The Weekend Lifestyler, February 25th 2022

February 25 2022

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Lion’s support Starship P5

Honouring native timber Denis McCartain discovered the art of woodturning in the early 1970s and turned the interest into a career. Now based in Waipū, Denis has moved into hobby mode and works on special pieces that he sells in his home gallery. He also enjoys creating items for community

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Northland businesses praised u by Ann van Engelen

The 2021 NorthChamber Northland Business Excellence Awards saw Whangarei’s Foreno Tapware voted supreme winner and three Marsden Point area companies take awards.

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Marsden Metals Group received the Vodafone Digital Transformation Award, Kirsty Joy Photography won the ASB Excellence in Business — Micro Business Award, and Marsden Points Extrutec took the Northland Regional Council Environmental Excellence Award.

Principal sponsors, Top Energy and Northpower are paying tribute to all businesses and judges involved in the awards.

“The efforts of entrants from throughout Northland have been immense under extremely trying circumstances,” said chief executives Russell Shaw and Andrew McLeod, respectively. “Our congratulations go to the winners of the 18 categories, particularly the Supreme and Hall of Fame Awards, but those who did not win deserve equal praise for having a go.”

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digital sophistication. Their response to resuming business after the first lockdown was to look at all aspects of their operation. They wrought a true digital transformation, ranging from marketing through to vehicle tracking and inventory calculations to customer bookings.”

Being locally owned, Northpower and Top Energy are driven to invest in Northland, which is why they became principal sponsors of the awards.

Mr Shaw and Mr McLeod encourage businesses to start preparing their entries for the 2022 awards.

“The calibre of entries has again shown the strength and breadth of local businesses,” says Mr Shaw.

“Northland is home to many worldclass, innovative and successful businesses. The past two years have

They are an example of a business thinking smarter and responsibly

Raewyn Tipene was inducted into the Hall of Fame for her significant contributions to Te Tai Tokerau through her business and community activities since the early 1990s.

The judges said Extrutec Ltd has not only developed a biodegradable product, but is demonstrating environmental responsibility, helping its customers implement systems to compost and rescue the product after use, closing the product life cycle.

“They are an example of a business thinking smarter and responsibly.

“Kirsty Joy Photography stood out in the micro category with good leadership, strong business planning, robust processes and a good understanding of financial statements.

“Kirsty recently expanded her business and leased commercial premises setting her business up for growth and a future strategy.

“Marsden Metals operates in an industry that is not renowned for its

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been hard for our businesses and communities, but we continue to support each other, and that has developed a level of resilience that will help us continue to thrive.

“I have said it before, but that attitude and ability to adapt is reflective of the values that Top Energy and Northpower as trust-owned businesses must live and operate by every day.”

Mr McLeod says it is nice to be involved in an event that celebrates the unique ‘let’s make it personal and have some fun’ style of doing business in the north.

“Being involved in the awards gets us close to the culture and attitude of these businesses. The winners of this year’s awards are great examples of businesses turning up strongly to make a difference in our community.

“It has been a tough couple of years, so it is nice to take a breath and recognise their successes.” ¢

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Scholarships up for grabs

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Time is running out to apply for one of eight $3,000 Tū i te ora Scholarships being offered by the Northland Regional Council.

Nominations for the close on Wednesday, March 2, 2022.

“The scholarship aims to recognise, encourage and support students to undertake study, research or training that relates to council’s environmental and regulatory functions,” says NRC chair Penny Smart.

“Studying can be an expensive exercise, especially under current circumstances, so it’s great that we can help alleviate the financial burden and support Northlanders to reach their full potential.

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not be top of the class, but if you are studying to help the environment thrive, we want to hear from you.”

Former recipient Huia Webby is studying a Bachelor of Science majoring in Marine Studies. Passionate about Northland’s marine ecology, she is especially interested in the aquaculture industry.

“I am completing my final trimester of my degree in the first half of this year,” says Huia.

“Over the summer, I have been working on a research project at Victoria

While academic merit is considered in the judging process, it is just one element of the eligibility criteria

“The benefits of the scholarship include raising students’ environmental awareness and understanding, encouraging Mātauranga Māori research and education, as well as promoting leadership and innovation.

“We hope the scholarship encourages greater uptake of environmentally focussed study and sees students return to Te Tai Tokerau to share their knowledge and skills.

“While academic merit is considered in the judging process, it is just one element of the eligibility criteria.

“We encourage anyone who fits the eligibility criteria to apply. You might

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University of Wellington, investigating the diversity of red algal parasites within New Zealand.

“In layman’s terms: finding red seaweeds, which grow as parasites on other seaweeds.

“This is a very understudied area, and it has been very exciting to learn so much about how real scientific research is carried out and to have the experience of finding and officially describing previously unrecorded species.”

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Connecting with joy u by Ann van Engelen

Cliff McPherson, Wendy Leach and Ian McGowan have joined together to present the Finding Joy exhibition at Mangawhai Artists Gallery, opening this Saturday, February 26.

“The title for the exhibition was the result of a casual remark by Ian, which Wendy picked up on,” says Mangawhai Artists Inc chair Belinda Vernon.

“That remark was ‘Hey, a New Year’s resolution — Find Joy’. This referred to Ian’s 2020 artworks that had been heavily coloured by the first year of Covid.”

Cliff’s prior exhibition also centred around Covid 19, and he was subsequently invited to join them in finding some joy in the studio.

“The original concept of finding joy assumed that 2021 would see us Covidfree,” said Wendy.

“This was not to be, and the theme then became more tenuous — to try to find joy in a Covid world.

“The premise of finding joy was a challenge to strike a balance, as it could be a weighty proposition or a trite one.”

Each artist, nudged on by the chosen theme murmuring away in the background, released a little more

joy into the furrow they are creatively ploughing.

For Wendy, shimmering early evening light contrasts with dramatic shadow, held high in a twisting thatch of pōhutukawa on Mangawhai ocean beach.

Painted with clarity, majesty and enchantment, her fascination for the subject is captured with her expression and skill.

“I feel joy as a dynamic emotional energy. The power of nature energises and uplifts my spirit. In the surrounding darkness of Covid, I find light — alongside uncertainty and sadness, I find joy,” she says.

Cliff has demonstrated how colour, plus the contrast of spatial relationships, can communicate an endless array of subtle differences.

“The injunction to ‘find joy’ has played its part in the outcome, although I did not allow this to sit too heavily on my shoulders,” says Cliff.

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“The ‘finding’ part of the equation is expressed through a trail of arteries, pathways, grids and connections, and joy might be found in an underlying energy that runs within the paintings.”

Ian’s inquiry is an exploration into the conventions of the ‘spiritual’, especially when words are connected to visual values. His paintings explore the surprise of chance and change.

He says joy has never been much understood by him as a subject for painting.

“I have tended to side with issues to do with human threat. I had to dig deep to find some means to approach the challenge ‘joy’ represented,” he said.

“The challenge for those who view our exhibition is to experience these paintings with joy in mind, to find the joy themselves, and internalise the experience.”

Finding Joy is open daily from 10am to 3pm from Saturday, February 26 through to midday on Wednesday, March 9, at the Mangawhai Artists Gallery, 45 Moir Street, Mangawhai. ¢

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Lions support Starship

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The Waipū Lions Club has joined with other Lions Clubs around the country to support the Starship Hospital Patient Intensive Care Unit appeal.

“The Starship Foundation is raising funds for an expansion of their PICU rooms,” says club president Malcolm Norton.

“Lions across the country are certainly behind this worthwhile appeal. Warkworth Lions Club, on behalf of the clubs in District K, is spearheading the initiative for Clubs of New Zealand.

“There have been many families from the Waipū area who have had to use the services of this essential facility.

“Both of my grandchildren have been in the neonatal unit, and the care they received was world-class.

“As part of Lions District K, Waipū Lions has pledged $10,000 to the project. We raised these funds through various events and fundraisers throughout the years.

“To us, it is one way of showing appreciation, not just for us here locally, but every family and child who has used Starship across the country.

The work they do at the hospital is

exceptional. People don’t realise how much it costs to set up each ICU room.

The total cost is $406,700.

“The ventilator costs $75,000, syringe drivers are $31,500, a patient monitor costs $30,000 and an ICU bed is $ 16,000. The docking stations are $6,000, procedural and stock trolley $2,000 and volumetric pumps are $3,000.

“A nurse’s trolley comes in at $ 2,000, each beside trolley is $1,200 and power, gas and electricity is $100,000, with the estimated cost to build ICU bed space being $140,000.

“The Starship PICU Appeal is progressing well with funds banked and pledges totalling more than $257,388.04 so far.

“All funds will be channelled through the Warkworth Lions Club Charitable Trust.

“Starship’s Intensive Care Unit is the only dedicated children’s intensive care in New Zealand. It is where our most critically ill and injured children are treated.

“Ever y hour of ever y day, extraordinary stories of courage, skill and compassion unfold at our national children’s hospital. Starship is the lifeline for children all over New Zealand, with more than 144,000 patient visits and appointments each year.

“The Starship National Air Ambulance Service team flew 175 times to hospitals all over the country last year. They retrieved critically ill children to connect them with highly specialised care at PICU. “The flight team and clinicians in hospitals around the country who provide such amazing care for the children before they get to Starship are also incredible.

“In my humble opinion, this is one of the worthiest causes in New Zealand now. Starship needs much more financial support, so anyone wishing to donate, please contact your local Lions Club or myself on 021 783 533.” ¢

p Malcolm Norton, Waipū Lions Club president, has had first-hand experience with his grandchildren using the Starship Hospital Patient Intensive Care Unit

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African firebirds u by Liz Clark

Its flowers rise like a crested bird topped with deep orange, accented by red and blue — a bird of paradise is perfect for any garden.

Also known as Strelitzia, the genus encompasses five species of these tropical plants. The two most common species in New Zealand, Strelitzia nicolai and Strelitzia reginae, are grown as houseplants and in gardens around the country. They are hardy, drought-tolerant plants that need no introduction to florists or gardeners when it comes to their spectacular flowers.

The largest of the two, Strelitzia nicolai or the white bird of paradise, has long woody stems that can grow up to six metres in height. Its clumps can expand to as much as 3.5 metres in width, making them more suitable for large garden settings.

The leaves are grey-green and paddle-shaped, growing in fan-like groups. The flowers are white with dark blue bracts and bluish-purple ‘tongues’. The blooms of this subspecies can be as much as 18cm high and 45cm long.

These plants should be planted well away from any buildings due to their invasive root systems. However, as a standout feature in a subtropical garden, the white bird of paradise is a must-have.

The smaller and more widely grown Strelitzia reginae is the more well-known of the pair. Native to South Africa, the

subspecies was first described by Joseph Banks in 1788 — it’s been propagated in gardens worldwide ever since.

The plant grows up to two metres tall, with large, solid leaves 25–70cm long. The leaves are evergreen and arranged in two ranks, making a fan-shaped crown; the flowers stand above the foliage at the tips of long stalks. The blooms are crested with bright flame orange, with purplish-blue petals emerging from a beak-like sheath or spake.

Both subspecies of the bird of paradise require a warm, relatively frost-free location with full sun or part-shade. They should be planted in a well-drained soil medium rich in organic matter. Regular watering is recommended when the plants are young and still establishing. Lack of water at this critical time could result in the death of the plant.

Once established, the bird of paradise needs very little attention or care. Dead flowers should be pruned off, and a small amount of fertiliser applied to maintain plant health.

Bird of paradise blooms are ideal as cut flowers for inside the home. They are long-lasting — providing a touch of colour for weeks at a time.

The plants are easily propagated by the division of clumps.

Ensure division is done during drier months to prevent any fungal diseases from rotting the root system. Small plants can be placed into potting mix and grown for future planting.

For more information, search online or talk to your local plant professional about options for your garden. ¢

The funky recycler

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Rowena Clare has been in Mangawhai since 2016 and opened her Funkychics Recycle Boutique last November.

“My husband and I had an Airbnb, and it wasn’t working with Covid restrictions, so I came up with Funkychics as a way to substitute our income,” says Rowena.

“I have always loved fabrics, op shopping and different styles. When we lived in Auckland, I ran op shops for Hospice and was an area manager for another second-hand charity.

“I got the idea while watching a documentary on the fact that it takes

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“I source stock from various places, including online, or people bring quality items they no longer wear to me. Like the saying goes, declutter your house, declutter your mind. It is good to pass on items that are just sitting. I love being able to offer the community nice pieces of recycled clothing at an affordable price.”

Rowena sells mainly women’s clothing, including swimwear, shorts,

I love being able to offer the community nice pieces of recycled clothing at an affordable price

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10,000 litres of water to make one T-shirt. This includes making the cotton and the energy used.

“I was horrified as some people in the world are desperate for water and so many T-shirts end up in a landfill.

“Recycling helps the community to have lovely clothing while helping the planet by reducing the water usage as 10,000 litres of water is a lot of water.

“I started this store by recycling items in my wardrobe, and friends and family donated me their good quality excess clothing as well.

tops, dresses, larger ladies’ sizes, evening wear, shoes and handbags.

“I have some new items but predominantly stock pre-loved. I have some lovely stories to tell since I opened, including that of a middle-aged lady going back to university.

“She came in, and we spent two hours trying things on. She was able to go away with really nice outfits for $100 to start her new life. The next day she returned with her mum, who got a few new outfits too.

“I have always been in service, and it warms my heart that my customers

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p Rowena Clare opened Funkychics Recycle Boutique in Mangawhai as a way to help people have access to affordable, quality, pre-loved clothing

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Pride in our business Giving back starts close to home u by Andy Bryenton

We’re proud of our local business community, and not just because they provide the opportunity to live, shop, dine and work in a great part of the country.

In a very real way, it’s not just commerce and prosperity that comes from a healthy business landscape.

Giving is a large part of the plan for many successful locals too.

While large firms give large amounts to large charities, it’s small local businesses that deliver a bigger percentage of their profits to small, local causes.

A survey taken in the United States and based on tax-deductible charitable giving alone proved that, in 2019, large corporations gave on average 1.67% of their profits to charities, while small businesses, at a main-street level, donated a whopping six per cent of theirs.

The figures are likely similar in New Zealand, where we know that big corporates at the top of the stock market donate just 0.07% of their profits to charity.

That seems counterintuitive. However, it comes down to the fact that the upper management of a small firm is usually behind the counter and engaged in the community, making causes such as church roof restorations, youth sports team uniforms and fire brigade fundraisers close to home.

Volunteering is another form of charity local business owners excel at. New Zealand has one of the highest rates of volunteering in the world, perhaps

thanks to the fact that our ambulance service, fire brigades and many vital social services rely on volunteers in our small rural towns. A massive 23% of professionals and managers volunteer their time, including p Small town New Zealand runs on generosity and volunteers — small business owners, both are ably supported by a thriving local business community contributing to the $4 billion worth of volunteer labour hours these groups, and the expertise and time put in every year, approximately 159 to run their committees, directorships million hours. and positions of responsibility come This is valuable because 98% of small- from local businesses, so helping town not-for-profit social services are them to thrive is also a pro-social vote entirely run by volunteers. Donations to of confidence. ¢

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Open letter to Sir Brian Roche Dear Sir Brian, I write to implore you NOT to reduce the speed limit across the state highway network in Northland. For decades Te Tai Tokerau has suffered from punishingly poor highway access. We don’t deserve this further constraint on our lives.

During my 29 years in Parliament, we interacted on many occasions. As a senior official, you earned my deep respect. You always demonstrated good sense and sound judgement. That’s why I’m writing to you in your capacity as chair of Waka Kotahi.

I understand all the evidence and arguments that reducing speed limits can reduce the damage from motor vehicle crashes. However, in a sound risk management strategy, that’s not the only consideration.

Those of us living in rural New Zealand need to be able to get around in a timely manner. A 20km/h reduction in the speed we can travel will have a seriously negative impact on our lives, not to mention the productivity of important businesses in our region.

I’m not unmindful of the consequences of serious crashes. While no one in my immediate family has ever been seriously hurt or killed on the road, my wider whānau during my lifetime has felt such tragedy.

In rural New Zealand, however, we understand risk. It can never be eliminated. On my farm, almost each day, I am handling big bulls. They can be unpredictable and can kill you.

We learn to manage such risks. I never handle the bulls without a decent stick and never take my eyes off them.

Just as when driving, I am always fully focussed when handling them.

That is the major issue New Zealand authorities seem to ignore. Safe driving requires focus and concentration — never ever allowing yourself to be distracted.

Even at 80km/h, smashes are horrific.

Yet driving at 80km/m makes it so hard to stay focussed.

I have been driving now for 58 years, in New Zealand, Australia, the UK, USA,

France, Italy and Portugal, on the lefthand side and the right-hand side, sometimes on both sides on the same day in the same car.

Despite on one occasion having a stub axle snap and seeing my left-front wheel appear in the passenger window, and on another, having to take instant action to avoid being decapitated by a large piece of spring steel, flying off a trailer and slicing through my rear passenger door, I have never crashed a car on the road.

Safe driving is not about dumbing down standards but rather teaching drivers of the need for unfailing focus and avoiding distraction. Instead of the backward step of reducing speed limits, can I urge you to address the appalling state of our highways in Northland?

Since, early last century, roading authorities have neglected Te Tai Tokerau. In 1917 an expedition of parliamentarians came to inspect the situation. Thirty-three cars set out. So bad were Northland’s roads — only ten completed the trip. Deep mud, capsizes and burst tyres all took their toll.

While today deep mud is no longer an issue, your highways’ maintenance is so bad — burst tyres still blight us.

Alexandra and I live 140km north of the Harbour Bridge on SH12. A few weeks ago, my wife had to cancel her day’s appointments in Wellington as, driving through the Dome Valley on her way to Auckland Airport, her car blew a front tyre.

While at the tyre shop in Warkworth to rescue Alexandra, a new Audi came in on a truck, also having just blown a front tyre on SH1 in the Dome — high-spec German cars don’t carry spares.

Even though the front tyres on my wife’s car had gone a few kilometres, I had to purchase a pair as the particular brand of the blown tyre couldn’t be found anywhere. Your highway cost me two extra trips to Warkworth, plus more than $1,000 worth of tyres — and the damage was sustained not at 100km/h but at 50km/h.

That’s just the start of the cost of the appalling condition of Northland’s highways. To get the last warrant of fitness for my car, both front rims had to be straightened. The car had been driven almost exclusively on state highways.

However, the real cost of the inadequate highway from Auckland to Whangārei is the productivity cost.

We now allow an extra hour to get to Auckland Airport. If you insist on cutting the speed limit to 80km/h, trucking companies will need to put on extra trucks to get produce through — where they’ll get the extra drivers; I’ve no idea.

Sir Brian, I look on you as a friend. I’m not sure how often you drive north from Auckland, but I would like to invite you to come and enjoy an evening’s hospitality with my wife and me here at Woodleigh on SH12. I’d then like to take you on a road trip in my three-tonne farm truck to Warkworth and back. That’s where I have to go every six months to renew the truck’s COF. It’s not an old truck — only 24,000km on the clock. What’s more, it has a separately sprung driver’s seat. It might be hard to believe, but after driving that 80km on State Highways 12 and 1, the road’s surface is so bad that my body actually hurts by the time I get to Warkworth.

I know I’m getting old, but as you know, I’ve always been pretty fit. I can’t believe you have any conception of just how bad the surface of those highways is over much of that distance. Modern cars smooth it out until they blow a tyre or wreck a rim. With the truck, it’s your body that takes the punishment.

What’s more, every time I drive to Auckland, the airport, or just Warkworth, I can’t believe what I’m seeing in the Dome Valley. You’re pouring tens of millions of dollars into a road that is not meeting the traffic flow requirements of today, let alone tomorrow. Moreover, should a rubbish dump be placed as planned, at the northern end of the Dome, the chaos doesn’t bear thinking about.

It’s a scandal that those tens of millions of dollars are being spent on old SH1 through the Dome when, at the end of the day, it will still be mostly one lane in either direction with an 80km/h speed limit. Any rational consideration would have that money going into the four lanes north from Warkworth through to Te Hana.

When the new motorway to Warkworth, whenever (if ever) that might be completed, dumps out into the single lane 80km/h Dome Valley, you will have an utter shambles.

That brings me back to my original plea. Please put some reasonable investment into Northland’s state highways. Reducing speed limits instead is just a cop-out, an abrogation of Waka Kotahi’s responsibilities. Moreover, spending our hard-earned taxes on television ads trying to convince us it’s a good idea should warrant an AuditorGeneral inquiry.

It’s time to start putting right 100 years of neglect in Northland. There’s a large hunk of New Zealand up here. The economy could blossom if only we could get goods and people reliably through the bottleneck of SH1.

Your speed restrictions most of the way from Wellsford to Puhoi are already causing real frustration. For what it’s worth, you will invite massive civil disobedience if you go ahead with your plan to make it even harder for us to get around.

Rural NZ has had a gutsful of urbanbased bureaucrats limiting how we conduct our lives. Few will obey your dictate to crawl at no more than 80km/h along the straights between Matakohe and Dargaville.

Sir Brian, I have served my district and my country for more than three decades.

I have recently discussed this issue with the rural mayors of the north. All of us are vehemently against your plan as NOT being in the interests of our people.

Please do not ignore us.

Yours respectfully, Rt Hon Sir Lockwood Smith KNZM PhD

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p When Denis works with green timber, he creates the shape and leaves the piece for at least a year to dry naturally before completing the piece

Honouring native timber u by Ann van Engelen

Denis and Robyn McCartain moved to Waipū after 40 years of living a woodturner’s life in Marua, near Hikurangi.

“We loved our property at Marua but wanted to travel, and we could only leave the property for a month at a time, so we decided to relocate,” says Denis.

“Our children wanted us to move near them in Hamilton, but I wanted to be by the coast, so that wasn’t going to happen. We found three acres here in Waipū. We love it and are that bit closer to our family for travel.

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equipment and selling a few items here and there, I managed to start a business.

“In the 1970s and 1980s, there were lots of craft shops around. I made bowls, platters, salad servers and thousands of very fine wine goblets for places like The Kauri Museum shop.

“People actually use the wine goblets.

One good thing about them is if you have cold white wine, you don’t get

could move away from working on orders and focus on gallery pieces.

“I enjoy making all types of items. The natural edge bowls are beautiful. The top of the bowl is the outside edge of the tree with the bark still attached.

“When I use dry milled timber, I mark the item out with a bandsaw and can make the piece immediately as the wood is ready to use.

I still have my first-ever goblet and beer handle that I made after all these years “We were young when we married, and it was the hippy days. Robyn had come off a farm, and although we weren’t hippies, we wanted to live out of town.

“We rented farmhouses, and I worked in town, but that negated the benefits of country living.

“I was always keen to work with my hands, and in 1974 a woodturning opportunity came up.

“I brought a lathe and a band saw and taught myself. After a couple of years working part-time, buying more

condensation on the outside, and wood is quite insulating.

“We had four children, and for 35 years, I made a living off woodturning, but it was hard work.

“The things I made were the things that sold, and the orders continued, but then the market changed.”

Denis and Robyn built a gallery at their Marua property in 1999.

“It was nice having the gallery, and it remained open until we moved here five years ago. Being on the Sandy Bay, Tutukākā Coast tourist route meant I

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“When working with wet wood, such as a felled tree, the natural edge bowls, for instance, are marked out while the wood is still green, and then it is left to dry. This can take at least a year before the items are put back on the lathe.

“You can’t dry green blocks of wood quickly, or they split and crack open.

When you rough out a bowl, it is good to leave it an inch thick, because in the drying time the wood can warp, and you have to begin again.

“It is all about experience. Some wood warps more than others. I use mostly

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p Since 1974, Denis has been making items such as bowls, platters, goblets and hollow forms, and, at times, inlaying with pāua shell and decorating with hot poker work

p Denis says when you are a woodturner, you naturally become a wood hoarder, particularly with native timber that can be hard to come by

p Hollow forms are made from a solid piece of wood and hollowed out to create a shape that also exhibits the wood grain and colour

p Having a natural edge, with the bark left on, is one of the styles Denis finds satisfying when making his pieces of art

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When working with wet wood, such as a felled tree, the natural edge bowls, for instance, are marked out while the wood is still green, and then it is left to dry native timber such as kauri, rimu, pūriri, taraire and pōhutukawa, as well as New Zealand grown gum.

“They are all different and have their own properties. You have to wear a mask and have safety processes in place.

When working with rimu the dust is like pepper, but heart rimu is the prettiest wood with a rich colour.

“I really like pūriri too, it is beautiful, and there is some lovely kauri, although swamp kauri can make your tools blunt.

“Pōhutukawa and pūriri are very hard woods and are not easy to work with, but they don’t blunt the tools so much and are easier to get a nice finish on.

“I haven’t done much exhibiting because I was busy making a living to support our family and paying the mortgage. The rest of our time was spent gardening and working with our fruit trees.

“I felt it would be wrong to leave the family while I went off to a conference or exhibition. I still haven’t exhibited since we moved here as I have been flat out setting up this property, but I have joined the Mangawhai Artists group.

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“Woodturning is very similar to what potters and glass workers do, but wood is more eliminating with what you can do.

“A hollow form, for instance, is ornamental and showcases the wood nicely. Getting the shapes right is a bit like pottery or glass making, but you can bend and shape clay and glass in any direction.

“Wood has grain properties that don’t allow you to do some things. I also enjoy having a natural edge on some of my hollow forms. Even though they are a lot of work and tricky to make — it is rewarding when the bark is still on a finished piece.

“You can put dried flowers in hollow forms like a vase, but I don’t recommend putting water in them. I seal the inside with oil, but if the water gets into the wood, it can alter the moisture content, which can change the wood and crack it.

“Some wood, such as kauri, has gum come out later, but I can always refinish things if this happens over time. I have pieces that I made many years ago, and they are still perfect.

“I think wooden items are still special. The older generation seems

to appreciate it more than the younger generation nowadays.

“Tourists also seek out wood. I think there is an interest with travellers because each country has different timbers with different colours. Tourists appreciate being able to take a piece of New Zealand home with them.

“I also get to make things for people who have a special tree that is removed.

One lady had a pōhutukawa fall over, and I am now making items out of it for her.

“I find it very satisfying, and it is a good use of resources, as otherwise, it would get chopped up for firewood, and pōhutukawa is a really pretty timber.

“When you become a woodturner — you become a wood hoarder. I couldn’t use all the wood I had collected over the years.

“People think you get it for nothing as a fallen tree, but there is a lot of work before getting it on to your lathe — it is certainly not free. It would have cost at least $30 per piece to get it to the lathe stage.

“You can’t buy pōhutukawa or pūriri, so to get a removed tree is special, as you need big pieces to work with.

“I still have my first-ever goblet and beer handle that I made after all these years. They were alright, but my pieces did evolve over the years.

“It is very difficult to get away from the mentality of working with wood. When I began, the more goblets I made, the more money I earned for the family.

“I did it for a living for so long that now I am enjoying it as a hobby. If I tried to charge an hourly rate for the pieces now, it wouldn’t be that good, but it really doesn’t matter. It is the joy of the making that matters now.

“We recently opened our new gallery, The Turning Post in Waipū. People can phone me on 022 025 0090 to view my work or for ideas on how to create a piece of art from a fallen native tree.

“I never get sick of seeing the colours and beauty of the grain, especially when you are working with knots.

“It is an honour to work with native timber. It is a very satisfying craft, and I love seeing the wood come to life when I put the finishing oil on an item. That is the most fulfilling part of woodturning for me.” ¢

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Paradise for dogs u by Ann van Engelen

With a lifetime of dog care experience, Andrea and Terry Tansey have created a haven for pooches in Te Ārai.

“We moved here from Kaikohe on lockdown day in 2020,” says Andrea.

“I have worked with dogs since I was 11 years old, from rescuing to breeding for 30 years. In Kaikohe, we had an established boarding kennel for 20 years.

“We came to Te Ārai to be closer to family and decided to have a new start with the doggy daycare.”

Melka’s Pooch Paradise is a homestay for dogs.

“They can stay for the day, overnight or as long as necessary. The small dogs

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“The dogs that come have generally already been socialised with walking on the beach or dog parks with their owners. When they are here, they run together and be social.”

To start with, the newcomers have a play day to ensure they will fit in with the group.

“The owner provides their food to ensure the dog gets what it is used to.

It is better that way, so they don’t get upset tummies.

“Our doggy guests often make friends.

I had a dog arrive last week who had

p Andrea Tansey has been involved with dogs since she was 11 years old and opened Melka’s Pooch Paradise when she moved to Te Arai in 2020

They can stay for the day, overnight or as long as necessary stay inside with us or at my aunt’s unit on the property.

“We purpose-built a two-bedroom dog flat with a lounge, tv, radio, air conditioning and a conservatory for the larger dogs. The flat is open for them all day to come and go as they please.

“Unless people want their dog to sleep in their cage, each dog chooses a couch they like to sleep on.

“Twice a day, they go to the dam that we made for a swim, and we throw balls for them, and they hang out together.

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