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Sustainable Sand & Stone manager Kris Lean, top left, with Rob Southey at their Mangere plant. The $7 million dollar set-up, above, extracts quality sand and aggregate from mud slurry.

Recycling innovation cuts cleanfill waste A local company has developed a groundbreaking new plant that can recycle excavation waste into reusable sand and aggregate, instead of dumping it in rural cleanfill sites.

Sustainable Sand and Stone founder Rob Southey, who lives at Snells Beach, says the new process has the potential to reduce demand for aggregate from sand mining and quarrying, both of which have a huge environmental impact and leave a significant carbon footprint.

The $7 million specially designed plant was imported from the UK and is based on machinery that is usually used to sort waste from street sweeping machines.

Southey said the idea of recycling the waste from his company’s hydro excavation fleet, which uses pressurised water jets for lowimpact digging and trenching, was based on

practical and environmental considerations.

Until recently, the muddy sludge byproduct from Southeys’ 20 trucks was taken to the former family farm at Waimauku, where it was dried and dumped in a 16-hectare cleanfill. However, after a more than a decade, the site was filling up and the Southeys realised it was time for change.

He said they thought about buying more land, but realised it made no sense to continue taking up time, energy and resources trucking waste out from Auckland, so general manager Kevin Chapman suggested looking into recycling, having seen machinery that he thought could be adapted in the UK. After several Covid-induced delays in manufacturing, shipping and installation, the plant was finally up and running a few

months ago, taking muddy slurry in at one end and producing two grades of sand and three sizes of chip and metal, all clean and ready to reuse in construction, at the other.

The plant, which is in Mangere, also cleans and recycles all the water, too.

“We’re water positive,” Southey said.

“We’re digging with it, sucking it back up, cleaning it and using it again and again.”

He said there was nothing else quite like the plant in New Zealand, due to its distinct design and patented process to separate, sort, grade and clean everything that goes through it to a high standard – “it does a lot more than just separate dirt and water”.

Southeys is currently in talks with major roading contractors, developers and councils, as well as going through the process of getting the quality recycled

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Before expanding the family trucking and hydro excavation business, Southey was a dairy farmer at Whangaripo for 25 years.

He was one of the first people in New Zealand to get into hydro excavation, importing a machine from the US in 2010, before working with Warkworth’s MS Engineering (now ITSS Engineering) on building an improved version.

“We then went into partnership with director Hugh Harvey and formed SmartDig to build more machines. We’ve made about 80 since 2013 and Southeys use 20 of them,” he said.

Southey says the potential for the new waste recycling plant is huge, with scope to adapt it for other construction and excavation waste streams.

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Motorway properties bought Leases granted Twenty-five of the 143 affected properties on the indicative route for the Warkworth to Te Hana motorway have been acquired.

But Waka Kotahi (NZ Transport Agency) confirms that the completion of the new motorway between Puhoi and Warkworth next year won’t trigger a start on the second stage of the Ara Tuhono (Warkworth to Te Hana) motorway project.

System design regional manager (Auckland/ Northland) Randhir Karma says the detailed business case for construction is conditional on certain issues such as safety and increased traffic volumes. Waka Kotahi does not anticipate any works on the corridor commencing this decade.

Auckland Council granted resource consents, subject to conditions, for the Warkworth to Wellsford project in March last year. Appeals were filed by Waka Kotahi and by the Director-General of Conservation in relation to certain consent conditions.

“Three other appeals were filed by private landowners,” Karma says. “Two of the landowner appeals have been resolved and discussions are continuing with the third landowner in an effort to resolve the remaining appeal. No hearing has been scheduled. The appeals of Waka Kotahi and the Director-General are in advanced discussions and Waka Kotahi hopes to resolve those in the near future.”

Meanwhile, the purchase of properties along the proposed route continues, with a total of 94 landowners.

“When disputes arise around a property’s value, they are addressed by the respective registered valuers in the first instance.

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The Rodney Local Board tidied up some lease and licence to occupy requests at its last meeting before next month’s election, held on September 21.

Football lease

The Warkworth Association Football and Sports Club has been granted a 10 year lease on Shoesmith Reserve, with an early termination clause to allow for any future relocation to a multisports facility on Warkworth Showgrounds. The lease was granted with one 10-year right of renewal and the rent will by $1 per annum if demanded.

Shorebird licence Although the Business Case for route protection was published in 2019, the motorway extension north from Warkworth has been under investigation since 2010.

mechanisms can be used, including mediation or seeking an award from the Land Valuation Tribunal.”

Karma says that finishing the route projection phase will provide long-term certainty for property owners, adjacent communities and the wider region.

He says that while there are funds available for early property purchases, Waka Kotahi has not yet allocated any construction funding for the project and there has been no decision on the contract model such as a Public Private Partnership.

A proposed indicative route, connecting with the new motorway just north of Warkworth, was identified at the end of 2017. Another interchange is proposed near Mangawhai Road, where the new motorway will connect back to the existing SH1.

Colville passes

A Requiem Mass was held at Saint Mary’s Catholic Church, Wellsford, on September 15 for former Rodney Local Board member James Colville. Colville passed away on September 9, aged 80. He was elected to the Board in controversial circumstances in 2013 after sitting member James Rolfe vacated the seat. The Board opted to take applicants rather than to automatically appoint Colville, the next-highest polling candidate. Finally, he took office in April 2013 and served until 2016. Colville was a retired dairy farmer from Tauhoa and was laid to rest at Tauhoa Cemetery. He is survived by his wife of 53 years Dallas, children Kiri, Dominic and Alec, and grandchildren.

The Omaha Beach Community group has been granted a licence to occupy a small portion of land at Omaha Spit, located off Ida Way, for five years with a five year right of renewal. The purpose of the proposed licence to occupy is to locate a storage shed to accommodate Omaha Beach Shorebird Protection Trust Board’s equipment used during its shorebird protection activities.

The rent will be $1 per annum if demanded.

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Mahurangi West Hall and Reserve Incorporated was granted a licence to occupy a 20sqm section of land in the reserve, on Mahurangi West Road, to accommodate a storage shed. The shed will replace an existing structure and will be used by the Mahurangi West Community Response Group to house equipment for use during an emergency event. The licence is for five years with one five year right of renewal. The rent will be $1 per annum if demanded.

Warkworth Pony pay

The NZ Community Trust has awarded the Warkworth Pony Club $5280 to meet coaching and administration fees. The grant was part of the $806,750 distributed in the Auckland area through money raised from gaming machines.

Sports grants

Auckland Council’s Park, Arts, Community and Events Committee has approved the allocation of just over $12 million to sports and recreation activities in Auckland. Local recipients include the Netball Rodney Centre ($100,000) and the Mahurangi Presbyterian Church Trust ($65,000).

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Wellsford park gets yet another plan After years of consultations, deputations, needs assessments and reports, a draft masterplan for the future of Wellsford’s Centennial Park has been drawn up by Auckland Council.

Sports teams and clubs have endured increasing frustration over the past decade

or so, as courts and facilities have steadily deteriorated – mainly due to drainage and maintenance issues – forcing some sports to abandon the park for other venues.

Over the years, more than a dozen different action plans and study papers have been drawn up by various councils and organisations, but little real change or improvements have actually taken place.

Now, after yet more rounds of consultation with the public and park users, Council has come up with a draft masterplan that was approved to go out for feedback in November at Rodney Local Board’s meeting last Wednesday, September 21.

N Could this be the one? The latest proposal, or ‘draft masterplan’, for Centennial Park.

The plan, drawn up by Auckland city engineering consultancy Jacobs New Zealand, sets out an extensive range of possible improvements and upgrades to the 16-hectare park that could be implemented in the short term – one to five years – or long term – five to 10 years-plus.

These include planning for a new multiuse facility for existing users and clubs, refurbishing toilets and changing rooms, re-purposing two or three of the tennis courts for netball, and marking out some courts for more than one use, such as tennis and basketball.

The draft masterplan also outlines the possibility of upgrading playground facilities, installing a pump track and/or climbing wall and improving pedestrian and cycle access.

However, every suggestion, whether long or short term, comes under the heading ‘Potential key moves’, which essentially means that, even if approved by the Local Board and Council, they will still require funding, project planning, designing, and all necessary consent and tender processes to proceed.

After the draft masterplan has gone out to public consultation in November and December, the key findings are scheduled to be presented to Rodney Local Board in February, after which the final version of the Centennial Park masterplan is due to be adopted by the Board in March or April.

“Following the adoption of the masterplan by Rodney Local Board, staff will work with the local board to identify priority key moves to include in the local board work programme,” a Jacobs NZ spokesperson said in the draft.

Mangawhai wastewater predictions balloon Kaipara District Council has admitted in a public statement that it has underestimated the rate of growth in Mangawhai and current wastewater budgets are grossly underfunded.

Council had planned to spend $36.2 million on wastewater infrastructure in Mangawhai over the next 20 years. It now estimates it will need more than double that amount.

Sustainable growth and investment general manager Sue Davidson told councillors on September 7 that further investigations completed this year showed that the budgeted future funding needed to be increased.

“The preliminary scoping is estimating we could be looking at spending up to $90.5million in the next 20 years,” Davidson says.

“Population growth and wet weather events had been considered as part of our initial planning. The investigations completed this year shows both of these infrastructure pressures are tracking higher than predicted and we believe that what we had initially planned

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Council is grappling with higher than previously projected development in Mangawhai which was driving an increasing organic load, as well as more frequent and extreme wet weather events, exacerbated by climate change, which was driving an increase in the hydraulic load (peak flows).

The report said that the balance tank currently under construction would buffer the peak flows, but further upgrades were needed to cater to the increasing organic load. Water is currently disposed to a farm on Brown Road and Council is planning to supplement this with disposal to the Mangawhai Golf Course. Additional disposal is also being considered via a wetland at Brown Road.

“Future disposal to the golf course and wetland is also supported

by Te Uri O Hau iwi.”

Council will undertake further detailed financial analysis including looking into future debt and development contributions.

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Dump hearing paused

The Environment Court has granted a request from Waste Management (WM) for the adjournment of the resource consent hearing on the proposed new super dump on State Highway 1, just north of the Dome. It is the second adjournment notice the court has considered since the hearing started on June 20. The current request from WM is to allow time for site assessment with a “specific cultural lens”, a process that it estimates will take a month.

This means the hearing will have only three more sitting dates before Christmas and will not finish this year as hoped. The case is set to resume on October 25. Further hearing times next year are unlikely to be available until after March.

Voting starts

Voting in the current local government election has started. Residents should have received a voting pack by now, which includes a voting guide, voting papers and an orange prepaid return envelope.

Completed voting papers can be dropped into vote boxes across Tāmaki Makaurau and Kaipara, or in a New Zealand Post street post box. Postal votes need to be posted by October 4 to be received in time.

Vote collection boxes are in Countdown supermarkets, libraries and the Auckland Council and Kaipara District Council service centres. Voting closes at midday on Saturday, October 8. Local results and interviews will be published on the localmatters.co.nz website after polls close, as they come to hand.

Carpark opens

The Warkworth Community Transport Hub on State Highway 1, on the northern side of Warkworth, is open for use. The carpark offers 137 carparks, a bus layover, bike parking, two toilet blocks, CCTV security and lighting. Footpaths lead to two new bus stops on SH1, connected by a signalised pedestrian crossing. There will be no change to local bus timetables at this stage. The 998 bus between Warkworth and Wellsford will include the hub along its route, and the 995 bus between Warkworth and Hibiscus Coast Station in Silverdale will extend its route to include the hub at a future date. The Kowhai Coast bus routes will remain the same until the Matakana link road opens.

Pavement improvements

Auckland Transport (AT) will be carrying out road maintenance works in Hill Street, along Shoesmith Reserve, for two weeks starting on October 3. During work hours, temporary traffic management will be in place including a one way detour, stop/ go operation, reduced speed limits and on street parking restrictions.

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Facelift for Wellsford rail track and culvert corridor The rail line through Wellsford is looking a lot cleaner and tidier, thanks to recent improvement works by KiwiRail.

Staff and contractors have been working in the Wellsford area as part of a major project to upgrade the line from Auckland to Whangarei, replacing old timber sleepers, installing new rails that can carry heavier loads and replacing three culverts.

At the same time, a number of embankments along the line have been cleared and tidied, with rubbish, weeds and pest plants removed. KiwiRail said that, wherever possible, it had been using local contractors and sourcing materials locally for the Wellsford line improvements.

One local resident impressed with the improvements is Caroline Milner, whose home overlooks the track at the southern end of Wellsford.

“I moved here six years ago, in the middle of 2016, and you couldn’t even see the track then from my place, there was bamboo everywhere,” she said.

“It was all rats, rubbish and noxious weeds.”

Milner approached KiwiRail to see if they could help to improve matters, which has now been done as part of the $200 million

Banks have been cleared and culverts created.

Northland rail rejuvenation project funded by central government in 2020.

Meanwhile, Milner has been showing her gratitude for the improvements to her view (not to mention a huge drop in the rat population) by baking fresh muffins for the crews working on the line, culverts and embankments.

“The rail corridor is looking the best it’s ever been,” she said.

The project is designed to allow larger modern containers and heavier loads to be carried on the line, and thereby reduce the number of heavy trucks on the roads.

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Covid puts pressure on dog management staff

By Laura Kvigstad, Auckland Council reporter. Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air.

A five-year high in dog attacks, animal shelters bursting at the seams and a backed-up court system show the impacts of Covid-19 on animal management.

Animal management’s annual report was presented to Auckland Council’s regulatory committee on September 13, showing a 20% increase in dog attacks.

The total number of attacks was 1906, with 92 more attacks on people and 230 more attacks on other animals this year.

A perfect storm of issues from Covid-19 appeared to be the cause.

Licensing and regulatory compliance general manager Mervyn Chetty said vets

were closed causing desexing rates to drop and puppies were not being socialised because of lockdowns. This had increased the territorial behaviour of dogs.

“It has been one of the more challenging years for animal management teams,” he said.

“There has been an increase in badly behaved canines and some of their owners as well.”

Animal Management principal specialist Christo van der Merwe said there was a huge increase in the number of dogs in Auckland, with 12,000 that Council was aware of.

“Only 62% of dogs impounded are known to us so there could be 40,000 dogs unknown to us in Auckland,” Merwe said.

Senior animal management inspector Shaun Murray said shelters were “bursting at the seams”, a stark contrast from two

years ago when they had considered closing one of the three shelters.

“In the two years prior to Covid, we could house dogs for months,” Murray said.

He said there was also a huge increase in violence and threats towards staff, which forced them to screen people coming into shelters.

Cr Daniel Newman said he helped with a case earlier in the year because of some threatening behaviour towards Council staff.

“Some of these people are so extreme and of course, they vent on social media which explodes the problem,” Newman said.

Regulatory services director Craig Hobbs said it was a significant issue and Council was working to improve security.

He said they were also incorporating resilience training for staff.

a year to 23 million tonnes by 2042, rail is a crucial part of developing an efficient, integrated road-rail transport system for the region,” a KiwiRail spokesperson said.

“Rail helps reduce overall transport emissions, given each tonne of freight carried by rail has 70 per cent fewer emissions than that carried by road.”

Chair Linda Cooper reminded councillors never to copy animal management into emails with the public.

“That is how members of the public get hold of them and abuse them,” Cooper said.

“So many more people are getting dogs, going back to work and not looking after them. Please do not get a dog if you do not have the resources to look after them!”

Cr Cathy Casey said there were issues around the extended period of time dogs were being held while court decisions were being made.

“I am absolutely horrified by the dog held in the shelter for two years,” Casey said.

She said the shelters were operating as a “remand prison” for dogs and that an argument could be made for tribunals to speed up the process.

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Auckland intensification feedback deadline nears Auckland Council is strongly encouraging people to make a submission before September 29 on proposed Unitary Plan changes to allow for considerably more intensive housing.

The Medium Density Residential Standards (MDRS), which became operative when Council notified Plan Change 78 on August 20, allow three homes of up to three storeys to be built on most residential sites in Warkworth without resource consent.

The proposed changes respond to central government’s National Policy Statement on Urban Development and also enable buildings of six storeys or more within walking distance of Auckland’s city centre, 10 large metropolitan centres and around rapid transit stops.

Council’s general manager for plans and places, John Duguid, says it is crucial to hear from as many people as possible, given these changes will have major impacts on how the city grows.

“Making a submission is the single most important way for people to be heard on changes that will allow for more housing at greater heights and density across most residential areas, including more

apartments and townhouses,” he said.

The only way that the MDRS can be amended is through the identification of a qualifying matter. The government has restricted qualifying matters, but additional qualifying matters can be added, subject to a site-by-site assessment.

Rodney Local Board member Beth Houlbrooke says two additional qualifying matters that might be able to be argued to remove or reduce the MDRS in Warkworth are around transport and wastewater infrastructure.

“These qualifying matters could cover the existing single house-zoned area of Warkworth and could limit the additional dwelling capacity enabled in this area, reducing the impact on infrastructure,” she says.

The new rules do not apply to towns with populations under 5000 at the 2018 census.

Feedback will be considered by an Independent Hearings Panel, who will make recommendations on changes to the Auckland Unitary Plan early next year.

More information is also available at www.ourauckland.nz/planchanges or at local libraries and Council service centres.

Interim Kaipara CEO appointed Kaipara District Council has appointed Jason Marris as interim chief executive, while an external recruitment firm undertakes the search for a permanent replacement for Louise Miller, who has resigned. Marris is currently Council’s general manager for engagement and transformation and will step into the interim chief executive role on October 29. An executive recruitment firm has been appointed to undertake the search for the next permanent chief executive. It is anticipated shortlisted candidates will be considered and interviewed by Council prior to the Christmas break, with a decision on the appointment soon after.

After a couple of setbacks, we are pleased to announce we have set a date for our Public Open Day. This is scheduled to take place on Saturday 29 October.

At this year’s Open Day visitors will be treated to an exclusive bus tour of the whole project alignment South to North. Those on the tour will be among the first to drive on the newly constructed road we are building alongside State Highway 1. You will view the spectacular engineering features of the new road and our staff will accompany you to answer any questions you may have.

Buses will transport visitors from Warkworth Showgrounds. The full trip to site and back will take around 90 minutes. Buses will leave Warkworth every 15 minutes from 8am. Parking will be available at the showgrounds.

During registration you will be asked to select a time for your bus tour. If your preferred time is not available, please select another one. Tickets are limited to four per person.

We will have information stands set up at the showgrounds and food and drinks will be available for purchase, including a sausage sizzle fundraiser. The tickets to this event are free, however we will be asking for a gold coin donation when you enter the bus, all money goes to the Warkworth Fire Brigade.

Please note: This event involves transport via buses which require climbing stairs to board, so may not be suitable for those with mobility issues. We apologise in advance for this inconvenience. If you have any queries/concerns about accessibility, please contact us directly info@nx2group.com or phone 0508 P2WK INFO (0508 7295 4636).

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Residents will be able to apply for an Auckland Climate Grant soon. At the Environment and Climate Change Committee on September 8, councillors voted to approve the criteria and priorities for the grants that are part of the 10-year Recovery Budget. The aim is to support projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions or build climate resilience through community-based action. Some focus areas for the grants will be low carbon transport systems, local food projects, projects for a climate disaster resilient Auckland and Māori-led projects to reduce emissions. The grants will be aimed at a community and household-led response rather than major infrastructure. Response grants will range from $1000 to $15,000, while strategic projects will be eligible for grants of up to of up to $50,000. Council hopes to call for applications this month, with the allocation of funds before the end of the year.

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Three generations of the Bowmar family played a part in the awards ceremony on September 17 – former chief fire officer Jim Bowmar QSM, Kaitlin Bowmar, who received her 5 Year Medal, and current chief fire officer Trevor Bowmar.

Gold Stars There was more than a touch of gold at the Wellsford Community Centre on Saturday, September 17, when two members of the Wellsford Volunteer Fire Brigade were honoured for their 25 years of service.

The Gold Star recipients were Des Hansen and Matt Railey, who join an elite group of firefighters in the Auckland Provincial Fire Brigades Gold Star Association. They became Wellsford’s 25th and 26th Gold Star recipients and were also made life members.

Hansen started as a volunteer at Te Atatu, then served six years with Mahurangi East before shifting to Wellsford just over 17 years ago. His turnout rate average is 89.5%. Railey, a self-employed builder, joined the Wellsford brigade when he was just 19 and has averaged an 82% turnout

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Chief fire officer Trevor Bowmar congratulated the Gold Star recipients for their service and acknowledged the huge role played by the families of all volunteers. Partners Tracey Hansen and Donna Railey were singled out for special mention on the night.

“We would struggle without the support and sacrifice you and your families make,” Bowmar said.

He also acknowledged the challenges of the past few years of Covid and the pressure it had put on people.

The evening’s proceedings included two one-minute silences – one for the Queen and the other for members who had passed away since the last honours night held in 2020.

Gold Star recipients Des Hansen and Matt Railey.

Fire and Emergency NZ group manager Scott Marchant said that between September 1 last year and August 31 this year, Wellsford had responded to 232 calls.

The average firefighter had contributed around 240 hours, either in callouts or training, which equalled about six working weeks a year.

“This represents an incredible service to the community,” he said.

One guest described firefighters as ordinary people with extraordinary hearts, who could make a difference that lasted a lifetime.

A special thank you was extended to all the local employers who allowed their staff to respond to the callouts during work times, as well as those self-employed members who do not get paid when the fire siren calls.

Award recipients were: 3 yr certificate – Bridget Whyte; 5 Year Medal – Kaitlin Bowmar, Rhys Bright, Rob Peck, Caleb Gamble. Daniel Webber and Ariana Billington; 2 yr bar for 7 yrs service – Logan Mason and Shannon Te Amo; 2 yr bar for 9 yrs service – Josh Connolly, Alastair McConnachie and James Burnby; 2yr bar for 13 yrs service – Karl Davis and Lyndon Baird; 2 yr bar for 15 yrs service – Lynette Jones; 2 yr bar for 17 yrs service – Tarah Jones; 2 yr bar for 19 yrs service – Trish Whitehead and Trent Jones; 2 yr gold bar for 29 yrs service – Kerry Tupp and Lisa Greenwood; 2 yr gold bar for 31 yrs service – Steven Greenwood and Richard Connolly; 2 yr gold bar for 33 yrs service – Trevor Bowmar.

Stirrers Shovel – Bridget Whyte; Smilley Stevenson Trophy (aka Connolly Cup) – Kerry Tupp & Kaitlin Bowmar (2021), Trish Whitehead and Karl Davis (2022); Wynton Hart Trophy – Trevor Bowmar & Matt Brown (2021), Buddah Connolly and Rhys Bright (2022); Roy Trail Trophy for Firefighter of the Year – Lynley Searle; Stevenson Trophy for Most Improved – Lyndon Baird and Lynley Searle; Cox Trophy for Officer of the Year –Trevor Bowmar; Elmanak-Andrews Helmet for attendance – Rob Peck; John Cowpland Memorial Trophy for best presented firefighter of the year – Kerry Tupp; Reg Phillips Sky Tower Challenge Trophy – Caleb Gamble; DJ’s Biggest Kahawai Caught – Bradley Bowmar (2021), Matt Railey (2022); Waterways Competition – Rob Peck.

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Not the Enterprise Media were advised earlier this month that they would be given the opportunity to interview those associated with Air New Zealand’s inaugural flight to New York on September 17. We were very tempted when we saw that the line-up would include the pilot, Captain Kirk. But alas, it wasn’t James, but Philip.

Election shenanigans Over the last wee while, this paper has been receiving letters to the editor under different pseudonyms with false addresses.

Interestingly, the letters are always praising one particular candidate in the current election, while bagging their opponents.

If the person responsible for these letters reads this, then we kindly request that you refrain from submitting any more of these false letters or we may be forced to print them in bulk, which will make it very obvious to readers who the true author is.

CORRECTION

In our September 12 issue, the owner/ operator of Bodywork Massage, Karen Mills, was mistakenly identified as Louise Hay. Mahurangi Matters apologises for this confusion. Karen’s business is located in the Mahurangi Health Collective in Neville Street, Warkworth.

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YouSay Targeted rate for road sealing Beth Houlbrooke’s comments (MM September 12) trying to blame Auckland Transport (AT) for the decision to remove provision for road sealing from the Targeted Transport Rate (TTR) will come as a surprise to many who had not heard this argument before.

The suggestion that the Rodney Local Board (RLB) should not have full decisionmaking authority over how the money was spent, because that would conflict with what AT wanted, will be appalling to those

Pirrie farewelled at final meeting The last monthly business meeting for Rodney Local Board before the local elections was held at the Auckland Council chambers in Orewa last week.

The next time the board meets it will be in November, at least a month after all the votes have been counted when polls close on October 8 – and, quite possibly, in brand new offices in Warkworth. It is understood the new board base will be in a former retail space at 3 Elizabeth Street. There will also be a smaller satellite meeting space at Kumeu.

Phelan Pirrie, who has been Board chair for the past three years, said it was good to be meeting for the final time in person again, for the first time in many months.

“It would have been nice to have been meeting in one of our new offices, but we didn’t quite make it because of Covid,” he said. “But next term, the local board will have significant new offices in Warkworth.” He said his nine years on the board had been challenging, especially since Covid-19 struck two years ago. “This term has been extraordinarily difficult, with the arrival of the pandemic and the dramatic effect it’s had on budgets,” he said. “We’ve had to accept the unpalatable reality that big ticket aspirations are out

Local area manager Lesley Jenkins presents Phelan Pirrie with a hibiscus bush.

and belt-tightening is in.”

However, he said he was proud of what the Board had managed to achieve, especially its controversial Transport Targeted Rate “Sitting around complaining and not making progress on issues delivers no tangible results. We’ve shown that if local boards get the budgets and decision making, we can deliver quickly for our communities.”

Pirrie also warmly thanked Council staff, deputy chair Beth Houlbrooke, who is also standing down, his wife Alli and his fellow Board members.

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who think that the RLB, not AT, should set the priorities for what AT does with their money!

While most people understand that the Local Board gets little discretion regarding what Auckland Council deems is fit for Rodney, the application of local Targeted Rate monies is one area where local boards have control. In its June 2018 response to the Local Government Commission, Council commented that the Targeted Transport Rate in Franklin was a reason why they had progressed road sealing and Rodney had not.

To then turn around and take the Targeted Transport funds and Regional Land Transport Plan (RLTP) funding away from Rodney’s promised road sealing is Council hypocrisy; and it flies in the face of the local sentiment of voters whose majority did not even support the TTR in the first place, given we were also being hit with a Regional Fuel Tax. The Rodney Local Board’s original recommendation in 2018 that seal extension be taken out of the targeted rate allocation was conditional upon the additional RLTP funding being provided.

As Council has now confirmed, they could readily have honoured their conditional approval by reallocating TTR funding to seal extensions (and deferring other pet projects) when it became clear the RLTP was not going to provide for Rodney road sealing.

Yet the Local Board majority decided that supporting Council’s urban transport priorities was more important than representing the wishes of the voters of Rodney. It’s now up to Rodney voters to decide if they will continue to support this approach, or vote for people who will work with our Councillor to truly represent Rodney’s interests.

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Pull the other one Recently, current city councillors Greg Sayers and John Watson indicated they had no idea that Unify New Zealand was tied up with the Voices for Freedom antivaccination group or other conspiracy theorists such as Freedom New Zealand.

However, they chaired or spoke to meetings reported in Mahurangi Matters on several topics including co-governance, as did the political opportunist Winston Peters.

They accepted payments to speak from this group. Now they claim they had no idea about the groups Unify NZ was associated with, although they appear prominently on the Unify NZ web page. Seems unlikely seasoned politicians such as these would accept speaking engagements and take payments without knowing who they were dealing with.

An old expression many readers will recognise springs to mind, “Pull the other one, it plays jingle bells”.

Neil Anderson, Algies Bay Greg Sayers responded: No, I did not receive any payments from them [Unify NZ]. I also have no affiliation with them. I am [happy] to MC any locally based apolitical group who asks me to, the most recent one being the Neighbourhood Support AGM. John Watson responded: There was no agreement made with Unify NZ for any payment of any sort before or after this meeting.

I appeared at the meeting because I hoped my experiences as an Auckland Councillor with the Hauraki Gulf Forum and its attempts to turn that entity into a co-governed authority with expanded powers while at the same time formally incorporating 21 of Auckland’s regional parks into the Hauraki Gulf Park, might be of interest to the audience. At the end of the meeting I did receive a ‘thank you’ card which I did not pay much attention to at the time.

When I did look at it the following day, however, there was in addition to a kind message of thanks signed by a number of people, a $100 note to cover ‘petrol costs’.

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We’re also supporting businesses, including here in Kaipara ki Mahurangi, to access the skilled workers they need. It was great to have the Minister for Women, Jan Tinetti, visit earlier this month. She was especially pleased to see Rodney businesses supporting young women into apprenticeships as builders, electricians, painters and spray-painters. In between visiting eight schools in the area in her role as Associate Minister of Education, we also met with employers and apprentices of Warkworth Construction, Wynne Electrical, Davco Electrical, Luke Fry Electrical and WRNZ in Stillwater, to talk about the great things happening in the trades.

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Since the day we came into Government, we’ve worked hard to lift wages and reduce cost pressures on Kiwis, through measures like cheaper doctor’s visits, free lunches in schools and the family tax credit. Our economy is set to recover faster from the pandemic than it did from the Global Financial Crisis. As well as near record low unemployment, wages are outstripping inflation and we have record exports.

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There will be biodiversity champions with displays and family-friendly activities, to encourage conversations about the ecological features of the Snells Beach shoreline.

“Many people understand protecting the bush, oceans, rivers and wetlands but often our beaches are overlooked as important ecosystems.”

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The celebration outside Bayside Bistro, 70 Kokihi Lane, Snells Beach, on Sunday, October 16 starts at 1pm. Bring binoculars if you have them.

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At an emotional service held at the fire station, family, friends, Northpower colleagues and fellow fire officers painted a picture of a man with a cheeky sense of humour, who was a devoted husband to Aveen, father, grandfather and great grandfather.

The fourth child of Joe and Noelene Noyer, who owned the bakery that once operated alongside the Bridgehouse, Noyer grew-up in a flat above the shop. It was here, as the youngest of the brood, that he got the nickname Crumb that stuck with him for life.

His schooling was difficult due to undiagnosed dyslexia, but he found his place in cubs and scouts, eventually winning the highest scouting achievement, the Queen’s Scout Award. His parents were said to have been enormously proud of him when he received the award at a ceremony at Government House.

Not surprisingly, Noyer left school as soon as he could at 15.

He started his working life at Warkworth Building Supplies, but then, with the help of Wayne Carter, applied for a job with the Waitemata District Power Board.

Becoming a linesman was his dream job, one that he loved for the 42 years he did it, first with Waitemata and then for 20 years with Northpower.

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Warkworth. “He was a man who was generous with his time, who carried an immense amount of experience and never left until the job was done. He was also particularly generous when it came to training new recruits,” McLeod said. “I’m told he had four loves – family, the fire service, Northpower and KFC. “His banter and sense of fun made him a much-loved member of the team who will be greatly missed. He was also the star of our annual Northpower fishing competition in the “other” category, winning the trophy over the years for an eel, a stingray and even a starfish.”

Members of the Warkworth Fire Brigade stood with their chief, Nick McLean, when he described Noyer as a humble man with a contagious laugh who was both respected and loved by his fellow firefighters.

During his 42 years with the service, he attended 4685 callouts and had an 87% turnout at training musters. He served with his father, a brother and more recently, with his daughter Samantha, and was at one time the Senior Station Officer for fire police (now operational support).

Noyer’s coffin, bearing both his fire service helmet and his Northpower helmet, arrived at the funeral on a Northpower truck.

At the conclusion of the service, it was loaded onto the back of a waiting heritage fire truck. As a mark of respect for a man who had always called Warkworth home, and who had also been the town’s go-to Santa Claus on more occasions than anyone could remember, the truck did a lap of honour around the Warkworth town centre.

Noyer died of cancer at his home in Warkworth. He is survived by wife Aveen, children Jess, Kelvin, Candy, Sam, Kate and Michael, and grandchildren and great grandchildren.

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The clippings are from a variety of national and international magazines and newspapers, starting around the time of the coronation and then moving through to record deaths, births, tours, meetings with celebrities and celebrations. Kathy said she had been storing the books in a box and they would probably return to the box for safe keeping. Interestingly, some of the advertisements on the reverse sides of the cuttings are just as entertaining.

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An Auckland Council plan to plant trees on the Whangateau Recreation Reserve has been vetoed by residents.

About 35 people attended a meeting at the Whangateau Hall on September 14 to discuss the proposal.

The issue arose following concerns about the health of the existing pohutukawa along the foreshore. At a meeting in June, residents were told by a Council representative that the demise of the trees was discussed and accepted when the seawall project went ahead in 2012.

He offered to make good on the resource consent conditions to replenish sand on the beaches and plant new trees.

However, the site for the new plantings, opposite the existing trees on the other side of the path, was the main bone of

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contention.

Recognising that the domain is a recreation reserve and not a park, residents including the Rams Rugby League Club, opposed any encroachment onto the playing fields and open space.

“The trees would be only seven metres behind the deadball line, which would compromise the safety of players,” a resident said.

Any idea of reconfiguring the sportsfields was also dismissed because of the position of the lights.

When discussion returned to the existing trees, the meeting was told that Council was not prepared to enter into any negotiations about saving them.

Residents discussed whether or not to

undertake their own remedial action, but were cautioned by some in the room, who said that unless it was a properly engineered groyne system, it would be unlikely to deliver a long-term solution.

One resident said Council needed to bore a hole in the rock wall so that the tree roots could access freshwater and that it was this lack of access to water in summer that was causing the decline.

The decision of the meeting against the tree planting will be conveyed to the Whangateau Hall Committee which, in turn, will advise Council.

The domain is held by the Department of Conservation on behalf of the Crown and is vested to Auckland Council for recreational purposes.

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Central’s Tips October 2022 JPs Laurence McLeod, of Warkworth, and Trish and Peter Cox, of Wellsford, were among more than 100 JPs who were treated to afternoon tea at Government House to mark the association’s centenary. They are pictured with the Governor General Dame Cindy Kiro.

JP services reaches 100 year milestone Warkworth and Wellsford Justices of the Peace are joining their colleagues across Auckland to celebrate the centenary of the Auckland Justices of the Peace Association next month.

The association was founded in October 1922 and has a membership of around 1300 volunteers, who help manage 60 service desks across Auckland.

There are of 46 members in the Warkworth/ Wellsford area who run service desks at the Auckland Council offices in Baxter Street on Mondays, from 10am to 2pm; in Matakana Cinema foyer on Tuesdays, from 11am to 1pm; the Mahurangi East Library on Fridays, from 10am to midday; and Warkworth RSA on Friday, from 4pm to 5pm.

Local coordinator Laurence McLeod says JPs are sworn to serve their communities and the demand for their services has never been greater, dealing with a wide range of documents.

“We help our clients complete forms involving immigration, education,

In the veggie patch • All the summer vegetables can go in now. Remember to stake tomatoes well, as they can grow to 2 metres high! But summer beans need heat, so sowing in November would be better • Summer herbs such as dill, French tarragon and coriander are good to plant now, but we recommend planting basil towards the end of the month because it is temperamental in cooler weather • Plant edible flowers to make salads interesting and to use as garnishes.

Flowers to eat include nasturtiums, carnations, daylilies, rose petals and violas. They attract the bees too • Hang sticky traps in apple and pear trees to stop an infestation of codling moth in young apples and pears. A reliable alternative to this is to spray with Yates’ Success Ultra four times over the spring season

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family and housing,” he says. “Processing applications for dissolution of marriage, for a name change and for a visitor to come to NZ are all in a day’s work. Documents associated with anti-money laundering laws are also becoming more common.”

JPs attend regular training sessions to keep abreast of new electronic and online processes, as well as the more familiar paper forms and documents.

More than one million documents were processed by Auckland JPs last year.

Justices of the Peace can be found online at: https://justiceofthepeace.org.nz

• Guava moth is an established pest in Auckland gardens. It ruins ripening citrus fruit and feijoas, so gardens centres have a newly developed pheromone pest trap to go on the attack and save the fruit • Fertilise fruit trees with Morganics, an organic fertiliser to promote developing fruit and enhance the health of the trees

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It is estimated that there are around 250,000 pheasants in New Zealand and that a whopping 50,000 are hunted each year. Many more must be killed on our roads. I narrowly missed hitting a beautiful male who flew out of the roadside grass yesterday morning, but I often see their wrecked bodies, including their pretty chicks, hit by cars before they can fly.

Only pheasant cocks may be hunted, during winter, though otherwise different regions have different rules. For example, in Marlborough, only one pheasant may be killed on each of three weekends a year.

Hunters talk about the beauty of the birds, their power, colour and courage, and the excitement of a flushed pheasant flying and then the thrill of aiming to kill and the explosion of the bird dead in a cloud of feathers. I find no beauty in death, but glory in these beautiful creatures, alive on the wing and on foot in the fields we both call home.

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Swooping and grazing in the paddocks around my house are glorious reddish brown and copper-coloured pheasants.

They roam across the landscape, making sounds like jangling coins when startled.

Pheasants have been bred for over 2000 years, and originated in China, but are also known as English pheasants, Chinese pheasants and peihana. The pheasants established in New Zealand’s open country today are our largest introduced ‘game birds’ and are probably hybrids of three sub-species – blacknecks, Chinese ringnecks and Mongolian pheasants.

From 1842 to 1877 in New Zealand, acclimatisation societies – today’s Fish and Game – released these pheasants in various locations to establish populations for sport hunting for European colonisers.

The males are bigger than the females and more brightly coloured. They have a red facial wattle, iridescent dark blue-green head and neck feathers, a distinctive white collar (‘ring neck’) and long, barred tail feathers.

The body feathers also have intricate white margins and black barring. The males grow to 1.5kg, and their bodies can be 80cm long.

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A one-day careers expo, divided into two two-and-a-half hour sessions, will be held at Te Hana Te Ao Marama cultural centre on October 20.

Industry representatives will be on hand to talk to students about career opportunities.

These industries will include technology and creativity, retail and hospitality, construction and trade, automotive, primary industry, performance and Maori tourism.

There will also be representatives from the Kaipara Moana Remediation programme, which is expected to employ more than 100 people when it is fully up and running.

The expo is being funded by the Ministry of Education and will be structured as a guided pathways tour.

Students will come from colleges from

throughout Northland, Mahurangi and possibly further south.

An organiser, Linda Clapham, says the focus is on providing opportunities for students and employers to meet and chat in a relaxed and informal environment.

She says there will be hands-on activities and large equipment will be on show.

“This is a proactive opportunity to bring senior students, employers and the community together to showcase the range of career opportunities that exist.”

Linda says she welcomes enquiries from any local employers who would like to be involved and hopes the expo will grow into an annual event.

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Tomarata fireworks ready to fire The skies over Tomarata will once again be lit up with a spectacular fireworks display when Tomarata School holds its annual Guy Fawkes Night fundraiser on Saturday, November 12.

The gates at Tomarata Domain, on Pakiri Block Road, will open at 5pm to give spectators plenty of time to find the perfect spot for picnic chairs and blankets, and to get settled in time for the big display once darkness falls. There will be a large range of food and drink on sale, as well as games, activities and a bouncy castle, plus live music from the Tuarangi Road Band. There will also be raffles with some amazing prizes. Tickets prices are: Presale/ online: Child $7; adult $15; family $35. Gate sales: Child $10; adult $20; family $40.

Floral pageant returns to hall The annual Rose and Flower Show will celebrate 101 years of gardening excellence when it is held at the Warkworth Town Hall on November 11.

The show was founded in 1921, and taken over by the Warkworth Garden Club in 1998, under the guidance of Fay Illingworth and Lorraine Hatfull.

A centenary show was planned for last year, but had to be cancelled due to the Covid lockdown.

Fay Illingworth and Norma Miller will officially open this year’s show, which will be open to the public from noon to 5pm.

There is a new category for dried flower arrangements this year, as well as a return of the popular children’s category. There will also be plant sales and raffles.

However, the annual “best street” competition, which judges all the gardens on a street collectively, is not being held this year.

Perennial entrant Di Jensen is set to dazzle judges with her famed roses again this year.

Di has entered every show for more than a decade.

She has lost count of how many awards she has won, but has averaged two to three for the last eight years, including the coveted

Reach Forward Early Learning Centre is all about the joy and passion for living and learning! This is a welcoming Christian based early learning centre, situated at 11 Falls Street just off Elizabeth Street as you drive into Warkworth Shopping Centre and opposite the Warkworth Police Station.

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Di says the secret to growing a good rose is in the topsoil. The hard clay in the Mahurangi area makes for a poor growing medium, so Di uses seaweed she finds washed up on Snells Beach, as well as horse and sheep manure, to build up her garden soil.

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Despite the construction industry being largely male-dominated, Emma McIntyre has made her mark as a skilled and competent tradie.

Offering her their congratulations are Murray Atkinson (left) and Tony Bruce.

Warkworth joiner wins prestigious award Warkworth architectural aluminium joinery fabricator Emma McIntyre has won the prestigious architectural aluminium joinery (AAJ) Apprentice of the Year.

McIntyre is employed by Elite Window Solutions in Morrison Drive.

General manager Angela Dalton says the company is enormously proud of Emma’s achievements.

“She is a great representative for the company and the industry in general and we have been happy to support her through her training, including during two pregnancies,” Dalton says.

McIntyre started an architectural aluminium joinery (AAJ) apprenticeship with BCITO five years ago.

“I left high school to study nursing, then realised it wasn’t for me and decided to become a tradie instead,” she says.

“The world of construction was appealing, so I applied for a role at Elite Window Solutions and the rest is history.”

McIntyre has since completed three BCITO qualifications – AAJ machining and fabrication, AAJ joiner and AAJ estimator – but she is not done yet. Her next goal is to complete a supervisor qualification, which speaks to her enthusiasm and commitment to ongoing learning and progression.

“Working in this industry is a real privilege.

I encourage anyone curious about the trades to start an apprenticeship. In my youth, we were pointed towards university, but there is so much that the trades can offer.”

In the last five years, three women have won the AAJ Apprentice of the Year award.

BCITO training advisor Murray Atkinson says it’s a reflection of how the trades have been changing to become more inclusive over time.

“McIntyre is one of the most futurefocused apprentices I have come across,” he says.

“She is determined, hardworking and has a bright career ahead of her in the construction industry.”

Windows and Glass Association chief executive Brett Francis says that one of his organisation’s goals is to play a positive role in increasing the number of women in the industry.

“Women have so much to offer and will continue to drive the industry forward,” Francis says. “The recognition and celebration of skilled and talented women, such as McIntyre, gives me so much hope for the future of the industry.”

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The Warkworth Rotary Club will mark 60 years of service with a reunion dinner in November and is inviting former members to join the celebration.

The Charter from Rotary International was presented to the club on December 6, 1962, at a dinner in the Warkworth Town Hall. Over the past six decades, the club has served the town in many ways by providing assistance to groups and individuals. For instance, the Warkworth Wellsford Hospice and the Jane Gifford restoration were supported for many years by practical and financial means.

The club also published a community directory for many years and still organises the annual Carols by Candlelight.

“Encouraging youth has always been a high priority and many local students benefited from International Youth Exchange and other developmental opportunities,” past president Brian Tuck says.

Records show that more than 300 people have, at one time or another, been members of club and contributed to its successes.

“Some have now passed on, some have moved away, but many still live locally.”

The reunion dinner will be held on November 5 and the club is eager to contact as many past members as possible so that they and their partners can receive an invitation. Tuck says it will be a great night for greeting old friends and reminiscing about past achievements.

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Wheels of progress I attended a conference with Business Improvement Districts (BID) managers from around the upper North Island recently and it was interesting to see how many challenges and issues we all had in common. Perhaps even more interesting though, was seeing the initiatives and projects that One Mahurangi is delivering that other BIDs are not.

We are not the only region facing roading and infrastructure issues. While some of the towns outside of Auckland seem to have more success dealing with smaller, regional councils, the common frustration from those within the Auckland Supercity was how challenging it was to deal with Auckland Transport. We all compared notes on our ongoing advocacy, and I shared some of One Mahurangi’s successes through the Transport and Infrastructure Forum.

Each BID hosts a variety of events and I was inspired to see if we can replicate some of them here. It was also interesting to hear how often most other BIDs put their BID rate up. This is something that One Mahurangi has said we will not do as we are committed to keeping our fees to landlords as low as possible. Interesting to note that our rate was the lowest rate of all 50 BIDs. Our association’s growth will come from the new properties coming online, One Mahurangi sponsorship and additional associate members from outside our BID area.

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Kaipara Flats Library heritage celebration

Talks mark heritage festival

Two events will be held in the Mahurangi region to mark the Auckland Heritage Festival, which runs from October 1 to 16.

On October 13, there will be a Combined Museums Talk at the Old Masonic Hall in Warkworth, starting at 10.30am.

It will feature speakers from the Warkworth, Wellsford and Puhoi museums.

Jenny Schollum will introduce Benedict Remiger, an early Puhoi settler, who came out to New Zealand on his own as a 12-year-old.

Brenda Yoxall will talk about one of Warkworth’s earliest settler families, the Southgates, who made a significant contribution to the development and social wellbeing of the settlement.

From Wellsford, Peter Marsh will give an illustrated presentation about Sarah and Bessie Jerome, leaving from the Isle of Wight to their early life as Albertland pioneers.

This event was scheduled to happen in both 2020 and 2021, but was cancelled on both occasions due to Covid, so organisers are hoping for third time lucky!

Entry is free.

The second event will be held at the Ranfurly Hall, Kaipara Flats, on October 8, from 2pm to 4pm (see separate story this page).

A heritage talk, walk and afternoon tea will be held at Kaipara Flats on Saturday, October 8.

The event is part of the Auckland Heritage Festival and is being organised by members of the Kaipara Flats Library community, who will share stories about the settlement of Kaipara Flats and its historic buildings.

The tour will start at Ranfurly Hall (cc 1903) at 2pm and will include stops at McKinney Hall, the former Presbyterian Church (cc 1914) and the Kaipara Flats Butchery, and will finish with a talk and afternoon tea at the library on Old Woodcocks Road.

The library was established in 1878 in a room at Kaipara Flats School and has recently been refurbished. The improvements included repainting and a reorganisation of the collection, and the setting up a special children’s area with lots of new books.

Additionally, photographer Colin Stables has restored and helped display some of the old photographs of the people who helped found the library.

It is now a self-supporting, non-profit organisation supported via a yearly membership fee of $15. It has no opening hours, so members are given a key so they can access it at their leisure.

It has a large collection of historical books on Kaipara Flats and the surrounding districts, including books that are no longer found in other libraries.

Local historian Carol Hood says with modern technology – the internet and kindles – there has been a huge decline in the number of books being borrowed.

“In fact, there are far more books donated than borrowed,” she says. “However, our key-holding library members are at a record high of 77. Most pay their annual subscriptions because they wish to support this precious little asset that we have here in Kaipara Flats.”

From left, librarian Laraine Sheffield, committee member Rosie McFarlane, grand-daughter of Fredrick G. Dill Alice Sullivan, historian Carol Hood, committee member Josie Young, Colin Stables, and secretary Evelyn Gauntlett.

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Avenue of Norfolk pines no more The Norfolk pine is a distinctive conifer, and member of the ancient family Araucariaceae. As the name implies, the tree is endemic to Norfolk Island. The avenue of Norfolk Pines on Molesworth Drive in Mangawhai was planted by Paul Speedy when the causeway was built in 1975. As remembered by his son Gordon, it was a labour of love that took many years to complete. While the exact number of trees planted is unknown, it would have been somewhere between 200 and 250.

Paul, now deceased, first collected cones from his property in the Maungatapere area. He boiled them, then after retrieving the seeds, placed them on to damp sacks to germinate. Once sprouted, the seedlings were potted and tended at his Mangawhai home until they were large enough for permanent roadside planting. He planted them out when they were two-and-a-half feet tall. His neighbour, Lyn Ball, who has also since passed away, gave him a helping hand and planted many of the trees.

After 30 years, most of the trees had reached adult size and height and formed a beautiful avenue running toward Mangawhai Heads.

But, alas, this is no longer the case. Some of the trees were stunted due to unsuitable soil and removed, and a few were killed with poison by a disgruntled person. A few were lost to fire, some were cut down for commercial section access and recently, some were cut down by Kaipara District Council to widen the footpaths.

Lyn commented once on how heartbroken Paul would have been if he were still here to see the lack of care that had been taken of the trees. Very little now remains of the wonderful avenue of trees that once ran

from the bridge on Molesworth Drive to the golf course.

The Mangawhai of old always had folk who were generous in giving their time and energy to community endeavours, which benefited everyone. With the rapid population growth, propelling the town toward city status, modern planning does away with much of the initial selflessness that went into the creation of many community amenities that the public enjoys at Mangawhai. In many cases, people are unaware of how these amenities came to be.

There is a large library of how this community was formed held at the Mangawhai Museum.

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There is something endearing about sitting down with two world class oral and maxillofacial surgeons, who happen to be brothers, and starting the interview with a conversation about their mother.

That’s what happened when Mahurangi Matters was invited to the Rodney Surgical Centre recently to meet Drs Peter and Russell Vickers, who are the most recent additions to the centre’s growing list of visiting specialists.

As it turns out, they have another brother who is also an oral and maxillofacial surgeon. So, the obvious first question was, “Were they all following in their parents’ footsteps?”

“We grew up in Manly Sydney where Dad was a builder and Mum, who left school at 14, had five boys to look after. She was working in a bank at 15 to help her family make ends meet and has memories of the Japanese submarines attacking allied ships in Sydney Harbour during World War II. She taught swimming when she was young and went back to the sport competitively around 70, going on to win in national and world championships. She’ll be 97 in a couple of months and is still quite amazing.”

The brothers agree that their parents worked hard and they have probably inherited this strong work ethic.

“Growing up in a poor family gave us an advantage in a way because anything we wanted came secondhand, so we got very good at fixing things!”

Peter, who is the eldest, trained first in medicine and dentistry, and worked in a

Residents needing oral and maxillofacial day surgery are now able to access treatment in Warkworth, following the arrival of specialists Dr Peter Vickers (right) and his brother Dr Russell Vickers, pictured with Rodney Surgical Centre chief executive Zaneta Schumann.

number of cities and regional centres in Australia, as well as Scotland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

His training encompassed everything from craniofacial surgery and head and neck surgery to reconstructive, trauma, cosmetic and dental surgery, including implants. He also spent a good part of his time teaching at Macquarie University Hospital in Sydney.

He says he was drawn to NZ after youth hostelling here with his children and running marathons. On his performance in the races, he is content to say that he finished all three marathons he entered, which was more than a lot of the younger competitors managed to do.

He also likes the climate and geography of NZ, and plans to move from Auckland to a permanent base in the north sometime next year.

Brother Russell is also contemplating a permanent shift across the Tasman, but is still heavily committed to patients in Sydney, so is criss-crossing between the two countries at the moment. He is a hiker rather than a runner, and loves to surf

and paint.

As well as being an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, he will eventually bring new skills to the Rodney Surgical Centre as an internationally recognised expert in pain management, regenerative medicine and stem cell treatments.

His research work is reflected in 78 scientific and medical publications, and he runs world-class pain clinics in Sydney and China.

His enthusiasm for stem cell treatments, which he describes as safe and more effective than pharmaceutical treatments and drugs, dates back to 2010, when early stem cell treatments, using donor stem cells, were showing promise.

In 2014, he published the world’s first report on how a person’s own stem cells were very effective in relieving severe nerve pain, the sort of pain people might get from trauma, infection, phantom pain, cluster headaches, migraines and shingles.

“Taking out wisdom teeth is more traumatic than a stem cell procedure,” he says. “The surgery is done under local

anaesthetic and takes about an hour. It involves extracting the stem cells, isolating them and then putting them into areas where there is nerve damage.

“Recovery is gradual over weeks and months, but patients typically start feeling better within a couple of days. It offers people with chronic pain a much better quality of life.”

Russell says he is no longer surprised by some of the unexpected changes that stem cell treatments deliver.

When treating male hair loss, for example, the new hair re-grows as if the patient is a 20-year-old. The same results can be seen in the face, which possibly explains why he has had enquiries from New York about the cosmetic applications of his work.

“There are few, if any, other surgeons doing this particular type of surgery because to do stem cells for the head and the face you have to be a maxillofacial surgeon. There are major blood vessels and nerves in this region of the body, so you have to know the head and neck anatomy intimately.

This is critical for the safety of the patient.”

I was really delighted when WDHB booked my colonscopy at Rodney Surgical.

A previous one at North Shore Hospital had meant more stress with traffic, extra time involved and it added to the normal pre-procedure nerves.

I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Rodney Surgical for the convenience it offers, the friendliness of the staff, and the feeling of calmness and care you get as a patient.

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Libby Taylor and Kate Hattaway are walking the length of NZ to raise awareness about sexual abuse.

Surviving abuse powers walk Two sisters in their 60s are about to walk the length of Aotearoa to raise awareness about the negative ripple effects of sexual abuse.

Libby Taylor, from Stanmore Bay, and Kate Hattaway, of Kumeu, are both sexual abuse survivors and have decided that rather than dwelling on the past, they want to use their life experiences, energy and determination in a positive way.

The women will start their 2100km journey, called the REOSA (Ripple Effects of Sexual Abuse) Walk, at Cape Reinga/Te Rerenga Wairua on October 1 and hope to finish in Bluff around mid-November.

They say the REOSA Walk is an initiative to create hope, dispel loneliness and encourage understanding by raising awareness about the effects of sexual abuse.

“These ripple effects are often overlooked, but have negative consequences that reach far beyond the survivors of sexual abuse including their whanau, friends and communities,” they say.

The REOSA Walk includes 30 supporter loop walks along the route where people can show their support for the women, as well as raising awareness and supporting other survivors on their healing journeys.

These walks will cover around five to six kilometres.

There will be one leaving the Red Door Art Gallery (old fire station) in Waipu on Friday, October 7, at 9am, and finishing at Harcourts in Waipu (walking 5.1kms) and another starting and finishing at the Orewa skate park on October 9, starting at 10am (7.51km).

The REOSA team, with support from HELP Auckland, has created a handbook, Keeping Our Tamariki Safe from Sexual Harm. They say it is a resource to educate, empower and support all parents, grandparents and caregivers. There is a digital copy of the handbook on their website and the women plan to distribute the books along their walk.

Libby and Kate say there needs to be a serious change in in NZ. “By highlighting sexual abuse in a public forum through the REOSA Walk, we hope to give other survivors the courage to speak up and start healing, and for people hearing survivors stories, the courage to listen and believe.”

Information about the walk and the supporter walks can be found here: www.reosa.co.nz/reosa-walk

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Third Thursday of each month – guest speakers.

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Date to be confirmed 9.30am - 4pm at the Women’s Centre $80 A one-day experiential workshop with our experienced group work trainer and personal development facilitator. For those who wish to understand how to facilitate workshops for small groups of adults. Includes how to build a safe group environment, the different styles of facilitation and intervention, recognition of group stages, manage tricky situations and group endings. Facilitator: Heidi Downey MNZAC

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Sustainable Living Series Monday for Mums (all stages and ages) Every Monday from 31 October, 10.30am - 12.30pm at the Women’s Centre FREE

WARKWORTH & DISTRICTS RSA SUPPORT SERVICES ALL MEMBERS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR OUR SUPPORT SERVICES.

The RSA offers assistance for our members on application from our Welfare Trust. For RSA members we also offer hospital / specialist appointment return trips, which is a door to door service provided by our Volunteer Drivers.

Membership is open to all, not just members of the armed forces. Ask about becoming a member at the Warkworth RSA. Come and network with other club Members and enjoy club activities like Darts, Pool, Snooker, Housie and Card games including 500.

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Saturday 5 November, 10am - 2.30pm at Kowhai Arts Centre $70

Every Wednesday from 19 October, 10.30am - 12.30pm at the Women’s Centre FREE Looking to lift your spirits, get active and meet new people? Low intensity, pram friendly, great opportunity to make new friends. Walks are followed by some wellbeing activity and the option to be part of our Spring challenge (with prizes).

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Come chill with us and make use of the Centre facilities, experience gardening, cooking, and play, while we chat about wellbeing, parenting and ways we can increase our resilience on the run up to Christmas. Facilitator: Bridget Farmiloe

Thriving through Art & Creativity Series: Craft - Create Christmas gift/ decoration Wednesday 23 November, 10am - 2pm at the Women’s Centre $20

Handcraft and hand-stitch small felt creations for Christmas - let your imagination guide you.

Facilitator: Taina

Crafty Conversations

Every Friday from 21 October, 10am - 12pm at the Women’s Centre FREE

Crafty Conversations is a peer support group where you can unleash your creative side while enjoying the company of others. Whatever your craft is, this is an opportunity to meet in a safe environment and connect with others to enhance wellbeing.

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Saturday 15 October, 10am - 2pm at Anglican Parish Hall $65

Learn basic flax weaving skills from an experienced local weaver and create a waikawa basket. Students are also introduced to the customs (tikanga) around working with flax.

Facilitator: Britta Conrad

AA Group Meetings

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Women’s AA Meeting - Held every week at the Women’s Centre. We welcome you. No booking required. Facilitator: Janene

FREE Legal Clinic

9.30 am– 10.30 am every third Friday. Bookings essential. 4 November, 25 November. Phone and in person appointments are available. Call or book via our website.

FREE Cervical Screening

Tuesday 6 December Call or register via our website.

For women aged between 20 and 69 who are due for a smear test. Appointments are at the Women’s Centre with a specialist female smear taker. Also support with contraception. Part of the national cervical screening programme and run in conjunction with the Well Women and Family Trust.

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Six sessions available. Please call the Centre to discuss an appointment. (* free for women with dependents under 18) Phone 09 425 7261.

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Mon-Fri – 9.30am - 2.30pm We know there are unique challenges for everyone and we are here to help you navigate them. The Centre is open 9.30-2.30pm and you

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CHRISTMAS APPEAL October-December

Our annual Christmas Appeal planning is underway. Many local families will experience hardship this Christmas and will struggle to purchase gifts and other Christmas treats. With your help we can make a difference to these families. Watch our website and Facebook for further details.

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Doctors inspire fundraiser Military veteran Tony Williams, who is walking NZ from top to bottom to raise money for Medicins Sans Frontier (Doctors Without Borders), made an overnight stop in Warkworth earlier this month.

The 68-year-old, along with his support crew, stopped at the Warkworth RSA to refresh and refuel.

Williams hopes his 2300km journey will raise $1 million for Medicins Sans Frontier (MSF), whose work he witnessed firsthand when he served in East Timor.

“When Putin invaded Ukraine I felt I needed to get off my butt and do something,” he said. “I saw the medical help MSF was delivering in the Ukraine and remembered how brave they had been during the conflict in East Timor. They go wherever they are needed, regardless of the dangers. I decided they were the people I wanted to support.”

As a result, Williams said motivation was not a problem. He was averaging around 30kms a day, with a rest day every Friday.

“I normally start before 7.30am and then knock off around mid-afternoon.”

Along the way is speaking to veterans and encouraging them to set off on their own adventures.

“For too many older people, their home

becomes their hospice,” he said. “Older people have the time and the experience to give a lot back to their communities, and I hope that by seeing me do this walk, some at least will be encouraged to find an adventure of their own.

“People should keep challenging themselves if they want to stay physically and mentally healthy.”

Williams said it was disappointing to see how much litter was on the sides of the roads. He was particularly concerned about the number of tie-downs and u-bolts, which he guessed must have come off heavy transport vehicles.

“The support, hospitality and friendliness of veterans and people I’m meeting along the way has been incredible.”

Williams’ support crew includes his sister Cathy, and former veterans Andy Peters and his partner Shirley, and Vic Timu.

The only mishap so far was a dog bite sustained by Cathy when she stopped to make Tony a cup of tea.

Williams hopes to make it to Bluff by midNovember.

To donate go to www.walknz4msf.com. A separate appeal to help Tony meet costs such as food and fuel has also been set-up at: https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/help-meto-walk-the-talk-for-ukraine.

Reconnecting in person

During Mental Health Awareness Week, September 26 to October 2, Lifeline is encouraging people to reach out to someone they haven’t connected with for a while.

Lifeline operations manager Helena de Fontenay says the last couple of years have been tough for people wanting to stay connected. This was reflected in a 20 per cent jump in calls to Lifeline helplines since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic to an average of 10,000 calls per month. During Mental Health Week, she is encouraging everyone to make a phone call, send a text or better yet, arrange to meet face-to-face with family and friends who you may not have seen for a while. “Loneliness and isolation account for the biggest reason people make calls to Lifeline,” de Fontenay says.

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Te Whai says the new zone offers a space for rangatahi to connect with peers and coaches in supervised workshops and programmes that are designed to be inspirational, educational, inclusive and enjoyable.

Specialist occupational therapist and Rangatahi Zone coordinator Susi King said its siting and purpose were part of a broader effort to engage young people with the community, the outdoors and constructive, meaningful activities at MAZ. She said mentors and tutors would run sessions focused on engaging young people in enjoyable learning activities that benefited the community and the environment, as well as themselves.

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A new space age We are on the verge of a spectacular new space age which will contribute to our knowledge of the origins of the universe and will also help transform global technologies and the global economy. Perhaps the most exciting development in science so far this century is the recent success of the James Webb Space Telescope project (JWST), which has been jointly developed by the US National Atmospheric, Space and Aeronautical Authority (NASA) and the European Space Authority (ESA). JWST, which is an orbiting telescope, has already enabled scientists to detect light emitted from galaxies that are 13 billion years old.

This is only one billion years after the big bang event that led to the formation of the universe. The precursor of JWST is the Hubble telescope in low earth orbit, which has already astonished the world with its extraordinary images of galaxies, black holes, dark matter, dying stars and so on, over the past 30 years.

The JWST is much more sensitive, has less background and uses an extended infrared range to detect even more distant ancient light sources at higher resolution. The initial set of images published by NASA from the JWST are brilliant but even more astonishing images and insights will certainly emerge over the next 20 to 30 years.

The second aspect of the new space age is the appearance of mega constellations of satellites sent into space by corporations such as SpaceX and Amazon, which hopefully will transform the availability and quality of the internet for all countries and communities.

These private telecommunications ventures are expected to add 50,000 more satellites soon and to contribute to the growth in

the space economy from US$350 billion currently to US$1000 billion by 2040. The new space age will also include improved global observation of climate change, commercial human spaceflight, agriculture, meteorology, resources, national security, network equipment, and more advanced consumer products (TV, radio, broadband, navigation, etc). Collectively, these will usher in a new information age, which hopefully will benefit poorer countries as well as wealthier economies.

While celebrating the great value of mega constellations, we must avoid treating space as an orbiting “landfill” of space junk including defunct satellites and debris. In other words, we need to avoid repeating the failures of waste disposal that humans have already created on Earth. There are already 27,000 pieces of tracked man-made space junk orbiting the earth, 85% of which are larger than a tennis ball and are travelling at extreme speeds. Even tiny debris particles travelling at 23,000km/hr are extremely dangerous to space stations (like high-speed bullets) and to active satellites.

At present, there are about 6000 satellites in orbit and an alarming 60% are defunct.

There is a concern, referred to as the Kessler Syndrome, that we may create an envelope of satellite and other debris that prevents human travel and exploration in space and damages our global communications and navigation systems. Some initial concepts of removing defunct satellites and space junk are being developed, including a harpoon and netting method in which lasers heat the dead satellite, which is then pushed into the Earth’s atmosphere to burn up.

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The Omaha Shorebird Trust is calling on pet owners to help protect the small number of NZ dotterels that nest on the spit. Photos, Marie Ward

Plea for pet owner cooperation The Omaha Shorebird Protection Trust is working with Auckland Council and Landcare Research to monitor a selection of bird nests to confirm the contribution cats are making to nest failure.

After the monitoring process, Council will reassess the best way to address the cat problem.

Trust spokesperson Ngaire Wallen says there is concern about both cats and dogs on the spit.

“Cats enter the bird sanctuary from time to time by walking around the ends of the predator-proof fence and they have been associated with bird loss,” she says.

“We are once again asking cat owners to microchip their animals, neuter them and keep them inside at night. In addition, cats should wear collars with bells and should not be left alone for extended periods of time.”

Wallen adds that cats that are fed a highprotein diet have a lower inclination to hunt.

She says the dog issue is more about the lack of enforcement, with only two summer wardens for the whole of Rodney and something like two dog wardens.

“Dogs are generally not roaming free but are deliberately taken into the bird sanctuary, which is in breach of Council by-laws.

“Birds will leave their nests and chicks

exposed when they are disturbed by dogs and they can’t feed at the waterline or rest as they need to if dogs are around.

“Council is confirming whether recent bylaw updates mean instant fines now apply, in which case we will update signage accordingly.”

Wallen says dogs are not permitted past Walkway 2 at Omaha and protecting the birds relies on members of the public, both residents and visitors, respecting the bird sanctuary for the unique place that it is.

Omaha is an internationally significant site for shorebirds, including the threatened New Zealand dotterel and the variable oystercatcher, which both nest on the spit.

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Supercars star Shane van Gisbergen made his rallying debut locally in 2020, winning his class in a Mark II Escort.

He returns at the weekend in WRC2 and a new Skoda Fabio.

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Hayden Paddon is leading the Kiwi pack in a Hyundai i20 N.

Raana Horan flies over a bridge near Puhoi in 2020 – this year, he’s back in a new Skoda Fabio Rally 2 evo.

on Saturday to the three local stages.

The teams will drive up SH1 and along Kahikatea Flat Road to refuelling zones and a pre-race “shakedown” test track near Helensville, then head up SH16 to the first stage of the day, along Kaipara Hills Road from Glorit to Kaipara Flats. The cars then travel along Kaipara Flats Road to SH1, through Warkworth and down to Puhoi, before heading up Krippner and Noakes Hill Roads to the second stage, which goes west along Upper Waiwera Road, a short section of Krippner Road, Tahekeroa Road and down Kanohi Road.

Then it’s back up the Kaipara Coast Highway, this time to West Coast Road,

where they head east to the third stage, which is the length of Komokoriki Hill Road, before heading back along West Coast Road to turn right up SH16 to repeat all three stages again.

The first car is due to start the Kaipara Hills Road stage at just after 8am and the final Komokoriki Hill Road section shortly before 4.30pm.

There are four official spectator points (see next page for details) that can be accessed with a Saturday spectator pass.

Cars and drivers will be competing in three categories – WRC1 elite (11 teams), WRC2 (12 teams) and the NZ Rally Championship.

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Repco Rally NZ chief executive Michael Goldstein said he was thrilled with the quality of the international drivers who were coming from 13 different countries for the return of the WRC. “The best of the best are coming, from rising superstars like Kalle Rovanpera (Finland) to the incomparable Sebastien Ogier (France) in the WRC1 class,” he said.

Rovanpera is the current WRC leader and, with co-driver Jonne Haltunnen, could potentially wrap up the title during this weekend’s stages, which, at 21, would make him the youngest world champion in rallying history.

Other international drivers include Estonia’s Ott Tanak, Elfyn Evans from Wales, Belgium’s Thierry Neuville and Oliver Solberg from Sweden.

Kiwi favourite Hayden Paddon is leading the WRC2 pack, which also includes Supercars star and up and coming rally driver Shane van Gisbergen. There are six other NZ teams in the international field, as well as 46 entries in the NZ Rally Championship.

Paddon said having the WRC back in NZ after a 10 year gap was pretty exciting, and he aimed to win his class.

“We have some pretty strong competition and we have to do a lot of good prep, but we have strong knowledge of the stages, so hopefully we can give it a good nudge,” he said.

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Top international racing drivers will be roaring through the hills above Puhoi and Kaipara Flats this Saturday, October 1, as the World Rally Championship (WRC) returns to New Zealand for the first time in more than 10 years.

Some 75 hybrid cars will take part in three special stages, from Glorit to Kaipara Flats, Puhoi to Kanohi and across Komokoriki Hill, as well as driving through Warkworth and out to the Kaipara coast between stages.

Motorsport fans had a taste of what’s to come two years ago, when the Rally New Zealand’s City of Auckland event came through a similar course in November 2020. Now, with travel restrictions lifted, more than 30 international drivers and co-drivers are on their way to tackle a Kiwi course for the first time in more than a decade at the Repco Rally NZ, with 17 stages in and around the wider Auckland region.

The event kicks off on Thursday, September 29 with a 1.4km evening stage at the Auckland Domain that is free to attend.

The next day, the cavalcade heads through the Waikato to the iconic Whaanga Coast road south of Raglan, before heading north

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The official route map – race stages are shown in red, connecting routes in green.

Where to view – spectator information There are four key official spectator areas on the official rally map – three on the Puhoi stage and one at Komokoriki Hill Road.

The first three are all along Upper Waiwera Road, with the first at the junction of Noakes Hill Road, the second at Monowai Road and the third between Hararu and Tahekeroa Roads.

Local community groups will be collecting donations for parking at each.

At Komokoriki Hill Road, viewing spots can only be accessed via park and ride shuttle buses running from Ahuroa Fire Station on West Coast Road from 7-9am and 12.153pm. There will be no entry to or exit from Komokoriki Hill Road between 9am and noon or from 3-6pm.

There are no official spectator areas on the Kaipara Hills Road stage.

Access to the viewing points is via a Saturday Spectator Pass, which costs $35 for adults or $17.50 for 13 to 17-year-olds; under 13s are free of charge. Online tickets have sold out, but there will be limited gate sales on the day.

Spectators are advised to arrive at least an hour before the first car starts the stage, as there will be hundreds of people trying to reach the same spot, often down narrow, winding or unsealed roads.

They should also bring cash for food stalls, water and suitable clothing and footwear for any weather and rough terrain. Portable toilets will be provided.

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29 SEPT - 2 OCT RALLY STAR HAYDEN PADDON REVEALS 2022 REPCO RALLY NEW ZEALAND ENTRY New Zealand’s leading rally driver Hayden Paddon has revealed the look of his Hyundai i20 NZ Rally2 car at Pukekohe Park ahead of the Repco Rally New Zealand later this month.

Paddon will compete with an increased partnership with long-time motorsport supporter Repco New Zealand, complimenting his Hyundai New Zealand backing.

In front of an expected sell-out crowd, Paddon revealed the striking new livery incorporating Repco branding at the Repco Supercars Pukekohe event, the last Supercars race at Pukekohe before the circuit closes in April next year.

The 2022 Repco Rally New Zealand marks the return of the World Rally Championship to NZ shores – 10 years after the last event.

“We’ve been waiting 10 years for Repco Rally New Zealand to come back, and to be here with our own car and own team, representing New Zealand is something we’re excited about, and pretty proud about too,” said Paddon.

Running under the Hyundai New Zealand Rally banner, Paddon and long-time co-driver John Kennard are set to contest the WRC2 category of the 2022 FIA World Rally Championship which features 18 international drivers.

Paddon and his all-Kiwi team of engineers, technicians and team management have recently returned from a successful European campaign which was wrapped up in Finland with third place in the WRC2 category.

Repco is a passionate supporter of New Zealand motorsport and Paddon is proud to represent the company on the world stage later this month when he’ll be competing for WRC2 honours and aiming to be the first New Zealander overall.

The 2022 edition of Rally New Zealand features the best rally drivers in the world with an 11-car WRC1 field run by the current three WRC manufacturers.

“The anticipation for the return of Repco Rally New Zealand is growing, and to have Hayden Paddon representing Repco in our 100th year on home soil is very fitting,” said Jonathon Maddren, Executive General Manager – GPC NZ.

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Toyota Albany and Warkworth chief executive Haydn Mackenzie says the bZ4X will be a crossover SUV, similar in size to a RAV4.

It will utilise the new e-Toyota New Global Architecture platform, which has been made especially for Toyota’s electric vehicles, and allows for more space in the cabin and stability on the road.

Mackenzie, who has been in the car industry for more than 20 years, says the move to more climate-conscious motoring is picking up steam.

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In response to this demand, the Toyota fleet is slowly becoming dominated by hybrid cars and, in the case of the Corolla range, they are now hybrid only.

Mackenzie says Toyota is working with a lot of hydrogen technology and sees a big future for these cars in the future.

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Mackenzie also sees a future for the plugin hybrid electric vehicle, which is already available in the Prius. It is a fusion of hybrid technology and a pure electric vehicle, takes 90-minutes to charge and can deliver a range of up to 26kms of driving from the battery alone, at speeds up to 100km/hr.

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The Mahu Express team provides a great service to our community. When “I was unable to drive due to a medical condition, this service meant I could get to and from work at North Shore Hospital easily. Wet weather presents lots of challenges, but Warwick and Sam have got us safely to and from our destinations in these very challenging conditions, including on a day the state highway was closed for a number of hours. Roxanne is always quick to respond to any queries so I think they deserve recognition!

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Restoration It has been 15 years since Sam Cooke transported the rusting hulk of a 1940 exArmy 1.5 tonne Ford truck from under a tree in Fernside, Canterbury to his shed in Kaipara Flats.

The truck cost $1000 and he estimates that in the intervening years, he has probably spent nearly $50,000 on its restoration, but wasn’t keen to put an exact figure on it in case it upset his wife.

The project has also absorbed “hundreds and hundreds” of hours of his own time, without spending a second on the road yet.

“My enthusiasm comes and goes, but I am looking forward to taking her for a drive one of these days,” he says.

“It’s probably about 80 per cent done.”

What first attracted Cooke to the truck was that despite the poor state it was in, it was original without modifications.

“You could tell it was ex-Army because the headlights had been modified so they didn’t reflect light at night and it looked like aerials had been fixed on the back of the cab.”

The restoration started with the removal of the cab, the V8 engine and all the running gear. The chassis was rebuilt, the engine reconditioned and rebored, and the cab rebuilt piece by piece. Grandson Joshua Kennedy helped with the paintwork.

“I’ve tried to keep everything as original as possible, but there have had to be some compromises. For instance, when the truck was built, they were adding petrol to the paint to give it a matte finish. We used flattening agents instead but the colour is as close as we could get it to the original.”

As a retired builder with an engineering background, Cooke has had an enviable workshop full of tools, timber and material off-cuts at his disposal.

“I’ve never done anything like this before so sometimes it feels like I’m taking one step forward and five steps backwards. I’ve used expertise when I’ve needed to but

Cooke knows every part of the truck intimately and every part has a story.

otherwise, I’ve done all the work myself, including manufacturing some of the parts and doing the wiring.

“It’s enjoyable most of the time, but I do get brassed off when I feel like I’m not making any progress, and the setbacks are frustrating.”

Sourcing parts has been a major mission and shipping has added significantly to

costs. One wheel, for instance, took four years to secure and the US company making the required rubber gaskets shifted its manufacturing plant to China and started using inferior rubber.

“I’ve got gaskets that have only been in five years and they’re leaking already.”

The truck is undoubtedly now a collector’s item.

The engine as it was 15 years ago and how it is today.

Cooke knows of three other similar trucks in the Mahurangi area, one in Auckland and another in the National Army Museum in Waiouru. Eventually, he would like to see his truck on public display as well.

“I guess I’ll get to drive it one of these days!

In the meantime, I start her up every now and again, just to hear her run. She sounds pretty good.”

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King Gizzard to join Kiwi rock royalty for New Year show Live music fans are in for a real treat in January when two legendary Kiwi bands, Fat Freddy’s Drop and Shapeshifter, return to the region for a New Year show at Matakana Country Park.

Summer Haze on January 4 will also star Australian festival rockers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, plus a number of other acts yet to be announced.

While Shapeshifter are Matakana regulars, last performing in 2020 before Covid-19 struck, it’s eight years since Fat Freddy’s played in the region, when both bands played the Matakanaval festival.

The groups said they were stoked to be returning to Matakana Country Park for what promised to be one of the definitive live music events of the summer.

“We’re stoked to perform again with our good friends Fat Freddy’s Drop and alongside the incredible Australian rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard this summer,” Shapeshifter said in a statement. “Matakana, we can’t wait to perform for you, stay safe and catch you soon.”

Shapeshifter’s PDiggs, Sam Trevethick and the rest of the band are New Zealand’s leading electronic outfit, producing “a stadium-sized sound” with layers of drum and bass, jazz, funk, rock and electronica over solid bass culture foundations that work especially well live.

“The essence of Shapeshifter live is that we are completely 100% un-sequenced – no laptop click track. We play ‘off the grid’ using analogue and digital synthesizers,” Trevethick said.

Fat Freddy’s Drop has played more than 1000 live shows since they formed in the late 1990s, including over 500 in the UK and Europe and 33 Australian tours.

The seven-piece combo, led by vocalist Dallas Tamaira, aka Joe Dukie, has a huge following for its chilled roots blend of reggae, dub, r&b, jazz, soul and techno, as well as their cool improvisations. Picking up musical styles and sounds like souvenirs as they travel the world, Fat Freddy’s remains Kiwi-as at their core, with Aotearoa, Māori and Pacific Island life and culture still their main inspiration.

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Spring green My little garden has produced an abundance of broccoli over the past few months and with the arrival of spring, these plants continue to reward me with fabulous shoots to snip freshly to accompany almost every dinner. Successive plantings every four to six weeks mean it’s likely this abundance will continue right through the warmer weather.

My vegetable garden is not extensive, as I mostly concentrate on herbs, which certainly enliven all savoury cooking.

Parsley is a constant, the sage and thyme bushes flourish year round if they’re clipped back, and other herbs regenerate if the plants are left to go to seed at the end of the summer. Right now, dill and fennel are popping up everywhere. I also have lettuces and spinach year round although the Omaha rabbits managed to chomp away at my lettuces until I installed some netting to protect them from the pesky creatures.

Luckily they leave the broccoli and spinach well alone!

It’s great to have greens constantly on hand and for those who are not lucky enough to have a warm and fertile growing space, you can always fall back on frozen green vegetables, which are rarely as expensive as fresh vegies, and probably almost as good nutritiously.

My husband is a fan of frozen peas and baby garden peas are always found in my freezer.

As for the herbs, they flourish in pots both indoors and on a sunny deck space. If you have to buy herbs, always buy the living herbs in little pots. Water them constantly and they can keep on growing for weeks.

As spring takes hold, fresh green vegetables become more affordable and can often become the centre of a meal. I love to make green soup – a wonderful mixture of fresh greens and herbs, and it’s often a way to use

up the remaining vegetables that lurk in the fridge. Simmer broccoli, fennel, leeks, spring onion, beans, cauliflower and anything else in some chicken or vegetable stock for no more than 10 minutes until they’re tender and still green (add any spinach or silverbeet near the end of the simmering time or they turn a bit slimy.) Puree these vegetables with a blending stick or in a blender and you will have a lovely fragrant soup. Add a few tablespoons of cream or Greek yogurt to make it extra special.

As for the abundant broccoli, I have cooked and served the following deliciously simple recipe almost every week. Broccoli is truly affordable now in the warmer spring weather, and this dinner has become a real favourite when we want to eat more lightly and have a meatless dinner.

Choosing your pasta shape is important – this works very well with pappardelle, as the thick strands of pasta are an ideal carrier for the lovely sauce created with broccoli and cheese. If you haven’t got pappardelle, use linguine or chunky pasta shapes rather than thin spaghetti, which the sauce won’t cling to very well. As for the cheese, of course you can use good old tasty cheese if that’s all you have on hand, but I prefer to use very good Parmesan ,which I keep constantly in the fridge and always grate freshly for the dish. I have also tried it with a mild goat cheese and that’s really tasty, too.

It’s wonderful three-ingredient dish, really delicious and quick to whip up. I like to finish it with a good glug of extra virgin olive oil, but you can always use butter, which has an affinity with cheese. With pasta in the store cupboard, Parmesan cheese from the fridge and broccoli from the garden, that’s all we need!

Cheesy Broccoli Pasta 2 cups fresh broccoli sprouts 2 little ‘nests’ pappardelle 3 tbsps good olive oil 1 large cup finely grated Parmesan Salt and pepper

Keep a few select broccoli florets aside and chop the rest of the stalks, leaves and flowers. Toss into salted boiling water and simmer for about 4 minutes, then add the saved florets to a steamer set over the simmering broccoli. Continue to cook for another 2-3 minutes.

Meanwhile, boil the pasta in salted water according to packet instructions. Drain the pasta well.

Drain the broccoli, but importantly you must keep the water and put the steamed florets aside. Return the broccoli to the pan, add a few spoonfuls of the saved cooking water and zap with a blending stick until smooth. Add a good glug of olive oil and half the grated cheese. Add the pasta to the broccoli sauce and toss together over the heat so all the pasta is well coated. Finally, add the saved steamed florets.

Divide this all between two heated plates or bowls and serve immediately. Hand the remaining cheese to spoon on as liked, and offer extra salt and pepper.

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Win $1000 at Wellsford talent show Calling all closet singers, dancers and entertainers – do you juggle in your spare time? Can you spin a funny yarn? Are you a conjuror on the quiet?

If so, Wellsford Community Centre is the place to be next Saturday, October 1, when auditions for the Wellsford’s Got Talent show will take place.

There are big cash prizes on offer, with $1000 for the eventual winner, $500 for the runner-up and $250 for third place.

The show is being organised by Wellsford Drama Club, whose members were looking for something special to present in the wake of two years of Covid lockdowns.

Treasurer Rachel Ravenscroft said they knew there were a huge number of talented groups and individuals in the Wellsford and wider Rodney district who’d had little chance to shine in the last two years.

“We thought how wonderful it would be to give people the chance to perform, so they didn’t have to fit into the mould of a role in a particular play, but just have a showcase for them to do their thing,” she said.

The amateur talent show is open to all, with no age restrictions, entry fee or pre-registration – entrants simply have to turn up at the community centre between 10am

and 3pm and wait their turn for a closed audition with the four competition judges.

From there, the best acts will be selected to appear at the finals show, which will take place on Saturday, October 15 at 7pm, again at Wellsford Community Centre.

Ravenscroft said the show would follow the format of TV favourite Britain’s Got Talent, and said there would be plenty of banter and jokes.

“It’s going to be a really fun night, we’re so excited about it.”

She added that there had already been a good deal of interest in the event from a host of prospective performers.

“We’ve got 11-year-olds, we’ve got older teenagers, we’ve got every age right up to retirees.”

Ravenscroft thanked Kiwi Welldrillers, ComputersPlus and private donors for their generous sponsorship of the show.

Tickets for the Wellsford’s Got Talent finals show cost $20 for adults and $10 for children, and are available from www.iticket.co.nz/events/2022/oct/wellsfords-got-talent Info: Email wellsfordsgottalent@gmail.com or visit Wellsford Drama Club’s Facebook page.

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Mahurangi artists have created a novel way for members of the public to create their own tours of local studios. The newlylaunched Mahurangi Artist Network website provides a year-round directory to a diverse range of artists in the Mahurangi area who have their studios open for visits, by appointment or with set hours. Local art galleries such as Brick Bay Winery and Estuary Arts also feature, along with maps and directions for the locations of each artist. Spokesperson Philippa Stichbury says art lovers who are unable to visit studios during the annual Mahurangi Artist Studio Trail in February can now create their own Mahurangi Art Trail at other times of the year. She says some galleries and studios have stipulated opening hours, whereas other artists are happy to open their studios by appointment.

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Her mother is stuck back in England as she’s struggling to get a spot in MIQ and, as Becky is feeling alone and frustrated, she finds an interesting stone on the beach.

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In winter, communities involved in predator control spend their time rugging up against the weather, wading through mud and securing sources of bait. Logging numbers of predators caught is crucial, but monitoring the rise in native species in areas of effective predator control is just as important. Wildlife resurges in areas where predator numbers are suppressed.

One of our region’s endangered birds is a type of heron that NZ shares with parts of Australia and New Caledonia: Matukuhūrepo, or the Australasian bittern. This elusive creature is stockier than the more common Matuku moana, or white faced heron, you’ll have seen stalking about in slow motion on your lawn or in waterways.

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Financial and logistical assistance is available for fencing and sometimes planting along your rivers and wetland areas.

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Matakohe farmers dig tree planting Even before Wenzl and Helen Wech joined the Kaipara Moana Remediation (KMR) programme, they had fenced off waterways and started native plantings on their 145ha property.

This winter, they teamed up with seven Year 7 and 8 students and two parents from nearby Matakohe School to help get a further 2750 native species into the soil during a school day.

The mahi raised $1000 for the school, a contribution the couple were happy to make, along with having to buy two sacks of pine cones off the business-savvy students!

Despite being hit by a big flood just weeks later, where the torrent of water was over a metre deep as it raged through the newly planted area, only a handful of plants were washed away.

The plantings, which were funded by the KMR, complement the self-funded planting of just over half a hectare behind the couple’s house.

Species include tanekaha, rimu, houhere (lacebark), akeake, purple akeake, tarata (lemonwood), harekeke (flax), mānuka, ti kouka (cabbage tree) and karamū.

“The KMR planting of mānuka, cabbage, flax, carex, coprosma, oi oi and ribbonwood was done around our waterways to stop any nutrients from entering the Kaipara Harbour,” Wenzl says. “We hope the school comes back in a year, looks at their success and helps with more planting.”

The next stage will be to plant around the marshland bordering mangroves on the property.

“Dad always told me you leave a property better than when you got it. To be able to plant natives with the KMR funding is beautifying the property, as well as stopping any pollutants running off the property.

“Our drive over the past 10 years has been protecting the native bush and bringing the birds back. There are five patches of mature natives – around one hectare each

Free dinner for farm folk

Farmers are being urged to kick off their gumboots and let their hair down for a while at a free dinner and quiz night being held near Wellsford next month.

Beef + Lamb NZ’s Northland Collaboration Group will be manning the barbecue and dishing out dessert at Port Albert Hall on Thursday, October 14 from 5.30pm onwards.

After a catch-up and dinner, a quiz will be held with prizes for the table with most correct answers, followed by dessert, coffee and more socialising.

A Beef + Lamb NZ spokesperson said it was important for rural people to get off the farm occasionally, mix with friends and neighbours, and let someone else do the cooking and cleaning up for a change.

“We need to look out for each other, that’s what strong resilient communities do.

Bring your family, neighbours and farming team along for a fun night out,” she said.

All welcome – RSVP by emailing Hazel at nh.macmillan@xtra.co.nz Wenzl and Helen Wech at one of their revegetation plots.

– around the farm and we want to protect them as much as we want to do more KMR planting.

“Over the past year, we have also killed 400 possums and a swag of wild cats.”

Wenzl and Helen acknowledge the Kaipara catchment is a delicate environment and KMR has changed their thinking about farming.

“I would encourage farmers to take

advantage of it. It is free money and you are leaving something for the next generation.

I think 99% of farmers want to do right by the environment. We struggle to make money at times and it is another cost to do planting, but when half of it is paid for then it is sensible to jump on board.

“If every dairy farmer can plant even a portion of their land, it is going to make the Kaipara look pretty cool,” the couple say.

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The current Kaipara Moana Remediation team, back from left, Stephanie Versteeg, Tahiroa Bishop, Darren van Beek. Middle, Karina Marsom, Sandra Harris, Duncan Kervell, Sue-Anne Moo. Front, Justine Daw, Ben Hope, Lisette Rawson and Griffin Hope.

Kaipara Harbour restoration picks up speed The Kaipara Moana Remediation (KMR) programme has set itself a target of having more than half a million native plants in the ground and a further 250km of fencing completed this financial year.

The programme is one of the most intensive afforestation efforts globally and one of New Zealand’s largest catchment restoration programmes.

Last year, $4.67 million was spent on projects to reduce sediment flowing into the Kaipara Harbour.

Pou Tātaki Justine Daw said efforts to revitalise the mauri are scaling up since a Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the Ministry for the Environment, Ngā Maunga Whakahii o Kaipara, Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua, Te Uri o Hau, Northland Regional Council and Auckland Council in October 2020.

During its first full year of operation, the KMR worked with 285 landowners to deliver 205 new Sediment Reduction Plans (SRPs) covering more than 40,000 hectares. In addition, landowners committed to an additional 380,000 plants and 238 kilometres of fencing – more than the distance from Whangārei to Auckland.

By the end of June this year, 253 landowners were actively implementing SRPs, with a

focus on fencing land and planting native and estuarine wetland ecosystems. trees near waterways.

The harbour is also home to several iwi/hapū Millions of local native plants are being groups, with local taonga species providing grown in 17 accredited nurseries across food and medicine, underpinning cultural Kaipara in preparation for the 2023 practices and connecting people to place. planting season and beyond, Daw says.

The Kaipara is also the breeding ground “While still early days, a key to KMR’s for New Zealand’s valuable snapper fishery. success has been its However, decades of The programme is one of the focus on enhancing deforestation and land most intensive afforestation environmental and use intensification have social outcomes,” efforts globally and one of New taken their toll. Today, she says.

Zealand’s largest catchment less than 10 per cent “The KMR restoration programmes. of original native forest kaupapa is to invest cover and just five per cent of wetlands in local people to develop and sustain remain, leading to a seven-fold increase meaningful, nature-based employment, in soil erosion and associated sediment and support people who whakapapa to the washing into rivers and the harbour.

Kaipara returning home to work on the As a Jobs for Nature investment, KMR has project. a dual focus on growing people into new “Over a 6000 square kilometre catchment, ‘green economy’ jobs. genuine partnership is key to achieving Any landowners in the 640,000ha Kaipara our goal of planting 20 million trees in the catchment over 10 years.”

Harbour catchment are encouraged to do their bit. Farmers, iwi/hapū and The Kaipara Moana is the largest natural community groups who are interested in harbour in the Southern Hemisphere, and fencing off riparian and wetland areas and one of global significance. It is the home preparing land for planting over spring of rare and threatened species, including and summer are invited to complete an migratory birds, and contains some of the rarest ecosystems in New Zealand, expression of interest at: https://kmr.org. including sand dune, sea grass, freshwater nz/landowner-expression-of-interest/

Training day for working and trial dogs

One of New Zealand’s top sheepdog trialling experts will be in Kaiwaka next month to run a special working dog training day.

Murray Child has won multiple national and international titles over more than 20 years of dog trialling here and in Australia.

More recently, the Maungakaramea farmer has been sharing his knowledge and expertise as a Purina Pro Plan rural ambassador, with a series of dog training days throughout the North Island.

The Kaiwaka event will be held this Saturday October 1, at Oneriri Station, a beef and sheep farm about 25 minutes south west of the township on the shores of Kaipara Harbour.

Child will hold one-on-one sessions with people and their dogs to see them work together, solve problems and improve their performance, whether just for work or for the competitive dog trialling circuit.

The idea is to help farmers, shepherds and trialists get a better relationship with, and the best out of, their working dogs.

The day starts at 10am and includes lunch, and all proceeds from the $10 gate fee will go to the local Molesworth Sheepdog Trial Club. All are welcome, though anyone bringing a dog onto the property must have a current hydatids certificate.

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A day in the life of …

The pager went off at 7.35am. It was a dog with off and on gagging. We met at the clinic at 8.30am and were finished by 9am.

I then saw the three small animals booked in, one needed a short anaesthetic for a minor ailment. However, the nurse told me there was a cattle beast salivating and shaking its head that needed seeing and there was the owner of a horse coughing up green stuff that I had to ring and there was a cat with a sore ear that the owner felt needed seeing that day.

So, we admitted the dog and decided I would go first to the cattle beast and the nurse would let the others know I would call when I returned. At that point a call came in, in the opposite direction, for a cow “down and thrashing”. So I headed there first and the nurse would ring the farmer with the salivating, head-shaking steer. This journey involved waiting at the country’s worst intersection. Underway again, the hands-free phone rang. The nurse said there was another farm call, in a different direction, where two heifers needed calving assistance and, while the owner was not too worried, there was a dog urinating blood.

Now I was worried about how my ability to meet my obligations was falling apart. I said I would go to the calving after the down and thrashing cow and could she tell the waiting clients what was happening and ask them to seek veterinary help elsewhere if they could not wait.

About this point I heard a siren behind me and I looked ahead for a place to pull over

so I could let whoever had more urgent business than me go passed. It was 10.30am.

But a police car pulled up behind me. I had no idea what speed I had been travelling at, picking up subliminal cues from around me. I said how busy I was but the officer pointed out that the road was wet, there were a lot of entrances off it people could pull out of, and very close to the road edges were lots off deep ditches that would make any car that strayed into them roll. That was why the speed limit had been reduced to 80km/hr. As I looked back at the deep ditches beside the road I had just travelled I had a vision of a tombstone …“David Haugh, veterinary grunt. Killed In Action 20-7-22.” But I knew no one else would see it as an emergency, first responder tragedy.

As it turned out, only two more calls, which only involved calling farmers, came in after that for the rest of the day. By the time I had seen the thrashing cow, the calving heifers, the steer with photosensitivity, the cat with the sore ear, the dog urinating blood and rung (sometimes repeatedly) the owners of the horse coughing blood, the calf with a broken leg and the cow sick with mastitis, it was almost dark. The dog waiting for the tiny op had long been collected by its owners. I switched to plod mode, put petrol in the car and food in my tank, then went back to the clinic to make a cup of tea, write up histories and accounts, and prepare the three lab samples I had, ready for collection on Monday, then headed home to get sleep, ready to serve the next day. It was 10.20pm.

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Volatility and vulnerability in the rural property market There were 126 fewer farm sales (-38.2%) for the three months ended August 31 than for the same period last year, according to data released by the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ).

Overall, 204 properties changed hands during the three months, compared to 255 farm sales in the three months ended July (-20%) and 330 farm sales for the three months ended August last year.

Of the 1545 farms sold in the year to August, there were 278 fewer than the same time last year – 2.6% more dairy farms, 25.2% fewer dairy support, 21.5%

fewer grazing farms, 13.9% fewer finishing farms and 17.5% fewer arable farms.

The median price per hectare for all farms sold in the three months to August was $25,690, compared to $27,170 last year (-5.4%). The median price per hectare decreased by 6.5% compared to July.

Two regions recorded an increase in the number of farm sales during the three months ended August – ManawatuWhanganui and Southland (+2 sales).

REINZ rural spokesperson Brian Peacocke says sales data for the three-month period ending August reflect a significant reduction

in total farm sales compared to the equivalent periods in the previous two years.

“Reasons for such reductions will inevitably be varied but are likely to include an increasing degree of caution, mingled with emerging resentment towards central government, inexorable increases in costs across the board, and widespread volatility in climatic conditions,” Peacocke said.

“Tasman, Nelson, Marlborough, Taranaki and the Far North are at the forefront of those regions most impacted by the turbulent extremes in weather being experienced more frequently across the country.

“From a financial perspective, strong levels of income in recent seasons have allowed significant debt reduction across much of the rural sector, albeit erosion of the increased equity due to increases in costs is having a sobering effect across the sector.

“While it appears good levels of income are likely to continue in much of the agricultural sector this season, reports of decreasing levels of production from a national perspective, combined with the aggressive increases in costs, will have a balancing effect.”

Peacocke said other issues of concern in

the rural sector included changes in land use driven by forestry, increasing prices for carbon, urban and lifestyle expansion, compliance/environment issues, water regulations, energy generation/solar power and the ban on bobby-calf industry live exports from next year.

In Northland/Auckland, there were good sales of grazing properties, albeit mainly in the lower price range, light activity on finishing properties and no dairy farm sales.

Solid prices were paid for individual finishing and grazing properties in Auckland.

Farm environment plan workshop Farmers helping farmers Northland Rural Support Trust is keen to recruit more AgFacilitators to help provide support services to rural communities. Trust chair Michelle Ruddell (pictured) who, with husband Troy, runs a large-scale dairy farm west of Whangarei, started as an AgFacilitator working directly with communities in need. Ruddell says the trust is about “our people helping our own communities”. “We walk the talk,” she says. “We know the region like the back of our hand; we know where to reach out, we know what expertise might be needed and we genuinely want to see the people in our communities thrive. “As a trust, we place importance on training our AgFacilitators so they are prepared with the knowledge they need, from mental health and wellbeing to understanding the boundaries of the role, to uncovering knowledge gaps and sourcing the information or support required. We also have peer supervision in place as it’s really important our team can debrief in a safe place.”

Ruddell says a good AgFacilitator has probably got rural and farming experience and an idea of rural support, professionals and advice services.

Info: Phone 0800 787 254 or visit www.rural-support.org.nz/Regions/North-Island/Northland

A workshop aimed at helping farmers complete farm environment plans required by councils is being held in Wellsford next month.

The free event is being organised by Beef + Lamb NZ and Greenlea Premier Meats at the Wellsford Community Centre on Tuesday, October 6, from 10am to 3pm.

A Beef + Lamb spokesperson said the format of the workshops had been “refreshed” to make it suitable for everyone, whether they already had Land or Farm Environment Plans or were only just starting the process.

The day will look at risks and actions needed for each farm, and includes documenting key farm resources, opportunities, risk management, implementation and a

monitoring and review framework.

“This hands-on workshop will get farmers started on our planning approach and position them well for future consumer or regulatory requirements and further topicspecific workshops,” the spokesperson said.

“They’ll learn practical techniques they can use every day to identify and assess land management units.”

Follow-up events will be held one to two months after the first workshop, and further sessions may be held at a later date on specific subjects as required.

Places are limited and registration is essential – visit www.beeflambnz.com/events

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Councillors applaud targeted rate results

By Laura Kvigstad, Auckland Council reporter. Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air.

Auckland Council has been told that its natural environment and water quality targeted rate has delivered 24,000 hectares of on-ground possum control, 391,000 plants in the ground to curb siltation and more than $600,000 in community-based grants.

However, its real success has been with kōkako in Hunua.

At an Environment and Climate Change Committee meeting on September 8, the yearly reports on the natural environment and water quality targeted rate were presented.

Environmental services general manager Rachel Kelleher said the ground-based possum control was the largest area covered in a single year.

“The Hunua ranges are now the second largest mainland population of kōkako in New Zealand and, given that it has more than 40 founding pairs, it is a priority one site for kōkako conservation,” Kelleher said.

Cr Desley Simpson said that while no targeted rate was ever “hugely liked” the work achieved was outstanding.

Deputy Mayor Bill Cashmore said the work had helped to create mana around Council.

“From my community and the whole environment around the Hunua and the rest of Auckland, thank you,” Cashmore said.

Mayor Phil Goff said there were a lot of excuses when first considering environmental projects, but they were too important not to do.

“There were all these things we needed to do and no money to do them,” Goff said

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A round-up of sports activities and events in the district Tomarata tag Junior player registrations are open for the 22/23 season for ages 4-14yrs. Season kicks off Thursday, October 20.

Warkworth athletics Registrations are open for the 22/23 season starting October 26, 5.30pm Juniors (3-6yrs) and Seniors (7-14yrs). Register through Facebook or email athleticswarkworth@ gmail.com Summer hockey at the Warkworth hockey turf Starting week beginning October 18, Summer 7s and Summer 9s. Registrations close September 30 https://sites.google.com/site/ warkworthsocialhockey/summer-hockey?authuser=0 Kōkako

“Most councillors supported (the rates) and all councillors would like to claim credit for the outcomes now because the outcomes are fantastic.”

Chair Richard Hills acknowledged there were often complaints about targeted rates but said long-term issues would not be getting fixed without them.

“Now we see those massive numbers (of kōkako) and they are spreading across to other parts of the city where we might have what is happening in Wellington with the kākā. They are just in people’s neighbourhoods now,” Hills said.

“Kids being born today are going to be able to see some of our wildlife that almost disappeared. It will be quite normal to see them in their backyards because of the work these targeted rates do by changing the mistakes.”

Staff said local board reports that detail how the rates are being spent in individual communities will be released in the next few weeks.

North Harbour BMX Club have a go day Sunday, October 2, 1-4pm, Oteha Valley Rd, Albany. North Harbour BMX invites all kids and adults to come give BMX a go and experience and explore the BMX Track. enquiries@nhbmx.org.nz Kaipara Flats Cricket Club Registrations are open for the upcoming season. The premier team play in the Northland two-day, one-day and T20 competitions. The ‘local’ team plays in the 40 over Rodney Championship and T20 Waitemata cup. A Friday night coaching hub is held for kids in school years Y0-Y8 and is six weeks in term 4&1 starting Friday, November 4.

Run Orewa Run Orewa and Running Events are hosting the first event of the Harcourts Cooper & North Shore Run Series on Sunday, October 16, at 8-11am, at Western Reserve, Orewa. To register and for more information: www.runorewa.nz Sandspit Yacht Club Centreboard Programme An eight-week programme for 9-16yr olds starts at Algies Bay, October 16, catering for all levels. Parents are encouraged to learn alongside the kids. Info: www.sandspit.org.nz or join@sandspitlearntosail.org.nz Warkworth Tennis & Squash Centre World Squash Day, October 15. Have-a-go activities for young and old, 12-hour squash marathon starting at 7am, racketball, games and more. Koha to Mental Health Foundation. Also, School Holiday Program both weeks Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9am12pm. 8 years to 15+ at the Warkworth Squash Club. To book in contact Kaye Jackson 021 135 7574 or squashykaye@icloud.com

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Warkworth Fellowship Monday 7.30pm, Catholic Church Hall, 6 Alnwick Street, Warkworth. Open to Visitors.

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Snells Beach Big Book Meeting Thursday 7:30pm, Mahurangi Christian School, 410 Mahurangi East Rd, Snells Beach; Open to Visitors.

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In the run-up to the local body elections, there has been a lot of comment on social media about the state of our roads and the way the Local Board is, or should be, run.

Rodney’s lack of road maintenance and sealing is not anyone’s “fault”. It’s the result of a long combination of national and local funding, policy and political choices and arrangements that have prioritised spending away from road maintenance and road sealing, in favour of more urban or politically iconic spending preferences. That all stems from how Auckland Council was formed and structured under legislation, and has been exaggerated by political interests seeking greater centralisation and control and their preferred particular outcomes.

NAG has written extensively on this and argued for better and more democratic governance that would promote community empowerment, localism, devolution, accountability and responsibility (to locals) and fairer representation. We are also opposing the Three Waters proposals.

Road maintenance and sealing has never been about the money. We have shown that Council sits on more than enough unspent Regional Fuel Tax money every year to fund Rodney‘s road maintenance, improvement and sealing programme.

As with national government spending, politicians don’t allocate funds to their most profitable uses, but to “hot” political issues (often social) that motivate voters.

Investment is not judged on returns, but on “polls”, “likes” and “followers”.

So, rather than justifying investments by identifying the future cashflows that will be used to pay for them, politicians prioritise operational and investment spending on what revenues they have, how much they can borrow, perceived voter need, and who they have to keep happy. Proper water and roading infrastructure is taken for granted and not “sexy”, so it misses out on spending prioritisation. The result is a never-ending

demand for more revenue to maintain or replace assets they could not afford and should not have afforded, frequent neglect of basic assets and facilities that were needed, inability to meet promises, and a resulting disenchantment of voters, who finally replace the government, and repeat the process.

We know that the alternative more distributed (local) decision-making will not necessarily be more efficient, less wasteful or achieve any great central purpose, but it will give people what they want, as opposed to a system of dictatorship by the majority.

Some centralised decision-making benefits everyone such as national defence, law and order, and social safety nets, so in practice we strive for a balance between these extremes that is workable and recognises the value of the commons for everyone.

Auckland Council is under-funded in relation to service obligations and expectations, and the core Council urban majority (quite reasonably) are looking after what they think will get them publicity and votes and are less concerned about rural people, communities and their needs.

What we don’t need are local board members supporting Council policies that don’t represent the views of Rodney’s voters in order to win support for more resources for Rodney.

The rural areas of Franklin and Rodney need to be treated fairly, not as afterthoughts.

Cycleways in Auckland central, the city rail link, light rail to the airport and tactical urbanism do nothing for Rodney.

The Local Board has worked hard to deliver within its limited remit to allocate spending on local services and assets. But it’s political and representation mistake has been to follow its own block members agenda and not to recognise and support voters’ calls for better roading, and rates more focused on Rodney’s needs.

Ideological and block voting with secrecy (closed workshops and pre-deciding outcomes) are antithetical to an open, representative and community inclusive Local Board. Independent candidates who support open discussions and decisionmaking are needed to restore confidence.

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What a year it has been for sport. Our long-serving staff cannot remember a better year at Mahurangi College, in terms of results. It’s wonderful seeing students flock back to sport after the disruption of the last few years.

Whether playing, officiating or coaching, engagement in sport is such a vital part of bringing balance to your life - so necessary.

Highlights include our Junior Girls Underwater Hockey team winning the National title and our Open Girls team claiming bronze. This is an amazing achievement in itself, but made more so by the fact our pool has been out of operation for the past two terms. Six students were named in the National Tournament team. Three titles were claimed in Rugby, by our 1st XV, Youth 16 and Youth 14 teams, making Mahurangi College the talk of the North Harbour rugby community. The 1st XV also won the competitive Rugby by the Beach competition in Papamoa, beating a strong Matamata College in the final.

Intermediate students got to enjoy AIMS once again, competing alongside 11,000 other students as part of the biggest sporting event in Australasia, with perhaps the standout highlight being the Junior Boys Football team

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winning the highly competitive plate division. Our students had a wonderful week, learning not just about playing sport, but also how to manage energy levels and maintaining focus - amongst other important skills.

Other sports too have flourished. Our Girls Rugby team has gained two selections in the U18 North Harbour side, Alice Cleland and Abbie Lethbridge. Netball has been hugely successful, with our Premier team achieving their best ever placing for a long time at the Upper North Island Secondary Schools competition placing 7th in B grade and 39th from 121 teams. Ten Premier teams including Netball, Football, Rugby and Hockey competed at the recent Winter Tournament Week, capping off another successful season for our teams.

Basketball numbers continue to increase. It is the fastest growing sport at Mahurangi, which is following the nationwide trend of young people participating in the game of Basketball.

Another of our most successful sports is Touch Rugby and we wish our teams competing at the Nationals champs next term all the best.

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Our Premier Football girls team enjoy some time out during Winter Tournament Week; the most prestigious sporting event our senior teams attend in their sporting journey at secondary school.

Of note too has been the wonderful support from our families. Often on the sidelines our parents significantly outnumbered the opposition, cheering loudly and helping lift performance. Thank you so much for your support, encouragement and good-natured banter.

Pat Hanly Award for Creativity Arts at the Auckland City Art Gallery. The ceremony involved all students across Tāmaki Makaurau. Our Momentum Dance Company competed DanceNZMade, placing 2nd in Year 11-13 Teams and 3rd in Year 11-13 Duo and Open Duo.

As always, an army of staff, student and parent coaches and managers sit behind this success. Our Sports Coordinators in particular deserve special praise. Adele Ball and Kara Jack have been amazing this year, working tirelessly behind the scenes, as well as actively coaching and managing themselves. Thank you so much for your mahi.

I’d like to take this opportunity to warmly welcome our newly elected board members Fleur Auber and Nicole Callender, re-elected members Peter Meafou, Dean Iversen and Rachel O’Malley and our staff representative Nyree Norrington. Thank you so much to our board, staff, parents and our community for everything you do to support our youngsters. We see the benefits here so clearly - fit, healthy, resilient kids who thrive both in and out of the classroom.

There have been many additional achievements over the term. Tobey Sykes, Isabella Gipps and Miriama Iversen have been selected to represent Omaha Surf Lifesaving Club on an Outstanding Youth - Leadership Course, held at the Motutapu Outdoor Education Centre during the holidays. Our Year 13 Art students, Noah Barclay and Ava Bravenboer were the recipients of the

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Far-fetched holiday ‘Trans-Tasman’ challenge for Big Buddy fun at local libraries Rowing, whether on the water or indoor machine, is something Blair Cranston has been doing for around 40 years.

In the coming months, the 62-year-old gets to put that skill, as well as a fair dose of perseverance, to the test with an epic 1892km indoor row (the distance from NZ to Australia) to raise awareness and money for Big Buddy.

The Stanmore Bay Bayleys real estate agent says the idea came up after he completed a marathon on his rowing machine last year.

Big Buddy is a charity that matches seven to 14-year-old boys who do not have a father in their lives with men who can be a reliable mentor and friend – Blair has been 10-year-old Linus’ Big Buddy for two years. Together they go fishing, take walks, shoot arrows or hang out and chat.

Blair says with his own son grown up, these were things he had missed doing.

“I had a bit of spare time to give and used to enjoy doing things with my son that he doesn’t necessarily want to do with me anymore, now that he’s 24. With some kids going off the rails at the moment, Big Buddy is something positive that I can put my time and effort into.”

He says his main inspiration was the example of his own father.

“My father was firm, but fair. He was tough on bad behaviour and demonstrated the difference between right and wrong. He provided me with a sense of security and confidence that has stayed with me and that I hope to pass onto Linus,” he says.

For Linus’ mum, Laura, the steady contact for Linus has taken the pressure off.

“Being alone in New Zealand without extended family, it has been a challenge to be everything,” she says. “Linus has the perspective of another adult to help mould his world view and the confidence that there is someone else he can rely on.”

On Tuesday, September 27, Blair will begin rowing every day – either at Club Physical gym in Whangaparāoa or at home – recording all the kilometres on an app. He plans to row 30km daily, over three sessions a day, seven days a week. At that rate, he will be rowing for two to three months.

The aim is to raise awareness of what Big Buddy does, as well as to bring in around $30,000 – enough to match 15 more buddies with boys who need them.

At the gym, the public and a number of high profile sportspeople will be able to row alongside Blair. Bayleys

Unbelievable as it is, another school term is almost over – and Unbelievable is the theme of the latest round of holiday activities at local libraries.

Mahurangi East librarians will be running sessions exploring unbelievable mini-worlds, slimy stories, science fun, waiata Māori, green screen Comic Book Month photos and scavenger hunts.

School students can also book in for an “Unbaa-lievable” community trip to Sheepworld, thanks to the Friends of Mahurangi East Library, Gubbs Motors and Sheepworld – to find out more, email mark.reilly@aucklandcouncil.govt. nz or visit the Mahurangi East Library Facebook page.

At Warkworth Library, there will also be all sorts of unbelievable action, including Unbelievable Creatures Storytime, an Unbelievable Athletics day, unbelievable optical illusions and a Lego session.

Warkworth also has some very special visitors to the library.

On Tuesday, October 4, the Conservation Learning team from Auckland Zoo will be at the old Masonic Hall to introduce some unbelievable endemic wildlife in Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as sharing information on the zoo’s soon-to-be-fully-opened South East Asian Jungle Track.

On Wednesday, October 5, some very cute dogs will be joining the team from Silverdale Animal Shelter on a visit to the library. As well as learning all about dogs, participants will have a chance to read aloud to the visiting pups.

Warkworth Library is also running an art session and competition based around the theme of peace, with gift card prizes donated by Warkworth Lions Club. There are two age categories – 5 to 7 years and 8 to 11 – with the winners of each receiving $20 and runners-up $15.

In Wellsford, there are no less than 12 free fun art, craft and science activities scheduled across the two-week holiday, including Edison robot coding and construction workshops, Lego and Minecraft sessions and an optical illusion toy-making event.

There is also a Terrific Tessellations colouring session, Diwali and magic eye scavenger hunts, a chance to make your own pom-pom pet, and unbelievable video game, ‘Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes’.

Bookings are essential for the Edison Robot sessions – email wellsford.library@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

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Olympic rower Eric Murray will be among those taking part, with more yet to be confirmed.

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What’s on See www.localmatters.co.nz/whats-on/ for a full list of upcoming events

September 28

Pigment Sip and Paint, Vintry Matakana, 6-8pm. All materials provided, plus free drink. Tickets: hello@pigment.co.nz

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Warkworth Rodeo AGM, 203 Wayby Station Road, 7pm

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Harbour Hospice Te Hana Shop open morning, 10am-12pm, drop in and find out more about volunteering.

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Kia Kaha Digital Workshop, Mahurangi East Library, 11am-3pm. Free.

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Jim Joll, Warkworth RSA, 6.30pm

October 1

Rally New Zealand Auckland North routes, Kaipara Hills and Puhoi. See www. rallynewzealand.com for further details, maps and spectator viewing points (see story p38-39 and ad p40-41)

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Tiritiri Matangi Dawn Chorus, 4am-11.30am Tickets: www.exploregroup.co.nz/ auckland/tiritiri-matangi-island/tiritiri-matangi-dawn-chorus

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Organic edible backyard gardening and food foresting for beginners, Oneriri Road, Kaiwaka, 9.30am-12.30pm. Cost $60. Info: www.facebook.com/ events/781935399716049

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Working dog training day, Oneriri Station, Oneriri Roadd, Kaiwaka, 10am. $10 entry, lunch provided. Registration and info: Duncan Gilligan 027 659 3562 (see story p 52)

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Wellsford’s Got Talent Auditions, Wellsford District Community Centre, 10am3pm. Info: wellsfordsgottalent@gmail.com (see story p48)

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The Joe Cocker Encounter & Dance Set featuring Mark Taipari, Warkworth RSA, 7pm. Tickets $20

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Karaoke at Wellsford RSA, 7pm

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Crafty Conservation with Auckland Zoo hosted by Warkworth Library, Warkworth Masonic Hall, 11am. Hands-on learning with an introduction to some unbelievable endemic wildlife in Aotearoa New Zealand (see story p62)

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Dogs in the Library, Warkworth Library, 10.30am. Visit by dogs and staff from Silverdale Animal Shelter (see story p62)

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Men’s Rebus, coffee and chat, Summerset Falls, Devine Cafe, 11am

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Sip and Sew, Matakana, 11.30am-2pm. $5 donation.

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

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Beef + Lamb NZ Environmental Plan workshop for farmers, Wellsford Community Hall, 10am-3pm. Registration essential: www.beeflambnz.com/ events (see story p54)

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Rothko and Lumina Long Lunch, Sculptureum, midday-3pm

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Mangawhai Museum Alive, live night at Mangawhai Museum. 4.45-6pm. A family friendly fun evening where visitors can “chat” to the exhibits, dress up, join a game and dance in the foyer.

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Local Government Election Day, see results as they happen at www. localmatters.co.nz from midday onwards

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Kaipara Flats heritage walk, Ranfurly Hall, 2-4pm (see story p22)

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Roller Disco at Mahurangi East Library. Optional lesson for beginners 6pm, Roller Disco starts 7pm

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Wellsford Annual Charity Dinner, Wellsford RSA, 5.30pm. Tickets available from Hammer Hardware Wellsford, Mike Pero Wellsford, Good Tenant or email media.wfdplus@gmail.com

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Dirty Happies, Tahi Bar Warkworth, 7pm

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Heritage Festival Combined Local Museum Talk, Old Masonic Hall, Baxter Street, Warkworth,10.30am-noon (see story p22)

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Beef + Lamb NZ Northland Community Dinner & Quiz Night, Port Albert Hall, 5.30-8.30pm. All welcome. For catering purposes, please RSVP Hazel at nh.macmillan@xtra.co.nz

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Kauri Heritage Festival, celebrating 60 years at the Kauri Museum. Bring the family for a celebration of kauri, settlers, forests, the harbour and the Kaipara community. Entry free.

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Wellsford’s Got Talent finals, 7pm, Wellsford Community Hall (see story p48)

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Return of the Kuaka (bar-tailed godwits) celebration, Bayside Bistro Snells Beach, 1pm; organised by Snells Shoreline Conservation Community (see story p11)

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On the last Saturday of every month, we’re raising much needed funds for local charities and organisations — perhaps groups that would not normally get the exposure within the local community.

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Saturday 22nd October 10am - 2pm next to Warkworth Butchery

Warkworth Volunteer Fire Brigade

This is a volunteer station. That means all members of our brigade dedicate their own time in order to serve this community. They respond to a variety of emergencies in our local area. These include:

• Fires

• Medical emergencies

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Some new paths have already been laid. Inset, Warkworth Golf Club administrators, from left, Tracey Irwin and Sue Hadfield are happy with progress.

Spring Pairs boost golf course path project Warkworth Golf Club is hoping the wet winter has finally departed as it gears up for its popular Spring Pairs women’s tournament next month.

The annual combined Stableford invitational competition attracts more than 100 players from as far away as Tauranga and Dargaville, with a wide range of prizes to be won and lunch included in the $45 entry fee.

Golf administrator Sue Hadfield said the club and local businesses sponsored prizes that included plants and garden items, golf

equipment and accessories, and vouchers and products for women.

Proceeds from the entry fees will go towards the club’s Pathway Project that was launched last year to fund and install concrete paths right around the 18-hole course. The aim is to help players with restricted mobility or other health issues to be able access the course and use a cart even when the course is wet underfoot, something that has been even more of a problem this winter. Hadfield said recent conditions had been the worst she had ever known, with the course forced to close for almost two weeks in total.

“I’ve been here four-and-a-half years and in that time the course has only been closed for one or two days, but this year has been horrendous,” she said.

Although the Pathway Project was only launched last year, club members have already raised around $30,000 and tracks have already been laid around several holes over the last six months. Hadfield said people had been incredibly generous, from giving cash donations to bringing in everything from old golf clubs to fruit from their gardens to sell for the cause.

“We’ve been trying to raise $50,000 and we’ve already raised an awful lot through various means. We’ve had so many fantastic people who’ve donated things,” she said.

The Ladies Spring Pairs takes place on Monday, October 3, then the club’s popular Business House 10-week evening tournament starts on Wednesday, October 5.

The club is currently seeking a new coach, following the recent departure of Tony Mordaunt.

Info: Visit www.warkworthgolfclub.co.nz or call 425 8248.

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