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Barmy Army cricketers come to North Shore… p2

Queen’s Scout Awards 55 years apart... p3

Interview: singer Diane Ponzio... p16

Asbestos unlawfully dumped at recycling centre Around 15 kilograms of asbestos was illegally dumped at the Devonport Community Recyling Centre last Thursday. The offenders are likely to face prosecution as

their vehicle was caught by a CCTV camera. Centre manager Andrew Walters said some material had been dropped off in the correct recycling area, but the car had then been

driven to the rear of the site, where the asbestos was dumped. Staff were onto the illegal dumping To page 5

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Army invades in pursuit of trophy... and refreshment England cricket-team supporters the Barmy Army will play their New Zealand counterparts – the Beige Brigade – at Devonport Domain this month. The Rashers Trophy is on the line in a Twenty20 match at North Shore Cricket Club on 21 March at 2pm. While the teams have played for the trophy previously in New Zealand, the fixture will be the first match between the sides in Devonport. One of the organisers, Murray Scott, says

it is essentially a fun afternoon of social cricket. “We are expecting a few of their supporters along, as well as locals,” he says. “They will be thirsty at two but our bar doesn’t open till four. “They’ll be able to enjoy a bit of local liquor and local food and no doubt there will be a few Barmy Army songs sung as well.” Play is expected to finish around 5.30 pm. • North Shore Rugby Club’s Dad’s Army team played a Barmy Army side during the 2005 Lions tour and posted a large win.

King of the Bays into Devonport realm The 2.8 km King of the Bays annual swim has shifted to Devonport due to ongoing water-quality issues. Organisers say frequent ‘red readings’ on Auckland Council’s www.safeswim.org.nz website for Milford and Takapuna beaches, following persistent rain, have ruled out the usual race location, with the 14 April event transferred to Devonport. The event will now comprise a 2.5km swim departing Cheltenham beach around North Head to Devonport; a 750m swim from Torpedo Bay to Windsor Reserve; and a children’s 200m swim off Windsor

Reserve beach. Organisers say while the water quality safety readings are influenced by rainfall and other environmental factors, Auckland weather continues to be unpredictable. Devonport and Cheltenham have shown 100 per cent ‘green reading’ results throughout the past three months, so the new location is a safer option. A bus transfer for swimmers from central Devonport to the event start line aims to ease congestion. King of the Bays swimmers have raced from Milford to Takapuna since 2004.

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Queen’s Scout Awards 55 years apart

If the shirt fits... Ist Devonport Scouts Queen Scouts recipients Theo Hoyte (left) and Michael de Boyett with Jim Eagles, who received the award in 1963 Two Ist Devonport Scouts have received Queen’s Scout Awards – 55 years after the group last had a recipient of the award. Theo Hoyte and Michael de Boyett were presented with the award at the Scouts’Allenby Ave clubhouse last week by Jim Eagles, who won the award in 1963. Eagles received the award with fellow Scouts Gordon Maxwell and Ian Calvert. Hoyte began scouting in 2010 and de Boyett in 2016. The Queen’s Scout Award is the top award in Scouting. It includes physical tests such as hiking, along with community work. De Boyett’s programme included treeplanting, while Hoyte went to a Scout jamboree near Blenheim attended by 4500 people last year. Both have now left Venturers – the oldest Scouting level – and are students at the University of Auckland. However, they are still linked to the Devonport 1st group as Cubs leaders. The Devonport 1st group has undergone a rejuvenation in recent years, with rising membership and clubhouse renovations. Both young men were delighted to meet Eagles, who at 77 could still fit into his Scout shirt, which was retrieved from the group’s

archives for the medal ceremony. Eagles recalled the work he put in to receive the award “was quite hard – I remember being quite relieved when I passed it”. Eagles’ distinctive Scout shirt was a German army shirt, brought back to New Zealand by his

father Ralph after World War II. Most Scouts put their badges on camp-fire blankets, but Eagles put his on the shirt. The Ist Devonport Scouts have won more than 50 Queen’s Scout Awards since the group was established more than 100 years ago.

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Soccer-ground upgrade gets green light A $2.76 million upgrade of the North Shore United football club fields has received the go-ahead from the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board. The changes to Dacre Park, the home of United’s Allen Hill Stadium, include hybridturf surfacing for the main pitch, new lighting, a new northern access way, and an additional 43 car parks. The board recommended to council that the new lights at the ground be restricted to training sessions only, on Tuesday to Friday evenings from 5pm to 8pm. With local residents still concerned about traffic and noise, the board recommended the resource consent for the project be fully notified for public submissions. As part of the project, fences would come down at the ground and it would become an open park. Funding for the upgrade still needs to be approved in the council’s 10-year budget. If it is approved, council aims to upgrade the fields between October 2018 and March 2019. Other conditions imposed by the local board included: • Development by North Shore United, with soccer’s governing body, of a code of conduct Dacre Park Upgrade Report whereby players are penalised for using bad language that can be heard by neighbours. • Development of a noise-management plan for the park, outlining general noisecontrol measures. • A ban on amplified sound equipment, including loud hailers. • Continued promotion by North Shore United of its Bike to Football campaign with Auckland Transport. In a presentation to the board, local resident Michele Lennan said noise, lighting and increased traffic movements – especially if the new access way went ahead – were still major concerns. The soccer ground added to the noise

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Upgrade planned… North Shore United football ground generated by the recycling centre nearby. Another local resident, Elaine Sawyer, said council should consider residents parking to mitigate the pressure that would result from football-related traffic. North Shore United secretary Steve Browning told the board the club had 1000 members and the project had wide community support. The proposal would go a long way to address the club’s shortfall of grounds, Browning said. Auckland Council manager park design Kris Bird told the board that $1.1 million of the $2.7 million budget would be used on car parking and changes to fencing. The car parking provided in the project was far more than required by the Auckland Unitary plan (12.5 car parks) for the area of the park. The next step is a $150,000 detailed design

for the park. Board member Mike Cohen said over the three years the project had been considered, the issues had remained the same: noise, parking, traffic and access into Lake Rd. He was unsure the issues had been resolved and felt the board should have been provided with updated traffic noise reports for consideration of the latest proposal. Noise reports should consider both the soccer ground and the recycling centre, he said. Cohen wanted a full resource-consent hearing for the project. Board chair Grant Gillon accused Cohen’s “pedantry” of tying up the process, which had been very difficult for residents and the club. Neither side was particularly happy with the outcome, but there had been compromises on both sides, Gillon said.

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Protests and pedestrianisation on mountain

Changes t the summit… protest meeting (above),the Maunga Authority educating the public on Takarunga/Mt Victoria last Sunday Cars have gone for good on the summit of The protest group has called for further meeting but the way the Maunga Authority went about it Takaurunga/Mt Victoria. But I hope the Maunga with the authority. But the horse has somewhat was not fair on the many people who opposed it. North Head/Maunguika has yet to be transAuthority has learned a few lessons in commu- bolted. The Maunga Authority claims it did consult ferred to the Maunga Authority and there is a nity consultation. Gates were closed to the summit last week, the community, who could submit on a Mt Vic- chance to involve locals more closely then. The only days after a “cease and desist” message toria management plan. However the plan did Authority – including council representative was sent to the authority from a protest meeing not specifically mention any move to close the Chris Darby – need to involve the public from attended by locals and a Nga Puhi delegation. summitt to traffic. I have supported the closure, the start. Rob Drent, Editor

Ngataringa Bay contamination probe Tests for toxic substances will be conducted in Ngataringa Bay near the Naval base this week to see if chemicals used in firefighting training have contaminated the seabed. Initial testing of soils, sediments and runoff at the Sea Safety Training Squadron has already found PFAS (per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) compounds in sample sites, a New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) spokesman said. NZDF has been investigating sites at Ohakea and Woodbourne air bases where firefighting training has taken place and where drinking water is sourced from nearby bores and wells. Bases such as Whenuapai, Hobsonville and Devonport, where the training has also been

held, but where drinking water is not an issue, are the next priority for investigation. Preliminary work at Devonport Naval Base had found PFAS compounds in sample sites at the Sea Safety Training Squadron, a Defence spokesman said. “More testing is to be carried out to provide more information and to confirm those initial results. This week we’ll start limited testing

of a tidal area at Ngataringa Bay to better understand the potential presence of PFAS in the area,” he said. “The Ministry of Health advice continues to be that there is no acute health risk,” the spokesman said. Drinking water on the Devonport base and in the community is sourced from the Auckland city supply and is not affected.

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Asbestos dumping at recycling centre immediately. The asbestos was contained and disposed of by registered experts, Walters said. He hoped the offenders would return to the recycling centre to be educated about the correct way to deal with asbestos. The incident was to be reported to Auckland Council, which is responsible for policing illegal dumping. Asbestos is a known carcinogen and it was “unfair that our staff could be exposed to it,” Walters said. A wider area of Devonport might also be affected as the asbestos was transported by open trailer, meaning particles could be blown around, he said. The reclycling centre wasn’t set up to dispose of asbestos and residents should call registered asbestos-disposal experts if they found any on their property. “It’s not worth putting your health at risk for what could be a couple of hundred dollars to have it taken away.”

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Friendly Societies to sell central Devonport building A property dating back to the early 20th century on Devonport village’s main Victoria Rd retail strip, is up for sale for the first time in nearly 40 years. The fully leased 443 sq m retail, residential and office building on a 371 sq m site at 69-71 Victoria Rd, Devonport is being put up for sale by the Devonport United Friendly Societies. Bayleys North Shore Commercial has been appointed to market the property, which will go up for auction on April 11, unless sold prior to that date. The ornate character premises were originally built in the early 1900s and added to in the late 1980s. The property was purchased from wellknown Devonport photographer Claude Brash in 1978 by the Devonport United Friendly Societies which was established in 1924. It was one of many friendly societies set up before the advent of the welfare state in New Zealand to help members and their families in times of illness and death. Members paid a regular fee that entitled them to free or subsidised medical care and medicines, and United Friendly Societies Dispensary pharmacies also became commonplace throughout the country The Devonport United Friendly Societies leased part of the premises in the 1970s for its dispensary. When it acquired the property later in the decade, it rented out the remainder of the building, previously occupied by Brash Photography, to a dairy. A two-level extension was added to the rear of the building in 1988, which is currently used as office space and as a flat. A service lane provides access to the rear of the building as well as four parallel car parks. Part of the ground floor was renovated and converted into a restaurant, with a commercial kitchen at the rear, following the departure of the dairy. The pharmacy also relocated after the society sold that business in the early 2000s. The restaurant is tenanted by Thai eatery Monsoon which has been in occupation for over 20 years and also leases the flat. The balance of the ground floor is occupied by long-standing clothing

Landmark Victoria Rd building for sale and accessories retailer Yarntons, which has been in business for over 60 years. Yarntons has expanded from its nearby store at 79 Victoria Rd and opened up a separate women’s shop at 69 Victoria Rd. The building’s third tenant Brolly Sheets, specialises in waterproof bed linen that it sells in the US, UK and Australia as well as New Zealand. It leases upper-level office accommodation at the rear of the building for its head office. Devonport United Friendly Societies secretary Maurice Handisides says the building has always been fully tenanted in the four decades that the society has owned it. “It’s located on the popular western side of Victoria Rd between the wharf and Fleet St, which has the highest pedestrian counts in the village and therefore the lowest vacancy rate.” He says a decision has been made to sell the property because of the increasing age and the declining number of society members. The sale proceeds will go to the four lodges that make up the Devonport United Friendly Societies, for distribution to their members according to their constitutions. Mr Handisides says the society will retain its

hall at 93 Victoria Rd, which will continue to be a social gathering place for members. Bayleys’ agent Adam Curtis says 69-71 Victoria Rd will provide the next owner with net annual rental income of $143,650 and a good spread of tenancy risk, with a variety of lease terms, renewals and expiry dates. Final expiry dates on the leases range from 2024 to 2028. He says the property’s Town Centre zoning under the Auckland Unitary Plan permits a wide range of commercial and residential uses. The section of Victoria Rd the property is located in has a heritage overlay, which protects the building’s street front façade, and there is a height limit of nine metres. Mr Curtis says longer term, it might be possible to add further value to the property by refurbishing and expanding the two floors at the back of the building into two separate residential units, subject to obtaining the necessary council consents. “The rear of the building has sweeping views across the harbour to the CBD and Sky Tower and is located on a quiet laneway. This makes this part of the property ideal for residential use, which Auckland Council is keen to encourage to add diversity to town centres.”

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The Flagstaff notes

March 9, 2018 By Rob Drent North Shore United football club must be relieved to have some certainty after DevonportTakapuna Local Board’s decision to give the green light to a $2.76 million upgrade to its main field and surrounding grounds. It has taken five years and a number of different proposals, with some, at times, acrimonious battles with a vocal residents group. I live across the road from the boundary of the soccer ground and have always found them good neighbours – if anything, noise has reduced in the three years we have been in Abbotsford Terrace. More concerning, I have increasingly thought, is the early morning starts and weekend movements of heavy machinery at the Devonport Recyling Centre next door. We moved next door to the football ground knowing it was a sports club. Improvements to the ground to allow more training time for juniors and a publicly open park are moves for the greater good. • Disclosure – I have never been a member of the football club or of the residents group. Although Java House was not one of the most trendy coffee spots, I have fond memories of the cafe, which has just closed after more than 20 years in The Arcade. The Flagstaff office was located directly across from the coffee shop for about a decade. I conducted many interviews in the upstairs

lounge for news stories and features. And for years, my son Anthony used to drop in after school for a cup of hot chocolate on the way home. It had its regulars: a lawyer Graeme Jespersen was often there early in the morning reading his paper before work, and Barfoot and Thompson manager Dean Wotherspoon might be found upstairs engaged in a life-or-death chess match. For many years it was owned by Shaoping Meng and Menglan Li. They were lovely people who had immigrated here, like many others from China, with good degrees – she was a doctor and he an engineer – that could not be translated easily into New Zealand qualifications. Some of the best Chinese food I’ve ever eaten was when they hosted an evening for mall tenants and friends after hours. The transformation of the 1st Devonport Scouts group is no better epitomised than by the two Queen’s Scout Awards going to Venturers Theo Hoyte and Michael de Boyett. Such are the vagaries of life and news reporting that it was more than 15 years since I had stepped into the group’s den in Allenby Ave. It was then a decrepit space with an unkempt feel of imminent closure. What a difference Fully renovated, the old concrete building positively glowed when I was taken on a tour by Venturers leader Cliff Brown, before the awards ceremony. Archives have been well cared for and honours boards glistened. It is heritage preservation in action and a tribute to Christopher Jones and other leaders, who have led the resurgence over the past few years.

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March is here already and the Party Season is almost here year is really into full swing. Dust off your

My children are getting ready for their school favourite sparkly fair and there is such a buzz around the number or pop into school it makes time feel like it’s going faster. one of our great

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Cyclists should be banned from mountain too Does the Tupuna Maunga authority control access to the summit of Rangitoto, where no cars have access and a regular minibus shuttle operates for those who choose not to walk? Why not a similar service for tourists, the elderly, maimed persons and anyone else for Mt Victoria. The Devonport tour bus would surely offer such a vehicle for a small fare.

The future as it stands will almost certainly guarantee serious accidents with cyclists, who apparently can ride freely up and down the mountain. I recall a serious accident to a local lady real estate agent while walking down Mt Victoria and being hit by a cyclist some time ago. Ban the cyclists I say. John Cooper

Heritage group important to protect what we have I am a member of Devonport Heritage – very much a newbie with little knowledge of heritage issues. I moved here in 1983 and joined because it is becoming really obvious that the beauty of Devonport is being eroded more and more by people who seem to love the ambiance, buy here, and then set about changing what attracted them in the first place. When visitors walk past my home, they often stop to admire the finials and the gables and the old-time beauty, which is fast vanishing. I therefore really admire the commitment, passion, knowledge and dedication of the Devonport Heritage group for their resolve to protect what we have. They spend many hours trying to allay the worst excesses of overzealous council planners, who often lack an appreciation of why

Why stop at Mt Vic preservation?

Why stop at protecting poor Mt Vic from nasty spirits? Let’s rebuild Mt Cambria by digging up all the quarried rocks from under the Memorial Drive-Narrow Neck causeway. Scaling Mt Victoria could then be a triathlete experience. Disclaimer: I do not have a financial interest in the heritage preservation of Mt Cambria. R. France

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Devonport has been classified as a Special Character area. Devonport is special and people who live here should remember this and help to protect such a lovely area that we are so privileged to live in. Rather than attack Devonport Heritage, Mr Barley (Letters, Flagstaff, 23 February) would be better placed to help them in their quest to protect and preserve this heritage for future generations. Victoria Brown

Squatters’ rights claimed on mountain I claim squatters’ rights over Mt. Victoria on behalf of all Kiwis. (It’s no different from the squatters’ claims made by immigrant tribes.) The tribes have not been seen maintaining the mountain and have abandoned it. The mountain is sacred to us Kiwis because we can drive our overseas friends and tourists up and show them the glorious works we have created here. Failing that, if it comes to blockades, we can offer to blockade their building sites.Even the threat of a disruption should increase their contractors’ quotes by 25 per cent.

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Globetrotting guitarist quit Big Apple for the beach Folk singer and songwriter Diane Ponzio is a native New Yorker who two years ago settled Devonport, where she swims in the sea every day – unless she is away performing on stage on the other side of the world. She spoke to Maire Vieth ahead of her next European tour. Diane Ponzio is a self-made musician and proud of it. She taught herself to play the guitar at the age of 13 and started songwriting soon after, inspired by her “teenage angst”. In her early 20s, she played in Greenwich Village clubs like The Bitter End, and in New York subway stations, and performed the national anthem at baseball games. Ponzio is the first to acknowledge that none of it would have happened without musical influences such as Joni Mitchell, the Beatles, Steely Dan or Cole Porter, as well as the support of key people in her life, such as the group of friends who pitched in to buy her a good guitar, a compassionate landlord and a generous vocal coach. Chris Martin IV is one of those supporters. Martin is the sixth-generation owner of C.F. Martin and Company, an American guitar manufacturer established in 1833. He saw in Ponzio a passionate fan of the company’s handmade guitars and signed her as one of its global ambassadors. Martin guitars are played by Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, John Mayer and Ed Sheeran, among others. For the last 30 years, Ponzio has accompanied Martin to international trade shows as well as on promotional roadshows in the US. She has run guitar clinics and designed a couple of guitars herself, including the JDP and JDP II Martin models she plays. Touring with Martin helped Ponzio launch an international career as a musician when, in 1988, she attended the Musikmesse in Frankfurt, an annual international trade show for musical instruments. “I met a lot of wonderful people there and they said they could get me gigs. ‘Next time you come with Chris, come a week or two early,’ they said, and that’s how it began to grow. Germany was the first place where I felt validated as an artist,” Ponzio says.

In the swim... Diane Ponzio’s Devonport lifestyle includes plenty of time for swimming, tennis and friends, along with her music She has since recorded 10 CDs, two under a German label, and has toured Europe extensively. This May she will be back there, touring Germany, Austria and Italy. A Martin guitar promotional tour in 1988 brought Ponzio to New Zealand for the first time. “We just spent one or two nights in Auckland and I loved it. I came back in 1991, 1994 and 1997, and in 2000 I came for a longer period, without Chris Martin but doing Martin things. And during that time I met somebody,” she says. For the last eight years, Ponzio has been living in both Manhattan and Devonport, but two years ago she reached a crunch point. “The question was did I want to live in an apartment the size of a car in Manhattan or in this nice house in Devonport by the beach?” The beach won. In 2002, Ponzio played her first gig at the Bunker on Takarunga/ Mount Victoria, where she will have her annual concert on 18 June

this year. Her latest record, On the Inside, was recorded at Micheal Young’s Hanlon Crescent music studio. It includes vocals by Ponzi’s Narrow Neck neighbour Helene Piper. The title track was inspired by a run-down Devonport villa. Last July, Ponzio became a New Zealand citizen. She has been a New Zealand resident since 2004. A couple of years ago, she rented out her Greenwich Village apartment to a friend longterm. “When I go back to Manhattan, I sleep on my brother’s couch,” she says. Devonport is home now. Ponzio (66) was born in Manhattan and grew up in the Bronx until homesickness for the Lower East Side brought her second-generation Italian-American family back there. “All my grandparents were from Sicily, first-generation immigrants, and my mother and father were both born on the Lower East Side. My parents moved to the Bronx to give

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March 9, 2018 my older brother Tommy and me a little bit more breathing space. It was only a half-hour subway ride away, but in the end my mother couldn’t take it. “She missed her sisters, the street where she had grown up and the stores she knew, so when I was nine, we moved back to Manhattan.” The Lower East Side was still a predominantly ethnic neighbourhood during the 1960s. Ponzio says her family was typically Italian-American: “close-knit, loud, and intense”. Until she was 15, Ponzio attended the local public school, at 19th Street. She was then admitted as a drama student to the High School of Performing Arts, which was made famous by the 1980 film Fame. “I remember my father taking out the subway map at the kitchen table and explaining to me how I would take the subway to my new school on 46th Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue,” she says. “It was just like the movie, for three years. I was one of 300 kids in the whole school in three departments – music, dance and drama. We were encouraged to get in touch with our feelings and to use them in our work. Just to be part of it was incredible. At lunchtime, we’d push all the desks aside, spin records and dance with these incredible dancers,” she says. “It was also great training, because you learned about rejection. Your favourite word has to become ‘next!’,” she says. Ponzio found her path to music on her own. Her father bought her a guitar when she was 13 years old and a big Beatles fan. Ponzio taught herself to play from chord diagrams in a Beatles songbook. “My father worked for the post office and my mother worked as a waitress before becoming a school aide. It wasn’t in their vernacular to send your kid to music lessons,” she says. “Then songwriting just happened out of teenage angst when I was about 15, before I really got into it after high school,” she says. She also really got into maths. “I was good at it and when I got to university, I thought I should study something I could fall back on in case I couldn’t make a living as a performer.” Ponzio graduated cum laude from Brooklyn College with a four-year honours degree in maths. “I never used the degree, but think I was the smartest waitress in Manhattan for a while,” she says. Like many New York performing artists and college students, Ponzio made her living as a waitress after leaving home at the age of 19. She got a job at the Riviera Café in the West Village (the café closed down last year after 48 years in business). “I had a great job, made a fortune and loved it,” she says. In 1980, the Riviera Café owner Norman Buchbinder rented Ponzio a small studio apartment. “He was a good landlord, a great patron of the arts and of mine, and I really wanted to live in one of his buildings. “I rented that studio for five years before it went co-op and I didn’t have enough money to buy it. But he co-signed the papers so I could, and I slowly paid it off. He was a wonderful man.”

All that time, Ponzio was playing the guitar. “I had a lot of eclectic bands in New York. In the 1970s, I had a kind of rock band that was really loud and sometimes I couldn’t talk the next day,” she says. By 1977, Ponzio had decided to look after her voice. A friend recommended lessons with Joyce Mathis, a well-known African-American opera singer at the time. “So I saved up my money and went for one lesson. I went to her studio and she was such a beautiful woman, this black diva. She said, ‘I’m going to play an arpeggio and you do it on A.’ “Nothing came out and I started to cry, but she said there was no crying here. She said I had to come twice a week. I told her I couldn’t afford that and she said, ‘I didn’t say you had to pay twice a week. I said you had to come twice a week.’ So I studied with her and she really changed my whole thinking about singing, and I never had a problem with it again,” Ponzio says.

At 33, she had a musical turning point. “I was determined to make a living from writing and performing music.” Ponzio was 29 when she learned to read music, after signing up for private sight reading, dictation and theory lessons with Maurice Finnell, a composer and vocal coach who taught stars such as Tony Bennett, Bette Midler and Warren Beatty. “He was a wonderful teacher. I have a little prism that he gave me by my desk today,” she says. Finnell died in 2010. In 1985, at the age of 33, Ponzio had a musical turning point. “I was determined to make a living from writing and performing music. I just didn’t want

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to wait tables any more and play at The Bitter End on Bleecker St maybe once a month,” she says. “Instead I sang the national anthem for baseball teams and started playing in the subway, anything I could to make money.” Occasionally, her father would be in the subway-station audience. “I would hear his whistle and look down and there would be $20 in the case,” she says. Eventually, 10 friends pitched in to buy Ponzio her first Martin guitar. “Until then I had a GLO, a guitar-looking object, and my new guitar was like the Rolls Royce of acoustic guitars. The sound was extraordinary,” she says. Ponzio was such a fan of her new guitar that she wrote a letter to the company saying how much she loved it. She also asked if they might need someone to work for them. “I was lucky that the guy who got the letter was a young member of the Martin family and that he needed someone to perform as part of a presentation about the guitars. “This started a 30-plus-years relationship between me and Chris Martin, and it got me really all over the world,” she says. Eighteen months ago, she told Martin she was ready to finish the gig. “I went to see him in the factory in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. We had lunch and I told him I wanted to stop doing the tours. He got up, held me, and said, ‘It’s been amazing.’” Part of her new focus is on performing, but Ponzio admits that her life revolves around other things as well. “A lot of musicians hold on to this idea that music is their life. I don’t feel the same way. I feel that my life is my life, and that includes, cooking, friends, playing tennis at Ngataringa Tennis club, swimming at Narrow Neck or Torpedo Bay, grocery shopping and bicycling, reading and writing. And of course playing the guitar and writing songs too,” she says.

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Twenty years ago: a selection from the Flagstaff files • A n e m e r g e n c y D e p a r t m e n t o f Conservation (DoC) office is established at North Head due to the Auckland power crisis. The department’s Auckland area office staff are scattered around the city – some working from home and others even at DoC’s Fleet St, Devonport depot, after power became irregular at the usual base in Liverpool St. Telephones and radio communications are likely to be installed in one building at North Head, and up to 12 people could be based there. • B usiness weekly The Independent is faced with the crunch decision of whether stay in the city or move quickly when the power crisis, which has paralysed Auckland’s CBD, suddenly escalates. Its next issue is produced from a Narrow Neck home. • Flyers promoting Devonport to tourists affected by the power crisis are to be distributed to major hotels. • Talk of a new harbour crossing over Devonport alarms local residents. Auckland Regional Council identifies nine possible crossings – six onto the For art’s sake... Devonport Arts Festival co-organiser Rosie Prickett North Shore. Two of the suggested bridge with a Maggie Grant artwork, one of nearly 80 works brought to the sites cross directly over Devonport. Depot for the local-artists exhibition in 1998 • The annual Devonport Arts Festival opens with a flourish. • M embership of the Tamaki Reserve which pays tribute to her work in creating Protection Trust – formed to save the Mary Barnett Glade. • A Devonport petrol station is robbed at the headland at Narrow Neck from knifepoint. Around midnight, a male robs • R obert Letcher, life-long Bayswater development – reaches almost 500. the Mobil Service Station on Lake Rd, resident, Cheltenham hairdressing-salon then flees through the Waitemata Golf • Mabel Pollock – known locally as ‘Polly’ owner and member of Shore Theatre is Course with a small amount of cash. speaks at a Ngataringa Rd street party, the Flagstaff interview subject.

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Green space and cafe wanted in marina development: survey Green space is a vital and a cafe desirable in the future development of Bayswater Marina, according to a residents survey. But some residents questioned the need for the development to go ahead at all. Almost 400 survey responses on the potential future development of the Bayswater Marina were received; 94 per cent of respondents were from the Devonport peninsula (68 per cent from Bayswater). The survey results indicate that the local community would like to see the Bayswater marina precinct retained and improved – open spaces, walkways in and around the water’s edge, uninterrupted views, recreation, transport and marine-related activities were the most valued aspects.

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needed in the precinct, to further enhance the atmosphere of a ‘destination’, a place to relax, and not just to pass through. • 62% of respondents indicated that residential development is ‘not valuable at all’ or only ‘somewhat valuable’ to the precinct, and there is concern that over-development could detract from the area. Only 10% considered residential development ‘highly valuable’. • 57% of respondents consider retail in the precinct as ‘not valuable at all’ or only ‘somewhat valuable’. Only 10% of respondents consider retail as ‘highly valuable’. The survey was conducted on behalf of the Bayswater Community Committee (BCC), which will use the findings to provide feedback on future development proposals for the precinct (on both council and Bayswater Marina Limited (BML) land. BML’s application for resource consent, which is anticipated, may be publicly notified in mid-2018. BCC wants public notification of the application to ensure that members of the local community will also have an opportunity to make submissions. •BCC presented the survey results at the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board Community Forum on 6 March.

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