10 March 2017 Devonport Flagstaff

March 10, 2017

Leading Auckland – public workshops back… p2

Heritage villa removed with council blessing… p8

Interview: making it happen – Jan McEwen … p22

The Bunker closes on Mt Vic after 46 years The Bunker has closed after 46 years based on Mt Victoria.

The world-renowned Devonport Folk Club

venue was shut last Thursday after failing a fire-safety inspection.

Maunga Authority spokesperson Scott De

Silva met with club president Roger Giles to tell him it was all over. “He said it was the end of an era,” says Giles.

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A trip to the Waitakeres turns into life-saving rescue

Friends and rescuers… (from left to right) Zoe Harris, Harrison Smith, Ben Grobler, Ethan Alicalas and Ben Jones back in Devonport after a dramatic rescue in the Waitakere Ranges. Full story page 3.

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Public workshops back on agenda

The public is once again allowed to attend Devonport-Takapuna Local Board workshops.

The move comes after a three-month battle by some board members to have transparent decision-making. Opening up the workshops has been discouraged by council staff since the inception of Auckland Council in 2010.

A legal opinion requested by the DevonportTakapuna Local Board (DTLB) said “Local Boards can legally hold ‘non-decision-making workshops’ in the open and invite members of the public, media or stakeholders.”

But despite the legal clarification, the DTLB was split last week in its decision to allow the public in.

The board is the only one of 21 in Auckland to hold open workshops. But the legal advice suggests that all Auckland’s local boards could open workshops to the public.

Newly elected members to the board, George Wood, Jennifer McKenzie and Michael Sheehy voted to have confidential workshops, with the public and the media excluded.

Wood said holding open workshops made the DTLB “a one-off orphan on a collision course with council,” and called the move a “backward step.” He said the DTLB’s last three years of holding open workshops “was a disaster.”

Sheehy advocated for closed workshops after he was told “that council officers won’t

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Horse dung left behind on Devonport streets by new Clydesdale horse-cart ride operator Paul Stroobant has been the source of numerous complaints, according to Devonport-Takapuna Local Board member Mike Cohen.

Stroobant took over the tourist route last April from the late Dan Dufty.

In a report to the board, Cohen says that the aprons used to catch dung from Stroobant’s horses were “proving to be inadequate” and needed an upgrade.

“With the best endeavours of the by-laws inspector and local people to sight them, the horse and carriage (operator) are currently proving elusive,” says Cohen.

come and see us because they are worried about information going public.”

Board chair Grant Gillon, as well as members Mike Cohen and Jan O’Connor, voted in favour of open workshops. Gillon used his casting vote to get the open workshops accepted.

Gillon said as a member of two local boards (DTLB and Kaipatiki) from 2013-2016, he had noticed no inhibition from council officers and that both boards received consistent information.

“I think to say we won’t get the same information is a bit of a straw man being put up. If we did not receive the same information it would raises questions about council departments, not the board itself,” he said.

Cohen said the DTLB was lucky to have “two members of the press at meetings, an informed electorate and a large number of experts living in the area.” The community would benefit from having them present during workshops, he said.

“The perception of secrecy can lead to decisions coming to board business meetings looking like they are just being rubber-stamped.”

A schedule of workshops will be presented at the board’s next business meeting.

The battle over secret workshops began in 2010, when all the new local boards conformed to council staff advice to keep the public out of workshops.

In its second term, starting in 2013, the DTLB broke ranks and became the only local board to allow the public to attend its workshops.

Last October, council staff made a renewed push to close the doors on those workshops to the public, citing legal issues and efficient governance as the rationale.

The Flagstaff has campaigned for public workshops and greater transperency since Auckland Council was formed.

Devonport i-Site closure overlooked by ATEED

The lack of an i-Site in Devonport seems to have gone unnoticed by Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED). The council-controlled organisation reported to the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board’s February meeting that it “continued to provide advice and information” about the area “through appropriate marketing channels, including i-Sites within the region.”

The report covered the period from 1 July to 31 December 2016, but no mention was made of the i-Site on Devonport Wharf closing down on 29 July.

Visitor Centre opening soon Devonport is often referred to as the gateway to the North Shore, but it has no tourist office. The i-Site closed on 29 July, 2016.

It is understood the Devonport Business Association has a lease offer for a new centre at 3 Victoria Rd and is working through final details.

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March 10, 2017

Airlifted out of the Waitakeres A Takapuna Grammar School student fell 10 metres while hiking in the Waitakeres and only survived thanks to a dramatic rescue by his friends.

Ben Grobler’s head hit a rock as he fell into a waterhole. His mates pulled him unconcious from the water, and he was airlifted to hospital by helicopter, and lived to tell the tale.

Ben (15) and his friends Ethan Alicalas, Zoe Harris, Ben Jones, Francesca Parussini, Gabriel Rea-Bucknall and Harrison Smith took off for Goldie Bush, near Muriwai, on 12 February.

Gabriel and Ben Jones had come across a beautiful waterhole near the Mokoroa Falls a week earlier and wanted to show it to their friends. Gabriel’s father Iain Rea and Ben Jones’s mother Sarah took them back.

Ben remembers the early part of the outing well. “After lunch we went for a swim at the waterhole. There were some cliffs and we all jumped from a lower section into the water.

“Then Gabe jumped off a much higher spot and I wanted to give that a go too,” he says.

As he jumped, Ben says he lost his balance for a split second. “The last thing I remember is a branch next to me and wanting to hold on to it,” he says.

He did, and his friends, who were watching from below, say it helped to slow his fall.

But near the bottom, Ben twice hit a rock with the back of his head.

Ben Jones captured the moment on his GoPro. “You can see how Ben’s body went totally limp as soon as he hits the rock. Then he just rolled into the water and sank,” he says.

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Back at home… Ben Grobler

Rescuer… Iain Rea

Ethan and Gabriel dived into the brown and murky water but couldn’t retrieve Ben. Harrison said: “It’s a very deep hole. We had tried to swim to the bottom earlier, but couldn’t, because it’s so deep and dark and creepy.”

The adults were standing a few steps along the path and heard the kids scream. Rea jumped into the water and managed to find Ben about three metres from where he had disappeared.

“He saved me,” says Ben Grobler.

After more than a minute under water, Ben inhaled as soon as he emerged to the surface.

Because he was unconscious when he landed in the water, he hadn’t swallowed any. “But I threw up and was very cold and shivering all over,” he says.

The three friends with mobile phones – Ben Jones, Zoe and Harrison – sprinted 15 minutes

up the track before getting reception to call 111.

“Then it took a while to convince them that an ambulance was no good because it’s a rough track and you have to cross the stream multiple times to get there,” says Ben Jones.

A helicopter airlifted Ben out two hours later.

“There was nowhere for it to land so it had to hover above me and pull me up.”

Ben spent three days at Auckland Hospital and was diagnosed with a bruised shoulder, a minor scull fracture, some bruising on his brain and a moderate concussion. For the next 10 days, he mostly slept.

Zoe says she had nightmares about the accident for days. Ben has no desire to watch the video of his fall. And none of the friends want to go back to Goldie Bush any time soon.

“I want to give a lot of credit to my friends, and to Iain, who saved my life. I have had a lot of time to think about the day and I think it’s amazing how in a stressful situation humans can work as a team and how it brings out the best in people,” he says.

Zoe still can’t quite believe what happened.

“Usually stuff like this doesn’t happen in real life,” she says.

End of an era: dismay over bunker closure

“We had a visit from a fire-department person the day before. She walked around with a tape measure, measuring steps, doors and windows,” he says. “I showed her our fire-drill procedure, the evacuation maps, the emergency lights, the fire extinguisher.

She took lots of photographs but made no comment on any of it. I had a feeling this wasn’t going to go well.

“Then Scott De Silva asked to meet at the Bunker this morning. He said we can’t use it any longer. The doors aren’t wide enough and, because it’s a heritage building, nothing can be altered. Limiting numbers of people who can enter isn’t an option either,” says Giles.

After a small chimney fire earlier this year, council officers had paid two prior visits.

“They said things looked fine,” he says.

Giles’s partner Hilary Condon, who jointly runs the folk club says it wasn’t the fireplace but the risk of an electrical fire in the small kitchen area that prompted the closure.

Giles and Condon are gutted. “It’s been our life. Plus the Devonport Folk Club is an internationally known entity because of where it is,” says Giles.

By Friday, Giles was looking at alternative venues for concerts scheduled for this

Monday and Wednesday, both expected to attract around 80 patrons.

Giles reckons a space at 27 Lake Road, above the Claystore community workshop, could be an ideal permanent home for the club. “We could set up another Bunker, hang all our pictures on the walls, shift in the library, etc.”

Until a permanent home has been found, the club’s belongings will remain enshrined at the Bunker. “I will still look after them, of course, keep the Bunker ventilated and the damp out of it. It’s my second home,” he says.

Auckland Council though appears to have left a small window of opportunity for the Bunker to reopen.

Rod Sheridan, the council’s General Manager, Community Facilities, said: “The council is currently undertaking a series of investigations into the safety of the Bunker. Upon receipt of the final findings of these investigations, we will work with the leasee and the Tūpuna Maunga Authority on the next steps.

“The council has been in close communication with the Devonport Folk Music Club and has confirmed that all March events can be held at Fort Takapuna while the building investigation is underway,” Sheridan said

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Luke and Vanessa Reynolds had been considering Devonport for 18 months before finally finding the premises at 18 Clarence Street to set up their new clinic The Physio Space. After the success of their clinic Island Physiotherapy based on Waiheke Island, where they live, Devonport seemed like the logical next step for branching out.

“Luke lived on the North Shore when we met, and I was based on Waiheke, so Devonport was a great common ground for us.

We spent a lot of time here and have both always loved it. I have ancestral affiliations with the area too, so Devonport has always been one of those places that I feel like I’m at home” considers Vanessa. “Luke is also from Northern Ireland, so the fact there are a lot of expats based here gives him a nice sense of home too”.

Coming from a tight-knit community and seeing the success of their physiotherapy model with a strong emphasis on providing free treatment to people with approved ACC claims, Luke and Vanessa could see how the same model would work in an equally community-driven place like Devonport.

“Providing treatment for free on approved ACC claims means that people who might not otherwise seek treatment, or carry treatment through to full rehabilitation, can do just that. It allows people to reach their optimum functioning level” says Luke, who trained as a physiotherapist in Cardiff, Wales.

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Devonport mum hangs in for the long haul A Devonport mother of four has won a prestigious trophy after cycling from Wellington to Auckland.

Jo Smith was crowned “Most Impressive Rider” in the 800km BDO Wellington to Auckland Cycle Challenge in February.

“At home we call it the ‘tries-hard trophy’ because I basically finished every single stage of the ride last. But I did finish,” says Smith.

And finishing is indeed an achievement. Of the 170 solo entrants, 30 withdrew during the eight-day event.

But Smith stuck with it. “It was a bit like having a baby. Now that it’s two weeks after I say it was great, but there were some horrible bits.”

On day two, Smith endured 70km/h wind and hail, sleet and rain before the second stage of that day’s ride was cancelled. Every day, riders would pass her. She occasionally needed to push her bike up hills.

The morning leg from Ohakune to the Chateau on Mt Ruapehu was the worst ride of her life, she says. “I was counting down 6km of continuous uphill in 100 increments.

It was worse than going up Mt Ruapehu in the afternoon,” she says.

She was close to giving up a couple of times. “I had to talk to myself quite sternly then. I had to remind myself that I was setting Setting an example for her kids… Jo Smith forced herself to keep an example for my kids about always doing going on the Wellington to Auckland cycle ride your best and that quite probably I hadn’t done my best yet,” she says.

Cycling through a flock of sheep, going along remote back roads and seeing the finish line at the end of the day were highlights of the challenge.

Smith has been road cycling for 13 years and has clocked up a few miles, but this race was by far her most ambitious. Weight loss was part of her goal. “I did lose about 10kg all round, before, during and after, with most of it during because it was actually quite hard to eat enough,” she says.

The next goal is to be “fitter, faster and smaller” in 2018 when she wants to complete a similar South Island event between Nelson and Queenstown.

“If I lose another 10kg by then, it will be much easier to get up those hills,” she says.

Ultimately, Smith wants to cycle from Cape Reinga to Bluff. Doing some of the long sections as part of an event is easier than cycling alone on a touring bike with panniers, because “a lot is organised for you and people are generally very encouraging and supportive,” she says.

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Brickworks at Wakakura should stay: settlement bill report The historic brickworks at the site of the proposed Ryman Healthcare retirement home should remain as part of a marginal strip, according to a Maori land settlement report.

Ryman’s planned development (approved

by Auckland Council) gets rid of the remnants of Duders brickworks – contrary to the spirit of the Maori land settlement that freed up the land for development.

The settlement report says: “The Wakakura block also includes the remains of historical brickworks, and this site is included in the marginal strip.”

“We encourage all parties to preserve the archaeological heritage on the Wakakura Block,” the report states.

The Wakakura block was transferred to Maori by way of the Ngati Whatua Orakei Claims Settlement Bill.

A report attached to the 2012 Bill says the Mary Barrett Glade in the southern area of the Wakakura Block is currently accessible via a public walkway.

“The accessible parts of the glade and the walkway would be within the marginal strip to be created when the site is transferred to Ngati Whatua Orakei.

“The strip is to be administered by the Department of Conservation,” the report says.

Once the Wakakura block was passed on to Ngati Whatua, it then leased the land to Ryman.

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Auckland Transport is refusing to provide the Flagstaff with details of work done on potential Lake Rd solutions – despite a much-publicised push for transparency.

The move towards greater openness came after Auckland Transport officials were caught up in a corruption scandal over contracts, which has seen one employee sent to prison and others investigated by the Serious Fraud Office.

Last week, Auckland Transport sent out a list of current contracts: it including $395,000 to Beca Consulting for an indicative business case study for Lake Rd. An update of where Auckland Transport was going with the case study was put to the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board in December at a closed briefing. (Since then the board has voted to make these open to the public and the media.) The board put forward a number of options and suggestions to be factored into the study.

The Flagstaff asked Auckland Transport for the brief given to Beca as well as information put to the board and any outcome from the briefing. Auckland Transport was far from forthcoming.

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“Auckland Transport is nearing the completion of an Indicative Business Case (IBC) investigation into Lake Road improvements. The IBC output is being drafted currently and it is intended to be presented to the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board in March or April for initial feedback,” said Auckland Transport spokesman Mark Hannan.

“The IBC will present an analysis of the ability of these options for addressing travel issues within the Devonport Peninsula, and offer a recommended package of improvements for the Local Board’s feedback. “Support from the local board will be vital for any proposal to move forward and enable AT to seek funding.

“Public engagement on the potential options will be undertaken following the presentation to the Local Board.

“Beca have been engaged but are still working on the draft, which hasn’t been finished yet,” Hannan said.

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Ellie dances her way to top in NZ Ellie Brown is the best in New Zealand in jazz dancing.

The 14-year-old Takapuna Grammar Year 9 student scored 97 per cent in her Intermediate Jazz AJDA exam – the top marks in the country.

Ellie is mad about dance, converting part of her bedroom into a mini dance studio, complete with ballet barre.

She has been doing ballet since age three, jazz dance since seven, contemporary dance since 11, tap since 13 and a bit of hip-hop every now and then.

Ballet is her passion. “But jazz is great too because it’s fun. It’s full of tricks and jumps and it’s a bit easier than ballet,” she says.

At her Intermediate 1 exam, Ellie scored 97 out of 100 possible points. In the Intermediate 2 exam she took straight after, she got 76 out of 80 points, before she had to abort the exam due to a knee injury.

Her Intermediate 3 exam will be in September and Ellie is aiming for a perfect score.

The top scores don’t come without a lot of effort and Ellie has a 26-hour plus weekly dance schedule.

She has ballet lessons at Auckland Academy of Dance in New Lynn, jazz, contemporary, tap and hip-hop lessons at Made to Move in Devonport, rehearsals with Takapuna Grammar School’s Cactus Dance Company as well as for the school’s upcoming production of Grease.

And her dance load is likely to increase next term as Ellie prepares for a ballet exam. When she turns 16, she wants to audition for the New Zealand School of Dance – which will require a lot of hard work for the next two years.

Ellie is extremely fit, but she says dance also exercises her brain every day. “Because you do a lot of brain-teasing, learning a routine and then having to do it backwards or reverse to the other side,” she says.

Ellie’s ultimate goal is to dance professionally. “But I know that is very hard to do because there are only two or three spots that come up every year in New Zealand,” she says. Her plan B is to become a dance teacher, run a dance company, or become a physiotherapist.

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Trucking in heritage – historic villa replaced Fears the “Disneylandation” of Devonport will accelerate have risen with the removal of a protected villa in Cheltenham.

The house at 113 Vauxhall Rd – an original Victorian farmhouse that apparently predated other villas nearby – was being prepared for removal earlier this week.

Pre-1944 villas south of the golf course are supposed to be protected. But according to Auckland Council officer Hester Gerber, it’s all okay because the villa will be replaced by a prettier Edwardian villa from Onehunga.

The application by Fiona North and Ralph Stewart, has been backed by Salmond Reed – a firm of architects specialising in heritagerestoration projects.

Both Gerber and Lloyd Macomber of Salmon Reed say the effects of the removal are less than minor. The application was not notified for public submissions.

Devonport Heritage advocate Trish Deans says the case creates a dangerous precedent.

It is only a short step away from demolishing or removing old buildings and replacing them with replica buildings, she says.

“So the new owners see an opportunity to remove an authentic Devonport villa and take one away from Onehunga. It’s the Disneylandation of Devonport – replacing real heritage with a home that has no connection to Devonport.”

The application to remove the villa from 113 Vauxhall Rd is a restricted discretionary activity under the Auckland Unitary Plan, which means council officers can decide whether to approve it.

Gerber says the adverse effects will be “mitigated by the replacement dwelling, which is to be of a similar character of the site and surrounding area”.

Although there is no mention in the Salmond Reed report of the age of the villa, Macomber said there was no visible or historical evidence that the 113 Vauxhall Rd villa was particularly “notable, either in built form or decoration”.

Many modifications had also been made over the years, Macomber said.

While none of the modifications “are particularly difficult to remedy, the combined work required to repair or reverse all the noted items to a carefully designed, detailed and executed standard is not be underestimated, particularly in terms of costs to the applicant.”

“Having regard to the diminished contribution to the special character of the

Out… an original Devonport villa seen as not worthy for renovation

In… an Edwardian villa from Onehunga that is in better condition area, the rear-site location and the mixed character housing stock of the neighbourhood, it is submitted that there will be less than minor impact on values as the result of removing the house from the site,” Macomber said.

By comparison, the Edwardian period villa, presently sited at 184 Arthur St, Onehunga, was in “excellent condition... an attractive example of its type” and would be more attractive from the street.

When 113 Vauxhall Rd was put up for sale in 2014, it was marketed as a 100-year-old do-up. “First time on the market in 50 years this big-boned 100-year-old villa sits proud and tall waiting for her well-earnt facelift. It’s all about location.”

When contacted last Friday, Macomber said the report was prepared using archival research. Neither the Devonport Museum nor the previous owner had been contacted as part

Former owner: How can this happen?

The removed villa was the original farmhouse on Vauxhall Rd, built in the 1880s, says Kerry Hyde, whose family owned the property for 50 years.

“I’m bloody shocked,” says Hyde, who sold the property 18 months ago and now lives at Leigh.

“I can not believe that a historic building like that can be cut up and moved.

“I thought the reason we had heritage protection was to preserve buildings like this,” he says.

“It’s the original farmhouse of Vauxhall Rd. It was set back from the road and originally had stables in the front.”

Hyde began receiving calls late last week that his old family home was being cut up and removed.

of the report’s preparation.

Macomber stood by the report “and the process” but conceded that additional information can come to light.

“I had a chat to Jeremy (Salmond, principal of the firm) and a big part of it (the application) was the visibility from the street – it would have been a different story if the house had been on the street frontage of Vauxhall Rd.” Asked about the appropriateness of the villa being replaced by one from Onehunga, Macomber said the house from Arthur St was in a commercial zone with no protections and was either going to be demolished or removed from the site.

Villa removal a “tragedy” Long-time Devonport Museum member Rod Cornelius described the house removal as a “tragedy”.

The villa was one of Devonport’s original houses and very historic in nature, Cornelius said. “It’s a very early home.”

He understood the Edwardian house from Onehunga, formally owned by Richard Northey, could not be demolished so a deal was struck that it could be moved.

“I had heard it was being moved to Devonport but did not know where to until now.

“It’s terrible for heritage – it really opens the floodgates (for the removal of other old homes in Devonport),” he said.

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Effects less than minor

Home swap “enhances” Devonport One of the owners of 113 Vauxhall Rd says the decision to move the original villa was only taken after “very serious consideration” .

Fiona North said the move was a “removal and replacement… we feel we are enhancing the special character of Devonport.”

The opportunity had arisen to purchase and save the 1903 home in Onehunga, which may have been demolished.

“We are living in Devonport because we appreciate its special character,” she said.

While the application did not go out for public notification, “we talked to all our neighbours who were very happy with it”.

She said the title of the Vauxhall Rd house dated back to 1889. One early owner was a commercial traveller. Land from part of the original title was subdivided “very early on” she said. She was unaware of the previous owner’s belief it was an original farming homestead for the area.

North said the house had been extensively modified and poorly maintained. A key part of the application was the fact it was set back from the road.

The replacement house would be left 90 per cent unchanged, she said.

Both villas were being shifted very carefully, she said.

But while the Onehunga villa will end up in Devonport, the future of the home it replaces is less certain. It will go to a removed-houses yard until a buyer is found.

Global warming forces Navy to change course Rising sea levels are behind the Royal New Zealand Navy’s $100 million five-year building programme at the Devonport naval base.

A New Zealand Defence Force spokesperson told the Flagstaff that due to “implications from sea water encroachment to low-lying areas around Ngataringa Sportsfield, NZDF is investigating appropriate cost-effective action to maintain its long-term presence at Devonport.”

The Navy’s Ngataringa Bay land was steadily reclaimed around the 1930s. The Flagstaff has published photos of the sea rising onto the land during king tides.

To mitigate rising sea levels, the Navy was looking into consolidating its services in the base’s south, the spokesperson said.

When asked about plans for the $25 million multi-story car park scheduled to be built in March next year, the Flagstaff was told that: “The building design is not yet in development.”

The aim was to consolidate Navy parking on the base.

Any intensification would “comply with the height restrictions contained within the site designation under the Auckland Unitary Plan,” the spokesperson says.

For Philomel and the Dockyard, the maximum permitted building height is 18 metres.

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Eight-metre building: “effects less than minor”

Not notified… Ian Symes looks at the view, much of which will disappear with the new building A new two-storey, eight-metre-high home has been permitted in a historic zone without notification, as its “effects would be less than minor.”

The proposed house by Wayne and Margaret Lees at 36 King Edward Parade on a subdivided site was granted consent by council planner Jason Drury.

He quotes extensively from a planning report provided by Cherie Lane of Lane Associates.

The applicants needed consents as the proposal breaches council regulations on landscaping needed in rear yards and the fact it is a new building in a Category B heritage area.

Neighbour Ian Symes said he and wife Angela are appalled neighbours weren’t notified of the project.

He approached the Flagstaff after reading about council decisions not to notify resource consents using the catch-all phrase “effects less than minor.”

“The way council officers are interpreting the law is something everyone should know about.

“With a stroke of the pen, they have taken away the rights of the average ratepayer.”

Symes says the effect on his property at 2B Church St are major.

“The new building would block our lovely view of the harbour – the reason we bought the property,” he said in a letter to council.

“It will reduce our joy of living here – it will have a detrimental effect on our lives,” Symes said.

Council has rebuffed Symes’ complaints saying the rooms of the first floor of the proposed dwelling that face north are the bedroom and other personal areas, not family living spaces.

“As the proposed dwelling will not look into any private living areas of the neighbouring dwelling, any adverse effects on any persons at 2B Church St, will be less than minor,” the council report said.

Symes said he had formally objected to the consent being approved. The next step could be a $10,000 judicial review of the decision by the High Court. But the cost – often just the tip of the iceberg – was hugely prohibitive, he said.

The Symes, who have lived at 2B Church St since 1994, have always expected a house to be built on the Lees’ property at some stage, but felt if they had a chance to see the plans and offer suggestions some of their view may have been saved.

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Traffic problems admitted in Ryman development A contractor wanting to remove nearly 80,000 cubic metres of excavated soil from Ryman Healthcare’s Ngataringa Rd site, in preparation for the construction of a large-scale retirement complex, says doing so by truck using Lake Rd would be “problematic.”

But the Flagstaff understands a proposal to get rid of the soil by barges loaded at the Devonport naval base has been rejected by the

Royal New Zealand Navy.

“The increase in traffic volumes would make Lake Rd even more congested than it is already and the time taken for truck movements would at times be inefficient,” the contractor says, in documents obtained by the Flagstaff.

The contractor approached the Navy with a plan to use a naval wharf to load barges that would dump the soil at sea.

The Flagstaff understands that the Navy turned down the request as unfeasible, in part because it would involve around 35 truck movements a day heading south on Lake Rd, through Devonport village and along Queens Parade. The contractor says most of the soil would be removed in the first year of the estimated three-to-four-year construction period.

Ryman appeal gathers momentum Urban Auckland and the New Zealand Institute of Architects’Auckland branch have joined an Environment Court challenge to the consent for Ryman Healthcare’s planned retirement development in Ngataringa Rd. Both organisations were submitters on Ryman’s resource-consent application that was approved by an Independent Hearing Panel’s two-to-one majority decision.

An appeal against that decision was recently lodged by Devonport Peninsula Precinct Society (DPPS), a local community group that opposes the bulk and size of Ryman’s design.

Submitters had until last Wednesday to support DPPS by filing as “party to proceedings”.

In 2015, pressure group Urban Auckland successfully challenged Port of Auckland’s plans to reclaim Waitemata Harbour land.

Julie Stout, the organisation’s chairperson, lives in Devonport.

“Like most people, we are not opposed to retirement housing on the site but we are opposed to what Ryman have proposed,” she says. “They have made no concessions to integrate their design into the surroundings and have decided to push things through rather than consider the goodwill of the community and do something special that could benefit both.”

It is rare that the New Zealand Institute of Architects, a professional body with 3000 members, involves itself in such cases.

“We don’t normally take this sort of action and we don’t do it lightly,” says Auckland branch spokesperson Paul Edmond.

He says the organisation had concerns about the proposal’s bulk and scale and Ryman’s failure to follow processes established under the new Unitary Plan.

“It’s important to respect the process, which already gives quite a lot of leeway to the site.

Ryman did not follow the Urban Design Panel’s recommendation or the Devonport precinct plan,” says Edmond.

Grass-roots fundraising drive Members of the Devonport Peninsula Precinct Society are gearing up for a fundraising campaign, with a target of $75,000 to cover legal fees.

The society’s Givealittle page Devonport Precincts Appeal had raised $3,000 by last week.

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Getting a negative reaction to what you write is reasonably commonplace for a journalist.

In my first job at the Rodney Times in Warkworth, a couple of patched Mongrel Mob members turned up at the office after I reported on their wives shoplifting in the town. Later, at the Sunday Star-Times, a furious David Lange, by then a former Prime Minister, arrived at the office angry that we had reported on his son appearing in court on a drink-driving charge.

Last week though was a first. Hate mail of a sort turned up in my home letterbox. Scrawled across the Flagstaff in capital letters was a strange rant wanting an end to delivery of what the anonymous writer called “a teenage news project”.

Pretty immature I thought. I’ve always worked on the premise that I’ve never written anything I wasn’t prepared to say to someone face to face.

Talking of reactions – I’ve had a 95 per cent positive response to my editorial last issue on council’s failure to give neighbours a fair say in a non-complying renovation next door. As I suspected, this dismissive council attitude to

ratepayers is common – perhaps increasingly so since the Auckland Unitary Plan has come into play. People have contacted us with similar stories and worse. We will report on these in due course.

However, one letter writer (good on you for sending in your opposing view by the way), has said I have used my position to castigate the neighbours.

Column writers often use personal experience to illustrate wider issues. In this case: the imperfect way council makes decisions and the illusion that the authority acts for all ratepayers equally; a precedent being set for 50 per cent site coverage on smaller sites in Devonport’s heritage zone; and the fact there is no need to consider shading and sun loss when talking about the effects of oversize buildings.

I got a bizzare response from council planner Jason Drury when I sought more information on the renovation project. Initally forthcoming, when he saw my Devonport Flagstaff email address, he attempted to direct me to the communications department. When I pointed out I was a ratepayer, he answered the questions. However, when I wrote a column about the case, he sent over an email asking for us to notify council in the future if we were going to publish information in the newspaper.

Wildly ironic as council had failed to notify us of the renovation in the first place.

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New faces ponder changes at community venues Brigid Curran and Challen Wilson started their new jobs as managers of the Devonport Community House and Belmont’s Rose Centre respectively on the same day; both have Gaelic names and neither of them is interested in sticking to the status quo.

Curran is already thinking about “a bit of revamp” of the community house.

“I want to bring people together, and work against loneliness and isolation,” she says. “I am not sure how connected people in Devonport really are. I want everyone to feel they can just come in here, if they are lost, isolated, whatever, and make themselves a cup of tea and chat,” she says.

Until recently, Curran, who lives in Sunnynook, managed the Waitakere Women’s Centre, where she coordinated programmes on domestic violence. She is also a clairvoyant and has written two books on spirituality. “I am a bit out there,” she says.

Wilson arrived at the Rose Centre during its leaky-building repairs. “I am surrounded by scaffolding, which gives me time to look ahead at the next financial year,” she says.

It is the centre’s 25th anniversary and Wilson is thinking of ways to celebrate once the work is completed, which is expected to be by late April.

Ultimately, she wants to “let fresh air in” and take the community theatre up a notch towards the professional level.

Wilson trained as an actor and worked as a

Change of the guard... Devonport Community House manager Brigid Curran (left) and Rose Centre manager Challen Wilson playwright and producer in Wellington. She moved to Milford a year ago and has been working in systems communications.

“I talked to computers every day. It’s nice to be coming back into the creative world,”

she says.

But Wilson also sees how she can bring her computer experience to the new job and is planning to put a new booking and ticketing system in place. “It will save us so much time.”

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Ngati Whatua proposes land swap for Hillary Block playground Ngati Whatua o Orakei has proposed a land swap to council to make its use of the 8.4ha Hillary Block site more attractive.

The iwi’s property development arm Whai Rawa wants to exchange 1,802 m² of currently publicly owned reserve land inside the Hillary Block for 3,510m² of development land, effectively increasing public space at the site by 1,718 m².

Currently, the site’s public land is divided into four parcels that provide access to Northboro Reserve. The land swap would mean six smaller accessways plus a 1,370 m² area in the centre of the development earmarked for

a playground for its residents but classified as public space.

Paul Marriott-Lloyd, manager of council’s Parks and Recreation Policy, says the swap “is expected to improve physical access and sightlines into Northboro Reserve” and would increase public open space within the 8.4 ha Hillary Block.

The block currently has 82 dwellings. Whai Rawa plans 300 new dwellings at the site.

Devonport-Takapuna Local Board members at its meeting last week expressed no opposition to the Ngati Whatua proposal, which will go out for public consultation after March 14.

Clarence Street upgrade inching closer The long-awaited upgrade of Clarence St is set to go ahead after a $250,000 boost from the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board.

Public consultation is the next step. No start date has been set but the build itself is expected to take only six to eight weeks.

The upgrade has been planned since 2006. It was delayed in 2014 to lessen the construction effects on Devonport when the build of

Devonport Wharf and the new library were already underway.

Auckland Transport spokesperson Mike Hannan said the delay was due to the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board asking for plan alterations in May 2016. “The time between the local board asking AT to investigate a project and the construction contracts being awarded can take one to two years,” he said.

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Photo Neil Hudson Page 45 of the 24 February issue of the Devonport Flagstaff carries a photo of the Masonic Tavern, with a request to readers to provide a possible date for the photo.

My enclosed photo, taken in December 1960, shows the Masonic still in its original configuration. This was before the disfiguring sheets of fibrolite enclosed the dignified verandah/balcony.

Lack of ferry alternatives creates impotent rage The Stanley Bay ferry service is still its usual dysfunctional cavalcade of crappiness, all part of the amazing Fullers clown-car service. Our route is always the first to get cancelled, and we may or may not get a bus service so we can have the pleasure of being late from Devonport.

This week, after our boat was replaced with a canoe, people have been turned away at every trip because you are unable to plan for the numbers. Given that Fullers’ crews always count people on, and it must have precise numbers, I can only suppose this is wilful neglect of the suckers who pay every month, regardless of the ineptitude. I’m no mathematician, but Fullers could consider counting the average number of passengers, and compare it to the capacity of the boat.

This morning, I saw seven people turned away from the 8.05am to the CBD, and this evening it was eight turned away from the 4.35 to Stanley Bay, myself included. It was the same the day before. I doubt the pilot has any incentive to report this, so Fullers may not be aware.

Fullers has no competition, so has no reason to give a toss. Passengers have no leverage, considering the lack of alternatives.

Consider this letter impotent rage.

Colin Jackson

On its way to the Devonport Yacht Club for launching is the Soljak family motor sailer Southern Belle.

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Transport by boat would ease development impact I imagine it is too much to suppose that the Navy, with its port, loading and unloading facilities and connected by water to numerous quays and wharves has costed (and found wanting) the import by water of all the materials needed for its development.

Otherwise why is it even suggested by the Flagstaff that Lake Rd traffic will be affected?

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More dog-control signage needed With an increasing number of dogs in Devonport, it’s really good to see more and more of their owners picking up after them.

(Although there is of course the usual percentage of inconsiderates; you hope that one day they’ll wake up and ‘get it’.)

The same applies to dogs on our beaches.

The majority of dog owners are keeping their dogs off the beaches in accordance with the by-law, but again there are a selfish few who must feel they’re somehow entitled

otherwise. In the case of visitors to Devonport, they can perhaps be excused given the frequent lack of clear signage at entry points to the beaches.

For instance, in the case of Cheltenham beach, the Matai Rd road-end doesn’t appear to have any signs at all.

Perhaps our local board could look at better, bigger signage to ensure beaches are as free of dogs as possible during summer.

Stephen Barnett

Bruce counts down days until election Because our local MP Maggie Barry refuses to engage with her constituents, it begs the question what we are paying her six-figure salary for. Anyone on a six-figure salary should be measured on performance or asked to step aside to let someone else have a go.

Like some other MPs, Barry was given her safe seat for life based largely on her

popularity hosting a TV gardening show, which is hardly a measure for being a good constituent MP. I guess as voters we will shortly have a choice for the staus quo. Or is it time for a change? Does Donald want a fresh challenge?

Bruce Tubb

Council-subsidised green-waste disposal wanted I think the “amazing” recycling centre is doing a good job for some things. However, the service that should be provided in this leafy suburb is an organic service, which is free for residents (who pay inordinately high rates to live here.)

Trees are great in a suburb that is increasingly tightly packed for screening purposes,

but branches etc take up a lot of room on a trailer or station wagon.

I was charged $49 to get rid of a dead salix humboldtiana – outrageous!

The operation should be council-managed and subsidised, as it was before North Shore Council opted out of it.

PW Edwards

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Self-indulgent personal attack Re Rob Drent’s editorial (Flagstaff February 24).

These editorials are normally quite witty as well as being informative. However, your piece in the issue of 24 February somewhat surprised me.

I expected the article to supplement the front page story about the plans for the Naval base, and the additional disruption to Lake Road which – on top of the Ryman’s development – will affect ALL of Devonport.

If this was a dish being described on MasterChef, it would be something like this: A self-indulgent centre of ‘personal attack on my neighbours’ with more than a hint of NIMBYism, surrounded by a thin bland shell of Auckland Council resource planning contempt. It leaves an unpleasant aftertaste.

We are all aware that the resource planning is not perfect, however this article was an abuse of position to attack neighbours who have followed the resource planning requirements and been approved.

I think it’s only appropriate that the next article starts with an apology to your neighbours and it is used for the greater good of Devonport rather than serve your own purpose.

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Community must demand explanations over development I applaud Bruce Tubb for raising the issue of corruption in the public service (Flagstaff, 10 February). And I thank Iain Rea and the Ngataringa Bay Action Group for opposing Ryman-so-called-Healthcare’s so-called retirement village – more a commercial hospitallike exploitation of the elderly and the taxpayer.

The special-needs beds Ryman so kindly wishes to provide are government-subsidised cash cows. It is those special-needs beds that draw the greedy speculators into the aged-care game, along with the $10,000-plus a square metre they sell units to suckers for. These people are not a social service, although they gain tax dollars for special-needs beds.

We all need to demand explanations from Maggie Barry, the council manager of consents, planners, the mayor, the hearing commissioners and those specialists who supported this fiasco.

They need to publicly explain a few things as to how this sensitive coastal area was zoned differently to all the other coastal zones in the first place. How do these people come to back such a degrading application and development?

How did iwi come to gain vast ownership of lands of value way exceeding the settlement values agreed? Is this related to why the Maori party are backing Maggie’s Mob in the next election?

The 150-year Maori lease to Ryman is extraordinary. What other extraordinary deals have been done we don’t hear about? What are

extraordinary deals going to deliver on the rest of iwi lands and how will the traffic be affected?

Who are the beneficiaries?

I understand that the appeal now must focus on the application, and its adverse effects, rather than on the failings of Maggie Barry and Phil Goff.

If we are to terminate these antics of our politicians and corporates, favoured partners and beneficiaries in exploiting middle-class New Zealanders, we will need to get back to the beginnings of this fiasco.

When one reads the new district plan, it is concise. It sets out the objectives and policies that council must abide by in hearing applications and granting or denying consent.

You would need to be suffering serious retardation to come to the conclusion that Ryman’s proposal is acceptable. It’s obvious that the swamp that Trump speaks of draining in Washington is the same swamp MPs and local council, lobby groups and corporates operate in here too.

The planners, engineers and traffic specialists that backed Ryman’s proposal need to be held to account.

Maggie Barry clearly backs these deals as she is silent and she aided and abbetted the fiasco at Bayswater Marina.

That matter is directly related to this matter, in how these back-room deals operate. The MP has to be held to account along with all

involved. There are many easily rooted out of hiding and accountable if we act as a community and demand an end to the bullshit thas gone on for decades.

Basically, what the council has said [over the Ryman development] is that the district plan rules are a joke, and they only apply to some of us, not the big guys.

On other related matters: until our leaders resolve infrastructure issues, we can’t entertain such gross expansions as iwi are imposing on Devonport and Bayswater.

Intelligent European cities have resolved traffic, sewerage and water issues and so forth and yet we never look to their methods.

The recent sewerage scandal in Auckland shows the stupidity. We should all be retaining stormwater for use at home rather than draining it to waste. But again, the corporates’ greed and collusion discourages green solutions.

Watercare wants you in its pockets, and council make people put in tanks that dump the water rather than using it. It’s weird.

It’s all part of the way that party politicking leads us. We are told we need 10 million people in New Zealand because that’s what corporates say. They want seething masses of people feeding their wealth.

Ryman is sadly one of these greedies that, in my view, are a blight on society and on the environment.

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Organiser extraordinaire – Jan McEwen An organisational whizz, Jan McEwen has juggled her career across many industries – importing, film and advertising, hospitality and event and art management. She recently took over as Executive Director at the Michael King Writers’ Centre. She spoke to Maire Vieth.

Jan McEwen says she is not a prolific reader, despite being surrounded by writers and books at work. But there is one book she can’t do without. “I never go anywhere without it. The secret to being organised is having lots of lists and my notebook is full of them. I run my entire life on that book, with different columns for home, work and my volunteer work,” she says.

McEwen is extremely disciplined. “I can’t help myself. I just have to organise things,” she says. Juggling multiple tasks under pressure is her forte. “Put me under pressure and I excel.

If I have too much time, I start procrastinating.

If you say I need it tomorrow, I just do it. If you say I have a week, I muck around,” she says.

McEwen took over the running of the Michael King Writers’ Centre (New Zealand’s first national writers’ facility and literary hub), on Devonport’s Mt Victoria in September last year. For the first four months, she juggled two jobs, working also as programme coordinator for Garden to Table, a charitable trust that promotes healthy eating in schools. But even McEwen admits that doing both was “just too hard in the end”.

She has been focused on the writers’ centre alone since January and is finding plenty to get her teeth into. Her job includes the preparation of a stream of funding applications; reports to government or council agencies; organising maintenance work for the old Signalman’s House; providing occasional taxi services to the ferry for resident writers; and culling the centre’s overfull library.

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“It was a real eye-opener. One minute I would be driving the van to the airport to pick up carpets, having customs inspect them; next minute I was in the office, next minute I was modelling clothes for their fashion design,” she says.

In 1979, McEwen headed to London for her OE. She started out temping and got her foot in the door at an advertising company.

She eventually became a production assistant on TV and radio ads before moving into film production.

“In the 1980s, advertising was great, with legendary long lunches, big budgets and people like the British comedy duo Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones doing voice-overs,” she says.

In 1987, McEwen returned to New Zealand and moved into the hospitality industry, opening Lakeside Café in Taupo together with her first husband, a Dane she had met in London.

“It was just when cappuccino machines came into New Zealand. There were no flat whites yet, no Eftpos machines. It was a long time before Eggs Benedict, but we were one of the first cafes to do a cooked breakfast,” she says.

Once again, she came in green. “It cracks me up now because I had absolutely no cooking experience. As a 20-year-old in London, I had lived on Marks and Spencers.”

In 1991, McEwen and her husband split up and she moved to Auckland to help run Cin Cin on Quay, a restaurant located in the old ferry building. “It was THE restaurant in the 1990s, the first to open really late and be a place to be seen. [Broadcaster] Peter Sinclair was there every night after his radio show and brought his guests along. He virtually lived at Cin Cin,” she says.

McEwen was in charge of bringing in international chefs, who would cook for a special weekly menu at the restaurant. “Once we had this amazing chef couple from Chicago doing gels and mousses, putting them on a plate like a painter’s palette. Everyone does gels and mousses now, but back then it was really new,” she says.

In 1992, she met future husband John McEwen, who lived on Huia St. They moved in together and still there live today.

After a brief stint working for the Restaurant Association of New Zealand, McEwen moved her professional life to Devonport. In 1997, she became the event organiser of the then fledgling Devonport Food & Wine Festival.

A year later, daughter Mia was born but McEwen managed to juggle work and motherhood with ease. “I did one festival before Mia arrived, and then I would just always bring her along with me to them,” she says.

McEwen ran the food and wine festival for seven years, until 2003. “Again it was early days for that sort of thing. Now there are festivals everywhere, but there weren’t all that many back then,” she says.

“Put me under pressure and I excel. If I have too much time, I start procrastinating.”

The festival took off under her management, which was a mixed blessing, she admits.

“I took it from a relatively small event and made it incredibly successful financially.

But the locals hated it, especially when we put the pricing up, when the 20-somethings started to come and finally the fencing went up,” she says.

McEwen also ran her own business, Wedding Planners, which specialised in highend marquee weddings held at unusual venues.

“I did that for a few years until I got sick of brides and talking about flowers.”

When Mia started school, McEwen was voted onto the Stanley Bay School board, followed by the Belmont Intermediate School board and finally the board at Takapuna Grammar School.

“And in between I worked for the Ministry of Education on a project called Extending High Standards across Schools (EHSAS), gathering a cluster of Devonport peninsula schools and sharing ideas and best practices, a bit like today’s Community of Learning,” she says.

In 2012 and 2014, McEwen embarked on her “foray into the arts world” when she became the event organiser for NZ Sculpture OnShore, New Zealand’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition, held at Fort Takapuna every other year.

In her private life, McEwen is as committed to making a difference as she is in her professional life. Today, she volunteers on the board of NZ Epilepsy Assist Dogs Trust.

It all started with walking a local dog. “I have always been a big walker and always wanted a dog and one day I was in the supermarket and saw a notice that a local couple that had split up were looking for someone to walk their Labrador Fitz. I walked this dog for years,” says McEwen.

After Fitz passed away, McEwen read about a local girl with severe epilepsy whose dog needed walking. “So I signed on the roster to walk her Epilepsy Assist dog Holly and slowly got involved with the trust,” she says. McEwen has since fostered seven dogs for the trust.

As with guide dogs, not all dogs are suited to the job, which is why the McEwen ended up adopting Vegas, a ‘failed’ Epilepsy Assist Dog. “She was too big and too free-spirited to be appropriate. We don’t like her name but she is a gorgeous dog,” she says.

In her spare time, McEwen says she does “nothing exotic”, just walking Vegas and Holly, biking, Pilates and reading.

How does she find any free time in her busy life? “Basically, there isn’t much. I am definitely not a book-a-week person. When I hit the sack, sometimes I can only do a page or two,” she says.

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Hitting the streets with the Helping Hands of Calliope Rd Flagstaff reporter Maire Vieth joins a Devonport group taking food and compassion to the homeless in inner-city Auckland.

At 8.30pm on Tuesday night, Victoria Brown and Joshlin Kumar drive their cars, crammed with platters of hot food and bowls of delicious pudding, up Lake Rd and across the bridge to the city.

They are the pillars of Helping Hands Devonport, a group of local women who have been taking home-cooked dinners to homeless people in the central city every Tuesday night since last July.

What started out with an individual meal package for a man sleeping rough outside Sky City, has since turned into a complete buffet dinner served on a round bench outside Auckland City Library at around 9pm.

Brown runs Komatua Care Centre on Calliope Rd, a rest home for dementia patients. Kumar works for her, as does Brown’s niece Nina Wichman. Both are on tonight’s food run, along with Bayswater resident Beverley Hindmarsh, who has been helping the women for the last month, and Barbara Wichman, Nina’s sister who is visiting from the Gold Coast.

Bess Wichman, Brown’s sister, and Maria Swede as... The cars loaded with food, Bess Wichman holds a Swedish Woodward, who works at Komatua Care Centre, stay behind, but all of them have flag in recognition of a donation from a Swedish visitor to Devonport been helping out since Sunday morning: planning a menu, prepping and pre-cooking on Monday, and all-burners-on cooking since 5 pm on Tuesday afternoon.

“It’s a big production,” says Brown, and she isn’t exaggerating. This week there are three pots of chicken curry, five bowls of chili con carne on rice, corn fritters, smoked chicken salad, chicken chop suey and bacon pasta. And that’s only the main course. There is plenty of pudding too.

The menu changes from week to week, sometimes on request by one of the homeless. “I didn’t put any onions in the curry this week because a man told me he is allergic to them,” says Kumar.

As soon as the cars turns off Queen St and head to the library, a man with a sleeping bag across his shoulders waves to them. “Kai’s up,” a woman shouts to a crowd of around 100, who are waiting nearby.

Everyone is well mannered. A man called Magic puts down the tablecloth, straightening it out. Others carefully carry the serving plates from the car.

Before they start, a woman says a karakia.

When it’s time to dig in, Huck, a towering, homeless Maori man, keeps an eye on things, reminding people to leave some for others, to stay in line or to stop swearing.

Many of the people here sleep nearby, Personal delivery... Joshlin Kumar gives a meal to Mike, who gratefully under flax bushes, in doorways and alleyways. Others have temporary lodgings; receives the food most Tuesdays

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Chats served with food... Victoria Brown with Jack, one of the recipients of a Helping Hands hot meal some even have temporary work, but their wages don’t cover food. No matter what, for all of them it is “the best meal we have had all week”, says Gilbert, an older man who recently moved back onto the street.

Brown says it’s not only about the food.

“They do come to get a nice meal but we also give them a bit of ‘family time’, have a chat, ask how their week was,” she says.

This week, Jack tells them he and his pregnant girlfriend have got a place to live, from March 15. Brown is excited. Huck has a chance of a home as well and asks if Brown could write a character reference for him. “Of course,” she says.

As the meal concludes, a handful of men clear the table and put away the rubbish.

Many say a personal thank you to Brown

and the other women. “It’s a pleasure,” says Brown.

“Who pays for this?” asks Gilbert.

Nina Wichman says: “We do. We all work in a rest home, save up and then cook up a storm once a week.”

They find the trip overwhelming at times. Tears flow easily.

“There has to be a solution to this homelessness,” says Brown. She has written to Auckland Mayor Phil Goff about it (and is still waiting for a reply).

She has also contacted Councillor Cathy Casey (who responded) and is planning to attend an Auckland Council Conversations event on homelessness on 23 March at the Aotea Centre.

Helping Hands has already managed to get local and even international support. Friends regularly bake, cook or donate money. Devonport New World owner John Ashton donates food nearing its use-by date. Sofie Lööf, of the Swedish Lööf Foundation, visiting Deconport resident Judith Stewart, recently donated $1000.

Once the bellies are full, it’s time to say goodbye. An old man departs on his bike. “Have a safe trip back to Devonport,” he says.

Huck’s sidekick Greg keeps an eye on things until everyone is ready to leave. He has asked for potatoes and gravy for next week.

“See you next week,” says Brown through the car window, honking as she takes off. “I love those people,” she says. “Looking after them makes my life worthwhile.”

From Devonport with love... Dishing up time outside the Central City Library

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On the Beat Throughout February we received a number of reports of thefts from vehicles with reported incidents in Bayswater Ave (overnight 3/4), Burgess Rd (17), Old Lake Rd (overnight 19/20), Russell St (overnight 21/22), and Waterview Rd (overnight 22/23).

Two vehicles were reported stolen from King Edward Pde and Jutland Rd. Install an alarm, immobiliser and steering lock and do not leave valuables in your vehicle.

Four burglary reports were received for February at Macky Ave, Onepoto Rd (x 2) and Takapuna Grammar School.

The Cheltenham Dairy and Milk Bar was subjected to wilful damage when offender/s threw a rock in the window overnight on 5/6 February. Four youths were apprehended by Police after they damaged the bus stop on

March 10, 2017 Northboro Rd. Many bus stops have been damaged in the area recently. If you observe anyone damaging property, please remember to phone 111 immediately.

Bicycles are continuing to be targeted. A D-lock is the best type of lock to ensure your bicycle is not easily stolen. Thefts of bicycles were reported at Clarence St, Rutland Rd, Bartley Tce and the Devonport Library.

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

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

Venturers in heritage hut restoration A group of teenagers are renovating a heritage building that will mark a new era of Scouting in Devonport.

The hut, which is attached to the 1st Devonport Scout Den, has been neglected over the years and is in need of modernisation.

The Scout group’s Venturers are set to repaint and repair the hut over several weeks during the school holidays. Along with Kerr St Artspace and Takarunga Playcentre, the hut was one of a dozen or so public buildings located on the side of Mt Victoria.

The hut is brimming with history. It was the headquarters of the 15th A regiment during the Second World War, and housed Wrens, returned servicemen and immigrants after the war. It wasn’t until the 1960s that the hut was given to the Scouts and transported to its current Allenby Ave site.

The Venturers have received donations for the hut, including paint, new carpet and a smart-screen TV. The Venturers are community-minded,

Venturers active in the community… Michael de Boyett, Siobhan Taylor and Theo Hoyte also lending a helping hand at activities such as the kids athletics, the Bayswater Halloween Trail, Sculpture on the Shore and the Rangitoto-Motutapu Dual event.

It is expected there will be two Queen’s

Scouts from the 1st Devonport group by the end of the year – the first for Devonport Scouts since 1963.

The Queen’s Scout Award is the highest award made by the Scouting movement.

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BIG tax changes for small businesses and sole traders from 1 April 2017 Big changes are coming into effect for the 2018 income tax year (i.e. from 1 April 2017 for most). The changes are a step forward and are part of Inland Revenue’s ‘Making Tax Simpler’ project.

The main changes are: • Changing the application of use-of-money interest on the underpayment of provisional tax. These changes affect both non-individual taxpayers (i.e. companies and trusts) and individuals.

• Allowing companies to pay income tax on behalf of shareholder-employees.

(The shareholder-employee could theoretically be removed from the provisional tax rules.) Application from 1 April 2018.

• Simplifying the tax rules around companies that provide shareholder-employees with a motor vehicle. Also changes to the motor vehicle mileage reimbursement calculation.

• An ability to calculate and claim a single-rate home-office claim.

• For contractors who have withholding tax deducted from their income, the contractor is able to choose their own withholding tax rate (subject to minimum rates). Also, some contractors are not required to have tax withheld from income. New rules will allow such contractors to request that withholding tax is deducted through a voluntary withholding agreement.

• Removing the 1 per cent monthly incremental late payment penalty for unpaid tax.

• Allowing taxpayers with income of less than $5 million to pay provisional tax throughout the year based on actual “accounting profit”. Provisional tax would therefore be payable using information prepared for GST returns (with adjustments) or using a “tax profit and loss statement”. This change is effective 1 April 2018.

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Devonport writers collection launched at library

Celebrating local writing… Dame Anne Salmond (above left), Geoff Chapple (left) and local board member Mike Cohen (above), and Dave Veart (below) More than a dozen writers – new and established – and descendants of deceased local literary icons attended the launch of a Devonport writers collection at Devonport Library last week.

The collection, which will be kept at the library, was funded by a bequest to the Devonport Library Associates (DLA) by the late Kelvin and Valerie Grant.

The books will be available on loan but will always be returned to Devonport Library.

Library Associates spokesperson Jan Mason said the launch – also attended by members of the Michael King Writers’ Centre, the DLA, The Depot and Devonport librarians – was a product of Devonport’s

commitment to the written word.

It is vital that libraries are vibrant places, not handing out books like a work and income office hands out benefits, she said.

Writers at the launch, whose works are in the collection, included: Graeme Lay, Dave Veart, Tracey Barnett, Anne Salmond, Geoff Chapple, David Slack, Sheryl Beaumont, Julie Gatley, Hannah Tunnicliffe, Lotte Wotherspoon, Kevin Hill, Rebekah Tyler, Karen Breen, Tim McBride and Te Awhina Arahanga.

Dave Veart, author of a number of historical books, said it was vital to protect libraries from the “forces of darkness who are stalking the stacks”.

Voicing their support... (from left) Jean Day, Hannah Tunnicliffe and Dinah Holman

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The Devonport Collection…

Jan Mason acknowledges the authors whose works will be retained at Devonport Library Graeme Lay, whose many books include a series of novels based on the life of Captain Cook, said Devonport was an environment conducive to being a writer. The suburb was surrounded by sea, and an excellent antidote to writer’s block. If Lay suffered the malady, he cleared it by a walk to Narrow Neck Beach.

Lotte Wotherspoon, who writes and illustrates books for children, loved living in Devonport because it was a “writers’ community”.

Lynn Dawson, representing the Michael King Writers’ Centre, said she believed any writing done at the old Signalman’s House (home to writers in residence) could be claimed to be work produced in Devonport.

That included some of Eleanor Catton’s Booker Prize winner The Luminaries.

Dinah Holman, whose father ARD (Rex) Fairburn was a prominent Devonport literary figure, said the collection was key to keeping the work of dead writers such as Fairburn, Anthony Alpers, Sarah Campion and Christine Cole Catley alive and relevant.

Denys Oldham said Kelvin and Valerie Grant were both long-standing Devonport residents. Kelvin was an architect who designed the previous Devonport Libary building, a remnant of which remains at the new library’s entrance. He also worked on the restoration of Premier House in Wellington and served on the Devonport Borough Council in the 1970s. Valerie was a prominant psychologist. Both were avid Table of content… books by Devonport authors on sale at the readers. collection launch

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The geography of Devonport was the obstacle course for 748 competitors in the XRACE mystery adventure race.

Parent-and-child teams took part in 10 challenges over a 3km course. Challenges included: • Spot the difference. Teams had a postcard

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• Nautical Flags. Teams had to locate nautical letter flags in the water and work out the word they formed.

• Blindfold challenge. Parents were

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Being a high-school ambassador Model UN high-school ambassadors filled the lecture theatre of the University of Auckland’s Owen G Glenn Building in midFebruary, eager for a full day of intense brainstorming, friendly interactions and zealous discussions.

A fulfilling agenda of the training hui awaited passionate students, including, from TGS, Kate Lee and Cynthia Lu. Conversations sparked across the theatre on possible strategies to engage more secondary students to attend UN Youth events.

By growing the presence of Model UN, ambassadors envisioned an increase in student participation and more vigorous conferences at regional and national events.

"The training hui helped me to understand how important my role is as a student ambassador. My goal this year will be to help extend students’ knowledge and skills required for Model UN events,” said Cynthia Lu. Model UN bridges students from all geographical boundaries by gathering them to

a conference of political affairs, international controversy and global citizenship. Such events promise thrilling debates, engaging guest speakers and opportunities to collaborate with others from various different backgrounds.

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International Baccalaureate's artistic approach

The recent trip to the Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tamaki, the city’s biggest gallery, provided much insight for the International Baccalaureate (IB) students of 2017. The contingent of Year 12s made their way to a mentally rigorous workshop, while the Year 13s learnt everything there is to know about curatorial practice, for their exhibition later this year.

Two teachers accompanied the group in this learning experience, eagerly adding to the teaching as they went. The workshop was led by contemporary New Zealand Pacific artist

Siliga David Setoga, and the works-in-progress were all based upon the award-winning artist Lonnie Hutchinson’s practice.

The students briefly viewed Hutchinson’s 3 x 3 metre Milk and Honey (2012, builder’s paper and metal pins) artwork, before being ushered into a workspace.

They were led through a screen-printing process worthy of creating any professional work. The end pieces were created using a stencil, which was printed on paper and a tote bag. Our own artist and teacher, Ms Sandra Cammell, thought highly of this

process, commenting that: “From my point of view as a teacher in the IB programme, it is enormously valuable for students to work directly with professional artists in a studio environment. The exchange of ideas on the day was exciting – and we got to see some wonderful art in the gallery itself.”

Invigorated with their newly made art, the students fully appreciated the exploration of art processes and techniques about which they had learnt. They were also transfixed by the gallery’s ever-changing display.

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A day in real sunshine The school’s fields were filled by enthusiastic junior students wearing house colours and the pleasant scent of sizzling sausages pervaded the place when the Year 9-11 students took part in the annual Athletics Day. This is the first year of the expanded six houses, instead of four. It is also the first time for some different activities such as drop kick, tug of war, penalty shootout, the gumboot throw, Frisbee hit and more. The traditional long jump, sprints and other field events also featured.

In the afternoon, the house relays were the highlight. The winning house was Ihi followed by Maia in second place, Kaha in third, Wehi fourth, Wana fifth and Mana sixth.

Chief organiser Mrs Tu’isila felt that, “the new house system will be positive as the houses are smaller and more intimate. Everyone can get to know each other and it is easier to manage house events”.

There was a great turnout of students in house colours at short notice and the attitude by students on the day was brilliant. “I love the new colours. They will look great when students buy the shirts and wear them for house events with pride,” she added.

The best thing about athletics was that all stations catered for different abilities. They allowed for full participation and were nonthreatening, but fun.

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Clubs galore An initiative by the prefects, led by Emilly Fan and Sean Green, will see the Library transformed into a “Fair” promoting the wide variety of co-curricular opportunities at the school. The afternoon will focus on showcasing all the amazing groups and clubs that are available.

This year, the prefects have set a goal to get as many students as possible involved in activities and clubs outside the classroom. They believe joining new activities is a great way to increase school pride, make new friends, develop interpersonal/time management skills and most importantly, have a great high-school experience.

Emilly and Sean say: “Come along to the Library 3.05 p.m. – 5.00 p.m. on Wednesday March 15 and be amazed and inspired. It is for students and parents.”

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ATHLETICS 2017: See 'A day in real sunshine' article at left AT THE POOL: The annual swimming sports event saw seven new school records. Outstanding performances were seen in the pool from Hannah Kim, Jade Hollick, Michael Worsfold and Alan Shen. Most notable mention goes to Hannah Kim for breaking a 41-year-old record in the Intermediate Girls 3-length breaststroke.

ON THE TRACK: Imogen Ayris took on the Vertical Pursuit event at Britomart and the Auckland Track Challenge at AUT Millennium recently. Pitted against world class senior athletes, like ex-student Eliza McCartney, Imogen put in a great effort. Fighting back from recent injury, she placed fifth in the Open Women’s age group in her events.

ON THE WATER: Six A finals and five B finals at the final KRI regatta, the Mercury Junior Regatta, on Lake Karapiro last weekend, showed the progress made by the rowing crews, leading up to the North Island Championships.

OVERLAND: Sofie Safkova and Sebastian Safka placed first and Jono Nicholas placed seventh at the latest orienteering event run at Rosmini College.

AT THE OVAL: Yet another win for the Girls 1st XI against Glendowie College. Standout performances from Ruby Worrall and Libby Easterbrook, with runs in the 40s.

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Local jewellery maker Pauline Bern said two people she knew had committed suicide. “Everyone’s touched by it in some way or other.”

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Being open about suicide… Rachel Levine (left), Depot staff member and contributor Jamie McEwan, and Depot Creative Director Linda Blincko Helping people speak out about suicide is the aim of The Roaring Silence, a book published

by Devonport’s Depot Press.

The Roaring Silence came about after a number of local tragedies. It’s a book about suicide awareness and its contributors come from Devonport and across New Zealand.

Local artists have fundraised to help pay for the book, which was launched at the Depot on February 25.

Eight of the book’s 79 contributors read their work at the event, openly speaking about their own experience with suicide – whether it was that of a loved one or their own attempt.

Clarence St resident Karen Loesch says she came to the launch because her brother Juergen had taken his life 30 years ago.

“But people don’t like to talk about it, often not even in your own family. I am sure many people here today have had experiences like me,” she said.

Loesch wanted to learn more about how to support people going through a rough time.

“Often it has to do with loneliness and isolation, which we can all help with in a community like Devonport,” she said.

The Roaring Silence is not the first time that the Depot has addressed the sensitive subject of suicide. In 2000, the community art gallery organised an exhibition with a suicide theme.

Depot Creative Director Linda Blincko said suicide continues to affect the Devonport community and is still rarely discussed.

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

Clean bill of health from the PM It was good to be part of a high level visit with the Prime Minister and Minister of Health, Dr Jonathan Coleman, to North Shore Hospital where DHB chair, Lester Levy, briefed us on the hospital’s achievements. It’s been one of the great success stories amongst the DHBs, going from one of the poorest performing in the country to one of the very best. Bill English was impressed with the progress the hospital has made and with Waitemata DHB’s transformation. The elective surgery and the other new facilities, including the magnificent chapel, have made a real difference to the North Shore population offering us the peace of mind that comes from knowing there is excellent medical care right here if you need it.

I’m very impressed with the work of the Devonport Business Association under its new chair, Dianne Hale, for their efforts to establish a much-needed new visitor information centre in Devonport on the ground floor of the old Council building on Victoria Road. It was obvious to everyone in Devonport over the summer just how many tourists were flocking to our historic village and enjoying exploring the local maunga and beaches. With two significant events coming up (the World Masters’ Games in April, and the Tour of the British and Irish Lions in June) the association is to be applauded for their strong advocacy role and encouraging tourists to spend more of their dollars in Devonport.

I met with Dianne recently and have now written to Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development at Auckland Council supporting the association’s request to occupy the old council building while it awaits earthquake strengthening.

I understand the much-admired Flea radio station, which was based on the wharf, is seeking a new home and in what seems a sensible arrangement the association has indicated it would welcome the Flea to join them in the old council building.

The focus of the WW100 Commemorations this year have shifted to Belgium and as the Minister

of Arts, Heritage and Culture I’ll be attending the Commemorations for the Messines centenary (June 7) and the Passchendaele centenary (October 12th) in Wellington. The excellent WW100 website (ww100.govt.nz/national-ceremonies) will tell you where the ceremonies are being held and I’d encourage you to go along to commemorate these important events in our national history.

The many years of the hard work of the Passchendaele Society has resulted in a number of important activities this year including the New Zealand Memorial & Garden at Zonnebeke which will be opened in October. I planted a flax there when I visited the site – which has received more than $600,000 of Government funding through a Lotteries grant – during a visit to Europe in 2015, and was impressed by its vision as a place of peaceful reflection on the sacrifice of our troops. I’d particularly like to acknowledge the contribution of Devonport’s own Mike Pritchard, who first met me to discuss the project in 2012.

Mike has been a driving force and the garden simply would not have happened if it wasn’t for his efforts.

The society is sending 10 young New Zealanders to the Passchendaele commemorations in Belgium and if you would like further information on this please visit www.passchendaelesociety.org It hardly needs saying that Lake Road and the daily traffic congestion is the bane of many of our lives and I remain very concerned about Auckland City Council and Auckland Transport’s plans for our only road in and out of Devonport. Along with ferry services, transport issues are high on my agenda when I have my first meeting with Mayor Goff in a few weeks’ time.

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Devonport Chamber Orchestra goes from excellent to superb The Devonport Chamber Orchestra deserves accolades for its innovative programming as well as its playing.

A near-capacity audience at Holy Trinity Church on 19 February was treated to a stunning performance of 18th and 21st century works for strings and harpsichord. Solo violinists Marie-Luise and Christoph Dingler, in New Zealand for only a week, deserved the ecstatic reception they were given.

The concert opened with the Bach Double Concerto in D minor. The brother-andsister soloists were superbly matched – their sweetness of tone and delicate interpretation kept the audience enthralled.

The orchestra, led with panache by Michael Hunter and conducted sensitively by Warwick Robinson, was an integral support team and acknowledged as such by the soloists. The soloists produced a warm vibrancy in their playing, clear articulation and expressive phrasing.

Albinoni’s Sinfonia in G major followed the Bach. Albinoni and Bach were almost contemporaries – with Albinoni exemplifying the Italian Baroque style. In the majestic

first movement, the strings established an impressive clarity, which they continued throughout. During the adagio, with its slower tempo, the orchestra were so at one with the music, one almost felt they breathed its graceful rhythms.

Before playing the final scheduled work, the soloists returned to perform two lively duos. They spoke about an international competition they have founded in Germany to expand the two-violin repertoire. The two works – Doch laub und Wolken unter Nacht (Leaves and Clouds by Night), by Johannes Sollner, and Orient Express by Tonio Gugelin – were compositions from the final of the 2012 competition. The first began with a slow emotional theme on one violin before being joined by the second in an accompanying role.

The siblings switched roles during the piece, which grew in intensity and speed before returning to a serene duet. Orient Express involved quite unusual elements including pizzicato, spiccato and one player tuning down a string and then retuning it during the performance. There were hints of jazz, blues and gypsy rhythms, and harmony.

The final work on the programme was Benedikt Brydern’s double violin concerto Spring Fling. Brydern now resides in California, where he is involved in music for cinema, and is a board member of a non-profit organisation that provides free music tuition for 700 underprivileged children in the Los Angeles area.

The concerto, in three movements, was composed as a companion piece to be played with the Bach. It was programmatic in style – the three movements entitled Rendezvous, Night Town and Happy Ending – with light melodic lines and a lot of humour. It could well have been a film score. It engaged the audience and players, and the soloists wove the storyline with great verve, passion and immaculate playing. The rapturous applause brought the soloists back and they finished this very popular concert with a fast and energetic jig.

The Devonport Chamber Orchestra’s next concert, at 2pm on 2 April at Holy Trinity Church, will feature Paddy Cornfield performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 23 and Schumann’s Piano Concerto.

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RECRuiTS SiGN ON ThE LiNE The Navy’s first sailor intake of the year signed on the line in February to begin 18 weeks of Basic Common Training.

Lieutenant Colin Carkeek, of the Navy’s Leadership Development Group, says the 94 young men and women of BCT 17/01 looked “focused” as they were paraded in two lots into the Navy Museum’s Hall of Remembrance to swear allegiance to the Queen and sign their attestation forms.

From there the recruits underwent their first physical fitness test and official powhiri at Te Taua Moana Marae.

There are two BCT intakes a year and the first is usually the largest. Last year’s second intake was 42. “Ninety-four is a good number for us,” says Lieutenant Carkeek. “It’s easy to split them into two groups. Everyone’s going really well, according to staff.”

A quarter of the intake are women, matching the Royal New Zealand Navy’s ratio of 23.5 per cent, one of the highest in the world. This intake includes an ex-police officer from Australia, says Lieutenant Carkeek.

Over the next 18 weeks, the recruits will be taught the skills and competencies to enable them to become selfreliant sailors.

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Church joins cafe culture to discuss hot topics

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The age of Donald Trump, Brexit, Marine Le Pen and refugee movements will be on the table at a first discussion cafe to be held at St Margaret’s Presbyterian Church.

“It’s not a lecture or a sermon but a hot topic on the street,” says Jim Pearson, who became the church’s pastor last May. The church is located at 151 Lake Rd. The event starts at 6.30 pm, on March 12.

It is free and refreshments will be served.

Environmental volunteers want professional input The Devonport Environment Network (DEN) wants to employ an environmental facilitator.

Members of the network put the proposal to the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board last week.

Sarah Bloomfield, Sid Cuthbertson and Michael Fielding told the board the group wanted help to bring a number of disconnected projects together with a wider and more meaningful purpose. DEN was encouraged to apply for funding in the next round of the board’s Environmental Response Fund.

New rugby seats Wooden spectator terrace seating at the Vauxhall Rd sportsfields, outside the North Shore Rugby Club, are being replaced by Auckland Council at a cost of $60,000.

Personal best… Eliza McCartney with coach Jeremy McColl after she broke her own New Zealand record Devonport Olympic star Eliza McCartney has started the year on a high that would have suprised even her biggest fans.

In early February, she won a Halberg Award for New Zealand’s Favourite Sporting Moment of 2016 for her bronze medal in the pole vault at the Rio Olympics.

However, this was topped at the Auckland Track Challenge held at the Millennium Centre

on February 26, when McCartney landed a 4.82 m personal best vault, two cm higher than her Olympic bronze result.

The leap was achieved, using a 12-stride run-up, instead of her previous 16 strides.

Four days earlier, McCartney had already qualified for the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London in August with a 4.7 metre vault at Vertical Pursuit, held at Britomart.

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Old boys stick it to the younger players

Medal sweep for TGS track cyclists Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) cyclist Renee Young (above) won four golds and a silver at the Auckland Track Champs held at the Manukau Velodrome.

TGS notched more than a dozen placings at the cycle meet.

Results included: Renee Young, U17 Girls: Points Race – Silver; Individual Pursuit – Gold; Sprint – Gold; Scratch Race – Gold; Time Trial – Gold; Sam Upton, U17 Boys: Individual Pursuit – Bronze; Sprint – Gold; Scratch – Bronze; Time Trial – Silver; Points Race – Bronze; Nick Bowen, U17 Boys: Scratch Race – Silver; Adam Little, U15 Boys; Time Trial - Bronze

Old sticks prevail…TGS Old Boys won the first match against the school hockey team The Takapuna Grammar Old Boys hockey team was too good for the current school First XI, winning an inaugural match 7-3.

The Old Boys team included three captains from the last four years: Mitch Michelsen (2013), Marcello Russo (2015) and Mitchell Bremner (2016). Most of the players were of that vintage.

The exception was team captain Mike Vallant, who left TGS in 1973, and has

assisted coaching the TGS first team for the last three years. Vallant has played hockey ever since leaving school, is a life member of North Harbour Hockey and has placed at Masters level for New Zealand.

Scorers for the Old Boys were: Mitchell Bremner (2), Mike Vallant, Lawrie Tews (2), Marcello Russo and Finn Cordwell. Cory Pelham (2) and Toby Thomas-Smith scored in reply for the school.

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