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Hill St funded A major upgrade to the troubled Hill Street intersection now looks certain after Auckland Council’s Planning Committee confirmed funding for it last week.

The Planning Committee overwhelmingly voted for a revised Regional Land Transport Plan, which included $4.7 million to fix Hill Street.

The funding was due to be confirmed by the Auckland Transport (AT) board this week, but Rodney Councillor Greg Sayers said this was essentially a rubber-stamping exercise.

The $4.7 million represents only one quarter of the cost of fixing Hill Street, the remainder of the money will have to come from the Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency (NZTA).

Cr Sayers said Auckland Transport has had strong indications from NZTA that it would approve the funding when the NZTA board meets in August.

Deputy mayor Bill Cashmore said the design and detailed business case for the Hill Street upgrade had also been approved and the build would start as soon as practicable following the continued on page 35

Big guns hired for courtroom showdown Dome Valley landfill protesters have engaged a lawyer who has beaten Waste Management before to lead their fight in the Environment Court.

Fight the Tip Tiaki Te Whenua incorporated has engaged Andrew Braggins, a legal expert who successfully opposed Waste Management’s application to extend

its Redvale landfill.

Mr Braggins is a partner in the law firm Berry Simmons, which specialises in environmental law.

Campaigner Michelle Carmichael expects the appeal will be filed by July 2, ahead of the July 5 deadline.

Each of the 958 people and organisations

who submitted on the notified consent will be given the opportunity to be a party to the proceedings.

Fight the Tip is also hosting a public meeting at the Wellsford Community Centre on Saturday, July 10, at 1pm, to provide concerned members of the public with information on how they can

join the appeal.

Meanwhile, Te Rūnanga Ngāti Whātua chief executive Alan Riwaka has confirmed that his iwi will also lodge its own appeal with the court.

He says over the coming weeks, hui meetings will be held among hapu to

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Anti-landfill campaigners bring in big guns for appeal provide the opportunity for them to join the appeal.

“The [independent commissioners’] decision failed to protect Te Mana o te Wai, which is an overriding requirement under the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management, and it needs to be challenged,” Mr Riwaka says.

He says Ngati Whatua’s legal team will collaborate closely with Fight the Tip’s representatives to ensure a coherent challenge against Waste Management.

Ms Carmichael says it has given her a renewed sense of hope to have such heavyweights working to overturn the resource consent decision.

Fight the Tip has been fundraising for its appeal with a Givealittle page and is accepting donations into a bank account. Last week, it had raised over $9000 – enough to lodge the appeal by the deadline.

Ms Carmichael says Fight the Tip will also apply for legal assistance funding from the Ministry of Environment and hopes to receive the maximum grant of $50,000.

“It is warranted with the size of this application. Our costs will be in excess of that by the time all the experts have got involved,” she says.

The Ministry of Environment has an annual budget of $600,000 for grants of up to $50,000 to cover expenses for lawyers and experts in cases before the Environment Court.

A panel will consider whether to make a grant, and how much, based on

whether a case is in the “environmental public interest”, including the interest of Maori.

If a grant is awarded, the Ministry enters into a “deed of funding” and will pay costs on behalf of the applicant, but does not provide money directly to the applicant. It cannot be used for the group’s sundries, costs incurred before the application or costs awarded against it.

The cost of filing an appeal to the Environment court is $600 and then $350 per half day that the court hears the case.

The court may order an unsuccessful party to pay costs “where it is just”, although an unsuccessful application does not automatically result in costs.

A hearing is usually scheduled within six months of the court accepting an appeal. The court “aspires” to make a decision within three months of the hearing.

A decision made in the Environment court can be appealed in the High court but only on points of law where a party questions the court’s interpretation of legislation. High court decisions can then also be appealed in the Court of Appeal.

While a consent is being appealed with the court, it cannot be acted on until the appeal is resolved.

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What to expect in Environment Court Auckland barrister Gill Chappell says the cost of an Environment Court case will depend on the number of experts engaged by all parties, the length of the hearing and the complexity of issues.

However, she says it will likely be many tens of thousands of dollars.

A hearing might typically take between one and two weeks, depending on the number of experts and the extent of the challenge to expert evidence.

Only parties who made submissions on the notified application may appeal to the Environment Court, but they may raise issues in their appeal beyond those raised in their submissions.

Ms Chappell explains that an Environment Court hearing is a “de novo hearing”, meaning that the court deals with the matter afresh, although it must relate to the commissioners’ decision.

Parties who did not make a submission may also “join” an appeal if they can show that they have interest that is “greater than the general public’s”.

This could be an established interest group or a neighbour.

Donations can be deposited to Fight the Tip Tiaki Te Whenua Incorporated 12 3094 0274048 00 or at https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/fightthetip.

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Youth organisation ecstatic over purchase of Sheepworld Springboard Community Works staff and supporters gathered at Sheepworld earlier this month to celebrate the youth organisation’s purchase of the iconic Mahurangi tourist attraction.

Springboard founder Gary Diprose says when Springboard takes possession in October, the plan is for Sheepworld to continue to be a major attraction for visitors – with its sheep shows, farmyard park, retail store, café and petting zoo – while at the same time offering unparalleled opportunities for the at-risk youth Springboard assists.

“It will become a real-life training site for young people, teaching them skills in things like horticulture, sheep shearing, retail and hospitality,” Gary says.

In the café, young people will gain confidence in working with the public and learn about cooking and how to be a good barista. Outside, they will develop other practical skills, such as planting, pest trapping and fencing.

Gary also anticipates that caring for animals will have a calming effect on young people from difficult backgrounds and help them move forward.

“We are all in a buzz about this. We’ve got more ideas than you can count sheep to go to sleep on.”

He says Springboard will sell its headquarters in Snells Beach to help finance the purchase, and the expanded site will give it the opportunity to help more young people.

Springboard has already been urged to run farming and horticultural courses, but until now simply has not had the space to do so. Other activities have also been restricted because of the lack of space.

“The thing that keeps my heart jumping is this will be a resource for the community dedicated to helping youth, just like hospice has got their dedicated facility for assisting the terminally ill. It’s pretty cool, and it’s right on State Highway 1,” Gary says.

He was alerted to the sale of Sheepworld after reading a story in Mahurangi Matters (MM May 19).

At first, he thought he was too late

Sheepworld vender John Collyer, front left, and Springboard founder Gary Diprose, front right, see an even brighter future for the iconic tourist attraction. They are surrounded by Springboard staff and supporters.

to put in a bid and the purchase too ambitious. But he changed his mind after talking to the agent and learning that the current owner, John Collyer, was anxious that the property ended up in good hands.

John says he was contacted by Springboard at the 11th hour, but felt it was vital they were allowed to

put an offer in.

“When I learned about the organisation, I said we have just got to let these people on the bus. We already had some good offers for Sheepworld, but I could not think of a better future for the property than what these guys are going to do with it,” he says.

Current Sheepworld staff are expected

to be retained, and John believes the existing Sheepworld business will be enhanced by Springboard’s involvement.

“They can do a better job than ever I could as the sole owner. They will have a lot more energy and a lot more resources to drive the business than I had,” he says.

Fire victim delighted by community generosity House fire victim Debbie Barber was thrilled when Lions Warkworth treasurer Murray Picot handed over a check for $1910 – proceeds from a joint Lions and Mahurangi Matters appeal.

The appeal was launched to assist Debbie after fire gutted her Warkworth home in May. Debbie said she was “gobsmacked” by the amount raised by Mahurangi Matters readers and others.

“I would like to thank the community and businesses for their kind and generous

donations. You are the best community that anyone can live in. Thank you again,” she said.

Debbie said she still does not know the cause of the fire and was awaiting a report from her insurance company to see what would happen next.

She said the house was so extensively damaged that she hoped it would be bulldozed and rebuilt from scratch rather than repaired.

Debbie has found temporary rental accommodation not far from her Palmer Street home. Murray Picot presents the big cheque to Debbie Barber

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Immoral and wrong The decision to approve the construction of a super dump in the Dome Valley is wrong on many fronts. It disrespects mana whenua and the spirit of the Treaty of Waitangi, it will damage not only the immediate environment but potentially the kai moana in the Kaipara Harbour, it promotes yesterday’s technology to meet the needs of a modern city and lastly, but certainly not least, it runs roughshod over the community.

Auckland Council has shown its true colours by first opposing the consent and then conveniently changing its stance to support the proposal. It is hypocritical to promote a Climate Plan on one hand and then condone transporting hundreds of thousands

of tonnes of waste every year, from one side of Auckland to the other, and burying it in a pristine environment.

In what universe could this ever be justified?

Only the Hearing Panel chair, Sheena Tapiana, had the courage to stand up to the might of Council, Waste Management and who knows what else. She was let down by the other four commissioners who bowed to this pressure. Because let’s be clear, it doesn’t matter whether there are three or 3000 conditions attached to this consent, the fundamental principle of building a massive dump in the Dome Valley – out of sight and out of mind of most Aucklanders – is immoral. And to those who live further afield and say this opposition is just nimbism (Not In My

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Backyard), think again. A council that can accept a decision that is politically expedient, regardless of community and mana whenua views, means that no neighbourhood is safe.

People are justifiably angry, very angry, at the decision. They should use that emotion to fight on – join the Fight the Tip, Save the Dome group, write to MPs and Auckland Councillors and, at the very least, donate to help fund the battle looming in the Environment Court.

Donations can be made to: Fight the Tip Tiaki Te Whenua Incorporated 12 3094 0274048 00, or www.givealittle. co.nz/cause/fightthetip. Fight the Tip is at www.facebook.com/groups/ SavetheDome.

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RIP green NZ The latest downside of our once autonomous Rodney County being commandeered by the metropolis to the south, will be its use as a toilet. Three hundred-plus truck movements per day only confirm it. The Dome Valley dump will be a giant tombstone for clean, green NZ and its dream of zero waste. It deserves worldwide advertising of our abject failure at environmental protection, our inability to recycle, as well as our tacit support for a plastic planet. Those who approved the dump clearly believe profit trumps the pollution of 1000ha of pristine land and the inevitable contamination of the Kaipara, one of the world’s largest natural harbours, via the Hoteo river.

In the granting of a resource consent, we should be questioning how 971 submissions of protest were overruled by only 10 in support. Of course, the toxic waste dump is all about profit, otherwise who in their right mind would approve the ferrying of colossal quantities of the Supercity’s (and New Caledonia’s) garbage by hundreds of

road-pummeling trucks to a fringe zone of untouched land over 100 km from the point of origin? Something strangely familiar has resurfaced – the grim inevitability that these disastrous decisions will just happen, no matter how widespread the storm of protest.

It’s sad how easily money and power have made our representatives wilfully oblivious to the scale of future environmental damage.

Hugh Major, Matakana

No need to save us We write in response to the article regarding the Mahurangi Community Trading Post ‘saved in its final hour’ (MM June 16). To set the record straight, we did not need saving by anyone. The charitable society voted to close our operation for reasons that have been commented on before in this paper. Those being volunteer burn-out and also a rent increase. May we reiterate we did not need saving as we were neither broke nor drowning.

We are not in any way connected with any incoming business on these

premises. The Mahurangi Community Trading Post has to date donated over $420,000 to local charities and organisations in the general area, all made possible by our hard-working unpaid volunteer team.

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We asked our Facebook followers if they are satisfied with the way the Covid-19 vaccine rollout is being handled in New Zealand. Here are some responses:

Lynn Mellsopp Difficulties booking whole families in at the same time, especially important for rural people when you live so far away from a vaccination centre.

Penny Fawcett The Wellsford Covid centre was very well organised, easy booking as well.

Karen Bower Could do better, managed to get through after 15 min wait on phone to Birkenhead .

Suz Phillips Easy online booking system. Changed assigned date/time for both of us to something that was convenient. Agree having to go to Birkenhead is not good, but I’m opting in, sooner rather than later when Warkworth might come on stream. To be fair, the Govt always said the rollout was in July. That’s still 9 days away, so to book an appointment was welcome.

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Ministerial advice With Minister of Transport Michael Wood about to make a decision on whether to toll the new motorway from Puhoi to Warkworth, could I offer him some advice? The Government aren’t tolling Transmission Gully because they want as much traffic off the old, hopelessly inadequate State Highway as possible. Could the Minister follow suit? Don’t toll the new road in order to keep as much traffic off the current hopelessly inadequate road as possible. Because it has been shown that even with a reduced speed limit, serious accidents are still occurring.

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then charge a toll on the new highway, forcing many road users to not use the new road? All a toll amounts to is a new tax on road users from a government that wasn’t introducing more taxes this term.

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Viewpoint Phil Goff, Mayor of Auckland

In May, Auckland Council’s Finance and Performance Committee and 20 of Auckland’s 21 local boards strongly backed my Mayoral proposal for Auckland Council’s 10-year Budget 2021-2031, or Recovery Budget, which will be formally adopted this month. This follows over 150 hours of workshops and meetings as we worked together to examine all options for dealing with the $750 million financial hole in Council income caused by the Covid-19 crisis.

What we came up with enables us to maintain critical services and infrastructure investment and act on future challenges such as climate change. Overall, we will be investing $31.8 billion over the next 10 years in transport, housing and environmental infrastructure, and improving parks and community facilities.

Rather than taking an austerity approach in the face of this challenge, we have opted to maintain our investments in critical infrastructure builds and renewals, as well as the key services and facilities that Aucklanders rely on.

We have increased funding for capital projects by $900 million in the first three years of the budget. This maintains the planned work – despite the impact of Covid-19 – and brings forward important infrastructure projects to stimulate the recovery from the economic downturn.

Funding for renewals and maintenance has been increased by 50 per cent over the previous budget. Watercare’s infrastructure budget over the 10 years has increased from $5.7 billion to $9.7 billion. This will help ensure future generations of Aucklanders are not left with the consequences of a failure to invest in vital infrastructure, as we have seen in other cities.

To continue protecting our natural environment and native species, we are extending our Natural Environment and Water Quality targeted rates. We will also increase the Water Quality Targeted Rate in line with general rates rises.

This will enable us to extend our focus on improving water quality, such as wastewater going into our harbours and beaches.

To fund critical services and infrastructure, we will lock in $90 million a year of savings from cost efficiencies, raise $70 million a year for assets through the sale of surplus properties, increase borrowing within prudent limits, and maintain our long-term annual average general rates increase at 3.5 per cent, with a oneoff increase of 5 per cent next year.

We have kept rates increases much lower than other cities such as Wellington and Tauranga, where they are likely to be 13.5 per cent and 17 per cent respectively.

This approach allows us to maintain the investment necessary to stimulate recovery and make progress to build a world-class city, while keeping rates at a reasonable level.

The money invested in this budget will help Auckland pull out of the Covid-19 crisis, while addressing transport and traffic congestion, sustaining the environment, improving water quality and the resilience of our water supply, building more infrastructure for housing and tackling climate change.

It is a Recovery Budget that will keep Auckland moving.

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Four commissioners find landfill poses “acceptable risk” Waste Management has cleared the first hurdle in its plan to build a regional landfill in the Dome Valley.

The Chinese-owned company was granted resource consent by four of the five commissioners on the hearing panel, which delivered its decision on Monday, June 14.

The four commissioners who granted the consent – Alan Watson, Wayne Donovan, David Mead and Michael Parsonson – were satisfied that subject to some amendments to the proposed conditions, the effects on the environment of the construction and operation of the new landfill were acceptable.

“The proposal by Waste Management to place the landfill in a steeply sided valley at the centre of a very large site, with good design, construction and operational management, and extensive environmental mitigation, offsets and compensation were key features of the application that weighed in its favour,” their decision stated.

The commissioners were satisfied that leachate could be safely contained and disposed of, an extra 750 vehicles daily through the Dome Valley was acceptable, odour and air quality issues had been addressed, and the effects on cultural values and the ecology could be managed. They concluded that the primary benefit would be the establishment of a refuse landfill facility that was needed to provide for the future needs of Auckland.

Only panel chair Sheena Tepania was unconvinced. She believed that the range of adverse effects were more than

The hearing panel decision was not unanimous and was finally released on June 14, 11 weeks after the hearing closed.

minor and, in some cases significant, and could not be avoided or mitigated (see story next page).

Replacement The landfill will replace Redvale in Dairy Flat when it closes in 2028. It will have a footprint of 60 hectares with a capacity to contain about 25.8 million cubic metres of Auckland’s solid waste.

Waste Management’s total landholding at the site is 1020 hectares.

The project will include a roundabout on State Highway 1, at the entrance to the landfill, and a bin exchange area next to, to the entrance. It is estimated that 25 per cent of trucks will use the bin exchange, while the remaining 75 per cent will make the two-kilometre journey to the tipping face.

The site will include a weighbridge, wheel wash, leachate collection tanks,

offices, workshops, stormwater ponds and wetland, and soil stockpiles.

It will be a seven day a week operation, with the bin exchange operating 24 hours a day.

Earthworks are proposed over nearly 140 hectares and will involve a volume of 5.5 million cubic metres.

The waste receiving areas will be built and filled in seven stages, with each designed to have about five years’ capacity. These receiving areas will have a leachate containment lining system made of compacted clay, a polyethylene liner and additional layers of clay.

Landfill gas will be used to generate electricity.

Forests, both native and non-native, will be felled, and stream and wetland reclamation undertaken. The company says it will mitigate these

effects by environmental planting, protection and enhancement works, and pest management. It will also provide limited walking and cycling opportunities within the site. The landfill will take about four years to construct.

When the consent application was advertised in March last year, Auckland Council received 981 submissions – 958 opposed, 10 in support, 12 neutral and one indeterminate.

The resource consent and a separate request by Waste Management for a private plan change to introduce a new regional landfill precinct into the Auckland Unitary Plan were heard together. However, the plan change decision was not released with the resource consent decision, and is not expected until later this year.

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Panel chair unconvinced While four of the five commissioners who sat on the Waste Management resource consent hearings panel were satisfied that the adverse effects from the landfill could be mitigated, the chair, Sheena Tepania, was not.

In a separate 45-page section within the 317-page decision, Ms Tepania set out the reasons why she believed the application should have been refused.

She said that the actual and potential adverse effects of the landfill in terms of ecology and cultural views were significant and had not been avoided or mitigated to meet the purpose of the Resource Management Act. She also believed the application conflicted with the objectives and policies of the Auckland Unitary Plan and the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management.

Ms Tepania is of Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu and Te Rarawa descent and has practised as a lawyer, lecturer and consultant specialising in resource management, Treaty and Māori land law. She has been an independent hearings commissioner since 2011.

She found that Waste Management’s proposal was lacking on many fronts,including that it did not: • adequately provide for the relationship

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of Maori and their culture and traditions with their ancestral lands, water, site, waahi tapu and taonga; • adequately provide for the protection of areas of significant indigenous flora and fauna; • appropriately address kaitiakitanga, the ethic of stewardship, intrinsic values of ecosystems, maintenance and enhancement of the quality of the environment and any finite characteristics of natural and physical resources; • sufficiently take into account the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.

“I am also of the view that the applicant has not provided satisfactory evidence that the proposal has a functional need to locate or operate on this particular site or that the landfill activity can only occur on this site,” her statement said.

Sage given roasting on protest page Green Party list MP Eugenie Sage was met with a barrage of criticism when she turned up on Fight the Tip’s Facebook page last week and tried to defend her approval of the Government land sale to Waste Management in 2018.

The former Conservation and Land Information Minister said she and former Associate Finance Minister David Clark were legally restricted in what they could consider under the Overseas Investment Act. She said there was no public submission process or requirement for them to take issues such as community concerns and mana whenua into account.

“The Green Party hears the concerns of mana whenua and other local residents and communities. No one wants a big new landfill close by,

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no matter how modern and well designed,” Ms Sage wrote However, she was given short shrift by many posters, who insisted there must have been more she could have done, especially given her environmental responsibilities.

“What a load of crap,” wrote one woman. “Get behind this and save our rivers, nature, Kaipara Harbour. Mana whenua deserve better, so does this beautiful land.”

Fight the Tip executive Michelle Carmichael said it seemed incredible Ms Sage would have felt comfortable granting approval for the sale of land that had been identified by DOC as having high ecological values. She also asked Ms Sage six questions, but no replies had been posted as Mahurangi Matters went to press.

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August 31, 2018 Land Information Minister Eugenie Sage grants overseas investment consent to Waste Management and Beijing Waste Management Capital to buy land south of Wellsford.

September 11, 2018 Associate Finance Minister David Clark also signs off on the purchase – 1020 hectares of Springhill Farm and Matariki Forests – for a new landfill.

A community united in opposition Mahurangi Matters sought the views of community leaders in the wake of the commissioners’ decision to grant a resource consent to allow a landfill in the Dome Valley …

Dr Jason Smith

Mayor of Kaipara District Council (KDC)

I am extremely disappointed. The KDC’s elected members voted unanimously to put in a submission rejecting the idea of a landfill, which we did. My feeling is that the broad range of concerns that we had, including about the impacts on traffic and on the future of the waterways, have not

September 25, 2018 First public news emerges of plans for a new dump when Waste Management officials call on neighbouring landowners.

October 17, 2018 Hundreds attend public meeting after formation of Fight the Tip, Save the Dome Facebook page and protest group.

been addressed. Waste Management themselves cannot guarantee in perpetuity that the lining of any proposed landfill will last forever. There comes a future point when it is going to fail. In 20, 50 or 500 years from now, people will say what on earth were they thinking? I still believe New Zealand can find better solutions to disposing of waste rather than having a hole in the ground in the bush.

Mikaera Miru

Mikaera led the move to place a rahui on the landfill site and submitted a cultural impact assessment to commissioners on behalf of Ngati Whatua.

It’s an absolute disgrace. The moment Eugenie Sage endorsed the purchase of the land for a landfill, every piece of legislation related to the protection of the waterways has been undermined.

Furthermore, there was only one commissioner who supported the input of Maori and the rest of them

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June 15, 2019 Iwi place rahui on proposed landfill site days after Waste Management submits its formal resource consent and private plan change applications.

were totally oblivious to their cultural obligations. I’m calling it out for what it is – institutional racism. We are going to end up with a confrontation with the Crown. Why? Because these clowns have undermined their legal obligations and have provoked the community to go out and fight for the protection of the environment for current and future generations. The police will be involved and people are going to get hurt.

Marja Lubeck

Mahurangi-based Labour list MP

I think it’s the wrong decision for all the reasons that have been debated. I had my hopes that common sense would prevail that this was not the right thing to do. I think it’s wrong to have landfills in places that could potentially have such far reaching consequences, such as polluting the Kaipara, where we have got the biggest snapper population in the world. I will continue to raise my

concerns about the decision with my parliamentary colleagues. At the end of the day, digging a hole in the ground anywhere is not a sustainable or sensible way of dealing with our rubbish. There are alternatives and these need to be investigated.

Earle Wright

Dairy farmer from Tapora and ambassador for IKHMG, which is working to restore the health of the Kaipara Harbour.

I’m furious. I’m gutted – very much so. IKHMG got $300 million to clean up the Kaipara Harbour and we are going to put a dump on top of the catchment? I don’t care how many safety margins you put in, one mistake will wipe out the livelihoods of generations and generations. Also, Commissioner Tepania makes it clear mana whenua were not heard. They did not see the connection Maori have with the land in a spiritual way. I’m continued next page

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March 26, 2020 Waste Management’s plans open for submissions as NZ goes into Covid-19 lockdown, prompting widespread criticism when it refuses to delay the process.

July 17, 2020 Hundreds of chanting protesters march through central Auckland in a hikoi organised by iwi and Fight the Tip.

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actually disgusted the decision used a whole lot of Maori words. They don’t know what they mean. For me, it’s war now. We may need to occupy the area and look at all the options.

Roger Williams

Roger made a submission to commissioners on behalf of Forest & Bird

I am disappointed that the commissioners were not brave enough to reject the application outright. The carbon emissions from road transport to take rubbish to the dump are nearly 20,000 tonnes per annum higher than they would be for rail transport. This shows a complete disregard for climate change.

There is a high fire risk from the tip and from the grass cap. The hill top location and the adjacent forest exacerbate the problem. The highest risk of pollution is from flash floods that could wipe out leachate treatment. The protection of flora and fauna is inadequate.

November 9, 2020 Hearings into consent and plan change applications begin at Warkworth Town Hall before Sheena Tepania, Alan Watson, David Mead, Wayne Donovan and Michael Parsonson.

Chris Penk

National MP for Kaipara ki Mahurangi

I’m disappointed that a lack of central Government attention to the issue of waste disposal has led us to this place. I’ve written to the Government on more than one occasion asking that some imagination and investment be applied, as alternative solutions are available overseas. It seems inevitable that the Environment Court will now consider the matter and, as an MP, I can’t tread on the judges’ toes. That said, it will be interesting to see arguments made around rainfall and earthquakes, in particular, as I observed some contention on those points when attending hearings. I’ll keep pushing for more enlightened waste disposal methods to be provided.

Phelan Pirrie

Rodney Local Board chair

The real issue here is about how we deal with our waste in the biggest city

March 26, 2021 Hearings formally close, with commissioners due to announce their decision on May 12.

May 6, 2021 June 14, 2021 Fight the Tip’s Michelle Delayed decision Carmichael and Sue announced a month Crockett appear late – resource before Environmental consent granted, Select Committee despite commission supporting petition chair Sheena to ban landfills near Tepania pushing for waterways across NZ. refusal.

in New Zealand.

New Zealand has the worst rates of recycling and diversion from landfill in the OECD. Rubbish dumps, and the associated negative effects on the environment, will continue unless the Government moves to change this. I believe this is a watershed moment for the Government. They should step in to put a hold on this, which they can do, and instead invest in national recycling facilities and waste-to-energy schemes so we can divert more waste from landfill.

This would avoid the need for huge sites such as the one proposed.

Stuart Windross

Stuart made a submission on behalf of the Mahurangi East Residents and Ratepayers Association (MERRA).

We are disappointed and sadly disillusioned with process. MERRA opposed the landfill and its unacceptable traffic impacts. We argued that inevitable CO2 emissions, road deaths

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and congestion from hundreds of waste trucks daily were unacceptable and counter to Council’s own policies and promises. We showed that rail transport greatly reduced these effects and highlighted shortfalls in Waste Management’s traffic assessment that were never explored. Our community laments the opportunity missed for road users, rejuvenated rail, our environment, and indeed, Council’s credibility.

Greg Sayers

Auckland Councillor for Rodney

What does it take for the voice of the community and iwi to be heard? People are feeling let down at the process, given the proposal was approved despite intense opposition. It still doesn’t make sense to me as to why the Council would allow a landfill on streams that lead into the Kaipara Harbour when on the other hand the Government is investing $300 million to clean up the Harbour and protect it.

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Our COVID-19 vaccination programme has built momentum steadily since February. We are vaccinating around 100,000 people a week at the moment. In the second half of the year we hit top speed and everyone in New Zealand aged 16 and over will be able to be vaccinated.

Moving to the general population So far, vaccinations have been made available to those most at risk of getting COVID-19 to limit the chances of it getting into the wider population.

With more vaccine supply coming on, and having ramped up our infrastructure, vaccinations for everyone else in New Zealand aged 16 and over (the general population) start from 28 July.

This is a very large group of people. To make this flow smoothly, we will break this down by age bands.

All people aged 60 plus can book their vaccinations from 28 July.

Then, two weeks later, people who are 55 plus. From there, new age bands will be opened up every 2–3 weeks based on confirmed deliveries of the vaccine and the speed of rollout to earlier groups.

By mid to late August, invitations should be open for people over 45.

By mid to late September, invitations should be open for those over 35, with everyone else being eligible from October.

Invitations Most people will get a direct invitation to book – either by email, text, phone call or in the post. You will then be able to book through Book My Vaccine, a new national booking system that will be online from 28 July, or phone a new national call centre. Availability of booking slots (the date, time and place you can be vaccinated) will vary between district health board (DHB) regions.

Once you are eligible to be vaccinated, you can be vaccinated at any time.

There is no cut off.

Registration Even if your age band isn’t open, everyone aged 16 and over will be able to go to Book My Vaccine to register for an invitation from 28 July. Registration means we will be certain to have your correct contact details and when your age group is opened, you will get an invitation telling you it’s your turn to book.

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When Waste Management shattered the peace of the Dome and Wayby valleys with its landfill plans nearly three years ago, life was changed irrevocably for many local residents. For those who live nearest the site and others who were motivated to fight it, the dump has dominated daily life ever since, causing stress and sleepless nights and impacting family life and work.

Landfill campaign takes heavy personal toll Michelle Carmichael has become the best-known face of Fight the Tip, Save the Dome, the protest group and Facebook page set up in September 2018, just after news of the dump plan broke.

She was busy focusing on family, friends and her work as a teacher up until then, and protesting had never been on her agenda.

“I talked to neighbours and went to the open days, and the things I saw and heard there didn’t ring true – that motivated me to get involved,” she says.

Before she knew it, she was neckdeep in organising everything from public meetings and roadside protests to conducting in-depth research and writing submissions.

“Looking back, it’s been hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours,” she says. “It was not uncommon for me go to work all day, come home, eat with the family and then be on the computer until two or three in the morning.”

The long hours and effort involved over the past few years have taken their toll, both personally and professionally. She took a cut in her work hours and pay to give more time to the cause, and her devotion to the fight was a key factor in the breakdown of her marriage.

“It hasn’t been an easy year,” she says.

“The type of commitment needed to fight this is wide-ranging, multi-

Cometh the hour, cometh the woman – the fight to save the Dome is far from over for Michelle Carmichael.

skilled and time consuming. It gets to a point where you get angry that we have had to do all this, it all seems completely unfair. The system is definitely weighted towards the corporates.”

She says it can be scary taking on a global giant – “especially when you know the money they’ve got available to them and the connections there are” – and navigating the labyrinthine resource consent process.

“It’s very unfair, because it limits who can get involved to those who can see through it.”

However, there have been positive changes from the process, too.

“Definitely my confidence,” she says.

“There’s no way I ever thought I’d be making live TV appearances. But the

real positives are the people I’ve met through this, that’s been incredible.

And the hikoi, that was amazing.

Also, we’ve achieved community and iwi unity – that gives me goosebumps every time I think about it.”

Leane Barry is finding it hard to see many positives since resource consent was granted on June 14. She will be the dump’s nearest neighbour if it goes ahead, living just one-kilometre from the fill site, on State Highway 1. It was Leane who broke the news of Waste Management’s plans, when they coldcalled her back in September, 2018.

She couldn’t understand why anyone would contemplate siting a dump in the steep Dome Valley hills at the time, and she still can’t. The only thing that has changed is her disappointment and disillusionment with national

leaders who have failed to stop the proposals.

“I just think it’s incredibly sad,” she says. “The Government is not getting on board with it. Our important people are not fronting. Why is that?

It’s got to be money. But Wellington has got to see what’s going on. We have to get Wellington to sit up and take notice.”

She says there is no way she could afford to take her case to the Environment Court on her teaching salary and she can’t see how WM can be stopped, short of some kind of drastic action.

“I can’t think of anything else in New Zealand that would have such farreaching, disastrous consequences as this, but other than holding them to ransom somehow, I don’t know how we’ll stop it.”

Leane has only recently returned to work after a year off with post traumatic complex regional pain syndrome, which developed after she broke an arm and leg. While her accident was nothing to do with the landfill, the pain syndrome is certainly not helped by the worry.

“The more stressed I get, the worse the condition gets,” she says. “It’s been the worst time, but I really try to put things like that in the back of my head.

I’m getting back to full health slowly, that’s most the important thing. I don’t know what happens next.”

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Countering the critics: Waste Management’s case

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This prevents harmful greenhouse gases entering the environment.

The chair of the panel, Commissioner Tepania, did not support the decision to grant the resource consent. She was convinced of the adverse environmental and cultural impacts. Is WM bothered by the fact that the commission chair had such concerns?

We respect the view of Commissioner Tepania, however, the Resource Management Act allows for a majority

We are now reviewing the commissioners’ decision and conditions of consent in detail and do not consider it appropriate to comment on specifics until the appeals period is over. Of note is that of the 397 conditions, all bar one or two are as offered by Waste Management at the end of the hearing. We believe this demonstrates that we have listened and addressed the concerns raised to the satisfaction of the majority of commissioners. However, we are respectful of the community and mana whenua’s position and want to work through concerns constructively. The conditions of consent require Waste Management to invite mana whenua to form and participate in a Mana Whenua Rōpū, which will facilitate ongoing engagement between Waste Management and mana whenua for the life of the landfill.

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Our consent application included input from 24 independent technical experts, and this was reviewed and supported by a further 19 independent technical experts engaged by Auckland Council. It is unfortunate that of the approximate 1000 submissions in opposition from mana whenua and the local community, only around 30 people have visited Redvale to view a modern landfill operation and gain a better understanding of the potential cultural and environmental impacts. Some, like the Mayor of Kaipara District Council, have openly declined to meet with Waste Management. Those that have visited Redvale and Kate Valley, have been

The commissioners granted a consent subject to conditions. Could you highlight one or two of these conditions that you feel will go a long way to satisfying the cultural/ecological concerns raised.

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Submissions opposing the landfill came from numerous respected sources. They presented expert evidence in relation to adverse environmental and cultural impacts? Does WM say these experts simply got it wrong?

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It is unfortunate that of the approximate 1000 submissions in opposition from mana whenua and the local community, only around 30 people have visited Redvale to view a modern landfill operation and gain a better understanding of the potential cultural and environmental impacts.

decision situation. The majority decision (four commissioners) found in favour of granting resource consent, noting the positive effects on Auckland’s infrastructure and the efficient operation of the region.

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We are respectful of differing opinions and people’s right to be heard. The reality is a new landfill is required to safely manage the waste produced by the people who choose to live in Auckland, as well as the industries and commercial businesses that support their lifestyle. Redvale Landfill & Energy Park, which takes much of Auckland’s waste that cannot be recycled, is expected to stop receiving waste in 2028. It means action is needed now to ensure Aucklanders’ waste can continue to be disposed of safely. It is critical to the health and wellbeing of the whole community. There are currently no viable alternatives to landfill available for disposal of large quantities of waste in the Auckland region or New Zealand. We agree with opponents to the landfill that all New Zealanders need to do better to address the amount of waste that we generate each year. We are continuing to play an active role in developing

impressed with the level of protection offered by these facilities and have acknowledged their previous lack of appreciation that modern landfills in New Zealand are world class and bear no resemblance to those constructed before the 1990s. For example, 95 per cent of the landfill gas, generated by decomposing organic waste, is vacuum sucked into gas lines, which

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Opposition to the landfill has been enormous, with a hikoi down Queen Street, a rahui placed on the landfill site by local iwi and objections by political leaders of all persuasions. Does WM accept that the community emphatically does not want a landfill?

and delivering solutions that will help achieve waste minimisation, but this will also require a significant change in New Zealanders’ behaviour. Until we can move away from our current “take, make, waste” model to a circular economy, Waste Management is one of the few companies with the expertise and experience to safely manage waste on behalf of the millions of people who live here now and the millions who will live here in the future. We consider it our responsibility to use that expertise to provide a suitable solution for Auckland’s waste.

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If you live in Mahurangi and turn the radio on first thing in the morning, there’s a good chance you will be listening to Brent and Jacque on More FM Rodney. James Addis talked to host Brent Harbour to find out about the man behind the mic …

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grew up in Avondale and went to Avondale College. Mum and Dad owned a furniture business in Glen Eden, and my father was into racehorses, as well. Part of my job was to take the racehorses to the Avondale racecourse first thing in the morning before school. I got to wash them down, feed them, groom them and all those kinds of things. Initially I wanted to be a race caller. I got to hang around with famous race callers like Keith Haub, but I had another great passion and that was radio. rowing up, I was influenced by Kevin Black on Radio Hauraki and Pat Courtney on 1ZM. I liked the music and the way they talked and the way they had so much fun. So, I used some of the money that I was earning working part-time in Dad’s factory to buy a microphone from Dick Smith electronics. I plugged it into the cassette player at home, and I would practice introducing songs, read stories out of the newspaper and pretend that I was on air. I did that for years. After leaving school, I worked for Para Rubber as a salesman in central Auckland. The good thing about working in the city was that it was an ideal place to be for radio auditions. A friend of my father knew Barry Holland, who was with Radio New Zealand at the time. He put me in touch with Barry and set up an audition for me. t was quite intimidating in those days. They put you in a room in Broadcasting House where they used to record the big orchestras, and they would get you to read a page of news, read a commercial and then ad-lib for a couple of minutes on a subject of your choice. There would be three guys sitting behind a glass screen watching you. I took the audition three times and failed three times. The last time they sent me a letter saying, “Hi Brent, you have got a nice voice, it’s medium to deep, but you have lazy lips and tongue.

Suggest you see a speech therapist and then re-apply when you are 25.” I was disappointed, but I did not give up. I wrote a letter to all the radio stations in Auckland and got a “Dear John” back from most of them, but two radio stations said they would chat to me – one was Radio Hauraki and the other was Magic 91FM. uring one lunch hour I went to do an audition at Magic 91. They

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Back then, I thought that was great.

Eventually, the station decided to take me on full-time. Initially, I was doing 10pm to 2am and then 6pm to 10pm.

But what I really wanted to do was “drive time”, from 2pm to 6pm. When you are on nights – all your mates are out when you are working and you have no social life. And I considered breakfast too early a start when I was 20. Luckily, when the drive announcer

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left, they offered me the job. loved it because there was a lot going on in the city at the time and celebrities would come in for interviews. I’ve been very lucky to have interviewed people like Billy Joel, Dave Stewart from Eurythmics, Meat Loaf and even Milli Vanilli. I was a nervous interviewer to start with. At first, I was asking those close-ended questions that generate yes or no answers, which is death on the radio.

But I had some good mentors around me and over time I learned to craft better questions. One of the nicest people I interviewed was Billy Joel – both on-air and off-air he was just great. He was so gracious in thanking us for the airtime. became interested in programming a station and at some point I was lured to Tauranga to become a programme director for a station there. But I missed Auckland and came back to work for a new station Kool 93, doing the drive show and became the station’s operations manager. My job was to make sure all the songs sounded good together with plenty of variety and different tempos – not all slow songs or all fast songs. In radio, you need to have an appreciation of all types of music. I don’t favour specific genres; I like songs in any genre. It also pays to remember

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For example, when there is a recession, older music becomes more popular again because it brings back memories of good times and that’s an escape for people.

So, you have to understand these cycles and what will appeal to listeners. ool 93 was sold after a couple of years, and I floated around doing shifts for all sorts of radio stations, including trying to set up one of my own, Big 106.2, but sadly we got hit by a global recession and had to fold. In 2010, I headed to Dubai. A friend of mine was working there and said they were looking for a programme director for Radio 2, which broadcasts right across the UAE, reaching around 10 million people. It was run by a lot of British ex-pats who loved Radio 2 in the UK. But when I got there, I found the station was all over the place – sixties show on one morning, then a rock show at night and an easy-listening show at some other time. It wasn’t rating well. So, we did a lot of music testing to find out what would be a good mix and what people would like listening to. Based on that research, I totally reformatted the station and within about six months we got to number one in our targeted demographic. It’s interesting, because the UAE is made up of so many different ethnic groups, but it turns out that the music that tests well in New Zealand, Australia or the UK – big songs like Summer of ’69 by Bryan Adams and Take on Me by A-ha – test well in the Middle East too. fter that I went on to work for Heart and Capital Radio in the UK. My wife is from Guildford and I’ve always wanted to live in England – there is so much to see and so much history. The radio stations sounded really good too, and the presenters were great. At the same time, I didn’t feel I had the freedom to make too many changes or get as much local content on as I wanted. It’s all very

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well having these big flashy stations but people still want to know what’s going on where they live. fter a year in the UK, we really wanted our girls to be settled and for them to go to Mahurangi College.

We decided to moved to Warkworth because it’s such a great community and nearby we’ve got the best beaches in the world. Now I’m the operations manager at More FM Rodney and do the breakfast show with Jacque who is a long-time friend from my days at Kool 93. Because Jacque, and I know each other so well and get each other’s sense of humour, I think that comes across well on air. Being on-air locally has opened up other doors for me to get involved with the community. I am a trustee for the charity I Got Your Back Pack, which supplies essential items for women fleeing domestic violence, and right now I’m helping Murray Chapman organise the Mahurangi Winter Festival of Lights.

Murray is such an amazing guy – such an inspiration in our community. hat makes a good breakfast show?

I think it’s when we have lots of local content in there with as many local voices on air as possible, and having a bit of fun with people and with the competitions. There are some days when you think it’s been a disaster but usually that’s only in your mind. And when everything has come together well, it’s a good feeling. It’s a great way to spend four hours every morning.

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Heritage off to flying start More than 60 people turned up to a meeting to establish a new heritage and culture group earlier this month, filling to capacity the back bar at the Bridgehouse.

Organiser Dave Parker says he was astounded at the response.

Two members of Heritage New Zealand (formerly the NZ Heritage Places Trust) spoke to attendees via Zoom, and Mr Parker says the new group will seek that organisation’s advice when it comes to registering places of historic value.

During the meeting, 15 people volunteered to serve on the committee for the new group, which will be known as the Mahurangi Heritage and Culture Group.

The 15 will be supported by a further 12 area representatives, who will advise on heritage issues related to their particular area.

In addition to the main committee, a number of sub-committees are planned. The first was formed on the night and was designed to protect the weir that crosses that Mahurangi River at Warkworth.

Auckland Council plans to remove the weir and Mr Parker said one of

the first tasks of the new group is to work with Heritage New Zealand to ensure it achieves heritage status and is retained.

Mr Parker asked for a show of hands for who supported retention of the weir and says every hand in the room went up.

After the meeting, Mr Parker said Warkworth’s Wilson Cement Works – the first place to manufacture cement in the southern hemisphere – was an example of another historic site that needed protection and restoration.

Mr Parker said many who volunteered to serve on the group’s committee were direct descendants of pioneering families in the area.

“These were hardworking families who laid the foundation for where we live. People don’t want to see things destroyed, because it’s destroying part of their history and part of their family heritage,” he said.

Mr Parker will chair the new committee. Deputy chair is Noelene Quigley-Price, secretary is Sara Napier and treasurer is Maxine Hatful.

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Beth Houlbrooke and Ian Clark spoke at the sun shelter opening.

Fishing club opens sun shelter Dozens gathered for a barbecue and opening of a sun shelter at Sunburst Reserve in Snells Beach on June 20.

The sun shelter – comprising a table, some seating and a roof – was donated

by Kawau Bay Fishing Club after an earlier plan to build some clubrooms fell through.

Speaking at the ceremony, club president Ian Clark said it was decided to use money raised for the club rooms to give something back to the community.

Mr Clark thanked members of the club who had guided the project to successful completion over four years.

He also thanked Auckland Council, which donated the table, and sponsors Wharehine ReadyMix, Matakana ITM, Hireworks, Wyatt Landscape Supplies and Foresight Builders.

Rodney Local Board deputy chair Beth Houlbrooke unveiled a plaque honouring the club and the sponsors.

Ms Houlbrooke thanked the fishing

club for the shelter and for working with Council to make it happen.

She said it was now more difficult to get Council to approve such community-initiated projects, but when approval was gained, one could be sure the project would be done well and provision would be made for ongoing maintenance.

She said from now on maintenance of the shelter would be the responsibility of the Rodney Local Board.

She added the shelter was a wonderful asset and would provide shade and shelter to those supervising children at the nearby playground.

Construction of the shelter was not without controversy. Nearby residents organised a petition opposing it, fearing it would become a focal point for anti-social activity such as fighting, excessive drinking and drug taking.

However, Mr Clark said since completion, objections to the shelter had died down.

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Gulf plan to boost marine protection Increased marine protection – and a reduction in fishing – is on the cards for several local bays and islands as a result of the new Revitalising the Gulf – Government Action on the Sea Change Plan that was published last week.

New High Protection or Seafloor Protection Areas are proposed for waters north and east of Hauturu Little Barrier Island, around Kawau Island and south of Kawau Bay, and around the Mokohinau Islands.

In addition, the existing Goat Island marine reserve will be extended north.

The new High Protection Areas are comparable to no-take marine reserves, although customary rights will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis, while Seafloor Protection Areas are will protect seafloor habitats from some fishing (especially dredging, bottom trawling and Danish seining), sand extraction and mining. However, the strategy says that some commercial and recreational fishing may be allowed “where they are compatible with the management objectives of each protected area”.

The Government says these areas, which total 18 throughout the Gulf, will be progressed through new legislation in 2024. The Revitalising the Gulf Plan aims to mitigate some of the damage done to marine life of the Hauraki Gulf over the years by boosting stocks of fish and protecting habitats and ecosystems throughout the Gulf to support their recovery.

If the 18 protected areas proposed are established, the total area under protection will nearly triple, from 6.6 percent to 17.6 percent. However, one area that will not benefit from the new marine protection areas is Whangateau Harbour.

“The Sea Change Plan’s proposal for additional protection in the Whangateau Harbour will not

The plan’s proposed protected areas.

Bio-security advisor Zacc Forbes-Smith explained to students the measures taken to protect kauri.

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Our proposed protected areas Extension to existing marine reserve/area under protection adjacent to a marine reserve (e.g. HPA) High protected area Seafloor protected area

significantly increase biodiversity beyond what is offered by existing fishing restrictions,” the document states.

Instead, it claims the area would benefit from “a catchment-based approach to management”.

Forum executive officer Alex Rogers will be a meeting at the Matakana Community Hall on Monday July 5, at 7pm.

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The first Wellsford School class trips to explore Currys Bush, since its official reopening, began this month.

The bush, off Wi Apo Place, Wellsford, was formerly closed for two years, but now has a new boardwalk trail and kauri dieback wash stations, and is wheelchair accessible.

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

Council bio-security advisor Zacc Forbes-Smith explained to children the importance of using the wash stations and keeping to the boardwalk to protect native kauri.

He said special care had been taken when constructing the boardwalk to ensure that it skirted precious trees and supports for the boardwalk were installed without harming tree roots or shifting soil, which could spread dieback.

Year 3 and 4 teacher Daryl Anderson said Currys Bush, which was only a 15-minute walk from Wellsford School, would function as an outdoor classroom – allowing children to learn from the bush and teaching them how to take care of it.

“This is our taonga – our treasure – and we really want to look after it,” he said.

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Turning on trees Apparently, it’s a Quaker saying that goes something like, “A (wo)man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when she plants shade trees under which she knows full well she will never sit.” But what is the saying about the man who chops down the tree that provides shade and shelter already?

Since the 2012 removal of General Tree Protection rules in the Resource Management Act, there have been fears of a great tree massacre across Auckland, resulting in a loss of living, grown heritage, beauty Colonial cultural and habitat. Urban Auckland is intensifying and sprawling. Grand old trees that have shaded values can be generations of children on big leafy sites become an reflected in trees, impediment to development, or are just considered leading to them a nuisance. So, in established areas living landmarks are under the chop. being both revered Colonial cultural values can be reflected in trees, or condemned … leading to them being both revered or condemned, mostly depending on whether you are coloniser or colonised. So, conflict has occurred over the removal of Moreton Bay figs, and other introduced exotica of grand stature, on Auckland’s maunga (mountain) under the co-governance of Maori. Street trees are deformed to maintain power line clearance so the lights are always on, even if our street trees pay the price. Road development and subsequent subdivision in rural zones outside towns like Warkworth causes arboreal collateral damage. Valued trees either have no protection in the Auckland Unitary Plan, or what protection they do have comes secondary to other (human) values – usually money.

On the bright side, more trees are apparently being planted than ever before.

There’s the Mayor’s million tree mission and riparian planting investment in the Mahurangi and the Kaipara. Some rural subdivision requires extensive tree planting as incentive or mitigation. And while that planting brings immediate and long-term water quality and habitat benefit, we still have a national net loss of big old trees.

Mourning and resisting that loss, courageous activists are known to occupy mighty old trees. Sometimes they are kauri, puriri, oak, or just valued Monterey pines. But if the chainsaws are stopped by rules or activists, sometimes poison or ring barking will do the trick instead. Those trying to uphold the public and ecological values of our collective living heritage are sometimes condemned as tree huggers. It’s sometimes a clash of public good and conservation-minded values, and conservative, neo-liberal views.

Back in 1720, the Bishnois Hindus of Kherjarli, India, protested the felling of their ancient forests to supply timber for the Maharaj of Jodhpur. The Bishnois spiritual belief recognised the sacredness of all life, including trees. Young Amrita Devi challenged the fellers, embraced a tree and inspired others to join her.

Soldiers beheaded 363 protesting villagers. The Maharajah was so disturbed by the massacre he apologised and designated the area a protected area, legislation that is still in place today. Today’s tree huggers are in noble company. These days we don’t behead the protestors, but we also don’t protect the trees.

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The path will run from Broadlands Drive to the golf club and community centre.

Footpath comes at a price Omaha is set to get a long-awaited 850-metre footpath along Omaha Drive next to the golf course, but the cost has blown out once again to nearly $870,000.

The June meeting of Rodney Local Board heard that the $645,000 allocated from its transport targeted rate to the path in November would not be enough, as the lowest tender received by Auckland Transport (AT) in May was $775,626. With additional professional services needed, the total budget required was now up to $868,200.

Several members voiced concern at the increase, and questioned whether the project should be deferred.

Tim Holdgate said it was a significant cost and he had concerns about pricing.

“The costings were out by 35 per cent, that’s quite a significant amount for a relatively straghtforward project,” he said. “It’s close to $1 million now and I had feedback on it when it was $600,000-odd.”

Steven Garner said he was in favour of building the path, but he was also worried about the high price tag.

“I’m very supportive of this footpath, but I am concerned that the costs are getting right up there. Is there a case for deferring this until conditions improve to the point where the price will come down?”

AT senior service network planner Shaun Kay said although previous figures had all been detailed estimates, it ultimately came down to what contractors were tendering for.

“All I can say is that tender prices varied from $775,000 to just over $1 million and we got five prices,” he said.

Board deputy chair Beth Houlbrooke agreed it was concerning when prices went up by such a high amount, but pointed out that before the path had been switched to the targeted rate fund, AT’s previous estimates had been as high as $1 million, and added that tender prices were unlikely to drop in future.

“I’m hearing from many sources that construction costs are very high at the moment,” she said. “We could defer it, but it’s not something that would save us any money in the long run.”

Board members voted to approve an extra $223,200 from the transport targeted rate fund for the 2.5 metrewide path, which will run from just north of the Broadlands Drive roundabout to the Omaha Beach Golf Club and Community Centre in North West Anchorage. Wellsford member Colin Smith abstained, saying he was “still unhappy”.

AT said the footpath was due to be completed by the end of October, weather and ground conditions permitting.

Council on lookout for wallabies Auckland Council conducted a survey, via helicopter, of Puhoi, Wainui and Orewa earlier this month in a bid to confirm wallaby sightings. Council’s head of natural environment delivery, Phil Brown, says it was in response to four possible sightings over the past five years in the areas. “While we doubt wallabies are actually present, we are obliged to ensure they haven’t been released into the area,” he says. “It is more cost effective to prevent a pest from establishing than to have to control them later.” Aerial surveys use thermal imaging, allowing large areas to be covered quickly and more cost effectively than by foot. No wallabies were sighted, but Mr Brown says further surveys in areas not already covered are possible. Wallabies were introduced to NZ in the late 1800s, mainly for sport and the value of their skin. They have become a significant pest and damage native plants, according to the Ministry of Primary Industries.

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A fine example of a Matakana punt at the Warkworth Museum.

Punting in Mahurangi Until the 1930s, there were few all-weather roads and ships were the main transportation in Mahurangi. Punts – flat-bottomed, shallow draught, small boats – were much used by early pioneers. They were around 6 to 7 metres long, with both bow and stern tapered, so this made them efficient to row. Their flat bottom meant they could be taken right on to a beach for loading. The topsides flared out above the waterline. There were minor variations around the north, even from one side of the Mahurangi River to the other. They were usually built of kauri planks, with pohutukawa used for curved internal frames.

An excerpt from the Daily Southern Cross newspaper of March 1876 talks of the arrival at Lower Matakana (Sandspit) of the weekly sailing ship-supply vessel from Auckland, where it was soon surrounded by quite a fleet of boats conveying passengers and goods to and from the shore. The article stated that the boats “are the well-known flat-bottom type and quite a speciality on the Matakana River where everyone possesses a boat”.

The Warkworth Museum has a fine sample of a Matakana punt built by Duncan Knaggs in 1918. Knaggs was a Matakana shipbuilder who had worked for David Darroch of Omaha, grandson of the celebrated George Darroch. The boat was built for Edwin (Ted) Woodcock who at that time had a property on the Glen Eden River, near Matakana. Timber from this property was felled and air dried for 12 months before construction on the vessel began. Some modifications of the usual design were made, making this vessel wider in the stern sections. Mr Woodcock used it for about six years. It was then stored for around 12 years before being bought in 1936 by Harry Parry and moved by truck to Dawson Creek on the Mahurangi River. Here it was launched and, with the help of a 2Hp bronze-body Evinrude outboard, was motored across to the Pukapuka inlet on the other side of the Mahurangi River. Apparently, there were no leaks even after all those years of storage. The boat was repainted and named the Betty M. For the next 30 or so years, Betty M was much used by the family for picnicking and fishing. On one occasion in 1930s, she won the outboard motor race at the Mahurangi Regatta.

Later, Mr Parry made some alterations and had it fibre-glassed, as well as having a larger 10Hp outboard installed. He added iron bows and a cover for shelter where he could steer from, earning the boat the nickname of Sampan. On Mr Parry’s death in 1977, the boat went to Eric Barker. He took it out on several occasions, but with all the alterations it had become too heavy to row and was left undercover in the Red Shed at Pukapuka Landing. It was later given to the Perkinson family, who have loaned it to the Warkworth Museum and where it has been restored by volunteers.

Mahurangi Matters Tossi columnist Jackie Russell snapped this picture of royal spoonbills (kōtuku ngutupapa) at Snells Beach earlier this month. The birds are known to visit the area now and again, but sightings are rare. Spoonbills only recently established themselves in New Zealand after flying across the Tasman, independent of any human input.

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Trading Post strikes a chord with Matakantata Liam Wooding. Photo, Ruby Shirres

Top Kiwi pianist returns to Warkworth One of New Zealand’s leading emerging professional pianists will be welcomed back to Warkworth in July.

Liam Wooding thrilled the audience when he played for Warkworth Music as part of the Morton Trio in 2019.

His next Warkworth concert will feature pieces on the themes of reflection and connection.

Among them will be a new work by Australian composer Stuart Greenbaum, Remote Connection, inspired by the experience of isolation during Covid-19.

In addition, Liam will perform Douglas Lilburn’s passionate Sonata in F sharp minor, plus works

by Beethoven, Debussy, John Adams and Duke Ellington.

He is originally from Whanganui and performing and commissioning New Zealand music is central to his approach.

As a chamber musician, Liam has participated in

courses and residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Canada), Skidmore College (USA) and Four Winds (Australia).

In 2018, he was the recipient of the Pettman/ROSL Chamber Music Scholarship, which enabled him to study and perform in the United Kingdom with The Morton Trio.

He has also featured as a soloist with the Auckland Chamber Orchestra and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.

Liam is a graduate of the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Waikato, researching New Zealand piano music.

The concert takes place at Warkworth Town Hall on Sunday, July 18, at 4pm. Tickets are $35 at the door, school students free.

Info: www.warkworthmusic.org.nz

The Matakantata Choir now has a mobile keyboard to play at concerts thanks to a $3500 donation from the Mahurangi Community Trading Post.

Choir secretary Ken Cutforth was singing the Trading Post’s praises.

“They’re always giving things away to the community, so we decided to give them 10 tickets to our upcoming concert,” he said.

The Matakantata Choir is holding its first concert since the onset of Covid-19 this month. Ken says the break has given the choir the chance to rebuild and come back stronger.

“The choir nearly went into recess, but we now have 40 members, up from 25, and an accomplished new musical director in Jenny Eirina.”

Ken says acclaimed organist John Wells has also joined.

John has been an organist at the St Matthews church in Auckland, as well as at the Auckland Town Hall.

Matakantata Choir’s new show, “It’s About Time”, celebrates its return with songs themed around the concept of time, including Time in a Bottle, Time to Say Goodbye, Grandfather Clock and Que Será, Será.

There are two shows – at the Matakana Hall on Friday, July 2, at 7.30pm and at the Warkworth Town Hall on Sunday, July 4, at 4pm. Tickets are $20 from Harts Pharmacy, Gull Matakana and on the door.

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Marvellous Matakana market salad Every Saturday is a new food adventure for regular visitors to the Matakana Farmers Market. Locals in the know are the early birds, arriving at the 8am opening time to nab the pick of the fresh produce, filling their bags and then chatting over coffee with friends. It was a rewarding surprise for all involved in the market, operated by the Brick Bay Trust for almost 17 years, to learn it was voted Most Popular Farmers Market at the 2021 Outstanding NZ Food Producers Awards.

There’s a huge variety of seasonal produce year-round, with each week bringing something new and exciting to try and buy. One of the great opportunities at a market is for visitors is to try new products like kombucha, fermented drinks like kefir and shrubs, interesting seeds and healthy freshly roasted nuts and butters. Also, delicacies like buffalo milk ice cream, farm-raised whitebait, paua, excellent sausages and creamy milk and eggs from truly organic farms.

This recipe was motivated after a recent trip through the market looking for a winter salad idea. My usual purchase of a bag of leafy greens has hearty greens such as rainbow spinach and kale in at

Matakana Farmers Market Winter Salad 400g pumpkin (Harry’s market vegetables) 2 tsp kelp, sesame and hemp seed (Rimurimu) 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil Salt and black pepper 1 large beetroot (Harry’s market vegetables)

1 bag fresh mixed salad greens (Durham Farms or Kauri Creek) 3 tbsp mixed roasted seeds (Cobara) 3 tbsp Fresca cheese or feta (Whangaripo Buffalo) 1 tbsp balsamic glaze

Preheat the oven to 180C. Peel the pumpkin and cut into large thin wedges. Sprinkle the pumpkin with the kelp, sesame and hemp mix.

Place in a roasting tray and toss in 1 tbsp of the olive oil, adding a little salt and pepper. Cook for 20 minutes until the edges start to turn golden. Meanwhile, cut the beetroot into quarters and stem or simmer until tender (about 15 minutes). Let cool a little, peel and slice each quarter into three or four pieces. Take a shallow bowl or platter and spread the washed and dried greens over the base. Lay the pumpkin slices and beetroot on the leaves so they are spread out evenly. Scatter the seeds over everything. Break the cheese into small nuggets and distribute them evenly over the salad. To finish, drizzle over the remaining olive oil, a little balsamic, and extra salt and pepper. Serves four as an accompaniment to chicken, lamb or steak, or as a lunch dish with seedy bread. this time of year. It’s a great place to start as two exceptional growers, Kauri Creek and Durham Farms, carefully select a super array of leaves and often include a few edible petals and herb flowers. Then I spied among the huge array of veggies brought to the

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market by the legendary Harry, some gorgeous chunks of sweet pumpkin and a bunch of fresh beetroot with huge leaves attached (they are not to be wasted – pop them in a stir fry or casserole). To make my salad really healthy and well balanced I purchased

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Residents are being asked to rummage through their cupboards and drawers for spare balls of wool. Warkworth pensioner Sandra Haycock (pictured) is using the wool to knit warm clothes and blankets for newborns at Middlemore and Waitakere Hospitals. “There are about 8000 babies born at Middlemore every year and of that number, about 800 will get sick and need to return to hospital during their first year,” Sandra says. “Sometimes it is just because the family does not have enough warm clothing.” The clothes are distributed by midwives, through the Wellness Foundation. Sandra says all types of yarn would be appreciated, acrylic or wool, one ball or a bag. The wool can be left at the Mahurangi Matters office at 17 Neville Street, Warkworth.

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Warkworth Lions will spearhead a fundraising initiative to raise $406,700 for a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) for Auckland’s Starship Hospital.

The PICU comprises a single bed surrounded by a host of lifesaving equipment such as monitors, syringe drivers and a ventilator. Starship has 22 PICU but is looking for around 10 more to cope with growing demand.

The idea for the fundraiser came up at a recent Lions Council of Governors meeting. Warkworth Lions spokesperson Peter Henderson says Warkworth club members volunteered to get the fundraiser off the ground.

Although Warkworth will take the lead,

it is a district-wide project, which will involve all the Lions Clubs north of Te Kauwhata in the Waikato. Warkworth Lions will also seek support from other Lions clubs around the country.

Peter says the fundraiser got off to a great start last week with coverage on TVNZ’s Breakfast Show. He says the PICU project in no way indicates Warkworth Lions is neglecting local needs.

“As far as local needs go there are so many children in our local area who go to Starship. One of our Lions members recently had both his grandchildren in there,” he says.

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The rustic barn has hosted many local events over the years.

Last chance barn dance Choose plastic free alternatives this July.

Plastic-free challenge gets underway Could you go a whole month without generating a single piece of wasted plastic? Plastic-free July begins this week and Mahurangi and Kaipara residents are invited to take the challenge.

To help on the journey, Sustainable Kaipara in Mangawhai will have a cup library on Wood Street so that shoppers can get a coffee without a takeaway cup.

There will also be a visual display showing what a year’s worth of disposable coffee cups generated by a typical consumer looks like.

Volunteers will be there to give advice on how to “break up” with disposable cups and packaging.

Leigh’s Lily Walkington is challenging locals to investigate alternatives to plastic packaged items.

She has been encouraged after successfully recycling 100kg of soft plastic from the community since setting up a collection point at Leigh Hall in December.

“Although having the option to recycle soft plastics

prevents the scary things you hear about plastic in the environment, it is not the solution. The best way to help is to reduce what you buy,” she says.

Plastic Free July began in 2011 in Australia and has grown in popularity in New Zealand as a way of taking stock of how much plastic waste an individual produces.

Organisers encourage challengers to start by eliminating takeaway coffee cups, buying fruit and veggies without plastic packaging, ditching plastic bottles and straws, and bringing containers to bakeries, butchers and delis.

Those looking to take their zero-wasting to the next level can use shampoo bars instead of bottles, reusable razors and wooden toothbrushes. They can also buy their food in bulk in their own jars from stores such as Bin Inn. For more tips, see https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/

Legendary party thrower Annie Oxborough is hosting one last knees up at her “Speakeasy” barn at 1168 Leigh Road, in Matakana on Friday, July 2, at 4pm.

The venue has been something of a secret gem, hosting private events, weddings and a regular ladies’ lunch. However, Annie has sold the barn and doesn’t believe the new owner will continue to hire it out. It only has consent to hold six events a year.

To say goodbye to the venue, Annie is hosting a barn dance and barbecue with Mangawhai’s Big D BBQ catering and Auckland’s soulful Mema Wilda playing live.

“It will be one last hurrah to say goodbye to this iconic venue,” Annie says. “It’s going to go off like a bride’s nightie.”

As well as darts and a pool table, the barn contains the entire original bar from the Bridgehouse in Warkworth which was painstakingly moved there piece by piece.

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Southern interchange critical part of Warkworth growth The lack of a southern interchange on the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway to service industry around Woodcocks Road will force a growing number of heavy trucks to drive past schools, local businesses say.

In April, it was revealed that a southern interchange, originally planned for Valerie Close south of Warkworth, was not funded in the 10year Regional Land Transport Plan by the New Zealand Transport Agency and Auckland Transport.

Dave Wyatt, of Wyatts Haulage and Landscape, says it means that the growing industrial area around Woodcocks Road will continue to funnel heavy truck traffic past Mahurangi College.

“We have truck and trailers visiting the yard on Woodcocks Road daily, and we’re just one of the businesses here,” he says.

Dave points out that the Warkworth Structure Plan indicates that a further 40 hectares of heavy industrial zoned land adjacent to Woodcocks will come online between 2028 and 2032.

“It is going to affect everyone. It makes sense to plan ahead for this.”

His suggestion is that an interchange be built where Woodcocks Road intersects the motorway, near Carran

An interchange on Woodcocks Road, where it intersects with the new motorway, could service Warkworth’s industrial zone. Pictured here, the motorway seen from Wyllie Road.

Road. He says NZTA already owns the land, which neighbours the Wyatts yard.

As plans stand, the only alternative route from the industrial area to the motorway on-ramp north of Warkworth is via Mansel Drive and Falls Road, and then making use of either Hudson Road or Hill Street.

Dave says NZTA is understandably reluctant to provide companies with heavy traffic permits for those routes.

“There are houses along the route, including Summerset retirement village

and the new subdivision on Falls Road.

Who wants truck and trailers driving past their house all the time?”

The Hill Street route would also mean a stream of heavy trucks driving past Warkworth School.

Transcon managing director Blake Noble believes it is an inevitability that a southern interchange will be built. In his opinion, NZTA is biding its time until it has certainty about whether it can acquire the land around Valerie Close.

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Transcon trucks will continue to drive to Puhoi to get on the motorway, bypassing the new motorway altogether.

Stephen Murphy of Warkworth Container unloaders on Woodcocks Road says the absence of a southern interchange is “absolutely crazy”.

“We’ve been to the transport forums and the consultations and told them this, but the Government [agency] doesn’t listen,” he says.

“For an extra few million now, it would be a much better outcome for Warkworth.”

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Auckland’s resource consent process in crisis – planner Developers hoping to progress work on Warkworth industrial land as part of the town’s projected growth will need to prepare for lengthy resource consenting delays.

For example, a plan to develop 65ha of light industrial land north of Warkworth remains on hold pending a resource consent – a process which the owner Goatley Holdings says is taking longer than expected.

Mahurangi Matters last reported on the consent application a year ago and Goatley partner Miriam Stevenson says there is still no indication when the consent process might be complete.

Ms Stevenson says Auckland Council officers processing the application say that they are “super busy and really under the pump”.

Warkworth consultant planner Burnette O’Connor, who is handling the application on behalf of Goatley, says she is facing the same difficulty with other large-scale developments, and even smaller ones such as one for a double garage.

Ms O’Connor says in her view, Auckland Council’s planning functions – particularly its resource consenting – are in crisis.

“Staff are stressed and clearly overwhelmed. This is resulting in lack of clear, consistent decision-making, which is then adding significantly to costs and causing significant delays,” she says.

In March, Ms O’Connor set out her concerns to Cr Chris Darby, chair of

Securing a resource consent for the Goatley development is taking longer than expected.

planning, and Cr Linda Cooper chair of Council’s regulatory committee.

“Auckland is by far the most expensive and complicated region to work in. The work I undertake in the Northland and Wellington regions, and the Gisborne area is positive, pragmatic and significantly less stressful,” she wrote.

Ms O’Connor went on to say that in her opinion the workload and demands on Council will only get worse, as various central government directives place more responsibilities

on council’s to respond and deliver planning documents.

Signalled changes to the Resource Management Act are also going to significantly increase the planning workload.

In her response, Cr Cooper acknowledged there was a lot of stress in the planning sector because of many factors, including revenue loss due to Covid-19.

She said the resource consents team is under increased pressure, workloads were 10 per cent higher than last year and she agreed that changes in

legislation is making matters more complex for planners.

She said Council was looking to recruit an additional 20 planners to cope with the increased workloads and was making improvements to its planning systems.

The Goatley development is expected to attract a wide range of businesses, which will likely include car yards, landscaping suppliers, building suppliers, major hardware stores, manufacturers, warehouses and vehicle cleaning stations.

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From left, Higgins project manager Sam Best, Ngati Manuhiri kaumatua Ringi Brown, Higgins managing director Jesse Kay, site supervisor Troy Hopkinson and Auckland Transport project manager Arvin Kumar.

Park and ride underway Work has started on a 137-car park and ride in Warkworth and is scheduled to be completed by March next year – in time for the opening of the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway and Matakana link road.

The first sod was officially turned and the site blessed by Ngati Manuhiri kaumatua Ringi Brown last month.

The contract has been awarded to Higgins, which is also undertaking the Dome Valley safety upgrades. The two projects will share management staff.

Auckland Transport project manager Arvin Kumar says the works coincide with an upgrade of footpaths on Hudson Road, linking the western side of the town to the new park and ride.

However, he says a planned pathway from central Warkworth through Kowhai Park to the park and ride has not yet been funded and will come at a later stage of the project.

The project includes 137 carparks, drop-off spots, bike racks, toilets

and bus stops on either side of State Highway 1. It will service Warkworth commuters who can park their cars and catch the buses to Auckland.

The bus journey on AT services from Warkworth to Auckland currently takes an hour and 25 minutes and costs $7.20.

Commuters catch the 995 bus to Hibiscus Station and then the NX1 to Fanshawe Street in Auckland CBD. According to AT, the 995 bus service carries an average of 213 passengers every weekday.

Mahu City Express director Julian Ostling says he will consider basing his express coach service to Auckland from the park and ride once the motorway is open.

The park and ride project has been funded by the Rodney Local Board from its transport targeted rate. It is expected to cost $3.7 million, down from initial estimates of $5 million.

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Work starts on $10.5 million Warkworth community centre Mahurangi Presbyterian Church secured a building consent last month to begin construction of its $10.5 million community and activity centre in Warkworth.

There are three stages of the build and the consent applies to Stage 1 – the construction of the building’s outer shell, activity centre and meeting/ function area. The activity centre will incorporate a multi-sport facility, while the meeting area will be capable of seating 305 people and have an adjoining café and commercial kitchen.

A later stage will include an auditorium that will seat 450 people.

The church is currently talking to a large number of local contractors and wants to use as many local tradies as possible for the construction.

Senior pastor Nick McLennan said last week that earthworks were complete and laying of the foundation should start any day.

It is hoped the first stage of the project will be completed by December next year. However, pastor McLennan noted the building industry was unpredictable at the moment, due to the difficulty of getting supplies into the country due to Covid-19 and this may introduce delays.

Fundraising campaign manager Brian Dangerfield said the project was about 90 per cent funded.

“We’ve had tremendous support from the congregation, the community and external organisations,” he said.

“We are on track, but there is still

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more to do.”

The building will benefit the Mahu Vision Community Trust by providing larger and more user-friendly spaces to accommodate and deliver their programmes and services. It will also provide space for the local food bank, children and youth activities and large community events.

The church says the multi-sport facility will likely be booked by Auckland Council for 40 hours a week for community sporting activities.

The new centre will be located by the Mahurangi River on one hectare of land at 22 Mansel Drive, across the road from the Summerset Falls Retirement Village and behind Warkworth Toyota.

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Rod says no project is too big or small, but among his specialities are tricky jobs, especially where old structures might otherwise be condemned for demolition.

Most recently he was put in touch with a client in Snells Beach who had been told that restoring their twostorey deck and conservatory would be too difficult to be worthwhile.

Rod kept the conservatory intact while rebuilding a 40-square metre deck with a staircase leading to a 25-square metre deck above.

Overseas, Rod was responsible for the restoration of the Grand Pacific Hotel in Fiji, including the ballroom and pool, as well as the addition of 100 new rooms and back-of-hotel operations.

A shareholder asked him to stay in the country to assist in getting a failed development back off the ground, so Rod also oversaw the construction of the 5-star Marriott Momi Bay Resort.

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Testing times in BID’s first year Few could have predicted the challenges that the One Mahurangi business association would face in the first year of the Warkworth Business Improvement District (BID), introduced on July 1 last year.

The BID is funded by all business property owners in and around Warkworth and last year collected $134,000 through an Auckland Council targeted rate. This moved the association from a voluntary membership and sponsorship model to a position where all businesses who benefited from its work contributed.

Association chair Mark Macky says the first 12 months were “very interesting”, trying to support members through a Covid environment.

“It’s certainly had some challenges, but we believe that we’ve come through it well,” he says. “It’s great to see many of our businesses doing well and we’re still working to support those who have some challenges. We’ve continued to run events to connect our members, providing opportunities to share learnings and experiences.”

Association manager Murray Chapman says last year’s lockdown saw the association facilitating a lot of information for businesses about the wage subsidy and other employment issues.

“Obviously all events were cancelled and we are only just starting to put an events calendar back in place,” he says.

“A programme of networking events is also warming up.”

An issue on the horizon is the impact

The height of the speed bump in Woodcocks Road is just one of the issues that One Mahurangi has been involved in over the past year.

the opening of the new motorway will have on Warkworth retailers next year.

Murray says that in the short-term, it probably won’t be favourable, as most people won’t want to turn back to come into town.

“We will need to come up with ways to make the town a destination in its own right, so One Mahurangi will be talking to retailers about how to make this happen. Events will be a key part of this strategy.”

Mark Macky says One Mahurangi’s advocacy efforts continued strongly over the year.

“We still have many concerns about the lack of investment in infrastructure as our town grows. Hill Street has taken a lot of focus and Dave Stott, our deputy chair, has been working hard with various local groups, Auckland Transport and NZTA. “We hope to have good news on the funding for Hill Street in the

coming weeks.”

Mark says there are still many other issues to work on – tolling on NX2, a centre plan development for Warkworth, reverse sensitivity issues with future urban land, and more roading issues with a southern off-ramp for the motorway, the Sandspit link road and also traffic volumes through Matakana.

Warkworth businessman Alistair Mason, who has been a long-time supporter of the principle of a BID, says Covid has underlined even more the reason why One Mahurangi is needed.

“When times are tough, that’s when you need advocates to press our case,” he says.

“I’ve belonged to a lot of trade organisations and with anything like this, it’s not one single achievement that you point to, but the progress made over time.

“If you don’t keep the squeaky wheel turning on issues like Hill Street then

nothing happens.”

ITSS director Hugh Harvey says it is good to see new blood joining the One Mahurangi committee.

“We have a good team and the association is a huge asset to the town,” he says.

“It might not always be obvious what One Mahurangi is achieving because a lot goes on behind the scenes.

For instance, the speed bump in Woodcocks Road is being remodelled thanks to our efforts, although we would have preferred to see the work done at night. It will be pretty congested when traffic is diverted up Morrison Drive and down Glenmore.

“We’ve also been meeting with Auckland Council about the existing industrial boundary and the new residential areas.

“Covid has made a difference, but I think the association is definitely heading in the right direction.”

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When the Winter Festival was run in 2019, an estimated 6000 people were in Baxter Street for the light show, with a number of those coming especially for the event and staying in the area for a few days. And it is no fluke that the timing of the festival coincided with the school holidays, where we see winter migration of families with young kids to new places. It is the same again this year. The Kowhai Festival will be scaled back a little this year, but being held on a Saturday at the start of spring, it will undoubtedly create increased foot traffic on a normal Saturday’s trading.

Businesses in the region, especially Warkworth where the light show is being held, are encouraged to light up their premises during the Winter Festival. Last time, about 85 per cent of CBD businesses did. The town looked amazing and attracted lots of families. These were all prospective customers who browsed shop windows and admired business frontages. I overheard many conversations as families walked the town with children commenting, “oh, good shop” for the ones that were lit up, or “bad shop” for the ones that weren’t.

We are also encouraging businesses in the industrial area to light up – what better way for the community, especially new residents, to find out about all the businesses on our doorstep? Thanks to Mitre 10, there is a $500 voucher for the best lights display, so it is worth having some fun and using your imagination to build customer loyalty and attract new customers.

This year, the Kowhai Festival Huge Day Out will be held on October 16 along the wharf, Kapanui and Wharf streets. Queen and Baxter Streets will remain open. Here is a great opportunity for retailers to put some effort into attracting customers who will be in the area for festivities. A market day vibe would be easy to achieve if shops put stalls out the front, promoted in-store specials, or offered other incentives to generate footfall and make sales.

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It has been a big job for a committee of six managing the project on top of their day jobs. Pictured, trust chair Graham Slatter.

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Dementia unit nears completion in Maungaturoto Riverview Rest Home in Maungaturoto is expecting to open its newly built dementia unit at the end of July.

It is a big moment for the Maungaturoto Community Charitable Trust, which has been working on the project since 2015.

Chair Graham Slatter says designing and managing the construction of a building that caters for the needs of people with dementia has been a learning process.

Originally, the building was rectangular, but the trust learned that dementia sufferers struggle with hard angles.

“They tend go around in circles and get stopped in their tracks by corners.

So we’ve designed a circular hallway to be a circuit for them to be able to walk around.”

Doors and walls have also been colourcoded, making navigation easier. For example, doors that lead to bathrooms have been painted blue, to match blue walls inside the bathroom, so that residents can navigate by association.

Similarly, bedroom doors are a darker shade of white to differentiate from the lightly coloured hallway. Doors that lead to service areas blend into the colour of wall, indicating they are not accessible.

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Completion of the dementia unit is stage one of the overall project. Stage two will include another eight beds for the growing rest home, while stage three will be a facility for 24/7 hospital care.

Graham says the new unit means that people living in the rest home who develop dementia and might otherwise have been forced to move away can be transferred down the hall.

“With dementia, you try to keep people in the same place as long as possible, because it’s a shock for them to move.”

The Maungaturoto community has been fundraising since 2015 and raised $610,000.

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It’s not about cost cutting. It’s about looking closely at the value you get for what you spend and how you can best create value for your customers.

Start with your fixed costs. You must pay these to keep your business’ doors open. Some of them are negotiable to the extent that there might be a cheaper way to achieve the same effect.

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The concrete slab for the unit first went down in 2016, but the project was put on pause because the trust found it wasn’t eligible for any grants.

Graham says it was just fortunate that when Covid-19 Response and Recovery Fund became available, the project was shovel-ready.

“I had a coffee with Shane Jones in Ruawai and said if we could get $600,000 we would be prepared to borrow the rest.

I never in my dreams thought we would get the full $1.8 million,” he says.

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Council funds Hill Street fix opening of the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway, scheduled for May next year.

The re-designed Hill Street intersection will employ a dual roundabout, which the majority of residents approved when AT consulted on different design options in late 2018.

Warkworth Transport Forum cochair Dave Stott says the progress on Hill Street reflects the efforts of many local people who have campaigned for improvements for years.

“I’ve been involved for eight to 10 years, but there are people long before me who have been campaigning for the intersection going back 30 years,” he says. “A lot of people who were involved originally are probably no longer here, sadly.”

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Mr Stott said people who had worked tirelessly behind the scenes included Transport Forum member Roger Williams and Rodney Local Board member Beth Houlbrooke. Also, local MPs Marja Lubeck and Chris Penk, and before them Mark Mitchell.

Mr Stott said prior to the Planning Committee meeting he had sent a letter to local community organisations asking them to sign a letter backing the Hill Street proposal to be sent to all Auckland councillors.

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Industrial development good for environment say couple Andrew and Julie Boyd of Coresteel Buildings Rodney say that industrial development can be positive for the environment, but it’s going to take some change of habits.

Instead of skip bins, Coresteel Rodney has wool fadge bags on its sites for separating streams of recycling, including steel, plastic, wood and glass. “When it comes to steel, we wouldn’t even have a wheelie bin of waste from the warehouse,” Andrew says.

The wood waste generated on a building site is taken home by staff to be used as firewood or sent to be turned into woodchips.

Coresteel Rodney recycles its plastic wrap via Plasback. Julie is an advocate of Plasback and has tried to encourage other Warkworth businesses to give it a try by gifting them a collection bag.

However, she has found that while business owners are often willing, they have difficulty encouraging staff to take the extra step to sort waste.

Andrew’s solution is simply not to have a skip bin. His observation is that having a skip bin enables people to be lazy about throwing things away, even when they could be recycled.

Currently, around half of waste going into New Zealand landfills is construction waste.

Andrew acknowledges that separating waste streams is a cost, but he believes it saves on the cost of sending waste to landfill via a skip by up to two thirds.

Julie and Andrew Boyd.

“Yes, it’s a cost to us to sort and transport that waste to be recycled, but it would be ridiculous to complain about landfills like in the Dome Valley and then not do something about it.”

The couple believe the industry needs to stop using polystyrene altogether, because it is bulky and costly to transport and sort, and instead use cardboard for packaging.

Andrew and Julie also believe that industrial developments could be a solution to the district’s worsening drought problem. The roofs of large

warehouses collect so much rain that systems are built to slow the flow of water into the wastewater system using detention tanks.

Andrew says that water ought to be collected, and with a bit of imaginative thinking could be stored in a reservoir administered by Watercare.

Meanwhile, Coresteel’s patented “tapered box beam” also reduces the amount of steel needed, while being strong enough for buildings up to 65 metres wide. Wide edges of the bean are used for parts of the structure

where there is the most stress, while the beams taper in the middle where the load is lighter.

The system has proved popular for industrial businesses because it doesn’t require columns in the middle of the structure, freeing up space and making it more versatile.

Recent projects include the Warkworth PlaceMakers, the new Northland Waste transfer station in Sandspit Road and a cool store for kumara in Dargaville, as well as several sheds on lifestyle blocks.

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Residents appeal Mangawhai Central plan Residents’ group Mangawhai Matters has lodged an appeal in the Environment Court against private plan change 78, which permits the construction of hundreds more houses at a development in Mangawhai.

It is anticipated Viranda’s Mangawhai Central development, located on 130ha of land between Mangawhai Village and Mangawhai Heads, will accommodate more housing, a town square, supermarket, hardware store, petrol station, retail shops and light industrial buildings.

Other possibilities touted by the developer include recreational facilities, a school, retirement accommodation, a hotel and a medical centre.

The plan change was adopted by Kaipara District Council on April 28 on the recommendation of a panel comprising two independent commissioners and the deputy mayor.

Mangawhai Central estimates the development will accommodate 1000 dwellings – 500 more than permitted in the District Plan.

In its notice of appeal, Mangawhai Matters says the increase was justified on the basis that the Mangawhai Spatial Plan (MSP) supports urban and residential intensification.

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“aspirational document” that “does not necessarily reflect the carrying capacity of the Mangawhai locality with reference to the three waters (drinking water, wastewater and stormwater), transport requirements, community assets, natural values and funding ability”.

Mangawhai Matters further argues that the Commissioners accepted a historical estimate of household size (2.5 persons) rather than estimates based on recent growth (2.9 persons).

As a consequence, they had significantly

underestimated the population demands on the natural environment, existing infrastructure and amenities.

To address these concerns, Mangawhai Matters’ proposals include increasing the minimum section size to 600sqm in the Residential 3A zone and capping the number of new dwellings at 850.

It further proposes all reticulated residential sites provide a minimum of 25 cubic metres of on-site water storage capacity and 50 cubic metres at non-reticulated sites.

One of the few remaining sites zoned for single house development in Matakana has been sold just days after going on sale last month.

Much of the three hectare block at 939 Matakana Road is currently occupied by the Wharehine/Fletcher Building ready-mix concrete yard and Tumbleweed Nursery, whose leases run until 2029.

However, roughly a third of the land at the rear of the site could be developed immediately, according to selling agent Bayleys, with a potential access off Laly Haddon Place.

The site is next door to Pyrus Grove, the new development of 33 homes going in opposite Matakana Primary School.

Bayleys would only say that the purchaser of the land was “an investor”, and that development of the whole site could only happen before the commercial lease expiry date if tenants were willing to vacate early.

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Industrial tank service starts Mahurangi businesses requiring pressure testing of gas cylinders and tanks now have the chance to have the service performed in Warkworth for the first time.

The opportunity has come about after New Zealand Diving, based in Morrison Drive, decided to expand its testing of scuba equipment to include tanks designed for industrial use.

NZ Diving owner Neil Bennett says the scuba side of the business had slowed down due to Covid and was seasonal. The company was looking for extra work that could make use of its expertise in tank testing.

The company began the service last month, following the successful installation of a $40,000 hydrostatic panel that can test tanks with a capacity of up to 150 kilos.

“Previously businesses were faced with having to send tanks down to Manukau or up to Whangarei, and they would normally have to hire a trucking service to do that. You can’t have these things rolling around in the back of a van,” Neil says.

Neil anticipates the service will be popular with vineyards, who use CO2 in the bottling process, and businesses undertaking welding work, which requires oxygen. Medical centres, which also use oxygen, will likely find the service useful, too.

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Dry July supports cancer charities Look Good Feel Better, Prostrate Cancer Foundation NZ, Bowel Cancer NZ and PINC & STEEL. Look Good Feel Better offers free classes to teach tips and tricks to disguise the visible effects of cancer as well as instill confidence.

Among those to benefit from Look Good Feel Better is Warkworth mother of two Bridgit Gay. Last year, while much of the country was in lockdown, Gay was in hospital having surgery followed by chemotherapy.

The ravaging side effects meant further hospitalisation, and lockdown restrictions meant nobody was allowed to visit her.

“Chemotherapy was really, really gruelling and I ended up back in hospital four times. Life was like I woke up in a bad dream and that bad dream didn’t go away,” Gay says.

Bridgit found Look Good Feel Good on the internet and thought it would be nice to have something nice to do as an antidote to the unpleasant cancer treatments.

She says she had given up taking any interest in her appearance following her cancer diagnosis and had abandoned using makeup.

Warkworth cancer sufferer Bridgit Gay found the Look Good Feel Better classes transformed her outlook.

“Looking at your face in the mirror you feel you look sick, you feel sick and you don’t have the energy,” she says.

But Bridgit changed her mind after attending classes.

“At the class I was looking at the woman opposite me. She had no hair and then all of a sudden she had a bit of makeup on and her eyes looked incredible. She just lit up. She was feeling good and I felt that way too,” Gay says.

“Ever since that class I have been putting makeup on. It just makes me feel a whole lot better about myself again.”

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Government springs for Kaipara Council water upgrades Kaipara District Council is undertaking several water infrastructure projects this year, including replacement of Maungaturoto’s water main pipes as part of a $6 million programme.

The works are able to take place thanks to partial funding from the Government’s Three Waters Reform programme. The KDC unlocked those funds when it agreed to a memorandum of understanding to investigate amalgamation of its assets into a centralised body.

This month, one kilometre of damaged water mains on Hurndall Street in Maungaturoto will be replaced, as well as three kilometres of raw water mains that feed the town’s water treatment plant.

A water reservoir on Griffin Road with a capacity of 300 cubic metres (300,000 litres) will be replaced. A new water trucking filling station will also be built to ensure that households with water tanks have access to topups without having to pay exorbitant prices during summers to water carters from further afield.

The Maungaturoto water supply system services approximately 895 people across 447 connections, as well the Fonterra factory, which draws 1.5 million litres a day.

Other upgrades across the district include pipe replacement in Ruawai

The reservoir on Griffin Road in Maungaturoto – currently just a couple of concrete tanks.

and Kaiwaka, and a new wastewater treatment plant in Te Kopuru. For the projects, the KDC applied for $4.69 million from the Three Waters Reform programme.

Kaipara District Mayor Dr Jason Smith says it’s important for KDC to maintain a seat at the Three Waters Reform table, but has been silent on whether amalgamation is on the cards.

“By opting in to the first stage of the Three Waters Reform last year, we remain part of the conversation, and can continue to represent best the

interests of Kaipara people.

“It has also brought funding for these urgent renewals, bringing real benefits to our communities.”

However, neighbouring councils have signalled that, if they have a choice, they are likely to opt out of the programme, meaning the KDC might not have any partners to amalgamate with.

Auckland Mayor Phil Goff does not believe it would be in the city’s best interest to take on the balance sheets of northern district councils.

“Council is not convinced that amalgamation would improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Watercare’s operation, but would likely require cross-subsidisation by Auckland water ratepayers of regions it was amalgamated with,” Mr Goff says.

“It would also risk taking Watercare’s focus off addressing critical issues around water supply and wastewater in Auckland to tackle inadequate infrastructure in regions beyond Auckland.”

The Whangarei District Council is also reported to intend to opt out of the reform, due to a lack of communication from government.

Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta has said that councils will soon be provided with further information about what reforms will mean for their assets and balance sheets.

She says government-commissioned reports show that between $120bn and $185bn will be needed over the next 30 years to ensure that drinking water is up to standard.

She says that without amalgamation, household water bills could reach $13,900 a year, but reforms could bring that figure down to between $800 and $1800, or $66 to $150 a month.

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Lightyears solar is building solar farms in Ruawai, Waiuku and Paeroa.

Solar power supply for Maungaturoto Construction will soon begin on a 7500-panel solar farm which will supply power to Ruawai and Maungaturoto. Lightyears Solar director Matt Shanks hopes it will be complete by the early new year to make use of the summer sun.

The panels will track the movement of the sun throughout the day. The solar farm will be located on a 5.5-hectare block by the Wairoa River, 8km north of Ruawai.

It will feed power to the Ruawai substation and is expected to fulfil all of the town’s day time power needs. Remaining power will flow down the line to

the Maungaturoto substation.

The solar farm is being built on land identified as prone to flood risk by the Kaipara District Council and therefore not suitable for crops.

Matt says that the panels are being mounted on pivots and would be unaffected by inundation from the Wairoa River.

The 3.4 megawatt solar farm is expected to produce 5.8 million kilowatt hours each year.

The project has been fully consented and is in the procurement stage.

Tomarata farmer Philip Olsen has started a petition to present to Auckland Council asking it to take stock of the area’s underground water resources.

Mr Olsen says farmers and residents have had their bores run dry, affecting their livelihood, and the community needs answers.

“Full disclosure to the public by Auckland Council on groundwater availability and current allocation is requested,” the petition says.

Mr Olsen will be bringing the petition to various community meetings, and once he has a reasonable number of signatures will present it Council Healthy Waters head Andrew Chin.

A hard copy of the petition can be signed at both Tomarata School and the Farm Source store in Wellsford.

Mr Olsen has a 150-hectare dairy farm and his 160-metre deep bore has run dry. He is concerned that if the aquifer falls too far below sea level, it will draw in salt water.

“What would happen to the area if the aquifer fully ran dry or became unusable?”

“I just want Council to figure out how big the aquifer and strata is because I don’t think they truly know.”

He has farmed in Tomarata for 20 years and says that the number of farms and small lifestyle blocks has increased considerably in that time.

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On the farm Bev Trowbridge

Time for a rethink With recent temperatures still up around 19 degrees and high humidity, we could be forgiven for thinking we were in early autumn, rather than nearing the solar minimum. The recent rain has certainly given the grass a much-needed boost. It’s the best rain we’ve had since the New Year storms, and just in the nick of time for lambing, too.

I had my first lambs last week, which is the earliest for my flock by well over a month. My Wiltshires normally start lambing mid to late July, but I have been pulling the date forward to try to combat the dry period that seems to be setting in earlier and lasting Diversification longer each year it seems. We’re fast becoming and thinking outside winter breeding country and struggling with late of the box certainly finishing, more like the East Coast.

Wiltshires, being a wool-less meat sheep, which seems to be the new therefore don’t need shearing, have finally come order of the day. into their own this year, with demand reaching new highs. Fortunately, they’re robust sheep – able to cope with extremes in conditions – which they’ll certainly need to be, going forward.

Getting supplies of many kinds is proving trickier in this mid-pandemic world.

Fertiliser was affected by supply and import issues this autumn, so we missed out on getting our RPR fertilizer on here. According to some commentators, this resource shortage was becoming apparent pre-Covid, with a slow-down in the biggest economies and shortages in crucial resources like energy materials (coal, oil, etc), minerals and the freshwater used to extract or make them. The pandemic may have masked these effects that are thus likely to resurface and prevent the expected global recovery.

This has significant implications for our farming economy in New Zealand, as it is heavily import dependent on agricultural and technological inputs, as well as for our transport energy needs. We are one of the biggest per capita importers of oil in the developed world, a fact that at first glance seems quite surprising considering our much-vaunted high renewable energy grid power system.

So, we may need to get quite a bit more creative in many ways down on the farm. One suggestion being touted is for an increase in biofuel use to replace some of our dependence on oil, especially in the heavy vehicle sector, which would include farming. This isn’t as straightforward as it seems, though, as to grow biofuel, something else has to give, but it may well have legs for using waste like slash from forestry, as well as for planting up some of those steep areas on the farm that don’t grow much grass anyway.

Diversification and thinking outside of the box certainly seems to be the new order of the day. One thing’s for sure, life’s certainly not getting any easier, so we’d better start thinking smarter not harder, as the saying goes. And those methane emissions need much closer scrutiny too; but more on that next time.

Meanwhile, the ewes are looking content, and so all’s well down on the farm, for now.

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NRC adopts new 10-year plan A raft of new initiatives designed to create greater community resilience, improve freshwater health, and realise the Northland region’s collective potential have been adopted in Northland Regional Council’s (NRC) Long Term Plan 2021-2031. Chair Penny Smart says the council will spend over $243 million over the next three years, with significant boosts to biosecurity, managing water catchments, and building resilience to climate change.

Overall, the council’s rates bills will increase 21 per cent in year one of the Long Term Plan, an average increase of about $83 per ratepayer. This will be followed by increases of 14 per cent in year two and 9 per cent in year three.

Councillors collectively believe the increase is necessary for Northland to stay strong and continue growing in changing times, says Chair Smart.

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

The hydrogen era About 40 years ago, I first encountered the term “hydrogen economy” while preparing a talk for a group of environmentally aware farmers. Now the term has gained increasing potency in the push to create a sustainable climate. However, hydrogen has generated considerable controversy among car manufacturers.

Tesla considers hydrogen is unnecessary, while Toyota is expected to expand the development of its already popular hydrogen-powered range, the Mirai.

The prospect of a green hydrogen facility at Tiwai Point is being explored by Dr Andrew Forrest, chair of Fortescue Minerals, one of the world’s largest mining companies. Dr Forrest is in negotiations with local stakeholders and government.

He forecasts that there is a rapid end in sight for coal-fired energy and steel production. The green hydrogen produced in a new Southland facility would satisfy national demand during the global transition into a new transportation era and also create opportunities for export. Interestingly, Sweden is converting its major steel production into a hydrogen-powered process. If the negotiations in Southland are successful, it will be a transformational step forward for Aotearoa in its zero-carbon journey.

I should explain that “green hydrogen” refers to industrial-scale production of hydrogen free of contaminating greenhouse gases. This is in contrast to “grey hydrogen”, which is a major industrial gas formed by the methane-shift process, which generates substantial quantities of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as a by-product. But green hydrogen when used either as a fuel in a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle or novel hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine (such as the revolutionary Aquarius engine) produces virtually no greenhouse gases. Aside from the elimination of greenhouse gases, the use of green hydrogen has some other strategic advantages. It reduces the need for cobalt and lithium, which are in limited quantities worldwide, and which are used in electric vehicle (EV) batteries.

Hydrogen fuel cell technology appears likely to be a primary power source for other major emerging transport applications, including electric planes, trains, buses and ships, where battery power alone would be insufficient.

The choice between hydrogen fuel cells and plug-in batteries in EVs may remain a subject for debate among manufacturers and consumers for some time.

A battery EV charged solely by a national grid, which is largely powered by coal (for example, in Australia) is clearly not carbon zero. But a green hydrogen powered EV emitting only water vapour is as close to carbon zero as is practical at present. Therefore, it seems inevitable that hydrogen-powered transport will be a critical aspect of the lead-up to the zero-carbon world of 2050.

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Job Vacancy: Community Liaison – connector and enthuser Northern Rodney Area • 32-40 hours per week He angitūtanga: about the role: At The Forest Bridge Trust (TFBT) our vision is to create a connected landscape with healthy forest and flourishing indigenous wildlife from the Kaipara Harbour to the Pacific Coast. We are seeking to appoint a Community Liaison worker to facilitate community predator control and community connections.

He kōrero mōu: what we are looking for: • A friendly, mature and confident approach.

• Great at enthusing people and forming respectful relationships.

• Good organisational and planning skills.

• Share our vision and support our values of Respect, Integrity and Empathy • Familiarity with predator control or rural conservation would be an advantage but not essential.

Applications close 12th July 2021. Please email us for an application form or more information. Contact Anne at admin@theforestbridgetrust.org.nz

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Frontline Yard & Customer Focused Role Join a high-performing team Busy Warkworth Branch We are seeking a team player to provide exceptional customer service to our clients within the civil, water, wastewater and drainage industries. Responsibilities will include front counter sales, phone enquiries, customer service, stock control, sales and quotes, deliveries, yard work including the loading/unloading of customer vehicles, and the general operations within our busy Warkworth branch. This is normally a Monday to Friday role with occasional Saturday work.

What you will bring to Hynds: Previous front line / front counter customer service & yard experience in a similar environment or industry Experience operating a forklift Knowledge of our products and how they work is advantageous A keen interest in our industry Current Full Driver's License and Forklift License (F endorsement) Good level of computer literacy Excellent verbal and written communication skills - demonstrate high levels of professionalism and attention to detail You will be self-confident, and you will be able to approach and engage effectively with customers A reasonable level of physical fitness.

Why join Hynds: Competitive salary Southern Cross medical cover Values focused and supportive environment Ongoing learning & development opportunities

We are committed as a team to helping our customers succeed and believe in the Hynds Values to guide the way. Hynds is a place where people matter, where we do what's right and where we connect with our customers.

Pre-employment checks: Hynds are committed to high levels of health and safety. Therefore, all candidates will be expected to pass a pre-employment medical and alcohol & drug screen, along with satisfactorily passing a criminal history check. You will also need the legal right to work in NZ. Interested? Then APPLY NOW! Visit: hyndsjobs.co.nz/Vacancies and use the reference 5445713.

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Wellsford Church of Christ 269 Rodney Street, Wellsford.

Sunday Service 10am.

Contact Dennis 423 8640

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

Wellsford Co-operating Parish 253 Rodney Street, Wellsford.

Sunday Service 9.45am.

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Warkworth Anglican Parish Church Services Christ Church, Warkworth

Every Sunday 8am and 9.30am, 43 Percy St, Warkworth St. Leonard's, Matakana

Every Sunday at 9.30am, Matakana Valley Road, Matakana

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

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For details of our services at Leigh & Kaipara Flats, and other Parish activities, see our website.

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Swimmers turn out at Leigh MAHUHUKITERANGI – CHALLENGING. EXCELLING. BELONGING.

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More than 100 swimmers took the plunge for the annual midwinter swim at Leigh on June 20. Leigh School raised $800 selling hot soup, bread rolls, donated by Ringawera Bakery, and baking made by parents, while Leigh Preschool provided the coffee. The water was a tepid 17 degrees. It was somewhat murky due to heavy rain washing off the hills, but it didn’t deter swimmers. Founder Jan Scott believes this is the event’s seventh year. She says it started with just 15 swimmers.

Free skate lessons in Mangawhai Aotearoa Surf is hosting free “surfskate” lessons at the Mangawhai Activity Zone for children aged eight and above, with sessions at 3pm and 4pm every Tuesday.

Equipment is provided, including padding, helmets and surfskates. Children will learn basics including posture, how to generate speed, and manoeuvres such as bottom turns, cutbacks, carving and snaps. RSVP at www.aotearoasurf.co.nz.

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MEET SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND TEACHERS

Friday, 6 August 9:30-11:30am or 1-3pm Parents and caregivers are welcome to attend.

Children are welcome, (however, they will have an opportunity to visit the school once enrolled at the November Orientation Day).

Mahurangi College - Notice of Pre-enrolment and Ballot Procedures 2022 The Board Of Trustees invites applications from parents who wish to enroll their sons and daughters for Mahurangi College in 2022.

Enrolment at the school is governed by an enrolment scheme which includes a precise description of the home zone, details of which are available on the school website - mahurangi.school.nz or at the school office.

The deadline for all in-zone and out-of-zone applications is Friday, 13 Aug 2021.

The board has determined that up to 5 places are likely to be available in each year level group (Year 7 – 13) for out-of-zone students next year. This number is an estimate only. The exact number of places will depend on the number of applications received from students who live within the school’s home zone.

If the number of out-of-zone applications exceeds the number of places available, students will be selected by ballot. If a ballot is required it will be held on Monday, 23 August 2021. Parents will be informed of the outcome of the ballot within three school days of the ballot being held.

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The Mahurangi Pickleball Club has introduced the sport of pickleball to Wellsford with Thursday night sessions, from 6pm to 8pm, in the Rodney College school gym. It is $5 per person, but the first session is free. The game has elements of table tennis, badminton and tennis, and is played on a badminton-sized court with a “padder” tennis-style bat and perforated ball. It is suitable for all ages.

Book launch in Warkworth A book celebrating the achievements of women athletes by author Dreydon Sobanja will be launched at Warkworth Paper Plus at 6.30pm on Wednesday, June 30. The evening will feature talks by running greats Allison Roe and Sandy Barwick. The book, the Kiwi Runners’ Family Tree 2000-2020 tells the stories of numerous athletes, including Natasha Eady, Olivia Eaton, Zoe Hobbs, Georgia Hulls and Brooke Somerfield.

Northland U16 tournament in Wellsford The Wellsford Rugby Football Club will host the Taniwha Shield U16 Northland Tournament from Monday, July 12, to Friday, July 16. The tournament attracts representative teams from sub-unions across the region, including Bay of Islands, Hokianga and Northern Wairoa. The Rodney Otamatea sub-union has entered a team with players from Otamatea, Wellsford and Tomarata rugby clubs.

Mahurangi College hockey says thanks

To enrol your child at Mahurangi College for 2022, please submit your pre-enrolment application online via our school website: www.mahurangi.school.nz/enrolment

Through the generosity of local businesses, Mahurangi College hockey team‘s trivia night raised $6000. This will contribute to the team’s costs to attend the upcoming Secondary Schools Tournament week in September in Hamilton.

Remaining funds will go towards operational costs, uniforms and gear.

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Warkworth hockey club climbs tables The Warkworth Hockey Club men’s team is aiming for its first championship win this season.

As the second round robin begins at the North Harbour Hockey competition, the team has climbed to the top of the standings tables.

In its first match of the round, it defeated rivals Takapuna Black 2-1.

During the match, Takapuna took an early lead, having 1-0 on the board at half time. In the second half, Warkworth had a goal disallowed, but player Grant Hamilton was undeterred, and scored two further goals, tipping the match.

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having to work for it this season.”

She says the team is aiming to make the top four by the end of the third round in order to have a shot at winning the championship.

This season, five matches were scheduled to be played in Warkworth instead of at Harbour Hockey in Albany – a privilege extended only to the Warkworth Club.

Hamilton says it has been great for promoting the game locally and allowing supporters to attend matches.

Upcoming home games include Sunday, July 18, versus East Coast Bays, and Sunday, August 8, versus Takapuna Black and East Coast Bays White.

Matches start at 1pm and 3pm.

Buchs says.

In its first year as a club, the Warkworth men’s team took fourth in the championship, and then in its second year, took third, in addition to winning the final’s day round.

Buchs says this year the team is aiming to win the championship and finals in order to be promoted from division one to premiere three.

Meanwhile, the women’s team has been playing in division one after being promoted this season.

Captain Donna Hamilton says it has proven to be a fitting challenge for the team, which is now in the middle of the standings table.

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The Wizard of Oz, Mahurangi College. Info and tickets iTICKET.co.nz It’s About Time Matakantata Choir concert, Matakana Village Hall, 7.30pm. Tickets $20 on the door. (see story p22) Last Chance Barn Dance, 1168 Leigh Road, Omaha Flats, 4pm (see story p25) Winter Woolies Wander, Warkworth Wellsford Vintage Car Club, Satellite Station Road, 8.30am. Annual classic car rally.

Info: Anne, ricanne@gmail.com Community Planting, Wellsford Centennial Park, 10amnoon. Bring gloves, spade and suitable clothing. Organised

by Wellsford Lions who will provide refreshments, including mussel fritters.

It’s About Time, Matakantata Choir concert, Warkworth Town Hall, 4.00pm. Tickets $20 on the door. (see story p22) Bingo, Old Masonic Hall, Baxter Street, 7pm. Proceeds to Warkworth Museum.

Puhoi Volunteer Fire Brigade, Volunteer evening, Puhoi Fire Station 7pm-9pm (see story p44) T TO IF YOU WAN Friends of Awa Matakanakana (FOAM), Matakana ORE Community Hall, 7pm. Report on water quality monitoring on SUPPOR T M Glen Eden and Matakana Rivers (see ad p20) N WHY Snells Beach The NZ St Johns LOCAL, THE Snells Beach Residents and Ratepayers Association, Fire Dept  Coastguard  Ambulance  !

S U NOT JOIN Mahurangi East Community Centre, 7.30pm. Speaker Rebecca The Animal Adults in Jane Gifford Kemp: How we can make Snells Beach predator-free by 2050.  Motion  Society  S UPER SAUSAGE SIZZLE Sanctuary Warkworth Area Liaison Group meeting. For all interested On the last Saturday of every month, we’re in Warkworth community issues, RSA basement meeting rooms, 7pm. All welcome.

SUPERraising SAUSAGE SIZZLE much needed funds for local charities Mahurangi Combined Friendship Club, Mahurangi East and organisations—perhaps groups that would Community Centre, 9.30am. The club aims to provide regular not normally get the exposure within the local opportunities for the extension of fellowship & new friends IF YOU WANT combined with new interests & activities. Info: 962 6921. community. Over $4,500 raised so far!

TO SUPPORT MORE LOCAL,    Women’s health talk, The Celtic Barn, Waipu, 9.30am-2.15pm. THEN IF YOU WANT WHY TO SUPPORT NOT JOIN US!    Organised by Region 7 Rural Women NZ. Speakers from MORE LOCAL,    Waipu Natural Health Centre, Northland Rural Support Trust THEN WHY NOT JOIN US!   On the last Saturday of every month, we’re  raising much with keynote speaker Tash Crosby from Talk Peach raising needed funds for local charities and organisations— awareness of ovarian and other gynaecological cancers. groups that would not month, normally getraising the exposure On the last Saturday of every we’re much Lunch provided. Entry $5 for members, $10 non-members. perhaps needed fundscommunity. for local charities organisations— within the local Overand $4,500 raised so far!

RSVP to heathersorensen55@gmail.com perhaps groups that would not normally get the exposure within theSuper local community.

Over $4,500 so far!

July’s Sausage Sizzleraised supports: Mahurangi Kindergarten fundraising night, Matakana The Rotary Foundation, July’s Super Sausage Sizzle supports: Cinemas, from 7.15pm. Showing Black Widow. Tickets $25 July 10am—2pm, The 31st, Rotary Foundation, including beverage. Raffle tickets & spot prizes on the Next toJuly the Warkworth Butchery 31st, 10am—2pm, night. Movie screens 8.15pm. Tickets: Sausages supplied

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Auckland Opera Studio concert, former Vivian Galley, Omaha Valley Road, 5pm. Info: www.aucklandoperastudio.co.nz Parade of Lights, Warkworth Wharf from 3pm. Parade starts at 6.30pm. Part of the Winter Festival of Lights.

7-8.30am Tuesday 6th July, Fight the Tip public meeting. Wellsford Community Centre, under the Norfolk Pine, next to 1pm. Hosted by Fight the Tip, Ngati Whatua and Ngati 7 Queen Street, Warkworth Manhuiri. (see story p1) With our Warkworth Women’s Institute meeting, Warkworth compliments to all of our local Anglican Church, 1.30pm. Meet every second Tuesday of the Rotarians “Charity of Choice” Rotarians “Charity of Choice” and Rotarians “Charity of Choice” and and Charity Navigator’s top hard-working month, new members welcome. Info: Moira 425 0089 Charity Navigator’s top 4-star rating Charity Navigator’s 4-star rating 4-star top rating trades people Forest & Bird Warkworth, Totara Park Retirement Village Hall, Mehran Zareian Brian Tuck 7.30pm. Talk by Martin Evans of Foam. Why sedimentation is Mehran Zareian Brian Tuck so damaging to our rivers and harbour.

Branch Manager President President Barfoot & Thompson Branch Manager Rotary Club Warkworth Museum talk, Auckland’s fruit bowl: heritage stories of Morrison’s Orchards and Lemora Winery, 10am. Cost $5, booking essential. Info: warkworthmuseum@xtra.co.nz Snells Beach Fire Dept.

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Kaiwaka powerlifter aims for world record Kaiwaka’s Bernie Hall is chasing his personal powerlifting best of 270kgs, and is eyeing the world record for his age group of 275kgs. He will have two opportunities.

Hall will compete in both the national masters powerlifting competition on July 17 and the national open on August 28, which are both affiliated with the Global Powerlifting Committee (GPC).

Hall recently qualified after lifting 260kgs at a competition in Avondale in Auckland.

He has managed once to lift 270kgs, two years ago, and is looking to replicate that success, despite being a little older at 45.

Hall says achieving a world record is not easy because GPC competitions do not test for performance enhancing drugs.

Competitors are up against athletes from other parts of the world where doping is not as frowned upon, but Hall refuses to use steroids.

Lifting weights in a competition is also much harder than when working out in the gym.

Competitions require athletes to follow the movement prompts of adjudicators and lift using clean form. They have to lift a barbell from the ground in a clean vertical line, until the knees and back are straight, without “hitching” or jerking the bar, otherwise the lift doesn’t count.

At these weights, lifts also have to be executed with technical precision to avoid injury.

“A fellow competitor of mine curled the bar with his bicep and the muscle

Bernie has trained at the Kaiwaka Fitness Centre since 2005 and won his first competition in 2014.

just tore off and he had to have surgery.”

Hall says when attempting to lift a weight that heavy, athletes have to enter an adrenalin-fuelled fight or flight response in order to accomplish it.

He uses a common mental technique among lifters, imagining that he is lifting a car off his daughter. Top

level lifters undergo hypnotherapy to achieve this mental state.

“You can’t calmly attempt to lift hundreds of kgs – it just won’t happen.

You have to feel the aggression.”

Hall is a level 6 qualified massage therapist with the New Zealand College of Massage, but training has taken him away from this work.

“I’ve developed too many callouses to be able to comfortably give massages.”

Fortunately, he is the Kaiwaka Fitness

Centre’s first ever sponsored athlete and has been assisted with competition entry, training and gear.

Hall is training three to five days a week but is only able to train powerlifting once a week to allow his body to recover from the strenuous lifts.

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