7 October 2016 Devonport Flagstaff

October 7, 2016

TGS cyclists top in the country… p3

Support for predator-free Devonport… p5

Interview: film-maker Theodore Elliot… p18

Opposition mounts to massive healthcare development Opposition to the proposed Ryman HealthA public Facebook page ‘Ngataringa Bay Re- through and understand what’s in the hefty care complex at Ngataringa Bay is mounting as tirement Village Development’ has nearly 150 application. the deadline nears for public submissions on the members who are largely critical of the plans.

Rea says it’s a daunting task. “The plans are resource consent.

Ngataringa Rd resident Iain Rea is moderSubmissions close on 13 October. ating the page. His wants to help people wade To page 8

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Village will be glowing during Artweek Art will take to the streets on 15 October with part of Clarence St closed off for people to enjoy art installations, music and a variety of activities.

The GLOW Open Street will run from 11am until 10pm as part of Artweek which is being held across Auckland from 8-16 October.

The Depot Artspace will kick off the evening with an exhibition opening and a collaboration of Cook Islands and Turkish drumming at 6.30pm.

The Nathan Haines Band will open a music

programme on an outdoor stage on Clarence St at 6.45pm, with music playing until 10 pm.

Other activities in Devonport include community sculpting at the Flagstaff Gallery, and light installations on Windsor Reserve created

by Unitec architecture students.

Businesses around Devonport are taking part in Artweek. The Peter Raos Gallery, Flagstaff Gallery, The Esplanade, Depot Artspace, Correlli’s Cafe and the Vic Theatre will host art exhibitions, installations and films.

• For a full programme of events, see page 38.

Devonport Business Inc mooted The possibility of changing the Devonport Business Association’s (DBA) name to Devonport Business Inc has been suggested to remove “negativity” associated with its past.

Devonport Business Improvement District Manager Judy Grieve raised the possibility at the DBA’s recent AGM. She said she was “not

interested in the petty history” attached to the association and it was time to move on. While not stated, it was a reference to the opposition among many local businessess over the association’s push to have higher building heights in the Devonport business district included in the Auckland Unitary Plan.

Hale new chair of the Devonport Business Association Dianne Hale is the new Devonport Business Association chairperson.

Retiring from local government after three decades as a local body politician, Hale was elected unopposed at the association’s 2016 AGM.

She takes over from John Waugh, who remains on the association committee.

Other committee members include Ian Cunliffe, Donna Gustaffson, Fiona Brick, Ken Davis, Pauline Baker, Doug Cochrane, Trevor Lawson, Sue Johnston and Phillip Jasser.

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TGS boys best cyclists in NZ

Teamwork, training and consistency earned TGS boys national cycling title… the winning team, with captain Harry Waine holding the cup The Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) boys cycling team was crowned best in the country at the National Schools Road Cycling Championships in Palmerston North last week. The three-day event included a team time trial, road race and points race.

With nine medals and 24 top-ten spots, the 36 boys in the team accumulated 114 team points across the competition, beating traditionally strong, single-sex schools Auckland Grammar School (102pts) and Palmerston North Boys High School (89pts).

Consistency across the team won TGS the trophy, despite none of its cyclists taking a gold medal. Compared to the 2015 champs, TGS took one addititional medal and jumped from 13 to 24 top-ten finishes.

Head Coach Ian Lochhead says TGS won “through having exceptional depth in the squad.

We are not relying on one or two stars to achieve the results, but on teamwork and a lot of hard work and training leading up to the event.”

The strength of the TGS team is only expected to grow. Junior boys coach Terry Nicholas said: “We had 51 cyclists at TGS this year, 38 boys and 13 girls. Of those, 35 are juniors and 16 seniors; and we will only lose three senior riders next year.”

With the road cycling programme at Belmont Intermediate School now in its second year, TGS expects a lot cyclists to funnel into Year 9 in 2017.

Lochhead says the top-school trophy is about than just the riders. This year, a party of 92 riders and supporters headed to Palmerson North.

TGS Sports Director Callum McNair says road cycling is the school’s top sport performing at a national level. “And the boys nailed it this year.”

McNair says the peninsula offers “the perfect storm” as the sport’s environment.

“There are the Espressos for the parents to join and other groups like it; there are cycle lanes and other networks across the North Shore that make the sport safer.

Kevin Searle, Chairman of Cycling New Zealand Schools, says TGS riders have shown their strength over the last few years at both nationals and North Island champs. In 2014, TGS came second in the overall schools competition.

“We are delighted that they have reached this significant goal of taking home the H A Joli Cup (for best boys team) in 2016.”

Searle said TGS stood out for its strong school spirit, “along with remarkable sportsmanship, team work and leadership.

“Their philosophy for a successful school cycling programme is around having fun, which should ever be underestimated.”

• Harry Waine is in his second season as a member of the sponsored Team Skoda. Oscar Elworthy was selected to the team just prior to the national champs.

TGS cycling medalists

Nick Bowen – silver, U15 Points Race and bronze, U15 Road Race; Lucy Buckeridge – silver, U14 Road Race; Sam Dyne – silver, U15 Road Race; Oscar Elworthy – silver, U20 Points Race; Josh Kench – bronze, U16 Road Race; Aidan Nicholas – bronze, U20 Points Race; Junior Boys Team Time Trial, silver: Josh Kench, Callum Erskine, Brenden Beyer and Xander White; Junior Girls Team Time Trial, bronze: Charlie Arnold, Lucy Buckeridge, Zoe Martin and Renee Young.

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Government support for predator-free Devonport Devonport Peninsula is the perfect location to become predator-free, Conservation Minister Maggie Barry told a public meeting at Devonport Yacht Club last week.

The government has launched Predator Free 2050 with the aim of ridding New Zealand of possums, stoats, rats and introduced pests by the middle of the century.

The government is putting $28 million into the programme over the next four years. This will go towards large-scale predator-control projects, scientific research into ways to control and eradicate pests, and increased support for community-led projects.

Barry said that with Devonport’s geography, pests could be more easily targeted, which meant a predator-free suburb could become a reality.

While she stopped short of going into specifics, Barry said Devonport would be a “very high contender” for support and funding from the government as part of Predator Free 2050.

Locally, a Devonport Environment Network had been set up after meetings organised by Devonport Community Co-ordinator Maria Teape. Supported by Auckland Council officers, residents had started laying traps.

Barry said community groups nationally can play a vital role in the Predator Free 2050 goal.

For example, a group in Crofton Downs, Wellington, had laid 200 traps and caught dozens of rats.

In Devonport, it was also important to work together with the Defence Force and Ngati Whatua who had large landholdings, Barry said.

New Zealand currently spends $3.3 billion a year getting rid of vermin – money that could be much better used on other things, Barry said.

The Predator Free 2050 programme had been well received in New Zealand and overseas since being launched, she said.

An upgraded Predator Free 2050 website is set to be online in December, and would include information on how to apply for grants.

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Conservation Minister Maggie Barry in Devonport

Locals want poisoning culled

Opposed to use of poisons for pest control… Michelle Androu says the harrier hawk is one of the species threatened by eating poisoned rodents Pest control is vital but should be carried out without poisons, locals told Conservation Minister Maggie Barry.

Michelle Androu, with a native harrier hawk as a stage prop behind her spoke about a cocktail of rat poison being laid across Devonport parks, walkways and estuaries.

She was concerned about the accidential poisoning of children and dogs, and secondary poisoning of birds, which can eat dead rodents.

Androu had seen hawks in Shoal Bay and Ngataringa Bay recently, but they had disappeared after poisons had been laid by council. Another local resident, Sarah Bloomfield, said she was “strongly opposed to toxins and I’m pleased the paradigm seem to be moving away from that.”

While supporting schemes to eradicate pests, Bloomfield said on the ground it appeared haphazardly co-ordinated “without an over arching premise.”

Barry took on board the locals’ concerns about the use of poisons in residential areas, but said it was a matter for Auckland Council to respond to.

In an email to Androu, Auckland Council officers said they worked hard to minimise the risks of secondary poisoning.

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Belmont player wins NZ squash title in local derby Belmont Park Racquets Club squash player Matthew Lucente won the New Zealand under-17 title last weekend in a close-fought final with Gabe Yam – who belongs to the same club.

It’s rare for two players from one club to make it to an agegroup national final. But Gabe and Matthew had dominated the competition held at Hamilton last weekend, both making the final without dropping a set.

Matthew beat his slightly younger opponent 3-0 in a tightly contested match.

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Three months after arriving in Devonport, Andrius Ramonas won the Devonport Classic men’s half-marathon.

Ramonas finshed the 21 km race around Devonport in one hour and 16 minutes, with a 30-second lead.

The keen trail and ultra-distance runner came to New Zealand from Lithuania two years ago.

He is currently the record holder for the Hillary Ultra Trail Run – an 80 km course from the Arataki Visitor Centre to Muriwai – with a time of eight hours and 23 minutes.

Ramonas still found the much shorter Devonport Classic a challenge. “It has a different kind of intensity and pushes me in a different way,” he says.

He enjoyed racing near his new home and training ground, where Mt Victoria and North Head help him prepare for his trail running too, he says.

Nicola Shannon, who placed third in the women’s 15 km race, is also new to Devonport.

The former Hamiltonian moved to Stanley Bay earlier this year, after returning from the UK and Singapore where she was a keen triathlete.

The Devonport Classic was her first race after giving birth to the youngest of her three children six months ago.

Shannon recently started a social running group that meets every Wednesday at noon at

Returned to racing after childbirth… Nicola Shannon the Navy sports fields and is open to all, she says.

Another Devonport resident, Angelica Americo, came third in the women’s 10 km run.

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Residents gear up to make retirement-home submissions

thousands of pages long. The Unitary Plan isn’t passed yet, and we have only four weeks to respond. I think it’s unfair,” he says.

Rea and others organised a meeting held at Devonport Community House last Thursday night. Around 30 people attended. They borrowed a hard copy of the application from Devonport Library for the night.

A group of architects, led by Ken Davis, is also opposing the design. “The current design would fail an architecture student and with such a significant and beautiful site, we all should be demanding the very best in design and not just roll over for Ryman,” Davis says.

Joel Cayford, a planning consultant, and former North Shore City Council and Auckland Regional Council councillor, as well previous Ngataringa Rd resident, headlined his blog Reflections on Auckland Planning with: “Ryman crams retirees into Devonport.”

Cayford laments the design proposed for the former Navy land. “I think in this day and age more effort could be made by Rymans to better integrate this development into its whole urban setting – rather than making it secure, self-contained, fortress-like, keep the neighbours out.

Almost like a defence establishment,” he says.

“What’s missing are a playground, paths and

a café encouraging and inviting public access.

They could be used by visiting and neighbouring families alike,” he says. Retirees would be able “to see someone walk by who wasn’t one of them.”

Ryman Healthcare, which has a 150-yearlease on the Ngati Whatua-owned land, proposes to build 195 apartments, 78 assisted-living and 120 care-bed units in a complex that is largely three to six storeys tall.

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Iain Rea – Devonport is getting shafted The Devonport Flagstaff spoke to residents on both sides of Ngataringa Bay. Ngataringa Rd resident Iain Rea puts it bluntly. “I worry Devonport is getting shafted by Rymans,” he says.

Rea, an advertising writer, and his partner Lucy Bucknall, have raised their two teenage sons in a converted 1900 cottage for the past 16 years. Bucknall’s art studio is out the back of the house.

The “walled-off” Ryman proposal goes against the sense of community Rea says Devonport is all about. Breaking the visual connections across the bay and having a ghetto for old people will affect all locals, whether they live next door, cycle past or

look across from Cheltenham, Devonport and Stanley Bay, he says.

“That’s the bit I care most about. I have enjoyed this place for so long, I want to make sure those who come after us won’t lose out.”

It’s also about mana, he says. “We will see the head of Takarunga from here but no longer its feet. Coming from Taranaki, I know that these things matter,” he says.

Rea is not against development per se. “I think you could build something wonderful on that site, with just as many apartments and for just as many people.”

Ryman development goes against the grain of what Devonport is all about, says Iain Rea.

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Petra Heemskerk – talk to us Ryman, we’re not Nimbys Petra Heemskerk has lived on both sides of Ngataringa Bay – once at the bottom of Cowper Street and for the past 10 years on Ngataringa Rd. The Dutch medical anthropologist says living across from the Wakakura land has bought its share of surprises over the years.

It started with the introduction of a precinct zone in the Unitary Plan and the degree of intensification that was suddenly allowed, she says.

“When we heard a retirement village was planned, most of us were relieved,” she says.

“People think we are Nimbys, but most of us are actually pro-intensification.” She remembers seeing early four-storey designs and feeling positive about them. But Ryman’s resource consent application doesn’t look anything like that now, Heemskerk says.

“There is nothing Devonport about it. It could be anywhere. It’s Ryman first and foremost. It’s an us versus them design.” Wanting something more integrated in scale and size is “not unreasonable,” Heemskerk says.

She feels that Ryman’s lack of consultation is poor. “It’s just courtesy. If we’re going to be neighbours, why aren’t they talking to us.”

Heemskerk says she won’t lose much of the view from her elevated bungalow. “When I stand up in the lounge, I will look over it

and still see the Auckland skyline,” she says.

She is most worried about the construction period. “It will be an absolute nightmare just to get the foundations built,” she says.

Ryman should have talked to neighbours… Petra Heemskerk, with her sons Daniel (right) and Sam

Lyndsay Brock – long-time Ngataringa Bay guardian Lyndsay Brock has lived on Bulwer St for 35 years. From her lounge window, she has a wide view of the bay and looks straight onto the Wakakura land.

Brock says she is campaigning against Ryman’s proposal because she loves Ngataringa Bay. She has fought for it since the 1970s. That’s when she and neighbour Jacqui Goldingham started a campaign to close the old Devonport dump that polluted the bay “with swimming pools of leachate every day,” she says.

Once the tip was turned into Ngataringa Park, Brock helped organise bush-planting along its bottom path. She watched the trees grow into a forest edge from her lounge and credits it for returning tui to her garden.

She supported Ngataringa 2000, a campaign against further Navy reclamation of the bay, getting 24 historic and three conservation sites recognised. “Until then, they treated the bay like a backwater,” she says.

The artist and fashion designer has often used images of the bay as background in her work and says the Wakakura land is “spectacular”. It shouldn’t be spoilt by Ryman’s “atrocious British housing-estate design that will be our new skyline,” she says Brock is all for a local retirement village, but says Ryman’s prices are unaffordable to many.

“They are not within my means and Ryman assumes that even if you are single you will be able to afford two bedrooms,” she says. Only eight of the proposed 195 apartments have one bedroom only.

Ryman’s retirement-home design resembles a British housing estate… long-time Ngataringa Bay protector Lyndsay Brock “And I don’t believe three people would be allowed to flat in one of the 39 three-bedroom ones,” she says.

Brock is also worried about the bay itself – construction silt smothering sealife, dust being carried in the prevailing south-westerly wind and the borehole lowering the groundwater table and causing subsidence.

Noise is a concern too. During our interview, we could hear a soccer ball being kicked around at Allen Hill stadium, with a soft pop reaching us every time it was struck.

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The Category D Tree of Local Significance is located at 35 Tainui Rd and the owners have lodged a resource consent to remove it.

The tree is 20 metres tall and has a canopy of roughly 20 metres.

A storm this March caused several branches to fall, including one that landed on the owner’s roof, the application from owners Sherry

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The tree overhangs 35 Tainui Rd by 6 metres and 37 Tainui Rd by 2 metres, the application says. “The branches over 37 Tainui Rd are over the master bedroom, and the owners have informed me that they do not sleep in the master bedroom during storms due to their concerns that branches may fall on the dwelling,” the arborist’s report says.

Council was still assessing the application when the Flagstaff went to press.

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Communism and capitalism sit artistically side by side Mia Bigalk-Shanks has tailored 150 oversized fake $20 notes into a slim-fitting green ball gown for a striking final-year art project.

The dress is one of 10 pieces she has in the Takapuna Grammar School’s IB Art Exhibition. Ironically, it stands next to a portrait of Fidel Castro, the Cuban communist leader.

“I started off looking at capitalism and ended up looking at how money affects our lives,” says Mia. Fashion is one such place, says the enthusiastic op-shopper. “The fashion industry is worth a ridiculous amount of money and we spend a lot of it only to please and impress others,” she says.

So why did she chose $20 notes for the dress? “Even though they aren’t the most valuable notes, green is the colour of money in the US, and our $20 notes also have the Queen on it, who is one of our leaders,” she says.

Leadership is the second theme of Mia’s exhibition.

She says she painted Fidel Castro “from a black and white perspective, with nothing in between, because he is the opposite of capitalism, and I wanted him to look powerful and stand out in the show,” she says.

Mia is a school house leader and prefect but says her style is a “more subtle and quieter one.” This is her first artistic foray into political subject matters. “It’s quite different from what I usually do and quite a move away from my pretty paintings,” she says.

Mia’s work is on display at the newly opened Barry Brickell studio at Takapuna Grammar, along with the work of six other second-year IB art students.

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October 7, 2016

By Rob Drent

in the last issue, the i-SITE on the wharf has been closed for months. And the new visitors centre mooted for the old Devonport Borough Council building still has no opening day.

It requires a refit to meet health and safety requirements.

The lack of urgency is appalling.

It’s not too late to get your vote in for the local council elections. At this stage, it’s hard to know the exact level of interest in the elections, but voter turnout is generally low.

I feel if you don’t vote, don’t complain. I’m looking forward to a changing of the guard on the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board. The new board will have at least three fresh faces, and hopefully a fresh approach. For the last half of its term, it was divided. This led to some – at times – bitter infighting.

The move to have Joseph Bergin, the youngest member on the board, as chair in the second half of the term, backfired somewhat as he proved a divisive rather than a unifying force. He became too much part of the establishment for my liking.

As a small-business owner, I was left scratching my head at his $70,000-plus a year chairperson’s salary. He has left local body politics for the meantime, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he turned up on the National Party list at some stage.

In fact, Bergin only made it onto the local board in 2013 as a ‘lucky loser’. He polled seventh at the ballot box, but got onto the board as Chris Darby was elected to Auckland Council. It’s an annoying anomoly in the system. The same thing could happen this year if Grant Gillon, a strong candidate for It’s an uplifting time to be on the ferries, both the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board especially during the day. Languages from and Auckland Council, gets elected to council. around the globe abound – Spanish, French The extent of candidate election sign and accents from all over Britain and the United States. Cruise ships are coming into vandalism seems to be less than in previous the port, and tourists are arriving. The sounds years. Even Chris Darby’s signs – which during the 2013 election campaign were of summer.

In Devonport though, things are not quite subject to a Hitler moustache and combover so chipper on the welcoming front. As noted – have largely escaped unscathed in 2016.

(The exception being the one near the Victoria Theatre which has a white moustache and goatee.) Maybe this year, even the vandals STANLEY BAY SCHOOL’S have lost interest in the candidates.

Revelations that the Spencer family are to build a house on their land at Stanley Point are a lot tamer than they seem.

Sensational, yes, if the family had sold off its 1.5ha waterfront landholding to Chinese interests who were planning a multi-level blot on the landscape.

But the Spencers are essentially retaining the status quo on land they have owned for decades. An older house is being replaced by a modern one that is not significantly bigger. Two jetties and a large boat shed are being added, but would be in keeping with the shoreline.

The park-like grounds – a haven for birds – are being retained. There will be no extra traffic ending up on Lake Rd or other added pressure on local services.

In fact, with all the other development happening on the Devonport peninsula – the Ryman Health retirement village, the various Ngati Whatua projects, the townhouse and apartment rezoning around Belmont shops and the potential increase in heights in the Devonport business area – the Spencer project is decidedly low-impact.

I’d go as far as to say it is almost protectionist: preserving an area of Devonport from the rampant development that is sweeping across Auckland.

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October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and Friday the 14th and Saturday the 15th see the annual Pink Ribbon Street Appeal. Once again, Lynda Betts from Bayleys Real Estate is organising the stall for this. Make sure you pop by to get a raffle ticket. Many local businesses donate gifts for the prize hamper and this year we have popped in a voucher to use towards Stella McCartney Swimwear. Lynda also makes some fabulous cupcakes that you can buy – make sure you swing by to get one, or three!

New summer lingerie is now arriving and included in this are the new fashion pre-pocketed bras for holding a breast form, and new pocketed swimwear. We also have a range of breast forms from everyday lightweight, partials for balance following lumpectomy, beaded for swimming and also leisure forms for exercise.

We are approved by the Ministry of Health to assist with any entitlement you may have. The entitlement is to provide funding to cover the additional cost of post-surgical bras for women who have had a mastectomy or partial mastectomy and/or a reconstruction, and also to provide a prosthesis if needed. We want to make you feel comfortable and confident and we welcome you to contact us to make an appointment or to pop in and have a chat and browse our range.

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Stylish hat does not warrant criticism A disclaimer: I didn’t vote for Auckland Future’s Fay Freeman, as we are on different sides of the political divide. Nevertheless, I’m compelled to defend her and her “witch’s hat”, as an attendee at a meet-the-candidates event described it (Flagstaff, 23.09.16).

Amidst bland election hoardings, Freeman stands out in her stylish black hat. I admit to being biased, as a hat lover who has amassed quite a collection over the years. And I concede that given the issues facing Auckland – people living in cars, garages etc. just across the bridge from our pricey suburb on whose library Auckland Council bestowed a $100,000 curtain; people locked out of the housing market while speculators collect houses like I collect hats; congestion choking Lake Road, for example – a candidate’s headwear isn’t significant.

Yet the barb matters, because it is symptomatic of the sexism female politicians and political hopefuls face, often from other women, oddly

enough. Discussion about them centres on their appearance. There’s the classic ‘she looks much better in person’ backhanded compliment and the variant, ‘she looks so much better’ when any uniqueness has been stripped away.

Helen Clark was a victim of the former sentiment. Apologetic left-wingers repeatedly assured anyone who would listen that Clark looked much better in person. And now we can take comfort that, in at least one person’s opinion, Freeman looks better without her statement hat. Thank God for that. Who knows what we would do if, sans headwear, she looked worse. Then which box would we mentally slot her into?

Let’s breathe a collective sigh of relief that a) minus her unique hat, Freeman, if elected, will fit into the colourless world of local body politics that many find off-puttingly boring, hence low voter turnout, and b) another woman has been put in her place and reminded that what matters

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most is her appearance, and she shouldn’t be so brazen as to express her individuality.

To another matter: thank you to Maire Vieth for her excellent investigative coverage of what is happening at the Wilson Home.

Gemma Claire

Wilson Home caregivers absolute gems Thank you so much for your article in last week’s Flagstaff.

My granddaughter, Natalie Edwards, has spinal muscular atrophy, which means she has had to be in a wheelchair since she was two years old, having never been able to stand. She initially attended specialist appointments at the Wilson Home, where we met the wonderful support people from the Wilson Home Trust.

Natalie was one of the first to take advantage of the swimming sessions held after school on a Monday. Sally and Anne were absolute gems and the pool was one place where Natalie was able to really enjoy some freedom away from her wheelchair. She also loved attending Art Out, which was held during the school holidays, where she met many other disabled children from all over Auckland.

Although Natalie moved to Australia when she was 10, I was still devastated to hear the news that the Family Support Coordinators were no longer there. They made a huge difference to our lives and they will be sorely missed by all the other families who have enjoyed spending time at the Wilson Home.

Their support was invaluable.

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Time for drastic action: ‘The Inner Shore Road’ My wife and I overlook Shoal Bay and feel that this ‘Inner Shore Road’ (see map) would make such a difference to the peninsula. When witnessing emergency vehicles having to drive on the footpath so they can get through the traffic, I feel something drastic needs to be done to improve the situation.

I have lived on the peninsula for over 50 years and have watched with interest readers’ comments with regards to the options for the Lake Road upgrade.

We have seen the time (four years?) it took to carry out the upgrade from Esmonde Rd to Hauraki Corner, which was already four lanes.

Therefore, how long will it take for the extension to Belmont? Four, five, six or more years of what is frequently at present a bumper-to-bumper situation.

The compulsory purchase of the frontage of Lake Rd properties, followed by the near continuous delays of a one-way system while upgrades are made, will bring the peninsula to a standstill. This on a road that services some six schools. I find this ludicrous when there is a simple option that would allow Lake Rd to be bypassed – the building of an ‘Inner Shore Road’.

As the map shows, it could use the already dedicated access road at the O’Neill’s Point Cemetery, alongside the existing footbridge.

(When the footbridge was being upgraded, a large causeway was erected in a matter of days.

A number of people were under the impression that it was the beginning of the bypass. I ask myself why not?)

Built on stilts across the mangroves, the road would follow the shore, joining up with Esmonde Rd. This could be carried out with no interruption to Lake Rd traffic and allow

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Pleasant drive... a shoreline route from Bayswater to Esmonde Rd and the motorway for a road that could be something like Tamaki Drive, with views of the inner harbour and even a recreation area at the end of a junction at Jutland Rd. It would not only make for a pleasant drive to the motorway, but would relieve Lake Rd for the motorist wanting to get to Takapuna, rather than being stuck behind traffic trying to get to the city.

With the huge programme of properties to be built on the peninsula, we surely require an alternative to the single access we have suffered in the past.

John Bryant

Ryman village ugly, too big and will add to traffic woes We are writing to express our concern about the Ryman retirement home being built in Ngataringa Road, Devonport. Although we are not against the building of a retirement village, photos in the application show a development that is ugly, too large and does not comply with height restrictions.

One of the impacts will be that the buildings will dominate all views of Ngataringa Bay.

And as we know, Lake Road is nearly always congested now, so extra traffic, at any time of day – from construction vehicles, residents and staff – will only add to this problem.

We urge residents to make a submission to the council via their website (http://tinyurl. com/ngataringabay) by 13 October.

Cathy Fraser and Dinah Saxby

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Interview

October 7, 2016

Mixed views of Devonport inspire young film-maker Theodore Elliott says his first feature film, Baseball, is a love letter to growing up in Devonport – although it might not appear so on first viewing. At its heart is the experience of 10 teenagers in an idyllic, yet claustrophobic, setting. He spoke to Maire Vieth.

Theodore Elliott says he made the best decision of his life in 2011, when he gave up studying for an almost complete degree in ancient history and art history. He had one semester remaining when he got the chance to go to film school instead, and he has never looked back.

After graduating from a year-long course at South Seas Film and Television School, he helped other directors with their projects as well as working in an entry-level job on Shortland Street.

“But I quickly realised I wanted to make my own stuff, so I put everything else aside and Baseball is the result of that,” the 26-yearold says.

Elliott has spent the past four years on the film, writing, directing, shooting and editing it, mostly by himself.

The 81-minute feature is based on his feelings as a teenager, growing up in Stanley Bay and then Bayswater. He describes his emotions as a combination of affection and disdain. “It was a kind of nostalgia and I haveto get out of this place, a tension between two opposite feelings that coexisted inside me and couldn’t be resolved at the time,” he says.

Elliott, who still lives in Bayswater, reckons these are sentiments familiar to many locals, young and old. And while some might find a movie about a group of isolated and passive teenagers “trying to find sense in emptiness” a bit sad, they are just as likely to interpret Baseball as a complicated love letter to living here. “I hope it’s a movie with a lot of emotional depth,” he says.

Baseball was filmed mostly in and around Devonport. In the early stages of writing, Elliott often walked along quiet Devonport, Stanley Bay and Bayswater streets to recall his emotions when growing up there. “It was almost a feedback kind of thing. Then I tried to put pieces on the screen that express what it felt like.”

Elliott says he didn’t want the location to dominate. Locals might recognise some spots,

Still here... Theodore Elliot’s first film is based on his feelings as a teenager growing up in Stanley Bay and Bayswater but the footage he shot aimed for “a certain degree of anonymity of place”.

Baseball is unapologetically an art film and Elliott says his university days have influenced this. “Especially the art history ties back into film. Having gained that knowledge and appreciation for art was very useful,”

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Elliott wants us to experience his movie He and his girlfriend rent the granny flat actively. “I don’t want to sound like I sit on behind his parents’ house. When not making a high horse, but lots of movies are quite films, he works in his parents’ Takapuna passive. You sit there and stuff blows up for business, a flower and gift-hamper delivery about 90 minutes. The experience is very company.

His goal is to one day make enough money contained; it starts when the film starts and from film-making to be able to quit his day finishes when it’s over,” he says.

Baseball is intended to keep the audience job. Baseball was made on a shoestring under its spell after they leave the theatre. budget, and the 10 actors he worked with “It’s a very fractured film. It’s as if the film were either friends or fellow musicians and is only half the picture, and people putting it former fans.

Over the years, Elliott says he has bought together with their own interpretations makes around 10 “really crappy” cameras to counter it complete,” Elliott says.

Why is it called Baseball? “The title is a what he calls “an equipment arms race” in little incongruous. Baseball comes up a couple film-making. “Everyone wants to have the of times in the movie, but only in an indirect newest camera with the highest resolution. way. I am glad when people ask me about There is no endgame to that mentality the title, because it means they question it because there is always going to be the next and hopefully keep up that process,” he says. thing coming out next week.” Elliot’s most David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive was the expensive camera cost $5000, and his nextfirst movie to make Elliott question what the most-expensive $500.

He hopes using unconventional gear will film was about. “It basically finished without help him stand out answering any of the from the film-making questions it raised. At crowd. And using a first I thought that was “It was a kind of nostalgia variety of cameras crap, stupid, annoying, helped emphasise but the more I thought and I have to get out of this Baseball’s collage about it, the more I liked it. Now I think place, a tension between two approach, he says.

“I think it will be Mulholland Drive is opposite feelings.” more stimulating for awesome in how it the audience than a created its own rules,” singular visual style.” he says.

Not using any artificial light was another Elliott first learned to create his own creative rules as part of the Devonport band conscious cost-cutting and stylistic choice.

Jackal. It’s where he developed his artistic “It’s just one step too professional. So I rather let the cards fall as they may a little bit and muscles, he says.

He started the rock band with a psychedelic I think it became its own look in the end,” edge while in Year 12 at Takapuna Grammar, he says.

Elliott edited his movie with a reasonably with his classmate Alec Cummins and older brother Will Elliott. The band stayed together powerful computer and editing software. “It’s for eight years, during which they recorded the great thing about being a film-maker in six albums and occasionally played at the this day and age. If you have the patience to learn the equipment, you can do pretty much Masonic Tavern.

Elliott played guitar, sang and wrote the everything yourself.”

But with his next project, Elliott is taking lyrics. “That taught me to find succinct ways to express things. Lyrics can’t be 10 pages a step back from self-containment. “I want to long, they have to be two lines. Film is very work on a slightly bigger scale and collaborate similar in that you have to find a poetic creatively a little bit, because that’s a big thing and direct way to express something more in film-making.”

Baseball screens at the Victoria Theatre abstract,” he says.

Playing in a band encouraged him to find on 9 October at 6pm. his own way. “We kind of did whatever we wanted, really, and I learned not to be local, flexible, A T HE influenced by what’s popular or what the other EM N friendly! local bands are doing,” he says.

Touring with bands inspired Elliot to take his film around the North Island to independent cinemas and music venues, with a Q and A session after each screening.

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Letters

October 7, 2016

Candidates seem to want what we want: but how will they deliver it?

Ironically, nearly all the aspiring local council people and MPs seeking election seem to have the same policies.

We are all on the same page after all this bickering. Out of the blue, they want most of the things you and I want.

But here’s the thing: none that I’ve seen have announced a strategy that’s real to achieve what they say they want to deliver.

Not one of them speaks of which problem is the worst or the top priority. None of these people ever seem to publish feasibility studies, plans, tenders or affordability studies.

They all talk about capping rates, and yet they stay silent on the fact rates are soaring on a valuation basis, driven by foreign investors, immigration and greed.

The council keeps running out of money and borrowing to accomodate massimmigration pressures on public roads, services and facilities. The government has a race running with local bodies. It’s clearly a race that we are losing.

That’s Maggie’s job to deal with, I guess.

However, it’s totally relevant to council and not one of the council hopefuls mentions this problem.

I’m sorry but that shows they are stupid.

Len’s tunnel to Mt Eden has started. There

is also a plan underway to tunnel just four lanes under the harbour to alleviate the gross congestion into the city.

Four-lane capacity will only deal with today’s problem.

With 70,000 more residents cramming in every year, I say that Maggie’s mob are experimenting on us, and our councillors appear too PC to criticise.

The powers that be are claiming growth in population is benefiting us, but have admitted that we are in fact billions of dollars behind on infrastructure. I know this mob is thinking they are buying a boom – and votes from those they let in. It’s at a cost to ratepayers in Devonport. Local council ought to be screaming “stop all incoming until further notice”.

This fancy tunnel to Mt Eden I’d speculate is going to serve the area of Auckland that has the least problems getting to work. Mt Eden has multiple access routes already.

You can bike, walk, drive, bus or go over the new illuminated walkway. Surely, a second harbour crossing is much more of a priority.

The political slogan of this week has to be ‘Deport the Ports’ – from someone who failed to stop the illegal harbour reclamation and never demanded a better port design.

I drove out to see a friend’s lovely property

at Paremoremo the other day and I saw a huge new building expanding the jail into a concrete monster from hell.

The local jail is a council issue, though they will say it’s Corrections. These dumps are part of our town. An edifice to the mentally ill that can be seen from the Gillies Ave flyover has fouled the view of one of Auckland’s iconic heritage buildings.

On Saturday, when I parked outside Sky City, I saw the convention centre rising.

Where’s the feasibility study to show we need more convention centres?

Your rates bill will cover the cost caused by the ratepayer-owned convention centre on the west side of the Viaduct. It’s near new.

It will be idle.

Imagine promoting gambling. Still the top team has gambled with much of your future and their own, and so far you keep voting them back.

Again, I thank Len for speaking out, and all ratepayers for contributing to a lemon: the new convention centre.

That sketch of the Ryman city for the dying in last week’s paper is not bothering many. Please book yourself a room.

The cost is three times the real cost of a house, but what a way to go.

Ron Dykman

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Grave-marker tales: Devonport’s historic link to Crimea As the former honorary historian to the longgone, but warmly regarded, Devonport Borough Council, I was most interested in your article (Flagstaff, 12 August) about the finding of a “grave marker” by a resident in King Edward Parade.

The item is indeed a grave marker. The story about it goes back to the early 1970s, when I was told about them by the local dentist Mr. Carl Prime, who had lived in a villa on King Edward Parade since early childhood. He described them “as a clay dagger-shaped item, with a cross at the top and a number marked on it”. After his death in the mid-1970s, I was determined to find such a grave marker and knocked on the doors of houses along King Edward Parade, to ask if I could, as borough historian, dig under their houses.

(I knew that they would not be happy about me digging holes in their lawns and gardens.)

After several refusals, an elderly lady who could also remember the grave marker from her childhood, allowed me to dig under her house.

After several hours of digging, I discovered two of the “dagger-shaped” grave markers, together with a piece of bone.

I then undertook considerable research locally to learn what these grave markers were, and how they came to be located along the Devonport foreshore, but to no avail. I decided to send a photograph of one of them, and details of how I found it, to the prestigious English magazine Country Life. I received quite a response to the letter from English historical researchers. They

advised that the glazed earthenware items were indeed grave markers, made in the famous pottery town of Stoke-On-Trent, in the 1840s, to the order of the British Army. When the Crimean War broke out in 1854, they were used to mark the graves in a British military graveyard in Sebastopol. Each grave marker was allocated to a buried soldier. The number on the marker I photographed was 2859, and the British Army archivist wrote to advise that this number was allocated to a soldier who had been killed in action while serving in the Royal Fusiliers.

While researching (in 1976) the history of the building of the Calliope dry dock – which opened in February 1888 – I was intrigued to discover that the reinforcing steel in the bottom of walls of the dock came from the Crimea battlefields, and was loaded on the ship at Sebastopol, together with “a quantity of ballast”, which was rock and rubble. This ship then proceeded to Auckland where the steel was unloaded at the dry-dock site. What is of great interest is that the ballast was discharged on the Devonport foreshore, “near North Head”.

Over the 140 years since this dumping, the foreshore has been reclaimed and houses built on the old ballast dump. What I discovered back in 1976, and what has been dug up recently by a local resident, is material from the old ballast dump. What is of interest in the photograph you published, beside the fairly common inkwell, are the horse shoe and the railway spikes. These would be a relic of the tram line laid in 1886 from

Devonport wharf, along King Edward Parade, to Cheltenham beach. The tramway was not a success and the rails were lifted in 1894, and sold to the Mitchelson Timber Company for use in bush tramlines in the Northland Kauri Forests.

I would be most interested to know the number on the grave marker that was found along the foreshore adjoining King Edward Parade.

I still have grave marker number 2859.

The other I presented to the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, who have it on display at the Tower of London. This gift from Devonport New Zealand was acknowledged in a letter dated May 1978, from LT. Col. W.W.M. Chard (Retd), a trustee of the Royal Fusiliers Museum.

I hope this information explains what was found in King Edward Parade.

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Calliope Rd team takes home-cooking to the streets A group of Devonport women has been delivering home-cooked meals to dozens of central-city homeless people for the last two months.

The Flagstaff caught up with the women last week as they prepared 33 spaghetti bolognese dinners and self-saucing chocolate puddings for people sleeping rough.

Victoria Brown runs Komatua Care Centre on Calliope Rd, where she and her staff look after 13 dementia patients. One night a week for past couple of months, they have been preparing meals for the homeless.

Victoria, her sisters Bess and Minnie, her nieces Nina and Katherine, and great-nieces Krystal, Trani and Sorel, as well as health assistant Joshlin Kumar, take turns at the stove.

It all started when Joshlin saw an old homeless man asking for money outside Sky City. “I saw his bedding in the background and it really shocked me. I mentioned at work that I would take up some food for a couple of people, and Victoria said no, let’s do it properly, all of us. So it’s now grown to 33, which is also sad in a way,” she says.

Last Tuesday, the Komatua kitchen was a hive of activity. Pasta sauce simmered on the stove, chocolate pudding baked in the oven, cream was whipped and hot chocolates poured while dementia patients dropped by asking questions that were patiently answered by all.

From 5pm, everyone takes turns prepping, cooking and packing. At 8.30 pm, Victoria, Nina, Joshlin and Krystal head over the bridge in Victoria’s station wagon. “Victoria drives because she knows the city. We are all from Devonport and don’t get out enough,” Nina says with a laugh.

Bess stays behind and cleans up the kitchen.

The others return by about 11 pm.

Their first trip, seven weeks ago, didn’t go so well. “We went on a Friday with about 25 meals and brought back almost half of them,” says

Spaghetti junction... Nina Wichman (left) and Joshlin Kumar are dishing out the pasta Victoria. They realised other groups already deliver pizzas on Fridays. “Then we learned that Mondays and Tuesdays are the hungry days,” she says.

Now they have a set delivery route. It starts at Upper Queen St, where two men will be waiting for them. “They recognise our car,” says Nina.

Next stop is Auckland Central City Library, to feed another six or seven men. Then it’s past the City Mission in Hobson St, then Queen St and finally Quay St. “There are a couple of very ragged men,”

Nina and Bess Wichman (right) make hot chocolates with chocolate fish

Victoria says, adding that they mostly see males, all of them Maori.

Sometimes the women ask about their life stories. Victoria has been moved by that of Paul, a 59-year-old man who sleeps outside Auckland Library. “I usually just stay in the car and keep an eye on the girl. But last week, I got out and had a chat. He said he had lived in a state house for 45 years with his mother. After she died two years ago, it was too big for one person.

He said he had been waiting for a smaller place for the last two years while camping out on the street,” she says.

The women also take meal requests. “Last week some of the guys said they really wanted a boil up, so we did that with pork and watercress and doughboys,” says Nina.

“And Paul told us his birthday was in a week and asked for a banana cake with whipped cream and bananas in the middle,” says Krystal.

Her aunt Katherine baked it for him.

Krystal (11) is a Year 6 student at Devonport Primary School and says the first trip she went on wasn’t easy. “I was just really sad that people walked right past the homeless people without acknowledging them,” she says. Seven weeks in, she enjoys being able to help out, like when she helped Paul cut his birthday cake. “Trani and I were going to sing a birthday song for him but we got too emotional in the end and couldn’t do it,” she says.

The dinners are prepared with care. “Nothing is skipped,” says Victoria, as she sprinkles parmesan cheese over the pasta sauce. Hot chocolates get chocolate fish in them. Last week, Nina’s daughter Sorel baked a banoffee pie.

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A bit of a stirrer… Bess Wichman (above) says making sauce comes naturally to her, while Krystal Wichman-Booth (right) whips up cream to go onto the chocolate puddings And Joshlin, who is originally from Fiji, has previously made her special chicken curry with roti. Who pays for it all? “We do,” they say, adding that two local women, Valda Tokona and Cathy Poledniok have donated money and clothes as well.

Are they seeking financial contributions?

Victoria says that would be lovely but insists it’s not necessary. “It’s not us who need things.

We return from our trips to the city to a home, a hot shower and money in the bank. We are fine,” she says. They have started taking along

blankets, jackets, socks and personal hygiene items as well as the food deliveries.

When Victoria discovered spare bunches of bananas in the pantry, they go in too. “They can have them for breakfast tomorrow morning,” she says.

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From big stage to small screen: selfies with Olympians

Fan base‌ Eliza McCartney is mobbed by young Takapuna Grammar students (above) after she and Paul Snow-Hansen addressed a special assembly (below)

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Some of the Year 9 and 10 students wanted to know about the athletes’ favourite foods in Rio – passionfruit for McCartney and Brazilian sweets and ice creams for Snow-Hansen.

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McCartney’s top pick was Usain Bolt, and she had a good story to go with it: “While I was competing, he was also competing, and when I was doing my victory lap they told me to go away so they could take photos of him.”

Snow-Hansen said he didn’t see many other athletes while staying outside the Olympic village, but was excited about having caught a glimpse of Sonny Bill Williams.

Other students wanted to know about the Olympians’ career goals outside sport. McCartney said she was already working “very part time” on a medical degree, because it was her plan to be a doctor after finishing pole-vaulting.

Snow-Hansen told the students he was less sure about his future. “I guess I’m at a bit of a crossroads. I need to work out what I am going to do next and might talk to the career guidance counsellors here,” he said.

However, he was clear on his sporting aim, wanting to win gold in a world championships within the next four years. McCartney said the Tokyo Olympics were her long-term sporting goal.

Both athletes admitted to Olympic nerves.

McCartney’s techniques to stay calm worked eventually, but she says that her legs were shaking at the start. Snow-Hansen said he was in the same boat, except it was his hands which were shaking. “But you just have to stick to your process and fall back on it in moments like that,” he says.

When asked the key success factors in their sporting career, McCartney said training at the Millennium had been critical to her.

“Seeing all the other athletes there every day has been a huge influence,” she said.

Snow-Hansen credited “close friends and family” for making a big difference to his sailing. “At the end of the day, it has all only been possible because other people helped me out,” he said.

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Plaques project: history in the making A Devonport Museum project to place historical imformation plaques on houses and buildings around Devonport is gaining momentum.

So far, eight house plaques and four school plaques have been completed, and another six house plaques are nearing completion, said museum treasurer Tim McBride. Work is also expected to commence shortly on eight orders from homeowners.

Each metal plaque includes a historic photo and a narrative outlining the history of the property, and it is mounted where it can be seen from the footpath.

Larger plaques are also envisaged for five local churches.

Due to a bequest, the plaques for the four primary schools were made at no cost to the schools themselves, McBride said.

A number of homeowners have requested plaques and museum research officer Anna Clarke is working through the applications, McBride said.

The house plaques cost owners $150.

Framing history…Vauxhall School principal Gary Lawrence (right), receives a plaque from Tim McBride and Anna Clarke

Show Me Shorts around Devonport This year’s Show me Shorts Film Festival is bringing three sessions to the Victoria Theatre.

Highlights, a selection of the festival’s top eight movies, arrives on Friday 7 October, followed by a night-themed Homeland on Saturday and My Generation the following day.

Former Devonport film-maker and actress Harriett Maire also features at the festival, with her short film Anna and as a character in Aidee Walker’s film Break in the Weather, although neither of these are part of the Devonport screenings.

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Blockbusters now draw crowds at Vic More and more locals are heading to the Vic to watch big-name movies, leading to a 25 per cent increase in ticket sales last year.

Victoria Theatre Trust (VTT) co-chair Margot McRae says the increase is largely due to locals coming to the Vic to watch blockbusters, like last year’s James Bond movie Spectre or this year’s The Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

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Celebrating academic pursuits Week 4 of this last term marked both Geography Awareness Week and International Languages Week. Both departments celebrated the occasion with their own unique awareness-raising events.

Geo Awareness Week was started by the American National Geographic Society in 1987, ‘to raise awareness and excite people about geography as both a discipline and as a part of everyday life.’ It is traditionally celebrated in the third week of November, but the Geography department held the week earlier, so both juniors and seniors would be able to experience it.

“We organised several events to celebrate geography awesomeness and its importance as a subject in today’s society,” says Miss Sladen, geography teacher.

These included daily Instagram quizzes of ‘Where in the world are your geography teachers?’ and daily five-question quizzes in the school notices, with a variety of spot prizes.

Wednesday lunchtime featured past student Callum Chapman, who gained a Bachelor of Science, majoring in geography, and now works for Auckland Council in Civil Defence. Students were able to come along and ask him questions about where geography could take them after leaving school, through to university and into the job market.

The grand finale of the week was a geography quiz also labelled as the ‘Quest for Geographic Supremacy.’ Students from all year levels entered teams of four and progressed through rounds based on common geography knowledge, countries

The winning team: the Congoloid Spaniards

and flags, geographic concepts and cities. The winners were ‘The Congoloid Spaniards’ (Daniel Body, Jono Gibbs, Rory Bessell and Leroy Dixon), who won the coveted Globe trophy. Geography prizes were also handed out to second-place team ‘Mellow Friers’ and third-placed ‘On the Fly.’ International Languages Week was aimed at “acknowledging and celebrating the wide range of languages spoken in New Zealand and the multicultural environment of TGS,” says Mr Jake Lamb, HOD, Languages.

A Kahoot! quiz was held every lunchtime and featured all the languages taught at

the school. Students had the opportunity to win pizzas and enjoy the positive multilingual atmosphere of the school.

A special appearance was made by 18 students from Nishinomiya, Japan, who were staying in New Zealand for 10 days.

“Surprisingly, they did not win the Japanese quiz,” commented a participant. A Chinese yo-yo demonstration also happened during Thursday lunchtime, where students attempted to master the complex art.

The week proved to be a great success for both departments and students were once again immersed in the diverse and exciting nature of the different areas of TGS.

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Wild Places: EDS national conference A national environmental conference held by the Environmental Defence Society (EDC) took place at the Auckland Viaduct Events Centre, in mid-August.

TGS Year 12 student and leader of the ‘TGS Enviro Group’, Grace Cowley, attended this conference as a national youth representative. “My reason for participating was so that I could develop my understandings about these issues and

use the information gained to help further my own actions for sustainability,” she explained. Grace was one of five youth delegates who received a full scholarship to the event, worth $700.

The conference was focused on protecting New Zealand’s wild places; specifically looking at effects of the tourism industry, as well as the use of private land for conservation purposes.

Nick Smith, Minister for the Environment attended, along with other parliamentary representatives.

“From this experience I took away connections with the other members of the conference and also a more in-depth understanding of not only the discussed issues but also politics and environmental policy,” says Grace.

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October 7, 2016

Takapuna SCHOOL NEWS

Grammar OCTOBER 7, 2016

The height of fashion

The theme for this year’s highly anticipated Fashion Show was Light and Shade, as evident on the stunning poster designed by junior design student, August Ward.

Once again the show was held at the Bruce Mason Centre, at the end of August. The clothes featured were designed and created by soft-technology students from Years 10 to 13, and centred on this concept of contrast.

In addition to TGS student creations, local brands such as Frank Casey, Co-op, Yarntons, and Ruby also had their amazing garments worn and modelled. As per tradition, the money raised from ticket sales of this show all gets donated directly to Starship Children’s Hospital.

This year’s show also featured breathtaking performances from multiple talented students, such as a beautiful performance of Ave Maria, by Year 13 student Hannah Potts, and Takapuna Grammar’s own Cactus Dance Company and Tempus Dance Company.

“It was such a fun and interesting experience that I am very grateful to be a part of it,” said India Steward, a Year 11 dancer. “It was enjoyable to dance at a large school event in front of so many people.”

Modelling the clothing was a selection of our own students, who had all been frantically training and attending fittings almost every day in the weeks leading up to the event. “The fashion show was really

fun and I really enjoyed taking part,” says Charlotte Ramsey, one of this year’s models.

“I found the whole experience was really rewarding and eye-opening.”

This fantastic event could also not have been possible without the hard work of so many people: the backstage crew and dressers, student DJ, Patrick Parade, and the Takapuna Grammar Technology

Department teachers – especially Ms. Deborah Woodward – who all worked night and day to produce this spectacular show.

“It was so cool to see my garment on stage,” said audience member and Level 1 soft-tech student Maia Brown. “The show itself was amazing and I’m definitely looking forward to next year.”

BY MAYA NEUPANE

Footballer takes to the international field Seventeen year-old Saskia Vosper has just been selected for the U-17 New Zealand Football squad that will be competing in the FIFA World Cup in Jordan later this month.

The squad is made up of 21 players and five reserves, all under the lead of head coach, Gareth Turnbull.

“Saskia has had a great season with Forrest Hill and we see a lot of athleticism and pace in her that will help her cover a couple of positions, which will be handy for us in a tournament such as the World Cup,” says Turnbull.

This will be Saskia’s first time playing on an international pitch and she is very excited.

“I was really excited when I got the call because I had been working really hard for it. Getting to play at an international level for New Zealand is going to be such an

experience” It was just the cherry on top after all this great news, as Saskia, who plays for Forrest Hill Milford United, who also just made history by claiming their first New Zealand Women’s Knockout Cup at the QBE Stadium.

Football for girls is a growing sport at the school and another player is experiencing high-level success. Year 13 student Emily Couchman is in the running to be selected as a goalkeeper for the U-20 New Zealand Women’s Team. The team will be announced in October. This side will be heading to Papua New Guinea to compete at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, which will be the first tournament played at this level in Oceania.

BY SERENA YOUNG

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Two degrees of celebration Devonport mother and son Anne and Benjamin O’Callaghan graduated together from the University of Auckland with a PhD in education and an MA in medieval history respectively last week.

Before celebrating their graduations with a night out together, they had their heads buried in books for the past six years. Anne says that while she and Ben never studied together, their parallel student lives brought them closer.

“We ended up talking a lot about our readings and had many quite philosophical discussions,” she says. They also shared writing tips and recommended books to each other.

“Ben and I are quite different. I think he thought I was a bit thick because I was just a medical doctor. I reckon he now thinks that maybe mum knows something about philosophy too,” she laughs.

Dr Anne O’Callaghan, is the Clinical Director of Palliative Care at Auckland Hospital. She studied for her doctorate while working full time.

Her research analysed communication skills of doctors in hospitals. It found that their quality was heavily influenced by the relationships and culture in their own teams.

“In other words, doctors who were part of a team that treated each other kindly, are likely to treat their patients the same way,” Anne says.

Benjamin completed a BA in history, and a postgraduate diploma in medieval history, prior to his masters degree. He studied the strategic use of emotion in the letters of Thomas Beckett for his MA. Capping it all off…

Dr Anne O’Callaghan, PhD and son Benjamin O’Callaghan, MA in academic regalia

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SERVICES OFFERED At Your Request Home Cleaning. Our local team is ready to deliver 5-Star services in your home for weekly cleaning, spring, moving or open-home cleaning.

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Builder available Smalljob specialist, repairs and maintenance. Skilled, reliable and local. Please phone Clive Melling. Hm 445 2485, Mob 027 29 222 84.

Cars wanted dead or alive.

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SERVICES OFFERED Devonport Window Repairs.

Sash and casement windows, wooden doors. Rotten sills and window components repaired or replaced. General carpentry.

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Dog grooming available.

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Art Classes for Children, Wednesdays 3.20 - 5.30 pm, Devonport artist’s studio by the sea. Term 3: Maps and Travel. Contact Erica Soman MFA, Dip Tchg, 021 127 9671, erica_artist@xtra.co.nz.

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ARTWEEK Auckland October 8th -16th ARTWEEK Auckland is a 10-day festival celebrating the visual arts community of Auckland.

What’s on in Devonport?

Devonport celebrates ARTWEEK with an exciting collection of art exhibitions and installations at Peter Raos Gallery, Flagstaff Gallery, The Esplanade, Depot Artspace, Corelli’s Café and art films at The Vic. Don’t miss Devonport’s Pop-Up Art Windows, special menus and entertainment during ARTWEEK. Devonport Community Sculpture: the Flagstaff Gallery is sponsoring a collaborative community sculpture build of an orca and babies. This will be held from 9-15 October from 2pm7pm, Thursday October 13th from 11 3pm and on Saturday 15th from 11am until 5pm.

Come along and give it a go! Flagstaff Gallery, 30 Victoria Road, Devonport.

Tel: (09) 445 1142

From the 14 – 16th October GLOW is back in Windsor Reserve Teams of Unitec Architecture students present their stunning light installations over three nights from Friday 14th – Sunday 16th.

GLOW Open Street on Saturday 15th October from 11.00 am until 10.00 pm.

Clarence Street will be transformed into a new space for people – to enjoy art installations, music, face painting, games and a preschool play space. Auckland Transport is providing

valet bike parking, and a spot to chill out and “Glow your bike”.

The Depot Artspace kicks off the evening with an exhibition opening, official blessing, a children’s performance and Sound & Movement work featuring a collaboration of Cook Islands and Turkish drumming at 6.30pm.

The Nathan Haines Band will open the outdoor stage in Clarence St at 6.45pm. Also featuring Jaimie Webster Haines DJ, Quarter Acre Lifestyle and The Soul Satellites, playing up until 10.00pm.

Fire Dancing by the Dragon Poi Team, presenting a Glow Artweek project in Windsor Park, Devonport from 7.30 pm - 10pm. Come and watch some of Auckland’s most talented Fire Dancers with national and international guests and live music.

For more information visit www.artweek.co.nz and www.devonport.co.nz

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Another international medal haul for surf lifesaver Hannah Williams returned home from her second World Lifesaving Championships with another bag full of individual and team medals.

The 18-year-old Takapuna Grammar student represented New Zealand as vice-captain of the 12-strong Junior Black Fins in the Netherlands this September.

She won silver in the surf ski, board rescue, tube rescue, and taplin relay, and bronze in the beach sprint and ironwoman.

In addition to the medals, she also broke four New Zealand records in the pool component of the world champs.

The national junior team came second overall.

Two years ago, Hannah won two individual medals in ironwoman and surf ski, and three team medals at the worlds in France.

Hannah has been surf live saving since she was four and says her goal is to become the word’s best surf ironwoman. She trains twice a day and is also a qualified volunteer lifeguard at Piha and Mangawhai Heads.

Top international competitor… Hannah Williams

Local karate kids hit the medals table Two local karate students medalled in the Oceania Karate Championships held recently in New Caledonia.

Chiemu Iioka won gold in the 12-13 years male kata and bronze in the 12-13 years male kumite. Nina Edgar (15) placed second in the

Devonport rock bands return to the Vic

cadet kata female and third in the cadet kumite female, (under 47 kg).

With 100 medals collected by all members of the national team, New Zealand came second overall in the championships behind Australia with 108 medals.

Local rock bands Slipstream and Shed are returning to the Victoria Theatre for Youth Rockfest 2. Emerging Stanley Bay comedian Gabe Jones will be the MC. The event is being held on Saturday 15 October at 8 pm. Tickets are $12, available at Ray White and Corelli’s.

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