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Museum gives up Domain shed lease... p2
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Interview: New local-board chair Toni van Tonder... p30-31
Local-board workshops staying open to public Workshops of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board will be kept open to public scrutiny, says new board chair Toni van Tonder. After being officially installed as chair last week by unanimous decision of the six-member board, van Tonder told the Flagstaff she had over time shifted from her previous opposition to open workshops.
“They’re a good way to give information to the community,” she said. This means members of the public and the media can sit in on workshops, which are typically held several times a month. Auckland Council staff, and others from council-controlled organisations, attend the sessions to background issues for board members.
This provides the opportunity to ask questions ahead of monthly business meetings, where decisions require the board’s voting sign-off, but are often less extensively debated. Van Tonder said she would love to see more people – “as many as possible” – turn up at the board’s various meetings. To page 5
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New manager for BID Richard Thorne has been appointed the new Devonport BID manager. Thorne, a Bayswater local starts the job on 1 November, Devonport Business Association chair Dianne Hale says. He has previously worked as publisher/editor of NZ Musician magazine as well as in hospitality roles, management and the staging of a number of multi-day trade events, and chair of the New Zealand Music Commission, and has been site manager for a number of large festivals. Thorne replaces Katherine Downs.
Library hosts tunnels talk A talk exploring theories about the extent of Maungauika’s military tunnels will be held at the Devonport Library on Wednesday 9 November at 7.30pm. Rob Osborne will show some of is collection of old photographs of the maunga and its fortifications, and author Martin Butler will speak about his investigations into its covered-over
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Museum gives up Domain shed clearing way for sports clubs Devonport Museum is relinquishing its lease on a storage unit at the former Devonport Bowling Club grounds on Devonport Domain, clearing the way for the North Shore cricket and rugby clubs to occupy the full site. “As fortune has it, the museum has given notice of its lease,” new Devonport-Takapuna Local Board chair Toni van Tonder told the Flagstaff. “I think they understood the mood of the community. We’re really grateful to them for enabling this outcome.” The museum’s withdrawal, advised to her last week, ends a potentially drawn-out process to move it on from the council-owned site, as pledged by van Tonder’s A Fresh Approach team in the recent local-body election. Van Tonder had already written to the sports clubs and the museum signalling the new board’s intention to act to end the museum’s lease. The board’s view was that storage was not an appropriate use of reserve land. The sports clubs plan to turn the old bowling clubrooms into dedicated women’s changing rooms and over time intend developing training and other community facilities on the wider site.
Council legal and leasing staff will now work out the best way forward, which could be to strike a new lease with the sports clubs or extend the existing one. In either case, van Tonder said the lease would have to be re-notified and come back to the board with the advice of council officers prior to its approval. This was not likely before early next year, she said. The matter became contentious after board members on the Heart of the Shore team voted during the last term of the board to grant the museum a surprise extension to its month-bymonth lease arrangement, the vote being carried by then chair Ruth Jackson’s casting vote. None of that team was re-elected last month. Van Tonder said the board wanted to work with the museum. But she said it could not favour one group in supplying storage, which was an issue for many. “We’re here to help all community groups meet their needs… but there has to an even playing field. We can’t favour one group over another.” She said she had written back to the museum acknowledging its decision and that the matter had not been an easy one.
Roaming dogs cost owners $8600 Fines totalling $8600 have been issued for dogs deemed to be not under control in the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board area so far in 2022. Thirty-five infringement notices have been given out, with the average fine more than $245. The Flagstaff is aware of cases where photographs of dogs on a berm outside an owner’s home have been sent to council and resulted in fines being issued. Auckland Council animal-management manager Elly Waitoa said when a complaint is received an officer investigates and takes a statement from the complainant.
“Should a complainant also provide a photograph of the alleged incident, it may assist the officer to identify the dog and owner and may also be used as evidence of the offence.” In accordance with the Dog Control Act 1996, a roadside berm is considered a public place, meaning that dogs must be controlled and on-leash at all times, Waitoa said. “There are many fantastic parks and beaches across Tāmaki Makaurau where dogs are permitted under control and off-leash,” she said. Dogs in public should be closely supervised, muzzled in situations that might be stressful and kept on a lead in on-leash areas.
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Celebrity guests... TV’s The Simpsons made a surprise appearance at the Bayswater Halloween Trail: (from left) Charlie Whittington (10), Ann Marie Herbert, Clem Whittington (9), and Simon and Alison Whittington. Charlie and Clem both attend Bayswater School. More photos, pages 18-19.
Bollards can’t prevent raid on Devonport liquor store
Devonport liquor store Glengarry Wines was hit by ram raiders overnight on Saturday, despite having bollards at its Clarence St front entrance. A stolen car was used to smash the doors and gain entrance to the business about 2.40am. Police said a small number of items were taken. Staff were left with a mess to tidy up, but were relieved the raid occurred overnight,
when no one was in the store. The frontage has been boarded up. Luca Prinselaar, the owner of the Mazda Atenza used in the crime, said it was taken from outside his Aramoana Ave flat . He asked neighbours to check CCTV footage. The Devonport Glengarry was ram-raided around three years ago, after which the bollards were installed. Prinselaar said the first he knew about his
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Peninsula doctor thinking of others at the end After a battle with cancer, GP Heidi MacRae is being cared for by Harbour Hospice. In one of her final messages, she makes a fundraising plea on the organisation’s behalf. Morena. You wrote an article about me in May (Flagstaff, 20 May). Unfortunately things have gotten worse for me and I am spending my last days in hospice with cancer in my brain and CSF (cerebrospinal fluid). I need to tell our community how amazing hospice is, with the aim of fundraising for them. Even with the close working relationship I had and appreciated with hospice as a GP, I had absolutely no idea how it injects so much quality of life, love and laughter back into a life. I am now a hospice inpatient veteran, as my cancer has progressed. Time here has enriched me and my family and has given us extra months’ worth of happy memories. My whanau are welcome around the clock, and this is such a relief and joy to me. The nurses here are all angels. They take time to care, laugh and smile with me and my family. They do everything with love and compassion. It is incredibly humbling. They all have such interesting backgrounds, filled with histories of being the most generous people who give without counting the cost. I wish I could give them each their weight in gold. I need intensive nursing care day and night, and they treat me with such dignity and respect. They have been working from a building site for three years, yet they still smile. There are also the kindest healthcare assistants, doing so much for me. I also have to mention the outstanding chefs, who would cook anything at all, despite having no kitchen in this building site. They cook in an airfryer and make poached eggs in a rice cooker. They somehow make special gluten-free food for my sons. I feel like I am a guest at a five-star resort, despite the building-site issues. My pain has been expertly managed, thanks to the skills of the wonderful, gentle doctors. I know what pay and conditions are
Well looked after... Heidi MacRae moved from her home at Stanley Point to Hospice North Shore and hopes residents will back its work for primary-care staff, and it saddens me that ly provides essential healthcare. Essential, the most giving in our community are taken equitable, given without cost. We are a long advantage of. way off. It is a great shame that hospice is a This hospice service is just essential to charity service. families like mine. I can’t imagine how we Please consider supporting Harbour Hospice could exist in any state of positivity, dignity in whatever way you can. It is a service so and grace without it. worthwhile and deserving of any resources I like to think of a New Zealand that free- you can donate.
Hospice project comes in early Harbour Hospice is set to finish the $20 million redevelopment of its North Shore base by Christmas. This would advance by four months the expected completion of the overhaul of its facilities in Shea Tce, Takapuna, near North Shore Hospital. “It’s the best early Christmas present for our community and everyone involved,” said Harbour Hospice chief executive Jan Nichols. Demand has continued to grow for free palliative care, such as that undertaken by Dr Heidi McRae (see above). This need has driven the 18-month renovation project, which successfully navigated two Covid-19 lockdowns. Nichols said $400,000 of the original $10 million fundraising target was still required to complete the build.
“We’re almost there thanks to the enormous generosity of donors, supporters, trusts and organisations, as well as individuals,” Nichols says. Harbour Hospice helps more than 400 people each day, through its inpatient units and in people’s homes from Devonport to Te Hana. During construction, hospice care did not stop, with patients and whānau cared for and supported at home. In January, the inpatient unit at Shea Tce reopened, with nine rooms currently available to local patients. Other support services, including outpatient and therapy clinics, and more whanau space, will open in the new building early next year. To support hospice, contact fundraising manager Sandy McGregor on Sandy.McGregor@harbourhospice.org.nz.
Personal connection spurs fundraising Heidi MacRae’s colleagues at Medplus Hauraki will be striding out in her honour this week in the annual Pink Ribbon walk. They will wear “Team Walk for Heidi” T-shirts in the fundraiser on Sunday 6 November, which follows a cake stall held in the car park at Hauraki Medplus last week. Practice manager Katherine Williams said the clinic’s annual fundraising efforts had been given added impetus by the coowner’s illness. They were close to their target of $10,000 this year, after strong community support. Dr MacRae stopped working in September last year to focus on her treatment, but from March to July this year helped remotely on Covid management.
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New local board leaves workshops open From page 1 Devonport-Takapuna is one of only a handful of Auckland local boards holding open workshops. In changing her position, van Tonder has removed a potential source of criticism for the new board. The Heart of the Shore team, which was voted off the board in the local-body election, had open workshops as a bottom line. Van Tonder said she had wanted to canvass the views of all board members – three from her A Fresh Approach team and two Communities and Residents representatives – before going public with the policy. Having spent the previous three-year term on the board, during which workshops were closed for the first 18 months, then opened up, she had “grown accustomed to it”. Expressing confidence that the new board would operate with better staff relationships and less grandstanding, she trusted that those who briefed the board would be “more inclined to come in and work with us” irrespective of whether meetings were open or not. For sensitive legal or financial matters, the board retains the ability to go into confidential session. Wood said he did not favour open workshops. Better relationships needed to be built
New chair... Tony van Tonder with husband Pierre, her sister Amber and children (from left) Sadie (9), Sid (6) and Jasper (11) with Auckland Transport and the council’s the first time ever we have had a board community facilities teams, and the board representing the whole rohe,” she said after had “been hamstrung in staff not wanting to taking her declaration of office in both te speak freely”. reo and English. The new line-up of board members Van Tonder said the board would be wellwas sworn in at a public ceremony at the served by people with an intimate knowledge PumpHouse Theatre. Van Tonder noted of their areas. She flagged the possibility of they represented the entire board area. “It’s considering a new name for the board.
Split views on making business leader deputy chair A split of opinion was revealed in the second act of the new board, when it divided 4-2 over the election of new member and Takapuna Beach Business Association (TBBA) chief executive Terence Harpur as deputy chair. Harpur was backed by his Fresh Approach teammates, but not by Communities and Residents pair George Wood and Gavin Busch. Wood later told the Flagstaff he questioned how Harpur would combine the new role with an already busy full-time job. Auckland
Council guidelines said the deputy-chair role would take 20 to 30 hours a week. “We’ve put this to Terence and he just pushes it aside and says he can do it.” Busch said it was up to Harpur to decide how to juggle roles, but he personally had stepped aside from his own position on the TBBA board as soon as he was elected. Busch said he knew Harpur to be “very professional and capable” and it was up to him how he managed his work life and hours.
Global clouds It seems the world has developed a gloomy outlook with a lot of anger, conflict, inflation and financial instability – hence we have seen central banks reduce their elevated interest-rate forecasts, realising that growth is going to be contained and tougher times are ahead as we all face the consequences of the Covid response madness. The Reserve Bank has been at the forefront of interest-rate rises with the US, Australia and others following suit. But now there are fears that central banks are going too hard, too fast and accentuating the hardships of higher prices and the cost of living. We see one more rate hike this year and then maybe a pause to let the impact flow through the system. Banks may have priced this in already – the one-year fixed mortgage rate is now 5.99% and two-years fixed is at 6.19%. With so many borrowers coming off 2–3% rates it’s going to be tough times for many.
But for himself, he did want there to be any suggestion of a conflict of interest. Harpur says he will step aside from any board debate that conflicts with his TBBA position. “I am confident I am able to perform the role to a high standard, along with my TBBA role and manage my time effectively,” he said. Van Tonder said it had always been known Harpur would have to manage conflicts, adding: “I have absolute full confidence in his ability to do that and the job.”
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The kerfuffle over the plans for the former Devonport Bowling Club got me thinking about opportunities for a better connection between Devonport Domain, home of the North Shore Cricket Club, and the Vauxhall Rd sports grounds, where the North Shore Rugby Club is based. If the bowling-club fences could come down, there is an opportunity for the two reserves to become better connected. If Cambridge Tce ended at the entrance to the rugby club and Tui St was blocked where the driveways to houses ended, a linked path/ cycleway could be created between the two sports grounds. Not only would the solution be aesthetically pleasing, it would afford greater safety for kids and parents moving between the two parks without having to dodge traffic. Residents of Tui St, in particular, would be better off, as the traffic can be a nightmare, especially on big match days at the rugby club. Something for the incoming Devonport-Takapuna Local Board to think about? Warm weather at Labour Weekend brought the welcome sight of people out enjoying the beaches and parks, but also the seasonal
The Flagstaff Notes issue of parking on our reserves. On Saturday afternoon, half a dozen cars were parked on the lower grass area of Fort Takapuna, overlooking Narrow Neck Beach. A powerful motorbike was also making its way down the slope. Perhaps some signage at the driveway entrance to the Department of Conservation controlled reserve would be a good idea? Dogs – their behaviour and droppings – seem to have become a major issue for many city dwellers, including Devonport residents. Personally, I’m a bit conflicted. I generally like canines and appreciate the companionship they bring. My partner though, almost lost a leg following a dog attack, so I know about the fear and apprehension a rushing, over-friendly or aggressive dog can cause. Over the years, the Flagstaff has had spates of letters from readers complaining about errant owners failing to pick up after their dogs. I would say Devonport dog owners are actually pretty responsible in this regard, particularly when compared to other places around the world. The pavements of otherwise refined centres-villes of French towns and cities, for example, often seem to feature mounds of doggie doos at every turn. The latest local concerns seem to centre around out-of-control dogs. Aucklanders are reporting more dog attacks, possibly due to the rise in pet numbers during lockdowns. Occasionally though, the pendulum can swing the other way to pedantic persecution of dog owners. The Flagstaff knows of a case
November 4, 2022 where a well-behaved, trained and placid dog has received three “out of control” fines, totalling close to $1000, for being off the lead in a public place. One of these arose from a complaint by a member of the public, who supplied a photo of the dog on the berm outside the owner’s property. The owner had inadvertently left the gate open, and the dog wandered out onto the berm and was snapped – by a complainant in waiting? A check with the council reveals, under the Dog Control Act, a berm is a public place. With summer around the corner and dogs and their owners increasingly out and about, I hope council applies some common sense in these situations, rather than following the letter of the law. Toni van Tonder has made a promising start as Devonport-Takapuna Local Board chair, with the decision to keep board workshops open. The Flagstaff was a critic of her ticket’s decision to ban the public and media from workshops for the first half of the board’s last term. Van Tonder, after experiencing the open system, seems to have come around to the idea, perhaps recognising that the best way to foster community engagement is at the first instance – when ideas and plans are first put forward. Although I haven’t always agreed with van Tonder on certain issues, in 2019 I put her forward as the best option as a compromise chair for the then-divided board. Now she has a majority of four on the board, it should augur well for some positive action.
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November 4, 2022
Fashion’s big night out raises spirits, funds Ferry terminal lit up for glamorous get-together
Doubly bubbly... Devonport residents Simon and Yaminah Egan attended Fashion on the Wharf last year and came back for more
Everyone was in a bubbly mood for Fashion on the Wharf recently, with locals donning their glad rags to support the charity show. Whether you put the fun atmosphere down to champagne being the fashion set’s drink of choice, or to pure community spirit, the third version of the event was a near-sellout success. Devonport businesses showed their new season’s gear, giving an audience of nearly 300 people in a transformed ferry terminal a chance to make mental shopping notes of what next to wear. Entertainers The Madeleines set the tone, with an opening rendition of Putting on the Ritz, before models took to the runway in attire from Cosi Fan Tutte, Blue Illusion, Sills + Co and Yarntons for Men before half-time. Master of ceremonies Shane Cortese was quick to remind people that Breast Cancer Cure was the cause being supported on the night. An ambassador for the charity of 15 years standing, he urged people to bid in a live auction and order fundraising T-shirts. The show’s main sponsor, Harcourts Cooper & Co, got the bidding going on donated items. Principal Martin Cooper joined fellow auctioneer Cortese to stir up some good-natured rivalry between tables for items and experiences from Vic Rd Kitchen, Devonport Flowers, Devonport Optometrists, Miller Rd fragrances, Hauraki Gulf Cruises, Flagstaff Gallery and Tam Dental. All up, $8200 was raised. Then it was back to spring-summer wardrobe inspiration, with Harbour Hospice shop offering ideas to “rock the look for less”, followed by Yarntons for Women, Echo Designer Boutique, Annah Stretton and a bridal showcase finale, featuring Devonport Flowers and a bagpiper. Cortese challenged the crowd to see how late Devonport could stay open before The Madeleines sent everyone on their way, to the tune of Hit the Road Jack, so the venue could revert to being commuter-ready by morning.
To a tee... Matt Hunt and Nikki Davidson from the Devonport office of Harcourts Cooper & Co model Breast Cancer Cure T-shirts, while (above right) company principal Martin Cooper leads the live auction
Stylish seranade... The Madeleines added a retro musical twist to the evening. Right: Lisa McLiver (near left) and Kirsty Job, both from Hauraki.
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Rocking the catwalk... Auckland councillor Richard Hills and Bayswater’s Paddy Stafford-Bush in action
Councillor, community members give it a go on the runway Blame his modelling debut on a “weak moment” on election night, says local-body politician Richard Hills. That was when the re-elected Auckland councillor for the North Shore ward was prevailed upon by show director Laura Foote to appear at Fashion on the Wharf. Hills was one of more than 30 models, ranging from teens to seniors, who volunteered their time – and took to heart the brief to have fun. Encouraged by the audience, many vogued it up on the runway, some throwing kisses and others doffing caps. Bayswater community figure Paddy Stafford-Bush even shimmied her way out of a pair of ripped jeans to reveal a fetching pair of floral bloomers from Cosi Fan Tutte. Hills admitted to some pre-show jitters when, after hair and make-up, he waited backstage for his call time. In a quiet corner he practised his
walk.“I’m more nervous than doing a speech or being at a candidates’ meeting,” he told the Flagstaff. Out in the spotlight, Hills didn’t miss a beat in his summery outfit of colourful shorts and a print shirt from Yarntons. Concentration soon gave way to striking a pose with his straw hat jauntily tilted. But it was the cheekier male models who followed him that got the star reception, with a group of front-row women giving them the Tom Jones treatment of a shower of undergarments. By their generous proportions, the garments looked like they may have been pre-show op-shop pick-ups. Hills said, despite the nerves, modelling for the night had been a fun experience. “I was glad the bras didn’t come my way,” he added.
Backstage heroes... Mother-and-daughter team Shaarina (left) and Siobhan Taylor stepped up on the night, with Siobhan directing the make-up look, executed by Cut Above Academy students, who also did the models’ hair. Her mother, Shaarina, ensured timing was on track.
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Revved up... Devonport Cars owner Lewis Rowe (right) and friends (from left) Bridgette Jackson, Kham Jones, Emma Axford-Hawkins and Lizzie Smith made up a lively table of auction bidders
Colourful duos... (from left) Julie Aldridge and Sue Howard from Devonport; fellow local Terehia Walker, with friend Shirley Wood from Torbay; and Devonport-Takapuna Local Board members Melissa Powell from Sunnynook and Toni van Tonder from Narrow Neck.
Cheers to that... (from left) First-time Devonport show-goers Sue Letcher, Jenny Sonntag and Veda Shortland; and local real estate agent Lynda Betts with Stephanie Everitt, the now retired former longtime owner of Devonport Chocolates
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Fashion forecast... From bold prints to classy neutrals and smart stripes, these outfits (left to right) from Yarntons for Women, Sills + Co and Echo Designer Boutique are summer-ready and right on trend
Floral finale... A bridal extravaganza, complete with bagpiper, ended the show, complemented by bouquets from Devonport Flowers, while (at right) a Swanndri hoodie towel offered a casual alternative
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Creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky... From this weekend community event to trick and treating on Monday it was dress to thrill time
Frightful... (clockwise from left): John Fruean with Luna (aged 1), Luther (7) and Ava (5); mummies Renee, Shaun and Charlie (9) Keane, knife-wielding bride Sarah Snashall and her daughters Sam (9) and Summer (14); plague doctor Maiya Wavish (14) and penny-farthing-riding steampunker Mars Edwards (15).
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Ghouls galore take to Bayswater Halloween Trail
Eek... (clockwise from above) Baltazar Mumita (11), mother Andrea and brother Silvestre (4); Lily Hendry Ashton (12), Romeo Hendry Ashton (7) and their mother Letitia Ashton; Octopus William Price (4) with father Joe Price.
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Celebrated ketch wins season opener One of Devonport’s best-known yachts, the ketch Ladybird, won the Fourth Division class in Devonport Yacht Club’s season-opening Icebreaker race last Saturday. Ladybird won the 1952 trans-Tasman yacht race from Hobart to Auckland and was later owned by the parents of yachting great Sir Peter Blake. Fourteen yachts competed in the Icebreaker, which is is sponsored by the club’s life members and their partners, including the club’s longest-serving life member, Martin Foster. Foster’s son Matt was crewing on the Ladybird, which was skippered by owner Mike Strong. Family ties... Devonport Yacht Club life member Martin Foster (left) with son Matt, who crewed on Icebreaker winner Ladybird. Below: Ladybird in full flight.
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Students brainstorm density for Devonport Multi-storey options for Devonport town centre are explored by a group of 13 University of Auckland masters architecture students at an exhibition launching today. The students have spent the last 12 weeks studying Devonport Village, looking at how the village of Devonport might be intensified to allow more housing, commercial uses and better public spaces. Local figures have also been sharing their knowledge. David Veart, historian and archeologist, took the students on a guided tour from the ferry terminal to the top of Takarunga, imparting a sense of how Devonport had grown from its pre-settlement landscape to the present day. Jeremy Salmond, local heritage architect, discussed Devonport’s architectural character, and opened up his archive of photos and stories. The students also talked to locals to understand what was valued in Devonport and what people felt was missing. The programme looked at the town centre to establish a framework on where opportunities for better public space and development might be. Questions asked included: “What if the supermarket car park is covered over?”; “How can young people find work in Devonport?”; and “Where might they live?”. All heritage buildings were left untouched by the project. How new buildings might be integrated into the town centre was investigated. Local architects Ken Davis, Joanna Theodore, Julie Stout and Mitchell Stout Dodd Architects guided the students. • The Devonport Tomorrow exhibition is open to the public on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 November at 46 Victoria Rd (the former Westpac premises on the corner of Victoria Rd and Clarence St). The only way is up... Concepts for Clarence St between Anne and Wynyard Sts, by Sophie Lenihan (top); and a laneway development behind Clarence St, by David Zheng.
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Free COVID antiviral medicines are available Free oral antiviral medicines are available for people at risk of becoming very unwell from COVID, and free RATs are available for everyone. Benefits of antiviral medicines Antiviral medicine can help people be less sick and stay out of hospital. The medicine must be taken within the first 5 days of having COVID symptoms to reduce the amount of virus in the body. Who can get antiviral medicines
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To get the COVID antiviral medicines, all of these must apply:
• Māori or Pacific people aged 50 years or older • everyone aged 65 years and older
• you have COVID, or you are a household contact and have symptoms
• anyone aged 50 years or older who has had less than two COVID vaccinations
• you are eligible for the medicine.
• anyone with a severely weakened immune system, Down syndrome, sickle cell anaemia, or were previously in critical or high dependency hospital care from COVID. • anyone with three or more high-risk medical conditions. For the full list of high-risk medical conditions, visit Covid19.govt.nz/medicines
• your symptoms started within the last 5 days Your doctor, nurse, hauora provider, or local pharmacy can tell you if you are eligible and may provide you with a prescription. If your local pharmacy does not prescribe antiviral medicine, they can put you in touch with a pharmacy that does.
How to get antiviral medications If you have COVID you must isolate for 7 days. You can arrange to have medicines delivered by friends or whānau. If needed, pharmacies that provide COVID antiviral medicine can have them delivered to you, for free.
Free RATs Free rapid antigen tests (RATs) are available for everyone, and you do not need to have COVID to get them. You can order them online at RequestRATS.Covid19.health.nz and collect them at community providers, marae, testing centres, and some pharmacies, or have someone collect them for you.
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Gentler bump coming for reserve path A new speed bump for cyclists is coming to the shared path through Northboro Reserve. Upset local path users voiced concerns about a previous speed bump (pictured) installed in late September. Auckland Council area manager Sarah Jones confirmed council removed the bump early in October. It will be replaced with a version that will be “gentler but still effective,” Jones said. Complaints about the speed bump centred on its height and location, with many residents noting its placement on a blindspot corner of the path. Council has spent $3032.30 on the Northboro Reserve speed-bump trial, which included painted icons and signage. Jones said the trial was in response to ongoing complaints about the speed and behaviour of cyclists on the shared path.
The Devonport RSA is ramping up its celebration of Remembrance Day this year, with a street parade on Sunday 13 Noember. RSA members, veterans, Defence and emergency-service personnel, the band of the Royal New Zealand Navy Pipes and Drums and cadets and local scouts will march from Fleet St at 10.45am to a service, beginning at 11am at the “untidy soldier’ war memorial on Victoria Rd. The public can observe from the footpath and Windsor Reserve. Among the speakers will be Takapuna Grammar School student, Gavin Wu, aged 15, who won an RSA speech-writing contest. His subject is “Why youth should respect and honour veterans”. Remembrance Day marks the signing of the armistice that ended World War I on 11 November, 1918. It was observed for the first time in 1919. The observance date has been shifted to the weekend to make it easier for people to attend. The RSA is keen that observances are widened beyond the long-time focus on Gallipoli and Anzac Day. Devonport RSA president Muzz Kennett said the red poppy, that wellknown symbol of remembrance worn at Anzac Day ceremonies each April, was associated with the battlefields of Flanders in Belgium. After the fighting, the muddy, blood-stained ground was covered in poppies when dormant seeds germinated. This made the flower a symbol to veterans worldwide. Its appearance on the battlefields is commemorated in the John McCrae poem In Flanders Fields.
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AT promotes cycle lane... quietly Auckland Transport (AT) took the opportunity of the Bayswater Halloween Trail event to begin its community consultation on the two-way cycle lane it plans to install on Bayswater Ave. Staff set up a tent, showed artist’s impressions of the project and offered information at Bayswater Park in conjunction with the annual Halloween event on 28 October. The “hyper-local engagement” was not advertised to the wider community, although Bayswater School parents were advised via the school newsletter. Contacted by the Flagstaff, an AT spokesperson said: “AT’s attendance at the local community Halloween event (an event AT supports) is not being advertised because it is a specifically local event and an opportunity for us to engage with the very residents who have been asking for cycling and walking infrastructure improvements on Bayswater Avenue.” But Devonport-Takapuna Local Board
member George Wood is concerned that the project, which would see street parking completely removed on the southern side of the road, was being quietly advanced, when many residents were concerned about it. Some competitive cyclists, who use the wide, open road for time trials, were also worried that this capacity would be lost under the proposals. “AT is gilding the lily,” Wood said. He wants the cycleway reviewed, and believes AT should run its plans past new Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown, who recently told the council-controlled organisation’s board it needed to listen to the community. “They (AT) are saying there’s a lot of community support, but that’s tempered by a lot of concern about no parking on the south side of Bayswater Ave,” Wood said. AT says further public engagement aimed at the broader community is planned later in the year, and will be promoted ahead of time.
Locals jump at chance to inspect public housing More than 200 visitors took the opportunity to look around the new Kainga Ora housing in Belmont last month. The open day allowed locals to see a one and a two-bedroom home and the community room at the site on the corner of Lake Rd and Bardia St, ahead of residents moving into the two main blocks. A spokesperson for the state-housing provider said feedback was largely positive. Many visitors said they had been watching progress with interest. The buildings were still in the final stages of construction handover, the spokesperson said. This means tenants have so far only been placed in stand-alone dwellings at the rear of the site. These were occupied mid-year, with apartments to fill as the year progresses.
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Early jobs formative for local-board chair Raised in Tokoroa and Christchurch, Narrow Neck’s Toni van Tonder is a new leading light of Shore politics. She tells Helen Vause about her early years, and hopes for a more cohesive local board. At one time, Toni van Tonder would never have seen herself heading into local politics. But in her mid-30s, as a young mother, raising her family on the North Shore, she began to reflect more about the workings of the world around her, and the people with the power to make things happen in her community, and thought: “There is a place for someone like me at their table.” And once that idea came into her head, she never stopped thinking about it, she says. Recently re-elected as a second-term member of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board, van Tonder last week became its new chair. Now aged 41, she talked to the Flagstaff about the journey that’s taken her into the heart of local issues. At her kitchen table in Narrow Neck, she talked about the work ahead, and finding a balance with family life. Looking at her three children today, with a middle-class life and a comfortable home, she recalls that her own early life was much less privileged. She spent her early childhood in Tokoroa where her grandparents had settled when they came from the Netherlands, and where her own parents chose to put down roots, thinking they’d have a chance of having a home of their own there. She still has a photo of their stark little house on a large open site. But before van Tonder was out of her primary school years, her parents split up. She and her her older sister Amber went to Christchurch with their mother. Until their mother re-partnered, the family endured an unsettled time in a series of different addresses. Van Tonder eventually attended seven different schools. “It was hard but we weren’t unhappy. Mum worked very hard, and she was strict because she had to run a tight ship with us. With all the moving around, we just learned
Stepping up... Toni van Tonder was recently re-elected to a second term on the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board, and last week became its new chair fast how to adapt and settle in somewhere new. I soon worked out how to get along and how to make new friends.” Amber was only 18 months older than Toni and the two were close, with Amber later often influencing her sister’s choices. The girls always had little jobs after school, on the weekends and in the school holidays. “As kids we had to work for whatever we needed and pay for our own stuff.” Amber had a milk run, out with heavy crates in freezing weather. When she was barely a teenager, van Tonder got her first
real after-school job, doing filing and document-shredding in the offices of a shipping company in Lyttelton, where the family then lived. “I still remember what we used to earn and how it got better and better. When I got a job at Countdown, I was earning $5.11 an hour, and then later, I was making $8.50 an hour at McDonald’s.” By the time she was 10, she was doing the vacuuming at home and making dinner. “It was schnitzel and chips and frozen veggies most nights.
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November 4, 2022 “All those jobs I had were good for me,” she says. “Instead of just listening to the rules of Mum and Dad, we were out in the real world, listening to the rules of the boss. We grew up fast.” Amber was a good student and later qualified to become a tax lawyer. But van Tonder recalls herself as a “pretty average” student at her decile-1 secondary school, and a fairly rebellious kid at home. “I was the wild one. A little bit eccentric and a bit creative and pushing the boundaries at home.” She had her driver’s licence at 15 and, at 17, moved out of home as a school-leaver. The wild child’s mother and stepfather had sufficient faith in her to buy van Tonder her own set of wheels, an early-model, gold Ford Laser. “They were sick of driving me around,” she chuckles, “and buying me that car was a big thing they did for me, but it was the only way I could get places.” Van Tonder went to the University of Canterbury, and tentatively explored studies in arts and in law. Big sister Amber had another idea. “She told me to take a paper in politics. She said, ‘you will like it because you are argumentative’”. And big sister was right. Van Tonder loved it. When Amber moved to Auckland and the promise of a bright career, van Tonder went too, transferring to the University of Auckland. Once she graduated, she found herself again wondering about what direction to take. She took work in a music shop until her mother visited from Christchurch and told her she should be doing more with her education, suggesting teaching. Van Tonder went back to postgraduate studies to become a secondary school teacher. She travelled and found work teaching teenagers in London. Back in New Zealand, she was pleased to land a job teaching English
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Interview at Takapuna Grammar. “I loved, it and the kids were fantastic,” she says, but, after a year in the classroom she decided the administration and the endless paperwork weren’t for her. “I am more of a projects person, and I like to change things around with fresh challenges.” And she and her husband Pierre (a commercial architect) wanted a family. “Once I was pregnant with Jasper, I realised I didn’t want to be tied to a regular full-
“We won’t always agree, but we will be respectful of our differences and opinions. And I believe there can be a solution at the end of every conversation.” time job and be missing out on special moments with my kids when they were little.” Although van Tonder describes herself as ambitious, she wanted to balance a career around challenging projects and having children. Her children – Jasper, now 11, Sadie, 9, and Sid, 6 – are, she smiles, “the most awesome little people”, with Jasper fiercely interested in her board role and all the issues she is contending with. Her days often have to run to the hours of Belmont Intermediate and Vauxhall School. Her first foray into working in the community, when she went out looking for
something to do with a young child under her arm, was to take on the unpaid job of revitalising the Devonport Arts Festival, in 2012. With her strong interest in the arts, it was a good fit at the time and, she says, garnering support and cooperation came naturally. “My father is a natural salesman,” she notes. Through the arts festival and subsequent work with the Kaipataki Project’s environmental initiatives, she developed connections in the community. She was disappointed when she missed out on the job of Devonport Business Improvement District manager when she first applied, but later, in 2017, was appointed to the role. With it came closer and more regular contact with the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board as well as the workings of Auckland Council. She decided to run for the board herself in 2019, and credits Takapuna businessman Aidan Bennett for helping make it happen, with her as part of the ‘A Fresh Approach’ team. “I learned so much from him about how to get things done. One day, before the elections, I saw him by chance in Devonport and I said ‘shall we do this?’. And they did. “It was a pretty last-minute thing.” What followed after their election in 2019 was far from smooth political sailing. Three years of dysfunction and frustration on a divided board almost saw her call time on her fledgling political career. This time around, she believes there is the promise of a more collaborative approach. “We won’t always agree, but we will be respectful of our differences and opinions. And I believe there can be a solution at the end of every conversation.” Is this her future? Who knows, she asks. “It takes a big toll on family life. I’ve probably got at least another career challenge ahead of me.”
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Nigel Bioletti General & Fundraising Manager
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HALLOWEEN TRAIL RETURNS
What an amazing response from the community – with at least 2000 people participating, and such good luck with the weather! Special thanks to: Auckland Transport; Devonport Lions; Harcourts Coffee Cart; Bayswater School; The Rose Centre Youth team; Devonport Fire and Emergency team; Community Constable Glenda Peri, for helping make it a safe and fun event. Congratulations to Abby Jones, our Community Events Manager, for whom this was a first large event. She did a great job of pulling it all together, with the support of Maddy, Holly, Tarsh, Gemma, and Julian. One thing which would be great for the Trust to have for such events – its own generator. Can you help? The Lucero and Orallo children enjoyed the event. It was fantastic to see so many adults enter into the spirit of the occasion.
THE JETS RUN RESUMES
Wed Nov 2nd through to Wed 14th Dec – 6pm at Torpedo Bay Navy Museum. Options of 3km, 5km, and occasional 10km routes. More information from jetsrun@xtra.co.nz Raumati Summer Play – has started - Tuesdays 9:30 am at Windsor Reserve, and Thursdays at 9:30 am at Belmont Rose Gardens, with a break for Christmas/New Year. Remembrance Day – Remembrance Day parade from the RSA to the Cenotaph on November 13th, starting at 10-45, with a small ceremony from 11am outside the Devonport Library.
CHRISTMAS PARADE AND FESTIVAL December 4th look out for information soon.
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With special thanks to the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board for funding the Devonport Peninsula Trust.
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Takapuna SCHOOL NEWS
November 4, 2022
Grammar NOVEMBER 4, 2022
2022 International Baccalaureate Prizegiving Awards The International Baccalaureate Prize-Giving for Year 13 students was held in the Takapuna Grammar School library on Tuesday 18 October and was well attended by IB students, parents, staff and the Senior Leadership team. The prizes were presented by Mrs Nixon and the winners were congratulated for their diligence and efforts over the last two years.The Jackie Rodgers Cup for Dux of International Baccalaureate went to Victoria Johnson and Proxime Accessit in International Baccalaureate went to Neve Mann-Benn. Hailey Chen and Michaella Kim were joint Summa Cum Laude. Michaella and Lucy Smith were also congratulated for their scholarships, awarded by the University of Auckland and AUT respectively. We are exceptionally proud of our IB2 cohort who have shown resilience and perseverance over the past two years. We wish them well in their upcoming exams and we know that they will be successful in their future endeavours. The 2022 IB award winners were: 1ST & DISTINCTIONS IN SUBJECTS AND SPECIAL AWARDS Phoebe Rennie First in IB English Language & Literature Hailey Chen First in IB Chinese Language & Literature Neve Mann-Benn First in IB Language Acquisition Standard Level French Angelica Jacobson First in IB Language Acquisition Standard Level Japanese Phyllis Lan First in IB Language Acquisition Spanish Tianxiao (Hailey) Chen First in IB Language Acquisition English Michaella Kim First in IB Language Acquisition Spanish Ab Initio Michaella Kim First in IB Economics Phyllis Lan First in IB Geography Angelica Jacobson First in IB History Phyllis Lan First in IB Physics Michaella Kim First in IB Chemistry Michaella Kim First in IB Biology Lucy Smith First in IB Sport, Exercise & Health Science Phyllis Lan First in IB Mathematics Analysis & Approaches Tianxiao (Hailey) Chen First in IB Mathematics Applications & Interpretation Angelica Jacobson First in IB Visual Art Olivia Mills First in IB Theatre Chan Monyneath (Anais) Kuoch First in IB Language Acquisition Higher Level French Rei Muramoto First in IB Language Acquisition Higher Level Japanese Victoria Johnson Distinction in IB English Language & Literature Victoria Johnson Distinction in IB Chemistry Victoria Johnson Distinction in IB Biology Neve Mann-Benn Distinction in IB Mathematics Analysis & Approaches Yuet Shing (Marco) Lee Distinction in IB Mathematics Applications & Interpretation Chan Monyneath (Anais) Kuoch Distinction in IB Visual Art Victoria Johnson First in IB Theory of Knowledge Lily Mann-Benn Distinction in IB Theory of Knowledge Michaella Kim Top Achiever Scholarship (Auckland Uni) Lucy Smith Find Your Greatness Scholarship (AUT) Olivia Mills Creativity, Activity, Service Cup Michaella Kim Summa cum Laude in International Baccalaureate Tianxiao (Hailey) Chen Summa cum Laude in International Baccalaureate Neve Mann-Benn Proxime Accessit in International Baccalaureate Victoria Johnson Jackie Rodgers’ Cup for Dux of International Baccalaureate
Homestay Families Wanted for 2023 For more information please contact Carla Hemopo in the International Department at homestay.coordinator@tgs.school.nz or by phone on 09 489 4167 ext 9226
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20 years ago from the Flagstaff files • Devonport jewellery maker Warwick Freeman wins the prestigious international Francoise van den Bosch Laureate Award. He is the first New Zealander to collect the prize, winning $10,000. • A consultant has been employed by the Devonport Business Association to take charge of plans to improve the town centre. • Nearly 6000 runners start the Auckland Marathon in Devonport. • The Navy will replace a tree it chopped down in Ngataringa Rd, after a Devonport woman, Michelle Androu, stepped in to stop further felling. An investigation revealed the trees were on a road reserve – land administered by North Shore City Council, not the Navy, which admitted it had made a ‘blue’. • Jimmy Jones expects stick from his Devonport Yacht Club mates when he parks The Ark – a restored lifeboat from sunken Russian cruise ship, the Mikhail Lermentov – outside the club. • Police review the case of two men charged with sexual violation after they allegedly spiked three women’s drinks in a Devonport bar. A lawyer for one of the men said police
Enrolment at our school is governed by an enrolment scheme, details of which are available on the school website www.stanleybay.school.nz In Term 1 2023, there are no available out-of-zone places for all years (0-6). If you live in the school zone and have not yet signalled your intention to enrol your child for 2023, please contact the school immediately to assist us to plan appropriately. Please send all enrolment inquiries to: office@stanleybay.school.nz In Term 1, the Board of Trustees will review our enrolment scheme to determine the availability of out-of-zone places for Term 2. The availability of out-of-zone places and ballot information will be advertised in the Flagstaff.
had been unable to establish a drink-spiking link in the case. • Monsoon restaurant owner Harvey Price dies suddenly, aged 58. • The Tamaki Reserve Protection Trust blasts the government for its slow progress in removing buildings after the land was declared a park. • Multi-talented singer Debbie Harwood holds an exhibition of her planet paintings at the Depot. • A new $125,000, eight-metre-deep manhole is installed at Hanlon Cres as part of major sewer improvements in Devonport. • North Shore City Council is moving to force the owner of a fire-damaged home at 23 King Edward Parade to demolish it. • Former All Blacks captain Sean Fitzpatrick is guest speaker at Takapuna Grammar’s first sports awards dinner, held at McHughs. • A three-bedroom house in Montgomery Ave, Belmont, is on the market for $305,000. • The Oborn family, who adopted daughter Anna from Romania, are profiled in the Flagstaff interview.
NORTH SHORE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB AGM Notice is hereby given that the 149th Annual General Meeting of the North Shore Rugby Football Club Inc. will be held in the Clubrooms, 29 Cambridge Tce, Devonport on Tuesday 29th November 2022 at 7pm. Agenda: 1. Apologies 2. Obituaries 3. Confirmation of 148th AGM minutes 4. 2022 Annual reports 5. 2022 Financial report 6. Subscriptions for 2023 7. Election of Officers and Committee 8. Service Awards 9. North Harbour 10. Sesquicentennial celebrations, Easter weekend 2023 11. General Business Paul Cornish, Club Manager
Devonport RSA OUR DOORS ARE OPEN The Devonport Returned and Services Association is one of many local Associations that supports those who served New Zealand through the generations and is committed to making a difference to the lives of veterans and helping the armed-forces community, police and families get the support they deserve. Did you know anyone can be a member? Full membership is open to veterans, military personnel, police, and as associates, all civilians. A full description of each category and how to join is available on the Devonport RSA website. https:// www.devonportrsa.co.nz/, or contact the manager Stephen Millham at manager@ devonportrsa.co.nz for further details. • We provide opportunities for camaraderie for our members. • We organise events commemorating those who have and continue to serve the nation with pride. • We advocate for our members to ensure they are able to access the assistance they deserve. • We provide welfare support services to veterans, serving and ex-serving military personnel, police and their dependants. If you want support or advice or want to volunteer to help supporting our members and our club, contact the Local Support Advisor, Gail Kennett, on 021 446-011 or email lsa@devonportrsa.co.nz HALL HIRE The spacious hall on the first floor is available for hire for commercial or social occasions. The capacity is 150 and is serviced by a lift for disabled persons. The hall has a fully equipped kitchen and two toilet areas. See the website or contact the manager for further details. UPCOMING EVENTS: • 1600–2100 Thursday 3 Nov 22 – Club Night (Bar open and finger food provided) • 1100 Sunday 13 Nov – Remembrance Day Parade and Ceremony at the Devonport War Memorial • 1100–1400 Monday 14 Nov - Members lunch (Housie and raffles) • 1100–1400 Monday 28 Nov –Members Lunch (Housie and raffles) • 1300–1600 Sunday 11 December – Christmas Lunch, Entertainment provided by the The Madeleines
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Sport
November 4, 2022
Air time... Nathan Davies, shown in action at the New Zealand Gymnastics Championships held in Invercargill in July, will compete in the world age-group champs in Bulgaria
Narrow Neck junior trampolinist prepares to fly high Fourteen-year-old Nathan Davies is hoping to take his trampolining to new heights competing overseas this month. The Narrow Neck teen, who is in his first year at Westlake Boys High School, has qualified for the world age-group championships in the 13-14-year-old division, after doing well at nationals this year. He is “nervous but excited” about the opportunity to travel to Sofia, Bulgaria, next week. Nathan, who was head boy at Belmont Intermediate School last year, has been trampolining for five-and-a-half years. He trains three or four times a week with North Harbour Gymnastics. Sounding old beyond his years, Nathan says he will trampoline for as long as he can, adding “till my body gives out pretty much”. He says his friends are stoked for him.
Competing and meeting people are what he enjoys, along with the challenge of executing moves during jumps up to five metres high. “It’s a pretty cool feeling, adrenaline,” he says. Nathan will compete in three disciplines at the world event, to which New Zealand is taking a team of 17, aged from 11 to 21. Four of the team are from North Harbour, including two older boys who have competed before. This means Nathan and his competition partner in the synchronised event, Jake Macken, who attends Kristin School, will have plenty of support. A bonus of the trip is Nathan’s proud parents Sharon and Jonathan and 16-yearold brother are going along as well, with a family holiday to follow.
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Devonport Primary netballers enjoy dual success
Young champs... Devonport Primary’s year-4 netballers. Back row (from left): Gwen Smith, Ava WaldenGreen, Maggie Sievers, Franca Edgar, Rhiannon McAnally. Front row (from left): Evie Bird, Georgia Roberts, Keira Smith, Bonnie Robinson, Ida McAlphine, Tilly White. (Zoe Smith absent.) Devonport Primary School’s year-4 netballers, have won both of the top grades they competed in through the 2022 season. Their success delighted coach, Nicky Robinson, who paid tribute to the side’s
“team spirit and dedication”. The squad of 12 competed in the Saturday Junior Netties competition, played at Westlake Girls High School, and the Monday night primary division, played at
Netball North Harbour. With not quite enough numbers for two full teams, most of the girls had to play twice a week, “always with a big smile on their faces,” Robinson said.
Local rugby talent gets Wales call-up Bayswater rugby player Kate Williams was called up as injury cover for the Welsh World Cup squad, but was not needed for the side’s quarter-final clash against the Black Ferns at the weekend. But the 22-year-old loose forward, who has played five seasons for North Harbour, seems to have chosen red over black for her long-term international ambitions. Welsh-born Williams, a Navy sub-lieutenant, missed the final stages of playing for a combined forces New Zealand team in the International Defence Rugby Competition last month. She was co-captain for the Defence event staged in Auckland, in tandem with the World Cup, but diverted to the Welsh camp after the tournament had begun, in response to a call for help. France beat New Zealand, 9-8, in the Defence tournament final, thanks to a lastminute penalty. Williams took leave from her job as a warfare officer to spend several weeks training with the Welsh squad in July. The former Takapuna Grammar School student, who lives in Navy housing in Bayswater when not aboard ship, told the Flagstaff last month that she has ambitions to explore playing overseas in the future.
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No depression at Westlake as star old boys return Three Westlake old boys will be rocking their old school hall again next week, when Blam Blam Blam reunites for a fundraising gig to mark the school’s 60th anniversary. Tim Mahon, Don McGlashan and Mark Bell attended the school in the mid-1970s – along with an impressive roll call of other New Zealand musical talent – before forming the band that soared up the charts in the early 1980s. Bassist Mahon is proud that their songs, including Kiwi classic There Is No Depression in New Zealand, still resonate 40 years on. “We did lots of songs about things happening politically in New Zealand – and they still are,’’ says the self-described “only anarchistic, communist real-estate agent on the North Shore”. Mahon believes the punk-era times and the hothouse of talent he was surrounded with at school set the trio on their way. “Don was in a stratosphere of his own musically,” he recalls. Mahon hadn’t learned an instrument as a child, unlike McGlashan, who mastered the French horn at a young age, or Bell, who knew guitar. Mahon, who grew up in Takapuna and now lives in Hauraki, says he got into bands hoping to attract girls and have fun. “And I did.” He remembers a fantastic music department at Westlake gave him a trombone and after six weeks told him he would never amount to much musically. So he helped manage some of the other would-be musos, while he honed his skills. McGlashan, who lived in Milford, was two years above Mahon at school, and knew Bell, from Castor Bay, who was one year above, through sailing. Bell played with schoolmate Andrew Snoid, later in Pop Mechanix, and Ian Gilroy (The Crocodiles and Swingers) as part of a covers band. McGlashan, who later formed the Front Lawn with yet another Westlaker, Harry Sinclair, was already at 14 playing with a band in a night club above Shore City. “I left school at 16 in 1977, went straight to uni and dropped out, died my hair blue and went on the road,” chuckles Mahon. In retrospect, he says, he got a superb free education at Westlake, but at the time was a confused adolescent still needing to find his mojo. By 1979, he was appearing with Bell and another former Westlaker, Richard von Sturmer – who appeared naked and covered in blue paint – at the Nambassa musical festival as a member of The Plague, one of this country’s early art-punk bands. These days, father-of-four Mahon suggests aspiring musicians might do better to get a trade under their belt. But he loves how easy it has become to make and share music globally. “The tyranny of distance is no longer a tyranny,” he says. McGlashan is flying in from his Vancouver
Then and now... Blam Blam Blam (top, from left) Tim Mahon, Don McGlashan and Mark Bell and (above) Mahon at home in Hauraki base, via touring in Australia and New Zealand, for the Westlake gig. This means the trio will only get to rehearse during the week of the show. But Mahon and Bell, who now lives in Beach Haven, get together to play more often, as well as doing their own recordings. The trio first played together in a band called The Whizz Kids, which had McGlashan guesting on soprano saxophone and percussion. When other members left, the three formed Blam Blam Blam in 1980, with McGlashan agreeing “to give it a go” on drums. Their two exciting years together ended in a vehicle crash near Whanganui. This left Mahon recuperating on crutches for months and missing a finger on his right hand. But Mahon doesn’t have time for what-ifs. The “genius” McGlashan was on a trajectory, says Mahon. This took him to New York and Bell went to Australia. Mahon spent five years in London before settling into a decade-long role he loved, organising community and arts
events for the then Manukau City Council. For 20 years now, he has been back on the Shore as a top real estate agent for Barfoot & Thompson, these days working from its Milford office. He likes the people contact and says if you’re going to live somewhere it may as well be somewhere nice. “There ain’t nowhere else in the world like this.” Until the call-up by Westlake, the trio have only got together a few times through the decades, most recently for a sell-out tour in 2019. But Bell and Mahon also gig in a covers line-up, which through Barfoot & Thompson events has raised $650,000 for Starship. Although someone once bribed them at a fundraiser to play There Is No Depression..., they shy away from playing the old Blam numbers without McGlashan. “We generally don’t do those songs – we prefer to play them all together.” • Blam Blam Blam, 4 November, Westlake Boys High School Auditorium. Tickets at community.westlake.school.nz
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Two themes this month, the children’s programmes and new adult events around history and memoir. Our biggest event for our Children’s Team is the restart of our children’s in-house programmes. Mondays 10am Storytime Tuesdays 10am Rhymetime: Music and Movement with stories Fridays 10am Wriggle and Rhyme We also resumed our popular Lego Club on Wednesdays 3:30pm–4:30pm. Come for some or all of the time and enjoy chilling with Lego in the Library. And we display the completed creations, with permission, for the rest of Devonport to enjoy. Devonport Primary’s senior classes have an exhibition Our Maunga – Reimagined. Please come and admire their handiwork - on display here until November 11. For adults and seniors, several upcoming events too. Graeme Lay will share his new novel – Larry & Viv at the next Devonport Library Associates event on a Tuesday evening in late November. It’s 1948. Europe is recovering from the war. The British government seeks to reward New Zealand for its support and asks the Old Vic Theatre Company to tour Down Under. Led by Lawrence Olivier and Vivienne Leigh, the world’s best-known actors, performances are acclaimed and theatres packed. But the remorseless publicity sees emotions heightened and along the way love is found and lost. Kiwi comic icon Willy de Wit will share his amazing life story on Sunday 20th November, 2pm. Keen to write your own memoir? See Deborah Shepard’s Writing Family History Class on Monday evenings through November. Look out too for some glorious images of old Devonport from our heritage collections, coming to a shop near you. Devonport librarians enjoyed contributing to this excellent Devonport Business Association initiative. Note: Any seniors unable to get to us easily can enjoy Devonport Community House’s (DCH) weekly Library Run. Just book a visit to the library in the DCH mini-van and get a warm welcome here. Book on 09 445 3068. See you here again soon. PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY
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In a case of out with the old, in with the new, the Depot Artspace is offering the chance for locals to affordably change up their home art selection. Its Pre-Loved, Re-Loved show opens this week, following submissions of art that people were keen to move on. Works range from those by established artists to unknowns. The annual show is a tradition begun in 2014 to promote artist resales and royalties.
Depot general manager Amy Saunders says a percentage of each larger sale goes back to the original artist. Reasons people choose to change their collections commonly include downsizing homes, or relocating, finding homes for pieces their children have outgrown, or simply to create space for something new. The show is open 5-29 November, at the gallery on Clarence St, Devonport. It is closed on Sundays and Mondays.
Gallery commemorates 30 years Flagstaff gallery in Devonport is set to celebrate 30 years in business, and one year at its corner site on Victoria Rd. The work of more than 50 artists, the gallery represents will be on show, from the end of next week, Friday 11 November, in an exhibition entitled Inspired, in recognition of the founding of one of Auckland’s longer-standing galleries. The show will follow a by invitation celebratory evening.
Purple patch at the PumpHouse Devonport Heritage AGM Devonport Library Tuesday 15 Nov at 7.30pm Speakers: ‘Grand Designs’ Tom Webster & Planning Specialist Dave Serjeant
Some big names of New Zealand theatre are bringing their talents to the North Shore this month, with Jennifer Ward-Lealand directing a play, Hanna, at the PumpHouse that winds up its season on Sunday, before Lisa Chappell returns to the Takapuna venue in Di and Viv and Rose. Hanna performed by Cassandra Woodhouse, explores motherhood, then the theme of female friendship brings Chappell together with Jodie Dorday and Elish Moran from November 10.
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Caustic comedy depicts outlier life in the raw Director Kristof Haines is enjoying wrangling a 14-strong ensemble for a challenging play exploring lives lived on the edge of society. Company Theatre’s upcoming production of caustic comedy Jerusalem is very relevant to the times, he says, in looking at freedom of choice – or the lack thereof – and what happens if people choose to shrug off bureaucracy and defy convention. Although it’s set in England, the themes are universal, centring around a non-conformist character a local council wants to evict from his caravan that has been parked in the woods for 20-odd years. “I think that people who are looking for something that is joyous, irreverent and fun – a little bit cheeky – will love Jerusalem, says Haines. He enjoyed its depiction of “a life not ruled by regulation”. The content is a little more adult than some plays staged by community theatres, he says, with strong language and drug-taking references. But that contemporary rawness is part of what drew Haines back to working with Company Theatre, to direct his third play at its Rose Theatre base. While some theatres play it safe with box office old favourites, he admires Company Theatre for being willing to mix things up. “They’ve been brave in their choice of plays, while some companies keep trotting out the same things.” Haines has had his eye on directing Jerusalem for a few years, and says he is grateful that Company did not shy away from the difficulties of assembling a large cast, including eight males. “It has been a mammoth undertaking,” he says. The play’s action centres around the squatter character of Johnny “Rooster” Byron, played by Narrow Neck resident James Carrick. Like Haines, Carrick has been involved with Company Theatre on and off over the years and recently staged his first play, Hellansville, under his That I Theatre Company banner. With other actors ranging from age 14 to their 70s, Haines says timing rehearsals for Jerusalem, written by Jez Butterworth, has taken some juggling. But he says over the last few months it has been a joy to work with such a diverse group. And it’s actually the props that are requiring the most workarounds. Thanks to help volunteer Peter Monti at the Claystore workshop in Devonport, sets, including a caravan frontage, have been constructed. The logistics of their placement on stage are part of the jigsaw of this team effort. The soundscape is also a mash-up, from
Practice time... James Carrick (left) who plays the irrascible “Rooster” in Company Theatre’s production of Jerusalem, rehearses with Harry Brown, 14, a member of the National Youth Theatre. Photograph: Kathryn Nobbs birdsong in the English countryside to Dub-step music. It marks out the contrasts between the quiet bucolic nature of old England and the loudness of modernity. Haines, who lives in Kingsland, started acting at various Auckland theatres around a decade ago, before adding directing to his repertoire. He was in Fawlty Towers at Company Theatre and in 2019 directed Stones in his Pocket, followed up with the Covid-delayed production of Peninsula. In its name, Jerusalem nods to William Blake’s 1808 poem, itself a response to an apocryphal story that Jesus once visited England. It translates well to New Zealand, Haines believes, showing the humanity of those on the fringes, dwelling in small rural communities who are often overlooked or have their views denigrated. “It’s easy to get caught up in the viewpoints of people who live in Auckland and Wellington, but so many people are in other parts of New Zealand.” “Rooster”, who wants to live life on his own terms, will resonate with non-conformists everywhere, Haines believes. “He wants to stage one final day of defiance.”
Jerusalem director Kristof Haines • Jerusalem by Company Theatre is on from 5-19 November at 7.30pm at the Rose Centre, Belmont. Tickets are available through iticket.co.nz
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Hauraki author’s gardens book
PRE-LOVED RE-LOVED CREATES CIRCULAR ECONOMY FOR ART AND ARTISTS Back by popular demand, pre-loved paintings, objects and prints are being re-homed during Depot Artspace’s annual re-sale exhibition Pre-Loved Re-Loved. Established in 2014, Pre-Loved Re-Loved is an annual Depot tradition that engages the public in creating a circular economy for art and promotes Artist Resale Royalties. A percentage of the gallery commission from the sale of every artwork over a standard threshold goes back to the original artist or artist’s estate. Works sold at $1000+ will have a resale royalty of 30%, split evenly between the gallery and the seller. This is a great opportunity to have some fun with art and engage in a circular economy. Freshen up your space with something new or find a good home for a work that never found its place! Pre-Loved, Re-Loved is open open to the public from 5 - 29 November 2022.
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Rosemary Barraclough admits to being camera shy, but makes an Alfred Hitchcock-style cameo appearance in her new book New Zealand Gardens to Visit. The imposing surrealist section of Hamilton Gardens “needed a person in it” to show its scale, so Barraclough was co-opted in. The photo is one of many stunning shots taken by Barraclough’s collaborator Juliet Nicholas, for a celebration of New Zealand’s visitable gardens that is both a coffee table book and a useful travel guide. The book was two years in the making: It’s Barraclough’s first and likely to be her last. “It was a lovely project to work on…but it was huge. I had no idea how taxing it would be – 50 stories on 50 gardens,” the Hauraki resident says. Barraclough developed her interest in gardens and gardening while working for 10 years at NZ House & Garden magazine, where she was associate editor. In 2020, Barraclough caught Covid in the first wave and was then made redundant when German publisher Bauer suddenly decided to exit New Zealand. The book was conceived alongside Christchurch-based photographer Nicholas as a selection of public and private gardens open to visitors for at least part of the year. Barrraclough felt it was important to have a geographic spread of gardens across New Zealand. But one of the difficulties was deciding which gardens to leave out, particularly in areas like Christchurch, where open gardens abound. Around 25 per cent of the gardens profiled
in the book are publicly owned. Auckland Covid lockdowns caused logistical problems, particularly as most of the gardens needed to be viewed and photographed in spring or early summer, Barroclough said. “I had to do some of the interviews by phone, but I tried to get out and see as many as I could.” She had seen some of them before in her NZ House & Garden role. Husband Andrew Hill was roped in “as chauffeur” in a rapid-fire 10-day road trip around the lower North Island, visiting two to three gardens a day in Wellington, Wairarapa and Palmerston North. It was all worth the effort though, as meeting the gardeners in their created environments was a high point for Barraclough. “Its amazing how jaw-droppingly gorgeous some of these places are.” The variety is captured in Nicholas’ photographs: from gardens that burst with flowers and fragrance, to wilder places that celebrate eco-friendly, naturalistic trends, and gardens built on their owners’ passions, including butterflies, bromeliads or bamboo. “The gardeners are lovely – hard workers and public-spirited. In Canterbury, Broadfield Garden has been developed by David Hobbs solely for public consumption. He doesn’t even live on the property. His idea was people could visit for the ‘price of going to the pictures’.” Some of the gardeners “have become almost friends”. Many are coming to her book launch. Among Barraclough’s favourite gardens
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are Fishermen’s Bay on Banks Peninsula and Paripuma in Marlborough – “created out of a windblown wasteland”. And the magnificence of Eastwoodhill near Gisborne is a wonder to behold, with 15,000 trees from around the world planted to create a type of natural Noah’s Ark, safeguarding species from any apocalyptic global events. Working on the book Barraclough noticed some of the gardening trends emerging, such as planting to suit climate and the landscape. The timing for the book’s release post-Covid is almost perfect, with more people back travelling and seeing the country. “I hope people enjoy the book…there’s something spirit-lifting about gardens…they are an easy way to connect with nature.” With the book published, Barraclough can devote more time to tennis (she plays interclub for Takapuna) and her home garden. She enjoys gardening, but says her own plots may have become slightly neglected. “I’ve been very busy doing this book.”
Tour guide… Author Rosemary Barraclough (opposite page) in her own garden and, in a surrealist cameo (above), at Hamilton Gardens
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