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September 9, 2016

Jewellery theft from Victoria Rd shop… p2

Wilson Home upheaval: families speak out… p12,13

Interview: Grey Power’s Bill Rayner… p18

$240,000 payout after asbestos botch-up The Takapuna Boating Club has had to pay about $240,000 to a tenant following a bungled asbestos roof replacement at its historic Bayswater building.

During the work, asbestos contaminated equipment belonging to Wings & Waves Ltd, forcing it to relocate.

The business took action against the club

in the Auckland District Court, winning damages of $90,646 for contaminated stock and $100,389 in lost profits.

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Blue-ribbon event… rhythmic gymnast Hannah Kelly opened last week’s TGS Fashion Show and wowed the audience from the get-go. Story and pictures page 3.

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Around $1500 worth of jewellery was last week stolen from a cabinet at The Arcade on Victoria Rd. Ivan Cornelius, the owner of Cornelius Jewellery, arrived at work last Tuesday to discover the theft. His display box was open and empty. ­A pearl necklace, three silver necklaces and a matching pair of earrings worth a total of about $1500 were all gone.

“It must have happened either between 5.30 and 6pm Monday night after Haywards Paper Power closed, or around 7 am on Tuesday morning, just after the Arcade was unlocked.”

Cornelius has an insurance excess of $15,000, so he won’t be claiming for the stolen goods.

Last Wednesday, police checked for fingerprints, but nothing obvious was found.

It’s the first time anything has been stolen from Cornelius’s jewellery store since he set up shop five years ago, moving to Devonport from Herne Bay. “I knew it was a bit of a risk to put things out there, but the arcade gets locked at night and it’s usually a pretty visible spot,” he says.

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September 9, 2016

TGS Fashion Show lights up the stage

Fabulous frocks… Anneka Scholtz (above left) stuns in a duct-tape polka-dot pleated strapless number. Franke Ramdhanie (above right) channels Audrey Hepburn in a little black dress.

The Takapuna Grammar School Fashion Show celebrated its 12th year with yet another Devonport Dog Groomers stunning line-up of outfits created by students and other local designers.

Sticky Situations, a category of garments made from duct tape by the school’s Year 10 students, showcased their creativity.

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September 9, 2016

RE-ELECT MIKE

COHEN ‘‘Community Before Council”

My guiding principle has always been to put the community first.

I want progress on the Francis to Esmonde Road walking/cycle bridge as a critical part to achieve the completion of the green walk/cycle way from Devonport to Esmonde Road.

Where did Auckland Transport’s $54 million go?

We’re all frustrated over the traffic congestion on Lake and Esmonde Roads. Therefore its essential I bring a wealth of experience, proven expertise, to get AT to start to make meaningful progress. and an ability to make great community initiatives happen.

I believe that a permanent, fit for purpose ferry terminal at Bayswater and more frequent For 18 years I have been serving our local services is a priority. community.

I say no to the sale or privatisation of Public Land, whether its a golf course or any other public open space without working with the local community.

I support the Arts, sports clubs and local community organisations that make our communities friendly, vibrant and safe rather than dormitory suburbs.

I say definitely no to further reclamation into the Waitemata Harbour by Ports of Auckland.

Firstly, on the Devonport Community Board, most of the time as its Chair and now on the Local Board being its Chair for its first 18 months. Progressed our DCB projects to fruition for example our Devonport Library, both Devonport Wharf improvements, and Marine Square.

I was recognised by “Stuff” in July as one of the six hardest working politicians in Auckland.

I will continue to make a difference.

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September 9, 2016

Oscar takes top prize at NZ cycling champs

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Climb and coming second in the Individual Time Trial, after a week of playing hockey for TGS. Sam Dyne won the U15 Boys Criterium, and came third overall among the U15 Boys.

Nick Bowen won silver in the U15 Boys Criterium and bronze medals went to Josh Kench for the U16 Boys Individual Time Trial and Aidan Nicholas for the U20 Criterium.

Nicholas said the school had once again outperformed in Mt Wellington. “We had ten podium finishes across the team and 44 top tens.

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Oscar Elworthy sealed his victory in the overall classification at the New Zealand Schools Individual Cycling Championships with a dominant performance in the U20 Boys Criterium.

Elworthy, a Year 12 Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) student, had won the U20 Individual Time Trial and came fourth on the Hill Climb a day earlier. But it was last Sunday’s criterium, held in an industrial park in Mt Wellington, that catapulted him to the overall top spot.

Elworthy (16) won seven of the criterium’s 20 laps (including the final one) and came second in another three. It added up to 44 bonus points plus 100 points awarded for the final lap. He was 25 points ahead of the next-fastest rider and 49 points ahead of TGS rider Aidan Nicholas, who came third.

TGS cycling coach Terry Nicholas said the race was thrilling. “Oscar used his time-trialling skills to go off the front and the rest of the TGS boys – Harry Waine, Aidan Nicholas and Julian Laking – worked together to control the bunch, so it was great individual and team work.

“And it was a fast race too. Oscar’s average speed was about 44km/h over the 30.2 kilometres of the race,” says Nicholas.

Lucy Buckeridge was another TGS champion at the event, winning the U14 Girls Hill

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September 9, 2016

Get your boat shipshape for summer – Free Devonport pickup –

An Auckland marine company is offering a free pickup and drop-off service for trailer boat owners on the Devonport peninsula wanting to get their craft ready for summer.

Lachlan Trembath of Bayswater co-owns Ovlov Marine. He came up with the idea of making maintenance easy after chatting with fellow boaties at school Dads nights and after squash.

Hundreds of trailer boats are kept on the peninsula, but owners find it difficult to find the time to get craft in for their annual service.

“I can tow up to 3.5 tonnes so can pick up most boats and take them to work (at Westhaven), get them serviced and then bring them back.”

Servicing generally takes a couple of days, depending on what needs to be done, Trembath said. Bookings should be made and it would be good to get in now before the busy weeks prior to Christmas.

The added advantage of an Ovlov service is the company does trailer warrants inhouse, so both the boat and its carrier can be taken care of in one hit.

The Ovlov business was started in Barry’s Point Road in 1978 by Peter Jacobs.

Trembath joined the company in 1999 and bought into the business in 2004. It now has two branches (Westhaven and Pine Harbour), which have fully equipped workshops with state-of-the art diagnostic systems. It has 24 full time staff and four part-timers. Collectively the company has huge boating-industry experience.

Ovlov offers a full outboard supply and service, trailer repair and can fit and maintain steering systems, fuel systems, batteries, winches and electronics.

Ovlov has a long association with Devonport and, in addition to private boats, has done a lot of work at the naval base and for the New Zealand Navy.

The company supports many water-

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were in dire straits: a couple almost went under and Art of This World vacated to smaller premises on Victoria Rd. AT held a few lip service-style meetings and ended up paying a small compensation sum.

On the wharf I hope the rejuvenated entrance spurs AT into finding the budget to finish upgrading the rest of the wharf. To Eliza McCartney is now international many tourists and locals it is a bit strange – news, so it was a typically nice touch that like a half-finished renovation. her first stop off the plane from Brazil was Is anyone else annoyed about the to head to Belmont Intermediate School for a meet-and-greet with the kids. How unconsulted move of the SkyBus stop from inspirational for the young students to see her the ferry terminal to Customs St, a couple of up close and touch the bronze medal won by hundred metres away?

The SkyBus provided an easy link for ferry the 19-year-old athletics star, who only a few users from Northcote Point, Birkenhead, years before had gone to the school.

Waiheke Island, Bayswater and Devonport to There’s been a lot of mutual congratulations get to the airport. Now travellers have to walk and backslapping from Auckland Transport to the new stop – not the greatest trip carrying (AT) officials, councillors and others about luggage in winter rain. Then a shuttle bus the opening of the Devon on the Wharf does a loop past Sky City and takes you to restaurant. And I for one hope it does well, the departure point near the Town Hall. This the fitout is fantastic. For decades – since the adds more than 20 minutes to the journey.

This may only be a temporary relocation demise of Torpedo Bay and the Port of Call restaurants – the wharf has been in need of while work on the rail loop is completed.

But if a shuttle is necessary, why not have a some nightlife.

AT has bent over backwards for the pickup at the ferry building? new tenant (it has refused to say if a rent A further update on that great sporting holiday has been offered) in what remains a match-up, the B & D trophy played between ratepayer-owned building.

Contrast this brouhaha with its attitude to Devonport and Belmont squash clubs: the businesses across the road (ratepayers Devonport won the latest comp 23-12. The too) when the Marine Square works were runners-up prize – Barbara the blow-up going on months over schedule. With sheep – remains snugly behind the Belmont roadworks and decreased parking, retailers bar.

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September 9, 2016

From page 1

Club failed to warn tenant about asbestos removal Wings & Waves (W&W) was awarded $50,000 to help cover its $90,000 legalfee bill, meaning a total cost to the club of $240,000 (not including its own legal fees).

A claim for exemplary damages was rejected

by Judge Mary Beth Sharp.

W&W is a paragliding and kitesurfing business that rented the building’s main loft from 1996 until late 2011.

The roof-replacement job went wrong in October 2011. The Department of Labour shut down the building twice as a result.

Most of W & W’s equipment could not be decontaminated, and in August 2012, the company sued the club for its losses.

W&W co-directors Eva Keim and Reuben Muir said their business suffered losses for two years due to the equipment loss and a forced relocation. They also wanted $2020.14 of rent refunded.

Judge Sharp ruled that the club, which had known about the asbestos, should have warned its tenant that the roof contained asbestos before the replacement work started. By not doing so, it breached its primary duty of care. She awarded W&W all of the $200,000 losses it claimed.

The judge ruled against exemplary damages, saying she didn’t believe the club had acted deliberately to cause personal injury to the plaintiff.

Work on the roof began on 25 October 2011. The next day, large amounts of dust fell into the loft, landing on equipment, the directors and customers. An analysis of dust samples found asbestos and the Department of Labour closed the building for two weeks.

Asbestos was blown into the building for a second time by strong wind on 25 November. By then, W&W had returned to the loft. Once again dust samples were taken, asbestos was detected and the building was closed down by the Department of Labour.

W&W’s equipment remained locked inside until at least 2014. W&W believe it is likely still there today.

The company relocated to Keim’s Beresford St garage on 9 December 2011.

Keim and Muir sued the club in August 2012. A five-day hearing was held in June 2015 and Takapuna Boating Club made its final payment to W&W in May this year, says Keim.

Health concerns The possible health effects as a direct result of the exposure to asbestos dust hang over Keim and Muir and the customers present during the first contamination incident, one of the customers, Don Smith, told the court.

In his witness statement, Smith says he was getting ready for a paragliding lesson when he noticed workers on the partially removed roof above the W&W loft. The men seemed to be wearing protective clothing and masks, he says.

“While I was in the loft, there was a large shower of white flakes falling from the roof.

Some were as large as 3 or 4mm wide. I remarked to Eva that it was falling into my coffee… I wiped the white residue off the top of my travel mug with my finger and continued to drink my coffee,” he said.

After the incident, Keim says she and Muir were advised by their doctor to get chest X-rays and call ACC. “Our lungs were clear at the time and ACC said they would only get involved if we develop symptoms,” she says.

But only two weeks ago, the issue resurfaced.

Shopping around for new business insurance, they were told that because of their previous asbestos exposure, future lung diseases would not be covered in their disability or loss-ofincome policies, says Keim.

Then and now... the historic Bayswater building before (above) and after (page 8) its roof repairs

Attempt to shift blame Since the incident, Takapuna Boating Club has argued that it is not at fault and that responsibility lies with the contractor, Devo Construction.

Club commodore Barry Ward told the Flagstaff the club is currently in arbitration with Devo Construction and therefore could not comment on the incidents.

The club repeatedly attempted to shift responsibility to both its building contractor and architect in the W&W case, but without success.

Applications to do so were denied in July 2013 and March 2014 as well as in the final judgement.

Judge Sharp ruled that the club’s primary duty of care could not be delegated to others.

She said the club was obliged to hire an OSH-registered asbestos contractor for the removal and was aware that Devo Construction was not an asbestos specialist.

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September 9, 2016

Once a Panmure tannery

The Takapuna Boating Club was established in 1914 on the shores of Shoal Bay at Bayswater. The clubhouse, dating from 1923, is an old Panmure tannery building, which was barged across the harbour in pieces.

In the late 1960s, a new purpose-designed clubhouse was built on Takapuna’s Gould Reserve and the club’s main sailing activities were moved there.

In 1979, the City of Takapuna scheduled the Bayswater building as Category B on its District Plan Heritage list.

Since 2010, the club has been working with a heritage architect and seeking funding towards restoration of the building.

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Large bill for library upkeep The annual cost of cleaning and maintaining Devonport Library is $240,000.

The cleaning budget is $70,000 a year (which includes internal and external cleaning).

T h e b u d g e t f o r re p a i r s a n d maintenance of the library is about $170,000 a year, said Julie Pickering, Auckland Council Manager Operations (North).

However, these budgets are under review, said Pickering.

The Flagstaff requested the figures after a number of defects, repairs and maintenance, and cleaning of the library were set down in a report to the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board.

Work included: • Marked ceiling tiles were replaced • Carpets being steam-cleaned • A loose handrail was replaced • Gutters have been cleaned of debris, mostly from the Moreton Bay Fig • A stainless-steel book return has been deburred and the external drinking fountain has been water-blasted and sanitised.

The report noted that some furniture at the library has been difficult to clean, with various contractors “failing to produce acceptable results”.

“The issue is ongoing and alternative material selection may need investigation.”

Repair time for wharf clock

Out of time for six to eight weeks… the Devonport Wharf clock The Devonport Wharf clock will be out of action for six to eight weeks while it is undergoing rust repairs.

The clock was removed last week for restoration work to the housing holding the timing mechanism, an Auckland Transport spokesman said.

“The rust in the existing housing had

advanced to the stage where the timing mechanism had moved and two of the clock faces were jammed.

“We’ll also take the opportunity to replace the old lighting in the clock faces with new lights of the same colour,” he said. The clock will “look virtually the same after it’s been repaired”.

Building for sale following arson attacks A historic building that has been hit by arsonists twice in recent months has been put up for sale.

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Bill for ferry crash damage close to $20,000 The Fullers ferry crash into Devonport Wharf in February 2015 cost almost $20,000 in repairs to the structure.

The Kea crashed into the wharf on 17 February, injuring around 20 people.

An Auckland Council spokesman said the wharf sustained some structural damage in the accident and these repairs have only recently been completed.

The wharf repair cost was $18,200, but further costs were also incurred in assessing the damage, the spokesman said.

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September 9, 2016

Vulnerable feel abandoned by Wilson Home staff cuts

Four Devonport peninsula families with disabled children say they feel abandoned by the Wilson Home Trust (WHT) after it disestablished the jobs of two long-serving Family Support Coordinators a month ago without consulting the families on the change.

Now they and 80 other members of the WHT Family Action Group are fighting for the positions to be reinstated.

The group was formed “to challenge the recent lack of transparency and consultation around the management of the trust”. Its members have started a Facebook page, held discussions with the Waitemata District Health Board and taken legal advice.

The Devonport families say the coordinators were a key part of the holistic care the WHT offered and that the decision to cut the roles (taken behind closed doors) is a slap in the face to vulnerable people.

All the parents the Flagstaff interviewed said that Sally King, who held one of the positions for 14 years, and Anne Nieuwland, who had the other role for seven years, were uniquely qualified to support families of disabled children, because they both had disabled children themselves.

“Any parent of a disabled child will tell you, you have to have been there to know what it’s

like,” says Cheryl Farthing, mother of 12-yearold Charlie who was born with two disabilities.

Pam Laird says she received constant support from the coordinators during the short life of her daughter Grace Star, who was born with microcephaly (best known recently as a condition associated with the Zika virus) and lissencephaly, between 2001 until 2004.

“They gave their lives to us and what upsets me most is that future parents with disabled children, who will go through what we went through, will have to do without them,” says Laird.

“When you are told your new baby has a disability, it’s as if you were on your way to a tropical island holiday and all of a sudden the pilot says, we’re changing course to Siberia.

“You are thrown into this world you don’t know anything about and these guys helped our family find the way from day one. I simply don’t know what we would have done without them.”

Laird says had the trust spoken to any parents before they made the cuts, they would have learned how important the roles were.

Brian Neeson, chair of the WHT, has apologised to the parents for not communicating with them earlier. He says the positions were cut because having that level of care for Aucklanders alone wasn’t fair. “The trust deed

we operate under required the trust to assist beneficiaries from right across the upper North Island. We want to move into a new direction that provides good support to all families in need across this large geographic area,” he wrote in a letter to parents.

Ten days later, he wrote to the families again, saying the trust now wanted to “understand more about your views to ensure the new direction the committee takes regarding family support addresses your concerns.”

Wilson Home Interim Manager Russell Vickery said it was now working with families to make sure their voices are properly reflected in any further decisions about support. Some may be included on the home’s management committee.

The WDHB and WHT now plan surveys and workshops with parents.

King said despite her job going, she still believes in the generosity of the trust that began with the land the Wilson family donated in the 1930s. “It is very valuable, a treasure of a place and symbolises the value people put on children with special needs,” she said.

Children under treatment at the Wilson Centre were from all across New Zealand, King said.

The Flagstaff also contacted Nieuwland who declined to be interviewed.

Four parents explain how much the services meant Charlie Farthing was born with a metabolic disorder so rare that he is the only child in New Zealand who has it. He also has Down syndrome. And pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy meant that he was tube fed until the age of four because he would be under too much cardiac stress if he tried to breastfeed. Charlie had congestive heart failure at nine weeks old.

The Down Syndrome and tube-fed children’s play groups, organised by the co-ordinators Sally and Anne, were hugely important to Cheryl.

“When I visited the Plunket group, other mums were talking about their babies reaching milestones. Charlie wouldn’t reach any of those any time soon...and bringing a tube-fed baby that has constant seizures put a real dampener on things for those mums too,” says Cheryl.

The WHT groups were “like coming home, so reassuring and comforting. The friends I made there are still part of my life 12 years on,” says Cheryl.

“And just knowing that you could pick up the phone and talk to someone who cares and knows what you are going through was so helpful,” she says.

Sally also encouraged Cheryl to apply for a study trip grant to visit the US to learn about feeding techniques for Charlie.

A second trip to the Graz Children’s Hospital in Austria got Charlie weaned off the tube.

“As a direct result of my little grant, Starship Hospital later introduced the technique here,” Cheryl says.

Cheryl Farthing, with son Charlie

September 9, 2016

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Joanna Kebbell

Five-year old Amy Kebbell was born with the genetic disorder Phelan-McDermid syndrome, which causes intellectual disability, delayed or absent speech, symptoms of autism, low muscle tone and epilepsy.

Amy’s speech has recently regressed. “She once had 100 words but now has none,” says her mother Joanna. Amy attends Wilson School.

Joanna says Amy’s hyperactive behaviour meant that the monthly WHT playgroup and weekly swimming lessons the coordinators ran at the trust were the only activities she attended with Amy. “Mainstream activities are so stressful that you basically end up not going. Going to the Takapuna pool is hard work for us. First of all access is difficult, then getting changed is tricky because Amy likes to escape, and finally people are looking at you all the time. You do it once and it’s such a hassle that you end up just not bothering again,” she says.

“Sally and Anne just got that. You have to have been there yourself to know what it’s like to be the parent of a disabled child,” she says.

Joanna has looked around for swim lessons for children with mental disabilities offered elsewhere, but has so far not found any.

Joanna Kebbell with son Jack and Barry Mitchell holding daughter Amy

Kim Graham

Finlay Graham (11) is one of three siblings. He has cerebral palsy, global development delay and epilepsy.

Mother Kim is Finlay’s main caregiver and was recently diagnosed with a brain tumour. “My recovery will take time and I could have really done with the holistic support the Wilson Home Trust family coordinators once provided,” she said last week on a day when her two other children were home sick from school as well.

Kim has been drawing on the WHT coordinators’ support for the last 11 years and has become friends with Sally and Anne. “They came anyway when they heard what had happened (her brain tumour diagnosis) and helped until my husband and other family arrived,” she says.

Kim says the WHT family coordinators were “like an extended family” because “they had walked the same path as those they were supporting. From the day Finlay was born, they understood, empathised and helped,” she says.

Clinical therapists and specialists come and go. But Sally and Ann had provided a much needed constancy in Kim’s life.

She was shocked to receive an email on August 7, telling her about the disestablishment of the roles.

“There were no discussions beforehand, no nothing. With them go the Christmas parties, support group meetings, mums healing weekends, dad nights, holiday activities, regular newsletters, hydrotherapy and so much more,” she says.

The sudden and surprising axings upset Kim. “I feel I’m grieving once again. They brought the disability community together in a family way,” she says.

Finlay and his family... Dad Cam Butcher, mum Kim Graham and siblings Rosie and Lachie

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Grace Laird was born severely disabled with microcephaly and lissencephaly, which caused her to have a small and smooth brain.

She died in December 2004, when she was three years old.

Grace’s mother Pam Laird says for the time her daughter was alive, the WHT’s Family Support Coordinators helped her in countless ways.

When Grace died, Pam’s first son Zac was five years old and she was heavily pregnant with Oliver, who was born two weeks after Grace’s death. “Sally organised Grace’s funeral. She just did everything. I don’t know what we would have done without that because we were totally incapable,” says Pam. The coordinators had been supportive from the day Grace was born, says Pam. “They put us in touch with people who could help us, told us what we were entitled to, found someone compatible to help us in the home, and were an amazing sounding board.

“Sally organised our doctor, physio and occupational therapist appointments at the trust. She came along to our doctor’s appointments, would be waiting at the door with toys for Zac, would take him outside when things got too intense and just play with him,” says Pam. “I remember one Christmas we had a particularly bad time and the coordinators brought us food and presents for the kids. I could go on and on,” she says.

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Little spine from Auckland Transport to progress works on Lake Rd negotiations will likely take a minimum of two to three years. All the electrical power distribution along Lake Rd will also have to be undergrounded, so count on that taking up to two years. Then allow at least another year or two to do the realignment and repaving.

But Darby is predicting that it can all be done by 2019-20 “If the Cabinet confirms Lake Rd as a priority…”. Give me a break!

The council and AT go at glacial speed, not warp speed.

I am all for dreaming big, but all he is promising is a big chimera. All the power is with AT. And the councillors have shown little spine in bringing those unelected and unaccountable grey bureaucrats to heel, so drawing a pretty picture and hoping will not get it done. AT is more intent on wasting time and money on cosmetic projects such as in Fleet St and a Calliope Rd roundabout,

Chris Darby’s opinion piece (Flagstaff 26 August), masquerading as a political advertisement, contains some rational points, but has a mythical graphic that destroys his credibility. His pretty picture shows a calculated boundary-to-boundary distance of 21.0 metres. But if he bothered to measure the width of Lake Rd between Hauraki Corner and Belmont, it is less than that, apart from in a few places.

Achieving his dream design will require the compulsory acquisition of a strip of land, usually between about 0.5 and 1.0m, from the private owners along Lake Rd. More will be required if the model of what was done down to Esmonde Rd is followed by Auckland Transport (AT), because there, the finished width is over 23m. If land is taken all down one side, that will involve about 70 properties, and from past experience,

than a concerted effort on Lake Rd. I have pasted his drawing to my dartboard, so that it at least fills a useful purpose, while we wait for some real action by determined politicians that delivers real results.

K F Wilson 78 Lake Rd (where the width is 20.4m) • Rob Drent, Editor replies: I am well aware a local body election is about to occur. But the wheels of government are still turning (albeit as you say slowly).

The opinion piece from Chris Darby was commissioned by the Flagstaff some time ago, as I was bored with people moaning about what was going to be done about Lake Rd but not coming up with any solutions. Darby’s piece will hopefully spark some fresh debate – and indeed it already has with your letter.

Wharf wall inappropriate

We are all part of the Devonport transport solution

Mike Cohen is quite right about the wall on the eastern side of the new Devon on the Wharf restaurant being an invasion of public space, even if his “Berlin Wall” description is a mite exaggerated.

For those of us living on the eastern side of the village, being able to walk under the canopy

Great opinion piece and Flagstaff headline: “We are all part of Devonport transport solution” (Flagstaff, 26 August).

To quote Chris Darby: “It is so easy to think of traffic as the car ahead rather than the car you’re in.”

The way forward will require each of us reviewing our individual travel option choices.

when it’s wet and windy has been a plus. But that now seems to be prevented, as after taking a look, I agree that most people would not feel they should walk through what definitely looks like part of the restaurant, weaving their way in and out among tables and dodging waitstaff.

Gretchen Leach

Berlin Wall comparison insensitive I’d like to know whether it was local board member Mike Cohen or the Devonport Flagstaff who had the insensitivity to compare an inconvenient wall on the wharf to the wall that led to the separation of

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Trees on Mt Victoria not so simple In the 1970s, Alan Rosier organised major tree planting on our mountain. A fairly wide selection of species was obtained, probably from One Tree Hill nursery. The council put in a hose cock somewhere on the north face and we spent happy hours trying to stop the plantings dying from thirst. In the event, it appears that only the pohutukawa were tough enough to survive the relatively harsh conditions, particularly on the north face. There is very little top soil and what there is turns to dust in high summer. The pohutukawa is really only suited to the wild

sea coast; it is tough but uncivilised. It looks superb for 3 per cent of the year and for the remaining 97 per cent it is dull and just makes a horrid mess. Mt Victoria does not need any more pohutukawa.

The top 40 or 50 metres should be kept clear to preserve the outstanding views, and the iconic cone shape of the mountain. The cardboard toboggan tracks and the views from the various walking tracks must also be kept clear. So that reduces the amount of potential tree planting space somewhat.

Denys Oldham

Soccer field development an own goal for Lake Rd Without exception, the candidates for the local elections make bold claims about fixing Lake Rd . Yet Mike Cohen and Grant Gillon, current local board members, are proposing a development which will exacerbate congestion in one stroke.

At a recent meeting at North Shore United Football Club, the council presented analysis, provided by the club, which demonstrates the club is short of 14 hours of training under lights. The club is adamant it needs a central training facility, although the present model, where training and games are distributed over several pitches in the area, has not impeded its growth .

The figures also illustrate that the club is not short of game capacity and this proposed development will not address the quality issues on a number of other pitches, which will still be needed for games. There is also a concern about whether the club’s growth can be sustained, given the changing demographics of Devonport, which is now unaffordable for many young families.

Yet the proposal to address this, even with conservative estimates, will exceed $4million. A key question therefore is: is this really a good use of ratepayers’ money?

The proposed midweek training schedule shows 1,140 individuals attending training at Allen Hill midweek afternoons/evenings in waves of up to 150 children – often coinciding with peak times. It is worth noting this is just the midweek usage. It is not yet known how many games and visiting teams will simultaneously host matches over the two pitches on the weekends. How will these footballers get into Allen Hill? Even if reconfigured, with more parking and a one-way system, the lane/s entering and exiting from Lake Rd are wholly unsuitable for this volume of traffic.

Lake Rd is already at capacity and cannot cater for additional users. Even now it is problematic to turn into the site, and even worse trying to leave and turn back onto Lake Rd . Where is the traffic analysis to demonstrate how Lake Rd will cope? Or are we unwittingly condoning and accepting we will have gridlock every evening along Memorial Drive and up to the roundabout?

In contrast, a few years ago there was work to improve the fields on Vauxhall Domain . It is a great pitch now. Mike Cohen said “brilliant” and “very cheap” . Why can’t this cost-effective “brilliance” – addressing drainage and better maintenance – be undertaken at the pitches around the peninsula? With these pitches at a better standard, training could be moved to these venues before dusk and free up lighted venues for later training for the older age groups. This would address the capacity shortfall and all the teams would have matchfit pitches to play on for their Saturday games too. This would be far cheaper and actually solve the modest capacity problem and playability for matches and training, without compounding and creating more significant issues.

A full and comprehensive traffic assessment must be undertaken, and implications understood, before more time and money is spent on designs. Thereafter, if this developemnt is to proceed, the local board should volunteer to have the resource consent notifiable, so these issues can be fully explored, understood and discussed with the whole community before we score an unwelcome home goal.

Michele Lennan

Can it get any worse?

Picture the scene. On a beautiful, brilliant, bright spring day in Devonport, I observed hundreds of cruise ship passengers spilling from Fullers ferries onto Devonport wharf.

The information kiosk on the wharf long gone. No alternative site in the village in operation.

Fortunately, we have a delightful waterfront and a tour bus operator and some decent cafes.

But the Devonport experience could have been so much more enjoyable for them had they known what else was available – guidebook sets, local staff etc, to assist.

Wake up Auckland Council!

Don’t allow another summer to pass by allowing opportunities to slip through your failing feeble fingers.

Colin Tubbs

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Wynyard descendent gives power to grey brigade Grey Power North Director Bill Rayner has been involved in politics and community affairs since the age of 23, when he ran for parliament. Rayner is a descendant of colonial soldier and administrator Robert Henry Wynyard and of Ngati Kahungunu ancestory. He spoke to Maire Vieth about politics, heritage and the American Field Service scholarship that changed his life.

Bill Rayner says that it is his Aunty Audrey Wynyard’s fault he got involved in Grey Power 18 years ago.

“She lived on Cambria Road in a sausageblock unit and her rates were going up by 15 per cent. So when George Wood was standing for his first mayoralty in 1998, I went to various meetings and asked the candidates what they were going to do about her rates,” he says.

The aunt’s story became so well known that Grey Power approached Rayner to join them. He was 58 and had recently retired from a career as a chartered accountant.

Since then, Rayner has twice been president of Grey Power North Shore, an organisation with 3,500 members and now a small office at Fort Takapuna. Both times he stepped in when the need arose because the role had been vacated mid-term. He is also zone director for Grey Power’s eight Auckland groups and has been on the organisation’s board.

Rayner says he has been called its “talking chief” in the past. He says his involvement is mostly on the political side. “Because rates were going up in the 1990s, we focused mostly on lobbying council then,” he says.

The same is true today. “Ninety-five per cent of our work is focused on Auckland Council. We were at the first meeting on the Auckland Plan and made a 20-page submission. But we got lost in the Unitary Plan, like everyone else, so we aligned ourselves with other organisations like Auckland 2040, Devonport Heritage and the Character Coalition,” he says.

Rates are still a key issue for Grey Power.

Last year, Rayner asked council to hold rates down for anyone aged over 65. “It’s quite common in the US and Australia that when you get to 65 your rates don’t go up any more,” he says.

Bill Rayner with a painting of the land his Wynyard ancestors once owned Population increase, heritage and asset sales are among other issues the organisation has tackled, he says. “We are dead set against any kind of assets being sold as a fundamental principle, basically because we are the generation that bought them in the first place,” he says.

A 2013 submission asking for a population policy forum got him into political strife, Rayner says. “We wanted to discuss the impact of large-scale immigration on Auckland and the cultural shift it brings and were called right-wing racist bigots, which was quite wrong. We had no policy on it, and

just wanted to discuss the issue that now has come home to roost,” he says.

Rayner sees Grey Power’s influence increasing. Over the last five years, the North Shore body has made 112 submissions and presentations to different parts of council, he says.

“At this point, it is one of only a few panAuckland organisations. With the Citizens and Ratepayers Associations falling away, we at times get involved in community issues like saving the Masonic or Takapuna Beach campground,” he says.

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September 9, 2016 Devonport Senior Citizens Association since 2015, and has been involved in community affairs all his life. In 1963, at the age of 23, he ran for parliament in the Mt Eden electorate (where he was flatting) as a candidate for the Liberal Party.

He was the Electoral Secretary for Frank Gill, the East Coast Bays National Party MP in 1978. “And I was expected to take over as MP in 1980, but Don Brash beat me [in the National Party selection],” he says. Brash lost the subsequent by-election to Social Credit’s Garry Knapp.

Rayner joined the board of governors at Rangitoto College, became a councillor on the East Coast Bays City Council and a member of the Auckland Harbour Board during the 1980s.

Once retired, he partially completed a Museum Studies course at Massey University and became involved in the museum sector: at the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) as a board member, an aviation curator and currently as acting chair of the MOTAT Society; on the Auckland Museum Institute Council; on the executive committee of Lopdell House: as a trustee of the Auckland Coastal Defence Heritage Trust; on the board of the International Association of Transport Museums; and as a founding member of the New Zealand Rugby League Museum.

He was an advisor to the Ministry of Culture and Heritage on the review of the Antiquities Act in 2002, a member of Te Papa’s Sector Standards Advisory Panel and since 2011 has sat on Auckland Council’s Heritage Advisory Panel. He was president of Devonport Heritage from 2003 until 2005.

“It was through being an executive member of Devonport Museum that I became spokesperson for small community museums at Te Papa,” he says.

Rayner lives in a two-bedroom house near Torpedo Bay. He moved into the house 15 years ago after separating from his wife. His mother, Gladwyn Wynyard, had bought it in 1978 to retire in Devonport. Her local connection goes back to the mid-1800s and Robert Henry Wynyard who came to New Zealand as Colonel of the 58th Regiment in 1844.

“He was in command of the New Zealand military, was Lieutenant Governor of the North Island, the first elected official as Superintendent of the Auckland Province, basically on the first council and bought quite a bit of land in Devonport when the land sales opened up in 1853,” Rayner says.

That land included four acres between Victoria Rd, Calliope Rd and Clarence St, plus more land along both sides of Calliope Road.

Robert Henry Wynyard had four sons.

“My ancestor was his eldest son, Gladwin, who married Maryanne Benson, who was also known as Wahine Kino and of Ngati Kahungunu descent,” he says. Rayner’s

family has further Maori connections through the Bay of Island’s Henare family who are Ngapuhi.

Rayner has served as a financial advisor to Ngati Kahungunu since 2010, and was on the board of the iwi’s asset-holding company until 2007.

Rayner was born in Whakatane. His father Len worked in a bank there until he joined the army during World War II, when Gladwyn and the children lived with her family in Devonport on Mays Street.

Len Rayner was badly wounded in the 1944 Battle of Monte Cassino.

“We are dead set against any kind of assets being sold as a fundamental principle, basically because we are the generation that bought them in the first place.”

After the war, the family moved to Opotiki, from where Bill Rayner was sent to Mt Albert Grammar as a boarder in the fifth form. “You just ran out of education in a small place like Opotiki,” he says.

In 1958, at the age of 17, he received an American Field Service (AFS) scholarship and headed to San Francisco to spend his last school year at Sir Francis Drake High School in San Amselmo.

“Imagine the culture change for a New Zealand country boy from Opotiki in the American Graffiti-style rock’n’roll culture of Marin County,” he says.

Rayner says the scholarship changed his life, “because of the people I went with and met. There were 23 of us and I was what was called the ‘country quota’. The others tended to be head boys and head girls,” he says.

When he returned to New Zealand, Rayner put himself through university, studying part time for a BCom in Economics

and Accounting in Auckland, while working increasingly as an accountant.

“For two summers I had a job at a freezing works in South Auckland where you got full union wages. My first accounting job was with Post and Telegraph, the equivalent of Spark today, then at the Department of Industries and Commerce for about three years,” he says.

Rayner says he liked working for entrepreneurial people. One example was Bill Sutch, who was Secretary of the Department of Industries and Commerce when Rayner worked there and later would be accused of being a Russian spy.

Rayner also worked at Universal Homes with Bill Subritzky, a property developer turned evangelist.

Rayner met his wife Ruth while still at university. “Her family had an AFS student and when she took off to England I followed her a year later. We bought a Mini and did a trip behind the Iron Curtain, from the Polish town of Gdansk down to Istanbul,” he says Back in New Zealand, Rayner got a job at Air New Zealand and he and Ruth settled in her parents’ beach house in Campbells Bay. “We ended up staying there and just sold the house this year. We were surrounded by bush and our three kids grew up there.

In modern terms it was quite a primitive place, but it was also heaven with the beach so close,” he says.

Rayner worked for 30 years in international shipping and aviation, for Columbus Line, the container shipping company now part of Hamburg Süd. He says he loved the entrepreneurial aspect of his work. “We introduced container shipping to New Zealand.”

The job took him around the world. “We started Akarana Air and New Zealand’s first courier company. I spent quite a bit of time travelling to New York and Hamburg then,” he says.

These days, Rayner says he spends a fair amount of time writing. “It has always been something I can do, whether it is letters to MPs, the local paper or the family history I started from my grandchildren’s point of view. It’s quite a task,” he says.

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Time to change to get the city we want It never ceases to amaze me how thickskinned, deaf and blind to reality our governors are. Maggie’s going to host senior citizen meetings in October examining scams that are targeted at our elderly. At the same time Maggie is saying she is preserving our heritage and our landscape in her one-page advertisement. Right under our noses we see an aged-care facility flouting our landscape and heritage values, by way of scale and ugly massive design. It plans to gouge cash off the uninformed. These places have predated on the loneliness and fear of old age and pose safety and comfort as value. Investors, All Blacks, politicians and big business join the rush to sell the elderly homes at two or three times the real value – plus fees and a cut on your death day. They take the family inheritance.

Well-to-do seldom get sucked in and I’m not expecting to find Chris Darby or Maggie in a Ryman facility. They cram hundreds in hospital-styled buildings and give them a bowling green and cream scones on open days. Sadly, many families neglect their elderly too. The elderly are seen as cash cows and celebrated in financial sections of the papers. But the estates of these pensioners should perhaps not go to family who leave them to rot. Maggie’s friends are promoting this industry. Our aged are treated as a commodity who can be sucked

in as easily as the same mob that got caught

by Hanover Finance.

While we’re at it, the other major rip-off of the elderly is the hearing-aid industry. Five to 10 thousand (usually six thousand) dollars for two earpieces with a fraction of the hardware a cell phone has in it. The products are made worldwide on a large scale. The ear-testing game is a joke. When you’re old you lose some clarity, but that doesn’t need complex testing. Then there’s the batteries and the near impossible difficulty for old people to fit these things and keep them clean, let alone how easy they are to drop and lose. I’ve tried them, and the noise they add is not good.

Elder abuses are mostly done by family, the hearing-aid mobsters, the retirement home parasites, drug companies and council allowing not only valuation-assessed rate increases but also percentage increases. The government meanwhile allows the giveaway of public-purse money.

And Mr Darby, with all due respect to your utterances on Lake Rd: the design is a failure. If that’s your plan in the last Flagstaff, God help us. Confident cyclists can soon block bus lanes and T2. Already abusive cyclists usually sports cyclists, cause chaos on our roads. They will slowly cause their own deaths on the roads, and your design

adds to that.

Chris, from day one the Lake Rd trouble started at Bardia, pushing everyone into one lane and leaving the road empty in the middle.

Incoming to Devonport always worked better up until that day they changed the road markings – that coupled with endless lights and crossings instead of subways. Schools failing to build their own bus and pickup zones on their own land are other contributors to chaos.

More chaos coming from the harbour bridge.

The exit strategy is dumb. The stop-go lights at the motorway failed worldwide, but we have them.

Perhaps the biggest issue is driver education: it’s nil. Fools wander slowly to their destinations with no regard to the jam behind them. These people who can’t move swiftly and safely should be on the buses.

We need change. Maggie and Chris, it’s mass immigration that’s choking our roads at a rate we don’t want and the incoming have not paid any tax to fix the chaos. You guys know that as fast as you’re fixing it, immigration and a growing city is jamming it up faster. Vote for change. What’s been going on has failed us. As far as I can see, the current powers that be are mismanaging our town and our rates, and destroying the environment.

Ron Dykman

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Local-board candidates are peninsula dwellers Two local-body candidates for the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board – Don Campbell and Gary Venus – have contacted the Flagstaff to say they live at the northern end of the peninsula. They should have been included in a list of Devonport peninsula candidates noted in our 26 August edition.

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Many parenting books debate different methods for growing good kids, but I am yet to find a book that helps train your children about money. Teaching your kids money management is a life skill. Money issues underpin relationship break-ups, anxiety, self-worth and self-esteem – yet as parents, too many of us brush over this important life skill. Worse yet, many of us ignore money altogether. The reality however, is that most parents do not know how to manage money themselves, with their own behaviour undermining any teaching goals. Across the board, people are spending more than they earn, irrespective

by Katie Wesney of their earnings. The more you earn, the more disconnected you become from your spending, leading you to increased spending. It is against this backdrop that a parent needs to somehow teach skills they don’t even possess themselves.

To raise a financially responsible kid, is to raise a socially responsible child. Do not protect your kid in bubble wrap and expect them to become financially independent. If you have not mastered this yourself, then you need to pay someone else to help you, so you can then help them. Do you want your children to inherit your work ethic or the bludger ethic? I have seen parents scrimp and save to better their position and to give themselves a fighting chance for a comfortable retirement, for one of their children to suck them dry and for them to be unable to stop it. It is a parent’s job to

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Get your finances in order. Start living within your means with a strategy to own a house, kill the mortgage and sort retirement. Or at the very least be making some financial progress. If you aren’t doing it, identify it and get help.

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Winding-up meeting for Devonport Heritage A winding-up meeting for Devonport Heritage – which faces court costs of $21,000 from the fight to Save the Masonic Tavern – will be held on 14 September at 53 Tainui Rd at 7.30 pm.

In May, the Flagstaff revealed that Devonport Heritage was being pursued for the money by Redback Develop, which is in the process of building 10 apartments on the site.

At the time it was issued with the bill, Heritage president Trish Deans said it would continue in the short term as it was heavily involved in compiling submissions to the Auckland Unitary Plan.

A liquidator of the heritage society will be appointed at the meeting.

It has been speculated that a new heritage group will be formed under a different name.

Devonport Squash Club champions The Devonport Squash club championships were held last weekend with the winners decided as: Men’s Open, Oliver French; Women’s Open, Annie Hall; Junior Boys, Ben Edwards; Junior Girls, Sophie Bradly.

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Sea Scouts win trophy in winter sailing series Calliope Sea Scouts have won the prestigious Pakuranga Winter Sailing Series.

Scouts and Young Mariners competed for the Pakuranga Cup, racing 17-foot cutters in the Tamaki River from Farm Cove, Pakuranga.

Venturers and scouts were included in the cup-winning team from Calliope.

The series was raced fortnightly, from April until July, in a variety of conditions, from light to heavy winds, and on a variety of course configurations.

The series win followed good results in cutter and sunburst sailing in the regional Scout regattas held over the summer season.

Calliope sailing instructors Daniel Leech and Sebastian Gundry were considered instrumental in the progress of the Calliope sailors.

Calliope is one of the oldest Sea Scout groups in New Zealand, sailing from ‘The Ship’, King Edward Parade in Devonport.

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Croquet club opts for man power The North Shore Croquet Club in Devonport has elected Garth Cumberland as its new president – the first male to lead the club in its 84-year history.

Tribute was paid at the club’s annual meeting to the work of retiring president Charlotte Millar, who had steered the club over the last eight years, which included the damage to the club wrought by tornado-like winds that swept through Devonport several years ago.

Rod Templeman was re-elected as club captain.

The club is attracting a wide variety of ages. New members included Ron Child (95) and Patch Johnson (11).

Cumberland said the new open fencing at the Wairoa Rd club had been well received by locals, who enjoyed being able to have a better view of the greens.

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Cardiac arrest inspires band’s Bowie-tribute fundraiser On a mid-January evening last year, Wonderfish Collective vocalist Geoff Brogan joined his soccer teammates for the first hitout of the summer season. He might have questioned his fitness, but the last thing on his mind was cardiac arrest.

But that’s exactly what happened. In the middle of the game, Brogan, sports-mad, healthy and fit, dropped to the ground.

“There was no pain, no numbness, no warning. I was running for a pass, and then nothing would work and I had a sensation of falling,” he says.

The intervention of his teammates and deployment of an automatic external defibrillator (AED), which zaps the heart back into action after cardiac arrest, made the difference between death – which he experienced twice on the field – and the life he now enjoys.

Brogan will be joining 15-piece The Wonderfish Collective when they return to The Victoria Theatre for their Under Pressure show, celebrating the songbook of David Bowie.

Since forming nearly 10 years ago, The Wonderfish Collective have donated all profits to charity.

This year proceeds will purchase an AED for North Head, thanks to the support of the Department of Conservation and Gareth Jenkins, who runs a National AED database.

The Wondersfish Collective have

performed sell-out shows at The Vic in recent years.

Band leader Nick Edgar has always tried to keep them as far away from a standard covers band as possible.

“We love taking an artist and diving deep into their repertoire to see what we can do with it. We’re looking forward to exploring Bowie’s songbook as it provides so many musical opportunities.”

The Under Pressure show features Devonport local Helen Crook, who arranged, and will perform with friends, a stringquartet version of Space Oddity.

Paddy Cornfield, fresh from his annual piano concerto, will once again hold the band together with his masterful keyboard skills.

The show also includes a jazz version of The Jean Genie by Mary Cornish, backed by Tom Taylor’s band, Round Buddha. Special guests Eliza Beca, Barney Chunn and Molly Rowlandson not only lower the average stage age but also have some treats in store. And the rumours are one or two members of local hip-hop/funk band Lakes could show up.

Taking a break from recording their first EP, Hoop will perform a few tracks before The Wonderfish Collective take the stage with their interpretations of Bowie classics.

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Eliza brings heavy metal to Belmont Intermediate Belmont Intermediate School students got to hold Eliza McCartney’s Olympic bronze medal last Tuesday morning, only hours after the Devonport pole-vaulter had arrived back in the country following the Rio Olympics. Many of the kids said they couldn’t believe how heavy the medal was.

McCartney was welcomed home with a special assembly at her former school, where she was a student in 2008 and 2009. Students were excited to see her arriving at the school, shouting out: “Eliza you used to babysit me” or, referring to the school house, “you were in Couvier like me.”

McCartney encouraged the students to try out as many sport and activities as possible at BIS. That’s what she did until she came across pole-vaulting. Eliza’s mother Donna Marshall said her daughter had done orienteering, rugby, cross-country, athletics, netball and dance at the school. She had also gone to sports camps and participated in the Te Awamutu exchange every year.

Principal Nick Hill put a photo on the wall that showed McCartney during an art class while still at BIS. It elicited a few more giggles from the Olympic bronze medallist. She also remembered many of the lyrics of the school song, which the current BIS students sang for her.

McCartney told the students that medalling “had never been part of the plan” and was as big as a surprise to her as to the rest of New Zealand. “But I’m glad it went that way.”

Eliza said she had made a conscious decision two years ago that working on her sport had to be fun. “I had to make sure I was enjoying it, otherwise with all the time you have to put in it, it’s just not worth doing,” she said.

Mixing and mingling with medallist… BIS students touch McCartney’s bronze medal during her school visit

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In a class of her own 3 to 21 September

Escape Artists What do admen do when they escape?

A group exhibition of paintings and multimedia works by local artists who have worked in the advertising industry.

Centre stage at old school‌ Eliza McCartney is interveiwed by Belmont Intermediate principal Nick Hill

Daphne Mason: 21st Century

These vigorous and often joyous structured works distil themes Mason has returned to throughout her career, namely memories and implied connections.

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Broken toes no problem for karate kid Nina In her first year learning karate, Nina Edgar, then aged five, broke several toes and fingers.

But the injuries didn’t deter her.

Ten years later, Nina is heading to the Oceania Karate Championships in New Caledonia as part of the New Zealand team, where she will compete in both the Kumite and Kata styles.

Kumite karate style is aggressive. “You get bashed around quite a bit. I have kicked so hard to the head of my opponent that I broke two of my toes on her plastic guard. But I still won the fight and the whole thing,” Nina says.

Fights only last two minutes, but the intensity make them feel much longer, says Nina. “The most important thing about it is your timing and strategy. It’s very exhausting and you have to be very fit,” she says.

Nina, a Year 10 student at Takapuna Grammar School, will compete in the Under47kg Kumite at the Oceania champs.

She also practices Kata, a form of karate that involves a series of solo movements. “It’s a traditional routine passed on for generations.

There are many styles of Kata. I do the one called Gōjū-ryū,” Nina says.

She will compete in the 14-15 years girls Kata competition in New Caledonia.

Nina has had excellent results this year.

She medalled at the New Zealand National Secondary School Karate Championships and at the New Zealand Karate National Champs,

both held in Porirua in July.

Nina came first in the 14-15 female Kumite and second at the 14-15 female Kata in the schools champs. And she won gold in the 14-15 yrs Kumite and silver in the Primer 14-15 yrs Kata in the national champs.

Last November, she was selected to attend the World Karate Championships held in Jakarta, Indonesia, where she competed in two events and won gold both times. She is world champion female cadet in the 14-15 Kata and also in the female junior Under-48kg Kumite.

Nina has been training with the national karate team in Henderson four days a week for about a year, where she also teaches a karate class for 4- to 13-year-old boys and girls.

She also trains by herself, in her bedroom.

She stretches for 20 minutes first, which she says is almost meditative. “Then I imagine the amount of power and speed I want to put into my Kata. And then I do it.”

Nina is one-quarter Japanese and fluent in the language. She was born in New Zealand but lived in Japan for 11 years. “We moved to Okinawa when I was about two. It’s where karate was invented,” she says.

She got into the sport at an early age. “A boy I liked started doing karate and I thought it looked cool,” she says.

Ten years later, she loves the sport because “it’s easy to get focused and lost in it. And it makes me proud of what I do.”

Proud and determined…

Nina Edgar, holding her two sai weapons, which are used in karate training

with BID Manager Judy Grieve

ARTWEEK Auckland October 8th-16th

ARTWEEK Auckland is a 10-day festival celebrating the visual-arts community of Auckland.

Whether you are an art expert or an absolute novice, you can immerse yourself in Auckland’s amazingly vibrant art world at any level.

Devonport celebrates ARTWEEK with exhibitions, installations, art films at the Vic, pop-up art windows, special menus and entertainment.

GLOW is back in Devonport with teams of Unitec Architecture students presenting their stunning light installations during the weekend of 14-16th October.

GLOW Open Street will be held on Saturday 15th October from 11.00 am until 10.00 pm. Clarence Street will be transformed into a new space.

Enjoy art installations, activities, games and evening cycle tours. Grab your bike and join in the fun!

Don’t miss a special sunset music performance featuring the Nathan Haines Band and a DJ set with Jaimie Webster Haines.

ARTWEEK programmes are available in Devonport.

For more information visit artweekauckland.co.nz or www.devonport.co.nz

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Takapuna

Grammar

SCHOOL NEWS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Making fabulous music This month has been a fantastic one for the music department. TGS music groups competed at KBB, a music festival that showcases the best in secondary school bands and orchestras from around Auckland.

Over 135 schools participated this year.

TGS Senior Concert Band, under the direction of Mr Andrew Uren, gained a Gold Award and were nominated for the Chairperson’s Command Performance Award for their spectacular rendition of the Rimsky-Korsakov Trombone Concerto, featuring Year 13 soloist David Paligora.

TGS Symphony Orchestra and TGS Strings represented the school very well in a category where we are just starting out.

The Symphony Orchestra in particular has an exciting future at the school as we look to cement its position as one of our leading instrument ensembles.

“This group has exceeded way beyond our expectations,” says Mrs. Roe who has been integral in establishing this group along with Director, Mr David Stent. Both teachers are currently working hard to improve this brand-new ensemble. They agree that entering this group in KBB was an opportunity to “reflect on how things can be done better next year, as this is the start of a new tradition.”

TGS Junior Concert Band, a combination of students from TGS and BIS, gained a Bronze Award under the fierce and demanding direction of Mr Ted Dawson, who continues to prove the value and impact of the continuing implementation of an instrumental music scheme that connects the two campuses.

Finally, TGS Jazz Band, conducted by Mr Stent, also gained a Gold Award and won the award for the Best Performance of a New Zealand Work (Jazz Band category). To top off an exceptional evening for Takapuna Grammar, the Jazz Band were invited to perform at the Gala Concert at the Holy Trinity Cathedral as the nominated and overall winners of the Chairperson’s Command Performance Award. The crowning glory of our achievement this year, these last two awards were won off the back of not only

the stunning performance and high energy presentation of the band itself, but also the fine work of Year 13 Music student Martin Greshoff, who composed the work Urban Jungle, which the group performed.

Five students were also accepted into the KBB Honours Programme this year and were invited to perform with students from many other schools in high-level and demanding collaborative projects in both Concert Band and Chamber Orchestra settings. Our congratulations to David Paligora, Martin Greshoff, Mollie Cornfield, Alex King (all Concert Band), and Emilly Fan (Chamber Orchestra) for gaining entry into these prestigious ensembles.

BY GRACE COWLEY AND MR DAVID STENT

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Takapuna SCHOOL NEWS

Grammar SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The Freedom Challenge Every year in the week of International Youth Day, Amnesty International youth groups across New Zealand take action to raise awareness and bring change on a human rights issue. The 8th to 12th August marked the annual Freedom Challenge. The main focus this year was protecting children and their right to education in war-torn Yemen. “It is unthinkable that a third of all Yemeni kids have not gone to school since the bombing by the Saudi Arabian-led coalition that started early last year,” says Charlotte Stevens, a Year 13 student leader of the Amnesty group.

Two key events took place during the week in support of children’s right to a safe education.

The first was Post-it Note message-writing, with over 600 Post-its written by students with messages advocating the slogan: ‘Ignite minds, not bombs!’

“These will be delivered by Amnesty International to the US and UK governments along with the actions of thousands of other New Zealand students, calling on them to abide by international laws and stop selling arms to the coalition,” says Emilly Fan, another leader of the Amnesty group.

These Post-it Notes, along with a specially

commissioned artwork, formed the backdrop to a photo booth. Held on Friday, students were able to take pictures holding candles and signs promoting the theme.

The second event was a thumbprint flag. Members collected thumbprints from students and these formed the red, white and black stripes of the Yemen flag. It displayed the solidarity among students and allowed

them to appreciate their own easy access to education.

Members of the group also carried donation buckets around school, distributing Amnesty badges and stickers to all supporters. Over $130 was raised from the badges and these funds will go towards Amnesty International’s work to protect and promote human rights.

BY EMILLY FAN

Japanese students visit Japanese exchange students arrived in New Zealand in July to attend our school, to learn English. These students, aged 16-18, had been selected for the `Super English Program’ as they have a superior English ability to others in Japan, They come from two Japanese high schools – Mejiro, and another prestigious school, Nishinomia.

This exchange programme occurs every year and is reciprocal so TGS students go to a couple of sister schools in Japan.

Our students from TGS go to Tokyo for 10 weeks and stay with Japanese host families.

The international department at TGS plays an important role, looking after homestays for the Japanese students,

arranging their academic programme and maintaining the relationships between the Japanese schools. Mr Jake Lamb, Head of Languages department, is responsible for the language programme. The visitors have a class in Level 1 Japanese so they can learn the basic steps of English, since they only stay here for 10 weeks, and the main purpose of involving in the programme is improving English.

“The biggest benefit for them will be improving English and an opportunity to speak English,” said Mr. Lamb.

English is not the only reason for them to stay here. As Auckland is a multicultural city, studying in New Zealand has an advantage of allowing Japanese students to meet and mix with people from

different countries, which offers a special experience. Also, the students from Mejiro and Nishinomia learn about Maori culture.

Nozomi Shibata, one of the Japanese students who was involved in the Super English Program, did a presentation in English to the Level 1 Japanese class. She learnt a lot more about English and at the same time she experienced a different culture and educational system, NCEA. “NCEA assessment is completely different and it was a good experience,” she said. Shibata also mentioned the benefit of NCEA; that it leads to better understanding and remembering because it repeatedly teaches the same thing, unlike “busy study” in Japan.

BY YOU JIN NOH

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Youth mentoring programme launches in Devonport

New mentoring scheme is just the business... Devonport mentees Nina Wieland and Hamish Buckley (left), and mentoring programme co-ordinator Anna Yallop with Devonport Rotary president Phil Le Gros at last week’s launch Devonport students Hamish Buckley, Brittany Mark and Mona Harnett have known each other since their first day at Vauxhall Primary School. Their paths crossed again when they were among five participants selected in Devonport’s first business-youthmentoring scheme.

The 17-week programme, launched by Devonport businesswoman Anna Yallop,

matches final-year university students with local businesspeople and entrepreneurs, who provide advice and guidance on topics including networking, professionalism, jobinterview skills and what employers want.

Yallop had previously mentored with Chiasma, a student-led organisation that creates links between academia and New Zealand’s science and technology industries.

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She saw potential in offering a similar scheme to students in Devonport.

Buckley, a third-year computer-science student at the University of Auckland, heard about the programme through Emma Johnson, one of his former teachers at Takapuna Grammar School, who encouraged him to take part. He says he’s finding the step beyond university quite daunting and is looking for advice from his mentor on how to hone his skills and make himself as employable as possible.

Mark is in her final year of a business degree at AUT, majoring in finance and HR. She’s looking for internship opportunities and hopes her mentor will act as a sounding board on career choices.

Harnett, a bachelor of commerce student majoring in marketing and economics at the University of Auckland, says her father tipped her off about the programme. She’s grateful that despite their busy schedules, senior businesspeople are making time to help students.

Fellow mentees Nina Wieland and Andre Botha are both relative newcomers to Devonport. Wieland first arrived as a 19-yearold au pair from Germany and is now studying international business and management at AUT. Botha, originally from South Africa, is in his final year of a conjoint law/commerce degree at the University of Auckland.

At last month’s launch event, held at Level One above Devonport Wharf, Yallop introduced her former mentee Jessica Tulp, a biotechnology graduate from the University of Auckland and now executive assistant to the CEO of Rocket Lab. Tulp credited mentoring with giving her the confidence to think outside the box when looking at career options.

She advised the new mentees to adhere to the “three Ps”: to be proactive, prepare well for their regular meetings and be “super punctual”.

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Great courtyard, spa, and indooroutdoor living. Usually $140 a night but negotiable if taken for whole period. Available 19th August till 19th September. Owner going overseas. 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.

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Garage rental required – Local company requires garage for a small company car and storage for a few tools of trade. Please phone Barbara on 972 0614 or email accounts@redfortgroup.com Holiday Accommodation, Bayswater. Norwood studio. Private, well presented. $95 per night. Ph 446 1203. flexmans@gmail.com Holiday Accommodation Cheltenham, absolute beachfront. One double and two singles, shady setting, everything supplied.

Ph 445 3008.

Office room for rent. Belmont shops. One sunny office room with bathroom, includes two carparks. $250/week. Contact Simon 027 284 1622.

Relatives visiting? Spacious garden studio with en-suite and kitchenette; minutes to Narrow Neck beach. Reasonable rates.

Ph Pauline 445 6471.

Stunning Cheltenham Beach Cottage, metres from the beach.

Available for short \or long-term holiday accommodation. Beautifully refurbished, one bedroom, self-contained cottage with a private garden. Phone Rebekah 027 694 3933 or email devonportbeks@gmail.com REST HOMES Ascot House Retirement Home, quality care with dignity in a friendly, family atmosphere. Phone Shona, 445 2518.

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.

SERVICES OFFERED 10 years’ experience. Home cleaning. Husband and wife. Honest, reliable, careful workers. All equipment supplied. References available.

Ph Joyce 022 073 1550.

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. Call Yvonne for a free quote 415 0028.

Builder available Small-job 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. Top dollar paid $360 to $1700 for any small car, $800 to $15,000 for vans, utes, 4WD and trucks. Free retrieval 0800 3333 98.

Cleaning Maid Easy Use own cleaning products and gear.

Reliable/trustworthy/mature lady.

References available Please contact Sharon - 021 405 596.

Curtains & Roman Blinds Free measure, quote and design advice. 20 years’ experience. Phone Sara 027 625 5844.

Devonport upholstery. Recover specialist. Antiques and contemporary styles. Recycling furniture for 36 years. John Hancox, phone: 446 0372.

SERVICES OFFERED

Devonport Window Repairs. Sash and casement windows, wooden doors. Rotten sills and window components repaired or replaced. General carpentry. For your local window specialist. Phone Hubert Strang 446 6174 or 021 274 4191.

Diggadrain. Drain unblockers and drainage experts. CCTV drain locating. Repairs. New drains. 0800 your drain.

Dog grooming available.

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

Call Barbara 021 141 0331.

Gardener Available Qualified and experienced landscape designer. Enjoys getting his hands dirty. Good plant knowledge. Hard-working, reliable and creative with plantings. Contact Paddy 022 502 2122 or 446 6188 paddyvogt@gmail.com Gardening. Do you need regular help? No time for a tidy-up? Let me help. Experienced gardener. Ph Carolyn on 446 6517 or 027 292 8167 for a free on-site consultation.

Handyman. Mature professional in Devonport, Bayswater area.

Repairs, painting, those jobs you just don’t have time to do. Free quote.

References. Ph. Brian 021 150 8898.

Hedges Shrubs, lawns and weeding.

Experienced. One off/ongoing.

Bruce 0275 393710 1/3 Housekeeper. Home cleaning, including windows. Experienced. References. $25 per hour.

Ph 442 2273, 027 492 6220.

Housewashing. Get your house clean for the holidays by contacting Bubble Boys house washing. We clean windows, doors, weatherboards, garages and outbuildings.

Support local, hard-working and reliable high-school Devonport boys by contacting us at seanslreeves@ gmail.com or call 021 0621 750 to get a free quote. We are very reasonably priced. We protect paint by using soft brushes only. We can also provide water blasting for concrete driveways, paths and patios if needed.

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

Phone Rod 021 390 800.

Inside house cleaner Devonport, Belmont, Takapuna and Milford area. Phone Chris at Lifestyle Plus on 09 488-7279 or 027-245-6264.

Or you can email chris@ lifestyleplusltd.nz Landscaping – Format Landscapes, 18 years’ experience, Dip. Landscape Design. Design and build. We undertake all aspects of hard and soft landscaping including decks, paving, fences, retaining walls, planting etc. Small to large projects. Free quote www. formatlandscapes.co.nz. Call Matt 021 599 107.

Locksmith, Devonport’s own Scott Richardson. Mob 021 976 607.

New Barber Shop located at 131 Lake Road, Belmont Shops. ALL CUTS $15! 021 042 4630.

Professional Makeup Artist School Balls, Weddings, Fashion & Special Occassions. Stephanie Jane 021 116 8842. email SJASharp@ gmail.com Tagbuster, graffiti looked after Devonport to Hauraki Corner. Call the Tagbuster 0800antitag, 0800 2684 824.

Window Cleaning for houses and businesses. For a free quote call Ivan 473 6631.

SITUATIONS VACANT Carpenters/Experienced Hammer hands wanted Must have 2 years+ experience call Dave 021 749 105. Coast & Country Homes Ltd..

TUITION

Art Classes @ D’Port Community house: Wednesday night, life drawing; Friday morning, mastering art.

Ph Lucy Bucknall – 446 0389.

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.

Adult classes also available Wednesday, Friday mornings.

Art Travel Sketching for beginners. Learn to find your creative side in a fun learning environment over 10 weeks. Kerr St Artspace Tuesdays or Saturdays. Ph Tony McNeight 021 925 031.

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

Competitions, Practical, Theory Exams. NZ Modern School of Music 0800-696-874.T Learning Support Specialist NZ qualified primary teacher and registered teacher of dyslexia.

Offering tailored tuition during or after school. Ph 027 391 3716 . www.squigglesdyslexia.co.nz Mathematics Tuition Available for years 9 to 13 by a retired maths teacher. Phone Graeme 445 8575.

TUITION

Mathematics Tuition, Sensitive tutoring offered at all levels of the secondary school curriculum. NCEA, IB and Cambridge welcomed. 100% pass rate in 2015. NCEA 3 calculus specialist.

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NCEA science/chemistry/biology tutor. 20 y/o, male, studying BSc at Auckland University. NCEA levels 1/2/3 achieved with excellence, prior experience. 020 409 88983. T Piano Lessons. Piano & music theory tuition from classically trained pianist. Devonport-based and can travel to your home.

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TUITION

Primary Tutor Maths, English, Health & Wellbeing and Drama for 5-11 year olds. School prep also available. Visit www.gschuwertutoring.com for further details.

027 410 6871 gschuwertutoring@ gm il.com Singing lessons in Devonport.

Contract Dr Sue Braatvedt 473 9113 or 027 340 2884. All ages.

SLSS Swim School, 11 Evan Street, Belmont (off Eversleigh Road).

Specialists in preschoolers. Phone 486 6728 for more info.

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BIS breakaway winners of North Harbour hockey title Belmont Intermediate School (BIS) has won the North Harbour boys hockey championship for the first time.

The team played 14 games, winning 13 and losing one. It was so dominant in the eight-team A grade that it had won the competition before the final game.

Eddy Chambers was team captain and top goal scorer was Ryan Parr.

The team, coached by Gill Ryan, has been playing at the national AIMS Hockey Tournament in Tauranga this week.

Several of the team have been selected for North Harbour rep teams: Under 13 Boys A Team – Eddy Chambers, Brayden Hamilton, Sebastian Lawrence; Under 13 Boys B Team – Ben Ryan, Toby Saxby. They will travel to Christchurch and Rotorua respectively to represent Harbour Hockey in national tournaments later this year.

The other Devonport players selected to represent North Harbour Hockey included: U15A girls – Aimee Mitchell (St Mary’s); U15B girls – Sasha Banbrook (St Mary’s), Lucy Buckeridge and Ruby Worall (both Takapuna Grammar School); U15B boys – Olly Chambers (Westlake Boys High School); Jonathan Levell, (Rosmini College); U18A Men – Finn Cordwell (Westlake Boys High School).

Winning formation… the BIS championship-winning team.

Back row (from left): Gill Ryan (coach), Oscar Grimshaw (goalie), Nathan Farquharson (BIS sports coordinator). Middle row: Felix Blanchard, Will Malone, Brayden Hamilton, Sebastian Lawrence, Josh Porter-Day, Max Clarke. Front row: Ben Ryan, Ryan Parr, Eddy Chambers, Toby Saxby, Alex Rendle. Absent: Alex Leonard, Louis Grimshaw.

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Hybrid fields are now being proposed for North Shore United’s Allen Hill stadium.

The new surfaces would be laid on the main playing field and a training field.

Auckland Council seems to have moved away from its previous preference of synthetic fields, which were opposed by nearby residents.

At a public meeting held at the soccer club, council officers said the next step was to obtain approval for the hybrid fields from DevonportTakapuna Local Board, and then to get designs consented by 2017. Construction would take place over 2017/18, with the fields opening in autumn 2018.

Hybrid fields are also planned for Becroft Park in Forrest Hill.

Council has not completely dropped the idea of synthetic fields on the Devonport peninsula.

It plans to continue discussions for the provision of artificial turf fields at Belmont Intermediate and Takapuna Grammar Schools..

Hybrid fields are created by laying plastic grass woven into matting. Grass seed is scattered over the top, producing grass, which can then be mown.

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Pollock proud to join North Shore The coaching ranks at North Shore Rugby Club have had a major boost with last year’s Auckland coach Allan Pollock joining Shore’s premiers staff.

The 2016 premiers coach Frano Botica has stood down and has been replaced by Robert Todd. Pollock and Grant Simpkins join Todd as assistant coaches.

Last year, Pollock, along with Paul Feeney, coached Auckland to an ITM Cup final, which it narrowly lost to Canterbury.

Pollock played 46 games for North Harbour from 1986-91 and also coached the province for seven years – three years with Buck Shelford and four years by himself.

His club playing days were with East Coast Bays and he has been given a bit of stick for “defecting” to Shore.

However, he is pretty relaxed about it. His son Rex is playing senior rugby for the North Shore club and Pollock said he was more than happy to be part of a club with such a proud history.

“The culture at North Shore is the envy of every club in North Harbour,” he said.

Todd, was assistant coach with the premier side this year and was in charge of the backs.

Todd played 22 matches for North Harbour from 1991 to 1996, before playing professionally in

No Countdown planned for Devonport site Countdown last week announced plans to open up to a dozen new supermarkets around the country over the next few years. But it has no plans for its site at Lake Rd in Devonport, a spokesperson said.

Experienced line-up… the new North Shore Premiers coaching staff (from left to right) Grant Simpkins, Allan Pollock and Robert Todd England. He returned home three and a half He is also the director of rugby at years ago and coached the North Shore premier Takapuna Grammar and coach of its first XV. reserves side.

He sees his role as providing a important link Most of the premier players from 2016 will between the school and the club. be returning, Todd said.

North Shore Premiers had an average season Simpkins is a former coach of Shore premiers, in 2016 by the club’s own high standards. The winning a championship in 2001. Simpkins side failed to make the championship final after played twice for North Harbour in 1997. a narrow semi-final loss to Massey.

Pensioner served with trespass notice A pensioner who broke into an empty council flat to protest about waiting lists for senior housing has been served with a trespass notice by police.

Paul Hogan (67) climbed through the window of a vacant flat at Belmont Court on the corner of Lake Rd and Roberts Ave, after being frustrated with being on a housing waiting list for several months.

He said he would continue with his protests over pensioner housing.

“They can throw a 67-year-old pensioner in Plans to carry on protesting… prison if they want to,” he said.

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