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Hill Street back on planning merry-go-round Brace yourselves, motorists of Mahurangi – the redesign of the Hill Street intersection is back on the drawing board. After decades of debate, designs, redesigns, delays and even a delegation to Wellington, transport advocates believed a plan was finally in place to deliver the much-needed improvements when the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway opened. However, Roger Williams and Dave Stott told a Warkworth Area Liaison Group

meeting on July 6 that Auckland Transport had come up with a new ‘value engineering’ design to cut costs. They said that if it were to go ahead, the new option would not solve any of Hill Street’s long-standing congestion and safety issues, and would be a “total waste of time and money”. “Roads around the two intersections will be reduced to one lane (rather than two), slip lanes have been removed, Kowhai Park will

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exit onto the roundabout instead of onto the existing State Highway 1, and there is no provision anymore for a cycleway/ pedestrian path on Sandspit Road,” they said. “For all the disruption that it will entail, it won’t be worth doing at all. There will be a lot of pain for no gain.” Stott went on to say that if AT could not be persuaded, then it would be time for all community groups in the area to put

pressure on AT’s chief executive and board of directors. Williams and Stott said they learned of the value engineering design during an online meeting with AT representatives earlier this month. They say the option continues to underestimate traffic volumes through the intersection after the link road and continued on page 2

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Hill Street back on planning merry-go-round motorway open. The liaison group meeting was told that AT is using figures of 2.14 people per household when the actual figure is 2.74. This represents a 28 per cent error, which would affect traffic volume estimates hugely, they said. “It also does not take into account the impact of housing intensification.” While all parties agree that the intersection needs to be fixed, it is the ‘when, how and how much to spend’ that remain the sticking points. AT says it has started the next stage of the project – to undertake the preimplementation phase, which includes detailed design, seeking the required consents and property requirements, and preparing construction tender documentation. It did not respond to questions about the value engineering design, why it was being pursued and how it differed from the business case design. “The detailed design will be completed

toward the end of this year,” a spokesperson said. “Work to date has centred on reviewing Waka Kotahi’s Single Stage Business Case recommended option design to address

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Growth is forecast to almost double the total number of daily traffic movements through the intersection by 2046. Under this scenario, traffic volumes will increase from 45,000 in 2016, to 49,000 in 2026, to 71,000 in 2036 and to 81,000 in 2046.

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key issues around impacts to Kowhai Park, updating the traffic modelling, and to ensure the project can be delivered within the funding allocation of $18.8 million in the Regional Land Transport Plan given

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the rising costs of construction, the need to minimise the impact to Kowhai Park and the need to enhance provisions for safe walking and cycling facilities. “AT is in the early stages of engaging with key stakeholders and gathering additional traffic modelling material before making an updated design option public. Final costings are not yet available.” Stott said he and Williams hoped to review the working plans for the business case design, and to get a private contractor to put a figure on what they thought it would cost. This had been done on the Matakana link road design, which was initially deemed too expensive to build. “We were able to show that the preferred design could be constructed a lot cheaper than the estimate and this enabled the best option to be chosen and used. Perhaps a similar thing can be achieved with the business case design for Hill Street.” A further meeting with AT is being planned. See We Say page 8.

Cyclists advised to take extra care on steep hill Cyclists on the Matakana to Omaha cycleway are being urged to take more care on e-bikes. This follows reports that four people in the last six months have been taken to hospital after falling on the stretch of pathway between Takatu and Tongue Farm Roads. The path includes a steep hill and a wooden boardwalk which gets slippery when wet. After the last injury in June, which saw a woman in her 60s stretchered off the pathway with head, hip and elbow injuries, Auckland Transport water-blasted the wooden surfaces and has laid mesh on the boardwalk until the boards dry out and a non-slip surface can be applied. Matakana Volunteer Fire Brigade deputy chief Jeremy Gibbons said at least two of the cyclists were riding new e-bikes and may have been unfamiliar with how they brake on steep hills. “People may be used to riding e-bikes on the flats at Omaha but not know how to brake properly with them on steep hills. Signs warning riders to be careful could be useful,” he says. Adding to the problem for first responders is the pathway is too narrow for most vehicles. The Matakana fire brigade had to resort to using a local farmer’s four-wheel drive mule to get to injured cyclists. Bollards at each end of the pathway have also added to the problem, with confusion over who holds the keys so they can be removed in an emergency. Right, several cyclists have been hurt after falling on slippery wooden boardwalks on the popular Matakana cycleway.

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Some Matakana and Point Wells homeowners are facing unexpected and retrospective costs after a Watercare audit.

Homeowners hit by wastewater charges

Watercare is chasing what could amount to millions of dollars in lost revenue from homeowners in the Matakana and Point Wells area, who it claims have unauthorised wastewater connections. The issue arose when Warkworth accountant Darren Knight asked, on local social media sites, whether anyone else had received a letter from Watercare demanding payment for services backdated to 2016. Knight had bought two properties during that time. One of the letters sought to recover costs for services up until September 2020 amounting to $2767, plus an infrastructure growth charge of $8303, and administration costs of around $315 – in total, just over $11,300. He says numerous people from Matakana and Point Wells subdivisions have received similar letters. These include owners in Matakana Green, Tamahunga Drive including Laly Haddon Place, and the Hurt subdivision in Point Wells. It seems Watercare started investigating connections when a homeowner contacted them asking why they were not getting a wastewater charge. That enquiry prompted an audit of the Matakana and Point Wells area, primarily involving recent subdivisions. Watercare head of commercial customers Jane Eggleton says the audit found 50 properties in Matakana had unauthorised connections and so far, two in Point Wells with the audit still underway. Eggleton doesn’t discount an audit in the Snells Beach area as well, but says there are no plans to audit Warkworth, as issues of non-compliance usually involve just a wastewater connection, and Warkworth homes have mains water as well as wastewater, Eggleton says. She says the original homeowners did not apply to Watercare to connect to the network and had not paid connection costs or service charges since connections were made. While Watercare can hook up a property, connecting can also legally be done by registered drainlayers. But the system can be open to misunderstandings and abuse by others.

On the question of who should have paid for the connections, opinions differ. The large number of properties at Matakana may indicate misinformation to developers, or to property owners from their plumbers or builders, Eggleton says. She says the building plan should clearly state what the owner is paying the builder for, and what the owners are responsible for, with building contracts differing between companies. Matakana Green developer Leo Nelis says the purchasers of the sections were responsible for the connection on his development. McMahon Builders director Wayde McMahon says the homes his company built in Laly Haddon Place had to have the fee paid before the owners could move in. He is sceptical about the high number of owners being contacted by Watercare and advises them to check with the builder and drainlayer first to see if the fee has already been paid. Knight says the land developer of his property, which he has since sold, was still the legal owner at the time of the connection. Logo Small

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Rodney Local Board deputy chair Beth Houlbrooke contacted Watercare on his behalf, which then dropped the connection fee, she says. Knight wonders how many other people in those subdivisions are in a similar situation. “Retired people who may have built their last home on these sites may not be in a financial position to pay such a large and unexpected bill,” he says. Watercare chief customer officer Amanda Singleton says they are working with property owners on payment plans. “For all our customers though, it’s only fair that we identify and remedy illegal connections,” she says. They are working to reduce the likelihood of further unauthorised connections occurring in the future. “This work includes educating residential property developers about their legal obligations,” Singleton says. She says Council now requests a Certificate of Connection from Watercare at the time they are reviewing an application for a code of compliance. Some property owners raised concerns about caveats being put on properties if they challenged the fee, interfering with their ability to sell. When this concern was put to Watercare, it responded that, to date, it hadn’t been necessary, and they were working with customers to reach agreements without having to pursue these options. Houlbrooke says this is the second time she has intervened in Watercare charges in the past few years. A couple of other property owners were charged for connections their developer had already paid, she says. “It doesn’t instill a lot of confidence in Watercare or Council letting these properties fall through the cracks,” she says. Leo Nelis agrees. “When Watercare goes after the money after five years, they should maybe look at the way they do business.”

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A man was accidentally shot in the stomach with a speargun at Ti Point on Sunday, July 3. A Leigh Volunteer Fire Brigade spokesman who attended the incident says the man and a friend were diving at the popular dive spot. The incident happened out of the water, when the man was accidentally shot by his companion. The protruding bolt was cut by the first responders but not removed, and the man was flown by the Westpac Rescue Helicopter to Auckland City Hospital in a serious condition. It isn’t known where the men were from, but the brigade spokesperson said they were not local.

Environment in budget

Rodney Local Board has approved spending $219,000 on its annual infrastructure and environmental services work programme, most of which goes to ongoing positions or projects. The programme includes $70,000 each for a Restore Rodney East facilitator and a Rodney West coordinator, to support and assist with region-wide community pest management initiatives; $20,000 for the Rodney Healthy Harbours Riparian Restoration Fund; and $14,000 for the Shorebirds Trust coordinator programme, which provides protection for birds including fairy terns between Te Arai and Pakiri North.

Rodeo goes to court

The future of the Warkworth Rodeo could hang on the results of a case heard in the Wellington High Court on July 11 and 12. The New Zealand Animal Law Association and SAFE brought the case against the Agriculture Minister and the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee. They claim that rodeo activities violate the Animal Welfare Act 1999. A decision is expected to be released within three months.

Sports fund applications

Rodney Local Board has backed two applications for funding for Netball Rodney and the new Mahurangi Church and Community Centre. The $112,000 being sought for the netball centre at Wellsford’s Centennial Park would fund a feasibility study and business case to determine the future siting and ownership arrangements for the courts. Mahurangi Presbyterian Church is seeking $65,000 to cover an escalation in costs for a sprung floor in its multisport complex. Funding allocation will be decided by Council’s Parks, Arts, Community and Events committee in September.

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Harbour Hospice services have been given a boost from the annual Great Debate held at the Warkworth Town Hall on July 1. About 300 people attended, raising $5800. Since the debate started at Ascension Wine Estate 10 years ago, around $40,000 has been donated to hospice.

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Students dig in to restore wetland

Principal Tony Giles digging in with students, from left, Tahere Walker, Dayne Co and Tyson Harrison.

Proof that there is a lot more to education than books, computers and exams was in evidence at Mahurangi College recently, when dozens of students took part in a mass wetland planting exercise as part of the school’s Living Classroom project. More than 100 students from all years volunteered to prepare and plant 2500 indigenous plants in the View and Falls Road Reserves, just across the Mahurangi River from the college rugby fields. The planting took two days to carry out and involved countless journeys back and forth across the river on the school’s “express ferry” – a small pontoon powered by a student pulling a rope. On the first day, a dozen senior students ferried hundreds of trays of grasses, reeds, sedges, cabbage trees, flax, kanuka, manuka, coprosma, hebes, putaputaweta and kowhai plants across to the cleared wetland area and laid them all out ready for planting. Two days later, around 90 students of all ages and several members of staff made the trip across the river to get the plants in the ground, all under the watchful eye and guidance of wetland expert Philip Greenslade. The initiative was organised by deputy principal Catherine Hutton, who obtained the plants with a grant from the Mahurangi East Land Restoration Project, the Government-backed $5 million, five-

year sediment reduction programme to restore the health of the Mahurangi Harbour. She said a lot of work had gone into preparing the wetland for the restoration planting. “The ginger, privet and acmena immediately surrounding the wetland were removed by Year 9s in their Living Classroom experience,” she said. “The wetland area itself was too overrun with weeds and pest plants, so we sent some staff who volunteered on a council-funded spraying course and they cleared the area ready for planting.” She said she had tried to get as many students as possible to volunteer and be involved. “I want them to have skin in the game! Our Mahu vision is that everyone – parents, students, and staff in our school community – believes in the value of kaitiakitanga, or guardianship, and that we all need to get in and get busy,” she said. “This is tied to our belief that service is the basis of a grounded sense of wellbeing.” The school’s Living Classroom project also includes an extensive trapping network, and pest and plant identification. Auckland Council granted Mahurangi’s Board of Trustees a community licence to occupy the nine hectares of native bush reserve in 2020.

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Save Our Sand – anti-mining protesters spell out their feelings.

Sand mining protest as hearing date approaches Several hundred protesters gathered on Mangawhai Beach last week in the latest bid to stop continued sand mining off the coast between Pakiri and Mangawhai. Waving placards and posters, around 300 people formed a giant SOS – for Save Our Sand – on the beach in front of the surf club. Organisers had originally hoped to attract more than 1000 people to the protest, but were still happy at the turnout on a winter Sunday morning. Speakers included Ken Rayward for SOS, Eliot Pryor from Greenpeace and TV presenter Jaquie Brown, as well as Kaipara Mayor Jason Smith, who said the district council unanimously opposed sand mining. “We’re absolutely aware of what is at stake for this community and this place,” he said. “The people of Mangawhai have paid a huge price for trying to keep the harbour clean with a wastewater project that was far from perfect.” He said the harbour was now the cleanest and purest in Northland and sand mining would potentially undo all the hard work that had been done to achieve that. “Mangawhai is at risk. If the distal spit

comes down, if the sandbank is lowered and that ocean comes over the sandbank and into Mangawhai, that’s massively problematical for this place.” But he warned that there was only so much Council could do, as the resource consent decisions lay with Auckland Council. “Kaipara District Council only covers 2km out to sea. Just down there, it’s Auckland,” he said, pointing south towards Pakiri. “We have no control over Auckland. We’re trying, through the legal process and resource consent process – but with no money – to make a noise. “We’re submitting on behalf of Council and we’ll be attending the hearings on behalf of the community. Your Council is doing its very best against some very mighty resources.” The hearings into two resource consent renewal applications by McCallum Brothers to mine sand inshore and mid-shore off Pakiri Beach over 35 years will start on July 27 at Warkworth Town Hall, and then run on selected days over the following month. As well as the town hall, sessions will be held at Omaha Marae on August 1, Pakiri Hall on August 2 and Warkworth Masonic

Twenty-two community organisations have been awarded a share of $100,000 by Kaipara District Council. The awarded funds include $12,515 for Te Kopuru Community Development Trust to install a water tank, guttering and new water pump in the Te Kopuru Community Gardens on the Pouto Peninsula. The Helping Paws Charitable Trust Other received $4415 for weather and rodentproof storage facilities for food, litter, bedding and cleaning supplies; Te Roroa Development Charitable Trust received $9026 for a water tank, nursery benches and supplies to build a potting mix bay for their native tree nursery; Dargaville Playcentre received $2415 for a shade sail to ensure a sun safe learning and play area for tamariki; and Kaipara Abuse Prevention received $4500 for the annual rental cost of their Whanau Focus Centre. The community grant committee said it was impressed with the array of organisations, projects and services applying for the grants this year, and the contributions they were making to Kaipara communities. A full list of recipients is available at www.kaipara.govt.nz/residents/ community-funding/community-grant

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Hall on August 15, with the hearings due to close on September 1. An earlier resource consent application by McCallums to mine sand off Pakiri and Mangawhai was rejected by independent commissioners on behalf of Auckland Council in May. Info: www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/haveyour-say/hearings/find-hearing/Pages/findresource-consent-hearing.aspx

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The new shop and education centre planned for the southern end of the site were due to be completed last winter.

Delays drag on at Lawrie Road

The second phase of a $2.4 million redevelopment of the Snells Beach community refuse and recycling centre that was due to be finished last winter will not start until next month at the earliest. Mahurangi Wastebusters had hoped that a new shop, education centre and access onto Lawrie Road would be open by now, but a combination of all-too-familiar factors had prevented Auckland Council from getting on with the Government-funded project. Wastebusters board member Trish Allen said it was frustrating for them as operators. “It’s the old story at the moment – supply chain issues, sickness, Covid. We’d been told it would start in July, but I think it’s going to be August,” she said. “We’re very disappointed and a bit frustrated that it’s taking so long. Stage one got done and since then there have been so many delays, we’re champing at the bit and dead keen to get it all done.” Allen said the delays had been compounded by Council unearthing ancient rubbish at the former landfill site when stage one excavations were carried out. “They had to dig up a fair bit of stuff for roads, and some of that was old rubbish, but they have got a plan for how to deal with that now, and it is going to be reburied on the site,” she said. The first stage of improvements was carried out between October last year and February, when the drop-off area was

completely upgraded, with new bin areas, barriers and a fully sealed surface. The shop, education centre and new access will be developed next month. Allen said while it was frustrating not having a shop at Lawrie Road, all saleable goods were being taken up to Wellsford to sell at Wastebusters’ Station Road shop, Rusty Station, which opens every Wednesday. She added that Wastebusters now had access to more used items to sell, thanks to its joint venture partner Localised now running Auckland’s inorganic waste collection. “So now we take our tech waste to Abilities, a social enterprise in Auckland that employs disabled people and recycles e-waste, and then we can backload with re-saleable goods from the Auckland inorganic collection warehouse,” she said. “It means we can have a constant supply of good stuff to sell. At the moment, it’s all going to Rusty Station, in Station Road Wellsford, but in future it will also go to Lawrie Road.” Allen did not have a completion date for stage two works, but said it was expected to take a few months. She added that Mahurangi Wastebusters was currently looking for staff – “customer service superstars, people who can deal with the public and people to help unload”. Info: www.mahurangiwastebusters.nz or www.facebook.com/mahuwastebusters

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WeSay Put a shovel in the ground!

Were there ever halcyon days when the bulk of a working person’s taxes and rates were spent delivering bricks and mortar benefits? Were governments – central and local – ever efficient, focused and frugal with the public’s hard-earned cash? Did elected representatives ever get elected because they already understood the needs of their communities without having to consult with them every five minutes? The Hill Street debacle is just the latest example of truckloads of ratepayer money being spent on processes and procedures, which never materialise into anything solid. Plans are written, consulted on, revised to reflect feedback, peer reviewed and then left on a shelf to collect dust because there “isn’t the budget” to do the work. Then, in 18 months or so, someone will have the brilliant idea of revisiting the plan. The dust will be brushed off and, of course, the plan will need to be revised because life has moved on. So, the whole process of revisions, consultation, feedback and review starts again. The Hill Street Intersection Single Stage Business Case report that was prepared on behalf of Auckland Transport and Waka Kotahi/NZ Transport Agency in 2019 was 151-pages long. It examined the intersection from every possible angle – it looked at its history, the impacts of parallel projects such as the Matakana link road and the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway, and the 30-plus options that had been considered at one time or another. It was written with input from stakeholder groups, Maori engagement and public consultation. It weighed up the problems and the benefits, considered the risks and analysed the options. And then, finally, it came up with a preferred option costing $18.8 million. The people were satisfied that at long last a fix for Hill Street was on the horizon. So to learn that Auckland Transport is now revisiting the design for intersection improvements is unbelievable and can mean only one thing – it doesn’t believe it can deliver the work for the $18.8 million allocated. Hardly surprising. Post-Covid construction costs are estimated to have risen by 15-20 per cent. But this is a problem of their (Auckland Transport and NZTA) own making. Their excuses for ‘talking’ and not ‘doing’ dates back decades. So, here’s some free advice for Auckland Transport – the longer you procrastinate and pontificate, the more expensive and congested Hill Street will become. It will never, ever get cheaper. Ratepayers and taxpayers have been cheated out of a proper fix for the intersection for too long. Stop writing reports, just put a shovel in the ground and just get the job done.

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I have solution to the ongoing road maintenance issues that plague Rodney’s unsealed roads. First a bit of background. Our “road” has become almost impassable, especially for anyone naive enough to drive a small economical two-wheel drive car. After approaching Auckland Transport (AT), we were informed they don’t have the budget to fix the road in the interim and maintenance would be sometime in July or August. This leaves us in the weird Kafkaesque situation of paying rates for a road when we don’t actually have a road. This is the dictionary definition of a road: “A wide way leading from one place to another, especially one with a specially prepared surface which vehicles can use.” Now the thing that runs from our house can neither be described as wide, specially prepared and it certainly cannot be used by vehicles without risk of damage to person or property. So here is my cunning plan, and I am surprised AT has not come up with this themselves: just rebrand the roads. For example, Ahuroa Valley Road could become Ahuroa Valley Track. The definition of a track is: “A rough path or road, typically one beaten by use rather than constructed.” Which is a much better description of the

product we are being supplied with by AT. Alternatively, as track could be confused with our great walks, how about Ahuroa Valley Path? A path is: “A way or track laid down for walking or made by continual treading.” And as vehicle use will be limited, there will be a lot of continual treading. As a final suggestion, and my favourite, Ahuroa Valley Trail, with a trail being: “A track made by passage especially through a wilderness” or “marked or established path or route especially through a forest or mountainous region.” In World War I, the Germans described the British as “lions led by donkeys”, which I think is an apt way to describe AT. I am now going to go buy a donkey so I can traverse Ahuroa Valley and pray to God the poor thing does not break a leg in one of the potholes. S Gonzales, Ahuroa Valley Trail

Rates oversight It may be correct that the urban areas of Rodney are getting Council money spent on them, such as around Warkworth and Dairy Flat, to cope with the massive housing builds that are coming. However, as Mr Sayers correctly points out, households paying rates outside of those areas are not seeing the Council spending on services and maintenance we expect.

Keep up the good fight Mr Sayers and thank you for keeping the public updated about how our rates are being spent. Alan Kendall, Snells Beach

Statue’s decapitation What does an 18-year-old want to say in decapitating a depiction of sovereignty? Has anyone ever asked, “Why for 20 years the statue of King George V has been actively vandalised as separate to the memorial itself?” It might be time to ask that question rather than throwing more money, money the RSA could use for its elevator for the living, at a statue of a representation that makes little sense, well, at least to one 18-year-old. I am sure all ages value the memorial to those locals whose lives were taken fighting in a bloody, brutal war buried under foreign lands far from their blessed tranquil homeland. Many 18-year-olds may well come up with an apt memorial more suited for this age of remembering. Being a similar age to those we are memorialising must mean something. The days of scrapping, as summarised in the motto under which the British army went to war in 1914, of ‘Fighting for God, King and Country’ are indeed over. Nowadays, if God is invoked at all, the first of those authorities is likely to provoke contention continued next page

Heartfelt thanks To the Mangawhai community. On 29 May 2022 my beloved husband Rob Leslie died suddenly following a medical event. His death has felt shocking and distressing to all who knew and loved him. For me, his loss has felt devastating as we had a very special and deep love for one another. Within hours of Rob’s passing we received

a flood of food, flowers, care-packages, cards, hugs, love and kindness from all over the community. It was all so very humbling to receive and to still be receiving. I would like each and every individual and business to know how much it has meant, how much it has helped and how much it is appreciated. I feel somewhat overwhelmed and am not sure when I might get round to thanking

everyone individually so I would like to say “thank you” very publicly. Thank you especially to St John and Rob’s special Mangawhai Fire Brigade who worked so hard with us to try to save him. He would have felt so blessed to have you with him. I am so very grateful to you all. Michele Leslie (McVie)

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Cleisthenes, an ancient Athenian philosopher, invented the term “democracy” in the 5th century, moving from an aristocratic system (ruling by the elite) to ruling by the people. The term is still used today to give people the impression that they have a say in how their rates are spent … but do they really? Wellsford has been subject to the Supercity for 12 years, but still struggles to get roading and drainage up to standard. On the plus side, Wellsford township has been serviced by the Rodney Local Board community services team. The town is starting to look good, with new public toilets, footpath upgrades, a toilet block at Te Hana and an upgrade to the Te Hana play facilities. The team is looking forward to doing more on their reserves. It is time for Auckland Council to support new development in Wellsford, with housing and business innovation. This in turn, will create work and job opportunities. On the negative side, Council does not want to recognise there is a problem surrounding our rural roads and road drainage network. There are 50,000 vehicle movements on our Rodney rural roads daily. I have worked with Auckland Transport for the last six years and have helped develop the Unsealed Road Improvement Programme. Auckland Transport has lifted the level of service but is facing big problems with lack of funding to seal the good work they

have done. Herein lies the issue of democracy; how can you have a balanced Rodney Local Board when only three of nine members are independent, while the remainder have joined together (The Rodney First group) in a cartel which commands most of any vote. I find this frustrating when the use of a targeted rate was proposed to improve rural roading, lifting the expectations of the rural community. The Rodney First group instead, against the wishes of the rural community, decided to move the money to buses, car parks and footpaths. The rest of Auckland receives these services without a targeted rate. The vast majority of Rodney ratepayer funding has been spent on concrete busways, cycleways and public transport. This has no tangible benefit to the rural ratepayers. Lastly, we must address rural drainage issues. Council seems to think that by blocking up our overland flow paths with plants, we are going to achieve good water quality. Now the drainage is blocked with silt and the flooding water has become a nuisance. The Drainage Act was introduced so that all overland paths had to be clear of all obstruction and flooding could not become a nuisance. Why is rural paying for drainage in their normal rates, paying an environmental targeted rate and now, a third targeted rate? Democracy for all? You decide.

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rather than unity, or at least be reduced to its place in religious parlance. The second wanes in significance even though such a monarchy still exists. Finally, the demand “to die for one’s country” has lost much appeal in the global, interdependent world order. General Patton made some apt comment about dying for country, as did Blackadder, God, King and Country and not necessarily in that order. It is hard to believe any of us have an appetite for war, for God, king or country. Indeed, war is a reptilian brain response consigned to a bygone era and welldeserving of being decapitated. What is being said with the vandalising of a statue in a memorial of not forgotten men and women of our place?

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GPS co-ordinates In the July 4 issue of Mahurangi Matters, Jenny Enderby commented about the accuracy of GPS co-ordinates, stating they were up to “eight metres out”. Unless GPS co-ordinates are “differentially corrected” they will always be inaccurate. This was a trick by the US military so co-ordinates would not be accurate to the general layman using a hand-held GPS unit. They would be better to get a surveyor to map out the accurate co-ordinates. The surveyor would also need a reference point, such as a boundary peg, to install their unit over.

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Neal Satherley is still flying. Maybe not a foot above the ground as he used to have to, spraying cotton in Zimbabwe, or doing aerobatics and competitions in Palmerston North, but he’s still getting to great altitudes at 83, despite surviving two aircraft crashes. A few weeks ago he went up with a mate from the Warkworth Aero Club and “had a little fly”. The builder-turned-pilot spoke to Mahurangi Matters about his adventurous life in the skies.

did my builder’s apprenticeship in Marton, where I grew up. I started a flying club there and bought a plane together with a couple of mates. I flew it up from Rotorua. I was the only one with a pilot’s licence at the time. We’d agreed with a local farmer that we could use his land for an airstrip, and we got in an instructor up from Palmerston North to give members some training. At that stage, in the 60s, flying was recreational for me. With my private pilot’s licence, I was doing competitions in Palmerston North to quite decent local audiences for the time. I had a little four-seater and I would take friends from Marton to Mt Egmont (now called Mt Taranaki), or alternatively Mt Ruapehu. The distance was much the same and on a beautiful day the scenery was gorgeous. Flying seemed to pursue me as a builder, and me it. In 1969, I moved to Samoa with my wife Fay and our four children. I was trying to get an airline started for local passengers. We brought two planes in from New Zealand by ship with their wings removed. I remember driving a wingless craft from the wharf to the airstrip, which you’d never be able to do now. By the end of my six-month stint we’d built two landing strips across the two main islands, Savai’i and Upolo. As well as goods, we began transporting people, including the local police. We found a whole new island once, identifying it from the air. It was just underwater and it was a shipping hazard. During the time we were there, Neil Armstrong and his crew returned to earth after going to the moon. What was left of Apollo 11 blazed through the sky, landing in the sea 340 miles east of Tutuila, in American Samoa. A few weeks earlier, I had jokingly radioed the recovery ship, an aircraft carrier called the USS Hornet, asking permission to land on deck. They didn’t take kindly to my sense of humour and I was told that if I came within 15 miles of the ship, I’d be shot down. I didn’t think I’d be allowed, but you’ve got to ask! It wasn’t until we came back from Samoa and I was in my thirties when I got my commercial licence. “Ditch” Harding at Wanganui Aero Work offered me a job. I had built a pool for him and he was pleased with it. He knew I had my commercial licence and so I moved to Whanganui. At Wanganui Aero Work I was top dressing all around the Manawatu, south Taranaki and over to the Wairarapa. Then I went up to work for Farmers Aerial in Dargaville. We would spray insecticides in the morning when it was calm, then do the top dressing in the afternoon when the wind had come up.

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Left, Neal Satherley at home with his first log book from Wanganui Aero Work. Top, flying for the Central Aerial Cooperative in 1983. Photo, Whanganui Chronicle. Above, the scene after Neal’s first crash in Thames in 1989. Photo, Whanganui Chronicle.

In the mid-80s I got a call from Agricair to work in ground and turned the aircraft around and over a bank. Luckily the bank took the other wheels off and the bottom Zimbabwe. I did two stints there, one in 1986 and again of the hopper, but then one wing touched a hill and swung in 1987. There were some Kiwis working out there at the me into it too. That hurt a bit. It practically knocked my time and I went out with two other pilots. Sadly, both of chin off. I was black and blue all over. them have died since. I got it right the second time, when I crashed backwards. We were spraying cotton to kill boll weevil. The insecticide That was less than 18 months, later on Fay’s birthday. The was mixed with molasses to make it stick to the crop and engine failed on take-off from Kerikeri airport with a load it was changed every 10 days because the bugs became on. Because it was so slow, the aircraft dropped one wing, immune. We had to fly in really low, underneath the power which touched some scrub and spun the whole thing right lines to get good coverage before it evaporated. The lines around. I crashed right in the middle of the road. It burst would sag in the heat of the afternoon, making it even into flames straight away. It harder. There’s one flight in caught fire which shot up past particular that reminds me how We were told we had to the cockpit. I thought I’d better close to the ground we got. get out of there and managed to fly at tree top height, Generally a worker would stand jump out. Not long afterwards, I at a peg marking what we had because if you flew too high went down to Hamilton and got yet to cover, holding up a stick another aeroplane and carried on with a bag on it before moving they’d shoot a rocket at working. on to the next area. On this you and if you flew too low Warkworth has been home for occasion he hadn’t moved. Well, 36 years now. As was sadly often I did a pass and next thing, felt they’d shoot a gun at you. the case in my career, I moved a whack on the propellor. I had here to replace a pilot who had come in so low that I had taken been killed. I had started the Central Aerial Co-operative the top off the stick. The person failing to do the marking in Whanganui, which was taken over by Fieldair and I certainly had a close shave! got transferred up here when the pilot died. Back then we The second time I worked in Zimbabwe I had a scary thought it was a nice, quiet little town. We loved the sea experience of my own. I was flying up north and and going out fishing on the boat. Snells was a favourite although we had long range tanks, I had run short of spot to go to on a Sunday. We’d sit on the beach and eat fuel. I called for a tanker and when I landed, the locals fish and chips. took me from the airstrip to this big, gated property. I flew for about three or four more years before going As we were walking there, one of them said in broken back into building. I helped build the Salty Dog at Snells English, “Boss, dogs will eat you.” Beach and three homes for my family, two in Millward Sure enough, inside the gates were two dogs, a rottweiler Drive and one in Percy Street. We built dozens of houses and a Dobermann. Well, I put my hand up against the in new subdivisions. fence and the Dobermann licked it. I took a deep breath Reflecting on my flying career, you could say I flew and entered the property, walking up the driveway with a professionally for 25 years and racked up around 14,000 dog either side of me. This was much to the amazement hours in the air. I stopped when I felt I’d done enough. of the wide-eyed locals, who I’m quite sure would have Work was decreasing in the top dressing business and been eaten if they’d been in my place. new requirements meant I’d have to get a rating (sit an In 1988, I was asked to go back again, this time flying exam) to fly a jet-propelled aircraft, which was something from Zimbabwe to Sudan, but Fay said “No”. It was good I’d been doing for years. It also became too expensive money. We were told we had to fly at tree top height, over time to maintain my licence. At my age, it has to because if you flew too high they’d shoot a rocket at you be renewed every six months and it can cost as much as and if you flew too low they’d shoot a gun at you. Fay $4000 depending on the health checks they want to do, wouldn’t let me go, she said it was just too risky. That’s like an ECG. I’m still a member of the local aero club about the only time I’ve haven’t flown because of danger. and I really enjoy getting out. A couple of months ago I had plenty of work to do here anyway. we drove to Dairy Flat Aeroclub and they flew about 100 I’ve been involved in two crashes, one in Thames in 1989 of us from the RSA down to Ardmore for the Warbirds. when a wheel fell off on take-off. The leg dug into the That was a great day.

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festival glowers … with lights twinkling on trees, strollers, balloons, hats, dogs and clothing. Food vendors looked to be doing a roaring trade around dinner time and the live music gave the town a party atmosphere. The ITM Parade of Lights was led through town by the Warkworth & Wellsford Pipe

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Lady Tui Audrey Mason

he Mahurangi district lost a lady in the true sense of the word when Tui Mason passed away at Summerset Village in February, aged 99 years. Although only slight in stature, she was a woman with great energy and dedication, which was directed towards her family, her community and her country. Tui was born at Warkworth Cottage Hospital to Fred and Ruby King, who farmed at Streamlands on Woodcocks Road. She was named by her father who remembered seeing the tui in the bush in the King Country where he worked prior to World War I. Fred and Ruby also had four sons – Linton, Gordon, Ian and Hector. The Streamlands area, now the site of Southern Paprika, was made up of balloted 100-acre blocks for returned soldiers and about 20 families occupied the area. Tui and her brothers were educated at the Kourawhero Primary School, which had a roll of 24 pupils, opening in 1924 and closing in 1936. As a child, she excelled at sport and her father would take her to district athletics events, as well as hockey, basketball, tennis and softball. Later in life, she took up badminton and golf. After completing her studies at Warkworth District High School, she attended Teachers Training College in Epsom, boarding at Rockland’s Hall in Gillies Avenue. She spent several years teaching in country schools in the Far North during the war years when times were hard financially, physically and mentally. Through her brothers, who were in the services, she met Gordon Mason, a young man in the army who was from Kaipara Flats. Tui and Gordon became a couple and were married in a double wedding ceremony with her brother Linton and his finance Joyce Miller in August 1944. A week later, Gordon returned to camp and Tui headed back up north to her teaching position at Taipuha. In 1945, she was man powered to the Kaipara Flats School where Margaret Morrison was principal. It was the beginning of a long association with the school and community. After the war, Gordon went to work for the trucking firm Smith & Davies in Kaipara Flats. The young couple ran a carrying business, living on the Mason family farm initially, before buying a rundown farm

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of their own on Old Woodcocks Road, as well as the neighbouring Quinn farm. For the next 25 to 30 years, they worked the farms and set up the Torvale Murray Grey Stud. Early in those farming years, Gordon was encouraged to stand for the Rodney County Council. In total, he spent 32 years in public life, serving on the County Council, Auckland Regional Authority and NZ Roads Board, and he served terms as the county chairman and the chairman of the NZ Local Body Association. He was also the first Mayor of the former Rodney District Council. Tui and Gordon had three children – Alaister, Elizabeth and David – who grew up at Kaipara Flats. For Tui, this was a busy and happy time in her life, helping to rebuild a country area ravaged by two wars and in need of lots of fundraising, working bees and sharing in all the necessary sacrifices to get the area back to full strength. Eventually, the old farm was sold and a new house built above the school where Tui spent many years relieving and as a teacher aide. She was instrumental in establishing a monthly dinner for the aged at the Methodist Church, as well as helping people to do their shopping. She helped set-up a branch of Save the Children in Warkworth, as well as the local Country Women’s Institute, Kaipara Flats Craft Group, Kaipara Flats Garden Club and Kaipara Flats Combined Church Guild. The Kaipara Flats library, Ranfurly Hall, Warkworth Women’s Probus and service clubs also benefited from her patronage. Gordon was knighted in 1991 for services to local government, a title his family say he would never have achieved without Tui’s steadfast support in the background. In her new role, Tui met many prominent people. This included lunching with the Queen and Prince Phillip on board HMY Britannia, meeting Prince Charles and Princess Diana, the Queen of Denmark, the Crown Prince of Brunei, Dame Cath Tizard and Sir Edmund and Lady Hillary. She also presented medals to winners at the Commonwealth Games. However, family and friends remained the bedrock of Tui’s life and she was always available to give love, advice and encouragement. After Gordon died in 2010, Tui moved from their Alnwick Street home to Summerset.

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ributes have been paid by winegrowers, tourism operators and community leaders throughout the region to Mary Evans, who died unexpectedly last month after a short illness. Mary was a passionate advocate for Matakana and its environs, whether as a wine and tourism destination or as a thriving community in which to live and bring up a family. She was born in London in 1948. Her parents emigrated to NZ two years later and settled in Murupara, but Mary’s earliest memories were of Kenya, where her father worked for four years as a civil engineer on the main road through the Great Rift Valley. She went to primary school there and enjoyed a very different life, including being photographed on a rhinoceros. When her parents returned to New Zealand, Mary went to Rotorua Girls High School, then Waikato University, where she obtained a teaching degree and a Masters in English. After graduation, she moved to Auckland to teach in a variety of primary and secondary schools, and it was here that she met her husband, David Hoskins, in 1974. Mary was very active in feminist groups in Auckland throughout the 1970s, and in 1977, she and David established the alternative state school, Auckland Metropolitan College, where Mary taught for a year or so, before moving to Loreto Hall Teachers’ Training College. During this time, Mary and David would frequently visit the wineries in West Auckland and in the mid-1980s, they decided on a complete change in direction by starting their own vineyard. After seeking the right site for a couple of years, they found 20 acres of bare land in Sharp Road, Matakana in 1987, and Heron’s Flight was born.

While the vineyard and winery gradually took shape, Mary continued teaching at many Rodney primary schools, as well as Tangaroa College and Mahurangi College, where she was on the Board of Trustees for three years. Mary always took an active role in community matters and was one of the pioneers in promoting Matakana as a distinctive wine and food destination, becoming a mentor to many producers starting out in the region. David said she always saw the production of grapes and wine as a special activity. “Wine, she would often say, is not an end in itself, but a means for bringing people together,” he said. “For stimulating discussion between friends. And she saw Heron’s Flight as an opportunity to welcome a wide range of visitors.” These included billeting international students from Mahurangi College, hosting Kanak tertiary students from New Caledonia and welcoming countless international visitors to the Heron’s Flight cellar door. Mary was also a terrific cook and loved sharing whatever she was making. She was instrumental in the early Slow Food movement in Matakana and was the driving force behind the popular cafe in the early days of Heron’s Flight. Fiercely intelligent, Mary will be remembered for her energy, public-spiritedness and as a staunch supporter of the underdog. She was keenly interested in people and projects, and a challenging and incisive questioner, but she was also unfailingly kind, self-effacing and welcoming and hospitable to all. Mary is survived by David, sons Luke and Gwynn, daughter-in-law Heather, and beloved grandsons Leighton and Luca. The family is planning a public celebration of her life in the spring on her birthday, November 19, at Heron’s Flight.

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Moving through the seasons With the recent celebration of Matariki, the Māori New Year, now is a good time to share information about Maramataka. Many indigenous cultures around the world have their own version of Maramataka, which aligns with the phases of the moon, rather than the common Gregorian calendar. Maramataka has no months, just periods or ngā wā o te tau. Traditionally, our people would move through seasons according to the tohu (signs). In recent times, the Maramataka has been aligned with the Gregorian calendar to make it easier to understand and adopt. The Maramataka is not the same across Aotearoa because it uses tohu as an indicator and each area or iwi will use tohu relevant to the area they reside in. For example, Ngāti Manuhiri are people of the sea and have different tohu to those living more inland. Star visibility is different in this area compared to our whanaunga (relatives) in Te Waipounamu (South Island). For example, Here-turi-kōkā, which is approximately August, the whitebait season starts and once the kowhai begins to bloom, this would signal the time to start planting kumara in shallow beds for sprouting. The tohu is the kōwhai. The ngā wā o te tau are as follows. Pipiri (May-June): Ka pipiri ngā mea katoa i te whenua i te mātao, me te tangata – All things on earth are contracted because of the cold; likewise man. Hōngongoi (June-July): Kua tino mātao te tangata, me te tahutahu ahi, ka pāinaina – Man is now extremely cold, and so kindles

fires before which he basks. Hereturikōkā (July-August): Kua kitea te kainga a te ahi i ngā turi o te tangata – The scorching effect of fire on the knees of man is seen. Mahuru (August-September): Kua pūmahana te whenua, me ngā otaota, me ngā rākau – The earth has now acquired warmth, as also have herbage and trees. Whiringa ā Nuku (September-October): Kua tino māhana te whenua – The earth has now become quite warm. Whiringa ā Rangi (October-November): Kua raumati, kua kaha te rā – It has now become summer, and the sun has acquired strength. Hakihea (November-December): Kua noho ngā manu kai roto i te kōhanga – Birds are now sitting in their nests. Kohitātea (December-January): Kua makuru te kai: ka kai te tangata i ngā kai hou o te tau – Fruits are now ripe and man eats the new food of the season. Hui Tanguru (January-February): Kua tau te waewae o Ruhi kai whenua – The foot of Ruhi (a summer star) now rests upon the earth. Poutū te Rangi (February-March): Kua hauhake te kai – The crops are now harvested. Paengawhāwhā (March-April): Kua putu ngā tupu o ngā kai i ngā paenga o ngā māra – All straw is now stacked at the borders of the plantations. Haratua (April-May): Kua uru ngā kai kai te rua, kua mutu ngā mahi a te tangata – Crops are now stored in pits. The tasks of man are finished.

Bushes used in lieu of toilets Matakana Tennis Club members are contemplating a return to relieving themselves in the bushes, as Auckland Council says portable toilets in Diamond Jubilee Park must be removed. The toilets have been in place while floodlights at the courts, which will allow evening playing, were being installed. Council advised the club that the toilets outside the fence were also being used by the public. They were always meant to be temporary and connected to work on the lights. Council said that with the completion of the lights, the toilets needed to go. There is currently no provision to provide toilets at the park, a spokesperson says. The club, which is over 100 years old, was

resurrected by a group of local enthusiasts in 2014 and currently has a membership of 60 people, with about 20 people using the courts on any given day. Club captain Mark Lever says the current portaloos were put in place in February and cost the club about $240 a month. Prior to that, the toilets were only brought in for tournaments. But with no public toilets at the park end of the village, and no access for club members to the single toilet at the Pony Club, they say they have no option but to “go” in the bushes. The lack of public toilets is also a stumbling block for increasing community use of the park, Lever says.

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The past two years have prompted Hillary Austin to change her painting perspective.

Art for changing times How have artists responded to two years of lockdowns, restrictions and mandates? There’s a chance to find out this month, when a new post-pandemic exhibition opens at Leigh’s Foundation Gallery & Arts Hub. Response to Our World features multimedia works by eight local artists, including gallery founder Hillary Austin. She says the show is a reflection of the challenges everyone has faced and where they now find themselves. “This is a new vision of where we all are after this,” she says. “There’s a collective anxiety around the edges of our experiences. The whole community experience has precipitated a different look in our work. I don’t think we’ll all be the same again.” Austin’s own work is a case in point. She says her perspective has changed and there has been a fundamental shift in how she now depicts landscapes, as a result of Covid and other upheavals. “It’s precipitated a real change that had to happen,” she says. “I’m not so much looking at infinite distance any more, I’m moving it from extreme distance to the middle ground. It’s mysterious, because it’s revealing itself as what I’ve always known. I’m trying pretty dark imagery, but with high contrast light.” Other artists are showing their more literal responses to life in lockdown, such as Rhana Panhuis, whose works include a hanging sculpture made from teabags – one for every day of lockdown. The exhibition will also feature new works by Patrick Betts, Andy Turner, Silvia Birch, John Wright, Rachel Waterhouse and new artist Charlotte Farrow. Response to Our World opens on Friday, July 22 at 6pm at the Foundation Gallery, which is in Totara Street, Leigh. It will run for around three weeks and most works are for sale. Info: Visit www.facebook.com/foundationartsnz

The work of Philippa Stichbury will be on display at Estuary Arts.

Imaginations rise to Wearable Arts shows ’Tis the season for Wearable Art. Ahead of the World of Wearable (WOW) Art extravaganza in Wellington in September, both Estuary Arts in Orewa and Harbour Hospice in Warkworth are putting on their own shows. Estuary Arts’ current exhibition, Wear Your Art Out, runs until August 6. It features the work of many well-known local and visiting artists, including Beatrice Carlson, from Devonport, who is a 10 times WOW finalist and a category winner in 2010 and 2019. Her focus more recently has been on translating her WOW concepts to adornment and contemporary jewellery, combining her skills in Perspex, printmaking and fashion design/pattern making, which are featured in the exhibition. Mahurangi artists Philippa Stichbury and Jane Boseley, who are both finalists in this year’s WOW, will also have work on display. Stichbury won the Aotearoa Section in 2015 with her piece On Reflection and placed third in the Creative Excellence Section in 2016 with her piece

Minuet & Trio. Boseley’s One Out of the Box will be in the exhibition. It is made entirely of origami paper, 600 origami cranes, card, handmade papers and Velcro. Other local artists include textile designer Ingrid Anderson and multi-disciplinary artist and sculptor Kim Boyd. The exhibition will come to life in a Catwalk Arts show on August 6 with both a matinee and evening performances at the Hibiscus Coast Youth Centre. The show will include a line-up of local talent, including silks and hoop performers from Auckland’s React Studio and Orewa College contemporary dance troupe, and will be MC’d by Auckland drag acts, Nivalia Nights and Princess Vivian. There will be spot prizes for best dressed audience members who rise to the occasion. Info: www.estuaryarts.org

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Giant puppets tell Matariki story The Matariki story will be told with giant puppets at a special Glow Show event at the Warkworth Town Hall on July 21. The glow-in-the-dark event is a mix of science and the arts, which being toured nationally. The cast is made up of Māori, Samoan and Pakeha artists and the show tells the story of te kāhui whetū o Matariki (the star cluster/whānau of Matariki) as they gather to light up the skies for te tau hou Māori (Māori New Year). It brings this mythical tale to life with puppets, which glow under UV lights in a black box theatre. The story is told in te reo Māori and English, and the show aims to educate as it entertains, with themes of friendship and togetherness. The promoters say it offers a truly memorable experience, with positive and uplifting messages for tamariki. The performance is part of a series by Sarah Burren, who created the concept in 2017 and has toured Aotearoa with it annually. The Glow Show dramaturg Midge Perez

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Market slows after explosive growth Whatever goes up must come down, though anyone witnessing the explosion in NZ property prices in recent years could be forgiven for doubting that old adage. But nothing lasts for ever and 2022 is finally seeing a marked slowdown in sales and values compared to the feverish activity of a year ago, as interest rates rise and credit constraints bite and potential buyers fade into the background, or at least sit tight. The latest QV House Price Index shows the value of the average home dropped by 3.4% nationally over the three months to the end of June, with the national average value now sitting at $1,011,188. In the Auckland region, that figure is $1,441,941, which is a drop of 4.1% over the same period, though still 7% higher than the same time last year. Only Rodney is showing any positive growth over the first six months of 2022, though only 0.2%, and QV expects that to drop in the coming weeks and months.

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The new pipeline will connect with the wastewater pump station at Warkworth’s Lucy Moore Memorial Reserve, which is under construction. The pump station will be followed by the installation of a transfer pipeline, which will take wastewater from the pump station to a new wastewater treatment plant in Snells Beach/Algies Bay,

New wastewater pipeline route investigated Watercare hopes to start work next year on a wastewater pipeline from a site just north of the new community transport hub on State Highway 1 to the pump station in Lucy Moore Memorial Park. Five routes were originally under consideration, but Watercare has discarded the option of a route along the riverfront due to the impact on public space and the susceptibility to river flooding. While Watercare did not disclose what the other four routes were, it is understood the most favoured route will see it cross the river west of the The Bridgehouse and then

come underground down Percy Street, past the supermarket, and through the park. Head of strategy and planning Priyan Perera says the new pipeline is part of Watercare’s programme of work to cater to growth in Warkworth and the surrounding area, and clean up the Mahurangi River. “The pipeline will serve the new developments in the north-west of Warkworth and will allow us to eliminate an overflow point that discharges into the Mahurangi River,” he says. “We have not yet settled on a route for the pipeline and are exploring a number of

options and construction methodologies. “We have been talking with key stakeholders as part of this process and intend to continue these discussions in a transparent manner, so everyone understands how we select a preferred route. “At this time no decisions have been made and we will continue engaging with the Local Board and key stakeholders as we gather more information.” Perera says construction is expected to start next year, subject to Watercare obtaining the necessary consents and landowner approvals.

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The six offices of Harcourts on the Hibiscus Coast and in Mahurangi have been bought by Harcourts Cooper & Co, which already owns 13 offices across the North Shore and West Harbour. Cooper & Co has taken over Tandem Real Estate, which had offices in Orewa, Snells Beach, Whangaparaoa, Warkworth, Silverdale and Matakana. Managing director Martin Cooper says the northern areas of Auckland will see incredible expansion in coming years. “All areas of northern Auckland will see significant growth as the city sprawls to the north,” he says. “We are very excited to have the opportunity to acquire existing offices that will service this future potential in a vibrant and contemporary way. “We see great things for the Hibiscus Coast and Mahurangi now and into the future.” Nearly all staff have been retained in the six offices, plus two new office managers have been recruited. “Our North Shore business makes up a 33 per cent market share in that area, and we are expecting the same for our new acquisitions,” Cooper says.

The loss of Special Character Areas (SCAs) under new medium density rules that come into effect next month was discussed by Auckland Council at its Planning Committee meeting on June 30. Several local boards made presentations on the issue. Some expressed strong support for maintaining SCAs, while others said that maintaining SCAs would mean intensification would be pushed into under-developed areas. Takapuna Devonport Local Board wants Council to pursue a legal challenge against the intensification legislation. Board chair Ruth Jackson said it was a ‘one size fits all’ approach which would not work. “It focuses on quantity at the expense of quality, community and social outcomes. Once the damage is done, it cannot be undone,” she said. Kaipatiki Local Board deputy chair Danielle Grant said once Council went down this path they would not be able to service these areas. “We do not have rapid buses, we have aging water infrastructure, poor internet and a ferry service that is still significantly impacted by weather conditions,” Grant said. “I have had elderly homeowners in tears, who are deeply concerned about the lack of information, the rushed process and the uncertainty of the special character homes.” Whau Local Board member Kay Thomas said there was support in her area for intensification. “Many people in the Whau have learned to live with intensification. We have had people tell us that without intensive development they have no hope of owning their own home,” Thomas said. Council must publicly notify changes to the Unitary Plan before August 20.

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West Auckland, and a part-time Matheson Bay resident, Robin Allison, will give a talk at the Leigh Hall. Allison, who trained as an architect at the University of Auckland in the early 1980s, has recently published a personal account of the Earthsong story called Cohousing for Life. She freely admits that cohousing is not for everyone, but there is growing interest across the motu from a range of communities, as well as iwi. “There seems to be a lot of dissatisfaction with the limited choice people have at the moment. That’s the beauty of cohousing – it doesn’t have to be done just one way. There are many ways of approaching it.” The first residents of Earthsong moved in

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gardens as well as in a community garden. There is an eight cat limit and generally, no dogs are allowed, although Allison says that rule has been bent on the odd occasion for old dogs. She says turnover of residents is generally lower than the NZ average, and house prices are on a par or maybe slightly below the rest of Auckland. “When someone buys into Earthsong, they become a member. This means agreeing and understanding the vision, purpose and values of the community.” She says it takes time and energy to make a community like Earthsong work. “We wouldn’t be human if there weren’t

conflicting points of view at times, but generally people within the community are committed to working through these issues constructively. “It was one of the reasons the community was developed to the size it is. If it was too small, then when conflict arose it could have a disproportionate effect. But with the larger group, it doesn’t impact on the group as a whole.” Earthsong conducts tours of the community four times a year. The next tour will be held in October. For more information, visit www.earthsong.org.nz. The Leigh talk starts at 7pm and entry is by gold coin koha. Hot drinks provided, BYO wine or beer.

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In motel rooms around north Rodney there are families, – mainly women, children and youth – living in emergency housing accommodation, hoping as winter settles in that they may find an affordable, permanent, warm and dry home. However, as the weeks turn to months, it becomes apparent after multiple viewings, and declines from private rentals and placing themselves on the social housing register in the hope that one of the 55 social houses in north Rodney becomes available, what was considered a temporary housing measure in a motel room, has now become a longterm one. The vulnerability of many families in our area and across the nation is alarming, often due to circumstances beyond their control. Families with limited support structures in place can suddenly and unexpectedly find themselves homeless. This may be for several reasons, such as illegal or short notice given, a relationship breakdown or financial pressures. With a national waitlist on the housing register of 107,043, and a large proportion of the waitlist based in the Auckland region, the median time to be housed is currently sitting around 250 days. For families locally, this either means leaving the area to secure public housing or staying in the hope that housing becomes available locally. However, a lack of local housing stock to fill the need and intense competition for private housing from more well-resourced applicants means this quickly becomes a circle of despair. Currently, there are 35,291 public homes in Auckland. In the 2018 census, there were 1.9 million homes in Aotearoa with 94,000 homes empty, which is 1/20 homes

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untenanted, and 102,000 living with severe deprivation in housing conditions such as on the streets, overcrowding and couch surfing. These are the hidden homeless, of which a high portion are youth and Māori and Pasifika families. These numbers would have undoubtedly increased since this census was taken. People are continuing to fall out of housing as we have often looked at housing through a business lens rather from a human rights lens. This has led to gross inequalities and injustices in our nation regarding housing. In 2020, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to housing, Leilani Farha, while visiting NZ, called our housing a national disgrace. Even with the Labour government’s Kiwi Build plan and promise to build 10,000 homes over 10 years, there has been difficulty reaching target due to the pandemic, building supply shortages and the consent processes to build new homes. Perhaps with such a large number of families needing homes, it is time to lobby locally with MPs and councils to ask for more social housing to be included in our zoning for new development where developers are compelled to deliver, a certain proportion of affordable housing – housing delivered to the market at a particular set price point, which must be retained in perpetuity as affordable housing. There is no quick fix model to our national housing crisis. However, raising awareness to what is happening for others in our local communities, and a discussion about local solutions with multiple stakeholders and an eye to successful social housing models overseas, could be a place to begin.

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Intensification not all bad, say real estate agents There may be unease in some quarters about new housing intensification rules that will take effect next month, but Mahurangi real estate agents are largely upbeat about what this will mean for Warkworth. Ray White Warkworth manager Terrence Banks says proposed changes to the medium-density rules are already seeing property values increase, with a couple of developers recently buying residential properties in the Warkworth area. And rather than Mum and Dad investors, these buyers are looking for multiple properties next to each other, Banks says. While there may be concerns by some homeowners over losing sun and having multistorey town houses built close to their boundary, their property values are unlikely to be negatively affected, he says. The potential for development on their own land will still see their property’s value also increase. Banks believes this will also see more buyers interested in this area generally. “They won’t necessarily want to develop themselves, rather they will see it as a good investment with that potential for the future,” he says. While the large developments either planned or underway will supply more housing, these will take time to deliver. “They won’t happen fast enough to meet the current housing shortage,” he says. Barfoot and Thompson Warkworth manager Mehran Zareian sees the intensification as a good opportunity to provide affordable housing for young people who currently can’t afford to buy and are struggling to stay in the area. “We need the younger generation to be the future workforce, so we need them to live locally,” he says. While high-end town housing is likely, he also sees larger residential apartment blocks going up with one and two bedroom apartments. He’d like to see developers being mindful

of parking issues as locals don’t tend to use public transport. Body corporates providing parking or supplying pool cars could be a good idea. Harveys Warkworth Real Estate owner Greg Allen-Baines agrees property values will go up. It may make people uncomfortable, but this will make their land more valuable, he says. The ability to build is one of the first things vendors ask about. Allen-Baines can only see good things attached to the intensification because of the benefits it will bring the area economically. While he wouldn’t like to see Warkworth become like Howick or Pakuranga, there is no doubt more money will come into the area, he says. While Banks also sees the economic returns for the area, he acknowledges there will be a lot of pressure on the town’s schools, roading and infrastructure, with wastewater treatment likely to be a limiting factor for new builds for a couple of years. The wastewater treatment facilities in Warkworth are at capacity and the new Snells Beach plant is still a couple of years away from being operational. Warkworth has always been a commuter town and Banks expects this to markedly increase when Ara Tūhono Puhoi to Warkworth motorway opens next year. L J Hooker Warkworth owner Viv Wyatt says some residential property may perhaps sell for a tidy profit, but he feels for the people who are happy with the town as it is, but who will have neighbouring developments forced on them. The character of the town will change, he says. Wyatt feels the Mahurangi River has been overlooked as an asset to the town and he hopes good quality development along it will help it reach its full potential. He says the changes will be good for businesses, with intensification making it less likely the town will be by-passed once the motorway extension heads further north towards Whangarei.

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When Greg Allen-Baines first moved to Warkworth in 1989, he says the town was a quiet place in winter, mainly servicing the surrounding farms. In the intervening years, and as one of the town’s longest serving real estate agents, he has watched as Mahurangi has become a magnet for Aucklanders looking to downsize and retire. He says as more people came through Warkworth and Matakana on their way to Omaha, the area became a destination in its own right. And while he may have worked in the industry for nearly 25 years, and is the principal of Harveys Real Estate Warkworth with wife Amanda Wynne, his career happened by necessity rather than by design. Allen-Baines and his family moved to the sleepy Warkworth area from Pakuranga after he left the police force and bought Sports World, retailing sports equipment. But a serious car accident not long after they arrived turned their lives upside down. Allen-Baines was in hospital for three months and unable to work for a year. His father-in-law and a friend pulled out all the stops and managed to keep the business operating during that time, he says. “I’ll be forever grateful for their extraordinary help.” But it was clear keeping the business long term might not be possible, and ultimately it was sold. While still in hospital, his father suggested he do some real estate papers, and this became Allen-Baines focus as he recovered.

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“Real estate work has always been very competitive in this area and those that have really done well had a lot of experience.” Starting his career in his forties, he befriended sales stalwart Ken Bogue, who became something of a mentor as AllenBaines navigated his way by correspondence through a four-year Graduate Diploma in Business Studies (Real Estate) with Massey University. That saw him not only able to sell but also eventually led to him owning his own company. In 1999, Allen-Baines and Viv Wyatt, who is also one of the longest selling agents in the area, bought a Harveys franchise together, eventually parting ways nearly 15 years later.

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Snells Beach wet footpath saga unsolved after a decade An almost permanent patch of wet soil and dirty water seeping from a Snells Beach path is still causing grief for local residents, a decade after it first appeared. The rusty puddle and soggy sidewalk is on the corner of Aurora Avenue and Hapuka Close at the northern end of Snells, and long-term residents remember it first appearing when infrastructure for the new development first went in around 10 years ago. Despite numerous complaints to Watercare, Auckland Council and even telco providers – the damp patch surrounds a service box – by local residents over the years, the path remains flooded, forcing walkers into the road. Lorraine Mildon has lived next to the affected stretch of pavement since 2017. She said despite countless complaints and several site visits, no one had ever solved the problem. “They’ve all investigated it,” she said. “Nobody knows for sure what it is. “It’s quite embarrassing actually, because it’s right outside our place and it looks like we don’t care, and we do care.” Neighbour Amanda Wynne is the latest to try to get the problem sorted, with complaints to Watercare and Council, plus a Facebook post that attracted dozens of posts of support. “I like to go for a walk and I see people walking their dogs, mums pushing pushchairs and there’s someone living here in a wheelchair, and we all have to use the road,” she said. “The majority of people who live down here are retired or semi-retired, exactly the people you don’t want falling over and breaking their bones.” She said Watercare had told her it was runoff, not a leak, and therefore a Council matter, so she had passed all her correspondence to Rodney Local Board deputy chair Beth Houlbrooke in the hope

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of making progress. Houlbrooke said she had referred the complaints to the Community Facilities and Compliance departments. “Unfortunately, the compliance team has been the victim of staff cuts over the past couple of years and we are seeing the effects of those cuts show up in examples like this. They simply don’t have the staff to follow up every complaint,” she said. “That is one of the reasons the local board is funding

two compliance wardens from our own discretionary funds.” She said in the meantime, she had asked for the path to be water-blasted to remove any slime and make it less slippery. Meanwhile, the Mildon family believes the problem is nothing to do with broken pipes or runoff, but is most likely to be a natural spring coming up through iron-rich soils, giving the water its rusty appearance. Lorraine’s daughter, Jodene, said she

remembered playing in the area as a child when it was a campground, and there was always a muddy patch full of water in the same spot. Houlbrooke said if that was the case, there could be a relatively straightforward fix. “If it is a spring, then perhaps an area of raised boardwalk would be the answer, which allows the water to run under it,” she said. “I’ll raise it with community facilities.”

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Members of the Taoist Tai Chi Society, from Warkworth and Wellsford, raised funds for the World Vision 40-hour famine appeal on July 2 and 3. Together, they completed 218 sets, raising just over $400. A tai chi set comprises 108 moves and takes around 20 minutes to complete. It is a physical and meditative movement designed to improve health. Spokesperson Lyn HamiltonHunter says taoist tai chi also has its values deeply set in volunteerism and service. “It was an honour to give what we could to the appeal again this year,” she says. “We would like to extend a special thanks to

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Seniors’ support and advocacy group Age Concern is vowing to be more bold and vocal on issues affecting older people in future. Age Concern NZ national president Wayne Bradshaw said the organisation was altering what it did to reflect the nation’s ageing population, a quarter of whom are now aged 65 or over. “Our organisation is changing what we do and how we look to better reflect our older population in New Zealand,” he said. “We are shifting the perceptions of ageing, standing up to ageist attitudes and policy, and focusing on programmes and activities that support dignity, wellbeing and social connections.” He was speaking at the launch of a new image for Age Concern, which features three huia feathers to reflect the mana – prestige or authority – of older adults and the leadership role Age Concern takes. New chief executive Karen Billings-Jensen said the charity had changed significantly since it was launched 70 years ago and a refresh was timely, though Age Concern’s core values would not be forgotten.

“Age Concern’s identity had been one of service in the past, with a focus on the concern and serving people’s needs,” she said. “That is an important part of our history, and still in our DNA, but the changes we are making are about being bold, progressive and vocal on issues affecting older people and their families.” The local branch, Age Concern Rodney, is based in Orewa and provides a variety of services to seniors from Te Hana and Wellsford down to the Hibiscus Coast, across to Helensville, and everywhere in between. Staff and volunteers provide an elder abuse and neglect prevention service, driver refresher courses, advocacy, information resources, educational workshops, disability equipment hire, a visiting service and social activities. Karen Billings-Jensen will be guest speaker at Rodney’s annual meeting, which will also be a celebration of the group’s 25th anniversary. The meeting and lunch will be held at St John’s Catholic Church in Centreway, Orewa on Friday, August 5 at 10am. All welcome. Info: https://www.ageconcern.org.nz/Public/Around_NZ/ Rodney.aspx

Marjorie Grant has been celebrating birthdays for a very long time.

100 year celebration Marjorie Grant celebrated her 100th birthday on Saturday, July 2 at home in Warkworth. Cards were received from the Queen, PM Jacinda Ardern, the Governor General, Auckland Mayor Phil Goff, local MPs, various government agencies and many friends. Marjorie’s four children – Kerry, Roger, Diane and Linda – as well as many grandchildren, great grandchildren and friends joined the celebration. The impressive lunch included Marjorie’s favourite egg sandwiches and a massive cake. Marjorie, nee Le Gallais, and four sisters grew up on a farm near Tauhoa on the Kaipara Harbour. She was a seamstress in Auckland during the war years and raised her family with Laurie on the Grant farm at Wayby Valley, just south of Wellsford. She later moved to Auckland, returning to Warkworth a few years ago, and is being cared for by family. Marjorie reflected on being accepting of changes socially and in modernisation over those years. She still keeps busy and is a keen news bulletin watcher.

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First generation children This is a story of a child born in Scotland in 1853. Christened Robert Ross, by Gaelic speaking parents, he arrived in New Zealand as a six-year-old in 1859. On the journey from Britain, the lad was accompanied by his father, mother and three sisters. But after arrival in Auckland, it wasn’t long before four more boys were added to the family. They eventually moved to Kaiwaka, where their father built a house. The young lad played with the local Maori children and quickly learned their language. By now he was called Bob and was taught lessons at home by his mother and older sisters, and an occasional teacher who would pass through the district and hold lessons in private homes. He learned how to do simple sums and how to read and write with other children, who ranged in age from five years old to mid-teens. By the age of 12, he was helping his father to cultivate and break in the land, as well as working with cattle and horses and doing the work of a man, which was not unusual for youth at that time. One day, his father said to him that he had to walk north over the bush-clad hills to the settlement at Waipu and purchase a bullock from one of the Nova Scotian families up there. His

father pinned the money into the boy’s jacket and sent him on his way. After several hours, the lad met up with some men at Waipu and asked if they would sell him a bullock. In English, he told them the price that his father was prepared to pay for one. They chatted amongst themselves in Gaelic then told him in English that his price offered was too low. The boy responded in Gaelic and they got such a surprise at his knowledge that they gave him the animal at his price. From that time onward, families from both settlements became friends and the lad continued his life, becoming a man of very large stature. A well-known cattle drover, and judge at shows of both cattle and horses, he gained a reputation as a ‘gentle giant’. He owned his own bullock team and contrary to the usual bad language used by team owners on their animals, Bob earned the nickname ‘bother-the-thing’ due to his never being heard to ‘cuss’ or use bad language on his charges, or anyone else, for that matter. There is a road named in his honour around several thousand acres of land he bought from Maori, which became the Topuni pine forest. He is buried near his wife, mother and father at Hakaru cemetery.

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Falling in love with my whenua While the world has been spinning around me for the last three winters, I have been busy. Around 70km per week busy. Walking and jogging myself into complete midlife crisis oblivion, a blissful epiphany that grew inside my heart, right here at home, on my beloved Kaipara Harbour. What started as a commitment, quickly became an addiction, and while the health benefits for my body are self-explanatory, they rapidly became just the mere by-product of an insatiable appetite to feed my newfound mental clarity and sense of being. These are the real drivers that push my body along day after day on its incredible new life journey. I’m constantly finding new and intense details in my seemingly barren and repetitive surrounds, now as never before, the tiniest elements of nature and the smallest of changes within it, sends skyrockets of wonderment ricocheting inside my brain and bursting out my imagination. A full-blown addiction that is fuelled by the drugs of my natural world – my whenua. My new space in this world is like a crazy, exciting storybook that is bound together by the personal metaphors I derive from the nature that engulfs me. My new lens now focuses on developing my forever love stories, as you will see. In bare feet I roam – mostly alone. The nakedness of my soles massaging against her vast tidal flats, is my connection and intimacy to the soul of this harbour. Today is very cold and “My Lady” (the Harbour) is restless, dark skies abound and a storm is all around, the tide is high and the rain in firing down. I move slowly into her as the water rises to my thigh, my feet are freezing, but melt into her muddy floor like ice-cream atop of pavement on a hot summer’s day. Below the surface of her bed I move, my stride high and long as I wish not to disturb the gentle billowing sheets wafting across her from the prevailing winds. Wading forward, I watch as flocks of migratory birds come to land on her, a devoted pair of Mallard ducks on a date fly down and wait while the dark clouds begin to escape. With the curtains drawn and the sun peeking through to shine I rest a minute and take my place to watch what I call my natural theatre delight. It’s showtime for a performance of Swan Lake. The black swans have come back to present another season of their ballet. Gracefully they glide and pirouette on the water,

long necks reaching to the sky, elegant fully stretched wings skim the ripples of the tide. The dark clouds move in again, a curtain call; as the thunder claps, all the birds begin to fly, it’s a standing ovation in the sky. I surge forward in the water until I reach and reach the sandy shore where my lady is exposed to the Tasman Sea. She is wild, rampant, running free. The rain hammers down on me as I pick up my pace, the vision through my spectacles fractures like broken glass from the giant baubles of rain that are hurled at them through the wind. My vision is blurred, but for the first time I can see with a mind that is longing to be. Now my imagination kicks into hyper-drive as my body warms inside of me. Big curly waves crash the shore, bringing with them decorations galore, shells, driftwood, and seaweed scatter recklessly – perhaps my lady is bringing a party unto thee? The howling wind blows the seas foaming bubbles across in front of me and to the left of me there are more decorations to see. The sandy dunes with their torn away faces have exposed the long tangly roots of native grasses. Natures party streamers dangle so pretty in high places. Kilometres continue to move beneath my soles when I stumble across the coloured party balloons. Blue bottle jellyfish displaced from the storm lie on their backs and puff their little bellies into the sky. Minerals in the sand and raindrops sparkle, are they disco balls or is it a dream? I pull my headphones down as my hair takes the hand of the wind and dances. Leonard Cohen brings me the sound– Hallelujah. I run, twirl and spin, all alone in my imaginary world, jumping over jellyfish balloons and chasing the wind. So magical is my world I slow my pace and fall to my knees, and in the howling wind and rain, I reach my arms to the sky and from the edge of the Kaipara Harbour I draw from her lips Hall-elu-jah. So that’s the end of my party for today, but please don’t go away I have so much more to say. Next time let me tell you about, the Kaipara Louvre and her art, the naked lady sunbathers on display, the boxing crabs and the hands of the Grinch. See you next month, when my whenua comes back to play.

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Hotel hosts art exhibition The talent of young Mahurangi College students will be on display at the Art in August exhibition and sale at the Warkworth Hotel next month. The three-day exhibition, supported by One Mahurangi and Warkworth Oaks, will also include a number of professional artists following last year’s successful format. Arts head of faculty Nyree Norrington says there is a lot of benefit in students being given the opportunity to see their work hung alongside the work of professional artists. “Many of these students don’t go to galleries in Auckland, so it is quite a special experience for them and they can see the value of what they do,” she says. There will be around 200 works in the exhibition. Ten per cent of all the

professional pieces sold will be donated to the school’s art department, while students get to keep 100 per cent of their sales. Last year, this amounted to around $6000. Professional artists exhibiting include Lucy Rice, Jeantime Pulsford, Val Griffith Jones, Arlin Sukarlin, Nikki Robertson, Fiona Ehn and Jadzia Mchna-Konigstorfer. Norrington says the exhibition will feature a range of styles and techniques, as well as photography. “It is a great way for the school to connect with the town.” The exhibition will be open to the public at the following times: Friday August 5, from 10am-6pm; Saturday, August 6, 10am-4pm; and Sunday August 7, from 10am-2pm.

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The government’s current raft of environmental policy reforms have come in for criticism from leading agricultural lobby groups, after their pleas for a slowdown fell on deaf ears. Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ), Federated Farmers and Deer Industry New Zealand say farmers are struggling to keep up and wrote to ministers calling for a pause in its latest indigenous biodiversity proposals and an extension to the six-week consultation period. However, Climate Change Minister James Shaw said this wouldn’t be considered.

B+LNZ chief executive Sam McIvor said the response was disappointing. “Farmers are already inundated by water, climate and conservation policy changes – not to mention reforms of the entire Resource Management Act itself,” he said. “These issues are having a significant impact across the agriculture sector and it’s disappointing that the Government isn’t even allowing for four more weeks of consultation.” McIvor said the groups would be writing to the government urging them to reconsider.

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Kaipara farm life chronicled Barry Blennerhassett is among a growing number of people who are putting their life story into book form for posterity. Now 90, Blennerhassett and wife Lorraine have just donated a copy of his life story The Boy from the Kaipara Hills to the Warkworth Library to add to its collection of local voices. It was pressure from his children 10 years ago that initially saw Blennerhassett take to the keyboard and begin to write about his life. The hardships include growing up on a farm in the Kaipara Hills after the Great Depression with no electricity or reticulated water for the dairy cows. The book covers how his mother died when he was 10 and his father’s struggles to cope, and Barry meeting and marrying the love of his life,

Lorraine – now married for 64 years – and a long career in rural accounting in Wellsford. He also writes about the 32-year second career in dairy farming he had before retiring to Warkworth. Along the way the couple raised a family and travelled. Some accounts are intensely painful, like the death of a much-loved son at just 10 years of age. Others are surprising and pleasant, such as when Blennerhassett turned up to a Jaycees dinner to find himself the guest of honour with former Prime Minister Sir Walter Nash presenting him with Jaycees highest international award, a Life Membership Senatorship. The book is dedicated to Lorraine, who was also involved with its creation, including taking photographs for the project.

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Composite Joinery is a long standing, very successful aluminium joinery manufacturer based in Warkworth, seeking additional skilled employees to complement our specialist team. Skills & Experience. • Experience in aluminium joinery/fabrication and have some knowledge/ability in using hand tools • Fabrication, manufacturing • Working from plans/ drawings, basic computer skills and have a desire to learn a trade. • Able to follow instruction and adhere to in house systems, policies and Health & Safety conscious • You must be adaptable and willing to learn, training provided. • If you have a current drivers licence (or could obtain one) • A good work ethic and want to be part of a team that offers stable employment in a busy expanding market, we are keen to hear from you. • This is a full time position involving both factory production and onsite work. Overtime may be required. Salary is negotiable, in line with experience If you are interested in this position kindly apply with your CV and contact details to Les@compositejoinery.co.nz Ph: 021 313 493

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Community Support positions (with Spectrum Care), caring and working with two young men with moderate disabilities. Snells Beach home with a range of rostered hours available. Contact - Mel Fergusson 027 8142 026 At the presentation were, standing from left, The Forest Bridge Trust chief executive Craig Presland, overall winner Roger Williams and team advisor Anne Ginders. Front, from left, Beau McKay Sutherland, Siara Karuna and field team advisor Michelle Worth.

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Can you spare up to 4hrs a week? If you have a good head for figures and you would like to assist people in the Warkworth/ Wellsford/Mangawhai area with budgeting advice, we would like to hear from you. Full training provided and costs reimbursed. Applicants must have own reliable transport. For more details phone the Warkworth/Wellsford Budget Service 021 423 788

An art competition on The Forest Bridge Trust theme of Enhance, Protect, Connect has delivered some new designs for the trust’s greeting cards. Overall winner was Roger Williams, of Warkworth, with a series of five bird drawings. Home-schooled Siara Karuna and Beau McKay Sutherland, of Matakana,

also received prizes for their entries. Forest Bridge team advisor Anne Ginders said she was pleased with the number and standard of entries. The trust is working towards creating a connected landscape of healthy forest and indigenous wildlife from the Kaipara Harbour to the East Coast of Mahurangi.

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A roundupof of sports activities and eventsin in THe the district a Roundup spoRTs acTiviTies disTRicT Mangawhai Golf Club Register now for the 9 Hole Mixed Open being held on Monday August 9 at 9.30am. One men’s division, two ladies divisions. $20 entry fee, $15 lunch. Registrations close August 8. Contact Chrissy Burrows on 027 227 4297 or email cl.burrows@xtra.co.nz. Warkworth Tennis and Squash Club, Week Two of the Warkworth Squash School Holiday Programme, July 21 & 22, 9am-noon. Suitable for 8-15 year old students. $30 for the two days. Booking essential. Contact Kaye Jackson on 021 135 7574 or email squashykaye@icloud.com. Mahurangi Rugby Club A MRFC Special General Meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 19 at 6pm with a specific agenda to “adopt the new changes to the constitution”. The meeting is at the A&P Showgrounds in Warkworth. Netball Rodney Centre Games are starting back on Friday, July 29 and/or Saturday, July 30. Also, nominations for the Cadbury Volunteer of the Month are open and can be entered online at https://www.sporty.co.nz/viewform/194846 or contact Jenna at volunteer@netballnz.co.nz. Matakana Junior Football Club Want to design the new club emblem? A unique design opportunity awaits! Contact Kelab on 027 529 4569 or matakanasoccer@gmail.com. Kaipara Basketball MINIBALL Learn the basics of basketball in a fun environment. For Years 3-6 students only. Tuesdays and/or Thursdays, starts August 9. Contact Cyrena at basketball. kaipara@gmail.com or Blake at blake@ruraldesign.co.nz. The Recliner Rockers Back by popular demand and playing on Saturday, August 6 at the Puhoi Sports and Community Club. Tickets are $25 and can be picked up from the club from Thursday, 4.30pm, or you can send a message on the Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ puhoisportsandcommunityclub.

Many of the Wood Street troughs are empty and looking a little unloved.

Pep-up planned for planters Kaipara District Council’s long-running initiative to improve and upgrade Wood Street in Mangawhai is focusing on foliage over the coming weeks, with improvements planned for roadside plant containers. A spokesperson said work was being carried out to remediate and replant concrete planters and troughs that line the street, some of which have plants in and others that have wooden benchtops, but many are empty at present. “Contractors are removing soil, fixing drainage and adding new native greenery to a number of the temporary concrete containers. The work will happen over the next two to three weeks,” the spokesperson said. The work is part of an interim design that will remain in place until the permanent upgrade takes place next year. In the meantime, the project team is working on “the last bits and bobs” of the final design. The long-running process has been going on since 2019, when Mangawhai Business

Association approached Council over high levels of traffic, congestion and pedestrian safety in and around Wood Street, which are worst during the peak summer season and public holidays. Since then, numerous community workshops, trials, surveys and data monitoring have been carried out, as new layouts and designs have been tried out. The biggest changes have been making Wood Street one-way and the introduction of new parking arrangements and traffic calming measures. However, the process has not been without its critics, with many locals complaining on social media about issues including traffic congestion, the safety of pedestrian crossing areas and painted street art becoming slippery when wet. The upgrade was made possible thanks to 90 per cent funding by Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency, which awarded Council $455,000 from its Innovating Streets for People programme in 2020 for the interim design.

Kaipara Flats Disco has been postponed to Saturday, September 17. This 70s and 80s disco ToTalspan Rodney is raising funds for the Kaipara Flats Sports Club extension. Tickets are $30pp or $50 for two. This 229 HigHway 1 425 549 or visit the Kaipara Flats Sports Club on eventsTaTe is R18. Contact Mikey on 021 Facebook. waRkwoRTH pHone 09 422 3149

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Wellsford Golf Club offers a scenic 18-hole golf course in a rural setting and it might surprise you just how good it is. The clubhouse, which includes a fully stocked bar and on-site caterer, is available for hire. A great place for your next corporate event with use of both the golf course and squash courts. We have the cheapest green fees in the region. 18 Holes green fees $30.00 7 days; 9 Holes $25. Become a member; first year membership $395 (Conditions Apply). Come and join us today.

College on national stage

Mahurangi College students Mary Innes and Tessa Berger won the speech contest at the FMG Junior Young Farmers of the Year grand final in Whangārei held earlier this month. Women dominated the awards, with a duo from Christchurch Girls’ High School taking out the title of the 2022 FMG Junior Young Farmers of the Year. Erin Humm and Amelia Ridgen also topped the points in the face off competition held at the Semenoff Stadium. A total of 14 teams from around NZ competed in the two day final. Young Farmers chief executive Lynda Coppersmith said it was fantastic to see high school students’ knowledge of the food and fibre sector on full display. “All 14 Grand Final teams and those who competed in regional finals truly are an inspiration to the future of the industry,” she said.

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Ten clubs will be selected to receive $30,000 worth of Bunnings products and materials to improve their clubrooms to be more inclusive for female rugby players. Between 2015 and 2020, the number of girls and women playing rugby increased from 17,825 to 31,035. However, community clubs are struggling to provide adequate sporting facilities to meet the needs of female players. New Zealand Rugby general manager of community rugby, Steve Lancaster said that at a local level, the women’s game had real momentum and was growing in popularity. “It is great to have Bunnings Warehouse on board as a partner, helping bring our club facilities up to standard, so they are meeting the needs of female participants.” Applications close on July 29. Info: www.

Two Mahurangi players joined a Harbour Hibiscus Farah Palmer Cup training run at the Silverdale United Rugby Club on July 9. They were Abbie Lethbridge and Alice Cleland. The training was followed by a fun activities session with about 30 young female players, which included kicking, passing and an introduction to tackling. Also present on the day was former Mahurangi College student Tenaija Fletcher, who is a Blues Aupiki rugby rep and the captain of the Harbour FPC team. Silverdale plans to enter a women’s team next season, after a gap of four years. Named after global women’s rugby icon Dr Farah Palmer, the Cup is the sole women’s provincial rugby competition in NZ. Meanwhile, community rugby clubs across Aotearoa have the chance to apply for a Bunnings Rugby Assist grant to support women’s rugby.

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July 21

Forest & Bird Warkworth Area Branch, Totara Park Village Hall, Melwood Drive, Warkworth, 7.30pm. Talk by bird expert Tony Crocker, Poles Apart – Antarctica and the High Arctic. Please wear a mask, and stay home if you’re unwell. Otherwise, all welcome.

Glow Show, Warkworth Town Hall (see story p20)

Public meeting on finance, hosted by Kaipara ki Mahurangi MP Chris Penk, Old Masonic Hall, 3 Baxter Street Warkworth, 6pm (see ad p13)

Cohousing Talk by Robin Allison, Leigh Hall, 7pm. Gold coin koha (see story p26&27)

Response to Our World Exhibition opening night, Foundation Gallery & Arts Hub Leigh (see story p18)

Matakana Estate & Mahurangi Oysters, oyster and wine pop-up, 11am-4pm. Entry $14, which included 1x glass of wine or beer

Winter Festival of Lights Laser Light Show, Baxter Street, Warkworth, 3-9pm. Music, rides, food, VR games and glow in the dark golf. Info: www.mahulightfestival.nz

Warkworth Music presents violinist Yuka Eguchi and pianist Kemp English, Warkworth Town Hall, 4pm (see story p18 )

Rotary Speaker Series, The Bridgehouse, 5.30pm (see ad this page)

Democracy vs Co-Governance public meeting, organised by Unify NZ, Warkworth Town Hall, 6.30pm (see story p33)

Kaipara Kaimoana Festival, Te Hana Te Ao Marama cultural centre, 11.15am2.30pm (see ad p19)

Waipu Winter Festival jam, Waipu Citizens & Services Club, 2pm. Entry by koha. Musicians welcome. Havana Groove playing from 3.30 pm. Door sales to public $10

People & Pets Parade, Waipu Town Centre, 10am. Tartan-clad animals and owners walk through town to The Vet Centre. Prizes and sausage sizzle.

August 2

Greenhouse Workshop for farmers, Tomarata (see brief p39)

Warkworth Area Liaison Group meeting, Warkworth RSA downstairs meeting room, 7pm. All welcome.

Warkworth Beekeepers meeting, Matakana Hall, 7pm. Raffle, guest speaker and hive news. All welcome.

Mahurangi College Open Day, 9.30-11.30am and 1-3pm (see ad p9)

Age Concern Rodney meet and lunch, St John’s Catholic Church, Centreway Rd, Orewa, 10am. All welcome (see story p 34)

5-7

Art in August, Warkworth Hotel, and exhibition of curated student and professional art (see story p38)

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Don’t Dress for Dinner, Warkworth Theatre Group, Warkworth Town Hall. Fast-paced farce by Marc Camoletti and Robin Hawdon. Times (inc matinee performances) and tickets: www.wwtheatre.co.nz. Tickets also available from Mahurangi Matters and on the door

Catwalk Arts, Hibiscus Coast Youth Centre, Orewa, 2pm and 7pm shows (see story p18)

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Treat yourself to an evening full of local information and good company • Community Food Rescue • Matakana Olive Oil • Leigh Marine

Tawharanui Open Sanctuary planting day, 9am-1pm (see ad p21)

Festival of Ideas, Old Masonic Hall, Baxter St Warkworth, 2-5pm. All welcome (see story p5)

Daffodil Day Quiz Night, Warkworth Bowls Club Mill Lane, 5.30pm for 6pm start. Tables of 4-6, $25pp includes dinner. Reserve a table at the ANZ Warkworth Branch call Charlene on 021 831 488.

Tea & Talk, Warkworth Museum – come and hear a collection of old Warkworth stories, inspired by photographs in the 2023 calendar, 10am. $5 entry, booking advised

Mayoral Candidates Meeting, Warkworth Town Hall, 7pm, organised by the Northern Action Group

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Celebrating the Omaha Club success were, from left, Charlie Wood, Linda Crisford, Tania Wood, David Redding and Gayleen Redding.

The Manning family took home two awards.

Ian Godfrey’s many years of service were recognised on the night.

Charlie Wood (left) was presented with the Junior Coach Award by Tim Rogers.

while keeping a fun, family feel to their club.” Williams said Ōmaha fostered impressive growth in its junior surf programme and was able to ensure junior members received a great programme over the summer, despite being heavily restricted in what they could run. “When you talk to Ōmaha club members, the word ‘family’ is often used to describe the club and how it feels when you’re there. They may be getting bigger, but they retain that feeling.” On the individual front, Omaha’s Charlie Wood picked up the Junior Coach of the Year award, Waipu’s Angela Stolwek received a Distinguished Service Award and Waipu Cove’s Ian Godfrey received a Long Service Award.

The family theme extended through a number of individual honours. Father and daughter duo Rob and Nicky Howes (Whangārei Heads) were awarded life memberships, along with close family friend and club colleague Lindsay Hill, while to the south at Waipū Cove SLSC, husband and wife Tim and Kath Manning received Service Awards and daughter Laura won Rookie of the Year. Williams said the family vibe within the surf lifesaving movement was a rich and important part of the culture. “It’s an important part of lifesaving being able to continue to produce the lifeguarding numbers we need to keep our beach-going population safe. But it also adds immensely to the sense of community at our clubs.”

Ōmaha Beach clinches top surf honour Ōmaha Surf Life Saving Club has won the coveted title of Top Club at the Surf Life Saving Northern Region (SLSNR) Awards of Excellence held earlier this month. Northern Region chief executive Matt Williams said club epitomised the strong “family” trait seen throughout the movement – as did a number of other recipients this year. A first-time winner of the award, Ōmaha saw substantial growth in the 2021/22 season with an increase of passionate members coming through their ranks. “The club deserved the title given its response to the challenges posed by Covid-19,” Williams said. “It maintained an incredible standard of patrolling, refreshing 84 per cent of its lifeguards, as well as keeping members skilled in multiple pathways – all the

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