Hikurangi Bulletin September 2022

RAINFALL AUGUST 2022

HUKERENUI 202 mm HIKURANGI 190 mm MARUA 250 mm

We would like thank the following people who give us these Rain Results each month.

Hukerenui: Lillian Reid, Hikurangi Linda Vanstone and Marua Rob Roest

These rain measurements are taken from their rain gauges in their local back yards.

Church Services In Hikurangi

Hikurangi Village Church: Meet Sundays at 10am, in the Hikurangi War Memorial hall. Last Sun of month is a Shared Lunch. Phone/Text Stuart on 0274 575247.

Hikurangi Catholic Church: Valley Rd Sundays 8 am Mass 1st Sun & Liturgy 2nd, 3rd & 4th 10 am.

Hikurangi Christian Fellowship: Sundays 10am or contact 4338654 and please leave a message.

Hikurangi Mountain Lions News

August has been a fantastic month for us here at the Hikurangi Mountain Lions! We’ve helped fund raise at the Golf Club Daffodil Day event and also donated $2,500; what a great day and plenty of money raised for a great cause! We also helped collecting funds outside Torpedo in town. We took part in the Whananaki Clean Up and have donated funds for a sensory infinity mirror to Whangarei charity “Kind Hands”, what an amazing organisation doing fantastic work for our vulnerable young people and their families. We’re always keen to get involved with our local community and help where we can. Please get in touch if you need a hand or if there is a local cause that needs some help.

We’re always keen to welcome new members to our club. We meet twice a month at the Hikurangi Bowling Club, on the 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month. Why not come take a visit and get involved in helping our community – many hands make light work and together we can do great things!

Give Carol Head a call on 027 366 1029 or Lucie Eade on 021 150 3763. We look forward to hearing from you!

Hikurangi Volunteer Fire Brigade Hi Hikurangi

During August we held our Honors Night awarding our members for service to the Hikurangi Community.

There were lots of awards handed out that night: 2 x 3 year certificate - this is the 1st award you receive after joining.

4 x 5 year medal - the 1st medal members receive. 12 x 2 year silver bar – this is added to the 5 year medal.

1 x 2 year gold bar – this is added to the 25 year gold star medal, and 2 long service good conduct medals issued to Qualified Fire Fighter Ratford and Qualified Fire Fighter Palmer adding up to total of 220 years service.

Thanks to Djillegera Algra for the music, to Alfie’s Spit Roast for the food, to our photographer and our driver for the night.

With daylight saving approaching it is a reminder to test your smoke alarm, give them a vacuum to give them a clean. Did you know smoke alarms expire? This can be found on the underside of the smoke alarm, if no expiry date is found its best to change it.

Want a free home safety visit? Contact us via our Facebook page to request a visit

We have had 14 Calls this month 18/8/22 Hika 641, 6411, 6429 Whan 121, 9926 Mva Hikurangi 20/8/22 Hika 641 Medical Hikurangi 20/8/22 Hika 6411 Kamo 191, 192 Alarm Sounding Ngaratunua 23/8/22 Hika 6411 Oner 201 Port 151 Alarm Sounding Maungakaramea 24/8/22 Hika 641 Towai 8771 Bushes on Fire Hukerenui 26/8/22 Hika 641 Car Fire Hikurangi 27/8/22 Hika 6411 Keri 6711 Russ 761, 767 Grass Fire Make Tankers 2 Russell 28/8/22 Hika 641 Car Fire Kauri 30/8/22 Hika 641, 6429 Car Fire Hikurangi 31/8/22 Hika 641, Kamo 191 Whan 121, 127 Alarm Sounding Kauri 31/8/22 Hika 641, whan 122, 127 Oner 201 Ruak 177 MVA Whakapara 02/9/22 Hika 641 Whan 6171 Bush Fire Whananaki 06/9/22 Hika 641 Towai 6771 Powerlines Arching Towai 08/9/22 Hika 641 Whan 127 9926 MVA Whakapara

Until Next month OS Bain

Housework: When my friend got a job, her husband agreed to share the housework. He was stunned by the amount of effort involved in keeping a house clean with small boys to pick up after, and insisted that he and his wife shop for a new vacuum cleaner. The saleman gave them a demonstration of the latest model. It comes equipped with all the newest features. He assured them. The husband was not convinced. Don’t you have a ride-on-model? he asked.

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Out shopping, I narrowly avoided bumping into a fellow shopper. As he stepped to his right, I stepped to my left. As I moved to my right, he moved to his left. He stood still, put his hands out and said I’ll only do this once more then I have to go.

Hukerenui Playcentre

Hikurangi Community Notices.

Badminton (Social): Wed 9 - 12noon @ Hiki Memorial hall $2 per session. Rackets available. Contact Robyn433 8718. Bus: Leaves Hik @ 9.50 opposite Miners Rest Café & returns from Whg @ 1.30pm arriving at Hik 2.05pm

Children’s Lighthouse Playgroup: George St. Tues & Thurs 9.30 am – 12.30pm. Contact Sharlene 021 616 755

Fire Brigade: Training Monday Nights at 6.30pm in the Fire Station. More Volunteers needed.

Friendship House Trust: meets every 4th Tues of the month at 5.30pm held in the Hikurangi Hall. All welcome. Phone 433 8452 formore information.

Hikurangi Business Association: Meet 2nd Wed of each month, 7.00pm Hikurangi Bowling Club. All Welcome.

Hikurangi Freemasons Lodge No 140: Contact Ivan Berryman 4335847 or Steve 435 5601.

Hikurangi Transfer Station Please Note Winter Hours

Open Hours: Monday to Sunday 8am-1pm.

Hikurangi Golf Club: Phone Blue on 4337453

Hikurangi Hall: For Hire. Phone 433 8452

Jack Morgan Museum, Hukerenui: Open 10am-4pm daily. Justice of the Peace: Shayn Rouse Phone 433 8471 JP and Marriage Celebrant: Paul O’Dea 0275348374

Kindergarten: 5 Park St, Phone 433 8535

Library Hours: Mon, Wed, Fri 10 am - 2pm Tues & Thurs 10am - 6pm Sat & Sun closed. Ph433 8773.

Hikurangi Lions: Meet 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month. Phone either Cyndy Verryt on 946008 or 021544531 or Carol Head on 0273661029.

Hikurangi Plunket: Whanau Anhna Plunket Holly 027 203 2863, Mon & Thurs Home & Clinic visits. Drop-in Clinic at 33 King Street Kensington, 9am to 1pm Wednesday & Friday. No appointment necessary.

Hukerenui Playcentre:Email Hukereui@playcentre.org.nz

Marriage Celebrant: Jeanette Logie Contact 0210359313

Museum: Hours are: Tues, Thurs, Sat 10am-11.30 am, or by appointment. Contact number433 8062

Museum Committee: Meet in the Museum every 3rd Sat of the month at 9.30 am. Phone Linda 433 8062 or please Email: hikurangi.museum@gmail.com.

Eureka Taekwondo: Self Defence for all age groups. Hik Sch Hall, Tues & Thurs 6pm -7pm. Please just turn up on those nights for more information. Thanks.

Tai Chi: Held in the Hikurangi Hall @ 1.30pm every Wednesday (except school holidays). Please Phone Linda on 4338062 for more info.

Whakapara Pony Club: Steve Martin Whakapara Women’s Institute: Contact Marie 433 9900. Whangarei District Council: Phone 430 4200 Yoga: Marua Hall. Thursday 6pm $8. Allison 09 434 4330

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HIKURANGI HISTORICAL MUSEUM

Quite a few of you might remember that there used to be a chemist in Hikurangi – opposite the Hotel, located at 25 King Street. Sargents Pharmacy from Whangārei started a branch here about 1944. A new shop was built in 1967. The building is still there. A new exhibition is being developed for the museum called Health & Wellbeing in Hikurangi. The former pharmacy will play an important role in this. After it was closed quite a few items were donated to the museum and are now part of our collection. This exhibition will also talk about other events that had an impact on the health and wellbeing of Hikurangi locals. We experienced diseases and pandemics long before COVID -19. The so-called Spanish flu reached New Zealand in 1918 and killed thousands in just a few months. Schools stayed shut in 1948 after the summer holidays and didn’t reopen until after Easter because of a polio epidemic. But people managed to get through these trying times. Before Europeans came to New Zealand Māori had their own medicine, mainly based on native plants. We will showcase this too. If you have anything to add to this exhibition – items, stories, or you wish to volunteer your time or expertise in this area, please feel free to contact us or just pop in.

Health & Wellbeing in Hikurangi will open officially at our open day on the 15th of October. The museum is open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 10-11.30am or by appointment. Contact us by email: hikurangi.museum@gmail.com

You are invited to: Stuart Clarks 70th Birthday

This is an All Day Picnic on Saturday October 29th weather permitting. There will be a sausage sizzle, bring your own picnic lunch. (No alcohol). Kayaks, kites, guided tour of rock formations, a miniature of DOC rocks. Please enter @ SHI to the left of concrete barrier directly across SHI from the north end, or lake carpark.

Whangarei Mobile Library Bus

This arrives outside the Hikurangi Community Library at 1.15pm. Please call into the library for the next date of arrival. Please contact the library on 4338773 Thanks.

Policeman Pete

Hikurangi Police

I write this Bulletin piece today on Thursday 8th of September having recuperated after 2 weeks of leave and 2 days of training courses under my belt. The leave is essential in our line of work to recharge and spend time with family and friends and chill out. The training aspect is on-going and intense as you would imagine and expect from our organisation. Decision making under pressure and in the spotlight is common and we make the front page if we get it wrong. What I can say is that police do make mistakes occasionally and we certainly learn from it and strive to be better.

One of the trainings happened to be associated to what I do with Search & Rescue which qualifies me to drive the police 6-seater Can Am Side by Side in all terrain safely. Those that have seen me either driving it (on the road) or towing it through town will know it’s quite a bit of kit. This machine is a great asset for us with the ability to deploy Squad members quickly into search areas that require urgency.

Its also great that local business, Rouse Motorcycles kitted us up and provided the training ground as well for the course.

Great to see the team from Recreational Services out here in Hikurangi de-tagging the school. Caught up with them and had a yarn and expressed my appreciation to their efforts. They are under the pump in Whangarei and were keen to come out to Hikurangi more often with a little persuading so have them on speed dial. I think I have made it clear in the past about my hatred of taggers and I’m sick of painting the stuff out myself.

A little plug from Lisa, in regard to the kids crossing King Street, some of them are crossing on the blind corners by the Hotel and the corner north of Valley Road. As we know children don’t always get vehicle speed & distance very well so when they decide to cross it could be too late for the cars to stop safely. Just remember that from 2:45 to 3:15pm the speed limit on Valley Road & King Street by the shops is 40km. The school road patrol team do an excellent job of keeping the children safe at the end of the day so as adults lets support them as best we can. Keep up the good work team.

Stay safe out there.

Senior Constable Pete THOMAS

At the age of 14 I began a part-time job as a waiter. On my first night I took an order for steak. As I headed to the kitchen, the customer shouted after me , “Well done!”

I turned around and thanked him, proud of having done such a good job.