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Mad dogs and Mathesons Bay swimmers Goosebumps and chattering teeth didn’t deter about 40 brave souls from hitting the water at Matheson Bay, on Sunday June 21, for the annual winter solstice swim. Although one or two swimmers donned a rash shirt, most braved the chilly sea in just their togs. Dogs and penguins also made an appearance. While few frolicked for long, a number completed a short course around a buoy anchored just off shore. It was then a quick dash up the beach to towels, hot water bottles and a hot cuppa at the coffee cart. The average sea temperature in June is normally around 16.4 degrees, slightly higher than the average low of the year of 14.6, which usually occurs in August. The sea is normally at its warmest in February when the average temperature is 21.2 degrees. Averil Lovegrove (pictured), aged 87, was among the winter swimmers. She said she’s swum in the Irish Sea and “it was about on a par!”

Council takes more, spends less in Rodney Spending by the Rodney Local Board has taken a huge hit in its 2015/16 budget despite the rate take from Rodney increasing by nearly 10 per cent. The Board finalised its 2015/16 budget at a meeting last month. It includes a 20 per cent drop in total spending by the Board, from $28.1 million to $22.4 million. This does

not include spending by Council Controlled Organisations (CCOs) and regional expenditure such as libraries. This is set against a backdrop of an increased rate take by Auckland Council, from $64 million to $70 million a year. The new funding agreement between the Board and Council was adopted

last month. Member Greg Sayers registered the only vote against the agreement. He accused Council of “rates gouging”. “I don’t think ratepayers want Board members to agree to these cuts,” he said. “It’s unreasonable to see that level of continued rates gouging. Ratepayers are screaming out for a fair share and I’m using my vote as a protest.

“It’s not an indictment of the Local Board. We do our best to be prudent with what little we have.” At the Board meeting Mr Sayers also criticised a lack of transparency in CCO’s, which were unable to provide a breakdown of spending in each local board area. In the funding agreement, capital

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Auckland Council’s 10-year budget adopted There were some tense moments around the council chamber when Auckland Council’s governing body debated the Long Term Plan (LTP) on June 25. Mayor Len Brown had the Auditor General Lyn Provost and the chief executive Stephen Town spell out the consequences for Auckland if Councillors did not pass the budget. The sticking point for some Councillors was what they perceived as the lack of proper consultation on

the transport targeted rate of $114 for households and $183 for businesses. Speaking in support of the budget, Rodney Councillor Penny Webster stressed the importance of the LTP in allowing local boards to get on with their programmes. She also hoped that when Council looked at its asset recycling as a source of alternative funding, some regional parks would be considered for sale. “We have the case of yet another

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expenditure increases from $8.3 million to $9.2 million. The big cuts have come to operational expenditure, which has dropped $6.5 million, from $19.7 million to $13.1 million. Long-term, there are further cuts signalled. The Board’s total budget drops to $18.5 million in 2017/18 before slowly rebuilding to $24.3 million in 2024/25. “The major projects are the Warkworth Town Hall and showgrounds. Once they’re completed the spending drops dramatically. But at the same time the rates take for Rodney is expected to grow to $100 million,” Mr Sayers says. The 2015/16 figures do not include overheads. Final budgets are expected to be released this month. Details of the Board’s budget are on page 24.

regional park being purchased at South Head. I think we should see if one or two parks are no longer necessary.” The budget eventually passed 10 votes to nine with an additional amendment which addressed concerns about rail costs, the transport targeted rate, the general rate of 3.2 per cent, managing significant rates rises, a review of the Port of Auckland capital expenditure and an annual review of the UAGC (uniform annual general charge).

The main debate on the budget at the Board’s business meeting was whether it would continue spending $8000 on scholarships for the three colleges in Rodney. Members Phelan Pirrie, Beth Houlbrooke and Warren Flaunty were strongly opposed to the fund and wanted the schools to apply to a contestable fund each year. “We want to encourage schools to come to us with scholarship ideas, rather than handing a cheque out every year,” Mr Pirrie said. Ms Houlbrooke said the spending only benefited a few students. “The feedback I’m getting from ratepayers is that they don’t support this.” Board relationships manager Lesley Jenkins said the conditions of the contestable grant prevented individuals from applying for funding, which would make it difficult for a scholarship to meet the funding criteria. Board chair Brenda Steele said Kaipara College principal John Grant had advised her that he would not apply for funding as he did not have time. Ms Steele wanted to continue funding the initiative for a year. Rodney Councillor Penny Webster said the scholarship was “one of the better things we did under Rodney District Council”. “I know the students who received the funding were very grateful.” The Board voted to abolish the scholarship fund, with Ms Steele and James Colville opposing to the motion.

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Workshop brings community together but at a cost A placemaking workshop in Leigh has received mixed reactions after it successfully brought the community together but came with a hefty price tag. Most of the 13 people who attended the workshop on June 14 found it worthwhile but the Rodney Local Board funding was less well received, with concerns it cost more than local initiatives. The Board allocated $13,600, including mileage, to Auckland based Beacon Pathway to deliver two half-day workshops in Leigh and Parakai. The funds came from $4400 of unspent community volunteer awards budget and $9200 from the community facility initiatives budget, part of unspent Old Wellsford Library funds. The four-hour workshop was facilitated by Beacon. It started by introducing placemaking with international, national and local examples. Placemaking is about communities engaging to shape the look, function and feel of the places they live to build a sense of community, local pride, identity and connection. The facilitator asked the group for community placemaking ideas, which were written down and discussed. Ideas included creating a community centre, community garden, utilising vacant spaces, improved walkways and a park or education area. Barriers, like frustrations with Council processes, were noted but parked to avoid derailing the workshop.

People shape places, places shape people – was the tagline for the community placemaking workshop, held at Leigh Primary School.

Community member Tony Enderby says it was a positive workshop but the money would have been better spent on local projects. He said a little went a long way, for example the two day Leigh Coastal Walks received $2000 last year and was attended by 130 people. Elizabeth Foster was surprised by the cost. Whangateau Harbour Care spent $3000 this year planting half a hectare with about 500 coastal plants involving 10 volunteers. However, she says the workshop was worthwhile and after decades on

committees, including Whangateau Residents and Ratepayers and Whangateau Hall and Reserve advisory committee, it was the first time she had seen disparate groups come together. “People beaver away on their own because it’s hard to get others involved. It was good to see younger people turn up and hear all the ideas. I just wouldn’t like to see that kind of money spent on it again.” Love Leigh facebook page administrator Melissa CrockettJoyoue says it brought together

varying ages and groups and hoped future community led events would encourage even more diversity. She says the workshop was expertly facilitated to keep the group on topic and give them ownership of the issues, which although it seems simple, takes experience and skill. As a result of the workshop and the placemaking toolkit, a steering committee has been set up, with a working title The Big Omaha Bay, to bring together different groups and the wider community with a social gathering. Member Mike Francis says the workshop empowered the community. “It seems expensive at first but if you take step back, if we get an opportunity to deploy a toolkit that brings the community together with a common purpose and there is a chance the Council will listen to a larger voice, then it is worth every cent.” Rodney Local Board member Beth Houlbrooke, who invited community groups to the workshop, says it included a full day reconnaissance of the area in the led-up. Beacon were established Auckland Council providers with successful results at a Riverhead placemaking workshop in February. She says the value was more than just the cost of the workshop. It was to help groups not operate in isolation or compete for funding and resources and instead pull their resources and efforts to focus on what they want to achieve.

Applications open for Old Wellsford Library Applications have opened for community groups to lease the Old Wellsford Library. The successful tenant will be chosen based on the group’s experience, track record, skills; whether the project fits with the Board’s priorities, the groups governance and management and whether the project promotes Wellsford to visitors and provides opportunities for people to connect with each other. Initiatives that share the space and involve a number of different groups and have broad community input and involvement will also be prioritised. All applicants must be not-for-profit charitable trusts or incorporated societies. Applications close on August 1. The Rodney Local Board will choose the successful tenant. Info: Karen Walby, 09 484 8018 Email: Karen.Walby@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

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it very clear that local governance arrangements are for communities, not councils, to determine. Parliament clearly wants reorganisation proposals to be community driven as is enshrined in the legislation. The Commission is also charged with helping communities achieve their ambitions to boot! The model Unitary Council promoted by NAG may not be perfect but is arguably light-years better than what we have at present. The legislation allows for fine-tuning this start-up model by requiring, at the very get go, for the Local Government Commission to seek alternative proposals. Only then does it get down to the nuts and bolts of determining what would be the best option for us to meet the (also new) ‘Purpose of local Government’. Steven is also right when we he infers we live in a pretty idyllic environment but I say that is in spite of being ruled by Auckland, not because of it. Imagine how much better still this community could be if we had the other half of our rates to spend on ourselves. NAG is currently canvassing support over the wider Auckland region and is delighted with the response. The common cry is, “good luck – wish we could come with you”. Bill Townson Chairman, National Action Group

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the disgraceful situation the Auckland Council has allowed to happen. It’s The Viewpoint article from a Local regarding the Council-owned public Board member (MM Jun 17) raises walkways at the back of our properties doubt on whether the advantages at Snells Beach. outweigh the disadvantages if North Last August I noticed the grass was Rodney becomes a Unitary Council. getting excessively long so I phoned Council’s customer services, duly got When approached by the Local a job number and waited for results. Government Commission, the After about three weeks nothing Auckland Council could only come happened. I phoned again and they up with reasons why the scheme would said the responsibility for cutting the disadvantage the Super City. They grass has moved from the Parks and could not, with the aid of the LGC find Reserves department to the Transport any due cause to qualify this position. Department so they now have been instructed to cut the grass. The LGC, to try to further prevent progress of a breakaway group, denied After another month nothing the applicant’s request for assessment. happened so I phoned again. This went on several times until somebody The High Court verdict affirmed that arrived just before Christmas, cut the the desperate attempt of the LGC to grass with a weedeater and left great justify its position, by using the “not mounds all over the pathway and then in the public interest” reasoning, was left. After several months of no action unlawful. and more calls in the New Year, and So, if the Local Board member knows totally frustrated, I wrote to Mayor something that Auckland Council, the Len Brown in March. LGC and the High Court don’t know, I received a letter back, which said then please enlighten the rest of us. they would give me an answer within 10 days. Three weeks later I phoned Lance Taylor, Dome Valley his office, left messages and still didn’t get a reply so I wrote another letter in April. To date I’ve heard nothing. Leaving the fold The Transport Department now says Steven Garner is right that Auckland they only have the contract to cut the Council will not be well pleased walkways that are open both ends, of at North Rodney leaving the fold. which there is only one. The rest of the (Viewpoint MM Jun 17) walkways are dead ends which means nobody is detailed to cut them. They After all, they will be losing what also told me they are not going to cut they probably see as a ‘cash cow’. the grass if Mitsubishi they areElectric not going to get paid Bosch 7kg Maxx Front Load Washer Wall Mounted Simpson 5.5kg EZISet Top Load Washer Fortunately, it’s not their call whether Inverter Heat Pump for it (which I guess is fair enough). Walkway ignored we go or stay. The 2012 Amendment It all seems to go back to Council. It is to the local Government Act makes I would like to bring to your attention their responsibility. I think I and other APPLIANCES LTD

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YOU S AY This means that we cannot even have our telephone put on the internet as the line isn’t capable of running it. We had to go back to ASDL1 and have the phone on a separate line. Also, we are lucky to get download speeds above 150kbs. Due to this, I can’t upgrade my computer as the upgrade is online and if it could do it without crashing every five minutes it would take about a month. It’s bad enough now that when you change web pages you commonly get the message Server not available. It really drives you mad. We have been told that the only thing that we can do is get as many signatures as possible from our exchange and send to Chorus. Then it will be in the lap of the gods if they even bother to read our petition, let alone do anything. The bit that is really annoying is that we have to pay our bills to our internet providers every month on the button. If we failed to do so we would get cut off. But when we complain about the poor service they are providing, they just say it’s not our fault, you have to speak to Chorus. On speaking to Chorus, they say you don’t speak to them it’s the internet providers problem. We have been given the run around now for nearly seven years. I was under the assumption that legally as we have a contract with the internet provider not with Chorus, even though they are really only middle men selling a service, they have the responsibility to push for upgrading. It seems to me very much that they are happy to take our money and we should feel privileged to have what we are given. If you get any information about dealing with internet providers and Chorus that can lead to getting some results from them please forward it to me. Kevin Craft, Kaiwaka

I do believe it is time for the barges to stop flushing out their rubbish just 500 meters from Snells Beach. These dumpings take place on incoming tides about 500 metres off Snells Beach. The dumping I witnessed today took place from 9am until the tide came in on June 10. The barges move to a different location on every dumping. Is this because the water level is getting too low if they dump in the same area all the time? The flushing out of these barges takes place on an incoming tide so that the silt, sand and whatever comes in with that tide. It deposits itself on the beach and because the boat ramp is a collection point for debris we

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now have a situation where there is now quite a significant sandbar/siltbar at the end of the boat ramp. Is this allowed in other areas of Auckland Harbour? “I don’t think so”. I know that this is the ideal place to dump rubbish for this company because Kawau Bay is the only area of water in the district that does not have water monitoring. Or is this dumping of rubbish in Kawau Bay the reason we do not have water monitoring in Kawau Bay? I believe it is time for this company working out of Sandspit to do the right thing and to stop this dumping of sand/silt on our doorstep and take it out passed Great Barrier as per the agreement. Also arrangements should be made to get this company that has done the damage to the boat ramps at Snells Beach to clear this mess of sand and silt bars away so recreational boaties can get back to using these facilities to their full potential again. Because the local authorities are powerless, this is no reason to take advantage of the situation. Chas Benest, Snells Beach Sandspit Marina spokes-person Jon Nicholson responded: The barges load at the marina site and proceed to the approved dump site where the bottom of the barge is opened up and the load is dropped on to the seabed. There is no facility to drop half a load. After the load has been dropped the sea immediately washes the inside of the hopper before the big doors are closed. Any remaining material is hosed down on site. It is not possible to bring back half or any part of the load. The company comments that it would be commercial suicide to deposit any material in front of a populated beach such as Snells and they wouldn’t do it, even if it wasn’t against the Marine Protection Rules under which they must operate. Naturally occurring inter tidal material on beaches such as sand and silt are not stable and are always moving naturally because of environmental influences such as wind and waves. Changes in beach profiles are also natural occurrences and are to be expected on beaches such as Snells and Algies. The managing director of the barge company was on the barge on the date and time in question, as the crew went through fire drills in preparation for a Maritime New Zealand inspection on the following day as required under the transport act. This involved, among other things, the operation of the fire hoses (the wash down hoses). Maritime New Zealand carried out this inspection on the 11th as planned.

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$1 million expansion to Mahurangi East parkland A 20-hectare property, near Martins Bay, has been added to Auckland’s regional parks network, but it’s unlikely anyone will be visiting the park any time soon. Auckland Council paid $1.025 million for the land in November, $100,000 less than the property’s 2014 capital value. The former farm and bush block borders an existing 71.5ha regional park at the Mahurangi Harbour entrance, which can only be accessed by boat. Principal ranger parks north Matt Vujcich says Council had a first right of refusal agreement with the landowner and purchased the property to maintain the landscape of the area and protect it from development. The land has high ecological values, with native coastal forest. He says there are no plans to enable public access from Martins Bay, which would mean crossing privately owned land. Meanwhile, Council is creating a development plan for Te Muri Regional Park in Mahurangi West. The plan will create a 50-year vision for the park and a 10-year implementation plan. Mr Vujcich says the report will address improving public access to the park, future facilities and tracks. The plan will also enable the Mahurangi Action group to progress plans for a walkway through Te Muri, linking

The new 20-hectare addition to parkland in Mahurangi East is the forested peninsula in the top right of the photo.

Wenderholm and Mahurangi West. “We will be contacting stakeholders in the coming months to develop a draft plan.” The draft plan will go out for public consultation in November/December with hearings to be held in February. The 382-hectare park sits between Mahurangi Regional Park and

Wenderholm and includes kauri forest, native bush, cultural heritage sites, beach access and views across the Hauraki Gulf. It was purchased by Council for $15 million in 2010, but has not been formally opened to the public and has been used as farmland. The main vehicle access to the park is via Hungry Creek Road, a narrow and

unsealed road. It is estimated to cost millions to improve the road and the intersection with State Highway 1. There is no specific budget tagged to the development of Te Muri Regional Park in the Long-term Plan 20152025, however there is a $1 million annual fund for the development of new regional parkland.

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Kauri measures fall short The lack of funding for kauri dieback cleaning stations has prompted Auckland Council to recommend that people wash their shoes in their sink at home before and after walking at Rodney parks where there are kauri trees. There is currently no cure for kauri dieback disease and the most effective way of preventing its spread is through people cleaning their footwear before entering areas with kauri. However, many parks and walkways in Rodney with significant numbers of kauri do not have cleaning equipment, despite kauri dieback being identified at 12 sites in Rodney. Senior regional biosecurity adviser Stacey Hill says Council’s kauri dieback management has been focused on regional parks with the largest stands of kauri and there has been no funding to maintain cleaning stations in smaller parks and walkways. “Council works to maintain cleaning stations at prioritised tracks with significant areas of kauri,” she says. “There are currently over a hundred cleaning stations across the region and to maintain these is a challenge. “In some cases, the responsibility lies with park visitors to ensure they clean their footwear and equipment before and after visiting kauri, in a sink or bucket at home when there are no stations at the park.” Council’s biosecurity team is currently working with Council’s parks team to improve kauri dieback management measures.

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Kauri dieback has infected this tree near the track entrance of Logues Bush Scenic Reserve, near Wellsford.

Kauri dieback cleaning stations have still not been installed at McElroy Scenic Reserve, Mahurangi West, which was identified as the largest forest-clad park in Rodney in an ecological survey of Rodney parks last year. Of the 160 parks surveyed, McElroy was rated the fifth highest priority for biodiversity management with urgent kauri dieback prevention measures needed. Ms Hill says the biosecurity team has taken the first step of identifying where kauri are in the reserve and will be working on a plan for kauri dieback hygiene measures in the next two months. Last year the government committed $26.5 million over four years to research, monitor and prevent the spread of kauri dieback. See cartoon page 4

These days, every storm seems to bear down with unprecedented ferocity. Extreme weather events are a regular occurrence. High seas now wash boulders onto roads and coastal erosion bites huge chunks off our favourite beaches. Infrastructure can’t cope, causing floods and property damage. Inundation makes areas impassable. Weather measurements reach new levels – the driest summer ever, the coldest night, the most rain or snow, the strongest wind … welcome to the new reality. Climate change, and the more extreme and frequent storms and droughts that it brings, is upon us. The climate change future is now. But as yet there seems to be little attenuation of those risks or reduction of coastal development in response to the increased vulnerability of communities to climate change. We’re getting more coastal development, not less. Suggestions of ‘managed retreat’ of public and private infrastructure from coastal margins are sometimes met with outrage. Responses often take the form of a clamour for yet more hard structures, coastal armaments, rock walls, and barriers, which are expensive to make, often ugly, and ultimately doomed to fail. The future looks pretty precarious, too. Scientists are warning that even if we stopped emitting CO2 at unsustainable rates immediately, we’d still have seas a metre or two higher than current levels, by the end of the century. Some forecasters warn that some current coastal real estate will have to be abandoned altogether, uninhabitable because of climate change-induced storm risks. We’ve built houses and roads, and sealed over low lying dune and swampland, meaning many of our towns and villages are vulnerable already within the range of ‘normal’ storm events, and this can only get worse. But despite obvious current risks, all indications are that we will continue to fail to change our own actions in response to the climate, putting expensive public and private development, infrastructure and assets in the path of the force of the sea. In natural coastal environments, dune ecosystems create a natural defence against storm surges, but now they’re severely modified. Planning processes take a long time and much of our development sits on the coast, meaning current land use patterns are hard to change. People are worried about property rights and property values, but nature won’t care whether we take heed of scientists’ current warnings, she will continue to have her way, and we will pay.

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Marjorie Blythen, A&P champion

In the months leading up to the annual Warkworth A&P Show in January, the shed on SH1 becomes a second-home for long-serving secretary Marjorie Blythen. From an office that’s about the size of a shoebox, she organises schedules, books entertainers and tries to keep calm as she negotiates increasingly complicated consents and permits. She’s been a staunch volunteer for more than 40 years, who was recognised with a Member of the NZ Order of Merit award in 1997. Marjorie will leave big shoes to fill when she stands down after the 150th anniversary in 2017. She talks here with Jannette Thompson ….

y first experience with agricultural shows was at the North Kaipara Show at Paparoa. Mum would be busy making sponge cakes while we kids would be entering flower posies, aqua bowls and the handwriting competitions. Years later when I was married, I started entering the home craft section of the Warkworth Show and after a couple of years I joined the Ladies Committee. It was our job to clean up the Warkworth Transport shed, which was our Exhibitors Pavilion. We’d line the whole building with white paper so it looked clean – it was a massive job. The committee also did all the catering and found the judges for the various sections. I became the Ladies Committee delegate on the general committee and was, for a time, on the Northern District Council of the Royal Agricultural Society. In the 1980s, I gradually took over the role of secretary/treasurer. In those days, the job involved dedicating about a fortnight either side of the show, attending monthly meetings and paying the odd bill throughout the year. Now, it’s nearly a year-round job. It takes about three months to get a show completely wound-up and you have to start making bookings for the following year almost immediately after the show ends. was born in Kaitaia where my family on my mother’s side has a connection going back three generations. But my real childhood memories are of our farm at Paparoa. Dad served for three years in World War II, mostly in North Africa, and when he returned, he and Mum won a ballot for a small dairy farm on Pahi Road. Frank Blackwell whose sister was the pioneering botantist Ellen Blackwell – she jointly published Plants of New Zealand in 1906 – once owned the farm. We think she may have been responsible for the huge range of plants and fruit on the property. The orchard had all the staples such as apples, plums, pears and peaches, as well as figs, wild grapes, tamarillo, currant and date palms, and persimmons. We sold

some of the fruit, but Mum also did an enormous amount of bottling every summer. When she turned 95 a few years ago, we took her back to the old farm. It’s been subdivided into lifestyle blocks but it was lovely to see that many of the old trees were still there. hen I was 14, we moved to a farm on Omaha Flats Road, about where the bread shop is now. I was in the first intake of students at the Mahurangi College in Woodcocks Road but didn’t stay to sit my School Certificate. Instead, I got a job at McDowells Bookshop, where Winscombe Mall is now. McDowells also had a drapery and grocery store. In those days, the social event of the week was the Saturday night dance at one of the local halls. My husband Dean and I knew each other through our families, but it wasn’t until his sister Rosalie set us up on a date that we really started going out together. Dean came from a well-known family in Matakana – his mother was a Vipond and his great uncles established the water-driven timber mill on Matakana Valley Road. I was 19 when we married. I got a job at the Matakana Dairy Co-op Store, while Dean was a driver for Matakana Leigh Transport. Later, he worked for Keith Hay Homes, delivering houses but he eventually went into business with his Uncle Snowy at the mill and they started the timber yard in Warkworth, now Carters. When we moved from Matakana to Warkworth, I worked at the telephone exchange, where Mr Farrell was postmaster. We were desperately saving for a house so to save on rent, we moved into a little cottage where Robertson’s Boatyard is now, which cost 10 shillings week. The ASB gave us a loan for $6200 – one of the first ASB loans out of the Auckland city area – and Brooker and Whitmore built us a brick house in Whitaker Road. Mark was born a few months after we moved in and two months before our seventh wedding anniversary. We stayed a couple of years in Warkworth, but Dean had always hankered for a farm so we sold some land we owned at Omaha

Flats, as well as our house, and bought Stuart Smith’s 29-hectare dairy farm on Kaipara Flats Road. We sold the timber yard to Carters in 1986 and bought the neighbouring Dyson property, which added about another 200 hectares. Our timing couldn’t have been worse. There was a financial recession and farm subsidies were removed so the first few years were pretty hard going. We had to forget about the weekly wage and learn to budget around when the money for the beef and sheep came in.

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e’d been on a trip to Malaysia six weeks before the timberyard was sold which was lucky, because there weren’t too many holidays in those early years on the farm. Our holidays started to become the trips we’d take transporting cattle to the various beef expos around the country. We were in the Stud Hereford Association by this time and then Dean became an All Breeds judge with the Royal Agricultural Society. In 2004, we won the Champion Hereford in New Zealand. That is about as good as it gets. We were also runner-up in the All Breeds Champion of Champion, missing out to an Angus by just two points. We met a lot of great people through our involvement with the cattle and it wasn’t unusual to do nine

shows over the summer. But around 2008 we decided to downsize. We gave up showing altogether four years ago, after 34 years, and Dean has also resigned as a judge after 20 years. Because I competed in shows, I think I was able to see both sides of what was involved in putting on a good show for both the competitors and the public. There’s always a lot of work in the background that most people are unaware of. The 150th show in 2017 will be my swansong. No-one is indispensable and I am working on shepherding someone into the role, but I don’t intend to sever my ties completely. I’ll still be around to help but it’s time for someone else to shoulder some of the load. As far as what I’ll do, Dean and I are on the Hospice Fundraising Committee and Dean is vice-chair of the Landowners and Contractors Association, so I don’t think we’ll find ourselves twiddling our thumbs! Time to travel, garden and meet up with family and friends sounds pretty good to me. Both our sons are in the NZ Army – Mark is a colonel who is currently serving with the US High Command in Florida, while Anthony is a lieutenant colonel and explosives engineer, based in Wellington. Their tours overseas have given us some worrying times. Between them, they’ve served in Bosnia, East Timor, Laos, Cambodia and Afghanistan. We also have five beautiful grandchildren. You’ve got to make the most of each day because when your number’s up, that’s it.

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Children aren’t consumers I am a great believer in “you get out what you put in”. Hence, I have spent the majority of my adult life volunteering in my community, starting with play centre and kindy committees when the kids were young. Now that was only 10 years ago but boy how things have changed. Now both these organisations are under threat due to the complete change in funding models and policy structures by the current government. With a push to have both parents out working, and the increasing inability of families who can afford to have one parent at home raising the kids, play centre looks set to disappear from many areas of New Zealand in the next few years. Why is play centre such a good model of early childhood education? Because it doesn’t just provide early childhood education. Play centre educates parents and assists them to be their child’s first teacher. Play centre welcomes babies through to six year olds and extends their developing minds at all levels through the medium of play. Tipping coloured water in different quantities – half full, half empty, overflowing, quarter full – equals early maths. It provides the language of math in an understandable context. What about climbing over the log, crawling under the log, where is the start of the book, where is the back of the book. These are the foundations of education that kindergarten, primary school, intermediate and then college builds upon, all learnt at the knee of a parent who is also being educated and developed, who is interacting with other parents. It is an opportunity to touch base with other parents in a safe and supportive environment where they can ask questions which they might hesitate to ask in a more formal setting, “What do you think these spots are? Do you think I should take them to the doctor?” Parents making relationships within their neighbourhoods and building on them so that they went on to the kindy committee, the school PTA and Board of Trustees. Hekia Parata told the Education and Science Select Committee that if play centre wanted to survive then they needed to change their model e.g. longer hours and less parental involvement. Is that what we want as a nation for our children? Longer hours in a care facility and less parental involvement? There is an ever-increasing trend to refer to children as consumers instead of as small citizens who need their families to truly have choice when it comes to their care. This is not a statement that childcare facilities are wrong or bad for our children. But, in a world that continues to bandy about the word “choice” to justify private business access to taxpayers dollar, where is the “choice” for parents to stay at home? Where is the research that shows that an environment where parents have no option but to return to the workforce has no negative impact on our children in the long term.

Council scotches calf licence rumour Auckland Council has been swift to deny that it was proposing to charge students a fee to raise animals for the annual calf days. The suggestion was discussed on talkback radio this month, but a Council spokesperson says it arose from a misunderstanding of the new Animal Management Bylaw that comes into effect on September 1. “There is absolutely no fee or licence needed or proposed,” manager bylaws and compliance Max Wilde. “Council will not be charging a fee or asking children to get a licence to have a pet calf or lamb in preparedness for pet days. This is a tradition in many rural communities that is still popular and Council wants this to be able to continue and is happy to work with schools on this.”

The new bylaw will replace 18 sets of regulations inherited from former councils and introduces a single, consistent approach for the Auckland region to managing animals other than dogs. “In terms of fees for rural areas, I can confirm that there is no need to apply for a licence or pay a fee to keep any animals if a property is over 4000sqm (one acre). A fee and licence only applies if your property is in an urban area, as defined in the proposed Auckland Unitary Plan, and you want to have more than the allowed number of poultry or you want to have stock. For example, you can have up to six chickens on a property under 2000sqm or up to 12 chickens if your property is between 2000sqm and 3999sqm.”

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Up Periscope If you are on Twitter, you may have heard of the new app called Periscope which means you can do video streaming online. Life streaming, as it is called, has become the next big thing. You can scan the world and jump into a video stream which allows you to watch anything from locals exploring their towns in France to a live stream video with your favourite celebrity. Video is the window into other worlds and Periscope is taking us there in real time. I have jumped on Periscope and walked with friends in Boston on their way to a baseball game. I’ve also jumped into a stream on a live TV show and seen what was happening in the background. It’s a great way for viewers to feel more connected with what is happening. Life streaming helps you expose small events to much larger audiences. While it is still new, a lot of businesses are playing with it to get their messages out to a wider marketplace. For instance, a business association in Australia is live streaming interviews at local cafes, businesses and tourist places – interviewing business owners and showing what their town is like to encourage viewers to stop in on their way through Any business can utilise social media to reach a larger audience and whether Facebook is where your business spends it time or Twitter you can utilise these amazing apps to reach a larger audience and get your audience to be more engaged with your brand. There is nothing wrong with experimenting with these new platforms to find a bigger audience. Periscope has been growing rapidly over the last few months and I see it making some huge changes for local businesses who are moving their businesses online. A few of the great features are: • Live streams can be saved to use on your other social media platforms • You don’t have to have Twitter – you can sign in with FB • You can answer questions from people who are watching • The world can be your audience

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What’s trending #Hyperlocal It turns out that what we do at localmatters.co.nz is trendy! #justsaying. It makes for plentiful pickings of local news trends around the world so we’ll share them here, along with our take on it. Hyperlocal is not just about local coverage, it’s about locals having their say. Watch this space … and add your suggestions to this column online.

What the # A hashtag symbol # on social media is a way of grouping related information, events #WW100NZ or themes #hashtagisdead Due to its popularity, ‘hashtag’ was added to the Oxford English Dictionary last year, at the same time it became less popular to use on Twitter.

What we love The Love Leigh facebook group page is a great virtual gathering space for locals. Great to see digital connecting with physical at a placemaking workshop in Leigh recently, with all ages and digital abilities promising to work together to share community announcements. Turns out everyone’s not that scary in real life after all. Lots of seeds of ideas were planted (plus lots of ideas about planting).

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The Seasons programme runs multiple groups throughout Mahurangi to help people cope with grief.

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Sharing grief and separation experiences Probus talk The grief and loss programme, Seasons, is being expanded in the Warkworth and Wellsford area. Seasons is a peer support programme for anyone dealing with grief and change. It helps those who have lost someone significant from their daily lives through separation, death or other major family changes. Seasons groups for children have been available in the Mahurangi area for over four years. Working mostly through local schools, Seasons has held multiple groups at schools in Warkworth, Wellsford, Snells Beach, Kaiwaka and at the Mahurangi Christian School. Afterschool groups have also taken place in Wellsford and Warkworth.

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Seasons has now expanded to include teenage groups at Mahurangi College and regular adult groups are starting in Warkworth on August 3. A Life Threatening Illness Group is available for five to 18 year olds who are living with someone who has a life threatening illness such as cancer, severe asthma or diabetes. Warkworth/Wellsford Seasons coordinator Heather Free says one of the main advantages of Seasons is that although it is a structured programme, it is flexible enough to accommodate the particular situations of the participants. “Seasons is not counselling, rather it is about being with others,” Heather says. “Together group members look at the many feelings and experiences that are associated with loss and ways

to cope with and live through grief.” Groups are led by Seasons Companions, all of which have experienced grief in their own lives, and have been thoroughly checked and trained. There is no set charge for joining, but donations to cover costs are welcome. Many groups and organisations in the community are supporting Seasons. These include Matakana Op Shop, the Lotteries Commission, The Warehouse in Snells Beach, the Anglican Churches in both Warkworth and Wellsford, Wellsford 4 Square and the Community Organisation Grants Scheme (COGS) and Lions. Info: Heather Free on 021 0813 3586 or seasonswarkworthwellsford@gmail. com

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The speaker at the June meeting of Warkworth Mens Probus Club was American Stephen Harrison, who now lives in Warkworth. Stephen is a retired chemical engineer who worked for 40 years on oil exploration. In Australia, he worked on the APEC pipeline from Queensland to Sydney and has had wide experience in many aspects of the oil and gas industries. He gave some history on the industry, from the days of whale oil to the 1920s when Iran started oil exploration under BP. As a consequence, BP had a huge surplus of oil and Winston Churchill, then Lord of the Admiralty, came to their rescue, ordering huge quantities for the British Navy. OPEC formed in 1960 and had an oil embargo to help control the price of oil. As a result, a barrel of crude oil went from US$20 to US$100 plus. Since then, the US has increased its exploration and is now about 80 per cent self sufficient in oil. Oil is currently around US$60 per barrel. He added that NZ produced a high quality oil which was exported to Singapore at a high price, and then imported a cheaper oil for domestic use. He finished by saying that New Zealand produced about two litres per day, per person. Contributed by Alan Boniface

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Bring out the smelling salts! I had the horror of seeing a family member collapsed and unconscious just yesterday. While all sorts of unpleasant thoughts ran through the mind at this time, calling the ambulance was the first reaction. Fortunately, the collapse lasted for under a minute and, as it turned out, was only a ‘fainting episode’. I can’t applaud the paramedics enough and the care given in the hospital emergency department was brilliant, too. There is only one shortcoming that I could remark on and it is not a new observation. It appears that there is a shortfall in the understanding of breathingrelated problems and the related symptoms, specifically hyperventilation. So in my family member’s story, the person involved was sent home safely cleared of any life threatening medical problem, but none the wiser as to what had really happened to them. This is a very common scenario and while it is great that we have brilliant emergency care, there does seem to be a gap in diagnosing these problems which can be a real burden on the health system. The symptoms of hyperventilation can be any of the following: Weakness, fainting, dizziness, confusion, agitation, numbness and tingling (usually in both arms or around the mouth), spasms or cramps of the hands and feet, muscle twitching, chest pains or tenderness, shortness of breath, headaches, dilated pupils and other facial symptoms. Chronic effects include general tiredness, lack of concentration and sleep disturbances, palpitations, irritable cough and breathing discomfort with frequent sighs and yawns, erratic blood pressure, upset gut, bloated feelings, nausea, sexual problems, achy muscles, tension and panicky feelings, depression and anxiety. As you may realise, some of these symptoms are also seen during life threatening events such as a heart attack. The first action should be to phone 111 if you are having the symptoms of a heart attack. Unfortunately, there are many folks with Hyperventilation Syndrome (HVS) that do not know they have the problem, let alone what they can do about it. But worse, some people can suffer for years with a severely compromised life if this is not diagnosed accurately and appropriate treatment given. But the good news is that this is an entirely treatable condition that can be completely resolved with some professional advice and treatment. More often than not, the treatment is entirely natural and mostly a matter of retraining breathing.

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BNZ is looking for community organisations in need of a helping hand through the Closed for Good campaign. Branches around the country will close on September 2 to allow 5500 BNZ staff to volunteer for community groups. Last year, staff provided financial advice to Hestia Rodney Women’s Refuge. BNZ chief executive Anthony Healy is urging community groups to make the most of the free labour and skills on offer. Mr Healy is encouraging groups to think broadly and make the most of how the BNZ team can help. “We want organisations to look at all the skills our people have and can share. We can help you by running a financial literary or scam savvy workshop, or writing a financial or marketing plan.”

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Pictured at the presentation were, from left, Lin Pardey of OPAK, Marty Duytshoff of the Kawau Emergency Trust, Cr Webster, Roger Davies of Kawau Coastguard, and Martin Farrand of Kawau Boating Club.

Sweet music helps Kawau groups Three Kawau Island community groups have shared $20,000, the proceeds of the second annual and hugely successful Music in the Gardens community event held in February. Cr Penny Webster presented cheques to Kawau Volunteer Coastguard for the purchase of a new tractor and pontoons for the rescue craft, Kawau Emergency Rescue Trust to supplement emergency equipment around the island, and the Kawau Boating Club for an emergency generator and a better sound system. More than 800 people attended the event held at Mansion House, which was organised by Organisations Passionate About Kawau (OPAK). Plans are already well advanced for next year’s event which will be held on February 13. Info: musicinthegardens.co.nz

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Blue Light turns 20 About 130 people turned out for North Rodney Blue Light’s 20th birthday party at the Wellsford Community Centre last month. Blue Light administrator Sally Green says guest speaker Billy Graham had the right mix between humour and conveying the serious message that ‘you can do it if you try’.

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Learn basic skills in flax-weaving by making a woven holder. You will also make and hand-dye flax embellishments to add to your holder, to make it an individual piece of art for you to take home and use. Supported by Creative Communities, Auckland Council. Tutor: Kathy Stevenson, Whangateau.

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Seagulls benefit local groups

Matakana publican Duncan Anderson hands over the money raised from the annual Seagull race to, from left, Kevin Blair from Omaha Surf Lifesaving, Roger Davies from Kawau Coastguard and the Warkworth St John Ambulance team Phil Marlow and Phil Butler. In total, $9000 was raised.

Destiny Rescue on BPW agenda A member of Business and Professional Women’s Warkworth club, Jacqueline Ironside, spoke at last month’s meeting about her involvement in the International Destiny Rescue Charitable Trust. This is a non-profit organisation dedicated to rescuing children from sex trafficking and sexual exploitation. Members were told there are 1.8 million children who are tricked, forced or sold into the sex trade or pornography in the world today. The sex trade and human trafficking is the fastest growing global industry in the world. Destiny Rescue locates and retrieves children from these situations, sometimes in partnership with the antitrafficking police. In Thailand, trained teams of two people pose as customers at bars or brothels and gather intelligence and evidence, and develop a relationship with the child and ask if they want help. Then the process of restoration begins when the child is placed in a safe house and is cared for by the Destiny staff so that healing and education can take place. There are 500 children in Thailand in care at the moment. The trust is funded from Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Contributed by Mona Townson

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Lions install new president Customs broker Peter Henderson was sworn in as the 2015 president of the Lions Club of Warkworth on June 16. Admitting he was fairly new to the area, Mr Henderson joined the club just two years ago. His wife Carol is also a member. He said he hoped to introduce Lions to a new generation of members. “The district is changing and we need to look at new ways to bring in members,” he said. “The club is a great way to meet people and members are only asked

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ERO review a roaring success Snells Beach Kindergarten celebrated its recent Education Review Office (ERO) report with an afternoon tea last month. ERO found the kindergarten to be “very well placed” to promote positive learning outcomes for children – the highest rating available. The grading means ERO will assess the school in four years time, instead of the standard

three years for most ECE centres. “Children are well supported to become confident and capable learners. They are encouraged to follow their interests and lead their learning,” the report said. The kindergarten had a professional face painter as a treat for the children on June 11. The kindergarten is part of the Auckland Kindergarten Association.

Norma and Graeme Miller shared their rose presentation tips with the Warkworth Garden Club last month. The presentation was to help members prepare for the upcoming Warkworth and Districts Rose and Flower Show, on November 27. A regular winner at the rose show, Norma says they win so often because they know how to stage the roses. The presentation had humour and handy tips to take a “mongrel and turn it into a rose”. Norma demonstrated how to stage a rose, while Graeme also gave a running commentary. They talked about the difference in the classes of blooms at the Rose Show. Graeme described the “decorative” as a teenager, “exhibition” was pride of life (half and three quarters out) and a “full blown bloom” is over three quarters. “I think full blown are the most beautiful blooms.” They gave tips for small and large stems, balance and foliage. They also shared tricks people use at competitions, including brushing milk and water on leaves to make

them shiny, putting roses in the fridge or icy water to keep them fresh. The couple said they select the flowers the night before and give them a good drink in a bucket of water. On competition day it was not a good idea to transport them in buckets incase they bumped up against each other and you lose the top of your prize rose getting out of the car. Instead, they recommended laying them down in polystyrene boxes with cups on the end of stems. Other tricks included using cotton buds to loosen up the petals. They also gave tips for pruning roses and using clippers to bang or scrap off the thorns. Norma knew some people who took the thorns off the flowers they want to exhibit while they are growing. “But they have no children, and they are married to roses.” The Miller’s hope their tips help others, as they want to generate a bit more competition for this year’s rose show.

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A lack of volunteers is being blamed for the closure of the Tapora Library, but students at Tapora School have started a project to look at how the service can meet the needs of the community. The library closed last year after the volunteer managing the service left the area and did not arrange a replacement. Last month the library missed out on $518 from Rodney Local Board’s annual rural voluntary libraries grant. The library was run from a room in the Tapora Hall, next to Tapora School. School principal Ingrid Stewart says the students were looking to run the library as part of a community service module, but they were now going to conduct a survey to see if changes

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to the service might better serve the needs of the community. “It’s an opportunity to change the service to something the community really wants.” Last year, the library opened two hours a week on a Wednesday morning. It has about 30 members with a stock of 900 books. Auckland Council libraries service delivery manager Vicki Clarke says anyone interested in managing the library should contact Megan Livick at Wellsford Library, or call Council on 09 301 0101. The funding for Tapora was reallocated to Point Wells Library, which received a total of $2588 from the Board. Leigh Library also received $2588.

Following on from the last month’s article, we will now take a look at saving, spending and sharing. The best way to educate children about saving is to teach about value first. A practical example might be when they have something they want to buy but don’t have enough money to buy it right now. Get them to write down the value of the item they want to buy, then break down the cost of the item into amounts they can realistically save each week. Example: If the item is $50, break it down into $5 amounts on paper so that they can tick off each amount over 10 weeks until they have enough to buy it. If they get a lump sum as a birthday present or from Grandma, then they could tick off four or five weeks worth. This introduces the ‘save now, buy later’ concept. They will soon understand the concept of saving. Waiting can be a hard concept for children to master, but once they do, it can set them up to be life-long savers. Help them make a fun chart to track their saving and set a goal they can reach with their hard work. When spending, encourage children to make thoughtful decisions on their spending. Encourage them to think about the consequences of buying worthless items as opposed to putting the money towards their savings goal. Encourage them to think about ways they could make a different decision. For instance, instead of going to the movies, could they get a DVD free from the library and watch a movie at home. Learning to spend money wisely is a great habit to encourage and is something a lot of adults could benefit from later in life. Sharing is a concept which, when taught young, brings benefits later in life. Not just sharing or donating money, but sharing time and talents with others. Helping those who need a hand, passing on your knowledge to others or volunteering for a good cause. These skills, when learnt at a young age, set children up well for future job and employment situations. It turns kids into well-rounded decision-makers with good people skills. There are a number of ways you can practise these concepts with children. They can share their time helping planting, a community project, fundraising for school, donating toys or clothes, or spending time at a rest home doing a job. If your child has more than one thing they would like to save for, then get them to make labels for three jars and then they can put some money into each jar and go about saving for each item separately.

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Sharing waiata for Matariki Award winning singer songwriter Rob Ruha (Te Whanau a Apanui /Ngati Porou/Tainui/Ngāpuhi) is joining forces with the Black Quartet for a free Matariki on the Move concert at Te Hana Te Ao Marama Maori Cultural Centre on July 4. Rob says Matariki is a time to share stories and music, remember those who have passed on and prepare for the year ahead. What will you be performing at Te Hana? A collection of my own waiata and waiata from Te Tairāwhiti that tell a story of things that inform who I am and what I believe in. Tells us about your collaboration with the Black Quartet. I love the sound of strings and I think they work well with a kapa haka mind like mine and the stories I like to tell. Mahuia Bridgeman-Cooper (from the Quartet) is also a good friend of mine, so the fit was even better. How has Kapa Haka influenced your music and performance? Like many Māori around the country, I’ve been doing kapa haka from a very young age. My whole whānau has. I’ve also been fortunate enough to have performed with some of the best kapa haka teams in the world - that means hours and hours of training, lip trills, scales, breathing exercises and everything else that goes with producing a good sound. Kapa haka is also the cornerstone to my particular brand of recorded music that I call ‘Haka-soul’. Kapa haka

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Tim Stewart and Nick Atkinson, aka Hopetoun Brown, who last played at the Leigh Sawmill last October, will return this month.

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Seductive overtones aired at Ascension The award-winning early music ensemble, Affetto, based in Auckland, will play at Ascension Wine Estate on July 19. The group is comprised of five leading early music exponents – soprano Jayne Tankersley, Philip Griffin on theorbo and Baroque guitar, Rachael GriffithsHughes on harpsichord, Peter Reid on cornetto muto and Polly Sussex on viola da gamba. In unison, it constitutes a fascinating array of instruments both to listen to and view. Formed in 2010, the group has quickly become known for innovative and uplifting programming, the beauty of their sound, and for bringing some often forgotten music to life in new ways. Affetto has participated in the Auckland Fringe Festival twice, both times winning the award for Best Musical Production.

Their programme, entitled Femme Fatale, offers a glimpse into the royal courts of the 16th and 17th centuries, through the psyche and passion of two notorious women, Barbara Strozzi and Lady Macbeth. Composer, courtesan and singer Barbara Strozzi lived in the Venice courts in the 17th Century, and she left behind music full of passion and angst. These will be paired with upbeat and lively works by Monteverdi and his contemporaries. This programme also includes a premiere of a new work, Lady Macbeth, composed for the ensemble by Janet Jennings with support from Creative New Zealand. Warkworth Music hosts Affetto’s performance at Ascension on Sunday, July 19, starting at 4pm. Tickets are available at the door – $30, students free. Info: 425 7313 or 425 9281, or visit chambermusic.co.nz

The horn section of the local funk juggernaut Supergroove, who played to a sold out crowd at Ascension Winery last February, will take the stage in Leigh this month. Tim Stewart and Nick Atkinson, of Hopetoun Brown, will showcase their unique mix of blues and rhythm, which originally kindled the Supergroove flames in Ponsonby. The two horn-playing cowboys will head to Leigh after recording their first album at banks Peninsula. “Like prospectors, we’re searching for that golden sound which reclines on the steep, shady slopes above Lyttelton Harbour,” Nick says. “It’s the same studio where Ben Edwards lassoed those magical vocal takes from silver scroll winner Tami Neilson, and where Marlon Williams and Aldous Harding recorded the evocative tunes that have since carried them round the world.” Tim and Nick sing and stomp while playing trombones, trumpets, saxophones, bass clarinets and a pile of percussion. Special guest guitarist Tom Irvine, of Newton Road fame, will join them for the show in Leigh. Hopetoun Brown will play at the Leigh Sawmill Café on Sunday afternoon, July 5.

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Rodney College musicians clean up at Rockquest finals

  Year 11 Rodney College singer Mollie  Harvey took home three awards the  Smokefree Rockquest Northland  Regional Finals last month.  Out of the nine awards given at the event, five went to students from the college. Millie came first in the solo/duo section and was voted winner of the People’s Choice Award and won Best Song.

LEABOURN PA S S E N G E R S E RV I C E

Henwood and Hurley at the Sawmill

Providing a wide range of passenger transport solutions for your team, tour group or function.

Phone: 09 423 7416 • Email: info@leabourns.co.nz

www.leabourn.co.nz

Warkworth Music presents

AFFETTO

“Femme Fatale” Harpsichord, vocal, cello, concerto, Baroque instruments

The R18 show is on July 18 from 8.30pm to 10pm.

Say it to

Sayers Thursday July 16 & August 20

At Ascension Winery, Matakana

1 Baxter St, Warkworth (next to Library)

Adults $30 • Students Free • Info. Ph 425 7313 or 422 9348

Possums Pottery & Pieces of Junk

Two of New Zealand top stand-up comedians are performing at the Leigh Sawmill in July. Dai Henwood and Ben Hurley are both known for their leading roles in the hit comedy TV show 7 Days, have stacks of comedy awards and have been performing together in New Zealand and throughout the world for years. Fresh form a huge season at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival, they are promising a loose night of good kiwi laughs.

Meet with Greg Sayers, 2–4pm

SUNDAY 19th July at 4pm

EXHIBITION

Rodney College band The Monkey Assassins came third and won the Best Lyrics award. Millie has now submitted a 15-minute video, which will be judged against videos from regional winners. The top nine acts will compete in the national finals in Auckland, at the Raye Freeman Centre, on September 11. Rodney College act Mindless also competed at the regional finals.

LOCAL BOARD

Drop in, or pre-book 09 301 0101

LEIGH SAWMILL CAFE July 10th - 12th 10-6pm

Alice Lewis, Anne Dewey, Helen Aitken & Lucy Harris

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Andrea Hinchco, Taste The Kitchen Shop www.tastethekitchenshop.co.nz

Slow cooked pavlova Winter means log fires, long nights and all the comfort food recipes one can think of. The long slow cooked recipes of our childhood are perfect on the weekend but for weeknights it is a bit more difficult. Working in the kitchen product industry for over 15 years it takes a lot to excite me but this year Mike and I have invested in a 3-in-1 multicooker, which is the latest version of what we knew in the 80’s as a crockpot. The biggest revelation came when I had an excess of eggs and experimented with a pavlova. I was skeptical but the result was fantastic and a great way to cook this iconic dessert without an oven.

Pavlova 6 egg whites 2 tsp. corn flour 1 ¼ cups castor sugar 1 tsp. vanilla extract 1 tsp. white vinegar

For best results, wipe the inside of the mixing bowl with a little white vinegar before beginning. Whisk the egg whites until soft peaks form. Gradually add the castor sugar one tablespoon at a time, ensuring that it’s mixed well before adding the next spoonful. Mix until the meringue is thick and glossy and the sugar is dissolved. Add the cornflour, vinegar and vanilla extract and whisk until it is just combined. Line the base and sides of the slow cooker with baking paper. Pour in the mixture, carefully, so that is stays within the baking paper. Place a tea towel over the top of the slow cooker and then place the lid firmly on top. Cook on low for 1.5 hours. Turn off the slow cooker and then leave the meringue in there until it has completely cooled. Check it after an hour. If it feels slightly sticky to the touch, but firm underneath, it’s ready.

Under New Management Under New Management Everything freshly baked on site A la carte menu & cabinet food Gluten Free options available Specialty cakes Full service kids birthday parties High teas for groups of 6 or more Monday - Saturday for Breakfast & Lunch 10 Elizabeth Street, Warkworth quincecafe.co.nz • 422 2555

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It’s Really French

Superior quality enameled cast iron cookware, manufactured in the Champagne Ardenne region of France and known all around the world. Compatible with all types of hobs.

16 Mill Lane, Warkworth

09 425 0302

info@tastethekitchenshop.co.nz

www.tastethekitchenshop.co.nz

Mon to Fri 10am to 5pm. Sat & Sun 10am to 3pm.

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July 1, 2015

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Rodney Local Boards 2015/16 budgets BOOKREVIEWS from page 2

Local Parks, Sports and Recreation – $7.38 million capital, $8.45 million operational

Kumeu Arts Centre expansion feasibility study - $10,000

Walkways and bike trails - $330,000

Operational support for Rodney art facilities - $60,000

Sport fields upgrades, Warkworth and Huapai - $960,000

Old Wellsford Library property costs $20,000

Warkworth Showgrounds development - $3.2 million

Community-led place making initiatives - $40,000

Toilet upgrades, Warkworth and Kumeu - $87,000

Rodney Youth Advisory Panel support - $6000

Footpaths - $750,000

ANZAC ceremonies support - $18,000

Business case for Warkworth Showgrounds multisport facility $50,000

Community grants contestable/noncontestable - $249,000

Planning and concept design for Warkworth pool - $70,000

Rural halls assistance - $25,000

Greenways plans - $40,000 Playground in Warkworth or Kumeu $104,000 Skatepark in Wellsford or Snells Beach - $83,000 Investigate and plan indoor sports facilities, Kumeu/Huapai/Helensville $20,000 Enhance existing playgrounds to make them more challenging - $100,000 Support volunteers in parks - $81,000 Parks minor improvement fund $28,000 Local Community Services: $1.86 million capital, $3.3 million operational Complete stage one of Warkworth Town Hall upgrade - $1.1 million Community and library facility renewal - $735,000

Local Civic Functions - $18,000 Hall fees subsidies - $13,000 Local Planning and Development: $2 million capital, $324,000 operational Planning mainstreet upgrades through implementing town centre plans – $30,000 BID establishment and projects for Te Hana, Wellsford and Warkworth $33,000 Implementing economic development plan for Rodney - $25,000 Local Environmental Management: $187,000 operational Community-led environmental restoration and sustainability projects - $50,000; Sustainable living initiatives - $10,000; Implement ecological survey work - $50,000

viewonline localmatters.co.nz The full Rodney Local Board Agreement at localmatters.co.nz

The bookshop adventure for booklovers

Quality Used & New Book Orders Welcome Contemporary & Classic Fiction Children’s & Teen Gift Vouchers 15 Neville St, Warkworth • Phone 09 425 8521 admin@unicornbooks.co.nz • Find & like us on Facebook

Art Gallery 39 Omaha Valley Road, Matakana, RD5, Warkworth 0985, New Zealand Phone +64 9 422 9995 Email: thevivian@thevivian.co.nz

www.thevivian.co.nz

OPEN: Daily 11.00am - 5.00pm or by appointment

By The Village Bookshop, Matakana

bookgiveaway Mahurangi Matters and The Village Bookshop have a free copy of Paper Towns, by John Green, to giveaway. This is Green’s third young adult novel and explores coming of age themes and follows the search of the protagonist, Quentin ‘Q’ Jacobsen, for his neighbour and childhood love interest. Entries close july 17

Our Souls At Night by Kent Haruf

This beautiful novel is Kent Haruf ’s last as he passed away late last year. Set in a small town in Colorado, we meet Addie and Louis. Addie’s husband died years ago, as did Louis’ wife. Their children have grown up and moved away so they both live alone in their family homes. The nights are terribly lonely, especially with no-one to talk to. Then one evening, Addie pays Louis an unexpected visit with an unusual request. People soon talk, but Addie doesn’t care. Louis is initially more troubled by this but comes to realise how Addie’s companionship has revitalised him. This is a moving story about love and growing old with grace. Delightful.

Something Is Rotten (Matakana Trilogy Book I) by Adam Safaris

Brent Taylor dies violently while working late at night at the Auckland University Library. It looks a bit like suicide, but his friend Jade Amaro, a sex worker, is convinced Brent would not have killed himself and appeals to Sam Hallberg for help to find out what happened. Sam is a former government advisor on terrorism, working as a mechanic since the brutal murder of his wife. He and Jade discover that a manuscript which Brent was writing has been attracting interest in dangerous quarters and may have led to his murder. Sam’s friend, brilliant business journalist Lynnette Church, is investigating various dirty political dealings including the fact that an apparently insignificant little man has managed to pull off quite an extraordinary coup – a massive increase in New Zealand’s beef and lamb exports to the EU. How has this been possible? It turns out these events are linked. We don’t learn enough in Book I to begin finding answers, but the plot is intriguing. It is amusing and fun to read a good, plot-driven thriller based in Auckland, and Sam does make a trip to Matakana to visit his parents, but at this stage it is hard to see why this has been dubbed ‘the Matakana Trilogy’. We await developments. Adam Safaris is the nom de plume of two NZ writers – novelist Linda Olsson and playwright Thomas Sainsbury.

Open 7 Days Mon-Sat 9am-5pm • Sun & Public Holidays 10am-4pm The Village - 2 Matakana Valley Road • Matakana P: (09) 423 0315 • E: villagebookshop@paradise.net.nz www.villagebookshop.co.nz

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Advertise Your Business Here ONLY $59 PER INSERTION (+GST)* *for a three COLOUR insertion contract Phone 425 9068 for more information or email your advertisement to localmatters@xtra.co.nz Glaziers & Joiners | Auto Wreckers | Panel & Paint | Automotive Services | Utes | Tractor & Bike Sales/Servicing/Parts | Property Management

Wellsford

GLASS & ALUMINIUM

For all your glass, glazing, and aluminium needs

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

COMPOSITE JOINERY Ltd Composite Joinery Ltd 7 Glenmore Drive Warkworth 0941

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

0800 70 40 10

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

Phone: 09 425 7510

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

Fax: 09 422 2011

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

TE HANA TRACTORS

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

GOOD OLD FASHIONED SERVICE

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

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New/Used Tractors & Machinery In-house Engineer Mobile Servicing Repairs Comprehensive Parts Range Authorised Agents for Kioti and TYM tractors 308 SH1, Te Hana, Wellsford • PH 09 423 8558

Ian

Wayne

EDMONDS & MASON PANEL & PAINT Private & All Insurance Work

Ph 425 8723 • Fax 425 9526 Wayne 021 765 706 or Ian 021 977 729 47 Woodcocks Road, Warkworth

Email: autoglassww@xtra.co.nz

BRATTY UTES WE SPECIALISE IN UTES UP TO $25,000

Peter & Wendy Bratty ph: 09 425 6467 / mob: 027 499 8168 / email: bratty@xnet.co.nz

Snells Beach

MOTORS – 2008 LIMITED –

 425 5355

1 Hamatana Road - Snells Beach

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itchen Colours and Wood Finishes

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

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

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

arkworth lass & lazing

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

Say No to Leaky Homes

THE ULTIMATE ALUMINIUM

WINDOW AND DOOR FLASHING SYSTEM

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

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

WARKWORTH

AUTO WRECKERS FOR ALL NEW & USED PARTS

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

Snells Beach Panel and Paint all insurance work, crash repair, rust repair • courtesy cars available

ph 09 425 6755

snellspanelandpaint@vodafone.co.nz

Rodney’s Independent Property Management company

0800 171161 info@igniteproperty.co.nz

Julie Beaumont

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WILCOCK LTD

RICHARD

AM: 027 4771 583

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

CARPENTRY CO

Small Jobs • Renovations • Bathroom Makeovers Decks • Pergolas • Plastering

SERVICING: OMAHA, LEIGH, MATAKANA & WARKWORTH

Adding value to homes since 1980

417 Old Woodcocks Rd, Warkworth

ROOFING NZ

CARPENTER-JOINER

For an obligation free quote Ph 021 085 12024 or mcc_enquiries@xtra.co.nz

BEN CLEAL Contracts Manager • New Roofs • Roof Repairs • Re-Roofs • Roof Inspections

Specialists in long-run roofing M:021 220 5404 P:09 422 2131 Free Phone:0800 649 324

E: ben@rightnowroofing.co.nz

THE MATAKANA

www.rightnowroofing.co.nz

For all your property maintenance and small building projects Phone to discuss YOUR requirements 021 423 860 - 423 8619 a/h

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

• Renovations • Maintenance • Small jobs a specialty

Phone 09 425 5491 • Mobile 027 275 1172 neilkose@live.com

Mobile: 021356965 Home: 09 425 6311 Email: iron.man@xtra.co.nz

CONTRACTORS Denis 021 945 498 Joel 021 422 592

dens@xtra.co.nz PO Box 193, Warkworth

handyman@bruno.co.nz • www.bruno.co.nz

Tiling & Waterprooﬁng

FLOOR SANDING - FLOOR PREPARATION FLOOR SANDING - FLOOR PREPARATION

Bricks • Blocks • Paving

Polyurethaning:- Wooden Floors, Particle Board & Cork Cork Tiles:- Natural & Coloured

Phone Alan Berthelsen 021 780 170 • A/hrs 425 8252

• Terraces • Alterations • New Housing

NEIL KOSE

Matt Tickle Licensed LBP

Foundations • Floors • Drives • Paths • Digger & Truck Hire Concrete Specialists backed by over 30 years experience Established since 1984

WARKWORTH BRICKLAYING SERVICES LTD

www.craftsmaninteriors.co.nz 021 189 8807 • 09 422 5709

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

Housing, Units & Landscaping

UnitsUnits, & Landscaping NewHousing, Houses, Light Commercial

3.5T Digger 5T Truck

Bob Waata Mobile 021 634 484

Carpet, Vinyl, Cork, Ceramic Tiles, Wood & Laminate

Enviro Friendly Products available

KAE JAE CONTRACTORS (LTD)

Footings Hole Boring Landscaping

09 422 2275 21 Glenmore Drive www.flooringxtra.co.nz

Housin Housing, Unit

TTE D TT 146M

Thomas F. TTE DESIGNS TTE DESIGNS TTE DEsigns Architectur Thom Errington Dip. Arch. ARIBA Thomas F.Thomas Errington Dip. Arch. ARIBA PO Box 83 Thomas F.F.Errington Architectural Designer W arkworth Architectural Designer Archi Architectural Designer PO Box 83 PhPO 09 425 PO Box 83 B Warkworth P 09 425 0512 Fax 09 425 Warkworth Ph 09 425 0512 Mob 0274 M 0274 532 495 Wark Ph 09 425Fax 0512 09 425 0514 Dip. Arch. ARIBA

E ttedesigns@xtra.co.nz

Subdivision • Boundary Pegs Site Surveys • Council Consents Building Setout & Checks Contact us for a free consultation

www.boundary.co.nz Email: survey@boundary.co.nz Ph 09 426 7109 or 021 838 365

Ph 09 Fax 0 TTE D Mob Thomas F.

Mob 0274 532 495 Fax 09 425 0514 W www.ttedesigns.co.nz Mob 0274 532 495 New structures,Supervision, Restorations, Alterations, Surveys etc... Renovations, Landscaping

Housing, Unit New structure

New structures, Restorations, Alterations, Surveys etc...

Architectur PO Box 83 New st Warkworth Ph 09 425 Fax 09 425 Mob 0274

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

Rupert Mather 021 425 837 Graeme Smith 021 422 983

New structure

23 Bertram Street, Warkworth

09 425 7393 admin@wwsurveyors.co.nz

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MATAKANA

Trellis & Fencing

RODNEY TRELLIS

LANDSCAPING

872 Kaipara Flats Road Ph: 425 7627 • Fax 422 4976

09 422 9514 • 021 831 938

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

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www.centrallandscapes.co.nz

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

FREE LOAN TRAILERS HOME DELIVERIES 7 DAYS A WEEK email: warkworth@centrallandscapes.co.nz 25-31 Morrison Dr WARKWORTH 09 425 9780

0800 TOPSOIL

www.junglefix.co.nz

GROUND CARE

• Mowing - Residential & Lifestyle Blocks • Decks • Fencing • Retaining Walls • Drive Ways 0800 276 7726 or Don 425 8501 - 021 527 017

JB's No 1 LANDSCAPING SERVICES

TOTAL LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION for complete quality projects

• PLANTING • FENCES

Does your driveway need attention?

• PAVING • DECKS

• RETAINING WALLS • GARDEN MAKEOVERS

SERVICING HIBISCUS COAST TO MANGAWHAI

Driveway Specials Running Now Phone Bruce 425 7766

• 4 x 4 Truck & Digger Hire • Excavation • Earthmoving • Driveways • Trenching • Foundations & Piles • Paths & Shaping • Garden Design

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

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JOHN BETTRIDGE (JB) Phone: 09 425 4086 Mobile: 021 665 558 E-mail: john.bettridge@jbsno1.co.nz

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

DELIVER! •Tirau Gold•Pine Chip•Cambian Bark

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

Parker Tree Care.com Tree and Hedge Work Pruning and Thinning Removals Free Quotations Fully Insured 26 Years Experience Call Roland 021 102 2594 • 09 422 5109 parkertreecare@yahoo.co.nz

Servicing Auckland - Rodney - Kaipara

John Boy Tree Works 022 173 6844 free QuoTes, greaT Work aT an unBeaTaBle price Beauty Therapy & Nail Creations for head to toe pampering

Alison Wech

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

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

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

Metroscaff Limited

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

- Residential & Light Commercial - Quick Stage - OSH Standards - Tube & Clip - Qualified Scaffolders - Reliable Service P 09 425 0300 M 021 774 653 F 09 423 0017

PHONE 0800 622 7929

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

admin@metroscaff.co.nz www.metroscaff.co.nz

Michelle Boler

SNELLS BEACH

PHONE 09 425 5597 COUNTRY CHARM

FURNITURE 2008

OUTDOOR FURNITURE Tables to order Chairs • Swingseats Benches • Umbrellas NZ made – quality built to last 25 Hibiscus Coast Highway, Silverdale (next to BP) Ph: 09 426 9660 • em: clipper.furniture@xtra.co.nz www.clipperfurniture.co.nz

FROG POOL FARM

Timber Furniture Specialists with quality workmanship guaranteed Specialising in antique, new furniture & all other timber surfaces. Furniture Restoration • Re-spraying • Special Finishing • Colour Matching Insurance quotes • Furniture repairs • Custom made – Recycled or new timber • Modifications • Upholstery

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

Bradwood

Bespoke Furniture and Kitchens in NZ recycled Matai.

NZ Made Solid Wood

Ph 425 9030 • Dome Valley 5 minutes past Warkworth

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A BRUSH WITH ART

EXPERT PAINTING AND DECORATING

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

Interior/Exterior n Waterblasting n Roof Painting Airless Spraying n Plastering n Wallpapering Colour Consulting n Decorative Effects Qualified Tradesmen - Honest/Reliable

Harley 021 0220 8727 or 09 423 9012

Ph Mandy 09 423 0005 or 021 507 463

Exterior/Interior/Roofs/Staining Your Painter/Decorator with over 30 years experience serving all surrounding areas.

Welch Painting & Decorating Mark Welch

• Painting • Paper Hanging • Spray Painting • Water Blasting

Mob: 027 240 8330 A/h : 422 2678 • Fax: 422 2676

Leigh Decorators

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

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

ABSOLUTE CONCRETE

WATER TANKS 09 4312211

sales@absoluteconcrete.co.nz

H2O PUMPS

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

021 771 878 • 09 425 6002 E. h2opumps@xtra.co.nz MOBILE EFTPOS AVAILABLE

Household Water Deliveries 0800 747 928 mobile: 027 556 6111

clean. care. repair. WATER TANK & WATER APPLICATION CLEANING AGENCY Warkworth: Phone John or Annette Carr

p: 09 425 7477 | m: 027 240 7791 | f: 09 425 7483 email: mobikair@xtra.co.nz

Mangawhai: Phil Lathrope 431 4608 | 021 642 668

www.mobi-kair.co.nz

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WATER

MacJimray Septic Cleaning Services are the septic tank cleaning specialists in your district. R reliable, 0800 638 254 Ofast, 09 422 3700 Residential to commercial, professional

Authorised Agent

MOBILE & WORKSHOP SERVICE 31 WOODCOCKS RD WARKWORTH - 425 9100 splashwater@xtra.co.nz

service at competitive rates.

water pumps

& DRAINLAYING

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

Septic Tank/Grease Trap Cleaning Septic & Sewerage Treatment Systems

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

021 102 4561

New Pump Sales Service Installation

Phone/Fax 425-5619 Mobile 0800 733 765

K & R PUMP SERVICES ltd

TRIED – TESTED – TRUSTED

Pump & Filtration Services (2007) Ltd

• Water treatment & Filtration • Pumps • Pool & Spas • Waterblasters 7days / 24hours Paul Harris M: 021 425 887 T: 09 425 0075 E: pumps4u@live.com

Warkworth FURNITURE REMOVALS • Specialist Furniture Truck • Packing & Storage • Caring Owner/ Operator • Carriers Liability Insurance Phone 0274 889 216 • Ah 09 422 7495 y dsa Lin ylor Ta

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CARpET

CLEAnIng 0800 022 101

Certified Member of the M: 021 456 429 Carpet Cleaning Association of NZ E: sbrocks@vodafone.co.nz

Digital Freeview Satellite

Carpet Overlocking Services

Installation & Repairs

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

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Community lease available in Wellsford Auckland Council invites applications from community groups with an interest in leasing the former Wellsford Library building at 118 Rodney Street, Wellsford. The building is186.57m² in size and comprises; one large room with a wall that partially screens a portion of it, a small separate room that contains a kitchenette and limited office space, a single toilet. The facility is available for viewing by arrangement. To be eligible to apply, a group must be an incorporated society or a charitable trust and fit the criteria of Auckland Council Community Occupancy Guidelines 2012. Applicants must be able to identify positive community outcomes that align with the Rodney Local Board Plan. Preference will be given to applicants that can show some or all of the following: • They are willing to share the building and make it available for different interest groups to use • They have a governance and management structure that provides opportunities for broader community input and involvement • The proposed use maximises the unique location of the building and will help promote Wellsford to visitors and showcase what the area has to offer • Opportunities will be provided for local people to connect with each other and help build community pride • Support increased local economic development opportunities. Auckland Council reserves the right to seek proposals and applications from other parties in addition to those who respond to this invitation. To request an application form and a copy of the Community Occupancy Guidelines, please contact Karen Walby, Community Lease Advisor, Auckland Council. The closing date for applications is 1 August 2015. Find out more: Karen Walby, 09 484 8018 Email: Karen.Walby@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

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Warkworth Group Starting - August 3rd Seasons offers groups for those experiencing loss, grief or change in their daily lives. This may be due to the death of someone close to them, separation / divorce, or other significant life changes. There is no set charge but donations are welcome. For more information contact – Seasons Co-ordinator : Ph 021 0813 3586 seasonswarkworthwellsford@gmail.com

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WELLsFOrd COuNTrY sHOW 2015 Plans are underway for the Wellsford Country Show 2015 to be held on Saturday 21 November. We are looking at the regular events like the Beef, Calf and Lamb competition and the Pony Club day. As well as local music and other entertainment. There will be a meeting on Wednesday 22 July at 7pm at the Wellsford A&P pavilion, Centennial Park, Wellsford. If you want to keep the show going for the community we need helpers and new ideas. Come along or contact Lynette - 09 423 8857 Sponsored by Mahurangi Matters

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Congratulations to Katie and Duncan Elton, of Warkworth, who are the recipients of a gift basket from Chocolate Brown. They were nominated by their neighbours, Steve and Pauline who wrote: On more than one occasion, our property has been left unattended due to illness and these wonderful people have stepped in to watch our property, feed our cat and offer transport to the hospital and airport. I think they thoroughly deserve the award for their caring attitude. Know someone who deserves a big “thank you” for their community spirit? Tell us and they will receive acknowledgement in Mahurangi Matters and an amazing hamper from Chocolate Brown, 6 Mill Lane, Warkworth. Send your nominations to editor@localmatters.co.nz (subject line: Sweet Appreciation) or post to: Sweet Appreciation, Mahurangi Matters, PO Box 701, Warkworth. Kindly refrain from nominating members of your own family.

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Sudok4 u Libraries host Matariki fun Libraries in the Mahurangi area will focus on Matariki during the schools holidays. There will be a design competition and a colouring competition running throughout the fortnight, as well as special daily events, starting on July 7. At Mahurangi East Library, special guests will lead activites in kapahaka, kai and kowhaiwhai, craft, waiata, weaving, handpainting and Maori language. At Warkworth, there will be flax craft, a taniwha storytime, korowai making, and a kapahaka peformance by Warkworth Primary.

Wellsford Library will host a special star gazing session on Thursday July 16, from 6.30pm to 8.30pm. ‘Our place in the stars’ will be run by the Auckland Astronomical Society. After a talk on stars, participants will be able to step outside and to view the night sky through a telescope, binoculars and with the naked eye. Milo and marshmallows will be provided, but children must be accompanied by an adult. Other activites at Wellsford include a learn to knit session, storytime, a seed planting morning, flax weaving and kite making.

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July 1915 1 Ahuroa honours board trooper Arthur Hannah killed in action at Gallipoli 2 Action of Gully Ravine ends Naval action in the Baltic between Russian and German squadrons off Gottland. German minelayer Albatross driven ashore Munitions of War Act, 1915, becomes law in Great Britain and Ministry of Munitions formed in Great Britain 3 The AMR relieves the 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment in the front line 7 Italian cruiser Amalfi sunk by Austrian submarine in the Adriatic 13 Great Austro-German Offensive on Eastern front begins

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14 Two officers and 10 men arrive as reinforcements for the AMR 15 National Registration Act becomes law in Great Britain 16 The AMR is relieved from its front-line positions by the 9th Australian Light Horse and moves to a bivouac in Reserve Gully 20 Battle of Le Linge (Vosges mountains) begins. Battles of the Western Front: 1915 Battles for a Breakthrough 30 The Pope sends appeal for peace to belligerent governments Lieutenant Walter Haeata and 10 men from the AMR leave Gallipoli for duty as the personal bodyguard to Sir Ian Hamilton on the Aegean island of Imbros, 30 km west of Anzac Cove. Queen Street Warkworth in the 1920s.

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With Syria often in the news these days it may surprise some people to know that Warkworth had its own Syrian settlers early in the 20th century. George Azzy advertised that he had commenced work in the main street as a bootmaker and repairer in 1916 and his brother Peter quickly followed opening a tailoring business. There is uncertainty as to the date when the third brother, Dom, set up as a hairdresser and tobacconist, but he was definitely there in 1931 when a disastrous fire destroyed his business premises along with a number of others. To describe the Azzy brothers and the times in which they lived I could not better a short story written by John Phillips in 2004: “My mother said the Azzys were Syrians. George and Peter were quite dark skinned but Dom had a lighter complexion. We wondered what Dom’s real name was and one kid suggested Domino, but I suppose it was Domingo. Their shops were built of corrugated iron and stood where Franklin’s chemist shop is now. “Dom was a hairdresser, tobacconist and the older boys said he sold condoms. I never did find out. Dom must have faired the best out of the three brothers as he bought himself a very flashy Nash coupe sedan. It was his pride and joy and he kept it clean and polished. He always smoked a pipe. Peter was a tailor and had many books of suit material samples. He gave my mother several books full and as children we spent many hours removing them from the pages. Mother spent a lot of time sewing all these patches together on her treadle sewing machine, then backed them with an old blanket. They were transformed into very warm bed covers for us two boys. “My dad sold Peter hen eggs and he told him that a dozen eggs only did him for two meals. Peter gave me a lovely folding stereoscope and a lot of cigarette cards. These gave you a really good three-dimensional view when you placed two identical cards in the holder. This was the early 1930s when times were very hard. Few men’s suits were required in Warkworth and Peter moved on. “George was a boot repairer and worked in his window overlooking the street. He carried a small stock of boots and shoes, and also sold gumboots. George was the town ‘bookie’ and I recall him being brought before the court on more than one occasion. They all lived at the back of their shops and they all remained bachelors.” John’s story was an entry in a previous essay competition run by the museum. This year Mahurangi residents, past and present, are again invited to record their memories and enter the essay competition. Entry forms are available at Mahurangi Matters, Mahurangi East Library and at the Warkworth Museum.

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Landholders pool ideas on future Warkworth growth Residents, business people and those with an interest in Warkworth’s future will soon be invited to comment on a draft Structure Plan that looks at growth-related issues outside the town centre. In a departure from the norm, local landholders, planners and groups with an interest in the town and how growth and development occur are drafting the document rather than Auckland Council. Warkworth planner Burnette Macnicol says the motivation to draft a new structure plan was kickstarted by Auckland’s proposed Unitary Plan process. Some landholders within Warkworth’s proposed Rural Urban Boundary (RUB), who had made submissions to the Unitary Plan, decided to pool resources and put forward an evidence-based and coordinated case to the Hearings Panel. “The Auckland Plan identified Warkworth as a satellite town with its associated growth projections,” Burnette says. “The Unitary Plan is what gives effect to, or enables implementation of, the strategic direction setout in the Auckland Plan. “This leaves Warkworth with a choice. We either sit back and let others decide what that growth looks like or we take the initiative and start looking at where growth should happen and what it should look like. “If the community demonstrates a desire to get on with development now, it’s likely Council could support Warkworth ahead of the other identified satellite town of Pukekohe.” Burnette says it would make sense to dovetail consultation on the structure plan with Council’s consultation on its Framework Plan for Warkworth, which could be held next month or in September. The Framework Plan will examine if the RUB boundary is in the right place but won’t have the detail that a structure plan covers. One of the concerns of landholders within the RUB is that the Unitary Plan has a 30-year timeframe. In some cases, this virtually locks up the use of their land for that period.

Areas such as Valerie Close, which are on the outer edges of the Rural Urban Boundary, could find themselves in limbo for 30 years.

“If you’re zoned ‘future urban’ then the rules place limitations on what land use and subdivision activities can occur beyond the extent of restrictions in other zones. Logically, because of the need to provide for infrastructure extensions and upgrades, anyone on the fringes of the RUB is unlikely to see their land becoming fully urban, until areas closer to the existing urban edges have first been developed. This could be 30 years away. Working on a structure plan will enable a better way to look at how growth can be managed. A number of submitters to the Unitary Plan suggested that Council adopt a stepping stone approach within those areas identified as future urban. It is also possible that development of land within the RUB could be staged, possibly to allow countryside living in a form that can be further subdivided for urban development in the future. This would mean landholders could use the land without compromising its long-term use for urban development. The flip side is that land values could rise and people could find themselves paying higher rates.” One of the affected landowners is Bill Endean who owns 28 hectares at Valerie Close, at the southern end of Warkworth’s proposed RUB. He believes a

more active zoning in the Valerie Close are would be appropriate. “Between the motorway and the RUB, we will no longer be the quiet rural area that we once were. As it currently stands, we are left in a sort of limbo – it makes it difficult for anyone to sell their property. It’s a pretty invidious position to be in. “We’ve been told already that Council envisages 1000 houses will be built in the Valerie Close area within the next 20 to 30 years.” Mr Endean says that one of the difficulties is that it’s been 11 years since the last Structure Plan was done for Warkworth. “Council has no idea of the detail of what is in the RUB they’ve drawn.”Burnette says that through a series of meetings, the group has started to map some common themes such as where residential, commercial and industrial development could occur. The group working on the structure plan includes representatives of the Warkworth Area Business Association, the NZ Institute of Architects, the Urban Design Forum, Progressive Planning and residents of the Valerie Close, Mason Heights and Goatley Road areas.

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Mahurangi designers standout in architecture awards Architectural designers from Mahurangi picked up more than their fair share of awards at the annual Auckland and Northland 2015 ADNZ|Resene Architectural Design Awards last month. Presented to architectural designers in both residential and commercial sectors, the awards identify stand-out designs categorised as new homes, interiors, alterations and additions and industrial design. This year seven regional awards were given to six winning Auckland/ Northland designers. The award winners are Bernie Kose of BK Design Warkworth, Joseph Long of LTD Architectural, Peter Were of Peter

Were Architecture/Interiors, Phil Mason of Phil Mason Consultants, David Maurice of LTD Architectural and Mark McLeay of Creative Arch. Architectural Designers NZ chief executive Astrid Andersen said that this year’s recipients stood out due to their clever thinking when approaching complex design issues and the use of extreme creative flair. “Our winning designers have proved with their thoughtful and fresh designs that anything is possible, even in the unique Auckland landscape which demands innovation and excellence.” The national awards will be announced on October 30. Above: Omaha House by Joseph Long, of LTD Architectural Location: Mangatawhiri Road, Omaha Award: Residential New Home between 150m2 and 300m2 Description: This home combines contemporary living with the practicality of a beach lifestyle. There is a natural flow internally, with a harmonious balance of entertaining zones and private reflective areas. Judge’s comments: A strong street presence is established by exploring the problem of a front yard garage for its design potential.

Left: Takatu Woolshed by Peter Were, of Peter Were Architecture/Interiors Location: Takatu Road, Matakana Award: Residential New Home over 300m2 Description: A derelict Matakana woolshed was transformed into a beautiful home with stunning views of Omaha Beach, Little Barrier Island and the Gulf. The old shed dictated the scale and geometry of this new two-wing house, while also providing the designer with salvaged materials and original woolshed fixtures for cladding and interior features. Judge’s comments: Great utilisation of an existing building that informs the use of a familiar, agricultural architectural type. The sense of familiarity is carried through into the interior spaces through utilities and appointments.

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Above and top right: Kose Family House by Bernie Kose, of BK Design Location: Bluegum Drive, Warkworth Award: Residential Compact New Home up to 150m2 Description: A small family home with a modern design that lends itself to its surroundings, while not costing the earth. The home is energy efficient and relatively maintenance free. Judge’s comments: A three bedroom starter home which was built on a tight budget on a bush clad suburban site in greater Auckland. There is a thoughtful use of everyday materials, which is exaggerated slightly to give a sense of generosity.

Right: Hodgson Holiday Home by Mark McLeay of Creative Arch Location: Ridge Road, Scotts Landing Award: Resene Colour in Design Award Description: Located on a large rural site at Scotts Landing, the house sits in a West facing steep slope overlooking stunning views across Ngaio Bay and Mahurangi Harbour. The house has been designed as upper and lower wings forming a T shape. Clad in dark stained plywood and battens with a dark roof cladding, the house sits well in the existing landscape. Judge’s comments: Brave in black – this dramatic exterior sits in beautiful contrast with the gentle, light and inviting surfaces of the interior.

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Jeff Hobbs hopes to see the tiny house finished by October.

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Tiny house makes big impact on costs and environment In a barn, on a Tomarata farm, a small revolution is underway. Boatbuilder and furniture maker Jeff Hobbs is in the throes of constructing a ‘tiny house’ that is both small and mobile. While the average house in New Zealand has a floor area of 149sqm, Jeff ’s project will cover just 23sqm – 16sqm downstairs and seven square metres for the loft bedroom. The building was commissioned by a young school teacher, who plans to tow the finished home to a section in Auckland. Jeff says environmental factors and cost were her motivation. “This house is a one-off, commissioned by a young professional who already had her design in mind and has made her own tiles and basins, and chosen

her own lighting and curtains,” Jeff says. “But I can see these types of houses having appeal across the spectrum, from young people who want to get out of the rent cycle while they save for their first home to older people looking for something along the lines of a granny flat. It provides affordable housing which has a smaller environmental footprint.” When finished, the tiny house will be 6.7 metres long and 2.5 metres wide, and four metres from the ground to the roof. It won’t weigh anymore than 3.5 tonnes. The bedroom is a sky-lit loft which is accessed by a ladder. Downstairs is a bathroom, kitchen, lounge, wardrobe, storage cupboard and verandah. The bathroom includes a walk-in shower, hand-basin and waterless toilet. A

conventional toilet would be an option for anyone who wanted to connect to a council system. The kitchen will be fitted with a twoburner gas oven, sink, 130-litre fridge and water efficient washing machine. The small fireplace includes a wetback. Water will be collected in a rainwater tank and then pumped to a header tank on the roof using a 12-volt pump. The roof also houses a solar tank and two 300-watt solar photovoltaic panels, which generate power that is stored in two 390 amp hour batteries. “Energy wise, the house should be virtually self sufficient except for firewood and gas. Hot water will be free in both summer and winter. The owner will be able to run all the usual gadgets such as a TV and computer,

although she will need to be careful with toasters and kettles.” The house sits on a registered and warranted trailer that cost just under $12,000 and it will be possible to pull the whole unit with any large 4WD. Work started in April and the home is expected to be finished in October. “The cost is also still a bit of a work in progress but I’m hoping this prototype will come in at around $100,000.” The building has macrocarpa framework with walls constructed of marine grade maranti ply on the outside and gaboon marine ply on the inside. Between the two sheets of ply is a rigid foam insulation, which has an R-value rating of 2. The floorboards are made of recycled kauri, salvaged continued next page

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from a house in Devonport, which has been processed into three-millimetre veneer then vacuum pressed onto ply/ foam ply panels. One of the challenges was installing the electrical and plumbing conduits through the foam insulation. An unknown in the whole process is how Auckland Council will respond to the building. “Under their classification, it will be a caravan which means its doesn’t need building consent. But the rules say a caravan can only stay in one place for a maximum of three weeks. In reality, unless there is a complaint, Council tends to be fairly benevolent. “In Portland, Oregon, authorities have encouraged small unit housing by subsidising the consent process and introducing friendly zoning laws. Other states are following their lead

and we can only hope Auckland might too.” The four issues for Council will be greywater (from the bathroom and kitchen), blackwater (from the toilet), parking and boundaries. “In this case, the owner plans to use both the greywater and the treated product from her composting toilet on her garden and orchard. “Health and safety is one of Council’s primary concerns but there is nothing healthy about high levels of personal debt. In terms of housing affordability, it’s a lot tougher to buy a house now than it was 20 years ago, and its getting worse.” Jeff says the tiny house is well suited to boat-building techniques because it has to be strong, light and watertight. “And like a classic house or boat, I’d expect it to last for at least 100 years.”

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A proposal for a five-storey hotel, apartment complex and marina in Riverhead was announced at a Rodney Local Board meeting last month. Alston Developments is proposing to build Riverhead Resort on vacant land on the waterfront, next to The Riverhead tavern. Co-director Steve Edge said the company was planning to lodge a resource consent for three five-storey buildings at the end of this month. Two of the buildings would operate as a hotel and serviced apartments, while the third would be sold as private apartments to help recoup building costs. The buildings would have a 1800m2 footprint, sitting on 6000m2 of land. Mr Edge said he was meeting with neighbours and stakeholders in the

area and was holding a public meeting at the end of last month. The project would be a non-complying activity and would be a notified consent. He said the building was being developed to service the increasing numbers of visitors to the town. The 24-berth marina would be created by dredging mudflats and removing mangroves, and would involve reclaiming an area for a park. Mr Edge said dredge spoil could be used in a housing development he was involved with in Kumeu. He said that if the hotel and apartment complex was not consented, the marina would not go ahead. But if the consent for the marina was declined, the apartments would still proceed. Board chair Brenda Steele said the project would be very controversial for the small Riverhead community.

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The Government is remaining tightlipped on whether Crown land in Rodney will be sold to increase housing supply in Auckland. The government announced an initiative to develop housing on more than 500 hectares of Crown land in Auckland in May. Responding to inquiries from Mahurangi Matters asking whether any of the 500 hectares was in Rodney, the Minister for Housing’s office said the government didn’t know what properties made up the 500-hectare figure. “It was approximate. We have not yet identified each and every parcel of land we expect will comprise the 500ha,” she said. The land which Minister Nick Smith identified as part of the development programme has been marred in controversy. One section turned out to be owned by Auckland Council, not the Crown, while another section was undergoing a legal challenge from iwi who believed they had first right of refusal.

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Funding boost means Takatu Road sealing could start this summer The top five roads on Auckland Transport’s road sealing priority list could be sealed within three years. Auckland Council has increased road sealing funding in the Long Term Plan from $1.4 million to $10 million over three years. Sealing the top five roads has a combined cost of $10 million – Takatu Road ($4 million), Monowai Road ($2.7 million), Silver Hill Road (two sections; $911,000 and $2.2 million)

Cameras funded New security cameras will be installed in Warkworth after Rodney Local Board allocated a further $7800 to the Warkworth Area Business Association to complete the project. Business association member Nicola Jones says the Board funding will cover the total cost of purchasing and installing cameras, which will be installed on posts resembling old wooden masts. The Board gave the business association $14,000 in 2013 to buy security cameras. The Board declined extra funding for the cameras at the June 2 transport, planning and infrastructure committee meeting, but at the June 15 business meeting it agreed to reallocate money that was meant to be spent on the Old Wellsford Library. The funding for the library has been deferred to the 2015/16 budget due to delays in getting a permanent tenant in the building.

and Wellsford Valley Road ($319,000). Planning has started on sealing Takatu, Monowai and Silver Hill roads, and sealing of Takatu is expected to start this summer. AT has completed pavement investigation tests and topographical surveys of the road. The design for Monowai Road and two sections of Silver Hill Road will be completed in the next 12 to 18 months. Work may occur simultaneously in 2016/17 and 2017/18.

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Hall funding on safer ground Restoration of the Warkworth Town Hall is looking more secure after the Rodney Local Board committed a further $1.2 million to the project last month. Plus, the Town Hall Restoration fundraising committee has received a $300,000 grant from the Lotteries Commission. The project was left in limbo in March when costs rose by $1 million. Old bottles and crockery were found While Auckland Council and the in the wall cavity of the Town Hall. Board had agreed to fund the $3 bottles believed to have been left by million first stage, the $2 million needed for the final two stages was up the original builders of the hall. “One of the bottles is still half full of a in the air. At last month’s business meeting, the mystery liquid.” Producers of top quality aluminium joinery Board allocated a further $600,000 Town hall branded crockery had also to the project and guaranteed a been found in the wall cavity. Some of $675,000 loan to the Wakworth Town the items discovered will be displayed Proudly supplying Hall Restoration Trust/fundraising in a cabinet in the hall, Mr Cairns committee. This will ensure stage said. two of the project will be completed by early next year, but there is still • Stage 1 costs $3 million and involves strengthening the hall, an $800,000 shortfall for stage three. The funding is still subject to approval replacing the roof and upstairs from the Governing Body. mezzanine. There is no deadline or conditions on • Stage 2 costs $1.2 million the repayment of the $600,000 loan and involves demolishing the – it is to be repaid incrementally as former council chambers and fundraising allows. A further $75,000 constructing new meeting rooms, for the immediate removal of the new toilets and about half of a kitchen on the Neville Street side of new sky-lit foyer. the hall has to be repaid within six Throughout the region for the last 20 years months. • Stage 3 costs $800,000 and includes construction of a new Restoration Trust member Raewyn www.rodneywindows.co.nz kitchen on the carpark side of the Morrison says they will be able to raise 74a Hudson Road, PO Box 259, Warkworth the $75,000 by December. hall, a new greenroom, rehearsal p. 425 7367 e. info@rodneywindows.co.nz room and the extension of the Board chair Brenda Steele says the MEMBER foyer/gallery. project managers approached the Board for further funding. to N keep moving. HT“We ROWwant KRAW OSPthe MOproject HT & TO OFRAB BARFOOT & THOMPSON WARKWORTH The Committee has assured us they will pay back the loan. “It’s a lot of money to be spending on one township, but it will all come around eventually as other projects progress in different areas.” At the Board’s business meeting last month, member Phelan Pirrie was concerned at the amount the Board was contributing to the mounting costs of the project. “Every time we have a meeting on this project there are more things we are being asked to fund. We’ve got very tight budgets.” Project manager Steven Davey said the funding was “very generous”. Meanwhile, work on the hall started last month. Build project manager Michael Cairns said the ceilings and were and about latnerwalls & gn illesremoved ,gniyub ruo y revthree oC Cover your buying, selling & rental needs with Barfoot & Thompson, Warkworth truck loads of material was taken away. “There is some borer and concrete cancer but the hall’s in reasonably • 9023 224 90 SLATNER • 2478 524 90 SELAS SALES 09 425 8742 • RENTALS 09 422 3209 • E warkworth@barfoot.co.nz good condition,” Mr Cairns said. www.barfoot.co.nz htrowkraW ,teertS neeuQ 7 7 Queen Street, Warkworth The deconstruction has unearthed

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Matakana pedestrian bridge to be “ready by Christmas” A new pedestrian and cycle bridge in Matakana could be completed by Christmas following the adoption of a preliminary design. The bridge crosses the Matakana River and will complete a walkway/cycleway that links with Omaha and Point Wells, which has been built almost entirely by volunteer labour. Project engineer Peter Boardman, of Structure Design, says the 30-metre timber bridge will run below the existing traffic bridge on Leigh Road. On the village side, it will start a few metres downstream of the existing traffic bridge and will finish underneath the traffic bridge on the other side of the river. It will run about 2.5 metres below the traffic bridge and include a viewing platform in the middle. It will be about two metres wide, with enough space for cyclists to pass each other. Consent conditions meant the bridge couldn’t be supported by piles driven into the riverbed, so the most cost-effective option was to use the existing traffic bridge as a supporting structure, Mr Boardman says. The design has been vetted by the Matakana Community Group and will now undergo further

development to finalise costs. Design and consents are scheduled to be completed by September, with construction starting in October and finishing before Christmas. The project is a partnership between the Matakana Coast Trail Trust and Auckland Transport (AT). AT is managing the project’s detailed design and construction, and will be responsible for ongoing maintenance. The estimated cost will be around $350,000 with AT contributing $150,000 and the community funding the balance. So far the Trust has raised $80,000, mostly through the Fruit Loop fun run fundraiser. Rodney Local Board last month declined to contribute $150,000 towards the project, but Trust chair Allison Roe is confident funding won’t be a problem. “It won’t delay the construction. We are continuing to explore other possible funding sources, including any pro bono offers by local businesses. “The Matakana bridge is the key to linking up the trails in the area. It will enable connections between Leigh, Omaha, Sandspit, Snells Beach, Tawharanui

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Vale Rex Lawlor Former Spitfire pilot and Warkworth resident Rex Thomas Lawlor passed away on May 30. Rex grew up in the countryside near Palmerston North. His father worked at a dairy factory and the family of four lived nearby at a house owned by the dairy company. He became a junior clerk with the Rongotea BNZ, near Palmerston North, in 1939 when he was 18 but enlisted in the Territorial’s shortly after. He had always dreamed of being a pilot but his parents were unwilling to sign his application form to allow him to enter the Air Force. He seemed destined for infantry, but in 1942 he turned 21 and was able to apply without his parents approval. He was encamped at Paikakariki ready to embark as a soldier when he was accepted into the Royal Air Force NZ training crew. He trained in Tiger Moths in Harewood and gained his wings in September 1943. In early 1944 he began flying MKV Spitfires while stationed at Sealand, near Chester. It was while in England that he met his wife, Irene, at a dance hall. Irene says she would listen to Rex flying a Spitfire over the town while he was completing his night flying training. The couple only had a couple of months to get to know each other before Rex was called away. He flew Hurricanes and Spitfires near Suez and Cairo, and then flew to India, before eventually being stationed with 273 Squadron in Burma, providing ground support to the British 14th Army. “He was always grateful he was up in the air rather

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than going through the swamps below with a rifle,” Irene says. The young couple were parted for two years but would write every day, although mail delays often meant they went weeks without hearing from each other, fearing the worst. While in Burma, Rex wrote to Irene’s father, asking

for permission to marry her. This was granted, but only if he promised pick her up from England at the end of the war. Irene was just 17-years-old. In 1945, while stationed at Rangoon, he witnessed the formal surrender of the Japanese on September 4. Before disbanding in January 1946, the squadron flew their Spitfires to Vietnam, where the French were embattled against the Viet Minh, in former French Indochina. Due to the heat and poor rations, Rex weighed less than 50 kilograms when he left Burma. The g-forces caused by the sharp takeoff from a short runway in the jungle caused back problems that would plague him for the rest of his life. Rex and Irene married in 1946, five days after Rex arrived in England. They sailed on the aging RMS Rangitiki to NZ, which took seven weeks after breaking down near the Panama Canal. The newly-weds settled back in Palmerston North where Rex again started work as a bank clerk in Rongotea. In 1949 he was transferred to a BNZ in Rotorua to be able to use the thermal baths to alleviate his back pain. While in Rotorua they had two children, Jocelyn and Ian. In the coming years they lived in Taihape, Taranaki and Dargaville, and retired to Warkworth in 1980. In 2012 they moved into Summerset so Rex could be closer healthcare facilities. He passed away on May 30 and is survived by his wife, children, three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

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Two former Mahurangi College principals, as well as incumbent David Macleod, paid their respects at the funeral of Whangateau resident Anthea McKergow, held in the Leigh Hall, last month. Remembered as a dedicated teacher, wife, mother and friend, Anthea was chair of the Board of Governors at Mahurangi College for 15 years, retiring when Tomorrow’s Schools was launched in 1995. Former college principals Alon Shaw and Rex Gray said Anthea was a respected board chair and they acknowledged how her guidance and quiet advice had been an invaluable to them during their time at the college. They described her as firm but very empathetic, commenting that no student had been expelled during her tenure. Anthea was born in Christchurch and moved to Leigh with her parents, Hercules and Margaret Burleigh, and sister Virginia. She attended both Leigh and Matakana primary schools, and Warkworth District High School. After graduating from Ardmore Teachers Training College, she taught at Tauranga, Warkworth and Matakana. With characteristic independence, she set-off on her OE in the early 1960s, spending two years teaching in London and travelling widely in England and Europe. A highlight of her trip was a journey on the Orient Express, from Paris to Constantinople (Istanbul).

By 1963, she was back teaching in NZ when she met and married Point Wells poultry farmer Hugh McKergow. Together they had four children – Fiona, Diana, Lucy and Angus. In later years, Anthea was active in Warkworth U3A, leading several groups including Local History, Poetry and Food For Thought. She was also a long-standing book club member, a keen member of the Leigh Walking Group and a former member of the Kowhai Arts & Craft Society’s art group. In a tribute to Anthea’s years as a teacher and her special dedication to children with learning disabilities, Delwyn Lawrence, of Ti Point, wrote: “For many years, Anthea was their advocate, a most devoted and skilled teacher, a community voice and a trusted and caring friend. Her determination to find a solution or pathway to every learning problem knew no bounds. She read widely, attended courses and left no stone unturned for her students who became ‘family’ to her. Anthea’s tenacity and persuasiveness opened doors into local schools so students would be taught within school hours, and raised awareness of this formerly unacknowledged disability.” Anthea passed away quietly at home, in the care of her husband of more than 50 years, her children and their partners, and staff from Warkworth Wellsford Hospice.

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MAHURANGI COLLEGE ISSUE ISSUE 04: 04: July July 2015 2015

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Principal David David Macleod Macleod

Dear Dear Parents Parents and and Guardians Guardians Tena Koutou Katoa Tena Koutou Katoa

The school production this year was “Forever The school production this year was “Forever After’, based on the Disney version of the After’, based on the Disney version of the Cinderella story. The three matinee and four Cinderella story. The three matinee and four evening performances were greatly enjoyed by all evening performances were greatly enjoyed by all who came with full or close to full houses for most who came with full or close to full houses for most shows. Congratulations to the show’s Director, shows. Congratulations to the show’s Director, Mrs Wendy Sutherland, and to all students, Mrs Wendy Sutherland, and to all students, staff, parents and past students involved in the staff, parents and past students involved in the production. production.

(Bring Your Own Device) at all levels, which (Bring Your Own Device) at all levels, which means students can bring their devices and means students can bring their devices and use them at school via the school internet use them at school via the school internet system. BYOD has improved research, system. BYOD has improved research, storage and presentation of work, online storage and presentation of work, online feedback from teachers on students’ work feedback from teachers on students’ work (formative feedback), collaboration on tasks, (formative feedback), collaboration on tasks, critical thinking and engagement of students. critical thinking and engagement of students. But there are pitfalls in use of the new technologies But there are pitfalls in use of the new technologies as well. Recently our school counselors have as well. Recently our school counselors have had to deal with some issues regarding misuse had to deal with some issues regarding misuse of the internet, all of which have originated of the internet, all of which have originated outside of school but have impacted on students’ outside of school but have impacted on students’ achievement and emotional well-being at school. achievement and emotional well-being at school. As parents/guardians with children at home under As parents/guardians with children at home under our care we have a responsibility to ensure devices our care we have a responsibility to ensure devices in our home are being used safely; we also have in our home are being used safely; we also have the right to access them in order to check on their the right to access them in order to check on their usage. usage. I would encourage you all to check the “Netsafe” I would encourage you all to check the “Netsafe” website: http://www.netsafe.org.nz and to initiate website: http://www.netsafe.org.nz and to initiate open communication with your children about the open communication with your children about the risks involved with online activity. Please also risks involved with online activity. Please also encourage your children to not access sites where encourage your children to not access sites where hurtful comments can be made about others hurtful comments can be made about others anonymously – simply by accessing these sites it anonymously – simply by accessing these sites it passively encourages and supports such behavior. passively encourages and supports such behavior. Congratulations to Alex Neumann and Tonya Congratulations to Alex Neumann and Tonya Botherway on being selected for the North Botherway on being selected for the North Harbour U18 Hockey Representative team. Harbour U18 Hockey Representative team. Congratulations to the Under-Water Hockey Congratulations to the Under-Water Hockey Regionals the Senior Boys team, captained by Regionals the Senior Boys team, captained by Max Hargreaves, won the silver medal in the Max Hargreaves, won the silver medal in the

The inter-house Haka competition was held last The inter-house Haka competition was held last month with Purple House coming out on top. month with Purple House coming out on top. The judges felt the standard was probably the The judges felt the standard was probably the highest yet. highest yet. At Mahurangi College we have voluntary BYOD At Mahurangi College we have voluntary BYOD

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Senior Open division. They were drawn with Mt Senior Open division. They were drawn with Mt Albert Grammar at full time in the final so went to Albert Grammar at full time in the final so went to a sudden death playoff in which Mt Albert were a sudden death playoff in which Mt Albert were first to score. Forrest Axford from was selected first to score. Forrest Axford from was selected as the MVP. The Junior Girls team, captained as the MVP. The Junior Girls team, captained by MacKenzie Buick, won the bronze medal and by MacKenzie Buick, won the bronze medal and MacKenzie was the MVP. Both these teams have MacKenzie was the MVP. Both these teams have qualified and will qualified and will attend the Nationals attend the Nationals at the end of the year. at the end of the year. The Senior Girls team, The Senior Girls team, captained by Sarah captained by Sarah Wilson, finished 6th Wilson, finished 6th and the Junior Boys, and the Junior Boys, captained by Samuel captained by Samuel Twhigg, finished 5th Twhigg, finished 5th in their division. in their division. Congratulations to Congratulations to Lucy Rowe on winning Lucy Rowe on winning the Junior Girls North the Junior Girls North Harbour and West Harbour and West Auckland Regional Auckland Regional Cross Country Cross Country Championships, Championships, Louis Young on Louis Young on coming 2nd in coming 2nd in Senior Boys and Senior Boys and Sam Cadwallader Sam Cadwallader on coming 2nd in on coming 2nd in Intermediate Boys. Intermediate Boys.

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Performing Arts Academy Mahurangi College Performing Arts Academy The Performing Arts Academy (PAA) at Mahurangi College has now been running for five years. The group is competitively auditioned at the end of the previous year and for this year 13 students were selected from 28 applicants, each of them involved at a very high level in drama, dance, music, kapa haka, Pasifika or sound and lighting. Most of these students (those pictured) were involved in our senior show this year of “Forever After”, either on-stage, in the band or in the technical side of production (sound and light). This year the PAA is being led by Anna Leese (profiled below). They meet as a group each Tuesday lunchtime where they either take part in a workshop or plan and rehearse for their next performance. The weekly meetings are a vital source of inspiration, collaboration, critique, fun and encouragement for our top performing artists in the school, where they can spark off each other and extend their capabilities. All members of the PAA look forward to their regular trips to live performances. Once or twice a month, outside of exam periods, the group travel into Auckland to take advantage of heavily discounted rates to see the ballet, the orchestra, the opera, live theatre and musicals. These experiences increase their motivation to perform,

and expose them to the quality and standard to which they need to aspire in order to pursue a career in the performing arts. The purpose of the PAA is to build the capacity of selected students who have the talent and desire to consider a career in the performing arts. To this end, it assists these students in their vision, goal setting, philosophy, self-management and skill development in the performing arts. It also strengthens and encourages live performance within and across disciplines, within Mahurangi College and the wider community. This includes at least three lunchtime performances in the Quad at Mahurangi College. They are currently preparing for their second lunchtime performance, which is a group

Anna Leese...Soprano New Zealand Soprano Anna Leese recently moved back to New Zealand after more than 12 years living in London, Italy and touring the world. Although she is based in New Zealand, and now teaching music at Mahurangi College, she still has a busy schedule travelling to London, Australia, and around New Zealand to perform opera and concerts. Anna completed a Bachelor of Music degree with First Class Honours at the University of Otago. She has been recipient of an impressive number of Australasian awards and prizes. In 2006 she graduated from London’s RCM Benjamin Britten International Opera School and she became an Associate Artist of the Classical Opera Company,

for whom Anna sang Countess (Le Nozze di Figaro), Tamiri (II Re Pastore) and Fiordiligi. Anna made her Covent Garden debut as Tamiri, returning for Musetta (La bohème), Micaela (Carmen), First Lady (Die Zauberflöte) and Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos), and her North American debut with the Canadian Opera Company as Musetta. Anna made her debut at the BBC Proms in an all-Mozart programme in 2006 with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Sir Roger Norrington, and has appeared in a number of opera gala concerts with Jose Carreras. Further concert engagements have included Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Madrid with Carlo Rizzi, Elijah with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Vaughan Williams’s Sea Symphony with the Malaysian Philharmonic, Mahler’s 2nd Symphony and Messiah with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the roles of Anna (Nabucco) and Freia (Das Rheingold) in concerts with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and Eckehard Stier, as well as recitals with the Prince Consort at the Wigmore Hall. 2014 engagements included Musetta at the Royal Albert Hall, a Wigmore Hall recital, Brahms’ Requiem with St Thomas’s Choral Society, London and Donna Elvira for NBR New Zealand Opera’s Don Giovanni, after which Roger Wilson, for Dominion Post Wellington, 13 October 2014, stated in his review, “Best of all was Anna Leese’s

collaboration. As you can imagine, coming up with the idea and reaching agreement on how to develop this in a group of thirteen highly talented performing artists, can itself be quite a challenge!

superbly sung Donna Elvira, her intonation faultless, her portrayal of this turbulent character utterly convincing”. Anna has recorded Elgar’s The Apostles in Canterbury Cathedral with the Canterbury Choral Society, a debut recital disc for EMI with Graham Johnson, a Haydn disc on the Michael Storrs Music label, and ‘Italian Love Songs’ under the Champs Hill label. Previously based in Tuscany, where she studied with Vincenzo Manno in Milano and Elisabetta Sepe in Firenze, Anna and her husband have recently relocated to New Zealand to live, where her performances this year will include the Dunedin Sound Concert and Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony, both with Southern Sinfonia, The Last Night of the Proms in Palmerston North, Elijah (Mendelssohn) in Napier, Summer Matinee with Auckland Philharmonia, a tour with ‘Takiri’ for Chamber Music New Zealand, and Messiah with the Queensland, Melbourne and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras. For Anna, the move home was an easy decision: although she has enjoyed high success in opera at an international level, she always felt the pull to move back home, and felt her marriage to Stefano signalled a time to concentrate on family life, and less on packing suitcases and living in hotel rooms.

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The GW Tipling Trust received $4000 towards renovation costs for the BNZ in Warkworth.

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Developing the clubs The Warkworth Association Football Club and Hibiscus Coast Football Club are both about half way through a strategic planning process. The process, initiated by Northern Football and supported by Harbour Sport, has already seen benefits for the Warkworth club. The club has completed its community stakeholder survey where members and other stakeholders were asked to provide feedback about all aspects of the club and indicate some future initiatives the club could undergo. Club president Matt Bull believes that, “the development of a plan is critical for even local clubs these days. Clubs are required to be more professional and organised compared to 15 to 20 years ago, and they have to have systems in place. A plan helps prioritise what is most important for the club.” The survey is detailed and covers all aspects of the club’s business. The process includes a SWAT analysis which captures what members are proud of and disappointed about, and an analysis of the clubs facilities, committee, coaches, systems and processes, communications, officials, and levels of service to members and stakeholders. Strengths of the club which were highlighted included the support for the coaches and players, amazing volunteers and the great community feeling within the club. The lack of proper facilities was identified as the biggest weakness. The club has grown significantly over the years and the club rooms, and the number and quality of fields, are limiting the club’s operations as well as future growth. It was felt that the club will struggle to continue grow and meet the needs of the increasing population in the region. Consequently, local people will head to other clubs to play their football. Other threats include the need to further develop coaches by providing more technical development, as well as recruiting more coaches to meet increased juniors wanting to play the game. This will probably be increased with the U20 World Cup proving so successful in our region. These factors have already been identified by the committee, but the survey helped reinforce their belief in the importance of developing their plan to, hopefully, address these needs. The next step will be to develop the key strategic priorities for the next three to five years, along with the strategic plan. This will be consulted on before the plan is embedded in the day-to-day activities of the club.

Funding for local projects Thirteen environment and heritage projects received $59,000 from the Rodney and Hibiscus Coast Local Board Funding Subcommittee this month. The subcommittee meets twice a year to allocate money from two legacy Rodney District Council contestable funds. The Rodney Natural Heritage Fund is for community initiatives that restore, protect and enhance the biodiversity and natural habitats within the former Rodney District. The subcommittee allocated $17,700 to five projects, including two in Mahurangi: • T&M Stazyk Partnership received $4000 towards native planting one hectare of former dairy farmland in the property neighbouring the CUE Haven restoration project in Araparera. • The D. Fraser Family Trust received $7100 to fence off stock from 3.5 hectares of native bush on Takatu Road to allow natural regeneration and improve the Tawharanui catchment. The Rodney Heritage Item Assistance

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Fund helps community projects conserve, restore and protect heritage items. The subcommittee allocated $41,400 to eight projects, including two in Mahurangi: • The GW Tipling Trust received $4000 towards renovation costs for the BNZ Heritage Building in Warkworth. The applicant requested $207,000 for painting, earthquake strengthening, reroofing, scaffolding and electrical wiring. The subcommittee contributed to re-roofing the original part of the building. • Lance Gravatt of Te Arai received $2000 towards the Te Arai Historic Cemetery Community Restoration Project. The project aims to restore the historical colonial cemetery to a state where all graves are marked and maintained. The applicant said the cemetery records serve as a colonial record with significant genealogical importance. The funding is to be spent repairing the cast iron grave fence and creating a restoration plan.

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Tide 12:28pm 0.7 1:15pm 0.5 2:02pm 0.4 2:49pm 0.4 3:37pm 0.4 4:26pm 0.4 5:18pm 0.5 6:12pm 0.6 1:09pm 3.2 2:08pm 3.1 3:10pm 3.1 4:12pm 3.1 5:12pm 3.1 6:07pm 3.2 12:30pm 0.6 1:18pm 0.5 2:03pm 0.5 6:58pm 3.2 7:46pm 3.3 8:31pm 3.3 7:11pm 0.7 8:13pm 0.7 9:16pm 0.8 10:16pm 0.8 11:14pm 0.8 Times 6:58pm 3.2 7:45pm 3.3 8:32pm 3.4 9:19pm 3.5 10:08pm 3.5 10:59pm 3.5 11:51pm 3.4 7:33am 5:16pm

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Full Last New Moon Quarter Moon Set 6:07am Set 7:03am Set 7:55am Set 8:44am Set 9:29am Set 10:10am Set 10:49am Set 11:27am Rise 12:12am Rise 1:18am Rise 2:22am Rise 3:26am Rise 4:26am Rise 5:24am Rise 6:16am Rise 7:04am Rise 7:47am Rise 4:37pm Rise 5:36pm Rise 6:38pm Rise 7:44pm Rise 8:51pm Rise 9:59pm Rise 11:06pm Set 12:05pm Set 12:45pm Set 1:26pm Set 2:11pm Set 2:59pm Set 3:50pm Set 4:45pm Set 5:41pm Set 6:38pm *Not for navigational purposes.

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July 4

Tree planting, Snells Beach, Te Whau Coastal Reserve, 10am12pm. Meet at the bridge at the Cornel Circle entrance to the reserve. Rain date, Saturday July 11. 4 Matariki on the Move: Rob Ruha with the Black Quartet, Te Hana Te Ao Marama Maori Cultural Centre, 7pm–8pm, all ages, free. Info: matarikifestival.org.nz (see story p20) 4 & 5 Free meditation weekend, Antara Retreat, Tomarata, for 18 to 30 year olds. Info: Leigh on 423 7070 or info@antara.org.nz 5 Tawharanui planting day, 9am. Meet at the woolshed. Bring gloves and wet weather gear. Free barbeque lunch. Info: Patte 425 9127 5 Matakana Vintage Market, mid-winter barbeque, Hot Diggity bluegrass band playing, Matakana Village Market Square, 10am-2pm. Info: matakanasundays@gmail.com 11 Sandspit Yacht Club centreboard division open day, Algies Bay, 11am-4pm. Info: Mischelle in 021 171 2550 12 The Port Albert Church Preservation Society, AGM at the church at 1pm. Info: portalbertchurch@gmail.com (see story p33) 12 Warkworth War on Weeds working bee, Warkworth, Lucy Moore Park, 10am-1pm. Gloves essential. Meet at the stormwater pond. Info: Patte Williams 021 0849 3214 or warkworthweeds@gmail.com 13-17 Kids’ Holiday Programme, Warkworth Presbyterian, 9.15am12.30. Topic, ‘safari’. No fee, donations welcome. Info: Ann Cates on 425 0966 or ann.cates@roke.co.nz 16 Mid North Forest and Bird winter talk, Tony & Jenny Enderby on Africa, Totara Park Village Hall, Melwood Drive, Warkworth, at 7.30pm 19 Warkworth Music presents Affetto - Femme Fatale, Ascension Winery, 4pm. Info: Elizabeth Clarke 425 7313 (see story p 21)

August 1-2

Calligraphy for beginners workshop, Kowhai Art and Craft Club, Warkworth, 9.30am-5.30pm. Cost $60 members, $70 non-members: Info: Mary Starr 425 5664 Matakana Vintage Market, with Sunday Sessions live music, Matakana Village Market Square, 10am-2pm. Info: matakanasundays@gmail.com Tawharanui planting day, 9am. Meet at the woolshed. Bring gloves and wet weather gear. Free barbeque lunch. Info: Patte 425 9127 Warkworth Liaison Group meeting, Warkworth RSA basement, 7pm. Info: Steve Haycock shcl@vodafone.co.nz Sandspit Marina Society AGM, Sandspit Yacht Club, 7.30pm

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Open sailing Sandspit Yacht Club’s Centreboard Division will hold an open day at Algies Bay on Saturday July 11, from 11am to 4pm. This is an opportunity for the general public to have a go at sailing. There will also be a ‘bring and buy’ for used boats and equipment. Info: Mischelle in 021 171 2550.

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Saturday 4th July - British Invasion Show Friday 17th July - Kavalliers Friday 24th July - Rock n Roll Riki Friday 31st July - Roger Skinner

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British Invasion Show Saturday 4th July

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One of the advantages of the FutureFerns netball programme is that all the young players get to feel like they are playing a real game.

FutureFerns encourages netballers A new approach to introducing juniors to the sport of netball is paying dividends at the Rodney Netball Centre. The ANZ FutureFerns programme was introduced at the Wellsford courts two years ago. It started with a Year 1&2 programme which was aimed at developing fundamental movement and basic netball skills. Teams were made up of four-a-side to allow players to learn to catch, pass and shoot from day one. Long-time netball supporter and centre president Lynette Gubb says the children are loving the chance to feel like they are playing a real game of netball and the feedback from parents has all been positive. “Some of the parents are ex-premier players and they just say it’s fantastic,” she says. The Year 3&4 programme, which started this

season, builds on the skills learned in Year 1&2 but the teams are five-a-side, and the games are faster, maximising participation. “The programmes are aimed at building the players’ skills base at an early age, but it is also very important that they enjoy it and have fun while they are learning.” Next month, Rodney will be a pilot for the Year 5&6 programme, which will be launched next season. “We’re only a small association so it’s quite a feather in our cap to be chosen to pilot a programme that will be rolled out across NZ.” Meanwhile, Rodney will host the Oldfield Shield tournament at the courts in Wellsford on August 23. Lynette says Rodney will be hoping to retain the shield, which it won last year.

The new programme, which teaches skills in a fun way, is getting good feedback from parents.

NZ umpire development officer Jan Skilton (centre) visited the Rodney Centre last month to work with centre umpire assessors Lorraine Collins and Lynette Gubb, as well as talking to local umpires.

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