24 March 2017 Devonport Flagstaff

March 24, 2017

Bunker could reopen on Mt Victoria… p3

Heritage protection group to be relaunched… p8

Interview: seagoing painter David Barker… p22

Debfibrillator used just days after launch A newly installed defibrillator was put to use in a cardiac emergency just four days after it was set up.The defibrillator at Ngatringa Tennis Club was rushed to the nearby Navy

sports fields after a man, believed to have been Hamish McLean said he was exercising on his stag do, suffered a cardiac arrest while alongside when he saw one man “on the playing zorb soccer with friends just after 3pm ground.”

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A heritage villa that was moved out of Devonport could have been restored, according to a conservation architect employed by Auckland Council.

The Victorian villa was controversially shifted from 113 Vauxhall Rd and will be replaced by an Edwardian villa moved in from Onehunga.

However, notes from a site meeting held on 28 November 2016 quote Stephen Curham, council’s conservation architect, saying “renovating the house is a reasonable option.”

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“reasonable condition.”

Curham’s opinion was disputed by the owners of the house Ralph Stewart and Fiona North.

North said the condition of the house was poor with watertightness issues being a problem. The costs of relocating the house from Onehunga onto the site would be more affordable than renovating the existing house, the notes said.

Council planners agreed with North, whose view was supported by a report from heritage architects Salmond Reed. The villa has now been removed.

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Business revenue in Devonport in the last quarter of 2016 was up by 4.3 per cent compared to the same period in 2015.

Trade rose to $27.4 million from $26.3 million the previous year, according to BNZ Marketview data.

International visitors contributed one third of that growth. Their spending was up by 28 per cent.

The data was presented by the manager

of the Devonport Business Improvement District (BID), Judy Grieve, at a recent Devonport-Takapuna Local Board workshop.

Grieve said the organisation had increased its branding and marketing efforts and held a second Glow light-sculpture event during Artweek Auckland.

Takapuna’s BID growth in the same quarter was 5.8 per cent and Milford’s 12.7 per cent.

Gym future uncertain Devonport Health & Gym Club at Narrow Neck Beach will close on April 30 – unless a solution to the terms of its lease can be found.

Auckland Council advised the Devonport Squash Club in 2015 that under the terms of its lease with the council, the current gym premises (within the squash club building) cannot be leased to a private commercial “for-profit” entity.

“The squash club has been very supportive in working with us to try and find a mutually satisfactory solution to this problem,” said a letter that went out to gym members.

“We assure members that this situation has arisen entirely through the squash club needing to comply with the terms of its lease

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with Auckland Council,” the letter said.

The gym is attempting to form a new legal structure that will enable it to operate after 30 April.

All outstanding fees will be reimbursed if the gym closes, the letter says.

The review of the lease at Devonport Squash club is understood to be part of a wider Auckland Council crackdown on leases to buildings on council reserves.

Movie night to raise funds for Benjamin sculpture A special screening of the movie A Street Cat Named Bob will be held at the Vic to raise money for a proposed sculpture of Benjamin the Devonport Library cat.

Organisers want to commemorate Benjamin, who died in January, with a bronze sculpture in Windsor Reserve.

The screening is on April 5 at 7.30pm for an 8pm start. Tickets are $25 and include either a wine or an ice cream. They are available from Bookmark, 15 Victoria Rd. Based on a best-selling book, A Street Cat Named Bob tells the story of a busker and recovering drug addict whose life is transformed when he meets a stray ginger cat.

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Pre-wedding party firing on all cylinders Belmont bride and hairdresser Carolanne Tollafield celebrated in her salon with her many loyal customers before heading to her West Auckland wedding venue last Friday afternoon.

Tollafield has owned The Haircutters salon on Williamson Ave for 34 years and many of her customers have been with her for decades.

One of them is Leith Winslow. “I started doing her hair as an apprentice. After my daughter Isabella was born, Leith would pick her up from school and look after her one afternoon a week while I worked,” Tollafield said in her pre-wedding speech.

Tollafield thanked everyone for “seeing me off. You are so important to me. I get homesick when I am on holiday,” she said.

“We’ll have to come with you on your honeymoon,” one customer quipped.

Two Devonport firefighters stopped by briefly to wish Tollafield well. As the Lake Rd traffic worsened outside, Tollafield’s future sister-in-law Kim Langridge said she wished the fire engine could escort them through.

Tollafield is a long-time local. She and groom Brian Langridge moved into their new home near the salon a fortnight ago.

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Defibrillator put into action immediately He and another Devonport man rushed over to the tennis club, where they knew there was a defibrillator.

Tennis club committee member Gail Lyons was on the court playing interclub against Browns Bay, when she heard a man yelling “defib, defib.”

Lyons unclipped the device off the wall and McLean said he and the other man “sprinted back with the bag” over to the sports field.

Ngataringa club members on court – tennis midweek convenor Lisa McCloskey, who had been trained on the device the previous Tuesday, Grant Gibbs and Raewyn Rumble – all went over to the sports field to help, said Lyons.

A Browns Bay tennis player also assisted.

It is understood the AED brought the man back to life before the arrival of ambulance staff and the fire brigade. St Johns said he was in critical condition and transported to North Shore Hospital.

Lyons said although the AED was on the outside of the clubhouse, it was only decided at a committee meeting last Thursday to leave it unlocked. Seeing an emergency take place, the extra seconds it could take to unlock the device could be vital, she said. The club was in the process of putting up signage to show exactly where the defibrillator is located.

AED training, page 43

At your service… (from left) James Miles, Leith Winslow, Carolanne Tollafield (with dog Phoebe) and daughter Isabella, and Phillip Thoroughgood

Bunker could reopen on Mt Victoria Events at the Bunker on Mt Victoria could still be held, according to Auckland Council.

The Bunker, home of the Devonport Folk Club, was closed after 46 years on the mountain late last month after it failed a fire-safety inspection.

However, an independent fire-safety report recommends a number of actions “that would enable public events to be held safely in the Bunker,” said Agnes McCormack, Head of Operational Management and Maintenance

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Earlier this week, Auckland Council provided a copy of the report to the folk club and sent the recommendations to the Maunga Authority.

“The council will work with the Tūpuna Maunga Authority operations staff this week to discuss the details of the recommendations with the lessee, the Devonport Folk Music Club, and begin the process towards reopening the Bunker as a safe community facility,” McCormack said.

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Navy sports pavillion under threat from rising sea levels The Navy sports complex, accomodation in its North Yard as well as some Devonport homes are under threat from rising sea levels, according to geotechnical maps.

A New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) map of the Devonport naval base clearly shows sea levels encroaching along Ngataringa Bay by 2030.

On the western edge of Ngataringa Bay, the Stanley Bay soccer fields, Ngataringa Tennis Club courts and some of the back gardens along Stanley Point Rd are shown inundated with water.

On the area’s eastern side, the bottom of Melrose Reserve and almost all of Patuone Place – including low-lying land at the bottom

of Shoal Bay Rd, Roslyn Tce, Kiwi Rd and Cautley St – is threatened by water.

The map also shows numerous North Yard Navy buildings will be under water, including the naval sports complex and training facilities along the water’s edge and a dozen dormitory structures along Titchener Pde. However the Navy Marae and most of the sports fields will remain above inundation levels by 2030, according to the map.

The map was commissioned by the NZDF in 2013 to assess “the affect on the Naval Base from sea-level rise,” an NZDF spokesperson said.

“The decision regarding what will happen to buildings affected by sea-level rise has not

been determined yet. The NZDF has no plans to relinquish ownership of landholdings,” the spokesperson said.

Meanwhile construction plans for the Navy’s South Yard are said to be still in an early phase.

“A range of options is being considered to consolidate car parking on the Naval Base.

One of those options is a multi-storey car-park building. If that option is being pursued it is possible that it may be situated in the middle of the South Yard,” the spokesperson said.

On a positive note, the Navy pool that was damaged during a landslide and has been closed since June last year, is anticipated to be fixed by the end of May, the spokesperson said.

Sea water encroachment mapped out at Ngataringa Bay

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Heritage threats spark public meeting A new heritage and residents’ group is on the horizon.

Trish Deans and Margot McRae, formerly of Devonport Heritage, are organising a public meeting on 29 March. Anyone interested in issues affecting residents’ rights and heritage matters is invited to come along for a discussion on the focus and scope of the new group.

Devonport Heritage went into liquidation after it was pursued for costs over its fight to retain the Masonic Tavern.

McRae says there are a number of current development issues in Devonport that show the need for a proactive residents’ lobby group.

These include the removal of a heritage house at 113 Vauxhall Road, the Ryman retirement village proposal, the 159 Victoria Rd childcare centre and residents increasingly not being informed of consents on neighbouring properties.

“Since the Unitary Plan came into force, council planners seem even more likely to approve non-notified consents, which means that neighbours don’t even know about an application until work starts,” said McRae. The non-notified decision to remove the 1880s villa at 113 Vauxhall Road is seen by heritage advocates as a disastrous heritage

decision, she said.

“The whole concept of removing an original authentic house and replacing it with one from Onehunga really defies belief.

“This was decided even when the council’s own heritage expert opposed it. You do have to wonder what is going on. It is also very worrying that a local heritage architecture firm worked with the applicant to make it happen,” McRae said.

Over the past few years, Devonport Heritage was often called in by locals who learnt about a significant development on their boundary only when work began.

“These are always deeply upsetting and stressful for neighbours, who have to spend money and huge amounts of energy fighting developments that will affect their lives.

“Unfortunately more and more people come into Devonport and want to transform simple villas and cottages into mansions.

They are well-resourced and often use the system to wear the council planners down to achieve what they want.

“What’s needed is a citizens’ group that balances this aggressive approach,” McRae said.

A new heritage group would be a strong voice for locals, who are not only protecting heritage but also their own amenity rights, she said.

The meeting is set for 7.30pm on March 29 at Devonport Library and is open to everyone in Devonport. It will be an informal discussion evening about what people see as the main issues affecting Devonport.

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Devonport swathed in colour and art The Devonport Arts Festival will kick off with a street-art party and residential art trail.

The festival will launch with the party on Wynyard St from 11am till 3 pm on 1 April.

Five large walls will be painted by street artists Cinzah, Kelly Spencer, Charlotte Hawley, Finn Wilson and Marcus Watson.

The party will also include live music, a pop-up cardboard playground, children’s art activities, art demonstrations and a market selling handmade goods.

In addition, Bike Devonport and Magic Broomstick will be running bike and Segway tours of the new residential art trail.

Local artists Greer Clayton, Robyn Gibson, Component, Hamish Grotrian, Mark Edward Noble and Sam Melser are painting six private walls in various village locations for the art trail. Sites include the Cheltenham Milk Bar, Vauxhall Vintage and the corner of Calliope and Victoria Rds. Event organiser Toni van Tonder says: “The best thing about the Devonport Arts Festival is the way it brings community together.

“There was no shortage of people offering walls, artists willing to give their time and

Street art…Sam Melser, works on a Bartley Tce wall skill, and businesses helping us to meet the cost of materials, printing or other items required to make this event work.

Our currency is goodwill and it’s always so heartening to see this is something the community is rich in,” she says.

The festival runs from 1-9 April with more than 25 events listed in the programme.

See www.devonportartsfestival.com for further information or contact Toni van Tonder at 021 0246 0123 or email devonportartsfestival@gmail.com.

What’s on at The Devonport Arts Festival by ceramicist John Dawson. Where: Corelli’s Hands-on art Café, 46 Victoria Rd. When: 6 April. Cost: $50.

Residential Art Trail by Segway. Call Magic Opening day art stations. Have a go at Broomstick Segway Tours 027 3393155 1X1 Exhibition and opening, an Arts Fest to book. ​When: 1 April, 11am-3pm, from Harakeke weaving, chalk up characters on the streets, make your own bookmarks and learn to fundraiser: A collection of 1.0m x 1.0m works Wynyard St art party. paint leisurely. Where: Wynyard St. When: 1 by local, national and emerging artists. Opens April, 11am-3pm. Who: children and families.

1 April at 2pm. Where: Pavilion Architecture Collaborative painting workshop. Demystify Studio, 11 Clarence Street. When: Viewing Theatre and music ideas and processes behind modern art. In this daily, 9am-8pm. two-hour experimental workshop, artist Sam ​Fragments by David Barker. Explore Anna Hawkins – The Bold, Brave & Barker’s fascination with water, clouds and Beautiful Tour. Where: The Vic, Victoria Rd. Melser will facilitate collaborative creativity other natural elements. Where: The Depot, 28 When: 8 April, 8pm. Cost: $30 at the venue. by guiding you through making your own (collaborative) works of art, which you can take Clarence Street. When: 25 March-12 April, Maison de Tease Burlesque Show. Where: daily, 10am-5pm. David Barker artist talk. The Vic, Victoria Rd. When: 7 April, 8pm. home and put on your wall. Prior experience with painting is preferred though not essential.

Where: The Depot. When: 2 April, 2pm.

Cost: $35 + booking fee.

Age 16+, max 12 people. Where: Kerr St 3 Moons of Xenon by Christian Nicholson.

Nathan James Quartet. Where: Esplanade Mixed-media art exhibition running until 16 Bar, 1 Victoria Road. When: 8 April, 6-9pm. Artspace, Mt Vic. When: Saturday 1 April, 2-4pm. Cost: $20 upon arrival – booking April. Opens 1 April at 3pm. Where: Art by the Tom Rodwell Duo. Where: Esplanade bar, devonportartsfestival@gmail.com.

Sea Gallery, 30 King Edward Parade. When: 1 Victoria Rd. When: 9 April, 6-9pm.

Adult colouring session, Devonport Library: daily, 10am-5pm.

Weed, by Anthony McCarten. Company group colouring session. Where: Devonport Ceramics exhibition by Ann O’Sullivan. Theatre presents a Kiwi comedy. Where: Rose View local ceramicist works. Where: Corelli’s Centre Theatre, School Road, Belmont. When: Library, Victoria Rd. When: Wednesday 5 April, 10am.

Café, 46 Victoria Road. When: daily 7am 5-8 April, 8pm. Cost: $25.

Have a go at the wheel. Test your clayuntil late. bending skills and have a go on the wheel Rae West Exhibition. View the new works. with the help of two ceramic tutors. Where: Where: Flagstaff Gallery, 30 Victoria Road.

Literature Ceramic College, 159 Bayswater Ave. When: When: daily, 10am-5pm.

April 1, 1-3pm. Cost: Free or $20 to have your Arts Festival Rhyme Time. Where: piece fired.

The Book Quartet.

A conversation with four Devonport Library, Victoria Road. When: 3 Patchwork – English paper piecing. Reuse local authors: Hannah Tunnicliffe (A French April, 10am. donated fabric and materials from the Recycling Wedding), Ann Glamuzina (Rich Man Road), Change, a Vauxhall School Installation. Play, move and create quirky characters with the Karen Breen (Sleep Sister) and Karen McMillan Centre and learn to create a patchwork piece Vauxhall School NZSoS exhibition. Where: (The Paris of the West) in conversation with (cushion cover or bag) using English paper MC, author and media personality David Slack. piecing. Where: Devonport Community Various locations in village. When: daily.

John Dawson Bowl Night. Enjoy a three- Tickets include free wine/beer. Where: The Vic, Recycling Centre, 27 Lake Rd. When: 1 and course Italian meal and keep the bowl made Victoria Rd. When: 1 April, 5.30-7.30pm. Cost: 9 April, 12-2pm. Who: Adults and children 8 years and up. Free. $15 presale, $20 on the door.

Exhibitions, openings and artist talks

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Harry Waine on track to Junior Worlds Devonport cyclist Harry Waine has been selected for the New Zealand team to compete at the UCI Junior World Track Championships at Shenyang, China in August.

At last year’s event, the New Zealand team won nine medals, including four gold. Harry (17) will compete in the individual and team events as an endurance rider.

He qualified for the event at this year’s

Elite and U19 Track Nationals, where he came fourth in the U19 3000m Individual Pursuit and Sprint and second in the Team Sprint.

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Evacuation adventure extends to the classroom A near disaster for Stanley Bay students at a school camp has had an educational rebound – with pupils writing poems and thank you notes about the experience.

On 8 March, 77 Stanley Bay School Year 5 and 6 students were woken by their teachers to find almost one-metre-high flooding around their Camp Adair cabins. An hour later, an evacuation was under way.

It was the school’s 14th visit to Camp Adair, which was established at Hunua in 1913. The rise in the nearby Wairoa River was caused by 160 mm rainfall over five hours.

Back at Stanley Bay School last week, when the Flagstaff visited, letters were being penned to the New Zealand Army, Auckland Civil Defence, the Red Cross and the New Zealand Police.

Year 6 teacher Helen Pelham, who had organised the school trip, said it was “all my nightmares come true”. For the kids though it was high adventure. They described the morning as “the best experience ever,” “exciting,” and “a once-in-a-lifetime adventure.”

The school had planned three days of activities: high ropes, Superfox, a Burma trail and confidence course. Plan B became an early-morning evacuation from rising floodwaters. Teachers, parents, a farmer, Auckland Civil Defence, the Red Cross and the New Zealand Army, among others, all played their part.

Last Thursday, the kids brainstormed in their sunny classrooms before writing thank you letters to their rescuers.

When Year 6 teachers asked who had helped and how, hands flew into the air.

Xanthe Person-Riley said a neighbouring farmer “took all of his stuff out of his barn so all of us could sit in it in the dry and he

Eric Brownlow... recounting his camp adventure in class even put his gas heater on for us.”

Kathryn Reid said the farmer also “gave us all biscuits and allowed us to use the bathroom in his house, even though he had just got new carpet.”

Charlotte Wiggins said; “I didn’t get a biscuit, but we got marshmallows and hot chocolate at the school later.”

The children also wrote to the Camp Adair staff because they carried about 30 children across the flood. The camp manager and his family lost their house and another staff member lost a car, Pelham said.

The Red Cross handed out blankets in the barn and prepared breakfast together with Civil Defence staff. “And they helped make hot dogs, sausages, milo, toast and spagetti for breakfast,” said Xanthe.

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Flood adventure…Stanley Bay School pupils took shelter at a local farm (top).

A trailer load of kids (above) being evacuated by tractor.

Ruby Jacobs (top right) is carried across the water to safety

by Camp Adair staff.

Eric Brownlow was writing to the volunteer fire brigade. “They drove the tractor with three loads of kids and adults in the trailer to evacuate us from the camp to the barn,” he said. A bus then took the children from the barn to nearby Hunua School.

“They closed their own school for the day and let us use their classroom and all their resources,” said Nia Shipkov.

Eric said Civil Defence was to be thanked for organising bus rides back to Stanley Bay later in the day too.

Maisie Bower learned a new word on the day. “They also ‘decommissioned’ one of our buses to help rescue kids from Northcote Primary,” she said.

Finn Theodore said the police were helpful in a mathematical way. “They kept counting everybody all the time to make sure no one got missing,” he said.

• Belmont Intermediate students also returned home early from a school trip (to Waipu) due to the heavy rain.

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Devonport School of Dance • New studios now open • Devonport School of Dance has just opened its newly renovated studios – a unique space created for everyone to share their love of dance. Two studios complete with sprung floors, barres, mirrors, a waiting area and uniform shop are tucked away in a converted warehouse at 15 Wynyard Street.

With the new studios come a variety of new classes and experienced teachers. Royal Academy of Dance ballet and NZAMD contemporary classes continue, with the addition of NZAMD jazz and tap, UDO hip hop, dance fitness and open lyrical classes.

Tap classes are perfect for those who enjoy musical theatre, dance and making their own music. Jazz classes are designed for those who prefer a more upbeat dance style, dancing to the latest tunes. Hip hop classes incorporate the technique and foundations of different styles of hip hop/street dance, including house, breaking, locking, popping, whacking and voguing. Dance fitness classes incorporate exercises to improve strength, flexibility and fitness and complement all dance styles. Lyrical encompasses a mixture of ballet, jazz and contemporary technique and is an expressive dance form, with choreography danced to the lyrics of songs.

For preschoolers, the Petite Performers syllabus is a specially designed curriculum including bespoke music and original choreography. A Mummy (or Daddy!) & Me Ballet class, for preschoolers aged 16 months to 3 years, introduces your little one to the magical world of ballet and dance through creative music, stories, props and games each week.

Preschoolers aged three and four can join Bella Ballet on an adventure in the Baby Ballet class, learning ballet vocabulary and steps through storytelling and use of their imagination. For preschoolers who like to groove, the Mini Movers Jazz & Hip Hop class with Harry Hip Hop is perfect for those wanting to learn funky moves, develop co-ordination, confidence, flexibility and rhythm. Or join Tilly Tap for some fun and

noisy dancing in the Tiny Tap class where fine motor skills are developed through musicality and rhythm, imagination and storytelling.

Tap shoes provided!

Children aren’t the only ones who can dance! A number of adult classes are on offer for all abilities and ages. Adult ballet classes cater for two levels: beginner and intermediate/advanced, with barre and centre exercises taught at a progressive pace each week as well as dance. For those who prefer a more upbeat style of dance, there are adult jazz and tap classes as well as the opportunity to join the senior hip hop class if hip hop is more your style. Lastly, there is a Ballet Barre Fitness class, which combines ballet barre, yoga, pilates and fitness exercises to give you a total body workout. Looking for an alternative to the gym? Come along to our adult classes for an enjoyable, fun workout!

Devonport School of Dance is also introducing the highly successful and revolutionary Progressing Ballet Technique programme (PBT) designed by Marie Walton-Mahon. Taught by a certified PBT teacher, this innovative programme enhances • Ballet • Contemporary • Jazz

ballet technique by training muscle memory to improve core stability, weight placement and alignment in classical ballet classes.

Please feel free to pop down the driveway at 15 Wynyard Street to visit Devonport School of Dance’s new studios. The space has been created for the whole community to enjoy, no matter what your age or ability. See you on the dance floor!

For more information about classes and times, please visit the website www.devonportschoolofdance.com or contact Miss Emily at emily@devonportschoolofdance.com

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The Flagstaff Notes

March 24, 2017

By Rob Drent

It’s timely that a new heritage group is being formed following the demise of Devonport Heritage last year. Many locals I have spoken to who have painstakingly restored near-derelict villas and cottages were astounded at the council decision to allow a Victorian villa be removed from 113 Vauxhall Rd. It will be replaced by a historic Edwardian home from Onehunga.

Chipping away at the edges of heritage with what I believe is a flimsy justification to get rid of an old home poses great dangers to a heritage suburb.

With the land values in Devonport these days, clearly people have the money and the inclination to come up with any number of schemes and designs to get the house they want on a site.

Probably not since the 1970s – when villas were being ripped down and replaced by sausage flats – has heritage south of the golf course been under greater threat.The public meeting to form the new group is set for 7.30 pm on March 29 at Devonport Library.

With the 113 Vauxhall Rd villa swap, it’s been suggested to me that one way it could be extended is buying up all the flats around Devonport and then trucking in old villas to go on the sites. It doesn’t really matter where the old houses come from does it?

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The desperation to get some movement on public transport on the Shore and the wider Auckland region, is demonstrated by slightest whiff of progress getting more coverage than it deserves.

Take the news last week from Auckland Transport and the New Zealand Transport Agency that an upgrade of the Northern busway would be rail not buses.

In reality this is decades away. A second harbour crossing needs to happen first. It is projected for between 2030 and 2048 but who really knows?

What amazes me is the amount of time large infrastructure projects take in New Zealand: from decision-making, to plans to construction.

Do the powers that be think that no one travels overseas where in the first world engineering projects appear to move ahead at speed? One example in France is the Tours-Bordeaux highspeed rail project. Construction of a NZ$10 billion-plus 302km high-speed rail line (with 38 km of connecting lines) started in mid-2012 with completion scheduled for 2017.

Auckland Council, through the Unitary Plan, has opened up swathes of the city to development without the corresponding public transport infrastructure. It’s poor planning and we won’t end up anywhere near making Auckland a liveable city.

On the Devonport front, I hope decisions to improve Lake Rd are made with great precision and the option for a tram and light-rail spur to connect with North Shore rail is future-proofed.

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Live happily ever after here It really is a ‘gingerbread cottage by the park’. But that’s not the whole story.

Open the distinctive red front door, and you’ll be surprised at the sense of space and light in this happy home. The owners have put their hearts and souls into renovating, and have beautifully and sensitively combined period features with everything that makes this house a modern home. The result is that you can enjoy the new designer kitchen (with honed black granite work tops) and new bathroom (with underfloor heating), beautiful European oak floors, new custom curtains and blinds in every room, each decorated with Karen Walker paint colours. Living in here is all about enjoying life. You can stroll to the village in 10 minutes. You can catch the ferry to work in Auckland City. Your children could go to either of two decile-10 primary schools: Stanley Bay School and Devonport Primary School; then attend Belmont Intermediate and Takapuna Grammar School after that. There are plenty of sports clubs and beaches nearby too, or you can relax in the North facing garden with its lawns, decking and pergola.

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It is with pleasure and gratitude that I share comments on my experience with Pia Reid in the marketing and sale of my home. Pia possesses all the attributes necessary to be an excellent agent: she knows the market extremely well; she is diligent, responsive, and yet very caring with her clients.

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March 24, 2017

The Devonport Flagstaff Page 19

Tree removal reveals ugliness and neglect On 8 March, acting on council orders, Treescape arrived – unannounced but commissioned for total emasculation.

My home in Devonport will never be the same. For years, my neighbours and I have taken pleasure and privacy from an oasis of green at the rear of our apartments. An enormous umbrella-shaped ficus acted as the lungs for an otherwise ugly and sterile environment, and protected us from so much backyard ugliness and neglect of the commercial properties beyond.

But obviously human habitation and wellbeing were unimportant on Armageddon Day while chainsaws and mulcher roared

throughout and no doubt at great expense!

In a moment of rare silence, I shook my head at the back door as an operator glanced up and shouted: “Sad!” Job done!

Now squalid, neglected backyards prevail: foremost being that of the mainly untenanted Victoria St council building, where “our tree” lived.

There was never any consultation; no communication (except what we gained second hand or by rumour) and absolutely no consideration!

Susan Waddell Esplanade Apartments

Commission of inquiry call for into Devonport deals and developments Recent events indicate it is too much of a coincidence that big business and iwi interests have not taken control of/or are not unduly influencing our planning/ ministerial systems.

This conclusion demands an immediate commission of inquiry chaired by a High Court Judge.

It would appear that big business and iwi are having undue influence in planning/ministerial decisions that will have a detrimental impact on Devonport and Belmont residents.

The commission of inquiry needs to investigate how: 1. A property developer was given approval by Auckland Council to erect apartments on the Bayswater Marina Reclamation land, when it was crystal clear in the initial approval for the reclamation that the reclaimed land was only to be used for marine-related uses, and certainly not apartments. (This decision is exacerbated by a decision of a previous Minister of Conservation to reduce the mandatory 20-metre-wide marginal strip to 3 metres.)

2. The Ryman Retirement Village was approved in a split two-to-one decision

on iwi-owned land in Devonport. The process for appointing the three planning commissioners should form part of the investigation.

3. The impact on local residents of the proposed intensification of iwi-owned land in Belmont will be evaluated and mitigated.

4. Why the curent Minister of Conservation approved the reduction in width of the mandatory 20-metre marginal strip to 6 to 10 metres on the iwi-owned land at Torpedo Bay? (Is the net effect of this decision, that like the Baywater Marina Reclamation marginal-strip decision, when the lease to the Navy Museum expires, iwi can apply to erect multi-storey residential and/or commercial apartments on the balance of the land?)

5. Why Auckland Council is deciding to nonnotify, even to adjoining owners, so many resource consent applications in Devonport and Belmont?

The commission of inquiry should be established immediately, be open to the public and the results and recommendations published well before this year’s September elections.

Bruce Tubb

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A FREE fun time for preschoolers to play withIf you have this plant on your property, please kill big toys, be active and to make new friends. it now.

Usetoddler gloves, and and a pull or digand it out by the Bring your coffee enjoy our roots, and dispose themore podsinformation, in the rubbish, beautiful parks!ofFor not in theCarolyn compost.

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Thursday 12th November 10am - 12 noon KIDS athletICS - Free Parade Devonport Yacht Club, 25SerIeS King Edward A quarterly meeting to promote tuesdays, 4pm-6pm Marchnetworking 28th among residents andSports local community groups.

Vauxhall reserve Meet new Community Constable Jasmine Bundle. (rugby Club Grounds), Devonport Hear fromaged Auckland Council the giving new dog Children 5ish – 11ish canabout have fun acand alcohol by-laws plus put about thea tivities like high jump, shot andchanges running to races go!

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Saturday 1st april, 7:30pm - 10:30pm holy trinity Church hall, Church St, Devonport WELCOME TO DEVONPORT DanceFriday to live27th Irish and Scottish 10:30am music from the November, Gaidhealtachd band46 with all dances led by a caller.

Corelli’s Café, Victoria Rd, Devonport There will be a shared supper at half-time so please New to Devonport or interested in meeting bring a plate to share. Organised by Devonport others community?

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Cost: adults invited tofree Welcome to Devonport to find out (cash only, on the door). more about what’s on and meet some new Devonport Community faces.

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The Devonport Flagstaff Page 20

March 24, 2017

Tainui Rd tree removal In response to Rose Evans’ letter in the March 10 issue.

This is a brainless “tree hugging” comment.

People do not lightly undertake expensive tree removal without good cause.

My understanding is that the people under the liquid amber sleep in other parts of the

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house during storms. Branch’s have fallen from this tree!

My neighbour across the road in, Tainui Rd, had a pohutukawa removed as roots were encroaching under the house.

My immediate neighbour has two large pohutukawa’s on the front boundary. The roots from this tree have broken up and raised the footpath so water now runs into my garage. It is breaking up my garage floor and garden path’s and is now encroaching under my house.

In addition, two years ago, on a windless day with no warning, a large branch measuring two m circumference fell across my garage and onto the house. This would have weighed several tonnes!

In this instance major damage was averted, with only three sheets of roofing being replaced, the branch being supported on the concrete fire wall and an internal steel beam.

Some bureaucrat must have been sufficiently concerned because shortly afterwards the opposing branch, which was hanging over Tainui Rd, got removed.

Evan’s can be assured that I will now do whatever it takes to mitigate this problem.

If that means removing a tree, too bad!

Terry Bracey

Thank you Devonport Since your article (Flagstaff, 10 March) “The Bunker closes on Mt Vic after 46 years”, we have been inundated with offers of venues, financial assistance and help from literally hundreds of people locally and internationally.

The Devonport Folk Club is deeply moved by this and would like to thank the many local community people who have been so supportive in their offers.

It is greatly appreciated. I have tried to personally contact and thank as many people as possible, but felt this letter would do the job more widely.

Yes, it came as a great blow to our organisation, but we took stock and realised that even without the Bunker, we have built up such a worldwide reputation of talented musicians over 50 years, that the club will not die. Our membership is strong and supportive, and we continue with our weekly meetings to encourage, entertain and educate anyone who wishes to come and give it a go.

We are currently accommodated by the council at Fort Takapuna in their newly renovated building A13. Call in any Monday night and be assured of a warm welcome. Thank you everyone.

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This beautiful and grand kauri villa, built in 1896, offers a spacious family home of 481m2 across two floors and is set in a large private garden of 971m2 in the heart of Devonport village. From the moment you enter this stunning home through the impressive central panelled hallway with its traditional kauri floors, you cannot fail to be impressed by the grandeur of its heritage details.

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This is a grand house that offers the opportunity for further renovation, for which concept plans developed by a leading architectural firm are available.

This property offers spacious living in a unique Devonport location, with scope to add real value to make this into one of Devonport’s finest homes.

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Making waves as a painter and a sailor As a boy, David Barker learned about art at Takapuna Grammar School and sailed off Narrow Neck Beach.

Now 75, the internationally successful artist returned to Devonport after suffering a brain bleed four years ago. He has combined his love for art and boats in an upcoming exhibition. Barker talks to Maire Vieth.

David Barker has been mad about both art and the sea for most of his life. As a student at Elam School of Fine Arts in the early 1960s, he could usually be found at Takapuna Beach when he wasn’t at his easel. “I was the only art student with a tan all year round,” he says.

Until now, Barker has kept his two passions separate. “Boating for me is social, physical, competitive; painting is private and solitary.

The two require very different forms of concentration and intelligence. Looking at shapes and light is not at all like checking tides, winds and race courses. They didn’t really go together for me,” he says.

Last year, Barker went out on a limb and produced some paintings on his 36-foot launch Feather. “Finally, a crossover has taken place,” he says, sounding almost relieved. Six of the watercolours, scenes of Waiheke and the Hauraki Gulf, will be among Fragments, 32 recent works being shown at the Depot Artspace from Saturday until mid-April.

Barker arrived in Devonport in 2013 after suffering a cerebellar brain bleed at his home near Kerikeri and having to be airlifted to Auckland Hospital.

It was touch and go for a while but he regained consciousness and was discharged from hospital three weeks later.

His wife Tanya had rented a house in Cheltenham to be near him and he soon enjoyed walks on Cheltenham Beach, where he chanced upon several old local friends. “I bumped into people like Gifford Jackson, who I hadn’t seen in many years,” he says.

The Barkers liked living in Devonport so much that they sold their Northland home of 25 years and settled on King Edward Pde. They have joined the Devonport Yacht Club and enjoyed concerts at the Bunker. “It feels a bit like coming home,” he says.

Barker and his family first arrived on the North Shore from the UK in 1951, when he

Home is the sailor... artist David Barker is back on the North Shore, where his career in art and love of boating began was 10. His artistic ability had already been recognised: when he was seven, one of his drawings was “Highly Commended” in a national exhibition of children’s art in London.

The Barkers lived first in Torbay, then Northcote and finally Takapuna. While he was at Northcote Primary, David was singled out by the New Zealand Herald in a review of a children’s art show at Auckland Town Hall, saying his “exhibits are worthy of an artist three times his age.” Praise was also heaped on the young artist by the New Zealand Woman’s

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Art teacher Owen Lee became a mentor at Takapuna Grammar School, where Barker was a student before being accepted for Elam.

In 1960, his last year at high school, Barker won second prize in the prestigious national Kelliher Art Prize competition. The winner was the well-known New Zealand painter Peter McIntyre, who was 31 years Barker’s senior.

The following year, the competition had a junior section, which Barker won.

Barker liked being connected to the established art world. “I always had, even at art school, an association with the New Zealand Fellowship of Artists, the New Zealand Academy and the Auckland Society of the Arts who hung and sold my work. So I didn’t have a job delivering papers to pay for art school. I sold a painting instead,” he says.

During his last year at Elam, Barker had a solo exhibition at John Leech Gallery, one of Auckland’s top galleries at the time. He was only 23, but insisted on professional standards.

“I told [gallery owner] Allan Swinton I wanted the invitations to be in colour on heavyweight board so that people wouldn’t just throw them in the bin. And it worked. A collector recently returned one of those cards to me,” he says.

Among artists, Barker’s sporty and outdoors life was considered unusual. “I broke the art-

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school rules by going surfing and sailing on Takapuna Beach and the west coast,” he says.

Barker’s love of the water emerged in Torbay. He and childhood friend Ron Holland, now a boat designer in Vancouver, one day found a plank of wood on the beach. “It was just big enough to support either one of us, like a surfboard. That’s where it all started,” he says.

After the Barkers settled in Takapuna, David and his younger brother Tony bought and sailed a Frostbite dinghy together, storing it at the beach.

They learned how to sail back and forth from Takapuna to Narrow Neck from other kids on boats, he says. Those kids turned out to be future Olympians Ralph Roberts and Geoff Smale. Later, he sailed against the likes of Chris Bouzaid and Chris Dickson on the Waitemata Harbour. “Until then, I had thought I was going fast, but they were always far out in front.”

Having gained a Bachlor of Fine Arts with with Honours, Barker won an award and a grant that enabled him to study art at the University

“I broke the artschool rules by going surfing and sailing on Takapuna Beach and the west coast.” of Hawaii in 1964.

“It changed my life.” Writing a masters thesis on mural paintings and their connection to architecture was an exciting intellectual stretch, he says.

Back in New Zealand in 1967, it was thought the only way to make a living as an artist was in teaching. Barker went to Auckland Teacher’s Training College so he could teach high-school art.

“After a year of that I went off to Melbourne in a huff,” he says. Within hours of arriving, he had landed a job at Caulfield Institute of Technology (now part of Monash University), where he helped develop a course curriculum focused on traditional drawing and painting skills.

One wet weekend, Barker took a trip to Hobart, Tasmania. Come Monday, he didn’t want to return. “I made a destiny-changing call from the airport to the head of the art school in Hobart, asking if they had a job. He said I could start the next week,” he says.

Hobart’s scale had appealed to Barker. “I saw in the size of the town, and the other artists I met, the possibility to make art for a living.

It’s a similar feeling I have coming here to Devonport. You don’t have to be famous to be acknowledged. There is a lovely repartee that wasn’t possible in Melbourne, where I never

Teen talent... a view of North Head painted by David Barker at age 15 saw the same person twice,” he says. catamaran, a 12-foot Kitty Cat, when he was Barker stopped teaching three years later living in Takapuna. After leaving Tasmania in and has supported himself as a full-time artist 1971, he designed and built his first of three ever since. catamarans in Sydney. “I had decided that Over the last 40 years, Barker has exhibited speed happened on the drawing board, not on worldwide – in Los Angeles, London, Moscow, the water,” he says.

Tokyo, Helsinki, Noumea, Tasmania, Toronto, Sundancer was built for himself. “It struck New York, the Netherlands, Spain, France, terror into the local yachting community at the and frequently also at John Leech Gallery in time with its speed,” he says.

Auckland and McGregor Wright Gallery in The second, the 64-foot-long Stratosphere, Wellington. was built in 1978 for Matakana farmer Gordon New Zealand remained his home. While still Miller. Sundreamer was Barker’s last boat at Elam, Barker had bought a couple of small design. sections of land in the Bay of Islands and on “It started to become a bit of a conflict the Coromandel. “I was introduced to the north because I wanted to be a painter, not a boat through school friends at Takapuna Grammar. designer,” he says.

Their relatives would take me out painting and His upcoming show at the Depot finally they would tell me I had to buy this piece of resolves the conflict, he says. land for $600 because it had a view of the sea, so I did,” he says. The Barkers later built their Fragments runs from 25 March until home in Kerikeri.

12 April. (Artists talk: April 2, 2pm) They also lived in Vancouver, where they still own a place, and in England and Italy, where they recently sold up to simplify their lives.

Barker says he was determined to succeed as a professional artist. “Since art school, I maintained strong boundaries. I wasn’t going to become an addict or alcoholic or a big family man. I put those things consciously aside. I saw that if you didn’t, you could end up falling off Sensitive tutoring offered at all levels a cliff, share-milking or doing postal deliveries of the secondary school curriculum. very quickly,” he says.

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Boating has sometimes interfered with his art, Barker admits. He bought his first

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Immersed in Indian culture through art Andrea Ord spent half of her recent trip to India with sex workers and their children.

Ord, a former arts administrator and educator, volunteered to run five weeks of art workshops at Snehalaya, a centre that supports woman in the sex trade and children with HIV/AIDS. This was Ord’s third trip to India and she was ready to give something back.

After five weeks of travelling through northern India with daughter Eliza (21) and husband Clive Melling, Ord took extended leave from her Auckland Art Gallery job and stayed on for another five weeks on her own, running three workshops a day. She also put on an exhibition in a classroom she had converted into an art room.

The 250 children created papier mâché bowls, cardboard box masks and dioramas as well as fabric paintings on flags.

Ord says she wants to return to Snehalaya soon. “It was such a unique experience for me to be immersed in the local culture. I built up friendships with the children and feel I am part of their lives now.”

Ord has since decided to change her own life. The long-time Bayswater resident resigned from her job and is in the process of setting up children’s art classes in Belmont.

Giving something back…Andrea Ord held art workshops for needy children in India

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Authors help find kids with the write stuff

Tell us a story... Competition judges Sue Orr (left) and Lotte Wotherspoon (right), with Rachel Cooper of Paradox Books and a Very Hungry Caterpillar Devonport’s literary tradition has helped inspire a new competition for young local writers.

Paradox Books owner Rachel Cooper had the idea for the ‘Tell a Story’ competition during the recent Devonport Library Associates event to launch the Devonport Writers Collection.

“When I saw all those books by all those Devonport writers lying there en masse, I thought why not see how creative the kids in this creative suburb are,” she says.

In no time, she had secured local judges for the competition’s three age categories.

“All my top choices said yes. It took me 20 minutes.”

Sue Orr, author of novel The Party Line and the award-winning short-story collection From Under the Overcoat, will judge the category for 13- to 17-year-old writers.

“She is such an amazing writer but she has also taught writing and has studied writing, which makes her a treasure to have

on board,” says Cooper.

Orr previously judged the young writers category in the 2011 Katherine Mansfield Awards.

When asked for advice for any local teenage writers, she says: “Write from the heart. Don’t wag the finger at the reader or be too overt with your message. Be wary of tidy endings and let your characters lead you to unexpected places.”

Three-time novelist Hannah Tunnicliffe will judge submissions in the 10- to 12- yearold category. “She is perfect because she has just finished writing her first children’s book and has young kids herself, so she is immersed in that world,” Cooper says.

Tunnifcliffe sees the competition as a chance for young writers to develop their talent. “Writing is a muscle that strengthens with use, so this is an opportunity for them to flex it and grow in confidence,” she says.

“I am just looking for the kids to be experimenting, exploring and having fun

with writing,” she says.

Lotte Wotherspoon writes and illustrates children’s books, including Tiny Owl on the Ramshackle Farm and Pukeko Dancing on the Old Dirt Track. She will judge stories submitted by the youngest writers, aged seven to nine.

“Lotte is just a genius. She has the potential to be our next Lynley Dodd,” says Cooper.

Wotherspoon encourages young writers to let the imagination they use in play fly on the page.

“Whether it is a fantasy land about a toy’s life, or a memory of something that recently happened during a holiday, I love it when children use their imagination and their own words, when they write just the way they talk at their age,” she says.

For more information about the competition, visit Paradox Books. The deadline for submissions is Monday 8 May. Winners will be announced three weeks later.

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Bursting with creativity: school magazine goes national

Local talent showcased... Isla Sangl (12), Barne Gould (9) and John Sutton (9) have all had work published in Charlotte Gibbs’ school journal Devonport’s young literary and artistic talent is getting exposure in Toitoi, a national journal for young writers and artists.

Cheltenham mother-of-three Charlotte Gibbs launched the magazine in 2013. It is published four times a year, in the first week of each school term.

She started the magazine as a school project for Vauxhall School, where her three children Tom (14), Georgie (11) and Isabelle (9) were students at the time.

“It was called Vox, had the work of Vauxhall kids in it, and the teachers ended up using it as a classroom resource,” she says.

Now Gibbs, who worked in publishing during a 10-year stint in London, says the renamed magazine has become her fulltime job.

Hundreds of New Zealand schools subscribe to the magazine and accompanying support material for teachers.

It can be found in many libraries and sells locally at Marbles and Paradox Books.

A host of local children have had their stories and illustrations published in it.

Barney Gould (9) has had two of his poems published so far. Learning to Surf was inspired by a day at Tawharanui two years ago and What I Can See on State Highway Three by a skiing holiday on Mount Ruapehu last winter.

John Sutton (9) and Isla Sangl (12) have

illustrated the work of other authors for the magazine.

John says his pen-and-pencil drawings are usually inspired by the people and places writers talk about.

Isla says she focused on facial expressions in her colour-pencil, acrylic-paint and watercolour illustration of a Treaty of Waitangi poem. “I wanted to show what they were feeling,” she says.

John says it’s “cool” to see his art in print, Barney says “people get to know more about me when you write in that context” and Isla says the magazine is a “great opportunity for kids to spread their creative talent”.

All of the above is what Gibbs was aiming to accomplish with Toitoi.

“For our seventh issue, which is off to the printers this week, we received 100 submissions,” she says.

Barney, Isla and John all believe Devonport feeds their creativity one way or another. Isla says the community is “open to creative projects”.

Barney finds it helpful that there is lots to do and experience, “like the mountains, the sea, the beaches and the people.”

And John just loves looking around him.

“I get inspired here,” he says.

The next deadline for submissions is 13 April. For more information, see www.toitoi.nz

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Kids take floods by storm

From sand to turf‌ Angus Fotheringham (left), Josh Purcell (on board) and Ollie Phillips, all 16-year-old Takapuna Grammar School students, moved their skimboarding location from Cheltenham to Waitemata golf course. They perfected jumps with the help of a rake found floating in a nearby bunker.

Natural playground‌ Jasper Heim (9) swings across a newly formed pond, while neighbour and friend Douglas Lindsay (11) waits for his turn

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Pool swimmers… sisters Milla (left) and Indie Holland came to the golf course wearing togs, for their swim in a nearly one-metre-deep “pool”. Their father Darren Holland grew up in Devonport and said he remembered what the golf course was like after a big downpour. “I rowed a dinghy across it as a kid once,” he said.

Devonport was left relatively unscathed by flooding that recently caused havoc across much of Auckland. The torrential rain provided a bit of fun and adventure for youngsters when the Waitemata Golf Club course became a water park on Sunday 12 March, just after the rain.

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81A Victoria Road, Devonport. Ph 445 2851 Here we are well into the year now; kids are back at school and most people have had their summer holidays, and are already dreaming of the next one.

We are finding quite a few people who are struggling with sleep currently, so we would love to focus on this for this issue.

Do you struggle with sleep? Find it difficult to fall asleep? Or continually wake during the night? Have you had this for what seems like forever? (Excluding having small babies and children to wake up too!)

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If you have been having sleep issues, you need to drop the caffeine. Even just one cup of coffee first thing in the morning can upset the hormones that are needed at the right time of the day for a successful, restful sleep. Try drinking green tea, or warming teas such as ginger, chai teas etc during the day, and a cup of chamomile or relaxing sleepblended teas for the evening time. You will notice a difference! We have several wonderful sleep blends in-store – come and try some.

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Life imitates the arts at Rose Centre Builders are cracking into the work at the Rose Centre – both inside and out.

External cladding work is currently in progress. Meanwhile, inside the set is being built for Weed, Company Theatre’s upcoming production.

Flats are going up and being painted, and furniture installed to create the kitchen of the country farmhouse where farmers Jack and Henry plan how to combat the recession by growing cannabis. The Kiwi comedy by Anthony McCarten, written in 1987, still resonates with audiences today.

• Weed runs 26 March 26 - 8 April. Tickets can be booked on 445 9900 or by emailing the Rose Centre on info@rosecentre.co.nz Director Mark Jensen (centre) surveys the work of Ian Birch, Scott Thomas and Caroline Parker

Aussie boat to the rescue on the Devonport-Auckland service Devonport’s ageing Kea ferry is to get help from a new kid on the block.

The Australian vessel Capricornian Surfer will soon join the Kea in the hope it can help prevent the delays and cancellations that have plagued the Fullers DevonportAuckland service for the past two summers.

Fullers Group CEO Doug Hudson told the Flagstaff the new boat will be a dedicated secondary vessel on the Devonport route during morning and evening peak times, supporting the Kea. Hudson said Fullers chose Capricornian Surfer because it was designed similarly to the Kea in that it has wide side doors for quick passenger loading. It is not double-ended like the Kea but turns around very quickly with its four engines and jet manoeuvring. “It’s the next best thing to the Kea,” he said.

This will make for a more reliable schedule even when Auckland has record tourist numbers, Hudson said. “It will also give us two years to plan a Kea replacement,” he said.

The Tiri Kat is currently getting new engines and a facelift.

“In April, it will be back as the third boat for Devonport,” Hudson said.

Good timing… Cap Surfer is seen as the partial answer to Fuller’s poor recent record on the Devonport-Auckland run

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Ph David 021 0206 0606.

Devonport upholstery.

Recover specialist. Antiques and contemporary styles.

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

Classifieds SERVICES OFFERED Diggadrain. Drain unblockers and drainage experts. CCTV drain locating. Repairs.

New drains. 0800 your drain.

Devonport Window Repairs. Sash and casement windows, wooden doors. Rotten sills and window components repaired or replaced. General carpentry. For your local window specialist.

Phone Hubert Strang 446 6174 or 021 274 4191.

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

Call Barbara 021 141 0331.

G a r d e n e r Av a i l a b l e 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.

Handyman. Mature professional in Devonport, Bayswater area. Repairs, painting, those jobs you just don’t have time to do. Free quote. References. Ph. Brian 021 150 8898.

H o u s e k e e p e r. H o m e cleaning, including windows. Experienced.

References. Phone 442 2273, 027 492 6220.

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

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

Phone Rod 021 390 800.

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. Free quote w w w . f o r m a t landscapes.co.nz.

Call Matt 021 599 107.

Let me mow your lawns and trim your hedges. I live locally. Phone Chris from Lifestyle Plus on 09488-7279 or 027-245-6264.

Or you can email me on chris@lifestyleplusltd.nz.

References available.

Locksmith, Devonport’s own Scott Richardson.

Mob 021 976 607.

Master painter Qualified and experienced. Water-blasting and licensed waterproofing. Quality craftsmanship guaranteed, interior/exterior work.

Phone Chris 027 385 0406.

FREE QUOTES. Painting, decorating, restoration, reasonable rates ph Bernard 445 8816, 021 0255 5456.

SERVICES OFFERED Section services Trees: p r u n e d , r e m o v e d .

Hedges: trimmed, reduced. Section tidy-ups.

Ph Dom 027 222 1223.

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

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 Bridge lessons Beginners lessons (both day and evening sessions) at North Shore Bridge Club commence mid-March.

Phone Mandy MacLean 021 177 3743 or see Tuition at www.nsbc.org.nz Learn piano/keyboard.

Lessons from $19.00.

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

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

Offering tailored tuition during or after school.

Ph 027 391 3716 or visit www.squigglesdyslexia. co.nzT Mathematics Tuition Available for years 9 to 13 by a retired maths teacher.

Phone Graeme 445 8575.

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

100% pass rate in 2016.

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Piano Lessons. Piano & music theory tuition from classically trained pianist.

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Ph 021 079 0005 or email windarc.darius@gmail.com Primary Tutor Maths, English, Health & Wellbeing and Drama for 5-11 year olds. School prep also available. Visit www. gschuwertutoring.com for further details. 027 410 6871 gschuwertutoring@ gmail.com Singing lessons in Devonport. Contract Dr Sue Braatvedt 473 9113 or 027 340 2884. All ages.

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

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March 24, 2017

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

It’s good to know that with an ageing population we will be leading longer and healthier lives which is why we are planning to adjust the long-term settings of NZ Super from 65-67 by 2037. Gradually increasing the age of entitlement with plenty of warning will give people time to adapt and plan and it will spread the costs and benefits more fairly between generations and makes sure the scheme remains affordable.

Of course there’ll be no change if you already get NZ Super and essentially people over 45 will not be affected. Super will not be means or asset tested and the weekly payment will remain pegged to 66 per cent of the average wage which rises along with the strengthening economy – in the past eight years the weekly rate has gone up 35% after tax compared to a 14% rise in inflation.

To ensure ongoing fairness to New Zealanders, the residency requirement for NZ Super will rise from 10 to 20 years and will apply to anyone wanting to claim Super who arrives in the country after the legislation is passed next year.

As Minister for Seniors I’ve just announced changes to Enduring Power of Attorney forms and they’re now much simpler and easier to understand while still being legally binding.

Alongside ‘Conversations that Count’ day on April 5th, I’d really encourage you to talk to your loved ones or your older relatives about how to plan if they become mentally less capable later in life and draw up an EPA while you can. I’ve also recruited around 300 legal firms to provide discounts via the SuperGold card for drawing up wills and EPAs so have a look on the website for more details www.superseniors.msd.govt.nz where you can also sign up to receive our SuperSeniors newsletter to keep up to date on Gold card discounts and issues of interest to seniors The stunning Devonport peninsula is a great place to live but could be frightening during a natural disaster. My colleague Civil Defence Minister, Gerry Brownlee, has just unveiled a Cell Broadcast Alert System to give us a heads up when there’s danger

and help us stay safe in an emergency. Civil Defence is working with cell phone companies to ensure the alert system can get to every phone, so you don’t even need to sign up. Similar systems are in place in the Netherlands, Japan and the US. It will help us all in Devonport to stay safe in the event of a tsunami or major weather event.

To stop us feeling pain of another kind, the Department of Conservation has been targeting wasps this summer with a very effective bait called Vespex. Wasps cost the economy up to $130 million a year and are a nuisance when their nests are in our neighbourhoods. After thorough testing on public conservation land this very effective bait is now available to be used in our backyards and wipes wasp nests out overnight.

People can buy Vespex online by registering, taking a short safety test and becoming an approved user. Once you’re an approved user you could help any of your neighbours who also have wasp issues. The protein bait is targeted at the black and yellow striped German and Common wasps and is not attractive to bees. Unfortunately Vespex doesn’t control those Paper wasps that attack our Monarchs – something to work on.

While many of us were taking shelter from the storm earlier this month, Murrays Bay Sailing Club was hosting its 50th annual 24-hour yacht race on Lake Pupuke and raising funds to cover coaching costs next season. This race is the stuff of folklore and it’s great to see all the community support it attracts each year. It has a well-earned reputation as NZ’s toughest dinghy race, and it certainly lived up to that during the stormy weather that tested everyone’s sailing skills.

Congratulations to winners Thomas Saunders and Andrew McKenzie - completing an impressive 84 laps of the Lake in just over 24 hours - and also to top solo sailor Olivia Christie who completed an outstanding single-handed 81 laps non-stop.

Warm regards,

Hon Maggie Barry ONZM

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Welcoming the FBI Nerves were intense amongst the 15 students from Tu Tungata, waiting at the Navy Marae, in late February. But the opportunity to welcome people from organisations such as the FBI and NCIS was one not to be missed.

A powerful karanga, a traditional Maori welcome, rang out as the 20 visitors were brought onto the marae.

Naval Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) were all in New Zealand to speak at a conference held in Auckland on the topic of money fraud. They had arrived the day before and were set to speak to on Thursday, 23 February.

Mike McKelly from the FBI explained some aspects of his job: he works with “white-collar crime” (financially motivated crime committed by government or business professionals).

“It can be (a physical job). So we train to be able to do something when necessary, although more frequently than not, it’s a lot less exciting than what you see on television,” McKelly explained, when asked about the physicality of

his job, and added after that they do carry a gun when in America.

Some cases from McKelly’s work were discussed – the most recent being one in which a business in Boston had US$1.8 million stolen. The FBI managed to get all the money back and told the victim just that morning that the money would be back in his account the next day. McKelly reported that those moments where the most rewarding aspects of his job.

By GIOrGIA DOUGhTy

Peer support helps new students adapt Peer Support, organised by year 13 students, has helped year 9 students adapt successfully to their new environment. This programme ran for six weeks, in groups of 15 to 20 students.

For each session, year 13 students prepared a school-related topic such as academic achievement school facilities and friendship, to discuss with year 9 students. One group also led a session where year 9 students could freely ask questions about school life.

“It was very useful when year 13 students explained about subjects and school life,” commented one year 9 student.

The student group leaders also prepared one or two games every week to help year 9 students make new friends quickly and easily. “year 13 students are really nice to year 9 students and I felt included when playing games,” said Thomas.

This programme has also helped year 13 students improve their leadership skills by preparing and leading each session with year 9 students. “Peer Support was very meaningful to me because I could help year 9 students feel comfortable around their peers and school,” said peer support leader Fern MacArthur.

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Being inclusive and supportive For the fifth year, the LGBT+ Club has opened its doors to students who identify as LGBT+.

It was 2013 when three senior students and senior Dean, Mr Dan Eichblatt, founded the club. Students from all year groups attend the weekly Wednesday meetings to discuss topics such as how the club can help create positivity in the community.

According to Mr Eichblatt: “The most important thing is that it exists – whether students come to the group or not, the fact that TGS has a safe space for LGBT+ youth sends a message that this is an inclusive and supportive school, where identifying as part of the LGBT+ community is nothing to be ashamed of or isolated because of.”

This is ever-present in the students who attend the meetings, as the atmosphere is positive and accepting towards everyone. It’s interesting to see where the club goes next. As Mr Eichblatt says, “That is really up to the students involved, and the areas that they feel the need to address. I would like to see the group connect with other schools, and to have a vibrant, positive club that gets more openly involved in school life, demonstrating that LGBT+ people are everywhere and in the fabric of regular life. I feel that diversity and pride in one's identity makes everyone more empathetic – something that is so relevant and important in the current global climate.”

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FROM THE COURT: The Premier Boys Volleyball team (above) placed second in the Auckland Volleyball champs held at the Trust Arena in henderson.

This podium finish is a first for TGS. Notable mentions to Jac roberts and Keenan hodge, who made the tournament team.

FROM THE LAKE: The North Island rowing championships, Lake Karapiro. Two A finals, six B finals – with a first place for the Boys U17 Quad – and three C finals, including a win for the Girls U18 Novice Double.

FROM THE PITCH: In the first week of March, all five of our TGS Cricket teams won their round-robin games in their respective grades.

year 13 Geography students travelled to Muriwai Beach on the windy west coast to collect data from waves, dunes and clifftops for their internal. The morning was spent surveying the waves at higher altitudes. Students took meticulous care in recording the length and height of waves, and carefully sketched the pillow lava of Maori Bay, the Otakamiro headland, and Muriwai beach.

Many students thought the trip was “fun” but educational. Caelum Boyce learnt how “waves can be both constructive and deconstructive”, while another student, Mai Nguyen, thought the trip encompassed “much practical experience after taking geo from the general skills of maps and using directions that will help greatly in the future.” Overall, it was a very memorable experience for all and the free food helped to brighten an already exciting day.

By SELENA ZhOU

FROM THE OUTDOORS: The TGS Get2Go team of Sofie Safkova, Seb Safka, Kate Millington and Jonathan Nicholas placed second in the Auckland round at Totara Park on March 8th. They were up against the top Auckland schools and battling the crazy weather!

FROM THE GYM: Congratulations to harrison Smith, who has qualified for the Australian National Trampolining Championships.

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Devonport artists Helen Pollock and Tony McNeight are sending dozens of terracotta feet and thousands of metal poppies off to France for a combined outdoor art exhibition commemorating the centenary of the Battle of Arras.

The trip has been in the works since May 2015, when Arras Mayor Frédéric Leturque visited Pollock, a sculptor, in her Devonport home.

Next month, Pollock’s sculpture Victory Medal will be exhibited at the Arras Place des Héros. The sculpture comprises 36 pairs of terracotta feet and a single bronze pair, on a large round rusted steel platform.

In 2010, Victory Medal was part of NZ Sculpture OnShore.

Artist’s talk with David Barker Sunday 2nd April at 2:00 pm

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Speed stacking no mug’s game for Joel Bayswater’s Joel Potter (12) is competing at the World Sport Stacking Competition to be held in Taiwan in April.

Stacking is a sport of speed and dexterity, arranging plastic cups in certain sequences as quickly as possible.

Joel earned himself a spot on the New Zealand Black Stacks team last year. His personal best (PB) for the ‘Cycle’ – a tricky stacking sequence using 12 plastic cups – is 6.5 seconds.

Joel is competing in three routines in Kaohsiung City – the Cycle, the shorter 363 (PB 2.38 seconds) and the even shorter 333 (PB 1.7 seconds). The preliminary rounds are on 13 April.

“I get three attempts in each routine, so I will be done in about two to three minutes,” he says.

Joel’s goal is to make it into the finals of the Cycle and to compete for another minute on the following day.

To the naked eye, Joel’s hands move with outlandish speed when sport stacking. But to Joel, the actions have become become second nature. His father Alan says: “It’s a musclememory sport. Joel isn’t even thinking about what he’s doing. He doesn’t even have to look at the cups. It’s like walking to him.”

But it’s no walk in the park. Joel, a Year 8 student at Belmont Intermediate School, Speed merchant… Joel Potter can stack with the best of them practises for an hour and a half a day. He uses professional-grade cups, a mat and a timing machine. But all up, his equipment costs less than $100.

The “Formula 1 cups”, as Joel calls them, are particularly soft, slippery and fast. A novice or even intermediate stacker simply couldn’t handle them, says Alan, who is a stacker himself.

Alan and Joel have qualified for the parentSaturday 8 April 8am-2pm & child competition in Taiwan. “But we don’t Sunday 9 April 9 am-1 pm expect to make it into the finals. I’m simply too slow,” says Alan.

Devonport Scout and Guide Halls, Allenby Ave At home, Joel practises on a converted pingpong table in the Potters’ garage. He meets with the Black Stacks team and coach Richard Foster once a month.

To warm up for Taiwan, he competed in the 2017 Summer Sport Stacking Open in Murrays Bay on 12 March, coming eighth.

FOR SALE: quality new & preloved Still accepting your donations at the Joel got into stacking in his last year at books, homewares, clothing, furniture, Bayswater Primary School. His teacher, Guide Hall, Allenby Ave: garden & sporting goods, art & ceramics. Wednesday 5 April 10-12 & 6-9pm; Marianne Coldham, allowed her students to stack after school if they had a productive day.

Thursday 6 April 10-12 & 6-9pm; Refreshements: tea & coffee; cakes & Since then, Joel has been spreading the Friday 7 April 9am - 9pm. biscuits; sausage sizzle. word among his friends. “Joel is a stacking evangelist,” Alan says.

Queries ph: Trish on 4451520 or 02108626675 or To raise $1500 for Taiwan, Joel has been Di on 4457587 / 02102575624 or email lakeroadgs@gmail.com. busking in the Auckland CBD. He has even attended corporate events, teaching people If you want to see Devonport’s development done well, support the how to stack.

Devonport Precincts Appeal to fund the Ryman development legal challenge.

“The key to getting good at stacking is to take your time to learn it. Getting fast doesn’t WAYS YOU CAN SUPPORT US: happen in a day. And it’s important to learn how Find out more on our website and register for updates: www.devonportprecincts.nz to recover when you make a mistake,” he says.

Cash donations can be made at: givealittle.co.nz/cause/ngataringaprecinct Is he obsessed? Joel nods, as his mother Katie Robinson says: “That’s why the table is in the garage.”

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All the fun of the Belmont Primary School Fair

A sweet day for a horse ride… Zoe Meyer with a fair purchase (left) and Molly Zhang going for a ride on teacher Ali Levitt’s horse

The Belmont Primary School PTA would like to say thank you to all of our major sponsors for supporting our 2017 Fair.

We couldn’t do it without you!

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March 24, 2017

Ego gets serious about cardiac arrest Comedian Paul Ego, star of the television show Seven Days, showed he’s no one-trick pony when he helped demonstrate a defibrillator at Ngataringa Tennis Club last week.

An AED, or automated external defibrillator, is now installed in a weatherproof case on an outside wall of the tennis clubhouse in Stanley Bay Park. It is available at all times to help the community and park users in the event of a cardiac arrest.

The AED was donated to the club by Heart Saver NZ, for which Paul Ego is a Heart Saver ambassador. Ego uses humour to help people use AEDs and stars in a just-released You Tube video about cardiac arrest. Ego became involved with education about cardiac arrest after his wife Janine Jones, who is treasurer of the Ngataringa Tennis Club midweek committee, had a heart attack and suffered cardiac arrest in 1997, aged 30. Ego didn’t know what to do at the time.

“It was the most frightening night of my life and if the ambulance hadn’t turned up with an AED, I probably would’ve lost her,” he says.

Several dozen people from Stanley Bay attended the AED demonstration, which included the correct way to administer CPR, a vital practice until the defibrillator is brought to the patient.

Ngataringa Tennis Club is planning to organise another demonstration as word spreads of the AED and its location. To express interest

No laughing matter… Paul Ego (right) pdemonstrates CPR while Mike Mander, CEO of Heart Saver NZ, readies the defibrillator.

Paul’s wife Janine Jones, a survivor of cardiac arrest, waits to take over the chest compressions. in attending, email secretary@ntc.net.co.nz, or leave a note in the letterbox on the clubhouse veranda.

The only other AED available 24/7 in Devonport is located at 33 Tainui Rd in Cheltenham.

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