20 years ago from the Flagstaff files

• North Shore United holds a crunch meeting over proposals to scrap the national league, which would send the club into relative obscurity.

• North Shore Rugby Club’s premier side wins its first play-off game to notch five wins on the trot, with Luke Dodderell, Craig Newby, Ben Meyer, Justin Pohipi and Phil Weedon putting in top performances.

• A Save the Cinema fancy-dress ball is to be held at the Devonport Community House.

• Police are searching for a middle-aged man who exposed himself to a 12-yearold on Cambria Rd.

• A Devonport Connections exhibition is held at the Flagstaff gallery featuring artists Cynthia Taylor, Joan Taylor, Mary Taylor, Julia Henderson, Anna Palmer, Ted Sherwin and Garry Currin. Works by Helen Pollock, Justine Pollock and Garry Nash are also on show.

• Schools have been given advice on educating students about stranger danger after a man offered a six-year-old Belmont Primary student a lift.

• Devonport peninsula schools clean up in the North Shore interschool chess competition. Two Belmont teams take the top two positions in the Intermediate section, while the Vauxhall Kasparovs and the Hauraki Bishops were placed first and second respectively in the Primary competition.

• Sawyer Real Estate becomes Chris Rogers Real Estate.

• The idea of a midwinter heritage festival in Devonport fails to gain traction.

• Resource consent has been granted for stage three of a Takarunga tunnel restoration.

• A refurbished villa on Patuone Ave is on the market for $635,000.

• Vauxhall School’s Travelwise programme wins a Ministry for the Environment Award.

• Devonport photographer Amos Chapple wins Young Photographer of the Year at the national Qantas Media Awards. His portfolio includes a shot of champion windsurfer Tom Ashley, which was published in the Devonport Flagstaff.

• Emergency meetings are held to decide the future of the ailing Moreton Bay Fig tree located outside Devonport Library.

• A clam shell, a whale or a beached-ship design were the concepts for a Bayswater ferry terminal put to the Devonport Community Board by architecture firm Archmedia.

• Mother and son Rafael and Andrea Hammond will hold a joint exhibition at the Depot.

• Eels are found in Stanley Point drains – indicating good stream health.

• The Devonport midwinter swim has been running for five years, organised by student Aja Lethaby.

• Father and son halfbacks Ross and Sam Chapman face off in the annual Takapuna Grammar Old Boys vs First XV match over Queen’s Birthday weekend.