30 June 2017 Devonport Flagstaff by Devonport Flagstaff

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Wraps finally off the Masonic... p3

More intensification plans revealed... p8

Interview: True local Melita builds Samoa ties… p18

Market-linked rents asked on maunga New rents calculated using market rates are looming for community groups with facilities on Auckland maunga, including the Kerr St Artspace on Takarunga/Mt Victoria. The Tupuna Maunga O Tamaki Makaurau

Authority decided last week to renew its lease to the Depot Arts and Music Space Trust with a new payment structure. Paul Majurey, the authority’s chair, told the Flagstaff that the new two-year lease with a

right of renewal for a further year “will be at market rate as determined by an independent registered valuer, but with due consideration of any contribution that the lessee may make to the To page 3

Busy Izzy makes time for North Shore juniors

Our new best friend... All Black Israel Dagg with North Shore Rugby Club J4s (from left) Jack Gerkin, Tom Collier and Adam Nicholls. Dagg took a break in test week to pass on some tips. Story, page 6.

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The big reveal: wrapping comes off the Masonic Eight years after consent for a redevelopment of the historic Masonic Tavern was unsuccessfully challenged in the Environment Court by groups including Devonport Heritage and the Historic Places Trust, the renovated building has been unveiled to the public. Plastic wrapping that has encased the 1866 heritage building at 29 King Edward Parade for almost two years was removed last week. The Redback Develop Ltd project has incorporated the tavern into a complex of 10 luxury waterfront apartments and office space. The most immediately noticeable change to the building is its reinstated first-floor balcony. Before and after... the Masonic Tavern as it was (inset) and following its redevelopment From page 1

Maunga rents changing

health and well-being of the Tupuna Maunga.” The Depot has been charged only a peppercorn $1 annual rent since 2003. It is one of five community organisations facing new lease conditions on various maunga. The others, on isthmus mountains, are a kindergarten, scout group, tennis club and sports-car club. It seems many other community organisations with facilities on maunga, including the Michael King Writers Centre and Takarunga Playcentre on Takarunga/Mt Victoria, can expect a switch to the new rents as their leases fall due. The Depot building at 16 Kerr St – formerly the Devonport Community House – is owned by Auckland Council. The DevonportTakapuna Local Board is responsible for all maintenance and repairs. Local board member Mike Cohen is concerned about the implications paying market rent will have on community groups like the Depot as well as on his board. “The community groups are likely to ask the local

board to help fund this increase. We are already funding the repair and maintenance of the building and will continue to do so irrespective of who the tenant is,” he says. “It’s one part of council funding another.” he says. Depot Artspace Manager Lynn Lawton says to pay higher rents, “We will either have to charge our users more, seek funding from another source or move off the mountain.” This year, the local board is paying $80,850 to replace weatherboards on the building’s exterior and replace the kitchen. Work is due to start next week. It is unclear whether the Maunga Authority’s building evaluation will occur before or after the upgrade. Lawton says the Kerr St building is available for a range of community uses. The Depot’s Artslab programme regularly holds workshops there. Groups, including Devonport U3A, Amnesty International, a local drama teacher and a choir also rent it on a casual basis. A Address; rental fee of $15 per hour helps the Depot New to cover the building’s running costs. 26-28 Victoria Road, Devonport

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Bridgestone Devonport changing the face of the industry

Aaron and Michelle Brown had owned Bridgestone Tyre Centre in Otahuhu for 3 years before buying their Devonport branch at 5 Wynyard Street. “It seemed like the right fit, and we love Devonport’s small, tight-knit community.” Family is of great importance in the business, with Aaron running the Devonport branch, while his wife Michelle runs their Otahuhu branch with the help of their daughter Brittany. Their other daughter Jessica, although based in Cambridge has also taken an active roll and helps out whenever possible. “We are trying to change the face of the industry, and people’s attitude towards our line of work. We pride ourselves on being clean, friendly and professional and it’s great to see people’s body language change when they walk through our doors and are able to immediately put their trust in our business.” With a background in logistics and warehousing, Aaron has an extensive knowledge of the industry and a strong awareness of time importance. When it came to buying a business, Bridgestone Tyres was an obvious choice to make for Aaron and Michelle. “We really believe in the brand and are proud and confident to be sending people away with our tyres on their car,” says Aaron. This confidence is felt by customers nation wide, with Bridgestone receiving the title of 2017’s most trusted tyre brand in New Zealand, an internationally recognised award. Bridgestone is also the first tyre company

in history to join the Olympic Partnership program, wanting their brand to go beyond tyres and support society in a meaningful way. The friendly environment is something that is felt as soon as you walk through the door at Bridgestone Devonport. “We always aim to make the experience enjoyable and professional, without cutting any corners. Most importantly we have the right gear to be able to do that.” Aaron and his team at Bridgestone Devonport are using the best equipment the industry has to offer, including the Hunter Aligner. The Hunter Aligner is a state of the art wheel aligner and is the most up to date on the North Shore. Their leverless

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Library’s community-room fees soar Community groups will be charged $12 an hour to use the meeting room at Devonport Library which has previously been available to them at no charge. The charge is being introduced in July under Auckland Council’s new Annual Plan. The commercial hire rate for the room almost triples, from $8.10 to $24 per hour. Devonport-Takapuna Local Board member Mike Cohen said at a recent board workshop that the new fee structure was not acceptable. “Many of those community groups are run by volunteers and benefit our community. I don’t think we should charge them for their work,” he said. “And the rationale of having a community room at the library is to have it be used as much as possible. We shouldn’t make it harder by charging for it.” Cohen expected groups will seek funding from the local board to pay the fees. A council officer estimated that the fees would raise about $2000 per year.

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All Blacks star is down with the kids at Shore

Fun and games... Israel Dagg keeping it light during a session with North Shore’s J4 players

North Shore Rugby Club’s J4 players got some hot tips from All Black Israel Dagg last Wednesday as he helped prepare them for their

weekend game against East Coast Bays Gold. They went on to win the game 35-7. Dagg took the boys through various All Blacks drills, says team coordinator Rob Nicholls. “The kids just loved it. He even showed his specialty high ball catching skills. He was obviously training for an upcoming game,” he says, referring to Dagg’s own weekend appointment with the British and Irish Lions. Dagg went on to play a key role in the All Blacks’ first-test victory at Eden Park. “He took the kids through some All Black core skills – passing drills, catching and running techniques. Then he also just did some fun things with them and joined right in their play,” Nicholls says. Dagg stayed on for the team’s regular training session assisting their coach Grant Simpkins. The special training session with Dagg was won in a recent Belmont Primary School fundraiser.

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Hauraki volunteers ask for council help tackling traffic safety

Hauraki resident Jackie Hayward has been trying to improve pedestrian safety traffic around Hauraki School for a year. Early this month, she told the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board it was time she got some support from council. Hayward, whose sons Elliot (10) and Fletcher (8) go to Hauraki School, has lived in the area for 13 years. She says traffic has increased hugely in the last two years, particularly around the school, as development in the area kicks off. The school’s roll of 460 students is projected to grow to 700 by 2018, she says. More parents are driving their children to school and down Jutland Rd to Hauraki’s popular Lake Town Green playground. Building work has brought more construction vehicles and increased demand led to more buses on the roads. “It was just getting to a point that was not safe for the kids to walk to school anymore,” Hayward says.

In June last year, she and 15 other parent volunteers decided to improve pedestrian safety around Hauraki School themselves. They have monitored “safe crossings” across side roads before and after school, have set up new walking school buses along Jutland Rd, and have gained a change in school policy to allow children under nine to cycle and scooter to school with their parents. “It has all made a difference, but we ultimately need more infrastructure to support us,” Hayward says. She asked the local board for yellow lines, illuminated school signs, raised kerbs and zebra crossings. “Otherwise the risks for kids will increase again. What we are doing is not a long-term solution,” she says. Auckland Transport spokesperson Mark Hannan says traffic engineers have already responded with new Give Way signs on Walter St, Marsden St and Sydney St. The possibility of a zebra crossing is also being investigated

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Demolition and development cranks up on peninsula Intensification on the Devonport peninsula seems to be gathering pace, with two recent resource applications suggesting developers are keen to take advantage of new zonings under Auckland Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Unitary Plan. At 6 Harrison Ave, Belmont, in a cul-dusac off Westwell Rd that leads to the back of the Rose Centre, owner Chunlin Liu wants to demolish a three-bedroom 1930s bungalow and replace it with seven threelevel, three-bedroom dwellings. The 883-square-metre site is in a Terrace Housing and Apartments zone. The property sold a year ago and was marketed as having had only two owners in 70 years. Another application has been lodged to demolish a small 1930s single-storey weatherboard bungalow at the corner of Ngataringa Rd and Wesley St, with an accompanying proposal to subdivide the site and build five brick-veneer-clad terrace houses. The 75 8-squ are-metre s ite at 36 Ngataringa Rd is across the street from the recently approved Ryman Healthcare retirement complex. Its owner, Kraj Trust, bought the property in 2014. The building consent application shows five freehold sections, three of them of only 116 sqm. A four-metre-high pohutukawa tree on

the Wesley St roadside Intensification plans... Model views of the seven will have to make way three-bedroom dwellings proposed for 6 Harrison for three new vehicle Ave, Belmont (above), and the five terrace houses crossings. planned for the corner of Ngataringa Rd and Each of the five Wesley St (below) two-storey terrace houses is designed with a garage, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a laundry and an open-plan kitchen-dining-living area. Around 250 cubic metres of earthworks are required to create a level platform for balustrades are envisioned for the exterior. the new foundations Both the Harrison Ave and Ngataringa and driveways. Brick-veneer cladding, metal long-run Rd developments require consent as roofing and balconies with aluminium restricted discretionary activities.

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“Joined-up thinking” needed on Allen Hill plan We are disappointed with the recent article in the Flagstaff regarding the Allen Hill development. The Allen Hill Neighbours Group is not half a dozen neighbours but represents 44 households who are extremely concerned about the real implications of what is proposed. The ongoing desire of the group is to find a compromise which does not have a significant impact on our everyday life and risk exacerbating Lake Rd traffic. We are not anti-sport and we would love North Shore United (NSU) to have a large single site with great facilities and access to superior pitches for the club and all teams. Our challenge is around the suitability of this location for this scale of development, level of intensification and the proposed hours of operations. It is important to note the following: the article implied a new club house would form part of the council-funded development, but this is not the case. Also, there will continue to be a single access to the site, as post-development access will be via Ngataringa Park. The Parks team committed to undertake testing of noise, traffic and parking. However, at the behest of NSU, they reneged on the commitment to have these unannounced throughout the season, and effectively took and drew conclusions from a single day of measurement early in the season which was not representative of the usual impact from noise, parking or traffic. In addition, the experience of residents in Michaels Ave, Ellerslie, has raised serious concerns about the objectivity of these assessments. At this location, residents were heartened when the council undertook acoustic testing, which demonstrated that the noise was above legal limits in residents’ homes. However, the council simply raised a resource consent to increase the noise limits. At the subsequent Environment Court hearings the council had to agree, at great ratepayers’expense, to mitigate the impact on residents, and are currently installing sound barriers, double glazing, and insulating local homes to dampen the noise. The Council Project Manager described the development at Ellerslie as “a nightmare” and “the last thing we want to do is to create another Michaels Avenue”; and commenting on Allen Hill stated “in many respects this is worse as there are more homes and there is no ability to mitigate noise” (due to site topology). We risk ruining the top of Victoria Rd and Abbotsford Tce and surrounding roads. While there will be increased parking on site, there will be a requirement to cater for an overflow of 160 cars on residential streets at peak time, based on a model which assumes a percentage of visitors cycling or walking. All visiting teams and many club members will need to travel down Lake Rd and converge on a single site with compromised access. So it is important we fully understand the traffic implications for an already congested Lake Rd, especially now training will coincide with the evening rush hour with vastly increased weekend games. We have repeatedly requested a full assessment

of the traffic impact at the pinch points on Lake Rd, however, assessments have been of just the area immediately outside the ground. The necessity for additional analysis has been dismissed in the traffic report as follows: “It should be noted that District Arterial Roads are generally designed to accommodate up to 40,000 daily vehicle movements, depending on their layout.” Thus, as Lake Road regularly carries less than 20,000 vehicle movements a day, it is deemed it will adequately cope with these waves of additional traffic It is an 11-fold increase in midweek training alone. While this will save journeys out of Devonport for club members south of the site, everyone north and all visiting teams will need to travel further down Lake Road. Lake Rd is not coping well with current volumes. Yet this and other developments are proposed and approved as having “less than minor” impact. Anyone who has been stuck in Lake Rd traffic knows this to be unbelievable. Exiting the site with current volumes is problematic, but with the increased visitors for back-to-back training and multiple games, it will be extremely difficult to get in or out especially in evening rush or busy weekend traffic. A quote from an ex-Michaels Ave resident: “During these resource consent applications, the terms ‘less than minor’, ‘insignificant’, and ‘trivial’ were used by council planners and consultants when referring to the effects of increased noise, new floodlighting, and parking demands on the local environment. While at the same time, the development was heralded as a significant increase in the usage of the facility. These two claims are incompatible: you cannot have a significant increase in usage with insignificant effect on the environment.” Other considerations have been ignored: the loss of ambience and aesthetics with swathes of concrete and 18m light poles; the loss of trees which will impact tui and other native wildlife, which will not thrive with noise and light late into the evening. It is also worth noting this will generate congestion outside the fire station. Also, the scheduling and co-ordination of construction, together with the raft of other construction projects on the peninsula happening at the same time – all these are dismissed or categorised as “less than minor”. What we need from council is joined-up thinking, and we are resting our hopes on the common sense and integrity of the elected representatives of our local board to protect residents from the worst consequences of this scale of intensification. We have put forward constructive suggestions as to how the club can meet its objectives without the negative effects. We need honesty from our council officials on the impacts, and creative thinking as to how the club can be supported in providing a quality service to the local youth and football community without huge impacts on immediate neighbours, and risks to the already strained infrastructure which will affect all Devonport residents. Allen Hill Neighbours

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Letters

Devonport skaters left in the dark For years there has been the talk of installing floodlights at Ngataringa Park for skateboarders and others that use (or do not use) the reserve in the evenings. But no action has been taken by Auckland Council. Our friends in Orewa have enjoyed lighting at their skate park for many years, and now have an upgraded facility, including new (sensor) floodlights for 24/7 use. We need the same for our community now. Lack of lighting means our kids cannot enjoy skateboarding in the evenings, and those that do skate are not safe. I painfully remember my

accident as a young teen – breaking my wrist in the dark. Lack of lighting also attracts crime. Piled poles with deep foundations will remain grounded around geo-tech upgrading work that is in the discussion for the “future.” Floodlights (without delay) will increase the hours that the skate park can be used and improve safety and security. It could mean less street skating around Devonport shops at night while providing a safe place for youth to “hang out” in the evenings. Fletcher Rawlinson, Year 13, Te Kura School

Register to oppose claims over beaches I am sure we all cherish our wonderful local environment, probably because of the proximity and unimpeded access to the beaches and sea. The Marine and Coastal Area Act is therefore vitally important to us all, because we are almost totally surrounded by the coastline and beaches. This new law is going where no law has gone before. It is untested and goes outside the Westminster paradigm to create a totally new form of title. Over 500 claims have been lodged either with the High Court or the Government directly by various iwi, hapu and whanau. At least three (overlapping) claims have been submitted covering all our local beaches and coast by Ngati Whatua Orakei, Te Kawerau a

Maki, and Ngati Tamaoho. Until these claims are settled (some may take years ) anyone applying for resort consent, permits or approvals in the common marine and coastal area must notify and seek the views of all the groups that have applied for recognition of customary marine title in the area. There is a limited time to register as an interested party to oppose each claim. (There is a fee of $110). I would urge all local residents who value unimpeded access to our beaches, the right to fish our waters, sail our harbour, and otherwise enjoy the Hauraki Gulf to serve notice of appearance on the above claims relating to our local beaches and coastline. D.R. Stubbs

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Interview

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Former sports star Melita connects local kids with the Pacific Takapuna Grammar School teacher Melita Tu’isila is not only a third-generation local but also has strong links to Samoa. She spoke to Maire Vieth about growing up as a sporty Belmont girl, marrying a Samoan high chief and building a Devonport connection to the village of Lotopue. In some ways, life has come full circle for Melita Tu’isila. Eleven years ago, she and her husband Malu bought the Belmont home she grew up in. They live there with their sons Noah and Harrison. In 2011, she returned to Takapuna Grammar School, which she attended as a teenager, as a physical education teacher. Teacher Brian Wynn, who once taught her PE, and Kevin Walsh, her former biology teacher, became her colleagues. Tu’isila – who was then Melita Harrison – was a top Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) athlete. She was the school’s Young Sportswoman of the Year for her last two years at school for her achievements in senior A tennis, senior volleyball, athletics, first XI Soccer – and selection for the New Zealand Under 20 soccer team. Today, as the coordinator of the TGS Elite Sport Institute that nurtures the school’s top 37 athletes, she helps sporty kids like her. But Tu’isila’s life today has major differences from her childhood years. Since her marriage 14 years ago to Malu Tu’isila, a personal trainer 15 years her senior – who also happens to be a Samoan high chief who keeps strong links to his homeland – she has embraced his Samoan heritage with enthusiasm. Particularly close bonds were established when her first child, Noah, was born, not long after her mother died. “I had literally just come off the football field and didn’t have a lot of experience with babies. Malu’s mum was instrumental in getting me through being a first-time mother. Noah was her 35th grandchild. She sang to him and slept with him in the lounge for the first four weeks.” The Tu’isilas bought Melita’s family home on Lake Rd, right across from TGS, in December 2006. The following January, they hosted a Samoan family meeting. “At one point that night, Malu told me to get blankets

Making the link... Melita Tu’isila is back making an impact on the neighbourhood she grew up in. and pillows out. They were all staying – and it wasn’t just for the night. “Some stayed for the next 10 years. It was 10 of us in the house during that time, including a niece, an aunty, a nephew, a girlfriend, and us four,” she says. Tu’isila admits sharing her home was a culture shock, but one she also welcomed. “I didn’t have to worry about childcare. I never took a day off school because I had that support. It really helped me through my late 20s and early 30s to be able to run a household, have a full-time job and look after two boys.” These days, the Tu’isilas treat dinner as a casual affair, but a scheduled 40-minute cultural prayer time afterwards is nonnegotiable. “It starts with a Samoan song before Malu reads the prayer of the day. The boys do a bit of bible reading in both Samoan and English. “We talk about how the prayer connects with our lives, with what’s happening in New Zealand or in the world. And then we also talk about family business such as who is taking who to after-school sports the next day,” she says. “It’s quite different from my family, which had a Maltese background, with Mum and Dad, me and my brother talking things over at the dinner table. So we kind of lost that. But what we do now brings us all back together right at the end of the day and reminds us to be thankful for what we have,” she says. Late in 2015, Tu’isila attended a parent

meeting for Noah’s North Shore Rugby Club team. Noah was playing his last year of junior club rugby and the coaches were planning a leavers’ trip. That’s when the idea of a communitywide cultural exchange, not unlike the one in the Tu’isila house, was sparked. “One of the coaches said wouldn’t it be great to go overseas to a Pacific Island,” Tu’isila says. “I turned around and said to him, ‘I have a house in Samoa. I can make it happen’.” Melita and Malu had taken a small group of TGS International Baccalaureate students on a school trip to Malu’s family village of Lotopue the previous year. “So we knew how it worked and what the Devonport kids would get out of the trip. So many parents told us afterwards that it had changed their kids’ lives. It gave us the confidence to do it again but on a bigger scale and with much younger and more impressionable children,” she says. Last year, 35 junior rugby players spent a week in Lotopue. This year’s leavers are going back and are taking with them a container full of supplies to donate to the village. As in the first year, the Year 8 rugby players will sleep in fales, swim at the beach across the road, eat taro and pork and play two local teams, including the Samoa Rugby Academy. “I think it all makes them more worldly and turns them into better citizens,” says Tu’isila. A third trip for next year is already in the works. Sport was a huge part of Tu’isila’s own

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June 30 2017 childhood. With plenty of natural talent, she did well in everything she tried. It started at the Wakatere Boating Club where the Harrison family liked to spend their Sundays. “My dad, Ian, was the ViceCommodore at Wakatere. When I was four years old I would sit inside the spinnaker shoot of his Sunburst, bobbing up and down, while he sailed the boat by himself.” Her mother, Carol, loved sailing too. She had gone to school with Peter Blake, a neighbouring kid on Lansdowne St, Bayswater.

“I felt it was time for me to go back home, to my roots, be closer to my children’s schools and sports clubs, and work more locally.” Melita honed her sailing skills crewing on the Sunburst of the late Tony Bouzaid, a double world champion of the World Half Ton Cup (in 1977 and 78). The pair won the Sunburst nationals together in the late 1980s. At TGS, Tu’isila crewed in a Sunburst sailing team. “We actually won the school a national title in a three-boat team event one year,” she says. But she excelled at much more than sailing. She started playing tennis at the Belmont Park Racquets Club at 10. “At the age of 12 I was ranked number 5 in the country,” she says. She played tennis at TGS and again won a national title in 1994. She continued to play Chelsea Cup for Belmont. As a rep player, she was pressured to drop her other sports. “I did rep training at Stanley St in Parnell and would show up with muddy knees from football training. They didn’t like that,” she says. Tu’isila had played football at North Shore United since she was five. “I was the only girl on the team until I was 13. Mum used to put me in pigtails with red ribbons so they knew I wasn’t a boy. “We used to play on the Domain and I would get changed in the girls’ toilet and run around to the boys’ toilet on the other side for the team talk. I used to be so fascinated with that urinal,” she laughs. Tu’isila made the North City U13 rep team at the age of 12, playing alongside Phil Porteous, Graham Greene and Jonathan Smith. “I was the only girl in that as well, and when I was 14 I was told I had to go to girls football now.” She played school and club soccer, first in Glenfield, then Mt Eden and eventually

for Three Kings United FC from 1995 to 2000. She represented Auckland at U17 and U19 level and New Zealand as an U17 and U20 player, scoring two goals against South Korea in 1995. In 1997, Tu’isila was named Auckland’s Young Player of the Year. Her Auckland rep team won the National Women’s Soccer Tournament in 1997 and 1998. In summer, she played gaelic football to keep fit. She made the national team in the sport as well and one year was named in the Australasian team. But not long after that second national tournament win, a severe knee injury put an end to her stellar football career. After leaving TGS, Tu’isila studied to be a PE teacher. In 2000, she got her first job, at Mt Albert Grammar School (MAGS), where she helped set up a girls soccer programme. “The programme came to fruition in 2010 when our girls won nationals for the first time.” They won two other competitions as well. “When there was nothing left to win, I left. “I felt it was time for me to go back home, to my roots, be closer to my children’s schools and sports clubs, and work more locally,” she says. Noah (13) and Harrison (11) are as sporty as her mother. “This winter Noah does basketball, ultimate frisbee, rugby and volleyball. Harrison has volleyball, rugby and basketball. They are busy,” she says. Tu’isila says in many respects the peninsula hasn’t changed much since she was a kid. “I recognise myself in my students all the time. I think our kids are brought up well, are respectful, want to achieve and be successful. It’s just a new cycle of them coming through school.” The people she runs into at New World now stretch over three generations. “It takes me forever to get out of there. I say hi to my students, to my old school friends and also to their parents. If my kids are lucky enough to stay in the area, our family will have another generation here,” she says. Tu’isila does spin classes at the gym to stay fit in winter. But come summer, she still plays gaelic football and she still has a competitive edge. This season she was named in the All Stars team, one of the 25 best players out of five teams. “And I’m the oldest player in my team too,” she beams.

Good sport... Melita Tu’isila’s youthful successes included making the national Under 20 football team (above) and winning the Sunburst nationals with Tony Bouzaid in the late 80s (below)

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