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Building a future pages 39-55 Success! Mahurangi River Restoration Trust members and supporters celebrate funding to dredge the Mahurangi River.

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Trust proposes high-speed ferry terminal

The Mahurangi River Restoration Trust, buoyed by the Government’s recent announcement to provide $9 million to clean up the Mahurangi River, is already thinking about the next stage.

The Trust wants to establish a $7 million harbour precinct on the river

for a boating and ferry terminal, which would provide a transport link between Auckland and north Rodney.

They propose to build the precinct on 18ha of Crown land within an inlet between the end of Hamilton Road and the end of Dawson Road in Snells Beach.

Known as plot 217, it was once reclaimed land used for farming before flood gates were opened, resubmerging it.

The Trust proposes that some of the silt removed from the river as part of the restoration project could be used to build up the land.

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Trust proposes high-speed ferry terminal for the whole district.

One Warkworth committee member Susan Vize told Mr Davis that cruise ship tours didn’t venture into Mahurangi, despite its tourism opportunities, because of traffic congestion on State Highway 1.

She said a high-speed ferry from the cruise terminal in the CBD would allow tourists to visit Te Ao Marama in Te Hana for a cultural experience in just over an hour – much faster than having them travel to Rotorua.

River Restoration Trust member Peter Thompson envisioned a high-speed electric hydrofoiling catamaran ferry travelling at 35 knots. This would take 45 minutes to reach central Auckland.

“Imagine commuters and university students being able to take the ferry from Snells Beach and arrive right in the centre of the city,” he said.

Mr Thompson said at this stage the Trust was only appealing to the Government to consider providing $250,000 for the consent process, so that plans could be put in place.

Looking to the future, a subsequent phase of the project could include developing walking and cycling paths along the Mahurangi River between Warkworth and Snells Beach.

Last week, the Ministry of Environment awarded the Mahurangi River Restoration Trust $4.06 million to finish dredging the Mahurangi River.

A further $5 million was awarded

to Auckland Council for riparian planting and fencing to prevent sediment building up in the river again. The government is hoping that the projects will create 105 new jobs.

Trust board member Steve Burrett expects the dredging will be finished

by October 2021. It is anticipated that a dredged river will reap a host of environmental, recreational and economic benefits for years to come.

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Te Tai Tokerau MP Kelvin Davis, left, hears Peter Thompson’s vision for transport on the Mahurangi River.

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General election candidates tussle at Warkworth Town Hall Around 150 people braved chilly weather to attend a Meet the Candidates meeting in the Warkworth Town Hall last week.

Candidate Beth Houlbrooke (ACT) joked that it was as cold inside the building as out, saying it was hard to talk because she was suffering from “brain freeze”.

“Council really ought to do something about the heating in the town hall,” she quipped.

Joining her on stage were other candidates contesting the Kaipara Ki Mahurangi electorate in the General Election. They were Chris Penk (National), Marja Lubeck (Labour) and Callan Neylon (Social Credit).

Ms Houlbrooke took an early pot shot at the Government, saying that it was determined to isolate the country from the rest of the world because of Covid-19 but at enormous economic cost.

“We have to ask ourselves how long can we afford to remain cut off from the rest of the world. Our economic success relies on visitors and the travel industry is on its knees,” she said.

But Marja Lubeck defended the Government’s record on Covid-19, saying that the night’s meeting would be unthinkable in many countries still experiencing lockdown and where people died every day from Covid.

She said because of the Government’s strong health response, it was now in a good position to kick start the economy with initiatives such as the wage subsidy, which had enabled as many people as possible to keep their jobs.

Meanwhile, Chris Penk stressed his commitment to infrastructure, indicating his support for the restoration of the Mahurangi River, the upgrading of the Hill Street intersection and the construction of the Matakana link road. At the same time, he expressed his opposition to the proposed tolling of the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway.

Callan Neylon used much of his available speaking time to criticise the prospect of a landfill in the Dome Valley. He said it was good that the Government had just pledged $100 million to clean up the Kaipara Harbour, but this work was entirely

Chris Penk stressed his commitment to infrastructure.

undone by the “seeming acceptance” of a landfill in the Dome.

“We don’t need landfills at all any more. We can look to innovative technological solutions such as wasteto-energy plants,” he said.

None of the candidates expressed any enthusiasm for an independent north Rodney, with Marja Lubeck emerging as most resistant to the idea. She said the amalgamation of north Rodney into the wider Auckland region was too far advanced and Labour would not support another referendum on whether north Rodney should become independent.

One of the most contested issues on the night was the issue of guns. Both

Chris Penk and Beth Houlbrooke criticised Labour’s policy on guns in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings, with Beth Houlbrooke describing them as a knee-jerk reaction that had made “overnight criminals” of licensed firearms owners.

Marja Lubeck disagreed, saying the Government’s swift action on guns following the shootings mirrored its swift response to Covid-19.

“One of the important decisions that was taken straight away after the mosque shootings was that we were not going to wait for another massacre,” she said.

Kaipara wins big after securing $100 million to restore harbour The Kaipara Harbour was the big winner among 22 environmental projects announced last week, receiving $100 million of the $160 million fund.

It is hoped that the Kaipara restoration project, which involves planting and fencing of waterways that feed into the harbour will create 1000 jobs over 10 years.

It was chosen from a list of more than 300 projects submitted by regional councils.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the new green jobs would help to displace job losses from the tourism industry. The fund has been awarded to the Integrated Kaipara Harbour Management Group (IKHMG) which has been building a network of councils, iwi, landowners and landcare groups since 1996.

The $100m grant has turned the

IKHMG from a small group of coordinators into an empire that will oversee a 1000-strong workforce responsible for 640,000ha.

The catchment spans from the Waitakere Ranges in West Auckland to southern Hokianga.

IKHMG chair Willie Wright says a whole industry will be created around building nurseries to supply plant seedlings for the restoration project, planting the seedlings and building fences. Willie says plants cultivated at nurseries will be ‘eco-sourced’ from natives already within the Kaipara catchment to maintain species that have always been there.

“I am really excited for the harbour. It has been degrading for 160 years since the area was deforested of kauri.”

Jobs will also be created from pest control, which will be required to prevent rabbits and possums from

eating planted seedlings.

The IKHMG is in conversation with local avocado, watermelon and kumara industries to provide further employment for the harbour workforce.

“These jobs will last generations. It starts with a 10-year project, but it will take 100 years to fully restore the Kaipara.

“We will be working with iwi and local communities to upskill workers.”

The $100 million from the government will cover the first six years of the project, and then it is expected that councils will cover the remainder as part of their 10 year plans.

Willie says structures will be put in place to ensure the project is accountable to both taxpayers and ratepayers.

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Willie says in the 1960s, the Kaipara Harbour had thriving mussel and oyster beds, but they have been poisoned by sediment, which also pulls phosphate and nitrogen into the water.

Lush seagrass meadows that provide a habitat for spawning snapper have also been strangled by invasive species such as funnel worm.

“The Kaipara was the refrigerator for local communities. We want our grandkids to be able to enjoy the harbour the way it was.”

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Crazy spending In a time when Auckland Council is basically insolvent, we have our Rodney Local Board, who are totally controlled by Rodney First members Phelan Pirrie (chairperson) and his deputy Beth Houlbrooke, on their usual spending sprees on their grandiose edifices. For example, their latest temporary Park and Ride to be built opposite the Z Station on SH1 at a cost of around $3 million to $4 million. And yes, it’s apparently only temporary to serve their local buses, which should be cancelled anyway due to the very low patronage using them.

Why do they think us ratepayers should be forking out this sort of money when there are car parks at the showgrounds right next door to their proposed Park n’ Ride, which are very rarely used apart from some Saturdays? Surely, the part of the car park adjacent to the rodeo grounds could have a bus shelter built, plus some new lines painted for the three or four buses that might use it, and, hey presto, you have a temporary Park and Ride for maybe $80,000 – giving us a saving of a mere $3 million to $4 million of our money. Rodney First also wants to build a new walkway from Kowhai Park, which includes a new bridge that will link Warkworth to their new Park and Ride at an apparent cost of about $1 million.

What about the gravel roads and the blocked drains in north Rodney? Ah, sorry these don’t buy you votes, do they? Unfortunately, our three local

independent Local Board members have no say in these or most other matters, as Rodney First has a majority block vote with its five members from the Helenville/Kumeu area who have no interest in north Rodney. Yet the one member from north Rodney, Beth Houlbrooke, votes with that Rodney First block. It’s disgraceful. It’s time all north Rodney ratepayers woke up and stopped this sort of wasteful spending.

Maury Purdy, Warkworth

Dump the dump Regarding the proposed dump in the Dome Valley. Toxins from this dump will find their way into our water supply. Source-water contaminants of concern include arsenic, asbestos, radon and agricultural chemicals.

Of these, the strongest evidence for a cancer risk involves arsenic, which is linked to cancers of the liver, lung, bladder and kidney. So, it is common sense what Greg Sayers is saying in his article about building a waste-toenergy plant instead (MM June 17).

We should strive to bring public and legal pressure against those who are going to pollute the New Zealand environment, deplete and poison our water resources and threaten the health of future generations for the private profit of large overseas companies.

Otherwise, only when the last tree has been cut down and the last stream and groundwater is poisoned, will we realise we cannot eat or drink money.

Chas Benest, Snells Beach

Too good to be true I agree with Kevin Smith (MM July 1) that waste-to-energy by burning has costly pollution issues. It could only be a partial alternative to landfilling.

However, he is mistaken in claiming that his USGIS process is far better and could generate 750MW of electricity from Auckland’s waste.

Using efficiency data from the USGIS website, I estimate that his USGIS generator could make only 54MW of electricity. In comparison, the real landfill gas power plant proposed by Waste Management for the Dome Valley landfill would yield 12MW of electricity. The USGIS concept converts mixed waste into uniform storable or burnable pellets, including being heated several times to 1200C to destroy pathogens with an undisclosed source of energy. Heating Auckland’s waste just once to 1200C would require about 40 MW of energy. Therefore, the complete USGIS scheme is likely to be a net consumer of energy.

The website claims that USGIS has developed an emissions-free process to convert virtually all urban waste into electricity and clean water, but there is no reference to any proof-ofconcept plant. Unfortunately, careful reading of that website reveals that the American USGIS process is more fantasy than reality. If an idea sounds too good to be true, then it usually is.

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Dozy parker It’s enlightening to see how Mahurangi Matters reports about new cycle and walk ways in our region. Thank you. But on that topic it always irks me a bit when I see a situation like this (pictured) as it could have been avoided with just a little bit of common sense. It was no problem during our dry summer months to navigate around the parked cars but as the wet weather has now arrived, it is a bit annoying to go over the grass with bicycles and especially with mobility scooters. Maybe you would know how that could be corrected without having too many consultants involved?

Thomas Mischler, Snells Beach

Correction In the July 1 edition, the Mahurangi Matters wrote that the community of Albertlanders that settled in Port Albert were Bohemian. They were, in fact, from Yorkshire, England. Our reporter has been sent to the Albertland Museum to complete his education.

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Sometimes the best of media like yours produce amusing if not ironic pages. Page 35 (MM July 1) has a good article on how TOSSI is attempting to restore habitat for native fish like the kokopu while protecting them from predators like cats. Kia kaha Tossi. Alongside is an advert from a veterinary service telling us how they saved a cat from diabetes.

While recognising the social benefits of cats to some people living on their own, I suggest that all cats have the desexing operation. This means we can kill two birds with one stone (admittedly, not the best of metaphor given the context) – people get to keep their pet while over time the cat population, especially the feral ones, will gradually be eliminated. By the way, our native birds are all behind this suggestion as well.

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One positive thing about this is we’re focused on what’s done with our rates. On the other hand, last time you bought a coffee or went to the supermarket did you glance at the GST on the receipt? Unlikely. In 2019, the government collected a staggering $19 billion in GST, that figure was only eclipsed by PAYE at $33 billion. Perhaps we should ask what our GST is being spent on?

Auckland Council’s Emergency Budget has shown that property rates make up 37 per cent of the Council’s revenue with the balance coming from user-pays charges, development contributions and dividends from Ports of Auckland and Auckland International Airport. As this non-rates income crashed, a gaping hole appeared in Council’s budget.

Rodney is the second-fastest growing area in Auckland. House building from Riverhead to Warkworth has highlighted the lack of infrastructure. But infrastructure should be in lock-step with growth, not at some unspecified time in the future. The lack of funding for population-driven infrastructure could not have come at a worse time.

History shows government is reluctant to fund Auckland’s infrastructure unless voters are going apoplectic. The previous government conducted the political equivalent of the dance of the seven veils before finally contributing to the Central Rail Link. This government hyped light rail but that’s mired in MMP politics, stranded somewhere in the traffic jam on the North-Western motorway.

To add insult to injury, when projects like the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway are finally built Aucklanders are seen as an easy touch for revenue gathering in the form of tolls.

Meanwhile, governments have unleashed immigration on Auckland creating economic growth and healthy GST revenues. The government also enjoys access to higher levels of borrowing than council and a wider ability to increase revenues. They have passed on responsibility for convoluted RMA and building code regulatory and social functions to the Council, neatly sidestepping the deep frustration all this red tape causes, while avoiding the costs Council has to recoup. It’s not surprising Council operating costs have increased. Every time Government creates some new regulation, it is frequently Councils who are left having to implement them.

It’s time to move away from property rates as a way of funding the huge list of growth-related projects we need to keep the city moving. There are $6 billion of unfunded projects in Auckland’s Regional Land Transport Plan. The government should put in place a mechanism to return a portion of our GST to Auckland Transport, specifically for growth-related projects. This would free up funding to increase repairs and renewals on our crumbling road network and tackle the local projects that won’t be delivered for decades under the current funding arrangements. This election we need a government that will return our taxes to deal with Auckland’s transport mess, something to consider when casting your 18 Hanover Street, Wellsford vote.

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Mahurangi traveller relieved after Covid journey ordeal

Kelly Grovehills says she will frame the boarding passes that allowed her to board a flight home.

the Australian border authority to allow her to enter Australia, plus a three-day transit visa.

Even this was not enough. When she checked in at Heathrow for the second time, Qatar Airways was obliged to phone each of the separate authorities and confirm that her documents were in fact genuine.

“It was about 50 minutes before any Kiwi got their boarding passes,”

Kelly says.

She describes overnight quarantine in Sydney as chaotic, with a single “harassed” nurse obliged to conduct medical checks on an entire planeload of people.

But she says her treatment on arrival in New Zealand was “A1” and decries media reports, which have suggested our border controls are a mess.

Instead, she says they ran like a smooth

military operation.

At Auckland airport, about half a dozen booths were set up where nurses examined passengers. Those who had symptoms consistent with Covid-19 were sent to a “quarantine” hotel.

Those without symptoms were sent to a “managed isolation” hotel.

At Kelly’s hotel, air force personnel registered passengers, escorted them to their rooms and handed over a folder describing what was allowed and not allowed over the next 14 days.

The arrivals were confined to their rooms but could book an escorted walk during the day, as long as they maintained social distancing and travelled singly in the lift. A nurse checked on them every second day.

Friends could drop off books and jigsaw puzzles in the lobby, but no contact was allowed. Kelly had to content herself with waving to them from her hotel room window.

Kelly noticed police cars turning up occasionally. She was told if the isolated refused to obey the rules, police were immediately informed and the offenders were taken to a “naughty hotel” where restrictions were tighter and a police officer was on duty on every floor.

Now out of isolation, Kelly says it’s a relief to be back home.

“In the UK, the Government response to this thing has been at least careless and at worst negligent. Here, by contrast, decisive action and care has clearly paid off,” she says.

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Scotts Landing resident Kelly Grovehills vows she will frame her airline boarding passes after a harrowing seven-week ordeal attempting to return to New Zealand in a world plagued by Covid-19.

Kelly set off on her adventure of a lifetime in January, planning to spend a year travelling around the United Kingdom, Europe, India and Nepal.

But once she reached Scotland, the seriousness of the global pandemic became ever more apparent and relatives urged her to head home.

Kelly prevaricated in the hope that things would blow over. However, one by one countries she hoped to visit shut their borders and she realised her touring plans were in tatters.

Nevertheless, coming home proved easier said than done.

“It took me seven weeks. I had three flights cancelled and was refused permission to board a further flight at Heathrow airport,” she says.

It has led Kelly to issue a warning to anyone thinking of travelling overseas.

Travellers must be prepared for their travel plans to be disrupted at short notice in a highly volatile situation.

Kelly eventually found flights that had her transiting through Sydney. But to board the plane, she needed a letter from the New South Wales health authority clearing her to travel, a letter from New Zealand immigration saying she was a New Zealand permanent resident, permission from

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Houlbrooke suffers as ACT gains more momentum ACT party candidate for the Kaipara Ki Mahurangi seat Beth Houlbrooke says she was a “victim of her own success”, after her party stripped her of the deputy leader role and dropped her down from number 2 to number 13 on the ACT party list.

Ms Houlbrooke has been replaced Brooke van Velden as deputy and number 2. Ms van Velden is a 27-yearold aide to party leader David Seymour and helped shepherd his End of Life Choice Bill through Parliament.

Ms Houlbrooke, who is currently deputy chair of the Rodney Local Board, says the irony is that she has spent the last nine years rebuilding the party from a low point in 2011.

The success of that work has meant a huge amount of new talent has joined the party and in turn led to a large number of high calibre candidates being available for the party list.

“They have reordered it and, unfortunately for me, I am down at 13 but am still fully supporting the ACT campaign,” she says.

On current polling, ACT might reasonably expect to pick up three seats at the next election. The demotion means Ms Houlbrooke has gone from being almost certain to enter Parliament to being almost certain not to do so.

“These things happen. It’s a tough business – politics can be brutal. I have

to keep the bigger view in mind and that is to get more ACT MPs elected to Parliament,” Ms Houlbrooke says.

Ms Houlbrooke says the party list is ordered by a selection committee appointed by the ACT Board. She was not on the board when the committee was chosen and does not know what criteria was used to order candidate rankings.

“I may not be privy to all the reasons my list ranking has been dropped, but I do appreciate and understand that they have a strategy to get more people elected.”

Ms Houlbrooke says post-election she will be “100 per cent back” doing Local Board work, something she enjoys and would have missed. She says many people have called her expressing relief that she is now unlikely to relinquish her Local Board role.

ACT leader David Seymour says Ms Houlbrooke has been a victim of ACT’s growth. Since the 2017 list selection party membership and polling have quadrupled.

“The selection simply became more competitive,” he says.

“I won’t miss Beth for the simple reason that she is not going anywhere.

She remains an important candidate for the party in Kaipara ki Mahurangi and everyone in ACT is proud to have her as a candidate.”

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Vale Drew Marshall Drew Marshall defied diagnosis, hanging on two days longer than the nurses said was possible, passing away with family at his side at Warkworth Hospital last month.

Born in 1945, at the end of World War II, Brian Andrew Marshall was named after his uncle who had fought in Crete, but was always known as “Drew”.

He attended Southwell School in Hamilton and later St Kentigern College, where he developed his love of cricket and rugby.

Things changed for the Marshall family in 1960 when his father Bill Marshall passed away, in the middle of the Nordmeyer black budget, which introduced a 60 per cent death duty.

Two family farms had to be sold and it was decided that Drew should leave school and help his mother on the remaining farm.

Eventually Drew and brother Rod set up the Marshall Brothers company and bought farms in Howick and Kaipara Hills, and leased more farmland in Glendowie and Bastion Point.

Bastion Point threw up a few curve balls for Drew. His cows once featured on the front page of the New Zealand Herald drinking water out of the fountain at Mission Bay. When the land was passed over to local iwi, Drew negotiated with then Prime Minister Robert Muldoon until he was fairly compensated for all the fencing he had built.

Drew learned to sail at the family holiday home in Manly. In the early 1970s, he and Rod decided to have an ocean racing boat built to have a crack at the Sydney to Hobart race. They sailed the boat

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Drew met his wife Kate at a 21st party in Whitford in 1965. They shared an on-and-off romance for eight years before Drew proposed to Kate from a red phone box on Great South Road, Auckland. At the time, Kate was working in Edinburgh and travelling around Europe. She accepted, and they went on to share 47 years of marriage and four children – William, James, Hamish and Susannah. The newlyweds moved to Warkworth in 1978. Livestock farming was replaced by kiwifruit orchards, and the couple built up a large-scale operation, employing more than a 100 people a year.

Around 1995, Drew joined United Real Estate and worked in rural property for 20 years.

Soon cricket was taking priority, as twin sons Hamish and James Marshall’s professional careers took off. Early in their Northern Districts career, the twins were playing at Seddon Park against South Africa and Drew was invited to watch from the commentary box.

Commentators Bryan Waddle and Kevin Hart asked Drew which of the twins had made a catch. His reply: “I wouldn’t have a clue – ask their mother.”

Drew had time for everyone and gave a lot to the Warkworth community. He served as chairman of the Warkworth A&P Show for 25 years, was on the Vestry at the Anglican Church, coached rugby at Kaipara and Mahurangi clubs and supported cricket, netball and the odd ballet recital. He will be remembered for his cheerful laugh and sense of humour.

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Some feared that the Wellsford ASB might never reopen.

Wellsford bank is back, but only three days a week Having failed to reopen when the country moved to Alert Level 1 on June 8, the Wellsford branch of ASB has finally reopened – but opening hours have been cut to three days a week.

The bank is now open on Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 9am to 4.30pm, instead of five days a week as before.

Wellsford is one of 25 branches throughout the country that have had their hours cut by ASB, while a further nine city branches have been closed permanently.

ASB’s executive general manager of retail banking, Craig Sims, said the closures were not a cost saving exercise, but due to changing customer banking habits, and he pointed out that no jobs would be lost. He said there had been a 42 per cent decline in branch

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“No jobs will be lost as a result of these changes. Team members will have the opportunity to move to another branch or other roles within ASB, supported by training to provide more specialised guidance and advice.”

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Rama Marrow met some of his favourite actors, Michael Hearst and Josh Mackenzie, while performing on set last year.

Actor plays action hero after doing his homework Warkworth’s Rama Marrow, 12, will star on the silver screen this year in Northspur, a Kiwi production about the downfall of modern society in the wake of an electromagnetic pulse.

Rama has been with an acting agency for most of his life, but this will be his first feature film.

He turned down his first job when he was just four years old, filming an advertisement for Air New Zealand, because it featured meat, and he was vegetarian.

“I think he was quite freaked out by the lobster,” his father Dan Marrow says.

Rama has performed in plays at Matakana School and Mahurangi College and says he has always known he wanted to be an actor.

“I used to dress up a lot as Indiana Jones and Spiderman. I’ve never been shy, and when I found out about acting, I knew it was what I wanted to do.”

Rama says he felt right at home on set in Marlborough, shooting Northspur over four weeks in November last year, and enjoyed crawling through tunnels in bunkers, pretending to get shot.

He especially liked working with actor Michael Hearst, who has starred in Hercules and Spartacus.

Rama says his most difficult scene required him to break down and cry while explaining how his parents died.

“He hasn’t had any formal training, but he nailed it and never forgot his lines or had to do retakes,” his father says.

The film is being promoted overseas and will be great exposure for Rama, who is named fourth on the credits.

It is expected to be released in September, possibly in theatres or on online streaming services.

When it comes out, Rama may not officially be allowed to watch it because the action-packed film could end up with an R13 rating.

The film is set after an electromagnetic pulse strike brings down modern society. The protagonist must compete with gangsters to secure lifesaving medicine for his wife.

Rama plays a young boy who has escaped the captivity of a gang and is trying to survive in a cabin.

Rama intends to pursue acting after school and hopes to audition for more roles soon.

Before Covid-19 disrupted the film industry, Rama had auditions for the Lord of the Rings television series and a Peter Pan movie.

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Jak ready to raise roof post-lockdown New showcase Popular covers band White Chapel Jak will kick off encourages young their “Return of the Jak - Here’s to us Nu Zuland!” tour with two concerts at the Leigh Sawmill Café next month. They will follow up with another concert at artists to shine the Warkworth Town Hall on September 5.

The band is renowned for putting an acoustic, funkgroove spin on upbeat songs that everyone knows and loves.

Its 13-stop North Island tour will perform at venues between Whangarei and Napier before wrapping up in November.

The band see the tour as something of a postlockdown celebration.

“We’re so excited to celebrate what New Zealand, as a team of five million, have achieved during lockdown,” guitarist Bonnie Hurunui says.

“Like many others, our livelihoods – through our ability to entertain and perform – was taken away during lockdown. Now we’re back, and we couldn’t be more excited and ready to raise the roof and celebrate. Here’s to us, New Zealand.”

White Chapel Jak claimed the RNZ 2018 Battle of the Covers Band title and have performed more than 600 gigs around New Zealand since 2014, including Soundsplash 2020 and the Bay of Islands ‘iT’ festival.

The four-piece acoustic band are lead singer and rhythm guitarist Bonnie Hurunui, guitarist Nathan Boston, drums/percussion Dean Tinning and double bassist Michael White, who is legally blind.

Whitechapel Jak performs at the Leigh Sawmill Café on Friday, August 14, at 7.30pm, and on

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Saturday, August 15, at 7pm. The band performs at the Warkworth Town Hall on Saturday, September 5, at 6pm. For tickets visit, facebook.com/ tours/714680319372503/

An exclusive online exhibition and art supplies are being offered by Mangawhai Artists in a bid to encourage and nurture creativity among local children and young people.

The Youth Art Showcase is looking for art submissions from artists aged from four to 20 who live in Mangawhai and the surrounding areas, including Tomarata, Tapora, Tauhoa, Kaiwaka, Wellsford, Warkworth, Waipu, Maungaturoto and Paparoa, as well as students from Otamatea High School and Rodney, Bream Bay and Mahurangi Colleges.

Organisers say artworks of all kinds are welcome, such as drawing, painting, print, sculpture, collage, photography, or items constructed out of wood or other materials.

“Creating connections and expressing ourselves through art adds positively to our wellbeing,” they say.

One entry per person is allowed and all entries need to be photographed and submitted online.

All artworks will be showcased on the Mangawhai Artists’ website and several artists in each age bracket will win an art supply pack. An award ceremony and community celebration will be held at the Mangawhai Artists Gallery in the spring.

For more information and entry details, visit youth.mangawhaiartists.co.nz

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Dealing to the Dark Side Somehow, 2020 has managed to simultaneously feel like both the shortest and longest year ever. It seems only yesterday we were enjoying the long tail of summer, and Covid-19 was something only news-nerds had heard of.

Yet somehow the shutdown month of April seemed – particularly for those with young children – to last a decade. Without the usual distractions of work, school and social engagements, days felt like weeks. Minutes like hours. Time itself seemed to bend – the usual rules just didn’t apply. Was it Tuesday today or Wednesday? I really don’t remember.

Amid the weird time-bending and constant threat of a nasty disease, we had financial ruin added to our list of stressors. Those without solid work were left in a precarious position. Even those with apparently solid work soon realised it wasn’t as solid as they’d hoped. Wondering if you’re going to be able to make rent or pay the mortgage beyond next month is a pretty potent source of stress.

It’s therefore unsurprising that many of us have turned to alcohol as a quickacting pressure-release valve. Maybe that daily pint turned into two or three over the shutdown period; or maybe your weekend-only drinking continued into Monday … and then Tuesday, Wednesday and so on. When times are tough, we drink more booze to cope. If this sounds just a little bit too close to home, then congratulations: you’re human.

The problem with habits is that they’re difficult to shake – so you’re probably finding that those poor drinking habits that you accumulated during the shutdown have followed you into Alert Level 1. But these habits are not your friend. They probably never were – even that night when you were super-stressed and just needed one more beer, wine or whatever to calm things down. Booze is a salve – a temporary lubricant that paints over core problems and helps us forget them for an hour or so. The good stuff tastes delicious and is a lovely social lubricant – but there’s copious evidence of the harm that comes from drinking even a little bit too much.

To use a Star Wars analogy, we must recognise that there’s both a Light Side and a Dark Side to drinking. Yes, booze is The Force in this analogy. The Dark Side is ever-present. It’s waking up with a throbbing hangover when you’d promised to take your kids fishing. It’s saying or doing something really stupid when you’re tanked. And it’s the life-shortening chronic diseases that stem from consistently drinking too much. Yes, life is short, but why make it shorter on purpose?

We must always be searching for balance in The Force. This means adding some Light Side habits to your routine. Firstly, take a stocktake of how much you are drinking. Ask yourself if you’ve let some nasty habits control your drinking lately. Next, get into a habit of planning your drinking every week. Start with a “budget” of 10-15 standard drinks, and see how well you can spread them out. You may not hit the mark right away, but that doesn’t matter. What really matters is getting into the habit of holding yourself accountable for how much you’re drinking. Having at least a couple of days away from booze every week will remind you that, when it comes down to it, you don’t actually need it. It’s a luxury, a nice-to-have. Instead of lifting a glass, take your family for a walk instead. You won’t regret the switch. And please remember: all of this rambling is just a note-to-self. I need this advice as much as you do.

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Psych-synth on at the Sawmill It’s party time in Leigh next month, when Auckland five-piece FRED bring their psychedelic synth-pop to the Sawmill Café for a rocking show to celebrate the release of their second single, Rollercoaster.

Together with Auckland singer Gretel and duo Samson Live, FRED will take to the stage on the night of Saturday, August 8 and are keen to see as many people as possible giving it their all on the dance floor.

Guitarist and lead singer Jesse Sheehan says the group guarantees their audience a good time and they certainly look the part, rocking a funky, glam-rock look in satin, shades and skin-tight onesies.

Their first single, Polyamorous, has

been described as having “delicious instrumental grooves, soaring vocal hooks, and harmonies that could match Electric Light Orchestra”, and grounded in synth-pop, with a blend of funk, soul and psych-rock as well.

Formed initially by three flatmates for a house party, FRED now features Louis Newton on synth and backing vocals, Cam Taylor on piano and backing, Alex Ang on bass, Karen Hu on drums and Jesse Sheehan at the front. They’ve gone on to venues including the Whammy Bar in Karangahape Road and The Tuning Fork at Spark Arena, as well the main stage at Cuba Dupa in Wellington.

Early bird tickets cost $10 plus booking fee from undertheradar.co.nz, or $20 on the door.

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Paparoa schoolchildren researched Dr Ashley Bloomfield for a writing exercise.

Bloomfield thanks Paparoa Years 5 and 6 students at Paparoa School were amazed to receive correspondence from the DirectorGeneral of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield.

The children had written a series of tributes to Dr Bloomfield as part of their written English studies.

A display with their messages of thanks had been displayed in the school’s hall in recent weeks under the title “Ashley Bloomfield Hero!”.

“Ashley Bloomfield is an intelligent, cool-headed problem solver. He is the best leader in our team of five million,” one student wrote.

“In my opinion he is a brilliant, amazing person. He has earned the nickname Covid Crusher,” another said.

A parent decided to take a picture of the display and email it to Dr Bloomfield himself.

“Thank you so much, doctor, for making our tamariki feel safe through such an unprecedented time,” she wrote.

“Thank you also to your own whānau, who must have gone without you while you were working hard. We appreciate their sacrifice.”

The school was ecstatic when Dr Bloomfield wrote back.

“I feel very humbled and it’s so encouraging to see this feedback from the kids at Paparoa School,” Dr Bloomfield wrote.

“Please pass on a big thank you from me, and I hope the children have a very safe and enjoyable school holidays.”

Lesley Leversha, of Snells Beach, this month received awards from Rodney Neighbourhood Support and Warkworth Police acknowledging her “exemplary service” to the Mahurangi East community.

Lesley is retiring from her voluntary roles in Neighbourhood Support and as a police volunteer after 15 years on the job.

She was a founding member of the Neighbourhood Support in Mahurangi East in 2005, when there were only a handful of households involved.

Warkworth Police Sergeant Mark Stallworthy says Lesley has done an incredible job in recruiting 79 streets and 1195 households for Neighbourhood Support.

Mahurangi East is easily the largest Neighbourhood Support group in Rodney. The next largest has only 250 households.

Since 2014, Lesley has coordinated volunteers at the Snells Beach Police station. Volunteers handle enquiries and refer members of the public to the appropriate person for assistance.

Lesley also performs radio checks for the Civil Defence emergency response group.

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organised people. Warkworth Police have been able to rely on her for any help or support,” Sgt Stallworthy says.

Discussions are underway to consider forming a committee to perform all the roles that Lesley has been responsible for.

Lesley says she saw her work as being part of a community.

“I was a registered nurse, and I’ve been used to working with people all my life,” she says.

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Edmonds positive after big response to radio project Matakana newcomer Noel Edmonds says he has been humbled by the enthusiastic response to his free online Positivity Radio NZ project, with 22 stations already up and running from Kerikeri in the north down to Selwyn in Canterbury.

Speaking at the first Positively Matakana team meeting in Omaha last month, the renowned UK broadcaster said while he could provide the technical resources and funding, it was up to each community to provide the content.

“I’m providing the dinner table, the plates and the cutlery. I’m not providing the meal,” he said. “Now it’s for you to do whatever you want.

There are no rules and regulations.

This is so flexible and free, you can do anything. It’s not pretending to be traditional radio, it’s all about bringing real people together and having fun.”

However, he warned that stations did

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need to stick to the Positivity principles of being “news free, commercial free, listen free”.

More than a dozen residents from Matakana, Omaha and Point Wells have formed a group to provide stories and information from local businesses and residents for Positively Matakana, under the leadership of local celebrant Annie Mellor.

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Opening night for anti-meth movie A locally produced film encouraging students to keep away from methamphetamine will be premiering on July 30 at Mahurangi College. The film is a collaboration between Springboard and former police officer Bede Haughey. It tells the true story of a 17-year-old girl in Snells Beach, who took her own life after her family fell apart due to meth use. Next term the film will be shown to Year 11 to encourage them not to try meth even once. Springboard will also make a presentation to students and they will have the chance to talk to former meth addicts. Senior Constable Jon Williams says methamphetamine is a national problem, and he is proud that the Mahurangi community is trialling a solution. The film will show in the hall at Mahurangi College at 7pm on Thursday, July 30. All welcome.

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Cultural Support Group

Chocolate Brown staff show off their award winning chocolates. From left, Susan Vize, Daniel Edwards, Janine Johnston and Hayley Watt.

Chocolate Brown honoured World Chocolate Day on July 7 proved the perfect opportunity for Chocolate Brown to celebrate its success at the 2020 NZ Chocolate Awards with free tastings.

The Warkworth chocolatier won Silver for its Whiskey Walnut, Bronze for its Macadamia Ginger and Bronze for its Gingerbread chocolates.

Judges were especially effusive about the Whiskey Walnut, praising its

subtle whiskey and walnut flavours and presentation.

“A delicious bonbon experience,” they said.

Chocolate Brown owner Susan Vize says it’s the first time Chocolate Brown has entered the awards and the recognition has been a tremendous boost for staff morale – knowing they are producing chocolates that are “right up there”.

Grey Power president visits Grey Power national president Mac Welch will renew calls for an Aged Care Commissioner when he speaks in Warkworth at the end of this month.

Mr Wech says if the if the current coalition government had agreed to fulfil the Labour Party’s election promise to fund a commissioner in its first budget, then it’s possible the stress faced by a number of retirement homes during the Covid-19 crisis

would not have happened.

In addition to speaking about an Aged Care Commissioner, Mr Wech will touch on the benefits of Grey Power Electricity, which provides low-cost power to seniors over 55 who are Grey Power members. Mr Wech will speak at the Warkworth Grey Power annual general meeting at Totara Park Hall on Thursday, July 30, at 10am. All welcome.

Grey Power

Tuesday 21 July for 10 weeks, 10am-12.30pm. Held at Women’s Centre, Warkworth. FREE Come and meet women from other cultures to connect, learn and share. Support each other to make new friends and develop skills and networks within the local community.

Facilitated by Heidi Downey.

Personal Development

Monday 20 July for 10 weeks, 10am-12.30pm. Held at Women’s Centre, Warkworth. FREE If you would like to feel empowered, supported and resourced to face life’s challenges, be connected to your local community, enjoy your relationships and meet new friends, then come and join our weekly support group that encourages learning, sharing, mindfulness and inner-growth in a caring and confidential environment. Facilitated by Heidi Downey.

Young Mum’s Education Programme

Thursday 23 February, 10am – 12.30pm.

Held at Women’s Centre, Warkworth. FREE For young mums aged 24 years and under, network with other mums, explore positive parenting , life management skills, and strategies for raising happy and healthy children. Learn about opportunities for you and your children’s futures. Morning tea and some childcare is provided.

Creative Courses Creative Expression through Painting

Saturday 8 August, 9.30am—3pm.

Held at Kourawhero Hall $45 Awaken your creative potential and have fun. No previous drawing or painting skill required to achieve exciting results. Warm up with various art media & complete a large watercolour painting to take home. Tutor: Tina Power

Clay Workshops

Wednesday 29 July, 10am—2.30pm Saturday 15 August, 10am—2.30pm Warkworth $65 A one-day workshops at artist’s studio. The class will start with an introduction to clay, making pinch pots, joining them. Followed by creating, decorating and texturing another sculpture using your new skills. Tutor: Emma Zhang

Harakeke/Flax Weaving Workshop (Half Day)

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Public Meeting | Have your say There will be a shared lunch and time for lots of questions. See you there.

Saturday 1 August 10am—2.30pm or Friday 14 August, 10am-2.30pm Venue: Anglican Church Hall, Warkworth. $45 Learn basic flax weaving skills from an experienced local weaver and create a waikawa basket. Students are also introduced to the customs (tikanga) around working with flax.

Tutors: Britta Conrad and Rosanne Davies

Harakeke/Flax Weaving Workshop (Full Day)

Saturday 29 August 9.30am—4.30pm Venue: Anglican Church Hall, Warkworth. $65 A whole day flax weaving workshop to develop flax weaving skills from two experienced local weavers. Create a basket and flowers to take home. Students are also introduced to the customs (tikanga) around working with flax and learn how to harvest flax and prepare strips from the leaves.

Tutors: Britta Conrad and Rosanne Davies

Computer and Career Training Getting Started, Essential Skills, Excel and Windows 10

Fridays 31 July for 4 weeks, 9.15am - 11.15am Held at RSA Basement, Warkworth. FREE Choose from 4 courses based on your skill level or interest area. Tutor: Senior Net

Making Your Way in the Workforce

Friday 31 July, 11am - 3pm.

Held at Women’s Centre, Warkworth. FREE Have you lost your job as a result of Covid-19 or are you unhappy in the job you have now? Are you thinking that now may not be the greatest time to look for a job? Do you feel unprepared and lack the confidence needed to start putting yourself out there in order to find a new job? Life and Career Coach Bev Giles will provide tools for your job seeking journey.

Facilitator: Bev Giles, Time to Shine Coaching

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Appointments available Tuesday 28 July, 10am - 2pm Call the centre to make an appointment For women aged between 20 and 69 who are due for a smear test. Appointments are at the Women’s Centre with a specialist female smear taker. Part of the national cervical screening programme.

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Support for Parents of Children with Anxiety and Depression

Wednesday 29 July 12.30pm - 2pm Come and hear about the experience of a parent of a teenager who was experiencing anxiety, depression and feeling suicidal. Parent and Life Coach Melanie Medland will share what she learnt, what she discovered was helpful for her family and what she wished she had known earlier. Facilitated by Melanie Medland – Moving Through

The Dream Envelope

Wednesday 5 August 12.30pm - 2pm Have you ever wondered what the law of attraction is and how it could work for you? Bring along your dreams, an open mind and creativity for a fun, interactive workshop. Facilitated by Bev Giles, Time To Shine Coaching

Smarter Money Management

Wednesday 19 August 12.30pm - 2pm Being good with money and making it work for you are skills that everyone can learn. Once you put some good disciplines and behaviors in place, great things can happen. Covers mortgages, kiwisaver, debts, spending and budgeting, making decisions and saving. Facilitated by Bev Giles, Time To Shine Coaching

Hypnotherapy and Rules of the Mind

Wednesday 26 August 12.30pm - 2pm Understanding the rules of how your mind works helps with achieving amazing results in your life.

Whether your wanting to eat healthier, reduce anxiety or feel more confident you’ll learn simple, actionable techniques to manage your mind and create the change you want. Includes a live guided visualisation.

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Countryliving Julie Cotton admin@oceanique.co.nz

Beautiful inside and out Unpacking my groceries during lockdown, I noticed a few items that were not on my list. They were purchased by my husband who was the nominated grocery shopper. There were two packets of warm brown home hair dye, a home waxing kit and red nail polish. Oh great! Hint, hint! Clearly I did not read the marriage “rally rules” and aging naturally and gracefully during those four weeks was not on the agenda for some. Obligingly, I banged on the hair dye and resurrected my inner 80s disco queen chick and glided on the nail polish like a pro. The home waxing though turned out to be a classic “Lemony Snicket’s series of unfortunate events”, and should have come with a warning label that home waxing is NOT similar to making sticky toffee apples for the Tapora school ag day.

Anyway, the whole event gave this middle-aged woman the paranoias that the old farm hack was “losing ground” and about to be traded in on a newer, revised model – better lift my end game. Shopping local was now more important to me than ever, so I put the call out for makers of handmade beauty products.

As it turns out, we are somewhat of an epicentre for all manner of gorgeous handmade skincare products and the choices are overwhelming. Alison Wech from TLC Body Essentials came across my desk. She is a Warkworth local and Albertlander who married a Puhoi Bohemian. She tenderly makes herbal beauty products from her rural lifestyle block and applies them to her clients in her onsite beauty therapy salon overlooking manicured gardens . I am invited over for a facial to experience first-hand the texture and feel of

her totally natural skincare and how she can help me with my little anti-aging dilemma.

Already a beauty therapist, Alison became disillusioned with many traditional beauty products and with a burning interest in natural skincare started experimenting with recipes while upskilling in herbal therapy studies. Many requests from clients eventually saw her eventually replace expensive products with her homemade natural skincare.

In her rural backyard, pretty garden gloves cover green thumbs working magic into the soil, as her land comes alive and bursts with the intoxicating scent of roses and lavender. All manner of holistic herbs like kawakawa, comfrey and aloe vera rise to the sun and inspire her products. Little buzzy bees make the honey in her hives and then components like olive oil, coconut oil, magnesium and colloidal silver are added to the potions. I can picture Alison gingerly preparing these products in her kitchen with that old Kenwood chef mixer, then applying them with honest love to her clients – antiaging creams, skin tonics, foot scrubs, healing balms and cleansers. Parisian style beauty products on our doorstep with a price point that all the sisterhood can afford. My favourite is the body “whip”. It sounds a little salacious I know, but this moisturiser is like diving into an ocean of rose-scented marshmallows when you apply it to your body.

Alison is leather and lace. An incredibly organic soul with a calming demeanour, mixed up with a

Alison Wech has both a calming demeanour and a wild side that see her out on her road bike seeking freedom and speed.

unique wild side that sees her sling her legs over a ER650 road bike and take to the open roads for freedom and speed. I have been using the products for a month now and I adore them for reasons too numerous to list. Honestly, this lady looks bloody amazing for her age so they must work. And just when you thought this little rural treat could not get any better, remember that waxing I mentioned?

Well, she has our backs covered on that one too, girlfriends.

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Body Essentials is a holistic skin care brand made in small handcrafted batches. I grow my own Kawakawa and Comfrey to infuse into organic Olive Oil, I also grow Lavender and Roses to make hydrosols and make my own Colloidal Silver and all this is used in my products.

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The Warkworth Golf Club is trying to work out the odds of having had two amateur members make a hole-in-one within eight days of each other last month. Wayne Griffin is a 12-hole player and Laurence Eyres is a 9-hole player and yet both made a hole-in-one on par 3 greens. Club administrator Sue Hadfield says holes-in-one don’t occur particularly often and the club puts money on the bar to celebrate when it does. Statistically, a hole-in-one happens in Warkworth once every 2400 rounds of golf.

CHURCH H ILL

As we head out of lockdown and back into our lives it may be worth taking a minute to ask ourselves how are we at self-care? It would be so easy to fall back into the busyness trap. This is driven by living in a fast-paced, hectic world that equates busyness with success; where we have to-do lists as long as our arm and where in many ways we are told to put others before ourselves.

While working hard, getting things done and success are not bad things per se, when we prioritise them above our own wellbeing we run the risk of becoming overwhelmed, lethargic, demotivated and drained. In a nutshell, poor self-care can make us sick. While lockdown was hard and uncertain, one thing it did bring us was time. So maybe it is time to stop and have a think about what we might do differently to look after ourselves better in the future – to ponder what benefits of being kinder to ourselves might bring over time.

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It is about not taking on too much; it’s about not feeling guilty about saying “no” or having some “me” time. The benefits are huge. For example, looking after ourselves means we can actually connect better to others, it promotes our potential for self-improvement, it leads us to be more present at work and with our children and families, and, believe it or not, it actually increases our productivity.

Overall self-care is about nurturing our own physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs. In tending to these areas and being aware of when we are doing too much or saying “yes” when we should be saying “no”, we are putting ourselves in a much better place to be there for the other people in our lives that we want and need to support. As the old saying goes, you can’t pour from an empty cup.

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ON THE LAND

Researcher urges more care for native bees Surge in wasps One of New Zealand’s foremost hurts bees experts on native bees made a plea to farmers, gardeners and beekeepers to look after our “professional pollinators” at a public meeting in Warkworth this month.

Dr Ngaire Hart is the first Maori woman to receive a PhD in engineering from AUT, after designing a photographic monitoring system to study native bees. She has been monitoring native bees at Mt Parihaka and Mt Tiger in Whangarei for 15 years and discovered that native bees cannot be tracked with radio tags because, unlike honey bees, they groom themselves before flight and remove the tag.

“All bees are important because they are pollinators. Native bees are especially important because they have evolved alongside native plants and are experts at pollinating them,” Dr Hart told the meeting.

Dr Hart suggested farmers could plan their farms around native bee nests to protect them and get bonus pollination for their crops and native plantings.

She added that pesticide use ought to be restricted in the early summer, when baby native bees emerge from their nests.

Meanwhile, large-scale producers

Native bees, left and insert, are much smaller than their honey producing cousins.

of honey, such as Comvita, should be required to undertake studies to check for native bees before putting hives on a particular site, otherwise competition could drive out natives.

Dr Hart said there are 26 species of bee are endemic to New Zealand. They have specialised relationships to native plants including flax, pohutukawa, mānuka and kānuka.

There are three main groups of native bees that are identifiable to the naked eye – hairy colletids, masked bees and sweat bees.

Hairy colletids are black fluffy solitary

bees that live in clay banks and are sometimes seen in children’s sandpits.

Masked bees are hairless black bees with yellow markings on their face, somewhat resembling a wasp, and live in cavities in wood. They can be seen blowing bubbles of pollen, which is stored in a pouch on their necks.

Sweat bees are slightly bigger than a sandfly. They are named for their habit of sucking the sweat off humans during summer.

In total, there are 40 different species of bee in New Zealand, 14 of which have been introduced.

Apiarists at the Warkworth Beekeeping Society meeting this month said they had been hard hit by wasps during the summer, with some losing up to five hives.

Although a cool spring initially reduced wasp numbers, they came back with a vengeance thriving in the dry conditions throughout summer and autumn.

The dry also meant that bees had fewer sources of food, making hives more vulnerable to attack from wasps.

Wasps attempt to rob honey from hives, and an average of seven bees will die per wasp defending the hive.

A drop in honey prices also meant that beekeepers were not monitoring their hives as closely as they waited for better times.

However, recent rains have knocked back wasp numbers, helping hives recover.

Beekeeper Grass Esposti says this coming spring the society’s apiary will reopen and training days will be held for amateurs who want to learn to open and inspect a hive.

“The idea is to have fun, not get stung,” she says.

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Today, I’m going to introduce you to a little known but indispensible member of our agricultural team, his name is Myc. Myc has been around for millennia, but he gets walked all over and ignored. The main problem for Myc is that he’s not seen, so he’s not valued. I think if we could see all the hard work he’s doing everyday on our behalf, we’d look out for him a lot better.

Myc is a fungus. His full name is Mycorrhiza, but he’s happy if we just call him ‘Myc’, pronounced Mike. His name is derived from the Greek words mykes for fungus, and rhiza for root, which gives us a bit of a clue as to what he’s up to. His job description is to work in a symbiotic relationship with plant roots for the mutual exchange of nutrients. He works on the principle of “you scratch my back, and I’ll scratch yours”.

You see, Myc is in the dark down there and doesn’t have access to sunlight.

Getting his sugars and energy for growth is difficult. So Myc does a great trade in exchanging water plus other essential minerals and trace elements in return for his sugar fix. For the plant, this is the best possible work buddy you could imagine. It means that its root system is effectively extended thousands of kilometres through the dark reaches of the underground ecosystem, extracting moisture and essential nutrients that the plant couldn’t hope to access on its own.

However, this marvellous subterranean bustling city can come to a grinding halt when those upstairs aren’t in on the memo. You know what it’s like when the bosses think they know how things should go and ride roughshod over long established practices? For example, when big machinery rolls over the roof and starts sprinkling dubious things into the drainpipes. Being industrious folk, the underground workforce get busy incorporating this new stuff into useful commodities, but once plant roots get used to this powerful cocktail, they tend to get hooked, then it’s bye, bye Myc. For Myc, getting cut out of his old deal is serious. He’s basically run out of town, as there’s nowhere else to get his carb-fix. This has serious implications when hard times roll in, like in a drought. Then there’s no kindly old Myc to rely on to keep that deep underground water spigot running, or to keep plants healthy with micronutrients.

That’s when the bosses have to keep reaching for the bag or the bottle in increasing amounts. Expensive way to go, when Myc was doing it for free.

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Real progress on M bovis, farmers hear Three years after cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis was first detected in New Zealand, real progress is being made in its elimination, with the number of farms under restrictions down 60 per cent on last year, a Wellsford meeting heard last month.

Ministry for Primary Industries consultant veterinary epidemiologist Chris Morley admitted that things had not always been handled well in the eradication programme, but said he thought systems were now working far better.

“There have been some pretty untidy things in this programme, it wasn’t working as it should last year,” he said. “But there has been a lot of good progress since then.”

As of July 3, there were 10 active confirmed cases of M bovis in the country, three of which were in Northland, two on beef farms and one in a dairy herd.

And although Northland had the highest number of Notice of Direction movement restrictions, Mr Morley pointed out that around 95 per cent of such suspected cases were found to be clear.

He said the biggest risk of infection remained the movement of cattle, and inadequate or unclear recording of National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) information.

“We need clearer NAIT information. I’m tired of hearing ‘they were reared in the Waikato’ or wherever, when they were born in Southland or somewhere else,” he said.

Mr Morley added that putting every farm under Notice of Direction or active surveillance into complete lockdown was unrealistic and would cripple the industry.

“If we locked them all down, we would have half of all our farms locked down,” he said. “They are low risk farms and the vast majority are found to be negative.”

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From left, Dairy NZ regional recovery manager Callum Livingston and MPI consultant vet Chris Morley at the Wellsford meeting.

of next year, after which background surveillance testing is set to continue for around seven years.

The meeting also heard from Dairy NZ’s regional M bovis recovery manager, Callum Livingston, that there was an active team of advisers helping farmers through the stress of M bovis restrictions and testing. There is also a specialist compensation

team and support workers to help farmers deal with NAIT requirements.

Since the first outbreak in 2017, around 158,000 cattle have been culled and more than $163.5 million has been paid in compensation.

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Make morning tea to say a post-Covid thanks New Zealanders are being encouraged to thank people who worked and volunteered through lockdown by making them a free morning tea at the end of this month.

The idea for a Mighty Morning Tea Shout on Wednesday, July 29 has come from Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ). National president Fiona Gower says all people have to do to join in is think of someone to thank and deliver morning tea to them, whether home-made or bought.

“During lockdown, many New Zealanders honed their baking skills and there is no better way to say thank you for a job well done than with a morning tea shout,” she says. “RWNZ is suggesting that if your preference is to buy food, then support local

bakeries and cafes that had to be closed during throughout the pandemic response.

“Our team of 5 million has done an amazing job in response to the threat of the Covid-19 virus – we think it is important to celebrate that success, to say thanks to the essential workers and the people in our communities who helped all of us through.”

Fiona adds that if July 29 is not convenient, people can say thanks at any time.

“Generations of New Zealanders have enjoyed morning tea shouts and we think this is a perfect opportunity to use this tried and true way of saying thanks,” says Ms Gower.

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Awards presented on-farm after Covid cancellation Covid-19 restrictions meant finalists at the 2020 Auckland Ballance Farm Environment Awards were denied a night out on the town this year.

However, organisers from the NZ Farm Environment Trust went to them instead, visiting all the winning farms to present certificates and trophies last month.

There were two winners from the Rodney district this year – Alan and Khim Hellyer, who farm sheep and beef in the hills between Makarau and Kaukapakapa, and dairy farmers Keith and Jenny Trotter from Wrights Road in Matakana.

The Hellyers were presented with the Auckland Ballance Farm Environment Awards’ Farm Stewardship Award for their third-generation property, which has been transformed from scrubland to grass and native bush. Judges praised their strong commitment to involving family in management of the farm into the future.

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Wetlands have been created, native bush and waterways fenced off and significant planting around streams. Judges admired the fact that the Trotters were also involved in extensive community work.

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Doddery dogs The presence of grey hair and the onset of muscle aches and pains is a reminder of the maturation process. We might be wiser, but our muscles, bones and joints are in gentle demise. There is good evidence that maintaining physical fitness and continuing to lift heavy weights can slow this decline, but some things are inevitable.

A trip to Browns Bay on Auckland’s North Shore highlights this maturing effect clearly for both people and dogs. The young joyfully leap and bound their way along the beach, smoothly flexing and extending their spines, arms, and legs; chasing after balls, birds, and fellow beachgoers The initial eager with youthful abandon. In contrast, their aging companions with stiff backs and reduced flexibility looks on their faces are short stepping. The initial eager looks on their after exploring faces after exploring the wide expanse of the open the wide expanse beach change to resigned resentment. To attempt of the open beach the same frivolity would be unwise; the body would pay a heavy price from over exertion. change to resigned Lameness in dogs is a frequent presenting symptom resentment. To in veterinary clinics, including reports of animals attempt the same appearing to be initially stiff-legged after rising frivolity would be from laying down, and then apparently improving unwise; the body to normal behaviour after walking. would pay a heavy To assess your pet’s locomotion, I find it easiest to compare one side of the body to the other. Look price from over first at the front legs. Estimate the full range of exertion. motion or full stride length (foot placement) on one side and then compare that to the other leg. A painful leg will have a shorter length between footprints compared to the good leg. Repeat the procedure for the hind legs. Also, for most four-legged animals the centre of their body weight is a little behind their elbows, towards the tail. With lameness they frequently dip their heads when bearing weight on the good leg. They are attempting to move their centre of bodyweight towards the good legs and away from the sore leg. Animals with broken bones will usually not bear weight on the affected leg and be extremely uncomfortable.

Occasionally, a large adrenaline release can initially mask signs of lameness.

Adrenaline is an endocrine hormone which “gives strength” by increasing heart output and blood flow to the muscles. This is the classical “flight or fight” response. Once the adrenaline wears off, the animal’s lameness may be noticed.

Cats are notorious for this effect after riding to the vet clinic from home. Cats which have appeared unable to walk at home suddenly appear “better” in the examination room. Most Vets make allowances for this effect. We know that as soon as they are home and relaxed, they will return to the lame behaviour which so bothered their owners. Should you be concerned about lameness in one of your pets, then contact your local veterinarian.

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Matakana link road hailed as major community triumph Senior Government and Auckland Council representatives heaped praise on the efforts of local community leaders in successfully paving the way for the construction of a four-lane Matakana link road in a ceremony last month.

The co-operative effort has been hailed as a shining example of how local communities can successfully negotiate with Government and Councils to secure the best outcomes for their communities.

At a sod-turning ceremony at Warkworth Showgrounds on June 30, Minister of Transport Phil Twyford, Mayor of Auckland Phil Goff and Auckland Transport (AT) chief executive Shane Ellison paid tribute to the efforts of local MPs Marja Lubeck and Mark Mitchell, Rodney Local Board deputy chair Beth Houlbrooke, local iwi Ngati Manuhiri, Rodney Councillor Greg Sayers and local contractor Wharehine.

Mr Goff said local advocacy efforts had been instrumental in ensuring the construction of a four-lane road when previously AT had considered building only two lanes.

“It’s going to have a big impact on reducing congestion around the Hill Street intersection and helping to access beaches at Leigh, Omaha, Snells

Community representatives celebrate success at the sod-turning ceremony for the Matakana link road.

Beach and around the coastline,” he said.

During the ceremony, One Warkworth Business Association’s efforts in making the business case for four lanes was highlighted, along with Mr Mitchell’s work in negotiating with landowners to avoid lengthy appeals by them in the Environment Court.

Afterwards Dave Stott, of One Warkworth, said during negotiations AT went from being hostile to community concerns to becoming willing partners in helping them achieve their objectives.

Mr Stott said a key to that turnaround was being able to share the technical knowledge available within the community, including his own

engineering qualifications, that of transport engineer Roger Williams, of the Warkworth Area Liaison Group, and contractors Wharehine and NX2.

“What we managed to achieve would be an example to other communities,” he said.

Wharehine general manager Andy Booth, whose company was awarded the contract to build the $62 million road, said the construction of the link road will involve more than 120 staff and the company is interested to hear from job applicants, especially those with experience in earthmoving and other specialist equipment.

“We pride ourselves on employing locally. This is a great opportunity for us to employ local young people

and provide excellent training over a number of civil engineering disciplines,” he said.

Meanwhile, all aggregate and concrete for bridge works, associated footpaths and cycleways will be sourced locally.

Mr Booth said he saw no problem with having the link road built in time for the opening of the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway, now scheduled to be open in time for Queen’s Birthday weekend in 2022.

“The advantage of being local is that we have worked extensively with ground materials in this area,” he said.

Mr Booth said most of the project is being built on a greenfield site, which will ensure less disruption for the travelling public, though he anticipated there would be some traffic management challenges involved in the construction of the roundabout tie-in at Matakana Road.

“Construction of a temporary road and staged civil works will help minimise any disruption during this portion of the project,” he said.

The 1.35km Matakana link road will connect State Highway 1 and Matakana Road. It is designed to better manage increased traffic flows as Warkworth continues to grow, and alleviate pressure on the notoriously congested Hill Street intersection.

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Publicity for Boathouse Bay says the development embraces the “true meaning of beachside”, but critics say it’s too close to the ocean.

Developer slams claims Boathouse Bay under threat The developer of a string of coastal properties at the northern end of Snells Beach has fiercely defended the development in the wake of a barrage of criticism on social media and a suggestion that the new houses could end up in the sea.

Snells Beach Ratepayers & Residents Association chair Mark Dinniss last month drew attention on the Sandspit, Snells, Algies & Mahurangi East Facebook page to the fact that the Boathouse Bay developer had been

served with an Auckland Council abatement notice, demanding that a dune designed to provide a buffer against “coastal hazards” be rebuilt as originally consented.

“At the moment it is only about six metres wide, where it should be nine metres wide with a swale or hump or hollow in it,” Mr Dinniss wrote.

Speaking to Mahurangi Matters, Mr Dinniss said he was concerned for new residents living at Boathouse Bay because there was no way the dune

structure would last. It was already eroding and it was the view of many that the new houses would end up in the sea.

“The new residents there are going to be ratepayers and residents of Snells Beach. Anything that leaves them in a hazardous situation is a concern of ours,” he said.

Mr Dinniss also drew attention to the fact the dune had been planted with a South Island species of spinifex and the abatement notice required that it be replanted with the approved North

Island species.

Mr Dinniss further slammed the development for effectively eliminating a roosting area for native birds around the high-water mark.

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“I would have thought that the chairman of the residents and ratepayers association would have taken a more responsible and representative attitude, and approached us directly in a more inclusive process with his concerns, prior to taking to social media and dividing the community he is elected to lead,” he said.

“Some of our purchasers have been berated on the beach for purchasing in the development, which is sad indeed.”

Mr Peters said Boathouse Bay was designed under the guidance of Jim Dahm – one of New Zealand’s leading coastal specialists – and the engineering of the site was subject to strong scrutiny from Council engineers.

“The design took into account anticipated sea level rise over the next 150 years,” he said.

Mr Peters said that Snells Beach had a natural erosion cycle of 20 to 30 years.

Periods of erosion were followed by periods of recovery where sand was deposited along the beach. During these recovery periods, the shoreline advanced seaward and the dune would actually grow.

Regarding the abatement notice, Mr Peters said in the developer’s consent application it was always flagged that final design would be subject to the physical conditions at the time of construction. The foreshore changed between the time the dune was consented and the time it was formed, and the design was modified under Jim Dahm’s instructions.

He said Avant ordered the appropriate species of spinifex, but these died in the nursery prior to being planted. Jim Dahm advised to urgently plant the dune regardless of the plant source to stabilise it. Plants were then sourced in Nelson. These thrived and provided “a perfect nesting area” for dotterels.

Nevertheless, Mr Peters said Council had asked that the spinifex be replaced with “eco-sourced plants”.

He said Council officers did not contest Jim Dahm’s advice they can only approve a dune that was built in accordance with consented plans, hence the issuing of an abatement notice.

With respect to birdlife, Mr Peters said Avant had planted 5000 native trees at the back of the development to secure protection for birdlife, the development had an ongoing programme to eliminate bird predators and residents were forbidden from owning cats.

Mr Peters said Avant planned to hold a meeting for local residents with specialist advisors present so they could be informed by qualified people.

Meanwhile, Auckland Council manager of compliance monitoring Richard Preece confirmed Council issued an abatement notice on May 8, requiring further work on dune contours and for the existing planting to be replaced.

“The compliance unit is working with the contractor to ensure that the work is completed to the approved plan in a suitable timeframe,” he said.

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2020 Auckland Architecture Awards finalists ...

The stunning east and western coastlines and rolling rural landscape from Puhoi to Waipu provide inspiring backdrops for some of New Zealand’s leading architects and house designers. Every year, this region invariably features in the top home design awards. 2020 is no exception, with six properties making it through to the shortlist for the Auckland Architecture Awards, including two on the Tawharanui Peninsula, and one Mangawhai home making it into the top six Home of the Year finalists. Mahurangi Matters takes a look at this year’s crop of exceptional local structures.

Boat Shed, Buckletons Beach – RTA Studio, Grey Lynn

Reef House, Leigh – Strachan Group Architects, Kingsland

Takatu House, Tawharanui – RTA Studio, Grey Lynn

The Boat Shed comprises two long, narrow rectangular buildings that rise up off the ground to give elevated views over Kawau Bay. The house has been built on piles that extend 12 metres into the ground to resist inundation, sea level rise or flooding, with a dry river bed dug underneath.

Reef House is a family affair, designed as a holiday home for a mother, her three adult sons and their families. It is built by two of the sons, Mitchell and Kirk, aka Bunting Brothers Construction. The site overlooks popular surf break Daniels Reef and has extensive ocean views to Hauturu Little Barrier Island.

Sitting proud on a hilltop on the Tawharanui Peninsula, Takatu House is a long, narrow statement in dark wood and burnt red steel overlooking Christian Bay. The linear plan features a central main living area, a covered outdoor living space at one end and two bedrooms at the other, with exterior sliding screens to control the afternoon sun.

Takatu Ridge House, Matakana – D Ross Brown: Rosso Design, Matakana, with studio/LWA, Westmere

Taumata Beach House, Omaha – Fearon Hay Architects, Parnell

Point Wells Cricket Club, Point Wells – Pac Studio, Auckland CBD

High on Takatu Ridge, this airy three-bedroom house was designed to create a home with closer relationship to its exposed rural setting. Surrounding a protected central courtyard, the house looks west to maximise late afternoon sun, while northerly and east-facing decks make the most of spectacular views towards Leigh, and out to Omaha and the ocean.

Occupying the last beachside block at the southern end of Omaha Beach, Taumata consists of three concrete and glass buildings on a triangular site, wrapped around a central courtyard, with the widest frontal stretch giving uninterrupted views north across Omaha Bay to Ti Point and beyond.

Point Wells now has its own cricket club and pavilion, thanks to this red weatherboard folly that rises up from a grass oval festooned with flags. The scaleddown clubhouse has a veranda, kitchen, change room and shower, plus a sleeping loft upstairs. The ground is used by local kids and social teams who play for the love of the game.

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Pipeline upgrades for Mangawhai wastewater plant Kaipara District Council is upgrading the Mangawhai Wastewater Treatment Plant to meet increased demand from development and an increased population over summer.

A new balance tank will be installed to cater for peak demand periods. The tank stores high volumes of wastewater temporarily before allowing it to flow slowly through the system so that it is not overwhelmed.

The plant typically processes 600 cubic metres of water a day but processes double that amount during the summer peak period.

Works manager Eros Foschieri said the plant currently services 2000 households and has capacity for another 1000, even prior to any upgrade.

In addition to the balance tank, the plant’s pump network will need to be upgraded to accommodate new developments, including Mangawhai Central.

Kaipara Mayor Dr Jason Smith said the upgrades would be funded by the recently announced 3.97 per cent rates increase, but would eventually be covered by developer contributions, ensuring costs would not ultimately be borne by ratepayers.

“Infrastructure has to be built by Council before development can start,” Dr Smith said.

“We have always been planning for this. It’s not just Mangawhai Central or the summer peak – there will always be growth.”

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The Mangawhai Wastewater Treatment plant recycles water to irrigate farmland.

the plant would spread liability across more households, reducing maintenance costs for ratepayers in the long run.

When the plant was first built 10 years ago, it was only servicing 1200 households.

According to the Council’s current modelling, the plant’s load is expected to increase by 100 connections each year.

The balance tank, which will be constructed in 2021, will eventually be converted into a fully operating treatment tank to meet increasing demand over the decade.

Mr Foschieri says it is expected that the plant will then reach capacity in 2028, at which point a further treatment plant will need to be built.

He says by 2043, it is expected the plant will handle 6000 connections, three times what it does today.

Circular system from toilet to table The Mangawhai Wastewater Treatment Plant last year recycled 240 million litres of water, which was used to irrigate farmland.

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The Council is investigating supplying water for irrigation to the Mangawhai Golf Course, local parks and roadside gardens in new developments in 2021.

Dr Smith said the plant was a goldstandard water recycling facility, the envy of drought-stricken districts.

“In 20 years if the climate hasn’t improved, this facility could be used to keep Mangawhai green,” he said.

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enquiries from farmers who are looking for good water for irrigation.”

Although there are no plans to bottle it up as Mangawhai-branded drinking water, engineers say it is possible.

Wastewater treatment engineer Andrew Springer said it would only need to be filtered through a membrane to remove bacteria and go through reverse osmosis to remove salt to be drinkable.

KDC general manager of infrastructure services Jim Sephton says that if it wasn’t for the treatment plant, all 600 cubic metres of waste would be heading into the harbour each day.

“The fact that we can swim in the sea without getting sick is huge.”

Engineers care about pet bug, Cass A dedicated team of engineers and operators spends each day ensuring their “pet bug” of bacteria is strong and healthy enough to do its job.

The treatment plant uses a cyclic activated sludge system (CASS) that employs bacteria to break down ammonia and organic compounds in waste matter. The bacteria effectively consumes human faeces.

Operator David Allan takes a sample twice a day of the sludge that emerges from the bacteria to check on its health.

“If the bug is breaking down nitrogen well, more sludge will settle at the bottom of the tank.”

Thirty-five cubic metres of sludge is produced every day. It is then compressed to remove any final traces of water and sent to landfill.

The clean water rises to the top of the tank and is siphoned off for use in irrigation.

Occasionally, some of the bacteria is drained to ensure it doesn’t grow too big.

“A treatment plant like this would double its biomass in a week if left unchecked,” David says.

If the bug becomes ill, then it might be fed molasses to bring it back to health.

David says they must keep it lean by monitoring its fat intake. If Cass gets too much fat, it will grow too quickly and die.

For this reason, households are meant to tip oil from their fry pan into a bottle and then compost it, not pour it down the sink.

A screen is used to block out plastics, rags, sanitary products and anything else that can’t be broken down by the bacteria.

The plant is apparently one of the best smelling waste facilities, thanks to a sophisticated system that draws odour from the surface of the water.

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Rodney-based Kiel Marshall Builders have received 20 enquiries a day since new rules were announced.

Small build consent rules provide big boost for builders Rodney builder Kiel Marshall has a few ideas for unconsented mancaves as the Government relaxes rules on standalone structures.

In May, the Government announced that structures smaller than 30 square metres would no longer require consent, under proposed rules expected to come into effect at the end of August.

Kiel says it means his builders should be able to construct a sleepout structure within five to six weeks of signing a contract.

He says that before this rule change, having to get a consent from Auckland Council could hold the project up from three months to a year.

Kiel’s designs are available from $67,000, with some variability allowed for foundations and connections to household power boards.

Although consent is not required, builders still have to undertake a feasibility study and will possibly need a geotechnical report for foundations.

The new rules will still require the structure to fit within the Unitary Plan, and it will have to be built by a licenced building practitioner or signed off by a chartered engineer.

Kiel has uploaded designs he has had commissioned online and has been flooded with enquiries despite new rules not yet having come into effect.

His big drawcard is the “Carlsbad” man cave with a 20sqm pool table room complete with drinks station, a 10sqm projector room, 7.5sqm outdoor space.

By popular demand, Kiel is now coming up with a design for a “ladies retreat”, featuring a spa and “communications room”.

Other designs include a one-bedroom and rumpus unit, and a two-bedroom unit with walk-in wardrobes.

Kiel anticipates that home offices will also be a popular addition, as people increasingly work from home postCovid.

He says the move from the

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Government is extremely positive for the industry, reviving jobs for builders.

He plans to launch a national company, with its headquarters in Rodney, focused solely on building 30sqm structures.

The new rules announced by the Government also remove consenting requirements for 40sqm carports, verandas of 30sqm, bridges on land without private access, groundmounted solar panel arrays and singlestorey hay barns.

The government estimates that it will save Kiwis $18 million a year in consenting fees and will mean 9000 fewer consents per year.

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Agent offers house for free A Snells Beach real estate agent has got a deal for you: buy the land and get the house for free.

Agent Steffan Meyer says the unusual proposition came about after a vendor selling land in Snells Beach also wanted to redevelop a section in Warkworth.

The deal would allow him to get an unwanted, relocatable house off the Warkworth section, while simultaneously making the land a more attractive purchase for the buyer.

“It was a case of killing two birds with one stone,” Steffan says.

The catch is that if the land buyer wants to take advantage of the free house offer, they will be obliged to pay the cost of moving it from Warkworth to Snells Beach.

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“There are no covenants on the land, so people can build what they want on it, subject to Council approval,” he says.

He says the house is a “solid” 1960s-built property with three bedrooms and one bathroom and “beautiful timber floors”.

“It’s nice and tidy inside, but you could take it up to another level. It’s recently had new carpets and the kitchen has been redone sometime after 2000.”

Steffan estimates that even with relocation costs, a Watercare infrastructure charge of around $20,000 and the cost of renovation, it should be possible to have the house set up on site for under $600,000.

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Fee structure simplified for Council consents

From left, John Honeycombe and Karyn Graham of Matakana Persimmons, and Mahurangi Matters media consultant Ken Lawson.

From left, Dr Kevin Glucina of Matakana Health, Glenn Cooper of Coop Signage, and hosts Blake Noble of Transcon, and Danvers Devereux of Matakana Botanicals.

From left, Howard George and Roy Pearson of Ignite Intelligence, and Andrew Pook of CDAC Insurance.

From left, Karl Middleton of Transcon, Paul McRae, and Greg Stevenson and Zoe Illingworth of Skywork Helicopters.

Transcon event exceeds expectations

Business people from across the Mahurangi district had the opportunity to relax and network at the first Transcon networking event held at Matakana Botanicals earlier this month.

Hosts for the evening were Transcon managing director Blake Noble and Matakana Botanicals owner Danvers Devereux.

Blake says attendance exceeded expectations, and the evening was a

great cross-section of local business owners, big and small, who represented many different sectors and specialties.

He says he was prompted to put on the event from a genuine desire to get the local business community together after what had been an extremely challenging time for many.

“It was also a chance to thank those local businesses that support us through the use of our transport services,” he says.

“It also helps when you can host such an event in such a great location, and eat and drink such amazing local produce.”

Transcon plans to hold the networking event three or four times a year.

Business owners keen to connect with other business owners in the area will be welcome.

“It’s not strictly a networking event, but more a chance to share stories and just find out what others are up to,” Blake says.

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Auckland Council has brought in changes to its fee structure for consents and licences in a bid to make it easier for customers to budget for building projects.

Since July 1, a new fixed fee has been brought in for work valued at under $5000 and deposit levels have been revised for new upper level categories.

Regulatory services director Craig Hobbs says improvements to internal processes will also make it easier for customers to deal with Council in future and online application forms for services have been streamlined, “Our aim is to simplify how fees and charges are calculated and improve accuracy in forecasting actual costs for our customers,” he says.

Swimming pool fencing inspection charges have also changed, with the first inspection fee now included as a targeted rate on rates invoices.

This initial inspection was previously charged as a one-off fee of $130, but now pool owners will be able to spread that cost over three years as part of their rates payment.

“We anticipate the change will reduce customer concerns regarding the fee amount and allow officers to focus on the safety issues, which must remain our number one priority,” Mr Hobbs says.

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Bruce Campbell, right, has designs on the north Rodney residential market after relocating from Orewa.

Design studio to meet dream home demand in Rodney Despite an expected downturn, architectural designer Bruce Campbell says work has continued to come in, and he’s been drawing and designing throughout lockdown.

Bruce is the recently appointed manager of the new Rodney Architectural Design Studio, officially opened at 3 Elizabeth Street in Warkworth last month.

He comes from Orewa, having recently sold his successful design business to its employees.

Bruce is also a former president of Architectural Designers New Zealand, which is responsible for maintaining professional standards.

The new Warkworth studio specialises in residential design, including new builds and alterations.

For a new house, Bruce will interview the client and produce a plan to fit their dreams and schemes.

Once the client is satisfied, Bruce and his team will bring the plan to life with an architectural drawing, which can be used by the builder and for consent applications.

The design studio produces 3D models from the plans, which allow clients to see inside the building and how the sun will fall.

Bruce says a lot of their work has been referred by builders because people tend to hire builders in the first instance, despite needing a designer.

“If you’re thinking of hiring a builder, have a talk with us as well.”

He says working with Rodney Architectural makes the building process easier for tradesmen, because their accurate and concise drawings are easy to follow.

“And, if builders do need us, there’s always someone to talk to and we get back to them straight away,” he says.

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Restoration of The Warkworth Hotel has taken about six months longer than expected.

Project director Dave Stott says the hotel will retain its historic character.

Historic Warkworth Hotel reopens on Labour Weekend The historic Warkworth Hotel is expected to reopen on Labour Weekend and may even be partially open for the Kowhai Festival’s Huge Day Out on Sunday, October 18.

The hotel, which dates back to the 1860s, has undergone extensive renovation and refurbishment.

The renovations included raising the 50-tonne building by half a metre to avoid the risk of flooding.

Project director Dave Stott says the actual raising of the building

proved relatively straightforward, but other complications have delayed completion of the renovation by around six months.

Mr Stott says the building turned out to be in considerably worse condition than originally expected and the need to remove rotten timber has meant that the whole structure of the building has essentially had to be rebuilt.

He adds that complying with heritage requirements and more stringent earthquake and fire regulations has also been challenging. Mr Stott says

fire regulations have become especially strict in New Zealand in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire in London.

Further delays were introduced by the Covid-19 lockdown, which required work to halt completely during Level 4 and slowed it during Level 3.

“We would have lost about six week in total due to Covid,” Mr Stott says.

Contractors are currently completing finishing touches, such as installing lighting, skirting and door trim.

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The downstairs floor will house a bar and a restaurant with seating for around 60 patrons.

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NZTA stumps up more cash The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) has chipped in a further $85 million to cover the cost of delays in construction of the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway in the wake of Covid-19.

The funding comes in addition to an earlier NZTA payment of $83 million to cover extra costs and delays to work at the northern end of the project, caused by land purchases taking longer than expected and appeals in the Environment Court.

The motorway was due to open at the end of 2021, but is now expected to open in time for Queen’s Birthday weekend in 2022.

NZTA general manager Brett Gliddon says the Alert Level 4 lockdown in April meant nearly five weeks of the earthmoving season was lost. The resumption of work under Alert Level 3, with strict health and safety protocols, also affected the work programme.

“At the time of the shutdown, the earthmoving season was in full swing, to move up to three million cubic metres of earth across the project during the summer months. Not being able to finish that work has had a knock-on effect for the planned

winter construction programme.” Mr Gliddon says.

“Together with the contractor, we have agreed a new programme to get the project finished as quickly as possible while maintaining high standards and keeping health and safety as our top priority.”

Mr Gliddon says the $85 million payment to constructor Fletcher/ ACCIONA is consistent with payments made to other construction companies affected by Covid-19 on projects across the country.

The extra money brings the NZTA’s total agreed contribution to the project to $877.5 million.

When it opens in mid-May 2022, the Ara Tūhono – Pūhoi to Warkworth motorway will extend the four-lane Northern Motorway (SH1) 18.5km from the Johnstones Hill tunnels to just north of Warkworth.

Fletcher/ACCONIA was engaged to build the motorway by the contractor Northern Express Group (NX2).

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Prefabricated homes offer affordable housing future Modular homes produced in a Northland factory could be the solution to the Government’s bungled KiwiBuild programme, which was scrapped in the 2020 budget.

Northland firm Advance Build is able to produce a prefabricated house and deliver it within nine weeks.

For potential buyers interested to see what such a home might look like, there is a display home at 8F McKinney Road in Warkworth. About a third of Advance Build’s business comes from north Rodney and Kaipara, via its Warkworth office.

Sales manager Craig De Goldi says building in factory conditions removes hold-ups from weather or waiting for sub-contractors to arrive on site.

Compliance is also much easier because licensed building practitioners are always on site, and their building designs are consistent.

“We are able to get building consent within around 10 days, while an onsite build might take three months to hear back from Council,” Craig says.

He says a modular home also provides consumers with confidence, with a fixed cost for the core build, as there are fewer unforeseen circumstances.

Costs range from $185,000 for a 60-square metre home to $350,000 for a four-bedroom, 155-square metre home.

There are some additional costs for connections to services, such as power and water.

Advance Build employs 25 full time workers at its factory in addition to design and administration staff. They can produce 65 houses a year.

Craig says the current factory is at capacity due to demand and earthworks have begun for a larger site in Kerikeri.

“It has been great for the area,” he says.

The current Advance Build factory has its own frame and truss plant on site, but otherwise the houses are built in the traditional way by builders.

A specialised truck with steering axles for manoeuvrability delivers a modular home.

The three-bedroom, 143 square metre Vista 3 modular home from Advance Build.

Advance Build will deliver as far as south Auckland, although most of its business is north of the Johnstones Hill tunnels.

Advance Build has a half-a-million-dollar specialised truck that transports builds up to 21.5 metres long by 8.4 metres wide. It is able to angle and lift over fences up to 2.5 metres high.

Craig says that banks have changed their attitude

towards modular homes in recent years, after formerly preferring on-site builds.

He says over the last two years most banks have adapted and have ‘prefab loans’ that apply to modular homes.

“The other day we handed over a house to a guy who had got finance after two years of trying. Banks know it’s the future now.”

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A theme in the construction sector is the importance of workforce planning to ensure the right people and skills are in place to deliver for current and future projects. Border closure has affected the sourcing of skilled candidates. HR and operations managers speak of halted hiring conversations with offshore candidates for specialised technical roles. Another consideration is the expiry of temporary resident visas of skilled immigrant workers. Therefore things need to be done differently, with less reliance on people from overseas.

On a positive note, returning Kiwis could balance the shortage of skilled immigrants. Some may offer the expertise and offshore experience to immediately contribute, depending on their skills and aspirations. Another possibility is retaining experienced, older workers; many are keen to work beyond traditional retirement age. They can mentor new employees while also learning from them in such areas as the application of new technology.

Also in the market are individuals who lost their jobs due to Covid-19’s impact on projects and subsequent employee downsizing. For some, there is frustration that their visa status prevents them from working for another company. On the other hand, there are skilled Kiwis currently seeking work who are available for companies resourcing “shovel ready” or other active projects.

But are the required skills readily available? And how competitive is the internal market? One company describes advertising for a commercial project manager and receiving very minimal applications from within New Zealand. Their shortterm approach is to re-organise and look internally for people who can take on more responsibility. With increased pressure on the leadership team and being mindful of best practice, this is not sustainable long-term, so there is a need to think outside the box.

In tandem with the focus on immediate resourcing, upskilling and training can future-proof the workforce and enhance a business’s competitive edge. The Ministry of Social Developments (MSD) Apprenticeship Support Programme is providing funding assistance. A recommendation from one construction company HR manager is to talk with MSD, as there may be flexibility in how you partner with them to help your business create meaningful opportunities for young Kiwis to complete their apprenticeships and be ready for jobs in the recovery phase.

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If you are looking for a swift horticultural fix, garden designer Richard Coe is not the man for you.

Instead, this UK-trained specialist focuses on a long-term, big picture view of a project and works over many months to ensure what will work best in any given setting.

“My garden design is organic,” he says.

After establishing a basic structure, he believes in letting the design evolve over time, getting a feel for the light conditions, soil types, plants and how the seasons affect the site. “I try to build the garden design steadily in layers to create a more natural look in keeping with the surrounding environment,” he says.

Richard specialises in larger gardens and lifestyle blocks of 1 to 2 hectares or more. He is involved constantly from design through to project management and maintenance, a process which means that the budget is spread out over time. He uses native plants to establish key structural aspects and a strong foundation, before adding selected exotics for colour and richness. The resulting style is distinctive, based on building a design up through simple layers of form and structure that each create different views and perceptions.

Richard’s passion for plants stems from his childhood. While he was

A construction company behind some of the most celebrated houses in Auckland has expanded to cover North Shore to Wellsford.

Mike and Hannah Faulkner have established a new northern branch of the 40-year-old family business, Faulkner Construction.

It means Mike can stop commuting to Auckland and spend more time with his one-year-old son.

Faulkner Construction comes highly commended, having won no less than 16 awards from the Master Builders Home of the Year awards.

Mike has built or project managed some of the most recognisable homes in Auckland, including a 700 square metre, five-bedroom house in Flat Bush, featuring a two-tonne tropical fish tank.

The company specialises in high-end residential renovations and new builds.

Mike and his two brothers, who are also builders, have had a particularly high standard drilled into them by their father, and business founder, Ross Faulkner. “Dad would feel all the joints on your finishing lines, and if it wasn’t up to gold-award winning standard, he would have you tear it down at the company’s cost and have it redone.

That standard has been ingrained into us boys,” Mike says.

He says he has the capacity to apply that meticulous level of detail to three to four houses this year and he is looking

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educated in the UK, he lived on several continents, from Asia to South America, which built his plant knowledge, colour palette and love of a wide variety of plants. He now loves sharing this passion for plants and design with others.

Since moving from the UK with his Kiwi wife early last year, he has been living in Kaipara Flats and absorbing how things work horticulturally here. He has worked as a “subbie” on properties from a rural bach to a huge new mansion near Auckland. Now he feels ready to branch out and would love to create dream garden spaces from the occasional major design brief.

“I approach garden design similar to the way I approach life in general – I believe life is a garden,” he says.

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for clients. He says northern architects have a lot to gain from working with the new business, including the backing and resource of the Auckland office.

“Communication with the client and architect is very important to us. These builds can last from eight months to two years, so clients need to be able to see results along the way.”

Mike says in the current financial climate, clients should also look for companies that have strong financial backing and have a proven record of riding the ups and downs. “Put your trust in experience. There is a lot of risk out there right now.”

Faulkner has had three apprentices star in the Apprentice of the Year awards, and Mike wants to develop more local talent. “It’s a great option for young guys or girls who aren’t excelling academically at school or prefer practical work. They learn life skills, build cool stuff and, at the end, have a decent wagon filled with tools.”

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Funds for Wood St upgrade The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) has awarded the Kaipara District Council $455,000 for interim improvements to Mangawhai’s Wood Street.

There will be a community meeting this Saturday, July 18, at 10am at the Mangawhai Club to discuss how to spend the money.

The vision is for Wood Street to become a pedestrian-friendly food and retail hub.

Improvements identified in Council’s application to the NZTA include a shared space between cafes and restaurants halfway down Wood Street.

The Council wants to develop the shared zone to “support surrounding businesses”, and significantly reduce the number of vehicles passing through.

An access way through the decommissioned fire station on Wood Street through to a temporary carpark on Fagan Place may also be developed.

The temporary carpark was set up on Council land on Fagan Place as part of a summer trial in 2019.

The trial also made Wood Street oneway and made street parking shortterm to encourage parking further away, reducing congestion.

The application notes that once the Mangawhai Central retail development is completed, Wood Street will need to adapt in order to compete with it.

Council says feedback from the trial shows that the community supports change.

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way system has helped to ease traffic congestion and improve safety. More than 80 per cent agreed that additional parking on Fagan Street was a help.

Mangawhai programme delivery manager Tim Manning said improvements were needed to meet growth.

“The huge influx of summer holiday visitors means that during peak periods Wood Street sees bumper-to-bumper traffic and heavy congestion,” he said.

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Lockdown was a reminder to us all of how delicately our lives are balanced; how easily all the things we consider to be normal can so quickly be disrupted and a new normal established. It should also be a reminder to us of how important it is to care for our planet and to minimise any activities

that can throw it out of balance and further disrupt life as we know it. With this in mind, it is fantastic to see that our students have come back with a renewed energy and passion to protect and care for our environment. Through actions they are demonstrating that they are committed to doing their part.

Over 80 students volunteered to be involved in planting native trees at the Scandrett Regional Park, alongside Auckland Council and Scandrett’s Park volunteers. Larissa Cherrie, the community ranger for Scandrett’s and Mahurangi East, and Anna Pashley, our environmental rep, joined together and invited students to volunteer to take part in restoring the endangered native coastal forest at the park. Those involved enjoyed the experience, recognising that their efforts would have a lengthy and meaningful impact on the park for years to come.

time we have taken the shield from Orewa in nine years. Congratulations also to our Senior A Netball team for their 28-15 win against Carmel College qualifying them for the top 4 competition in North Harbour Secondary Schools. Our 1XV Girl’s Rugby team also started their season with a win. Our senior teams across Football, Basketball and Hockey also opened with games against Orewa.

Our trapping teams have been busy clearing rats, stoats and other pests out of the bush around the college. They are gradually extending their trapping runs and now have permission from the Council to start trapping the reserve across the river (see page 2).

trustee of Hauturu, Little Barrier Island and for the past 16 years. Last week she visited and donated a copy of a book she coauthored to our school library. The Chairman of our Board during those same years, Colin Binsted, is now helping to oversee our forest restoration programme. This has included training and leading our trapping teams and taking our students to Scandretts Regional Park for tree planting.

It was pleasing to receive a copy of the shellfish monitoring report using data from our students’ twice a year cockle survey with Dr Karen Tricklebank, which was published in the New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Science. Our students have been involved in this project since 2010.

Congratulations to Year 13 student Kate Popham, also known as artist Seven Zen, who has taken first place in the 2020 Play It Strange WHO LOVES WHO competition for her rendition of Hawks and Doves. Seven Zen has been a finalist in various Play It Strange competitions over the last 5 years. As a finalist of their 2019 Peace Song competition, she was invited to perform her song They Are Us at the Auckland Museum, as part of the Christchurch Memorial Peace Concert. She will also be competing for the 5th and last time in this year’s Smoke Free Rock Quest.

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Included in this edition is the letter senior students Robbie Ennis and Jowan Nute wrote to ministers regarding a green COVID-19 response. Vault Magazine is available in hard copy from the school office or can be read online via Issuu or our school website.

Congratulations to all students involved in the 40-hour Famine, to date having raised $8900! We will soon be recognising our best earners including Sam Coombe (below) who earned an incredible $1000!

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Mahurangi College students, Auckland Council and Scandrett’s Park volunteers had a great day planting a hillside at Scandrett’s Regional Park in efforts to restore the endangered native coastal forest at the park. Over 80 students from Year 7 through to 13 managed to plant over 700 saplings.

HELPING TO RESTORE OUR LOCAL ENVIRONMENT THROUGH TRAPPING The Mahurangi College Trapping Team strives to eliminate pests on our school grounds by 2050. They have been inspired by fellow students of different ages and backgrounds coming together in this shared interest. They started trapping for the “getting your hands dirty” aspect, but have stayed committed to the cause for the benefit of our native animals. The Team is made up of many individuals, from beginners to more experienced trappers. Senior students, Fletcher Sceats and Gus Berger, have both grown up trapping on farms. Sharing their valuable knowledge and insight they have

dutifully trained younger members who will lead the team when the seniors graduate.

Without the enthusiasm and determination of the Mahu Trapping Team, our natural school grounds will be negatively impacted due to the existence of pests like weasels, rats and possums. They prey on native birds - such as kiwi, fantails, and kaka - and their eggs.

It’s unfortunate that these pests need to be captured and eliminated, but it is necessary.

These beloved NZ birds have evolved during the absence of predators and don’t have the strategies to cope with them. Because of this, they are becoming more and more

endangered. The traps used ensure the pests do not suffer and die immediately, thus ridding our environment of them without inflicting harm. This group puts time and effort into restoring the safety of our native wildlife. With some help from adults, the students have fully embraced this program.

Some are considering working on this project over the many years it will take, including the trapping that will occur across the river. By showing Pride and ownership of “Our Place” the Trapping Team is truly embracing “He waka eke noa,” or, “we’re all in this together.”

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Mahurangi artist makes finals of Parkin Drawing Prize A Tawharanui artist has made the finals of the 2020 Parkin Drawing Prize and is in with a chance of winning $25,000.

Merthyr Ruxton created her work Untitled 12/19 by making gestures on a board with a cloth loaded with paint.

“The blue and yellow I used for this work are complementary colours, which create their own energy when placed alongside each other,” she says.

Merthyr comes from a family of painters, writers and singers and completed a visual communication degree at Wellington Polytechnic in the 1970s.

She exhibits her work at NorthART in Northcote and Railway Street Gallery in Newmarket.

It is the third year in a row that the Parkin has shortlisted one of her works.

Merthyr says all art helps humans get in contact with their emotions.

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The Parkin Drawing Prize was launched by New Zealand arts patron Chris Parkin eight years ago. Finalists for the 2020 prize will be showcased at the New Zealand Academy for Fine Arts in Wellington from August 4 to 30.

Mr Parkin says it will be interesting to see what works and themes come through in the exhibition, especially after experiencing such a turbulent year.

“I’m pleased with my timing to increase the prize money to $25,000 because it’s been a difficult year for many people, especially artists impacted by Covid-19,” he says.

The winner of the 2020 prize will be announced by Charlotte Davy, head of art for the Te Papa museum, on August 3.

Community service clubs pass the torch

Brian Tuck has been appointed the new president of the Warkworth chapter of Rotary International.

Mr Tuck was formerly governor of Rotary District 9910, which includes West Auckland, Northland, Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

Programmes that Warkworth Rotary intends to launch this year include building picnic benches for schools and developing vegetable gardens for students at Matakana School and Snells Beach School.

Meanwhile, Warkworth Lions has named David Scott as its new president, replacing Lynn Jones.

This year, Warkworth Lions joined forces with the Mahurangi Caremongers group that assisted the vulnerable and elderly during the Covid-19 lockdown. In addition, the Lions helped raise $22,400 for the Australian bushfire appeal.

Warkworth Lions Club will again be running its popular monthly quiz nights at Bowls Warkworth, starting this Wednesday, July 15, from 6.30pm.

Last month, the Wellsford Lions handed over a $10,000 cheque to Northland Rescue Helicopter Warkworth Rotary president Warkworth Lions from funds raised at their Roaring Truck Show.

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Prizes, raffles, guest callers. Info: David on 422 2216 or Graham on 422 3130 Forest & Bird Talk, Totara Park Retirement Village Hall, Warkworth, 7.30pm. Botanist Maureen Young on Green Pests – the weeds we need to be wary of. All welcome.

Public meeting on motorway toll, The Bridgehouse, 5.30pm.

Discussion hosted by One Warkworth.

Hikoi to Auckland Council, Albert Park, 11am. Fight the Tip and Ngati Whatua-led protest against the proposed landfill in the Dome Valley.

Community planting day, Te Whau Walkway, Snells Beach, 10am-noon. Bring gloves, water, suitable clothing and closed in shoes. Enter from end of Cornel Circle.

Auckland Opera Studio presents tenor Amitai Pati, former Vivian Gallery, 5pm. Info and bookings: aucklandoperastudio. co.nz Wellsford Bowls 70th, Wellsford Community Centre, noon.

Celebration for members past and present. Info: Jill 021 264 5843 Composting and plant propagation workshop, Matakana Hall, 9am-5pm. Hands-on skills related to permaculture practices. Info and bookings: PDCmatakana@gmail.com Kaukapakapa Village Market, 947 Kaipara Coast Highway, SH16, 8.30am-1pm. Stalls, fresh coffee, food, local produce, live music, free face painting & much more. Info and bookings: Sarah 0274 831 542 or email sarah1@maxnet.co.nz Vesa and Friends, Warkworth Town Hall, 4pm. Performing works of Beethoven and Mozart. Tickets $35 from warkworthmusic.org.nz or on the door.

Composting workshop, Ahuroa Hall, 6.30-8.30pm. The Compost Collective’s Judy Keats will outline traditional and Bokashi composting, plus worm farming. Free entry and $40 discount off a home composting system. Info and registration: compostcollective.org.nz Te Reo lessons for beginners, Te Hana Te Ao Marama Marae, 311 State Highway One, Te Hana, 4.30pm. Info: Mereana 423 8701 or 021 070 59 48 Fabric Rescue Event, Matakana Community Hall, 11am2pm. Bring and buy fabrics for clothes, furnishings and craft projects. Info: Fabric Rescue on Facebook Wellsford Drama Club public meeting, Wellsford Community Centre, 2pm. For all with an interest in drama and supporting the club. All welcome.

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Collaboration between Springboard and former police officer Bede Haughey about a real life cautionary tale in Snells Beach.

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Ty Connolly charged through Orewa’s ranks.

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Mahurangi triumph in Murray Jones rematch Jonathan Killick news@localmatters.co.nz

Mahurangi College’s 1st XV made history this month by taking the Murray Jones Shield off rivals Orewa College for the first time in nine years.

The side was literally a different team to what this reporter saw in the first weeks of the season. This time, they were a disciplined and relentless force.

There were moments where the boys holding the ball were being picked up and carried, rather than the ball itself.

Both teams knew what was on the line and immediately brought the necessary intensity onto the field.

Each scored a try within the first 10

minutes of the game.

But Mahurangi College was able to convert that first try, whereas Orewa faltered.

Mahu scored another try 20 minutes in, although this time it was not converted.

The boys continued consistently to push the game towards Orewa’s 22-metre line, but often found the referee a barrier. Orewa was awarded a penalty kick, which they successfully converted into three points.

The score at half time was 12-8 in Mahu’s favour, and the home crowd was really starting to buzz with anticipation.

Mahurangi’s resolve was clearly

strengthening. They quickly scored another try and successfully converted at the start of the second half.

Orewa must have been getting desperate because they conceded two penalty kicks which Mahu gratefully turned into points.

Mahurangi College principal David Macleod put it best: “Tries are exciting but points are what keeps me happy.”

Orewa gave it a final push and successfully earned a try. However, blustery winds blew their conversion kick right off course and it never even made the goal line. Final score: 25-13.

New coach Ruan Prins said the win meant a lot to the team, after having come within a few points of winning

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the shield in the last few years.

The win against Orewa was a big morale booster for Mahurangi after being beaten both by Massey (27-20) and in their first Murray Jones Shield match.

“The boys didn’t know what they were capable of yet. Now they know what is possible when they work hard,” Prins said.

He said the team showed good communication and leadership in the match, and he believed things were looking positive for the season ahead.

The shield is now officially Mahu’s for the rest of the season, as it is not contested between the colleges in semi-final and final matches.

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