14 July 2017 Devonport Flagstaff

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Butterbee childcare applicants buy landmark church A Devonport couple seeking approval for a childcare centre in Victoria Rd have bought the landmark St Paul’s church across the road from where their proposed business would operate.

Jo and Paul Blair’s unconditional purchase of

the former Presbyterian church at 100B Victoria The couple own the heritage villa at 159 Rd is expected to settle in December.

Victoria Rd, diagonally across from St Paul’s.

Jo Blair said they had no firm plans for the Their original 2015 application to convert the church and its adjacent hall. “I am not sure yet house into the Butterbee Childcare Centre was To page 7 what we will do with it,” she said

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Pedestrianisation of five Auckland maunga is part of the authority’s 2017 work programme.

In relation to Mt Victoria/Takarunga, an authority report on implementation of pedestrianisation says: “The archaeological assessment is underway which includes alternative parking sites.”

Separate proposals would restrict the use of 17 existing car parks near the Kerr St Artspace and Takarunga Playcentre, to encourage Mt Victoria visitors to walk up to the summit.

An initial audit of parking found that parking restrictions were needed there.

A report presented at an authority hui in November says the Artspace and Playcentre carparks “are well used and enforcement would ensure efficient turnover and avoid long-term parking by people not visiting the maunga or on-site facilities.”

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Neighbours left in the dark over activity on Ryman site Preparations for the construction of Ryman Healthcare’s retirement complex in Ngataringa Rd immediately got offside with a neighbour when a digger turned up unannounced.

Sam Standley, who lives next to the site, was angry when the digger appeared without notice and began concrete-breaking work that caused her home to vibrate.

Ryman says construction has not yet begun and that the digger was only called in to free a truck which became stuck when delivering a container to the site.

Standley says she and her husband Andy had an assurance from Ryman that their house would be surveyed before work started.

Ryman development manager Andrew Mitchell visited the couple last November, she says. “He came to our house for about two hours and had a good look at how it will all affect us.

“All sort of promises and reassurances were made, including that our house would be surveyed before any work would happen.

So when the digger turned up to pull up concrete for an afternoon and our front lounge was shaking, I was just furious.”

Ryman is preparing to build a large-scale retirement complex with nearly 400 beds.

The main entrance to the construction site will be outside the Standleys’ living-room window.

Sam Standley says there was no communication about activity on the site despite her having emailed a week earlier to inquire about the survey of the property.

First steps... a digger breaking concrete angered a Ngataringa Rd neighbour Ryman corporate affairs manager David King told the Flagstaff work had not started on the site. “We had a truck deliver a container for the site and unfortunately the truck got stuck getting back out. We had to get an excavator in to help get the truck out – so that is why it was there. We have definitely not started construction on the site.”

He said the company had written to neighbours as promised. “The letter went out last week.” Asked whether the digger was used to break concrete, he said: “They

Movies on the move due to trees – and teens Problems using Windsor Reserve for a free outdoor movie showing have prompted a shift to Woodall Park, Narrow Neck, for the coming summer.

About 1100 peninsula locals attended the Windsor Reserve screening last summer.

But the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board has been told the event operator found the reserve’s many trees and exposure to wind made it difficult to put up equipment.

Auckland Council event team leader Barbara Cade told the board there had also been “an issue of a number of teenagers hanging around in groups on the dark fringes” at the event.

She said the teenagers had made families with younger children uncomfortable.

Cade recommended increased security for the Woodall Park event. “We will also work with police on getting good-quality local intel.”

The board pushed to keep the event at Windsor Reserve but was told the decision

to relocate to Woodall Park had been made and was final.

Cade said Woodall Park was also a location that would allow council to expand the event.

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broke up some concrete to help with access.”

Standley says Mitchell has since acknowledged a slip-up. “He agreed it wasn’t a good start and said Ryman wants it to be a good experience for the neighbours.

He says he wants to meet again when he is up in Auckland.”

Other undertakings were made at the meeting, she says, with talk of plantings to shield the house from noise and dust.

Auckland Council manager of resource consents compliance Steve Pearce told the Flagstaff that Ryman was within its rights working on the site: “Nothing is occurring on the site at the present time, aside from some minor site-establishment works, including the installation of fences and repairs to an access-way, which does not require resource consent.”

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Keep calm: Big military convoy slips through en route to war games Devonport residents were surprised to see a large convoy of military vehicles creeping through local streets in the dead of night recently, but had no cause for alarm.

The New Zealand Army and Royal New Zealand Air Force vehicles passing through residential streets in Devonport and Stanley Bay on 25 June were on their way to the Navy base and embarkation to a multinational military exercise in Australia.

The vehicles heading across the Tasman included 24 light armoured vehicles, 41 medium heavy operational vehicles, 28 light operational vehicles and a high-mobility excavator.

The convoy was spotted by locals on Mozeley Ave and Roslyn Tce. Navy spokesperson Phil Murray says it was on its way to board the HMNZS Canterbury to travel to Queensland for this month’s “Talisman Sabre”, a bilateral and biennial Australianhosted and United States-supported war-fighting exercise.

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Matariki hangi at Bayswater School Bayswater School celebrated the Maori New Year with a hangi, bringing together students and their whanau for a family meal.

Buckets of communal love and effort went into the meal that fed around 350 people, with food prepping by students, their parents and school staff starting at the school the day before the hangi was laid down.

Five local Navy staff dug the hangi pit next to the school playground on Thursday afternoon, returning on Friday at 5am to set the fire, adding an old Navy anchor chain to hold the heat.

The food was laid down around 6am and dug out just before 1pm. It included pork and chicken with pumpkin, kumara, onions, carrots, cabbage and stuffing, decorated with banana leaves.

Bayswater parent Sarah Tapsell said: “This kaitahi, us all eating together, started with a mihi by our principal Lindsay Childs who spoke to all whanau who had come to celebrate Matariki.

The children responded by singing a waiata tautoko, a traditional Maori song.”

After lunch, the students gave a kapa haka performance in the school hall to conclude the event.

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Butterbee couple buy church across the road knocked back by Auckland Council last August. They have appealed against that decision in the Environment Court, submitting modified plans. The Environment Court hearing is scheduled for next month. The Blairs’ family home at Cheltenham is currently on the market.

They are the second secular owners of the former church, buying it from chess grandmaster Murray Chandler, who purchased the property from the Northern Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church for $1 million in 2014 and ran it as a national chess centre.

Chandler told the Flagstaff last November that he had upgraded the property considerably but that it was too high-maintenance for him. It also still needed earthquake strengthening, he said.

The church property has a CV of $1.5 million. The site measures 1696 square metres and the buildings have a 670 sqm floor area.

Another deconsecrated Devonport church, St Augustine’s, at 95A Calliope Rd, remains on the market, with a tender closing on Tuesday 11 July, as this issue went to print.

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No woolly thinking in socks-appeal brainwave A long-time Devonport resident has told of his leading role in turning a pair of lucky red socks into an enduring symbol of New Zealand success in the America’s Cup. Peter Wilson is among many yachting fans who dug out their socks from 1995 – when New Zealand first won the cup – to express their support for Emirates Team New Zealand in their victory in Bermuda last month.

When the Flagstaff heard about his involvement in that original red-socks campaign, he was happy to share the story.

Wilson, who is these days operations manager at the Torpedo Bay Navy Museum, was an executive at cup broadcaster and sponsor Television New Zealand at the time.

He recalls then chief executive Brent Harman inviting the management team into the board room to watch the final of the Louis Vuitton Cup. “We all had a glass of champagne to celebrate the win,” Wilson says. “Brent then said Team New Zealand needed half a million dollars for a new set of sails to use in the cup final. He was looking for ideas from us on how to help raise it.”

At a staff function that night, Wilson had his brainwave. “The day before I had watched some raw, unedited satellite footage in from San Diego where Paul Holmes interviewed Peter Blake and asked him about the socks he was wearing. Blake said his wife, Pippa, had a habit of giving him a pair of woollen socks whenever he sailed around the world, to keep his feet warm in cold waters and also for good luck. This year, in San Diego, she had given him a pair of red ones.”

Wilson thought of the Red Nose Day fundraiser in Britain. “And the red socks idea just popped into my head.”

Harman embraced the idea immediately. “He left the function, called Saatchi & Saatchi and by Monday they had made a catchy jingle about putting your red socks on.”

Lotto, another sponsor, agreed to distribute the socks in their outlets.

“The campaign was on the go by the following weekend.”

When $500,000 had been raised, Wilson accompanied Harman on a trip to San Diego to present the cheque to Peter Blake. After watching New Zealand win the cup, he bumped into Blake at a party. “I apologised for making his private socks so public.

He picked me up and squeezed me in a pretend wrestle and said, ‘Well, we needed those bloody sails.’”

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Team NZ crane man rests up after nail-biter in Bermuda

Ready for some R&R... Team New Zealand crane operator Jack Taylor enjoys some couch time (above) after carrying a hefty responsibility on the dock in Bermuda (below)

Team New Zealand shore-crew member Jack Taylor has been having a much-deserved rest on the couch at his parents’ home in Calliope Rd since returning from the team’s America’s Cup triumph in Bermuda.

Asked what the campaign was like, Taylor has just one word for it – “crazy”.

“It wasn’t just the broken dagger boards or the big capsize, it was the thousand little things that we had to resolve every day against all odds. I still can’t believe we did it,” he says.

He makes special mention of Team New Zealand’s capsize in the semi-final against the British syndicate. “After the other teams went back in that day, we stayed on the water until dark, waiting out a bit of a weather system and making sure the boat was structurally okay to be pulled out of the water,” he says.

Taylor (28) has been with Team New Zealand for the last eight years. “I basically just do whatever they ask me to,” he says.

One of his roles was driving the crane that lifted the team’s precious catamaran in and out of the water each day, although he initially balked at the job. “It was just too much of a responsibility. But on the first day of Louis Vuitton cup racing my name was on the list, so I did it. I have no fingernails left,” he says.

Taylor spent six months in Bermuda, being one of those there from the beginning to set up the Team New Zealand base.

Once the racing started, as crane operator he would roll the wing out of the tent, drop it onto the boat and put the boat into the water.

After he lifted the boat back onto dry land at the end of the day, he helped with a checking process. “We would do a lap of checking the boat, start at one end and go all round, inside and out. Basically we had to make sure it was 100 per cent ready to go back out the next day.”

On top of that were all the modifications, developments and adjustments that had to be made. “So my job was a big mix of things,” Taylor says.

After winning the cup, life took a while to slow down. “We had two days off, the two days to take the boat apart, two days in Dubai before we got back on Wednesday,” he says.

Since then, there have been functions, last Thursday’s parade and a trip with the cup to Saturday’s rugby test.

The parade was something of a family tradition. Taylor says he remembers the 1995 parade well. He was six years old and his father, Murray, was working for Team New Zealand as head of PR and sponsorship.

Taylor learned to sail at Stanley Bay School during Waterwise sessions and sailed a Sabot with his brother Jamie at Wakatere for a couple of summers.

After graduating from Auckland University of Technology with a degree in Sports and Recreation, he joined the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron in 2009 to do match racing.

In 2010, he was asked to volunteer at the Auckland Louis Vuitton Trophy regatta for two weeks. “Afterwards, I didn’t leave. I went with them to Dubai for a regatta and it just spiralled from that through San Francisco and now Bermuda.”

On Monday, Taylor is off to a new job, as shore manager for a Dutch team sailing the Volvo Ocean Race. “It will be for about a year, which is a good time to come back to Auckland and sign back with Team New Zealand,” he says.

Taylor is one of three Devonporters who have been part of Team New Zealand’s latest campaign. The others are on-water operations manager Chris Salthouse and legal and rules advisor Russell Green.

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Teen gets to dish out advice to council Jack Downs is ready to make a contribution to young people in his community.

The 18-year-old is the new DevonportTakapuna member of Auckland Council’s Youth Advisory Panel. For the next three years, he will advise the council and Devonport-Takapuna Local Board on issues important to young people.

Downs left Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) last year and for a term studied for a business degree at Massey University.

Finding that he enjoyed working at his parttime job more than going to university, he gave up his studies to take up a full-time developer role at Parnell IT company The Instillery, where he is the youngest staff member. “I sort of do a bit of everything there. I design and build websites and apps, but also have some e-commerce-based roles,” he says.

Downs was introduced to the entrepreneurial world in his last year at school. “The Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) was what made Year 13 interesting,” he says. This year, he went back to TGS to tutor YES students. His Skype interview for his council role also had an entrepreneurial focus.

The panel holds three scheduled meetings and up to seven workshops a year. Downs is also expected to attend some local board meetings.

The oldest of three boys, Downes was about to leave home when his father, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise manager and writer David

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Jack Downs has the chance to advocate for DevonportTakapuna’s young people Downs, was diagnosed with cancer in March.

“I’d rather be at home for now. It’s great to see him on his good weeks and to help him on his bad,” he says.

A keen basketball player and children’s coach while at school, Jack says he had to put his sport on the backburner for a while.

On the Youth Advisory Panel, his job will be a different kind of coaching. He says part of his job is to help board members engage with young people, and encourage youth voter turnout.

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Boom times as historic gun firing goes off with a bang

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North Head’s disappearing gun makes some noise A crowd of around a hundred turned out to see and hear the firing of the disappearing gun on North Head/Maungauika last week.

A kilogram of gun powder was expended in the firing of the 19th-century British Armstrong 8-inch gun to provide footage for a TV programme about the Devonport Museum’s recent remodelling.

The episode of Heritage Rescue is expected to air in the programme’s second series on Choice TV later this year.

The gun was last fired in celebration of the 2011 All Blacks Rugby World Cup win.

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Getting involved... Year 5 and 6 children at Bayswater Primary School got to grips with traffic issues on Lake Rd prior to lodging their submissions Lake Rd users of all ages have spoken up over proposals aimed at easing congestion on Lake Rd. Auckland Transport’s (AT) Have Your Say submission process on planned improvements closed last week, with more than 1,000 submissions received.

Long-time resident and print-business owner Ann Andrews submitted an eightpage proposal for two “alternative roads in and out”.

Rather than widen Lake Rd, Andrews wants an alternative route to the west of the congested arterial. Her route snakes from Ngataringa Rd across to Plymouth Cres, up Rosyth Rd and either across the eastern side of O’Neills Cemetery, or via Preston Ave and Coronation St. From there, it takes Eversleigh Rd to either Northboro Rd or Rutherford St, then goes along Francis St and across the bay to Esmonde Rd and the motorway.

Andrews says her proposal would involve the removal of only two state houses, one in Plymouth Cres and the other in Birchfield Rd. She was encouraged to submit her plans at an AT meeting with the Devonport Business Association (DBA).

The meeting turned into brainstorming session after members were told that AT’s Lake Rd plans are only at an early stage, with no specific proposals yet developed.

“Your kind of local feedback is exactly what we are looking for,” AT communications advisor Hanno Willers told Andrews.

She was prompted to spend her weekend researching her proposal.

Bayswater resident John Bryant is another who has attacked the issue energetically and with passion.

Last week, he spent many hours collecting signatures from local residents for a petition in favour of his version of an alternative road along the western shores of the Devonport peninsula.

“It would be another Tamaki Drive. It could be so beautiful, and it can be done,” he said.

By Friday, he had more than 140 signatures.

Meanwhile, at Bayswater School, a group of Year 5 and 6 students was also busy writing submissions on Lake Rd proposals last week, with a big focus on traffic safety along Bayswater Rd. The students started with research during a field trip on Monday, then heard a presentation from the school’s Travelwise Team, before putting their submissions together and sending them to Auckland Transport.

Lake Rd congestion has also been a hot topic for writers of letters to the Flagstaff.

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How about housing instead of football?

I think I have a solution to the problem faced by North Shore United (NSU) and the residents of Allen Hill (Flagstaff, 30 June).

Rather than fitting a round peg in a square hole, why doesn’t the council sell Dacre Park to a developer to build affordable housing?

They can use the proceeds to upgrade Bayswater Park into a quality sporting facility. Bayswater already accommodates the majority of NSU’s training and games, so why not move the club to its real home.

The forward-thinking residents of Bayswater I’m sure would appreciate an upgrade to their park.

The Allen Hill residents wouldn’t have to worry about 18m lights, noise levels or parking issues, and local families that are finding it hard to purchase in the area have a real chance to enter the property market.

Steven Thorpe • Further response to Allen Hill letter, page 41

Catching tiddlers not the New Zealand way I share Leonie Mason’s concerns (Flagstaff, 16 June) regarding individuals fishing with multiple rods and the size of fish they are taking.

She is simply stating facts. I have witnessed this style of fishing on most of the wharves around Auckland harbour. On occasion I have counted six rods per person, taking up fishing spots for others. When these individuals are in a group of family or friends, each with multiple rods, this is a lot of fish going to one household. If taking undersized fish on this scale – legal or not – continues, there will be an effect on the food chain. It is not recreational fishing, it is not sporting and it is not the New Zealand way. The Ministry for Primary Industries provides informational brochures in multiple languages but unless you know to ask for it, how is the information going to get out there?

Why aren’t there signs in different languages on our wharves and popular fishing beaches?

I have never seen or heard of an official monitoring catches on any wharf and, as a result, the lack of consequences for taking too many or undersized fish becomes common knowledge.

J. Leighton

Disappointed by MP It is disappointing but not surprising that our local MP Maggie Barry hasn’t answered any of my questions, raised in my various letters to the editor, regarding her views on the cumulative effects of land intensification on the residents of the Devonport-Belmont peninsula.

Our only other hope is the Auckland Council planners assume this responsibility but on past performnce, perhaps we should not hold our breath.

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AT should leave Lake Rd alone I am retired now, but I was the founder and CEO of a company whose main business was doing feasibility studies for roadway improvement projects and new road corridors in the US. We used sophisticated traffic engineering computer models to test the options. We were required to develop three options, but by law there was always a fourth option available: The “Do Nothing” option. I would like Auckland Transport (AT) to choose the Do Nothing option.

As I understand it, all options involve some degree of commuter lanes (High Occupancy Vehicle lanes). In other countries, HOV lanes are seldom found on local roads. They are mainly used on motorways, where the distances involved make it economically feasible to carpool. Even so, there is mounting evidence that (1) commuter lanes don’t really encourage ride-sharing very much, and (2) the resulting traffic congestion is as bad or worse

in the remaining lanes as it was before addition of commuter lanes.

Many people driving on Lake Rd can’t feasibly carpool, even if they wanted to.

And many of them couldn’t use public transportation, even if it were readily available.

Many people have to carry tools or other materials to work, or don’t always go to the same location every day. Mums are not going to put their young children on a bus and send them off to school alone.

Any of the proposed options will result in years of traffic cones, 30 kmh speed limits, and worse traffic congestion than we have now.

If the goal is to minimise vehicle travel, then no additional vehicle capacity should be added to Lake Rd. On the other hand, if we do want to improve the congestion problem, the only feasible alternative is to construct an alternate route parallel to Lake Rd. Dr Steve Nielsen

Act now on transport – or halt intensification None of the three suggestions made by AT can resolve the congestion problems of Lake Rd. And we need answers now, not in five to 10 years. Action now, AT. If this is not going to happen, AT needs to work with the council immediately to stop further congestion by yet more intensification. If it doesn’t then the current situation is going to get rapidly worse. Not only do we have the precinct intensification on the peninsula, Ryman and

the navy upgrade but also the development of the “town centre” at Belmont. We were told

by Penny Hulse and council reps at a meeting on the Unitary Plan that infrastructure was not a consideration when these developments were proposed. That is patently ridiculous. If Devonport is to be a viable place to live and have businesses it must have a reasonable link.

More intensification is plain madness.

Trish Jenner

How about an hourly Stanley Bay ferry?

I wonder if there is interest in the Stanley Bay and western Calliope Rd community in having an hourly Stanley Bay-to-city ferry service between rush-hour times. I have emailed the operations manager at Fullers with a suggestion, however I would

Developed Masonic ‘a fake’ It would be wrong to describe the Masonic as “renovated” (Flagstaff, 30 June).

The building that now sits on the corner of King Edward Pde and Church St is a replica of the much-loved, historic hotel that once stood there.

Barely a stick of the original 1860s building remains. What is there now is a fake, crowded out by inappropriate apartments.

The Masonic Hotel and its rich history, that sat on the site for 150 years, is gone.

Margot McRae and Trish Deans

not expect Fullers to treat interest from a single individual as the reason for changing a schedule.

Currently, the Stanley Bay service does not operate during weekdays following the 8.20am service and prior to the 4.20pm service. In theory, the passenger catchment extends from the western end of Stanley Point to about half-way along Calliope Rd and north to the Navy playing fields; many of the residents are retired or have discretionary time during the day and seem fit enough to walk to the Stanley Bay wharf.

At present, during the non-peak period, Bayswater has an hourly service. The 6.40pm and 7.10pm city-to-Stanley Bay services are provided by the Bayswater services at that time, stopping first at Bayswater and then Stanley Bay. I suggest that the mid-period hourly Bayswater services could in similar looped fashion provide services between Stanley Bay and the city.

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Women’s rowing pioneer still going strong 2017 has been a year of personal loss mixed with remarkable sporting achievement for Paula Storey. After her husband, Olympic gold-medal-winning rower Dudley Storey, died in March, she won gold in his honour at the World Masters Games. Storey spoke to Maire Vieth.

Paula Storey says she cried all the way through her 1000-metre double-sculls final on Lake Karapiro on Anzac Day. Storey (71) and her Waikato-based rowing partner Eugenia Duff-Dobson beat two other crews to win the 70-plus women’s category in the World Masters Games. “It was just as well the audience sat far away and couldn’t see me crying because it was just so hard emotionally,” she says. “But perhaps it was because of the

adrenalin and me thinking about Dudley that we won it by something like 15 seconds.”

Storey almost didn’t race that day. She had signed up last year for four World Masters races, with Dudley Storey, her husband of 49 years, as her coach.

But in December, Dudley, aged 77, was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. His health deteriorated rapidly over the next 11 weeks. “At first he told me to keep training.

He said, ‘Don’t give up your dream, just keep going,’” Storey says And for a while she kept it up, mostly by running for two hours three times a week, instead of rowing. But in late January, she called it quits, and told her crews to to look for a replacement.

After Dudley died on March 6, Storey was living with her daughter Alison. Rowing partner Eugenia Duff-Dobson heard she was nearby and applied to have Paula reinstated in one of her games entries on compassionate grounds.

Training for the race became a way for Paula to cope and grieve. “It was probably a good thing to do because it gave me something else to think about. I also kept on thinking, what would Dudley have wanted me to do, and he would

A life in rowing... Paula Storey at home in Stanley Bay. The photo behind her shows Dudley Storey in a coxed four on Lake Karapiro, qualifying for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games have wanted me to do it,” she says.

Paula and Dudley Storey are New Zealand rowing pioneers. In 1966, Paula was part of New Zealand’s first women’s crew, which competed in the Australian Women’s Championships.

Dudley was in the coxed four at the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games that won New Zealand’s first-ever rowing gold, and he followed it up with silver in Munich four years later.

But Storey reckons most locals know her for something more ordinary: as the Devonport New World delivery lady who has taken groceries door to door to seniors for the last 28 years. She quit this February. “My youngest was at Belmont Intermediate when I started.”

Storey loved doing the door-to-door deliveries. “Basically, the elderly would do their shopping and then say they would like it delivered. I would take it in banana boxes to their door later.”

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July 14, 2017 Her Devonport service expanded to Takapuna and Milford for a few years, but numbers dropped more recently, with seniors moving out of the area after selling their big houses. “For the last two years I did it because I cared about the people. It also gave me upperbody strength which is important in rowing,” she says.

Storey grew up in Devonport, arriving in Stanley Bay from Singapore, where her father had worked for the British East India Company, as a 10-year-old in 1957.

The family bought the house once owned by the boatbuilding Logan Brothers and Paula’s father set up a shipping business in the old boat shed at the rear of the property.

Paula attended Stanley Bay and Takapuna Grammar schools and completed a business course at Auckland Technical Institute before starting work as a shorthand typist in 1965.

That year, Barbara Iverson, who lived nearby, asked Paula to come rowing with her.

“Barbara said they needed somebody to row at the North Shore Rowing Club, which used to train on Lake Pupuke out of the Pumphouse.”

Not long after, Paula met Dudley Storey at a North Shore regatta. He was already a rowing star, who was in the crew that won the Prince Phillip Challenge Cup at Henley-on-Thames in the United Kingdom in 1963.

In 1966, he was in the first New Zealand men’s crew to reach a final at a World Rowing Championships, in Yugoslavia.

The couple married in 1967. While Dudley’s rowing career flourished, Paula says she fought an uphill battle as a woman. “There weren’t many women rowers around at the time.

Women coxed fours was all we were allowed to row and there were only about five clubs throughout New Zealand that would cater for women. “Most of them said they didn’t have the facilities for women and just put us into the too-hard basket.”

The national crew she was part of in 1966 raced in five interstate events in Australia, winning one. “We were very unknown, had a lot of critics here in New Zealand,” she says.

“Doing that, we put women’s rowing on the map in New Zealand.”

But it wasn’t until 1976, when the first New Zealand crew of women competed in the Montreal Olympic Games, that female rowing received proper recognition, she says.

When Dudley was selected for Mexico, Paula was pregnant with their first child, but she returned to rowing a year later. “When we had just one child, we would throw him from one person to the other and both of us could race. But after our daughter was born in 1970, it got a bit difficult and I had to give it away.”

“He was my coach and my mentor and would say, ‘You’ve got to go for a row, don’t worry about the wind or whatever, just go and do it.’”

The Storeys bought their first house in Mt Eden, but had to rent it out whenever Dudley was selected for a national team.

“The New Zealand rowing coach Rusty Robertson lived in Oamaru. If you got selected, you had to pack up your bags and move to Christchurch and train on the Avon River for a couple of months. We did that for four winters – 1968, 70, 71, and 72. The last time we couldn’t afford to keep our house. So we sold it to have enough money to train.”

In the amateur era, athletes had to hold down jobs and help out with fundraising. “We did penny-trail fundraisers and all sorts of things,” recalls Storey.

In 1976, Dudley went to the Montreal Olympics as a coach. It began a 40-year coaching career.

Paula became a licensed rowing official. “So

at all these regattas, we would be together. I was often an official while he was up and down the bank as a coach.”

The Storeys bought their Stanley Bay house in 1976. “It was the sea view that got us,” she says.

In the mid-1980s, Storey returned to club rowing at the Auckland Rowing Club, and in 1994, she was off to row overseas once again.

She and friend Leslie Milne competed in the World Masters Games in Brisbane and returned with gold medals in the women’s quadruple scull and mixed quadruple scull.

Competing in further World Masters Games proved too expensive until the games came to Auckland this year. “That’s when I thought ‘Well that’s my chance,’” she says.

Storey says she hasn’t been in a rowing boat since the Anzac Day race but hopes she isn’t finished with the sport quite yet. She still owns a single scull and co-owns a double with former rowing partner Milne, but finding the enthusiasm to go out on the water without Dudley will be a challenge, she says. “He was my coach and my mentor and would say, ‘You’ve got to go for a row, don’t worry about the wind or whatever, just go and do it.’”

For now, Paula is back running. She has competed in two half-marathons, first on her own in 2012, at age 66, and again a year or two later with friends.

She also works as a part-time home carer for an elder-care provider. “I have a lot of empathy for older people when they get to the stage where they can’t manage things on their own.”

She tries to not work on weekends so she can continue to be an official at rowing regattas.

Just last month, she was re-elected as president of the Auckland Rowing Club. She is also secretary at the Legion of Rowers, a group of ex-rowers who want to look after the sport.

Dudley’s death leaves a huge hole, she says.

“We would have been married 50 years this September.”

“The idea is to try and keep busy and have lots of people around me. And I got a kitten to keep me company.”

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Submitters unhappy with latest Calliope Rd intersection plan Auckland Transport’s second Calliope Rd intersection design has failed to win the approval of most locals who took the chance to give their views.

More than half of the 155 submitters on the design say they simply don’t like it. Another six percent of submitters are neutral or did not voice an opinion.

Only 19 per cent like the design as it stands, while 24 per cent approved as long minor changes were made.

The submitters’ biggest concern is that removing the separate left-turn lane on Calliope Rd will cause long delays at the intersection Auckland Transport (AT) claims there is nothing to worry about. A survey done on Thursday 27 October showed that, on average, the morning and evening rush-hour delays lasted between 15 and 22 seconds.

But the actual wait time varied widely, especially in the evening, which had a minimum wait of three seconds but a maximum wait of two minutes and 23 seconds. In the morning rush, the maximum wait was 50 seconds.

The location of a proposed pedestrian platform on Calliope Rd was another topic of concern. AT says it will review that proposal.

Submitters also fear that northbound

traffic turning from Victoria Rd into Kerr St will be held up, but AT says hardly any vehicles turn into Kerr St there.

AT has resolved to remove the Give Way rule for northbound traffic on Victoria Rd turning into Calliope Rd so it complies with the 2012 rule changes for giving way.

It also says it will talk to Devonport Primary School and the Maunga Authority about a potential pedestrian crossing on Kerr St. The cost estimate to implement the new design is $200,000.

Close to $500,000 has been spent on the two preliminary designs.

The criticisms of the second version by members of the public followed a similar reception from Devonport-Takapuna Local Board members who were briefed on it in April and saw it creating more problems than it solved.

Despite the members’ comments, AT released unchanged plans for public submissions.

Earlier plans for a roundabout at the intersection – which cost $400,000 – were abandoned after then local board member Dianne Hale questioned whether there was enough space in the design for large vehicles to negotiate the corner.

Public locked out yet again The battle to have local-board workshops open to the public continued last week when council staff failed to unlock a lift needed for the public and news media to gain access to a Devonport-Takapuna Local Board meeting on the third floor of council offices in Takapuna.

Board member George Wood drew attention to the lockout and asked staff to avoid the slip-up in future.

Police on target tagger’s trail Cars and vehicles around Devonport have been damaged by a tagger who uses a “target” symbol.

Police say they have CCTV footage of the offender but have yet to identify him. His work is causing “significant damage”, a spokesman says. “If you know who this tagger is please feel confident in reporting anonymously to Crime Stoppers or the Takapuna Police Station.”

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Thriving recycling centre has more to offer A Devonport that recycles all its waste is Andrew Walters’ dream – and he is working hard to make it come true.

Walters is a director of the environmental charity Global Action Plan Oceania (GAPO) that has been operating Devonport’s Community Recycling Centre since March 2016. The centre at 27 Lake Rd has since handled 3357 tonnes of waste and diverted 1980 of them from landfill, just short of 60 per cent.

Over the past year, several new services have been added. In addition to free drop-off for plastic, glass, paper and cardboard, the centre takes batteries and polystyrene for a small charge, and has also been accepting clean fill on a trial basis.

Centre workers are recovering recyclable materials such as metal and wood from landfill drop-offs.

Recently, the Royal New Zealand Navy looked for a place to drop off clean fill and Walters was happy to oblige. “They had a slip when a cliff came down, so they hired a local contractor to bring it here. We will get a 30-ton truck and get it out all at once, with only one Lake Rd trip.”

Walters says he tries to offer as many solutions for recycling as possible. He provided a battery recycling bin within 24 hours of a local resident inquiring about one on Facebook, and has set up worm bins for Devonport’s Bette’s Bar. Staff repair and resell computers and electrical appliances and operate the reuse and up-cycle shop which Walters says generates wages for two.

In a departure from its local focus, the centre last year accepted large quantities of Auckland Council’s old CBD office furniture. “We recycled as many of the parts as possible and have given lots away to local schools and community groups. It would otherwise have gone to landfill,” he says. GAPO is contracted by council to run the centre.

There have been challenges. Compared to 10 years ago, the green waste collection has fallen from 2311 to 1500 tonnes. “Many of the tradies left for [the refuse transfer station at] Constellation Dr when Waste Management left last March because their landfill price is low. We we are still working on regrowing that business,” Walters says.

The Devonport centre’s combined recycling and reusing numbers have tripled since 2008, up from 176 to 526 tonnes. In future, it aims to support local businesses with expanded commercial composting pick-ups as well as commercial polystyrene and cardboard collection throughout the village.

What’s the goal for next year? “To keep growing,” says Walters. “The more people bring to us, the more we can recycle, reuse and divert. Our long-term goal is to make Devonport ‘zero waste’.”

Bin there... Above: Recycling centre director Andrew Walters checks a worm farm. Below: Centre educational consultant Jane Walters at the white-board where customers note what they are looking for.

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

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

Ph: 445 7895.

Ground floor large-sized room. Own bathroom and own entrance. Handy to shops and ferry. Self catering. Very quiet. Would suit mature student. $230 per week. Phone 445-9515.

Holiday Accommodation, Bayswater. Norwood studio. Private, well presented. $95 per night. Ph 446 1203. flexmans@gmail.com Holiday Accommodation Cheltenham, absolute beachfront. One double and two singles, shady setting, everything supplied.

Ph 027 425 3008.

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

Ph Pauline 445 6471.

Stunning Cheltenham Beach Cottage, metres from the beach. Available for short or long-term holiday accommodation. Beautifully refurbished, one bedroom, self-contained cottage with a private garden. Phone Rebekah 027 694 3933 or email devonportbeks@gmail.com Sunny house for rent: 3 bedrooms, 2 living areas, 2 bathrooms. Fully furnished, overlooking Devonport golf course, 5 August till 19 September. No smokers please.

Reduced rent in return for looking after our Labrador or full rental without dog.

Ph 021 746500/ 445 7050 marjo.thomas@xtra.co.nz

Komatua Care Centre – We care for older people who have memory loss and behavioural difficulties. Professional care is given in a nurturing environment. For all enquiries phone 445 1707.

Palm Grove Rest Home: A Non-Institutional style home providing compassionate, holistic care. Soul food and good people. Call Julia Nessim: 445-0009.

GARAGE SPACE Wanted to rent a garage or carport. Have 5.8m Fyran boat and want to rent a garage in Devonport immediately.

Contact Mike 021 662 325.

REST HOMES Ascot House Retirement Home, quality care with dignity in a friendly, family atmosphere. Phone Shona, 445 2518.

SERVICES OFFERED A deck builder. Available now. Free quotes/advice.

Workmanship guaranteed.

Competitive rates. Quality materials. References.

Ph Simon today 476 2107, 020 476 2107.

A gardener is available: Weeding, pruning, tidying.

Regular help. Reasonable rates. Ph Simon today 476 2107, 020 476 2107.

A painter is available now.

Free quotes and advice.

References. Workmanship guaranteed. Competitive rates. Quality materials.

Interior/ Exterior/ Small jobs. Ph Simon today 476 2107, 020 476 2107.

A premium cleaning service weekly/fortnightly.

Good references and high quality. Ph Simon today 476 2107, 020 476 2107.

Amazing home cleaning including windows. 15 years’ experience. References available phone 442 2273, 027 492 6220.

At Your Request Home Cleaning. Our local team is ready to deliver 5-Star services in your home for weekly cleaning, spring, moving or open-home cleaning.

Call Yvonne for a free quote phone 415 0028.

Builder available Smalljob specialist, repairs and maintenance. Skilled, reliable and local. Please phone Clive Melling. Hm 445 2485, Mob 027 29 222 84.

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

Deck Doctor Will re-clad or repair damaged decks. Free quotes and advice. Good references. High-quality work at a reasonable rate.

Workmanship guaranteed.

Ph David 021 0206 0606.

Devonport upholstery. Recover specialist. Antiques and contemporary styles.

Recycling furniture for 36 years. John Hancox. Phone: 446 0372.

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Devonport Window Repairs. Sash and casement windows, wooden doors.

Rotten sills and window components repaired or replaced. General carpentry.

For your local window specialist. Phone Hubert Strang 446 6174 or 021 274 4191.

Dog grooming available.

Full groom, bath and blow dry, puppy introduction to grooming. Devonport-based.

Call Barbara 021 141 0331.

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

Experienced gardener. Ph Carolyn on 446 6517 or 027 292 8167 for a free onsite consultation.

Garden Maintenance. Team of experienced, hardworking gardeners happy to help transform your garden. Call Paula, Mint Gardens Ltd, 0274 127 180.

Handyman. Mature professional in Devonport, Bayswater area. Repairs, painting, those jobs you just don’t have time to do.

Free quote. References.

Ph. Brian 021 150 8898.

Housekeeper. Home cleaning, including windows. Experienced. References. Phone 442 2273, 027 492 6220.

Housewashing, prof. service, 10 years-plus experience, reliable and prompt.

Free quotes, also decks, driveways, paths, fences, roof moss treatments etc.

Phone Rod 021 390 800. chris@lifestyleplusltd.nz

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

Or you can email Landscaping – Format Landscapes, 18 years’ experience, Dip. Landscape Design. Design and build.

We undertake all aspects of hard and soft landscaping including decks, paving, fences, retaining walls, planting etc. Small to large projects.

Get a free quote at www. formatlandscapes.co.nz.

Call Matt 021 599 107.

Let me mow your lawns and trim your hedges. I live locally. Phone Chris from Lifestyle Plus on 09-4887279 or 027-245-6264. Or you can email me on chris@ lifestyleplusltd.nz. References available.

Locksmith, Devonport’s own Scott Richardson.

Mob 021 976 607.

Looking for a designer, illustrator or animator? I am a young Devonport professional with over three years’ experience and a passion for helping your visions come to life. Call Roisin Kelly on 027 875 4602, email me at rkcreate.ltd@gmail.com or visit my portfolio at rkcreate.co.nz Painting, decorating, restoration, reasonable rates ph Bernard 445 8816, 021 0255 5456.

Section services Trees: pruned, removed. Hedges: trimmed, reduced. Section tidy-ups. Phone Dom 027 222 1223.

Tagbuster, graffiti looked after Devonport to Hauraki Corner. Call the Tagbuster 0800antitag, 0800 2684 824.

SERVICES OFFERED

Toppcoat plastering. No job too big or too small.

Over 15yrs’ experience.

Interior and exterior. Immediate start. Free quotes.

Ph. 021 057 4207.

SITUATION VACANT

Contract Position: Devonport Business Assoc - BID Manager. The Devonport Business is seeking expressions of interest for the above position. The role requires an energetic manager, preferably with business experience, who is able to work closely with the BID Board and interface well with the membership. A range of computer skills is also required to maintain databases and maximise social media and marketing opportunities. The position requires a commitment of approximately 25 hours a week with terms and conditions to be negotiated with the successful candidate.

A job description is available upon request, along with any other relevant documents.

Applications to be sent to chair@devonport.co.nz TUITION

Art Classes, Devonport artist available for tuition in drawing, pastels and other media, screen-printing, painting.

Classes held in artist’s studio by the sea. Children’s classes Wednesday after school.

Contact Erica MFA, DipTchg PGDipAC 021 127 9671 or ericasoman@gmail.com Art Classes @ D’Port Community house: Wednesday night, life drawing; Friday morning, mastering art. Ph Lucy Bucknall – 446 0389.

Art Travel Sketching for beginners. Learn to find your creative side in a fun learning environment over 10 weeks.

Kerr St Artspace Tuesdays or Saturdays. Ph Tony McNeight 021 925 031.

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Learn piano/keyboard.

Lessons from $19.00.

Private, Professional, Affordable, Enjoyment for all ages. Competitions, Practical, Theory Exams. NZ Modern School of Music 0800-696-874.

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

Offering tailored tuition during or after school.

Ph 027 391 3716 or visit www.squigglesdyslexia.co.nz Mathematics Tuition Available for years 9 to 13 by a retired maths teacher. Phone Graeme 445 8575.

Mathematics Tuition, Sensitive tutoring offered at all levels of the secondary school curriculum. NCEA, IB and Cambridge welcomed.

100% pass rate in 2016.

NCEA 3 calculus specialist.

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

Piano Lessons. Piano & music theory tuition from classically trained pianist. Devonport-based and can travel to your home.

Ph 021 079 0005 or email windarc.darius@gmail.com Primary Tutor Maths, English, Health & Wellbeing and Drama for 5-11 year olds. School prep also available. Visit www.gschuwertutoring.com for further details.

027 410 6871 gschuwertutoring@gmail.com Singing lessons in Devonport. Contract Dr Sue Braatvedt 473 9113 or 027 340 2884. All ages.

SLSS Swim School, 11 Evan Street, Belmont (off Eversleigh Road). Specialists in preschoolers. Phone 486 6728 for more info.

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

Back where it belongs It’s great to see the Auld Mug back down under and the weather couldn’t dampen the celebratory parades to welcome the team and the silverware home. It’s a wonderful achievement with a lot to be proud of and it’s clear there were some genius solutions by Emirates Team New Zealand who are leading the world in sailing technology. For a small country we more than pedal our weight on the world’s oceans and everyone who took part deserves to take a bow, not to mention a break, after all their efforts. Elise Beavis, a performance engineer from Milford, was part of the winning behind-the-scenes team and is blazing an impressive trail as one of the few women in an America’s Cup team.

Let’s not forget the up and comings who competed in the Youth America’s Cup – they couldn’t quite bring it home but the team, including Devonport local Logan Dunning Beck and Rosmini old boy Luca Brown, did themselves proud.

As competitive Kiwis of course we want to keep the winning team intact which is why we are supporting Team New Zealand over the next 4 years.

Our electronic devices, in my case the smartphone, iPad and laptop are indispensable tools of my trade enabling me to stay connected wherever I am 24/7. If I ever get stuck, my 19 year old son Joe seems to know intuitively how to solve any problems. For younger generations, born in to the digital world, it makes perfect sense for schools and teachers to incorporate more technology into their schooling. The new Education Minister Nikki Kaye has announced a new initiative to enhance the digital fluency of our young people. On the North Shore we don’t have to look far to understand the positive impact of modern learning environments and several are under construction including at Belmont Primary, and Takapuna Grammar. It will help develop integrated, fit-for-purpose systems so students

gain the skills they need for life-long success.

Since becoming Minister for Seniors the number one concern I’ve heard from talking to groups all over the country is the growing problem of elder abuse which is why I’ve changed the way we deliver these important services. The new, confidential help line – 0800 32 668 65 -0800 EA NOT OK is now available with advice and support 24/7 and every call is answered by a registered nurse. For victims or anyone wanting advice about what to do, they’ll be referred to appropriate local services which are being provided here on the North shore by Age Concern in Takapuna.

The long awaited Waterview Tunnel is proving very successful at keeping Auckland traffic moving and I’m impressed it has cut ten minutes off my trip from Stanley Point to the airport. The $1.4 billion project is New Zealand’s biggest and most complex roading development, connecting the Southern and Western motorways via a ring route and giving more options for drivers.

Auckland’s public transport is about to be transformed by the City Rail Link thanks to a new company owned jointly with local government which will focus on making the train link become a reality as soon as possible.

The Depot Artspace was the perfect venue for a stimulating Sunday afternoon discussion on mana and Matariki led by the writer Witi Ihimaera. I was honoured to join the wide ranging conversation along with poet and former fellow broadcaster Haare Williams. The Maori New Year, Matariki, is a time to remember those who have died in the past year, to celebrate life and to plant traditional crops as the seven sisters stars make their impressive entrance onto the night sky.

Warm regards, Hon Maggie Barry ONZM

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Coats for kids With the frost sneaking in, the TGS Peer Service team joined forces with the Bald Angels Charitable Trust to work on a project called 'Coats for Kids', which provides warm coats and clothing for children in Northland, where many live in small rural communities and lack the bare necessities such as jackets and other items to face the chilly winter conditions.

The team took action, advertising for secondhand coats, jumpers and other articles of warm clothing such as scarves, as well as new pyjamas, socks and underwear. Dozens of boxes began filling the school library. The team, led by staff members Mr. Grant Simpkins and Ms. Heidi Remmington, were overwhelmed by the generosity of the students and staff members’ contributions, to a wonderful cause.

"I was amazed at the amount of clothing we collected as a school,” commented Ruby

Wangford, one of the senior students in the Peer Service team. For those families every little donation means so much for them, relieving the worries that are brought on by the winter season.”

The items have now been collected by the

Trust, sorted, packed and distributed to families in need. For more information on the Bald Angels Trust, or to be involved with their upcoming events, visit www.baldangels.org.

were required to give a ten-minute presentation and then have a 20-minute question and answer session with the three judges. “This experience gave me an in-depth insight into the way that our economy works and it was a

lot of fun getting to work with the team and visit Wellington,” says Iris leng. Accompanied

by Ms Corinne Kofoed, the team also toured Parliament and visited the High Court.

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By ClAIRe KANG

In the top six A record number of entries resulted in tough competition, with only six schools, including TGS, selected for the national final of the Monetary Policy Challenge, held in Wellington early this month.

This annual competition, run by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, is designed to allow high school economics students the chance to imitate the role of a Reserve Bank economist.

This involves assessing the outlook for inflation and the economic conditions facing New Zealand and to make a decision about the Official Cash Rate.

Our team of Harvey Merton, Iris leng, Jacob Byron-McKay, emilly Fan and Thomas Benison,

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THE LATEST IN SPORT A youth development programme, under the yMCA, called RaiseUp crew (North Shore), recently received a ‘youth Group Award’ at the New Zealand youth Awards, for the vast number of opportunities it had provided to young people.

The crew includes two TGS students, Claire Kang and iris leng.

There are more than 10 RaiseUp crews around Auckland, and the groups usually consist of around 15 local high school students who are passionate to give back to the community and create safe and fun events for local youths.

Iris visited the Minister for youth, Nikki Kaye, along with some members of the Mt Albert crews to

talk about what RaiseUp has been up to and her experience in the last two years as part of North Shore, which runs some of the biggest RaiseUp events, such as the all youth fashion show Walk the line.

The award is an encouragement for all crew members to keep pursuing their passion for event management and to build platforms for local youth to showcase their talents and have fun.

This will be the final year for these two year 13 young women, who hope that a fresh generation of TGS RaiseUp crews will steer the programme onwards with enthusiasm and energy.

By IRIS leNG

A student environmental conference TGS enviro Club members attended Green Jam y, held at AUT recently. Speakers from multiple environmental groups addressed the year 9-13 students, from groups such as 350 Aotearoa, and the Sir Peter Blake Trust. 350 Aotearoa spoke about their campaigns which highlight environmental problems with large companies such as banks and universities. The speaker from the Sir Peter Blake Trust spoke about the programmes they run for students, including the youth enviro-leaders Forum;

a week-long development course held every year, where students can talk with like-minded peers about environmental issues which New Zealand faces. Auckland Council also presented, about such things as making Auckland a better place for bees, as well as urban planning. Overall it was a rewarding experience which provided the students with new information and courses to develop their knowledge and help make a difference in their community.

By IONA ANDeRSON

FROM THE COURT: The Premier Girls Netball team (above left) put in a huge performance in their promotion game against Albany Senior High School. This promotes the team into the North Harbour Premier Division for the second half of the winter season.

ALSO FROM THE COURT: The Girls Squash Team (above right) took out the B Division of the Auckland Secondary Schools Squash Champs for the second year running. Although they faced some tough competition, the girls dominated, winning 23 of their 25 games.

FROM THE WATER: year 12 students Brianna Davey and Nelly Farmiloe have been accepted into the Auckland light Blues Rowing Squad for 2017. Training alongside the top 20 year 12 female and male rowers in Auckland, the pair will later retrial for a place in the Girls’ eight, which will be competing in September, in Queensland.

FROM THE FIELD: Imogen Ayris recently competed at the U20 Gala in Mannheim, Germany. She equalled her personal best, to make the podium in 3rd place, in her first international competition.

FROM THE TURF: Since being promoted into the Super City league, the 1st XI Boys’ Hockey team remains unbeaten after three games.

FROM THE PITCH: Congratulations to Kate Williams who has been nominated for the NZ Rugby Union U17 and U18 Girls’ Sevens team development camp, in December.

FROM THE ROAD: Cyclists Oscar elworthy, Josh Kench, Harry Waine and Renee young have been named in the Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Performance Hub programme.

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Wet, wet, wet: rainy winter produces mega-puddles Repeated bouts of heavy rain have proven too much for drainage systems in some of the Devonport peninsula’s priciest and most prominent streets.

Residents of Arawa Ave, Cheltenham, last weekend found themselves with a large new temporary water feature at the end of the street above the beach.

King Edward Pde outside Devonport Library and the northern end of Memorial Drive were also all but covered by stormwater due to heavy rain. The New World car park in Bartley Tce was among other local spots where the deluge proved too much for the drains.

Just around the corner from Arawa Ave, Auckland Council officers and members of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board have been grappling with an ongoing puddle problem in Rata Rd. To solve the issue completely, new stormwater pipes would have to nearly quadruple in size, from the 150 mm concrete pipes installed in the 1980s to 560 mm plastic pipes, council officers told the board last week. The larger pipe would be exposed and visible on Cheltenham Beach.

The board opted to restrict the size of the pipe so that it would not be exposed.

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July 14, 2017

Kia ora I’m the Green candidate for North Shore in the 2017 Election. I’m looking forward to the experience, and meeting as many people as possible, as part of that. In light of the various convulsions under way around the world and including here in NZ, this year’s election is going to be an important democratic moment.

A quick self-introduction. I was born the other side of the bridge – except in those days it was simply the ferry. Like most of us then, I played amateur rugby on muddy fields, swam in clean rivers and lakes, walked through native bush in peace and tranquillity, and caught the bus, tram and train. We’re talking Auckland city and province, 20th-century style. Not everything was perfect – tangata whenua and women were striving for equality. But otherwise the nation’s values were pretty good.

I studied in New Zealand and then overseas. I remained outside NZ for three decades, first as a NZ diplomat, then UN official, then teaching at universities. Eight countries all up – the US and Canada, Thailand and Jordan and, in Europe, Sweden and Switzerland, Belgium and Britain. I loved each place. I learned a lot about cultural differences, and yet what we have in common.

I returned home in ’05, to Canterbury University, joining the Green Party, standing in Ilam in ’08, and being elected to Parliament that year; and re-elected in ’11 and ’14, the last occasion standing in Helensville against the then-PM, coming in second – a reasonably distant, second.

Why the Green Party? Because its philosophy, born of the late-20th century, is the most relevant for the 21st. Freedom, equality, sustainability: each central value has integrity and political attraction. But the way we interpret and apply them, which is the most important from one era to the next, is a matter of personal judgement. We need, today, a central philosophy of sustainability.

Since 2008, I’ve had responsibility in Parliament for a number of Green portfolios: economy and finance, trade, energy, climate change, justice, senior citizens, foreign affairs, customs and defence.

In fact, the Green Party now calls the ‘foreign affairs’ portfolio ‘global affairs’. We see New Zealand as an integral part of the emerging global community – ‘New Zealand First-equal’, so to speak, with 200 others.

Seeing ourselves in this way influences our perception of our rights and responsibilities on all manner of things – the climate and the oceans and other planetary boundaries; trade and monetary policy; biosecurity and immigration; security and intelligence. We’re all bound together now, on this beautiful and fragile planet. It will only be when we have equal mutual regard, across all nations and cultures, that we shall successfully act locally while thinking globally.

Of course we have local challenges confronting our city and this electorate – environmental pollution, inequality and housing unaffordability, traffic congestion, domestic violence and mental health, prison rates. My experience door-knocking in the Shore has brought home the level of concern and frustration that people are feeling on every one of these issues.

We have regressed in the past decade, in values, and policies.

As we head towards September, you get the chance to listen to the views and policies of each party seeking election. What are the Green priorities, if and when we’re given a mandate to share in government for the 2018-20 period?

I see three overarching areas. There are the environmental issues of clean rivers and beaches, a stable climate and sustainable land-use patterns. There is the housing crisis and family security – healthy and happy kids with a decent chance in life . And not least, there is the need for stable and responsible government, which we believe we can achieve in coalition.

For the Green Party, it will be fundamentally about values – ecological wisdom, social responsibility, democratic decisionmaking; and a law-based, non-violent approach to society.

I’m looking forward to meeting you in the next few months; and hoping for your Green party vote, in particular.

There will be many opportunities: the first is our cafémeeting on Saturday, 22 July, anytime between 10.00 am and midday, at Hum Café, 41 Victoria St, Devonport. Hope to see you there. If you can’t make it, there will be others.

Regards, Kennedy Graham, MP

Kennedy Graham, MP Authorised by Gwen Shaw, Level 1, 17 Garrett Street, Wellington

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Job gone wrong... A Flagstaff photograph from 2015 shows fencing erected after WorkSafe launched an investigation into demolition work at the Seacliffe Ave site Asbestos dust was found well beyond the boundary of a Seacliffe Ave demolition site, a court has heard.

P&M Demolition Specialists pleaded guilty in the North Shore District Court to three charges under the Health and Safety in Employment Act following a Worksafe New Zealand investigation launched after an inspector visited the site at 37 Seacliffe Ave on an unrelated matter in August 2015. The company’s sole director, Jade Ngaha, also pleaded guilty to three charges under the act.

The maximum fine for each offence is $250,000 but due to the financial position of the company and Ngaha, no fine was imposed by the court.

Reparations of $36,000 were ordered in

addition to $13,000 already paid.

P&M Demolition was hired to demolish a house, sleep-out and garage on the site.

The subsequent clean-up cost more than $100,000. Ngaha agreed in a restorative justice conference to pay off the clean-up costs at $16,000 a year.

The WorkSafe investigation found that P&M’s staff had no training or experience in asbestos removal, did not use any wetting-down or dust-control equipment, did not fence off the site, and created large amounts of dust that travelled to neighbouring properties and to a pile of free firewood at the front of the property.

A new house has since been built on the site.

Anne St residents face $155 charge to park outside their houses Residents in Anne St, near the Devonport waterfront, will be charged $155 a year for parking permits from January next year.

Until now their permits to park on the street have been free.

Only residents who do not have off-street parking are eligible for permits. Each property is limited to two permits and each permit is linked to a vehicle registration The charge is part of Auckland Transport’s

new region-wide parking strategy.

Parking in the street is limited to three hours, except for permit holders. The restriction aims to prevent commuters from parking there all day.

Similar schemes exist in other city fringe suburbs such as Freemans Bay, St Marys Bay and Ponsonby.

Anne St is the only Devonport street with a residential parking zone.

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Letters

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Allen Hill plans just give football what rugby and cricket already have It was hard to read the letter from the Allen Hill neighbours. By the end of the first paragraph their intention was clear – this group objects to any development at Allen Hill Stadium.

The group requested honesty over potential negative impacts when they have been prepared to apply spurious precedents to support their arguments and inflammatory language like, “swathes of concrete”, “risks to strained infrastructure”, “Allen Hill in many ways worse”, “a nightmare”, “ruining the top of Victoria Rd”.

Michaels Ave, Ellerslie, is not a reasonable comparison to Allen Hill. The lit, artificial pitch at Michael’s Ave has about 65 houses within 100 metres of the pitch and one house is just 10m from the pitch. Yes, lighting and noise would be problematic for these very close houses.

Allen Hill, however, has only 22 houses within 100m of the pitch and the very nearest of these houses is 75m away. All are separated from the stadium by public roads.

Michaels Ave also has capacity for three other full-sized pitches, so there is a capability for up to four full-sized pitches to be in use at any one time.

Allen Hill currently has a single fullsized pitch and space for another half. The upgrade planned at Allen Hill proposes

no greater capacity than what it currently through the residential streets of Devonport, and families within Devonport can easily holds.

This does not qualify as “intensification” travel by alternative means to soccer, which or change of scale as this group purports. in the last three years it is apparent they What North Shore United intends for have increasingly been doing.

The continued delay to improvements at Allen Hill is no more than what the North Shore Rugby Club and the Domain have Allen Hill means that families like ours are forced into cars to take children to practices already.

Rugby and cricket venues in Devonport out of Devonport and every Saturday travel have two full-sized pitches, both lit. There very great distances for home games as are treble the households within 100m of Allen Hill’s pitch has become exhausted.

We are obliged to add to Lake Rd the main pitches which are surrounded on congestion because of the continuing four sides by houses.

These venues do not have the benefit unreasonable delay in updating Allen Hill.

The alternative uses seem less palatable of being substantially lower than the surrounding houses so the potential for the than an upgrade to Allen Hill.

The site was formerly a quarry with lights to create nuisance is greater.

There are neighbours of these other adjacent landfill.

More recent suggestions have been that grounds who enjoy the security the lights offer, the passive surveillance that stems a supermarket operating from 7am to 10pm from it and the sounds of people engaged or multi-storey development be provided at or near this site, along with the construction in sport.

They do not consider themselves subject and operational issues.

It’s hard to see why this proposed upgrade to “huge” negative impacts. Neither are these clubs expected to solve the existing is causing some residents so much angst. ailments of Lake Rd as the neighbours wish Tony Reynolds, Shannon Jeory, NSU to do.

Christina Piet, Gavin Tuttle, We are parents of soccer-playing children. Janine Jones, Paul Jones, Allen Hill is beautifully located for the vast Deborah Farmer, Allister Irving, majority of NSU soccer families.

Sean Jones  Families from the north need not travel 

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It said it diagnosed 784        Q:  A company called ‘SparkTrust’ offered me a free scan, which I accepted. It said it diagnosed 784     errors on my He got my remote access to myetc computer and wasSoftware, opening up programs and said thatcomputer. could be slowing (Systems, Junk, Privacy, Malware.....) issues    could becomputer myspeed computer speed etc (Systems, Malware.....) issues that     I needed some software installed to slowing sort them out but once he started ontoJunk, this, ISoftware, hung upPrivacy, on him.   The next step was to register for a subscription for which I will have pay.

Until one registers one    The next step was to register for a subscription for which I will have to pay.

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I have never seen any program like this do anything of any worth    A: Be careful with this sort of claim andcomputer, offer. I haveit never seen anywhile program like your this do anythingchecked of any worth   getting   have installed some software on your may be worth computer by       or significance.

Most of the time these programs are rogue software or even malware, so it really is best    a professional technician trust but,programs really, don’t who you over phone.  or significance.

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IfRed you are upgrading, I will pass on  service.

Red Cross Cross Refugee Refugee service.       your old computers to help refugees. close or restart all open programs’ Why does thisrather keepthan coming up?thisI message am using Windows 7.you have too  A: This is actually referring to Virtual Memory RAM and comes up when  If you are upgrading, I will pass on  A:  Yes!  The ‘one-way ping’ nightmare ! Not an uncommon problem in networks. First thing to look at – is      old computers to help refugees. many programs andMemory openrather all atthat once. does notresponse? necessarily you will gethave things done your  there any softwarereferring on the Windows 7files computer is Multi-tasking blocking Assuming you havetoo A: This is actually to Virtual than RAM and network this message comesmean up when you        faster!

Close allthe your programs, reboot the computer and allcausing will be well.

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Close all Check your programs, reboot the computer and allitwill be well.

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Thatand isis not    That’s thewhen way Outlook is, sorry.

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Short Story winner

July 14, 2017

The Art of Asking

by Brigit Kelly

The winner of the 13-plus age category of the Tell A Story Short Story competition run by Paradox Books is Brigit Kelly. The judge, novelist Sue Orr, said: “This story unflinchingly explores the dangers of loneliness and isolation without succumbing to cliché; its haunting language and unpredictable imagery grip the reader from the first paragraph. The writer sustains a menacing tension until the very end. Like many good short stories, it resists delivering a tidy resolution – instead, it leaves the reader displaced, enveloped in the narrator’s fog of uncertainty and regret.”

“Being tired is like when you lie in a warm bath and the water fills your ears and nose and you can see through the bubbles; see the ceiling and the tap with the mould peeling in places, but everything is hazy and nothing is real. You’re in a cloud, and that cloud is a sauna and it’s suffocating you but you can’t tell. This isn’t the tired that comes at night when the sky is thick and black; it is the tired that doesn’t ‘come’ but is always there. The air is a pillow and my clothes are the blankets; I don’t need to lie down because it’s my mind that is asleep.

In the bus I look at my lap. In my ear a tiny storyteller talks, chattering in a voice not unlike my own; the girl glances down, her eyes vacant, her mind anything but. Now the narrator that is me, lies – my mind is vacant. My mind is still.

I am indifferent to the real life movie I am in.

I call myself miserable because at least that’s an image of feeling, it’s disinteresting to be disinterested.

She pines for the sting of emotion.

But I don’t pine for anything. That’s the thing about indifference – I just don’t seem to care.

She struggles within herself to find calm.

I am always calm. I am a log in a stream; I am half-eaten by bugs and soggy and dense and so heavy. But I am calm, and I still float.

My silent narrator whispers into my ear though the gates and into class.

My silent mind sleeps.

“I was wondering where you were.” Brown eyes stare at me from a face two sizes too small.

The girl who spoke is thin. Her arms are sticks and her collarbone is a shelf.

“The bus was late.”

“Again?” Brittle fingers tap jutting elbows.

“Yes.” Silence falls between the two girls; two pairs of eyes search the ceiling, the floor, the walls.

Anything but the other.

The girl made of bones puts a box on my desk. “I baked you something.”

“What’s it for this time?”

The eyes of the giver darken and a stretched mouth hardens.

“I’m just being nice. You never say thank you.” The voice snaps like a ruler on a hand.

“Thanks.” I lift the lid of the box; cupcakes sit, quiet and fat at the bottom. Mountains of icing crown vanilla hills.

“Do you like it? The icing was fun to make, so much cream.” Large eyes stare at sugary domes. The stare is big, it seems to eat the cupcakes, to swallow them through looking.

“Do you want one?” But I know the answer.

I know that she is drowning. I know that she lies in the bath too – but for her, the water is deep.

I wonder if she can see the tap with the peeling mould, I wonder if she can see anything at all.

There is a pause. In my head I see her gasping, mouth gaping like a fish. In my head water froths and bubbles in her throat. In my head her eyes bulge and veins stand out on her forehead; livid blue snakes. She chokes and gurgles and spit dribbles from her chin. I can see her drowning and my mind turns in its sleep.

But it isn’t real.

“No.” She says it fast.

“Okay.”

“I had a really big breakfast and I ate like, half the batter anyway.”

A silence falls. Our protagonist longs to open her mouth, to ask the question she knows she must, to let the girl breathe again.

But my brain shuts its eyes and pulls the blankets tight.

A bell rings. I am surrounded by people, people whispering as the teacher talks.

The teacher talks and the girl’s shoulders shake and twitch in front of me. Her head lolls on her neck now, and water streams down her

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throat. I can hear her choking, sense her lungs collapsing.

But it isn’t real.

The day passes quickly. A blur of images and noises that I can see and hear, but cannot care about. But now I want to wake up. I want to wake up and scream at the girl dying in front of me. I want to scream at her and shake her so that she wakes up too.

I write things down on paper and watch adults write on boards. I write all day and remember nothing. Full pages hide blank thoughts.

The girl made of bones writes too. Blood is in her ears and her lips are blue but no one notices.

I notice, but I cannot care. I will not care.

A bell rings. Once again I am surrounded by people, people shouting as the teacher is quiet.

I stand in the courtyard with the drowning girl.

The pair teeters on the edge of conversation.

Our protagonist’s unasked question dances on her tongue. Her friend speaks first.

“Have you had a cupcake yet?”

Ask the question.

“Yes. It was nice, thanks.”

Brown eyes light up. “Could you taste the cream in the icing?”

Ask her.

“Yes, I could.”

“There was so much.”

Ask her.

“You said.”

Pause. “I should go home. I’m glad you liked the icing. I’m making cookies tonight – I have to do something for my brother’s birthday, I’ll give you some.”

Ask her.

“No thanks.”

“I’ll give you some. I need to make them anyway.”

ASK. “Okay.”

“Bye then.”

ASK. But the thin girl is walking away. I am still as I watch her arms spasming and her legs collapsing and her head swelling from the bath water climbing up her throat, but still she walks.

I feel my mouth open. My voice is a whisper.

“Are you okay?”

But the girl doesn’t hear me. The bus trembles to a stop at my feet. I put my earphones in and music drowns the screams of the people around me.

Ask. I hardly notice myself speak.

“Am I okay?”

But for once, the narrator in my ear is silent.

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July 14, 2017

Art for the birds at Depot Like the western shoal bays of the Devonport peninsula, Depot Artspace is a temporary home for migratory birds this winter.

While the shell banks and tidal reaches of Ngataringa and Shoal Bays welcome pied oystercatchers, pied stilts, black-billed gulls and wrybills, the exhibit From the River to the Shore hosts the work of 40 artists from across New Zealand – mostly prints of birds.

The show itself is migratory, travelling from Canterbury’s Oxford to warmer Devonport for its opening at the end of the month.

Devonport printmaker Celia Walker has curated the show. She says its premise is to increase local awareness of “birds that move from the braided South Island rivers and hang out up here over the winter”.

Their habitat is under long-term threat from both sea and land, due to the peninsula’s intensification and rising sea levels, Walker says.

But the local Dirty Rat Campaign to reduce predators and increased dog walking restrictions along the western shoal bays seem to be reducing environmental stresses on nesting birds, she says.

Walker has a work in the show, as does fellow Devonport artist Penny Clark.

Bayswater’s Philip Moll will give a talk about local shorebirds on Sunday 13 August at 2 pm.

From the River to the Shore runs from 29 July to 16 August, with an opening on Saturday 29 July, 2pm-3.30 pm.

For the birds... above right: Penny Clark (left) and Celia Walker at Shoal Bay

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Cool fun: Brave mid-winter

Devonport’s hardiest souls braved stormy Top: Devonport Druid Chris Mullane presides as swimmers, including weather for this year’s Devonport Midwinter corgi Tommy, “enjoy” the water.

Swim, with around 50 locals plunging into the sea off Windsor Reserve despite wind and rain.

At 76, Sally Bussey was the oldest to dive in. Ella Gustafson (6) was the youngest. Joe Millington (11) took the prize for best dressed, wearing a surgeon’s outfit with a scary mask.

The popular Devonport event started in 1995 and has since been the “baby” of several local families, starting with the Lethabys of Cheltenham, followed by Stanley Bay’s Jervis family and, for the last six years, the Millingtons of central Devonport.

Dave Millington says it might be time to hand the baton over once again. “It’s not that Michelle and I are sick of organising it but our kids are getting older and they are very active in sports, so it gets more and more difficult to actually find a weekend when we are not away at one of their sporting events,” he says.

Above: The three amigas Jayne Williams, Gemma Fellowes and Ginny Palmer braving the cold sea with raised water pistols and eyebrows Far left: Three generations of Devonport sea lovers Ivy (10) and Theo Donaldson (7) with mum Claire and grandmother Carol Left: Sally Bussey, who took out the prize for oldest swimmer, with friend Kathy Burke

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dippers chill out in the rain

Above: Swim organiser Michelle Millington hands out lollies for a warming sugar fix, as Santa Bevan Rudge and Lina Piedrahita return to dry land Left: Michele von Zon and John Lethaby have been associated with the event for years Below left: Mark Gustafson with son Tomas (8) and daughter and youngest swimmer Ella (6)

Above: Staying dry... annual swim visitor Mike Cohen with daughter Emma and one-year old grandson Addison

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Narrow Neck flight training: droning on but never boring Bayswater’s Don Smith and his friend Bret Lucas enjoyed the thrill of of flight from the comfort of their camp chairs in Woodall Park, Narrow Neck, on Monday.

Wearing First Person View (FPV) headgear giving an on-board view from their quadcopter drones, the pair piloted the machines through and around a course of large “air gates”.

Smith says that while flying he feels completely disembodied from the guy who is sitting in a chair on the side of the field with a remote in his hands.

Sitting is better than standing as any extra motion is likely to induce air sickness.

“You need to try and disconnect completely, especially when you compete,” Smith says.

The pair have been drone racing for just over a year and they started competing more recently as members of Flight Club AKL, a group with about 50 members. About 15 race their machines.

Smith and Lucas practise around three Flight time... Don Smith (left) and Bret Lucas built their own machines days a week, on their days off from working for Fullers (Smith) and Air New Zealand (Lucas).

Smith has a masters in creative technology from the Auckland University North Shore Rugby Premiers were semi-finals of their respective grades. of Technology. knocked out of championship contention Club captain Chris Tankard says the club The quadcopters, which they built by their old foes at Takapuna last weekend. is upbeat about what has been a rebuilding themselves, don’t come cheap. “All together After battling through a tough season year for the Premier side. “We’ve got a they are between $400 and $2000,” says to make the top six and a place in the whole bunch of young guys,” he says. “I Lucas. quarter-finals, the young Shore side went think we’ll be really strong next year.”

Auckland Council has been supportive of down 31-19 at Onewa, being outscored The club is keen for coaches Robert the sport, they say. four tries to two.

Todd, Grant Simpkins and Allan Pollock They now play off for lower placings on to take charge of the team again in 2018.

“They have told us we can fly in any the North Harbour club ladder, meeting It has also been proud of the job done public park as long as we follow the rules Kumeu at Vauxhall Rd on Saturday. by its young Under-21 coaching team around drones and generally don’t make a Shore can take some consolation from of coach Hamish Turley, manager Oliver nuisance,” Smith says. “So we make sure the record of its Premier 2 and Under 21 Going and assistant coach Nick Hawkins that when a person comes near, we just sides, which have both qualified for the in their first year in charge of the team. stop flying.”

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Age no barrier as twins shoot the hoops Best friends and rivals since they were born 90 years ago in May, twins Nance Cochrane and Beryl Phillips squared off on North Shore Croquet Club’s lawn one lovely morning a few weeks ago to play for the Twins Challenge Trophy.

Nance, a member of North Shore Croquet for the past decade or so, persuaded her sister Beryl to join Takapuna Croquet not long afterwards.

On the morning in question the twins were partnered by club mates Rod Templeman and Anne Griffin respectively.

Tied at six-all, the game was anyone’s as players strove to be the first to run that winning hoop!

Supporters from both clubs were on the edge of their seats – and then it was over, with the North Shore club’s twin Nance clinching the match.

After morning tea, welcomed by players and supporters alike, club members and their Takapuna guests returned to the lawns.

There was no holding back Beryl or Nance.

Neither plan to retire their croquet mallets any time soon.

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