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Controversial targeted rate passed The Rodney Local Board has approved the introduction of a targeted rate for transport improvements in Rodney after voting in favour of the proposal 6-3, despite the majority of public submissions on the proposal being against the idea.

If approved by Auckland Council, the measure will cost ratepayers an

additional $150 per dwelling each year.

The targeted rate, which will be in place for 10 years, is expected to fund $46 million of transport improvements exclusively in Rodney.

Money raised will focus on public transport and footpath improvements, assuming that an additional $85 million allocated to road sealing in

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Targeted rate for transport “I didn’t stand for the Local Board to warm a seat for a few terms, I want to see things happen.”

Mr Pirrie said the targeted rate would bring forward spending on important transport infrastructure and turn around decades of under-investment.

Assuming there were no road sealing changes in the RLTP, the targeted rate would fund a Warkworth park and ride, and new bus services in Wellsford, Huapai, Riverhead, Helensville and Huapai.

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programme would integrate with the public transport network by providing improved links to bus stops and other public transport interchanges.

Board members opposing the targeted rate were Colin Smith, Brenda Steele and Allison Roe. Mr Smith said councils had a poor record with targeted rates, with promised benefits never being delivered.

Although representing the Wellsford subdivision, Mr Smith was scathing of the idea of a Wellsford to Warkworth bus service, saying there was not

the population to justify the cost of providing it.

Meanwhile, Ms Roe said ratepayers were already burdened with high transport taxes, including a national fuel tax, a proposed regional fuel tax and soaring petrol prices.

“The timing for a targeted transport rate could not be worse,” she said.

Forty-three per cent of public submissions on the targeted rate were against it, 36 per cent supported it and 21 per cent partially supported the proposal.

Former Rodney CEO given marching orders Former Rodney District Council chief executive Rodger Kerr-Newell, who is under investigation by the West Australian Corruption and Crime Commission, has been sacked as chief executive of Halls Creek Shire Council.

The termination comes in the wake of the commission’s investigation into allegations relating to the disclosure and management of conflicts of interest, the misuse of leave entitlements and the mismanagement of procurement processes.

Shire president Malcolm Edwards did not respond to calls or emails from Mahurangi Matters, but the broadcaster ABC Kimberley understands that the council refused to accept Mr KerrNewell’s resignation, instead opting to terminate his contract.

Mr Kerr-Newell faced a day-and-ahalf of questioning by the commission

in late April, which was live-streamed online. During the examination, he was asked about the appointment of his NZ girlfriend, Bronwyn Little, to a strategic planning position he created, the procedure for letting a council tender for six new vehicles and his accrual of more than 600 hours of annual leave after claiming time-in-lieu that he was not entitled to in his contract.

The commission also examined his use of council time and resources to carry out work for NZ Windfarms, a company that he chairs.

Before moving to Australia, Mr KerrNewell worked for Hutt City, New Plymouth District Council and finally, Rodney. He ran a private consultancy company before taking up the position of chief executive at Halls Creek Shire four years ago.

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Rodney principals frustrated as teacher shortage crisis worsens Principals in Rodney say the current teaching shortage in Auckland is the worst in their careers and the education sector is reaching a crisis point.

Auckland Secondary Schools Principals’ Association president James Thomas believes that if major reforms aren’t implemented quickly, there could be a shortage of between 2000 and 3000 teachers across Auckland sometime within the next five years.

This could mean class sizes double to between 40 and 50 students and a number of specialist subjects cut from school curriculums, which has already occurred at some schools.

“It’s a problem that’s gradually worsening,” Mr Thomas says. “We’re facing an ageing teaching population and fewer graduates.”

In recent years, nearly half of all graduates have left the profession within the first five years and the average age of a secondary school teacher is now 58.

Rodney College principal Irene Symes says this is a problem that has been more than 20 years in the making. She says a lack of affordable living in Auckland, coupled with poor pay and increased workloads, has made the issue inevitable.

“Initially, cheaper house prices made Wellsford desirable for teachers, but I lost one staff member last year who went to live in Martin because, as the only earner in the family, he couldn’t afford to live locally,” she says.

The starting pay for a teacher with a four-year Bachelor of Education degree is $51,200 and the maximum pay cheque for a specialist teacher is $78,000.

“The pay increase in teaching has fallen a long way behind other professions and is now grossly below what is required to attract new teachers.

“Roll growth means Rodney College will need more teachers next year and I am worried about where I’m going to find them.”

Mahurangi College principal David Macleod has also felt the pinch. He says teacher recruitment is the hardest it’s been in his 22 years’ experience.

“For only the second time ever, I have had to use a recruiting agency to hire three staff members,” Mr Macleod says.

Of the 13 new teachers at the school this year, seven are from overseas and one has returned from an international school. To try to avoid another desperate scramble for staff next year, two teachers have been hired already, both from overseas.

“We have a serious problem getting suitable teachers, particularly for specialist subjects like science and maths.

“A job six years ago would have attracted around 80 applicants, whereas now we get around 10, and of those, two are likely to be from NZ and many do not have the required skill set.”

There is also a shortage of relief teachers and teacher aides. As a result, Wellsford School principal Dave Bradley has been forced to combine classes and utilise teachers during time set aside for administrative tasks.

“In the last 12 months, I’ve had multiple times where there was no reliever to fill the gap,” Mr Bradley says.

“An increase in the cost of staying registered has unintentionally deterred a number of relief staff from remaining in the profession.”

Auckland Primary Principals’ Association president Helen Varney says teacher aides are required more than ever to help teachers cope with increasing workloads.

“Teaching involves so much more than it used to, with staff having to deal with the health and wellbeing of students now, and other personal needs,” Ms Varney says.

Ten years ago, her own school, Target Road on the North Shore, identified just two per cent of students with special needs or behavioural problems. That figure is now around 25 per cent. Plus, about 20 per cent of students spoke English as a second language.

That figure is now closer to 50 per cent.

“What teachers are required to do has increased enormously, but their pay doesn’t reflect that.”

Both the secondary and primary school associations have met with Ministry of Education staff and say they are working towards a solution on the shortage.

“The budget hasn’t solved the problem,” Mr Thomas says. “The future of the profession will be hugely influenced by the teacher pay increase to be announced later this year.”

The Government last year announced it would spend $9.5 million to address teacher shortages and committed a further $2 million to fund 35 extra places in the Teach First NZ programme.

The Teacher Education Refresher Programme will also assist 500 teachers to renew their practising certificates and the budget recognised $370 million to fund 1500 new teacher places by 2021.

New Zealand First MP Jenny Marcroft says the Government has acknowledged the budget is a good start, rather than a final solution.

“The Education Minister is committed to increasing pay for teachers and funding has been set aside for bargaining,” Ms Marcroft says.

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Fundraise while you shop at online store A new online store that donates a percentage of all its profits to community charities and good causes has been set up by a Warkworth marketing and advertising agent.

GIVT – or Gifts That Give Back – is the brainchild of Grant Henderson of Free Range Media, who wanted to find a way to put retail profits back into community groups, charities and clubs.

“My wife’s on the PTA at Warkworth School and I know how much effort goes into fundraising by a small number of people,” he says. “So I thought of this idea of passive fundraising through an online store.”

With a background in international web development that includes setting up internet shopping for Australian department store David Jones and online ticketing for Jetstar, it wasn’t too long before Grant came up with the GIVT website.

It features around 100 diverse items for babies, kids, men, women and the home, from wooden toothbrushes and watches through to fitness gear and fairy lights, with an emphasis on sustainability.

“I’ve been looking for products that I think are contemporary and appealing, a lot of eco-friendly stuff, and products that are harder to get up here,” Grant says.

He sources items wholesale, checks samples for quality, discusses a reasonable retail price with the supplier and builds in GST and shipping costs.

Then, when an item is sold on GIVT, 80 per cent of the profit goes to the community and 20 per cent to cover the cost of running and promoting the site.

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Clarity on transport I would like to clarify a few of the statements made by Councillor Greg Sayers in the article Mahurangi wins big under Land Transport Plan (MM May 16). It is great news that the planning that Auckland Council and Auckland Transport have completed over the last three years is now appearing as dollar figures in longterm budgets, but it needs to be pointed out that some of this is effectively “placeholder”, residential growthrelated projects, in a 10-year budget. For example, the $51 million for the Sandspit Road realignment is entirely related to land release and subsequent development, which could be decades away. Ditto the $15 million Park and Ride and $68 million Western Collector – these things will happen sometime in the future, but this budget doesn’t tell us when.

Matakana Link Road was announced in 2016, so that was already known and budgeted for. Likewise, the $800 million of central government-funded SH1 improvements are already under construction. We can’t keep claiming every year that something already underway is a “notable gain”, when it’s old news. The increase in Local Board Transport capital funding has been under discussion between Auckland Transport, local boards and their chairs for over a year, and is completely unrelated to any activities of our Councillor. If any credit is due,

it’s to our hardworking Rodney Local Board chair, Beth Houlbrooke. The really big potential win for Rodney is in the area of increases in road safety funding (not to be confused with Health & Safety which is quite different and relates to workplace safety), and a proposed $85 million boost to sealing gravel roads. These could see dramatic improvements in Rodney, however they are completely dependent on the Regional Fuel Tax being approved. I’ll be watching to see if our Councillor will back up his call to the Mayor last year for a Regional Fuel Tax by voting to support it and the subsequent funding for our rural roads.

Phelan Pirrie, Deputy Chair Rodney Local Board

Councillor bunkum Let’s clear this up. The Auckland Regional Land Transport Plan (RLTP) has been enlivened not because of the effort by any individual local government representation but by the change of Government, and an enlightened reassessment of transport policy and funding in Auckland. As on other occasions, the self-described “Voice of Rodney”, Cr Greg Sayers, is tireless at least in one respect – selfpromotion. In this case, he displays a garrulous disregard for the fact that nothing he nor any other politician from Rodney has done regarding the RLTP has influenced it one jot.

It is unfortunate – but fair to say – that one result of Rodney’s chequered past in local government is a diminished influence within the Council’s key corridors of power. If Cr Sayers wishes to claim credit for the years of work done by private and public transport lobbyists in greater Auckland, that is his prerogative. However, the rest of us might as well believe that when the sun rises over Great Barrier tomorrow, it’s because the “Voice of Rodney” has been diligently at work again.

Brent Morrissey, Te Arai

Congratulations Greg I congratulate Cr Greg Sayers for standing up on behalf of ratepayers (Ditch targeted rate, says Sayers – MM May 16). Why should we pay more if Auckland Council can’t cut its costs first? Somebody has to hold the line for us and he is doing the right thing.

Alan Kendall, Snells Beach

Of pianos and paint Ah, here comes the nine-twenty shuttle from Matakana, and even better, I see Gary behind the wheel for my prerequested pick up. I know you see, that on the midday return trip from Warkworth, Gary is one driver who won’t allow me to cross busy Sharp Road on foot, but will instead make a right-hand turn, deposit me onto my driveway, then reverse back out. For the partially blind, such as myself, this is a most appreciated gesture.

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Soon, with the shuttle now parked at Warkworth’s bus shelter, I set off on preordained visits to various shops – a bank, a copying service and last, but heaven forbid not least, a cafe.

A half-hour later, with only two more scheduled stops and time left to kill, I settle down for an extended coffee break, complete, I know you’ll be clamouring to learn, with a slice of cheesecake. Eventually back on the street, I pause to converse with a friendly German Shepherd and her equally friendly minders, then, at my last port of call, enter a paint shop for some undercoat-primer. I’d estimated a litre should suffice, but when informed of a cheaper brand now in stock, I extravagantly ask for two litres. It’d been more than 10 years since my last paint purchase, and I’d neglected to factor inflation into my subsequent and, as it proved, wildly optimistic price expectations. The sale completed, I dazedly look for the chauffeured limo, or at the very least Champagne, sure to be laid on for a transaction of such magnitude, but must be content with the proffered plastic carrier bag. I shudder at how perilously close I’d come to insisting that only the more expensive, topof-the-line brand would do for my plywood tool shed.

The time, I’m obligingly informed by a passing pedestrian, is 11 o’clock, which leaves a whole hour to be whiled away before the shuttle’s scheduled return trip. And so I dawdle off down the street, browse in shops whose wares hold little or no attraction, waste attendants’ time and hopes with feigned interest until, down at the clock tower, I find my determined time-frittering efforts netted a paltry fifteen minutes only. Outside the Information Centre, late morning sunlight warms a bench seat, so that’s where I sit to rest awhile, and in time, puzzle at the function of a nearby, glossy white structure. A closer shortsighted scrutiny reveals, I kid you not, a piano. A piano, I mean, now come, on, how many pedestrians hurrying about their lawful business will continued next page

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suddenly shriek, “Oh goody, look a piano, I must go and belt out a medley of old favourites.” Believe me, with 78 years of accumulated experience, I do have a pretty good handle on such things, so sadly shake my head at this undoubtedly well-intentioned folly, and amble down to the bus stop.

I arrive to find a fellow would-be shuttle traveller waiting, book on lap, backpack slung into a corner. Soon bored, I push my carrier bag and precious contents out of sight behind the backpack – can’t be too careful – then walk back to check the tower clock’s hands for belated movement.

The first strains of sweet music reach my ears while still some distance from the rendezvous, and on drawing nearer, I discover the melodic notes are coming from, yes that’s right, the “it’ll never get played” piano. I re-occupy my recently vacated seat just as the pianist, a young Asian lady, stands to close the white painted lid. I applaud then complain, “You can’t stop now, I’ve only just got here.” She shrugs into the straps of her backpack, favours me with a shy smile and “thank you”, then in the blink of an eye is gone, lost amongst other anonymous Baxter Street pedestrians.

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General project update gathered during my absence, and to one, an acquaintance, I tell of the mystery pianist, and, to my untrained ear anyway, her most accomplished playing. The others it seems overhear, for in no time these apparent strangers to one another add their pennies’ worth, cite favourite musicians and expound on music in general. I’m not sure how much time elapses before Gary and the waiting shuttle are first noticed, before we silently file into our private spaces and equally private worlds, strangers again. Which, on reflection may have been just as well, the final bus shelter debate, on who were the better band, the Beatles or the Bee Gees, could’ve turned nasty.

Afterword – Since putting pen to paper I’m authoritatively informed that (a) the price for my paint was a competitive one, that (b) the piano is well patronised, that (c) the Lions Club piano initiative is a widely acclaimed success, and (d) what the hell would a grumpy old bugger like me know anyway?

The project’s first earthworks season officially finished at the end of April and despite the challenging weather conditions experienced this summer, we moved over one million cubic meters of material.

During May the project teams started to wind down into winter works.

This means we are now working in a reduced capacity, however you will still see machinery and people working across the site. Working through the winter allows us to continue with critical works, to be ready for the 2018/2019 earthworks season, where we plan to move four million cubic meters of material.

Following on from my last column around supporting the local community, we will be asking local builders and contractors to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) to design and build an operation and maintenance building as part of the Pūhoi to Warkworth motorway project. Keep an eye out in the local classifieds.

Bob Sharp, Sandspit

I would like to take this opportunity to advise you of a change in the hours and process for the Project Information Centre, at 45 Wyllie Road, Warkworth. The information centre remains open Monday to Friday during working hours and manned by the Stakeholder and Communications team at set times during the week – Tuesday 9am to 12pm, and Thursday 1pm to 4pm. From the first of June, if you would like to visit us on the weekend we will now be open on the first Saturday of the month by pre-booked appointments only. To book a time please contact the team on freephone 0508 P2WK INFO (0508 7295 4636) or email us at info@nx2group.com

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In a story about the revitalisation of Brick Bay walking tracks (MM May 16), the new contractor for the area was wrongly identified as Rhodes for Roads. The contractor is, in fact, UMS.

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Putting the ‘dump’ back into dumpster Dog walkers are always being urged to bag and bin their pooches’ poos, but it seems some at Omaha Beach have been a bit lax in choosing the right receptacle for their dogs’ end product.

This heartfelt plea from builders was spotted where the footpath borders a construction site – complete with large skip in the driveway – at the southern end of the beach.

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Once a fortnight, Owen Mansill sends a card to American convict he has never met.

Warkworth man campaigns for US justice Every couple of weeks, Warkworth agri-business consultant Owen Mansill sends a postcard to a man languishing in a US prison for 43 years.

Ronnie Long was convicted of rape when he was 20 and has been incarcerated ever since.

But Owen, along with campaigners elsewhere around the world, are convinced Ronnie is innocent.

Owen got interested in the case after hearing about it from Joel Harlow – a Texan bank manager.

Owen first met Joel while setting up a New Zealand-style, grass-based dairy farm in north-east Texas.

Joel provided loans to fund the farming venture and he and Owen became firm friends.

When Owen returned to New Zealand, he learned about Ronnie

Long from Joel’s Facebook posts.

When Joel first read about the case, something about it convinced him that it required further investigation.

He drove 1000 miles to North Carolina and began researching the case in a local library.

He discovered that Ronnie did not match the description of the complainant (who has since died), there was no forensic evidence linking Ronnie to the crime and the detective in charge of the case was subsequently imprisoned for perjury.

Concerns that a miscarriage of justice had occurred led to the establishment of the Free Ronnie Long Facebook Page (facebook.com/FreeRonnieLong) to advocate for his release.

Inspired by Joel’s passion, Owen began sending regular postcards to

Ronnie, unsure if they would reach him, but determined to give Ronnie any encouragement that he could.

Joel has since contacted Owen saying Ronnie is indeed receiving the cards and is overwhelmed that somebody on the other side of the world cares for him.

Owen puts his concern down to his passion for justice.

“This man is a good man and has had his freedom taken away for 43 years.

Even if he had committed the crime, where else would he be put away for that long?” he asks.

Owen hopes others in Warkworth will visit the Free Ronnie Long Facebook Page and take an interest in Ronnie being released.

“I’d love to say that in this town – thousands of miles away – people believe in justice,” he says.

The long wait to find out where the proceeds from the failed Araparera forestry project will be spent might finally be over.

The joint venture between Auckland Council and Ngati Whatua O Kaipara wound up three years ago, but as yet not one cent of Council’s $2.5 million share has been spent on the promised road improvements.

No reason has been given for the long delay in releasing the money, but an Auckland Transport (AT) spokesperson says a report will be presented to a Rodney Local Board meeting in June.

“It will be based on discussions between the Board and AT held over the past couple of years,” he says.

“We expect the Board will make any announcements about projects.”

Around 7000 properties in Rodney’s former northern riding paid a targeted rate for 28 years to fund the joint venture, which involved a forestry project on 200 hectares on the Kaipara.

The promise was that the proceeds would be spent on roads in the north.

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Dithering over dieback Kauri dieback disease is a national crisis and a real threat to our region, and one that is largely ignored. In Rodney, we are home to the largest kauri tree on the east coast. With a girth of more than seven metres and estimated to be more than 800 years old, the McKinney kauri is located (in case you are new to the area) at the Parry Kauri Park in Warkworth. Kauri are a unique natural taonga. To have such a magnificent tree that you can literally hug, as there is no barrier around it, is one of the many draw cards for locals and visitors to our slice of paradise.

With the recent closure of the Waitakere Ranges, tour operators are seeking new locations to provide visitors with a kauri bush experience. As a result, we are seeing an increase in foot traffic at Parry Kauri Park. I would like to acknowledge our local heroes, the Kauri & Native Bushmen’s Association. This volunteer organisation has been successful in securing funding and assistance from Auckland Council and Forest & Bird to install two walk-through cleaning stations. There are three entrances to the park, so it is important that an additional cleaning station is installed urgently in an effort to limit the possibility of this deadly pathogen killing our small but significant kauri forest.

Currently, the Environment Select Committee is undertaking a series of briefings on the Government’s kauri dieback programme, administered by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI). After hearing from several organisations, including the Department of Conservation, Forest & Bird, local iwi and Auckland Council, I was surprised to find out that there has been no plan put in place to protect Parry Kauri Park, apart from the good work being done by our aforementioned kauri ambassadors.

I am working with the Minister of Conservation, Eugenie Sage, who has been in contact with Mayor Phil Goff to highlight my concerns. My latest communication from the Mayor’s office is that as resources become available, they will continue to support the Kauri Bushmen to protect our park from kauri dieback.

Ten years and $26.5 million later, there’s been very little progress in controlling this pathogen. Those on the front line say that there has been a breakdown in communication and frustration with the Ministry for Primary Industriesrun programme. Why has there been no aerial surveillance nine years after the programme commenced? What spreads kauri dieback? What vector research is underway? When will treatment to kill the disease be available?

I am encouraged that the new leadership at MPI is currently developing a more aggressive strategy and is now taking this biosecurity threat very seriously.

However, there is a role for all of us to play if we visit the park or any forest, and that is to vigilantly and diligently use the cleaning stations and encourage others to do so as well.

Motorway millions mounting The Government has spent just over $26 million to date on the Warkworth to Wellsford motorway project, according to figures released to Mahurangi Matters under the Official Information Act. A further $5 million is in the pipeline for investigation work, despite uncertainty about the road’s future.

The costs cover specialist consultants of $3.2 million and property acquisition of $9.4 million. Communications, indicative route work, detailed business case, pre-implementation and programme management swallowed up the balance of spending.

The Road of National Significance, proposed by the former National government, started in 2012.

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Agency deferred the release of an indicative route to the public in February this year, after the Labour government changed its transport project priorities.

The indicative route is forecast to save about seven minutes for general traffic and 10 minutes for freight between Te Hana and Warkworth. It will also remove around 90 per cent of through traffic from Wellsford’s main street.

Three interchanges are proposed along the route – one at the northern end of the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway, the second at Wayby Valley Road and the third at Mangawhai Road.

A final decision on the future of the motorway project is expected to be known when the National Land Transport Plan is released on August 31.

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Guitarist Danny Crocome has become a familiar face in Mahurangi, playing folk, pop, classical and jazz music at every conceivable venue and, through his teaching, guiding many local children towards mastery of the instrument. He spoke to James Addis about his own musical journey …

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always loved music. My earliest memories are musical. Puttin’ on the Ritz is a song that sticks in my mind.

And I remember being deeply affected

by Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. We had an old record of it and I remember the cover – a town’s twinkling night time lights against the backdrop of a hill. That union of imagery and music was kind of intriguing to me. My enduring memory of being a six-yearold is singing a Bon Jovi song with my classmates. It was Livin’ on a Prayer. started playing keyboard when I was eight and from there made a logical progression to piano. We had a piano in the family that was my Nana’s, my Mum’s and then it became mine. I still have it but it’s beyond tuning now.

The last guy who got to tune it said the springs are too precarious, they could explode if you twisted them any further. I would not say I was a natural pianist, but I did enjoy playing film and TV theme tunes like MacGyver and EastEnders. All the same, the music I really loved to listen to was guitar music hen I was about eight or nine, I started collecting records of rock bands like Guns N’ Roses and Aerosmith. Heavy rock was popular at the time and I loved it, even if my Mum didn’t. It was ironic really, because I was listening to one kind of music but learning a different kind of music on the piano. Then for a time I wanted to play drums because I had a friend from church who was an amazing drummer. I was gently steered out of that by my parents. We had an old guitar lying around the house that had been my sister’s but she had lost interest. I don’t know why I had not played it before, but I decided to give it a go. By then I was 14. hat was a turning point for me. I stopped doing my piano practise because every waking moment it was just guitar, guitar guitar. My teachers were dismayed. “He has the capacity to do well but spends most of his time playing the guitar,” one report read. But the guitar, and singing along with it, opened doors for me. I was quite shy as a teenager. I could not do speeches, I found it hard to chat to girls, but I could get up and sing and play in front of everybody. During my seventh form

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at Long Bay College, I would do daily performances at lunchtime and found my niche. The guitar also helped me bond with my Dad who would give suggestions on who to listen to – blues musicians like Eric Clapton and Gary Moore.

When Eric’s Unplugged album came out, I got the music book for it and learned to play it all. fter school, I took a year off study, but found work teaching guitar around various schools.

I was greatly influenced in my teaching style by my classroom music teacher, Paul Bryce. He was very knowledgeable but he also had a wicked sense of humour. I realised kids learn best when you inject some humour. After the gap year, I started a Bachelor of Music Education degree at Auckland University with the aim of becoming a secondary school music teacher. I got the chance to study jazz guitar with Martin Winch and songwriting with Don McGlashan of The Mutton Birds.

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round this time, I had formed a band called Mime with some friends. We rehearsed regularly and performed all over the place. We did some covers but mostly played original material, which I wrote, much of it under Don’s mentorship. But I realised there were downsides to becoming a working musician. I remember playing “five for five” gigs, where a punter would pay five bucks and get to see five bands. The bands would draw straws to see when each would play.

If you drew the last one, you might not start playing until after midnight.

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Enough, which received airplay in the UK and Pin, which got radio play in the US. n 2014, my family moved to Warkworth.

Everything was getting busier and busier. My wife and I wanted to slow down a bit, put some roots down for the kids and ensure they had a backyard to play in. At the same time, Sam moved to Devonport and, unfortunately, we have not made the effort to keep playing together. It’s a shame because we played beautifully together, but we will team up again one day I’m sure. n other ways, Warkworth has worked out great. My wife and I are both heavily involved in Warkworth Primary School, where we both teach. I’m getting invitations to play regularly at local venues, school galas, weddings and libraries. And, of course, I continue to teach. love teaching. To be able to unlock the potential in someone is hugely rewarding. I’ve got a teenager now who is playing a Metallica song called Master of Puppets, which is performed at breakneck speed and is incredibly complicated. I said to him, “Look, in every college there’s always one kid who can play that tune.” And now he’s that kid. But I can remember when he was struggling to play a few basic chords. Even the little moments are super-rewarding. The little milestones.

You see an eight-year-old playing his first few notes and he struggles at first, but then starts to get them down, and they are coming through clean and clear. And you see the delight in his face. You see him saying to himself: “I’m doing it, I’m doing it!”

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crafted songs to three people who were all drunk. This wasn’t ideal. It wasn’t all bad, though. I was playing guitar at a house party in Greenhithe and impressed a beautiful girl called Kirstin. We married in 2009 and now have two gorgeous girls. y then I had graduated from university but had decided regular classroom teaching was not for me.

Instead, I was an itinerant guitar tutor at various schools and also taught privately. In 2010, I formed another band, Bluebird Avenue, with another guitarist Sam Ogilvie. My musical tastes were evolving. I disliked playing with drums because it forced you to play loud and by this stage I’d given up on electric and was focusing on acoustic guitar. am and I recorded a number of tracks that we put on Soundcloud – a free online music distribution platform. We did a song called Beach House – a pop, Beatle-like sounding track – which was about my motherin-law’s caravan in Mangawhai. Some influential music bloggers in the States began writing about it and the number of listens went up like crazy. At one point, it became Soundclouder Track of the Day, so you could say it’s my biggest hit. There was no money in it, but it was wicked knowing the song was getting heard around the world.

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The One Warkworth Business Association has seen a future in the Warkworth i-SITE, after becoming a part owner of it with Matakana Coast Tourism (MCT) on May 1.

A three-year grant from Auckland Tourism Events and Economic Development came to an end for the tourism store in March and the permanent staff left.

Former Rodney councillor Penny Webster took over the role of MCT chair last year and saw an immediate need for collaboration over the i-SITE. “I saw that One Warkworth was doing really well so I decided it would be a great idea to work together on the i-SITE, which will benefit both organisations,” Penny says.

Both Penny and One Warkworth manager Murray Chapman say that no radical changes will be made to the shop itself, but some subtle ones will be made to make it more financially viable.

“We will stock some more popular items that turn

over revenue for the store, but make sure we keep the local goods as well,” Murray says.

“We are also looking at how we can change commission rates on bookings and have a One Warkworth database in store for people seeking, say, a plumber or accountant.”

He acknowledges there are challenges to face, but is positive about the move.

“Turning this around to at least break-even will be the up-front challenge we face. Part of making that happen is ensuring we have a good volunteer base.

“We’re confident that this is a great opportunity to promote local businesses and activities, though.”

Penny says without the collaboration, the i-SITE would have remained, but the services it offered may have changed.

Murray has relocated his office to the i-SITE building and will help fulltime staff member Asher McLanachan run the operation.

Locally

Transport issues dominated feedback on the Rodney Local Board priorities for 2018/19.

Altogether, almost 1800 written submissions were received by the time consultation closed at the end of March. The Board put forward five priorities – the development of a masterplan for the future reserve at Green Road in Dairy Flat ($55,000), contributing to the design of a multisport building at the Warkworth Showgrounds ($150,000), an indoor court facility at Huapai Domain, a single open space management plan ($80,000) and a transport targeted rate (see story page 1).

Transport concerns focused on congestion and travel times on State Highway 16 and at Hill Street, the general lack of public transport throughout Rodney, and the need to seal gravel roads.

There was also a perception that Auckland Council could not keep up with growth and address growth related issues, most notably traffic congestion, but also a lack of local services and facilities, and infrastructure that is no longer fit for purpose.

A lot of submitters felt Council continued to focus on the CBD and did not provide enough services or spending in smaller towns, mainly Wellsford and Helensville, but also Kaukapakapa, Omaha and Matakana. There was frequent reference to feeling “forgotten”.

After considering the submissions, the Board confirmed that its main advocacy project in 2018/19 would be a local indoor courts facility on the Huapai Domain. It expects to contribute $1 million if Council funds the remaining $12.5 million.

The Board will also advocate for more funding for greenways in Rodney, more equitable funding across Auckland for art centres and community facilities, and more funding for compliance monitoring and enforcement. It also wants Council to spend more on drainage in Rodney.

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Kay Aspden (right) had accepted the fact that she wouldn’t put her ring of 56 years, from husband Gordon, on her hand again.

Champion Bakery worker Parmjit Singh is starting to think finding valuable items at work could become a regular happening.

The bakery is used to this exercise, finding about one lost item each week, and holds on to it for a week before handing it over to the Wellsford Police Station if it’s not collected.

This time, the owner of the ring, Orewa resident Kay Aspden, had left a description of the ring with the police station whose staff made the connection and informed her on May 16.

“I got back home after a trip from Kerikeri and realised the ring was missing, so contacted the station as the bakery was the only place we had stopped,” Kay says.

“I was ecstatic when I received the call after a week of silence, I had presumed my ring of 56 years was gone forever.”

Her husband, Gordon Aspden, proposed to her with the ring in an Auckland carpark before boarding a boat. He was in the merchant navy at the time.

“We joked he could propose to me again, but he doesn’t think he would be able to get back up off one knee this time.

“I’m certainly never taking it off again!”

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Wellsford’s Champion Bakery staff member Parmjit Singh has made a habit of returning valuable items to their owners, after finding a platinum engagement ring this month.

Last year, he discovered and successfully returned a bag containing $10,000 cash to a South Korean tourist, then he discovered the ring, containing six diamonds, on May 7.

“We often see coins dropped by customers on the floor, but this time I realised it was a ring on the ground and handed it to my boss to store safely,” Parmjit says.

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Inspired by a conference talk, Mahurangi College principal David Macleod has banned the use of smartphones during class time for health reasons.

Previously, the school had a ban on phone use at all times, but made a compromise in 2014 when it introduced ‘bring your own device’.

However, since then, Mr Macleod and other staff have become concerned about how attached students are to their phones and the difficulty to spot their use under class desks.

“Listening to Dr Shimi K. Kang at a teachers conference talk about the impact of an addiction to social media content on phones was a big eyeopener and prompted my decision,” Mr Macleod says.

The new rules mean that phones must be off and put away during class time, but can be used during interval. Seven were confiscated in the first week after the policy was introduced.

“All teachers and parents supported the idea, and even the students seem to understand and accept the decision.”

Over 90 per cent of students bring a device to school. Use of tablets and laptops during class is still permitted.

“Devices are a great resource for education and, unlike phones, the bigger ones can’t be concealed under desks easily to look at non-educational material.”

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Teacher Mark Lorenzen briefs cameraman Izaac Warahi as Cooper Whitaker prepares to read the news.

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Wellsford students produce morning television news show Wellsford School students are keeping their finger on the pulse by producing their own morning television news show.

Children who turn up early before school starts help shoot, present and edit the footage. It’s then downloaded to the school server, ready for showing via video projector in every school classroom.

The emphasis on Wellsford Television (WTV) Morning News (Nga Panni O

Te Ra) is heavily on local school news and school notices, but also includes national and international news and a Wellsford weather report Teacher Mark Lorenzen, who started the service, says the original idea was simply to liven up the school notices.

“Most students weren’t getting notices relevant to them. I wanted to create a news programme that was current, recorded to a tight time frame and

that reached out to a wider audience of students across classes,” he says.

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together, along with clips from other news outlets and the weather. Inserted into the bulletin will be a question about the news of the day, intended to provoke further student learning.

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The pre-school activities footage is placed at the end of each news bulletin and Mr Lorenzen says this often proves the most popular part of the broadcast.

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Mr Lorenzen says future plans for WTV Morning News include encouraging students to take more responsibility for the entire production process.

“I am in the process of training two Year 4 students to edit the entire production videos themselves – a role these students are overwhelmingly excited about.”

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Drinkers main litter offenders A recent roadside cleanup over the Matakana/Whangaripo Hill identified drinkers of premix Bourbon and colas as the worst litter offenders.

A total of 21 bags of recycling and a truck-load of non-recyclable rubbish were removed during the event.

Cleanup organisers, Kurt Salmond and Clair McEntegart, of Gulf Eco Adventures, say it was a “real eye-opener”.

“Premix Bourbon and colas outnumbered everything else 10-1,” Clair says. “This was followed by other premix drinks, energy drinks, cola cans and hundreds of coffee cups.

There were also a lot of McDonald’s wrappers, packets and containers.

The lids on McDonald’s cups are a particular nuisance because they are made of a type of plastic that disintegrates and it’s those tiny pieces – that are almost impossible to pickup – that are of real concern when they enter the sea.

“I don’t know how we get the message through to people to keep their rubbish in their cars and trucks until they get home, and not to just throw it out the window!”

Clair says if anyone would like to help in future cleanups around Matakana and Mangawhai they should keep an eye on the Facebook page gulfecowarriors.

“What is tossed out on the side of the road inevitably ends up in the ocean so the more we can do to remove it before it gets there, the better.”

Residents on Matakana Valley, Whangaripo Valley and Pakiri Block roads, including Jesse and Mikayla Salmond, joined forces for the cleanup.

Op Shop funds distributed ahead of schedule Nine community-orientated organisations will be better off following $32,000 worth of grants distributed by the Mangawhai Opportunity Factory.

The shop opened in October last year and trustee Ken Rayward is excited to have their first round of grants distributed three months ahead of schedule.

“The success of the factory, due to generous product donations and a supportive customer base, means we have been able to give out grants sooner than expected,” Ken says.

“The organisations represent a real exciting spectrum of activities including education, sporting and recreational.”

On the grants list was the Mangawhai

Activity Zone. It will use the money to build a 250-metre multipurpose track linking activities at the park.

The Mangawhai Volunteer Fire Brigade will use its grant to help complete its station extension and the Mangawhai Tennis Club will complete two new courts, enabling it to host Tennis Northern provincial tournaments.

Other recipients were as follows: • Mangawhai Heads Volunteer Life Saving Club for a lock-up container to hold junior surf equipment.

• Mangawhai Toy Library for the purchase of a new computer and software.

• Mangawhai Community Trust for the refurbishment of the school and community gym hall to help

incorporate multipurpose events.

• Te Whai Trust for emergency food packages, family violence and drug abuse support systems.

• Mangawhai Recreational Trust for completion of a multipurpose walking and biking track linking Molesworth Drive and Cove Road.

• North Rodney Blue Light for 20 local children to attend a three-day

seamanship course and three children to attend the national Blue Light life-skills course.

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Matakana chosen for national reusable shopping trial Matakana Four Square has been chosen as one of a select number of stores to trial the use of paper and reusable plastic bags, ahead of a national move by parent company Foodstuffs to stop supplying single use plastic carrier bags in all its New World, Pak’n’Save and Four Square stores from January 1.

Owners Brad and Claire Walker are offering customers brown paper grocery bags for 20 cents and heavyduty plastic carrier bags for 30 cents.

They are also selling reusable hessian shopping bags and lighter weight recycled polypropylene bags (which feel like a cross between paper and cloth).

Brad says at this early stage in the trial, there is no strong preference for either alternative to single use bags being shown by shoppers, but they are keen to offer as many options as possible and gather feedback.

“We’re doing this trial, but it’s not just going to be Matakana,” he says. “As a community, we’ll be shaping what’s happening nationally.”

Although a lot of customers are already using reusable bags, a few customers are still showing some reluctance to pay for a shopping bag, but Brad and

Sue Brebner, right, of Sandspit, making use of Brad and Claire Walker’s new soft plastic recycling bin.

Claire say it is early days and they are trying to educate people and change their behaviour.

“The most sustainable option is hessian or jute bags and just reusing them over and over again – buy it once, then keep reusing it,” Brad says.

“That’s where we want to get people, but the plan is to have as many options as we can.”

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They say their research has found that some things are not as environmentally friendly as people might expect, like the fact that while paper bags break down relatively easily and are recyclable, it takes four times as much energy to make them as a plastic bag.

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plastic wrap – basically, any clean plastic that can be scrunched up – can be deposited. It is then recycled in Australia to make items including park benches and playground equipment.

In addition, they will be dropping all plastic bags in store for Plastic Free July, a national promotion to encourage people to refuse to use any single-use plastic in July.

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Imagining a better world A recent food symposium run by Auckland University warned of a hungry future for humanity because of our unsustainable local and global food production methods. The comfort we live with in the western world comes at the expense, or with the benefit of, significant inputs of land, fertiliser, water and energy that can’t be sustained. Short-term profits have led to long-term damage of whole planetary systems. Academics say over-production and over-consumption, since the industrial revolution in particular, have led to soil depletion, dried up and polluted freshwater and oceans, reduced biodiversity, pollinator dieoffs, and food inequity. Some in the world have too much and others have too little. By 2050, the world’s population will be nine billion, and that is a lot of hungry mouths to feed. The West’s dependence on agricultural fossil-fuel based fertilisers, and the finite nature of these resources, means meat consumption in particular needs to end, says Professor Mike Joy, of Massey University.

Speakers at the symposium discussed the potential for legislative recognition and protection of the right to food. They discussed India’s Food Security Act, which has a range of protections to ensure people have access to food and work to earn money to eat. A national food strategy was suggested as a way to engage in a discussion about how we might ensure the population has access to enough good quality, nutritional and environmentally sound food. Something we take for granted, even though already some people in some parts of the country and the region don’t have enough good food.

Food experts encourage a debate about the future of food, given the ecological limits of current production and the risks of food uncertainty in the future.

They talk about how community gardens, backyard vege patches, and farmers’ markets can offer a more sustainable, resilient approach to food production and exchange than the current model. But they also note not everyone has the time and knowledge to grow food, and not all climatic conditions are practical for growing enough backyard veges to make a difference.

But as reported in Hibiscus Matters on May 16 in a story headlined “Fresh approach to free fruit and vegetables”, there is a revolution going on. Community fruit and vege stands are cute little wooden booths randomly placed around the regions (11 current stands, 18 coming) where people take their surpluses to swap or share.

There are community fruit and vege stands in Whangaparaoa, Kumeu, Helensville, Wainui, Bayly’s Beach and Mangawhai. People have donated spinach, basil, bay leaf, silverbeet, beetroot, mandarins, apples, pears, persimmon, feijoas and kiwifruit. They’ve donated cans of food, coconut milk and spices. They have given couscous, tomato, onions and potatoes – whole vegetarian meals right there. Then there have been donations of muffins, cakes, cookies, a banana plant and dahlia bulbs. With the spirit of community food sharing, we can imagine a better world.

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The cement works swimming hole has returned to its original colour.

Swim spot to re-face colour woes The Warkworth Cement Works swimming hole is likely to face another algal bloom and colour change this summer, according to Auckland Council.

Last summer, concerns about the popular swim spot were raised, after the water became a rusty red colour.

This prompted tests by Council, which revealed the discolouration to be an algal bloom of no harm to swimmers.

Principal specialist for health enforcement Darryl Thompson says

the algal bloom was probably caused by increased nutrient levels from nearby tree felling and high temperatures.

“With the removal of the trees nearby it is likely that nutrient levels will still be high from the associated runoff, so it is more likely than not to return to some degree,” Darryl says.

Water testing also took place over summer to monitor E. coli levels, but tests have since ceased after levels were confirmed to be harmless.

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The current work is expected to be finished by the end of June.

Meanwhile, sealing of the remainder of Silver Hill Road to Waiteitei Road is currently ranked 129 on AT’s priority list of unsealed roads. The list is based on volume of traffic, the number of properties and amenities, road steepness, and the number of accidents that have occurred on the road.

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During the work, the existing timber rails were replaced with new steel Armco guardrails, which reduced the width of the carriageway.

When residents pointed out to the original contractors that the safety barrier was dangerous and should be removed, they were told the barrier was for the existing one-way bridge.

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Lifeguards fear the stray set nets could cause someone to drown.

Nets pose swimmer danger Concern for swimmers has prompted Omaha Beach Surf Life Saving Club members to urge fishers to keep a close eye on their set nets.

On May 12, lifeguards picked up a stray net that had floated to within 200 metres of the shoreline, directly in front of the club.

Lifeguard Matt Craig says the net was spotted during a junior training session two days earlier and slowly drifted into a position where it was of serious concern.

“All it would take is a swimmer to get tangled in the net and, even if they were a confident swimmer, they could drown in the surf,” Matt says.

“The nets also pose a threat to boat propellers and are an unnecessary danger to marine life.”

The net found at Omaha was around 10 metres long and only marked by two milk bottles.

“It was too heavy to drag, so we had to lift it into a boat to bring in, and it was full of decomposing fish. I imagine it was set at the north end of the beach, but people don’t realise how strong the current is and it draws everything towards the surf club.”

Matt said this was not the first time that a set net had drifted into the area.

He added that Insite Security

monitored Omaha Beach and had encountered people setting nets during the summer ban on set netting, which runs from Labour Day weekend to the end of Easter annually.

Fisheries NZ advises that the following rules apply to set netting: • Nets must not be baited.

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• Nets must not be set within 60 metres of another net.

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• Nets must not be used in a way that causes fish to be stranded by the falling tide.

• Only one set net (max. 60m) and one bait net (max. 10m with a mesh size of 50 mm or less) can be carried on a boat at any one time.

• The use of stakes to secure nets is prohibited.

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The last trees to be felled are on the far edge of the site, on the northern banks of Tramcar Bay.

Wet summer delays end of Ti Point forestry harvest

The record amount of rainfall in January and February has delayed the completion of forest clearance on 11ha of Auckland Council land near Leigh until next summer.

Contractor Woodbank began harvesting the pine trees between Ti Point and Leigh Roads last July and was due to finish the job between January and March.

However, although workers managed to fell 80 per cent of the trees, exceptionally heavy rains in the early part of this year scuppered any chances of finishing the job. Woodbank founder and director Darrin Collett says the wet weather played havoc with this and other local jobs.

“We missed the season; every couple of weeks there was a cyclone,” he says.

They need six weeks of dry weather before they can restart cutting the Ti Point Road trees to minimise the risk of environmental damage to Whangateau Harbour.

“There’s 20 per cent left and it’s all coastal. If it wasn’t dry, that would mean sediment into the harbour, and we’re not going to have that, so it will be next summer,” Darrin says.

Once the land, which is zoned Rural Coastal, has been cleared, its future

remains uncertain. Auckland Council said that, potentially, a limited number of lifestyle blocks could be developed on the land, but this would require resource consents and a large area of revegetation planting to be established.

In addition, a thorough risk assessment would be required, since the site was formerly used for landfill and, before that, quarrying.

“For example, the former quarry sites – which were subsequently landfilled – require specific geotechnical risk assessment,” a Council spokesman said. “The catchments around the former quarry and landfill sites are steep and there are stormwater design and performance issues to consider as part of an overall risk assessment.”

He added that the landfill sites would also require further investigation “to better understand the risks and opportunities in any future development of the land, which there are no plans for at present”.

The forest was planted 25 years ago and was originally due to be harvested in 2013. However, the discovery of kauri snails, a protected species, led to its postponement and some 50 snails and 22 eggs were subsequently discovered and relocated to Auckland Zoo.

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Lemon crosses finish line Vineyard Church members were “absolutely thrilled” after both their cars finished the gruelling 24 LeMons held at Hampton Downs race track on May 12.

The church’s racing team, Realife Racing, entered a Honda CRS and Honda Civic in the race, which runs for 24 hours.

Team members took turns driving the cars for two hours at a time.

Cars must be “lemons” costing no more than about $1000, though race teams are permitted to spend another $1000 on every car to make them go as fast as possible.

Team member Steve Pound said although neither car won the race, it was a huge buzz just to finish, especially given electrical problems and having to deal with heavy rainfall at night.

When the distributors failed on both cars, an immediate replacement was found for the Civic. An urgent appeal for a replacement for the CRS was made on social media at around 10pm.

A motorist from Hamilton responded

saying he could supply the distributor, but it was unable to be fitted until the following morning, putting the car out of action for several hours.

Steve praised the largely inexperienced drivers on the team. They achieved high speeds, but managed to avoid the frequent spin-outs and crashes that plagued other teams.

“I’m just so proud of our drivers. We had just one spin-out for the entire race and neither of the cars were crashed,” he says.

Steve was also pleased to note the cars’ brake pads and tyres lasted the entire race, another tribute to driving skill.

He says Realife Racing driver Jeff Eastwood proved especially proficient, at one point overtaking five cars on the outside while taking a corner.

Steve says the experience has been a wonderful bonding opportunity for fathers and sons on the team, and Realife Racing was hoping to participate in future LeMons races.

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Pink stand to sink bullying

The pink police car attracted plenty of attention from students.

Warkworth talk to tackle meth dangers Warkworth police at Mahurangi College from left, Hamish Buick, Mark Stallworthy and John Williams with assistant principal Alistair Elder.

Wellsford School, Rodney College and Mahurangi College were some of the many schools to embrace Pink Friday on May 18. Students, teachers and even the Warkworth and Wellsford police staff dressed in the colour of the day as part of the national day against bullying.

The concept started in Canada in 2007, when two men wore pink to stand against homophobic bullying.

A hard-hitting public talk on the dangers posed by methamphetamine, or P, will take place at Warkworth Town Hall on Monday, June 11 at 7pm.

Not Even Once – Saying No to Meth will be delivered by former police drug squad detective Dale Kirk, who runs workplace drug education company MethCon. He says the Warkworth talk, which is one of a series, is the first time MethCon has taken its message to a public audience, in a bid to increase community awareness and minimise apathy and complacency.

“There’s been a massive increase in meth convictions in the regions, it’s

not just confined to big cities and areas you might consider to be high risk,” he says.

“A head-in-the-sand mentality is not the answer, it’s about schooling yourself up so you know all you can and can identify indicators. It’s a completely different drug to anything else.”

He says the presentation will be extremely visual and hard hitting to show the real truth behind meth and the dangers it poses.

“You will laugh, you may cry, you could be horrified, but you will definitely be enlightened by the experience. This is an ‘eye-opener’ like no other.”

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is to eliminate the demand for drugs.

“We believe that the key to reducing the harm to society from drugs such as P relies as much on focusing on demand as much as supply. In other words, provide people – particularly young people – with accurate information about drugs so that they naturally choose not to use. Take away demand and supply will reduce accordingly.”

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Twenty years ago, the average hospital stay for a patient undergoing groin hernia repair was one-and-a-half days, five days for gallbladder removal, one night for repair of an umbilical hernia and four days for repair of an incisional hernia. Up to six weeks off work was required to recuperate after each operation. Today, all of these procedures can be carried out in a single day and the patient can return to work in seven to ten days. This is obviously good for patients and families. It has come about through a number of often random medical advances.

Traditionally, surgical operations have been carried out through incisions in the skin that are deepened through the underlying tissues until the area requiring treatment is exposed and the operation can proceed. At the end of the procedure the tissues are replaced and the skin incision is closed. Recovery relied on successful completion of the procedure, gradual return of function of the disturbed tissues and healing of the skin without complication such as infection or scarring. Open surgery can now be performed in many day-stay patients because of the development of enhanced recovery programmes. These emphasise good preoperative education, short acting anaesthesia with minimal hangover, early mobilisation and excellent social support at home.

Laparoscopic surgery uses small skin incisions (5mm long) to permit the passage of long instruments into body spaces along with a high resolution camera. The area of the body requiring treatment can be accessed without disturbing the overlying tissues and structures, and seen with a magnified view on a screen. Laparoscopic surgery benefits the patient by resulting in less time in recovery and an easier recovery with reduced need for pain relief, less change in food intake, less risk of skin infection and scarring. Most importantly, return to normal leisure activities and work is faster. For surgeons, its notable that laparoscopic operations often provide a better view of the area to be treated than open operations and the surgical dissection can be gentler and more precise. This technological advantage has been furthered with the development of surgical robots which have increased the optical quality and allowed highly dextrous instruments to be used in a magnified operative field allowing precise and minimally traumatic procedures to be undertaken – even complex operations involving the liver, pancreas and stomach.

What’s clear now for patients is that both they and their surgeons have a choice of surgical procedure to treat their condition – either open, laparoscopic or robotic operations can be offered depending on the patient and the diagnosis.

Early thoughts that one form of surgery would fully replace the other have not eventuated and each approach has benefits in given situations. However, the development of laparoscopic and robot surgery has encouraged surgeons to reexamine open procedures and look to optimise patient experience and minimise patient disability.

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The Jade River Ukes flash mob was back in town on May 21 with a new set list for New Zealand Music Month. The group of 10 ukulele players were in full voice at various locations in Warkworth township, including the i-SITE and Mahurangi Matters office. Their tunes were about local areas such as the Mahurangi River and Puhoi.

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ourselves into patterns that go against our nature. This can lead to physical and mental health problems.”

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Sovereign chief medical officer Dr John Mayhew says the value and health benefits associated with a good night’s sleep shouldn’t be underestimated.

In her new book, Sleep Sense, Dr Katharina Lederle explains how to learn more about your own internal biological clock, and how to start sleeping in line with it, regardless of outside pressures such as work, children and spouses.

In addition to learning why sleep matters for the brain, the body and a person’s emotions, the book presents a ‘menu’ of simple and practical options to start improving sleep immediately.

“The goal is to create your own ‘sleep symphony’ where your own internal and external worlds are in sync,” Dr Lederle says. “You’ll find this results not just in more peaceful nights, but more energetic and focused days as well.

“Everyone is unique, and in an ideal world we would all sleep in tune with what chronobiologists call our internal clock. However, the pressures of the world and the schedules we have to keep mean that we try to force

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DoC cans Kawau Island pine forest harvest, again

The Department of Conservation (DoC) has once again done an aboutturn on a proposal to harvest about 80 hectares of pine forest from the historic reserve on Kawau Island.

Auckland inner islands operations manager Keith Gell says a key driver behind harvesting the pines was the risk of trees falling across tracks.

“This risk has been addressed by cutting down the ageing pines along the tracks so we are no longer planning to harvest the trees,” Mr Gell says.

Talk of harvesting the pines dates back to at least 1976 when a working plan was produced, but never implemented, due to lack of funding.

Then, in 2014, a report was produced by Jo Ritchie, of Treescape Environmental, which stated that DoC was spending around $80,000 a year reactively dealing with problem trees. Harvesting the trees was again considered the best long-term option.

The report estimated that there was about 40,000 tonnes of harvestable timber available and some of the proceeds of the harvest could be directed towards replanting in natives and rehabilitation.

The option of only dealing with dangerous trees, as per the current policy, was considered to be inadequate in respect to achieving appropriate long-term management.

However, Mr Gell says a 2014 report by commercial forest consultants PF Olsen estimated that harvesting all the

The ageing pines on Kawau are not only a danger to walkers on the tracks, but can cause significant coastal damage.

ageing pines would cost $2 million.

“PF Olsen advised that harvesting was not commercially viable because the cost was too high and the operation would have run at a massive loss,” he says.

DoC currently spends around $57,000 a year felling individual pines that pose a threat, but the cost varies from year to year.

“The cost of managing these trees has

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risen as the trees age and the number that need felling gradually increases, but it is still far less than $2 million.”

Tracks that are open are the Mansion House to the site of the Coppermine Engine House, Sir George Grey Coach Road, Dispute Cove Road, Coppermine Track, Mansion House Valley, Schoolhouse Bay Road, Two House Bay Track to the lookout,

Mansion Bay amenity area and gardens, and Track to Lady’s Bay providing access to the beach.

The Momona Track, Lady’s Bay to Dispute Cove Lookout and Miners Track have been closed for sometime and DoC has no plans to reopen them.

The Redwood Track is currently closed, but DoC plans to reopen it once it has secured funding to make the track safe.

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Household relocations locally within the Rodney and Mangawhai areas, and long distance removals to anywhere in the North Island. We also provide a packing service, if required.

What skills and experience does your company have?

We are a family business that has been operating for 20 years. Our team makes the move an enjoyable process with their positive and hardworking attitude. All care is taken with transportation and setting up your new home.

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PROPERTY TALK WITH LANE SANGER The property market is a very fickle thing. After a strong start to the year as far as volume was concerned and prices holding steady, we are now coming into some headwind.

Numbers through open homes are very strong, however we are seeing many buyers, not all, expecting bargains. Many buyers simply won’t buy or make an offer unless they feel they are getting value for money. However the flipside is that properties that are immaculately presented, in good locations are still attracting very good interest and prices.

TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE WINTER PROPERTY MARKET With the colder months of winter arriving, the property market has a tendency to cool off, with some sellers tempted to hold off until spring to sell their property. However, there are some distinct advantages to selling your home during winter.

There are generally fewer listings on the market during winter, however this can open your home to greater exposure. A lack of listings can also result in increased buyer competition. The colder conditions attract those who are serious buyers that have the intention of making a purchase. Here are some great ways to maximise the viewing potential of your home during the winter months.

The key to selling is to know that your best buyers will usually come through in the first or second week of the marketing campaign. After that they move onto other new listings. If you are thinking about selling, look to price your property sharply to attract as many buyers as possible. Please talk to me if you have any queries.

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Heating Heating can be a pivotal factor when a buyer looks to make their home-buying decision. You want the temperature inside to be comfortable and to give the buyer more of a reason to linger, especially on a cold day. Buyers will ask themselves if it felt cold while looking through and they will look for functioning hot water and heating systems.

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With winter comes colder temperatures, shorter days and less natural light. Ensure you pull up the blinds, open the curtains and drapes on every window. In addition turn on every light in the house, including appliance lights and wardrobe lights.

Use Timers and Technology to Your Advantage Some people who are thinking about attending an open home may drive past the property in the evening and nothing looks better than a house lit up at night time. Consider using timers on inside lights and motion sensors outside that will light up in the evening when a buyer may pass by.

Ease up on the Scents

(PART TIME OR FULL TIME)

Some people are allergic to certain scents and deodorisers, so don’t spray the air or plug-in air fresheners, burn candles or spray perfume.

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The Oaks on Neville retirement village, on Queen and Neville Streets Warkworth, is nearing completion.

The scaffolding is coming down and the interior fit out is well underway with the first residents likely to move in during July and an official opening planned for August 2018.

With Queen Street being the main street of Warkworth the Oaks Village is situated in the heart of this picturesque township. All of Warkworth’s retail shops, the New World and Countdown supermarkets included, Warkworth’s cafe’s,

doctors surgeries and the river front are in within 200 metres walk of the Oaks Village.

The location of this Village is exceptional and perfect for the retiree who wants to enjoy all Warkworth has to offer without worries associated with driving and parking.

The Oaks on Neville Village comprises 62 apartments.

The majority are spacious two bedroom apartments but there are also a reasonable number of single bedroom apartments and large three bedroom apartments.

The design maximises outlook and light. The elevated nature

Showroom now open! of the Village provides for some spectacular views of the township and river, whist double glazing shuts out street noise that is often associated with urban living.

Facilities that are to be enjoyed by residents of the Oaks Village include a complementary electric car (a Volkswagon e-golf), a mini bus for group outings, a gym, indoor lap pool and spa, library, lounge with billiards table and underground car park with entry to the car park and all other resident areas to be secure. All apartments are fitted with a 24 hour emergency call system and the Village will be manned at all times. Meal, laundry,

cleaning service packages are to be available for residents to purchase.

The Oaks on Neville Village is now registered as a retirement village and is accepting licence applications. Not surprisingly interest is strong but there remains many apartments available at a price range that is likely to interest most who want to enjoy the life style this unique Village offers.

If you have interest in The Oaks on Neville please call 09 4258766 to request an information pack or make an appointment to view the Village.

Please call 09 425 8766 for an appointment. Move into your new home in August 2018 For more information about the Oaks on Neville, email us at info@realliving.co.nz

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Impressive near new home in prime water front position with riparian rights and access to your own sandy swimming spot.

Tender

Closes on Thursday 28th June 2018 at 5:00PM (will not be sold prior)

Viewing

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With only the tides to consider, launching the boat, kayaks or jet-ski from the front lawn has never been easier.

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Distinctive in its design and privileged in its location, this home provides a contemporary permanent residence or luxury holiday accommodation in sought after Scotts Landing.

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North facing views over Sandspit inlet.

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Completely renovated character cottage on 1000m² in gorgeous rural setting.

Plenty of space to park the boat.

Open plan living capturing all day sun flows through French doors to the large deck and landscaped garden beyond.

Act now to secure a piece of Kiwi coastal paradise.

Central to so much - Matakana village, East coast beaches and access to SH1.

For Sale $995,000

For Sale $645,000

Viewing Sunday 2.00pm

Viewing Sunday 12.00pm

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Contact Pip Foote 0274 997 990

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

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

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get connected!

TV satellite & aerial | audio systems | CCTV & automation | data & WIFI integration | freeview

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Digital Freeview Satellite Installation & Repairs

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

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

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Household Water Deliveries

09 423 8061 Tanks: New & Cleaned Pipes: PVC & PE Filter systems Pumps: New & Rebuilt Pipes & Parts Irrigation Supplies

0800 747 928 mobile: 027 556 6111

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Pump & Filtration Services

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

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Rodney Sales & Service 09 422 3245

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CLEANER Honest, hardworking cleaner available for regular work or one offs. Ph Rebecca 021 0825 8242

GARDENING

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

Phone Martin 021 254 6660

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

FOR SALE

ALPINE SPA Nearly New to New Zealand 2 person Alpine Spa 7 months old $5600 new - offers over $2800 Call Roger 09 425 0315, to inspect.

RAWLEIGH Products. Ph Pat 09 945 0495

ARBORIST - Fruit tree pruning and Tree stump removals. Fully qualified and experienced. Ph. James 021 330 212 james@stumpmaster.co.nz

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HOME MAINTENANCE & IMPROVEMENT COLLINS ELECTRONICS HAVE YOU LOST PRIME?

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

Ph Paul 09 422 0500 or 027 29 222 04 HANDYMAN Carpentry, cabinetmaking, repairs, small jobs, rubbish removal etc Ph/Txt 027 420 5155 WATER FILTERS - Underbench, Whole house, UV & water spotting, Work Guaranteed. Ph Steve 094223245 steve@aquafilter.co.nz WATER PUMPS - no water? old cast iron pump? Sales Service & Installation.

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JUSTICE OF THE PEACE SERVICE DESKS

PUBLIC NOTICES

A reminder to the public that the JP Service Desks are available as follows: Warkworth – at the Council Offices Monday 10.00 – 2.00 If there is a long weekend, this is replaced by the following Tuesday from 10.00 to 12.00.

Snells Beach – at the Library Friday 10.00 – 12.00 Warkworth RSA Fridays 4.00 to 5.00 This is becoming an increasingly popular method of obtaining Justice of the Peace services, and no appointment is needed.

There is no cost.

At all other times there are plenty of other JP’s available in the Warkworth/Mahurangi Area, either in the Warkworth Community phone book, or on-line “find a JP”.

Supported by Mahurangi Matters

BINGO, BINGO, BINGO! Come and join the fun, 1st Monday of month, Old Masonic Hall, Baxter Street, Warkworth, 7pm.

Proceeds to Warkworth Museum.

Cancer Support Warkworth & Wellsford group

We meet on the 2nd Thursday of each month at the Tui House Hospice, 32 Glenmore Drive, Warkworth at 10am.

Friendly support from members Guest speakers Enjoy morning tea or coffee with us Contact: Sue McLeod 425 4994 or 021 649 081 Susan Tomas 423 8424 Supported by Mahurangi Matters

MAHURANGI/WARKWORTH SENIOR CITIZENS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING to be held at the Clubrooms, 2 Alnwick Street, Warkworth on Friday 8th June at 1.30pm

TO LET OFFICE SUITE, WELLSFORD 1st floor, 74.1m2, modern and sunny.

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OFFICE TO LET Argyll Angle 20m2 private, ground level, central Warkworth. $500 pm +GST. Phone Bob 09 425 7644

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to help the elderly in their own home.

We do anything from a few hours help to sleepovers and full time care. You must be a caring, reliable person with a driving licence, reliable transport and lots of common sense.

To learn more please contact Chrissy George 021 045 2299 / 09 424 2911 Chrissycleanncare@xtra.co.nz

MATAKANA SUPERFOODS Want to be part of a small, dedicated team? Matakana SuperFoods is currently looking for a capable dispatch staff and office staff.

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Part Time Sales position. Apply in store or contact Peter 09 425 7077 warkworth@stirlingsports.co.nz

CHURCH NOTICES

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Phone 425 8545

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Holy Mass Timetable: WARKWORTH

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

PUHOI

SS. Peter & Paul Church Sunday: 8.30am

MAHURANGI METHODIST PARISH Warkworth Methodist

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

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Teenage angst I often hear people say “I wish Warkworth was like it was 30 years ago” and, having been raised in a small rural town, I can understand what they mean.

There was a certain appeal about being able to park wherever you wanted, knowing nearly everybody when you went to do your shopping and the easy pace of life. Unfortunately, we will never have those days again and we have to learn to live and succeed in today’s world.

I often compare Warkworth to an adolescent boy – all gangly, not sure what direction he is going in and nothing quite wired right as he waits to grow up.

This is why it is important that, as a town and an area, we have to get it right. We have to ensure that every opportunity to engage in public consultation over the Structure Plan is oversubscribed by enthusiastic locals so our views can be heard.

We need to support local organisations like One Warkworth, Warkworth Area Liaison Group and Fix Hill Street as we work with Auckland Council, AT and NZTA to make sure not only do we get the infrastructure needed, but it is designed to cope with the forecasted growth that is coming. We need to make our retail area the place that visitors want to come to, either on their way to the north or on their way back, and we can only do that if we all work together either with town-wide promotions or just making sure that we give every visitor the best experience possible. In some ways, it is just a matter of expressing that small town hospitality and warmth that you don’t get in larger centres.

Parking will be an issue until we can get a Park and Ride that will not only remove those cars from the middle of town, where people have gone into Auckland to work, but also all of the local retail staff who need parking. These people all need to be catered for, so that they can park and get to work. If we can find a way that works for everybody then this will free up parking for shoppers.

I am often told that we need to turn retail away from the main street and towards the river, Wrong! I believe retail needs to stay where it is and hospitality and tourism need to be facing the river. The river is our greatest asset and we have to find the funds to dredge it as soon as possible. A dredged river will bring prosperity to our area with tourists who don’t require a carpark, but have money to spend.

Ex-policeman takes RSA role The new manager of the Warkworth RSA, Mike Wharepouri, sees some similarities between his new role and the 18 years he served as a police officer.

“Policing is about being there when the community needs you and, through its welfare work, the RSA does a similar job,” he says.

Born and raised on the North Shore, Mike’s only real contact with Warkworth prior to taking up the RSA position was playing rugby for Takapuna against Mahurangi.

Although he has given the rugby away, he still plays golf whenever he can and has coached basketball, rugby and touch rugby at junior levels.

He says he doesn’t plan to make any immediate changes at the RSA, but will spend his first few months getting to know staff and the processes. He believes the venue lends itself to being a community hub, particularly for families.

During his policing career, Mike rose to the rank of sergeant and worked in Otara, Henderson and North Shore.

He was involved in community

Mike Wharepouri’s father and grandfathers had NZ Navy and merchant navy connections.

policing, youth aid, including Blue Light, and on the front line.

Three years ago, he decided he needed a different challenge and became the director of Zambrero Mexican restaurant, in Oteha Valley Road, which he still owns.

He lives in Silverdale with wife Jeni, a daughter and twin boys.

Mike took over as manager from Robbie Blair, who is now a driver for the Mahu City Express.

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Te Radar, definitely not eating dog at the Warkworth A&P show earlier this year.

A night with Te Radar in Wellsford

Comedian, writer, documentary maker and A&P show aficionado Te Radar is coming to Wellsford in July for a fundraising dinner and show at the RSA in Olympus Road.

The broadcaster will be performing the best of his award-winning show, Eating the Dog, an irreverent look at some of his heroes from New Zealand history – or, as he puts it, “misfits, failures and those who died trying”.

Te Radar says the show is a hilarious romp through history that celebrates “the bumblers and the ne’er-do-wells, who personify the archetypal ‘she’ll be right’ spirit that epitomises this country”.

A Night With Te Radar will also include dinner, live auctions, raffles and door prizes, with proceeds going towards the repair and resealing, with concrete, of the old asphalt carpark at Wellsford Plunket.

Many of the auction lots have a decidedly rural theme, including a complete electric fence unit from Gallagher Industries, a child’s batterypowered Gator ATV from John Deere Whangarei, a load of fertiliser (and the spreading thereof ) from G.W. Buer GroundSpread and cattle drench from The Vet Club. However, there are temptations for those less agriculturally inclined as well, including a romantic night’s bed and breakfast for two at the exclusive Takatu Lodge and Vineyard near Matakana, a cruise for two with Matakana River Tours and a half hour massage voucher from Natalie Cave Massage Therapy & Pilates.

A Night with Te Radar will take place on Friday, July 21 at the Wellsford RSA at 6.30pm. Tickets cost $60 person or $480 for a table of eight and are available from Tania Hamilton on 021 264 0424.

A Falcon sightseeing trip with Captain James Hewett.

Flight times

Some notes on flying experiences in Mangawhai through the decades.

1910s: Forced landing One of the first two Boeing aircraft ever built was constructed of timber, linen and wire, and had a wingspan of 52 feet. It was purchased by the New Zealand Government for New Zealand’s Flying School. The seaplane arrived in Auckland on the steamship Niagara in 1919. It was flown by pioneer aviator George Bolt, who was sworn in as an official mail carrier in December 1919, to “investigate the practical utility of the conveyance of mail matter by air in New Zealand”.

Local post office staff along the route kept a close watch for George and reported his progress by telegraph to the Chief Post Office in Auckland.

In 1921, whilst on the airmail service from Auckland to Whangarei, George was forced to land the plane in the sea off Mangawhai. His incident report recalls that he needed to change the fuel intake from the top to the bottom tank. An air blockage resulted in the forced landing. Unfortunately, choppy seas broke the propeller as he taxied to calmer waters. Luckily, as the disabled plane drifted close to the Hen and Chicken Islands, it was spotted by

a passing steamer. The SS Apanui towed the plane all the way back to Auckland. During this monotonous ten-hour journey, George sat on one wingtip the whole way to keep the plane balanced. To sustain George, the crew sent hot food and whisky down the tow line in a kerosene tin. The broken propeller part was later picked up on the coastal beach.

1930s: Joy riding Firm sand on the Mangawhai inner harbour allowed aircraft to take off and land. In the 1930s, taxi flights and joyriding were a feature of summer holidays generating great excitement.

One of the earliest aircraft registered in New Zealand – a Gipsy Moth known as the ‘Falcon’ – was piloted by Captain James Hewett. He gave rides of 10 to 15 minutes to sightseers for 10 shillings. Hewett is known to have landed on several occasions on the Wintle’s house paddock at Tara, where they would lay out a white sheet to mark a safe landing strip.

1940s: Emergency strips During WWII there were emergency landing strips at Mangawhai. One

was situated on the farm of Raymond Bull. Another was on the sports ground behind the hotel, which is now a tavern.

1950s: Enterprising pilot From 1955, another enterprising pilot regularly flew into Mangawhai in his Tourist Air Travel Grumman Widgeon Amphibian plane. Captain Fred Ladd, operating from Mechanics Bay, Auckland, became a household name.

He came to Mangawhai for summer carnivals, giving holidaymakers an opportunity to experience flight.

Local man John Wharfe nostalgically remembers Fred’s famous catchphrase at lift-off: “A shower of spray and we’re away”. Other locals remember the occasional NZ Herald being delivered

by Fred. Fred was also involved in the tourist service between the Bay of Islands and Auckland. At times, he couldn’t get back to Auckland before dark and would fly into Mangawhai, guiding his seaplane from the river, over the sand, to Gran Wintle’s house, where Mangawhai Heads Camping Ground is now situated. Fred would park his Widgeon and spend time with his good friend Jimmy Jackson.

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Competitors will show their muscle in various events.

The kitchen theatre is a tasty new addition.

The tractor pull is a firm favourite.

The biggest agricultural show in the Southern Hemisphere will return to Mystery Creek for its 50th anniversary next month.

Last year, Fieldays attracted over 130,000 people.

This year, it will be held from June 13 to 16.

For those looking to freshen things up at the kitchen table, the new kitchen theatre showcase will be worth a visit to see the connection between farm and table via the fry pan.

There will be an opportunity to mingle with celebrity chefs and check out the pantry marquee, where produce from the cooking demonstrations will be sold.

Also new this year is ‘Rural Catch’, a mixed gender version of the familiar ‘Rural Bachelor of the Year’ competition.

The popular tractor pull is back with three categories that will test the speed, strength and showmanship abilities of the farm vehicles.

The event includes a schools’ section, where students

will race to pull a full-size tractor 40 metres.

The defending champions, Te Awamutu Primary School, will face off against the leading challenging school in the final for a $2000 prize. All tractor pull finals are held on Saturday.

Other shows of strength are the logging events, which will see competitors use tools such as chainsaws and axes.

The Champions Trophy wood chopping event will be held on Thursday. The winner will represent New Zealand in France for the world championships.

Friday’s event will have competitors hoping to make the 2018 Stihl Timbersports World Championships in England.

More logging events will be held on Saturday.

In arts and entertainment, the No. 8 Wire exhibits will be on display and there will be multiple dog shows.

Meanwhile, the innovations centre will provide

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Chair of the Matakana Coast Trail Trust Allison Roe welcomes Kaye Parker.

Chief executive of the NZ Walking Access Commission Eric Pyle spoke at the workshop.

Creating great walking and cycling trails not only bolsters the health and wellbeing of local people, but can create jobs and bring millions of dollars into a community by attracting visitors.

That was the message from Kaye Parker, the CEO of the Queenstown Trail Trust, who was keynote speaker at a meeting of about 60 fellow trail enthusiasts in Matakana last week. She spoke at a workshop organised by the Matakana Coast Trail Trust and the NZ Walking Access Commission.

Ms Parker shared her experiences and lessons from developing the Queenstown Trail, one of the most successful “Great Rides” in

easements from 36 private landowners.

Ms Parker said a vital learning was to be respectful to private landowners, as they held the key to the success or failure of the project.

“You are asking a very small number of landowners to give a very large gift of their land to a very large number of people. This rarely benefits the landowners themselves,” she said.

She said it was a mistake to try to pressure landowners by suggesting they should give up their land for the good of the community. She said they were not obliged to give up anything.

Instead, trail advocates should think of ways they could assist landowners

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But Ms Parker said achieving success had required overcoming numerous obstacles.

She says one of her first mistakes was not asking the government for all of the money needed to build the trail, even though the government at the time was eager to back trail building.

This meant the Queenstown Trail Trust was left to find a further $4 million from a relatively small community.

Geotechnical problems also forced a change in the planned route for the trail. The original route had taken it across council and government land, but the new route required securing

– perhaps by using earthmoving equipment to flatten ground or remove rocks in return for the landowner granting land access.

Another thing trail trusts could do was provide letters of support to landowners who were seeking resource consents to, for example, subdivide their land.

Ms Parker said every landowner she dealt with who received a letter of support from the Queenstown Trail Trust had their resource consent granted.

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Ms Parker said the Queenstown Trail Trust was also able to use some of the difficult terrain to its advantage.

Major donors were invited to sponsor tunnels and bridges to the tune of $50,000 and have a piece of infrastructure named after them.

A strong theme of the workshop was that if a great trail was constructed, then people would be sure to visit in their thousands.

Ms Parker said the Queenstown Trail had an original goal of attracting 35,000 visitors within three years of opening, which was thought audacious at the time. However, she says the trail exceeded that goal within three months of opening.

It now attracts more than 100,000 visitors annually.

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Report blasts New Zealand land use for destroying soils A damning report released by the Ministry of the Environment and Stats NZ last month says that New Zealand’s land use is contributing directly to soil and water degradation, soil erosion and is reducing the health and diversity of our plants, animals and habitats.

The report, Our Land 2018, shows more than 48 per cent of tested sites were outside the target range for two key indicators of soil quality.

These were phosphorous content (an indicator of soil fertility) and macroporosity (a measure of soil compactness).

Excess phosphorous can travel into waterways through erosion and run off. It can trigger growth of unwanted plants and reduce water quality.

Soil that is too compacted restricts plant growth and reduces soil diversity.

It also impedes soil drainage, resulting in increased greenhouse gas emissions from urine on soils and an increased amount of phosphorous and eroded soils reaching waterways.

The report says sites under more intensive land uses, such as dairying, cropping, horticulture and dry stock, were more frequently outside the range for these soil quality indicators.

In particular, 51 per cent of tested dairy sites had excess soil phosphorus and 65 per cent were below the range for macroporosity.

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Ahuroa farmer Bev Trowbridge says pressure on farmers prevents proper soil management.

per cent) and low macroporosity levels (39 per cent). Dry stock sites had low macroporosity levels (41 per cent).

The report says New Zealand already has naturally high rates of erosion due to a combination of steep terrain, rock and soil types and climate. New Zealand contributes about 1.7 per cent to global sediment loss, even though it makes up only 0.2 per cent

of global land area.

The report says the problem is exacerbated by the removal of trees.

New Zealand loses 192 million tonnes of soil each year from erosion and 44 per cent of this comes from pasture land.

The report’s findings come as no surprise to Ahuroa sheep and beef

farmer Bev Trowbridge, who has long advocated for “regenerative farming” practices, which aim to protect the soil.

She says farmers are often extremely concerned about soil degradation but says pressure from banks, suppliers, market buyers and industry representatives all conspire to reinforce destructive farming practices.

“Farmers do not get to choose to go it alone, to market their own produce, or change to a high-value, low impact model. This is the travesty of our farming system,” she says.

Ms Trowbridge says the irony is that the solutions to the problems are not difficult. For example, farmers could make greater use of natural, organic fertilizers, especially compost, which has an abundance of living creatures within it that break up compacted soil.

Meanwhile, the report itself declines to make recommendations on how to redress problems with land use, but it says it is vital that New Zealand pays attention to the harm it is doing to the soil, noting that the quality of the soil underpins the New Zealand economy.

“This report provides an opportunity for us to recognise that soil and biodiversity are taonga (treasure), that our stewardship depends on earnestly building our knowledge base, and that it is our responsibility to take action to restore the health of the whenua (land), for today and tomorrow’s generations,” it says.

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Fuel tax fears for farmers Horticulture NZ chief executive Mike Chapman is calling the regional fuel tax ‘unfair’ on Auckland farmers and growers and would like toll roads as an alternative.

The regional fuel tax bill is currently being put through Parliament, with a second reading in June, but will likely include a rebate system for fuel used off-road.

Both Federated Farmers and Mr Chapman say with one rebate system already in place, another would become complex and costly.

“It’s unnecessary to tax fuel for vehicles that will barely, if at all, use the roads,” Mr Chapman says.

“A large vegetable growing operation, for example, could have 100 tractors, so even with a rebate system it’s not fair, because of the administration costs to manage it.”

Ahuroa farmer Nicky Berger says that a rebate system would definitely cost farmers.

“Any extra administration just means less time being spent actually out on the farm where the money is made,” Ms Berger says.

“Because the buyer sets the cost of beef and lamb and not us, we would also wear any additional administration expenses ourselves.”

Mr Chapman has proposed more toll roads as the most accurate way to charge those using the infrastructure.

This would avoid any extra costs for off-road fuel users.

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Administration of a regional fuel tax rebate could be too cumbersome.

that fill up in Auckland is outside of the region, and a lot of trucks travelling through the area fill up in places like Hamilton. An Auckland regional fuel tax just doesn’t make sense.”

But Transport Minister Phil Twyford says that Auckland Council approached the Government specifically about a fuel tax as they felt it fairer than tolling certain roads.

Mr Chapman is also concerned that trucking companies may increase their charges because of the tax.

Because the buyer covers delivery costs, this would make getting produce to Auckland more expensive putting farmers in the regions at a disadvantage.

Although, Mr Twyford says in the long-term, the tax will benefit truck companies and, therefore, farmers.

“Any marginal increase is likely to be offset by the additional deliveries distributors will be able to do because of reduced congestion,” Mr Twyford says.

However, Ms Berger says because farmers don’t pay for delivery they are unlikely to reap any benefits if roads become more efficient.

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Farm plastic recycling gets a local boost

Recycled fence posts find a new home at Charlies.

Charlies takes advantage of recycled fencing A revamp of strawberry growing operations at Charlies Gelato Garden has provided a good opportunity for recycling of materials.

Troughs for holding the hydroponically grown strawberries were falling apart and desperately needed to be replaced along with the structures that held them at waist-height for easy picking.

Charlies was faced with the prospect of buying 1000 new posts to support new troughs.

Fortunately, fencing contractor Malcolm Webster, of All Rural Fencing, knew just where those posts could be located.

In addition to the Charlie’s job, he was also contracted to clear the vines at Ti

Point vineyard, along with the 2,000 posts and wires that supported them.

Although around 15 years old, the posts proved to be in good condition and entirely suitable to meet the requirements of the Charlies’ job. All that was required was that they be cut to the appropriate length and put back into the ground.

Malcolm says naturally recycling makes sense, since it avoids unnecessary cutting down of trees to make new posts.

But he says although he has been recycling posts for years, the practice is not that common.

“Developers often have a digger that goes along, just smashes the posts and

then pushes them into a heap. Then they have a disposal problem. Where are they going to get rid of them?” he says.

Traditional methods of removing posts are also unhelpful. Often a chain is wrapped around the post, which is then pulled out with a tractor, leaving ugly chain marks on the post.

Malcolm says ideally a machine known as a post hole lifter should be used, which when fitted to a front-end loader requires only a single operator to remove the posts. Posts are grabbed by the machine at ground level and are barely marked.

“Everybody having fences removed should be thinking about recycling,” he says.

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A national scheme to recycle farm plastics is growing in popularity north of Auckland, thanks to increased environmental awareness, plus the enthusiasm of its Kaiwaka-based collector.

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Farmers and growers buy special liner collection bags and pay to have them collected when full.

Programme manager Chris Hartshorne says the scheme has grown steadily in recent years, as more and more farmers become aware that plastics in the environment can cause significant damage if not disposed of properly. But he adds that Auckland and Northland have an added bonus in the form of local Plasback collector Bruce Ferguson, of Kaiwaka.

“We have seen a substantial growth north of Auckland due to greater awareness and the fact that we have a very motivated collector in Bruce Ferguson,” he says.

Bruce has been collecting plastic wrap and drums from farms throughout the region for two years. He says it’s a great system, providing people follow the guidelines about keeping different types of plastic separate “You can’t just chuck it all in one bag,” he says. “The system works if people work with the system. But it’s good plastic and it’s getting processed.”

The scheme is not just confined to farmers, either - vineyards, horticulturists and even breweries can join in. One such example is Matakana’s Sawmill Brewery, which recently started using Plasback and has subsequently reduced its waste to landfill by a massive 85 per cent in just a few months.

All the waste plastic collected is recycled in Auckland, where it is made into a product called Tuffboard, a plywood replacement described as “non abrasive, lick-proof, chew-proof, rot-proof and does not splinter”.

“It is very strong, easily cleaned and very hygienic,” Chris Hartshorne adds.

“This is a good example of the circular economy we have to strive for.”

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Expert on bee disease addresses Warkworth club American Foulbrood national compliance manager Clifton King will address Warkworth Beekeepers on June 6, following an upsurge nationally in the prevalence of the destructive bee disease.

Mr King says the increasing incidence of American Foulbrood (AFB) follows rapid growth in the honey bee industry that has inevitably also seen a growth in more inexperienced beekeepers, unfamiliar with how to combat the disease.

“Many beekeepers are willing to do the right thing but they need additional education and advice. Other beekeepers need encouragement to take that advice,” Mr King says.

One promising sign is that in the last 12 months, 19 cases of AFB have been reported in the Mahurangi area, down slightly on the 24 cases reported last year.

Mr King says beekeepers need to inspect their hives regularly for AFB and if they find it, must destroy the hive by burning it.

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Any cattle that have come from infected or suspected farms will be tested, but diagnosis can be tricky.

Cattle disease spread causes concern for northern farmers Worried dairy and beef farmers throughout Rodney and Northland are keeping their fingers crossed, but think it’s probably only a matter of time before cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis arrives in the region.

Two farms in Northland are at high risk and under strict stock movement restrictions and 25 other properties north of Auckland are known to have received stock from suspect farms. It comes at a time when stock movements are at their peak, as milking finishes and cows move to new pasture, and just before calving starts in July.

Mike Farley, sharemilker on two Matakana dairy farms, says it’s a worrying time, and he thinks that more cases will come to light over the coming weeks.

“I give it a month and someone will have it up here,” he says. “I think they have lost control of it. I honestly don’t know what should be done.”

For his own herd of 300 animals, he plans to batten down the biosecurity hatches.

“I’m not going to buy anything in until I know what’s happening. But mating will be the biggest thing, when we have to buy bulls. That’s in October, which is not far away.”

The red and blue dots north of Auckland show farms that have received stock from infected or suspect farms.

Federated Farmers Northland dairy chair Ashley Cullen is urging farmers to be stringent about biosecurity and ensure any stock movements are documented correctly.

“What we’re hoping for is all that those dots on the map up here get no positives, but they have had false positives and false negatives. It’s not until we go into the peak season we’ll know.”

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Free business workshops a boost for farming women A free national development programme for women involved in sheep and beef farming will be held in Northland next month.

The Agri-Women’s Development Trust’s (AWDT) Understanding Your Farm Business course will start in Dargaville on June 6 and its sister course (adapted for women who are trustees, managers or partners in Maori sheep and beef farms) Wahine Maia Wahine Whenua, starts in Whangarei on June 7.

Each programme involves three fullday workshops spread over three months, plus an evening graduation ceremony, and it is fully funded by the Red Meat Profit Partnership (RMPP).

Participants learn how to measure farm performance and potential, how to add value as more engaged critical farming partners, business planning to improve farm performance, the drivers and language of farming business, and how to find and assess financial information.

AWDT executive director Lindy Nelson says the course not only boosts women’s knowledge, skills

and confidence to contribute more effectively to their farming businesses, it helps their partners and businesses as a whole, too.

“We’re hearing from the men that the increased involvement of their partners in farm planning and decision making is reducing stress on them and opening up new conversations and perspectives,” she says.

“They are now sharing the workload and more able to bounce ideas off their partners who are playing a greater role.”

RMPP chairman Malcolm Bailey agrees that the courses benefit far more than just the participants.

“The Understanding Your Farm Business programmes aren’t just about up-skilling women in farming, they’re about building resilient farm partnerships so that the mental load of farming is shared,” he says.

“It’s a culture shift, but one we think the industry is ready for.”

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Singer-songwriter’s journey inspires film audiences The inspiring story of New Zealand singer-songwriter Donna Dean is the subject of a low-key, but movingly honest, documentary that will screen at the Warkworth Town Hall on Saturday morning, June 2.

The Sound of Her Guitar, made in 2016, was directed by Bill Morris, who keeps the focus not just on Donna’s story, but also on the experiences shared by many who grew up with parents who struggled in the post-war years, in the suburbs of Auckland.

“I loved telling Donna’s story, which is an important story about breaking out of a cycle of dependency and abuse to follow a dream,” Bill says.

The film follows Donna from a state house in Glen Innes, where her childhood was peppered with her parents’ drinking and violence, to the Texas clubs, bars and radio stations where her distinctive country music style met an appreciative audience.

It is a story of the redemptive power of music and of Donna’s will power, songs and generously forgiving, and sometimes matter-of-fact spirit.

She left school at 15 and by 16, was pregnant and in a violent relationship.

She seemed destined to repeat the pattern of her parents, and turned to drink. Rehab and songwriting

Donna Dean will give a short live performance before the screening of The Sound of Her Guitar in Warkworth.

saved her.

“I’ve no regrets about making the film because my story is not unique,” she says. “Wherever the movie has been shown, in New Zealand or overseas, discussion around the themes of

domestic violence, alcoholism, drug abuse and child abuse are the same.

“If the film inspires or gives hope to people and shows them that there is a way out, then the project was well worth doing.”

The film, which starts at 10.30am, is part of the Sounds On Screen Music Documentary Festival, at Warkworth Town Hall, which runs from June 1 to 3.

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Death Actually Rosy Fenwicke Maggie inherits the family funeral parlour after her parents die in a helicopter crash.

She returns home with baby Nick, toddler Kate, and no husband in sight. With the support of her best friend, Elka, and her mentor, Betty, she accepts becoming a funeral director to make a life for her and her children.

Death Actually is set in Queenstown 20 years after her return and it’s the middle of winter. Betty has just died and Elka needs surgery. Kate, a talented young chef, is back from London and won’t get out of bed. Nick is delivering fast food to a bitter ex-champion skier. There is a movie star in town who will not listen to advice. Meanwhile, Maggie can’t seem to put a foot right with the new doctor in town.

This is the perfect book for a rainy afternoon, where you can curl up by the fire with cup of tea and read all day. It is a fun read with all the dysfunctional family situations that you can cope with. It also has good humour and great characters. If you are a fan of Danielle Hawkins or Nicky Pellegrino, then this is your next book.

The Good Mothers Alex Perry This is the true story of the women who took on the world’s most powerful mafia ’Ndrangheta. Founded more than 150 years ago in the toe of Italy, the ’Ndrangheta is today one of the most powerful organised crime groups, with a crushing presence in southern Italy, a major force in global finance and a reach into more than 50 countries around the world, yet few of us have ever heard of them. The ’Ndrangheta’s power rests on a code of silence.

Alessandra Cerreti, an anti–mafia prosecutor, realised the key to bringing down this criminal empire was to free its women and allow them to speak out and testify. The stakes are huge, the women are fighting for their lives, the Mafiosi are fighting for their existence and Alessandra Cerreti is fighting to save a nation.

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Fans of classic jazz and show tunes should head for Leigh Sawmill Café on Sunday, June 10, when Terry Hicks will be at the Bechstein concert grand to play a variety of songs from the American Songbook. The Warkworthbased professional pianist has played all over the world, including at New York clubs, international hotels and on cruise ships, and he has an extensive repertoire of songs suited to laid-back listening. He will be playing at the Sawmill from 5pm until 7pm, entry by koha.

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The trio Ol’King Cole plays along the lines of Cole’s early drum-less trio, which was active from 1943 to 1950.

The American jazz pianist and vocalist recorded more than 100 hit songs and his trio was the model for the small jazz ensembles that followed. He also acted in films and performed on Broadway, and he was the first black man to host an American television series.

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Tickets at the door are $35 (cash or cheque only), students free. The concert starts at 5pm.

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Hospice Catwalk Arts returns Entries are now open for the Warkworth Wellsford Hospice and Hibiscus Hospice Catwalk Arts 2018.

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Matakantata and Warkworth Brass swing set together

Dr Eddy will speak at the Warkworth Town Hall on June 13.

Historic figures reconstructed The monthly Warkworth Town Hall Talks series will take a step back in time this month, when Dr Anne Eddy presents a perspective on early Maori/ Pakeha history in the Mahurangi.

Before moving to NZ in 1998, Dr Eddy studied sociology, psychology and Romanian language in Berlin and Bucharest, specialising in the area of ethnic identity and inter-ethnic relationships.

After completing studies in Maori language and culture at the University of Waikato, she did a PhD research project titled Neighbours at Puhoi River: A Cross-Cultural Dual Biography of Te Hemara Tauhia and Martin Krippner.

She says the thesis reconstructed the biographies of two relatively obscure, yet fascinating and controversial players in the history of Aotearoa New Zealand.

“Both historical figures were

initiators and leaders of neighbouring settlements – Te Hemara Tauhia (1815-1891) in his role as chief of the Te Kawerau/Ngāti Rongo hapū of the Ngāti Whātua iwi, and the former Austrian captain, Martin Krippner (1817-1894), organiser of an Austrian-Bohemian settlement at Puhoi,” Dr Eddy says.

“Despite their efforts for each community, both men were accused by their own people of misusing their positions for personal gain. Te Hemara was blamed for selling off tribal lands to cover personal debts and Krippner was never forgiven for promising his Bohemian compatriots a “land of milk and honey”, while leading them to near starvation and struggle in the dense NZ bush.”

The free talk will be held at the Warkworth Town Hall on Wednesday, June 13. Doors open for refreshments at 5pm, talk starts at 5.30pm.

Two of the region’s most popular musical groups are joining forces in June for a couple of rousing nights of swing and jazz music in Warkworth and Matakana.

Matakantata Choir and Warkworth Brass will be performing their combined concert, ‘Swing’, at Matakana Village Hall on Friday, June 22 and at the Warkworth Town Hall on Friday, June 29.

Music lovers can expect a packed programme of foot-tapping classics, including Hit the Road Jack, Moondance, Route 66 and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, with both groups each performing a number of songs on their own and together. The choir will be joined by Fiona Strathern on piano, Vaughan Morgan on guitar and drummer Neil Tristram on pieces they perform without Warkworth Brass.

The collaboration is the first time the 50-odd choir and band members have teamed up to work together, something which Warkworth Brass manager Donna Flack says has presented a few logistical challenges.

“We have players that come from Albany up to Wharehine, they have members from Pakiri, and our band room is too small for us all to rehearse, so we all have to go out to Matakana,” she says. “It’s a major undertaking, but the end product should be awesome.

It’s something that’s not been seen in Warkworth and Matakana before.”

Up-tempo first time team up.

It will also be the first time that the band and choir have performed in the renovated town hall in Warkworth, which Donna says they are all looking forward to.

Matakantata will be under the leadership of US pianist Amy Cottingham and musical director Alan Flack will lead Warkworth Brass.

Tickets for Swing cost $20 for adults and $5 for children and can be bought in advance from Harts Pharmacy, Warkworth and the Gull Service Station in Matakana.

Both concerts start at 7.30pm.

Mahurangi Action & One Warkworth present:

WARKWORTH TOWN HALL TALKS A series of free monthly talks relevant to our town and the wider community

Anne Eddy PhD, MA Historian

The shared Maori-Pakeha history of the Mahurangi will be the subject of this month’s Town Hall Talk. University of Waikato-based historian Anne Eddy last year published her thesis Neighbours at Puhoi River: A Cross-Cultural Dual Biography of Te Hemara Tauhia (1815-1891) and Martin Krippner (1817-1894). The thesis re-constructs the biographies of two relatively obscure, yet fascinating and controversial players in Aotearoa New Zealand’s history, who were both accused by their own people of misusing their positions for personal gains.

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Colourful calendar: a suitably artistic snapshot of what’s on offer.

Elena Nikolaeva will be running four workshops.

Anyone wanting to unleash their inner artist should head to Mangawhai Artists Gallery over the winter months for a wide-ranging series of art classes and workshops.

Beginning on Saturday, June 9, there will be eight weeks of different workshops at the Moir Street gallery, teaching aspects of drawing, painting, mosaics and printmaking, all led by experienced tutors and practising artists.

Winter Workshop programme coordinator Nicola Everett says they have something for all levels of experience and everyone is welcome, whether they are new to art or more experienced.

“Workshops are suitable for beginners, you only need

Artists have also planned some drop-in events for Saturday mornings when the village market is running, including a free customised T-shirt bag-making session on June 30 and a Fish Print fundraiser on July 23, plus demonstrations of artists at work on June 9 and 21.

The Winter Workshop Programme runs from Saturday, June 9 through to Sunday, August 5.

There will be a display of work created throughout the programme held on the final weekend at the gallery between 10am and 3pm.

Full details of the courses, tutors and how to book a place can be found at mangawhaiartists.co.nz/ learning-opportunities.

Mangawhai winter workshops offer artistic opportunities an urge to learn and play,” she says. “With the range on offer, there is plenty for more experienced artists as well – this is an opportunity to try something new and be creative.”

There are 13 workshops in all, plus other demonstrations and activities, ranging in duration from a single session of less than two hours up to a course of six weekly sessions. Topics include Digital Drawing, Hands On Charcoal, Painting With Spatula & Squeegee, Perspective in Landscape Painting, Mosaic With Found Objects, plus a whole week exploring different printmaking methods from July 14 to 19.

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Anthony Morris has been expressing himself via clay, glass and paint for more than 50 years.

Matakana artist shows many faces at open studio day Artist and potter Anthony Morris will be showing and selling a limited number of never-before-seen artworks at a miniexhibition at his studio in Matakana this Queen’s Birthday Weekend.

He has been hosting monthly Open Studio days since January, but at a special event on Saturday, June 2 he will show and release for sale a limited number of retrospective archival artworks, panels and original paintings for the first time, as well as some new pieces.

The Many Faces of Anthony Morris

will focus on his enduring work and fascination with portraiture, with a selection of ceramic and glass pieces, plus a collection of watercolour and acrylic paintings.

The studio workshop will be open from 10am to 4pm and can be found behind Morris & James Pottery in Tongue Farm Road, Matakana. Ant himself will be in the studio to meet and greet people between 10am and 12 noon and from 2pm to 4pm.

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continue to open on the first Saturday of each month. On July 7, the focus will be on landscapes and on August 4 the focus will shift to abstract art with a range of functional, sculptural and decorative works described as “thematically curated as abstract in their focus”.

Ant Morris is best known as a potter.

He founded Morris & James pottery in 1977 and quickly became known for his striking, intensely coloured range of ceramics. However, he has also worked extensively in glass, has sculpted in wood, bronze and stone,

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and he paints, draws and writes poetry.

A retrospective “survey” exhibition of much of his work was held at Morris & James late last year to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the pottery itself and the half century since Ant, who will be 80 in July, first started making pots.

Following on from this, local gallery The Vivian in Omaha Valley Road is planning a major solo exhibition of Ant’s work in September.

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Leftovers of this loaf are delicious sliced and fried in a little butter and served with a fried egg for breakfast.

Vegetarian Nutty Loaf 2 Tablespoons olive oil 1 medium onion, chopped 1 clove garlic, crushed 1 cup chopped mushrooms 1 Tablespoon rosemary, chopped 1 ½ cup grated beetroot (or carrot) 1 Tablespoon molasses 1 Tablespoon soy sauce 1 Tablespoon balsamic vinegar

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Method Heat the olive oil in a frying pan, add the onion and garlic and gently fry until soft. Add the mushrooms and rosemary, fry for 2 minutes. Add the grated beetroot, molasses, soy sauce and balsamic vinegar. Cook until the liquid has reduced for about 5 to 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool.

Turn the oven on to preheat to 180C. Line a loaf tin with baking paper.

Put the nuts into a food processor and give a quick blitz to roughly chop. Then add the breadcrumbs, beans, parsley, nutmeg and cooked onion/mushroom/ beetroot mix. Season with a little salt and pepper. Give a quick blitz to combine and then taste test. Season with more salt and pepper if needed. Add the eggs and give another blitz until the mixture is well combined and the eggs mixed through. Pour the mixture into the lined loaf tin and smooth down the top.

Put into the preheated oven and bake at 180C for 45 minutes. When cooked, remove from the oven and set aside for 10 minutes, before removing from the tin and slicing to serve.

Serve with roasted vegetables (the oven is already on, might as well make use of it) and steamed seasonal veg (or the Warm Winter Coleslaw from MM 6 July 2016). To make it gluten-free use gluten-free breadcrumbs and gluten-free soy sauce. To make it nut-free, for those with a nut allergy, swap out the nuts for sunflower and pumpkin seeds.

Book sale funds hospice

A meeting room, as well as a corridor, at Tui House, in Glenmore Drive, Warkworth, was turned into an Aladdin’s Cave of books last week.

Warkworth Wellsford Hospice volunteers, including parttime receptionist Eri Bruhns, spent several days sorting and displaying 400 boxes of books, the remnants of an even larger book sale on the Hibiscus Coast. The books, both fiction and nonfiction, covered a range of genres, and included large print, foreign language and New Zealand books. Most sold for $1 a copy. The sale was a fundraising event for hospice.

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The Leigh firefighting team after the event (from left) Malcolm Allen, Martin Lefley, Carmel Simmonds, Mark Simmonds and Paul Smith.

Firefighters rise to Sky Tower challenge Volunteer firefighters from Warkworth, Wellsford and Leigh took on the Firefighter Sky Tower Stair Challenge on May 19, raising thousands of dollars for Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand.

The local firefighters joined more than 900 others from around New Zealand, to run up the 1,103 stairs to the top of Auckland’s Sky Tower, while wearing full firefighting kit and breathing apparatus.

Among the standout firefighters were Carmel Simmonds and Martin Lefley from the Leigh Brigade.

Carmel came first in the women’s

Grand Master event for firefighters aged between 50 and 60.

Martin was third in the Supreme Masters event for firefighters aged 60 and over.

Meanwhile, Warkworth firefighter Simon Manawaiti came third in the Firefighter of Steel event, where firefighters carry steel cylinders instead of the lighter carbon fibre ones.

Simon says he was greatly helped by having run up Conical Peak in the Dome Valley about a dozen times in training.

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He says the event has given him confidence stairs will not be too much of a challenge in a genuine firefighting situation.

Altogether the Warkworth, Wellsford and Leigh brigades raised more than $17,000 for Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand.

The grand total raised from the event was $1.25 million.

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Kids step up for rippa rugby competition A total of 28 teams from six local primary schools competed in an all-day rippa rugby competition at the Warkworth Showgrounds on May 17.

The competition is one of a number run by North Harbour Rugby across Rodney and the North Shore.

Those competing at the showgrounds were Warkworth, Horizon, Snells Beach, Matakana, Ahuroa, Tomarata and Kaipara Flats.

North Harbour Rugby manager junior rugby Vyron Smith says he was pleased with how the tournament came together. “This competition is all about fun and the children seemed to be enjoying themselves,” Vyron says.

“It’s also about development and there is some

promising talent in Mahurangi for the future of North Harbour rugby.” Vyron has just taken over the junior manager role, a new position, after playing for North Harbour’s championship winning team in 2016.

He manages 90 primary school and 30 intermediate school teams, organising competitions for up to 1100 students at a time in the area.

“I’m passionate about rugby and about getting children involved in the sport so I hope to develop a strong junior group to feed into the senior sides.”

After the success of the Warkworth competition he hopes North Harbour will return with the tournament at the showgrounds again in term four.

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Plentiful catches Hasn’t the weather just been great over the last few weeks of May? Great for fishing but, sadly, the bright clear skies did nothing for the annual opening of the duck hunting season. Although some ducks were taken on the opening weekend, many a camouflaged hunter came home empty-handed with his tail between his legs.

In last month’s article, I mentioned that there was a lot of bait fish off the Ocean Beach area and that it would be a good area to target for some possible marlin.

Well has it gone off! Some days have seen more than 50 boats out there trolling with both live baits and lures. With such large amounts of bait fish in the water, your best chance of landing a marlin is by using live bait or even dead bait.

Some anglers have been trolling further up north and report that massive schools of mackerel, kohera and saury have come in. It is really good to see such large areas full of bait fish, and it sure looks like better fishing times are ahead. Reports of marlin catches have also been streaming in and with all the excitement not many have done any bottom fishing for snapper.

I came across an interesting fishing competition which is run from Tryphena Bay, Great Barrier Island each year. This competition does not have prizes for the biggest fish. Rather a specific length of fish gets targeted. This year it was a 460mm length snapper. Every fish that is not within 5mm of that length is put back to live and fight another day. Now if more than one fish of the exact length is caught, the heaviest specimen is then the winner. Each fish is gutted to check no sinkers have been inserted to bolster the weight. Ha ha, you can’t trust anybody! There was a disqualification this year because one boat had three anglers but only one had paid the entry fee. Begging the question, which angler caught the winning fish?

The prize money of $5000 is very attractive, but what I like about this format is that the big snapper are preserved to clean up the reefs – a point I mentioned in my article about kina barrens earlier this year. Far too many competitions are run each year under the old format of largest snapper wins. This sees every angler taking out every big fish just in case it could be the winning fish.

Meanwhile, for those hardy anglers fishing the winter months, I would suggest fishing in very shallow water for snapper. They like to warm up by sunning themselves in the shallows.

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The Wellsford Premier team is finding form again, following the return of some key players.

Wellsford to fight for place in top four

The Wellsford Premier rugby team will scrap for a top four placing in the Joe Morgan Memorial competition after some major setbacks due to injury.

When Mahurangi Matters went to print, the side was seventh in the comp and facing Waipu in their next game.

Wellsford head coach Peter Firth says at the worst point of the season, the club was missing 17 players through injury across the premier and reserve teams.

“We lost some players in key

positions and were forced to call in inexperienced guys who have played well, but were under pressure when we faced the stronger teams,” Peter says.

He says the lack of players meant a rocky start to the season, but the side is coming together as players return to the team.

“We still want to make a top four playoff spot, which means winning almost every game, but the belief we can achieve this definitely exists in the squad.”

Signs that Wellsford’s season is turning around became clear on May 19,

when they dominated the Otamatea Hawks 33-7, after losing to them 1810 earlier in the year.

“Discipline is an area we need to work on, but there were very few infringements on attack and defence in that game, which was great to see.

“Our ball retention was also very good and we capitalised on that with accuracy from our back line.”

Wellsford’s next home game will be at Centennial Park against Hora Hora on June 6, with a 2.15pm kick-off.

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Olympic dream on agenda Leigh sailor Cailen Rochford, 13, has set a course for the O’Pen Bic World Championships in Barcelona later this year, but will need some help from the community to get there.

Rochford, who attends Wentworth College, started sailing in the Optimist class at Sandspit Yacht Club before moving to the Manly Sailing Club, where he switched to the O’Pen Bic class. He is being trained by the club’s head coach, Aaron Hume-Merry, as part of the Russell Coutts Sailing Foundation programme.

Rochford’s successes to date include third in the Under 13 Division at the National Championships in January, winning gold in the Whanganui Open Cup and Under 19 category, and

second overall at the Wellington Open Bic Cup in April.

O’pen Bic is a relatively new class of sailing, involving a single-handed sailboat designed for young sailors.

There are about 7000 boats worldwide, sailing in about 15 countries, with an estimated 700 in New Zealand and Australia.

Rochford says his goal is to one day sail for NZ at the Olympics.

The championships in Barcelona will be held from July 30 to August 4.

Rochford has launched a fundraising campaign to help meet some of the costs of competing and a movie night will be held in Matakana on June 17.

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Trivial pursuit night Fundraising trivial pursuit night for the Mahurangi College Hockey Club, Mahurangi College Auditorium, June 30, 7pm. Tickets $15 from players or school office. Info: w.frost@mahurangi.school.nz Rodney College fun run Fun run/walk 5km starting at the Mangawhai Tavern, June 3 at 10am. Tickets from Rodney College or Bammas Mangawhai, adults $15, students $10.

Matakana hockey Year 5 and 6, and Year 2 to 4 girls are wanted to play hockey at the Warkworth Showgrounds on Saturday mornings. No experience or stick required. Info: sandratom@xtra.co.nz Kaipara sports scholarship Entries open for the Kaipara Flats Sports Club Annual Young Persons Sporting Scholarship. Prize of up to $2000 towards the winner’s sporting endeavours. Entrants must be between 16 and 25 years of age and be affiliated directly or via a family member with the sports club. Entries close June 15. Info and application forms: kfscsportsscholarship@gmail.com Matakana Table Tennis Matakana Table Tennis at the Matakana Hall, Tuesdays, 7.30pm.

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Warkworth golfers triumphant Pupuke’s dominance in the North Harbour Women’s Nine Hole Pennants Competition was crushed

by Warkworth when the local team triumphed in the final round last month.

Warkworth was running third in the competition when it went into the final round against Pupuke, which has won the competition every year bar two since the competition started in 2007.

“We wanted to play well enough to cement our third place spot, because Warkworth has never placed in the

competition before,” Warkworth team convenor Judi Dooling says. “But then everyone in the team played fantastically and we leapfrogged over Waitemata and trounced Pupuke to win.

“I honestly don’t know how we did it!”

Members of the team who played in the final round were Shirley Wilson, Helen Kelly, Wendy Moore, Judi Dooling, Colleen Hicks and Margaret Foster. Other Warkworth team members in the comp were Bella Boston, Joy Martin, Gail Cash, Pippa Edwards and Lesley Stone.

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On Wednesday 30 May, we join our community in celebrating our past and present successes and future direction. After a year long consultation listening carefully to what it is that you as a community want from our school, we are greatly looking forward to sharing what we have learnt.

In terms of ranking, when pass rates at all three NCEA levels are added together along with the UE pass rate, Mahurangi College ranked 10th out of 44 decile 7 schools, and we were the top non-selective (ie state, coed) decile 7 school in New Zealand. We are incredibly proud.

The evening also provides us with the opportunity to thank you for your contribution to our successes, whether historical, or more current. The party starts at 6pm in the Auditorium. Local food, wine and coffee will be available at no charge with thanks to Friends of Mahu. I look forward to seeing you there.

phones as a learning device within the classroom at school. Our aim is to support the students around sensible device use and to educate them on how to use other suitable devices for learning, such as tablets and laptops. We are encouraging our parents to support our school by ensuring students are not contacted during learning times. Students are able to respond to messages at break times.

The confirmed NCEA results from 2017 have now been released. We were particularly pleased that our Maori and Pasifika students were also above decile 7 averages at all levels, as were the endorsements for Excellence at all three levels. These are excellent results of which we are incredibly proud.

One of our six areas of strategic focus for 2018 is the health and well-being of our students. In light of this, we have introduced a new policy around the use of cell phones at our school. Since we became a BYOD school in 2014, we have allowed students to use smartphones as a learning device in certain situations in the classroom. However, in recent times we have become increasingly concerned about cell phone use interrupting the learning and health and well being of some of our students. After spending a good deal of time looking at the research around cell phone use by young people, and discussing the issue at length, we have decided to completely remove cell

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Congratulations to our Equestrian Team who were named North Island Champions at the recent Intercollegiate Horse Trials held at Taupo over the weekend of 19 and 20 May. The team also took out first place overall in the

Dressage. A notable achievement considering the high level of talent from within the 30 participating schools. Well done to our team; Emma James, Alec Webb, Kaitlyn Monti-Ellery, Ella Bartlett.

Our Place was a sea of pink as students and staff showed their support for Pink Shirt Day. It was a valuable opportunity to share how we can make a difference as individuals by joining together and standing up for what is right. In the case of Pink Shirt Day, the stand was against bullying - an uncompromising stand we all need to take. Well done to all involved.

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WE WILL REMEMBER THEM 2018 ANZAC DAY Our Head Prefects represented our school well during this year’s ANZAC commemorations. Our Head Boy Toby Swann-Mackay spoke of his great grandfather, Private Albert Edward Swann of the Royal Warwickshire regiment, who fought for the British army and was killed at Passchendaele on 4 October 1917. It was sobering to think that on that same day, in the same battle, four young men from this area also lost their lives: William Fleury, Garfield Warin, Arthur Sanderson and William Rowe. Just eight days later, on 12 October 1917, New Zealand’s darkest day in military history, another four young men from this area were killed. As the population of the area was a lot less than today, a significant impact was felt. In all, 91 young men from our community died in World War I and II.

YEAR 8 INQUIRY: IS ADAPTATION NECESSARY FOR SURVIVAL? Our Year 8 students will be working on a number of inquiry based projects throughout the year, many of which have been newly introduced. Recently students held an Expo evening to showcase the results of their latest big idea project: “Is adaptation necessary for survival?”. The students used the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) design process to adapt products that already exist to potentially allow humans to survive in many different extreme environments.

The end results were very thought provoking and generated a great deal of discussion and further investigation.

It was fantastic to see our PRIDE values come alive, especially when students were challenged. We are very proud of all our juniors who show us every day that they are willing to take thoughtful risks, engage in experiential learning, persist in problem-solving, embrace collaboration, and work through the learning process.

Term 1 had many exciting things happening for the Year 8’s, one of them being the Expo evening. We learnt a lot about extreme environments and planets, as well as being able to adapt something that was already invented. We had to use our inquiry skills and our PRIDE values (especially pursuing excellence, showing determination and being innovative) to complete our projects.

We all worked really hard and it was fun to learn so many new and exciting things.

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Twenty-year-old James Woodall (in red) is one of the more experienced players at the First team level.

While the First team has created opportunities this season, it still lacks the ability to finish moves.

An inexperienced Warkworth Men’s First football team is set to lead a rebuild at the club, following a lack of progression between its junior and senior sides.

The need for more pathways between the teams at the club was recognised last year by then head coach Cam Gray, after a number of senior players started to retire.

However, current head coach Ross Millar says following the departure of more experienced players this year, a number of juniors have been fast tracked into the First team to fill gaps.

“We have just three experienced players in the squad this year and the rest are young, with a number of them

having never played reserves football,” Millar says.

New players include Kyal Wells, Bayley Webb and Liam Spurr, who still plays First XI football at Mahurangi College before club matches.

“All of the players coming through are very talented, and I have no doubt that the potential for a winning team is there, but learning to read the game at this level will take them time.

“I’m hoping the core of the team we have now will remain relatively similar over the next few years so we can develop the talent that’s here.”

Even though the holes have been patched by the influx of young players, Millar says more is required to

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“For some reason, the pathways just aren’t there for our young footballers and we may need to look at establishing better ties with Mahurangi College to solve that issue.

“It’s a big step up from U17 level to First team football and with no team left in that age group, I don’t know where our next group of players will come from unless we get some more systems in place.”

He says injuries and the confirmed departure of two players later this season will present more immediate challenges.

The First team is in the bottom bracket of its table with a string of tough results

and a large negative goal differential.

“Our midfield can compete with any in this competition, but there is work to be done with both our defence and attack.

“Inability to make the final pass or finish has kept us from scoring goals and poor errors on defence have seen us concede, which means we can’t apply pressure on our opposition.”

However, Millar is confident his team can avoid relegation this year.

“We can definitely beat most teams in this competition if things come together.

“Although we would like to win, realistically this year developing players and maintaining a mid-table position will be a success for me.”

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The Many Faces of Anthony Morris, portraiture miniexhibition and sale of new and retrospective works, Anthony Morris Studio, behind Morris & James Pottery, Matakana, 10am-4pm. (see story p44) Giant Book Sale, Wellsford, in the Wharehine building, 1650 SH1, Wellsford, Sat-Mon 9-4pm; Tues-Fri 10am-3pm. Books, dvds, records, music, puzzles and more.

Warkworth Gamefish Club’s 10kg Fishing Tournament, 6am start Saturday to weigh-in by 4pm Sunday, Sandspit Yacht Club. Entry $70 ($20 junior) including prizegiving supper.

Tickets from Matakana Marine, Warkworth Hunting & Fishing, Snells Beach Fish & Dive, Warkworth Tackle & Outdoors, or Louise on 027 425 7224 Planting day, Tawharanui Regional Park, 9am. Follow the signs. Volunteers will be rewarded with a barbecue lunch. Info: secretary@tossi.org.nz Warkworth Beekeepers host Clifton King, national compliance manager of the American Foulbrood Pest Management Plan, Warkworth Primary School, 7.30pm. All welcome (see story p35) Ocean’s 8 movie night fundraiser for Mahurangi Kindergarten, Matakana Cinemas, 7pm for 8pm start. Tickets $25, including drink, from the kindergarten on 425 7096 Our Place, Our Stories at St Leonard’s Church, Matakana, 7pm. New stories and new storytellers, with guitarist John Hayday back by popular demand. Arrive early for a glass of mulled wine. Free.

Tutors at Work, free demonstration by Mangawhai Artists’ Winter Workshop tutors to launch 2018 programme, The Gallery, 45 Moir Street, 10am-1pm.

Info: mangawhaiartists.co.nz (see story p43) Not Even Once - Saying No to Meth, community talk, Warkworth Town Hall, 7pm. Info: methcon.co.nz (see story p25) Warkworth Lions Quiz Night (3rd of 3), Warkworth Bowls, Mill Lane, 7pm. Teams of 6 maximum, $10 entry per person at the door, bring your own nibbles. Individual and team prizes.

Proceeds to community activities. Info: 0274 776 519 Warkworth Town Hall Talk, historian Anne Eddy on the shared Maori-Pakeha history of the Mahurangi; 5pm for refreshments, 5.30pm start (see story p42) Leigh Community Mid Winter Swim, Matheson Bay at 10.15am to take the plunge.

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The men’s doubles final proved a hard-fought affair, going down to the wire.

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Cream comes to the top in seniors tennis comp Former Davis Cup player Adam Thompson was one of many high calibre competitors to place at the Lower Northland Seniors Tennis Competition at Warkworth this month.

The competition saw doubles played on May 19 and mixed doubles on May 20 at both the Warkworth Tennis and Squash Club and Mahurangi East Tennis Club.

Thompson took out the men’s doubles top prize with partner Pranil Ranchhod in a hard fought tie-break victory, after opposition Mike Clapshaw and Terry Mitchell came back from 8-4 down.

Thompson won the men’s singles and men’s doubles in the 35-plus category at nationals in January and came third in the World Masters Games singles last year.

In the women’s doubles, national 60plus singles and doubles champion Helen Litt partnered with Lyn Langsford. They were dominant and took out first place.

Women’s doubles place getters from left, Robin Denton, Lyn Langsford, Helen Litt and Keiko Pogoni.

Runners-up were Jane Geldard and Karlene Magill and third place went to Lower Northland’s Robin Denton and Keiko Pogoni.

Other Lower Northland players to

win titles were Penny Smith and Sandy Tritt in A section and Matthew Buchanan, John Dunn, Neville Stevenson, Bryn Williams, Don Matheson, Rob Denton, Des Freeman

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and Mike Bleasdale in B section.

In mixed doubles, Peter Hunter and Sue Jamieson placed first, while Wendell Wylde and Debbie Martin of Lower Northland were runners-up.

Other title winners from the local region in the mixed competition were Matheson, Tritt, Stevenson, Joanne Palmer, Williams, Joyce Pyle, Freeman and Sue Drinnan.

Lower Northland Seniors president Murray Billington says although the numbers were down to 83 players this year, the competition was very strong.

“We had some top players and probably our strongest ever ladies field in 34 years of the competition being run at Warkworth,” Murray says.

There are 52 tournaments on the seniors calendar for players 35 and over played throughout New Zealand.

The Warkworth tournament attracts people from Wellington to Kerikeri.