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A new Devonport dairy has taken a stand and will not be stocking cigarettes.

Milk Bar (formerly the Cheltenham Dairy) in Vauxhall Rd changed hands last September. New owners Tam and Jimmy Macken, who live around the corner,

revamped the shop and decided to stop selling cigarettes as part of the rebrand.

Tam says there was a financial cost to their smoke-free stance. “A few people a week ask for them, but I have got other products to make up for it,” she says.

“A traditional dairy probably couldn’t survive here anymore and I didn’t want cigarettes,” says the mother of two.

“We decided to keep the groceries for people’s convenience but to also offer a bit more,” she says.

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First Devonport dairy to go smoke-free

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Milk Bar sells smoothies, gelato and coffee and Tam says she wants the dairy to have a family environment and to be a nice place for local children to walk to by themselves to get their lollies or ice cream. “Lots of people, especially parents, have told us they are glad we don’t sell cigarettes,” she says.

Last April, the Flagstaff interviewed two of New Zealand’s leading tobacco control activists, who live in Devonport. Emeritus public health professor Robert Beaglehole and oncologist George Laking said that if local dairies were to stop selling cigarettes, it would be a potent local solution. “I hope that retailers are going to know we are not hav-

ing tobacco here, the same way they did for Kronic. That they say, no we are not having tobacco here. You’ll have to go somewhere else if you want that stuff because we are taking a stand on this,” Laking said at the time.

In 2011, the Flagstaff launched a campaign to push Kronic out of local dairies.

The campaign featured on national TV and radio and many other communities across the country began asking their dairies to stop selling it.

The Flagstaff understands that at least one other dairy on the North Shore does not sell cigarettes now, as do others around the country.

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Cigarette smoking is reducing in Devonport with a five per cent drop between 2006 and 2013, according to census figures.

Of the 17,238 people on the Devonport peninsula who specified their smoking habits, only 7.4% were regular smokers. This is less than half the New Zealand figure (15.1%) and fewer than Auckland (12.9%) and the North Shore (9.9%).

The highest proportion of regular smokers on the peninsula is in the Bayswater area (10.6%), whereas the Mt Victoria and Stanley Bay census districts had the smallest

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Regular smokers have reduced across the board since the 2006 census. Based on 16,782 responses for the peninsula in 2006, 12.1% indicated they were regular smokers then and 25.2% said they were ex-smokers, compared with 23.5% in 2013. The proportion of those peninsula residents who have never smoked regularly was 69.0% in 2013, whereas in 2006 it was 62.6%.

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Stanley Bay teenage party spins out of control

Out in force in Devonport… police marching along Patuone Place Teenagers - some armed with golf clubs and others carrying toy pistols - clashed outsidc a teenage girl’s party at Stanley Bay on Easter Monday.

Two residents found teenagers hiding in their gardens. They said a fight was about to start, and that cars were blocking the exit road and had closed them in.

Two car windows were smashed (one with a beer bottle) and at least one boy was injured.

Residents saw boys fire off toy automatic guns and pistols in the air.

Eyewitnesses, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Flagstaff that the trouble started at around 9pm, when a previously small 16th birthday party began spilling out onto the street. Some of the young people told them the party had been closed down after it was gatecrashed by a large number of uninvited older teenagers.

Shouting, screaming, aggressive behaviour, alcohol consumption, car motor revving, tyre screeching and profuse swearing created a frightening atmosphere, residents said. “It felt as if the whole thing could escalate and explode at any minute,” one said.

As some of the crowd walked across the footbridge to Patuone Place, boys were smacking fences and letterboxes and hitting parked cars.

Some took off their shirts and climbed onto car bonnets, swearing and yelling, the Flagstaff was told. “We were concerned about an imminent riot,” a resident said.

Residents said they started calling the police at around 9pm, but it took between 45 minutes and an hour for them to arrive. “When I called the first time, I was told I was the sixth caller about the incident. When I called again, the dispatcher said police were organising a group of officers because they did not want to send down a lone patrol car,” a resident said. About 25 police arrived at around 9.45pm, by which time the crowd had largely dispersed.

Police searched the neighbourhood on foot, marching along streets, 12 officers across.

Police handcuffed one teenage boy and took him into a police van for questioning, but later released him with a warning.

Residents say the crowd was mostly boys.

Police would only provide sketchy details on the incident. “A number of police staff were deployed to the address and upon police

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arrival the large crowd dispersed,” a spokesperson said.

“One person was arrested for minor disorder and later released with a warning about their behaviour,” she said.

Police said there was no evidence of interschool rivalry in the incident.

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Huge turnout for Bayswater meeting National MP Maggie Barry came under fire from Bayswater residents for her lack of prior knowledge of the deal to sell reclaimed land to Bayswater Marina Holdings Ltd. More than 200 people turned out for a public meeting organised by Barry. It was in effect an information evening, as the deal with Bayswater Marina to buy the land had been signed last October with no public consultation.

Gerald Sheehy said the Bayswater land had been subject to Environment Court rulings, was a contentious issue, and as such Barry should have been keeping a close eye on it.

Devonport-Takapuna Local Board member Grant Gillon, the only local politician to speak at the meeting, said Barry and the minister responsible should have been “kept up to speed” on an asset sale like Bayswater.

A public meeting should have been held before the deal went through, he said.

“The public would have thought LINZ had a moral responsibility to …get community feedback,” Gillon said.

Barry said she was unaware the application for free-holding had been made and the deal was going through.

She knocked back criticisms, saying the application had been correctly dealt with under the law by officers at Land Information New Zealand(LINZ).

The marina owner had applied for freehold title to the reclaimed land it had created, which was allowed under law. The minister and MPs did not need to be informed, she said.

Sheehy said Barry should have been aware of the deal and “was negligent in your duty for doing not doing so.”

Replying to Sheehy, Barry said she had organised the meeting to try to “get the facts before the people; that’s what I am doing now.”

The four-storey apartments unveiled in the latest artist’s impression for the Bayswater marina land were greeted with gasps of shock by those at the public meeting last Monday.

Bayswater Marina owner Simon Herbert said there would be 100 terraced houses and 20 smaller apartments above shops and cafes.

Former North Shore MP Wayne Mapp said that while he was in government he had supported some residential development at the site but what was effectively four storeys appeared too high. He wondered if the proposals could be scaled back to three storeys.

Local resident Ken Mutch accused Bayswater Marina of being in contempt of the Environment Court, going against its 2009 ruling of no residential development on the land.

Herbert dismissed Mutch’s comments.

“Things move on…the Environment Court decision was at that time, those provisions do not apply any more.”

He confirmed Bayswater Marina had applied to Auckland Council for the land to be zoned a Special Housing Area, but had asked for the application be put on hold for a year while it consulted the Bayswater community.

The development could proceed quickly under a Special Housing Area but, if Bayswater Marina underwent council and possibly court hearings the project could take a decade, he said.

The development would offer increased public access around its edges, new parks and a beach to the north, Herbert said.

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Bayswater terminal 2016

Work on the $12 million Bayswater ferry terminal may start in the next couple of years.

The terminal work had been set down for 2020 /21 in Auckland Transport’s budgets.

But Auckland Transport officer Alan Howard-Smith told the meeting that the work was likely to be accelerated with the budget brought forward to 2016, with community consultation in 2015.The news received a lukewarm response.

Bayswater Community Committee member Gay Richards said the area had been waiting for the terminal for 15 years and the money had been promised before and then taken away.

Improving Lake Rd

A major study of Lake Rd traffic problems is being undertaken by Auckland Transport with results expected in 2015.

While some small changes to light phasing and intersections could help, long-term solutions were “a big grind” if they involved road widening and land acquisition, Auckland Transport’s Alan Howard-Smith said. Changes to Te Atatu Rd in West Auckland had taken 10 years to implement.

North Shore MP Maggie Barry told the meeting that some of her constituents still wanted the cycle lanes removed from the road.

Auckland Councillor Chris Darby said $54 million had been earmarked for Lake Rd improvements over the next 10 years.

Many at the meeting were concerned about the effects of building 120 apartments at Bayswater marina and the impact the resulting population increase would have on Lake Rd traffic.

Old valuation used

The valuation used by LINZ to sell the land at Bayswater marina was a year old and failed to reflect proposed changes to the status of the property, Bayswater resident and valuer Brian Stafford-Bush told the meeting.

LINZ based the $3.7 million sale price for the 3.34 ha on an October 28, 2012 valuation when, the deal to freehold the land was made a year later.

In the interim Auckland Council’s proposed Unitary Plan had changed the status of the land, allowing for residential development.

Stafford Bush asked LINZ officers at the meeting if they had returned to the independent valuers in 2013 to ascertain if a more up-to-date valuation was needed.

LINZ Crown property manager Craig Harris said it had, but they were advised a new valuaDEVONPORT tion was not required.

But Stafford-Bush said the writer of the valuation could not have been contacted because he had died.

Harris said the changes in the Unitary Plan were only proposals and did not reflect the valuation at the time.

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Devonport Flagstaff now available online

The Flagstaff team has been creating a new website that will enable the Devonport Flagstaff to be viewed online.

The first live paper will be this edition (May 2, 2014).

It will be in an ebook format and available from the Devonport Flagstaff website at www.devonportflagstaff.co.nz We are still printing and distributing a hard copy of the paper for delivery to households and businesses. The online version will give added benefits to both readers and advertisers.

The paper will be able to be viewed worldwide offering national and global exposure

North Shore wins two matches in a weekend North Shore Rugby premiers’ season is back on track with two wins last weekend.

In a curtain-raiser to the Blues-Warratahs game on Anzac Day, the side beat Ponsonby at Eden Park 38-35 in a one-off match to mark Ponsonby’s 140 year celebrations.

Then on Sunday, last year’s North Harbour Championship runner-up beat Takapuna 3515, which gave the side a much-needed lift to the middle of the first-round table.

Prior to beating Takapuna, Shore had won one, lost two and drawn one match.

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Dad’s Army takes on Parliament’s rugby battalion Parliament’s rugby side will shape up against North Shore’s Dad’s Army team in a charity match on May 24.

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Radio Belmont – tuned into education

Fine-tuning… Jess Weston and Rhys Morris (both aged 9) are looking forward to being Belmont Radio hosts next term A new radio station has been launched by Belmont Primary School. It’s own radio station, Radio Belmont is scheduled to go on air next term. With a 5km radius, the 106.8FM frequency is expected to reach 95% of the school’s student population and parents.

The relatively small sum of about $2,000

The Probus Club of Devonport (Inc) invites active, retired or semi-retired residents of good character in the Devonport or adjacent area, to join folk like you at the Rose Centre at Belmont at 9.45 am on the fourth Monday each month to make new friends, listen to interesting speakers, enjoy outings and have fun.

For more details phone Ian on 445-1313, or Charles on 445-3525

from the school’s IT budget paid for an aerial, microphones and headphones. The re-use of a cupboard-sized room came for free. But the learning opportunities the radio station offers the students are significant.

Peter Thorne, who leads the project with fellow teacher Mary Carwell-Cookes, said the station will carry daily notices, pupils reading their work, and the choir, kapa haka or instrumental groups performing on air.

“We can also use the radio to teach Te Reo, to interview teachers and learn new things about them, bring back interviews

from field trips, invite parents with expert knowledge to the studio and ask them questions,” he said Since last year, a dozen Year 4 – 6 students have been practising radio broadcasts prior to going on air. They are learning to DJ and pre-produce segments but are also sorting out small pitfalls, said Thorne.

Next term the radio will broadcast from 8:30 – 9.00am and students will be able to tune in during breakfast or on their way to school. There will be more radio for an hour during lunch time.

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Settlement is very flexible to fit with buyers’ needs, plus our owners are happy to rent the property back for a period, if that suits.

A fine offering in a fine area, so put this property at 1 4 the top of your shopping list; you will be glad you did!

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Belmont 9a Harrison Avenue

Belmont 2/14 Coronation Street

Family Favourite Beautifully appointed one year old, two level weatherboard family home on an easy care freehold site.

Easy Living By Great Schools Owned since 2003, this has been a great home and investment. Ideally positioned, funky design with great floor plan, all fully fenced and secure.

For Sale $1,340,000 View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP6968 Open Sunday 3.00-3.45pm Gary Potter & Glenice Taylor P 09 446 2106 M 021 953 021 P 09 446 2112 M 021 943 021 Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

Auction On site, Saturday 10th May 2014 at 11.00am (unless sold prior) View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7234 Open Sat & Sun 12-12.30pm Jackie Mark & Jane Hastings P 09 446 2113 M 021 458 797 P 09 446 2116 M 021 735 263 Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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Belmont 4 Bardia Street

Birkdale 35a Salisbury Road

More Than Meets The Eye - Takapuna Grammar Zone A pleasant surprise awaits- this brick bungalow has 3 bedrooms and 2 living areas and an absolutely gorgeous big back yard (673m2 site).

Private, Peaceful And Sunny Tidy 2 bathroom, 4 bedroom house - one of two sharing the land, offers a multitude of options. Open plan kitchen, dining and lounge area.

Auction On site, Tuesday 13th May 2014 at 11.30am (unless sold prior) View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7246 Open Sat & Sun 12.15 - 1.00pm Phil Clark & Peter Ayton P 09 446 2125 M 021 940041 P 09 446 2109 M 021 336 300 Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

Auction On site, Sunday 25th May 2014 at 1.00pm (unless sold prior) View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7224 Open Sat & Sun 1.00 - 1.45pm Peter Andrews P 09 446 2105 M 0274 931 826 E peter.andrews@harcourts.co.nz Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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Devonport 37 Queens Parade

Devonport 15a Kerr Street (Unit C)

Devonport Waterfront, A Home For All Reasons A wonderful opportunity to live on the waterfront in a quality renovation.

Flexible spaces, garaging/parking for 4 cars/boat. And the view!!

The Perfect Hideaway With Harbour Views!

New York loft or London pied-a-terre, this unique 3 bedroom garden apartment has it all. Right by the village with views across the harbour.

For Sale $2,095,000 View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP6924 Open By appointment Peter Ayton & Phil Clark P 09 446 2109 M 021 336 300 P 09 446 2125 M 021 940041 Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

For Sale $775,000 View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP6952 Open Sat & Sun 2.00 - 2.30pm Caroline Devereux & Maria Stevens P 09 446 2107 M 021 573 305 P 09 446 2111 M 021 979 084 Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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Devonport 20 Waterview Road

Devonport 2a Sinclair Street

Classic Villa With Water Views This gracious 4/5 bedroom villa set back from the street frontage, has all of its character features intact. Sunny, north facing aspect with views.

Cheltenham Town "House & Garden" Tucked away in a quiet street is this freestanding 3 bedroom home in a delightful garden setting. Wonderful, private, sunny, indoor outdoor living.

For Sale $1,395,000 View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP6964 Open Saturday 3.00-3.45pm Glenice Taylor & Gary Potter P 446 2112 M 021 943 021 P 446 2106 M 021 953 021 Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

Auction On Site, Sunday 18th May 2014 at 1.00pm (unless sold prior) View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7242 Open Sat & Sun 11.00-11.45am Gary Potter & Glenice Taylor P 09 446 2106 M 021 953 021 P 09 446 2112 M 021 943 021 Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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Devonport 15 St Leonards Road

Devonport 25 Hanlon Cres

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This grand old lady has been revived, resurrected, rejuvenated and replenished! Be the first lucky owners to enjoy this beautiful new renovation

Big Bold And Beautiful By The Park And Beach 210m2 home over two levels next to a fantastic park and track through to the golf course or along to Narrow Neck beach. Great garden too!

For Sale $1,365,000 View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP6954 Open Sat & Sun 12.30 - 1.00pm Diana Murray P 09 446 2115 M 021 911522 E diana.murray@harcourts.co.nz Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

For Sale $895,000 View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP6973 Open Sat & Sun 1.15-1.45pm Jane Hastings & Jackie Mark P 09 446 2116 M 021 735 263 P 09 446 2113 M 021 458 797 Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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Devonport 28 Wicklow Road

Devonport 1/18a Mays Street

Nearly New For You - Perfectly Positioned!

Modern, comfortable, affordable family living. 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, double garage with excellent indoor outdoor flow to landscaped gardens.

Stylish Sanctuary A beautiful home unit: The owner has just finished a stylish make over, now she has a job transfer that means you will get the benefit.

Auction On site, Sunday 18th May 2014 at 4.00pm (unless sold prior) View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7229 Open Sat & Sun 12.45-1.15pm Jane Hastings & Jackie Mark M 021 735 263 M 021 458 797 Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

Auction On site, Monday 12th May 2014 at 12.30pm (unless sold prior) View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7244 Open Sat & Sun 11.00 - 11.45 Peter Ayton & Phil Clark M 021 336 300 M 021 940041 Cooper & Co Real Estate Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008

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Letters

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Lake Road the problem not the events • Get the lights at Bardia and Belmont linked and connected to SCATS (traffic management systems) so that they can be remotely adjusted to reflect demand when congestion occurs.

• Change the Bardia/Winscombe light sequence to two-way (as Bayswater/ Williamson already are) so as to increase Lake Road flow.

• Decrease pedestrian sequences at Bardia and Belmont so as to increase Lake Road flow.

• Close the bike lanes for major events and cone Lake Road from Hauraki to Belmont to allow two lanes in the direction of peak traffic demand – you will need to remove the underused pedestrian refuge sited on the corner of Clifton Ave by the way. If you think that can’t be done, just ask for advice from the people who regularly cone Lake Road to dig holes and do other things.

After you have done that, work out how

Councillor Darby’s approach to Lake Road congestion – stop events in Devonport – is as unenlightened as it gets. He campaigned on a slogan of ‘Taking the Shore Forward’, but can now only offer backward steps accompanied by earnest hand-wringing from Mike Cohen.

The problem is Lake Road, not the events.

Lake Road needs fixing, not the Devonport Library. Lake Road needs some action from Council, not more bureaucratic nightmares for event organisers.

Len Brown’s profligate borrowing strategy and dreams of city rail loops means that a permanent fix for Lake Road is a long way away. So there needs to be some innovative thought to improving what we have now.

Listen up Councillor. Here’s some suggestions you can work on that will help traffic go forward, and the cost to implement them is less than the price of an unused waterfront tram.

Auckland Transport shirking responsibility land Transport (AT) spokesman in the April 18 Flagstaff issue confused me saying “the Navy did not need a traffic management plan because the event was not on public roads.”

Seriously? How can AT shirk responsibility; do they think thousands of people accessed the base by hovercraft? Traffic from the base that day was backed up from, well, the base.

All stakeholders including the Navy (whose many workers speed through local streets) should be at the table to collectively discuss and effect much needed change now.

Simon Millar

I am a recent relocate to Devonport from Los Angeles, CA, and would rather drive the 405 at rush hour than Lake Rd most times. It is bizarre to me that redesign of traffic flow is not a sense of utter urgency that mobilises the entire populous along the peninsula. The problem is totally fixable - imagine how much more productive we could all be.

Could it help if traffic lights realigned to intersections so vehicles and pedestrians move together? How about redesigning side-walks to bike-walks on both sides and enable dual flow vehicle lanes? A comment from an Auck-

the city rail loop and urban intensification are going to help Lake Road congestion and then please let us know. I’ll come up with some more ideas while you are thinking that through.

K.F. Wilson of Lake Road • To be fair to Chris Darby, he was insisting events should only be allowed to go ahead in the future if they had traffic plans to avoid congestion, not calling for an end to all events per se.

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Traffic sours Weet-bix I almost missed a wedding because of the Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon! It took an hour to get to Takapuna from King Edward Parade. These events need better traffic plans or they should be relocated to areas of Auckland with more roads in and out. The early morning running-type events are fine, but these daytime ‘everyone leaves at once’ events are the problem.

It’s not fair to be trapped in your own suburb!

(P.S. I made it to the ceremony in Matakana with 10 minutes to spare, but it put me off my Weet-bix the next day!)

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$1m Navy museum WW1 commemoration project A new World War One themed room is planned at the Navy Musuem in the historic “Chippy Shop,” which is carved into the side of a cliff.

The Navy Museum WWI Centenary Commemorations Project will fill the “Chippy Shop” with objects and furniture of ships of the era. Renamed the A.D. Boyle Room, it will also feature an iPad-based online resource with information about New Zealanders who were involved in the war at sea.

Museum director David Wright said the sea battles of Jutland, Heligoland Bight and Dogger Bank were just as horrendous and courageous as Passchendaele and Gallipoli, and the new project would give them the recognition they deserve.

Identifying those New Zealanders involved in the battles has been extremely challenging, says Wright. There wasn’t a New Zealand Navy then, and the reserve force was in its infancy but Wright says around 1,000 left New Zealand to join the Royal Navy in Australia, the UK and Canada. “I usually trip over them at the National Archives in the UK or here in New Zealand,” he says.

A glass pavilion will connect the current Navy museum building at Torpedo Bay with the new resource room. Local artist Helen Pollock has been commissioned to create a commemorative bronze sculpture for it. “The glass walls will be four metres high and offer a view of the sea and the cliff face and it will be a space for reflection and remembrance,” Wright says.

Work on the new space is scheduled to start in July. Wright hopes it will wrap up in March 2015 for its opening to coincide with the centenary of the Gallipoli landings on April 25, 1915.

The project is funded by a $630,000 Lottery Grant, $400,000 from the Royal New Zealand Navy and $70,000 from the Chisholm Whitney Family Charitable Trust.

The cliff room was built in 1896 as a test room that connected the circuit to blow up the mines laid across the harbour, Wright says. During WWI, it briefly served as a prison for the captured German Navy raider, Captain Count Felix von Luckner, a family friend of Reinhard Heydrich, who later rose to second in command of the SS, behind Heinrich Himmler.

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Thursday 8th May, 10:00am - 12 noon Devonport Yacht Club, 25 King Edward Pde, Devonport (wheelchair accessible) A quarterly meeting to promote networking among residents and local community groups. All welcome and morning tea provided. For more info, contact Maria on phone: 445 9533 or email: dportcomm@xtra.co.nz

NATIONAL CHESS CENTRE NEW PROGRAMMES Thursday 8th May, Devonport St Paul's, 100b Victoria Rd, Devonport Chess junior training will begin on 8th May, 4pm-5.30pm.

The course tutor will be Dr Helen Milligan, a World Chess Federation Master and 3-times Women's Scottish Champion. Advance bookings are essential.

Also on 8th May at 7pm, a new chess club will start.

Visit: www.nationalchesscentre.co.nz for details or email: info@devonportstpauls.co.nz

New room at Navy Museum will showcase important World War 1 sea battles, says director David Wright

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FLOWERS AT THE GARDEN AFTERNOON TEA Saturday 10th May, Devonport Community Garden, Mt Cambria Reserve, 33a Vauxhall Rd, Devonport Celebrate Mothers' Day at Alice’s Tea Party’s Flowers at The Garden Afternoon Tea. Make a ‘Tussie Mussie’ to take home then sit down and enjoy afternoon tea. Places are limited so booking is essential. Tickets are $20. Contact Charlotte on 021 949 049 or email hello@alicesteaparty.co.nz

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Storytelling and healing: Willa finds her role

Back on the boards… Devonport’s Willa O’Neill

Award-winning actor Willa O’Neill starred in the Billy T James Show and An Angel at My Table when she was a teenager and worked on Xena, Hercules and the cult movie Scarfies as an adult. In 2000, she swapped acting fame for married life and motherhood.

Appearances on TV3’s Step Dave and in an arty short film, and the production of a school play are set to return her to the limelight. She spoke to Maire Vieth.

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Willa O’Neill moved back to Devonport two years ago, with three kids and a husband in tow. She had lived on Roslyn Terrace in the 1990s, flatting there with actor friends. “It was one of my favourite places to live. So when we came back to Auckland, we came back to Devonport,” she says.

Currently, O’Neill is busy writing this year’s school production at Devonport Primary School (DPS), where her two younger children go. It is the first play she has written as well as produced and directed and O’Neill has set herself no easy task. “My ambition is that every child at the school will have a very important part. The play will hopefully include a movie, stark columns of light and a big audio track. It will be quite modern,” she says.

To prepare, O’Neill has taken the entire school for drama classes, introducing them to the basic tools of acting, which are “your body, your voice and your imagination – and how to use and control them,” she says. She meets with a core group of kids during lunch times. “They make up scenes. I film them and will use some of the things they say in the play somewhere. I will also show them my first draft of the play. We’ll have a read through and see if they like it. Among other things, I want to make sure I got the kids’ vernacular right,” she says.

The play complements O’Neill’s recent return to acting, with a part in a short film and commercials for Cadbury and New World.

There is also a role on TV3’s Step Dave as the mother of Jasmine’s boyfriend Liam. Other

local actors in the show are teenagers Lily Powell, who plays Jasmine, and Takapuna Head Girl Maya Wyatt as Jasmine’s sister Scarlett. “I hope I am completely unrecognisable on Step Dave, I really do. My character is pretty angry,” says O’Neill.

“It is very nice to come back after 14 years of being away all kind of mumsy and not body conscious and fit. It is lovely to be bankable and be cast. Who knows where it will go?”

O’Neill started acting when she was a child.

She grew up in Hamilton as the daughter of a trade unionist and social worker father and a teacher mother. From the age of eight, she started acting in school productions. “I was in the chorus of Tom Sawyer and also got the understudy role for Tom. Then I was the lead in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” she says.

It was singing that got her noticed. “It was all about music. Hamilton had a strong choir and choral scene. I was in the Hamilton Children’s Choir for three years as their soloist and sang in choirs until the end of intermediate school,” she says.

O’Neill remembers the moment she knew she wanted to be an actor. She says, “It was a cognitive moment. One weekend I watched What Now on TV and listened to the radio and thought: People make this. I am a person. I could do that. I’m gonna do that.”

O’Neill attended high school in Auckland, where she lived with her father, after her parents had separated. She moved schools a bit, spending three years at Green Bay High School, then a year at Auckland Metropolitan

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All along, she acted in amateur plays at the Glen Eden Playhouse, where she had another aha-moment. “I was about 13 or 14 when I recognised the difference between amateur and professional acting; that it wasn’t about the level of production but about a state of mind, a level of passion and commitment,” O’Neill says.

At the age of 16, she signed with an agent.

At her first audition, she landed a part, on the TV show The New Adventures of Black Beauty. A small role in Jane Campion’s feature film version of Janet Frame’s autobiography An Angel at My Table was next.

O’Neill left high school at 17 to act full time on TVNZ’s The Billy T James Show as Billy’s daughter Nadine. She learned a lot about acting on the job. “Apart from doing high school drama and some after-school classes, I had not gone to drama school. I relied on my instincts a lot,” she says.

On the set of An Angel at My Table, she watched Kerry Fox fall into character as soon as she put on the red curly hair of Janet Frame.

Ilona Rodgers, who played her mother on the Billy T James Show, taught her some tricks of the trade. “She told me to think about where I had been before I walked on scene. She’d say ‘Don’t just walk through a door. Give it some subtext. Have you been at spots, in the park or had an argument with your best friend?’ She was very giving and taught me many things,” says O’Neill.

O’Neill worked regularly for TV, film and theatre throughout the 1990s, including on Shortland Street, Xena: Warrior Princess as Lila and Hercules: The Legendary Journey (1996-99), for which she won a best supporting actress prize in 1999.

There were also earlier awards and award nominations. In 1992, O’Neill was nominated as best supporting actress by the Australian Film Institute for her role in a trans-Tasman feature film Secrets. In 1995, she won best actress for playing a teenage mother in the docudrama True Life Stories. Further awards included best supporting actress for Topless Women Talk about their Lives in 1997.

In 1993, while living in Devonport, she and producer friend Sharon Duncan started up a fringe theatre. “It was called the Basement Theatre, and was under the Viaduct’s Watershed. Sharon and I ran that for years. It was brilliant and a huge success,” she says.

In 1995, New Zealand won the America’s Cup and a year later the theatre had to relocate because the Viaduct was needed for the hosting the cup in 2000. O’Neill took a comedy act to the Edinburgh festival as their producer and stayed on in London.

“I trained to be a silver service waiter, Downton Abbey style, dressed like a penguin, no talking, very formal. I once got to wait on the Duke of Edinburgh and got to see some fabulous buildings, fairy-tale stuff. It was kind of like a game, acting and pretending,” she says.

In 1999 O’Neill accepted the lead role of Emma in the Kiwi cult movie Scarfies, for which she won the Best Actress award in

2000. It was the same year The Price of Milk, was released, which was the last movie in which she appeared.

O’Neill decided she was through with acting. When asked in an interview in 2001what she was working on, she answered, “Currently I am working on myself. I am in a major process of change.”

“I had used acting to fill a hole inside myself, with the love I was getting from the audience. And I wanted to find that love for myself inside of me. Acting was like a game of being someone else. I wanted to work on being me because I had never been me. I was ready to find out who I was and that is what these last 14 years have been about,” she says.

A lot has happened on the way. O’Neill met copywriter and songwriter Cleve Cameron.

Within a year, they were married. Three children – Isla (11), Jasper (9) and Huia (6) – followed and O’Neill settled down as wife and mother. “I don’t know if my kids and I had quality time together but we certainly had quantity time. We spent a lot of learning time at the supermarket and outdoors, met lots of neat friends along the way just by mooching around together at the play park or at playcentre,” she says.

The entire family also moved countries twice and towns three times - from Wellington to Sydney to Paekakariki to Devonport, mostly following Cameron’s advertising work. Their return to New Zealand in 2008 was prompted by O’Neill’s mother being sick and needing to be cared for. Her father had died three years before.

“Grief is a shocker. My three children were still under five and I hit the bottom of despair.

One day, I realised that I had to get happy or things would not be good. That’s when we came back to Auckland and Devonport,” she says.

As part of what O’Neill calls her “healing work”, she signed up for a correspondence course in creative writing and learned about alternative healing. “I am trained in Reiki and Alexander Technique and right now I am trying to work with energy and translate it onto the page,” she says.

She finished the drafts of three children’s books last year. “One is a manual for tweens about meditation, breathing, connecting to your inner self, trusting your instincts, little tips like that. I would love to get it published in a cartoony way,” she says.

Is her return to acting a sign that her search is over? “I am still searching. I’m still getting there,” she laughs. “But last year I came out on the other side and now I know we are whatever we want to be, and are responsible for that. And that is a precious gift,” O’Neill says.

“I found the writing alone at home, without deadlines or creative partners, hard. That’s why I opened it up to acting again. They are both storytelling, which is my passion.

Storytelling and healing,” she says.

The DPS production does both, O’Neill says. “It is a lesson about kindness and choices. Not about everyone being great and happy because then it wouldn’t teach anybody anything. There will be dark and tragic moments too. We want the audience to hit the wall and comePOTENTIAL out the other side,” she OOZING INsays.

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Freedom of speech or conflict of interest?

Seeking legal advice about “conflict of interest” actions of fellow board members was entirely appropriate says Devonport-Takapuna Local Board member Joseph Bergin.

While they were not named by Bergin, his concerns relate to Grant Gillon and Jan O’Connor.

“I did not see it as an attack, but as an attempt to sit down and discuss. Attempts to do that with members of this board before were heard by deaf ears,” Bergin told the last meeting of the board.

Bergin went on to question a number of actions by Gillon or O’Connor, without stating their names, only referring to them as “certain members.”

He criticised “certain members” for authorising the Facebook page “Save Bayswater Marina” (which was taken down) and billboards to the same effect, and incorrectly authorised election advertising that expressed an intention

Bridge from Francis St to Esmonde Rd investigated The scoping of a pedestrian and bicycle bridge between the northern end of Hauraki Corner’s Francis St and Esmonde Rd has been given the go-ahead.

The bridge will be similar to the new Northboro Pipe Bridge. The Devonport-Takapuna Local Board last month allocated part of its Transport Capital Fund to the project.

to extend the lease of the Takapuna Holiday Park, and to thereby impact on the controversial, proposed National Ocean Water Sports Centre.

Collecting signatures on petitions was another of Bergin’s concerns.

Gillon said Bergin’s actions were an attempt to silence him and O’Connor. He said having strong opinions was not the same as having a closed mind and that the Auditor General’s guidelines acknowledged that.

O’Connor said that she has made strong statements on the Takapuna Holiday Park in the past but that her mind was not closed on the agenda items.

“I wish to record that I will of course listen to and take into consideration every argument that might compel me to change my mind,” she said.

• As the Flagstaff went to press Grant Gillon said Bergin’s complaint had been rejected, which he saw as a victory for the free speech of elected officials.

Two new memorial seats The late Hedley Howarth and Captain Brian Jones are getting memorial seats in their honour.

Howarth was an international cricketer who played 30 tests and nine one-day internationals for New Zealand between 1969 and 1977. He also played for the North Shore Cricket Club for 10 years and finished his cricketing career there. His seat is sponsored by the club and will go onto the southern end of Vauxhall Reserve.

Brian John Crawford Jones was a Devonport resident for 50 years and a Harbour Pilot with the Ports of Auckland for 31 year. He retrieved the historical Admiralty Anchor from the seabed off Stanley Point, which is now a landmark outside the Devonport Yacht Club.

His seat is sponsored by his widow Patricia Jones. It will be located next to the waterfront footpath across from her home at 6 King Edward Pde. The Devonport-Takapuna Local Board gave consent for the seats.

More hot air on rowing site

A decision on Takapuna Rowing Club’s ongoing base at Bayswater is still up in the air, despite renewed pressure from the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board.

The board passed two resolutions at its last meeting, to help the club to secure a spot on marina land, either in the Blue Shed or on the adjacent council land at 2 Sir Peter Blake Parade.

Member Dianne Hale said: “We are

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The club wants to stay at the Blue Shed on Bayswater marina, but has been told by council it will have to make space for a new ferry terminal in the near future.

The board has also asked Auckland Transport for an update on plans for the new ferry terminal at the marina.

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An 1894 illustration of women voting for the first time Moves towards a public sculpture to highlight Devonport’s contribution to the women’s suffrage movement have taken a step forward with several thousand dollars likely to be spent scoping the project.

Peace Foundation and National Council of Women member Ruth Coombes had approached the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board last July with the idea of having the sculpture included in the new library project.

But at a meeting with project architects and others, it was felt a better and more prominent site for the proposed Suffrage Memorial Sculpture was on the corner of Windsor Reserve, opposite the former library and the original, Devonport Borough Council chambers.

Coombes updated the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board on the project last week and the next step would be for the board to committ scoping funds to it.

The memorial would be both creating and recognising heritage – Devonport’s place in the history of woman’s rights, Coombes said.

The first woman to cast her vote in the 1893 general election is thought to have done so at the

Devonport Borough Council chambers, where the new library is being built.

Women in New Zealand - both Pakeha and Maori – were granted the right to vote on September 19, 1893 and 109,000 women enrolled. On voting day about 90,000 women voted.

The first vote cast by women was perhaps the most significant historical event to have happened in Devonport.

“It should be celebrated not forgotten,” Coombes said.

A plaque remembering the event, which was on the old library site, is being placed in a garden behind the new library.

Leading suffragette Kate Sheppard, who went on to found the National Council of Women in 1896, has a great-niece, Betty Cuthbert, living in Devonport, Coombes said.

Depot Artspace co-ordinator Linda Blincko said it was important that a local artist be commissioned to make the sculpture.

Board members were broadly in favour of the proposal and officers will investigate the next steps.

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Bus shelter would need new consent: Heritage Any plans to build a bus shelter in front of the Devonport ferry building would need a new resource consent, according to Devonport Heritage.

The bus shelter proposal has been introduced

by Auckland Transport (AT) into the Marine Square upgrade at the eleventh hour. Critics say the 50-metre shelter is not needed and would mar views from Devonport back to the city. AT is planning a community consultation over the shelter.

But Devonport Heritage president Claudia Page said the change was so major a new resource consent would be needed.

The Devonport Master Plan, which included the Marine Square upgrade, had emerged after 10 years of work by the former Devonport Community Board and consultation with the community.

The master plan noted the significance of the area in front of the ferry terminal where the edge of the Edwardian village meets the sea, Page told the Devonport-Takapuna Local

Board public forum.

“This needs to go back to Auckland Transport with flashing lights on,” said Page, who called on the board to take a strong stance against the shelter and to exercise firmness with AT in general.

Page said about 80% of the queries to Devonport Heritage centred on “what Auckland Transport are doing or not doing in Devonport”.

• While AT was pushing ahead with plans for a bus shelter at the ferry building, it was falling down over the protection of historic bus shelters elsewhere in Devonport, Devonport Heritage secretary Trish Deans told the board.

AT had replaced tiled roofs with tin ones at several old shelters. “They are 1930s structures…their (AT) attitude is that they are not listed so they do not care.”

“We want to hold Auckland Transport accountable to replace the terracotta tiles.”

Deans said the loss was “chipping away at heritage”.

Faces behind memorial names Photos and backgrounds of the soldiers listed on the Devonport war memorial will be on display at the Old Devonport Post Office over the next few weeks.

Research by Devonport Museum located a photo and details of each person listed.

These photos, usually on display above the

temporary library, are being shifted for the next few weeks. The aim is to recognise Anzac Day, and the beginning of World War One in Europe.

Anyone with more information on these people is asked to please contact Devonport Museum at 33a Vauxhall Rd.

Keeping watch on old Borough Council chambers Concerns have been raised about what will happen to the Devonport Borough Council chambers once the building – now used as a temporary base for the library – becomes vacant at the end of 2014.

The building had been used for the Devonport i-SITE until last year when the i-SITE moved to the wharf to make way for the temporary library.

Auckland Council’s property arm has a policy of selling of assets that are surplus to requirements and Devonport Heritage has asked the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board to keep the building on its radar.

Call for zoning equality

The proposed zoning of land at Fort Takapuna and Wakarura Crescent as suitable for up to four-storey development needs to be changed to sit alongside neighbouring housing, Devonport Heritage has told the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board.

Asking the Board to support its submission on reduced height, Heritage secretary Trish Deans said it was only fair that the owners of the land should have the same zoning and restrictions as their neighbours.

In the case of the land at Fort Takapuna, which has been sold to Ngati Whatua, it was located alongside properties in the residential three zone which had numerous planning restrictions on development.

The local board is currently preparing its submission on the draft Auckland Unitary Plan.

Public workshops trial extended The trial of workshops in public rather than behind closed doors has been extended for another six months by the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board. The board’s comments about the trial were largely positive.

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Teacher departs Acorn Montessori after 30 years

Always surrounded by children…Sydney Carter with (from left) daughter Skye, granddaughter Solara, former pupil Kate Jones and daughter Raven After running Devonport’s Acorn Montessori Children’s House for 30 years, Sydney Carter is moving on.

Her farewell party was a family affair, with Carter’s husband Peter and their daughters Skye and Raven, and granddaughter Solara present.

Only son Micah could not make it. Carter’s family has grown up around Acorn and Peter has been the centre’s caretaker for years.

Forty of Carter’s school “families” joined in the party as well. Dozens of current and former Acorn families had been invited as surprise guests (parents, pupils and some of the pupil’s children) and took the opportunity to wish Carter well.

The party had been organised by the current parent committee, with the help of Carter’s daughters Skye and Raven. The guests showered Carter with gifts, including a six-year-old lemon tree decorated with photos of all current students to symbolise the age at which pupils leave Acorn for school, as well as an album of children’s drawings and another with comments by their parents.

Carter made sure she reconnected with everyone who attended. But she was also upbeat about moving on. “Easter is a good time to leave.

It is all about new beginnings,” she said.

The Carters are planning to spend more time in the countryside around Matakana where they own an olive grove. “We have made our first olive oil and it went pretty well,” said Sydney.

However they are determined to keep a strong connection to Devonport, especially since daughter Raven is living in their house here and both she and sister Skye are expecting again.

Meanwhile locals Geoff and Kate Walker

Handing over… Peter and Sydney Carter (left) with Acorn’s new owners Kate and Geoff Walker.

took over the running of Acorn last week.

Kate has known Sydney ever since her parents lived opposite Acorn’s previous location on Clarence St, in the bottom storey of Carter’s house. “Sydney would watch me wheel my kids around there and we would often trade a few friendly words,” says Kate, who has previously been part of Devonport’s Care-A-Lot Childcare Centre. Geoff is an accountant and handy with a lawnmower. “But I promise I am no match for Peter,” he says.

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Devonport counts its blessings

Pre-dawn Maori blessings have been abundant in Devonport lately, keeping local Ngati Whatua Kaumatua John Retimana busy in the wee hours of the morning.

In late March, Retimana laid a Maori stone at the Windsor Reserve construction site for the new library.

He represented his iwi at the blessing of new classrooms at Devonport Primary School (DPS), located on Mt Victoria, before the sun rose on April 1, encouraging children and parents, and even local MP Maggie Barry, to touch the new walls with their hands “to fill the building with the energy of people.”

Next door, Takarunga Playcentre welcomed Retimana and other Ngati Whatua representative to bless the centre on April 5. The centre acknowledged the iwi as its whakapapa. “Today, we experienced a spiritual blessing of our place.

Ngati Whatua are staking a claim on this mountain, infusing our centre with positive energy,” said the centre’s president Marissa Wilson.

Devonport Kindy invited Retimana, who Devonport Primary School’s new classrooms were full, with parents, brought along a Ngapuhi elder, to unveil and students and the kapa haka groups all participating in the pre-dawn bless a whare panel painted by local artist Waiari Maori blessing McMillan who graduated from Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) last year and is studying at Auckland’s Media Design School. The midday celebration included a powhiri and singing by TGS’s kapa haka group.

Gathering around Takarunga Playcentre’s new Maori carving

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Locals save mate’s pride and joy

Cool, wet and collected… calm locals save the yacht off Windsor Reserve after it smashed into the seawall Locals ignored police warnings in order to save a mate’s yacht from destruction in gale-force winds.

Tahi was swept from its mooring off Devonport Yacht Club down to Windsor Reserve by the storm on April 17 that was generated by Cyclone Ita. Ignoring the warnings of a young police officer to stay clear of the surging boat, the locals jumped into the sea and secured the 10.5m trimaran.

Tahi owner Derek Thomas told the Flagstaff last week: “I owe a lot to Simon Gundry and others who helped and I am very grateful. A bit of duct tape and we were away, sailing to Waiheke over Easter in fact.”

Thomas is planning to do additional repairs to the $40,000 trimaran over winter.

The men who saved the yacht noticed it had broken away from its mooring and was heading for the sea wall at the bottom of Buchanan St. “All of us just happened to drive past here around 9:30 am, saw the boat loose and got out to help,” said local painter John Bisset during the storm, while securing one rope to a rubbish bin on Windsor Reserve.

Others, including Bisset’s son Luke, Justin Gardner, David Burton, Simon Gundry and son Bas, either held onto the boat or tied other ropes to nearby trees.

All of them were soaked to the skin.

“The boat crashed into the sea wall at the bottom of Buchanan Street alright.

Then it bounced along the wall, breaking off its end section. It was huge luck that it landed on the beach,” says Gundry, a former Whitbread Round the World Race yachty.

“You don’t want to see any kind of boat hurt, whether it is a million dollar one or a just a dinghy. People put so much time and love into their boats that they are a bit like kids,” Gundry said.

With necessity the mother of invention, the locals grabbed traffic cones and plastic road barriers from the new Devonport library construction site across the road and placed them to act as a cushion between the hull and the concrete path.

“Everyone knew a little bit about boats, so it was a great team effort and we all knew what to do,” Gundry said.

Once the boat was secure, with the easterly still pounding, Gundry was calm.

The tide was going out and the boat was high and dry – and safe - within half an hour, he said.

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Local actor becomes stage marathon man

Local actor Niwa Whatuira (20) stars as Boy in the experimental marathon play Giving Up at the Victoria Theatre.

He will play his role six times, for two days, from noon to midnight, acting as both a nineyear-old boy growing up in 1970s’ Dunedin and a 19-year-old actor grappling with the character.

“As the boy I play youth and innocence personified, but then the boy goes to a flat party of his older brother and learns more about sex and drugs than he should,” says Whatuira, who is one of eight actors in the play.

“We are arranged like a tableau, a bit like the last supper. The play switches back and forth between a dinner party with wine and bread on the table and an actors’ read-through with their scripts,” he says.

Whatuira grew up in Devonport and graduated from Takapuna Grammar in 2011.

Since he completed a Diploma in Screen Acting at Auckland’s South Seas Film School, he has, among other things, worked as co-presenter of the Maori TV youth show Totes. He also had a role in the feature film The Dark Horse, together with well-known New Zealand actor Cliff Curtis, which is due to come to cinemas this month.

Giving Up, Whatuira says, is a deconstructed film experience. “It is using the Vic like a film studio and we act out scenes and the shows like a working party.”

Writer and director Tony Piggott says Giving Up is based on his youth and later life. It is his first play and it premiered last year in Manila,

Marathon training… Tony Piggott (left) and Niwa Whatuira where Piggott shot a documentary about it.

Entitled Manila – No Limitations, the film has just been accepted to screen at the Documentary Edge Festival in Auckland on 22 and 26 May. “The Vic is the perfect venue for Giving Up and the cast is using all of the time to push and maximise themselves. I am turning upstairs into

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Clarence Street parking problems A New World parking warden has been sprung, after attempting to outfox council traffic officers by rubbing chalk marks off supermarket staff cars parked in public spots.

Photos of the store warden in action were presented to the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board at its public forum as Depot Artspace staff alerted the board to the increasing parking and traffic chaos around Clarence St. Three-hour parks opposite the Depot and the Devonport Community House were regularly used by New World staff members, who rotated cars around to keep the spots for most of the day, the Depot’s Lyn Lawton told the board in its public forum.

New World owns half the car park in the supermarket square and its staff are banned from parking there. The supermarket has its own parking monitor who gives warnings to motorists staying too long in the parks.

Work on the Clarence St upgrade has been postponed for a year due to the disruption posed by the library construction and the Marine Square development.

Lawton said traffic to New World and the surrrounding areas had increased since the Hauraki New World had closed.

Pedestrians walking to the Depot and Community House were being put in danger by cars turning into the New World car

Parking shortage… New World staff parking across the road from the Depot and Community House park and Caroline Sills off-street parking, he said.

A simple solution would be to have a pedestrian crossing at the Clarence St entrance to the supermarket square, taking out one car park near the Depot to extend the footpath, Lawton said.

Another option was to reduce parking times at the spaces across the road, he said.

But board chair Mike Cohen said the reason the parks were for three hours was to

give flexibilit, especially to older residents attending classes at the Community House.

Board members felt the best approach to the supermarket staff parking issue was to arrange a meeting with New World owner John Ashton.

Member Gillon said it wasn’t simply a matter of pushing New World staff further away from the supermarket to park, as this posed potential danger to women finishing work at night.

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MAY 2, 2014

Green, Red, Yellow or Blue

The 11th of April saw the four school Houses battle each other for the 2014 House Haka title. All the preparation and practice was evident, with Tainui starting the battle, giving a very polished and effective performance.

The other three houses followed suite, each giving a unique performance. In the end a

winner had to be chosen, and Tainui took out the title, followed by Arawa, with Tokomaru third and then Aotea.

This annual challenge has become a big deal and this year had an audience of all the Belmont Intermediate School students, including Principal Nick Hill, who was one of

the judges. Mr Hill commented on the fact that when he was a TGS student the House system was in abeyance so he did not have this opportunity, which he thought was a spectacular example of school spirit and pride.

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Takapuna SCHOOL NEWS

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Working for a sustainable future The Annual Enviro Challenge is a great opportunity for students all over New Zealand to work towards achieving a sustainable future for their schools and to enable young New Zealanders to “become world-class sustainability leaders.” We sent an enthusiastic group of students from the Environmental Committee to Challenge Day, which was held at Avondale College in mid-April.

The Challenge, for those students who chose to accept it, was to produce a video illustrating the school’s vision statement, a poster relating to this vision and a debate that would be presented on Challenge Day, as well as other activities where it was school against school.

The students in the group had been working hard in preparation, spending lunchtimes and afternoons working on the various components of the Challenge.

Lily MacDonald produced an inspirational video about recycling which reiterated the group’s vision statement “Towards a more sustainable TGS”, and a poster, which was the embodiment of the school’s sustainable spirit, was created by Storm Robertson, Tom Block, Geena Lee and Jordan Blum.

The day was a great opportunity not only

to compete with other schools but also to collaborate on ideas and raise awareness about the environment. Students were offered the opportunity to form new friendships while also gaining one step toward trying to save the planet and striving toward a clean, green New Zealand.

Every year, one student is selected

to represent their school as a student ambassador and for Takapuna Grammar, Lily MacDonald has the opportunity to be the school’s student ambassador. She will attend a weekend in Ohakune with the other New Zealand ambassadors.

BY STORM ROBERTSON

Badham tri’s her best Hard training has definitely paid off for an elite Taka athlete. Katherine Badham has taken out the U19 ITU world triathlon series title. The ITU (International Triathlon Union) World Triathlon Series is a series that allows the world’s top triathletes to compete head-to-head. Similar to previous years, the races took place right in the heart of Auckland city in early April.

16-year-old Katherine had a rough start in the ocean swim, finishing over a minute behind the leader. As a strong cyclist, who also represents TGS in senior cycling, she was able to catch the leader within the first lap of the two-lap cycle route. “I was then able to stretch my lead to 1:36 minutes after a good run,” she recalled. Running has always been Under 14 age group. Both girls made our school proud and Katherine’s real strength and led her to a strong finish.

There was further success in this triathlon event with Elle we will be looking out for them in future races.

BY LILY MACDONALD Wintle, a Year 10 student, gaining a bronze medal in the

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Good turnout for Anzac Day in Devonport The 99th anniversary of Anzac Day was commemorated in Devonport with a service held in front of a freshly polished “untidy soldier” – and white hoardings of the Devonport library construction site.

The parade along Victoria Road seemed smaller than in previous years, but the service drew the usual huge crowd.

The Navy Band was present, but Devonport-Takapuna Local Board chair Mike Cohen was missing, having elected to attend the Anzac Day commemoration in Takapuna. Dianne Hale gave the Anzac dedication in his place.

Royal New Zealand Navy Captain (and Devonport local) Mark Worsfeld gave the address, while the Devonport Community Choir led the memorial anthem Poppies and Pohutukawas.

Alf Lowe is one of 20 living World War II recipients of the George Cross, which he received in 1949 “for saving life at sea while his own life was in danger,” he says.

Lowe is pictured with wife Phillippa and daughter Bel Grise.

Countdown scheduled to open December 2014 We wanted to let you know that work will soon be starting to bring a new Countdown supermarket to Hauraki Corner!

We’re pleased to be making a lot of improvements to the building, both inside and out. Our $4 million refurbishment kicks off soon to modernise the supermarket and provide a great new offer in the area.

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We know this will mean our local customers will be without a supermarket for some months, and we apologise for this inconvenience.

We think now is the best time to make the significant improvements the building has needed for many years, and we’ll be working to open the store as quickly as possible.

In the meantime, visit us at: Countdown Takapuna on Barry’s Point Road Online Shopping also available at countdown.co.nz

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Dianne Hale and Grant Gillon lay a wreath for the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board

North Shore MP Maggie Barry lays a wreath with her son Joe

St Leo’s School students (above) choose the best spot for their wreath, while Devonport RSA Committee member Sam Gambling gives a helping hand to Con Thode (103), the only New Zealand Reserve officer to command a British submarine during World War II

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