, despite the eastern end being one-way only, Dawson said this “technically did not stop the locals”.

Wood said there were competing interests at play and consultation with the whole community would be required before any changes were made.

Acting board chair Terence Harpur told Dawson the board would refer the matters she raised with AT.

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Safety fears... A crossing warden oversees the pedestrian crossing outside Devonport Primary School

Cove’s TikTok fame brings problems for neighbours

TikTok fame for Stanley Point’s Secret Cove has come at a price for neighbours, who want a lockable gate installed to deter night-time gatherings.

Secret Cove had become “party central”, four neighbours told a Devonport-Takapuna Local Board public forum.

Pauline Colmar said neighbours never requested a council walkway to the cove. “We have all suffered,” she told board members.

An alcohol ban and a gate had been suggested to the previous local board and now residents were pushing the case again.

“The gate (at the entrance to the cove track) is the last piece for us,” said Colmar.

Problems began after Auckland Council publicised that it had upgraded the track to the water, including photographs of North Shore councillor Chris Darby on the cove jetty. News of its whereabouts spread beyond the local area. It featured in social media, including posts on TikTok, and even topped a list published in a Christchurch newspaper of the country’s best hidden beaches.

With word about it spreading, more people visited the cove, leading to various problems and security fears. Litter, vandal-

ism, noise and graffiti were all issues, the residents said.

They were also upset the cove was now named on a nearby AT bus-stop sign making it easier for people out of area to find.

The area was just a cove, rather than a beach, with a small jetty built by residents and a fence down the track co-funded with council, they said.

Groups arrived with boomboxes and barbecues.

People unfamiliar with the cove did not know its risks, said Colmar. For instance, a rope swing there was dangerous to use when the tide was low.

Chris Rollins added that the track was steep and at least one woman had slipped and been injured on it.

“We love the fact that it is a community place,” said resident Linda Simmons. But it should be a place for gathering, not partying, she added.

“We talk about equity in the community, and now that every man and his dog is venturing down there, it’s gone the other way,” she said.

A lockable gate would give the neighbours

more security at night, the board was told. Residents were concerned that properties and private jetties could be accessed. They would be happy to meet the costs of the gate and be responsible for opening and shutting it daily.

A council officer told the delegation that public spaces were not generally closed off, so setting precedents would be an issue.

Colmar pointed out that roads up both Takarunga and Maungauika were shut with a gate in the evenings, but was told that both were under the jurisdiction of the Tūpuna Maunga Authority not the council.

Member George Wood noted that Sylvan Park access was restricted during bird nesting times.

Board chair Toni van Tonder asked board staff to further discuss the matter with the council’s facilities team. She suggested the problems might ebb and flow. A gate may not deter people from entering unless it was high and wired, she said.

Residents were urged by board member Mel Powell to keep reporting any issues to police so they could be tracked and lead to community patrols in the area.

Market man takes on Takapuna version in new square

Devonport Market operator Matt Jones (pictured) has taken over the running of the much-larger Sunday market in Takapuna.

Jones took over the Takapuna market last Sunday, 3 September, the day after his regular monthly version in Devonport on Saturday.

The long-time previous operators in Takapuna decided not to renew their council lease due to the market being shifted from its central car-park site into the new Waiwharariki Anzac Square on just part of the site.

Jones said is keen to retain the “vibe” of the current market in its new location.

Though it was moving, “it’s not moving very far,” he said.

His job was to make the transition to the square without losing the feel of the existing market. He was confident of retaining the

produce sellers that have been one of its major attractions.

Jones has operated the Devonport market since 2020, in the ferry building and on Victoria Wharf.

In his expression of interest for the Takapuna market, he noted that vehicle access to the new Takapuna site was a big concern for stallholders selling produce and food. He told the Flagstaff he would work with stallholders to make the best use of the space made available. “As in any market, it’s about planning.”

Panuku was allowing him to continue to use part of the car park in what he said would be a “gradual” transition.

Spring is finally here, the warm weather is on its way…

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Call us now for a confidential chat about your property and what you’re trying to achieve. We very much look forward to being able to help you realise your plans over the coming Summer.

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Shining a light on commercial property funds

Kiwis have long favoured residential property as their go-to investment and a means of securing their financial future, believing it’s “as safe as houses”. But for some, owning a property, whether to live in, or as an investment, is out of bounds due to the hefty deposit or high levels of maintenance, or both.

That doesn’t mean you should rule out property as an investment option altogether. While not as widely understood as residential investment, unlisted commercial property funds also provide investors with a similar tangible, bricks and mortar investment, minus the admin and high barriers to entry.

In a nutshell, investing in an unlisted property fund allows investors to buy commercial property in “bite-sized” amounts alongside other investors.

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Oyster Property Group is one of New Zealand’s leading unlisted fund managers and has been providing retail and wholesale investors with access to quality commercial property investment options and consistent returns for more than 20 years.

With $1.9 billion in assets under management, its experienced team of property experts purchase quality properties of significant scale in the office, industrial, and large format retail sectors, which are then managed in-house by a team of dedicated property managers with deep sector knowledge.

The firm operates an active fund management strategy, and an in-house investment relations team provides a personalised service to investors.

Working to a robust buying criterion, Oyster looks for commercial properties in sought-after locations, close to amenities and transport links, where appropriately zoned land is in tight supply.

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Election coverage

The Flagstaff’s election coverage next issue (22 September) will include a report from the local candidates meeting hosted at Devonport Community House by the Devonport Peninsula Trust after this issue went to print.

Candidates meetings

Further candidates meetings are being held in Takapuna next week and in Milford at the end of the month. For those looking to judge how the contenders perform in person, the next, hosted by the Auckland North Community and Development organisation (Ancad) at the Takapuna Senior Citizens Hall on the Strand, is on Thursday 14 September, from noon to 2pm. A meeting organised by residents groups is in Milford, at the Baptist Church, 3 Dodson Ave, on Tuesday 26 September, at 7.30pm.

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Candidate nominations for electorate seats close on 15 September. Candidates are welcome to send us a brief biography and statement on the local issues they are campaigning on. This must be no more than 150 words and be received by 20 September.

Suggestion for low-cost solution to Lake Rd congestion

Why has AT overlooked a simple, low-cost solution to reducing traffic congestion on Lake Rd for southbound traffic?

Removing the two dedicated right turns into Bardia and Winscombe Sts, and using that road space to create a dedicated left turn into Winscombe St, would allow many cars to exit Lake Rd earlier and improve traffic flow. This could be achieved overnight by road painting – without any disruption to traffic. The cycle lane would be maintained.

Devonport residents know that southbound Lake Rd congestion starts at Hauraki Corner, begins to clear after the Winscombe-Bardia intersection and is largely resolved after the Belmont intersection. Why? Because, after passing Takapuna Grammar, there are options to turn off Lake Rd, enabling cars to exit this over-utilised thoroughfare.

Unfortunately, not enough motorists choose to exit Lake Road at Winscombe St as

Mallet flower can also be problematic

While the problematic trees (“Arborist power tested”, Flagstaff, 25 August) may not be the umbrella tree, the mallet flower tree is the same genus.

Its rarity may be the reason it does not appear on the council pest-plants list – but it has the potential to have the same impact on the environment.

The umbrella trees in Anne St appear to be past their best, and consideration should be given to replacing them. However, replacing three trees with 99, as suggested, seems excessive.

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there is no dedicated left turn, which means they have to wait in the queue.

Motorists who have had to wait in the queue have no incentive to turn off Lake Rd once they reach the green light as they know the traffic will clear a short distance further up at the Belmont lights intersection.

Many Devonport residents will remember that southbound congestion became much worse when cycle lanes were introduced, as it reduced southbound traffic to a single lane. An important reason for the gridlock that followed was that the dedicated left turn into Winscombe St was removed.

A poorly thought-out decision was made to install two dedicated right-turn lanes. These use up valuable road space and benefit few. The dedicated right turns are hardly ever used as there are better options for north and southbound traffic to exit right.

Gillian Smith

Why do canines have the freedom of Dogenport?

I totally agree with J Leighton’s letter (Flagstaff, 11 August) regarding dogs in Devonport – or should that be Dogenport?

Cheltenham Beach is a disgrace. My wife and I refuse to go for a walk there now because of the number of dogs.

Coming from Whanganui, we could not believe the freedom dogs have got here. The number of times I have seen dogs urinating on merchandise and cafe chairs in Victoria Rd is unbelievable. I’m sick of it – and phoning the council is useless.

J Simonson

Ratepayers should learn to share

As a Devonport resident, and one of those in the “asset-rich cash-poor” category, I fully support Auckland Council’s equity funding plan.

There are a number of areas around Auckland with very poor community infrastructure and facilities.

It is time we learnt to share and help our less-well-off neighbourhoods.

I am happy for my rates dollar to go to

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September will be a busy month for the birds and bees and for us too!. We look forward to sunny spring days and shaking off the winter blues. Our theme this month is treasure, appreciating taonga in all its forms.

FALLS PREVENTION TALK

Tuesday September 12th 2pm-3pm

Protect your precious elderly by bringing them to this talk by Harbour Health. Anyone doing fitness classes for this generation is welcome too.

MĀORI LANGUAGE WEEK (TE WIKI O TE REO MĀORI)

September 11th to 17th

Browse our display of library resources to begin or continue your te reo journey and bilingual stories for our tamariki. .

KAPA HAKA PERFORMANCE

Sunday September 17th 3pm

By Te Hau Kapua Kapa Haka Rōpū of treasured waiata right here in the library.

KEITH WOODLEY OF PŪKOROKORO SHOREBIRD CENTRE

Tuesday 26th September 7pm

A host of local experts speaking on the treasured godwits who are right now returning to our shores. (DLA event).

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

September 25th to October 8th

The library theme is Treasure Hunters and there will be a wealth of activities and adventures to discover.

AUCKLAND HERITAGE FESTIVAL

September 25th to October 8th

another neighbourhood that needs it more than we do.

We have some quite affluent people living in our community. They could be giving back to their local community and funding the maintenance of our facilities.

We expect so much of local government but their resources are limited. So need should take priority.

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The theme is Peace, Love, Protest. We are celebrating Devonport’s historic role as the first place in the world to declare itself nuclear-free. Come to talks and displays and remember the famous flotilla by creating origami paper boats.

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Wit wins out in speech comp

Two Belmont Intermediate students will compete against the North Shore’s best next week after coming top of the schools speech competition.

Daniel Woodgate took first place with a speech about phobias, while Sam Schneebeli’s on why his cat shouldn’t be trusted (“My cat is a spy”) earned him second place and qualification alongside Daniel for the North Shore Intermediate Schools Speech competition on 13 September.

Teacher and speech competition organiser Angela Winslade told the Flagstaff Daniel’s delivery earned him top spot.

“It was so natural, it really made the audience warm to him.”

She said both Daniel and Sam had “quite witty speeches” with Sam’s being a very original subject and Daniel’s having an original spin on a common topic.

The deliveries were strong across the board, as the teachers emphasised it during class time in the buildup to the competition, Winslade said.

The finals featured representatives from each teaching team who won their respective team speech competitions.

Those competitions included two speakers from each class.

Other speeches in the school final included Taylor Cunningham’s “rant”about the English language, Jessie Wilkins promoting worms as food, Lisa Murata Gutierrez prompting the audience to consider getting a side hustle and Petra Wehrle telling everyone how to annoy their parents.

THE NAVY COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER DEVONPORT NAVAL BASE SUPPORTS DOG TRAINING

The versatility and variety of a naval base means a ‘paws’itive performance for pooches in partner agencies.

The base teamed up to support New Zealand Customs Service’s detector dog training, with five handlers introducing their dogs to moving and fixed maritime platforms including onboard HMNZS Canterbury as well as at the Navy’s wet side training facility and boat pontoon.

Customs Detector Dog Handler Cheryl says the dogs were in intermediate stage training, with her one-year-old Labrador Kiwa being operational for only two months.

“It’s an invaluable experience to get the dogs on to the larger vessels and the training platform. It gives us the full range of the types of vessels we need to train on, in a controlled environment, particularly with these very young dogs who haven’t had experience on these vessels,” she says.

The training included navigating staircases, working at various heights and being on open and exposed platforms.

It was a chance for Thor, a two-year-old black Labrador, to continue his life-long training.

“A handler and their dog put in hundreds of hours of training

and this experience is part of that. Our dogs keep us on our toes, we never know what we’re going to come across. The strong bond we form with our dogs make operational finds extremely rewarding,” says Thor’s handler, Hannah. Customs dogs can deploy on vessels for a number of reasons, such as searching vessels for narcotics, money and firearms.

Devonport Naval Base security reminder – for the safety of the community please take care and remain outside the 60-metre perimeter of the Naval Base at all times. This includes when swimming, diving, kayaking, fishing and sailing.

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Top performers... Sam Schneebeli (left) and Daniel Woodgate with principal Nick Hill

20 years ago from the Flagstaff Files

• A Devonport local signs an agreement to purchase the Victoria Theatre building for around $1.4 million.

• Devonport gym organises a top-street competition where 14 teams from seven areas of Devonport will compete in a variety of games and activities.

• Artist David Kayrouz holds his first solo exhibition.

• Paul Snow-Hansen (13) places 24th in the World Optimist champs, in a field of 221 competitors. It was the second-best result by a New Zealander.

• A large hotel is needed in the village to offer more accommodation for tourists, says the Devonport Business Association.

• Owner of Devonport grill rooms in the 1950s and 1960s Pauline Posa is the Flagstaff interview subject.

• Devonport Toys encourages customers to lay-by goods for Christmas.

• North Shore Mayor George Wood hands out certificates to Stanley Bay School pupils to mark its successful walking school bus programme.

• Plans to build a new $800,000 Stanley Bay school hall move ahead with the tenders let.

• Joy Fleming, Margaret Lane, Bunty Manners, and Thelma Robinson are made life members of North Shore Croquet club.

• Hauraki and Belmont Primary students take top honours in the New Zealand Herald’s Make a Newspaper programme, netting their schools $5000 each.

• The 2003 secondary schools indoor rowing championships are to be held at Takapuna Grammar.

• North Shore Cricket club prepares for its 140th year.

• Devonport Lions Club plans a Christmas street parade for Devonport.

Takapuna Grammar

TGS Singers Win Gold Again

Takapuna Grammar has once again achieved stunning results at the Big Sing Finale, New Zealand’s premiere secondary school choral festival, which was held late August at the Auckland Town Hall. Our senior treble voices choir, Leonessa, repeated their success of last year and were awarded Gold for their stunning performances, and our senior mixed voices choir, the Takapuna Grammar School Chorale, won a Silver award. The calibre of all the choirs involved in the Big Sing Finale this year was incredibly high, so the success of our TGS choristers is truly outstanding. We know our

SEVEN Dance Showcase

Takapuna Grammar’s annual dance showcase is a much-anticipated highlight of the school calendar, and this year’s show, ‘SEVEN’, certainly didn’t disappoint. The audience, packed with proud family, friends and fellow students, was treated to a creative feast of pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth.

choir students are a committed, hardworking and passionate bunch, and we couldn’t be prouder of them.

The show featured performances by TGS’s two dance companies, Cactus and Tempus, along with works created by our top dance students and leaders. Dance groups including Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Hip Hop, K-Pop, Fan Dance, Chinese Dance, and Perform X (Bel-

Kaha House Take Out Haka Challenge!

The 2023 annual Haka challenge took place last month. All the performances were packed with house spirit, pride, and energy and the event was a fabulous showcase of the dedication and passion of the students. Our judges Mrs Nixon, Andrew Baker and Scott Morrison judged this eagerly anticipated contest. They were impressed by the energy, pride and kaha shown in the five different renditions of the Takapuna Grammar School Haka Te Karanga Pakanga. The annual Haka House Challenge competition not only celebrated Mãori culture and tradition, but also highlighted the unity and friendly rivalry that binds the houses of Takapuna Grammar School. Ka pai te mahi to everyone involved and congratulations to this year’s winners Kaha house!

TGS Wins Business Case Competition

Congratulations to students Connor Williams, Bill An, Evan Moorby and Daniel Byrnes who entered the NZ Secondary Schools Business Case Competition. Entrants were given a challenging business case to analyse and were required to devise an analysis of the case, get evidence, analyze data, come up with a business solution, and cost and forecast the profit/loss. The top six teams were then invited to participate in a live presentation at Massey University Business School. Presentations were judged along with a live Q&A by academic staff, including the head of the business school, and sponsors. TGS made the finals and then went on to the win the entire competition. The boys received a trophy, prize money, and a healthy dose of self-belief and motivation.

Health & PE Students Fundraise for Mental Health

The Health and PE Faculty will be hosting a 24 Hour Walk Through the Dark event on Friday 22 September from 2.00pm to Saturday 23 September 2.00pm, raising money for the Mental Health Foundation. The Walk Through the Dark key objective is to raise awareness around the mental health of our youth and the importance of being physically active to support a balanced wellbeing.

Donate now at https://movefor.mentalhealth.org. nz/jason-ross or get in contact with our PE faculty directly. We would love to see as many people involved as possible by donating, supporting from the sidelines or by walking for 1 or 24 hours!

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mont Intermediate) also took to the stage, as did our wonderful Special Education students who always bring a show-stopping routine.

Take a photo of this QR code to watch a short 30 sec highlights reel created from our talented Yr 12 student Reuben Brunton & the technical production team.

From the Sports Desk!

Teo Besier won a silver medal at the NZSS Rock Climbing combined (bouldering and top rope). He qualified for the final (top 8) from a large field and did fantastic to claim 2nd place. Year 10 student Dima Kuzmenkov claimed bronze in the U14 50m breaststroke at the NZ Short Course Swimming champs. On the court Bailey Flavell (16) was selected for the Tournament Team at the Under 23 NZ Basketball Nationals. Carrie Guo has added the U15 Singles title to her Table Tennis achievements winning gold at the NZSS Nationals. Former pupil Mischa Thomas won Bronze in the Freeski Slopestyle Junior World Championships, a fantastic effort.

Splash of red planned for sculpture showcase

A North Shore artist’s ambitious plan to wrap one of Fort Takapuna’s military gun emplacements in a blanket of woollen pompoms is being aided by community effort.

Lang Ea, who created the elliptical silver sphere on Milford Reserve, is returning to exhibit at Sculpture OnShore in November and will for a second time mount a work in one of its cliff-top emplacements

In 2018, her clay sculptures spread across the sunken base of one of the structures. This time round, the plan is to shroud the exterior in a work to be entitled “Pop Bang Boom!”

To ensure she has enough woollen pompoms to create the desired effect – the colour of blood and reminiscent of explosions, while initially appearing bright and cheerful – Ea is already working with school children and senior citizens who will produce many of the 10,000 required. Vauxhall and Belmont primary students are among those involved.

The word pom-pom itself is a name given to a light anti-aircraft gun used in World War I, in reference to the sound it made.

Ea hopes making the project collaborative will promote discussion about its themes.

She has a strong track record of deliver-

ing socially engaged art and site-specific artworks. A previous work (pictured), shown at Sculpture on the Gulf, on Waiheke Island, also featured red pom-poms.

The military history of Fort Takapuna and its Maori heritage have helped inform Pop Bang Boom! “It encourages viewers to see their environment in a new and meaningful way,” says Ea.

Sculpture OnShore curator Sally Lush says this year’s collection of more than 120 works features pieces from established artists, like Ea, along with emerging talents.

She says “quirky and thought-provoking works, soaring monumental sculpture, sound-and-light art works and site-specific installations” will be on show.

Sculpture OnShore general manager Dee Paranihi says the event is “a wonderful opportunity to enjoy outdoor art in a relaxed and beautiful setting, whilst actively supporting a great cause”.

The historic fort building will be used to show works by students from 16 Auckland schools, including Bayswater, Belmont, Devonport, St Leo’s and Stanley Bay primaries.

It’s a wrap... Artist Lang Ea (right) intends to transform a former military emplacement at Fort Takapuna by covering it in red pom-poms, a visual device she has used before at Sculpture in the Gulf (below)

Depot Te Whare Toi

DEPOT Artspace

We’re thrilled to welcome into the Central gallery, “Physical Traces: mapping with detail,” a collaborative effort by Te Hau Kapua - Devonport locals Janet Mazenier and Sarah Treadwell which explores the volcanic, sedimentary and the oceanic.

The Streetfront gallery showcases “Inner Landscapes” by artists Esther Stone and Sofia Santos, who bring their own perspectives to the ways in which craft can collapse time, intergenerational knowledge, and environmental influences into physical objects, objects that connect us back to the practices of ancient times.

DEPOT Futures

Applications for our Wayfind Creative Summer Cohort are now open. If you’re a local creative looking to take your career to the next level apply today!

DEPOT Hapori

In celebration of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, we’re thrilled to offer a series of events in September to increase understanding, knowledge and use of Te Reo Māori.

Join us and learn through engaging in workshops that encourage greater confidence through mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge, wisdom and skills) and whanaungatanga (building relationships), and to celebrate the history of Maunga Takarunga.

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TGS choir leader aims to build

Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) is keen to extend its winning formula of singing success by working with neighbouring Belmont Intermediate School and encouraging more boys to join its school choirs.

Following the national Big Sing Finale – where senior-girls choir Leonessa won a gold medal and senior-mixed choir Chorale was awarded silver – director of choirs Keani Taruia-Pora is already looking to the 2024 programme.

But before then she wants to schedule a showcase performance featuring all four of the school’s choirs, with a combined membership of 110 students from all year groups. Fitting this around exams will be a challenge, but she says: “We’re hoping for a parent concert to say a big thank you for all the friends and whanau that have supported the kids this year.”

Taruia-Pora, who took over her choir role this year, wants to build on the school’s strong track record of competition success, built up under former director Jacob Moore, who has moved to Dilworth School.

It was through Moore, who she knew from university, that she first became involved at TGS as a vocal coach six years ago.

She has since directed various choirs, before joining the staff as a first-year teacher this year, and taking on the overseeing role.

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She said members of both the medal-winning choirs had worked extremely hard this year to improve their choral technique and bond with each other. “They are reminded to always let the music win!”

Leonessa, which has 41 members, is directed by Elise Bradley, with Taruia-Pora assisting. TGS old boy Matt Spooner, now a first-year student at the University of Auckland, returned as accompanist. The 32-member Chorale was directed by Taruia-Pora, and featured Year 11 student accompanists Hyemee Lee and Queenie Qui.

The Finale, for which Leonessa and Chorale qualified after regional competition, is run annually by the Choral Federation. It is considered the pinnacle of secondary school choral competition, with 25 choirs from around New Zealand selected to compete this year. Other North Shore schools to win medals at the Auckland Town Hall were Westlake Girls and Boys High Schools and Kristin.

Taruia-Pora now wants to further build the TGS choir programme, by encouraging the school to work even more closely with Belmont Intermediate, perhaps by forming a joint choir, but also by encouraging its young singers to keep up the activity at high school.

Retaining the interest of boys as they grow older is another aim, as is encouraging those new to singing to give it a try when they come to TGS.

Taruia-Pora says most who sign up in their first year have sung before, but all are welcome. Only the two seniors choirs require auditions. Sultans of Swing and Takapuna Crooners are the entry level choirs catering for lower voice and treble voice singers respectively.

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On stage... Takapuna Grammar School’s gold-medal winning Leonessa in action. Opposite: The TGS senior mixed Chorale, with soloist Noah Dil, who sang the solo in a traditional Tagalog folk song, with the school’s director of choirs, Keani Taruia-Pora, conducting.

on medal-winning Big Sing national success

“We do a big variety of chorale work,” Taruia-Pora told the Flagstaff. This was designed to appeal to a broad range of students, rather than just those with a more traditional musical background. Choreographed works, indigenous pieces and waiata are included.

At the Big Sing Finale held over the last weekend of August, Leonessa choir did a work with a Pacific flavour, accompanied by dance and a live string band.

“That definitely stood out,” said Taruia-Pora, crediting Bradley with championing the piece that impressed the judges. Although Samoan and Tongan songs have been performed by other schools, the song, “Fakateretere”, was the first of French-Polynesian origin. It appealed to Taruia-Pora who has Cook Islands and Tahitian heritage.

“This is such an important step in broadening the musical experiences of this festival, teaching our students about music from other cultures and exhibiting that all kinds of Pacific music deserves a place in the choral world,” said Taruia-Pora.

Exploring songs in different languages and musical styles kept students engaged. In one instance, a student who spoke French was able to assist in a French song one of the choirs performed.

Next up for Leonessa is taking part in the Senior Treble Festival to be held at Westlake Girls High School on 24 October.

Leonessa and the other choirs will then work towards a Christmas concert involving schools from across the Devonport peninsula.

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