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hild rapist Robert Burrett taught at 13 New Zealand schools including one in Howick. A NZ Herald investigation reported Burrett taught at more than a dozen schools across New Zealand — including Howick Intermediate from 1980 to 1988 - since as early as 1974.

The 64-year-old grandfather and caretaker recently pleaded guilty to raping and abusing young Christchurch schoolgirls in an underground shed in what has been labelled as one of New Zealand’s worst child sex abuse cases, the NZ Herald reported.

Burrett’s teaching record was released by the Ministry of Education on Monday and shows he worked at 13 schools across the country in various roles, including principal and deputy principal, it says.

Earlier this month, the newspaper investigation found red flags

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against Burrett’s record date as far back as the early 1990s, when he was forced out of Lake Rotoma School, near Rotorua, as principal.

The investigation also revealed Burrett was removed as deputy principal of Pukenui School in Te Kuiti in the early 2000s - a dismissal that was the result of a secret payout.

Between 2013 and 2015, Burrett sexually abused young girls while working as a caretaker at a Christchurch school that cannot be named because of a court imposed suppression order.

He installed locks and curtains into the shed to conceal his offending.

Burrett also molested disabled girls while working as a special needs bus driver during this period.

Some of his victims were as young as five and one was wheelchair-bound.

Burrett recently pleaded guilty to 21 charges of sexual violation, including the rape, sodomy and forced oral sex of young girls.

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The vice-president of the NZ Secondary Principals’ Council is concerned about the lack of consultation over proposals to dump the school decile system and introduce a system targeting under-achievers.

Mike Williams, also the principal of Pakuranga College, believes principals need to have a stronger voice in shaping the direction of education in New Zealand.

“I am glad the Minister (Hekia Parata) is looking at change, but it would be better if she engaged

with the people in the education sector and had a robust debate,” he says.

The recent announcement about the probable demise of the decile system suggested by the Ministry of Education has created uproar in the education industry.

According to the New Zealand Herald, the Ministry of Education is considering using data on every preschooler and school student to get extra funding to those students at risk of educational underachievement.

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“If a school has 40 per cent of higher-needs students, the work involved is huge, it is a major problem for the school to deal with.”

Trying to explain the dilemma that principals of low decile schools face, he says: “For instance, if you have a school of 1000 students with 50 highneeds students and compare it to a school of 1000 students with 200 high needs students that don’t attend school regularly, you realise that the problem is much bigger there. You cannot deal with it. The school can get ➤ Turn to Page 3 overwhelmed.”

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oss Spiller, founder of the iconic Howick family business Spillers Hardware, passed away after a short illness on March 17 aged 90 years.

In 1942 Ross and his parents Oswald (Ossie) and Gladys moved to Howick from the King Country town of Ohakune and purchased the general store in the main street (located where Paper Plus is now situated) which the family operated until the mid 1950s.

Howick could be described as a small almostcountry town in those days with people still coming in on horseback and a population of fewer than 1000 people. The site now occupied by Basalt restaurant were horse stables in the 1940s.

Ross could see the potential in the area and seized the opportunity in 1952 to purchase the vacant block of land where Spillers Hammer Hardware exists today.

Although some of the locals thought that this was a risky undertaking, the

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hardware business soon began to flourish.

Ross, always looking for business opportunities, started up a fledgling real estate business which began to take up more and more of his time as the residential area of Howick started to develop and expand.

In 1952 Ross married the love of his life, Joy McAven.

It was a busy time during the late 1950s for Ross, juggling the responsibilities of his business commitments and the arrival of his young family – brothers John, Paul and Alan.

Later in the 1960s, Ross and Joy purchased a property located at the corner of Cook Street and Fencible Drive and developed the block of shops now known as Rosscourt.

Joy later started a florist business Avenrose Florists together with her Mum so Ross became a part-time flower delivery man as well.

Ross was a keen sportsman, his main sporting passion being cricket which he played as a young man. He was an early member at the Pigeon Mountain Cricket Club.

After the Second World War he and others reformed the Howick Cricket Club.

Ross played as left arm medium pace bowler for several years.

He continued to follow the game avidly throughout his life.

His other great interest was his love of fly fishing for trout.

For many years he made an annual pilgrimage to his favourite spots along the Waitahanui River at Lake Taupo fishing with his great friend Rex Shelton and other fly fishing aficionados who he met and befriended

generous: Ross Spiller loved his fly fishing.

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1080 blackmailer jailed T

he man behind the 1080 infant milk formula contamination scare has been jailed for eight-and-ahalf years.

Jeremy Kerr – from Mellons Bay – was sentenced this morning by Justice Geoffrey Venning in the High Court at Auckland. He faced a maximum 14 years in prison.

His blackmail attempts cost businesses and the Government $37 million.

Kerr, 60, had the country on high alert in 2014 after he posted anonymous letters to Fonterra and Federated Farmers threatening to contaminate baby formula milk powder with 1080 poison, unless the Government agreed to stop using the pest poison by March 2015.

Last week it was revealed that Kerr’s blackmail attempts had cost Fonterra, Federated Farmers, super-

content of the letmarket chain Foodters. stuffs, police, the Government and The letters were accompanied by other dairy companies $37 million in samples of infant formula contamiinvestigation and nated with 1080. increased security Kerr’s defence costs. lawyer John BilJustice Venning this month ruled jailed: Jeremy Kerr lington QC argued had the country on at the disputed following a dis- high alert in 2014. facts hearing that puted facts hear- Photo supplied money was not ing that the Crown had proved “beyond reason- the “primary driver” for able doubt” that Kerr sought his client’s actions, disputto gain financially when he ing Crown allegations that wrote anonymous threat Kerr’s motive was “purely letters to Fonterra and Fed- financial”.

The businessman received erated Farmers in 2014. He owed nearly half a million about $100,000 in royalties a year from Feratox, a grounddollars to creditors.

Following that hearing, deployed poison alternative Justice Venning said that to 1080, the court has heard. despite Kerr’s “altruistic” However, he spent more intent to change Govern- than $300,000 over the ment policy surrounding course of two years promotindiscriminate 1080 use, it ing his business, Nature’s was inconsistent with the Support, which manufac-

tures possum fur products.

The court heard at the disputed facts hearing that emails from creditors seeking payment coincided with Kerr’s request to ANZ to increase his mother’s overdraft to $50,000 from October 2014 until January 2015 then revert to $10,000. This never happened.

Mr Hussey said while he did not condone Kerr’s actions, Kerr had other means of relieving his financial situation, including borrowing from friends and family, ceasing company spending, getting a job and selling assets.

“There were easy remedies … he made choices, not choices I would’ve made.”

Mr Hussey said it was common for New Zealand businesses to be unable to repay their creditors and Kerr had been “juggling”.

Countdown on for new baby

By Marianne Kelly Just after Christmas Louise and Darren Clark headed for the USA knowing it was their last chance to conceive a muchwanted baby.

Now the two who left are three, returning to Botany Downs with baby Clark onboard and scheduled to be born next October.

The six weeks the couple spent in Nashville, Tennessee were dominated

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Mr Clark says they were consumed and fully involved with the experience while they were there.

“Now we are back it’s a bit surreal,” he says.

Meanwhile Mrs Clark is looking forward to the end of the first trimester of her pregnancy when she can stop taking hormone medication and let her placenta care for the growing baby.

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WE’RE PREGNANT: Louise and Darren Clark have returned from the USA satisfied that they did everything they possibly could to make a baby happen in New Zealand before opting for an IVF clinic in Nashville, Tennessee.

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in yet,” she says. “We are focusing on settling into routine and daily life and going back to work.”

Mr Clark is combining his work with his final year of quantity surveyor studies while Mrs Clark works as a legal receptionist.

The Clarks were originally determined to pursue their dream of

conceiving a child in New Zealand rather than the USA. But, after a $20,000 spend, their efforts came to nought.

So reluctantly they decided that as a last resort they should head to the USA where they had found a specialist at the Nashville centre who boasted an 86 per cent success rate. They left on January 10, having also found a proven donor aged 28.

The donor produced 40 eggs and the Clarks shared 20 of them with another anonymous childless couple. Of the 20 eggs eight embryos resulted. One of two was successfully implanted. The remaining six embryos are in frozen storage ready for when the couple decides to return to the USA to have a brother or sister for their current child waiting in the wings.

In the meantime Mrs Clark’s pregnancy is being overseen by the Repromed clinic in Remuera.

Their message to other Kiwi childless couples is to consider alternative places in the USA, such

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Their treatment came at a $30,000 cost compared with about $50,000 at the West Coast centres.

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While the USA cost is higher than in New Zealand Mr Clark says the success rate, along with the care, protocols, procedure and medications is different., “In my opinion it was money well spent. In New Zealand there is only a 50/50 chance. To me it’s a no-brainer. If people get the chance, do it.”

Baby Clark is due on October 11 and, while reluctant to know the sex, Mr Clark admits it will probably be a compromise with his wife who can’t wait to devise colour schemes for the nursery.

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Quite comfortable with the direction the proposed change is taking he says: “I am sure there will be opposition that will come from those who will lose out in this system but people need to look at the new model, keeping in mind that parts of Australia and Holland have already got this system. The council has not come up with something that has not been tried before,” says Mr Vester.

Mr Williams is concerned the Ministry has not properly engaged with the people in the education sector.

“We knew that the Minister was talking about it for a long time but then there were three different models to be investigated,” he says.

“Looks like someone has leaked one of the favourite models to the media without discussing it with the teacher’s union or the principals association on how radical it is.

The Minister has not spoken to the people concerned.”

However, Mr Williams does agree that decile does not equal quality education and believes that stigmatising which comes with low decile schools has to change. “The principle of equity is very important. There needs to be equity in funding for equal outcomes. But we need to know more.”

Sharing his personal experience of the time he was principal of Aorere College he says: “Earlier, when I was principal of a low decile school I had once asked the children ‘what is the one thing you would like to change about the school’. The children thought about it and said they would like to change the decile of the school.” It hit him “how acutely the children felt about it”.

Of the opinion that attaching funding to high-needs children would discriminate against them even more, he says: “In the new system the stigmatising problem could go not only to schools but also to families. And that’s not going to help.”

Yolande Franke, principal of Howick Intermediate School agrees that a review is timely and positive considering the decile system’s intent is to provide differential funding to support those students who come from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds.

“However, it is a very blunt instrument and schools are ranked in relation to one another based on a selection of students from its school roll,” she points out. “Unfortunately, the decile rating has been used to make judgments about the quality of education provided by the school. Many schools, including ours, have students coming from a mix of socio-economic backgrounds.”

A system that considers the proportions of students across a range of factors may provide more equity, she says. “The demographics of our school is changing quite quickly as we have seen a significant increase in students from within our zone enrolled this year. If this continues, our decile rating will increase and we will lose funding. “While the review is positive, the suggestion that decile funding be tagged to ‘at-risk students’, identified on the four criteria mentioned by the Minister, would stigmatise individual students from an early age and the schools they attend.”

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Moulding strong digital citizens

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hoot for the moon, even if you miss, you will land among the stars’ is the message that Justine Driver, new principal of Sunnyhills School, would like to instil in her students.

She is one of a new wave of principals on the horizon utilising digital technology and social media for networking and learning. Justine is a Google Certified Innovator and quite a star on the digital education front.

The former deputy principal of Pakuranga Heights School takes pride in moulding strong digital citizens as she believes that the world is going to be a very different place for them.

“We are focussed on developing their critical thinking skills as well as instilling a spirit of entrepreneurship and building resilience,” she says.

A device-rich school that utilises Google Apps for Education, Sunnyhills School uses Hapara, an innovative, cloud based education technology that helps teachers effectively track student learning.

“Instead of opening a school desk with books, the teach-

ers can open up student files and check on their work in a safe, eco-tight environment,” explains the school leader who is passionate about using her digital skill set to create new learning pathways.

Justine is also excited about helping the local Howick and Pakuranga principals with the set-up of a Google Site for streamlining systems across the district.

Mrs Driver is equally appreciative of the supportive staff, school board, parents, students and community. She says she is privileged to be part of Sunnyhills School “a fantastic futurefocussed school with very high standards of learning.”

The hardworking PTA of Sunnyhills pulls the community together through school events and fundraising.

Recently they’ve raised $70,000 for the upgrade of the senior courtyard. They now plan to raise another $60,000 for covering the top of the courtyard so that the students have a flexible outdoor learning space.

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It is happy to pay 15 per cent above market price to get the products which it sources from Nisarga Farms, a group of more than

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Earlier this month Ms Connolly and a group of 20 of her all-women sales team spent eight days in India where they visited the farms to learn about the farming practices and the way of life.

In India, she says, many farmers have been taken onboard by large multinational companies pushing genetically engineered seed.

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the hillsides we saw women picking turmeric which is an amazing anti-inflammatory ingredient used in a number of our products. They grew amla, an Indian gooseberry which is very concentrated in Vitamin C which we need for collagen.

“We also visited their manufacturing plant using technology not available here. We source as much product as we can from New Zealand, such as cold pressed oils, but we go offshore for things we can’t grow.”

She says it was good to find out what made the beauty products so different.

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hen Clydesdale Avenue residents in Somerville go away for short periods they know they can rely on the ‘Mayor of Clydesdale’ to keep a watch on their property in their absence.

Ap Bymolt has earned his title from grateful local residents who admire his gregarious manner, more so because at the age of 91 he and his 90-year-old wife Alice celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on March 15.

The couple met as 16-yearolds at school in Holland where they married in 1946 when they were 24.

In 1963 they and their three children emigrated to New Zealand on the ship Willem Ruys and settled in Mt Eden, Auckland.

Mr Bymolt was a welding engineer, a trade he worked in for most of his adult life including a period running his own business making continental trailers in Otahuhu where the family moved to.

However Bleakhouse Road, Howick was the couple’s home for 48 years. They bought a section in 1951 when the area was still largely paddocks and built their house. They still

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receive Christmas cards from former neighbours.

As retirement beckoned, Mr Bymolt worked as a caretaker at Glenn Innes Intermediate School and later as a groundsman at Edgewater College, Pakuranga.

Their daughter, Nanda Moore, who lives nearby in Somerville, says the family moved to New Zealand because her father found Holland over-crowded and wanted to give the children a better life. “When they first came it was non-stop work for everyone as immigrants arriving with nothing and no English,” she says. “Dad believed that if you go to another country you must adopt that place; that it was an honour to be

allowed to live there.”

And so, with his gregarious nature, the couple developed a wide circle of friends.

While Alice was a homemaker in Holland, on arrival in New Zealand she put her well-honed dressmaking skills to use, going out to work for a variety of dressmaking businesses, including a stint at the Bendon hosiery company.

Gardening was always the couple’s passion, along with Mr Bymolt’s extensive natural aviary hosting a bevy of beautiful birds.

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he long-standing matriarch of interior design Nanette Cameron doesn’t really want to retire but concedes that “the time has come”.

“I don’t want to collapse on the job,” the 87-year-old jokes.

But she’s happy that her Nanette Cameron School of Interior Design at Te Tuhi, Pakuranga, is in good hands.

Te Tuhi now owns the school and Nanette is currently in the process of handing over the reins to senior tutor and course manager Aliane Ingle who will run the day-to-day management from the 2017 academic year.

Nanette wants to do more writing and plans to take a more active role in the Interior Design Guild, including lengthier contributions to the guild’s newsletters.

“I’m interested in art and enjoy looking at galleries but I’ve not had time to see all the galleries at leisure,” she says.

“You are never too old to keep learning,” she says.

“I will miss this [Te Tuhi] though. I love learning about architecture and art and it is nice to have people to pass it on to. When you find a real meaning to what you learn you get excited and then must share it with others.”

Leaving Te Tuhi, she says, will be like leaving a family.

“The staff are very capable.

I will miss our daily conversations and the exhibitors coming and going.”

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LEGEND RETIRES: Nanette Cameron finishes her hands-on role at her school of interior design at Te Tuhi at the end of this academic year.

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of amazement that her interior design school has grown to its current status.

She played a major role in the formation of the Pakuranga Arts Society in the 1960s and saw the Pakuranga

Community and Cultural Centre opened in 1974.

“It was the first arts centre ever funded by a local council in New Zealand. Manukau City Council mayors Sir Lloyd Elsmore and then Sir Barry Curtis were very receptive to the idea,” she says.

She was a major player in the establishment of the Fisher Gallery in 1984 which in time joined with the Community and Cultural Centre and the current Te Tuhi centre was born.

Asked if she shakes her head that all this could have happened she says: “Oh yes. In the beginning I never dreamed we would get the council to come onboard; we were very lucky at the right time with Sir Barry and Sir Lloyd both behind the project.

“I feel very rewarded with the life I’ve led,” she says. “It’s the learning and the sharing that is so good and the lovely gratitude that comes from the students. I feel very happy that I have been able to do what I have.”

These days she lives in the “hustle and bustle” of Freemans Bay in a group of town houses built around a common green.

“I had a happy time living in Pakuranga but it all got too big.

I enjoy the vitality of the city.”

As she watches Auckland Council develop its Unitary Plan she says she agrees with the need for city density, but that it must be well planned.

“The cities of Europe have squares and piazzas. But I feel sad seeing apartment blocks going up with no allowance for children and young people.”

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Last week new gross domestic product figures were released showing that our economy has notched up another quarter of solid growth with GDP growing 0.9 per cent in the three months to 31 December 2015, taking annual growth to 2.3 per cent.

We can be proud of the fact that our economy is still growing faster than Australia, the UK, the US, and the OECD average.

A growing economy means we have the capacity to make improvements like increasing the minimum wage by 3.5 per cent to $15.25 and the starting out wage for young people to $12.20.

These increases are on top of the minimum wage increases delivered every year since coming into Government.

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The projected growth rate of East Tamaki/Botany is generating greater demand for cross city east-west traffic. That’s why the project is a real priority and we’re committed to completing it as quickly as possible.

A growing economy means more jobs and higher wages.

It also means Government can keep investing in important areas like infrastructure.

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Transforming your Easter eggs Decorating eggs for Easter is a tradition in many countries around the globe.

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Creative people from around the Howick area are using their talents to create the annual Easter Art exhibition run by the Cession Community Trust.

Preparation for the 10th Stations of the Cross Easter Art Exhibition began with a workshop for artists looking to unlock their painting and drawing creativity. This was followed by a set design workshop from which finished products will be included in the exhibition.

will offer a range of artistic pieces from the more traditional art forms to the off-the-wall and creative.

“We’re expecting painters, sculptors, photographers, mixed media artists, poets, film makers, all reflecting on the universal themes of the Easter story – betrayal, shame, guilt, injustice and perhaps, most importantly, hope,” she says.

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Franklin’s hot and why not Don’t blame Auckland for pushing up property prices in Franklin. The city’s southern-most district is well placed to stand on its own feet in the hot location stakes.

“There is no such thing as a separate ‘Pukekohe market’. It is all part of the Auckland market now,” says Mark Gumbrell, Ray White realtor in charge of marketing Regis Park on the town’s north/western fringe.

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From past to future While Franklin is enjoying housing and industry booms, nevertheless the wider district is still largely devoted to horticulture and agriculture with many unspoiled parts attracting holidaymakers and sports enthusiasts.

Despite its new growth, the district has a long history.

Over the past few years many Aucklanders keen to purchase a home at friendlier prices than the inner city, have seen the potential in Franklin with its mix of old and new, urban and rural.

In particular new housing developments at Pokeno, Tuakau, and Patumahoe as well as Waiuku, has attracted strong attention. However, while there has been a surge of growth in urban housing and also lifestyle blocks, Franklin is by no means a new settlement.

In fact, the first immigrant farmers date back to the early 1840s and before that the region was occupied by Maori tribes.

Indeed, it has a colourful history being part of the Auckland area attacked during the musket war period of 1807-1843 by the northern tribes. As the number of settlers grew, the bush-covered Pukekohe area was opened up and from about 1843, individual farmers began purchasing small blocks of land which they cleared by hand. By 1863 there were an increasing number of small isolated farms but when Kingitanga Maori refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the crown, many settlers moved out of the area.

As tensions increased, nearly all of the Pukekohe area was abandoned apart from military outposts. Despite being only a few miles south of Auckland, Franklin was initially a New Zealand territorial authority lying between the Auckland metropolitan area and the Waikato Plains.

It was abolished as a formal territory on October 31, 2010 and divided between Auckland Council in the Auckland Region and Waikato and Hauraki districts in the Waikato Region.

The Auckland portion is now part of the Franklin ward, which also includes rural parts of the former Manukau City. Areas such as Pokeno and Tuakau fall under Waikato District Council.

Bounded in the north by the start of the Auckland metropolitan area and the waters of the Manukau Harbour, this lovely area stretches up the Awhitu Peninsula along the Tasman coast to the mouth of the harbour. Peninsula holiday spots, such as Kariotahi Beach, Matakawau, Big Bay and Orua Bay attract visitors and locals alike while some people (other than famers) have also built permanent homes taking advantage of lovely rural views

and seascapes.

To the south, Franklin is bounded by the fertile lowlands of the Waikato Plains. In the east, the land rises to the Hunua Ranges, then falls to the coast of the Firth of Thames. In the west is the Tasman Sea. The Waikato River mouth is at Port Waikato, south of the region.

This is renowned as a good place for surfcasting and has its own unique community.

While the area supports both farming and horticulture, Franklin’s settlements have boomed in recent times with Pukekohe, Waiuku, Tuakau, Pokeno, Karaka and other areas growing rapidly.

New Zealand Steel’s steel mill at Glenbrook, north of Waiuku has long been a major industry in the area but now new industries are beginning to flourish with more in the pipeline, particularly at Pokeno.

New housing subdivisions within and around Pukekohe township are also in the throes of development or are scheduled for the near future to meet growing demand for both lifestyle properties and desirable residential living.

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Times Newspapers supplement, Thursday, March 24, 2016

Green light for more housing Extra SHAs will provide up to 2300 new homes in Franklin Two new green field Special Housing Areas (SHAs) in Glenbrook and Drury will provide up to 1800 new homes.

They are in addition to three large local SHA residential developments in and around Pukekohe at Anslemi Ridge, Belmont and Wesley College.

Building & Housing Minister, Nick Smith says he is encouraged that Auckland Council “is continuing to advance green field sites for special housing area status. This is welcome progress, in both scale and momentum, to help address Auckland’s issues of housing supply and affordability.”

The two latest developments bring the total number of Special Housing Areas in Auckland to 86, with a combined potential yield of up to 45,000 new homes.

Auckland mayor, Len Brown says both sites were well-serviced by existing or planned water, waste and roading infrastructure.

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The Glenbrook development at McLarin Road will provide a mix of housing types, including twobedroom duplexes and three to five bedroom homes. Up to 800 homes will be built on 87 hectares. The first homes in the 200lot first stage are expected to be completed by the end of next year.

At Bremner Road, Drury, a more intensive development of up to 1500 homes is planned for 68 hectares. The first homes are expected to be completed by the end of 2017.

These will include at least 150 affordable homes or 15 per cent of the total project. This is above the 10 per cent affordable housing provision which is required in the Special Housing Area by the

council.

This development lies just north of Stevenson Group’s 361ha Drury South industrial park and associated extension of the metropolitan urban limit.

Stevenson Group’s private plan change will turn the 361ha of rural and quarry land over to a mix of industrial and business development.

Industrial development is also being considered at Glenbrook, where 1200ha is available next to the steel mill.

The Auckland Housing Accord provides for the creation of SHAs

by Auckland Council with the approval of the Government.

Qualifying developments in these areas can be streamlined and fast-tracked.

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Times Newspapers supplement, Thursday, March 24, 2016

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Unlike other developments where the land is stripped and bare, Blackwood Park boasts a lush green oasis, a refreshing sight for urbanites’ sore eyes.

The four-hectare site is divided into 11 slices of paradise, of vary-

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Never a dull moment Small settlements experience growth spurt

One of the many joys of living in Franklin is driving on open roads with vistas of farming communities around every corner.

Even in the towns of Waiuku, Pukekohe and Tuakau it’s not unusual to see a tractor or two occasionally, reminding us that we live in the food bowl of New Zealand where agriculture, horticulture, business and residential blend together cohesively.

Franklin is a wonderful mix of rural, agricultural, horticultural and town living spaces with a wide array of prospering businesses.

House prices are well below Auckland and there are many affordable homes and varied lifestyle choices in the suburbs of Tuakau and Pokeno as well as charming rural homes too. This is the southern part of Franklin and is now part of the Waikato District Council area.

Settled close to the iconic Waikato river is Tuakau, a rapidly growing town offering diverse housing choices, excellent schooling and a full social calendar celebrating diverse interests from heritage to art, sports and a myriad of equestrian events.

Tuakau is a healthy mix of all ages and growing with many new people coming to live there.

“We have many people happily participating in enriching the community with their passions and spirit

new people, we are also seriously busy and focused on planning for this growth in the infrastructures of life that also make for a cohesive society. “This includes transport connectivity, the roads, the rail connectivity, planning and developing

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and I have been blown away by the spirit of the town,” says local councillor Jacqui Church.

“There’s plenty to do if you are interested in either participating or reaping the rewards of these real Kiwi events. For example, I created a town planting event a couple of years ago to help extend our planting of natives and food trees within the town and reserves.

“We get around 150 adults and children along to help. Not bad for a town of just under 5000 people.”

A few kilometres down the road is Pokeno, the unofficial ice-cream

and bacon capital of New Zealand.

Jacqui recommends grabbing your favourite person and driving to Pokeno to experience a bucket of Kiwi charm. “You can see a town being created before your eyes as new homes are built and nestled in with the old village.

Because of its closeness to the motorway Pokeno is a sensible choice for those commuting, who also are seeking a rural outlook and some good old fashioned country values thrown in for free with their housing choice. “While we are rapidly growing and welcoming to

According to local Hunua MP, Andrew Bayly, around half of his electorate travels out of the area for work.

“Given that about 30,000 extra people are coming to this area in the next six years, I want to see more people living and working locally.”

Mr Bayly is in contact with employers in the four most prominent industries in the region – horticulture industry (covering glasshouses and cropping), auto service sector including motorsport, the equine sector and the construction and infrastructure sector.

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“We are fortunate that high schools in the Franklin area, particularly, but not exclusively, Pukekohe, Waiuku and Tuakau colleges, each have a number of vocational programmes in their schools.”

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College to host BP Challenge Students introduced to world of business

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tudents at Pakuranga College will get a taste of the business world this week, when they take part in the BP Business Challenge.

The challenge is a three-day practical workshop which introduces secondary students to the world of business in a fun and engaging way.

The students work in teams to create a business plan for a new product, which they pitch to local judges on Thursday March 24.

The BP Business Challenge is offered to more than 45 schools throughout New Zealand each year.

The programme is run by Young Enterprise Trust, a charity which is encouraging and developing New Zealand’s next generation of entrepreneurs and business people.

BP is the major sponsor of the programme and the David Levene

Foundation, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, University of Otago and Xero are supporting sponsors.

Each challenge is run by two facilitators who bring with them practical business experience along with a background in teaching and coaching young people.

Terry Shubkin, CEO of Young Enterprise Trust, says it is the connection between the local business people and the students that make this programme a real success.

“Students walk away with a learning experience that is practical and calls on the experience of those that have gone before them. The judges walk away with a rewarding experience of giving back, and many go on to provide further mentoring to these students.”

News bites Youth orchestra on the bill Some of Auckland’s leading young orchestral musicians will perform at Howick’s next Thursdays@Seven concert.

The Auckland Youth Orchestra, trained under the leadership of renowned conductor Anton Poljanich, will perform major works from the orchestra repertoire.

The programme starts with Smetana’s hauntingly beautiful Die Moldau which describes the course of the Vltava River from its source through Prague to the sea.

Spohr’s Clarinet Concerto features soloist Kenny Keppel, returning for the concert from post-graduate study in Melbourne.

The performance finishes with Sibelius’ mighty Second Symphony which, to this day, remains one of his most popular. n The Thursdays@Seven concert with the Auckland Youth Orchestra is at 7pm on March 31 at All Saints’ Church, Selwyn Road, Howick. Entry is by donation at the door.

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he’s hilarious and a selfconfessed nomad at heart.

“Most of my travels were triggered either by running away from a man or running towards him,” said the feisty food author Peta Mathias as she brought the house down at the Women in Rotary, Pinnies and Pearls High Tea hosted at Novotel Hotel Ellerslie on Sunday.

The culinary tour host spoke about her book Hot Pink Spice Saga-An Indian Culinary Travelogue with Recipes and her romance with cuisines of India, France Vietnam and Morocco.

“If someone invites you and says come home to my mother’s place for dinner, you must say `yes’, even if it is the tuk tuk driver.

“Indians are very hospitable and it should be like a dance of exchange,” she told over 150 women at the Women in Rotary fundraiser as they feasted on their salmon and dill sandwiches, orange and poppy seed cake, macaroons and mini date scones with cream and berry jam.

The event was organised by Howick resident and assistant district governor Sue Fairburn with the help of other Rotarians, their wives and Rotary exchange students.

“Restaurants are for visitors. If you want to know the culture of a country you must

fun: Above, President of Rotary Club of Auckland South Teri Young (blue pinnie) with her friends in coordinated pinnies; left, past district governor, Alan Eyes, makes some hard decisions with assitant district governors Bart Signal and Philip Wilson.

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experience its cuisine. “Don’t have continental breakfast at the hotel and act like a tourist,” the culinary queen said.

The red-haired food adventurer regaled the audience with a hilarious account of her 11-hour train journey in India, where she spent all her time thinking of how she could kill her friend for suggesting train travel in a second class sleeper coach.

Among the guests were Malini Raghwan, Rotary district governor nominee who travelled from Suva to support the International Women’s Day celebration, as well as Leanne Jaggs, the outspoken past district governor, also master of ceremonies for the gathering.

The only three men in pinnies who were clearly outnumbered and spent all their time sportingly serving the women bubbly and high tea were past district governor Alan Eyes and assistant governors, Philip Wilson and Bart Signal.

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A family business We share recollections of a happy business life with a Howick jeweller this week as part of the Times business series

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ewellery has been in his blood for more than 50 years and John Lovell has few regrets about setting up his Silks Jewellers business in Picton Street close to 25 years ago.

His grandfather David Silk opened the business in Queen Street, Central Auckland in 1901 and, as soon as he left school, John followed to become a watchmaker at the David Silks Otahuhu store where he and his wife Peggy worked for 32 years.

In the late 1980s the store, which by now John and Peggy owned, fell prey to a series of burglaries which “knocked us out of the game’, John says.

“We had always had a hankering for Howick as we were living in Pakuranga and shopped in Howick.

“When we came to Howick in 1992 the village was in difficult times with about 12 empty shops in the main street.”

By chance he met the owner of the Eastern Hi Fi shop in Picton Street who wanted to leave. The shop was well equipped with security devices “and security was the one thing we needed”, John says.

And so Silks Jewellers was established in Howick.

“At that point we were the

family business: John Lovell in his jewellery shop which has diversified into a wide variety of gift lines.

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new chums in town,” John says. However he soon joined forces with the then chairman of the Howick Business Association, and co-owner of Times Newspapers Brian Neben. After some heads were put together the association introduced a “mainstreet” programme which involved a separate levy to fund activities.

John succeeded Brian as chairman and a full-time coordinator was employed.

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a terrific little village, meant the business association took off and it’s still successful,” he says. “At the time Manukau City Council embraced it and it led to the BIDs (Business Improvement Districts) we have around the city now.

“Howick was the shining star, with a very stable population and people supportive and loyal to the town.

“It is a terrific village and a delightful place to live. When people came to live here they didn’t want to leave.

“In 1992 we were fortunate that the Times was the newspaper of the day and in those days everyone read it. Brian and Reay [Neben] were very supportive of the town and still are.”

John’s main flair was marketing and designing jewellery and he says he still gets a “huge buzz” from meeting the people and sometime designing a “fabulous piece of jewellery.”

He says he left print advertising for a couple of years because there were indications that people were going to the Internet.

“But that was a misnomer.

The Times still has its place for a local situation like this and is the one newspaper the people read.”

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Feedback I love the north

SIT BACK, RELAX, AND SAVE THREE LIVES

It’s easy at St Mark’s Church 334 Pakuranga Road PAKURANGA Tuesday, March 29 1.00-6.00pm

YOU KNOW IT MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD

That’s when good neighbours become good friends We, the Union End of Moore Street, decided to celebrate Neighbourhood Weekend with a surprise 50th birthday party for my son-in-law Julius Kirchner on Saturday, March 19.

It was a night filled with fun, laughter, dancing and getting to know each other as neighbours better. The birthday boy is the one in the blue shirt.

Priscilla Stuart Howick

Disgust over diaper

Recently, in the street, some uncaring, low-life individual dropped a bundled up, fresh, full baby diaper into the gutter. In all likelihood, it was the young parent pushing a baby walker I passed not 10 minutes earlier. It seems it was too hard to retain the diaper until a public waste rubbish bin was found to deposit the stinking mess.

Terry Walsh

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We recently went on holiday up north. My family roots are in the Far North, Mangonui.

I was reminded of what we once were and what this land is still. Beautiful, in splendid isolation. We were there when needed, through two world wars, but otherwise far enough away. We were in the world but not ‘of’ it.

I was reminded that the Kiwi carries the largest egg in the world, relative to its body-size. Inspirational! I fell in love with our coastline all over again and realised how beautiful our bush truly is. The people up north are different too. More open.

I was reminded that when I was a child, our door was always open. Our hearts should be open likewise, but not to the ‘sickness’ of the world. We should love and preserve what is good and hate what is evil.

We are in this world but do not need to be ‘of’ it. There are constant attempts to globalise us. Why? It is not desirable. The daily news should tell us that. We need to be ourselves and hold fast to all that is good and to recognise the evils of the world and resist them.

We must keep our flag flying high, carry our weight and God defend New Zealand.

Harvey Rosieur Howick

What about your litter?

Subsequent to the letter in your Howick and Pakuranga Times of March 17, I was sitting in my car in Uxbridge Road just before 7 last Friday evening and one man with two companions came down the road and he was carrying a six-pack of Heineken lagers.

Obviously thirst set in and outside the new Uxbridge Centre construction site, he proceeded to take the top off two of the bottles and left the caps on the grass verge.

As previously stated, please take your litter with you.

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reasons for keeping our flag is simply because it is so similar to the flag of our friendly rivals across the ditch. In times of need, we can wave them together as we stand alongside each other.

John McKillop Howick

The public are fools

For months people have accepted arguments for and against changing the design of the NZ flag.

I have not see a single sound political argument as to why there should be change. My opinion is that the urgent need to sign up for the TPP was to include a change in the constitution and a replacement flag design was desirable to be part of the planning and so keep the member partners comfortable with a new form Our flag means so of control over people. much more PM Key has deceived the I suppose those opposed NZ population and he is so to our keeping our exist- influenced by the Obama ing flag, on the grounds that regime and by Helen Clarke they confuse it with Aus- whose efforts to establish a tralia’s (shame on them), World Government are now can instantly differentiate becoming so obvious that between the variations of population disturbances are red, white and blue stripes not far away.

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You’re assured a friendly welcome when you come along and dance with the Howick Club. We meet each Tuesday at 7.30pm in All Saint’s Community Hall, 30 Cook Street, Howick. New dancers always welcome. No partner required; just soft soled shoes. Phone Bev 271-5051 or Murray 5331446.

School clothing sale

Howick Primary School PTA is having a clothing sale of new and pre-loved clothing - women’s, men’s and kids’ clothing and accessories including scarves, belts, gloves, hats and shoes, to raise money for a new junior school playground. Saturday April 9, 10am-4pm. Most items will sell for $2. Numbers allowed in at one time will be limited so be quick. Light refreshments will be available. Howick Primary, 40 Willoughby Avenue, Howick.

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Library storytime

Pakuranga Library has free storytime sessions for 3-5 year olds every Thursday at 10.30am during term time.

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Lymphoedema

Support meeting, Monday April 4, 7.30pm, Domain Lodge, 1 Boyle Cres (off Park Rd) Grafton. Powerpoint presentation re successful lympho.

Surgery. Soon to be available at Middlemore Hospital. All welcome. Parking available.

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Howick Pakuranga & Districts Association invites you to its meeting at the Pakuranga Bowling Club pavilion, Lloyd Elsmore Park, on Friday, April 1, 10am with Senior Sergeant Iain Chapman, Counties Manukau Police, talking on scams and frauds to beware of, followed by Diane Maxwell, Retirement Commissioner, talking on sustainability of superannuation from 11am12noon. Morning tea from 9.30am. Members all welcome. Phone Sandy Feringa 534-9409.

Classy crafts market

Lucky spot prizes every half hour at Classy Crafts Indoor Market inside, All Saints Community Centre, 30 Cook St,Howick, 9am-1pm. Quality NZ-made crafts and souvenirs.

Phone Ruth 535-7513.

Shakespeare soup

Highland Park Library celebrates 400 years of Shakespeare, Saturday April 2, 2pm.

“All the world’s a stage.”

Phone: 535-5935.

First aid & CPR for babies/pre schoolers A great short course run by Auckland East Parents Centre for any caregiver of little ones. A qualified nurse takes you through emergency situations/common childhood illnesses and practicing CPR. Next course Saturday, April 9, 9.30-11.30am, Cook Street, Howick. Places limited. Book online www.aepc.org.nz or email courses@aepc.org.nz for more information.

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SeniorNet Pakuranga. Presentation about technology trends for seniors. Demonstrations of computers, tablets, Smartphones and more. St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Corner Vincent St and Ridge Rd, Howick, Friday, April 1, 10am12 noon. Gold coin donation.

Phone 576-4500. www.seniornetpakuranga.org.nz

Easter Art @ the depot

The “West of Eden” exhibition opens on Good Friday, 6pm-9pm and Easter Saturday 10am-8pm. Children’s workshops also available. “The Artists Speak” event will follow the exhibition on Easter Sunday from 5pm. Entry by gold coin donation. Exhibition is located at The depot, Lloyd Elsmore Park, Sir Lloyd Drive (behind the Netball Courts).

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Women’s fellowship

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Popular family day a hit T

he 2016 Howick Rotary FunRun/Walk proved to be another resounding success for the club, The Coastguard who were beneficiaries of the funds raised and the 500-plus participants who enjoyed a fine if humid day.

Chosen to take advantage of the Howick environment and minimise the traffic risk, the new picturesque course proved an improvement on last year with shortened routes for families with pushchairs, and the many schoolchildren.

A full complement of water station and route marshals provided by the Rotary Club and the Coastguard ensured that everyone kept their hydration levels up, followed

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the course, no one got lost or had an unfortunate encounter with traffic. Participation by the local primary and intermediate schools was again gratifyingly high with all finishers receiving a commemorative medal. On the competitive front, Buckland’s

Beach Primary and Somerville Intermediate repeated their last year’s success and carried off the Crawford Medical Group Cups again.

It is becoming truly a family event.

After the run participants gathered on Stockade Hill

for rest and refreshments and the awarding of the trophies and the draw for a number of spot prizes donated by local sponsors. Delighted participants made off with products and vouchers worth more than $1000.

Organising committee convenor Colin Monk said: “I would like to thank all those who made the day possible, Rotary Club members and friends, Coastguard members and a number of others who assisted and also our sponsors who allowed us to donate the whole $4500 raised to Coastguard. We look forward to repeating this family day next year” ■■ Check out the photos on Facebook Facebook/rotaryclubof howick

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Mad about walking

By Farida Master

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hat does a Malaysian rugby mum have in common with an Indian dental specialist, Japanese ocean swimmer and a semiretired Scottish lady? They are all madly passionate about walking and aptly call themselves The Mad Walkers.

Dressed in top hats, bow ties, shorts and t-shirts, The Mad Walkers have taken on the challenge of the 100km Oxfam trailwalker at Whakatane on April 2-3.

They aim to finish the gruelling 36 hour trail in 24 hours.

“We must be mad to do it,” they laugh.

The women met through book clubs and rugby games almost a year ago and since then have had only one goal- to begin and end the 100km with four team members.

Last week, they did a 52km practise walk through the night covering local beaches, mountain and walkways.

“We’ve been through different elements and times of the day to get accustomed to varied weather conditions,” says stay-at-home rugby mum Laila Kanon, also leader of the team.

While the well-toned mum has already done the Oxfam trailwalker challenge in less than 24 hours last year, Anita Zaveri owner Kilimanjaro Dental Clinic says that the longest walk she had done prior to the challenge was all

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“I find that the Indian community don’t do much with regards to health and fitness,” says the Northpark resident.

“We are so lucky to be in Auckland where in ten minutes time you can be at a beach, mountain or bush. I do hope we are an inspiration for more immigrants to venture out.”

Joining her is semi-retired Howick resident Mary Davies.

The Scottish 62- year- old has walked in the footsteps of a thousand pilgrims with the 750 km Camino de Santiago trail in Spain, last year.

“The pilgrimage was done over a month. I would walk only 35 km a day and spend the rest of my time tending to my feet. This is tougher since we are doing 100km at one go.”

They’ve learnt a lot about each other and the walking

experience has nurtured close friendships.

“We look out for each other and draw strength from our differences,” says the fit Beachlands resident Motoko Sheridan, also a rugby mum.

The Japanese mum loves swimming in the ocean and has made a pact with Ms Kanon that as soon as they finish the trail, the two of them will partner in the Ocean Swim Series in November.

They give full credit to their husbands for being supportive and bringing them food and chairs when they make a quick stop.

The Mad Walkers plan to put on their hats and bow ties in the last leg of the race to add to the fun factor. Hopefully they will still be laughing as they finish the trail with a flourish.

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Double concerto performed S

cottish violinist Nicola Benedetti returns to New Zealand to perform in the second of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Masterworks’ series.

This time she will perform Brahms’ Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with German cellist Leonard Elschenbroich and the NZSO’s new music director Edo de Waart.

‘Brahms & Beethoven’ is the title of this second concert looking to the giants of the ‘Romantic’ repertoire.

“These symphonies and concert are core repertoire for a reason,” Mr de Waart says. “They flawlessly distil in music how it feels to be alive.”

SCOTTISH VIOLINIST: Nicola Benedetti will perform with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Photo supplied/Simon Fowler

Mighty Mahler opens season Maestro Edo de Waart begins his journey as the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s (NZSO) music director with one of the symphonic repertoire’s greatest works.

Mahler’s colossal Symphony No.3 in B minor is the first of a series of ‘Masterworks’ that the NZSO will perform under the esteemed Dutch conductor’s baton this year.

Mr de Waart says he wants to begin the journey together with the audiences by presenting the masterpieces he revisits time and again “for the good of the soul”.

“That is the music of Mahler, Beethoven and Brahms. These symphonies and concerti are core repertoire for a reason; they flawlessly distil in music how it feels to be alive.”

Grand in scale and the longest of all the Mahler symphonies, the work includes 104 orchestral musicians, an adult female choir, a children’s choir and Swedish mezzo soprano Charlotte Hallekant.

Members of the Auckland Choral and Auckland Boys Choir will join forces for the performance.

Once described by Mahler as a ‘gigantic musical poem”, Mahler’s Symphony No 3 offers one of the most complete musical statements of the Austrian composer’s world view. Each movement represents an element in the universe – plants, animals, people and angels – culminating in a “tranquil, deeply felt” finale, the celebration of divine love and culmination of the entire work’s gigantic structure.

“Like a book you read repeatedly, or a painting you return to at a gallery, there is something about experiencing a symphony which refreshes your soul,” Mr de Waart says. “It recalibrates you. A masterwork never loses its colour; each time you hear it, you hear it anew.”

■■ The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will perform Mahler’s Symphony No.3 in B minor at 7pm on April 1 at the Auckland Town Hall, Central Auckland.

The orchestra will perform Beethoven’s tour de force, Symphony No.3 in E-flat major, regarded as a testament against tyranny with music that is powerful and heroic.

Completing the programme is the “grandfather of New Zealand music”, Douglas Lilburn’s Festival Overture. Lilburn was a homesick student in London when he composed this piece and its light and joyful themes reflect his long and deep love for Aotearoa.

■■ The NZSO will present its Brahms & Beethoven concert at 7.30pm on April 9 at the Auckland Town Hall, Central Auckland.

Studio play opens fractured at the same time.”

The cast includes Maja Ranzinger, Nik Rolls, Lou van Jaarsveld, Owen Anderson, Lily Garrard and Dominique Pritchard.

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HEALTHY OPTIONS: Rather than a nutritious breakfast, many Kiwis are skipping the meal or choosing unhealthy options.

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Some of the most guilty breakfast choices were cold pizza (24 per cent), chocolate (13 per cent), pie or biscuits (12 per cent). Other options included ice cream, reheated fish and chips, pavlova, leftover party food from the night before and beer and cold chips.

Only a quarter (24 per cent) of Kiwis said they only ever ate healthy breakfasts.

The survey found the ageold tradition of sitting down to breakfast with family has been significantly eroded.

Only an eighth (13 per cent) of those surveyed have breakfast every morning of the week with family and more than a third (36 per cent) of those adults aged under 25 said they never have breakfast with family.

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Young millennials were the most likely to go without a healthy breakfast, with close to half (46 per cent) aged 18-24 saying they usually missed the meal most days of the week. Of those who skipped breakfast every morning, seven out of 10 (71 per cent) often opted for just a hot beverage.

More than a sixth (17 per cent) of Kiwi adults said they chose tea, hot chocolate or coffee in lieu of breakfast. The number is higher for those in the GenerationX age group at 21 per cent.

Parents of preschool children were more likely to spend time around the kitchen table with their children. Just over a third said they sat down with their family for breakfast twosix morning a week, and three in 10 (29 per cent) of those with school-aged children sat down with their family for breakfast two-six mornings a week.

More than two-thirds of Kiwis (67 per cent) said they ate the same breakfast for at least half of the week. Of those who ate the same breakfast every morning of the week, 85 per cent described their breakfast choices as just “OK”.

A fifth (20 per cent) described their regular breakfast choices as boring with young adults the most dissatisfied with their options at 40 per cent.

Sanitarium nutritionist Susan Buxton says it’s disappointing to see how many people are still not eating a nutritious breakfast.

“Most fast food breakfasts are not ideal as they are generally energy dense and nutrient poor, meaning that they are high kilojoules and usually also high in fat and sugar and low in fibre, protein, vitamins and minerals,” she says.

While many fast food outlets are trying to provide better options, she says those going to eat at these outlets may not choose the healthier choice.

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iwis are skipping breakfast or choosing poor options such as reheated fish and chips, cold pizza and beer and cornflakes, according to newly released research.

The Sanitarium Better Brekkie study investigated the attitudes and habits of Kiwis and found, despite 93 per cent saying breakfast was an important meal, many skipped it or chose something unhealthy.

Of the Super City residents surveyed, 24 per cent said they skipped breakfast between twoseven days a week, with a further 29 per cent opting for a hot drink, such as coffee, tea or hot chocolate, for many of their breakfasts.

Of those who did eat breakfast close to a fifth said they ate the same breakfast daily with 24 per cent fessing up that their worst breakfast choice was cold pizza.

Five per cent of Aucklanders said they would eat a fast food breakfast, including leftovers from the night before, between two-seven days a week.

However more than a quarter of Aucklanders (28 per cent) said they still sat down as a family to have breakfast.

Around the country the study revealed that 10 per cent of Kiwis started their day with breakfast from a fast food outlet at least once a week or more often. The figure was the highest among young adults (18-24) with almost a quarter (23 per cent) of them admitting to regularly chowing down on fast food for breakfast.

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Howick College requires a registered nurse to work one day per week. The successful candidate will have a genuine passion for adolescent health and wellbeing.

Previous experience as a school nurse or in a primary health setting is desirable.

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A letter of application with current CV and contact details of three referees, together with the Support Staff Application form (which can be found on our website www.howickcollege.school nz and be emailed to: secretary@howick.school.nz Closing date for applications is Friday 8th April 2016.

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Application closes Friday 8 April, 2016 Submit a written application to: Principals Assistant Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate, Senior School PO Box 61 054, Otara, Manukau 2159 Ph (09) 2745782 Ext 106, Fax (09) 2746972 tharding@sehc.school.nz

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We are a Retirement Village situated in Pakuranga with 260 + units that require constant maintenance Day to day you will be involved in a varying degree of different works ranging from maintenance jobs to minor construction projects, with no two days being the same.

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This is a full time role, Monday to Friday. 8.00am - 4.30pm.

If you have the below qualities, we want to hear from you immediately.

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We seek a fit and enthusiastic person to join our Auckland based team.

You must be willing to travel around New Zealand as we are a national supply and install company.

You must be able to work unsupervised and think outside the square.

Package includes $50,000 per annum plus company vehicle.

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This position would suit candidate who has a desire to start a career in the cabinetmaking industry as position would lead to an apprenticeship for the right candidate.

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Whitford Park Golf Club is looking for suitable applicants for a Greenkeepers Assistant position. If you are reliable, motivated, have a love for golf and are keen to learn more about turf maintenance then please email your CV to: martin@whitfordpark.co.nz or post to Course Superintendent, Whitford Park Golf Club, PO Box 38, Whitford Closing Date: 8th April 2016

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Starting Term 2, 2 May 2016.

Please contact secretary@elmpark.school.nz for an application form.

We are looking for someone who is physically fit, reliable and enjoys working outdoors to join our team.

If you are keen to learn, have a good attitude, and reliable, this is a great opportunity for a new career path.

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Communications and Events Manager The Greater East Tamaki Business Association Inc. (GETBA) represents the interests of 2,000 businesses and property owners in Auckland’s largest industrial precinct. We are looking for someone to effectively communicate the association’s services and deliver our events and education programme.

This will include regular email and social media communication, editing our website, interviewing and writing for our magazine, and all aspects of event management. We are a small team so your work will include role related administrative activities including invoicing (Xero) and CRM data entry.

The role will suit a communications graduate with several years of both communications and event management experience, preferably in a business to business environment. It is not an entry level position.

You will be tech-savvy, experienced in multi-channel marketing, and have great written and oral communication skills. You will have had experience with CRM systems, be fluent in the Microsoft Office suite and writing HTML code.

You are organised and efficient, with a sense of urgency, and thrive on working in a tight team where everyone helps out to get the job done. Your bright personality and people skills mean that you will build relationships easily with our stakeholders.

Working out of a great space in East Tamaki, the work environment is both professional and friendly, so if you have the experience required and are a professional, positive person with discretion and good judgement, please send your CV, and covering letter outlining why this job is for you, to gm@getba.org.nz CD240762

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DRAIN UNBLOCKER

CD238862

Friendly prompt service, all areas of plumbing and gas undertaken.

All Tree Work - Fully Insured - Garden Mulch Over 25yrs Exp.

Also Pauanui

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PEST CONTROL

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call Ian on 0800-000-116

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Gas & Plumbing Services

ALL ABOUT PAVING, Driveways, Patios & paths, garden edging & repair work. Ben 021 884 072 or 5345041

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027 594 1243 537 4796

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Ph Wayne 273 5052 mobile 021 305 127

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PLUMBER All maint wrk, no job too small. Prompt service. Ph 535 9567

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For Hot Water Cylinder Repairs

LOCAL Master Plumber, Gasfitter, Drainlayer. Over 20yrs exp. competitive rates, excell customer service. Call Steve at Majestic Plumbing Ltd for a free quote 021 625378

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Ph Ross 521 2777 or 021-944899

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BRIAN Certifying Plumber

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Grant 021 673 388

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ANY Plastering! In/out.

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New homes/ factories. Joe 021 027 03803

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GALLAGHER PLUMBING

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TREE SERVICES

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Black Sticks draw final test against Korea T

he Black Sticks Men have drawn 1-1 with Korea in the fourth and final test at Lloyd Elsmore Hockey Stadium.

Following on from the previous weekend’s 6-1 result, the Black Sticks found it tougher work on Sunday against a more structured Korea side.

Nic Woods’ 13th minute penalty corner drag flick equalised the score after an early Korean goal, and that was how it would remain for the rest of the game.

The Black Sticks come away with the series thanks to two wins and two draws, while midfielder George Muir brought up his 50th test for New Zealand during the game.

Assistant coach Bryce Collins said it was a much tougher task today with Korea desperate for a result in the final fixture.

“Korea were much better in this game than they have been, we struggled in the first quarter and they had a lot of ball which frustrated us,” he said.

“We come away from this series with a lot of positives and that will help our development a lot going forward towards Rio. “The ability to score goals has been a big focus for us so to come away with two big wins [7-1 and 6-1] highlights we’re heading in

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Following a frenetic opening few minutes Korea were first to strike when Jihun Yang delivered from a sixth minute penalty corner.

The Black Sticks then composed themselves and built some good attacking pressure, leading to their first penalty corner of the match with Nic Woods powering a flick into the back of the net.

Both sides created chances in the third corner but couldn’t capitalise on them. Goalkeeper Kyle Pontifex

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make several brilliant saves late in the period to keep the score level.

New Zealand put together some good attacking phases in the fourth quarter but couldn’t find the winning goal.

The Black Sticks now get back into training ahead of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Malaysia from 7-17 April, where they are defending champions having beaten Australia in last year’s final.

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“We did it” exclaimed the Bucklands Beach Primary School PTA at the official opening of their new artificial multi sports surface earlier this month.

Member of Parliament Maurice Williamson officially opened the new sports field with the school’s community, PTA, BOT, teachers, sponsors and people from Tiger Turf cheering him on.

The cutting of the ribbon was followed by a game of netball on the new surface between the teachers and pupils.

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The aim of the multi sport surface was to allow the children to play sports all year round on a playing field where the sign ‘Field Closed’ no longer applies.

The PTA had earlier hosted a gala, quiz night and Knowledge-a-thon to name a few fund-raising events. Members of the PTA all agree that it has been a very busy few years and many hours of hard work, but seeing the children playing soccer and netball on the turf last week, made it all worthwhile!

The PTA also hosted at the opening, a Family Fun Night where school families could come along with a picnic rug and sit on the turf outside the court area and enjoy games as well as picnic dinner from one of the many food stalls available.

It turned out to a funfilled event that showcased true community spirit.

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oach Mike Hesson and captain Kane Williamson’s gamble on spin has paid a handsome dividend beyond expectations in the World T20 cricket championship in India.

To leave out champion seamers Trent Boult and Tim Southee to accommodate three spinners in Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi and Natham McCullum took immense courage although, in truth, Boult and Southee this summer have failed to produce the heroics they did a year earlier in the World Cup ODI championship.

Obviously the slower Indian wickets generally favour spin.

But even in their wildest dreams,

Agnew’s Angle Santner and Sodhi would not have expected to get the sharp turn they achieved in helping New Zealand beat hosts India by 47 runs and Australia by eight in their first two games.

Having confined the Black Caps to a meagre 126, India would have felt confident until the spinners weaved their magic, Santner taking three for three on his way to four for 11, then taking

his first two for two runs against the cocky Aussies before finishing with 30.

In that second game his dismissal of captain Steve Smith was magnificent, with Ronchi completing the stumping while Smith was stranded halfway down the pitch. How the spinners are relishing the Indian conditions. Like Santner, the gifted Sodhi is getting prolific turn and is flighting the ball beautifully.

The introduction of Mitchell McClenaghan for McCullum against Australia was also a masterful choice which the Howick Pakuranga pace bowler vindicated with his three for 17.

Whereas once he used bounce

as his main strike weapon, McClenaghan is now varying his attack better and his slower balls are also capturing wickets.

Like their opponents the Black Caps batsmen are not faring so well on the tricky Indian pitches. But their fielding and Williamson’s astute rotation of his bowlers has given his team a sensational start.

Meanwhile three New Zealand medals at the world indoor athletic championships in Portland, Oregan, is a wonderful return.

Whereas Olympic shot put champion Valerie Adams lost her first international meeting since 2010, 24-year-old Cantabrian Tom Walsh struck gold in the

same discipline after first coming to prominence with a bronze at the same championships two years ago.

With a best throw of 21.78m, Walsh blitzed the field and showed remarkable consistency.

It is also pleasing to see that Nick Willis remains in good form following his gallant third in the men’s 1500m final after being forced to surrender the lead in the final stages.

Add to that the fifth by vivacious Eliza McCartney with a 4.70m clearance in the women’s pole vault and New Zealand athletics is in good heart.

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Hard work and perseverance pay off for Manak

By RUMER-GRACE ARCHER Brooke Manak from Bucklands Beach tamed her challenging horse in only a few months to win Level 1 Dressage Pony of the Year at the recent Horse of the Year competition in Hastings.

The 16-year-old’s success came as a bit of a surprise to her and her family after only deciding to compete seriously

in November last year.

“You have to qualify to get in so you’re competing against the best of the best really so it’s a huge accomplishment,” Brooke’s mum Shona says.

After qualifying for Horse of the Year in January this year, Brooke dedicated herself for the next two months to training her pony for the upcoming competition.

“Training for these

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She’s riding five, sometimes six, times a week so it’s a big commitment owning a horse,” Shona says.

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Although Brooke had always wanted a pony, she waited and met her horse Golly about two years ago.

“I always wanted a pony but I’m glad we waited until we did because I’m glad I got Golly,” Brooke says.

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