2 June 2017 Devonport Flagstaff

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Heritage on the move again… p5

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Dramatic harbour rescue by Fullers A man was rescued from the harbour by An eyewitness (who did not want to be board I worried that I was going to be seasick.”

Fullers staff on the Devonport to Auckland ferry named) said after the ferry stopped in the middle “The conditions were horrendous, said the run last Saturday. of the channel, the man abandoned his hold on eyewitness.”

The man, clinging to an outrigger canoe, was the canoe and swam to the ferry. spotted in difficulties just prior to midday.

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Police believe the crash was caused by speed.

They said alcohol was not a factor.

Three passengers were taken to hospital.

One was released from North Shore Hospital two days after the crash, with internal bruising.

Another was released on the night of the crash and the third had extensive treatment for a fractured skull, police said.

A police spokesman said the driver had also been given an infringement notice for driving on a Restricted Licence with passengers.

Business as usual at Devonport RSA The Devonport Returned Services Association is continuing to operate as usual on Victoria Rd. RSA spokesman Fred Wilson said it was “business as usual” when the Flagstaff approached him about rumours the building may be put up for sale.

Nothing was happening to the building at the moment, although the association was aware it would have some obligations to make earthquakestrengthening improvements.

However, it had not yet received notification from Auckland Council of what these were.

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Goldilocks and the three (dozen) bears

Bear hug... Tess McGregor, manager of Devonport’s Hospice Shop, is turning a generous donation of a large teddy bear collection into a unique window display. “I’m going to do a special Teddy Bears Picnic theme,” she says.

Plastic not fantastic for opportunity shop Devonport’s Anglican opportunity shop is going plastic-bag-free.

“We initially thought about phasing the plastic bags out, but then we actually just went for it,” says Holy Trinity vicar Charmaine Braatvedt. “We have taken all plastic bags out of the shop and are trying it out.”

Volunteers now encourage customers to

bring their own shopping bags with them to the shop in The Arcade, Victoria Rd. “It’s the way our grandmothers used to and the way they still do it in Europe,” she says.

Donations of paper bags are welcome too.

“And if people want to donate their goods in paper bags or banana boxes, that would be wonderful.”

Man collapses in chemist A man who collapsed in Devonport Pharmacy on Monday survived after quick use of a defibrillator.

A Devonport Fire Station officer said the defibrillator from the ASB Bank in Victoria Rd was used to shock the man.

The fire service, and a St John Ambulance arrived within seconds of each other just after 1 pm.

Ambulance officers took over CPR on the man who was alive when transported to hospital, the fire officer said.

First response…a fire officer takes a defibrillator into the pharmacy

The op shop previously used recycled plastic bags. “A lot of people give us their recycled plastic bags, but we actually want to encourage them not to take the plastic bags in the first place,” Braatvedt says.

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Heritage on the move – again

Trucked out… a heritage bungalow in Macky Ave removed to make way for a new home Another house in Devonport’s heritage zone has been removed without public notification.

A 1939 Cheltenham bungalow located on 17 Macky Ave was cut into three parts and trucked up Lake Rd in the wee hours two weeks ago.

Council had granted to the application

by The Trustees of the Hossegor Trust, to demolish the home last November, with very little fanfare.

Hester Gerber, Team Leader Resource Consents at Auckland Council, who granted the application, said: “The loss of the existing dwelling and [the] contribution it makes to the built heritage character of the locality will be mitigated by the establishment of the new dwelling.”

The new build will be a two-storey single detached dwelling with an internal double garage.

“The exterior of the dwelling has a mix of built heritage and contemporary elements [such as aluminium joinery] incorporated into the design,” the notification decision document says.

In her feedback on the application, then Devonport-Takapuna Local Board member Dianne Hale said she was “concerned that the proposal is for the demolition of a pre-1940s house.”

Nevertheless, Hale conceded the work done by council officers was rigourous. “I accept that [the application] has been thoroughly assessed by the applicant’s heritage architect, council’s conservation architect and peer-reviewed by Rebecca Fogel,” she said.

Council Conservation Architect Stephen Curham said that while “bungalow houses are still pre-1940 dwellings that do offer some contribution to the collective value of the zone as a whole”, this particular bungalow “does not make a strong contribution to the character of Devonport.”

The homeowners said in a statement: “Our intention when we started our project was to renovate the current house so that it better connected with the site and the street. In order to achieve this we needed to make quite significant changes, such that it was assessed as a ‘demolition’ for heritage purposes.

“Ultimately, we made the decision to have the house removed – deciding that keeping it whole was a better option than retaining only a few walls. This is not a decision we made lightly, and we appreciate there are a range of views on these matters.”

“As an aside, this was not a case of the Unitary Plan changing the outcome. The resource consent application was made prior to the Unitary Plan coming into effect. The council’s conservation architect concluded it met the criteria under the old District Plan as well as the Unitary Plan,”the statement said.

Heritage advocate Margot McRae did not want to comment on the case when approached by the Flagstaff.

The Macky Ave home that was removed is the second heritage home to recently be trucked from Devonport. A villa at 113 Vauxhall Rd was removed earlier this year.

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Navy acts on asbestos signage complaint A contractor removing asbestos from sheds at Devonport’s naval base has amended its work practices after a local resident complained to council.

The removal of a long line of work sheds in North Yard along Jim Titchener Pde had been proceeding for a month when council received a complaint that there were no signs outside the base to alert passing walkers to the hazard.

The navy responded quickly to the complaint. “We have taken on board the suggestion of a local resident for additional signage to be placed on the outside of the fence,” a New Zealand Defence Force spokesperson told the Flagstaff.

The same day, the contractor also installed sheets of polythene along the naval base fence.

The spokesperson said that navy staff working near the site and neighbours in nearby properties had been informed.

“All demolition works are being completed by a (Class A) licensed asbestos-removal contractor. WorkSafe-approved dust-suppression processes are in place during removal of the material containing asbestos.

“There are nine air monitors placed around the perimeter of the works and samples are being analysed and assessed

daily. All levels have been below acceptable levels under WorkSafe regulation,” the spokesperson says.

Work on the sheds began on April 26 and is expected to be complete by June 2.

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Devonport drama king: living on the edge Drama teacher Geoff Allen is marking 15 years of nurturing Devonport’s budding actors with Living on the Edge, a new play about survival.

“It’s probably a subconscious metaphor about keeping a small theatre business going for so long,” he says.

Allen started Devonport Drama in 2002 at the Devonport Methodist Church. Initially, he had four students, including his son Beren, Over the years he reckons he has taught around 1000 children, including Ella YelichO’Connor (Lorde). At its peak, he taught close to 100 students in seven acting classes per week.

Allen has also written or adapted 40 plays for those kids to perform. “Each play takes me about 150 hours to write, so it’s a heck of a lot of work. But it also makes my life easier because I can write for specific kids and easily change lines if I have to,” he says.

In Living on the Edge, an ice-breaking ship looking for alternative fuel sources gets stuck in the ice and becomes it’s own little world.

It is Allen’s first environmental play. “We often do spoofs and comedies and I thought it was time for something more serious. But it’s still a thriller,” he says.

Devonport Drama is a family affair. Three of Allen’s sons have been students over the years.

The youngest, Aidan, now 14, was a Lost Boy in Peter Pan when he was five.

Aidan’s older brothers Beren and Morgan regularly sort out light and sound for their father’s plays. And Allen’s wife Robyn Gould, Devonport’s former Methodist minister, has played the harp and even composed music for some of his productions.

Former students have become an extended family of sorts. “They invite me to their 21sts.

I gave a speech at the first Devonport Drama wedding last year and we have a second one coming up this year,” he says. Quite a few of them will come to see Living on the Edge to help celebrate Allen’s milestone.

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Harbour rescue It took about “four or five attempts” to get the man on board. One of the Fullers staff was harnessed during the rescue to avoid going overboard. The man was taken to the private space on the ferry, which arrived into Auckland about 25 minutes late.

It was unclear if the man hanging onto the canoe had been rescued from the water by the paddler or had fallen from the outrigger and got into trouble. The paddler managed to carry on after the rescue.

Fullers is often criticised. But “I just wanted to give the staff a shout-out as they handled this situation very professionally,” the woman said.

She added it was also a cautionary tale for people going out on the harbour, as water and weather conditions can change very quickly.

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Geoff Allen with students (clockwise from top right) Reuben Kelleher, Ruby and Fraser Buckle, Sylvia Strong, and Holly and Nia Shipkov “Fifteen years have come up really fast. If I’m still here at 20, shoot me!” the 55-year old says, in perfect dramatic style.

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Local board seeks wide Lake Rd consultation The Devonport-Takapuna Local Board wants extensive, peninsula-wide consultation on the Lake Road plans.

It will start with a month-long consultation process with three public events hosted by local community groups in Devonport, Belmont and Hauraki.

In addition, all homes in Takapuna and on the Devonport peninsula will be informed of the consultation through a letter-drop, it says.

The board has invited Auckland Transport to join them at an 18 June drop-in session at the Takapuna Markets and wants to include “an emphasis on social media” in the consultation process.

In general, the board supported the rough outline of AT’s Indicative Business Case (IBC) without indicating whether members preferred a low ($10 million), medium or high ($70 million) budget.

AT app touted to help unclog Lake Rd A mobile ride-sharing app is Auckland Transport’s latest idea to get cars off Lake Rd. The app, designed to overcome locals’ barriers to sharing rides, is part of the transport agency’s multi-pronged approach proposed in the Lake Road Indicative Business Case (IBC).

A summary of the IBC was presented to

the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board on 16 May. Auckland Transport (AT) already has a number of other apps to help commuters with journey planning, real-time traffic information and bus timetables.

The ride-sharing app is part of AT’s approach of moving more people along the arterial road without increasing the number of cars on it.

Traffic chaos follows accident Lake Rd was gridlocked for hours on Monday afternoon after a male pedestrian was hit by a car just south of Hauraki Corner.

He was taken to hospital just after 3 pm, with life threatening injuries Traffic chaos ensued after Lake Rd was closed between Eversleigh and Jutland Rds.

Massive tail backs occurred in both directions – some of the biggest seen on the Peninsula.

At 5 pm Lake Rd traffic was still backed up to Victoria Rd Superette.

Side streets were also blocked as motorists attempted to avoid Lake Rd on the trip north.

But the board has asked AT to scope alternative routes for cyclists from Bayswater through Belmont to Esmonde Rd, as well as along Seacliffe Ave. Members also asked for a scoping of the continued parking provision along Lake Rd. Undergrounding of utilities – such as power lines – along the arterial road should be included in the consultation as well, they said.

Shore moves up table after slow start to season The young North Shore premiers rugby side moved closer to the top half of the North Harbour premiership with a close 24-20 win over Glenfield last Saturday.

However, the team will have have its work cut out for them this week when it takes on Massey at home (Vauxhall Rd) tomorrow (kick-off 2.45pm).

Massey has been one of the form sides of the competition and beat Kumeu last week.

Shore is hoping for a top six finish to the first round. After that points start again.

• With the closure of the Masonic as a popular pub venue to watch rugby, North Shore Rugby Club is opening its clubhouse to the public to watch the 10 Lions matches, which start on 3 June.

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Rising star heads to squash champs with top Belmont line-up Up-and-coming Belmont Park Racquets Club squash player Matthew Lucente won his way into the main draw of a professional tournament for the first time last week.

Matthew (16), who recently became an A1 graded player, beat clubmate Sam Sayes to qualify for the Professional Squash Association (PSA) event at the North Shore Squash Club.

Although he lost in the first round, it’s been a stellar year for Matthew so far: he won the U17 boys title at the Oceania Junior Squash champs.

On his way to winning this title, Matthew also became the first Belmont player to reach A1 and the highest graded junior boy in New Zealand. He has also broken into the top 20 male players in the country.

In an interview with the Flagstaff prior to his victory, Matthew was modest about his future and the possibilities of a professional career, emphasising that he was working hard on his game and trying to get as much experience as possible.

His form, and that of his clubmates, augurs well for Queen’s Birthday weekend, when Belmont has teams entered in both the women’s and men’s sections of the national squash club championships for the first time.

The men’s team of Lucente and Sam Sayes, plus Robert Garcia, Brady James, Gabe Yam and Rafa Yam, is competing in the Cousins Shield. The women’s team of Jemyca Aribado,Trina Moore, Juee Bhide, Natalie Sayes, Tracey Hartley and Jane Priddy will

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By Rob Drent I’m disappointed with Auckland Transport’s attitude to the dissemination of information about planned Lake Rd improvements.

At best they are playing silly buggers with the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board and, as a flow-on, the public. At worst it is circumventing democracy, and undermining public confidence in the process.

At the centre of the issue is Auckland Transport’s desire to have secret briefings on sensitive topics.

The Devonport-Takapuna Local Board – in a true stand for democracy – has bucked the trend in the rest of Auckland, by making all briefings public.

Auckland Transport wasn’t happy with this and went ahead with a briefing on the Lake Rd business case at its Auckland head office rather than at the board’s base in Takapuna. The briefing was attended by councillors, but not board members – and was not open to the public.

Before a subsequent presentation to the local board, the plans for Lake Rd were covered by major news organisations.

Their reporting appeared to be helped substantially by councillors, who had access to information from the secret meeting.

The local board was effectively sidelined, especially so when the report finally put to the board was a summary of a 100-page document.

Auckland Transport has refused to provide the Flagstaff with the full report or grant interviews with its authors. We had hoped to provide readers with more information when consultation begins this month.

The report – or what we have seen in the summary – is a disappointment. Three scenarios are offered: a small, medium or large solution, with a possible $70 million (of yet to be approved funds) to be spent.

Whatever was considered, there appears to be no “beautiful solution” – futureproofing Lake Rd for further population growth and including options for trams to join to the rail network that will eventually come to the Shore.

Where is the blue-sky thinking? Sure, the costs would be higher, but there are answers to this, such as a toll or even a special rate for Devonport to pay for it. I’m sure a lot of local homeowners would be prepared to pay a little more each year for a best-case solution.

More worrying is that the business case (again, according to the summary) does not address population growth in detail.

With the Ryman village going ahead, developments on Ngati Whatua land and at Bayswater Marina, and the intensification of

Belmont, Bayswater and Hauraki allowed in the Auckland Unitary Plan, the number of cars on the Devonport Peninsula is set to rise substantially.

Without proper population projections, how can a Lake Rd “solution” be seen as anything more than stopgap?

Alongside this, Auckland Transport has done little in real terms to get Devonport locals out of their cars. I’d be happy to give it a discounted ad campaign in the Flagstaff to encourage car pooling, cycling and the like.

The Flagstaff received numerous calls about a house at Macky Ave being taken off its site last month. Investigations reveal there is nothing to prevent the removal of the bungalow, believed to be built in 1939. Council approved the removal as a “restricted discretionary activity.”

The removal does however devalue the heritage street appeal. The house, and two bungalows of a similar age beside it, offered a nice slice of built history.

The number of calls and emails the Flagstaff gets on heritage issues shows the ongoing interest by locals in preserving our built past. Many people are expressing surprise that pre-1944 buildings can be removed or demolished.

The belief that buildings in this era have blanket protection is a myth. Anything can be applied for from council and applications are viewed on a case-by-case basis it seems.

What is worrying for heritage advocates in Devonport is how council officers are interpreting protection in the heritage zone.

With the huge rise in land values, many buildings will suffer the some fate and the number of heritage buildings in the heritage zone will decrease over time, watering down the very character of Devonport the heritage zone was introduced to protect.

It’s a process akin to death by a thousand cuts.

Congratulations to the Feilding-Rangitikei Herald, which was judged best community newspaper in the Canon Media Awards.

It was a year where predominantly small papers – including The Devonport Flagstaff – were finalists. The recognition augurs well for grass-roots journalism across the country.

A mea-culpa from me.

In my last column I said the volunteer-run information centre on Victoria Rd had closed following the World Masters Games. In fact, it has continued in the meantime with its part-time hours.

All power to them and I hope they receive official sanction by Auckland Council soon.

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1 Sure, landlords are entitled to a fair return, but stores’. You know the one: everybody in town 2 1 2 0 Devonport that has to be tempered by reality.

2 H 3:32am 1 0 1 is populated with 8:32pm small, character-filled stores.

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1 Macky Ave was able to be transported 2 2 the richness and diversity our area is known for.

1 away last week and a new house is to When will this stop?

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The editorial in the Flagstaff’s last issue (19 May) highlighted the loss of several small businesses and retail outlets, most with a long history in our village.

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‘No arguments’ at Maunga Authority hui I refer to the article ‘Maunga Authority kicks Cohen out’ in your 19 May edition, which claims that tempers flared when Devonport-Takapuna Local Board member Mike Cohen arrived at a Tūpuna Maunga Authority hui on 1 May. As I was present at that hui, there are several inaccuracies in the article that I wish to correct.

To clarify, Mr Cohen arrived during a closed workshop of the authority when members were discussing a range of budget, staffing and other matters, including fostering good relationships with local boards. A sign on the door noted that a closed session was in progress.

Mr Cohen is quoted in your article as saying authority chair Paul Majurey rushed over to him and an argument ensued. In fact, Mr Majurey was in the middle of chairing the hui when Mr Cohen entered, and the hui continued uninterrupted – Mr Majurey never left his seat and there was no exchange at all between them.

I personally handled the matter and explained to Mr Cohen that the Tūpuna Maunga Authority was an independent statutory body and was in a closed session for authority members and direct support staff only.

I invited Mr Cohen to return for the public hui commencing within 30 minutes and address the authority then if he wished.

Returning to the suggestion that “tempers flared”. They did not – in fact, there were no arguments at all. Mr Cohen exited the closed workshop session very calmly and quietly, as one would expect. He did not return for the public hui.

My real concern here is that one could assume from the article that there are deep tensions at play.

I have spoken with Devonport-Takapuna Local Board chair Dr Grant Gillon and I can assure your readers that both the DevonportTakapuna Local Board and the Tūpuna Maunga Authority are very committed to building a positive and mutually respectful relationship in the best interests of the maunga and the community.

Phil Wilson Governance Director, Auckland Council • Mike Cohen confirms that it was Wilson who spoke to him, not Majurey.

However, he stands by his view that Majurey was bullying the local board by not taking into account the concerns and opinions of the Devonport community.

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We are having a sort of gap year in Nelson, but a friend is sending us her copies of The Flagstaff, for which we are grateful, although some of the news is a bit depressing.

I was especially saddened to read about the proposed sale of St. Augustine’s, Calliope Road, where so many important local events have been marked. What’s upsetting is that it represents an erosion of community in our part of the world. We don’t have many community centres in Stanley Bay, and the loss of St. Augustine’s will leave a large hole.

In your article you mentioned that the brick church dates from 1930, and the wooden hall behind from 1910 (on that site).

However, the hall is much older than that, and is in fact one of the oldest buildings in Devonport.

It was the second Anglican church building in Devonport, and was built during 1865 on the site of the present Holy Trinity Church. It cost £550, a substantial sum at the time. George Beddoes hired my great-great-grandfather John William Parkinson to help with the building work: here is a photo of him (JWP) taken at about that time.

He kept a diary of their voyage to New Zealand in 1864, his work here, the birth in Auckland of their first child Frances (my great-grandmother) in 1866, and their later return to England. Here’s an extract from his diary showing the rush to finish the “North Shore Church” at the end of August 1865, and its opening by Bishop Selwyn on 3rd September. Our family oral history records that he helped with carving the pulpit, among other things.

This unassuming building is a priceless piece of Devonport’s early history, and it seems wrong just to sell it off to the highest bidder. I hope it can be kept safe.

Lawrence Carter, Nelson

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Zoe follows her dream to London dance school Zoe White says she was accepted into a London dance school because she never gave up on her dream. This September, she will be one of 50 dance students entering the Rambert School’s three-year Bachelor of Arts (honours) programme Zoe (17) started dancing at Mrs Snowball’s Devonport School of Dance when she was four. By the time she was 12, Zoe was entering competitions.

She attended the New Zealand School of Dance winter school every year.

First attempts to join a New Zealand full-time dance school failed. Then two years ago, Zoe auditioned for the newly established KMS Dance Studio.

She was accepted as one of the school’s first three full-time students and currently trains 27 hours a week in ballet, pointe, contemporary dance and Pilates classes.

“I have learned so much, so many professional details about Ballet shoes barre none… Zoe White is off to London to join a prestigious technique and performance. It dance school has made my dancing much more “In the last two years, I have learned to working for six months perfecting a twoclean and tidy,” she says.

Last year, her teacher encouraged Zoe to not just dance to music but to find my own minute Giselle solo and recently performed prepare an audition tape to send to overseas way in it, to look for moments of brightness it at local and Australasian competitions. “At dance schools. It included an improvisation in slow pieces and to try and go all out in a Bays Competition in Auckland, I got my Zoe did when the camera was still running. all my classes as if each of them were an first actual placement ever at a competition in New Zealand,” she says.

“It was totally spontaneous and I completely audition,” she says.

A student at Kristin School through to “And I just love performing for others. exhausted myself.”

She says the tape showed off her strengths. Being on stage is my happy place, and it has Year 11, Zoe is now enrolled at Te Kura “I am good at artistry, performance and been since ever since my first performance at Correspondence School. She says it helps her life balance. technique even though I have never been Mrs Snowball’s,” she says “I also really love food, baking and art. I Zoe also admires the precision of super flexible and don’t have amazing turnout professional dance technique. She has been don’t want to be narrow-minded,” she says. in my hips.”

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Interview

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Devonport skipper sets sail for Youth America’s Cup Devonport sailor Logan Dunning Beck is captain of the New Zealand team defending its title at the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup this month. He spoke to Maire Vieth before he left for Bermuda.

Considering the whirlwind of activity around the New Zealand ‘NZL’ team preparing to compete in the second Youth America’s Cup, skipper Logan Dunning Beck is remarkably calm.

Expectations are high. The victorious 2013 youth cup team was skippered by Peter Burling, who went on to win gold in the 49er class at last year’s Olympic Games and is now at the helm for Emirates Team New Zealand.

On the day of our interview a lot is still left to do. “We are just rushing to finish fundraising, everyone is in the gym pushing as far as they can and we are trying to train as much as we can,” Dunning Beck says.

Today’s wind is too strong for sailing. “The plan is to do some dry sailing, to jump on the boat and run through the manoeuvres on the dock. It looks quite funny when we are running side to side and pull on different ropes, yelling stuff,” the 23-year-old says.

Yelling doesn’t come naturally to Dunning Beck. “I don’t talk that loud and even when I yell as loud as I can sometimes no one can hear me. I am taking a whole lot of throat lozenges and Strepsils to Bermuda, because I expect to be completely hoarse after the first day.”

With a weight restriction of 480 kg for the six sailors on board, a few kilos still have to be lost, one or two by Dunning Beck himself.

“Being on the back and not doing much grinding, I am constantly getting hassled by the guys. ‘You shouldn’t be eating that, Logan.’”

Even amid the flurry of preparation, Dunning Beck stays unfazed. “In any sort of short-term campaign everything always comes together at the last minute,” he says.

It’s the first time he has led a large sailing team. “It’s a good team with a really big mixture of backgrounds – dinghy sailing, Olympic classes, keel boating and big trimaran and catamaran stuff. Everyone has gelled really well and it’s a great atmosphere on the boat,” he says.

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The regatta begins on 12 June. The 12 crews are aged 18-24 and are from Austria, Bermuda, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA. They are split into two pools to compete over four days, aiming to qualify for the final series. On 20 and 21 June, the top eight teams race for the cup.

Dunning Becks says the races – broadcast in New Zealand by Sky TV – should be exciting to watch, mainly because the boats are so fast. The 45-foot AC45 catamarans used four years ago in San Francisco have been upgraded. “It’s the same wing and hull, but now they foil while last time they were just displacement.”

The renamed AC45Fs are capable of reaching 40 knots. “We have a wind limit of 18 knots for racing, which is plenty. The boats are a handful after that,” says Dunning Beck.

The cup rules create a level playing field.

“It’s pretty close to a one-design class and we are not allowed to change anything on

the boats. We just show up and sail them essentially as they are. Nothing is secretive,” he says Training on the AC45Fs is limited to a maximum of 14 days – one week in April and another week just before the regatta. All other training is on the shorter GC32 foiling catamarans.

Dunning Beck expects Switzerland’s Team Tilt and the UK’s BAR Academy to be the strongest competitors. Both own GC32s and race them regularly. “They have had a lot of time in those boats,” he says.

What about the Kiwis? “We have done a little bit of training [on a borrowed GC32], but we have a bunch of guys on board who are really good racers. I think we will be right there. I’d like to think we can win it again,” he says.

For some of them this is the first time sailing on foils. Dunning Beck says training on the GC32 has been a good introduction. “Because it’s essentially just a big dinghy and you can throw it around a bit. It’s quite forgiving to sail and doesn’t feel as out of control as the ACs.” The speed is impressive. “Training on

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June 2, 2017 Tuesday morning, we were reaching along at 26, 27 knots and as we bore away a gust hit us and we had 34 knots through the bear away.

You are hanging on and the whole boat is shaking and vibrating and the rudder comes in and out of the water. It’s pretty cool,” he says.

The sailors wear helmets, and pads on their legs and tailbones. “And you really need them because you nosedive all the time and hit the waves really hard. Especially the guys at the front. Their heads and bodies get slammed around a bit,” Dunning Beck says.

He controls the foil rake on the reach and downwind legs of the race. “I have two buttons where I sit to control the windward and leeward board rakes. I am constantly adjusting the angle of the rake as the boat changes speed. I am on and off the button the whole time, solely focused on boat speed. It requires a lot of concentration because as soon as you are not doing it you are a lot slower.”

The skipper has no time to look where he is going downwind. “I am solely relying on the bowman and offside technician to feed me the right information to not hit anyone and go the right way,” he says. “Once we go around the bottom mark, it’s a lot easier. Then we can start to look around the race properly which is pretty exciting.”

Less exciting is the financial side of racing.

With no corporate sponsorship, the team had to work hard to find the $200,000 it needed.

A quarter of that goes towards a new set of sails. The rest is for flights, accommodation and food.

“Bermuda is very, very expensive,” Dunning Beck says. “When we went to the supermarket in April, the apples were US$1.69 per apple.”

The team is renting a house for their base. “It’s completely unfurnished and we had to buy a whole lot of appliances and stuff. But it was still cheaper than any of the other accommodation and is really near the dockyard, which is fantastic.”

As part of the deal, the team will have to repaint the house interior before they leave.

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After Bermuda, Dunning Beck wants to get straight back into 49er sailing with new crew Oscar Gunn (18), a young sailor from Murray’s Bay Sailing Club.

Until recently, Dunning Beck sailed with Devonport local Jack Simpson. The pair won gold at last year’s Sailing World Cup Weymouth and Portland, but went their separate ways this year.

Simpson has since teamed up with another Devonport sailor, Marcus Somerville. “It’s just a little change-up – two fresh teams,” says Dunning Beck.

“With this kind of racing on the AC45Fs there is simply no time to panic.

A lot of mistakes get made around the course by everyone, so you just try to minimise the size and number of yours.”

He is a well-rounded sailor. The twotime national Optimist champ and one-time national Starling champ has also won the famous P-Class Tanner Cup and subsequently competed in the 420, Laser Radial and 29er classes before switching to the 49er in 2012.

He left Takapuna Grammar five years ago and is close to finishing a degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Auckland, with a couple of engineering management papers to go. It’s been tricky to fit those into his sailing schedule. “Large group projects with required attendance don’t really go that well with travelling a lot,” he says.

Dunning Beck doesn’t leave the water often. For fun, he likes to surf or fish wherever he can. “Luca and I even managed to get in a surf in Bermuda one day, when we couldn’t sail. Some of the Japanese team were headed out. We hopped on their boat, borrowed a

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couple of surfboards and went surfing on the edge of the coral. It was quite surreal, the water was so clear and we were so far from land.”

Dunning Beck was taught to fish by his mother Anthea Dunning and he still likes to take the family’s 3.2 metre inflatable out into the harbour with her. They catch mostly snapper and the odd kingfish or kahawai. “If you catch the fish you have to fillet it. Mum mostly cooks them, but I can cook as well. Or I’d like to think I can.”

Dunning Beck admits that fishing is on his mind a lot. “It’s hard not to think about when you are out sailing and you see the anchovy schools coming in and boiling up on the surface and the birds go crazy. On a good day, you can see them like a big cloud come under the boat as you go past, with fish and dolphins going through them,” he says.

Anthea Dunning taught Logan and younger brother Hamish to sail as well, because the boys’ father, Grant Beck, an Olympic windsurfing coach and Team New Zealand member, spent a lot of time overseas working.

“She used to take us down to Wakatere and to most of the regattas. And it always seemed that dad was away when we went overseas on trips too. She was the one who got us there and kept us calm,” he says.

How will Dunning Beck keep calm in Bermuda? “With this kind of racing on the AC45Fs there is simply no time to panic. A lot of mistakes get made around the course by everyone, so you just try to minimise the size and number of yours. And if you make one, you don’t worry about it and keep on blasting around the course.”

His parents have been very involved in the campaign. “Dad’s come out with us and coached us a bit. And he and Mum have been helping a lot with the fundraising and logistics side,” he says.

But they won’t be in Bermuda. “It’s expensive, only a few people are allowed to be with us, and the racing is much better to watch on TV,” he says.

Family conversations around the dinner table have tended to gravitate towards sailing – until Dunning gives a certain kind of look.

“Then we realise we should be talking about something else and talk about sailing later.”

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Totara book has roots in Devonport A new book on the history of New Zealand’s totara tree has a Devonport connection.

Botanist Philip Simpson wrote Totara: A Natural and Cultural History as a fellow at the Michael King Writers’ Centre. He is launching the book at Devonport Library on Tuesday 13 June at 7.30pm.

One of the country biggest and oldest trees, the totara is commonly used in Maori carving and pakeha fence posts.

Simpson looks at New Zealand’s story through the lense of the tree.

Slow ball for tennis courts Improvements to the tennis courts on Mt Victoria will be considered by the Maunga Authority this year.

Fence upgrades around the courts have been budgeted for, but the timing of the upgrade of the courts themselves is uncertain.

The T-apuna Maunga Authority informed a local resident that due to the “decision in November last year to introduce pedestrianonly areas on the maunga, work on the tennis courts has been placed on hold to ensure that it is integrated as part of the broader pedestrianisation project.”

“Options will be considered by the T - apuna Maunga Authority this year.

However it is too soon to confirm a time frame for any physical work,” the authority said.

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Wharf work more of a hiss than a roar for Lions tour Hopes that some of the second-stage Devonport Wharf upgrade will be ready for the 2017 British and Irish Lions Tour have been scotched.

The first Eden Park game on the Lions tour to New Zealand will kick off against the Blues on 7 June.

Work behind the white hoardings at the wharf officially started on 15 May. North Shore ward councillor Chris Darby told the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board a day later that “with all going to plan” new toilet facilities, new glazing, a new canopy and a reconfigured retail space would be ready in time for the Lions test matches in June and early July.

However, Auckland Transport spokesper-

son Mark Hannan said eight days later that this was not the case.

“Stage 2 will not be complete in time for the Lions Tour,” he told the Flagstaff on 24 May. When asked about further details, Hannan said: “Tenancy negotiations are under way for the retail space, and further details regarding tenants will be made public when that is finalised.”

Hannan would not say how many months construction work is expected to take or what the project timeline for completion and reopening is.

Darby said expressions of interest for retailers had closed and new occupants would be announced later this year.

Butterbee heads to court in August Mediation has failed to clear the way for a central Devonport childcare facility, with the Environment Court appeal lodged by applicants Jo and Paul Blair heading to court on 7 August. The hearing has been scheduled for four days. A decision is expected by November.

Independent Commissioners rejected the application for Butterbee Childcare Centre at 159 Victoria Rd last year, after finding the planned centre was too big for the site, would impact significantly on neighbours and compromise the area’s heritage value.

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Nicholas Tarling: a huge contribution to arts and academia Emeritus professor of history and slightly unconventional swimmer Nicholas Tarling has died aged 86.

Professor Tarling was well known in historical circles for his forthright views on intervention and self-government. Less known was his profound love of opera and daily dips off Narrow Neck Beach.

In 1965, Tarling was appointed associate professor at the University of Auckland and in 1968 he became a full professor. He was later Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Chairman of the Deans Committee, and Deputy ViceChancellor. He established and shaped the teaching of Asia-related subjects in the Faculty of Arts.

In 1974, he was the driving force behind the creation of the New Zealand Asian Studies Society. He retired in 1996, but continued writing history books and an autobiography, History Boy: a memoir, which was published in 2009. He wrote, edited or contributed to more than 50 volumes of history.

Passionate about the arts, he served as chair of the Symphonia of Auckland, and as a director of Opera New Zealand. He was a busy amateur actor, first treading the boards in England in 1947 and appearing in more than 100 productions across Auckland over the years.

Locally these included Arsenic and Old Lace, Who Wants to be 100, and Someone Who Will Watch Over Me for Company Theatre at the Rose Centre; The Hostage, A Sort of Music Hall, Bullshot Crummond, Your Bed or Mine, and Loot for the Devonport Theatre Company, and several roles in Pumphouse Theatre productions.

When the Flagstaff interviewed him in April 1999, at the height of the NATO bombing of Serbia, it was difficult to see

At home with books and music… Nicholas Tarling whether opera records or books had won the race to take up space in Tarling’s home.

In the interview, Tarling was sceptical about superpower involvement in the internal conflicts of nations. At best, the motives and results were patchy, he said. In the end, countries would have to sort out their own problems once the ‘liberating’ or protecting power left.

Tarling was also an early critic of student loans and their fallout. He told the Flagstaff the loans amounted to the destruction of the state education system.

In his retirement he became involved with Auckland University’s continuing-education trips – Travel with Opera – where the group went to see operas overseas.

Tarling had lived at Narrow Neck since 1967 and he frequently swam in the sea.

He typically had a dip at around dawn and was known to raise a few eyebrows with his skimpy swimming costumes.

He was pulled from the water at Narrow Neck beach in the early afternoon of 13 May. But attempts to revive him were unsuccessful.

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Private beach access, daily or weekly rent. Fully furnished.

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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.

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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.

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

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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 COMMUNITY NOTICE Family Fun Day! Monday 12 June, 10am -12. Takarunga Playcentre, Mt Victoria. Entry: FREE. www.playcentre. org.nz /Julia (021 228 3778).

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

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.

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

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A gardener is available: Weeding, pruning, tidying.

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A painter is available now.

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A premium cleaning service weekly/fortnightly.

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

A1 Home Cleaners. Weekly/fortnightly. Husband and wife, honest, reliable, careful workers. All equipment supplied. Refs available, Phone or Text Joyce 022 073 1550.

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.

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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.

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Devonport upholstery. Recover specialist. Antiques and contemporary styles.

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

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.

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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.

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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, drive ays, paths, fences, roof moss treatments etc.

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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 chris@lifestyleplusltd.nz 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.

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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.

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Ph 027 391 3716 or visit www.squigglesdyslexia. co.nzTTUITION 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.

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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.

SITUATION VACANT Weekend Work In Devonport. Grooming cars and helping customers for a busy, buzzy local car and ebike business. Driving licence required. Saturday and Sunday working. No lazeballs. Call Jonno on 021 548 344 or CV to jonno@rockstarcars.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.TUITION Learn piano/keyboard.

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

I’m proud to be part of a government that cares about families and is taking this country in the right direction including those of us fortunate enough to live in Devonport.

the pay equity settlement that will see workers in resthomes receive a significant increase in their take home pay and help recruit and retain staff in our elder care sector.

After nearly 9 years of stable government, National knows how to get things done and by growing the economy we’ve achieved a surplus which gives us choices about how we invest with Budget 2017. We are sharing the benefits of growth by improving public services, investing in vital infrastructure, and lifting incomes and there’s significant investment in families, health, education, housing, conservation and the cultural sector.

We’ve also made a commitment to building 34,000 new homes in Auckland over the next ten years. Budget 2017 also delivered on something else very close to my heart – protecting threatened species and managing the increasing number of people who want to visit our conservation estate. There’s $107.8 million of new money to strengthen conservation programmes and make real progress on the challenges ahead – achieving the goal of Predator Free by 2050; saving and protecting our most vulnerable species as outlined in the new Threatened Species Strategy and ensuring we keep rat and stoat numbers down this year for the sake of our birds. You can fill out the online submission form at www.doc.govt.nz/draft-threatened-speciesstrategy-consultation and e-mail the form to threatenedspeciesstrategy@doc.govt.nz by July 31, 2017.

The centrepiece is a $2 billion a year family incomes package which will lift the incomes of 1.3 million families – on average by $26 a week.

As the Minister for Seniors I’m pleased there’ll be increased payments for more than 99% of New Zealand’s 750,000 seniors – 12,000 living here on the North Shore.

As a government we’re now putting up $436m for the first stage of Auckland’s City rail link and there’s funding for key projects over the next four years including the completion of Auckland’s Western Ring route, the Northern and Southern Corridor State Highway 1 improvements and the East-West link. Now what’s needed is for the two local left-leaning city councillors and mayor to re-invest the very large amount of our North Shore rates money back into our community especially to relieve traffic congestion on Lake and Esmonde Roads.

There’ll be nine new schools as well as extra classrooms to address roll growth in the city as part of $450 million being invested in education nationally.

Our local Waitemata DHB ran the pilot for the national bowel screening programme and there’s $38.5 million to continue its rollout throughout NZ. An extra $3.9 billion is being put into health taking the total investment to a record $16.77 billion in 2017/18. Also part of Budget 2017 is funding for

RNZ is a national treasure and, along with many of you, I avidly listen to it and I worked there for many years as a presenter of Morning Report and 9 to Noon. Now, as the Minister responsible for RNZ, it was deeply satisfying to deliver an annual permanent $2.8 million - or 8% increase - to its baseline funding. RNZ has transformed itself into a multi-media platform which I’m confident will continue to enrich our daily lives and be a lifeline in times of crisis such as the Kaikoura earthquakes.

We’ve recently announced more than $300 million to support the highly successful NZ Screen Production Grants. Since 2014, the grants have supported some 50 international productions and 23 home-grown movies like Dark Horse – written and directed by Takapuna Grammar old boy James Napier Robertson. Along with the changes we made to the labour laws to allow the Hobbit and other blockbusters to be made here, the funds will continue to enable films to be produced locally, supporting our talented, skilled and professional movie sector.

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Takapuna SCHOOL NEWS

Grammar JUNE 2, 2017

Year 12 students meet dolphins Year 12 PE students applied their snorkelling skills at Goat Island for internal assessments in early May. Coincidentally, the students encountered a group of dolphins swimming across the sea and interacted with them.

It was during the snorkelling and socialresponsibility assessments in open water that the students found a group of dolphins jumping and swimming towards them.

“We snorkelled with the dolphins, which were much bigger than I had expected. I also heard them communicating with ultrasounds.

It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” said Woosik Yoon.

The students also did a short tramp along the beautiful clifftop track through coastal forest.

“They were extremely well behaved and were excellent role models for the school. We look forward to continuing to provide our students with outdoor activities as the outcomes can be so beneficial,” noted Mrs. Lucy Perry, head of the Physical Education Faculty.

BY VERONICA YOON

Dawn to dusk on Anzac Day

To commemorate those who had fallen in war, our school prefects cleaned and touched up Memorial Drive with members of the RSA, prior to the annual ANZAC parade held in Devonport. “Repainting the memorials was a humbling experience in honouring those who had fallen,” says Saskia Vosper.

The following week, the prefects also attended dawn services in Devonport and Takapuna. In both services, wreaths were

laid in respect for the fallen soldiers. Prefects who attended the dawn service in Devonport, took part in the parade with the naval band, the navy, veterans, schools and other groups within the community.

By dusk, the prefects were back at school in preparation for the evening ANZAC service with many TGS family members who had loved ones who served in war. For many prefects, it was interesting to listen to the stories of the

elderly; of how life was at school in the 1940s.

During the service, Captain Mark Worsfold delivered an amazing speech of what life was like for the soldiers who volunteered for war.

Head prefects Harvey Merton, Saffie Doughty and Jarrah Swift also took part in the service. “The day ran smoothly and everyone thought it was great,” says Jarrah Swift, Deputy Head Boy.

BY SERENA YOUNG

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Grammar

SCHOOL NEWS

Being inspired to read and write Excited Year 9, 10 and 13 English extension students were lucky enough to attend the Auckland Writers Festival this year. This annual event included presentations by 160 local and international writers and was held to celebrate the power of language.

The students were spoken to by a selection of seven different writers; from a singer-songwriter to accomplished novelists and a Shakespearean expert. With love songs, stories of scary teenage girls, tales of creepy dolls, and insight behind the life of William Shakespeare, there was something for everyone. Some of the writers even touched on personal notes and brought important issues to the stage such as bullying, diversity, LGBT and mental health awareness.

“My favourite part of the day was overhearing a junior student telling her friend that she just wanted to rush home, clear off her desk and start writing. The whole day was inspirational,” said the Head of English Faculty, Mrs Danya Walker.

Kiwi singer, Anna Coddington,

English teacher Ms Jenni Pallister with visiting author, Jennifer Niven

spoke to the students about the expression of personal feelings through songwriting, while Canadian author Ivan Coyote highlighted the importance of standing up against bullying and issues surrounding the LGBT community. Frances Hardinge provided some helpful tips to creating creepy stories.

Year 13 student Thomas Hitman said: “The writers festival was very entertaining, and perhaps what I enjoyed the most was James Shapiro’s dry humour, intertwined with incredible insight of Shakespeare.”

BY MOLLY MCGARVEY

Students volunteer for the 2017 World Masters Games

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FROM THE FIELD: Nicole Svendsen and Julia Giurgiu have made the NZ U20 Girls squad for Ultimate Frisbee. In the short term, this means preparing for a test series with Australia. Next year there will be a final selection for the junior world champs squad to go to Canada. In addition, Olivia Boniface (who left TGS last year) made the U24 squad, which is a very impressive achievement given the calibre of players in that age bracket.

FROM THE TRACK: Pole-vaulter Imogen Ayris has qualified and been selected to represent New Zealand Athletics at the U20 Athletic Championships in Mannheim, Germany in late June this year. This is an amazing effort for Imogen, and great for her development as a member of the High Performance Sport/ Athletics NZ 'Pathway to Podium' squad.

FROM THE COURT: Congratulations to the following girls who made representative teams for North Harbour Netball: Hannah Howe-Smith has made U17 Team 1, and Livia Lauren, Piper Rush and Eva Steedman are in the U17 Team 2.

FROM THE TURF: The Girls 2nd XI has achieved the biggest win for TGS Hockey in recent years, with a 15-1 win over Kingsway 1st XI. In the week starting May 15th, all six TGS Hockey teams played outstandingly, with five wins and one draw.

From left to right: Sofie Safkova (Orienteering), Iris Leng (Games Crew), Julia Giurgiu (Athletics), Alice Wu (Badminton), Emilly Fan (VIP crew), Seb Safka (Orienteering). Absent: Cynthia Lu (Football), Kate Fan (Sponsorship Liaison Crew).

FROM THE FIELD: Well done to the 1st XV Boys Rugby team who have won three out of four games so far this season. In addition, congratulations to the 4th Grade team, which is unbeaten so far.

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With Community Constable Jasmine Bundle Hello readers, Pink Shirt Day was held on Friday 26 May and Constable Andrew Young and myself were welcomed to Takapuna

On the Beat Grammar School by staff and students to take part in their activities to reinforce their commitment to a bullying-free environment.

Pink Shirt Day is focused around the message to ‘Speak up. Stand together.

Stop bullying.’

The students spent some time in class learning about not being a passive bystander but instead standing up to bullying, being a buddy, interrupting, speaking out and telling someone to keep that person safe.

This is a positive approach to turning a bystander into an upstander and what I would call a good role model.

Some photos of the day can be viewed on the Waitemata Police Facebook page.

I would like to remind all residents to be extra vigilant in locking up their properties and vehicles.

Unfortunately, we are continuing to receive reports of burglaries and vehicle crime on the peninsula. Disappointingly, people are still leaving their vehicles unlocked making them an easy target.

Burglaries have been reported this month in Eversleigh Rd, Wynyard St,

June 2, 2017 Bayswater Ave (two), Wicklow Rd (two), Hart Rd, Vauxhall Rd, St Aubyn St, Rutland Rd and Hanlon Cres.

Vehicles have been broken into in Winscombe St, Spencer Tce, Niccol Ave, Jutland Rd, Onepoto Rd, Northboro Rd and Eversleigh Rd. O ff e n d e r s a r e t a rg e t i n g l a p t o p s , briefcases, jewellery, tools, sunglasses, clothing, footwear, cash and bicycles.

A boat and trailer was stolen from Takarunga Rd and an outboard motor was taken from a boat on Vauxhall Rd. One resident in Beresford St was surprised to find their vehicle was missing a wheel one morning.

Another person reported returning to their vehicle parked in Garden Tce to find it had been intentionally damaged with eggs.

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

Remember to use our Crime Reporting Line (where there has been an offence committed but there is no immediate risk to any person or property) 09 571 200, or Crime Stoppers (if there is no immediate risk to any person or property and you wish to remain anonymous) 0800 555 111.

THE NAVY COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER NAVY CHANGE OF COMMAND CEREMONIES Taking command of a ship or shore establishment is the pinnacle of an officer’s Navy career. And in May and June, there’ll be five formal change of command ceremonies at Devonport Naval Base.

The first one was held last week, when Commander Robert Ochtman-Corfe took over the shore-based Littoral Warfare Unit.

The Royal New Zealand Navy’s (RNZN) Littoral Warfare Unit (LWU) is a collective name for a group of units that operate primarily within the littoral or coastal waters, and sometimes lakes, and is comprised of divers, hydrographers, surveyors and mine countermeasures. Commander OchtmanCorfe, from Canterbury, joined the Navy as an engineer in 1992, and has undertaken a wide variety of engineering and logistics roles, both at sea and ashore, including service on HMNZ Ships Waikato, Canterbury and Te Mana, the latter as Marine Engineering Officer. He has undertaken deployments in Bougainville and the Persian Gulf. He holds a Masters in Science from Portsmouth University and is a Chartered Engineer. Prior to taking this command, he held project management duties for the Navy’s Fleet Seaworthiness projects.

The Littoral Warfare Unit will be commissioned as HMNZS Matataua on

Commander Lisa Hunn Frigate HMNZS Te Mana – 14 June Commander Lisa Hunn will be the first female commanding officer of an RNZN frigate. This will be her second command – she was the last officer in command of HMNZS Takapu before it was decommissioned. Commander Hunn joined the RNZN in 1990.

Commander Robert Ochtman-Corfe (left) with Maritime Component Commander Jim Gilmore handing over the charter from the Chief of Navy.

14 June at a ceremony at the Devonport Navy Base.

Change of command ceremonies will be held for: Lieutenant Commander Lorna Gray Offshore Patrol Vessel HMNZS Otago – 6 June Lieutenant Commander Lorna Gray, the first female commanding officer of an offshore patrol vessel, is from Otago, growing up on the Taieri Plains. She joined the RNZN in 2005 as a warfare officer, and has previously served on HMNZS Otago as a junior officer.

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Lieutenant Commander Damian Gibbs Offshore Patrol Vessel HMNZS Wellington – 22 June Lieutenant Commander Damian Gibbs grew up in Tauranga, Kapiti and Whangarei with a keen interest in most things maritime.

In 2004 he was selected for the RNZN as a warfare officer. His first command was HMNZS Taupo.

Commander Matt Wray – Multi-Role Vessel HMNZS Canterbury – 26 June Commander Matt Wray joined the RNZN as an ordinary seaman in 1984, specialising in the hydrographic trade. He spent the next 12 years at sea, commissioning as an officer in 1997 and posting to survey ship HMNZS Resolution. He was later the last commanding officer of HMNZS Resolution, which was decommissioned in 2012.

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Need to address child poverty… Innes Asher (left) and Kerry Gibson Local fitness buddies Innes Asher and Kerry Gibson have released a joint report on the link between poverty and mental health in children.

Sparked by a post-exercise glass of wine a year ago, paediatrician and Child Poverty Action Group spokesperson Asher, and Gibson a psychologist and then New Zealand Psychological Society president, decided to work together on a project.

They set off to investigate recent research and data on child poverty and mental health.

They found children who grow up in need will develop long-term mental health problems at triple the rate of kids who grew up in better-off families.

Gibson admits she was shocked at the causal relationship, and how much mental health is shaped by poverty. “For example, in early childhood, if nutrition is poor, it has an effect on brain development. Children start to worry about their next meal.

“If parents have to work two jobs to pay the bills, they have no energy left for parenting.

“Overcrowded houses mean there is likely more conflict and less privacy. Teenagers are forced on the street and those are often in bad neighbourhoods,” Gibson says.

Asher says poverty can erode children’s sense of achievement and belonging.

“It’s not that those children don’t have any dreams and aspirations; it’s that those dreams are cut off at the knees,” she says. Lack of parental support and a sense of shame contribute to this. Socio-economics is also a factor in youth suicide.

This is not just someone else’s problem.

Devonport and other affluent areas have poverty issues. “There are hidden pressures on people living from pay cheque to pay

cheque with a huge mortgage hanging over their heads, and feelings of shame can go with that,” Asher says.

Gibson says the message is clear. “It’s a no-brainer where we have to put our energy.

We can’t put it all into adult mental health services. We have to get to the root of it and address childhood poverty,” she says.

Asher adds: “It’s much better to stop things before they start.”

Asher and Gibson met as fellow sea swimmers of the Bucket Club, a local swim group, seven years ago. Two years ago, they added running to their exercise routine.

The photographic work of Gil Hanly and John Miller Celebrating Devonport’s History of Peace Activism with Mayor Phil Goff Saturday 10 June at 12:30 pm All welcome

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School goes free-range for a day

Slip slidin’ away... (from left) Jessica Kilkolly, Quinn Latu, HayleyRose Castens, Sacred Lokeni and Sienna Veikune enjoy the mudslide at Bayswater School’s Outdoor Classroom Day The mud was glorious and it definitely stuck on the first International Outdoor Classroom Day celebrated at Bayswater School on 17 May. The school’s 212 students spent most of the day outside, roaming the extensive grounds and free to do as they pleased.

School principal Lindsay Child says after the teachers set up a variety of activities, “the children were allowed to do what they wanted for as long as they wanted to. It was complete freedom of choice.”

They could slide in the mud, climb trees, chalk on the playground and roast marshmallows over a fire.

“Some of them chose to weed the native forest on the ridge, at the far end of the school field,” says Child.

The day was a big success in many ways.

“Every single child was completely engaged. There was a lot of incidental science along with all the social and physical learning,” she says.

“The children were completely selfmanaged and unlike during a usual school day, there were no complaints, no arguments, no injuries, nothing.” The school nurse was without work all day.

Child says they were lucky with the weather. “Thanks to the torrential rain, we had a wonderful mudslide and a great flooded sandpit waiting for us.”

At the end of the school day, the children were rinsed off with the school’s two fire hoses, before changing into dry clothes.

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Bayswater School principal Lindsay Child joins students toasting marshmallows

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Devonport artists help raise funds for refugee resettlement Newly arrived refugees will get a leg up with the help of five Devonport artists in the local exhibition Where Shall we Call Home?

Tina Frantzen, Jocelyn Friis, Julie Irving, Holly Sanford and Nancy Synnestvedt are among 50 Auckland artists who each donated a piece of work to the Art for Change fundraiser to help refugees resettle in Auckland. Each of them has put their own artistic slant on the refugee crisis.

Frantzen was moved to be part of the show by the refugees’ courage and determination to leave their homes for the unknown. “As generous-hearted Kiwis we are in a position to offer refugees a new home,” she says.

Friis says: “The current refugee situation is heartbreaking and has left me asking the question ‘What can I do to make a difference?’”

Long-time glass and window artist Sanford has created two large perspex works for the show, which are based on carpets and textiles from around the world.

Synnestvedt’s painting Travelling Light reflects on the different meaning the phrase has for travellers and refugees.

All funds raised will go the Red Cross Pathways to Resettlement Programme and the Auckland Refugee Family Trust.

Where Shall We Call Home? opens on Saturday 17 June and runs until Wednesday 5 July at the Depot Artspace, 28 Clarence St. An evening with speakers, stories and performances is planned for World Refugee Day The art of compassion... exhibition contributors (from left) on Tuesday 20 June.

Julie Irving, Holly Sanford, Tina Frantzen and Nancy Synnestvedt

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We’re developing our Local Board Plan 2017 and want to know what you think of the projects and outcomes we propose to focus on over the next three years.

These include improving our transport options, reducing traffic congestion, protecting our area’s heritage and creating a more vibrant Takapuna town centre.

Come along to one of the events below to find out more, talk to Devonport-Takapuna’s Local Board members and give us feedback: • Saturday 10 June, 8am -11am, Allen Hill Stadium, 25A Lake Road, Devonport • Sunday 18 June, 8am -1pm, Takapuna Sunday Market, 17 Anzac Street

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Bijoux Nortje knows it’s not just what you say but how you say it that opens doors in life.

The former Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) deputy head girl is heading to the Globe Theatre in London in July as one of 24 young actors in a Young Shakespeare Company.

Nortje says that it was her dramatic delivery of the single line “He lay there under a tree like a dropped acorn” that secured her direct entry into last year’s National Shakespeare Schools Production week in Dunedin.

“I was awarded best audience interaction for that line,” she says.

The entry helped Nortje gain selection for the Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand company and its two-week series of workshops, talks, rehearsals and performances at the Globe.

She is raising the $9000 for her first trip to Europe by working at Corelli’s Cafe and taking on design-work commissions.

This is her gap year, after which she plans to study either drama or business.

While still at TGS, Nortje won a Young Enterprise Scheme award and was top of her level-3 business class. “I would love to go into theatre, but I would also love to become a young entrepreneur, starting up a mobile business that involves clothing and music,” she says.

As the vocalist of local rock band Shed, Nortje celebrated another milestone last month when Global success... Bijoux Nortje will take part in a two-week the band released its first EP, Passive on Parade. Shakespeare programme in London in July

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Devonport activism in the spotlight on nuclear-free anniversary

Commitment… Devonport peace activist and breast cancer advocate Anne Hayden (foreground, right) with daughter Leonie at the 1985 Peace Fair on Windsor Reserve. Anne now lives in Greytown and Leonie is the editor of Mana magazine. (picture Gil Hanly) An exhibition to celebrate the 30th anniversary of New Zealand’s nuclear-free status will be held in Devonport – in recognition of the suburb’s commitment to the policy stance.

On 8 June 1987, Parliament passed the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act. But Devonport was ahead of the times. Six years earlier, the Devonport Borough Council had passed a resolution to declare the country’s first nuclear-free zone.

To celebrate both milestones, Ruth Coombes, the last active member of the Devonport Peace Group, has put together a photographic exhibition of images by Gil Hanly and John Morris. Both documented peace activism in Devonport and wider Auckland during the 1980s.

Celebrating 30 Years of Nuclear-Free Aotearoa/New Zealand is part of the Auckland Festival of Photography and runs at the Depot Artspace from 27 May until 14 June.

A special event on 10 June features speeches by key activists, including Auckland Mayor Phil Goff. “The mayor was in the Labour Government when it passed the 1987 legislation and he will talk about his experience of getting it off the ground,” Coombes says.

Maire Leadbeater, a former spokesperson of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and Reverend George Armstrong, who started the Peace Squadron, are among the other speakers.

Coombes has also put together a collection of her own photographs of local protests in a separate show on the ground floor of the old Devonport Borough Council building at 3 Victoria Rd. She took snapshots of the North Head protests in 1983 against the nuclear-powered frigate USS Texas coming to Auckland. And she documented the arrival of the Rainbow Warrior on 8 July 1985 from Victoria Wharf, two days before the Greenpeace vessel was bombed Depot Artspace Creative Director Linda Blincko says the show “throws a spotlight on Devonport’s long history of social activism”.

That history encompasses peace activism, the Independent Devonport movement and Ngataringa Bay development protests, along with recent opposition to the Ryman Healthcare village, she says.

• The special event starts at 12.30 pm on 10 June .

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