The Eastbourne Herald September 2018

97 years on...EB's first paper

Thank you everyone for supporting The Eastbourne Herald. This month marks 97 years since the first iteration of your local newspaper, "The Eastbourne Sun".

We were recently generously given a bound copy of some of the earliest editions, and thought it would be timely to reprint the first ever front page, along with the editor's "compact" from the first edition,published on Saturday, September 17, 1921:

The motto of the “Eastbourne Sun” is “progress”. Its aim to further the material as well as the social side of the Bay. To serve as a means for promoting closer communication between the varied interests of the Borough and at the same time convey news items of local concern to the homes of the people.

Those responsible for the rising of the “Sun” hold no brief for party or creed. Opinions if expressed in temperate terms will be welcomed and awarded space, without fear or favour.

Our compact is to keep smiling for twelve months - the rest lies with the people of Eastbourne - if at the expiration of that period, the Bay relapses into lethargy, the proprietor may consider the deal called off.

It is obvious that the Borough is ripe for development, and that in the near future, modern sanitation and up-to-date travelling, water and lighting will be ours.

A local newspaper run on business lines, should appeal to the Bay as a means to an end. That end if to be gained by bringing out prominently the distinctive features of the

neighbourhood, in other words by throwing the limelight on the picture. With such special attractions as are the good fortune of this delightful borough, it is little short of criminal to neglect the opportunity of developing the natural resources which form the dowry of this, one of the most picturesque beauty spots in the Dominion."

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Come and talk to us

Tuesday 6 November 2018 - 7.15pm

East Harbour Women’s Club, Muritai Road

Previous agendas and papers available

Council meetings - Home - Hutt City Council

Board members are:

Virginia Horrocks (Chair) virginia.horrocks@huttcity.govt.nz

Robert Ashe (Deputy chair) robert.ashe@huttcity.govt.nz

Murray Gibbons murray.gibbons@huttcity.govt.nz

Liz Knight liz.knight@huttcity.govt.nz

Anna Sutherland anna.sutherland@huttcity.govt.nz

Cr Tui Lewis tui.lewis@huttcity.govt.nz

Cr Michael Lulich michael.lulich@huttcity.govt.nz

You can now come and talk to us at the start of the formal meeting at 7.15pm about anything that concerns you whether or not it’s on the agenda. You are welcome to make suggestions, give praise, criticise or just come for a chat.

Community Engagement Fund

Applications are now open for financial support for community groups

You can apply for help with things like:

• purchase of equipment

• food and catering costs

• community festivals

• youth group events and projects run by the elderly or citizens associations

• art projects that are not part of the core curriculum

• advertising, promotion costs.

Eastbourne has $2,366 to be available in November

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Controversial skate ramp planned for next month

by Carl McRae

Construction of a skateramp in the San Antonio tennis court is a matter of weeks away.

The ramp, which was first mooted two years away, has been delayed by late changes to the design and ongoing concerns over potential noise issues.

“We’ve been through a lengthy process with our expert designer,” skateramp organiser Matt Hayes told this month's Eastbourne Community Board meeting, “and he has recommended a mini spine in the middle of the half pipe. All planting plans remain the same.

"We don’t have a budget to update those concept drawings, but can add that that’s what we’re running with and Hutt City Council has approved it.”

HCC reserves assets manager Janet Lawson, confirmed council staff have worked through the design and that the project is going ahead.

ECB chair Ginny Horrocks told the meeting that a green space much the same size as the ramp is an important part of the plan.

“The original plan for trees along the back and ends is the same,” she said.

“Overall dimensions of the ramp have changed and the area or footprint has increased. While the increased four metres in length may seem a lot in the final design, it is only ten percent larger than the original concept.”

While noise has been a major concern for some nearby residents, the ramp's designer James Blas of Custom Skateparks says that modern, smooth concrete structures, with no joins, do not create anywhere near the sound generated by former wooden ramps, effectively large speaker

boxes, which radiated the sound outwards.

“The coping is set solidly into the concrete,” he says, “which will dampen any sound.

"The spine creates an extra feature for the children to enjoy.

"The galvanised pipe at each end of the ramp will be filled with sand and end capped, which will mean no echo and greatly reduce any sound output.”

Ms Horrocks presented the findings of one of the most comprehensive skatepark noise studies, conducted by the City of Portland in Oregon, which concluded in a report that a skatepark is ‘about as noisy as a playground’.

All parties concerned have been guided by this document’s findings, which maintain that skateboarding noise is negligible at 50 metres and sounds could reach between 65 to 71 decibels.

The threshold of good hearing has a decibel reading of 10, normal household noise around 40, while a chainsaw would clock in between 125-130.

Speaking at the ECB meeting, Margaret Martin (who had previously co-lodged an application with the Ombudsman over the skateramp issue) raised concerns that the ECB’s passing a motion of support for the project was not looking after the interests of all community members and that the board was guilty of not investigating fully all design and location options.

“The ‘anti’ were not given any input at all,” she said, “which makes a mockery of the meetings we have had.

"The skateramp itself has changed without consultation and the radically changed design is significantly longer, almost doubling in length since the original plans.”

She further suggested that the new spine

would be likely to attract an older group of teenagers, which in turn, would lend itself toward issues around security. The original parameters indicated that an initial target demographic was eight to twelve year-olds.

Marg Mills raised further concerns that the proposed site, the playground at San Antonio, was not the ideal location for the venture.

“Bishop Park would have been a far better venue,” she said.

“It’s close to cafes, the beach, the swimming pool, toilets and a host of other activities. It could be a beautiful, sharp, chic facility for our skaters, not tucked away at San Antonio, a covert hideaway for teens with drinks and fags.”

ECB members Murray Gibbons and Robert Ashe, were adamant that the necessary homework had been done regarding all concerns that were raised.

“Bishop Park was looked into initially,” Mr Gibbons said, “but local boarders were consulted and had indicated that leaves and sand would be an issue”.

“I’m comfortable with the new design and location,” Mr Ashe said.

“HCC engaged expert input within the scope of the original plans. A council sound engineer was asked a lot of questions and I believe has come up with solutions regarding appropriate noise mitigation.”

Matt Hayes hopes that the youth of Eastbourne will like and use the new facility too, once completed, whether they skate or scooter.

“It should be awesome fun. Council are also kindly putting in a basketball hoop as well. I hope you are as stoked as we are.”

Building of the ramp will begin on October 2, weather dependent.

Earthend releases new season EB bush honey

by Carl McRae

Founded in 2016 by Eastbourne local, Sam Mills, Earthend is a health driven brand that aims to represent NZ’s unique environment through our position in the world and the importance of bees to the eco system. Sam's main aim is to explore the beauty of nature and the art of traditional artisan beekeeping with the hope of connecting us to the land.

Sam, who grew up here and went to Wellesley College, says the real hero is his father Seamus who has toiled relentlessly as an apiarist for many years against the unforgiving elements here in the capital.

“The honey is testament to our surroundings and especially the efforts of my father” Sam says, “celebrating his achievements in producing world class honey that in my view is quite honestly priceless given the challenges we face.”

Behind the scenes of this specialist, almost romantic craft, it’s incredibly time consuming with a lot of risk and hard work in the heat of summer.

“You have to love it," Sam says, "as it is a big sacrifice considering the time and resources required to have this to share ”.

As a small enterprise, Sam is content with a small number of hives. Their operation is one of natural free-range, backyard beekeeping, set up with a mindset to produce a limited amount of Eastbourne honey, to be shared with those who appreciate true quality hand crafted produce.

With 40 retailers nationwide, the entire process, including processing , marketing and distribution is handled locally. In Sam's words “Hive to jar, one hundred percent EB”.

“It’s an opportunity to celebrate where we’re from and the diverse range of flora we are so lucky to have around us,” says Sam. “Every honey is a limited batch release. Each season, a different taste factoring the season's weather that determines what flowers bloom and what ones don’t. We have species and families of plants that are quite rare here in the regional park with Rata and Pohutukawa trees for example in close proximity to one another. The Rata of course, flowered last summer heavily which makes the latest Eastbourne honey particularly special as this family is now threatened by Myrtle Rust.”

Every region tells a story, says Sam, who says Sam, who describes Eastbourne honey as very rich, like butterscotch, with a hint of aniseed and a deep golden colour, indicative of the quality. Pollen assessments undertaken by him indicate that his honey has a thirty percent unknown origin, which encompasses the fact that the bees forage both gardens and native bush resulting in a complex flavour profile rich in taste and medicinal value.

“Naturally, bees go for different nectar and pollens,” he says. “If you juxtapose that with the rich coastal soil we have, the fresh source of water that is our streams and the high natural sodium content - a result of the briny air - we get a unique, raw, bold flavoured honey."

Sam firmly believes that quality wins out over quantity where honey is concerned and that the actual beekeeping process is paramount to the overall success.

“It isn’t the honey that matters but how the bees are kept,” he says, "and from a sentimental point of view, I feel it is wonderful to be able to capture the life of everything around us in a jar to share with the community first and foremost."

“We leave our bees with honey to survive the winter months,” he says, “not sugar/syrup, which is a common practice in the industry. We have queens that are over a year or two old, you wouldn’t find that in major commercial operations, some of which have questionable ethics which only drives us to achieve what we can where passion is the aim versus profit.”

“Earthend has a strong ethical social conscience,” Sam says, "which is based on my firm belief that you put back in what you are lucky to take out. Currently I'm working on an incentive to put a percentage of proceeds of sales back into conservation. The ‘Birds & Bees’ project will aim to help rejuvenate bird numbers (vital pollinators too) and assist their continued existence here in the Bays through natural non toxic pest eradication measures."

Looking at the bigger picture, there are several other major issues facing smaller apiarists in particular. Hive theft is becoming more prevalent, in fact, hives are now amongst the most stolen commodities reported in New Zealand. Levies have risen, based around bio-security research and the threat of disease too making

the barriers to entry higher for smaller operators such as Earthend.

Climate change, heat and weather extremes are also hurting the industry. Bees themselves are struggling to cope with this change seen for example with last summer's scorching temperatures which led to an overall estimated thirty percent reduction in honey production in the South Island.

By contrast, gorse, a major invasive plant with millions spent on its control, is a great source of pollen in colder times and beekeepers have been against its eradication for somet ime especially up the East Coast.

Besides the new season Eastbourne Bush honey, Sam has another rare honey from Kaiteriteri in Abel Tasman, sourced by independent bee keepers with the same values which he describes as ‘dark caramel with berry undertones’.

“Beech honey, especially black beech,” he says, “is one of the oldest species in New Zealand. But the honey itself is made from the excrement of a scale insect that lives off the soot and fungi of the bark, unlike pollen or nectar from flowers. The bees process this dew from the insect which lives in the beech tree, making this honey equally unique on a world stage as it is rich in trace minerals. Plus, this year, for the first time, all our honey was stored in French oak barrels as we feel it is a lot more natural than plastic buckets or metal drums.” This Sam reveals is part of a long term vision for infused whiskey, beer and gin once the honey is drained and gone to market.

Sam hopes to add a new honey from the central plateau, Marlborough and Queenstown Lakes as he looks to partner with other smaller producers.

Sam and Earthend are interested in sourcing honey from other small, like-minded apiarists and to help educate the overseas market that there is more to New Zealand honey than Manukasomething he feels we must do now more than ever in order to restore balance to the market.

“We can’t repeat the intensive farming damage seen through that of the dairy industry. Insects after all form the foundation of our eco system - it is too risky!”

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Church heading back to Ngaio St

After nine months of discussion and consultation between the St Alban's Earthquake Team, Vestry and the congregation as a whole Vicar elect, Reverend John Hughes, says a decision has been made to return to the church and put redevelopment plans into action.

“The congregation as a whole, have made the resolution,” he says, “after looking at all options available to us and assessing the best way forward as a church community.”

Owing to St Alban's being assessed as an earthquake risk in 2016, the parishioners currently worship at Wellesley College in Days Bay on Sunday mornings.

While the existing church and hall buildings fell below the 33 percent threshold of the New Building Standard, the temporary move to Wellesley was also viewed as an opportunity to strengthen the parish connection with the College and support its Anglican ethos.

It was decided in December last year that ultimately, if possible, the Ngaio Street site was where the church should continue to be located. Rev Hughes says that at the time, it was also

Food needed

Local service clubs will be collecting donated food from Eastbourne and the Bays on Sunday, September 23. Lower Hutt Food Bank is calling for support in stocking up depleted supplies for the Christmas period and beyond, when demand is highest. Demand for food parcels has risen 19 percent in the last year. If you want to help, put your food items out by your letterbox by 12pm on Sunday.

decided that the emphasis would be placed on the future and not the past.

“It was a good chance for us to re-imagine the site for the future,” he said, “and to help us to grow further the Kingdom of God in Eastbourne and the Bays. There has been a Church of England presence in Eastbourne since the 1840s.”

Designed by Frederick de Jersey Clere and built in 1910, St Alban's was constructed with reinforced concrete, which at the time was perceived as a safer earthquake option than the more traditional brick and timber. Unfortunately, it no longer complies with modern building standards.

Engagement of professional consultants for concept drawings, costs and staging of the re-development was the next step, as the Vestry looked to lay the foundations for their return to their rightful place of worship. Preliminary design stage and costings were to be finalised by July this year.

While still at least another year away from conceptual plans, Rev Hughes says that the decision to return and push on with the redevelopment scheme has excited all concerned within the church community.

“It’s positive and exciting,” he said.

“We hope to have a compelling narrative and some visual and tangible concept plans by August 2019.”

Rev. Hughes says that he is very grateful for the generosity of local organisations and other churches who have come to the aid of his parish in their hour of need.

“We are blessed. People have been very good to us,” he concludes.

Spring: a busy time for local beekeepers

September is Bee Aware month in New Zealand. Not just a buzzy campaign, it gives people an opportunity to learn more about the bee itself and just how important these creatures are to the environment and economy.

Local bee breeder, Mark Grenfell, says that we have two or three apiarists in each of the Bays and about half a dozen in Eastbourne.

“Most of those are backyard enthusiasts,” he says, “and the location of hives is often a closely guarded secret. There is a not-so-secret local beekeeping society also. It’s actually very healthy and active in our region, but for the size of the area, we wouldn’t want too many more hives.”

Whether a lifestyle choice, home craft or as part of a progressive industry, the keeping of bees has never had a higher profile, yet honey bees have been kept in New Zealand for more than 150 years. The commercial production of honey began during the late 1870s, following the introduction of the Langstroth hive, the boxedframed beehive model still used today.

Mark says that although he has only been involved with active beekeeping for the past five years, he has had a life-long fascination with the flying insects and the art of breeding bees for their honey. Knowledgeable about most practices, he has been of much benefit to some local enthusiasts and part of his involvement has been the putting together of hives.

“It’s a very busy time, spring,” he said. “We have to construct their summer abode and make sure that each hive has about 30,000 young bees and one queen. Over the summer months, the number of workers can double, or even approach 80,000.”

This overcrowding is one of the principal contributors to swarming, due to the queen laying more eggs as weather warms, coupled with an increase of flowers and pollen. Swarming season across New Zealand can begin as early as August and runs through until January.

Worker bees - which can fly at approximately 24 km/h and are the only insect which produces food eaten by humans - only live for four to eight weeks and produce about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in their lifetime. On one flight from the hive to collect nectar, a worker will visit between 50 and 100 flowers and can detect nectar up to 2km away.

“The queens will last one summer, possibly two,” Mark says. “The poor old worker literally works itself to death.”

Mark says he enjoys both the physical and scientific side to beekeeping. At certain times of a particular season, it can be gruelling, but with the right aptitude a most successful past-time.

“I guess I’m like a stud bee farmer,” he chuckles, “it’s suburban farming, again, something I wanted to do from a young age. But there is so much to learn about the art and I’m lucky that I have been able to work on a number of hives to help hone the craft.”

With just such a history of good beekeeping practice and strict legislation, New Zealand’s bee population is predominantly a healthy one. Biosecurity surveillance is vital to the wellbeing

of the economy and environment, by helping to detect pests and diseases before they can become established. Procedures of protection are extensive, with a budget of several million dollars per year.

Apiculture NZ suggest that among the easier ways we can help bees in our urban environment is by planting gardens that are friendly to them. Bees will forage on wildflowers and other plants for nectar and pollen and well nourished workers are more capable of fending off disease and parasites.

Not spraying our gardens with harmful pesticides or when plants are in flower and bees are around is of equal importance. We can also provide them with fresh, pesticide-free drinking water.

New Zealand’s apiculture industry is a five

billion dollar business. In 2017, 14,885 tonnes of honey was produced throughout the country and by February of this year, there were 887,510 registered beehives and over 8,000 registered beekeepers throughout Aotearoa. New Zealand is now recognised as one of the world’s most advanced beekeeping countries.

Dogs of Eastbourne becomes a FB sensation

by Carl McRae

With 102 likes in its first week in existence, the new Dogs of Eastbourne Facebook page is turning out to be somewhat of a revelation. Karen Rae Shields, administrator of the six week old page said she and husband, Michael, didn’t know a soul when they moved to Eastbourne at Easter this year.

As owners of a two and a half year old Rottweiler named Khan, reassurances of safety are often necessary, when crossing paths with other dog walkers. But Karen says that upon moving here, the pair were immediately struck by the dog friendly community, which was something they had both read and heard about before moving into the area.

“Michael had also seen the Dogs of Petone page,” she said, “and we made enquiries on the Community Facebook page, as to whether there was such a thing in existence in Eastbourne. No,

but what a great idea, was most of the feedback I received…the rest is history.”

The new DOE page in most regards mirrors its surrogate parent, the Eastbourne Community Notice Board.

“And now it has spawned the Dogs of Eastbourne page,” said Karen, “which allows

members to introduce their dogs by way of photo, to put a name to the dogs that we see regularly, but maybe have not met the owner. Us dog parents are funny, we like to show off our pets like children.”

Karen says that thus far, while it has been predominantly a great way to introduce our local dogs to each other, dog behaviour classes have been arranged, playdates, the baby sitting of dogs and even dog sleep-overs.

Michael and Karen encourage any local dog owners who have not already, to join the group and add to themselves and their pet to both the cyber and real communities.

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What a nerve!

A small donation will make a big difference to others, and the year 3 and 4 classes at Wellesley say doing something for others with no expectation of anything in return helps with mental health.

Wellesley is asking for $1 donations, which will go to buying bikes and helmets for Randwick School, where there is an impressive bike track on the field, but not enough bikes for the students

to use on it. The project came about as part of a mental health project, in which students learnt about the Vagus nerve, which controls the parasympathetic nervous system.

It can be strengthened through acts of kindness. The students tried out the bike track and decided to help their peers get more bikes. See Page 22 for details on how to donate.

A word from the Mayor

Eastbourne has a great natural environment with many opportunities for walking and cycling. Our walking and cycling network is scheduled to grow over the next few years, with projects like the Eastern Bays Shared Path soon to get underway. Once completed, the Eastern Bays Shared Path will form a part of a larger walk and cycle network including the Beltway (which will run through the central spine of the city), the Wainuiomata Shared Path and the Hutt River Trail.

The Eastern Bays Shared Path is considered part of the Great Harbour Way/ Te Aranui o Pōneke which is a walking and cycling route around Te Whanganui-a-tara, the harbour of Wellington from Fitzroy Bay in the east to Sinclair Head in the west. With the recent announcement of another $83m to be invested in Wellington’s walking and cycling infrastructure, including a new shared path between Petone and Ngauranga, there will be a safe and efficient walking and cycling route between the Wellington CBD and Lower Hutt.

These fantastic cycleway projects illustrate our commitment to making the city attractive to existing residents, new people, and investors. A transport system that makes it easier for people to be active will have benefits for Lower Hutt, as well as improving the health and wellbeing of people who participate. Benefits include reduced congestion, emissions and vehicle operating costs, improved safety, resilient infrastructure and a healthier environment.

Very soon we’ll be lodging the Eastern Bays Shared Path consent with Greater Wellington Regional Council, which is exciting because it takes us a step closer to completion. And with summer coming, I know there will be plenty of people with itchy feet, ready to jump on their bicycles or put on their running or walking shoes and take advantage of the beautiful environment we’re all so lucky to have.

Until next time,

Mayor - Lower Hutt

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Wellesley College year 3 and 4 pupils show where their vagus nerve is.

Fungi in our Park

Once you start looking at the different forms that fungi come in, it’s hard to stop. In fact, there are many people who go into East Harbour Regional Park simply to find as many different species and forms as possible and they are rarely disappointed. Fungi are the second most prolific life form on the planet after animals, with plants coming in third place.

Fungi are almost everywhere we look, but some are so small they remain unseen. With the use of DNA analysis, it has been estimated that we probably only know 5–10% of existing varieties of fungi globally and most likely a much lower proportion in NZ. For this reason, it is very unwise to eat fungi unless you are really sure of what you’re doing.

Our forest doesn’t boast an enormous variety of colour until you start seeing fungi. While most of us have seen the white basket fungus with its characteristic lattice structure, there are a multitude of naturally occurring blues, yellows and reds and the forms they take can be anything from crystal-like to huge edible puffballs. There are fungi that glow in the dark, Stink Horn fungi produce smells of rotting flesh to attract flies, and there are fungi that even consume insects alive; in fact, Maori used these insects in the ink they tattooed with. We even have a fungus on our $50 bank note (the bright blue werewere-kokako).

Fungi like the rain so we have had a cracker winter for fungi foragers. Fungi have symbiotic

relationships with almost all plants, including our beech trees and native orchids. Fungi need a healthy environment to thrive and, like our birds, insects and plants, have evolved to live in unison with the lifeforms around them. Some of the rarest fungi in NZ would have evolved with a need to be eaten by the various life forms that were once common in NZ, so without these life forms the fungi are struggling to survive, as are the very animals they require for distribution of spores.

Maori used fungi for many reasons but many of those uses have been lost and forgotten over time. There is now a movement to re-establish that knowledge. Fungi are important to our everyday modern lives in many ways, not least of all for making wine, beer, bread and even Marmite—all these exist because of fungi.

For identification, the best tool is an app called iNaturalist, which you can download on to your phone. This is an extremely useful app and your observations will be open to being confirmed or discussed amongst those with more expert knowledge.

- Sally Bain, MIRO

Youth Trust benefits from a day of crazy golf

by Ross Jamieson

The golf professional down the road hadn’t cottoned on to the sensitivities of the upcoming anniversary of the Gollans Valley golf tournament. It was first held 20 years ago on Fred Turvey’s farm. He let slip to the organisers that some Eastbourners had been practising at his golf driving range. Necessary, if you’d only played half a dozen games of golf in your life.

The anniversary 18-hole course was cleverly laid out on Jane Curtis’s Pencarrow Station. Ewes in lamb mustered, steep gullies chosen as fairways, creeks made passable, and sheep tracks closely cropped for putting greens - so it was all go. A layout puzzle was to ensure players were not hit by balls from nearby holes and we were given maps. A hundred or so Eastbourners, some in extraordinary garb, boarded buses at Burdan’s Gate on Sunday, August 12. Wardy, the self claimed ideas man, Tony, the consummate organiser, Ian, who did the behind the scenes mahi and Hugh a mower extraordinaire were the brilliant team that made it happen.

The weather gods could not have been kinder. Snowclad Mount Tapuaenuku glistened its approval from across a Cook Strait mirror. We sorted ourselves into 18 teams of six, teeing off from different holes to ensure we all returned mid-afternoon for the hilarious prize giving. splendidly catered for by Jane. The golf was

in Ambrose format, meaning where the best drive landed was the starting point for all six to have a go for the green. Once-in-adecade golfers therefore felt less goofy.

The coveted GVGGCCC number plate was stolen back off Louise’s car and awarded to Michael, who was 20 under par. Tony’s dad Bob at 89 got the trophy for the oldest player. John in a three Musketeers hat won because it was yellow and he had a limp, the others were all able footed in red. Bet crowned off the distaff side dressed as a Nun.

An old policeman supervised a shady raffle which, horrors , was won by an Aussie import who scored a night in the Pencarrow “love shack”

The aforementioned golf pro and Wardy’s lot

came home with the best team prize – a jackup?

This scribe was press ganged into writing the event up as he had the lowest school certificate English mark amongst the cognoscenti, and had won a hammer on the end of a golf club for the most air shots.

The Eastbourne Youth Trust is $1,300 better off from all these goings on. A day of community conviviality topped with a lingering appreciation of the privilege to live in such a wonderful coastal setting.

Margaret Amy Sarginson (nee Hoggard) 27/01/1922 – 4/08/2018

Margaret was born in the nursery at 16 Moana Road, part of the first subdivision ‘Ferryside’ in Days Bay. As a toddler looking out the window she would mimic the sound of the boats in the bay by saying took, took, took and became known as Tooki. Her parents Dudley and Daisy Hoggard raised five children here, John, Mary, Margaret, Derek and Kerry. Hoggard Street in Vogeltown was named after her greatgrandfather, John Farr Hoggard, who came to NZ in 1840 and was Postmaster of Wellington. Her father, a Hutt County Council Chairman, was influential in the building of the concrete road at Seaview, the first concrete road built in NZ, on which he towed his girls behind his car on roller-skates prior to its opening.

Margaret attended Chilton St James, Queen Margaret and Wellington Girls' Colleges, before being sent away to a farm in Kaitoke against her will at 16 due to a polio epidemic. She cooked and cleaned for the farmers, lived in primitive conditions and was always chasing away wild cats, resulting in a strong lifelong dislike for cats. She went on to train at Gilbeys Business College to learn secretarial skills, and stayed in Auckland briefly with her Aunt Amy, a brassy blonde from California. The Americans would have a major influence on her driving and her frank nature, highlighted by this classic from Margaret herself: “I am a very good driver – I was taught by Americans”. By then, her younger brother recalls, she was “an attractive young woman, a vibrant blonde, and was already embarking on a very full social life”, most of which revolved around the Muritai Tennis Club (MTC), a love affair which was to last a lifetime.

The party girl Margaret met her match at a bash at the Days Bay Pavilion towards the end of the war, in returning airman Keith Sarginson, who had survived 6 tours of duty flying over Europe and the Pacific and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in recognition. They were married at St Albans Church in Eastbourne on 1st June 1946, and shortly after moved to the family home at 401 Muritai Road. Their social lives with neighbours remained lively, even if many had to rely on home brewing, and their boys Warren, John, David and Robert followed in quick succession. When upsizing was required in the early 1960s they built a house across the fence on a vacant section at 21 Mahoe Street, and then in 1979 downsized to 4 Nikau Street, where Tooki spent many hours engrossed in her beloved harbour view. Margaret’s family expanded with 8 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren, many of whom still reside in Eastbourne, along with three of her four sons.

As a grandmother, she was a force to be admired, feared, and a bit embarrassed by, in equal measure. If called “Grandma” by a momentary slip of a child’s tongue, we were told in no uncertain terms that “I am Margaret, Grandma is a term reserved for old cuddly people”, of which she was neither. Right up until

she lost her battle with dementia, she never did seem to age, with her impeccable style, youthful figure, and love of a party figure, and love of a party. In her 60s, she was thrashing us on the tennis court, in her 70s forcing us to belt out “Chattanooga choo choo” at the front of her sing-alongs (we didn’t inherit her tuneful voice!) and in her 80s, when driving was no longer an option, Margaret would ride an adult sized red trike to the Village. She returned laden with bottles of Lindauer, her favourite tipple, thanks to those kind locals who gave her a push uphill when the going got tough.

Our flashbacks of a remarkable woman, who lived a life dedicated to her passions and full of strong conviction. She embraced a healthy lifestyle with ideas ahead of her time, promoting the benefits of yoga, massage and organics. She fasted only on apples each Monday, refused to use a microwave, always sat 8 feet from the TV and brushed her teeth 5 times a day, after every meal. She was an eager environmentalist, refusing to take the plastic cucumber packaging at the fruit shop, and allowing us to gingerly open our xmas presents so she could reuse the wrapping paper each year. Whilst she was Eastbourne’s biggest fan, she loved to travel, spending months of each year in Taupo and Surfers Paradise. She was an intrepid explorer who enjoyed trips across Europe, the Pacific, and Australia, where one of her sons had settled. Her highlights included attending Wimbledon, waltzing with Keith in Vienna, and her last trip in her 80s, to Ayers Rock accompanied by her boys, where she enjoyed her first camel ride and house-boated down the Murray River.

Another facet of her life was her love of music and dance, and into her 70s she organized singalongs for senior citizens at St Ronans Church with Bill Wollerman on the piano, a legacy which continues to this day. At these events Margaret would do a ‘run-around’ to raise money for musical instruments for Muritai School, and lead the School Choir in old tunes, from song books produced on her manual typewriter.

These song books were always brought out for her annual birthday ‘thrash’, as she referred to it, with friends and family gathering around Bill on the grand piano. She was so enthusiastic about joining in that, during several live performances in her latter years, including once at the Michael Fowler Centre, she eluded her sons and had to be held back by security while trying to join the band on stage.

She was a wonderful tennis player, playing well into her 80s, and one of few life members of the MTC. She won 21 MTC championship doubles titles and 10 mixed doubles titles between 1953 and 1992, 11 with her daughterin-law Pat and 7 with her son John. In 1982 Margaret was one of the chief instigators to raise $55,000 to replace the three MTC asphalt courts with synthetic grass, the first time this surface had been laid in the lower North Island. Margaret contributed in many other ways to the Eastbourne community, from her input into Scottish Dancing, to helping form, and then teach juniors at, the Eastbourne Badminton Club. But what we hope she will long be remembered for is her unwavering service to local tennis. From the 1950s to the 1990s she taught several generations of young Eastbourners how to swing a racquet, and anyone you meet of this era can inform you of how she “used to boss me round the tennis court”.

Margaret passed away peacefully at Woburn Home, aged 96 years, where she was attentively cared for in the last six years of her life. With her passing Eastbourne loses one of its many colourful characters, who are woven into the fabric that makes up this wonderful little place we all call home.

Game, set, match Margaret - “She’s gonna cry, Until I tell her that I’ll never roam, So Chattanooga choo choo, Won’t you choo-choo me home?”

Amy Fanning (from the memories of Kerry Hoggard and the Sarginson boys)

Friends of Margaret who wish to pay their respects are warmly invited to her final thrash, a sing-along at the Pavilion, Days Bay, 5pm Thursday 4th October 2018.

Armistice Day celebrations coming

At the recent Eastbourne Community Board meeting, Eastbourne RSA President, Colin Rushton, announced his organisation's plans for Armistice Day commemorations, to be held on November 11th, at the Field of Remembrance in Rata Street.

The site is the oldest known ANZAC Memorial in New Zealand and recognises the eight people from Eastbourne who lost their lives in the Dardanelles campaign at Gallipoli. On July 14th, 1915, the Mayor of Eastbourne, Mr J P Kelly, planted two Pohutukawas at the location, the first to acknowledge the deeds and sacrifices made by those who served this country.

“Armistice Day was never celebrated in Eastbourne in 1918,” Mr Rushton says, “because

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of an outbreak of Spanish flu at the time.”

No single event has killed so many New Zealanders in such a short time.

The lethal influenza pandemic that struck between October and December, 1918, claimed over 9,000 lives across the country.

In two months New Zealand lost about half as many people to influenza as it had in the whole of the First World War.

“At 1100 hours on 11 November this year, Aotearoa New Zealand will mark the centenary of the Armistice that ended the First World War in 1918,” says RSA spokesperson, Peter Baldock. “On that day 100 years ago, after four years of brutal conflict, war finally gave way to peace.”

Mr Baldock says that commemorations will move down the road to the Eastbourne Sports and Services Club, where refreshments will be served.

“We are also planning a celebration football match,” he says, “with teams representing the allies and Germany, like the famous WWI Christmas match.

"WWI memorabilia will also be on display. The croquet club will also hold an open day and the RSA is hoping that the Butterfly Creek Theatre Troupe will entertain the idea of dressing in period costume and helping to enhance events as planned.

BRIEFS

Some shoppers and residents were shocked to see a traffic warden patrolling ththe Village last Saturday morning. While traffic wardens are a fairly regualr sight in the Village, it was a surpise for many to see one on a weekend day.

Hutt City Council parking services manager Barry Rippon says wardens visit Eastbourne as part of a rostered south mobile patrol which covers Petone, Wainuiomata, and Eastbourne. He says some visits to Eastbourne are also as a result of public complaints about illegally parked and non-compliant vehicles.

"On Saturday no parking infringements were issued to vehicles exceeding time limits. Tickets were issued to vehicles that had no warrant of fitness and no registration, as they present a road safety risk."

A recent spate of non registered boat trailers - which are only registered for the sailing season - being ticketed has left boaties upset.

"Eastbourne residents lodge many complaints regarding non-compliant or abandoned vehicles, including yacht trailers which are taking up parking spaces, and the council responds identically to those concerns as with any other suburb in Lower Hutt," Mr Rippon says.

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Mondays

• Retired Persons’ Assn meet 4th Mon, 10am St Ronan's Church hall for morning tea followed by a speaker - $2 entry. Transport can be arranged for these meetings on request, ph 562 7365 or 562 8387.

• “Baby Bounce & Rhyme” at the library 10.30am.

• Singalong 1st Mon, 2pm at St Ronan’s.

• DB Playcentre Mon, Wed, Fri 9-12. Andrea Jensen 02102797311.

• Pt Howard Playcentre. Mon 9.15 -11.45am. Caroline 021 072 1070.

• Historical Society of Eastbourne local studies room open above the library 2-4 pm every Monday. (Check Saturday).

• Eastbourne Volunteer Fire Brigade training every Monday 7-9pm. Ph Ross Carroll Chief Fire Officer 562 7001 for more info.

• Toy Library 8-9pm. Elizabeth 021 08224664. www.eastbournemibase.com.au

• Eastbourne Karate Dojo junior and senior classes (children 8 year & older, plus parents) on Monday and senior classes on Thursday. Contact lindsaysensei@live.com, cell 021 844 873.

Tuesdays

• Pt Howard Playcentre Tues 9.15 -11.45am. Caroline 021 072 1070.

• Days Bay Playcentre Puddle Jumpers Tues 10:30 to 12 noon: Messy and Sensory play for children 2 years and under. Casual sessions, $3 donation.

• Muritai Tennis Club 9.30–noon. Merryn 562 0236.

• Eastbourne Homebirth Group 1st Tuesday of the month. Phone Kate 5627096.

• East Harbour Women’s Club Morning Tea & Chat Group 10am. Contact Glendyr 562 7181.

• Eastbourne Embroidery Group, St Ronan’s Church lounge 10am-12noon.

• Indoor Bowls Club 1.30pm, at the croquet club, Oroua Street. Jeanne 562 8555.

• Menzshed 9 till 12 , Williams Park, Mike 562 8688.

• Poetry group, every second Tuesday meet to read and enjoy poems old and new. Phone 562 8387.

• Toy Library 8-9pm. Elizabeth 021 08224664. www.eastbournemibase.com.au

• 9.30am Nia Dance Fitness Class (low impact - teens to 70+) Music Movement Magic - Muritai Yacht Club - call Amanda 021 316692 www.niainwellington.com

Wednesdays

• Retired Persons’ Assn meet 2nd Wed at

WHAT’S ON

Tartines for morning tea and socialising 11am. Occasional outings arranged. Ph 5627365 or 562 8387.

• Library preschool story time 2–2.25pm.

• Pt Howard Playcentre Wed 9.15 -11.45am. Caroline 021 072 1070.

• Scottish Country Dance. Merryn 562 0236.

• Bridge Club 7-10pm. Shona 562 7073.

• DB Playcentre Mon, Wed, Fri 9-12. Andrea Jensen 02102797311.

• “Steady as You Go” Age Concern sponsored Falls Prevention and Exercise Programme. Held 12 noon each Wednesday at Eastbourne Community Hall. Classes are held for 1 hour and costs only $2. Improve your strength and balance to reduce falls and injuries. Falls are preventable. Please join us! Pump Dance Hip hop & contemporary classes Wed afternoons in St Ronan’s hall 0274373508 info@pumpdance.com

Thursdays

• Menzshed 9 till 12 , Williams Park, Mike 562 8688. Women welcome.

• St Ronan’s Mainly Music, 9.30am10.30am, contact Cathy 027 213 9342.

• SPACE at Days Bay Playcentre. Michelle 971 8598.

East Harbour Women’s Club

New Members Welcome Card Groups (weekly)

- Bolivia 12.45pm

Contact Glendyr ph: 562 7181 - Bridge

1.00pm

Contact Heather ph: 562 7995 Guest Speaker (3rd week of month)

7.00pm - Drinks and nibbles provided Contact Diane ph: 562 7555

•Lions meet 2nd Thursday of the month at the Eastbourne Sports and Services Club, Tuatoru St 6.30 pm. New members and visitors are welcome. Graham 562 8819.

• Eastbourne Karate Dojo junior and senior classes (children 8 year & older, plus

parents) on Monday and senior classes on Thursday. Contact lindsaysensei@live.com, cell 021 844 873.

Fridays

• St Alban’s Pop in and Play, at St Ronan’s Church Hall, 9am-11.30am, contact Stefi 021 178 2099.

• Pt Howard Playcentre Fri 9.15 -11.45am. Caroline 021 072 1070.

• AA Plunket Rooms 7.30pm. Mark 566 6444/ Pauline 562 7833

• DB Playcentre Mon, Wed, Fri 9-12. Andrea Jensen 02102797311.

• Discovery Time for 4years+ at San Antonio School, 78 Oroua Street, 9.3010.30am. Office 562 7398.

Saturdays

• Justice of the Peace at the Eastbourne Community Library, first Saturday of each month 12pm-1pm.

• Lions’ rubbish bin last Saturday of each month.

• Croquet from 10.00am Muritai Croquet Club. Lyn 562 8722 or Val 562 8181.

• Historical Society of Eastbourne local studies room open above the library 11am - Noon on Last Saturday every month. (Check Mondays).

• Eastbourne Dune Restoration Group Meets at the dunes area in front of the Eastbourne Recreation Ground, on the first Saturday of the month at 9am. Contact Keena for more details on 562 0992.

Sundays

• Church services - see page 28.

• AA Plunket Rooms 10am. Pauline 562 7833.

Applications are open for Community Engagement Fund grants. The Eastbourne Community Board has $2,366 to allocate to community projects. For more information, go to http://www.huttcity.govt.nz/Services/ Funding/Community-engagement-fund/ Applications close on October 5.

Horrocks attends Climate Change Symposium

Among the attendees at the Local Government New Zealand hosted Climate Change Symposium, on September 7, was Eastbourne Community Board chair and Green Party Hutt South candidate, Ginny Horrocks.

The symposium focused on the challenges and opportunities of climate change, options for addressing the challenges and the work underway in councils across the country to adapt to and mitigate local regional climate patterns.

“It was exciting and stimulating to find out more about how climate change will affect us all during our lifetimes,” Ginny said, “and that planning and urgent action are needed to change the current direction, which has meant

Land grab

Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC) – Website:

“Don’t have a backyard? Come visit ours! We’ve got more than 50,000 hectares of backyard just waiting for you to explore”

So why take ours – private land belonging to local ratepayers.

Currently the Hutt City Council (HCC), under the auspice of GWRC and the Resource Management Act (RMA), are trying to affix widespread SNA’s (significant natural areas) to landowners' property in the Hutt Valley, Eastbourne and Wainuiomata.

That designation will result in – loss of property rights and loss of value in their property.

Several maps, showing the proposed affected areas, were sent to individual landowners with “Extension to East Harbour Park” emblazoned across and over the map beneath.

Of the 1,200 affected landowners, many have had at least 70% of their property covered by these SNAs, encroaching to within 3 meters of their homes.

It must be obvious to the HCC that the

that between 1990 and 2015, New Zealand’s net carbon emissions have risen by 64%.”

Local authorities are at the front line of climate change adaptation, she adds, and have a role to play in mitigation. 180 elected members, council staff, central government officials and key stakeholders had gathered to discuss the issues facing New Zealand, and to share information and ideas on national and local strategies.

“We looked at how we as a country can develop national strategies for coping not just with sea level rise, which is a key for us in Eastbourne, but how other sectors such as farmers will be affected by such challenges as drought and water shortages.”

LETTERS

affected landowners do safeguard their land, as it has remained in its natural state for many decades and, in some cases, regenerated considerably. Any wish to develop any of these areas is currently protected by a Resource Consent process which should be robust enough to deter any inappropriate subdivision of this designated land.

Although the RMA does require Councils to protect areas of significant indigenous vegetation and significant habitats of indigenous fauna, it is open to interpretation as to what is significant.

It would behove HCC to adopt a voluntary rather than a tyrannical approach as has been practised by other Councils such as the Marlborough District Council.

It has been our experience that professionals employed by Councils quite often provide a biased opinion. It would therefore be pertinent for affected landowners to engage their own ecologist for advice on their specified areas. Unfortunately, this is just another cost to protect your property rights.

Topics addressed included strategies for adaptation, climate change and the law, and equity between generations and communities, some of which will be more severely affected than others. Examples of what is already being done throughout the country were also studied.

“While it was clear the challenges are huge,” said Ginny, “it also brought home to me the energy, expertise and increasing nationwide cooperation already happening.”

“I have sent out the reports from this symposium to residents on my email list,” she added. “Anyone else who is interested, do contact me.”

So why impose this additional burden on private landowners –

Because they think they can!

At this stage HCC is effectively turning property ownership into a mere “Right to Occupy” with no recompense for the loss of right to enjoy and/or to develop your property.

Come to our local meeting on 25th September at the Eastbourne Rugby Clubrooms, 43 Tuatoru Street, Eastbourne and hear what is going on in your community.

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WELCOME TO DAYS BAY PLAYCENTRE

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Faith in the Community

Political barrow-pushing?

In a recent ‘op-ed’, commentator Karl du Fresne, claimed that the churches have “turned to political barrow-pushing to stay relevant” - as if sharing a view on a public question was a new development for the church.

The men's team of the Eastbourne Bowling Club has achieved one of its greatest successes, outweighing even the three national interclub titles it has won in the last three years.

The Eastbourne team this month won the Helensvale National 5-A-Side tournament on the Gold Coast, which is regarded as the most prestigious club bowls tournament in Australia and possibly the richest and most important in the world.

The invitational tournament, which carries a purse of $60,000 and a winner's cheque of $20,000, involves the top club from each of Australia's six states or territories and Eastbourne, which has been invited to participate in each of the last two years.

The Australian teams, the best in that country, are made up of fulltime professionals, including some of the best players in the world.

This year's 12th edition featured 50 players who have represented their countries, including numerous world and Commonwealth champions.

The Eastbourne lineup included double world champion Gary Lawson and national champions Justin Goodwin and Jamie Hill.

Eastbourne, playing as the Eastbourne Eagles, was the first overseas team to be invited to the tournament and were runners-up in their first appearance in the tournament last year, going down in a tight final to the Broadbeach Bulls.

After finishing second overall after the pool rounds this year, Eastbourne beat Cambramatta 9-3 in the semifinals and earned the right to face Broadbeach again in the final.

The match was as tight as last year's, ending in a 6-6 stalemate. But this time it was Eastbourne who prevailed, winning the tournament and its major prize money with a plus three points differential.

Unfortunately, the win may come as a swansong for several Eastbourne players. Lawson has indicated his intention to retire from interclub play while Goodwin, Hill and Phil Skoglund Jnr, who was a member of last year's national title-winning lineup, are unlikely to return.

CS Lewis has sagely pointed out that it is Jesus, not the Bible, “who is the true word of God”, and when Jesus began his ministry he declared his purpose by quoting a Hebrew prophet who lived eight hundred years before him – Isaiah - known to be particularly sensitive to the political and international events of his time. That prophet had famously said, as the very word of God, when speaking of true worship to the people of his day “Is it not to loose the bonds of injustice,… to let the oppressed go free,… to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house?”

So Jesus was placing himself squarely in a long-standing prophetic tradition of speaking the truth to power, and saw his calling in the further words of Isaiah – “to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the broken hearted, and to proclaim liberty to the captives.”

Relevance is not the issue, the churches are just being true to his word.

St Alban’s: • Men’s group, a drink and a bite, first Wednesdays, 6pm, RSA. • Women’s Group third Mondays, 10am, Hive Café.

St Ronan’s: • Parenting course (for parents of primary children, 5-9 yrs). Thursday evenings 7.15-9.30pm, weekly for six weeks from 18 Oct to 22 Nov. Details: www.stronans.org.nz

Register: office@stronans.org.nz

• This column of church news and views is sponsored by St Alban’s Anglican, St Ronan’s Presbyterian and San Antonio Catholic Churches.

The Point Howard Assn held its residents’ wine and cheese gathering at the Tennis Pavilion on September 2. It was great to catch up with familiar faces and also fabulous to meet and welcome a number of new residents on the hill.

Our next event is the annual Point Howard Disaster Party on the November 11. We will be holding a “pub quiz” this year to see which of our residents are the most resilient in an emergency. If you would like to take part, go to getprepared.nz to brush up on your emergency preparedness.

For those who are affected by noise from Seaview, a couple of dates for your diary:

• Hutt Valley Motorsport Club Street Sprints will be held on Sunday October 21, 2018 and Sunday 20 January 2019.

• Port Road Drags will be held on Sunday November 25, 2018.

A working bee will be held to paint the exterior of the Tennis Pavilion / Play Centre when the weather gets better. If you would like to help out please email pthowardassn@gmail.com.

The Assn continues to follow up with Hutt City Council and Worksafe regarding the July fires in Seaview which affected residents. There was toxic smoke from the Macaulay Metals fire on July 19 and asbestos in the air from the Chair Solutions fire on July 27 which was not adequately publicised during the event.

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Hat trick cements team's win

Teammates reckon it took days to wipe the smile from Andrew “Roo” Wilkins’ face after his hattrick for the Eastbourne Gs in their season-ending 4-1 football win over league champions the Petone Dreamers.

Wilkins’ triple strike ensured Eastbourne became only the second team to beat Petone in 18 matches this season and that they ended the season in third place with 10 wins.

The long-time club member (pictured) has been a prolific scorer for the Eastbourne seniors and its masters teams in recent seasons.

The Masters 42 grade is for players 42 and over. The Eastbourne team in Masters division two, for players 35 and over, also had a good season, finishing fifth overall.

News from Point Howard

Local players help frisbee team make an impact

A strong contingent of Eastbourne and Hutt Valley High School players returned from the recent World Junior Ultimate Frisbee Championships in Waterloo, Ontario without gold, silver or bronze medals but with medals that expressed the admiration of opponents.

Eastbourne players were members of the Under-20 women's team, known as Kahu, and the under-20 men's team, known as Katipo, which took part in the championships in Canada from August 18 to 25.

Katipo finished fifth overall, beating Great Britain 15-12 in their final playoff match to clinch that placing. Kahu finished eighth, losing 15-9 to Australia in a playoff for seventh place.

While they missed out on medals, both teams came home with prizes after being winning the Spirit of the Game Award in each of their divisions. Ultimate is one of the world's fastgrowing disc sports, particularly popular among young people and thriving in high schools and universities. It is a territorial sport, similar in principle to football but played with a frisbee _ though that term is no longer used in its title.

The Eastbourne contingent included Hillary Sheridan and Helena Cvitanovich in the women's team along with Emma Doile, Beth Thompson and Tessa Buchanan. The men's team included seasoned national representative Tane Rolfe and his teammates Sean McKeown and Jack Doile.

Racing gets underway at MYC

The burgee of the Muritai Yacht Club was raised over its clubrooms last Saturday, signaling the start of another summer sailing season in Eastbourne. After the traditional sprint races of opening day, club racing begins this weekend.

Meanwhile, Muritai sailor George Gautrey has finished 18th in the laser class in the latest

round of sailing’s World Cup at Enoshima, Japan.

Gautrey started well with a fifth in the opening race and was the best of the New Zealanders when he finished ninth in the sixth of nine races. But consistency eluded him and he missed out on a place in Sunday’s top-10 medal race.

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SPORT

Eastbourne teen set to represent New Zealand

Underwater hockey is on an unprecedented high in New Zealand and Eastbourne’s Charlotte Wilson is riding that wave after her selection in the New Zealand under-18 team to compete at the Trans-Tasman Age-Group Championships in Rotorua next month.

For the first time in history New Zealand won both the men’s and women’s elite titles at the World Championships in Quebec, Canada in August.

Former Wellesley College students Ben Paviour-Smith, Jeremy Webster and Nick Healy were members of the men’s team which contributed to that famous dual success.

The World Championship victories have created a new groundswell of interest in underwater hockey, even giving the sport exposure on the television news for the first time in years.

Wilson, a year 12 student at Hutt Valley High School, now has the chance to be part of a boom in a sport often seen as marginal or eccentric after her first-time selection in a New Zealand age-group team. She was one of four players from Hutt High to trial for the team and one of two to be selected.

Wilson now has the further incentive of using the Trans-Tasman Championship to catapult herself into the New Zealand teams which will defend the Under-19 and Under-23 titles at the fifth Age-Group world championships in Sheffield, England next year. She is currently part of a squad of 20 which will form two teams to compete against Australia next month; 12 of those players will go on to represent New Zealand

at the World Championships.

Wilson has been playing underwater hockey for five years, since taking it up in year seven, and said it was exciting to be part of the sport’s newfound prominence and popularity.

“I love it,” she said. “So many people are interested now and have been asking me about it.”

She said while she is “very scared” about the prospect of playing at an international level for the first time, the aim of the New Zealand teams would be to keep up the momentum the world championship success has imparted.

“We want to keep the rivalry going,” she said. “And we want to win from a young age to build on the success.”

The coming age-group championships mark the first time New Zealand players take on their Australian rivals in international competition.

“It’s really important because these are the people who will probably also be going on to the world championships and it gives us a chance to get to know them.”

Wilson quickly dispels any idea that, because underwater hockey is a relatively small sport, rising to international level is easily achieved. She trains at least once a day and sometimes twice a day every day of the week. She has

to travel to the Regional Aquatic Center in Wellington three to four times a week for training, has to work on her own physical fitness, train with her high school team which recently finished ninth at the New Zealand Secondary School Championships, attend national training camps and trials. “Because we come from different parts of New Zealand we’re not able to train together all the time,” she said. “You do a lot of the physical training on your own and then we work out a lot of the team stuff when we get together at training camps.”

A big part of the challenge of competing nationally and internationally is fundraising. The sport receives very little financial support from government or sponsors. “I’ve been lucky that having to go to the pool in Wellington, the City Council has given me pool passes and has helped me with my transport to make it easier to get there.

“There will be a lot of fundraising to get to the World Championships.”

SMOKE SIGNALS

Eastbourne Volunteer Fire Brigade is currently experiencing a shortage of Volunteer Firefighters and have 12 Firefighter vacancies. We are especially short of daytime volunteers, which affects our ability to respond with a full crew, which in turn increases the risk to the community.

Are you ready to help to protect your community and learn new skills?

If so, come down to the Fire Station on a Monday night at 7:00PM and introduce yourself to Ross, the Chief Fire Officer or give him a call on 021 648 114.

KITCHEN

25% of ALL house fires start in the kitchen.

• If you must leave the room, TURN OFF the stove.

• Clean your stove grill after each use to prevent the buildup of spilled fats and burnt foods.

• Clean range hood filters regularly.

• Curtains, tea towels, oven mitts and any flammable items should be kept well away from the cooking area.

• Have a fire extinguisher and/or fire blanket correctly located in your kitchen and make sure you know how to use them.

• Never throw water on to a frypan that’s on fire.

• Never, ever attempt to carry a burning

frypan outside.

• If your frypan is on fire, wet a tea towel and place it over the pan or use a large flat object (like a chopping board) to starve the fire of oxygen.

• If you do have a fire on your stove, try (if you can and it’s safe to do so) to turn the power or gas off either at the stove or at the mains.

• Alcohol is involved in 50% of all fatal fires. So don’t drink and fry, get takeaways delivered instead or use the microwave.

• Test your smoke alarms and replace the batteries if required. Remember! Smoke Alarms Save Lives! For practical advice on Fire Safety visit www. fire.org.nz, or contact your local Fire Brigade. Emergency Call Outs:

• 1 September 18 – Structure Fire, Port Rd, Seaview

• 10 September 18 – Fire on Beach, Marine Pde.

Garden Stuff with Sandy Lang

October: Mid-spring. Soil warming up. Time to plant. But what and where?

Shade: Plants are autotrophs - they don’t eat other organisms but make their own food. They make sugars (CH2O) from carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) and sunlight energy (E). So, CO2 + H2O + E = CH2O + O2 – yes, they make oxygen (O2). But E is often in short supply. We call it shade…

Many small plants (forest-floor dwellers) are well adapted to low light but with low E they grow slowly and don’t have enough oomph to flower much (few bright colours) or to produce sugar-filled organs you can eat (tubers, fruits). High-producing food plants require full sun. Look at Eastbourne from above (Google Earth) and it’s mostly roofs and trees - not much sun reaches the ground to power growth of small plants. Few of us have gardens with much sun. As housing density rises, so gardens get smaller and shadier. What to do…? Go south, Go up and Go out…

Go south: Use the sunniest southern part of your garden to grow vegetables and flowers – away from the shade from your northern neighbour’s house, trees and fence.

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St Alban’s Anglican: Sunday Worship 10am at Wellesley College. Thursday Worship 10am - check venue with Parish office, 11 Ngaio St, Eastbourne tel: 562 6269

Children and Families Ministry: see www.stalbanschurch.nz

St Ronan’s Presbyterian: Muritai Rd, Eastbourne tel: Parish Clerk 562 8753

Sunday Morning Worship: 9.30am. Power Hour: 9.30am

San Antonio Roman Catholic: Oroua St, Eastbourne tel: Fr Marlon Maylon Parish Priest 970 8405

Saturday Vigil Mass: 5.30pm

Sunday (Sacred Heart, Petone): 9.30am & 5.30pm

Go up: Nature invented climbers because there’s more sun higher up. Grow perennial and annual climbers on a structure to gain height and maximise sunlight. My grapevine’s on a pergola and a shed roof. My runner beans are on tepees. Other useful climbers are kiwifruit, passionfruit, jasmine and sweetpeas. Tomatoes, peas and various cucurbits will also climb with your help.

Go out: There’s usually more sun on the road berm. If it’s grassed, council requires you to mow it. But there’s no rule says you can’t grow flowers and vegetables. Many Eastbourne gardeners do this.

A few of my favourite things: I like easy-togrow food plants that produce good crops that are versatile in the kitchen. There’s rhubarb (plant now). In the garden it’s a vegetable but in the kitchen a fruit. Almost year-round desserts, jam, even wine. And they’re broad beans (sow now if you didn’t in autumn). Eat the shoot tips as ‘spinach’, the young pods as green beans, the mature beans as (well) beans. Bean hummus is nice. And then there’re runner beans (sow now). Grow them up a tepee or trellis. Six plants, and a family of two will have beans till late summer. Pick them daily, small, tender, sweet…

Sandy Lang slang@xtra.co.nz

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DELIGHTFUL TWO BEDROOM COTTAGE cute, sunny and sheltered. All set up, just like home. Move in tomorrow, just bring your essentials. Reasonable rates. Available between now until January 14. Enquiries to Mandy 0274 490 627 or harrey@xtra.co.nz

We have been living in Eastbourne for 30 years and have recently sold our family home. We are now looking to purchase a 2/3 bedroom home with 2 bathrooms (or with the potential for a second bathroom) in Eastbourne or the Bays. Must be: in sound condition, have good sunlight, be easily accessible, have off street parking/garage. Please contact Rachel Seymour: 0275 430 412

SHORT TERM RENTAL: Days Bay executive 4 bedroom house fully furnished. Avaialable 3 November 2018 - 3 January 2019.PH 0274515152

POINT HOWARD house sale - renovated character 3 bdrm, 2 bathroom, study, on large terraced section - negotiable 027 295 0923.

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Sheltered amongst the beautiful bush surrounds, with a warm relaxed atmosphere and lifestyle to match, this is a special haven within its own slice of paradise. If top of the list of your priorities are views, sun and privacy, then you must see 38 Rona St. On an elevated site on one of Eastbourne's most popular and central streets, this 3 bedroom home is delightful.

Marine Drive, Eastbourne

$3,500,000

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04 392 0001 | 021 02581960

sinead@tommyshv.co.nz

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DAYS BAY

Nestled on a sheltered north facing Days Bay site with fantastic, year round sun and unimpeded harbour views, 615a Marine Drive is a haven. Architect Richard Middleton of Novak+Middleton, conceived this property as a series of boxes set into the land, sited optimally for land contours as well as sun, with Scandinavian design influences.

Sinead

04 392 0001 | 021 02581960

sinead@tommyshv.co.nz

Sinead

Open Home

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Sinead Diederich

First time on the market for generations! Recently renovated, this spacious family home on generous grounds is ideal for families who wish to grow: Eastbourne is an idyll for children and families who love to explore and enjoy all this gorgeous suburb has to offer: all the lifestyle elements of New Zealand (bush, beach and sun) but with capital city on our doorstep. sinead@tommyshv.co.nz

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