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Cheltenham security cameras used in police investigation Footage from security cameras installed on Cheltenham beachfront properties is being used in the police investigation into the death of a swimmer apparently struck by a boat near North Head, the Flagstaff understands.
Westlake Girls High School teacher and was found the next day near Mairangi Bay. Canadian citizen Leslie Gelberger is believed to The police investigation into the death is have been hit – possibly by a Ports of Auckland ongoing. No charges have been laid, a police pilot boat – while on a swim from Narrow Neck spokesperson says. to Devonport on Thursday 20 April. His body To page 3
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Official blessing…Devonport Peninsula Precincts Society spokesman Iain Rea (left) shares a hongi with Matt Maihi of Ngati Whatua o Orakei, at a blessing of the Ryman Healthcare’s newest retirement village site last week. Maihi and Ngati Whatua elder Bob Hawke performed a karakia at the 4.2-hectare site at Ngataringa Rd. It is leased by Ryman Healthcare from Ngati Whatua Orakei.
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Police have no leads in a suspicious Victoria Rd fire Police have come to a dead end in their investigation of a suspicious fire which damaged a picture framer’s premises at 151 Victoria Rd in March. The arson in the early hours of 22 March caused significant damage to the villa which is the premises of owner Peter Scott’s picture-framing business. “Following a scene examination, police have no further lines of enquiry at this
Man charged in Victoria Rd burglary A 21-year-old man has been charged with burglary after police found his blood at the scene of a Victoria Rd break-in in May, police say. He and an accomplice were caught on security camera footage as they smashed a window, entered the home and left carrying a large flat-screen TV down the property’s drive on Wednesday 31 May. Police used DNA testing to identify the man. Homeowner Murray Pelham told the Flagstaff at the time that the police’s forensic team had found a blood sample inside the house. The thieves had taken off with family possessions worth around $5000, he said.
stage,” a police spokesperson told the Flagstaff last week. “Should any new information come to light, police will make further enquiries. We encourage anyone with information to contact police,” she says.
Racist tag could be work of ‘homegrown kid’ A second racist and obscene graffiti tag appeared on a Devonport rooftop last week. Locals noticed the tag on the roof of the New World supermarket after the night of Saturday 30 June. Supermarket owner and operator John Ashton told the Flagstaff it was the first incident of graffiti spray-painted on his roof. Police were reviewing security-camera footage, he said. “The tag is horrible. It’s racist and not the New Zealand way. And police are almost certain it’s a local person, one of our homegrown kids,” Ashton said. A similar tag was left on the back of a façade above shops in Victoria Rd.
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Record result after nightmare start Belmont world-champion stand-up paddleboarder Penelope Strickland set a surprising new women’s record for the Molokai 2 Oahu Paddleboard World Championships after a rollercoaster season and a nightmare race start. Strickland finished the 32-mile long openocean endurance course in the record time of 4 hours 52 minutes and 32 seconds, more than three minutes faster than the previous record and nearly 24 minutes ahead of the second-fastest woman in the race. She placed 10th overall. The victory is especially remarkable considering Strickland broke her foot earlier in the season, knocking her out of numerous events while trying to recover from the injury. The start of her Molokai race was also a challenge, with the threat of disqualification looming when her support boat went missing. “So while everyone was warming up and heading to the start line I was frantically and tearfully trying to negotiate a spare escort boat,” Strickland says. From page 1
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“I was 50m behind the start line and facing the wrong direction when the gun went off. But I took my time, settled into my routine and just started surfing whatever I could catch,” she told the Flagstaff last Thursday Strickland regained her confidence slowly. “I fell a lot in the first hour as my nerves and being on an unfamiliar board got to me, but then I started to make serious ground on my female competitors. I knew by the halfway point that the race was mine to lose and that keeping a clear head and my current momentum was essential. “The 20-foot-plus swells in the channel are massive so it’s really important to get your wave selection right and as the conditions deteriorated I started making bigger and bigger gains. “I was ecstatic to cross first, setting a new world record and finishing in the men’s top 10 too,” she says. It was the fourth time Strickland has competed in the Hawaiian event. She has twice come third in the women’s race. In April, she told the Flagstaff in a feature interview: “It’s a race unlike any other. When you take off, you can’t see land at the other end and the wind is always different.” The win also crowns her a second-time world champion. Last November, she won the 2016 ISA Stand-Up Paddleboard world champs in Fiji, in a 4km technical race. Strickland started stand-up paddleboarding only four years ago. In April, at the age of 38 and with very little sponsorship, she embarked on a tour across Europe and the US with an ambitious goal to be top of the world rankings by September. Setting the record in Hawaii has been the highlight of the tour. She also won a Euro Tour event in Crete in April before breaking her foot and came third in the Maui
Record setter... Belmont’s Penelope Strickland in Hawaii 2 Molokai event in Hawaii in early July. She is now seventh in the world rankings and is as ambitious as ever. “I head next to Vancouver, Oregon and then Denmark to try and defend my ISA world tech title in September,” she says.
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Devonport welcomes new library manager Rachael Te Aotonga loves everything about her job as Devonport Library’s new manager. For starters, she loves her commute. “I moved from Glen Eden to an apartment in the CBD just before Christmas and now I am off the road and happy on the ferry every day,” she says. Te Aotonga says spending her day in the new Devonport library building is another treat: “It’s just such a stunning building.” She arrived in Devonport after three years at Ponsonby’s Leys Institute, the 112-year-old building housing the library. “Before that I worked at the Titirangi Library. Titirangi was a great place to raise our daughter Mikayla,” she says. She has worked as a librarian for 10 years. She loves her new community too. “It’s a creative community full of clever and artistic people and I look forward to meeting them all and helping them to use our space to promote their writing and art,” she says. “It’s such a friendly community too and they have made it a very happy start for me.” She has no immediate plans to change anything. “Except maybe freshen up the collection Librarian books dream job… Rachael Te Aotonga a bit, which is easily done. But for now it’s just Her personal favourites are mostly classics. “I basically could talk about books all day about observing and getting to know people,” she says “Shall I talk about my love of books?” “I am reading Howard’s End by E. M. Forster long.” Her new job is a return of sorts to the North she asks, with a smile. As a librarian, Te Aoton- at the moment. But I mostly like American ga reckons there is a book for every occasion, mid-20th century literature, like Steinbeck,” Shore. Te Aotonga grew up in Torbay before moving out west as a teenager. “whether to enrich your life or escape from it.” she says.
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Maunga Authority modifies parking plan on Mt Victoria The Tupuna Maunga Authority has ruled out using Mt Victoria’s historic tennis courts as a parking area in their plans to ban cars from the summit. This is despite an archaeological assessment commissioned by the authority concluding that the courts have only limited historic value. The March 2017 Russell Foster and Associates report was commissioned to assess potential new parking areas on Mt Victoria, including turning the historic tennis courts into a parking lot.
It also identified two further sloped areas surrounding Takapuna Playcentre as potentially suitable for parking, one just above the centre and a second along the back of the Kerr St Artspace. Since receiving the report, the authority has decided to not proceed with plans for a car park at the tennis court site for now, a Maunga Authority spokesperson said. No decisions have been made yet regarding the other two sites. The tennis court would likely need to be re-engineered to support constant vehicle use,
First meeting of new heritage group A new preservation society called Devonport Heritage 2017 has been formed and will launch with a public meeting on Thursday 17 August at the Devonport Yacht Club. One immediate aim of the new group is to help people understand the planning rules that apply to Devonport under the Unitary Plan’s special character area and especially how they relate to neighbours’ rights. The guest speaker at the launch is Dave Sergeant, a town planner and independent planning commissioner, who will look at how the rules affect development plans and residents’ rights. His talk called “More than Minor – and Some More Major Things” will help interpret planning-speak for lay people.
Sergeant has a nation-wide planning practice with a mixture of public, private and pro-bono clients in matters ranging from subdivision and land development to waste management. He was also the dissenting commissioner in Auckland Council’s decision to approve the Ryman Retirement Village in Ngataringa Rd. Devonport Heritage 2017 has been formally registered as an incorporated society with Trish Deans and Margot McRae (as the chairperson and deputy chair), Avril Dunleavy as secretary, and Paul Dunleavy, treasurer. Other committee members are Bernice Beachman, Mike Eaglesome, Victoria Brown and Bill Rayner. There is an open invitation to the community to attend the launch on 17 August, at Devonport Yacht Club, 7.30 pm.
the report said. One of the authority’s goals is to limit ground disturbance. After considering the report the aim is to better utilise the existing public car parking near the Kerr St Artspace, a Maunga Authority spokesperson says. The archaeological assessment also found the courts scheduling as a historic heritage place is based on incorrect dates and other facts. Rather than being built for general public use in the late Victorian period, they started out as new basketball courts built in 1927 for girls at Devonport Primary School “who were unable to use the school’s sports fields as they were reserved for boys’ activities”, it says. The school’s committee then suggested to add 10 feet to their width at the cost of an extra £160 and to build a wire fence around them for a further £30. That extension was noted as complete only 11 years later, in 1939 Devonport Borough Council minutes. The fence went up in February 1940. By then, the courts were associated with the Cambria Tennis Club. They were leased to St Leo’s School from the late 1950s until 2003. The report also noted that Mt Victoria’s former summit and pa site had a generally low archaeological value as it had been highly modified over the years with military installations, a signal station, reservoir, car park and roads.
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Church sells for more than $1.3 million St Augustine’s Church on Calliope Rd has sold to North Shore local and real estate specialist Leslie Harris. Harris is the commercial director of the First Home Buyers Club and also owns property-development business Realise Potential Property that specialises getting properties ready for sale. Holy Trinity Vicar Charmaine Braatvedt said the church’s sale price was just over the CV of $1.3 million. The sale had gone unconditional, with a settlement date of May 2018. “Until then we will continue to hire it out, not as a church but for civic functions,” she said. The church was deconsecrated in May in preparation for the sale. St Augustine’s is the second heritage church to be sold in recent times, after the sale of St Paul’s Presbyterian Church five years ago. Built in 1930, St Augustine’s was a Stanley Bay subsidiary of the Anglican Parish of Devonport and Holy Trinity Church. It was sold after its patronage dwindled and various attempts to boost it failed. New owner... St Augustine’s in Calliope Rd sold for just over its CV
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Climate Protection the ultimate challenge to us all
As the Green Party candidate for North Shore, I’ve been meeting many wonderful people around Devonport – in their homes and at Devonport’s Hum café. I enjoy the meetings and learn a lot.
Last edition, I introduced myself as the Green candidate for North Shore. Today, I shall explain why I put myself forward again for Parliament – what motivates me.
In my work, overseas and at home, I’ve focused on two global issues: nuclear weapons and climate change – the two existential threats facing humanity. In the ’80s, I worked on the nuclear issue. But in 1989 I moved from Geneva to New York to work on climate change.
In 1990, the UN completed its first report. In ’92 the UN Earth Summit in Rio produced the Framework Convention, identifying the prevention of dangerous climate change as the principal objective. Since then, global emissions have increased from 37 b. tonnes in 1990 to 53 b. t. today. The first attempt at universal reduction commitments failed in Copenhagen in 2009. The second, in Paris in ’15, was the turning-point. I attended all three conferences. I see Rio and Paris as the book-ends – the beginning of the beginning, and the end of the beginning – of global climate policy. I hope the story improves. The current targets from all countries are grossly inadequate. We must do better, and fast. I devote much of my time to this, including founding and chairing the cross-party climate group, GLOBE-NZ. And helping to refine Green policy.
We face a global crisis. The UN Secretary-General told the world in 2014 that humanity has ‘never faced a greater challenge than climate change. The environmental and financial cost is ‘fast becoming unbearable.’ To ride the storm, ‘we need all hands on deck’. The dreams of humanity ‘hang in the balance’. The Green Party agrees. In Parliament in April, we said that climate change is not only the greatest challenge of our time; it’s ‘the greatest challenge of all time’.
What to do? Denialism over 20 years has morphed into prevarication, including from our own Government. In 2007, the IPCC advised that to stay under 2ºC, developed countries had to cut net emissions by 25% to 40% off 1990 levels by 2020. The NZ Government claimed exceptionalism on the grounds of the ‘unique’ share of agriculture in our economy.
Our targets – 5% by 2020, 11% by 2030 and 50% by ’50, are grossly short of a fair share of a declining Global Carbon Budget.
In coalition, the Green Party will seek targets of 40+% by 2030 and 100% by 2050. Our Climate Protection Plan will include an independent commission to recommend five-yearly budgets, an effective carbon price through both market and fiscal measures, a Green investment infrastructure, a parliamentary committee, a government ministry, a climate awareness programme, and a ‘climate ambassadors team’ of community leaders. We shall have far-reaching policy measures on energy and transport, industry and waste, agriculture and forestry. The Green Party has embraced the Vivid Report’s ‘Net-zero 2050’ scenario and is developing a 2050 Pathway Platform, as called for by the UN. This will reduce our gross emissions from 81 Mt today to 44 Mt in 2050, and increase forestry sequestration from 25 Mt today to 44 Mt in 2050. Our net emissions will be zero.
We have a draft Plan to this effect, which we are willing to discuss – with other parties, the media, experts, and of course the public. It’s about a whole-of-government approach in which climate protection is the central organising principle. Everything flows from this, everything we hold dear – clean rivers and coastal waters, clean air, warm houses, safe families. A stable, responsible Labour-Green government will bring this into being. It’s about political will – and leadership.
What does this mean for the voters of North Shore? Everything. The global crisis is our national crisis, our local crisis. Droughts and fires, storms and slips and floods, sealevel rise, ecosystem strain, resource pressure. It’s as close as the farm-gate, the local retail store, your house insurance, the food bill. Above all, your children’s quality of life. The survival of your descendants, a century from now. Worth voting for.
You’re welcome to pop along to meet me at the Hum café on Saturday (12th) morning (10am to 12pm).
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Ngataringa Tennis Club
OPENING DAY SUNDAY 27 AUGUST Devonport’s tennis club in Stanley Bay Park, 166 Calliope Road, invites all members, Senior and Junior, and their families to register for the 2017/18 season and enjoy a barbecue lunch, prize-giving, and social tennis.
Visitors and new players, social or competitive, very welcome.
OPENING DAY Sunday 27 August 2017 10am -2pm • Junior Registration and fun hit 10am-12noon
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Come and have a hit during this day of free social tennis and meet the friendly Ngataringa tennis community.
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Letters
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Junk in garages leads to congestion on streets The dictionary definition for “garage” is: “A building used to keep cars.” Like so many things in the so-called modern age, this definition seems to have been lost in the annals of time. Today the so-called garage should probably be redefined as “storage bunker” or similar. It is obvious that with the necessary clutter of modern living, these spaces are used to store kayaks, bicycles, sports gear, get-fit equipment, boxes yet to be opened from the last move and the amazing amount of equipment necessary to support a baby/young child. The effect of this change in definition is that cars are now parked outside, most commonly on the street. With the ready availability of cheap secondhand Japanese cars, that don’t rust, and in a relatively safe suburb like Devonport are less likely to be stolen or subjected to vandalism, parking on the street is an all too common result. Further, many families with teenagers can afford extra cars for their progeny, resulting in more cars parked on the street, which in our street can result in the cars having to be parked some distance from home.
The crunch of all this is that the many narrow streets of Devonport become one-way streets when packed with cars on both sides, which can result in extended waits as one allows a car to transit the road from the opposite direction. As an architectural designer for many years, I am aware that the district plan required us to provide two off-street car parks on new developments and on major alterations if at all practical. The reality is most garages are packed with little-used junk and if one applied a simple rule, like “if it hasn’t been used for two years, out it must go” a fair volume of detritus would be expelled, possibly even profitably. Additionally, one can have a 10 square metre shed without a building consent, complying with certain rules, which could accommodate a lot of the supposed essential junk. Let’s reclaim garages for cars and free up our streets for unfettered movement of vehicles. Quite how rubbish trucks and the like cope is beyond me. Keith Humphreys
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On Friday 14 July I got off the 10.10pm ferry to Bayswater and got a Ritchies bus, either 803 or 804, going to Takapuna. I was disgusted at an official sign on the back of the wall behind the driver. It read: “All personal items left behind on this bus will now be shared equally between the driver, mechanic and cleaner.” James Presley-Sinatra Ritchies responds: Thanks for your feedback. After receiving the Flagstaff’s email we immediately checked the buses and found the sign, which was removed. We also tracked down the driver who had put the sign in his bus and are pleased to advise that he is no longer employed with the company. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention.
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Sea-level challenges predicted for peninsula coastline Earth scientist Paul Kench and oceanographer Giovanni Coco study the impact of sea-level rise on New Zealand’s coast. Kench talks to communities about “managed retreat” and Coco is working on a computer model to predict wave characteristics and associated risks. The Devonport peninsula residents told Maire Vieth about what their work means for their home patch. Paul Kench and Giovanni Coco liken the effect of local sea-level rise to a slow-growing cancer. Compared to major natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes or tsunamis that hit like a sudden heart attack, the slowly rising waters around the Hauraki Gulf have little shock value, the coastal experts say. “It’s not the punchy event that’s going to damage 1000 Devonport homes in a day,” says Kench. “But the damage rising sea levels will create over the next 70 years might actually be worse.” That’s because council is financially ill prepared and big insurance funds or disaster reduction plans are not in place, he says. While the probability of the other disasters occurring is low, sea-level rise is all but certain and should proactively be planned for, especially in places with extensive coastlines, such as New Zealand – including the Devonport peninsula, Kench and Coco say. Kench is a coastal geomorphologist and head of the School of Environment at the University of Auckland. Coco, an oceanographer and associate professor at the university, works with Kench on a five-member coastal team that looks after about 15 PhD students. “So altogether we are the largest group doing coastal work in Australasia,” Kench says. Local sea levels have been rising for the last 100 years. A gauge at the Ports of Auckland has registered a 1.4mm increase per year for the last century. At a minimum, we can expect that trend to continue for the next hundred years, Kench says. “Your readers might scoff at 1.4mm a year but when you add to that storm surges, wave events and strong winds that super-elevate water levels above what the tide may be, that’s when we get problems,” he says. Kench and Coco say Devonport has a number of hotspots vulnerable to those problems, including public coastal assets. Kench mentions decades-old sea walls along
Be prepared... Coastal experts Paul Kench (left) and Giovanni Coco say places with lots of shoreline need to plan for sea-level rises beaches and the waterfront, public access ways such as boat ramps and steps, coastal parks and walkways, drainage and sewer systems. All will be at increased risk of getting damaged as sea levels rise – and maintenance or replacement costs will escalate in the next 20 to 30 years. “The cost of getting ready for this is going to be devastating,” Coco says. Adds Kench: “With limited budgets, councils will have to prioritise which of those assets are important and which aren’t.” Reclaimed land areas around Narrow Neck, Torpedo Bay and Ngataringa Bay will become more susceptible to flooding. “For example, we have seen ample evidence of marine incursion, flood effects and surface ponding at the low-lying section of Lake Rd near the golf club in the last half-dozen years. That’s when the drainage network backs up,” says Kench. “The water table is quite close to land level in many areas, where it will pop out a lot more often, leading to more surface flooding and boggy conditions. It won’t be good for building work and have implications for foundations, etcetera,” he says. “And if heavy rainfall, which usually accompanies big storms, doesn’t evacuate to sea, you have flooding backwater effects that can go quite far inland.” As long as all those things occur only every once in a while, people can deal with them, says Kench. But he and Coco expect them to increase in frequency. “It’s when it becomes 10 to 15 times a year that an area gets flooded that people start to see it as a nuisance and wonder
what to do about it,” he says. Traffic delays will be one of those nuisances. It doesn’t take a lot for Lake Rd to get clogged up, so the addition of surface ponding water that closes the road isn’t desirable,” Kench says. Kench was involved in the Northern Busway project 15 years ago. “The road level was designed to a storm level of 1948 which is now out of date and probably 10 to 15cm off,” he says. He has seen king tides and stormwater wash across the motorway south of Esmonde Rd. “And I have pondered at the economic cost of that happening, say, four times a year and closing the motorway down,” he says. Higher up from the water, Devonport’s densely developed sandstone cliffs are another concern with sea levels rising. Recent slips north of Cheltenham Beach, Narrow Neck Beach, near St Leonard’s Beach and along Stanley Bay emphasise their vulnerability. “Those cliffs have a history of erosion of 0.3-0.4m per year on average. Unlike soft coast or sandy beaches that can kind of come and go, there is really only one way a cliff can go and that is landward. And with an increase in sea levels we would expect an increased rate of erosion of those cliffs,” Kench says. Coco, a self-described “computers guy” who arrived in Auckland from Sicily via England, the US, Spain and Hamilton, is creating a computer model to predict New Zealand’s future “wave climate” more precisely. His research on how climate change affects weather-related hazards starts with an analysis
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August 11, 2017 of historic wave and storm surge data. “We spend most of our time looking at the past – how past climates, winds and the types of waves they generated have changed over time and all around New Zealand. “We then couple that data with predicted sea-level rise and see if and how there will be flooding or beach erosion in certain places as a result of this new climate that is coming,” he says. Coco expects to publish his first results on wave climate and storm surge in the next couple of months. “The data should be of strong interest, especially to regional councils around New Zealand.” Next, he will focus on the impact of erosion and flooding. “And then we put everything together to see how risk changes,” he says “None of this is particularly good news,” Kench admits. Locally, wealthy property owners living near the water may want to protect themselves against the oncoming water by building sea walls and dykes. But they are likely to run up against the Resource Management Act of 1991 and the 2010 New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement under the Act, he says. “Under that statement, private property rights are not paramount at the coast. What is paramount is the impact development activities have on the coast, that they don’t compromise natural processes, transfer problems to neighbours or undermine public enjoyment.” Rejected resource-consent applications can end up in the Environment Court and are likely to increase the amount of litigation around coastline land, says Kench. “And there are examples of councils buckling under the threat of constantly being taken to court by wealthy land owners,” he adds. Kench and Coco don’t make any secret of their opposition to building sea walls or dykes. “People need to start to accept that the place where they live is a constantly changing environment and that they have to co-exist with that dynamic,” Kench says. In Haumoana, a beach community just
south of Napier, Kench is trying to get residents to consider “managed retreat”. He travels to Hawke’s Bay once a fortnight to speak at public meetings as part of a largescale management project called Living at the Edge. The property owners generally don’t like the idea. “But they essentially live in harm’s way,” says Kench. The eroding beach at their front doors slowly migrates landward, smothering the front row of houses one by one. Of 21
“Your readers might scoff at 1.4mm a year but when you add to that storm surges, wave events and strong winds that super-elevate water levels above what the tide may be, that’s when we get problems.” beachfront properties along the Haumoana waterfront, two are gone. “Every year at least one or two storms see waves through people’s lounges. It’s at the point where the beach wants to go past those houses and leave them in the sea,” he says. Kench was born in the UK, came to New Zealand as a youngster and got his PhD at the University of New South Wales in Canberra. He has since been involved in extensive international research on coral reef environments and the evolution of reef islands such as the Maldives, Tuvalu, Marshall Islands and Great Barrier Reef.
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He is part of a team that argues islands formed on coral reefs are more resilient to sea level rise than previously thought because sand and gravel can shift to form a natural barrier against the rising water. He took on the Living at the Edge coastal management project “because it’s important to make a statement about the New Zealand coast”, he says. Managed retreat is the right thing to do but it’s hard. Property ownership, compensation and relocation are the biggest issues. “But globally there are probably half a million people who have been doing this, in the US and the UK,” he says. The Staten Island, New York, community of Oakwood Beach retreated after Hurricane Sandy battered it in 2012, turning hundreds of sections of private land back to nature. Some of New Zealand’s regional councils are planning ahead. “If you want to build on the coastline in the Waikato now, you have to buy an alternative property further inland that you can move your structure onto if need be,” he says. But so far Muriwai is the only local example of managed retreat, on a very small scale, Kench says. “They had to move the surf club back because the dunes were eroded away. And a golf club had to give up some of its holes and be redesigned,” he says. “Before that, they put in wooden sea walls that lasted for several weeks before the next storm blasted them to pieces. So they have learned their lessons there,” he says. Kench sees a place for managed retreat in Devonport too. Asked what he would do if he owned a cliff-top property, he ponders for a few seconds. “I would probably sell quite soon and find another beautiful place with a view. You don’t need to sit in the front row,” he says. Is any of the 1.4mm sea level rise per year visible to the human eye, I ask. Kench says he reckons during king tides the water is “incredibly high” underneath Devonport Wharf.
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Bayswater School students identify traffic risks for local board About 25 Bayswater School students presented a school-wide project on Bayswater Ave to members of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board and Auckland Transport staff, asking that it be considered in planning for the upgrade of Lake Rd. They brought along YouTube videos, drawings, surveys, pie charts, a message from their principal – and also a couple of soft toys to cuddle. I n “ B a y s w a t e r Av e n u e – A n Investigation”, the school’s Travelwise team, with the help of Year 5/6 teacher Linda McPhail, came up with the following findings: ● More than 70 per cent of Bayswater School pupils walk, ride, scooter or skateboard to school. ● Those who don’t say it’s because their parents think it’s not safe and because footpaths are uneven. ● A bike lane along Bayswater Rd would solve both (and murals on the footpaths would be fun). Having their say... Tiana Mita and Ellie Mackenzie-Clark, younger ● Using a speed gun, the students found supporters of the Bayswater School students who presented to the that up to 37 per cent of drivers were local board, join board member Jan O’Connor at the board table speeding. The board thanked the students for the ● They saw 19 drivers go through red lights lights,” said Iona. and 34 drivers talking on cell phones, all in ● Lots of cars on the road have only one presentation. Auckland Transport’s Daniel a space of 30 minutes. “We need drivers to person in them. “That can’t be good for the Newcombe and Tim Mueller asked that it be forwarded to them. get off their cell phones and stop running red environment,” said George.
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Swimming friends “fighting” like sisters… Klara Sharplin (left) and Rona Costello A self-choreographed fight won Klara Sharplin and Rona Costello bronze at the North Island Synchronised Swimming Championships. The 12-year old athletes have also been chosen as part of the youngest North Harbour Synchronised Swimming Club team ever heading to Singapore to compete in the Singapore National Open Synchronised Swimming Champs this November. At the North Island champs: “We came home with a clean sweep. Our team won gold, I came home with a silver in my solo and we came third with our duet,” says Rona. Best friends Klara and Rona worked on the two-minute routine inspired by the queen a week at Glenfield’s 4-metre-deep pool. “And sister in The Huntsman: Winter’s War for on weekends we end up having sleepovers all nearly a year. “We wanted to do a duet together the time. So we basically live together,” Rona very badly but our coach was super-busy with says. other routines, so we just made our own,” They love the artistic aspect of the sport but says Rona. despise the nose clips (needed to be able to The routine starts off poolside, with Klara hold their breath) and the bovine gel to hold pushing Rona onto the ground, a move that down their hair. caught the judge’s attention even before the Klara’s mother Frauke Sharplin says the girls had hit the water. passion for the sport was fostered for Klara by Playing sisters came naturally. The two former Ewen Alison Ave neighbours, sisters Ka12-year-old Devonport girls start the school tie and Lucy McDougall. “Their father always day together on the bus to Carmel College talked about how amazing the sport is for the where they are both in Year 8. brain, how it keeps girls out of shopping malls After school they train together for 15 hours and I have found it’s all true,” she says.
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Company Theatre first past the post and hits the jackpot with Ladies Day Ladies Day, Company Theatre’s latest production, has a strong local flavour. Directed by Devonport’s Kathy Gent, it features local actors Suzy Sampson, Trudy Thumath and Tom Calver alongside six other accomplished players. Work, love and life are just one hard slog for our fish-filleting foursome Pearl, Jan, Shelley and Linda, but their fortunes change when they head off to Ladies Day at Royal Ascot. Out go the hairnets, overalls and wellies as the four ditch work, do themselves up to the nines and head off to the races for a drink or three, a flirt and a flutter. As the girls guzzle champagne, they come across a variety of characters from an arrogant TV pundit to a sleazy tout, a drunk racegoer and a sensitive jockey. If their luck holds, the girls could win the jackpot – and more besides. Amanda Whittington’s play has been compared to Calendar Girls and The Full Monty for its North Country warmth and humour. It runs from 12-26 August at the newly renovated Rose Centre in Belmont. Tickets are $25 or $20 for concessions or a group of 10. Bookings at www.iticket.co.nz. Some performances have already sold out.
Hot to trot… Tom Calver from Belmont plays the drunk race-goer Kevin who disturbs the ladies as they watch the last race of the day
North Head event offers info on Predator-free 2050 The Department of Conservation (DOC) is holding an event at Maungauika/North Head to provide information about the Predator Free 2050 policy and helping to make the maunga pest-free. DOC Rangers will be on hand to offer practical advice on the various trapping methods people can use in their own back
yards. Practical workshops will give the chance to learn more about the trapping techniques being used on the maunga. The 12 August event will run from 10am to 1.30pm and finish with a lunchtime sausage sizzle. To register your interest email: kalane@doc.govt.nz
Former Herald editor speaks in Devonport Dr Gavin Ellis, formerly editor-inchief of the New Zealand Herald and now senior lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at the University of Auckland, will speak at the Devonport U3A meeting at Harmony Hall, Wynyard St, on Wednesday 9 August at 10am. His topic will be New Zealanders’ Right to Know. For more info contact Laurel Norwell: 445-1641.
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Out and About with your local North Shore MP Member of Parliament – North Shore Minister for Conservation, Arts Culture and Heritage and Seniors
Major education changes end the school decile system The Government’s just announced significant changes to education and is scrapping the old school decile system for a ‘Risk Index’ scheme, with schools funded to help students turn their dreams to reality. Some schools have been stigmatised by a low decile ranking but a school’s new rating will stay private and be reviewed every year instead of every five. Rather than allocating funding on the basis of neighbourhood characteristics as the current decile system does, the Risk Index will instead provide fairer funding that better reflects the needs of children in our schools. The new model will probably take effect from 2019 or 2020 – final criteria are still to be finalised. I’m still exercised about congestion on Lake Road as I’m sure many of you are. Originally around $54 million was allocated in 2012 to fund an upgrade but in 2015 it was removed from the Auckland transport budget. It’s hard to know why and is frustrating for those of us who get stuck in gridlock that there is no solution on the books. Congestion on Lake and Esmonde Roads is getting worse and something really needs to be done to ease it. Grant and I have just been to our seventh annual highly enjoyable Vintner’s Brunch which is the North Shore Hospice’s biggest fundraising event, raising a record $320,000. I’m a strong supporter and advocate for palliative care and I will always be an enthusiastic supporter of the great comfort and skill they bring to end of life care. We’re fortunate to have such an outstanding service as our North Shore Hospice in Takapuna. After 5 months at sea, HMNZS Te Kaha is back home in safe harbour. Defence Minister Mark Mitchell came down from his Rodney electorate to the Devonport Naval Base to personally welcome the crew home. The original stint was extended when the New
Zealand Navy rushed to aid the US Seventh Fleet, after the USS Fitzgerald collided with a Container ship. The Navy is such an integral part of our community yet it’s easy to forget the families that have had 5 months without their loved ones, so thank you to the officers and crew of Te Kaha and their families for almost half a year serving away from home. Your service builds New Zealand’s goodwill and develops relationships which we use not only for defence but also to strengthen trade and diplomatic relations with our Allies. Big congratulations to Takapuna Grammar’s Chorale group, who are finalists in the ‘Big Sing’. After getting to exercise their lungs in Sydney the group of 32 singers will be one of two dozen choirs competing at the choral festival. Westlake Girls and Boys will also be in the ‘Big Sing’ with a group from each school and one combined choir creating a bit of North Shore rivalry at the festival which will be held at Aotea Centre later this month. I wish everyone the very best of luck - I don’t envy the judges one bit in what’s sure to be a close contest. I’d like to invite anyone who’s interested in our ambitious Predator Free 2050 goal to come join us at a special event hosted by DOCs new Auckland Predator Free Ranger Kat Lane at the Barracks at North Head this Saturday where we’ll hear about the predator free movement in our own back yards and the new enabling fund and DOC strategies to help our dedicated volunteer groups attain their pest and weed free goals. Contact Kat at kalane@ doc.govt.nz for more information. There’ll be refreshments plus a sausage sizzle from 10am. Hope to see you there.
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A focus on global youth
Four senior students – Finn McDonald, Emilly Fan, Christine Zhou and Kate Fan – were recently selected to attend the inaugural New Zealand Youth Leadership Summit, held at The University of Auckland. This was a three-day event during the term two holidays and involved leadership workshops and presentations from leading NZ figures, as well as an emphasis on business and trade. Hosted as a collaboration to celebrate the close relationship between the sister cities of New Zealand and China, the summit provided the opportunity to meet like-minded youth from both countries. There was a focus during the three days on the theme of global leadership in the 21st century. Speakers and participants discussed the importance of innovation, entrepreneurship and global engagement between the future leaders of the two countries. China and New Zealand’s burgeoning trade relationship was another emphasis and as part of this context, there was a speech competition and panel discussion. A particularly notable speaker was Rez Gardi, 2017 Young New Zealander of the Year, who shared her experience of living in a refugee camp as her family escaped persecution in their homeland of Kurdistan. “The way that Rez overcame barriers to succeed in becoming New Zealand’s first Kurdish female lawyer was very inspiring and she gave insight into the personal and professional qualities required of the next generation of leaders,” says Finn. Executive director of the New Zealand China Council Stephen Jacobi also spoke to the delegates about the opportunities and challenges that came with fast-paced technological advances. He gave advice on preparing for the future and challenged delegates to think and act globally. BY KATE FAN
A ball of a time The annual Ball is the pinnacle of school events for many Year 12 and 13 students. The 2017 ball was no exception with over 600 guests attending the occasion at the Ellerslie Convention Centre on the first Saturday after the end of term. The Secret Garden theme was fitting with the beautiful attire of students and teachers alike as they enjoyed an evening of delicious food, photograph posing and energetic dancing. Student Ishtar Geange said, “It was pretty spectacular and there was a phenomenal atmosphere, I can’t wait to attend our ball next year!” “It was a joyous occasion with great vibes. Everyone was so happy and they danced the night away,” commented teacher Miss Hollie Sweetman. Despite the allure of the occasion, many sporting fans still crowded around the television screens at the centre to catch the final game of the Lions’ tour. Prince and Princess was awarded to Maxwell Bridge and Shemaiah Porter with King and Queen going to Callum Easterbrook and Arushni Naicker (above). Year 13 Sophia Lord said, “It was a great night, one we will always remember!” Thank you, on behalf of Takapuna Grammar Students, to the ball committee and all the teachers involved in the event’s organisation. BY MOLLY MCGARVEY
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Right on CUE On a productive day in the winter holidays, three students travelled with a teacher to CUE Haven, for a day of tree planting. Iona, Jungha, and Alice were accompanied by Mrs Mary Pottinger to this gorgeous natural reserve. The purpose of CUE Haven, which stands for Cultivating – Understanding and Enlightenment – is to be a place where nature can be explored, and a retreat away from technology, where individuals can come together and share ideas. All the trees have been planted by volunteers from the community, and the TGS students contributed their share with a range of manuka, karamu, flax and cabbage trees. It was a return to CUE Haven for Jungha, who proposed the day trip, having attended previously for her Duke of Edinburgh award (DoE) residential project in April. Two
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Learning to argue The three senior open debating teams have displayed consistent and strong performances throughout the season. Each team competed in a total of five rounds of debates, with two of the teams winning three rounds. Speakers were challenged to consider a broad range of issues, from New Zealand’s nuclear-free policy, to the assassination of foreign leaders as a tool of foreign policy. Many debaters found the competition to be tough, with the difference between winning and losing often only a few points. Debating teaches effectual communication, independent research, acute and critical thinking and teamwork, with debaters challenged to take part in both impromptu and prepared debates. The debates were run through Auckland Schools Debating Competition (ASD), which is the
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largest debating competition operating in New Zealand and in the past three years has created some of the top debaters in the country. Pictured is Mollie Cornfield, Lillie Brewer and Olga Chrzanowska who won their final impromptu debate against Westlake Girls High School, with the moot ‘This house would make public schools starting time 10 a.m. at the earliest’. An active member of TGS debating, Olga reflected, “It was a good experience to develop public speaking skills as well as making one more worldly.” BY LILLIE BREWER
FROM THE FIELD: Girls First XI Football (pictured above) eased comfortably into the 2nd round of the Knockout Cup this week with a 3-1 win over Massey. The Boys First XI lost a close encounter in their quarter final Cup match against Auckland Grammar 1-2, all the more meritorious given they had 6 players either sick or injured. FROM THE COURT: As we write our Senior Boys A Squash side are travelling to Palmerston North to the National Championships. This is a good young side who should perform. Good luck to them. THE HONOURS BOARD: With the winter season coming to a close the representative season is starting. TGS already has over 50 students selected to represent their province in their preferred sport, with a number of announcements still pending. Well done to you all. INDIVIDUALS IMPRESS TOO: Whether it be Karate (Nina Edgar), Rhythmic Gymnastics (Hannah Kelly), Pole Vault (Imogen Ayris), Cycling (Brendan Beyer, Renee Young, Adam Little, August Elworthy), Orienteering (Sofie Safkova) and others, TGS students are scooping regional and national titles.
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Local talent takes TGS first XV into semi-finals For the first time in nearly a decade, the Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) first XV rugby team has made it to the semi-finals of the North Harbour 1A competition. On the way there, they have twice beaten both Massey High School (not beaten by TGS in 17 years) and Whangarei Boys High School (never previously beaten by TGS). TGS Director of Sports Callum McNair is proud of the team, which is captained by his son Lockie. “We are not the biggest side or the one with the best skills, but we have all local kids from this peninsula,” he says. McNair says the recent rise of the first XV is partially due to the school’s ramped-up coaching and training programmes. “We have put lots of time and effort into getting the coaching right. The first XV started training in October last year, with a massive off and pre-season,” he says. But he also gives credit to the bond that has grown between local boys who have stuck together since they were five years old, playing for the North Shore Rugby Football Club. Among them are standout players such as
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Alarm raised.... firefighters outside the Victoria Theatre Two fire engines attended a small electrical fire at the Victoria Theatre last Monday morning, just before the venue was about to open. Victoria Theatre Trust chair Margot McRae said a fan in the projection room had overheated and triggered the smoke alarm. “All we need to do is replace the fan, which we are doing now,” she said. Takapuna Senior Station Officer Steve Callagher told the Flagstaff electrical burning had set off the smoke alarm and that his crew had used a thermal imaging device to locate the source. Both McRae and Callagher said they were pleased the alarm had worked so well. “It shows they pick up fires in their very early stages,” Callagher said.
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Paul van Houtte was the cello soloist with the Devonport Chamber Orchestra in its recent concert. What a stunning display of cello brilliance. His performance of Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme was both exhilarating and inspiring. There was beauty of tone, clear articulation and impeccable intonation. The Variations are the equivalent of a cello concerto, with subtle and profound changes in mood – sometimes exuberant, other times serene and romantic – coupled with extreme technical demands. The orchestra, most competently led by Michael Hunter and conducted with sensitivity by Timothy Carpenter, was an equal partner in this charismatic and polished performance. In response to warm applause, van Houtte gave two generous encores. The first was a lively and effective interpretation of the Prelude from J S Bach’s 6th solo Cello Suite, followed by a modern work incorporating jazz rhythms and double-stopping. It could have passed for an improvisation on the Bach. One can only hope that his medical studies do not prevent van Houtte from favouring Devonport with more of his brilliance.
The second work in the concert was Haydn’s Symphony No 104 (London). Elderly he might have been but Haydn had not lost any of his creative vigour in this work. Beginning with a solemn, almost portentous adagio, it quickly moved into a sunny and tuneful allegro. There was very good ensemble playing from all sections throughout. The second movement began with strings and bassoons before being joined by other sections. The Minuet contained several typical Haydn pauses and confident fortissimos. The Trio was a courtly dance with clear pizzicato passages in the lower strings. The symphony ended with an Allegro based on folk melodies Haydn had heard in Austria and street calls heard in London during his writing of the symphony, and had exuberant charm. Timothy Carpenter has conducted the DCO once previously and his leadership and strong musicality are a decided asset. He enjoys good rapport with the orchestra. He will also conduct the next DCO concert on Sunday 1 October, which will feature Julia Cornfield performing Mozart’s lovely clarinet concerto. Mark it on your calendar now. by Rogan Falla
Accident on Victoria Rd A cyclist was taken to hospital with what were believed to be minor injuries after an accident on Victoria Rd last Thursday just after 8am. Police at the scene said it appeared the cyclist ran into the back of a car which had stopped at the pedestrian crossing just outside the Old Post Office building.
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Bomb squad called to Narrow Neck Beach The police bomb squad were called to Narrow Neck Beach last Thursday after workmen found an old mortar in a cliff face. The mortar round was found to be inert and there was no risk of it exploding, police said. It has been removed from the site by the Navy. The northern section of Narrow Neck Beach, below Seacliffe Ave, was closed for several hours while the investigation was conducted.
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Heritage more than just buildings The unveiling of the Masonic Apartments in the building which was formerly the Masonic Tavern has sparked mixed reactions. Heritage proponent and North Shore Grey Power President Bill Rayner writes that local history is more than just buildings. It is very disappointing to read the letters critical of Devonport Heritage advocates Trish Deans and Margot McRae over the Masonic conversion to apartments, particularly from Devonport old-timers and fierce supporters like Denys Oldman.
The Devonport we know and love, and live in today, with its unique special community character and ambience, of which its history, heritage buildings, established community facilities, open waterfront environment and low-scale development are key ingredients, did not just happen. It is the tireless commitment and effort by Devonport Heritage led by Trish and Margot, following on from Trish Joughin and the other founders of Devonport Heritage in the 1990s, that established the core special heritage residential zoning, saved the Victoria Theatre, the heritage features of the Fort Takapuna Reserve, put in thousands of collective hours
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to the Auckland Plan and the Unitary Plan to preserve Devonport’s special character, as well as being a core part of the Save The Masonic campaign. This followed from the precedent set by the community action of the 1960s which rolled the Council of the day, saved Ngataringa Bay from being filled in and developed into a Gold Coast-style major residential area complete with canals, and went on to stop the proliferation of brick-and-tile “sausage flats” that were a dominant development at that time replacing the old villas. Mike Pritchard, who is still with us, then a lecturer at Auckland University, was one of the leaders, and his friends, young artists Don Binney and Pat Hanly, produced screen prints to support Save Ngataringa Bay protest action. Mike is now the “guardian” of the Tamaki Reserve Preservation Trust group, initiated by Mike Reynolds, Sam Denny, Simon Williams, and Rowan Renouf, who successfully fought the Shipley National Government through the Courts in 1996 to stop the sale of the Fort Takapuna Reserve land at Narrow Neck (then the Fort Cautley army camp) for high-value residential housing. Ironically it was the first “land grab” attempt by the Hon. Nick Smith, now snapping up other reserve land in Auckland for “affordable” housing. The campaign to save the Masonic was not just about an old Victorian building. It is not about bricks and mortar and a pretty old pub. It was about preserving an intrinsic part of Devonport community life and our vibrant social character and history. It was a throbbing pulse of the community for almost 150 years. Built in 1866, it was the North Shore’s first commercial building, and was one of the oldest continually licensed premises in the country, operating as a pub from its inception to its demise three years ago. Apart from being the social centre and watering hole, and starting point for travellers heading north from Auckland, it was the centre of community gathering and decision making in the early days of the Borough. Devonport sports clubs are among the oldest in the country, the North Shore Rugby Club being founded in 1873, with cricket, football not far behind, and rugby league being established there in 1908. All came out of a dialogue at the Masonic. Devonport had a very lively literary and artistic scene. Janet Frame worked at the Masonic when being mentored by Frank Sargeson. It was the pub for the military forces at Narrow Neck in World War I and again in World War 2, with a major Army clientele outside the wartime periods, with the “Splade” having a Navy focus. Postwar during the 6 o’clock closing days and onwards, it was the second home of the old soldiers, and the lively zany Devonport “larrikin” characters like Terry Sheehan,
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August 11, 2017 Simon Gundry and the home of the Duders Beach Surf Lifesaving Club, and the rugby club crew – an element that continued to the very end. With the closing of the Gluepot in Ponsonby the Masonic was a major incubator of many young Auckland musicians and bands, with an inordinate number coming out of Takapuna Grammar. This was another major cultural loss on the closure of the old pub. Heritage isn’t about preserving old buildings, it is about keeping alive the cultural background and stories of our community and forefathers, of which the physical artefacts are the touchstones and reference points. This provides connection and a sense of place, a comfortable continuum that gives confidence, encouragement and inspiration to the young people coming through. Many of our newer residents come from Britain and Europe where heritage is part of everyday living, going back a thousand years in many places. It is taken for granted and the history and stories are well known and intuitive, part of the normal cultural fabric. I am a member of the Wynyard family who came to Auckland in 1845, and settled in Devonport in the 1850s, I lived in England for more than a year, and was married in the Hampstead Parish Church, St Johns-inHampstead – a church whose original grant was given in 988, with the first recorded church being noted in 1312, and the current church being built in 1747. The post-wedding reception was held in the Spaniards Inn, said to date back to 1585, with Dick Turpin, the highwayman, being a regular. To Londoners these aren’t “heritage buildings”, they are vital, lively and useful parts of their community and social life that just happen to be old, with laughter, living and social interchange going on as usual as it has for a very long time – and will continue to do so. The Masonic could have been a Spaniards
Part of the community for 150 years… the Masonic on the waterfront in the 1880s Inn, a lively social amenity, in the same way as the Esplanade and the Patriot are in Victoria Rd. But the owners were focused on the development option, and let the old pub quietly fade away with minimal effort to maintain the building which had good bones, or keep what could have been a very good hospitality and social venue for a long time to come enjoyed by our grandchildren. It is not to be – it is now a sterile apartment block, no longer part of the community, just a pretty building. Its soul has gone. The special character of Devonport is under serious threat from Council heritage preservation inertia and lack of understanding; excessive development options and poor urban design are features of the Unitary Plan. We should all be praising and supporting Trish Deans and Margot McRae, and Devonport Heritage in preserving our unique Devonport community lifestyle and environment – the pressures are continuing to grow. Our newer residents in particular from cultural environments hundreds of years old need to realise that what we have
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