11 February 2022 Devonport Flagstaff

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Heritage checks done from a distance Key heritage assessments of Devonport properties have been completed – but most have been done using Google Maps not through street visits, the Flagstaff understands.

The property evaluations will form the basis of special-character protections to be

enacted in the face of new legislation allowing three townhouses up to three storeys high on Auckland sites.

The expected collation of property data by officials going street-to-street with a clipboard was criticised by some, who felt more thorough

questioning of homeowners should be done to garner historical data.

The apparent use of Google Maps instead is unlikely to allay their fears about decisions being made with insufficient information.

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Safety first, Omicron students stay away longer

Takapuna Grammar students caught up in an Omicron outbreak from a music festival were asked to stay away from school beyond their mandated isolation period.

Principal Mary Nixon said she had asked them not to return in week one, as an added precautionary safety measure, instead waiting until after the Waitangi Day long weekend.

“This gives the school community assurance the school is endeavouring to lower the risk of spreading the virus,” she said. Nixon praised students and parents for being proactive in identifying contacts and following health advice.

The alert was raised before school reopened for the year, when several families made contact to advise that their teenagers had contracted the Covid-19 variant at the Soundsplash music festival held in Hamilton in January. Other local families were deemed close contacts and also had to isolate.

“None of the students with the virus or their close contacts have attended school this week,” Nixon said last Friday, when their self-isolation period ended. “We are proud of our school community for being responsible and willing to do what is needed so we can be on site as much as possible. We know that Omicron is easily spread.”

Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) would continue to be alert and agile, she said.

Despite the scare in the community, Nixon

nearly all the students who live locally attend their local schools.”

Nixon said North Shore school principals were meeting regularly online to share Covid procedures and intiatives. TGS had put extra measures in place, such as reducing group sizes for ceremonies and activities. It was also streaming events to parents as they are unable to attend on-site. The first events were five separate powhiri held for each Year 9 class.

To compensate for mask-wearing obscuring faces, staff were endeavouring to show warmth and encouragement to students through kind words and reassuring body language.

Nixon said the school was also monitorSchool, pupils and parents have responded well to Omicron outbreak ing air quality, identifying good ventilation measures and had earmarked medical grade says TGS principal Mary Nixon masks for staff, pending Ministry of Education said there had been a near full turnout of new- supplies arriving. comers last week. “Almost every one of our “The school has many rules and routines Year 9 students attended,” she said. Returning and is evolving these as information comes students were back in force as well and keen to hand. This includes continuing with to resume learning. mask-wearing rules, seating plans for classes, A few students are isolating and others who and managing the length of time people are have significant health issues had arranged in close contact to reduce any Covid spread.” online learning from home while the risk of Overall though, staff and students were Omicron community spread is high, Nixon enjoying being back at TGS, she said. While said. official NCEA results for 2021 were not yet The school had also started the year fully confirmed, interim results for TGS were staffed and with an increased roll, she said. good, she said, with an increase in Excellence “Families continue to move into the zone and endorsements.

Most kids return to peninsula schools Only a few children have been kept home from school due to Covid concerns, say peninsula primary principals.

Belmont Intermediate School principal, Nick Hill, reported attendance of 95 per cent, in line with levels at the primary schools. All schools said they were fully staffed.

Hauraki Primary’s Clarinda Franklin said everyone was just pleased to be back, but a few families were caught overseas and

struggling to get MIQ spaces.Mask-wearing required for Year 4s and above, was going well overall.

Vauxhall Primary’s Gary Lawrence said teachers were being sensitive about mask use. A lot of learning time was also being spent outdoors, where mask use is optional.

Beverley Booth from Devonport Primary said a small number of families had chosen not to return for the start of the year, but new

families who had relocated to the area had been welcomed.

The school, which opened on Tuesday, a week after most others, had planned for a safe return. “We are used to having to be adaptable in the face of Covid,” said Booth.

Stanley Bay School’s Lucy Naylor said that all its families were “fully engaged and embracing the opportunity for their children to be back at school full-time.”

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A 13-year-old girl was assaulted and had her phone stolen by a group of young females in Devonport last Saturday.

The victim was approached by the group on Victoria Rd around 1pm on Saturday and asked to hand over her phone. When she refused, one of the women (aged in their late teens and early 20s) assaulted her and threatened her, police said.

The victim then handed over her phone, which also contained a bank card. A member of the public went to he aid and called police.

“This incident would’ve been really upsetting for the victim,” Inspector Callum McNeill said.

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Coping with Covid: a local family’s story A Hauraki family of four isolating with Covid-19 say they are happy to talk about it to help normalise the experience for the rest of the community – many of whom may well catch the virus as Omicron spreads. Janetta Mackay reports.

Omicron has had a domino effect on the Corbetts, since younger daughter Hannah, aged 17, returned from the Soundsplash music festival unknowingly carrying it.

Father, Blair – who collected her and some Takapuna Grammar School friends from the weekend event near Hamilton on 23 January – was next to succumb. Sister Georgia, 21, was next, followed by her mother, Rachel, at the beginning of February.

“It’s good for people to know it can happen to everyone,” says Rachel, a nurse.

“And not to be too frightened of it,” adds Blair.

Hannah says that counting herself she knows 15 young festivalgoers who got Omicron. A number passed the virus on, mostly to family. While the initial official local case numbers were said to be just a few TGS students, by late last week the vaccinated Corbetts say the wider cluster they know of had grown to more than 30 people from families in the Devonport-Takapuna area.

She hopes to be able to begin Year 13 of school soon, but as of last week she was still feeling the after-effects of the virus she picked up at Soundsplash.

Hannah says she was “super tired” when the festival ended. She put this down to the nights away camping with her school friends. They mixed with a handful of other students from Westlake Girls High School and Rosmini College.

“I had a cough, which I didn’t think anything about,” she says. After all, older sister Georgia had attended three other, smaller festivals over summer and been fine.

Back home on Sunday and after feeling sick and not sleeping well, Hannah took a Covid-19 test on Tuesday. By then some in the camping group had already started testing positive.

While Hannah was stressing for the two days it took to get her result, her father, an IT specialist who was working from home, began to feel unwell. Blair says it was like having a bad cold and a sore throat for a few days – although his wife says it was more like a nasty flu. “They had a couple of days in bed, achy and tired and with high temperatures.”

Rachel was thankful that as she was already isolating at home due to Hannah, she didn’t go into the Takapuna skin clinic where she works. “I could have put everyone there into isolation,” she says. Another relief is her mother and brother have now been cleared, after having to isolate as close contacts.

Both Rachel and Georgia – who is in her final year of studying nursing at AUT – have

Isolating at home the new normal… Omicron spread through the Corbett family: (from left) Blair, Rachel, Georgia and Hannah, with cat Bella had vaccination boosters. The women think this is why when they too got sick they did not feel as bad as Hannah and Blair, who were double vaxxed.

“We hoped we would get a milder form and get back to real life faster,” says Rachel.

“We realised the isolation was going to be 24 days for us if we didn’t get it.” (a sick person needs to isolate for 14 days, with a close contact needing the extra days to show they too are clear).

Omicron can happen to anyone – don’t be too frightened by it say the Corbett family Although some people say if Omicron is coming let it rip, the Corbetts attempted to stave off its spread in the house, by using separate bathrooms and keeping their distance.

As a nurse, Rachel is wary of risk-taking, being mindful it exposes vulnerable people in the community and can be unpredictable.

For her and Georgia, Omicron was like a cold, but Hannah, who had childhood asthma, is still experiencing headaches and joint pains.

“I’ve still got all the symptoms,” she acknowledges, “but it’s a lot more mild than at the start.”

The family is now awaiting what will be a staggered series of permissions from the Ministry of Health to leave isolation.

They were provided with pulse oxymeters to monitor themselves. Other than some

“really conflicting advice” about when isolation periods are counted from – the onset of symptoms or a positive test – they have been happy with health support, including daily phone check-ins. “We’re all starting to feel better, but we’ve still got days at home.” says Rachel. The family has ordered online supermarket deliveries, supplemented by drop-offs to from friends. They are pleased they stocked up on Panadol and Throaties. “And wine,” adds Blair.

When people learn of their situation, most feel sorry for them. But Rachel says firmly: “There’s plenty of people worse off than we are.”

Blair points to colleagues with family in the United Kingdom who are suffering nasty effects from the Delta virus, including lung damage, hearing loss and long Covid.

“We almost eradicated Delta,” Rachel notes. Omicron is different. “It should be everywhere soon,” Blair predicts.

Providing her lingering symptoms clear up, Hannah is first in line to get the allclear. She is thankful she got sick at the beginning of the school year, rather than later when study and sport may have been interrupted. “But it’s kind of sad that I’m missing out on the first few weeks of school in my last year,” she says.

Georgia had to miss a friend’s 21st birthday party. Long, hot summer weekends cooped up inside, when the beach is down the road, have been a drag. “Even to just go out for a walk,” Rachel says wistfully.

Hannah says she is not too worried about being singled out as the Omicron kid once back at school, given plenty of other students in her age group will be in the same boat.

Her mother, however, adds with a resigned smile: “We’ve already been called the ‘Covid Corbetts’.”

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Baccalaureate star makes quantum leap to Melbourne For Stella Mackenzie, a faultless score in her International Baccalaureate (IB) is a step towards changing the world for the better.

Stella, 18, achieved the perfect 45 points, placing her in the top two per cent of IB students around the world. The Devonport resident, who attended Kristin School in Albany, said she was relieved with her result but had deliberately not put pressure on herself. “I convinced myself that whatever score I got I’d be really proud of, seeing as I worked really hard through the exams and through the lockdown we had,” she said.

Stella came to New Zealand two years ago with her Kiwi family after spending most of her life overseas due to her father’s job, largely in Singapore.

And now she’s off again, to study physics at the University of Melbourne, which has quantum computers – machines that use the properties of quantum physics to store data and perform computations. She’s then hoping to go on to Switzerland to do a master’s degree.

Stella loves learning. So much mystery in the world is waiting to be discovered, she said. She wants to work in a lab or as a professor or lecturer, doing her own research, coming up with solutions for climate change, perhaps moving on to a company or other project that can help improve people’s lives.

In her spare time, Stella enjoys drawing and was also part of Kristin’s debating team. She would have considered art as a career, but that would be largely based on luck, she said. For her IB, she created a 3D representation of how light works – a combination of her interest in both science and art.

Stella is very proud of the achievements of all her fellow students after a difficult year. “They’ve worked so hard, especially in my cohort, despite the fact that we were locked down for months before the exams.” And they all looked out for each other, getting in touch if someone hadn’t been on a video meeting to check they were okay, she said. .

Meanwhile, Takapuna Grammar School says its 2021 IB cohort’s results are the best the school has had in 10 years of offering the programme. Two of its students, Jiaxuan Chang and Yuhi Narita, scored 44 out of 45, while Milla Vasiljevic and Kenneth Watts scored 42 and Omar Mourad 41. The school’s pass rate was 100 per cent.

Yuhi is planning to head down the path of computer science or software engineering. “I’m feeling very proud but I was also quite surprised with my results,” he said.

Jiaxuan is aiming for biomedical science or biochemistry, having “discovered I really enjoy doing research” during her IB internal assessments.

Milla is studying biomedical science at the University of Auckland this year and hoping to go on and study medicine in 2023.

Kenneth was pleased with his results, especially considering the disruption of Covid. “I applied to a decent number of unis in the US (9 to be exact) at the end of 2021 and am now waiting to see where I’m

Sales down, but not prices... yet It appears that property sales are easing back but prices are generally holding up in the face of a bit of a shift in sentiment in the property market as buyers and lenders focus on the potential impact of higher interest rates, higher inflation, tougher credit conditions and an increase in the supply of houses.

It was a sellers’ market. But now, with most central banks around the world raising interest rates and reducing the liquidity they provided over Covid, buyers should have more choice and, in theory, asset-price inflation should slow down or even decrease a little.

We are suggesting borrowers think carefully about how much debt they are taking on at this time in the property and interest -rates cycle (and with the prospect of even higher rates). It’s all well and good to be able to borrow a lot of money. But keep in mind the large (and likely to increase) repayments required and balance that with an enjoyable lifestyle and ability to travel once more, which we hear a lot of young people are about to embark on!

On the move... Stella Mackenzie plans to study physics in Australia, then do a master’s degree in Switzerland admitted.” He has not picked a study topic yet but is leaning towards applied mathematics or something similar.

Omar is planning a conjoint degree in commerce and engineering at the University of Auckland. “If I wanted to go overseas [the IB] would give me a lot of opportunities.” He says he would love to start his own business one day.

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NORTH SHORE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB Notice is hereby given that the 148th Annual General Meeting of the North Shore Rugby Football Club Inc. will be held in the Clubrooms, Cambridge Tce, Devonport on Tuesday 1st March 2022 at 7pm.

AGENDA: 1. Apologies 2. Obituaries 3. Confirmation of 147th AGM minutes 4. 2021 Annual Report 5. 2021 Financial Report 6. Subscriptions for 2022 7. Election of Officers and Committee 8. Constitution update 9. Service Awards 10. North Harbour 11. General Business Paul Cornish, Club Manager

The Flagstaff Notes Devonport Domain is proving a minefield for Auckland Council and the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board.

At the northern end is the defunct Devonport Bowling Club site – subject to an ongoing mess over its lease.

The North Shore rugby and cricket clubs wanted to take it over and use it to develop their women’s divisions. But their plans were muddied when the local board wanted to allow Devonport Museum continued use of a storage shed at the site.

Now one of three council-owned cottages on the harbour side of the reserve is empty, becoming run down and council is at a loss as to what to do with it. It has lobbed the issue back – grenade-like – to the local board for suggestions. The problem is, council has no money to do any remedial work, so any board proposals will likely form part of a pie-in-the -sky wish list.

Flashback a few decades to the days of the Devonport Borough Council, and a solution would have been simple: fix any leaks at the 55 King Edward Parade house and do some some basic repairs. Then, a weekend working bee of young muscle from the rugby and cricket clubs could move the museum items from the bowling club across to the house for storage.

Today, a long-term solution would be to turn the three houses into a waterfront arts facility, or something similar, which would complement the nearby Navy museum. The Michael King Writers Centre on Takarunga was formerly a council-owned signalman’s house, which was rented out as a residence before becoming part of the national literary landscape.

A new home for the Devonport Community Creche has also been mooted for the King Edward Pde site in recent years.

Optimism is increasing around the protection of heritage homes in Devonport under the new government law allowing three three-storey houses on residential sites (with some site-coverage and height-to-boundary conditions).

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February 11, 2022 advocates pushed back on the government plan and council now has a greater say on protection through “qualifying matters”.

I’m not so sure the battle is over yet. One of the key protectors of heritage – the single-house zone – has been eliminated. And the dominant zone is medium density. How the new government law is tested in the Environment Court in relation to council protections over the next couple of years will be key.

A new happy hunting ground has emerged for aggressive developers, land-bankers, consultant planners and lawyers.

Its also important to note some streets south of the golf course with little heritage character – Wairoa Rd, the tip of Stanley Point, Empire Rd and parts of Vauxhall Rd, for example – may not be offered any heritage protection and effectively be opened up for development.

Along with many in Devonport, I noted with sadness the passing of Jim Eagles, a long-time journalist and, in his retirement, an enthusiastic environmentalist, both in Devonport and Miranda. The Eagles family are ‘old Devonport’: here for generations and part of the community fabric. As noted in our obituary last issue, Jim’s late parents, Ralph and Molly, were known affectionately as the duke and duchess of Devonport. Ralph was a former deputy mayor of Devonport Borough Council and together they ran the junior division of the North Shore Rugby Club.

Twenty years ago I spent a delightful afternoon interviewing Molly in her Devonport flat, where the lounge was decked out in North Shore rugby memorabilia. She was immensely proud of Jim’s journalism career and would have been equally proud of his retirement work with the Miranda Naturalists’Trust and Restoring Takarunga Hauraki, and his editorship of a book on North Shore Rugby history.

As a journalist, Jim was always slightly bemused by the interest the Flagstaff took in his various projects. But he was typically cooperative and happy to help. His was a life lived to the full.

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Perfectly positioned near great beaches and high decile schools and sitting neatly between Takapuna and Devonport, family living is easy in this sought after location. Come home to the beachy feel of this solid brick and block home that has been cherished for many years by its current owners who are reluctantly letting it go, ready for the next set of memories to be made. Perfect for living as is, however, full design plans to enhance and extend the home further at a later stage are also available.

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Campaigner hopeful local homes will be safeguarded From page 1 Chris Darby said he had questioned staff about the use of Google technology for the assessments and was assured the results were robust.

Council planning staff had been under the pump in recent months as Parliament rushed through the housing-enabling legislation; the use of technology sped assessments up, especially under the Covid lockdowns late last year.

The assessments were being collated and final details would be put to a confidential planning workshop on 3 March, along with other materials that affected Auckland Council’s response to the central government planning mandates, such as volcanic view shafts and coastal inundation.

Confidentiality was needed as the work,

Former council building for sale soon The former Devonport Borough Council building at 3 Victoria Rd is expected to go on the market this year.

Auckland Council property arm Panuku has been working on a “go to market strategy” since late last year, a spokesperson said.

“Once this is complete, it will be presented to the Eke Panuku board for their consideration,” she said. In June 2021, Auckland Council voted to sell the building.

which would form the basis of council policy, had potentially massive effects on property values, which could provide some with “considerable commercial gain”, Darby said.

The information was likely to be made public by the end of March, after which feedback would be invited.

While the housing-enabling act was a blunt planning edict from Wellington, which Auckland Council had to follow, Darby was confident the heritage fabric of Devonport would be preserved.

While single-house zones were gone, heritage evaluations were likely to be made street by street.

“We want to avoid pepper-potting (where a couple of sites here and there amongst heritage homes would be left open for development)… it’s really bad practice and really bad urban

living,” Darby said.

Devonport Heritage spokesperson Margot McRae said heritage advocates were meeting with senior council planners John Duguid and Noel Reardon this week, and she was optimistic that Devonport’s substantial stock of Edwardian and Victorian homes would be safeguarded.

The massive pushback against the Government’s housing-law proposal when it was first announced saw more leeway given to councils in their use of “qualifying matters” to protect heritage and other lifestyle amenities of the city that could be threatened by rampant development, she said.

“What finally became law seems to have gone in our favour as it put a lot of the onus back on council (to come up with protections),” McRae said.

Windsor Reserve toilets out of action Windsor Reserve toilets were closed over Waitangi weekend, catching short some playground and beach users.

An 88-year-old male resident said it was unacceptable that a facility in a busy area was not functioning. He was told that a pump was the problem on Thursday, but the following day the toilet block was still shut.

“I had to change on the beach,” he said.

A visitor was also asking where to take her child who needed to use a toilet urgently.

The man said he rang the council, waited 20 minutes to speak to someone, only to be quizzed on what kind of toilets he was talking about. Covid was being used as an excuse for not doing council work, he said.

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Future of council’s waterfront house still unclear The future of an empty multimillion-dollar council-owned waterfront home remains up in the air with council officers seemingly having little idea what to do with it.

Auckland Council has tossed the cottage’s future back into the hands of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board, who were to discuss what to do with it at a workshop held after the Flagstaff went to press.

The cottage has been empty for a couple of years and has multiple defects, including weathertightness, decayed joinery and poor drainage. It also fails to meet Healthy Home Standards for residential use.

Nothing in the council report to the workshop mentions sale as a possibility but removal is mentioned in passing.

The house, which is at at 55 King Edward Pde, is one of three council-owned properties.

Numbers 52 and 56 are rented as residential homes.

“Given the location of the houses their presence across the three sites contains the recreational use of the site. The removal of the houses would open up the domain’s frontage Nobody home... Uncertainty surrounds the future of 55 King Edward Pde to the adjoining King Edward Pde and the A sticking point over the building’s long- properties as private dwellings.” foreshore,” the report said.

Council asked the board for a “steer” on term use appears to be its location in a RecRepairing the building would cost more than reation Reserve. the building so it can provide further options. $1.1 million for residential use; more than $1.4 However, if it went from residential rental While the house’s heritage status is acknowlmillion for commercial use; and more than edged, “the underlying recreational classifica- to community use, the local board would have $1.25 million for community use, according tion remains incompatible with the use of the to make up any loss of revenue. to council estimates.

However council has no funding t for it.

“Given the constraints brought about by Originally six houses faced the waterfront at Devonport Domain, all conthe Emergency Budget and limitations on the structed around 1880. In 1959, three houses were removed leaving the three capital-works programme, there is no budget existing homes at 52, 55 and 56 King Edward Pde, which have been primarily available in the current three-year forecasted used as residences. financial periods for remediation works,” the Over the years, the Department of Lands and Survey, and Department of report says.

Conservation, made several attempts to assume ownership of the houses and Many requests to rent the property have remove them from the domain. been received by the council – “for residential But the Devonport Borough Council, and later North Shore City Council, purposes, a commercial operator proposing to refused to have the houses removed. The borough council said the houses use the site as offices and interest from comwere occupied by council staff, and later by honorary rangers. North Shore City munity groups to use the property for specified argued that the buildings were historic and should not be wilfully destroyed. activities” – the report said.

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fiefdoms, does this include the people who spend countless hours every weekend teaching young people how to sail, as they do at the Wakatere Boating Club?

May I also point out the comment made by the late Judge Mick Brown: “Keeping kids in sport, they stay out of court”.

May I ask Ms Frobisher to cease sending stupid letters to the Editor?

Simon Gundry

With regard to Helen Frobisher’s letter (Flagstaff, 17 December) and her comments about fiefdoms: May I point out that these “bastions of white male privilege” (and may I add, female) have, over a combined period of 300 years of both North Shore Cricket and North Shore Rugby, been responsible for coaching countless thousands of young Devonport people in the fine sports of cricket and rugby.

Also, while thinking about this, and these

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The foresight of the 1970s green brigade to block the development going ahead at Ngataringa Bay has been rewarded in spades for future generations to enjoy.

land next to it.

If you find this inconvenient, build a car park on your property. Do not expect the community to provide you with free land when it urgently needs this space to move more people on buses, bikes and foot to avoid a climate catastrophe.

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There seems to be a widely held misconception that property boundaries extend to the middle of the street outside a house.

They do not. Your property ends at the road reserve. The road reserve is common land owned by the community.

You have no right to store your possessions on the road reserve just because you own

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TV man’s lens tilts from celebrities to critters Producer Tim Lawry is on the hunt for some of New Zealand’s rarest creatures. He tells Helen Vause about his television career – and the challenge of capturing footage of endangered native species.

When Tim Lawry makes it back home to Devonport for weekends over the coming months, he’ll have some amazing work stories to tell.

Television producer and director Lawry has filmed numerous demanding shoots abroad for high-rating shows, but the latest assignment in his home patch will take him to the remotest corners of the country in search of wildlife most of us would never get to see – except on screen.

Lawry is working on a new television series that has the working title Endangered Species of Aotearoa. And finding those rare creatures, who will be the stars of the show, could be the biggest challenge of his programme-making career.

He may be used to wrangling celebrities, wannabe chefs and budding builders, but this time the talent will be much more elusive.

Capturing those great shots is the name of the game, grins Lawry, who was at home at the start of the year, fine-tuning the planning and logistics for his upcoming weekly filming forays.

Lawry and crew are filming – and trying to dodge Covid – from now, until mid-year.

The first trip to Pureora Forest, near Taupo, is in search of the short- and long-tail bats whose numbers have been have been steadily dropping due to predation by rats, possums, stoats and feral cats.

Lawry comes to this project not long after putting teams of assorted well-known Kiwis through their paces in Northland for the making of the latest Celebrity Treasure Island series. After long, tough days outdoors capturing the tears, victories and squabbles with a camera that never stops running on a reality TV series, Lawry was happy to get home to his wife Meredith Dawson Lawry and their two young children Sebastian and Madeleine.

“It was a great series and it was really good to be working in a beautiful local lo-

Going bush... Tim Lawry will visit a wide range of remote New Zealand locations in pursuit of shots of endangered species cation with the support of iwi there instead of heading overseas again to film the show.

But it’s hard work day after day and very full-on for everyone involved.”

These days, Lawry and crew get to retreat to the relative comfort of regular accommodation at the end of each day of filming.

But he laughs at memories of earlier shows, where it was “airbeds in tents in the middle

of nowhere for us”.

Previous seasons working on the making of Survivor New Zealand took him and the crew to locations in Nicaragua and Thailand.

Lawry grew up with the influence of close family and friends who worked in film and television. After university and post-graduate study at the South Seas Film

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He started out as a junior camera operator with an Auckland production company.

In a London-based sojourn – when home and young kids were still a long way off – he was lucky enough to land work directing travel shows in so many exotic locations he can’t recall them all.

“I certainly saw a lot of places. It was an amazing job for getting to travel to places I would never have been to otherwise.”

Later, he headed for Australia and the world of high-rating shows such as the Real Housewives of Melbourne and Masterchef.

On the latter show, viewers were taken up close to the action, sharing the agonies and thrills of the battling contestants, every fail, fluster and grimace.

“We were just right across the other side of the bench with the cameras. Of course we knew already what was coming up as they worked through and we’d be right there to ask how they were feeling at the appropriate moments.”

Lawry has been home in Auckland for seven years, now with a young family.

Covid has kept programme locations in his home country, but Endangered Species of Aotearoa takes him and other crew right back to basics, sleeping in Department of Conservation (DoC) huts and often creeping around at night looking for the series’ hardto-spot nocturnal subjects.

For shots to be enjoyed in the comfort of our living rooms, the crew will endure long, arduous expeditions looking for spiders, birds, bats, tuatara and other species.

What if they search for days and nights and can’t find or get enough shots of what they’re looking for?

“Those who’ve made series like this before us have told us to have from three to five different species on our list in each region.

The idea is, if we can’t find one, we’d probably find the other on that part of our

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shoot,” says Lawry. He says they’ve had a lot of assistance from professionals working in conservation science, including DoC and the World Wildlife Fund. The series is being made by Warner Brothers and it follows a format the production company has used in other countries.

It’s scheduled to air at prime time and will be made in a style that’s accessible and easily understood, says Lawry “There will be key conservation messages. But it will also be empowering and it will prompt the average New Zealander to

“For sure, this has to be right up there as one of the best projects I’ve had the good fortune to be part of.” think about what they can do to be part of protecting our world.”

A tight filming schedule lies ahead.

When the crew get out to Little Barrier Island, where they’ll be aiming to catch many great shots of tuatara, they’ll also have an eye out for activity on the waters of the Hauraki Gulf and an ear on the work of a‘Manta Watch’ team who are spotting giant Manta rays in these waters with increasing frequency.

And if they get word of a ray sighting and it’s practicable, they’ll rush away from their observations of sleepy, shy Tuatara to grab a boat and head out for shots of the

sea creatures feeding on the surface. At up to seven metres wide, they should be easy enough to spot. Once thought to be seasonal visitors, there have recently been so many sightings that it’s thought they may now be permanent residents in our waters.

Lawry is realistic about their chances, however. “Logistically we just might not be able to make it out off Little Barrier in time to get one on camera,” says Lawry.

Nothing will be left to chance when Lawry and the camera crew arrive at the pestfree sanctuary of Codfish Island, off Stewart Island. There they’ll be installed in a DoC hut to film the highly endangered kakapo and, hopefully, the big parrot’s chicks.

“We’re excited because they’ve had a good breeding season down there this year so we should be in luck and able to bring these chicks onto screens back home. It will be fabulous to get into their habitat and be able to watch them.”

The current kakapo population is just over 200 and these rare birds only breed in mast seasons, when the rimu have masses of fruit.

The remotest spot Lawry’s quest will take him to is Rangatira Island, off the Chatham Islands. The wind-swept predator-free location is the last refuge for some species, with visits by permit only.

The island has the giant Rangatira spider that can grow up to 12 centimetres across.

While this is enough to put many Chatham Islanders off visiting, the spider is of great interest in wildlife circles.

Another nocturnal species, the spider comes out at night in search of a weta to prey on. When that happens, Lawry hopes he will be right there with cameras rolling.

“For sure, this has to be right up there as one of the best projects I’ve had the good fortune to be part of.

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Belmont villa makes room for new housing and retail The last villa in Belmont’s commercial centre has been removed to make way for a new housing and commercial development.

The more than 100-year-old building was for decades home to North Shore Dental Repairs, run by local identity Roly Russell.

The Stonewood Group, owned by the Chow brothers, purchased the property at 155 Lake Rd and the shops next door at 153 Lake Rd, in March 2021.

It later applied to build 16 new homes on the site with retail space on the street frontage.

Completion of the project is expected in February 2023.

The house itself will have a new home among heritage properties at Northcote Point, next to the Bridgeway Cinema.

Tom Curran said he had purchased a site next to the theatre and the house – currently sitting in Helensville – would most likely be resited by the end of the year after resource and building consents came through.

“It will sit really nicely there” and is almost a “mirror image” of a nearby villa, Curran said.

He and partner Helen Adams are planning to sell their current Northcote Point home and move in.

The villa is believed to date back to between 1905 to 1910.

• Meanwhile, a substantial villa further up Lake Rd, opposite the Wilson Home, was moved over the holiday period to allow for the construction of loft-style apartments.

The house was trucked to a section opposite Lake Town Green, in Jutland Rd, Hauraki, where an old bungalow, originally planned for renovation, was demolished after its condition proved worse than the purchaser expected.

The bungalow is to be replaced by another home on the site’s Jutland Rd frontage, with the villa put on the rear of the sizable section.

Shifting house... The last villa in the Belmont commercial centre has been removed

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Fullers said it would “work with authorities and stakeholders, including AT, on infrastructure to support the eventual introduction of low-emission vessels into the fleet”.

The electric vessel it was introducing would be charged using infrastructure downtown.

Northcote Point wharf is about to be closed for six weeks for upgrades, which will help future-proof it for low-emission vessels.

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William C Daldy revisits city for repairs Historic steam tugboat the William C Daldy chugged across the harbour from its Victoria Wharf berth early last Friday for long-awaited maintenance in dry dock on the city side of the harbour.

The need for repairs are what kept the vessel from leading out this year’s Auckland Anniversary Day tugboat race.

It was sad the Daldy could not take its usual place on the harbour, said Roy Swan of the Daldy Preservation Society. Society members instead offered vaccinated visitors to the wharf a look over the tug.

Repairs would be made to a steel plate on the side of the Daldy, Swan said. These were expected to take about a week. It would then return to Devonport.

A small hole found earlier had been patched, but weakening further along the side needed tending to, he said. With the Navy having booked out Babcock for 18 months, and insurance issues ruling out heading to Whangarei, when the chance came up to use the Titan slipway near the former tank farm, the Daldy team leapt at it.

Efforts to fundraise to keep the tug afloat have been hampered by Covid-19 curtailing public sailings and open days. “We’ve had no income for the last year,” Swan said.

The Daldy moved from the city side of the harbour to its berth in Devonport in late 2020, and the society is keen to attract more North Shore volunteers to help maintain and operate it.

“A lot of people are older, like myself – I’ve been doing it for 40 years,” says Swan. Along with help in general maintenance work, those with specialist engineering or boating skills are particularly welcome.

Once the repairs are complete, interested people can visit the tug at the wharf on Saturday mornings.

Prospective volunteers can also contact the society via its website or ring Swan on 027 2469461.

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Parking ban considered near busy roundabout Pressure from local cyclists has forced Auckland Transport (AT) to consider a parking ban between the Lake Rd-Albert Rd roundabout and the pedestrian crossing outside St Francis Catholic Church.

A campaign to extend yellow lines along Albert Rd, outside the cemetery near the roundabout, has been bubbling away for 18 months.

A small truck available for hire is usually parked on the side of the road, forcing cyclists to move towards the centre of the road to go around it.

A cycle lane on the footpath has numerous obstacles, such as trees and lampposts.

Last month, local cyclists met AT staff, who said the road was a low risk for crashes but agreed to look again at the issue. They said they would create a design to go out for consultation.

This was met with frustration from the cyclists, and North Shore MP Simon Watts, who said the danger posed by traffic was obvious.

Watts questioned what would prevent AT approving broken yellow lines immediately.

“You don’t need a two-month assessment process to work out this isn’t safe.

“You just need to get on with it without more assessments and bureaucracies and consultations to do what is common sense.”

Cyclist Geoff Evans said he used the road for recreation and a cycle lane was needed.

“The road is not suitable for parking and cycling,” he said.

During the roadside meeting, several vehicles crossed the centre line to get around the parked truck. “You don’t really need more evidence,” Evans told the AT staff.

AT said safety of all road users was their top priority, but added: “This section of Albert Rd is classified as low risk from a safety perspective.”

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Grass-roots activity... Elizabeth Renall (left) and Olive Catterall, who both turn 7 this month, and George Renall, 9, at work in Philomel Reserve Bayswater youngsters are among locals tackling kikuyu grass at Philomel Reserve.

Volunteers maintain a strip of planting in the park next to O’Neill’s Point Cemetery, under the supervision of Restoring Takarunga Hauraki (RTH). Fast-growing kikuyu grass, which can be both friend and foe to native species, has to be flattened around the seedlings.

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Kikuyu can smother the young seedlings, but once the new plants are more than a metre high they can survive without help, he said.

The kikuyu then helps suppress other weeds and keep the microclimate moist until it is itself shaded out by the growing natives.

Shore cricketers through to final The North Shore premier reserves cricket team has made the final of the Auckland T20 championship in its grade, with a large win over Suburbs New Lynn last weekend. It scored 132/7, while Suburbs only posted 57 in reply.

Shore premier’s semi-final T20 match against University on Waitangi Day was postponed to this weekend due to bad weather.

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AT backdown includes retention of bus shelter Consultation has been promised by Auckland Transport (AT) on the fate of the Wesley St heritage bus shelter it had planned to demolish.

The undertaking was made to Devonport-Takapuna Local Board member Trish Deans, who followed up with AT after its announcement last month that it would go back to the drawing board on controversial plans for the 805 bus route.

“Retention and upgrade of the existing shelter in Wesley Street will be part of the redesign and consultation on the Route 805 infrastructure project,” AT has since told Deans.

“The local board will be consulted on any future proposals,” it pledged.

The initial plans put out for community submissions late last year drew a big reaction from residents angry about the loss of nearly 50 street car parks. The board also put in a submission wanting a rethink.

The wooden shelter, decorated with a colourful mural, was set to be removed, and the bus stop shifted. Deans wanted to clarify the shelter’s fate, under AT’s reconsideration.

AT is drawing up revised plans to go out for community feedback in the next month or so. Any subsequent changes to parking and bus-shelter sites will not be made until 2023, it has said.

The 805 route runs past Ryman’s William Sanders Retirement Village on Ngataringa Rd and through neighbourhood streets on a weekday, off-peak, Devonport-to-Belmont service.

In its summary of public submissions, AT noted that the community had said the retirement village development has created a lot of new parking demand in the area.

Submitters thought that AT, by proposing to remove a significant amount of additional car parks, had failed to strike the right balance.

Submitters wanted the Wesley St shelter retained, even if only as a community rest stop. Some questioned the need for two pairs of bus stops and pedestrian refuges on Ngataringa Rd. Others wanted to see southbound shelters there and a gap filled on Kawerau Ave, where there was no shelter for northbound travellers.

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WHATS AT PLAY AROUND THE RSA Welcome to our first Devonport RSA happenings’ column, while some of our upcoming events been affected by the current Covid 19 Pandemic we do want to share with you upcoming commemorations and keep you informed as to how we support our members and our community. For example, during the initial lockdown we distributed more than 80 care packages to our more senior members. Proceeds from the 2021 Poppy Day collection were distributed locally to support Veterans and Ex Service Personnel. We have made a number of grants to local organisations and made one of our premises available for Santa’s Grotto and provided Santa’s letterbox.

We welcome new members, Returned, Serving, ex Serving, their families and associate members from the community. For more information, please check us out on our Website, Facebook and Instagram pages.

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The reappearance of the original shop frontage has pleased local heritage campaigners.

When the business closed last month, citing poor trading conditions, it also removed a black-and-white vinyl decal covering the Rattray St side of the building.

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Maori tradition and the sea inspire new playgrounds -

The upgrade of a playground the playground at Oliver (Kawerau) –para Reserve will incorporate mara hu –ori traditional play elements as - Ma well as sustainable materials.

The old playground is old and in need of an upgrade with almost all of the new equipment to made from natural materials.

As well as new play elements such as slides, tunnels and rope climb, the –para design incorporates mara hu –ori traditional play elements, - Ma including traditional log games.

Natural shade will eventually be provided trees being planted in the area and there will be seating and picnic table.

–ori play elements in Underwood Reserve in An example of traditional Ma Mt Roskill. Mara hūpara are a feature of the playground being upgraded in Oliver (Kawerau) Reserve now underway.

The design, which incorporated • improved drainage input from mana whenua, features: • picnic table and rubbish bin • sustainable materials, • native shade trees.

• plastic is avoided as much as Also underway is an upgrade of the possible playground at Montgomery Reserve • integration into the natural in Belmont. environment of the reserve.

–ra hu –para / Ma –ori The existing nautical theme is • incorporating ma being replicated in the upgraded traditional play elements equipment with a ship structure • focus on climbing, sliding, and taking centre stage. swinging.

There are plenty of fun things to climb, slide and crawl under and over as well as swings, a flying fox, mini trampoline, and a picnic table (shaded by a tree) and seating.

The junior play area will feature shade sails – perfect to protect them from the sun’s damaging rays.

Both projects due for completion by the end of March.

Consultation on council’s annual budget Later this month Aucklanders will be invited to have The local board also proposes continuing with their say on Auckland Council’s 2022/2023 Annual important environmental initiatives, such as supporting Budget. pest-free coordinator roles, parks volunteers and Once again, the impacts of COVID-19 are presenting Wairau Estuary restoration programmes. These the organisation with many challenges, but the local programmes create community ownership and a board remains committed to continuing to support its collective buy-in to eliminate pests and weeds, as well as improve local waterways. community.

At a regional level, key consultation topics include a proposed Climate Action Targeted Rate to support a significant climate action package, moving to a simpler payment method for rubbish collections and the level of proposed rates increase.

The council’s Governing Body was due to adopt the consultation material on 8 February with public consultation running 28 February to 28 March.

Full details and supporting information, including the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board proposals and the different ways to have your say will be at Locally, many of the projects included in the local akhaveyoursay.nz from 28 February. board agreement are already underway and will be completed during this period. These include upgrading play spaces at Montgomery and Allenby reserves, new The local board has pencilled in a Have Your Say accessible toilet block in Takapuna’s Gould Reserve community forum for early March with the date being and a new toilet block at the Tonkin Road end of confirmed soon. Keep an eye on the website or the Sunnynook Park. board’s Facebook page for details.

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Congratulations Class of 2021!

For academic excellence in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma and NCEA From left: Senior School Principal David Boardman, Sam Zhuang, Lucy Xu and Stella Mackenzie.

2021 results are out and once again, we couldn’t be prouder of our students’ achievements.

Featured above, Sam Zhuang, Lucy Xu and Stella Mackenzie achieved perfect IB Diploma scores of 45 out of 45, placing them quite literally top in the world.

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97% of Kristin’s NCEA Level 2 and 3 students passed, with over 70% endorsed with Merit or Excellence.

Kristin offers dual academic pathways in the Senior School; last year half our Year 13 students completed the IB Diploma Programme while half studied NCEA.

To take a tour or apply, visit www.kristin.school.nz or call 09 415 9566.

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20 years ago from the Flagstaff files • Almost $7000 missing from Devonport Arts Festival funds is paid back by the ASB bank after it admitted allowing withdrawals with only one signature.

• Long-time Devonport Community Board chairperson Mick Gannaway dies. His work on behalf of the community is recalled.

• A 2km sea swim at Cheltenham is launched.

• A dispute over a liquor licence leaves Oyster Blue restaurant on Calliope Rd with multiple cancelled bookings just after opening. Owner Dean Wong says he had a verbal agreement with previous owner Craig McKenzie of Porterhouse Blue to transfer the licence. McKenzie says on legal advice he asked for $4000 for the licence.

• A proposal to build a two-storey car park with 50 to 60 spaces is to be put to the Devonport Community Board.

• Numerous complaints are lodged with North Shore City Council after a film crew working on an American production

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blocked off part of Calliope Rd over three days of shooting.

North Shore United premiers lead the 2002 national football league after a string of wins.

A Devonport man is among 12 nudists busted by police for parading their bodies on St Leonards Beach. The men – aged from 37 to 60 – were nabbed during an undercover sting by police. North Shore City Council, which administers exposure by-laws, gave the offenders a warning, but added if they were caught with their pants down again, they could face court action.

Sam Welsh, who won swimming gold medals at a national disabled games, is planning an art exhibition at the Depot.

The 20-year-old, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, dyslexia and is partly deaf, won the senior men’s trophy at the national competition in New Plymouth, taking out the freestyle and backstroke events.

Wakatere Boating Club celebrates 75 years and is set to host the New Zealand Optimist nationals over Easter. Garth

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Ellingham wins the Auckland P Class title over Anniversary Weekend, A large family home in Narrow Neck is on the market for $429,000, a central Devonport villa for sale at $415,000, and a Glen Rd cottage priced at $405,000.

Security at the Devonport Food & Wine Festival will increase from 12 staff in 2001 to 35 in 2002, in response to people bringing their own liquor to the Windsor Reserve site and getting “plastered”.

Twenty people were arrested in 2001, for offences including urinating in a public place and disorderly behaviour. Dozens of musicians are set to play at the festival ranging from local Ross Mullins and The Snaps to nationally known bluesman Ted Clarke.

An 80-year-old man dies after falling from the eighth floor of the Devon Park apartments.

Devonport man Don Pearson survives an eight-metre fall onto concrete at Babcock dry dock. The 50-year-old suffers severe bruising to his back and arm and required stitches to his head.

THE NAVY COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER AOTEAROA’S MAIDEN MISSION TO ANTARCTICA Maritime Replenishment Vessel HMNZS Aotearoa is on her way to Antarctica, within days of returning from her humanitarian and disaster-relief mission to Tonga.

Departing on 31 January from Devonport, Aotearoa called into Lyttelton to take on supplies destined for New Zealand’s Scott Base and the United States’ McMurdo Station. She will quarantine at sea for 14 days before arriving, as a precaution against COVID-19.

The New Zealand Defence Force has a long-standing commitment to support Antarctica NZ and international scientific and environment programmes on the ice, including the United States Antarctic ‘Deep Freeze’ Programme. Since the 1970s, this support has been via RNZAF Hercules C130 and Boeing 757.

The 173-metre vessel, the Royal New Zealand Navy’s largest-ever ship, has been designed for operations from the equator to Antarctica. Its modern Polar Class 6 rating encompasses an icestrengthened hull and ‘winterisation’ features rated to -25 degrees C, such as flight-deck trace heating, heated side ballast tanks, polar life boats and crane

Auckland disappears into the horizon as HMNZS Aotearoa sails on its maiden voyage to Antarctica and mooring equipment adapted to polar climates. On top of her significant fuel capacity, she can transport 22 shipping containers of supplies.

Aotearoa is not an icebreaker. Each year an American icebreaker cuts a channel through the sea ice to reach McMurdo Station, allowing supply ships to

reach the bases in the summer months.

It is the first supply mission to McMurdo Station by a Royal New Zealand Navy ship in over 50 years, with ships HMNZS Endeavour I and II supplying the bases up to 1971. In later years, patrol ships, such as HMNZS Wellington, have sailed into McMurdo Sound.

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CATERING MANAGER Our club, shortly to celebrate its 150th anniversary, and with over 1,000 members seeks an experienced caterer to manage the kitchen facility. Catering responsibilities are diverse but principally comprise; • Saturday afternoon/ evening provision of meals for up to 8 senior teams together with their supporters and families.

• Provision of week-night post-training meals, both junior & senior • Running café operation for Saturday morning junior rugby • Catering for up to 250 people at our Seagulls luncheons, junior social functions and other special events • Ad-hoc catering to meet demand An arrangement will be negotiated with the appointee who will operate independently and retain catering income. There is an obligation to provide food at all times that the bar is open. We would be open to discussions regarding sub-leasing the large commercial kitchen.

This is not a full-time role and would suit an enthusiastic individual with other business interests prepared to be adaptable and contribute to the spirit of the club.

Part-time Retail Salesperson We are a North Shore based clothing retailer offering high quality mens and womens fashion, RM Williams boots and clothing as well as school uniforms. The position available is for a permanent part time retail salesperson mainly in our women’s store.

The successful applicant will need to have the flexibility to work in either Devonport or Birkenhead stores. The position involves approx 20 hours per week. Experience with customer service, creating sales and merchandising is required.

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If you have a passion for fashion, previous experience, excellent English and communication skills, plus a strong desire to make great sales then we would like to meet you.

We offer a friendly and interesting work environment along with staff discounts on our latest fashion.

Applicants must be fully vaccinated as this is a customer facing role.

Please send your CV and cover letter to yarnton@xtra.co.nz or drop by one of our stores to introduce yourself.

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Linda Simmons is one of Bayley’s top 5% nationally, and is renowned for her ability to deliver outstanding results using award-winning marketing approaches, and offering exceptionally high levels of service. Her business is growing and she is seeking an additional team member to support this growth. You will be a key member of Linda’s team and be responsible for ensuring that the property campaigns run like clockwork.

This will involve: • Management of new listings • Preparation of legal contracts • Preparation of all Marketing material, print & web • Driving social media presence • Liaising and communicating with Vendors, Purchasers and the wider Bayleys team • High level administrative management

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You will be an integral team member keeping everything under control while Linda and her wider team focus on doing what they do best.

It is a full-time position, based in the Bayleys Devonport office with flexible work-from-home options available. Start ASAP. For further information, or to apply please contact : Carol Henry on 021 469 300 carol.henry@bayleys.co.nz A LT O G E T H E R B E T T E R

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Factory Position

Gardener required

We are looking for a person to join our team at our business in the Wairau Valley, Auckland. We specialise in the Marine Industry and we are wanting a person who is reliable and keen to learn our products and services and to do packing and processing of orders. Training will be given, but a knowledge of Marine products/Industry would be a help.

e’re looking for someone to oin our team at uddy ellies ardening, a local Devonport business.

The position is full time Mon-Fri 8.00am to 4.30pm. Immediate start would be a plus but not essential.

Please send through your CV to o fice@c a n ro e an anc or .co.nz or call 09 444 8212

Lighting Consultant & Stock Controller Full-time If you’ve got excellent attention to detail, appreciate design excellence and know lumens from watts you might be the person we’re looking for e re uire an enthusiastic lighting consultant stock controller to oin a small team in our Devonport showroom Dealing in designer European domestic lighting, made furniture, and other iconic products. orking full time your primary duties would be Dealing with customer sales en uiries offering informed lighting advice Inventory management to include rdering Delivery, tock control tock take pdating content on the ireflyn .com website If you like the idea of working in a professional retail service environment, and have an interest in lighting and design we’d love to hear from you.

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The role involves hedge trimming, chainsaw operation, planting and general garden maintenance.

If you like being outside, have an interest in plants and gardening and want to get strong and t, then we would love to chat to you.

Experience is preferred, but not essential as training and guidance will be provided.

Please call Robin on 0210 060 6260

Medical Receptionist We are looking for an experienced medical receptionist to work on a casual basis. We are a small medical practice in the heart of Devonport. We offer a friendly, supportive environment with a competitive hourly rate.

The role involves: • Booking appointments using MyPractice and CIR software • Receiving and welcoming patients • Ensuring charges are accurately processed and receipted • Maintaining accurate patient records • General administration We are looking for someone who has the following attributes: • Experience as a medical receptionist • Excellent communication skills • High attention to detail • Works well under pressure • A team player • Warm, professional manner Immediate start welcomed.

To apply please email your curriculum vitae and cover letter to manager@dfmdoctors.co.nz.

Soft Landscaping Gardener required e’re looking for someone to oin our team at uddy ellies ardening, a local Devonport business.

The role involves garden maintenance and planting. lexible working hours are available to help accommodate for school hours or other commitments. If you like being outside, have a keen interest in plants and gardening and are looking for a friendly working environment then we’d love to chat to you.

Experience is a big advantage but training and guidance will be provided.

Please call Robin on 0210 060 6260

Experienced Relievers The Learning Space is looking for Experienced Relievers at both Belmont and Takapuna.

We are a privately owned centre whose owner is very much involved and has many years of experience. We are passionate about the philosophies of Reggio Emilia and Emmi Pikler.

The successful candidate will: • Role model our values within their practice • Be authentic, respectful and joyful • Have some working knowledge of the Reggio and/or the Pikler philosophies • Have the ability to make learning visible to all stakeholders • Be able to have open dialogue and collaborate with your team ove to reflect, learn and collaborate learning is a journey.

An environment that feels like a homeaway-from-home and a centre that lives and breathes its philosophy.

Contact Yvonne on 0274879 116 for a chat to see if we have similar views on early childhood education, or email your CV to yvonne.groot@thelearningspace.co.nz

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Shore urged to fight rubbish standardisation plan New waste-collection plans are being rubbished by a local board member, who is urging the community to speak up against them.

The North Shore and West Auckland have pay-as-you-throw collections, where users buy tags for their wheelie bins, or can use pre-paid rubbish bags instead. But Auckland Council may standardise methods across the city with a rates-based model for all.

“Currently, we have the most cost-effective and efficient system on the North Shore, when one considers the types of collection systems in the remainder of Auckland,” says

Devonport-Takapuna Local Board member George Wood.

“The monopoly system means that Auckland Council wants to bring the whole of Auckland under an arrangement whereby everyone pays a fixed fee on our rates of around $150 per annum.”

At a meeting before Christmas, the council’s finance and performance committee was told standardisation would give the council “influence” over the region’s domestic waste stream, which could help waste-reduction efforts.

It would also be the most cost-effective

and clearest choice, councillors were advised.

If they vote in favour, the scheme would be introduced on the Shore throughout 2024-25. The matter will be open for public consultation from 22 February to 22 March.

“People need to say no to the changes being recommended by Auckland Council,” Wood said. “The end result will be rising costs and no competition like we have currently.”

The Shore has around half a dozen operators. Wood says that without them “costs can only go one way and that is up”.

Correct rolling the secret to road resealing – expert Properly prepared chip-seal road surfacing should stay in place, says a Devonport resident and retired city engineer, Mike Habgood.

Responding to a Flagstaff article (28 January) about recent Auckland Transport (AT) resealing of local roads that drew criticism from residents, he said the secret was in good rolling.

“You put the chips all over and then you roll,” he said. “Those chips are not going to come out.”

Habgood who once worked for overseas city authorities in roles that included overseeing roading programmes, said issues around AT resealing were not new.

While the type of seal that was used could be debated, the method of its application was critical.

“You’ve got to go for a good job,” Habgood said.

It might cost more, but would have better results.

“If you pussyfoot around, then it’s useless.”

Residents in Oxford Tce and Patuone Ave were unhappy with recent resealing and the amount of loose chip, which flew up, getting onto pavements and driveways.

AT has done some street sweeping to clean up the resealed roads.

It says it will continue to use the cheaper

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chip seal ahead of asphalt on roads that do not carry high traffic volumes.

Its road-resealing programme lists dozens of streets in the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board area that are up for resurfacing in the next year.

An AT spokesperson told the Flagstaff the new chipsealing was in good condition.

“We have noted some minor flushing spots, which we will continue to monitor and action as required.”

Due to the nature of resurfacing, it was expected that there would be “some loose chip for some weeks,” the spokesperson said.

“It is one of the things monitored during our regular site visits and actioned when and if it becomes an issue – outside of New Zealand chip-seal guidelines.”

After reseals were completed, a first major sweep would be done within 48 hours, with a second major sweep programmed within 4 to 6 weeks.

Sites were visited regularly, with any issues noted and additional action taken as required.

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Year 9s welcomed in School Houses

This year’s week 1 po-whiri had a slightly different feel to it as due to Covid Restrictions we couldn’t invite our new parents onsite with the new students so instead we hosted this years cohort of 400 in smaller sub-groups by their wha-nau Houses in the Student Services Courtyard.

Our fantastic Tu-Tangata group performed the traditional karanga followed by the school Haka Po-whiri, welcoming speeches from Principal Mary Nixon and our waiata tautoko. We also welcomed our new staff onsite into the TGS wha-nau and wish them, along with our new students a wonderful educational journey with us here at Takapuna Grammar.

Peer Support Programme delivers the School Values

The Peer Support Programme at TGS is again one of the standout programmes delivered where Year 13 students offer their time, care and experience to ensure the Year 9 students feel welcomed and cared for when they arrive at the school for the first time. The Year 13 students who volunteer for the programme went through an intensive eight hour training course with their house leaders, well-being staff members and deans. The year 9 cohort arrived at TGS on Wednesday 2 February full of enthusiasm and admittedly some nerves as well. They were met by their Year 13 leaders and spent two hours getting to know each other, setting group guidelines, getting familiarised with the school and enjoying some creative and fun activities.

The feedback from the seniors and juniors is that they thoroughly enjoyed the ability to engage with people and felt that they now ‘belonged.’

The programme continues for the next five Wednesdays to ensure that the school values of care is lived out.

Performing Arts back in the Spotlight for 2022!

The masks will be off for Twelfth Night, Shakespeare’s post Christmas comedy of mistaken gender. In the grounds of Takapuna Grammar School, 20 -24 February 7.30pm. Bring your thermos.

Eftpos available.

TGS is also doing Mamma Mia, the joyous ABBA song show, 17 and 18 May at 7.30pm at the Bruce Mason Centre. If all goes well and we’re all well, it’ll be a fantastic show! The best ABBA songs you’ll all know delivered in a spicy tale of generational amorous mess-ups. Big dance and song action in the TGS tradition.

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Call Peter Cairns for your free quotation email allsafe.electrical@xtra.co.nz

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DESIGN AND BUILD NZ Devonport builders since 1990 Residential Building Architectural Draughting Scott Peters 021 606 737 www.designandbuildnz.co.nz

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RECOVER YOUR

LOUNGE SUITE

February 11, 2022

Devonport’s Locksmith SPECIALIST IN PROVIDING

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445 9533 | maria@devonportpeninsulatrust.nz

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STREET GET-TOGETHERS Devonport Peninsula Trust has some funding available to encourage people living in the Devonport peninsula area (Devonport to Hauraki Corner) to get together with their neighbours to develop neighbourhood connections.

For further info please contact Maria on ph: 445 9533 or email maria@devonportpeninsulatrust.nz

Call us for a free quotation and put the life back into that favourite chair or lounge suite

AWARD FURNITURE Phone COLIN on 480 5864

• Lock Hardware Contact Scott on

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72 Lake Road, Devonport

RAUMATI/SUMMER FUN TAMARIKI (0-5) PLAY MORNINGS Tuesdays (@ Windsor Reserve) & Thursdays (@ Belmont Rose Gardens) 9:30am–11:30am Raumati/Summer Fun Tamariki (0-5) Play mornings are a fun time for under-5s to play with big toys, be active and make new friends. This is a Covid-19 safe event** Caregiver supervision is required, and sessions are weather dependent.

For more info, visit www.devonportpeninsulatrust.nz. Follow us on Facebook to keep up to date with any changes.

KIDS ATHLETICS SERIES Tuesdays, 15 Feb–22 March, 4pm–6pm Vauxhall Sports Reserve (rugby club grounds) Primary-school-aged kids can have a go at a variety of athletic activities for free in a noncompetitive environment including high jump, long jump, running races, agility games and more. This is a Covid-19 safe event**.

For more info contact Maria ph: 445 9533 or email: maria@devonportpeninsulatrust.nz **This is a Covid-19 safe event. To enter, all persons over the age of 12 are required to present your “My Vaccine Certificate” to event officials as a condition of taking part in the event. Please wear a face mask and remember to use the NZ Covid Tracer App to keep track of where you have been and turn on Bluetooth tracing. Stay home if you are feeling unwell, wash your hands often with soap and water before and after you leave home.

With special thanks to the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board for funding the Devonport Peninsula Trust.

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February 11, 2022 ACCOMMODATION

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Central Devonport-Self contained, private 1 double bdr apartment, fully furnished & equipped in shared family home, suit single person or couple, handy to all amenities incl buses, ferry & shops.

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Contact 09-446-6640 or balgray@xtra.co.nz

Lady wants to share her home with another lady or young lady to houseshare. Double bedroom, off street parking.

Rates, power, water, wifi included. Ascot Ave convenient to buses and ferry. $250 p/w. Call Fay - 445 3256

Looking for an accounting/bookkeeping role.

Part time or hourly position. Work in office or from home. System experience in, Xero, excel, word, MYOB plus other packages. Experienced in invoicing and payments in and out, bank reconciliation, Profit and Loss analysis, GST, Payroll.

Contact Lynette Collings - lynettecollings@yahoo. co.nz or 027 478 2630.

Devonport Village.

Anne St. Short stay accommodation -1 to 3 months or longer by mutual agreement. Available from March 2022. 2-bedroom, fully-furnished apartment including Linen, Quiet and private two-storey apartment with own entrance.

Suit business couple or small family. $650 per week includes water & internet. Contact Craig: 027 299 2172.

Narrow Neck – 5 mins walk to the beach. Separate short stay all inclusive accommodation. 1-6 months. Shared laundry with owner. Has carpark. Suit couple or 1 couple with 1 child. $600pw. Contact Jane – 021 735 263.

SERVICES OFFERED FixIT Handyman - excellent work, practical budget, most jobs welcome, interior/ exterior free quote.

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Anti-vaccine mandate protesters active

WANTED We are looking for a reliable part time nanny from February for 3-5 days a week, can be flexible on days. This will involve collecting children from Kindy and school, so a drivers licence will be required. Time would be 2.30pm -5pm, based in Stanley Point. If you’re interested please contact 021 047 0725.

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Anti-vaccine mandate activists were active in Devonport over the past week.

A sign encouraging people to support a Freedom convoy travelling to Wellington was chalked on the wall at the entrance to Devonport. The sign only lasted a day before it disappeared – either rubbed off or removed by rain.

Other freedom material was found shoved unauthorised into the Flagstaff at stands around Devonport over Waitangi weekend.

A bogus “cease and desist” legal document demanding the Flagstaff stop spreading the government message was also “served” on its office. Several other businesses were also “served”.

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Arts / Entertainment Pages

February 11, 2022

Young artist wants to inspire others A 21-year-old artist hopes his first solo exhibition has encouraged other young people, including his nephews, to follow their own creative dreams.

Dylan-Blanc Huata’s bold works shown at the Depot Artspace recently are, he says, a “raw, abstract and relatable” commentary.

“People can find a little piece of themselves in my work.”

Ideas explored in the large and colourful canvases in the Hi There, Haere exhibition come partly from his own challenges growing up in Hastings and working through self-doubt to find the confidence to commit to his creativity.

Now living on the North Shore and having sold a few paintings, he says: “My main goal for this exhibition was to give other young people confidence on trying what is on their mind.”

Seeing his nephews running around at the show’s opening last month confirmed he wanted to inspire the next generation to surpass anything he had done.

Huata drew as a child – including on his grandparents furniture – but his artistic spirit was nearly crushed at intermediate school, where he was repeatedly turned down for study in the school’s art academy.

He put this down to being Maori in a “very European school”. A few years later, a teacher told his mother that the refusal was based on believing the programme would not be useful to him.

Either way, he started to think maybe art wasn’t for him.

“That’s what pushed me into dance.”

He danced through high school, where he also studied art, helping him progress his childhood cartoon drawings to being influenced by the New York style such as that of graffiti crossover artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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Spending time on his craft... Work in packhouses and washing cars helped convince Dylan-Blanc Huata he needed to give art a shot “I wasn’t doing it,” says Huata of graffiti, “but it was in my books.”

As a teen, he said he didn’t have a lot of friends or family backing for his dreams, but decided: “I don’t even care any more what people think of me.”

Work in pack houses, retail and washing cars helped confirm he wanted more in life than one day feeling it had passed him by.

He didn’t want to end up with regrets for not giving it a shot.

A move to Auckland allowed him to spend more time performing, including street dance.

He met more like-minded people and learned to stay busy to develop his art.

He has also designed some clothes and is keen to incorporate his painting on fabric.

Of Ngāti Kahungunu descent, Huata says “it’s been a real trip” working out how to meld Māori art in new-style work,

without disrespecting the spiritual side.

He wanted to give a perspective that could be widely understood without shoving it forward. An example was to use an image of a taniwha to represent temptation.

Huata hopes to travel to New York and Los Angeles one day, to show his US-inspired work with a Kiwi twist, and to see mates from the dance world who are over there.

Money is an issue, with the cost of travel and being able to spend time creating more work to show here. But the passion is there.

What matters, he says, is the time spent on your craft.

“Now that I’ve had the experience I’d like to do more.”

To see more of Huata’s artwork, see his Instagram @dylanblanchuata. His dance performances can also be found on You Tube.

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Arts / Entertainment Pages

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Raw and relatable...

Examples of work from Huata’s recent exhibition at the Depot

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