LIFESTYLER
February 8 2012
Kaipara
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Saluting a harbour heroine The lady behind the microphone and radio link who has co-ordinated communications through uncounted rescues around the Kaipara is receiving tangible recognition from her peers The Kairpara boating community is being called on to get behind a big thank-you to a heroine of the harbour, North Kaipara Coatguard’s long-serving volunteer radio operator stalwart, Dorothy Quaife QSM. “For a virtually unbroken 17 years Dorothy has been manning the radio, keeping track of Kaipara harbour boat movements, and swinging the emergency services and coastguard units into action when anything untowards happens,” said launch owner, Barry Mockett. “So the three Kaipara boat clubs have got together and we are giving Dorothy’s house a major makeover.” The makeover consists of a professional and complete exterior painting. “In fact, we have had the roof done already, with contractor Leon Weber giving a good discount. Now we are looking to the community at large to chip in for the remainder of the house to be done.” Dorothy is and has been the official voice and ears for the North Kaipara Volunteer Coast Guard for the last 17 years but her service to her community goes well beyond this. With her late Husband Ansel Quaife, along with good friends Fred and Noreen Mays she helped set up the Kaipara Marine Radio Group in the early 1970’s and together they self funded and set up the first marine CB base station on Pouto Point. And for the last 17 years, it has been eight hours a day seven days a week, 52 weeks of the year at the radio, watching over thousands of people out on the water. Under her watch, the system of radio relays around the Kaipara has been steadily up-graded, as the coastguard movement grew, with the most recent installation a relay transmitter at Tinopai. This has enabled boats to make contact easily in what was once a dead spot on the harbour.
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A bicycle built for one
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A date with a lake
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A bathtub hat-trick at Pahi
Commodores’ call, from left: Justin Healey, of the Pahi Regatta Club, Tony Oud from Ruawai Boating Club, and Wayne Crump of the Northern Wairoa Boating Club, urge the community to support the painting makeover
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Dorothy Quaife QSM
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