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Navy plans to extend wharf out into harbour

The Navy plans to extend Calliope South Wharf out into the Waitemata Harbour by a total of 50 metres.

The wharf will be lengthened by 20m at the western end and 30m at the eastern end.

While Ports of Auckland plans to extend

wharfs on the opposite side of the harbour have need to be protected from underwater noise. been mired in controversy, it seems the Navy The extension is needed to enable HMNZS is permitted to carry out the building works Aotearoa, a new 24,000-tonne vessel under as of right. construction, to berth in Devonport.

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Donations wanted for World Homeless Day Victoria Brown and her staff at Komatua Care Centre have been making and delivering around 100 dinners to Auckland’s homeless every Tuesday night for more than a year.

On 10 October – World Homeless Day – the “Helping Hands” volunteers are taking things up a notch.

From 9.30am to 2.30pm, they are running a stall at Aotea Square, alongside Lifewise and Housing New Zealand, distributing clothing to people in need.

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In the evening, they will deliver their regular Tuesday night meal outside the Central City Library Brown is asking Devonport locals for donations of men’s and women’s jackets, T-shirts, beanies, scarves, socks and shoes, as well as blankets and sleeping bags.

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Flanker Kate blossoms into North Harbour Hibiscus rep Kate Williams, at only 17, is the youngest member of the North Harbour Rugby Hibiscus senior women’s squad.

Kate, who is in her final year at Takapuna Grammar School, played for the North Harbour U18 team and the East Coast Bays top women’s side last year.

But being selected to train and play with members of the Black Ferns in the Harbour squad is big step up and will help her develop faster as a player, Kate says.

“They are so good! We have Charmaine [Smith] and Becky [Rebecca Wood] as locks on our side, and you play against others in the Counties Manukau and Auckland Central teams. It’s great rugby.”

The competition is tough. “We played our first championship game against Counties Manukau a couple of weeks ago and lost by a lot, 84 to 7,” she says.

Last Saturday, the team travelled to Rotorua to play against Bay of Plenty Volcanix, going down 34-12.

Kate, an open-side flanker, was also one of only 10 players selected for a women’s development programme at North Harbour Rugby Union.

“They are the first union to give us the same opportunities as the boys. On top of the on-field training we do twice a week, we get extra fitness training with gym time, personal trainers and physios,” she says.

Kate says the profile of women’s rugby has changed since she started playing Rippa rugby for North Shore when she was five.

“When I was young, the only woman I knew who played rugby was my mum. I was the only girl in my North Shore team. When the coached asked who wanted to be an All Mixing it with the seniors... Takapuna Grammar School student Black, I would put my hand up.”

Kate Williams has cracked provincial rugby at 17. She got her start Now, the club has girls teams starting at playing Rippa rugby for North Shore.

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“It’s great. It means girls can play with Devonport Dog Groomers their mates and continue into school rugby”, Kate says. “It’s because there is a lot more awareness of women’s rugby now and the Black Ferns coming back with the World Cup from Ireland will help it grow even more at the grass-roots level.”

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September 22, 2017

Mock politics puts big issues on the classroom agenda

Party lines... Teacher Renae Kettle lays down the ground rules for debate National and the Greens clashed in Belmont last week, as did Labour with the Maori Party and Act with New Zealand First.

In mock political debates, the students of Belmont Intermediate School’s Year 7 enrichment class argued vehemently about policies ranging across education, employment, housing, transport, the environment, taxation and health.

Ahead of the election on Saturday, designated party representatives laid out priorities, accused each other of failure and looked for common ground. A group of fact-checkers called speakers out on lies or exaggerations.

In many cases, the policies being expounded diverged widely from what the political parties actually advocate.

Some common ground between National and Green’s debaters was found on environmental policies and youth offending, for example.

One speaker on National’s side said: “We would like to take on the Green’s policy of increasing the 40 per cent of swimmable rivers into 90 per cent. We think that’s a very good policy.”

The Greens said that, like National, they were looking at cracking down on youth offenders. “We don’t think it’s right how

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Youth offenders probably also just needed some more attention, a Green speaker said: “Our policy to provide free mental health services for young people would help with that.”

Teacher Renae Kettle said the election had been a useful teaching topic and a good fit with the curriculum.

“It helped the class answer questions of how the past informs our future, learn about social values, and figure out which ones they stand for and how those values align with national politics,” she said.

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Community Support

September 22, 2017

Local kids power up with school breakfasts Bayswater School is providing breakfast to pupils who may have gone without it at home.

The primary school has signed up for KickStart Breakfast, a national breakfast-inschools programme supported by Fonterra, Sanitarium and the government.

Principal Lindsay Child says a group of around 20 children help staff members set the table at 8.30am every day, then sit down to a bowl of cereal and milk in the staffroom.

“All students are welcome to have breakfast here. We have different numbers every day. It’s still a movable target,” she says. The number of children participating in the scheme is less than 10 per cent of the school’s roll, which is around 230.

Offering breakfast at school has multiple benefits, Child says. “It’s a social thing for our diverse school community to sit down together and share food,” she says.

“And we want to ensure that all our children are ready to learn. Having a healthy breakfast is part of that. There is definitely a relationship between a full tummy and learning.”

Bayswater School is the only local school running the KickStart Breakfast Club. The programme promotes breakfast as the most important meal of the day and is aimed at supporting “those students that need it most” in primary, intermediate and high schools, deciles one to 10. Currently, 900 schools are participating across the country.

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Kick-starting their day... Bayswater School principal Lindsay Child (right) and teacher Aimee Spicer getting ready for breakfast in the staffroom in 2009, after the television show Campbell Live compared the contents of lunch boxes in a central Auckland and a South Auckland school, revealing that many children in Auckland’s poorer regions come to school with little or no food each day.

In 2013, the government joined the partnership with a financial contribution of

$9.5 million over five years.

Child says Bayswater School celebrates food in other ways throughout the year, including an annual hangi.

“We are in the process of putting in a permanent hangi pit near the front of the school, and we will also replant the orchard we had to pull out for our new buildings,” she says.

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Table for 60: Bayswater feasts on rescued food Sixty Bayswater locals shared a free meal together in the first monthly Kaitahi community “rescue food” dinner held at Belmont Park Bowling Club last Wednesday.

The meal was organised by residents Steven McLuckie and Brianna Parkinson, and prepared with supermarket goods that had passed their “best before” dates. Most of it was donated by KiwiHarvest, an Auckland food-rescue organisation.

The idea is to rescue food before it goes to waste and use it to nourish the community, said McLuckie, who opened the buffet. “This is a people-powered feast.”

McLuckie introduced nine-year old Luka Taege-Stacey to perform the karakia.

Cooks Sue Storey, Paddy Stafford-Bush, Cindy Haliburton, Andi Merkens, Sydney Nathan and Ann Langis had prepared food aplenty.

On the menu was chorizo pasta, ratatouille, Come on in... the welcoming committee (from left): Steven McLuckie, lemon couscous, pumpkin and broccoli Petra Wehrle, Ann Langis and Alessandra Rosa salad, roasted kumara, carrots, potatoes, Brussels sprouts and sausages.

For dessert, there was apricot and apple crumble with crème anglaise.

Parkinson said the idea for the night was borrowed from a similar initiative in Point Chevalier.

She said last week was a great start and that the meals would continue on a monthly basis as long as locals were coming.

The next dinner date is set for Wednesday 11 October. It will take place again at Belmont Park Bowling Club, from 5:308:30 pm.

All are welcome and meals are free.

Volunteers to help set up, cook and tidy up afterwards are welcome.

The Kaitahi dinners are supported

by Shore To Thrive and the Bayswater Community Committee.

Food was also donated by Lake Rd bakery Wild Wheat and Devonport New World.

Cooking with gas... Three of the cooks (from left) were Brianna Parkinson, Paddy Stafford-Bush and Andi Merkens

Family fare... from left: Ines, Julian and Raul Cataneda arrived in Devonport six years ago from Guatemala.

Right: Dave Barton and his 101-year old mother Rotha, in a hat she knitted herself.

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Bus crash damages flat and injures passengers A pensioner was forced to vacate her home after a bus smashed into a block of flats last Saturday.

A Ritchies 813 bus crashed into the two-storey block at 93 Vauxhall Road on Saturday morning, leaving passengers with minor injuries and a hole in an apartment wall.

The bus also brought down power lines.

Mark Ansley told the Flagstaff his 65-yearold mother had moved to the apartment from Gisborne two months prior. “She had come up to Auckland because she didn’t like the earthquakes there.”

“Now she will have to pack up her things again and move in with us across the bridge.”

The bus crash had left her apartment in a shambles. “There was concrete everywhere,” said Ansley.

Local residents had been caring for his mother straight after the crash, he said.

A woman bought her a cup of tea. It calmed his mum down “from a big fright”.

Four passengers were on the bus at the time of the crash, including Serena Young, a Year 13 Takapuna Grammar School student who lives in Cheltenham. She hopped on the 9.37am bus to Takapuna at the Vauxhall Rd shops seconds before it crashed.

“The bus driver seemed fine when I got on.

“As soon as the bus driver pulled out, there was this big bang and I saw a whole tree branch fly past.

“Then there were a whole lot more bangs and it felt like we were accelerating. In my head I was thinking ‘brake, brake, brake!’ and I wasn’t sure the apartment block would actually stop us “It felt like we were going downhill and just before the impact I turned away from the aisle. I was worried about the glass shattering and also that we would topple.

“I almost fell off my seat and when I looked down I saw a man on the ground.

Bus crash… the accident scene on Vauxhall Rd His eyes were wide and had a cut on his head that was bleeding. He seemed to be in shock. When I offered to help him up he didn’t respond.

“All the glass in the windows on that side shattered and I still found pieces of glass in my overalls later in the day.

“By then the bus driver was panicking, and the other lady kept saying ‘oh my God, get us out of here’.

“So I got up and looked around for the emergency exit. I pushed the button, the door opened and there were a lot of hissing sounds and some sort of liquid started dripping out of the bus.

“We all got out, except for the bus driver.

She was sitting on the ground and a man walked in and helped her out. Even then she couldn’t stand on her feet and had to sit down outside.

“People calmed her and she said something about her heart and that she was so sorry.

“I went inside the apartment we got a towel for the injured man and called an ambulance.

“There were a lot of people standing around, a lot of Devonport mums trying to help.”

Young says since the accident her back has been sore and she has a bruise on her leg. She was rattled but is otherwise fine.

“It still hasn’t hit me that I was in a bus crash, but I have been avoiding using the bus for the rest of the weekend,” she says.

Later in the day, the hole in the wall was boarded up and parts of the building were evacuated.

Ambulance crew, police and the Devonport fire brigade attended the crash. Police sergeant Brett Campbell-Howard said the cause was being investigated.

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It’s great to see Devonport stepping up to offer real aid where it’s needed.

Work progresses (somewhat slowly) on Devonport Wharf. Most of the roof looks like it is now to be replaced. It will be interesting to see what the final bill of the staged rebuild will be. The building was poorly constructed in the first place (by the private sector – nothing to do with current operators Auckland Transport) with cheap materials. Once the final total is in, we’ll know whether it would have been better to News that Bayswater School is providing pull it down and start from scratch. breakfasts for students who need them is a bittersweet story.

It’s been a wet winter – a traditionally Many would be surprised that students difficult time for local businesses. Many living on the Devonport peninsula – a high people were saddened when Wild and income, decile-10 area – need this type of Woolly Yarns – a main-street business of support. more than 40 years – packed up its stock So all power to Bayswater School for and left for a more central shop in Milford. recognising a problem and doing something There are also a number of empty shops about it. around the village, many owned by Vista In our busy lives in these affluent times, Linda. I’ve harped on about it before, but we should always be aware there are others we need to support our local businesses more less fortunate who need help – through no than ever or they will disappear. fault of their own.

The Flagstaff has relaunched its Buy Local As well as the Bayswater School breakfast page as a spot to showcase retailers. And we initiative, a community evening meal for all are now in the process of compiling our endcomers is being offered in Bayswater. of-year Destination Devonport publication And the team of volunteers from the as a vehicle for locals to get their message Komatua Care Centre rest home on Calliope out to summer tourists. Given its success last Rd is still taking meals for the homeless over year, it is set to be bigger and even better in to the city every Tuesday.

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Belmont paddler bags award, medal and record Penelope Strickland has been voted Woman of the Year in the Editor’s Choice Awards of SUP Connect, the San Diego stand-up paddleboarding magazine.

The 38-year-old Belmont world-champion stand-up paddleboarder won the award for her record-breaking performance at the 2017 Molokai 2 Oahu Championship, her 2016 International Surfing Association (ISA) gold medal in technical racing, and also for her inspirational achievement of using the sport to turn her life around.

After leaving Takapuna Grammar School, the former competitive swim- Front runner… Strickland leading the mer suffered from eating disorders for New Zealand team on the first day of years. Getting into stand-up paddle- competition in Copenhagen boarding about five years ago was a Instagram page. big part of her recovery, she told the Strickland is currently ranked seventh on Flagstaff in an extensive interview for the 21 April edition, just before she took six months the sport’s world-ranking list. She won the award ahead of American Seychelle Hattingh, off work to compete in Europe and the US. Strickland is a first-time nominee and win- the SUP 11-cities champ and top-ten ranked SUP racer as well as top-ranked female padner in the award’s eight-year history.

“Maybe I am not flying under the radar as dler, five-time Caroline Cup champion and much as I thought I was,” she wrote on her fellow Kiwi Annabel Anderson.

This month, Strickland was part of the bronze-medal-winning New Zealand team at the ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship in Denmark.

Strickland spoke to the Flagstaff from New York, on her way to The Pacific Paddle Games, the last big race of the season in California. She will return to New Zealand in early October.

She says the six months away have been “a real mixed bag,” including the major setback of breaking her foot as well as setting a world record in Hawaii.

The trip has been a financial stretch as well. Strickland wants to compete overseas again next year, but will stick to Hawaii and the US. “You can’t do Europe on a budget.

Even if you win there, you barely break even,” she says.

“I come back on a Wednesday and on the Friday after I compete in the Waka Ama Nationals in Napier, before I go back to work and resume a normal life the week after. It’s going to be a bit of a push.”

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NAVY PLANS EXTENSION FOR NEW SHIP

HMNZS Aotearoa is the new tanker ship under construction for the Royal New Zealand Navy and will provide improved support for the existing fleet from her base at Devonport.

To ensure this new ship can berth safely, Calliope South Wharf will be extended and upgraded.

This work involves a small extension of the existing wharf at each end, installing an improved electricity supply, better lighting, and providing new bollards and fenders.

The wharf will be extended by 20 metres on the western end and 30 metres at the eastern end. The eastern extension will be a 14 x 14 m ‘Dolphin’ structure.

This structure (which is fixed to the seabed) will be connected to the wharf by a small gangway, as shown in the picture above.

Together, the extensions add about 20 percent to the existing 275-metre-long wharf.

The New Zealand Defence Force is permitted to carry out most works that are necessary to maintain and improve the Devonport Naval Base and ensure that operations run smoothly.

As the Auckland Unitary Plan has introduced regulation that aims to protect marine mammals from underwater noise, a resource consent is required to build the wharf extension.

To anchor the extension firmly to the seabed, eight concrete piles will be needed for the western extension and six for the Dolphin structure, to support the reinforced concrete wharf. These will be constructed between April and October 2018.

A ‘marine-mammal observer’ will be employed to watch the ‘area of influence’ where the underwater noise will be loud enough to affect marine mammals. If any marine mammals are seen moving into the area, work will be stopped immediately and will only restart after they have left.

If you have any questions about the Calliope South Wharf extension, please contact Sarah Strong, (Senior Environmental Officer, Defence Estate and Infrastructure) at sarah.strong@nzdf.mil.nz

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Converted Masonic is no fake – and what is ‘truthful’ architecture anyway?

Is the Masonic Tavern a “fake” or a “replica” as Margot McRae and Trish Deans contend (Flagstaff 14 July and 11 August)?

And is the Devonport community a shadow of its former self, as Bill Rayner rejoins (Flagstaff, 11 August), now that the pub is gone?

Deans and McRae argue that the Masonic is now a “fake,” as “barely a stick of the original 1860s building remains”. But architecture is not synonymous with the materials used in its construction. Just as a musical performance is not the score, architecture is not the building, but the design.

Moreover, buildings change considerably over their lifetimes. Unlike paintings or sculptures, buildings are burdened with a host of environmental, structural, legal and technological responsibilities. As the building conforms to these demands, its materials must change.

Deans’ and McRae’s argument is concerned with the appearance of the building, not its structure. What does it matter then, if the timber beneath the new paint is five years old or 150 years old?

In criticising the Masonic’s conversion to apartments, Deans and McRae assume that there is a necessary correlation between the building type and the function of the building. This is demonstrably not true.

Many buildings are converted to different uses over the course of their lifetimes.

Many commercial and religious buildings in Devonport have been converted to residential uses over the years. These homes are not “fake” – there is no intent to deceive – and nor is the Masonic.

Deans’ and McRae’s argument that the “authentic” Masonic has been replaced by a “fake” is a moral claim. But why should architecture be ‘truthful’ – and what is truthful

How would these rules go down at local cafes?

I have just read on the BBC newsroom of a tourism village in England where a busy and very popular cafe has a notice outside stating: “No children under 10, and phones to be turned off, except for possible emergency calls.”

How would that go in Devonport?

On another occasion, travelling from London to Edinburgh by coach, numerous roadside cafes had signs: “No coaches”.

This was apparently common practice to avoid being overrun by tourists and busloads of noisy and rude soccer fans.

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architecture anyway? This idea, Victorian in provenance, has been thoroughly challenged over the last 50 years. It is anachronistic to apply this argument to the Masonic in 2017.

In his rejoinder, Bill Rayner tells us of the vibrant community that gathered at the Masonic over the years. Rayner mourns the loss of the pub. Now, according to Rayner, the Masonic is “no longer part of the community”. But Rayner confuses the community with the building. To the contrary, community is a network of social relations that exists independently of a place. The closing of the Masonic did not spell the end of the community Rayner wistfully recalls: in fact, the reverse is true. Devonport changed, and fewer people went to the pub. When community is equated to place, change can appear more threatening than it should.

One of the ironies of preservation is that the improvements made to a neighborhood contribute to its gentrification. In other words, preservation brings change. It is gentrification that makes Devonport increasingly “fake” and “no longer part of the community.”

Preservation, in this narrow sense, needs to be balanced with other needs, like infrastructure renewal and affordable housing (and implicitly, with the question of climate change: see the interview with Paul Kench and Giovanni Coco, Flagstaff 11 August), if it really means to improve the welfare of the community at large, and not just the property values of a few.

Devonport’s community will be more vibrant, more dynamic, and more inclusive if it is not bounded to, and legitimated by, a narrow definition of its architectural heritage.

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Holly fired up about creativity, learning and social justice Holly Houston feels right at home in the adult world. At 24, the self-taught potter has already established her own business and a networking group. She spoke to Maire Vieth about the next steps on her creative career path.

Drawing a line in the sand... pottery remains a passion for Holly Houston, but not a sustainable career Holly Houston always knew she would have a career in the creative arts. “There was never really a doubt in my mind,” she says.

She also knew art school wasn’t right for her.

“I am not one for grandiose ideas and concepts.

I just like things to be humble and simple.”

Four years ago, Houston found her creative calling in pottery.

“I love making things that people use.

There doesn’t have to be some conceptual thing behind it. And you literally have your hands in dirt all day long. Pottery has to be one of the humblest professions – along with

gardening,” she says.

It started small, with a short course in ceramics by Auckland potter Harriet Stockman.

Houston was pregnant at the time. Following the course, she set up a small working table in the front room of her Devonport apartment as a makeshift studio. At night, when newborn daughter Willow was asleep, Houston moulded little pots.

She taught herself the rest. “I just Googled and YouTubed like crazy and got out books from the library.”

Social media let her share her creations with the outside world. Houston set up an Instagram account and soon the ‘likes’ were streaming in.

“I was making these super-crude pinch pots, but people sent me encouraging messages. It was awesome to have that external feedback and it pushed me to do more,” she says.

Today, Holly Houston Ceramics is a successful pottery outlet next door to Little & Friday, the Eversleigh Rd café owned by Houston’s mother, Kim Evans.

Houston is known for her minimalist, organic style. “I am not a perfectionist. I like for things to be a bit odd and weird, with little flaws. It proves that the piece was made by a person who leaves a fingerprint behind,” she says.

For the last year, Houston has been the breadwinner for her young family while partner

Chris Smart is finishing a degree in computer science. Both grew up in Devonport.

But the hard physical effort involved in being a full-time and highly productive potter have also taken a toll on Houston’s body. “I basically worked myself to the bone,” she says Mixing, rolling and shaping clay, as well as the mental stress of keeping a business running, crept up on her last year with pain in her wrists that was diagnosed as RSI. By the time she had powered through the Christmas season, she had chronic body pain that spread as far as her jaw.

Houston decided she had to pull back. She downsized initially by limiting her range and investing in machinery to help with some of the grunt work. As well as two kilns and her potter’s wheel, her studio now also houses a pug mill to mix clay, and a mechanical slab roller to flatten it.

Six months ago, Houston realised the changes had to be more radical. Instead of wholesaling to retailers, she now sells directly to the public and has to produce only half the volume of ceramics to generate a comparable income. Houston says it was a risky move, but one that has worked out well. Nevertheless, further cutbacks are likely, she says.

“The big thing is realising that to have these issues with my body at 24 years old means it is an incredibly unsustainable career option for me.

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September 22, 2017 So I am considering whether to shift pottery to more of a hobby or a vocation instead of a career,” she says.

This means that Houston is now looking at a different kind of creative career, involving social work and art therapy.

Her interest in social justice has been quietly growing for years. While spending hours on her pottery wheel, Houston listens to podcasts and audio books about feminism, racism, minorities and indigenous rights, she says.

What she learned has had an effect on her pottery. Houston recently stopped her trademark practice of mixing West Coast sand into white New Zealand clay. She says it was mostly an ethical choice.

“Because I’m a Pakeha person, it didn’t feel right to take the sand. With the colonial history of our country, it felt wrong to take land that doesn’t belong to me,” she says.

The podcasts also taught her more about herself and why pottery wasn’t the perfect creative fit for her in some ways.

“They helped me realise that I am quite a social person. Communicating is one of the most core things of who I am. Pottery is really solitary. I love making things out of clay, but many of my other needs aren’t necessarily met by it,” she says.

And listening to audio books transformed her ability to learn. An early school-leaver, Houston had struggled in a traditional learning environment.

“In school I was frustrated a lot because in class discussions I had so much to say. But when it was time to sit down and write an essay or read a textbook, I struggled.

“So I never valued my brain that much and thought I just wasn’t smart enough. But I guess I just learn things differently. I like to listen to stuff and then I need to tell someone about it.

If I do that, I can grasp all kinds of concepts,” she says.

She wants to go to university next year but has put her learning into practice with her business already. Earlier this year, Houston set up a Small Business Circle for people like her, who make and sell a product themselves.

“We chat about our niche business model, work out what problems arise in it and how we can solve them. There are so many little things I need people to talk to about and my vision

for it is that we all have so much to learn from each other,” she says.

Houston would also like to get the local community talking about social justice, and is planning a free community event to get the ball rolling. Next month, she will screen the American documentary 13th at the Victoria Theatre to help raise awareness of hidden institutional racism in the US.

“When you are young and you don’t fit in, it can be really isolating at high school.”

“We live in this amazing community that is quite distanced from those issues. I’m quite open-minded about that sort of thing and I think a lot of us would be if it were part of more common discussions of social issues and different perspectives,” she says.

Houston, now 24, was a young child when her mother started Ice It, a cake-decorating business that morphed into a café on Church St. The family briefly moved to Christchurch and returned when Houston was 13.

“Spending two years at a Christchurch Rudolf Steiner school, I had become kind of outrageous, dressed real crazy and had a real emo phase. When I came back here, I really didn’t fit in at all,” she says.

But at Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) she found a “little friendly group of outcasts who stuck together,” she says. And her creative side flourished as well.

“Deborah Woodward, the soft-tech teacher, was amazing for me and encouraged me incredibly for the two years I had her,” she says.

Strangely, it was the adult world where Houston felt more at home.

“When you are young and you don’t fit in, it

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Houston left TGS after Year 12 and worked at Little & Friday for a couple of years before travelling to Indonesia and Australia for a mini OE. “When I got back I got pregnant. My boyfriend and I had planned to move overseas but we decided to stay and have the baby instead,” she says.

Houston says parenting now four-year-old Willow Plum has been easy and fun as well as an inspiration professionally.

“You can’t muck around and you don’t have the luxury of being lost. It liberated me quite a lot,” she says.

The young family still rents an apartment in central Devonport. “I think it’s the only place that’s still affordable for a young family like us.

So we are hanging in there,” she says.

And the oddball feeling she once experienced in high school hasn’t gone away completely.

“It’s funny, because we live in Devonport where most people are quite affluent and we are just these young people with a kid surrounded by people so different from us.

“But when I look at what I have done so far I think yeah, I made a full-time job with a sustainable income out of being an artist. I have done okay at that and it feels good that now I can have a look and see what else is out there for me,” Houston says.

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Feedback on whether the Flight Trainer for Albatross sculpture should be installed on Devonport’s Victoria Wharf will be sought for a second time after council botched the first attempt.

A picture of the Greer Twiss sculpture was posted on the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board Facebook page, and shared by board member Jennifer McKenzie and provoked a flurry of criticism.

But board chair Grant Gillon said the posting had jumped the gun.

The image showed a lot of scaffolding

attached to the sculpture, which seemed to be the basis of most of the criticism, Gillon said.

The board has asked Twiss to come up with a concept drawing of a redesigned work. “It is this that we are aiming to put out to get feedback on,” Gillon said, A decision on the sculpture was expected by the end of the year.

The four- to five-metre-high sculpture has been offered to Devonport after being removed from an Auckland city harbour site in 2014 and put into storage.

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Rosellas a threat to native bird resettlement Last week, while walking the dog along Old Lake Road, I noticed that the footpath under a puriri tree was strewn with flowers.

As I approached the tree, another flower fell on the path in front of me. Looking directly up, I spied a rosella (flashy, noisy Australian immigrant) quietly working away, deflowering the puriri. My guess is that, after cutting off the flower with its razor-sharp beak, the rosella is able to lick off a bead of sugary dew, which just a second before had been feeding the flower.

The rosella is in competition with tui who feed on the nectar in a sustainable fashion, rather than deflowering the tree, and later on berries from which the New Zealand wood pigeon likes to eat. So by removing the flowers the rosella is very efficiently competing with the native birds, completely eliminating a food source.

When I got home, I walked out the back to where a big old pittosporum (karo) is in flower at the moment. It is not easy to spot the karo flower but when you look at it you can see it is fairly small and it has a dark red velvety colour. There was also a carpet of flowers under the karo. Also in the karo were two rosellas

and a tui. Once again, the feeding method between the two birds was starkly different; the rosella wastefully nipping off each flower for a quick fix, the tui dipping in its beak, feeding and pollinating at the same time.

Later in the year, the pohutukawa trees will start to bloom. Yes, you guessed it, I have watched the rosellas in our backyard, nipping off the flower buds, totally destroying feeding opportunities for native nectar feeders. These Aussie immigrants sure know how to compete.

Then I got to thinking about all the trapping work that is going on on the Devonport peninsula. One of the objectives is to create a safe wildlife corridor for birds on the predator-free islands such as Rangitoto and Motutapu, to safely travel as food and season demands, over to the Waitakere Ranges. There is a very real prospect that soon bellbirds, another nectar-feeding species, will visit Devonport for the first time in a hundred years. While the rosellas thrive on the golf course, parks and environs, the welcome for the bellbird, and for the kakariki, which I have seen overflying Rangitoto, will be poor indeed.

David Willetts

September 22, 2017

Heritage group a ‘disgrace’ Devonport Heritage 2017 – what a disgrace. Here is an organisation that goes into liquidation, owing thousands of dollars, then re-emerges in the same form with a new title without regard to their previous debts. This is no different to failed finance companies, having lost their investors’ money, then reappearing in a new form seeking new depositors; or fly-by-night tradesmen leaving customers out of pocket.

Had Devonport Heritage been a company, then probably Margot McRae and Trish Deans would have been prohibited from running any other business. Perhaps the best venture for Devonport 2017 would be to commence fundraising to pay off their previous debts. How long before Devonport Heritage 2017 goes into liquidation and then reappears as Devonport Heritage 2018 or 2019 owing more money?

J Leonard

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September 22, 2017

MAGGIE BARRY ONZM Your local Member of Parliament Delivering for North Shore Voters in this election have a clear choice between very different visions for the future of our country. I stand for a plan to keep New Zealand and the North Shore Electorate moving forward, delivering on the things that matter to families and business. That’s a stark contrast to my opponents’ poorly thought-through promises relying on more and more taxes to fund unaffordable spending.

within the next 10 years with help from DOC’s Predator Free Rangers as part of the Predator Free 2050 programme.

As Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage I have boosted support for our cultural and historic buildings by $30m through the Regional Culture & Heritage Fund.

We will enable more heritage buildings that add irreplaceable character to communities like ours to access funds for earthquake strengthening and I advocate to keep our broad-based and restoration. There are many buildings fair tax system because people on the in Devonport which could benefit from North Shore don’t need an unknown level the RCHF, or its sister fund for privately of tax on water, a regional fuel tax that owned buildings, Heritage EQUIP, which would slow Auckland down and make it recently contributed a $1.5 million grant more expensive to do business, as well as to the St James Theatre. all Labour’s plan for seven new taxes.

Locally, I will continue to advocate to What I stand for is policies that have Auckland City Council for the muchbeen forged by a strong and talented needed and long-delayed upgrade of National team which has delivered Lake Rd. The $54 million that had been steady growth for nearly 9 years. I want allocated for the upgrade and removed to continue representing the North Shore by Auckland Transport needs to be so I can help make it easier for first home reinstated. I agree with the local board’s buyers by boosting the HomeStart loan push for the $70 million investment package, which will mean a couple get option to be delivered urgently. I will an extra $10,000 from the Government, lobby hard to have more of our rates taking HomeStart to $20,000 for an spent here on the Shore and I also want existing house or $30,000 for a new build. to continue to improve cycling options That makes a significant difference to across the peninsula. anyone saving for a first home on the North Shore. I also support the Family It’s been a privilege to be your local MP Incomes Package which will put an for the past 6 years and I’m asking for average of $26 more per week in your your continued support to be a strong pocket. advocate in government for the North Shore. I encourage you all to exercise In my Ministerial capacity, the new Elder your democratic right and vote to keep Abuse Response Service and free 24/7 a strong local voice delivering for North confidential helpline - 0800 EA NOT Shore.

OK - is already making a difference for vulnerable seniors. I’m also confident we’ll Warm regards, rid the republic of Devonport of rodents Hon Maggie Barry ONZM KEEP UP TO DATE WITH MAGGIE W | www.maggiebarry.co.nz Facebook.com/maggiebarrynz Authorised by M Barry, 15 Anzac St, Takapuna

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Takapuna School NEwS

Grammar SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Marvellous music

KBB Jazz Band

KBB Concert Band

KBB String Ensemble

Showing off our city In the middle of winter, a few weeks back, the students in Year 1 of the International Baccalaureate programme were fortunate enough to meet some visiting students from Japan and introduce them to the auckland CBD. Kiwi English, the organisers of this event, which is known as Brothers and Sisters Day, gives international students the chance to sightsee in New Zealand. Our students had the role of being authentic tour guides. Each student was a leader for two consecutive days.

Once given a map, the tour guides were free to lead the group to some chosen destinations. The main goals were to communicate in English, and foster a cheerful environment so the Japanese students reaped the greatest rewards possible.

The locations visited included the Sky Tower, albert park, Victoria park, auckland art Gallery and Queen Street. Students had to plan routes on their maps according to their list of destinations.

For many of the teenagers from Japan it was their first time interacting with Kiwis one on one, so many selfies were taken throughout the day. at the end of the day, a multitude of contact details were exchanged, and many friendships were formed.

Jessica Cheung confirms wholeheartedly that: “It was an awesome experience and we made lots of friends who we’ll never forget.”

Much enthusiasm could be witnessed in the time spent together, and some will be only too eager to take this opportunity again.

BY CHRISTINE ZHOU

The recent KBB Music Festival featured three TGS bands, performing in the Holy Trinity Cathedral and St Mary’s Church in parnell, competing alongside hundreds of keen musicians from more than 50 schools from all over the auckland region.

Year after year, the festival aims to promote the growth of instrumental music, and to encourage schools to take part in the opportunity for performance from all groups, in a professional environment, whether they are at a novice stage or highly experienced.

The school’s Concert Band, Jazz Band and String Ensemble, conducted by andrew Uren, andrew Murphy and Louise Roe respectively, attended the annual event. Each gave an adjudicated performance of their repertoire, including a set of four to five pieces.

These groups had been hard at work preparing their various charts since the start of this year, sitting through hours of rehearsals and various workshops in the months leading up to KBB, and perfecting their performance over time so that they could perform at their best on the day.

Concert Band member Domenic Johnson believed that the bands represented themselves well at the long-awaited event, saying: “I felt we performed the best we could in the moment, and although we hit a few bumps, we managed to pull through in the end and finish with a bang.” as a highlight of the year for many musicians, the festival proved to be worth the wait for the students, who thoroughly enjoyed their time performing with, and listening to, their peers.

Each of the bands also walked away with an award for their efforts: the String Ensemble received a Commendation, the Concert Band a Bronze award, and the Jazz Band an outstanding Silver award. This band also scored themselves the peter Goddard Memorial award (for spirit at the festival), which is one of the special awards presented at the festival’s evening Gala Concert.

The Jazz Band truly performed with excitement and enjoyment, and had huge smiles on their faces throughout their adjudicated performance on the Thursday evening.

“In a lot of ways it felt like we were just having a ‘jam session’, rather than being in a competition,” recalls one band member. “I personally thought it was an incredibly enjoyable experience, and although this hasn’t been our most successful year, it was quite possibly the most memorable, and overall the most fun I’ve had during a KBB performance since joining the band in 2014.”

BY NELLY FaRMILOE

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September 22, 2017

Takapuna

Grammar

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

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Market Day involves Year 11 Business Studies students and Year 10 Enterprise and Financial Literacy students, with the Year 11s participating as a six-credit internal assessment task. This year, the event was run by Mrs Emma Johnson, the Head of Business Studies, and assisted by Mrs Bartlett, the Business and Events co-ordinator.

Some of the products sold were handmade, including sweet flavoured candles in mugs called ‘Coffee Mug Candles.’ One group called ‘Bits and Bobs’ sold handmade concrete pot plants and candles, and ‘Trend’ sold a new trend item called pop sockets, which stick on the back of mobile phones.

One of the more successful groups was ‘To Dye For.’ This group sold tiedyed socks and phone cases. The socks were a bestseller and the tiedying had been done by the students in the group.

This year’s venue, with the hall still out of action, was the N-block courtyard. It was full to bursting for much of the lunch break.

The Market Day is important for students to learn about human resources, marketing, finance and the operations of a business. Writing the business plan gave them an understanding of how to advertise their products, how to manage their money and pay for equipment. The process took a term to complete as the business directors in the groups had to write up their business plan, while preparing their products.

One of the tasks that the students needed to complete in class time was surveying other students who were the target market, as getting other students’ opinions on their products helped the groups improve and move forward, giving them their successful results.

BY SOpHIE MCMILLaN

FROM THE NETBALL COURT: The premier Netball team placed 11th out of 32 teams in C Grade. a notable mention to piper Rush, who made the C Grade Tournament Team (pictured above).

FROM THE FIELD: 1st XI Football Girls placed eighth in New Zealand (first tier) and 1st XI Football Boys lost their division final on a penalty shoot-out to Whangarei Boys’ High School to place second.

FROM THE TURF: 1st XI Hockey Boys placed 10th in their third-tier tournament, with the 1st XI Girls placing seventh in their fourth-tier tournament.

FROM THE COURT: The premier Boys Badminton team and premier Boys Basketball team competed well, but were unable to come away with a top-10 placing in their respective tournaments.

FROM THE ROAD: The TGS Cyclists came away with eight gold, ten silver and seven bronze medals at the Northern Tour (national individual cycling champs).

Overall, a great effort from all our winter tournament teams. Congratulations and thank you to all those who participated, including players, coaches, managers and volunteers.

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September 22, 2017

Harry Waine world junior cycling bronze medalist Former TGS cyclist Harry Waine has made a dent on the international track-cycling stage.

Last month, Waine was part of New Zealand’s bronze-medal-winning 4000m Team Pursuit cycling team at the Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Montichiari, Italy.

Waine says cycling in Italy was a big step up.

“For one, the competition was pretty tough. We were up against the Russian team in our second round, and they ended up setting a world record while beating us,” he says.

The New Zealand team outdid itself. “As a team, we had never really gone as fast as we went on race day. And we got faster with every race. I was very happy with what we came away with,” he says In the race for third place, they clocked 4.03 minutes, which was faster than the Danish team that was beaten by Russia in the final.

The velodrome atmosphere was intense as well, Waine says. “Seeing all the other countries was amazing. And the indoor track there was a lot hotter than ours at 33 degrees Celsius too,” he says.

The trip to Italy naturally included daily carbo-loading. “We were eating pasta every night, which was simple but really good,” Waine says.

• Current Year 13 cyclist Oscar Elworthy is racing in Bergen, Norway this week as one of two U19 New Zealand road cyclists selected for Leading out the team… Harry Waine, with, from left to right the UCI Road World Championships.

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TGS cycling gearing up for national champs Leading up to the 50th National School Road Championships, Takapuna Grammar School cyclists are hitting their straps.

The squad collected 26 medals at this year’s Northern Tour, held on September 9 and 10 in Mount Wellington and one of the key lead-up meets prior to the nationals.

Nine riders medalled in the general classifications (overall): U14 Boys: August Elworthy, 1st; James Ochtman-Corfe, 2nd; U14 Girls: Ella McKinney, 1st.

U15 Girls: Lucy Buckeridge, 2nd; U16 Boys: Nick Bowen, 1st; Tim Lambers, 2nd.

U17 Boys: Callum Erskine, 2nd; U17 Girls: Renee Young, 3rd.

U20 Boys: Oscar Elworthy 3rd.

In the individual time trial: August Elworthy won the U14 Boys and James Ochtman-Corfe came second, Ella McKinney won the U14 Girls, Nick Bowen came second in the U16 Boys and Josh Kench came third in the U17 Boys.

In the hill climb: Belmont Intermediate School’s Lewis Bower came third in the U14 Boys, Ella McKinney won the U14 Girls, Lucy Buckeridge won the U15 Girls, Callum Erskine won the U17 Boys and Renee Young came second in the U17 Girls, and Oscar Elworthy came third in the U20 Boys.

In the criterium race: James Ochtman-Corfe won the U14 Boys, with August Elworthy coming second. Ella McKinney won the U14 Girls, Lucy Buckeridge came second in the U15 Girls, Tim Lambers came second in the U16 Boys, with Nick Bowen third, and Brenden Beyer came second in the U17 Boys.

At the Team Time Trial Finals Day on September 3, the school’s Senior Boys team won for the first time in the event’s history. The Junior Boys team came second and the Senior Girls team came third on the day. Across the five-event series, TGS Senior Boys came third, Junior Boys second, Senior Girls third and Under 14 Girls third.

The nationals will be held in Levin and Feilding from 30 September until 2 October and feature three events – a team Pedal power… Nick Bowen gives it his all at the time trial, a road race and  a points race.   Northern Tour             Tips for trouble-free computing     Tips for trouble-free computing         A company called ‘SparkTrust’ me a free which I accepted.

It said diagnosed 784  Q:  Vodafone have sent through anoffered email saying theyscan, will no longer be providing anitemail       Q:  A company called ‘SparkTrust’ offered me a free scan, which I accepted. It said it diagnosed 784      service from November.

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Until one registers one      A: Basically, Vodafone have decided they want toI daren’t upgrade the oldregister    appears not to be told how this will cost sowill inemail caseservers can’tI they backhave out out ifinherited the feefee    appears not tomuch be told howdon’t much this cost so register I daren’t inI case can’t back if the       from ClearNet, iHug, Paradise and various other smaller ISPs they have ‘acquired’    isthis exorbitant. this athe useful for me to do?

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Would welcome your advice.            There are twoA:parts to that issue really – firstly those server platforms are horribly outdoofanything date and very    Be careful with this sort of claim and offer.

I have never seen any program like this of any worth    A: Be careful with this sort of claim and offer. I but havealso never program like this do anything ofless anyand worth    people     Christopher Jones susceptible to being used for spamming; it isseen nowany true that are using emailso    or significance.

Most of the time these programs are rogue software or even malware, it really is best    reddragon.devonport@gmail.com  or significance.

Most of the time these programs are rogue software or even malware, so it really is best   less and communication goes more toBesides, phoneI and files installed are accessible online everywhere and   to avoid them altogether. haveall already some tools on your computer that willall do these     to avoid them altogether.

Besides, Ieffectively. have already installed some tools on your computer that will doand these   the time.

Moreover, online web-based email has developed over the last few years into a robust   Upcycle your laptop  sorts of clean-up jobs You don’t need anything else.        Upcycle your laptop Wanted: old laptops stilllaptop in working sorts of form clean-up jobs effectively. need anything secure and is now managedYou by don’t companies that are else. specialising in just email. In many ways it is          condition old to refurbish to the   Q: I have a message coming up on my screen saying ‘Your computer is low on memory…

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IfRed you are upgrading, I will pass on giving you the choice about it, and as of 30 November your old email address will cease to function.  service.

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Multi-tasking does not necessarily you will getone things done   A: This is actually referring to Virtual than RAM and this message comesmean up when you have or Outlook.com (Microsoft), both of which online web-based email systems.

Just choose oftoo       faster!

Close all your programs, reboot the computer and all will be well. Try not to have more than three  these!

You will need to sign up on their home page and find a unique email ID that has not been used.  many programs and files open all at once.

Multi-tasking does not necessarily mean you will get things done      things open at the same time, and you will avoid this problem in the future.       faster!

Close all  your programs, reboot best the computer and all will be well.

Try not to(_)have moreyour thanemail three Do think carefully about this – always to avoid hypens (-) and underscores to make   Q: With this new version of MS Outlook, I am finding when typing in an address for emails, there is   open   address easy to say to others.

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Q:  With  this new version of MS I am finding typing anwork address for emails, there is    Once you have  your new email address, let Vodafone know and they will set up an ‘email forwarder’    no Before when I typed into a name, the address filled in automatically.

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September 22, 2017

Local residents surveyed on worries over Ryman construction With work permitted to start on Ryman Healthcare’s Ngataringa Rd retirement complex from 1 October, local residents are being surveyed about the coming disruption.

Market researcher Janet Digby, who lives at the western end of Ngataringa Rd, has put together a five-minute online questionnaire to identify the residents’ concerns and how to best voice them.

She developed the series of questions with neighbour and Devonport Peninsula Precincts Society (DPPS) member Marinka Teague.

Construction of the complex is expected to take three to four years. The survey is intened to gauge the level of concern about traffic, noise, dust, road safety and damage to the environment.

It also asks participants how they want to be kept informed about construction and who they want to talk to about any issues that arise.

Digby encourages all local residents to complete the survey, which closes on 1 October. A link to the survey can be found on the DPPS website (devonportprecincts.nz).

Digby has also been doorknocking to promote the survey.

Last Monday, she helped her neighbour Nell Bowen complete it. The 90-year-old, who lives on her own, is generally apprehensive about the scale of Ryman’s plans. “It’s not my cup of tea – too institutional, too impersonal and too big,” she says.

Bowen enjoys tenpin bowling and likes to have daily swims in her pool in summer. She volunteers one day a week at the Takapuna Hospice Shop, drives to Tauranga to visit her daughter and regularly visits her husband, who is in permanent care on the Shore.

Bowen told Digby she was worried

Views wanted... Janet Digby (left) helps neighbour Nell Bowen complete a survey on the coming Ryman Healthcare construction about traffic, noise and dust but is mostly concerned about the development’s potential damage to Mary Barrett Glade and the remains of the Duder Brickworks.

Meanwhile, Ryman says it does not yet have a construction start date, and

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by Ryman engineering contractors in July, have yet to receive reports on their findings.

Three spoken to by the Flagstaff said they had had no communication from the company in weeks.

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This month I would like to raise awareness about elder abuse and the new Elder Abuse Response Service (EARS).

EARS focuses on interventions to change outcomes for seniors, and service providers will actively help older people who are being abused and neglected physically, sexually, psychologically and financially. Elder abuse is not OK. EARS is fully integrated with Police, ACC and the Ministry of Health.

The free 24/7 helpline 0800 32 668 65 (EA NOT OK) will be answered by registered nurses who will provide callers with information and support about elder abuse – whether they are a victim themselves or are concerned it might be happening to a friend or family member. Nurses will refer people to appropriate local elder-abuse services to get help.

Crime this past month includes five burglaries: Overnight on 24-25 August, a vehicle parked inside a locked gate at a Bayswater Ave property was broken into with a large amount of tools stolen.

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The same day, a resident in Niccol Avenue reported cash and a watch being stolen from their home.

Devonport Primary school was targeted on Friday 8 September when offender/s gained access through a window, taking iPads from a classroom.

A property on Ewen Street was burgled during the daytime on 13 September. Offender/s stole two televisions, a laptop and a significant amount of jewellery.

Police received a report of wilful damage to a vehicle parked at the Devonport wharf carpark on Sunday 28 August. Offender/s had ripped off the windscreen wipers and it is believed that other vehicles may have suffered the same fate, however they have not been reported.

Please remember to report any suspicious behaviour immediately. Get to know your neighbours and question people not known on your street as to who they are visiting. Call 111 immediately if you see any persons acting suspiciously around vehicles and property.

Waitemata Police are currently conducting Operation TOOL. We have engraved more than 1500 tools with driver licence numbers so far, and we’re only just getting started.

Theft of tools is becoming a common problem, whether taken from construction sites, trade vehicles or garden sheds. We believe the perpetrators are well organised and actively targeting worksites and trade vehicles. Police are finding a significant amount of tools at search warrants that we’re unable to return to owners, due to owners not having recorded the serial numbers or not having other identifiable marks, such as a driver licence number engraved on the items. Disappointingly, this often results in fewer charges for the offender as no owner can be proven.

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September 22, 2017

Road replaced after only two years’ wear

Roadblock... A section of road opposite the ferry building has been replaced, just two years after it was last resealed. The north side of Queens Parade, from Wynyard St to Victoria Rd, was resealed in 2015 as part of the Marine Square upgrade that dragged on for months, to the dismay of Queens Parade retailers.

Locals called the Flagstaff last week asking why the road was being replaced so soon. A spokesperson for Auckland Transport said there was a defect with part of the surface. “This is at no cost to ratepayers, it is repair work by the contractor Downer,” he said.

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

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

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

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Maddy wants Sundays off!

John and Taryn Headland have run the Devonport Timber & Garden Centre for over a decade, along with their two sons Jamie and Rick, and with the help of some dedicated staff members. Carol, Mark and Sue who have a collective work history with the company of over 40 years! Anita and Michele are ‘newcomers’, having done two and one years respectively.

Another familiar face, and very popular member of staff, is Maddy the labraspoodle who regularly minds the desk.

“We bought Maddy in 2008. She was so tiny she fit into a shoe, and she’s been sitting on the desk ever since,” says Taryn, who runs the garden centre.

After operating seven days a week since 2007, the family have decided to extend their Saturday hours and close the timber yard on Sundays, as of 15th October.

The Devonport Timber & Garden Centre has been in the family for the past 21 years, and was previously owned by Taryn’s sister Sunday spring walks... Maddy the labraspoodle is looking forward to long Sunday walks and the extra sun that spring brings Wendy and her husband, Mike.

The family have developed a strong connection to Devonport and its locals.

“The locals are amazing, they’re like a big family,” says Taryn, “It really turns a job into a lifestyle.”

While the Timber Centre will be closing on Sundays, there will be no change to the Garden Centre hours. Feel free to pop in at 27 Lake Rd and see Taryn, John and Maddy the labraspoodle, or any of their friendly staff, for all of your garden and timber needs.

You can also visit their website www.devonporttimber.co.nz

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September 22, 2017

Frustrations with council boil over Open rebellion to Auckland Council’s signage by-law regulations was mooted by a Devonport Business Association (DBA) member at its annual meeting on Monday night.

Council has had a crackdown on street signage in Devonport over the last year.

But DBA member, Pauline Colmar of Bette’s bar said it had “put the signs back up and said stuff you.”

“Everyone else should do the same,” she said.

Other members were frustrated with the lack of speed Auckland Council had moved to open a visitor information centre proposed for the old Devonport Borough Council offices at 3 Victoria Rd. The various stumbling blocks, included seismic strengthening and the amount of rent Auckland Council wanted to charge.

DBA chair Dianne Hale said negotiations were ongoing and a private meeting had been held recently between council’s property arm and Devonport-Takapuna Local Board members Mike Cohen and Grant Gillon.

Gillon said: “Let’s just say we had a difference of opinion.”

Hale said the DBA and volunteers would continue to squat at the building and hand out information.

A clear need for the centre has been demonstrated: during the World Masters Games 1000 people used the facility, and during the British Lions tour, 100 people a day visited.

Cohen said it was distressing looking back at his notes from the 2016 DBA meeting: “I can not believe it has taken so long to sort out.”

A survey monkey poll amongst members to guage their views on the information centre would be conducted to garner further support

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Working together…Devonport Business Association chair Dianne Hale (right) and new BID manager Toni van Tonder at Monday night’s meeting to open it.

The members welcomed new BID manager Toni van Tonder, who has a three year contract.

Dianne Hale was re-elected chair, Sue

Johnston treasurer and other board members voted in were: Doug Cochrane, Ian Cunliffe, Trevor Lawson, Laura Foote, Philipp Jaser, Ken Davis, Fiona Startup and John Waugh.

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Devonport an ideal base for tech companies Many Devonport tech businesses operate from homes or in local offices. In the first of a monthly column featuring local innovators, Rob Drent talks to Rich Chetwynd and Nicole Fougere, who have already developed and sold two companies to Silicon Valley firms.

Rich Chetwynd recalls 2009 as the year of eating cornflakes for dinner, living on $20 a day and saving up to buy a bottle of wine.

He and partner Nicole Fougere were working 16- to 18-hour days in Devonport, trying to gain traction for their e-learning company Litmos.

“We were on the verge of chucking it in,” says Chetwynd. “In 2010, we decided it would not fail.”

And the perseverance paid off.

The business expanded, they took on staff and Fougere was able to travel to the United States to market the company.

Even that was done on the smell of an oily rag.

One of the first trips was funded by winning a Grabaseat prize to San Francisco. Fougere says she could not afford to go to conferences to meet contacts, so she would meet them after conference sessions, often in bars.

Ironically, the couple were on holiday when they got a call out of the blue from a buyer for their company: San Fransciso-based Nasdaqlisted company CallidusCloud.

The sale involved them moving to Silicon Valley for a couple of years. But it was a lifechanging moment.

Their bank account went “from zero to millions,” says Chetwynd. “It meant we could buy a house and have no debt.”

He puts the sale down to “our strong online presence and the ability of Nicole to market us”.

Serial entreprenuers... Rich Chetwynd and Nicole Fougere have developed and sold two tech businesses and are working on another start-up After a couple of years in San Francisco, they moved back to Devonport with their children Gisele (now six) and Jacque (now four). In 2013, they started working on their next start-up: ThisData, a cyber security product.

They sold ThisData to another San Fransciso company – OneLogin – in May, in a deal based mainly on stock options.

While Chetwynd travels to San Francisco every six weeks to work for OneLogin, the couple are working on another start-up.

Chetwynd graduated from university with a degree in finance, and while he worked at the New Zealand Stock Exchange for six months, has been involved in start-ups since he was 20,

primarily developing software.

Fougere was a marketer who worked mainly for charity and aid organisations: “It was a bit of a leap into technology.”

The couple have no regrets about developing their companies mostly from their home base of Devonport.

“I never wanted to be a commuter,” says Chetwynd. And the close proximity of Devonport to the city by ferry means clients can reach local businesses easily.

A growing group of like-minded entrepreneurs is emerging in Devonport, he says, and he enjoys the tech-business meetups at Tiny Triumphs on the first Thursday of each month.

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September 22, 2017

Scenes from a writer’s life transported to Devonport

Frankly inspired... Devonport artist Graham Downs has painted and sketched a series of scenes from the Esmonde Rd bach where writer Frank Sargeson lived for over half a century During the years renowned New Zealand writer Frank Sargeson lived at 14 Esmonde Rd, Takapuna, he watched the street outside transform from a sleepy residential dead end, which stopped at the mangroves and mudflats, into a congested motorway onramp.

Next month, his bach features in a Depot Artspace exhibition during Auckland Heritage Festival. This year’s festival theme is transport and travel.

The show’s title, The Sargeson Swerve, plays on the fact that in Esmonde Rd widening work, a section of the footpath was narrowed to “swerve” around the front garden of the property, where the writer’s ashes were scattered.

Sargeson had moved into the family bach in 1931, and lived there until he died in 1982.

Today it is a small literary museum.

Jenny Cole, a member of the Frank Sargeson Trust, says that what was once a “literary oasis” for other writers – Janet Frame wrote her first novel Owls Do Cry there – became an increasingly busy and noisy spot.

The Depot exhibition includes many artefacts from the house. Curator Robyn Gibson says among them are the letters Sargeson wrote to Takapuna Borough Council complaining about the smell of diesel from the buses going past; a domestic scene with cups, saucers and glasses from the

bach; part of his library; reproductions of his book covers; and a portrait of the writer by Anthony Stone.

About a dozen watercolours, oils and sketches of the bach by Devonport painter Graham Downs will be for sale.

Downs first set up his easel to paint in the house a couple of weeks ago, but says he could easily spend months there. “It’s like [Sargeson] just walked out the door to go to the shops. All his everyday life is still here.

You can still feel him a bit. For me, it’s like painting a portrait of him.”

Downs painted scenes that include the replica of a quilt Frame made for Sargeson; the writer’s desk with his glasses, ashtray and a pack of Capstan cigarettes; and his hats hanging by the front door.

Downs is working on a sketch o f S a r g e s o n ’s typewrite r with bottles of his favourite tipple,Lemora grapefruit and lemon wine.

Today, the Frank Sargeson Trust preserves the house and administers a residential fellowship for published New Zealand writers. This year’s applications for the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship close on 6 October.

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September 22, 2017

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Cover story... Downs’ painting shows Sargeson’s bed covered with the replica of a quilt made for him by Janet Frame. The quilt can be seen in the left foreground of the photograph opposite.

Soccer field upgrade decision in November The final design for the upgrade of the Dacre Park sports fields will be considered for approval at the November meeting of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board.

Planning for the upgrade of the North Shore United AFC home ground has been underway for months as part of the council’s Sports Field Capacity Development Programme.

The upgrade has polarised opnion in Devonport, with club members, soccer parents and fans expressing strong support for the upgrade and a neighbours group voicing concern about increased noise and traffic effects and the installation of artificial lighting.

Shed to open Takapuna Grammar School band Shed will be the opening act for last year’s Battle of the Bands national winner, The Rubics, in their upcoming Devonport performance.

The smoke-and-alcohol-free event at Kerr St Artspace kicks off at 6:45 pm on Saturday 23 September. Student tickets are $10 and adult tickets $20.

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