3 November 2017 Devonport Flagstaff

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Pool in, pohutukawa out on Cheltenham beachfront… p4

Property prices soar in rezoned Belmont… p5

Interview: music librarian Robert Johnson... p22

New $35 million vision for TGS and BIS grounds A $35 million vision for the combined grounds of Takapuna Grammar and Belmont Intermediate School aims to substantially upgrade the schools’ ageing sports facilities.

The vision document includes a covered pool, an auditorium, several artificial-turf fields

and an extension of the TGS sports hall.

It was developed by the boards of both schools, without a budget, timeline or priorities.

“We basically articulated a ‘what if’ and then filled in the dots,” says Callum McNair, Director of Sport at TGS.

The auditorium would be the most expensive facility, followed by the pool, then the sports hall extension at a much lower price. But if done in full, it would cost around $35 million, McNair says.

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Costumes for all the family… From left, Simone Balle with baby giraffe Nikolay Balle, Spiderman Reggie Balle (3), scary Clown Ru Taki (8), even scarier clown Charlie Balle (8) and Aunty Annie Balle with baby cow Tilly Balle. The ghoulish group took part in the Bayswater Halloween Trail last Friday. More pictures page 8.

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Conversion floated for heritage boat club building Conversion to apartments could be on the cards for the Takapuna Boating Club’s Category-A listed heritage building at Bayswater, as Auckland Council sends mixed messages about the property’s legal status.

The 463sqm “freehold property” is marketed by Colliers International as “ideal for owner-occupiers, add-value investors and developers” and “an opportunity to create a stunning office, boutique hotel or high-end residential development within an almost century-old heritage building.”

An Auckland Council heritage adviser told the club before it put the property on

Edwards national squash champ Promising Devonport Squash Club player Ben Edwards won the national C-grade championship played in Ohakune last weekend.

Edwards (15) didn’t drop a game in the three matches he won to take the title. He gained entry into the C-grade finals by earlier winning the Auckland title.

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the market that “residential use would fit with the heritage values of the place under the rules of the Unitary Plan,” says Rod Sheridan, the council’s general manager of community facilities.

But Sheridan also says the land at 17 Sir Peter Blake Pde “remains subject to special legislation governing its use,” as stated in the Auckland Harbour Board and Takapuna Borough Council Empowering Act of 1923.

The act states that “the land described in Schedule 1 hereto as a site of and for the purposes of boating-sheds, public swimming-baths, social hall, or for any similar or incidental purpose, but so that the said parcel of land or any part thereof or any building thereon shall not be used for private gain.”

Sheridan told the Flagstaff “council wants to continue working with the club and other parties to help get the best community outcomes from the land and building” and said council was “progressing discussions with the club to explore options”.

When pressed whether council endorses the marketing of the property to private investors, he said “non-profit development for the site is permissible within the bounds of the attached statue.”

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Carlson wows with retrospective

Dressed for success... Beatrice Carlson in an outfit she wore to accompany her category-winning 2012 World Of Wearable Arts entry After eight years as an entrant in the World of Wearable Art (WOW) international design competition, Beatrice Carlson is this month putting on a retrospective of her work at Depot Artspace in Devonport.

The Unwearable exhibition will celebrate having been a finalist with nine of her entries (multiple entries are allowed), winning her section once and, another year, being runner-up.

Devonport resident Carlson has entered the show with garments made from Perspex, her preferred medium.

Her retrospective will include “all kinds of little and big totally unwearable things,” she

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says. This year’s WOW entry, The Eternal Dance, will be missing: it is in the National WOW Museum in Nelson.

Carlson is proud of her achievements. “I am increasingly competing with high-calibre people who did costumes for pop stars such as Lady Gaga, Madonna and Beyonce. That I’m still in there is fabulous.”

She likes to challenge herself. “I now mostly enter the open section because it

pushes me forward artistically,” she says.

“But who knows, maybe there won’t be a 10th time and it’s best to celebrate now with the show.”

That said, she is already working on next year’s entry. “It’s all done – at least in my head.”

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Pool to replace pohutukawa on beachfront

Changes afoot at Cheltenham… the Canavan house (above) will be retained with a large extension, but the prominent pohutukawa will go The property was acquired by Graham Canavan, of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, in January 1938. In 1941, Canavan subdivided the lot, which originally extended from Oxford Tce to Cheltenham Beach, and built a house on the beachfront property he retained.

Graham and Mary Canavan subdivided the property once again in 1965 and sold the subject site.

The Canavan house was designed by architect RGS (Ronald Guthrie Senior)

Beatson. Beatson lived at 19 Ewen Street, Takapuna and promoted prefabricated house construction.

The Canavan house was a local landmark when it was built, thanks to its size and style. It was showcased in Home & Building in 1943.

According to its heritage-listing notes, “The house is still highly visible from the beach, set within a minimalist garden setting that draws attention to the sentinellike appearance of the building”.

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A mature pohutukawa is set to be removed and replaced by a large house extension and pool in a planned renovation on a Cheltenham beachfront property.

The home at 26 Oxford Terrace is a Catogory-B listed building, formerly known as Canavan House and now owned by Michelle Martin and Nick Hawkins.

Although the renovation comprises an approximate doubling in size of the existing building and oversteps a number of planning rules – such as the construction of a new boat shed near the beachfront – the effects are less than minor according to planning consultant Hayden Taylor.

The building was designed by architect RGS Beatson but “has modest historic significance as part of Cheltenham Beach and as a family home,” says Taylor in his report on the consent.

However, the design, “developed in close consultation with council’s Built Heritage team”, aims to minimise external changes to the original building and ensure the scale of the additions “remain subservient to the original dwelling.”

“The original dwelling remains the dominant feature of the site, particularly when viewed from the coast.

“It is noted the existing building is in a poor state of repair and no longer adequately provides for modern living requirements, nor is the standard of living provided on-site commensurate with the value of land in this prime location,” the planner’s report says.

The removal of the pohutukawa will be mitigated by other planting, the report says.

Devonport Heritage 2017 spokesperson Trish Deans took issue with Taylor’s report and says the extension dominates the heritage building.

When the section was subdivided a few years ago, the pohutukawa on the property was protected as part of the deal.

But Resource Management Act changes to tree-protection rules means it can now be chopped down.

Deans believes it is the first time a pohutukawa would be chopped from the Cheltenham Beach landscape.

“We don’t have sculptures (on the beach) but have beautiful trees – they are our natural heritage,” she says.

Deans is also concerned about the effect the boat shed would have on the beachscape.

For example, having a large boat being hauled to and from the shed would change the beach usage, she says.

Deans wants the application to be notified.

At the very least, it should be be peerreviewed with a heritage report, she says.

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Rezoned Belmont hits the $2 million mark The western end of Williamson Ave in Belmont is fetching top-dollar prices from Chinese buyers due to new zoning rules under Auckland Council’s Unitary Plan, according to Barfoot & Thompson agent Brian Langridge.

Seven modest homes at 14-20 Williamson Ave each sold for more than $2 million in recent months, Langridge says.

The homes at 15, 17 and 19 have been purchased by one buyer, while the other properties all have different owners, he says.

The sites are around 750 sqm, and are large and flat. “After the Unitary Plan passed, they have increased in value markedly,” he says.

The properties closest to Lake Rd – 12, 14, 16 and 18 Williamson Ave – are in the Business – Mixed Use Zone, which allows for both residential as well as commercial activity.

Buildings can typically go up to four storeys.

Properties from 19 to 39 and 20 to 36 Williamson Ave are in the Residential – Terrace Housing and Apartment Building Zone, which “provides for the greatest density, height and scale of development of all residential zones,” according to the council’s description. It seems four storeys are allowed in this zone in Belmont.

The zone is predominantly around metropolitan, town and local centres and

Windfall row... 19 Williamson Ave (above) and numbers 16 (below left) and 17 (below right) are among houses that have fetched hefty prices since zoning changes near public transport.

The Residential – Terrace Housing and Apartment Zone also runs along the northern side of Alamein Ave and the southern side of Westwell Rd; the Business – Mixed Use Zone extends along the eastern side of Lake Rd between School Rd and Westwell Rd and west of Lake Rd, behind the shops, which are

zoned Business – Local Centre Zone.

Williamson Ave sales: number 14, $2.1 million in September 2017; 15, $2.5 million in April 2017; 16, $2.2 million in August 2017; 17, $2.5 million in November 2016; 18, $2.1 million in July 2017; 19, $2.5 million in February 2017; 20, $1.95 million in October 2017.

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Ryman Healthcare had put on an open day, required by their resource consent, to give the public an opportunity to see what archaeologists had discovered when digging up the south-eastern corner of the Ngataringa Rd construction site before the finds are removed.

Some of the bricks and other artefacts will be included in Ryman’s design, which is another condition of its resource consent.

Senior archaeologist and Bayswater resident Charlotte Judge had worked on the dig around the original access road. It dated from around the late 19th century. “It was made by cutting the clay to a flat surface and lining the downhill edge with basalt rock and creating a dry top surface by using broken bricks, pipes, coal and coke by-products to make a dense layer on top. It is still a very solid road,” says Judge.

John Brown, another local archaeologist, had worked mainly on the kiln. “This particular kiln was probably an intermittent circular downdraft kiln with a series of about 10 fire holes that were fired one after another for six to 12 hours.”

It was typical of the technology of the time, he says, estimating the kiln was built during the 1870s.

Brown said the clay sewer pipes unearthed in the dig date from around the same time, and were also produced at the Duder Brickworks.

Jacqui Goldingham, a member of the

Devonport Peninsula Precincts Society, said she was excited about the finds. “But I would have loved to see the bit with the kiln and street stay in situ, with a garden planted around them,” she says.

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Rose Centre celebrates 25th birthday The Rose Centre at Belmont celebrated its quarter century in style last Friday, with an evening of musical performances.

The community theatre opened its doors in 1992 as a partnership between local amateur -dramatics group Company Theatre, Belmont Primary School and the local community, all of which were looking for a space to use for events.

The theatre company had performed at St Michael’s Church Hall in the past.

Marking 25 years…

Sherry Ede, long-time member of Company Theatre and a Rose Centre board member (right) with Alex Nevin.

Below: Company Theatre prop maker Doreen Gould (left) and Rose Centre Patron Paddy Stafford-Bush, with the centre’s new manager, John Davies, (behind).

Below right: Sherry Ede, Nannette Quincy and Ruth Chapman performed a number of music hall songs at the Rose Centre’s opening 25 years ago

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Apartments with a twist… Xi Shoa with his model of the Wynyard St entrance to The Arcade. “The form is so crazy because I wanted to create an attraction for Devonport,” he said.

Apartments on top of the New World supermarket, a shared space lined with trees along Wynyard St and a network of laneways at the back of Victoria Rd. These are some of the ideas that 19 architecture students had to future-proof Devonport’s town centre.

And last week, their concepts were featured in Devonport Tomorrow, an exhibition of architectural plans and models at the Friendly Societies Hall on Victoria Rd. The work was part of a course for fourth-year architecture students at the University of Auckland, taught by Devonport architect and chair of Urban Auckland, Julie Stout.

Stout started the 12-week semester with a lesson on Devonport’s history, before telling her students “to park restrictions, think outside the box and come up with fresh ideas”.

Abi Hilario, Trisha Hasin and Jamie Jiang took Wynyard St as a starting point for their Devonport vision.

“Wynyard St is actually used a lot by locals, even just to get to the ferry. But it could be a lot more lively,” says Hilario.

As a shared space, with trees lining both sides of the road, it would naturally lead to Devonport’s heart, the New World car park and its amazing view of Mt Victoria, the group said.

Most students had the urge to transform the car park into a vibrant space.

Ideas included building a multi-purpose community facility; a performance hall; a basketball court; and a youth centre.

Hilario, Hasin and Jiang developed the idea for a residential development of small apartments above and at the side of the supermarket.

They also want to turn Devonport’s existing alleyways into a proper network, to make the town centre “more porous”.

Xi Shoa came up with an attentiongrabbing feature for the Wynyard St entrance to The Arcade.

“I extruded the arch from the Victoria Rd side all the way through, from the old to the

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A new look for New World… Devonport’s supermarket is buried under a lava flow of small colourful apartments in a design by Abi Hilario. A multi-purpose community centre sits to the right, on top of the current car park. new façade, to create a dramatic entrance made out of brick to bring back the heritage aspect,” he says.

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Stout said the students had, by and large,

confirmed the view of “what a monstrous big hole the car park in Devonport’s middle is”.

They also “opened my eyes to the possibilities to develop it into a vibrant heart once the cars have gone,” Stout said.

“Just imagine all the things it could be.”

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Ryman goes to great lengths with signage

Sign of the times… an artist’s impression of what the Ryman signage will look like on Lake Rd Seventy metres of hoardings to advertise Ryman Healthcare’s Devonport development will be put up around the

construction site. be attached to an existing fence on Ryman’s Two signs, one 15 metres long and another property along Lake Rd. 16.6 metres, and both 1.8 metres high, will Two more signs, each 16.6 metres long and 2.4 metres high, will be erected along the construction fence on Ngatringa Rd. All four signs will remain in place for a year.

Ryman applied for land-use consent to erect the signs, which council granted in am on Friday 28 July found patrons on late September. the premises.

Council’s senior consent manager Quentin The Alcohol Regulatory and Licensing Budd said the signs will “provide visual Authority suspended Tiny Triumphs’ licence for 48 hours, from 4pm on interest at the public interface, identifying 19 October until 4pm on 21 October. the development, rather than blank hoardings Staff member Matthew McRae’s that only serve to solely shut off the manager’s certificate was suspended for construction site for security and safety 28 days from 23 October. reasons.”

Tiny opening-hours error Trading was suspended at Tiny Triumphs and a manager also lost his licence for a month after serving customers after hours.

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McNair says the existing and additional netball courts could become a satellite centre for Netball North Harbour. “The same is the case for hockey. Even the swimming pool could help out North Shore Swimming and take pressure off council’s Takapuna pool.”

The vision is about the students of both schools, “but it’s also there to enable community use wherever possible. As one of the largest landholders on the peninsula, we want to do right by the students and the broader community,“ he says.

TGS has undertaken extensive development of its academic facilities over the last two decades, but most of the sporting facilities are ageing. The concrete netball courts were built in the 1940s, the old gym in the 1960s, a larger sports hall from the late 1970s and the pool in 1972, says McNair. “And our two top fields and BIS’s bottom field are unusable over winter.”

“So our students travel as far as Albany for hockey, swimming, football and lots of other sports,” he says.

McNair and the schools’ boards have talked

about the vision with Auckland Council, Auckland Transport, Harbour Sport and local clubs’ regional sports bodies.

The next step is to form a working party, then take the plans out for consultation.

“We will start talking timeline, budgets and operational models soon.”

Lake Rd traffic plans and new classrooms are also part of the vision. McNair says the school wants to remove the pedestrian crossing outside the main Lake Rd gate, and instead install a four-point traffic light on the intersection of Lake Rd, Eversleigh Rd and St Leonards Rd. The school has raised the idea with Auckland Transport. “It would be matching the one we have at the other end of the schools’ campuses, on Winscombe and Bardia Sts.” St Leonards Rd should be widened to make room for two school-bus bays, McNair says.

“We want to move the old ones off Lake Rd for the safety of the students crossing, but also to help with overall traffic flow.”

The vision includes three large classroom blocks on the northern side of the campus, each potentially accommodating 20 classrooms.

“Again, it’s just an idea, but we could even put student or teacher accommodation in there,” McNair says.

He says Auckland Transport wants to use school land to build an eastern green route for cyclists and pedestrians.

In return, the school wants a new walking and cycling path along its Winscombe Rd back entrance, he says.

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November 3, 2017

By Rob Drent There probably won’t be much change in Devonport as a direct result of the new government, except possibly more cycle lanes.

Several years ago, a Green Party politician attended a cycling-to-school initiative launch at Belmont Intermediate School (BIS) and conceded the Lake Rd cycle lanes were not really working as a safe way for children to get to BIS or Takapuna Grammar. This has long been the case, particularly because the lanes disappear at the most dangerous point – the Belmont shops intersection.

An upgrade to Lake Rd will likely mean the cycle lanes will be changed anyway – possibly included in a combined bus/HOV/cycling lane.

It would be a good time then to develop a new eastern cycling route along Hamana Rd and Seacliffe Ave, through Belmont Intermediate, Takapuna Grammar and the Wilson home. In an ideal world it would head down Clifton Rd linking to a promenade along the Takapuna beachfront. In addition to a safer school trip, it would make a world-class tourist route, and a complement to the Green cycle route in the west.

Also as part of the new government emphasis on developing walking, cycling and trains, I hope Auckland Transport runs with the programme and makes sure any plans for Lake Rd are future-proofed, so trams can be

introduced to link up with the Akoranga hub.

One legacy of the National party on the Devonport peninsula is its predator-free initiative, which has been complemented and embraced by locals, specifically through the Urban Rat Project. As an aside, an ongoing worry is the number of trees that are disappearing with intensification. I doubt if anyone is keeping figures, but over the next five years the loss will be significant.

The biggest impact National had on the area though was the Treaty of Waitangi settlement with Ngati Whatua, which saw 28.7 ha of defence land transfer to the iwi. The Ryman retirement village development on iwi land at Ngataringa Rd is the first direct result of the deal and other iwi developments are in the pipeline.

This settlement would no doubt have occurred no matter which government was in power: Labour refused to comment on the settlement at the time.

One final word on the new government: wouldn’t it be great if Devonport could be used as a pilot for how an urban community could develop? Subsidies for solar panels and water tanks alongside the already developing recycling centre and environmental network programmes, for example.

On a local-government level that could be mean giving more power to the community through increased powers, especially to the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board – and particularly on planning issues.

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Skill and advice woven into community tapestry

Mission accomplished... Devonport Spinners, Weavers and Knitters members with their joint project.

(Clockwise, from bottom left) June Clark, Ann Campbell, Jocelyn Allen, Priscilla Lowry, Robin Harrison, Lyn Walsh, Jean Sullivan, Cathy Frith, Robin Finlay, Molly Wheeler, Dawne Millard, Clemency Claridge and Lisa Chen.

(Kay Worrall was unavailable.)

Good things take time, and a tapestry of Rangitoto created by a group of local spinners and weavers was no exception.

The Devonport Spinners, Weavers and Knitters started the work at the 2014 Devonport Arts Festival, using it to share their handicraft skills with locals young and old, says group member Molly Wheeler.

They presented the tapestry to the Devonport community this month.

The group’s 16 members settled on Rangitoto as their subject and worked on it collaboratively during their weekly meetings, at first spinning, then weaving the wool.

“Some of us did the practical work, others encouraged and gave suggestions, which is equally important,” says Wheeler.

She put the finishing touches on the piece when framing it, and says it was satisfying three years after beginning the project to finally hang the tapestry in the foyer of the Devonport Community House, where it can be enjoyed by the local community for a long time to come.

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Trees to make way for cars at soccer ground

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Several large trees will get the chop in council’s latest plans for the upgrade of the North Shore United Football Club grounds.

One large gum tree will have to be removed on the site’s north-western corner to make room for a planned footpath. And gum and pine trees on the north-eastern corner of the site will be chopped to accommodate a new car park.

Finally, “tree species along the north-western boundary” will go, to allow space for a new access road, the proposal says.

Dacre Park: Concept Option Four is costed at $2.7 million and provides a new full-sized, lit hybrid field as well as paths and a fence around it. The plan is “future-proofed,” with the full field pushed to the western boundary of the park, requiring a retaining wall, to leave enough space for an additional half field to be added to the club ground later.

The main entrance to the club has been moved north to align with the garden and recycling centres access road. A car park for approximately 43 cars has been added there.A new pedestrian and cycling entrance from Abbotsford Tce is also in the plans.

Auckland Council says it presented five options to the soccer club and local neighbours

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in August. It further developed Option Four after getting feedback from the groups, says council parks manager Kris Bird.

The more detailed option was again presented to the club and neighbours in two separate meetings and will now be discussed by the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board in a November workshop.

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Letters

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Devonport loves its heritage What’s On/Coming Soon The PumpHouse Theatre TADPOLE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

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In response to Bevan Rudge’s bold statements in the October 20 issue about his complete disregard for Devonport’s heritage laws: Bevan, if you think your modernist throwaway politics hold any water in this community then you should take a good look around and ask yourself if you might not be alone.

If someone had torn down the Sistine Chapel a hundred years after it was created, do you think there would be one single living person now who felt it was retrospectively anything other than a catastrophe?

Heritage protection and “intensification” are separate issues that both demand serious planning and respect. Those “shitty wooden homes with a massive garden” that you so arrogantly bagged in your letter, are what attract most people to this area and those people tend to think of them more as beautiful historic homes that they would love to look after and grow old in. Devonport loves its heritage and loves preserving it. I would go down fighting for it.

If you have a problem with heritage then I suspect you might be happier living in some other area. Seriously, you’re blaming heritage societies for the fact that you can’t afford the home you want?

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Interview

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Orchestra’s back-room expert knows the score Conductors and star soloists get lots of attention in the classical-music world. But little is told of the work of those who source and prepare all symphony orchestra’s music. Devonport resident Robert Johnson is one of only two orchestral librarians in New Zealand. He spoke to Maire Vieth.

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Music man... Orchestral librarian Robert Johnson in his office at Auckland Town Hall Robert Johnson has worked for the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (APO) for the last 23 years and he has as many parts to his role as there are to an orchestral score.

As soon as the orchestra’s annual season programme is set, orchestral librarian Johnson sources all the music needed for the 50-plus

main-stage orchestral performances, as well as its shows with the New Zealand Opera and the Royal New Zealand Ballet.

Johnson needs to find scores and parts: the score is for the conductor and shows all instruments on the page. The parts are separate sheets of music for each of the orchestra’s 70 musicians and their instruments.

It’s a busy and multifaceted job. Johnson has degree in music and he needs it.

The orchestra’s library is extensive, but a lot of sheet music is only available for rent. Johnson has to navigate the complex musical copyright world. “In New Zealand, copyright is still life plus 50 years. In most other countries, they have gone to life plus 70 years. But in the US, they also have the strange little quirk that anything published within the US before 1923 is regarded as public domain, no matter when the author died,” he says.

The music also comes in different editions and APO Music Director Giordano Bellincampi usually requests a particular one.

When necessary, Johnson has bought a score

in one edition and edited it into the edition required (usually available only as a more expensive rental).

Even the orchestra’s standard repertoire tends to require updating. The current trend is to perform first editions, known as urtexts. “Over the years, different editions of repertoire have come out that were to some extent corrupted by different conductors and editors who put their little bits in. So the music gradually changed over time,” Johnson says.

Once he has secured all scores and parts, he gets them ready to use. A new piece of music needs to be “bowed” for the strings. “The concertmaster has to go through the entire score and work out on which notes the bow goes up or down,” Johnson says.

Some hand- or computer-editing or tidying up with a special mechanical eraser may be required. Recently, Johnson arranged a piece to make it suitable for a smaller ensemble.

Finally, the music is photocopied, sorted and custom-bound for each musician.

All this is done well ahead of a performance.

“Today, several players came in on their way

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November 3, 2017 to rehearsal upstairs asking me for the music for an upcoming concert. Sometimes they want it two months out.

“Especially if we get something in that, once I see it, I know is going to be particularly difficult, I will draw their attention to it and recommend they get it early,” he says Otherwise, two weeks before a concert, the music goes into a large trunk on wheels that from then on travels with the orchestra wherever they perform or rehearse.

Around 18 months ago, the APO’s administration, including the library, moved into the former mayoral suite at the historic Auckland Town Hall, the orchestra’s main performance space. “This is the best space I have had for the library, ever,” Johnson says.

The orchestra was previously housed in much less glamorous premises on Dominion Rd. One of the library’s walls is taken up by a compressed filing system that holds around 2500 pieces of music – scores and parts – that are owned by the orchestra. There is also an archive of Radio New Zealand orchestra recordings and a collection of donated scores without parts.

Johnson’s desk with a large computer and stereo tower sits in a corner and in the centre of the room is a table piled with music – Verdi’s Aida, Bizet’s Carmen, Schoenberg’s Opus 43b, Debussy’s La Mer, Zheng Lu and Ma Hongye’s The Good News from Beijing and Leroy Anderson’s March of the Two Left Feet, to name just a few.

The day the Flagstaff caught up with Johnson, he was making the final preparations for two upcoming concerts, one only two days out: a world premiere of a piano concerto by Lyell Cresswell, a New Zealand composer who lives in Scotland, to be performed by Michael Houstoun.

Johnson wanted to put a hard copy of the music backstage before the last rehearsal, as an insurance policy. “Michael Houstoun is working from his tablet. I don’t trust technology,” Johnson says.

The second concert was only four days away – and Johnson was still figuring out how to get his hands on the music..

Russian operatic soprano Anna Netrebko and her husband, Azerbaijani tenor Yusif Eyvazov, had hired the APO for the Auckland stop of an international tour, their debut New

Zealand performance.

Netrebko and Ayvazov had only one set of music for Australia and New Zealand and were using it in Melbourne that week.

Immediately after that concert, it was to be packed up and put on a plane to Auckland. “It will all work out,” Johnson says.

He got into music at an early age, starting classical piano lessons when he was six. He was so dedicated that his parents bought him a baby grand for their Glenfield home.

The musical influence came from his father William Johnson’s side. “He was a baritone and used to sing a lot at home. As I grew up, I would accompany him on the piano,” says Robert.

“I studied mainly music history, composition and orchestration, with no real idea of what I was going to do when I finished.”

William Johnson earned his living as a toolmaker, but also had an extensive radio drama, TV and movie career on the side. It included parts in Under the Mountain, Go Girls, and Outrageous Fortune, as well as Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake of King Kong, in which he had a scene with Naomi Watts, and Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

After finishing Rosmini College, Robert studied music at the University of Auckland.

“I wasn’t good enough to be a performer and studied mainly music history, composition and orchestration, with no real idea of what I was going to do when I finished,” he says.

His first job was as assistant stage manager for the National Opera of New Zealand, where he soon got a chance to get more involved in the musical side of things.

“They were doing a school production of Cosi Fan Tutte and needed it arranged for a

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much smaller group of musicians. I said I could help,” he says.

He continued to work on and off as the National Opera’s arranger until 1983, when the company folded. Johnson became resident arranger at the Mercury Theatre in Newton, where he worked on operas and musicals until that company collapsed in 1991.

After a brief spell of working in record stores, Johnson started at the APO in 1993.

He and his wife Penny Clark, a Devonport painter training as a pastry chef, have three children. Ella (18), Frances (16) and Patch (13) are also musical, playing flute, violin and trumpet respectively and singing in school productions, but Johnson happily states that their passions lie elsewhere. Patch, for one, is mad about sports. “He is a bit of a mystery to Penny and me because neither one of us is at all sporty and Patch loves football, croquet and athletics. We steered him away from rugby.”

The family lives right next to the North Shore Rugby Club ground, with a good view of the fields. “It’s a bit ironic. I look out there every once in a while, but I miss everything a rugby fan would be excited about, like the other day apparently the Springboks practised and I wasn’t aware of it at all,” he says.

He might have been inside, listening to music. Johnson adores 20th-century and contemporary classical music. He currently listens to Czeck composer Leoš Janáček whose opera Káťa Kabanová the APO recently performed.

Does he blast it through the house?

“Absolutely not. Ella’s room is right off the lounge and Penny is a country music fan. I have a little corner of the living room and a pair of headphones,” he says. Johnson hasn’t owned a piano since he left his childhood home.

On his ferry ride to work he reads, currently a three-volume history: Byzantium. “I’m only halfway through volume one. It’s taking a bit of time,” he says.

Johnson has the patience required for large projects. About a decade ago, the APO was donated around 20 boxes of music found in the basement of Invercargill City Council. He is still combing through them.

Years ago he found in them a set of parts, but no score, by someone with the name of Arthur Jackson. The piece was called Lord Ullin’s Daughter, after a poem by Thomas Campbell.

Every year or so he fished for clues on Google, without success. Until three years ago, when he found out that it was a piece for chorus and orchestra, that Jackson was a promising 19th-century English composer who died at the age of 30, and that he had found the only copy of the work in existence.

“This set of parts that somehow went to Invercargill is the only set of parts for that piece in the whole world,” he says.

Johnson says he will donate them to the British Library just as soon as he finds a spare minute.

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75a Aramoana Avenue, Devonport Near the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, facing north, its high ceilings, wonderful proportions and use of timber and large windows mean this warm welcoming home is filled with natural light. There’s a choice of living spaces, inside and out, including a courtyard barbecue area and grass for the children to play on. That means there’s plenty of room for leisure and entertaining with family and friends. Great schools are within walking distance and there are cycle ways to Takapuna, wonderful local shops, parks, Narrow Neck and Cheltenham beaches, plus regular ferries that run to the city from Bayswater and Devonport.

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Takapuna

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Sports and Performing Arts awards last week saw the presentation of the major sports awards for 2017. with such an enormous number of students participating in a huge range of sports, it is no longer possible to present these in the same ceremony as the Academic Awards.

This year, Sports have combined with the Performing Arts, to make a gala evening possible, although no longer as a sit-down meal, as in the past, as the venue is not large enough. The School hall has been totally refurbished and its orientation reversed.

This has allowed the school to highlight the stunning brickwork of the original main block as the feature wall. State-of-the-art technology allows for multiple screens and a quality sound system. It was in this charming venue that the awards were made.

Will Watson PREFECTS CUP

Kate Williams

Evan Williams

Lucy Buckeridge

SANDY WILTSHIRE CUP BUCHANAN CUP

AL CAMERON CUP

LINDY GEARY CUP

Taking some responsibility for the environment With the increasing environmental focus, the school’s tuck shop has now turned to more sustainable packaging. The current version – Tee Gee’s cafe – has been providing food to students and teachers for eight years, and is now wishing to reduce their carbon footprint.

“The whole face of the tuck shop has been evolving over the past few years. Going to eco product fits with the school’s responsibility to the environment and it fits with the quality of the food we are selling,” says Tee Gee’s manager, Nikki Todd.

As of Term 4, new eco-ware packaging made of bamboo fibre, bioplastic and paper is being introduced into the tuck shop for shop-cooked foods. Derived from sustainable plant resources, these products are toxin-free and made of sustainable materials.

“I am glad Tee Gee’s is taking this initiative to make a long-term commitment to be more environmentally focused. I am definitely planning on buying my lunch there more often,” said student Zane Kelbrick.

By Molly McGArvey

A sample of the products being used from now on

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Heading the list of achievements are the Sportsman and Sportswoman for 2017. The 1970 Prefects cup was awarded to Will Watson and the Sandy Wiltshire cup to Kate Williams. In the junior equivalents, the Al cameron cup went to evan Williams and the linda Geary cup to lucy Buckeridge.

Team of the year went to the Boys Premier volleyball team. Many senior students have been recognised. The Geange Trophy was awarded to Sean Green and the equivalent for contribution to girls sport, the Margaret Moore cup, to Grace o’Brien. Both were very popular choices.

Top players in each sport at the senior level went to: Imogen Ayris for Athletics, and the Williamson cup for senior boys, to Sebastian Safka.

Badminton acknowledged Amanda Dai and William Que; Basketball ellaine Maralit and Alex Hitman; and cricket emily Hanydside and rory Bessell. oscar elworthy is Male cyclist of the year and renee young the Female cyclist.

Kate Williams took away the Buchanan cup for football, and Trevor everett the evitt cup. In netball, Hannah-Howe Smith was awarded the Kia Kaha Trophy. In rowing, Tom Parkin, Dougal Burden and Hamish Burden took away the three top cups. Miller Hazelman was awarded the championship cup for rugby and Jono Weston the Navy Sailing cup.

Nicole Svendsen and Harvey Malva picked up the squash trophies, and Michael Worsfold and chloe Kim the prestigious swimming cups. volleyball honoured ella Mcleod and Will Watson, and Briahna Sheehan and luca Burney are the top water polo players.

In total, a further 23 cups and trophies were presented to other senior and junior sportsmen and sportswomen. These are all recorded in the

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PENINSULA CUP FOR EXCELLENCE IN ARTS

MIKE CHUNN AWARD

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The Performing Arts have had an amazing year with wonderful productions and so much talent. Fortunately there are trophies for most categories to recognise the endeavour and the achievements of these students. The prestigious Donnell Trophy for composition was awarded to Harry charles, who also took home the Jazz Band Trophy. The vernon cup went to Poppy ross and the McKeown Trophy to Nelly Farmiloe.

In dance, the outstanding contribution award went to Kelly Kwon, male performer of the year to Benjamin Fitchett and caitlin White as female performer. For leadership in Dance, Danielle Neill was honoured. Four students were celebrated with musical-theatre awards: Hazel escott, Zoe Dornbusch, Miles Ford and Georgia Barron.

Grace O’Brien

Imogen Ayris

MARGARET MOORECUP

ATHLETICS

The raybon Kan Trophy for best comic performance was presented to Amelia lloyd.

For choral work the Petite Tres Belles (Katherine Aitken, Hazel escott, Felicity lewis and Zoe Boonzaier) were the top performing barbershop quartet, while Theo Sawyer won the Mike chunn Award.

The Deborah Ann Frost Memorial Award for service to school musicals was won by Abigail McDonald and in the debating trophies, the Mary Hutton cup, went to Dougal Burden and the Moira carew Trophy to Jarrah Swift. The Kathleen Goodwin Memorial Award for creative Writing went to Jon Barnett and the Peninsula cup for excellence in the Arts to Gabriel Jones.

Again, a further 30 awards were presented on the evening.

Jon Barnett KATHLEEN GOODWIN MEMORIAL AWARD FOR CREATIVE WRITING

Poppy Ross THE VERNON CUP

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Devonport Squash Club Gym has now reopened and is fully operational

Carpenter available now Qualified builder and craftsman for door/window/sash/cord/sill Carpenter available now replacements for door/window/sash/cord/sill All joinery repairs replacements All carpentry and associated All joineryservices repairs building All carpentry and associated Home inspections building services Bathrooms Home inspections All work guaranteed Bathrooms

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ACCOMMODATION

Big room to let in spacious apartment in Belmont. $203 incl.broadband and water. Power extra. Phone 0276 276 276 (Jo) any time to view.

Holiday Accommodation, Bayswater. Norwood studio. Private, well presented. $95 per night. Ph 446 1203. flexmans@gmail.com

Cheltenham: 2 dbl br. Private beach access, daily or weekly rent. Fully furnished.

Ph 027 425 3008.

Holiday Accommodation Cheltenham, absolute beachfront. One double and two singles, shady setCheltenham Beach Studio. ting, everything supplied.

Stunning studio with new fit-out Ph 027 425 3008. only metres from the beach. Relatives visiting? Spacious Available for short or long- garden studio with en-suite and term holiday accommodation. kitchenette; minutes to Narrow Self-contained with separate Neck beach. Reasonable rates. access and private garden. Ph Pauline 445 6471.

Wi-Fi included. Phone Mike Stunning Cheltenham Beach 021 747 526.

Cottage, metres from the beach.

Cheltenham townhouse Tui Street for rent. Available immediately for long-term rent unfurnished. 2 bedrooms, 1 office. Recently fully refurbished.

Cosy, quiet, with lovely indoor/ outdoor flow into courtyard.

Spa pool. 300 metres to beaches and 7min walk to Ferries and shops. $800 per week.

Call 021 662 325.

Available for short or long-term holiday accommodation. Beautifully refurbished, one bedroom, self-contained cottage with a private garden. Phone Rebekah 027 694 3933 or email devonportbeks@gmail.com

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Builder available Small-job specialist, repairs and maintenance. Skilled, reliable and local. Please phone Clive Komatua Care Centre – We M e l l i n g . H m 4 4 5 2 4 8 5 , care for older people who have Mob 027 29 222 84. memory loss and behavioural Curtains & Roman Blinds difficulties. Professional care F r e e m e a s u r e , q u o t e a n d is given in a nurturing envi- d e s i g n a d v i c e . 2 0 y e a r s ’ ronment. For all enquiries - e x p e r i e n c e . P h o n e S a r a 027 625 5844. phone 445 1707.

Ascot House Retirement Home, quality care with dignity in a friendly, family atmosphere.

Phone Shona, 445 2518.

Palm Grove Rest Home: A Non-Institutional style home providing compassionate, holistic care. Soul food and good people.

Call Julia Nessim: 445-0009.

SERVICES OFFERED

Custom-Made Lampshades - An easy & effective way to update your interior decor!20yrs+ local known business serving commercial & residential customers, specialising in new creations or reviving old favourites & vintage. Free quote & design advice.Contact: Claire, Oscuro NZ Ltd on 021 0249 7428, oscurolampshades@gmail.com www.oscuro.co.nz

A deck builder. Available now.

Free quotes/advice. Workmanship guaranteed. Competitive rates. Quality materials. References. Ph Simon today 476 2107, Devonport upholstery. Recover 020 476 2107. specialist. Antiques and contemA housewasher and water blast- porary styles. Recycling furnier. Available now. Moss and ture for 36 years. John Hancox.

FOR SALE mould treatments. Free quote, Phone: 446 0372.

Lexus ES300 1998 excellent prompt service and quality condition warranted, rego. workmanship. Ph Simon today Devonport Window Repairs.

Sash and casement windows, Classy 3 bedroom, 2 full $2500 phone 021 0853 4728 476 2107, 020 476 2107. wooden doors. Rotten sills and bath, fully furnished DevonA painter is available now. window components repaired port house on Achilles Reserve HOUSESITTING Free quotes and advice.

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Small jobs. Ph Simon today Ph: 445 7895.

Dog grooming available.

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Full groom, bath and blow Do you own a beachfront villa? woman available for short or A premium cleaning serdry, puppy introduction to Guests looking now short-term long-term housesitting. Experiv i c e w e e k l y / f o r t n i g h t l y. grooming. Devonport-based. stay. Put your idle space to work 1 enced home manager, who will or 2 bedrooms, will look at most. keep house well maintained Good references and high Call Barbara 021 141 0331. q u a l i t y. P h S i m o n t o d a y Call Tom 022 315 0737.

Gardener Available Qualiand secure. Pet care of all ages 476 2107, 020 476 2107. fied and experienced landscape Flatmate wanted-mature/socia- a speciality. Excellent referble.Spacious room in Belmont. ences available. Call Tessa on Amazing home cleaning includ- designer. Enjoys getting his ing windows. 15 years’ experi- hands dirty. Good plant knowlClose to shops/bus routes.Pro- 021 167 9949. ence. References available phone edge. Hard-working, reliable and fessional woman-call/text Jo 027 492 6220. creative with plantings. Contact 0276 276 276.

A t Yo u r R e q u e s t H o m e Paddy 022 502 2122 or 446 6188 Cleaning. Our local team is paddyvogt@gmail.com ready to deliver 5-Star servic- Gardening. Do you need regular es in your home for weekly help? No time for a tidy-up? Let c le a ning, spr ing, mo v in g me help. Experienced gardener. o r o p e n - h o m e c l e a n i n g . Ph Carolyn on 446 6517 or Call Yvonne for a free quote 027 292 8167 for a free on-site phone 415 0028. consultation.

Belmont Intermediate School Board of Trustees 2017 Mid-Year Elections

Nominations are now being accepted for the election of TWO parent representatives to the board of trustees.

Nomination forms and information may be obtained from the school office or the Returning Officer.

Nomination forms should be addressed to the Returning Officer and be taken or posted to Belmont Intermediate School.

Voting papers will be posted to voters on the school roll and to Yr 6 parents/caregivers from our contributing schools.

The voting roll is open for inspection at the school and can be viewed during normal school hours. There will also be a list of candidates’ names, as they come to hand, for inspection at the school.

KEY DaTES: Nominations close at noon on Friday 17 November 2017 Voting closes at noon on 1 December 2017 (if more than 2 nominations received) For any enquiries please contact Janie Stone, Returning Officer, at jstone@belmontint.school.nz

SERVICES OFFERED

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 Housekeeper. Home clean- www.squigglesdyslexia.co.nz ing, including windows. Ex- Mathematics Tuition Available perienced. References. Phone for years 9 to 13 by a retired 442 2273, 027 492 6220. maths teacher. Phone Graeme Housewashing, prof. service, 10 445 8575.TUITION 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.

Mathematics Tuition, Sensitive tutoring offered at all levels of the secondary school curriculum.

NCEA, IB and Cambridge welcomed. 100% pass rate in 2016.

Let me mow your lawns and NCEA 3 calculus specialist. trim your hedges. I live locally. Ph Peter Ridge BE, Dip Tchg Phone Chris from Lifestyle Plus (sec) 445 2283. on 09-488-7279 or 027-245- Maths and physics tutoring 6264. Or you can email me for secondary school students. on chris@lifestyleplusltd.nz. From an experienced university student. George: 021 063 5149.

References available. years-plus experience, reliable and prompt. Free quotes, also decks, driveways, paths, fences, roof moss treatments etc. Phone Rod 021 390 800.

L o c k s m i t h , D e v o n p o r t ’s Piano Lessons. Piano & music o w n S c o t t R i c h a r d s o n . theory tuition from classically trained pianist. Devonport-based Mob 021 976 607.

Office Administrator 40+ years’ and can travel to your home. experience in a wide range of Ph 021 079 0005 or email roles. Now semi-retired and 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 Tagbuster, graffiti looked after further details. 027 410 6871 Devonport to Hauraki Corner. gschuwertutoring@gmail.com Call the Tagbuster 0800antitag, S L S S S w i m S c h o o l , 11 Evan Street, Belmont (off 0800 2684 824.

Eversleigh Road). Specialists in preschoolers. Phone TUITION 486 6728 for more info.

Art Classes @ D’Port Community house: Wednesday night, life drawing; Friday morning, mastering art. Ph Lucy Bucknall – 446 0389. available for casual, infill, holiday or sickness periods. Ran own successful import/distribution business for 10 years. Contact Sue on 027 224 5918.

Learn piano/keyboard. Lessons from $19.00. Private, Professional, Affordable, Enjoyment for all ages. Competitions, Practical, Theory Exams.

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Bayswater Duathlon targets zero waste Leave your rubbish at home: that’s the message from Bayswater School’s environmental group as it seeks to make the school’s 22nd Bayswater Kids Duathlon a zero-waste event.

During a brainstorming session on how to reduce waste at the annual fundraiser, the school’s enviro-group opted to ask the 300 or more children registering to arrive with their own recyclable water bottles.

Coffee will be served in the school’s glass mugs rather than takeaway cups and parents are also encouraged to bring along their own mugs. The school committee aims to sell as little prepackaged food as possible.

For hard-to-avoid waste items, such as glass bottles, straws, serviettes and muesli bar wrappers, the students are setting up four recycling stations with four bins each.

Group members will monitor the stations to make sure people are sorting rubbish into food waste, recyclables (glass and paper), soft plastics and landfill rubbish.

A water bucket will be available for rinsing recyclables.

The initiative is supported by Jayne and Andrew Walters, who run the Devonport Community Recycling Centre at 27 Lake Rd. They are providing bins and training.

Brainstorming... Year 6 student Jessica Kilkolly adds ideas to the whiteboard during an enviro-group session on the upcoming Bayswater Kids Duathlon Andrew Walters told the group he will record what’s in the bins to measure how successful the initiative is. “We put the food waste into our worm bins and bring you the worm tea they produce for the school’s garden

in about four months’ time,” he said.

The Bayswater Kids Duathlon is open to children aged 5-11. It starts at Bayswater School at 7am on Sunday 5 November. Online registrations close on 29 October.

Resort/cruise wear and beachwear – hand-painted and hand-crafted gifts

Lovely gift range of newborn Babu babywear in certified organic cotton and luxury merino.

3/10 Victoria Rd , Devonport. Ph 021 0426337 www.spacific.co.nz

Cute snuggle bunnies!

Santini’s has been serving fast, early and consistently great coffee for nearly 25 years.

After having established some iconic coffee bars around town, we decided to open our eighth espresso bar in the grand old Post Office Building.

Enjoy your authentic Italian organico coffee in a historic environment whilst reading one of our international newspapers.

We also sell a selection of Italian cheeses like Parmesan, Taleggio, Provolone and sweet delights like Torrone, Amaretti and Savoiardi.

Opening Hours: Mon-Fri: 5.30am-12.30pm Sat: 6.30am-12noon | Sun: 7.30am-12noon

your beauty destination Nail • Hair • Beauty Monday to Saturday 9.30am-5.30pm Sunday open 10am-5pm Phone (09) 445 9678 10 Victoria Rd, Devonport www.honeybeautysalon.co.nz

Old devOnpOrt pOst Office 10 victoria rd, devonport Art Of This World Gallery Fitzgerald Taylor s’pacific Honey beauty salon Makoto Clean Green Computers Devonport Law The Flea

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Professional Services

Devonport’s Locksmith SPECIALIST IN PROVIDING

• New keys for existing locks • Installation

AWARD FURNITURE Phone COLIN on 480 5864

Vision examinations Glaucoma checks Contact lenses and solutions Spectacle repairs Driver’s licence certificates

The Arcade 6 Wynyard St, Devonport Phone 215 9178

Ovlov Marine Ltd • Full boating services • Repairs and maintenance • Expert advice • Free peninsula pickup • Mobile service available

• Lock Hardware Contact Scott on

021 976 607 445 3064

72 Lake Road, Devonport

www.red-dragon.net.nz

• Fast, reliable & cost effective • Windows computers & iPad Setup • Wi-Fi networking and ADSL broadband • New computers custom built • Repairs, Upgrades, Servicing • Virus & Spyware removal

Get it right first time with a Microsoft Certified Professional

Christopher Jones Ph 445 7810

DEVONPORT RELAXING CENTRE

Massage & Acupuncture (ACC) • Insomnia • General • Back, shoulder, stress neck pain • Migraines • Injured arm, • Tiredness knees etc.

Ph (09) 377 4285 www.ovlov.co.nz

Tel: 948 2622

Back to school laptops and tablets Local business - Personal service 24 hr support and fix available www.cgc.co.nz 10 Victoria road, Devonport 021 622 815 | karl@cgc.co.nz

NO FIX - NO FEE - OUR GUARANTEE

Call Doug 09 446 0687 Mobile 021 187 7852

Providing IT support to Devonport’s home users and small businesses since 2001

Located in The Arcade off Victoria Rd

COME & SEE OUR LARGE NEW RETAIL SHOP DOWNSTAIRS

SPeCialiSing in • Ceramic Tiling • Laundries • Stonework • Decks • Bathrooms • Waterproofing • Kitchens • Silicone Application

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Call us for a free quotation and put the life back into that favourite chair or lounge suite

November 3, 2017

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Call Sean Reeves for a free quote • Housewashing • Roof treatments • Waterblasting • Window cleaning bubbleboyshousewashing@gmail.com

$100 cash

Found on Abbotsford Terrace, Devonport Saturday 23 September Last chance!

We are still trying to reunite some cash with its rightful owner. Did you drop some money in the street? It may have been a birthday gift. Possibly, the person who dropped it is called Aeron, or knows Aeron.

The young man who found the money has handed it to the Flagstaff for safekeeping.

Please contact Jo on 021 844762 if you think this belongs to you or someone you know.

Business Expo at Devonport Community House A community and business open day will be held at Devonport Community House, on November 5, from 10am to 3pm.

The event will give the community the chance to come along and see what businesses are doing, and give businesses an opportunity to promote themselves.

Entry is free.

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BIS teacher chasing her musical dream

Giving it a shot... Teacher Jo Holario is going out on her own as a singer-songwriter At just 25, Belmont Intermediate School teacher Jo Holario is young enough to have rock-star status with her students.

Holario, who lives in Belmont, has been playing with covers band Chasing Kennedy at venues like The Patriot for over a year.

This summer she releases her first EP. And she says it’s now time to go out on her own as a singer-songwriter on acoustic guitar and vocals. “I wrote a few songs and then had lots of opportunities to play solo. And now I feel like I need to give it a real shot,” she says.

Her students have been an inspiration to do so. “I always tell my students to follow their dream. So now I’m following mine.”

Holario has already recorded a single called

Just One Thing, for which she shot a video on Bethells Beach.

In the school holidays, she had planned to record another four songs she has written herself.

And she has already performed with a threepiece band in a Battle of the Bands heat at the Kings Arms.

Her next dream is to play all around the country as a supporting act and to headline her first solo show at the Victoria Theatre next year.

“And one day I’d love for one of my songs to be played on mainstream radio,” she says.

As a musician, Holario is mostly self-taught.

“I played guitar growing up and had a set of guitar lessons, but my teacher always cancelled.

It was right at the time when YouTube started so I taught myself a lot watching videos,” she says.

These days, you can listen to Holario on her own YouTube channel.

Holario began singing when she turned 18.

“Before that, I was too shy and perfectionist. I had to build up my confidence first,” she says.

She has never had a singing lesson.

Last year, she started a bucket-drumming elective for her Belmont Intermediate School (BIS) students and taught herself to drum as well.

Holario was born in New Zealand, but grew up in the Philippines. She completed teachers college in Tauranga five years ago and is in her third year of teaching at BIS.

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Plunket coffee group clocks up 42 years

Keeping the coffee tradition brewing… (from left) Jocelyn Spinley, Joyce Leavy, Lyn Wolfgram, Penny Holmes, Penny Pearson, Bev Wilson and Shirley Eliott After 42 years, a Devonport mothers coffee group is still going strong, with many of its original members meeting every second Thursday.

The group started when Penny Pearson ran an antenatal class from Devonport Kindergarten in 1974 while pregnant with her daughter Marissa. She says a small coffee group of mums started there and later absorbed a group of Plunket mothers as well.

Jocelyn Spinley was one of them. When her son Anthony was born in 1975, she then had three children under five, and the group was an appreciated break in her routine.

Spinley was Plunket treasurer and Penny Holmes, who joined after her son Nick was born, was chairwoman. But the coffee group soon cut its umbilical cord with Plunket and met independently. Bev Wilson, another original member, joined the group when her son Jason was born in 1975.

“There were no cafes to meet at like now, no flat whites. We just went to each other’s houses to socialise,” says Spinley, as she serves up home-made egg sandwiches and plunger coffee at her Cheltenham home.

“We just talk,” she says. Spinley was one of the seven women in their 60s and 70s who got together at her house two weeks ago. A handful of regulars were missing. “They are travelling the world to see their children and

grandchildren overseas,” says Spinley.

Newer members belong to the group too.

Lyn Wolfgram joined 36 years ago, when her daughter was three months old. She now lives in Ramarama, but remains dedicated to the group. When recently starting a new job as teacher aid in a Papakura school, she made sure she has Thursdays off.

Shirley Eliott was welcomed into the fold after she was widowed 19 years ago. “My husband died seven months after moving here. The group was very kind to me because I didn’t know very many people here,” she says Joyce Leavy is the baby in the group, having joined only 18 months ago after moving from Wellington.

Over the decades, conversations about raising babies, toddlers, and later, teenagers, have shifted to ones about the delight of grandchildren and the strain of marital breakups or widowhood. “We all had troubles and traumas in our lives and we support each other through them,” says Wolfgram, who fostered five children after her own brood had grown up.

For a period, Penny Pearson took her three grandchildren along. “I was my daughter’s full-time nanny. I brought one grandson along when he was three weeks old,” she says.

The group also discuss the news and give each other fashion advice. “Especially for wedding outfits when one of our children gets married,” says Spinley, whose son Anthony – at 42, the same age as the group – is about to tie the knot.

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Takapuna Grammar School sportsmen Hunter Rice and Jay Natapu both won age-group players of the year in the North Harbour Rugby Awards last week.

Hunter (13) is rep player of the year in the under-14 Cardinal team and Jay (16) in the under-16 team.

First five-eighth Hunter has played rubgy since he was four and comes from sporting stock. Parents Dean Rice and Jackie Smith played softball for New Zealand Number eight Jay only started playing rugby this year, after moving to Devonport from Melbourne, where he played in the Melbourne Storm rugby league’s development team.

TGS Director of Sport Callum McNair said the school was proud of the players’ achievements. “Jay is clearly a big unit who got himself fit and is a hard-running ball player.

And Hunter, while smaller, is a Top rugby talent…Hunter Rice (left) highly skilled smart first five-eighth and Jay Natapu running the team. He has a good eye for the teams, along with Harrison Eakin, Antony gap and a great kicking game.”

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November 3, 2017

Local Company Wins New Zealand Master Painter of the Year 2017

John Bisset Ltd was awarded New Zealand Master Painter of the Year 2017 at the recent Master Painters Awards.

John Bisset Ltd also won the Master Painter of the year in the Residential category and the award for Master Painter of the year in the Residential Character category. Along with winning these main awards, John Bisset Ltd also received Gold Awards for Residential Rework Character Interior; Residential Rework Character Exterior; Residential New Exterior; and Residential New Interior.

The Residential Rework Character category is for work on properties such as villas and historical buildings. Over the last 30 years, John Bisset Ltd has painted hundreds of villas and historical buildings, both locally and throughout the greater Auckland area, including the Victoria Picture Theatre.

The new-work category is for new dwellings such as the one that John Bisset Ltd won this year for a beautiful new house in Takapuna.

John Bisset and some of his team receiving one of their awards.

The recipients of these awards are companies like John Bisset Ltd, which have shown excellence in the industry with regards to the quality of work they process. These awards also provide a benchmark for the standard of work that is expected of a Registered Master Painter.

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TGS 90th Reunion

November 3, 2017

Devonport vet Neil Waddell gets a good-luck kiss from former schoolmate Jenny Kirk, ahead of the old boys hockey game. “I haven’t used that stick since the last reunion,” Waddell said.

Serious or funny? The defence is split... (from left) Year 13 student Madi Coughlan, Letitia Cambie (nee Jakich) who now lives in Hamilton, TGS PE teacher Katie Dobson and Year 13 student Jenna Williams converge in the shooting circle.

Around 1048 ex-Takapuna Grammar (TGS) students attended the school’s 90th year reunion over Labour weekend. Various social functions and sports matches – including rugby, hockey and netball – were held.

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Girls just want to have fun‌ (from left) Sara Anderson, Nikki Morrison, Denyse Johnston, Helen Andrews and Meg Evans.

Through the generations.‌ (from left) second-generation alumni John Gilmour (following his father Ken), Sally McCollam (nee McGregor), Linda Camplin (nee Hickman) and third-generation alumni Brett Camplin (after his father Murray and grandfather Geoffrey).

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Remembering the old times… George Tuinukuafe (far left) and Wati Tawhai (right), with his wife Julie, caught up with their former English teacher Ian Lissette, who said it was nice to be back at school.

Lissette retired in 2013 after 50 years of teaching. Julie and Wati dated at school in 1977. Says Julie: “We even went to the ball together. Then we married other people before we got together again 17 years ago.” They married in 2015 and now live in Warkworth.

Primary school friends… (from left) Nicki Hume, Kath Storms (nee Moore), Allison Le Fevre (nee Broom) and Patricia Hinchey (nee McDonald) have been firm friends since they were in the same class at Hauraki School

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Sister act… (from left) Kylie Cashmore, Anya Wetzell and Pippa Wetzell together again at TGS.

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TGS 90th Reunion

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Friends since the 1970s… (From left) Tania Anderson from Grey Lynn, Bayswater’s Kim Sawyer-McCauley and Ginni Quinn (nee Smith) who lives in Sydney

Boating buddies… (From left) Ken Pedersen, Tim Smedley and Tony Barker sailed together regularly in the early 1960s. “We used to put our boats outside Tim’s place on Takapuna Beach. Nothing was ever pinched,” says Barker. Tim never left Ewen St (in Hauraki) and the trio still goes sailing together annually after meeting at Smedley’s new beachfront house.

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TGS 90th Reunion

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Century up for peninsula rat-trappers Within days of a barbecue held to thank Devonport peninsula rat-trappers, the volunteers could celebrate their 100th trapped rat.

And Celia Walker, who is the Pest-Free coordinator of Restoring Takarunga Hauraki (formerly Devonport Environmental Network), believes the tally might be higher.

The total includes 51 trappings recorded on the Urban Rat Project website, around 25 caught

by Department of Conservation staff on North Head, “plus a few people telling me about rats they caught here and there,” says Walker.

She urges the nearly 1000 peninsula residents with rat traps on their properties to provide her with updates. “Just today someone called me to say that between him and his neighbour they caught five, which is great. Everybody, please tell me!”

Walker also has another 500 traps to strategically place. “I am keen for those to go onto properties near reserves. People can contact me about it, but I might start doorknocking soon as well,” she says.

The barbecue was held at Mt Cambria Reserve, where nearby resident Peter Metcalf monitors seven bait stations.

Devonport’s pest-free initiative started more than two years ago as a Devonport Peninsula Trust project, which was soon supported by Auckland Council.

It gained momentum after Devonport Community Coordinator Maria Teape organised a public meeting at Waitemata Golf Club.

“About 60 people came and they all said they wanted rat traps,” she says.

Earlier this year, council and Ngati Whatua o Orakei donated more than 1000 traps to the cause, most of which have been distributed to locals for free. ● Please report your rat catchings to Walker directly (you can also ask her for a free rat trap) at pestfreedevonport@gmail.com. Or you can enter the data on the Urban Rat Project website at www.ratproject.org

Above: Cooking for a cause... Devonport Community Coordinator Maria Teape and husband Nigel, pitching in at the barbecue for local rat-trappers Below left: Family effort... Chris Baker and daughter Amelia Below: Keeping score... Pest-Free Coordinator Celia Walker (right) and volunteer Kat Lane, the DoC Predator-free Ranger for Auckland

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