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Dr James Russell with a grey-faced petrel chick, which could return to Kawau Island following pest eradication.

Kawau plays key role in global study A major global study has found that Kawau Island could play a pivotal role in helping to save some of the world’s most endangered species.

A team of international researchers found that if predatory mammals could be eradicated from 107 islands around the planet, it would protect 80 threatened species and help reach a United Nations

Environmental Programme goal to halt biodiversity loss.

Five of the islands are in New Zealand.

They are Kawau, Great Barrier, Motukawanui, Slipper and Auckland Island.

The study said predatory mammals that would need to be eliminated on Kawau to protect threatened species included

cats, mice, stoats, rats and possums.

Threatened species already living on the island that would be protected by the elimination of predators include kiwis.

However, University of Auckland conservation biologist Dr James Russell, who contributed to the study, says a predator-free Kawau could become a haven for many other

threatened species that don’t currently live on the island, but could be located there should they prove difficult or impossible to protect elsewhere.

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as burrowing petrels. Reptiles such as skinks, geckos and tuatara could also be protected on Kawau.

“The list could go on,” Dr Russell says.

He says Kawau is a good choice for eradication efforts because of its size and New Zealand’s success in Mahurangi Matters eradicating predators on other islands.

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rat-free with dozens of boats visiting a day,” he says.

Pet cats should not be a problem if they are desexed and not roaming outside properties. Dr Russell says it’s unlikely everyone will get onside with an eradication programme, but this has not stopped vaccination programmes or water fluoridation programmes.

“I think eradication could happen quite quickly, and it would benefit not just

wildlife, but also humans – no more rodents spreading disease or invading houses when owners are away.”

Elimination of predators on Kawau is already part of Auckland Council’s Regional Pest Management Plan 2019-2029. Council aims to eliminate rats, stoats, possums and wallabies from the island over the next 10 years through various methods, including extermination, monitoring and landowner education.

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Board funds boost bike park plans and camera coverage Rodney Local Board has approved grants totalling $38,000 for the planned Mahu Bike & Skate Park and a security camera upgrade at the Warkworth Showgrounds.

Members voted to allocate $20,000 for planning, surveys and reports to prepare the resource consent application, and detailed design for a proposed skatepark and bike trails on land to the north of the showgrounds, at the April Board meeting.

Mahurangi Community Sport and Recreation Collective board member and Bike & Skate project leader Nicola Jones said she hoped the necessary work, which would include site surveys, planning advice and stormwater and geotechnical reports, would happen in the next three months or so.

“We won’t go at it gung ho till we know we’ve got the money in the bank, but it’s been approved and that’s great,” she said. “Then it’s getting back to the designer and ironing out a detailed design, then we can move into the project and look at funding options.”

A concept design for the park was drawn up in February last year following the granting of $12,000 by Rodney Local Board in 2017.

Ms Jones added that the proposed multisport facility at the showgrounds, which was granted $150,000 by the Board last July for design, planning and preliminary engineering and site works, was at a similar pre-planning stage to the bike and skate park.

“The multisport facility is still going through the groundwork with the money that was allocated last year,” she said. “We’re thinking that because they join together, we’ll try to do a lot of the work simultaneously, as they’re similar projects.”

She said the collective was still looking at a couple of internal planning issues for the multisport facility, in terms of its design, facilities and making sure all areas worked effectively.

“It’s a little bit of a slow wheel turn, but once we’ve ironed out these things, it will be happening,” she said.

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The outline concept for the proposed Mahu Bike & Skate Park.

Board grant will go towards extending security camera coverage at the showgrounds beyond the rugby club, following a spate of break-ins and vandalism at the grounds, as well as inappropriate use of facilities.

Board members heard that the sports

collective was concerned about unauthorised use of carparks by heavy trucks as a rest-stop and transfer area, as well as dogs being off-leash and fouling the playing fields.

“We have been having issues over the past six to 12 months of vehicles getting

onto the field and doing doughnuts,” Ms Jones added after the meeting. “The pony club was broken into, the rodeo club broken into … This is a huge value asset that Council has invested in with just one entry point in and out, so we need to see who’s coming in.”

Short power outage creates business turmoil A wire failure at a substation at Maungaturoto left around 22,000 people without power on Wednesday morning, May 1.

The impact was felt from Puhoi north to Mangawhai and Te Kopuru, and west to Pouto. As a result, numerous shops, petrol stations and banks closed, medical centres took steps to protect vaccines, traffic lights went down and several schools closed.

A Transpower spokesperson said the wire failure happened ahead of planned maintenance, which was scheduled to take place the following day (Thursday). Power was lost at 9.20am and restored around 11.50am.

While major supermarkets continued to trade using generators, smaller food retail stores faced the issue of keeping food cold. Claire and Brad Walker were forced to close their Matakana Four Square store.

“We had to close because our checkouts ran out of juice and we couldn’t open and close them, and it’s too hard with all the chilled products and people

coming in and out,” they said.

Warkworth Medical Centre suspended its vaccination programme for the day and was forced to transfer “tens of thousands of dollars” worth of vaccines by car to a pharmacy in Orewa. Practice manager Sara Lewis said refrigerated vaccines are good for about four hours once power is cut.

The medical centre decided to move its stock to Orewa as a precaution.

Doctors at the centre were able to continue with patient consultations, but had no access to patient medical records or test results. ACC claims’ paperwork and prescriptions were handled manually with pen and paper. Minor surgery was rescheduled at the Kowhai Surgery.

Shop assistant Alice Baluyut continued to work in almost total darkness at Geoff’s Emporium, but other stores such as Noel Leeming and Fade Room Barber Shop closed completely. “I can’t work at all in this light as I can’t see what I am doing,” barber John Abraham said.

Keenan Maro and Annie Zhong, owners of Ginger Café, had to close and

were frustrated that a similar outage happened just a couple of weeks ago.

“We’ve lost quite a bit of money,” Annie said.

Some staff tried to look on the bright side. Eko clothes and furniture store assistant Margaret Grogan used the time to take a stroll down Queen Street. “It was a good opportunity to be out in the sunshine and have a look around,” she said.

Staff at Warkworth Vets suspended animal operations and were unable to warm heat packs in the microwave for the animals.

Several motorists were stranded at service stations with not enough fuel to go north or south. When the power was restored, a round of “hurrahs” echoed around the forecourt of the BP station on State Highway 1.

Police put officers on points duty at some intersections in Warkworth and had to escort a man in custody to Orewa to be interviewed with electronic recording.

Otherwise, they said the power outage had caused no serious issues.

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Makarau saga Although the Auckland Shooting Club (ASC) grounds are closed due to the High Court overruling the original Code of Compliance (CoC), we have no reassurance that this is more than a temporary measure.

A resource consent application (at not inconsiderable expense), and no doubt many legal tricks, are yet to come. The saga in Makarau has had a considerable local, daily cost. This we know so far includes stressed marriages, at least two babies who have known nothing other than the sound of continuous gunfire all their lives, a criminal record and one serious heart attack … so far.

The fact the CoC was issued under such obviously flimsy grounds has inevitably caused speculation among locals. Subsequent, glacially paced action/inaction from the local council has done nothing to dispel that view.

Frankly, within our democracy we deserve a lot better.

There is something fundamentally wrong with a system in which tickboxes have replaced local consultation.

That an alien activity can be imposed on a community without a complete appraisal of the consequences by the people who live in that area first and foremost should be astonishing.

The ASC has often said, “Oh, but we want to be good neighbours” in a disingenuous, propagandic style that completely avoids the fact their “activity” (a continuous bombardment of gunfire for hours on end) is wholly

incompatible with the surrounds.

Perhaps what has been saddest for the people of Makarau has been the disinterest of the press, coupled with the clearly implied indifference of the local council.

Crispin Caldicott, Kakanui (abridged)

No fluoride change I wonder if everybody in Warkworth and surroundings is aware that our water is not fluoridated.

Auckland water is fluoridated and we are part of Auckland City, yet our water quality is not the same.

Whether you are for or against the fluoridation of drinking water, it is good to know this so you can adjust your expectations and behaviours accordingly.

For instance, parents may wish to make particular arrangements to safeguard their children’s oral health.

Some people may wish to campaign for fluoridation of our local water.

Lesley Cavanagh, Snells Beach

Watercare head of operations Priyan Perera responds: “Watercare adds fluoride to Auckland’s drinking water supplies based on requests from the former local councils of Auckland. This fluoridation position for each supply has not changed since the amalgamation of the local councils in 2010.

“The non-metropolitan water supplies operated by the former Rodney District Council were not fluoridated prior to the

local council amalgamation in 2010.

This position has not changed and the Wellsford, Warkworth, and Snells Beach supplies remain un-fluoridated.”

Footpath injury I read with interest the article in Mahurangi Matters regarding dangerous footpaths (MM 27 Feb).

On Sunday, March 4, 2018 outside the ANZ bank, my wife tripped on the pavement and fell forward hitting her head on the pavement and cutting her hand while trying to save her fall.

I was unable to lift her myself, but two kind people assisted me in moving her to a nearby bench seat. There was only medical assistance (A&E) in Wellsford or Red Beach. I took her to the latter facility where she was given a tetanus injection and had her hand dressed. She had repeated attacks of vertigo presumably due to concussion for several months and her final path to normality was achieved by several visits to an optician in Papakura using colour therapy treatment and a visit to a local osteopath. After reading similar stories of other folk in Warkworth, one would hope that this scenario of substandard footpaths will have permanent remedial action to avoid any repeat.

David Shearer, Papakura Following stories in Mahurangi Matters, Auckland Transport has undertaken remedial work on the footpath outside the ANZ and elsewhere in Warkworth – Ed.

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A power cut last week stretching from Puhoi to Mangawhai sent the area back to the dark ages, but fortunately Mahurangi College had a backup plan. It was back to basics with teachers dusting off the textbooks and notepads – what a history lesson the kids had that day!

Garden thanks We would like to say a big thank you to the kind people who leave old carpets, cardboard and coffee grains at the Wellsford community garden.

It all helps. We would also welcome enquiries from people interested in helping.

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The Warkworth Rotary Club is holding an advanced screening of the Elton John biopic Rocketman at Matakana Cinemas on Sunday May 26, at 5pm. It is an epic musical about Elton John’s breakthrough years, transforming from a shy piano prodigy into an international superstar.

Tickets are $25 and are available from the Mahurangi Matters office. Proceeds go to Rotary youth programmes. Cheese and biscuits will be provided and the bar will be open for purchases.

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Carry on camping As the smell of summer fades and the boats and caravans head south for the winter, I read with interest a story in this publication about a “glamping” experiment at Martin’s Bay Holiday Camp (MM April 17). They have erected a luxury tent and if it is popular they will put up more. Glamping seems to be a holiday park trend, as it is also offered at Orewa.

I can’t recall hearing before about a positive rethink of the traditional campground.

What we usually hear is that yet another lovely campground has been sold to property developers. Another strand of Kiwi egalitarianism being unwound. For years, these campgrounds have provided Kiwis with a wonderful, cheap family holiday. It was very much a 20th century New Zealand thing. If councils once tried to get out of the camping ground business, they do not have a lot of choice as the issue has been thrust back at them. We have legions of campervans on our roads and the tolerance for free camping has declined considerably.

Camping, though, is part of our Kiwi DNA. Maori used to set up seasonal camps to gather shellfish or hunt. The outdoor tradition was also set by hunters, bushmen, shepherds and surveyors. Their bushcraft stressed the enjoyment of the outdoors and physical self-reliance became a New Zealand way of life.

My ancestors arrived at Port Albert in 1863 after a near disastrous journey from England. Their romantic dream of living in a nonconformist society faded into the reality of cutting out an existence in a harsh environment. Equipped with little more than a humble tent, these hardy pioneers We are blessed lived for months as far removed from glamping as can be imagined, with their very survival only due to with some of the the generosity of local Maori. The earliest European most gorgeous camping trip on record is Edward Wakefield’s journey up the Whanganui River in the 1840s. They took sheets spots this side of of calico and cut new poles and pegs each night. paradise to go Nineteen-year-old Katherine Mansfield undertook a camping. six-week camping trip through the central North Island in 1907. The party rode in horse-drawn wagons and slept under a heavy canvas tent – men on one side, women on the other. However, for those who prefer more than a sheet of canvas overhead, heading to the family bach is another sacred Kiwi summer tradition.

During the capital gains tax debate, a topic of robust discussion was dubbed “BachTax”. New Zealand First listened very carefully to the public who told us they did not want their beach houses included in any regime. New Zealand First listened, we heard and we took action. In our view, there was neither a compelling rationale nor mandate to institute a comprehensive capital gains tax regime. As the season turns and our beautiful beaches empty out across the Rodney region, we are blessed with some of the most gorgeous spots this side of paradise to go camping, glamping or baching.

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Link road decision delay The hearing commissioners on the Matakana link road have been given extra time to reach their conclusions. The commissioners initially had 15 days from the end of the hearing in late March to make a decision, but this has been extended to May 14. The Notice of Requirement for the designation and associated resource consents put forward by Auckland Transport (AT) was for two lanes in Stage 1 (opening in late 2021) and four lanes in Stage 2 (post-2036).

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Project open day success Closing out a busy earthworks season.

Many thanks to those of you who attended our project open day in March.

Up to 1000 people attended the event and were taken ‘behind-thescenes’ of our exciting project. There was plenty on offer on the day, from information stands run by the environmental, geotechnical and structures teams, to van rides up to a purpose-built viewing platform, dump truck rides, drone footage, a digger simulator and a chance to get up close to the ‘big kit’. We’ve received great feedback from those who attended, and the day proved to be a great way to celebrate and showcase the progress made in the 2018/19 earthworks season. We will host another open day in 2020, look out for more information early next year.

You may remember that we set ourselves a target of moving up to 4 million cubic metres for the 2018/19 earthworks season. And have we done that?

The short answer is, nearly. This season alone we’ve excavated around 3.7 million cubic metres of earth and moved around 2 million cubic metres to fill areas. These numbers can be hard to visualise but become evident with the changing landscape, as the shape of the new motorway becomes clearer. Our recent drone footage is a great way to see these changes and the progress made across the project. You can view the March footage on our website www.nx2group.com or at our Information Centre, 45 Wyllie Road. Opening hours are Tuesday 9am – 1pm, Thursday 1pm - 4pm and first Saturday of the month by appointment only.

As we prepare for the wetter months ahead, our earthworks teams will start to close-out open areas and scale up sediment and erosion controls.

You may notice previously exposed ‘cuts’ become a minty green colour, as hydroseed (a combination of mulch, grass seed and a natural adhesive) is sprayed as an effective technique for stabilising the slopes and batters.

So, while earthworks activities will slow down significantly over winter, our teams are kept busy planning for the next big earthworks season which will kick-off in October 2019.

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Council’s dog bylaw changes fuel rural/urban division Auckland Council has taken a hammering from Mahurangi residents over proposed changes to its dog management bylaw.

Local social media sites have been running hot with comments from dog owners who say the changes are unfair and do not recognise the difference between urban and rural beaches.

Petitions have been circulated and when Mahurangi Matters went to press, Council had received more than 3500 submissions.

One of the major concerns dog owners have is that in Rodney, access to some beaches will be more restrictive. They say off-leash access to the beach will be restricted by a further 30-minutes a day during summer and the restrictions will last an extra month, from Labour Weekend until the end of March (summer rules).

The proposed policy has also been criticised for usurping the power of local boards to set appropriate rules in local parks on a case-by-case basis.

When the issue was discussed by the Rodney Local Board last month, Board chair Beth Houlbrooke said she was very unhappy with the bylaw consultation process, which had not provided Board members with the time to reflect local views.

The Board has reserved its right to provide feedback until after it has had an opportunity to review the public submissions, which close this Friday May 10.

Hearings will be held on June 21.

The restrictions governing when dogs can be on some beaches in Rodney will be tightened under the proposed bylaw changes.

Warkworth Dog Club member Gary Martin told the Board that councils had been trying to standardise dog rules for the past 25 years.

“Our concern is that the increasing population will mean a lot more dogs and by restricting off-leash areas, there will be more problems with owners not taking their dogs out or flouting the rules,” he said.

“Council has chosen the most restrictive hours for dogs on beaches.”

The Omaha Shorebird Protection Trust wants the existing bylaws enforced.

Chair Dr Marie Ward says that at present, people with their dogs are seen where they should not be, but

there is zero chance of a dog patrol officer doing anything about it.

“We have evidence of dogs inside the Omaha Shorebird sanctuary and running loose along the estuary beach where there are many signs up saying no dogs allowed,” Dr Ward says.

“We have also discussed the possibility of asking for dogs to be on-leash at all times on the Whangateau Harbour sand flats. This is because there are many hundreds of shorebirds that feed on the exposed sandflats during low tide, especially the godwits, northern NZ dotterels, banded dotterels and oystercatchers.”

At a consultation day at the Warkworth

Town Hall, Michael Rennie of Matakana said it was wrong to penalise 95 per cent of dog owners for the five per cent who do not do the right thing.

“Dogs need a voice,” he said. “There should be a dedicated beach where they can go at anytime.”

Others at the town hall felt that the consultation documents were unnecessarily complicated.

Council policy manager Mike Sinclair says Council has no plans to extend the consultation process beyond the current six weeks.

“The proposed policy now clearly lists the over 1000 identified off-leash parks and reserves across Auckland, making it easier for dog owners to find places near to them where they can let their dogs run off-leash,” he says.

“The 130 parks and reserves in the Rodney area that dogs are currently allowed under control off-leash are not changing and are listed in the consultation document.

“There are only 11 beaches in Rodney that are affected by time and season rules. This means the proposed changes would extend the restricted time on those 11 beaches by 30 minutes and the season by a month.

“Rodney also contains seven regional parks and large sections of coastline that are actually Department of Conservation controlled, so dog access to a lot of the coastline is not regulated by this rule.”

The proposals do not change dogs owners’ use of the Centennial Park designated dog exercise area in Wellsford.

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The attraction of beautiful locations like Akaroa and Milford Sound must be enticing for cruise ship passengers. And, in my mind, places in the Pacific Islands would be best encountered from sea. But the size, scale and frequency of cruise ships is leading to concerns of over-tourism around the world. The cruise industry is very powerful and demands for infrastructure are putting pressure on environments like the Waitemata Harbour, where expected cruise berth extensions are leading to concerns of infilling the harbour and, in Lyttelton, extensions create horrendous noise and potential harm to endangered Hector’s dolphins. In the lovely small harbour of Akaroa, it’s expected 90 cruise ships will visit this season – more than one a day, with few summer days free from their visual impact, noise and pressure.

Some of these cruise ships, such as The Ovation of the Seas, are gigantic. The Ovation is three football fields long, 50 metres high, and has displacement of 167,800 tonnes. Its physical presence alone creates a huge impact on small wilderness locations. Also, in Akaroa, there are concerns about pollution, noise from night time activities like discos, seabed disturbance and damage to foreshore structures from ship propellers and thrusting. On land, it causes traffic congestion and puts pressure on infrastructure such as public toilets. With up to 5000 guests on some of these ships, the populations of small ports are saturated with visitors.

Emissions from cruise ships sitting in port with their engines going creates air pollution impacts equivalent to about 84,000 cars, with nitrous oxide and sulphur dioxide concentrations higher than any local urban effect. While there are calls for the engines to turn off in port, and for the ships to connect to the electricity network, we just don’t have the required electricity spare.

Big cruise ships have scrubbers and pollution control equipment, but New Zealand isn’t a signatory to the Marine Pollution Convention (MARPOL), so they’re not obliged to use them. Plus, there is evidence from overseas that in some cases the cruise ships turn the technology off anyway. So, even though the cruise industry is a growth sector, below the gloss is dross and the romance of cruise ship travel is not what it seems.

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Wellsford’s Bronson Steele is one of New Zealand’s most accomplished stunt performers.

During his 20-year career, he has worked on major films such as The Lord of the Rings and TV series including Outrageous Fortune. He spoke to Jonathan Killick …

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he most dangerous stunt I performed was when I nearly drowned in the Buller River. I had to pretend to drown and it just happened that the river was flooded, and there were logs and debris everywhere.

The guides said we were nuts to get in the water, but we did it anyway.

I had a thin wetsuit on but as soon as I fell in the water the cold hit, it took my breath away and I was sucked under. Drifting down river 200 metres for a minute-and-a-half, I just held my breath and tried not to struggle until I returned back to the surface. Frantically searching, the crew managed to find me, but not before I was sucked under again for another minute. You can’t fight rivers but luckily, I am a good swimmer. So, I knew to just let it go until I could see the light at the surface again. In general, I don’t panic too much. moved to Wellsford when I was seven, when my Dad got a job spraying gorse and later in towing. As a kid, I did gymnastics at Wellsford Primary, and my coach, Ron Jenkins, wanted me to take it to the next level in Auckland. Unfortunately, I would get car sick on the journey so I gave it up, which I regret because I would often place in the top three in competitions in Auckland and Whangarei. The skills I learned served me well, and I was always doing crazy stuff around the place on my bike and roller skates. I would line up girls at school on the ground and jump over them on my skates. Luckily, I never landed on anyone. I was always a bit of a crazy kid. My parents tell a story from when I was four and I wanted to go to work with Dad, so I ran out the gate as he was leaving and jumped on his towbar, riding it for around 5km to his work. he idea of becoming a stunt performer came from a newspaper advertisement for a stunt school and I thought it was something I’d like to do. I went to the listed address in Mt Roskill, but it turned out to be a dodgy backyard operation, so I took my $400 and walked away. Later, a friend who did make-up for Xena and Hercules, put me on to a stunt work trial in Auckland. A week later, I was

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at work on the set, mostly getting hit by Xena. I learned on the job. Of course, my mates and I used to jump on the Hoteo River in our kayaks when it flooded or take wrecked cars to the dirt club track in Wellsford, so I had had some preparation. he fun jobs for me are the ones that involve driving, like on the World’s Fastest Indian riding the Indian motorbike down the beach in Invercargill. I was also the stunt driver for the final scene of Hunt for the Wilderpeople, where a red Hilux crashes through a paddock and into a wrecking yard. I had a great time working as Jack Black’s stunt double in King Kong and I also did a job for him in Auckland, when he came for the Tenacious D concert, doing flips onstage and pretending to be him.

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We talked about doing the same in Sydney. Nothing really came of it until he accidentally left his guitar in Auckland and he rang and asked me to pick it up for him and take it over. start on Avatar 2 in Wellington in a couple of weeks, where I will be doing mostly stunt rigging, but there could be some fighting or falling out of helicopters. They keep a lot of that stuff secret so often you don’t know until you turn up. I recently worked in London for eight months, but I can’t name the upcoming films because of confidentiality agreements. A team of six Kiwi stunties headed over there to fill some shortages for stunt riggers.

My partner thought it could be a bit of a strain, but she came over for a couple of months while we happened to be working in the Canary Islands and got to stay in a resort, so she wasn’t too disappointed in that. My family don’t

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seem to be worried about me being a stuntie and, in fact, my kids have been on different shows. My two youngest, Blake and Briana, have both been on Ash vs Evil Dead, running away from monsters, and Bradley has been on Power Rangers. espite all the travel, I’ve stayed living in Wellsford all these years. It’s a relaxed lifestyle and it was here that I met my partner of 20 years, Joanne. We got together one night at the old El Tapora bar, hit it off and that was it. The stunt work hasn’t always been continuous, and it helps that I’ve been able to get work with the family towing business here. Dad ran Steele’s Wrecking and Towing, and I ended up buying my own truck and operating under the name Mid Northern Towing. People crash and you go and pick them up out of a ditch. Some of the crashes in the Dome are pretty intense, and it can be difficult pulling cars out of banks or over retaining walls. One day I went out to a crash and a car was off the road and in a paddock. I put the hydraulic support legs on the truck down and tried to pull the vehicle out, but the road actually gave out beneath me. The truck slid down into the paddock with the car. Luckily it was flat, and the No 8 wire fence stopped the truck from falling over. I slowly let the weight of the vehicle down and levelled out the truck. I was able to drive down the paddock and pick up the car with minimal damage done.

The fence was already buggered from the crash so that wasn’t a worry. All I had to do was find a gate and drive out. aving a truck licence and experience with crashes was

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helpful when I was in the Wellsford Volunteer Fire Brigade for 11 years.

I went to some really bad accidents and there were a few fatalities. It can be a really hard job, especially since attending accidents can involve trying to cut screaming people out of wrecks.

But if they are screaming at least you know they are alive. In a situation like that you have to really hold your nerve – you’ve got a job to do and you just have to do it. Fortunately, the fire brigade up here do a lot of training, and I think that has helped with my stunt rigging. Although the callouts were predominantly for accidents, we did attend the Wellsford Community Centre when it burned down. That was hard to witness because it was an iconic building that we had all spent time in. It was too late by the time we got to it and it was bulldozed down. ou take all that stuff on board, but I try not to let it affect me too much. But it has made me think that there are people out there who can’t drive. People seem to take driving as a right and are too relaxed about it, but I see it as a privilege. The worst crashes seem to happen when people are distracted with things like texting or are just too tired. I’m a stunt driver and I wouldn’t drive like that. It can be hard to make the call to stop and have a sleep or take a call, but I do it and it works.

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Flag bearers stood during the procession.

Mahurangi College students laid a wreath.

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Mahurangi’s Colonel Mark Blythen read a poem.

The march to the RSA went ahead as usual.

Warkworth parade remembers returned and fallen heroes

A large crowd attended the annual service at the rotunda on Church Hill on a crisp Anzac Day morning. Warkworth RSA president Bob Harrison told a story about New Zealand’s opposition to the testing of nuclear weapons by French military on Moruroa atoll in 1966.

He said the HMSNZ Canterbury and Otago frigates were sent in protest and, as a result, the French ultimately stopped atmospheric testing of nuclear

weapons in the Pacific.

However, New Zealand sailors who were present and witnessed the detonation of nuclear bombs continued to experience complications from the radioactivity they were exposed to. Bob reminded the crowd that ‘not all wounds bleed’ and that the RSA relied on the public for its work supporting returned servicemen.

Mahurangi College head girl Jane Wilcock regaled

the crowd with a story about her great grandfather, Colin, who liberated a French winery in World War II. He escaped death because after a night of drinking he was in the toilet block when his camp was shelled.

After the speeches, dignitaries and members of the public laid wreaths at the war memorial monument.

The traditional march to the Warkworth RSA, led by servicemen, followed the wreath-laying, despite reports that it may not go ahead this year.

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Warkworth Library organises sustainability showcase day A clothes swap, bag making, gardening advice and home heating tips will be just a few of the things on offer at a special sustainability day at the Old Masonic Hall in Warkworth on Friday, May 24.

Organised by Warkworth Library, the event is designed to showcase groups promoting sustainability in the region, from waste minimisation and recycling initiatives to chocolate making and electric cars.

A free clothes swap will be run during the day, where people will be encouraged to bring in a garment or two and swap them for something they fancy on the rail. Any unswapped clothes left over will be donated to a local charity.

Auckland Council’s low carbon living specialist, Lucy Pierpoint, will be on hand to discuss Live Lightly, a practical programme showing people how they can make a real difference with how they travel, eat, shop and so on, while library manager Lisa Outwin will demonstrate Home Energy Audit Toolkits (HEAT). The

HEAT kits, which are available from the library, include tools, meters and timers to measure heat and check moisture levels, running costs, energy use and so on, plus advice to make homes healthier and warmer, and how to save on power bills.

There will also be a stall making resuable cloth bags, and a variety of community groups offering advice on growing your own food, making compost, recycling, minimising waste and repairing items.

Senior library assistant for community engagement Katie Mitchell says each stall will also display a selection of relevant books available from the library, so people can learn more about particular topics.

The sustainability day will run from 10am to 4pm, and is free of charge for both the public and stallholders. Anyone who would like to take part, know more or who could help out on the clothes swap stall should contact Katie Mitchell on 021 947 734 or katherine.mitchell@ aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

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Community space with connections Water supply residue A section of Warkworth river frontage will get a $300,000 facelift early next year, with a new community space between the library and Old Masonic Hall in Baxter Street.

Rodney Local Board signed off on the concept designs and funding for new seating, shade and terracing that will run from the street to the grass bank leading down to the river, at its meeting on April 18.

Although the bulk of the work will not take place until next February, Board chair Beth Houlbrooke specifically asked that two large phoenix palms next to the library be removed well ahead of that, as their spiky fronds were dangerous, could cause infection and had recently injured a young boy, who fell on a fallen frond.

Auckland Council property coordinator Sandra May told members she had already started the consenting process to have the trees removed as soon as possible, before the rest of the works went ahead.

She said the overall design was in response to community calls for better connections between the town and river, and attractive community spaces with more shade and seating.

It would also improve the library entrance and provide shelter for bus passengers.

She added that there was a great deal of support for the concept and location at a public open day in December, apart from a few people who wanted

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Old and potentially hazardous phoenix palms will be replaced by kowhai trees in the new space.

more than the budget could provide at this stage.

However, Ms May said there was potential to add on to the design if further funding became available in future.

She added that, following input from mana whenua, Maori designs and wording would be stencilled into the concrete seating and terraced area, which will be known as

Te Huihuinga Kowhai – or the kowhai gathering place.

Beth Houlbrooke said she was delighted to sign off on the concept designs and funding.

“This has been developed through nearly two years of community consultation and arose from the Warkworth Community Aspirations report published in December 2017,” she said.

Warkworth water consumers are noticing an unhappy side-effect of their new water supply.

Last December, Watercare switched over from a river supply to an underground aquifer. Around three million litres of water is being drawn each day from two bores, reaching 180-220 metres below ground.

The water is described as moderately hard, which is leading to a build up of limescale on some domestic appliances such as dishwashers, kettles and washing machines.

A Watercare spokesperson says groundwater absorbs naturally occurring minerals from surrounding rocks such as sodium, calcium, magnesium, potassium, chloride and bicarbonate.

She says the new treatment plant produces A-grade water and the process at the plant is designed to reduce iron and manganese content to well below New Zealand’s Drinking Water Standards.

“Bore water is often ‘harder’ than water sourced from dams or rivers because it contains more minerals,” she says. “Residents may find that vinegar combined with an extra large dose of ‘elbow grease’ may work the best when it comes to removing marks from the shower!”

Aqua Filter Rodney managing director Steve Reynolds says silica is causing water spotting “like locals have never seen before”.

“This is a cosmetic issue, but it can quickly ruin new bathrooms and windows – just ask a Snells Beach resident,” Steve says. “The secret is to not let it dry as a spot on the glass. So, to all those blokes out there, you will have to squeegee down the showers!”

For outside glass, Steve recommends washing with rainwater and drying windows after washing.

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Major project to address Kaipara Harbour sediment Central government funding is being sought to help reduce the environmental impact of 700,000 tonnes of sediment that flows into the Kaipara Harbour each year.

Auckland and Northland councils have joined forces with six iwi to prepare a business case for a programme of mitigation works that they hope will be submitted to Government in the coming weeks.

A hui of the Integrated Kaipara Harbour Management Group (IKHMG) in Warkworth on April 18 heard that $400 million worth of work was needed to reduce the run-off from land and streams, a sum that was impossible for catchment councils and landowners to find, in the short-term at least.

Auckland Council treaty settlement manager John Hutton, who is managing the bid strategy, said neither the profit levels per hectare on most farmland nor the rate take of any council was enough to fund the work needed to reduce sediment to a level where the vast harbour system could start to heal itself.

“It would take three to four decades and Kaipara Harbour doesn’t have three to four decades,” he said.

“Landowners can’t step up fast enough, and there’s simply not enough money.

If you want to get serious, you need central government funding.”

The day before the IKHMG meeting, Minister for the Environment David Parker and Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage were given a boat tour of the harbour by business case collaborators from Auckland Council, Northland Regional Council, Kaipara District Council, Whangarei

District Council and Kaipara Uri, the collective term for iwi around the harbour – Kaipara iwi Te Roroa, Te Uri o Hau, Ngā Maunga Whakahii o Kaipara, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei and Te Runanga o Ngāti Whātua.

“We were trying to show ministers how big Kaipara Harbour is and where the significant impacts are from sedimentation,” Mr Hutton said. “And there’s nothing like a half tide coming in from the Hoteo to show sediment.”

While he said it was always hard extracting large amounts of money from Government, he believed now was the best time to make a bid, as there was environmental change and action happening all around the harbour, from communities, landowners and councils, as well as solid environmental science on the problems and solutions in the Kaipara Harbour Sediment Mitigation Study published in early 2018. In addition, treaty settlement negotiations over the Kaipara Harbour were currently underway between the Crown and Kaipara Uri. “But the business case is separate from that,” he said. “This is a broader effort to mobilise councils, iwi, communities, landowners and central government in a bigger project. It’s highly ambitious, but there are potential opportunities.

It’s a work in progress, but we think we’ve got a chance here.”

Mr Hutton said if the business case was successful, he would hope to get funding in the 2020 Budget or, failing that, in 2021.

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My initial response was to suggest joining some of the many local organisations that are always seeking volunteers. Since then, I’ve thought more about what and who make a community and a town work. On one hand, we have the business community that invests their money to establish and When it comes to run local businesses. They often employ locals and use local suppliers, so are putting money back into local community the community this way. But the question is, is this projects, I see enough to be considered part of the community? the same small Businesses become a real part of the community group of people by getting involved, by helping other local organisations, donating what they can and involved ... participating in initiatives that make the town a more vibrant, busier place. These businesses are not just located here, they are part of our community. The same can’t be said for people who live here, but work elsewhere and say, “I’m too busy to be involved in anything”. They reside here, but they are not yet part of the community.

When it comes to local community projects, I see the same small group of people involved. The strange thing is, they too are busy, but still manage to put in long hours to make things happen. Now there’s lots of research on the impact of being too busy on mental health, but did you know that volunteering time has been shown to help people feel more socially connected, thus warding off loneliness and depression? Surprisingly, growing evidence also suggests that people who give their time to others might have better physical health including lower blood pressure and a longer lifespan.

So, not only does volunteering help others, it is good for you on many levels and provides plenty of opportunities to be part of our town, our community. It is also far more positive and productive than sitting behind a keyboard, doing nothing, complaining and giving not-so-constructive criticism. If you truly want to be a part of the community, my suggestion is get involved, become an advocate and be part of what makes our town a great place to live. Don’t just live here, become a part of ‘here’.

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Pets Vets Corner Pet of the Month Tiger the cat

The well-stocked shelves are drawing in good crowds of shoppers every Wednesday.

Funds flow into community ‘One man’s trash is another man’s treasure’ has never been more true than at the Mahu Community Trading Post, on the corner of Whitaker Road and Mill Lane, in Warkworth.

Since opening in September, the community-run shop has donated $24,700 to a number of community organisations and local causes.

Mahurangi Community Charitable Society chair Peter Marwick puts the shop’s success down to a dedicated and hard-working team of volunteers, the support of the community in donating goods and customers who have shopped at the weekly garage sales.

Those who have benefited are: • Homebuilders Family Services THE OUTSIDER Aluminium Awning System

• Mahurangi College’s ‘Make It Happen’ fund • Abuse Prevention Services • The Mahurangi Harbour Shellfish Restoration Project • Primary schools at Leigh, Kaipara Flats, Warkworth and Ahuroa • A.I.M. (Adults In Motion) Warkworth for a sensory room at their premises • Mahurangi East Volunteer Fire Brigade for its Sky Tower Challenge “We also donated to the newlyestablished Warkworth Men’s Shed to help with set up costs,” Peter says. “We are definitely living up to our motto of ‘Making a Difference in Mahurangi’.”

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Netball centre at crisis point One of the region’s biggest netball clubs says it is at crisis point because of a serious drainage problem causing cracks, undulation, damage and mould on its six courts.

Netball Rodney Centre in Wellsford has more than 900 members using its courts at Centennial Park, which are owned by Auckland Council but leased out to the club, which has to maintain them. President Pixie Jones says the playing surface has deteriorated to the point where it is a health and safety issue.

In a deputation to last month’s Rodney Local Board meeting, she said the club had spent $90,000 on asphalt and textured paint coverings in the past two years, but the problems were persisting and getting worse.

“It was only sticking tape, a cosmetic covering, trying to stop the water getting in, but water is coming up

from underneath,” she told members.

“It’s becoming critical and will soon impact on safety. It is beyond the capacity of Netball Rodney to address.

“Our job is to foster netball and deliver it safely to our members. But we have serious drainage issues and a serious tree problem, too, with leaves from selfseeded poplars also blocking drains.”

Club vice president Lynette Gubb said Rodney was not an affluent area to draw funds from and the centre was unable to continue to top up the funding needed to maintain and upgrade the courts.

Board chair Beth Houlbrooke said they were aware of other facilities at Centennial Park facing similar issues and investigations were underway, with a full assessment due in the next financial year.

“Based on the outcome of this assessment, we would anticipate remedial or other works being scheduled into the Rodney Local Board work programme,” she said.

Snells house beyond repair The Abela family is safe and well, despite a fire that burned down their home on Rangimaarie Crescent in Snells Beach on April 17. The fire service is yet to determine the cause of the fire, but a multi-power plug is thought to be one possible cause. Vince Abela said the house would likely be a write-off, with little of the structure left to salvage. The family had only been living there for two months. “We have been fortunate in being able to stay at a friend’s house in Omaha for a week because they have been away,” Vince says.

“Now we have found a lovely rental place at Sandspit while we sort out the insurance.” Vince says on behalf of his family he would like to thank the local volunteer fire brigades, the community and their friends for all the caring support given. “We are very grateful for everything. After the fire, we were standing at the top of the road and our neighbours were out straight away, offering us cups of tea, bites to eat and somewhere to stay for the night. The neighbours, who sounded the alarm, made a superhuman effort and freed our dog Jess from the property.” The house was vacant at the time of the fire.

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LockSmart owner Nicola Hunt says that means LockSmart’s response in the region is both faster and cheaper.

Already the company has a solid reputation in Mahurangi because of its broad range of services.

This includes work involving residential and commercial properties, new builds and high-security key systems, including those using cards, fingerprint technology, smart keys and remote keys.

LockSmart also specialises in automotive technology and can provide spare keys and new keys for vehicles utilising the latest transponder technology. In addition, it maintains spare key registers to help companies manage their vehicle fleets.

“We are liked because we do everything and we look after people with prices, with service and with skills,” Nicola says.

Moreover, that service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including public holidays.

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Pete has 25 years’ experience as a locksmith and says, in addition to technical skill, good customer skills are essential.

He says losing or forgetting a key can be a stressful event for many. This is especially true when it means being locked out of a vehicle at a remote beach or arriving at a bach, after a long, tiring journey, and finding it impossible to enter.

“Turning up with a good attitude, keeping the customer informed and completing the work promptly, effectively and efficiently is vital,” he says.

Nicola agrees, saying these are the qualities she looks for in all the company’s locksmiths and precisely why she decided to bring Pete on board.

“He fits right in,” she says.

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Neil has recently relocated the dive shop New Zealand Diving from Whitaker Road to Morrison Drive.

The new shop is 50 per cent larger than the former premises, which has allowed the business to bring all its services under one roof. This includes testing, repairing and servicing equipment, and the arrangement of dive courses, charters and international dives.

The shop also carries a full range of diving equipment, such as wet suits to cylinders and regulators, from top main brands Mares, Scubapro and Beuchat.

Neil, who is one of only five qualified instructor trainers in Australasia, says New Zealand Diving is also the only five-star rated Instructor SDI and TDI training centre in New Zealand.

He says diving is a year-round sport, although diving in winter is “a little colder”, and is as popular with women as it is with men. New Zealand Diving provides both SDI and SSI courses for beginners through to instructor level, as well as TDI course for the more adventurous who might be interested in technical and wreck diving.

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Also in March, police arrested and charged two teenagers following a ram raid incident at another commercial premise in Warkworth.

Two teenagers have also been charged following a recent alleged ram raid at a liquor store in Snells Beach.

North Area Commander Inspector Mark Fergus says in each incident, every one of the offenders was caught

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Researchers attempt to halt Tomarata Lake degradation Researchers from NIWA and Waikato University have joined forces with Auckland Council and Ngati Manuhiri to halt the declining health of Tomarata Lake by surveying its fish population.

Council biosecurity advisor Belinda Studholme says studies of the lake in 2012 showed it was fully vegetated, but when it was rechecked in 2017, most of that submerged vegetation had gone.

“Aquatic vegetation is important for securing sediment and maintaining water quality, as well as serving as habitat for native species,” Belinda says.

One theory among the group of researchers is that pest fish could be contributing to the degradation of the lake.

If Tomarata Lake continues to decline, it could experience an algal bloom similar to nearby Slipper and Spectacle Lakes, which would be very difficult to reverse, Belinda says.

Slipper and Spectacle were never able to recover after their macrophyte plants were ripped out by Cyclone Bola in 1988. The lakes are now algal-dominated and unsuitable for swimming.

Waikato University associate professor Nick Ling, along with NIWA researchers, used a variety of methods to catch and survey the fish, including nets, wire traps and even New Zealand’s only ‘electro-boat’.

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Associate professor Nick Ling with a tench, a bottom-feeding pest fish, at Tomarata Lake.

disable the muscle movement of fish causing them to rise to the surface where they can be easily caught.

“My impression is that the lake is in reasonable health with good water clarity and native biodiversity, thanks to a healthy population of

eels that have suppressed the pest fish population,” Nick says.

However, the presence of exotic species such as tench and rudd are problematic.

“Tench can reach a high biomass because they can grow to a significant

size, similar to carp. “They are also a bottom feeder, stirring up mud which affects water quality.”

The researchers’ survey is part of a feasibility study to establish a baseline of the population of pest fish in the lake with a view to informing a management programme.

The project has been funded by a targeted rate for Lakes Tomarata and Rototoa, which have been identified

by Council as being of high value but facing significant problems.

Lakes Tomarata, Spectacle, and Slipper are also sites of significance and former occupation for Ngati Manuhiri, which has been assisting Council to monitor water quality.

Manuhiri Kaitiaki Charitable Trust Pou Kaitiaki (guardian) Fiona McKenzie says the lakes have been the focus of a three-year grant provided to the iwi by the Ministry of Environment.

“We are in the second year of the project and have engaged land owners to put in stock exclusions around the lake and there is now 800 metres of fencing. Those retired grazing areas have been replanted across four public planting days.”

The iwi is also looking at a long-term catchment management programme beyond the three-year project.

Signs with information about the lake and Ngati Manuhiri’s history in the area will be erected, and the iwi is set to announce a public information day.

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It would be wonderful if Mona Townson was sweetly acknowledged for her lengthy and extensive contribution to our wider art community. She is an assessor in the Creative Communities Scheme, funded by Creative NZ. Mona has been in this role for 18 years. She is a dedicated, energetic, enthusiastic, knowledgeable person, who promotes fairness, objectivity and consistency in the funding allocations for regional artists. Also she has been the Secretary of the North Rodney Community Arts Council for 20 years. She has made a huge contribution over the years.

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Skilled bushmen built wooden dams in upper creek areas. Large trees were cut and shaped before moving, with axe and saw, then moved with lever, ‘timber jacks’ and ‘block and tackle’ into the dams. A catchment might hold scores of kauri logs, waiting for flood situations. When the time was right, dams were ‘triggered’, by the opening of trip-gates, and the water was freed. If other dams were located further down the creeks, then simultaneous ‘triggering’ was at times set in motion. They did not have telephone communication back then, but in some cases, signaling was done by the firing of a shotgun or some other prearranged method by sound.

Logs flew down gullies, crashing and clattering, together with water’s gravitational fall. Damage to the logs was high. It was an effective way of getting logs out from the high country, but statistics tell us that between 30 to 40 per cent of logs were destroyed by this method. Bullock teams were then brought in to drag the enormous trunks to mill sites or directly to waiting ships.

On the North Oruawharo, an enterprising settler, Mr Penman, had a sawmill, Woodside Mill, which worked by water power in full operation. The machinery was his own workmanship and reflected great credit on his ability. He sent both milled and hand-sawn timbers to Port Mangawai for export to Auckland.

Steam-driven sawmills were created for the huge amount of timber worked out of forests surrounding Mangawai and districts. They could be found at Tara, Hakaru, Te Arai and Mangawai. There were mills on Insley Street (prior to the street being formed,) Hastie’s farm, Wharfe Bros farm, Brown’s farm, and Stones Mill, near Clarke Road. There were four mills at one time on Ryan’s Road. The most famous one was Mill Bush mill, near Hakaru.

Hundreds of thousands of feet of kauri were exported to Auckland via Mangawai estuary, often transported by scows. An area, out from the hotel, was known as ‘the anchor’. It was the holding area, before floating logs were chained together to form ‘rafts’ for towage to Auckland. The rafts were constructed by creating a main ‘metallic chain stem’, which had links of eight inches plus. The rafts were formed into a ‘herringbone’ shape and some raft lengths reached half a mile long and were towed away by steamer.

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• Lawns - contouring & seeding • Top soil • Retaining Walls • Driveways • Paths • Digger • Truck • Tractor Phone Bruce 425 7766 a/h 021 055 4226 I take the hard work out of Landscaping

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• Retaining Walls/Decks • Fences • Paving/Concreting • Planting • 1.7 tonne digger and operator hire Ph Jeff - 021 368 552 | warkworthlandscaping@gmail.com www.warkworthlandscaping.co.nz

Topsoil • Compost & Garden Mix • Lawn Mix Grass Seed • Bark • Pebbles • Stones • Sand Drainage • Metal • Fertilisers and much more!

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James Taylor 0275 489 104

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09 425 9679

Your Painter/Decorator with over 30 years experience serving all surrounding areas.

Craig Painter the

Since 1997

• Residential Specialists • Interior | Exterior • Plus Stopping & Skim Plastering

021-858 524 | 09-423 After 8521 Hours Email: craigthepainter@xtra.co.nz

Leigh Decorators Exterior/Interior/Roofs/Staining Husband & Wife team • harley.mcvay@xtra.co.nz

Harley 021 0220 8727 or 09 423 9012

WARKWORTH PICTURE FRAMERS Painting and Decorating

Ph: Luke 021 507 463 luke.raphaella@gmail.com

Helping you with plumbing, drainlaying, jet machine & drain camera

David and Pat Little P. 09 425 8143 E. the_littles@xtra.co.nz 15 Coquette Street,Warkworth 0910

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Have a look on our website to see the huge range of items we can custom brand to suit your needs.

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09 424 1262

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A great team you can trust

Sam 021 1966 391 / Shona 021 539 391 rentalsitn@bayleys.co.nz

18A Silverdale Street, Silverdale

AUCKLAND • KAIPARA • WHANGAREI ROOFING CONTRACTORS

021 102 4561

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Ph 0800 766 388

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Matt Tickle 021 356 965 iron.man@xtra.co.nz

Servicing Auckland - Rodney - Kaipara

Metroscaff Limited

For your safety we have: • Experienced Qualified Scaffolders • Full range of Equipment • Including Alloy Mobile & Builder’s Props

PHONE 0800 622 7929

OMAHA - SNELLS BEACH - WARKWORTH - MANGAWHAI Member of Scaffolding and Rigging New Zealand

- Residential & Light Commercial - Quick Stage - OSH Standards - Tube & Clip - Qualified Scaffolders - Reliable Service P 09 425 0300 M 021 774 653 F 09 423 0017 admin@metroscaff.co.nz www.metroscaff.co.nz

Buyers of: Copper • Brass • Aluminium • Lead • Steel • Stainless Steel • Batteries • Cable • Machinery • Electric Motors • Cars • Car Removal. Pick up or drop off bins

Phone 0800 14 15 30 • 426 9150 35 Forge Road, Silverdale

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CALL ME NOW FOR A FREE APPRAISAL PROBABLY THE

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CALL CHARLIE NOW FOR A FREE APPRAISAL 027 524 4583 charlie@wallacestratton.co.nz

SOLD IN JUST 4 WEEKS!

36 Bartlett Drive

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SOLD $103,00 OVER CV!

What my clients say Charlie is a rare entity in the Real Estate business, he is honest and has integrity, and is an all round nice guy.

We would not hesitate to recommend Charlie Cochrane to prospective sellers , and would strongly recommend they don’t make the mistake of going for the cheaper option when listing their home. You really do get what you pay for!

Pam & Frank Williams We had such glowing feedback for Charlie Cochrane’s work and outstanding successes that, when it came time to sell our home, we didn’t hesitate to get him in for a chat. We weren’t disappointed. Within just a few minutes we knew we had someone who was totally on our wavelength. Charlie didn’t arrive with the bag of cliches that you have heard from other agents - “I’ve got buyers waiting for a property like this” “we have a network of agents who will all be working on your property” etc. etc. It was extraordinary. Within a very short space of time, Charlie had an acceptable offer to present to us. We signed. Job done!

The word ‘passion’ is totally overused and abused by many C.V’s. But, in Charlie Cochrane, we observed a man who was totally passionate in doing the very best for his clients, to the extent that we completely believe him when he says a successful sale is far more exciting than the commission it brings. If you are looking for a friendly, honest and successful real estate agent to sell your most precious commodity, do what we did - leave it to Charlie!

Bill & Gaye Harman My husband and I have sold a few rentals & recently sold our lovely home at Tindalls Bay. We found Charlie to be professional, friendly & approachable - knowledgeable and honest about how the marketing is going. Charlie is totally confident he will make the sale and he makes you feel the same way, Charlie listened and did whatever we asked. Charlie puts 100% effort into selling your property, more like a friend who wants to see you get the best price in the fastest time.

We know the Hibiscus Coast and confidently say “Charlie Cochrane is the hardest working agent on the coast”.

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Vivien & Gordon Hughes I am a man of few words but I cannot more highly recommend Charlie Cochrane. He is honest, kind, hardworking and an excellent salesman. He sold my property for $300,000 over the registered capital value!

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Our team at The Oaks on Neville invite you to share a morning tea with us.

Allow us to show you our exciting, new retirement complex.

Join us on Thursday 23 May between 10am and 12 noon.

Be welcomed at Reception, 9 Queen St, Warkworth

09 425 8766 or email us at info@realliving.co.nz

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Evelyn Evelyn Page Page Retirement Retirement Village Village Fair terms to make a difference Fair terms to make a difference

Moving into a retirement village is a big decision, and not all villages are the same.

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70 Pulham Road, Warkworth

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VENDOR MEETS MARKET HEAD ON

MASSIVE 300sqm, solid 70’s block & brick home on a sprawling 1190m2 section, centrally located with panoramic views across Warkworth to the Mahurangi River Reserve & Dome Valley. Perfect home for a growing family/home business.

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Mitch Norris 021 479 236 mitch.norris@mikepero.com

Open home: Sundays 1-1.30pm

021 479 236 8

www.mikepero.com Mike Pero Real Estate Ltd Licensed REAA (2008)

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MacJimray Septic Cleaning Services are the septic tank cleaning specialists in your district.

SECURITY | SEPTIC TANKS |Residential SHUTTLES |toSURVEYORS | TILING | TRANSPORTATION commercial, fast, reliable, professional| TV AERIAL & DIGITAL | WATER service at competitive rates.

Taxi Coach & Bus Hire TMV Private Hire

Serving and Protecting our Community for over 15 Years

Septic Tank/Grease Trap Cleaning. Septic & Sewerage Treatment Systems

Don’t let your septic tank become costly - service it now!

Phone 09 425 0000

DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL • New Alarms - Design, Install & Service • CCTV - Design, Install & Service • Panic Alarms • Fire Alarm Systems • Access Control Systems • Alarm Monitoring • Rapid Response 24/7 • Premise Patrols • Lockup Checks

Save time heading to and from the Airport and use our Shuttle Service which has access to the Northern Busway.

Do you have a Function coming up?

We have a wide range of vehicles to help get everyone safely to and from any event.

info@warkworthtaxiandbus.co.nz

FOR ALL YOUR SECURITY NEEDS!

• Rural & Urban Subdivision • Boundary Locations • Site Contour Plans • Construction Set-out

Contact Insite for your

FREE SECURITY appraisal.

0800 66 24 24 www.insitesecurity.co.nz

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Rupert Mather 021 425 837 Graeme Smith 021 422 983 23 Bertram Street, Warkworth

Wall & floor tiling • Accredited Waterproofer Underfloorheating • Free consultations and quotations • 23 years experience

09 425 7393 admin@wwsurveyors.co.nz

Phone Darcy 021 482 308

THT Machinery

Digital Freeview Satellite

Phone 021 423 768

Installation & Repairs

TRANSPORTERS Tractors, diggers, machinery movement, up to 10 tonne

TV • FM Aerials • Tuning Additional TV Outlets Phone David Redding 09 422 7227 or 0274 585 457

Household Water Deliveries

Pump & Filtration Services (2007) Ltd

clean. care. repair.

0800 747 928 mobile: 027 556 6111

WATER TANK CLEANING & REPAIR SERVICES

Warkworth: Phone Karl or Kylie Oldham 027 240 7791 email: mobikair.rodney@gmail.com

Mangawhai: Phil Lathrope 431 4608 | 021 642 668 email: mobikair.mangawhai@gmail.com

www.mobi-kair.co.nz

steve@aquafilter.co.nz

Rodney Sales & Service 09 425 6080

We Service All Leading Brands! www.aquafilter.co.nz

31 Woodcocks Rd, Warkworth 09 425 9100 splashwater@xtra.co.nz

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING APPLIANCE REPAIRS

DRIVEWAYS

A SMART REPAIR Service for F&P smartdrive washers, F&P/Simpson dryers. Prompt service 021 168 7349.

MAINTENANCE Grading, rolling & metalling for rural Driveways. No job too BIG or small. Ph Bruce 425 7766

DRIVEWAYS EXCAVATE, CONCRETE SUPPLY, LAY CUT & GRIND for Great Prices. Contact Ian - 0800 QUOTME, www.landstyles.co.nz

M: 021 425 887 T: 09 425 0075 E: pumps4u@live.com

Pumps & Filters Water Treatment Spa & Pool Shop Water Testing Valet Service Water Blasters Tanks & Sprayers 24 Hour Mobile & Workshop Service

• Water Filters • UV Sterilisers • Reverse Osmosis • Water Coolers • Whole House • Water Pumps • Tanks • Rain Harvesting • Pre-Tank Filters Call Steve 027 478 7427

• Water treatment & Filtration • Pumps • Pool & Spas • Waterblasters 7days / 24hours Paul Harris

FOR SALE RAWLEIGH Products. Ph Pat 09 945 0495

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Shop hours Mon - Fri 8am-5pm Sat 9am-12pm

Advertise your classifieds and church notices here for only

$4.40 inc GST per line or $11.20 per/cm inc GST for boxed adverts.

HOME MAINTENANCE & IMPROVEMENT HANDYMAN Carpentry, small jobs, rubbish removal etc Ph/Txt Dave 027 420 5155 WATER FILTERS - Underbench, Whole house, UV & water spotting, Work Guaranteed. Ph Steve 094223245 steve@aquafilter.co.nz

A GARDEN & SECTION SERVICE for home or bach. Trees, hedges, lawns, tidy-ups, water blasting, regular checks. Green waste and rubbish removal. Ph Anton 021 133 8884

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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Advertise your classifieds and church notices here for only

$4.40 inc GST per line or $11.20 per/cm inc GST for boxed adverts.

PUBLIC NOTICES

HOME MAINTENANCE & IMPROVEMENT

Or need your Freeview box tuned for the new channels? TV repairs, microwave oven repairs, Freeview installations.

Ph Paul 09 422 0500 or 027 29 222 04

MARTIAL ARTS CLASSES AIKIDO CLASSES Tue/Thur 6.30-8pm, Methodist Church Hall, Warkworth.

Ph 09 425 8253 www.aikido1.org.nz

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PLASTERING • STOPPER Quality trades person, all types of interior plastering, new and old, no job to large or to small.

Contact us for great prices, Nick Chipizubov 021 816 529 WATER PUMPS - no water? old cast iron pump? Sales Service & Installation.

Work Guaranteed. Ph Steve 09 422 3245 steve@aquafilter.co.nz

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He may be in Matakana village or outlying areas – he could also be on the way or have returned to Warkworth. May be thinner and scruffier by now.

Please keep this flyer, look out for him, & match his markings. I can come straightaway. Look in your shed and under the house too. Thank you so much, very much appreciated.

Ph Lindy 027 222 3970 or 0508 650 200 ext 5932

HAVING TROUBLE MAKING ENDS MEET? Free, confidential budget advice is available at the Warkworth Town Hall every Tuesday, from 10am-noon.

To book an appointment with an advisor, call: 423 7123, or email: admin@wwbudgetservice.co.nz Supported by Mahurangi Matters

WARKWORTH & DISTRICTS MUSEUM SOCIETY INC. AGM at the museum, 1.30pm, Sunday 26th May. Election of Officers, guest speaker and afternoon tea.

Warkworth Croquet Club AGM 1 pm, 18 May 2019, at Pt Wells Clubhouse.

WANTED TO BUY www.puzzles.ca

COLLINS ELECTRONICS HAVE YOU LOST PRIME?

SOLUTION SOLUTION Trades page page 377

FILL IN THIS GRID SO THAT EVERY COLUMN, EVERY ROW AND EVERY 3X3 BOX CONTAINS THE DIGITS 1 TO 9.

MAUNGATUROTO 2NDHAND We may buy your garage sale items.

We also do deceased estates and downsize houselots.

09 431 8440

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RURAL MAINTENANCE & IMPROVEMENT

Own a Farm or Lifestyle Block?

I can provide the following services :• Fencing (Stock fencing or ornamental) • Paddock or section mowing • Tree work (incl hedge trimming) • Spraying • Tractor with front end loader • Fertilising • Consultancy & Project Management also available You may only want one or some of these services, or perhaps there is something I can help you with that is not listed. If this sounds like what you need for your property then please contact Rex Ingham on (09) 422-3008 or 021 255-3672 or e-mail me on rex.ingham@xtra.co.nz The deadline for classified advertising for our May 22 paper is May 15.

Send classified advertising enquiries to design@localmatters.co.nz

Pronto Automotive provides a one-stop shop, offering complete automotive, mechanical, electrical repairs and servicing. All makes & models, cars, vans 4x4’s, light trucks, petrol and diesel, we’ve got you covered.

44 Matakana Valley Road, Matakana 0985

prontomatakana@gmail.com | www.prontoautomotive.co.nz

For your New Home or Alteration use our

Stylish and Modern Windows and Doors Vantage Joinery!

7 Glenmore Drive, Warkworth • Phone: 09 425 7510 • Email: sales@compositejoinery.co.nz • Web: www.compositejoinery.co.nz

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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING CHURCH NOTICES

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Phone 425 8545

www.holyname.org.nz

Holy Mass Timetable: WARKWORTH

Holy Name Church, 6 Alnwick Street Saturday Vigil: 6.00pm Sunday: 10.30am

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SS. Peter & Paul Church Sunday: 8.30am

MAHURANGI METHODIST PARISH Warkworth Methodist

1 Hexham Street, Warkworth Parish Office: Ph 425 8660 Sunday Service 10.30am HALL BOOKINGS PH 425 8053

Snell’s Beach Community Church

WELLSFORD CHURCHES invite you to join with them for Sunday worship

Christian Fellowship Wellsford “The Station”, 18 Station Road, Wellsford. Sunday Service 10.15am.

Contact Geoff 423 7789 Wellsford Church of Christ 269 Rodney Street, Wellsford.

Sunday Service 10am.

Contact Marshall 423 8270 Wellsford Co-operating Parish 253 Rodney Street, Wellsford. Sunday Service 10am. Contact David 423 7150 Wellsford Catholic Parish 6 Matheson Road, Wellsford.

Sunday Service 10am.

Contact Father Bill 423 8170 Community Bible Church Rodney Wellsford Community Centre. Sunday Service 10am. Contact Alvyn 423 8006 All Saint’s Anglican Church 17 Port Albert Road, Wellsford.

Sunday Service 11am.

Contact Wayne 423 8250 Wellsford Combined Church Service will be at the Co-op Parish on Sunday 30th June at 7pm

325 Mahurangi East Rd Sunday Service 9am HALL BOOKINGS PH 425 5612

Church office - 425 8660

The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds, through commendable and seemly conduct. www.bahai.org.nz

5 Pulham Road, Warkworth Phone 425 8861 www.mahu.org.nz Sunday Services 9am & 10.30am

Together we can build your future

021 029 54898 | forsightbuilders@gmail.com | www.forsightbuilders.co.nz

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boldwomen Plenty of scope for women in volunteer fire service FE ATU R E

A while after Jennie Burt moved out from the city to a rural property near Matakana, something occurred to her.

“I just thought, ‘Ooh, I wonder what would happen if my house burned down here? Who’d save it?’” she says.

Realising that rural fire protection relied on volunteers, and living a few doors down from the Matakana station, she decided to see if she could help out.

“I called in and said, ‘Do you take people like me?’ And they said, ‘What’s wrong with you?’ I said, ‘Well, I’m female’. I had no idea if I could be of any use.”

The swift response was that, providing she could pass a medical, she absolutely could be, and so began a rewarding five-year stint with the brigade.

Jennie’s initial doubts as to whether she could join up or play a useful role are not uncommon. This, along with the demands of balancing work and family, concerns about the skills required for firefighting, or the effects of attending what can sometimes be traumatic events can all play a part in causing potential recruits to hesitate from volunteering.

But there are plenty of women locally, of all ages and backgrounds, quietly proving that being a fire service volunteer is not only possible, but rewarding and fulfilling, too. Wellsford has one of the highest levels of female

History was made at Wellsford Fire Station last month when Tarah Jones was appointed the volunteer fire brigade’s first female Station Officer.

The promotion means Tarah will be in charge of the fire truck and crew, take full responsibility on callouts. The mother of four said the new role had taken a lot of hard work. “I’m stoked to be the first female station officer, just to prove it can be done and I encourage other women to get that high in the brigade,” she said. Tarah is pictured receiving with her new red station officer’s helmet from Wellsford Fire Chief John Cowpland.

recruitment in the district, with 10 women members out of a crew of around 30. They range in age from just out of school to approaching retirement and do everything from admin and support up to being in charge.

Firefighter Ariana Billington is a recent recruit to the Wellsford crew after moving up from Warkworth, whose brigade she joined three years ago at a friend’s suggestion.

“I didn’t realise that anyone can join and as long as you pass the medical and get accepted, there are no limitations.

And there are always jobs to do if you can’t be a firefighter,” she said.

With a full-time job in Auckland and children at school, it takes some juggling, but she says it is worth it.

“Once you have a taste of it, it’s pretty hard to let go. One condition of moving was we had to be within callout distance form a fire station,” she says. “It’s so rewarding just being able to help. And having three daughters, it’s great being able to be a role model for them.”

Trish Whitehead has been in the fire service for 19 years. She says that while there can be added pressures for women, the volunteer fire service offers great support and never forces

anyone, male or female, into a role they’re uncomfortable with.

“We all have our own strengths,” she says. “Some don’t mind roadside rescue, others can’t bear it, but there’s always something to do. If you’re not comfortable with one aspect, we’ll find you a job somewhere else.”

Brigades readily accept that volunteers have demands on their time and are flexible, says Isabelle Franks at Matakana.

“I’ve got three children still at home and school, so there are times when I just can’t come to a callout,” she says.

“You do what you can.”

- Volunteers are always needed. To find out more, contact your local fire brigade or visit fireandemergency.nz/ volunteering/with-us/

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Mahurangi togs for Mozambique learn-to-swim campaign Mahurangi West resident Bridgette Rademakers is currently collecting old and unwanted togs to help the people of Mozambique learn to swim.

She has three large sacks of swimming togs after setting up collection points at Warkworth Primary, Leigh School and Coatesville School.

Bridgette says Mozambique has a long stretch of coastline and significant portions of the population depend on the sea for their livelihood.

“As well as fishing, they use ferries to get between towns, but often these boats sink and, sadly, most people on board can’t swim to survive, even if it is just 100 metres,” she says.

Bridgette experienced the country first hand as a research assistant at the Marine Megafauna Foundation in Inhambane City, Mozambique, last year.

The foundation runs a swimming programme for local kids called Nemos Pequenos.

According to the foundation’s website, 45 per cent of people living in Inhambane make their living from the ocean and yet the majority are unable to swim and there are around four drowning fatalities a day.

As a result, many Mozambicans fear swimming in the ocean, which ultimately reinforces the problem.

“The programme is not just a swimming school – it goes into schools and educates students about the marine environment and what they can see in it,” Bridgette says.

Bridgette has collected 75 pairs of togs to help children in Mozambique learn to swim.

“In addition to improving safety, there is also an opportunity for them to make money from the tourism generated by manta rays and whale sharks, which are commonly found there.”

According to the World Bank, the annual gross national income per capita in Mozambique is US$420, making it one of the poorest countries in Africa.

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“Even if togs were shipped in from South Africa, the locals simply don’t have the money to buy luxury items like swimwear,” Bridgette says.

She is returning to Mozambique next month to start a new job and will personally deliver the donated togs to the Nemos Pequenos programme.

Those wishing to help can drop off their spare swimmers during business

hours to the DOC office at 30 Hudson road or the Mahurangi Matters office.

The majority of togs already donated have been for younger children and so larger sizes would be greatly appreciated, Bridgette says.

She is also raising funds on Givealittle to cover the $250 cost of transporting the togs. See givealittle.co.nz/cause/ flying-togs-nz-to-mozambique.

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Forensic scientist turns to motorway construction Sarah Hall is the only woman working as a leading hand on the NX2 Puhoi to Warkworth motorway project.

She manages a team of 30 workers operating heavy earthmoving machinery, including excavators, bulldozers, and dump trucks.

Eight years ago, Sarah was studying to be a forensic scientist but, after seeing her student loan debt mount, she decided to get a job as a labourer.

“I soon moved up to documentation and decided to get some constructionrelated qualifications. After a while, I was running a team of 5 to 10 on housing and motorway projects while completing training, and I just never looked back.”

During the summer earthmoving

season, Sarah has been working 60 hours a week on the Puhoi motorway.

“A typical day starts with a briefing on health and safety and what we need to achieve. Then I will move about the site keeping a watch on what the team is doing and making sure everything is running efficiently and safely.

“If anything needs to change, I’ll step in and make it happen.”

Sarah says she would love to see more women doing the job, but says they need to be ready to work hard to get the job and then keep it.

“Like all jobs it’s important to gain the respect of the people you lead and I do that by showing that I know what I’m talking about, and if I don’t know I will say so and find the answer.”

Sarah Hall is responsible for the work of 30 earthmovers.

Whisky keeps Warkworth bowler frisky Long-time Warkworth resident May Evans was surprised last month when her friends at Bowls Warkworth gathered to celebrate her 96th birthday.

“I asked, ‘What are we going to the club for?’ and then when we got there, I wondered what all the cars were there for,” May says. “I soon found out.”

The mic was opened for friends to share stories including Jim Letcher, who was coached by May when he started playing 20 years ago.

“We would go to Point Wells to compete and she would help me come back with a meat pack prize,” Jim said.

“Looking back through the records, there hasn’t been a position in the club that May hasn’t held, usually three at a time, and all voluntary.”

As a respected figure in the bowls community, May

could have an intimidating effect on rivals on the green, according to chairperson John Hurdley.

“Sometimes if I was having a bad moment while she was walking past, she would call out ‘I’m not God, you know’,” John said.

John presented May with a bouquet of flowers on behalf of Bowls Warkworth, as well as a bottle of fine aged whisky that the members had chipped in for.

“What keeps her going is a whisky or two a week. It’s either family genes or whisky,” John said.

May thanked everybody, saying she felt like crying and was left speechless by their comments.

“It’s really a privilege that people think I was so good, but I didn’t win these medals on my own and I have to thank everybody for helping me,” she said.

May Evans’ jacket is studded with more than 40 medals.

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Sonia, second left, and Christina, fourth from left, with Yalcin Solak, second from right, and members of the Muslim support team.

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A Wellsford mother and daughter attending a Christian conference in Auckland unexpectedly found themselves on a plane to Christchurch when news broke of the massacre there on March 15.

Sonia Aldom, a kindergarten teacher, and daughter Christina, a student nurse, were attending a Heidi Baker conference when details of the shootings at two mosques began to emerge.

When Ms Baker, who heads an organisation that runs orphanages in Mozambique, learned of the killings, she stopped the conference and asked everyone to pray.

She then encouraged anyone willing to go to Christchurch to help to do so.

Sonia and Christina decided they would heed the call and another conference attendee gave them money for airline tickets.

“We’d never met the person who gave us the airfare before, and we weren’t even sure what we were going to do in Christchurch,” Sonia says.

Arriving at Auckland Airport on Sunday afternoon, mother and daughter were put on stand-by as their flight was fully booked.

They sat in the airport lounge writing cards of condolence to give to people while waiting for the next flight.

“Three men noticed what we were doing and we struck up a conversation with them. These men were flying to Christchurch as part of a Muslim support team,” Sonia says.

A member of the team, Yalcin Solak, gave Sonia his business card and invited her and Christina to join their team at Christchurch Hospital the following morning.

On Monday morning, Sonia texted Mr Solak and they met at the hospital.

“Suddenly we found ourselves being taken onto a ward and ushered into victims’ rooms,” Sonia says.

She and Christina donned headscarves and hugged, commiserated and talked

Christina (in pink headscarf) and Sonia (behind her) comfort some of the relatives of the survivors.

with shocked and grieving Muslim women.

They spoke to several gunshot victims, and two survivors who had escaped without injury – an elderly woman and a young father who told them their stories. The elderly woman had hidden under a table in one of the mosques.

Christina was taken into the room of a young male victim who was recounting his experience to friends sitting at his bedside.

“I shook the young man’s hand and said, ‘You are so brave. I’m so sorry for what happened.’ He said, ‘Thank you for supporting us.’”

A young father, who survived the attack, invited Sonia and Christina to dinner with his family, along with members of the Muslim support team.

“We felt humbled that this family graciously opened their home and hearts to us in the midst of their trauma,” Sonia says.

“They were very loving and thankful for our support and we felt honoured to be part of the support team.”

When Sonia and Christina returned to Auckland, the Muslim team leader invited them to speak at a support meeting in the city.

“We spoke words of peace and love, and I reminded the gathering that the first three words of our national anthem say, ‘God of nations’. New Zealand is a country of many nations, but we are one people,” Sonia says.

“We’ve made some valuable friendships and we’re keeping in touch.”

Sonia says she is grateful for the prayers and support of her church family at Christian Fellowship Wellsford.

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Soup season Daylight savings is over, the days are cooler and the evenings longer. As we move into winter I find my cooking turns to foods that are warming to body and soul.

Soups are a wonderful way to warm up for lunch or dinner as it is so easy to keep a container in the fridge or freezer, ready to heat up. Or maybe even crack out the old thermos to have your soup on the go!

There is always the standard fare when it comes to soup – the ubiquitous pumpkin, spiced and creamed with coconut or cows milk; pea and ham with its multi-blend of vegetables, hearty and filling; or maybe a chicken broth that you can zjoosh up with noodles and greens.

One thing that can help to add a depth of flavour to your soups is roasting some of the ingredients, especially the vegetables. A vegetable often overlooked is the parsnip. When roasted, this root vegetable is transformed into something rather special. Roasting enhances all its lovely flavours, especially it’s subtle sweetness.

The parsnip blends beautifully with pears in this soup, which is delicately flavoured and quite delightful.

Parsnip and Pear Soup 2 tbsp olive oil 4 cup diced parsnip (~ 2 cm cube), about 3 large parsnips 2 medium onions, finely chopped 1 litre chicken stock 2 pears 1 tsp lemon zest Pepper and salt

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Preheat the oven to 190C. Line an oven tray with baking paper. Toss the diced parsnip with one tablespoon of olive oil and a little pepper and salt. Bake for 25-30 minutes, until the parsnip is soft and just beginning to get a little golden colouring on its edges. Remove from the oven and set aside.

In a large pot, saute the onions in one tablespoon of olive oil until soft. Add the roasted parsnip and chicken stock, bring to the boil. Peel and dice the pears, add to the pot and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and puree in a blender or with a stick-blender (caution – hot liquid may splatter!). Season to taste with salt, pepper and lemon juice. Serve hot with crusty bread.

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Mahurangi artists are opening their studios for two weekends in May, allowing visitors to watch them at work in a variety of media.

The Mahurangi Artists Studio Trail will feature artists and craftspeople working with paint, glass, fabrics, photography, wood, jewellery and other media.

Venues include Sheepworld, Warkworth, Snells Beach, Algies Bay, Matakana, Omaha and the Tawharanui Peninsula Organiser Alysn Midgelow-Marsden says the trail offers the chance to watch artists demonstrate their craft, talk to them about their ideas, purchase works of art and perhaps inspire visitors to create works of art themselves.

“Grab family and friends, hop in the car, on your bike or however you travel. Take an hour, take a day, take a weekend. Stop at the beach, the park, the café, the market, but mostly enjoy the wide variety of talent on show around you,” Alysn says.

The trail opens on the weekends of May 11 and 12 and May 18 and 19.

The trail is free. Visitors can secure a map from the i-SITE, libraries and cafes, or download from Facebook (Mahurangi Artist’s Studio Trail).

Intending visitors should confirm opening times for individual studios by checking the map.

Participating artists are: Alysn Midgelow-Marsden, Barry Thompson, Belinda Barnao, Carolann Plamus, Daryl Lex Price, Fabricated Narratives, Gail Taylor, Heather Skeates, Jeanette Switzer, Jill Guillemin, John Mulholland, John Wright, Julie Dowland, Karen Williamson, Kerry Kline, Kim

Each work in the exhibition is part of a story.

Takatu studio hosts Fabricated Narratives

Belinda Barnao will be among the featured artists.

Buchanan, Margaret Needham, Pat Turney, Pauline Hirst, Priscilla Brady, Ross Mann, Sharlene Hasler, Tanya McCabe and Wyn Thomas.

Info: Contact Alysn Midgelow-Marsden, alysnmm@gmail.com

An exhibition of varied work, including print, textiles and photography, called ‘Fabricated Narratives’ will be on display at the Takatu Studio from May 11 to 19.

The exhibition features the work of Mahurangi artists Alysn Midgelow-Marsden, Helene Carpenter, Di Halstead and Marianda Twydell.

The works have already been shown at venues across Britain and Ireland, but this will be the first time that they have been shown in New Zealand.

Alysn says the exhibition at the Takatu Studio gives the artists a chance to say ‘thank you’ to local people, many of whom helped in the exhibition’s development.

“Whether historically accurate or playfully inventive, each work in the exhibition is part of a story,” she says.

The exhibition also includes a film about the artists.

The exhibition is open from 10am to 4pm daily and admission is free. Takatu Studios is located at 201a Takatu Road, Matakana.

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Hopetoun Brown returning from the deep south.

Southern stompers return Trumpeter Finn Scholes has teamed up with Hopetoun Brown for a return trip to the Leigh Sawmill Cafe on Sunday, May 19.

Back on land after their recent circumnavigation of New Zealand in a 38-foot wooden ketch, Tim Stewart (trumpet, trombone and lead vocals) and Nick Atkinson (bass clarinet and sax) will be playing songs from three different Hopetoun Brown albums, as well as journeys into the Carnivorous Plant Society setlist and a smattering of classics.

They say that after many weeks sailing, the horn-playing crew were starting to honk, but frequent swims in chilly southern waters kept them fresh and weather-bound days gave them time to learn new tunes.

The ketch they sailed was a carvelplanked double ender called Sé Swalker, launched in Lyttelton in 1988. The William Atkin design takes inspiration from the Norwegian lifeboats Colin Archer made famous

and the vessel was fitted with a woodburning stove, as well as wooden spars and a manual anchor winch.

Hopetoun Brown will be in Leigh with all manner of tubas, trombones, vibraphones, melodicas, bass clarinets, saxophones, tonsils, tambourines and the big booming stomp of Stewart’s Wesco motorcycle-riding boots.

“It’ll be great concert to bring the kids to and the boys will be mingling around afterwards keen to share stories of their sailing sojourn,” Nick says.

Doors open at 4pm for a 4.30pm start.

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Ticket giveaway Mahurangi Matters has a double pass to the Hopetoun Brown show to giveaway. Send an email to editor@ localmatters.co.nz with Hopetoun in the subject line before 3pm on May 15 to be in the draw. Don’t forget to include your name and phone number.

Library celebrates local music Warkworth Library is getting into the spirit of NZ Music Month with a series of free events over May. The programme kicked off with performances by the Mahurangi Ramblers on May 3 and North Soul Community Choir on May 4.

Library manager Lisa Outwin says that celebrating art and culture is an important part of the library’s role.

“It’s an opportunity to capture some of the breadth and talent of our local musicians, from a cappella choirs to ukulele groups and jazz bands, and

bring them into the library, help promote them and expose them to a different audience,” Lisa says.

The line-up for the reminder of the month is as follows: • Dianne Morgan ukulele workshop, Saturday, May 11, from 10.30am • Andy Richards, guitar and vocals, Saturday May 18, 1pm • Aysha Robertson, ukulele and vocal, Friday, May 24, 2pm • The Motherpluckers, ukulele and vocals, Friday May 30, 10am

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Nutting out the Kiwi psyche

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A collection of reflections along eight themes is probably the best way to describe Seeking the Centre, Living Well in Aotearoa, a self-published book by retired Anglican bishop John Bluck, of Pakiri.

For Kiwis of a certain vintage, many of the stories will feel like a walk down memory lane as he recalls door-to-door encyclopedia salesmen, Bycrofts biscuits in big tins with a boy on the front and the excitement of going to “the pictures”.

Radio New Zealand listeners will recognise many of the tales, which have been broadcast in an audio series that has been running for nearly a decade.

As Bluck says in his preface, “They’re all about seeking out the essence of what it means to be a New Zealander.”

Bluck’s own childhood, spent in the northern Hawke’s Bay in the 1950s, is covered in the first chapter, Nuhaka Dreaming. He paints a picture of a postwar family, neither rich nor poor, where children enjoyed a level of freedom and security that would be hard to replicate in today’s mass media world. The other chapters cover presents subjects such as the adjustments involved in moving to a THE MUSIC OF rural lifestyle, the discovery of a love of gardening and the peculiar habits of beachgoers.

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A great little book to dip into, to meditate on and to share.

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White Chapel plays winter dance

The second Leigh Midwinter Dance will be held at Leigh Central on Saturday, June 29, with local favourites White Chapel Jak providing the music to groove to.

Function manager Jasmin Macdonald says booking the popular covers band Saturday 1st Junea 7:00pm should guarantee great night.

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Dynamic duo visits Town Hall The spectacular Duo Col Legno will play in Warkworth on Saturday May 25.

Cellist Heleen du Plessis and percussionist and marimba specialist Yoshiko Tsuruta first performed as a duo for the NZ premiere of Peter Klatzow’s A Sense of Place in 2014.

Inspired by the matching fusion of their instruments, they have since explored a wide and exciting repertoire – celebrating a huge variety of musical styles from all over the world.

Both players are highly acclaimed soloists and chamber musicians, and their individual strengths come together to form a dynamic and charismatic duo.

Warkworth Music president Lisa Outwin says Yoshiko Tsuruta played in Warkworth three years ago, enthralling the audience as she danced her way through the performance as if it were a ballet, double mallets in each hand, in complete control of every movement.

“Anyone who saw her will be awaiting this new concert with great anticipation,” Lisa says.

Duo Col Legno will share a diverse programme which includes Tchaikovsky, Fauré, Arvo Pärt, traditional Japanese songs and the infectious rhythms of Atanas Ourkouzounov. They have also commissioned Wellington-based composer Gareth Farr to write a new work for marimba and cello, which will be performed on the tour.

“This will be a thrilling and unusual performance with the singing tone of

Boost for values

Kaipara Coast Plant Centre and Sculpture gardens will hold a workshop this month that aims to help homeowners boost the value of their properties.

The two-hour “property value optimisation” workshop will be led by Mike Morse of Hollis & Scholefield property valuers and Peter Brennan from Burmester Real Estate.

Between them the men have years of experience in valuing and marketing homes in Auckland and Rodney.

Following the workshop, attendees will have the opportunity to stroll through the plant centre’s 1km nature trail, featuring 40 new sculptures created for the centre’s 2019 exhibition by local and international artists.

Staff will be on hand to help with garden-related questions.

The workshop will be held on Sunday, 26 May from 9.30am. Kaipara Coast Plant Centre and Sculpture Gardens is located at 1481 Kaipara Coast Highway. Admission is $10.

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Bicycles allow a chance to explore out-of-the-way places in Italy.

Sue prepares to lead the party along the Croatian coast.

Boating and biking turns out to be an excellent combination.

Sue Smith-Kindred, of Omaha, might well be a travel agent by profession, but she says the European bicycle tours she puts together are more about having fun with friends.

She organised her first tour through the wine region of Bordeaux, France, simply because she and her husband, Alan, thought it would be something they would love to do.

They mentioned the idea to a couple of acquaintances, who proved similarly enthusiastic about the idea, and a tour was born.

Over the succeeding years, Sue has organised further bicycle tours to Italy,

we still want to have enough energy to be able to walk about and have a look around,” she says.

There are usually 16-20 people on each tour and word-of-mouth over the years has encouraged cyclists from Canada and England to join the party.

Most cyclists are in their 50s and 60s and the oldest has been 73.

All bikes are hired in country and Sue says the advent of ebikes has made cycling holidays open to a wider group of people. One woman who broke her leg shortly before one tour commenced, still managed to undertake the tour on an ebike. However, Sue cautions a

modest level of fitness and bike riding ability is still required.

Sue says combining cycling with a river cruise has been especially successful on many of her tours. Cyclists board the river boat with their bikes and stay overnight. During the day, they set off on an organised bike tour while the boat continues along the river. Cyclists rejoin the boat at a different location each night.

If someone prefers a day off cycling, they can enjoy a day on the boat and a river cruise instead.

When not on a boat, cyclists tend to

European cycle tours combine friendship, fun and travel Portugal, Croatia and Vietnam.

She says cycling is the perfect way to get off the main roads, out of the main cities and it allows one to explore vineyards, coastal regions, rivers villages and hamlets at a relaxed pace.

“We are cycling for softies, we are not Tour de France people,” she says.

She says on her tours cycling distances are kept to around 35-50km each day and avoid too much hilly terrain. They include plenty of stops at cafés, cheese factories, wine bars, fields, castles, surf beaches and other places of interest along the way.

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stay in small villages in accommodation that befits the character of the area rather than flashy five-star hotels.

Sue adds that European road users and Europeans generally tend to be more sympathetic to cyclists than Kiwis.

“As you are going through villages, people will stop and wave, and we will wave back,” she says.

Not that there aren’t sometimes mishaps along the way.

On one occasion in Portugal, the riding party stumbled on a street race, with all roads blocked as cars zoomed past at breakneck speed.

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of the holiday experience.

“All the locals thought it was hilarious and so did we,” she says.

Sue says she likes to tour places she has already visited previously so she can point out all the intriguing places, which an unfamiliar visitor might easily overlook.

She says by and large, language is not a problem. Tour guides generally speak English and Sue manages to get by with a smattering of high school French, German, Spanish and Italian.

“And in cafés everyone knows ‘café au lait’ or ‘dos cervezas’ for two beers,” she says.

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Warkworth trials new dementia care model Hospice hosts Centre though carers will be expected A new method of assisting people living Open Morning to do them at a more advanced level. with dementia is currently being trialled in Warkworth and, if successful, could serve as a model for implementation elsewhere in the region.

Dementia Auckland socialisation team leader Rhonda Preston-Jones says traditionally Dementia Auckland has focused on assisting people living with dementia (PLWD) and their carers separately and each group has met at different times.

But recent research and experience in the United Kingdom, Poland, Italy and Japan has suggested that both groups meeting and participating in sessions together can be more effective.

The concept is called The Meeting Centre and was pioneered in the Netherlands about 20 years ago.

In the combined sessions, PLWD form friendships not only with each other but also with carers other than the person who normally looks after them.

Couples, comprising a carer and a PLWD, meet other couples in the same boat and form a social bond.

“They will then often go out for a coffee together or go to the movies together,” Rhonda says.

Such bonds are helpful because evidence shows that once a person is diagnosed with dementia and the disease progresses,

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they and their spouses increasingly become socially isolated.

“People living with dementia can get very isolated, but it does not mean that their need for belonging or having friendships and conversations is diminished,” Rhonda says.

A spin-off benefit is that having both groups meeting together makes the process more efficient and more can be done. Typically, carer support groups meet once a month. But at The Meeting Centre they get to meet every week. Moreover, before the trial started Dementia Auckland had no group in Warkworth for PLWD. Both carers and PLWD participate in the same activities at The Meeting

Rhonda says PLWD often retain long-term memory better than shortterm memory so the most successful activities tend to be ones PLWD learned earlier in life. In the Warkworth group, a lot of men are former builders and have expressed an interest in doing woodwork. Other activities include Rummikub, dominos and Bob’s game – a variant of pool.

The Meeting Centre meets every Friday at Totara Park Retirement Village from 10am to noon.

A PLWD wishing to attend needs to have been diagnosed with dementia and be registered with Dementia Auckland.

Rhonda says Dementia Auckland is also on the lookout for volunteers to help out, particularly those who have been an ex-carer themselves or been involved in running groups for older adults. The Warkworth trial started in February and runs until the end of June.

Dementia Auckland will then evaluate it. If deemed successful, it will likely be introduced in Pukekohe, Orewa and throughout Auckland.

Rhonda says feedback so far has been positive and many Dementia Auckland staff are clamouring for the concept to be introduced into their area.

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Community hospice Tui House has been open for 18 months and Harbour Hospice is inviting the community to come and see how the building is improving the lives of patients and families dealing with life-threatening illness.

An Open Morning will be held at Tui House in Morrison Drive, Warkworth, from 10am to noon on Wednesday, May 15. Everyone is welcome to pop in, have a cup of tea and a muffin, and look around the building. Staff will be on hand to talk about hospice services and answer questions.

Tui House was built with donations from local individuals, businesses and trusts. The facility has enabled Hospice to offer more services for people needing support at any stage of their illness, including day programmes, daytime respite care and massage therapy.

The building was designed to offer a friendly ‘face’ and encourage people to approach hospice earlier in their diagnosis. Nursing team leader Paula Garner says there has been a marked increase in people walking in ‘off the street’ to ask about hospice care, either for themselves or a loved one.

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The Immunisation Advisory Centre also recommends that strong and healthy people get the flu vaccine as a way of preventing transmission to those with a vulnerable immune system.

“The fitter you are, the better the vaccine works because you have a better immune response. If a certain size of the community is vaccinated you get a ‘herd immunity’ because it becomes much more difficult for the virus to transmit.”

The Immunisation Advisory Centre’s goal for this season is to distribute 1.2 million influenza vaccines, allowing more than a quarter of New Zealanders to be immunised.

Lisbeth says it is particularly important for pregnant women to get vaccinated because pregnancy changes the way the immune system responds to influenza, which can have fatal consequences.

“Currently, about half of pregnant women get immunised for influenza but we would like to see every one of them get their vaccine this year.”

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The strains included in the annual vaccine are chosen by the World Health Organisation (WHO) based on information collected in 114 countries, including New Zealand.

“Two new strains have also been included in this year’s vaccination as a result of global monitoring. This decision is based on how significant an impact the strain could have on patient’s health, rather than how common it is,” Lisbeth says.

“WHO is always scanning viruses and looking for the next global pandemic.

These sorts of viruses are inevitable and have arisen throughout human history.”

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New men’s support group seeks meeting place A new peer support group for men who have been exposed to abuse will be established in Warkworth from June 4, if they are able to find a community space.

Better Blokes needs the space to hold its peer support sessions every Tuesday evening, as well as face-to-face sessions during the day. North facilitator Philipe Eyton says the new branch is being established in response to needs expressed by police and GPs in northern Rodney.

“The area doesn’t have courses for men living with trauma, and the feedback has been that men have been unable to access services in Auckland because of the distance,” he says.

Philipe says Better Blokes wants to hear from any man, or their partner, who may have experienced one of five types of abuse – physical, sexual, verbal, emotional and psychological.

“A man may not even be aware he has been abused or that it has had such a huge effect on his life. Signs include anger, sabotaging of relationships with partners and family, or frequent job changes in an endless search for meaning,” Philipe says.

When a man makes contact or is referred to Better Blokes by a GP, a facilitator will work with them to identify their strengths as well as their goals and then come up with a plan on how to achieve them.

“We use a ‘strengths-based’ approach, which is about working on selfesteem. One of the huge consequences of abuse is low self-worth, and as a result we get good at sabotaging our lives and others around us.”

Philipe Eyton will facilitate peer support groups every Tuesday from June.

Philipe was an electronics engineer by trade and worked in medical electronics, before realising that it was helping people and working with frontline medical staff that drove him.

“After 30 years in the field, I decided to retrain in social practice and work with people who have suffered from sexual abuse because of my own background.”

He grew up in Omaha Flats and went to primary school in Matakana before his family moved to Auckland.

Better Blokes has signed up two new facilitators from the Rodney area for the new Warkworth branch and is still looking for more who want to be trained in Auckland in peer support.

Philipe says peer support differs from traditional counselling in that facilitators are not only allowed to self-disclose and share from their own experiences, they are actually encouraged to do so.

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Rural women celebrate

Members of the Kourawhero Rural Women Club gathered at the Kourawhero Hall last month to celebrate the club’s 80th year. The club was founded in 1939 to provide women in the Warkworth-Kaipara area with a place to share organised activities, including knitting and sewing competitions, and lectures from guest speakers. Treasurer Lorraine Hatfull, 88, said she joined the club when she became a farmer’s wife at 19, but didn’t know anything about farming. “I very quickly learned and made lifelong friends,” she says. There were 30 members in the club when Lorraine joined, and 12 stalwarts still meet regularly today. Left to right, rear to front: Kaye Jones, Rose Edgerley, Alison Woodcock, Judith McInnes, Maureen Phillips, Gail Duncan, Yvonne Barnett, Heather Lomas, Noreen Moore, Noeleen Price-Quedley, Lorraine Hatfull and Coral O’Connor.

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Algies Bay residents give up front yards to help regatta Snells Beach Medical Hub Fine weather and fair winds at Algies Bay made for one of the country’s largest regattas, with 500 races across five days.

The NZ Secondary School Sailing Nationals were held at Algies Bay from April 21-26 and saw 28 teams compete.

“Only the Peter Blake regatta in Torbay gets more entries,” event coordinator Ross Sutherland says.

He says overall the Nationals were a huge success, despite some last-minute issues with contractors blocking the reserve.

“I want to say a big thank you to the locals who came to the rescue and let us set up on their front lawns after contractors blocked off the reserve, even though we had paid the Council for its use.”

Sailors travelled from all over the country for the event, including judges from Christchurch, Wellington and Nelson, and 11 school teams from the South Island.

“We have been aiming to let the south host every three years, but they keep wanting to come up here, because we have a 10 degree low compared to their minus five.”

Sutherland said he was pleased that the top three winning teams from the competition were all from north of the bridge. They were Rangitoto College, Westlake Boys’ High School, and Kerikeri High School.

Mahurangi College, who competed in the silver category, slipped down the ranks to 15th this year, after having made 10th place in 2018.

Sutherland said this year’s event was particularly important as most teams would not be able to attend the annual trans-Tasman inter-dominion championships due to a last-minute date change by the Aussies.

Instead, the top teams from the Nationals, held at Algies Bay, will travel to Europe to sail in a regional competition.

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Big rugby win marks 250 milestone Harbour Sport makes Mahurangi Rugby’s 12-7 win against Silverdale last month was a record breaking 250th game for Warkworth’s Haden Kose.

The occasion was made all the sweeter for Kose, being the first win for Mahurangi’s premier team in three years, since they beat Marist North Harbour in 2016.

The first try of the game came when Mahurangi’s under 21s player Kade Banks made a break through a gap and passed to Carlin Dunn, who scored under the post.

Mahurangi held on to a 7-nil lead until Silverdale scored right on half time.

The tension among a packed-out crowd at the Warkworth Showgrounds could be felt as both teams continued scoring and the lead alternated between the two teams, Premier’s manager Bruce Stubbs says.

“When the full-time whistle blew and we had won it, everyone in the crowd just jumped in the air.”

After the game, the club presented Kose with his double-centennial black jacket with a new silver lining to mark 250 matches and an engraved silver tankard, as well as a commemorative plaque from North Harbour Rugby, presented by head of operations Denis Henderson.

Kose has played for Mahurangi Rugby for 21 years.

He joined the club at age 18 in 1997 under coach Greg Courtney.

“There were some guys like Scotty Fabricius playing in the Silverdale game whose fathers I used to play with, and now even Scotty has his 40-game blazer,” Kose says.

The club has two other players who have earned their 200 game jackets – Howard Cooper and Brett Innes.

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Haden Kose lead the team to victory in his 250th game with Mahurangi Rugby.

Harbour Sport is calling on clubs in Wellsford to make use of the support opportunities available to them.

General manager Kevin O’Leary says clubs are welcome to have the best of both worlds in getting resources from Sport Northland, as well as Harbour Sport.

“Even though clubs may compete in the north, Wellsford is within our geographic area which dictates where we can offer support,” O’Leary says.

“Ultimately, we would love to see Wellsford clubs play in Harbour Sport events but our role at this stage is simply to engage. It has been on an ‘ask don’t tell’ basis.”

He says that the resources that Harbour Sport can offer include help with marketing, event planning and volunteer management.

Harbour Sport has also been making inroads with schools in the area, developing plans with Mahurangi College and Kaipara on how their sporting goals could match opportunities to play within Harbour events. O’Leary says that Harbour Sport is appointing a new staff member to improve links with primary schools in the region and increase opportunities for participation.

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Better days ahead For those who were lucky enough to get 10 days off over Easter and Anzac Day, I trust you enjoyed the break. Unfortunately, the weather did not play the game this time. Fishing was definitely not the sport of the week. However, there were some reports of good success on longlines. There were also reports from boaties of good catches of snapper, caught around Omaha Bay close in. Micro jigs worked very slowly seem to be enticing the bite more so than other jigs. It might be worth trying a few of these if your sliders are not proving successful. Kaiwhai have been spotted in good numbers further south, nearer to Tiri, but were also hard to hook. The good news is that as autumn kicks in, the fish will soon go into feeding mode to fatten themselves up for the coming winter months. With the past week’s cold fronts, things are definitely cooling down, so the snapper could get into aggressive bite mode any day now.

Back to safety at sea. I was approached this past week by a customer who wanted a lifejacket for a child. After looking at a lifejacket in store, they left stating that they could get a lifejacket a lot cheaper elsewhere. They left a brochure behind and, on taking a closer look at the advert, I noticed that the cheaper item was in fact a buoyancy aid but advertised as a lifejacket. The key difference is that a lifejacket has total support around the neck. While unconscious, the product will keep your face out of the water. A buoyancy aid has no neck support. Buoyancy aids are used in watersports such as kayaking and water skiing where you require freedom of movement around the arms and neck. First choice should always be to purchase a proper lifejacket for children. The same principle applies to inflatable lifejackets. If the inflatable lifejacket auto inflates, then it is considered a lifejacket because it will inflate even if the person is unconscious. An inflatable lifejacket that must be manually inflated or pulled is not a lifejacket, but a buoyancy aid – you cannot pull the cord if you are unconscious. Once again, there is a price difference. If you are unsure about your lifejackets or buoyancy aids, please come in and ask. Advice is free. Tight Lines!

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Kaiwaka squash The squash club at the Kaiwaka Sports Complex is looking for new players as the season begins. Those looking to join a small friendly club should contact Bruce on 021 126 8015.

Junior rugby rally day Maungaturoto, Wellsford, Tomarata, and Eastern United junior rugby clubs will all play at the Kaiwaka Sports Complex on Saturday, May 11. The under 7s kick off at 9am, and the under 9s at 9.45am.

Bounty of the sea Stillwater Boating Club is holding a fishing competition and charity auction on May 10-11, starting from 12.30pm on the Saturday. Tickets cost $55 and proceeds go to Coastguard. Contact admin@swbc.co.nz or Corinne 021 074 9644.

Free workshop Harbour Sport is hosting a free workshop for any club that wants to learn how to engage with ethnic communities. It is being held Wednesday, June 17 at 7.30pm, at the Harbour Sport function room on Stadium Drive, Albany. Enquiries, contact 09 415 4610

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Seamus Lynch, left, and Ryan Fox had a quick warmup on the putting green before setting out on the exhibition match.

Omaha hosts top golfer Fresh from his honeymoon in Africa, New Zealand’s top-ranked golfer Ryan Fox played an exhibition match at Omaha Beach Golf Club on Anzac Day. Fox and club president Seamus Lynch took on club professional and former Scottish representative Emma Fairie and Grainne Hillery-Lynch after Seamus and Grainne won the game in a club auction.

The match was played just days before Fox flew out to Southport, north of Liverpool, for the British Masters.

Currently ranked 77th in the world, he claimed his first European Tour title in Perth in March and now has a guaranteed status on the tour until the end of next year. He was the first New Zealander to win on the European Tour since Danny Lee a decade ago.

Fox is no stranger to the Omaha course. His new in-laws live near the seventh hole and until 2017, he and Michael Hendry held the course record for the lowest gross score off the back tees. Their record of 63 was beaten during the Mondiale Omaha Beach Pro Am in 2017, when Hayden Beard scored 62.

Fox married long-time partner Anneke Ryff on Rakino Island in March.

From left, Jodie Bennetto, Maia Fairburn, association president Wayne Leslie, Jackson Brierly and Bron Hames.

Good sports honoured in Kaiwaka

work coaching several teams, umpiring games and fundraising for the club.

“Jodie puts a huge amount of work into the AIMS week every year, organising uniforms, accommodation, travel, food and fundraising, and is greatly appreciated by the netball girls and their families,” Kaiwaka Sports Complex manager Cheryl Anderson says.

The Greg McRae Memorial Trophy for excellence and contribution to sport went to talented allrounder Jackson Brierly.

At 15, Jackson already has several years of rugby refereeing under his belt, having reffed at the Junior Tag Nationals and at the Junior Oceania Tag Cup. He was recently awarded the Official of the Year title at the Sport Northland Awards for his refereeing.

The evening was compered by John Markby and was held at the Kaiwaka Sports Complex.

A young athlete who has excelled at rugby, netball and athletics was awarded Junior Sportsperson of the Year at the 35th annual Kaiwaka Sports Association Awards, held last month.

Maia Fairburn, 14, who was nominated by the Kaiwaka Fitness Centre, has also been selected for the New Zealand Maori under 14 tag rugby team.

Altogether, the awards attracted 22 nominations across the four award categories.

Senior Sportsperson of the Year was Bron Hames who captained the Northland women’s rugby team and played for the Te Hiku o Te Ika womens rugby team, which won the Northern Regions Maori tournament. Hames also travelled to Samoa to play for Te Tai Tokerau in the Vailima Marist International Sevens tournament and captained the Te Tai Tokerau side in the Pacifica Aotearoa cup.

Otamatea Netball Club president Jodie Bennetto received the Service to Sport Award for her voluntary

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Snells Beach Garden Circle. Gail Edmiston will speak on Japanese moss balls, Mahurangi East Community Centre, 1.15pm.

Visitors and new members welcome. Ph: Barbara 425 5371 Community Garage Sale, Tomarata Hall, 8.30am-2pm. To book a space, phone Jo 431 5006.

Morning of Music, Wellsford Library, 10.45am-12.30pm. Free concert and cuppa.

Matakana Hall market, arts & crafts, collectibles; open from 8am-1pm Dianne Morgan free ukulele workshop, Warkworth Library, 10.30am Breakfast at Tiffanys, high tea and movie, Warkworth Town Hall, 3pm. Fundraiser for Women’s Refuge.

Mahurangi Artists’ Studio Trail, 23 studios covering many art disciplines. Info: see Mahurangi Artists on Facebook. Trail maps are also available from the Mahurangi Matters office (see story p34) Fabricated Narratives art exhibition, Takatu Studio, 10am4pm daily. (see story p34) Warkworth SeniorNet internet workshop – Google/Gmail/ Gdrive. Warkworth RSA basement, 2.30-4.30pm. $5 entry. Nonmembers welcome. Info: 425 9643.

Wormwise workshop, Wenderholm Regional Park, Waiwera, 1-4pm, on managing internal parasites in livestock. Info and registration: rachel.jukes@beeflambnz.com (see brief p11) Warkworth Lions Club quiz night, Bowls Warkworth (teams of 6, $10pp), 7pm start Tui House Open Morning, Morrison Drive, Warkworth, 10am-noon (see story p40) Friends of Awa Matakanakana official launch, Matakana Hall, 6.30pm. Keynote speaker Cr Penny Hulse, all welcome.

Warkworth Area Forest & Bird winter talk series ‘Curious Creatures’ with Grass Esposti, local beekeeping expert; Totara Park Retirement Village hall, Melwood Dr, Warkworth, 7.30pm; all welcome ’Allo ’Allo, Warkworth Town Hall; for session times and tickets, visit: wwtheatre.co.nz Tea & Talk: What’s in a Name?, Warkworth & District Museum, 10-11am. Find out where the street names of Warkworth came from, gold coin donation.

Andy Richards on guitar and vocals, Warkworth Library, 1pm (see ad p35) International Museum Day, Warkworth Museum (see ad p35) Mahurangi Artists’ Studio Trail, 23 studios covering many art disciplines. Info: see MahurangiArtists on Facebook. Trail maps are also available from the Mahurangi Matters office (see story 34) Hopetoun Brown, Leigh Sawmill Cafe (see story p35) Kaukapakapa Village Market & Pink Ribbon Breakfast, SH16, 8.30am-1pm. Info: Sarah 0274 831 542 or sarah1@maxnet.co.nz Heartbeat Christian Store AGM. Speaker Bernadette Soares – beauty entrepreneur and author. Snells Beach Baptist Church, 7.30pm. All welcome. (see brief p44) Warkworth Grey Power annual general meeting, Totara Park Hall, at 10am. Agenda will cover civil defence, Neighbourhood Watch and community policing issues.

Warkworth RSA Fishing Club, annual general meeting, 6pm Warkworth Library Sustainability Showcase Day, Old Masonic Hall, Baxter Street, 10am-4pm. Clothes swap, gardening advice, heating tips and more.

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All systems go at Kaipara airfield The Rodney Aero Club is setting a new course, which it hopes will put to rest some of the divisions that have plagued the club over the past two years.

Club president Paul Carkeek will present a vision to the annual meeting next month, which he says will put the club on a sound financial footing for the next five to 10 years.

The club ran into problems two years ago when some members suggested selling the club’s Cessna 172 to help purchase a microlight aircraft.

Mr Carkeek says the idea didn’t stack up financially and the majority of members voted to retain the trusty Cessna.

“But it caused some sour grapes and led to some disruption within the club,” Mr Carkeek says.

One casualty of the conflict was the loss of the club’s ability to offer scenic and charter flights, which had been a financial mainstay for the club. The funds generated from the charters also made it possible for the club to offer learn to fly lessons at a highly subsidised rate.

Retirement The new direction coincides with the retirement of club stalwart Rod Miller, and his wife Rosalie.

“They have made an immeasurable contribution to the club, spending almost every weekend at the airfield for the past 55 years,” Mr Carkeek says.

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“There comes a time when you know it’s time to quit,” Rod says. “We just haven’t got the time to devote to the club anymore.”

Over the years, Rod has taught “hundreds” of people to fly and many have gone on to commercial careers.

Mr Carkeek says several other changes are afoot. A new instructor is in the wings, work on an airpark on the southern side of the airstrip is expected to start soon and the local model plane club has made the airfield its permanent base.

The new instructor is Wayne Ormrod, an A-Category flight instructor and examiner, who is also a 10-time national aerobatic champion and has represented NZ in international air racing. He has 17 years’ experience in flight instruction and is looking forward to bringing that experience to Kaipara Flats.

“Aero clubs are vital for many reasons, but mainly because of the role they play in keeping our recreational aviation history alive and providing a local resource for anyone who is thinking about aviation as a career,” Mr Ormrod says.

He also sees potential for open days and flying competitions at Kaipara Flats.

Airpark Mr Ormrod was one of the first people to put down a deposit on a section in the new airpark, which will accommodate eight residential

Experienced trainer Wayne Ormrod will be an integral part of the club’s future.

Rod Miller, left, with current club president Paul Carkeek.

Model plane enthusiasts meet at the Kaipara Flats field every Sunday.

blocks altogether, ranging in size from 4400sqm to 5500sqm.

Airpark developer Jim Schmidt says six of the blocks have already been sold, with interest strong in the remaining two.

“The house/hangar arrangement offers pilots the same emotional connection that boat owners have when they buy a house on a canal,” Mr Schmidt says.

“The buyer interest has come from keen aviators who also want an active club on their doorstep. I’m sure it will increase activity at the club and some of the new residents also have young families, so no doubt they will be looking for the opportunity to learn to fly.”

Titles for the first blocks are expected to be issued around the middle of next year.

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Springhill airfield, south of Wellsford, left the Springhill Aviation Club – soon to return to its original name of the Warkworth Aviation Club – without a home.

It now meets at the airfield on Sundays, between 10am and 3pm, and hopes that a permanent base at Kaipara Flats field will mean that numbers will grow.

Club secretary Tony Lloyd says the club caters for a range of model planes, but predominantly radio-controlled models, with wing spans up to about three metres.

“Anyone interested is welcome to come along on a Sunday. The club also provides assistance for anyone building a model plane.”

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