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pages 26 - 35 Stepping up to replace the tattered flag, from left, Shalin’s son Ansh Datt, Shalin Vandhana, Peter Henderson and Sue Robertson. Sue holds the ripped flag that sparked the abusive calls.

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Ripped flag prompts racist phone calls A Warkworth motel owner has endured racist and abusive phone calls over the state of a flag that is not her responsibility.

Walton Park Motor Lodge owner Shalin Vandhana has had three hostile calls from different people over the last six months, all complaining about the

state of the ripped New Zealand flag that flew from a flagpole in front of the motel, near the corner of Whitaker Road and SH1.

Earlier this month, Shalin received an email complaining about the flag, with a phone number attached.

She rang the number and explained to

the writer that the flagpole was not on motel land and the motel had never had a part in erecting or maintaining it. But the man insisted otherwise and became increasingly irate and foul-mouthed.

“He ended by saying, ‘You f*cking Indians, that’s no way to treat our country’s flag’, and he put the phone

down,” Shalin says.

Undaunted, she called the man back, rebuking him for swearing at a woman and inviting him to come to the motel and see her. The offer was not taken up.

Afterwards, Shalin became frightened and contacted Sue Robertson, a

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Ripped flag prompts racist phone calls volunteer with her local Neighbourhood Support Group, who put her in touch with Victim Support. Sue also contacted Peter Henderson, of Warkworth Lions.

Since 2015, Peter and his wife Carol have taken it upon themselves to periodically replace the flag when needed.

Peter says the couple have tried to find out who is responsible for the flag and flagpole, without success. Approaches

to Auckland Council, which mows the lawn around the flagpole, proved fruitless.

“I hate to think of people driving past the tattered when they enter Warkworth, so I thought ‘stuff it, we will do it’,” he says.

Peter volunteered to pay for a new flag, but Shalin said she would not allow her abusers to “beat her down”

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and would take the high road and pay for a replacement herself.

Meanwhile, Peter agreed to attach it to the pole. Warkworth historian Dave Parker says the flagpole was originally looked after by the Rotary Club of Warkworth. A former member, the late Graham Jenkins who lived nearby, would raise the flag at 6am each morning and lower it again at 6pm.

Racism alive and well in Aotearoa The impacts of racism felt by migrant communities in New Zealand are extensive, according to a report by the Human Rights Commission released last month.

These impacts are felt across the spectrum of day-to-day life including health, housing, employment, education, governance and the justice system.

In the report ‘Drivers of migrant New Zealanders’ experiences of racism’, race relations commissioner Meng Foon says findings from Stats NZ indicate that people born outside Aotearoa report high rates of discrimination compared with those born in Aotearoa.

“Further concerning statistics come from surveys that show that only about half of New Zealanders hold positive views of migrants,” he says.

Participants in the research recorded many examples of both latent and obvious racism. These included comments such as:

“As soon as they heard my voice, they said the house was taken. But we had friends ring the landlords for the same house and

physical abuse. They smash the windows, threaten them because the Chinese elderly people like gardening, growing different types of vegetables.” Provider

Race relations commissioner Meng Foon. it was still available.” Indian focus group “If you apply for a job and they call you up and say come for an interview, when you come in, they will see your face and say, ‘Sorry it’s gone, this job’.” Muslim focus group “One person will be attached to us, so I’m going to train him. Then after a couple of weeks, the person I trained he’ll become my boss.” Filipino focus group “We have so many complaints from Chinese elderly people who are living in state houses. In their state house community, there is lots of bullying and

Numerous opportunities to influence change and address racism in Aotearoa New Zealand were included in the report. These included honouring the Treaty of Waitangi and encouraging diverse leadership within Parliament and across the public sector.

The report also highlighted the need to provide children and young people with balanced perspectives on New Zealand history, and for individuals to take personal responsibility within their spheres of influence and form genuine relationships with people from other cultures.

The report will feed in to a national action plan against racism, which the commission is in the process of developing with the Government.

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Angry farmers protest new stormwater rate proposal

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Rural landowners angry at Auckland Council plans to impose a targeted rate on them for stormwater management are threatening to withhold payment if it is approved as part of the new 10year budget.

More than 30 people from Tapora and Te Arai descended on a special dropin session at Wellsford Library earlier this month to voice concerns over the Rodney drainage districts targeted rate proposal. Their concerns ranged from complaints that Council had got its facts and maps wrong to the fact that the whole of Auckland was being asked to submit feedback on a rate that it knew nothing about and would be levied on just 244 rural properties.

However, the biggest worry was over a vast discrepancy between what stormwater division Healthy Waters said it had already spent fixing and maintaining drains and actual evidence of work being carried out.

Despite an annual budget of $26,500 and a one-off remediation package of $260,000, residents told Healthy Waters staff that no more than a bit of weed spraying had actually been carried out – no broken pipes had been fixed nor any diggers brought in to clear blocked drains. And there were gasps of astonishment when one Tomarata farmer said he came across two contractors who had been sent up from Wellington to spray some weeds.

“They said it was because Auckland biosecurity was too busy,” he said.

“They had maps with them, they had no idea where they were going.”

Several people asked for concrete evidence of what work had been carried out and where, and many expressed fears that if the new rate was imposed, it wouldn’t end up being spent in the community. Tapora avocado grower Glen Inger said the proposed rate was wrong and wouldn’t work.

“Half the money would be used up by ecologists, hydrologists and admin and there’d be no money left for the digger,” he said. “We need to look after our own.

“We had no choice about being part of Auckland ... if you put this in, we must all rally together and not pay it.

Rodney Local Board member Colin Smith and Healthy Waters’ Shaun McAuley at the drainage session.

It’s bulls***.”

Wellsford Rodney Local Board member Colin Smith said he was grateful to Healthy Waters staff who had tried to come up with workable solutions, but it was now down to the community to fight the Finance and Performance Committee recommendations to the Governing Body, which had the final say on the budget.

“The team has come up with different scenarios to try to get this district back on track,” he said. “But we’ve been given three options to submit on, and they all have a targeted rate – that is just unworkable, it’s not going to happen.

“Council believed the drains were private, but they weren’t – they were Crown drains, administered by Council. Council is trying to raise money out of a small community to do

its work for it. If they’re going to target rate those people, it will break them.”

Even Council admits that the new levy could hit some landowners hard, saying that “for some properties the increase could be significant” – at least $3000 a year.

When questioned about the presence of spraying contractors from Wellington, Healthy Waters’ commercial partnerships team manager Shaun McAuley would only say that the department used Downer Construction alone for all maintenance work.

“Downer is based in Silverdale and charges Council at prearranged and agreed rates. Downer uses one subcontractor based out of Albany,” he said in a statement.

However, he did provide a breakdown

of expenditure and work carried out, and said he understood the frustrations of local residents (see this story online for the full breakdown).

“We know there is still work to be done, and we intend to keep working through the problem together. That is why the management process and the funding mechanism is currently being reviewed as part of the 10-year budget,” he said.

“We are also arranging a tour of the drainage district sites to perform a drainage audit. The audit will look at the work that’s been done, what remains high on the ‘to-do’ list, and what gaps there are in the existing maintenance programme. Local knowledge is invaluable for exercises like this, which is why we are inviting the Local Board and members of the community to attend.”

Moves underway to protect Warkworth’s history An Auckland Council proposal to remove a weir across the Mahurangi River has led history buff Dave Parker to establish a group to protect Warkworth’s historic buildings and heritage.

“My concern is that as a community we are losing our grip on our valued historic assets,” he says. “We need a group that is actively involved in the protection of all things to do with our heritage.”

He anticipates the new group will establish a register of existing community groups and record the significant milestones in their history – ultimately creating a master record of everything pertaining to the history and culture

of the district. He says several community groups will soon celebrate significant milestones. “Those sort of groups need support and encouragement in a lot of cases,” Mr Parker says.

Council wants to press ahead with the removal of the weir following the release of a NIWA report late last year, which claims the weir restricts fish passage, particularly whitebait.

Currently, Council has no budget available to remove the weir. Rodney Councillor Greg Sayers says Council has promised there will be further consultation with Warkworth residents before there are any changes to the weir.

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Rotten roads I read with interest about the Rodney roads turning to “sludge” and what the Auckland Transport spokesman Mark Hannan had to say about them (MM March 3).

To me, what he says reflects exactly what’s wrong with all 700km of our gravel roads. He obviously has no understanding of these roads and the people that have to drive on them.

Is he from downtown Auckland or Mars? He comments that the damage was caused by heavy rain and dust generated by vehicles. He went on to say that reducing speed was the “single most important factor” to improving the condition of the road. He was quoted further, “If you and others in the community slow down, this will

have the direct result of reducing dust.

A vehicle slowing from 80kmph to 20kmph will reduce dust by 75 per cent.” But I would have thought that … 1) The single most important factor in improving these roads would have been regular maintenance. 2) That in your story and in the photos with it, there was no mention or sight of this said dust. Also, on the majority of these roads one cannot travel at 85kmph, you’re lucky if you can travel at 20kmph so where’s all this said dust?

But then who am I to comment on these matters when Mr Hannan is obviously highly qualified to comment? This district pays some of the highest rates in Auckland and can’t even get their roads maintained to a basic standard. We obviously pay far too much for certain

officials who work for this Council. I live on Kaipara Flats Road and see the continuous lines of traffic which are diverted along this road, which runs on to Tauhoa Road, when the Dome Valley is closed two to three times every month. Moreover, allowing SH1 traffic to be diverted along this road is absolutely crazy. As Sam Ryburn says in the story, it was only built for horse and carts and is maintained to that same level. In the past 10 years how many millions of dollars from targeted rates, 15 per cent fuel surcharges, etc. etc. have Auckland Council collected from this district? Money that was meant for tar-sealing these gravel roads has been stolen by Council since the forced amalgamation, for their pink cycle lane, commuter trains, etc. etc. It does

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A word on speed Reader Steve Dodds ponders the wisdom of speed signs in the Dome Valley. “Maybe go faster when in the wrong lane. That helps.”

You can’t get there from here A NZ Transport Agency clarification on ramps at the Puhoi intersection of the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway reveals that you will not be able to travel to Warkworth from Puhoi on the new motorway, nor will you be able to travel from Warkworth to Puhoi on the new motorway. Could it be that the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway is the most inappropriately named section of road in the entire world?

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I read your article re. the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway (MM Feb 17) but could not find any reference to on or off ramps at Puhoi. This was an extremely contentious issue at meetings at Puhoi with the motorway people, where Mahurangi, Ahuroa and Puhoi residents were assured ramps would be built. Emergency access will certainly be available in case of accidents and could be utilised. Failure to provide ramps will greatly disadvantage people in the Mahurangi West and Puhoi areas who will be forced to use SH1 and consequently not contribute to toll revenue. The question of tolls was not covered and would be of real interest. It is difficult to believe this has not been canvassed at some stage in the planning process and the decision should be available. Hope you can shed some light on these very important issues.

Michael Malanot, Warkworth NZTA spokesperson Darryl Walker responds: There is an off ramp at Puhoi for traffic heading north (but no on ramp). For traffic heading south there is an on ramp at Puhoi (but no off ramp). For Puhoi traffic going north to Warkworth, or for traffic from Warkworth going to Puhoi, drivers will use the current SH1.

At this stage, we do not expect enough demand for a northbound on-ramp and southbound off-ramp at Puhoi for several years, and therefore they are not included in the current project. North-facing ramps also present a number of engineering and environmental challenges and would have a significant cost. The current designation has enough space for future ramps should they be required.

Editor: The tolling question has been covered extensively in MM. See“NZTA to submit proposal to toll Puhoi to Warkworth motorway” (MM March 3).

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Build it, and they will come I love the phrase, “Build it and they will come.” It’s ambitious but also practical; we can make a place better for people to work and play but only if we “build” in the first place. The key point is really the order. First you build, then they come.

The thing to build is all the infrastructure needed to support a decent standard of living, not just the houses. Then “they” will come to a place they can enjoy.

In the case of the electorate I represent – Kaipara ki Mahurangi, stretching across Auckland’s rural north and west – it’s been the case far too often that we encourage people to come here without having built properly beforehand. That’s as true in the rural north – think Warkworth and surrounding areas and the choke point that is the infamous Hill Street intersection – as it is in suburban west Auckland, where commuters crawl daily from intersection to intersection across State Highway 16.

I’ve been contacting Government ministers and various officials about the solutions needed in these places consistently over the past three years. I believe it’s important to offer solutions, having pointed out problems, whenever asking for more. To that end, I’ve published Penk’s Plan on my social media accounts for a couple of different geographical areas and will be expanding the map soon.

The traditional view about what needs to support people in housing still holds true. There are three key elements – transport links, safe and sanitary water systems, and “social infrastructure” such as schools, healthcare providers and community spaces to meet and play and, where appropriate, places to work too.

I would add that planning in the 2020s should also include reliable, fast internet connectivity to round out the basics.

It’s really the difference between “houses” and “housing”. It’s easy enough to simply build houses, but the whole package to support reasonable living standards – the whole housing picture – needs much more thought and, dare I say it, political will. I’ll keep pushing along those lines. Wish me luck!

Commissioners consent highway Commissioners considering a resource consent and notice of requirement application by the NZ Transport Agency to construct a new highway between Warkworth and Wellsford granted the applications last week.

Commissioners concluded the new road, which will replace the existing State Highway 1 as the primary connection between Warkworth and Wellsford, will have a number of transport and related economic benefits for the Auckland and Northland regions. Commissioners acknowledged construction of the highway will involve creating significant environmental hazards.

But they said that they were satisfied that the environmental impact of the construction and operation of the new road can be managed to an acceptable and reasonable level. Commissioners added NZTA acknowledged that desirability and usefulness of land along the route would be affected.

However, the agency had proposed “visual mitigation options” and minimum noise performance standards to compensate for negative impacts.

The estimated cost of the project is more than $2 billion and funding is yet to be secured. It has a tentative construction start date of 2030.

Pūhoi to Warkworth: Paving the way With 18.5 kilometres of motorway under construction, we need a lot of asphalt – 140,000 tonnes to be precise. That’s about one quarter of all the asphalt laid across Auckland in a year.

With such a large amount of asphalt to source, the most efficient way for us to do this was to establish a dedicated local asphalt plant, which is currently being commissioned in Silverdale.

The plant will produce 2000 tonnes of asphalt per day at its peak – enough to fill around 25 average-sized swimming pools.

The asphalt is transported from the plant to site by truck. We’ve laid the base course layer (the first part of the road surface) at several locations in the north and south of the project, and these are the first to receive the asphalt.

On the Ara Tūhono – Pūhoi to Warkworth motorway we are using open grade porous asphalt (OGPA).

OGPA helps to reduce road noise. It also assists with water runoff, increasing resistance and making the road safer for motorists.

To further enhance the quality and longevity of the asphalt, and optimise production, we have brought in special machinery which will allow us to pave the road in one continuous width. This is the first asphalt paving machine of its kind in New Zealand.

You may spot this machine (pictured below) on the job as it makes its way across the length of the project over the coming year – or keep an eye on our Facebook page, website and drone flyovers for footage of this impressive team in action.

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Health board tight-lipped on increased surgical services A push by Warkworth Area Liaison Group (WALG) to secure more surgical services for the growing Mahurangi region has received a non-committal response from the Waitemata District Health Board (WDHB).

WALG secretary Steve Haycock wrote to WDHB director of hospital services Mark Shepherd last month congratulating the WDHB on providing the Warkworth-based Rodney Surgical Centre with a contract to provide publicly funded endoscopy services.

The letter went on to say that there was a high proportion of older residents in the Mahurangi area. As well as being more likely to require medical treatments, this age group was more likely to find it difficult to get down to Auckland to get treated.

“This situation is only going to get worse with the Council’s policy to encourage the population to dramatically increase in the next 10 years,” the letter said.

The letter, therefore, urged the WDHB to have more surgical services available locally.

Mahurangi Matters followed up by asking Mr Shepherd if the WDHB would consider further services in the area and, if so, what would they likely be and when could they be expected to be delivered.

Mr Shepherd said the WDHB was currently revising Warkworth’s health needs profile to identify what new immediate and medium-term needs the community might have. But he did not identify any specific services that

might be delivered in the near future.

He said the additional endoscopy procedures provided via the Rodney Surgical Centre were in response to increased demand brought on by Covid-19 disruptions.

Rodney Surgical Centre chief executive Marianne Davidson-Beker said her own discussions with Mr Shepherd suggested his top priority was to ensure operating theatres at North Shore and Waitakere Hospitals were being used to full capacity and regional issues were further down his list of critical issues.

Though she believed Mr Shepherd

did see the wisdom of having a single surgeon travel up to Warkworth rather than many patients travelling to see him or her in Auckland, and was open to this idea.

Ms Davidson-Beker said publicly funded ophthalmology (eye disorder) services would be especially welcome in Mahurangi, particularly for those suffering from macular degeneration or requiring cataract surgery.

She said local people with macular degeneration had to travel to Greenlane or Waitakere hospital every three or four weeks for injections, and a high proportion had to be driven

there as they were no longer able to drive.

She added the Rodney Surgical Centre would be an ideal place for publicly-funded chemotherapy and haematology treatments if the WDHB was open to providing contracts for them.

Current Warkworth community services funded by the WDHB include district nurses; an Allied Health team that delivers physiotherapy, social work and occupational therapy; the Warkworth Birthing Centre and the Tohu Wairua community mental health team.

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If it went ahead, Council would try to negotiate a sale involving the entire Baxter Street property and all its occupants – National Trading Co, Westpac Banking and the Rodney Lodge of Freemasons.

Council still keen to sell key Warkworth carpark Rodney Local Board is once again battling to prevent Auckland Council from selling off the Baxter Street carpark in Warkworth.

Council’s property division Panuku has been trying to get rid of the 116-space facility above the New World carpark for at least five years, but it has been prevented up to now by concerted opposition, principally from the Local Board and Councillor Greg Sayers.

Now the sale is back on Council’s Finance and Performance Committee agenda, and Local Board members are still fighting the idea.

At the March Board meeting, they rejected Council’s recommendation that they should provide conditional support for the sale, due to its importance to the town. Members also voted to ask for the carpark to be transferred to Council’s list of community facilities and managed as a Local Board asset, with capital funding to complete the estimated $1.7 million of repairs needed to fix the surface and make the structure water-tight. That figure is up from a an estimate of $500,000 in 2017.

Members heard earlier that Council had, in effect, abandoned the carpark in recent years. Programme manager John Nash said its disposal had gained some urgency under the Emergency Budget, and keeping it would involve considerable expenditure.

“No part of Council is taking responsibility for this since Auckland Transport stopped managing the carpark last year,” he said. “There is no budget, it is without a department taking ownership.”

Warkworth Board member Steven Garner criticised Council for abandoning an asset that had the potential to generate income, which could potentially pay for necessary repairs and upkeep.

“It is highly valued by the community

for the amenity it provides, much more than the value it appears Council is putting on it,” he said.

“We don’t believe that Council is valuing it enough. It’s just another property they think they can sell to the highest bidder to create some money and that sits really poorly with this community.”

Board chair Phelan Pirrie agreed, saying the carpark should have its own Council funding attached to it.

“That it doesn’t is unacceptable in my view,” he said.

However, he warned that if Council wasn’t willing to pay for repairs, and it agreed that the carpark could become a Local Board asset, then they would have to find the $1.7 million.

“I have some real concerns about this coming back to us,” he said. “Having to take back an asset with watertightness issues, we could get to the point where we could be forced into a situation where we have to do the repairs and other projects members hold dear to their hearts won’t get done. I’m happy to support this, but members need to be clear-eyed about this. Once we’re in, we’re in, there’s no fairy waving a magic wand – toilets, hall repairs would go – I just want to flag that now.”

In case the Finance and Performance Committee ignored the Board’s wishes and went ahead with the sale anyway, members also voted to request that any sale process be delayed until completion of a Centre Plan for Warkworth, that the financial liability for the property did not sit with the Rodney Local Board, and “that consideration be given to providing a condition on the sale that retains public parking on the site to meet current and future needs”.

The proposed carpark sale will come before the Finance and Performance Committee on Thursday, April 22.

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When former Kourawhero farmer Les Hatfull thinks about the Warkworth of his youth, his memories are of blacksmiths and bootmakers in the main street, an ice cream shop that sold aniseed balls for a penny, and a busy dairy factory on the riverbank in Kapanui Street. Bicycles and horses were still common forms of transport, not for fitness or recreation, but out of necessity, as few families had cars. Les turns 95 in a few weeks and he sat down with Jannette Thompson to talk about his life so far …

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hat I remember most about those days was how communal life was. My world was quite small in many ways – I didn’t go to Auckland until I was about 12 and even Tomarata seemed like a long way away. Neighbours worked together and socialised together and helped one another through good times and bad. I think it is something that’s missing from today’s world. Some people live next door to each other for years and don’t even know one another’s names. y sister Peggy, and brothers Gavan and Arthur, and I grew up on a 90-acre farm on Woodcocks Road, opposite the Kourawhero School. Kourawhero takes its name from the ‘red crayfish’ that were plentiful in the streams around there.

As kids, we would often stop on the way home from school and catch them or eels on a string or straw. We didn’t eat them, but sometimes we would see where the Maori people had made a fire on the side of the road and cooked them. If people think the roads are bad now, they would have struggled with the roads we had to use then.

They were mostly mud and it would take more than an hour to make the three-mile trip to Warkworth by horse and gig. Eventually, some farmers put in money together and metalled the worst sections. Our farm was part of a soldiers’ settlement scheme and many of the houses were formerly owned by Wilson Cement in Warkworth. They were dragged from Pulham Road to Kourawhero by bullocks. ad and Mum were English by birth and Dad was a carpenter by trade. He fought in both world wars and was one of several soldiers in the engineering corp who were awarded a military medal for ‘gallant conduct and coolness under heavy shellfire’ while extending and maintaining the duckboards and mule tracks during the Allied advance at Passchendaele.

Not that he told us this, as he never talked about the war years, ever.

Anzac Day was very important to him though, and he never missed a service. ife was pretty hard during the Depression. Unemployed families lived in tents by the side of the road and men would knock on the door looking

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for work in return for a feed. There was a Public Works camp on our boundary and these men quarried stone using picks, shovels and wheelbarrows, and the metal was used to build the roads.

People coped by eating from their orchards and gardens, hunting rabbits, gathering watercress and blackberries when in season and, of course, most families had hens. My mother used to pickle the eggs, but I wasn’t very fond of them. Mutton flaps were cheap, and farmers were able to butcher their own meat. Dad worked away a lot and sometimes when he came home, he’d bring a tin of Griffins biscuits. We considered it a real luxury. ouse fires weren’t uncommon in those days when most kitchens included a wood range. One night I woke up to hear Dad telling me to get out of the house as fast as I could.

I grabbed what I thought was my money box, but it turned out it wasn’t.

We lost just about everything in that fire and had to live in the Kourawhero Hall for about seven months while Dad built us a new house. Mum was away at the time. It must have been hard for her to come back and find everything gone. But neighbours pitched in to help us get back on our feet and, lucky for me, the bank was very generous and gave me what I’d lost in my money box. he day I turned 15, I told a classmate to tell the teacher that I wouldn’t be back. I just wasn’t interested in what you learned in a classroom. Dad got me a job at Rodney Motors, where Bayleys offices are now.

During World War II, when American soldiers were camped at Wech’s farm, just south of Warkworth, I changed jobs and became the camp warden.

It was a funny job because I didn’t do much except answer their questions and smoke their cigarettes. It is the only time in my life that I smoked. After that, I did a mechanic’s apprenticeship at Tom O’Rourke’s engineering business, which was situated about where Riverside Arcade is now. Petrol was still rationed with coupons and one of the Wech’s adapted his car to run on kerosene. The Bohemian families from Puhoi liked O’Rourke’s and most of them drove six-cylinder Dodges. Spare parts were almost non-existent, so we

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learned to adapt. We would repair tyres with patches called ‘boots’, which were glued on or fixed in place using gutter bolts. O’Rourke was a good boss and got me into the habit of saving.

My first pay was 16 shillings a week and this went up to £2.7s.6d when I qualified five years later. It doesn’t sound like much, but when I married Pat Le Gallais, in 1948, I was able to buy all the materials we needed to build our house on the farm. Pat and I had three children – Gaylene, Janet and Neil. Sadly, we lost Pat to cancer in 1998. worked at O’Rouke’s for nearly 10 years, biking in each day from the farm, rain or shine. Winter was the worst, especially when there were frosts and you were biking home in the dark. I ended up getting chilblains, probably from working on a concrete floor all day with no heating.

Eventually, my brother Arthur and I decided to go farming together. He had already bought the home farm off Dad, so I bought a half share.

We started with 40 cows, took out a bank loan for $10,000 and set about making improvements. We worked from sun-up to sundown, often seven days a week, and did everything ourselves. Sometimes we took on other work like hay contracting to make ends meet and I did the bulk drops of Rodney Times to rural delivery distributors for 13 years. e didn’t have a lot of land, so we cut our paddocks up small and started strip or rotational grazing.

We were probably among the first in the district to do what has become a fairly standard practice now. At one stage, Arthur and I decided to build an engine to replace the horse and cart. We worked many hours on this project, which probably became the first tractor in the area. Sometimes she went and sometimes she didn’t! Fuel, which was like gold then, was poured in and clouds of black smoke poured out. We called her ‘Flirt’ and she was used as a sledge, mower and tractor for carting, as well as a traction engine.

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When it came time to sell up, we had reclaimed swamps, were milking 120 cows and ran a Jersey stud called Ravina. We had won medals at local A&P shows and added a run-off on Old Woodcocks Road. Arthur and I farmed together for close on 50 years and I think it worked because we had different skills – he was the ‘thinker’ and I was the ‘doer’. ocial life revolved around the hall where we had dances, the annual Harvest Festival, Sunday School, card nights and the much-anticipated Guy Fawkes Night. Sport was an important part of our lives, too. At home we played hockey using bent ti tree sticks and some farms had tennis courts. All the small farming communities like Kaipara Flats, Tomarata, Pakiri and Omaha, plus Warkworth had cricket, rugby and tennis teams. I still believe that children who play a team sport have a social advantage. It teaches you how to win and lose, and how to play for the team and not your own individual glory. at and I moved from the farm to Clegg Street, Warkworth, where we’d bought a couple of sections – one for $8000 and the other for $13,000.

Tony Ellis built the house I live in today with my partner Rose. I kept busy after retiring restoring furniture, and Warkworth Bowls has been a big part of my later life. For close on 25 years I’ve been looking after the grounds and the clubhouse but I’m just about to hand over to another retired farmer who is only in his eighties. I loved my farming life and would do it again if I had the chance. My only regret is that I didn’t keep up the piano accordion that I learned when I was young.

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Foodlink celebrates new home After spending 28 years housed in a Presbyterian pastor’s disused private bathroom, a Warkworth foodbank has finally relocated to a dedicated storage facility.

Warkworth Christian Foodlink moved into its new 29 square metre building this month in the grounds of Mahurangi Presbyterian Church.

Foodlink is a combined effort by local churches to supply food to struggling families.

The new building features shelving for food, a fridge, freezer and space to assemble food parcels.

The opening of the new space was celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a morning tea to thank those who supported construction of the new building and the food service over the years.

Inaugural Foodlink committee member Ron Buckton was on hand to cut the ribbon and said it was marvellous that the foodbank finally had a proper home.

He said the success of the service reflected the dedication of its coordinators over the years and the fact that different churches had pulled together to make it work.

Dianne Thompson, who also joined Foodlink in its early years, said sometimes people think Foodlink is only for those on benefits, but the reality is that anybody can fall on hard times.

She added that people who have been

The bush is home to thriving stands of Kauri.

At the ribbon-cutting for the new Christian Foodlink building, from left, Roger Mackay, Dianne Thompson, Ron Buckton, Mahurangi Presbyterian pastor Nick McLennan and Warkworth Anglican Church vicar Rev. Peter Jenkins.

The new space has plenty of shelving for food.

helped in the past are frequently extremely grateful and often go on to be regular donors to the service when their financial circumstances improve.

At the ribbon-cutting, Foodlink manager Roger Mackay thanked donors for their financial support, including the Warkworth Anglican Church, Ministry of Social Development and the Mahu

Community Trading Post.

He said over the last 10 years, Foodlink had given away more than 5000 food boxes that had benefited around 15,000 people.

Foodlink will likely relocate again within two years following the completion of Mahurangi Presbyterian Church’s new community and activity centre on Mansel Drive.

Curry’s Bush reopens The public is invited to see the transformation of Curry’s Bush in Wellsford at its reopening on Saturday, April 10, at 10am.

Wellsford Lions is hosting the opening ceremony, which will include complimentary refreshments from chef Maja Pedovic-Moors.

The bush has a new boardwalk trail, two kauri dieback stations and is wheelchair accessible.

The project was funded by Auckland Council through the environment targeted rate.

Kaumatua Herby Skipper will speak at the opening about the history of the bush.

He will be joined by Rodney College’s head boy to discuss future collaborations with the school, including the building of a carved waharoa (gateway).

The bush, which has been closed for nearly two years, has been designed to be a “living classroom” for the college and Wellsford School.

There will be shuttles leaving from the Wellsford Community Centre for elderly for the opening.

Others are invited to walk to the bush at 17 Wi Apo Place.

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Cement Works Warkworth founder Tina Earl says this will make a big difference to the project, as it will enable the group to make funding applications.

“Once we’re a trust, we will start applying for various funding grants, such as heritage grants, and can approach people for help,” she says.

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Citywide Kitchens may be a new name, but the company principals are far from new to the area or the job of designing and installing bespoke kitchens and household cabinetry.

Peter and Rachael Hill have decades of experience in kitchen cabinetry in the Mahurangi district, as well as the wider Auckland area, and are about to open a showroom and factory in Morrison Drive.

“And even after all this time, we still love what we do,” Rachael says.

“We can put our hands to anything, we love a challenge, and we know how to listen and deliver what customers want, so they get their dream kitchen at a price that they can comfortably afford.”

Both Peter and Rachael grew up in Mangawhai – the oldest existing house in Mangawhai, The Tara, was built by Peter’s great grandfather Edward Hill.

Although they both attended Rodney College, they didn’t meet until they were working in Auckland. At the time, Peter was pursuing a furniture making and machinery apprenticeship, while Rachael was following her passion for food preparation and interior design.

They moved to Mahurangi in the late 1990s when Peter started working for Franich Joinery and Rachael was the bakery manager at Warkworth New World. In 2002 they opened their own kitchen design business.

“The business was very successful,

Naturopath Inga von Benzon has longed to escape Auckland and the rat race for some time and is delighted to have arrived in Warkworth.

She says she is looking forward to enjoying more organic food, a healthier lifestyle and the mutual support that comes from living in a smaller community.

She also wants to contribute to community wellbeing through her Holistic Health Naturopathic Clinic.

Inga says when growing up in Germany her family’s GP was also a homeopath, and she developed an interest in the healing power of herbs early on.

That interest lay dormant for some years while Inga pursued other ventures, including setting up a restaurant in Whangarei.

When she tired of the hospitality business, she decided to become a naturopath and embarked on a rigorous three-year training programme, before qualifying in 2003.

Inga also learned Bowtech® Bowen therapy, whereby a practitioner employs gentle rolling motions across the muscles, tendons and connecting tissues. The therapy relaxes the mind and body, enabling it to activate its own healing processes.

In addition, Inga practices EAV electro-acupuncture whereby a small electric current is passed through the

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but after 10 years we were at capacity and realised the business needed a big investment to take it to the next stage.

We decided to sell instead, took a trip to Europe and then moved to Mackay in north Queensland.”

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“We are currently operating in our temporary premises in Gumfield Drive, but on May 1 we will open our new showroom, offices and factory in Morrison Drive (in premises formerly occupied by McMahon Builders) to showcase our work.”

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Vale Anne Taylerson

Around 80 family and friends gathered on March 17 to celebrate the life of Anne Taylerson – a stalwart of the Warkworth Music Society, Warkworth Floral Art Club and the Warkworth Wellsford Budget Service.

Anne died peacefully at her home earlier this month. She was 81.

Anne grew up in Taihape and Kaikohe and later trained as a nurse at Whangarei Hospital.

An early adventure was travelling to England by ship with two nursing friends – an overseas experience that saw her travel all over Europe between stints of nursing and other fill-in jobs.

She returned to New Zealand in 1964 but soon afterwards joined the Australian Inland Mission, run by the Presbyterian Church, and was assigned to a small isolated hospital and children’s hostel on the Cape York peninsula.

There she learned to bake bread on a wood burning stove, recognise cuts of beef on a still warm carcass, eke out a dwindling water supply in the dry season and organise birthday parties for 60 or more children at a time.

She returned to New Zealand in 1970 – a journey that involved Anne and her sister Olwyn driving across Australia’s Nullarbor Plain in a car with a cracked radiator. The women drove at night in order to keep the car and themselves as cool as possible and kept hoping they would reach water again before they ran out.

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later became a nursing tutor.

She married Peter in 1990, which opened the door to further adventures. On their honeymoon, the couple tramped around Lake Waikaremoana and numerous other journeys were completed via kayak, bicycle and barge.

Recalling their many travels together, Peter said, “I will miss her terribly”.

On retirement, Anne and Peter moved to Warkworth in 2003. Anne joined her sister Hueline Massey as a budget adviser with the Warkworth Wellsford Budget Service, a post she held for 19 years.

Hueline said Anne’s organisational skills, initiative and desire to help those struggling financially made her a perfect fit for the role.

“It was so good to have someone close who understood the work we were doing and to help solve some very difficult scenarios”, she said.

Anne was equally valued as a committee member of the Warkworth Music Society, which she served for more than 18 years. In a statement, Warkworth Music said Anne was a tireless member who helped arrange many wonderful concerts. She was a welcoming presence on the reception desk, which she always decorated with flowers from her garden.

“She was a friend and mentor to many of us and our thoughts are with her husband Peter and her family at this time,” the society said.

Another tribute came from Betty Trewin, a life member of the Warkworth Floral Art Club.

Betty said Anne was not only a president of the Warkworth club, she also held the post of treasurer for the Auckland area, which greatly raised the profile of Warkworth floral art.

She said Anne, who had inherited her love of flowers from her mother, was involved and determined to the very end. Even though desperately sick, she succeeded in entering a Design of the Year competition last year and managed to secure third place.

Betty said Anne was just as keen to see others succeed, always encouraging new members to enter competitions and supporting their efforts.

“She was unselfish – always thinking of others. With a kind word she taught us to be compassionate,” she said.

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Turn your business green Increasingly, large corporates are coming under pressure to be more transparent about their long-term business sustainability in terms of environmental, social and governance responsibilities. Investors, consumers, staff and other stakeholders are wanting to know that the products they are investing in, buying, distributing and supporting are not the result of sweatshop labour or environmental damage. They are also wanting to know the products they are associated with are contributing to the social wellbeing of their community.

Corporates are responding to these demands as the United Nations and governments put international goals and legislation in place to try to address the changes and challenges that are impacting business and society in the 21st century. Closer to home, local events I’m involved in like the Mahurangi Winter Festival of Lights, Kowhai Festival and the Santa Parade are now required by Council to have a waste management plan that aims for zero waste. Yes, it adds to the cost, but in the greater scheme of things it is a small price to pay to do the right thing for the environment. After all, there’s only one planet.

There are lessons to be learnt here for smaller businesses. An understanding of sustainability and the implementation of good environmental practices, no matter how small, can help build trust with customers and clients, creating greater brand loyalty and contributing to business resilience. There are many simple things small businesses can do to improve their environmental performance, and cutting waste is a good place to start. Remember: reduce, reuse, recycle.

A good first step is checking what comes into your business. Look at your supply chain and the packaging your suppliers are using – can they reduce it, or will they take it back to reuse? Reusing is about keeping materials out of the waste stream by giving them another lease of life or reusing something over and over again instead of using it once and throwing it away. Does your business use refillable soap or reusable hand towels? Adopting a three-bin system at work is another easy action. Have one each for landfill, recycling and paper, and make sure your staff use it.

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A motion to put Warkworth’s park and ride on hold was voted down seven votes to two at a Rodney Local Board meeting in March.

The motion was put by Board member Colin Smith and supported by Tim Holdgate.

Mr Smith said he wanted the $5 million earmarked for the park and ride redirected to road sealing.

“I feel at this stage $5 million on a park and ride is a luxury for our community,” he said. “We need to return it to the original purpose of roading it was intended for and show some respect to our ratepayers.”

However, Board deputy chair Beth Houlbrooke said the money was from Warkworth ratepayers, so could only be spent in Warkworth.

“I think it’s a valuable asset that’s only going to become more and more necessary. We’re going to go from 5000 to 20,000 population in the next however many years, the roads will be under a massive amount of pressure and as soon as Pak’nSave is built, we’ll see a lot more use of buses.”

Since introducing the targeted rate in 2018/19, the Board has collected just under $13 million and spent just over $5 million. Most of the expenditure has been on bus services ($3.8 million) followed by park and ride investigations ($901,521), bus stops ($399,737) and footpaths ($12,641).

Warkworth’s park and ride on the old Atlas site, on State Highway 1 just north of the town, will consist of 137 carparks. A resource consent for its construction is currently under review

by Auckland Council.

Meanwhile, the Board last month approved expenditure of just over $3.5 million of targeted rate funds

$12,991,498m collected

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for 10 footpath projects – three in the Warkworth subdivision and the rest in Kumeu. The three Mahurangi projects are Albert Road in Leigh (Seatoun to No. 15) $172,000; Pakiri Road in Leigh (No. 21 to Sawmill Café) $502,000; and the full length of Wech Drive $534,000.

Although a footpath on Mahurangi East Road was initially included on the list, it was removed. Board chair Phelan Pirrie says the work has been delayed as it adjoins a proposed subdivision. He says if the subdivision proceeds it may trigger development of the adjoining farmland and the developers will be required to construct the footpath, which could help save ratepayers funding the work.

The Board also agreed to spend $60,000 revising its priority three footpath list.

Priority three projects in the Warkworth subdivision are Ahuroa Road and Point Wells Road. There were no footpaths in Wellsford on the list.

The review is based on information from Auckland Transport that “a number of the existing priority three paths are estimated to be very high cost and with limited expected usage”.

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Wednesday, March 31 will be a sad day for the district when Sandy Shaw closes the till and locks the doors of Wellsford Sports & Leisure for the last time.

Sandy has run the independent sporting goods and clothing store in Rodney Street for 26 years and has built a broad and loyal clientele in that time, supplying countless teams and individuals with sports kit, balls and equipment, hunting and fishing gear, and more.

However, she says it is time to step back from the shop and spend more time taking care of her elderly parents at the family home in Kaiwaka.

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Science Emeritus Professor Ralph Cooney r.cooney@auckland.ac.nz

Creating a green economy The release of the First Report of the NZ Climate Commission is an important step towards establishing a sustainable economy. The report covers a wide range of issues and targets. It is critical that a fresh vision for a sustainable future emerges from the commission consultation processes. The population of the planet will continue to grow, but will plateau around the year 2100. Africa will dominate population growth and the population of China will decrease by almost 50 per cent. India will become the most populated country, followed by Nigeria and the US. Many wealthy countries, including New Zealand, will experience modest or zero growth. How the global environment and leading regional economies respond to zero or negative population growth will determine the state of the planet in 2100.

Retraining: In the US, the number of jobs in renewable technologies now exceeds the number of jobs in coal industries. These new economy jobs are higher technology and better paid than the fossil fuel sector jobs. Mining jobs are generally declining because of increasing automation. International reports note that many workers in the fossil fuel sector are keen to switch to renewable sectors, but the retraining needed to make this shift is expensive for the individual.

Therefore governments, including ours, have an important opportunity to subsidise such retraining in order to facilitate a major but necessary shift in the labour market.

Benchmarking: NZ could steer its progress towards a green economy by benchmarking against the Scandinavian countries that are leaders in the development and adoption of renewables. Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden (as well as the Netherlands) are comparable to NZ in scale and in progressive sustainability values.

Agri-methane: The main emission problem for NZ is agricultural methane from our major pastoral sectors. Methane, despite its misleading common name (natural gas) is the simplest hydrocarbon and a highly potent greenhouse gas.

This strategic problem then becomes a litmus test for New Zealand’s national resolution to deal with climate change. Rather than adopt a soft target for agricultural methane, let us make a commercial solution to this problem a major national research and development priority. A recent joint venture using seaweed in stock feed to reduce methane emissions is likely to lead to the creation of a new NZ commercial sector. This natural technology solution would find markets around the world among leading dairy producing nations.

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Sandy put the business on the market more than a year ago and came close to selling it at one stage, but uncertainty over Covid-19 and the swathe of different lockdown levels meant the deal didn’t cross the finishing line, so she has decided to close the doors.

However, she will remain in contact with her main suppliers and will be able to continue to supply sports

clubs and businesses with uniforms and some other items from her home office.

“It has been an absolute pleasure being part of the Wellsford business community and I will sorely miss all the people who have walked through my door, as many of them have become lifetime friends,” she says.

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Students’ DNA-inspired folly wins praise at Brick Bay A six-metre tall white structure made from 4425 timber layers, in 885 modules or bricks, is the latest ‘folly’ to be unveiled at the Brick Bay Sculpture Trail.

The sixth annual Folly Competition drew 24 entries from architectural students and recent graduates from around New Zealand.

The winning folly, titled Genealogy of the Pacific, is the work of three University of Auckland students – Daniel Ho, Raymond Yoo and Rita Cai – who drew inspiration from the curvilinear form of DNA strands.

The folly jury was led by architect, writer and recipient of the NZIA Gold Medal, Pip Cheshire, and also included Philip Haycock from Naylor Love, Karmen Dumper from Resene, Yusef Patel from the School of Architecture Unitec, Chris Barton from Architecture NZ, Richard and Anna Didsbury from Brick Bay, and Leo Zhu from the 2019 winning team, The Wood Pavilion.

At an event in March to celebrate the latest folly, Pip said the competition challenges students to take something from their imagination and make it a reality. He added that moving from a digital design to the completed piece was seldom a smooth process.

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From left, Pip Cheshire, Rita Cai, Richard Didsbury, Daniel Ho and Raymond Yoo.

winning team and said their folly involved a lot of science and structural secrets.

Speaking on behalf of the winners, Daniel Ho said they were very grateful for the opportunity, even though the pressure of the experience had nearly overwhelmed them.

“We feel we’ve learned so much that we wouldn’t have learned without this experience,” he said. “By going beyond our status quo of drawings and scale models, we were introduced to many

challenges we had never encountered in architecture school.”

The winning team received $30,000 to build their folly, with Pip Cheshire providing advice and mentoring.

The Brick Bay Folly Project started in 2015 with the first winning structure Belly of the Beast. It provides an opportunity for emerging architects to test their ideas on a real life project, manage construction, solve contingencies and participate in the physical construction.

The delivery of the sixth, and latest, folly at the Brick Bay Sculpture Park was a little delayed due to Covid-19 restrictions, but is now open to the public.

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Wood Street changes open for feedback

Trio Élan, from left, Donald Armstrong, Sarah Watkins and Simon Brew.

Trio Élan set to dazzle in Warkworth

Three of New Zealand’s leading chamber musicians will perform in Warkworth next month.

Ensemble Trio Élan comprises Donald Armstrong on violin, Simon Brew on saxophone and Sarah Watkins on piano.

The programme will include impressionist, tango and jazz-tinged works from France, New Zealand, Argentina and the United States.

It will feature several takes on the rhythms of South America’s tango and new works from New Zealand composer Peter Liley.

Donald Armstrong is associate concertmaster of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO) and former music director of the NZ Chamber Orchestra (NZCO). His leadership is credited with creating the “dynamic and exciting style” of the NZCO.

Simon Brew performs regularly as principal saxophonist for the NZSO and Orchestra Wellington. He is in high demand as a soloist, chamber musician, music director and teacher.

Sarah Watkins regularly plays with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. Her recordings “Sway” with NZTrio and “Gung-ho” with trombonist David Bremner were both winners in the Vodafone NZ Music Awards for best classical album.

Trio Élan performs at Warkworth Town Hall on Saturday, April 17, at 4pm.

For tickets, visit the Warkworth Music website (www.warkworthmusic.org.nz). Members $25, nonmembers $35, tertiary students $10, school students are free. Cash sales are available at the door.

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Feedback is being sought by Kaipara District Council on the changes being made to the layout and parking in Mangawhai Heads’ main shopping area, Wood Street.

Since early summer, Council has brought in a number of design changes in a bid to create a more people-friendly street, including one-way traffic, reconfigured parking and new public spaces with planters and artworks.

Some of the changes have prompted strong feelings on social media, with a number of locals complaining, for example, that that the painted street art becomes dangerously slippery when wet, with others fearing that feedback would not be listened to or acted upon.

However, Council says it would love to hear directly from as many people as possible about what they think is working and what isn’t.

“We would appreciate constructive feedback on what people think is working and what’s not, so we can make improvements where needed,” a spokesperson said.

“We have already undertaken comprehensive on-site monitoring and evaluation at Wood Street. As well as looking at the way people were using the area, we collected information to compare against baseline data we gathered before the interim design was implemented in December.”

The online survey is open for completion until Tuesday, April 6 or hard copies can be picked up from the Council service centre at The Hub, 6 Molesworth Drive.

Once the survey has closed, Council will make the results available and announce the next steps in the revitalisation project.

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Buoyed by the success of his book on Warkworth’s incidents, accidents and tragedies, Snells Beach writer Bryan Jackson has written another – this time focusing on Auckland.

Auckland: Incidents, Accidents and Tragedies covers the dramatic events in the city between 1840 and 1989 and the extraordinary characters that were involved in them.

Little known incidents include a Russian invasion of Auckland in 1873 – a hoax news story that had people ripping up floorboards to hide their money and jewels, and a school that gave its pupils a day off to go and see a Russian frigate in the harbour.

Accidents include a great fire of 1845 that destroyed more than 50 homes – some of them deliberately blown up by soldiers to try to create a firebreak to contain the blaze.

Tragedies include the Birkenhead Ferry disaster of 1955, when the Bender family lost their lives after a ferry eased away from the wharf, just as their car mounted the ramp to board, plunging the car into the sea with the family trapped inside.

As with his Warkworth book, Bryan takes delight in finding little-known colourful personalities to write about.

A favourite is Cyrus Hayley who, over a spat with the Choral Society, burned down the Music Hall in Symonds Street in 1871 and then a newly built Choral Hall designed to replace it, in the same year. He ended up serving a prison sentence in Dunedin and was shot in the back by guards when he tried to escape.

Bryan also covers better known events, such as the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior in 1985, the Bassett Road murders in 1963 and the man hanged in Mount Eden jail for the murder of Rev Volkner in 1866.

He says digging into these incidents often sheds new light on them. He discovered four of those thought to have been executed for the murder of Rev Volkner actually died of other causes, such as TB. Auckland: Incidents, Accidents and Tragedies is 374 pages and can be found at Paper Plus in Warkworth.

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Foraging in Matakana It’s amazing to think that when you are making something like a green salad or a delicious smoothie, you can pop out to your back lawn and find a few tasty greens – which you may have always thought of as weeds – to add flavour and interest to your dish or drink. That is one of the takeaway ideas from recent foraging workshops held in Matakana.

Josie Jackson, the engine behind the Zero Waste Matakana Coast Facebook group, was impressed when she saw Peter Langlands on TV’s Country Calendar. He is regarded as New Zealand’s foremost forager and visited our region to conduct the workshops at Jackson’s invitation.

There’s been a rising interest in foraged foods, especially among folk who take care to ensure there are plenty of nutrients in what they eat. Most weeds have to fight for survival and are therefore far more nutrient dense than most things in the vegetable patch. So those dandelions, oxalis (woodsorrel), sow thistle, wild fennel, flax (harakeke) seeds, purslane, and kawakawa that may be in your garden or on the roadside should not be overlooked.

As part of the programme, two dinners were served. One group went foraging with Langlands and Jackson

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on Sunday afternoon and returned to enjoy a dinner prepared by chef Will Michell in The Smoko Room at the Sawmill Brewery. Among his courses, a salad made with iceplant, samphire, local herbs and a samphire mayonnaise was received with much acclaim.

On Langlands’ final night, another dinner was held in a private house

overlooking Omaha Beach. Chef Cory Campbell served a perfectly formed meal that incorporated all manner of local and foraged foods, including kina, paua, crayfish, blue mussels, buffalo, tender beef, pumpkin, figs, kimchi, oysters, feijoas, blueberries, peaches and more. The garnishes Campbell had found included wild fennel, sea parsley, nasturtium, karamu berries, sea figs,

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Chef Cory Campbell’s Feijoa sorbet, Photo Sophie Randrup

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Cory shared his feijoa sorbet recipe, which was served as a palate cleanser between the entrée and main course.

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Violin, Saxophone & Piano Three wildly different instruments delivering a mix of melodies and rhythms with works by Debussy, Albeniz, Piazzolla and Farr.

Saturday, 17 April 2021 at 4pm Warkworth Town Hall

This concert is presented in association with Chamber Music New Zealand

Leigh library secretary Wendy Brown, front centre, gets a big cheque from Mahu Community Trading Post chair John Carr, front right. They are surrounded by Trading Post volunteers.

Funding boost for Leigh library’s 150th anniversary Continuing its tradition of supporting local good causes, the Mahu Community Trading Post has presented Leigh Library with funds to celebrate its 150th anniversary.

Library secretary Wendy Brown says the grant has lifted a huge weight off the anniversary organising subcommittee’s shoulders. Instead of spending a lot of time and effort raising money, the committee has been able to focus on research and planning the celebrations.

The 150th celebrations will be held at Leigh Library and Leigh Hall on Saturday, May 22, from 11am. They will comprise the unveiling of a historical board in the library grounds,

a display of photographs and artefacts in Leigh Hall, and refreshments.

All descendants of the founders, former and present members of the library, volunteers and committee members, plus Leigh, Whangateau and Pakiri residents are welcome to attend.

Notable local family names associated with the library include Clarke, Wright, Greenwood, Matheson, Wyatt, Witten, Dunning, Torkington, Meiklejohn, Cruickshank, Birdsall, Gravatt, Ashtons and Whitaker.

Anyone with old photographs, memories or mementos of the library, which they feel could be useful for the celebrations, should contact Wendy by emailing wendyleebrown@xtra.co.nz

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Sale fundraises for four-legged friends A massive garage sale will be held in Matakana on Easter Saturday, April 3, to raise funds for Longacres Animal Haven, a dog rescue based in Wellsford.

The cash-only sale at the community hall will run from 8am to 3pm and will include quality clothes, toys, homewares, books, bric-a-brac and a plant stall. There will also be flowers for sale, face painting

by Fairy Floss in the morning and dog nail clipping.

Longacres is run by Karen Gibbons, who singlehandedly rescues, re-homes and cares for countless dogs every year, including desexing, de-fleaing and registration. She receives no funding for her work, and relies solely on donations to keep the operation running, which costs tens of thousands of dollars a year.

“Some rough figures from the last year would be more than $20,000 in vet bills, over $16,000 in food and desexing ranges from $210 to $450, depending on

the sex and weight of the dog,” she says.

“The sale will be a huge help towards that. We have all sorts of items to sell and all proceeds will go towards more desexing and care for the dogs.”

Karen will be at the sale with a furry friend or two, and says she’s looking forward to meeting lots of supporters old and new on what is traditionally one of Matakana’s busiest weekends.

The garage sale is being organised on Karen’s behalf by long-time supporter Liz Brewis, who is looking for donated goods and volunteer help before and during the event. Quality new and used items can be left with Pets North or Liz, at Summerset Retirement Village reception in Warkworth, or at Longacres at 220 Wellsford Valley Road. Anyone who can help set up the sale on Good Friday, April 2 or at the event itself on Saturday, should contact Liz at ebrewis10@gmail.com

The Smoke on the Coast barbecue competition is returning to Whangateau Holiday Park on Saturday April 24.

Last year’s competition was delayed until December due to Covid-19, but it is ordinarily held in April which is why it is taking place just four months after the previous event.

Organiser Derrick Paull says it hasn’t dampened enthusiasm – in fact, this year’s competition entry is up by eight teams, including 12 that have never competed before.

The public is invited to “just roll up” free of charge on Saturday to see the best in the barbie business and taste some sweet meats.

Derrick says last year the event sold out of meat by 1pm and this time supplies will be doubled.

An expanded “kids on fire” children’s burger competition will be held at midday. Budding chefs will be given 500 grams of prime brisket mince supplied by Aussie Butcher New Lynn.

Entrants are free to style the burger however they like, as long as it has a patty and a base.

Northland barbecue legend Ken Van Mackelbergh of Barbecue BOI has put up $500 worth of prizes for the kids’ competition.

Entries to the kids’ burger competition, as well as the Steak Cookoff Association main event, are open at the Smoke on the Coast page at www.iticket.co.nz.

This year, the top 10 steak cooks from the competition will compete in a second round to decide once and for all who has the steak with the most sizzle.

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alligators • tuatuara • lizards • turtles • tortoises • tarantulas • iguanas • monitors Lovers by Suzanne Williams will be among the paintings at the Kawau Bay Artists’ Easter exhibition.

Exhibition returns this Easter Kawau Bay Artists have high hopes of a successful Easter exhibition following the cancellation of last year’s exhibition due to the Covid lockdown.

The group of four – Lillian Fromont, Jenny Arnerich, Colleen Kangwai and Suzanne Williams – have been painting and exhibiting together for several years.

Each year, they invite a guest artist to join them for their Easter exhibition.

This year’s guest is painter Glenda Hopkins, from Scotts Landing.

Glenda was successful in the recent Snells Beach Great Summer Art Exhibition and Harbour Hospice’s mARTakana exhibition, where she sold three paintings, which each

fetched more than $1000.

Meanwhile, Lillian Fromont won the Viewer’s Choice award at the Great Summer Art Exhibition with a painting of native bush. She will be exhibiting a selection of her New Zealand native birds and local landscapes at the Easter exhibition.

As well as around 150 paintings, there will be hand-made books, cards, glass art and photography books by the artists.

The exhibition opens at the Warkworth Masonic Hall in Baxter Street on Thursday, April 1. It continues on Saturday, April 3 and Sunday, April 4, from 10am to 3pm. Entry is free, and all are welcome.

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Surging demand from local farmers has prompted a firm that recycles plastic waste to scout out sites for a new baling station in Kaipara.

Over the last 15 years, Plasback has recycled more than 18,000 tonnes of plastic farm waste.

Plasback northern collector Bruce Ferguson says there are more than 500 farms on his books in the upper North Island, including 120 in Rodney and a similar number in Kaipara.

The recent uptick in interest can partly be attributed to a decision by Fonterra to pay farmers more for their milk if they meet sustainability criteria, including recycling plastic waste such as plastic used to wrap hay bales.

From June 1, up to 10 cents per kg of a farmer’s milk payment will be determined by their sustainability credentials as part of a “co-operative difference payment”.

To qualify, farmers must recycle their plastic wraps

with an accredited recycling scheme, and currently Plasback is the only accredited scheme.

Bruce says he is searching for a site in either Kaiwaka or Maungaturoto for the new station.

The new baler will compress plastic waste to a quarter of its original size, allowing trucks to transport 30 tonnes of plastic for recycling at a time.

“I did 20 years of wrapping silage bales, so it has been nice to be a part of cleaning that up,” Bruce says.

The new station has been made possible thanks to a $440,000 grant from the Government’s Covid Response and Recovery Fund, which Plasback has matched.

In addition to farms, Bruce also picks up plastic waste from 8 Wired and Sawmill Breweries, as well as Coresteel and the Farm and Lifestyle Centre in Warkworth.

Plasback national scheme manager Chris Hartshorne estimates that Plasback is currently collecting around 40 per cent of the nation’s rural plastic wrap waste.

“It took us six years to get to the first 1000 tonnes, but it has rapidly scaled up in recent times,” he says.

Plasback recycles some of its plastic waste into a plywood replacement product it calls Tuffboard.

Chris says that most deer velvet barns in New Zealand are now lined with Tuffboard because of its sterile properties.

He says when velvet was declared a food grade product, the industry had to switch away from wooden board, which is porous and susceptible to germs.

Farmers can have their plastic wrap waste picked up by Plasback for $60 a load. Bags are available online, or from PGG Wrightson and Farmlands in Wellsford, as well as Farm and Lifestyle Centre in Warkworth.

Last year, the Government signalled that regulation was on the horizon, which would require farm plastic producers to ensure their product could be recycled.

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Noxious noise During lockdowns, the volume of the human world was muted. Traffic, aircraft, industrial and other anthropogenic noise (that is noise caused by humans) reduced. We could hear birdsong again – birds could probably hear each other better, too.

But the noise of the economy bounced back quickly, and we were reminded how loud everyday life is compared to a quiet baseline. Research shows that a noisy environment has all sorts of health impacts for people. It also disrupts nature and both terrestrial and marine mammals suffer. The natural quiet of the planet is being lost, and while humans can theoretically seek out refuge in remote places, animals may not be able to escape. Even one person’s noise can affect the quiet commons of many. There are stories of people seeking escape in apparent quiet places like the Central Plateau, who find the Tongariro Crossing as full as a footpath, with walkers blasting (bad) music all along the trail.

Former musician Bernie Krause gave up a rock career in favour of recording the sounds of the wild. He helped develop the scientific field of soundscape ecology. He recorded the changing sounds of the world. He called human noise “anthrophony” and he compared this to “geophony” – the sounds the earth makes, such as water in rivers or the sea, the wind, cracking glaciers and rolling stones. And then there is “biophony” – the sounds of living nature, such as bird song, leaves rustling and creatures crawling and calling. Most soundscapes are a mixture of all three, though of course anthrophony has come to dominate them all.

I recently sat by a quiet inlet watching the tide come in. Fish plopped, water lapped. But suddenly around the corner came a truck with grinding gears, straining motor and tyres shredding gravel. The sounds of birds and fish and nature were overrun. Biophony was replaced by anthrophony. Even out in my kayak in the estuary, anthrophony, biophony and geophony come and go – a plane overhead, the surf on the beach, a lonely gull chick, the repetitive screeching of a bird scarer on a boat.

Auckland University public health expert Professor Shanthi Ameratunga calls it “infrastructure violence” when roads and utilities create negative effects in communities and the environment. In many instances she finds that some communities and nature carry the burden of noise and disruption, while other (wealthier) communities realise the benefits. Roads, powerlines, railways and other infrastructure sever communities of people and creatures, imposing costs externally. We know roads are violent places, but we think less about the violence of their noise until we are trying to find refuge, rest or respite from the world when anthrophony intrudes regardless.

Soundscape recordings capture the losses of biophony and the encroachment of humans. Sounds recorded in the field also capture the haunting sorrow of animals harmed. Impacts on nature and loss of biophony reflect a sorrow for us all. But visiting places like Tiritiri Matangi and Tawharanui remind us what was, and what could be retrieved.

Find out more about Bernie Krause and changing soundscapes here: www.whenwetalkaboutanimals.org/2021/02/24/ep-39-bernie-krause/

More money for cycleways A combined Government and Auckland Council announcement this month pledged to allocate $1.5 billion to local boards for walking and cycling initiatives over the next ten years. The money was detailed in the Auckland Transport Alignment Package (ATAP) 2021-2031. The amount was $600 million more than indicated in the previous ATAP. Transport Minister Michael Wood said the updated package continued work to “unlock” Auckland and deliver better environmental outcomes. “For the first time we’re turning around transport emissions rising in Auckland,” he said. “Alongside our recently announced policies to reduce transport emissions, ATAP could help prevent up to 3.3 million tonnes of carbon emissions in Auckland over the next decade. This is a good first step, but we know we have to do more.”

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• Hardy brassicas can go in now: broccoli, cabbage and bok choy plus grow carrots, beetroot and silverbeet

• Broad beans are an easy crop to grow through winter – they will grow quite tall and require some staking.

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Beryl Good thinks her Tesla Model 3 is absolutely fabulous.

Julian Ostling, left, believes a switch to e-coaches was inevitable.

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Initially, Nikki used to travel 160km a day, which was more than the Leaf ’s advertised range of 120km, but she had opportunities to charge the car throughout the day, so initially this was not an issue.

Sadly though, the battery began to deteriorate after three years. It got to the point where the car could not even get to Warkworth and back.

Currently, the car sits unused in the driveway as Steve says new Nissan Leaf batteries are currently unavailable in New Zealand.

“We would willingly spend $10,000 to $15,000 on a new battery,” Steve says, “The car is actually a fun, powerful car to drive.”

“My husband specifically bought it for work to save petrol costs, and it has definitely paid itself off.”

The couple have also had zero servicing costs.

However, the battery in their car has similarly deteriorated and now has a range of only 70km. Her husband is still able to use the car on weekdays to get to Albany, but only because his workplace has installed a charging station.

Lorna also uses the car on weekends and uses public chargers in Silverdale and Albany.

“People are really tolerant. I’ve never had a problem with someone hassling me to hurry up,” she says.

When she uses a charging station, Lorna always leaves a piece of paper with her mobile number on it so people queued up can contact her. This way she can leave the car while she waits for it to charge, which takes 20 to 30 minutes charge.

“You do have to be really organised and plan your trip,” she says.

Electric vehicles: Could getting one be right for you?

In an environmentally-conscious world, electric vehicles (EVs) are offered as a way to slash our greenhouse gas emissions. But they often come with a big price tag, take ages to charge and have a limited range. Are they really practical? Alisha McLennan spoke to some Mahurangi EV owners about their experiences.

Stephen and Nikki Dunn, Tauhoa Vehicle: 2011 Nissan Leaf

Stephen says their main motivation behind switching to an EV was economic rather than environmental.

Although it cost twice the amount they would normally budget for a new car, in its three years of use it paid itself off through savings in fuel and servicing costs. The only thing they have done in terms of maintenance is replace the tyres. Even registering an EV is cheaper.

“It’s just more efficient,” Stephen says.

It cost them $3.50 in electricity to slow charge at home, and $7 at the

Lorna Lewis, Warkworth Vehicle: 2013 Nissan Leaf

Lorna Lewis and her husband have had a 2013 Nissan Leaf for the last six years and their experiences closely mirror those of Stephen and Nikki.

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TailorMade Computers, Warkworth Vehicle: Nissan Leaf

Warkworth’s TailorMade Computers needed to install a workplace charger to facilitate the use of its Nissan Leaf. The car is driven to Warkworth every day from Helensville. In theory, it should have sufficient range to complete the round trip. But in reality the car starts to scream in Japanese that it needs a recharge on the way back to Helensville.

Having a charger at work also saves TailorMade employees time as there are often queues at public fast chargers. On balance, TailorMade employee Richard Browning would not recommend a Leaf after his experiences with it at work. He says a plug-in hybrid would be more effective for their workplace to facilitate callouts.

Beryl Good, Warkworth Vehicle: 2021 Tesla Model 3

Owners of the Nissan Leafs tended to avoid long road trips, but Beryl Good’s Tesla has no such difficulty. continued next page

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The Tesla has a range of 657km and Beryl recently drove it to Tauranga.

Even with having to turn around at Orewa to pick up a forgotten wallet, the car still made it to Tauranga with 13 per cent of its battery power left.

“It cost $36 to charge the car up to 80 per cent at the Tauranga Pak’nSave, which I thought was pretty good,” Beryl says.

The car took an hour and a half to charge. The car cost $98,000 and Tesla offers an 8-year warranty on its batteries.

Beryl would heartily recommend the car.

“I think it’s fabulous,” she says.

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Mahu Express is in the process of switching to two electric coaches.

Director Julian Ostling says this was an inevitable decision for the company.

“It’s the future, really. We knew that we would have to go to electric sooner or later anyway,” he says.

Switching to electric has required Mahu Express to install a charger at Snells Beach School where the buses will charge overnight.

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He hōnore, he korōria, he maungārongo ki te whenua, he whakāro pai ki ngātangata katoa. Paimārire.

The Mahurangi River has been a symbolic feature in the lives of Warkworth locals and surrounding areas for generations. It’s no secret that, over time, the life of this river has degraded, and many are working to restore this precious resource to its former health.

Recently, Auckland Council and the Ngāti Manuhiri Settlement Trust have secured funding through the Ministry for the Environment to run a 5-year, $5m programme that will add to these efforts by working with the forestry sector, developers, rural landowners and community to reduce sediment loss in the Mahurangi catchment.

Come along to our community day to celebrate the start of the Mahurangi East Land Restoration programme and to hear more about our plans for this funding. Food, drink and family friendly activities included.

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About 45 volunteers worked in about a dozen teams, including many young children doing hands-on science.

David and Celia Knighton using one of the shellfish sampling frames, constructed by Warkworth Mens Shed.

Bridget Miller and son Max, with Nico Pierik.

Shellfish monitoring shines light on catchment health as transects, at Sandspit. The longest transect is more than half a kilometre long and its farthest sampling site is close to the end of the estuary channel.

At two sample sites more than 500 live cockles were counted. The majority of these were smaller sizes between five and 20 millimetres.

“The numbers at most sites were comparable to the previous year, but the declining numbers of cockles reaching maturity is a concern,” Mark says.

FOAM has been testing water quality in the Glen Eden and Matakana rivers, that flow into the estuary, for three years. The group also tests for E.coli bacteria in the streams and Enterococci bacteria in the saline water of the rivers.

Mark says elevated levels of Enterococci in the Glen Eden estuary are becoming a concern and FOAM is in discussions with Auckland Council on more detailed investigations.

FOAM has also participated in riparian planting in the past year to support efforts to prevent erosion of the river banks.

“We are a small, hard-working committee that relies on additional volunteers to help carry out activities such as shellfish monitoring, water quality

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A community shellfish monitoring day on the Sandspit estuary on March 14 has highlighted a worrying decline in the number of cockles reaching maturity.

This is the second year that Friends of Awa Matakanakana Catchment (FOAM), supported by community volunteers, have done the monitoring. It is an initiative of the Hauraki Gulf Forum and scientists working for the forum will analyse the data collected.

FOAM committee member Mark Foster says the samples gathered revealed a range of shellfish commonly found in estuaries including wedge shells, pipi, horn shells and whelks.

“Te tuangi (cockles) were the most common and, as well as counting them, our volunteers measured each one,” Mark says. “Cockles are filter feeders and help to clean the water they live in, and they are important food sources for many marine animals.

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Performance art revs up lessons on waste Solar school Between auditioning and preparing for roles on stage and screen, actor and dancer Tineke Robson now has another job – teaching recycling and waste reduction to Mahurangi children.

Tineke was approached by Mahurangi Wastebusters founder Trish Allen to join a programme teaching waste education in north Rodney schools.

It quickly emerged that Tineke’s drama, dancing and songwriting skills made her a perfect fit for the job.

Her lessons have become something of a theatrical performance with plenty of audience interaction and participation.

Tineke says children have to spend a lot of time sitting down in class, so allowing them to be part of a show makes things more interesting, and she believes enables them to learn more easily.

Tineke has the right background for the work. She studied musical theatre at the Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts in the Netherlands and subsequently performed in numerous Fontys’ productions and worked as a choreographer in others.

Since coming to New Zealand, she has concentrated on acting and has starred in films, commercials and on the stage – a favourite was playing the title role in Pippi Longstocking at The PumpHouse Theatre in Takapuna.

Trish Allen says Mahurangi Wastebusters began teaching waste reduction classes in north Rodney schools last year. Tineke is joined by Rosie Hutchinson, a qualified teacher

Wellsford School students participate in a lesson on waste with actor Tineke Robson at an outdoor classroom at the Lawrie Road recycling centre.

to help deliver the curriculum.

Among other things, younger children learn how worms can turn kitchen scraps into garden fertiliser, and how taking care of the earth and its resources should be the responsibility of all.

Older children study the implications of human actions on the environment, in particular how waste is a huge contributor to climate change and how reducing waste is a powerful way to take action on climate.

“This makes sense to the children and it’s great to have them grappling with solutions to the waste problem,”

Trish says.

“In our experience, kids are keen to become part of the solution once they understand the issues.”

Trish says Mahurangi Wastebusters is planning to expand the education programme into more schools this year and also host school visits to its recycling centre at Lawrie Road, Snells Beach, where children can see what happens to waste when it comes to the site.

Schools interested in Mahurangi Wastebusters education programmes, should email education@ mahurangiwastebusters.nz.

An Albany school, attended by students living across the Mahurangi region, is making solar power a priority in a new sports complex currently being built.

Kristin School took its first steps into solar power generation last year when a bank of eight large panels was installed on the roof of the campus auditorium and wellbeing centre. They generated more than 31,000 kilowatts of energy in 2020 – or about 5 per cent of Kristin’s annual electricity use.

Now, the private school is fundraising to achieve the $140,000 needed for a second bank of solar panels, which will be installed later this year on the “Lightbox” – a new steel-framed structure encased in translucent cladding that will cover and water-proof three sports courts. The new panels are expected to generate a similar amount of power to the first installation.

Three new rainwater tanks, which include an irrigation and pumping system, will also be installed to cut Kristin’s use of mains water.

Executive principal Mark Wilson says the initiatives are part of Kristin’s commitment to putting its environmental and sustainability principles into action.

“Our young people are the most aware and passionate generation about our climate crisis and the need for urgent action. As a school that seeks to ensure our students are ‘future ready’, we need to be leading by example,” he says. “We teach our students all about sustainability, so we want to be walking the talk.”

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A petition to stop the plundering of sea creatures from rock pools at Mahurangi beaches has gained more than 2800 signatures.

The petition to Parliament by Mary Coupe, of Omaha, asking the Government to reduce the legal take limit of various sea creatures, closed this week.

It will be handed over to Kaipara ki Mahurangi MP Chris Penk, who will present it to parliament to be referred to the petitions select committee.

Mr Penk says submitters may be invited to speak and the relevant departments, such as MPI, will be invited to respond.

The committee will then decide whether the response is sufficient and may make a recommendation on a course of action to the appropriate Minister or open an enquiry.

Mr Penk says 2800 signatures should be enough to get Parliament to take notice.

“The Omaha locals really are to be congratulated. It’s not like this was Forest and Bird – it’s a group of residents.”

In the meantime, Mary Coupe has engaged members of Ngātiwai, from Omaha Marae, and says a rāhui on taking sea creatures is being considered.

Signs erected by residents of Omaha asking visitors to look but not take sea life has had a definitive impact, but Mary fears the plundering has simply shifted elsewhere.

Mary says she has heard from residents of Pakiri who confronted visitors taking shellfish from the beach. She said the residents later found their

tyres slashed.

Meanwhile, Mary contacted MPI and was told that locals who observe visitors taking in abundance should take photos of car licence plates and call the 0800 4 POACHER line.

Mary says she is proud of what the group of Omaha residents has been able to achieve in creating a platform to discuss conservation of local beaches.

The petition was started at the request of Omaha residents who were concerned that sea creatures from rock pools were being taken in unsustainable numbers, and legally so.

In Auckland and Northland, each individual is allowed a combined take of 50 crabs, limpets, starfish, periwinkles, cats eyes and sea cucumbers each day.

Meanwhile, coastal engineer Andre La Bonte, of Waipu, applauds Omaha’s efforts after his own beach was swamped with putrid red algae.

He hypothesises that the algal bloom in Waipu, currently causing a stench, is a result of the absence of shellfish and bottom feeders that filter the water.

“I’ve lived in Waipu for 35 years, and I used to be able to walk around the cove and find 20 to 30 tuatua for dinner. Then people started coming and taking them by the bucket-load.

“I tried at the time to get in touch with fisheries about the limit of 150 per day, but couldn’t overcome the legal hurdles.

Now they have been decimated.”

Northland Regional Council says the “naturally occurring” algal bloom, and its hydrogen sulphide stench, will likely persist until an autumn storm flushes the cove.

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Members of the Sawmill brewing team in front of the grain silos that eliminate the need for 12,000 plastic sacks each year.

Brewery leads on environmental impact but seeks to do more Sawmill Brewery’s dedication to taking care of the environment has already won it international recognition, but for owner Kirsty McKay the journey does not stop there.

Two years ago, the Matakana brewer became a Certified B Corporation, demonstrating that it had reached the highest standards in terms of environmental impact, transparency and accountability.

That meant it became one of a small number of New Zealand companies to be certified and the only New Zealand brewer to do so.

Major international brands enjoying B Corp certification include Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Allbirds shoes, Eileen Fisher clothing and New Belgium Brewing.

Sawmill’s environmental work has included installing 54 solar panels on its roof, which provides the bulk

of its daytime energy needs. The roof also collects more than a million litres of rainwater for brewing. Incoming plastic shrink wrap is recycled into tiles, which provide a non-slip surface for use in sheep yards and stock trucks.

Spent grains used in the brewing process are turned into flour for breadmaking and crackers. Kitchen waste from Sawmill’s Smoko Room restaurant is composted on site. The Sawmill’s grey water irrigates local farmland and grain silos outside the building replace the use of 12,000 plastic sacks each year. Sawmill estimates its various efforts have reduced the amount of waste it sends to landfill by 85 per cent.

Kirsty says securing certification took 18 months and required answering 180 detailed questions covering all aspects of the business. Points

are awarded according to how well the business meets certification requirements. The maximum possible score is 200 points, and the minimum required for certification is 80.

Sawmill scored 82, which Kirsty is happy with as a starting point.

She says it’s an especially tough standard for manufacturing businesses, which are using a lot of water, power and freight, to become certified compared to, say, an IT business that has a comparatively tiny environmental impact.

Even so, Sawmill is not prepared to rest on its laurels. Despite the arduous process, the company plans to submit for re-certification next year and boost its score. Kirsty says the beauty of B Corp is that it allows you to see where you can make the most meaningful changes to your business to improve.

“We will make more effort to measure our carbon footprint over the next year and set some targets around that,” she says.

Kirsty is also eager to share what Sawmill has learned with other businesses – even direct competitors.

She’s alerted other brewers to plastic recycling options and has talked to other firms about the suitability of solar power for a large factory and what Sawmill’s experience has taught them.

“We don’t want these initiatives to be a competitive advantage for us. There’s a bigger issue here – our collective impact on the environment,” Kirsty says.

“You can’t profess that you are doing all these things for the environment, if you don’t want to see this information shared.”

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Suicide survivor shares experiences

Actor Rob Mokaraka will hold a show in Warkworth to share his experience of attempted suicide in an effort to save people’s lives.

He says the aim of Shot Bro – Confessions of a Depressed Bullet is to give people the tools to address “mental distress and suicidal ideation” in themselves and others.

“Its humorous, dark, real and educational,” Rob says.

Rob, who now lives in Maungakaramea, had a very public mental breakdown in 2009.

He called police to his Point Chevalier home, tipping them off that an armed madman was behaving threateningly.

When Police arrived, Rob himself paraded a meat cleaver and provoked officers in an attempt to commit suicide.

“They shot me in the chest at close range.”

Rob survived the incident and has since been sharing his story of recovery. He has been touring communities in Australia and New Zealand for the last four years.

He has also presented the show to businesses ranging from Downers to his Hutt Valley Kindergarten Association. Perhaps the most important part of the show is the discussion forum held afterwards.

Rob says attendees often laugh or cry from the sense of relief they get from finding out they are not alone in their thoughts.

“It helps people because they may identify with something they see in the show that encourages them to talk about their own feelings.”

He says everyone is welcome to attend.

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“Suicide has no prejudice, and if we don’t deal with it, it will sweep us off a cliff.”

Rob was invited to do the show in Warkworth by Terry and Maxine Axford of the Coconut Gallery.

Their son Forrest recently rode a bicycle from Cape Reinga to Bluff to raise funds for suicide prevention efforts. Some of the money he raised will support the Warkworth show. It has also been supported by Healing Through Arts Action Trust.

“It takes a village to save a village. I’m just one person in this aroha machinery” Rob says.

The show is at the Warkworth Town Hall on Friday, April 9, at 6.30pm.

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Jenny plans a fantail tattoo on her bald patch.

Jenny loses it again Snells Beach’s “crazy sewing lady” Jenny Bartlett endured another close shave at Snells Beach Library this month to raise money for Leukaemia and Blood Cancer New Zealand (LBC).

It’s the ninth time Jenny has lost her hair for LBC’s Shave for a Cure event, which has seen her successfully raise $30,000 for those living with blood cancer.

So far, this year she has raised $3000 alone.

But Jenny admits those with blood conditions are not the only ones to benefit.

She reckons the head shaves have saved her $2398 in haircuts over the last nine years.

Moreover, the latest shave will allow her to get a tattoo on her bald head.

She plans on getting a piwakawaka (fantail) sitting on a kowhai branch.

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Teenager completes epic run for refugees Despite suffering a knee injury that took him out of action for more than two weeks, teenager Shay Broomhall succeeded in completing his epic fundraising run from Cape Reinga to Bluff within a whisker of his target of 100 days.

Shay, 19, returned to New Zealand from the UK last year to reconnect with his family in Warkworth.

While overseas, Shay got involved in distributing relief supplies to refugees in Belgium and France who had fled hotspots in Africa and the Middle East.

Back in November, he set off to run the length of New Zealand along the Te Araroa trail on his own, carrying all his supplies on his back, to raise money for refugee causes.

It’s believed he is the youngest person to have run the entire trail unsupported.

Shay says one of the hardest parts was the Richmond Range, south of Nelson, which experienced some unseasonal snow.

But things got even tougher further south after his left knee packed in, and he was forced to spend 16 days recuperating in Christchurch.

Once he got to Queenstown, Shay was anxious to make up for lost time and completed the final 300km in just six days.

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Ministry of Health supports fluoridation bill A Government proposal to amend legislation related to drinking water will make fluoridation of water in Rodney and Kaipara more likely.

Treatment plants in Warkworth, Snells Beach and Wellsford could theoretically be used to fluoridate reticulated water.

Although Auckland, Waitakere, Manukau and Franklin are all fluoridated, the former Rodney District is not.

In 2019, Watercare head of operations Priyan Perera told Mahurangi Matters that it had not revisited fluoridation since the formation of the Supercity.

“Watercare adds fluoride to Auckland’s drinking water supplies based on requests from former local councils,” he said.

“Water supplies operated by the former Rodney District Council were not fluoridated prior to amalgamation in 2010. This position has not changed.”

The Kaipara District also does not fluoridate its reticulated water at

Sodium fluoride is often added to water and toothpaste.

treatment plants in Maungaturoto and Ruawai.

But the Government proposal would take decision-making on fluoridation of water out of the hands of Watercare’s controlling body Auckland Council and Kaipara District Council, and transfer it to the Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield.

Dr Bloomfield is also the chief executive of the Ministry of Health.

The Ministry is an ardent supporter of water fluoridation, believing it to be the

most effective public health measure for the prevention of tooth decay.

“This amendment will ensure that the Bill continues to recognise that community water fluoridation is a health-related matter, while ensuring a nationally consistent approach to decision making based on scientific evidence,” a spokesperson said.

However, the spokesperson would not be drawn on specific plans for a national roll-out of fluoridation.

The Ministry did say that an oral health survey in 2009 showed that children and adolescents living in areas with fluoridated water had 40 per cent less tooth decay than those without.

Associate Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall expects the Health (Fluoridation of Drinking Water) Amendment Bill to be passed into law by the end of the year.

“Right now, only around 2.3 million New Zealanders have access to fluoridated drinking water,” she said.

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Snells water concern Snells Beach’s water treatment plant would fall foul of new rules outlined in a proposed Water Services Bill.

Watercare has confirmed that the bore water supplied to Snells Beach and Algies Bay has a a typical pH of between 8.3 and 8.4. Draft rules prepared by incoming regulator Taumata Arowai state that larger water supplies must have a pH of below 8.0. Chlorine, used to kill germs and parasites in drinking water, is less effective at higher pH levels.

DHB seeks nurses Waitemata District Health Board is embarking on its biggest recruitment drive ever, seeking 100 new nurses before the end of June.

The DHB wants the nurses for a range of new positions throughout the district spread across different departments.

Chief executive Dr Dale Bramley says the creation of 100 additional nursing jobs is aligned with the organisation’s promise of “best care for everyone” and will also support wards to have more nurses at the bedside.

Waitemata DHB currently serves a population of almost 650,000 people, and the figure is expected to grow to more than 800,000 by 2037.

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Congratulations to Lorna Sanson, of Algies Bay, who is a recipient of a gift basket from Chocolate Brown. Lorna was nominated by Lousie Nicholson, who wrote:

Lorna always puts the needs of “others before herself, showing

genuine concern for the welfare of those not so fortunate. This concern for community is evidenced by her actions – driving someone to Auckland for their hospital appointments and regularly visiting a number of folk at the Evelyn Page, Summerset, and Amberlea retirement villages and homes.

She bakes and bottles for the food baskets to be distributed to those in need and takes all her spare fruit to the Snells Beach library stand. She is a truly good Samaritan, with an enormous community spirit.

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Fibre is the portion of vegetables, fruits, grains, nuts and seeds that is resistant to digestion and absorption in the stomach and small intestine. However, some can be digested and fermented by the bacteria in our large intestine.

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Insoluble fibre – does not dissolve in water. Examples include wholemeal/ grainy breads, wholegrain cereals, brown rice, legumes, corn, green beans, courgette and celery.

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Call for water take consents review as lake levels plunge Calls for Auckland Council to reassess groundwater take consents in Tomarata and Te Arai are growing in volume as local lakes suffer.

Former Auckland Regional Councillor Brent Morrissey has lived next to Lake Tomarata for 25 years and says he has never seen the water level so low.

“I freely acknowledge that in summer the lake subsides, but I’ve never seen it this low, even during last year’s drought,” he says.

He says rainfall over the last three months ought to have topped up the lake, but it hasn’t.

There are no direct inflows into the lake. It is only topped up by rainfall and groundwater.

“I think Council needs to be responsible and assess whether the current take of groundwater is having adverse effects,” Mr Morrissey says.

A number of farms draw water from bores for stock, while Te Arai Links golf course was given consent last year to draw 380,000 cubic metres of water a year across nine bores.

“When consultants made an assessment about potential adverse effects to the lake during the consent process, it may have been speculative,” Mr Morrissey says.

Margaret Fishlock has lived next to Spectacle Lake for 50 years and says

Brent Morrissey says Lake Tomarata’s water level usually reaches within half a metre of the barrier’s edge on the shore during summer. The barrier was built to provide a shallow area for children to swim, but there is currently nothing for them to swim in.

she is also concerned by the drop in water levels.

She has noticed that the drop in lake level has coincided with a drop in her own bores and believes that increased groundwater take is responsible.

“At one time we had an artesian bore that flowed 12 feet above the ground, but this year we are seeing cracks in the ground we’ve never seen before.”

Last year, Auckland Council’s Research and Evaluation Unit (RIMU) increased its water quality monitoring of the lakes from six weekly to monthly.

Water quality scientist Jane Groom says consistently low water levels could affect lake health, however she says low water levels were seen in 2010, 2013 and 2014 and Lake Tomarata recovered.

Up to date information collected in 2020 on the Lake Tomarata’s health is due to be released around the middle of this year.

Last month, RIMU released a report using data collected over five years between 2015 and 2019.

Ms Groom says the report found the lake was above “the national bottom line” for all measurements, but

showed signs of being “moderately impacted by increased concentrations of nitrogen and algae”.

However, the wording in the report is more grim. It says Lake Tomarata was the most degraded lake monitored in the Auckland region.

Lake Tomarata has been classed in “poor condition” and “very likely” to continue to degrade by most water quality parameters.

The report says vegetation in the lake was healthy up until 2012, but surveys in 2017 and 2019 classified it as “nonvegetated”.

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Pam McLaren feels she has a good chance with this 86.5kg monster in the biggest pumpkin competition.

Some had difficulties, but Kaipara ki Mahurangi MP Chris Penk has no trouble finding some grub.

Stevie Pownall, 8, has a ball in the Fun Zone.

Too cute for words. Harper Smith, 4, cradles a Muscovy duck chick at the petting zoo.

John Sanderson, 56, comes third in the C division 11 inch underhand.

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The Warkworth A&P Show made a stunning comeback this month, despite early fears that the event would suffer the same fate as last year, when the show had to be cancelled due to Covid-19.

Around 3000 people streamed through the gates, enjoying a day of glorious weather, traditional A&P competitive events and non-stop entertainment.

A&P chair Allan Barber said competition was especially fierce in the woodchopping and sheep shearing.

He said the cancellation of a number of shearing competitions around the country, encouraged New Zealand’s top competitors to make a point of

operators were likely scared off by the prospect the show might be cancelled at the last minute due to Covid and perhaps feared purchased food for the event would be wasted.

Despite that setback, Mr Barber felt the Warkworth A&P is in good shape for the future.

This was Mr Barber’s last show as chair.

He is stepping down, along with show secretary Penny Webster and treasurer Vanessa Barber. Their replacements are tipped to be Carl King, manager at EnviroNZ, as chair, and Karen Black as secretary/treasurer. Ms Black is a former secretary/treasurer of the Kumeu Show.

Warkworth A&P Show returns in style coming to Warkworth.

Mr Barber was also pleased to see a large number of goats and miniature horses entered for judging, which will go some way towards offsetting the loss of the cattle and a more comprehensive programme of equestrian events.

He said while it was important for the A&P Show to retain much of its traditional agricultural emphasis, it was equally important to see it more generally as a great family day out, as evidenced by the free rides for children in the Fun Zone.

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From left, Daniel Peak from Fulton Hogan, teacher Annette Bryant, AT’s Julie Crook and truck driver Ravinder Singh with Tauhoa students at the recent truck safety day.

Students decided how the new $53,000 playground would look.

Funding gives rural school new lease of life Tauhoa School has started the year on a wave of positivity and progress, despite the interruptions thrown up by seesawing lockdown levels.

The tiny rural school just off State Highway 16 has a new school emblem, new colours, new PE uniforms and a new $53,000 playground extension.

Principal Vivienne Goldsmith says the developments have given the school a whole new lease of life, and students have made important inputs in all areas, especially with the new playground.

The school had been fundraising for the new equipment for five years with no end in sight, but Government funding announced at the end of 2019 made the project possible much sooner than expected and it was installed

late last year.

“The Board of Trustees decided to utilise the Government funding to get the new playground up and running,” she said. “It was designed and created by the students. They met with three or four different companies and chose the final outcome, so they were really integral with getting it done.”

The Government money will also be used to create a student-designed butterfly garden and a bike track later this year for the school, where the current roll is 48.

The school’s new emblem features Tauhoa’s iconic “twisty tree” – a huge old camphor tree that dominates the school grounds – over a stylised Kaipara moana wave. It was designed

by former pupil and designer Amanda Pride and incorporates the new school colours of turquoise and black, with the words “Learning to live, living to learn”.

Turquoise and black are also being used for new school sports shorts, shirts and sweatshirts, which are being provided thanks to a Pub Charity grant and were designed, in part, by children at the school.

“Students have got real ownership of what’s happening here,” Ms Goldsmith said.

Tauhoa School also recently took part in a special truck safety day, organised

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Matakana- Cinema Complex Tuesday 11.00-1.00 Snells Beach – at the Library Friday 10.00 – 12.00 Warkworth RSA Fridays 4.00 to 5.00 No appointment is needed. There is no cost.

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HOLY WEEK 2021 TIMETABLE Blessing of Palms at all masses SATURDAY EVE (VIGIL) March 27th Warkworth 6pm PALM SUNDAY March 28th Puhoi 8.30am and Warkworth 10.30am

Holy Thursday April 1st

The Mass of the Lord’s Supper & Washing of the Feet, Procession of Blessed Sacrament to the Altar of Repose Adoration Warkworth 5pm and Puhoi 7pm

Good Friday April 2nd

(Day of fasting & Abstinence) Puhoi 10am Stations of the Cross followed

by Confessions in Church Warkworth 3pm Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion & Death, Reading of the Lord’s Passion, Prayers of Intercession, Veneration of the Cross, Collection of Lenten Appeal and Holy Places, Holy Communion, Confessions after Ceremonies

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Northland District Health Board has upgraded its X-ray imaging systems, which it says will better serve the people of Northland. The board says the MOBILETT Elara Max and Ysio MAX systems, based at Whangarei Hospital, deliver cutting-edge digital X-ray imaging and are a first for New Zealand. “The systems have provided great improvements in workflow efficiency while delivering the highest quality imaging possible and therefore have the added benefit of potentially decreasing wait-times,” general manager of surgical and support services Mark McGinley says.

Mr McGinley adds that having state-ofthe-art technology helps the hospital attract and retain the best medical staff, thereby further improving patient outcomes.

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MAHURANGI METHODIST PARISH Holy Week and Easter Sunday Services 2021

1 APRIL - TENEBRAE THURSDAY Warkworth Methodist Church at 7 pm 2 APRIL - GOOD FRIDAY Service at Snells Beach Community Church at 9am 4 APRIL - EASTER SUNDAY

Sunrise Service at 7am at Snells Beach access from Sunburst Ave. Service at Snells Beach Community Church at 9am Service at Warkworth Methodist Church at 10:30am Snells Beach Community Church.

325 Mahurangi East Rd, Snells Beach Warkworth Methodist Church 1 Hexham Street, Warkworth.

Phone 09 425 8660 (Parish Office) or Simon 021 103 7150.

Warkworth Anglican Parish Holy Week Services 1 April Maundy Thursday Service 7.00pm St Leonard's Matakana 2 April Good Friday Service 9.00am Christ Church, Warkworth 9.30am St Leonard's, Matakana 4 April Easter Day Services 8am & 9.30am Christ Church, Warkworth 9.30am St. Leonard's, Matakana 9:30am St. Michael's, Leigh 11.15 am St. Alban's, Kaipara Flats

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Senior lifeguards such as Jamie Peterson have had their competitive season curtailed by Covid.

Omaha surfs through Covid Longboarding has returned to popularity.

Loggerhead longboards back Baker says there has been a resurgence in longboarding in recent years in New Zealand with younger surfers embracing “the log”.

It is expected around 60 surfers will compete in the annual Loggerheads this year, including established talent such as Orewa’s Nat Fitt, 16, and North Shore’s Tom Mason, 24.

There will be an after-comp soiree at Wood Street Pizzeria in Mangawhai, and it is hoped there will be a performance

by Auckland band Bull Kelp Surfers.

This year’s sponsors include Bamma’s Surf Shop, Threadbox, Mangawhai Honey, Coastal eBikes and McLeod’s Brewery.

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The eighth annual Loggerheads traditional longboard surfing event will be held at Mangawhai Heads beach on Saturday, April 17.

Organiser Tony Baker says the event is taking place later in the year than it typically would to make use of more reliable swell in April.

He says due to Covid-19 delays, several surfing events will be held across the country over successive weekends, providing something of an informal tour.

Logging is a traditional style of surfing that harks back to the 1960s. It makes use of a nine-foot board with a single fin and suits techniques such as nose riding and cross-stepping.

Omaha Beach Surf Lifesaving will wrap up a successful season on Easter weekend, despite the challenges posed

by Covid-19 lockdowns.

A total of 232 children participated in the junior surf programme this year, nearly 70 more than last year.

Club president Linda Crisford says the programme is delivered by dedicated coaches, managers, parents and junior surf committee members, who go out of their way to provide a fun and skillbased programme.

“It is these young people who will go on to become our lifeguards in the future,” Linda says.

Due to Covid alert level changes, two senior surf carnivals – the Northern Region Senior & Masters Championships and the TSB New Zealand Surf Life Saving Championships – were cancelled.

“But despite this, our competitive athletes have continued to perform outstandingly within the club,” he says.

Four senior lifeguards gained their

Patrol Captain Lifeguard Award this season. They were Ruth Tanner, Stephanie Earley, Sophie Martin and Katherine Nicholls.

The club also had six new guards qualify in February and six more will do their exam in April, under the guidance of lifeguard instructor Andrew Cowan.

The club has 11 newly-qualified First Aid Level 1, seven Level 2 and three at Level 3.

“This is a great support for our community,” Linda says.

“Omaha placed third in the BP Rescue of the Month in December, another testimony to the diligence and professionalism of our guards.”

Linda says that while Omaha patrols will finish at Easter and won’t resume until Labour Weekend in October, the workload of volunteers never stops.

IRB crew person and drivers’ training and lifeguard courses will held in July and August, run by Rob and Stephanie Earley.

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March has certainly been a crazy month.

With the first week lost to lockdown, boaties were left stranded. Thankfully, it was a week of really bad weather, so nothing lost! As we are approaching the colder part of the year, snapper will start feeding up for the winter months. Anglers who have been fishing around the reefs have had wonderful success at landing good catches.

Reports of filling the hatch and quota in an hour or two and then having to change to fishing for another species have been prevalent during the last two weeks. Both the eastern side and the Kaipara Harbour have been very productive. Here is a photo of a nice snapper that was caught in close Amelia Marlow catches a fine snapper. and released to bite another day.

There have been some sign of skippies around the Mokes and between Little Barrier and Great Barrier. As these fish are not targeted for eating, they are never spoken about much. However, where they are found there are normally other predators around Meanwhile, it has been reassuring to see that over the last two years more and more yellowfin tuna have been caught. Those caught close to Kawau Island and Leigh have not been very big, but they are extremely tasty.

Kingfish have also been around and some sizable critters have been lurking around our waters. Reports of some good, edible fish were caught during lockdown off the side. As the weather was not so good, there weren’t many opportunities to put a line in off the beaches, but for those who did there were some rewards.

As we tend to have the best fishing weather around the months of March to May, I suggest now is the time to enjoy what our waters have to offer before the colder winter months set in.

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A roundup of activities and events in thedisTRicT district a Roundup ofsports spoRTs acTiviTies in THe Fishing and golfing in Tapora The Hit and Hook competition in Tapora combines a fishing competition on Saturday, April 24 with a golf tournament at the Tapora Golf Club on Sunday, April 25. Entry is $100 for a team of three. All funds raised go towards the survival of the golf club. Competitors, sponsors and supporters contact the McConnells on 422 1822.

Jersey logo auction RE/MAX Warkworth is auctioning the rights to have business logos on the back of Mahurangi Rugby players’ jerseys to raise money for the rugby club. There are just two jerseys remaining. See Mahurangi Rugby Club Facebook for auction link.

Winter netball Netball at the Rodney Netball Centre starts on Friday, May 7, for seniors and Saturday, May 8, for juniors. Registration is with individual clubs including Warkworth Netball Club, Wellsford Netball Club, Kaipara Flats Netball, Rodney Rams Netball, Matakana Hawks Netball and Mangawhai Netball Club.

Junior hockey Mahurangi Junior Hockey begins on May 8 at the Warkworth Hockey Turf for players years 0-6, aged 4 and up. Clubs include Horizon, Kaipara Flats, Leigh, Matakana, Snells Beach, Warkworth and Wellsford. See https://mahujuniorhockey.co.nz/register/ Social girls’ golf Emma Fairnie Golf is hosting social golf for women on Sunday, April 11, at Omaha Beach Golf Club. There are nine hole and six hole options. Tee off is 2pm and entry is $15. Drinks and prizes at the club afterwards. Contact emmafairniegolf@gmail.com

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Robin Groombridge, Fran Weinstein and Jan Parish with Mehran Zareian of Barfoot and Thompson.

Pro Am forges ahead A total of 84 amateur players and 30 professionals took part in the fifth Barfoot & Thompson Women’s Pro Am at Warkworth Golf Club this month.

Committee chair Jan Parish said it was a great turnout despite a sudden switch in alert levels and the cancelling of the Northern Swing series, which usually brings players north.

This year’s professional winners were Pieter Zwart in first place, with seven under par, Dangwoo Kang in second with six under par, and third place was tied between Tae Koh, Mason Lee and Sam An, with five under par.

The winning amateur women’s team consisted of Robin Groombridge, Fran Weinstein and Jan Parish.

The top prize for the amateurs was a round of golf at Kauri Cliffs Golf Course in the Bay of Islands, two night’s accommodation in the Taipa Ramada and a loan vehicle from Warkworth Toyota.

A highlight of this year’s tournament was a putting challenge in which amateur players were pitted against professionals.

It was a knockout style challenge with a prize of a 60-degree wedge club, sponsored by The Clubroom shop in Auckland.

Matakana Estate also had a wine tasting in which everybody was a winner.

The annual tournament is supported by the NZ Professional Golfers Association, which pairs women players with professional golfers.

Mahurangi Community Trading Post committee presents a cheque to the Kowhai Swimming Club.

Splash of cash for Kowhai swimmers

She says dividers are particularly important for keeping juniors swimming in a straight line.

The club has a competitive squad, a junior squad and also hosts training for Omaha surf lifesaving juniors.

Trading Post chair John Carr says community clubs can apply to the store for funding in writing.

The Mahurangi Community Trading Post donated $5000 to the Kowhai Swimming Club this month.

The money will be used to replace worn out lane dividers at the Mahurangi College pool where the swimmers train.

Swim coach Jill Fayerman says new thicker dividers will help swimmers by reducing “wash” caused by the wake of other swimmers.

Strong field for masters despite Covid A 27-hole master mixed open tournament was held at the Wellsford Golf Club this month. A field of 75 players entered the event despite it having been postponed a week due to Covid-19 alert levels. The men’s first division gross winner was Michael Anderson, while the first division net winner was Michael Toi. Second division winners for gross and net were Beau Collis and Craig Radford. The ladies’ gross winner was Fleur Reynolds and the net winner was April Everitt. The Bob Young Memorial Trophy for best stableford score also went to Craig Radford. This year the major sponsor of the tournament was Mitre 10 Warkworth.

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What’s on See www.localmatters.co.nz/whats-on.html for a full list of upcoming events

April 1,3&4 Kawau Bay Painters Easter Exhibition & Sale, Warkworth Masonic Hall, 10am-3pm. Free entry (see story p25) 2&3 Wellsford Volunteer Fire Brigade Fishing Competition fundraiser, weigh-in 1.30-3.30pm, Saturday, Wellsford Fire Station.

3 Massive garage sale, Matakana Community Hall, 8am-3pm.

Stalls, face painting, dog nail clipping, plants. Fundraiser for Longacres Animal Haven and dog rescue (see story p24) 3 Point Wells Community Library Book Sale, Point Wells Hall, 5 Point Wells Road, 9am-12.30pm.

3&4 Annual Antique Fair, Matakana Primary School, 10am-4pm. (see ad p18) 3&4 Whangarei Heads Art Trail, 10am-5pm (see ad p20) 3-5 Book Fair, Mangawhai Museum (see ad p25) 3-10 Humminbird Fishing Tournament, Omaha to raise funds for Auckland Regional Helicopter Rescue Trust. $100,000 in prizes.

Info: www.arht.fishingcomp.co.nz 4 Custom & Classic Car/Bike Extravaganza, Mangawhai Domain, 10am. Stalls, food, entertainment, retro fashion Info: text Bryan on 021 977 770 6 Snells Beach Ratepayers and Residents meeting, Mahurangi East Community Centre, 7.30pm 8 Community and seniors lunch, Mangawhai Community Hall, Fagan Place, 12.30pm. Free but registration essential one week prior. Info: 09 431 9080 (see story p38) 9 Shot Bro – Confessions of a Depressed Bullet, Warkworth Town Hall, 6.30pm. Info: info@warkworthtownhall.nz (see story p36) 10 Curry’s Bush opening, 17 Wi Apo Drive, 10am. (see story p10) 11 First Steps Te Araroa public walk, Puhoi to Warkworth. Info: see TeAraroaNewZealandTrail on FB 11 Wellsford Challenge, Matakana, 9am. Fundraiser for Wellsford Plunket. Info: taniaannbishop@gmail.com 11 Cement Works Warkworth meeting, Cement Works, Wilson Road, 3pm. All welcome. (If wet, at 133 Wilson Road) (see story p11) 12 A Lion in the Meadow storytime performance, Warkworth Library, 10.30am. Tim Bray Theatre Co performs stories by Margaret Mahy. Free entry.

15-24 Warkworth Theatre Group presents Gone to Seed, a New Zealand play by Tim Hambleton. For tickets and info, visit www.wwtheatre.co.nz (see ad p23) 15 Forest & Bird Warkworth AGM, Totara Park Retirement Village Hall, Melwood Drive, Warkworth, 7.30pm. Talk by Annette Lees on NZ’s special swimming places.

17 Loggerheads 8, Mangawhai Heads beach. Traditional longboarding surfing competition.

17 The British Invasion Show, Warkworth RSA (see ad p21) 17 Mahurangi East Land Restoration Programme launch, Scotts Homestead, Scotts Landing, 2pm. Food, drink, and family activities (see ad p30) 17 Trio Élan, presented by Warkworth Music, Warkworth Town Hall. Info & tickets: www.warkworth music.org.nz (see story p20) 18 Kaipara Flats Kids Club, St Alban’s Church, 19 Old Woodcocks Road, 4-5pm. Fun, crafts and snacks. Every third Sunday of the month. Info: ph 425 8054 or email children@ warkworthanglican.nz.

21 Rodney Local Board meeting, Te Whare o Oranga Parakai, 5 Rere Place, Parakai, 3pm. Info: search for Rodney Local Board at www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

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Matt Wright assists Sage Walters-Hansen

Snatches were made.

Both sides in the first two quarters had chances, although failed to capitalise.

There were also U21 players on Wellsford’s reserve team.

Battle of the Dome shakes showgrounds Wellsford and Mahurangi Rugby Clubs locked horns at the Warkworth Showgrounds this month for their annual Battle of the Dome clash.

For the first two quarters, Mahurangi’s U21s played Wellsford’s premiere reserve team.

The U21s held their own, keeping the score at nil all at the end of the quarters.

The clubs’ premier sides took to the field at half time and played two 30 minute quarters.

Ross Cornes Warkworth resident

Mahurangi got the better of Wellsford at the set piece, having a bigger scrum.

However, Wellsford made the most of a superior back line and snatched length of the field tries.

The back line was bolstered by Rene Ranger, who recently returned from his Super Rugby season with the Crusaders.

At the final whistle, the match was Wellsford’s by a healthy margin of 42-7.

Wellsford Rugby manager Mick Sweetman says it is a rebuilding year

for the club with young forwards replacing experienced players recovering from surgery.

“It’s exciting to see these young guys coming through, but it may take them a while.”

However, Sweetman says the backline is on par with other top teams in Northland, and he is looking forward to giving it a run.

Last season, Waipu was the team to beat, but it is understood it has also lost some players.

Mid Northern Rugby Club may be the favourite after bolstering its ranks with Northland contracted players.

As Mahurangi Matters went to print, Wellsford was to play Mid Northern at Centennial Park for its first game of the season on March 27.

Wellsford’s next home game will be against Moerewa on April 10. It will also play Western Sharks (Dargaville) on April 24, Kamo on May 15 and Marist Old Boys on May 22, each time at Wellsford.

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