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Development mysteriously stalled at heritage villa A formerly Category-A listed, two-storey Cheltenham villa has mysteriously been left open to the elements after its rear extension was removed earlier this year.

T h e F l a g s t a ff u n d e r s t a n d s alterations and additional works on the villa, owned by David and Lin Laing, started early this year.

Contractors left once the demolition part of the job was completed, in around May. It seems that the back of the building has been exposed to the elements all winter.

The site’s street frontage is barricaded by a metal fence and the back area is in general disarray, with ladders set up and garden furniture strewn across the yard.

Devonport Heritage 2017 co-chair No work in progress… the grand Cheltenham Rd villa (above) and its Trish Deans is “horrified” at what exposed rear (below) could be in store for the building.

“It looks like another example of A conservation plan attached to the demolition by neglect,” she said.

Laing’s application says the villa is likely to be She feared there was “very little” Edwardian. “It is notable for its wide gabled either Devonport Heritage or council roof, which extends over both the front bay and upper verandah,” it says. could do. Noel Reardon, the head “The most notable aspect of this house of council’s heritage team, had said is the inclusion of the [faceted] front bay recently that council had little power and front verandah under a single gable. in such cases.

This has been attributed to an American Council said the building is part design influence but the house could also be of Devonport’s special character regarded as transitional,” it states. overlay, but the responsibility for The house was converted into flats in 1944 maintaining scheduled buildings was and back into a single dwelling in 1976. the responsibility of the owner.

The heritage building was first added to Devonport Borough Council’s Devonport The house sits on a 632-squareHistoric Register (prepared by Salmond metre site. It was purchased by the Architects in 1989) for its exterior being of Laings in 2007 for $2.75million.

However, under Plan Change 38, which public interest.

The couple currently live overseas, was ratified in 2014 and carried over into the The building became a Category-A but they have lived in the villa from Auckland Unitary Plan, it was struck off the Scheduled Building in the North Shore City time to time, the Flagstaff has been register altogether.

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The Laings also own the adjoining Devonport Dog Groomers 941sqm property at 24C Cheltenham Rd (valued at around $1.2million), which is vacant except for three shipping containers currently stored there. Applications to merge both sites into one title have been filed, council documents show.

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Belmont boasts two national squash champs

Mates and rivals… national under-19 boys champion Matthew Lucente (left) and runner-up Gabe Yam; and national under-15 girls champ Natalie Sayes Belmont Park Racquets Club squash player Matthew Lucente won the prestigious national under-19 boys title in Christchurch this month – but only after a tough match with clubmate Gabe Yam. Lucente was in control throughout the match, with Yam still feeling the effects of a tough semi-final the day before. Lucente kept the pressure on Yam by taking the ball early and not giving his opponent time to attack. He also made fewer errors.

It’s been a huge year for both players, who have moved into the A1 grade, a gateway to

the professional game. As well as being New Zealand’s top-ranked juniors, Lucente is number 11 in the senior ranks and Yam number 17.

The junior win is no guarantee of future success, but current New Zealand number one Paul Coll, who is ranked number 10 in the world, won the same title in 2010.

Lucente now has a trio of national junior titles, having won the under-17 championship in 2016 and the under-15 trophy in 2014.

It was a great national tournament for Belmont, with Natalie Sayes taking out the girls under-15 title – winning a tight battle with

Hawke’s Bay’s Jena Gregory in five tough sets.

Coach Manu Yam said both he and the Belmont club were delighted with the success of all three players.

He said there will be little rest for Lucente and Gabe Yam (who is his nephew).

“They will now train very hard and prepare for the world juniors team and individual events next year in Chennai, India.

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All relative... David McAlister with the totara panel incorporating two of his ancestors

David McAlister ’s 650year whakapapa greets anyone entering his Cheltenham home.

His ancestry is embodied in a three-metre-high totara panel that he commissioned, and was carved by Gordon Toi Hatfield in the early 1990s.

McAlister, whose house is one of 10 featured in this month’s Fine Homes Tour of Devonport, is a long-time local resident.

His Maori heritage goes back to the Tainui canoe, which arrived in New Zealand around 1350, and its captain, Hoturoa.

Other prominent ancestors are Toa Rangatira, after whom the Ngati Toa iwi is named; Te Pehi Kupe, who travelled to England in 1824; doctor and Minister of Parliament Te Rangi Hiroa (also known as Sir Peter Buck); and wahine rangatira Metapere Waipunahau and her son Wi Parata, who was a member of parliament for Western Maori during the 1870s.

McAlister describes the carving from top to bottom: “The top figure is Hoturoa, which why it’s done in an early Polynesian style. Then it’s Toa Rangatira, and the third one is me. I was a pilot when Gordon did it and so there is kereru on my shoulder to symbolise flight.”

McAlister was president of the New Zealand airline pilots union at the time of the Mt Erebus disaster in 1979. “I had to do a lot of talking then, which is symbolised by the big tongue,” he says.

To the left is a small figure of McAlister’s son Andrew, who died at the age of eight. “He is attached me as a memory and connected to his ancestors above him as well.

“My son Jeffrey is at the bottom of the panel and the style of that part is made to represent my Irish and Norwegian ancestry,” says McAlister.

A painted whakapapa board hangs in the stairway of McAlister’s home.

It features Wi Parata, who took the Bishop of Wellington to court in 1877 over a piece of land, given to the Anglican Church, which

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Kilted Kiwi... David McAlister’s grandfather Jack Ropata (above) fought at Gallipoli with the Maori Battalion, which later joined with troops from the Otago Mounted Rifles. “That’s how you get a Maori man wearing a kilt,” McAlister says.

Land claimant... Another ancestor, Wi Parata (above right), when an MP in 1876.

Parata wanted returned to Ngati Toa. “He used the Treaty of Waitangi as the basis for his claim. Chief Justice James Prendergrast ruled the Treaty was a ‘nullity’, which had the effect of stopping future Treaty claims for quite some time.” The case was cited as a precedent for other Treaty claims until the 1970s.

McAlister knew since the age of 17 he was a descendant of Parata, but discovered the long list of prominent Maori in his bloodline, about 30 years ago, when he researched his whakapapa in more detail.

“Because Wi Parata was a prominent chief, the earlier history was relatively easy to find,” he says.

There are not a lot of Pakeha names in his whakapapa, McAlister points out. “On my

mother’s father’s side, I am the first one with a European name since George Stubbs, an 1840s New Zealand whaler.

“My grandmother was Norwegian and my father Irish, so like most Kiwis I’m a total mongrel,” he laughs.

McAlister and his wife May Shanahan have a growing collection of other New Zealand art, including work by Michael Parekowhai, Zena Elliott, Karl Maughan, Philip Kilmore and Mark Waller.

The artworks will all be on view when the couple open their doors for the Fine Homes of Devonport Tour on Friday 27 October.

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Birthday treat… free movies return to the Victoria Theatre this month The Vic turns 105 this month and will celebrate its birthday by screening two free movies.

When the Victoria Theatre opened on 26 October 1912, owner John Benwell had a small orchestra playing inside the theatre and caged monkeys on the veranda above the footpath to draw the crowds.

He also screened a free movie for local children.

Current manager of the Vic, Philipp Jaser, won’t have an orchestra or caged monkeys.

But he will screen two free movies to carry on Benwell’s tradition.

At 8pm, on Thursday 26 October, he will screen a movie for the grown-ups, Cinema Paradiso. Then on Friday 27 October at 4pm, he will screen Studio Ghibli’s animated fantasy film My Neighbour Totoro, for Devonport children and all ages.

The Victoria Theatre Trust reopened the theatre on the Vic’s 98th birthday in October 2010, with an evening concert and free movies showing throughout the day.

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High-school connections last a lifetime

Teenage love has blossomed countless times at Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) during the school’s 90 years.

And sometimes it lasts a lifetime. More than 900 TGS alumni were returning to the school this weekend for a renuion and the Flagstaff tracked down six former local high-school students, who ended up as couples living on the Devonport peninsula.

Jan and Blair McPheat met in their last year at school when they were in the same English class. Blair was head boy and Jan a prefect. Jan had to monitor a group of students on rubbish detention one Wednesday in 1985.

“They ended up in a fight and I ended up covered in mud. Blair saw it and helped me,” she says.

He walked her home from school that day, followed by a movie date on Friday night at the Vic. Blair remembers bringing a box of Jaffas to the show. “We were sitting in the back row when I lost my grip on them and they bounced all across the theatre floor making a hell of a noise. Everyone looked at us. I pissed myself with laughter but Jan was a bit embarrassed,” he says.

They married in 1993 and today live on the street Blair where grew up. They bought his parents’ house. Their sons Adam (17) and Max (15) both go to TGS. Diane Jervis and Wayne Cameron were good friends at school. Cameron arrived from a farm in Kaiwaka to finish seventh form and Diane was two years behind.

They spent time together doing sports at lunchtime and became good friends. “I tried to take her to the movies once, but she wasn’t interested,” Wayne remembers.

But they remained mates after school and went to work overseas where they would see each other a few times, Diane says.

“When we both came back from overseas, he brought his sailing bag to my house, chucked it under my bed and never left,” she says. They

It all started at TGS… Linda McKay (left) and Jan McPheat, with Diane Cameron behind them. Standing (from left) are Brett Sawyer, Wayne Cameron and Blair McPheat. have been married for 31 years and have three 1990. I was flatting with a mutual friend and sons – Fraser (29), Oliver (26) and Finn (24) – Brett came around one day. He was working in music publishing and I said he needed to write who all went to TGS. Linda McKay and Brett Sawyer met years me a song some day, to which he replied, ‘I before heading to high school. They went already have.’”

McKay and Sawyer have been inseparable through Stanley Bay School and Belmont Intermediate School together, where McKay ever since, but are not married. Their sons says they briefly dated. They dated again at Theo (17) and Ben (14) are now students at TGS as teenagers, but went their separate ways their old school.

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Mrs T – still teaching after all these years At 80, long-time Devonport teacher Valda Tokona’s legacy keeps growing.

Tokona has taught in and around Devonport for 56 years. After starting out at Vauxhall School in 1961, she spent 40 years teaching at Devonport Primary School (DPS). Since officially retiring in 2008, she has been working off and on as a relief teacher at DPS and, currently, at Bayswater School.

Tokona says she approached her 80th birthday with disbelief. “Only one other member in my family has lived until that age, so I counted down the days before my 80th, four to go, three to go, and on the morning of it I jumped out of bed, threw my arms up in the air and shouted ‘Eight Oh! I made it.”

She says she is just an ordinary classroom teacher. “Probably my strongest attribute is my rapport with children and to me that’s what primary school teaching is all about.”

Tokona says she has helped many a local child overcome his or her shyness, and has defused countless tricky situations.

“Kids would come to me and say, ‘Mrs T the boys are really fighting on the bottom field.

So I would say, ‘oh it’s probably just one boy tripping over the other. It’s their excuse to make tackling legal.’ And when I went down there, I would say to the boys, ‘are we going to break up this little tackle or do you want the punishment?’”

The “punishment” was a peck on the cheek

by Tokona, who is famous for wearing red lipstick. “Some would happily opt for the punishment and then walk around proudly with the mark,” she says.

She also tells her students about growing up in a poor Westport family. “And they will say ‘but you didn’t have a car, you didn’t have running water, you didn’t have electricity, what did you do?’ I tell them we had 20 kids over to play on the weekend, had horses to ride and that instead of mobile phones we had the bush telegraph.”

Tokona is all about the kids. “Sometimes when I meet up with parents and their children, all my attention goes to the child, whether that’s a baby or a teenager. I have been trying to curtail that a bit so the parents don’t feel left out. But I guess I just love children,” she says.

Tokona is also a “sports fanatic”. Until two years ago, when her sister Meri Darcia died at the age of 75, the sisters watched nearly every Auckland All Black game. “We saw the very first World Cup games in 1987 here, and only missed one in 2003, when we were in Australia,” she says.

A piece of 1995 America’s Cup memorabilia hangs on the wall of her Devonport lounge.

She watched that too, while in San Diego visiting her late daughter Meri Theresa, who died of breast cancer in 2012 at the age of 48.

Born Valda Lukas in Wellington in 1937, she was the eldest of four. The family moved to Westport and she attended teachers college in Christchurch.

Chalking up the years... Valda Tokona has taught around Devonport for over half a century Tokona arrived in Auckland in 1959 for her first teaching job at Cockle Bay School in Howick. At just five foot two, she also played netball for Auckland.

With her brother and a sister in the Navy, she would occasionally spend the weekend in Devonport, where her future husband Tommy Tokona was also in the Navy.

She had first met him in 1956 in Wellington.

“My brother Bobby was in the Navy’s guard of honour for Lord Mountbatten when he came to New Zealand and Bobby knew Tommy.”

On her birthday this year, she visited Tommy (who has severe dementia), at

Komatua Care on Calliope Rd, as she does most days.

Tokona says she still enjoys working. “I am booked in for five days next term already, and I love working at Bayswater School.

It reminds me of the old Devonport, with children from all walks of life – rich, poor and in between,” she says.

Her plan is to fully retire at 83. And she has plans beyond that too. “My ashes, and those of Meri and Tommy, will go into the garden next to Holy Trinity Church. When you sit on a bench there, you can hear the kids play at Devonport Primary and I’ll be hearing it there forever.”

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Thousands at tsunami risk in Devonport on a fine day. It calculated the number of residents who were likely to be exposed to the tsunami, using both the 2013 census and council’s own tsunamiinundation maps.

The report ranks communities according to how many residents are at risk of tsunami exposure.

Currently, the Auckland region has 44 sirens installed at nine sites.

All of those sites lie in the former Rodney and Waitakere districts, and reach only 8 per cent of the 50,000 Aucklanders who are at risk of tsunami exposure, the

report says.

The report was commissioned for a council proposal to enhance its public alerting framework around Auckland.

In the ‘Mount Victoria’ area, which includes Devonport and Cheltenham, 1,969 residents are at risk, in Stanley Bay 1,668, Narrow Neck 374, Seacliffe 158, Hauraki 136 and Bayswater 96.

The report was presented to the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board on Tuesday, when council officers asked for the board’s support “in principle” for an enhanced network.

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By Rob Drent

The Glow night in Devonport is a bright light in a very dim programme of tourism offerings for the suburb.

A festival-like evening was held last Friday with many shops staying open and a massive lighting installation in place at Windsor Reserve for two nights. An entertaining and memorable event for locals and tourists alike.

The Flagstaff has often howled into the wind about the lack of events in Devonport supported by Auckland Council and its tourism arm. A lot of money seems to be spent getting visitors to Auckland but little on the substance when they are here.

We once had a Food and Wine Festival, which was well patronised, but it lost its funding. The Devonport Business Association can only do so much. Tourism bosses seem to direct a lot of their spend to Waiheke, but there needs to be more coming from city hall for regular events in Devonport to cater for the ever-increasing visitors to our suburb. What about a Glow night once a month?

most discreet way) on the Devonport Wharf toilets. Readers may recall the first phase of the wharf renovation did not include the toilets, so visitors passing through the refurbishment were then faced with the unwholesome prospect of the wharf ablution offering – an unkempt room with grossly stained floors.

These were patched up to a degree in the lead-up to the second stage of the wharf refurbishment. Now the new toilets are open, and what a sight.

Although it’s great that the former toilets have been replaced, the 2017 version does seem a bit over the top, perhaps better suited to a downtown hotel than a ferry terminal.

Auckland Transport has put the cost at around $160,000. Is this a bit too much?

A personal note of congratulations to Matthew Lucente, who has just won the New Zealand under-19 boys squash championship. As a player and squash enthusiast, I have followed Matthew’s career and meteoric rise with interest, since I once played Matthew in the C-grade section of a tournament a few years back. (He was well under 13 and I was over 50.)

The composure he showed in dishing me out a thrashing that day has continued. And full credit to his coach Manu Yam for the work he has done at all levels of squash at Belmont Park, and throughtout Auckland, which is reflected in the achievements of Over the past few years, The Flagstaff Matthew, his nephew Gabe and son Rafa, has been keeping a watching brief (in a and under-15 girls champion Natalie Sayes.

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I hopeoccasions you got a raffle ticket. Many local that we enjoyincluding in the us here at Devonport businesses, lead-up todonated Christmas Lingerie, gifts for the prize. If you is upon us. and did not get a chance to make were away, aIt’sdonation, still a bit the chillyPink in Ribbon appeal lasts all month and (some we have the evening of usa donation bucket instore.

Weour alsowinter ‘sell’ legs our coat hangers that we still have no longer require for that we are not ready toa $1 donation to breast cancer research show the world). and So ithave can managed to collect several hundred be a good idea todollars wear over the years this way. some nice sheer hosiery to complete your party ensemble. In-store we have the Bellamagia Italian range, and the new NZ-made Sheers from Columbine, priced from $16.99 The right At Devonport pantyhose canLingerie, really we are approved by the Ministry of Health to assist finish your outfit and we with any entitlement you haveadvice post as breast surgery and have can may give you ato what rangewould of breast forms, from everyday work best lightweight partials for balance following for you. lumpectomy, beaded for swimming and also If you have open-toe shoes you even is leisure forms for exercise.

The can entitlement get toeless tights so you can show off yourcost to provide funding to cover the additional and polish, which of course you can ofpedicure post surgical bras for women who have had from one oforour localmastectomy beauty spas. and/or Aren’t a aget mastectomy partial we lucky we don’t ourabubble to reconstruction, andhave alsototoleave provide prosthesis ready toWe party!also have a range of preifgetneeded. pocketed are also If you needswimsuits, help gettingwhich in to your party funded under dress this afterentitlement. partaking in some extra wine and cheese over the winter, then we have a Our aim is to make you feel comfortable and good selection shapewearyou that work.us to confident and weofwelcome to can contact Mention you read about it in this column and a make an appointment or to pop in and have get a $5 discount off your purchase. chat and browse our range.

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Devonport aglow again

Plastic Ocean… A wave sculpture (left) made from supermarket plastic bags to highlight their pollution of the sea.

Glowing… (from left) Ian McDonald, Nathan Male and Rob Spray outside Tiny Triumphs.

Now in its third year, Devonport’s Glow festival was a big hit among locals young and old.

Event organiser Judy Grieve said the Devonport piece of Artweek Auckland, held last Friday and Saturday, has matured into a well-established event, attracting a big crowd with art, fun and community spirit.

Chilling on Clarence St…(from left) Jade Findlay, Kirsten Newton and Ruth Findlay

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Old ferry building roof looking for new home

Finishing touches... stage two of the Devonport Wharf renewal is nearly complete Devonport Wharf’s 650 square metres of iron roof are for sale.

The second-hand corrugated iron has gone up on TradeMe to raise money for Starship Hospital.

The company hired by Auckland Transport (AT) to replace the existing ferry terminal roof found the 20-year-old sheets in good enough nick to give them a second lease of life.

Elevated Roofing owner Josh Waldie says he usually takes old tin to the junkyard or sells it for $1 online. But the eight-metre long sheets on the ferry roof could be ideal for a barn roof, fence or landscaping project and might raise around $2000.

Listed as “best roof in NZ” and described as “good quality but second-hand”, the roof only has existing screwing holes. “Nothing a bit of silicone can’t fix,” the listing says.

The auction closes on 28 October, as Waldie needs the job wrapped up by midNovember.

AT is about to finish stage two of the wharf renewal.

The budget for the stage-two work is $1.6 million, which includes the initial demolition and removal of materials, building new toilets, new floors, replacing windows and major roof repairs to fix longstanding leaks.

An AT spokesman said the organisation is still talking to potential tenants.

“It is up to the tenants when they open for business,” the spokesman said.

New wharf toilets cost close to $160,000

The new toilets at Devonport Wharf have cost around $160,000, according to Auckland Transport (AT). An AT spokesman said: “We can’t give you exact costings for the toilets, but we would expect it to be about ten percent of the overall cost.”

(The project budget is $1.6 million.)

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Accountant sprung handing over fake $50 Mike and Julie Gannaway got a shock when they went out for an anniversary drink last week and a $50 note they handed over to pay was a fake.

Mike Gannaway, a long-time local accountant, had decided to take Julie to Tiny Triumphs in Clarence St for their 36th wedding anniversary.

But when he handed over the $50 he was told it could not be accepted – it was counterfeit.

On closer examination the printing of the note is okay, but it was poorly cut, of a different material to legal tender and there was no watermark.

It also has the same image printed on both sides.

The Gannaways traced back the note to the Gem, Mineral, Crystal and Fossil Show, which was held at the North Shore Events Centre, on 6-8 October.

“Julie was helping out on the stand for the North Shore Woodturners Guild and we ended up with the note when we were repaid the float that we put in at the start.”

When she took the cash back home to cover the float, the forged $50 was in the bundle. The couple are now Anniversary surprise… Mike Gannaway made a failed attempt to buy some waiting to see if any of the money that drinks with a counterfeit $50 bill (right) was banked is returned. lighter side of being sprung at a bar, and be- retailers in Devonport know about the counWhile the Gannaways could see the ing conned by the fake, they were keen to let terfeit money so they could on the lookout.

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Don’t dump albatrosses in Devonport

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When will the takeover of our wharves stop? work. It should be put back – does it not fit the This alone would have been a destination had Fri De m Now there is a proposal to relocate the city-side tastes of Auckland Council urban planners now? the unsurpassed views been treasured. am 3 6 9 noon 4 “We are proposing that the sculpture is rewaterfront Greer Twiss albatross sculpture to So it is being palmed off onto any takers and Devonport. a weak argument has been made for Devonport sited on the second corner of 3Victoria Wharf, Fri Dec 9 located facing Sat Dec 10 Sun Dec 11suitable Mon Dec 12 Tuevisits Dec 13an ideal Wed Dec with 14 the backdrop Thu Decof 15the sea m location, “The artwork was the harbour being the location: Greer Twiss am 3 6Fri 9 noon 3 69 9 pm am 3 6Sat 9 noon 3 10 6 9 pm am 3 6Sun 9 noon 3 11 6 9 pm am 3 Mon 6 9 noon 3 12 6 9 pm am 3 6Tue 9 noon 3 13 6 9 pm am 3 Wed 6 9 noon 3 14 6 9 pm am 3 6Thu 9 noon 3 15 6 9 pm Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec 2 Fri Dec 9 Sat Dec 10 Sun Dec 11 Mon Dec 12 Tue Dec 13 Wed Dec 14 Thu Dec enabling the story of the Albatross to be at44m the bottom of Albert and Quay Street Devonport with his children and grandchildren, am 3 6Fri 9 noon 3 69 9 pm am 3 6Sat 9 noon 3 10 6 9 pm am 3 6Sun 9 noon 3 11 6 9 pm am 3 Mon 6 9 noon 3 12 6 9 pm am 3 6Tue 9 noon 3 13 6 9 pm am 3 Wed 6 9 noon 3 14 6 9 pm am 3 6Thu 9 noon 3 15 6 told 9 pm in m Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec 15 m am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm 3 am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm 4 a fitting setting.” until 4 March 2014. It was removed and put And he supports the Depot Artspace.

1 3 2 storage to enable wharf strengthening 3 The sea is not the backdrop, the sea is into “However, as the city changes and evolves, 3 2 1 2 0clutter the wharf work and in anticipation of the Quay Street the need to relocate public sculptures may arise. everything. This sculpture will 2 H 3:32am 1 0 1 and become a perch for Hseagulls pigeons Redevelopment from an Auckland Council has a long-term 3:39pm (All H quotes 4:07am are 4:38pm H 5:12am 5:38pm H 6:14am 6:38pm stewardship H 7:13am 7:36pm H 8:09am 8:32pm 9:03amand 9:27pm 1 H 3:05am Plan.”

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3 2 3 3 3 space, with This sculpture was created for the Auckland second corner is an uncluttered 2 1 2 2 enough room for access vehicles and people to waterfront city-side.

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The council that Twiss’ will L L L 11:49pm L L 12:59pm L 1:42pm L 2:04am 2:24pm H 9:32am 3:32am 3:52pm H 10:29am 4:29am 10:57pm 4:44pm H 11:23am 5:25am 5:36pm H 12:12pm 6:18am 6:26pm H 12:37am 7:06am 7:14pm H 1:22am 7:51am 7:59pmintends H 8:33am 8:42pm L 9:32am 10:04pm L 10:29am 10:57pm L 11:23am 11:49pm L 12:12pm L 12:37am 12:59pm L 1:22am 1:42pm L 2:04am 2:24pm 3 3stainless L 9:32am 10:04pm L 10:29am 10:57pm L 11:23am 11:49pm L 12:12pm L 12:37am 12:59pmThe L (not 1:22am 1:42pm L 2:04am 2:24pm management inexpensive) Fri Dec 30 services Satprovided Dec 31 Sun Mon aJan 2 Tue only Jan 3 Wed Jan 4 Thu Jan 5 steel help Jan the 1wharf become destination, not m 2 am 3 6Fri 9 noon 3 30 6 9 pm am 3 6Sat 9 noon 3 31 6 9 pm am 3 6Sun 9 noonJan 3 61 9 pm am 3 Mon 6 9 noonJan 3 62 9 pm am 3 6Tue 9 noonJan 3 63 9 pm am 3 Wed 6 9 noonJan 3 64 9 pm am 3 6Thu 9 noonJan 3 65 9 pm Dec Dec 4 drinkingWed fountain and waterThu on the wharf for commuters, but alsoJan for people who want m • amA3 personal approach with each Dec Dec 2tap 6Fri 3 30 6 9 pm am 3 6Sat 9 noon 3 1 31 6 9 pm am 3 6Sun 9 noonJan 3 61 6 9 noonJan 3 62 9 noonJan 3 63 6 9 noonJan 3 64 9 noonJan 3 65 m Fri9 noon Dec 30 Sat Dec 31 Sun Jan 1 9 pm am 3 Mon Mon 2 9 pm am 3 6Tue Tue Jan 3 9 pm am 3 Wed Jan 4 9 pm am 3 6Thu Jan 5 9 pm m 4 am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm 0 3 was vandalised 21 months ago and, am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 9 pm am 3 6 9 noon 3 6 despite 9 pm to engage in the arts, eat, drink and socialise.”

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October 20, 2017

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Protecting and preserving a unique Devonport I find it interesting that so many are attracted to our unique piece of Auckland for its quirky ways, its heritage and what it has to offer, and then quickly forget why they came here. Council falsely maintains its argument to protect the heritage value, charges outrageously priced heritage-site visits then banks the cheque and allows questionable development.

Too many new residents arrive and immediately want to start changing the very things that attracted them. All too often, council overrides the wishes of the community, but supports that which provides revenue.

A few recent examples of the many: Butterbee – I feel for the McNicolls, who led the objections to the Butterbee Childcare centre. Now that Auckland Council has ignored the wishes of a large part of our community, I can only hope that when Butterbee applies to increase its size and scope of activities (and they will), council will deny them the opportunity, I further hope that council’s disregard for the safety issues doesn’t came home to haunt.

Should it do so, I trust the decision-makers at council will be held accountable. Thank you, Darcy and Robyn, for leading this campaign.

Masonic Tavern – The tavern was purchased as a property-development opportunity, not by someone wishing to continue its 100-year tradition. It was allowed to fail and then the argument was made that it was not profitable. The criticism and sometime vitriol, against

those trying to protect Devonport’s heritage objecting to the removal of Auckland’s Maria Teape Community Coordinator oldest public house, has been difficult to with MARIA TEAPE understand.

445 9533 | maria@devonportpeninsulatrust.nz Council’s commitment to protecting our 445445 95339533 | maria@devonportpeninsulatrust.nz | dportcomm@xtra.co.nz heritage disappeared with the prospect of BAYSWATER HALLOWEEN TRAIL more rateable properties, and we ended up SUMMER FUN PRESCHOOL PLAY Fri 27 Oct, 5:00pm-7:00pm – Bayswater Park with architecture that is not representative Mount your bike, put on your ghost shoes and Tuesdays 9:30-11:00am at Windsor Reserve explore our green route! Register between 5:00pmof Devonport.

Thursdays, 9:30-11:00am 6:00pm at Bayswater Park by at theBayswater playground –Park to Ryman Village – The dominance and A avoid bring along your already comFREE the funqueues, time for preschoolers to play with pleted registration form. can benew downloaded impact of these buildings and increased big be active andForms to make friends. fromtoys, our website: www.devonportpeninsulatrust.nz. pressure on infrastructure and traffic Bring toddler and alots coffee and coffee enjoyfor our Thereyour will be treats, tricks, of prizes, sale parks! plus a free sizzle. beautiful Forsausage more information, flows has been minimised. Immediate For more Carolyn information 027445 924 9533.

3494, contact orcontact Maria Maria on ph: and further-afield neighbours’ views were maria@devonportpeninsulatrust.nz or www.devonportpeninsulatrust.nz virtually ignored.

COMMUNITY NETWORK MEETING Caregivers are responsible for children under the If we lived in a perfect world, we age of12th 14 years attending10am this event.

Thursday November - 12 noon would have a member of parliament and Devonport SUMMER FUN25 PRESCHOOL Yacht Club, King Edward Parade PLAY MORNINGS ex-gardener who valued Devonport and A quarterly meeting to promote networking Tuesdays (@ Windsor Rsv), Thursdays (@groups.

Bayadvocated for its protection, and a council among residents and local community swater Park) starting 2nd Nov, 9:30am – 11:00am that did more than pay lip service to Meet new Community Constable Jasmine Bundle.

A FREE fun time for preschoolers to play with big Hear from Auckland Council about the new heritage values. toys, be active and to make new friends.

Bringdog your toddler and a coffee and enjoy our beautiful alcohol by-laws plus about changes to the To those new residents of Devonport andparks!

Caregiver supervision is required and programme,For and from Cliff who criticise those who seek to protect Inorganic sessions Collection are weather-dependent. more info, Heywood of the Navy Museum theirorlatest contact Carolyn or Maria on ph:about 445 9533 Devonport, its heritage and its values, email: projects.

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Townhouses better than overpriced wooden homes Could you elaborate how preservation of buildings is “progressive”, especially in light of the current and anticipated rates of immigration into Auckland? (Flagstaff 22 September and 6 October.)

How is intensification “short-sighted”?

What is a long-term solution?

How can philosophies that promote preservation and exclusivity be considered progressive (promoting inclusivity, diversity and better quality of life)?

I’m all for recording, remembering and celebrating history. But that’s not what

heritage societies do. They expect things to stay the same. That’s the opposite of progress.

Personally, I don’t want an old, overpriced, high-maintenance, shitty wooden home with a massive garden. I want a small, modern town house or apartment, affordable and low maintenance.

But thanks (in part) to the backwardslooking efforts of heritage societies, I can’t even afford that in the suburb I’ve come to love and now call home.

Bevan Rudge

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Interview

October 20, 2017

Making shore communities thrive

Steve McLuckie’s job is to make Bayswater and Belmont a better place for everyone to live. For the last 18 months, he has coordinated the Shore to Thrive project, to make the two local communities better connected and more resilient. He spoke to Maire Vieth.

Making a difference on the peninsula at grass-roots level… Steve McLuckie Affluent Auckland suburbs spoilt for choice with beaches and decile-10 schools seem an unlikely locale for community work. But Steve McLuckie, who has extensive experience of working with homeless people in New Zealand and the UK, says issues like child poverty, family violence and loneliness can be found here too.

Around 4500 people live in Bayswater and Belmont. When McLuckie conducted a community well-being survey of 300 residents last year, he found a significant number experiencing financial hardship, some of them struggling to meet basic needs such as healthy food and warm, dry shelter.

Nearly 40 per cent of those surveyed had “just enough or not enough money to get by, said their

homes weren’t always warm and had mould and damp issues,” says McLuckie.

Around 25 per cent said they “did not always have access to enough good and healthy food.

That rose to about 41 per cent among the people who reported financial hardships,” he says.

“There are perceptions about the North Shore that everyone is affluent and doing well, but that is not the experience for a significant number of people. Of course we have lots of wealthy people, but we also have people who aren’t doing so well.”

For the last 18 months, McLuckie has looked for ways to bring the community together and make sure no one gets left behind.

He organised Repair Cafes at Bayswater School, where locals assembled to fix broken appliances, clothes and bikes that would otherwise have been thrown away.

Recently, he launched monthly Kaitahi community dinners at Bayswater Bowling Club, where locals turn rescued food into a free dinner for each other. There also have been Whanau Marama Parenting and Re-New Mothers workshops at Bayswater School, and Heart for Youth peer-mentoring workshops at Takapuna Grammar School.

As community development coordinator, he runs Shore to Thrive, a three-year partnership between the Takapuna Methodist Church and Auckland North Community and Development (ANCAD), a not-for-profit community agency in Takapuna. The church provides the funding and ANCAD coordinates the implementation.

McLuckie says Shore to Thrive is not social

work in evangelical clothing. He is a selfconfessed atheist. “Luckily they hire heathens,” he says wryly.

But the church’s approach to community work resonates with him: “It’s called ‘Cycles of hope’ and it’s not about converting people or filling pews, but about positive community action. It’s about making the world a better place.”

Shore to Thrive’s work is based on the Methodist Church of New Zealand’s 2015 Let the Children Live 10-year vision to reduce child poverty, child abuse and youth suicide in New Zealand though a “strength-based”, communityled approach.

Strength-based means running with the “energy, skills and enthusiasm” of the community to make it stronger, says McLuckie.

Community-led is “not top-down action, telling people what they should do, but assisting the community with its own goals, finding leaders and working with local people,” he says.

The Takapuna Methodist parish decided to focus on Bayswater and Belmont because members of a kaitiakitanga group guiding the project knew of people struggling there.

“We also knew there were people we could work with,” says McLuckie, including Bayswater School and local community organisations Bayswater Community Committee and Devonport Peninsula Trust.

McLuckie lives in Bayswater, which also helped. “I have a distinct advantage because I’m a local and my kid goes to Bayswater School, so I had some good connections

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October 20, 2017 before I started the job,” he says.

McLuckie says the project can make a difference. It is the government’s role to provide substantive structural changes for those struggling with poverty, housing, etc, but “we don’t have to wait for government to make a positive change in our community. We can act for ourselves if we want our community to be a better place to live for us all,” he says.

“The work we do is not a silver bullet to solve all our problems. But a connected and resilient community, where people know, trust and rely on each other, is capable of facing challenges together,” he says.

To determine the project’s success at the end of his three-year contract, McLuckie will survey locals again. “And hopefully we can compare the two surveys and see that we had an effect, that our responses helped improve the community’s well-being, that the project had a positive effect on people’s quality of life, that people feel more connected,” he says.

For the next 18 months, he will build on the work he’s started. “And my role is about continuing to listen, to hear where people’s energy is and what people want to do and to support that. It’s not about what I want, but about supporting what the people of Bayswater and Belmont want to happen,” he says.

Recently, some residents have told him that night classes to further their education would be helpful and McLuckie has just started to look into how to make it happen.

Before joining Shore to Thrive, McLuckie worked in a similar role for Auckland Council for two years, setting up the online food network Kai Auckland, and helping create community gardens on public land.

McLuckie has also worked for the Methodist Church before. From 2008 (the year he arrived in New Zealand from the UK) until 2013, he was employed by Lifewise in its Auckland CBD soup kitchen as a client support worker and team coordinator.

“They were looking to make their support service for homeless people more strengthbased, to help people improve their lives rather than just hand out food. Because of the work I had done in the UK, I got the job,” he says.

McLuckie was born in the small Scottish town of Bellshill near Glasgow and grew up near Liverpool, where he started playing football “not long after I could stand up.”

He studied politics, English and media studies at De Montfort University in Leicester. After graduating, he spent six years back in Liverpool doing “generally unfulfilling work in sales, advertising and bars,” he says.

When he was sacked from one of these jobs on his birthday, he took it as a sign. He started looking for “something with some purpose” and joined the UK street newspaper The Big Issue as a client support worker.

Founded in 1991, the Big Issue is an independent weekly paper written by journalists

“The work we do is not a silver bullet... But a connected community... is capable of facing challenges together.” and sold by homeless people, to whom it provides a legitimate income and an alternative to begging. McLuckie’s job was to help find accommodation, work, training or drug-andalcohol rehabilitation opportunities.

In 2005, he got involved with the Homeless World Cup, an annual international football tournament with teams comprising homeless people.

“It was using football to raise awareness about homelessness and changing people’s perception about what homeless people could do and be.

And also about acting as a catalyst for positive change in those participating,” he says.

“It can seem a little abstract but people’s activities, be it soccer and the connection, purpose, camaraderie and fitness you get from it, can have a knock-on effect in their lives,” he says.

Manchester United Football Club offered up coaching staff and training facilities, and airlines sponsored tickets. For three years, McLuckie helped coordinate it all and travelled with teams to Edinburgh, Copenhagen and Cape Town.

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And it worked. One of the players became a football coach and many more moved into employment and found accommodation when they returned home, he says. The Homeless World Cup continues today and was held in Oslo in September, with Brazil finishing as the winning team.

By 2007, McLuckie and his partner Annie Carr, now a school nurse at Kristin School, moved to New Zealand.

They spent the first six months in a unit at Zest Apartments on Nelson St in the CBD, semi-affectionately calling it their “caravan in the sky,” before moving on to rent in Mt Eden and Mission Bay. In 2010, their daughter Alice was born and the young family moved to Devonport, where they have since lived on Rutland Rd, then Old Lake Rd, and for the last four years on Roberts Ave. They love living in Bayswater. “Alice falls out of bed in the morning and we take her across the street to school. But we won’t be able to buy a house here, which we will do one day. To do that we will have to leave Auckland,” he says.

But for now, McLuckie is settled. He helps run the Ngataringa Organic Community Garden at 27 Lake Rd. He was instrumental in keeping it alive when the Framework Trust left the running of the garden in 2009. He is also involved in Alice’s school and loves exploring the peninsula.

McLuckie says his daughter helped get him interested in gardening, pest control and other environmental projects. “The birth of Alice was a catalyst. I was thinking about the world she was going to grow up in,” he says. For now that world is centred on Bayswater.

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A big thank you to everyone involved • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Hahei Accommodation (Rick and Chic Moors) Vauxhall Rose Hair Salon (Leanne Rose) My Room (Cushla) Sills & Co (Caroline and Lloyd Sills) Studio Pilates (Clair Mitchell) Repertoire Takapuna (Angela) Wallis Clothing (Carol and Anna) Rockburn Wines (Chris and Judy James) Flagstaff Gallery (Cary and Doug Cochrane) Ebos Healthcare (Carl Fiebig) Farmers -Jockey and Bonds (Anneke Fox) Louise Simpson Hair Salon (Louise Simpson) Toti (Ero and Brimley) The Vic (Lauren Kruger) Paradox Books (Mathew) Firefly (Chris Sharpe and Anne Hocking) Corellis Café (Anne O’Sullivan and Chris Trenton) Little and Friday (Kim Houston) Holly Houston Ceramics (Holly Houston) Devonport Resident (Karlene Beattie) Devonport Artist (Beatrice Carlson) Flight Centre (Shannon Lawrence) Inside Out Design (Deanna Cross) Anthony Gore Law (Tony Gore) Emma Cliffe Pilates (Emma Cliffe) Manuka Café (Jane and Quan) The Devonport Flagstaff (Rob Drent) Devonport Gym (Stephanie) Echo Designer Living (Laura) Baked @ Devonport Delegat’s Wines (Rose and Rick)

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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.

Stunning Cheltenham Beach Cottage, metres from the beach.

Available for short or long-term holiday accommodation. Beautifully refurbished, one bedCheltenham: 2 dbl br. Pri- room, self-contained cottage vate beach access, daily or with a private garden. Phone weekly rent. Fully furnished. Rebekah 027 694 3933 or email devonportbeks@gmail.com Ph 027 425 3008.

Cheltenham Beach Studio.

Stunning studio with new fit-out only metres from the beach.

Available for short or longterm holiday accommodation.

Self-contained with separate access and private garden.

Wi-Fi included. Phone Mike 021 747 526.

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.

Classy 3 bedroom, 2 full bath, fully furnished Devonport house on Achilles Reserve near Narrow Neck. More information go to www.devonporttuihouse.weebly.com or www.sabbaticalhomes.com.

Ph: 445 7895.

HOUSESITTING Mature, honest and reliable woman available for short or long-term housesitting. Experienced home manager, who will keep house well maintained and secure. Pet care of all ages a speciality. Excellent references available. Call Tessa on 021 167 9949.

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

Phone Shona, 445 2518.

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Amazing home cleaning including windows. 15 years’ experience. References available phone 027 492 6220.

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Art Classes @ D’Port Community house: Wednesday night, life drawing; Friday morning, mastering art. Ph Lucy Bucknall – 446 0389.

A t Yo u r R e q u e s t H o m e Cleaning. Our local team is ready to deliver 5-Star services in your home for weekly c le a ning, spr ing, mo v in g or open-home cleaning.

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Learn piano/keyboard. Les- NCEA 3 calculus specialist. sons from $19.00. Private, Ph Peter Ridge BE, Dip Tchg Professional, Affordable, En- (sec) 445 2283. joyment for all ages. Competi- Maths and physics tutoring tions, Practical, Theory Exams. for secondary school students.

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Gardening. Do you need regular help? No time for a tidy-up? Let me help. Experienced gardener.

Ph Carolyn on 446 6517 or Builder available Small-job 027 292 8167 for a free on-site Learning Support Specialist specialist, repairs and main- consultation.

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Mob 027 29 222 84. jobs you just don’t have time Ph 027 391 3716 or visit Curtains & Roman Blinds to do. Free quote. References. www.squigglesdyslexia.co.nz F r e e m e a s u r e , q u o t e a n d Ph. Brian 021 150 8898.

Mathematics Tuition Available d e s i g n a d v i c e . 2 0 y e a r s ’ Housekeeper. Home cleane x p e r i e n c e . P h o n e S a r a ing, including windows. Ex027 625 5844. perienced. References. Phone Custom-Made Lampshades 442 2273, 027 492 6220.

- 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 Palm Grove Rest Home: www.oscuro.co.nz A Non-Institutional style home providing compassionate, holistic Devonport upholstery. Recover care. Soul food and good people. specialist. Antiques and contemporary styles. Recycling furniCall Julia Nessim: 445-0009. ture for 36 years. John Hancox.

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Komatua Care Centre – We care for older people who have memory loss and behavioural difficulties. Professional care is given in a nurturing environment. For all enquiries phone 445 1707.

Do you own a beachfront villa?

Guests looking now short-term stay. Put your idle space to work 1 SERVICES OFFERED or 2 bedrooms, will look at most.

A deck builder. Available now.

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Free quotes/advice. WorkmanFlatmate wanted-mature/sociaship guaranteed. Competitive ble.Spacious room in Belmont. rates. Quality materials. ReferClose to shops/bus routes.Proences. Ph Simon today 476 2107, fessional woman-call/text Jo 020 476 2107.

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A housewasher and water blastHoliday Accommodation, er. Available now. Moss and Bayswater. Norwood stumould treatments. Free quote, dio. Private, well presented. prompt service and quality $95 per night. Ph 446 1203. workmanship. Ph Simon today flexmans@gmail.com 476 2107, 020 476 2107.

Holiday Accommodation A painter is available now.

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Good references and high Ph Pauline 445 6471. quality. Ph Simon today 476 2107, 020 476 2107.

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

For your local window specialist. Phone Hubert Strang 446 6174 or 021 274 4191.

Dog grooming available.

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

Call Barbara 021 141 0331.

Housewashing, prof. service, 10 years-plus experience, reliable and prompt. Free quotes, also decks, driveways, paths, fences, roof moss treatments etc. Phone Rod 021 390 800.

Let me mow your lawns and trim your hedges. I live locally.

Phone Chris from Lifestyle Plus on 09-488-7279 or 027-2456264. Or you can email me on chris@lifestyleplusltd.nz.

References available.

L o c k s m i t h , D e v o n p o r t ’s own Scott Richardson.

Mob 021 976 607.

Office Administrator 40+ years’ experience in a wide range of roles. Now semi-retired and available for casual, infill, holiday or sickness periods. Ran own successful import/distribution business for 10 years. Contact Sue on 027 224 5918.

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Call the Tagbuster 0800antitag, 0800 2684 824.

Piano Lessons. Piano & music theory tuition from classically trained pianist. Devonport-based and can travel to your home.

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Primary Tutor Maths, English, Health & Wellbeing and for years 9 to 13 by a retired Drama for 5-11 year olds. maths teacher. Phone Graeme School prep also available. Visit 445 8575. www.gschuwertutoring.com for further details. 027 410 6871 gschuwertutoring@gmail.com S L S S S w i m S c h o o l , 11 Evan Street, Belmont (off Eversleigh Road). Specialists in preschoolers. Phone 486 6728 for more info.

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Letters

Local questions for Maggie As a frequent critic of Maggie Barry’s abysmal failure to speak out on local issues affecting her constituents, it is interesting to note that Maggie received only 49 per cent of the Devonport vote (Flagstaff, 6 October 2017). Hardly a ringing endorsement of her performance over the last six years. What a pity the youthful Jacinda did not reside in this electorate.

Hopefully, by the time you read this letter, National will be in opposition and Maggie will have more time to focus her attention on local issues.

It might be too much to ask, but it might be a bit of fresh air for Maggie that instead of using her National-sponsored page in the Flagstaff for National Party propoganda, if Maggie could explain to her constituents: 1. What she is doing to practically sort out the Lake Rd fiasco.

2. On what grounds she approved, as

Minister of Conservation, the reduction in width of the mandatory 20-metre-wide marginal strip at Torpedo Bay to 6 to 10 metres.

3. What as Minister of Conservation she did to remove the more than 50 squatters illegally occupying the Rangitoto Island Scenic Reserve.

4. What her views are on the proposal to erect townhouses on the Bayswater reclamation.

5. What her views are on the proposal by Ngati Whatua Orakei Whai Rawa Ltd to build 300 new dwellings on land at Hillary Crescent, Belmont, with over 1000 addtional vehicle movements each morning and afternoon.

Then again pigs might fly. Residents might also be interested in Chris Darby, our Auckland Council representatves’s views on the above matters.

Bruce Tubb

Thanks for your generosity Helping Hands Devonport took part in the recent Homeless Awareness Day. I would like to thank you very much for putting a small article in a recent edition asking the community for goods.

The Devonport people responded magnificently. We had so many jackets, gloves, hats, t-shirts, shirts, shoes, shorts, trousers, jeans, socks, and so on that we were sure we would never be able to sort them, but we did.

And then we thought that there were so many that the homeless community wouldn’t

be able to use them all. Well, we were mistaken. This wonderful bounty of goods was looked over, admired, tried on and taken away by many very grateful people who are living rough on Auckland’s streets.

We are all humbled by the outpouring of help from the Devonport community. It was done with such joy and compassion by so many. We were astounded.

To say merely “thank you” fails to adequately express the deep feeling of gratitude felt by us all.

Victoria Brown, Helping Hands

The Ngataringa Bay scheme Bill Rayner must be congratulated on an excellent summary of this epic dispute (Flagstaff, 8 September). He either has a firstclass memory or a first-class filing system, or both. I could find nothing to dispute and I was, probably, the first secretary of the Ngataringa Bay Society, I think. And we led the charge against this unlovely proposal.

But Russ Dawson’s claim (Flagstaff, 22 September) that Prof John Morton (Professor of Zoology at Auckland University) lied is totally unacceptable. John was a man of the highest principles and a first-class scientist who worked unstintingly for the environment.

I can remember very little of the meeting in the Vic, which was nearly half a century ago. I imagine John spoke enthusiastically on the essential part that mangroves play in the harbour ecology. His support for our cause had a curious spin-off in the ‘Local Bills’ hearing.

Here John spoke on our behalf and Prof Val Chapman ( Professor of Botany) spoke for the development. Chapman took the dangerous line that Ngataringa could go, providing Shoal Bay

remained untouched. This led the chair of the Local Bills Committee to say: “in future we will call Ngataringa Bay ‘Morton’s Bay’ and Shoal Bay will be ‘Chapman’s Bay’.”

Judging by the continued settlement of that section of the Northern Motorway built on similar ‘ground’ just north of the toll plaza more than 50 years ago, it is fortunate for everyone, including Brian Robbins and Archie Mason, the developers, that the scheme never went ahead.

Settlement of that fine silt is ongoing, and in places the silt is up to 25 metres deep, and would have been a civil-engineering nightmare for sixmetre retaining walls and underground services.

As Bill Rayner says, the real benefit of this affair was the wonderful people who then came forward to serve on the council.

Devonport enjoyed a ‘Golden Age’ of council administration, which was cruelly ended with Borough “amalgamation” into North Shore City Council. And now things have gone from bad to worse with this monstrosity of the Auckland Council.

Denys Oldham

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New Masonic is compatible with people What a lot of crap Jeremy Salmond wrote (Flagstaff, 6 October). He should learn about buildings first.

Quote: “...the necessity of compliance with the provisions of the Building Code.”

I would like to refer to the collapse of an office building in Christchurch, allowed by Christchurch City Council building inspectors.

And of the misunderstanding surrounding H3 and H4 radiata pine

by Auckland City Council building inspectors with the leaky buildings.

Kauri pine was the best softwood timber globally, very strong. Radiata pine is a gloriously quick-growing structural timber that is very weak – but where would we be without it?

You cannot replace kauri with radiata without using the Building Code!

Previous owners of the Masonic had given up on the maintenance costs.

Devonport Heritage did not help them.

It was rotten.

I do like the new Masonic. It is compatible with people. Watch it Rob! People! People are people.

Russ Dawson

Stanley Bay fields need attention I would like to complain about the terrible state of the fields at Stanley Point. It’s a disappointment to see the whole field being caked with water and mud.

I’m upset about the Stanley Point fields. It stops people going down and having a good time, without getting their shoes and socks completely soaked.

I’m outraged. We do have a solution.

We can improve the drainage on the fields and hire a groundskeeper.

Therefore, I have been driven to the point where I have to tell my story to the local paper so I can raise awareness for the Stanley Point fields. We have to do something.

James Pita (12)

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Grammar OCTOBER 20, 2017

Springtime showcase a late spring evening produced yet another successful Cabaret night from the hard-working Performing arts Council, to finish the term with a bang. It provided the audience with a night of magic, music, dance, and laughs on the final Wednesday of the term, showcasing the amazing talents of our students, including dancers, vocalists, musical-theatre students, and the ongoing hilarities of popular host Logan Mcalister.

Of all the Cabaret evenings, this was perhaps the most diverse, featuring the mind-blowing skills of magician and street performer Marshall Heath, and a special tribute to music teacher andrew Murphy, by four of his students.

The quartet have greatly appreciated the efforts of their teacher, and gave their rendition of all Star by Smashmouth, as a surprise at the concert.

“It was an incredible experience to give back to a teacher who always goes above and beyond for his students, whether it be in his classroom, Jazz Band, or the millions of other things he’s involved in,” says quartet member Grace Cowley. “I know I speak for the entire L3 Music Quartet when I say that Murphy is our star”.

This, and the many performances that featured on the evening, proved successful for the music department and thoroughly entertained the intimate crowd, including audience member Jaxon Ingold, who said, “It was great to see the wide range of talent at TGS and for the performing-arts students to be able to showcase all their hard work.”

By NELLy FarMILOE

Starts today. See you tonight.

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House song challenge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

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iL on’s Den SPORTING SUCCESS

First – Mana

Second – Ihi

Third – Kaha Houses battled for their pride on a sunny Wednesday morning, for the House Song Competition. The six houses -- Ihi, Kaha, Maia, Mana, Wana and Wehi -- gathered at the netball courts after several months of preparation for the inaugural song challenge.

Students participated with a competitive spirit and positive attitude. Each song was judged on its originality, delivery, the use of house colours, and enthusiasm of the students. Mana House placed first with an exceptional performance

and promising formation. Ihi placed second and Kaha third.

Teachers were impressed with the degree of student participation in the competition. The key to such success was the outstanding support and preparation organised by house leaders and teachers. Each house prepared with fortnightly assemblies, as well as regular form class rehearsals.

“House events are always such a success. No matter the result, it always promises fun and excitement for all students,” said Eloise Blewden.

By KaTE LEE

ONE: Finishing eighth in the country, the Girls First XI Football team put on an excellent effort at this year’s national tournament.

Held in Taupo, the girls got off to a great start winning the first two matches to come second in their pool and progress to the next round. Winning the next match 2-0 moved the team into the top eight. In the quarter-finals, they faced the four-time reigning champions Mount albert Grammar. year 13 player Saskia Vosper said: “We were unlucky to lose that match. Then we ended up eighth in New Zealand, after two more close battles”.

This is a great result for the team playing in the highly competitive top tier.

“We fought hard, battled with pride and played well,” said Vosper.

“It was a great sendingoff tournament to end my five years of TGS football.”

By DOuGaL BurDEN TWO: The ultimate!

Nicole Svendsen played for the New Zealand u20 women’s team, which won all three of its matches to bring home the Trans-Tasman cup.

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Off Main Street

October 20, 2017

A wee solution leads to big business success Many Devonport online businesses operate from local homes or offices. In the second column featuring sucessful innovators, Rob Drent talks to Diane Hurford, who turned the burden of bed-wetting into a multimillion-dollar business.

For Diane Hurford it was a no-brainer. She was the first consumer of her own product.

It was November 2005. Her daughter Mia was sleeping in a bottom bunk. Every time Hurford changed her child’s wet bed in the middle of the night, she would bang her head on the top bunk.

Brolly Sheets was born. The idea was to create a product that meant no more bed-stripping and allowed kids to get back to sleep quickly.

Hurford launched the business in June 2006 with a simple website and logo. “At that stage we were turning over about $100 per month.”

Eleven years, on Brolly Sheets is a multimillion-dollar business employing eight staff in addition to directors Hurford and husband Glenn.

It also has a broad range of ‘dry solution’ products: from the original brolly sheet to boxer-short incontinence pants, car-seat protectors and products for the senior market.

A new website Billy Beds (waterproof dog beds) is to be launched on 30 October to tap into the growing canine market. Billy, the family poodle, was the inspiration and the photo shoot for the launch was done around Devonport.

Hurford began Brolly Sheets in Australia, but a move back to New Zealand saw the company based at the couple’s Vauxhall Rd home.

The garage was converted into a warehouse and shipping containers began to appear on the front lawn.

It was always going to be an internet-based business, and Hurford said she was lucky to launch it when she did, when online shopping was comparatively new, and before big players such as Farmers and Briscoes started mega sites.

Innovation… Diane Hurford with the original Brolly Sheet in the foreground, and the Billy Bed, which is to be launched this month Hurford says the major milestone of the business was getting the product made in China.

It was either having it made locally in Australia or New Zealand, or for $100 cheaper in Asia.

She took the plunge and still remembers the nerve-wracking first trip to Suzhou to visit a potential supplier. Hurford says she was lucky to meet up with a family business, much like her own, and who she is still with. The quality of the Brolly Sheets products has also been what has set them apart, she says.

The business continued to grow. Brolly Sheets moved out of “home” in 2009, into offices in Devon Lane. And it started to win awards, including: Enterprise North Shore Best Emerging Business 2010; Deloitte Fast 50, 24th-fastest growing business 2011; Finalist in Exporter of the Year 2012; and Mumtrepreuner of the Year 2014 (for mothers in business).

Hurford is still very much ahands-on operator and usually goes to trade shows herself.

“I love coming into contact with the customers

and I get a lot of ideas from them telling me want they want.”

Innovation is key and Brolly Sheets is also launching patterned designs for its sheets. Niche products are always being added, such as a waterproof bandana bib for cerebral palsy sufferers.

Australia makes up 70 per cent of Brolly Sheets market, New Zealand around 20 per cent the United Kingdom 8 per cent and the US 2 per cent. The potential for growth is still huge.

The success of the business allowed Glenn to leave his banking job and work at the company as well. He concentrates on growing the special-needs markets in Australia and the United States.

Daughter Mia and son Lewis, both Takapuna Grammar students, work in the business as well.

Having lived all round the world, an internet-based business always appealed to Hurford.

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Tennis players net funds for breast cancer More than $500 was raised for the Breast Cancer Foundation at a Pink Day held at Ngataringa Tennis Club by its Midweek Committee.

Belmont Park midweek members also attended the event, which featured pink costumes and pink tennis balls on court, followed by a pink-themed morning tea and pink bubbles. The event raised $550.

In the pink… Ngataringa Tennis Club’s midweek committee and their guests dressed up for a good cause

Leggott launch at Library Poet Michele Leggott, will launch her new collection, Vanishing Points, at Devonport Library on 24 October.

Devonport resident Leggott’s latest collection was written as she approached the prospect of complete blindness, an experience that is woven into the poetry, essays and musings in her book.

Vanishing Points is Leggott’s first new collection of poetry since Heartland (2014) and is the third in a series. Themes surrounding the landmarks of Taranaki and her family story are also included in the book.

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Play date with toys Devonport’s long-running Play-AWhile Toy Library is holding a family-fun day to raise funds for new toys.

There will be toys large and small to enjoy, including a bouncy castle and a real-life fire truck.

The event is scheduled for Saturday 28 October, 9-11.30am, at the Devonport Community House.

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Village residents enjoy morning tea with jam

Easy listening... Paul Bennett (left) and Joseph Brown of Belmont Court are joined in a singalong by Matariki (Martha) Hoani of Kings Court, after an information-sharing event Tenants of the Kings Court flats on Lake Rd hosted a ‘What’s new in Devonport’ information-sharing event with Devonport Community Coordinator Maria Teape, on 6 October.

Enjoying the outdoor village setting on a sunny morning, tenants were updated on the latest activities and forthcoming attractions

to be held in the community centre and around the locality. The get-together was followed by a shared morning tea, accompanied by easy-listening tunes performed on the guitar by tenants of nearby Belmont Court.

Kings Court is one of six villages providing social housing for older people around Devonport and managed by

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in 1866. Beddoes had the Masonic Hotel built in38 The Devonport Flagstaff Page 1866 (the building has recently been reinstated with its original exterior features. Beddoes left NZ for Fiji in 1872 and Charles Bailey took over.

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1872 - 1881

The Holmes brothers, John & James had their yard and wharf on the foreshore opposite the Flagstaff Hotel that they built in 1863 (replaced by Esplanade Hotel) 1863 - 1879

One of Robert Logan Snr’s sons, Arch designed and built boats from his boatshed on the foreshore at the rear of his property at 18 Stanley Point Road.

Robert’s other sons were also accomplished boatbuilders and operated as the Logan Brothers on the other side of the harbour.

1911 - 1939/40

Built boats at his property at 21 William Bond Street. Bert’s house still exists here.

1922 - 1955

Jack Brooke

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This nautical history has been recorded by the museum on a 1920s Devonport Borough Council map, which features street names as they were then, and Takapuna Racecourse where Waitemata Golf Club is now.

The map lays out a walking tour of the Devonport waterfront, to sites where Henry Niccol, William Holmes, Robert Logan Snr, John and James Holmes, Tom and Ted Le Huquet, John Sims and William Brown, Alex

Alison, George Beddoes and Charles Bailey all built boats in the days of early settlement.

More recent operations are spread further afield: to Stanley Point (Arch and Jack Logan, and Colin Wild), Stanley Bay (Bert Woolacott) and Narrow Neck Beach (John Brooke).

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Devonport Primary School principal Melinda Bennett is leaving after three years in the role.

Bennett will become the principal of Murrays Bay Intermediate School in November. With 1100 students, it is one of New Zealand’s largest intermediate schools.

Bennett says the move wasn’t planned. She worked as a teacher at Murrays Bay 12 years ago. “And when I became a principal, being the principal there was my ultimate dream,” she says.

When the job opened up this year, she saw a “once in a lifetime opportunity” to make that dream come true. “Those openings come up only once every 10 to 15 years. I threw my hat in, and I got it. Life has come full circle,” she says.

Bennett’s career as principal has seen her move up dramatically in school size. Her first job at Ahuroa School near Puhoi was to “turn around a failing school.” Under her nine-year leadership, the roll grew from six to 98 students.

Working at Devonport Primary School (DPS) was completely different, she says. “I walked into a great school and just polished it up. It was about moving a good school forward.”

Bennett says DPS has become a “forwardthinking” school. She is particularly proud of how “the children take control of their own learning” and the increased use of technology in the classroom.

“That has strengthened since I got there. The Moving on… Melinda Bennett children and teacher can use ICT [information and communications technology] in a more integrated way across the curriculum,” she says.

DPS Board of Trustees chair Andrew Cordner The Flagstaff understands that there was says the search for a new principal is underway. some opposition among parents to the increased Deputy principal Beverly Booth will serve as focus on computer technology in teaching and acting principal until a permanent appointment learning. has been made, he says.

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October 20, 2017

Magical Mozart at Holy Trinity Such is the growing reputation of the Devonport Chamber Orchestra (DCO), there was a capacity audience for its 1 October concert in Holy Trinity Church.

Ably led by Helen Crook, and conducted with great verve and panache by Timothy Carpenter, the orchestra revelled in the allMozart programme.

Julia Cornfield, a professionally qualified clarinettist, who generally plays in the woodwind section of the DCO, took centre stage as the soloist in one of Mozart’s most magical compositions, his Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622, which was completed just two months before his death.

The first movement was lyrical, with the solo line encompassing the whole of the clarinet’s range. There were ‘conversations’ between orchestra and soloist and blending of motifs. It was liquid beauty with immaculate breath control and phrasing.

The slow movement was sublimely beautiful. Taken at an unusually slow tempo, Cornfield’s playing brought out the achingly poignant aspects of the melodies. The

solemnity of that movement was followed by a perky and cheerful Rondo, albeit with a hint of melancholy underlying it. The sensitive orchestral accompaniment and the virtuosic playing from Cornfield made this a memorable performance, enthusiastically received by the audience.

Symphony No 38 in D major, K504, saw Mozart pushing the usual boundaries of the Classical Symphony – what might he have done had he lived past 35 years? This was an ambitious work for the DCO but all sections of the group rose to its demands.

The extensive slow introduction to the first movement paints a rather intense and dark canvas, but breaks into an energetic allegro with impressive weaving of melodic themes. There was particularly good woodwind playing, especially from the oboes and bassoons in this movement.

The animated pace of the presto presented plenty of challenges; fully realised, the upper strings were at their finest in this movement, although there were plenty of opportunities for all sections to shine. Tricky triplets were

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Acting Petty Officer Writer (A/POWTR) Stewart was in Chile as part of her Sailor of the Year 2016 award. The tour is designed to broaden her knowledge of a partner Navy and expose her to inspirational senior leadership.

She visited the Chilean Navy’s Avionics Unit, Marine Headquarters, monuments, and technical academy, and toured the Chilean Navy Ship LYNCH, Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service facilities, and museums.

A/POWTR Stewart had Sailor of the Year coins to hand out, and said there was curiosity over her Sailor of the Year pounamu, which she wore daily as part of her uniform.

“People asked me what it meant, so I got to share our culture and the meanings of this to our Navy,” she says.

Her trip concluded with a flight to Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, where the Battle of the River Plate took place in World War II. “While there, I had a Battle of the River Plate tour, showing me the coast where the battle took place and where the ships are still at the bottom of the seabed today.”

She also got to pay respects at the British War Graves on behalf of the RNZN to the British Allies, German opposition and, more specifically, three members of HMS Achilles who served and died with our own on 13 December 1939.

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Return of the jellyfish

A metre-wide Lion’s Mane jellyfish, which beached near the Devonport ferry terminal last Friday, attracted a lot of interest from visitors and locals alike. At around this time last year, Devonport and other east coast beaches experienced an influx of these stinging jellyfish. This year, so far, there has only been an occasional sighting.

Dirt pile goes, but “slum” remains at cricket grounds A stinking pile of dirt left for months in a corner of Devonport Domain has finally been cleaned up, following a story in the last Flagstaff (6 October).

Last Thursday afternoon, a digger and lorry arrived to remove the dirt (at left), grass and sludge that was bringing in flies and rats since it was dumped there in April this year.

But another mess outside a council shed located next to the batting nets is now being called out

by Devonport Cricket Club. “The area around the nets currently looks like a slum,” it says in the club’s latest newsletter.

“Over winter the nets were rewired and in the last week over a bucketful of dangerous wire snippets had to be picked up before the nets could be used. Apart from that, there are still metal poles and wire mesh littering the site,” it says.

The shed is being used by the council contractor assigned to look after Devonport Domain.

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Young cricketers ace training for season opening

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Three members of the Auckland Aces spent the morning coaching young cricketers on Devonport Domain last Wednesday.

Batsmen Brad Cachopa and Robbie O’Donnell, and left-arm bowler Sean Solia turned up at a school-holiday cricket camp attended by 25 young players.

North Shore Cricket Club cricket manager and premiers captain Graeme Beghin, who ran the camp, says the Aces practised all the cricket basics with the kids, despite spells of rain.

“They did throwing and catching practice before the rain and then some batting and bowling after,” he says.

“It helps them get ready for the Saturday matches that start after the school holidays, on October 28.”

Club manager Gillian Scott is pleased with the number of young players who signed up for the season.

“Junior registrations are up 5 per cent on last year with over 300 juniors signed up to play this season. Especially pleasing is the increase in kids in school Years 1-4. We also have three new men’s T20 teams playing this season,” she says.

Rain or shine... Pre-season prep at Devonport Domain. Clockwise from previous page: The visiting Aces stars join the youngsters attending cricket camp in a photo; Jack Jones (8), son of former Auckland Aces captain and Black Caps player Richard Jones, had his bat signed by 2017 Aces (from left) Brad Cachopa, Robbie O’Donnell and Sean Solia.

Graeme Beghin (right) ran the camp; Mackenzie Campbell-Cree (8) farewells Robbie O’Donnell; Dorothea Waldron (7) about to give it a heave while wicketkeeper Jacob Howell and slip Riley Watson look on.

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School holiday garden fun

Top: Big brother is watching you...

Louis (left) and Henry Gordon watering their pea seedlings

Right: Naturally inspired...

Olive Evetts-Perry painting her artwork, moulded from a rhubarb leaf using quick-set concrete

Bottom: Counting chickens...

A flock of six hens are welcomed by (from left) George Dodd, Olive Evetts-Perry and Cameron Lofts

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All hands on deck... Above, from left: Cameron Lofts, Olive Evetts-Perry, Felix Brettel-Cook, George Dood, Finn Darragh, and Luke and Zack Beckmann. Right: Cameron Lofts (left) and his cousin Jacob Davidson showing off snail trophies during the “mini-beast hunt”.

PHOTOS: Nikki Dodd Muddy hands were all part of the fun at the Devonport Community Garden holiday camp.

For two weeks, children built huts, welcomed a new flock of chooks, played real-life Lego with bricks, dug holes and hunted for garden creatures.

Programme coordinator Nikki Dodd says that while the number of children attending was low on some days, the quality of time spent around chickens, gardening beds, beehives and mud was high.

Last Tuesday, the children turned a small shelter in the neighbouring Mount Cambria Reserve into a tropical-looking hut.

“The children foraged for dead palm fronds and sticks. They made a hut and tidied up the reserve a bit at the same time,” Dodd says.

Another useful activity carried out by the children was digging holes for a new irrigation system the garden is completing. “The local board funded a whole lot of new roofing and a water tank to collect rain water for the garden.

The kids helped dig up some dirt and moved a bit of earth,” Dodd says.

They returned from a “mini-beast hunt” with a healthy crop of worms and slugs. “There also was one weta, but we left that where it was,” Dodd says.

Members of the public are welcome to drop by the Devonport Community Garden on Sundays from 2pm to 4 pm. “And if they like it and want to join, we’ll give them the code 1 Victoria Road Devonport Auckland 0624. T. +64 9 445 1291 F. +64 9 445 1999 M. 0274 801 835. to the gate and they can come and go as they reservations@esplanadehotel.co.nz / www.esplanadehotel.co.nz / facebook.com/EsplanadeHotelNZ please,” she says.

Five core families are tending the community garden currently, and Peter Metcalf, a neighbour, looks after the bees.

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