Burning Career firefighters picketed opposite the Devonport fire station on Lake Rd during a one-hour national strike – the first in the history of the fire service. Story, page 4.
Council officers agreed to the plan put forward by the clubs as the right use for the reserve. But the board, in a split decision, supported by Deans, voted to allow Devonport Museum to retain a building on the site for storage. The clubs felt lodging a code of conduct complaint was “the right thing to do,” as the “whole process was so badly handled,” North Shore Cricket Club chair Hayden Smith said. Phase one of the project – to knock down the walls around the site to allow public access, and redevelop the bowling clubrooms for Maria
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Council has acknowledged the complaint. The rugby and cricket clubs wanted to take over the lease and redevelop the land, opening it up to the public and developing facilities spe cifically for women’s cricket and rugby teams.
A code-of-conduct complaint has been lodged by the North Shore cricket and rugby clubs against Devonport-Takapuna Local Board member Trish Deans over the handling of the lease transfer of the defunct Devonport Bowling Club. The clubs lodged the complaint on 7 July, alleging Deans had a conflict of interest in the matter and engaged in pre-determination.
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The coffee shop has a core of regulars, but owner Georgie Ellis says the impacts of Covid have made it uneconomic to carry on. “The village is dead, there’s just no-one around.” More people were working from home, dent ing early-morning trade from those heading to the ferry. The last long lockdown had also changed habits, said Ellis, with people buying coffee machines to use at home.
“AT is investigating the permanency of the markings with the contractor,” the spokesper son said. “It is understood that the paint the contractor used is one of the few options in the country that is temporary and environmentally friendly.”ATwould continue to work with the con tractor to explore alternative markings for future projects.
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Devo Coffee grinds to a halt as pandemic’s impact lingers Markings still to be found on Victoria Rd later phases of the plan, including train all, were compromised by the museum retaining a building, Smith said. “We are optimistic we will get there in the end. But the whole process has taken a lot longer than we had expected… the site has been derelict forWhileyears.”not commenting on the specific complaint, Auckland Council’s manager of governance services, Rose Leonard, said the process was private and confidential. Investigations could take anything from a few days to a matter of months to complete, de pending on the nature of the issue, Leonard said. Deans said it was her duty as a local-board member to represent all community groups. Legal advice had been to welcome both the museum and the sports clubs “to the table”.
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The museum had approached Deans infor mally to ask if she would attend its meetings as a locally elected member, as had happened in the past. She had no conflict of interest as was neither on the museum’s committee or a voting member, she said. Deans was confident there was no code of conduct case to answer.
• The lease issue came up at the local board’s August meeting, when member Toni van Tonder, listed its handling as a lowlight of the board’s term. She was disappointed the board had not helped the sports clubs fully realise their aspirations for the site. Board chair Ruth Jackson called that “un founded criticism”, saying it took her chair’s casting vote to authorise the lease at all.
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To make up for rising costs and rents, the business would have had to put prices up steep ly to survive, but she did not consider this to be sustainable. Her milk costs had risen 75 cents a litre, coffee had global supply-chain issues and cups had nearly doubled in price.
Ellis, who bought the six-year-old business two years ago, hopes to set up again in future in a new format, away from the town centre. Her full-time weekday staff member and weekend helpers are looking for other work. Sunday 28 August is the last day of trading.
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A compromise was reached, she said, where by the sports groups had control of 4000sqm of the reserve and the museum use of an 80sqm building. “It’s a balanced approach – we have to value and conserve the history of the area.”
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The spokesperson said the length of time markings lasted depended on several factors, such as surface material, weather, pedestrian traffic and vehicle traffic.
Painted markings on pavements around De vonport and Takapuna have cost Auckland Transport $9000 to remove – but some of the eyesores still remain. The markings were applied from March, to denote the position of underground services for roading project design work. At the time, an Auckland Transport (AT) spokesperson said the temporary chalk-based paint would wear off in a matter of weeks. But it didn’t. After complaints from businesses, AT re cently used low-pressure water steam on the footpaths in front of shops in parts of Devonport and Takapuna. A specialist removal company was contracted to do the work at night to min imise disruption to the public.
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In Devonport, a small amount of paint re mains on the pavement north of The Vic theatre and where Flagstaff Tce meets Victoria Rd.
AT would pay the removal costs of $9000, an AT spokesperson said. “Removal of utility markings across the city is not typically under taken,” the spokesperson said. Most of the markings were on Devonport’s Victoria Rd, with others in Takapuna.
Changing work patterns and rising costs have led to Devo Coffee on Wynyard St closing down after this weekend.
But the three members who voted against (Van Tonder, Aidan Bennett and George Wood) did so because they supported the clubs having the whole site. They opposed the museum being accommodated in a motion put up by Jackson and supported by Deans and Jan O’Connor.
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George now wants to do something about litter on the beaches of Devonport.
Ten-year-old George Renall has big plans for cleaning up some of the Devonport peninsula’s treasured marine hotspots. After living with his family on a yacht in the Pacific for the past three years, the year 6 Bayswater School pupil has seen first-hand the effects of litter pollution on the ocean, sometimes having to clean up rubbish before being able to enjoy the beaches.
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Having previously done smaller cleanups – when his strangest find was a pair of false teeth – George has been encouraging his classmates and friends to come to the three larger clean-ups he has planned. He hopes to encourage locals to join in as well. To help, he has organised sponsorship from Devonport Timber, so he can provide treats, such as doughnuts, for those who volunteer.Clean-ups are planned for Sunday 4 Sep tember outside the Devonport Yacht Club, Sunday 2 October in Bayswater (meeting at Lansdowne St playground) and Sunday 6 November, outside the Wakatere Boat Club in Narrow Neck. All have a 9am start time. If everything goes well, he hopes the events could become a regular occurrence.
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Across the country, Fire and Emergency New Zealand received 22 calls during the strike. All serious emergencies were responded to by volunteer crews. Another one-hour strike by professional staff was scheduled for 26 August.
A neighbour, who preferred not to be named, said she felt sorry for the owners who had been doing up the house for the last couple of years. The homeowners declined to comment when approached by the Flagstaff.
The 1-metre finals. I was so excited to have made a final at the Commonwealth Games. Proudest moment Again, the 1-metre. I also got a personal-best score in the final – and the marking at the Games is tough. Any regrets? In the 3-metre [springboard], I probably re gret going a bit harsh on myself. I got upset with my first dives. I need to manage that. Next goal World juniors in Montreal, in November, with the aim of making 2023 world champs.
“Some people recognised me and came up to say hello,” she says. Now settled back into class at Takapuna Grammar School, she is eager to follow on from her first long foray overseas, which took in pre-Games competition in Italy and lasted nearly a month. Overall, Maggie told the Flagstaff, she was happy with her Games performance, but was keen to learn from it. “Some things are work-ons for the future.”
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Anyone using anything that produces a flame, such as a brazier or charcoal barbecue, needs to make sure it is fully extinguished before going to bed or leaving the premises, Tucker said.
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Tucker could not say what the cause was, but said the fire was “predominantly external to the house”, as had been the case in a number of fires in Devonport over the last couple of years.
The leader of Devonport’s volunteer firefighters has issued a warning about outdoor braziers and barbecues, following a house fire in Cowper St in the early hours of 15 August. The fire was well established when firefighters arrived. “Basically, the rear of the house was fully involved with fire,” said the Officer in Charge of Devonport Volunteer Fire Brigade, Warren Tucker. Two appliances came from Devonport, two from Birkenhead and one from Takapuna. The occupants made it out safely and most of the fire was extinguished within 20 minutes.
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Ford said the crews needed reliable trucks and more recruitment, as well as psychological well-being support. The public support from passers-by had been awesome, she said. “We’re doing something unprecedented and that none of us feel com fortable doing.
In answer to our questions, she gave us a rundown on her Games experience: Games highlight The opening ceremony. It was a look at how big the whole event was and it made me feel very lucky to be there. Team highlight In terms of the divers, having so many of us there (New Zealand sent its biggest team ever – seven athletes and two coaches). Your highlight Being in the Games village. It was so cool with the other athletes, in the food hall and the games hall. Best memory
Members of the Professional Firefighters Union (NZPFU) were instructed not to respond to calls within the one-hour window between 11am and noon. It was the first-ever strike by New Zealand firefighters.
“This was probably one of the hardest things that the on-duty crew have had to do,” said Chonell Ford, station officer for Devonport. “It’s gut-wrenching.”
“It’s nice knowing that we’ve got public support, because that’s what we’re fighting for,” she said. “So we can protect the public.”
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A Devonport firefighter who has been on the job for 20 years says going on strike for an hour last week was hard to do. Last Friday, career firefighters across New Zealand stopped work for an hour in protest at long hours, faulty equipment and lack of trauma training.
Devonport’s Maggie Squire (above) came in for extra attention as the youngest mem ber of the New Zealand Commonwealth Games team. The 16-year-old diver says her age was a talking point, both for the media and around the athletes village in Birmingham, where she made the final 10 in her 1-metre springboard event and the 3-metre synchro.
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“He’s just a shoe length behind Tom,” said Gill, who believes Jacko, 27, has more to come. He’s thrilled for his son, who has overcome a heart condition, injury and coaching shuffles.
“It’s a lot of hard work, but if you train hard…”
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During the summer season, Kate trains four nights a week. Over winter, this drops back to around twice a week, supplemented with gym work and playing netball at school. Her training sessions involve putting around 35-40Kateshots.started club athletics at age seven and, like Jacko, took to discus, which she still excels in. But from around age 10, she began focusing on shot-put. Gill: “You could see the talent, even from a young age.”
Kate, who was named Athletics Auckland’s Junior Sportsperson of the Year for 2021/22, says she is looking forward to this season’s competition beginning in October.
Kate has also dominated through the grades, and holds the current Auckland secondary schools junior record. She has also stepped up to compete nation ally at under-18 level, placing second at the last New Zealand Track and Field Championships.
Walter Gill reckons his latest shot-put pro tégé, Devonport 15-year-old Kate Hallie, has what it takes to compete internationally.
Jacko began setting records at 10 years old.
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Like his son Jacko Gill – who recently won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham – the Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) student has stood out at age-group level.
Rising star... Kate Hallie at the Takapuna Athletics Club, with coach Walter Gill
Asked about her ambitions, Kate said: “One day, the Olympics and to represent New Zealand.”TheOceania championships are on her radar first. “She has the talent to do that,” Gill said.
Nerida, who was at the Games in Birming ham to support Jacko, is now back at the family home in Devonport. The couple co-coach their son, who will stay in Europe for competition over the next month. With the 21.9-metre personal-best throw he recorded in New Zealand before the Games, the former world junior champion is now firmly established in the top flight of throwers, with fellow Kiwi and games gold medallist Tom Walsh. This brings invitations to events and appearance fees.
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“You’re good enough to win just about everything you enter in your age group,” Gill told her, when the two met the Flagstaff on a rainy day at Takapuna Athletics Club, where they train year-round. And he believes she will have a future in the senior ranks, following in the record-breaking footsteps of others he has coached. These include Olympian Maddison Wesche, who has taken over as New Zealand’s top female shot-putter following the retirement of Dame Valerie Adams. Gill, a construction company owner, helped West Auckland’s Wesche as a junior, when she set a national secondary schools record – later bettered by another Gill charge, Kaia Tupu South, a Takapuna club member who is now on a college scholarship in the United States. Gill wants Kate to aim at Tupu South’s record of 17.54 metres, pointing out the Year 11 athlete has three years of school competition left to work towards this. The veteran coach is hoping the Games will inspire more youngsters to give athletics a go, citing the general benefits as much as building champions. “I love where it leads you,” he said. Gill, who like Jacko attended TGS, went through club athletics himself to competitive success, before working life shifted his focus. His wife Nerida was a discus thrower. For the last 20 years or so, the couple have become familiar faces at the athletics club’s Onewa Domain field, putting in countless hours of coaching.
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“We have a peninsula-wide trapping pro ject underway, and Ngataringa/Dacre Parks fall under the Ngau te Ringaringa Eco-Cor ridor sub-project,” he said. The east side of the eco-corridor – Lake Rd out to Narrow Neck Beach – is covered by a team of volunteers employing bait stations and trap lines. And plans are afoot to put traps on both the north and south sides of the Ngau te Ringaringa estuary, in addition to existing bait stations. A line had just been launched around the North Shore Rugby Club fields on Vauxhall Rd.“We have a number of new lines in the queue in other areas of the peninsula, but we could prioritise a line around Dacre Park. I’m sure there is someone in the community that would love to do this flat line.”
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So, in a round-about way, council has said through the RTH group that a vacancy exists for me to do the trapping myself. I may have to engage the help of the prom ising ratter pictured at right with a recent catch on Cambria Reserve. And yes, Nigel, I’ll be in contact. I was surprised to overhear a member of the public bemoaning the number of restaurants in Devonport that were closing early or not opening on Monday or Tuesday nights. Give me – and the eateries – a break. Some people who are not running small businesses fail to realise the impact of Covid and its aftermath linger on. Not only are food outlets facing staff short ages due to sickness and a shortage of qualified workers, but they have been forced to put up prices due to escalating costs of food and bev erages. It’s winter, too, which is traditionally a slower time for the hospitality sector. I am continuing to support local cafes and restaurants by going out for a meal at least once a week. I would encourage everyone else to sup port these local businesses as much as they can.
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Two weeks after my query to Auckland Council over rats gorging on melia-tree berries on a berm beside Dacre Park, I got a fairly predictable fob-off. Council officers passed the matter over to the Restoring Takarunga Hauraki (RTH) group, and the ever-helpful volunteer trapper Nigel Hopkins, who explained a bait-station line runs around Ngātaringa Park and along Jim Titchener Pde.
The memorial held last Sunday at Allen Hill stadium for Mike Pritchard, who died, aged 82, in August 2020 was standing room only with many tributes made. Earlier attempts by his family to hold a farewell were thwarted by Covid restrictions.
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It was somewhat fitting that the farewell was held at Allen Hill, near Ngataringa Bay, which Mike did so much to preserve. He was on the council in the early 70s that overturned approval to develop the bay into a marina and subdivision.
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I’m glad Mike has been properly remem bered, as his contribution to Devonport was immense and should not be forgotten. He was a leading heritage and environmental activist and former local-body politician, who was prominent in a series of landmark peninsula campaigns. Among these were Save Ngataringa Bay, Nuclear Free Devonport and Independent Devonport.Hewasa Devonport Borough councillor from 1971 to 1983, and Deputy Mayor of Devonport from 1977 to 1980.
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Twenty people are vying for election to the six seats on the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board. Four tickets are running, along with three candidates standing as independents. Election billboards for three of the groups were up before local-body election nomi nations closed. A fourth ticket, Devonport-based SOS Save Our Shore, confirmed its interest to the Flagstaff on deadline day, 12 August. SOS has a platform of championing North Shore interests. It is led by 2019 candidate Kevin Brett, who is joined by Cherie Keiller, Kurt Keiller and Sam Welsh. Sitting board chair Ruth Jackson is fielding a ticket of five candidates under the Heart of the Shore banner, while a centre-right ticket of three candidates has been put together by fellow board member George Wood. A ticket organised by another current board member, Toni van Tonder, under the Fresh Approach banner, was launched in IndependentJuly.candidates are Tony Bunting, Michele McGregor and Kent Tregonning.
Prominent contenders for seats on Auck land Council for the North Shore ward are sitting councillors Chris Darby and Richard Hills, and the Citizens and Residents duo of Wood and Danielle Grant, who is deputy chair of the Kaipatiki Local Board. Bunting has also put his name up for council, as have Raymond Tan and Adrian Tyler.
Local-body election voting opens on 16 September, by post or drop-off at ballot boxes in libraries and some other council facilities. Polls close at noon on 8 October, with results posted later that day. The Flagstaff will provide all local-board and North Shore council candidates with the opportunity to briefly state their positions in a pre-election edition.
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Public meetings with the candidates are being held in Devonport on 8 September at 6pm in the Community House and in Sunnynook on 12 September, Milford on 26 September and Takapuna on a date still to be confirmed.
A seven-home two-storey terraced hous ing development has been proposed for a 789sqm site at 12 Fraser Rd, Narrow Neck. Resource consent is needed for the develop ment as more than four dwellings are proposed in the Mixed Housing Urban Zone. The buildings would also infringe some height-to-boundary controls, and landscapedarea and outdoor-living-space rules. Four of the new dwellings are in one block and three in another. Six parking spaces are to be provided behind the dwellings. Auckland Council has yet to assess the con sent application lodged by Sentinel Planning, which says the effects of the project are minor.
More than 100 residents attended a public meeting at Bayswater School last Thursday, hosted by the Bayswater Community Com mittee (BCC) to update people on the proposal.
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Entries are open for two Devonport RSA competitions honouring the sacrifices ofAwartime.virtual speech competition, for students in years 9-13, has the theme of how best to honour the sacrifice of those who served. And a poetry, story and art contest, for primary and intermediate-age children, is themed ‘Remembering – how and why?’.
The aim of the competitions is to raise awareness of the impact of war casualties onEntriesDevonport.areto be sent to manager@ devonportrsa.co.nz by 5pm on 9 October, including the name, age, and school of the entrant and a parent’s contact details. Prize money will be offered, based on the number and quality of entries, and the winning speech will be read at the Remembrance Day service on 6 November.
A hearing on BML’s application to build 27 apartments and 92 terraced houses, plus com mercial offices and some retail and hospitality services, begins on 20 September.
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The planning hoops for the 119-home Bayswater residential development have got harder with changes to national wa ter-quality standards.
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Committee member Brianna Parkinson said concerns remained over the size and bulk of the residential development, and the configuration Cherie Lane, an experienced town planner, said so many issues existed with the application she Parkinson said it was estimated $55,000 was needed to fund experts, with the BCC “fighting fund” currently sitting at $23,000. Experts had been engaged, including: Wes Edwards (traffic); Fraser Colgrave (economic issues); Stephen Brown (landscape); Robert Scott (planner, berth holders); Richard Blakey (planner, BCC); and legal counsel: Helen Atkins (berth holders) and Patrick Mulligan (BCC).Parkinson said commissioners had indicat ed they wanted to hear the opinions of local boat owners who used the ramp and trailer parking, provision for which was amended in BML’s final resource consent application. Boat users at the meeting said the width and length of trailer parking in the plan would restrict usage for many craft. Lane said berth holders were concerned about changes to parking and gangways to the marina, which would be steeper and make access more difficult.
Shoal Bay and Ngataringa Bay are now considered wetlands under the standards, which came out last November. These changes made the Bayswater Marina Ltd (BML) devel opment a non-complying activity, instead of a discretionary activity, which means stricter planning scrutiny.
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More people are waiting for public housing in Devonport-Takapuna than can be catered for in the new Kainga Ora block at Belmont.
Forty-eight tenancies – comprising 18 homes for families along with 30 one-bed room units suitable for singles and couples – will be provided in the new development.
“Individuals and whānau waiting for a home in the Devonport-Takapuna area may also have identified a connection to neigh bouring areas or locations.”
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Jones told a meeting of the Devon port-Takapuna Local Board earlier this month that housing decisions are made based on demand. Though no more builds are planned in Devonport-Takapuna, “we do have quite a number of large land holdings,” she“Whatsaid. I would signal at the moment is when we do get into a position of thinking of redeveloping, we’ll come back to the localKaingaboard.”Ora has been connecting with local schools and the Devonport Peninsula Trust to help ensure incoming families to Belmont can settle in well. The new block is set to open in October. An open day for the community is planned prior to opening.
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“But their homes may be unaffordable, overcrowded or unsuitable in some way.
No plans are in place for further builds in the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board area.
But the public-housing wait list for Devon port-Takapuna has 111 would-be residents seeking homes.
The new blocks on the corner of Lake Rd and Bardia St include 30 one-bedroom units, 14 two-bedroom units and a 72 square-metre community room, as well as three three-bed room homes and a four-bedroom home at the back, opening on to Tui St, which are already occupied.
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High demand… the new Kainga Ora block in Belmont
Kainga Ora’s north and west regional manager Taina Jones says not all people on the waiting list are necessarily homeless.
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But Jones said the organisation had “signifi cant” building activity in the north and west, including in the Kaipatiki Local Board area. The Ministry of Social Development manages the register of those needing homes, which can also be accessed by Haumaru Housing and other support agencies.
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It’s hard to see common sense in some events in our local area.
New electric ferries and connecting buses will all add to the extreme rate rises and are not really green at all, as we all know. Do any green global-warming people realise we don’t have the clean power to charge these facilities, and instead will burn coal or gas to power the buses and ferries?
Susan Templeton (‘Think of others: don’t drop the Covid protocols’, Flagstaff letters, 12 August) was an inspiring read. I think Susan is right. Stop pretending it’s over. As a community, we should share in formation and consider the issues that are critical to our families and community. We are all tired.
Around 250 public submissions have been filed on plans to reconfigure roads in central Devonport.Thesuggested changes include safety meas ures for pedestrians and cyclists and intersection and parking realignments, along with a proposal to lose a separate right-hand turning lane from Victoria Rd into Calliope Rd. This has drawn considerable community comment, with people suggesting it will cause traffic backlogs at busy times of Consultationday. on the town-centre plans closed on 14 August, with a report on results expected towards the end of September. Once decisions are finalised, roading changes will be made by mid-2023. These will follow the first stage of the Devonport Safe Speeds project, which from early 2022 will bring town-centre speed limits down to 30km/h.
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It’s disgusting on moral and legal grounds and ratepayers have been ripped off. Officials say they are happy with the pro posal, however this development is a breach of the original resource consent.
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The proposal flagging away special-char acter zones to allow more intensification, given what we see on Lake Rd now, is clearly a form of vandalism. Most people want heritage values respect ed and that was a reason for coming to live here. That is to be eroded in favour of an expansion.Ratsare running wild again, as the Flag staff editor has seen, and dozens of traps are now not serviced but can be seen lying on the ground like trash.
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The vermin-free concept that former conservation minister and local MP Maggie Barry promised is gone. I propose the big banks could sponsor the trapping, showing goodwill, given the huge savings made having closed most local branches.Ratsand gorse are pests neglected by council and should be a basic concern.
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She’s among a team of around 150 who travel with Hamilton each race weekend. “It's a huge, huge travelling circus.” Previously in her career, she worked at High Performance Sport New Zealand, and with British Olympic runners. She has also taken time off for adventures – mountain biking in the US, cycling through South America, and moving her family to France. Each step led her to where she is now, Cullen told the students. “Find out what you love,” she said. “I love sport and I followed that dream. I loved science and I followed that dream ... I loved adventures and chal lenges and I followed that dream. I found my purpose.”
• Stop three waters and no congestion charges (tax).
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The former deputy head girl was a national hockey rep between the ages of 15 and 21, and has a professional background in health science and physiotherapy. Now 48, she is these days part of an interna tional high-performance coaching company, and works closely with Hamilton, winner of seven World Drivers’ Championship titles.
Takapuna Grammar School old girl, who is the performance coach for Formula One star Lewis Hamilton, had some advice for today’s students when she visited the school last week.
• People who commit crime and violence in our area should not be allowed in our area.
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“I’m just so proud to stand beside him,” she told the full-capacity audience at TGS’s Te Poho Hall. “He’s just such an amazing human being.”
“Make sure you follow your dream,” An gela Cullen (formerly McNaughton) told the school’s Achievers’ Breakfast.
Turbo-charged performance... Angela Cullen, pictured with her family on her return to TGS, is part of Lewis Hamilton’s “huge travelling circus”
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Cullen pointed out that her job didn’t exist when she was at school. Takapuna Grammar principal Mary Nixon said it was an honour to have Cullen return. Multiple students were honoured at the breakfast for their achievements in sport, as well as in arts and performance. Among them was Maggie Squire, who had just returned from the Commonwealth Games, where she competed in diving events.
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• Takapuna carpark sold out with theboard’sapproval. It’s time forthe present boardto be sentintoretirement.
Cullen travels with Hamilton during the Formula One season, which starts in Bahrain in March, visits Europe, the Americas, Aus tralia and Singapore and ends in Abu Dhabi in December.
• Thegovernmentwants to put 501criminals from Australia intoa40unitblock in Belmont. This mustbe stopped.
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Cullen, who had not been back to New Zealand for 12 years, said it was an honour to return to her old school, and touching for her two children to experience the powhiri that welcomed her and her family.
From afresh approach to the heart of the shoreyou arebeing sold out. Thesame old tired people areattempting to get their snouts back intothe public trough. Your rate billsare through the roof.Your open spaces arenot safefrombeing sold out.
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Two Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) basketballers, Bailey Flavell and Zenthia Stowers (above), have been selected for the New Zealand under-15 girls team, with a third player, Qaizden Stephano, selected to represent Samoa in its under-19 side.
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Choice says the same about the male talent coming through, although this year the senior team – which played in the Harbour Open competition – was unlucky to just miss making the semi-finals. “The improvement is definitely there, they only lost one game before. It was just one of those days.”
Running hot... Zenthia Stowers (left) and Bailey Flavell are in the national under-15 girls team. Above: Members of TGS’s top two girls teams. Back row (from left): Zenthia, Aria Henderson, Anna Dyachenko, Amy McKenzie, Mariah Parker, Bailey, Qaizden Stephano, with team coach Katelin Noyer, Mackenzie Mackereth and senior boys’ co-coach Karl Noyer. Front row: Emily McNamara, Amelia Yamaguchi, Emily Pestana, Catherine Huang, Carmen Selby, Manaia Watson and Arabella Nevile.
The team reached the play-offs last year, when it narrowly missing ascending to the citywide competition. With the regional Northern Cup looming, it still has something to aim for in 2022.Another positive sign is that as well as the girls chosen to represent their countries, TGS had six other players picked for national training camps: Brody Cooper, Kellie Tawhiao, Mac kenzie Mackereth, Zen Lamb, McKenzie and Thomas Green.
TGS’s Senior B boys team won gold in its Harbour under-19 League 1 competition. The girls under-17 team won silver in its grade. and the Year 9 A Boys won its league 3 division.
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Qaizden, a Year 13 student, will play in Samoan blue at a tournament in India in September.Basketball participation at the school is at an all-time high, with nearly 200 students playing, pushing it ahead of single-sex netball in numbers and behind only football as the most popular sport overall.
TGS director of sport Joshua Choice says the growth in just three years has been huge. “The kids just want to be part of it,” he says. In 2019, TGS had just 10 teams. In 2020, it was up to 13, but with only three for girls. Now, after a Covid-interrupted 2021, the school has 23 teams, with 136 boys and 62 girls playing theItssport.top female team, one of eight – playing for the first time in the Auckland-wide Senior A competition – beat Manurewa 73-49 in a semi-final last week, having advanced with a 13-1 record in round-robin games. They lost only the final game of the round, against Northcote, who they were to face in the final this week, with a place in the premier grade at stake. Bailey and Qaizden are the team’s lead ing scorers, along with Year 10 player Amy McKenzie, who led the way in the semi with 26 points. Coach Katelin Noyer says: “They get those points as our ball handler and post, but Amy finishes off when they’re getting doubled.”Zenthia would have been in the top team too, but for a College Sport rule prohibiting more than two new students to a school from playing in top sides. Instead, she helped the TGS second team that won the North Harbour Open competition. But she has been cleared to step up to the top team for regionals at the end of this month. She can also play at secondary school nationals in October if the team makes it through from the Auckland championships. Bailey and Zenthia both lived in Australia before their Kiwi families headed home after CovidWithdisruptions.manyyoung players in her team, Noyer has high hopes for the future. Only Qaizden, who shifted to TGS from Carmel, is in her last year of school. “I think the future is really bright. Taka’s got a good chance to keep going up,” says Noyer.
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Putting in the hard yards…Trainer Dean Rice (above left) completed 42km on the ski erg machine, while (above right, from left) Cameron Howell, Wero Witika (obscured), Maui Hausiia, Steve Dempsey, and Brett Parakura did the same distance on rowing machines
Kisi had finished his first round of chemo therapy and everything was going well, but the support had also raised his spirits, she said. “It’s really hard for us to express how grateful we are to all of them for doing so much for us.”
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Team effort... Kisioni Cocker-Valu’s family and friends, including his sister Kaitlyn (third from right, back row) were touched by an outpouring of support from North Shore Rugby Club members North Shore Rugby Club has helped raise more than $30,000 to support a club player battling an aggressive cancer. Kisioni Cocker-Valu, a former Rosmini College student and a member of the club’s under-21 side, has been diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare cancer that affects muscle tissue. A fundraiser was held at the club gym, with members taking part in challenges including 42 kilometres on the rowing machines or the ski erg, 120 kilometres on the bike trainer or 420 burpees. A Givealittle page had raised $33,380 earlier this week.
Kisi’s sister Kaitlyn said the family were touched by the support. “It’s kind of over whelming for us,” she said. “We weren’t really expecting it to be such a big event, but it’s amazing to see how many people have joined together.”
Club trainer Dean Rice did 42km on the ski erg, which mimics the motion of Nordic skiing. Rice was chuffed with the turnout. Kisi’s team turned up in support, along with other club members. Kisi himself managed to make it down to the gym later in the day with his parents. “He’s a very well-liked young man. He’s very humble, very quiet,” said Rice.
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Mayoral-race outsider stirred up by density push
As a boy, Kampkes worked long hot hours in those market gardens and orchards most school holidays. He reckons he picked most things grown in the region at one time or another: grapes, tomatoes, orchard fruits including apricots and plums, and other produce too. Other times he’d pump gas part-time.
Up for the fight… Mike Kampkes believes intensification changes will have far-reaching negative impacts on quality of life
Narrow Neck resident Mike Kampkes put his fishing kayak aside to mount a campaign against the government’s moves to increase housing density –and ended up running for mayor. He talks to Helen Vause.
“I wasn’t very big and I could barely lift a milk crate,” laughs Kampkes.
Kampkes is no stranger to hard work. He was born and raised in Hawke’s Bay by Dutch immigrant parents. He was the middle child of seven kids who were born quite close together over around 12 years. His father was a labourer, and hard work was the norm in a family where everyone had to pull their weight. They lived on the outskirts of Napier surrounded by growers of all types of produce, from vegetables to a range of fruit crops.
Kampkes had read about new legislation in the name of enabling housing supply that would effectively force councils to allow widespread intensification, with townhouses able to be built up to three storeys high, three to a site. He couldn’t believe this new legislation could arrive as a complete surprise to most people.Andnext, although he was a guy with plenty of opinions he’d never been afraid to share around the kitchen table or the campfire, he did something that surprised himself and everyone who knew Kampkeshim.decided he was going to lead the charge to stop the new bill. He marshalled sup porters under the umbrella of Citizens Against The Housing Act, called public meetings, and pounded the keyboard tirelessly into the small hours to keep up the momentum of protest.
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And as if that wasn’t enough, within eight months he’d be joining the race for the Auck landThemayoralty.issuessurrounding the journey of the bill were so important, Kampkes reasoned that someone had to step up and try to send it packing back to central government. And that someone – once again to his surprise – was going to be him. As Kampkes has been heard to say, “It dragged me out of my fishing kayak and off the sofa and into working for free every hour of the day in opposition to this legislation.”
Last November, when Mike Kampkes was quietly reading his morning paper at home in Narrow Neck, he read something that filled him with such outrage it prompted a life decision.
“That’s what all the kids around there did. There was plenty of work going.”
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Kampkes had his first real job at age 11 – a milk run. He’d be out of his bed, up and away and ready to start delivery at 5.30am, before the first morning light. He remembers being dropped off with his full milk cart and setting off around his patch in the darkness.
Kampkes, who had always been a practical guy, was far from done with his working years, and welcomed a change of pace and direction. He jumped at the chance to become a chippy with a friend of around the same age who has a construction business. He also took time out for an ambitious DIY remodelling of the back of the family house, before getting back to work. Along with enjoying working life and being a family man – he and Tania have three grown children, Jake, Sam and Leah (the only one still living at home) – he’d always had a passion for fishing, and just one visit to Narrow Neck 25 years ago convinced him that it would be the perfect place for a man with regular fishing forays on his mind.
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On many a morning he has wheeled his fishing kayak down Old Lake Rd to be on the boat ramp at daybreak. The fishing has been very successful, says Kampkes but he has also been rewarded with a relaxing dose of solitude and the maintenance of fitness. Sometimes he’s paddled all the way out to the lighthouse near the northern end of Rangitoto Island and even all the way to Motuihe Island.
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But that plan, along with the faithful kayak, has been parked in recent months, as Kampkes has – on top of his day job – campaigned against the housing-intensification push from Wellington.
But he was proud of all the jobs he did and of being able to save up a respectable sum of money.“Ilent my mother money, so that she could buy a car and get a job and go back to work. She had worked so hard to raise a big family, but as we got older she wanted to go back out into the workforce again. I was so proud to be able to help her get a car and help her to get out and do what she wanted to do again.”Tragedy struck the family when Kampkes was just a toddler. His father worked night shifts. In order for him to sleep during the day, the kids would play in the front yard, where their voices would be less likely to carry to their parents’ bedroom. But one of the children, Wilma, was hit and killed by a vehicle when she ran through the front gate and onto the road, in pursuit of a ball. After the schoolboy holiday jobs, Kampkes went to work at Watties, one of the big em ployers in Hawke’s Bay, becoming a supply manager.Whenhe and his wife Tania moved to Auck land in 1997, Kampkes had a new job in supply and logistics management with Tegel Foods. From there, he continued up the ladder, specialising in general management in medi um-sized businesses, until restructuring led to him leaving that phase of his working life behind in 2014 and, with it, the long commutes to and from home in Narrow Neck.
He’s long had an interest in environmental issues and says he is passionate about reducing carbonChattingemissions.toThe Flagstaff, he points to a gas oven sitting outside on the deck, waiting to be taken away. It’s the latest in a line of gas-burn ing products, including the hot-water heating system, which he and Tania made the com mitment to remove and replace with electric. His next career move might have been starting an enterprise in the sustainability sector.
“I feel angry and devastated that our quality of life that we have worked so hard for could be taken away from us.”
The proliferation of multi-storey dwell ings, to be allowed for across many suburbs of major cities, is a cruel threat to our way of life, that could pitch neighbour against neighbour, he says. He believes Auckland Council should use every resource it has available to it to stymie the legislation and contain intensification inside existing density zones.
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Kampkes will now literally be stepping up his efforts, after NZ Post decided it wouldn’t deliver unaddressed election material. With 40,000 newly printed flyers ready to go out, Kampkes and his team have no option but to pound the pavements to spread the word. feel angry and devastated that our quality of life that we have worked so hard for could be taken away from us.”
Lately, he’s got himself a billboard on a trailer for his mayoral campaign. Although, like other low-profile candidates, he hasn’t been able to attract the kind of attention won by the frontrunners in the race. His priority is repeal of the new housing law, which he believes will have a far-reaching negative impact on quality of life. He says the new legislation, with its con troversial new height-to-boundary ratios and support for intensification, goes against the very reason families aspire to live in the suburbs. It is “needless and idiotic in the context of the exist ing, far-superior Unitary Plan,” Kampkes says.
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Trishspoke about the recentlycompletedEmergency Management Guidelinesfor the Devonport area –intendedtohelp the community to cope with the first three to five days of any emergencysituation, beforeAuckland Emergency Managementtakes over. It could be said that asevere weatherevent is one of themorelikely emergenciesthe community might face.Similar guidelines will in due course be developed for Bayswater/Belmont, and forHauraki
This group has invited Simon Watts, M.P.for North Shore, to its 2September meeting –being held at 1:00 pm at Devonport Yacht Club. All peninsula seniorsare very welcometoattend. The discussion will focus firstly on issues facing this electorate, rather than national-levelmatters.
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Maggie Squire returns home from the Commonwealth Games
To kick off the awards ceremony part of the proceedings, the school welcomed Year 12 Maggie Squire onstage only hours back in the countr yfrom the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The school congratulated her on representing NZ on her biggest stage yet, presenting her with abouquet of flowers and aSpecial Achievement Certificate. The school would like to congratulate TGSalumni Imogen Ayris and Jacko Gill on their outstanding per formances at the 2022 Commonwealth Games by winning aBronze Medal in the Pole Vault (Imogen) and aSilver Medal in the Shot Put (Jacko). An outstanding achievement af ter adecade of hard work both in and out of school on the athletics fields of Auckland, New Zealand and the world. We look for ward to hearing all about their experiences in the coming months, when they return home from further competitions.
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AUGUST 26, 2022 On 15th August we were honoured to have alumna Angela Cullen (nee McNaughton) speaking at our Achievers’ Breakfast in Te PohoHall. Angela (class of 1992) is aformer Deputy Head Girl and later aNZhockey representative player. Since 2015, she has worked for Hintsa Performance and is attached to the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula1 Team. She is now best knownasthe physiotherapist and confidante to seven-timeworld championLewis Hamilton. Angela spoke about her fond memories of TGS, including her many sporting interests, her experiences as aprefect leader and the wonderful friendships she madewith both staff and friends, who she stillkeeps in touch with, especially when back home from France where she nowresides with her family.
The school acknowledged her achievementsin the international sporting field by adding her to our Distinguished Alumni HonoursBoard for Services to EliteSport.
Formula One’s Angela Cullen speaks at Achievers’ Breakfast
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‘Beyondour wildestdreams’ wasthe client’sreaction to their newZen aesthetic kitchen. Mumcooks, thedaughterpreps, anddad makestea,all in their designated zones. Thiskitchenwas namedRunner Up in theAucklandChapter category at the prestigious NKBAExcellence in Design Awards 2022. If you’re lookingfor anew kitchen, popintoKitchens By Design’s showroom, locatedat3 ByronAve in Takapuna, or call oneofits designerson(09) 379 3084. For inspiration,takealookatsomefabulous projects at www.kitchensbydesign.co.nz Influence
Apartfrom thecooker, all theappliances areintegrated–a notion theownersweren’t initiallyonboard with,saysthe designer. “But after Ishowedthema3Dwalk-through of theirnew kitchen, with andwithout hidden appliances, they changed their minds.”
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“Thecolours of theleathered Titanium Granitewerethe starting pointfor my scheme,”she says. “Themitredisland‘block’ anchorsthe kitcheninthe open-planliving space andalsoprovides therequired bench space.”
Centring thecookerwithin thecabinetry alongthe back wall balancedthe fridgeand bi-foldpantr y/appliance garage nicely.Two additional space towers,one on each side, give amplefood storage “A jet-black leatheredsplashback and blackcookerhelpbalance thecentral feature.
It’s hard to know what youwantifyou don’tknowwhere to start. Thisisthe exactsituation thesehomeownersfound themselves in when lookingfor inspiration fortheir newkitchen. Then, througha friend, they were recommendedtospeak to localdesigners,Kitchens By Design. In-house designer,MarianneGailer, Elite Designerofthe NKBA,saysthe couple hadnever plannedanew kitchenand were lookingfor guidance.“It’s notanunusual situation. That’swhy we arehere,”saysthe designer. “OnceI metthemand learnt about their family connectionstoJapan,Idecided to drawonanOriental themebytakingin their surroundingfurniture andart.” With thetheme setinher mind, Marianne then hadtoaddressthe size and functionalityofthe existing kitchen, which literallylookedlikeamakeshift kitchenin thecornerofthe open-plankitchen-diningliving space,she says. “Itwas about aquarter of thesize of thenew kitchen, whichwas way toosmall in termsofscaleand functionality forthe room andthe family.”
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The keytothe design’ssuccesswas Marianne’s inspirational choice of natural materials– awonderfullygrained Titanium Graniteina tactile,leathered finish forthe kitchenisland, paired with solidTasmanian Blackwood cabinetr y, crowncut and mismatched, to give anatural, organic feel The combinationisanexplosionofgrain, colour andtextureand givesthe kitchenits unique character.
Above, timber battensadd to thetextureand theJapanesefeel. The inspiration forthis slattedlookcametomeone eveningwhen we were sittinginaJapaneserestaurant from thepartitionsbetween theseating.”
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Our two fortnightly newspapers publishing on alternagte weeks are the Flagstafffocusing on the Devonport peninsula and the Rangitoto Observer on the wider Takapuna-Milford area. The area’scombined population of around 75,000, offers ample scope to report on everything from council to crime, arts and the environment and local sport and schools. Mostly day work, with occasional night and weekend jobs. We offer some flexibility of working hours.
Devonport’s Brett Phibbs won best photographer at the 2022 Voyager Media Awards announced last Saturday. Phibbs won for work published through NZ Herald/NZME, PhibbsVisuals and Photosport. Judges John Sefton and Phil Reid said: “Brett’s portfolio was a combination of dynamic action pictures to a subtle picture of a dog being rescued on a surfboard. This made for a well-rounded and powerful entry.”
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However, after council spent $646,968 be tween 2017 and 2019 on design, consultation and consenting for the Allen Hill Stadium de velopment, the project was put on hold in 2020 due to Covid-related cost-cutting.
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“This is still the case, with no budget allo cated to this project in the next three-year work programme,” Taryn Crew, council’s general manager of community facilities said. Some work has been done at Allen Hill, how ever. The surface of the soccer field was renewed last year, due to its poor condition.
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“We will continue to work with the soccer club to renew small items as necessary, where they are agreed as a priority,” Crewe said. Briefs
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The Devonport homes-tour charity fundraiser is back on again in November after an absence of three years due to Covid restrictions. Homes of Devonport 2022 is scheduled for Friday 4 November, with 10 local homes plus the Ryman show suite open for viewing. Organiser Lynda Betts said it was great to have the popular event returning, with a good cross-section of houses across the suburb included. Previous tours had sold out. Proceeds go to a variety of charities.
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The upgrade of Dacre Park is on hold for at least three years, Auckland Council has confirmed. North Shore United football club, which has its home ground, Allen Hill Stadium, within Dacre Park, handed control of the ground to council in exchange for an upgrade of fields, car parking and entrances.
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Lewis started making lace at age 11 at school in England, and has continued ever since. She has joined the UFO (unfinished objects) group, which meets at Stanley Bowling and Petanque Club. Lewis uses bobbins, including some passed down to her from her great-great-grandmother, Hannah Ealey. When using bobbins, numerous threads are held on small handles made of bone or wood, with various patterns created by a miniature form of weaving. Her creations are intricate, but Lewis says it’s relatively simple once you know the two movements. “You’re either going to cross, which is taking a left thread over a right thread, or you’re going to twist, which is taking the right over the left,” she says. And you create a half-stitch or a whole stitch. “Once you’ve got those stitches in your head, you can pretty much do most pieces of lace.”
Young Hauraki dancer wins big
Hoping for a case of third time lucky, the Devonport Chamber Orchestra is tuning up again for a concert at Holy Trinity Church on Sunday 4 September at 2pm. It will play Mozart’s flute concerto in D in a programme it was twice forced to cancel because of Covid conditions last year. The orchestra will be conducted by Joshua Kirk and feature Anna Cooper as soloist, with a second work, Schubert’s popular 5th symphony in B-flat, also featuring. Tickets at the door, cash only: $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and students, children under 12Attendeesfree. are asked to wear masks, if pos sible, please.
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Intricate Clare Lewis likes the challenge of lace-making Kathryn Burnett starring Lisa Chappell and Andrew Grainger
Beila, who goes to Hauraki School hopes to one day be a national champion She is off to Australia in June next year to compete in the Wollongong National Dancesport Cham pionship.
For new Narrow Neck resident Clare Lewis, lace-making is in the blood.
“It’s quite relaxing. I quite like the challenge of new stuff – I quite like doing my own designs.”
Hauraki girl Beila Brown (pictured) has won an impres sive 14 medals at a national dancing competition. The 11-year-old loves doing the cha-cha, which was one of the events she won at the Winter Star Championship held in Auckland this month. The annual competition is run by the New Zealand Federal Association of Teachers of Dancing. She also won the other events she entered: jive, tango, tan goette, tap, quickstep, samba, merrilyn and waltz.
Some of Lewis’s bobbins have Ealey’s name inscribed, but not always spelt correctly, as literacy was often low in the cottage industry of lace-making. Some also have dates on them – one of Ealey’s bobbins was made in 1867. Lewis had no idea of the family history in the craft until she brought a lace bookmark home from school and her mother whisked her off to Grandma’s. Grandma screamed and ran away, leaving 11-year-old Clare bewildered, until she returned from upstairs with a box and said, “These were my grandmother’s, and now they’re yours” She now reckons she has about 500 bobbins. “Even very simple pieces, you’re going to have to have at least 24 bobbins.” She’s created many different styles, includ ing the delicate Honiton lace used for Queen Victoria’s wedding dress and associated with the British Royal Family. Ealey was a professional lacemaker, but it was not an easy industry and soon taken over by mass production.
The Englishwoman moved to New Zealand in April, when husband Vernon landed a univer sity job here, and her lace-making tools came with her – although most of them are stuck in a shipping container at the port in Tauranga.
“There are some people who still make lace professionally, but they’re very few and far between,” says Lewis. As a hobby, it’s more common in Europe than in New Zealand.
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“Hopefully it will bring in a lot more new people to the theatre,” says community coordinator Michelle Male. “That in turn helps everything in terms of community events, bringing people in... more ideas and things to host here.”
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In the hot seats... Rose Centre operations manager Geoff Allen, original community coordinator Sue Golding, and current coordinator Michelle Male Belmont’s Rose Centre is hosting Auckland Fringe festival shows for the first time. Fringe starts on 30 August, showcasing a multitude of arts events and performances across the city.
Geoff Allen and original board member Paddy Stafford Bush will host the night. Among those performing will be Company Theatre, the Rose Singers and a kapa haka group from Belmont Inter mediate School. Those interested in volunteering should contact hello@rosecentre.co.nz.
The Rose Centre, as a satellite venue, will host six shows, including the comedy Dice Show; an improvised take on Jane Austen, Austen Found; and Welcome to Hellansville, a quirky story about the afterlife.
The centre is looking for volunteers to help , including as ushers, welcoming people or helping at the bar. Volunteers will get to see a show for free. After the Fringe shows, the Rose Centre will host its 30th anniversary variety show on 17 OperationsSeptember.manager
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