Mahurangi Matters_Issue 295_18 May 2016

May 18, 2016

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Over 3500 people have signed a petition after developers gained consent to shift the Pacific Road carpark, which is about 3km north of Te Arai Point.

Public outcry over Te Arai access George Driver editor@localmatters.co.nz

Thousands of people have signed a petition amid concerns that public access to Te Arai Beach is being curtailed in favour of private interests.

The beachside carpark on Pacific Road, one of two public access points to Te Arai Beach, is set to be moved about 300-400 metres back from the beach and behind a row of proposed housing.

Auckland Council approved the move in December, as part of a resource consent application to subdivide the land.

The consent was lodged by Te Arai North Limited, a joint venture between Darby Partners and Te Uri o Hau. The

developers plan to build 46 houses on the 616-hectare of land as the result of a 2014 Environment Court decision, known as Plan Change 166.

Crucially, one of the recently consented lots transects a public easement which leads to the carpark, cutting off access.

In its current location, the carpark would sit in front of the houses to be developed. The developers want it moved behind the housing and provide pedestrian access down a 20-metre corridor running between two housing lots.

Council approved the consent as nonnotified, meaning no consultation was required, after it assessed the impact of the changes as “less than minor”.

The move has resulted in a public outcry, with many concerned that moving the carpark will make it harder for people to access the beach.

A group called Save Te Arai formed after the community caught wind of the plans. It started an online petition calling on Council to revoke the resource consent and ensure public access to the existing carpark is retained.

The petition had over 3500 signatures when Mahurangi Matters went to print, while the group’s Facebook page had over 1500 members.

The Rodney Local Board has thrown its weight behind the campaign, saying it will support the group when it presents to Council’s Parks

Committee later this month.

The Te Arai Beach Preservation Society, Save Te Arai and the Surfbreak Protection Society presented to the Board on May 9.

Save Te Arai chair Aaron McConchie told the Local Board that moving the carpark would greatly affect public access.

“Many members of the community, including elderly, the less able and fishermen, say they will not be able to use the beach if they have to walk an extra 400 metres,” Mr McConchie said.

“It will semi-privatise that area of the beach.” continued page 2

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However, the developer says the carpark is being moved as a condition imposed by the Environment Court and will only mean people have to walk a further two minutes to the beach.

In a seven-page response to inquiries from Mahurangi Matters (which can be read in full with this story at localmatters.co.nz), Darby Partners representative David Lewis says the move is to protect the ecological values of the coastal reserve.

Mr Lewis was speechwriter and press secretary for former Prime Minister Helen Clark and worked with Auckland Mayor Len Brown during the Bevan Chuang scandal.

His communications company, Whiteboat, specialises in “crisis and issues management”, according to its website.

He says Council and Te Uri o Hau agreed to shift the carpark two years ago and the area has to be planted in native trees as a condition of PC166.

The developer plans to install public toilets, changing rooms, security cameras and picnic benches at the new carpark, which will be three times bigger than the existing carpark.

He says there have also been other issues with the existing carpark’s location.

“We and Council have received many complaints of trail bikes and other vehicles on the beach, drinking, drugs and toileting despite the absence of toilets. Theft and damage to vehicles in the carpark is also a problem.”

But, Mr McConchie says the environmental impact of the carpark

was never raised as an issue during the Environment Court hearings, and the Court’s decision makes no reference to moving the carpark.

“If it was moved back 80 metres it would be well behind the dunes and would be in an area which has been subject to development. Why move it back a further 300 metres behind the houses?”

Mr McConchie speculates that the real reason for moving the carpark is to increase the value of the sections, by curtailing public access and keeping the carpark out of view.

The private houses being developed would also have private road access to an area close to the dunes, further undermining the environmental case, he says.

The Te Arai Beach Preservation Society and the NZ Fairy Tern Charitable Trust say the arguments for moving the carpark doesn’t stack up.

The trusts were notified of the application, as a condition of the Environment Court decision, and wrote to Council in a joint letter calling for the carpark to stay where it was.

The two groups also claimed the developer misrepresented their views in its resource application, which claimed the trusts’ supported moving the carpark.

“While we are aware of ecological issues, it is categorically not the case that we support the move of the carpark 450 metres inland especially as there are house sites closer to the beach,” the letter said. “We have been led to believe that the rationale for the move is on ecological grounds, but the carpark has been in its current

location for many years and, from our experience, there has been little or no adverse effect on the NZ fairy tern or northern NZ dotterel.”

In a public letter responding to inquiries, Council northern resource consenting manager Ian Dobson and asset planning and community services manager Richard Hollier said it’s parks department was consulted as part of the consenting process and supports the proposal.

“It considered that the relocation of the car park was the most appropriate option to provide for ecological enhancement of the reserve, while retaining pedestrian and equestrian access to the foreshore area,” the letter said.

Council says it cannot review the decision, but a third party could seek a judicial review in the High Court.

Te Uri o Hau has also issued a press release, saying opponents have been misinforming the public.

Settlement trust chair Russell Kemp, said the carpark was being shifted because it was in the sensitive dune area which was part of the coastal reserve.

Mr McConchie says the proposal still has to be approved by the Government as a condition of making a variation to a forestry easement and the public will be able to have a say through this process.

“It isn’t a done deal,” Mr McConchie says. “There are lots of things that need to be in place before this can happen.”

Mr McConchie says the group hasn’t ruled out appealing the resource consent decision in the High Court.

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Construction of new hospice care centre underway After almost two years of fundraising, construction of a $7.5 million hospice in Warkworth is due to start this month.

The contract for the build has been awarded to Auckland-based construction company Amstar NZ. Warkworth Wellsford Hospice general manager Kathryn Ashworth says although hospice would have preferred to work with a local firm, no tenders were received from companies based in North Rodney.

“We are still committed to using local sub-contractors where possible, as long as their pricing is competitive,” she says.

Construction of the new hospice is expected to take 13 months and should be completed around midnext year, with an official opening sometime before the end of next year.

The new community day-hospice will be called Tui House, which carries some tradition, as Warkworth Wellsford Hospice was located for several years in the former Tui House at the Waitemata Health Board complex in Alnwick Street.

Tui House will contain treatment, therapy and counselling rooms for patients and family members, as well as space for day programmes, therapeutic activities and community and

Reaching a goal

The new hospice will reflect its rural setting.

professional education. The hospice will have two patient bedrooms for day-only respite care.

One wing of the building will be selfcontained, with a commercial kitchen, flexible meeting space and its own entrance. When not being used by the hospice, this area will be available to the community for gatherings of up to 100 people.

The weekly garage sale will be accommodated on the basement level, with access from Morrison Drive.

The new site has been paid for and the sale of the existing hospice property, on the corner of Woodcocks Road

and Morrison Drive, will help pay for the new facility.

The fundraising campaign started in July 2014 with a fundraising goal of $4 million. Since then, volunteers have raised $3.7 million. This includes $2.2 million from individuals, business and groups in the community; $400,000 from the Rodney Health Charitable Trust; $526,464 from Pub Charity; and $300,000 from the North Shore Hospice Development Foundation.

Hear about the project from Kathryn Ashworth and project manager Alan Dickinson online at localmatters.co.nz

The hospice fundraising team has had to set a new target to cover increases in project costs and is aiming to raise a further $1.4 million by the end of this year.

Members of the community can get involved by making a oneoff gift or a pledge over three years, and by donating goods and services that are needed as part of the project. The hospice is also looking for more donors to join the fundraising team.

Hospice has commissioned an artwork for the new building, made up of 300 stainless steel huia feathers, which are available for donor recognition. A total of 250 of the feathers will be dipped in black, gold and silver, and will form a wall-hung cloak representing hospice’s all-embracing care for patients and families living with a life-shortening illness. A further 50 feathers will be tipped in special colours, framed individually and displayed along a corridor.

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Cost of Matakana Bridge doubles as work begins The cost of building a bikeway/cycleway over the Matakana River has risen to just over $850,000 – almost double the figure that was being touted just a month ago.

Auckland Transport (AT) says the scope of works has grown to include a new three-metre wide shared path, lighting and upgrades near the Leigh Road/ Matakana Road roundabout. In addition, Vector will put the overhead powerlines underground for a cost of $68,000.

The work will be undertaken by Wellsford-based contractors Wharehine and involves installing a 52-metre timber bridge, cantilevered off the existing road bridge. The bridge is being built off-site.

The delays in making a start on the project were acknowledged at a blessing on Friday May 6.

Matakana Coast Trail Trust chair Allison Roe (left) and Cr Penny Webster at the bridge blessing.

AT roading development north manager Steve Burris said the project was unique in the fact that it was being community-driven.

“But there have been challenges in getting to this

point,” he said. “We are pleased to see the work start.”

Matakana Coast Trail Trust chair Allison Roe said the project demonstrated that, “it takes more than a village to build a bridge”.

“This is truly a public/private partnership, with the community, AT and the Rodney Local Board all involved,” she said.

The Board is contributing $150,000 to the project, with the balance being met by AT. The new bridge, which is expected to open in August, will be a key feature of the Matakana Coast Trail, a recreation and adventure trail which is being planned from Puhoi to Mangawhai.

The bridge project was blessed by Ngati Manuhiri kaumatua Ringi Brown.

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localmatters.co.nz What a disaster. And now it is in the hands of Council central planners with a design to turn Warkworth into a dormitory suburb with little provision for business infrastructure and local jobs. Tragic.

Elizabeth Foster, Whangateau

Fundraiser thank-you See story page 5 We welcome your feedback but letters under 300 words are preferred. We reserve the right to abridge them as necessary. Unabridged versions can be read at localmatters.co.nz/opinion.

Letters can be sent to editor@localmatters.co.nz or PO Box 701, Warkworth

Climate foresight I am glad to see that Rodney has long been the vanguard of climate change awareness. The Rodney and Otamatea Times for Wednesday, August 14, 1912, ran the following article under “Science Notes and News”: COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECTING CLIMATE: The furnaces of the world are

now burning at about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.

I wonder which of today’s Mahurangi Matters articles will prove to be as farsighted as this one in 104 years time?

Robert McLachlan, Palmerston North

Dangers of Takatu The road to the regional park at Tawharanui continues to be a danger to motorists. On Sunday May 1 the car was squeezed off the road by an oncoming, inconsiderate or inexperienced driver at a point where there is a huge hole and drop from the side of Takatu Road into Christian Bay. Locals say this is the third recent incident at this particularly dangerous spot, which has no safety barriers or roadside markers of any sort.

The wheel marks, which can be seen

down the centre of the road, show the path taken by most vehicles and there is clearly no room for two cars side by side. One recent crash was by a group of young German tourists who borrowed a car to go for a swim at the park. They also narrowly escaped a life-threatening roll down the very steep and high bank, but the car sustained serious damage. It is true that Takatu Road is at last receiving some long overdue upgrading, but that work needs to be completed as quickly as possible. In the meantime, some road safety management would be appreciated at that spot.

Robert Judd, Takatu Road

Auckland Transport responds Our engineers have checked the road and there is no drop out in the area requiring maintenance. We have been carrying out a daily check of the full length of unsealed road since commencing work on Stage 1 of Takatu Road. This has already enabled us to identify a couple of minor slips in Stage 2 and clear them up prior to them becoming a problem.

Look back to plan future Poor Warkworth! Atrocious planning and powerful vested interests have resulted in a planning nightmare and divided business owners.

In the late 1990s Council engineers and Councillors proposed an intelligent ring road system for Warkworth. A four lane SH1 from

Puhoi to Warkworth had been planned by Transit and prepared for budget. This would meet Warkworth at a major intersection at the SH1/ McKinney Road corner with a new road (truck bypass) heading west around the industrial area to meet SH1 again at Kaipara Flats Road.

This would provide good access for developing business sites.

McKinney Road would be extended across the river with a new bridge near the Cement Works to open up direct access for Snells Beach residents to the town and south. This road would intersect Matakana Road for travellers to the east coast and finally would be a connection from Matakana Road through to the Kaipara Flats Road intersection. Planning within this hub could be coherent and the Hill Street problem would be eliminated.

However, a group with their own agendas pressured the Government to make a political (certainly not a financially viable) decision to build a motorway to nowhere. In the intervening years the essential roading infrastructure for Warkworth has been ignored and we consequently have two towns contrived by greedy developers resulting in a dog’s breakfast.

The ‘old’ town risks becoming a historic relic, populated by growing numbers of real estate agents and cut-price shops.

The ‘new’ town will be dominated by unplanned large and inappropriate retail, spread hither and thither.

Ann Clegg, Parish secretary

Dogs get penguins My name is Amie Tunnicliffe. I am a student at Mahurangi College, where I have been researching for my action plan project. I have discovered that blue penguins are rapidly dying out because of a simple reason. Us. At every area that blue penguins inhabit, you will likely see signs up which say to keep dogs on leads. The fact is, a lot of people ignore these signs. They think, ‘oh, it’s only one time. It won’t hurt anyone’. In fact, it will – especially when multiple people let their dogs off the lead.

You may think that you’re the only one disobeying the signs, so it won’t matter. Actually, there are hundreds of people that let their dogs run wherever they want. This wouldn’t be a problem if people read the signs and put their dogs back on the leash when they should. Sadly, a lot of people ignore the warnings on signs, or just don’t read the signs at all.

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Araparera: Call for audit Jannette Thompson gm@localmatters.co.nz

While the proceeds from the Araparera joint venture languish in Auckland Council’s bank account, a Rodney Local Board member is calling for an audit of the harvest.

Member Greg Sayers, who is concerned about the profitability of the scheme and the return to ratepayers after a 28year investment, doesn’t believe that the audit commissioned by Council will go far enough.

“Although the board has yet to see the audit, I believe it examines the financial accountability of the scheme, but we also need to look at how the harvest was managed, the timing of the harvest and the rate of return achieved,” he says.

Concerns about the profitability of the forestry scheme have also been raised in other quarters.

Mangakura landholder Gordon Perry had trees of the same age as the Araparera forest, planted just 12 to 15kms away.

“They came from the same nursery and were planted by the same contractors,” he says. “The two forests were almost identical, except mine was on much steeper ground. Both had nil farming history and both were planted on burnt-off scrub land.”

Mr Perry says that while he acknowledges that no two forests are exactly the same, he was surprised by the difference between the harvest figures.

“I got an average of 650 tonnes per

hectare in 2015, while Council’s figures indicate their contractor averaged 500 tonnes per hectare. That’s a big difference and would have had a significant impact on the final proceeds.”

Another forest landholder in the same area said he got 700 tonnes per hectare and estimated that the Araparera forest should have been worth somewhere in the region of $20 million. This is well short of the $3.578 million that Council’s property arm Panuku Development Auckland says will be shared between the two joint venture parties.

Mr Perry also challenges claims by a former consultant on Araparera that the decision to start logging the forest was influenced by the fact that “log prices were at their highest in a decade” (Mahurangi Matters May 4).

“Log prices vary from month to month and year-to-year. Prices were good at the start of the 2000s, but crashed in 2004. It wasn’t until 2014 that prices were encouraging foresters to start harvesting again.”

For more than 28 years more than 7000 North Rodney ratepayers financed the Araparera Forest Joint Venture on the promise that the proceeds would be spent on roads in the north.

Although harvesting of the forest finished two years ago, ratepayers have yet to see a cent.

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Viewpoint Beth Houlbrooke, Rodney Local Board beth.houlbrooke@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

Delegated authority

In less than five months from now, we will have a new Mayor. What change might that bring to Rodney? It depends on who we choose based on what they are saying they will offer us, and how they decide to exercise their executive powers under the Local Government Act. I’m undecided as yet as to whom I’m voting for as Mayor, because I’m waiting for the candidates to start addressing Rodney-specific issues. It’s not hard – tell us you will put more money into sealing roads, more effort into working with central government to get our notorious intersection sorted out, address the growth issues with solid action plans for new infrastructure, cut the fat from the bureaucracy, and provide better services. I don’t even need to know that you will cap my rates – the last Mayor said that and had to renege on it. In fact, my rates have gone down over the last five years so I just want better value for what I’m already paying, and to trust that my money won’t be wasted.

More specifically, from a Local Board member’s perspective, how about a bit more delegated authority for boards to make decisions over local contracts, and a bigger share of the regional budget to ensure a higher degree of local governance?

The current legislation allows for this. We have an executive mayor, so it is up to him or her to make those delegations.

Two particular phrases entered our vocabulary on amalgamation into the SuperCity: “procurement policies” and “preferred supplier agreements” – those Council policies that allowed for centralised decision-making and have resulted in outside contractors coming all the way from the city to do minor maintenance or regular cleaning in our halls and public toilets, for example. But there are ways around these if we work smarter.

Partnering with community groups who have the capacity to get local projects off the ground is key to stretching our Local Board budget. For example, if a local toilet block needs to be replaced or refurbished, supplying a capital grant to an organisation who have some funds of their own, expertise, labour or access to discounted supplies etc. could mean cutting the cost of construction down from say $500K to half of that. Instead of a ‘bog standard’ concrete block appearing as a blight on our landscape, and irking the local residents for years to come, that community group could also employ local architects and artists to produce something really special and unique. Substitute the words “playground”, “walkway path” or “village beautification project” for the toilet example and, well, you get my drift. Local suppliers and contractors would be utilised and a sense of community ownership would result – a win/win for all. So let’s work on getting things done sooner, faster, cheaper, better and together.

Auckland Transport said a commuter service between Warkworth and the city wasn’t viable, but the Mahu City Express is proving otherwise.

Patrons support commuter bus Warkworth’s only dedicated commuter bus service to Auckland, the Mahu City Express, is being so well supported that expansion is on the horizon.

Driver/organiser Julian Ostling set up the service last October after securing Auckland Transport permission to use the motorway bus lanes.

He bought a 16-seater bus, developed an online booking service and hit the road.

The service is now so well patronised that there is talk of upgrading to a 30-seater.

“The bus is full most days and most passengers are regulars,” Julian says.

“Eventually we could be running both a big bus and a little bus, which would allow some flexibility with the timetable.”

Passengers say the service takes the stress out of commuting and is fast, reliable and not expensive.

When Angela Peterson was driving herself, she would leave Warkworth at 6.45am and get home around 6.30pm.

Using the bus gives her an extra 45 minutes in the morning, which she can use to do things like go to the gym.

Laura Melville-Evans says she loves the friendly atmosphere on the bus, especially the ice cream Mondays and bubbly Fridays.

Sidney Markowitz believes the service saves him money, as well as time.

“When you add up the cost of fuel, the toll and the fare on the Northern Express bus from Albany, it’s cheaper plus its more environmentally friendly than being the sole passenger in a car,” he says.

The bus starts and terminates at Snells Beach, and a one-way ticket costs $15.

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Warkworth plastics factory relocates further south Packaging company RSS Plastics, on the corner of Gumfield and Morrison Drives in Warkworth, will relocate at the end of July.

The parent company, Convex Innovative Packaging, is consolidating the RSS operations at its larger site in Hamilton.

General manager Aaron Collett says all 23 staff in Warkworth have been offered permanent positions in Hamilton.

“We hoped all would make the move, but obviously this won’t be practical in each individual case,” he says. “It does look like some will move, which will be brilliant.

“RSS/Convex are committed to support staff in every way possible for those who seek alternative employment locally.”

Aaron says Convex purchased a controlling share in RSS Plastics in October 2010, saving the company

from potential receivership.

“The move saved 20 jobs and we purchased the company outright in 2012.

“Since Convex took over, there has been steady growth and with the building lease expiring later this year, combined with greater restrictions on raw material storage, we decided the building in Warkworth was no longer suitable for our current and future requirements.

“Basically, we have out-grown the building.”

Convex is a 40-year-old familyrun business that employs more than 100 staff at its Hamilton site, manufacturing packaging for local and export markets.

RSS Plastics opened in Warkworth in 2009. Its founding directors included Snells Beach businessman Trevor Yaxley.

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Air Force has no big bang theory Mystery surrounds why two massive explosions at the South Kaipara Air Weapons Range were heard and felt over a much greater area than usual earlier this month.

Residents from Puhoi to Maungaturoto and out to the east coast were shaken by the blasts at the South Head range, with those living close to the training zone saying they were much louder than they were used to.

However, there was nothing unusual going on, according to Royal New Zealand Air Force public affairs officer Squadron Leader Simon Eichelbaum.

“It was the Air Force’s armament flight from Whenuapai conducting their explosive ordnance disposal training at the Kaipara range,” he says. “This was a routine training exercise, so there may have been some unusual atmospherics at work in spreading the sound around so much.”

The explosions sparked a mass of reaction and speculation on social

media, with unsettled residents reporting windows rattling, houses shaking and children crying.

Mr Eichelbaum stresses there was never any danger to members of the public.

“Certainly explosives can produce a noise and vibration that can be unsettling if you are not used to it.

However, given the distances involved, it sounds and feels a lot worse than it is, and there is no danger to anyone as long as they remain outside the restricted area of the range.”

He said that a notice advising of the event had been placed in the NZ Herald and local iwi were also informed before the training exercise, which was standard procedure for such activity, and added that another exercise is scheduled to take place at the end of this month.

The New Zealand Defence Force has used the South Kaipara Air Weapons Range for live firing and detonation of high explosives since 1961.

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More than 100 politicians, scientists and international marine experts were in Snells Beach last month for a major conference looking at the impact and future of fishing in New Zealand.

The NZ Fisheries Symposium – Defining the Economy of Abundance – was a two-day, invitation-only event organised and funded by sustainable fishing lobby group LegaSea and the NZ Sport Fishing Council, and chaired by Leigh’s Barry Torkington.

The aim was “to define goals and policy setting that deliver far greater benefits to New Zealand from our inshore fisheries” and included a new report revealing that recreational fishing could be pumping up to $1.7 billion into the national economy.

American fish and wildlife economist Rob Southwick said the report, commissioned by the NZ Marine Research Foundation, was the first detailed look at the huge economic impact of recreational fishing, which was often overlooked by the Government in favour of commercial interests.

“In economic terms alone, recreational fishing is a substantial and critical industry in New Zealand. The many firms who support fishers include retailers, boat builders, tackle manufacturers, suppliers, marinas, motels, restaurants, charters, media and more. They employ thousands of people

who work hard to ensure fishermen can enjoy their day out on the water.”

The symposium also focused on new research by world fisheries expert Daniel Pauly showing that the catches of global marine fisheries are considerably higher than have been officially reported and are declining, largely as a result of many countries expanding the global reach of their fisheries way beyond traditional limits and borders.

LegaSea spokesman Paul Brislen said the conference, held at Snells Beach Retreat, had been well-attended by a wide range of interested parties, including academics, economists, conservationists, MPs, policy makers, scientists and people involved with all aspects of fishing.

“There was a lot of interest in getting into the mass of data presented and just what the reports actually mean, especially around just how many fish are actually being taken, when the industry would have you believe there’s no problem,” he said.

Organisers are hoping that the symposium will be the first step in helping to shape and influence future NZ fisheries policy at a crucial time, when the Government is reviewing the Fisheries Act and drafting a new Marine Protection Bill.

“Having abundant fisheries is the key to our future fishing interests and potentially our nation’s next growth cycle,” Mr Torkington said.

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Plans for the new-look Leigh Hotel.

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Iconic Leigh Hotel renovation gets underway Rod Cheeseman news@localmatters.co.nz

Grand plans to transform the derelict old Leigh pub site in the centre of the town into motels, a function centre, a campervan park and a weekly market, were unveiled this month.

Alan and Jasmine Macdonald bought the site last year after buying a bach opposite the pub. They recently moved up from Wellington and are planning to revive the town by attracting more visitors, especially in the quieter winter months.

Work on the interior fit-out of the existing hotel is underway, which will create five motel rooms. The bars in the building will also be turned into a large function centre.

“We want to get away from the stigma of a concrete block hotel and get more into funky and stylish coastal chic,” Mr Macdonald says.

“We have already started the internal

strip-out, so the motel units will hopefully be ready by the beginning of spring.”

The couple’s plans do not include a licensed bar area, preferring to focus on providing the function room venues.

“We’ve already got the Leigh Bar and the Sawmill, so we are covered in that area. We believe it’s far better for Leigh because it will bring people to the town for a corporate retreat, anniversary, weddings and those sorts of things. They’ll stay and spend money.”

The couple also propose converting the car park into a Sunday market, which they hope will complement, but outgrow, the Matakana markets.

The market will centre on seafood and local produce, with various arts and crafts in an undercover area.

They hope it will encourage more daytrippers and weekenders to stay on in the area, complementing the local tourist hot spots and keep the town

Macdonald says.

Landscaping for the project is already underway.

The proposals met with general approval from locals after they were put to them at a community meeting earlier this month.

Project draughtsman Chris Calder says the work on the hotel has been long awaited.

“It’s been broken into, squatted in, trashed and abused,” Mr Calder says. “Plenty of people have looked into buying it so we are very happy that someone is actually going to do something with it that will benefit the community.”

“I can still remember my last beer in there 10 years ago and it was pretty run down then!”

The couple is keen to keep the lines of communication open and welcome consultation with anyone who has concerns.

thriving through the winter months.

The plans are still at the concept stage with building consents yet to be approved.

The proposed campervan park will cater for up to 15 vehicles, subject to consent, but the Macdonald’s are keen to reassure locals it won’t cause a disturbance, particularly as they live directly opposite.

“There is a perception that a campervan park would be noisy, but the type of people that travel around New Zealand in campervans are older tourists or the semi-retired. They are early to bed and have a code of conduct that they all adhere to.”

The development requires a costly commercial sewerage system to be installed, which will require a 2500m2 planted disposal field.

“One of the biggest problems before was it didn’t have a decent sewerage system so we are getting a stateof-the-art system going in,” Mr

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One hundred years young The first Port Albert church was built on a site near Market Street (now Bennett Street) in 1864. In the 1880s, a new church was erected in Church Hill Road so the original was extended and used as a public hall. In 1887, a large Temperance Hall was built at the crossroads leading to Wharehine and Port Albert wharf.

Later, the first little hall was sold, pulled down and rebuilt as a private residence.

The Temperance Hall was the venue for agricultural shows, dances, meetings and the annual 29 May Albertlanders reunions. On March 28, 1913, it was totally destroyed by fire. The building was insured for around £200 but its value was far greater.

A new hall was built on a flat site about a mile away. The Auckland Star reported on 5 April 1915 that the hall Trustees had met and the secretary reported that the £200 required to finish the building had all been raised locally. The tender of the New Zealand Acetylene Gas Co for lighting was accepted. Arrangements had been made to have seats made by a local tradesman. On 27 May 1915 the Reverend William Gittos officiated at building’s opening. Auckland entertainers were brought in and people came from many miles to celebrate.

Since then, the hall has been the entertainment hub of the district. A wonderful old building, beautifully maintained by volunteers, it is now 100 years old and plans are in place for year-long birthday celebration.

The first of these will take place on Sunday 29 May 2016, marking 154 years since the first Albertland settlers left the East India Docks for New Zealand. The Port Albert Hall Committee and Albertland Museum are joining forces to host a relaxed, fun afternoon. Guests will learn a little about the early history of the hall and life 100 years ago. This event begins with a luncheon and live entertainment at 12 noon. At 2pm, the Albertland Museum will present their annual Lantern Slide Show, this year focussing on the history of the three Port Albert halls.

Tickets for the luncheon and slide show are $15, available from Albertland & Districts Museum – open 11am-3pm Mon-Sat and 1pm-3pm Sunday (Eftpos available) or phone 423 8181 (for payment by internet banking). Those attending only the Lantern Slide Show, entry is gold coin at the door. Come along for an enjoyable and entertaining event.

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New head in to bat for Snells school Motorway could

drive Puhoi projects

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A new principal took the helm at Snells Beach School at the start of term two last week, but neither she nor the school will need too much of an adjustment period.

That’s because Kathryn Ramel has been an associate principal at the school since before it was designed and built in 2008.

She says she feels incredibly lucky to be able to take on the role one term after establishment principal Jill Corkin retired, even though changes will be minimal.

“We already work really closely as a team. Last term we had two associate principals, now we have one and a principal, and the buck stops with me, which is really exciting,” she says.

“I have been here ever since we started in a temporary office, with Jill, Su Henry [office manager] and myself.

We appointed all the establishment staff, most of whom are still here, and we had to choose everything, from the building design, to the uniform, to the way the classroom programmes were structured, to what brand of pencil we bought.”

The school opened in 2009 with 120 students and the roll has climbed steadily to just over 200, which is expected to rise to between 230 and 240 as the year progresses.

“We’ve noticed a changing nature in the community,” Kathryn says. “There are a lot more families moving into the area, with lots of parents commuting to Auckland, or dads commuting and mums staying home with the kids.”

But she says the school maintains a country feel, as it is surrounded by paddocks and with the beach nearby.

“Kids have the best of all worlds here, with the beaches, the country and the community,” she says.

“And it is a special community, we always feel really supported here.”

Kathryn Ramel is a former vice-captain of the White Ferns NZ women’s cricket squad.

Kathryn, who lives at Ti Point, has two children of her own, a daughter who is in Year 4 at the school and a son who will start at the end of the year. Before she joined the founding team at Snells Beach, she was assistant principal at Gulf Harbour School.

While she won’t actually be teaching in her new role as principal, she says she joins in activities with the children whenever she can, whether playing the guitar for the kapa haka group, or joining them for a game of cricket.

The latter is something for which she is eminently well qualified, having played for the White Ferns NZ women’s cricket team for nine years, including being vice-captain in 2000 when the team won its first and only World Cup title.

“I stopped playing some time ago, but now there’s nothing I like more than to get my track pants on and hit the ball around with the kids,” she says. “I love sport and the opportunities it provides for kids.

It’s one of my things I love to do with them.”

The Puhoi community is looking to get a series of stalled community projects off the ground in anticipation of funding becoming available from the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway construction.

Puhoi Community Forum co-chair Larry Mitchell says the village will be negatively impacted more than any other town by the motorway construction and NZTA has encouraged the consortia vying for the motorway contract to explore ways of assisting the community. The details of any support for Puhoi would be released when the preferred bidder is announced in July.

Earlier this year, the forum sent a letter to NZTA outlining projects which would benefit from funding.

A group of Puhoi residents has also conducted a survey to gauge support for six projects, including building a new Bohemian museum, conducting pest control projects, improving pedestrian safety and getting a park and ride bus service.

Over 170 people responded to the survey and support was relatively even between all six projects.

The most popular options were redeveloping the village centre, improving pedestrian connectivity and supporting the Puhoi Rural Fire Force to build a new station. The least popular options were a park and ride and moving the Bohemian Museum to a new location.

The forum has received a $2000 grant from the Rodney Local Board to hold workshops with an independent facilitator to coordinate the community and get momentum behind projects.

The forum is currently deciding which topics will be discussed at the workshops and when and where they will be held.

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Frustration with Mahurangi’s traffic woes came to a head this month during consultation on a draft transport plan for the area.

NZTA, Auckland Transport (AT) and Auckland Council have been consulting on a transport network to service the growth predicted in the region over the next 30 years.

After a summer where traffic has been a recurring headache, people were fired up at the consultation events held in Mahurangi. They came out in droves to a consultation day at the Old Masonic Hall in Warkworth on April 30, and an invite-only breakfast with Mahurangi business owners at the Warkworth RSA on May 6.

But the draft proposal has left them wanting. The plan mostly rests on the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway, expected to start this summer and be completed by 2022. Additional roads linking SH1 to Matakana Road, known as the Matakana Link Road, and a further link to Sandspit Road have been pencilled in, along with the Western Collector route, which would create a road through the west of Warkworth, but no funding or time-frame for these projects has been announced.

The big omission from the consultation material – the two words that have become something of a mantra recited at just about every public meeting in Rodney – was “Hill Street”.

“The elephant in the room is the bloody intersection,” as one articulate local told transport planners at the RSA. “What’s the point of these meetings?,” Warkworth Area Business Association representative Nicola Jones said. “We keep telling you what we want and we get nothing in return. How do we get movement on this?”

People were also frustrated that plans for the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway hadn’t been updated since Auckland Council decided to zone Warkworth as a Satellite Town and increase its population five-fold. The majority of the growth would occur to

the south of Warkworth, where there is no access to the motorway. Under the current plan, residents in the south of Warkworth will have to head north through Hill Street to get onto the motorway.

NZTA transport planner Sebastian Reed said the plan for the motorway couldn’t be changed.

“This has been raised a lot, but the decision has been made. We are currently reviewing the tenders, so it’s not something we can change.”

Many people suggested that the northern section of the motorway could be built first and create a temporary bypass of Warkworth by linking to Valerie Close, but that has also been rebuffed.

NZTA media manager Sarah Azam says the motorway designation does not allow for a new connection to SH1.

“Based on the current RFP [request for proposals], it would not be possible for the project to start at the Warkworth end to create a Warkworth bypass for completion prior to the full motorway,” Sarah says. “The Transport Agency anticipates that construction will take place at multiple sites along the designation to achieve opening for traffic in 2022.”

But the draft proposal does show AT is thinking of building a park and ride in Warkworth, near the Hudson Road intersection.

But the 30-year plan did not include any express bus service from Mahurangi into the city. A map with proposed extension of an express bus service showed it being extended to Silverdale in the next decade and then to Grand Drive in Orewa in the following decade, but that’s where the extension ends.

Consultation on the route of the Warkworth to Wellsford leg of the Puhoi to Wellsford motorway is expected to be held in September as NZTA hopes to gain consent for the route by 2018. How the motorway will navigate the Dome Valley has put a big question mark over this stage of the project.

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Matakana Briefs

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From left, Auckland Council senior biodiversity advisor Ben Paris, shorebird ecologist Dr John Dowding and Omaha Shorebird Protection Trust chair Marie Ward.

Mixed season for rare birds The number of northern New Zealand dotterels visiting Omaha Shorebird Sanctuary after the breeding season has increased to more than 200 for the first time.

Omaha Shorebird Protection Trust chair Marie Ward says there were just over 100 dotterels in the post-breeding flock when the trust started in 2009, whereas recently there have been 205.

The birds visit Omaha Spit to roost, flying in from as far afield as Pakiri, Tawharanui and islands north of Orewa, for a safe place to rest together after feeding.

“There’s protection for birds in large groups, and Whangateau Harbour is an enormously productive food bowl for all shore birds, not just dotterels,” Marie says.

“They feed whenever they can, then roost for three hours over high tide.”

New Zealand’s foremost dotterel expert, Dr John Dowding, told the annual Auckland NZ Dotterel Forum at Omaha last month that while bird numbers were generally increasing on the north east coast, it was only where they could be managed and protected.

“If you can’t manage them, they will decline slowly,” he warned.

Eight dotterel chicks fledged successfully at Omaha this season, a similar number to last year, according to Marie, though she would like to see more.

“We’re struggling, but adding to the population,” she says. “We’d like to see the predator-proof fence extended to the edges of the tide line into Whangateau Harbour, but it will cost extra money and would need resource consent to do it, but we are working towards that.”

It was not such a good year for the critically rare fairy tern, which numbers only 42 birds, with most of them living on beaches between Pakiri and Waipu.

Just four chicks fledged this season – two at Mangawhai and two at Waipu – compared with six last year.

DOC ranger David Wilson says there is speculation that dredging and mangrove removal in Mangawhai Harbour last year may have removed a vital food source for breeding females, but said that storms and high tides also played a part.

A Las Vegas resident has dealt the Matakana Community Garden a winning hand. The American visitor was staying in the village for a few months and took the opportunity to join the regular garden working bees.

Apparently she enjoyed the experience so much that on her departure, she made the group a $4000 donation.

Netball supported The newly-formed Matakana Netball Club, based at the school, has received seed funding for uniforms and gear from the Matakana Community Group. Supporter Rob Anderson told the group that the club has five teams that play in the Rodney competition in Wellsford. The new club was given a donation of $2000.

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Local Board develops plan to find pool funding The Rodney Local Board has developed a $70,000 plan to get a Mahurangi swimming pool onto Auckland Council’s books.

The Board will commission three reports over the next 16 months to try and identify private funding for a pool. It hopes this will make the project more attractive to Council and it will allocate funding in its next long term plan (LTP) in 2018.

The Board spent $40,000 on a needs assessment study in 2014, which found huge support for a pool, and spent $30,00 on a feasibility study last year, which identified possible sites for the facility. But Council maintains the project is not a priority and would be unlikely to get funding in its next LTP unless other factors push it up the priority list.

The Board plans to spend $20,000 to conduct an expression of interest process to identify partners to fund

the pool, which will be completed by October.

The next step is a $15,000 “funding feasibility study” to explore potential funding sources, including a targeted rate and private grants, which will be completed by February next year.

Phase three will cost $35,000 to investigate the location and design of the pool for a business case, which would be completed by August next year – just in time to be included in planning for Council’s next LTP. The funding has been reallocated from a $70,000 pool business case report, which was never completed.

The report was meant to be completed next month, but Council refused to allow its staff to work on the project because it wasn’t a funding priority.

The Board was scathing of Council’s decision and Council has since agreed to dedicate officers to the new series of reports.

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Kowhai Lions support Kawau Coastguard The Kowhai Coast Lions Club donated $8000 to the Kawau Coastguard last month. The funds were raised at the club’s annual Christmas tree display in Warkworth’s Old Masonic Hall and Christmas raffle in December. “We would like to thank all the local businesses who generously sponsored a tree or gave donations to help us raise the funds for the Coastguard to help them look after our coastal community,” club member Olwyn Hill says.

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SNELLS BEACH LOCAL NEWS: The only way is up If you want to get a feel for what’s going on in Snells Beach at the moment, all you have to do is venture down Arabella Lane at the community’s northern entrance, then stop, look and listen. The incredible view across the bay to Kawau Island is still there, but the normally tranquil atmosphere is alive with the constant noise of countless earthmovers, rollers, saws and nail guns. More and more sites are being levelled and houses swiftly built on any remaining parcel of land.

The activity here is symptomatic of a general upping of the pace in Snells lately as more people move for the lifestyle and what have traditionally been slightly lower property prices.

The community’s established retirees and holidaymakers are still there, but more young families are moving in – Snells Beach School’s roll has nearly doubled in the seven years it’s been open.

Bayleys real estate agent Steffan Meyer, who lives in Snells, says the days when people simply built baches here to retire to are long gone.

“Quite a few people from Auckland are wanting to invest and maybe move up here in a few years,” Mr Meyer

Snells Beach in 1928.

Snells Beach in 2016.

says. “Also younger families are buying older houses and doing them up because they’re affordable, and some

of the areas are tidying up. There’s lots of redevelopment, too, and new subdivisions.”

He adds that while the rise in property prices might not have been as dramatic as in Warkworth, the pace has still been significant.

“I think a lot of people are unaware of what their properties are worth now. Where they still think something might be $450,000 to $550,000, it’s probably more like $650,000 to $750,000.”

As well as the developments at the northern edge of Snells, there are plans in the pipeline for new homes on the old motel site in Ferndale Drive, up to 70 sections in Dawson Road and a significant subdivision just south of the township at Goldsworthy Bay. Snells Beach Ratepayers & Residents Association chair Bryan Jackson says the community’s re-designation from ‘village’ to ‘town centre’ in the Unitary Plan could see the population increase from around 4000 people up to 12,000 in the future.

New initiatives like the family gala, held for the first time in February, and new cafes and businesses, are helping to increase community spirit, according to Steffan Meyer.

“There’s vision – people are looking for opportunities,” he says.

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LOCALS TALKING: What are the issues facing Snells Beach?

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“I think the amount of visitors’ campervans in waterfront parking lots is an issue.

As locals you can’t park there anymore.

One time I counted 25 campers on a Sunday. We couldn’t even use the car park, vehicles had to park all the way up the side of the street.”

“I think a big issue is the seasonal nature of customers in Snells Beach.

After being here for just a year, I can already see how businesses are negatively affected over the winter period.

I also think we need more accommodation available to help gain more visitors into the area.”

“For me, the main issue is definitely the state of the roads.

There aren’t enough to deal with the volume of traffic that will be coming to Snells Beach in the future and upgrades are needed.

The fact that more subdivisions are going in is only going to make it worse, too.”

“I think an issue will be that Snells Beach is going to turn into a mini Whangaparaoa with only one way in and one way out for the traffic.

We can already see over the Christmas and holiday periods that the traffic is backing right up.

Locals can’t get around and do what they need to do with the influx of people.”

most are aged between 15 and 64 years. The median age is 49.4 years.

The most common ethnic groups are European (93.4 per cent), followed by Maori (7 per cent).

There are 1500 occupied

dwellings and 405 unoccupied dwellings in Snells Beach, and one-family households make up 70.4 per cent of all households.

The average household size is 2.3 people, compared with an average of three people in Auckland.

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Stretching into Kawau Bay, the series of trails at Mullet Point offers panoramic views to rival any walk in the region.

The headland lies between the idyllic beaches at Scandretts Regional Park and Martins Bay. The Mullet Point Loop track can be accessed from the north end of the beach at Martins Bay, from the carpark at Scandretts Bay, or from the carpark atop the ridge on the road to the regional park.

The well-kept grass trail follows the ridgeline of the headland out into the bay towards Kawau Island.

Meandering along cliff tops, it gives a 360-degree view to Mt Tamahunga

in the north, to Little Barrier and Coromandel to the east and islands stretching out to Whangaparaoa and Rangitoto to the south.

The walk includes patches of regenerating forest, mature groves of pohutukawa and puriri and sections of farmland. The calls of tui and the whoops from the wings of kereru are common, thanks to a community-run pest control programme.

For a longer outing, a one-way track continues to the end of the point to an old pa site, or you can continue onto the Scandrett Bay Loop track to the north, or on to Martins Bay to the south.

PAST TENSE Naming rights Cornish miner James Snell arrived in NZ in 1853, via Canada and Australia.

He worked at mines on Great Barrier and Kawau, before moving his wife and six children to Long Beach, which eventually became Snells Beach. Records show that in January 1854, he purchased 105 acres for £47.5 shillings. James continued to work at the copper mine on Kawau for a further two years, leaving near the end of 1855 to live on his farm until his death. Source, Ancestry.com

Early settlers Among the early settlers at Snells Beach were Dalmatian immigrants who lived in tents on the beach and dug for kauri gum when the tide was out. Maori called the neighbouring bay (Algies Bay) Horahora wai, meaning encroaching waters.

Scottish immigrant Alexander Algie and wife Mina, nee Deerness, bought the land further south near Martins Bay, where his brother Samuel had settled in 1867. The family had a boarding house on the beach during the late 1890s but it was closed by 1941. A metal road was built along the eastern peninsular in the 1930s. Source, Snells Beach Residents & Ratepayers Assn.

Gum rush In 1904, a substantial deposit of kauri gum was discovered on the low tide mark at Snells Beach. For three weeks, Messrs Clayden and Parkinson managed to keep it to themselves, enabling them to extract some seven tons of gum. Once the word was out another 40 diggers descended on the beach, working furiously between tides and achieving good results. Three years later, a section of the beach was thrown open and a rush of 250 diggers descended on the beach. Most were new immigrants and it was reported that about 300 pounds of gum was harvested each week. During the 1930s, when unemployment was high and every means of earning needed to be explored, the area was dug over again and sacks of gum were removed. Source, Warkworth & Districts Museum.

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Jocelyn Adolf: Snells Beach artist The work of Snells Beach potter Jocelyn Adolf, who moved north from Greenhithe in 2005, is inspired by her surroundings.

Her home studio looks out over the beach and her work is predominantly of marine life. Brightly coloured kina and seahorse artwork with the odd kereru, koru, and intricately detailed leafy birdbath, adorn her beautiful home and garden.

Although she is an avid painter, the local

potters at Kowhai Arts and Crafts group persuaded her to get stuck into the clay.

“This place is amazing, nowhere has the art or the beaches that we have here.”

Even Jocelyn’s fridge is filled with clay in various stages of the creative process. The clay is then fired, glazed and fired again. A high temperature process is used for harder wearing pieces like plates, platters, and bowls.

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A well-known Warkworth travel agency has a new name and a new look.

The former Harvey World Travel in Baxter Street is now called helloworld, an amalgamation of Harvey World with Air New Zealand Holidays and some United Travel stores.

Owner manager Michelle Beretta says it’s business as usual for staff and clients, with the only real change being the chance to access better deals, plus the new addition of Fly Buys.

“It’s the same faces, the same places, just a different name,” she says. “But by joining forces with the other brands, it gives us greater buying power, which means we can do more advertising and get better deals.”

She cites a recent Air NZ flight deal to LA for $699.

“We had people queuing out the door for that one, and it was exclusive to helloworld,” Michelle says. “That’s what buying power and marketing brings in.”

Michelle says the most important part of her business remains her staff, and she says she is proud of

them and their commitment.

“We have Samm, our wedding specialist, who does everything from co-ordinating with planners to flying over to help before the wedding; Ana, who’s been in the industry for 16 years and has an exceptional ability to deal with issues quickly; Katie, who is new to the industry, but has shown this is her passion and is already up for a top newcomers’ award; and Kerrie, who has been in the industry for seven years and works part-time, and has a huge client base with a real art for planning big itineraries.

“And I specialise in high-end exclusive African tours.”

Michelle says their combined expertise and industry knowledge means they can provide travellers with guidance, security and peace of mind as well as the best value for money.

“We take the worry out of travel for our clients,” she says. “We have the knowledge and they get the benefits and back-up.”

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Olivia Austin, Matakana Coast Tourism www.matakanacoast.co.nz

Promoting the region Welcome to our new column in which we look forward to bringing you updates on our activities and the local tourism sector. Tourism is now New Zealand’s primary generator of overseas funds and Matakana Coast Tourism (MCT) has been established to coordinate our regional efforts to take advantage of the significant growth in tourism in the years to come.

I was appointed last year as MCT’s full-time Regional Tourism Coordinator to promote our beautiful region and manage the Warkworth i-SITE Visitor Information Centre. Our i-SITE based team, which now includes myself, Daphne, Asher and Bubbles, has been busy reconnecting with our members and the wider community whilst promoting the region at major travel, trade and consumer events.

Last year we showcased the region at consumer shows in Auckland and the Waikato, which provided valuable insights on where our future domestic marketing efforts should be focused. This year we have attended Convene (conference trade show) and TRENZ (NZ’s largest international travel trade show). These are important trade events to promote the Matakana Coast Wine Country region and our members, who wish to gain a higher profile at such events to both start and build upon relationships with key travel industry contacts. Coming up, we will again be showcasing the region on May 24 at a Regional Expo in Auckland, organised by Auckland Tourism Events & Economic Development (ATEED).

Communication is a key aspect of what we do. We aim to make sure our communications programme connects with our local residents, the wider travelling public and travel industry. We now use a Facebook page and regularly feature the region through our consumer and trade newsletters. These have proved to be a good reference for our members and visitors.

Along with talking with people face-to-face, providing an online platform for visitors has been a high priority. Our website – matakanacoast.co.nz – is continuously being updated to help users plan their visits. It now provides visitors with the option to book accommodation using Bookit and their transport needs with InterCity to and from the region and around the country. Another new exciting web site feature is having our 2016 Matakana Coast Visitor Guide available for download.

The Matakana Coast continues to be very popular with domestic and international visitors. We have a had a very successful extended summer where February was especially busy with the Auckland region reaching capacity on a regular basis, as did the rest of NZ. The team and I pride ourselves on helping tourists arrange their visit, as well as book their next stops around the country.

A key part of re-establishing the Warkworth i-SITE as a community managed facility has been connecting back with our local residents. Our experienced team at the i-SITE can assist you, your family or friends with booking travel to the region and throughout New Zealand. So if you’re planning your next trip away let us do all the running around for you. It doesn’t cost you any more, in fact we might even save you money! Pop in for a chat – you might even pick up a nice gift from our ever growing local art/ gift-ware range.

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Pre-winter jobs The volunteer brigades in your area not only turn out for fire, but for all manner of emergencies, many of which are brought about by inclement weather. As we bask in the late autumn sunshine and enjoy the last of the good weather, it is worth using some of this good weather to future-proof yourselves for when the bad weather rolls into town.

Firstly, have your chimneys swept before lighting your first fire. In my younger years I swept chimneys as a part-time money earner. It was common for chimneys to be blocked with birds nests in the flue or chimney, where birds had decided to create a new home over the summer months. Not only will it prevent your fire from drawing properly, but it is a fire risk to your house if it were to catch alight.

Autumn leaves have been falling for weeks and many come to rest in gutters and drains, blocking spouting or drains. If water can’t go where it is meant to, then it will go somewhere else. Maybe into your house via soffits, walls or doorways.

Debris needs to be cleaned out pronto. If your property has a sump pump, check it’s working! Don’t wait until the weather hits. None of us want to be sloshing around in our parkas and gummies in the rain. As an aside, if you have doorways or garages that could flood, have a few sandbags handy to place strategically if under immediate threat. It doesn’t need to be heavy sugar sacks, but just a few shopping bags with a shovel full of sand could be sufficient. They can be left out of sight in a corner of the garage or shed and brought out if the need arises. They can be easily placed to prevent egress of water into your property.

Finally, trees with loose limbs or branches that could come down in wind should be trimmed before being placed under the stress of strong winter winds, particularly if they threaten your house or vehicles. Maybe the wood can then be put aside for next winter!

A Warkworth business that started in a converted garage has been named NZ’s Best Emerging Chiropractic Practice.

It’s been nearly three years since Tom Vaughan and Chanelle Rhodes decided they wanted to leave Auckland city and avoid a long daily commute to work.

They initially set up Boost Chiropractic in Snells Beach, but later moved to a larger work space in Alnwick Street.

At the recent New Zealand Chiropractic Association awards in Wellington, the team – which now also includes Morgan McKenzie – won best emerging practice.

“It’s a huge deal for us,” Chanelle says.

“Our clients all got behind us and there was an amazing amount of positive energy.

“We knew Boost was a great practice and we are very proud that we could

The Boost team, centre (front left) Morgan McKenzie, Dr Tom Vaughan and Dr Chanelle Rhodes, flanked by colleagues from the NZ Chiropractic Association, Dr Ash Pritchard (far left) and Dr Laurence Gilmore.

compete with other practices from the city.

“We are a young team with a ton of enthusiasm for what we do.”

Boost Chiropractic has plans to expand and is looking for a larger work space to move into next year. It is also considering opening up practices in Wellsford, Puhoi and Kaiwaka.

New knit and crochet clubs launched Knitters and crocheters have two new opportunities to indulge themselves and expand their skills, thanks to a Warkworth wool shop owner.

Karen Caulfield of Robyn Egge Yarns has started running a monthly drop in Crochet Club on the first Saturday of every month, and a corresponding Knit Club on every third Saturday.

Sessions run from 1-4pm and cost $5, which includes demonstrations and assistance from experienced tutors – Kim Thornton for crochet

and Lara Nettle for knitting – plus tea, coffee and cake.

Karen says the clubs are aimed at anyone with a passion for yarn, from experienced knitters and crocheters to those who are still finding their feet.

She says the tutors will be demonstrating different techniques over coming months, and can also help to decipher patterns and solve any problems participants may have.

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Devonport couple Stephen and Sue Sheehan have taken over HomePlus in Morrison Drive in Warkworth to offer a range of products to help people customise their homes.

Stephen has worked as an operations manager at a manufacturing company in South Auckland for 40 years, while Sue has worked as an interior designer.

“We are really hands-on people and both love renovating homes – we live in a 100-year-old bungalow which we’ve been restoring,” Sue says.

The business sells a range of custommade products to help transform a home, including awnings, balustrades, blinds, fencing, showers, wardrobes, security and insect screens and doors.

“It’s a great area for this business,” Stephen says. “A lot of houses have incredible views and our products that help shelter or shade outdoor areas, while keeping those views, are really popular. It fits in with the Kiwi outdoor lifestyle.”

The business covers from Albany to Mangawhai, coast to coast, and has an installation team with a factory and showroom on Morrison Drive.

“We’ve got a great team of local staff,” Stephen says. “Without them, we couldn’t survive.”

The couple took over the business in February after searching for a business to grow and would allow them to work together. Two of their children help out at the business in the school holidays.

“We are looking to grow it into a longterm venture for the family,” Sue says.

Sue also works part-time with special needs children at Takapuna Grammar.

“I had a friend with a disabled child and it made me want to do something really worth while for children. It’s challenging, but very rewarding.”

The couple have lived in Devonport for 26 years and are enjoying getting to know and work with the local community.

After sailing the world together, Sophie and Michael Isbey have taken on the Matakana Smokehouse and are settling back in Mahurangi to start a family.

Michael grew up in Algies Bay and Sophie was raised in Raglan.

Michael completed the superyacht crewing certificate at Mahurangi Technical Institute and the couple met in Spain six years ago where they were both working on yachts in the Mediterranean and Caribbean.

“We were working on a 60-metre yacht with about 15 crew and 12 guests,” Michael says. “I was the second mate and Sophie was head stewardess.”

“The guests live in a different world,” Sophie says. “Sometimes they would wake up and have champagne and pineapple for breakfast.”

After six years in the industry, they bought and renovated a 13.4-metre Jeanneau yacht in the Caribbean and set sail home for New Zealand.

“We sailed through the Panama Canal and on to the Galapagos Islands,” Sophie says. “It was like a dream.”

They spent two years island hopping through the Pacific before coming back to Mahurangi 18 months ago.

They started looking for a business that would enable them to enjoy the Mahurangi lifestyle and raise a family and the Matakana Smokehouse ticked all the boxes.

Sophie and Michael Isbey with their daughter Tuuli.

“We are both passionate about food and believe in using locally sourced and sustainable products,” Sophie says.

“Our main product is manukasmoked salmon, which is sustainably farmed in Akaroa,” Michael says.

“We also have kahawai and sardines from Leigh Fisheries, and smoked beetroot and mushroom.

“Everything is as natural as possible.

All of the fish is cured within 24 hours of it being caught.”

Another non-smoked specialty is gravlax salmon – a Nordic method of curing fish, using salt, sugar, dill, basil and lemon.

The products are now available at Warkworth New World, Snells Beach Fruit & Veg, Matakana Four Square and at the Matakana Village Farmers’ Market.

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Fruits of social media fuel kids Wellsford mum Sarah Wells has been overwhelmed by the local community’s generosity, after taking to Facebook asking for fruit for Wellsford School’s breakfast club.

More than 100 pupils attend the breakfast every day and the community has got behind the healthy eating initiative.

“I just offered to collect and deliver any fruit,” Sarah says. “It’s been awesome. We’ve had feijoas, guavas, you name it. We even had sixteen kilos of bananas from the local Four Square.”

The response has been so large the teachers and

pupils have been making everything from fruit kebabs to banana cake and are planning on warming themselves throughout winter by cooking pumpkins and assorted winter veges.

“We have to keep this going,” breakfast club coordinator Marjolein (Milo) Martin says. “They concentrate a lot better and the teachers can see them improving. Before, they would eat their lunch for breakfast and be hungry all day.”

Sarah Walsh started the breakfast club three years ago and is now helped by numerous volunteers and the local Anglican Church. All those involved would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who has helped.

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A one-day workshop for people living or working with children with autism will be held in Warkworth on Saturday May 21.

Hands On Autism is designed to provide practical tools and strategies for families and professionals to help support children with autism in the home, classroom and community.

The workshop, which will be held at Totara Park Hall in Melwood Drive, is organised by Children’s Autism Foundation (CAF) and runs from 9.30am to 3pm.

Topics covered will include a guide to autism, strategies for behaviour, and dealing with anxiety and sensory issues, with contributions from family and child counsellor Arletta van den Bosch, CAF services manager and behaviour therapist Elisa Slaat and family support worker Gera Verheul.

CAF provides support services to more than 1900 young people affected by autism in Auckland and, more recently, Northland, running family-centred programmes aimed at complementing services provided by other agencies.

“Autism is considered to be at epidemic proportions internationally, occurring in at least two per cent of the population, with rates increasing,” CAF says.

“In New Zealand, autism touches the lives of over 40,000 people and families.”

The workshop costs $20 for family and students, or $138 for professionals and organisations, and includes lunch.

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Sibling rivalry I remember my sisters and me driving our mother crazy with our sibling bickering and fighting. There were four of us and, for her, it was probably relentless. Those were the days when parents stopped the car and threatened that the annoying children should get out and walk home. In fact, sometimes this happened. Our Dad’s strategy was to put the fighting pair in the dinghy and tow us behind the boat on the longest possible rope. But there are some ways to support your children through sibling disputes in ways that help them to like each other after the fight.

It’s important to remember that we tend to notice more of the conflict, jealousy and anger because it drags our attention away from the tasks we are busily trying to attend to (cooking, work, washing, dishes, firewood, phone calls...). When our children are being cooperative and loving, it often goes under the radar as it doesn’t interrupt us. When we do notice good connection between our children it is incredibly heart-warming and, as such, it is worth looking for.

As with most parenting tips, the answer is time and attention. As soon as you think things between your children are going pear shaped, get in there and give attention and listen. Your children are then likely to feel more resolved emotionally and not need to fight.

If things have escalated into conflict before you noticed, take the time to hear both sides. It’s important to really listen to, and care about, both of their experiences. Listening does not mean agreeing and it’s good to avoid taking sides. If you are able to express your wish that you had got there sooner to help your children (taking some responsibility) they will not need to blame the other and they will feel more able to like each other after the fight.

Both children need your help, the victim and the aggressor. The aggressor may be expressing an attitude of ‘I don’t care’, but this is a result of your child trying to manage their guilt and distress. This child needs help to get back to themselves.

Alternate who you spend time with first when a conflict arises. This can be some special time together really listening to each child’s woes on their own; you need to listen more than you need to problem solve.

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Capital show for Warkworth artist

Mosaic artist Joy Bell, second from left, at the hooked rug workshop. The arts council hopes that numbers will grow as more people hear about the weekly workshops.

Artists share skills at workshops A new opportunity to share and learn art and craft techniques has been set up in Warkworth.

Under the auspices of the North Rodney Community Arts Council, workshops and demonstrations are being held on Monday mornings in the Bridge Club/Senior Citizens Rooms, next to the town hall.

Council chair Joy Bell says they are keen to tap into the wealth of skills and talents in the community, and open people’s eyes to new ideas.

“We would love to hear from anyone who might be interested in sharing or demonstrating what they do,” she says. “We recently had a demonstration of

temari thread balls – I didn’t even know what they were until I looked them up on the internet!”

Joy says that while the room has limitations, particularly in terms of how much mess they can make, its central location makes it an ideal meeting place.

“We’ve been looking for a suitable venue for ages, but there is very little space available for this sort of activity.”

The council will also use the rooms for meetings, Thursday evening artists’ talks and small exhibitions.

Info: joybellart@gmail.com

Warkworth RSA president receives award of a lifetime Warkworth RSA president John Stephen has received the prestigious lifetime membership badge as part of the RNZRSA Centenary commemorations. Mr Stephen has been an RSA member for 45 years and is in his fourth year as president and also served four terms as vice president. The award is also in recognition of his services to the wider community.

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Warkworth artist Sonia Fraser is heading to Wellington to put her work on show along with hundreds of other artists at the NZ Art Show next month.

The three-day show is held in the waterfront TSB Bank Arena and is the largest art show in New Zealand, attracting thousands of people.

Sonia has been painting in Mahurangi for about 20 years, first training under Robin Midgley in Orewa before enrolling in a diploma course at Hungry Creek Art School.

She graduated in 2006 and continued to paint parttime, before going back to study an advance diploma at Hungry Creek in 2013.

“You can become quite isolated working as an artist,” Sonia says. “The art school had a great community with so many other supportive artists. It’s a loss for the area now it’s gone.”

She has concentrated on landscape realism, painting from photographs taken on holidays in the South Island and at Northland beaches, but adapts compositions and styles to achieve a more expressive vision.

She held a successful exhibition at Art Matakana last year and has work in other Auckland galleries.

“I did a series of paintings focused on twisted trees silhouetted on stormy skies last year. I’m interested in exploring different perspectives in landscapes – some of my paintings have been taken from photographs my husband took while dangling out of trees, looking down a cliff at the ocean.”

Sonia credits her grandmother, who attended art school in the 1930’s, as one of her earliest art influences.

“She always encouraged me to explore my creative side.”

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Collaborative theme for Fieldays The southern hemisphere’s biggest agricultural convention, Fieldays, will plough through Mystery Creek from June 15 to 18.

The annual agricultural gathering last year attracted 126,063 people, including 456 registered international visitors.

Cash withdrawals on site came in at $1 million as 1008 businesses looked to sell goods and services showcased over the four days.

The theme of this year’s convention is Collaborate to Accelerate Growth.

“This is to encourage and facilitate industry-wide collaboration within the rural and primary sectors in an effort to accelerate innovative industry growth,” NZ National Fieldays Society chief executive Peter Nation says.

“Our mission is to advance agriculture.”

A new section called innovation acceleration will provide an opportunity for visitors to see how 10 businesses that exhibited in last year’s innovation section have continued to develop their projects.

The No.8 Wire art competition will be judged by New Zealand sculptor, Brett Graham, with a first prize of $7000.

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Ticket giveaway Mahurangi Matters has a double pass to give away to the NZ National Agricultural Fieldays on June 15 to 18 and a $25 voucher for Farm and Lifestyle Centre Warkworth. Write your name and number on the back of an envelope, post to Fieldays Competition, Mahurangi Matters PO Box 701 Warkworth or email editor@ localmatters.co.nz with the subject line: Fieldays Comp. Competition closes May 25.

Farming workshops

A competitor in the fencing championship at last years Fieldays.

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Eight men from Australia and New Zealand will battle it out at Mystery Creek to become the Rural Bachelor of the Year. They will compete in a range of tasks, such as fencing and dog training, with the final prize of $5000 worth of vouchers, a quad bike and the Golden Gumboot Trophy.

The top fencers in the country

will showcase their skills in the New Zealand National Fencing Championship, which will be judged on skill and speed.

The tractor pull will be held in front of a grandstand by the Waikato River.

Tickets are $20 per day for adults and $5 for children.

Free buses will be provided from Hamilton.

Beef and Lamb NZ have a number of events in the region coming up.

A land and environment planning workshop will be held at 165 Staniforth Road in Mangawhai on Wednesday June 1 from 10am to 3pm. Farmers will learn how to use B+LNZ’s Land and Environment Planning Toolkit, which will enable them to calculate the impact of farming operations on the surrounding environment and implement strategies to mitigate any environmental risk.

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Mahurangi inventor Malcolm Webster is heading to Fieldays with a new contraption to convert a chainsaw into a nail gun for fencing, after being accepted into the Innovations Centre.

The device uses the chainsaw motor to power an air compressor, which produces enough power to drive in the fencepost staples which attach the fencing wire to the post.

“The current compressors are too big and bulky,” Malcolm says. “They can’t be carried and they have to be carted on a quad bike, which usually requires two people. You can use a hammer, but it’s a lot slower than using an air compressor and there are issues with the repetitive stress of the action.”

Malcolm’s invention weighs 17 kilograms and he is working to produce a smaller product. He came up with the concept while installing fencing for his business All Rural Fencing and hopes it will be picked up by a major corporation.

He says Fieldays is the best place to get feedback and exposure for an invention.

“You get thousands of people through – it’s overwhelming. At the Innovation Centre, you also get help with patent design and business structures from experts. A lot of inventions featured in the past have gone on to become commonplace.”

It’s Malcolm’s second time at the Innovation Centre. Five years ago he showcased a gate latch that can be opened and shut from horseback or

Mahurangi inventor Malcolm Webster with the chainsaw-driven nail gun he has developed.

quad bike.

The product is now on the market and further development contracts with Gallaghers are in the pipeline, but Malcolm says some tweaks to the product are still needed.

“We still haven’t quite cracked it.”

He also had a fencing display at Fieldays two years ago, where he gained a contract with a Japanese firm, helping farmers in Hokkaido improve their fencing and farming practices.

“I’ve been teaching Japanese farmers how to do New Zealand-type fencing.”

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Mahurangi businesses seek exposure at Fieldays A number of Mahurangi business are heading to Fieldays with innovative, locally developed products in the hope of getting national and international exposure.

Matakana-based businessman Maarten Bubbert founded farm-gate manufacturer and distributor, Stronghold Trading, six years ago and will have a display at Fieldays next month.

He says the business draws on the experience he gained running toy stores in his homeland, Holland.

He started the toy business when he was 18 and started importing Nintendo computer games and went on to manufacture computer game accessories by outsourcing production to China.

He says the relationship he had built with Chinese manufacturers has been the basis for Stronghold, which manufactures gates in China.

“I have no background in farming, but I’m always on the look out for things that can be done smarter,” Mr Bubbert says. “I found all the gates in New Zealand were too highly priced, so, using my experience, I started producing the gates using factories in China.

We don’t buy the gates from China – we design the gates here, they are all produced to our high standard, but by outsourcing the manufacturing it’s much cheaper.”

Mr Bubbert looked to base the company in Warkworth, but found the high price of industrial land made it unfeasible. Stronghold now has a 7000m2 site in Tirau, where he says industrial land is a quarter of the price.

This year he has been on the field days circuit around the country, from Gore to Dargaville.

“Our turnover at the smaller fieldays has tripled from last year. At the event in Gore we sold as much each day as we did at Mystery Creek last year.”

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Mahurangi Oysters owner Andrew Hay and daughter Lauren selling their soup at Fieldays last year.

second year in a row, to showcase its oyster soup in the Kiwi’s Best Kitchen exhibition area.

“It was really successful last year,” co-owner Lisa Hay says.

Lisa started developing the soup about three years ago. Last year, she received a $2500 grant from Government research and development arm, Callaghan Innovation, and has been producing the soup at the FoodBowl in Auckland – a commercial kitchen to help businesses develop products.

The packaged soup is now available at specialty supermarkets in Auckland and Snells Beach Fruit & Vege and Warkworth Butchery.

She says the soup is a great way to make the most of oysters which have imperfections.

Warkworth resident Sherman Smith will be heading

to Fieldays to put on a display of kitset sheds and buildings with his business Outpost Buildings.

Sherman started the business with his brother in Timaru about eight years ago. He moved to Mahurangi in 2012 to make the most of the burgeoning lifestyle market in the area. The company now produces over 80 designs of kitset barns, sheds, garages, chicken coops, and even small houses, 0800 TRACTOR The business is based in Silverdale, but will be opening a display site on Matakana Road, opposite www.agrowquip.co.nz Ascension Wine Estate, this month.

He says Fieldays is an important event to boost the profile of rural businesses.

“We think it’s going to be big for us,” Sherman says.

“We’ve had so many requests from customers asking us to go that we think it’s a must.”

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ALL RURAL FENCING NorthTec students, from left, Russell Koroly-Grey and Cassandra Liddington with tutor Heidelind Luschberger.

Enrolments open for rural development course Students in Wellsford are learning how to grow their own fruit and vegetables in a free course through NorthTec. The Level 2 Sustainable Rural Development Course started in February, while a 19-week Level 3 course will start on August 3.

Cassandra Liddington enrolled to learn how to grow organic vegetables for her young family.

“I love it,” Cassandra says. “I didn’t know anything when I started. Now I’ve got my own garden at home.

I’ve tested the soil and I have started making compost. I’ve also met some really cool people.”

She hopes to be self-sufficient for fruit and vegetables, which she estimates will save her about $60 a week.

“That will make a big difference for us.

I’ve got my three little boys learning as well. They have their own little tools

and each have a section of the garden.

“It’s also been a spiritual experience, connecting with the land.”

She plans to enrol in the Level 3 course later this year, where students will learn how to start an orchard, and will include an introduction to beekeeping.

The courses are run from the Hauora Trust site on School Road, which has a large community vege garden which the students use to learn skills and can take home produce.

Course tutor Heidelind Luschberger says students can go on to further study to start a career in horticulture.

Next year she plans to introduce a more intensive 36-week course where students will get direct experience in the industry, visiting local orchards and farms.

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Katie Mitchell in the barn with one of the remaining Pekin ducks.

Mahurangi farm off the lay One of New Zealand’s largest commercial duck egg producers, based in Kaipara Flats, has scaled down production.

At its height, The Mahurangi Duck farm had about 7000 white Pekin ducks laying, producing thousands of eggs a week, but now owners Peter and Katie Mitchell have decided to keep just 100 ducks for farm-gate sales.

The farm was established in 1985 and Peter and Katie bought the business in 2001.

“When we bought it it was mainly used to process ducks for the meat market,” Katie says. “It was such a mess. Ducks were dying and they hadn’t been fed properly.”

They upgraded the farm and decided to focus on selling the eggs seven years ago and stopped duck processing.

The eggs have a different consistency from chicken eggs and are in demand from restaurants and specialty

supermarkets, Katie says.

“If I was blind folded, the only thing that would give it away would be the consistency – they are a lot firmer. For baking they are superior. They have a higher fat content which makes them better for holding air, so they are great for making a light sponge.”

While demand for duck eggs has remained steady, they have failed to break into the mainstream market.

“It’s a cultural thing,” Katie says. “People have said they were told not to eat duck eggs when they were growing up.”

The couple say they are ready for a lifestyle change now their kids have left home. As well as selling eggs locally, they are also selling duck manure for gardens.

“There’s nothing quite like it. We’ve had it analysed and it’s a fantastic medium to grow anything in. There’s no smell and it’s not hot like chicken poop. It’s a lot gentler on land and it grows amazing vegetables.”

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Have you ever felt like a square peg in a round hole? I did the other day when I was sitting at the end of the driveway waiting for the school bus and a lost rental truck pulled over and asked if I was number 112 Burma Road as he needed to drop off a wheelie bin. Now that was not my street number, however, I can assure you both panic and laughter engulfed my body when I realised at that moment that Auckland Council weren’t joking and they were actually going to give farmers like us wheelie bins!

In my feeble country bumpkin mind I had to quickly rationalise this concept.

What if a plague had gone through and the decision-makers had gone mad?

Now, I am only joking of course, but for the sake of my own sanity, and that of many others, I will use my farm as an example to explain my frustration. I have approximately 1.2 kilometres of poorly maintained driveway to get to the road, thus dragging it down my driveway is not an option as the wheels will fall off.

Lifting it on the back of a ute and taking it down full is also not an option unless you are the world’s strongest man. Hooking up with the neighbours and “bin pooling” won’t work as they live miles down the road (how far are we expected to drive with our recycling anyway?).The only option for folks like me is to leave it as a permanent fixture on the roadside. Good God, what a lovely look that will be! Wheelie bins dotted all over the countryside. Perhaps the Council could build us “landscape sensitive” wheelie bin corrals?

So I did some ringing around Council to see if I could find some better solutions to our unique wheelie bin problems and so it seems the only common justification for the issue at hand was “streamlining, cost saving and equality”. Now last time I looked our Council was telling us all to embrace our “diversity” – next minute we hear them telling us all we need to be equal! So I don’t know? But here’s the thing, if they want to pull the old equality card on our communities they need to accept the fact that equality is not a pick and choose arrangement. It seems to me, that we are only equal if it either saves the Council money or makes them money, and if it costs them money they then tell us all how wonderfully diverse we are! So my message to the Council would be, “If you want us to be equal, then you need to stump up with a few basics like – decent roads, a public pool for our children to learn to swim, sewage plants that aren’t at capacity, sympathetic zoning and regulation that will enable employment for our people, even footpaths and the occasional street light!”

So I guess us minorities will just have to embrace our wheelie bins, but I will look forward to Northern Rodney’s name “up in lights” and our pamphlets pinned to every tourist board in the country with the header “Come visit Northern Rodney” the place with pristine beaches, breath-taking landscapes, horrific roads and PLASTIC WHEELIE BINS!

Council hosts info sessions for rural recyclers Auckland Council’s waste solutions team will be on hand to answer questions WITHERS & CO LTD and work through issues people may have about the new recycling service at two drop-in sessions in Wellsford and Snells Beach.

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For a simple drinking beverage, beer sure throws up an awful lot of conundrums, contradictions and confusion, none more so than the IPA. The humble India Pale Ale, to address it in the correct manner, is possibly now one of the most widely drunk craft beer styles in Aotearoa.

What’s in a name? Well so the story goes that, in the late 18th century, a style of beer was developed for export to British troops in India. Bronze to amber-red in colour, it was initially believed to be highly hopped, bitter and strong in alcohol, but this is hotly debated these days. However, what is not contested is that these beers were the birth of the modern IPA. But when is an IPA not an IPA? Well, when it’s an APA of course, or just a PA. Yep, now we even have NZ IPA and a prime example of this variety is brewed in Warkworth at 8 Wired Brewing. Hopwired NZ IPA is a huge tropical punchbowl of a beer and the most popular beer on the local brewery’s roster. It showcases New Zealand grown and developed hops to a spectacular degree. Hops are what make the major difference when it comes to determining the flavours a pale ale, or any beer for that matter, will exhibit. When 8 Wired originally brewed this beer they did so in a small batch of 1000 litres. Today it is exported around the world. Soren Eriksen of 8 Wired claims that probably 50 per cent of the beer that they produce is of the pale ale style. Local brewers Sawmill Brewery and Mcleod’s both offer three or more beers in a pale ale style.

You may have noticed by now that I am referring to our subject matter as just pale ale. After discussions with several brewers, beer aficionados, beer geeks and dedicated taste testers, we came to a general consensus regarding the difference between an American Pale Ale, India Pale Ale, NZ Pale Ale, New Zealand India Pale Ale, American India Pale Ale and a simple Pale Ale… Hops. And after all this, we were certain about one thing. There is nothing simple about a pale ale!

A quick look around the internet and one can find pale ales from Belgium, England, America, West Coast, East Coast, Black IPAs, White IPAs…didn’t actually see one from India though. Some beers even call themselves India Pale Ales when they’re not; such is the clamour to be part of this roguish and bitter family of beers.

What we do know is that this much loved style rewards the drinker with a stunning array of aromas and flavours that vary from beer to beer. From citrus to lychee, from caramel to chocolate, this beer style offers so much to be appreciated and debated. Try a local India Pale Ale next time you are in a good beer bar or brewery and enjoy slowly. Just don’t ask for an Ippah!

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Combatting climate change We hear a lot about climate change these days and the effects are becoming noticeable, even in our daily living, with ever increasing temperatures breaking monthly and yearly records. I have to confess that as an aficionado of tropical climates and tropical plants, I have a little part of me that welcomes the higher temperatures – this summer has been just fantastic for plant growth!

However, the rational part of me understands that in years to come we are going to have to deal with less desirable side-effects, such as higher storm surges, more violent weather events and longer periods of drought and heatwaves. Recently I have seen several articles on planting trees to combat climate change, a very good one for those that are interested in going deeper into this subject is found at pureadvantage.org. The emphasis is on government or business embarking on major tree planting programmes; atmospheric carbon reduction being the main goal, with erosion control and watershed improvement being important side benefits.

I would love to see this taken a step further. Much of the productive land in this country is not under Government control or in corporate hands, but in private ownership – something in the order of close to two million homes! In my travels around the district I get to see a lot of gardens; some are huge, lavish affairs, others are cute and intimate, but many homes are surrounded by the bare minimum of plantings; maybe a hedge and a token tree or two, a few succulents and a potted plant by the front door. Just think for a moment if every home planted a tree or shrub this Arbor Day (June 5). That is an instant forest of two million trees! Plant two trees each, not a big ask and the forest doubles to four million trees!

Of course there are less desirable side-effects, but if you use a bit of common sense when buying and planting your trees, these can be largely avoided. Use deciduous trees away from gutters and on the northern side of homes, so they shade in summer and let light through in winter. Don’t plant huge-growing trees on small sections or on your neighbour’s boundary. Don’t plant trees near driveways drains and paths if they have invasive root systems. Use tidy evergreen shrubs if maintenance is going to be an issue, for example Camellia are great for rental properties or elderly folk. Plant shorter growing trees or shrubs where a view is important.

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While it is a good idea to put out rat bait, there are a few things that need serious consideration. Rat bait is toxic to all mammals. The placement of baits is crucial to secure uptake by the target species and not our household pets. The bait should always be secured in place either nailed, wired or put into special bait stations.

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Gage is looking forward to tackling the grade-four rapids at the new Manukau whitewater complex.

Rapid progress for kayaker Nine year-old Wellsford kayaker, Gage Laughton, will be able to hit the whitewater more often after Vector Wero Whitewater Park in Manukau opened on April 27.

Gage, who is currently in the running to be selected for an international youth training squad, was invited to be part of the opening ceremony by Vector Wero after he completed his grade-two river assessment.

The $45 million park is the first manmade river complex in New Zealand.

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“Wero Whitewater Park will be a 2.5 hour return trip and allow us seven hours on the water on any given day,” his father, Lee, says.

The complex will also provide a winter training site.

Lee says that Gage is the youngest person in New Zealand and the second youngest in the world to take on extreme kayaking.

Prime Minister John Key, Olympian canoeist Ian Ferguson, Mayoral candidate Phil Goff and Auckland Mayor Len Brown were also present.

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To be eligible you must be between the age of 16 and 25 and either be a member or have an affiliated family member with the Kaipara Flats Sports Club.

Requests for applications can be made at kfscsportsscholarship@gmail.com Football fixture ground changes Warkworth Men’s first and Reserve football teams have returned to play at Shoesmith Domain on Saturday’s. Their next home games will be against Waiheke on, May 28, 12.15pm kick-off for reserves and 2.45pm for the first team.

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Against South Auckland, played at the beautiful Koru courts at Pakuranga, our local men took a bit of a beating against the younger South Aucklanders, but our women, led by Margaret Kinder and Kat Kayll, more than held their own, keeping our final result, a loss by 16 matches to 14, quite respectable.

Several of the men did record three wins, namely Bryn Williams and Neville Stevenson, who will be moved up the playing order for the next tie.

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Wholesale direct to the public. Contract growing and pre-orders welcome.

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RAWLEIGH Products. Ph Pat 423 8851

FOR SALE DRY SPLIT FIREWOOD Pine - $150 2m3 Hot mix - $200 2m3 Delivered Wellsford to Hibiscus Coast.

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WATER FILTERS Underbench filters & whole house Ultra violet filters – Kill and remove ecoli/bacteria. FREE site visits. Ph Steve 09 945 2282 or visit www.aquafilter.co.nz LAWN MOWING rubbish removal, hedges, small tree removal. WW & beach areas. Ph Jeff Hatfull 027 425 7357, 425 7357

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CAMP BENTZON BOARD OF TRUSTEES Expressions of Interest Camp Bentzon is a not-for-profit organisation which was established to provide education and recreation facilities for the youth of NZ in a safe outdoor environment. The Board of Trustees provides governance and oversight to the management of the camp facilities located on Kawau Island.

With the imminent retirement of a current board member, we are now looking for Expressions of Interest from members of the local community who believe they have the enthusiasm and motivation to contribute to the continued sustainable future of this wonderful island camp. The day to day management is provided by on-site managers who look to the board of trustees for support and encouragement. The camp has grown and increased in popularity under their management, with bookings now providing almost full occupancy all year round. The Camp operates in a unique island environment with the capacity to accommodate up to 120 young people at a time We are particularly seeking interest from individuals who can provide skills in fund raising, marketing, accountancy, education and public relations and ideally with some experience in a governance role. However the most important aspect of this voluntary role is a passion for community and youth development in an outdoor adventure environment. The Board meets 11 times a year at the Sandspit Yacht Club on the second Monday evening of the month.

Periodically the meetings take place at the Camp on Kawau Island, usually on a Saturday or Sunday morning.

If joining with other passionate, but friendly and committed members of the Board of Trustees appeals to you, then please register your interest at campbentzon@gmail.com and we will forward to you a role description and further details of how to make a formal application for consideration.

Expressions of Interest will close on Tuesday, 31st May, 2016. www.campbentzon.co.nz

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

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Good team, local growing company, varied interesting work.

Could be a mix of onsite and/or work at home .

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Warkworth/Wellsford Budget Service We can help you sort your finances For free confidential budget advice phone 423 7123

WARKWORTH & DISTRICTS MUSEUM SOCIETY INC. AGM At the museum, 1pm, May 29th Election of officers, guest speaker and afternoon tea

We are looking for a full/part time chairside assistant for our state-of-theart dental practice in Matakana.

You will need to have adequate knowledge of computers, ability to multitask, be fluent in English and have a good, positive attitude. You may be required to work after-hours or on the weekends. Full training will be given on site. We would prefer someone local.

Please send CV and cover letter to care@matakanadental.co.nz

LEIGH COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL TEACHER One of our beautiful infant and toddler teachers is moving away, which has created a teaching vacancy for 3-4 days per week during term time.

If you are inspired by reflective teaching practice and your passion is working with babies and toddlers.

You are fun-loving and nurturing, you excel in providing rich and diverse learning experiences for children through creative inquiry and the natural environment in a respectful manner.

And if you are committed to PLD, professional dialogue and being part of a community of learners. We’d love to meet you.

Please email a covering letter and your CV to rachel@leighpreschool.co.nz Applications close Monday 30th May 2016

WARKWORTH GREY POWER 2016 AGM Thursday 26 May, 10.30am Shoesmith Hall Shared lunch and speaker All welcome

AGM OF THE HOTEO NORTH SCHOOL SOCIETY (INC) Saturday June 18, 7:30 PM All Welcome

TUITION PIANO TUITION including practical and theory, all grades; Warkworth based; John Wilkins – phone 09 425 9669 or johnwilinspire@gmail.com.

GUITAR TUTOR Learn the music you want to play, from old classics to current.

Phone Martin - 422 3037

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Kaiwaka recognises sporting success

The Warkworth men's football team will look to press on set pieces this season as part of their revised attacking football strategy.

Warkworth striker Rob Carty, right, looks to gain possession of the ball from a goal kick as Warkworth look to do damage on the counter attack.

The Warkworth AFC Men’s First Team are looking at their culture to climb the ladder in their NFF competition this season.

The side, which finished eighth out of 12 last season, is under the management of Cam Gray, who is looking to play positive attacking football and address the spirit of the side.

The team started the season with a goal-less draw followed by a loss and then a win where the team netted six goals.

“We’ve played extremely well,” Cam says. “Some teams have been caught off guard with the way we have pressed on attack. We don’t sit back and hold anymore.”

But the game plan has lead to some large defeats including a 3-0 loss to the Glen Eden Rangers when Cam decided to play three at the back when the score was 1-0.

“It was a very flat performance where the Warkworth men were brought back down to earth as they were run ragged by the opposition,” he says.

He said the side was also out-played in its 4-0 loss to Bucklands Beach.

“But it’s great that they are coming to play and enjoying it. The mood has absolutely changed. It’s

extremely positive. The team is socialising together more and is a much tighter-knit group than in previous years.”

The return of players Adam Thomson and Matt Taylor has added to the side’s performances and Cam noted the impacts that central-midfielder Ken Lynch and centre-back Scott Taylor have had on the field.

The team has had a couple of long-term injuries, which has set them back.

“It’s crippling as the Warkworth club doesn’t have the depth, even drawing from the reserve side, to always comfortably fill those spaces.”

The Warkworth team is into round two of the Chatham Cup after a 3-1 win over Bohemian Celtic.

“The quality of the opposition in the Cup makes it a great experience for some of the younger players to see where the standard is for men’s football.

“The boys are excited to have returned to Shoesmith Domain.”

The coach would like to see the team finish in the top four as a realistic goal after last season’s placing.

Their next home fixture is against Waiheke United at Shoesmith Domain on Saturday, May 28, kick-off at 2.45pm.

The Kaiwaka Sports Association held its annual awards on April 27, with more than 100 people attending, including 29 nominees.

The event has been running for 32 years and was presented by John Markby from More FM radio this year.

There were four awards up for grabs on the night – junior and senior sports-people of the year, Services to Sport and the Greg McRae Memorial Trophy.

Taking out the junior award was 15-year-old squash player Annmarie Holst, who is currently ranked 119 in New Zealand for women’s squash and has represented the country at secondary school level.

“It meant a lot because all of the hard work that I have put in has paid off,” Annmarie says.

Her goal is to make the junior girls world team in 2019.

She thanked the Kaiwaka Squash Club for providing her with coach Phillip Tana, who she says has been helping her to improve her game.

The Senior Award went to Merv Huxford who has represented New Zealand in hockey. He is the first New Zealand Masters Blackstick to play 100 internationals.

The Services to Sport Award went to Lindell Ferguson who has been heavily involved with a range of sporting activities including tennis, football and gymnastics.

Rugby player Rhys Shadbolt picked up the Greg McRae Memorial Trophy.

This was for performances in rugby and athletics, as well as contributions to refereeing and coaching for younger rugby sides.

Current president Wayne Leslie thanked outgoing president, Evan Wright, for 21 years of service to the Kaiwaka Sports Association.

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Free tree planting workshop, 18 Cowan Bay Road, Pohuehue Forest & Bird winter talks, ‘Every Small Stream Counts – Whitebait species and long finned eels’, presented by Kim Jones, Totara Park Hall, Warkworth, 7.30pm Warkworth Town Hall fundraiser, panel discussion on heritage buildings, Old Masonic Hall, Warkworth, 6.30pm Hands On Autism, Children’s Autism Foundation support workshop, Totara Park Hall, 5 Melwood Drive, Warkworth, 9.30am-3pm. (see story p24) Warkworth War on Weeds weed-busting day, Snells Beach, Muncaster Road, 10am-1pm Leigh Library 145th birthday celebration, at the library, 9.30am-12noon Knitting Club, Robyn Egge Yarns, Elizabeth Street, Warkworth, 1-4pm. $5. Info: Karen Caulfield 425 7246 (see story p22) Cappella choir, Ascension Wine Estate, 4pm Introduction to Scottish Country Dancing, Ranfurly Hall, Kaipara Flats, 7-9pm, $3. Bring soft shoes and water. Info: Carolyn Cooper 425 7690 Council recycling information drop-in session, Wellsford Community Centre, 10am-12pm, (see story p33) Council recycling information drop-in session, Mahurangi East Community Centre, Snells Beach, 10am-12pm, (see story p33) Grey power Annual General Meeting, Shoesmith Hall, 10.30am. Shared lunch/speaker Wellsford Combined Probus meeting, Wellsford RSA, 10am.

Speaker, Anne Martin who walked the Camino Trail in Spain.

Info: Bev Davidson 423 9552 Spray-free & save our bees public meeting, Totara Park Hall, Melwood Drive, Warkworth, 6pm. Guest speaker Green Party MP Steffan Browning Port Albert Hall centennial celebrations, luncheon & entertainment, 12 noon. Lantern Slide Show at 2pm. Info& tickets: Albertland Museum, Wellsford (see column p10) Weed amnesty day, Warkworth Showgrounds, 10am to 2pm Whangateau Folk Club, acoustic open mic, Whangateau Hall, 7pm

June Warkworth War on Weeds weed-busting day, Lucy Moore Park, Warkworth, 10am-1pm. Meet by catchment pond.

15-18 NZ National Agricultural Fieldays, Mystery Creek, Hamilton (see feature pgs 27-33) 16 Forest & Bird winter talks, Mangroves: Love them or Loathe Them, There’s Life in the Mud, presented by Dr Roger Grace, Totara Park Hall, Warkworth, 7.30pm 19 War Time Variety Concert, Wellsford Community Centre, 3.30pm 24 Local Government submissions close, deadline for alternative applications for a reorganisation of Auckland Council 25 Whangateau Folk Club, featuring John Hayday and Vaughan Morgan, 7pm. $5

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Mahurangi pushed for the winning try right until the end of the fixture, but never managed to cross the line with ball in hand.

Mahurangi winger Josh Shirley attacks the line in what proved to be a dramatic second half.

Rugby tie tips trophy in inter-school clash Ben Donaldson

It was a nail-biting finish in the annual Mt Roskill College exchange with Mahurangi College, held at Mahurangi this month, with Mahurangi narrowly losing in the final fixture.

The Auckland school arrived at Mahurangi College on Wednesday May 4 with about 100 students.

Games kicked-off at 10.30am with girls football, boys basketball and boys hockey.

Girls football fell in a narrow battle with Mahurangi losing 3-2 to the visitors, who downed Mahurangi 4-0 in the same fixture last year.

The boys basketball team, which have never fared well in the exchange, according to Mahurangi College sports coordinator Sandra Hawkin, went down 79-18.

Hockey allowed Mahurangi to grab their first win of the exchange with the boys side prevailing 6-2.

Following that match, the girls hockey held their end up with a 5-2 victory, before the netball game

went in favour of the home side 31-26.

The exchange evened back up at three wins each when Roskill boys football dominated a scoreless Mahurangi side, 6-0.

The exchange hung in the balance with the rugby match the deciding fixture in front of a passionate home crowd.

Mt Roskill was leading at half-time 19-15. In the dying moments of the game when the score was 2623, Mahurangi was awarded a penalty within kicking range to tie the score. But, they opted for the quick tap.

“Everyone thought we were going to get the five pointer,” half-back Sam Warner says.

The visitors hung on despite the pressure, which resulted in a 26-23 victory and an overall win for the exchange trophy.

During the day, 110 Mahurangi College students competed across the various sports played.

“It was a great day with great results,” Sandra Hawkin says. “The kids were awesome.”

Danika McKenzie of Mahurangi College, left, in a foot race for the ball in what proved to be a very close game.

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