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Channel: Fathers Day Gift Ideas

Father's Day Sunday September 2nd

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Channel Community Calendar This CHANNEL Community Calendar is published monthly for Community Events. If you would like to include your event in

Wednesday

U3A Monthly Meeting Citizens’ Centre, Northcote, 9.45am – Ph: 489 4494

And Then There Were None The Pumphouse, 7.30pm

Thursday

60’s Up Exercises Methodist Church Hall, Takapuna, 10am

And Then There Were None The Pumphouse, 7.30pm

Lake House Arts Centre to 19th Aug

And Then There Were None The Pumphouse, 7.30pm

Rangitoto College presents: All The World’s a Stage

Saturday

Rangitoto College, 7.30-9.30pm

Rangitoto College presents: All The World’s a Stage

The Great Art Sale

Friday

Mairangi Bay Farmers Market 8am-12.30pm

And Then There Were None

The Pumphouse, 7.30pm-FINAL

Rangitoto College presents: All The World’s a Stage

Rangitoto College, 7.30-9.30pm

Rangitoto College, 7.30-9.30pm-FINAL

Rangitoto College presents: All The World’s a Stage

Rangitoto College, 1st-4th Aug, 7.30-9.30pm

‘Brain Hacker’ Keith Barry Bruce Mason Centre, 8pm

Ian Blaine-Comedy Hypnotist

Murrays Bay Intermediate School, 7.30pm

60’s Up Exercises Methodist Church Hall, Takapuna, 10am

Glenfield has Talent

Bruce Mason Centre, 7pm

Herne Bay Playcentre Presents a Fundraising Movie Night

One Night of Queen Bruce Mason Centre, 7.30pm

Coffee With Eelco

The Pumphouse Theatre, 7.30pm

Westlake Boys 50th Jubilee

Westlake Boys High School, 10.30am-2.30pm & 6.30-11pm

Bridgeway Cinemas, Northcote, 7.30-10.30pm

Mairangi Bay Farmers Market 8am-12.30pm

Milford Village Market

Milford Village Square & Senior Citizens Hall, 10am-2pm

One Night of Queen

Bruce Mason Centre, 7.30pm

Coffee With Eelco

The Pumphouse Theatre, 7.30pm

Westlake Boys 50th Jubilee

Westlake Boys High School, 11am-3pm & 6.30-11pm

60’s Up Entertainment Methodist Church Hall, Takapuna, 10am

Tommy Emmanuel & Guest Frank Vignola

Stand Up Comedy-Featuring Brendhan Lovegrove Oceans Bar, Clyde Rd, Browns Bay 8.30-10.30pm

Bruce Mason Centre, 8pm

Mairangi Bay Farmers Market 8am-12.30pm

Birkenhead Artisan Market

Highbury Community House, 9am-1pm

Barry Hilton-Travelling Chameleon Bruce Mason Centre, 7.30pm

North Shore Model Train Show

9 Recreation Dr, Birkenhead, 10am-4pm

The Great Living Legends Muck-In Long Bay Regional Park, 9am-12pm

Takapuna Grammar School Fashion Show Bruce Mason Centre, 7.30pm

The Best of the Classics

Windsor Park Baptist Church, 11am

60’s Up Exercises Methodist Church Hall, Takapuna, 10am

Oh What a Night-A Musical Tribute to Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

Men in Tutus Bruce Mason Centre, 8pm

Bruce Mason Centre, 7.30pm

Mairangi Bay Farmers Market 8am-12.30pm

Men in Tutus

Bruce Mason Centre, 8pm

The Feelers-No Need to Worry Tour The Brownzy Tavern, 8pm

North Shore Gang Show-Shape Scape

The Pumphouse Theatre, 23rd Aug-1st Sept

Auckland Pet & Animal Expo 2012

North Shore Events Centre, 10am-5pm

60’s Up Exercises Methodist Church Hall, Takapuna, 10am

Merry Men-The Bad Boys of Browns Bay

The Rose Centre, Belmont 8-10pm

Merry Men-The Bad Boys of Browns Bay The Rose Centre, Belmont 8-10pm

Mairangi Bay Farmers Market 8am-12.30pm

Royal New Zealand Ballet - Cinderella

Bruce Mason Centre, 2.30pm & 7.30pm

Merry Men-The Bad Boys of Browns Bay The Rose Centre, Belmont 8-10pm

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Sunday

Monday

Takapuna Market 6am-Noon

Car Boot Sale

Takapuna Primary School Carpark, 8am to 11am

Devonport Craft Market

Tuesday

60’s Up Indoor Bowls Methodist Church Hall, Takapuna, 1pm

Shore Tenpin Seniors

Fred Thomas Dr, Takapuna, 10am

Dave Upfold-Comedy Stage Hypnotist Rangitoto College, 7-9pm

Milford Indoor Bowls

Devonport Community House, 10am-3pm

Milford Senior Citizens Hall, 7.15pm

Devo Divas & Dudes Clothing Swap

Artspace House, Kerr St, Devonport, 11am-1pm

Morning Melodies - Westlake Boys & Girls Bands & Orchestras

• One of the leading Office & Retail brokers on the Shore • Janet guarantees to find a solution for you

Bruce Mason Centre, 11am

Devonport Harmony Village Fair

Harmony Hall, Wynyard St, 11am-3pm

Dave Upfold-Comedy Stage Hypnotist Rangitoto College, 7-9pm

Browns Bay Market

Anzac Rd Carpark, 6am-Noon

A Musical Odyssey-Guests Auckland Welsh Choir The Pumphouse Theatre, 2.30pm

Milford Rainbow Natural Health and Mystic Fair Milford Senior Citizens Hall, 10am-3pm Takapuna Market 6am-Noon

Browns Bay Market

Anzac Rd Carpark, 6am-Noon

60’s Up Indoor Bowls Methodist Church Hall, Takapuna, 1pm

Shore Tenpin Seniors

Fred Thomas Dr, Takapuna, 10am

The Kennedy Park WWII Tunnels

Milford Indoor Bowls

Beach Rd, Castor Bay, Open to Public 1-4pm

Milford Senior Citizens Hall, 7.15pm

Singer Surprise

Morning Melodies-Kristin School

Bruce Mason Centre, 11am

Bruce Mason Centre, 2.30pm

Ice Age

Browns Bay Village Green, Glen Rd, Browns Bay, 12pm

Takapuna Market 6am-Noon

Browns Bay Market

Anzac Rd Carpark, 6am-Noon

Bill Stoneham & Rachael Griffiths-HughesOrgan & Trumpet Duo St George’s Church, Takapuna, 2pm

60’s Up Indoor Bowls Methodist Church Hall, Takapuna, 1pm

Shore Tenpin Seniors

Fred Thomas Dr, Takapuna, 10am

Capital E-Magnolia Bruce Mason Centre, 10am

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Milford Indoor Bowls

Milford Senior Citizens Hall, 7.15pm

Zonta Club Monthly Meeting

Auckland Symphony Orchestra Free Family Concert-‘Stage & Screen’

Fairway Lodge, 17a Silverfield, Takapuna from 6pm

Bruce Mason Centre, 2.30pm

• A decade with Colliers on the Shore

Auckland Vintage Jazz Society

Takapuna Boating Club, 7-9.30pm

North Shore Model Train Show

9 Recreation Dr, Birkenhead, 10am-4pm

Unitec Run & Walk Events

Narrow Neck Beach, 8am-1pm Takapuna Market 6am-Noon

Browns Bay Market

Anzac Rd Carpark, 6am-Noon

60’s Up Indoor Bowls Methodist Church Hall, Takapuna, 1pm

Shore Tenpin Seniors

Fred Thomas Dr, Takapuna, 10am

Auckland Pet & Animal Expo 2012

Milford Indoor Bowls

North Shore Male Choir Spring Is In The Air

Morning Melodies-The Royal New Zealand Navy Band

North Shore Events Centre, 10am-5pm

• In excess of $20 million in sales last year

Milford Senior Citizens Hall, 7.15pm

St Peter’s Anglican Church, Killarney St, 2-4pm

2012 ITM Cup-QBE North Harbour vs Waikato

Bruce Mason Centre, 11am

North Harbour Stadium, 2.35pm Kick Off

2012 North Shore Marathon, Half Marathon, 5km Fun Run/Walk

Gould Reserve, The Strand, Takapuna, 7am-2pm

Car Boot Sale

Takapuna Primary School Carpark, 8am to 11am

Devonport Craft Market

Devonport Community House, 10am-3pm

Devo Divas & Dudes Clothing Swap

Artspace House, Kerr St, Devonport, 11am-1pm

Devonport Harmony Village Fair

Harmony Hall, Wynyard St, 11am-3pm

Browns Bay Market

Anzac Rd Carpark, 6am-Noon

60’s Up Indoor Bowls Methodist Church Hall, Takapuna, 1pm

Shore Tenpin Seniors

Fred Thomas Dr, Takapuna, 10am

Milford Indoor Bowls

2012 ITM Cup-QBE North Harbour vs Counties Manukau North Harbour Stadium, 7.35pm Kick Off

Merry Men-The Bad Boys of Browns Bay

The Rose Centre, Belmont 8-10pm

Milford Senior Citizens Hall, 7.15pm

Morning Melodies-Corelli School of the Arts Bruce Mason Centre, 11am

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Takapuna Boating Club, 3.30-5.30pm

Bruce Mason Centre, 2.30pm & 7.30pm

Merry Men-The Bad Boys of Browns Bay The Rose Centre, Belmont 2-4pm

Out & About on the Shore

Crafty Knitwits Knitathon Auction The Crafty Knitwits 48 hour 'Knitathon' was held in mid-June at the popular Milford store, raising money for the Child Cancer Foundation. Linda and Kerry of Crafty Knitwits were joined by a whole host of knitters to raise money for this great cause. The efforts of all the Crafty Knitwits knitters, wonderful hand knitted blankets were auctioned off, along with some other donated goods, in the Milford Centre (Mall) on Saturday July 21st. A total of around $13,000 was raised as a result of the event and auction. A superb effort.

Kay Williams and Tina Peeperkoorn.

Michelle and Lillian Bennett.

Pauline Doyle, Heather Edgecumb, Anne Newton, Kath Edkins, Chris Tucker.

Jaap, Elly, Nancy Bakker.

Debbie, Georgia and David Drazek.

Mia and Kristina Marmont.

Gert and Patty Pedersen.

Chris and Liz Cowell.

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Out & About on the Shore

Lexus of North Shore Grand Sunday at The Wharf Lexus of North Shore launched the latest Lexus developments with an event titled 'Grand Sunday at The Wharf' on July 1st. Customers enjoyed an exquisite lunch at The Wharf on Northcote Point and were given the opportunity to view the sensational new generation Lexus GS.

Mike and Jeannette Keeling, Jennie Jago.

Alistair and Wendy Duff.

Bob Jago, John and Catherine Nimmo, Louisa and John Gowing.

Pauline Jago, Lucas Harris, Rebecca and Rod Smith.

David and Alethea Dunn.

Gin and Anna Wong.

Marilyn and Jack Nazer and Opal.

Dennis Millerchen, Darice and David Tsang.

Tony Shaw, Debbie Pattullo.

Ross and Marilyn Christensen.

John and Jenny Hayes.

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Darice Tsang, Hui Xu, Hsien Cheng.

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Out & About on the Shore

Friday Forum at The Pumphouse The Pumphouse have started a Friday Forum for members and friends. Guest speaker for their first Friday event (on Friday 13th!) was Tina Cross. Their Forum will be held every second month at the French Cafe Rendezvous. Their next guest speaker is Takapuna Beach Business Association GM Peter White on the first Friday in September. Courtney Thomas, Tina Cross, Margaret Hart.

Brenda and Ian Magee, Heather Sharples.

Genevieve Becroft, Raewyn Bredsen, Brenda Magee.

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Laura Appleby, Alma Antunovich, Margaret Reading, Sandy Mitchell.

Marie Potter, John Antony, Heather Sharples.

Out & About on the Shore

Business Excellence Network Breakfast

John Algie, Daniel Henderson, Gray Mathias.

Keith Cooper, the CEO of Silver Fern Farms was a superb speaker at the Business Excellence Network Breakfast held at the Bruce Mason Centre on Wednesday July 25th. The capacity crowd came away well informed on how this progressive meat business is making big strides in markets all over the world.

David Graham, Carolyn Bassett, Brendon Cutler. George Wood, Scott Browne.

Margaret Brunton, Jill Hooks, Anne de Bruin.

Andrew Scott, Mark Charlesworth.

Neil Walker, Caleb Belling.

Nick Howe-Smith, Margi McEwen.

Maggie Barry MP for North Shore Ngaio Merrick, Joan Finlayson, Christine Gray.

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Sunnynook, The Great Café Milford, La Tropezienne Bakery Mairangi Bay, Paper Moon Café Takapuna, Café Melba Devonport, Manuka Restaurant

Please phone Monika at my Takapuna office to make an appointment to discuss any specific issues.

15 Anzac Street, Takapuna | p 09 486 0005 e northshore@parliament.govt.nz | w maggiebarry.co.nz facebook.com/maggiebarrynz

Jacqui Matthews-Harris, Tim Kahlen, Maurice Stack, Rob Worker.

Funded by the Parliamentary Service and authorised by Maggie Barry MP, 15 Anzac St, Takapuna

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Out & About on the Shore

New Zealand First New Zealand First List MPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, former North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams and Tracey Martin opened their new New Zealand First Auckland North 'Out-of-Parliament' Office in Kitchener Road, Milford on Thursday July 12th. New Zealand First leader Winston Peters was the special guest.

Tracey Martin, Winston Peters and Andrew Williams.

Jane and Nicky Williams.

Andrew Williams and Winston Peters.

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Jan Trotman, Asenati Lole-Taylor, Tracey Martin.

Pita Paraone and Anne Martin.

Tracey Martin and Barron Braden.

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Out & About on the Shore

Peter and Michelle Wall,

Michelle Bennett.

North Harbour Club AGM The North Harbour Club and Charitable Trust held their Annual General Meeting at the Bruce Mason Centre on Thursday July 12th. Retiring president Peter Wall was awarded a life membership of the club as a founding member and for his service as an AIMES Award judge, trustee and seven years as president.

Dave Lane, Simon Lamb.

Graham and Kathryn Collie.

Sue Stanaway, Gary Simpson, Nicolette Bodewes.

Matthew Bellingham, Catherine Lamb, Mark Jago.

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John Lloyd, Paul Tooley.

David Charlesworth, Mark and Bob Jago.

Zigana coffee available at our caffes, via our website and through leading supermarkets. Open 7days from 7am. Eden Mozaik and Hamilton open for dinner. Takapuna is open 7 days from 9am and is open late on Thursdays. www.ziganaespresso.com

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Out & About on the Shore

Takapuna Beach Business Assn BMW at the BNZ in July The Takapuna Beach Business Association held their July BMW Meeting (Business Meeting Wednesday) on Wednesday August 25th at BNZ Takapuna. BNZ, a sponsor of the TBBA, is celebrating their 150th anniversary this year. The planning team from Auckland Council addressed the audience on their Takapuna Transformation plans.

Michelle Timmins, Isaac and Mercedes Goldsmith, Sandy Maultsaid.

William and Regina McLeod.

Craig Sutherland, Damien Henaghan.

Sheryl and Andrew Jonas, Christina Forrest, Rose Hunt.

Richard Pridham, Josh Rumble.

Sandy Cootes, Dave Lane, Eddie Borrie.

Melanie Budden, Dale Rowley, Julie Gerrand.

John Dunshea , Catherine Edmeades, John Stenberg.

David McKeown, Andrew Hill, Richard Ede.

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Takapuna: Café Melba

Team members wanted As well as publishing this fine magazine, Benefitz produces a wide range of items in the advertising, communications and display space.

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Sean's coffee art a hit

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We've got some great cafes on the Shore and one of the best is Café Melba in Takapuna. It is a favourite of locals for great hospitality, great food and great coffee. You are always greeted with a smile and most regulars are known to all the staff by name. Café Melba is celebrating its fifth birthday in Takapuna this month. At Café Melba you'll also find some of the best coffee art – also referred to as latte art – from super-creative barista Sean Kim. His work is now legendary in Takapuna. Sean, originally from South Korea, has been making coffees for 10 years. The past three with Bobby and Sonny, the owners of Café Melba Takapuna. He loves making coffee that tastes good but also believes that it should look amazing. Presentation is very important, so he is constantly working to come up with new designs and techniques. "I love the smile I get from customers when they see what I have created," says Sean. "It inspires me to keep creating new designs and improving what I do." Sean has around 80 designs that are made using many different techniques. Pouring milk cleverly and using tooth picks, spoons or stencils. The kids – and big kids – love his cartoon characters from the latest movies. He regularly receives visitors who have seen his designs posted by their friends on social media sites, coming into the café with their own design requests. During the birthday week he will be showcasing some new designs. Café Melba Takapuna opened its doors in 2007. A year after its opening, immigrant couple Bobby Zhuo and Sunny Cao bought into the business and an on-going goal for the couple has been to provide the ultimate café experience to customers, whether new or repeat. Despite challenging economic times, the café has grown in popularity and success, building on the model developed by Melba Group with the inaugural Café Melba on Auckland’s Vulcan Lane. “It’s an honour to be part of the Takapuna community, and that’s truly what we are” says Bobby. “The five year anniversary of Café Melba means so much to Sunny and I. Shawn and Jens (the other Director for Melba Group) are doing a great job of growing the Melba Group, which leaves us to be able to focus on growing the Hurstmere Road café – it’s our top priority, and we look forward to the next five years.” During the café’s birthday week, from 6th August – 12th August, the public can expect to be treated to a visual spectacle of a window design commemorating that week. Children will be treated to free face painting during the hours of 10am and 1pm in the weekend by expert paint artists from Imaginaire. Additionally, one lucky customer will win a gourmet gift basket featuring treats like wine, coffee, tea. Cafe Melba on Hurstmere: 62-78 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna. Phone 489 0091. Open: Mon-Thu 7am-4.30pm; Fri 7am-5.30pm; Sat 8am-5.30pm; Sun 8am4.30pm.

We have a team of over 70 people and our offering covers Graphic Design, Web Development and Hosting, Cross Media Personalised URL Campaigns and Printing, Personalised Printing, Digital Printing, Volume Printing, Flatbed Printing, Grand Format Printing (Billboards etc.), Display and Exhibition, Signage and Router Cutting. We believe we are Australasia's most comprehensive provider of these solutions and services. We have a policy of investing in people and technology as well as giving back to the community. We are currently interested in talking with suitably skilled people to strengthen our team in the following areas:

Account Management If you have a strong track record as an Account Manager in our industry sector then we are keen to talk to you. Due to the range of solutions we provide we are looking for experienced individuals who know the ropes, have strong business contacts, and can just slot in to our business and start "doing the business". We do things a little differently at Benefitz and we are in an industry where we need to keep evolving and adapting to our changing customer requirements. So you will need to be prepared to adapt, learn new skills, and grow with our business. Knowledge of design, the web, printing, display and signage will be an advantage. Interested? Send your CV today to: aidan@benefitz.co.nz Make sure you put ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT in the subject bar. All interest must be via email in the first instance. All interest will be treated in strict confidence.

Sign Installer/Erector Benefitz is involved in the Display and Signage business. As well as manufacturing signage and display systems we erect and install large printed images. These include banners, corflute signage, event signage, real estate signage etc. We are looking for the services of a very handy person to work with us in this area. The person we are looking for may be a builder or similar trades person who wishes to do something a little different. Maybe looking for a change. The person will need to have the skills to provide on-the-spot solutions as they occur. A good knowledge of electrical things would also be an advantage. Interested? Send your CV today to: aidan@benefitz.co.nz Make sure you put SIGN INSTALLER in the subject bar. All interest must be via email in the first instance. All interest will be treated in strict confidence.

Plus... We are also interested in hearing from experienced Graphic Designers and Skilled Signage Applicators. All interest must be via email in the first instance. Email: aidan@benefitz.co.nz

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The Channel Eating Out Guide

Eating Out on the Shore Dine out at one of these fantastic local eateries tonight

Takapuna Devonport

Devonport

Pinot Plus

Nicolino Restaurant & Cube Bar

Corelli’s

A “taste of Greece and the Mediterranean” in every sense of the word: food, atmosphere, live entertainment and relaxed, but attentive service just as you would find in a taverna in Greece itself. Nicolino is BYO and also provides takeaway pizzas and meals, including free delivery within the local area. Open: 7 days, 4.00pm till late. 103 Victoria Road, Devonport. PH: 446 6664. www.nicolinorestaurant.co.nz

Where else can you buy beautiful handmade pottery made by local potters and enjoy a fresh healthy meal or delicious coffee with home baked treats. Its good to know that you can buy a NZ made gift at anytime (with free gift wrapping). Free live music every Sunday from 7pm. Fully licensed with beers on tap. What more could you ask for? Open 7 days 7am until 11pm. 46 Victoria road, Devonport. PH: 445 4151 www.corelliscafe.co.nz Corellis making Eating out cheaper than eating at home!

Tip Thursday evenings are Greek party nights at Nicolino, with music and dance to the Sounds of Greece. Join us for a night at the “Opa!”

Takapuna

Raviz Indian Restaurant

Dida’s Wine Lounge Dida’s Wine Lounge in Devonport is located in the front of the majestic, and majestically restored Victoria Theatre on Devonport’s main street. As with its older sibling across the water (Ponsonby), the Lounge offers an exquisite selection of small plates, tapas to tempt you to have a glass of something different, from a winelist and menu that makes the most of the prodigious Glengarry produce and wine cellar resources. Open: Mon-Thurs 3.30pm-10.30pm; Fri 3.30pm-12am, Sat-Sun 12pm-12am. 54 Victoria Street, Devonport. PH: 445 1392. www.didas.co.nz During August 2 For 1 Tapas on Monday's

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Devonport

Truly is one of those unique little gems; It’s not just a wine bar, it’s not just a restaurant – This is the living embodiment of owner John Ingle’s passion, love, and taste of good wine. The wines are boutique, it’s unlikely there will be any of the labels you’re familiar with, but that’s John’s challenge – he’s not here to keep you comfortable, but to help you discover something new, and share what he has to offer. For 2012 he offers a monthly TREAT of a selected main course and matching wine for $25. Open for dinner Tues – Sat from 5.30pm. 168 Hurstmere Road Takapuna PH: 4899510 www.pinotplus.co.nz

Raviz Indian Restaurant, located above Glengarry on Hurstmere Road, offers authentic Indian Cuisine, is fully licensed (& BYO), with both dine in and takeaway options. The secret of Raviz cuisine comes from the homemade spices which they say differentiate them from others. If you haven’t tried Raviz you are missing Real Indian Cuisine. They are very affordable as well with $10 lunch specials and $10 meal specials (see details below). They also offer free delivery on takeaways over $25. Open: 7 days, Lunch 11.30am-2pm, Dinner 5pm till late. 178 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna. PH: 489 2400. www.raviz.co.nz Treat On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights all mains are just $10. Cheaper than cooking at home we reckon. Conditions apply.

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Braised 'Ox Tail' served with Kerr Farm Pinotage 2008 (inclusive $25)

Takapuna

The Elephant Wrestler The aim of host Paul Lomax was to create a bar that is just a “great local” and he has certainly achieved that. This is a place where you can meet, enjoy good company, have a drink and eat great food. Gastro style food – quality food at a reasonable price – is what you get at The Elephant Wrestler. Try their Salt and Pepper Squid signature dish! Some great deals here... 2 for 1 Meals on Mondays; Pizza just $10 on Tuesdays; Steak, Prime Angus Beef just $15.90 on Thursdays; Fish & Chips just $12.50 on Fridays; Roast of the Day just $15.50 on Sundays. Open: 7 days from 11am to late. 138 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna, PH: 489 8030. www.elephantwrestler.co.nz Treat Try our $13.50 lunch menu and Gourmet hand pulled pizza to share.

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Takapuna

Macs Brewbar Hurstmere Rd

Aubergine Restaurant

This has become a very popular eating spot on the Hurstmere Strip, having an extensive menu including Platters (to share), Small Plates (starters), Mains (venison, chicken, rib eye, rabbit, lamb rump), Pizzas, and ‘Pub Fare’ which includes fish and chips, a pie of the week and chicken ceasar salad. For those who want an affordable and quick lunch at Mac’s Brewbar Hurstmere Road there’s always a $12 lunch special (Mon-Fri), they also do a great brunch on Saturdays and Sundays which you can enjoy in the garden bar. And of course always a great beer! Open: 7 days - 11am to late. 134-138 Hurstmere Rd, Takapuna. PH: 486 4102 www.hurstmereroadbrewbar.co.nz

If you love food and eating out and haven’t been to Aubergine in Takapuna then you’ve got to give it a go – for brunch, lunch or dinner. The extensive Aubergine menu offers an international style of cuisine that mixes old Kiwi favourites with the flavours of Europe and the Mediterranean. If you are a foodie that likes value then you’ll love it – at Aubergine most of the wellpriced meals come complete with veges, salads etc. The result is a final bill that will keep the smile on your face. Open Mon-Fri 12 noon-late, Sat 11am-late, Sun 11am-11pm. 129 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna Beach. PH: 489 3104. www.aubergine.co.nz

Popular is the 30 day aged Black Angus Ribeye Steak, served with crushed new potatoes and roasted garlic, creamed. Yum!

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Take advantage of their 3-Course Dinner Special – entree, main & dessert for just $35! Conditions apply.

Treat

Al Forno Italian Cafe & Restaurant This is the undoubted favourite of many Takapuna locals. Owners Emilio and Maria ensure the experience at their restaurant is very special. When customers go back to Al Forno – and most do – they are greeted like a long lost friend. Al Forno has a perfect location and is a must for those who love to eat out in Takapuna. Whether dining in or taking away, the traditional yet unique Al Forno Italian food is great. Choose from Woodfired Pizzas, Pastas, Salads and sumptuous mains like Chicken or Veal Parmigiana, prime Eye Fillets or King Prawns to name just a few. You won’t want to miss their unforgettable Italian cake and gelato. Open: Monday-closed. Tuesday-Wednesday 5pm till late. Thursday-Friday 12pm till late Saturday-Sunday 5pm till late. 34 Anzac Street, Takapuna. PH: 488 0179. Tip Come and try our blackboard wine special.

Takapuna

Chihuahua Bar & Eatery

Thyme Restaurant

Chihuahua Bar and Eatery features a menu with a Mexican and South Western style. Mexican inspired food but with their very own style to ensure it has broad appeal for both lunch and dinner. Chihuahua is fun. The place where there is always something happening. Happy Hour every night from 9pm until 10pm, with special pricing on beers, Sangria, Margaritas and Tapa dishes. Live bands on Thursdays and a DJ on Fridays from 9pm. Look out for their "Tequila Club” being launched in June. Join to be kept informed. Open every day from 12noon through until 1pm. Their scrumptious food is also available to takeaway. 32 Anzac Street, Takapuna (By Berkeley Cinema). Phone 486-2249. Visit: www.chihuahuabar.co.nz.

Thyme Restaurant on Level 1 of the Spencer on Byron Hotel, Takapuna provides award winning dining, blending fresh and innovative cuisine with an extensive menu that uses in season fresh local produce. The Spencer’s renowned chefs and its restaurant and bar staff have won many medals for their culinary delights and hospitality. New seasonal menu items include South Island Whitebait Omelette, Manuka Honey rubbed Canter Vallery Farm Duck Breast and Hawkes Bay Lamb Rack. Open: 7 Days – Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Level 1, Spencer on Byron Hotel, Byron Avenue, Takapuna Beach. PH: 916-4982 www.spencerhotel.co.nz/thyme

Tip Happy Hour every night from 9pm until 10pm, with special pricing on beers, Sangria, Margaritas and Tapa dishes.

Treat Look out for Thymes special coupon offer on the back of your supermarket receipt of buy one main and get the second for half price!

Takapuna

Blankenberge Belgian Beer Café At this Takapuna favourite you’ll find an all new Menu for 2012, with loads of seasonal ingredients. With a Flemish-French theme, this is not just your average pub food, it’s interesting – a huge range and variety – with suggested beer matches from their range of the best Belgian Beers. Ask about their Chefs Plate of the Day and popular Fish of the day. Open: Mon-Sat 11.30am-Late, Sun 9am-Late. 136 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna Beach. PH: 486 6331. www.belgianbeercafetakapuna.co.nz Treat “Munday Mussel Madness” – Every Monday you can get a one kilo mussel pot and frites (fries) for just $12. Every Tuesday you can get a half kilo of Angus Rump Steak, with frites, for just $15.

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Takapuna

Portofino Italian, Takapuna Takapuna

New Vietnam Cafe For those of you who love Vietnamese food the New Vietnam Cafe is a must. You will discover very special value for money food as well as quick and efficient service. Perfect for Lunch or Dinner. Great range of special Vietnamese style appetisers, lemon grass food, spicy or not spicy food. Also many wok fried dishes, deep fried dishes for you to choose from. Great place for entertainment, group functions, birthdays and events. Welcome to dine in or takeaway. Open 6 days, Tues - Sun 10.30am until 9pm. 62-78 Hurstmere Rd, Takapuna. PH: 489-3869. This is a Channel team favourite. Ask Kenji to make some suggestions.

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Located on the Hurstmere Strip beside the Bruce Mason Centre in the heart of Takapuna. Being Europeans, we are passionate about our food, our wine and your experience and we are committed to providing consistently good quality food and great service. Accentuating the European's passionate love of fresh and tasty food, there is a little bit of Italy in every Portofino meal.We are proud to serve fresh, simple, delicious Italian food, complemented by a great glass of wine, served in a comfortable Italian setting where everyone is welcomed as family and friends. Our purpose is Hospitaliano! Also a great place for group functions, weddings, birthdays and events – with seating for up to 200 guests. Open every day 11am until late. 156 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna. PH: 488-0077 Email: takapuna@portofino.co.nz www.portofino.co.nz/takapuna Treat Take advantage of their Portofino Express Lunch. Just $19 will get you 2 courses and a glass of wine or Peroni tap beer. Great value!

Takapuna

Otto Woo - Gourmet Asian Cuisine Healthy meals don’t have to be boring — the perfect balance of great taste and nutrition is at Otto Woo in Huron Street, Takapuna. Otto Woo provides western style, modern Asian cuisine, with strong Japanese, Malaysian and Thai influences. Each meal contains loads of fresh vegetables infused with high quality sauces, herbs and other ingredients. Special packages available for corporate lunches, client meetings, birthday parties, film shooting catering... Take out, Dine In, Delivery – Gluten-free options available. Open: Lunch Mon- Sat 11.30-2.30pm; Dinner Mon- Sun 4.30-9pm. 8 Huron St, Takapuna. PH: 489 8001 Online order: www.ottowoo.com During August SPECIAL LUNCH DEAL 15% off everything on menu

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Milford

Talay Thai Restaurant New to Milford – it opened in October 2011 – Talay Thai Restaurant has seating for 40 people and more than 60 delicious Thai dishes to choose from, including many Thai Vegetarian, Duck and Seafood options to suit your desire. Their knowledgeable restaurant staff will always give you a friendly welcome and help you choose from a wide range of high quality Thai dishes. Open: Lunch (from only $10.50) – Tues-Sun 12pm-2.30pm; Dinner – 7 nights 5pm till late. 83/85 Kitchener Rd, Milford. PH: 489 9568. www.talaythai.co.nz Tip Try their Yum Thai Salads – King prawns with fresh chilli, salad, tomatoes, onion, spring onion and lemon juice; or Thai Beef Salad, slices of grilled beef (sirloin) with fresh chilli, cucumber, tomatoes, onion, spring onion and lemon juice. From just $22! Also try their special marinated sirloin steak, flamed in brandy and served on a hot plate.

Takapuna Mairangi Bay

Faro Korean Grill Dining Takapuna's exciting Korean dining experience is very special – and it is an experience. Faro is for those who wish to eat good quality authentic Korean food. It has been called the best traditional Korean grill in New Zealand. Choosing food is very easy with the friendly and helpful staff and the choice is extensive, including great combination barbecue set menus – a mini banquet of dishes and meats for the grill. Faro is fully licensed and is great for just two people or for large groups, with the private dining rooms being an excellent option. Open 7 Days, Lunch 11.30am-3pm, Dinner 5.30pm-10.30pm. 138 Hurstmere Road, Phone 486-5050. Faro has great lunch specials, priced from just $15.

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Mairangi Japanese Cuisine Lunch Special $9.90 - Mairangi Japanese Cuisine is a hidden treasure located in Green Gables shopping village in Mairangi Bay. Delicious Japanese food is prepared by the head chef who has over 20 years’ experience of serving top quality meals. Mairangi Japanese is both fully licensed and BYO, with a good selection of wine, Japanese tap beer and Sake also available. Live music every Saturday night. Small functions are also welcomed. Open: For Lunch 11.30am-2.30pm; Dinner 6pm-10.30pm Mon-Sat (closed Sundays) 376/384 Beach Rd. Mairangi Bay. PH: 476 9977. www.mairangicuisine.co.nz

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Treat Daily Lunch Special $9.90

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Eating Out on the Shore Feature Restaurant - Bolliwood, Takapuna

Spice Up Your Life!

Sumptuous scents of spices and a smiling welcome will greet you at Bolliwood, Takapuna’s newest Indian restaurant. Bolliwood has already made a good name for itself with its founding Ponsonby restaurant, now North Shore residents don’t have to travel over the bridge for a piece of the ‘aloo gobi’ action. Huron Street hides a piece of India. Years of culinary experience and research, beautifully decorated and atmospherically lit premises and warm attentive service combine to deliver a memorable culinary experience for diners. Manager Dixat Bansal provides the sort of smile-infused service you would expect to be greeted with when visiting one of India’s intimate ‘dhaba’ cafes. “Very special, traditional food is what you can expect to eat here at Bolliwood – it will make you come back again and again,” he vows. Dixat enthuses over the range of Punjabi-style curries created in the extensive kitchen, the Rajesthani-influenced dishes and the tandoori oven featured in the centre of the restaurant, which treats customers to ‘live’ cooking displays by the team of four talented chefs.

Very special, traditional food is what you can expect to eat here at Bolliwood – it will make you come back again and again These chefs recognise that Takapuna residents tend to be a health-conscious bunch and as such, they limit the use of cream in their dishes and offer a selection of gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan options. Goat meat curry is also a low fat and tender alternative to the more popular meats. Winter lunches are proving a popular time to dine in or takeaway, with an incredible $10 deal, which provides hungry locals with a curry, rice, naan bread and drink, seven days a week. And on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, all mains are $10, excluding seafood curries. Off-site catering is a growing part of the business, providing a minimum of 20 up to 500-plus people with an eastern-style feast, and eliminating the need for washing up. Team Bolliwood will deliver delicious dishes to your door, set up the feast on your dining table and come back to pick up the dishes! Tempting? Fit the flavours of Indian into your winter, and escape to a warm climate via your plate. Bolliwood, 17 Huron St, Takapuna. Phone: 09 489 9911 or visit our website: www.bolliwood.co.nz

Montrose Café, Bistro & Bar

Mairangi Bay

Warm up your winter with Montrose Café, Bistro & Bar. Relax and unwind with a Mulled wine - back by demand for those chilly winter months. Leave the Sunday Roast up to us. Our succulent Roast Lamb with all the trimmings is sure to be a family favourite. We also have a kids menu available to keep the whole family happy. Enjoy our open fire combined with our rich dark English oak tables and leather chairs - you won’t want to leave! Live music Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday at lunch time. Treat Open: 7 days a week, 9am-late. Mon-Fri, 8am-late Sat-Sun - 1 Sunday Roast Lamb with Montrose Terrace, Mairangi Bay. all the trimmings - ONLY $15. PH: 478 9610. www.montrose.org.nz

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Cafes on the Shore

Habitual fix

Takapuna

The Fresh Food Addicts, Habitual fix have finally made their way to Takapuna. Baking their bread each morning onsite and using only the freshest ingredients and high grade cuts of meat ensures that you get the freshest sandwich, salad, or wrap made right in front of you. They also squeeze their own juice onsite and make fresh fruit smoothies. Mon - Sat: 8.00am - 8.00pm. Sun: 8.00am - 5.00pm 484 Lake Road, Takapuna. PH: 488 0388 takapuna@habitualfix.co.nz

Feature Cafe

Tip Habitual fix also deliver the city’s freshest office or catering requests, go to www.habitualfix.co.nz to see how affordable it is!

Eveline Mueller. Takapuna

Latin Larder At Latin Larder you’ll find excellent food and great coffee.The cafe is the only one in Takapuna to serve Miller’s Coffee and friendly owner Justin is only too happy to please – offering to make anything offmenu to order if the customer wishes. One of the best kept secrets is their secret garden that’s been hiding away, tucked in behind the cafe. Open: 6.30am-3pm, Tues-Sun (closed Mondays) 170 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna Beach. PH: 489 5563

C’Bay Coffee & Wine Bar Pop in to experience our new Italian Menu 'with a twist' says Hannah, the Chef and Foodie. Hannah goes on to say "I never get tired of cooking - preparing food is like an art, creative and ever changing and there is always something new to try - I cook with my heart". C'Bay offer great cafe Fare and serve award winning toasted espresso alongside the homemade menu. There is also a deli range of slices, cakes, muffins, scones and sandwiches - all homemade. Try tapas or an antipasto platter with your wine, or a simple meal of soup and salad. Best kept secret for easy parking and just a stone throw away from the beach. Feel free to stretch the legs after a leisurely breakfast or lunch. C'bay can be your own private caterer - C'bay can take care of all the food for your special event or party at home as well. All catering orders can be made online with ease. Special bookings for Birthdays and other special events are welcome any evening at C'Bay. The Esplanade, Campells Bay. Phone 478 7243. Email: chefonthegonz@gmail.com For all catering needs.

Swiss Café and Bakery Treat Soup Half price Soup of the Day when you bring this article in with you!

Campells Bay

Treat 3 course meal for $34.50 Entree, Main & Dessert.

Takapuna

Tiger Coffee Just after Countdown Supermarket on Barry’s Point Road is a great little cafe – Tiger Coffee. But this is more than just a cafe – it’s a coffee experience. At Tiger Coffee you will not only get great coffee but great service and be part of their ‘coffee culture’. Have a coffee, choose a great blend of coffee for your home machine (from the Tiger Coffee Bean Hut), and view their range of ultimate in-home coffee machines. Tiger Coffee can also service your home machine. Mon-Fri 6:30am-4pm, Sat 8am-2:30pm. PH: 489 3084 18 Barry’s Point Road, Takapuna. www.tigercoffee.com

Breakfast on the run… Treat Coffee & Breakfast Ciabatta - only $9 until 10am. Open from 6:30am.

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Franz and Eveline Mueller moved to New Zealand from Switzerland in 1991. The couple had owned a bakery in Switzerland, and were keen to set up a similar one on the North Shore. In February 2013, it will be 20 years since they opened their bakery – Swiss Café and Bakery on Milford Road. The bakery was busy from the outset. In 1993, the first year they were open, they sold over 6000 Christmas mince pies. It was a testament to the hard work and care they poured into their bakery and the excellent food they produced. Franz and Eveline strive to make their food the “authentic Swiss way”, and are proud of the fact that everything they serve is made from scratch on the premises. “We make everything ourselves, from the puff pastries to the fillings and breads,” says Eveline. The bakery offers a wide range of food, including freshly cooked breakfasts and lunches, along with cabinet cakes and pastries. They also provide special occasion cakes and party breads, encouraging customers to arrange a consultation with them if there is a special idea or requirement they have in mind. Franz and Eveline enjoy using their business to get involved in the North Shore community. Recently, they provided all the food for the ladies participating in the 48-hour knitathon, organised by Crafty Knitwits last month. “Those ladies are always coming in here for their lunch – it was great to support them in their good cause,” says Eveline. “They were raising money for Child Cancer, it’s lovely to be able to get involved in that kind of thing.” No doubt the knitters were pleased with the delectable gesture too. Swiss Café and Bakery, 5 Milford Road, Milford. Open: Monday to Friday 8am until 4.30pm, and weekends 8am until 2.30pm. Phone: 09 489 9737

salads & other things

We love contributions to Channel Magazine from our 'locals'. One such local is Jacqui Wright, the friendly host at Sumo Salad in Takapuna. Jacqui (and husband Stuart) have put their hands up to provide a monthly contribution – to inform our readers of how to make tasty and healthy salads, and other bits and pieces. This month Jacqui's contribution is a great recipe for scrumptious Spinach and Ricotta Crepes.

Spinach and Ricotta Crepes

Cafes on the Shore French Rendez-vous Cafe

Takapuna

Tip Come down for breakfast, a good range of eggs poached on vienna bread or croissant.

French Takapuna

1 cup plain flour 2 eggs 1/2 cup milk 1/2 cup water 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons melted butter Method: Whisk together flour and eggs. Gradually add in the milk and water. Add the salt and butter; beat until smooth. ¼ cup of batter in a frying pan over medium high heat. Tilt the pan with a circular motion so that the batter coats the surface evenly. Lightly brown both sides of the crepe.

Neapolitan Sauce 3 tablespoons olive oil 2 garlic cloves chopped 1 425g/15oz tin chopped tomatoes 1 tablespoon fresh oregano and basil 2 teaspoons brown sugar Salt and black pepper to taste Method: Heat the oil in the pan and gently fry the garlic until slightly browned. Add the rest of the ingredients (except herbs) and simmer gently for 25 minutes, stirring frequently until all the liquid has disappeared from the surface. Add herbs whilst still hot. Mix 500g of Ricotta with 150g of cooked spinach. Place approx. 150g on mix on a crepe and roll evenly. Continue to roll crepes until mix has gone (approx. 4) Place in oven proof dish. Pour Neapolitan sauce over the middle of crepes covering 2/3 of their surface. Sprinkle some Parmesan over the sauce and place in an 180 degree oven for 10 minutes until heated through. Bon appetite. Sumo Salad Café, 67 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna, Phone 489 7866. Email: takapuna@sumosalad.co.nz

Open for breakfast, brunch and lunch 6 days and dinner Friday, Saturday and when there is a show on at The PumpHouse. Everything is homemade – even the ice cream. Most popular on the menu are the Savoury Crepes and the Croque Monsieur. They also have some old Kiwi favourites (like bacon and eggs), soup of the day, a great range of salad and pasta meals. Open: Tues-Thurs 9.30am til 4.30pm Sunday 9am til 4.30pm; Fri 9.30am til 8pm; Sat 9am til 8pm. French Rendez-vous, Killarney Park, Takapuna. Phone: 487-0009, Email: frenchrendezvous@live.fr

Sumo Salad

By Jacqui Crepes

Soups are back for the Tip colder months at Sumo Salad. Some say best in Taka!

Takapuna

At this popular cafe in Takapuna you will find much more than Salads. All day breakfast, great coffee, gourmet toasties, wraps, long rolls and of course – as the name suggests – they do fantastic salads. Some say the best in Takapuna. The added bonus is that they offer free internet (cond. apply) and you’ll always get a friendly smile from Stuart, Jacqui and their team. Open: Mon-Fri 7.30am-7pm; Weekends 8am-7pm, 7 Days. 67 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna Beach. PH: 489 7866

Cafe d’amour

Treat Buy one meal get second one for half price. Conditions apply.

Located right in the heart of Takapuna’s main Hurstmere Road shopping area, and only a short stroll from the beach, Cafe d’amour means Cafe of love. The cafe’s friendly and helpful staff share a passion for great coffee – using award-winning coffee beans – and lovely food which you can enjoy in a cozy and relaxed environment. Open: 7am-4pm, 7 Days 86 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna Beach. PH: 488 0200

Takapuna & Mairangi Bay

Mozaik Caffe

Mozaik is popular! Now open in Mt Eden and Silverdale & Victoria Park Market soon!

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Mozaik Caffe's always have outstanding coffee. They roast their own Zigana beans. The food is always a great standard as they produce all their food onsite daily. Two of the busiest Mozaik Caffe's are right here on the Shore. Mozaik Caffe Constellation. 61 Constellation Drive, Mairangi Bay. Open: 7 Days, 7am-5.30pm. Mozaik Caffe Takapuna. Westfield Shore City. Open: 7 Days, 8am-6pm (Thursday late till 9pm). Mozaik also have cafes in Orewa, New Lynn, Grafton, Parnell, Hamilton.

Takapuna

Treat Don't miss Café Melba's 5th birthday week, from 6th August – 12th August.

Cafe Melba Lots of North Shore people “Meet at Melba”. Simply because Bobby and his team offer consistently good food and coffee that you always want to go back for. Located right in the centre of Takapuna, it is always buzzing with people, but you can just about always get a seat – inside or outside in the covered arcade. Open: Mon-Fri 7am-4pm. Sat-Sun 8am-4pm. 62-78 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna Beach. PH: 489 0091

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Buy Local & Win! A 2012 Toyota Yaris

&Win!

Buy Local

A 2012 Toyota Yaris valued at over

25,000

Entry Forms on page 96 of this issue. You can also enter online - www.channelmag.co.nz

Entering is simple: For those who are

At Channel Magazine one of our key missions is to encourage locals to support local business by always considering buying local first. And we are putting our money where our mouths are! Through until September 30th 2012 – every time you buy locally (over $50), from a current Channel Magazine advertiser, you are eligible to enter the draw to win our sensational new 2012 Toyota Yaris motor vehicle. This is no “entry-level” vehicle. It is a superb motor car. A brand new model, a spunky little beast, complete with mag wheels and leather upholstery, supplied by our good friends at North Shore Toyota. So every time you spend over $50 with one of the advertisers in this magazine – you can place an entry. Then you are in the draw to win!

internet savvy the easiest way to enter is online. Simply go to www.channelmag.co.nz and enter. If you are not internet savvy then keep this magazine handy. We have included four entry forms in this issue, so all you have to do is complete the entry, drop it to one of the boxes at the entry points (as detailed) and you are in to win. Most important though, is to make sure that you always provide proof of purchase in the form of a receipt. If you enter online then photograph or scan your receipt and upload it. If you are entering by completing the printed entry form, then attach your receipt. Entries must have a valid receipt. All entries are being scrutinised and any that are in any way incorrect will be excluded from the grand prize draw. Remember, you do not get an entry for every $50 spent, but an entry per transaction over $50. Note: As this is a competition being promoted by Channel Magazine (and not necessarily the advertisers/retailers) there are no entry forms available where you are making your purchase. The entries are online, or by completing the printed entry forms in your monthly Channel Magazine. You can also download entry forms in PDF form from the website (www. channelmag.co.nz). Refer to the Channel Magazine website for full conditions of entry.

Why should you Buy Local? It’s just good for our local economy. Spending your money locally, in your local community and not on overseas websites etc., just makes sense to us. Sure, it’s old-fashioned, and at times might cost a few extra dollars, but it’s a much better option long term. It’s what makes our local world go around. It provides cashflow, employment opportunities and much more.

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North Shore Squash Club: 50th Anniversary Celebrations, November 1st – 3rd, 2012

Members of the North Shore Squash Club involved in organising the 50th anniversary, on the deck of the clubhouse with magnificant vews over Lake Pupuke. From left:- Phil Cooper, Nikki Horne, Joan McKay, Bob Campton, Matt McHugh. They are also pictured (below) in front of the club's glass wall courts.

North Shore Squash Club Celebrating 50 Years of Court Action in November One of the North Shore’s most prominent, though among the youngest, sporting clubs will celebrate a significant milestone in early November. The North Shore squash club, adjacent to the North Shore Hospital near Lake Pupuke, will mark its 50th anniversary over November 1-3, with exhibition matches, an open day, cocktail function and formal dinner. The club counts among its former members some of the North Shore’s, and even New Zealand’s, most illustrious citizens. David Beattie, later Sir David, a Supreme Court judge and the country’s Governor General in 1981-86, was on the foundation committee. And Gibby Abercrombie, a noted doctor, former Scotland rugby international and father and grandfather to several outstanding North Harbour sportsmen, was another. A New Zealand Davis Cup tennis player, Brian Woolf, was an early member, as were a number of former All Blacks, Keith Davis, Des Connor, Don McKay and Ray Moreton. After its foundation in 1962, the club used the courts at the Devonport Naval Base until its own courts and complex were built at the end of Shea Terrace, near the old Smales quarry. The courts and building were officially opened in April, 1963. The free-hold property had a government valuation in 1962 of 1850 pounds, which now must be prime real estate worth seven figures. At first the club had only two courts, which were soon extended to four, followed in 1974 by the first glass-back court in New Zealand. Two further glass-back, viewing courts were added in the mid 1990's, one named after Sir David Beattie and the other after the playing legend Susan Devoy, who often played at the Shore club if never becoming a member. The club’s original membership was 40 and, though the numbers have fluctuated in subsequent years, especially with the advent of seven-day shopping, today there are more than 500. North Shore hosted a number of New Zealand Opens in the 1970s and several of the world’s best players, including Australia’s Geoff Hutt and the Pakistanis Jahangir Khan and Jansher Khan competed in tournaments. The club also staged national championships in 1977, 1981, 1987, 1997 and 2005. It helped Henderson host the 1983 world championships and was the venue for the world masters championships in 1991. Two leading New Zealand players of the 1970s and 80s, Craig and Robyn Blackwood, started with the club as New Zealand juniors and as

home-grown products rate as North Shore’s best players. But others have also won national honours while club members, including Don Burmeister, Stephen Hughes, Jenny Webster, Leilani Marsh and current stars Martin Knight and Catherine McLeod. In 2007 Shore won the Cousins Shield, the country’s top teams competition, while the women have had an even better record in the female equivalent of the Cousins Shield, the Mitchell Cup. Shore has won this in 1983-84, again in 2008 and in the past three years has achieved a three-peat. Register your interest for the celebrations:Email: admin@northshoresquash.co.nz, Phone: 09 489 4760.

North Shore Squash Club 50 Year Celebrations

November 1 - 3, 2012 If you have had a past association with the North Shore Squash Club then we would love to invite you to be part of our upcoming 50 year celebrations. These will include a President’s Cocktail Function, Formal Celebration Dinner, Exhibition Matches, Open Day & More

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5 Favourites On The Shore

Mike Cohen, (QSM, JP) an elected member of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board, leads the Board’s portfolio of Parks, Sport and Recreation, as well as Civil Defence. A chartered accountant by profession, Mike was the Devonport Community Board Chair for its last seven years before the re-structuring of Local Government in Auckland. He retired from his role as Chair of the New Zealand Community Board Executive of Local Government in 2011 when Community Boards ceased to operate in Auckland. After 16 years offshore in a rural environment, Mike returned to New Zealand in the 1990’s and was keen to help local areas revitalise and recapture their sense of community. The family’s choice to live on the Devonport Peninsula provided a village lifestyle that made for an easy transition from their previous rural life, whilst still being close to the CBD. Mike tells Channel about his top five favourites on the Shore…

Mike Cohen 5 Favourite Shore Things (QSM, JP) an elected member of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board

1. Devonport Part of the mosaic that makes up the Shore is Devonport. The ambience of this historic, maritime seaside village at the foot of two extinct volcanoes, never fails to make me appreciate how lucky I am to live and work on such a great Peninsula. 2. Idyllic Walks I endeavour to start my day with a walk that sharpens the mind and the senses. In all conditions fine, foggy, or stormy they each add a different dimension to the walk. We are spoilt for choice, but my current favourite starts just before dawn near the Clock Tower on King Edward Parade and proceeds past Torpedo Beach that now, thanks to the Devonport Community Board, is a wonderful sandy bay. Striding up North Head, each turn on the road provides a new view shaft that changes every day with light and sunshine bouncing off the water, the sea’s colours and movement and the ever-present boating activity. Reaching the top presents panoramic views in all directions. Then the descent on the other side enables a walk along Cheltenham’s neighbourhood beach and on to the expansive Narrowneck Beach, each totally different to the other. Returning to the Clock Tower I finish with a great coffee at Platter. The warm hospitable atmosphere, friendly staff and affable locals, amazing harbour vistas of anchored boats, passing small craft and ships sailing so close to the shore, always starts the day on a good note. 3. A ferry is the way to go! Having ferry services connecting us with the CBD, or even Waiheke, is a real bonus for the Devonport Peninsula. The surety that within 15 minutes you will arrive on the other side of the harbour is enriched, from time to time, with the presence of a pod of orcas or dolphins. Irrespective of your day, the ferry ride provides an opportunity for time out on your journey home.

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4. Sense of Community In today’s world, where people and families are more transient than in the past, we cannot take a sense of community for granted and need to work at it. We are fortunate that on the Shore we have community organisations like the Devonport Community House, Sunnynook Community House, Yes Disability Resource Centre and our Community Co-ordinators, all striving to make a difference. Adding to the mix are community arts centres like The Rose Centre, Lake House Arts Centre and the Michael King Writers Centre. Combine these with, to name a few, our Rotary, Lions and Scout clubs, sports clubs, toy libraries, churches and schools that bring people together and all help to provide the essential ingredient of a community of people knowing and recognising one other. In Devonport, a key component is a diverse, well-established and lively arts scene and the well-established Depot that enables artists and musicians to nourish their creative spirit and realise their potential. 5. Sport The choice of sports, including golf, available close to where I live would be difficult to surpass anywhere. I enjoy playing interclub tennis for the Belmont Park Racquets Club. The club was recognised in 2010 for its focus and achievements with tennis in general, and junior tennis in particular, when it was named NZ Tennis Club of the Year. This gives me the opportunity to compete with some great people from other clubs across the Shore in a format that strives to be friendly whilst also competitive. Right across the Shore many sports clubs provide strong grass roots sporting opportunities that bring people together. Those that I regularly support and visit for example North Shore Rugby (established 1873), North Shore Cricket (established 1864), and Belmont Park Bowling all have amazing people who work hard to achieve this.

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001 Channel: Fathers Day Gift Ideas 002 Channel Community Calendar 004 Out & About On The Shore 013 Takapuna: Cafe Melba 013 Benefitz: Team Members Wanted 014 The Channel Eating Out Guide 017 The Channel Eating Out Guide: Feature Restaurant 018 Cafes On The Shore 020 Buy Local & Win! A 2012 Toyota Yaris 021 North Shore Squash Club: 50th Anniversary Celebrations, November 1st – 3rd, 2012 022 5 Favourites On The Shore 024 In The Channel 025 My North Shore With Rachel Ramsay 026 Cover Feature: One on One with CJ Bruton 028 Views From The Beach With Peter White, Tbba 031 Channel Feature: Takapuna – Exciting Plans for the Future 036 Channel Q&A: Ben from The Block 039 Stand Up Paddling: With Mark Jackson 041 The Arts & Entertainment: With Shane Cortese 042 Travel: With The Nauti Adventure Company, Takapuna 044 Everything Apple: With iStore, Takapuna 045 Your Home With Home Fabrics 046 Retail Therapy At Takapuna Beach 048 Quality Healthcare: With Medplus Lake Road 048 The Smile Doctor 049 Book Reviews for Booklovers from The Booklover 050 Health & Fitness: With Les Mills Takapuna 052 Shore City Takapuna: News 056 Feature Interview: Anna Hartley 056 Northside With Mayor Len Brown 057 Ethical & Sustainable Meat With Ruby’s List 058 Health & Fitness: Pilates Unlimited 058 Spotlight On The Takapuna Markets 060 The Healthy Channel With John Appleton 061 AA Smartfuel: Shop locally and save on fuel 064 Making a Splash: with Olympic Swimmer Melissa Ingram 065 Delicious Treats With Devonport Chocolates 067 North Harbour Club: News 068 For The Home With Harvey Norman, Wairau Park 070 Smales Farm: News 076 Auckland Council With George Wood 077 Channel Community News 078 Milford - Everyone’s Place: News 080 Milford - Everyone’s Place: Caci 081 Milford - Everyone’s Place: News

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Welcome to the August 2012 issue of Channel Magazine. Another big issue loaded with great things happening on the north side of the Harbour Bridge. Father's Day is happening early next month so we thought it a good idea to focus on one of our high profile dad's for this issue. We wanted to celebrate the role that fathers play. So Catherine Murray was despatched to have a chat with Breakers Basketball Star CJ Bruton, who is also a star as a family man and a doting dad to his two young sons Rio and Roc (Wife and mum Jess completes the family). It is a great story. Our team had fun photographing them as well for the cover of this issue as CJ and his boys were really easy to work with. Enjoy CJ's story. He is a star in every way. As you will have read in previous issues of Channel Magazine we are keen to see progress in Takapuna. Most will agree that this is well overdue. Two things happened over the past month that have warmed my heart in this area. The first outlets in the new McKenzies development in Hurstmere Road opened for business. These are hospitality outlets for Pack & Co (great bars and eating establishments) and Mexico, the restaurant that has been hugely popular in Britomart. There is a cafe and fashion retail to follow in the very near future. The McKenzies development is top notch and I believe is the forerunner to many others following to make Takapuna a very special place in the years ahead. Well done to Alan Wiltshire and all the others involved in this quality development. Hand in hand with this type of private investment in the area is the release of Auckland Council's Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan. For this issue I decided I would take a good look at the draft plan to put together a feature for Channel. What I discovered is an excellent document that sets out an exciting path for Takapuna Beach. It is very logical, as I have detailed in the feature I have put together. My only hope is that we now let it come to fruition. I urge you to go online and have a read and make a submission. My advice is to support it. It is disappointing that mainstream media only ever really highlights the negative aspects of these things. As you will have read quite a bit this year in this magazine, we see one of our key roles in Channel being to encourage locals to buy locally. This is good for everyone. To put our money where our mouths are we have bought a car worth $25,000 – a 2012 Toyota Yaris from our good friends at North Shore Toyota – that we are giving away to one lucky reader. The competition closes at the end of next month (September 30th), with the winner to be drawn and announced in October. Buy local to make sure that you are in to win! Enjoy your monthly Channel! - Aidan and the team at Benefitz Email: aidan@benefitz.co.nz Twitter: @AidanLBennett / @channelmag

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My North Shore with Rachel Ramsay

By Rachel Ramsay. Rachel is a third year communications student at AUT (majoring in journalism). Being a ‘real Shore local’, and also a bit younger than a few of us at Channel Magazine, she provides a refreshing perspective for the magazine by contributing this monthly column, as well as special interest and feature articles.

Father’s Day a Day Worth Celebrating People tend to go on a bit about Father’s Day don’t they? About how it’s a Hallmark Holiday, how it’s commercialised within an inch of its life, how it’s only there to make money in an otherwise quiet retail period, (insert more skeptical remarks of such nature here.) I tend to disagree. While I’ll admit that we’ll probably get bombarded with adverts for sport shoes, hammers, books, and socks a bit more than usual this month, we should not be so quick to brand the whole thing as some kind of shallow, insignificant, profit-generating conspiracy celebration. Father’s Day was first brought about in Washington, 1910, in a town called Spokane. It was organised by a woman called Sonora Smart Dodd. Her father, a Civil War veteran, was a single parent who had raised six children at the Spokane YMCA. After hearing sermons about Mother’s Day, Sonora suggested to her pastor that it was only fair they hold a similar service for Father’s Day. Initially the concept did not have much success beyond the borders of Spokane. Then in the 1920s when Sonora went to university, she stopped promoting the celebration and it paled into insignificance. However when she came home from Uni in the 1930s, she started raising awareness for the day on a national level. She had some help, of course, from the industries that would make the most money from the celebration - tie manufacturers, tobacco companies, hardware factories, and so on. It is for this reason that Father’s Day had a reputation as nothing but a moneymaking opportunity from the outset. Americans resisted the holiday for the first few decades, and newspapers ridiculed it. They branded it as a cheap attempt to replicate the commercial success of Mother’s Day – and let’s be fair about this, that is often how it seems to come across. However before we get too cynical, I think it’s important to remember and reflect on the motivation that originally saw Father’s Day marked on the calendar. Bunnings didn’t get together with Whitcoulls and Rebel Sport and say “We’re not making enough money in the age 20+ male demographic. How can we fix this?” No, not even close. The idea came from someone who appreciated that her dad had raised her into an articulate and useful human being, and thought there should be a day where everyone else appreciated their dads for the same reason. Sure, commercial entities didn’t waste much time in jumping aboard the

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Cover Feature: One on One with CJ Bruton

CJ Bruton Fatherhood

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CJ Bruton has won five NBL Championships, was awarded the finals Most Valuable Player in 2012, and has numerous other highlights spanning his basketball career of 18 years. Yet there’s something about CJ that speaks louder than his dedication to his sport – it’s his dedication to his family and fatherhood. Channel writer Catherine Murray caught up with CJ during his first off-season in 10 years to chat about what drives him both on and off the court and how being a father brings on a whole new ball game!

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It was at the tender age of three that Kansas-born CJ moved to Australia following his father Cal Bruton’s signing with the Brisbane Bullets in 1979. “My father was a big influence growing up. He was and still is my idol. He moved us from the States so we could grow up in Australia and have dual citizenship. To give your kids anything that you can give them is quite something and I’ll always hold dear to my heart what my father has done for my mum, my brothers and me.” Growing up CJ’s interest in basketball was fostered by both nature and nurture. “I think from a young age I was a bit more fortunate having a father that was a great athlete who played the game very well and was well known. I spent a lot of time watching his video tapes, studying how he shot the ball. Genes played a little part, but obviously unless you put in the work you never reach your potential.” CJ also had his father’s team mates to study and learn from. “I had guys that I could pick and grow from, and as a kid that was pretty special. Also, having all the video tapes and being able to study them - today you can go on YouTube but that wasn’t around when I was growing up!” CJ’s love of basketball consumed a fair amount of his younger days, both on and off the court. “Around the house I had my own teams. I’d play against Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and my favourite player Isiah Thomas. I did all the battling, passing to myself, blocking my own shot and working on different routines. Of course I played on one of the teams, always made the All Star Five and my team was always the top of the league! My mum used to look at me sometimes and wonder ‘what is going on in your head and will you get this out of your system?’. But, of course, I’m still playing today!” At 9 years old CJ came across his first challenge after not being selected for the under 14s national team. With some gentle persuasion from his father, he tried out the following year and found success. “In the end when it came to picking the team, they decided to pick me this time round, and they selected me as captain as well which made it even more special. I went away to the Nationals, played well and I still have my jersey today. It’s something I hold very dear to my heart. Even though I’ve been to the Olympics and to the NBA, that jersey, even though the ‘e’ on ‘Brisbane’ is coming off, is still something that my mum has kept in the treasure chest so I can show my kids.” Now with a family of his own, CJ is enjoying what the North Shore has to offer with his wife Jess and his two young sons, Rio and Roc. “I told the Breakers you can talk to me about anything to do with basketball and I can tell you a lot about it as well, but at the end of the day my wife is going to make the decision to move to New Zealand, because if she’s happy then I know that I’ll be happy. I’ll be able to help the Breakers the best way I know how, and

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hopefully we can win championships along the way and grow together. It’s been a great family move. New Zealand is a great place to raise a family, and I see that more and more.” Rio has just started school and seems to be following in his father’s footsteps. “Rio just loves the game of basketball,” says CJ. “He wants to be involved and studies how I shoot the ball. He loves school, hanging out with the older kids playing basketball, just like I did. It’s good for the older kids too, accepting the younger ones and playing with them, which takes patience as we all know! From the very first time I played for the Breakers he’s gone through the book talking about every player, and wanting to be all the players. His favourite player was Tony Ronaldson, and then it was Mika Vukona. Obviously he was excited after winning the last championship, and he showed that excitement on the court. It was a special moment for him as well as me and it’s something that he’s going to remember.”

It’s been a great family move. New Zealand is a great place to raise a family, and I see that more and more. CJ says he just gives his boys the same guidance that his parents gave him in life, in faith and in sport. “For both of my boys right now I just hope they learn their manners, be great kids, and do well in school. It’s always about trying, and setting realistic goals. Set goals you want to reach, and sometimes you won’t reach them but there are different ways of getting to them – it’s all achieving. Kids also need to know that there will be setbacks and not everything is going to come their way. I’m teaching Rio this at the moment. You don’t get everything you want, and when you don’t, it doesn’t mean you give up, and it doesn’t mean you be sneaky about it either! Rio has his mummy’s genes and his mummy’s face, and he wins his Dad over a lot!” Talking to CJ you get the sense that his passion for the sport runs deeper than just playing the game. His dedication to all aspects of the game extends to encouraging the younger generation to get involved in a sport. “You want to teach your kid at a young age how to communicate with others, how to be involved in sport, how to share, how to take defeat as well as winning a game, how to accept winning and shake hands. It’s not always easy – win a game, lose a game, you play well, you play bad – you just have to pick yourself up. The same goes for all sports, not just basketball.” One of the great things about basketball is that the sport is able to reach across the whole community says CJ. “Every school has a court and there is so much you can do there – you don’t have to be in a team. You can work on your skills by yourself and work on different moves. Being at the Breakers we get to go out to the schools in the community and that’s very special. We’ve all learnt to communicate well and handle different situations. Some kids are very shy and we know how to bring them out so they can feel excited, not only to meet us, but about being able to communicate and play with us on the same floor that they watch us play on, and for them to believe that one day they can be just like a Breaker. But I always tell them that I’m just like them, I’m still a little kid at heart and I’m excited that they’re excited and that’s what keeps driving me to play the game.” As for the Olympics, it’s track and field that has held CJ’s interest from a young age. “I wasn’t the fastest and I definitely couldn’t jump the highest, but I was certainly smart on the basketball side of things. For my training I’ve taken bits and pieces of what they do for track and field. Swimming is a great sport for basketball recovery wise, and if you don’t feel like running, then try riding a bike, or rowing. Even though it’s not basketball orientated, it’s still the same muscles that you use in the game. It’s just a different way to get your

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energy and your blood going at a high level.” CJ says attending the Olympics to represent Australia in 2004 was a great eye-opener as he was able to meet other athletes and learn from them. “With every sporting code I asked questions, from what the athletes ate to how they prepare to what challenges them. When you’re at the Olympics you’re one of the best athletes in the world. You represent your country and you’re trying to do your country proud, but you also want to make a name for yourself. The people who have been involved from the time that I first started playing basketball to now, they’ve all played a very big part for me, not only getting to the Olympics, but where I am in my career and how I handle myself on and off the court.” Looking to the new season, CJ’s work on the court will be supported and enriched by his family on the sidelines and of course, his fans in the crowds. “I finished up with a championship and I won a finals MVP, so I want to come out of the box and show that I expect to be playing at that high level coming into the new season and continuing on until I finish playing. You have to give everything you’ve got because first and foremost it’s not all for the basketball – it’s for your family. I give everything for them and then I’m able to play the best way I know, and everyone will be able to enjoy what CJ brings to the basketball court.”

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Views From The Beach with Peter White, TBBA

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Takapuna Beach What an exciting time for Takapuna with a number of projects either underway, coming to fruition or in the planning stages. By the time Channel magazine is printed the first stage of the McKenzies project will have opened. I have been fortunate enough to observe the quality fitout of this new Pack & Co bar and restaurant precinct, led by The Commons Bar, Bistro and Restaurant, and am absolutely confident that customers will be astounded. It is of the highest quality and will provide both residents and visitors to Takapuna with an upmarket entertainment option that will add a great deal to the North Shore. The draft Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan has been released for consultation and provides some answers as to how the beach will cope with the competing demands for its space as our town centre intensifies. Aviva Investors Asia Pacific Property Fund has purchased Westfield Shore City for $83.5 million, the largest real estate deal in New Zealand this year, and given the biggest endorsement yet to the growing reputation that Takapuna is developing both nationally and internationally. The redevelopment of Hurstmere Green is making good progress towards its November completion date and will provide a wonderful place of relaxation in the centre of Takapuna, linking seamlessly with the new hospitality precinct that is emerging at the southern end of town. Hope to see you here soon – Pete

Council announces plans for Takapuna Beach and Reserve

Auckland Council has released its Draft Takapuna Beach Management Plan. It is pleasing to see that the plan primarily sets out to retain the special character of Takapuna Beach and looks to address the competing demands for space by proposing different activity zones. These zones would allow events to take place (in the central part of the reserve adjacent to The Strand) whilst protecting the cultural heritage and geologically significant features of the reserve, including the southern headland, Te Uru Tapu and the Fossil Reef. Licenses for temporary vendors such as ice cream carts will be considered on a case-by-case basis, however no leases or licenses will be provided for land south of The Strand to the Hauraki Road cliffs. Included in the draft plan are the following discussion points: • Takapuna Beach should be a major destination for Boating and Sailing, which is due recognition to its reputation of providing some of the best sailing waters in the world. • The lease for the Holiday Park will not be renewed, however a metro styled motorhome concept is considered together with a great deal more open space on the 6892 square metre site. • A children's playground is proposed. The National Ocean Water Sports Centre will be located at the Northern End of the beach close to the boat ramp with 30% of this facility being available for community use. This sits nicely with the North Shore's growing reputation as the sporting capital of New Zealand and home to elite sports people from a variety of codes. The Holiday Park has an international reputation, and is enviable, in providing a campsite alongside New Zealand's premier beach and within a stones throw of a vibrant town centre. Although it is in a state of disrepair, the TBBA were supportive of the retention of the Holiday Park, albeit it a scaled

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back and refurbished model, thus providing more public space. However the beach and lake will become the back yards to the 30,000 people projected to live and work in Takapuna by 2040. The quality of space is important, and with little flat reserve and limited beach space at northern end during high tide, the 6829sm Holiday Park site becomes an attractive proposition. According to the draft plan hundreds of thousands of people visit the beach each year (62,000 in 2010 attended organised events alone in addition to the many thousands of other daily visitors) and the demands for public space will only become more severe. The metro styled motorhome concept is interesting and may still provide an opportunity to retain a feature that has special significance to thousands of people who have fond memories of staying in the holiday park dating back to the 1930s. Because of the limited amount of sandy beach space at the Northern end, I would also like to see the investigation of sanding part of the holiday park site, providing beach goers with an area adjacent to the beach, to play beach games (cricket, volleyball, soccer, touch and the like) or for less active recreational pastimes (sunbathing, picnicking reading etc). It could also be utilised for formal competition from social grades up to International level, with a temporary grandstand erected on top of the additional parking space in Allison Ave (proposed in the draft plan) should the later occur. It is pleasing to see that a playground is provided for. Takapuna is screaming out for youth activities with our only playground being one of limited resource and placed inappropriately alongside our major carpark, a bus terminal and at one of the Takapuna’s busiest intersections on the corner of Anzac Street and Lake Road. We would hope that the playground would become a destination playground and possibly water themed, taking into account Takapuna Beach's aquatic reputation. It is disappointing that the draft plan makes little mention of a proposed wharf and is not supportive of regular beach cleaning. Council provides huge resources maintaining parks, but little on grooming the best urban beach (and probably the most walked) in New Zealand. We were most embarrassed by the image used recently in an article in the NZ Herald regarding the Draft Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan, in which mounds of seaweed dominated the picture. Takapuna Beach is walked daily by thousands of people; it is New Zealand's best urban beach and as such should be presented in a pristine manner. Both residents and visitors should not have to be subjected to the stench of rotting seaweed nor dodging rubbish washed onto the sand by the many stormwater pipes that drain onto Takapuna Beach. Urban beaches throughout the world are regularly groomed as are Blockhouse Bay beach and those on Tamaki Drive. Takapuna Beach is Auckland’s premier urban beach and deserves the same.

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Overseas investors realise Takapuna's potential

Aviva Investors Asia Pacific Property Fund has purchased Westfield Shore City for $83.5 million, the largest real estate deal in New Zealand this year. Aviva (the world's fifth-largest life insurer with $411 billion in funds under management) completed extensive due diligence before the purchase (its first into the New Zealand property market) and it is extremely pleasing to see the confidence that exists internationally around Takapuna's undoubted potential. Aviva have recognised that Takapuna is a destination boutique fashion area in an entertainment hub and intend rebranding Shore City, enhancing and adding value so it's more relevant to the needs of the residents of Takapuna. Shore City is 99% leased with 74 tenants serviced by 830 carparks. The TBBA welcomes Aviva to Takapuna and look forward to working with them.

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I am pleased to see that Auckland Transport is promoting a frequent bus service between Takapuna’s retail sector and the commercial heart at Smales Farm, which, combined with the Hospital, are home to over 7000 workers. The service runs from both Takapuna (Bus stops 3381 and 3568) and Smales Farm (bus stop 3362 and stopping in Taharoto Road at 3345 and 3347) every 15 minutes (or better) Monday to Friday during the day with a cash fare of $1.90. This service provides those living and working in Takapuna with a frequent and convenient access to the CBD via the Northern Busway as well as enabling workers at Smales Farm and the Hospital to access the strong retail and hospitality precincts of Takapuna Beach. For further information or to request a soft copy of the service brochure, please contact peter@takapunabeach.co.nz

Win Tickets to Men in Tutus

We have two double passes up for grabs for this side splitting comedy playing at the Bruce Mason Centre on Friday 24th August and Saturday 25th August. From the thrilling pirouettes of the male dancers (in male and female costumes) with brilliant choreography to the side-splitting humour, "Men in Tutu's" is a show designed for the young and old. The greatest troupe of it's kind around the globe; Men in Tutu’s features over fifty ballets in its repertoire and an array of the best international professional male ballet dancers from thirteen nations producing bang-up amusement and LOL "Laugh Out Loud" family entertainment for all. To enter simply email business@bmc.co.nz with Men in Tutus in the subject line and include your full name and telephone number. Entries close at 5pm on Friday 10th August and winners will be notified by phone.

BNZ celebrates 150 years of banking in New Zealand It’s a milestone year for the BNZ as it celebrates 150 years of banking in New Zealand. From the opening of the first branch on Queen Street, Auckland in October 1861 to the early days in the Otago gold-fields, a lot has changed in the banking world. BNZ has been the driver behind a number of unique initiatives, introducing drive-in banking in 1954, New Zealand’s first bank for women, the Ladies Bank in 1958 and in 1964 the company began developing a computer network enabling overnight settlements between banks – a world first! Devonport was the first store to open on the Shore in 1910. It would be another 15 years before the BNZ opened an agency in Takapuna (1925) before becoming a fully fledged branch in 1947. “Although the shape and size of our store has changed since then, our commitment to being the Bank “for” New Zealand has never changed,” says Stefan Waijers, Store Manager at BNZ Takapuna. “We now welcome our customers into a truly modern banking environment with our open plan layout, designed for easy interaction between customers and staff and great technological advances like free wifi for customers and even foreign currency dispensed from our ATM”. Stefan says his team at BNZ Takapuna is dedicated to meeting the diverse needs of their customers with specialists based directly at the Store. “We have property investment specialists, a business banking manager and a migrant banking team dedicated to Chinese and Korean speaking customers." BNZ has a long and proud history of community support with initiatives such as the Save the Kiwi Trust, their support of Plunket and the annual ‘Closed for Good’ campaign where thousands of BNZ’ers take to the community for a day each year, to help with local projects. And for the local business community BNZ Takapuna hosts an open networking evening on the first Tuesday of every month called BNZ Connect. BNZ Takapuna welcome you to their Store at any time between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday at 491-493 Lake Road, Takapuna. Visit: www.bnz.co.nz

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Channel Feature: Takapuna – Exciting Plans for the Future

In this issue of Channel Magazine we are proud to bring you this feature on Takapuna's Transformation. This is the exciting title that Auckland Council are giving the project that will result in a great deal of progress for Takapuna. The feature includes three parts. Auckland Council's City Transformation Unit Manager John Dunshea, and DevonportTakapuna Local Board Chair Chris Darby, explain the process. Channel Magazine’s Aidan Bennett then provides his perspective on the Draft Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan. We also explain the exciting prospect of a 'Marine Activity Hub' at the northern end of Takapuna Beach, and get comment on this from Peter Wall of the Harbour Access Trust – the group responsible for delivering the National Ocean Water Sports Centre.

Takapuna’s Transformation Auckland Council's exciting plans for Takapuna The transformation of Takapuna into a metropolitan centre is a priority in the Auckland Plan. John Dunshea, manager of the City Transformation unit at Auckland Council, says a successful transformation needs to be supported by the necessary infrastructure. “This includes good access to the town centre, community facilities, parks, and public transport, as well as good urban design. “My team at Auckland Council is responsible for the delivery of a number of projects intended to enhance Takapuna,” he says. These projects are: The upgrade of Hurstmere Green and Hurstmere Road, redevelopment of the Strand and the Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan.

Hurstmere Green and Hurstmere Road Work is underway to transform Hurstmere Green into an urban park in the heart of Takapuna. Chair of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board Chris Darby says the board supports the work on Hurstmere Green because of the benefits it will bring to the area. “We are creating a vibrant, usable and accessible space where students, workers, residents, and visitors can gather, relax, and enjoy. It will also serve as a location for public events and entertainment,” he says. The upgrade will provide access from the park to Takapuna’s beachfront.

Above, and below right, artists impressions of Hurstmere Green upgrade.

Redevelopment of The Strand John Dunshea says Auckland Council has explored a wide range of options to turn the town centre to face the beach and to provide a larger reserve. “Our preferred option makes good use of council property assets in the area and requires the acquisition of land from local landowners with whom we are in discussion,” he says. Mr Dunshea is hopeful of a positive outcome to these discussions.

The Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan Mr Dunshea says the Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan is a key component of the proposals to enhance Takapuna. “The beach and the associated reserve are a fundamental part of Takapuna’s character,” he says. Public Consultation on the Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan began on Tuesday 10 July and will run for approximately two months. Mr Dunshea explains that the draft plan’s primary focus is to protect the area’s cultural and environmental heritage, its outstanding landscape, and its social role as a treasured place – for today and tomorrow. “The second focus is to support more recreational activities in response to demand from casual visitors and organised groups.

Artists impression of what Hurstmere Road could look like.

“With this in mind, the draft plan proposes two options for the northern end of the beach,” he says. Option one is for a marine hub supporting active water related activities and a large area of public open space for passive recreation, with no provision for a motor home / holiday park. Option two provides some space for a motor home park, similar to the one operating on the waterfront in Wellington, as well as a marine hub and public open space. “This would mean the reserve land currently occupied by the Holiday Park could be used to provide more public open space for the community, as well as to provide space for water based recreational activities,” says Mr Dunshea. The Devonport-Takapuna Local Board encourages

everyone with an interest in Takapuna to read the draft plan that is out for consultation and make a submission. The local board will be on the hearing panel after consultation ends on 4 September. “It is important to plan our beach reserves in a similar way to how Cornwall Park was planned. Clever planning went into the use of that park and it has stood the test of time, judging by its popularity,” says Mr Darby. “The current plan for the beach reserve area is 12 years old. A new plan will ensure the entire reserve can be managed in a coordinated way, and also stand the test of time.” The local board would like to hear from everyone about the proposals for the use of the beach and the reserve. The outcome of the hearing will be known by February of next year.

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Channel Feature: Takapuna – Exciting Plans for the Future

Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan Have your say on this essential ingredient of Takapuna's future As a fairly central resident of Takapuna, and a very frequent (daily) beach user, I am excited about the attention the beach and its parks are getting at the moment. My belief is that the plans are exciting for the people of Takapuna and the wider North Shore. So, for this issue of Channel I have decided to take a look at the Draft Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan, and at the same time share my own thoughts with Channel Magazine readers. The Auckland Council has recently released their Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan and is inviting the public to make a submission to the draft by 4th September 2012. A Reserves Act hearing will follow, at which submitters will be invited to speak in support of their submissions. Mainstream media will tend to pick up on the negative and will seek comment from those who have an interest in sensationalising that negative. In this piece I have endeavoured to provide the facts and I have made positive comments. I urge you all to go online and download a copy of this draft plan so that you can make your own judgement. My belief is that you will be impressed. First of all I have to declare that I am a supporter of progress, in general, for Takapuna. I am not totally sure why, but for too long the result of whatever has gone on in Takapuna in the past has been a lack of progress. I am told that there are some who don't want progress for Takapuna which is very sad, as well managed progress is very important for the future of our little slice of paradise. From my perspective, doing nothing is not a substitute for progress. So this is why I personally welcome this Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan. We have to ensure this is done right for future generations. I see the reluctance for change being a primary reason why the development of Takapuna has been so piecemeal in the past. The community needs to work with all the interested parties – public, private, and the not-for-profit groups – to ensure that future development serves the needs of the wider public, and not just the desires of a vocal minority. For those who take the time to read the Draft Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan, you will find it is an excellent document. As the (Auckland Council) authors have pointed out, pages 73-99 of the draft plan cover a great deal, with the focus being on the objectives and policies of the plan. There are 15 strategic objectives outlined, covering:- cultural values; beauty/landscape; activities; marine usage; sport and recreation; events; leases for groups/usage; connecting with the township; protecting the marine environment; improving the natural environment; improving habitat and native biodiversity; protecting the

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fossilised forest reef and trees; creating built elements that complement the setting; limiting built structures near the water's edge. It is very important that a balance is achieved between all of these needs and what is required for the future of Takapuna. At the risk of being unpopular, the needs of the people must be just as important as the needs of the environment. I am not trivialising the importance of the environment. But all too often it is placed above the needs of the people and the 'do nothing' progress handbrake comes into play once again. This must not happen here and I believe it won't if we let this plan come to fruition. It is great that in this Draft Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan document Policy 1 (of 13) in the natural environment section (section 6.0, page 82) seeks to address the stormwater discharge issue. It says “Stormwater discharge will be managed through the range of interventions identified in the Takapuna Catchment Management Plan aimed at improving water quality, recreation amenity and the attractiveness of the beach. All unsightly outfall structures will be progressively removed and replaced with soft and sympathetic engineering solutions”. The other 12 points cover protection of the natural environment. Hand-in-hand with the natural environment section is the section entitled 'Unstructured Recreation Use' (section 7.0, page 84). Objectives of this are twofold – to retain a high level of unrestricted access to the beachfront reserve, and through the reserve to the adjoining Hauraki Waters and the East Coast Bays coastal walkway; to facilitate a wide range of recreational activities for general public use.

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Takapuna Beach possesses a number of distinct spaces characterised by their physical qualities and predominant uses. This plan identifies a management focus for each of these spaces. Compatible activities will be clustered together, intensifying and further reinforcing the purpose of each part of the reserve. The effect will be that the reserve takes on a more constructed character in certain areas, while the majority of the reserve will retain its informal character. activity long associated with Takapuna Beach. There is some great stuff in this section. The ‘Northern Unstructured Activity Zone’ is going to be a great space for the public. The reserve, right by the sea, will provide unstructured space for use by the public for activities such as picnicking and playing. This is likely to include a small play-space, seating, barbeques, drinking fountains, picnic tables, sitting terraces, integrated public art and sculpture, formed paths and boardwalks, with low planting utilising NZ native species appropriate to the ecosystem. No storage of boats is permitted in this area at any time. I believe the Primary Marine Hub is an exciting addition to Takapuna Beach. A ‘spine’ of marine related facilities and activities will be arranged along the Alison Avenue bank. The central portion of this spine will feature a roof car and trailer parking lot at the Alison Avenue road level, beneath which will be housed boats and boating facilities. An internal access road will extend between The Promenade and Earnoch Avenue, providing a thoroughfare and demarking the separation

Have your say on Takapuna’s beach reserve The Devonport-Takapuna Local Board invites feedback on a draft Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan. Walking tour To find out more about the draft plan, join a walking tour of the reserve area this Sunday 5 August at 10am outside the Takapuna Library. Make a submission Copies of the plan and submission forms are available on the website or at the Devonport and Takapuna libraries. Submissions close 4:30pm, Tuesday 4 September. Find out more: phone 09 301 0101 or visit www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/devonporttakapuna

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The section entitled ‘Organised Events and Commercial Activities’(section 8.0, page 85) really sets out a plan for managing the growing demand for temporary beach events. These events are enjoyed immensely by the public and add vibrancy to the beach and Takapuna, but obviously need to be managed due to the demand. The ‘Leases, Licences and Structured Uses’ section (section 9.0, page 87) will be the subject of a great deal of debate. This examines existing agreements, likely new agreements, and outlines a desire to create a distinct 'marine activity hub' at the northern end of Takapuna Beach in proximity to the popular boat ramp. Included is a piece addressing the campground. It reads, “No provision is made for the Takapuna Beach Holiday Park to renew its lease. The land occupied by this activity will be reallocated after March 2013, as identified in the following section 10 of this plan.” Four objectives are outlined : to allow for the continuation and renewal of existing leases and licenses where such use supports the overarching objectives of this plan; to allow for a limited number of new leases and licenses where such uses would contribute to the overarching objectives of this plan; to ensure that the reserve remains predominantly accessible for unstructured recreation; to ensure that the informal character of the reserve is not compromised by structures associated with leases and licenses, and that the cultural, landscape and environmental values of the reserve are protected. The policies in the ‘Leases, Licences and Structured Uses’ section cover the Takapuna Beach Cafe, Takapuna Beach Holiday Park, Takapuna Boating Club (premises at The Strand and storage area at The Promenade), the new lease to Yachting New Zealand for the proposed National Ocean Water Sports Centre (NOWSC) and their Hardstand and Small Boat Storage Areas, as well as Waka Ama (Ngati Whatua O Orakei Māori Trust Board) for Waka Ama. Point eight of the policies in this section details 11 objectives that new leases or licences are to be granted under, providing a great deal of protection for the beach. Policy nine says that licences will be considered for temporary vendors such as ice cream carts on a case by case basis. Wouldn't these types of enterprises add a great deal to the vibrancy and lifestyle of the beach? Policy 10 says that no leases or licences will be granted for land south of The Strand to the Hauraki Road cliffs which protects a great deal of the beach. Section 10 (page 92) covers what is called the 'Management Zones'. My belief is that this section is integral to the entire plan. It is very easy for those to criticise parts of the plan that they don't necessarily agree with. But they must consider the entire plan and this is an important part of it. The introduction of section 10 clearly outlines this. It says “Takapuna Beach possesses a number of distinct spaces characterised by their physical qualities and predominant uses. This plan identifies a management focus for each of these spaces. Compatible activities will be clustered together, intensifying and further reinforcing the purpose of each part of the reserve. The effect will be that the reserve takes on a more constructed character in certain areas, while the majority of the reserve will retain its informal character.” The area north of The Promenade will be the most active and developed part of the reserve. One of the options for this area is to provide for a small scale motorhome park in order to continue a contemporary style of the holidaying

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Coastal walkway.

between the Marine spine, and the Unstructured Activity Zone. The main car and trailer park will be rationalised and pulled back from the coastal edge to enable pedestrians to have priority at the water’s edge. A reduction in car park spaces in this location will be more than offset by new parking on the Alison Avenue roof area. A new change and toilet facility will be located between the boat storage and the Takapuna Kiosk. Further encroachment on the Fossil Forest is prohibited. The potential for a Metro-style Motorhome Park is also being canvassed through this plan. This may be a way that the desires of people who are keen to see the campground remain can be accommodated. Those who have opposed the development of yachting and related facilities for Takapuna Beach in the past have often let the debate lower to the level of "looking after the rich" mentality. I can assure readers that this is far from the truth. Water sports – led by yachting – are a big part of New Zealand's heritage. It's a big part of Takapuna's heritage. We should celebrate it. Creating facilities that will foster water sports – not just conventional yachting, but the growing sports of Stand Up Paddling, waka ama, sea kayaking, canoeing, kite surfing etc. – will only be positive for Takapuna. The Central Unstructured Activity Zone refers essentially to the Gould Reserve area, bordered by The Strand. The focus of this space is on unstructured activity and organised events. No further formal leases or licences are permitted in this area. Low key events which do not preclude public access are permitted. Pedestrian access along the waterfront is to remain unimpeded. The existing toilet and change block will be removed from its current location where it is dominant in the view from The Strand, and repositioned to a less visible location nearby. The following developments are permitted:- furnishings including seating, barbeques, drinking fountains, picnic tables (set back from the water’s edge); judiciously located pohutukawa trees to provide shade while protecting views; removal of exotic tree species; the existing boat ramp will be retained but no new ramps are permitted; a children’s play space; boardwalks and rain gardens along The Strand Promenade; integrated public art and sculpture. The Ends of Roads and Small Reserves to the south of The Strand/Gould Reserve area are sensibly excluded from 'unstructured activity', although enhancements/improvements are planned. As a frequent dog walker and jogger from Takapuna to Milford, I am thrilled that attention is being given to the Coastal Walkway in the plan. The draft plan details that the Coastal Walkway will be developed to the north of Earnoch Avenue. The Promenade and its facilities such as terraced steps and seats, cafés and available drinking water will support this activity. The design idiom for the reserve as well as for signage and way finding will reinforce the connections as part of this local and nationwide coastal walk. Fantastic! Section 11 (page 96) covers ‘Urban Integration’. It is explained as follows in the draft plan document: “Integration with Takapuna Town Centre is an important consideration in determining the future of Takapuna Beach. As Takapuna repositions itself as a metropolitan centre, so must the beachfront respond to the opportunity to create better connections and support improved amenity and quality standards. The two clear objectives are:- to create a well-integrated Town Centre and Beachfront environment which supports urban outcomes; to protect the reserve and associated marine environment from any negative effects of urban development. I believe the majority of people who live, work and frequent Takapuna are looking forward to the day that the town centre turns around and connects with the beach. Hopefully this is what section 11 is all about! The final section in pages 73-99 of the Draft Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan covers ‘Design and Amenity Standards’ (section 12, page 98). The piece I picked out of this that warmed my heart was the following: “It is important that an overall co-ordinated and coherent design idiom be established to support the character and identity of the beach and its adjoining urban environment, and thus reinforce the distinctive identity of Takapuna.” Music to our ears! Many would say this will be the first time Takapuna has had a 'co-ordinated and coherent design'.

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An overhead artists impression from the Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan showing proposal for camp ground land use.

An artists impression from the Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan showing proposal for camp ground land use from boat ramp.

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An aerial artists impression from the Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan showing proposal for camp ground land use.

National Ocean Water Sports Centre The heart of Takapuna's Marine Activity Hub The National Ocean Water Sports Centre (NOWSC) and marine hub, as proposed in the Draft Takapuna Reserve Management Plan will become Yachting New Zealand's future high performance home, including secure storage for boats, space for administration staff and coaches. The NOWSC, while catering primarily to high performance ocean water sports athletes, is also intended to accommodate a range of community uses, enhancing public amenities and providing new public open space. The site proposed in the Draft Takapuna Reserve Management Plan (the campground site) was not a realistic option some three years ago when Government's high performance sports facilities plans were announced. Local Government (then Andrew Williams, Mayor of North Shore City) and Central Government (Murray McCully, Minister of Sport) identified The Strand site and invited the Harbour Access Trust (HAT), that had the mandate to investigate ferry services to Takapuna and Browns Bay, to become the entity to develop. Funds confirmed were from:- Central Government $3 million (via SPARC), $3 million from North Shore City (now Auckland City), and $2.5 million from the NZ Community Trust. HAT and Yachting New Zealand joined forces on the project and prepared plans, costings, advanced various consents, held consultations with various interested parties and were committed to delivering the NOWSC on The Strand (adjacent to Takapuna Boating Club). For The Strand site to be suitable, a condition of the funding consents was a hardstand facility for rigged yachts to be provided on a site adjacent to the Takapuna Beach Café/Takapuna Boating Club storage shed, on the northern end adjacent to the existing campground. The Devonport-Takapuna Local Board, on the advice from Independent Commissioners, deferred a decision on the lease application to make the hardstand site available for

the NOWSC. The deferral was implemented pending the outcome of the Takapuna Reserve Management Plan. Therefore the development was put on hold and the project team stood down. "When the Draft Takapuna Reserve Management Plan was released (in early July) by Auckland Council, showing the NOWSC and the boat storage on the northern end of the reserve, the many advantages over The Strand location were obvious," says Peter Wall, Chairman of HAT. "Based around the Takapuna Reserve Management Plan guidelines, we have commissioned architects Warren & Mahoney to design a new centre for high performance yachting – including boat storage, hardstand and community water sports facilities. On the new site there are considerable advantages such as being able to provide increased parking, including trailer parks, greater community access and viewing areas including paraplegic facilities, covered storage for the Waka, community toilets and showers. An attractive integrated high performance and community facility can be developed and the site lends itself to lower construction costs and does not face the traffic challenges that were on The Strand." Peter Wall says the boat storage area will store Yachting New Zealand high performance yachts and will provide for community storage for yachts, sail boards, kites, Stand Up paddle boards, kayaks, canoes – all of which can be easily launched on the nearby boat ramp, with wash down facilities and showers available on site. The NOWSC is being designed such that the community can use the facilities for events, meetings and the like.

Colleges and schools in the area will be encouraged to use the new centre. There is a link through the high performance and community uses with the AUT Millennium Centre (Mairangi Bay) which will provide integrated training and development programmes. The design requirement of the proposed facility is to allow public and community access through much of the space. The roof of the boat storage facility will double as parking and community viewing; the access way in front of the boat storage and NOWSC will be shared public space, with hand drawn trailers being the main launching method. The design brief provides for an integration and free access between the pedestrian, vehicle access points and the premises, with landscaping to protect and enhance the environment. "This is an opportunity to return the reserve to the community with the decision by the Auckland Council on the campground," adds Peter Wall. "Their idea (in the Draft Takapuna Reserve Management Plan) of creating a Marine Activity Hub is a good one, acknowledging the changing requirements of Takapuna, and the need to provide for significantly more people using the area in the future for organised water and land based events. We have a unique and once only opportunity to give back reserve land to the community, provide better public walkways, and at the same time create a controlled environment for water access for marine sports and recreation activities. The loss of the campground is the cost but the question could be asked – if there was no campground there today on the waterfront reserve, would the public and the wider community be in support of such a facility as a new concept?"

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Channel Q&A: Ben from The Block

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sprouts up on the Shore The latest buzz in Auckland – and all of New Zealand – is the reality TV show The Block NZ. Channel Magazine caught up with the only Aucklander on the series, Ben Crawford, to hear the latest on the show, his new found appreciation of the Shore and how to get in on the bidding action! Channel Magazine: So, we heard that before The Block NZ you weren’t the biggest fan of the North Shore, has this changed? Ben Crawford: It’s not true. I am always heading north – especially on my way to surf. It has a good vibe, it’s beachy and the living . ford Libby and Ben Craw is easy. CM: So, do you think you will spend more time here on the Shore now? BC: I think that the bridge is a mental barrier for so many, but I think it is faster and cheaper to get to town from Takapuna than it is Kingsland. I have lived in Auckland for seven years, and after my nine plus weeks in Takapuna filming The Block NZ, I can easily say it is one of my favourite neighbourhoods in Auckland. CM: And, do you have any favourite local hangouts in Takapuna? BC: I think I had dinner at Renkon three to four times per week! I watched the rugby at Macs Brewbar and Elephant Wrestler on Hurstmere Road, and every judging period we all would head to Melba Café for brekkie. It’s just so cool to be so close to all the bars and restaurants – it’s almost like city apartment living, but with a more relaxed feel and more space. I also love the Sunday markets. I made it a habit to head over and pick up breakfast from Pukeko Bakery every weekend.

CM: Do you think this vision fits with the vibe of the North Shore? BC: Definitely. There is a pocket of professionals or the creative professionals who are a bit trendy or urban but want more space. I would live in this house. CM: On the show, what was the toughest challenge? BC: The Marley Plumbing Challenge was tough. Trying to connect spouting with the water flowing from the start was harder than it seemed. When we started we were optimistic, but by the end we were frustrated, wet and cold. It was like a wet t-shirt contest in winter! CM: How was living in the house while you were renovating? BC: It wasn’t too bad. The cold could have been worse if we were in Christchurch or somewhere South. But, the entire house wasn’t airtight until the last two weeks of construction, so it was interesting. This experience was by far the toughest mental and physical challenge I have experienced. On average, while we were in the house, we were getting three to four hours of sleep. One instance in particular we only had two hours of sleep over 60 hours of working. It’s safe to say we had very little social time. CM: Any perks of being a new Kiwi reality TV star? BC: The recognition we are receiving has been amazing. Straight after the first episode aired there were tons of people walking and driving by the houses to get a peek at what we were doing. One family drove from Otara just to get a glimpse of us and actually took their photo with us. Another time a mother and daughter approached me in The Department Store out of the blue and spoke to me for 10 minutes about the show – wishing me good luck. The feedback has been very positive, and we have had lots of support. CM: Any female attention? BC: Lots of random Facebook requests, comments and tweets. One of my favourites: “You can nail my toolbox anytime!”

CM: What was your first reaction to the house you were given on The Block NZ? BC: What a mess! But, it was also easy to see the opportunity despite the fact that the house smelled horrible.

CM: And are you best friends with Mark Richardson now? BC: He’s a great guy. To be honest, he is quite the professional, and most of his time is spent learning lines or in front of the camera. The few times we have been able to properly hang out have been real fun.

CM: Is there anything you would have changed about your house? BC: No, I wouldn’t change anything. We had big ideas going into the project, but we thought the house could support them. And what we created is nearly identical to our original vision.

CM: Finally, we have to ask, any drama or gossip you can share? BC: Honestly, not really. I can’t think of anything. What you see on the show is what happened. Sorry I can’t offer anything better!

CM: Speaking of your vision, the show describes your style or approach as “relaxed contemporary”. What does this mean? BC: Clean lines, almost a Scandinavian feel. Lots of timber with metal accents. But, we want the place to feel like it is lived in.

The Block NZ airs on TV3 on Wednesday and Thursday nights at 7:30pm. Be sure to follow Ben and Libby’s progress by Liking them on Facebook: www.facebook.com/libbyandben. They need the North Shore support of this “local” boy! There will be public open homes tentatively on the 25th of August and 1st of September, and the auction will screen live on the 6th of September on TV3.

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Stand Up Paddling: with Mark Jackson

Our regular Stand Up Paddling (SUP) contributor is Mark Jackson, an energetic North Shore native and owner of Stand Up South Pacific and the new Stand Up Takapuna store. After 25 years competing and teaching in Hawaii, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, Mark Jackson is now "Mr StandUp" in this part of the world.

Lagoon Fever

A contagious disease in Rarotonga

They warned us about the mosquitoes, the Stone Fish and not to drink the water. They did not warn us about Lagoon Fever! On our third day on the beautiful Island of Rarotonga our family contracted this very contagious disease. It’s not like a case of “The Bott” which lasts only 24-72 hours. Lagoon Fever lasts an average of seven to 10 days. Some who’ve caught it have had relapses months later. Symptoms include: disorientation, fluid retention, highly elevated saline levels and pistonightonmaitaitus. I’m talking about a previously undiagnosed condition contracted by adventurous visitors seeking the ultimate lagoon experience of Stand Up Paddling in Rarotonga. The Rarotongan Resort and Spa literally sits on top of a translucent turquoise lagoon that stretches about one kilometre out to the reef and several kilometres east and west. As soon as we began paddling we became infected and infatuated with the sheer surreal experience of it all. Volcanic mountain peaks soar above you while below iridescent blue starfish, green yellow parrot fish and silvery needle fish, dance atop golden sands in knee deep sparkling waters creating a kaleidoscope of jigsaw color. The outer reef incarcerates you as a willing prisoner, yet tempts escape by beckoning you towards it’s perfect waves that form magically from nowhere to cascade like a waterfall onto the reef. In these warm tropical waters that are massaged by gentle trade winds, Stand Up Paddling incubates Lagoon Fever, that once contracted is fatal. I ventured out through Avana passage the day after a large Central Pacific storm generated three metre waves to be greeted by two local surfers. Sharing epic waves with only two other surfers is a once in a lifetime experience. Inversely, paddling the lagoons that circle the Island of Rarotonga is an experience that commands a repeat performance.

You’ll even see real life “Sea Dogs” It’s true! The dogs here go fishing and they’re damn good at it. As I sit here with a cocktail watching the sunset on the last day of my Stand Up Paddle vacation I feel less guilty than normal about being one day late in presenting my article to Channel Magazine. I find it difficult... almost impossible, to describe Lagoon Fever! It’s not hallucinogenic, it’s more happyotonic. Mind you that could just be the effect of pistonightonmaitaitus which tends to follow every dose of Lagoon Fever, each one tackling the unanswerable question – Which one of us is the medicine and which the Doctor? To catch a dose of Lagoon Fever with the option of a variety of medicinal beverages; please contact us or see the folks at Nauti Travel in Takapuna. They did a wonderful job for our family. To review one of the most beautiful Lagoon Resorts in the South Pacific that is also the home of Stand Up South Pacific, please visit www.therarotongan.com. We look forward to you joining us for a Stand Up Paddle holiday at The Rarotongan Resort & Spa. For details on how you can join us for a play date you’ll never forget, an adventure you’ll want to repeat, and memories that’ll last a lifetime; just give us a call.

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PRO TIPS with ... Hannah - Master colourist at OSCAR&CO.

Ride the Marcel Wave The Marcel Wave has been around since before you and I were born and has helped revolutionise hair styling through out time. In 2012 it's back on the red carpet and international runways for the likes of designers such as Zac Posen and Prada. The Marcel Wave is versatile and easy to wear. It can be worn to the beach; brushed out, naturally undone and textured. Then characterized with a rough centre part to give that chic Bohemian feel. Alternatively for a night out, give everyone in the

room wave envy with a glamorous old Hollywood 'do'; for example think Ginger Rogers or Grace Kelly. Smooth deep ridges parted on the side to soften the face structure with tresses tumbling over the shoulders. The Marcel wave is easy to achieve both in salon and at home. With the help of new tools available to us such as Kevin Murphy's Wave Clips these looks can be achieved quickly and with ease. Just clip in to any hair type and length; then apply heat. Drop into Oscar&CO. to try out the look.

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The Arts & Entertainment: with Shane Cortese

Shane Cortese

Nothing Trivial

Second season starts this month I’m writing this in late July in fact one day before I finish filming the second season of Nothing Trivial. It’s been a blast and tomorrow night we have the traditional “Wrap” party. The wrap parties are always an anticipated night as cast and crew get together to relax after what would have been a long winter shoot. We sit back and listen to the producer speeches and then watch the much loved ‘Bloopers” reel – of course with a cold beer! Shooting a television series in New Zealand is a labour of love. The hours are long especially for the core cast and every member of the crew. We shoot a five day weeks (which at times flows over to a six days). Hours generally are 6am through to 7pm Sunday through to Thursday. They shoot on a Sunday predominately, as it’s easier to get location availability. So for the core cast of Nothing Trivial quite often we can be heading off to work before the kids wake up and home again after they have gone to bed. Our wives and partners really work just as hard keeping households together over the 17-19 week shoot period. Once home, its time for a quick bite before hitting the lines for the next day. However for all its heavy time schedule, I am so fortunate and grateful to be doing a job I love. I’ve always wanted to act and in particular had a love affair with television. The thrill of getting new scripts, watching gaffers, directors of photography and sound teams get a location ready to go while we work on angles and script.

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I am so fortunate and grateful to be doing a job I love. I’ve always wanted to act and in particular had a love affair with television. Television is a result of a lot of different jobs coming together to complete the same goal and it’s a privilege to be part of it and see it happen. We go to air this month, In fact the last Sunday in August at 8.30pm on TV One. I will be nervous, excited and proud of my colleagues when I sit with the family and watch, hoping like mad it rates well so we can do it all over again. Have a great August – don't miss Nothing Trivial! Shane Cortese – shane@channelmag.co.nz

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Travel: with The Nauti Adventure Company, Takapuna

Your One Stop Travel Shop The Nautical Adventure Company, Takapuna This month sees us staving off the cold and thinking about how to keep warm. The enquiries about our Winter Warmers – Rarotonga, Noosa, the Gold Coast and Samoa have been keeping our team busy. However while our team have been dealing with all of the normal enquiries we are still getting questions like the following... "Do you just deal with cruises and stuff and do we have to go somewhere else for the air tickets?" The answer is no – we are a One-Stop-Shop and can provide everything – air tickets, accommodation, car hire and tickets to shows and sports events for when you get there, insurances. The lot. So come and see us and we can arrange a quote (and a coffee) for you. Our company's involvement with the Stand Up Paddle Board Competition being arranged by Stand Up Takapuna has given us both the opportunity to show exactly what we can provide. Our company is delighted to be associated with this competition, and look forward to an ongoing involvement with Mark and his Stand Up Takapuna team. The company is also one of the primary sponsors of the North Shore Marathon coming up in August and similarly we look forward to a great turnout on the day. Spot prizes will be spread around the field – so you do not have to be first to be a winner! A real exciting prospect is also available for the more daring of our customers. Christmas in Lapland, visiting Santa's workshop! Sleigh rides behind reindeer, staying in a hotel made entirely from ice (including the glasses!), anything is possible if we allow our minds to dream a little – the kid in all of us is not too far from the surface. For more information about these or any other offers, please see our team at The Nauti Adventure Company or our website for more details. Don't wait, join the Nauti experience – You won't be disappointed. The Nautical Adventure Company, Ground Floor, Crown Centre, 67-73 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna. Open: 8.30am-5pm Weekdays. Contact them on: (09) 488-7735 Email info@nautitravel.com www.nautitravel.com

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We can provide everything – air tickets, accommodation, car hire and tickets to shows and sports events for when you get there, insurances. The lot.

At Nauti we can organise: >> Flight Bookings >> Travel Insurance >> Theatre/Show Tickets >> Sporting Packages >> Family Holidays >> Fishing Charters

>> Christmas Functions >> Corporate Travel >> Diving >> Cruises >> River or Canal Boats

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THE NAUTI GOLF WEEKEND ESCAPE Fully cooked breakfast for two Includes: One night’s accommodation for two (twin share available) - Green fees for Wairakei International Golf Course for two and a golf cart at the Wairakei International - Green fees at Wairakei Resort Hotel’s 9-hole golf course - Fully cooked breakfast for two

2 Days/1 Night for $510 total for two people Valid for Travel: 01/08/2012 to the 31/12/2013 All bookings on this package are subject to Tee Time availability. Prices are subject to change by Wairakei International Golf Course. Package is for two people. New Zealand registered players only. Valid for Sales : 01/08/2012 - 31/12/2013 Children are welcome. Children’s age is under 12 years old. Infants age is up to 23 months. Max Number Of Adults is 2. Max Number Of Adults and Child(ren) is 2

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Take a journey along Europe’s legendary waterways with Lueftner River Cruises and see a different view every day from your floating deluxe hotel. There is nothing like enjoying picturesque views from the comfort of your stylish French balcony cabin or lounge chair as you glide through memorable riverside scenery passing small towns and vibrant cities.

ITINERARY HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE - Frankfurt - Mannheim & Speyer - Strasbourg - Ruedesheim & Mainz - Frankfurt - Optional excursions & daily sightseeing available. (other itineraries available Frankfurt/Cologne/ Frankfurt or Nuremberg to Vienna)

Cruise Frankfurt to Strasbourg, returning to Frankfurt with memories of sipping mulled wine or hot chocolate whilst soaking up the magical atmosphere of the spectacular European Christmas markets along the Rhine.

5 Days/4 Nights from $749*per person

4 night deluxe cruise accommodation in an outside stateroom. All meals onboard, including quality wine with every dinner. Welcome cocktail & dinner, Captain’s Gala dinner. Onboard entertainment. Services of a multilingual Cruise Director. All local taxes & port charges.

Departures: 2, 9, & 16 December 2012

*Fares are ‘cruise only’ per person in complete twin accommodation (Lead-in Standard outside stateroom with window), inclusive of port charges. Gratuities are additional. Supplements apply for other cabin categories and single occupancy, contact us for details. Confirmation of booking must be secured by a partially refundable deposit of 15% pp or full payment (payable within 4 days of booking). The balance of cruise must be paid no later than 14 weeks prior to sailing. Cruise is subject to availability. To be read in conjunction with the Booking and Passage Conditions in the Lueftner River Cruises 2012 brochure (copies available) which passengers will be bound by. Prices are cruise only – airfares, pre / post cruise accommodation, transfers, optional excursions and daily sightseeing are an additional cost (unless otherwise stated). Prices above are converted from EURO as at June 2012 and are subject to currency fluctuations up until time of full payment.

A TASTE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA 5 x Breakfasts, 2 x lunches, 2 x dinners As you immerse yourself in this transcontinental journey, you will soon understand how The Ghan became a legend, and just why it’s one of the world’s great train journeys. Travelling between Adelaide and Darwin, The Ghan covers 2,979 km (1850 miles) through the heart of Australia.

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- Lush tropical scenery and Whistle Stop Tour of Katherine Gorge - Alice Springs - Majestic Roof Garden Hotel, Adelaide - Discover the flavours of the world-famous Barossa Valley wine region Wolf Blass Winery and Maggie Beer’s Farm Shop - Enjoy the magnificent Mt Lofty Ranges - Explore Australia’s oldest German Settlement, Hahndorf

From Darwin, through the lush tropics of the north, the deserts of the continent’s red heart via Alice Springs and finally the sandy beaches and green rolling hills of Adelaide in the south, you’ll see and experience the very essence of Australia.

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INCLUDES: 2 nights aboard the Ghan, Gold Service , Darwin to Adelaide v.v 3 nights at Majestic Roof Garden Hotel 1 day Barossa Valley Supreme Tour Half Day Adelaide Hills and Hahndorf Tour

Single Room supplement obligatory if travelling alone. All prices are subject to change without notice. Airfares not included in package price. Valid for travel 01 August 2012 to 31st March 2013, unless otherwise indicated. Return fares are generally double the oneway fares. All fares include a fuel price surcharge.*Whistle Stop Tours are an additioanl cost* Fares are based on Low Season Prices. A non-refundable deposit of 10% is required when booking. Australian Pensioners holding a PCC Card. Pensioners with a PCC Card and Travel Vouchers may be entitled to a further reduction on Adult OW Fare. Child fares are available to children aged 4 - 15 years inclusive or where a child occupies a seat or a berth. Children under the age of 15 must travel with an adult. Student fares are available to full time students aged 16 years and over must hold a current ID card from a recognised institution.

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The Nauti Adventure Company – Terms and Conditions: *Sales and travel periods are advertised as above. Capacity limitations apply and subject to availability or until sold out. Airfares are additional unless otherwise stated. Prices are per person as indicated unless otherwise stated, in New Zealand Dollars based on payment by cash, cheque, direct credit, eftpos or credit card. Cancellation and Amendment fees apply. Prices are in New Zealand Dollars and therefore are subject to currency fluctuations. Prices featured were correct at time of printing. Travel Agent professional service fees may apply. For full terms and conditions please see your dedicated Nauti travel agent. The Nauti Adventure Company is a registered trade mark and all rights reserved.

Everything Apple: with iStore, Takapuna

On my iPad with Nerida Cortese This month, Dancing with the Stars personality Nerida Cortese chatted with Rachel Ramsay about her iPad. Nerida loves her iPad, and uses it for everything from helping her son learn different languages to choreographing routines for her dance students. How long have you had your iPad? I bought our first iPad for Christmas three years ago for my husband Shane. We used it ALL the time. So much so, that Shane was forced to buy the iPad 2 as soon as he could, so I could enjoy the first one! What version is your iPad? Mine is an iPad 1. It suits me! What do you use it for the most? I use it for online shopping (secret's out!) and for viewing dance routines and whatnot for my teaching. Do you share it? I am forced to share my iPad with my five year old. He is so much better on it than me. He has taught me a lot! How do you use your iPad recreationally? My son and I play games together on it, and when I can get it, I browse the net for inspiration.

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Do you buy music on it? I buy music on it for my dance lessons mostly. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most recent song you downloaded? The most recent song I downloaded is "Roxanne" from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack to choreograph a routine for a student. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so quick and easy! What are your favourite Apps? My favourite Apps are Shazam [an App that can be used when there is a song on the radio or TV but you are unsure of the title - you hold your iPad up to the speaker and it will identify the song title, artist and album], Scrabble (for the nerd in me) and Draw Something [kind of like Pictionary for the digital age.] What do you love most about your iPad? The thing I love most about my iPad is that it has really taught my five year old so many new skills! He has learnt sign language, how to count in six different languages, and so much more. It is a great reward tool for him. He gets some time on it when he has earned it and he loves it. What would your immediate reaction be if you lost your iPad? I know I would cry if I lost it!

Your Home with Home Fabrics

Leprechauns, pelmets and floor-to-ceiling curtains Gerald Sheehy reports on a bit of deep thinking going on during the cold months of winter My youngest daughter happens to be living in London, doing her O.E. and So if you are thinking of reviewing your home insulation this winter a very taking in the wide range of experiences that part of the world has to offer. good place to start is by reviewing your window coverings . We can offer in-home Last month she headed off to Dublin for the weekend. Probably a great spot advice on the best way to maximise this. And if you use the right fabric it may not this time of the year and certainly much warmer than Auckland, as I write this cost any more! piece in mid-July – it's freezing! From the sound of things there was nothing particularly memorable about her trip apart from one of the photos that came Home Fabrics, 28 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna Beach, Phone 486 1103, back to us via modern communication methods. Believe it or not, it got me Email: sales@homefabrics.co.nz or Visit: www.homefabrics.co.nz thinking about Leprechaun's and keeping the home warm! Knowing that the little people had always been important to me one photo was of the National Leprechaun Museum in Dublin. The idea that they could now only be seen in a museum came as a bit of a shock as this would suggest that Leprechauns are no more. That they have become extinct and can now only be seen in a display cabinet – I certainly hope not! They are far too useful for that. For as mum used to say. "If we did not have Leprechauns running around hiding your stuff all the time then we might not have anyone to blame for losing it, and heaven forbid have to admit it was us who lost it.” Something else that is almost extinct, but extremely useful, is the old-fashioned pelmet at the top of the window frame. With a pelmet, and heavy lined drapes, heat-loss can be reduced by up to 40%. This is more than double glazing achieves. Using the pelmet triples the amount of heat retained. Pelmets, however, are not at all popular as a decorative item these days. A great alternative, to achieve the same insulation effect, is to run the curtains floor-to-ceiling. This also helps make the room look and feel larger. With the great range of wide width fabrics we have available – that run continuously across the window – it should use no more fabric and cost no more to achieve this. I am sure you will agree that the 40% saving is well worth FREE IN HOME CONSULTATIONS | HUGE SELECTION OF FABRICS | OUR GUARANTEE OF QUALITY having. Of course the fabric needs to be tightly woven, opaque and completely cover the window to get this sort of result, by trapping the layer of air between the window and the glass. 28 Hurstmere Rd, Takapuna Beach, Auckland | Phone 09 486-1103 The only other window covering that gets this sort of result Fax 09 489-6136 sales@homefabrics.co.nz | www.homefabrics.co.nz is the Honeycomb style blind that fits neatly inside the window frame and pulls up in the daytime into a very small space.

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Retail Therapy at Takapuna Beach

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At Wallace Cotton in Takapuna, they believe colour is a vital element in the home environment. And Paula Wallace feels spring is the ideal time to begin a new colourful adventure. “This season we have been inspired by our love of the land, sea, and fresh air here in the Pacific, and you will see evidence of this in the colours of our new season textiles; think storm and ocean blues, landscape and tropical greens and driftwood neutral tones, as well as some juicy citrus colours.” She added; “You will find lots of new bed linen options to help inspire you when dressing your home for the warmer months ahead, as well as colourful kitchen linen and accessories. A tempting range of bedding at the Como Street store includes pure linen quilts and duvet sets in natural colour palettes which work blissfully in the bedroom to create a restful relaxing environment. The perfectly preppy Antares Duvet set is a fresh twist on a classic combination of red, white and blue, cool for college kids or equally at home in the bach or on the boat. Also new in for spring is the Kerala Duvet set and Amarya Quilt, in serene greens and blissful blues, whilst citrus tones abound with Serendipity bed linen to welcome in the warmer months. A beautiful range of nightwear, cushions, scarves, and accessories provide an alluring array of gift ideas, lightweight enough for posting to special people overseas: you can order in store and have your gift shipped anywhere in the world. For fabrics that will make you feel fresh as a daisy this spring, have a wander into the wonderful Wallace Cotton. Wallace Cotton, 6-10 Como Street, Takapuna. Phone: 09 551 7767 or visit: www.wallacecotton.com

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Retail Therapy at Takapuna Beach

Winter Treats this month at

Takapuna Beach At Channel a big focus is encouraging our readers to shop locally, this feature is all about highlighting some of the many interesting stores we have at Takapuna Beach. Remember Father's Day September 2nd! Products from Nepal at TRADE AID Both products are made by small producer groups in Nepal, through an organisation called Mahaguthi who support mainly women’s groups with help and training with the objective of becoming self sufficient. The singing bowls are cast in clay moulds from recovered metals and decorated with traditional Buddhist designs and script. Historically they were made throughout Asia and the tradition of making sound with bronze bowls could go back 3000 years. Each bowl produces a fundamental frequency when struck, called the first harmonic and usually two audible harmonic overtones (second and third harmonic). They are used to worldwide for meditation, music relaxation and personal well being and have also been used in health care by psychotherapists and stress and meditation specialists. The clay Buddha’s are cast using ancient techniques. Trade Aid in Hurstmere Road, Takapuna. Visit: www.tradeaid.co.nz. Galaxy Chandeliers at BARDSLEYS LIGHTING AND DESIGN Looking for something extra special? These handcrafted New Zealand made Galaxy chandeliers come in choice of colours and are available bare or dressed with genuine Swarovski crystal. Part of the exciting range available at Bardsleys Lighting - your lighting specialists. At Bardsleys' Auburn Street Takapuna showroom. Visit: www.bardsleyslighting.co.nz. Wedding flowers from FLORIENNE Planning for your nuptials? August is a perfect time to book Florienne in for your big day. From grand fairy tale affairs or a simple romantic ceremony on the beach, we love to custom create all your floral wishes for your big day. A selection of our wedding portfolio is available at www.florienne.co.nz and on our facebook page. Plan ahead and reserve us for your special day. Florienne, 60A Hurstmere Road Takapuna 486 6438. Cartridge Plus - Refill Your Ink Cartridges at PAPER PLUS TAKAPUNA Did you know that you can drop your empty ink cartridges into any Paper Plus store and get them refilled? Paper Plus Takapuna refill the ink cartridges in store. All you need to do is drop the cartridge off in the morning (Mon-Fri) and it will be ready by the afternoon or whenever you are next in store. At Paper Plus we strive to maintain the performance of our refilled printer cartridges to that of an original. Our 100% guarantee means that if you are not entirely satisfied we will gladly refund the cost of the refilled cartridge. Cartridge Plus refills thousands of ink cartridges every month throughout NZ and we stand by what we do. Our aim is to offer a service that saves our customers money and helps the environment. Geneva Sound Systems at SHORE HI-FI Takapuna Ingeniously engineered inside one simple cabinet, Geneva Sound Systems provide everything you find in conventional stereo. The Large model has a pair of full-range stereo speakers. There is a CD player, an FM radio and external source inputs. What’s more, there’s an iPod/iPhone dock, stereo subwoofers and a digital amplifier drawing 80% less energy than conventional hi-fi. All-in-one. One box. One plug. At Shore Hi-fi, 1 Byron Ave, Takapuna www.shorehifi.co.nz

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Seductive scents and alluring colours at RIVA The latest delivery of candles at Riva has the store brimming over with seductive scents and alluring colours including the gorgeous scent of paprika with amber, sandalwood, plus the classic aroma of vanilla. Granite plant wax icicles are back in stock – these create fascinating stalagmite shapes as they burn down – be quick these sell out fast! In store we a wide range of long burning candles: dining candles, tealights, pillar candles, and soy candles including the N’ewd range poured into recycled wine bottles – Pinot Noir, Riesling, Pinot Gris and Sauvignon Blanc. RIVA, 60B Hustmere Road, Takapuna, Phone 215-8808. Open Monday – Saturday, 9.30 to 5.00pm. Your fashion dilemma solved at MAGAZINE DESIGNER CLOTHING With the change of seasons, it’s difficult to know what to wear! Magazine Designer Clothing provides the perfect solution to your fashion dilemma, with beautiful new transeasonal layering pieces in sizes 10 – 26 that can mix in with your existing wardrobe and provide a burst of freshness. With new deliveries arriving daily, your options are endless! Visit www.magazineclothing.co.nz for weekly outfit updates and more, or come in and see the girls at Magazine today – Byron Avenue, Takapuna.

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Quality Healthcare: with Medplus Lake Rd

The Smile Doctor Dr Gilbert Stehbens of Killarney Dental

Pharmacists and doctors working together to improve health outcomes.

Dr Gilbert Stehbens.

The reason I so enjoy working at Medplus is the integration and team work between the medical staff and the pharmacy team. Thanks to our cohabitation within our purpose built medical centre we communicate frequently throughout the working day. The worlds of pharmacology and medical Anne Marie Reidy. practice change rapidly and it is important that all involved in patient care are aware of the newest research, updates, new drugs, new guidelines and funding changes by Pharmac. With doctors and pharmacists working alongside each other there is plenty of opportunity for sharing information, educating each other, asking for advice and improving individual patient care. Pharmac is constantly changing the brand of drug subsidised and we in the pharmacy work on a plan with the doctors to change patients over, educate patients about the change and feed back to the doctors how well the drugs have been tolerated by our patients. At the moment many patients are seeing a change in brand of their oral contraceptive pill and a popular migraine medication. Recently there has been no supply of a certain type of diuretic and also of a branded iron supplement in New Zealand. We work with the doctors to ensure the best substitution for our patients. When patients come from overseas, doctors often rely on us to ‘translate’ the foreign drug names and suggest an alternative drug available locally. We also communicate with the doctors if we have concerns about whether individuals are managing their medications correctly and together we formulate strategies to make things easier. The way pharmacies receive their government funding changed on July 1st. The agreement means pharmacists will no longer be paid per prescription item dispensed, but paid per patient, and from an envelope of capped funding. There is extra funding for dispensing for patients with complex medical problems. Under the new contract pharmacists hope to be able to provide innovative ways to support those people who have trouble managing multiple medicines, especially for those with long term health problems. The plan is that the pharmacists will be working closely with the doctors to ensure optimal outcomes. At Medplus we are already working together and we embrace these new policy changes as they embody what we already do. Medplus – 327 Lake Road, Hauraki Corner. Phone: 4892011 Visit: www.medplus.co.nz

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This month we’ll start by looking at an example of an “extreme makeover”. Made popular by the TV show, this term is used to describe more comprehensive changes to people’s smiles. The delightful lady featured this month is in her 60’s and competes with designers in the USA. She wanted a more youthful appearance, a “Hollywood white” colour, to keep the costs down and all in a short time frame as she only has brief NZ visits to see family. Once establishing what she wanted and adding our ideas we came up with a solution achieving all the key points. Rather than the more expensive porcelain veneer option, we used bonded composite veneers. This exciting technique allows us to colour and shape teeth in almost any way we choose. The main parts of changing her smile were to: 1. Block out the grey colour in her teeth (a result of childhood antibiotics). 2. Use the “Hollywood white” shade. 3. Make the teeth straighter looking and more balanced. 4. To sculpt a younger shape to the teeth. 5. To create a wider looking smile behind the front teeth giving a fuller smile effect. 6. To ensure a nice evenly balanced bite. This whole makeover was completed in two appointments while she lay watching the ceiling mounted TV with headphones. She was ecstatic with the result and said it gave her more confidence when approaching clients. She especially loved how much younger it made her look and feel. The technique is often used in adults who want to straighten crowded teeth when they want a fast result without having braces or whiten teeth when bleaching doesn’t work for them. For many this can be quite life changing as it was in this case and it is substantially cheaper than porcelain veneers. While this example is overly white for some people any tooth colour can be selected. The material used is very tough and long lasting. It is a difficult technique for dentists to master to achieve great looking teeth and as a result isn’t commonly offered. If you’re looking for a great smile and still keeping it within a moderate budget this may be the approach for you. Dr Gilbert Stehbens has a passion for general and cosmetic dentistry. For any enquiries or a consultation he can be contacted on 09 488 9050, at Killarney Dental 62A Killarney Street, Takapuna.

Book Reviews for Booklovers from The Booklover

Bob Howitt $50

Although he would eventually be knighted in recognition of one of the most remarkable coaching careers in the history of rugby, Graham Henry experienced his share of crushing setbacks and disappointments. Henry was the man responsible for restoring the glory days of the All Blacks and reinvigorating the spirits of an entire nation, but was also held accountable for a disastrous 2007 World Cup campaign. When the team crashed out, humiliatingly at the quarter-final stage, Graham Henry thought his time as an international rugby coach was up. The New Zealand Rugby Union had never reappointed a losing World Cup coach, and he couldn’t see why they would make an exception for him. That is, until he began preparing his coach’s report, which involved a detailed analysis of the video of that fateful quarter-final. What he witnessed caused him to reassess his future. His findings and insights ultimately led to his reappointment. In this frank and perceptive book, Henry reveals that as a rugby coach he was always more tactical than technical. In partnership with Wayne Smith and Steve Hansen, he aimed to turn the All Blacks into the most triumphant and entertaining team in the world. He is rugby’s most successful coach having maintained an extraordinary 83 per cent success rate across four decades and over 500 matches from schoolboy to international level. In Final Word, he has teamed up with New Zealand’s most prolific and respected rugby author, Bob Howitt, to relate his personal account of the drastic measures he took to change the culture within the All Blacks and set them on the path to becoming world champions.

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Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan $38

In this stunning novel, Ian McEwan’s female protagonist is about to learn that espionage is the ultimate seduction. Serena Frome, the intelligent and beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge University, and finds herself being groomed as an ideal recruit for MI5. The year is 1972; Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces another state of emergency. The Cold War has entered a moribund phase, but the fight goes on, especially in the cultural sphere. England’s legendary intelligence agency is determined to manipulate the cultural conversation by funding writers whose politics align with those of the government. The operation is code-named ‘Sweet Tooth’. Serena, a compulsive reader of novels, is sent on a ‘secret mission’ which brings her into the literary world of Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is inventing whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage – trust no one. As with his previous bestsellers Amsterdam, Atonement, Saturday and On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan’s mastery will dazzle readers in this superbly deft and witty story of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self.

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Brian Turner $40

This is a very special book for everyone who loves those two rugged New Zealand icons: Poet Brian Turner and the Central Otago he so admires and defends. For much of his distinguished career Turner has been a lucid and lyrical interpreter of this special part of New Zealand, culminating in his most recent, highly acclaimed Into the Wider World, a back country miscellany of his three decades of work. About half of this collection of over 100 poems have been previously published, the other half are new. Following the author’s introduction, the poems are grouped into four sections: Earth, Fire, Water and Wind; hence the title Elemental. Turner’s evocative, affecting poems are accompanied by photographs by the well-known Central Otago photographer Gilbert van Reenen. An ardent and accomplished sportsman, conservationist and champion of our wild places, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Unversity of Otago in 2011. If you have enjoyed Brian Turner’s previous works, you are in for a memorable treat with this appealing volume.

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Health & Fitness: with Les Mills Takapuna By Patrick Harris, Service Director at Les Mills Takapuna patrick.harris@lesmills.co.nz

Fighting flab

in your 40s Last month we looked at the 50+â&#x20AC;Ś a definite shift occurs at this age, especially physically; letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s look at the decade before where it all starts to take shape. If you're over age 40, the oldest cop-out in the book may have some truth to it. Yes you really can blame it on your metabolism. But only a little. Even if you're sitting or lying down while reading this article your body is still burning calories. The rate at which it does so is called your resting metabolic rate. As you age, your metabolism tends to decelerate by about 5% for every decade of life past age 40. Age and life tend to conspire against us in the battle to lose weight over 40. As we age our lives become more complicated, whether it's with children, with work, with aging parents, and so we have less time really to be more physically active and pay attention to what we're eating. Food is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in large portions that are relatively economical and so food is always around, and we tend to have more mindless eating and cut down on activities. Looking closer, your metabolism is based upon three different factors: 1. Genetics - This is usually a bit of a cop out and a good excuse to do nothing. That said your somatotype (body make up / shape) can be a reflection of what, or how active your metabolism is. 2. Thyroid function - Women have much greater thyroid issues than men, women may find that they're losing some of that metabolic edge during their 40s. 3. Muscle mass - In our 40s and beyond, lifestyle can change rather dramatically, everyone's sitting on their butts. So what's happening is if you don't use it, you lose it. Recent research suggests that women on average will lose muscle mass twice as fast as men the same age, that can make a huge difference in their ability to lose or at least maintain weight. Muscle is far more "metabolically active" than fat, meaning that lean, more muscular people have an easier time burning calories at rest than people with higher proportions of body fat. So it's extremely important to know that muscle is very metabolically active and that you don't want to lose it. That being said, a typical man can lose, over the course of the age of 30 through the age of 50, anywhere between 2-5kg of muscle mass. A woman could definitely lose that â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and more. But does your overall body weight change? No, it usually goes up! Of course, if you wait long enough, say about 25 years, the weight gains and body composition changes that started to accelerate may begin to reverse

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themselves, says a researcher who studies metabolism in people in their 70s and 80s. "People tend to gain weight steadily, on average -- not everybody -- and get more fat and tend to lose lean mass up to about age 65, and then what happens is that there's a downward trend: Now people start to kind of slowly lose weight - again, not everybody, but the trend is that as you get older - the general population I see is in the 70s and 80s - they tend to lose weight," says Michi Yukawa, MD, MPH, from the department of medicine and the division of gerontology and geriatric medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. "Why they lose that is the topic of my research. It may be various hormonal changes, metabolic changes, and the fact that they just don't eat as much as they used to. They lose their appetite, which can be due to a variety of factors, such as stress, loss of spouses and friends, money issues, or many other things," Yukawa says. To avoid that 40s weight creep, even if we do have a small, let's say, biological sabotage built in, it does not mean everyone is destined to gain weight as they grow older. It's sort of an old wives' tale that you'll gain 1020kg as you continue through middle age - it can easily happen, but it's very easy to offset the change in metabolic rate. Regular exercise is key, particularly strength (weight) training in getting metabolism back on your side. The kind of physical activity that you choose to do in your 40s maybe nowhere near as intense as it's supposed to be to get over that metabolic speed bump. The best strategy will be to increase intensity. What does that mean? Instead of walking on the flat, throw in some hills. Ramp up the resistance in your strength training, or the resistance on a cross-trainer.

Article Sources: Madelyn Fernstrom, PhD, director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Weight Management Center and associate director of the UPMC Nutrition Center in Pittsburgh. Pamela Peeke, MD, assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. Michi Yukawa, MD, MPH, acting instructor, department of medicine, division of gerontology and geriatric medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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Shore City Takapuna: News

Rebrand to freshen up fashion hub New ownership for Shore City mall

Channel reader's will be thrilled with the news that Takapuna’s muchloved Shore City mall is to be given a new lease on life following a change in ownership, with a re-brand to be carried out following customer consultation. Colliers International has been awarded the property management contract for Shore City, following its sale in late June to Aviva Investors Asia Pacific Property Fund (APPF) by John Goddard and Andrew Reed of Colliers International’s international sales team on behalf of Westfield. APPF purchased Shore City for $83.5 million. Evan Harris, national director of retail real estate management at Colliers International, will be overseeing management along with colleagues Paul Tanday and Jarrod Reilly. He says the main change planned for the popular fashion hub will be rolling out a new brand, which will be developed in consultation with customers. “We’re undertaking a significant amount of research at the moment on how to individualise and strengthen the Shore City brand to its customers,” Harris says. “The centre will be given a new, fresh identity of its own, catering to its Continues over page…

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fashion-focused customer base on the North Shore.” Importantly, Shore City customers are not going to lose the mall they know and love, Harris says. “We are going to strengthen the current customer experience, rather than making any significant changes. Shore City is very popular as a local fashion centre, with many customers having grown up shopping there. We plan to build on its existing strength in that market, expanding on its status as a boutique fashion destination.” Harris and his team will engage the services of a professional consultancy to develop the brand, in conjunction with APPF and Shore City’s onsite marketing manager, and following customer surveys. Market surveys and focus groups will be used to identify customers’ preferences and priorities with the

aim making Shore City an even more relevant and attractive destination for local shoppers. This could include introducing new concepts and/or retailers not yet present in New Zealand. “A formal launch of the rebranded centre is scheduled for November 2012, followed by a series of promotional activities leading up to Christmas,” Harris says. Shoppers are invited to submit feedback at the mall’s customer services desk. A second phase of changes will include a new playground and website. “This project is different from the average real estate management contract because of the rebranding exercise that we are carrying out. Everything will need to be changed to reflect the new brand, from signage to car parking receipts,”

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Auckland Council: Councillor Ann Hartley

The future…

do you want to contribute?

I had the pleasure of meeting with Aidan Bennett of Channel Magazine last month, and, as happy as I was to answer his questions, I was just as interested to listen to his concerns, frustrations and challenges as they related to the Shore’s role in the future of a more prosperous region and nation. Ann Hartley. I appreciate the opportunity to submit a regular Channel column – along with my council colleagues George Wood and Len Brown. Regardless of our political backgrounds, we are all accountable to you – across the Shore and beyond. I aim to be as politely provocative as Aidan – and give you some wellplaced insights. During our coffee meeting at Massimo’s in Takapuna, Aidan posed many probing questions. Among the more challenging was how local residents and business people could most effectively engage with their council and influence its future direction. The question was both insightful and timely. Already, local business associations have taken up the challenge, spoke up and influenced how the Auckland Plan – our 30-year spatial plan – takes shape. Both west and east of the [northern] motorway, those responsible for promoting economic growth in their communities availed themselves of the opportunity to be heard – and they were heeded. There will be many more opportunities and I am here to listen and advise. In every community there will always be competing interests, perspectives and challenges: for some the Golden Weather may have ended, for others it’s still in the forecast. Most happily live through the seasons and if they can’t change the [meteorological] climate, they can’t deny that they have a key role to warm our economy and help grow prosperity. We need to plan in an inclusive manner by involving the engaged, the disengaged and disaffected. • Myopia in Utopia: North Shore is perfect the way it was – or might have been – a dormitory paradise [50 years ago or more]. • NIMBY [Not In My BackYard]: Those who might welcome change as long as they don’t come across it anywhere close to where they live – but well within uncongested driving distance. • WIIFM [What’s In It For Me?]: How will I/my family prosper by staying in NZ, on the Shore and sustain a quality of life I cherish? • A more liveable city: The North Shore – as the Mayor will attest – has been a ground-breaker in economic, environmental and infrastructural innovation. Those hard-won gains will be protected and advanced. Together, we need to define what this will be. The Auckland Unitary Plan: This is the true game-changer as far as community engagement is concerned. Our local boards are, not surprisingly, among Auckland’s most engaged and effective. Strong voices and well respected. We all need YOUR help – as residents, business owners and community champions – to help us write the regional resource management rulebook. By all means speak up – contact me – but we aim to seek out your comments through the most robust and inclusive process ever attempted. Planning rules differ across the region and we all need to avoid confusion, cost and crossed wires. It’s a waste of time, money and effort if we were to repeat past mistakes; we have to do better and, with your help and goodwill, we will. I’ll update you in my September column – Ann. Email: Ann.Hartley@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

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Northside with Mayor Len Brown

For 2012 we are thrilled to have Mayor Len Brown as a regular contributor to the magazine. Len loves the magazine and sees it as a great way to improve communication with North Shore people.

The real word on rates In recent months a great deal of confusion has surfaced around how and why some people’s rates are going up and some are going down. The North Shore has been impacted, but contrary to some accounts, these changes are a result of bringing together the old councils’ rating systems, not from unsustainable spending. It’s important to note that the average rates increase next year is 3.6 per cent across the region, which is down from the more than 9 per cent increases we faced after the amalgamation. This was achieved by delivering $1.7 billion of savings and efficiencies over the next ten years at the same time as absorbing the costs of the merger. The amalgamation of people’s rates is by far the most visible result of bringing together eight separate local authorities with the legislative requirement to move all residential ratepayers across to a single system. That system now rates all properties by capital value and treats properties in different parts of the city equitably. Putting in place these changes was a requirement of government, but what Auckland Council chose to do was minimise the financial impact of the change. Despite these efforts, residential ratepayers in the former North Shore City Council area were some of the worst affected, in fact, some 20,000 residents were facing increases of more than 15 per cent, simply from the move to a single system. That is why we requested the government changed legislation to allow council to cap any change – so no one faces more than a 10 per cent adjustment. On the plus side, 22,000 North Shore residents will receive an overall reduction when their rates notice arrives in the mail this month. At the same time as managing the transition, we’ve kept a focus on local communities. On the North Shore that means direct local investment in town centre and sports park upgrades and key transport improvements including: • Developing the Devonport Library • Coastal access walkways • Upgrading Victoria Wharf • Northcote Central improvements • Highbury Main Street enhancements • Devonport Ferry Terminal • Transport infrastructure such as Sunset Road to State Highway 18, Glenfield Road and surrounds, Northcote Road/Hillcrest Road/Lake Road intersection and Lake Road from Hauraki to Bayswater. In this age of economic reality checking, we all have hard decisions to make. This transition has been difficult but we’ve tried to manage it by keeping costs down at the same time as investing in the North Shore.

Ethical & Sustainable Meat with Ruby’s List

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Health & Fitness: Pilates Unlimited

Spotlight on the Takapuna Markets

Shopping at the Takapuna Markets Channel Magazine visited the Takapuna Markets, and we ran into Sandy of West Harbour enjoying a morning in Takapuna. In the Shopping Bag: A unique hanging sculpture of a pterodactyl to hang in her son’s bedroom! With a range of sculptures to choose from, be sure to go down to the Takapuna Markets to take a look!

The 8-week Pilates challenge! “You will feel better in 10 Sessions – Look better in 20 Sessions - Have a new body in 30 Sessions… when you practice three times a week” – Joseph Pilates Pilates Unlimited has an eight-week challenge for male and female clients who are interested in three lessons a week at 9am on Monday, Wednesday and Friday starting in August. If you are interested in taking the challenge please contact Carole Fraser to discuss the package. The cost is $180 for three private sessions per week. Carmel Bryne and Erin Fogarty are both loyal long-term clients who commit most weeks to three sessions at the studio. Carmel books in three private sessions with Laiza Lima and Erin books in one with Laiza, one Tower Class and one Advanced Mat Class with Joe Greco. Carmel says: “It’s all about wellbeing and feeling good. I have been a client for over 10 years and during that time my enthusiasm for Pilates has continued to grow as I enjoy the benefits of improved strength, flexibility, balance and alignment in my day to day life. As well as the physical benefits, I find Pilates great for stress relief. The concentration required to do the exercises means I can’t focus on anything else at the time.” Erin says: “Over the past nine years I’ve tried many configurations for my Pilates workouts from once a week through to three times weekly. To be honest, once weekly just doesn’t cut it. Pilates three times a week is ideal. It keeps you strong and flexible and enables you to progress to more advanced and varied workouts. I view at it as insurance for my health and wellbeing.” "It's important to practice what you preach and at 53 I feel great," says Pilates Unlimited Owner Carole Fraser. "I like the mind and body focus of Authentic Pilates and I have a real understanding of how to work from what we call the 'powerhouse' (stomach muscles). Many of the exercises we teach at the studio were developed by Joe Pilates to take into our everyday life and that’s what we promote with our clientele." So if you are interested in trying Authentic Pilates, we have many options that we can tailor to suit. Please contact us at the studio or visit our web site. Contact:Pilates Unlimited, 18 Northcroft Street, Takapuna. Phone 486-1018 or visit: www.pilatesunlimited.co.nz

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Takapuna Market Spotlight

Decorate your home for winter! Stand/Products: Cushions, Blankets and Soft Toys Location: Different place each week! Best Selling Product: Cushion Covers Looking for something unique? Check out these Kiwiana decorations and toys made of flannel and felt. Some of our favourites include: • The charcoal gray flannel cushion covers embellished with bright NZ maps. • The white flannel hot water bottle covers embellished with a graphic red cross. • And, the dog soft toys! At a price range of $10-25, these unique pop art creations will decorate your home for winter with cozy, warm flannel.

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The Healthy Channel with John Appleton

I have been writing articles on topics related to our health for a number of years and now in Channel I will be keeping you up to date with ways in which we might improve our health by becoming more aware of the many options that are available to us. John Appleton

Your Heart getting

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- By John Appleton

Heart disease is the number one killer of New Zealanders responsible for 40% of all deaths. Every 90 minutes a New Zealander dies from coronary heart disease (16 deaths a day) and seven of these are women. New research shows 74 per cent of New Zealand women are unaware heart disease is by far their leading cause of death. Given these very sobering statistics, prevention should be paramount because for the most part heart disease is preventable. While it’s widely acknowledged that diet has a significant role to play in the development and prevention of heart disease, the treatment of symptoms (with drugs) has been the main focus with dietary advice generally taking a ‘back seat’. One of the main reasons for this is that doctors have very limited time with their patients and the prescription pad provides a solution to this problem. Another reason is that during their training in medical school nutrition is not a significant focus and thus many doctors are just beginning to appreciate the importance of nutritional interventions.

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The situation when it comes to heart disease can become a very complex issue for doctors because they can find themselves dealing with a range of symptoms of the disease. There’s high blood pressure – angina – irregular heart-beats – peripheral artery disease and heart failure to name a few. Patients can often find themselves on a whole raft of medications and the side effects can have a significant impact on quality of life. Cholesterol lowering drugs can cause debilitating muscle aches in the legs and inhibit the body’s ability to make Coenzyme Q10 which is essential for providing the energy that the heart needs to pump 100,000 times every day. One of the major problems for our health system is that because of the focus on dealing with symptoms of disease, more and more we are seeing a general progression from chronic care to acute care and this is what really ramps up the costs. It’s easy to understand why so many New Zealanders are becoming concerned as they age and why they seek options that might help them avoid progression of disease or perhaps reverse the trend. It’s becoming more common for people to obtain a second opinion in order to find out if they are on the most appropriate medication/s or indeed to discuss alternatives such as lifestyle changes. Both of my parents died prematurely from heart disease and thus I have been doing my best to avoid going down this track. Some years ago I asked Auckland, Cardiologist Dr Gerald Lewis MB ChB, FRACP, FRCP (UK), MD (Otago) to check me out. Dr Lewis is a member of ‘The Australasian Integrative Medicine Association’ (AIMA www.aima.net.au) and he has wide experience in hospital medicine and specialist practice. He has been included in Who’s Who in Medicine & Who’s Who in the World for his work in high blood pressure research. Dr Lewis has extensive experience in many complementary fields of medicine including nutritional medicine, intravenous vitamin C, chelation therapy, EECP, calcium scanning of the heart and metabolic cardiology where nutrients are used to support the normal functioning of the heart. He has also written several bestselling books on heart disease, cancer and nutritional supplements and he is often found making informative presentations to his colleagues and the public at conventions and public meetings. When it comes to heart disease we need to know that there are totally safe side effect free nutritional options and we need to know that there are doctors who understand the use of nutrients such as Magnesium – Coenzyme Q10 – high potency Omega 3 – Vitamin C – D-Ribose and L-Carnitine. Dr Lewis is available for anyone who would like a second opinion or a comprehensive review of their cardiovascular health. He has a clinic in Newmarket. You can visit his very informative website www.drgerald.co.nz. Email him at geraldlewis@zoho.com or phone to make an appointment Ph: 09-302-2691. Contact: John Appleton - Email: john@johnappleton.co.nz, Phone: 489 9362, visit: www.johnappleton.co.nz

AA Smartfuel: Shop locally and save on fuel

Now you can shop locally and save on your fuel! At Channel Magazine we love to encourage our readers to shop locally. In fact we are so keen on it we are giving away a vehicle to encourage locals to spend their money on our home turf. That's why we also like the AA Smartfuel programme that encourages local shopping. AA Smartfuel is all about fuel savings that accumulate. By shopping at local participating retailers you can accumulate fuel discounts to save on up to 50 litres of fuel. It’s available free to all New Zealanders – and there are heaps of participating retailers right here on the Shore. So how do I save with AA Smartfuel? To explain how the AA Smartfuel programme works we have these two real examples of fuel savings that have been made. Example 1: "My phone account’s with TelstraClear, so that was 6 cents off per litre over two months. I saved another 4 cents per litre with light bulbs bought from the local Hammer Hardware. As an AA Member when I got my warrant from AA Vehicle Testing Sunnybrae, I earned another 30 cents off per litre. Then BP had a weekend special if I cashed in my discounts with them, so I got another 8 cents off, that was a total of 48 cents per litre off my fuel bill. All up I saved $24 off my fuel bill when I filled my car up." Example 2: "Last month I popped into my local Take Note a couple of times for the kids school books and saved 20 cents per litre. I then bought my meat from Aussie Butcher and saved 5 cents per litre and filled up at Caltex a few times and accumulated another 24 cents per litre, that was a total of 49 cents per litre off my fuel bill. All up I saved $24.50 off my petrol bill!" How do I participate in the AA Smartfuel programme to enjoy the fuel savings?  If you're not an AA Member, get your free AA Smartfuel card from participating retailers, BP, Caltex or AA Centres. Then you can start earning fuel discounts by swiping your card when you meet the qualifying spend at participating retailers. You’ll just need to register the card online before any fuel discounts can be redeemed. If you are an AA Member then your existing AA Membership card is already activated and ready to go – easy! For more details visit AAsmartfuel.co.nz and see a selection of the participating local outlets detailed on the following pages.

The Coffee Club Takapuna owner Kevin Chen.

The Coffee Club Takapuna A smart choice for locals

One place where the AA Smartfuel card is very welcome is The Coffee Club, the busy cafe and restaurant that probably has the best spot of any business in Takapuna – right at the intersection of Hurstmere Road, Lake Road, The Strand and Northcroft Street – and just a short stroll from the beach. New owner Kevin Chen is extremely enthusiastic about providing his customers with the opportunity to save on their fuel when they have breakfast, lunch, dinner – or just a coffee or refreshment – at The Coffee Club Takapuna. "It certainly is an incentive for new customers and others to keep coming back," explained Kevin, when Channel Magazine popped in to have a coffee with him in mid July. "Although what we offer in terms of our extensive food menu and great coffee is very good anyway." The Coffee Club Takapuna is one of 33 outlets the chain has throughout New Zealand. There is also over 200 in Australia. Not all of these provide the full restaurant menu that Kevin and his team do at Takapuna though. The Coffee Club Takapuna is open seven days from 7.30am through until 9pm in winter and 10pm in the summer. And the extensive menu is available all the time. There is an all day breakfast menu; all-day light meals menu; gourmet sandwiches, wraps and open grills; gourmet salads; traditional toasties; entree's; mains; desserts. They also have some great Kid's Club Combos and extensive drinks menu – including frappes and smoothies. "Most cafes will close their kitchens around the 3pm mark but ours is open right through," says Kevin Chen. "We also have lots of special offers throughout the day. We have a 'Breakfast Combo' with a free hot drink with every breakfast meal purchased. Our 'Lunch Special' has every meal only $12. Then later in the day we have a 'Happy Hour' from 4pm to 6pm when house wine is just $5 a glass and beer $4 and a 'Dinner Combo' – just $59.90 for two main meals and two glasses of wine." I can attest that the coffee is pretty good at The Coffee Club as well. They proudly have their own signature coffee blend and there are no less than 18 coffee options on the menu, with most available in three size variants small, regular or large. You can even buy their coffee beans for your own machine. So there it is Channel readers. Another great 'local' business that you can frequent to save on your fuel with AA Smartfuel. See you at The Coffee Club Takapuna! The Coffee Club, Corner The Strand and Lake Road, Takapuna. Phone 489 3677. Checkout their great menu online at: www.thecoffeeclub.co.nz

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The savings really add you shop on the Shore Fuel savings that accumulate as you shop...now that’s smart! With AA Smartfuel your fuel discounts add up to give a total combined saving on up to 50 litres. Swipe your card every time you shop and meet the qualifying spend at participating retailers. Then redeem your accumulated discounts at a participating BP or Caltex.

Visit AAsmartfuel.co.nz/shop to view all your local retailers.

Shop and swipe at these North Shore retailers Cafes, Restaurants and Food Outlets

Albany Village Curry Blankenberge Belgian Beer Cafe Takapuna Corelli’s Cafe Devonport DaHua Supermarket Albany Fresh Town Sunnynook Seamart at Belmont Fisheries Seaview Meats Milford The Coffee Club Takapuna The Original Aussie Butcher Birkenhead Valentines Restaurant Glenfield Vanilla Cafe Belmont

Pharmacies

Belmont Pharmacy Bethesda Pharmacy Takapuna Birkenhead Avenue Pharmacy Glenfield 7 Day Pharmacy Milford Nutritional Pharmacy Northcote Care Chemist Sunnybrae Pharmacy Sunnynook Care Chemist

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On all offers, qualifying spend applies and available at participating outlets only. Unless a specific end date is stated, offers may be subject to change without notice. AA Smartfuel discounts are redeemable up to a maximum 50 litres on a single purchase of qualifying fuel product at participating BP and Caltex locations. Discounts cannot be redeemed in conjunction with any other discount or fuel card. Discounts expire at the end of the calendar month following the month in which awarded. Following each redemption, your AA Smartfuel account balance is reset to zero and no discount is carried forward. See AAsmartfuel.co.nz/terms for full terms and conditions.

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Qualifying spend applies. Offers may be subject to change. *Exclusive AA Member offer of 20 cents per litre (5 cents per litre for non AA Members) for a car Warrant of Fitness is only available at AA Vehicle Testing, 159 Sunnybrae Road, Glenfield.

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†BP: Spend $40 or more on fuel at participating BP sites and swipe your card to earn 6 cents per litre fuel discount that you can redeem instantly or accumulate for a future redemption. Discounts can only be redeemed once your AA Smartfuel card is registered (AA Membership cards are already registered for AA Smartfuel). This offer is available until further notice. This offer is not available in conjunction with supermarket fuel dockets or fuel cards. ^Caltex: Spend $40 or more on petrol or diesel at participating Caltex and swipe your card to earn the applicable fuel discount that you can redeem instantly or accumulate for a future redemption. Discounts can only be redeemed once your AA Smartfuel card is registered (AA Membership cards are already registered for AA Smartfuel). This offer is available until further notice. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other discount or fuel card.

Making a Splash: with Olympic Swimmer Melissa Ingram

Olympic Swimmer Melissa Ingram is a regular contributor to Channel Magazine. As well as being a world class swimmer, Melissa is a budding writer, with plans to move into journalism when she finally hangs up the togs. Melissa prepared this column in mid-July while at the New Zealand swimming teams pre-Olympic holding camp in Belgium. Melissa Ingram.

Five great things about being an

Olympic Athlete 1. I get to Travel… I have travelled to many places around the world for swimming. I don’t get to see a lot of the countries that I travel to but I get a taste of the place and its culture. A lot of the time we will fly in to a city and go straight to the accommodation and only leave to go to the swimming pool, but I always go for a walk and try and find a café for a coffee. One of my favourite things to do when I travel is sit with a coffee and people watch. It’s amazing how different cultures interact with each other and go about their daily lives throughout the world. I’ve been lucky enough to experience some of the great wonders of the world on swimming trips. I went to the Great Wall of China during the Beijing Olympic Games and the Taj Mahal after the Delhi Commonwealth Games.

2. I get looked after by Professionals… On a daily basis I’m lucky enough to work with the country’s leading sports specialists. I train at the Swimming NZ High Performance Centre based at the Millennium Institute and this allows me to access the best of the best whenever necessary. At the pool I work with a sports scientist from Belgium, a biomechanist from Spain, and my coach Scott Talbot. Down in the gym I’ve been working with American import Andy Barnett for the last three years. Andy is my Strength & Conditioning coach and he has brought some valuable ideas and techniques from the USA which have resulted in marked improvements for me in the water. My doctor, massage therapist and physiotherapist have all been named on the London Olympic Team and are all based on the North Shore so I am very lucky to have them as part of my support system. (Lynne Coleman – Doctor, Clint Knox – Massage Therapist, Jordan Salesa – Physiotherapist).

3. I get to be an Olympian… Being a part of an Olympic team is one of the most incredible experiences of my life so far. The relationships that you establish with your team-mates are really unique. In Beijing I was lucky enough to be at the rowing when we won our first medals on “Super Saturday”. There were about thirty Kiwi athletes who had finished competing up in the stands at the rowing. Transport at an Olympics is a fairly complex process, especially for venues like the rowing, so our Chef de Mission Dave Currie put us all in taxis and we were off to the velodrome to cheer on Hayden Roulston and then straight to the track to watch Valerie. Being a part of an Olympic team and receiving/providing that unique Kiwi support is something that I’ll never forget and always cherish.

4. The Skills… I have learned from being an Olympic athlete will set me up for life... I am constantly surprised by the limited knowledge that people have regarding basic nutrition and exercise. I’ve been a competitive swimmer since I was seven years old so I guess it’s something that I take for granted. I remember

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Melissa Ingram sightseeing in Belgium during July.

at school some of my friends would be on ‘diets’ and not eat lunch but drink a powerade, not understanding that it’s full of sugar. As an athlete I have to be really in tune with my body, knowing what food to feed it and when. I have to make sure that I eat enough of the right food to get me through my training sessions, but not too much that I put on weight. I have a solid understanding of how our body burns fat and the different energy systems we use when exercising. I’m grateful for this knowledge and hopefully it will ensure that I have a healthy lifestyle post-swimming.

5. I have the buzz of wearing the Silver Fern… Not many things beat wearing the silver fern, but wearing the silver fern with the Olympic rings behind it does. It is an extra special buzz. It doesn’t get any bigger for me. Representing your country at the Olympic Games is something I’ve dreamed about since I was a little girl. I grew up doing ballet and jazz and at fifteen had to make a decision. Did I want to pursue dancing or go to the Olympics for swimming? It ended up being an easy choice. London is my second Olympics, but I still get really excited when my uniform arrives and I finally get to wear the Olympic rings. The dress uniform for Beijing was very classic with a plain black blazer and skirt so it will be fun to wear the 1948 style dress in London. But most importantly, the Silver Fern.

Delicious Treats with Devonport Chocolates

By Caroline Everitt of Devonport Chocolates

Contemplation on a Chocolate A question we often get asked at Devonport Chocolates is “how on earth do you work here with all of this chocolate around? Do you eat it all day?” I thought I would take this opportunity to answer this very serious question once and for all. To begin with your sense of smell becomes accustomed to the aroma of chocolate within a couple of weeks and we have to go on holiday to smell that heavenly scent again, (sounds like a good excuse for lots of holidays to me!) I must admit that three o’clock in the afternoon does seem to see most of us dipping into the staff chocolate box but this is not without serious consideration as to what we will indulge in today. Personally, I spend much of the day in contemplation (while I’m doing other things) as to which chocolate I will have. This is part of the fun and one of the best ways to enjoy chocolate, one or two pieces after much contemplation and thought. My particular favourite chocolate and the most popular chocolate in all of our stores is the Crunchy Nut Caramel Cup. This divine petite treat has a dark chocolate cup layered with chocolate ganache, caramelised almond pieces, gooey caramel and topped off with a swirl of more chocolate ganache, absolute bliss in a few bites. Trust me one of these delightful morsels will take care of all of your chocolate cravings in one hit.

But here is the really important tip, before you eat it smell it! That’s right, hold that chocolate up to your nose and inhale deeply. Then take a bite and let the chocolate melt on your tongue slowly and savour every bite. That is the best way to eat chocolate and how we all manage to get through the day surrounded by so much chocolate, anticipation followed by savouring. Of course we all still have days where we eat chocolate from 9am until 6pm. Everyone has those days occasionally and there is nothing wrong with it as long as we don’t repeat it too soon!

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North Harbour Club: News

By Catherine Lamb, General Manager, North Harbour Club. Newly appointed North Harbour Club President, Matthew Bellingham.

New President for North Harbour Club At our recent AGM we honoured our outgoing President Peter Wall and his wife Michelle. Only the second President since the Club's inception in 1985, Peter followed in the very large footsteps of founding President Ross Finlayson. He has been a wonderful ambassador for the Club and has, for the past seven years, carried out the role of President with great pride and passion. Peter and Michelle will remain committed members of the Club, but Peter felt it was time to hand over the mantle to incoming President Matthew Bellingham. Matthew, a Director at Hayes Knight, has been a Trustee of the Club for a number of years and we are looking forward to the new input and drive from him. The new Vice President is Aidan Bennett of Benefitz, publisher's of this fine magazine. We also acknowledge the significant contribution made by Andrew Hiskens as he retires from his role as a trustee. Andrew has also been an integral member of the Trustees for a number of years. It is impossible to be involved in the North Harbour Club at this level without a massive amount of passion and energy, both of which Andrew has shown time and again. We welcome Mark Jago, Andrea Davies and Hugh Stedman as new Trustees to the Board . The North Harbour Club has over 140 members, all of whom are business leaders or leaders in local affairs. They are 'movers and shakers' whom are driven to give something back and promote our community – a fabulous group of people who are proud of our region and won’t hesitate to let you know about it! We have a great time holding events to raise funds for the AIMES Awards and wonderful friendships and collegiality are born from this. A great example of the North Harbour Club and the North Harbour region is one of our founding Trustees, Andrew MacKenzie, of Albany Toyota. Andrew has been firmly committed to the Club since 1995, a loyal and proud supporter and sponsor of the AIMES Awards. Andrew is an incredibly proud businessman and father and manages to blend both with his family business in Albany, which includes his wife Julie and both of his children. Andrew and Albany Toyota are one of a great family of sponsors that we are fortunate to have who are always right behind us as we change, adapt and continue to grow the North Harbour Club. This enables us to continue to reward the outstanding young people of our region – we thank them all for their support as I’m sure our winners do too!

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As I write this, the AIMES Awards applications for 2012 are closing and we wish all our applicants good luck as they go through the judging process. We look forward to celebrating our 2012 recipients at our two special functions. Each year we announce and celebrate the winners of the AIMES Awards at our spectacular black tie dinner at the Bruce Mason Centre, this year being held on the 3rd November. We also announce our ‘Emerging Talent Award’ winners, our future stars, on 31st October at the Spencer on Byron Hotel. For more information visit www.northharbourclub.co.nz. If you know of anyone who should be making application to the AIMES Awards, please tell them to visit www.northharbourclub.co.nz for more information, or contact me on 09 419-0273 or Email: catherine@northharbourclub.co.nz – Catherine Lamb, General Manager, North Harbour Club

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For The Home with Harvey Norman, Wairau Park

Harvey Norman Wairau Park's Sam Russell and Stephen Irvine and the display of the full range of Bissell products.

Bissell 2-in-1 technology now at Harvey Norman Wairau Park The market leading products of Bissell, a US business with a 136 year heritage and the number one floor care brand in North America, are available now at Harvey Norman, Wairau Park. Appropriately, the brand has teamed up locally with Kiwi rowing gold medallists, the EversSwindell twins to launch the new Bissell '2-in-1Technology’ range. The Bissell '2-in-1Technology’ range includes Lift-Off Deep Cleaner, Lift-Off Steam mop and Steam & Sweep. These are all available at Harvey Norman Wairau Park this month. Whether from crawling, walking, dancing or running, our carpets and hard floors often reflect the fun and excitement of our lives. Over time, this fun can make carpets dirty – holding as much as 4.8kg of dirt per square metre before it’s noticed. When the average living room is 23 square metres, that’s up to 110kg of dirt living in your carpet. The Lift-Off Deep Cleaner is designed to maximise cleaning performance and functions as two machines in one. A full-size upright deep cleaner for entire rooms and a portable spot cleaner for hard-to-reach areas like stairs, upholstery or even vehicle interiors. The Bissell Lift-Off Deep Cleaner will help you tackle and eliminate the dirt and stains –– leaving your carpet truly clean and extending its life span. “With Bissell 2-in-1 technology it’s not only easy to give the house a decent clean, it’s addictive,” say the Evers-Swindell twins. The Bissell Lift-Off Steam Mop tackles light and tough messes on hard floor surfaces with the ability to work as an upright for larger spaces and as a portable for hard-to-reach areas. The two machines in one can be used to clean virtually every hard surface in the home. Use it as a mop to clean hard floors, including sealed wood, linoleum and tile. The detachable steam pod easily lifts off to clean sinks, countertops, grout, tile and more. Its variable steam control

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Consumers can kiss that tiresome broom, mop and bucket routine goodbye thanks to Bissell’s Steam & Sweep hard floor cleaner… allows steam pressure to be adjusted for types of cleaning and its 100 percent chemical free. “Consumers can kiss that tiresome broom, mop and bucket routine goodbye thanks to Bissell’s Steam & Sweep hard floor cleaner” says Andy Higgs, who represents Bissell in New Zealand. The Bissell Steam & Sweep is a fully powered combination steam mop and sweeper that picks up dry debris and cleans hard floors in one step using the natural power of steam, which is 100 percent chemical free. The increased popularity of steam as an environmentally friendly hard floor cleaning alternative has given rise to this high-quality steam cleaner, which can be used for overall cleaning as well as for tackling sticky spots. The Steam & Sweep leaves floors fresh and dry without the fumes or residue of harsh chemicals, and is safe and effective for use on virtually all hard floor surfaces, including marble, ceramic, stone, vinyl, laminate, linoleum and sealed hardwood floors. Members of the Bissell range are available from Harvey Norman from just $149. Harvey Norman Wairau Park, 10 Crotfield Lane, North Shore. Phone 441 9750. Store hours Monday to Wednesday 9am-5.30pm, Thursday and Friday 9am7.30pm, Saturday and Sunday 9am-5.30pm. Visit www.harveynorman.co.nz

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Tony Thysse from AirPro Services is in the boiler room, checking the tightness of expansion fittings.

Unsung heroes of Smales Farm Meet some of the highly skilled workers who labour behind the scenes to keep Smales Farm running smoothly 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Smales Farm’s buildings incorporate green technologies to deliver low operating costs and a first class working environment. These ‘green’ systems regulate each building’s light, heating and cooling, as well as water recycling and storage. Ongoing tuning and maintenance ensures these green technologies perform at peak levels. This maintenance and tuning work is mostly invisible to the thousands of people who visit or work at the Park each day. It’s often done underneath the buildings themselves, or in areas where access is restricted for safety reasons. This month, we celebrate Smales Farm’s invisible workforce. We see you. You are the best at what you do, and we appreciate it.

Glen Pearson from Schneider is in a cooling tower, using a computer to manipulate isolation valves.

Rainwater harvested from the roof and car park areas provides 100% of cooling tower and garden irrigation needs, and 70% of toilet flushing water.

SmalesCorner@SmalesFarm – New Zealand’s best place to work and do business

“People don’t need to understand banks, banks need to understand people.”

“At child® our goal is simple: to make learning irresistible.” Lee Clark, Director

ASB Smales Farm branch

Banks don’t exist without the people who entrust their lives, dreams, or plans in them. It’s one thing ASB has never forgotten and it’s what drives us to be a better bank. Whether you’re just popping in to deposit some cash or sitting down with us to talk about your financial goals, we’re here to discuss and more importantly, listen. It’s not just about being a bank. It’s about being human too. Phone Number: (09) 448 4480 Hours: Mon — Fri 9:00am to 4:30pm ASB Bank Limited’s current Disclosure Statement is available free of charge from any branch of ASB.

“Some days you just need to escape the daily grind. Meet you there!” Gordon Simpson, Owner

child® at Smales Farm is the highest quality pre-school available in New Zealand, setting the standard in both education and staffing. We offer five innovative and individual learning environments, catering for all pre-school children from birth to five years. Our holistic teaching programmes use leading technology, structured learning plans, lesson evaluations and child-initiated activities. Call us on 488 7766, or visit www.childpreschool.co.nz

“Servilles Barber is about fuss-free haircuts for the modern man who is short on time but still requires great style and a quality cut.” Jeremy Foster-Moan, Owner

Quarry Bar at Smales Farm offers lunch, dinner and bar snacks in surroundings that are both smart and comfortable. With a choice of indoor or al fresco seating, it’s the perfect place for a meal or just a quiet drink with friends. Come in and check out their great menu today! Quarry also offers the ultimate venue for private functions.

Servilles Barber is an extension of the Servilles philosophy to deliver a personalised service, to meet the needs of today’s busy professional men. Servilles Barber is a man’s space, simple and masculine. No bookings required, come in and enjoy Sky Sport, men’s magazines and the latest range of professional hair products.

Monday – Friday 11.30am to Late Saturday – 12.00pm to Late Call us on 915 0101 www.quarrybar.co.nz

Sun & Mon closed, Tue, Wed & Fri 8.00am to 6.00pm Thurs 8.00am to 7.00pm Sat 9.00am to 2.00pm

“Ordering with SUBWAY restaurants is super easy – text, internet or in person. Great parking right outside means a no-hassle pick up.”

“The Hamper is a corner dairy, fruit shop and dry cleaning agent rolled into one.” Peter and Jenny Zou, Owners

Daniel Noble, Manager Order on the internet, from your mobile or watch our friendly staff make your food – just the way you like it. We custom make every order: breakfast, lunch and dinner. We have excellent catering options for all sized functions, and you can collect loyalty points with SUBCARD. Open from 6.30am weekdays Text orders to jc3553 Online ordering at subway.co.nz

Convenience store ‘The Hamper’ brings unique one-stop shopping to Smales Farm. You can get anything from a pie and a bottle of coke to frozen meals, sandwiches, cakes, muffins, magazines, chocolates, groceries and personal items. 7.00am to 6.00pm weekdays 9.00am to 4.00pm Saturday Call us on 488 7070

“We offer a fabulous environment for business meetings, or just relax with wine and some exceptional food.”

“We strive for simplicity and convenience.” Lim, Manager

Jayson Hayde, Owner

Hatsuhana at Smales Farm bridges the gap between East and West. It’s a friendly and welcoming sushi and noodle bar where you can depend on getting the freshest fish and the tastiest noodles. This is deceptively simple cuisine, saluting the centuries-old methods used by the very best sushi shops and chefs in Japan and China.

Seriously good food and coffee has seen Columbus Coffee Smales Farm build a great reputation, win industry awards and gain a loyal following of regulars. Whether you’re seated in the plush leather lounge chairs, or out in the courtyard with its piazza atmosphere, you can relax in comfort and style.

Monday – Friday 10.00am to 3.30pm Call us on 488 0210

From 6.00am weekdays and 8.00am weekends. Call us on 486 3200

“We offer Accident & Medical 24/7, G.P afterhours and a reduced fee for After-hour Network qualifying groups.”

“Shorecare Pharmacy at Smales Farm is open from 8.30am until 11.00pm every day.” Bryan Rowney, Director

Dr Hilton Jones, Shorecare Medical Director

Shorecare’s new accident and medical clinic is open to everyone 24/7 on a casual, walk-in basis. It provides a comprehensive range of services, including physiotherapy, X-ray and ultrasound, for the entire North Shore population. Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Ground floor, Sovereign House, Smales Farm

Shop 8, Q4 Building 8.30am to 11.00pm seven days 365 days of the year Call us on 488 0880

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“Welcome to the next generation of kiwi dentistry. Our brand new dental clinic is open 7 days a week.”

“Here at Vivo, we specialise in professional hair & beauty treatments that make you look good AND feel great!

Dr Andrew Campbell, owner of The Tooth Company

Vivo Hair & Beauty, Takapuna.

The Tooth Company is located adjacent to Shorecare accident and medical centre and is open late nights and weekends for dental emergencies, checkups and general dental treatments. We are a fresh innovative dental clinic set up to provide our patients with access to modern dental treatment at a competitive price. Shop 8a, Q4 Building 8.30am – 9.00pm week days 9.00am – 4.00pm Saturday & Sunday Call us on 410 9971 Book online at: www.thetoothcompany.co.nz

Shorecare Pharmacy at Smales Farm sells a full range of pharmacy retail products including cosmetics, vitamins and supplements, baby products, sunscreens and sun hats, toilet bags and gifts, in addition to prescriptions and medicines. It is the last pharmacy to close on the North Shore every night.

THE TOOTH COMPANY

BONUS 15 MINUTES! Visit Vivo for a 30 minute Facial or Massage and we will extend it to 45 minutes at no extra charge! This offer also applies to 45 and 60 minute Facial and Massage treatments. Conditions: Can not be used in conjunction with any other offer.

ANZ Business Centre, Corinthian Drive Albany The Smales Farm brand is now ‘virtual’ following the purchase of the ANZ Business Centre. Smales Farm has expanded beyond the geographical footprint of the Smales Farm Technology Office Park in Takapuna. The ANZ Business Centre is managed by Smales Farm Management Services, in keeping with Smales Farm’s philosophy of high quality and excellent service. We’ll see you there!

“Your little piece of California on the North Shore.”

“We specialise in men’s haircutting and colouring in a male environment.”

Jeff Moss, Owner

Jackie Warren, Manager

The Original California Burrito Company. Cal-Mex Taqueria, finally arrived on the shore at the ANZ Centre, 7 Mercari Way. Delicious California style burritos, quesadillas, chimichangas and tacos filled with fresh salads, beef, chicken, steak, shrimp or beans, with options for vegetarians and vegans. Dine in, phone orders, take away and delivery available. 11am till 9pm Sunday till Wednesday 11am till late Thursday, Friday & Saturday. Phone 09 414 5255

Want to look sharp this weekend? Then come and get your hair cut at everyguy – the salon for guys. No appointment necessary, just come when it’s convenient for you and enjoy Sky TV, Xbox and Playstation.

“The beginner classes offer 26 poses that anyone can do.”

Call us on 414 4026. (No appointment necessary.) Open 7 days. Mon 10.00am to 5.00pm Tues & Thurs 10.00am to 7.00pm Wed 9.00am to 7.00pm. Fri 9.00am to 5.00pm. Sat 8.30am to 3.00pm. Sun 10.00am to 2.00pm.

“Big boys’ toys have never been this much fun!”

Andy Edwards, Owner

Simon Lambert, Manager

Bikram yoga is practiced in a room heated to just above body temperature. Practitioners enjoy a wide range of health benefits including pain relief, weight loss, improved sleep and relief from tension, stress and anger. All this, plus a more flexible body.

Hobby City has a huge specialist range of kitsets and models, including trains and radio controlled planes, cars and helicopters. The speed, power and manoeuvrability of today’s radio controlled models is simply extraordinary – come and pay us a visit.

Classes run 7 days a week at two Shore locations – Albany at ANZ Business Centre call 415 4902, and Glenfield at 75 Porana Rd call 444 4070. www.bikramyoganz.co.nz

“We bring a taste of home to Africans living in New Zealand.”

Call us on 441 2505 Open Mon – Fri 9.30am to 6.00pm Sat 9.00am to 5.00pm Sun 10.00am to 5.00pm

“We think our flamegrilled peri peri chicken is the best in the world.”

Luke Joseph, Owner

Ashwini Kumar, Owner

Inside Africa sells African groceries, snacks, clothes and more. If you have ever lived in Africa, you’ll find all your favourite things here. If you have never been to Africa but would love to go, get the flavour by visiting us!

Nandos spicy, Portuguese-style chicken is trimmed of fat before being marinated for 24 hours and flame grilled. Have fun in your own kitchen cooking with a range of sauces, marinades and dressings that are exclusive to Nandos. Choose from East African, Thai, Moroccan and Mediterranean flavours.

Open 7 days 9.30am to 6.30pm Call us on 443 0548

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KIWI BLOKE GETS A DENTAL MAKEOVER Our smile should be our greatest gift â&#x20AC;&#x201C; yet for many it causes the greatest embarrassment. Missing teeth, broken teeth, rotten teeth, and crooked teeth â&#x20AC;&#x201C; these dental conditions ruin our desire to smile.

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A common view is that perfect smiles are restricted to the rich and famous and that the average 'Joe Blog's' is just stuck with what he was born with. But Bobs case disproves that little idea. Bob, a typical Kiwi bloke, was embarrassed by his smile; he even felt that he had run out of options to fix it. I gave him a new smile and with it a new lease on life. If you're unhappy with any element of your smile, you don't need to sit back and hide. Bob presented with a typical case of 'failing dentition'. Due to some heavy-handed 'murder house' dentistry long ago, his teeth were falling apart. We discussed options, including rebuilding his teeth, leaving them as they were, removing them and providing dentures... Following hours of discussion we agreed upon a full mouth reconstruction, with a combination of ceramic crowns/bridges and veneers. In four visits over four weeks, we achieved a well-balanced, strong, aesthetic smile.

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Remember, what works for one person may not work for another. If you're unhappy with any element of your smile, you don't need to sit back and hide.

At The Tooth Company we can provide good honest advice and tailor a plan to fulfil expectations, large or small.

Auckland Council with George Wood

GEORGE WOOD is a North Shore ward councillor on the new Auckland Council. The former three-term mayor of North Shore City lives in Forrest Hill with wife Myra.

Issues to be addressed… The matter of finding housing for our people at reasonable and affordable prices is continually being raised. I believe that across the Auckland region we have really failed to understand the overall dimension of the problem. The ability of the average young Auckland family to own their own home is getting more difficult. This problem needs to be addressed sooner rather than later and, I believe, Auckland Council does have a leadership role to play supporting the private sector and Government in finding solutions. At the recent New Zealand Local Government conference at Queenstown the issue was canvassed at length. I must say that the Lakes District Council, which covers the Queensland area, is well onto providing solutions albeit at a much smaller scale to what we experience and require in Auckland. I propose to request that the Auckland Council looks closely at the Queenstown model and seek urgent resolution of the problems we face. We have now moved into the back end of 2012 and the days are getting lighter again in the mornings. It is a wonderful time of the year in Auckland as we experience the cooler nights but receive a nice crisp frost followed by a corker day. My colleague Councillor Calum Penrose of Papakura and I recently spent four hours between 1am and 5am on a Sunday morning wandering the inner Auckland City Centre. We were looking at the way the café and bar crowds were behaving; quite frankly I didn’t feel their behaviour was too bad. Calum and I lead the Auckland Council Community Safety Forum and thought we would see first-hand what was happening. We have some ideas that will be implemented, especially in how alcohol is sold in inner city bottle stores. I drove back from the city after a chinwag with Calum. In the twilight zone at dawn the North Shore is a sight to behold as one drives back over the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Looking to the left coming up the bridge one sees Chelsea and Chatswood, then Birkenhead right up to Highbury before glimpsing Little Shoal Bay. Over the apex of the bridge one then sees the great expanse to the right of Takapuna right down to Devonport. This beautiful sight of the North Shore in the twilight dawn reminds me of the famous sonnet “Upon Westminster Bridge” that William Wordsworth penned together over 200 years ago of morning dawning across London. I learned this poem at Northcote College so many years ago but it has so much relevance to the beauty of our North Shore. Don’t you agree?

“Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning: silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!”

The Devonport-Takapuna Local Board, under board chair Chris Darby, has done excellent work in bringing together the draft Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan. One of the big issues is the future of the Takapuna Caravan Park area. All North Shore residents should submit their views by the close off time of 4.30pm Tuesday 4 September 2012. Every view from people who will be impacted does count. Ensure that your submission is received by the due date. Figures for recorded public transport travel to and from the North Shore have reached record numbers over the last twelve months. This is great news but it is causing major pressures on the bus stop infrastructure. This is very apparent at the Fanshawe Street stops especially the one outside Victoria Park. As a result of North Shore people making submissions I have been able to advocate strongly to get planned improvement in the future. $15.5 million has been set aside for this project from 2013 to 2015. Email: George.Wood@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

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“Future Leaders”

Youth Leadership Programme

Twenty aspiring North Shore future young leaders gathered at the Mary Thomas Centre in Takapuna on 12 and 13 July to participate in an interactive youth leadership programme hosted by the YouthworX Trust and made possible by generous funding support from the DevonportTakapuna Local Board. The Optimize Life Future Leaders programme was conceived by the irrepressible Barry Larsen, local resident and highly regarded coach and mentor with many years’ experience in mentoring and motivating groups and individuals, from sports people to business people. Through a series of interactive modules, young people find out how to live a life by design, not by default. This empowering programme targets senior students and develops self awareness, self belief and personal ownership. It centres on having fun whilst exploring life goals, strengths and building confidence, and how to feel good about yourself and your decisions. The biggest challenge identified by these young people was being taken seriously by their elders, and they particularly enjoyed learning about different personality types and leadership attributes and applying these in various team exercises. Apprehensions were quickly overcome in the fun, safe and supportive environment. Key learnings were also that relationships are equally as important as skills, never give up, and the importance of building reflection time into every day. Parental expectations were also discussed and tips provided for improved communication. The young people who participated in this programme are excited

about their futures and the programme’s potential to springboard them on to life opportunities. Here’s what a few of the participants had to say about their experience: “It was really awesome and you can prepare for the future.” “It is a fantastic course to make us seriously think about how we live our lives and make an effort to become better people and leaders…” “I did not want to come at first, but after these two days, I think it was a great decision for me to come.” “A brilliant programme which I see as essential for any young leader or aspiring leader.” “Barry was very good, even though he’s a mature adult, he knows exactly how youth and teenagers think, unlike most adults.” For more information about either the workshops or youth development on the North Shore, please contact Lisa Noonan, Director of the North Shore YouthworX Trust on lisa@youthworx.org.nz or 09 489 9865.

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Milford - Everyone’s Place: News

Your monthly update from Murray Hill, Manager of the Milford Business Association.

Another busy month for Milford in August!

As you will see as you read on, life in Milford is anything but dull with a full calendar of events. Auckland Symphony Orchestra Free Concert We will have 300 tickets for the August concert available from Monday 6th August at the Customer Service Desk in the Milford Centre (Mall) in Milford Road. These tickets go fast and there is a limit of four tickets per person. Please only collect tickets if you intend to use them as we don’t want any empty seats in the Bruce Mason Centre and seats are not available on the afternoon of the concert. The concert is on Sunday 19th August at 2.30pm and is an exciting mix of Stage and Screen music which will have wide appeal. We look forward to seeing you at the performance which is being presented by our association along with our sponsors, Benefitz and Channel Magazine.

Local Board Meeting in Milford If you are interested to see how the local Devonport Takapuna Local Board Meetings operate, come along to this historic first ever local board meeting to be held in Milford: Tuesday 7th August at 6pm at the Milford Combined Bowling Club, 20 Commodore Parry Road, Milford. No meetings have been held previously in Milford due to there being no council premises to hold one in, but after lobbying by ourselves and the residents association, a suitable venue has been found. We feel it is important that these meetings are held in our community and would like Milford to continue to be on the rostered meeting timetable. With all these things, it is about numbers, so please if you are able to, come along and support your community and show our local elected representatives how we all care about Milford.

The events start on Thursday August 9th and continue through to Saturday 11th August and include: • Golf tournament • Gala Concert • 1st XV match • Jubilee Dinner I know there will be plenty of local old boys in Milford who will already have details but for those of you who want to know more go to their special 50th Anniversary website for the full list of events: http://www.westlakejubilee2012.co.nz This school is one of our five local schools and in recent times I have been in contact with each of them, having visited two of the principals’ at the time of writing this column. All the schools are very sought after and have rolls bursting at the seams. From my visits, I can understand why there is such a high demand to place your children in these schools, such is the professionalism, leadership and vision of the principals’ and boards backed up with excellent staff and ever improving facilities. No wonder there are over 7,000 students in these schools – they are getting a fantastic education!

Mystery Weekend for 2 Winner By now we have drawn the winner of our July promotion and the winner has been posted on our website www.milford.bz. Don’t worry, if it wasn’t you as we have a Family Weekend Getaway coming up in September, where you will get to travel to Riverside Matakana, with it’s unique Five Star Qualmark accredited accomodation, in a new Audi supplied by one of our sponsors, Giltrap Audi.

New TITANIUM Sponsor for association We are pleased to announce our first TITANIUM sponsor – the Milford branch of Harcourts Cooper & Co. They sponsor a large number of community events across the North Shore and have always assisted us in the past with the loan of marquees for events, sponsoring competitions and providing auctioneers when required. This is our highest sponsorship level and represents a large contribution to our association that allows us to do more for Milford. Harcourts Cooper & Co join our other fantastic sponsors, listed on the opposite page, and we encourage you to support them! Have a great August in Milford!

Murray Hill, Manager – Milford Business Association Contact me by email milfordba@gmail.com or post, PO Box 31-825, Milford 0741. PS: Let us know about events in the community and we will discuss them in this column, space permitting.

Westlake Boys High School 50th Jubilee Also in the first week of August are the 50th Jubilee celebrations for our local boys high school, Westlake Boys.

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Milford - Everyone’s Place: Caci

Caci Milford and Albany playing a huge part in the health and wellbeing of clients

It was 2002 when Jane King first joined Caci as a junior therapist. Fastforward 10 years, and she now owns both the Milford and Albany clinics. Backed by two teams of “enthusiastic, lovely, genuine girls”, she believes Caci can play a huge part in the health and wellbeing of clients. There are 28 Caci clinics in New Zealand. The brand is named after the Computer Aided Cosmetology Instrument (CACI), which uses micro currents to tighten sagging facial muscles. The machine was introduced to New Zealand by the Caci clinic in 1994, and is still in high demand with Caci clients today. Like all Caci clinics, the Milford and Albany branches provide advanced antiageing treatments. These include Juvederm® dermal filler, Laser Hair Removal, Photo Rejuvenation, Skin Peels and traditional Beauty Therapy services. Jane says she loves what she does. “I’ve loved being back at Caci,” says Jane, who took 2 small breaks from the job while she

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had her children. “I genuinely believe in what we do. All the girls here do. We see some great results, and we see how much it adds to peoples’ lives. It’s a really feel-good thing to be a part of.” Jane takes pride in the highly experienced staff she has accumulated at both her clinics. The Milford team is made up of Rebecca, the treatment coordinator, Fiona, Rachael and Courtney, all beauty therapists, and Jennifer who is a registered nurse. Albany’s team is comprised of Donita, the treatment coordinator, Abbey, Amanda and Charlotte, beauty therapists, Angela, the registered nurse and Sophie the receptionist. Helen is a registered nurse who travels between both branches. “All the girls we have are just fantastic,” says Jane. “I think that adds so much to the whole experience of getting treated here – when you have a happy team and a positive atmosphere, it makes the service a lot more enjoyable.” Caci has simplified beauty with their three new results-focused programs. Amerase™, Freedom™, and Reformaskin™. Amerase™ is appearance medicine for lines and wrinkles. Freedom™ is a 12-month laser hair removal program that

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I genuinely believe in what we do. All the girls here do. We see some great results, and we see how much it adds to peoples’ lives. It’s a really feel-good thing to be a part of. utilises Caci's 15 years of expertise in laser hair removal. Finally, Reformaskin™ is designed specifically to treat uneven skin tone, texture and pigmentation problems often caused by sun damage. Their programs make paying for treatments very simple with a monthly payment structure over the course of your program. Payments can be split into easy weekly, fortnightly or monthly amounts, so that they can be managed easily.

Caci Milford is located at 79 Kitchener Road, while Caci Albany is located at 25 Apollo Drive.

Assistant Manager Wanted – Milford Tango’s Shoes have an experienced Assistant Manager’s position available to work part time in their Milford store. Ideally, this person will: • live locally • have a great flair for fashion • be flexible with their availability • have good self motivational skills • have good English and communication skills • have a professional attitude towards their work

• love the retail business • have a keen enthusiasm to help build the business using their retail skills and experience • good personal presentation • able to work well in a team environment

Hours and pay rate will be negotiated and dependent on the calibre of the successful candidate. Apply in writing to: enquiries@tangosshoes.co.nz or phone: 07 866 5947

Robyn Cameron Dental @ Milford Dental Centre

• Excellent Kind Caring Restorative Dentistry • Crowns at a reasonable price • Oral Health Professional Hygienist/Dental Therapist • FREE dental treatment for all secondary school students (up to 18 years of age) Hours: Mon-Wed: 8.30am - 5.00pm Thurs: 8.30am - 7.00pm. Fri 8.30am - 4.30pm 2 Dodson Avenue, Milford. Ph: 489 8354 robyncamerondental@hotmail.com

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Milford - Everyone’s Place: Crafty Knitwits

Knitathon $uccess!

Hema Prashar (Child Cancer Foundation), Murray Hill (Milford Business Association), Kerry Bowles and Linda Geor of Crafty Knitwits at the Knitathon Auction held in the Milford Centre (Mall) on Saturday July 21st.

$13,149 raised from the Knitathon for Child Cancer Foundation – An amazing effort from this little corner of the world. What an amazing response to our 2012 Knitathon. Brilliant! With $13,149 raised for the Child Cancer Foundation. The sponsorship effort from the participants was outstanding. Harcourts... thanks so much for your support and running such a fun and exciting auction – harder work than selling a house I suspect. Thanks to Milford Business Association, especially Murray, Geoff, Cherry and Johneen for their hard work in supporting the auction. Again thanks to our yarn sponsor Wentworth Distributors (Naturally Yarns), and all of the local businesses who gave their support by having buckets to collect donations in their shops. Special thanks for donations to the auction from Nefertiti, Molton Brown Hairdressers, Frog in The Barrel and to the individuals (which I don't have all the names) who also donated items to the auction. All very much appreciated! A big thank you also to the shops in the Milford Mall for allowing us to run the auction in the Mall! Thanks also to the Beneiftz and Channel team for their ongoing support throughout the Knitathon with printing, signage and publicity. Lastly, but not least, another huge thanks to the Swiss Bakery Team, unforgettable food! Next year we plan to set up teams to create 'Rugs by Design'. Watch this space as we intend to set up a committee to really ramp it up. Our target next year? Well why not $20,000! We nearly quadrupled last years effort this year, so to reach $20,000 is not unrealistic. Each year we learn from a few mistakes (and my motto is, "if you don't make any mistakes, you probably aren't doing anything"), so it can only get better. Thanks Milford and wider Auckland areas – you have a great heart! Well we have had a busy season this year which really started at Christmas time with the rainy weather. There has been no rest at Crafty Knitwits, full days speeding by with lots of creative customers. Very busy indeed. Great to see such a resurgence in all the crafts. Creative knitters... the challenge is... which yarn to choose? So many different yarns, some of which one really wants to just take one to hold, they are so soft and delicious. Our fabric range has grown considerably and to see some of the creations that come out of it is a real treat for both Kerry and Myself. Anyway hate to say it, but Christmas is coming! If you want to create gifts or decorations now is the time to start. We have two classes coming up in September called 'Create an Advent Calendar'. We have a sample on display now. We also have a sample of a Christmas Wreath which is very simple to make and you can use up all those little Christmas scraps that you might have

stored away. There is a free pattern available for this one. And thinking of Christmas – knitting and crocheting small Christmas gifts is very rewarding and creates thoughtful gifts that really show that you have made an effort! Start now and accumulate your gifts so that you are not running around at the last minute. Just for something different... we are taking delivery of a line of top quality Ugg boots from childrens through to adult sizes. These are great for this cold weather and for gifts overseas. So keep an eye out as we expect delivery any day soon -Thanks everyone from Linda and Kerry! Crafty Knitwits, 101 Kitchener Road, Milford. Phone 486-2724 or visit: www.craftyknitwits.co.nz

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Optometry & Eyewear with Melissa Hay, Visique Milford Optometrists

Our monthly Optometry & Eyewear column is provided by Melissa Hay, the owner of Visique Milford Optometrists. Melissa studied optometry for five years at the Auckland University School of Medicine and completed a Bachelor of Optometry (with Honours). Her qualifications also allow her to test the eyesight of pilots (CCA Accred.) and to write prescriptions (Oc.Cert.Pharm.). Melissa Hay.

Have you heard about

Glaucoma?

You probably have, it is a really common eye condition. This month I wanted to give you some more information about the serious eye disease. What is Glaucoma? Glaucoma is the name given to a group of eye diseases where the common feature is a gradual and irreversible degeneration of the optic nerve. However, if detected early, treatments are available to prevent the progression of the disease and preserve eyesight. Who is most at risk? Glaucoma affects around 68,000 New Zealanders over the age of 40, making it one of New Zealand’s leading causes of preventable blindness. Anyone can get glaucoma, however the following people have a higher risk: • 60 years and older • A family history • Short sightedness (myopia)

• High blood pressure • Past or present use of steroid drugs • Previous eye injuries

How is Glaucoma detected? Regular eye examinations are the only way to detect Glaucoma. Visique Milford Optometrists recommend a regular eye examination every 2 years for healthy adults. After age 65 more frequent eye exams are a wise precaution to ensure early diagnosis and treatment of sight threatening conditions such as glaucoma. Those with risk factors should be examined before the age of 45. Don’t leave it until it’s too late, talk to us today about an eye examination. We look forward to seeing you. Visique Milford Optometrists. 155 Kitchener Road, Milford. Phone 489-4797 - www.visique.co.nz

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LEFT UNDETECTED GLAUCOMA CAN CAUSE IRREPARABLE EYE DAMAGE. I WANT MY EYESIGHT TO LAST A LIFETIME.

This July Visique is getting behind Glaucoma Awareness Month. Glaucoma is one of New Zealand’s leading causes of preventable blindness and left untreated can cause irreversible damage to your eyesight. However, when diagnosed by your optometrist, glaucoma is almost always controllable with ongoing treatment. So be on the safe side and call your local Visique optometrist for an eye examination today. Visique Milford Optometrists 155 Kitchener Road | Milford |489 4797

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Milford - Everyone’s Place In this issue of Channel we are thrilled to welcome Bernard Molloy of Molloy's of Milford Antiques with an interesting monthly contribution. As loy Mol ard Bern With Bernard says, Molloy's has a mix of old, unusual, and even 'incredible' bits and pieces. The shop really is a fascinating place to visit but do allow plenty of time as it is just huge and crammed full of fabulous 'goodies'. In this first installment for Channel Bernard reports on his recent buying trip to England.

COME AND VISIT US FOR ALL YOUR SWISS SPECIALITIES It’s hard to find something that is truly artisan. But Evelyn and her husband Franz simply do just that; serving all things - Swiss style. Baked on site daily, this European flavour extends to everything on offer. Right now you can also get tasty “Winter Soups of the Day”. They also have a full Cooked Breakfast Menu. Speciality cakes for all occasions – Wedding , Birthday, Anniversaries etc. Party Breads ideal as centerpieces at a party also Breads, rolls & small savouries. Catering Available.

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A Fun Buying Trip In The UK England is still a treasure trove for any collector and Noelene and I spent all of this May in the West Country and the South and East of the country, searching for – and finding – items that were hard to source at home in New Zealand. Our trip was made much easier due to our Devon based friends organising things and guiding us around. Once off the motorways you actually get to see "that green and pleasant land" at its best. Mind you, the ever present hedgerows often block the views so it is a good idea to get an SUV, or similar higher vehicle, to make the best of the views. Portobello Road in London is a 'must visit'. But be very early. There are bargains to be had but by 10am it's hard to move in the solid crush of people – and the real good deals have gone by then anyway. The car boots are phenomenal. Huge paddocks often seemingly in the middle of nowhere filled with hundreds of cars and stalls galore... just bliss for any collector! We got great stuff at Car Boots in Devon, Norfolk, Gloucester and many others places. Take big bags with you as many trips back and forth to unload at the car will be needed for serious buyers! Some of the Antique Centres are just huge and are stuffed full of an amazing range of things. Again bargains can be had if you look long and hard and know your stuff. I'd recommend Taunton in Sommerset and Halstead in Essex as two of the better ones. Antique shops are still plentiful. Honiton, where we were based had 10 in the main street, and the number of Charity Shops is almost overwhelming... they seem to be a major Industry in the UK. And man, are there some bargains to be had in them! Then of course there is a huge number of 'Street Markets' and small and large Antiques and Collectibles Fairs happening everywhere it seems. We did Shepton Mallet, one of the largest Annual Fairs with over 600 Stall Holders. A wonderland for any collector or antiques nut. There were some bargains to be had there but as with many 'fairs' some of the pricing was also rather horrendous. So, a successful trip and a huge amount of fun also. 20 large cartons of 'goodies' have arrived and the shop now has an even more eclectic mix of the old, unusual, and even 'incredible'. Pop into the shop and say hello to our 79 year old Taxidermy Badger, "Billy". He has travelled in my back-pack all the way from Devon! – Look forward to seeing you in August, Bernard. PS. WATCH OUT FOR: We have two absolutely gorgeously stunning French Chandeliers due-in anyday soon from our supplier in South America along with several more gorgeous Colonial Style Peruvian 925 Silver framed Photo Frames.

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Local Government with Schnauer and Co

We’re all going on a summer holiday…

but not to Takapuna

Auckland Council has announced it will not renew the historic Takapuna Beach Holiday Park lease next year, and instead it prefers the space be used as public reserve with a "marine hub function". The council's decision is contained in the Takapuna Beach Reserve Management Plan which is now open for public submissions. Some time ago, the Government announced details on a National Ocean Sports Centre to be located on or near the campground site. This is planned to be an $8 million centre for sailing, triathlon and ocean kayaking. The plan is for athletes to receive specialist training in their discipline on the beach, while having ready access to world-class fitness training, sports medicine, and sports science work very nearby. Who can argue with that. But naturally, there are objections to these plans. The “Save Takapuna Beach Holiday Park” group says the campground is such a historic part of Takapuna Beach, it should at least form part of the management plan. And Councillor George Wood has spoken out in favour of the campground, arguing it has been part of Takapuna since about the 1920s. The campground manager is quoted as saying the council was "100 per cent making a mistake" and has not listened to the thousands of people who support the holiday park.

This is a classic local issue. On the one hand there is an iconic campground located within spitting distance of an iconic beach – a rarity in New Zealand now. On the other hand there is still an iconic campground located within spitting distance of an iconic beach, but is that the best use of that particular piece of land? The answer is not immediately obvious. Perhaps one way to analyse the situation is to ask whether it is axiomatic to protect something simply because it is iconic and has been around for 80 years. This is a different issue to heritage because there are no heritage buildings on the site. Auckland is a growing city. There is expected to be something approaching two million people living here by 2040. That growth puts demand on land usage. This becomes particularly important on areas of public land, such as that located on Takapuna Beach. It seems contradictory to take away the campground because it is not an effective private use of public land, but then replace part of it with a National Ocean Sports Centre and argue that is an effective private use of public land. All good things come to an end, and that may be the case for the holiday park. But it is not a fait accompli. Public submissions on the management plan are open until 4 September and can be made here: bit.ly/takabeachform

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TIGHT LINES & NO LIES: Fishing with Hunts Sports of Milford

Tight Lines & No Lies: Fishing with Hunts Sports of Milford

Our Channel Magazine fishing page is provided by Ian Hunt from Hunts Sports Store – that institution Channel Magazine fishingare page is provided by Ian Hunts Sports up the hill from MilfordOur on East Coast Road. Hunts big into fishing andHunt also from supply darts and Store – that institution up the from Milford on East Coast Hunts for are all big your into fishing also supplyand darts and accessories. ‘Hunty’ accessories. ‘Hunty’ is ahill colourful character who has Road. the answer fishingand requirements he’s is a colourful character who haspart the answer for allcommunity your fishingsince requirements and he’s sure to have a story or sure to have a story or two as well. Hunts have been of the local 1963. two as well. Hunts have been part of the local community since 1963.

Slow on the bite FISHERMAN or GARDENER? makes it challenging ZoefiRaines, caught this 18 Kiwi ingenuity never fails to amaze me, and shersaged are nine, some of the pounder off the end of Whangaparaoa best. in January on a Gulp soft bait and a and he reelcarries purchased from Hunts. Craig, my faithful stocktaker, was telling$80 merodhow a solar work! powered garden light in his rocket launcher as a night light. I haveGreat never heard of that before. It is a shame that the days are starting to shorten and there is the smell of winter in the air. But the great news is the Trevally have arrived – my favourite sashimi. Just remember they have small mouths so down-size your hooks and baits. A 3/0 hook is ample big enough with a small cube bait. They are also very soft in the mouth so show a bit of finesse – don’t rip their heads off as this will result in you pulling the hooks. I also suggest you have the net at the ready. There have been some nice fish taken off the rocks over the last few weeks. My advice is smaller baits and keep that berley going for the best results. A cheap berley mix is half a 5kg berley bomb to three cups of boiled rice into a bucket. The rice is great as it soaks up the oil of the berley bomb and you don’t end up just feeding the blighters. You can laddle it into the water, but remember to keep it going. Once you stop the fish will stop biting too. The Firth of Thames around the 40 metre mark has been firing with good catches being the norm. Small boats can also get into the action by setting upWe a good trailthis alongphoto the edge of shallow and fishingeach little or are berley running of the monthreefs compeition unweighted baits down the trail. It is quite amazing how many big fish will month in Channel Magazine. come in. As stated last month, spending a bit of time getting live or fresh The photo can be anything to do with fishing, even old ones (black and yellowtail can be time well spent as well as adding to your bait arsenal. white). This is not all about the biggest fish. What we are looking for That’s enough of my fishing secrets for this month!

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Well it looks as if the weather god’s are not playing the of game. BenefiFour tz and days out Channel Magazine from the weekend and all is looking rosy then wallop one day out and it all tagged and released turns to custard. this 20kg plus Kingy the passage I snuck out to Little Barrier a couple of weeks ago to takein part in a local between Durville competition. The biggest snapper was 11kg taken in less than three metres of and Stephen Islands water on change of light and a heap of berley. at the top of the Southtime Islandtoover Now that we are getting those frosty mornings it is the ideal target Easter. the elusive trevally. All you have to do is find some reef structure with plenty of current. Lay a good berley trail – tossing in a few cubes of pilchards from time to time – to bring them on the bite. I have found using a 3/0 recurve hook and a small bait does the trick. But remember they are very soft in the mouth so show some finesse if you load up too hard on them you quite often pull the hooks out of their mouths. The lads in the kayaks have been doing quite well in close off the shore with softbaits. One of our customers sets a fixed berley on a dropper line about a metre below the surface with a float and a small grapnel anchor. By doing so he has a point of reference to go back too on his drift. This is a real neat way to fish in the shallows. I personal use this a divers catch bag to hold my berley each and just put in two or three We are running photo of the month competition month Channel Magazine. slices in the plastic bag. This way your berley lasts about two to three hours The photoofcan anything to do with fishing even old ones (black and white). depending thebecurrent. This is not all about the biggest fish. What we are looking for are interesting It has certainly been a bit hit and miss of late but that’s why they call it fishing photos that we can publish in Channel Magazine and they will be of real interest nottocatching! people. Those who put the time in reap the rewards. have never great advocate of voucher using more but when If Iyou wish to bebeen in toawin a Hunts Fishing just than emailone yourrod, photo(s) to... photo@hunts.co.nz they are slow on the bite as they appear to be at the moment, try a flasher rig Entries must be in by therods 15ththis of each to be eligible tocovering enter. The deadline and straylining with two givesmonth you the advantage more ground.

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The Channel Grill

Dave Kosoof is one of our ‘home grown’ hockey talents, playing the sport from his school days right through to representing New Zealand on the international turf. Dave’s debut as a Black Stick was in 2000, and he went on to represent New Zealand in 149 test matches, including two Olympic Games, one World Cup and one Commonwealth Games. He is now the Coach Force and Regional Development officer for North Harbour Hockey, and plays for the Takapuna Premier Men’s hockey team. Channel’s Catherine Murray put Dave under the Channel Grill on his home turf in late July.

Dave Kosoof Talent on the Hockey Turf CATHERINE MURRAY: So what have you been doing in the last few years – is life still all about hockey? DAVE KOSOOF: I guess hockey has always been a major part of my life, and at times all of my life! In 2009 I played professionally in the Belgium hockey league, and this was a great life experience as I also got to live the culture of another country. But for the last two and or so years I have worked full time at North Harbour Hockey in the Coach and Development area. So yes, my life is pretty much hockey 24/7 at the moment. CM: Has hockey always been your sport of choice? DK: When I was growing up I pretty much played every sport that I could fit in! Through primary school there was everything from basketball, rugby league, soccer, tennis, cricket, hockey, swimming, athletics, cross country, surfing and skateboarding. When I moved to secondary school I began to focus more on certain sports, succeeding in both cricket and hockey in my final years at school. I made my first North Harbour representative hockey team when I was 11 years old, so I guess hockey was always going to be my sport of choice. CM: You recently received an Antonio Rosmini award for Sporting Excellence at the College’s Jubilee. Was it a surprise and what does the award mean to you? DK: I had no idea - I was just enjoying the occasion, catching up with past schoolmates, some of whom I hadn’t seen for nearly 15 years. I remember sitting next to 2011 Rosmini Head Boy George Muir, who is also a hockey mate, chatting away and then hearing my name read out. Walking up to receive the award was a bit overwhelming. The biggest honour was that hockey was also being recognised in a school that didn’t even have a hockey team when I began going there. Awards like this really make you stop and realise what you can achieve through your sport. CM: What other interests do you have, apart from hockey? DK: I have always tried to have a balance in my life. When I was younger and the body fresher, snowboarding, wakeboarding and skateboarding became important interests in my life as well. But now with the years going by it is definitely the more relaxed hobby of fishing that takes up any spare minute I have. I bought my third boat during last year’s summer and I have unsuccessfully attempted to catch every fish in the Hauraki Gulf over the summer months. I managed a 15 pound snapper off Wenderholm and king fish in the Orewa estuary, but I’m still hoping for that 20kg king fish to battle with one day!

CM: Your partner, Anita Punt, is at the Olympics as one of the Black Sticks Women’s team. Did you have any wise words of wisdom for her? DK: Ha, ha – be good! No, really, Anita has been in the team since 2009, and that included a Commonwealth Games silver medal in Delhi, so I’m confident that she will handle the atmosphere and pressure that is associated with the biggest sporting event in the world. Having been to two Olympic Games myself, I always try and help her to understand what to expect – but I also want to leave her to experience this great occasion as it happens. My main advice for her is to enjoy the occasion and remember to be confident in your hockey. You’ve made it there now, you’re an Olympian, so on the hockey field just treat it like any other hockey match. CM: So what Olympic sports will you be watching, and where will you be watching them from? DK: I’ll be watching them from the front row, right in front of my own TV. Having been to the last two Olympics this is actually the first Olympics I have watched on TV in New Zealand in 12 years. I had contemplated going over and supporting, so if someone would still like to sponsor me, it would be much appreciated! I will definitely be watching every one of Anita’s hockey games, and all of the men’s hockey, but I also enjoy watching the swimming and the athletics. Like any New Zealander, I’ll sneak in as much Olympic TV time as possible! CM: While hockey is not our ‘national’ sport, it is hugely popular. Do you have any advice for those parents whose children are interested in the sport? DK: Hockey as a sport is growing. It’s a sport that is very challenging and requires a high skill level, yet children are able to pick up the sport very quickly. If you are interested, then get in touch with your local school or club team. Most hockey around New Zealand is played on an artificial surface, some of which are waterbased, which means you can dive around without getting hurt or even dirty! Being very popular with both males and females, it’s one of New Zealand’s best social sports as well. CM: So what’s the best thing about working on the Shore? DK: I love working on the Shore because it is so central to everything. For me, working in the hockey industry on the Shore means we are always close to the national programme and their players, as most of them are based here. I live up at Red Beach, so work is just a short trip from there. But basically the best thing about the Shore is the beaches!

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Wine & Food with Liz Wheadon

Our monthly Channel Wine & Food columnist is Liz Wheadon, General Manager of Glengarry Wines. Liz is also a passionate foodie. Weekends are often spent first planning the event and then entertaining friends and family with magnificent food and wine experiences.

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its wine around the world, the varieties grown here stem from Portuguese origins. It’s not all about wine though, Cachaca – a white spirit made from sugar cane in Brazil is the key ingredient in the Brazilian national cocktail – Mojito. In Mexico, it’s all about Tequila and it’s not all about shots, lemon and salt, good quality Tequila make excellent sipping spirits. And the food – authentic Mexican food is quite the hit in top Melbourne food joints and through August you’ll find a Mexican menu at Dida’s Wine Lounge in Devonport (also Jervois Road and Victoria Park – over the other side of the bridge) On Friday nights through August, Danielle and the team at Glengarry Takapuna and Charles with his team at Glengarry Devonport have bottles of wines from the Americas open to taste, pop in, have a chat, they’d love to show you more of the delights of the Americas.

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Throughout August Glengarry is celebrating the wines of The Americas. What exactly does this include? The countries of the Americas include; Canada, USA, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. It’s a diverse group of countries, from the highest point – Aconcagua in Mendoza, Argentina, to Lake Superior whose surface area of 82,000 km2 puts it as the largest lake, to the Amazon River at 6,296km, the longest river in the Americas. Add to all that, dramatic natural beauty, the languages spoken; English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, native Indian languages, and more. It is no surprise that in this mixing pot of culture, there’s a wide variety of wine and food styles. The biggest wine producing country in the Americas is the USA, whose production ranks them number 4 in the world, with Argentina close behind in 5th position. California is central to this producing the lion’s share of the USA wine production. Made famous by a tasting in 1976 called the Judgement of Paris, when Californian wines were judged top of the heap ahead of their French counterparts, top Californian wines are made from Cabernet, Syrah, Chardonnay and Zinfandel. In Argentina, wines are generally made from Malbec, Cabernet and Merlot; in style, they tend to be very fruit driven and great value. Chile has a similar portfolio of varieties to Argentina, with the addition of Carmenere, a variety which originates from the right bank in Bordeaux. Brazil has long been a wine producing country and is now starting to export

People On The Bus: Q&A

Manchego

the King of Spanish cheese Alongside our feature on the Americas during August, we are taking a close look at the King of Spanish cheese – seem a little odd? Not really, when the Spanish landed in Southern America they brought with them the delights from home, including hard cheeses like Manchego. Manchego is the most well known of Spanish cheese. Whilst there are now many ‘Manchego style’ cheeses made throughout Spain, the original Manchego and the cheese that is awarded the DO (Denominación de Origen) is a sheep’s milk cheese that is produced in the expansive rolling hills of the La Mancha area. To be recognised under the DO, the milk for the cheese must come from the Manchega breed of sheep. The region of La Mancha is located in the centre of Spain, it sits on a plateau at around 600 metres above sea level. There are DO’s for wine production in La Mancha as well as Cheese DO’s; the wines produced here tend to be very juicy ripe wines. Sitting in the centre of Spain, heat and ripeness is not a problem here. Manchego is produced pasteurised and unpasteurised; the process of making Manchego starts with Manchega Sheep’s milk, with a minimum fat content of 6%. The milk is heated, the whey and curds separated. The curds are cut and packed into moulds. The cheese is then salted and left to age for a minimum of 60 days in caves. On average a round of Manchego weighs in at 3kg. Manchego is sold at three different maturity levels; Manchego Fresco - is the first level; fresco is cheese that has been aged for two weeks only, it’s not often seen outside Spain. Fresco is made in small quantities; it is a rich cheese that has a mild flavour on the palate. Manchego Curado - is the second level; Curado is Manchego that is aged for three to six months, is a nutty sweet type of Manchego that breaks easily and is very versatile. Manchego Viejo - is the oldest of Manchego; it’s aged for a minimum of one year, as it ages the flavours intensify and the cheese has a rich, deep peppery character.

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Manchego is a wonderfully versatile cheese; • Slice it and serve is as an eating cheese on an antipasto platter • Use it in place of Parmesan • Serve it after dinner, with quince paste and a nice glass of Sherry • Manchego is great with Spanish Jamon in a sandwich.

Every day the North Shore buses are filled with our readers going into the city to study or work. Here’s who we met this month… Name: Claudia Tasker Home: Takapuna Bus: Any bus that goes to the first stop in Takapuna! Occupation/Title: Media Advisor at Tourism New Zealand Fun fact: When I first moved to the Shore I lived in a caravan at the Takapuna Beach Holiday Park (shame the beach café didn’t exist then!) Channel Magazine: Why do you take the bus? Claudia Tasker: It’s so fast and efficient – I can be at work in about 12 minutes even during heavy morning traffic. CM: Favourite thing about taking the bus? CT: The satisfaction of whizzing past all the suckers sitting in their cars alone, stuck in traffic and looking miserable (well the ones that aren’t texting or putting on their makeup!). CM: What is the most interesting conversation you have had on the bus? CT: Probably with a young English couple and their two young children and a lorry load of luggage. They were bound for the Takapuna Holiday Park (my old home!). They were sussing out New Zealand with the idea of emigrating. What a great place to start! CM: When you are not on the bus, where are we are most likely to find you? CT: Probably at work – I’m looking after Tourism New Zealand’s media programme for The Hobbit, and it’s a big project. I also worked on the Rugby World Cup media programme. Otherwise you’ll find me at home in Takapuna or out and about with family and friends on the Shore. There’s no reason to be anywhere else. It’s a fabulous place to live. CM: How long have you lived on the Shore? CT: Off and on for about 35 years (that’s an age revealing give away!). I lived in England for about 10 years - went there as a young TVNZ reporter, married a BBC reporter I was working with and came home with two children. CM: Favourite thing about the Shore? CT: Lifestyle, people, proximity to the city, beaches, relaxation – I could go on and on. You feel that change in pace and attitude the minute you drive back across bridge. CM: With Martin Tasker as your husband, you must also do a lot of international travel? What has been your favourite international holiday? CT: Actually I don’t get to go with him very often, but we did spend time in Valencia for the America’s Cup in 2007 and that was a great experience. CM: With winter here in full blast, any tips for staying warm? CT: Probably a good brisk walk on the beach, but I’m such a slug I love to be in bed tucked up in the feather duvet, electric blanket, with the paper and a cup of tea. CM: Speaking of staying warm, what is your drink of choice in the winter?! CT: A trim flat white (how Kiwi is that?!) CM: Final question! What book are you currently reading? CT: The Larnachs by Owen Marshall – he’s such a great writer. But I also spent several years in Dunedin and have close relationships there, so it’s a story that fascinates me.

AUTHENTIC MODERN MEXICAN FOOD ANYONE? DIDA’S WINE LOUNGE IN DEVONPORT IS CELEBRATING THE AMERICAS THROUGHOUT AUGUST WITH A MEXICAN MENU THAT FOCUSES ON FRESH, CLEAN, HEALTHY FLAVOURS. SO WHETHER YOU ARE POPPING IN FOR A MEAL OR A SIMPLE SNACK, MAKE SURE YOU CHECK OUT OUR AUGUST ME XICAN MENU! MAY WE SUGGEST WITH A GLASS OF CHILEAN CARMENÈRE? OR PERHAPS AN ARGENTINIAN MALBEC? OR MAYBE SOME TEQUILA? SALUD! DEVONPORT . 56 VICTORIA RD . 445 1392 . DIDASDEVONPORT@GLENGARRY.CO.NZ

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our charming village by the sea

Destination Devonport News, Views, and Information from the Village by the Sea – Devonport.

Eddie de Heer.

By Eddie de Heer. President – Devonport Business Association. I don’t know about you but I occasionally find myself with a free day and not too much of a plan as to what to do with it. If you find yourself in the same situation and need a day out then here’s a solution for you.

How to Spend a Perfect Day in Devonport 8am

Take the ferry from Auckland central to Devonport [10 minute trip]. I know it’s early but you have lots to see and do. If coming from Takapuna then simply take the bus or car, there’s plenty of free parking in the village.

8.30am

Wonder along the waterfront to North Head. It’s a reasonable walk to the top but the views and old military tunnels are worth the effort. North Head is Auckland’s fourth most visited destination and is perfect for young and old alike with many walks, bunkers, gun stations and tunnels to explore. Alternatively, book a ‘Magic Broomsticks’ tour and Segway your way around the scenic spots of Devonport – an experience not to be missed.

9.30am

Breakfast and a well earned coffee. Enjoy breakfast in one of the cafes near the base of North Head and take in some of the best harbour and city views around.

10.30am Visit the Torpedo Bay Navy Museum. Just next door to the cafe the museum takes you on a fascinating journey of our naval history and the role of the Navy in Devonport. Free Entry.

Why not be uplifted and comfortable and have a specialist ﬁtting at no extra cost.

For everyday, special occasion, sports or maternity, we’ll get you fitted. Now also providing breast forms and bras for post breast surgery (we are registered with the Ministry of Health) Shop 2, Queens Parade (opposite the ferry terminal) Phone: 09 445 8347. OPEN 7 DAYS.

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12 noon Stroll back to the Village centre via Cheltenham Beach and the delightful Cambria Reserve. 1pm

Lunch time. You’re spoiled for choice with an abundance of cafes on the Mainstreet as well as some tucked away a little off the ‘beaten track’.

2pm

Shopping! Devonport’s shopping district is an experience not to be missed. Located in grand old heritage buildings the retail centre offers a truly unique shopping experience.

3.30pm

Indulge in a spot of Artistic culture. Devonport is blessed with an abundance of Art galleries, studios and workshops exploring many artistic expressions and media.

5.30pm

Make your way to the summit of Mount Victoria, a brief 10 minute walk from the head of Mainstreet takes you to the very best sunset views of Auckland City and the harbour.

6pm

Dinner Time. Devonport offers a range of casual bistro type restaurants set in relaxed surroundings with great food at reasonable prices.

8pm

Catch a movie at The Victoria Picture Palace, the oldest functioning cinema in the country.

10pm

Time for a nightcap at one of the bars or pubs in town before heading back home.

Phew what a day! And we haven’t gone to Narrow Neck beach, explored Fort Takapuna and had a round of golf, so the best option is to stay the night in one of the many boutique accommodation providers and make it a perfect weekend. Have a great month Eddie de Heer. President – Devonport Business Association

On the Ferry with Fullers: Q&A

On the Ferry

Devonport Community News

By Maria Teape - Devonport Community Coordinator, Devonport Peninsula Trust It’s hard to believe August is here already – the year feels like it’s racing by! This month our informal gettogethers to welcome new and recently new residents to Devonport Peninsula are resuming on Monday 6th August. If you have Maria Teape. recently moved into the Devonport Peninsula area, we would love to meet you! We are happy to help you with any local information you need or just to chat about how everything is going for you. It’s also a great opportunity to meet other newly arrived residents. We meet at the Devonport Community House at 10:30am for morning tea and again in the evening at 7pm for drinks and nibbles. For more information phone Maria on 445 9533 or Rebecca on 445 3068. On Wednesday 8th August, we will be hosting the third of our quarterly network meetings for the year. We will be meeting in the Devonport Library seminar room - access is just around the corner from the main library entrance, facing onto Flagstaff Terrace. The meeting starts at 10am and finishes at approximately 12 noon. There is an opportunity to mix and mingle and also hear from local speakers on topical issues. Morning tea is provided and all are welcome. Our popular free Winter Fun Pre-School Indoor Play sessions are back and will be held at Belmont Baptist church hall. Starting on Thursday 9th August, the sessions will be held every Thursday from 9:30am-11am and will run for 10 weeks. The indoor preschool play sessions are similar to our Summer Fun preschool play programme, with lots of your preschooler’s favourite outdoor toys plus some fun indoor activities like playdough and paints. Come along and enjoy a cuppa and a chat while your preschooler burns off some energy, regardless of the weather!

If it’s a laugh you’re in need of, the wait is over

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In this issue we introduce an interesting new feature – 5 minutes on a Fullers Ferry. Each month Heather Vermeer of Channel Magazine will have a quick chat with a regular ferry user. This month she had a chat with Louise Harrison from Devonport. She is pictured with fellow ferry passenger Steve Avery getting off the 5.15pm from City to Devonport.

Name and rank: Louise Harrison, National Marketing Manager. Where's home? Sunny shores of Devonport. Which crossing? Devonport to Auckland CBD. Why the ferry? It's a stress-free, traffic-free, affordable and quick way to get to work. Sometimes we even see dolphins! On board do you mostly... a) Emerse yourself in a book/newspaper b) Take in the views and sea air c) Chat to fellow passengers or d) Work/ play on your phone? You'll normally find me mainly (c) on the way to work, with a fair bit of gossiping too, and (d) on the way home, or upstairs at the Kea's bar! In the time the crossing takes you could...? Become the Rubix cube world champion? Fellow ferry passengers – do you avoid eye contact/smile and vanish/ sit and chat? A combo of smile and vanish and sit and chat – depends on which side of the bed I've got out of in the morning! Wish you were getting off (the ferry) in? Port Moselle in New Caledonia – in just a few hours I'd step off into sunshine, fine French food and champagne – magnifique! Any out-of-the-ordinary ferry incidents? I’ve known the captain to spot a pod of dolphins playing around in the harbour. When he announced they were there, all the commuters looked out with delight, oohing and ahhing in unison! And your Captain Dreamboat? It would have to be aboard the sublime ‘The World’ cruise ship, with Horatio Hornblower at its helm!

Catch a ferry to the city with Fullers Take advantage of regular weekend ferry services from Birkenhead, Northcote Point, Devonport or Bayswater wharves to Auckland City. It’s a relaxing way to travel to and from Downtown Auckland. No traffic jams, no parking costs and café bars onboard. Visit www.fullers.co.nz or any Fullers Ticket Office for timetables or booking information.

If it’s a laugh you’re in need of, the wait is over. Headliners Comedy nights are back at Victoria Theatre, with well known home grown comedians, Paul Ego and Dai Henwood along with up and coming comedians Jemaine Ross and Tom Furniss. Their next gig is on Saturday 4th August, 7pm at The Vic and another gig is lined up for Saturday 1st October. Tickets are available from The Victoria Theatre box office or online at: www.thevic.co.nz That’s all from me for now - Maria. For more info or to sign up for the Devonport Peninsula eNEWS, please contact dportcomm@xtra.co.nz or call 445 9533.

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High Tea by the Sea at Torpedo Bay Café

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Enjoying high tea – and hilarity – by the sea is surely a wonderful way to spend an afternoon. “A day without laughter is a day wasted,” so said Charlie Chaplin. And within seconds of entering Torpedo Bay Café, it is abundantly clear that no day is wasted here. This exquisite Devonport café has the prime café spot in the village for beach and city views. Couple that with a beautiful array of sweet and savoury offerings, finely-frothed coffee and a guaranteed good giggle, and you have a recipe for time well spent. Charismatic owner Joanne Eakin imparts her northern British humour to brighten customers’ days. “We do giggle a lot here,” she says, managing to squeeze the words out amid a fit of laughter brought on by an impromptu behind-the-counter dance session.The fun-filled mum-of-four has been at the helm of the café adjacent to the Navy Museum for almost two years, and it was the location that sold it to her. “Just look,” she gestures to the picture postcard view of Torpedo Bay across to the city, uninterrupted by the café’s glass side wall. “This is what attracted me to this place. You can’t beat this view.” Joanne, originally from Merseyside, England, moved to Devonport five years ago and has established herself as a well-loved character in the village, becoming involved in the local business association and playing an active part in the school life of her four children. She’s hooked on the lifestyle. “Where else can you live where you have a big city on your doorstep, be so close to the beaches, where your children are safe, and there’s a great community?” She asks rhetorically. It’s apparent that Joanne has a first class team at the café. “Our two chefs are amazing and innovative, always producing fantastic homemade food fresh every day. My barista is fab! It’s a great team we have here.” A popular offering is their exquisite ‘high tea’. For half the price of some of the city centre hotels’ alternatives, the cafe serves a delicious selection of freshly made scones, sandwiches and mini-treats for a very reasonable $20 per person – bookings essential. Don’t waste another day – go for a lovely lunch with a view, and the added value of a large dose of the fun factor. Torpedo Bay Café, 64, King Edward Parade, Devonport. 09 445 4670

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In 1942, a women’s service was introduced to the Navy. Seventy years later some of these women return, this time to the Navy Museum, to design and produce an exhibition about the Women’s Royal New Zealand Naval Service and the bravery, leadership and laughter that brought it to life. Come to the Navy Museum and share in the stories of the young women who not only broke down barriers in the Navy but in New Zealand society as well.

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Exploring the Shore with Kellie Larson

Learning to make pasta at Villa Romantica While I have always wanted to learn to make fresh pasta, I was very excited to take this class in particular after having read an article about the experience in Kia Ora magazine. The experience definitely didn’t disappoint! Located at Villa Romantica off Glenvar Road in Torbay, Al Dente By Raffaela Delmonte is an Italian Cooking School, and as the website says, the school was founded, “to share her [Raffaela’s] love and knowledge of Italian regional cuisine, along with the fun and simplicity that being Italian means.” Driving down the gravel road to reach this organic retreat, I saw the magic of this special, natural setting. Overlooking the scenic North Shore, all you can see is native bush, and all you smell is what’s cooking in the kitchen. I felt like I was in Italy. Without even starting the class itself, this experience felt special. We started with a cappuccino and a freshly baked jam tart. With a quick introduction, we began to learn hands-on how to make homemade pasta, not per a recipe but rather based on our own feel and senses. Working with a partner, we watched Raffaela demonstrate and then we began right away trying to solve the mystery of pasta making (which by the way isn’t that hard) on our own – combining the egg and flour, kneading it, and knowing when to add more or less moisture. It was so easy – and yet I was glad to have Raffaela there just to look over our shoulders, check our progress and provide us with more food to nibble on! We made tagliatelle, cannelloni, ravioli and angel hair – we became regular pasta making machines, and to pair with these pastas we had organic pork sausages, tomato sauces, sage butters and spinach stuffing. My favourite was the Sicilian pork sausage filled ravioli with sage butter sauce. The pasta was light and delicate, and I can still remember the amazing flavour. Plus, I felt very healthy and organic as Raffaela’s husband actually makes the organic sausages himself. Yum! The food was incredible. The wine was exquisite. And after the three hour Saturday class, the experience put a smile on my face for the rest of the day. I couldn’t stop talking about it, and I can’t stop recommending it. So, whether you want to learn to make pasta or learn the details of specific regional cuisine, take a look at Al Dente by Raffaela Delmonte. It is a truly special experience right here on the Shore! Cooking with Raffaela Delmonte is friendly and informal, miles away from the stainless steel pro kitchens, the authentic Italian way. The ingredients are always seasonal and organic, and the classes are always fun and fully hands on! Feel as though you have been transported into the heart of Italy and instant relaxation. Al Dente by Raffaela Delmonte. 277 Glenvar Road Torbay. Classes include:Pasta; Pizza, Focaccia and Bread; Regional Italian. $120 per person. www.aldente.co.nz – info@aldente.co.nz or 09 473 8677.

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AMI can now rescue you from punctures, flat batteries, missing keys, locking your keys in the car, walking for miles, the scorching midday sun, screaming children, arguments, and missing your holiday. There’s a whole lot of stress that comes with a breakdown but the fact is no matter how hard you try sometimes they just happen. With AMI’s Breakdown Service you can relax because we’ll come to your car when you need us. And with over 1000 contractors on the road, you can stop worrying about your car and start getting on with your holiday. You’ll be even less stressed when you hear the price, from just $32 a year. Call 0800 100 200 or pop into your local branch for more details. Terms and conditions apply.

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Ami North Harbour Netball

Building And Home Maintenance

By Adele Lendich, CEO of Netball North Harbour. adele@netballnorthharbour.co.nz

Courts getting upgrade for summer AMI Netball North Harbour is very pleased to announce that Auckland City has granted the AMI Netball Centre $170K to upgrade many of the courts this upcoming summer. We are delighted with the grant which will see a major refurbishment to courts currently in desperate need of repair. This will leave us with three courts still to be rubberised and a further $160K to find, but will see NNH in great condition for the 2013 winter season. We are also thrilled to announce and welcome Barfoot and Thompson as an official sponsor of NNH. Barfoot and Thompson are well known throughout NZ for their support of sport and other not for profit and charitable initiatives. Peter Thompson (Barfoot & Thompson Managing Director) says “We are delighted to sponsor netball at this level where young players are starting out and being shaped for the future. This sponsorship is just another way we can help to support and encourage netball players, encouraging them to continue to play the sport and better their skills”. We are very pleased that many of our local businesses recognise the importance of playing sport and their support helps us keep netball accessible, enjoyable and affordable for families. AMI Netball North Harbour has a wideranging sponsorship architecture that reflects the various benefits to Sponsors, Advertisers and Community Partners. If you would like to find out more about advertising and promotion opportunities, or sponsorship at AMI Netball North Harbour, please contact me on 481 0945. The Netball Season has hummed along particularly well this year. The Onewa Arena has made such a huge impact to the AMI centre bringing back all of our premier players (who have had to play at the North Shore events centre for the past eight years). The LG Mystics have trained three days a week and the Silver Ferns have also been regular users. North Harbour Volleyball also calls the Arena home during their summer competition. If you want some action on a Tuesday evening come down to the Onewa Arena and enjoy watching our Premier players battle it out with fast paced and highly skilled levels of play. The canteen is open with nourishing evening meal options and an assortment of beverage to suit your taste. With a few more weeks of play left before the end of season the competitions at every level become more urgent as final placing’s become ever more important. If you are interested in supporting Netball, we would love to have you – please phone the Volunteer Coordinator Teri Doody on 4810941 or by emailing teri@netballnorthharbour.co.nz - Thank you to all of our volunteers!

Our CHANNEL Building and Home Maintenance column is contributed on a monthly basis by Alex Coburn QPC Builders. Alex and his team are refreshingly energetic and passionate North Shore builders dedicated to delivering the highest quality work that sets them apart. In this column he highlights the governments leaky home assistance package. www.qpcbuilders.co.nz

The Financial Assistance Package (FAP) Here on the North Shore the “Leaky homes crisis “ is an ever-growing issue, this affects most plaster homes developed through the 90’s and early 2000’s in some form. As the North Shore had such a rapid growth through this 15-year period there were certainly a lot built in our area. Current estimates are that 42,000 homes in Auckland fall into this category with a total repair bill of over 10 billion dollars. The Government last year realised that so much money was getting tied up in expensive litigation that could be better spent fixing the problem so they bought out a funding package to help fix those homes unlucky enough to be caught in this predicament. This is an excellent package and if your home meets the criteria you may be eligible for 25% funding from both the Auckland Council and the Government making it a huge 50% off your repair bill. There are definitely advantages in taking this package and it’s well worth looking into on the department of building and housings website: http://www.dbh.govt.nz/fap It is a fairly new scheme and we are currently in the process with our first clients at present, but it’s all been very easy. We have reclad a number of homes around Auckland over the last few years, so we know a bit about the process. If you would like some free advice or just a builder to look over your home feel free to call us for a no obligation chat: Alex Coburn - Ph: 027 536 2494 or visit our website www.qpcbuilders.co.nz.

There’s a whole lot of stress that comes with a breakdown but the fact is no matter how hard you try sometimes they just happen. With AMI’s Breakdown Service you can relax because we’ll come to your car when you need us. And with over 1000 contractors on the road, you can stop worrying about your car and start getting on with your holiday. You’ll be even less stressed when you hear the price, from just $32 a year. Call 0800 100 200 or pop into your local branch for more details. Terms and conditions apply.

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Channel Pets with DogHQ

This loveable Channel Magazine feature is presented by Louise O’Sullivan of DogHQ, the North Shore’s premium Dog Day Care facility. DogHQ provides the ultimate in social, physical and mental stimulation for dogs of all types in a safe and caring environment. DogHQ’s full range of services include obedience training, agility fun days, grooming and all natural nutrition. See all the fun for yourself at www.doghq.co.nz and www. facebook.com/doghq.

Is your dog a potential Sporting Superstar? As we move into the Olympic season, let’s consider the potential of that cute pooch that’s sprawled out on your couch! Maybe your little bundle of fun is an Olympic Superstar just waiting for a chance to show off? There are so many diverse sports that enable you and your pooch to test your skills so perhaps it’s time to get pup off the couch and get training! You could choose something mainstream to test for Olympic talent…. Agility Dog agility is a dog sport in which a handler directs a dog through an obstacle course in a race for both time and accuracy. Dogs run off-leash with no food or toys as incentives, and the handler can touch neither dog nor obstacles. It’s great fun for dog, handler and spectator alike… and definitely not as easy as it might seem! Lure Coursing In lure coursing, dogs chase an artificial lure across a field, following a pattern that is meant to simulate live coursing. A typical lure course is between 548 to 914 meters long. In Europe the course length can be over 1000 meters, and may incorporate some obstacles or jumps. The course must have a minimum number of turns in order to simulate prey (rabbit or hare) changing direction in a chase. Rally-O Rally obedience (also known as Rally or Rally-O) is a dog sport based on obedience. Unlike regular obedience, instead of waiting for the judge's orders, the competitors proceed around a course of designated stations with the dog in heel position. The course consists of 10 to 20 signs that instruct the team what to do. Unlike traditional obedience, handlers are allowed to encourage their dogs during the course. Or you could really get adventurous….. Bikejoring Think mountain biking with dog in charge. Bikejoring is a dog mushing activity related to skijoring, canicross, and dog scootering. It is a recreation or sport where a harnessed dog or team of dogs attached to a towline, pull and run ahead of a cyclist. Bikejoring is a non snow season (dryland) activity which is also sometimes used to train racing sled-dogs out of season. Dock Jumping Think of long jump, but with dogs into water. Dock jumping also known as dock diving is a dog sport in which dogs compete in jumping for distance or height from a dock into a body of water. Dock jumping first appeared in 1997 at the Incredible Dog Challenge, an event sponsored and produced by pet food manufacturer Purina. There are now a number of organisations that run dock jumping competitions in different countries.The current record by Baxter the Golden Retriever is 9.017 m

Or go for the artistic…. Musical Freestyle Musical canine freestyle, also known as musical freestyle, freestyle dance, and canine freestyle, is a modern dog sport that is a mixture of obedience training, tricks, and dance that allows for creative interaction between dogs and their owners. Freestyle heeling focuses on a dog's ability to stay in variations of the heel position while the handler moves to music. In heel work to music, the dog and trainer remain close to each other at all times. Jumping, weaving, rolling, passing through the trainer's legs and anything else considered "not heeling" is not allowed. Musical freestyle demands that the dog perform a variety of tricks and other obedience talents. In musical freestyle, heel work can be combined with other moves such as leg weaving, sending the dog away, moving together at a distance, and more dramatic tricks such as jumping, spinning, bowing, rolling over.

Indie’s Insights If you like spending a lot of time on the couch, in my view that’s perfectly ok. If you are not chasing cats, barking all day, stealing food or chewing everything in sight… who’s to complain?! Don’t be fooled by the over thinking owner who feels you need to leap through hoops and dance around cones…. Couch is Good….just give them the “you love me look”.

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Accountancy Beyond The Numbers with Hayes Knight

Matthew Bellingham.

Matthew Bellingham is a Director at Hayes Knight, an innovative chartered accountancy practice, where he specialises in strategic planning and business improvement. matthew.bellingham@hayesknight.co.nz – www.hayesknight.co.nz

The Godfather of all decisions “There just wasn’t enough time.” Who would have guessed that this classic quote from Marlon Brando in the Godfather trilogy would be echoing through many boardrooms today? Especially from those wishing they’d started the succession or reinvention journey earlier. Hopefully their businesses don’t end up ‘sleeping with the fishes.’ Perhaps a higher value and a smoother transition could have been achieved if their exit was better planned and proactive steps were taken at the outset. Perhaps many of those businesses that have struggled or failed over the last few years could have had a different outcome. Baby boomers are getting older and health concerns are starting to plague the initial timeframes laid down by owners of all ages. The Global Financial Crisis is still taking a toll. For many, the luxury of time is a limited resource. Hands are getting forced and for some they’ve simply run out of time to groom their businesses, or even their successors, for a sale on their terms. Advisory boards have been re-invented, with a shift towards engaging independent skill sets onto a management board to lend valuable input to the organisation’s steering committee. Some think of this as a combination of ‘growing up and coming of age’ that is being employed by many of our leading enterprises as they take a corporate trailblazing role. Episodes of TV series like The Sopranos, Sons of Anarchy and Underbelly highlight the need for a successful leadership team in what are fictitious businesses. In a somewhat comical and even ironic way, these story lines emphasise the need for collective management to get a more powerful outcome. Not surprisingly, key characters want to be part of succession planning and business reinvention. What we can take from this is that planning should always be at the forefront of an executive’s mind and that there should be people available to lead an organisation should there be an unplanned exit of a key person or some unforeseen crisis. What would happen to your business if you

The Global Financial Crisis is still taking a toll. For many, the luxury of time is a limited resource. had a serious illness tomorrow and had to quit immediately? Would it operate as profitably long-term, would it command the price you demand with minimal effort, or would your estate be left with some severe issues to work through? Reluctance by a working owner to surround themselves with an independent board that consciously pushes their comfort zone and demands change is adversely affecting shareholder value and annual take home profit. It’s time for SMEs to get on board with the governance and succession program. This is a realisation many mature executives have already discovered and a lesson tomorrow’s leaders have recently learned. We’re certainly seeing a difference in results between those businesses that practise this discipline and those that don’t. Sure, succession’s just part of the mix in a governance programme, but dealing with the issue before you need to is about creating choices and doors of possibility. Unplanned amalgamations or takeovers/ buyouts because a more attractive business model has been created means the exit process can be fast-tracked. If steps are taken, there will be enough time and the chance of a successful exit will be dramatically increased. In Godfather terms, “the family will be looked after.” Make sure you are prepared and have options. Contact Matthew Bellingham on 09 379 1584.

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Chris Western is a partner in the Private Client Team at Simpson Western, with a wide range of experience in many areas of the law. He is based in our office at Apollo Drive. North Harbour. chrisw@simpsonwestern.co.nz - www.simpsonwestern.co.nz Chris Western.

A Practical Legal Guide to

Dealing with a Death When someone dies, the responsibility usually falls to their nearest and dearest to deal with the issues that arise. While this may be a straightforward exercise for a lawyer who has dealt with estates many times, it’s often difficult for family or trusted friends to know where to start. This article suggests some practical points to guide those who find themselves in this position.

or with a low value, probate may not be needed. In any event. it’s a good idea to let Work and Income NZ, or any other pension payer, know as soon as possible, to stop payments that will otherwise need to be refunded.

1. Check for written instructions. Many people take time to write down their wishes about how their funeral service should (or should not) be conducted. Others will say in their will how they would like their body to be dealt with. Even if you think you already know, do locate a copy of the will or any other directions that might exist.

6. There’s no rush. In cases of urgent need there are some ways to obtain access to some funds of the estate. Funeral directors are normally willing to wait a reasonable time for payment of their account when funds are released. The High Court now deals with a probate application quite quickly, and you can expect to have this issued within four weeks of it being lodged. Once issued, the probate document will be the executor's authority to legally deal with the estate assets. But you don't have to wait for probate before having assets valued or preparing them for a sale.

2. Celebrate their life. Don’t concern yourself with legal issues too quickly. The priority is to make the funeral arrangements. The funeral director will attend to any formal notification requirements, and the legalities can be dealt with once the funeral is behind you.

7. What if you can’t find a Will? The deceased’s lawyer can advertise for a Will, and, if none is found, can apply for an Administrator to be appointed. Letters of Administration grant powers similar to probate. The estate is distributed according to the Administration Act and follows bloodlines.

3. Locate the last will. The original will is usually held by the deceased's lawyer. There is often a copy held with the will maker’s personal papers. This copy usually has the name of the law firm that prepared the will on it, which should assist you to find the original. The will appoints an executor, and it is important to establish who that is.

Summary: New Zealand law provides sensible procedures for dealing with a death. These encourage a responsible and accountable, but practical, approach. The law allows plenty of time for people to be heard if they feel they haven’t been appropriately treated in the will. Follow the legal steps and administration of an estate should be orderly, and transparent.

4. Identify and protect estate assets. The executor should establish what assets are owned at the date of death, and take steps to secure them. For example, a vacant home or unattended vehicles may need to be secured or stored. Make sure adequate insurance is in place. You may need to agree with an insurer about what must be done to maintain insurance on an unoccupied property. 5. Find out what legal steps are required, and who should take them. Probate is the High Court authority required to administer estates, however it’s not always needed. Once the lawyer has an idea of what assets are involved, he/she can tell you whether it will be necessary to apply for a grant of probate. If assets are held in joint names, on behalf of a Trust,

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Investing with Spicers

Mark Harris - Authorised Financial Adviser (AFA). Phone: 486 7892 Email: mark.harris@spicers.co.nz www.spicers.co.nz

Are you doing a good job managing your own investments? Mark Harris.

Today, there’s information everywhere about where and how to manage your money, from the numerous ‘Get Rich Quick’ books available in stores, to the thousands of websites and blogs dedicated to achieving financial success. Despite the huge amount of information out there, many DIY-investors are now opting to seek a second opinion when it comes to managing their monetary affairs. Why? According to financial commentators, the current unprecedented economic, financial market and demographic forces have led some investors to re-think the structure of their self-made portfolios.

Altered world “The investment landscape today is quite different to that faced by previous generations,” explains Mark Harris, a North Shore based Authorised Financial Adviser (AFA) from Spicers Portfolio Management Limited (Spicers). “In days gone by, the basis of financial planning was probably to save a little, contribute towards a superannuation scheme, pay off the mortgage, or invest in a few rental properties,” he says. While many New Zealanders still aspire to this, Mark remarks that such phenomenal change is challenging traditional views on investing: “It’s no longer realistic to simply follow traditional investment approaches based on historic performance or family or societal behaviour. We’re living longer, spending more, and the changes to the investment landscape are challenging peoples thinking and decision making.” “As a result, many of the people I meet with nowadays are the traditional DIY investors seeking expert guidance to ensure their financial strategy is on track”. Mark, who has collaborated with many smart investors to help fine-tune their financial planning, suggests this: “To begin with, make sure you have a good grasp of how you plan to utilise your financial resources over time. Structure a spread of investments consistent with your needs, and your individual risk tolerance” He continues, “Without an understanding of how you wish to use your financial resources as you enter each life stage, a financial plan is short of critical detail upon which to base financial decisions.”

Establishing a sense of balance and control Adopting a ‘3 Pot Strategy’ is one way to gauge the effectiveness of a financial plan. Put simply, it’s about continually balancing different investments with varying

degrees of risk and potential returns in order to achieve your goals, plan for your future and, to enjoy your life now. Each pot represents your short, medium and long term needs, and are composed of appropriate asset classes which complement these timeframes. For example, the short term pot needs to be easily accessible, so a liquid low risk investment choice is preferable while the long term pot has more time to try and work its magic, so a higher risk investment would be acceptable. But allocating what goes where is the point at which some people falter: “It can be new territory for many people,” explains Mark, “as it requires them to be really honest about how they want to live their life, what goals they have, and how they’ll achieve them. For some, they’ve never had a reason or inclination to think about this before. It can be quite revelatory and rewarding at the same time.” This is when an AFA can really add value. The role of a good adviser is to help educate clients about the array of different investment products available, the associated risks and, ultimately, the returns. They can help you see the wood from the trees by helping to establish financial priorities and create a sensible, financial roadmap.

The value of a second opinion So, when should you contact an AFA? Triggers such as starting or merging a family, looking to invest a lump sum (such as from an inheritance or property sale), or wanting assurance you’ll enjoy financial independence come retirement are perfect examples of when a second set of eyes and ears can help check you’re on track. Mark concludes: “Taking control of such an important area of your life is not only smart but liberating. It can be a huge relief knowing your hard earned money is working hard for you in return.”

If you have any questions about your financial situation or investing, I may be able to assist. You can reach me on: 486 7892 or email: mark.harris@spicers.co.nz The information in this article is of a general nature only and is no substitute for personalised advice. If you would like advice that takes into account your particular financial situation or goals, please contact your financial adviser. A disclosure statement is available on request and free of charge from your adviser.

This article has been produced by Spicers Portfolio Management Limited in conjunction with your local Spicers Authorised Financial Adviser – Mark Harris. For any questions you have on this article or for advice that takes into account your particular financial situation or goals, please contact Mark on (09) 486 7892 or email mark.harris@spicers.co.nz

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Investing with Mike Taylor, PieFunds

Mike Taylor

Mike Taylor is the Managing Director of Pie Funds, a boutique Fund Manager that specialises in Australasian small companies. 09 486 1701 www.piefunds.co.nz

Coming back to markets, volatility will remain until the Euro crisis reaches its conclusion, which we believe it will.

Black Swan Events The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that is a surprise (to the observer), has a major impact, and after the fact is often inappropriately rationalised with the benefit of hindsight. The theory was developed by Nassim Taleb in 2004 and discussed in his book, ‘Fooled by randomness’. Recent black swan events include the Christchurch earthquake, Japanese tsunami and of course the GFC, culminating in the collapse of Lehman Bro’s which sent financial markets into a tailspin. Most people assume black swan events are always negative, and the most commonly touted future (potential) black swan events at the moment are a rapid economic slowdown in China or a break-up of the European Union. However, the fact that you are aware of the above two events due to their high profile coverage in the media precludes them from being potential black swan events in my opinion. What many people fail to understand, particularly in environments like we are currently experiencing, is that black swan events can be positive too. A positive black swan event might be a quick resolution to the EU crisis leading to a widespread economic renaissance in Europe. Another positive black swan event might be a recovery in retail spending in Australia. Everyone hates retailers at present so the sector is inexpensive. Coming back to markets, volatility will remain until the Euro crisis reaches its conclusion, which we believe it will. In spite of (or indeed, because of) the current volatility, I have a high degree of confidence that if you take a 3-5 year view shares will do well. Lastly, don’t be afraid of volatility. If you equate risk with share price volatility, then investing in shares certainly exhibits higher short term risk. However, a premise of investing in shares is that that investment simply represents ownership of the underlying business and wild swings in the price in the short term do not necessarily reflect corresponding changes in the fundamental business appraisal. When it comes to share price volatility, these days investors now resemble nesting chicks that chirrup constantly for their parents to feed them. They gorge on a daily diet of supposedly important economic data. Most of which is completely irrelevant to the fundamentals of the business, but in the short term will drive the price up or down. As fund managers it’s our job to determine if price volatility represents a change in investor sentiment and therefore an opportunity or whether it is indicative of fundamental changes in the business which we must react to.

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This regular column is provided by Tammy McLeod (BA LLB), a partner at Davenports Harbour Lawyers. Tammy leads the Davenports Harbour Trust Team and enjoys providing clients with advice and assistance on a broad range of issues involving the structuring and establishment of asset plans, interpretation of trust deeds, duties of trustees and the management and administration of trust funds. An important part of Tammy’s practice is reviewing existing asset holding structures to ensure they achieve the needs and requirements they were established to meet. She is also experienced in Property (Relationships) Act issues and believes that the provisions of the Act are an important consideration in personal asset planning. Tammy is a past president of the Auckland Woman Lawyers’ Association and is a current co-convenor of the NZICA Trust Special Interest Group.

&Jeremy

Sue

Tammy McLeod.

Sue and Jeremy were in their mid thirties. Like most people their age, they had travelled extensively, living in London for a number of years, before returning home to the North Shore to start a family. Sue had been in investment banking in the UK and Jeremy was a school teacher. The property market had shifted a bit in the years they had been away, but with the big money earned by Sue in the UK, they were able to afford a large and spacious home only a couple of blocks away from Milford beach. After taking advice from their lawyer, Sue and Jeremy set up a trust to own their family home. Sue was taking on some directorships of companies and they were also concerned that if one of them died, their assets would be protected both for the survivor and their children. At the same time they made wills appointing guardians of their children and stating that all their assets would go to the trust if one or both of them died. They prepared a memorandum of guidance for the trustees of their trust and also saw their insurance broker about putting in place some life insurance. Basically, death was covered. If one of them died, the survivor would have a large sum of money and assets all nicely protected in a trust. Enduring powers of attorney were mentioned, but Sue and Jeremy thought this was something they could do in the future. Sue’s Grandma had just appointed Sue’s father to act as her attorney – there was plenty of time for them to get enduring powers of attorney organised later. Less than a year after returning to New Zealand, Jeremy woke one morning unable to speak or use the left side of his body. He had suffered a premature stroke. Sue and Jeremy soon found out it is not uncommon for young people to suffer strokes and other ailments which mean that they are not able to function properly. Sue and Jeremy had planned well for what happened if one of them died, but had not dealt with the situation where one of them might lose capacity. Sue now found herself in the position of not being able to deal with a number of things that Jeremy used to deal with. Everyone was asking her for a copy of an enduring power of attorney she didn’t have. The costs of going to court to get property orders to manage Jeremy’s affairs were horrendous, but Sue was left with few options. She quickly learned that not only old people needed to worry about enduring powers of attorney – they are for everyone. To ensure you don't make the same mistake, contact: Tammy McLeod, Email: tammy.mcleod@davenportsharbour.co.nz or visit: www.davenportsharbour.co.nz

DAVENPORTS H A R B O U R

L A W Y E R S

331 Rosedale Road, Albany. Phone: 915 4380 Email: tammy.mcleod@davenportsharbour.co.nz www.davenportsharbour.co.nz

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North Shore YMCA: News

YMCA

Gymnastics

Samantha Van Iersel.

Isobel Adamson.

In late June, YMCA North Shore hosted the annual YMCA Gymnastics Competition. Gymnasts from YMCA’s throughout Auckland and Hamilton came to represent their Centres and to try and be crowned as the YMCA’s top gymnast. In total there was 182 Artistic Gymnasts and 12 Rhythmic Gymnasts, 84 of those Gymnasts came from the North Shore. Alex Blackwell (Boys) and Emma Adamson (Girls) were North Shore’s Top Gymnasts on the day, taking a placing on every apparatus, rings, vault, floor, beam and bar. Emma retained her title as the YMCA’s top Gymnast. Emma has, in the last twelve months, begun the transition of moving from competing to coaching. She now helps younger Gymnasts in reaching their potential. With over 400 Gymnasts attending weekly sessions at the YMCA North Shore she is not short of eager pupils. The YMCA caters for boys and girls from two years and up – further information available by calling 480 7099 or at www.ymcaauckland.org.nz YMCA North Shore Top Results Boys Level 1 Troy Sievert took 1st place on Bar and 2nd Place Overall. Larn Hamblyn-Ough took 1st place on Vault. Luke Dorward took 1st place on Rings. Girls Level 1 Stella O’Malley took 2nd place Overall. Boys Level 2 Otomar Rudolph took 1st place Rings and 1st Overall. Girls Level 2 Janice Sutjiadi took 1st place on Vault and 2nd place Overall. Boys Level 3 Alex Blackwell took 2nd place on Floor, 2nd place on Rings, 2nd place on Vault, 3rd place on Bar. and 2nd place Overall. Sam Bedford took 1st place on Vault. Girls Level 3 Maia McBirney took 2nd place on Floor. Charli Hines took 2nd place Overall. Boys Level 4 No North Shore Winners but the Overall Boys winner went to Adam Towers of Mt Albert. Girls Level 4 Isobel Adamson took 1st place on Bar, 2nd place on Beam, 3rd place on Vault and 3rd place Overall. Lauren Turner took 2nd place on Bar and 2nd place on Vault. Girls Level 5 Emma Adamson took 1st on Floor, 1st on Bar, 1st on Vault and 3rd on Beam. Emma also took 1st for Overall and 1st for Overall Girls Winner.

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Channel Feature: Michael King Writers’ Centre in Devonport

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Michael King Writers’ Centre, Mt Victoria, Devonport.

More than

words

– By Heather Vermeer

The commonality that the written word brings to our lives was brought sharply into focus last month when North Shore adults and children shared in the sadness felt by the nation at the death of one of our most beloved writers. Lives touched by the late Margaret Mahy are many and varied, and the collective sadness felt at her passing shines a light on the power of literature in our culture. An importance recognised and promoted by New Zealand’s only centre dedicated to nurturing writers, based here on the North Shore. The Michael King Writers’ Centre in Devonport is helping to plot the course of New Zealand literature, by nurturing talent and providing opportunities for creativity to flourish. News of the death of a literary icon highlights the importance of cultivating such literary forces. “Margaret Mahy was such a fantastic writer and person; she was so generous in getting out and giving her time to people, particularly spending a lot of time in schools. It’s amazing what that kind of experience can do to people. It can bring literature and the world of words alive for people. And they don’t forget that,” points out Centre Manager Karren Beanland. She remembers vividly such an experience when minds were enlightened by the visiting writer at her school in Wellington. “It was a very powerful experience, which I’ve never forgotten.” “The reason I think this is such a great project up here at the Centre is that this was what Michael King was about. He was about bringing stories to life for people.” “He was somebody who started to tell New Zealand stories, and it’s the stories about our own country that help us to understand ourselves and appreciate our place in the world.” “It’s enormously valuable to see a writer and hear them read, and, when they talk about an experience that you can relate to in some way, it’s a very validating experience.” For Devonport-devotee Karren, who lives in Stanley Bay, the Centre marries together her passions for literature, Devonport and its history. The Centre’s beautiful heritage villa was built in 1898 as the Signalman’s House for the families of those who hoisted signals onto the summit’s flagstaff to pass on information to the harbour master about incoming vessels.

A long-held love of the written word led Karren to work as a journalist, before moving into business communications. She is pleased to have been enjoying one of the best views of the city from Mount Victoria for the past five years, having previously had the opposite view from her communcations role with Ports of Auckland.

Margaret Mahy was such a fantastic writer and person; she was so generous in getting out and giving her time to people, particularly spending a lot of time in schools. The Centre plays host to four writers’ residencies each year, with a book club, open days, Matariki events, and writing programmes, ensuring the heritage building is well-used. A Karren Beanland. new library of works is currently being developed, in collaboration with North Shore Libraries, to be used as a reference collection. Young writers on the North Shore are also being nurtured through a programme of workshops for budding authors in Years 11-13. Those taking part have the chance to see their work in print as part of a forthcoming publication entitled ‘Signals’. “We are about supporting New Zealand writers, and promoting and developing high quality New Zealand writing,” Karren summarised. The great Mahy would surely be enamoured that this delightful centre continues as a cultural catalyst, enabling New Zealand’s emerging literary talent to shine.

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The Pumphouse Theatre: What’s On

Coffee with Eelco

Live interactive show with free coffee and dessert Nowadays nobody thinks twice about popping down to the local cafe to get their favourite caffeine fix but there was a time when the art of making a good coffee had not come to our shores. Nelson natives may remember fondly Eelco Boswijk, a Dutch immigrant who founded the local iconic establishment Chez Eelco, a coffee house which became known nationally and internationally as the place where musicians, writers, actors and arty types would find kindred spirits. Under Eelco’s kindly eye the Chez was, Grae Eelco from 1961 until it closed in 2001, the very heart of Nelson. Grae Burton, Auckland based actor, writer, director, (who recently appeared as Peter Miller in “Underbelly NZ: Land of the Long Green Cloud”) credits Eeelco and the Chez for launching his career and in 2008 Burton, with collaborator Tim Coughlin created “Coffee With Eelco”, in homage to the irrepressible Eelco. The show is described as a light hearted, intimate, interactive experience with storytelling direct from Eelco’s lips, says Burton “It’s a great story for everybody about a slice of New Zealand history and culture, life and legacy, and the secret to making a really good coffee. If you want to find out what the secret is, you’ll have to come to the show!”And in the tradition of the Chez, a half time coffee and dessert will be available to all.

DYB DYB DYB! The North Shore Gang Show presents Shape Scape. In a bi-annual tradition, local Scouts & Guides will once again take to the stage at The PumpHouse. This production marks their 36th Season and is a fast moving musical theatre show full of songs, dance and comedy skits based on the abstract idea of shapes and colours. With both traditional and modern music there is something for the whole family. Interesting fact 1: In 1937, the Gang Show became the first amateur production to have a Royal Command Performance. Interesting fact 2: The chant of Dyb dyb dyb followed by dob dob dob recited by cubs and scouts stands for ‘do your best’, ‘do our best’.

Dark Mondays Play reading at The PumpHouse, Sept 3rd On a highly irregular basis The PumpHouse supports local playwrights by hosting a Monday play-reading. Members of the public are invited to attend the readings which end with a discussion forum. Come on down and get involved in the origination of new plays.

Presents

AUG 23 - SEPT 1 BOOKINGS Ph: 489 8360

or www.pumphouse.co.nz

Bookings: Ph 489 8360 or www.pumphouse.co.nz The PumpHouse Theatre (off Manurere Ave) Killarney Park, Takapuna. info@pumphouse.co.nz The PumpHouse acknowledges the support of Pub Charity.

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Bums on Seats? The ‘Seats for Bums’ Project The term ‘bums on seats’ is a well-known catchphrase of the entertainment industry. The focus is generally on the bums, in particular the quantity and value of the bums. However, not much attention is given to the seats, specifically the comfort and maintenance of the most essential item of theatre furniture. In more than three decades of reliable service the theatre seats at The PumpHouse have been temporary homes to over a million bums. No wonder they’re feeling their age – the seats not the bums that is! In recent years The PumpHouse theatre seats have been patched up, stitched up and glued back together time and again in true Kiwi No.8 wire fashion but there’s only so many repairs one can do before a tired and broken seat whispers quietly, “enough now - it’s time to let me go to that big theatre in the sky”. Thanks to Sky City, The PumpHouse has secured a grant of $25 thousand dollars to go towards replacing the loyal and long-serving seats, a generous amount that is just over half of what is needed to get the job done. The PumpHouse is seeking to raise another $20 thousand dollars for the ‘Seats for Bums’ Project. Even small amounts help. So next time you’re booking tickets online to a show at The PumpHouse, please consider rounding up your total amount or adding an extra dollar or two by clicking on the ‘Seats for Bums’ link . If you’re not booking tickets and would still like to help The PumpHouse reach its ‘Seats for Bums’ goal we are always grateful for donations large and small so please go to www.pumphouse. co.nz and click on the ‘Seats for Bums’ Project link which will give you a range of donation options to suit even the most economically recessed wallet. The PumpHouse Theatre is a community accessible venue and a charitable trust therefore all donations over $5 qualify for a tax credit. Thank you in advance to anyone rushing off to their computer right now to make a donation.:-)

What's On... @ The Pumphouse

Friday August 10 & Saturday August 11 @ 7.30pm Coffee with Eelco By Grae Burton and Tim Coughlin All tickets include a drink and halftime French dessert

Monday September 3rd @ 7pm Dark Mondays play-reading in the PumpHouse Coal Bunker Bar opens at 6pm Entry by Koha All Welcome

August 23rd – Sept 1st The North Shore Scouts and Guides present Shape Scape All evening shows at 7.30pm

October 1st to 13th Theatre for children in the October school holidays Tim Bray Productions Presents Lynley Dodd’s Hairy Maclary 1.30am & 1pm, Mon-Sat

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One Night of Queen DUE TO HUGE PUBLIC DEMAND 3RD AND FINAL SHOW ADDED! Fri 10 August , 7.30pm, Sat 11 August, 7.30pm NOW Sunday 12 August, 7.30pm One Night of Queen, performed by Gary Mullen and The Works is a spectacular live concert, recreating the look, sound, pomp and showmanship of arguably the greatest rock band of all time. Featuring hits such as I Want to Break Free, A Kind of Magic, We Will Rock You and – of course – Bohemian Rhapsody. Last night I would probably have believed that the band performing were the real Queen and that Mullen was the real Freddie Mercury if I had not been aware that he died in 1991 – The Press, Christchurch, New Zealand TICKETS: A Reserve - $ 77.00

August Art EXHIBITION – I THINK SO TOO Wednesday 1 August –- Sunday 2 September Come to the exhibition and solve the code breakers. Sometimes a phrase or quote connects with you and makes you smile or nod with affirmation. In this exhibition I have been inspired by well known novels and quotes. Design and code breaker by Sue Cole, Photography by Doug Cole. Morning Melodies: Westlake Boys and Girls Band Monday 6th August at 11am Tickets $5 purchased from Bruce Mason Centre Box Office. Keith Barry – ‘BRAIN HACKER’ Wednesday 8th August at 8pm World’s leading mentalists, brain hacker and hypnotist. Audiences should prepare for a riveting, mind-boggling one-man show, comprising of brain trickery, hypnotism and seemingly unbelievable and unexplainable mentalist activity not seen before in New Zealand. Be amongst the first in New Zealand to fall under the spell of Keith Barry live – but only if you dare! Tickets: $59.90. Glenfield Has Talent Thursday 9th August at 7pm Glenfield has Talent will be an evening of culture. Glenfield schools delight in the chance to showcase the talent they have within their schools and promote programmes and opportunities they provide. “Glenfield has Talent” will be an evening of culture, song, dance, music and performance. Tickets: Adult (13+ years): $9.95 / Child (1-12 years): $6. Opera Series 4th Event Sunday 12th August, 2.30pm – Singer Surprise Here’s our own Mystery Escape, in which we reveal the new Dame Malvina Major Young Artist, or introduce an international artist from one of our mainstage productions, or ... watch this space! Regardless of the surprise, it'll be pleasant one, and a highlight of this exciting inaugural series. Tommy Emmanuel & Guests Frank Vignola (USA) Thursday 16th August, 8pm Two-time Grammy nominee Tommy Emmanuel is one of Australia’s most respected musicians. The legendary guitarist has a professional career that spans five decades and continues to intersect with some of the finest musicians throughout the world. Barry Hilton – Travelling Chameleon Saturday 18th August, 7:30pm One Night Only in Auckland Direct from sold-out shows in the UK and Europe, Barry Hilton, South Africa’s favourite

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cousin and Stand Up comedian, will be performing his Stand Up Chameleon show at the Bruce Mason Centre. With his ability to blend into society and a tongue quicker than a chameleon’s, The Cousin, Barry Hilton continues to evolve with the times and stays ahead of the (entertainment) pack. Bursting with new material, hilarious facial expressions and off-the-wall physical antics, Barry’s new show is not to be missed. Auckland Symphony Orchestra Free Family Concert Sunday 19 August, 2.30pm “Stage & Screen” – Music from movies, musicals, ballet and opera, featuring West Side Story, Star Wars, Swan Lake, a special “Sound of Music” sing-a-long, plus other popular orchestra favourites. Joella Pinto - Violin; Albany Singers; Peter Thomas - Conductor www.aucklandsymphony.co.nz Magnolia Street Tuesday 21st August at 10am Magnolia Street – Be careful what you say – it just might happen. Jake hates the new inner-city street his Mum has dragged him to — it’s full of oddballs! The biggest oddball of all is Mrs Booth, an elderly resident who shows Jake an unexpected side to Magnolia Street. It’s a quirky world where 1944 might be just around the corner and magnolia trees have hearts. Ideal for 8 to 14 year-olds TICKETS: $12 + booking fee OH WHAT A NIGHT! Direct from Las Vegas Thursday 23rd August, 7.30pm Direct from Las Vegas, Oh What a Night! is a show that celebrates the hits of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons in an entertaining format that internationally has had the audiences singing along, clapping and cheering for more. The four seasoned performers – George Solomon, Chris Anderson, Thomas Bevan and Josh Woodie - not only sing the hits and hit the high notes for which Franki Valli is famous; they also dance expertly and entertain with humorous banter in the great Vegas tradition. This award-winning 2 hour tribute show covers the gamut from earlier hits such as Sherry, Rag Doll and Walk Like a Man, through to 1970s favourites Who Loves You, and Grease, as well as the more melodic love songs, Can’t Take My Eyes Off You and My Eyes Adored You. Men in Tutus Friday 24th & Saturday 25th August, 8pm From the thrilling pirouettes of the male dancers (in male and female costumes) with brilliant choreography to the side splitting humour, LES BALLETS ELOELLE new show "Men in Tutu's" is a show designed for the young and old. Men in Tutu's" produces bang-up amusement and LOL "Laugh Out Loud" family entertainment for all. Be truly amazed.

Morning Melodies: The Royal New Zealand Navy Band Monday 27th August at 11am Tickets $5 purchased from Bruce Mason Centre Box Office. Little Known Secrets of Anti-Ageing Tuesday 30th August at 7pm Today many scientists believe the secrets of antiaging, healing and regeneration lie, not within costly medical drugs or expensive medical treatments, but in the body’s own Quantum Biofield. More than ever, it is now possible to release the body’s inherent, powerful biological quantum energy circulation matrix. Join us to activate these potent internal systems for your complete REJUVENATION, ENDURANCE, VITALITY & LONGEVITY. TICKETS: $34.99 Student $24.99 General Admission + booking fee

September Royal New Zealand Ballet The Tower Season of Cinderella Sat 1st Sept at 7.30pm/Sunday 2nd Sept at 2.30pm Cinderella – Performed by Royal New Zealand Ballet If you are looking for magic, you will find it here... a breathtaking Cinderella that will enchant audiences lucky enough to see it. Tickets: Adult Premium $85 / A Reserve $60 / Child Premium $45 / A Reserve $35 + booking fees. Morning Melodies The Corelli School of Performing Arts Monday 3rd September @ 11am Tickets $5 purchased from Bruce Mason Centre Box Office. NZ Body Art Showcase 2012 Saturday 22nd Sept at 7:30pm This years 'The Future' theme will bring a rich flavor of colour, music and dance Morning Melodies The Band of Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery Monday 24th September at 11am Tickets $5 purchased from Bruce Mason Centre Box Office.

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The Rose Centre: What's on

Celebrating The Rose Centre In this issue of Channel Magazine we introduce a monthly contribition for The Rose Centre. Over 52,000 people used this wonderful facility over the past 12 months. It's celebrating its 20th birthday on August 2nd. The Rose Centre is a bright, modern, performance venue, community centre and Community Pre-school in the heart of Belmont five minutes from Takapuna on the way to Devonport. The very popular venue has a fully-functional intimate theatre with tiered seating for 120 people, offering comfort plus affordable rates for a huge range of performance options. It boasts a unique atmosphere, superb acoustics and a performance area that brings performers right to the audience, making the Rose Centre one of the best intimate theatres anywhere. The glass-roofed foyer opens onto a large deck and garden. Drama, comedy, music, magic and dance can all be seen at The Rose Theatre. Company Theatre, the resident theatre group, children’s theatre, choral concerts, variety concerts and professional dance groups all add their own flavour to this wonderful community facility, together with seminars, lectures, birthday parties and weddings to name a few. In addition to the theatre The Rose Centre has two community lounges for diverse activities such as yoga, youth drama classes, Probus, Social English classes, after-school programmes, clairvoyance classes, seniors groups and French classes. There is also a vibrant Community Pre-school catering for 21 children every weekday during term time.

The very popular venue has a fullyfunctional intimate theatre with tiered seating for 120 people, offering comfort plus at affordable rates for a huge range of performance options. The facility is administered by The Rose Garden Community Centre & Theatre Inc in partnership with Auckland Council and the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board, but it originally melded the ambitions of three local organisations. Company Theatre was looking for a permanent home after 12 years performing at St Michael's Church Hall in Bayswater; a community group connected to North Shore City Council wanted a community centre in the Belmont environs and Belmont Primary School wanted a hall and theatre. As a result of a public meeting held at St Margaret’s a steering committee was formed under the chairmanship of Paddy Stafford-Bush who 20 years later is Patron of The Rose Centre. Funds came from the Council, ASB Trust and Company Theatre, plus use of land on the edge of Belmont Primary School grounds was negotiated with the Ministry of Education. A variety of community fundraising efforts added to the total, culminating in a grand Fun Run and Fair on 2 August 1992 when The Rose Garden Community Centre and Theatre Inc was officially opened by Mayor Ann Hartley. Since then it has gone from strength to strength in terms of numbers of users – over 52,000 came through The Rose Centre in the year ended 30 June, nearly 400 different groups used the facility. The continued success is summed up by a theatre group “The Rose Centre has great atmosphere and equipment, it's well run and it's affordable for all kinds of groups – what more could you want!”

Auditions in August @ The Rose Centre

“The Mouse Trap” by Agatha Christie 11 – 24 November 2012. Director Sian Davis Auditions Information: Saturday 18th August, 1.00pm at The Rose Centre, School Road, Belmont. CHARACTERS (Ages are an indication only). Mollie Ralston (30’s) – Proprietor of Monkswell Manor, and wife of Giles. Giles Ralston (30’s) – Husband of Mollie. Christopher Wren (20’s) – The first guest to arrive at the hotel, Wren is a hyperactive young man who acts in a very peculiar manner. Miss Casewell (20’s) – A strange, aloof, masculine woman who speaks offhandedly about the horrific experiences of her childhood. Detective Sergeant Trotter (20’s) – A policeman who arrives in a snow storm saying he has come to protect the guests from the murderer. Major Metcalf – Retired from the army, little is known about Major Metcalf. Mrs Boyle – A critical older woman who is pleased by nothing she observes. Mr Paravicini – A man of unknown provenance, who turns up claiming his car has overturned in a snowdrift. He appears to be affecting a foreign accent and artificially aged with make up. “THE MOUSETRAP” is Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery which has become something of a pilgrimage to see in London since the early 1950’s. It opened in the West End at ‘The New Ambassadors’ on 25 November 1952, and has played continuously all that time to become the world’s longest running play. The plot: Monkswell Manor Guest House, just on Christmas, is opening to accommodate its first guests, a very odd assortment of characters. The place is almost immediately cut off by a heavy downfall of snow. A policeman arrives on skis to reveal that he is hot on the heels of a fugitive murderer.... so Christie establishes her unpredictable trail of murder, detection and exposure. If you would like a copy of the script please phone Richard at The Rose Centre on 445 9900 or email him on info@rosecentre.co.nz

Drama, comedy, music, magic and dance! Open 8:30am - 4pm, Monday - Friday

Web: www.rosecentre.co.nz

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School Road, Belmont, North Shore Ph: (09) 445 9900 Fax: (09) 445 6606 Email: info@rosecentre.co.nz

Phoenix Theatre presents: Merry Men, The Rose Centre, August 30th to September 8th

Merry Men ‘The Bad Boys of Browns Bay’

Deep Fry (Mike Richards) and John (Ralph Duggan).

Dennis Lewis, author of ‘Merry Men’, has always been a fan of Robin Hood the famous English outlaw. As far as he is concerned there is only ‘one’ film version and that’s the one made famous by Errol Flynn. When the Lewis family moved to New Zealand in 1977 they decided to live in Browns Bay on the north shore of Auckland. Their family house was on the Sherwood Estate and both of the Lewis children went to Sherwood Primary School. In the vicinity of the estate is Robin Hood Lane and King Richards Place but it’s taken 35 years before Dennis thought about these factors and began to generate ideas for his new play. ‘Merry Men’ is centred in modern day Browns Bay where a successful gang of burglars, dressed in green (of course), steal from the rich and give to the poor (themselves). All of the traditional characters are there with Robin, Marian, Will, John Little, ‘Deep Fry’ Tucker. There’s even Mark Sherriff (from Nottingham). Robin and Mark are flat-mates and earn their living from the same industry... crime! Robin is the leader of the Merry Men and Mark is the local, not too bright, cop. Robin has been ‘using’ Mark to assist in his escapades for years and Mark is none the wiser! But the fun really starts when the ‘Merry Men’ burgle the home of the local, randy, MP Kevin Baldrick. However, during the robbery, they make one, big, mistake that could land the whole gang ‘inside’. It takes all of their devious skills to keep them one step ahead of the law! Dennis has written and directed two other full length plays as well as several one act plays. In the past Dennis has also directed and acted in other plays as well as a number of pantomimes for Torbay Theatre, Peninsula Players and Phoenix Theatre. He, his wife and son are all members of The Showstoppers variety performers, who currently have several forthcoming shows on the North Shore. Dennis still resides in Browns Bay. Merry Men, ‘The Bad Boys of Browns Bay’, shows at the Rose Centre, Belmont, from the 30th August until the 8th September. Evening performance commence at 8pm and there is a 2pm matinee performance on the 2nd September. Prices: 30th August, 1st September, 4th September $15. All other nights and matinee $25; $18 concession. Bookings on 445-9900.

Robin (Jonathan Gilbert) and Mark (Gavin Lewis).

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Drawing Show 2012 – At Northart, August 12 until September 2 Northart’s very popular “July” exhibitions close in a few days. Photographer John Miller is showing three time lapse sequences which capture the people and work undertaken to prepare for a large marae event – shucking oysters, tending the hangi fire, making fry bread, serving food. Timed to coincide with Matariki, the exhibition provides fascinating insights into present day custom and tradition on the marae. The show closes on Sunday 5 August, as does an equally absorbing group show of painting by three artists, Sharon Vickers, Fiona Gray and Hank Groot. Lastly, Connections, an exhibition of the twenty finalists of the 2012 Aotearoa Quilters challenge finishes 4pm on Wednesday August 8th. Replacing them is one of Northart’s most popular annual exhibitions – the drawing show. This time around twenty six artists have been invited to participate; each has been given two sheets of high quality drawing paper supplied by Gordon Harris the art and graphic store, sponsors of the show. The artists come from very diverse backgrounds as well as age groups; what they have in common is a love of drawing and a very high level of competency. Drawing show 2012 promises to be a provocative (when is a drawing is a drawing, and when is it a painting?), exciting and challenging for all viewers and participants. And there will be an opportunity to purchase works by established senior artists as well as newly graduated emerging artists. South African trained Frank van Schaik, one of the artists involved is teaching a two day drawing workshop over the weekend of August 24th/25th. For further information and bookings, contact Northart. The opening function for drawing show 2012 starts at 4pm on Sunday 12 August. Visitors will have a further

opportunity to meet and chat with the artists on the afternoon of Sunday 2 September, the afternoon the show closes. Taking a line for a Walk, a drawing class for children of all ages, is a part of Northart’s new “Kids Hour at the Gallery” programme. It will be on Sunday 19th and 26th August, sessions at 11am and 2pm. $2 per child includes all materials. From September Kids Hour in the Gallery will be every first and third Sunday of each month, depending on demand at 11am and 2pm. Contact the gallery or visit www.northart.co.nz for further details. The Northart winter seminar series continues on August 15 (speaker to be confirmed) and on the 29th with Dr Len Bell giving an illustrated talk on the contribution and influence of “Refugee & émigré artists, photographers & architects in New Zealand”. 7pm start, entry free. Looking forward to September we will be holding the annual Northart members exhibition, selected this year by Warwick Brown, as well as “Passage” by French born Florence Ichter-Simon. Florence spent a number of years living in the former French colony of Ivory Coast, which sparked a strong interest in African primitivism, an influence which has been reinforced by the Pacific art of her new homeland. Her show opens on the evening of 5 September and runs until 20th. Northart welcomes group visits from schools and social clubs. If you would like to have the curator or one of the artists talk to your group, please contact the gallery. Evening visits by appointment. For further information, contact the gallery or visit www.northart.co.nz.

Northart, Norman King Square, Ernie Mays Street, Northcote Shopping Centre Phone 09 480 9633 northart@ihug.co.nz www.northart.co.nz Northart is supported by Auckland Council and the Birkenhead Licensing Trust and is open 10am – 4pm daily, evening viewings by arrangement. Admission is free.

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Mairangi Arts Centre: News

Community Art Education Mairangi Arts Centre is the one of the largest centres in New Zealand Mairangi Arts Centre is the one of the largest centres for community art education in New Zealand. We have an exciting and diverse range of classes for adults, teenagers and children. For adults, classes are available in painting (acrylics, watercolours and oils) life drawing and drawing skills, pastels, printmaking, clay and glass casting. Adult’s classes and workshops are available during the day, in the evening and weekends. After school, on Saturday mornings and during the school holidays we have classes available in painting, drawing, printing, mixed media, sculpture, clay and movie making for children and teenagers. Our tutors are a skilled group of creative people who are not only practising artists but excellent teachers. Whether you are a complete beginner or wanting to take your practice a little further you will find just the right class in our education programme.

Gallery Exhibitions

What's On... @ Mairangi Arts Centre

Children’s Birthday Parties For a memorable and fun party with a difference why not book a children’s birthday party with us. The children spend 90 minutes with one of our tutors creating a work of art with their friends. You can always find a perfect gift in our retail store which stocks beautiful unique affordable items from local artists.

Defiance. Drawing by Antonio Ferrier.

We have one of the largest gallery spaces in Auckland and offer a programme of exhibitions changing approximately every 3 weeks. This month Drawn is showing from August 8th – 25th. This exhibition features original handmade drawings from a variety of artists living locally and throughout NZ. Artspaces 2 runs from 29th August – 19th September. Artspaces is a great opportunity for artists to show a small body of work in a space of their own with the support of other like minded artists. If you are interested in exhibiting in this show please contact us on 4782237 or visit the website for an entry form. Mairangi Arts Centre – Visit us at 20 Hastings Rd, Mairangi Bay, Phone 478 2237 or visit: www.mairangiarts.co.nz.

Open 9.30am – 4pm Monday to Saturday We open on Sundays for some exhibitions. Check the Current Exhibitions page. Follow us on Twitter

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A feast of art at Lake House With austerity and budget cuts being the buzz words at the moment, the not-for-profit sector is particularly feeling the pinch. So a varied fundraising initiative is planned for the month of August. A plethora of artwork now adorns the walls, hallways and Galleries in the annual Cash and Carry Great Art Sale which is a fundraiser for Lake House and a good place for artists to sell their work while bargain art hunters can pick up some wonderful deals. The Art sale will run for three weeks from Tuesday 31 July to 19 August and includes highly realistic and recognizable North Shore beach scenes and landscapes to dramatic abstract paintings and intimate watercolours of birds and still lives. Another fundraiser on the calendar is the APO concert on Sunday 5 August from 3.30pm – 4.30pm where you can enjoy the sounds of Bach, Mozart, Kreutz and Bartok being performed by Miranda Adams (Assistance Concertmaster Violin) and Robert Ashworth (Section Principal viola). Tickets are now on sale through Lake House – $25 and include a glass of mulled wine and nibbles. The Café Gallery has an exciting exhibition by the members of the Auckland Quilters responding to the challenge of “Quotes on Quilts” to choose a quote of their choice and interpret this through a quilt. The only rule is that each piece must be between 50cm and 70cm in size. If you are a textile enthusiast then this show is not to be missed. Term three art classes are now under way with a good variety of one-off weekend workshops, great for those who work fulltime but still want the opportunity to take an art class and learn new skills. Some of the classes on offer are:

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Mixed Media Pacifica with Denice Symons on 5 August, Beginners Watercolour with Joanne Mortimore on 11 Aug One-day Woodcut workshops with Denice Symons the 11 and 25 August Calligraphy with Jan Leonard on 12 August Decoupage Art and Resin with Tania Parrot on 19 August Art Clay Silver Hollow Jewellery workshop with Anne Marie Grace on 26 August

For more information visit www.lakehousearts.org.nz or contact the Centre on 486 4877 or email manager@lakehousearts.org.nz. The Galleries and office are open daily Monday to Friday 9am – 4pm and on the weekends from 10am – 3pm with an onsite Café.

31 July - 19 August Exhibition

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Education: Kristin School

CATS on the Kristin Stage Over the last week the Kristin stage has come alive like never before with the mesmerising production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS. From the opening bars of Jellicle Cats, audiences were spellbound, sharing rapturous applause for solo after solo and joining in a standing ovation mid-show on opening night when Year 13 student Poppy Smithers sang the iconic song, Memory. With an incredibly difficult musical score, CATS presented a big challenge for the 130-strong cast and crew. Preparations started early in the year and rehearsals were held daily for the three weeks leading up to opening night. Approximately 3000 people were witness to the production over its 5 day season, including 300 guests from local retirement villages and rest homes who were invited to attend a charity dress rehearsal. The show’s producer, Executive Principal Peter Clague is immensely proud of everyone involved in the production. “This team have exceeded all of our expectations. The show has redefined what people can expect from a school production and it gives me great pleasure and pride to hear the overwhelming response from our audience. It is a great feeling to know that we have risen to the challenge of being the first school in New Zealand to present this difficult and iconic show.” The CATS cast and crew were not only faced with the challenge of pulling off one of the most well-loved musicals in the history of musical theatre, but they were

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also following in the very large footsteps of last year’s production team who took out the title of Best Overall Production at Auckland’s AMI Showdown Awards for Jesus Christ Superstar. The show’s Director, Lorna Rood recognises what an amazing accomplishment CATS has been for everyone involved. “We have endeavoured to recreate the magic of the stunning original production and in doing so we have extended the talents of our young people - as well as our own skills and resources - to the limit. It has been uniquely and unequivocally challenging in direction, design, technical staging, music and choreography, and without the creative synergy and close bond that our core team shares, the talent of the cast, orchestra and crew and the skill and generosity of our superb parent helpers, we could not have achieved any of what was seen onstage this past week.” The following comments were made on the Kristin School Facebook page: “I had to keep pinching myself to remember that I was watching students not West End professionals! Congratulations on a stunning performance.” “WOW what a show Kristin amazing cast with such talent. Truly sensational well done guys it was worth all the hard work :-)” “This is a "must see" production. The standard of performance by all the cast is exceptional. Could have been watching a West End show!!“

Education: Kristin School

Kristin Student accepted for

Pacific Rim International Camp, Japan Idris Jones, a Year 11 student from Kristin School has been selected to attend the 28th Pacific Rim International Camp in Japan thanks to a scholarship offered by Independent Schools New Zealand. Idris will be the only New Zealand representative on the camp which brings together students from countries and regions around the Pacific Ocean including Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and the United States. Based at the National Takato Youth Centre in Nagano, with pre and post-camp programmes in Tokyo and Yamanashi, Idris will spend two weeks in Japan, taking part in cultural and outdoor activities as well as a four-day homestay programme. The aim of the camp is to promote cultural appreciation and international friendship through close interaction amongst the campers. Through the relationships formed at the camp, participants learn the importance of personal contribution in building a multinational society based on friendship. The application process was an opportunity for students to identify their areas of interest on global issues, and to demonstrate what they could offer to the international student summit. In his essay, Idris identified a number of issues on which he felt strongly; “There are many global issues that should be discussed amongst the next generation but in my opinion the key areas include the need for an acceptance that resources should be shared, caring for the environment and for human beings to live a more selfless, less materialistic life… I believe modern technology can narrow our differences, enable us to freely communicate around the world, whilst still enabling us to savour our individual cultures”. Idris will depart for Japan in August and is looking forward to all of the opportunities offered by the camp. “It is not just a break away from school, but a chance to share my culture, learn and understand others through actively taking part in the activities which could have some positive long-term effects on the international scene as well as initiatives to take back to my school community.” Idris Jones.

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Mitchell’s selection to the Auckland team is recognition of the talent, quick wit, hard work and leadership which he demonstrated throughout the Auckland competition.

Mitchell Smitheram Debating for Auckland After leading Kristin’s Premier Advanced debating team to the final in Auckland’s Regional Secondary Schools’ Debating competition earlier this year, Year 13 student Mitchell Smitheram has been selected to represent Auckland at the Russell McVeagh New Zealand Schools’ Debating Championships. His selection for the Auckland team places Mitchell at the top of Kristin Debating as the first Kristin student to achieve to this level. He made the cut after a series of fantastic performances in the regional competition which won him the title of Speaker of the Tournament. Up against a very talented King’s College team in the finals, Mitchell led Kristin Premier Advanced to argue the challenging moot, “This House would require people receiving the DPB to take medium term contraception”. It was a closely fought debate with the final adjudication split 3 – 2 in favour of their rivals. Mitchell’s selection to the Auckland team is recognition of the talent, quick wit, hard work and leadership which he demonstrated throughout the Auckland competition. The calibre of debating shown from all teams during the season has been incredibly high and the event itself was the largest tournament the Auckland region has held. Named as the second speaker in the Auckland team, Mitchell will travel to Wellington in August to compete in the national event.

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Education: Pinehurst School

Don Binney.

Don Binney Visits Pinehurst OPEN DAY 22 AUGUST

Pinehurst College Art and Design students were honoured to have internationally renowned New Zealand artist Don Binney visit their school. Having earned an OBE for his contribution to the Arts, students were able to view Binney’s current work and hear firsthand about the places he had lived, researched and painted. An integral aspect of student learning is the interaction with artists and having the opportunity to view their work. As part of landscape drawing research, students studied and modeled the work of Don Binney, in particular the colour pencil drawings from his book “Drawings of the Waitakere Coast”.

COLLEGE TOUR starts 1:30pm

Pinehurst Basketballers Win Grand Final Pinehurst School Year 3/4 basketball team won the North Harbour Green Division Grand Final held at North Shore Events Centre. Congratulations to Matthew Bell, Michael Belov, James Harrison, Joewi Hoerijanto, Jaxson Lim-Yip, Abdul (Mohsen) Mustafa and Tyrone Phua who showed real dedication to win 9 from 11 games and place top of the table in the Green Basketball League for Semester 1; a division for new players and mixed Year 3 and 4 teams. Coached by Pinehurst Senior College student Brad Yip and managed by Nickie Miles, Pinehurst Sports Administrator and charge of Basketball, Mrs Cyndie Augustin says Brad showed huge Pinehurst School Year 3/4 basketball team. commitment as team coach.

Students Meet Co-founder of Apple Pinehurst Commerce students were fortunate to attend a one-off seminar delivered by co-founder of Apple Computers Steve Wozniak - the WOZ, held in Auckland’s Viaduct. The seminar entitled 'The Apple Story - Disruptive Innovation, Inspiration and Entrepreneurial Wizardry' gave students, who were the only school students in attendance, a rare insight into the mind of a genius who spent his youth honing his programming skills and who discovered the binary code at just ten years of age. Pinehurs t Commerce stu dents at the Steve Wo zniak seminar.

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Mrs Combrinck, Jordan, Hannah, Jake and Mikala at Raffled Institute.

All concentration – Jake with a supervisor.

Jake, Mikala, Hannah and Jordan in lectures.

Ready for take-o ff – Hannah, Jorda n, Mikala, Jake an d Mrs Combrinck .

Activities for the students included an Amazing Science Race, which took the students around iconic locations in Singapore, having been given an MTR card each and $5.00 for lunch.

Science in Singapore An invitation sent by Principal, Simon Lamb, via e-mail, to all parents, asked students to apply for a trip of a life time. Senior science students were asked to submit a reason why they should be chosen to attend a science camp run by The Raffles Institute, a Singapore High School. This opportunity arose as a result of the establishment of a relationship between Takapuna Grammar School and the Raffles Institute, forged through a visit by Associate Principal, Mr Terry Holding early this year. The biannual Science and Humanity symposium was chosen as the first occasion to develop the schools’ idea of promoting international understanding and new educational opportunities. Mrs Elsie Combrinck was the brave chemistry teacher who volunteered to go with the students, after she selected the top four students; Mikala Easte, Jake Benson, Hannah Cantrell and Jordan Griffiths, based on their application and their current GPAs. This science “camp” is attended by school students from 15 countries, including Britain, Switzerland, Japan, Korea and Columbia. The only

the highlight of these trips was the night safari, at other New Zealand school present was Woodford Singapore Zoo, where they got to see spectacular House. fire-breathing shows and nocturnal animals in their Activities for the students included an Amazing natural habitat. There was also an amazing “Dine in Science Race, which took the students around iconic the Dark” experience, which followed on from a film locations in Singapore, having been given an MTR about blindness that all found very affecting. card each and $5.00 for lunch. All four agree it was the chance of a life-time and There were workshops on forensics – including absolutely worthwhile. the blood spatter room and the “time of death” room – as well as on nanotechnology, engineering and food science, where they got to make ice cream among other things. The skills and knowledge gained in forensics were then used in a murder mystery. Groups had to collect and analyse evidence to solve a double homicide and present their solution to the rest of the group. There was a strong focus on the use of science in humanity with a focus on disabilities and the students visited the Singapore Polytechnic, where they are using video games to assist with physical therapy in children. In between all the science, there were visits Out and about – Jake, Hannah, to important cultural places like Chinatown, Little Mikala, Jordan, Mrs Combrinck. India and the Singapore Flyer which is the largest observation wheel in the world. For Mikala Easte

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Education: Carmel College

Congratulations Carmel 1st X1 Hockey

North Harbour Champions 2012 The 1st X1 Hockey Team faced Rangitoto College in the final of the North Harbour Championships on Tuesday at Rosedale. Carmel had never won this title and many of the team had a sleepless night in anticipation. The side has had a tremendous season and took comfort from the fact that they had already won the league by 5 clear points having scored a total of 17 goals and conceded only 5. The game started to form and Carmel totally dominated the early exchanges with the forward line of Tori Taylor, Aleidje Stroomer, Jess Thwaites and Petra Dye-Hutchinson carving out a succession of chances. Carmel was so dominant that the opposition failed to register a single shot in the whole of the first period with Ellie Thompson and Sophie Mackisack marking superbly at the back. Petra opened the scoring, firing home after a penetrating drive into the heart of the Rangitoto defence and she doubled her tally before half-time to take a 2-0 lead into the break. The second half saw Rangitoto come out fighting but Harriet Clarke, Alex Conway and Captain Lauren Spencer were in a determined mood to deny any threats to the Carmel goal and as the half developed, the midfield dominance of Ella Hyatt-Brown, Angela Tyrrell, Kate Sellar and Charmelda Precious (who also made significant contributions to the forward line) regained the initiative. Petra Dye-Hutchinson scored two more goals in the second half to secure a well-deserved victory and a first Harbour title. The team is now looking

forward to the next challenge as they enter the inter-city phase of the season and a trip to Wanganui for tournament week in August.

Carmel College 1st XI Hockey team.

Carmel Tops RAW Division at Stage Challenge!

From left: Angela, Helena, Charlotte & Kirstie.

Carmel Day Awards At their annual Carmel Day Mass Carmel College recognized students who have been role models of their Core Mercy Values, which are also the Gospel values lived out in Jesus's life. Charlotte Marsh was recognised for her work on behalf of KidsCan, which provides research into Child Cancer. In March of this year she persuaded other Year 13 students from this and other schools to join a roster, and coordinated the collection throughout the whole of the North Shore. This was a personal initiative, showing integrity and responsibility. Charlotte was also one of the leaders of the Stage Challenge group, and provided the inspiration for the theme of this year’s production. Angela Al Sammak, Helena Charnley and Kirstie Taplin, were all recognised for their work on behalf of Iraqi orphans and disabled children. In December last year, they were all involved in organising and providing technical support for a Charity play which raised $27,000 for disadvantaged children in war-torn Iraq. Each of them has also been involved in other outreach over the past few years, on behalf of World Vision, raising funds for the education of Filipino children, and SAFE (Saving Animals From Exploitation).

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Wednesday was one of the most amazing experiences of our lives and a day that the Carmel 2012 Stage Challenge crew will never forget! Our performance, entered in the RAW Division of Stage Challenge, was based around the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, with the inspiration behind our idea being ‘One in every 3 breaths comes from the Amazon’. RAW Division is the new division of Stage Challenge that strips away the sets and focuses purely on performance. Schools choose to enter this division for its greater focus on the raw elements of performance including choreography and dance. On Wednesday night we took to the stage to portray this message to our audience through dance and drama. Our months of hard work paid off with Carmel placing first in the Auckland RAW Construction scene. division as well as winning numerous other awards for Excellence in Visual Enhancement, Performance Skill, Costuming, Character, Soundtrack, Concept and Drama. Tribal scene.

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Theme Artwork by Sarah Findlay

14th-16th September

Art Exhibition and Sale painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, garden art & jewellery Preview Evening with wines from Babich & canapĂŠs Friday 14th September 7 - 9pm Tickets $40 each or $70 double Saturday & Sunday 10am - 4pm Entry by Gold Coin Venue: Carmel College Gymnasium, 114 Shakespeare Rd, Milford Tickets & General Enquiries: Ann Coughlan Phone 410 1218

Artwork by Craig Adolph (Exhibitor 2012)

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Education: Westlake Boys High School

Barbershop Quartet Competition Prasad Ravi, Lane Ashby-King, Oliver Fetherston and Arthur Close (pictured right), called 'East Meets West' won the Barbershop Quartet Competition title singing Roses of Picardy by Frederick Weatherley and Recipe for Making Love by Harry Connick Jr.. This is the second year in succession that a Westlake group has won this competition.

Great results at NZ Cross Country Champs Results for WBHS were as follows. Year 9 Boys Three Person Team 1st; Six Person Team 1st with Dan Hoy, New Zealand Year 9 Champion. Senior Boys Six Person Team 1st; Three Person Team 2nd. The boys have won three out of the six titles, making Westlake the top Cross Country School in the country.

Gateway – Rugby Reporters and Photographer Danny Drake and Bruce Kidd (Journalists) and Prateik Dutt (Photographer) have been experiencing great success in their work placement with North Harbour Rugby. You will regularly see their reports and photos in publications such as the local newspapers.

Musical Success – George Wang Congratulations also to one of our 3rd formers, George Wang (pictured right) who has won the National Junior Section Composition Award for his work ‘String Quartet No.1’.

Rugby – Blues Under 17 and Under 18 Development Camps The following Westlake Boys players have been selected to attend the Blues Under 17 and Under 18 Regional Development Camps in July. Under 17 – Ben Bugg and Dillon Hunt; Under 18 – Josh Fraser, Thomas Gumbley and Curtis Reid.

WBHS Squash Champions Congratulations to the Premier Squash Team who are Auckland Champs for the first time in 12 years. The team members (pictured right) are: Sion Wiggin, Miguel Yam, Oliver French (Captain), Lucas Rosa, Stuart Martin, Hamish Jamieson and Rafa Yam.

40 Hour Famine Mufti Day Mufti Day on Wednesday June 27th raised $2000 towards the 40 Hour Famine fundraising for World Vision.

Snowboarding Auckland Secondary School’s Snowboarding competition took place on 22nd June at Snowplanet. Dan GriffithsHyde (Year 13), gained first place in the slopestyle event with a flawless run and Dan Lutterman, up and coming Year 10 rider gained 2nd place overall. The team performed well overall to gain 1st equal Boy’s school with Kristin, who took out the Slalom event.

Dan Lutterman.

Orienteering Success The Westlake Boys team scored some impressive results at the Orienteering Nationals in New Plymouth last week, winning four out of the nine events in the boys competition. In summary; Senior Boys Sprint – Cameron Tier = First Place; Senior Boys Relay – Matt Martin, Brodie de Gouw, Cameron Tier = First Place; Junior Boys Individual – Andrei Popovici, First Place; Junior Boys Sprint – Andrei Popovici, Third Place; Junior Boys Relay – Ryan Williams, Luke Merceia, Andrei Popovici, First Place. These results and other placings were enough for the team to be runners up in the Top School competition behind perennial winners Napier Boys. So Westlake is the second best school at orienteering in New Zealand.

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Rosmini 1st XV

Tours the South As part of the schools 50th Jubilee, during the second week of the July Holidays the Rosmini College rugby 1st XV headed off to the South Island. Two matches were planned – one against St Bedes in Christchurch who were celebrating their 100th Jubilee, and a second against Kavanagh College in Dunedin. The team, coaches and management set off a little late after a fog delay at Auckland Airport, but arrived in time to visit and have dinner at the Antarctic Center near the airport. The next morning after a gritty South Island Breakfast the team headed to St Bedes grounds in Papanui. It was a beautiful setting on a frosty sunny morning with the traditional old buildings back-dropping the grounds. The game was played at a fierce pace and although the Rosmini boys contested most of the way, a couple of late trys left the score at 36 -17. Our guys were impressed with the intensity and commitment of the Christchurch team. After a social catch-up and a BBQ we set off for a tour through the CBD RED Zone. This was educational and really an eye opener in terms of appreciating the extent of damage to the old city and what the locals have been through. The bus then headed off for a trip through the central part of the island to spend our second night in Tekapo. For some of the guys this was a one off opportunity to appreciate the magnificent scenery and grandeur of the lakes and mountains. Early next morning having spent a quiet night in at the Tekapo Lodge, we set off for Queenstown through the Lindis Pass and Kawaura gorge along the banks of the Clutha River. Lunch was waiting in Arrowtown, the weather was still sunny though crisp and the team waited in anticipation of a ride that afternoon on the Shotover Jet - which was later enjoyed by all – great fun ! This was followed by a few hours off to relax, explore and have dinner in Queenstown.

Next day we continued towards Dunedin stopping for a training run and BBQ at the historic Clyde-Earnscleugh Rugby Football Club made famous being the spawning ground of the infamous O’Reilly Gang. After management sampled a small ‘Sam Neil Pinot Noir’ we were on the move again to a game of curling in Naseby. A pre-training session had the lads primed to play their first game on the ice which was certainly more challenging than it initially looks, some struggling to lance the stone anywhere near the right direction. Our Kavanagh School billeting families hosted the team that night in Dunedin then had them at the grounds on the coast near St Kilda ready to go for the game the next morning. The conditions were wet, cold and windy and a feisty start by Kavanagh got our guys stirred up. Rosmini finished the game with a convincing 40-7 win played in a great spirit. Following the game the team spectated a match being played by 3 Rosmini old boys at the “uni” oval, a fantastic venue, then headed off to trek the world’s steepest street. Hosted again by Kavanagh that night we closed out an awesome experience of Southern hospitality. Next morning we headed on our way to the airport via a tour of the impressive new Forsyth Bar Stadium. The trip was a great experience for all and will hopefully be a memory the boys will always appreciate. We thank St Bedes and Kavanagh for their generous hospitality.

Four Rosmini basketballers in national squads For most schools to have a student selected to national age grade basketball team is a great achievement. Rosmini College has the distinction of having four players in the two squads. Derone Raukawa and Matt Lacey have been selected to the Junior TallBlacks (NZ U19s), while Steven Robertson and Tohi Smith-Milner are members of the NZ U18s squad. Both Derone and Matt are outstanding players who have brought their skills to Rosmini College in the hopes of helping the team to repeat as national champions, filling the void left from departing players Anamata Haku (also in the Junior Tall Blacks squad) and last year’s captain Elliot Bryers. Derone has injected flair and showmanship into the Rosmini game, with his high octane offense and knack for finding ways to the basket that seem impossible. Matt has proven to be a true floor leader, with a calm demeanour which belies his underlying desire to be successful. He has shown on more than one occasion his amazing shooting touch. Both students of the school have fit well into the Rosmini College community, quickly acclimatising to the new environment and showing that they are definitely talents to watch for in the future. Steven and Tohi are two starters who were part of the National champion squad of 2011, both vital members of the team.

Steven’s play is relentless, a player that can do it all and attacks the basket with speed and determination, while also playing defence holding the school record for steals in a game. Tohi is one of the most promising players in NZ, a big man with the skills of a guard, Tohi can score, rebound, pass and play defence. Tohi holds the school records for rebounds and blocked shots in a game and was also a member of the NBL championship winning Auckland Pirates. It seems hard to believe that Tohi still has another year at Rosmini College with the list of achievements that he has achieved, but it is something that the Rosmini College basketball community is very happy with. The contribution that these students have made to the basketball programme at the school has been phenomenal Rosmini College and shows that the future New Zealand Ba sketballers: Tohi Milner (NZ U18's Smith of basketball at Rosmini ), Steven Roberts on (NZ U 18's), De Raukawa (Junio r rone Ta ll Black), Matt La College looks bright. cey (Junior

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Channel Rising Star: Danielle Feneridis

Danielle Feneridis in the big new Westlake Girls 'Cloud' structure that houses the schools covered tennis and netball courts.

Danielle Feneridis – Westlake Girls Tennis Champion At Channel Magazine we love to highlight young North Shore people who are reaching for the stars. One such person is 17 year old Westlake Girls student and champion tennis player Danielle Feneridis. Danielle, from Rothesay Bay is in Year 13 at Westlake Girls, and has recently returned from winning both the singles and doubles titles at the Air Pacific Open Junior Tennis Championships in Fiji. The grade four International Tennis Federation event included under 18 players from Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Pacific Islands and New Zealand. There were a total of 35 in the singles event. She was the number two seed for the tournament, beating Claudia Williams from Auckland 6-1, 7-6 in the final. She had earlier teamed up with Williams to win the doubles title with the same score against another Kiwi pairing, of Bridget Liddell and Sade Atkinson. Channel Magazine interviewed Danielle in midJuly just after she returned from winning the event, on the new covered courts that are contained under the big new Westlake Girls High School 'Cloud' structure

that can be seen from the motorway and was featured on the cover of our May issue. While she is in her last year at school, Danielle is sure that having the new all-weather facility will turn out many more tennis champions for the school in the years ahead.

"I wish I had another year left at school as these are the best facilities for training" "I wish I had another year left at school as these are the best facilities for training," said Danielle. "We have a strong school tennis team which will only get stronger with being able to train under cover all year round." Danielle's Westlake Girls team was runner up in the schools’ national tennis championship in March this year, and is the current holder of the 'Points Shield' as the best Auckland school. Sporting success runs in the Feneridis family.

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Danielle's brother Alex left in late July as part of the New Zealand Soccer team competing at the London Olympics. Danielle, who attended Murrays Bay Primary and Intermediate, was encouraged to take up tennis at age nine by her parents Diane and Costa, who are members of the Browns Bay Tennis Club. She hated it at first and refused to play, but soon realised that she was quite good at it and grew to like it. She has since won the Auckland Junior, Intermediate and Senior Girls Championship Singles titles. She has won the Senior title twice. As well as playing in Fiji, Danielle has played tennis in Australia, New Caledonia, Malaysia, India and Germany. Danielle is coached by former New Zealand Tennis Davis Cup player Jeff Simpson at the Tennis Northern facility in Albany. She says her strength is a strong backhand – her favourite shot. Her ambition when she leaves school at the end of this year is to go on tour for a bit, probably in Europe, before securing a tennis scholarship at a college in the United States.

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The photo shows from left (maiden names in brackets): Sue Newman (Powell), Ruth Purdy (Armstrong), Alison Cleland (Potter), Elizabeth Goodwin (Elliott), Jill Pierce, Noeline Smith (Stewart), Mary Shadbolt (Kirk), Nora Lewis (Vine), Kathryn Hicks (Green), Elizabeth Aloupis (Southon), Kaye Lally (Jones), Christine Ball (Wrigley), Alison Bird (Giblin), Glenys Wilson (Elliott) Two of our esteemed teachers in front - Kath Cherney and Helen Ryburn (Principal).

October 19th & 20th 2012 In 1962 the Westlake High School became two schools; Westlake Girls & Westlake Boys High Schools. Both schools are celebrating 50 years of operation this year. The Boys school’s events are in August and the Girls school are in October.If you are an ex student of our school we would love to see you and your friends at our celebrations. For details of the programme and registration please go to http://www.westlakejubilee.co.nz Foundation Students 1962 A group of our keen foundation students have kept in touch and meet once a year. They visited the school in June and are pictured in the Principal’s office. It was good to see Helen Ryburn who was the Principal from 1972-1982, she commented that the standard of the Principal’s office has improved markedly since her time.

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'Bring it on' dance competition Westlake Girls and Boys High Schools recently competed in the Auckland Bring It On dance competition. “Bring It On is a real programme that relates to the youth of today. Using hip hop and dance we are able to engage with the youth through the mentoring & leadership program and help change their life.” The group of 38 performers competed in heat 1 (of 3) on June 2nd. This consisted of 8 schools competing at each heat with the top 4 going through to the finals. Westlake Girls and Boys placed 1st for their heat. The student leaders of the group decided to choreograph a complete new routine before the finals which were held on July 21st. The students showed a great deal of commitment and motivation during this time, practising during school holidays, lunchtimes and after school. The dedication paid off and they placed 3rd at the Auckland Bring It On Final. This is an outstanding achievement and is the first time Westlake has placed at the finals.

Former Westlake Girls Student off to Olympics Former Westlake student Moira de Villiers recently visited Westlake Girls prior to de-parting overseas on her Olympic campaign. She attended a staff meeting where she discussed her future judo plans and goals; her final year at Westlake was 2007. She now heads to Spain for a week long training camp, then Holland for four weeks before heading to London and the Olympic Village. She will be competing in the U70kg Women’s on 1st August. Moira is one of two former Westlake Girls students competing at the London Olympics; the other is sailor Jo Aleh. Moira de Villiers.

Westlake Girls students Tia Tuiburelevu and Reilly Polaschek recently returned to school with a handful of medals that they had won at the New Zealand Secondary School and National Karate Championships in Wellington. Westlake Girls finished second on the medal table with Tia winning eight medals in the 16-17 age group which included; one gold, five silver and one bronze medal and year 9 student Reilly winning three gold and two bronze medals in the 12-13 age group. Both students have qualified for the Oceania Championships Tia Tuiburelevu in Sydney during September. and Reilly Po laschek.

Freemasons support makes Westlake girl’s dream a reality When Y13 Westlake Girls High School student, Ashlee Parkes, was selected by the Royal Society of New Zealand to attend the International Space Camp 2012 in Alabama, she also had to raise most of the funds to get there. A week ago, Ashlee had $1,000 left to raise and was running out of time. That’s where the Freemason New Zealand funded FREESTA (Freemasons Science Travel Award) in conjunction with the Royal Society became very relevant. This Award recognises talented science students throughout New Zealand. Hearing about Ashlee’s quest, North Shore Freemason’s Lodges raised the remaining money between their local lodges. V.W. Bro. Geoff Foote District Grand Master surprised Ashlee at Westlake Girls on Wednesday 20th June, by presenting her with a cheque. Ashlee can now pack her bags and admits to a few butterflies. At the International Space Camp 2012, Ashlee will undertake astronaut training and learn the physical, mental and emotional tasks endured by astronauts. Leadership training, experiencing 4Gs of lift off force as well as weightlessness in a space simulator are all added to the mix. Space Camp experiences provide valuable insight into space and its different aspects, as well as helping Ashlee to discover which related field to pursue in future. Astronomy has been Ashlee’s passion for Northern Freemason District Grand Master, Geoff Foote (left), Ashlee Parkes with her cheque and Principal of years and this is a dream Westlake Girls High School, Roz Mexted. come true.

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North Shore History with David Verran

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Flagstaff and the Lake in the 1840s Following the formation of Auckland in September 1840, land on the northern shore of the harbour was soon put to use by the Government, for a gunpowder magazine. Captain William Snow formally took charge of the magazine on 13 September 1841 and the signal station on Mount Victoria, including the signal mast, and a lookout was formally established on 2nd February 1842. Captain Porter of the brigantine ‘Porter’ arrived in Auckland on 5 April 1841 from Sydney, and later recalled only two buildings on the northern shore of the Waitemata Harbour, one the naval magazine, and the other the Signalman's raupo hut. The 1842 Police Census listed just three households on the North Shore, totally ignoring the many Maori whare in the area. One was for Snow, his wife Hannah and their two daughters. By 1842 a stores depot had been added and shortly after the Census Gilbert Adams briefly took over responsibility as Signalman. The second household was a raupo hut for Signalman Thomas Duder, who married in 1845. The third household, again in the Mount Victoria area, was the raupo hut occupied by William Brown, his wife and daughter – he was a government official. By 1843, Duder had now moved into a wooden house. Tenders had been let for the signalman's house on Mount Victoria in 1842, as a tent had proved inappropriate. Following the Mahurangi land purchases from local iwi, the surveying of the land and the beginnings of local land sales in what became the Devonport area, the 1844 Census now noted newcomer James Kelly was growing wheat and potatoes, while Patrick Hennessey was growing wheat, maize and potatoes. Hennessey was soon joined by a tenant, William White a boat builder. It is not clear if White was building his boats here or on the city side, but if so then he was the first boatbuilder on the North Shore. By the 1845 Police Census, the North Shore (Devonport/Takapuna) area boasted 7 wooden buildings and 15 raupo huts, 8 of the 22 buildings being rented. The new residents included Joseph Burns, who was a carpenter and later was hanged in 1848 for the murder of Captain Snow, his wife and one of the two daughters. Burns lived to the north of Mount Victoria, near the Maori kainga, and

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The 1842 Police Census listed just three households on the North Shore, totally ignoring the many Maori whare in the area. at first local Maori were blamed for the murder. Then, Duder became a suspect. Eventually, Burns was convicted on the evidence of his partner and was hanged on the Flagstaff waterfront. The new residents also included the Carruths; John settled in the area around 1844 while William joined him in 1849. There were also John Cooper, Robert Hunt, James O’Neill and Henry Figg, and their families. On 1 March 1847 Figg applied for a three-month lease of Government land for pasturing cattle in the Takapuna area, but ended up purchasing the land. He was also employed as a government surveyor. Later in the 1840s came Donald Walshe, described as “settler”, and William Oliver, dairyman and carpenter. James Hammond had a brickworks in Devonport from around 1844 to the 1850s. Thus, a pattern was set through the 1840s in what was called Flagstaff or the Lake, of naval personnel, small-scale farmers, carpenters, brickmakers, a boatbuilder and large communities of Maori. Some Pakeha owned their land, while others leased from the government or private owners. There were also other settlers across the other side of Shoal Bay and further up the reaches of the Waitemata Harbour. Sources claim that hundreds of Maori lived around what are now Alison Park and Devonport Domain and remained there until the early 1860s. By David Verran.

North Shore Hospital News

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End Well North Shore Hospital intensive care nurse Peter Groom knows what his parents want at the end of their lives. Recently they filled out advance care plans, detailing when they want medical intervention, when they just want to be made comfortable and where they would prefer to die. “They were very keen to get what they think down,” says Peter. Peter asked them to complete the plans after training in advance care planning. Advance care planning helps patients to record their wishes about not just what they want to happen once they have died, but also while they are dying. Peter often sees extremely ill patients who can’t talk for themselves. “We have no way of asking, ‘Is this what you want? Do you want aggressive treatment?’” Advance care plan training gives health professionals the skills to have those “difficult conversations” with patients while they still can. “If you tell them they are going to deteriorate, they won’t fall apart. That’s what they want to know. You are giving them choice.” This year Peter had just this conversation with one patient who had been admitted to intensive care several times. “I spoke to him to find out what he wanted, and it wasn’t to come to hospital. AWARD-WINNING: North Shore Hospital’s Lakeview extension is an “exceptionally efficient emergency care centre”, say award judges.

Lakeview wows award judges North Shore Hospital’s new Lakeview extension has won an important national architectural award – the Property Council’s special purpose property award. At the awards ceremony, Lakeview beat buildings such as the Viaduct Events Centre and IBM’s Auckland data centre. Judges said the $53.5 million, 4923sq m building created “an integrated and exceptionally efficient emergency care centre”. They also said it “ensured significant improvement to service delivery and patient satisfaction”. In submitting Lakeview for the award, Klein Architects emphasised its green features, which include collecting rainwater and using heat from the chillers to heat water. Building Lakeview began in 2009. It was fully opened last November.

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PATIENT CHOICE: Peter Groom says advance care planning ensures patients’ wishes are heard when they can longer speak for themselves.

But the nursing home was terrified he was going to pass away. “The patient wanted to be in the rest home. He wanted all the therapy the rest home could offer, but if that didn’t work, he accepted that entirely.” Once the patient recorded his advance care plan, everyone was relieved, says Peter. “The nurses and the healthcare staff at the rest home felt supported that they didn’t have to ring the ambulance but could ring the GP. The GP knew exactly what the patient wanted, which was clearly documented.” And the patient? “Actually, he said to me ‘I won’t be seeing you again!’” See www.advancecareplanning.org.nz

Leading a life-saving revolution Waitemata DHB is leading the way in a life-saving revolution. Our intensive care and high-dependency units have gone more than 160 days without one case of the often fatal bloodstream infection central line-associated bacteraemia, or CLAB. We’re among the first DHBs in New Zealand to do so. And it’s because of a checklist, a ready-assembled equipment pack, teamwork and attention to detail. “I’m really proud of the way the ICU team has embraced this,” says ICU consultant Ywain Lawrey. Central lines are catheters that go in large veins of seriously ill patients to deliver life-saving medicines, manage fluid levels and aid blood monitoring. But they often cause CLAB, which kills up to half the patients who get it. However, it was accepted as an “unfortunate consequence of what we do”, says Ywain – until overseas hospitals showed they could cut rates by up to 95% by strictly enforcing best practice. “One of the biggest barriers to doing this consistently was not having all the equipment you needed at the start of the procedure,” says Ywain. Last year, Waitemata and Counties Manukau DHBs put together a central line pack, including gown, hat, mask, gloves, antiseptics and everything needed to insert a central line. The Ministry of Health has adopted that pack as the national standard. Waitemata’s ICU also developed checklists – every time doctors insert central lines, a nurse observes, making sure they follow the protocol. “A lot of the focus has been on accepting that checklists have a role in medicine, and in empowering nurses to ensure the doctors are doing this – and stop them if they are not,” says Ywain. It has, says consultant physician Hasan Bhally, been a real team effort. “If we can prevent one case of CLAB KITTED OUT: ICU consultant Ywain Lawrey and charge nurse manager Liz Dalby put the by putting the right processes in place, central line pack and checklist into action. it’s absolutely a worthwhile thing.”

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Caring For Your Car: with Car-Fe

Rob Bonnici is the Car Guy. Rob lives, eats and breathes car cleaning products and services. Having a background in chemicals, car cleaning products and now owning a 7 day a week car cleaning and grooming centre, he is without a doubt the most passionate and the most knowledgeable car guy in New Zealand. Rob, along with his wife Siobhan, owns Car’fe facing the motorway in Barry’s Point Road, Takapuna. Rob is more than happy to help you out with any car cleaning issues. Email: Carfe.takapuna@xtra.co.nz or Phone 488-7000.

Is mould a problem in your car? Did you clean up that coffee spill correctly?

Mould – How to treat the issues Storing a car: One of the issues of using a car cover is that it makes the car sweat, collecting condensation, which if left converts to mould very quickly in a damp darkened condition. Prevention is the best form of control whenever storing a car for a long period. It is imperative that the car is aired at least once every two weeks. Remember, if you are storing a car for a long period, disconnect the battery. This way when you leave the doors opened for half to one hour you are not flattening your battery. Cleaning mould: Tools needed – A wet and dry vac, scrubbing brush, two bottles with triggers and a commercial carpet shampoo. To remove mould – Fill one bottle with hot water the other with a good carpet shampoo cleaner. First soak the area with hot water by spraying onto the offending areas. Next spray on the chemical and let it soak for one to two minutes. Then agitate with the brush and re-spray with hot water as you suck up the affected areas of mould. Continue to then re-spray hot water until the water that you are sucking up is clean. Leave doors open to fully air dry before closing up your car. A trick is to close your car after air drying and turn on the heater with your car running for say 30 minutes.

quickly to clean the top surface. The best treatment is to use a vacuum that can extract fluid. Soak the affected area with up to a litre of hot water spray on a good carpet cleaning chemical that kills the spores. Agitate with a stiff brush then leave to stand for five minutes. Then extract the water with the vac. Repeat this process to dilute the spill so the bacteria cannot build up and create both a bad smell and mould. Smell the surface to see if you can still smell the offending spill. If so repeat the process. You now have a clean floor. It will, however, still be very damp. Ideally you should pop of your trim on your door (which holds down your carpet), lift the carpet, and air dry the area using a heater that blows hot. If you are unable to do this then the following is also OK. Close your car and start the engine, leave running and put your heater onto the floor and leave running for up to an hour. Then open your doors and leave to air for up to three or four hours. Feel your carpet and test to see how dry it is. If needed, repeat these processes until you are satisfied that the area is dry. Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to call 09 4887000 to discuss. Regards, Robert & Siobhan Bonnici.

Cleaning up the spill: We all do the “quick grab the nearest towel and give the surface a good wipe over”. Modern day car carpets are usually synthetic and fluids seep through quickly. Modern underlay can also be synthetic so when we clean up a spill this creates an issue. The spill often gets trapped between your floor pan (steel) and the synthetic underlay. This protects the spill from being extracted by a wet and dry carpet machine. The clean up: Firstly how much fluid got spilt – if less than 100ml – we can react

Car-fe supporting local Netball Car-fe Takapuna is supporting local Netball and is donating $5 of every $15 Wash and Go to the North Harbour Netball Association. Don’t be surprised if on a Saturday or Sunday on the odd occasion you may see the netball girls helping us down at Carfe! We are reporting monthly on our contribution by the way of the thermometer (on this page), so keep a close eye on what we achieve. This month – as you can see bay the barometer – this donation level for Netball is up to $5900! Something we are very proud of!

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In the last weeks Winter has certainly raised its head to say ‘Hey I’m here!’. When this happens we see an upsurge in internal mould build-up in the cars we clean. There are many different reasons for this. That simple coffee spill that appeared harmless which was given the quick wipe over and left damp, has now started to go off and breed bacteria; Or storing a collectable or a family member’s car that has gone overseas underneath a cover and then to pulling it out to find our friend mould has taken over. Mould needs to be dealt with correctly. When you just vacuum off the surface the mould spores are still in your seats and carpet, and having disturbed them, they can take up residency in your air conditioning filters and ducts. This will cause a secondary problem with your air conditioning smelling like old socks and potentially spreading harmful bacteria when you fire up your unit.

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University Professor gives Top Marks to The Poynton! Professor Graham Vaughan and wife, Jan, had not given much thought to the support staff at The Poynton when they chose to make the village their home. “One takes one’s health for granted. It was more the secure, lock up and go lifestyle that suited our busy lives, that was the factor,” they noted. Both very involved in the local community, Jan with extensive Probus duties and Graham’s commitment to co-authoring Social Psychology text books, made the maintenance free lifestyle at The Poynton most appealing. So it came as quite a surprise when one Saturday evening, a couple of weeks ago, Professor Vaughan took a tumble in Auckland city on an uneven gutter with a trolley full of books. Being dark and cold, he thought nothing of it, desperate to get home. It was after taking a shower he noticed a rather large gash in his shin, bleeding profusely, that needed urgent medical attention. It was then that he realised how ideally located The Poynton was, neighbouring North Shore Hospital and just across the road from Smales Farm Accident and Medical Clinic. Knowing that both of these outlets would be extremely busy at this time, with long queues and a wait in the reception area on the cards, he was relieved when he realised a call down to The Poynton reception area was all that was needed to get medical care. Within minutes after making the call, a Poynton staff member armed with an abundance of supplies arrived at the door.

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The maintenance-free life The Poynton ensures there’sstyle at more time for the important thin gs in life!

As Professor Vaughan sat in the comfort of his chair with his foot raised, a glass of red wine in one hand and the TV remote with access to his favourite sport programmes in the other, his leg was deftly attended to by the efficient Poynton staff member. The service did not end there. For the next two weeks, Professor Vaughan strolled down to the medical care area where his dressing was monitored and changed every couple of days until it was well healed. “It was critical I had a speedy recovery with my huge commitments", the professor noted, “it was vital I returned to the croquet court while I am still on top of my game”, he chortled with a twinkle in his eye! If you would like to view the village and its facilities, pop into the Open Weekend on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th August, from 10am to 4pm. The Poynton - 142 Shakespeare Road, Takapuna. www.thepoynton.co.nz

Open Weekend Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th August 10am - 4pm

The Poynton is now well-established as one of the finest retirement lifestyle villages on the North Shore. It offers a socially active and independent environment, plus the reassurance of having care if needed, right here on site. Our residents enjoy living in their stunning upmarket apartments, knowing they have security and peace of mind at all times. Fine dining, great leisure facilities and a lively atmosphere make The Poynton a fun place to be. The Poynton community has grown steadily with more than 130 people now calling The Poynton home. So, now is the right time to look at our remaining

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luxury 2-bedroom apartments priced between $550,000 and $685,000.

142 Shakespeare Road, Takapuna

Phone 09 488 5711

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Gundry's Grumbles with Simon Gundry

Simon Gundry is a Devonport and North Shore identity, and character, who is known for calling a spade a spade. He is a director of contracting company Gill & Gundry, is an enthusiastic and active sailor (past crew-member of Ceramco New Zealand and Lion New Zealand in Whitbread Round The World races and Shockwave in Admiral’s Cup) and is a life member of the North Shore Rugby Football Club. This is his regular and lively contribution to Channel Magazine..

Three splendid days of sport … But I wish Billy T was still around

During my visit to the States last month, I was privileged to be taken to a couple of sporting events. I have been very lucky over the years, attending sporting theatre – having attended Olympic Games, Super Bowl, America’s Cup, All Blacks in Europe and other bits and pieces. On this occasion, friends took me to three splendid days of sport, two involving the San Francisco Giants Baseball team in the purpose stadium on San Francisco Harbour and also spending a day at the US Open at the Olympic Golf Club in SF. What I noticed about the three particular visits I had was the visible lack of security and high viz jackets. AT & T Park, which is home to the San Francisco Giants, fills every game with its’ capacity of 45,000 people. Security is obviously there, but is so unobtrusive and so ‘not in your face’ as it is in the rugby stadiums of NZ. One doesn’t even notice it. The AT & T Stadium is, as I said, a purpose built stadium on the Harbour and it made we wonder how magnificently it would have worked in downtown Auckland, but I have discussed that in previous columns, so I won’t go there at this stage. The US Open was another wonderful day, and lacking huge security issues – after initially going through a check in going into the Course, to make sure there were no cell phones or cameras, one was free to roam wherever without the bullying tactics of the high viz wearing Gestapo type gorillas that seem to infest our sporting events. I was staying in the middle of Silicone Valley where the technology boom all started, and I visited an Apple I shop in down town Los Gatos, where no fewer than 35 staff were working at unbelievable speed to service their customers’ needs. I couldn’t believe the efficiency and helpfulness of the staff. On talking about the efficiencies of staff members, and thinking about my

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constant bagging of some of the balloon heads in Council, I would like to take this time to thank all the efficient front people who have to deal on a daily basis with the public. I have to communicate with them several times a week to arrange building inspections – they are unbelievably helpful and polite, and so efficient and go out of their way to ensure things get done in the right manner. It’s just a pity some of the people above them couldn’t learn from them. Another thing that is wearing me a little thin these days is the constant cry from some Maori factions that they do not have the same opportunities as everyone else. I am almost over it. One of the worst things to ever happen in this country was the death of Billy T James, with his passing we lost a huge ability to laugh at ourselves and at one another. He could say things that other people couldn’t say. If we keep on dragging up the Treaty of Waitangi we will never get anywhere, it is time to live in this wonderful country as one people without a “them and us” mentality.

…it is time to live in this wonderful country as one people without a “them and us” mentality If we keep on looking back over our shoulders at past hurts, then nothing will ever be healed and we won’t be able to move on. I almost feel the right to free speech is being eroded in this country, as if somebody speaks out with an opinion about the Waitangi Gravy train, then you are deemed as being racist. I do wonder at times that so many of our fine Maori people have travelled across the Tasman to seek new lives and opportunities in Australia, invariably they do very well, without any Government assistance. It seems to me that a lot of them go over there to get away from all this divisive rubbish that we have to listen to and put up with on a daily basis. They don’t want to come back, to the negativity and the entitlement mind set that so many people have in this country. They do well by their own efforts and have pride they are supporting themselves and their families with their own hard work. This is only one man’s opinion, but I have listened to a respected Elder who I know and have worked with for many years, and he has spoken the same language as I do over this situation. Let’s just remember that the Treaty of Waitangi was a treaty between two peoples, to move forward and live together in harmony in this land, and in the main, this has happened. I see there is no respite from the Parking Wardens around the Devonport area these days; in fact I think they are multiplying. Anyway, I may get onto that in next month’s column.

Commercial Property with Andrew Hiskens, Colliers North Shore

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Andrew Hiskens, Director, Auckland Investment Sales, Colliers International

Shore City latest in overseas investment trend Andrew Hiskens.

Favourable macroeconomic conditions are encouraging overseas buyers into New Zealand’s commercial property market, as demonstrated by recent significant asset sales – including the recent sale of Westfield Shore City. The 14,139m2 Shore City mall was sold to Aviva Investors Asia Pacific Property Fund for $83.5m through John Goddard and Andrew Reed of Colliers International’s international sales division. Colliers International has also won the property management contract for the shopping centre, following a competitive process against other major property managers. The transaction represents the largest commercial property asset sale in New Zealand this year, and illustrates the increased interest in New Zealand property among offshore institutional investors seeking global diversification. Westfield Shore City was the fund’s first purchase in New Zealand, complementing existing holdings across Asia and Australia. Buying into New Zealand allows the fund to achieve further diversification across the AsiaPacific region through exposure to New Zealand as a new market.

The transaction represents the largest commercial property asset sale in New Zealand this year, and illustrates the increased interest in New Zealand property among offshore institutional investors seeking global diversification. New Zealand’s transparent tax and legal system, and absence of conveyance duty and capital gains tax along with the availability of appealing investment opportunities, are among the reasons overseas investors are looking at our market as they seek to reinvest capital following the global financial crisis.

Changes at Colliers International North Shore Colliers International has appointed Andrew Hiskens to lead its Auckland investment sales division, based on Queen Street. Hiskens moves to the CBD following 11 successful years as head of Colliers International North Shore. Hiskens remains a shareholder and managing director of Colliers International North Shore, with Jimmy O’Brien, who has been promoted to general manager, responsible for day-to-day leadership of the franchise. Jimmy O’Brien is in his sixth year with Colliers North Shore and is a regular member of Colliers’ ‘high performers club’ of top producers nationwide. He has led the North Shore industrial team since early 2008, notching up a successful track record which includes the sale of 10-12 Rothwell Ave, Albany, for $13.9m – the largest industrial sale on the North Shore last year. “With his experience as head of industrial in our North Shore office, Jimmy is well placed to continue to drive our unrivalled sales and leasing operations across North Shore industrial, office and retail property,” says Colliers’ Auckland managing director, Charles Cooper. Prior to joining Colliers International, O’Brien had a successful career in

sales, marketing and manufacturing. As a director of his own business for 22 years, he built up a vast network of contacts in the property industry. Colliers International’s strong-performing North Shore franchise is a recent winner of Franchise of the Year in Colliers International’s annual awards.

Colliers’ Auckland Managing Director, Charles Cooper (centre) with Andrew Hiskens, Director, Auckland Investment Sales and Jimmy O’Brien, General Manager, Colliers North Shore.

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Local Real Estate: The Power of Two By Real Estate Duo Rosie Houghton & Rose Arnott of Prestige Real Estate – Both Local Identities in the Takapuna community.

Open for viewing There are certain tools of the trade to help you sell your property faster and should be seen as essential. We cannot emphasise enough how important it is to make sure there is constant access to your property for buyers. Some homeowners put limitations on their properties when they say they can only be viewed/ shown 'one day a week` or `only at open home viewing times'. When you want to sell your home why would you limit the process? You should be ready to show your home whether or not the beds are made or the dishes have been done. A buyers motivation to want to view your home when you least expect it will far out way any negative implications of your house being less than perfectly in order. Buyers want to find the best possible home and often won’t come back for a second look once they are at the house. Remember they are in a process of elimination and just want to get through their list of available options. It’s more often the case that buyers will move onto viewing more houses if it is difficult to view yours. It would be wiser to be prepared at almost any time while you are actively on the market, since you will never really know when the best possible buyer for your house will show up. Like

Contact: Rose Arnott Ph: 021 876 333 Rosie Houghton Ph: 021 623 952

DEVELOP OR RESTORE | ID 5745 1012m2 of Potential, Subdivide into 2, move the old original bungalow forward and build on the back, remove the bungalow completely and build 2 new homes, renovate the old bungalow and enjoy a massive yard, Build a dream home on a full site. Phew!! Not many properties in Takapuna can give you this many options. Quotes have been sourced already for various options and available to interested parties. Tender close date 6/8/2012 4pm. (unless sold by prior)

Location 309 Lake Road, Takapuna.

fishing, it’s the element of the unknown. Being prepared for the unknown will highly increase your odds, especially since a buyer who shows up at your house at 7pm on a Sunday night with his wife and kids is probably very motivated to buy! Why loose that opportunity. Some of our best buying candidates come around at the end of the weekend – when they`re tired, confused and simply want to get done with finding a home for their family. Interestingly enough, the same home shown first versus last has less of a chance since buyers are compelled to turn up every last stone and look at every house on the market. It’s not uncommon for agents to show the best home that they think would suit the buyer last.

Being prepared for the unknown will highly increase your odds There are buyers who now with the websites have a whole list of homes they want to get through, and will often co-ordinate their viewings around the open home times. But there are still plenty of buyers who want us to take them to a specific property – time poor clients like to have opportunities to see a range of homes within a certain time or day outside open home weekends as they may be working or have sports and family commitments to meet. Whatever their reasons may be, as a Seller you want to make the best case scenario for a buyer to view. Working together – Rosie and Rose are a formidable team, one of us is always available for buyers and sellers alike, so let us help you make your next move. For a no obligation evaluation of your home, call us anytime and we can show you what it is that makes Rose & Rosie your perfect choice of Real Estate Professionals. Contact: Rosie Houghton 021623952, Email: rosie@prestigerealty.co.nz, or, Rose Arnott 021876333, Email: rose.arnott@prestigerealty.co.nz

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TELL US YOUR BUDGET AND WEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;LL STICK TO IT!

Albany showhome not as pictured.

Visit our showhome Thursday to Sunday 12- 4pm, 1 Lakeridge Close, Albany. TU10878

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Channel Feature Home: with Nadja Court, Barfoot & Thompson

Simply Stunning Inspired Family Living in the heart of Mairangi Bay

Set in the very heart of Mairangi Bay, in a private cul de sac, this home offers you and your family a sensational coastal lifestyle of the highest calibre. This is truly a magnificent opportunity. As most Channel readers will understand, these sensational lifestyle opportunities really only pop up on the Shore! This property, being marketed by Nadja Court of Barfoot & Thompson Mairangi Bay, is a family home that offers purchasers unparalleled quality, space, light and location â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it is simply superb! Set in the very heart of Mairangi Bay, in a private cul de sac, this home offers you and your family a sensational coastal lifestyle of the highest calibre. The home was fully refurbished and extended in 2009 to very high specifications for the family themselves, and every detail has been lovingly thought through. Spaces merge seamlessly from casual living to formal entertaining. There is a generous gourmet kitchen, huge decks to embrace the sunshine and offer you endless options for relaxing and entertaining friends and family. Exceptional in every way this home will captivate you. Consider the reasons why this property will be very popular â&#x20AC;&#x201C; sea views, a full 615 square metre freehold title, sought after school zones, wine cellar, boat and trailer parking. A premium location and only a short wander to the Mairangi Bay village shops, the many cafes, restaurants and of course the beach. It's exceptional. It's inspirational. You will love it!

For Sale by Auction On Site on 25/8/12 at 1.00pm

3 Kilduff Place, Mairangi Bay

View: Phone for viewing times. View property onlIne: www.barfoot.co.nz/ 479709 For further information contact: Nadja Court, Barfoot & Thompson, Mairangi Bay M: 021-777-690 or 478-9089 e: n.court@barfoot.co.nz Number 1 Salesperson, Barfoot & Thompson 2011-12

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AUCTION

ONE BACK FROM CHELTENHAM BEACH

16a Macky Avenue, Cheltenham www.bayleys.co.nz/4105067

SOLD BY VICTORIA RECENTLY Stanley Bay waterfront

$3,850,000

Takapuna bungalow

$3,950,000

Devonport bungalow

$1,375,000

Heritage ‘A” Listed home

$3,000,000

Cheltenham villa with views

$2,000,000

Central Devonport villa

$1,240,000

Milford Seaward side do-up

$1,577,000

Stanley Point waterfront

$2,640,000

Narrow Neck home

$1,070,000

Castor Bay with pool

$1,435,000

Cheltenham villa

$2,080,000

Victoria Bidwell • Top Agent for Bayleys North Shore 2006/7, 2007/8, 2008/9, 2009/10, 2011/12 • Bayleys National “Top Achiever” status 2006/7, 2007/8, 2009/10, 2011/12 • International Property Awards London-Winner Best Property Marketing • Winner Bayleys National Marketing Award • Winner Bayleys National Waterfront Marketing Award • Bayleys 100million dollar club member

Phone Victoria for a confidential chat regarding the sale of your own property.

Victoria Bidwell 021 947 080 or 09 487 0735 victoria.bidwell@bayleys.co.nz www.victoriabidwell.bayleys.co.nz

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