4 June Independent Herald

BRETT HUDSON NATIONAL LIST MP BASED IN ŌHĀRIU P 04 478 0628 E Brett.HudsonMP@parliament.govt.nz

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Tours from home

By Glenise Dreaver

No New Zealander can doubt the pain being felt by the tourist industry here.

One Glenside woman has however, risen to the challenges that lockdown and social distancing offer tour operators.

It was at the beginning of 2020 when Sue Russ breathed a sigh of relief.

Her three-year-old travel business, Welcome Tours, had just come into its own.

“It takes about three years for a

company like this to establish itself,” she says.

The company, which runs out of Glenside, was offering sightseeing tours for visitors to Wellington and Discovery Day trips for older locals.

Then came Covid-19 and the collapse of the tourism industry.

For a small business like Sue’s there was no wriggle room at all.

Her solution has been to create online virtual tours. “The first one, an online tour of Pukeahu National War Memorial Park, was a hit over Anzac weekend,” she says.

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A particularly moving moment came during the online experience when she asked for a volunteer to read the Ode, and an elderly woman did this in memory of her father.

“It was quite emotional,” says Sue. Following this, Welcome Tours partnered with Huttbased Barlovska Craft Liqueurs, to host an online liqueur-tasting celebration on Mothers’ Day. There was a little glitch, as NZ Post wasn’t able to get the box of liqueurs to everyone, but the big plus was that Sue was able to unite online families with mothers in such far-flung

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the experience with friends and family from afar.”

Despite alert Level 1 being on the horizon, Sue plans to continue growing the online part of the business, in parallel with the real thing.

“There’s plenty of talk about tourism businesses needing to pivot at present. I like to think of it as pirouetting” she laughs.

Sue knows it’s a hard road ahead but despite this, during May, June and July, she is committed to donating $5 of every sale to foodbanks.

Details of tours are available on the website welcometours. co.nz or by calling Welcome Tours on 04 478 6033.

Sue Russ is operating virtual tours of Wellington out of her home office at Glenside, instead of from her minibus.

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places as Wanaka, and raise a glass to them, even if it wasn’t the chosen liqueur.

Sue says the small group experience, with a maximum of six to eight, provides a special sense of social connection and the interactive online experience allows members to meet new people.

The technology is very simple.

“Participants just need to have an internet connection and the ability to stream video and audio.” She adds there are distinct advantages to a virtual tour.

“It’s always ‘Wellington on a good day’ and you can share

Lives of service recognised Five New Zealanders have been honoured with the titles of Dame and Sir following the annual Queen’s Birthday Honours to New Zealanders for their contributions to the community.

There are three new Dame Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit: Distinguished Professor Jane Elizabeth Harding,

for services to neonatology and perinatology, Dr Karen Poutasi for services to education and the state and Aroha Hohipera ReritiCrofts, for services to Māori and the community.

Knight Companions of the same order are Professor Robert Elliott For services to medical research and Professor Derek Arana Te

Ahi Lardelli for services to Maori Art. Among others earning high honours we find someone who has trodden the streets of Johnsonville, Taika Cohen Waititi, former Onslow College student and now of Los Angeles. He has become an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to film.

Ot hers of note i nclude Georgina Byer of Kilbirnie, the transgender former MP and former Mayor of Carterton, on the list for her work for LGBTIQA+ rights, as is former All Black captain Kieran Read of Christchurch for services to rugby.

Local honours are found on pages 3, 4 and 5.

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Defeating prejudice

By Glenise Dreaver

David Zwartz of Kelburn is being presented with the Queen’s Birthday Honour of Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, ONZM. It comes from his services to both the Jewish and interfaith communities.

The chair of the Wellington Jewish Council, he has been an advocate for the Jewish community at many levels since the 1980s.

Yet David grew up in Nelson in the 1940s-50s at a time when there was no Jewish community there, and religious observances and education were not part of his youth.

His parents had, he says, come from the Netherlands in the 1930’s and the effects of the Nazi Holocaust that killed much of their family were, as with many Jewish families, still “very weighty”.

It was not until the 1970’s, after years of working in publishing overseas, that David came home, taking up the role of editor of the New Zealand Jewish Chronicle in 1980.

David Zwartz's work is summed up in the banner above the heads of this international Abrahamic Circle visiting the Holocaust Centre of NZ in Wellington in August 2019. From left, Rev Ryhan Prasad (Khandallah Presbyterian Church), David, Rabbi Baskin, Inge Woolf (founding director of the Holocaust Centre), Rabbi Ariel Tal of Wellington, Ustad Oji Fahruroji from Jakarta, and former NZ diplomat Roy Ferguson. Photo: Sarah Williams

“I then gradually became absorbed into the Jewish community here,” he says.

His has been an active voice in the fight against antisemitism – and against all discrimination of any faith..

He was one of the founders of the Wellington Interfaith Council in the

late 1980s, which established the National Interfaith Forums in 2003.

“Basically a response to 9/11.”

The commitment stepped up further after the massacre at the Christchurch mosque on March 15 2019.

The Wellington Interfaith Council set up the resultant highly successful and very well attended ‘We are One’

seminars throughout Wellington, where representatives of different faiths explained their beliefs and values and participants also shared meals.

A volunteer with the Holocaust Centre since its establishment in 2007, he is a writer and presenter for their educational programmes.

He was also a leader in setting up annual UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremonies nationwide and continues this work in Wellington.

Helping facilitate the 2019 publication of ‘Anne Frank’s Diary’ in Te Reo Māori is another project which his citation honours.

Services to those with disabilities

By Glenise Dreaver

Northland woman Donna Kennedy has been awarded the Queen’s Service Medal for services to people with disabilities.

Donna has volunteered for Wellington Riding for the Disabled (WRDA) for 17 years, coaching and mentoring, and serving two terms as president.

She stepped down from that role in 2017 to become project manager for the arena rebuild, opened in 2019

Donna says her interest in this work began as a high school student in Hastings. In a weeklong school-sponsored scheme, she was sent to an organisation supporting the disabled.

“That had a most profound effect on me,” she says.

Donna says she also rode as a kid, and later, finding herself with time on her hands, she put the two things together.

Following a career in accounting, starting at Audit NZ, in 2019 she moved into a paid NZRDA role as national

operations manager.

Donna was the driving force behind WRDA’s relocation after a land dispute which began in 2010, playing a key role in the movie to a temporary site for operating, while also building an indoor arena on Greater Wellington Regional Council land at Battle Hill.

“Greater Wellington has been amazing,” she says gratefully. ”Otherwise we’d have had to close down.”

Along with that, she led a campaign raising over $1m in

grants and donations to fund both the relocation and the build.

It was in 2017 that she was recognised as a Kiwibank Local Hero of the Year.

WRDA remains in recess during Alert level 2, but Donna is looking forward to moving back into a hands-on role with teaching and mentoring at the local arena.

“I’m there every week,” she says. “The kids just love it and we’ve got such an awesome team.”

Honoured for her long commitment to Riding for the Disabled is local woman Donna Kennedy.

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Queen’s Birthday Honours

Elizabeth Knox of Kelburn

Elizabeth Knox of Kelburn is honoured for her services to literature. Photo supplied.

Internationally-acclaimed author Elizabeth Knox of Kelburn is now a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature, elevating her 2002 appointment as an Officer of that order.

Elizabeth has won many national and international awards, the most recent in 2019, the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement. This followed her New Zealand publication of‘‘The Absolute Book’, her favourite so far, also to be published next year in the US and the UK. While many writers record an early passion for the written word, Elizabeth’s pathway to literary icon status was different.

As a child, she says, she loved reading. “But I was incapable of writing a

sensible sentence or spelling properly.

“I loved imaginary games and storytelling with my sisters but I couldn’t write it down.”

One of those games finally created a breakthrough, the writing of imaginary letters by characters in the game.

Elizabeth became captivated, persisting with the difficult task.

“And the more I wrote, the better I got.

“By the time I was 16 I was just writing, writing, writing.”

But there was a pressing need to earn an independent living. \Elizabeth planned her next move though and by 19 had saved enough for some months off to write her first (unpublished) book Then it was back to a variety of jobs and by 22 she’d again saved enough to

stop and write.

Her career path from then took in writing alongside academic study – a degree in English literature - and continuing jobs It was while speaking at a public function that the mystery of Elizabeth’s original inability to write was solved.

She mentioned dyslexia. “And a very smart man in the audience, a former teacher, interrupted.

“He said ‘No, you’re not dyslexic.

You’re dysgraphic.’

“That’s when you can read but not write.”

Overcoming that barrier, alongside far more than the usual number of life’s challenges, makes Elizabeth’s advice to aspiring writers all the more powerful.

“You’ve just got to persist.”

For Health and Education

By Glenise Dreaver

Update from your local city councillor Draft Annual Plan Feedback (closes 8th June) You have just a couple of days left to give your feedback on the Wellington City Council’s draft annual plan including what is planned and the impact on rates (average increase of 5.1%).

Please let us know what you think is important and what things should be adjusted. It is vital that we hear from as many diverse voices as possible to ensure we get it right for Wellingtonians.

You can give your feedback either online or in writing. More details can be found on the council’s website, Wellington. govt.nz/haveyoursay Please get in touch if you have a question or concern 029 971 8944 | diane.calvert@wcc.govt.nz www.dianecalvert.nz | /dianecalvertnz Authorised by J Owens, 22 Agra Cres, Wellington 6035.

Professor John Nacey of Kelburn has been elevated to the rank of Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to health and education.

Professor Nacey was appointed to the New Zealand Medical Council in 2010 and was very soon after elected as chair of Council’s education committee.

This followed from his reputation for innovation in the education of trainee doctors, already developed through his teaching and research at the University of Otago’s medical school.

He says he is “very lucky’” to have had groups of talented and committed doctors working with him as they created and led a unified and national system implementing far-reaching changes in the education of newly-qualified

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Voice for disadvantaged

By Glenise Dreaver

Marianne Bishop of Newlands is to be inducted as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the union movement and the community.

Her citation tells the story of over 25 years of involvement in New Zealand’s union movement, advocating for the rights of workers, women, and children.

She says she learned early that she needed to fight for what she got in what was a difficult childhood.

“I was the oldest in the family and my mother left when I was ten.

“I had to be the ‘big helper’.”

But she says, she did get help. And as a trained enrolled nurse, the same thing happened when she started work.

This background of struggle, and gratitude for the help she received “makes me me”, says Marianne.

“It gave me a great grounding and I wouldn’t be where I am without it.”

She’s also learnt to share what she learned with others and she says she has the help of a very supportive husband.

Marianne says she’s always fought where there’s injustice. And when the E tū union was formed in 2015, combining workers across a wide range of industries including community support and care workers, aviation, communications, manufacturing and food and public and commercial services, Marianne was on its national executive for three years.

She has been actively involved in many union campaigns, especially those that affect women and children, including Living Wage Campaign, Equal Pay Case and Equal Pay Coalition, 26 Weeks for Babies, Say NO to Violence, and the White Ribbon Campaign.

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QSM for Tawa man

By Glenise Dreaver

Terry Roche of Tawa, a volunteer in the Tawa community for almost 50 years, has been awarded the Queen’s Service Medal for services to the community.

It all began when he in 1972 when Terry joined Tawa Jaycees and wife Jill joined Jaycee Wives.

The joined for community involvement and for the opportunity to meet like-minded people.

“To quote my late wife, ‘They were memorable years’,” he says.

Terry, now 86, was widowed a long time ago, but the friendships have held firm and he has continued with memberships of many local groups.

An active member of the Tawa Lions Club for 44 years, he has been both president and Deputy District Governor.

For 25 years he was a volunteer for the Kapi Mana Police, primarily with phone contacts in victim support services.

Terry admired the Police staff who supported him as a volunteer “They were fabulous, absolutely superb,” he says.

Terry is a Senator and Life Member of New Zealand JCI Senators Inc., a Jaycee alumni group, and has been treasurer since 2002.

An active member of St Christopher’s Church in Tawa he has volunteered at

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WINTER Terry Roche QSM: Almost fifty years of service to the Tawa commuinity.

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Redwood School, initially as a religious instruction tutor, then for the past five years with the Bookworm Club. That collective of parents and grandparents works with students who are struggling or disengaged with reading.

A member of Tawa Indoor Bowls for 25 years, he was club captain for 17 years and president for two.

Terry joined the Tawa Midweek Table Tennis Club in 1992 and is the current treasurer, serving 20 years in that position.

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readers have their say... Find out the WORD on the Street.

Q: What is your favourite time of year and why?

Abby Robertson I like December because I get hit with all the fun stuff : the end of the uni year, the beginning of summer, my birthday, Christmas, and usually a holiday with the family.

Dawn McKinley I love Christmas and start planning and getting excited in September. I love this special time of year as families and friends have the opportunity to spend time together.

Jo Bryant Autumn, I love the trees changing colour. The cold just setting in with a hint of frost.

Kirsten Wallace It’s a toss-up between Summer and Winter. Summertime because it means we can get outdoors, go camping, go for great walks and BBQ!! Wintertime because it means we can stay cosy up by the fire going and relax at home.

Nik Sika That time that happens every day when my eyes are closed and I can go to bed.

Tilly Partsch The Christmas period.

I love it because of its a season of holiday and giving when we all come together for celebrations and fun.

EYE ON CRIME In Johnsonville a house in Woodland Road was broken into on Saturday afternoon after a window was forced while the occupant was out.

Two Macbooks and a charger with accessories, jewellery, three passports, a watch, sunglasses and a small amount of U.S. currency were stolen.

An attempt was made to steal a silver Mazda Demio hatchback parked in Sim Street overnight. A rear window was forced, the ignition tampered with and the plastic

cover pulled off.

In Newlands a vehicle parked in a Cheyne Walk driveway and containing an expensive set of golf equipment was stolen.

In Batchelor Street a silver Mazda Familia parked overnight on the road was broken into after a window was smashed. A few small items were stolen.

In Lynda Avenue a grey Honda Ferio saloon was broken into via a smashed window and a Bluetooth speaker was stolen.

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In Khandallah a householder in Madras Street was alerted by lights in the grounds of their property at night. This was recorded on their outdoor camera. The matter was reported to Police but nothing of substance has been discovered.

A dairy in Ganges Road was broken into overnight. The burglars smashed the glass front door and the alarm was activated.

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A grey Toyota Hilux ute parked during the afternoon in Rangoon Street had a hedge trimmer stolen

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In Karori a black Toyota Corolla stationwagon near the intersection of Espin and Ponsonby roads, was stolen.

In Wadestown a white Toyota Hiace van, converted into a sleeping unit,was entered through a smashed glass sliding door. A portable fridge and furnishings were stolen.

In Northland intruders entered the property of a house in Huntington Street and stole a 45kg gas bottle.

Lower speeds in Karori The Wellington City Council is asking for community feedback on its plan to reduce the speed limit to 30kph in two shopping areas in Karori and Marsden.

Both areas have a current speed limit of 50kph.

The proposed lower speed zone will affect portions of Karori Road, Chamberlain Road, Parkvale Road,

Beauchamp Street, Raine Street and Campbell Street.

The proposed decrease in speeds in Marsden would affect portions of Karori Road, Hatton Street and Lancaster Street.

The proposal is in line with similar reductions already made in other shopping areas in Wellington including Northland, Ngaio, Khandal-

lah and Wadestown.

Submissions are now being taken up until June 22 on the Wellington City Council website and will be heard by a sub-committee in August.

The proposal will then be presented to the Strategy and Policy Committee meeting for approval on September 10.

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To mark the 99th birthday of the Duke of Edinburgh, members of the 16 Field Regiment, Royal New Zealand Artillery will fire a 21-gun salute in Wellington at midday on June 10. A salute to mark the Queen’s actual birthday on April 21 was cancelled because of Level 4 restrictions, but two others were held on June 1 and 2 to mark her official birthday in New Zealand and the anniversary of her coronation.

Gun salutes are fired from the Saluting Battery at Point Jerningham using four 25-pounder guns, the only battery in New Zealand used for salutes.

PJ appeal online Wellington Regional Children’s Hospital is still running its annual PJ appeal for children who arrive without pyjamas. However, they cannot accept drop-offs of physical PJs because of their strict visitor policy but you can donate online to Hospi’s Virtual Jammies in June Appeal at www. hospi.org.nz, There is always a significant increase in the number of children admitted to hospital in winter, and the community nursing teams also find children in homes that are often cold and damp, raising the risk of asthma and other respiratory infections.

And right now, many Kiwi families in our region face an uncertain financial future, and there may be little leftover money to spend on extras like warm PJs.

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Karori visitors first in line at Te Papa Juan-Luis Tolebo and his threeyear-old son Gabriel, from Karori, were the first in line to visit Te Papa on the morning of Thursday May 28 after a 68-day closure.

Before they entered, a karakia had cleared the way for visitors to re-enter.

Staff were joined by representatives of mana whenua and the museum’s iwi in residence Rongowhakaata.

The museum’s flags were raised, and those who had lost their lives to Covid-19 were acknowledged.

“We knew Te Papa was opening at 10am but my son was just too excited, so we had to come down early,” Juan-Luis said..

“Gabriel just loves Te Papa so much.

The people are always so friendly, it’s always such a great place to be.”

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has also announced that the museum will receive an additional $18m of Crown funding for the financial year 2020/2021.

This will help maintain Te Papa’s core operations and critical infrastructure after the impacts of Covid-19.

Making the announcement in the museum’s art gallery Toi Art, the Prime Minister talked about the importance of arts, culture and heritage to New Zealanders.

Te Papa board chair Dame Fran Wilde said Te Papa was incredibly grateful for the support of govern-

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Our economic recovery from the impacts of COVID-19 requires assistance to help businesses to survive under restricted conditions, along with incentives to invest early in future growth.

National has proposed ideas to provide cash flow to businesses to ensure they can survive, and that the jobs they provide can remain once the wage subsidy expires.

Juan-Luis Tolebo and his three-year-old son Gabriel from Karori were the first in line to visit Te Papa on reopening morning. Photo Jo Moore

ment during this time.

“This will enable us to re-orient our commercial activities,” she said, adding that there are challenging times ahead, and this put them in a position to meet those challenges.

Visitors will be checked in and out at the main entrance to the museum.

And opening hours will be 10am – 6pm, seven days a week. There will be a maximum of 500 visitors at any one time and groups of up to ten visitors are allowed.

Some taonga Maori may be closed off to ensure the best cultural care for them and some high-touch inter-

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actives are closed.

StoryPlace and children’s discovery centres are also closed, while hosted tours and education programmes are currently on hold.

High touch areas within the museum are cleaned frequently and hand sanitiser dispensers will be available throughout the museum.

Distancing of 2 metres will be required when queuing outside; within the museum distancing of 1 metre is required.

A memorial to the lives lost and affected by Covid-19 is in place on Level 2 in Wellington Foyer.

The wage subsidy has helped many workers to retain some income over the lockdown and Level 2 restrictions. The effectiveness of that support will be undermined if their jobs no longer exist because businesses have been unable to meet their other costs and are forced to close.

Our GST cash-back initiative would pump immediate cash into businesses to help keep them afloat. To help keep those jobs available.

Our recently announced JobStart initiative would provide businesses with a grant of $10,000 for each new additional employee they take on between November 2020 and March 2021, providing another incentive to get growing sooner and to help to provide employment for up to 50,000 people who would otherwise face unemployment during uncertain times.

National understands that it will be private sector growth that will provide the employment opportunities and growth that will lift us out of the economic crisis sooner and stronger.

We have encouraged the Government to take up these initiatives now. The livelihoods of so many New Zealanders are at stake.

More debt without a plan will simply indebt the country for decades to come.

We need better than that.

The full expensing of capital investment up to $150,000 per year would help to encourage businesses to invest early for future growth.

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Jane holds on to the nursing spirit Jane Warman believes once someone becomes a nurse, the profession always stays with them.

The now Huntleigh Home resident began working as a nurse at the age of 18. Her career saw her work in a head injury unit in Edinburgh, as a midwife, and as a community nurse in London.

Once she began pursuing different paths, the spirit of nursing stuck with her.

“Once you’re a nurse, you’re always a nurse,” she says.

Enliven, which operates Huntleigh Home and Apartments, is marking the World Health Organisation’s International Year of the Nurse and Midwife by profiling nurses who work for the organisation and former nurses who live

in its homes and villages.

Jane received a special honour at Huntleigh Home in mid-May when Enliven celebrated International Nurses Day, timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birthday.

Enliven has almost 160 nurses working in its homes across the lower North Island and many of its residents spent time working as nurses.

Following her time as a nurse, Jane worked as a midwife, ran a bereavement service for Aged Concern Brixton, trained as a psychotherapist and as an interfaith minister.

Her care and patience for others has been evident since moving into

Huntleigh Home, says recreation team leader Annelize Steyn.

“She is very good and comforting with people and has patience to get an insight on peoples’ needs.”

Since moving into Huntleigh Home in 2015, Jane has established a reading group using books designed for people with memory loss. She has also set up a spiritual corner in the home and looks after the flower arrangements.

Huntleigh Home offers rest home and hospital care, short-term respite, health recovery care and a day programme.

To learn more about the home or the elder-centred Enliven philosophy, visit www.enlivencentral.org.nz or call 04 464 2020. PBA.

Huntleigh Home resident and former nurse Jane Warman (left) is honoured on International Nurses Day by manager Anna Roberts.

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This bright red 1974 Austin 1300, seen here in the grounds of Parliament Buildings with Ohariu Labour MP Greg O'Connor, signals a certain confidence about his readiness for the September 19 election campaign.

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Jenny said she always felt comfortable and safe in the village. Even with the worldwide pandemic, she found the village to be a safe haven.

“We were treated so well during lockdown,” she said.

She noted the cheerfulness of the staff during a time when they had their own families to care for and how nothing was a bother for them.

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Penguin solidarity earns artist national exposure

By Jacob Page

Makara Beach artist Helen Casey has received national attention during the Coronavirus lockdown.

The 55-year-old, who has her own art gallery at home, has had her piece which shows two penguins huddling together and entitled ‘Waiting It Out’ be part of the In Isolation Urban Arts national exhibition.

It has seen several New Zealand artists have their work shown on electronic billboards around the country during the Coronavirus pandemic.

The artwork will be auctioned at a later date with money raised above the reserve price going to Youthline.

As well as producing her own artwork, Helen also teaches drawing in Karori.

Six years ago she decided to move to Makara Beach to open her own gallery after more than two decades as an illustrator.

“There was less and less illustration as computers came in... I had been keen on having an art gallery for years so we decided we’d move to Makara Beach and open an art gallery in the garage and it’s gone quite well actually.

ABOVE: Makara Beach artist Helen Casey and her work Waiting It Out has received national attention during the Coronavirus lockdown. Photo supplied.

LEFT: We captured award-winning Makara artist Helen Casey last year at the Karori Arts and Crafts Centre. Photo Glenise Dreaver.

“I thought it was good if you could control your own space and I’ve always enjoyed the beach.”

She says she has a fascination with lines and details with her pieces.

“It’s not really abstract, it’s not quite realistic.

“I like living things. an animal, bird or fish and I like to abstract

them a little bit,” she says.

“I like the curves, the lines and the shapes.”

Her ‘Waiting It Out’ piece illustrates two penguins trying to see out a tough time together.

She thought it was appropriate given the current global climate.

“If you’ve ever seen March of the

Penguins, there’s something about their behaviour that I find incredible.

“I’m really impressed with how they put up with the total darkness for six months, going back and forth from the sea and feeding their chick.

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GARDENING THIS WEEK Leaves: By Wally Richards As we well know; that a plants leaves are the means of converting sunlight into energy called carbohydrates or sugars. It is these sugars that aid in plant growth and health.

Deciduous trees and plants lose their leaves going into winter (or apparently in some cases in summer in dry arid places.)

I suddenly had a thought which is; why do deciduous trees (deciduous means fall off) shed their leaves?

So onto the Internet and found these answers: deciduous: Describing plants in which all the leaves are shed at the end of each growing season, usually the autumn in temperate regions or at the beginning of a dry season in the tropics.

This seasonal leaf fall helps the plant retain water that would otherwise be lost by transpiration from the leaves.

A good sensible answer and we also know; that in summer plants transpire water from their leaves as protection from been burnt by hot sunlight.

It also produces a cooling effect as well, hence not only do we get under the shade of trees on a hot sunny day but it is also a cooler zone as the tree transpires moisture.

Water evaporation drops the temperature which is why we wet the concrete floor of a glasshouse on a hot summers day when the temperature gets too high in the glasshouse.

Some readers may remember those small concrete boxes with a concrete door that we used to put water into a porous area on top of the box and place butter or milk inside as it was a natural fridge due to the evaporation of the water.

That was before we had electric fridges.

This time of the year we see a lot of falling leaves blocking street drains, gutters and down pipes on our homes and all over the gardens and lawns.

These leaves are both valuable and a nuisance, depending on where they are and what we do with them.

Onto the roof and down into the spouting creates a problem which needs to be cleared out to allow rain to flow out to the stormwater.

There are products that you can put in the guttering to prevent leaves blocking. For this I use the small square plastic netting cut into widths about 15cm and slotted into the spouting curving up in the middle.

Inexpensive and works a treat.

The leaves then blow elsewhere

in the wind rather than into the guttering.

Gardeners of the past reconised that leaves were very valuable and can be turned into leaf mould for using in potting mixes and gardens.

The old way was to make a hammock under the trees using small square wire netting and placing the leaves into it to break down. A long and slow process.

My modern way is to stuff them into black plastic rubbish bags tied off and a lot of small holes punched into the bag so it can breathe.

The bags then placed out of sight in a sunny spot and turned over every so often.

After about six months or a year you have a nice pile of leaf mould.

If you shred the leaves by running over them with a rotary lawn mower and collecting the grass/leaves in the catcher then the break down will be much faster.

Also using a bit of garden lime or hydrated lime, Thatch Busta, Ammonium Sulphamate over the layers of leaves will also speed up the breakdown.

Then there is another solution and for the leaves that fall into gardens you can spray them with Thatch

The seasonal leaf fall helps the plant retain water that would otherwise be lost by transpiration from the leaves.

Busta which will speed up their breakdown where they are, without harming your plants.

In fact the plants will also benefit from the Thatch Busta.

I had a reader this week asking about using seaweed to turn into liquid seaweed (compost tea) and what can be added to make it even better.

(Seaweed into a drum of water, stir occasionally) I have recently heard

of a product which we will have available in the near future as a spray on bird repellent which will be ideal when fruit is ripening, for spraying over lawn you have just sown and to stop them kicking your bark gardens onto path and lawns.

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Local club supports local charities

Johnsonville Rotary president Pravind Singh is seen here handing over a $2000 cheque for the Johnsonville Foodbank to a grateful Debbie Avison of the Michell Rowe, of Kiwi Community Assistance, was delighted to receive their $4000 donation from Pravind.

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In May, the Rotary Club of Johnsonville donated $9000 to charities supporting local people in need.

“This is to assist our local community at this time when many in our community are affected by financial strain due to the Covid 19 lockdown and its economic impact,” says Rotary spokesperson Michael Hodgen.

“The charities to which we donated reflect the areas with the greatest needs at this time, such as the foodbanks and organisations helping families and young people

cope at this time,” he says.

The donations were given to the following organisations, which operate in the local community: Kiwi Community Assistance (KCA, a food rescue organisation) $4000, the Johnsonville Foodbank $2000 and Challenge 2000, which helps families and young people $1500.

“Life Education Trust, which helps younger children cope, also received $1500,” says Michael, adding that all those organisations expressed real gratitude for the donations.

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Gardening & OUTDOOR LIVING Groundplanz – winter gardening awareness Winter is a good time to identify problem areas in your garden – areas needing drainage, shady areas where it’s difficult to grow anything and those exposed to the weather. With the right solution these areas can become functional outdoor living spaces.

If you have lawns that struggle to survive in winter because they are shaded by trees, then pruning them will let more light in and give them a better chance. Take note of your frost-tender plants and pro-

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Hellebores are becoming more and more popular with Wellington gardeners, and will light up any shady sight, bringing a lot of joy over the colder months of the year. We have a wonderful selection of Hellebores in stock right now, with more yet still to arrive this winter. Twigland is open every day from 9 till 5 and we’d love you to see all our new season plants!

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SPORTS TALK With Jacob Page

Warriors must build on early promise A new era of rugby league produced a scarcely believable performance from the Warriors.

The much maligned NRL franchise produced a gutsy performance against the St George Illawarra Dragons on Saturday to record an 18-0 win.

Stephen Kearney’s side have always been known as a team who

are their own worst enemies at times, mixing stellar plays with the utterly stupid.

However, the performance last weekend was out character.

It was workman-like, gritty and relentless.

They completed their first 44 sets of six, a competition record.

The team deserves a lot of credit

but excitement and expectation levels must be tempered.

The Dragons are a club in turmoil which will battle it out for the wooden spoon this year.

They have no attacking threats, have zero team chemistry and no last tackle options.

They are a club with no identity and are simply imploding from

within.

With that in mind, I do not expect the Warriors to be title contenders.

While the performance had many positive signs, the lack of a quality opposition must be factored in when assessing the team’s 2020 aspirations.

The Warriors have the makings of a decent side.

If their discipline remains and they are able to add a couple more players with class, particularly in the forwards over the coming years, they could be genuine title contenders.

There is certainly enough Kiwi talent out there and if they can find the balance they need, it could be another interesting chapter in their 25-year career.

Mudgway honoured with Sir Jack Newman Medal Rick Mudgway has put a lot of support into junior cricket in Johnsonville over a lot of years.

His more than 20 years of dedication has been recognised at the national level, with his nomination for the Sir Jack Newman Medal to be presented at the New Zealand Cricket Association’s annual awards ceremony.

The honour has not come about because Rick has ”cuddled up” to people in high levels of the game.

“I tell it like it is!” he says, adding that he’s proud of the work he does for children, proud too of the fact his

selections are always done without bias.

“I couldn’t care less who a child’s parent might be - a Black Cap or not.”

He admits that attitude has meant some ups and downs, some of the downs caused by the expectations of parents.

He’s been the parent of a young player himself and knows what it’s like. “You have to keep the lid on your expectations!” he says. “I’ve been there and I’ve done that.”“And you have to be seen to do that.”

“The kids say fun, new skills,

friendships are all important. Winning comes in last on their list.

“For parents, it’s the reverse.”

He’s also proud of the fact that he’s been able to pick two winning Wellington rep teams in the national champs over the last five years Rick’s association with cricket in Wellington began in earnest in the early 2000s when he started coaching his sons at Johnsonville.

Over the last 20 years, Rick has fulfilled almost every volunteer role imaginable, from club captain to senior chair and everything in-between.

Irrespective of Rick’s many con-

tributions, it could be argued that his greatest impact has been in the junior space.

At the beginning of the 2012-13 season, Rick began a seven-year stint as the Johnsonville Development Officer.

Staunchly proud of the Johnsonville region and club, he set about ensuring primary-aged children had ample opportunity to experience cricket.

Rick developed relationships with local primary schools and on average more than 1000 primary-aged children per season received access

to cricket awareness and coaching.

During Rick’s tenure, the junior club increased its numbers by nearly 33 per cent.

This tremendous growth was a by-product of increased in-school activity and enhanced community relationships.

In the 2015-16 season, Rick stepped into the role of junior convenor.

In addition to his work with the Johnsonville Cricket Club, Rick has served as the coach, manager and selector for the Cricket Wellington Year 8 team since the 2017-18 season.

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Wadestown School

Out of Zone Enrolment for July to December 2020

APPLICATIONS OPEN

This DB5 Goldfinger Aston Martin is one of 25 replicas from the 1964 James Bond movie being produced by the firm at a cost of $NZ5461,775 each. Photo supplied.

Goldfinger revisited Fifty five years after the last new DB5 Aston Martin rolled off the production line in Newport Pagnell Buckinghamshire, work has started again on a strictly limited basis, with 25 models being built.

Created in association with the producers of the James Bond films, and featuring a broad suite of working gadgets first seen on screen in the 1964 film, the Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger Continuation cars are history in the making.

Aston Martin’s successful Continuation car programme began in 2017 with the DB4 GT Continuation and the new DB5 models represent among the most valuable new cars yet brought to market by the British luxury brand.

Each DB5 Goldfinger continuation car is priced at

£2.75m, plus taxes. (That’s $NZ5,461,775.)

The meticulous DB5 Goldfinger Continuation construction process takes around 4500 hours per car.

Each of the cars uses a blend of old world craftsmanship with modern engineering and performance enhancements.

It’s being done alongside the integration of cutting-edge gadgets developed in association with Chris Corbould, the special effects supervisor who has worked on more than a dozen Bond films.

The list of Bond-inspired gadgets includes the following Bond features: A rear smoke screen delivery system, rear simulated oil slick delivery system, revolving number plates front and rear, simulated twin front machine guns and bullet resistant rear shield. There

are battering rams front and rear, a simulated tyre slasher and an optional removable passenger seat roof panel.

The cars are being built to one exterior colour specification – Silver Birch paint – just like the original.

Under the bonnet there’s a 4.0-litre naturally aspirated inline six-cylinder engine with a six-plug head, three SU carburettors and oil cooler that’s capable of generating in the order of 290 bhp.

There’s a host of other features and Paul Spires, president of Aston Martin Works says: “We are making, perhaps, some of the most desirable ‘toys’ ever built for 25 ver y lucky buyers worldwide.”

First deliveries to customers will start in the second half of 2020.

The Board of Trustees invites applications from parents out of zone who wish to enrol their children at Wadestown School for the Term 3 and Term 4, intake 20th July to 15th December 2020. Enrolment at the school is governed by an enrolment scheme, details of which are available from the school office or at www.wadestown.school.nz Students who live in the home zone are entitled to enrol at the school.

Limited places are available in Years 1-8. Where there are more applications for enrolment than there are places available the Board are required to fill any vacant out of zone places by ballot.

Applications from out of zone students will be processed in the following order of priority: •

Priority will be given to applicants who are siblings of current children at the school.

•

Priority will then be given to applicants who are siblings of former children of the school.

•

Priority will then be given to applicants who are children of Board employees.

•

Priority will then be given to other applicants.

If the number of out of zone applications exceeds the number of places available, selection will be by ballot. If a ballot for out of zone places is required, it will be held on Monday 22nd June 2020 under external supervision. Parents will be informed as to the outcome of the ballot immediately following the ballot being held.

The deadline for receipt of applications for out of zone places is 4pm, Friday 19th June 2020.

Applications are to be made in writing, marked ‘Confidential’ and addressed to: •

The Principal, Wadestown School, 2 Rose St, Wadestown, Wellington 6012.

•

Or by email to ian@wadestown.school.nz Subject Heading ; Confidential - Out of Zone Ballot 2020.

Ian Hastie Acting Principal Wadestown School Board of Trustees

For further enquiries, please email: office@wadestown.school.nz or phone 04 472 4779

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