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Beauty combination
Two successful beauty businesses in Wellsford have amalgamated. Soul Hair Boutique and Devine Beauty Therapy, at 187 Rodney Street, have formed a partnership providing customers with hair, beauty and wellbeing services all under one roof. The combined business will employ five staff including manager Robyn Moore and owner Karla Brady.
From left, Val Poutler, Heather Metcalfe, Robyn Yates, Ruth Munro, Brenda Hawley, Faye Mathie and Rae Ward. Front, Dorothy Goudie and Madeline Aitkin.
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Robyn Moore (left) and Karla Brady.
Gas convenience A new LPG bottle filling facility has been installed at Mahurangi Sheetmetal, at 69 Woodcocks Road, Warkworth. Mahurangi Sheetmetals has recently been awarded the BOC Gas and Gear distributor partnership for the area. The partnership means that the facility can now exchange all BOC gas cylinders, including medical gases and LPG fork hoist cylinders.
Long-standing businesswomen of Warkworth celebrated Dorothy Goudie’s 30 years in business with a breakfast at Q Café recently. In total, the women represented around 130 years of make decisions, and whether they are right or not, you just keep going. local retailing experience. In making a presentation, Heather Metcalfe said “When I first opened the shop, business in Dorothy’s fashion store represented commitment Warkworth was in the doldrums. There were nine empty shops and the river was far from the attractive and loyalty. “As a past president of the Businesses Association, area it is now. All the big employers were gone and Dorothy has always been a strong supporter of there was real concern about the future of the town. the Warkworth business community, helping it to “We held a meeting to get things going and more develop and grow,” Heather said. “We owe you a than 100 people attended. The river was identified as one of the town’s best assets and slowly investment great debt for that.” Reflecting on how the town had changed over the started to happen.” last three decades, Dorothy pointed out that the Dorothy moved to Warkworth from Whakatane in 1964. women were having breakfast in what used to be the Her dress shop Dorothy’s first opened in a garage, on tractor division of Rodney Motors. land now occupied by the Countdown Supermarket. “When I started out I had no idea what the outcome Dorothy’s story will be told in more detail in next would be,” she said. “You put in your energy and month’s Local Folk interview.
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