The Weekend Sun - 29 March 2019

29 March 2019, Issue 953

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It’s the dawn of a new era for the Mount Maunganui Lifeguard Service, with a public open day on Saturday showing off the new surf club building on the Main Beach.

The new, world-class facility has been funded by the Tauranga community so that the likes of seven-year-old Paddy Mitchell and his six-year-old junior surf buddy

Ziggy Lowry can learn how to save lives in the future, keeping the beaches safe for everyone. For the full story, see page 7.

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Rogers Rabbits takes a break this week. Today’s column is a classic we’ve dusted off and run for your reading pleasure.

Slip on your Crocs and adjust your tea cosy, here’s a flashback from 2014, back by popular demand.

Crocs, and the end of the world I really hope you can read fast.

Because the End of the World is coming and I’d hate you to be half way through a Rabbits column when suddenly, whammo. The world ends, in a chaotic maelstrom of chaos and maelstrom.

Entertain your friends in style

I have no idea exactly what maelstrom is, but it probably goes well with garlic and a wee glass of chardonnay. I must look it up in Rogers’ Thesaurus.

Anyway, back to our untimely demise.

NASA, the people who successfully convinced us that they put a man on the moon and a probe on Mars, and faked Sarah Palin’s intelligence, have digressed from their usual rocket and space stuff, and come up with a study that concludes that civilisation is heading for a nasty catastrophe.

Using theoretical models to predict what will happen to the industrialised world during the course of the next century or so, mathematicians found that even with conservative estimates things started to go very badly, very quickly. And that’s not even counting a disappointing outcome of NZ’s ‘Masterchef’.

They’ve studied other great civilisations including the Romans, Han and Gupta empires and concluded that they all came unstuck in spectacular fashion. Personally, I blame the sandals. Could it be that as soon as a civilisation invents sensible shoes, all hell breaks loose? Should we read anything into the growing success of Crocs?

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Why an organisation that we all know as a space agency would consider it necessary to stray from making big whooshing rockets and suddenly get all whimsical and doomsday-ish, is anyone’s guess.

But they have put a lot of effort into a study, only to find out we’re all screwed, basically.

I won’t bore you with the details, mainly because a mathematician was involved and anything involving maths, beyond working out how much parking time a dollar will get me in Grey St, is mind-numbingly uninteresting.

I’ve been known to fall asleep in the build-up to Play School*, after only reaching the window count of two.

Resources gobbled

But suffice to say, the NASA picture is not flash. It basically says that the elite of the world will suck up all the resources (presumably, including all the Double Happy sausage rolls from Bethlehem Bakery) and the “masses” will go without.

that when these converge they can cause society to break down because of the “stretching of resources” and “the economic stratification of society into Elites and Masses”.

Maths is the answer

I’ve another answer for the threat. All of those so-called civilisations had smart ass mathematicians. That’s the common denominator in this puzzle.

Put all of the mathematicians on the next space probe to Mars, or maybe for a dinner party in Alaska with Sarah, and the problem is solved.

Easy. When it comes to mathematical dilemmas, you can count on Rogers.

Complete nonsense

Why we need a mathematician to decide these things is completely beyond my simple grasp of what makes the world go round.

This maths dude, Safa Motesharri, explored the factors which could lead to the collapse of civilisation, from population growth to climate change, and found

Hard to believe that people can trot out this end-of-civilisation garbage.

Trust me, it is complete nonsense.

Civilisation isn’t perfect, but it’s not the end of the world.

The timing of this load of bull couldn't be worse. In the same week the United Nations declared Thursday the International Day of Happiness. How were we meant to be happy on Thursday when we were told on Monday that civilisation was going to self-destruct?

And are any of you still happy today?

Did you not know that Thursday was your allocated Happy Day and if you are still happy going into the weekend, you are in breach of UN policy, and could be censured for being joyful out of season.

Hey, you’ve got The Weekend Sun, what could possibly make you happier!

And a bonus, it looks like you made it through to the finish of this column, before the world ended. *Here’s a house. Here’s a door. Windows, one, two, three, snore.

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Late night shops on the way

Business might blossom in the spring. Late trading advocates (from left) Tracey Molyneux of Molyneux Jewellers, Kelly Shepherd of Clever Kids, Murray Clode from Macandmor Gallery and Millie Newitt from Downtown Tauranga.

Retailers in Tauranga’s CBD are going back to the future in a bid to kick-start business in the inner city shopping precinct by re-introducing late night trading.

The new opening hours will be in place on Thursday evenings from next spring.

Murray Clode of the Macandmor Gallery in the city’s Goddard Centre says there’s a lot going on in the CBD, a lot of money being invested and a lot of work being done.

“It’s going to be fantastic but, right now, businesswise, it’s a struggle.”

Murray says malls almost certainly killed late night shopping in the city centre the first time around.

“People didn’t rush into town in the evening to shop because they had all weekend to do it.

“On the other hand, we have had forums where the public - the customers - have had their say, and they tell us they work all week and don’t have a chance to come into town, but would love to.”

Murray has personally canvassed about 20 retailers, while Downtown Tauranga, the retail lobby group, have spoken to many more. The feeling, they say, is split 50/50.

But businesswoman, author, entrepreneur,

motivational speaker and mother of five, Suzie Johnson, swung it for the CBD retailers.

“She was at a workshop organised by Downtown Tauranga,” says Murray, “and her message was ‘don’t wait for other people to do things. Just do it. Get in there and do it’.”

So they will.

Evening shopping works for some CBD retailers now, with Glassons and HB staying open until 6pm on Fridays.

Across the Goddard Centre from Murray Clode’s gallery there is an empty retail space - another shop that’s gone out of business. It is not the only one.

It is a concern to Murray. “I don’t think we are trying to breathe life into a dead fish,” he says, “but it probably tells us we need to do things differently downtown.

“What we need is a variety of small, interesting enterprises - boutique stuff. Let the bigger stores go to the malls, and we can keep the small boutiques in the CBD.” A lot of people have told the retailer that a late shopping night would be great way to wait out the traffic. Workers could go shopping, eat and have a drink until the traffic improved and then head home.

“It doesn’t matter why they stay in town.”

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Toddler’s death ‘suspicious’ Police have upgraded their investigation into the death of a two-year-old girl in Maketu to homicide.

The decision follows the result of a post-mortem of the child, says Detective Senior Sergeant Greg Turner.

Nevaeh Ager’s body was found on the tidal flats at Little Waihi on Thursday, March 21.

“Police are interested in speaking to anyone who may have stayed in the Bledisloe Holiday Park, Little Waihi, between Monday 18-Friday 22 March,” says Detective Senior Sergeant Turner.

If you have any information that may assist the investigation, please contact Tauranga Police on: 07 577 4300.

Bayfair entrance closes The new entrance to Bayfair Shopping Centre, off State Highway 2, has closed for four months.

The entrance closed on Wednesday, March 27, and will be closed for at least four months as part of the Bay Link project.

An NZTA spokesperson says access will still be available through the original entrance off Maunganui Road.

“We thank you for your patience during this time while we widen the road for what will become the new approach to the Bayfair roundabout,” they say.

For more information about the project, visit: www.nzta.govt.nz/baylink

If she loses the race, it could cost her a few precious weeks of life, and perhaps lead to a very unpleasant end.

After two years of remission, Esther has just learned her brain tumors have returned.

“I am not afraid of dying, because I believe in God,” she says. “But I am very afraid of the way I will die.” An oncologist told her it won’t be nice, and it won’t be peaceful. It is that prognosis that is adding heat to Esther’s support for the End of Life Choice Bill.

“The cancer won’t kill me, and the brain tumors won’t kill me. What it does is shut down my organs one at a time.” She says she will end up bed-ridden, her muscles atrophied, wearing a nappy and fed through tubes.

Unfortunately, her first bout of cancer four-and-a-half years ago meant that painkillers that would ordinarily work for anyone else would not work on her. She is in the six per cent of patients for whom the drugs don’t work.

“I would be in serous pain throughout the ordeal,” she says. “It might take the top off the pain, but would not relieve me of the pain.”

In the end, she says, it would come down to palliative care – something called terminal sedation. “They put you into a coma and remove all of your feeding tubes so you die.”

Esther, however, won’t wait for that.

“I will become a suicide statistic,” she says, “because I don’t intend to live long enough to suffer the hideous end they have prescribed me. I will take my own life.”

One of Esther’s problems is the time frames involved. She doesn’t know how long she has, and she is banking on a swift passage into law for ACT leader David Seymour’s End of life Choice Bill. She has long championed the right of the terminally ill to have control over their end.

Esther Richards wants more choice as she nears the end of her life.

“I need something to focus on while I wait for my death to come,” she says.

Esther has a best-case scenario worked out. The Justice Select Committee, which received 35,000 submissions on the bill, reports back to parliament early next month and gets a positive hearing at its second reading, sparking a referendum alongside next year’s general election and a third reading in 2021.

“Then, if approved, it would be a year to 18 months before the processes are put

Matata crash accused bailed A man facing a careless driving charge in relation to the fatal crash on the Matata Straights which killed three people has been remanded on bail.

David Michael Cox, 46, appeared at Whakatane District Court on Tuesday.

Cox was arrested following an investigation into the crash which killed Sole Raroa, 55, David Reginald Te Wira Eparaima, 55, and Haki Graham Hiha, 40, on February 26.

No name suppression was applied for and no plea was entered during the court appearance.

Judge Louis Bidois remanded Cox on bail until April 17.

River gorges closed After two deaths and at least one near miss on the lower Kaituna River, Bay of Plenty Regional Harbourmaster Peter Buell has announced his intention to close the Awesome, Gnarly and Smokey gorges in an effort to prevent further tragedy.

“The gorges pose significant danger – even to experienced kayakers – and the risk of another death is a chance I am not willing to take,” says Peter.

Peter says he intends to close the lower gorges to recreational users from May 1, but will engage with relevant stakeholders in an effort to identify options for reducing the danger for water-users in the long-term.

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in place so doctors can start work,” she explains.

With a typical booming laugh, Esther says the End of Life Choice Bill might just help if her cancer takes a long time to kill her.

“Yes, I could still be here in time to use the legislation. And apart from that, I want this matter sorted so others don’t have to suffer.”

Esther ticks all of the boxes and all of the criteria under the proposed legislation. She’s a New Zealand citizen over 18 suffering a terminal illness likely to end her life

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Richards will make sure she is in a position to control the end of her life.

“I will probably die a couple of months before I needed to,” she says. “If the legislation was in place, I would leave it to the last couple of weeks.” And it will be as peaceful as she can make it.

“Because I believe in God, I know I will have peace in the end.”

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within six months. More generally, she has a grievous and irremediable medical condition undergoing an advanced state of irreversible decline and she understands the nature of assisted dying and the consequences.

With boxes ticked, the doctor has to determine, amongst other things, that the patient isn’t being pressured, and then encourage them to talk it through with family, friends or others. A second doctor will be asked for an opinion and a third if necessary.

It’s a complex process for a difficult and complex issue. The criteria is strict to avoid recklessness, disadvantage to the vulnerable or abuse. But in the end, as the preamble to the bill suggests, it allows people who so choose, and are eligible under the bill, to end their lives in peace and with dignity, surrounded by loved ones.

“I have had control over the rest of my life,” says Esther, “so why can’t I have control over the end of my life?”

She doesn’t spend all day thinking about her condition - she’s focused on fighting for this bill. “I have my own Facebook page, I have made contacts all around the world and we encourage each other.”

She is not a person willing herself to die. “I want to live,” she says. “I get enjoyment out of every day and I have friends and family who love me.”

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Bill attracts large numbers in opposition The End of Life Choice bill would legalise assisted euthanasia in a medical setting.

Put forward by ACT leader David Seymour, it sets avenues for people with terminal illnesses or grievous and irremediable medical conditions to choose an assisted death. MPs voted the bill into the select committee stage by a majority of 76 to 44.

The justice select committee found an overwhelmingly negative response – some 80 per cent of 21,000 submissions.

But proponents say this is because of a highly motivated religious group, which doesn’t reflect the views of 99 per cent of New Zealanders who didn’t submit.

A University of Otago paper on multiple studies

into the country’s euthanasia views over two decades found 68 per cent were in support, with 15 per cent in opposition and the remainder unsure.

There are two main arguments. One says it offers a pathway to avoid a painful and undignified end, while opponents say it would be the thin end of the wedge with concerns for elder abuse.

The medical profession is divided.

The justice select committee is also hearing international submissions before reporting back.

They will consider whether the bill is suitable, or if it requires tweaking.

The bill’s progress will then be decided by MPs, who will take a conscience vote on whether it goes to a public referendum.

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Young gun makes an impact Callum Hedge will be competing in the Australian Formula Ford series.

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Callum Hedge is a name you won’t want to forget.

The 15-year-old Tauranga-born teen is making his way in the motorsport and is becoming well known despite his rookie status.

When I spoke to Callum, he was just a couple of days away from competing in the last round of the New Zealand Toyota 86 Championship at Hampton Downs. Before that weekend, he was sitting second in the championship.

“I’ve got to win three out of three races to win the championship,” he said at the time. “It’s a pretty big ask, but I think we can do it.”

At Hampton Downs, Callum qualified on pole and won two out of three races, beating his championship rival in all three.

“These results were enough to give me the overall championship win,” says Callum.

“I became the 2018/19 Toyota 86 Champion, and I was also the first rookie to win the series.”

Winning that championship, however, isn’t Callum’s first taste of success. In the 2017/2018 New Zealand Formula Ford season, he became the youngest in the world to win a national Formula Ford title.

“Formula Ford has being going for over 50 years worldwide,” he says, “so to be the youngest ever to win one worldwide is pretty special.”

Becoming the youngest ever was a goal that Callum had aimed for since the season started.

“That was the goal because the person the year before me - Liam Lawson - won it and ended up as the youngest. I’m a year younger than him, so we knew if I managed to pull it off and win, we’d have that title.”

Since his Hampton Downs championship win, it has been announced that Callum will compete in the Australian Formula Ford series with iconic team Sonic.

Sonic Motor Racing Services was founded by Michael Ritter in 1998, with a list of champions that reads like

a ‘Who’s Who?’ of Australian motor racing. Will Davison was champion for the team in Formula Ford in 2001, Jamie Whincup in 2002, David Reynolds in 2005, Tim Blanchard in 2007, Nick Percat in 2009, Cameron Waters in 2011 and Anton De Pasquale in 2013.

The first round of the Formula Ford starts in April at the Sydney Motorsport Park.

“I’m aiming to make a pretty solid start to that championship and ideally finish in the top two or three,” says Callum, who admits that while travelling doesn’t affect his grades, he is finding it hard to keep on top of it all.

“I’ve always got to go and re-schedule exams that I miss and this year, moving up to NCEA, I’ve probably got to do it five or six times because there will be so many date clashes.

“I think education is important, 100 per cent, because if I don’t end up making it as a racing driver, I’ve got to have a backup plan - something else that I enjoy and something else that I’m good at so I can make a career out of that.

“It will definitely take me a couple of years of NCEA to figure out what I want to do, if I’m not a car driver.”

There hasn’t been a set moment where Callum realised he wanted to pursue motor racing, but he says it’s the only thing he really enjoys.

“I don’t enjoy playing ball sports or anything else like that,” he says. “All I like is car racing. My whole life is car racing.”

With this year’s focus on the Australian Formula Ford championship, Callum says it will still take him three or four years to gain traction on his big break.

“If I win in Formula Ford in Australia, that will give us lots of publicity with me being a rookie from New Zealand.

“If we can win that then it can give us a bit of exposure and keep us moving forward from there, but there is definitely still a long way to go.

To keep up to date with Callum and his racing career, visit his Facebook page: Callum Hedge.

First kiwifruit shipment sets sail The first charter vessel carrying Zespri SunGold Kiwifruit is heading to China and Japan following this season’s early start to harvest.

The Southampton Star departed from Tauranga Harbour this week carrying about 3000 pallets of Bay of Plenty-grown SunGold Kiwifruit, bound for Shanghai and Kobe.

The vessel had earlier berthed in Gisborne, where it picked up 1600 pallets of SunGold Kiwifruit, marking the start of what promises to be another bumper crop.

Zespri chief grower and alliances officer, David Courtney, says Zespri expects more than 600,000 pallets of kiwifruit to be shipped offshore in total this season.

“This will mean we’ll have more than 18,000 containers to ship this season,” says David.

“We’re also expecting to use 45 charter vessels - three to move our kiwifruit to Northern Europe, 12 to service our Mediterranean markets and 30 to take fruit up to Japan, China and Korea.”

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Sponsors dig deep for $3.4 million project Sponsors have dug deep for the new Mount Maunganui Lifeguard building.

TECT’s $700,000 contribution to the project was the largest, although the likes of NZ Lotteries, Tauranga City Council, Grassroots Trust, Lion Foundation, Bay Trust, NZCT, McKay Strathnaver and the Infinity Foundation have all made big contributions.

There were significant private donations, from the likes of the Hillsdene Charitable Trust and

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the Kastan Trust, while more than $100,000 was raised at last year’s Ladies Charity Luncheon.

MMLS chairman Paul Manning says they were extremely grateful, not only to the funding agencies but to the wider public.

“It feels like the whole of Tauranga has got behind this project and we are so appreciative of everything our community has done for us,” Paul says.

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Voluntary weekend lifeguards test out their new tower while on patrol at the Mount Maunganui Lifeguard Service last week. Photo: Jamie Troughton/Dscribe Media.

Paddy Mitchell may only be seven, but he’s already got his future mapped out.

“I’m going to do Oceans, then I’ll become a rookie, then I’ll be a senior and then I’ll become a fully qualified lifeguard,” he explains, pausing momentarily before adding: “And that means I can save peoples’ lives.”

The Mount Maunganui Lifeguard Service junior knows exactly what that entails; older siblings Henry, Charlotte and Freddie are all at various stages of their lifeguarding journey, while parents Grant and Leanna are also heavily involved.

Now, thanks to a swell of community support and the incredible backing of various funders, Paddy and his good friend, six-year-old Ziggy Lowry, have a fully-funded, brand-new lifeguard centre to learn their lifeguarding roles over the next few generations.

The previous building was demolished last April.

This Saturday, exactly 51 weeks later, the wider Tauranga public will get to see what they’ve helped to build with a public open day between 1-4pm.

Paddy, for one, is vastly impressed by the new world-class lifesaving facility, on the same site occupied by the club since 1929.

“I like the lights and the tables,” he says. “I like that it’s bigger, I like that it’s got more bathrooms, I like that it’s got two bars and I like the showers - I like everything about it!”

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The $3.4million project has transformed the facility. The previous building was nearly 40 years 021 0227 4245 old and was struggling to remain relevant, both www.undercoverindustries.co.nz with Tauranga’s population explosion and with skyrocketing costs of maintenance.

MMLS chairman Paul Manning says they were extremely grateful, not only to the funding agencies but to the wider public volunteer lifeguards will be better able to prevent drownings.

Lifeguards have already noticed significant improvements in the new building. The lifeguard tower is nearly a full metre higher than the old one, giving a much better view of the beach. There’s also more space for valuable lifesaving equipment, and training areas have been greatly enhanced.

In addition, two new function spaces have prompted the MMLS board to rethink the way the club is set up.

“This new facility gives us the chance to be much more self-sufficient, and able to host multiple events at the same time,” adds Paul.

“To make the most of this, we’re creating new staffing roles, including a chief executive officer able to harness the amazing passion of our volunteers and staff and be the face of our organisation, and an events manager, who will not only promote and book events but will plan and organise the functions from start to finish.”

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The fire-red truck looped around Te Puna and stopped by many places of monumental importance for Alf, before arriving at Tauranga Park for the funeral service.

Alf’s daughter, Tina Glover, says the funeral was exactly what Alf would have wanted.

“When I found out the Concord was coming out of Barry Crawford’s private collection I was elated,” says Tina.

“It was a pretty iconic truck because it was one of a kind, and the other V12 never performed as well as his one - probably because dad lavished so much attention on it and kept everything running up to standard.”

In the 1970s, Alf put hundreds of thousands of miles on the clock carting logs in the Concorde, and had driven and carted logs out of the bush on most, if not all, of the forestry roads in the North Island.

Carting four loads a day, Alf and the Concorde held all the cartage records on the New Zealand Forest Products run to Mount Maunganui, including speed, weight and number of loads per day.

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Tauranga to Waikato then down to Wellington,” says Tina. “I think he just liked being out on the road and driving.

“He used to pass cars with a full load of timber over the Kaimais - and that was even going up the other side towards Tauranga.”

Alf knew his trucks inside and out and did all his own maintenance, meaning he rarely broke down.

But there was one wee mishap that made his beloved Concorde that bit more famous.

“Back in those days, you didn’t have health and safety and you didn’t have people closing off a road, so he very quietly rolled his truck into a drain in Te Poi early one morning,” says Tina.

“The logs all fell off, so dad got a ride home with another truckie, got another truck over there and a loader and put the logs on the other truck. They then pulled the Concorde out of the ditch and dad drove it home.”

He’d bent the gear stick, and there was some frontal damage, meaning he had to get a little cosmetic work done on the truck.

“When the Concorde went in to get work done, dad thought ‘why not give it a paint job?’.

“The Concorde came out of the paint shop a few weeks later with a new look, making it stand out even more.

“Painted in the new black with gold, orange and red stripes, it nearly caused a few accidents.”

Alf sold his Concorde in 1980, but carried on working hard in the trucking industry carrying logs, maize and fertiliser - you name it. He also continued working with tools and machinery, including dredging the entrance of the Tauranga Harbour.

“There were two facets to his life,” says Tina.

“There was this hard-nosed, hardworking truckie and construction worker, and then there was this quiet, happy, fun family man who grew the most amazing vegetable garden and absolutely adored his family.

“I idolised him as a girl,” she says. “He was my hero.”

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Yellow lines to be installed at Matapihi Martin Parkes, TCC’s acting general manager of infrastructure, says the council will look into a number of issues related to parking in Matapihi.

Move to defuse Matapihi parking Above: Cars parked at Matapihi are causing concern for some residents in the area. Right: A motorist pins a note to the inside of their window after parking at the end of Mataphi Road.

Feelings are still simmering between locals and motorists at the end of Matapihi Road on the fringes of Tauranga Harbour.

In an apparent tit-for-tat gesture, a park-and-walk commuter posted a no-nonsense note to residents in their car window on Wednesday morning. It read: “Kia Ora, we would appreciate if you could please not intimidate or threaten us with words.”

The note was directed at locals who have recently remonstrated with motorists for clogging roadsides outside their homes before walking or cycling into the city centre via the railway bridge.

Commuters have been using this route as a timesaver after becoming frustrated by peak time traffic snarls on Hewletts Road.

“We have spoken to the council,” continues the commuter’s note.

“At this stage, (we) are still allowed to park here as this is a public road.”

The note signs off with a conciliatory

“warm regards”.

Lines were drawn earlier this year when a note was left on commuters’ cars parked on grass verges outside homes at the end of Matapihi Road.

The original note, in part, suggested “roadside parking no longer exists”, and effectively told commuters they were no longer welcome and no longer had parking rights. However, it did not stop the practise.

Tauranga City Council has since moved to defuse tensions.

A hui with locals “was a very positive meeting with a good exchange of ideas,” according to Martin Parkes, Council’s acting general manager of infrastructure.

The motorists weren’t invited to the hui, although the council says their interests will be taken into account.

“Obviously increased parking in the area is of significant concern to the local community,” Martin says.

Some things would be implemented immediately, “in order to deal with safety issues,” he says.

They include broken yellow ‘no parking’ lines from the harbour-end of Matapihi Road, up the hill and around the corner.

This was a unanimous decision at the hui, and was motivated by a need to

eliminate unsafe parking where sight lines are limited.

There were also suggestions for resident-only parking zones, time restricted parking and a park ‘n ride bus service from Bayfair. These suggestions will be considered once community feedback has been received and reviewed.

Another option suggested by council is the installation of a turning bay, in addition to the provision of another 12 car parking spaces on the site that was occupied by machinery during the pipeline construction. This space is beside the present carpark.

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Winning gold for 60 years He fell in love with his best mate’s sister who, 60 years on, has become his longest and most valued commitment.

Katikati residents Alan and Joy McCaughan are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary this weekend with family and friends.

Sitting across from one another, they exchange their reasons for catching each other’s eyes. Alan, 82, simply states: “She’s pretty - a little stroppy, but very

pretty”, while Joy, 80, says: “He smiled at me and he had twinkly eyes.” That’s all it took.

The pair, who have three children, eight granddaughters and nine great grandchildren, have a lifetime of memories together.

Joy and Alan went to the same school in Kerikeri, got engaged young and kept their proposal secret until Alan was given approval from Joy’s father.

After getting married on March 28, 1959, they worked on several farms, before winning their own 700-acre

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“The Lands and Survey Department used to settle returned soldiers, and they had developed a lot of cheap land to be purchased by returned soldiers,” explains Alan.

“When they had divided this to all the returned soldiers who wanted land, they started offering it to civilians.

“We saved up enough money for a deposit to be a part of the ballot and won a piece of land three years later.

“After 25 years on the farm, we sold it because Joy had a stroke. We bought 40 acres up at Oropi, where I had some horses and dogs.

“That’s where I got into endurance (long distance horse) riding and continued with my dog trials.”

Alan says he has never mustered up a New Zealand championship win for dog trials, but won gold in an endurance riding championship in Dubai.

“It goes in 40km loops before you go on to the next loop,” he says, “but when you come in your time doesn’t stop until you get to the veterinary with your horse’s heart rate under 64 beats per minute.

Left: Alan and Joy McCaughan on their wedding day on March 28, 1959. Right: Alan McCaughan on Tonka the horse at an endurance riding competition in Dubai.

While Alan enjoys the dogs and horses, Joy has competede in several marathons to keep her fitness levels up.

“Two nieces said to me that they were going to walk the Whangamata half marathon, which is a 10km walk,” says Joy, “so I thought I’d join in.

“A week before the half marathon, however, I slipped and popped my shoulder so I walked around with my arm against my chest for the whole 10kms.

Joy did a couple more 10km walks, then entered 15km and a 31km races.

When asked if they plan on making it to 70 years, Alan says: “We’ll give it a go.”

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Twister rips through England Anna Grigson is a twister at heart, but she is taking a tumble into new territory in England.

Tauranga’s Bay Twister cheerleader parted ways with the club in September and is already reaping her rewards.

Now representing Unity Allstars in Surrey, she’s not only on the All Girl Team Ruby, but also Team England All Girl Senior.

Last weekend she competed in her first UK national champs at the ICC Nationals in Nottingham, and won first place alongside her ruby sisters as well as a direct entry into the Cheerleading Worlds in America.

“It was an amazing feeling to win because we also got a partial paid bid to the Worlds 2020,” says Anna. “We knew that we all had to do our job and hit our routine, so it was great to get this achievement.”

The 16-year-old has already represented New Zealand at the Cheerleading Worlds in Florida last year, and says being part of Unity Allstars was the next step up.

“I was born in England and I’ve wanted to represent my birth country for a while,” she says, “so when the opportunity came up, I knew I had to take it.

“I actually met some people from Unity Allstars at the Worlds last year and started following their page.

“Unity Allstars is a very well-known cheer club in England and one of the best in the country, so I have had more experience and have learned a lot being here already.”

As well as competing alongside Unity Allstars, Anna has also gained further experience in coaching.

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Anna Grigson is a part of Unity All Stars’ Ruby team, an International Open Level 5 division. coaching,” she says.

“I have been coaching for the past three years at Bay Twisters, which has been a great opportunity.

“Coaching has given me more confidence and more of a voice.

Anna says her ultimate dream is to represent an American team and go to the Olympic Games.

“I am hoping to go to America to be on a team, because the skill set is a lot harder and cheerleading is very big over there,” she says.

“If cheerleading does go to the Olympics then I definitely want to be on a team when it does, as it would be an absolutely amazing experience.”

The Cheerleading Worlds hosts more than 12,000 cheer and 4000 dance athletes competing for world champion titles in senior and international club divisions and categories.

The Cheerleading Worlds will be held from April 27-29 in Orlando.

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Tauranga’s water restrictions lifted Water restrictions in Tauranga implemented in January have been lifted with immediate effect.

“The change of season has brought cooler weather and more regular rainfall,” says Tauranga City Council’s City Waters manager Steve Burton, “which means garden water-use is reducing and sprinkler restrictions are no longer necessary.”

A sprinkler ban was put in place in late January following a steady increase in water consumption, due to an exceptional period of

continued hot and dry weather.

Steve says when restrictions were introduced, water use dropped drastically. This was a direct result of community members doing their bit at home and around the garden, mainly by turning sprinklers off.

Water demand dropped from a peak of about 57 million litres a day to about 48 million litres a day.

Average daily water demand for the city is around 39 million litres a day.

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Legal veteran steps down but not out He’s been a partner at Holland Beckett Law since March 31, 1979, but Bill Holland is now stepping down.

Come Monday, Bill will be waking up as normal and heading into the office - this time as a consultant The practice has 50 lawyers, with offices across the region in Tauranga, Rotorua and Whakatane.

“The community has grown, the firm has grown and I’ve been part of both,”

he says.

“It’s a great firm, I have great partners and we are doing very well, so I know the firm is in good hands.

“I’m going to have to go some time, but I don’t think I’ll ever retire.”

Bill (67) says he enjoys working with his clients. Some have been with him for 40 years.

“Some of them were clients of my father beforehand, so I have a wonderful relationship with a lot of these people and I really enjoy that.

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major transaction, then next I’m dealing with an elderly lady’s will.

Every day is different, so why would I give that up?”

He has spent a lot of time on voluntary and community projects.

“Often they are project orientated, and once that’s done, then the next thing finds me “I just enjoy being involved in things, and making sure they happen.”

In 2012 he was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to the community in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

But it isn’t about the awards or the recognition.

At present, he is the Tauranga Energy Consumer Trust (TECT) chairperson, trustee at Legacy Trust, board member at Community Foundations of New Zealand Incorporated and a member of the Tauranga Sunrise Rotary Club.

Bill has always enjoyed good health but that changed last year.

In August he went for his annual check-up.

“It was bowel cancer,” says Bill.

“They removed it in September, and because I had it in some lymph nodes they thought I should have chemo.

“Before Christmas they told me the cancer was coming back and we were looking at surgery.

If that didn’t work, we would be looking at palliative care. I had the surgery four weeks ago, and when they removed the lump it wasn’t cancer.

“You can take the view that they got it wrong back in December and it wasn’t cancerous then, or that I did have cancer and there were a lot of people praying for me.

“But that had nothing to do with my decision to stand down as partner. I had already announced it back in June.” Bill is looking forward to spending more time with his family. He doesn’t have a bucket list as he has done everything he has ever wanted as he’s gone along.

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Bits of wood, bulldozers If a bloke’s shed is a refuge from a curious affliction called “underfoot syndrome”, how come the most valuable resource in Ray Zander’s man cave is a woman, who just happens to be his wife Paulette?

Ph: Ray Zander gets down to work in his “man cave”.

Ray’s straight up. “She’s by far the best guy I have had working in my shed.” Wouldn’t that make your girl purr with pride?

We should point out that Ray has been in timber all his life, as a cabinet maker, a joiner and a logging contractor. With 87 annual growth rings, he could be likened to that chunk of swamp kauri in his shed. And they’re not wrinkles, they’re wood grain.

He still tinkers with timber in his shed, making stuff for up to four hours a day as his dicky legs permit – think cutting boards, folding tables and various shapes and sizes of tray all from native timber collected over his years.

He says he’s trying to use it all up before he uses himself up, before he wears out.

“I have had retired builders and God knows what helping me in my shed, but Paulette’s the best,” says Ray. “What we make is peculiar to us, and she understands what people look for and what people want.”

Ray Zander’s shed, with its special female dynamic, will be part of Katikati’s Blokes in Sheds Ramble tomorrow, featuring a dozen special sanctuaries or spaces that local blokes retreat to. But in Ray’s case, shouldn’t it be a Blokes’ and Babes’ Shed Ramble?

“Unfortunately, Paulette is down at the end of the production line and has set herself up as quality control,” he says. “So things don’t always go smoothly, as you can imagine.” She does a lot of the finishing, the polishing and the oiling.

She probably deserves her own shed because she’s very handy on sewing machine, making her “own stuff” to sell alongside the woodware at craft markets.

Ray and Paulette’s blokes’ and babes’ shed is functional rather than flash - an old pack house that was never used as a pack house. ”It’s a wonderful wooden shed,” says the man who knows a bit about wood. “It’s very functional and very, very tidy.”

Six kilometers down the road in Katikati proper, another shed is being thrown open for the Blokes in Sheds Ramble. It has a bar, a dart board, a pool table, a big screen TV a kitchen and a ladies room.

“Nah! There’s none of that stuff in my shed. But we do have a toilet and it’ll be clean for the ramble,” assures Ray Zander. There’s

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Head along to the man caves Ray Zander’s shed/workshop/ man cave is one of 12 sheds available to check out on the Blokes In Sheds Ramble on Saturday (March 30).

It’s an opportunity to ramble through some of the most interesting sheds in the district.

This year, some tiny homes and tiny home factories have been added to the schedule because of the huge interest in what these spaces look like from the inside and how

Ray and Paulette Zander enjoy spending time in the shed.

they’re made.

The Ramble runs from 9am4pm, and tickets cost $15 for adults and $10 for five-to-10 year olds. Under-fives are free.

Tickets are available at Katikati Information Centre and are also available on the day.

This year, half of the proceeds from the Blokes in Sheds Ramble will be donated to the Katikati Hockey Club to help with fundraising for replacement hockey turf.

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more loud laughter. Ray Zander laughs a lot and it’s probably kept him healthy.

He also has a yard full of bulldozers if chisels and saws don’t spin your wheels. You get the sense they are up there with Paulette on the scale of things. “They’re beautiful things, bulldozers,” says Ray. Beautiful? “Yes, just wonderful old machines. And they helped shape and develop this country after World War II.” He has spent a lot of time on bulldozers, and even sold a thriving Taupo joinery business employing 20 people to go and drive bulldozers as a logging contractor.

The blurb promoting the Blokes in Sheds Ramble says when Ray’s not fiddling with timber, he starts up an old bulldozer and blows smoke rings in the air.

Information on the Ramble is available from Katikati Information Centre. Events coordinator, Nicky Austin, thinks everyone needs a shed or a bolt hole. “Women

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“It’s a place where a man can go and surround himself with things important to him and things he loves. They are often things that probably aren’t appropriate to have in a house.”

Nicky, like Paulette, is a seamstress. “And the idea of having a shed with all my sewing stiff in it would be a dream come true,” she says. “One day! One day!”

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Tauriko a hemp seed gold mine Hemp products have become increasingly popular over the years due to their reputed health benefits.

Now, Bay of Plenty residents have access to the superfood that is being harvested in their own backyard.

New Zealand company HempFarm has based its new processing plant in Tauriko.

HempFarm Director Anne Jordan says the company moved to its new facility on January 7, and they couldn’t be happier with the business’ progress.

“Before we were here, we ran the business from our house in Hamilton,” says Anne.

“We were doing it from the garage and were up until midnight, packing parcels and spending all day on the phone ringing stores and talking about hemp. It drove our family completely crazy.”

HempFarm office manager Jess Jordan says sales of hemp have increased due to people’s awareness of the plant.

“Last year our sales went up around 400 per cent,” says Jess. “We have 460 stockists now, and we have around 6000 retail customers.

“Everyone’s now more educated about their health and wellbeing. I found when I did an expo last year that people don’t want to know anything, they just want to buy it. It’s now an everyday product.”

Anne says a big factor in her and her husband’s decision to get into the hemp industry was the environmental benefit.

“My husband first wanted to grow hemp to clean up the environment, because of the condition of the waterways, the pollution in the waterways and the run-offs on farms,” she says.

“It cleans up the soils and takes the carbon out of the atmosphere. It’s a superfood.”

Tauriko plays host to New Zealand company HempFarm’s food producing facility.

Anne says hemp is a whole food with great nutritional benefits.

“Hemp products contain all of the essential acids, and an optimal balance of omega fatty acids.

“It is the world’s most nutrient dense seed.

“Hemp products help reduce arthritis pain and improve eczema and psoriasis. People have seen their blood pressure go down, and it also balances hormones. It is good for your metabolism, it boosts your immune system the list goes on.”

While the HempFarm factory is being finished, Anne says they have been importing hemp products from Canada.

“There was no processing plant here, so we had to. We’ve been bringing in certified organic products to enable us to build an industry here and raise awareness.

“We always talk about our Canadian products with pride as they are organic.

They are big mentors to us.”

Now that HempFarm have their own

facility, they are entering the harvesting stage and will begin producing their own products.

“We expect to have 400 tonnes of seed coming off the crops, and 300 tonnes will go to food processing,” says Anne. “The rest will be used for resewing.”

The Tauriko facility produces foods, skincare products and textiles.

“You start with the de-shelled seed, which we will be making here with a de-huller,” says Anne. “The seeds are a whole food. They are really delicious - I put them on my porridge and muesli and they go nicely with fish and in a pesto, with a pine nut taste to it.

“We have hemp oil, which is cold pressed from the seed. We also have hemp oil capsules.

“The capsules contain omega three, six and nine fatty acids from a plant without any sprays, growing organically.”

Another product Anne says is beneficial is the protein powder, which contains 50 per cent protein per serving, allowing muscles to recover after exercise thanks to the magnesium in the product.

HempFarm has an opening event in late April.

If members of the public wish to attend, please contact: jessica@hempfarm.co.nz Kate Wells

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Peanuts ruined by garden vandals An unpleasant surprise greeted Te Puke Community Garden staff recently when they discovered their peanut crop had been stripped.

The crop had been planted with the aim of teaching children how to grow peanuts and make their own peanut butter.

“We planted a crop of peanuts this year to show people that

Staff at Te Puke Community Garden were excited to be growing peanut crops, until they were found demolished. Photo: Te Puke Community Garden Facebook page. resilience you put up, the more we the sprinklers I turned around and peanuts can be grown here in Te feel that you ask for, and that’s why the peanut plants had been pulled Puke, successfully,” says Te Puke we don’t go down that road. out and stripped. I just about sat Community Garden chairperson “We were going to get the kindy down and cried because it was my Julie Gray. and school kids in and make passion, it was my little baby.

“We put a little notice on saying peanut butter, so it’s a lost cause “I rang all of my volunteers that they will be getting harvested in for that and I was devastated, I regularly go the gardens and I said April, and we explained they were really was.” ‘did you touch the peanuts?’ peanuts that were growing.

Julie, who has been running the “They said they hadn’t, and I said “Everything was growing community garden for three years, ‘oh no’. fantastically and things were says whoever damaged the 20 crops “We put in about 28 plants, and looking really, really good. At the has no idea what they have done to they left eight. So 20 of them had market on Saturday (March 16), I the community. been pulled and stripped. They said we were harvesting our peanut In future, the peanuts will be left the edge plants so it didn’t crop on the 30th of this month, grown at a different site to look like they had all been and it was exciting because it was prevent the crops from being completely pulled.” the first time we had ever done it.”

Julie says she is disappointed, and damaged again.

However, after waiting patiently “Now, we will just stick with for the crops to grow, Julie says she can’t fence the gardens off because the basic crops at the community came across an unpleasant surprise. it is council land. garden that we can afford to lose,” “Cameras will get sabotaged if we “I came in to do the watering,” she says. put them up,” she says. “The more she explains, “and as I was getting Kate Wells

His actions do not define our nation I have been reflecting deeply on the events of the past two weeks, as I’m sure we all have, and of the gravity of what has happened.

There can be no doubt that our country has lost some of our innocence, but as we look inward and collectively enter into a national conversation, I hope we will speak freely and frankly so we can ensure that we never need to see this kind of loss again.

The tragic events of March 15 that claimed 50 innocent lives, and has impacted so many more, didn’t happen to the Muslim community; it happened to OUR community. It was a crime committed against New Zealanders, and all New Zealanders collectively share in the grief. The actions of one man do not define New Zealand as a nation.

What I believe does define us is the outpouring of love and compassion that has been wrapped around those of the Muslim faith not only here in Tauranga, but right across New Zealand. This has sent a powerful message of inclusiveness and an acknowledgement that we welcome diversity.

Faced with unspeakable evil, our Muslim community could have chosen to retreat, close ranks and let resentment and anger fester. Instead they have opened their arms, opened their doors and embraced those around them.

New Zealand is an open, tolerant and diverse place. Whether you were born here, or have made the decision to call Aotearoa home, we are all Kiwis together.

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Surviving illness against the odds

Jenny Laidlaw healed from incurable cancer using an integrative approach.

If your mental state can affect your physical wellbeing, then a healthy mind can create a healthy body.

Jenny Laidlaw says she is an example of how you can heal through a change of mind-set, and wants to give hope to people in Tauranga via a workshop on April 4.

In 2012, Jenny was diagnosed with incurable Stage 3C Ovarian Cancer. She had the disease in both of her ovaries, the lining of her abdomen and several lymph nodes.

“I was diagnosed with incurable cancer and I healed using an integrative approach,” says the 62-year-old, “so I wanted to bring hope to others by sharing my story and the research that Dr Kelly Turner has collected.

“I had to have the flap over my stomach taken out. One of the tumours had meshed into my bladder, so that had to be sorted out and I had several lymph nodes taken out.

“They said it was only because I was fit and supposedly healthy that they could do these operations.”

Jenny was given a six-week break after the surgeries and before starting chemotherapy, which was expected to give her just a few more months to live.

“I started the chemotherapy for a while and then I pulled out after I had a third, because it was pretty rough,” she says.

Despite ending conventional treatment, Jenny still continued to fight this disease by focusing on eating, exercise and dealing with her demons.

“I already knew a lot about the mind and body connection, so I started working on traumas in my life,” she explains.

“I had come from childhood abuse –

both emotional and physical – so I had thought there was always something really wrong with me at a deep, subconscious level.

“I had already burnt out in the corporate world by trying too hard to prove to myself.

“I believe it was the trauma that created the cancer for me. When I healed those emotional aspects, I healed physically.”

A year later she started reading Dr Kelly Turner‘s book, Radical Remission, and straight away connected with it.

This was how she had healed herself.

“Dr Turner, with a grant from the American Cancer Society, spent 12 months travelling the world studying 1500 cases of radical remission - people who had a complete reversal of a serious or terminal cancer diagnosis,” says Jenny.

“Of all of these cases she studied, she discovered there were nine common factors.

“But what absolutely surprised her was that only two of the factors were physical - the rest were emotional and spiritual.”

The nine factors include finding strong reasons for living, taking control of your health, radically changing your diet, following your intuition, releasing suppressed emotions, increasing positive emotions, taking herbs and supplements, deepening your spiritual connection and embracing social support.

“Concededly or not, I met up with Justine Laidlaw, who I now work with,” she says. “She had healed from very aggressive colon cancer without using chemotherapy and she had also used the same factors as me.”

Together they joined forces, with Justine knowing a lot more about the different ozone therapies and nutrition and Jenny having a focus on the emotional and spiritual aspects of the nine key factors.

“We have people who have been given a terminal diagnosis who come along, people who don’t want to go down the conventional route and people who want to integrate both.

“We just want people to know that there are other ways to support conventional treatments. Whether they choose to go down that route or not is totally up to each individual.”

The Surviving Cancer Against All Odds event will be held on Thursday, April 4 from 7-8.30pm at Omanu Bowling Club, 062 Golf Road, Mount Maunganui. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at: www.the naturalbird.co.nz

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Time to get a plan for the future The public has grown weary of the strategies which have been put forward in recent years to deal with Tauranga’s rapidly growing traffic and urban development issues, but which have come to nothing.

A recent presentation by former politician David Cunliffe could be a gamechanger. Now a partner in consulting firm Stakeholder Strategies in Auckland, his organisation’s proposals to transform our city have been met with support from Smartgrowth Tauranga, both of our councils and the New Zealand Transport Agency.

The Urban Form and Transport Initiative looks at a combined

approach of merging urban planning and transport network planning.

Neighbourhoods can benefit from careful, informed transport and housing planning with consideration of the interconnectivity between the two.

New Zealand First has long advocated for a comprehensive approach to the development of Tauranga city - a master plan for future mobility, which is now happening.

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Baycourt achieves a gold award A focus on holistic and sustainable tourism business practices is worth its weight in gold for Baycourt Community and Arts Centre.

The Tauranga theatre achieved a Gold Sustainable Tourism Business Award from the New Zealand tourism industry’s official quality assurance organisation, Qualmark.

The gold award identifies businesses that are leading the way in making

New Zealand a world-class, sustainable visitor destination.

Baycourt manager James Wilson says Baycourt is now the only theatre in Aotearoa to have achieved gold status.

“There are many factors that go into making a trip to the theatre a great night out, and our team works tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure all our guests have a gold-class experience.”

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Jim’s giving away money Real estate agents come in at number seven on a British list of least trusted professionals. Only bankers, journalists and politicians are more scorned.

But when the real estate agent is an altruistic and benevolent Tauranga realtor, who gives substantially of his time and commissions to charity, then he should rise above this list of suspicion.

Jim Peterson, of Westbay Real Estate, spells it out. “$21,500 to five different charities in 15 months,” says the 27-year realtor. Some 60 per cent of those charity dollars is his money, his slice of the pie. The other slice is the company’s.

“I have always maintained that half a sandwich is better than no sandwich,” says Jim. “It is business we wouldn’t have got, and we are helping the community. It’s a win-win.”

It all came about thanks to a light-bulb moment and a will to assist people and charities.

“I was doing regular voluntary hours for a local trust, which was getting a chunk of real estate commissions from a local retirement village,” he explains.

“The village would direct new residents selling their family homes to a particular agent in return for a 20 per cent cut of the commission being handed on to a local charity.”

Having been in a local service club for 15 years and serving on various community committees, working bees and fund-raising events, he knew how hard it was to raise perhaps $500.

His fundraising experience told him he should take the retirement village model and apply it across the board.

Jim Peterson gives away a percentage of each sale.

“If any volunteer for any registered charity, be it a school with a board of trustees, a church or Good Neighbour – who have 400 volunteers – refer a sale to me, 20 per cent of the commission goes to a charity of their choice,” he says.

There was $4500 of passive income to a local primary school just recently.

“Someone might want to give their favourite charity a boost,” says Jim. “They might know their sister is selling in Matua and contact me to do an appraisal. On that basis I would give 20 per cent of the full commission to a Good Neighbour or a hospice or whoever.”

An example is a house sale price of $675,000 translating into a $4094 commission. “I know other realtors have offered charities $500 for putting work their way. Well, my scheme is tenfold.”

But Jim’s finding Tauranga a hard place to give money away. Is that because people are generally suspicious of the industry, and suspect there’s something in it for Jim? “Well, 60 per cent of that 20 per cent slice of the commission is my money,” he says. “The other 40 per cent is company money.”

Other factors have contributed. Jim says soaring house prices and commissions, along with Westbay being an independent company with lower fees and no franchise costs, have allowed it to happen.

And Jim has a reputation as a giver.

During his earlier days in real estate, from 1995 to 2005, $1000 of sale commission went to a local charity of the vendor’s choice. The total exceeded $80,000, and often the SPCA was the main beneficiary.

He co-organised the 2014 Tauranga Walkways running, cycling and walking event which raised $25,000 for a cancer lodge, and he’s a regular volunteer with a local charity.

Are you a volunteer? Do you have a favourite charity? Jim Peterson might be able to help them.

Drop him a line at: jim@westbay.nz

Timely funding boost Good Neighbour in Tauranga is one of 12 charities set to benefit from Countdown’s 2019 Food Rescue Partners Contestable Fund.

Countdown has now donated more than $435,000 to food rescue partners over the last three years.

The fund is designed to increase the capacity and help grow food rescue charities to collect surplus food and distribute it to Kiwis in need.

Countdown’s general manager corporate affairs, safety and sustainability, Kiri Hannifin, says they are extremely proud to support food rescue partners and the essential work they do within communities.

“Our food rescue partners play an incredible role ... ensuring that food that would otherwise to go to waste goes to those who need it most,” says Kiri.

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Type 1 is an autoimmune disease enabling the pancreas to produce insulin. Type 2 diabetes still produces some insulin, but the liver and muscles become resistant to insulin’s ability to move glucose out of the blood and into the tissues.

According to Diabetes Help Tauranga, there are currently more than 10,500 people with type two diabetes in the Bay of Plenty. The HBA1c test is an indicator of diabetes control, with a score of under 42 being good and over 75 classed as serious.

“I was obviously quite sick when I was diagnosed, but I didn’t know at the time,” says Tony.

“When I was diagnosed I was at around 86, and now I’m at 35, which is a massive change.

“I was put onto insulin straight away, which isn’t something they normally do for people with type two.”

Tony says there was a lot of confusion when he was first diagnosed, as he had high levels. However, he wasn’t displaying the typical characteristics that people usually have with type two.

“When I walked into Diabetes Help Tauranga and met Deborah for the first time, she even said straight away ‘you’re not a type two, you’re a type one,” explains Tony.

“That was because I’m not traditionally an overweight person who would normally get type two.

“From what I can gather it is through family genetics, because my grandfather had it as well as my great grandfather and my aunty.”

He says while he was going through the diagnosis process, he saw a TV programme about diabetes. This is when things really hit home.

“It talked about how you can lose your leg and how you can die 20 years younger than you normally would,” he says.

“My daughter had also done a project at school, so she knew quite a bit and informed me about how serious it could get.

“That’s when my mind was made up – ‘you’re not going to beat me’ I thought, ‘I’m going to beat you’.”

Tony says he didn’t completely change the way he ate, but became aware of what foods would affect him the most.

“I check my blood levels before eating and two hours after a meal, but I’m not completely over the top about it,” he says.

“One of my kids had their birthday party recently, so I had a bit of cake knowing full well my bloods would be high in the morning. It wasn’t a big deal because I knew it was going to happen and I just made sure I ate right and exercised the next day.”

Tony also took part in Diabetes Help Tauranga’s Desmond programme, which guides participants to take control of their diabetes.

“What I took mostly from the course is the fact that most people just can’t look after themselves, even when they know they have diabetes,” he says.

“They are the ones that need to change themselves, yet they don’t want to or don’t get that they can.

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To manage his condition, Tony will have to maintain his current regime of diet and exercise for the rest of his life.

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A Mount Maunganui property currently on the market has caught the eye of those interested in its history.

The Pitau Road house was once a two-bedroom cottage on the Tobacco Crop Rotoehu Plantation in the Pongakawa Valley.

Joy Edmonds, who grew up in Pongakawa, remembers her parents buying it around 1958, when she was about nine years old.

“While we played outside, they wandered in and out of these houses which had been put up for tender,” explains Joy. “The next thing I remember is coming with my parents to Pitau Road and seeing it up on 44-gallon drums. It became our holiday home.”

In 1932, some 20 of the small homes were built to accommodate unemployed married men and their families who came to work in the Pongakawa Valley tobacco plantations.

The great depression of the 1930s had provided the impetus for the tobacco growing scheme.

Under the Small Farms Scheme, the Department of Agriculture established unemployed men and their families on two-to-four hectare (5-10 acres) tobacco farms that had been surveyed from a wilderness of fern and scrub in the Pongakawa Valley.

The men were paid 37/6 a week, from which they paid five shillings rent. The following year, 20 more

houses were built.

None of the men were farmers, having come from Auckland with previous occupations such as a university lecturer, a newspaper editor, waterside workers and many other trades.

However, the tobacco families were a lively group and organising dances and card evenings as well as cricket and football matches. They lobbied the government for a school, with the Pongakawa Valley School starting in a tobacco barn.

The tobacco farms produced well for three or four years, but the natural fertility of the soil became exhausted and the crop declined in quality.

In 1937, the NZ Forest Service was given 24,000 acres of Crown land between Rotoehu and the Pongakawa Valley upon which to plant pine trees. In 1939, the government abandoned the tobacco farming scheme altogether.

“We only had our house for a couple of years, and sold it around 1960,” says Joy. “Underneath we had a garage and bunkrooms for my four older brothers.”

The Pitau Road property has had two owners since then, and is now on the market with Bayleys.

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Bowls players an arm’s length ahead The game of lawn bowls is being advanced thanks to an aid known as the Hacksaw Bowling Arm. Bryan ‘Possum’ Burton says the bowling arm is changing the game of lawn bowls for those who struggle to bend down.

“It’s very good for the elderly or anyone who has a disability,” says Bryan, who has been bowling for 30 years.

“The bowling arm has greatly helped with the strain on my body, and it has changed my game for the better.

“It’s a problem when you play against able-bodied bowlers, as it is not overly liked by some bowlers.

“Once you start practising with this, you become very good at it.

Bryan says the teasing between able-bodied bowlers and bowling arm users is just a bit of fun - until they start playing and they get serious.

“That’s the reason I have the nickname Possum because I used to practise so much in the dark. I’m only known as Possum in the bowling fraternity.”

The Tauranga South Bowling Club, of which Bryan is a member, hosted a tournament with 24

invite-only special competitors participating.

“The only bowlers that were invited were people that had bowling arms.

“The 24 bowlers were from all across Tauranga, and Tony and I won the mixed pairs tournament that day.”

Bryan’s wife Diane, an able-bodied bowler, says the bowling arm is the Rolls Royce of bowling.

“It’s very smooth,” she says, “however it takes a lot of practise”.

“I won’t be ashamed to have a bowling arm, but I’ll have a lilac one,” she says.

Bowling arms are priced at about $390, but they will prevent injuries that

could cost a lot more down the track.

“For people who have given up bowls, it has brought the sport back to them.”

“One chap had a stroke not long ago and now he’s back playing bowls with the arm,” says Diane.

Tauranga South club will host more tournaments for bowling arm users.

“We are going to have one at the same time next year” He hoped to also organise an interprovincial tournament.

Kate Wells

Players using a Hacksaw Bowling Arm take part in a tournament at the Tauranga South Bowling Club.

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Have your say on the draft Annual Plan 2019/20

Consultation is now open for the draft Annual Plan 2019/20, which is Tauranga City Council’s budget for next year.

The Annual Plan process serves to update the work plans and budgets that we have set through the Long Term Plan (LTP). We bring any significant differences to the community for review and feedback.

Have your sa y 5pm Tu by esday, 23 Apri l

This year we are seeking your feedback on:

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User fees

The key issue is how we position ourselves for future years.

We are proposing to make some changes to user fees and charges.

Most of these are small increases in line with inflation. However, we are proposing larger increases in the following areas:

The approach we have taken in this draft Annual Plan is to lower the average rates increase to 3.9% instead of the 7.5% increase proposed in the Long Term Plan. The cost of delivering key capital projects identified in future years of the Long Term Plan has increased by more than $100m. This increase in costs, coupled with the reduction in proposed revenue has highlighted potential financial issues in a few years’ time.

• Sustainability and waste

We are looking at options to mitigate our debt levels including reviewing our operational and capital programme during the next LTP process as well as looking at different options for funding and financing.

• Parks and recreation

• Planning • Building services • Road reserve occupation • Parking • Marine facilities

However, none of these options will be in place to have an effect within 2019/20.

The question is to what extent we should try to address this now for the 2019/20 year acknowledging that more substantive funding options will need to be considered in future years. This could be to retain the higher average rates increase of 7.5% as set out in the LTP, with the additional rates used to repay debt. Other options for an average rates increase between 3.9% and 7.5% could also be considered.

We seek your feedback on this issue and the approach we should take in the 2019/20 Annual Plan.

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Development Contributions Policy We are also adopting a new Development Contributions Policy.

This has not changed significantly compared with the current policy (2018/19) apart from the new fees and charges schedule.

Key dates:

Have your say by 5pm on Tuesday, 23 April

Public consultation: 23 March to 5pm 23 April 2019

You can find detailed information on these proposals in the Annual Plan Consultation Document and associated statements of proposals at

Submission hearings: 7-9 May 2019

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Council deliberations: 21-23 May 2019

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Adoption: 18 June 2019

The submission form is available at the back of the Annual Plan Consultation Document and at the above website address.

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Pupils learn all about generosity A rural school of only 180 pupils has raised $10,700 for Leukaemia and Blood Cancer New Zealand.

Last Friday, Pahoia Primary completed their second Shave for a Cure fundraiser, raising more than any other school in the country.

Teacher and event organiser Adrian Harwood says 21 pupils and two teachers had their heads shaved for the cause by hairdressers from Havana Barbers.

The hall was also packed to the brim with supporting pupils, parents, community members and the Shave for a Cure team.

“There were a few nervous kids at the start, but all of them were pretty positive about the process,” says Adrian.

“We had originally set a goal of $5000, but it was whatever we could get that we were hoping for.

“To end up the top in the country has just been amazing.”

The kids were regularly kept

certificates for their contribution.

“I’d like to thank our community for getting behind it,” says Adrian. “We wouldn’t have been able to do it without our community and the school’s involvement.

“We hope to do it again next year, but it’s up to kids as to whether they would like to participate again.”

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Teacher and event organiser Adrian Harwood.

Shaving for a cause.

a fun event to shave our heads and there was actually a reason behind it.”

In assembly on Monday, 21 shaven-haired pupils were cheered onto the stage and presented with

updated about their process, with a tally board available to look at from the staffroom. Adrian says last year they raised $7300 with six pupils, so the pupils hoped to beat that this year.

“This fundraiser isn’t just about raising funds, it also gives the kids an understanding that not everyone is as fortunate as they are,” he says.

“We talked with the students about why we were doing it, so it wasn’t just

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OLD BANKNOTES AND VINTAGE WATCHES DO YOU HAVE ANY OF THE ABOVE? IF SO, THINK HARD ABOUT...

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Are the items doing any good just lying about in cupboards and drawers?

Will the kids or grandchildren really want or appreciate them?

Will the burglars get them?

Can the museum handle any more than they already have in storage?

Will they be destroyed in an earthquake or other disaster?

Have you the expertise to sell them yourself on the internet?

We have that expertise and can get them into collectors hands quickly.

Is the money better in your pocket?

Giving the items away? Consider selling them to me and giving the money instead.

YOU KNOW THE ANSWERS – WE WANT TO BUY – SO CASH IN NOW!

Anthony Grant from John Bertrand (Collectables) Ltd. will be visiting the Bay of Plenty this week on a buying trip for the company. See the page opposite for a full list of venues. He is very keen to purchase a wide range of collectables, especially the following items:

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Old Coins • Old Banknotes War Medals • Old Gold Vintage Watches • Military Badges Pre 1950s Postcards (collections and accumulations)

SEE THE PAGE OPPOSITE FOR EXAMPLES OF THE ITEMS WE WANT TO BUY, SAMPLE BUYING PRICES, AND THE VENUES WE WILL BE BUYING

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Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand Inc. Author of the John Bertrand™ New Zealand Coin & Banknote Catalogue.

Director, John Bertrand (Collectables) Ltd.

John Bertrand (Collectables) Ltd T: 04 232 9832 E: info@bertrand.co.nz PO Box 323, Wellington 6140 Members of the Australasian Numismatic Dealers Association and the New Zealand Numismatic Dealers Association

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COINS

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PRE 1950’s PICTURE POSTCARDS

WE ALSO NEED:

• New Zealand and World Medals, Medallions and Badges – including Agricultural, Horticultural, Exhibitions, Royal Humane Society, Jubilees, School, Military, Exploration, Scientific, Political, Public Service • Police and Fire Brigade Medals • Polar Medals • Military Badges • Gold Fob Medals to WWI Returning Soldiers • Tokens • Old Fountain Pens • Old Postcards • Old Postal Notes and Money Orders •

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New Zealand (Maori) Wars (Virtutis Honor) – paying from $300 CASH IN NOW Boer War (South Africa) to NZMR – paying from $200 Unwanted Jewellery, Gold Racing & Trophy Cups, WWI Trio to NZEF – paying from $150 Broken Rings, Gold Chains, Gold Watch Cases, Alluvial (river) Gold, Dental Gold, Gold Coins, etc.

WWI Pair to NZEF – paying from $70 Also Scrap Silver (but no EPNS please).

WWI Single Medals to NZEF – paying $30 each ANY QUANTITY - ANY CONDITION WWI Memorial Plaque to NZ’er – paying from $80 ($150 with named medals) *Please note WWI medals to British Units are bought at lower prices.* WWII SINGLE MEDALS AND STARS ESPECIALLY WANTED 1939-45 Star – paying $15 New Zealand silver coins up to 1946 Africa Star – paying $25 Australian silver coins up to 1963 Italy Star – paying $25 English silver coins up to 1946 Pacific Star – paying $50 We will pay (for the above silver coins) at least: Burma Star – paying $25 $2.50 for a halfcrown, $2 for a florin (two shillings), $1.00 for a shilling, Atlantic Star – paying $50 50 cents for a sixpence, 25 cents for a threepence France & Germany Star – paying $30 Higher prices paid for larger quantities Air Crew Europe Star – paying $150 New Zealand coins from 1947 onwards also purchased New Zealand War Service Medal – paying $50 but only at 50% of face value British War Medal – paying $10 (No pennies or halfpennies, please) Defence Medal – paying $20 ANY CONDITION – ANY QUANTITY Military Medal (MM) (for Bravery in the Field) New Zealand 1935 “Waitangi” Crown – paying from $4,000 WWI Single named to a NZ’er – minimum $700 New Zealand 1949 Crown – paying from $10 (in a named group – from $1,000) New Zealand 1953 Crown – paying from $3 WWII Single named to a NZ’er – minimum $1,000 New Zealand 1940 “ Centennial” Halfcrown – paying from $8 (in a group with paperwork – from $1,500) New Zealand 1935 threepence – paying from $100 Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) Gold Sovereigns – paying from $300 WWI Single named to a NZ’er – minimum $1,000 Gold Half Sovereigns – paying from $150 (in a named group – from $1,500) (but note: prices are for un-damaged and un-cleaned coins) WWII Single named to a NZ’er minimum $1,500 WORLD COIN ACCUMULATIONS –ANY ERA, ANY QUANTITY. (in a group with paperwork – from $2,000) WHOLE COLLECTIONS, ESTATES AND ACCUMULATIONS OUR SPECIALITY. 1 to 10,000 items Military Cross (MC) Singles – paying from $500 (In a group to a NZ’er with paperwork – paying from $1,000) New Zealand Individual “Trading Banks” – Notes dated 1932 or before: Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) Ten Shillings – minimum $300 Singles – paying from $1,000 One Pound – minimum $300 (WWII to a NZ’er with paperwork – minimum $1,500) Five Pounds – minimum $800 Ten Pounds – minimum $2,000 *Please note all prices are for un-damaged and complete Twenty Pounds – minimum $4,000 full sized medals, with un-altered original naming* Fifty Pounds – minimum $10,000 OTHER WORLD MEDALS NEEDED INCLUDING BRITISH, One Hundred Pounds – minimum $15,000 AUSTRALIAN AND ALL FOREIGN COUNTRIES. MILITARY BADGES ALL New Zealand “Reserve Bank” – Notes dated 1st August 1934 (1933): COUNTRIES, ALL ERAS, ALL NEEDED—ANY QUANTITY Ten Shillings – minimum $60 One Pound – minimum $50 Five Pounds – minimum $120 Collectable Brands Gents Wrist and Pocket Watches – Rolex, Omega, IWC, Fifty Pounds – minimum $2,000 Patek Philippe, Breitling, Tudor, Jaeger Le Coultre.

New Zealand “Reserve Bank” – Notes undated: All wanted, in any condition, going or not.

Ten Shillings – paying from $4 Gold & Silver Pocket Watches One Pound – paying from $4 Chiming or Moon Phase Pocket Watches Five Pounds – paying from $15 Novelty Pocket Watches Ten Pounds – paying from $40 MOST OTHER NON-COLLECTABLE BRAND MECHANICAL Fifty Pounds – paying from $800 WATCHES ACCEPTED, BUT FOR PARTS VALUE ONLY *Please be aware that all prices are for un-damaged notes without tears, holes or (no quartz or battery operated watches, please) rust spots. Damaged notes will be purchased at a discount* ALL WORLD BANKNOTES WANTED COLLECTIONS AND ACCUMULATIONS WHOLE COLLECTIONS, IN ALBUMS OR ACCUMULATIONS WANTED

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St John’s Church Hall, 94 Bureta Road Senior Citizens Hall, 345 Maunganui Road War Memorial Hall, Pioneer Lounge, 130 Jellicoe Street War Memorial Hall Lounge, 29 Main Road Mako Room, Papamoa Library & Community Centre, 15 Gravatt Rd Welcome Bay Community Hall, 244 Welcome Bay Road Armitage Hotel, Domain Room, 9 Willow Street Greerton Community Hall, 1247 Cameron Road Bethlehem Community Hall, 237 State Highway 2 All Saints Church Hall, Corner Broadway & Hohaia Street

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Te Puke are off to a great start. Photo: File.

Te Puke Sports have at least one thing in common with the Crusaders Super Rugby team.

In the past they have both been notoriously slow starters to every new rugby season, building gradually and systematically to peak when it matters the most come finals time.

But something weird has happened to that theory in 2019.

The Crusaders started the first five games like everyone else is playing for second - until last weekend’s loss to the Waratahs at the Sydney Cricket Ground when the players could be excused for having their minds on other, more important matters.

Te Puke Sports had the toughest draw in the opening round of the Farmlands Baywide Premier club rugby competition played last Saturday, with a trip to Te Puna.

The two clubs played out a pulsating and memorable final last year, won 27-13 by Te Puke on their home ground, so another tight, close contest was expected.

If betting was available, I would have put a small wager on the home team after their excellent preseason form and home advantage.

But the visiting Pirates quickly went ‘bang, bang’ to score two quick tries, and they never looked like being overtaken. Te Puna’s fine coach and former great playing stalwart Aidan Kuka admitted afterwards that the game was all over at half-time, with his team trailing 18-3.

Perhaps the biggest surprise was how the score blew out to 41-15.

But neither Aidan or Te Puke’s player/coach Matt Wallis will be getting too excited about the result. The focus in the first round is solely to make the top eight championship round, with four of the 12 sides missing out.

Rangiuru made the best start of the promoted teams from last year’s Premier 2 competition. The Tanerau Latimer-coached side drew 22-22 with Greerton Marist to pick

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up two precious points, and travel away to Rangataua on Saturday.

If they can pick up points there, they will stand a definite chance to make the eight with a run of home games to come at their fortress-like home at Centennial Park.

Another of the promoted Premier 2 teams, Arataki, came so close to knocking over Tauranga Sports last weekend, and will fancy their chances at home against Greerton Marist.

Mount Maunganui Sports host Te Puna at Blake Park, with Te Puke Sports hosting Tauranga Sports in the latest version of one of the Bay’s most competitive rivalries.

With all the Western Bay teams drawn against each other on Saturday, there is plenty of top class action at a park near you. All Premier games kick off at 2.45pm.

Judea and Papamoa got off to less than ideal starts in the Baywide Division 1 grade. Judea lost narrowly 15-12 to Paroa, while Papamoa went down 37-21 away to Whakatane Marist. This weekend, Papamoa host Ruatoki at Gordon Spratt Reserve with Judea away to Murupara.

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Future and present cross paths All eyes were on two young Papamoa netball fans as they met their Stars and Pulse heroes on centre court at last week’s ANZ Premiership match.

Eight-year-old Marlee Croft-Mawi won the opportunity through the ANZ Future Captains competition, to meet Stars captain Leana De Bruin and Pulse captain Katrina Grant and lead the teams out at the start of the match, which was televised live on Sky Sport.

Eight-year-old Ida Peni Tooala, a friend of Marlee, was also able to join her for the exciting on-court experience.

“I had so many favourite parts, but the best one was probably getting my photo taken with the team captains,” says Marlee. “I hope to be a Silver Fern one day and

play for New Zealand.”

ANZ head of sponsorship, Sue McGregor, says ANZ is committed to its support for netballers in New Zealand, whether it’s at grassroots level or professional athletes playing in the Premiership.

“That’s why we’re giving 94 Kiwi children around New Zealand the chance to be part of the ANZ Premiership and meet their netball heroes as an ANZ Future Captain,” says Sue. “We are thrilled to be able to offer this incredible opportunity to aspiring young netballers, and hope that by giving them the chance to stand on centre court with their heroes, they will be inspired to keep their training up and put in 110 per cent at their own games.”

The match saw the Pulse beat the Stars by 61-50 goals.

captain Leana De Bruin, Left to right: Northern Stars awi and Ida Peni Future captains Marlee Croft-M trina Grant.

Ka Tooala and Pulse captain

Kiwis ready for frank conversations With our fellow Kiwis laid to rest and the national day of remembrance behind us, it’s time to reflect on the road ahead for New Zealand.

Not since the Second World War have Kiwis been so united. With one voice we condemned terrorism, put our differences aside and embraced one another.

This unity has made us stronger and we need to seal these gains and pass them to the next generation.

Ahead

there are some hard questions to be asked about our attitudes toward each other and the world we live in, but I get the sense New Zealanders are open to frank conversations and change.

We should ignore those who diminish the tragedy by using it to make cheap political points. We should continue our wariness of race-baiting and those who divide us along racial lines. The role of social media in extremism shouldn’t be overlooked.

I’m not much of a Facebook user,

but I know it’s become more than a place to share with family and friends. An analogy was given to me last week: In every village there’s always been a ‘village idiot’. Before the internet, the right-thinking majority in the community would keep that idiot in check. Now, village idiots from around the globe can seek each other out in their own virtual community full of idiots.

Let’s remember the kindness we showed each other last week; we can disagree, but we shouldn’t be disagreeable, and we certainly can’t leave any place for hate.

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Unregulated cosmetic medicine Exercise leads to better food choices When it comes to looks, everyone wants to put their best face forward.

But with cosmetic medicine changing, one doctor recommends doing your research.

Dr Anuya Deshpande has practiced cosmetic medicine since 2008, and is a fellow of the New Zealand Society of Cosmetic Medicine.

She says cosmetic medicine has changed a lot over the past 15 years, and suggests clients make sure they know their surgeon before taking the plunge.

“When I started training in cosmetic medicine 15 years ago, it was mostly Botox, fillers and IPL — discreet treatments that certain types of women went for,” says Anuya.

But social media and a ‘celebrity selfie culture’ has changed all that.

“It’s normal to see people on TV who look as if they might stick to a wall if you licked their lips and pressed them face-first,” says Anuya.

She says there are concerns within the cosmetic medical industry around loose regulations controlling the use of dermal fillers in particular. They went from being a prescription medicine to something anyone can purchase and have a go with.

“Practitioners should have detailed anatomical knowledge so they inject safely, and the ethics to aim for naturallooking results.

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with patients that gives them time to study their face and refine treatments, maintaining balance.

“As a patient, you should be satisfied that the person altering the appearance of your face has the skill and experience to respond appropriately if there is a problem, as well as the vision and technical ability to give you a great natural-looking result.

“Take care out there,” says Anuya, “and remember - it’s your face, do your research.”

For more information, visit: www.doctoranuya.co.nz

Dr Anuya Deshpande recommends doing your research before taking the plunge.

While the old saying ‘you can’t out exercise a bad diet’ may still be true, it turns out regular exercise is a great way to improve the diet.

New Zealand Register of Exercise Professionals says exercise and nutrition have always been closely linked; whether it’s understanding the fuel needed to exercise, a lifestyle plan that incorporates changes to both food and physical activity, or just understanding that both exercise and good nutrition are needed. healthy life. The latest

research out of the University of Texas shows that becoming more active has a roll-on effect on what people choose to eat. Those doing an exercise programme started making healthier food choices.

The team at the University of Texas looked over 2500 sedentary young adults for 14 weeks. The subjects were not instructed to make any significant changes to their diets but started regular exercise. Within a few weeks it was noted that the newly exercising subjects were making better nutritional choices.

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Your perfect home in the Bay If you’re looking to build a new home, garner a new income or want to breathe new life into your current land, Fowler Homes are here to help.

Fowler Homes has a team of designers and offers a design and build service that allows you to create a home that truly reflects your style.

Fowler Homes has a number of house and land packages available throughout Bay of Plenty.

Alternatively, if you love where you live but not the house you live in, Fowler Homes can help revitalise your land block via their comprehensive plan books for ideas.

“Our ‘knock down/new build’ gives you all the advantages of a brand new sustainable home right where you want it - especially as land values creep up,” says Fowler Homes’ Tony O’Brien.

Fowler Homes has completed a number of knock down/new builds and has seen the market

grow considerably.

“We have the experience and expertise in dealing with building and council planning regulations when dealing with demolition, removal, surveying, engineering and site costs,” says Tony, “as well as helping the clients through the challenges of getting through subdivision.

“We look after the whole process.”

If you want to see Fowler Homes’ quality for yourself, their showhome is open seven days a week, at 70 Te Ranga Memorial Drive at The Lakes.

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“They help create more space and can be used year round.”

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Impending housing shortage claims in Tauranga Three separate developers have issued warnings of an impending shortage of development land in Tauranga.

At the first Urban Form and Transport Development Committee meeting recently, councillors were given an update on planning projects in progress and received a report on development capacity in Tauranga.

The report, along with addresses from three developers at the beginning of the meeting, highlighted concerns around a shortage of land suitable for development.

Nathan York from Bluehaven, Scott Adams from Carrus and Peter Cooney from Classic Builders flagged their concerns, saying Tauranga only has a little over a year’s worth of realisable land supply – a view shared by council.

They warned that a lack of rapid action from council and the government will accelerate the housing crisis facing Tauranga, with real impacts on the community in the form of increased house prices and looming job losses in the construction industry.

The developers called on council to accelerate changes to planning rules to enable intensification, prioritise capital investment towards core infrastructure and to help lobby central government for investment, particularly in roading and for enabling legislation.

Committee chair Larry Baldock said land needs to be zoned through a City Plan Change process, and be serviced in advance with the appropriate infrastructure for water supply, wastewater, stormwater and transportation.

NZ Transport Agency partnership and investment in roading is required to unlock housing developments.

Improvements to State Highway 29 are needed to open the new urban growth area at Tauriko West, which could yield over 3000 new homes, while the proposed Tauranga Northern Link is required to enable further growth in Omokoroa, in the Western Bay of Plenty District.

Larry says the absence of decision making by the NZTA, and the lack of certainty in investment, are creating significant risks.

“Without certainty that our transport network can handle more people, we are limited in what we can do to plan for the mid-to-long term,” says Larry.

“And as a result, we are seeing delays in our planning for new urban growth areas.”

Compounding the issue are some infrastructure challenges for particular zoned sites, and a slow release to the market by some developers who control large development sites.

The government recently confirmed that the Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Act would not be extended beyond September 2019.

The Act enabled the establishment of special housing areas that could be developed faster through an accelerated resource consent process.

Since 2014, 13 SHAs have been approved in Tauranga, providing additional capacity for 3373 dwellings.

If the legislation had been extended, as council has been advocating, other SHAs put forward by developers across the city could have provided capacity for around 1000 new homes.

It would have given council more flexibility in other projects as well, such as potentially bringing forward development in the Tauriko West urban growth area by a number of years.

Council formally resolved to request urgent government action to address transport infrastructure and will also request that government reconsider the decision to end special housing areas in the area.

“We will take up the development industry’s offer and recommendation to join forces in discussions with government, as going about this individually hasn’t worked,” Larry says.

“We will present a joint voice, with them, Western Bay of Plenty District Council and our other SmartGrowth partners, as the government’s decisions impact the whole Western Bay of Plenty and our

sub-region’s capacity to manage its rapid growth.”

The SmartGrowth partner councils remain committed to progressing the agreed SmartGrowth settlement pattern as soon as possible, in order to ensure sufficient development capacity.

Council will continue planning for new urban areas including Tauriko West and Te Tumu.

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Building consents continue to rise Building consents for new dwellings are at levels not seen since the 1970s.

Minister for Building and Construction, Jenny Salesa, says the number of building consents for new dwellings in the year to January 2019 hit 33,576 – a 44-year high.

“We haven’t seen these numbers since 1975,” says Jenny.

Auckland continued to show strong growth for the year to January, with the number of new dwellings consented rising by 20 per cent, while Wellington was up 18 per cent. Government-related building consents reached 2065 for the year - the highest number since 1978.

“This latest data reflects the confidence there is in the government’s comprehensive housing plan, which is focused on building the houses New Zealanders need,” says Jenny.

What to consider when buying an apartment As our cities grow and property becomes more expensive, the age-old Kiwi dream of a stand-alone property with a quarter-acre section looks like it’s going out of fashion.

Apartments, units and townhouses in New Zealand are usually unit title properties.

This means that when you buy the apartment or unit (and any ‘accessory units’ such as garages, car parks, private courtyards and storage areas included in the record of title), you’re also buying an undivided Apartment living is becoming the go-to choice for a share of the ownership of the common property, such greater number of New Zealanders, whether as lifts, laundries, lobby areas, driveways and gardens. they’re first-time buyers looking for a starter property, As the owner of a unit title property you older people looking to downsize or those who want automatically become a member of the to live in a low-maintenance home in the middle of body corporate. all the action.

You and your fellow members pay annual fees to Real Estate Authority chief executive Kevin the body corporate and it, in turn, looks after the Lampen-Smith. management and maintenance of the property.

According to Real Estate Authority chief executive “Lots of people like the idea of buying an apartment Kevin Lampen-Smith, whatever your reason for because they want a property that they’ll never have buying an apartment, you need to do your to worry about maintaining,” says Kevin. homework first.

“However, you will have to pay for insurance and “When you buy a stand-alone property, you need management expenses, plus any services that the to consider its certificate of title, its physical state and body corporate arranges like rubbish collection and geographical location and any issues presented by gardening or cleaning of common spaces.” nearby properties or plans for the area,” says Kevin.

In most cases, you’ll also have to contribute to a “Those issues are magnified when you’re buying a long-term maintenance fund. If a lift in a multiproperty that’s legally and physically linked to unit property needs replacing or repairing, most its neighbours.” people would agree that all the members of the body corporate should contribute, through the LTMF, to make this happen.

“Where it gets tricky is when there’s a problem in an apartment (that belongs to an individual) rather than a defect in a common or shared area,” says Kevin.

“A recent Court of Appeal decision about a 12-storey Mount Maunganui apartment complex found that the repair works to several units affected the overall weather tightness of the whole building.

“The court found that some of the costs should be shared between all the owners, because they related to an ‘interlinked and indivisible’ weather tightness issue.”

In other words, if you’re looking to buy apartment A, but apartment Z has issues that could affect the whole building, apartment Z’s woes may be your problems too.

Of course, when you’re looking at apartments you’re unlikely to have the will (or even the opportunity) to knock on the doors of would-be neighbours and ask if their places are sound. But Kevin says you can ask the real estate agent if the building has any weather-tightness issues and about its current earthquake rating.

“If the answers to either (or both) of those questions are vague, or unsettling, dig deeper,” says Kevin.

“In any case, you should ask the real estate agent or the seller to give you copies of the complex’s long-term maintenance plan, and at least the last 12 months’ worth of body corporate meeting minutes.

“You can also request a copy of the complex’s contingency plan, which will show you if there are other costs on top of the body corporate fees.

“Remember to ask for a copy of the building’s insurance policy, too. Get your lawyer to check through all of these documents and identify any potential issues or concerns.

“Getting as much information as you can about a property before you make an offer on it will set you up for much better decision making.”

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Can I trust a seller’s building report?

If you’ve visited an open home recently or browsed the ‘for sale’ ads, you might have noticed that some sellers put together information packs for potential buyers.

These sellers will know that researching a property takes time and money, and they don’t want this to be a barrier to a successful sale.

Real Estate Authority chief executive Kevin Lampen-Smith says sellers often believe that providing information, like a Land Information Memorandum from the local council and a building inspection report, can help busy people get an offer on the table.

This is great in theory, but you need to tread carefully all the same, he says.

“If, for example, a real estate agent or seller gives you a LIM for the property, check carefully when it was prepared,” says Kevin.

A LIM is a summary of all the current property information held by the different departments at a council at the time.

It contains details of council consents for any work done, how much the rates are and information on any geographic hazards that might have an impact on the property, such as subsidence.

“Bear in mind that this information can be reasonably general,” he adds. “The LIM for most houses in Wellington will say that they’re located in a high wind area.”

Kevin says if the LIM is dated a couple of weeks ago, it’s safe to assume it’s reasonably up to date. If it’s dated a year ago, it’s a good idea to make further enquiries.

Getting a LIM costs money in most areas, as prices vary from council to council. You can also ask to see the property file held by the council, which holds other information about a property such as a site map and original house plans.

Building reports are a bit trickier. Using a building report provided by the seller, or the real estate agent working for them, may seem like an easy option in the short term.

However, Kevin says if you buy the property and

find problems with it that cost a significant amount to fix, you’re not protected by the building report because the inspector’s contract is with the seller, not with you.

The Real Estate Authority recommends using an accredited property inspector who complies with the New Zealand building inspection standard 4306:2005. Their written report will identify any current defects as well as highlight any urgent and long-term maintenance required.

“Look for someone who has a good level of indemnity insurance, as this will protect you if you buy the property and then find you need to fix something that wasn’t in the report,” says Kevin.

“Building inspections do come at a cost, but we think it’s worth it to be sure that you’re fully aware of what you’re signing up for.

“Depending on the age of the house you’re looking at, don’t necessarily expect a thin report saying there are no issues.

“Many wooden houses in New Zealand are over 50 years old, and there will be things the inspector needs to point out.

“Make sure you understand what normal agerelated matters are (that may not be major issues), compared to significant repairs needed in the short term to fix a problem.”

He says the report you receive should separate these things out. If it doesn’t, then ask the inspector about the difference.

“If you end up with a report with a lot of information about the property, it doesn’t mean you should walk away,” says Kevin.

“Instead, see it as giving you the opportunity to know what you’re buying. Doing this before you make an offer means you are fully aware of what the property may need to have done to it. Your offer figure can reflect that.

“However, if you don’t feel comfortable paying for a building report before you make an offer, you can make a property inspection a condition of your offer.

“Like most things in life, buying a property will go more smoothly if you put the work in. If a short cut seems too good to be true, it usually is.”

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Based in Christchurch, they have been baking traditional German style rye breads for 26 years. Everything the bakery makes is certified vegan, while all of the organic ingredients used in their rye breads are grown within 100 kilometres of the bakery and milled fresh daily.

Their signature loaf is their rye sourdough, baked using whole grains freshly milled at the bakery. Made from only three ingredients - rye, water and salt - it’s one of the healthiest breads available. For local stockists and their online shop, visit: www. breadman.co.nz The Weekend Sun has three prize packs featuring three favourite breads - rye sourdough, pumpernickel and mountain rye sourdough - for three lucky readers who can tell us where Breadman Organic Bakery is based.

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Reset your body clock with fibre-rich foods Eating right is a strategy to control the harmful effects of poor sleep, a common problem in modern society. Fibre-rich foods consumed at the right time may help restore our body clocks by improving our gut microbial balance.

Our bodies have a natural internal clock – or circadian rhythm – that is designed to regulate our activities (like sleep and wakefulness), and can be influenced by external cues. Modern-day stressors and dietary habits affect our energy and disrupt not only our body clock but also the circadian rhythms of millions of microorganisms that live inside our gut and regulate our digestive system.

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Human (host) behaviours such as sleep, diet, eating patterns, light exposure and stimulants may affect our gut microbiota rhythms. The natural functions of gut bacteria, such as breaking down food and generating energy are lost when our body rhythm is disturbed. This loss may partially contribute to increased risks of obesity and diabetes.

Weird food smells @thefncpapamoa

Have you ever noticed that while some food, such as homemade cookies, smell terrific, others like fish can make you want to hold your nose?

Most “off” smells are caused by chemicals in the food. Fish is full of the chemical trimethylamine, which can also cause bad breath in humans. Most animals make this chemical, but fish produce a lot.

Why? Because it helps them maintain a lower body temperature without freezing.

Beans contain sugars that our bodies aren’t able to break down very well, and these sugars pass through the small intestines

completely undigested.

On reaching the large intestines, bacteria attack them, producing methane and sulphur. This is why beans are called the musical fruit.

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La Brioche has a wonderful sitting area if you prefer a sit down experience.

La Brioche is an authentic French bakery and patisserie in the centre of Tauranga.

They have been supplying authentically French delights since November last year.

Their baker is French, so he knows the French secrets. He makes all of their bread and pastries fresh daily.

They use organic flour for all of their sourdough breads, and owners Lionel and Janett Ehinger say the process makes their treats authentically French.

“We use a traditional, slow fermented French process that gives the bread a very specific taste and texture,” says Lionel. “It also makes it more friendly for people who have a gluten intolerance.”

Making a true croissant, like the ones you can buy in the best bakeries in France, is a difficult artisanal process. But La Brioche has got it perfected. The know-how of their baker makes their croissants unique in the Bay of Plenty, says Lionel.

Not only can you take your French treats home, if you are after a sit down experience, La Brioche has a wonderful French-inspired café area where you can enjoy a traditional French pastry alongside barista-made, locally roasted Fixation coffee.

For more information, visit: wwww.labrioche. co.nz or visit them in store at 70 St John Street, Tauranga.

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There’s growing pressure on every one of us to prevent waste that could have been recycled ending up in landfill.

To help ensure your recycling ends up in the right place we’re proposing changes to kerbside recycling and rubbish collection.

Before we can make any decisions we need your feedback.

Is it yeah or nah (or perhaps a maybe).

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Who hasn’t met with disappointment in people who made empty promises that were not followed through, or spoke hollow words that were not backed up by action?

Sometimes we have caused the disappointment ourselves, for we are all human and fallible. As we travel the Lenten journey towards Easter, Christians are called to face our frailty and these missed opportunities.

Within the Methodist Church of New Zealand, we have embarked on a bicultural journey and celebrate cultural diversity.

However, even though we hold similar values, differences in practice and understanding still threaten to divide us.

We have spoken a lot of words and had lots of good intentions, but we don’t find it easy to share life together. We are starting a ‘Fifth Sunday’ event at Wesley Church on 13th Avenue, to discuss some of these issues, and invite anyone who shares these concerns to join us.

Faith, hope and love keep us on track. Faith reminds us that we are called to live together in justice and peace; hope encourages us to go on trying even when living as a harmonious community doesn’t work out easily for the first, second or nth time; love calls us to respect each other by listening to different perspectives and finding a common path without forfeiting our God-given identity and integrity.

Right now, many New Zealanders have shown compassion and solidarity and the challenge is to keep this up long-term. Faith, hope and love will help us.

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for what we’ve done, but our sacrificial efforts have fallen short in our own minds or theirs.

I know people who, when they do evil, also feel they need to make things up to a God they don’t know or don’t really believe in. They try to do good to make up for the bad things they’ve done.

God, however, has provided us with a perfect way of atonement to be reconciled to Him. It used to be by the blood of bulls and goats, but now it is by believing in the power of the perfect once for all sacrifice of His Son. Sometimes we know there is nothing we can do to make up for the things we have done wrong. That’s why the gospel is so powerful. What a blessing the way of the cross of Christ truly is!

In his last painful moments on the cross, Jesus cried out: “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

And God did.

He regarded Jesus’ sacrifice as an acceptable payment or atonement for the sins of all who would believe.

People of that day better understood the significance of sacrifices for sins.

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Echoes of Fraser Anning

P. Kelly is jolly worried! Apparently, the “traditional NZ way of life” is being “watered” down by “socialist lefties” (The Weekend Sun, March 22).

I was just wondering - which traditional way of life are you referring to? Because I’m having a wild guess here and thinking it’s not our most long-standing lifestyle traditions, established with the first arrival of Maori (approximately 1000 years ago).

Can I hazard a guess that it’s a lovely, middle-class white Christian culture that you are referring to?

Apparently, this traditional NZ way of life frowns upon the leader of our country wearing a headscarf at a Mosque. Don’t worry, she probably won’t convert and force everyone in the country to convert too, on fear of painful death - you know, like certain Christian English kings and queens have done historically, time and time again.

Poor P. Kelly. It must be very stressful living in NZ now that it’s not the 1950s anymore. What to do?

You could always move back to the good old Motherland of the UK, because their current political agenda seems to be right up your alley.

V Quinn, Matua.

P. Kelly is concerned that our Prime Minister dressed like a Muslim woman in the aftermath of the Christchurch Mosque killings (The Weekend Sun, March 22).

Is P. Kelly able to clarify what these concerns are?

Ms Ardern’s actions would seem to be based on compassion and support for a grieving community and seem entirely appropriate in the circumstances.

He then goes on to say: “It’s them that should adapt to the NZ traditional way of life.”

Could he explain further what he means by this? Does he mean the way of life of our Maori or Pasifika communities? Or perhaps our Chinese and Indian communities, or any of the multiple ethnic communities that call NZ home. His comments seem to echo the sentiments of the Australian politician Fraser Anning, who blamed the massacre on the Muslim community for living in our country. Perhaps it is time that the Editor exercised a little more discretion around what he is prepared to publish.

A Stanley, Ohauiti.

Polite and respectful

I must confess to being a bit confused by P. Kelly’s letter in The Weekend Sun (March 22).

So Jacinda wore a head scarf when visiting the Muslim community. Seems to me that, under the circumstances, this was no more than a polite andw respectful thing to do.

There has been comment about the Crusaders changing their name, but I don’t recall reading or hearing that the Muslim community suggested doing this, nor that they are offended by the name.

If P Kelly had ever visited the war-torn and repressive countries that many of our refugees have escaped from, he/she would understand why they wanted to come here.

Having legally got here, the majority speak English (or are learning) and go to work, while their kids go to school and get involved with sports. They go to church, just as a large number of the rest of us do, and contribute to their local communities. Would P. Kelly care to enlighten me? What more do they need to do in terms of adapting to the New Zealand way of life?

My family were European refugees from a country occupied by communist Russia, so I wonder whether I also, need to do some adaptation that I don’t yet know about to be a “real” New Zealander.

R Tomson, Hairini (abridged).

Overcoming those who divide us It’s been suggested (among other things) that our Prime Minister’s visit to Christchurch “dressed like a Muslim woman” was a knee-jerk reaction symptomatic of the PC brigade, and that “socialist lefties” made the situation worse by watering down the traditional NZ way of life.

Firstly, Jacinda Ardern was wearing black, as do many ethnic groups when in mourning, including Europeans and especially Maori. She was wearing a head-scarf to convey decency and respect for the 50 murder victims and their distraught families. Is this a problem for the right-wingers?

And by whom are we referring to as “traditional”

in the NZ way of life? Maori, Pakeha or any of the other 200-plus ethnic groups who have made NZ their home? What is meant by condemning the PC brigade? Is it because we speak out against bigotry, racism, ageism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia?

Come on guys, we are living in (hopefully) a more enlightened 21st century, where through better education and a closer look at the evils of history we are able to make rational and peaceful decisions to overcome those who try to divide us - much like the white supremacist gunman who fortunately failed.

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Gun laws Knee-jerk reaction Answering ‘negative rant’ contentious I would like to comment on Rogers Rabbits’ article in The Weekend Sun (March 22). I am so glad that, at last, someone stood up to bring us back to reality.

What happened in Christchurch is an absolute atrocity, and the whole of NZ has shown how they feel about what happened. It is also an act committed by a person with a serious insecurity problem.

I couldn’t believe how quickly Jacinda Ardern acted to make changes to the firearms laws.

These are laws that have been contentious in the past, and the government did not really know how to get these passed without a backlash from the public.

Jacinda used the moment of weakness from the public to push through a law that Labour has always had a problem with.

I agree wholeheartedly with your article, and I am grateful that you had the nerve to place it in the wake of the “Jacinda-mania” that is going around.

Jacinda went past her limits to ask for a countrywide call to Muslim prayer. I won’t force my religion on anybody and don’t expect the government to impose a prayer on me.

These actions show how socialistic the beliefs of this government are, and it is appreciated that someone like yourself can bring some balance to the conversation.

R Kriek, Tauranga (abridged).

Rogers’ ‘rabbiting’ last week was absolutely correct. The media are hell-bent on making Kiwis feel guilty of the terrible atrocity in Christchurch, and are fostering the punishment of our citizens.

Our ideologically-driven ‘guvmint’ is leaping at the opportunity to show how penitent we are and will prove our remorse to the world.

I have been communicating with a young man who is traumatised by the Christchurch event - not by the actions of the shooter, but by the constant on-going fostering of guilt by the media.

He now believes he is somehow to blame, especially as his father owns a gun. I suspect learning of the arguments that will be tendered by both sides regarding the proposed gun laws will traumatise him further.

Let’s not have a knee-jerk reaction and pause to consider the many facets of the decisions.

M O’Reilly, Tauranga.

In response to “They are barking up the wrong tree” (Rogers Rabbits, March 22), I have always enjoyed your politically incorrect writings until now.

Your article was a negative rant that I hope many people answer. One sentence struck me as very odd: “But, please, let’s avoid pointless persecution of people who had nothing to do with this atrocity.”

You don’t seem to understand the meaning of persecution. People of privilege in New Zealand, who are able to get a licence and buy a semi-automatic, are not victims of political or religious oppression; nor have they endured any on-going torment or torture at the hands of others in our land.

If you want to be funny about it, the farmers of NZ don’t appear to be shaking in fear on a daily basis of rabbits invading their home or place of worship!

Doing nothing would be the same as continuing to support division and our misunderstandings of each other. We can clearly see the result of that cultural blindness in many countries around the world. Any control measure of any kind put in place to stem the tide of hatred, violence and unlawful death of citizens and residents can only benefit our country as a whole.

Well done to the New Zealand government for taking action where others won’t.

E Blackburn, Pyes Pa (abridged).

Please explain Maximum/minimum temperatures have been recorded in the Tauranga area at several sites during the last 100 years.

In SunLive’s ‘Weather Eye’ blog, it states: “The average afternoon February temperature for the 49 years from 1963-2011 is 24.0 degrees Celsius; this is just 0.3 degrees Celsius higher than the average afternoon February temperature for the 49 years from 1914-1962.

“The seven ‘warmest' February months (in terms of

afternoon temperatures) on record, in chronological order, are: 1916, 1928, 1954, 1955, 1998, 2011, 2019."

I’m a bit puzzled. I note that five of the seven warmest February months recorded were in the last century.

Would someone who knows what they are talking about please explain to me how this (0.3 Celsius increase over a century of recordings) fits wit the current presentation of global warming? Perhaps Tauranga is just the place to be to avoid it.

D Goodyear, Welcome Bay.

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My word, that’s 800 Time flies when you’re having fun, so it surprised me to realise that this month marks my 800th column for The Weekend Sun.

to international fame. Who knows...

Brian and Claire’s vision eventually started in a little house down The Avenues. The Weekend Sun was born.

I believed then that it was a brilliant idea, a badly-needed, locally owned publication.

And I still think so.

At the end of 2002 they approached me to write an entertainment column, preferably something funny. And I tried to do that. But I soon realised that writing humorous stuff would just mean doubling up since Brian had firmly taken the lead in the “funny opinionated column” stakes with his Rogers Rabbits. Dammit.

I started these columns in 2003 and have been producing them every week since then, aside from one four week holiday and the occasional Christmas break. There’s also been the odd column pulled at the last minute.

Over that time I figure I’ve put down slightly over half a million words – roughly five 400-page novels - on the highs and lows of local music and whatever other entertainment ephemera has registered Music and film on the radar at the Watusi So I wrote about Country Club, or before that music and film and any Castle Watusi and The Watusi temporary obsessions, Spiritual Retreat. Three homes, and left the funny stuff to in sixteen years. I guess I’m not the expert. as peripatetic as I imagined.

To close column number I must give credit where 800 I’d just like to thank it’s due and thank publishers Brian and Claire for Claire and Brian Rogers who dragging me into this, and started this whole she-bang. thank all the editors who Brian was the first person to have from time to time turn me down for a job in the saved me from myself. newspaper biz.

The Winston Watusi column has been Columns have occasionally That was a long time ago, running for more than 15 years. been pulled, some way before The Weekend Sun, attacking the other paper or insulting politicians, one but even then Brian and Claire had a dream.

I applied for a job as a copy reader. I was young and rather enthusiastically supporting cannabis reform (got in a bit early with that one), and as recently as a unemployed, and with my generally anally retentive couple of weeks ago I made some probably libellous personality was a wiz at checking spelling and comments about a local personality which hit the punctuation. Which was, before the days of personal cutting floor. computers and spell-checks, what a copy reader did.

Most importantly, thank you all for reading. And Check stuff. thanks for the emails: it’s pleasing to know that people are interested in the titbits of information Overqualified and opinion I’ve been putting out there. Thank you I didn’t know Brian and he didn’t know me but he even for the abuse, most of which was, I’m sure, very sensibly didn’t hire me. I’d like to think it was richly deserved: it is heartening to know that there because I was overqualified. are people here passionate enough about music to The only thing I did know was that he was disagree about it in extreme terms. something of a local drumming hero. In the aural Mostly though it’s been an absolute pleasure to archive of local musical stories is the legend of the show when his band supported Split Enz. Exact watch and comment as the music scene has changed details have been lost in the mists of time but many and grown. I hope to keep doing it for a while still still contend that Split Enz were so astounded by but who knows? This is an unpredictable world and the unique musical style of their support act that it we must live every day with kindness and hope and inspired their consequent musical direction and rise as if it might be our last.

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Musicians to honour Christchurch victims

When Muslims greet each other, they don’t say ‘good morning’ or ‘hello’. They say as salaam alaykum – peace be upon you.

When they part, they say ma’a salaama – wishing that all may go with peace. Tens, hundreds, thousands of times, as Muslims go about their daily lives, they wish peace to those around them.

The peace of our Muslim friends, neighbours and fellow New Zealanders was shattered on March 15. As Muslims in Christchurch gathered to pray in peace, hatred and violence were poured out against them. In all, 50 lives were lost; many more prayer-goers were injured. Families, neighbourhoods and communities were changed forever.

It is the feeling of many local musicians that they wish to respond in some way.

“The only thing that I can do as a musician is make music, and hope that the beauty I find within can reach the souls of others,” says Chalium Poppy, organist and choirmaster at St Peter’s Anglican where two performances of the Rutter Requiem are being rapidly progressed.

Musicians and local choirs have already been contracted, all agreeing to donate their time.

“It is my desire to offer not so much a performance, but a musical memorial and reflection for any members of our community seeking something beautiful in this time of horror and tragedy,” says Chalium.

Christian and Muslim faiths share a belief in life after death; a requiem mass is a prayer for peace and eternal rest for those who have passed away.

John Rutter’s Requiem reminds us that,

in times of crisis, refuge and rest can come from our faith and our God. Intended to be performed at a funeral service, the requiem reminds us of the freshness of New Zealand’s recent tragedy and the need to acknowledge the depths of the grief felt by the victims of these events and, to a lesser but still significant extent, by all of us as New Zealanders.

Finally, although the texts are ancient, John Rutter is a living composer – a composer of all our lifetimes who gives voice to our lived experiences. Much has been said and written over recent days about what Aotearoa New Zealand must be and become in the 21st century.

We hope that Aotearoa New Zealand will stretch and change for the better as a result of our shared reflection on the tragic events that these performances acknowledge.

The free community performances are an opportunity to make a donation to “Our People, Our City”, set up by the Christchurch Foundation at the request of their Mayor.

As salaam alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatu – may the peace, mercy and blessings of God be with us all.

The Christchurch Mosque Memorial performances will take place at St Peter’s Anglican Church, 15 Victoria Road, Mount Maunganui on Saturday, March 30 (7.30pm) and Sunday, March 31 (1.30pm). There is no entry cost.

Donations go to the “Our People, Our City” Christchurch Foundation.

Renew, connect and reflect Parent to Parent Coastal Bay of Plenty are running a free parenting workshop on Saturday (March 30).

The Renew, Connect and Reflect workshop will help families caring for a child with a disability or health impairment, by providing renewed energy, new connections and new ideas.

The workshop topics include growing your support networks, building a resilient family, coping with stress and understanding the effect of grief.

The parenting workshop will

run from 9am-3pm at the Ocean Beach Restaurant, 399 Ocean Beach Road. The workshop, lunch and morning and afternoon tea will be provided at no cost.

To register, contact Jane on: janef@parent2parent.org.nz or call: 0508 236 236.

Chalium Poppy is organising a “musical memorial” for the victims of the Christchurch terror attack.

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Timber types crank up for the big day Western Bay of Plenty residents are invited to get back to basics and Tauranga Vintage Machinery Club member Eric says the event will include machinery and see how vintage machinery and equipment made the world spin in Green equipment that pays homage to the early years of the years gone by at 2019’s Crank Up Day in Katikati. timber industry – Hosted by the Tauranga Vintage Machinery Club, the April 7 event has a timber theme, with demonstrations and items on display paying tribute to New Zealand’s early timber industry.

Milling of New Zealand’s extensive native forests was one of the earliest industries in the European settlement of the country. As the new colony established, timber was the most common building material and vast areas of native forest were cleared.

going the other day,” says Eric. “George Winter will shear sheep with it in an onsite demonstration.”

Club president Larry Williams will have two tractors – including a Mogul think timber jacks, that is more than saws, old axe heads 100 years old – at the and the like. event, which is hosted “Club member on Michael Cooper’s Michael Cooper’s two property. bulldozers – a D6 Free hay rides will and a D9 – will be be running, plus the doing various tasks, popular tug of war, like winching a large which pits people hunk of gumtree we against a small tractor cut down the other or bulldozer. day, and there will be Eric says the club different timber saws hopes to attract all for cutting wood,” ages to the event, he says. “because there “We also hope to is something for have a display of old everyone”. saws from the late “Katikati Scouts Jim Pendergrast of Tauranga Vintage Machinery Club member Eric Green with have a barbecue on Te Puke, courtesy an old head he doesn’t know much about, but he’ll display at offer, but people are of his family. welcome to bring their Crank Up Day. “He had a long own food as well. We history of working in timber. He worked hard, also have the Legion of Frontiersmen J Troop Katikati, splitting logs for posts and battens for his own land led by Val Baker, directing car parking for us.” and to sell to other farmers.”

The Tauranga Vintage Machinery Club’s Crank Up The usual vintage tractors, stationary engines Day is on Sunday, April 7, from 10am-3pm on Hot and bit and pieces will also be on display or doing Springs Road, Katikati. The event will be signposted demonstrations on the day. from State Highway 2. Admission is by donation, and “I have an old sheep shearing plant, which I got children can enter for free.

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Talented duo take their tunes into town Don’t miss your chance to see and hear two big musical names in the Bay this April.

New Zealand baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and South African pianist James Baillieu join forces to play at St Peters Church on April 18.

Julien is the only person ever to have won first prize in both the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and the Wigmore Hall Kohn Foundation International Song Competition, while James is a world-renowned pianist, professor and head of piano accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Julien recently graduated from the Royal College of Music International Opera School, where he studied with Russell Smythe.

On graduation, he was awarded the Tagore Gold Medal.

James has been a prize-winner at the Wigmore Hall Song Competition, Das Lied International Song Competition and Kathleen Ferrier and Richard Tauber Competitions.

He was selected for representation by Young Classical Artists Trust in 2010, and in 2012 received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and a Geoffrey Parsons Memorial Trust Award.

These two supremely talented musicians will treat audiences to a beguiling selection of songs of travel, landscapes and drama – including a new commission from NZ composer Gareth Farr, who will set short poems by Bill Manhire to music, about iconic birds the takahe, dotterel, tui and the extinct huia.

Legacy Funerals and Tauranga Musica, in association with

The Weekend Sun has one double pass to see Julien Van Mellaerts and James Baillieu on Monday, April 8 at 7pm for one lucky reader who can tell us what nationalities Julien and James are.

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New Zealand baritone Juilen Van Mellaerts.

Chamber Music New Zealand, present Julien Van Mellaerts and James Baillieu on Monday, April 8, from 7pm at St Peters Church, 11 Victoria Road, Mount Maunganui.

For more information and to book, visit: www.tgamusica.co.nz

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Saturday 30 March Aro at Jam Factory Distinctly

Aotearoa. Inspired by the melodies & rhythms of native birds. RnB, Jazz, & Kapahaka. 6:30pm. $15 door sales.

Art In The Park Original Art for sale. Weather permitting. Coronation Park, Mt Maunganui. 9am-4pm Tauranga Society of Artists Bay Network Singles Club 50plus.

Make new friends. Barbeques, outings, dining out & pot-lucks. Ph Jonathan 572 2091 or Maureen 021 112 3307 Baypark Family Speedway Bay Championships tonight at 6:30pm. www.baypark.co.nz BOPMPBC March Sprint Day Its time for the 2 lap sprints at Thunder Valley lake. Come & watch r/c boats run against the clock at high speed!

Car Boot Sale Tauranga South Community Patrol Car Boot Sale, Greerton Village School Greerton Rd. Setup 7am onwards. Site $5. Double $10. Ph Shirley 577 1116

Christchurch Memorial Rutter’s Requiem Combined

Tauranga choirs perform Rutter’s Requiem 7:30pm Sat & 1:30pm Sun, St Peter’s Anglican Church, Victoria Rd, Mt Maunganui. All donations to Christchurch Foundation.

Experience Sound Of Soul Sing HU to experience the Sound of Soul. Spiritual chat & cup of tea follows. Papamoa Community Centre 1:30-2:30, 15 Gravatt Rd Papamoa Greerton Hall Market Last Saturday of month. 8am-12pm. Stalls inside/ outside. Discounts for charity groups.

Refreshments available. Phone/ txt for site. Tricia 07 543 1487 or 027 908 2952, www facebook.com/ greertonhallmarket ‘Her Colours’ Art Exhibition Beautiful artworks by Tamzin Blair that celebrates femininity & the artist’s identity. Unique multi-layers works. The Art Lounge NZ Gallery at Willow Street. 11am-4pm Tue-Sat Jigsaw Puzzle Library 10am-12 noon.

Choose from of 300 puzzles.

Hire $1 per 1000+ puzzle, 50c under 1000. Cnr Highmore Tce & Brookfield Tce. Ph 576 0698 Katikati Bowling Club 8 Park Road.

12:45-3pm. Ph Phil Green 549 5344 Little Pink 6:30pm Dance show in Addison Theatre, Baycourt. www. baycourt.co.nz for tickets & info.

LOL Laughter Wellness Laugh your way to wellness. To learn how, come & join us at Arataki Community Centre, Zambuk Way, Mt Maunganui.

11-11:45am. Ph Trish 022 036 6768 Matua School Gala Family fun, food & entertainment! Enjoy carnival rides, pony rides, petting zoo, a massive white elephant sale, market stalls, games & a flour bomb battle!

Mount Maunganui Sequence Dance

Monthly Dance 13th April 7:3010:30pm Arataki Community Centre, Mt Maunganui Sheldon’s Band. Lovely

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National Youth Jazz Competition

Young jazz stars of the future compete for trophies & glory! Sat 6th April 8:30am4pm, Baycourt. Info at www.baycourt. co.nz Otumoetai Tennis Club Adult Tennis.

Start time 1:30pm Bellevue Park Windsor Road (adjacent to swimming pool complex). New players & visitors welcome. Ph Fred 544 5088 Pottery Gallery Bethlehem Pottery Gallery is open 10am-2pm Tues,Thurs & Sat. Come along & purchase locally made pottery.

Retro & Mod Sale Vintage/retro clothing & bric-a-brac sale. The Historic Village, 17th Ave Tauranga.

9-12, cash only. All proceeds to Turning Point Trust

Sabbath Worship Services (Hairini) Experience God’s Love

worshipping at 10:30am Baden Powell Centre Harrisfield Dr, Hairini. Ph David at Church of God’s Love 7th day 020 4128 3124. www.churchofgodslove.com

Sunshine Sequence Dance Group

Come & enjoy tea dance, Baptist Church Hall, 13th Avenue. 5-9pm. $5pp. BYO food, plates, cutlery, non alcoholic drinks. Jan 544 4379

Tauranga Synchronised Swimming Club Have a go at synchro! Beginners

train Saturday mornings at Baywave.

Supportive & friendly environment. First lesson free. Ph Jo 027 543 1697, www. taurangasynchro.co.nz.

The Rusty Mannequin Sale Fabulous womens

pre-loved clothing sale.

The Historic Village, 17th Ave, TGA. 9-12, cash only. All proceeds to Turning Point Trust The Sociables Females & males in the 30s/40s/50s age group that meet up to participate in local activities & events, bushwalks & dining out. Ph 022 012 0376 Trendy Mender, Kerry Funnell Turn a flaw into a feature using the Japanese stitching technique Boro to patch & embellish your much-loved garments.

The Jam Factory 9am www.theincubator. co.nz/ Village Radio Museum Community Radio broadcasting nostalgic music & Community Notices seven days on 1368 KHz AM Band. Radio Museum open from 10am. Request line 571 3710 Yoga, Private Sessions Feel uncomfortable in a group setting? or have a disability? I am a registered health professional with 25 years yoga teaching experience. Ph Asunta 021 061 4394

Sunday 31 March

Bible Seminar 1:45pm Greerton Senior Citizen’s Hall, Maitland St, Greerton.

Title: God’s promises to Abraham, lessons for us. Interactive, Q&A. All welcome. Vic 543 0504 Bowls Tauranga South Come & try lawn bowls at 15 Tutchen St, 12:45pm with a bbq & refreshments. Ph Mike 022 340 4152 or just turn up on the day.

Computer Club (Tga) Inc

At Arts & Crafts Ctr, Elizabeth St West, 9:30-12:30. Ph 571 4941

Croquet

Tauranga Domain, Cameron Rd, 12:45 for 1pm start, Sun, Tues, Fri. Beginners welcome.

Peter 571 0633

Farmers Market - Mount Mainstreet

9-1pm rain or shine! Right in the middle of Mount Mainstreet at Coronation Park, Maunganui. www. mountmainstreet.nz Friendship Force Travel Club Enjoy travel & meeting visitors? For world-wide exchange travel ph Jonathan 572 2091, Barbara 574 5711, www.friendshipforce. org.nz Little Pink 11am & 3pm Dance show in Addison Theatre, Baycourt. www. baycourt.co.nz for tickets & info.

Mah Jong Te Puke Every Thursday & Sunday at Lyceum Clubrooms Palmer Pl Te Puke. 12:45-4pm. Learners welcome.

Gig 537 5355 or 0274 306 383 Maketu Market Maketu Market is held 3rd & 5th Sundays of the month, 7am-12pm at Maketu Village Green.

Ph Carolyn 027 251 0388 or Pat 021 447 420 NZDA BOP Range Day NZDA BOP branch run public open days last Sunday each month at their 300m range in TECT All Terrain Park. 9am-3pm $20 bring firearms licence Oropi Sunday Market A great range of quality stalls, something for everyone.

Come along & experience what makes it so special.

1295 Oropi Rd

Otamarakau School Surf Fishing

Surfcasting competition along the Matata straights. $30 entry. 8am start. $4000 prize for heaviest snapper & more great prizes. Tickets on sale from Hunting & Fishing.

Papamoa Lions Club Market 2nd & 4th Sunday Gordon Spratt Reserve, Parton Rd, Papamoa. Gates open 7am for stall holder entry. Wayne 027 974 5699 Quakers in Tauranga In hall behind Brain Watkins House, cnr Elizabeth/ Cameron Rd 10am for an hour of mainly silent worship followed by tea/ coffee & talk 544 7158 or 573 8497 www.quaker.org.nz Tibetan Buddhist Teachings Teachings

by Geshe Jamyang Sherab held at Papamoa Community Centre, alternate Sundays 10am-12pm. Teachings free, donations appreciated. For dates contact Jaki on 021 216 1102 Waipuna Super Hero Walk Waipuna Hospice is organising a “Super Hero Walk” 10am, Coronation Park, Mt. Maunganui. Sign Up at events@waipunahospice.org. nz become our hero!

Monday 1 April

Achieve Toastmasters Meets 1st

3rd & 5th Monday at St Stephens Church Hall Brookfield Tce Tauranga 7:30pm-9:30pm. Ph Frank/Chrissy 543 9493 or 027 296 7939

Alcoholics Anonymous Open meeting 10am. Tauranga Central Baptist Church,13th Ave/Cameron Rd. All welcome. Ph 0800 229 6757 Argentine Tango in Tauranga Free introductory classes! Embrace your authentic Tango journey with fun people.

No partner required although more guys welcomed 6:30pm. Ph. 020 4006 1340 Badminton: Tauranga Club 7:309:30pm at Aquinas College, suitable for Year 11 upwards. Club racquets available.

Casual fee $8 per night. Ph Sue 021 194 4335 or FaceBook: Tauranga Badminton Club www.taurangabadmintoclub.co.nz Bethlehem Indoor Bowls Meets in Bethlehem Hall. New members of all ages welcome. Names in by 7:15pm for 7:30pm start. Ph John 027 654 1298 Judy 562 0557 Bolivia, Tauranga Citizens Club Arrive 12:15pm,

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Beginners to experienced.

Everyone welcome. Ph Jill Meldrum 578 3421 (evenings) Chess At Mount Maunganui Mount RSA Chess Club, 544 Maunganui Rd, 6-7pm during school term. Late program 7pm onwards. Incl casual games. Noel 579 5412 Indoor Bowls At Tauranga Citizens Club Mon 7pm & Thur 1pm. All levels, beginner to experienced, juniors included. Everyone welcome. Ph Andrew Matthews 0210 298 5047

Dutch Friendly Support Network

Coffee Morning 1st Monday of month 10am-12noon. $3 entry. Vintage Car Club Rooms, Cliff Rd, Tauranga. Ph Bernadette 07 572 3968 Floral Art 1pm Methodist church, Oroua St, Te Puke. All welcome. Ph Val 573 7804

Harmony-A-Plenty Barbershop

Guys! Join our men’s barbershop chorus. We teach singing too.

Community Church Bethlehem 183 Moffatt Road. Ph Alan 282 8435 Indoor Bowling St Columba Indoor Bowling Club, 502 Otumoetai Rd, Cherrywood. Year starts 4 Feb. All playing levels welcome 7:30pm start, names in by 7:15pm. Ph Paul 576 6324

Let’s Learn Lifelong Learning Are you a lifelong learner? Check out the range of courses, workshops, classes, lectures, lessons & events on www.letslearn.co.nz or ph 544 9557 Mah Jong 12:30-4pm vistors &

beginners welcome. Free teaching available. Tauranga Bowling Club, 11th Ave. Ph Shirley 576 0014 or Pam 544 0616

Multicultural English Classes

English classes for all visa holders on Monday, Tuesday & Thursday morning 10am-12pm. Registration required to enquiries@trmc.co.nz or 07 571 6419

Multicultural Mandarin Classes

Monday conversational all levels Mandarin classes 6pm7pm. Saturday academic classes 10am-12pm.

Registration required to enquiries@trmc. co.nz

Otumoetai Indoor Bowling Club Meets at 7:15pm in the Matua Primary School hall. New members welcome. Come along & give bowls ago. Ph Karen 576 0443 Recycled Teenagers Gentle Exercise Mon/Wed Tga

Senior Citz Club 14 Norris St. 9:15-10:45am. Tues St Marys Hall cnr Girven & Marlin 9-10:30.

Jennifer 571 1411 or 027 206 0776 Silver Singers Choir Conductor required & all singing voices welcome for our 30 voice choir. Soprano, Alto, Bass & Tenor. Ph Gaynor 579 2465 TaiChi Internal Arts Beginner class 9:30-11am Greerton Senior Citizens Hall 33 Maitland St, Greerton. All welcome. $5 per class. Concesssion card avail. Ph David 552 4425 Taoist Tai Chi Beginners Tai Chi classes Mon-Sat, 15 Koromiko St, Tauranga.

Also KatiKati, Mount, Papamoa & Te Puke. For times visit www.taoist.org or ph 578 9116 Tauranga City Brass Practises at band room 10 Yatton St Greerton 7-9pm.

Instruments available. Percussionists needed, ie. kit player. Ph Jeremy 021 132 3341 Tauranga Creative Fibre Monday 9:30am, also 2nd & 4th Thursday 7pm. Learn & share spinning weaving knitting felting crochet skills. 177 Elizabeth St. Margaret 571 3483

Tauranga RocknRoll Club

Lessons 6:45pm & social dancing 7:30pm Legion of Frontiersmen Hall, 165 Elizabeth Street Ph Rana 027 699 5571, Trina 027 315 6674 or www.taurangarocknrollclub.org.nz

Tauranga Senior Citizens Club

CARDS 500 Mon & Thurs. INDOOR BOWLS Tues,Wed & Sat, 14 Norris St (behind Pak n Save) 12:45pm for 1pm start. Entry $2 includes afternoon tea.

New members welcome.

Walk For Wellness Group For people living with cancer & their carers.

Departs from Pilot Bay at 9:30am every Monday. Ph Tammy 07 927 6503 or tammyburgess@cancersociety.org.nz YMCA Gold Fit Classes Smooth Movers classes 9:30am at Matua Hall. $8 per class with concessions available. Ph YMCA 07 578 9272

Tuesday 2 April

ABC-Avenues Badminton Club At Tauranga Boys College Gym. Juniors 6-7:30pm (term time). Seniors (Adults) 7:30-9:30pm. Ph Delwyn 027 212 4720 Alcoholics Anonymous Open Meeting every Tuesday night, 7:30pm St Peters Anglican Church, 11 Victoria Rd, Mt Maunganui. All welcome. Ph 0800 229 6757 Altrusa International Tauranga Ladies service group meet 2nd Tuesday for business & 4th Tuesday fun programme evening. Ph Denise 027 284 6828 or email presidenttauranga@altrusa.org.nz Art & Craft Workshops ArtyCraft presents art & craft workshops Tues & Thur 4-6 at St Enoch’s Presbyterian Church. Ph Minette 021 995 875

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Tuesday 7pm Tauranga Primary School Hall, 5th Ave or Wednesday 8pm, Welcome Bay School Hall, 309 Welcome Bay Road. Ph 027 322 1786 BOP Linux Users Group 7-9pm first Tuesday of month Tremains, Cameron Rd/8th Ave. Linux PC operating system. Smarter, safer, faster & free. Take charge of your computer. 578 6024 http://boplug. co.nz/event-calendar/ Cards, Mount Senior Citizens 345 Maunganui Road, every Tues & Thur 12:30pm. All welcome. Ph Ernie 575 4650 Dads’ Support Group Support Group for Dads from 7:30pm at Kidz Need Dadz, 538 Fraser St Greerton. Support for separated Dads Falun Dafa Free Classes New Start to New You. Complete, gentle mind body programme 7pm, The Hillier Centre 31 Gloucester Rd Bayfair. Ph/ txt Judy 021 042 5398 Fitness League Ladies exercise, stretching, strength & balance exercise, floor work & dance. S Columba Church, 502 Otumoetai Rd, Cherrywood 9:30-10:30am. Ph Gloria 021 139 2448 Inachord Women’s Chorus If you like to sing dance make friends have fun, join us! Great musical Director. 7-9pm Bethlehem Community Church 183 Moffat Rd. Ph Sabine 021 111 8659 Morning Badminton 9-11:30 Tues & Thurs, Queen Elizabeth Youth Ctr. Racquets available, everyone welcome.

Ph Rachael 027 446 2959 Mt Morning Badminton 9-11:30am Mt Sports Centre, Blake Park. Social, all ages, racquets available. Beginners welcome. $5 per day. Ph Margaret 575 9792 Multicultural Tai Chi Classes Tai Chi Classes for beginners 10-11am at Historic Village Multicultural Tauranga office. Registration required enquiries@trmc.co.nz or 07 571 6419

Oriana Singers Community Choir

Rehearsals 7pm at St Andrews Church, Mt Maunganui. New Members (all voice parts) welcome.

Ph Terry 0210 266 8684

Otumoetai Tennis Club

Adult Tennis. Start time 9am Tues & Thurs, Bellevue Park Windsor Road (adjacent to swimming pool complex). New players & visitors welcome. Ph Pam 570 0302 Otumoetai Walking Group Meet at 9am at Kulim Park. Ph Jim 576 7339 Sequence Dancing Tauranga Social & Leisure Club, St John Anglican Church Hall,94 Bureta Rd Otumoetai 7pm-9:30pm except 2nd Tues month 3:30pm-6pm. Faye 543 3280

South City Indoor Bowls 7:30pm

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St John Youth Children aged 6-18 interested in First aid, Medical or Ambulance profession come to St John Youth, Mt Maunganui Ambulance Station during term times 6-7:30pm Taichi Internal Arts NZ Te Puke Beginner Class Memorial Hall. 9.3011am. Settlers Room. $5/class. All welcome.

Airconditioning. Ph David 552 4425 Tauranga Acoustic Music Club

Greerton RSA 7pm. Friendly gettogether, all instruments, all levels of ability. Come in & enjoy some live music. Grant 578 6448

Tauranga Diamond Friendship Club

Formerly Probus, meets 1st Tuesday of each month 1:30pm at Tauranga Citizens Club, Guest Speakers, social outings, numerous activities. All welcome. Ph Nancy 543 4468 Tauranga Target Rifle Club Tauranga Target Rifle Club 7pm April-October Everyone welcome. Ph Ellis 578 0098

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your passion for tennis. Ph Erika 021 746 779 Type Two Diabetes? Living with type two diabetes? Keen to reduce your HbA1c, Cholesterol & blood pressure?

Meet DESMOND (Self Management Group) InfoLine 07 571 3422

Welcome Bay Strength Balance

Welcome Bay Hall 11am-12. Strength & balance class for older adults. Great music, qualified instructor. $6, spous free. Ph Raewyn 027 607 7437 YMCA Gold Fit Classes Smooth Movers classes 9am & 10:15am Tues & Fri at the Papamoa Community Ctr. $8 with concession available. Ph YMCA 07 578 9272 Yoga for All Welcome Bay Community Centre, 6:30-8pm. Traditional, relaxing yoga class. Beginners welcome. $12 one or $90 nine classes. Bring a mat. Ph Bhajan 07 929 7484

Wednesday 3 April

Age Concern Coffee Group Chat over a relaxing cuppa at St Stephen’s Church, Brookfield Tce. 10:30-12 $3pp. Open to the public. Ph 578 2631 Age Concern Walking Group 10am Lake View Bus Stop, The Lakes Alcoholics Anonymous Open meeting 10am 1st/3rd Wed of month.

Tauranga Central Baptist Church. 13th Ave/Cameron Rd. All welcome. Ph 0800 229 6747 Arabian Spice Bellydance Beginner classes. Learn the moves, keep fit dance with us. No partner required.

St Columba Church Hall. 502 Otumoetai Rd. 6:30pm. Ph 021 124 5982 arabianspicebd@gmail.com Become A Goddess Escape into the fantasy world of bellydance at 7pm.

Exciting props provided. Ph Linley 027 286 3452 or see us on facebook ‘Genies Unbottled’ Bowls, Mount Senior Citizens 345 Maunganui Rd, every Wed & Fri. Names in by 12:45pm. We need more players. Beginners welcome. Ph Nancy 575 465 Cards 500, social, evenings to suit, some experience in card playing required. Ph Chris 572 3834 Cards Cribbage Do you play crib or would like to learn? Every Wednesday at Greerton RSA starting time 1pm sharp. Ph Michael 562 0517 Community Bible Study Join us @ City Church 252 Otumoetai Road 7-9 for a Bible Study on the “Book of Daniel” Ph Julie 552 4068 Community Tai Chi NZ Classes at Bethlehem Hall 1-2pm during school terms. Suitable all levels of fitness. Quality Internationa program strengthens lower body for posture & balance. Trish Qualifie Instructor AATC 021 482 842 communitytaichinz@gmail.com Fernland Spa Water Exercise Gentle exercise in the warm water. Suitable for joint replacements, arthritics & recovery from illness or injury. Good for strength, coordination & balance.

Jennifer 571 1411 Fitness League Exercise, movement, dance, focusing on posture, stretching, strengthening & flexibility suitabl for all ages & abilities. 10am Katikati Memorial Hall, Pam 07 549 4799 Free Meditation Sport BOP offices (next to Squash Courts) 40 Devonport Rd Tauranga. Learn to meditate for inner peace. Let go of negative thoughts & negative reactions.

Ph Ian 027 884 2238 Gate Pa Indoor Bowls Club Night & Mackay Shelf vs Papamoa 7:30pm.

Plate for supper please.

Healing Rooms 1-3pm

Come, experience God’s healing touch, whether physical, emotional, spiritual. Behind Graced Oppshop, cnr 11th Ave, Christopher St. No charge.

Ph 021 110 0878, www.healingrooms. co.nz

Indoor Bowls Club Mt Kawaka St. Names in by 6:45pm for 7pm start. Ph Val 543 4168 Katikati Bowling Club 8 Park Road. Mixed Roll-ups 12:453pm. Ph Phil Green 549 5344 Kiwi Toasters Toastmasters Find your Voice Kiwi Toasters meets 1st 3rd & 5th Wednesday at 3 Palm Springs Blvd Papamoa 5:30-7pm. Ph Chrissy 027 296 7939 Mount Spiritual&Healing Centre

Interesting night drawing your spiritual guides with meditation & messages, with Sue Buckland. Bowling Club, Golf Rd. Doors open 7pm. $5 entry Mt Maunganui Lioness Club Meet 1st & 3rd Wed. New members welcome. Meet new friends & enjoy community services & social activities.

Ph Christine 575 2144

Multicultural Morning Tea

Want to meet people from other countries? Come to our morning tea 10:30am-12pm at Historic Village office, 17th Ave Taurang

Papamoa Palms Friendship Club

Friendship is our motto! Come & join us. Gordon Spratt Reserve, 11am.

T&C provided, bring own lunch. AM/ PM speakers. First meeting free. Trevor 574 6459 Papamoa Toastmasters Find your Voice Papamoa Toastmasters meets 1st 3rd & 5th Wednesday at 3 Palm Springs Blvd, Papamoa 5:30-7pm. Ph Chrissy 027 296 7939

Scottish Country Dancing

Mount Senior Citizens Hall 345 Maunganui Rd. Beginners 6pm, General dancing 7:30pm. Mary 574 8687 Lynne 021 140 7912 Shore Voices Community choir. Rehearses at Bethlehem Shores Retirement Village. 7pm Singles Coffee Club 60+ Feel like a coffee & meeting new friends? 10am.

Ph Gayle 027 439 3267 or email mixandmingle@xtra.co.nz to find ou where.

Taichi Internal Arts NZ Beginner Class, Memorial Hall, Te Puke Settlers Room. 6-7:30pm. All welcome. $5/ class. Ph David 552 4425

Tauranga Embroiderers’ Guild

Meets at the Tauranga Rowing Club, Devonport Rd 10-2:30 & 7-9.

Beginners very welcome. Ph Jenny Williams 07 219 7740

Tauranga Rotary Would-Be Members Time, passion to spare for

helping in your community? Like fun, food, enlightening speakers? Join us from 6pm, Daniels In The Park. Ph Bev 027 285 4066

Tauranga South Garden Club

Meeting held in the Central Baptist Church Hall. 13th Ave & Cameron Rd. 1:30-3. Visitors welcome. Ph. Margaret 578 1017 YMCA Gold Fit Smooth Movers exercise 9am at Welcome Bay Hall. $8 per class with concessions available. Ph YMCA 07 578 9272 YMCA Gold Fit Classes Keep on your Feet class 10:45am at Bethlehem Hall.

Ph YMCA for more info 07 578 9272

Thursday 4 April

A Place to Bee Come & join us for

knitting, card making or anything you want to craft while we chat at Lighthouse Church Welcome Bay 11am-1pm Bay City Rockers Social RocknRoll dancing, plus other popular dances at Senior Citizens Hall Norris St. 7-9:30pm. Includes supper. $3 entry. Ph Gavin 027 643 6222 Community Bible Study Join us @ 14th Ave Gospel Centre 10am-12pm for Bible Study on the “Book of Daniel”. Ph Gay 021 225 5981 Fitness League Exercise, movement, dance focusing on posture, stretching, strengthening & flexibility, suitabl for all ages & abilities. Central Baptist Church, 13th Ave, 10am. Ph Pam 07 549 4799

Katikati Bowling Club 8 Park Rd Rummikub 1-4pm, $3 entry. Phil Green 549 5344 Katikati Concert Band 7-9pm, Katikati Bowling Club, 8 Park Rd, Katikati.

Welcome all ages & experience. Ph Mick 07 549 2105 Katikati Toastmasters Meetings 1st 3rd & 5th Thursday at Katikati Community Centre 45 Beach Rd Katikati 7:30pm-9pm.

Ph Chrissy 027 296 7939 Keynotes Women’s Chorus We sing 4-part harmony a cappella style. Keynotes meet at the Wesley Centre 100 13th Ave 7pm. New members welcome. Ph Bernice 576 4848, facebook Keynotes Inc. Ladies Craft Group A fun group of crafting ladies that meet 9am-2pm at Arataki Community Centre. BYO craft. Tea & coffee provided. $6. Sam 027 270 4383 Mainly Music Music & dance for preschoolers, mums & carers. $4/ family. Morning tea provided. 9:3010am. Holy Trinity Church, 215 Devonport Rd Orange City Square Dance 7:30pm at St Enochs Hall 16th Ave. Have fun, get active, new dancer class begins soon, first night free flat shoes please. Ph 578 651 Rhythm, Foxtrot & Waltz Ballroom dancing at Mt RSA Thurs 10am-12pm & Tga Citz Club on Sat afternoons.

Ph 572 4272 Radical Remission Surviving cancer against all odds. Omanu Bowling Club 62 Golf Road, Mt Maunganui 7-8:30pm. $20.

Bookings 021 112 4539 www.jennykennedy.co.nz www.thenaturalbird.co.nz Social Games Club Mt Maunganui Indoor Bowls & Cards. Have an afternoon out.

New members welcome. Ph Dot 575 3780 Sunshine Sequence Dance Group Learn dancing at a friendly club. Baptist Church Hall, 13th Avenue, 7pm-9:30pm. $3 entrance includes supper. Jan 544 4379 Tauranga Model Railway Club

Meet at 7:30 Club rooms, cnr Mirrielees & Cross Rds, Sulphur Point. Ph Mike Oldfield 021 939 23 Tauranga TePapa Probus Club Meets firs Thursdays 9:30am at Daniels in the Park.

Ph Robbie 578 1051 The Manfreds return to perform all their much loved hits one last time by the original singers. Addison Theatre 7:30pm.

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The Time Machine Concert Dance Education Centre presents an exciting, high energy dance show featuring jazz, musical theatre & contemporary. Bethlehem College, tonight & Friday at 6:30pm. Ph 576 7815, tickets available at www.dec.co.nz YMCA Gold Fit Classes Smooth Movers exercise group 10:30 Bethlehem Hall. $8 casual with concession rates available.

Ph YMCA 07 578 9272 YMCA Gold Fit Classes Sit & Be Fit classes 11am at Greenwood Park Retirement Village. Ph YMCA 07 578 9272

Friday 5 April

Alcoholics Anonymous Open meeting 10am every Friday. Tauranga Central Baptist Church, 13 Ave/Cameron Rd. All welcome.

Ph 0800 229 6757 Cards 500, social, evenings to suit, some experience in card playing required. Ph Chris 572 3834 Chess Tauranga Tauranga RSA Chess Club, Greerton 5-7pm, Casual & Standard length games. Standard Chess rules. Werner 548 1111 http:/www.westernbopchess. weebly.com/ Greerton Indoor Bowling Club Yatton St,

Greerton. Names in by 7:15pm for 7:30pm start. Oropi Visit Greerton. 2 plates per person Hindu Mandir Weekly Worship Weekly gathering at the Sanatan Dharam Mandir for worship.

Dinner also provided. Ph 07 543 2906 for more info.

Michael Dunstan, Jam Factory Returning back to NZ with New Normal. Stirring & dynamic journey taking you elsewhere through pensive lyrics & delicate ambience.

Doorsales $20 6:30pm National Youth Jazz Competition Young jazz stars of the future compete for trophies & glory! 8:30am-5pm, Baycourt. Info at www.baycourt.co.nz Taichi Internal Arts NZ Te Puke Memorial Hall, Settlers Room 9:30am. Regular 85 Yang form plus Qigong $5/class. Lok Hup Ba Fa. 11am $2/class. Ph David 552 4425 Te Puke Toy Library Wed-Sat 10am1pm Thurs 3:30-5:30pm during Terms 1 and 4. 7 Stock Road Playgroup Friday 10am-12pm. Come on down & join to hire toys & have some fun.

Horoscopes ARIES: Don’t compromise your standards for the sake of being cooperative. Articulate opinions clearly, but maintain some degree of diplomacy. In finance, more planning is the key.

LIBRA: Understanding a friend’s point of view helps you deal with your own problems. A shaky relationship is on a steadier course but this is not the week for coasting.

TAURUS: A blend of instinct and logic could lead to improvements in the friendship situation. Rapport with an older person improves significantly. The time may be opportune for presenting your ideas.

SCORPIO: Despite attempts to delegate work, you are still going it alone. The romantic picture continues to brighten thanks to your partner’s warm sentiments. Avoid risky financial moves.

GEMINI: Research is highlighted this week. You may be preparing a family tree. Try to fulfil as many obligations as possible. The list is about to grow again.

SAGITTARIUS: This is a great week for planning a commonsense diet or fitness plan. Once you resist the initial temptations, your self confidence soars. A new friendship is in the picture.

CANCER: Your artistic abilities are noteworthy. You have good colour sense and this week is favourable for redecorating or anything to do with colour. Some travel is indicated.

CAPRICORN: An absent minded streak surfaces briefly. Be sure to record appointments promptly.

Unexpected visitors may arrive in the middle of the week. The weekend is good for catching up on all those home chores.

LEO: You are in a mood to discard excess baggage, but don’t be too eager to dispense with keepsakes.

A scholarship is accented so this is a good week for planning your studies.

AQUARIUS: Following up leads promptly in different situations, could be very helpful this week. Your friendship circle broadens. Take health concerns seriously. Creative activities are highlighted on the weekend.

VIRGO: Self-improvement plans are highlighted. You may be starting a sensible diet or fitness programme. News from faraway clears up a mystery. Children may help solve a domestic dilemma.

PISCES: Meetings focus on your role in a community project. You may receive the go-ahead by Friday.

This week could see you making an important contribution to a favourite charity.

Your birthday Weigh all sides before making a decision. Impetuosity can be your downfall. You love all of life’s this week comforts - and why not? Intellectual activity, travel, writing and self awareness are all spotlighted.

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MAY HE GIVE you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed. Psalm 20:4

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Found Senior Tabby Point Female Cat, Welcome Bay Area, Ref: 154456

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Found Adult Black Female Cat, Greerton Area, Ref: 154435 Found Adult Grey Female Cat, Mount Maunganui Area, Ref: 154181 Found Adult Black/White Female Cat, Mount Maunganui Area, Ref: 153799 Found Tri Coloured Mix breed Puppy, Pongakawa Area, Ref: 154109 Found Adult Netherland Dwarf White/Black Female Rabbit, Pahoia Area, Ref: 154316 Found Adult Lop Eared Tan/ White Female Rabbit, Brookfield Area, Ref: 153931, Ph SPCA 07 578 0245

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EVERY TWO YEARS, we, the Menzies Clan, have a Gathering.

We are currently updating our mailing list to Clans folk & descendants of the clan for the 20th year Anniversary Gathering, 17th/18th/19th April 2020. Over the last 18 years, many who have attended past gatherings, have shifted without notifying us of their new address, or phone number. Can we, please ask for Menzies Clans folk & Menzies Descendants to contact us for further info to Lindsay & Rayelene Withington ph 03 216 4366 or Dennis Menzies, ph 03 578 3115, or e-mail menziesgathering2020@gmail. com

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APPLIANCE REPAIRS For service of all Fisher & Paykel, Haier and Elba appliances, Ph 0800 372 273 for your local technician.

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NO 8 TOURS NEW ZEALAND’S SENIOR TRAVEL CLUB. Join our Club today for Free to receive all our VIP Members Benefits exclusive to No 8 Tours.

(1) April 24th Lake Rotomahana Day Trip. (2) May 8th-12th Rangitikei River Lodges. (3) May 20th-24th Marlborough Sounds Mail Boat Cruise. (4) October 8th-11th, Wonderful World of Wearable Arts. Free Door to Door service. Day Trips, Shows & free beautiful colour catalogue: BOOK NOW. Ph. No 8 Tours team on 579 3981 or Email info@no8tours.co.nz TAURANGA TASTING TOURS & Charters. Mother’s Day Lunch, Moose Lodge 12 May. Christchurch/Akaroa Winery Tour 2-10 May. Taranaki Powerco Garden Festival 1-4 Nov. tgatastingtours@xtra.co.nz Ph 027 522 4607

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FOR WEDDINGS, FUNCTIONS OR MEETINGS+ check out No.1 The Strand, a beautiful historic setting. Email: bookings@ no1thestrand.co.nz or www.no1thestrand.co.nz WEDDINGS, PARTIES, MEETINGS etc - The perfect venue. With stunning Harbour views, fully licensed bar & kitchen onsite. Restaurant open every Friday from 5pm & Sunday from 4.30pm, kids under 12 years dine free with every paying adult. Tauranga Fish & Dive Club, 60 Cross Rd, Sulphur Point. Ph 571 8450

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OPEN DAY Saturday 6 April 10am – 2pm

NEW DEVELOPMENTS UNDERWAY, SECURE YOUR SPOT NOW DON’T MISS OUT ON A RETIREMENT IN THIS VERY SPECIAL VILLAGE These light-filled, open plan homes in Papamoa Beach Village, with a 6 Homestar Design rating*, are a stone’s throw from the soon to be built Pavilion extension. Quickly shaping up to be the very heart of the village, the new Pavilion features a cafe and bar, and upgraded spacious lounge and outdoor bbq area.

PAPAMOA BEACH VILLAGE OPEN DAY SATURDAY 6 APRIL, 10am – 2pm Light refreshments will be provided For more information call Jennifer on 07 542 1933

And with a new homestead model care home coming in August 2019, there is so much more excitement to come at this village.

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We have special deals on selected units, and our amazing $20K cash back offer,** so don’t delay!

PAPAMOA BEACH VILLAGE 2 Te Okuroa Drive, Papamoa metlifecare.co.nz

*6-Star Homestar rating provides assurance that a house will be warmer, drier, healthier and cost less to run **Settle by 28 June 2019, see T’s & C’s at retiretothesun.co.nz

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