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pages 34-39 A crisp autumn dawn and a bright sunny morning encouraged hundreds of people to attend Anzac Day services throughout Mahurangi, with record numbers at many events. In Matakana, a large crowd lined the road and surrounded the King George War Memorial to hear descendants of local men who fought and died in the First World War describe their forebears’ stories. Pictured is Kurt Salmond remembering Rifleman Charles Lawrence Leeds of Matakana, who died in action nearly 100 years ago.

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Matakana Link Road routes revealed Cathy Aronson localmattersnz@gmail.com

Long-awaited plans for a Matakana Link Road to bypass the Hill Street intersection bottleneck between State Highway 1 north of Warkworth and eastern communities have been revealed by Auckland Transport (AT).

A shortlist of four link routes is open for public consultation, including an open day in Warkworth on Saturday May 6, with construction on the final design due to start next year, and the aim of opening before the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway in 2021.

The 1.6 km four-lane road will create an alternative route between

west and east Warkworth from SH1 to Matakana Road. It will start south of the new motorway intersection, just north of the Warkworth Showgrounds, and exit on Matakana Road near Clayden Road.

Four options have been whittled down from 10, and public consultation is open until May 20. The road will

cross farmland that has been zoned future urban and light industrial, and include two turn-offs into future developments. AT says the location is designed to align with the future road corridor and Western Collector roads project west of Warkworth.

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Matakana Link Road Matakana Road right through a family home and fourth generation farm.

Landowners Alastair Membery and Deborah Steel say they are resigned to the fact that change is coming to Warkworth and that infrastructure needs to be put in place to cope with the expected growth. “Unfortunately for us, this comes at a high personal cost to our family,” they say.

Another option would encroach on the Showgrounds northern edge and may require a retaining wall for one of the sportsfields. Mahurangi Community Sports and Recreation Collective chairperson Mark Illingworth says they have no objections, providing the final option does not interfere with the Showgrounds, since maintaining sports and recreation facilities is important for future growth and community health.

Greg Stevenson’s family trust owns 38 hectares of land surrounding the Showgrounds, with half of the proposed road on their land. They have been involved in link proposals for more than a decade. Greg says there are obvious ancillary benefits, but they also want to contribute to the community and take pressure off the Hill Street intersection.

He is pleased it is proceeding but “mortified” at how long it has taken, and says it is important to start planning the proposed extension to Sandspit Road as soon as possible now.

Fix Hill Street Now organiser Grant McLachlan agrees. He says the

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Matakana link will provide only limited relief and the extension to Sandspit Road is essential. He questions the road’s ‘goldplated’ design, with separated cycle and walkways, and says that money could be used for the Sandspit extension to avoid pushing the congestion problem further up the road.

In a report to the Rodney Local Board in late 2016, AT said the Matakana link would cost between $25.5 million and $39.5 million. Acquiring property was expected to cost $10 million, requiring 12ha of land, affecting seven landowners and nine properties. Last year NZTA agreed to provide early funding for construction if AT funds were not available.

AT Delivery Manager North-West David Nelson says the Transport for Future Urban Growth plan consultation showed support for the link. He says the transport network is needed to address existing and future travel needs, as Warkworth is set to become a major satellite town of more than 20,000 people.

All four options will be on display at the open day, attended by technical experts, for feedback to identify a preferred option to be taken forward for consent.

Info: Open day, Saturday May 6, 10am to 2pm, Mahurangi Rugby Club, Warkworth Showgrounds.

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Lucky landing for student in pool plunge A Mahurangi College student had a lucky escape when he fell through the school swimming pool roof last month.

The boy crashed through roof panels and plunged approximately two storeys into the shallow end of the pool, but miraculously walked away without injury.

It is understood the student originally climbed onto the roof before school to get a ball down, but proceeded to show off to friends by ‘dancing’, and then fell through one of the clear light roof panels into the pool.

Principal David MacLeod says the student was breaking school rules that state no student may climb on any school roof.

“If a student needs to get a ball down from a roof, our caretakers are more than happy to help,” he says.

Mr MacLeod says the boy was apologetic afterwards and confirmed he suffered no injuries, despite landing towards the shallow end of the pool.

As a consequence, and as a contribution towards the cost of two roof panels that needed to be replaced, the student was tasked to work for three days to help the college caretaker during the school holidays.

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Group keen to get green light for recycling centre Hopes to establish a community recycling centre at the Lawrie Road waste transfer station in Snells Beach have taken a step forward, following a successful public meeting to gauge support for the idea.

Around 50 people were at the Warkworth Town Hall last month to show their interest and discuss what they would like to see at a recycling centre, with popular themes including a repair shed and a composting station.

Permaculture tutor and zero waste advocate Trish Allen is spearheading the proposal, and she was delighted by the turnout.

“I’m so excited about this idea after the meeting,” she said. “With that response, it should be unstoppable.”

The Lawrie Road site is owned by Auckland Council and has been operated by Northland Waste for 20 years, with the lease up for renewal in October 2018. This, combined with Auckland Council’s Waste Management and Minimisation Plan target of being Zero Waste by 2040, inspired Trish to start planning for a full recycling centre on the site.

This month Council will give people the opportunity to submit expressions of interest and their ideas for the site, before the best are selected and possibly put into a formal proposal for assessment.

Trish is planning to submit her expression of interest under the banner of the Matakana Community Group, with plans to establish a charitable

Trish Allen is hoping the idea of a full recycling centre at the Lawrie Road waste transfer station site will be well received by council next month.

trust called Mahurangi Waste Busters in two or three months’ time. And she wants to keep people interested in the idea in the meantime.

“I want to run a few one-day repair shops and some other recycling initiatives over the next year to keep people interested while we wait for the lease renewal,” she says.

Also present at the public meeting was Helensville Community Recycling Centre site manager Treena Gowthorpe, who shared her experiences of setting up and running a recycling centre.

The Helensville facility was established as a transfer station in 1993, before becoming a full recycling centre in August last year, with funding coming from a decreasing council subsidy and revenue made on site.

The centre has a 70 per cent diversion rate, which is measured by weight and represents the amount of rubbish that

is diverted from landfill.

“Some people say you will never be zero waste, but if you’re at 70 per cent diversion, 100 per cent doesn’t seem that far away,” Treena said.

Audience members questioned Treena about how different waste was dealt with and what problems might be encountered when establishing a recycling centre.

She said that community involvement was essential for any centre to be sustainable, since Council subsidies only covered the set-up phase of such centres.

After the meeting, Northland Waste managing director Ray Lambert said he would be happy to work with local groups on recycling, providing that transparency was maintained around any possible costs to ratepayers and figures about how much waste was actually being diverted.

Currently, 12,000 tonnes of commercial rubbish are put through

Lawrie Road each year, with around 30 per cent of that recycled. However, Northland Waste also collects around 4000 tonnes per year of rubbish that gets recycled, but doesn’t pass through the transfer station.

He also warned that about $2 million extra would need to be spent on foundation work to build a full recycling centre at Lawrie Road, because the site was previously a landfill.

He said he has approached Auckland Council in the past about developing a recycling facility on the site, but received no support.

Ray said he wasn’t sure what Northland Waste’s future was on the Lawrie Road site, but said the company owned a piece of land around 10 hectares off Sandspit Road, near the lime quarry, that they were looking at developing.

He did not wish to work with Council or groups from outside of the area on any recycling projects, however, as he was sceptical about the sustainability of other centres set up by commercial operators or Council.

Trish Allen said she would be happy to work with Northland Waste on the project, and Ray said he was hoping for community involvement if Northland developed its site off Sandspit Road.

Trish is also hoping that someone will take up a similar initiative with the transfer station on Rustybrook Road in Wellsford, which is also operated

by Northland Waste and up for lease renewal next year.

$2 million set aside for Hill Street redesign in the short term The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) has reiterated that any long-term solution to Hill Street won’t happen until the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway and Matakana link road are completed.

NZTA is working with Auckland Transport on short-term solutions, such as pedestrian access and optimising signal systems to improve traffic flow. However, Auckland relationships director Ernst Zollner says that a significant amount of the

existing pressure on Hill Street will ease when the motorway extension and link road open.

Traffic modelling shows that building the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway will reduce the number of vehicles travelling through the Hill Street intersection by more than 7000 vehicles a day and, when both the motorway and the link road are finished, it will have a combined effect of removing more than 8500 vehicles a day.

“When the new motorway is finished in 2021, along with other upgrades such as the link road and the western collector, much of the current traffic will be able to bypass Warkworth,” Mr Zollner says.

NZTA is also understood to be concerned about the significant disruption any major reconfiguration of Hill Street would have on Warkworth.

NZTA and Auckland Transport announced last month that up to

$2 million had been set aside to investigate design changes to the intersection.

This work will include looking at land acquisition and regulatory requirements needed before work can physically start, as well as revisiting designs that have been developed by both AT and the Warkworth community. These designs will form the list of options that will be considered by the project team.

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Editors note: The annual Hospice Awareness Week is being held from May 15 to 21.

Warkworth Wellsford Hospice will be encouraging people to hold Hospice High Tea fundraisers, and New World will again be inviting shoppers to Add A Dollar to their bill for Hospice.

Mahurangi Matters would like to share this letter, to show just why every dollar raised really counts.

Hospice can be contacted on 425 9535 or warkworthwellsfordhospice.co.nz

One man’s experience with hospice I thought it might be appropriate to tell of my experience with my wife having terminal liver cancer and the wonderful, freely available support provided by Hospice in the Warkworth area.

Some 20 years ago my wife, along with other members of her family, cared for her mother who was dying of liver cancer. This proved to be a truly dreadful time for the mother and her children. The pain the mother suffered could not be adequately controlled by the medication available in Waihi at the time. The poor mother, who was a strongly religious person, went through several weeks of intense pain and absolute discomfort. On one occasion I heard her asking her God where he was at this, her time of real need.

And so my wife quite justifiably had considerable fear of having to

go through the same agony as her mother if she were ever to suffer from terminal liver cancer. Sadly, last year, a large tumour in my wife’s bowel was the cause of cancer settling out in her liver. The bowel tumour was removed, but too late, as by then there were 11 small tumours on her liver. These were treated by chemotherapy, apart from one which was removed surgically.

This gained us six months, in which we thought the terminal diagnosis might not be correct.

We met with senior specialists who reviewed the latest scans which clearly showed the original tumours. My wife commented that it was all over. No, she was told. Because you are so healthy, we are going to try another procedure which has not been carried out in this country.

We will implant minute spheres into the blood vessels from which the tumours are supplied. Additionally, we will also place some containing chemotherapy compounds. The spheres will help block the flow of blood to the tumours, we were told. However, the specialists had to present a case and apply for special funding – a process which would take several weeks.

So, there was a glimmer of hope and we left North Shore Hospital with its wonderful supportive doctors feeling quite happy and positive about the future. However, it was not to be.

The cancers developed rapidly and, within a fortnight, my beautiful, brave wife was suffering discomfort due to pain, fluid retention and swelling

of her liver. Her doctor notified the Warkworth Hospice and the same day gentle, lovely, caring nurses arrived to assess my wife’s needs. An effective pain relief medication was provided immediately. Regular visits from obviously highly skilled nurses followed, to ensure my wife was totally comfortable and pain free.

A brand new electronically-controlled bed was delivered, along with a special mattress to enable my wife to easily adjust her position for maximum comfort. A few days passed like a blur, but during this time my wife chose a coffin that the grandchildren could decorate. She also planned a simple service for family and close friends with a chosen song. She wanted neither funeral directors, nor clergy involved in her funeral.

Sadly, the cancer’s growth was extremely rapid. I was numb with all that was going on around me. I simply did not comprehend that my wife’s death was just a day or two away, although I was probably told. To give total control of pain, the nurses decided to put a unit in place which would pump pain relief directly into her blood stream. While this was being readied, I lay beside my wife on our bed, where she told me how she had fallen in love with me the first time we had met. It was a lovely time but I didn’t realise that within an hour or two she would lapse into a coma from which she would not recover. She died early on a Saturday, two days later. It

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was her wish. She had stated that she just wanted to go.

Her daughters dressed her and we placed her in the coffin, which had both a mattress and a pillow. She looked beautiful and we placed the open coffin in the lounge. As recommended, the girls regularly placed frozen hot-water bottles beside her body.

On Sunday, we had the simple gathering she had planned. It went beautifully.

The next day we took her to the North Shore Crematorium, where we had a time allotted in which to deliver her. We placed the lid loosely on the coffin after saying our final goodbyes. Strangely, we all seemed to feel really calm. I paid the $500 fee and, a few days later, collected a lovely container of my wife’s ashes. A few months later, we placed these under a puriri tree where she had asked that they be placed.

Warren Agnew

Policing needed I totally agree with Bryan Jackson (MM April 12).

We have returned to Snells Beach after 15 years in the South Island and find the asylum is being run by the inmates.

We had our car stolen out of the driveway – never to be seen again, a nice local man sold us a lemon replacement, and Mahurangi East Road is a dangerous boy racers track; many big boys as well.

We have seen police twice maybe in two years out here, but not for our car theft.

It is past time for something to be done.

Marlene Drummond, Snells Beach.

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A tour of Rodney Rodney Local Board member Allison Roe turned up two hours late to the April 20 meeting with a doozy of an excuse. “Sorry I’m late, I got lost and went to Helensville, and then Hoteo and now I am here – at least I had a tour of Rodney,” she said.

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Viewpoint Phil Goff, Mayor of Auckland

Growth presenting challenges March and April were busy months for Auckland. We hosted the World Masters Games at the end of April, bringing in 28,000 competitors from more than 100 countries. Less positively, we experienced over 600mm of rain in 30 days – the equivalent of five normal months of rainfall. That tested our stormwater and water infrastructure and showed that we need to build more resilience into the system.

It’s Annual Budget time and Aucklanders have had their say in record numbers.

We received 8,058 written submissions, which is an increase of more than 140 per cent on the previous year, and triple the number of submissions from 2014/15.

Council’s Have Your Say events were well attended this year, with almost 1,500 Aucklanders attending one of these many events held across the city. It is really encouraging that so many people have taken the time to participate in planning for the future.

The major policy proposals received positive feedback. The proposed rate rise of 2.5 per cent, growth infrastructure charges, a living wage for council staff and a targeted rate on accommodation providers all received majority support of between 57 and 65 per cent.

Auckland is growing fast. At present, rates are the main means by which Council raises the revenue needed to meet growing demands. Growth is good, but it also presents challenges with congestion and housing affordability. I believe ratepayers have carried the burden of servicing Auckland’s growth for too long.

It is important to keep rates increases as low as possible by finding efficiencies and exploring alternative forms of raising revenue.

I am having discussions with the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance about how Government can assist Auckland with its growth pressures. Aucklanders need to pay their fair share, but Government has to give us wider mechanisms to raise revenue. With more taxes paid to central government, it also needs to revenue-share with local government, which has to meet many of the costs associated with unprecedented growth. The feedback from Annual Budget submissions suggests that Aucklanders share that sentiment.

The Million Trees project is progressing well and the enthusiasm of the organisations and people that have come forward so far to be a part of this project is really great. We are going to be planting trees along streams and waterways, as well as in urban parks and regional reserves. We need trees around waterways to slow runoffs and to help stop siltation and nutrient leaching. We also need trees to absorb carbon emissions to slow global warming. More trees will also add to the beauty of our city and will be an asset for future generations to enjoy.

HON MARK MITCHELL

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A Pūhoi to Warkworth Update from Alan Orange – NX2 Project Director As Project Director I am very excited about the Pūhoi to Warkworth project and the benefits it will bring to the community. The Fletcher and Acciona joint venture partnership is a strong one with good track record in the design and construction of safe, high quality roading infrastructure projects.

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As works ramp up on the new 18.5km of the Northern Motorway, please be vigilant, reduce speed and take care on local roads and on SH1 between Pūhoi and Warkworth.

More trucks and construction vehicles are using SH1 as the project progresses.

Logging operations are in full swing, site offices are being set up and earthworks continue, meaning that more trucks, utilities and 4WD vehicles will be going into and leaving the construction site.

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A number of Site Access Points (SAPs) have been established for construction traffic on local roads and SH1. Traffic will be managed with crossing signs, speed reductions and stop-go points to enhance safety. The access points are shown in the map alongside (1-6) and more detail of their locations can be seen on our website.

We are working with Auckland Transport and the NZ Transport Agency, to ensure appropriate traffic controls are in place to protect the public and the construction team. We ask motorists to take note of the traffic controls, drive to the conditions, and take extra care when using the Moir Hill Road/SH1 intersection. Health and safety is paramount to the project.

Please take care on our roads.

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SEABIRDS OF THE HAURAKI GULF

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The common diving petrel

Tiny divers making remarkable journeys south ‘Flies like a Buzzy Bee’, ‘flying penguin’, ‘aerodynamically challenged’, ‘skipping stone’ – these are phrases that come to mind when thinking about this compact little seabird on short stubby wings. But the common diving petrel – one would fit in the palm of your hand – are packed with surprises.

They breed on most islands in the outer Hauraki Gulf and are extremely numerous on some islands, especially the Mokohinau Islands, the Mercuries and the northwest Chickens. It might surprise those familiar with Tiritiri Matangi Island, famous for its very special birds, that the common diving petrel, which breeds in small burrows and only comes ashore at night, is likely the island’s most numerous bird.

Diving petrels eat small pelagic crustaceans, especially the krill Nyctiphanes australis, abundant in northern waters, and copepods. They spend most of their time underwater at sea chasing their prey. While out boating, you will glimpse them zipping about, flying low and straight with rapidly beating wings. Or, you will see them on the water looking like small penguins sitting low in the water. When approached, they will

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either disappear underwater or burst out running across the water before taking to the air, then back into the water with a plop to disappear again. I have seen birds bouncing like skipping stones before disappearing.

During breeding, diving petrels feed locally, spending the day at sea before heading back to land at night. It is quite common to find two birds in a burrow, or one bird outside. They have an infectious purring call (the sort that raises a smile) and appear to be very

social birds. Not only between pairs but right across a colony, especially as dawn approaches. Then, their murmurings increase both in volume and frequency as if hundreds of birds are enjoying a debate about where they will be going during the coming day!

Like all petrels, they lay one egg and parent birds will share both incubation and chick-rearing, which takes about three months. On some islands, they breed in dense colonies in shallow burrows, under iceplant, grass and low

shrubs. The final ‘surprise’ is that when they finish breeding here in northern New Zealand through December, these little guys make the most of the southern summer and head south and east big time. A recent tracking study showed that birds from Burgess Island in the Mokohinau Group, embark on a 3000km journey down to the South Polar Front (that’s two thirds of the way to Chile). While it is easy to imagine the great albatrosses and large petrels flying effortlessly across the Southern Ocean in all sorts of weather, it is not so easy for these little birds, their wings a blur, bellies barely skimming the sea’s surface. What was remarkable about our tracking study is that one of these birds covered the 3000km in three days. It looks like they time their moult while down there and become effectively flightless – not such a problem for these tiny ‘flying penguins’ feeding in the krillrich southern waters. Late March and through April they start arriving back in the Hauraki Gulf. Welcome home, remarkable bird!

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Environment Christine Rose

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Plastic bag menace An estimated 40,000 plastic bags go to landfill in New Zealand every hour and around 1.6 billion are used every year in this country. But overall, they are a small proportion of the waste stream, comprising only 0.2 per cent of landfill waste and 1.5 per cent of litter. Each single use plastic bag is used for an average of only 15 minutes to carry goods from the shop to the car and the car to the house, before being disposed of. Their production is resource intensive and wasteful – fossil fuels, greenhouse gases, other production costs, and especially if disposed of improperly, an environmental threat. Each of those bags takes from 20 to 1000 years to break down, if ever. Apparently plastic bags make up most of the rubbish in the ocean. They float about looking like jellyfish so get mistaken as food by marine life such as turtles, fish and whales, and when they do finally break down into micro-particles, they attract heavy metals like cadmium and lead, and contaminate marine organisms.

More than 30 countries around the world have either banned single use plastic bags or imposed levies to reduce their use. Bangladesh was the first country to introduce such a ban in 2002. Even in the UK and US states like California, governments and the public recognise the need to address the wasteful use of resources and consumer convenience epitomised in plastic bag use and disposal.

Not all these countries have applied complete plastic bag bans. In the UK, bans only apply to companies with over 250 full-time equivalent employees.

Small businesses are exempt, recognising the administrative burden on smaller companies. Plastic bags required to maintain food hygiene are also exempt, for example those carrying meat or fish. But once levies and bans are introduced, even partially, plastic bag consumption and waste decreases significantly. In the UK, plastic bag use fell by 80 to 90 per cent in the year after levies were installed.

Last year, New Zealand’s Local Government and Environment Select Committee considered a petition signed by over 16,000 people, calling for levies and a phased-in ban on single use plastic bags. A ban on the bag has been supported

by Auckland’s Mayor Phil Goff, who says five to six million plastic bags could be saved with a partial ban here.

However, the Parliamentary Select Committee rejected a ban or levy, saying that many plastic bags were reused as bin liners, a function important enough to justify their retention; the benefits of such a ban might not outweigh the costs, as alternatives might not be any better; and plastic bags are just one part of the waste stream, by volume not a significant one.

Plastic is a pervasive product of convenience in all our lives. A ban or levy can clearly be effective in reducing use, waste and disposal. In the absence of Government leadership, we have a problem of both supply and demand.

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Joy Bell, artist

Joy Bell shares how her early artistic career and proceeds from her antique store in Ponsonby fuelled her second life as a single mother and public artist in Warkworth for the past two decades. In that time her intricate mosaics have adorned public spaces, from the toilets at Matheson Bay, Puhoi and the Old Cement Works to the Warkworth Clock Tower.

Joy showed Cathy Aronson around her converted Woodcocks Church home, where she discovered mosaics by decorating her gardens with leftover antique plates, as she plans to create a new gallery and workshop space for the next chapter of her creative life.

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y dream was always art. We had no artists, or redheads, in the family. When my mum picked me up from my first day at school, the teacher said ‘you have a very artistic daughter, make sure she always has heaps of materials’. So from then on my mum wouldn’t let me do any housework and would say ‘just draw’.

I won lots of art awards. By the time I was 13 I was selling pictures of trees and bush scenes for $35 in coffee shops in Takapuna. I thought I was a real artist. It was all my mum’s doing, she was my biggest admirer. My parents immigrated from Yorkshire when I was 10 years old, my mum was a nurse and my dad was an engineer. I was the middle child and had a younger brother and older sister. I spent time in the US as an exchange student.

I was laughed out of art school for being too old school; I was into realism in the 70s when it was un-hip and ‘cameras could do that’. I won an art award by splashing paint on a board, and I cried because my entry was meant to be a joke. Then I realised I never wanted to be part of the art world; it was cruel and horrible and I distrusted it.

I was loved in the commercial art world, which I never wanted to be part of. When I was 19, I walked into a Parnell agency and became an intermediate finished artist doing artwork, typography for adverts and travel brochures and packaging. I was the only female, so got all the perfumes and pretty stuff. It was well paid.

I started an art gallery on Ponsonby Road when I was 23. I lived the trendy life and got a lot of free publicity as a ‘young artist with a gallery’. It was a big risk at the time, and I never made any money from it, so a year later it became an antique shop, ‘Old Friends’, which did make a lot of money.

Things often happen by accident, not by design. I didn’t know what I was doing and I had no background in antiques other than I could restore, refinish and present well. Then I had another antique shop called Joy’s Antiques in Dominion Road. I ended up becoming the antique teddy bear specialist in New Zealand. I sold my

collection for $125,000 and bought a five-bedroom villa in Ponsonby and then ended up being freehold by 1995.

I left the city and my income and became a mother when I was 36 years old. I bought a house in the west of Warkworth that used to be the Woodcocks Church, then a school for 10 years; it was derelict by 1919 and then boarded up. It’s a tiny house, we call it the doll’s house.

It was a big thing to have a house in the country, a horse, do art full time and be a single mum. Since then I’ve chosen to do my art rather than have a relationship. I couldn’t fit anything else in. I could pay the bills but I wouldn’t have survived as an artist if I had to pay rent or a mortgage. My friends and neighbours have always been very supportive. gave myself three years to be an artist. I started making money for the kids making reverse decoupage gilded vases with Victorian art nouveau images inside. When I think

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of them now, bringing images together is like mosaics, making a whole out of pieces. Recycling is a very strong thing for me, taking something people don’t want and making it into something people would argue over.

It’s a very satisfying feeling, working with a discarded object and making it beautiful.

My son Alec and daughter Rose were born only thirteen months apart, they are now 21 and 19 and have left home. They were in the same year at Mahurangi College. Not having a proper job meant I could give back for the kids. I was chair of the PTA at Kaipara Flats School, chaired the Warkworth Pony Club; I did far

too much, I was on so many committees. Most people are too shy. I’m incredibly hard working to a fault. At least I’ve given that to the kids. They could see that art was a hard road. They never had enough, it was never a good living, I was obsessively consumed by it and they saw it drain me. ’ve been at it for 21 years now, 15 years doing mosaics. It’s been a privilege to be a public artist. My first job was the Snells Beach toilets, a Rodney Council arts advisor helped me take the next step. External mosaics worked for public buildings because of their high durability and low maintenance. It is hard physical work, your hands bleed through your gloves.

My work changed eight years ago when I got a Gemini Saw for the Orewa toilets next to the library. It meant I could do detailed work and cultural, historical realism. I wouldn’t have been able to do the Puhoi story without it. I’ve demonstrated all over the world at mosaic conventions. It got to the stage where I had to say no to jobs. It was getting a bit ridiculous, I had a lot of art around. he Warkworth Clock Tower got the very best treatment. It was the most important work I have done, but also the hardest experience. It nearly didn’t happen after the Supercity changeover and the public art law change. Tracey Martin spoke about the Clock Tower in parliament and the Warkworth community came out to support it, so it worked out beautifully in the end. o be a practicing artist in New Zealand you’d have to be very strategic, very ‘emperor’s new clothes’, hoodwinking to get publicity. I don’t want to be part of that world. I’d prefer to skirt around or under it. Real art to me is what the public like. It was same with antique shop – if they deemed it to be beautiful, they would buy it even if they didn’t have the money. That is successful. But selling to someone who has heaps of money because they think it’s going to be worth more money wouldn’t make me feel great.

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When the kids left home, I wanted to give back to the arts and joined the North Rodney Community Arts Council. I remember winning the Rodney District Art Awards prize of $1200 when I had no money and I could buy tyres for the car. I never expected to win, after my experience of art school. That makes me want to give back; it’s not just for the money but giving artists the confidence to keep going. he Waikumete Cemetery stillborn sanctuary was a very special project. The parents chose the mosaic tiles and shrine wall. I am doing another large mosaic installation for the stillborn section at Purewa Cemetery, and it will be my last public project.

I’m turning the house into a gallery and workshop, and I’m retiring from mosaics to become a textile artist, doing rug hooking and fake taxidermy. It’s part of being 56 and lifting a tonne of cement adhesive at a time, thinking sooner or later my back will go. The fake taxidermy has been trying to come out for years. I do have a black sense of humour, I’m not very PC and don’t like behaving. I describe myself as a funseeking missile and, as life gets shorter, I find the search for fun more so. would do it all again. I couldn’t do anything else. I wake up in the morning and my eyes go ‘pop’ like a cartoon character and I can’t wait to get started on the hundreds of ideas in my head.

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He says it should be in one valley to stop confusion and reduce costs.

“We were flabbergasted,” he says.

“People will look at it in 20 years’ time and say, from an engineering and design perspective, ‘what were they thinking?’. I’m not saying change it for the sake of a few properties, but just for the practicality and cost.”

Maurice talked to NZTA staff at the open day in February and was told height and speed restrictions were the limitations for one big interchange, like Orewa and Silverdale.

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their 3-acre lifestyle block five years ago after selling their family home and 100-year-old villa near Eden Park.

Karen says they were ‘stunned’ and ‘felt sick’ when they received a notification letter and map showing the widened Kaipara Flats Road going through their house and property.

She had just settled in after a year of missing her old life in Auckland, and was part of the community, meeting new friends and joining the Kaipara Flats Sports Club.

“I understand and appreciate we need to improve the roads, but I also don’t want to brushed aside like my life doesn’t matter,” Karen says.

She was worried at the prospect of

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The indicative route for the Warkworth to Te Hana leg of the motorway released in February proposes two interchanges separated

by State Highway 1. Traffic to and from the north would use Kaipara Flats Road, and traffic to and from the south would use the interchange near Woodcocks as part the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway, already under construction by NX2.

NZTA manager Brett Gliddon says the current design includes a separated off-ramp for the heaviest traffic flows from the south into Warkworth.

It also future-proofs the design to accommodate the anticipated future growth in the area.

“Lower volumes of traffic are expected to travel north from Warkworth, and therefore north-facing ramps are proposed to be accessed via an upgraded Kaipara Flats Road.”

However, as a result of feedback received from local property owners and public consultation in February, he says the NZTA design team is currently looking again at the proposed interchange location and function at Kaipara Flats Road.

Local resident Maurice Purdy organised meetings with neighbouring landowners. He and

moving and starting again, with limited options for lifestyle blocks nearby.

NZTA is due to present the outcomes of feedback and analysis back to the community mid-year. It is part of a ‘route protection phase’, to protect the land required, via designation and consents, for future construction of the motorway. NZTA says the final form and function of the road alignment, including interchange design, within the designation boundaries will not be confirmed for some time. It is also investigating the possibility of adding a third southern interchange at Valerie Close.

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Have your say…

Connecting the transport network – SH1 link to Matakana Road Open to public feedback: 26 April–20 May 2017 Proposed options for new SH1 link to Matakana Road

The new face of the Warkworth A&P Lifestyle Show is former local government politician Penny Webster (right), pictured with outgoing secretary Marjorie Blythen.

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Join us at an open day on 6 May from 10am to 2pm.

Mahurangi Rugby Club, A&P Showgrounds, SH1, Warkworth. A presentation and Q&A session with the project team will be held from 10am–11.30am.

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any changes, but this will be an opportunity to think about perhaps doing things differently if we need to.”

Penny says the role appealed to her because it kept her involved with the community.

Marjorie admits that it may seem “a little” weird not to be rushing around on A&P business throughout December and January, but she is looking forward to having more time to spend with her family.

“I’ve still got plenty on my plate to keep me busy,” she says. “I’m very involved with the Warkworth Wellsford Hospice and the National Party, not to mention the farm and family. It will be nice to have some spare hours to give to other activities.”

However, Marjorie will be the cattle steward at the next show and will still be available to help out when needed.

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Life is turning full circle for former Rodney Mayor and Auckland Councillor Penny Webster.

Penny has been appointed the new secretary of the Warkworth A&P Lifestyle Show following the retirement of Marjorie Blythen, who has been associated with the show for the past 40 years.

Although Penny was originally a teacher, she and husband Malcolm were sharemilkers at Maungaturoto and Titoki for many years, before buying a beef and sheep property at Hoteo on the Kaipara Harbour. She is also a former president of Auckland Federated Farmers.

“I feel privileged to be taking over from Marjorie who has been doing this for so long,” Penny says.

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Live, laugh, share – volunteer Every year, New Zealand celebrates National Volunteer Week to recognise and celebrate the vital contribution of volunteers to their communities. The 2017 volunteer week will be held from June 18 to 24. This year’s theme is ‘Live, laugh, share – volunteer’ or ‘Kia ringa hora: Me mahi tūao’.

Volunteering NZ says volunteering it is good for people, the community and for the social development of the country because it helps to build the ‘social fabric’ that keeps people connected and engaged in our world. It is important to recognise volunteering and the place it has in keeping communities strong and healthy.

The benefits of being a volunteer are well-documented. There is better health and the ‘feel good’ endorphins that volunteering releases; the fact that volunteering can help with job prospects; plus other health benefits such as extending longevity and reducing depression in many people.

As poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson observed, “It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely help another without helping himself.”

National Volunteer Week is designed to recognise and celebrate the joy that volunteers bring to their communities. It also serves as a reminder that volunteers “reap the reward of a happier, more engaged life because they feel connected to their community”.

To find or create an event marking National Volunteering Week, go to nationalvolunteerweek.nz where there is an interactive map, or #NVW2017 on social media.

Finding Volunteer Roles Where you volunteer depends on your own available time, as well as community organisations’ own availability to take on a volunteer.

• Through friends or family – ask around to see what group(s) may need some help.

• By asking groups you or your family are already associated with.

• By contacting a regional volunteer centre – in person, by phone or via their website.

• Online through a volunteering website, like SEEK Volunteer.

Key messages for your volunteers • Your contributions make a difference • We want to celebrate what you are doing • We want you to share your stories of volunteering • We hope to mobilise those around you to join in • Your efforts build community and foster connections • Help us make this place a better space to live in • Celebrate volunteering - volunteering is good for your health

Key messages for your wider team and organisation • Let’s celebrate the efforts of our volunteers • Let’s acknowledge the work that is enabled by volunteers • Let’s look for ways to enhance further volunteer effort Source: nationalvolunteerweek.nz

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Volunteers vital for society The contribution that non-for-profit organisations make to New Zealand society is immense and ranges across many disciplines, from education and the environment to emergency services and health care.

Non-profit organisations contributed $6 billion to NZ’s Gross Domestic Product in 2013, according to New Zealand Statistics data.

When the value from the labour of volunteers ($3.5 billion) is included, that figure rises to $9.4 billion (4.4 per cent).

Statistics NZ enterprise survey manager Susan Hollows said 90 per cent of non-profits relied on volunteers and did not employ staff.

However, paid staff numbers rose 30 per cent between 2004 and 2013, up from 105,340 to 136,750.

“The number of people volunteering for non-profit institutions increased from one million to 1.2 million, but they contributed fewer hours in 2013,” Ms Hollows said.

The time volunteers spent working for non-profits dropped 42 per cent, from 270 million hours in 2004 to 157 million hours in 2013.

“These findings reflect a global trend, with other countries also showing reductions in time spent volunteering,”

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Income from grants, donations and membership fees rose 54 per cent to reach $4.1 billion.

Meanwhile, figures released by the Department of Internal Affairs during the September 2014 quarter show that nearly 35 per cent of all respondents volunteered at least one hour of their time. This was the highest volunteering rate of the five years measured.

Of those who volunteered, 59 per cent were female, and people between the ages of 30 to 39 years volunteered the most.

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Substantial volunteer army vital to keep hospice going One of the largest volunteer organisations in the district is the Warkworth Wellsford Hospice.

The community-based service provides care and support for terminally ill patients and their families at home throughout north Rodney.

It employs six palliative care nurses, a trained psychotherapist and a social worker, as well as administrative and management staff. But alongside that small team are more than 350 volunteers.

Manager Kathryn Ashworth says the contribution of volunteers is priceless.

“From volunteers working directly with patients and families, through to volunteers raising money to support the service, we literally could not manage without them,” she says. “As one example, our retail operations bring in more than half the money we need each year to keep the service free of charge to those who need it.”

Fundraising for hospice takes many forms.

At the shops, goods have to be sorted and sold, and many of the volunteers sew and knit garments, and make home preserves to sell.

The garage sale involves sorting, van driving, delivery and pickups, setting up, selling and packing, and the catering team bakes, prepares and presents for a range of events, from funerals to birthday parties.

There is also an events team that works on fundraisers such as the annual art exhibition, PYO strawberries, home

Family Support volunteer Gloria Collier with hospice patient Arthur Jones, who is at hospice for a massage therapy session. Pamper days are held at Hospice House every five weeks (with massages at therapists’ premises as required in between times) and Gloria’s role is to prepare the room and cups of tea for the patients and carers booked in for massages. These sessions are paid for by hospice and are very effective in relieving stress, pain and even symptoms such as nausea.

tours and the Coastal Challenge.

Fundraising volunteers help by staffing stalls at events and cutting un-saleable cotton clothing into rags for sale to local trades.

Family support volunteers fulfil a different role. They provide companionship for patients, so their carer, often the spouse, can have some time out. They also help patients tell

their life story, which hospice publishes as a soft booklet with photos. Support is also given to patients to write letters, put together photo albums or scrapbooks, or whatever is a meaningful legacy for the patients and their families.

Support volunteers also help by taking patients to hospital or other appointments, and shopping or outings, as well as doing gardening

and other household tasks.

In the office, volunteers support administration and clinical teams with database entries, answering phones and cleaning equipment. Gardening, mowing lawns and maintaining vehicles at Hospice House is also done by volunteers.

Many of the volunteers have been with hospice for more than 10 years.

At a governance level, volunteers sit on the Local Advisory Board and represent Warkworth Wellsford Hospice on the North Shore Hospice Trust.

The current building project, Tui House, has also drawn in volunteers to help plan and deliver the project.

Hospice also benefits from the many volunteer hours contributed by staff, over and above their paid hours.

“It is a kind of an unwritten rule when you work for hospice,” Kathryn says.

“It comes under ‘and any other role required’ in the job description.”

Can you help?

Hospice is always looking for more van drivers and will have more volunteer roles to fill when it moves to Tui House. These will include hosts/hostesses to greet visitors, bakers, and assistants for patient groups and clinics – all volunteers will be given special training for these roles. To find out more, visit warkworthwellsfordhospice.co.nz or phone 425 9535.

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New fire fighter recruits always needed by local brigades One of the most important voluntary services in the community is also the one most in need of new recruits.

The fire service desperately needs to increase its pool of volunteers both locally and nationally to maintain its vital emergency service role.

Warkworth Volunteer Fire Brigade Training Officer Peter Connell says it’s an ongoing issue.

“It’s a problem for all volunteer fire brigades in New Zealand,” he says.

“Here in Warkworth we have got a few new recruits, but we’re still about six people short.”

He says the brigade can always manage to get a crew together, but there are not always as many people as they would like in support.

“You generally need an officer, driver and two in the back. We can always guarantee to get one fire engine crewed, but sometimes we struggle to get a second one out and when that happens, we have to call on other local brigades – Mahurangi East, Matakana, Leigh, Wellsford, depending on where the incident is. And that’s the same for all local brigades, we’re all in the same situation.”

Peter says he understands that becoming a fire fighter requires a considerable time commitment, not only from the volunteers, but from their employers and families as well.

“There’s a lot of pressure on people and it’s hard on employers, too,

Can you help?

Fire fighting requires a considerable commitment, but provides an invaluable service to the community.

knowing their staff have to ‘drop and run’, when they might be gone for half an hour or they might be away for five or six hours – you never know,” he says.

The initial training takes around four months at the recruit’s nearest local fire station, plus a seven-day course either at Mount Wellington or Rotorua training centres.

So, what would a potential recruit get

out of volunteering for their local fire brigade?

“I think the pride they get out of helping their local community and saving lives, saving buildings, attending car accidents and medical call-outs,” he says. “They would see how beneficial it is to be a volunteer, not just as a fire fighter but in anything. And most people who join end up staying.”

A Fire Service volunteer must be 16 years or over. Volunteers are trained in basic fire fighting skills for rural vegetation, breathing apparatus, pump operation, emergency vehicle driving, fire ground safety, basic and advanced first aid and scene protection.

The commitment to becoming a volunteer is significant – it means attending some weekend courses at the New Zealand Fire Service Training Centre, as well as weekly training sessions and occasional weekend courses held at their own station.

A good level of fitness is required, and a supportive employment situation that enables the volunteer to ‘drop and run’ for an unknown length of time at the summons of the pager. Then there is the need for a supportive family, too, as they have to accept that someone has a need, and their family member is going to help.

The rookie starts as a recruit fire fighter, progressing to qualified fire fighter, senior fire fighter and then station officer. Some choose to go on to become professional fire fighters.

To find out more, contact your nearest local fire station, visit fire. org.nz or call 0800 347 373

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Sections of the refuge have been designed to provide cats with places to exercise and relax.

From left, Julie Thompson, with long-serving volunteers Linda Maddock, Claudia Lindberg and Kerry Macdonald.

Passion for animals unites Warkworth refuge volunteers Commonsense, reliability and initiative are the qualities that Julie Thompson values most in the women who volunteer at her Animal Refuge in Warkworth.

“And a passion for animals, because that’s where the commitment comes from,” she adds.

While the facility mainly works with re-homing cats, it has dealt with everything from guinea pigs, rabbits and miniature ponies to goats and dogs, and it is not uncommon for the odd stray or three to end up at the home of one of the volunteers.

The genesis of the refuge started 19 years ago in Julie’s garage in Rivendell Place, where she cared for foster cats from the SPCA. Later, when she and husband Jamie moved to Carran Road, the refuge

operated from a purpose-built facility.

About three years ago, she separated the shelter from her home and it is now based at 354 Kaipara Flats Road.

“Living next door to the shelter was pretty demanding,” Julie says. “I was basically on call 24/7.”

She describes her volunteers as ‘invaluable’.

“Running the refuge is a lot of work and I couldn’t do what I do without them. And I am very lucky to have volunteers who are so reliable.

“They do a myriad of jobs such vet visits, administration and, very importantly, they keep the facility spotlessly clean, which is an important part of preventing illnesses. We also have our fundraisers and those who will foster animals. It is a huge team effort.”

The refuge cares for more than 700 cats a year on average, which involves de-sexing, re-homing or, on occasions, euthanising animals when that is the kindest option.

Kerry Macdonald says although she is a volunteer three days a week, she works at the refuge as if she is a paid employee. She has loved animals all her life and one of the challenges at the refuge is not get too attached to the animals in her care.

“I can’t foster them as I can’t bear to give them back,” she says. “I have to admit, there have been tears when I’ve seen some of the cats adopted.”

Long-time volunteer Linda Maddock, who is also involved in the Marjorie Grey Animal Protection Trust, says her greatest joy is to see an animal in a safe environment.

“Volunteering at the refuge means I am able to help animals, rather than just ‘wishing’ I could help,” Linda says.

The one message Julie and her volunteers want to get across to the wider public is ‘please de-sex your cat’.

They have seen too many unwanted cats and kittens dumped and say fostering is a much better option for parents who want to give their children ‘the kitten experience’.

Can you help?

While Julie’s Animal Refuge has sufficient volunteers to meet its day-to-day needs, Julie says she does have an opening for someone who has had some form of animal experience, perhaps as a vet nurse.

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Volunteers AIM for maximum community involvement Watching individuals with disabilities develop is the inspiration that has spurred Jane Blackbourn on to 10 years of volunteer service at the Warkworth charity Adults in Motion (AIM).

AIM was started in 2006 by Sally O’Mara who saw the need for a facility to take care of her disabled son once he finished at Mahurangi College.

It currently caters for 12 disabled participants with varying needs and operates weekly from Monday to Wednesday.

Jane’s son Matthew became involved with AIM six months after the organisation started and Jane became treasurer in 2007.

Her role involves dealing with contracts from the Ministry of Social Development, funding applications, grants and employment contracts.

In addition to her financial work, she helps with the transportation of participants to their monthly disco and helps teach them gardening skills on her Snells Beach lifestyle block.

“Our programme focuses on setting goals for participants around learning life skills and also learning literacy and numeracy if they are capable,” Jane says.

“Our biggest goal is to get them contributing to the community.”

Participants do this in a number of ways including running the Homebuilders shop in Warkworth once a week and

From left, Adults in Motion volunteers Jane Blackbourn, Janet Barruel, Nicóla McLeod and Daniel Tricklebank.

helping with the donkeys at Highfield Garden Reserve.

“I find it very rewarding seeing participants develop over time. It’s nice to be involved with that progress.”

Jane also enjoys working with a team that is dedicated and passionate about the work AIM does, which can be challenging.

“All of the participants range in their needs, so you have to be patient and accept them for who they are.”

AIM tries to cater its service to help the participants in the best way possible by sending surveys for comment to their families and giving them a voice at meetings.

Two volunteers offer specific skills once a week – Nicola McLeod teaches sewing and Daniel Tricklebank does one-on-one computer lessons.

Other volunteers are the six committee members, including Jane, the chair of eight years, Alan Smith and recently joined Janet Barruel.

Can you help?

AIM’s biggest need is funding, which would go towards increasing the programme to four days a week.

“The area is growing and to offer our service to more participants we need to be operating four days a week,” Jane Blackbourn says. AIM is also looking for people who can offer participants an opportunity to engage in a community activity or work experience.

“We are always looking for jobs that our participants can do that will help the community, as well as fundraising initiatives they can participate in.”

Jane says working with AIM participants requires patience, enthusiasm and a good sense of humour.

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Volunteer crew supporting boaties on shore and at sea Roger Davies joined the Kawau Coastguard 14 years ago after the outboard on his 7-metre launch broke down on the way to watch America’s Cup. “We managed to anchor ourselves as it was actually quite rough, and my son was only young then so he was freaking out a bit,” he recalls.

The Coastguard turned up and towed them to Kawau Island as it was getting dark. They also rescued another boat on the way, making it a double tow.

Roger didn’t know much about the coastguard then, and wasn’t a member, which certainly would have saved the towing bill, but after his experience he decided to join up.

He was self-employed and had the flexibility to down tools for a callout, and from his home in Pohuehue, he was just within range, as volunteers need to live within 20 minutes of the launch pad in Sandspit.

Roger has been involved in dinghy racing and sailing since he was 8 years old and he had already completed a couple of skipper courses. This background meant he found the coastguard training easy, but he has also upskilled over the years, including gaining a VHF radio operator licence. His initial volunteering has led to more than a decade of service, including as previous president and he is currently a skipper. His wife was also in charge of fundraising.

Kawau Coastguard skipper Roger Davies and president Luke McCarthy are urgently seeking more water and shore-based volunteers.

Roger says he has stayed involved for the thrill of the challenge and to help out other boaties.

“You get a bit brassed off about things like people running out of petrol, but I’ve been to some interesting callouts, too, including a tug boat fire near Mangawhai.”

Current president Luke McCarthy says tragedies can be difficult but they are rare and the coastguard has counselling services.

There are also many more success stories than tragedies, which helps to balance things out.

Procedures and training have changed over the years. Luke points out that you do not need previous boating experience to join, although it can be a bonus. There are different stages, from induction to trainee to operational, which can take several years to finish completely, but to become a trainee crew member can take just a few months. During that time, volunteers learn about medical and fitness, marine operations, and search and rescue training.

There is a further one week block course, or night training, to become

a fully operational crew member, and further training includes VHF radio operation, navigation, towing techniques and helming.

Luke says they take interested people out on the water first to make sure they like it before they spend thousands of dollars on their training, which includes travel to Auckland for courses, and practical elements at Sandspit. They are still invited to join the crew and observe during that time.

Once they are part of the crew, the obligation is to be on duty one in every three weeks and respond to callouts, or arrange cover. This includes training on a Sunday during your duty week.

“We just encourage people to get in touch. Everyone is different and we can have a sit down and talk about what is expected,” Luke says.

To be a ‘wet crew’ on the boat, volunteers need to live within 20 minutes of Sandspit, but other volunteers for shore-based activities can be from anywhere in the Mahurangi region.

Can you help?

Kawau Coastguard is in urgent need of more volunteers including ‘wet crew’ on the boat and shore crew to help with tractor driving, fundraising, and shift coordination. Anyone aged 16 or over is eligible.

Info: kawaucoastguard@yahoo.co.nz

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A very special sanctuary for animals and their friends Everyone volunteering at the Animal Sanctuary in Matakana has different skills, but the one thing they have in common is a love of animals.

Gaby Bailey started volunteering three years ago when she found a sick duckling in a drain outside New World in Warkworth. She took it to the sanctuary and helped nurse it back to health.

“He grew up to be a big, white, beautiful duck” she says.

Since then she has learnt how to raise baby birds, crop feed chickens and help with sick animals. The 17-year-old is now considering training as a vet.

Gaby says there is a lot of dirty work, but helping to save and rehome animals is worth it. “Picking up poo is just part of the job.”

Ronni Blaom says she has learned valuable life lessons after seeing the good and bad way humans treat animals.

“Sometimes it’s hard when they are too far gone. But you learn to always try. Watching a bird learn to walk and fly and trust is an amazingly rewarding thing.”

Sue Hieatt travels 50 minutes every week to get to the sanctuary from her Kaukapakapa home. She started six years ago when she moved to part-time work. She wanted to do volunteer work for animals and contacted the sanctuary. She didn’t want to do public work at the zoo or SPCA. “I was under no illusions that there would be poo involved, but it’s not exactly an onerous job,” Sue says.

She particularly likes the birds and the parrots, and will help feed, clean and hold them. She says the work is relaxing and she never feels under any pressure.

Sue has a lifestyle block and gets tips from the sanctuary for her own sheep and chickens.

Animal Sanctuary owner Shawn Bishop says Sue

Animal Sanctuary owner Shawn Bishop (second from right) says volunteers are integral to the sanctuary.

Pictured are volunteers Gaby Bailey, Ronni Blaom, and Sue Hieatt (with cockatoo Snow).

volunteers every week, even when the weather is bad.

She says the sanctuary would not exist without the volunteers. When they started the sanctuary on their 32-acre site 14 years ago they purposely built the house to have room for residential volunteers, primarily WWOOF volunteers, who stay for a few weeks to a few months.

“It’s been part of the strategy from the very beginning so they are an integral part of the sanctuary.”

She says they tailor the jobs to the volunteer’s skills.

They have even had people turn up just to help with the gardens.

They currently have about 100 animals. Shawn says

about half of her job is rehoming them. In addition to volunteers, other people help by donating or taking a rescue animal into their home.

Can you help?

The Matakana Animal Sanctuary is always looking for regular volunteers with a variety of skills. At present they need a handy person to help repair chicken coop roofs and other storm damage. They are looking for a web designer to help them with a project to generate income for the animals, and a graphic designer to help with marketing and flyers.

Info: animalsanctuary.co.nz

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Managing a museum of volunteers

Some of the Warkworth Museum volunteers at the weekly ‘volunteer Wednesday’ morning tea.

The Warkworth District Museum was set up in 1980 by a group of volunteers and today it still relies on volunteers to keep it going.

“Without the volunteers, the museum would not exist. They put a phenomenal amount of time and effort into the success of the museum,” manager and curator Victoria Joule says.

Victoria is one of only two part-time paid staff, along with the treasurer. Her role includes receiving and recording new items into the collection, arranging new displays, ensuring policies and processes are in accordance with modern museum standards, ordering stationery, arranging advertising, and buying milk for the volunteers’ morning tea.

The rest of the museum is staffed by 80 volunteers.

Their roles are incredibly varied, and include meeting and greeting at reception, organising displays, restoring machinery, maintenance, archiving, textile maintenance and restoration, education, computer cataloguing, administration, fundraising, gardening, committee work and making morning tea on ‘volunteer Wednesday’. Most of the volunteers are organised and supported by heads of department for each area.

“Everyone plays a really important role in both the survival and success of the museum and we are very

lucky to have them,” Victoria says.

She says many of the volunteers join to provide a community service, because they care about preserving history and documentation of the district, and like to see the enjoyment of the visitors.

The museum is continuously looking to increase visitor numbers, especially return visitors and locals.

They are also looking for more people to be involved in community-based programmes, including school groups.

“We are a community museum and I would like to see us visited and used by our community,” Victoria says.

She says the museum is always looking for more volunteers but it currently needs more help on reception in particular.

“They are the face of the museum, without them we wouldn’t be able to open the doors so they play a crucial role in our operation.”

One volunteer on reception, Helen Langdon, joined four years ago after retiring and moving to the area.

She wanted to get to know about local history and to meet people. She now helps organise the roster of at least 40 volunteers who contribute half a day each.

She says her skills as an administrator have come in handy, but the main requirement for the role is to be

Helen Langdon says she has met a lot of friends and international visitors as a receptionist at the museum.

interested in people and have a general knowledge of the area.

“It’s not an onerous job. It helps keep the mind stimulated, it’s not just sitting there looking decorative,” she says.

She also convinced her husband Brian, a former heating and ventilation engineer, to join the museum team as well, and he is now volunteering in ‘the shed’.

“The people here are a friendly bunch. We have met a lot of people and made some good friends.”

Can you help?

Warkworth Museum is always looking for a wide range of people with different skills. They are specifically looking for volunteers for reception to be the face of the museum. They need to have the ability to meet and greet the visitors, be confident in handling money and using the till and Eftpos machines. Contact warkworthmuseum@xtra.co.nz

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• Holds a free open day once a year? • Exhibits a new display every year?

• Has an archives full of records for people researching their local, family or house history? • Has outside exhibits and a shed full of machinery?

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• Is not funded by the government? • Is run by Volunteers ?

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4U Mentoring coordinator Lou Perkins paired Niall Presland-White up with his buddy Dante Phillips.

Mentors and mates the key to Springboard’s success 4U Niall Presland-White grew up with a mum and two sisters so knows what it’s like to need some guy time.

Later on in life, his new ‘dad’ and his friends became strong role models introducing him to ‘adventurous spontaneous living’.

When Niall found out about the Springboard Community Works mentoring programme he thought it was the perfect chance to invest back in young people. It involves spending two hours a week to mentor a young person for a year. It turned out to be a perfect pairing for 10-year-old Dante Phillips.

“It’s cool because I have a big brother now. All I have at home are my sisters and my mum, and it is good to be around a boy instead of just girls,” Dante says.

In the past year Dante has learned how to hunt, ride a quad bike and help out

on the 23 ha lifestyle block Niall lives on with his wife and two pre-school children.

Niall says he has found it rewarding, not only to potentially influence his buddy’s life but also to develop as a person.

“I hope I give him a different perspective on life which will help him find his feet as he grows up and makes decisions about who he wants to be.

But we are learning off each other. I’ve learned how to be a better person and efficiently pass on a good message to a younger generation,” Niall says.

At the moment, Dante wants to be builder, is very creative and enjoys drawing.

Dante’s grandma, Marie Phillips, says she is thrilled her grandson has a male figure in his life, and Springboard matched him perfectly with Niall.

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“He’s happy to go every time which is great because he can be a bit of a homebody. He’s certainly come out of himself a bit more,” Marie says.

Springboard 4U Mentoring coordinator Lou Perkins says every mentor has something different to offer and can respond to the needs and interests of the young person.

“We always say use what’s in your hand.

“For Niall, it’s been his family experience and his environment,” Lou says.

The programme has matched 70 people in the past seven years and they currently have 19 mentors, with the youngest 22 years old and the oldest 87. However, they need more volunteers, at least 20, to mentor a range of young people aged between 8 and 12 years.

The programme includes training and ongoing support. Mentors are vetted, including police checks, and the programme follows the Brothers in Arms policies and procedures.

It includes setting up boundaries and making it clear a mentor is not a bank, taxi or counsellor, but a positive guide.

Can you help?

Springboard 4U Mentoring is looking for at least another 20 mentors, male and female, over the age of 18. They especially need men in Wellsford and volunteers in Warkworth, Snells Beach and Leigh. Springboard is holding an information night on Monday May 8, from 7.30 to 8.30pm at the Bridgehouse in Warkworth.

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Auction to support Plunket rooms upgrade Boxing to help A dog kennel, firewood and a load local youths of fertiliser are among the more more unusual lots up for grabs at a fundraising auction, dance and gala dinner for the Wellsford Plunket Rooms at the town’s RSA on Saturday May 20.

There will also be spa and beauty treatments to be won, plus a raffle, spot prizes and a lucky ticket draw, with PGG Wrightson auctioneer Bernie McGahon wielding the gavel and Wellsford Lions president and local builder Roger Farr acting as MC. Dancing will be to Algies Bay duo Jan & Kevin.

Proceeds from the two-course buffet dinner, dance and auction will go towards the ongoing work to upgrade and modernise the Wellsford Plunket Rooms that’s been going on for the past year. Fundraising coordinator Tania Hamilton says a lot work has already been carried out, thanks to support from local businesses and money raised via donations, raffles and other events, but more is needed to complete the job.

“We’ve still got to fix some cladding, put a roof extension on the deck and upgrade the toilet and kitchen,” she says.

Though Plunket receives government

The Wellsford Plunket committee pictured at their annual Christmas party, together with local farmer Andrew Farr standing in for Santa and Rodney Local Board Cr Colin Smith.

funding for Well Child checks, such as home visits for babies in the early weeks and then clinic or further home visits for children up to 5 years old, groups rely on donations and fundraising to deliver the full range of community services that they also provide, including playgroups, parent groups, breastfeeding advice, parenting education, toy libraries, drop-in centres, early childhood

education and education in schools.

Plunket is New Zealand’s largest provider of support services for the development, health and wellbeing of children under 5, with nurses visiting the homes of 90 per cent of all children born in NZ. Tickets for the Wellsford auction, dance and gala dinner cost $50 and can be bought from the Mike Pero office in Wellsford, phone 423 7614.

Waitemata Police is currently looking to develop two boxing academies to help tackle male youth behavioural issues, with one to be based in Wellsford.

Waitemata Police community engagement manager William Fanene says the project is in its very early stages, but he hopes if all goes to plan, it will be operational by early next year.

Mr Fanene says a boxing facility already exists in Wellsford that they would like to utilise, by introducing methods established at the Naenae Boxing Academy in Wellington.

“Boxing is really just the vehicle, it’s about teaching discipline and respect,” he says.

The Naenae Academy works with boys aged nine to 18 who are instructed by national title-winning boxer Billy Graham. The Wellsford academy could be used to work particularly with male youth behavioral issues, Mr Fanene says.

At this stage, Waitemata Police is looking for someone to front the academy before it begins investigating potential financial support sources.

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Ringing in your ears, or Tinnitus, affects most people at some time. It is a noise which is heard, but doesn’t come from an outside source and can be described as a ringing, buzzing or hissing sound. It can be faint or loud, occasional or constant, steady or pulsing and is often noticed more at night or when it’s quiet.

While there are no instant cures for Tinnitus, there are a number of effective options to help deal with it. We can help this process by changing and improving the sound going into your ears with hearing aids and sound therapy.

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Eating healthy on a budget Wow, it almost seems every week that the cost of food increases! Yet don’t let this stop you from eating healthily. There seems to be a mindset that you can’t eat healthily without spending a fortune. While I admit that food isn’t cheap, there are many tricks that you can use to make your buck stretch further. I have been shopping to a very strict budget and have been surprised at how far I can make the dollars go when I shop smart. So here is a list of ideas starting with the critical tips first: • Write a list of what you need and stick to it. This is needs, not wants! So this means what is nutritionally important, not emotionally important. The psychology of supermarket marketing is a finely tuned system that does all it can to have you spend as much money as possible.

• Know your budget and stick to it. If you are under budget at the end of the shopping then you can save the surplus money or buy treats.

• Keep track as you go by using a calculator or even a pen to add up at the side of your list. This step is extremely critical for sticking to your budget.

It helps you as you go through the shopping, to know exactly what you are spending and keeps you focused. It also stops the horror feeling of overspending when you reach the checkout.

• Buy products that you would normally need to buy on special. Make the specials work for you. If the special is really good, stock up on that item if you can.

• A great way to save is to buy fruit and veggies at a fruit shop as this can be more cost effective. If you go to the supermarket first you can get any fruit on special there and get the rest at the fruit shop.

• Buy in bulk when it’s cheaper. In the supermarket today, Agria potatoes were $3/kg but a 10kg bag was $12 (i.e. $1.20 a kilo).

• Check the price per kilo calculations that the supermarket provides on items such as nuts as sometimes buying in bulk isn’t cheaper. I often see some nuts 30 per cent cheaper when I have done a comparison.

• Make meals from scratch instead of buying packaged and processed food.

It is much cheaper when you factor in the nutrition, as well as how filling the food is.

• Buy whole foods such as brown rice as they are more nutritious and much more filling.

• Buy cheaper cuts of meat and cook in the crock pot. Mix mince with brown lentils in dishes such as Bolognaise.

It may not seem like much but the savings add up fast, so give it a go!

• Dr Michael Fisk • Dr Brian Sloan • Dr Jo Koppens • Dr David Squirrell • Dr Rasha Altaie • Dr Nadeem Ahmad

Serving the eye needs of North Shore and Rodney for over 35 years Cataract, Glaucoma, Macular Degeneration, Retina, Cornea, Laser, Oculoplastics, Paediatrics.

Consultations available at our Warkworth, Orewa and Milford branches.

• Milford Eye Clinic, 181 Shakespeare Road, Milford • Warkworth, Unit 3, Warkworth Health Centre, Cnr Alnwick & Percy Streets, Warkworth • Orewa, Unit 5, The Nautilus 9 - 13 Tamariki Ave, Orewa

For all appointments phone 09 422 6871

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Shortback and sides, flat tops, combovers, fades, box cuts, mohawks,conservative businessmen, or longer individual styles at clients request, for men and Boys.

Clinics in Matakana and Warkworth • Naturopathy • Nutrition • Herbal Medicine • Bowen Therapy • Hair Testing (food intolerances, vitamin & minerals) • All aspects of women’s health (hormones, fatigue, gut issues)

Special discount for Senior citizens, (Gentlemen and Ladies). All prices are posted in the Saloon. open tuesday to Friday 9am - 5pm, Saturday 9am - 1pm.

Jasmin Sturm DipNat DipHerbMed BHSc(CompMed)

187 Rodney Street. Wellsford. 09 423 8313

Former owner of Warkworth Natural Health Store

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Host breakfasts for Pink Ribbon

The Warkworth Showgrounds will be lit up on May 19 as the Mahurangi Community Sport and Recreation Collective looks to involve more people in the showgrounds development.

Big lights turn on for showgrounds at last The Warkworth Showgrounds will host a mix of sport, games and demonstrations under lights on May 19 to celebrate The Big Turn On of the long-awaited LED floodlights.

The Mahurangi Community Sport and Recreation Collective celebration will kick off at 4.30pm with a range of activities, followed by hockey and rugby matches from 6pm onwards.

Auckland Council and the sports collective have been developing the showgrounds facility for more than two years, with a vision of turning it into a multisport complex for all community sporting clubs.

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The new experimental LED floodlighting was due to be installed and running by the end of May last year, but was delayed when the current transformer needed to be upgraded and a neighbouring landowner objected to the modification of cables crossing their property.

The necessary work is now virtually complete, however, and Council and the sports collective want to celebrate the new facility.

The Big Turn On will host activities from sports including hockey, equestrian, rugby, football netball, karate, and bike and skate.

Entry to the event is free and food and drink will be available from the rugby clubrooms.

The sports collective is currently helping the Mahu Bike and Skate group complete its concept plans for a bike track and skate park at the showgrounds, and is advertising for experienced people to help form a committee to oversee future development.

The group is also looking for people to help run The Big Turn On event itself.

Info: Nicola Jones mahusport@gmail. com

Warkworth Birth Centre

quality maternity care

Celebrity cook and author Nadia Lim is encouraging people to get involved and host a breakfast for breast cancer research this month.

Nadia is fronting this year’s Pink Ribbon campaign to raise funds for Breast Cancer Foundation NZ. Anyone hosting a breakfast will receive exclusive recipes from Nadia.

She says she is delighted by the response so far but urges even more people to get involved.

“Having recently met some incredibly inspiring women who’ve survived breast cancer, I’m even more motivated to help raise funds that will save lives,” Nadia says.

“I encourage everyone to get involved, hopefully inspired by some of the recipes I’ve developed especially for Pink Ribbon Breakfast.”

A recipe for Pear Tart is just one of six exclusive recipes that hosts will receive when they sign up.

Breast Cancer Foundation hopes to top last year’s total of over 3200 breakfasts across New Zealand, which were attended by 90,000 people and raised $1.7 million.

Proceeds from this year’s Pink Ribbon Breakfasts will go towards breast cancer research, with a focus on support for clinical trials, immunotherapies, preventing the spread of cancer, improved clinical practice for better patient outcomes, and treatments for advanced breast cancer. They will also help provide breast awareness education as well as support for patients. With more than 3000 Kiwis diagnosed and 600 a year still dying of breast cancer, New Zealand doctors and researchers have a vital role to play.

To host a Pink Ribbon Breakfast, visit pinkribbonbreakfast.co.nz

New Mums Group

Helping hand for Epilepsy

1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month 10am-12pm

A national charity is offering home support and education to help local people diagnosed with epilepsy.

Epilepsy New Zealand assists people diagnosed with epilepsy to help them better manage their lives. Educator for the Waitemata District Linda Williams says that with the right management, epilepsy can be easily handled.

The charity offers home visits and educates schools and families on how to deal with different types of seizures.

All services for those with epilepsy are free of charge.

ALL MOTHERS WELCOME FREE pregnancy tests Prenatal classes, birth venue & post-natal stay Own room in peaceful rural surroundings Excellent equipment and atmosphere Water birth a speciality Midwives on call at all times, and as backup for your caregiver (LMC)  Full post-natal hospital stay  24 hour Registered Midwives/Nurses to care for you and your baby  You can transfer from your birth hospital within 12 hours of normal birth or 24 hours following a Caesarian

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For further information talk to your LMC/Midwife or Warkworth Birth Centre

Phone 09 425 8201 56 View Road, Warkworth www.warkworthbirthcentre.co.nz

Info: Linda 027 839 9142

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Advertise Your Business Here ONLY $59 PER INSERTION (+GST)* *for a three COLOUR insertion contract Phone 425 9068 for more information or email your advertisement to design@localmatters.co.nz APPLIANCE SERVICING| ARBORISTS | ARCHITECTS | AUTOMOTIVE

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Warkworth Whiteware Ltd

F&P Toploading Washing Machines F&P and Simpson Dryers

Get your Nespresso© compatible coffee capsules from a local Warkworth company. Delivered to your door from 45 cents per capsule!

We also have some great recycling options.

Servicing, Repairs & Maintenance

FAST MOBILE SERVICE

Good for today and Good for tomorrow

Phone Kevin 021 168 7349 or 09 423 9660

Servicing Puhoi to Mangawhai Heads for over 14 years www.warkworthwhiteware.co.nz/Log-a-Job Or 021 720 906

coffeecapsules2u.co.nz • 0274 809 507

www.asmartrepair.co.nz

warkworthwhiteware.co.nz

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Parker Tree Care.com

T R E E W O R K S ALL ASPECTS OF TREEWORK PHONE VICTOR

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QUALITY SERVICE GUARANTEED Registered Electrical Service Technician

Tree and Hedge Work Pruning and Thinning Removals Free Quotations Fully Insured 26 Years Experience

ARCHITECTURAL S E R V I C E S L t d.

Chris Beswick NZCAD LBP Design D2 BP112694

residential architectural design

Call Roland 021 102 2594 • 09 422 5109 parkertreecare@yahoo.co.nz

chris@asdesign.co.nz po box 726 Warkworth

09 425 0200

021 299 1573 Housin Housing, Unit

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UnitsUnits, & Landscaping NewHousing, Houses, Light Commercial

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ARIBA Thomas F.Thomas Errington Dip. Arch.

ARIBA PO Box 83 Thomas F.F.Errington Architectural Designer W arkworth 021 425 928 Architectural Designer Archi Architectural Designer PO Box 83 PhPO 09 425 PO Box 83 B Warkworth P 09 425 0512 Fax 09 425 20a Glenmore Drive, Warkworth Ph 09 425 0512 Mob 0274 M 0274 532 495 ark Warkworth 0910 Ph 09 425Fax 0512 09 425 0514 SW

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Wayne 021 765 706 or Ian 021 977 729 47 Woodcocks Road, Warkworth

Email: autoglassww@xtra.co.nz

Snells Beach Panel and Paint • All insurance work • Crash repair • Rust repair • Courtesy cars available • FMG approved repairer

ph 09 425 6755 snellspanelandpaint@vodafone.co.nz

Independent WoF, CoF, Vehicle Condition Assessments & Maintenance Check-Ups. No bookings required.

Visit the team at VTNZ Warkworth: 6-14 Glenmore Drive, Warkworth Ph: (09) 425 7441 Mon to Fri: 8:00am–5:00pm Sat: 8:00am –12noon

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AUTOMOTIVE | CLEANING | CONCRETE | CONSTRUCTION | EARTHWORKS | ELECTRICAL | ENGINEERING | FARMING | FENCING

WARKWORTH

AUTO WRECKERS FOR ALL NEW & USED PARTS

EXTERIOR CLEANING & WATERBLASTING

WE NEED CARS FORID WRECKING – $$$ PA 2 Glenmore Drive, Warkworth Ph (09) 425 7835 or (09) 425 7730

022 011 0244 | 09 425 8321 andy@greenwash.co.nz

CARPENTER-JOINER

Kevin Simmonds M 022 588 8647 E kevin.simmonds@xtra.co.nz

MAHURANGI HOME SERVICES

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• Carpenter 20 years + experience • Renovations • Decks/fences • Painting/plastering • Water blasting • Free quotes/all work guaranteed

LTD

builder ard Winning AM:w027ard4771Win583ning builder

• Extensions • Renovations • Bathroom Makeovers • Decks • Pergolas • Small jobs

FOR AN OBLIGATION FREE QUOTE Ph 021 085 12024 or mcc_enquiries@xtra.co.nz

AM:w027 4771 583

www.rwbuilder.co.nz www.rwbuilder.co.nz email: rwb@xtra.co.nz

• Site Works & Foundations • Drainage & Driveways • Drilling < 600 mm • Section Clearing • 8 Tonne Tipper Available

Brian George experienced & efficient operator 021 749 594 Brian | 09 422 6267 info@dialadigger.co.nz

Office

CON TRAC TORS Footings Hole Boring Landscaping

3.5T Digger 5T Truck

Bob Waata Mobile 021 634 484

Come in and see the new range of Massey Fergusons 308 SH1, Te Hana, Wellsford • PH 09 423 8558

RODNEY TRELLIS Trellis - Panels - Fencing Installations - all shapes and sizes Specialities: Framed Archways – Superior Trellis Pedestrian Gate Frames (mortised) Trellis spray painting / oiling Gazebo's ~ dove cotes ~ pergolas

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PH 09 425 6431 MOBILE 021 353 529 UNIT 5/1 HAMATANA RD, SNELLS BEACH www.wenzeng.co.nz

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Trellis & Fencing

GOOD OLD FASHIONED SERVICE New/Used Tractors & Machinery In-house Engineer Mobile Servicing Repairs Comprehensive Parts Range

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Ph. 09 422 7817 engineering requirements.

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• Terraces • Renovations • Alterations • Maintenance • IS New HousingNEW • Small jobs a specialty UNDER MANAGEMENT

Steve Tunnard Ph 09 422 4902 • Mobile 027 243 8640 Email stevetunnard@gmail.com

Fences - Gates - Screens - Pergola Phone Bob Moir 422 9550 or 0274 820 336 Email: hurstmere@ihug.co.nz

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Fencing • Poolside & Glass Gates • Driveway & Pedestrian

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Trellis Guy Snells Beach • Warkworth • Orewa

• Custom made • Quality material • Quality workmanship

Also see Lance for your supply of Native and Landscaping plants

Ph 09 422 5737 • 027 272 7561 Fax 09 422 5800

FLOOR SANDING FLOOR PREPARATION PH 09 425 6431 -MOBILE 021 353 529 UNIT 5/1 HAMATANA RD, SNELLS BEACH FLOOR SANDING - FLOOR PREPARATION www.wenzeng.co.nz Polyurethaning:- Wooden Floors, Particle Board & Cork Cork Tiles:- Natural & Coloured Enviro Friendly Products available

KAE JAE CONTRACTORS (LTD) PHONE KEN (0274) 866-923 A/Hrs (09) 422-7328 • Fax (09) 422-7329

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FURNITURE | GARAGE DOORS | GLAZIERS | HAIR/BEAUTY | HANDYMAN SERVICES | HEATPUMPS | JOINERY | KITCHENS | LANDSCAPING

GLAZIER

COUNTRY CHARM

FURNITURE 2008

Timber Furniture Specialists with quality workmanship guaranteed Specialising in antique, new furniture & all other timber surfaces.

Furniture Restoration • Re-spraying • Special Finishing • Colour Matching Insurance quotes • Furniture repairs • Custom made – Recycled or new timber • Modifications • Upholstery

Phone Grant or Lesley 23b Foundry Rd, Silverdale | 09 426 2979 www.silverdalefurniturerestorations.co.nz 09 426 8412 | www.countrycharm.co.nz

Rodney Garage Doors

(1998 LTD)

repair • supply • automate

29 Glenmore Drive, Warkworth 09 425 0258 • 0274 425 025 rodneygaragedoors@vodafone.co.nz

Broken Windows Pet Doors ■ Splashbacks ■ Frameless Showers ■

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Wellsford

WINDSCREEN REPAIR OR REPLACE GLAZING SERVICES MIRRORS • SPLASH BACKS • SHOWERS

ALUMINIUM & GLASS GLASS & ALUMINIUM

53 Station Road, Wellsford • Phone (09) 423 7358 Email: wellsfordglass@xtra.co.nz

0800 70 40 10

info@northglass.co.nz • www.northglass.co.nz

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Domestic and Commercial Glazing Glass Showers Splash Backs Mirrors • Cat Doors Windscreen Replacement and Chip Repair

arkworth lass & lazing

20 Glenmore Drive, Warkworth 09 425 8678 • 021 952 077 wwglassandglazing@xtra.co.nz

Beauty Therapy & Nail Creations for head to toe pampering

Alison Wech

C.I.D.E.S.C.O, C.I.B.T.A.C, dip Beauty Therapy, dip Electrolysis, dip Body Therapy, dip Nail Technician

46 McKinney Road, Warkworth Mob 021 051 3661 • Ph 09 425 7776 tlcbeautytherapynails@yahoo.co.nz

• Facials • Waxing • Tinting • Gel Nails • Acrylic Nails • Manicures • Pedicures • Electrolysis • Make-up • Body Wraps • Massage • Spray Tans

COMPOSITE JOINERY Ltd

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GE50 (6kw), Wifi available, priced from $220

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Kitchen Colours

Composite Joinery Ltd 7 Glenmore Drive Warkworth 0941

Phone: 09 425 7510

We specialise in: • Vantage Aluminium Joinery • APL | Architectural Series • Metro Series

Fax: 09 422 2011

sales@compositejoinery.co.nz www.compositejoinery.co.nz

How are your customers looking for you?

and Wood Finishes

Spraypainters of quality kitchens Lacquers, enamels, urethanes, 2 pacs, clearcoats Resprays and Recolours

Phone / Fax Gary 425 7669 Unit 21/30 Hudson Road, Warkworth

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Enhance the online profile of your business at

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CONTRACTING • 4 x 4 Truck & Digger Hire • Excavation • Earthmoving • Tractor & Ride-on Mowing • Lifestyle Property Services • Garden Design

09 422 9514 • 021 831 938 www.junglefix.co.nz

FOR ALL YOUR GLASS, GLAZING, AND ALUMINIUM NEEDS

For all your property maintenance and small building projects Phone to discuss YOUR requirements 021 423 860 - 423 8619 a/h handyman@bruno.co.nz • www.bruno.co.nz

Say No to Leaky Homes

THE ULTIMATE ALUMINIUM

WINDOW AND DOOR FLASHING SYSTEM

• Robust, Good Looking and Durable • Specify Best Practice, Specify Flashman • The only Flashing System Guaranteed

Northland 0800 55 66 00 www.flashman.co.nz

GROUND CARE LTD

• Mowing - Residential & Lifestyle Blocks • Garden Maintenance • Hedge Trimming

Don 425 8501 - 021 527 017 TOTAL LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION for complete quality projects

Glenn Soljan Dip LS Design

• Designer • Plans designed and drawn • Construction & planting • Garden maintenance • Stonemason • Fireplaces • 24 years experience 021 457 449 | soljanslandscapes@xtra.co.nz

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

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LANDSCAPING | LANDSCAPING SUPPLIES | MOVING/STORAGE | PAINTERS | PLASTERERS | PICTURE FRAMING | PLUMBING | PRINTING | PROPERTY MAINTENANCE | PROPERTY MANAGEMENT | ROOFING

www.centrallandscapes.co.nz

• Retaining Walls/Decks • Fences • Paving/Concreting • Planting • Irrigation & Instant Lawn Ph Jeff - 021 368 552 | warkworthlandscaping@gmail.com www.warkworthlandscaping.co.nz

WE CAN •Sand•Metal•Shell•Pebble•Scoria •Mulch•Garden Mix•Topsoil•Compost

DELIVER! •Tirau Gold•Pine Chip•Cambian Bark

183 SANDSPIT RD, WARKWORTH • OPEN 7 DAYS! Mon-Fri: 7am-5pm Sat: 7am-4pm Sun: 9am-3pm

WARKWORTH FURNITURE REMOVALS

Leigh Decorators Husband & Wife team • harley.mcvay@xtra.co.nz

Harley 021 0220 8727 or 09 423 9012

PaintingPainting Paperhanging Paperhanging Roofs Roofs Airless Spraying Airless Spraying StoppingStopping (small jobs) RepaintsRepaints New Homes New Homes

For your Free Quote and/or Consultation, Phone Gary Home: 09-422-6695 Mobile: 021-024-44941 Email: leighdecorators@clear.net.nz

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WARKWORTH PICTURE FRAMERS COMPLETE CUSTOM FRAMING SERVICE David and Pat Little P. 09 425 8143 E. the_littles@xtra.co.nz 15 Coquette Street,Warkworth 0910 DAVID LITTLE GCF

gas & plumbing

Residential, Commercial Commercial & & Industrial Industrial gas gas & & plumbing plumbing Residential, services, Gas Gas repair repair & & installation, installation, Roof Roof replacement replacement & & services, repair, Hot Hot water water systems, systems, Burst Burst pipes, pipes, Roof Roof leaks, leaks, repair, Blocked drains, drains, Pumps, Pumps, Gutter Gutter cleaning cleaning & & repair, repair, Kitchens Kitchens Blocked & Bathrooms, Bathrooms, 24 24 hour hour emergency emergency service service – – we we do do it it all! all! &

021 446 064

trueblueplumber@mail.com trueblueplumber@mail.com

Aalto Property Care Over 25 years experience Have a look on our website to see the huge range of items we can custom brand to suit your needs.

www.positiveimage.co.nz For any queries, please contact us on:

09 424 1262

sales@positiveimage.co.nz 18A Silverdale Street, Silverdale

email: warkworth@centrallandscapes.co.nz 25-31 Morrison Dr WARKWORTH 09 425 9780

0800 TOPSOIL

STORAGE

Phone 0274 889 216 | Ah 09 422 7495

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

Exterior/Interior/Roofs/Staining

FREE LOAN TRAILERS HOME DELIVERIES 7 DAYS A WEEK

• Specialist Furniture Trucks • Packing & Storage • Caring Owner/Operator • Carriers Liability Insurance • Local & Long Distance

SNELLS BEACH

PHONE 09 425 5597

• Screened Topsoil • Living Earth Compost & Garden Mix • Lawn Mix • Mulch • Bark • Pebbles • Stones • Sand • Drainage • Metal • Sleepers • Pongas • Grass Seed • Fertiliser • Weedmat bagged & bulk plus much more

Carpet Cleaning

PERFORMANCE PAINTERS Fully guaranteed professional painters New work and repaints | Interior and exterior

Phone: Brian 027 499 2257

& DRAINLAYING

Helping you with plumbing, drainlaying, jet machine & drain camera tplumber@xtra.co.nz

021 102 4561

TRIED – TESTED – TRUSTED Rodney’s Independent Property Management company

Dry in 1 hour

Pest control All insects

Window Cleaning

0800 273 790

How are your customers looking for you?

0800 171161 info@igniteproperty.co.nz

Julie Beaumont

NZ

Chris Drabble Contracts Manager • New Roofs • Roof Repairs • Re-Roofs • Roof Inspections

Specialists in long-run roofing

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Realty Group

4A Baxter Street, Warkworth

M:021 737 587 P:09 422 2131 Free Phone:0800 649 324

E: chris@rightnowroofing.co.nz

www.rightnowroofing.co.nz

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ROOFING | SCAFFOLDING |SECURITY | SEPTIC TANKS | SURVEYORS | TEMPORARY FENCING | TV AERIAL & DIGITAL | WATER

ROOFING NZ

Servicing Auckland - Rodney - Kaipara

Metroscaff Limited

New • ReRoofs • Cladding Specialists Covering Rodney in Long-Run Iron Local Quality Guaranteed

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

Matt Tickle Licensed LBP Mobile: 021356965 Home: 09 425 6311 Email: iron.man@xtra.co.nz

PHONE 0800 622 7929 MacJimray Septic Cleaning Services are the

OMAHA SNELLS BEACHspecialists - WARKWORTH - MANGAWHAI septic- tank cleaning in your district.

Member of Zealand Residential toScaffolding commercial,and fast,Rigging reliable,New professional service at competitive rates.

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

LOCAL SECURITY COMPANY • Alarm & CCTV Installation and Servicing • Alarm Monitoring • Patrols/alarm Response SECURITY & INVESTIGATION • Free Design and Quotation FOR ALL OF YOUR SECURITY NEEDS

0800 66 24 24

DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL www.insitesecurity.co.nz PO Box 487

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Septic Tank/Grease Trap Cleaning Septic & Sewerage Treatment Systems

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

Warkworth

• New Alarms - Design, Install & Service

• CCTV – Design, Install & Service

• Panic Alarms

• Alarm Monitoring

• Fire Alarm Systems

• Rapid Response 24/7

• Access Control Systems

• Premise Patrols

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

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

09 425 7393 admin@wwsurveyors.co.nz

Digital Freeview Satellite

• Lockup Checks

Fully Licensed & Experienced Staff

Installation & Repairs

Call us now for a Free Assessment & Quotation

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

0800 66 24 24 extn 2 YOUR LOCAL SECURITY COMPANY

TV AERIAL & SATELLITE SERVICES Freeview Sales & Installation TV & FM Aerials GAVIN BROUGH Ph 09 425 5495 Mob 0274 766 115

PICTURE PERFECT TV

ABSOLUTE CONCRETE

WATER TANKS 09 4312211

sales@absoluteconcrete.co.nz

P: 09 425 0086 M: 027 544 4006 E: info@artesianwater.net.nz www.artesianwater.net.nz

(2007) Ltd

Water Treatment • Pumping Systems • Filtration • UV Sterilizers HOURS • Softeners & Neutralizers • Iron Removal Owen Ward

WATER TANK CLEANING & REPAIR SERVICES

021 771 878 • 09 425 6002

Mangawhai: Phil Lathrope 431 4608 | 021 642 668

E. h2opumps@xtra.co.nz MOBILE EFTPOS AVAILABLE

Chemical Free Artesian Water Optimum PH for Health

Pump & Filtration Services

H2O PUMPS 24

HOUSEHOLD WATER SUPPLY

clean. care. repair.

Warkworth: Phone Karl or Kylie Oldham p: 09 945 2555 | m: 027 240 7791 email: mobikair.rodney@gmail.com email: mobikair.mangawhai@gmail.com

www.mobi-kair.co.nz

Household Water Deliveries 0800 747 928 mobile: 027 556 6111

• Water treatment & Filtration • Pumps • Pool & Spas • Waterblasters 7days / 24hours Paul Harris M: 021 425 887 T: 09 425 0075 E: pumps4u@live.com Pumps & Filters Water Treatment Spa & Pool Shop Water Testing Valet Service Water Blasters Tanks & Sprayers 24 Hour Mobile & Workshop Service 31 Woodcocks Rd, Warkworth 09 425 9100 splashwater@xtra.co.nz

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

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

FLIGHTS

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GARDENER Reliable & Experienced . Available for all aspects of garden work.

Phone Martin 021 254 6660

GARDENS • Makeovers, renovations • Professional maintenance service • Fruit tree pruning & care by qualified experienced horticulturist Ph Geoff Hart (MRNZIH) 027 397 1070

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SCENIC FLIGHTS 30 mins $69; 20 mins $59; Min. 3 passengers. Trial flights $90. Gift vouchers available.

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

GREAT BARRIER / OKIWI FLIGHTS. Special stopover up to 4 hours.

Return $130. Min. 3 passengers.

One way flights $130 each. Min 2 passengers.

HEAT PUMP INSTALLATION Phone Mark 0210424764 - Registered Electrician

NORTH CAPE FLIGHTS $450 each. Min 3 passengers.

Rodney Aero Club 425 8735 or Rod Miller 425 5612 FOR SALE DRY FIREWOOD - GET IT NOW! 2m3 Pine - $175 ● 2m3 Hot mix - $200 Ph Chris 021 0256 4273 or 09 425 8575 RAWLEIGH Products. Ph Pat 09 945 0495 YURT. From Mongolia. Cool in summer.

Warm in winter. Affordable housing option. Ph 021 298 9907.

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HORSERIDING

SITUATIONS VACANT

HORSE RIDING WARKWORTH

Family Fun Scenic farm & forest rides Quiet horses & ponies • Birthday rides Lessons • Suit beginners & experienced riders & people with Disabilities Social, Language & School Groups

Book Now 1hr $50 • 2hrs $90 Phone 09 425 8517

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Pam, David, Penny and their family would like to acknowledge and say a big thank you to their wonderful friends, relations, colleagues, the hospice team, Ron's doctors and the staff at Haematology Department NSH who cared for and supported Ron and us, his family, over the past two and a half years.

To all those who attended Ron's funeral and for all the messages of love, sympathy, flowers and the baking we have received we thank you. It has helped us so much at this sad time.

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MARKETS MUSEUM SUMMER MARKETS 1st Saturday of the month, 8am, Old Masonic Hall, Baxter Street, Warkworth.

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FARM WORKER - PART TIME Kaipara Flats area. Skilled in stock handling, farm maintenance and competent in operating farm machinery. Able to work unsupervised. Accomodation can be supplied. Phone 425 7942

4U MENTORING CO-ORDINATOR Springboard Community Works is a faith based charity in Snells Beach. We have a part time role for a passionate connector. If you have a vision for thriving community, and enjoy working with kids and adult volunteers, then this role is for you!

CV’s to mail@springboard.org.nz

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ARBORISTS Full time, Permanent and Contract/ Temp Central, West, North, South Auckland and Waiheke Sites Seeking arborists at all levels from those with no formal qualification but experience up to those with Level 3 / 4 Arboriculture qualifications Top Hourly rates depending on experience Job security, training and support Drug screening and Police/MOJ checks are mandatory Applicants for this position need to have NZ residency or a valid NZ Work Visa.

To apply send your CV and Covering Letter to arbjobs@treescape.co.nz or contact Annie on 021 485 907

PARK CONSERVATION STAFF West, North Auckland and Waiheke Sites Several positions available from general crew to supervisors, delivering Ecological Restoration in council parks - Pest Plant and Animal Pest Control Roles include field crew, field team leaders and contract supervisors.

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CHURCH NOTICES

SITUATIONS VACANT

Warkworth Anglican Parish Church Services

MAHURANGI METHODIST PARISH

Christ Church, Church Hill, Warkworth

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

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

Journalist/Digital & Newspaper

Every Sunday at 9.30am

Mahurangi Matters is looking for someone with a journalism background who can also help maintain the localmatters website including social media. This involves loading stories, images and video, curating the site, maintaining user-generated content including business and community directory, and the what’s on calendar, eEditions emails, social media, managing online ads in Google DFP and liaising with our web provider.

Required skills - digital Digital content, search and social media marketing experience. Knowledge of HTML, SEO, Google Analytics and DFP, information architecture, accessibility and usability standards.

Required skills - newspaper This is a fulltime position, based at the office at 17 Neville Street Warkworth. Training in the specifics of managing our website will be provided.

You will be required to have your own car (although there is a car for use during business hours) and your own camera. This position will become available at the end of May.

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CATHOLIC CHURCH

Warkworth Birthing Centre Shifts usually 8am - 3pm Also cover for annual leave and sickness.

Send CV to manager@wwbc.co.nz Inquiries to Sally 09 425 8201

Holy Mass Timetable: WARKWORTH

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

Sunday Services 9am & 10.30am "My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, Imperishable and everlasting." www.bahai.org.nz

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SHEETMETAL / STAINLESS FABRICATORS Warkworth Sheetmetals Ltd. Experienced Tradesperson required for quality Architectural, Commercial, Marine Stainless & General Sheetmetal fabrication.

Varied, interesting work and opportunity to advance career.

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

St.Alban's, Kaipara Flats

Please send covering letter and CV to: gm@localmatters.co.nz Applications close on Monday, May 15.

Literacy Auckland North is a community literacy provider. We support adults who wish to improve their employment opportunities and quality of life. We are increasing our presence in the Rodney district and would like to have two qualified and experienced contract tutors join the team initially in a relief capacity.

Essential requirements: • NCALNE Vocational or Educator – completed and certificated • Experienced administrator of the Assessment Tool • Good digital skills and confidence to tutor Basic Computing • Willingness to tutor in the evenings • Ability to tutor in either Wellsford, Warkworth or Orewa.

ESOL qualification and experience advantageous. To register your interest in initially becoming a relief tutor or working a few hours a week, send your CV and cover letter to Helen Thorn on helen@literacyaucklandnorth.org.nz

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Omaha Flats sculpture park opens its doors A 12-year mission to create three sculpture gardens, six art galleries and a new restaurant and bar on a 25-acre site in Matakana has opened its doors to the public. Sculptureum in Omaha Flats Road is open from Thursday to Monday, from 9am to 5pm.

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History

Maureen Young, Warkworth & District Museum www.warkworthmuseum.co.nz

Grave tales Stored in the archives of the Warkworth and Districts Museum are several old maps of the Mahurangi River mouth showing a small islet bearing the name Cowdie Island, Motu Cowdie or Motu Kauri. It is intriguing that kauri would ever have grown on what is now known as Grants Island, a steep, dry little islet topped by tall, rangy old pines trees, but the old names point to it having been there once.

The island would originally have been connected to the mainland and the pre-European vegetation of the mainland would have persisted on the island for some time. A visit to satisfy my botanical curiosity showed that there were 14 species of native plants there, making up 37 per cent of the flora. The most common of these was the coastal five-finger, and also included were mangroves growing on the wave platform.

William “Tar” Grant was a Scotsman who arrived on the Mahurangi in 1842. He worked as a sawyer and built two ships on the beach near the island that bears his name. He purchased the land there and turned to farming, but there is no indication that he actually owned the island. He married a local Maori woman and founded a well-known local family. His brother James followed him to New Zealand and took up adjoining land.

Some interesting facts about Motu Kauri are found in the book Jade River, written by R.H. Locker. A young lady who visited the island in 1888, while waiting for the Rose Casey (the steamer plying the Auckland to Mahurangi route) observed, “There are three graves on the top of this island where some shipwrecked people are buried”.

Grants Island (Motu Kauri) has its secrets. Photo by Robert Brassey (Auckland Council).

There is some doubt about the identity of the people buried there, but the following makes a good yarn.

Two early settlers, Ranulph Dacre and Gordon Browne, commenced squaring spars and preparing masts on the Mahurangi in 1832, but this enterprise suffered a setback in 1834 when HMS Buffalo sailed into the river, and Captain Sadler “took forcible possession of the standing trees, placing the broad arrow on them” (the broad arrow indicated that the trees were claimed by the Admiralty). Local Maori were persuaded to work the timber and later Browne complained that “our natives were so enriched and spoiled by Buffalo last year that they positively

refused to work, and while I have spars in my own neighbourhood I am obliged to go to other parts for them where labour is available”.

The Buffalo made two more voyages to New Zealand, and was eventually wrecked on Buffalo Beach, Whitianga. A tale likely to relate to the visit of Buffalo is that two convicts, who had come as labour, rebelled and killed their guard and were promptly executed. The burials were on Motu Kauri (Grants Island). There is now no evidence of the presence of these graves, but an eroding midden is evidence of pre-European Maori occupation.

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When Dona and Hemantha Vidanage, with their daughter Lisara, moved from Sri Lanka to New Zealand seven years ago, they had a dream of one day starting their own business.

That goal has come to fruition with the opening of Fish Nets at The Grange, in Warkworth.

“Life was very hard for us for the first year,” Dona says. “I wondered if we would even survive. We didn’t understand how to rent a house and we couldn’t turn to family or friends for help. It was tough. We finally found a tiny one-bedroom apartment.”

Dona ended up studying and qualifying as a chef. For the last six years they lived in Matakana and Warkworth, where Dona worked first as a chef in Omaha and then as a sous chef at the Puhoi Cheese Cafe.

Hemantha worked at Summerset and RSS Plastics, before it moved to Hamilton.

“Fish Nets is only a small business, but we already have plans to open another shop and one day, I would love to own and run my own seafood restaurant,” Dona says.

The business is already getting rave reviews on social media.

“We want to give people good, honest food. I think if you do that, then you just naturally become popular. As a

Fond memories of family holidays at Tawharanui meant Warkworth was an obvious destination when James Isaacs decided to move out of Auckland and set-up his stump grinding business, Stumpmaster.

“I was sick of battling the Auckland traffic and I could see there was an opportunity in the Mahurangi area for a business like mine,” he says.

“The advantage of the equipment I use is that it is small yet powerful, so it is suitable for any job, large or small.

Plus, the mulched material produced, which is a mixture of wood and soil, is used to fill the hole, giving a nice finish to the site.

“A lot of people don’t like the idea of a big digger in their yard and think that their only other option is to let the stump rot away. But depending on the tree, this can take over 10 years. I can get rid of a small stump in less than half-an-hour and you would never know I’d been on the property.”

James is a qualified arborist and ran the business Tree King in Auckland for many years.

He says he loves the community aspect of Warkworth. He has joined the One Warkworth Business Association and has used local businesses for all his set up costs.

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chef, I’ve learned what Kiwis like and that’s what I am going to give them, whether it is fish and chips or fresh snapper burgers.”

The couple say that they are grateful for the personal and professional support of the people they have met in NZ, particularly their neighbours.

“We came to NZ because we heard it was peaceful, with beautiful scenery and lovely people, and we have not been disappointed.”

While the couple aren’t expecting to have too many holidays in the near future, they say they love travelling and look forward to exploring more of New Zealand.

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Cameras help to cut crime Crime in Warkworth may have been reduced following the installation of 12 new security cameras around the town.

Last year Insite Security collaborated with local businesses to install the cameras after a number of vandalism incidents.

Insite Security director Chris Martin says this activity has now disappeared in areas where the cameras have been installed, specifically around the Mahurangi River where the Jane Gifford is docked.

“I think the cameras have definitely been a deterrent, especially for local

criminals who know the coverage we now have,” Chris says.

Chris says the quality of the new camera footage is a lot better than it used to be when the township had its first CCTV installed more than 12 years ago.

He says this has led to a reduction in burglar alarms being installed and an increase in cameras, with an extra three put in around the Omaha area recently, to bring its total up to five.

The cameras in Warkworth have also been used to resolve traffic accidents for insurance claims.

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A 24-hour police station will be introduced in either Warkworth or Wellsford in the next two years as part of a $388 million national spend.

The changes are designed to meet a government target that 95 per cent of people in NZ will live within 25km of a 24-hour base, and 20 such stations will be established over the next four years.

“We recognise that our regional communities have different pressures and concerns and feel safer if they know a 24/7 Police response service is nearby,” police commissioner Mike Bush says.

In addition to this, 880 sworn and 245 unsworn staff will be introduced across the country, with 73 of them allocated to the Waitemata Police District, which includes Rodney.

Meanwhile, Snells Beach

Neighbourhood Watch coordinator Lesley Leversha and Algies Bay Neighbourhood Watch coordinator Vivian Pollock’s campaign for a community constable appears to have been denied.

The pair met with Waitemata Police District commander superintendent Tusha Penny and inspector Mark Fergus last month, who said the appointment of a community constable would be unlikely, but potentially a rural officer would be assigned to the area.

Lesley and Vivian have been gathering support for a community constable for the Warkworth area since October last year, gaining over 2000 signatures.

They would like to thank all who signed the petition and every business that supported the idea.

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Peter Caccia-Birch, left, receives his award from vet Ross Lynch and Rotary president Mick Fay.

& MARINE Donkey devotion recognised OUTDOOR SMALL ENGINE SPECIALISTS A Snells Beach man who has devoted more than 20 years to caring for the donkeys of Highfield Garden Reserve in Algies Bay has received official recognition of his service from Rotary.

Peter Caccia-Birch was presented with a Community Service Award at a recent Warkworth Rotary Club meeting by its president, Mick Fay, and long-time Rotarian and local vet Ross Lynch.

Members heard that Peter had been involved with the Highfield Donkeys since 1995, when he helped Alison Roberts, who had gifted the land and

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Peter attends to the seven Highfield donkeys – Truffle, Tansy, Toby, Tina, Tara, Turvey and Topsy – every day.

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The forest ringlet butterfly, or Dodonidia helmsi, is only found in New Zealand.

Photo by Melissa Hutchison.

Rare butterfly discovered A rare native butterfly, known as the forest ringlet, has been found thriving on Hauturu/Little Barrier Island. Numbers of the butterfly have been in severe decline due to introduced predators over the past 20 years.

The distinctive orange, black, white and yellow butterfly was once widespread in forests throughout New Zealand but is now found only in a few remote areas, and has not been seen in the Auckland region for many years.

The Department of Conservation has hailed the sightings as possibly the most significant event for Little Barrier in five years.

The sightings were made by a senior conservation specialist from Butterfly Conservation in England, Steve Wheatley, who recently travelled throughout NZ documenting known locations and sightings of the forest ringlet.

The project was funded by Lottery Environment and Heritage, supported by Moths and Butterflies

of NZ Trust and directed by entomologist Dr Peter Maddison, former president of Forest and Bird.

Dr Maddison says declining numbers of forest ringlets were first observed during the 1990s and it is thought the vespula wasp, or common wasp, contributed to the reduced numbers.

The species is endemic to NZ and has no close relatives.

Dr George Gibbs, entomologist at Wellington’s Victoria University, says the butterflies were probably found at Little Barrier because of the island’s rodentfree status, the fact that vespula wasp numbers are low there, and because it is the ‘disconnected north end’ of the Coromandel. He says it makes the island worthy of further study.

The forest ringlet lives in forest glades, from near sea-level to the treeline, and is usually found in late summer when they fly high in the forest canopy.

Females can also be seen on or near sedges, rush-like plants, where they lay their eggs.

Hospice Shed set to close Warkworth Wellsford Hospice’s Shed 29 on Glenmore Drive will close at the end of May when its lease comes to an end. The shed is open three days a week and sells donated goods to raise money for Hospice.

The Hospice stores in Warkworth and Wellsford will remain open, and the weekly garage sales will continue.

Hospice would like to thank everyone who has supported Shed 29 since its opening one year ago.

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Recent Living Library mornings have focused on Kauri Care, Seaweek and the Lunar New Year.

The Friends will also be running its Winter Words poetry evenings, featuring the Whangarei Poetry Posse, on the last Wednesday of the month from 7pm, starting May 31 and running through to August.

Senior librarian Fleur Coleman says Mahurangi East Library is a little library, but it has a big heart, with a strong active community following for its events and activities, and anyone can become a Friend.

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Carp set to clean up course The Warkworth Golf Club welcomed 26 grass carp to its course on April 19 after fish farm co-operative Aquatic Weed Management donated the fish to clean up the ponds.

The carp are herbivores and eat weeds that grow in a freshwater environment.

Warkworth Golf Club member Athalie McHardy says the club was keen to clean up their ponds to improve the appearance of the course.

The club had to wait a year to get Department of Conservation approval for the carp to be used, a process costing $2000.

Members raised $3000 to help cover the costs by holding second hand clothing sales, and an individual member donated a further $1000.

The excess funds will go towards course landscaping.

Aquatic Weed Management is a fish farm co-operative run between Paul Decker, Robert Hutton and Peter Wilcox, with fish farms in Warkworth and Nelson. Their grass carp are sold for both environmental purposes and restaurant food.

Paul says they’ve had a successful season breeding 200,000 grass carp in January, which will be distributed

Robert Hutton releases one of 26 grass carp at the Warkworth Golf Club.

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He says while the use of grass carp in New Zealand is controversial, as they are an introduced species, they pose no threat as the climate means they are unable to breed.

Calling Mahu’s Class of 1958

Next year marks the 60th anniversary of secondary education at Mahurangi College in Warkworth, and pupils who were there when the school first opened in 1958 are being sought for a reunion.

Organiser Dave Parker says about 200 students made the move to the new Warkworth District High School, as it was known then, on the corner of Woodcocks Road from the old high school, which previously shared premises with Warkworth Primary School in Hill Street.

“I’m seeking interest from the foundation pupils who went to that new college in 1958, with a view to holding a reunion celebration event in February,” Dave says.

It will be a relatively low-key event, either a lunch or a dinner, and probably held at the college itself, though the final venue depends on the number of registrations received.

A much bigger reunion will be held in 2022, when it will be 60 years since the high school became Mahurangi College and 160 years of Visit us on Facebook for daily notices MahurangiMatters

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Eat yourself a rainbow I wrote about phytochemicals last May when I was extolling the virtues of the humble onion. Phytochemicals are a wide array of chemicals produced by plants, often for their own protection, and by eating the plants we can even gain some benefits. Yes, there are some phytochemicals that aren’t so beneficial, such as phytate which is found in legumes, nuts and grains. Phytate inhibits iron absorption, but how you prepare your food – cooking, soaking and fermenting – can reduce the effect.

However, there are loads of highly beneficial phytochemicals to be found in fruits and vegetables and the more colourful the better! Beta-carotene, lycopene and anthocyanins are just some of the phytochemicals we eat. With phytate, cooking can reduce its negative effect. However, for some other phytochemicals heating actually makes it easier to absorb them so increases the beneficial effect. Carrots and tomatoes are two vegetables that this works for – respectively increasing beta-carotene and lycopene.

Here are some examples of a wonderful range of rainbow colours to indulge in: • Red: tomato, red capsicum, watermelon, strawberries.

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Omaha artist Belinda Barnao’s artwork captures her way of seeing the world and has evolved from her lack of full literal vision.

She refers to being partially sighted as her unique “mysterious input”.

Unable to work from any reference, working drawing or life subject, and only from close proximity to her canvas, she delves into her imagination for visual content.

It is in this way Belinda creates work she describes as, “being free from external references and pressures”.

And she has experienced a fair amount of success, which has enabled her to pursue her passion on a full-time basis.

Belinda, who moved from Wellington to Omaha Flats Road about a year ago, started painting at school in Auckland but at the age of 17, she was diagnosed with Star Gardts disease.

“I was only the fourth person in the world known to have it at the time,” she says.

The condition causes progressive damage or degeneration of the macula, which is a small area in the centre of the retina responsible for sharp, straight-ahead vision. There is no cure although its effects can stabilise.

At 21, Belinda’s central vision failed.

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Belinda lost her central vision when she was 21 but it has not stopped her from becoming a succesful artist.

“I was just driving down the road and lost my sight. The condition stabilised when I was 24, but not a lot was known about it at that time and I just had to come to terms with it. It was a case of lay down and die or get up and go.”

The 52-year-old, who is self-taught, has been a full-time painter for about 10 years now. Her previous vocations have included being a sports massage therapist and doing live music for events.

She exhibits throughout New

Zealand, has works held in private collections nationally and internationally, and “creates rich, tactile oils that explore light, surface and the power of colour”.

“Because of my eye condition, I have developed my own style,” she explains.

“My work has lots of texture and colours.

“I have been selected for the New Zealand Art Show in Wellington in the past, which I sell a lot of work through. It’s a huge event and I’ll be there again this June.

“Over Christmas I sold a lot of work from my old studio - Studio 85 on Omaha Flats Road - where I worked for about a year.

“I am now based next to Brambles Cafe at Matakana Country Park, which is a great place to expose my artwork to the public. My style is very different. People tend to like it or not.”

Belinda is also showing her work at the Black Door Gallery in Parnell, Auckland, and at the Black Dog Cafe in Matakana.

The mother of two is also involved in charity work. For example, she is putting works into an auction for a fundraiser at Orewa High School on May 6, and over Easter, she was continued facing page

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By working up close and using her imagination, Belinda creates her complex abstract artworks. from previous page

at Matakana Country Park with a percentage from her sales going towards funding a playground.

Belinda uses all kinds of “exciting and non-traditional techniques” to get her point onto canvas, such as her bare hands, spatulas, show brushes and painttube lids – the latter to form circles on her pieces as creative signatures.

She uses high-quality paints that absorb and reflect light, which causes some of her work to come alive at night.

While most of Belinda’s work is abstract, her painted surfaces often hide motifs such as moons and forests. As the artist describes, “figures appear mysteriously but belong immediately”.

“My materials include resins, shellac, inks and oil, which I build up over many months and it creates physical weight to my canvases,” she says. “My work is totally open to interpretation, and has a habit of evolving as I work quickly and instinctively. The more you look at it, the more you can see in it.”

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New Zealand First MP Tracey Martin, from Rodney, has been a Member of Parliament since the 2011 general election and is passionate about increasing female representation.

Her political career had its genesis in 2004 when she was elected to the Warkworth Primary School Board of Trustees, after campaigning against the introduction of a school uniform.

“That experience showed me I could run a successful campaign and win an election,” she says.

For 15 years prior to this, Mrs Martin was a stay-at-home mum and before that worked as a credit controller.

“My mother was a New Zealand First candidate from 1996 to 2005, so she was and has always been my inspiration.”

In 2008, Tracey ran against National’s Lockwood Smith in Rodney, failing to win that election, but claimed a list seat in Parliament in 2011 and again in 2014.

Meanwhile, her board role with Warkworth school lasted to 2011, and she was elected to the Mahurangi College Board of Trustees in 2007 and became chair in 2009, until stepping down from the board last month.

“A reality for women who want to enter politics is that it’s all about timing. Women have sections in their lives because of their ability to give birth.”

Mrs Martin says her husband Ben is a feminist as much as she is and gave her the opportunity to go to Parliament by becoming a stay-at-home dad.

She says many women may not have this same support, so taking opportunities when possible is the key to getting involved.

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In terms of pathways, she advises getting involved with a party at a local level and working your way up.

“Try to find a party you agree with 80 per cent of the time, because you’re never going to align perfectly with any one party. Then, once you’re involved you can start to implement some of your own ideas.”

Currently, 34 per cent of Parliament is made up of women, a figure in slow decline.

Mrs Martin says getting a 50/50 balance in the Beehive has been a big conversation recently, with every party looking at the topic in its own way.

She says women help keep women’s issues in the spotlight, such as equal pay and domestic violence, and have been influential in changes to health and gun control laws.

“Women bring another perspective to Parliament because of their life experiences.”

Since Parliament began in 1854 there have been two women Prime Ministers – Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark – and one woman Speaker of the House, Margaret Wilson.

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Let’s get innovative I’m a woman working in the tech world, but wouldn’t think about that fact, but for the fact that I am tailoring this digital column for a feature on women.

A quick google on ‘NZ women in tech’ returned a thread on a Women in Innovation Summit via a National Advisory Council on the Employment of Women, via the Ministry of Women. All of which I didn’t know existed. Turns out New Zealand needs to recruit and train more women in innovative indemand industries such as engineering, ICT, software development and computer science.

Science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects are critical to innovation. It seems that in both primary and secondary schools there is an even split of genders studying science, except at the secondary level, girls are more likely to choose biology subjects and boys physics and calculus. At the tertiary level, women make up 64 per cent of Bachelor of Science enrolments.

However, they are over-represented in the health sciences and under-represented in engineering and technology. Women make up less than a quarter of those studying for a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and just over a third of those studying for a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.

Women make up only 13 per cent of engineers and seven per cent of chartered professional engineers. So why does it matter? One reason given by Xero chief executive Rod Drury is that ideally the gender balance of a company should reflect its customer base. Given that women make 80 per cent of all household technology purchases, more women employed in the design and development process could help companies meet customers’ needs. I don’t know what it is like for young females these days. I presume it’s better than when I was at school, before the internet even, and I was told to take shorthand and typing.

It turned out that both proved handy for my career in journalism and digital media, but thankfully I had a father interested in tech who believed I could do anything. Today there are more role models and women leaders to speak out with confidence about their success in tech, including Nanogirl (aka Dr Michelle Dickinson)and Lillian Grace, founder of Wiki NZ. See more related links and videos with this digital column at localmatters.co.nz

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Mother’s Day – what would local public figures like?

NZ First MP Tracey Martin: I have three children – two sons and a daughter. As our eldest son lives in Wellington and is a chef, our second son is in halls in Auckland attending Auckland University and our daughter is still at home, what I would like for Mother’s Day is to have a family dinner. With my schedule and their lives it is very difficult to get us all together at the same table these days.

Rodney Local Board chair Beth Houlbrooke: I have two sons, now aged 26 and 23. They have long left home and are independent and in good careers. I don’t see nearly as much of them as I’d like to, especially as the younger one lives and works in Wellington, as a parliamentary press secretary. The only time I see him is if someone tells me he’s been spotted on TV, then I have to go and find the news On Demand to see the clip. My older son lives on the North Shore and I do see a bit more

of him, especially as he still has a lot of connections up here in Warkworth.

They are both very talented and I couldn’t be more proud of them, but I think I did too good a job of bringing them up to be self-sufficient. They don’t need me for much!

I would like to receive for Mother’s Day a call from either of them, just asking me how I am. Sorry, but a text or Facebook message is not going to cut the mustard!

Warkworth Senior Constable Katie Hawkins: With two daughters aged six and eight, I’d like a cup of tea in bed and a handmade card, and maybe a Louis Vuitton handbag … just joking. Mother’s Day is a day to really appreciate your children and put quality time aside. Being a mum to me means hard work, a few sleepless nights and patience, but in the end, it is all worth it with lots of love, fun times and making great memories.

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“It will be an opportunity to meet with like-minded people and discuss issues of common interest,” Murray says.

“We are in the process of organising a guest speaker who will be able to talk about some of the issues that are particularly relevant to women in business and there will be plenty of time for questions and answers.”

Murray says the association is involved in several networking events, all tailored to suit the audience.

“There is a lot to be gained by connecting with other like-minded business people, sharing ideas and experiences, and setting up opportunities where you can assist one another.

“It is also an opportunity to share problem-solving ideas and promote the products and services that local people are involved in.”

The networking events are part of the broader One Warkworth campaign to encourage residents to ‘Buy Local’ and to utilise the services, products and skills that are all available within the Mahurangi community.

The Ascension event will start at 6.30pm and tickets are $35. For information and bookings, call Ivana Arsenic at Ascension on 422 9601 or email sales@ascensionwine.co.nz

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Networking for young mums feel isolated, to meet new friends,” Colleen says.

She says there is enough flexibility in the programme to allow the participants to identify topics to discuss and things they would like to do.

In previous sessions this has included learning how to prepare healthy meals on a budget, homemade balms for babies, natural beauty products and homemade toys. It can be an opportunity to learn more about further learning options, and to visit preschools and early childhood centres. Guest speakers have covered topics such as vaccination and tenancy issues.

“The mothers can attend as many sessions as they wish – it is not compulsory to attend all 10 sessions in the term.”

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Young mothers in the Wellsford area are being encouraged to join a weekly get-together being held at the Wellsford Plunket Rooms, in Rodney Road.

Over 10 weeks, starting on Monday May 1, members of the group will have the opportunity to learn new skills, and discuss parenting and family issues and experiences.

The group is run under the auspices of the Women’s Centre Rodney and the facilitator is Ashlee Prictor.

The morning sessions are free and are designed for mothers aged 16 to 25 years. They will cover life management skills and strategies for raising healthy, happy children, as well as being an opportunity for young mothers to meet one another.

Centre coordinator Colleen Julian says previous sessions have proved popular.

“There are lot of new families moving to the area so the sessions are a way for young mothers, who might otherwise

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Bringing local tales on tour Wellington songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist Niels Gedge brings his finely crafted acoustic songs to Leigh Sawmill on Sunday 14 May. Niels is no stranger to Mahurangi or to telling tales. His first visit was in high school to a farmhouse overlooking Algies Bay, when there were no suburbs. “The most exciting thing a teenage boy could do was to skip stones across the glassy water or watch the farmer’s family waterskiing across the pristine view.”

He also recalls a fruitless day as a hapless passenger of a surfie who had convinced himself surf would come from the east that day. “He drove to virtually every glassy bay on the Mahurangi, and I was pretty glassyeyed myself by the time I got out of the car.”

In the 1990s, he visited Leigh Marine Laboratory sporadically as contracts manager with Auckland Uni Services.

“Somehow, these visits always happened on sunny days and were a great antidote to my office at the University in town. Some of the researchers were in the legendary Leigh Buoys blues band led by Dr Russ Babcock. They were pretty good.”

Niels now lives in a seaside community in Plimmerton, north of Wellington, and captures the essence of it in his song ‘The Plimmerton Waltz’. His most recent songs are on his latest CD ‘Southern Land’, including ‘My Father’s People’, and follows on from his first album ‘Maui’s Whale’.

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His influences include country, folk and blues and his songs evoke the idiom, places, landscapes and history of Aotearoa NZ. “In that sense I am a folk singer and it is one of the reasons I want to sing in smaller places in the country.”

He says Leigh Sawmill is one of the iconic country venues that every touring muso wants to play at. “If you want to be a musician in Aotearoa then you must tour, because our cities are not big enough to work in for any length of time.”

Niels has performed throughout New Zealand in clubs, pubs, cafes and festivals. He has also performed in the UK, Fiji and France.

Apart from touring his own work, he has been running sing-arounds, focused on New Zealand songs, at folk festivals. “There’s a bunch of ageing folkies up and down the country who have all learned a few, and some are superb songs. But there’s no coherent movement to keep this music alive. If we don’t use it, we’ll lose it.”

Info: Niels Gedge plays Leigh Sawmill on Sunday May 14, 5pm, $10

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Cosmic love comes to Leigh When Thomas Oliver isn’t writing or touring, he can be found mentoring music students. The 31-year-old has been a professional musician for 10 years already and advocates an all-in approach for budding musicians.

“Don’t let anybody tell you to have a Plan B, that’s the first step to failing at something like music,” he says. “It’s such an all-consuming venture, and more competitive than it’s ever been.

You don’t stand a chance if you don’t give it your all.”

He says people can get put off at a young age when parents or school career advisors tell them to have a back-up plan. Luckily his parents were supportive musicians and teachers, which explains his penchant for teaching and mentoring.

The Hawkes Bay-bred, Wellingtonbased musician released the world’s first full-length instrumental Weissenbornbrand slide guitar album in 2013, ‘Beneath The Weissenborn’, which debuted at No 6 in the NZ charts.

He has performed in NZ, Australia, Europe and Vietnam, and shared the stage with the likes of Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton and Fat Freddy’s Drop.

Thomas says one of his most memorable performances was at the Forget Festival in Budapest in 2014, the world’s third largest festival with 300,000 people. It was also the

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inspiration for a song on his new album ‘Floating In The Darkness’.

“It was a strange paradox of being in beautiful place and so excited, but also longing for someone else to be there.”

Many of his songs reflect his personal stories about love, loss and longing.

“I’m a pretty open person naturally so disclosing my personal struggles in my writing is a natural expression for me.”

His album also has a ‘cosmic theme’ of the vast incomprehensible universe as a metaphor for love. One of the songs ‘If I Move To Mars’ won the 2016 Silver Scroll Award.

Making the album itself has been another stage of Thomas’ career as he recorded, produced and mixed it himself over three years, learning about the process as he went.

Released on April 28, Thomas is bringing a full band to perform the album at Leigh Sawmill on May 6 as part of his NZ tour.

Ticket giveaway Mahurangi Matters has a double pass to give away. Write your name and number on the back of an envelope, post to Thomas Oliver Competition, Mahurangi Matters PO Box 701 Warkworth or email editor@localmatters.co.nz with the subject line: Thomas Oliver. Competition closes May 5.

Exhibition curator Tracey Wedge with the flour sack knickers.

Pioneers’ underwear exposed A pair of knickers made from flour bags is one of the more unusual items on display in an exhibition aptly titled Textiles Down Under, at the Kauri Museum in Matakohe.

The knickers are a replica of what were commonly worn by women when times were tough.

Exhibition curator Tracey Wedge says the museum’s textile collection contains a wide range of underwear worn by men, women and children of the old Otamatea district, from the 1870s to the 1950s.

This includes corsets, bustles, camisoles, petticoats, silk French knickers, drawers, camiknickers, long johns, chemises, bras, stockings and other intimate garments.

One of the oldest items is a handstitched cotton chemise, which is over

150 years old. It was donated to the museum by a Mrs Clarke in the 1980s.

“The exhibition features articles from the collection that show the utility, and the beauty, of early undergarments and the changes over time,” Tracey says.

“The pioneers of the 1860s who migrated from Europe were confronted with a very different climate and terrain to what they were used to.

What was fashionable in Europe was impractical in the Kaipara bush, and crinolines were quickly discarded! If not handmade, underwear was often bought from catalogues or stores in Auckland, although men’s singlets could be purchased from the store in Matakohe.”

The exhibition Textiles Down Under will run until June 8. It will be followed later in the year with an exhibition of hats and gloves.

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Leap of Faith Jenny Pattrick Billy is a young, impressionable dreamer. In 1907, he strikes off on his own, keen to prove himself an able worker on the new railroad, which is being cut through steep mountainsides and across deep gullies to join the two ends of the main trunk line.

Many others are drawn to the remote worker settlements – miners from Denniston, young men fresh off the boat, sly-groggers, temperance campaigners, local Maori, women following their menfolk, and a varied assortment of people after a new life or a quick buck. Among them is a preacher, Gabriel Locke, who is running from a shady past. With untimely and suspicious deaths, horrendous weather, impossible deadlines, the rugged landscape and a blossoming romance, it will take a lot more than a leap of faith for this disparate group to complete the railroad and build the magnificent Makatote viaduct. Jenny Pattrick’s latest book is a vivid novel about ingenuity and hard slog, crooks and dreamers, bootleggers and love. Fans of her earlier bestsellers including The Denniston Rose and Heart of Coal will not be disappointed in another entertaining mix of historical fact and fiction.

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley Hannah Tinti Best-selling author Ann Patchett has described The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti as, ‘one part Quentin Tarantino and one part Scheherazade and 12 parts wild innovation’.

After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter Loo to Olympus, Massachusetts. There, in his late wife’s hometown, Hawley finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at school and grows curious about her mother’s mysterious death. Haunting them both are the 12 scars Hawley carries on his body from 12 bullets associated with his criminal past – a past that eventually spills over into his daughter’s present, until together they must face a reckoning yet to come.

This is both a coming of age novel and a literary thriller, exploring what it means to be a hero and the price we pay to protect the people we love. This is also a father/daughter love story and road trip you won’t forget.

Theatre coup for Otamatea The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale of the little boy raised in the jungle by wolves, will come to life on the Otamatea Repertory Theatre stage in Maungaturoto, in August.

Director and musical director, Peter and Maura Flower, say they are excited to be using an adaptation of the play that is making its world premier in Nottingham, in the United Kingdom, in July.

“We will be the second theatre in the world to stage this version of the show,” Maura says.

“Audiences seem to enjoy classic tales – Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan were popular. We thought this was in the same league and, of course, it has splendid costuming and make-up possibilities.

“We had been hunting for an adaptation to produce and couldn’t find one we liked. I came across some of B.B.

Cooper’s music on YouTube. I got in touch with her and learned that there was a new adaptation, commissioned

by Toby Hulse, and she sent me the script. It is a lot more suitable for our audiences so was quite serendipitous.”

Maura says Otamatea has a wealth of talented young singers and she is not envisaging any problems casting the lead role of Mowgli.

“Peter and I both teach singing and we run a Youth Theatre programme at the theatre in the Christmas holidays, so we have a great bunch of up-and-coming talent. This year’s Youth Theatre involved about 70 youngsters.”

Altogether, there are 15 songs in the show and the production will involve 50 to 60 people on stage and backstage.

Auditions are being held for the show now, with performances from August 4 to 20.

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Netball Injuries New claims

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

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325

263

343

334

277

305

Soft Tissue Injury (Contusion, Internal Organ, Strain)

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241

305

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23

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Netball Injury costs

Warkworth-based physiotherapist Olivia Simpson gave members of the Intercept netball squad a demonstration of the sorts of warm-up exercises that Netball NZ wants to see introduced nationally.

Active costs*

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

Netball

$254,454

$149,437

$199,321

$155,207

$240,685

$292,742

*An active claim is a claim that had a payment made against it in the year shown, regardless of the year in which the claim was lodged (i.e., because some claims have ongoing costs; in any given year it is likely ACC will be paying costs on claims lodged in previous years).

Netball warm-up could prove critical in reducing injuries Call: 09 411 9604 A series of free workshops is being held across Rodney to introduce netball coaches to an initiative aimed at reducing players’ injuries by up to one-third.

The nationwide programme has been developed by ACC and Netball NZ, and is called the NetballSmart Warmup. It is an evidence-based programme designed to be done by players prior to games and training.

It is being delivered in Rodney by

Warkworth-based physiotherapist Olivia Simpson who says the programme also improves players performance through increased strength, balance and movement skills.

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Sporting stars recognised The Kaiwaka Sports Association hosted its annual awards evening on April 26 to highlight services and achievements in regional sport.

The Senior Sports Person of the Year award went to Cullen Curtis for his exploits in motocross.

Cullen came first in both the ATV Nationals and the NZ Miniature TTs Championships after coming second in the ATV North Island Champs.

To cap this off he travelled to China, where he finished fifth in the ATV Internationals.

In addition to this, Cullen played in the Otamatea Hawks rugby Premier and B sides and participated in the Kaiwaka basketball, touch and fast five modules, coming second in touch.

Junior Sportsperson of the Year went to Shuntel Rika, who has been selected for the Northern Zone Invitation netball squad.

This is an U21 squad that will participate in the Oceania Netball World Youth Cup Qualifiers Tournament, in an attempt to make the 2017 Youth World Cup in Botswana.

She is one of four players to be selected from Northland and will be coached

by Mystics head coach Helene Wilson.

In addition to this, she has been selected for the Netball Northern Talent ID squad and the Hunt for Height programme developing players six feet or taller.

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the most valuable player award, and was selected for the Rodney Netball U17 rep team.

The Service to Sport award went to Mike Peeni for his rugby coaching work.

Mike coached the undefeated Otamatea Hawks U16 side that won the Southern Districts Cup. He also took the Northland South Zone U15 rep side and the U16 and U17 Northland Maori rep teams.

This year he is coaching the Premier and Reserve Otamatea Hawks teams.

The Greg McRae Memorial Award went to Tamati Abel for his achievements in rugby.

Tamati played for the champion Otamatea Hawks U16 side, winning player of the year.

He also received the Kaipara District, ASB Youth Sports Person Achievement Award and made the Northland Maori U18 rep team.

He has represented Otamatea High School in rugby.

Turnaround for Tomarata RFC A new coach and returning players are proving to be a winning formula for the seniors at Tomarata Rugby Football Club this season.

The team finished seventh in the Northland Rugby Union’s Division One last year with just two wins, but has already won its first three matches of the season, including a victory over last year’s champions, Kaihu.

Team manager Patrick Cullinan puts their success down to an improved structure around the squad.

“Last season the team was thrown together, but this year we’ve had great numbers at trainings with a lot of players returning to the club and gelling really well,” he says.

This depth has proved useful after three players suffered hamstring injuries in the second match.

The current squad is made up of more than 30 players and is under the direction of new coach Lindsay Harris.

Lindsay played more than 100 games for Auckland and was a member of the coaching staff for the Blues

development squad.

“He’s had to adapt his style to coach at a district club level, but the team is grasping his tactics well,” Patrick says.

The team’s best performance so far this season was in round three when they beat Whangaruru 29-24.

“The boys really stepped up on defence in that match and took their chances on attack.

“Attacking manoeuvres in the back line are still something we need to work on though.”

The team’s goal is to win the south zone championship, which would see them play off against the top teams from the north zone.

“The north zone has some tough teams in it so the play-offs will definitely be a challenge, as we won’t get a chance to play them before then.”

Patrick says if the Tomarata Seniors win, they will have to turn down promotion to the Premier grade because they don’t have the numbers to form the required second team.

A roundup of activities and events in thedisTRicT district a Roundup ofsports spoRTs acTiviTies in THe Greenskeeper wanted The Mahurangi East Bowling Club is looking for a new greenskeeper to maintain a Cotula grass green. Growsafe and approved handler certificates preferred, applications to the Mahurangi East Bowling Club, Po Box 108, Snells Beach 0920.

Info: Peter 425 6663 Kaiwaka basketball module Kaiwaka basketball module at the Kaiwaka Sports Complex starts May 24. $100 per team, 14 players per team.

Info: kaiwakasports@gmail.com Mahurangi junior rugby Come and support the Mahurangi RFC as junior rugby kicks off at the Warkworth Showgrounds on May 6, 9am onwards.

Warkworth football Warkworth A.F.C. is looking for parents to help with grades 4 to 6 running trainings and attending games. Little experience required.

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Both coaches praised their sides’ defensive efforts in a nail-biting Murray Jones Shield clash.

Single try separates closely-matched college First teams “We want every player to have the ability to be an option on attack and help out at the ruck where Mahurangi got the better of us. We’ve also tried to build a better relationship between our first and second team by having combined trainings this year.”

Orewa also enjoyed a win in their first pre-season match, beating One Tree Hill 33-21 with a performance that exceeded expectation.

Jon Blyth says injuries continue to be Mahurangi’s biggest challenge due to the size of the school roll.

The team’s goal in the North Harbour 1B Championship this year is to make the play-offs and win, provided the regular starters are fit to play.

Second XV coach.

Jon says both Mahurangi teams trained together last year so the transition was smooth, with Terrence keeping many of the same systems in place.

“We have a strong team this year with 10 returning players, including a big front row and and physical locks.”

This quality was evident in their 1312 pre-season win over Mt Roskill First XV, with Kade Banks kicking the vital penalty to claim the team’s first Mt Roskill Exchange victory in eight years.

Meanwhile, Orewa’s Adam Wilson is working with a relatively new squad with a focus on team handling skills and culture.

after a yellow card,” he says.

Jon says Mahurangi probably had more opportunities overall, but rushed things too much and subsequently couldn’t execute the final blow on numerous occasions.

Early in the game, Mahurangi had a penalty, but captain Jacob Bindon opted to kick for touch before losing the lineout.

“I’m glad he made that decision. He wanted to make a statement early on, but Orewa dominated the lineouts so that’s something we definitely need to work on.”

Both teams have new head coaches this year, with Terrence Banks stepping up from his role as Mahurangi College

A converted try was the only score when Orewa College First XV beat Mahurangi College First XV 7-0 in the annual Murray Jones Shield clash held at Orewa College on April 11.

Mahurangi First XV assistant coach Jon Blyth says nothing could set the two sides apart for the majority of the game with a half time score of 0-0.

“It was going to come down to which team made a crucial mistake and we missed an important tackle,” he says.

Orewa First XV head coach Adam Wilson says the visitors were stronger early on with good turnover ball from the breakdown.

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Warkworth RSA Live Bands every Friday night, no cover charge 5 th M ay

5 Warkworth Music Concert, The Jac jazz ensemble, Matakana Hall, 7.30pm to 10pm. Info: warkworthmusic.org.nz 6 Open day on SH1 link to Matakana Road, Mahurangi Rugby Club, A&P Showgrounds, 10am to 2pm

6 Free community ukulele lesson with Dianne Morgan, Mahurangi East Library. All ages welcome, BYO uke if you have one, or borrow when you’re there. 10.30am 6 Whangateau Acoustic Music and Social Club presents Australian country stars Col Finlay & Will Day, supported by the Pipi Pickers, Whangateau Hall, 7.30pm

7 Weed Amnesty, Warkworth Showgrounds,10am and 2pm.

Disposal of all invasive pest plants like agapanthus, woolly nightshade and wattles. No commercial business. Info: warkworthweeds@gmail.com or 021 137 9035

8 Snells Beach Garden Circle meeting, Mahurangi East Community Centre, at 1.30pm. Speaker, sales table, competition entries and afternoon tea. Info: Barbara 425 5371 8 Warkworth branch of Genealogy Society NZ meeting, Shoesmith Hall, 9.45am to 12.30pm. Topic how to file researched information. Info: Helen 422 3486

8 Springboard Become a Youth Mentor information night, 7.30pm-8.30pm, Jungle Bar, The Bridgehouse

8, 22 & 29 Beading demonstration, North Rodney Community Arts, Alnwick Street Club Rooms (next to Town Hall), 9am-12 noon. Info: Bookings, Mona Townson 425 6121 or mona@xtra. co.nz 12 Business women’s networking event, Ascension Wine Estate, 6.30pm (see story p )

14 Wellsford Country Music Club, Wellsford Community Centre, 1.30pm. Visitors welcome. Info: Iris Moraghan 439 4347 or 027 8848280

15 Upcycled demonstration, North Rodney Community Arts, Alnwick Street Club Rooms (next to Town Hall), 9am-12 noon

17 Albert Rd Boutique, Mahurangi Kindergarten presents new and pre-loved clothes at great prices, along with raffles and more, 7pm. Tickets $10, ph 425 7096 18 Warkworth Forest & Bird, Winter Talk on Predator Free

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Warkworth hopes still high despite tough start The Warkworth Men’s first team is still looking to compete for a top four spot in the NFF Men’s Conference football competition, despite losing their first three matches of the season.

Team manager Cam Gray says the first game of the regular season, a 5-1 loss to Lynn Avon AFC, took the team by surprise.

“We can never get the entire first team together for the pre-season, so our first few regular season matches are always a tester for us,” he says.

“It puts us on the back foot to start with so the next few games are very important, but there is still plenty of time left to go in the season.”

The team had a closer second outing, losing 1-0 to Beachlands Maraetai, before being dispatched by South Auckland Rangers at home 7-0.

“We played good football in the second game and just couldn’t finish, and then South Auckland just outclassed us.

“The foundation for a good side and the potential is there, we just need to get the execution right.”

Cam isn’t too worried about the formation they play in, which has varied between matches, but believes getting the right 11 players on the pitch to start with is key.

He says one positive so far has been the introduction of more young players to the first team environment, something he highlighted as a goal at the end of last season.

“We had more 17th grade players turn up to senior training at the start of the

Goals have been few and far between for the Warkworth Men’s First team so far, something they hope to change.

season and, even though they aren’t ready for men’s football yet, they have been exposed to the quality they will need in future.”

Two young players who did make the men’s team are Sam Stephens, who proved to be a talent last season, and Mats Beckmann from Germany who joined this year.

The team has also welcomed back former Warkworth player and centre back Gareth Southcombe, who has taken over the captaincy from Rob

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Cam says another positive is a better relationship between the first team and reserve team, who share players to cover positions as necessary.

The reserves have enjoyed a better start to their season, drawing two matches and beating South Auckland Reserves 4-1.

Team manager Ross Miller says they’ve got a stronger side this year that consistently attends training.

“There are no weak links in the team this year and so far we’ve played consistently well each week, which was a goal for us,” he says.

“Ultimately we want to win the competition and I’m feeling confident that we can do that at this stage.”

Ross says their biggest challenge in future weeks will be maintaining good discipline and keeping players injury free, to make sure the best possible team can be fielded in every match.

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