27 July 2018 Devonport Flagstaff

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Hands off our parks Auckland Council

Any proposed sale or disposal of parks on the Devonport peninsula has been opposed by the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board.

The resolution was passed last week after a rash of sales, or potential sales, of Auckland

council buildings and parkland alarmed board silver has already gone,” member Grant Gillon members. told the local board last week.

“We have got to the stage where Panuku Devonport had lost Bayswater coastal land at (council’s property arm) and council are To page 2 looking at hocking off the family copper – the

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Stay of execution on parks

the marina, through “slight of hand by the then Minister of Conservation”, Gillon said, and it could ill afford to lose other recreation space.

Auckland Council is broke, but is still embarking on grand projects, like waterfront stadiums and America’s Cup developments, Gillon said.

“Why should we sell off a park or two to pay for the resource consents for a statue at Bastion Point – it’s just nuts,” Gillon said.

Other board members were in support.

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Member Jan O’Connor said the board should be considering buying more parkland.

“We are getting millions of dollars of contributions from developments (in Belmont and Bayswater) – we should be putting these towards open space.” Auckland is growing at the rate of the size of New Plymouth each year, and some of the growth is hitting the peninsula, she said.

Board chair George Wood said there was a groundswell of concern across Auckland about council’s governing body selling assets to balance budgets.

The board also noted unease over the commercial use of parks by businesses.

Council officers told the board that although Devonport is well served for park space south of Seabreeze Ave, there is not enough in the Narrow Neck, Belmont and Hauraki areas.

The way Auckland Council moved to transfer the building at 3 Victoria Rd out of community use will be included in a dispute between the DevonportTakapuna Local Board and its governing body, over decision-making.

A majority of members voted to have the old council building added to an existing dispute about 40 Anzac Ave, Takapuna. Only board chair George Wood voted against. Members felt the board should have decision-making authority over the buildings.

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Shore pushes for promotion with dominant wins

North Shore United’s quest for promotion in the Northern Regional Football League division one has had a major boost, with big wins in the last two weeks.

The side beat Ellerslie 3–0 last Saturday, following on from a 7–1 thrashing of Tauranga the week prior.

Shore has won its last four league games and is now second-equal on the table with Waiheke United, with Forrest Hill just one point behind.

Sam De St Croix continued his good form on Saturday, scoring two goals.

Shore has five games left to play, but significantly none are against Waiheke or top-ofthe-table Melville, who are unbeaten in 2018.

Shore’s next home game is against Manurewa on 4 August.

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Rumble on: safety strips installed Rumble strips have been installed on the Takarunga/Mt Victoria summit road due to the safety issues caused by speeding skateboarders.

Nick Turoa, Tūpuna Maunga Authority Operations Manager, said: “Safety rumble strips are a widely used product in New Zealand to slow down vehicles. At Takarunga, rumble strips were assessed as the best option to discourage skateboarders and longboarders from using the summit road as a speedway and endangering pedestrians, which has become an increasing issue.”

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“We have placed the safety rumble strips in positions to ensure reduced speeds and we will be monitoring that.”

Turoa said the strips were different to the judder bars commonly seen on residential streets.

“The safety rumble strips are 10cm wide and 1.5cm high, so will not impede limited-mobility visitors using the summit road in their cars, mobility scooters or powerchairs, or emergency-service vehicles. Cyclists keeping to the speed limit can easily ride over them.”

Signage will also explain that skateboarding is not permitted on the summit road, he said.

Rumble off: strips cause accident A Segway accident on the rumble strips seems to have prompted their sudden removal last weekend.

It is understood the strips are being replaced, but the Maunga Authority did not confirm this with the Flagstaff before deadline.

Magic Broomstick Tours owner Pauline Baker said a customer had fallen off a Segway, but was uninjured.

However, the new rumble strips had made Segway trips on the mountain more difficult, she said.

Seaweed removal not a simple matter Seaweed should be left on beaches like Cheltenham and Takapuna rather than removed for aesthetic reasons, says a council report.

Seaweed protects sand on beaches from wave erosion by acting like a sponge, the study presented to the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board said.

And removing seaweed is also difficult without taking away sand with it, the report said.

“The beach has a thin veneer of fine sand and is therefore vulnerable to sand removal.”

“As seaweeds help prevent the loss of finer sediments to wind, removal of seaweed can result in coarser grain size and texture on beaches.”

Seaweed is regarded as problematic by

visitors to beaches during high-use times, and when events are being held.

But “monitoring to date had shown that the bulk of deposited seaweed is removed by natural processes, within a short time frame (two to four weeks),” the report said.

Auckland Council marine scientist Jared Walker told the board the lack of machinery to remove seaweed correctly was another complicating factor.

Board member Jennifer McKenzie said she appreciated the need to protect beach ecology.

But nature had to work alongside high use of the beaches and impact of the seaweed, which affected businesses and tourists alike.

A model has been developed to evaluate the impact of the seaweed on beaches over a five-day period.

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Hundreds meander through Forest Has The Blues exhibition

Taking a stand for the environment... Toni Hartill (left) and Celia Walker have given away close to 200 trees to peninsula residents as part of their ecological exhibition Forest Has the Blues, which is showing at the Depot Artspace

Pharmacy shut down by regulators – but it hopes to be able to sell medicines again soon Devonport 7 Day Pharmacy was shut down by industry regulators last week over alleged fridge-storage breaches.

The pharmacy received notification on 17 July that its licence had been suspended.

The next day, Medsafe officers confiscated all pharmaceutical medicines from the Bartley Tce store. It remains open, but cannot sell prescription medicines.

Director Asma Shousha has until 10 August to put a case to Medsafe, or risk the licence being cancelled.

Shousha said her case was with lawyers,

but much of the situation seemed to have been caused by poor communication over a fridge.

Medsafe alerted the pharmacy in January that its fridge – mainly used for storing insulin – was not up to scratch.

The pharmacy had continued to supply insulin to patients this year, “lending” from other pharmacies and, at times, delivering to patients.

The pharmacy had since replaced the fridge with a $2500 model and Shousha had flown to Wellington in May to explain the

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However, Medsafe said it was not satisfied with the refrigeration storage, after an audit on 9 July.

The pharmacy has been operating for 10 years and Shousha said it had only ever put its customers’ health and access to medicines first.

Her daughter Nancy, also a pharmacist, said they felt unfairly treated and hoped the situation could be resolved quickly.

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Plastic bags check out at Devonport New World Devonport New World will have no singleuse plastic bags available at its checkouts from August 1.

It is the first New World store in the country to ban the single-use bags for packing groceries. Brown paper bags and jute bags will be available, but increasingly customers are bringing their own reusable bags into the supermarket.

Devonport New World is a trial store for the plastic-bag initiative. Although this was

being driven by head office, locals wanted an end to plastic bags at the checkout.

“The feedback was: if you are going to get rid of plastic bags, why have them there at all (with a charge to buy them)?” said Madhur Chemburkar, Devonport New World’s Online Shopping Champion.

As a trial store, Devonport New World is likely to be used to pioneer further measures to reduce plastic usage from supermarkets.

Huge crowd expected for TGS-Westlake rugby clash Takapuna Grammar First XV take on Westlake Boys High School tomorrow (July 28) at home in a much-anticipated clash between the two undefeated North Harbour school sides.

In the first round of competition, the match between the sides ended in a 26-26 draw.

Since then, both teams have remained undefeated, although Takapuna Grammar only narrowly beat Massey

High School 14-12 on July 7.

TGS has won 11 out of 12 matches in 2018 – its best year since it shared the championship with Massey a decade ago.

Following the match against Westlake, TGS plays Whangarei Boys High School at home on August 4 in the final game of the first round, prior to the semi-finals.

• Kick-off in the TGS-Westlake match is at midday.

Devonport residents have been embracing global trends to reduce plastic consumption, and New World has seen single-use plastic-bag volumes slump, this year in particular.

“I’m standing at the checkout now and everyone has brought in their own bag,” Chemburkar told the Flagstaff last Friday

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The Devonport Flagstaff Page 13

July 27, 2018

Leave Windsor Reserve alone

A million dollars – incroyable! (“Bean Rock playground comes with a $1million price tag,” Flagstaff July 13).

Here they go again – council and our local board, together with ‘stakeholders’ foisting on us another structure we didn’t ask for. We need a breakdown of the costs please. Who are the stakeholders – we can only imagine someone who stands to profit financially?

Community consultation was a token gesture – an under-the-radar display for one week in the library. How can any member of the public make an informed decision based on a picture when no cost breakdown is revealed, nor the

reasons behind the push to go ahead with this project, nor the names of who is involved in the project, nor any explanation of the earthworks that will be carried out? Do people realise that massive holes will be dug where tree roots are growing and they will be filled with tonnes of concrete in order to accommodate this eightmetre-high playground structure?

Windsor Reserve is a historic village green – leave the tree roots undisturbed. A village green where nature and serenity provide enjoyment for all. With sand and sea lapping at its edges, that is playground enough. Leave it alone.

J Leighton

No conflict with freedom campers We would question the proposal by the local board to ban freedom campers at Woodall car park. As nearby residents, we know the effects of freedom camping at the car park first-hand. We have not experienced any negative effects in the 10 years we have lived here. However, there are some benefits, which the local board should be aware of.

When walking home through the car park in the dark or late evening, from the bus stop after work, it is a safety feature and reassuring for there to be people in the car park. In the past, the car park was frequented at night by P dealers and burnout merchants.

We are sure that these undesirables are discouraged by the odd camper and van parked overnight.

The suggested conflict with busloads of visitors during a few weekends in summer

is not real, because the buses come and go in daytime. In addition, a fair proportion of the campers are Kiwi ‘golden oldies’, not foreigners, if the proposed ban is put forward for xenophobic reasons. (Just joking about the xenophobia.)

We would suggest keeping things informal. There are far too many ‘formal’ policies and processes associated with local government.

As a final thought, we cannot think of a place on the Devonport peninsula more suited to informal overnight stays. With a ban, there is a risk that campers would squeeze into marginal, undesirable areas where there are no toilet facilities. The consequences could be far worse than the current informal situation.

David Willetts and Jennifer Jones

No further action on maunga until TMA plan The laying down then, two weeks later, the taking up of five double-hump speed bumps on the Takarunga/Mt Victoria summit road, is another example of what happens when you don’t have a considered management plan for the maunga. It’s time Devonport asked for one.

Takarunga/Mt Victoria is a public reserve.

As such, it comes under the Reserves Act 1977.

The Act is very clear that within five years of becoming administrator of a public reserve, that administrator must produce a management plan.

The Tupuna Maunga Authority (TMA) took over as administrator of Takarunga/Mt Victoria in 2014, so we’re about due to see that plan.

The TMA seems sometimes to suggest that the Integrated Management Plan (IMP) it produced in 2016 is just such a plan, but it isn’t.

The IMP set down overall guidelines the TMA would follow for the 14 Auckland volcanic cones it administers, but the IMP itself noted that any specific changes to a specific maunga would be properly set out under what it called an ‘Individual Maunga Management Plan’ (IMMP).

I’m no lawyer, but I’d believe this IMMP – in effect a roadmap of all changes put together as a comprehensive plan – is the management plan envisaged by the Reserves Act. So bring on Takarunga’s IMMP please, because I imagine – just like the Reserve Management Plans of old – it would have a public comments process, and so would finally give the Devonport community a chance to assess

proposed changes and offer its wisdom.

The TMA’s installation last March of a barrier arm preventing vehicle access up Takarunga/ Mt Victoria took place without any reference to a considered IMMP, and with little reference to the Devonport community. It seemed a part of some larger plan we knew almost nothing about.

And now we’ve seen the ad hoc speed bumps – here today, gone tomorrow, after an accident.

I believe the law would be on our side in asking the TMA, as administrator of Takarunga/ Mt Victoria, to withhold any further significant action on the maunga until we’ve seen a fully realised plan, as envisaged by the law.

Geoff Chapple

Minor maunga changes ok The good people of Devonport have had some arbitrary changes thrust upon them without much warning or consultation.

They faced some changes in the way they enjoyed our beloved mountain.

They asked for some information on the aims and future plans for the mountain.

This would have happened whether the body was a speculator or government.

Because the body concerned is the Maunga Authority, they are accused of being racist.

This is never helpful in any discussion.

I am sure some minor changes would be satisfactory for all. Alec Hill

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July 27, 2018

Laurie takes a spin down memory lane Laurie Spinley has lived in Devonport for all but two of his 83 years, and cheerily agrees he has probably been around for long enough to rate as an old-timer around town. He talks to Helen Vause about his family connections to the area, which stretch back to the 1860s.

The view from Laurie Spinley’s home, on the side of North Head, offers a spectacular vista across Devonport. An outlook that encapsulates the memories across the decades.

He’s pleased to have the opportunity to share colourful stories about life, family, business and tales of Devonport. A couple of hours slip by easily, nattering in the corner of his living room, His mother’s family has been in Devonport since the 1860s, and Spinley grew up in the house his grandfather Lawrence Coleman built in the 1880s, at 56 Calliope Rd. His mother Henrietta (Hettie) was a Coleman, the seventh of 10 kids. She married Laurie’s father Harold Spinley in Devonport in 1917.

Laurie was the youngest of three, with two older sisters.

A couple of generations of Colemans lived around the neighbourhood. They were well known as builders, but one branch of the family were the local undertakers. As more kids came along, Lawrence Coleman had simply built on out the back of the Calliope Rd home to accommodate a household of 12.

The addition became 2 Roslyn Tce. Laurie’s father Harold came from across the harbour. He’d been a successful newspaper photographer in the early 1900s. But when his family established a taxi company in Newton Gully, Harold set aside his camera and became a cabby in the ‘Spinleys’ Silent Sunbeams’ fleet.

After he married Hettie, Harold’s driving skills were further utilised when he became the local milkman in Devonport during the war years. After the war he worked for the Devonport ferry company.

“Stanley Bay was a wonderful place to

Hard work led to happy times in Devonport… Laurie Spinley grow up. It was a beautiful spot and we kids had so much freedom. It was very family oriented and everyone seemed to know everyone.

“Of course news travelled fast in the community in those days. Mum used to say that you had to be very careful in Devonport about what you said and who you said it to, because there were only 10 families in the town and they all had 10 kids.”

It sounds like a perfect childhood, but these were the World War 2 years. Surrounded

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Laurie remembers the air-raid shelters in the playground at Stanley Bay School and the trenches in his own backyard. He recalls as well that all the mums were nervous.

“It was exciting to a small boy but it was scary too. It was a military town, with the Navy here, and the army just up the road. We thought we got all the news, and everyone was dead sure the Japanese were coming. All the talk was about what we would do when they came, not if they came.”

No invasion occurred, but there was plenty of excitement. Laurie was about eight years old when the Americans came to town and literally rolled into Devonport.

“They arrived very early in the mornings, bringing landing barges right onto the beach.

They rolled their trucks right off the front to drive north. I’ll never forget the sight. And I remember too we had a legendary fish and chip shop – whenever they came through here, the Americans were all over that place at all hours for a feed before heading north.”

Not long after the war ended, school was out for young Laurie and the working world was calling. He was just 14 years old when he went to work on the roads, shovelling metal. They were hard, long days for a keen strong kid. But a couple of nights a week, he had his head down at a trades school getting the qualifications that would lead him into construction.

The property bug bit early and at age 18 he managed to buy his first house on Waiheke

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July 27, 2018 Island for 60 pounds, well before he’d established his building company, L.J. Spinley Ltd. The company grew and employed many tradesmen. The houses, blocks of flats, motels and factories they built all over the North Shore are too many for Laurie to recall. Before the Auckland Harbour Bridge was finished in 1959, all materials had to be ferried across from the city. Once the bridge

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to retire before I’m 85. I’ve got other things I want to do like maybe learn a language and learn about music.” opened up the Shore, Laurie and his team were working flat tack, across the region, in those early development years.

“As a young man, I worked like crazy all over Auckland. Just getting out there and getting on with it was my life.”

But a friend thought it was time Laurie, by then aged about 30, had a girlfriend: an introduction to Jocelyn was arranged.

“She was 10 years younger than me so just a girl really. But I was totally taken with her.

I was intrigued by her too, when she rode off on her motorbike after our first encounter.

We only met a couple more times and within three weeks I’d asked her to marry me.”

Getting married brought changes to his tough working life.

“Mum said I’d have to alter my ways now that I had a new wife. She reckoned no woman would put up with the way I was living.

I’d been rising at five in the morning for a 6.45am start and I’d never be home before seven at night.”

If he was going to have a family life, Laurie figured it was time for a different route in the property world, and he turned his attention to investing.

He was buying land, putting up buildings, buying buildings and holding on to some of them – in line with his strategy to be a longterm investor. He became well known to real estate agents as a serious investor and he built a substantial property portfolio.

“About 40 years ago, I remember I had 66 tenants. I had rest homes, flats, houses, motels and factories. They were very busy times and we were a busy family.”

Laurie and Jocelyn had three sons – Denton, Aaron and Anthony. In the 1970s, the family moved up into the big friendly house backing onto North Head. It spreads over a couple of levels, with panoramic views.

These days, the boys are long grown and gone and the pace of the family property business has slowed considerably. A large holding was sold just a few years ago, realising some millions, but there are still investments to

keep Laurie busy.

He’s kept up a cracking pace in business, but technology has got ahead of him. Computers and cell phones are not his thing. He says Jocelyn is the brains of the family, that she’s a very capable woman and “she is all over all of that stuff.”

“I say I’m going to retire before I’m 85.

I’ve got other things I want to do, like maybe learn a language and learn about music. But I’ve had a great innings and I guess you could say I’ve been successful. As mum would have said, it’s been an approach of faith, patience and humility.

“We’ve certainly had a great life here in this community. Devonport is such a special place to live and it would have to be one of the strongest communities in the country.

“I feel very fortunate that we’ve had the means to live here, and to have had so many happy times in this house with so many people.”

For 25 years, the family shared their home with a stream of international students.

“We treated them like our own kids and we took them all over the country. We were able to give them a wonderful time and we have very special memories of those years.

Once recalls Laurie, a student party in his living room needed livening up a bit with a party trick.

“I stood on my head and drank beer. And they loved it.”

Today the family living room is a lot quieter. But it’s not at all hard to imagine Laurie Spinley as the life and soul of the party.

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July 27, 2018

By Rob Drent

The wording of the decision to allow a new bottle shop in Clarence St was sloppy at best, dangerous at worst. The Auckland district licensing committee said that written submissions, if not backed up by an appearance before it, had no value and would be discounted as such.

Grey Power spokesperson Bill Rayner has been in touch voicing concerns regarding the elderly in particular being able to make their way to hearings. I agree with Bill, but would suggest the concern is wider. Written submissions should not be discounted at all: not everyone can attend hearings due to work or other commitments.

The difficulties posed for club rugby by professionalism were once again in evidence this month. As the North Shore premiers side narrowly lost its semi-final match to Northcote 17-14, two of the club’s best forwards were missing.

Prop Sione Mafileo and lock Jacob Pierce were in Christchurch with the Blues squad to play the Crusaders. Both came off the bench in the Blues’ 54-17 loss. As part of the Blues squad, Mafileo has been essentially lost to North Shore for a couple of seasons or more. But Pierce only played for the North Shore Premiers the week

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before and was one of the standout players in its quarter-final win over Takapuna.

All power to players trying to move into the professional ranks. But I’ve always felt it’s a shame that clubs like Shore, which does a great job to develop young players, are penalised in their quest for championships by the Super Rugby system, which essentially removes players from club-level fixtures.

The departure to France of legendary All Black Jerome Kaino – who in recent years lived in Bayswater, and was involved with junior coaching at North Shore, where his son was playing – is also something that could be avoided with a little planning and financial forethought.

Wouldn’t it be great if superstar internationals could finish off their careers playing locally, and imparting all their knowledge to up-and-coming players? I don’t know Kaino’s views, but some players are not naturally inclined to finish their careers overseas: the reasons are often purely financial.

Picture a system where 50-plus-test All Blacks were offered a European-level salary in New Zealand for two seasons, in exchange for local playing, mentoring and promotional work. Ambassadors for the sport. I would have loved to have seen Kaino in North Shore colours alongside his son.

The Devonport-Takapuna Local Board’s resolution to reject any sale of local parkland is to be supported. In a growing city, it is nonsensical to lose any recreation space that can never be bought back.

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Twenty years ago: a selection from the Flagstaff files • Devonport bars apply for 24-hour licences for the America’s Cup. • Bryan Jackson’s 30,000 item collection from Jackson’s Muzeum goes under the hammer in a four-day auction. Jackson had been collecting for 59 years. Jackson himself was bidding at the auction, buying back some of his favourite pieces.

• North Shore rugby premiers beat Glenfield 16-10 away to make the North Harbour championship final against Takapuna.

• Devonport writer and book reviewer Graeme Lay is named reviewer of the year in the Montana Book Awards.

• North Shore United 11th grade Achilles team wins the Kanga Cup, an international youth soccer competition in Canberra, Australia.

• A list of heritage guidelines, prepared by Salmond Architects, is released to help people avoid carrying out destructive alterations to character homes.

• A Tree Council wardens scheme aiming to increase awareness about trees, is rejected by the Devonport Community Board due to potential conflict between the tree wardens and owners of trees on private land.

• Speeding and hooning along Bayswater Ave is highlighted as a problem, in the community constable’s column.

• Windows removed from the old BNZ building on Victoria Rd are ordered to be replaced.

• Around 20 Naval staff help rewire Devonport Primary, installing a network to one of the school’s classrooms.

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Preparatory work is continuing on our land around Hillary Crescent.

One question we have been asked is why we are removing trees. The ones we are removing are in the way of proposed driveways or houses, or growing at a ground level that needs to be changed to accommodate the new buildings.

We will be replanting two to three times as many trees as are removed, and they will predominantly be native and eco-sourced. They will also be planted in more appropriate positions in relation to the location of the houses.

We’ve also been asked about Northboro Reserve, and want to assure everyone the park is still

• The roll at Stanley Bay school is booming, with pupil numbers set to rise to 300 in the year 2000. Devonport population demographics from 1991 to 1996 indicate that younger families were moving into the suburb, replacing older residents who had moved out or died.

• A bungalow on Kiwi Rd is on the market for $337,000.

• F ormer North Shore City mayor Paul Titchener is the Flagstaff interview subject.

He speaks about death threats and his love of local history.

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We would like to help upgrade the park with updated equipment and better access/walkways, although that will be subject to approval from Auckland Council and discussions with the local board.

You will have seen we are removing the old houses, after which bulk earthworks will commence. Like many houses built mid last century, the building materials included asbestos and the paint contained lead, which may have contaminated the soil around the houses. This is all being removed by professionals with health and safety procedures

being followed, according to the national guidelines.

The streets and footpaths are still open to the public, but the building sites themselves will be fenced off.

The house builders will be on-site before the end of this year and our marketing will get underway around the same time. We will have salespeople in the area available to take enquiries and you can also register your interest by emailing us at wrl@ngatiwhatuaorakei.com We are planning to hold one or two more drop-ins locally before the end of this year to keep everyone up to speed on what’s happening, so we will let you know the dates once they are confirmed.

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277 Beach Road Campbells Bay Three minutes’ drive from Milford, a hundred metres from Centennial Park and just four minutes from the beach, this is a superb location all right. And this is an equally exceptional property. This remarkable house was designed by architects Gillespie Newman and West.

It’s one of their iconic 1970s homes, wrapped around a stunningly peaceful courtyard, looking over the pool and surrounded by a neat tropical garden. From the first view of the unique wrought iron window frames and doors around the wonderful central entertaining atrium area, absolutely everything about this house is special. You’ll discover beautiful details everywhere; like the skylight in the polished rimu kitchen, the small ‘secret garden’ terrace, and the relaxing lounge, where two ceiling heights and the tall window set into the wall add to its cosy ambience. This is luxurious single-level living, yet its gently descending floor levels cleverly fold the whole building around the pool and courtyard, so that everything centres there. Each of the bedrooms is poolside, too, and the chic master bedroom has an equally smart ensuite shower room. The main bathroom has an elegance all of its own, created not least by the deep, deep bath and the refined practicality of a genuinely walk-in shower. You’ll also find a library to relax in, and a mezzanine office/study with its own rather distracting views. Light and airy each room may be, but rest assured, this house is very solidly built of concrete and reinforced block with adobe style rendering.

This place is rare, tranquil, and private. You could move in, kick back, and enjoy entertaining here. If life and style is what you’re after, this house will certainly give you both.

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14 Corrella Road Belmont The location is fantastic; the plans are finalised, and the Licensed Builders have been signed up. These three new townhouses in Belmont’s Corrella Road will deliver a modern urban lifestyle with easy access to Bayswater, Takapuna and Devonport, favourite shops and cafes, and the Shore’s wonderful beaches. The practical layouts have been finalised by the talented architectural designers and the Kiwi developers - plus buyers will be able to add their own personal touch to their townhouse with wall and floor finishings of their choice. The high-end development’s crisp, clean design for the townhouses focuses on ease of living. Every step of the design stage has focused on keeping maintenance to a minimum with layouts that deliver maximum space with a choice of living areas, four bedrooms, three bathrooms and spacious sun-drenched decks off the open plan lounge area in each townhouse.

These immaculate homes will have huge appeal and plenty of room for the entire family. For empty nesters, these properties offer a lock-and-leave lifestyle as well as the ability to accommodate visiting family or friends. Facing west, the design allows sunlight to stream through the large windows into the rooms, while the inspired architectural lines provide a degree of privacy. Each 270 square metre three-level townhouse will have its own two-car garage and private outdoor living spaces. And families will love the location being near Belmont Primary, Belmont Intermediate and Takapuna Grammar.

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It’s August and the year is flying away on us! We’re looking forward to a big month with our friends at Company Theatre.

Oscar Wilde is back in town with The Importance of being Earnest. It’s a classic comedy of manners, and will tickle even the coldest hearts after a trip through a cold night to the theatre.

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Bjorn’s blanket bonanza brings warmth to others

Company Theatre transports you to the 1890s, to Victorian England, for a performance of enchantment and hilarity. The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde’s most brilliant tour de force, a witty and buoyant comedy that has delighted millions in countless productions. This superb satire is one of the funniest plays in the English language – the delightful repartee and hilarious piercing of hypocrisy and pomposity will make you laugh out loud.

Two bachelor friends, the dandy Algernon Moncrieff and the utterly reliable John Worthing, lead double lives to court the attentions of the exquisitely desirable Gwendolyn Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. The gallants must then grapple with the riotous consequences of their deceptions, as well as with the formidable Lady Bracknell. After a simply brilliant turn in Deathtrap last year, Adam Pomeroy returns in the role of Algernon. August 11 to 25 is the season and you can grab tickets at iticket.co.nz

Winter warmer… Bjorn Piper with some of the goods donated by Devonport locals

Our first RoseTalk with Dave Veart on Archaeology of Ma-ori Settlement of Devonport Peninsula was amazingly well attended. We were embarrassed by its success. Now we have a new talk: Professor Geoff Lealand will show the film he produced and debuted at Doc Edge in 2017, The Reel People of New Zealand. This 30-minute documentary takes a look into New Zealand’s independently owned cinema theatres, still thriving in the cities and small towns of New Zealand.

It’s much more than an exercise of nostalgia for traditional film-going, as it shows that this South Pacific nation of little more than four million people continues to support a surprising number of small, art-house cinemas, with more than 100 listed on www. cinemasofnz.info, the website which inspired the film.

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Many Auckland children will be warmer this winter thanks to the efforts of 11-yearold Bjorn Piper.

Bjorn, a pupil at Vauxhall School, raised $1214 in a one-week collection and fundraiser for charity Give a Kid a Blanket.

He sought support through the Vauxhall School newsletter and Devonport Locals Facebook page. In addition to the money

raised, he also sourced a large quantity of blankets and warm clothes.

With the money he collected, Bjorn bought 18 sleeping bags, 20 pairs of pyjamas and 12 packs of warm socks (three or four pairs to a pack), hoping that some of the homeless children sleeping in cars or garages this winter might feel a little warmer.

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Guide Dogs Visit Tuesday 31 July, 2pm Harmony Hall, 4 Wynyard Street, Devonport We warmly invite you to come along to hear from Frank Bennett, experienced guide dog trainer.

He will share some of his wonderful success stories with guide dogs and you will get to meet some of the gorgeous dogs!

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Takapuna SCHOOL NEWS

Grammar JULY 27, 2018

Global relationships Being enterprising

Nigeria, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Ecuador, Mexico and the United States.What do these countries have in common? IB of course! The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB) is a two-year curriculum offered at TGS, as an alternative to NCEA. As the name states, this curriculum is worldwide, and every year students can attend an IB World Student Conference. The day after the school ball, ten Year 12 IB students, accompanied by Mrs Holding, flew to the USA capital – Washington D.C. – to attend the 2018 conference, alongside 123 other students from around the globe.

The theme for the week – ‘Student Activism and Social Justice in a Global Context’ – brought many inspiring and passionate speakers, including activist, journalist and humanitarian Shaun King. A student from New York, Sadie Opal, shared: “The whole conference really opened my eyes to social activism

and how I could be active in my own community, even as a young person.”

Working in Global Action Teams, the students developed creative ways to address the problems posed by conference speakers and presented their ideas to the other students at the end of the week. However, it wasn’t ‘all work, no play’. Students participated in activities giving them the time to get to know one another, being sent around the city on a scavenger hunt, seeing the famous Washington Monument and taking a sunrise walk to the Lincoln Memorial.

Ella Mishan, one of the TGS students stated: “I feel so blessed to have made such great connections with people from all over the world.” The conference was such an incredibly beneficial trip, both educationally and personally and one that none of the students will ever forget.

BY AMELIA PRICE

As entrepreneurs, Years 10 and 11 Takapuna Grammar students brought their dream stalls to life on Market Day. Their attempt to sell innovative and practical products to other students and parents was a success for most.

Customers had a large variety of products to choose from: phone cases, pet rocks, laptop stickers and body scrubs, to name a few.

The refurbished assembly hall, Te Poho, was filled with colour from the eye-catching stall accessories and decorations the budding entrepreneurs brought on the day. Many sported tablecloths and handmade posters.

Smiles and cheerful banter were exchanged wholeheartedly as the stallholders made their sales.

Through Market Day, the students learnt all about planning a business and what comes with starting a small company. One Year 11 business member, Isabella, said: “Market Day was a great opportunity for the teams to gain a better understanding of what it takes to not only develop a product but to actually make a profit.”

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Takapuna SCHOOL NEWS

Casino Royale: The Annual Ball, highlight of the social calendar

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Head Prefects Sinalei Faulalo and Will Clarke, with Deputies Lockie McNair and Kate Lee, and Principal Mrs Mary Nixon, shook hands with the guests as they arrived at Ellerslie Event Centre.

The giant James Bond photo backdrop was not giant enough for the 2018 prefects!

Mission accomplished: The Ball Committee organised everything, from the venue to the menu.

Casino Royals: Anna Forrest and Louis Curham were crowned Queen and King of the night.

ON THE TRACK: Congratulations to the U16 Girls Pursuit Cycling team of Elisabeth Dooley, Erin Cutts, Ella McKinney and Charlotte Chamberlain – Silver medal at the North Island School Track Champs in Cambridge.

ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD: Good wins to First XI Boys Football, 6-0 over Rutherford, and First XI Girls beat Maclean’s College 6-2. The Second XI Girls played top-ofthe-table Orewa College First XI and lost, 0-3. The Junior Girls teams had a bye as they have both made the Topfour play-offs.

ON THE HOCKEY TURF: Boys First XI lost to Mt Albert Grammar 1-4; Boys Second XI lost to WBHS3; 1-4; Team 3 beat Massey 3-0.

Girls First XI lost to Mahurangi College 2-3; Second XI had their first win in Division 2, 1-0; and the Third XI lost to Westlake Girls HS Jnr, 0-5.

ON THE NETBALL COURTS: Fantastic result for our Premier netballers - just promoted to the Premier division and beating the top team Carmel 46-28.

SAVE THE DATE: After the First XV Rugby team had a tough 14-12 away win over another top-four team, Massey High School, they will play Westlake Boys at home this week (Sat 28th, kick-off at noon).

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Grey Power wants licensing decision reviewed The decision to grant a liquor licence to a bottle shop in Clarence St should be overturned as it is a breach of human rights, says Grey Power.

In granting approval to the bottle shop, the Auckland district licensing committee in its decision said submissions from those who did not appear in person were of no value.

This stance was a breach of basic human rights and particularly disadvantaged senior citizens, said Grey Power North Shore President Bill Rayner.

“My particular concern is that such action would effectively shut out many of the senior community from the ability to exercise their statutory rights in this quasi-judicial process.

“Many seniors take a close interest in the affairs of the community they belong to, particularly in the social and community impact issues that are reflected in liquor-licensing matters.

“They are well able to submit informed and relevant written submission, but may not be in a physical or health condition to attend the hearings in person without great difficulty,” Rayner said.

“I believe that the rejection of the written submissions of non-attendees is at best arrogant

and insensitive, but as mentioned also a fundamental breach of their legal and basic human rights under our New Zealand legislation.”

Rayner wants the licensing decision put on hold and for it be revisited with fuller consideration given to all submissions.

The application was advertised and drew 41 written objections. It listed 17 points of concern raised by the written objections.

But the decision said: “Apart from Joyce Mace and Glengarry Wines Limited, none of the other objectors appeared before the committee at the hearing. There were two observers in attendance. Objectors who do not appear before us, without explanation for their absence, are in the position that their objections will likely have no value. Similarly, where it appears that an objector is unable to satisfy us that the objector’s objection is within the permitted scope of the matters contained in the Act that we are obliged to consider, then little, if any, weight can be given to the objection.”

Rayner says thousands of written submissions are made to Auckland Council’s 10-year budget and Auckland Plan, with no attendance at a hearing needed.

Digital Aurora [Group Exhibition] Sat 28 July - Wed 15 August Opening: Fri 27 July, 6 - 10pm

Larisse Hall: Lemonade Sat 28 July - Wed 15 August Opening: Fri 27 July, 5:30 - 7:30pm Meet the artist: Sunday 29 July, 11am – 3pm

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A group of mail laden Devonport posties pose in 1909 pre deliveries.

BMX track could fly at Narrow Neck NEW MOVIES MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN (M) 114min MARY SHELLEY (PG) 121min WHITNEY (M) 120min MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT (M) 147min INTERLUDE IN PRAGUE (M) 103min

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The development of an informal BMX track on the boundary of Woodhall Park and Waitemata Golf Course into a more permanent facility will be investigated.

A joint initiative between the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board and Devonport Rotary was given the green light at the board’s meeting last week.

FREE VENUE HIRE* Birthday parties, Private functions, Catering optional *minimum spend applies

Rythym and Blues diva Toni Swain, backed by top Australian musicians, brings us her sophisticated blend of Blues, Soul and Jazz.

Tickets $20 pre-sale – 8.00pm An acoustic blend of melodies and harmonies from The Free Wind, joined by Freya, a young singer-songwriter from Devonport.

Tickets $5 Child, $10 Student, $20 Adult – 6.00pm

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Belmont squash stars make their mark at world junior champs Belmont Park squash players Gabe Yam and Matthew Lucente both made it into the third round of the World Junior Squash champs in Chennai last week.

The numbers one and two ranked New Zealand juniors, both unseeded, bowed out to seeded players at the third-round stage of the 128-person draw.

Yam lost to a player with a senior world ranking in the early 100s, but the match went to five games.

By making it through to the third round of competition, Lucente and Yam effectively placed in the world’s top 32 juniors.

The pair are spearheading the New Zealand juniors in the world teams event this week, and were hoping to medal.

Solid performances‌ Matthew Lucente (left) and Gabe Yam acquitted themselves well in the World Junior Squash champs

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