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Photo project to track local impacts of sea-level rise Cheltenham Beach is being considered for inclusion in a global project aimed at highlighting the risks of rising sea levels caused by climate change. A phone cradle is to be set up at either Cheltenham or Takapuna Beach, enabling members
of the public to help record how the coastline changes over time. Their photos will contribute to a database providing insights on how the beach is affected by changing weather and wave conditions. Over time, erosion and other long-term effects
will be tracked. Use of the cradle ensures photographs are all taken from exactly the same position and angle. The information gathered will help Auckland Council validate radar-collected data used to assess inundation risk from rising seas. To page 2
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Hands up if you love a musical... (From left) Year 13 student Tsenate Akebergne and Year 12s Hannah Selby and Sophie Spooner were among performers in Takapuna Grammar’s production of Mamma Mia at the Bruce Mason Centre last month
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Local snapper, cartoonist in awards contention Devonport’s Brett Phibbs is a finalist for Photographer of the Year at the 2022 Voyager Media Awards. Phibbs, a previous winner, is also a finalist for best sports photography. Flagstaff cartoonist Guy Body is a finalist in the Cartoonist of the Year category, for his work in the New Zealand Herald.
Cool midwinter fun Free soup will be the reward for those brave enough to jump into the Waitemata Harbour later this month. The Midwinter Dip is back on at Windsor Reserve, with the dash into the water at noon on 19 June. Registrations open at the reserve from 11.15am. Last year, 168 swimmers took the plunge.
Sickness hits library Devonport Library closed its doors to the public last week, cutting back services due to staff shortages caused by Covid 19, colds and flu. Entry into the library interior was closed, but a “click and collect” option was offered from the main entrance. Staff from around the city were called in to help plug gaps. Takapuna Library continued to offer a full service. It was hoped the reduction of services at Devonport was only temporary, an Auckland Council spokesperson said.
Blues selections Three rising North Shore Rugby Club players have been named in the Blues under-20 programme. They are front rower Sam Davies, back Cameron Howell and Ricky Michelini, included as a trainer.
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Former TGS athletes off to games Two former Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) students, shot-putter Jacko Gill and pole-vaulter Imogen Ayris, have been named in the 18-strong New Zealand athletics team for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in late July and early August. Twenty-seven-year-old Gill, who has previously been to two Olympic Games and one Commonwealth Games, will compete alongside two-time Olympic medallist Tom Walsh. Ayris, 21, the school’s 2018 Sportswoman of the Year, follows in the pole-vaulting footsteps of TGS’s 2016 Olympic bronze medallist Eliza McCartney, with whom she has trained over the years. McCartney, who has been plagued by injuries for several years, is not in the Commonwealth Games team. Ayris has been selected alongside fellow North Shore resident and training partner, Olivia McTaggart. With a personal-best vault of 4.5m, Ayris ranks behind McTaggart, 22, who has cleared 4.65, with both well back on McCartney’s 4.94m. Both vaulters will represent New Zealand in warm-up events overseas before travelling to Birmingham.
BMW burglars return for second helping Burglars who took jewellery and valuables from a Stanley Bay property returned two days later to steal the occupier’s BMW. The thefts were understood to have occurred initially on 21 May and then between 9pm on 23 May and 7am on 24 May, a police spokesperson said. “Police have conducted a scene examination and are following lines of enquiry,
including a review of available CCTV footage,” the spokesperson said. The owners of the property declined to comment when approached by the Devonport Flagstaff. Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 105 and quote file number 220521/6387 or call Crime Stoppers on 0800 555111.
Public’s pix to power sea-rise project From page 1 The monitoring programme is being established by King Tides Auckland – which already encourages Aucklanders to photograph kingtide events – in collaboration with CoastSnap, a global citizen-science project. King Tides’ first Auckland cradle was installed at Muriwai in 2020. The Devonport-Takapuna Local Board is contributing $5000 towards the $31,960 cost of the North Shore beach installation, including signage. The use of a phone cradle will control the
position and angle of photographs, meaning uploaded images can be used to measure changes to the beach and movement of the shoreline. Alhough the cradle site hasn’t yet been decided, and landowner permission will have to be negotiated, it is due to be in operation by July next year. King Tides Auckland founder Ben Sheeran said the Muriwai project had proven popular with the public. “It’s one part coastal science and one part public engagement around awareness-raising and highlighting the issues around sea-level rising and climate change,” he said.
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Shore has plenty to improve before play-offs North Shore’s hopes of defending its North Harbour premiers rugby championship were given a major reality check last Saturday, with a 31-17 drubbing at the hands of arch-rivals Takapuna. Takapuna’s dominance was such that it led 26-3 deep into the second half, and only two late converted tries saved some face for Shore. It was a generally poor performance by the green and whites, until the last 15 minutes. Missed first-up tackles and losing the ball in mauls and on Shore’s own lineout throws put the home side under all sorts of pressure. Skills that had been strengths in the early part of the season became weaknesses. Shore also kicked far too much ball away in the first half, into the welcoming arms of Takapuna’s lively backs. But it was up front that Takapuna really won the match in front of a crowd of around 1000. Its pack didn’t give an inch – from veteran lock Shane Neville, who played a full 80 minutes, to tearaway flanker Talimoni Finau – and the blue and golds out-muscled Shore across the park. It meant lots of scrappy ball for Shore first five Connor Hill, who struggled to put his usual controlling stamp on the match. Shore forwards James Fiebig, Adam Batt and Stephen Dempsey couldn’t dominate as they had over lesser teams. Confronted with Takapuna’s swarming defence they struggled to carry the ball over the advantage line. The side badly missed the explosive running of flanker/hooker Donald Coleman, who may be out for several weeks with a knee injury. Takapuna – who are missing a number of experienced players to Moana Pasifika and the Blues – looked like a hungry young team on the up. Halves Aisea Halo and Jackson Rainsford outplayed their more experienced opposites Brad McNaughten and Hill. Down 13-3 at half-time, Shore needed to score first after the break. But Takapuna struck with a penalty and a converted try and repelled Shore attacks until the game was effectively beyond the home side’s reach. On the evidence of this top-of-the-table clash, Takapuna is very much the team to beat this season. • In another battle between the two top sides, Shore Premier Reserves beat Takapuna 25-21 in the curtain-raiser.
Crunch time… Shore wing Reid Cooke about to be tackled by Takapuna’s Aisea Halo. Below left: Replacement Shore winger Manahi Tipoki runs in a late try; with (below, right) Shore hooker Tom Hardy making a determined burst
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Trust mainstay stepping down but sticking around
Time out... Maria Teape is taking a break before deciding what will follow her 10 years at the Devonport Peninsula Trust Maria Teape may be leaving her job at the Devonport Peninsula Trust, but she’s glad to be staying in Devonport. Teape is stepping down, having managed the trust’s community programme for 10 years. Asked what she’ll miss the most, she says she’s met “amazing people” in the role. “Because I’m not actually going away, it’s so nice that I’m still seeing people.”
Looking back, she says she’s proud of the trust developing the Halloween Trail event. “Probably the one I enjoyed most, which is one we actually don’t do anymore, [is] the family-fun trail. It was just a lovely little event that had its day, basically.” Teape, a home-grown Devonport local who is married to Nigel and mum to Michaela and Max, is now taking a couple of months’ ‘sabbatical’.
Softly, softly Property sales, prices and mortgage activity all continue to soften as interest rates rise and the higher cost of living begins to bite – with more to come! The Reserve Bank seems determined to go hard early, to dampen inflation expectations. But that may come at the cost of a potential hard landing and even recession (two negative GDP-growth quarters) – only then to have to loosen the reins, and we will be back to the boom, bust cycles of the past. For those wanting to borrow for a home loan there are five key requirements from the banks: 1. A 20% deposit for owner-occupied and 40% for investment property – there are exceptions so speak to us 2. Sufficient “sustainable” income to service the loan – think loan amount of around six times your gross income 3. Good credit history – some are less strict 4. Good account conduct – some are less strict 5. Acceptance of the property security being provided It sounds easy but a lot are missing out. So speak to us first, we can invariably help!
She has family from overseas coming to stay and will have a think about what comes next. “We live in a really great community and the work of the trust is an important part of that equation. “But a lot of what we do is only possible by collaborating with all our amazing community groups and organisations, so I just want to say a huge thanks to all of them.”
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Board unconvinced on ‘higgledy piggledy’ speed limit plan Trimming speed limits in central Devonport to 30km/h has been opposed by the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board, which voted in a split decision for a reduction to 40km/h instead. Auckland Transport (AT) has proposed a limit of 30km/h on multiple streets across the local-board area, including Devonport centre and around St Leo’s and Devonport Primary schools, as part of a Safe Speeds programme. All of Flagstaff Tce, Fleet St, Kerr St, Marine Tce, Montgomery Ave, Queens Pde, Seacliffe Ave and Wicklow Rd would be affected, along with parts of Calliope Rd, Clarence St, King Edward Pde and Victoria Rd. At a meeting last month to decide the board’s feedback to the plan, member Jan O’Connor, said decisions about which streets would be cut to 30km/h and which stayed at 50, were poorly planned. “It’s going to be higgledy-piggledy.” Member Trish Deans agreed. “We’re just being haphazard,” she said, “and I believe creating more problems with little bits and pieces all over the place. “We can’t cover half of Devonport and not the other.” But member Aidan Bennett said the experts should be trusted. “There’s a definite correlation between speed and safety. Dropping from 50 to 30 really, over time, will change behaviour.” Member George Wood questioned what AT was doing about the rising road toll. “I just think AT is missing the point on the road deaths,” he said. “I don’t think putting 30km/h in these particular areas is going to help us very much. “I would say, going on the track record of AT, they’ll probably go ahead and do this anyway.” Board chair Ruth Jackson suggested putting the limit down to 40km/h rather than 30km/h, noting that many residents did not support any speed reduction. The board voted 4-2 in favour of a reduction to 40km/h, with Bennett and member Toni van Tonder opposing, and not before a shouting match ensued. Van Tonder said Jackson’s statement about ‘many’ residents was inaccurate and misleading. Jackson took umbrage at what she said was a questioning of her integrity. She had noted a number of submissions were opposed, as well as hearing anecdotally from the community. “It may be subjective but it isn’t dishonest.” Board members suggested other streets should have speed reductions, including Old Lake Rd, Vauxhall Rd to the Albert Rd intersection, and Albert Rd to Victoria Rd, but were told these would not be included in this round of changes. The board asked AT to look into a raised zebra crossing across Hamana St at Old Lake Rd, to support the safe crossing of beach users and school students. Its feedback will go to AT, but the decision is out of the board’s hands. If finally approved by AT, the new limits are scheduled for introduction at the end of November.
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Convoys deliver young cyclists to new pump track More than 100 young cyclists joined ‘Pedal to the Park’ convoys from across Devonport peninsula to a fun day at Woodall Park pump track in Narrow Neck. Cyclists, community leaders and members of Devonport Rotary – which was behind the pump-track project – led groups that gathered at Laketown Green, Hauraki, and at Windsor Reserve., Devonport The northern group picked up other riders from Bayswater, Belmont and along Lake Rd. Organisers estimate around another 100 pump-track fans made their own way to the park for a monrning to celebrate the community facility being open. Pedal power… the convoy leaves Windsor Reserve (right); Chris Werry of Bike Devonport supervises the crossing of King Edward Pde (below); and Carlotta Condini, 4, (below right) is dressed up for the occasion
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Southbound cyclsits... The Hauraki group about to set off to the new Woodall Park pump track at Narrow Neck, on a ride others joined along the way. From left, Anton Williams, 10, Cristiana Lenihan, 9, Zoe Lenihan, 6, Emily Thomas, 9, Lia Thomas, 3, and, Finley Thomas, 6, with parents Richard Jones and Ben Lenihan.
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By Rob Drent
Several years ago, an exasperated Grant Gillon, then deputy chair of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board, threw his hands up in a meeting and said something like: “We’re not making any progress because we’re always fighting to keep what we’ve got.” I was thinking about his comment when news of Auckland Council’s review of golf courses broke. No decisions have been made, but it seems inevitable a fight will emerge to hang onto the courses around the city. On the Devonport peninsula, this means the Waitemata Golf Club course, which is on land leased from the city. The course has had a colourful history. Gifted to the Borough of Devonport, it is actually called Alison Park. The first full season of golf took place in 1906. The course was originally nine holes within the perimeter of a horse-racing track. Motorbike racing, horse racing, greyhound
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The Flagstaff Notes and professional foot racing shared the park until 1934. However, as part of the lease, residents are permitted to walk the course at all times. While the pressures on land around Auckland for housing are real, selling off golfcourse land is short-sighted. In a growing city, green spaces are vital. A golf course sell-off would be akin to the disastrous attempt in the 1970s to hock off Ngataringa Bay for a developer to fill in – all in the name of an increased rate take. Some argue that golf is an elitist sport and not many people play it for the amount of land involved. This argument fails on several levels. With an ageing and increasingly active older population, I’m predicting a big increase in golf participants. Weekend-warrior sportsmen and sportswomen in their 40s and 50s today are the golfers of tomorrow. Also, for Auckland Council to have any chance of progressing its lofty climate-change reduction aspirations, it needs to hang onto all the city’s green spaces. Trees are being taken out in their thousands to make way for intensification. And a study has shown that the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board area has the worst tree coverage on the North Shore. I cut through the golf course last weekend. Although the player I watched hit two sets of trees as he negotiated a fairway would probably disagree, there’s ample space for more trees at Waitemata, particularly around the
June 3, 2022 fringes on the boundaries along Seabreeze Rd and Lake Rd, and the Allenby Ave playground, for example. One from the “someone else’s money” department: The old Devonport Borough Council building at 3 Victoria Rd will have been unoccupied for four years in July this year. Auckland Council has decided it will be sold, but given no timeline yet on how and when this will happen. If you or I had an empty building or house would it really be an option to have it sitting vacant for four years? Auckland Council has refused to tell the Flagstaff how much it has spent on maintenance and cleaning of the building since July 2018. Environment Minister David Parker’s comments that Auckland Council has gone too far protecting houses in special character areas are ill considered. Not only has the government dictated how Auckland’s growth should progress through a housing enabling law (effectively unravelsling years of carefully considered planning policy) but now it seems to want to tell Auckland Council how to interpret the legislation. A strong push back is needed from the city and its councillors on how the Auckland Unitary Plan is modified.
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Trolley duty no block to writer’s debut Sam Welsh, whose day job makes him a familiar face in Devonport, is also a writer with his first book out. He tells Rob Drent how the supermarket car park stimulates his creativity.
Writer at work... Sam Welsh in a familiar setting – the Devonport New World car park – with a copy of his new book, Travels Through Space Taking Sam Welsh’s picture in the New World car park almost becomes a media event. Customers honk their horns, one opens her window and says “smile, Sam”. Welsh, clutching his notebook of jottings,
poems and stories, and his new book Travels Through Space, takes it all in his stride. “It’s pretty sunny today,” he says matter-of-factly as he squints towards the camera lens.
Born and bred in Devonport, Welsh has worked at New World five days a week for the best part of a decade, collecting trolleys in the car park, packing goods at the counter and sometimes stacking shelves.
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It was there he was diagnosed with Asperger’s and dyslexia. One of his indicators was his response to team sports. “Biochemically, I was not compelled to do them… I used to get confused about which team was which.” His lack of interest in sports had an upside – helping sharpen his focus on history and English. He left high school with sixth form certificate, and following help with his dyslexia he is an avid reader.
books of history or science fiction over a weekend. He enjoys work by D C Fontana, H G Wells and Stephen Donaldson. A favourite novel is Timeline by Michael Crichton, which combines science fiction, history and time travel. After school, Sam studied horticulture, and worked at Pizza Hut and the Patriot as a kitchen hand before first landing a job at New World. He met his Japanese wife, Yumi, outside the supermarket in 2002. “I just started chatting to her.” She was a tourist at the time, who returned to New Zealand to study English. Sam then lived in Japan for five years, teaching English. The couple married in 2009, in Rotorua, and today live in a flat just up the road from the supermarket. Some of Welsh’s poems show the influence of both Japan and New Zealand. In addition to writing, Sam enjoys day-hiking, swimming, a bit of table tennis and mini-golf – as well as walking several customers’ dogs. Now in his late 30s, he has no immediate plans to leave New World. “I had thought about going into tourism, but then Covid hit and there were no jobs.” Another book is a possibility. “I’ve got more than 50 stories and poems in my notebooks that are almost ready to go,” says Sam. A further option would be a collection of his drawings. • Travels Through Space by Sam Welsh is available at Paradox Books.
June 3, 2022 It been almost continuous – he was off work for nine months several years ago when he fell over a kerb while helping a customer, breaking his arm. Welsh likes the job. He enjoys meeting people and his brain is always active. His work often stimulates ideas and thoughts he records in a pocket notebook, developing them later into poems and stories. “Between trolleys, I often write a few notes down.” He may one day publish a book on the car park itself. “It’s interesting, all the nuances – personalities and the way people act and behave,” he says. The job has also brought occasional encounters with Devonport literati, such as writer Kevin Ireland. “I’ve got several of Kevin Ireland’s books and I’ve shown him some of my stories.” Welsh has around 50 notebooks, from which he harvests nuggets for his writing. Travels Through Space, his first book, contains around 20 poems and stories. Friends helped with editing and a designer with layout. Close reading will reveal a few Devonport characters and local observations. Welsh has always had a creative side. Twenty years ago, he held an exhibition at the Depot Artspace, featuring his sketches of Devonport buildings. He grew up in Kawerau Ave, attending Vauxhall School and then Rosmini College.
“Between trollies, I often write a few notes down.”
“I persevered… When all my interests (like history and astronomy) started connecting it was like a spider web and my brain started lighting up to different parts of that web.” As a child, he enjoyed reading the Encyclopedia Britannica. “I loved medieval history.” Welsh’s passion for reading has continued. He sometimes gets through several
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‘Classism of the privileged’ pervades Devonport The fact that ‘interested parties’ so easily conflate socio-economic disadvantage with deviance (specifically, sexual violence and gang membership) – even the police are called on before people have moved in – speaks volumes about the classism of the privileged that pervades much of the Devonport community. Ghassan Hage, an Australian academic working on racism, once argued that white Australians justify racism through a veneer of concern. The ‘White Worriers’, as he calls them, worry about the threat of the ‘other’ to their way of life, their children, their property and neighbourhoods, you name it. This worry about the often poor, non-
It is well established – and documented in the pages of the Flagstaff – that Devonport is easily threatened by any proposed housing-related changes that may affect property values, ‘our way of life’ and our cherished heritage. Yet, the article ‘Kainga Ora given community message about tenants’ (Flagstaff, 22 April) struck me as particularly despicable and embarrassing. Essentially, Kainga Ora tenants are given to understand that Devonport doesn’t want their kind in our midst. At the very least, we want to cherry-pick which particular low-income households are worthy of being homed in our community.
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Cones aplenty, but where’s the fix? Over the last four weeks or so, I have noticed that the hazard identified as a water egress from the base of the concrete wall at the top of the Victoria Rd hill has now been made more of a hazard, with the installation of hazard markers and supposed hazard-reduction measures. When would this make any sense to the common citizen? A number of people I have spoken to, and this includes parents who walk their children to Devonport Primary, and the elderly, are all flabbergasted at this apparent stupidity. So the question is, when will they actually get around to any form of repair? Chris Leech
Concern about traffic noise from Lake Rd has prompted the building of a large wooden fence around the Belmont Court pensioner flats at the corner of Roberts Ave. A spokeswoman for Haumaru Housing, an Auckland Council and Selwyn Foundation joint venture that manages the 27 units, said a fence around 1.8 metres high was being built in response to tenants wanting noise minimised. “At the same time as putting the fence up, we’re also undertaking planting to enhance the installation,” she said.
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Introducing Dr Ben Gaunt – now at Devonport Health
Get a skin check! Those were Dr Ben Gaunt’s parting words after the Flagstaff ’s quick-fire interview between patient appointments at his new place of work, Devonport Health Centre. At a neighbouring cafe, he pulled out his phone like a true digital native to reference statistics from the World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Cancer Research. These show that New Zealand has the highest occurence of skin cancer in the world – and the highest mortality rate from the disease. Our rate of 4.7 deaths a year per 100,000 of population is almost double that of Australia’s. Gaunt says that one of the hurdles for New Zealanders is access to healthcare providers, either because specialists are prohibitively expensive or simply not accessible in more remote areas. As a GP with a special interest in skin cancer and dermatology, Gaunt says that he can quite easily assess moles and do a full skin check at the clinic, as well as biopsies and most straightforward procedures, such as mole removals, although these do sometimes require a specialist’s attention. “We can do a full skin check with a dermascope in 30 minutes, which is much more cost- and time-effective for patients than travelling to see a specialist,” says Gaunt. Patients need only strip to their underwear for the skin check. Gaunt attended Kristin School and the University of Auckland, then finished his medical degree in Australia. After 10 years of study and work across the Tasman, he returned to the Shore with his new family just a few weeks ago. “Australia was great but it’s not New Zealand,” he says.
Having grown up on the Shore, Gaunt says he had always intended to return to New Zealand to be close to family. “It really hit me during Covid when I realised that I hadn’t seen my dad for two-anda-half years, despite him having had a health scare.” “Now, we live in Hauraki, my parents are in Takapuna and the in-laws live in Belmont,” he says. Along with skin cancer and dermatology, Gaunt’s interests include sports medicine, paediatrics, men’s health and providing holistic care – focusing on diet, exercise, sleep,
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stress management and mental well-being. He believes an increasing number of young doctors are taking a holistic approach to patient care, trying to get ahead of issues before they manifest and require medical treatment. He says that doctors don’t normally get much training in nutrition, but that “evidence based”, nutritional and environmental medicine is an evolving field that he follows closely. “My goal would be to get everyone off their medication where possible,” he says. He refers to a successful case when he was able to get a “tough” farmer in New South Wales to refrain from alcohol abuse and therefore reduce the prescribed medicine needed to treat related ailments. The medical field is always evolving thanks to an evidence-based approach. Although this has caused some people to become frustrated with health guidance during the Covid pandemic, Gaunt says the medical profession always makes improvements as evidence arrives to support a change. Gaunt says that one of the major issues facing New Zealand is mental health. Well aware of the importance to his patients of relaxation and down time, Gaunt practises what he preaches regarding worklife balance. Outside the surgery, he enjoys golf, domestic travel and family. “We’ve only been here four weeks but already been to the Coromandel three times,” he says. Along with his professional goals aimed at best serving the needs of his patients, the five-handicapper nurses a desire to improve his game and eventually become a scratch golfer.
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Devonport 09 445 2010
Major sponsor for the North Shore Cricket Club
NEW LISTING
Devonport 2/3A Derby Street CHELTENHAM TOWNHOUSE - BLUE CHIP LOCATION Tucked down a driveway for peace and safety, this wonderful home has so many opportunities to add value now or in the future. Great north facing patio surrounded by established trees will be a treasure to enjoy over the summer months. Lots of storage and one of three, the bonus is the exclusive land elegantly framed by wrought iron gates. This property will be sold and our instructions are clear from the Trustees.
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Devonport 11 Vauxhall Road COSY & CHARMING COTTAGE Brimming with history in a prime location, totally renovated and it's completely freehold. This beautiful home has never been so move-in ready! Three double bedrooms, plus a single that could be a nursery, guest room, home office or playroom. How versatile! Our vendor's family have sadly outgrown this residence for all the right reasons and are very motivated to sell! Call me today!
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Darshan Jogia
021 107 1269
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Tucked down the end of a rightof-way is this fabulous newly renovated 3 bedroom home. Be the first to enjoy the sparkling brand new modern kitchen with stone benchtops and quality appliances, or to soak in the luxurious designer bathtub in the white tiled bathroom with rainfall shower. Entertain friends in the spacious open plan dining-lounge area, that opens up through generous double glazed layback bifolds to the private north facing deck.
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Devonport 6 Flagstaff Terrace A SIGNIFICANT PROPERTY 6 WITH PLENTY OF For Sale OPTIONS!
Devonport 3/31 Ewen Alison Avenue 7
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Aptly named 'Peace and Plenty', this long-standing, charming B&B is now on the market with offers below its current CV invited. You may of course wish to continue running the home as a B&B or return this grand lady to her original status as an exceptional family home. Elevated aspect - just steps from the waterfront and prestigious King Edward Parade.
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'HEADS UP' - BELOW CV After 35 years our vendor needs to move on. - YES! $795,000 for central Devonport. - 2 Bedroom, solid brick and tile unit. - Elevated - Sunny - Views Insulated. - Carport and deck - Carpeted Heat pump. - Walk to the ferry, shop in the village and enjoy a community like NO OTHER!
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Devonport 09 445 2010
Major sponsor for the North Shore Cricket Club
Devonport 8 King Edward Parade TIMELESS ELEGANCE King Edward Parade is one of Devonport waterfront's most prestigious addresses. One might say it is indeed a once in a lifetime opportunity when a property such as this is actually for sale in this highly prized, landmark location. We are honoured to present to you 8 King Edward Parade. First time this treasured family heirloom has been presented to the market after 30 years.
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Trish Fitzgerald
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Tracey Lawrence
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1920's Character Bungalow Full Freehold Site of 586m² Sunny North Facing Garden Potential and Opportunity Large Double Garage Peace and Tranquility, A Private Oasis
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120 years old and still standing strong, the stories these gorgeous old homes must have to tell. Quaint villas and cottages line this part of Vauxhall Road along with high quality homes and historic treasures, but few opportunities come to market. Here is your chance to purchase this 1900's perfectly formed villa sitting on 445m2 of land. First time on the market in 50 years.
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Trish Fitzgerald
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barfoot.co.nz/832595
PRETTY ON THE PARK Sun-filled, safe, and serene, and just 3 doors up from beautiful Melrose Reserve! This light, bright, and classically beautiful home needs a new family. Drenched in sunshine, full of laughter, and lots of busy kids, this fab family is on the move. Our vendors are motivated and looking to move on for all the right reasons so come visit our open homes or call us right now for more information.
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Lance Richardson
021 796 660
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Suzy Wang
022 199 7808
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Waterwise season ends with kayak contest
Victorious water warrriors... Vauxhall School took out the inter-school Waterwise Regatta at Narrow Neck last week, an event contested in kayaks rather than yachts due to light winds. The winning team was (from left to right): Oscar Yan, 10, Bond Stoddart, 12, Aliya Kirkwood, 10, and Leni Williams, 10. Bayswater School and Belmont Primary tied for second place.
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Purple patch... Belmont Primary School’s team (from left to right): Marcus Cutfield, 10, Emily Downs, 11, Madeline Thomas, 11, and Oscar Woodhead, 10
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They’re off…racing begins at the annual end-of-season Waterwise regatta
The Bayswater School team, which tied for second (from left to right): Tui Browne, 11, Samika Harbour, 11, Jai ElphicMoon, 10, and Emilio Fabres, 10
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Weta workshops: locals install insect houses
Home sweet home… Anne McMillan (left) and Colin Griffiths attach a weta hotel to a puriri tree in Polly’s Park. Below: Kathy Farquhar encourages other Ryman residents to join in ecological working bees
Weta may soon be enjoying the pleasures of apartment living in Devonport, just like some of the people doing their bit to look after the native insects. Residents of Ryman have been installing weta ‘hotels’ in the bush beneath their own homes in the William Sanders Retirement Village. The idea is that the insects will seek refuge inside the wooden resting places. So far, six predator-proof weta hotels have been attached to puriri trees in Mary Barrett Glade (aka Polly’s Park), in a joint initiative with peninsula environmental group Restoring Takarunga Hauraki (RTH). Devonport resident Anne McMillan, who coordinates RTH’s efforts to create an eco-corridor across the peninsula, explained that each weta hotel featured circular entrances of no more than 16mm across – anything larger than 17mm would allow mice to enter. Five or six Ryman residents regularly volunteer to work in the glade for a few hours each week, mainly clearing weeds. In addition to the weta project, they helped clear tradescantia from the slopes above the restored walking track through Department of Conservation land. Kathy Farquhar pointed out her apartment just above, saying: “Every morning we wake up to hear the tuis.” Fellow resident Val Griffiths said she and husband Colin loved having the glade nearby.
“We used to take friends on the walk when Polly had it [the track] with bark,” she said, referring to Mabel (Polly) Pollock the determined woman who carved the now shingled track from what had once been a dumping area beneath Navy housing. Pollock planted hundreds of trees in the area, from the 1990s until her death in 2010, labouring in memory of her daughter, Mary, for whom the glade is named. Griffiths says knowing the history of the area makes it extra special. As well as locals using the track again after it was reopened last year, a number of Ryman residents now take visiting children and grandchildren through the area. “I just love the walk.” McMillan – whose own mother lives in serviced care at the Ryman village – said more of the untreated-pine weta hotels would be installed in Achilles Reserve and along Seabreeze Rd. A weta had recently been spotted by RTH members working at the reserve. It was hoped these sightings would become more common. “Weta are like an insect mouse,” added Farquhar, being foragers who recycled wood and ate seeds. In nature, they would often burrow into holes left by puriri moths. To encourage this, putaputaweta had been planted because puriri moth larvae liked to make holes in the sappy woods, which in turn are used by weta.
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Bayswater 17 Roberts Avenue
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Searching for the “classic Kiwi" family home, this gorgeous extended 1940s bungalow could be the perfect fit! On a generous 584sqm site, this spacious weatherboard home will cater to families of all ages and stages. The open plan living/dining opens through French doors to the enclosed northfacing deck, ideal for year-round enjoyment. You will love the sundrenched back garden and if excellent education is your priority, the home is across the road from Bayswater School with Takapuna Grammar nearby. Bayswater is a wonderful place to call home, the Marina and ferry to the city, parks, walking, and cycling tracks, sporting activities, and great local beaches to enjoy. This could definitely be the home you’ve been waiting for!
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Right in the heart of historic Devonport and just a few steps to the waterfront, this apartment is one of five in the tightly held enclave “Windsor Mews”. Light and sundrenched with a private courtyard, if you are looking for a smaller property to downsize to or a cool apartment in a brilliant central location that’s hard to beat, this is essential viewing. The ferry to the CBD is a few minutes’ walk away, beaches, excellent restaurants, galleries, and the cinema are all so close. A perfect opportunity to secure your place in this sought-after, iconic location.
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Young shellfish found in Cheltenham survey
Fish fingers... Douglas Burfoot (left) with Chris Willliams and his father Tim were among the local volunteers counting shellfish. Below: Ngati Whatua kaumatua John Retimana and volunteer Helen Ryan were among others involved in the latest survey Encouraging signs of shellfish life were concerned locals, who combine to help the that could occur again one day, perhaps with the lifting of the rahui for just one commufound in the first Cheltenham Beach count of shellfish recover, continues today. Intermittent cases of people harvesting nity-focused day. “I dream of a celebration tuangi (cockles) and pipis since 2019. Around 20 Navy recruits and community shellfish are still an issue, but much rarer these day, where nothing leaves the beach,” said volunteers last month resumed a check on days, with transgressors liable to fines. Those Macindoe. Greville said shellfish counts had fluctuated shellfish numbers that first ran in 1992, amid involved in the project would like more clearly over the decades, which Grant put down to visible signs warning of this. concern about plummeting numbers. Retimana said he recalled going to the climatic and nutrient factors. For now the rahui While this year’s numbers and sizes are yet to be collated and compared with previous beach in the 1970s and enjoying shellfish remains firmly in place. “Its not a recovered surveys, the presence of juvenile shellfish was on white bread. He and Macindoe hoped system by any means,” cautioned Greville. a good sign, said event organiser Georgina Greville. “It’s not abundant, but it’s encouraging looking,” she said. Greville has been involved in the community-driven count from the outset, along with other attendees including Ngati Whatua kaumatua John Retimana, and Scott Macindoe. Scientist Coral Grant joined a few years later, while doing her masters degree, and has now clocked up 31 years helping on the project. She was back again this year on a community-service day off from her work as a water-quality scientist for Auckland Council. Retimana welcomed the helpers before Greville explained the process of digging down a few centimetres for shellfish samples. These were taken at the low-tide mark and further up the beach at 100-metre intervals along the shore. After the first count in 1992, concern about the low numbers led to a 1993 rahui being placed on taking shellfish. It remains in force, along with a ban under the Fisheries Act. Retimana said at that time fisheries officers were doing little to combat the taking of shellfish in large quantities. Macindoe said a community effort of iwi representatives and
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Gulf ‘co-governance’ opposed at public forum Public opposition to scallop-dredging in the Hauraki Gulf – and any moves towards co-governance of its waters – was made clear at a packed public public meeting held at Narrow Neck last week. Crowd responses at the Revitalising the Hauraki Gulf meeting, called and chaired by North Shore MP Simon Watts, showed a near-unanimous opposition to dredging, and more than two-thirds against co-governance with iwi. Around 100 people attended the gathering at the Wakatere Boating Club. Attendees also indicated by a large margin their support for more reserves. “Parliament should listen,” said University of Auckland marine biologist Dr Andrew Jeffs. Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei representative Moana Tamaariki-Pohe said rahui were one method of protection and showed Maori willingness to preserve resources. Rahui currently cover around 30 per cent of the gulf, but just a tiny area is currently protected by law. Jeffs and Tamaariki-Pohe were among five invited speakers. Gulf-related issues have come in for scrutiny as Parliament prepares to consider introducing more protections in an update of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Act. National MP Watts said he wanted to encourage community awareness and debate, and sound out his constituency. The panel laid out some stark warnings on the state of the gulf and its depleted fish stocks. “We are putting great pressure on the ecosystem,” said the Hauraki Gulf Forum’s executive officer Alex Rogers. Climate change and housing intensification would exacerbate this, he said. The forum, a statutory advocacy group, met government ministers and other members of Parliament last month to urge a bipartisan approach to the act’s overhaul. The government pledged in 2021 to add 18
new protected marine areas. The forum has also urged Auckland Council to use its regulatory powers to improve outcomes. Rogers told the meeting that plumes of sediment at Long Bay and deepening mud deposits were indicative of the challenges of managing urbanisation. The example of a $750 fine for sediment from a $20-million development showed a tougher regime was needed, he said. Another land-based threat was from microplastics entering waterways. These were showing up in endangered Bryde’s whales that lived in the gulf and also getting into fish guts and tissue – “what we like to eat at our chippy”. Dredging had ripped up the gulf, he said, and while this had ended for 95 per cent of scallop fishing, his call for it to be banned altogether drew strong applause. Jeffs also pointed to the damage caused by dredging, saying the gulf’s vast mussel beds had been wiped out long ago and “the data for scallops is just appalling; the beds have been all but obliterated”. Yet the government would still not end the remaining scallop take, he said. Working with Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei to try to re-establish the mussel beds was a positive step, but he had learned “it’s not easy putting it back – so it is better not to take it away”. Tamaariki-Pohe echoed this, saying the iwi wanted to revitalise the waters for future generations and had started from its home base in Okahu Bay. Asked by an audience member about co-governance for the gulf between mana whenua and local and central government, Rogers said the forum had “passed that football” to the Crown. He said he did not sense any move for change on either side of the House, but the forum wanted the gulf’s legal status improved. Compared with how the Waikato River was seen in terms of resource-management issues, the gulf was at the very bottom of the heap of what was required in council and government
decisions, he said. After Rogers instigated a show of hands, which came out against co-governance, Tamaariki-Pohe acknowledged this as a trigger issue, but said it was often misunderstood. “Co-leading is what we talk about.” Ngati Whatua was doing this already with Auckland Council regarding reserve land, she said. Jeffs said the history of the gulf generally was one of steady decline and inertia. Ecosystem damage had led to an explosion of kina, which were “mowing down” the kelp forest that functioned as a nursery habitat and encouraged biodiversity. Large lobsters would have once munched through the kina, but they too had fallen victim to overfishing. Sanford fishing company representative Dr Peter Longdill said for some key species, recreational fishers were taking more than commercial operators. With snapper, this was two times more, a tripling in amount in recent decades. A combined bag of 20 a day for recreation seems “quite a lot to me”, he said. Recreational fishers were much more poorly monitored than commercial ones, he said, suggesting an angler registry. Jeffs: “We need to throw the book at people who breach limits.” LegaSea’s Sam Woolford said the group wanted the quota system reviewed. Hauraki Gulf fish stocks were at all-time lows, he said, with crayfish functionally extinct. The focus on key species, like snapper, meant falling numbers in other species such as trevally, John Dory and gurnard were less visible. While the idea of catching a feed remained really valuable, more awareness of protecting the resource was needed. In answer to a question from the audience about what recreational restrictions should apply, Jeffs said it wasn’t about who took what. “The reality is for most fish species we just take too many.”
THE REBUS CLUB OF DEVONPORT INC (FORMERLY THE PROBUS CLUB OF DEVONPORT INC) WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1987.
Recently our club was presented with a certificate acknowledging its 35 years in existence. Rebus Clubs are found worldwide and are in many parts of New Zealand. We are a mixed club and welcome women and men of the Devonport and adjacent areas. Make new friends, hear interesting speakers and enjoy outings. We meet in The Rose Centre, School Lane, Belmont on the third Monday of each month from 10am until midday. Membership is open to all retired or semi-retired persons. We are a non-political, non-sectarian and nonfundingraising club. Many new friendships are made within Rebus.
For further information please contact: Barbara 445-6599 or Helen 445-3922
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Emergency planning meetings resume Community-resilience meetings to develop emergency plans are back on for peninsula suburbs, with Devonport residents well underway in developing their response. The idea is for each suburb in the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board area to have a plan in place for civil-defence emergencies, designed to give residents an overview of how to best prepare to help themselves and also what assistance is available locally. The initiative started several years ago after local-board members became concerned that citywide civil-defence planning had slipped. The board arranged for the umbrella group Auckland North Community and Development Inc (Ancad) to help locally. A series of public meetings was held, including with emergency-management staff from Auckland Council, who said residents could draw up their own area-specific plans. Work slowed with Covid, but the meetings recently restarted. Ancad’s community resilience co-ordinator, Madison O’Dwyer, said groups were at different stages of preparedness. Training sessions were planned and St John, Community Patrol and community constables were also involved. Several meetings had been held with community representatives in Devonport. Attention would shift to reactivating efforts in Bayswater-Belmont, and Hauraki, which might be paired with Takapuna. Plans will be posted on a Resilient Auckland North website. People interested in becoming involved in work in their area, can contact madison@ancad. org.nz
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Groups win local board funding Funding of more than $100,000 has been distributed by the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board for community projects and multi-board programmes. The successful applicants included: • Emma Bishop for Glass Ceiling Arts Collective (for StageAntics musical theatre at the Rose Centre) $3420. • Glass Ceiling Arts Collective (artists’ fees, including choreographer and sign-language interpreter, sound and lighting for Disney High School musical production at The Rose Centre) $5000. • Bayswater School Parents’ Group (Matariki Festival) $2792. • Depot Artspace (Matariki visual arts exhibition and associated events) $3000. • Narrow Neck Playcentre (sandpit repair) $2000. • North Shore United Association Football Club (clubroom history and heritage area) $2000. • Chinese Association of North Shore City (Matariki Week event at Devonport RSA and Chinese Dragon Boat festival celebration) $1900. • Auckland King Tides Initiative (CoastSnap
device, turning photos into coastal data, on Cheltenham or Takapuna Beach) $5000. • Victoria Theatre (new carpet) $6000. • Wakatere Boating Club (new doors and windows for clubhouse kitchen) $5000. • Ngataringa Tennis Club (renovation of changing rooms, toilets and showers) $5000. • Devonport Schools Waterwise (locker rental and Wakatere subscription costs) $3000. Funding granted to multi-board programmes included: • North Harbour Community Patrol (mobile crime-prevention patrols) $942. • Outline Aotearoa (peer-support service programme’s volunteer training, clinical supervision, advertising, stationery, insurance, and IT) $1250. • The StarJam Charitable Trust (inclusive music workshops) $3000. • Pet Refuge NZ (administration costs for the Auckland shelter) $500. • Age Concern Auckland (specialised Asian services) $7000. • PHAB (Physically Handicapped and Able Bodied) Association (12 weekly recreational programmes) $6000.
Plans for Devonport playground approved
BID funding unchanged
Concept designs for a new $280,000 playground in Allenby Reserve have been approved by the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board. Detailed designs will now be prepared with work set to start at the end of 2022. The playground will include a new basket swing as well as a carousel. A budget of $220,000 across three years had previously been approved. The board was told this month a further $60,000 will be needed in the 2022/23 financial year.
More than $500,000 in business development funding has been rubber-stamped by the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board. The board last month allocated the same amount of funding for each business improvement district (BID) as the previous year: $129,000 for the Devonport Business Association, $145,000 for the Milford Business Association and $457,211for the Takapuna Beach Business Association. The money is collected via a targeted rate and distributed byAuckland Council in quarterly grants.
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NZ Top Scholar Awards winners The Top Scholar Awards ceremony celebrates the academic achievements of the highest-achieving secondary school students in the New Zealand Scholarship examinations. At this ceremony, held in the Grand Hall of the Parliament buildings, two Takapuna Grammar School students received a Top Subject Scholar Award. Jade Poppelwell was placed first in New Zealand for Economics while Yuna Jade Poppelwell, Senior DP Will Scovell and Yuna Hamamoto Hamamoto was placed first in Japanese.
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20 years ago from the Flagstaff files • Twenty-two fraud charges laid against Devonport businessman Grant Woodhouse have been dismissed in the North Shore District Court due to “sloppy” police work. The charges related to nearly $7000 missing from the Devonport Arts Festival account. • Takapuna Grammar Old Boys Simon Gundry and Ross Chapman are pictured on the front page playing against the current TGS first XV. The issue features the first digital photographs taken and published in the Flagstaff. • Thousands turn out for Takapuna Grammar’s 75th jubilee celebrations, including foundation pupils Harry Bioletti and Sadie Chapman, who recalled failing to see each other in their first two years, 1927-29: boys and girls were segregated, with boys
taught at the front of the school and girls at the back. • Selwyn Chappell retires after 50 years in the Navy. • Bayswater School principal Trevor Snookes quits after 11 years saying increased workloads are getting out of hand. • Takapuna Grammar Rowing Club is close to finalising negotiations to have a permanent home at Bayswater Point. • Rod Pedersen, the former boss of TV3 News, dies. • The Rose Centre celebrates 10 years of operation. • A two-double-bedroom apartment in Cheltenham is on the market for $239,000. • Devonport community cop Bob Steele moves south to the West Coast, predicting Devonport’s traffic and parking problems
will get worse. • Campervan users are predicted to descend on Devonport in 2003 for the America’s Cup. • Joyce Hitchen and other members of Devonport Methodist Church knit knee rugs for Auckland’s needy. • Devonport’s Morgan triplets, Margaret, Sheryl and Kenneth – celebrities in the late 1940s, when they appeared on the front page in the Auckland Star – are alive and well living in Tolaga Bay, Holland and Australia respectively. • Ryley Webster and James Allard are profiled as future stars of North Shore United football club. • North Shore Rugby prop Paul Vegar, who played 250 games for the club, is the Devonport Flagstaff interview subject.
Golf club concerned about council plan for course land Devonport’s Waitemata Golf Club strongly opposes Auckland Council’s draft plan of managing golf courses on public land. The plan was billed by council staff as increasing Aucklanders’ access to publicly owned golf land and stopping non-golfers missing out on using the land. Thirteen golf facilities across the region use public land, including the Waitemata Golf Club, the Takapuna Golf Club on Northcote Rd, the Golf Warehouse Driving Range on Fred Thomas Drive, and the Pupuke Golf Club, whose land is Crown-owned but council-managed. Auckland has a further 25 privately-owned golf courses. The proposed plan would guide future decisions on golf-course leases when they expire. But it also creates uncertainty for golf leaseholders due to its intention for more use of the land for non-golfing activities, and opens the door for development.
The Waitemata Golf Club made its case at a meeting of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board last month. “The club has been a huge part of the community for the last 118 years,” general manager David Herbert said. “We’re an open space; we have walkers and joggers across the site every day. “We have players from five years old and our oldest playing member is 95.” The club also invested $1 million a year in maintenance. “The concern for us is our lease is up for renewal in 2027.” The club won New Zealand Golf Club of the Year in 2019, has 1250 members and sees 60,000 rounds of golf every year, an average of 1154 a week. The local board asked council to revisit the golf-management plan. “This thing smells to me like a land grab.
It really does,” member Aidan Bennett said. The board opposed any public land currently used as a golf course being sold, or otherwise released, for housing or business land, noting that the wording in the plan made this a possibility. “The board notes that many golf courses – including the Waitemata Golf Course – are already popular walking destinations, and considers that perimeter walking, jogging and cycling tracks could be implemented without adversely affecting golf courses.” Board member Toni van Tonder said she would like to see golf courses used more, and noted that during lockdown people enjoyed walking without fear of getting hit by a ball. “There’s always going to be the tension around access for those who aren’t golfers.” The Auckland Council parks, arts, community and events committee will decide mid-year whether or not to adopt the plan.
Seniors ‘forgotten’ in draft parking proposals Auckland Transport has forgotten its older users in its draft parking plan, Grey Power North Shore says. Shopping zones from Devonport to Takapuna could lose streetside parking in the latest plans to streamline the city’s roads. The Bayswater Marina area and Lake Rd – including at Belmont, Hauraki and around Takapuna Grammar and Belmont Intermediate schools – are also lined up, with the town centres, for “proactive parking management”. In its submission to the draft parking plan, Grey Power said the plan had a bias towards the younger demographic and “completely overlooks” the specific needs of the city’s seniors. “Seniors cannot ride bikes or e-scooters as a prime means of personal transport, and cannot walk extended distances – for many, 100 metres
is a stretch. “They are major users of public transport already, but lack of connectivity, destinations not adequately served by public transport, and personal-mobility difficulties make the use of cars essential and a social necessity.” And seniors’ impact on traffic flow was negligible, Grey Power said. “Their vehicles tend to be small compacts, travelling at low speeds, used outside main commuter periods.” Seniors needed to be recognised as a major demographic and the plan overhauled to recognise that, Grey Power said. The group provided a forecast for the growing number of seniors over the next 25 years. By 2043, seniors are expected to make up 18.6 per cent of Auckland’s 2.3 million population.
“The expanding number of seniors in the city must be programmed into the overall forecasts of the Draft Parking Strategy.” At Devonport, the ferry terminal is a special situation where free, dedicated senior parking – allowing time for a visit to the CBD – must be included in the parking mix, Grey Power said. For shoppers going into Takapuna’s Toka Puia car park, an option could be a shuttle running to the town centre. The group also called for free parking concessions for Super Gold cardholders in parking buildings and council street parking. “Our needs are specific and real, very simple to put in place, and of minimal cost.” The parking strategy is set to come to local boards for feedback before being finalised later this year.
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The stars will align early on the Devonport peninsula, with the Matariki Glow Show themed production coming to the Rose Centre in Belmont next week. Giant glow-in-the-dark puppets will tell the mythical story of the star cluster in a special show to be staged here ahead of New Zealand’s first national Matariki holiday on 24 June. Te kāhui whetū o Matariki (the star cluster/whānau of Matariki) gather to light up the skies for te tau hou Māori (Māori New Year). The innovative puppet company aims to blend art and science for children, and is touring the show to 40 venues nationally this month and next. Belmont is the first stop on the tour. The production, staged under UV light to illuminate the puppets, blends te reo Māori and English to educate and entertain with positive themes of togetherness. It is accompanied by a lively original soundtrack. The production has two versions, one concisely told for under fives and another full-length show with a Q&A aimed at school-age children up to 12 years. Glow shows began in 2017, as a creative concept by Sarah Burren, a New Zealander who spent many years overseas working on television and theatre productions. She also fashioned costumes for celebrities (and Basil Brush) at the BBC. Upon returning to New Zealand, she became involved in major-event production, including for the America’s Cup and Rugby World Cup 2011. Burren, who now lives in Orewa, was a founding member of the Victoria Theatre Trust. This year’s Glow Show director is Rokalani Lavea, also a performer across dance, music, screen and theatre. He recently had the role of ‘King Kong’ in the television series The Panthers. Matariki Glow Show is on at the Rose Centre, Belmont, on Thursday, 9 June at 10am, 11.30am and 1.30pm. For details of tickets, priced from $13.50, see www.glowshow.co.nz
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Piggy in the mirror among works in Depot show This arresting image of a kunekune pig by Devonport resident Stephen Perry is about to go on show at Depot Artspace. It is part of a new exhibition, Wrung and Misshapen, opening on Saturday afternoon 4 June in the ‘disruption’-themed Auckland Festival of Photography. The Depot show aims to explore through artists’ eyes ways in which the world has been “munted or twisted out of shape recently,” says its guest curator Hayley Theyers. Perry’s photograph reminded her of the myth
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BAYSWATER | 24 PHILOMEL CRESCENT | PEACEFUL SETTING | UNTAPPED POTENTIAL
This cute 3 bedroom, brick and tile, house is offered for (a definite) sale by the current vendor. It is up to the next owner to explore the options suitable to their needs and wants. It borders on a reserve enjoying a magical view over Shoal Bay. The back gate gives you the possibility to enjoy scenic walks around the Bay. The 695 sqm (approx) site is zoned for Mixed Housing Urban. The home is located in a popular area with excellent amenities at hand.
VIEW | BY APPOINTMENT PREMIUM.CO.NZ/60597 DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY | 10 JUNE 2022 AT 4 PM (USP) PETER VOLLEBREGT 027 451 5188 | 445 3414
BELMONT | 2/31 ALAMEIN AVENUE | A DELIGHTFULLY AFFORDABLE FAMILY HOME
It is not often that an opportunity like this arises in this up and coming street in such a sought after coastal area. Warm and inviting from the moment you walk in. Low maintenance, offering an open plan layout with a lovely kitchen and 3 double bedrooms. Extra large deck ideal for your bbq parties, a generous lawn for the kids to kick a ball and a double garage with loads of storage. Handy to all local amenities with excellent schools abound.
VIEW | SAT/SUN 1 - 1:30 PM OR BY APPT PREMIUM.CO.NZ/60596 PRICE | $1.375M PETER VOLLEBREGT 027 451 5188 | 445 3414
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