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MAC science student off to London Emma Conyngham
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ount Aspiring College student, Jaime Toepfer, is one of five Kiwis to win a coveted Royal Society Te Apãrangi scholarship to the London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF)–a twoweek residential student event held at Imperial College London and The Royal Geographical Society. Deborah Woodhall from LIYSF said, “the panelists were most impressed with Jaime’s application as she obviously is very successful in her science studies and enjoys science immensely but she also contributes to her school and her community.” Jaime, 17, is modest about her achievement and quite understated about the level of study she currently undertakes. “I do NCEA classics and French by correspondence and three university papers also by correspondence, plus maths, physics and level one calculus.” Jaime says her scientific passion is physics and maths, but in regards to her future she also has an interest in law and politics. The scholarship also reflects well on the teaching staff at Mount Aspiring College. Jaime said that her teachers have been very influential in helping her win this scholarship. “My maths teacher, Heather Watt, has given me lots of opportunities, and my physics
teacher Ewan Simpson has helped me really enjoy physics.” In London, Jaime can look forward to opportunities to visit industrial sites, research centres, scientific institutions and organisations, including world class research institutions and laboratories such as The Royal Institution, The Tate Museum Conservation Department, UCL Hospital, the London Wetland Centre, Airbus, Rolls Royce, The Animal and Plant Health Agency, Public Health England, National Space Centre, The National Oceanography Centre, The Rothamsted Research Centre, Warwick University, University of Kent and the British Geological Survey; plus much more. The group will also visit Oxford and Cambridge University departments, as well as University hospital departments, the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, Wellcome Genome Campus and Oxford Brookes University. Founded in 1959, LIYSF aims to give a deeper insight into science for the benefit of all humankind and to develop a greater understanding between young people of all nations. It’s a two-week residential student event held annually in London, which attracts 500 of the world’s leading young scientists aged 16-21 years from more than 75 participating countries. Pictured: Science student, Jaime Toepfer, from Mount Aspiring College.
Northlake hotel waiting on tenterhooks Emma Conyngham
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t last week’s hearing for the Northlake hotel resource consent application, the meeting was adjourned until Friday May 24, to allow the applicant’s lawyer, Mr Goldsmith, time to prepare written closing remarks. Present for the opposition at the hearing were Lee Overton and Lee Brown for Exclusive Developments, Niamh Shaw, Quentin
Smith, Cherilyn Walthew, and lawyer James Gardner-Hopkins. Shaw explained, “James Gardner-Hopkins was recommended by a contact in Cromwell. He is a barrister with 17 years’ experience in RMA, environment, planning and natural resources law. A small group of Northlake residents funded his services.” Shaw said, “The counsel for the applicant, Warwick Goldsmith, made the interesting choice to discuss the residents' no-objection covenants at some length on the first day.”
In her response, Shaw tackled the noobjection clause, which has proven as big a sticking point as the hotel itself. “Mr Goldsmith… pointed out that these covenants are standard, and that the no objection covenants have never been enforced. Perhaps that depends on the definition of ‘enforced’. On every occasion a Northlake resident has made a submission in opposition to a consent application or plan change, they have been instructed to withdraw their submission by the Applicant’s
General Counsel,” said Shaw. “Mr Goldsmith stated that no submission was received by anyone with an address within AAD1 of the NSZ. Six residents opposed the Applicant’s Plan Change 53, and each withdrew upon the Applicant’s formal instruction. The residents have been instructed not to submit in opposition; and the fact that these are contractual clauses carries the threat that they could be enforced. This is a compelling reason why no Continued on page 3
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