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Social media fears stalk college classrooms Mahurangi College has stepped up efforts to educate students about the dangers of social media after girls as young as 11 were propositioned and asked to post nude photographs of themselves online.

The communications came to light after students reported concerns about the behaviour of one online predator in particular.

When the school investigated, it found that some Year 7 and Year 8

girls had more than 1000 followers on their Instagram accounts.

In a letter to parents, assistant principal Christina Merrick said it was clear that the girls could not know all these people and it left them vulnerable.

“When students accept friend invitations from people they do not know, this is when they are stepping into dangerous territory,” she wrote.

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that many girls spoken to under the age of 13 had Instagram accounts, even though the networking service recommended users were aged 13 or above.

Warkworth Police acting station sergeant Jon Williams said the police were investigating one online predator in connection with the Instagram incidents involving Mahurangi College students, and the matter had been referred to the North Shore

Child Abuse Team.

Snr Constable Williams said whether it was an offence to ask a child for a nude photograph of themselves was something of a grey area, though a predator could risk prosecution for “online grooming” of a child.

He said if a predator received a nude photograph of a child under 16 then it would clearly be an offence, as they would then be in possession of an continued page 2

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Sgt Williams said there was only so much the police could do to stop online predators and it was critical children were better educated about the dangers and parents took more responsibility for their children’s activities online.

He was especially critical of parents who allowed their children to be up all night alone in their rooms with their devices.

“They are opening kids up to bringing predators into their bedrooms. They would not let some pervert come and sit in their 12 year old’s bedroom. Yet they will let them go online and talk openly with these people,” he said.

Sgt Williams said he gave a talk to Year 9 students at the college recently and asked them who had a device in their room at night.

“Virtually every single hand in the room went up. That amazed me.”

Meanwhile, Ms Merrick says Mahurangi College has created a social media project team that has both students and teachers working on incorporating education about the responsible use of social media into more areas of the curriculum.

“As a school, we are going to be talking to all of the students about responsible use of social media and ensure all of the girls know about privacy settings and how to be safe online. These messages are part of our programmes, but we will go over them

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girls were harmed, though they were disturbed by the predator’s behaviour.

She urged parents not to let children sign up for social media accounts until they met the age guidelines.

“Some children are just too young to navigate the complexity of running such accounts,” she said.

again,” she says.

“We also hope to hold digital workshops for parents at the beginning of next year where our senior students will run workshops on educating parents about social media, Google Classroom and much more.”

Ms Merrick said in this instance, no

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$1 billion northern railway upgrade spurs controversy Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and Regional Development Minister Shane Jones last week announced a nearly $1 billion investment to revive the railway between Auckland and Whangarei, but the response has been mixed.

The planned work will include replacing or upgrading almost a third of the line, maintenance work on 13 tunnels, replacing five aging bridges and improving numerous drains and culverts.

The 181km line runs from Auckland to Helensville, through Kaipara Flats, Wellsford, Topuni, Kaiwaka, Maungaturoto and up to Whangarei.

KiwiRail group chief executive Greg Miller said decades of decline had caused damage that would have closed the rail line for business within a year.

“Currently, 95 per cent of the freight in Northland is moved by road and the improvements to the North Auckland line (NAL) are the foundation for addressing that imbalance.”

Logistics industry magnates Don Braid, of Mainfreight, and former Whangarei Mayor Stan Semenoff, of Semenoff Transport, both came out in support of the upgrade, saying their companies would investigate using rail transport solutions.

But Northland MP Matt King says the announcement shows the government doesn’t have its transport investment priorities straight.

“Rail is not commercially viable, and to throw money at it when 99 per cent of freight movement in the north is by road shows a complete disregard for common sense. Rail cannot compete with trucks, and businesses demonstrate this by voting with their feet,” he says.

“It’s pretty telling that despite muchneeded state highway improvements, road is still the first choice for transport in and out of Northland. Unlike the Government, National is prepared to invest in a four-lane highway from Warkworth to Whangarei.”

Rodney Local Board member Colin Smith, whose town of Wellsford

MERRA committee member Stuart Windross says the railway upgrade is “just the ticket.”

sits directly on the line, also says investment in rail is not practical.

Mr Smith points to the fact that cargo transported on trains still has to be loaded and unloaded to be moved by trucks on either end, which is inefficient and not necessarily an improvement on the industry’s carbon footprint.

“If they had any brains they would pull the rail out and turn that corridor into a highway for trucking. It would take

all the trucks off the road and, thanks to a flatter incline, could have goods transported to and from Auckland within two hours.

“We are talking about the 21st century, not the 18th century. That rail was put in 100 years ago during the war when we didn’t have decent roads.”

But the rail upgrade has been welcomed by the Mahurangi East Residents and Ratepayers Association

(MERRA), which has been lobbying for rail solution for transporting waste to and from Waste Management’s proposed Dome Valley landfill.

MERRA committee member Stuart Windross says the railway upgrade is “just the ticket.”

“Given the upgrade, we expect Kiwirail and Waste Management to work together to help take 451 return trips worth of trucks off the road.”

Stuart says once an application for a resource consent for the landfill has been made, MERRA will advocate for rail in subsequent hearings.

“The fuel burn is 20,000 litres per day for the rubbish trucks on the road.

It’s my understanding that rail could reduce that by 65 per cent.”

KiwiRail says it aims to complete the majority of the NAL work within the next year.

Northland Waste facility future debated A two-day hearing into a resource consent application by Northland Waste to build and operate a waste management centre at 183 Sandspit Road was held in Warkworth last week.

The 3.6 hectare site, which is currently occupied by Wyatt Haulage and Landscaping Supplies, is zoned future urban and Council has recommended the application be declined on the grounds it is contrary to the objectives and policies of the zone.

Northland Waste previously leased sites at Lawrie Road in Snells Beach and Rustybrook Road in Wellsford, before Council terminated the leases earlier this year.

The company is proposing to build a $3 million undercover facility at the Sandspit Road site to deal with domestic, commercial and industrial waste, clean fill material, green waste and recyclable material, with household quantities of hazardous wastes accepted for special handling, storage and disposal.

It will be developed in two stages, initially receiving up to 15,000 tonnes of

waste a year from the rubbish collection fleet only. A maximum of 15 trucks (30 truck movements) and a maximum of 10 cars (20 car movements) will visit the site a day at stage one.

The operation would double in stage two when the facility would start accepting waste from the public. By stage two, it was estimated there would be up to 200 vehicle movements a day.

Council planners conceded that the project was consistent with some objectives and policies, notably those pertaining to earthworks, stormwater management, transport, industrial trade waste, noise and odours.

However, reporting officer Junitta Fretton said the proposal was an urban industrial activity, which was not consistent with the recognised rural character of the area.

Seven submitters supported the application, seven were neutral and 47 were against.

The main resource management issue raised in submissions were pest and weed control, and the quality of discharges to streams; odour, dust,

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Northland Waste counsel, Jeremy Brabant, said a key issue facing Auckland was its ability to enable growth, particularly in terms of housing choice, supply and the provision of land for urbanisation.

“This proposal locates waste management infrastructure on a site already hosting commercial activity, located within a quarry buffer zone, adjacent to a working quarry,” Mr Brabant said. “The proposal responds to several resource management imperatives while not undermining the broader intention of the holding zone.”

He said consent with conditions would be appropriate.

The hearing was held in the Old Masonic Hall on September 11 and 12.

The commissioners – Richard Blakely (chair), Peter Reaburn and Mark Farnsworth – have 15 working days after the closure of the hearing to make a decision.

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It would help improve the understanding between farmers and non-farmers, as desired by GrassFed founder Nicky Berger (MM Sept 4), if the full story was told about farming in New Zealand. For example, demonstration farms such as NZ Dairy’s Owl Farm and Lincoln University System 2 farm, show that in terms of dairy emissions reduction, anything up to 24 per cent can be achieved without any drop in farm profitability. The Lincoln University farm herd size was reduced by 16 per cent and milk production increased and profitability rose 40 per cent.

Similarly, Owl Farm has reduced total greenhouse gas emissions by eight per cent and lifted operating profit per hectare by 14 per cent through improving management practices.

Based on additional modelling, further farm management changes involving reduced feed use and lowering the stocking rate is expected to increase profitability by another 21 per cent, reduce nitrate leaching by 14 per cent and greenhouse gas emissions by 13 per cent. If the overstocking on many of our farms was reduced there would be important improvements in air, water and soil quality. It is also important to focus on the total picture of the risks of the climate crisis. The 2018 IPCC report warned there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C, beyond which even half a degree will significantly worsen the

risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people. The difference between achieving a 1.5C and 2C target is the death of around 150 million people. That is the equivalent of 25 holocausts, three times the size of the death toll of the Great Leap Forward, and twice the number of deaths occurring in WWII. This will have a significant negative impact on many of the economies of the countries which currently take our exports. This is not to say that there is no place for meat in our future, but it cannot be based on the business-as-usual model and the unscientific premises that underlie it.

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Missing from Mosley

I was disappointed that your front-page article on the animated feature film Mosley did not even mention the man who was the creator and driving force behind the movie – Kirby Atkins. Kirby, and his wife Priscilla and their family, lived in the Warkworth/Snells Beach area for a lengthy period whilst he was setting up and overseeing the process, and finding the large funding amounts required for the movie – this was a long way from their Nashville home. They fitted into the community as “visiting locals”, with their two teenage children attending Mahu College. They are a wonderful, friendly family and as members of the Warkworth Anglican parish, we were all fortunate to get to know them well. Kirby is highly reputed in animated movie circles in

the US, having been very involved in major animated feature film work, and deserves far more recognition here than his absence in your write-up acknowledges. We look forward to you writing a follow-up interesting article on him especially at this exciting end of the journey … please.

Derek Olsen, Kaipara Flats

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Back off, Brent

I cannot remain silent after Rodney First Board member Brent Bailey mounted a personal attack, via social media and in Mahurangi Matters, on fellow Board member Colin Smith and after he made condescending comments on the Wellsford district who elected Mr Smith (MM August 21). Having served on many committees over the past 60 years, including 23 years on a national board, I have never witnessed such an unacceptable personal attack via the public media. In these organisations there was an unwritten code based on respect for others and their varying points of view. In larger organisations like councils, there is a written Code of Conduct designed to ensure business is conducted with goodwill. In the Auckland Council Code of Conduct – for Board members – under the heading “Respect”, it states in section 5.8, “members should treat all others, including Council officers, with respect at all times. This means not using derogatory terms towards others or about others, including public-

Gordon Levet, Wellsford

Baloney from Beth

So, Rodney Local Board chair Beth Houlbrooke believes it to be “unheard of ” for local board candidates to speak to citizens outside of their electorate (MM Sept 4). What a load of rubbish.

Rodney is governed by nine local board representatives and the collective decisions they make are having lasting financial and social impacts on our lives. Voters need to arm themselves with as much information as they can to make educated decisions about who will govern them, especially when there are “tickets” involved. Any candidates from Rodney speaking of their intent out of or within the electorate will be warmly received.

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facing news media”. In another section under the heading Relationships and Behaviours, it states “focus on issues rather than personalities” and “avoid aggressive, offensive and abusive behaviour”. The question here is, do the views expressed by this Rodney First member reflect the view of other members of the team? If so, the Rodney Board is in for a rocky ride with divisions, which will ensure a failure to function in a normal manner. Currently, the rural sector feels marginalised. Because they must own land to conduct their businesses, they pay a high percentage of their income in rates, with some paying more than $30,000 annually. They do not need public transport, water, sewage, footpaths or parks. Their main need is for safe roads that do not wreck their vehicles. Today, many rural roads are in a worse condition than they were more than 75 years ago when I travelled to school in an ancient bus with wooden seats. The local school bus contractor has threatened to curtail his services on a number of occasions due to the unsafe condition of many rural roads. Hopefully, a new Local Board will pursue a direction of reconciliation, where all views are respected, all concerns listened to and where Board members govern for all, not just for the enclave that elected them.

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Battling for the MLR Firstly, I would like to provide an update on the Matakana link road (MLR).

There has been widespread concerns around the delays in starting construction of the MLR in time to be opened with the Puhoi to Warkworth Road of National Significance (RONS). I have initiated a series of meetings with Auckland Transport (AT) and NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) officials, Councillor Greg Sayers and affected land owners to see if an agreement and consensus could be reached without having to follow an appeals process. There is a very high level of engagement and goodwill being shown by all parties to make pragmatic compromises to try to avoid appeals.

At the time of writing, AT signalled to me that a tender document for the construction of the MLR would be released in the next couple of weeks. The completion date will be October 2021, which would bring it in line with the opening of the Puhoi to Warkworth RONS. I I made it clear made it clear there is a high level of scepticism around the practical delivery of the MLR and the there is a high level process should have been started much earlier. I of scepticism around will continue to work with AT, NZTA, our local the practical delivery government representatives and landowners to of the Matakana maintain focus and momentum towards the goal of link road and the having the MLR delivered on time. process should have I had to fight hard to deliver the Puhoi to Warkworth RONS, but I firmly believe that one been started much of the best investments we can make for North earlier.

Rodney and Northland is to have a world class state highway connecting us to our largest city and the rest of the country. I will do everything in my power to ensure there is no delay to the opening of the Puhoi to Warkworth RONS. This has been a recess week, and I always enjoy being back home and in the community. This week I have visited schools, retirement villages, attended the opening of the Mahurangi Wastebusters Recycling centre, attended a Legalising Cannabis debate (I’m strongly against), a reception on a visiting Japanese Defence Force training ship, opened the croquet season as proud patron of the Orewa Croquet Club and opened the Love Tennis national open weekend hosted by the Orewa Tennis Club. It’s been a great week and being away from the beltway and out amongst our community is what refuels my tank.

I had a very special invitation to visit our newest naval vessel, the HMNZS Manawanui. The invitation came from Manawanui’s navigation officer and 3 I/C Lieutenant Samara Mankelow. Samara was a student at Orewa College and I wrote a letter of support for her when she applied to join the Navy. I am also very proud of Mahurangi College deputy head boy William Patterson, who represented Rodney as our Youth MP at the annual Youth Parliament in Wellington. I was in the public gallery to listen to his general debate speech and was very impressed at how he tackled the important issue of bullying.

Finally, I have just found out that Steve Hathaway from Young Ocean Explorers has been recognised with a Sir Peter Blake Leadership Award. I have huge admiration for Steve and the work he does to bring our marine world into New Zealand’s schools and classrooms.

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LOCAL ELECTIONS 2019 Candidates clash on rates, roads and right turns voters’guide

Phil Goff

In a high-tension showdown, Auckland Mayor Phil Goff likened John Tamihere to US President Donald Trump for claiming he would build a double decker Auckland harbour bridge, while Mr Tamihere said Mr Goff was a Wellington puppet.

About 100 people turned up to the mayoralty candidates meeting at the Mahurangi East Community Hall, organised by the Snells Beach Residents and Ratepayers Association (SBRRA) on Sunday, September 1.

Mr Goff opened by listing his accomplishments, including having gained a pledge from central government to spend $18 billion on transport in Auckland over the next 10 years. Mr Tamihere responded by accusing Mr Goff of allowing Council Controlled Organisations (CCOs), including Auckland Transport (AT),

to get out of control with wasteful spending on external contractors.

“Money is going down the gurgler in the central city, and the outer areas are an afterthought,” Mr Tamihere said.

“The AT board will be sacked as soon as I am downtown.”

It wasn’t long before the Hill Street intersection was brought up.

SBRRA chair Mark Dinniss quizzed the candidates on how they would fix the fact that works on the Hill Street intersection have not been budgeted to coincide with the completion of the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway and the Matakana link road. Mr Goff said Council had already put in $60 million for the link road, and other projects around Auckland also took priority.

“You can’t bring everything forward – that’s not how a budget works. Hill Street is not the only problem we have to deal with across the whole Auckland area, and that’s the honest answer.”

In reply, Mr Tamihere said he would seek to renegotiate with central government to bring forward some of the $18 billion in funds promised for transport, to address projects such as Hill Street.

“Give me the mandate to sort out Wellington. The election will take place next year and you can’t rule New Zealand without the approval of Auckland. The MPs are here.”

Mr Goff pointed out that if Mr Tamihere intended to cut Council income with a rates freeze at the same time as asking

for more money from Wellington, the government would be unlikely to consider the proposal favourably.

The candidates were also asked whether they would bring forward further funding for sealing Rodney’s roads, as currently the bulk of $121 million in budgeted work was not slated for another nine years.

Mr Goff said when the Supercity formed, Rodney had 77 per cent of the unsealed roads in Auckland and that legacy of under-investment would take time to fix.

“It would be better if we could bring forward sealing, but I don’t think there is an appetite for rates or taxes to be increased substantially. There’s no other source of funds for those projects apart from us, the ratepayers.”

The SBRRA raised the Rodney Local Board transport targeted rate with candidates, suggesting that a $46 million mayoral long-term plan had already been earmarked to support local buses and park n’ rides and that the targeted rate ought to be removed.

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Mr Goff said in his home district of Franklin, a targeted rate had proved effective at fixing transport woes.

“I am not going to trample on the right of a local board to put a targeted rate in place. I say it takes courage and determination to make it happen.”

Mr Tamihere said that local boards needed to consider using private-public partnerships with a user-pays model as a tool for projects like park n’ rides.

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Lord and Vaughan oppose Marja Lubeck Dome Valley landfill plans Labour List MP Based in Rodney

The proposed Dome Valley landfill was at the top of the agenda at a candidates meeting held in Wellsford on Friday, August 30, with the two mayoral hopefuls present both firmly against the idea.

Instead of “outdated” and “toxic” landfills, Craig Lord Craig Lord and Peter Vaughan told the audience of around 100 residents that waste-to-energy plants were not only a better solution, but they each knew companies keen to come to New Zealand, and willing to implement the technology.

Craig Lord said putting a landfill into the Dome would be “one of the dumbest things you could do”.

“Landfills are weak, you can’t just bulldoze rubbish into the mud,” he said. “There are people overseas waiting to build at cost, they have emailed me.

The benefits are substantial. We can dig up old landfills and process them.”

Peter Vaughan, who was present at the recent rahui against Waste Management’s proposals, agreed.

“We can’t have landfills in this country.

They’re toxic and emit methane and carbon dioxide, which ends up in the water,” he said.

He said he already had deals ready for advanced waste recycling plants to take all rubbish, old and new, and turn it into electricity, with no polluting side effects.

The meeting was organised by the Land and Contractors Protection Association, who also took candidates on a bus tour of the district before the meeting. As well as the two mayoral candidates, the meeting also heard from Councillor Greg Sayers, Rodney Local Board member Colin Smith and Board candidates Tim

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Holdgate, Geoff Upson and Steven Law. However, as Cr Sayers and Mr Smith were elected unopposed, and all three Board candidates were from outside the Wellsford subdivision, the only speakers residents could actually vote for were Craig Lord and Peter Vaughan. John Tamihere was expected to be there, but did not turn up.

Both Mr Lord and Mr Vaughan won audience approval for their observation that although the Wellsford area paid a significant amount of Auckland rates, it seemed to receive little in the way of services, and said Council needed a shake-up to make it far more efficient and effective.

“Most of your rates are going to Auckland and not coming back,” Mr Vaughan said. “I’m here because there’s something I can do. I have solutions and everything I do is scientific. We need people working together to make things right.”

Mr Lord likened Council to a car.

“We’re the drivers, Council are mechanics,” he said. “Why does the maintenance team, when we tell them oil is leaking, pump up the tyres and put on a spoiler?

“There’s no leadership. There are so many examples of your money going into niceties instead of necessities.

Auckland is being shafted somewhere and that’s why you’re being ignored.

I’m going to find where, why and how and stop it.”

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Heli mud challenge coming to Matakana The Auckland Regional Helicopter Trust (ARHT) is inviting all who love a good challenge to crawl through cargo nets, rope swing across rivers and get down and dirty in support of its vital emergency service.

Action Matakana will host the inaugural Westpac Chopper Challenge on Sunday, November 17 and entry is open for teams of four, aged 16 and up.

ARHT events manager Leanda Hunt says participants will be expected to work together to make sure each team member completes all 30 obstacles in the course.

“Team members need to work together against the clock, much in the way that a real helicopter crew must coordinate to provide patients with the best possible outcome,” she says.

“You don’t need to be an athlete – anybody can do it. In a team of four everyone will have different strengths and help each other out.”

When participants sign up at chopperchallenge.co.nz, they are able to set up a personal fundraising webpage, which can be shared with friends and family on social media. ARHT has set a fundraising target of $100,000 for Westpac Rescue and hopes that at least 30 teams might raise $5000 each through the event, which is around what it takes to fund one mission.

Internationally ranked para-climber Rachel Maia will be taking on the challenge, along with helicopter emergency doctor Louise Park, pilot

Left to right, helicopter emergency doctor Louise Park, para-climber Rachel Maia and intensive care paramedic Rob Gemmell will compete as a team in the Westpac Chopper Challenge.

Simon Owen and intensive care paramedic Rob Gemmell.

“I’ve experienced rescue services first hand, both for myself and my son,” Rachel says. “It made me aware of how much of a need there is to support this service and I am excited to get behind it and hope other Kiwis will too.”

Rachel suffered from a severe ankle break during a climbing accident that left her immobile when she was 16 but spent two decades rehabilitating before

placing fourth in the world in paraclimbing at the IFSC championships last year.

In February this year, she made the decision to amputate her limb and will be taking on the course with her new prosthetic leg. As well as a prizegiving, there will be a DJ and food truck there on the day and members of the public, as well as friends and family, are encouraged to come along and support challengers.

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NAG readies for High Court battle The next round in the Northern Action Group’s (NAG) long-running fight to separate North Rodney from the Auckland Supercity takes place in the High Court in Wellington later this month.

NAG chair Bill Townson says NAG will argue that the Local Government Commission (LGC) misconstrued or misinterpreted about a dozen points of law when it ruled that North Rodney should remain within the Supercity in November 2017.

Mr Townson says that among other things, the LGC failed to consult with the community in identifying, developing and implementing an option that best promotes good local government.

If NAG succeeds, then it’s possible the LGC will be directed to reconsider NAG’s application for an independent North Rodney, a process which previously took more than two years.

However, if this were to happen Mr Townson admits the LGC might well come to exactly the same decision – to keep North Rodney within the Supercity – but by a different route.

The case will be heard on Monday, September 30 and Tuesday, October 1 before Justice Christine Grice.

NAG will be represented by barrister James Gardner-Hopkins, who has taken the case pro bono.

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Parade encourages shopping trolley inspiration Creative types of Mahurangi are invited to push forward and show the world what they can do with a shopping trolley.

As part of Kowhai Festival festivities, a trolley parade will be held on the Big Day Out on Sunday, October 13.

New World Warkworth is supplying both trollies and cash prizes. All participants will also go into the draw to win travel and clothing vouchers from Helloworld Travel and Stoney Creek Manufacturing.

Entries will be judged in two categories – individual and community/business – and the judges will be looking for innovation and flair.

There are a limited number of trollies available, so anyone thinking of entering is urged to register as soon as possible. Entry forms are available from the Warkworth Information Centre in Baxter Street or from the Kowhai Festival Facebook page.

An organiser, Dave Parker, says the decorated trolleys will be a novel way to add colour to the parade, which will start from the Warkworth Town Hall at 1.30pm. The route will be down Neville Street to the roundabout and back.

Festival mascot Waddles will lead the parade and a number of other “characters” will join in.

“Community groups, schools, businesses and individuals who don’t have trollies are also very welcome to dress up and join the parade,” Dave says.

The shopping trolley parade is a staple event on the Alexandra Blossom Festival programme and Warkworth festival organisers hope the enthusiasm for the parade catches on here.

Summerset gears up for fun open day A mobility scooter gymkhana is one of several fun events planned for a Golden Oldies Open Day at Summerset Retirement Village in Warkworth on Wednesday, October 2.

The Open Day is one of the first events on the 50th Kowhai Festival month-long programme.

The event is open to the public with an emphasis on inviting groups in the area that cater for people of retirement age.

Summerset activities coordinator Andrea Hinchco says there will be some static

displays in the main centre covering subjects such as senior travel, wellness and genealogy. Local Probus clubs have also shown an interest in attending.

“The emphasis of the gymkhana will be on skills and agility, not necessarily speed!” she says. “When people get a mobility scooter, they often aren’t given any instructions, so this will be a fun way to help drivers feel more confident.”

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“One of our residents who is a published author will run one, or two if needed, workshops on writing for your grandchildren.”

There will be a display of vintage cars in the afternoon and the day will finish off with a Music Hall-styled show. Tickets for this are $10 each and will need to be pre-purchased.

“The emphasis is on having a fun day and showcasing our residents’ talents with examples of options available for retirees to enjoy life to the full.”

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Scouts venture to West Virginia Two Warkworth Scouts travelled to the wilds of West Virginia, in the United States, to join 40,000 other campers from around the world for 12 days of action, activities and adventure. Olivia Hay and Talia Bentley were among the 40 Kiwi youth attending the 24th World Scout Jamboree, which is held at the Summit Bechtel Reserve every four years. For Talia one of the highlights was a hiking trip up Mount Jack, where she saw a bear. She also competed in a competition that involved throwing pillows with pitch forks. Both girls said it was amazing to meet people their age from all over the world. Olivia spent her first day of camp with a group of girls from Ecuador. Since none of them spoke English, she adapted and learned some of their games in Spanish. Talia traded her scarf with a girl from Ireland. After that word got out about the distinctive black and gold design and the Kiwi scarves became highly sought-after. “At the opening ceremony, I stood in a massive field and all around me there was a sea of scouts with different coloured uniforms waving flags and it hit me how many people were there and all the different countries,” Olivia says “Bear Grylls dropped in, and there was an amazing drone light display, which was truly beautiful in the night sky.” A Venturer Scouts group, catering for students in Years 11-13, was recently established in Warkworth. It meets on a Friday evening at Shoesmith Hall. See scouts.org.nz

Olivia Hay and Talia Bentley.

Smith challenges Auckland Transport to rethink roads Rodney Local Board member Colin Smith is urging Auckland Transport (AT) to adopt a different approach to road sealing, which he believes could significantly reduce sealing costs.

Mr Smith says that a new ‘fit for purpose’ unsealed road maintenance system would be a game changer for rural roads and road maintenance budgets.

“It was first trialled on Wyllie Road in Warkworth as part of the NX2 motorway project,” Mr Smith says.

“The process involves widening the road out to the water table leaving the base course, shaping, hoeing in cement powder and finally tar sealing the road.

“The trial, which could be integrated into general road maintenance, will see the cost of tar seal extensions drop from $1 million a kilometre,

to an estimated cost of $100,000 a kilometre enabling Rodney roads to be sealed within 10 years by using rural rates.

“The vehicle maintenance costs of driving these roads will dramatically fall along with the lasting environmental benefits from the suppression of roading material washing into our waterways.”

Mr Smith says the benefits from this trial methodology can already be seen on Old Woodcocks Road.

Auckland Transport was asked to comment on the suggestion, but declined.

Meanwhile, AT has provided further clarification on its road sealing budgets.

A total of $4.7 million was in the budget for road sealing in 2018/19, with funding from general rates and

the Regional Fuel Tax. However, AT figures show that only $3.7 million was spent.

An AT spokesperson says initial forecasts had Ngarewa and Wellsford Valley roads seal extension projects progressing to construction phase in 2018/19, but this did not happen due to design issues. The unspent budget has been carried over to the current financial year with construction forecast on track.

Similarly, Rodney ratepayers were promised $5 million for road sealing this financial year, but AT has budgeted to spend only $4.6 million.

“We can confirm the total budget for 2019/20 is $5.8 million, which includes the amount deferred from 2018/19,” the spokesperson says.

The Rodney Local Board last year allocated the $2.8 million from the Araparera fund to seal nine roads – Underwood Rd (0.7km), Whitmore Rd (1.8km), School Rd (0.8km), Tauhoa Rd (0.5km), Wharehine Rd (0.9km), Krippner Rd (0.3km), Smith Rd (0.4km), Dennis Rd (0.7km) and Rodney Rd (0.6km).

According to the latest figures from Auckland Transport, $2,225,860 was spent on Underwood, Whitmore, School, Tauhoa and Wharehine in the last financial year.

A further $1,815,799 is budgeted to be spent on Krippner, Smith, Dennis and Rodney Roads this year. This is a total spend of $4,041,659, which is $1,241,659 more than was in the Araparera fund.

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North Shore Youth Music will present a free community concert at Matakana Hall on Saturday, September 21. The concert will feature the North Shore Junior Orchestra and the North Shore Children’s Choir. The orchestra and choir are made up of about 65 youngsters, aged from nine to 14 years, from across the North Shore. They rehearse weekly and perform around six times each year in venues such as the Bruce Mason Centre, at local community events, Christmas carol services and schools. The orchestra and choir regularly tours the upper North Island and in recent years has performed at Hamilton, Rotorua, Tauranga, Whangamata, Whangarei and Kerikeri. The concert starts at 1pm. A donation is appreciated.

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Mahurangi Matters asked candidates standing for the Kaipara mayorality, the Warkworth subdivision of the Rodney Local Board and the Otamatea ward of Kaipara District Council what they wanted to achieve if elected …

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Kaipara Mayor Dr Jason Smith (incumbent) Who are you?

Kia ora, as a fifth generation local Kaipara resident, descended from Albertlanders, I’m passionate about Kaipara and making real progress for this district. I’m the only mayor in New Zealand with a doctorate in economic development, but I’m also at home on the family sheep and beef farm in Ruawai. At 47, I’m getting on with it and have really enjoyed serving the Kaipara community since being elected Mayor of Kaipara in a by-election last year.

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What is your number one priority if re-elected Mayor?

My number one priority if re-elected Mayor is to have Kaipara’s roading system on the right track. This is the most important thing for this place.

For this reason, I led and support the $19 million Provincial Growth Fund project for improving Kaipara roads. In 2019/20, Kaipara roading investment will be nearly $40 million, double normal levels, and in 2013/14 it was less than $7 million.

Moemoea Mohoawhenua What other issues are important to you?

Keeping tight control of Council finances, including prudent management of debt; focusing on how we plan for and manage growth, as Kaipara has the fastest growing population (3.1%) of any North Island district; preparing for climate change, especially sea level rise which has the potential to impact and change our communities and settlements; and keeping Kaipara’s communities thriving and broadening its economic base.

Why does Kaipara need to re-elect you as Mayor?

Because I’ve proven in the last 18 months that I’m running a tight ship and we’re making real progress. After Kaipara District’s chequered past in recent years, it now has improved stability, confidence and growing momentum. Council is serving the people better than it has for years, elected members are working together well to tackle issues important to the community and the people of Kaipara tell me they feel better about Council now than before. Re-electing me will see more progress.

Who are you?

Ti hei mauri ora. E mihi ana ahau I te Matua nui I te rangi.

Homai te aroha o te Atua ki a tatou katoa.

Tena koutou ki tini mate. Haere haere haere. Ko Moemoea Mohoawhenua taku ingoa. Tena koutou katoa.

Throughout my life I have been: an award-winning performance poet, inmate, guerrilla film maker, drug dealer, street photographer, bank robber, published author (three books), escort agency owner, professional boxer, actor, Maori sovereignty revolutionary, entrepreneur, proud father, common labourer ... I have also played many other different roles and acted many different other parts in this bizarre paradox we call life. Now I am running for the Mayoralty of the Kaipara for my Maori people.

What is your number one priority if re-elected Mayor?

My number one priority, as I say on my website mayor.kiwi.nz, is to have the Red, Black & White Maori Sovereignty Tino Rangatiratanga

flag flying in true equality alongside the Pakeha/NZ (sic) flag outside the Council Building in Dargaville. This is in accordance with all the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.

What other issues are important to you?

Another key issue is the creation of a tourism venture called the Kumara & Kauri Trail, which I have been developing for a while now. These are two unique things that are specific to the Kaipara, so I would like to see a vision implemented in which busloads of tourists come to the area to see them, plus also partake of our Maori culture (Marae stay-over, etc.).

Why does Kaipara need to elect you as Mayor?

I believe the Kaipara needs not only a new Mayor but a total shakeup of the entire Council, so there is an equal balance of power between Maori and Pakeha in all areas of the Council.

What skills and strengths do you have to offer?

I am a visionary doer. I think outside the square. I see things not as how they are, but how they ... could be.

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I look forward to representing you for another three years of progress for Rodney.

Thank you for your support and for your confidence.

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Candidates for Rodney Local Board - Warkworth subdivision (three seats) Steven Garner - Independent A ‘local’ of most of the last 50-plus years, Steven attended school in Warkworth and spent 12 years on the Mahurangi College Board of Trustees while his children attended. He is involved with and an active member of a host of community organisations. He is active, positive and motivated to make and keep Rodney great. A keen cyclist, fisherman and walker, he is out in the Rodney area most weekends seeing first-hand what a great region we live in and where attention is required.

Why are you standing for the Local Board election?

Rodney is very poorly represented at present. The ‘block’ of Local Board members who have silenced and cut off those members who are not part of their ‘team’ do not appear to understand what ‘representation’ actually means for someone elected to a local body. I would like to ‘represent’ the Warkworth area on the Local Board and ensure the needs of this area are met. Roading, public transport, sports/ recreation facilities and our library are all funded, via the general rate, as they are supposed to be and appropriately resourced, promoted and utilised.

What are the three main issues facing the Warkworth subdivision

and/or Rodney as a whole?

• Transport – the public transport options to the city to and from Warkworth and surrounds.

• Review the Local Board targeted rate we currently pay, which should not have been passed (I understand there was some dubious/marginal counting of the support).

• Investigate why the Board decided to apply this ‘local’ funding to projects that have the worst Return on Investment possible.

Tim Holdgate - Independent Married with four adult children, our family has lived and grown up on our Matakana lifestyle property over the past 25 years. During this time I have been actively involved in the Warkworth and greater Rodney community, as a finance manager in the banking industry and as a registered valuer.

My Warkworth community involvement has included 10 years on the Mahurangi College Board of Trustees (four years as chairman), together with various sporting and cultural committees. Other local community roles have included seven years as a trustee on the Harbour Sport Trust Board and as a member of the Mahurangi Collective for Sport and Recreation.

Why are you standing for the Local Board election?

To fairly and transparently represent the interests of the Warkworth community and all community groups, by demanding accountability from Auckland Council to have our fair rates share spent locally.

What are the three main issues facing the Warkworth subdivision and/or Rodney as a whole?

• Managing population growth and employment opportunity in regards to the Unitary Plan, particularly the required capital infrastructure.

• Regional Fuel Tax, currently unfair proportioning of the RFT in Rodney, together with the rapidly deteriorating condition of the roading network.

• Basic provisioning of transport, water, sewage and rubbish

Beth Houlbrooke – Rodney First I’ve lived in the Warkworth area for 25 years and during that time have raised a family, farmed, owned businesses, been on a school Board of Trustees and run a thriving businesswomen’s network.

My family are active locally and we have had a bach at Takatu for 60 years.

I love boating and fishing, and choral singing when time allows. This will

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be my third term on the local board, having first been elected in 2013.

Why are you standing for the Local Board election?

I’m standing for re-election because there are so many projects underway that I am keen to see through, and because I get immense satisfaction out of serving this community that I have come to know and love so well.

What are the three main issues facing the Warkworth subdivision and/or Rodney as a whole?

• Impending growth and being prepared for this with necessary infrastructure in place, especially roads, stormwater and wastewater capacity.

• Ensuring we have the necessary community infrastructure in place such as access to public transport, enough space to assemble and enjoy our recreation such as parks and community facilities.

• Environmental impacts, and resilience of our rural road network, as a result of development.

Paul Manton – Rodney First I’m an engineer, business owner, farmer, rural contractor and land manager for a local forest. I live just north of Puhoi on Ahuroa Road (gravel), and have for the last 30 years. I have been a proactive and involved member of the Puhoi and Warkworth community.

Currently I am co-chair of the Puhoi continued next page

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Community Forum, sit on the Mahurangi Community Sport and Recreation Collective Committee, and am an active participant in the Matakana Coast Trail Trust. I love riding horses and having a beer after a hard day’s work.

Why are you standing for the Local Board election?

It’s important that communities, groups and clubs have strong representation so they can grow and prosper. I was lucky enough growing up that some like-minded people felt the same way. Now it’s my turn to pay back and advocate on your behalf.

What are the three main issues facing the Warkworth subdivision and/or Rodney as a whole?

I wish there were only three!

• Roading – unsealed, maintenance issues, congestion, and poor communication from Auckland Transport.

• The impact of uncontrolled growth on infrastructure, facilities, and the environment.

• The slow dismantlement of the rural way of life, with urbanisation turning Rodney into the Auckland sprawl.

Ayla Walker – Rodney First I’m a Mum, wifey, celebrant, business coach, millennial and planet lover, who lives in Ahuroa with my husband and two children, aged five and two.

I’m very down to earth, approachable,

open-minded and good for a laugh. I recently completed my business diploma and I am mentored through the One Warkworth Business Association. I am part of the Santa Parade and Mahurangi Winter Festival of Lights committees.

As a member of the Board of Trustees of Ahuroa School, I take great pride in representing local families and their children.

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Let’s get our rural roads sealed!

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Why are you standing for the Local Board election?

I am a product of this community.

So many people have helped me and without those kind, respectful people I wouldn’t be who I am today. I appreciate our volunteers and I want to continue their good work and learn from our elders so that I may pass the teachings on to the next generation.

I am standing to give representation for my generation and younger generations, we are the future and we need a voice.

What are the three main issues facing the Warkworth subdivision and/or Rodney as a whole?

• Support and education around environmental sustainability and zero waste.

• More involvement from our teens and young families in shaping our parks and public facilities.

• Ongoing support for our local businesses, social enterprises and nongovernment organisations.

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Otamatea Ward Councillor, Kaipara District Council (two seats) Mark Vincent

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Who are you?

I grew up in Hamilton.

After secondary school, I completed an assignment with Volunteer Service Abroad in Fiji before starting a law degree in Wellington. My passion for the land ultimately led me to farming in Northland. I met and married Cindy, who brought three children to the marriage and they have provided us with nine grandchildren. We graze dairy heifers on our harbour-side property.

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What is your number one priority if elected?

We need more people. This will help ensure the viability of existing businesses and community services, and open up more opportunities for new enterprises and improvements to functions. To achieve this, we need a roading network which is fit for purpose, and a district plan which enables development while protecting and enhancing our physical environment.

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What other issues are important to you?

Council could do more to support existing community organisations in the district through facilitating governance training, strategic planning and helping with preparing funding applications. This will help to improve services and facilities using external funding rather than rates.

The future of the Kaipara Harbour is also important to me, which is why I formed Otamatea HarbourCare. I want the KDC to continue its support for the Integrated Kaipara Harbour Management Group.

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Ian Miller Who are you?

I’m formerly from West Auckland and now standing as a candidate for the Otamatea Ward in Kaipara.

I live in Paparoa.

With a background in engineering, journalism, information technology and business, I believe Kaipara needs to improve its roading maintenance, tourism planning and operational transparency.

What is your number one priority if elected?

Otamatea is an old ward with new boundaries. With a predominantly rural population, it is crucial that our roads, both unsealed and sealed, are up to scratch.

What other issues are important to you?

As the gateway to Kaipara and Northland, Otamatea has an important role to play in making sure our growing tourism numbers are adequately catered for. It’s important that every visitor feels welcomed and enjoys their time with us. Kaipara District also needs to do more to improve all ratepayers’ access to information. With increased access to Council information online, ratepayers should be able to see that their dollars are being spent wisely and that everyone is getting their fair share.

Other candidates for the Otamatea ward – Anna Curnow and Craig Jepson did not respond to Mahurangi Matters questions. Attempts to contact candidate Wayne Linton were unsuccessful.

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Deep South blues and roots at Sawmill Café Call for Kaipara A rocking night of classic blues, roots Arts Awards and soul music is on the cards when US singer Greg Copeland plays at the Leigh Sawmill Café on Friday, October 4.

Accompanied by Steve ‘Guitar’ Gilles on acoustic and resonator steel guitar, Greg is promising to go back to the very roots of blues from the Deep South, combined with “warm embraces with Sister Soul and a tip of the hat to Brother Funk”.

Heavily influenced by artists such as James Brown, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and Howlin’ Wolf, Greg has performed all over the world and produced several CDs, including his latest, Brown-Eyed Handsome Man. “When I sing I want you to feel my hurt, my pain, my happiness and my sadness,” he says. “I want to ask for forgiveness if I did something wrong and forgive people if they have done me wrong. All these things I try to do with my music.”

Greg was born into a musical home in Portsmouth, Virginia, where he was raised by his mother, a gospel singer.

“I can still remember as a small child how my mother used to sing me a song before I went to sleep at night,” he says. “Her perseverance and the love that she showed me and my brother while raising us alone still influences

Greg Copeland’s singing style is described as “smooth, slick and Down South dirty”. Photo, Tom Althaus.

me deeply and has had a great impact on my singing and songwriting.”

Greg and ‘Guitar’ Gilles will be on

the Sawmill stage at 9pm. Tickets available from eventfinda.co.nz, or on the door, if not sold out prior.

Calling all artists – entries for the 2019 Kaipara Art Awards are closing soon, with the submission deadline on Friday, September 20.

Artists in all disciplines are encouraged to enter new works, created in the last year and not previously exhibited, into any of four categories: painting, mixed media (including drawing, collage and fabric art), print media (printmaking, photography and digital), and 3D and sculpture, including jewellery.

The awards will be judged by Dr Carole Shepheard ONZM, a former professor of fine arts at the University of Auckland, and there will also be an emerging artist’s award and a people’s choice award.

Artworks have to be submitted in Mangawhai or Dargaville on Tuesday, October 15 and there will be an awards ceremony in Mangawhai on Thursday, October 17. This will be followed by exhibitions at the Mangawhai Artists Gallery and the Muddy Waters Gallery in Dargaville.

For more information and entry forms, visit mangawhaiartists.co.nz or dargavillearts.co.nz, or email kaiparaartawards@gmail.com.

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Quichotte

By Salman Rushdie In this novel within a novel, author Salman Rushdie pays homage to the 1605 Spanish classic Don Quixote. In Rushdie’s story, a character called Sam DuChamp is an average writer who creates Quichotte, an aging salesman who is obsessed with television and has fallen in love with a TV star. Quichotte, along with his imaginary son, sets off through America to win the heart of Miss Salma R. We learn about Sam and Quichotte’s lives and discover how similar both their personal quests are. I believe that everyone is going to have different experiences with this book as Rushdie is a complex storyteller. I often found myself being swamped with too much detail. With the odd sci-fi tangent, the reader should be prepared for a wild ride. This book has been nominated for the Booker Prize short list.

Allegra in Three Parts

By Suzanne Daniel This is the story of 11-year-old Allegra. Her life is continuously challenged with the family that loves her, but do not speak to each other. She spends her time trying not to upset anyone and wonders about her deceased mother, who no-one talks about. One grandmother is a hard working machinist, who loves to grow vegetables and cook. She wants Allegra to be a doctor. Next door is her other grandmother, who is a freespirit. She is heavily involved with the women’s movement, loves to grow flowers and keeps her tears in bottles. Her father is living above the garage and is not given any say as to how to raise Allegra. I enjoyed this book as it was filled with funny, sad and uplifting moments – a window on life in the 70s.

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Dredging and walkways are on the agenda of this month’s free Warkworth Town Hall Talk on Thursday, September 26.

The speakers will be Mahurangi River Restoration Trust trustee Hugh Gladwell and Snells Beach to Warkworth walkway project chairman Gary Heaven.

Hugh will speak about the progress of the river dredging project and some of the issues that have arisen.

The trust recently wrote to the Minister of Environment seeking funding for sediment removal from the Mahurangi catchment, following the recent grant of $12 million for work around the Kaipara Harbour.

The removal of more than 100 years of sediment is aimed at improving the natural environment of the river and harbour, as well as making the river again suitable for swimming and more navigable for boats.

“We are seeking funding to start

dredging again later this year,” Hugh says. “The town basin has been dredged to the extent that there is now 1.5 metres of water at low tide where before most of it had one metre of mud.

“We want to carry on down river past the library and the boat ramp this summer, but we need funding to carry on.”

Gary will provide an update on the 8km walkway connecting Warkworth and Snells Beach, as well as the status of other walkway activities in the region.

His focus will be on the route and the process of preparing consents.

“We are currently working with local companies to do detailed impact assessment on the route so things are a little up in the air on specifics,” he says.

The talk is organised by Mahurangi Action, and supported by Mahurangi Matters.

Doors open at 5pm for a 5.30pm start.

Comic Con comes to Warkworth

Gamers, geeks and comic book fans should head to Warkworth on Saturday, September 28 for a Mini-Comic Con event at the Old Masonic Hall in Baxter Street. Organised by Warkworth Library to mark Comic Book Month, the free event will feature displays, mini-workshops and costume and drawing competitions. Star Wars costume group Outpost 42 will be there in their Stormtrooper and Sith Lord outfits, and illustrator Andy Griffiths will be giving tips and advice on comic drawing. A Magic: The Gathering tournament will be held for teenage gamers and there will be a dress up space and a photo booth, with prizes for the best costume or cosplay outfits. Senior librarian for children and youth, Heather Jackson, says the Mini-Comic Con will be a free, family friendly event for any kids and teens who are into comics and pop culture. The event will run from 11am to 1pm and is being sponsored

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This month’s talk will primarily focus on two of the major Mahurangi projects. The first, in terms of magnitude, is the Mahurangi River Restoration Trust dredging project to restore Warkworth’s link to the Hauraki Gulf and, potentially, make the town basin one of the most visited in the Auckland region. The other project is the greenway between Warkworth and Snells Beach, which is very much part of reinventing a community, post the automobile age. The broader Mangawhai to Waiwera greenways context will also be updated.

Warkworth Town Hall, Thursday, 26 September Doors open for refreshments at 5pm, talk starts at 5.30pm.

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Terence O’Neill-Joyce’s poems speak to the heart.

Poet captures raw emotions Wellsford poet Terence O’Neill-Joyce says he has the knack of being in the right place at the right time to see people open up in extraordinary ways as he travels New Zealand and the world.

These revealing moments have been captured in his third book of poems – Aspiration: Tales of the South Pacific & Elsewhere Through the Mists of Time.

One moment relates to an incident in Fiji when Terence was enjoying a drink at a restaurant bar.

A waitress accidentally dropped and smashed a bottle of tequila and couldn’t stop crying. The restaurant owner demanded she pay for the tequila, which turned out to be more than a week’s wages for the impoverished waitress.

Terence slapped his credit card on the bar and insisted he would pay for it. Days later he returned to the restaurant to check on the waitress.

She presented Terence with a gift her mother had made – a plant in a terracotta pot made from marram grass, with tiny seashell flowers taken from her mother’s prized necklace.

The gift inspired the title poem Aspiration and a photograph of the plant adorns the cover of Terence’s book.

“On the one hand, you have the owner of the restaurant being bloodyminded – not being prepared to help this woman – and then two days later you have the mother not holding back and breathing something out, coming out with natural talent – that’s why it’s called Aspiration,” Terence says.

The first three poems in the book relate to Terence’s experiences at Christchurch mosques, following the massacres that took place there in March.

The son of a Fijian business associate of Terence was at the Al Noor Mosque when the shooting started and managed to escape death by locking himself in a toilet.

Terence later went to Christchurch to support the family.

“I was suddenly absorbed in an Islamic frame. What was I going to do? I just did everything they did. When they went to the mosque to pray, I went to the mosque to pray,” he says.

Terence recalls the kindness and consideration shown to him – particularly a man who shared his prayer mat as he knelt on a hardwood floor.

Another poem relates to Terence’s experiences at Anzac Day commemorations in Wellsford, where he met two fellow poets from Wellsford Primary School whose poems about the day moved him. The poems of Alyssa Godinagh, 6, and Jason Godinagh, 9, are included in the book.

Terence says he is not an intellectual poet, rather his poetry is “the language of the heart”.

“I’m attuned to music and I’m attuned to poetry. There are things that you can say in poetry that you would not normally say in an essay,” he says.

For a copy of Aspiration email Terence, terenceonj@gmail.com. The cost is $20 including postage.

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Superannuitant readies for 243km race

Warkworth superannuitant Peter Melling will have a crack at the gruelling one-day Coast to Coast multisport event this coming February in an effort to be the first person over 70 to complete the 243km course.

The World Multisport Championship event starts on the South Island West Coast at Kumara Beach, crosses the Southern Alps and finishes at the New Brighton Beach, Christchurch, on the East Coast.

The Longest Day race includes a 70km kayak down the Waimakariri River, more than 100km of cycling and more than 30km of running.

Peter, who will be 71 in December, has attempted the race twice before. He failed in 2012 when the paddle on his kayak broke, but succeeded in 2014 when he completed the course in 16 hours and 45 minutes.

He was 65 when he competed in 2014, which means he is already the oldest person to complete the oneday event.

“Every year, I’ve wanted to go back but never quite got around to it,” he says.

Peter remains undeterred even after suffering a mild heart attack a few years ago.

A cardiologist suggested he may, in fact, complete the course with a faster time since the fitting of a stent unblocked a major artery.

In any case, Peter says the race is about much more than physical stamina. The running and cycling are technically challenging events, and competitors must make good decisions about navigation and managing their eating and drinking.

In addition to completing the course, Peter hopes to raise money for a new Mahurangi College

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Peter Melling says having sufficient physical stamina is only half the battle.

Plunket portrait fundraiser Professional family portrait photos at a discount price are being offered in Wellsford next month as a fundraiser for the town’s Plunket rooms.

Photographer Jacquie Stokes is offering family or group sittings valued at $160 for $20, which includes one free 8 x 10 print (worth $56), over the weekend of October 5 and 6.

Each sitting takes around half-an-hour and can include four to six different poses and groupings of up to 10 people.

Jacqui says any combination of sitters is possible, whether it’s with several generations, just children, or even the family pet.

“Clean pets are welcome to come to the photo shoots.

They are part of the family, and very welcome,” she says.

Jacquie adds that the timing for the fundraiser sessions is ideal, not only for organising Christmas gifts, but also as they fall in the middle of the school holidays.

“So some university students or boarding school students may be around – a perfect time to upgrade the family portraits,” she says.

Individual prints, value photo-packs, framing options and layby are all available, and prints can be in colour or black and white.

For bookings, call or text Alicia Holmes on 021 225 6721.

outdoor pursuits centre.

He has created a Give a Little page to help do this.

Half the money donated up to $9000 will fund the pursuit centre and half will fund the cost of Peter competing. Any money raised above the $9000 will go to the pursuits centre. Should Peter get injured in training and not be able to compete, all the money will go to the pursuits centre.

Peter remains confident he can finish the course.

“All things being equal, I’m pretty confident I should be able to do it,” he says.

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Part of the work readiness programme is to help attendees figure out where their interests are and match them with opportunities to upskill – whether that’s a computer course or a course at Northtec.

“There are opportunities on the horizon with an injection of funds from the Provincial Growth Fund, which could benefit local people seeking employment, if we can provide people with the training needed. With support and transport solutions there is a better chance of people being able to sustain long term employment.”

“With the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway set to be completed, new industries might also look at establishing themselves in our area and could offer a range of employment for our youth in IT and business management.” The programme is scheduled to start in November and run through to Christmas.

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Kate’s Place in Kaiwaka is looking to hold a group-based work readiness course in November to help locals increase their skill base and remove the barriers that prevent them from gaining employment.

Coordinator Kirstie Brown says the Kaiwaka community has some unique challenges due to its geographical location and a history of low employment.

“For someone on minimum wage, even travelling down to Warkworth for work can be cost prohibitive.”

Transport is a major issue and the programme will look to help attendees get their drivers licence, but also to organise group car-pooling where possible.

The programme is for all ages, but youth who have left school and are wondering about what opportunities are available could particularly stand to benefit.

“Helping them to understand what is expected is a big start, and we can potentially be an intermediary with an employer and help to solve problems.”

Kirstie says there is also a gender imbalance when it comes to finding gainful employment in the area.

There are outdoor physical labour or truck driving jobs readily available for men, but for a woman who might have children it can be more difficult to find full time work, she says.

“I want to start a discussion about women in rural communities. Are we paying them enough and giving them good hours?

“If mum has a reasonable income she can more effectively run a household and provide more for her kids, including extra activities such as sport.

Employers need to understand they have a social impact.”

There are large agricultural and industrial employers in the area providing ideal opportunities for employment that require less travel.

“We want to start a conversation with local employers to understand

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Great memories This year, Homebuilders Family Services celebrates its 30th anniversary. On asking colleagues, Margaret Lewis and Irene De Haan, about what they recalled about being a Homebuilders’ worker back in the day, they began to laugh. They recalled how they trekked into the city and into a big building – riding elevators with babies in prams – to sign the very first Homebuilders Family Services Rodney contract with the Ministry of Social Development.

Prior to that, our agency was involved in a pilot to trial a community initiative that would ensure extra social support to families and upcoming generations of children. To do this, we’ve run the Chrysalis programme, specially designed around play exploration, the rights of children, their needs and their creative worlds. A few other Kiwi Homebuilder schemes are still alive and kicking like us.

Others have changed focus and name. Parent Port has been one of our offshoots.

And we’ve fostered our collaboration with a myriad of other community groups to network solutions for Rodney families.

From the outset, Homebuilders was keen to act in a preventative way to help you tackle an issue before it tackled you. Our programmes are designed to help you ‘seize the moment’. In other words, to find the energy and intention for change, and the emotional intelligence to pace and breathe through having, perhaps, strong-willed kids, adolescent angst, the grief of loss or the upheaval of separation.

Our Help Desk and Strengthening Families collaborate with other agencies in support of better outcomes – whether it’s sets of school uniforms, a shoulder to cry on or a neutral person you can chat with regarding your worries before they escalate. Whatever it is, we always hope to support the change required for you to step up, claim values and increase individual, family and cultural harmony.

My workmate Terry Healey reflected that at the start we had been asked to take on ‘a befriending role’ by Ministry advisors. “Like a well-trained, well-resourced aunty,” Terry said.

Turns out our varied and eclectic roles of social worker, advocate, counsellor, community change agent, ally and educator have provided a one-stop shop.

There is a constant need to respond to more than we are ever contracted for, while regularly updating our training and qualifications to stay fresh and relevant.

Over the 30 years, Homebuilders has had about 25 members in its support team. Our stable, loyal workforce and numerous generous volunteers and tutors carry a sense of belonging, both to one another and the community. We count it a privilege to gather and extend the laughter, memories and camaraderie.

Thanks to our community for entrusting us with their stories and their brave moves forward. To our funders, board members and supporters: We appreciate every act of kindness and generosity, so we can pass it on to others.

Date & orange wins Scone Bake Off

More than 60 people came out to sample free scones in the Great Warkworth Scone Bake Off held on September 7. They voted the Date & Orange scones created by Chef Frank Zhu at Chocolate Brown Café to be their favourite.

Someone claiming to be TV chef Jamie Oliver showed up raving about how Warkworth scones were “jolly more fun than the plain old scones back in the UK”. The Great Warkworth Scone Bake Off is held on the first Saturday of every month. The next will be on October 5, during the Rugby World Cup. Look out for an All Black scone.

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The summer of 1871-72 was extremely dry. During the fine weather, the settlers of Puhoi, by working together, had amassed an enormous quantity of shingles, blocks, palings, planks and spars in all the tributaries of the Puhoi River. They had, as usual, constructed the bushmen’s common dams. These did their job well during the first heavy rain in late February, collecting all their produce together in the village ready to be floated or transported by punt to the mouth of the river.

From there, boats which had sailed from further north would pick up whatever was stacked on the beach and transport it to the wood wharf in Auckland. A settler had to check daily whether their produce had left Puhoi and, if it had, they had to get to Auckland as quickly as possible to make sure they got payment for their work. About once a week, someone walked to Auckland, oversaw the sale of their produce, bought what they needed back in Puhoi, and walked back carrying their purchases. The round trip took about 26 hours.

In early March 1872, everything seemed to be rosy. The settlers’ first nine years in Puhoi had been very hard. Now it looked as if they would be able to buy stock and prepare for the winter.

Then the heavens opened. Rain deluged the doomed settlement and the creeks filled to overflowing. Water poured into the river and turned this usually quiet stream into a raging torrent. Nothing could resist its power – trees, timber and all the settlers’ carefully prepared produce of the last six months was swept down the river and out into the Hauraki Gulf. Those on the banks, powerless to save anything, viewed the destruction of all their hopes. They struggled to reclaim what they could and make it up to marketable condition, but most of it was gone forever.

A call went up to make sure this calamity never happened again. It was pointed out that only a few obstacles would need to be removed from the river to enable vessels to travel right up to Puhoi village. The settlers could then bring their produce by dray to meet the ship at the landing point and thereby remove the necessity of relying on the unpredictable weather.

This was accomplished within a few years. Steamers began a regular service – coming up the river just before high tide. The Wenzlick family pulled on chains to turn the centre span of the bridge on the main highway to let the boats through. Unloading and reloading was usually done in time for the steamer to depart on the outgoing tide. John Schollum and John Schischka set up stores in Auckland to receive, advertise and on sell all Puhoi products – timber, fruit, vegetables, butter, eggs, fungus, gum and charcoal. The effort put Puhoi back on its feet. That is until the biggest flood in the village’s history, in 1924, washed the turntable bridge away, once again changing Puhoi’s way of life forever.

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The freesias were the standout category at this year’s Snells Beach flower show.

Sunny Saturday brings out the flowers Snells Beach was in full bloom on the weekend of September 7 as garden clubs from as far away as Whangarei, Kaikohe and Maungakaramea came to see the best bouquets in show.

Sweet scents filled the Mahurangi East Community Centre with 51 exhibitors from the Snells Beach Garden Circle submitting entries across 42 different categories.

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Plan to save heritage trees in new community orchard Historic fruit trees dating back to the days when Puhoi was settled by migrants from Bohemia may get a new lease of life, thanks to a community orchard project for the township’s riverside park.

The Puhoi Community Forum is planning to plant nine fruit trees in the Puhoi Pioneers Memorial Park, on the site of the redundant A&P show sheep pens, next to the pony club grounds. These were cleared recently by Auckland Council.

Forum co-chair Dustyn O’Leary says a community garden was first proposed for the grassed area.

However, since most local residents already have their own gardens or land to maintain, it was decided instead to use the space to plant and preserve some of the many historic fruit trees that remain in the area, including gardens and the church grounds.

Using her professional skills as a landscape architect, she has drawn up detailed plans and a planting scheme for residents to view and discuss.

“We’re on about the fourth revision now, we’ve had lots of feedback,” she says. “We’ll probably plant modern heritage varieties that have hardy rootstocks this year and then graft on cuttings from local heritage trees once they’re established, so they have the best chance of survival.”

Final decisions on the balance of fruit varieties are yet to be made, but will probably include pear, plum, fig, apple, persimmon and citrus trees, plus three grapevines. There will also be underplanting with a range of low-growing plants that attract bees and deter pests, such as borage, comfrey and chamomile.

The first stage of work will involve drainage works and planting rootstocks, plus moving and restoring the former tennis club pavilion that now sits between the orchard plot and pony club. That will be followed by construction of a frame for the grapes and horse pens for the pony club, plus a possible petanque court and veggie gardens at some stage in the future.

The orchard and pony club development is the latest in a series of projects to improve the Memorial Park.

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Although owned by Council, the Puhoi Community Forum formally took over responsibility for managing the parkland grazing lease in 2013 and has since carried out a range of activities, such as extensive weed clearance and planting, to improve the amenity for locals and visitors.

Ms O’Leary says that while some funding will come from the grazing lease, much of the work for the orchard and associated works will be voluntary.

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September 2019

Greenhouse stocktake The other weekend was a good one for me; a staff party on Friday, followed by my birthday on Saturday, followed by Father’s Day on Sunday, which happened to also be the first day of spring, and good weather to boot. It doesn’t get much better than that as far as I’m concerned.

Two days later, I crashed back to reality with miserable windy, rainy weather.

But after a frenzy of seed-sowing and taking cuttings over the past few months, I have plenty to do in my little greenhouse. It is absolutely chocka, with pots covering nearly every inch of ground, including the path. The greenhouse is just a little one, two by three metres, but I have so many plants in there that I thought I should do a stocktake.

I’ve successfully overwintered a Cayenne chilli and two capsicums, which were cut back hard in June and are now resprouting; they’ll stay in the greenhouse for another summer before being replaced. Three Russian Red tomatoes were also overwintered and are now producing tasty fruit, but these will be pulled later in spring once replacements are ready. Surrounding them are 25 pots of tropical dwarf heliconia, which don’t survive well outside over winter. There are also 45 strawberry plants, which I’m using to get the jump on the season by starting them inside.

Also overwintering are half a dozen pots each of ginger, turmeric and galangal.

These are used for Asian style dishes and as a deliciously healthy addition to smoothies. These tropical crops prefer to be on the drier side over winter, so keeping them in the greenhouse with only occasional watering achieves this.

Still quite small are eight moonflower plants, which I grow for their aptly named, unearthly flowers. By midsummer, the flower buds will begin to swell and in the evening they will literally open before your eyes into saucer-shaped blooms, which pour out an intoxicating fragrance.

Even smaller and slower growing are 25 frangipani seedlings of half a dozen varieties. Once mature, these will be potted up and shifted under the northern or eastern eaves of our house, where they get maximum sun and warmth in summer and shelter from the cold and rain over winter.

Even more cold and wet-sensitive than frangipani are the yellow and red pawpaw, of which I’ve managed to coax one of each seedling to survive. I suspect I’ll need to keep these inside the greenhouse year-round; not a problem while they’re small, but a future issue to resolve as they do get quite large.

The two eggplant seedlings will make their way outside, as I’ve yet to get consistent fruitset inside my insect-proof greenhouse. The Lebanese cucumber and the zucchini can stay inside until they get too large. They are largely selfpollinating and the much appreciated early cucs and zucs will soon be overcome by the avalanche of produce from outdoor veggie gardens.

Likewise, most of the tomato seedlings will also make their way outside in late September to early October as the weather warms up. With three Amish Paste, six Roma, six mixed heirloom varieties, two more Russian Red (from cuttings) a Supersteak and a Sweet 100, all vying for space, the warm weather can’t come soon enough.

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It’s a great time to replant your veggie garden, get snails under control and rejuvenate your lawns after the cold winter months. It’s also a good time to plant shrubs and fruit trees, make sure you give them lots of compost and fertiliser to give them the best start.

In the Veggie Patch • It’s important to get on top of snails: after winter rain colonies of snails and slugs should be dealt with using pet and bird friendly controls or try leaving a tilted jar of beer half buried in the soil overnight.

• Growing tomatoes in small spaces: An excellent nonclimbing type is Scoresby Dwarf. Try the tumbling tomato varieties in a hanging basket or pot.

The rest of the Garden • Great time to control weeds emerging in your lawn – one of the best options is spraying with Prolawn Broadsword which attacks the weeds but leaves the grass intact.

• Planting shrubs and annuals can be done now. Use top quality mixes and apply mulch straight after planting.

• Plant deciduous fruit trees like plums, peaches, apples and pears.

• Pretty spring-flowering shrubs: Plant the Californian lilac (ceanothus), Mexican orange blossom (choisyas), lavenders and the petite NZ kowhai, Dragon’s Gold.

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The lay of the land when it comes to local ’scaping Spring is not just for flowers – it is also the optimal time for groundworks and presents a good opportunity to consider your landscaping opportunities.

Mahurangi Matters caught up with Todd Rochford of Rochford Landscapes to understand the process of building a backyard from scratch.

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Though it is barely perceptible, the lawn slopes on a subtle gradient of 20mm per metre, across its sevenmetre length, to provide good drainage.

“There’s no problem kicking a ball around, but it’s not going to flood in the next downpour,” Todd says.

He doesn’t know if climate change is the cause, but he says adequate drainage is critical these days, with an average of two to three major water weather events a year affecting households.

In the front driveway, Rochford has built a gabion wall, which is a wire cage holding together carefully placed rocks.

“The cage is filled by hand, one at a time. You still want a flat face despite the cage.”

The wall complements the river pebble, which has been used to fill the wide path leading from the driveway to the door.

“We have used a honeycomb latticed mat as reinforcement beneath the pebbles, otherwise it’s just a load of ball bearings.”

Todd has a few tips for readers who might be at the start of the process of considering their landscaping options.

“The main thing is to have a plan whether you pay someone to do it or just note it down and make one yourself,” he says.

“Often you won’t have the budget to do everything at once. It’s about being able to start in a logical order so that new works don’t ruin prior ones.”

He says drainage is incredibly important to consider early on, particularly for subdivisions on a slope.

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Todd says that a common rule of thumb is that 10 per cent of your development budget should be dedicated to landscaping, but homeowners shouldn’t let that limit them.

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Matakana’s secret garden to reopen for flowering season There’s no signs for the secret garden at 545 Matakana Road, but hidden out the back of the Protea Patch nursery is an Eden of undulating lawns, running rivers and placid ponds.

The garden has been closed for maintenance over recent months, but owner Carol van Dyk is planning to reopen it in October in time for the protea flowering season.

As well as a rich diversity of exotic plants, the garden is home to 40 species of birds, from kaka to kookaburra.

Sculptural forms reveal themselves as the garden unfolds to explorers.

There are metalwork pieces, including small books that emerge from the bush and have sayings inspired by the Bahá’í faith. The works were created by local artist and actress Ilona Rodgers.

The garden also features several natural sculptures, including archways created by fallen trees and ponga logs that have been cut in half to reveal stunning patterns.

“The natural sculptures change each year as they degrade and become ecosystems in themselves. The theme of this place is transformation – because we all transform and that’s natural,” Carol says.

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and Tony White. Carol, along with her husband, Dave, trained with them for months to take it over, along with the attached propagation business.

“My vision is to keep it accessible to the public. We would welcome keen gardening volunteers.”

Carol says the wanderers that find Matakana’s secret garden include families that come for a picnic and young couples taking photographs.

One time the garden hosted a LARP – a live action role play – in which a group of characters arrived in costume and followed the narration of a storyteller.

“They spent three hours here and were blown away by the scenery,” Carol says.

The garden is only open when Carol is there for part of the week and most weekends, but those interested in discovering it can message the Protea Patch Facebook page.

To visit the park, Carol charges $5 koha, which covers mowing the lawns.

The Protea Patch nursery is also having plant sales at the end of September and at the end of October.

Rare specimens in stock this season include a deep red Telopea Burgundy, a pink flower with autumn tones named Ethel Taylor, and a ‘brimstone bush’ with a red flower and white tips.

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What we do in our own backyard can have a major effect on the biodiversity we see all around us, according to Dr Margaret Stanley, an associate professor at Auckland University’s school of biological sciences.

Dr Stanley made her remarks at a gathering organised by Forest & Bird in the Oaks Retirement Village in Warkworth last week.

Dr Stanley said our urban areas have often been built in fertile areas and they are awash with native insect and bird life.

To give an example, she said one study undertaken in Lynfield, Auckland, had identified 253 species of beetle that were found nowhere else in the world.

“In Australia, a third of the country’s endangered species live in cities. There is plenty of biodiversity in cities,” she said.

Dr Stanley said being able to enjoy a more natural environment had proven benefits to physical and mental health.

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reducing healthcare costs.

But Dr Stanley said despite the obvious advantages, there were several threats to urban biodiversity that needed to be addressed and what was needed was a major public relations exercise to alert people to these threats and what they could do about them.

Among the threats she identified were “the chainsaw massacre” or cutting down of trees, unwise feeding of birds, light pollution, cats and weeds.

The chainsaw massacre Dr Stanley said the pressure to build more houses in more concentrated areas had led to the indiscriminate cutting down of trees. An amendment to the Resource Management Act in 2012 had meant much fewer trees were now protected. She said some Auckland suburbs, such as Ponsonby, had lost 40 per cent of their urban forest.

“Self-interest trumps common good.

People are just looking at their own space and they are not thinking about their community,” Dr Stanley said.

“I’m not sure what we can do about that except to remind people about all the benefits trees can give us.”

Unwise feeding of birds Dr Stanley said almost half of New Zealanders feed birds in their backyards – spending $5 million a continued next page

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Cats Dr Stanley said cats frequently got out at night and posed a threat to native wildlife that could otherwise flourish in urban bush fragments. To make matters worse, New Zealand has the highest rates of cat ownership in the world. Moreover, cat owners were resistant to messages which would

Weeds Dr Stanley said it was unfortunate that gardeners often favoured exotic species over native ones and a major public relations exercise was needed to persuade people to plant natives, which unfortunately have a reputation of being slow growing and not very pretty.

“But the good thing about native plants is they support native insects,” Dr Stanley said.

Dr Stanley said introduced species could easily explode and take over, like gorse.

“We have got 25,000 plant species in New Zealand and only 2,100 of these are native. The rest come from cultivated gardens and horticulture.

Every year, another 20 jump the fence from the garden and start breeding in the wild,” Dr Stanley said.

She said garden centres could play a role in pushing native species more.

“We have got some beautiful, flowering plants,” she said.

In addition to preserving trees, Dr Stanley encouraged gardeners to plant lots of shrubs, creating plenty of groundcover for wildlife to flourish.

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This was sad for humans but created even more problems for animals and birds, causing them to be disorientated, sleep deprived, lacking in energy and unsure how to navigate. She said there were many ways to fix light pollution such as shielding lights, pointing lights downwards so they don’t unnecessarily spill light into the sky, and through the extensive use of sensors. Sensors can detect when it is appropriate to turn a light on and then only when necessary.

prioritise the environment over their cat. She said attitudes were different in Australia, where registering and micro-chipping cats was compulsory and cats were frequently confined to their own backyards, making use of outdoor cat runs.

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Research has shown that where birds are fed with bread and seeds, there is an upsurge in exotic species of birds and a corresponding decline in native species. Dr Stanley said the university was currently investigating appropriate solutions of water and sugar, which could be recommended to bird lovers to encourage the proliferation of native species in their backyards.

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36 Mahurangimatters September 18, 2019

Nifty frame design for climbers

The Sculptureum artwork emerges from a cover of saris with the help of Willow Whitham (left) and Carissa Smith. The elephant takes his place at the entrance.

Message behind new artwork A bronze African elephant that was last seen climbing out of a manhole in downtown New York has found a new home in Matakana.

Two art students from Mahurangi College, Carissa Smith and Willow Whitham, were given the honour of unveiling Sculptureum’s latest acquisition.

The public art piece is part of a series called ‘come out come out, wherever you are’ by Sydney artists Gille and Marc.

For more than three decades, the couple have been making public

art to promote conservation and equality. The ‘come out, come out’ series draws attention to the plight of many of the world’s endangered species, arguing that these species should be allowed to come out of hiding to a place of safety and love.

The sculpture park, on Omaha Flats Road, is home to a number of Gille and Marc pieces. Sculptureum owners, Sandra and Anthony Grant, have installed a collection box alongside the elephant with all donations going to a wildlife conservation fund.

Ahuroa farmer Nader Youssef got so tired of his wife complaining about winds blowing down crops in their veggie garden that he invented a device to fix the problem.

Nader says his 100-acre block is buffeted by regular stiff breezes and conventional stakes and trellises failed to keep crops such as beans upright. So a few years ago, Nader, a former cabinetmaker, hit on the idea of constructing a hinged A-frame with sheep fence netting on each side for plants to wind themselves around for support.

The feet of the frame are wedge shaped, allowing them to be easily driven into the ground.

The frame proved remarkably stable, regardless of which direction the wind happened to be blowing.

“It’s self-supporting. If the wind blows against it, the other side holds it in place,” Nader says.

He admits the first few versions of the design were a bit “iffy”. Some complained you might cut yourself on the sharp wire ends of the fence netting.

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In addition to beans, Nader says the frame is equally suitable for other plants such as tomatoes, cucumbers and even pumpkins.

One inventive customer laid one on its side and used it as a portable sheep gate.

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However, he became disillusioned when retailers imposed steep markups, which scared many potential customers away.

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Now he sells them directly while continuing to make them in his home workshop.

“I’m obviously biased, but as far as I’m concerned they work well. A couple of neighbours have got them and they swear by them,” he says.

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rurallife Strawberry growing season has been berry unusual ON THE LAND

Strawberries could be on the market any day now with an unusually mild winter boosting growth of berry bushes, but not all is red and rosy.

Gala Berry managing director Lynda Ashby says Gala Berry has been picking its strawberries for two weeks already but a rainy August has been challenging.

“July was filled with warm winter sun and a lot of light hours, but in August the weather gods decided to rain and the cold weather has slowed down the formation from fruit to flower.”

At this point, Lynda can only wait to see if the sun will return, but typically production gets into full bloom around October.

“We will go into seven-day-a-week production with strawberries ripening every day and we usually hire up to 40 people locally to help with the picking.”

Picking for the public is also available from Boxing Day and makes for a fun day out for families in the fields.

In December, strawberries are perfect for freezing and then putting in to smoothies because at that time the sugar content will be at its highest.

Charlies Gelato owner Andrew Cole says that as a smaller grower, with just 28,000 strawberry plants, they have been fortunate enough to be able to grow them all under cover, protected

A warm winter means plenty of punnets earlier in the season.

from the August rain.

“In July, we had an incredible bloom, and we spent a lot of time trimming the flowers off because they would never ripen in the winter sun,” he says.

“You want the plant to put its energy into growing the root system.”

The recent cold weeks have encouraged root rot as well as aphids, which has presented challenges.

“Strawberries are quite an attacked species. We have been spraying with organic vinegar and baking soda to protect them.”

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Andrew says they quickly sell out of the strawberries sold at the gate each day because they only pick the ripest fruit.

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September 18, 2019 Mahurangimatters 39

Duck Creek Road scoops top award for blended olive oil

Sally and Derek Holland take an organic approach to growing olives.

pick-a-pod, rather than being placed on a net on the ground. They are then easily inspected at waist height, and any olives showing signs of disease or having been pecked by birds can be discarded before processing.

“We’ve bucked the trend by not spraying and obviously the judges could taste the difference,” Sally says.

For winning Best in Show, the Hollands will be presented with a

trophy in November.

The trophy is sculpted from 100-yearold olive branches from Auckland’s Cornwall Park. It is shaped like a bowl with a large sculpted drop of olive oil sitting inside it.

Sally says she has had her eye on the trophy ever since moving to Mahurangi seven years ago.

“If you work for something it just goes to show dreams do come true,” she says.

Judges at the Oliveti awards said the standard of oils presented this year was very high, with none being rejected for defects.

“There was a good representation of well-balanced oils with fruitiness, bitterness and pungency all represented. The oils will provide an excellent culinary experience for consumers, whether for individual tasting or cooking,” the judges said.

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A Mahurangi olive oil was named Best in Show at the prestigious Oliveti Northland Olive Oil Awards this month.

Duck Creek Road Olive Oil took the top award and a gold medal with its medium blended oil, comprising J5 and Frantoio olives.

Duck Creek also picked up two silver medals for its Leccino, Koroneiki and Frantoio blend and its Leccino, Koroneiki, Frantoio and J5 blend.

They were competing against top olive growers from all over Auckland and Northland.

Duck Creek owners Derek and Sally Holland say the win is a huge boost for Mahurangi, since its high rainfall and humidity can often be as tough on its olives as it is on its grapes.

“To survive these weather conditions and come through with a win is fantastic for the region,” Sally says.

The win is even more remarkable given the Hollands refuse to spray their crop for diseases such as black spot and anthracnose, where rain droplets sit at the base of olives and cause them to rot.

Sally says Duck Creek gets around these problems by attending to the soil with plenty of mulching and a labourintensive harvesting process.

Duck Creek uses a pick-a-pod device that was invented in Australia. The pick-a-pod surrounds the tree and resembles an inverted umbrella.

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The hunger games I have just spent a day as a veterinarian with some of the officers of Northland’s Ministry of Primary Industries Animal Welfare Compliance team, investigating a complaint of skinny or underfed cattle. This raised two important points, which I would like to discuss. The first is around the public’s attitude towards the compliance officers, the second is around misconceptions about what constitutes adequate feeding of farm animals.

Over coffee with the animal welfare compliance officers and their colleagues, the fisheries compliance officers, we discussed the public’s attitude towards them.

Fisheries officers are respected. The general public are aware of their presence and people are happy to comply with these officers’ requests. Contrast that with the animal welfare officers, who have received several threats to their own welfare. Both types of compliance officers are doing their jobs well. Why the difference in attitudes towards them? Either we haven’t been exposed to the animal welfare officers for as long as the fishery officers, and therefore don’t have as much respect for animal welfare officers, or else the attitude is simply that this property is my domain and I will protect it with my gun. This really is the old Wild West. We all need these compliance officers, they do a great job.

The second point is around what constitutes adequate feeding of farm animals, which include all sheep, goats, cattle, alpacas and horses. This can be a complex discussion, but I will just provide two very simple rules of thumb. First, for any of these animals to achieve an adequate food intake of grass, the grass needs to be five centimetres high from the ground to the top of the pasture sward. Second, the very minimum amount of food that they need to eat per day to maintain their bodyweight is two per cent of their total body mass. A 50kg sheep needs 1kg of dry matter per day. A 500kg cow or horse needs 10kg of dry matter. For a mother animal to produce milk or feed a developing baby, she will require more food than this.

Dry matter feed needs an additional qualification. The dry matter is the actual food quantity minus water. Fresh grass normally has a dry matter of 20 per cent.

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September 18, 2019 Mahurangimatters 41

CountryLiving Julie Cotton

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The naked truth on rural roads So, what propels a middle-aged mother of five to strip naked in a pothole of soapy mud in the middle of winter? Is it community depravity, inequality or perhaps sheer madness?

No, it’s a desperate cry for help and a confronting love letter to a system that is broken and those who endorse it.

Rural roads have reached crisis point and the personal cost to maintain vehicles on them has reached new heights of inequality. Make no mistake, the rural communities pay around half of Rodney’s general rates and our industry helps to underpin the economies of our beautiful towns. Fuel tax? Yes, we are paying truckloads of it but, unfortunately, we are told that the bulk of our fair portion, needed for our roads, must be deferred for six years in order to fund “priority projects”, and so it goes on ... At the current rate, my road will not be sealed for about 600 years.

Nobody should accept that our roads to schools, entire communities and major rural industry are still in this Big enough for a bath – Julie Cotton condition. Since when have the lines finds a novel use for a pot hole. between dire needs and luxury wants become so blurred?

The local government elections are upon us, and it’s heartbreakingly cruel to know that the promises for a fair share will be dumped on the scrapheap, along with all the ones that have gone before. The Rodney First ticket on the local board added to these woes when they told the rural community that their contribution from the Rodney transport targeted rate was to go towards desperately needed tar seal extensions, but then, behind closed doors, they used their block voting power to steal our portion from us. The rural communities would like their portion of this rate given back for its original intended purpose.

The ever-amorous ex-mayor Len Brown told us we were all “one big family”. If this is true, then I just want to let him know that not all the kids are being fed.

Rodney is a diverse ward full of dozens of communities that enrich us all, and all of them are paying their way and deserve to see a return for their rates investment.

Elected representatives don’t get to rewrite the meaning of equality and fairness.

You are either fair or you are not, and if you are not, best you put your fingers above the table. No amount of political junk spiel will override the raw reality of what we are living with, and the fact that some of these communities have not seen change or progress for the generations of rates they have paid. Bravery does not come in the form of taxing the living ass out of the working class and fixed income. True courage is found within the homes of those who find creative ways to succeed and provide for all their family members within their means.

This election we are all searching for a hero, but I believe that hero can be found right inside our own hearts – fairness, kindness and equality must surely be the finest sword we all carry.

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Lyn Wade, Little Barrier Island Supporters Trust www.littlebarrierisland.org.nz

Hauturu, the book Hauturu, the book, had its inception way back in 1935 when my father, the late Dr W.M. Hamilton, wrote his masters thesis about the history, geology and botany of Little Barrier Island. This was the first comprehensive text on the island and was used by many students over the years. He later became the Director General of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) and was able to update that text. With the assistance of other scientists, he could extend it to encompass much more about birds, pests, soils and seashore. This became DSIR Bulletin 137 Little Barrier Island (Hauturu) which, even though printed in 1961, was, up until now, still the definitive scientific text on New Zealand’s premier and oldest nature reserve. My first visit to the island when I was just four years old related to the beginnings of that book.

Three years ago, the Little Barrier Island (Hauturu) Supporters Trust set up a sub-committee of three trustees to update that now 58-year-old text and raise funds to enable it to be published. Our sub-committee changed when two of the trustees resigned from the trust, due to new roles with increased workloads. One became a curator at Auckland Museum and was still very involved in the book. The other is our publisher at Massey University Press! The third one, myself, became co-editor.

Dick Veitch, who was the lead wildlife officer responsible for getting rid of the feral cats on the island in 1980, has assisted me as co-editor. His wealth of wildlife experience, knowledge of Hauturu (his first visit was back in 1960) and of creating books, as well as his wide connections to the scientific community has helped to create a masterpiece.

We originally planned a book of seven chapters that

Hauturu rangers Chippy Wood and Richard Walle check out Hauturu with Lyn Wade.

would cover the changes to the island over the last 50-plus years, with seven scientists writing about these changes. What we have now is a fabulous book, which has had input from 23 authors, mostly scientists, which gives a very comprehensive, readable account of the island, its history, geology, all its species, the marine environment around the island, plus the conservation history, outcomes and hopes for the future. Forty-nine photographers, some professional, have provided amazing photos from landscapes and seascapes to gallery photos of many of the vast array of species present on the island. We were privileged to have the late Roger Grace write the chapter on the marine environment around the island, exhorting us all to do something to protect it.

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Drink more bliss I reckon that we’ve made a great leap forward in our collective relationship with beer in recent years. I like to believe that we’re rapidly evolving away from a swill-as-fast-as-our-gullets-can-move relationship towards one that is more respectful of the fire that we’re actually playing with. Alcohol is, after all, a drug; and while its effortless availability and affordability might suggest otherwise, it’s also a luxury that we should be prepared to handover a decent chunk of change to enjoy.

In the last decade or so, we’ve seen a massive increase in the proportion of our local beer cellars that are dedicated to single bottles or cans. These are usually produced by smaller breweries and can cost as much – if not more – than a full six-pack of an offering from an industrial brewer like Lion or DB. Choosing to take home one or two bottles (instead of six or It isn’t always the 12) rightly comes with an air of expectation: you expect that first sip of the fancy stuff to result in an brewery’s fault if involuntary thigh-slap, and perhaps an expletive or its offering two. If the beer doesn’t have that effect, then you doesn’t take you might feel that you’ve been a bit short-changed. to nirvana.

But here’s the thing: it isn’t always the brewery’s fault if its offering doesn’t take you to nirvana. This month, I want to share three habits that you can form to maximise your chances of first sip bliss. They require a minimal amount of effort, and really can turn a good beer-drinking experience into a great one.

1. Check the best before date. For paler beers (think lagers and pale ales), most breweries in New Zealand will slap on a date that is 12 months after the day that it was packaged. However, beers with hop character are generally best when they’re fresh – so the closer you are to that best before date, the less hop character you’re going to get. This is less important for darker beers, which (like red wine) tend to improve with a bit of age.

2. Pay attention to temperature. If you’re drinking your beer just above freezing, then you won’t taste a thing – which defeats the purpose of spending your hard-earned moolah on decent beer. There’s a reason the English serve their cask-conditioned beer at cellar temperature: it’s because that’s the temperature where delicate fruity esters like to dance. Different beer styles pop at different temperatures. Take those big hoppy beers out of the fridge about 10 minutes before serving, and give those big stouts at least half an hour.

3. Put it in a glass. If your buddy offers you a glass for your bottle of Pilsner, replying that “It’s already in a glass, mate” is neither clever nor particularly funny.

Drinking from the bottle or can is fine, but it just isn’t the optimal way to enjoy a well-made beer. For starters, the act of tipping a beer into a glass causes some of the CO2 within the beer to come out of solution and to form a lovely white head. As such, pouring your beer into a glass with a bit of vigour can prevent that awful bloated feeling (and associated burps) by reducing the amount of CO2 that you’re stuffing into your tummy. But perhaps most importantly, by drinking straight from the bottle you self-restrict your sensory experience of the beer – by both minimising the aroma (only so much can escape from that little opening) and completely eliminating your ability to look at the thing that you’re drinking. Beer is inherently beautiful, so why turn down the chance to see it in its birthday suit?

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Wellsford dairy farming duo say awards were a win-win A Wellsford farming couple who won a major dairy industry award last year say the prizes and benefits have been “fantastic” and they are urging others to enter this year’s competition, entries for which open in October.

Colin and Isabella Beazley of Te Hana won the 2019 Northland Share Farmers of the Year and went on to win the national title and four other merit awards in June, netting a package of prizes worth around $52,000.

They say the vouchers and credits have been invaluable, not least since they have just expanded their herd from 330 Friesian and Friesian-cross cows to 530, as well as completing a significant DNA profiling exercise.

However, the NZ Dairy Industry Awards are about far more than money, Colin says. They are also an opportunity to meet key industry people and benchmark your business against others.

“The networking and contact with industry leaders is unparalleled and we have used these relationships to grow our business,” he says.

“As a busy farmer, you can get caught up in the day-to-day running of the farm, so to stand back and watch our presentation, seeing the nine plywood boards plastered with our collated evidence, and setting up our machinery for display and effect was quite eye-opening for us.

“It made us super-proud of how far our industry has allowed us to grow and excited for the prospects of where

it can take us.”

Isabella says as well as the networking opportunities and receiving valuable feedback from industry experts, there was one other huge plus to the awards process.

“Time off-farm,” she says. “Being able to flick off the cow poo clothes and don some suave suits and flash heels to enjoy some time with others within our industry, who get what it’s like to be a farmer too, is also just as rewarding as the event itself.”

She says the best advice for awards entrants is to keep records of everything.

“Keeping good records is paramount,” Isabella says. “Sorting through and collating everything that farmers do on a daily basis can take time, so start now if you’re thinking of entering.”

This year, the Beazleys are involved with the Northland regional committee as regional managers and are enjoying being able to encourage the next wave of entrants coming through. “We 110 per cent recommend entering the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards,” they say. “If you’re striving for more in our industry, definitely sign up and see where the awards’ journey takes you.”

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Baby animals back in Kaiwaka for regional show day A popular regional animal showing competition, Otamatea Group Day, is back next month, after last year’s event was cancelled due to cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis.

The 2019 show will take place on Saturday, October 19 at the Kaiwaka Sports Complex, off Gibbons Road, from 8am to 1pm and is open to calves, lambs and goat kids.

Committee member Michaela McCracken says organisers have been working with Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) biosecurity guidelines to do whatever possible to make the day safe for calf competitors.

Calves will be led in and out of separate entrances, for example, and will have to be tied up separately at all times. There will also be MPI posters and signage explaining about M. bovis and risk management.

The Otamatea Group Day has been running for more than a decade and is aimed at young animal handlers of all ages living anywhere between Warkworth and Waipu. Entrants can be preschool, primary school, college or home-schooled and do not need to have competed at a school ag day to take part.

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Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector Poto Williams, Auckland Mayor Phill Goff, MPs Mark Mitchell and Marja Lubeck, Councillor Greg Sayers and Rodney Local Board chair Beth Houlbrooke were among around 50 people present for the official opening of Mahurangi Wastebusters’ Lawrie Road Refuse & Recycling Centre on Wednesday, September 4. Minister Williams said social enterprise was the way of the future and the Wastebusters sites were a great example of how communities could come together to reduce their imprint. “I think it’s quite poetic that it’s on an old landfill,” she said. “It’s a gentle reminder of where we were and where we need to be.”

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At the moment, the sector is not delivering. Employers are telling us that people leaving education and training don’t have the skills necessary to secure a job in their industries. At a time when New Zealand is facing critical skills shortages, this isn’t good enough.

The previous National government only tinkered around the edges. Due to National’s inaction, the Government had to bail out several polytechs, costing the taxpayer about $100 million.

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this information, I understood earlier that there were only two candidates standing. At the candidates meeting at Snells Beach I learned that another was standing, but that he was not attending that evening. I searched the Auckland Council site and came upon a Mayoral candidates list. Part way through I found that it was for the last election! After further searching to find out the policies of the third candidate, I was surprised to find that in all there are 21 candidates for Mayor of Auckland. I have spoken to a lot of ratepayers since and none had any idea that they had so many to choose from, some thought two or three. As the election nears, I am sure that we will read a paragraph or two from each person but nothing like the coverage the other two have been given. Is there any electoral law that stops media owners from selecting certain candidates for special promotion at the expense of others? Is it possible that this unfair promotion of some candidates has resulted in poor performances by all Mayors since 2010?

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Local youngsters travel in colours for Northland game Last month, 500 northern youngsters from Tomarata to Hokianga travelled on buses to Whangarei’s Semenoff Stadium to catch the Northland vs.

Hawkes Bay game on August 31.

Ritchies buses transported children from their local clubs, including Tomarata, Wellsford, Otamatea and Eastern United, up to Whangarei for the day.

The junior clubs’ day, which saw kids dress up in colours and design their own mascots, was organised

by Rugby for Life and Viking Youth Rugby Trust, in

partnership with Northland Rugby Union.

Out of the 15 clubs that attended, Otamatea won the prize for best mascot, thanks to Kasey Lee’s Hawks-inspired costume.

As well as being treated to lunch and dinner, children got to hang out with some of the Northland players and were led out onto the field by mascot Tane the Taniwha.

Programme coordinator Sharon Gibson said the day had been organised so that Northland kids and their

families who would not otherwise be able to afford the opportunity could come along and enjoy the game.

Sharon says Rugby for Life is a community rugby partnership programme that leverages the power of rugby to help improve the lives of all Northlanders and their communities.

“We want to acknowledge our communities for their efforts in engaging kids in rugby, with a percentage of the general admission ticket revenue going back to the clubs,” she says.

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Flats junior hockey unbeaten The Kaipara Flats Silver Sticks had a sensational season, going unbeaten in the Mahurangi Junior Hockey Club winter round robin.

The team topped it off by taking out the end of season fun tournament in division A, as well as the award for good sportsmanship.

In the junior division, the competition was close with only two points between the top two teams. Warkworth Pumas just beat the Kaipara Flats Small Sticks in the round robin.

But in a reversal of fortunes, the Warkworth Jaguars played hard and won the junior division on tournament day, with the Pumas taking second place.

This year, there were six teams in the years one to four division and 10 teams in the division.

President Lisa Berger says numbers were good this season, driven by a successful ‘have a go’ day that

40 kids attended.

She says consistently hosting the games at the Warkworth Hockey Turf on a Saturday, instead of a home and away format has been a major selling point.

The competition has teams from Matakana, Leigh, Snells, Warkworth, Wellsford, Kaipara Flats and Horizon School. Juniors play on a quarter court, while seniors play on a half court and use conventional rules such as penalty corners and scoring only within the ‘D’.

Berger says at this stage, the club is trying to encourage a sense of fair play and good sportsmanship among players.

“When one team gets too far ahead in a game, we ask coaches to switch their best players into a different position to make it more challenging for them.”

This year, all the umpires were college students, who also took over the fun sticks classes where Year 0 do drills on Saturday mornings.

Mahurangi makes world champions The New Zealand underwater hockey team claimed three golds and a bronze at the Underwater Hockey World Championships last month, thanks to a swell of Mahurangi talent.

The tournament for U24 and U19 teams was held in Sheffield, England, by the World Underwater Federation from August 14 to 24.

The U19 women’s team, featuring Mahurangi College students Rowan Buick and Emma North, thrashed Columbia 7-2 in the final having been undefeated throughout the tournament.

The U19 team, whose captain is Mahurangi’s Samuel Twhigg, also went unbeaten and won 8-2 against the home side, Great Britain.

Former Mahurangi students Juliana Panui-Leth, Rebecca Twhigg and Sarah Wilson pipped France for gold with a 3-1 to win in the U24 women’s grade.

The U24 men’s team, featuring past student and current Mahurangi College coach Elliot Sneddon, picked up bronze. They lost their semi-final with Turkey, but beat South Africa 5-1 in their last match.

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Mahurangi East Tennis A fun family tennis open day will be held at the Mahurangi East Tennis Club on Sunday, September 22, from 1pm-4pm. The bouncy castle is open from 1.45pm and the ball machine on from 2.30pm. Everyone welcome.

Mahurangi East Bowling Club HAVE-A-GO-DAY is on Sunday, October 20 from 10.00 am to 2.00pm, 41 Hamatana Road, Snells Beach. Come along and enjoy a game of bowls, tuition and bowls supplied. Flat-soled shoes please. Enquiries Norm Fisher 425 4510.

KSA growing the funds The Kaiwaka Sports Association is fundraising by selling seeds from $5 a packet, delivered to your door. See the Kaiwaka Sports Complex Facebook page for order form to be sent to kaiwakasports@gmail.com. Payment details are on the form. Orders must be received by October 4.

Summer hockey Teams for the Warkworth Hockey summer season must be submitted

by September 30. The competition runs 10 weeks before Christmas and six weeks after. Seven-a-side will be held on Tuesdays, 6-9pm, and nine-a-side will be held on Thursday evenings 6-9pm. Entry fees are from $200 to $600 with community fundraising support available. Info: warkworthhockey@gmail.com

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On September 4 we held our 2019 Open Day for our 2020 new enrolments. It was a privilege to share our place with our new families and students; and also to introduce our innovative new STEAM (science, technology, electronics, art, math) programme. This programme strongly aligns with

the innovative and curious PRIDE values we aim to foster in our students. We also shared our new Virtual 360º Tour for the first time; which can now be viewed from our website home page. Thank you to all who helped make the day a success, and to those who attended.

Seven of our students (alumni and present) won a grand total of six gold medals and one bronze, representing NZ at the 2019 Underwater Hockey World Championships.

Congratulations to all. Our present students and new world champions, Rowan Buick and Emma North, who won gold competing in the NZ U19 Women’s team, are pictured below.

Rugby 26 September; Netball 17 October; UWH 19 October and our Sports Blues Award Evening will be held 24 October. Our senior teams enjoyed ending their season with tournament week, finishing with some great results. A special thank you to all our coaches, managers and parent supporters for all our teams throughout the season.

the Coast to Coast Longest Day Event. In February 2020, he will be attempting to set the record for the Oldest Known Finisher of the Kathmandu Coast to Coast One Day World Championships at 71 years young.

All of our winter sports codes are now coming to their season end. Congratulations to our Girls Senior A Hockey team who won the North Harbour championship against Westlake Girls; our 1XV Boys Rugby team for winning the North Harbour B Division in a very close, exciting game against Kaipara College 25-24; and to our U17 Boys Basketball team who won their North Harbour B Division against Glenfield College.

We held our 2019 Basketball Prize-giving Evening on 28 August. Congratulations to all our winners. Upcoming sports prize-giving’s include Hockey 25 September; Football and

Congratulations to Lizara Cuthell who was invited by the Paralympics NZ Classification team to compete as a para athlete at the College Sport Auckland Swimming Championships. Although competing with non-para swimmers, she achieved gold in the 100m Para Backstroke, 100m Para Freestyle and the 100m Para Individual Medley.

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Our thanks to Peter Melling (below) for setting up a Givealittle page (search Peter Melling) to raise funds for our Year 10 Outdoor Education facility on the Hoteo River. Peter already holds the record for the Oldest Known Finisher of

We held our annual SADD week during August, ending with what has become a powerful tradition – the mock crash. In 2018 there was 379 deaths on our roads - the worst since 2009. Mahurangi College was the first school in NZ to have SADD over 35 years ago and many past students recall the positive impact the programme has had on them.

With thanks to Rotary Warkworth and Friends of Mahu, all our Year 11 students participated in the RYDA programme, which is designed for students who are approaching that crucial time in their lives where they start to drive independently or are travelling as passengers of novice drivers. Students participated in a series of practical and powerful workshops

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that challenged the way they thought about road safety. Many thanks to all involved.

Our Year 9-10 speech competition was judged this year by James Addis, Mahurangi Matters editor; debating coach Abby Pool; and English HOF, Liana Ruland. Congratulations to Year 10 winner Elaine Ebaraima Anatete, who spoke about body image; and to our Year 9 winner Kaea Heke, who spoke about the greatness of being Maori.

Our Jazz Combo attended the annual Bay of Islands Jazz and Blues Festival, performing street gigs and at the Scenic Hotel, Paihia. For more than 10 years, the Festival has provided our students with the fantastic opportunity to share a stage with professional musicians.

Our senior students are sitting their NCEA qualifying exams this week. All the very best.

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JUNIOR STUDENTS ATTEMPT TO REPLICATE SWEATSHOP Our Year 7 and 8’s have been exploring Consumerism this term. As part of their learning, they attempted to replicate the conditions of a Philippines ‘sweatshop’. Three classes squashed into one classroom with the air con set to high. Each team of four had the tedious and repetitive task of threading beads to make bracelets. Students were also able to make real life connections between their learning and our local community after local business owners, and representatives from our Hospitality department, came to talk further about consumerism.

3 FIRSTS AT DANCENZ MADE INTERSCHOOL REGIONALS Congratulations to our dance students who performed at the DanceNZ Made Interschool Auckland Regional Dance Competition held at the Bruce Mason Theatre in Takapuna. The results for our students were outstanding with three first placing’s and one second; Katie Hawken first in Year 8; Amali Shore first on Year 10; Brandon Lewis first in

Year 11; and Vanya Dunn second in Year 12.

On August 15 and 16, students showcased their winning performances during our annual Mahurangi College Dance Showcase.

100 dance students from Year 7 to 13 took to the stage. All curricular dance classes and our Momentum Dance Company and Impulse Dance Company, performed a

wide range of dance styles including Jazz, Contemporary, Salsa, Cha Cha, Hip Hop, African and more. The showcase also included 52 credits worth of assessments.

Our thanks to everyone who made this show happen, from student choreographers to costume creators, our tech crew, and of course every student who chose to perform.

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Warkworth and Puhoi soccer clubs to square off next season?

After a challenging season in the AFF/ NFF Conference, Warkworth AFC is considering dropping down a league to the NFF senior mens division one.

This would put them in the same league as the newly formed Puhoi SC mens first team.

With a swathe of players having retired at the end of last season, Warkworth was struggling to field both a reserve and first team required in the conference league.

Captain James Woodall says there were several players who were having to play two competition games on Saturday morning.

“It was time for youth to step up and we have had quite a few players taking on the challenge and leading the team.

Ben Patterson is 16 and has shone phenomenally,” he says.

Woodall himself became captain midway through last season, and says he has learned as much from the team as he has shared.

There were some shining examples of what Warkworth is capable of during the season, including a draw with Beachlands Maraetai – the team that ultimately won the conference.

Warkworth also had a win against Lynn Avon, 2-1, midway through the season, thanks to a good shift from the backline.

“We can look back at those games and say we had the right attitude on the day and this is what can happen.”

Puhoi draws with Waitemata FC. Photo, Steven Hayes.

Meanwhile, Puhoi SC mens first division team finished its first season with enough points to stay in its league and is eyeing a promotion for next season.

Highlights for the year included beating Takapuna 6- 0 and making the second round of the Chatham Cup after beating Auckland Volcanoes.

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In the second round, Puhoi drew Onehunga Mangere, which is two divisions above, providing a great challenge to test the players’ skills, Puhoi head coach Luke McIntyre says.

McIntyre says the focus for the club going forward is to recruit more locals.

Long commutes from the North Shore have been the most challenging factor for the fledgling team.

Despite this, Puhoi went toe-to-toe with teams like Hibiscus United and Glenfield, which won the league, and in those games Puhoi only lost by a point.

“We can definitely compete. We just want to kick on and get promotion into the conference for 2021.”

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Downton Abbey movie night, Matakana Cinemas, 5.45pm.

Warkworth A&P Show fundraiser. Tickets $30, including drink & spot prizes. Info & tickets: Allan Barber on 027 447 7000 18 Brave Talks communication & self development workshop, The Common Room, Level 1, 27-35 Queen St, Warkworth, 7pm.

Bookings on 021 442 071 or visit bravetalks.co 18 Candidates Meeting, Warkworth subdivision candidates for Rodney Local Board, The Bridgehouse, 5.30pm (see ad p11) 19 Orange Sky NZ talk, Warkworth Methodist Church, corner of Hexham and Hill Sts, 1.30pm. Eddie Uini shares stories about his work providing clean clothes and showers to homeless people out of the back of a van.

19 Forest & Bird talk by Richard Taylor of the Leigh Marine Research Laboratory, Totara Park Retirement Village Hall, Warkworth, 7.30pm.

20 Warkworth Floral Art Club, “The Power of One” competition day featuring single-colour designs. Viewing from 1-2pm.

Info: Delwyn 422 6201 20-28 Testostrogen by Sandspit playwright Joanna Pearce, Pitt Street Theatre, Auckland. Tickets: iticket.co.nz 21 North Shore Youth Music presents the North Shore Junior Orchestra and the North Shore Children’s Choir for a free concert, Matakana Hall, 1pm (see brief p14) 21 Pakiri School Pet Day, Bathgate Road, Pakiri, 10am. Pet parade, hangi, bucket raffles, silent auction, cakes.

Info and hangi bookings: 021 072 4015 or email pakirischoolboard@gmail.com 22 The DeSotos, Leigh Sawmill Cafe, 5.30pm. Tickets $15 from eventfinda.co.nz or $20 on the door if not sold out prior.

23 Rodney Local Board (Warkworth Subdivision) Candidates Meeting, Betty Paxton Room, Mahurangi East Community Centre, Snells Beach, 7.30pm. Organised by Snells Beach Ratepayers & Residents Assn; all welcome.

24 Matakana Volunteer Fire Brigade open night, 102 Omaha Flats Road, 7pm. Station tour – find out what being a volunteer firefighter really involves. Info: Peter Guild on 027 472 6080 (see story p40) 26 Warkworth Town Hall Talk providing an update on major Mahurangi projects, 5pm for 5.30pm start (see story p20) 28 Lions Concert. Fundraiser for a new piano at Countdown, Summerset Retirement Village, 2.00pm. Classical & jazz piano players. Gold coin donation. Info: Brian 021 232 5370.

28 Clivia Flower Display & Sale, Schooner Ave, Snells beach, 9am. Info: Alick 021 132 0206 28 Mini-Comic Con, Old Masonic Hall, Baxter Street, Warkworth, 11am-1pm (see story p20) 28 Hamburger and Movie Night, Ahuroa Hall. Tickets $5 including burger and popcorn. Info: bullock_joanna@hotmail.com 29 Puhoi Village Market, Puhoi Sport Grounds, 9am-1pm. Stalls, coffee, crafts, food. Music from Jade River Ukes. Book a Car boot space for $20. Ph Jaqui 021 977 181. Cash only.

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Mahurangi College with the coveted Secondary Schools 1st XV B grade plate.

Mahurangi College 1st XV claw victory from Kaipara’s hands

In a nail-biter of a match, Mahurangi College’s first XV rugby team won their final against Kaipara College after clawing their way back from 12 points down at half time.

A Japanese TV crew was there at the QBE North Harbour stadium to film a feature on the Kiwi love of rugby. They couldn’t have picked a better game.

In the first half there was a fair bit of fumbling that resulted in a half time score of 24-12.

But the Mahu boys started putting their drill sets to good use. They managed to deny Kaipara a single try for the rest of the game and pushed their own score up to 22.

In the last 10 minutes, captain Cooper Rodden had

a chance at a critical penalty kick.

He exhibited cool control over his kick in a hightension situation and successfully made the goal.

Undeterred, Kaipara gave it one final push and made it back to the 22-metre line, where the referee awarded them a penalty kick.

The ball skewed away from the posts and the game was Mahu’s.

The crowd erupted with cries of foul play from Kaipara supporters and tears of joy from the victors as they spilled on to the field.

Mahurangi was awarded the North Harbour Secondary Schools 1st XV B grade plate, making history for the second year in a row.

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Kaipara crumbled with the final kick.

Father and son, Coach Rodden and Cooper.

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