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Term two has kicked off with much more of a ‘back to normal’ Last week we took a number of feel which staff and students are enjoying. Students have Waikato University, a new partnership participated in all manner of activities: cross country champs, house to consider tertiary futures. The studen relays, living classroom and enviro experiences. Construction Academy receiving a fully escorted campus tour, a unique l Your locally-owned Community Newspaper students have been pouring concrete pads, and we even had some of our of residence. Waikato University has a focus on ar STEAM students providing all of the delicious food for teachers at the student, and has recently introduced a world’s fi recent parent teacher interviews. No doubt we’ll get a spike in Covid cases Climate Change. at some stage, but for the time being it’s great to be mostly back to normal. Literacy is a real academic focus for staff at the mo Congratulations to Ruahei Demant (Te Whanau a Apanui, Te Whakatōhea, rates are well known and obviously it’s an area Awa)is who beensignificant named captain Ferns team. nationwide. From 2024 may a new literacy requiremen where intensification not be suitable UD of andthetheBlack MDRS arerugby not optional, TheNgāti MDRS one has of two such timely as in impetus areas of for cultural, historic Ruahei was Head Girl in reforms 2013, and debuted the Black in 2018.decisionSince further a renewed focus on but for Council does Ferns have limited central government planning that or ecological to engaging avoid Council thenhas shebeen hasmandated gone on to toimplement. play 15 tests making at first powers. and second five-eighths. We spent the recentsignificance, teacher onlyorday with development in areasincluding with natural hazards. buildi Thewish otherRuahei is the National Policyfor Statement all the best the upcoming Cup! literacy vocabulary For World instance, it will be able to determine disciplinary on Urban Development (NPS-UD), which O’Connor she was tryingthese to think of forwardsaid to incorporating learnings int some exemptions, called ‘qualifying look alsoBasketball governs the rules around urban density. some creative waysskill of describing the local matters’, which may allow in it North to limit is really the master of schooling. player numbers have surged, with 14 teams entered building heights or density requirements TheHarbour changes competitions set out in both NPScontinued on page 2 (upthe from 7 teams last year). It’s also great to see the number of pickup games happening around the school at break times, with students enjoying the new hoops. Pleasingly this uptick has not been at the ANZAC DAY SERVICES expense of other sports, with player increases also for traditional sports like rugby and netball. Many students have added a second (or in some Once again our Prefects proudly represented o cases third) sport to their schedules, which is commendable. services. This year we had the honour of forming our students, positioned at the four corners of th The resurfaced rugby field is bedding in well, and should be available to over the memories of our fallen soldiers. Head gir teams at the start of next term, and hopefully the pool should be back in 10:30 Service where she remembered her great action soon, once the minor repairs are completed. but she also emphasised the importance of this g
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Guns, gangs, youth crime and escalating ram raids all took a back seat when Police Minister Poto Williams visited Warkworth on May 11 for the Emergency Services Dinner. The Minister, along with local politicians, was only too happy to do her bit to say thank you to the area’s emergency services personnel, by helping to serve them dinner. The Minister is pictured dishing up kai to Warkworth Police officer in charge Sgt Mark Stallworthy. See page 22 for coverage of the event.
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Residential intensification on its way area so it meets the ‘qualifying matters’ threshold. The potential to use private covenants to circumvent the impacts of the new rules was also being explored. “We need to make sure that we get as much information to the decision-makers in Council on what locals think should happen to our area as we can.”
Design rules The MDRS changes are part of the Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021. The Act requires Council to replace its design rules for developments,
including height-to-boundary ratios and outdoor space provisions. Previously any structure needed to fit under a line that started 2.7 metres above a side boundary and rose up at 45 degrees. This is the height-to-boundary requirement that stopped a neighbour’s building from blocking sunlight. The new height-toboundary requirement is that a building must fit under a line that starts four metres above the side boundary and rises at a much steeper 60 degree angle. Council is required to change its Unitary Plan to reflect the new rules and called for
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initial submissions last month. These are now being assessed. Further submissions will be called for in August when Council publicly notifies the plan change and then an independent hearings panel will consider all submissions and conduct hearings next year. The panel will make recommendations to Council on the necessary changes to the Auckland Unitary Plan by early 2024. Panel members will be Greg Hill, Kitt Littlejohn, Karyn Kurzeja, Sheena Tepania, Gavin Lister and Richard Knott.
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The speed limit through Wellsford town centre could drop to 40km/h as part of a new review of state highways north of Auckland by NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi. More than a dozen new speed limits are being proposed in local townships and outside schools on State Highways 1, 16 and 12, from Tauhoa up to Paparoa, all of which are open for public feedback from now until Tuesday, June 14. Waka Kotahi says 172 people were killed
and 750 suffered serious injuries on state highways north of Auckland over the past 10 years. “These are whānau, friends and workmates,” a spokesperson says. “Waka Kotahi is working toward Vision Zero – an Aotearoa where no one is killed or seriously injured on our roads. Reviewing speed limits is one solution that will have an immediate impact.” The main changes locally include dropping the speed limit through Tauhoa from
100km/h to 80km/h; from 50km/h to 40km/h in Wellsford’s main street; from 100km/hr to 80km/h or 60km/h through Te Hana; and the introduction of variable speed limits outside Rodney College and Tauhoa, Maungaturoto and Otamatea Christian Schools.
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Off-course kiwi strolls into Omaha A juvenile kiwi that found its way from rural Tawharanui to urban Omaha was rescued by a kind-hearted resident who found it wandering along a path on May 12. Laura Laurenson thought she’d spotted a weka at first, as she walked her two dogs along the path between houses and the beach at the southern end of the settlement. “I thought ‘that’s unusual’, but then it moved and I thought ‘no, that’s a kiwi!’” she said. “I’d never seen one in the wild, but I knew it shouldn’t be on the path in Omaha and I knew it shouldn’t be out in the day, so I thought I’d gently scoop it up, keep it safe and call DOC, as chances were, it wasn’t very well.” Laura carried the bird home and popped it into a travel cot to keep it secure until DOC staff from Warkworth were able to attend and assess the young kiwi later that afternoon. “They said it was a juvenile, probably born in December or January, and they thought it had left the nest reasonably recently and just wandered too far. It was probably quite tired and hungry.” Laura said the whole experience was quite surreal, though with an ecologist father, she had grown up in a home that was often full of rescued birds and animals. “It was amazing that it was a kiwi, but if it was a sparrow, I still would have taken it home,” she said. “But of all the things you could have found at the beach – a penguin, even – I never would have guessed I’d see a kiwi. “It was an amazing day; a special something that I’ll never forget.” Kiwi have started to spread beyond the confines of Tawharanui’s predator proof fence in recent years, though this is thought to be the furthest that one has been spotted beyond the park boundary. DOC operations manager Rebecca Rush said the Warkworth rangers found that the Omaha bird was in poor body condition
Staff from DOC’s Warkworth office took the kiwi to Auckland Zoo’s vet hospital for tests and treatment. Inset, Laura kept the young bird corralled in a travel cot until DOC arrived.
and had a relatively recent bill tip injury, so it was transported to Auckland Zoo vet hospital for tests and treatment. “If the kiwi can be bought back to a condition suitable for release into the wild, DOC will work closely with kaitiaki from Ngāti Manuhiri Settlement Trust and Auckland Council to return the bird back
to Tāwharanui Regional Park, where we believe the bird originated from,” she said. Auckland Zoo communications manager Jane Healy said last week that vets were continuing care for the kiwi and the injury to its beak needed time to heal. If anyone finds a kiwi during the day, injured or in poor condition, they should
immediately call 0800 DOC HOT (0800 362 468). “Any sightings of kiwi outside of fenced sanctuaries on Auckland’s mainland can also be reported to 0800 DOC HOT,” Ms Rush said. “If the public come across a kiwi, in any condition, it’s important to give it space and keep dogs well away.”
Warkworth to Snells Beach wastewater pipeline awaits consent Getting wastewater from Warkworth to the new Snells Beach wastewater treatment plant, which is currently under construction, may prove to be an Achilles heel for the big housing developments planned for Warkworth in coming years. Around 2500 new homes are scheduled to be connected to the system in late 2024, along with the existing residential areas of Warkworth. The former Warkworth treatment plant will then be decommissioned. However, with work yet to start on the five-kilometre pipeline, the connection timeframe has already been pushed back by a couple of months to February 2025. Watercare’s head of strategy and planning, Priyan Perera, says the delay is the result of a decision by Watercare to change how it lays the pipes between Warkworth and Snells Beach. Watercare had initially looked at laying the pipes in trenches along the side of the road. Perera says that while they had resource consents to go ahead with that, after discussions
with the Rodney Local Board and others on the impacts on what is a very busy road, they stepped back and looked at alternatives. Watercare now plans to lay the wastewater pipe underground by drilling a tunnel under private property. Similar drilling projects have been done in Auckland, including the Army Bay and Snells-Algies wastewater outfalls. Perera says the change will mean only one pump station will be needed, as opposed to three for the roadside option. Plus, there will be a lower carbon footprint. Independent commissioners held a hearing in the Warkworth Town Hall this month to consider the pipeline’s resource consent. Of the 29 affected landholders, 21 were notified as part of the Resource Management Act process. The majority consented to the pipeline, and Watercare is working to address the concerns of the final two. Commissioners will release their decision in the next couple of months, but Perera is confident the consent will be approved. However, if the decision is appealed, further
delays will be encountered. Perera says there are ways to get around short term delays, including extending the life of the current Warkworth treatment plant. Neighbourhood North Ltd, which is developing the former Stubbs Farm where 1200 dwelling are planned, is relying on the wastewater conveyance pipe connection. However, company spokesperson Wayne Wright is philosophical about any delays. He is currently in discussion with Watercare on how to work around the delay, and says it is too soon to be concerned. Warkworth Ridge, overlooking the new Matakana Link Road, is set to accommodate more than 600 new dwellings and is likely be ready to connect in late 2024. Development spokesperson Alan Botica said they were aware of the delay and had made plans around it. The pipeline is being designed to cater for population growth through to 2099. Any delays in its construction will not affect Snells Beach connections. NEW OFFICE OPENED at 3 Hibiscus Coast Highway, Silverdale
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Dome Valley landfill timeline Fight the Tip’s Michelle Carmichael and Sue Crockett appear before Environmental Select Committee Resource supporting petition consent to ban landfills near waterways across NZ. approved. May 6, 2021 June, 2021
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Waste Management’s Hearings into consent and plan change applications plans open for begin at Warkworth submissions as NZ Town Hall before Sheena goes into Covid-19 Tepania, Alan Watson, lockdown, prompting David Mead, Wayne widespread criticism Donovan and Michael when it refuses to Parsonson. delay the process. November 9, 2020 March 26, 2020
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August 31, 2018 Land Information Minister Eugenie Sage grants overseas investment consent to Waste Management and Beijing Waste Management Capital to buy land south of Wellsford.
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Associate Finance Hundreds attend Minister David Clark also signs off on the public meeting after formation of Fight purchase – 1020 hectares of Springhill the Tip, Save the Dome Facebook Farm and Matariki page and protest Forests – for a new group. landfill. September 11, 2018 October 17, 2018
March 26, 2021 June 14, 2021 September, 2021 June, 2022 Hearings formally Delayed decision Plan change Environment close, with announced a month refused. Court commissioners late – resource challenge due to announce consent granted, starts their decision on despite commission May 12. chair Sheena Tepania pushing for refusal.
July 17, 2020 Hundreds of chanting protesters march through central Auckland in a hikoi organised by iwi and Fight the Tip.
Combatants prepare for Environment Court showdown
Opponents to the massive Auckland landfill, slated to be built on State Highway 1 just north of the Dome, have spent the past few months marshalling their evidence to challenge the resource consent granted by Auckland Council. When the case goes before the Environment Court later next month, Fight the Tip: Tiaki te Whenua will present four expert witnesses and 33 lay witnesses to support its case against the landfill. Fight The Tip’s opposition is based on what it sees as the detrimental impacts the project will have environmentally, culturally and socially on the landfill site, as well as the wider catchment and the Kaipara Harbour. Spokesperson Michelle Carmichael says amassing the evidence has been no small task. “Reading the witness statements, you really understand the reasons why this needs to be stopped,” she says. In particular, Carmichael thanked the group’s legal team – Andrew Braggins, Tamsin Gorman and the team from Berry Simons Environmental. “Their commitment and passion for protecting the environment is keenly obvious.” Carmichael estimates the court case will cost the volunteer group close to $200,000
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Sue Crockett (left) and Michelle Carmichael in front of a waterfall downstream from the landfill site. Photo, Colin Anderson.
in legal and expert witness costs. Currently, they have half that amount in the bank. “We received $24,500 from the Ministry for the Environment and we’ve had great support with donations. Environmentally passionate businesses and groups have also run events and sold products for us. It’s these kinds of efforts that are really helping. “We have submitted another application for further funding from the ministry, which we hope will be close to $20,000, so we need to raise a further $80,000 through
donations and fundraisers.” Fight the Tip is one of eight entities appealing the resource consent decision. The others are Te Runanga O Ngati Whatua, Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand, Director-General of Conservation, Manuhiri Kaitiaki Charitable Trust, Trustees of Nga Maunga Whakahii o Kaipara Development Trust, Ngati Whatua Orakei, and Environs Holdings. Waste Management NZ plans to build the landfill on 60 hectares of its 1000 hectare
Fight The Tip, a voluntary organisation, is keen to find an experienced fundraiser. The group needs help to run fundraising events, sell merchandise online, apply for funding and generate other fundraising ideas. If you can help, message the Fight the Tip facebook page or email Michelle at fightthetip.nz@gmail.com. Fundraising initiatives will need to bear in mind the group’s values of protecting the environment and waste minimisation. Donations can be made directly to the group at https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/ fightthetip or deposited to: Fight the Tip Tiaki Te Whenua Inc. 12 3094 0274048 00. The group says any surplus funds not needed for the cause will be donated to charities in the Rodney area.
site. It will replace the company’s Redvale operation, which is due to close in 2028. Consent was granted last year when hearing commissioners voted four to one in favour. However, a subsequent application by Waste Management for a plan change for a landfill precinct in the valley was declined late last year. The hearing is due to start on June 20 and is expected to take nine weeks. However, with sequential breaks, it is expected to run over five months.
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Tirohanga anō ki ngā terenga rawa ā-waka mō Te Taitokerau me Te Raki o Tāmaki Makaurau Northland and north Auckland speed reviews Have your say on safer speeds – 17 May to 14 June Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is reviewing speeds at schools and townships on state highways in Northland and north Auckland – to set safer speed limits for everyone. This includes collaborating with iwi/hapū on signage for marae.
Campaigners win first round The first of three resource consent applications by McCallum Brothers to mine sand off the coast from Pakiri/ Mangawhai has been rejected. The decision, released on May 6, was made by independent commissioners, on behalf of Auckland Council. A Council spokesperson says the remaining two applications will be considered independently of this month’s decision and a joint hearing is expected to start at the end of July. The two remaining applications are both for 35 years. One (inshore) is seeking to renew McCallum’s consent to extract to 76,000m3 of sand per year, while the second (mid-shore) is a new application to extract an annual average of up to 125,000m3 over any consecutive five year period, and a maximum rate of 150,000m3 over any 12 month period. Council said McCallum Brothers had indicated that should the mid-shore consent be granted, the inshore application would be withdrawn. In rejecting the first application, the commissioners felt that they did not have enough reliable information to fully understand the coastal processes. They felt there remained a lot of uncertainty about the coastal processes taking place, as well as the actual and potential effects of the sand extraction on those processes. “In addition, we have accepted the evidence of mana whenua and Mr Hopkins [a Council planner] that there are significant adverse effects on mana whenua values,” their decision said. The consent’s original applicant (Kaipara Limited) transferred all interests in the applications and its existing coastal permit to McCallum Brothers last October. Meanwhile, groups campaigning against the sand mining are celebrating the first round win.
Appeal confirmed McCallum Brothers has confirmed it will appeal the decision to the Environment Court. Chief operating officer Shayne Elstob says the company is disappointed in the decision on the offshore sand extraction application and the conclusions made by the independent commissioners. “We feel there was sufficient evidence provided to support a grant decision,” he said. Last year, Greenpeace supported the formation of Save Our Sands PakiriMangawhai, a collective of civil society groups, tangata whenua and concerned locals. Together, their mission is to stop the 100-year-old sand mining operation along the Pakiri-Mangawhai coast, home to rare species including the critically endangered fairy tern, of which less than 40 remain. Greenpeace Aotearoa seabed mining campaigner James Hita says this month’s decision is a win for people-power and another example of how community groups are successfully fighting seabed mining. “But protecting the environment shouldn’t be the sole responsibility of community groups,” he says. “The government needs to ban all forms of seabed mining to protect diverse ecosystems and stop the drain on ordinary people’s time and resources.” Hita says the sand extraction is causing erosion, threatening the sand dunes, destroying shellfish beds, ruining surf breaks and stealing safe nesting spots from endangered birds. A Save our Sands petition calling for an end to sand mining at Pakiri has more than 8000 signatures (https://community. greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/mangawhaipakiri-sos).
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Tough new rules applied to coastal activities The reclassification of entire harbours such as Mahurangi and Kaipara as wetlands will have profound impacts for permitted activities within these waterways in future. Any new coastal structure such as a boat ramp, jetty or oyster farm will need a consent under two sets of requirements. Small-scale earthworks such as river mouth clearing, that involve disturbing the foreshore and seabed, will require resource consent when they are currently permitted activities. Reclamation of any wetland in the Coastal Marine Area (CMA) is now prohibited unless it is for infrastructure. The current dredging programme in the Mahurangi River is authorised with an existing consent, but it would face a more restrictive consent regime under the new rules. Activities such as mangrove seedling removal, which was a permitted activity under the Auckland Unitary Plan, will be more tightly controlled and will require a resource consent, starting at $7000.
However, a Council spokesperson says that given Council has existing policies to support mangrove seedling removal, the process for obtaining consent may be streamlined with a corresponding reduction in consent fees. These consequences are being debated by regional councils up and down the country as they seek to interpret new National Environmental Standards for Freshwater (NES-F) laid down by central government. The bone of contention is in defining what constitutes a natural wetland in the coastal marine area. The Ministry for the Environment has undertaken consultation on proposed changes to the NES-F in relation to natural wetlands and these changes are expected to be gazetted around mid-year. In the interim, Auckland Council has defined coastal wetlands as anywhere in the sea with vegetation (mangroves, saltmarsh, rushes and herb field), mudflats and estuaries. This definition encompasses entire harbours, which are classed as estuaries.
As well as Mahurangi and Kaipara, other affected harbours and waterways in this area include Leigh, Whangateau, Pakiri River, Baddeleys Beach/Campbells Beach, and Sandspit. On Kawau Island, the new rules will affect Bon Accord Harbour, North Cove and South Cove. In general, the activities that will be affected are: • Vegetation clearance within, or within a 10 metre setback from, a natural wetland • Earthworks or land disturbance within, or within a 10 metre setback from, a natural wetland • The taking, use, damming, diversion, or discharge of water within, or within a 100 metre setback from, a natural wetland. Several councils have contacted the Minister for the Environment about the uncertainty over where the wetland regulations apply on the coast. The councils would prefer that the new NES-F only applied to freshwater wetlands and not to the coast. Activities in coastal wetlands are
already regulated under regional coastal plans (which is part of the Unitary Plan in Auckland). The confusion was highlighted when the Northland Regional Council sought a judgement from the Environment Court on whether the natural wetland provisions of the NES-F applied to the Coastal Marine Area. The court determined that they applied only to the area between the river mouth and the upstream limit of the CMA. However, this was overturned on appeal in the High Court, which determined that a natural wetland could be anywhere in the CMA and that the NES-F natural wetlands provisions applied to all natural wetlands in the CMA. A recent decision on a Covid Fast Track application for a reclamation and boat ramp in the Far North District was rejected, as the proposed reclamation was within a natural wetland and was found to be a prohibited activity.
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Link road opening delayed Auckland Transport (AT) has confirmed that the 1.35km Matakana link road won’t open until next year. AT says neither the road nor the intersection at State Highway 1 are likely to be finished before the end of this year. Additionally, opening the road before the new motorway opens could lead to new congestion and traffic problems north of Hudson Road. The link road is being built by Wharehine Construction, contracted to Auckland Transport, but the intersection is being built by NX2, on behalf of Waka Kotahi (NZ Transport Agency). AT chief executive Shane Ellison says the point where the four-lane Matakana link road and SH1 join is a complicated piece of infrastructure and engineering. He says that even if the intersection is finished before the new motorway opens, opening the link road would introduce a significant amount of new traffic and congestion at peak times to SH1, north of
Hudson Rd, which would still be under construction. The link road is funded with $30.5 million from AT and $31.7 million from Waka Kotahi. It involves constructing a fourlane bridge, three wetlands, walking and off-road cycling facilities, and urban design and landscaping elements. The project also requires a coordinated approach with utility companies and adjacent development contractors. Ellison says construction is progressing at pace and the roundabout on the eastern end of works at Matakana Road will be opened for through traffic later in the year, while works continue on the remainder of the site. Road pavement layers continue to be laid, cycleways and footpaths constructed, and services and barriers installed. “Together we look forward to opening an impressive array of new transport infrastructure that’s fit for purpose now, and for the future,” Ellison says.
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YouSay Transport planning lacking No surprises in the proposed traffic plan (MM May 9). In the Auckland Council’s anxiety to cram as many people as possible into Warkworth (who knows why), the focus is on getting as many vehicles onto the roads as possible, ignoring global warming and with absolutely no regard for the impacts on satellite settlements. No proposed link to the rail. Everything focused on the motorway. If I was a resident of Snells Beach, I would be furious with the awful treatment meted out by two consecutive councils. Absolutely no attempt to provide an alternative route off the peninsula (another Whangaparaoa?). Warkworth is happy to pour its sewage into Snells Beach and then to its beaches and to continue sub-standard maintenance on Sandspit Road, but not provide it with adequate access to the routes south. Instead, they offer a weird solution to drive north using time and fuel in order to get to a safe alternative route south. In the 1990s, we had a proposal on the table for a link road from the Snells town centre over a bridge to McKinney Road, which would have been a major part of a Warkworth ring road, giving easy access to Warkworth and south. This was quickly killed off by the following Council under pressure from Warkworth business, just as they removed the planned supermarket which had been approved as part of the Warehouse development. Then to Matakana and beyond – no provision for infrastructure in spite of happily encouraging growth. Anyone from here or Snells wanting to do business in Warkworth will still use Hill Street, as the alternative link road is once again focused on the motorway. No alternative routes for those having no choice but to go through Matakana.
Contributions to Your opinion and Off the record are welcome, to submit email: editor@localmatters.co.nz Maybe your planners should try getting through Matakana on a busy week. If AT hasn’t the courage to plan for the whole Warkworth outer areas, then this current plan is doomed to failure and will need significant change. You cannot make plans for the trunk of the tree without considering its branches. Elizabeth Foster, Whangateau
Extravagant Supercity spending
Auckland currently takes about 40 per cent of our rates to spend it on their ‘pink bikeways’ and underground trains. Hell, we still have 700km of gravel roads as a starting point! And now Auckland city plans to spend another $2 billion on bikeways. We will be lucky to get fresh water or maintain any of our roads. Gosh, how will Aucklanders get to Omaha and Matakana! Maury Purdy, Warkworth
I write in regards to your front page article (MM Apr 25) regarding the two new public toilets for Omaha and Wellsford, and the extravagant spending on these. The Wellsford – five toilets costing $1,134,200; and Omaha – seven toilets costing $1,242,500. Yes, I know there are associated costs in setting these up, but not that much! I know of a brand new four-bedroom with double garage house on Matakana Road verging on mansion status, costing about $1.2 million to build and another rural three-bedroom house that cost $800,000 to build. How could these two toilet blocks cost this much and where does Auckland Supercity get their costing from? Could it be these are made in London and shipped out here? No, apparently these are made in Gisborne and cost around $250,000 each, which is expensive for what they are. I know of local building contractors who would be more than happy to build these out of solid, durable materials that would last many more years than these prefabricated toilets and at a fraction of these Auckland Supercity prices. The sooner that Rodney can get out of Auckland city the better. We can then spend all our rates within the Rodney area under our control. Please don’t tell me it can’t be done; anything has to be better than the current money wasters!
Good cat management
There is a simple solution to the missing cats (MM May 9) – keep your cats indoors at night. This will protect your cat from road accidents and fights with other cats and dogs, which often result in infections and disease. More importantly, keeping cats indoors at night helps to protect our wildlife. Many of New Zealand’s endangered birds such as weka, kiwi, shorebirds and seabirds are accustomed to nest on the ground, making them easy prey for cats hunting at night. Auckland Council biosecurity and the SPCA recommend keeping cats inside at night and in other countries, including Australia, local laws are being enacted prohibiting cats from being allowed off the property, day or night. Denis O’Callahan, Omaha Shorebird Protection Trust.
Motorway disgrace The recent announcement by NZTA that the date for the completion of the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway has been delayed for another year is a disgrace and unacceptable. Heads should roll for this incompetence but, as there is no accountability, it will not happen. It has been obvious over the last seven years that there have been too few workers working on this project. For NZTA to state that the one-kilometre
A Warkworth resident received a special delivery from Waka Kotahi and thought something important was about to happen in her street. Imagine her surprise when she opened the $4.50 courier-delivered package to find that it was just general information about changes to the transport networks in Warkworth that had featured on Mahurangi Matters’ front page, May 9. “It was delivered a week after the paper and contained a letter in a regular envelope inside. There wasn’t any new information that wasn’t in the paper or available online. In fact, the letter actually made you scan a QR code to read about the changes online.” She decided it was just another example of a flagrant waste of taxpayers’ money. section near Puhoi, which was to be opened in October last year, has been delayed for seven months due to Covid beggars belief. How much are the Spanish contractors, Acciona, being fined for the delay? The contract states $24,000 per day. Like Transmission Gully in Wellington, the model of Public Private Partnership on this motorway has proved to be a disaster and should never be used again. In 2020, 8750,000 vehicles travelled through Warkworth and the bottleneck at Hill Street (for which Auckland Transport has not allocated any money for) and the numbers are climbing rapidly. It is time The Minister of Transport intervened to accelerate both of these projects. It is not the incompetence of NZTA that astounds me, but the extent of it. Bryan Jackson, Snells Beach
Hardly holistic One might be forgiven, when reading Mahurangi Matters’ front page on the Warkworth transport plan for thinking that Councillor Greg Sayers was an advocate for the plan as described in the article. He is quoted as saying, “it is vitally important that Auckland Council takes a holistic view on Warkworth’s future transport needs”. Yet Councillor Sayers was one of only three councillors who voted against Auckland Transport’s cycling plan (13 councillors voted in favour). Seems to me that is hardly a holistic approach? Maybe Councillor Sayers is looking over his shoulder at where his political support in Rodney lies instead of providing decent leadership to deal with the elephant in the room, climate change! Neil Anderson, Algies Bay
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Infrastructure emergency yet? According to Auckland Council’s Research Unit, by 2050 there will be another 7300 homes in Warkworth and the population is expected to rise from 5000 to around 25,000. Local planners believe this population boom will happen much sooner, with thousands of homes under resource consent application already. We only need to look at the earthworks about us to know this has started. All these new residents will require water, wastewater, electricity, broadband and transport. If our preferred transport option is road transport for private vehicles, that alone will require billions of dollars of new investment to cater for the average of two cars per additional household, travelling our local roads. As fast as we open up new road links and widen existing routes, they will be filled with additional traffic. And all those cars will be looking for a place to park – whether it’s to shop, work or visit beaches and sports parks. Planning for the required infrastructure and identifying how this will be funded is, therefore, well overdue. Supporting Growth is an alliance between Waka Kotahi, Auckland Transport, planners and civil engineers, whose purpose is to identify and route-protect the preferred future transport networks in Auckland. For the Warkworth area, this is the western connector, Sandspit link road, permanent park-n-ride facilities, and an outer western link to tie in with a southern motorway interchange. None of these projects are currently identified in the Regional Land Transport Plan (RLTP), the 10-year budget that prioritises Auckland Council’s
investment into transport infrastructure in agreement with central government via Waka Kotahi. The processes involved take years before the projects can make their way into that RLTP and have budget allocated to them. We are told that they are all 10, 20 and 30 years away. How can we find the necessary funding to advance this much needed infrastructure? Who should pay – the taxpayer, the ratepayer, the road user or the developer? How much of the budget should be contributed by central versus local government? There are solutions: Longer terms for infrastructure bonds, congestion charging, central government sharing the GST collected on activities related to new construction such as consent fees and building materials with councils, and how about all that extra GST being collected on increased fuel prices? Otherwise, there is simply not enough money to close the infrastructure deficit gap by taking only from ratepayers and taxpayers. Scratching around for “savings”, no matter how necessary, won’t cut it. The solutions will take a lot of work. They require a collaborative approach across politicians at every level and of every stripe. Endless confrontation, obstruction and finger pointing is only going to delay what is inevitably required and bring that potential infrastructure crisis ever closer. Meanwhile, consultation on Supporting Growth for Warkworth is open until June 7. Go to https://haveyoursaysupportinggrowth.nz/planningwarkworths-transport-future to view the plans and have your say.
Restoration work planned An eighteen-year-old faces a charge of wilful damage over the recent decapitation of the King George statue in Matakana. Police say the youth has no prior convictions and owned up to the theft. “After realising the stupidity of what he’d done, he attempted to return the head,” Sgt Mark Stallworthy said. He has been referred to the Te Pae Oranga Iwi Community Panel in Henderson to determine a suitable outcome, which could include community service without a conviction.
The youth claimed the head came off easily, raising questions over how well it had been reattached after the last time it was taken. Auckland Council has commissioned a stone conservator to repair the Matakana War Memorial and restore the head. The estimated cost of the work is around $15,000. Council manager public art Hayley Wolters says Council is unable to provide a specific date for completion as this has not yet been decided with the stone conservator. “However, we are aiming for within the next couple of months,” she says.
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After a lifetime in the education sector, retired principal Neville Johnson laments the decline in the profession’s mana. He believes this trend has resulted in fewer men choosing teaching as a career, with school environments the poorer for it. These days, Neville and his wife Margaret run a successful B&B business in Matakana, a place he has grown to love and where he expects to live out the rest of his days. But before he shuffles off this mortal coil, he sat down for a chat with Jannette Thompson …
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hen I went to training college there were 70 men and 300 women, so things were changing even back then. Teaching has become a high-risk job for men – they can’t afford to do anything that can be misinterpreted. It makes it pretty hard. For instance, if a child is hurt, your natural instinct is to pick them up and try to make them feel better. But male teachers don’t have that freedom. The downside is that a lot of boys are growing up without strong male role models. Even when I was teaching, the make-up of the school community was roughly one-third conventional two parent families, one-third blended families and one-third solo mums. The complexities of parenting in this modern era put a lot of pressure on both parents to work. I think that is where grandparents and the wider family can really make a difference. There needs to be strategies to provide support for children when Mum and Dad aren’t there. Maori in rural communities do this brilliantly with that whole wrap-around support. In our case, we found the church helped when our three daughters were teenagers. I have had a strong call to be part of the Presbyterian Church and am currently one of the team overseeing the development of
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a new church complex in Mansel Drive. Through the Mahu Vision Trust, I’ve been involved in the annual Mahurangi Pasifika Festival for the benefit of Kiribati, Tuvalu, Tongan and Samoan migrants. It is such a pleasure to see how appreciative migrant minorities are of any initiative that helps them retain and promote their cultures. My parents were both children of migrants – Mum’s family from Scotland settled in Timaru, while Dad’s family came from Lancashire. They met in Whangarei, where Mum was working as a housekeeper and, as was the custom of the day, Dad had to go to Timaru to ask her father’s permission to marry. They started life together as sharemilkers in Kawakawa where I was born, the fifth child of seven. Later, they bought a small dairy farm in Ngunguru where I attended primary school. We lived a subsistence lifestyle relying on the garden, the chooks and the animals we kept on the farm. Although it was a good life, I knew farming wasn’t for me the day a calf suckled on my pants and I had to go to school with them all wet and sticky. After finishing at Whangarei Boys, Mum suggested I join a bank or take a trade. Neither really appealed, but when I told her I could go to teachers training college and be paid, she said that
settled it! It was a two-year course, initially classrooms were added. Scott is a real ‘can do’ sort of person who seemed to be able based at Waikowhai Primary in Auckland. to find a solution for any obstacle that The college was very paternal with its came along. Perhaps the biggest project first-year students to the point where we tackled was the new assembly hall, it would even vet the suitability of our which again was driven by an enthusiastic accommodation. I ended up living above committee. It’s lovely to see it fulfilling an uncle’s music shop in Rutland Street its purpose as both a school and a where the trolley bus cables were attached community facility. to the building. This meant that the whole building would shake every time a Many of these projects were underwritten bus went by. by the infamous Matakana School Gala. These were a lot of work, but also a lot of I did a probationary year at Titoki District fun for parents and the children. However, High School, west of Whangarei, where I it had probably run its course by the time had a class of seven-year-olds – I can still the school moved to an internal auction. remember their names. It was a bit of a At one of our early sales, someone sink or swim arrangement, but it did help donated a genuine German helmet. us to sort out whether teaching was what When word got out, five collectors from we wanted to do. I then spent four years Auckland came to our auction night. The at Onerahi Primary before deciding to audience was transfixed as the bids kept further my own education with a Bachelor going up until finally the hammer came of Education in Palmerston North. down on $200, which was big money Margaret and I were married by this time, for one item in 1988! At its peak, it and we enjoyed living in a university took 180 adults town. The to make it all Vietnam War was I knew farming happen – we used nearing its end, to rope in friends, but it was a pretty wasn’t for me the day a family and even volatile time with calf suckled on my pants grandparents. strident opinions People would on both sides. I and I had to go to swarm in for was a bit on the Raewyn Whistler’s school with them all fence – I could see plant sale and it the ugly side of wet and sticky. got to the stage the war but I also where people didn’t want to see would camp outside the school so they communism moving any further south. could be first through the gates on The degree gave me the impetus to Saturday morning. The entertainment advance through the education system varied from country music to belly and my first sole charge was Parakao dancers. Miss New Zealand even made an School, north of Titoki. I was responsible appearance one year. for 13 students, aged from five to 12 Pet Day was another highlight on the years, as well as 22 ewes and an occasional school calendar. I remember when Brodie ram. There was a boy at that school and Glen Campbell brought their cattle who was of above average intelligence, dog along and it decided to cock its leg but no matter how hard I tried, I could on me while I was in the middle of some not teach him to read. I had to accept announcements. Some parents found that that sometimes I would fail. It was an very amusing! Another year, the fire siren important lesson. Onerahi was followed went off on Pet Day morning, scattering by a teaching exchange to Redcliffe in animals in all directions. One child’s cat Brisbane and then a move to Leigh, where went under a building and it took us six I was principal for four years. Leigh is weeks to get it out. I tried to retain those quite a diverse community – farmers, rural events for as long as possible. At its fishermen, tradesmen, retirees, and those height, we had 40 lambs in the show, but associated with the marae and the marine in the end this had dwindled to five. laboratory. It was a challenge at times pulling all these sectors together. The One of my passions is history. I’m swimming pool, which involved the very currently writing a family history and controversial closure of Totara Street, was I was honoured to write the foreword built during my time there. It was a bit of for David Grant’s book on Matakana, a battle, that required coordinating five We Gathered Here. I loved helping different government departments, but we orchestrate the return of St Andrews did it in the end. Church to the Matakana Country Park from Snells Beach in 2007. John Baker My next, and final, move was to did us all a huge favour by paying for it to Matakana where I spent 23 years before be both re-sited and restored. stepping down in 2009. In that time, the roll went from 120 to 412. The nice I’m finding that retirement is more about thing about education is how you get shifting gear than slowing down. I enjoy to know the communities the schools community involvement, whether it’s the serve. Projects come along and you find community group, the hall committee or yourself negotiating, fundraising and the choir. I was involved in building the working alongside parents, many of walkway from Jones Road to Matakana, whom grow to become friends. Tomorrow which was great fun because it was done without crippling compliance issues. A Schools, introduced in 1987, was a real very enjoyable part of that was helping game changer in terms of governance, to run the Fruit Loop, a fun run that management and administration. raised significant money for the pathway Matakana took up the challenge, with metal and the footbridge. I have two first Ralph Nevill (head of the school unfinished projects still running – one committee) and then Scott McCallum, is the establishment of a heritage trail the first chair of the Board of Trustees. around Matakana village and the other We bought adjoining land from Logan is the planting of a native tree border Campbell where the basketball courts are around Jubilee Park. Other than that, now and then started further negotiations you can sometimes find me on the golf for land at the back of the school. course these days, fishing in Kawau Bay or The swimming pool was built under maybe even building yet another shed. Scott’s watch, a new library and 12 new
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Road layout Young paramedic waiting in the wings A future as a rescue helicopter paramedic changes on may be in store for Snells Beach student Clayden. SH1 connection Emma-Jayne The 14-year-old Mahurangi College New traffic arrangements will come into effect from Monday, May 23 as part of construction of the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway. Northbound Hibiscus Coast Highway traffic will merge onto a small section of the new motorway, travel across the Arawhiti ki Ōkahu viaduct and exit at the new Pūhoi off-ramp onto Pūhoi Road. Then on Sunday, June 12, SH1 will be closed between Silverdale and Pūhoi, from 9pm to 5am, as NX2 forms the second stage of the new road layout. A detour will be in place from Silverdale via Hibiscus Coast Highway. From Monday, June 13, northbound and southbound SH1 traffic will join Hibiscus Coast Highway traffic on the new motorway alignment. Traffic heading north will exit from the Johnstone Hill tunnels and merge onto the viaduct. SH1 traffic heading south towards the tunnels will merge onto the new onramp, just after Pūhoi Road. Traffic will remain in one lane in each direction and motorists will not be able to drive on the Pūhoi viaduct (Arawhiti ki Pūhoi) until the rest of the 18.5 km motorway opens next year. NX2 advises that should any of the above work be delayed due to weather or unforeseen circumstances, it will be rescheduled to the next available night.
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Mahurangi College parents were advised to keep Year 12 students at home last Thursday and Year 13 students on Friday, following a spike in Covid-19 cases and staff isolations. Future rostering of year groups will be decided as required. Deputy principal Christina Merrick says the community has been supportive of their efforts to manage the spread.
student took part in a four-kilometre fundraising fun run in February, running along the Snells Beach walkway and raising $800 for the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust. Emma-Jayne’s run had a particular poignancy. Her mother, who passed away when Emma-Jayne was a toddler, was an ambulance paramedic. She has been raised by grandparents Carol and John Morgan and they have been supportive of her interest in the emergency services. Her older brother Josh was a volunteer at the Mahurangi East Volunteer Fire Brigade until recently, which saw Emma-Jayne become something of a station mascot, tagging along with him to the station since she was six years old. While Josh now works too far from the station to be involved, Emma-Jayne is still a regular visitor. But it is helicopters, not fire trucks, that
Emma-Jayne Clayden has been keen to show off her appreciation medallion, received from the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust.
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base at Ardmore for a day, after she made a helicopter rescue themed cake, complete with an icing helipad and helicopter.
Strategy plans new library for Mangawhai Kaipara District Council has unveiled a library strategy which proposes a larger Council-owned library in Mangawhai to replace the current library in Moir Street, run by volunteers. Council is in the process of securing land for the library with funding set aside in the Long Term Plan. However, it has also acknowledged that with escalating material costs, the budget will be insufficient. The Kaipara library strategy has identified that the district’s population (25,200 in 2020) is projected to grow to 32,552 by 2051. By then the number of people over 65 will double. The major growth will be at Mangawhai and people moving out of
Auckland will bring city expectations of what a library service can be. There are currently five libraries in Kaipara – Dargaville Library, the only library service run by paid staff; and community libraries at Paparoa, Kaiwaka, Maungaturoto and Mangawhai, all run by volunteers. As well as the new facilities in the two main centres, the adopted strategy also includes a new mobile library service to complement the physical libraries, an increased budget for library resources and additional staff, and installing publicly accessible internet and equipment for internet access across all the community libraries. Council chief executive Louise Miller says
what Council doesn’t want to do is build something that is answering issues of the past. “We need to answer the current issues, but also be forward thinking in terms of how libraries can actually build communities and bring people together, which is really key with the environment we find ourselves in currently.” Mayor Dr Jason Smith heralded the strategy, calling it “smart and clever” and “done the Kaipara way”. “Kaipara people have needed this strategy for a very, very long time,” he said. The library strategy was made possible with support from the New Zealand Library Partnership fund.
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Putting a rainwater tank on your property just got easier, and cheaper, after Auckland Council agreed to change its rules.
Council ‘gets out of the way’ of rainwater tank installation By Laura Kvigstad, Auckland Council reporter. Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air.
Auckland Council plan changes will make it easier for households to install rainwater tanks by removing the costly and timeconsuming consent process. The changes, approved by the Council’s Planning Committee on May 5, remove the need for most residential and rural property owners to seek a resource consent before they install rainwater tanks. Previously, a deposit of up to $4000 was required to lodge a resource consent application, although the fees have been waived in the majority of cases for the past two years. However, anyone wanting to make rainwater tanks their main household water supply will still need to apply for building consent because of the connection to internal plumbing. It is hoped that the changes will make it easier for Auckland households to become
more self-reliant in drought conditions. Planning Committee chair Chris Darby said it made sense for Council to be encouraging sustainable practices like rainwater capture. It was an end to a plan change process that “in some ways gets Council out of the way of people being able to install rain water tanks”, Darby said. “The combination of longer severe dry spells and increased periods of torrential rainfall that we are seeing as a result of our rapidly changing climate has impacts on the health of Auckland’s streams and harbours and the resilience of the household water supply,” he said. “Making it easier for Aucklanders to be resourceful with rainwater and provide for their own water needs is overdue.” The update to the rules is expected to occur this month and once finalised, Council staff will notify exactly when the changes take effect.
Board has say on 22/23 budget Auckland Council plans to put household rubbish collection onto the rates are not proving popular with Rodney residents. Half of the 438 people who submitted feedback on the proposal, which is included in Council’s proposed Annual Budget 2022/23, were against the idea and said they would prefer to keep the current pay-as-you-throw orange bag system. Rodney Local Board members reviewed and responded to local submissions on the budget at an extraordinary meeting last month, and noted that 50 per cent of submitters were against rates-funded refuse collections, while 38 per cent supported the idea. And although Council has flagged that Covid-19 impacts have put “significant pressure” on its financial position and budget plans, members also called for road sealing funding to be reinstated, together with adequate road maintenance budgets. They voted to ask that the $66.7 million allocated for additional seal extensions across Auckland in the 2018-2028 Regional Land Transport Plan be reinstated into the current Regional Land Transport Plan. Members also want to see that money incorporated into the
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Teacher illness causing disruption
Staff members’ illness has seen Snells Beach School reschedule its parent interviews. Originally planned for May 18 and 19, the interviews will now be held on June 1 and 2. Booking times will remain the same simply transferring to the new days, the school advises. The school declined to say if levels of illness were due to Covid-19.
Carpark upgrade
The Leigh Reserve at Goat Island Marine reserve is sporting a new look after the carpark was upgraded during March and April by the Department of Conservation. The original somewhat bumpy gravel carpark has given way to asphalt pavement with line marking and wheel stops at an expected cost of around $300,000. Subsoil drains were also built-in to ensure stormwater drained properly. The reserve, which sees 350,000 visitors annually, is of cultural significance to Ngati Manuhiri, who provided a technical report and cultural assessment for the project, along with cultural guidance to DOC staff and contractors.
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Committed and Essential Unsealed Road Improvements Programme Budget Priority line, and are asking for “sufficient funding for Auckland Transport to renew and maintain 12 per cent of Auckland’s roading network each year”. The Local Board also requested that continued funding from the Natural Environment Targeted Rate and the Water Quality Targeted Rate would be allocated to projects in Rodney, and wanted increased funding and resources for compliance and monitoring across the region. Members voted to support keeping the previously agreed general rates increase of 3.5 per cent for 2022/2023, and noted that while 56 per cent of submitters from Rodney supported Council’s proposal to introduce a new Climate Action Targeted Rate, with 38 per cent against, a poll last month found that 43 per cent of Rodney residents were not supportive of the proposed rate, with 31 per cent of respondents supporting the proposal. Members also wanted more information on proposed spending cuts to ease budget pressures and the chance to provide their views before they were implemented.
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EV batteries and hydrogen fuel cells All electric vehicles (EVs) and most plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) use lithium-ion batteries as their power source. Whereas a mobile phone will be powered by a single lithiumion battery, an EV or PHEV uses a battery pack of thousands of lithium-ion batteries working collectively. One initial piece of advice for new EV owners is to charge your lithium-ion battery slowly and only up to 80%. This will ensure a longer battery life by limiting the battery damage caused by heating. Rapid charging and associated heating gradually deactivates the lithium and also damages the graphite components. It is also advisable for safety reasons to use a professionally installed commercial charging socket that is compatible with the electronics and battery of your EV. Commercial recycling of the components of lithium-ion batteries is difficult, but recent commercial research and development has shown that used lithiumion batteries can be processed to release an additional 30% of energy from the dispersal of deactivated lithium films. The used reprocessed batteries are then able to be used in other applications. Also, the shortages of lithium and cobalt for batteries is likely to be offset, in the longer term, by the development of new mineral reserves and by the replacement of cobalt by other commonly available metals. In considering the important contribution EVs make to reducing climate warming, we need to ask a question: How sustainable is the power we are using to charge our EV batteries? In New Zealand, our grid energy is mainly (84%) from sustainable sources such as hydro, so when we charge our EV we are releasing relatively small quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
In contrast, in Australia only about 24% of the grid energy comes from renewable sources with the remainder from fossil fuels such as coal, and so charging the same EV in Australia will release more substantial quantities of greenhouse gases. The established international demand for hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles such as the Toyota Mirai demonstrates why green hydrogen will have an important role in transportation. Hydrogen fuel will have an advantage in electric transportation applications requiring higher power such as long-haul trucks, ocean-going ships and long-haul planes. Such fuel-cell transportation requires green hydrogen fuel generated not from the existing petrochemical (fossil-fuel) sources, but from solar or wind energy, which split water into hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis or catalytic photolysis. Siemens, Toshiba and other major companies are already developing such green hydrogen production technologies. Also, 13 countries so far (including Japan, USA, UK and Australia) have integrated green hydrogen into their economic planning. This also explains why the New Zealand government is planning to develop green hydrogen, not only for local use but also as an opportunity for export to countries in our region, which will struggle to meet their own domestic demand for green hydrogen. Several of the biggest green hydrogen project developers from Saudi Arabia, Australia, EU, China and Norway have recently come together to launch the Green Hydrogen Catapult Initiative in a bid to increase the production of green hydrogen 50-fold over the next six years.
Building Update: On Tuesday 3rd May, the final 310m2 of concrete topping was poured over the upstairs unispans thus completing the all concrete work on the inside of the building. A set of precast stairs have been installed, which give access to the first floor from within the office area. The ITSS Engineering team are planning to complete the roof structure / purlins and the roof plane bracing within a week, which will then allow the remaining insulated roof panels to be fitted over the chapel, function and office areas. The whole building will then be completely watertight ready for internal fitout this winter. The first lot of windows have been delivered, and these are now awaiting installation. ITTS Engineering is also currently constructing the main staircase which will give access to the first floor from the entrance foyer.
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Foodbank: The new Church and Community Centre will allow more space for food storage, a secure environment, and convenient access for anyone who needs food. Warkworth Christian Foodlink has been providing food parcels to those in need for more than 30 years. This is a cooperative venture of the local churches in the area (including Catholic, Methodist, Anglican, Vineyard, Ablaze and Baptist) and is managed by Mahu Vision Community Trust. The last two years, the food needs of our community have increased dramatically, going from an average of 10 parcels per week to approximately 25 parcels per week. “It would appear that these needs are not going away any time soon. We are constantly impressed by this community’s supportive nature, shown through donations directly to us, the Countdown donation food box, and people checking on their neighbours. Nobody needs to go hungry on our community’s watch,” says Foodbank worker Davina Monds. Check out our website for further information and videos of the building’s progress: https://mahu.org.nz/building-update/
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Free blood pressure checks Free blood pressure checks will be available in Whangarei on June 23 and Silverdale on June 28. The promotion is part of the Stroke Foundation’s annual road trip, using a van that is equipped to screen for high blood pressure and hypertension. Up to one-fifth of New Zealanders have high blood pressure, which is a leading contributor to stroke. Foundation chief executive Jo Lambert says some people can go years without knowing they’re suffering from high blood pressure because it often has no symptoms. “Every time we visit a community, as many as three per cent of the people we test are at high risk of stroke,” Lambert says. “That’s 300 people for every 10,000 people we screen that are in hypertensive crisis. A hypertensive crisis is when high blood pressure is so acute that someone is in critical danger of experiencing a stroke. “In addition, as many as one-third of people we test have higher than normal blood pressure readings and are unaware of any potential future risk.” As many as 2000 New Zealanders die from stroke every year (2018), and a stroke is experienced every hour in New Zealand. The foundation van will be outside Pak’nSave in Whangarei on Thursday, June 23, from 11am to 3pm, and then outside Pak’nSave in Silverdale on Tuesday, June 28, from 10am to 3pm. Anyone is welcome to visit the mobile units and get a free check.
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Asthma care needs boost Rodney College establishes health council The Paediatric Society is calling for urgent action to address
Rodney College’s newly-established Health Council ran a Health Week at the school last week, which included guest speakers and a Pink Shirt Day. The council is the initiative of school nurse Gwen Turner and Year 13 student Alyssa Edmonds. Edmonds says Health Week was a fun and educational week to encourage students to help whanau at the school with their hauora – mental, emotional, spiritual and physical health. Special guest was Shane Young, a mixed martial artist who currently competes in the featherweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is also an advocate for the I Am Hope foundation. There was a session on Maori medicine run by Matua Edward Ashby. An inter-house healthy meals cook-off, sponsored by Subway Wellsford and Charlies Gelato icecreams, had to be postponed due to the weather. Mental health and wellbeing was at the forefront of much of the programme and messaging.
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“The health council worked very hard to make Health Week a fun learning experience for all involved and to promote healthy living in and out of home,” Edmonds said. “We also hope to help build healthy and safe relationships between all of our rangitaha and kaitiaki. “We hope to have more fun and exciting events to help get everyone involved in the future.”
the ongoing significant gaps in asthma care in Aotearoa. Paediatric respiratory specialist Professor Philip Pattemore says research has repeatedly shown that Māori, Pacific peoples and those living in our most disadvantaged communities are more likely to have asthma, be hospitalised for asthma, and die from asthma. “Asthma is one of the most common causes of hospital admissions for children and these have increased in recent years, at a time when asthma prevalence appears to have decreased,” Pattemore says. “The challenge is to reduce these admissions using a community management approach.” Pattemore says asthma preventers are required for children with frequent attacks requiring prednisone or hospitalisation, as well as those with regular day-to-day asthma symptoms. “That is the first and most easily applied step.” Pattemore says additionally, parents need assistance to quit smoking, to obtain warm, dry housing, and reduce aggravating factors such as hay fever.
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Creating memories Being allowed to watch movies late, then all crash in the lounge together. • Having an adult read your favourite story three times in row. • Finding a good piece of rope and then heading to the beach or the park and making a swing in the highest branch you can. Then having an adult push you, until you feel like you are going to fly in a giant circle. • Lighting a smoky fire at the end of the garden and roasting potatoes in the embers until they are charred black, and the insides burn your fingers, and they taste delicious and disgusting at the same time. • Baking anything and everything. Scones, pikelets or, joy of joys, a cake. Then being told how delicious your lumpy creation is by a parent, as they grin and eat it with you. • Drawing on the path with chalk. Making shadows on a wall at night with a torch and by moving your hands and fingers just right – look it’s a wolf! • Bush walks, stopping and looking at the little things. Who can see the smallest insect? Can anyone find a smaller leaf than this? How many birds can you hear? All fabulous ideas to be done with an adult, who wants to get into the spirit of the activity or adventure, to be silly and not rush. Just bliss!
Are there particular special times you remember from your childhood, times with your family that fill you with warmth and love when you remember them? Reflecting on those times, and talking to others about what they really treasure from their own childhoods, I’ve made a list of some no-cost/low-cost memory ideas to have fun and connect with young ones: • Walking along the beach at low tide and wriggling our toes down into the cold sand in the shallow water to feel for the smooth-edged pipi shells, each pipi better than a gold nugget. Digging out moats and piling up sand into fanciful castles encrusted with shells and driftwood, then watching the tide slide in and nibble your creation away. In between the sandcastle work, burying siblings or an obliging parent so just their head pokes out. Walking slowly round the coastal rocks, looking for seaweed to wear on your head and crabs to sidle up to. Fishing for sprats off some unlikely wharf. • Standing outside with a parent on a cold night before bed and looking at the stars. Going out to see the moon each night at the same time, for a month, to witness its way through its magic shapeshifting routine. • Camping in the lounge under a hut made of chairs covered with a blanket and a sheet. Camping on the back lawn in a tent or, even better, under the stars.
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Members Joyce Newman (left) and Colleen Simpson were given the honour of cutting the centenary cake, with the one candle representing 100 years. At 96, Joyce is the oldest club member and regularly contributes crocheted items for the club’s North Shore Hospital collection.
Happy 100 for Women’s Institute Members of the Warkworth Women’s Institute celebrated a milestone in their organisation’s history with a special luncheon at the Catholic Church Hall in Alnwick Street on May 9. The celebration, which was deferred from last year due to Covid, marked the centenary of the NZ Federation of Women’s Institute. Warkworth president Moria Dye says the institute’s aims remain the same as they were back when the federation was founded – to provide women with friendship and fun, opportunities to help their communities, and teach and share skills. The Warkworth institute started 92 years ago. “Once there were 28 clubs between the North Shore and Wellsford, now
Warkworth is one of only four remaining.” Over the years, the group has donated to numerous community organisations such as the Westpac Helicopter, St John Ambulance and Sweet Louise. This year’s chosen charity is Orange Sky, which provides a mobile shower and washing facilities for the homeless. On a regular and ongoing basis, club members knit and crochet for the North Shore neonatal unit. Moira puts the declining membership of clubs down to the fact that stay-at-home mothers are now a rarity. The club meets in the Catholic Church Hall on the second Tuesday of the month, at 1.30pm. New members are always welcome.
Their cups runneth over The closing of many Women’s Institute branches across Auckland has left Warkworth with a dilemma – what to do with all the silverware! Warkworth has inherited trophies, cups and platters from many of these defunct clubs, most of which have been stored in large boxes in garages and under beds. Warkworth Museum has advised the club that it can’t help, particularly since many of the items
have no relevance to Warkworth. The trophies stem from the days when clubs ran competitive flower shows, craft days and drama competitions. Inscriptions on the items show that much of the silverware dates back to the 1940s. If a home can’t be found for the items, the club will take the silver to a silversmith in Silverdale to be melted down, with the proceeds going to charity.
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Community thanks emergency workers Warkworth Police get into the spirit of the night with National Party police spokesperson Mark Mitchell (centre).
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An inaugural dinner to thank Mahurangi’s emergency service personnel was held at the Warkworth Town Hall on May 11. About 180 people attended, including the Minister of Police, Poto Williams. There were fire service personnel from Warkworth, Snells Beach, Matakana, Leigh and Wellsford, as well as Police, St Johns, coastguard, and surf lifesaving representatives. Organiser Murray Chapman says he would like to see the dinner held every two years. “There was a lot of feedback that while these people don’t do what they do for the thanks, it was really special to feel so appreciated,” Chapman said. “It was an amazing event that showed the power of the community. Nearly everything was donated by companies such as Carlton Party Hire, who gave us thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment at no cost, and Aldo, who closed his restaurant for the night to run the kitchen. “There were also those people who put their hands up to serve our emergency services heroes, even if it meant standing out in the cold to do so.” Also doing their bit were a number of politicians including Labour List MP Marja Lubeck, Kaipara ki Mahurangi MP Chris Penk, National spokesperson for police, Mark Mitchell, and Rodney Local Board deputy chair Beth Houlbrooke.
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Five NCO’s from Warkworth gained their Queens Award in 1979. They were, from left, Stephen Schedewy, Peter Greenwood, Tom Wreaks, Hugh Harvey and Peter Hudson.
Boys Brigade legacy celebrated The former Warkworth Boys Brigade will reunite at a function at the Warkworth Methodist Church on Friday, June 10. Organisers are inviting all former chaplains, officers, members, honorary members, instructors and supporters to attend. The formal programme will include a laying-up of company colours ceremony, followed by an informal get-together and supper. Special guests will be Boys Brigade director Mike Brewer and honorary chaplain Rev. Simon Williams. Guests are encouraged to bring along memorabilia, photos and stories. Fifty years ago, the 1st Warkworth Company of the Boys Brigade, now in recess, was once one of the strongest and most adventurous youth groups in New Zealand. At that time, the group catered for around 200 boys, officers and instructors. Since then, there have been hundreds of members aged between eight and 17 years. The company was well known for its extensive outdoor activities, such as
canoeing on North Island rivers and lakes. Over the years, members participated in sailing, self-defence, tramping and camping, and did numerous cycle tours of Northland, Coromandel and the Waikato. The company even had its own bugle, drum and pipe marching band. Community service was a feature of the group, particularly care of the elderly. As an incentive, senior members participated in both the Queen’s Award and The Duke of Edinburgh Award programmes. Some were awarded the Gold Award. A reunion organiser, Dave Parker, says many of these young men developed great leadership and life skills, and went on to hold positions of responsibility within communities nationwide. The Warkworth Boys Brigade went into recess on 2001. The movement has now been revamped and is called ICONZ, with a strong unit in Snells Beach. The reunion will start at 7pm. Guests are asked to rsvp to either Dave at dh.parker@xtra.co.nz or Bernie McClean at berniemccl39@gmail.com
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If you think Lego is just for children, the show in Matakana will make you think again.
Lego spectacle for Matakana The design team in front of this year’s winning folly, from left, Nicholas Rowsby, Brandon Carter-Chan and Joseph Trace.
Good golly, it’s another Brick Bay folly! Three University of Auckland architectural students – Nicholas Rowsby, Brandon Carter-Chan and Joseph Trace – are this year’s winners of the annual Brick Bay Folly design competition. Their winning entry, The Nest, was announced at a ceremony on site on May 7. The students built their entry almost entirely of recycled wood, made by deconstructing a previous folly winner The Wood Pavilion. They were mentored through the process to develop their skills in design, building, project management and budgeting. The Nest is the seventh folly winner since the competition
started in 2016. This year’s judges were Pip Cheshire from Cheshire Architects, Philip Haycock from Naylor Love, Karmen Dumper from Resene, Yusef Patel from Unitec, Peter Boardman from Structure Design, Chris Barton from Architecture NZ, Richard and Anna Didsbury from Brick Bay, and Raymond Yoo from the 2020/21 winning Folly team. The Nest will stay on-site at Brick Bay for two years before being deconstructed. It is located just a short walk from the Glass House restaurant and is a part of the sculpture trail walk, which features more than 60 sculptures.
Building with Lego is a big deal for a lot of children, and for many, this becomes a lifelong passion. Locals will be treated to the results of this obsession on May 29 when some of Auckland’s top Lego masters display some of their models at Matakana School. Auckland Lego Club ambassador Mark Hackett says the club tries to do a school show each year. “It’s great for the kids and also for club members,” he says. “Some members have so many models they are kept in storage and the shows are often the only time they get to see them” Starship Children’s Hospital also comes away smiling as the club donates Lego to them from the funds they raise, with the school also receiving some of the proceeds. The club was also at Matakana school a couple of years ago, before Covid. Mark say club members come from all walks of life and many use Lego building for stress relief from a busy job. Doors will be open from 9am to 5pm. Entry $6, under three years old free.
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Maritime magic in miniature The Matakana Model Boat Show will set sail in the Matakana School Hall on Queen’s Birthday Weekend, June 4 and 5. Around 100 models are expected to be displayed, coming from modellers from around the district. Prizes will be awarded in some categories and there will also be demonstrations. While some boat models will be set up in the hall, others will thrash it out in an America’s Cup style racing event in the school pool. The models vary from something that would happily sit on a coffee table to others that are big enough to require a couple of people to move them. Scows, a square rig sailing ship, a schooner and fishing boats are just a few of the different styles of boats that will on display. Two maritime mates – Allan Harkin and Geoff Hoyle – are behind the show. Harkin may be a bus driver during the day, but his passion is model boat building. His home, just down the road from the school, is a maritime wonderland with brass fittings, and sailing and water motoring paraphernalia on every surface.
Models that he has built over the last 13 years are perched on tables and in crevices around his house. A model of a doubledecker wooden passenger ferry, which used to criss-cross the Waitemata Harbour, shares a room with a vehicle ferry and a sailing scow. His much-used workshop, tucked away under his house, is a modeller’s delight. The current model being worked on by Harkin and Hoyle is the historic Big Omaha wharf. The various wharves around the area, from Sandspit to the Pt Wells boat ramp area, have been built to accompany the boats on the water and will be set up around the pool for the show. Hoyle has a long association with full size boats, having owned many himself and worked on big name boats such as the Round the World racer Ceramco. As an electrician, he is more into the electric racing sail models and will be showing off his prowess on the water. Altogether the two friends have 40 models.
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Having studied in Barcelona, New Zealand pianist Lorelle McNaughton has an extensive Spanish repertoire which includes works by Albéniz, Granados and de Falla.
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Garden Festival A Mermaid in Paris is one of the 21 films that will be screened in Matakana as part of the French Film Festival. The movie is a fantasy romantic comedy directed by Mathias Malzieu.
French films return to Matakana Twenty-one top French films will be screened in Matakana from June 9 to 19 as part of the L’Or French Film Festival Aotearoa. The programme highlights include a gripping new historical drama Farewell, Mr. Haffmann, starring the legendary Daniel Auteuil; La Traviata – My Brothers and I, the touching story of a 14-year-old boy growing up in southern France who finds hope through music; and Everything Went Fine, starring Sophie Marceau, directed by François Ozon. Festival director Fergus Grady says this year’s event brings the crème de la crème of French film to cinema goers throughout Aotearoa. “The demand for high quality foreign film is most certainly growing and thriving among Kiwis, and it is a privilege to bring
a little bit of France to Aotearoa each year,” he says. “The festival was a huge success last year and the 2022 programme will fully immerse audiences in a culture that is known for its passion, style, sophistication and, of course, cuisine, through a selection of dramas, thrillers and comedies.” The festival starts in Auckland on June 1 and will screen in 15 cities and towns before concluding in Wanaka at the end of July.
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Pianist brings Spain to Warkworth Pianist Lorelle McNaughton will play for a Warkworth audience at the Town Hall on Saturday, May 28, the second concert in this year’s Warkworth Music series. She will present a colourful guided tour in a programme entitled Spanish Composers in Paris. It includes the Iberia suite, as well as well-loved works by Debussy and Ravel, and closes with the charming suite of Four Spanish Pieces by Manuel de Falla. McNaughton studied in New Zealand and Australia before her passion for Spanish music took her to Barcelona, where she was awarded the prize for best performance of Spanish Music at the International Barcelona Piano Academy. As a Spanish resident for several years, she has performed extensively throughout the world and was recently invited to play at the Oceania Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, playing Michael Parekowhai’s carved grand piano. Lorelle has been particularly commended for her inspired interpretation of the music of the great Spanish composers and has been invited to give presentations at some of the world’s leading music conservatoriums. After almost 10 years living abroad, she
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Explorer Kids
is a new kids program run twice a month at Warkworth Anglican Church during our Sunday family service from 10am to 11am. In Term 2 Explorer Kids will be running on Sundays 5 June, 19 June and 3 July. Whether you’re new to church or just haven’t been for a while, you’re very welcome to come for a visit and check us out. For more information contact Nina Teio on 021 679 512 or at children@warkworthanglican.nz
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It is Anzac Day 2022 and people stream across the Puhoi River bridge to our war memorial gates – only the second time we have been able to do so since 2020, and we are rejoicing in this freedom. It doesn’t seem so very long ago that early risers huddled in the morning gloom at their gates, straining to hear faint notes, as up the valley someone with a radio played the Last Post. Today, our friends and neighbours, almost 200 of them – uniformed firefighters, little scouts and their big brothers and sisters – wait till bugler Oliver Furneaux, standing straight and still, raises his instrument to his lips in this most precious of ceremonies Our war historian Richard Hern reads his two-part dissertation on New Zealand’s most decorated war hero and the sacrifice of the coast watchers, a little-known episode from New Zealand’s war history. We lay our wreaths and parade to our centennial hall for morning tea. A Red Cross report from WWI says: “On Thursday 12th, the SS Kotiti took to Auckland the second case of garments made by the Puhoi Red Cross Guild. The previous case contained 75 garments. This time the work of two months resulted in a case containing 140 garments comprising 26 suits pyjamas, 20 flannel shirts, 48 flannel singlets, 30 pairs flannel underpants and 16 balaclava caps. A number of ladies are preparing feathers for making pillows.
We hope to have a good case of pillows to send off in about a week’s time.” But for the Puhoi Bohemians it started long before: A correspondent reports in 1882: “On Monday last, we buried one of the oldest soldiers in this colony and, I dare say, one of the oldest in Europe. John Pittner, a native of Bohemia, was born in January 1795. He joined the Austrian Army in 1813, and was a year before the battle of Waterloo in the camp at Dijon France, after the first resignation of Napoleon. Pittner arrived in New Zealand in June, 1863, and has since then been living in this settlement. “The large attendance at his funeral showed the high respect in which he was held. Pittner during his long life never was attacked by any illness with the exception of a sore leg, which terminated fatally in gangrene. He leaves an aged widow, Elisabeth, and two married daughters, Mrs W. Sharpe and Mrs J. Christmann in New Zealand and two married sons in Bohemia. He retained his mental faculties up to the last, and passed away quietly in his sleep on Sunday morning.” On his headstone in the Puhoi Cemetery it says that our ancestor was a Waterloo veteran, but that might only be loosely true. Richard Hern believes it would be more correct to say he was in the penultimate campaign against Napoleon in 1814.
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Two local breweries have again made their mark on the New World Beer and Cider awards. Beers produced by Matakana brewing companies 8 Wired and Sawmill Brewery have been chosen among NZ’s top 30 in the annual awards. 8 Wired won with A Fistful of Raspberries and the iStout, while Sawmill collected its awards for its Pale Ale and IPA beers.
Pet of the Month Zoe Zoe has had some rotten luck of late with her health. She came into her new owners life only recently, and as well as being a little ray of sunshine, she has caused her owner considerable concern. Zoe has had a series of setbacks including a recent diagnosis of Cushings disease and a troublesome cruciate ligament injury which has needed several operations to sort out. Like many pets, Zoe shares some attributes in for Zoe is her understudy in common with her owner. Both Standing Tane. Zoe is a little overwhelmed with are overwhelmingly positive and the publicity and would like to maintain her anonymity. good humoured even in the face of significant adversity. We wish Zoe all the best for the hurdles she still needs to cross in the near future and we extend our warmest regards to her delightful owner. Vets: Roger Dunn BVSc, Jon Makin BVSc, Danny Cash BVSc, Justine Miller BVSc, Chelsea Gill BVSc, Sam Eaton BVSc, Jackie Nicholls BVSc, Neil Warnock BVM&S
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Resilience training on rural agenda Two successful programmes training farmers, growers and other rural people to manage pressure and adapt to change have received renewed funding from the Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI). The Agri-Women’s Development Trust will receive $339,000 to expand its ‘Know Your Mindset. Do What Matters’ and ‘Our Resilient Farming Business’ programmes. Piloted across 2020 and 2021, the programmes have already supported more than 300 rural women and men to better manage stress, prioritise wellbeing and cultivate financial resilience in the face of change. “Disruptions and supply chain issues
caused by the Covid-19 pandemic are one of the many challenges facing farmers, growers and whenua Māori owners,” MPI’s acting director of rural communities and farming support, Andrew Spelman, says. “This training has helped boost people’s ability and confidence to cope, along with strengthening the resilience of their businesses to get through hard times.” The two programmes are designed specifically for people living and working in rural communities. The funding boost will enable them to be run again over the next year, starting next month. “The self-awareness and action plans people developed on the programmes
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improved their wellbeing and connection to others, supported business decisions and communication, and drove positive changes in their lives and businesses,” AgriWomen general manager Lisa Sims says. “MPI’s support will enable our team to work directly with more than 700 people, and our experience has shown that the ripple effect of the new skills and confidence they gain extends far more widely into rural families, businesses and communities.” The next round of ‘Know Your Mindset. Do What Matters’ programmes start on June 7 and 9. Attendees will learn how to manage multiple pressures calmly and clearly,
prioritise the wellbeing of themselves, families, farms and communities, and build realistic action plans - big or small. The two-part online training features a mix of practical psychology lessons, personal stories and facilitated breakout spaces. Past programme participants reported a range of practical changes in their lives. These included more honest farm succession conversations, better family relationships, and more time for personal wellbeing or improvements to team culture. Ninety-six per cent of participants expected to use the tools and training learned during the programme in their personal life, family, business or community. The programmes offer people in rural communities the opportunity to develop new skills and confidence.
Know your Mindset. Do what matters This is a short, practical training programme designed specifically for farming and growing families, teams, advisors and others across rural communities – it’s a chance to press pause, cut through the noise, and focus on what matters most. The two-part Programme #1 (online)
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Our Resilient Farming Business This programme supports farming and growing New Zealanders to cultivate the financial and personal resilience needed to thrive in the face of accelerating change. Working to eight outcomes – including embracing a change mindset, measuring financial resilience and building a network
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Digging deep into oyster mythology Below the gentle massaging waters of the Mahurangi estuary sits the silent seduction of the humble oyster. Gifts of joyous wonderment lovingly nurtured along in their beds by marine ecologist and owner of Mahurangi Oysters, Mr James Aitken. In the warmth of a still autumn afternoon, I set about to find if the man truly maketh the myth. I met James at Scotts Landing where his oyster barge is kept and kindly borrowed some waders. The waders, built to keep its occupants dry, were the heaviest attire I had ever adorned my body with, and so I awkwardly waddled like a tin man down the ramp and onto the barge. Against the backdrop of the afternoon sun and anchored sail boats, the compulsion was building for me to blurt out the question I had on my lips since my coming of age. So, is it true? Are oysters really an aphrodisiac? James sat silent for a second and then with a cheeky smile on his face, politely replied, “Oh, that. Well, they are whatever you want to believe they are.” Perfect! So, with the friskiness level of oyster farmers having been ascertained and the world’s passionate beliefs still intact, we headed out to the baby oyster beds. The stormy weather of the preceding days had ruffled the beds of the little sleeping babies. James jumped in the water and gently rearranged some of the containers that housed the tiny oysters. They sparkled in the sun, like the diamonds atop of a thousand ‘Will you marry me’s?’. Back on the barge we headed east along the estuary to the growing beds, and it was here that I was about to be reminded that behind the success of every idyllic love story comes the hard graft. James needed to feed out some new longlines so he could attach his “tumblers” (industry speak for a capsule that contains the baby oysters or spat that
allows them to grow in). I was super-keen to participate in any ordinary working routine that formed part of the welling emotions and taste sensations created from oysters. With waders on, I slipped off the barge and into the muddy waters. Shin deep in mud and waist high in water, I was amazed at the amount of pressure on my body. James handed me a black line and asked me to walk around the outside perimeter of the tumbler bed back to him. At first this seemed an easy ask, however, that was before I took my first
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step and realised, I was practically glued in the mud with the weight of the waders and downward pressure. I had to try and heave one leg in front of the other in slow motion like Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. It was the heartiest 45 metres I had ever walked, the whole time freaking that I would fall headfirst into the water and not be able to get up. Patiently waiting at the starting point, James directed me back onto the barge for the next part of the process. The ladder-less flat barge was sitting about shoulder height and, unfortunately, there is no pretty way to describe the scene of hauling myself out the water and onto it, except to say if James had mused about
an awkwardly obese seal trying to clamber onto a rock I wouldn’t have held it against him. Next, very specific instructions ensued, we were to thread (four) metrelong tubes onto the wire then (one) short spacer tube and repeat. A simple enough instruction it seems, unless of course you’re an easily distracted ditz with basic arithmetic flaws. I hung my head in shame when, after threading the whole longline, James discovered I had threaded (three) instead of (four) near the start. We had to unthread them all and start again. I slid back in the water with James and as the sun got lower and the air got cooler we chatted and laughed as we repeated the process.
That day I discovered that those sweet oysters that glide down the back of our throats with their loving connotations are only outshone by the hard working and resilient men and women like James who farm them. A gift created by them from being immersed in the water through driving rain in the pits of winter cold, and the soaking beaded sweat inside their waders during months of glaring summer. So, I find it is true, these men and women do maketh the myth. They are busy creating a million little love poems for us all. And as for James? Well, I saved a line from him and I read it to you, “The stingrays are like my puppy dogs.” Now don’t that just melt your heart!
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The fruit and vegetable garden • Lift strawberry runners and trim away from the parent plant – these can be planted in fresh Garden Mix to produce delicious strawberries in the summer season. Spread sheep pellets around the new plants. • Rocket and parsley easy food staples to grow now – they don’t mind cooler temperatures, and both add flavour and nutrition to winter cooking. • Stake or build supports around broad bean crops as they grow, because single plants can reach 1.5 – 1.7m high. • Frost coming to the garden? Make shelters for young citrus, tamarillo plants and passionfruit vines. Frost cloth from the local garden centre is also a cheap and easy option, as is newspaper if you’re caught short one evening.
Scott McRae and dog Cory win gold at the TUX South Island Championship competition.
One bark above the best Tomarata beef farmer Scott McRae and his dog Cory have taken out first place in a top sheepdog trialling competition, held in Alexandra in northern Otago. Scott put Cory through his paces in front of the judges during the week-long TUX South Island Championship competition. Their first run points of 96 and second run tally of 91.50 gave them a total of 187.50 bagging top place in the Short Head and Yard Class 2 event. They are now into the national finals, which will be held in Taumarunui on May 30.
Scott is president of the Molesworth Sheep Dog Trial Club at Kaiwaka and has been competing for more than 30 years. There were around 250 dogs in the competition, and while he has placed many times in various competitions over the years, this is the first time Scott has managed to take out the top prize at this level. While he runs mostly beef animals on his 200 hectare farm at Te Arai, Scott also keeps a small flock of 10 sheep to train his dogs.
• Lift and trim the roots of mint plants, replanting with compost. Mint roots tend to take over garden beds and limit the growth of other plants and herbs. Mint can be planted in an open-ended pot buried in the soil, away from other desirables.
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• Camellias are a wonderful winter shrub, producing flowers with shades from white and soft pink though to deep rose and red. Sasanqua varieties make excellent hedges are the type that flower now, earlier than other varieties.
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This isn’t just about changing a young person’s life and making our communities safer ... Gary Diprose
Jacob Reid, pictured with Bianca Kirkwood and their nine-month-old daughter Dakota, were at the supporters’ breakfast. Reid attended the Port Albert classes run by Gary Diprose, which became the genesis for Springboard. Today, he runs his own company J2 Construction, one of the companies thanked for its support of Springboard’s move to Sheepworld. “It’s cool to see how far Springboard has come,” he said.
Porter Jack and Nina Goodall, of Kaipara Flats, making friends with the donkeys.
Springboard says thank you Youth support programme Springboard has been on a whirlwind ride since moving its headquarters from Snells Beach to Sheepworld, on State Highway 1, last October. But the group pressed pause on Saturday May 14 to organise a breakfast to say ‘thank you’ to the people who had helped the group make the transition. Founder Gary Diprose said the level of
support received from local businesses and the community was humbling. “We’re still running wild here, but we’re winning thanks to your contribution,” he told the group. “You went above and beyond because you believed in what we’re doing, which has been a huge boost to us.” Diprose reflected on the journey Springboard has been on over the past 20 years. “It started with 10 kids at Port Albert
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Diprose said however, Springboard continued to rely heavily on donations and support from the Mahurangi community. Government funding met around 43 per cent of its budget, with the community funding the remaining 57 per cent. After breakfast, the attendees were invited to take a guided tour of the facility before the doors were opened to the public for a free Open Day.
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Nature’s in trouble Many of Aotearoa New Zealand’s indigenous plants and wildlife are found nowhere else on Earth. They are ancient and unique – we have giant invertebrates, flightless birds, penguins that live in the forest, and trees that can live for over a thousand years. Many of these creatures and plants have been isolated to the islands and waters of NZ since the days of the dinosaurs. Healthy nature is central to human health, wellbeing and our economy. Here in NZ our natural environments, and the plants and wildlife they support, are part of our Kiwi identity. Nature provides us with green spaces and recreation for wellbeing, supports our primary and tourism industries, and allows us to grow food and beverages for local consumption while being central to New Zealand’s exports and economic strength. When nature is thriving, people are thriving. This has long been recognised in Māori culture, where nature and people are interwoven through whakapapa. People are kaitiaki (guardians) of nature, and nature is kaitiaki of people. But nature in NZ is in trouble and it desperately needs our help. Despite all that we are doing to try to protect and restore habitats and assist species, NZ’s indigenous biodiversity is in crisis, with around 4000 species being threatened or at risk of extinction. Many plants and wildlife continue to decline or are just hanging on. This is not just a crisis for our country but
for global biodiversity – any indigenous species that we lose is gone forever. We need to act urgently to ensure that nature is healthy and thriving for its own sake and for current and future generations. Taking action to protect and restore our biodiversity now will also create nature- based jobs and support our nation’s economic recovery. This is why I have joined The Forest Bridge Trust (TFBT) as its new chief executive officer, an inspirational organisation that was established in 2014 to help protect and enhance our native forest and indigenous wildlife across the Rodney region, from the Kaipara Harbour in the west to Tawharanui, Omaha and Pakiri in the east. Since then, we have completed almost 50km of fencing protecting 209 hectares of native bush and wetlands, and (with the help of local trappers) protected over 11,000 hectares from mustelids (ferrets, weasels and stoats), possums and feral cats. In addition, we have supported kiwi aversion training for farm dogs as well as pet dogs. In working with local trappers and similar predator free organisations, we have helped to develop safe habitats for our kiwi and other native wildlife to breed and thrive. Although localised to Rodney, we are a key player within NZ’s biodiversity strategy. To find out more about TFBT please refer to our website www.theforestbridgetrust.org.nz, otherwise please feel free to contact me directly.
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It takes around 1500 soft plastic bags to make one standard fence post.
From bread bag to fence post Kiwis can get a courier pick-up of their discarded soft plastics thanks to the efforts of NZ Post, The Packaging Forum and Future Post. The soft plastics are sent to Waiuku-based business Future Post who recycle it into fence posts. Future Post managing director Jerome Wenzlick says the process of turning soft plastics into fence posts is like “cooking”. With processing machinery specifically designed and made in New Zealand, the soft plastic packaging is granulated into small chips and put through an extruder before being moulded into fence posts. It takes about 1500 bags to make one
standard post and the factory can turn out around 800 posts a day. Soft Plastic Recycling Scheme manager Lyn Mayes says the partnership is a way to open the soft plastic recycling scheme to communities that do not have access to a soft plastic recycling bin or who are unable to get to their local soft plastics drop off point. Using a pre-paid soft plastic recycling courier bag that costs $7, householders fill it with clean soft plastics and book a courier for pick-up. The pre-paid courier bags are available from some NZ Post stores (not Warkworth at the moment) and selected New World supermarkets, The Warehouse and The Warehouse Stationery stores, as well as online.
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The very best way to avoid dealing with soft plastics is to try to stop the flow of it into your household. Turn off the tap! Shopping at the increasing number of refill stores, where you can take your own bags and jars, makes this easier. There are also subscription schemes for items such as toilet paper. For instance, you can have a carton of Greencane toilet paper delivered to your door every 18 weeks in a cardboard box with zero plastic involved. The amazing Rubbish Trip (http://therubbishtrip.co.nz/) has a long list of places where you can buy packaging-free. It’s a bit overwhelming to think of everything at once, better to just pick one item to source soft plastic free and when that is a habit, pick another. The Packaging Forum is an organisation representing the NZ packaging industry and in 2015 they trialled a soft plastic recycling scheme, which enabled New Zealanders to recycle soft plastic wrappers and bags. It is funded by members (an example of product stewardship) with support from the venues that provide recycling facilities such supermarkets. Up until 2015, soft plastics were shipped overseas to facilities such as Replas in Australia, who converted the plastic into long-lasting items such as indoor and
outdoor furniture, decking and bollards. It turned out that Kiwis were enthusiastic about keeping their soft plastics out of landfill and soon the amount of plastic being collected was far more than we had the ability send offshore. Also, the advent of Covid in early 2020 reduced peoples’ ability to recycle and disrupted the whole process. However, people are amazing problem solvers and onshore solutions continue to grow. We currently have companies that can turn your soft plastics into fence posts, buckets and water slides, to name but a few. To help close the circle, it’s important that we all support these companies and buy their products. Checkout the websites of Future Post and Second Life Plastics for more information. Mahurangi Wastebusters has introduced free drop-off of soft plastics at our recycling centres in Wellsford and Snells Beach, and at our weekly Rusty Station garage sale in Wellsford. Check out our website for opening hours. Mostly the message is simple: If it’s soft plastic and you can scrunch it up in a ball, you can put it in the bins. But it’s very important that bags are clean, dry and empty, to avoid contaminating a whole batch. More and more brands are adding a soft plastics recycle at store label on their packaging to make it easier to recycle correctly.
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Forestry branches into high-tech A ‘smart spade’ which identifies exactly where to plant a tree seedling is just one of the new technologies being developed in a seven-year Precision Silviculture development project worth $25.5 million. Forest Owners Association president Grant Dodson says the joint government-funded project, to bring mechanisation and robots to the production of tree seedlings and the tending of plantations, covers a wide range of technologies. “It’s not a single Eureka discovery which is going to make all this work,” Dodson says. “It’s combining, for instance, a planter with a sensor and linking it to electronic mapping. The map sends a beep signal to the planter that they need to go a couple of metres up or along the slope to put the seedling in. The end result is a much more optimally spaced plantation forest, which makes for better growth and easier and safer harvesting.” Dodson says that the growth in mechanical harvesting over the past decade shows
that using machinery results in greater productivity and a safer workplace. “In harvesting, we are now onto our next phase, developing robot operations, particularly for sorting and grading logs. There is great opportunity to apply these technologies to the nursery and forest growing operations.” National research manager Paul Adams says the development of mechanised thinning and pruning will not only make these operations safer, more efficient and more precise, but also enable them to integrate into mechanical extraction of now increasingly valuable forest biomass. “At present, the usual way of assessing the growth and quality of a forest is through someone going in and measuring a few samples,” Adams says. “Using technology to measure the development of each and every tree and batch of seedlings would be a quantum leap in management and, ultimately, will mean more precise breeding selection as well.”
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Hare steals jump on wallaby A large hare is thought to have been behind a ‘wallaby’ sighting in Babylon Coast Road, near Dargaville, earlier this month. Northland Regional Council biosecurity staff undertook surveillance in the immediate vicinity, but found no trace of any wallabies, wallaby scat or chewing signs. “A hare’s head is a similar size and skin colour to a wallaby, and when a large hare sits motionless it’s understandable how mistaken identity can occur,” a spokesperson said. There are no known wallaby populations in Northland. However, they are found on Kawau Island, in the Rotorua Lakes area and in North Otago and South Canterbury. Wallabies are unwanted because they eat native and exotic seedlings and pasture, making them potentially costly to the farming and forestry sectors and posing a risk to native bush, as they can limit the regeneration of some species. The Ministry of Primary Industries estimates that in 2016, the total population of wallabies in NZ was in the “hundreds of thousands, if not millions”. In 2020, a $27 million national programme was established to address the wallaby problem.
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Glorious fuss-free flowers Some of the easiest and most rewarding plants in my garden are the Cymbidium orchids. I give them very little attention and in return they provide a long-lasting and spectacular show of exotic blooms from mid-autumn through to the end of winter. Cymbidiums develop from a false bulb, called a pseudobulb. Vegetative shoots (leads) arise from the base of this pseudobulb, as do flower spikes. After several years, the leaves break off and the bulb becomes a backbulb, which continues to provide nutrients to the new growth until it withers and dies. As Cymbidiums are usually found in nature growing as semi-terrestrials or even an epiphyte (a tree-dwelling plant) their specially adapted and long-lived roots are covered in a thick layer of absorptive tissue called velamen, which helps absorb water and nutrients from the surrounding environment. In the garden, Cymbidiums are largely pest and disease free, with the
main issue being slugs and snails that chew the flower stems and new flower buds as they emerge. Regular application of slug pellets starting early April is usually enough to fix this issue. In warm temperate regions such as ours, Cymbidiums will do just fine in the open garden, if they have a little shade during the hottest part of the day and protection from frost in winter. An overhanging tree, palm or punga is ideal and a lightgreen leaf colour indicates the plant is getting sufficient light intensity for good flowering. Cymbidiums prefer regular watering during spring and summer when they produce their vegetative growth, but if water is in short supply, they will survive better than most other garden plants. Feeding with diluted liquid fertiliser, sheep pellets or slow-release fertilisers from spring to mid-summer is beneficial, but again, if you forget the plants will just hang in there! Cymbidium do need very free draining and slightly acidic potting mix with large air spaces for healthy roots. Mixes containing coarse coir fibre or bark chips are typically used for potted plants. I place my potted
orchids in the background of the garden from spring, then bring them forward in late summer to keep an eye on the tender flower spikes and to highlight their blooms. Commercial growers use strings to keep the stems straight, but I prefer the arching look. Planting the Cymbidium in the crook of a tree or on an old punga is another really good way of showing off these plants, to take advantage both of their epiphytic nature and the lovely show of blooms cascading downwards. Cymbidiums can also be permanently planted on the soil, using a mound of bark mulch and other fibrous material to hold the roots out of the soil itself. Potted Cymbidiums are usually divided and repotted into new mix every two to three years during summer. Miniature hybrids often do well for five or six years before needing division. Plants are removed from their pots and split into a few decent clumps using a sharp knife or hand saw. Backbulbs are usually left on the division to add strength to the new growth. And that is about all you need to do to enjoy these glorious flowers every year.
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The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee is asking for feedback on a discussion paper on a proposed Code of Welfare for Dairy Cattle. The main proposed changes concern the use of electricity to manage animal behaviour, body condition score, intensive winter grazing, shelter, provision of lying surfaces and limit for time on hard surfaces in off-paddock facilities, calf rearing and end-of-life management. Other areas that are highlighted for consultation include emerging technologies, working relationship with a veterinarian, selection and breeding, painful husbandry procedures, contingency planning, and welfare assurance systems. Submissions on the discussion paper close on June 9. Info: www.mpi.govt.nz/proposed-code-of-welfare-for-dairy-cattle
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At The Forest Bridge Trust (TFBT) our vision is to create a connected landscape with healthy forest and flourishing indigenous wildlife from the Kaipara Harbour to the Pacific Coast. Our work is rapidly expanding, and we are now looking for two new team members for the following new roles, both are part time at 32 hours per week, working from home (you will be required to attend fortnightly meetings in Warkworth). Salaries cited are based on 32 hours per week.
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Person Specification for both roles: • Self-motivating, and proactive. • Living within or close to our area of work in North Rodney (attendance at team meetings in Warkworth required fortnightly) • An excellent communicator at all levels • A team player, connecting and supporting team members. • Supporting of our values of Respect, Integrity and Empathy. If you have the skills, experience for either of these roles, share our values and have an interest in our conservation work we would love to hear from you. Please contact Samantha Moore at samantha@positivepeople.co.nz
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Tournament finishes Leigh season
Mangawhai versus Kaipara Coast
The Leigh Bowling Club completed the season with the Cameron/Penney Tournament held last month. Work has now started on maintenance of the green. Recently, the club champions in singles, pairs, triples and fours competed in the Northland Bowls Champion of Champions Tournaments, where they played against the club champions from other Northland clubs. “Unfortunately, all the Leigh players were knocked out when they lost their first game,” club secretary Ian Bradnam said. “Better luck next year!” Leigh had a visit from the Kitty Hawk Club for a fundraising tournament, which raised $1200 for Warkworth St John. “We recently met with Sport North Harbour and they will help us fund a weekly junior introduction to bowls programme, starting next season.” The sessions are planned to run every Friday from 4pm to 5pm, for students from local schools and colleges. The next event on the club calendar is the annual general meeting to be held at the club on Sunday, June 12, starting at 1pm.
All welcome. Any enquiries, contact Ian on 021 423144. Summary of 2021-2022 results:-
First Year Singles – winner Steve Wallace, runner-up Tim Nickell; Junior Singles – winner Scott Wilson, runner-up Lindsay Duncan; Championship Singles – winner Matthieu Lennan, runner-up Steve Wallace; Handicap Singles – winner George Brooks, runner-up Matthieu Lennan. Championship Pairs – winners, (skip) Dave Johnson & Scott Wilson; runners-up, (skip) Steve Cameron & Ian Bradnam. Drawn Pairs – winners, (skip) Matthieu Lennan & Arthur Gundy; runners-up, (skip) Kerry Hyde & Steve Wallace. Championship Triples – winners, (skip) Logan Campbell, Geoff Cavanough & Steve Wallace; runners-up (skip) Matthieu Lennan, Lindsay Duncan & Peter Manuell. Championship Fours – winners, (skip) Lance Michell, Arthur Gundy, Ian Bradnam & George Brooks; runners-up (skip) Steve Cameron, Dick Wilson, Don Richfield & Willie Sellars. Lead + Twos – winner Steve Wallace, runner-up Steve Mantle.
Warkworth versus Matakana
Strong support for junior netball Junior grading days have been run at the Rodney Netball Centre in Centennial Park, Wellsford this month, with the main competition due to start this Saturday, May 28. A total of 56 junior teams, ranging from years one to eight, are playing in the Saturday morning competition, seven more than last year. The centre is playing both senior and junior competitions on sub-standard court surfaces, but organisers say they are “doing the best with what we’ve got”. They would appreciate hearing from any business or individual interested in sponsoring the centre. Funds would help with the purchase of portable goal posts, gates and a general tidy up of the grounds. Info: www.facebook.com/netballrodneycentre/
Maintenance of the Leigh bowling green has started with core and groove work. Machines are used to remove cores of soil from the green before pesticide is placed in the core holes to remove any pests that might damage the green. The soil is then sieved to a fine powder and spread back on the green.
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10KG fishing The Warkworth Gamefish Club’s annual 10KG competition will be held from 6am, Saturday June 4 to 4pm, Sunday, June 5 (Queen’s Birthday weekend). Catches must be made on a 10kg or less rated line. There is a $1000 grand prize and a bunch of spot prizes. Tickets are $75 for an adult or $30 for a junior and can be purchased from Hunting and Fishing Warkworth, Matakana Marine, Mahurangi Marine, Tackle & Outdoor or bank deposit. See the Warkworth Gamefish Club website for more details. New date for Coach Emerge A community coaching workshop will be held at Mahurangi Rugby Club on Monday, May 30 for anyone from any sport and recreational group that could benefit from learning some tips and tricks. Even experienced coaches could benefit from a refresher. In this workshop you will learn about ways to coach effectively, how to create a quality environment and experience some practical coaching concepts. The workshop will run from 6-9pm. To register visit https://forms.office.com/r/MEaTbH4Q5z or contact Shaun at coach@harboursport.co.nz Recliner Rockers are back The Recliner Rockers will be back for a rocking good time at the Puhoi Sports Club on Saturday, August 6. Tickets are $25 and include a light supper. Previous ticket sales from the cancelled show last year will be valid for this event. Tickets can be purchased from Puhoi Sports Club after 5pm on Thursday and Fridays or send a message to the Puhoi Sports Club Facebook page. RugbySmart workshops New Zealand Rugby is hosting RugbySmart workshops to provide coaches, players over the age of 13, and referees with practical skills and knowledge to keep everyone safe on and off the field. This season you are able to complete the practical component of the workshop online via Zoom from the safety of your own home. The next workshop will be held on Sunday, May 29 from 7-8pm. For more info and to register visit https://www.nzrugby.co.nz/news-and-events/events/2022-rugbysmart-online-workshops/ Kaipara Flats Disco A 70s and 80s discoRodney will be held at the Kaipara Flats Hall on Saturday, July 30 to raise funds for the ToTalspan Kaipara Flats Sports Club extension. 229 sTaTe HigHway 1 Tickets are $30pp or $50 for two. This event is R18. For tickets contact Mikey on 021 425 549 or visit the Kaipara Flats Sports Club Facebook page waRkwoRTH for more info.
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Term two has kicked off with much more of a ‘back to normal’ feel which staff and students are enjoying. Students have participated in all manner of activities: cross country champs, house relays, living classroom and enviro experiences. Construction Academy students have been pouring concrete pads, and we even had some of our STEAM students providing all of the delicious food for teachers at the recent parent teacher interviews. No doubt we’ll get a spike in Covid cases at some stage, but for the time being it’s great to be mostly back to normal. Congratulations to Ruahei Demant (Te Whanau a Apanui, Te Whakatōhea, Ngāti Awa) who has been named captain of the Black Ferns rugby team. Ruahei was Head Girl in 2013, and debuted for the Black Ferns in 2018. Since then she has gone on to play 15 tests at first and second five-eighths. We wish Ruahei all the best for the upcoming World Cup! Basketball player numbers have surged, with 14 teams entered in North Harbour competitions (up from 7 teams last year). It’s also great to see the number of pickup games happening around the school at break times, with students enjoying the new hoops. Pleasingly this uptick has not been at the expense of other sports, with player increases also for traditional sports like rugby and netball. Many students have added a second (or in some cases third) sport to their schedules, which is commendable. The resurfaced rugby field is bedding in well, and should be available to teams at the start of next term, and hopefully the pool should be back in action soon, once the minor repairs are completed.
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Last week we took a number of Māori & Pacific students to Waikato University, a new partnership to encourage our rangatahi to consider tertiary futures. The students were treated like royalty, receiving a fully escorted campus tour, a unique lecture and a tour of the halls of residence. Waikato University has a focus on arranging internships for every student, and has recently introduced a world’s first undergraduate degree in Climate Change. Literacy is a real academic focus for staff at the moment. NZ’s declining literacy rates are well known and obviously it’s an area that needs to be addressed nationwide. From 2024 a new literacy requirement is added to NCEA, providing further timely impetus for a renewed focus on all aspects of literacy. Staff spent the recent teacher only day engaging with the latest research around disciplinary literacy including vocabulary building and reading fluency, and look forward to incorporating these learnings into our daily practice. Reading is really the master skill of schooling.
ANZAC DAY SERVICES Once again our Prefects proudly represented our school at the Anzac Day services. This year we had the honour of forming the Catafalque Guard, with our students, positioned at the four corners of the Anzac Memorial watching over the memories of our fallen soldiers. Head girl, Amelia Burton, spoke at the 10:30 Service where she remembered her great-grandfathers’ contributions but she also emphasised the importance of this generation not forgetting the
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This year, our cross country course was set around a 1.5km lap inside the perimeter of school grounds. Congratulations to all our competitors. All winners can be viewed on our Sport Facebook page.
sacrifices that were made. “My family members who served our country have long passed, and with them went the opportunity to sit and hear them tell their story. My generation is the first break in the chain of hearing their stories directly. I was too young to understand when they were with us, so now I am charged with learning and sharing their stories. We must remember. We must continue to pause and give thanks for all we have, for we have nothing without their service and sacrifice. We owe this privileged life, rich with freedom and choices, to them….” In his absence, Mr Tennant presented Head Boy, James Webb’s speech where James spoke about war being a nine letter word - sacrifice. “While staring death in the eye, ANZAC soldiers went to war, essentially giving their life with nothing but the love of their country as their protector. It is this legacy which we honour and remember. Not the horror, not the bloodshed but instead the sacrifice. A nine letter word which captures the very essence of the soldiers actions in Gallipoli 1915.”
The wreath was then placed by Rachel McGuire and Finn Stevenson who also spoke at the RSA at the conclusion of the service. Poppy Stenbeck, Deja Pareta, George Williams-Mart and Zac Cooper forming the Catafalque Guard. Our final act of remembrance was to hold ANZAC Assemblies on our return to school. A brief history was given, speeches were presented and after the haunting Last Post and then Reveille were played by ex-student Moana Winiana, the Prefects stepped forward and slowly walked down the aisle holding white crosses to remember the 90 young men from the Warkworth District who gave of their lives in World War I and II. ‘For those who leave to never return; for those who return but are never the same; we remember.’ Tony Giles - PRINCIPAL Catherine Johnston (Anzac Day Services) - HEAD OF YEAR 13
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Senior tennis champions dethroned The 37th annual Lower North Senior Tennis Tournament was held in Warkworth on May 14. Eighteen pairs competed in the first division played at the Warkworth courts, while 16 pairs competed in the second and third divisions played at the Mahurangi East Tennis Club. Players came from throughout Auckland, as well as Tauranga, Whangarei and Kerikeri. In the top divisions both last year’s men’s and women’s winners were dethroned. Northland’s Raewyn Heywood and Maryanne RogersBenton, who have won the title multiple times, lost a thrilling semi-final (11-10) to the eventual winners, the South Auckland pairing of Jane Ioaba and Hana Ruzichova. In the men’s top division, Auckland duo Grant Waller and Peter Stokes lost their title to a classy Auckland combination of Andrew Craven and Michael Cozier, in a match which featured many fiery volley rallies. Locals Keiko Pogoni and Kat Kayll were the runners-up in a closely fought final, pushing the winners all the way and Jono Boundy and Warren Burton were the A Section Plate winners in a strong men’s field. Local players featured on the prize lists much more in the second and third divisions.
Alex Schwab and Oliver Jordan won Section Two, and Greg Rees and Shaun Kingi were second. Judging by the noise generated at the evening prize-giving, the most popular result of the day was the second placing achieved by Siobhan Jordan and Jodie Hanna, in the women’s second division. An impressive prize pool was offered thanks to major sponsor Pascoes, as well as Warkworth businesses including Warkworth New World, Brendon Hart Pharmacy and Fire and Living. Warkworth results: Women’s doubles A – runners up: Kat Kayll & Keiko Pogoni; plate winners, Rachael Iverson & Annabel Armstrong. Men’s A: Plate winners – Jono Boundy & Warren Burton B women’s runners up – Siobhan & Jodie Hanna; champ consolation – Mel Fergusson & Coral Hammer; plate winners – Maayke Reidsma & Katie Searle; consolation plate – Edith Short & Laurie Farr. B men’s winners – Alex Schwab & Oliver Jordan; runners up – Greg Rees & Shaun Kingi. C men’s runners up – Eric Thompson & Jason Magerkorth; plate – Jacques Oliver & Jonny St George.
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Warkworth football on positive roll coach Jacob Paul says are proving to be a real asset to the team in their first year of playing men’s football. Paul says he would like to see more youth players on the field in the men’s competition for Warkworth Football Club. “Historically, youth players in their late teens and early 20s leave Warkworth and start playing for youth clubs on the North Shore,” he says. “The hope is that talented youth players in the area will more frequently choose to play regular men’s football for Warkworth and help push the club into higher divisions, rather than playing in under 17 to under 23 teams for clubs on the shore,” Paul says. The next home game for the team will be played against North Shore United on Saturday, May 28 at 2pm.
After Covid-19 disrupted both the 2020 and 2021 seasons, the Warkworth Football Club men’s team hopes that this year will see a return to uninterrupted play. Covid cut short last year’s season with around five games left to play, robbing Warkworth of the chance to win its division. It ended up finishing third in Division Six of the Northern Regional Football competition. However, the team hasn’t let this deter it. It started training in January and had a strong start, winning four of its six preseason games. It is playing two divisions higher than last year, has brand new home and away kits, and started the official season on a high with a 4-1 win at home over Hibiscus Coast. The team has seen a rise in player numbers this year and has a healthy squad of 19 men. The team consists of a mix of experienced players and four under 18 players, who
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7:23am 7:13am 5:15pm 5:41pm
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12:19am 12:04pm 12:43pm
Aug Jun 10 2
2:12am 2:58am 8:35am 9:20am 2:29pm 3:13pm 8:53pm 9:40pm
7:24am 7:11am 5:14pm 5:43pm
Best Best At At
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0.9 0.9 3.0 3.0 0.6 0.8 3.2 3.1
Thu Tue
12:29am 1:08am 12:55pm 1:33pm
Aug Jun 11 3
2:56am 0.8 3:38am 1.0 9:18am 3.1 10:00am 3.0 3:11pm 0.6 3:51pm 0.8 9:36pm 3.3 10:18pm 3.1
7:24am 7:10am 5:14pm 5:44pm
Best Best At At
GG
Wed Fri
1:59am 1:20am 2:24pm 1:44pm
Aug Jun 12 4
3:40am 0.7 4:20am 1.0 10:02am 3.2 10:40am 2.9 3:54pm 0.5 4:30pm 0.8 10:21pm 3.3 10:58pm 3.1
7:25am 7:09am 5:13pm 5:44pm
Best Best At At
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Thu Sat
2:49am 2:09am 3:14pm 2:32pm
Aug Jun 13 5
4:26am 0.6 5:03am 1.0 10:47am 3.2 11:21am 2.9 4:40pm 0.5 5:11pm 0.9 11:07pm 3.3 11:40pm 3.0
7:26am 7:08am 5:13pm 5:45pm
Best Best At At
FG
Sun Fri
3:39am 2:56am 4:04pm 3:20pm
Aug Jun 14 6
5:12am 0.6 5:48am 1.1 11:34am 3.2 12:03pm 2.8 5:29pm 0.5 5:56pm 0.9 3.3 11:56pm 3.0
7:26am 7:07am 5:13pm 5:46pm
Best Best At At
FG
Mon Sat
4:28am 3:43am 4:51pm 4:07pm
Aug Jun 15 7
6:01am 0.6 12:26am 1.1 3.2 12:24pm 6:35am 2.8 6:22pm 0.6 12:49pm 1.0 3.3 6:45pm
7:27am 7:05am 5:13pm 5:47pm
Best Best At At
BG
Tue Sun
5:14am 4:31am 5:37pm 4:56pm
Aug Jun 16 8
0.6 12:47am 1:14am 2.9 6:53am 3.1 7:24am 1.1 1:20pm 0.7 1:39pm 2.8 7:21pm 1.0 7:39pm
7:27am 7:04am 5:12pm 5:48pm
Best Best At At
BG
Wed Mon
5:59am 5:21am 6:21pm 5:47pm
6:43am 6:14am 7:05pm 6:41pm
3.1 2.9 0.7 1.0 3.0 2.8 0.8 1.1
Jun Aug 10 18
2:41am 2:56am 8:53am 9:09am 3:28pm 3:32pm 9:30pm 9:36pm
7:28am 7:02am 5:12pm 5:49pm
Best Best At At
BG
Wed Fri
Aug Jun 17 9
1:42am 2:04am 7:50am 8:15am 2:22pm 2:34pm 8:25pm 8:38pm
7:28am 7:03am 5:12pm 5:48pm
Best Best At At
BG
3.2 2.9 0.6 1.1 3.1 2.8 0.8 1.1
Thu Tue
7:27am 7:10am 7:49pm 7:39pm
Jun Aug 11 19
3:45am 3.0 3:50am 3.0 9:58am 0.7 10:04am 0.9 4:33pm 3.0 4:32pm 2.9 10:33pm 0.9 10:33pm 1.0
7:29am 7:01am 5:12pm 5:50pm
Best Best At At
BG
Thu Sat
8:12am 8:09am 8:35pm 8:40pm
Sun Fri
Jun Aug 12 20
4:50am 3.0 4:45am 3.0 11:02am 0.7 10:59am 0.8 5:34pm 3.1 5:30pm 3.0 11:32pm 0.8 11:27pm 0.9
7:29am 6:59am 5:12pm 5:51pm
Best Best At At
FG
8:59am 9:11am 9:24pm 9:42pm
3.0 3.1 0.7 0.7 3.2 3.1 0.7 0.8
7:30am 6:58am 5:12pm 5:52pm
Best Best At At
GG
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May Aug29 6
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7:21am 7:15am 5:15pm 5:40pm
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May Aug28 5
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May 25
Sandspit Residents and Ratepayers Association AGM, Sandspit Yacht Club Clubhouse, 7.30pm. All Sandspit residents welcome. Membership applications and payments available at the door. Info: srra.committee@gmail.com or Greg on 021 825 391
26
Pink Ribbon Morning Tea, Warkworth Library, 10am-noon (see ad p14)
28
Warkworth Music presents Lorelle McNaughton in concert, Warkworth Town Hall, 4pm (see story p27)
28
Salmon & Caviar Celebration, Rothko Sculptureum (see ad p27)
29
Lego Show, Matakana School, 9am - 5pm. $6 under 3s free. Mask use required. (see story p25)
30
Bingo, Warkworth Bowling Club, 6.30pm for 7pm start. Fundraiser for Warkworth Museum
June 1
Warkworth Liaison Group meeting, Warkworth RSA downstairs meeting room, 7pm. All welcome.
2-5
Hospice Art Exhibition & Sale, Estuary Arts Centre Orewa. Info: https://harbourhospice.org.nz/ Matakana Model Boat Show, Matakana School Hall, 10am - 4pm. Gold coin donation. (see story p26)
5
TOSSI Community Tree Planting, Tawharanui Regional Park, meet at the Woolshed, 9am-12pm. Complimentary lunch after the mahi. Info: www.tossi.org.nz
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21-Jun 6 Morris & James sale
4&5
SUPER SAUSAGE SIZZLE On the last Saturday of every month, we’re raising much needed funds for local charities and organisations—perhaps groups that would not normally get the exposure within the local community.
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Saturday 25th June 10am - 2pm
next to Warkworth Butchery.
6
Royal Garden Party celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, Bridgehouse Garden, 2pm-5pm. Fundraiser for Heritage Mahurangi. Info: Dave on 0274 849 935 or Maxine on 027 214 2817. Registration essential.
8
Men’s Rebus Coffee Meet Up, Summerset Village Devine Cafe, 11am. Come and join us. Info: Ron on 422 3111.
9-19
French Film Festival Aotearoa, Matakana Cinemas (see story p27)
10
Warkworth Boys Brigade Reunion, Warkworth Methodist Church, 7pm (see story p 23)
11
Pink Ribbon Fundraiser, Point Wells Club, 5pm. Bring a gold coin donation. Prizes for best dressed & best decorated table. BYO nibbles. To book a table contact Justine on 021 400 034.
11
Grey Power meeting, Totara Park community hall, 11am. Members encouraged to attend as lack of attendance could result in the closure of the Warkworth branch.
12
Warkworth District Museum annual general meeting, 1pm. All welcome
12
Leigh Bowling Club AGM, 1pm
14
Warkworth Women’s Institute Meeting, Catholic Church Hall, 6 Alnwick Street Warkworth, 1.30pm. Meet on the second Tuesday of every month. We are a friendly group and welcome new members. Info: Moira 425 0089
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Wellsford Premiers
Wellsford Reserves
Wellsford rugby goes head-to-head with Kamo There were mixed results for Wellsford Rugby when it took on Kamo at Centennial Park on May 14. First on the field were the reserves, who faced down Kamo to win 15-5. Although Kamo came out of the gate looking strong and were the first to put points on the scoreboard, Wellsford held its defence and scored two tries in the second half, converting one and also scoring a penalty goal. The win was the third in row for the reserves. Coach Stuart Oldfield said the team dug deep and used the ball wisely. “We’ve had a fairly consistent team over the last few weeks which is paying off, especially when it comes to building combinations,” Oldfield said. In almost a reversal of play, the Wellsford Premier side lost to Kamo 15-6. In the season so far, the team has had a draw and three close losses. “We defended well but just kicked the ball away a bit too much and gave away a few too many passes. If we’re doing the basics well, it makes it much easier. “Our losses haven’t been huge, but we just can’t seem to get over that last hurdle.”
Brenda May Warkworth resident
Wellsford rugby clubhouse extended
Spectators were quick to take advantage of the new deck at the Wellsford Rugby Club after it was officially opened on May 14. The timber structure replaced a set of stairs, providing the club with an outdoor area with greater functionality. The deck cost around $45,000 but this was significantly reduced with in-kind support and sponsorship. Special thanks were extended to ITM Warkworth, RD Construction, and Rhys Bright and Sean Sweetman.
Sincere thanks to everyone at Rodney Surgical for making my visit relaxed and stress-free. Booked in for a small medical procedure, I was immediately put at ease by the friendly welcome and professionalism of the staff. To have access to some of the best specialists in Auckland, and short waiting times, makes Rodney Surgical one of the area’s greatest facilities. My advice is to ask your GP if you can have it done locally. Or ring Rodney Surgical direct.
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