Mahurangi Matters_Issue 304_5 October 2016

October 5, 2016

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International Group, a branch of multi-billion dollar Shanghai-based company New Development Group, which also has a consent to build New Zealand’s tallest inhabited skyscraper (see sidebar page 3).

It is proposing a 207-lot subdivision on the 1828ha block of land on Moir Hill.

The colossal site extends from north

Beca consultants senior assistant Jamie Swan said the project would involve protecting and replanting 1312ha in native forest, an area six times the size of Tiritiri Matangi.

The majority of the site is currently pine forest. The development would occur over 10 to 25 years in five stages,

Massive Moir Hill subdivision unveiled George Driver editor@localmatters.co.nz

A massive subdivision on rural land between Puhoi and Warkworth has been proposed, which will see over 1300 hectares of pine forest transformed into native bush.

The land is owned by Asia Pacific

of the Pohuehue Viaduct on SH1 to Ahuroa Road and Puhoi village.

The consent application is being assessed as notified and people have until October 10 to make a submission.

Representatives from Asia Pacific International and consultants involved in the project held an information evening at Puhoi on September 27.

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Asbestos found near Matakana playground Auckland Council has confirmed materials containing asbestos were exposed by a slip, next to the playground at Matakana Wharf Road, in August.

Council contractors erected security fencing at the slip site where the asbestos material was discovered.

Head of operational management north, Julie Pickering, says Council believes the asbestos poses a low-level threat.

Council assessed the area before constructing the $190,000 playground, but no asbestos was found at that stage.

“The recent nearby development of the playground, approximately 10 metres away from the slip site, uncovered car parts and other detritus which were removed as part of the construction, but no asbestos-containing material was found,” Ms Pickering said.

A temporary fence installed at the site will be replaced by a permanent structure. Work is due to start this month after the asbestos has been removed by Council contractors.

Auckland Council contractors erected security fencing at the slip site where asbestos material was discovered.

“The slip site itself will be planted with native plants and any asbestoscontaining material will be located and removed,” Ms Pickering said.

A local woman who didn’t want to be identified says she has never let her children on the play-area due to concerns that the area was used as a dumping ground.

“I had been told by the older folk in the community not to let my kids play there,” She says.

The surrounding area was originally a sawmill in the 1850s, and then a motor repair garage in the 1930s. Matakana Gull owner Gay Smith says when she came to the area in the early 1980s it was known to be a dumping ground.

She says she was totally surprised when it was earmarked to become a children’s playground.

“People used to dump a lot of stuff there unofficially,” Gay says. “The old garage burnt down and that building may have contained asbestos.”

Community supports hospice following thefts Warkworth Wellsford Hospice volunteers have had a spike in donations and community goodwill following a series of thefts from their garage sale.

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Claims of widespread corruption as fraud case begins George Driver

A landmark serious fraud case got underway in the Auckland High Court on September 27 with claims that corruption was widespread among transport staff at both Rodney District Council (RDC) and Auckland Transport (AT).

The Crown also claimed ratepayers effectively paid for more than $1 million in bribes, through inflated invoices.

The trial involves former AT and RDC transport manager Murray Noone and director of Projenz transport contractor, Stephen Borlase.

Mr Noone is facing six charges of corruption and bribery for receiving over $1.1 million in bribes from Mr Borlase between 2006 and 2013, while Mr Borlase is facing eight charges of corruption and bribery, and four charges relating to filing inflated invoices. Both defendants have

pleaded not guilty.

The third defendant in the case, Barrie George, was sentenced to 10 months home detention last month after pleading guilty to accepting over $100,000 in bribes while working for RDC and AT. In his opening statement, Crown solicitor Brian Dickey said Borlase paid for travel and entertainment for a number of RDC and AT staff, and a culture of corruption was widespread

Moir Hill development as each section of the forest reaches maturity.

Subdivision sites would be relatively small – ranging from 5000m2 to one hectare, with houses clustered on ridgelines.

The development would require earthworks over 46ha of land, involving 800,000m2 of cut and 51,000m2 of fill for road formation.

Two soil disposal areas are proposed in existing gullies, requiring realignment.

The Puhoi to Warkworth motorway will transect through the eastern side of the site, close to the existing SH1, and the motorway designation affects about 319ha of the land.

A bridge over the motorway would be built on Moir Hill Road, while Watson Road in the development would have an underpass.

An ecological survey found kauri snails, long tail bats, three species of native gecko and two species of native skinks.

Auckland Council’s biodiversity team reviewed the application and raised concerns about tracts of bush being misidentified and the impact of the forestry harvest on existing native bush.

It was also concerned about the impact of the harvest on bat populations and roost sites.

The report said the staging of the development was planned around what was best for the forestry harvest, rather than for environmental outcomes.

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NZ’s tallest tower Asia Pacific International gained consent to build a 52-storey skyscraper in 2014. The building, on the corner of Elliott and Victoria streets, will be 209 metres high – 23 metres higher than the Sky Tower observation deck. The $350 million project is expected to be completed in 2020.

New Development Group’s website says it has 16 subsidiary companies with over $2 billion in assets, focusing on real estate development, hotel business, wood industry, storage and warehousing, trade and financial investment.

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The developer requested the development be assessed as nonnotified, but Council said it would have a significant impact and ruled it be fully notified.

The land has been zoned as Rural Production in the Unitary Plan, which imposes strict limits on subdivision, but the developer has called for it to be assessed under a legacy ruling, as appeals delay the Unitary Plan taking effect.

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in both organisations.

“In addition to the benefits provided to Mr Noone and Mr George, Projenz provided hundreds of benefits to RDC and AT staff throughout all the charging periods,” Mr Dickey said.

“This created the propensity for, and culture tolerant of, corruption throughout the team.

Mr Dickey said benefits provided to staff at RDC included overseas travel

had plans for a large development on the site.

An application for a resource consent to subdivide resulted in a 2010 Environment Court consent order that created special rules for the land.

The rules allowed for the subdivision of one rural residential lot for every 8ha of land that is retired from forestry operations and replanted with native bush.

The Rodney Local Board was briefed

on the application in June and was able to comment on the notification decision, but did not make any recommendations.

Transport campaigner Bevan Woodward says the development could offer significant walkway opportunities.

The land stretches over at least seven kilometres. Mr Swan says opportunities to create walkways can be explored in the future.

The land already includes a 3.8km walking trail, which runs parallel to the Puhoi River, from Remiger Road to Puhoi village. The track was built in 2014 and forms part of the Te Araroa Walkway. It also includes walkways managed by DOC on Moir Hill.

The developer says the tracks will be maintained and improved.

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localmatters.co.nz nine months since Auckland Council was officially notified of the major non-compliance issues and the illegal damming of a healthy whitebait stream, as set out in my letter to Mahurangi Matters (MM, Sept 17). If the marina had been constructed to the consented engineering plans, the community could have moved on and the environment would remain relatively protected.

Frances Hall, Sandspit

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Democracy diluted The outcome of a recent community board meeting has highlighted for me the absolute shambles that is the current system of local government we have been forced to endure.

Your readers may or may not be aware of the debacle that was the Araparera forest scheme, but suffice to say, due to not only a lack of foresight there has been ongoing alterations to the terms of the scheme and, of later years, not only gross mismanagement of the harvesting, but more than a sniff of corruption.

A group of ratepayers approached their Rodney Local Board asking them to require Auckland Council to provide a complete ‘from day one’ breakdown of the financials of the project (in light of the ridiculously meagre return on what should have been a highly profitable venture for all concerned).

One would, under the circumstances, expect this information to be ‘as of right’, just as it would be in a private enterprise investment.

Given the amount of money that is at stake, one would have thought our local representatives would have been up in arms and howling for justice.

But no! It would seem that because the Council will see fit to charge us for that information, it is better to let it all fade away and spend the money on solid objects we can pin our name to.

Of course, if one had a cynical mind

and a deeply suspicious one at that, it might appear that the possible reelection of a Councillor (who has had a very close involvement with the project over many, many years), and who might just be aggrieved at Local Board members also standing for reelection, and who chose to demand the Council take a closer look at things, has influenced the voting on this matter.

As a matter of public record, the Local Board members who voted to let this scandalous business get swept under the carpet were Thomas Grace, Brenda Steele, Phelan Pirrie, John McLean and Warren Flaunty.

All these members are from the Kumeu Ward, whose ratepayers never contributed a cent to the project, and yet, under the fine new system of representation we now have, they can have the ability to stand in the way of justice for the former Northern Riding ratepayers.

Another example of the everincreasing dilution of democracy that is occurring in NZ. (See story p14) Patrick Neeley, Tapora

North belongs in Kaipara I wish to support your correspondent Brian Styles (MM Sept 1) in his call for a re-think on joining with the Kaipara District Council and refer him to my and other similar submissions to the Local Government Commission, currently online for review.

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As he says, a large meeting at Wellsford voted by substantial majority to join the Kaipara District Council. This move was also supported by a local petition of over 1000 signatures, collected at the time, but their wishes have, so far, been totally ignored by the ‘powers that be’ and this district was unwillingly thrust into the alien Auckland City area.

This does not sit comfortably with the Wellsford District which is in the Northland Parliamentary Electorate, unlike the rest of Rodney which is in the the Rodney Electorate. One of the Local Government Commission’s criteria is “compatibility of interests”, so in my view, it definitely makes sense to allow us, north of the Hoteo River, to join our fellow rural dwellers in the Kaipara District and it is also timely now that they are coming out of administration and seems a sensible and logical move.

Pat Clapham, Wharehine

What solution?

Councillor Webster’s election poster on Sandspit Road recently had an addition –“Finds solutions. Helped sort marina”. Presuming that it refers to the recently opened Sandspit marina, I’m left wondering what solution has been found and what has been sorted? Despite it being declared open by Councillor Webster on July 2, to date the marina remains seriously non-compliant and has not been signed off. It’s now

As Council elections approach, many people wonder who to vote for and frankly the published CVs are little help. Sitting members aren’t much problem – we know who is good and who is useless. New candidates present problems. I don’t want to read about your aspirations. I don’t want to know which ‘barrows’ you intend to push. I don’t want to hear about walkways or cycleways, swimming pools or ridiculous claims bout how you will ‘fix’ the Hill Street intersection. And I don’t like ‘tickets’, as they become political and are essentially anti-representative.

What I want to know is your educational qualifications (to show you have a brain), your qualifications for working in a committee, for understanding planning and the RMA, how to manage big budgets and provide essential services. Most of all, I want to know how you are going to consult and represent your local community.

Forget the rest – old, young, beautiful, homely are not important. Get the essentials right and these will convince people to vote for you. The press could help by asking the right questions and publishing the answers.

Elizabeth Foster, Whangateau

CORREC TION Kama Richards, who talked about the role of fathers in preparing for birth in an article in MM Sept 1, is a childbirth educator, not a midwife as stated.

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Viewpoint Tracey Martin, NZ First MP martinmp@parliament.govt.nz

Dealing with debt Today I want to talk about debt. Not many people know that before I became a stay-at-home parent I was a debt collector. Not a smash-your-door-down take -your-TV type of debt collector – I worked for a law firm in the central city and used to work with everyday clients to come up with payment plans to get them out of debt.

I loved that job. People find that strange, but I really did. You have no idea how much silent stress debt puts on people. Often people ignore debt and see it as too big to get out from under, but of course debt tends to feed off itself via interest charges and penalties. I gained immense satisfaction sitting down with clients and watching them literally sit up straighter, and hold their head higher as they saw that, with a plan, they could get out of debt.

So this was one of the drivers behind my working for the last six months with economists and researchers on New Zealand First’s Up Front Investment Tertiary Education policy. I presented the policy a few weeks ago at our AGM/conference in Dunedin and have been travelling the country with my PowerPoint at every opportunity when Parliament has not been sitting.

With student debt standing at over $15 billion, the current system is just not sustainable. We cannot burden future generations with such debt. The rise in depression and anxiety among our student body is just one indicator that we are burdening them with more than just money. So New Zealand First intends, should we be in a place of influence, to shift from a financial debt for our students, to a skill debt to our country.

Is it affordable, I hear you say? In the last financial year, the National-led Government spent $4.183 billion, or 1.67 per cent of GDP, on Tertiary Education and students themselves borrowed another $1.5 billion on top of that. New Zealand First’s Up Front Investment Policy, which includes a universal student allowance that is not parental income tested, will cost $4.638 billion, or 1.86 per cent of GDP. If one takes into account that in 2009/10 the Government was spending 2.9 per cent of GDP, then the 2 per cent cap that we set for ourselves with this policy is well inside that margin. As Parliament winds down for the year, I hope to hold information evenings around Rodney to give you all an opportunity to quiz my numbers or ask questions. Our reality is we can’t afford not to do this for our future generations.

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Snells to Warkworth trail ‘feasible’ A commuter cycle trail linking Snells Beach and Warkworth is one step closer after a study found the project is feasible.

The Snells Beach Ratepayers’ and Residents Association commissioned a $10,000 feasibility study last year, which was funded by a Rodney Local Board grant.

The report, produced by Frame Group consultants, says the 8km walkway/cycle trail would cost about $2.5 million, with an annual maintenance cost of about $20-30,000.

The trail would traverse a number of formed roads, paper roads, DOC and Auckland Council reserve land and private land, roughly following the course of the Mahurangi River.

The preferred route links the recently completed Te Whau Walkway at the end of Hamatana Road, through to Grange Street, Lawrie Road, Hamilton Road and Duck Creek Road, before heading along the Mahurangi River bank to Warkworth.

The route would require 4.9km of new trail, which would be engineered to a standard to comfortably cater for both walkers and cyclists – a fit cyclist could make the one-way trip in 30 minutes.

A number of alternative routes have also been explored, including a trail into Lawrie Reserve, near Snells Beach.

The preferred route impacts two private landowners in small sections of the trail on the Mahurangi River. Alternative routes also impact about six landowners, all of whom have been informed of the proposal.

The report includes an estimated breakdown of costs, with $1.9 million for construction, $192,000 for the design, $215,000 for consents and $220,000 for the project management.

The trail could be completed for about $1.5$2 million if it was constructed to only cater for pedestrians, but it would cost significantly more to upgrade it to cater for cyclists at a later date.

The project has been driven by a sub-committee of the ratepayers’ association. Committee member Gary Heaven says the group worked to stretch the $10,000 grant, contributing at least 350 skilled volunteer hours investigating the trail.

“We’ve ended up with a report which would cost at least $50,000.”

Mr Heaven says he expects it will take a couple of years to fundraise for the project, and another two years to build it.

The Rodney Local Board’s transport advocacy plan, released last month, says it wants to progress walkway/cycleway connections between Warkworth, Snells Beach and Matakana within five years.

The report adds to a Rodney District Councilfunded feasibility study that Frame Group carried out in 2009, which was for a walking track along the Mahurangi River, from Warkworth to a point opposite the Old Cement Works.

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Jonathan Paul documents fish counts as part of the Reef Savers community workshop at Goat Island.

Volunteers tackle marine survey Volunteers learned marine survey techniques with conservation group Reef Savers at Goat Island on September 11.

Event organiser Lorna Doogan ran the workshop on how to build floating transects, identify species and performing fish counts.

Reef Savers hopes to raise awareness of the impact of overfishing and get the local community to protect their marine environments for future generations.

“This initiative provides an opportunity for communities to become kaitiaki (guardians) of their reefs,” Lorna says.

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Something fishy’s going on Ongoing revelations about fishing by-catch, dumping, misreporting and entrapment of dolphins in nets should give us all cause for concern. They’re nothing new, with the Ministry of Primary Industries fisheries managers admitting that fish dumping is “so widespread, the current system is failing, and officials have been unable to get on top of it since day one of the Quota Management System (QMS)”.

They admit unreported fish dumping is having an impact on fish stocks, and that if those wasting fish, and hiding dumping, were prosecuted in accordance with the law, about half the current fishing operators would go out of business. But the evidence of the impacts of this untenable, unsustainable squandering of our marine life has been clear for the public to see, too.

Stories of times when the seas were full of fish are now legend. We all bear witness to, and commonly hear of decline. Ask any fisher and they’ll tell you the big snapper have gone, the flounder have gone, the crayfish have gone, and mud and kina barrens are in their place. Where once fish schooled in inshore, these days the seas are like deserts. Even with the ‘world’s best fisheries management system’ in the QMS, we’re managing fish stocks often to less than 20 per cent of their pre-harvest numbers.

It appears that corruption is entrenched in the fishing industry and its relationship with MPI. Scientists say ‘deals have been done’ between fishing operators and MPI, meaning known transgressions remain unprosecuted. Video footage arising from cameras on boats has revealed evidence of Hector’s dolphins being caught and killed in nets, dumped, and not reported, but no prosecutions took place because of those deals.

There are claims of ‘capture’ by the fishing industry of MPI, especially since in some cases the fishers and the observers are one and the same. Strong links between the National Party and the Seafood Industry Council, and Peter Goodfellow, chair of the Council and Director of Sanfords who is also President of the National Party, make many conservationists doubt the chances of proper, sustainable fisheries management in the best interests of the marine environment, rather than political allegiances.

At the same time, pressure on the marine environment is compounded by the sheer volume of recreational fishers. If everyone took their maximum daily catch, the oceans would be empty. Indeed, in some areas, they virtually are. Rather than fooling ourselves that we are responsible environmental and resource managers with world class fisheries systems, we would do better to admit we are failing to manage the environment with much rigour at all. With species under such mismanagement, we retain little resilience for other natural or unusual forces that could cause collapse – such as disease, or the effects of climate change.

The Government’s failure to address these known issues is nothing less than scandalous, for both present and future generations of people, and fish.

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Ian Macdonald, photographer and conservationist

Ian Macdonald has led a life riding on the crest of change. After growing up in an isolated Maori village, he established the country’s first photography gallery, successfully campaigned against logging in native forests, created some of the earliest Kiwi computer programmes, and is now pioneering aerial surveys for conservation.

At his hilltop studio in Big Omaha, Ian reminisced with Mahurangi Matters editor George Driver...

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spent my formative years in the Kaipara and Mahurangi area – my family moved from Birkenhead to Arapaoa on the Tinopai Peninsula in the Kaipara Harbour when I was about five years old. My father had a job as a teacher at a Maori Department School with about 15 pupils and I was the only pakeha boy in the area. It was very isolated then – there was no power and we had the only telephone and car in town. My parents were both Open Brethren and were a bit like missionaries – they had the idea they were saving the Maori from themselves. At the time, speaking Te Reo was discouraged in schools and, from what I could tell, the students were essentially discouraged from being Maori. But my parents soaked up the culture and Maori spirituality, and in the end I think the locals had more of an impression on them than the other way round. ne of my most vivid memories of the time was when the heir to the chief was suffering from appendicitis.

He was just a boy and as we had the only car, a 39 Desoto, my family tried to rush him to Te Kopuru Hospital, south of Dargaville. It took so long because the roads were so bad that he died on the trip. A tapu was put on the road as we brought his body back and we had to be the last vehicle to head back to Arapaoa. When we arrived it seemed like all of Ngati Whatua was there for the tangi. The whole village shutdown for seven days – no school or anything. It was an incredible, overwhelming experience. e returned to Auckland and I went to school at Westlake. I was in the top class, but when I was 16 my parents sent me to sea. My father’s brother was in the Merchant Navy and had been killed in WWII. I was named after him and my father wanted me to follow in his footsteps. It seemed like an exciting adventure, so I was quite keen. For four years I was an officer cadet on ships that ran between New Zealand and Britain – each trip lasted about six months. I later became a deck officer on British ships and was responsible for navigation, loading and unloading the ship, and running the crew. I enjoyed being at sea, but I didn’t like the company – it was like a floating prison. It seemed that the

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justice system in Britain sent everyone to sea they didn’t want on land and a lot of them were psychopaths and alcoholics. But the cadets were always looked after, and as an officer I was never in trouble. I met my wife, Elise, in the UK when I was 21. She was a passenger on a small ship and I was second officer. When I left the Merchant Navy and returned to New Zealand, she followed and we married in 1973. ack home, I went to Elam School of Fine Art to study photography. I got a job as exhibition officer at Auckland Art Gallery and then worked as photo editor at Peter Webb magazines, including The New Zealander. When the magazines failed, I started my own gallery and photo lab, Real Pictures, in 1979, using Peter’s lab equipment. It was the first gallery in the country that focused on photography and it’s considered

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one of the most important galleries of the time – Nina Seja is researching and writing a book about it at the moment. Pretty much all of the contemporary photographers of the time exhibited there and we created a market for photographs that never existed before. We had about 300 exhibitions at the gallery over 10 years.

One of the most important was our series on the 1981 Springbok Tour.

We had a running show of the protests and thousands of people visited it each day. We invited people to pin up their own photos of the tour and actively encouraged photographers to cover it.

We published a book on the exhibition and most of the images you see of the tour came out of that exercise. y photography centres on my work as a conservationist. In the 1980s I played a leading part in the campaign to end Government logging

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in native forest. We formed a trust with the conservationist Professor John Morton and Tony Hughes, and got a lot of high profile people on board, including Sir Edmund Hillary. We arranged to bring the environmental campaigner David Bellamy over from England.

We were taking the campaign to Wellington when Prime Minister Robert Muldoon called the 1984 snap election – a Labour Government was in power within a month. By the time we made it to the Beehive, the Government had been ensconced for just a few days.

Labour hadn’t been that supportive of the campaign – they were concerned about the job losses it would cause, so we weren’t very optimistic. But we were the first lobby group they had dealt with and they were in a daze and said they would ban the logging immediately. We were stunned. The Forest Service was then turned into the Department of Conservation – overnight the state loggers became DOC rangers. As a result of that campaign I got a call from the BBC and became a photographer for their projects and travelled the world. I photographed for the Walking with Dinosaurs series and shot in some incredible locations, trekking up volcanoes in Chile, forest in Brazil, jungles of Indonesia and the mountain ranges of North America. It was very cool. n the 1970s I worked on a project with Kiwi composer Jack Body to design a computer system that would make sound in response to people’s movements. I’ve been fascinated by computers ever since. I got my first computer after starting Real Pictures – a DEC Rainbow for $15,000. There weren’t any computer programmes around at the time, so I started writing my own for my business and I soon started helping other businesses get set up. When I sold Real Pictures in 1990, I began working as a computer programmer full-time, working for an Auckland IT company that designed software to analyse market research data for companies like Microsoft and Coca Cola. There’s a huge amount of data that companies collect about our lives. I was never very comfortable about it, but I don’t think there’s a big

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Crown finds Council corruption widespread of significant value, including about $25,000 for one employee, domestic travel and accommodation, and electronics. The offending continued under AT. “Projenz provided entertainment to AT staff on a significant scale. The highest value category was on large scale meals, totalling about $69,000.”

The wining and dining took place at top restaurants, including French Cafe and Heritage Hotel, and one dinner cost $3000.

Mr Dickey said this created a culture where a wide number of Council employees were compromised.

“There was little chance for disgruntled or principled employees speaking out, as everyone was being ‘looked after’ or was compromised. The benefits had been significant for all.

“The extensive provision of benefits to staff at all levels of their teams resulted in a culture where corruption flourished and was normalised, with no questions asked.”

No other RDC or AT staff had been charged in the case. Mr Dickey said this was due to the relatively low level of offending compared with Mr George and Mr Noone, and “the exercise of prosecutorial discretion”.

Former and current staff at RDC and AT would be called to the witness box in the seven week, judge-only trial.

The Crown claimed that Mr Borlase made back the cost of the bribes and gratuities by inflating the

The judge-only trial started on September 27 and is expected to take seven weeks.

hours invoiced to Council for subcontractors, effectively claiming back the cost of the bribes by overcharging Council. The increase in the invoices matched the costs of the bribes.

“This demonstrates that payments to Noone and George were treated as costs of doing business with RDC.” The Crown said Projenz benefited significantly from the arrangement. The company’s net profit rose from $36,000 in 2006 to over $8 million in 2012.

Contracts awarded to Projenz during the period included the Hibiscus Busway Station design in 2011, valued at $617,822, and the Silverdale Walk and Cycle contract, valued at $443,912.

A long relationship Mr Dickey said Mr Noone had a successful consulting business before starting work at RDC in 2006. He was working as a sub-consultant for Mr Borlase in 2000 and was a consultant to RDC from 2004 and 2006. During that period he invoiced

over $1 million for services, including $662,000 from RDC. Mr Noone was first employed by RDC as Director of Transport, where he took a significant paycut, agreeing to a $165,000 salary. However, he worked just four days a week in order to continue his work as a consultant.

He soon started making monthly invoices to Projenz for about $8500 each time, but the Serious Fraud Office found no evidence any of the work was carried out. Instead, it said the money was a retainer paid to Mr Noone to gain influence in the awarding of transport contracts.

In 2008, Mr Noone got a promotion to the position of Director of Infrastructure with a salary of $231,000.

A significant point in the case occurred when RDC was amalgamated into the Supercity.

In early 2010, Mr Noone applied for a top-tier job at AT, but was unsuccessful.

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with an annual salary of $220,000.

At the same time, he approached a major contracting company for a job and was offered a $250,000 salary for a senior position. Four days later, Mr Borlase paid Mr Noone a lump sum of $230,000, which the Crown claimed was a bribe to entice him to take the AT contract to continue the fraudulent relationship. The following day, Mr Noone accepted the job at AT. The Court was told that Mr Noone did not disclose any relationship with Projenz to AT. Mr Noone and Mr Borlase maintain the payment was for consultancy work, but neither have offered any evidence to show what work was carried out.

“The agreement is simply corrupt, with the intent of maintaining influence over Noone,” Mr Dickey said.

In June 2012, Mr Noone got a further $40,000 lump sum from Mr Borlase, the day after Projenz was awarded significant AT contracts.

Mr Noone also continued to file monthly invoices to Projenz. None of the payments were declared to AT. There was no evidence that Mr Noone carried out any consulting work for Projenz during the seven year period.

“The invoicing by Noone is a farce,” Mr Dickey said.

Mr Borlase issued a press statement on the first day of the trial, maintaining his innocence.

The case is continuing.

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Matakana market reaches zero landfill waste target Organisers of the Matakana Village Farmers’ Market will finally reach their goal of zero landfill waste this month.

The target was set over a decade ago at the market’s inception. Market manager Fiona McGeough says improved packaging has finally made it possible. Most of the market’s waste comes from eating utensils, serviettes, plates and cups. They are now all supplied from manufacturers that use plant-based materials.

“Compared to 10 years ago when the market first started there are lots of options for compostable packaging,” Fiona says.

“There is a big difference between biodegradable and compostable.

Biodegradable are mainly plastics made from petrochemicals. They have the ability to reduce in size but can lead to tiny pieces of plastic in waterways.”

Lindesay Smith runs the Love Shack coffee outlet at the market and sells

well over a thousand cups on market day. Lindesay uses paper cups and the lids are now made from corn starch.

“It’s a no-brainer that the packaging industry has moved towards compostable products,” Lindesay says.

“We have always looked for ways to reduce the waste that our business generates. It’s also about the same cost as using plastic lids.”

Fiona says that over 60 per cent of stallholders were zero-waste compliant and she set the target of October for the rest to follow suit.

The market currently has 40 permanent stallholders and this number increases during spring and summer. With the market producing compostable waste, Fiona says she is now looking for someone to process it.

“We would love a local business to collect the waste and turn it into compost. We would also like a community group to make re-useable bags from recycled material.”

New roads named Names for four new roads in two Mahurangi subdivisions have been approved by the Rodney Local Board. Three of the new roads are in the Pacific Heights subdivision at 113 Martins Bay Road. The roads will be called Sophia Road and Suie Road, which are family names from the landowner, and Whaea Road – whaea is Te Reo for ‘women of great importance’. The subdivision is for 13 Countryside Living zoned lots. A new road in a 36-lot subdivision off McKinney Road in Warkworth will be called Copestake Lane after the Copestake family which has lived in the area since the 1920s.

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Council’s track record lambasted in consultation Auckland Council’s performance in the past six years came in for a hammering at a series of Local Government Commission meetings in Mahurangi last month.

About 170 people turned out to meetings in Wellsford, Warkworth, Matakana and Snells Beach, as part of the commission’s deliberations on the Northern Action Group’s application to form a unitary council for North Rodney.

At the Wellsford meeting on September 20, resident after resident came forward with examples of how Council had fallen well short of its stated aim of being ‘the world’s most liveable city’.

“I was of the understanding that local government boundaries should be drawn around ‘communities of interest’,” Gordon Levet said. “We have absolutely nothing in common with Manukau or any other part of Auckland city. As a result, we have urban bureaucrats telling country people how to do things they [the bureaucrats] know nothing about.”

About 55 people attended the Wellsford meeting, including commission chair Sir Wira Gardiner, commissioner Geoff Dangerfield and acting chief executive Rewi Henderson.

Sir Wira stated at the outset that the commission had an open mind and was there to listen. Mr Henderson went on to say that the views expressed would be critical in informing the final recommendations.

Residents came forward with examples

About 40 people turned out to the meeting in Warkworth’s Shoesmith Hall on a rainy Wednesday night. The vast majority said they wanted out of the Supercity.

of how they felt the north was being cheated of proper representation, rates were being wasted and their issues were being ignored in favour of city-centric projects.

Tomarata farmer Brian Mason said the recent decision by the Rodney Local Board not to support a full audit of the Araparera forestry joint venture was a classic example.

“All four local representatives on the Board supported the audit, but it was voted down by the five disaffected representatives from the south,” he said.

The commission was told that the notion that small councils couldn’t afford high infrastructure costs was nonsense.

“Auckland Transport says it can’t justify spending on public transport in the north, but as the Mahu City Express commuter service to Auckland demonstrates, if you leave it to the locals it can be done efficiently and cost-effectively.”

Tapora farmer Julie Cotton gave a passionate appeal for north Rodney to be “released from the shackles” of Auckland Council.

She cited a recent telephone call over wheelie bins, when a Council customer service officer told her that perhaps she was mistaken and that, in fact, she lived in Kaipara.

“The fact that that person working for Council is so uneducated about the north is totally unacceptable, but that is how we are treated time and time again,” she said. “The ‘suit and tie’ brigade in Auckland are completely out of touch with the rural area.”

Farmer Linda Clapham said Auckland Council had been a nightmare for rural communities.

“For $8000 a year in rates we get a wheelie bin which we can’t even use because of the length of drive we have to tow it down. It’s impossible to ever find anyone who is prepared to take

responsibility for anything. I believe the natural boundary for Auckland’s north should be the Hoteo.

Several speakers highlighted the state of rural roads and Council waste.

A Port Albert resident, whose property overlooked the Port Albert Domain, said it was not unusual in one week to see parts of the domain mowed by three different contractors on three different days. She had also witnessed the sports field being marked with white paint one day, only to be mowed over the following day.

The use of trades people from the city for simple maintenance work on halls and other Council facilities was also given as an example of the way rates were wasted.

Only one speaker was in favour of remaining in Auckland, but he wanted Council to set-up a specific Council Controlled Organisation (CCO) to manage rural issues.

Next step The next stage in the process will be for the commission to identify reasonably practicable options for local government in the affected area.

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An attempt to uncover why the Araparera Forestry Joint Venture failed to deliver a better commercial result has been thwarted by the Rodney Local Board.

At its final meeting of the current local government term, Board member Greg Sayers asked his colleagues to support a Notice of Motion calling on Auckland Council’s Finance and Performance Committee, chaired by Rodney Councillor Penny Webster, to conduct a full audit of the joint venture.

However, only Rodney’s northern board members ­ – James Colville, Beth Houlbrooke, Steven Garner and Greg Sayers supported the motion. All five board members from the south opposed it – Warren Flaunty, Thomas Grace, John McLean, Phelan Pirrie and Brenda Steele.

Mr Sayers’ motion called for a full audit of the accumulated financial accounts, including all income and expenditure, and a comment on any overpayment of invoices. He recommended that the cost of the audit be deducted from the Araparera joint venture funds, with a cap of $50,000.

“The audit is not to justify the figures,” he said. “There isn’t any more money to find. We want a proper audit to bring closure. This has gone on and on, and the Board needs to step-up and ask Council for some proper financial accountability.”

Mr Pirrie was concerned that if the cost of the audit was more than $50,000, it would be an expense that would have to be borne by general ratepayers not involved in the scheme. But his amendment calling for the full cost of the audit to be paid from Araparera funds was lost, with Mr Garner calling the amendment “unduly petty”.

“The sum of $50,000 is a relatively small amount to get someone to categorically say, ‘this is what it was and this is what it should have

been’,” he said.

Mr Flaunty, who spoke strongly against the motion, said that the joint venture returns had always been estimated to be around $3.5 million.

“The history of this project over the past six years has been transparent,” he said. “We don’t need a witch hunt.” Mr McLean said he didn’t need an audit to know that “the money is not there”. Mr Grace said the audit would be a waste of time and would achieve nothing.

Mrs Steele, who is also the Board chair, opposed the audit because she believed there was no evidence of widespread community support for it.

“Besides, there is no new information that Council will be able to produce for a new audit. If it was there, we would have seen it by now.”

After the meeting, Mr Sayers said he was very disappointed that the “right thing” was not done on behalf of the 7000-plus ratepayers who paid the targeted rate for such a long period of time.

“A straw poll was taken at an earlier Board workshop which indicated that the motion would be supported, but obviously some members changed their minds and I don’t know why. I don’t intend to give up trying to get some transparency on this issue. If given the chance, I will raise it again with the new Local Board elected after the October 8 election.”

The joint venture, between Rodney County Council and Maori Trustees, was set-up in 1984. A total of $1.5 million was collected in a targeted rate across the old Northern Riding up until 2013.

Panuku Development managed the harvest on behalf of Council, which returned ratepayers 69 per cent or $2.4 million of the proceeds. The balance – 31 per cent or $1.1 million – went to the Maori Trustees.

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Matakana group get go-ahead for second pedestrian bridge The Matakana Community Group (MCG) has secured funding and consents for a new pedestrian bridge on Matakana Road, near Tamahunga Drive.

Work is due to commence this summer and group chair Simon Barclay says it signifies a benchmark for community groups.

“It’s an exciting way forward because it’s the first Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between a community group, Auckland Council and Auckland Transport (AT),” Dr Barclay says.

The bridge will cross a tributary of the Matakana River next to the Wharehine depot and provide a safer path for students to walk to school from the subdivisions near Tamahunga Drive.

It will be jointly funded by AT and the community group, and is expected to be completed by July 2017.

Although figures are yet to be confirmed, the maximum project cost is expected to be around $400,000. Of that, the MCG contribution is about $100,000.

AT paid for the consent process and will finance the bridge and work on the eastern approach path. The western approach from Tamahunga Drive will be the responsibility of the MCG. Dr Barclay says he hopes the next stage of the project will create a pedestrian loop linking Tamahunga Drive with Matakana Valley Road.

This will be in conjunction with resurfacing work on Matakana Valley Road due next year.

Premium Real Estate is sponsoring a bridge fundraiser movie night at the Matakana Cinemas on October 18.

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Bridge nears completion The new cycleway and pedestrian bridge, which crosses the Matakana River on Leigh Road, was lowered into place on September 22.

The 52-metre long, 2.5-metre wide structure was constructed in two pieces and shipped from the manufacturers in Levin.

Wharehine contractors lowered the bridge onto piles and a cantilever structure on the existing road bridge.

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“We had about 10mm of tolerance for position and height. It’s a big bridge so it all had to be bang on,” Glen said.

The bridge is due to open once work on the approach footpaths and landscaping is complete next week.

The bridge will connect walkers and cyclists from the Omaha/Point Wells areas to Matakana.

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Rodney Ward councillor candidates went head to head over Auckland Council spending and rates revenue at the great debate in Omaha on September 14.

Over 100 people packed into the community centre to hear what Greg Sayers, Cr Penny Webster, Steven Garner and Holly Southernwood would do if elected.

The debate quickly became a two horse race with Cr Webster and Mr Sayers going back and forth.

Cr Webster felt she had to apologise for dishing out some home truths.

“I’m sorry I’m going to have to say what you don’t want to hear, but the rates in Rodney have gone down,” Cr Webster said.

“The rate take is around $60 million and the rate spend is $60 million plus. We are getting a far better deal now than we ever did a few years ago.”

Mr Sayers pulled no punches in his response.

“My colleague has got the numbers wrong again,” Mr Sayers said.

“The rate take is $70 million, plus $87 million in development fees and contributions, plus another $5

million in transport tax. That makes $162 million.”

Council budget blowouts were another area of hot debate. Cr Webster cited rapid growth as a reason for increased Council spending.

“Our area is growing by the size of Tauranga every few years and we need staff to provide services to deal with that.”

Mr Sayers again rebutted Cr Webster’s claims by citing gross over spending by Council.

“The wage bill is $50 million over budget every year, last year it was $63 million. Is that CEO being held to account? No!” The Hill Street intersection debate went nowhere fast, much like the traffic. Finally, an audience member threatened any elected official that if they didn’t deal with the problem, he would stage a mass sit-in and shut the intersection down.

The judges’ panel was headed by Matakana Community Group chair Dr Simon Barclay, who announced Mr Sayers the debate winner on the night, but left words of caution for all the candidates.

“I question the ability of any elected individual to influence Auckland Council,” Dr Barclay said. “It’s an enormously greedy and inefficient machine.”

The tone for the Snells Beach election debate was set before people were even in the building, with members of the Fix Hill Street Now group handing out fliers at the entrance.

The event attracted about 200 people, with all four Rodney Ward candidates and six Rodney Local Board candidates taking the floor.

Hill Street was the main topic of the evening and highlighted the candidates different approaches.

Penny Webster advocated for a steady-as-she-goes strategy and defended the long wait for a redesign of the Hill Street intersection, saying any work would take a long time and cause major disruption.

“It’s not going to be an easy fix,” Cr Webster said.

Greg Sayers brought new thinking to the issue, suggesting funding from development contributions and the interim transport levy be set aside for work at Hill Street, but questions remained on whether the approach was politically possible.

Holly Southernwood said the intersection was the biggest issue in Rodney and supported reducing traffic on Elizabeth Street.

Steven Garner said it was up to NZTA and Auckland Transport to get the work done.

Public transport was another area where candidates showed a different stance.

Cr Webster said if AT introduced a bus service to the Silverdale park-and-ride it would be empty most of the time and that private buses were offering a much better service.

“It’s not costing the ratepayers anything,” she said She said bus services to Auckland should be unsubsidised until the new motorway is built.

Mr Garner and Mr Sayers both said Auckland Transport needed to be lobbied to loosen the purse strings and spend more on public transport in Rodney, while Ms Southernwood admitted not being very informed on the issue in Mahurangi.

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View a video online at localmatters.co.nz Awarding winning brewers from around the country at Warkworth’s 8 Wired brewery, from left, Alan Spinks from Forbidden Brewing, Udo Van Deventer from Lion Breweries, Leon Dawson from DB Breweries, Soren Eriksen from 8 Wired, Mark White and Mason Harrington from Harrington’s Breweries and David Cryer from Cryer Malt.

Top brewers create Mahurangi ale Eight of the country’s top beer brewers gathered at 8 Wired brewery in Warkworth last month to create a collaborative ale for this year’s Brewers Guild awards.

The beer brew-off was organised by Brewers Guild executive committee member Alan Spinx, owner of Warkworth-based Forbidden Brewing. The guild’s annual awards are in their 10th year and Alan wanted to celebrate the milestone by producing a commemorative beer.

“As a cider-maker, I bring fresh eyes to the beer brewing world because I’m not engrossed in it. I just happen to like it,” Alan says.

The brew has been made by the eight past winners of the Champion Brewer award, including 8 Wired owner Soren Eriksen.

“We entered 10 or 12 beers in 2011 and got the most medals overall,” Soren says.

“It was a very close competition and we just beat Emerson’s Brewery.”

Soren moved the brewery from Blenheim to

Warkworth two years ago and produces 100,000 litres of beer annually.

Lion won the champion award last year and their brewer Udo Van Deventer says he thought getting the winning brewers together would be impossible.

“I thought, ‘how are eight brewers going to agree on a recipe?’” Udo says.

“It actually went really smoothly and I think we will end up with a good result.”

Soren says the brewers settled on an English-style pale ale because it’s a beer they enjoy as much today as they did 10 years ago.

The ‘Champions Brew’ will be unveiled for tasting at the Brewers Guild awards on October 8. Local breweries entering this year’s awards include The Sawmill, 8 Wired and Forbidden Cider.

Alan says in the unlikely event there is any of the 2500 litres of Champions Brew left over, it will be available to selected retail outlets.

The Warkworth Town Hall restoration is expected to finish next February, four months behind schedule.

The cost of the project has risen from $5 million to $5.6 million, with $3.8 million spent on restoring the hall and the remainder on a foyer/gallery, kitchen and toilet in a new building attached to the hall.

The community will have the chance to inspect the first stage of the hall on October 8 as part of the Heritage Festival, with a guided walk through the hall with architect Antony Matthews, from 10am to 1pm.

Restoration work is expected to finish in December, but the hall cannot open until the new building is completed.

The completed hall will cater for 350 people sitting, with 50 of those seats in the upper gallery.

Council community places project manager Terrena Griffiths says there will be no Council parking allocated to the building – people will have to make their own plan as Council is only responsible for managing hireage of the hall.

Auckland Council is funding $4.3 million of the project, while the Rodney Local Board has given $1.2 million. The Warkworth Town Hall Restoration Trust will cover $600,000 of the Local Board’s contribution with the help of a $300,000 Lottery grant.

In addition, the trust will fund the $75,000 required to build the new kitchen.

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Strong turnout for One Warkworth meeting There was standing room only at the first annual general meeting of the reconvened business association in Warkworth, now known as One Warkworth, held at The Bridge House on September 21.

Interim chair Chris Murphy was elected unopposed as the head of the association for the next 12 months.

In his report, he acknowledged that securing sufficient resources to run the association was a priority, which had also been identified by the previous committee.

“Warkworth is predicted to grow over the next 20 years, with Council believing that not too much will change in the immediate five years,” he said. “But, at least 1700 dwellings will be developed in that time. Warkworth needs to be ‘the master of its own destiny’ as growth occurs.”

He said when the interim committee took over in May after the failed Business Improvement District (BID) ballot, it launched a serious membership and sponsorship drive.

This had resulted in the association now having around 130 members, as well as 20 sponsors who had each contributed $3000. One part-time employee and one contractor had been engaged, a new website was about to be launched and a business plan developed.

The previous committee was thanked for the work they had done on behalf of the Warkworth business community.

Committee member Mark Macky told the meeting that the Business Plan had four key objectives for the next year: • Unite the Warkworth business community • One strong voice for business and the wider community • Help member businesses to grow • Build a strong membership and funding base

The new One Warkworth logo was designed to promote togetherness and reflects efforts to broaden the membership base.

The priority issues were: • Warkworth Structure Plan • Roads and car parking • Buy Local campaign • Revitalise the CBD • Fibre connectivity Mr Macky said a sub-committee would be set-up under each issue and he encouraged members to get involved.

“If you have a particular interest in one of these areas, then please put your hand up,” he said. “We are going to need buy-in from all members.”

Town planner Burnette Macnicol gave a broad-brush presentation on what a Structure Plan might address and the need to get started on it as soon as possible. Efforts were already being made to secure some seed funding from Auckland Council.

A committee of 11 was elected on the night. They were: Chris Murphy, Mark Macky, Lance O’Callaghan, Liz Bays, Dave Morrison, Jannette Thompson, Burnette Macnicol, Hugh Harvey, Jan Hutcheson, John Kyle and Jacqueline Ironside.

The committee is also keen to recruit a member from the town’s retail sector.

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Ben and Nola Kloppers proved a RE/MAX force to be reckoned with in the July sales stakes and claimed the number one position in the New Zealand network’s ranking of top sales units.

The high-profile team of experienced sales and marketing agents specialise in Rodney North, where property values spread across all ranges.

The real estate business, with owners Ben and Nola Klopper, has proved award-winning since it opened its doors in January 2016 RE/MAX New Zealand General Manager, Corinna Mansell, said the July ranking reflected more than settled transactions.

She said all agents at RE/MAX Realty Group represented property specialists with exceptional customer service focus, marketing prowess, and communication and negotiation skills.

“Today RE/MAX is recognised as one of the leading real estate franchise companies with the most productive sales force in the industry and a global reach of more than 100 countries and territories,” said Ms Mansell, “and we are very proud this team is ranked so highly in a network that continues to be a leader in market share, agent productivity and international expansion.”

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Congratulations Charleyne Garner, who is the recipient of a gift basket from Chocolate Brown. Mrs Garner was nominated by Matakana School pupils Blake, Luca, Sylvie, Charlize, Charlie, Sam, Olivia, Ben, Hattie, Jess, Eva, Ned, Ollie and Josh, who wrote:

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Flooding in Omaha has become a he recognises it is a lengthy project. priority project for Auckland Council “We know this will be a long wait for and it has commissioned a far-reaching residents and we are grateful for their engineering survey. patience while we work through We nominate Omaha Beach Community group this to prevent future flooding,” Mr Mrs Garner for president Peter Hooper says Council Mcilroy says.

Sweet Appreciation listened to residents’ complaints Meanwhile, Council has already because she has at a meeting on July 15 and have started to implement solutions for been driving kids responded accordingly. other known problem areas. These like us to school “I’m incredibly impressed with include a new catchpit on Omaha safely for 36 years.

Council on this. They have done Drive to combat flash flooding during Know someone who deserves a big “thank you” for their community spirit? exactly what they said they were going Tell us and they will receive acknowledgement in Mahurangi Matters and an to do, which is set up a serious project heavy rain, and work to construct amazing hamper from Chocolate Brown, 6 Mill Lane, Warkworth. Send your that we are a part of,” Mr Hooper says. a culvert and two soak holes on Call: 09 411 9604 Call: 09 411 9604 Call: 09 4 Mangatawhiri Road. nominations to editor@localmatters.co.nz (subject line: Sweet Appreciation) A study will start in November to or post to: Sweet Appreciation, Mahurangi Matters, PO Box 701, Warkworth.

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Bowel screening rollout Mahurangi residents are being urged to make bowel screening tests part of their healthcare routine in an effort to reduce the number of deaths.

The biannual test is part of a trial by the Waitemata DHB that is due to be rolled out nationally next year.

Clinical director Mike Hulme-Moir says that early detection is the key to beating cancer.

“Approximately 70 per cent of the cancers we see through the bowel screening programme are early stage, which means a much higher chance

of being cured by surgery alone,” Mr Hulme-Moir says.

The free bowl-screening pilot started in October 2012 for residents covered by the Waitemata DHB, aged 50-74.

Since then, 316 participants have been found to have cancer.

Early detection bowel cancer has a 90 per cent treatment success rate.

In New Zealand, bowel cancer is the second highest cause of cancer death.

More than 2800 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer every year and more than 1200 die from the disease.

Pharmacy wins national award

The team at Life Pharmacy in Warkworth has beaten 40 other pharmacies nationwide to become Life Pharmacy of the Year. The award judges said that the team’s customer feedback was excellent and they were highly engaged with the community. Owner Janine Laws says she was surprised to win the award after just two years trading as a Life Pharmacy. Three of the Warkworth team flew to Fiji last month to collect the award. Pictured: Megan Bayer, left, and Janine Laws with the award.

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Since its origins in the 1800s, homeopathy has been shrouded in controversy and debate. However, its history is fascinating, especially with respect to the early accomplishments – it has been recorded in medical hospitals to be the most effective treatment in epidemics such as the Spanish Flu, boasting a one per cent death rate compared to 60 per cent with orthodox treatment. While now it is currently a first choice for many medical doctors in Europe and India, it is actively opposed in many other countries around the world. Interestingly, most who oppose it have had little or no experience with it and have very little understanding about it!

Homeopathic remedies are made with minute traces of a substance (usually a toxic substance e.g. arsenic, a toxic plant etc). This undergoes many dilutions, but between each dilution succession is performed (a specific process of mixing and banging the diluted substance). Without this succession, the remedy will not have a therapeutic effect. This succession is what adds the dynamic/energetic component to the remedy.

While many are very sceptical about homeopathy, when the remedies are applied in a scientific manner they produce very clear and precise results. The placebo effect is often claimed as the only real effect, but this holds no merit. Two examples immediately invalidate the placebo effect as the reason. In organic dairy farming, the treatment of choice for mastitis (udder infection) is frequently a homeopathic remedy placed in the drinking water of the infected cow. The result of this is typically the infection clears up within 24 hours. Surely the cows are not aware that they have had a remedy and that they ‘think’ that they should get better! We successfully use homeopathy on babies with colic and teething.

The improvements are often seen within an hour, and in many of these cases the youngsters are not even aware that they have had a remedy.

But there is one more feature of homeopathy that very few are aware of – that is how the remedies are tested. When a homeopathic remedy is tested, it is given to a ‘healthy’ person (person without specific illness or symptoms) under strict guidelines (one guideline being that they will not know the remedy that they are given). This is repeated every day until the person develops symptoms. These symptoms are recorded and will be consistent with others who under-go the test for the same remedy!

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Warm fuzzies for wool drive Warkworth resident Sandra Haycock has been overwhelmed by the generosity of the community after receiving dozens of donations of wool to help her knit clothing for prematurely born babies.

Sandra now has over 40 woolen jerseys and hats to donate to Middlemore Hospital and enough wool to knit many more.

“There’s a huge amount of good will in this community,” Sandra says. “This will keep me busy for the next couple of months.”

Sandra is happy to accept more donations of wool for her campaign.

Donations can be dropped off at Warkworth Vets, 18 Neville Street.

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Gym supports fire brigade Warkworth Volunteer Fire Brigade received a $200 donation from Gymspot following its ‘Hunger Games’ challenge last month.

Twenty-two gym members starved and sweated for 12 weeks to hit their fitness goals. The biggest loser was Jono Tucker whose effort to get down to 12 per cent body fat was rewarded with a skydive. Gymspot owner Tracey Frost donated $200 from registration fees.

“In small towns like ours, it’s really important to support each other when we can. This was the perfect opportunity for us to do that.”

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“The average wedding costs $30,000. I didn’t think it could possibly be that much,” Tamarin says.

“When I started my research I realised it’s easy to spend that amount and a large portion goes on the venue.”

Tamarin and her husband Rene wanted a small garden wedding.

After their search for a cost-effective venue didn’t pan out, they decided to get married in Samoa.

“It was a small wedding and it actually worked out cheaper for us.”

When Tamarin isn’t organising weddings she works as a customer experience designer in Auckland.

The job involves making sure any user of a service gets the best possible experience. She loves travel and the job enabled her to work in Cambodia for three months.

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After three years of helping locals on the road to recovery, Matakana Physio has found a new home in the development at 44 Matakana Valley Road.

Robyn Weston says the business has grown rapidly and she employed local physio Monique Vujcich last year to meet increasing demand.

The modern, purpose-built facility, adjoining Matakana Dental Clinic, provides a great environment for treatment, she says.

Robyn has been a physio for over 35 years, working around the country, and says a lot of common injuries and pain can be prevented by being aware of the triggers.

“Our philosophy is to treat the whole body to address the root of an issue, and I love the challenge of investigating the cause of pain or discomfort,” Robyn says.

“How we move is so important to preventing injuries. There a lot of myths about good posture and poise, which has created bad habits. Keeping a straight spine with your shoulders back can actually be harmful. It’s not about having one or two positions, it’s about keeping the body moving so no one area is strained. As a rule, you shouldn’t be in any position for more than 20 minutes.”

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I was able to help them design an educational app which encouraged self learning.”

Tamarin says that many people across Mahurangi have beautiful gardens, lifestyle properties, farms or holiday homes. The close proximity to Auckland also makes them appealing for wedding guests.

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Monique grew up in Warkworth and is a keen hockey player and initiated ongoing support for the Rodney Rams and Warkworth hockey.

“She’s such an asset to the practice,” Robyn says.

The start of the sport seasons often heralds a boost in clients with common injuries to knees and ankles.

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Now the children have all flown the nest, Angela and Kim are looking to move out of Auckland.

“We really want to move to Warkworth for the lifestyle, but property is expensive and we are focusing on getting our business up and running.”

The couple were married in 1987 and are looking forward to celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary.

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Independent WoF, CoF, Vehicle Condition Assessments & Maintenance Check-Ups. No bookings required.

Visit the team at VTNZ Warkworth: 6-14 Glenmore Drive, Warkworth Ph: (09) 425 7441 Mon to Fri: 8:00am–5:00pm Sat: 8:00am –12noon

WARKWORTH

AUTO WRECKERS FOR ALL NEW & USED PARTS

WE NEED CARS FORID WRECKING – $$$ PA 2 Glenmore Drive, Warkworth Ph (09) 425 7835 or (09) 425 7730

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Mahurangi Matters - October 5, 2016 CONCRETE | CONSTRUCTION | EARTHWORKS | ENGINEERING | FARMING | FENCING | FLOORING

HOME AND PROPERTY CARE

Denis 021 945 498 | 09 425 8294 dens@xtra.co.nz | PO BOX 193 Warkworth

CARPENTER-JOINER • Terraces • Renovations • Alterations • Maintenance • IS New HousingNEW • Small jobs a specialty UNDER MANAGEMENT

NEIL KOSE

• Extensions • Renovations • Bathroom Makeovers • Decks • Pergolas • Small jobs

New owner Roger Wenzlick and the team Wenzeng Engineering have1172 Phone 09at425 5491 • Mobile 027 275 FOR AN OBLIGATION FREE QUOTE neilkose@live.com taken a new friendly helpful approach Ph 021 085 12024 or mcc_enquiries@xtra.co.nz with their customers, ensuring expert cost effective service and advice IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT on all your marine and general New engineering owner Rogerrequirements.

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CON TRAC TORS Footings Hole Boring Landscaping

3.5T Digger 5T Truck

Bob Waata Mobile 021 634 484

www.rwbuilder.co.nz www.rwbuilder.co.nz email: rwb@xtra.co.nz Matakana Mini Diggers Will go where no other digger has gone before ›

Coll Bell

Po Box 96, Matakana 0948 Ph. 09 422 7817 E.collcaroline@farmside.co.nz

TE HANA TRACTORS

info@jkcontractors.co.nz

PH 09 425 6431 MOBILE 021 353 529 UNIT 5/1 HAMATANA RD, SNELLS BEACH www.wenzeng.co.nz

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IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT New owner Roger Wenzlick and the team at Wenzeng Engineering have PH 09 425 6431 MOBILE 021 353 529 taken a new friendly helpful PH 095/1 425 6431 MOBILE 021approach 353 529 UNIT HAMATANA RD, SNELLS BEACH with5/1 their customers,RD, ensuring UNIT HAMATANA SNELLSexpert BEACH www.wenzeng.co.nz cost effective service and advice www.wenzeng.co.nz on all your marine and general engineering requirements.

We look forward to working with you in the near future.

GOOD OLD FASHIONED SERVICE • • • • •

RODNEY TRELLIS

Trellis Guy Snells Beach • Warkworth • Orewa

• Custom made • Quality material • Quality workmanship

Also see Lance for your supply of Native and Landscaping plants

Ph 09 422 5737 • 027 272 7561 Fax 09 422 5800

Trellis - Panels - Fencing Installations - all shapes and sizes Specialities: Framed Archways – Superior Trellis Pedestrian Gate Frames (mortised) Trellis spray painting / oiling Gazebo's ~ dove cotes ~ pergolas

Fences - Gates - Screens - Pergola Phone Bob Moir 422 9550 or 0274 820 336 Email: hurstmere@ihug.co.nz

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PH 09 425 6431 MOBILE 021 353 529 UNIT 5/1 HAMATANA RD, SNELLS BEACH www.wenzeng.co.nz Carpet, Vinyl, Cork, Ceramic Tiles, Wood & Laminate

New/Used Tractors & Machinery In-house Engineer Mobile Servicing Repairs Comprehensive Parts Range

Come in and see the new range of Massey Fergusons 308 SH1, Te Hana, Wellsford • PH 09 423 8558

Trellis & Fencing

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Steve Tunnard Ph 09 422 4902 • Mobile 027 243 8640 Email stevetunnard@gmail.com

0276226809 bandjshires@gmail.com Snells Beach

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› Certified machine operators + qualified Arborists Keir Dady 021-419-014

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LTD

Specialists backed by over 30 years experience Established in 1984

LTD

• Floors • Drives • Paths • Digger & Truck Hire Concrete

• Fencing, decking construction, alterations and maintenance • House repairs, small to medium renovations • Internal and external painting and staining Small jobs a specialty

872 Kaipara Flats Road Ph: 425 7627 • Fax 422 4976

FLOOR SANDING - FLOOR PREPARATION FLOOR SANDING - FLOOR PREPARATION Polyurethaning:- Wooden Floors, Particle Board & Cork Cork Tiles:- Natural & Coloured Enviro Friendly Products available

09 422 2275 21 Glenmore Drive www.flooringxtra.co.nz 146M

KAE JAE CONTRACTORS (LTD) PHONE KEN (0274) 866-923 A/Hrs (09) 422-7328 • Fax (09) 422-7329

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FLOORING | FURNITURE | GARAGE DOORS | GLAZIERS | HAIR/BEAUTY | HANDYMAN SERVICES | HEALTH & FITNESS | HEATPUMPS | HIRE | JOINERY | KITCHENS | LANDSCAPING COUNTRY CHARM

FURNITURE 2008

OUTDOOR FURNITURE Tables to order Chairs • Swingseats Benches • Umbrellas NZ made – quality built to last 25 Hibiscus Coast Highway, Silverdale (next to BP) Ph: 09 426 9660 • em: clipper.furniture@xtra.co.nz www.clipperfurniture.co.nz

Timber Furniture Specialists with quality workmanship guaranteed Specialising in antique, new furniture & all other timber surfaces.

Furniture Restoration • Re-spraying • Special Finishing • Colour Matching Insurance quotes • Furniture repairs • Custom made – Recycled or new timber • Modifications • Upholstery

Phone Grant or Lesley 23b Foundry Rd, Silverdale | 09 426 2979 www.silverdalefurniturerestorations.co.nz 09 426 8412 | www.countrycharm.co.nz

Rodney Garage Doors

(1998 LTD)

repair • supply • automate

29 Glenmore Drive, Warkworth 09 425 0258 • 0274 425 025 rodneygaragedoors@vodafone.co.nz

Wellsford

WINDSCREEN REPAIR OR REPLACE GLAZING SERVICES MIRRORS • SPLASH BACKS • SHOWERS

0800 70 40 10

info@northglass.co.nz • www.northglass.co.nz

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Domestic and Commercial Glazing Glass Showers Splash Backs Mirrors • Cat Doors Windscreen Replacement and Chip Repair

arkworth lass & lazing

ALUMINIUM & GLASS GLASS & ALUMINIUM

FOR ALL YOUR GLASS, GLAZING, AND ALUMINIUM NEEDS

53 Station Road, Wellsford • Phone (09) 423 7358 Email: wellsfordglass@xtra.co.nz

Beauty Therapy & Nail Creations Michelle Boler

for head to toe pampering

Alison Wech

C.I.D.E.S.C.O, C.I.B.T.A.C, dip Beauty Therapy, dip Electrolysis, dip Body Therapy, dip Nail Technician

20 Glenmore Drive, Warkworth 09 425 8678 • 021 952 077 wwglassandglazing@xtra.co.nz

46 McKinney Road, Warkworth Mob 021 051 3661 • Ph 09 425 7776 tlcbeautytherapynails@yahoo.co.nz

For all your property maintenance and small building projects

NZs smartest heat pump - control from your phone or tablet from anywhere! GE50 (6kw) installed within 10 days limited time offer!

Phone to discuss YOUR requirements 021 423 860 - 423 8619 a/h

The nights are still cold – warm yourself today Todd 027 492 1270 | 09 415 0503 | 0800 927 628

• Facials • Waxing • Tinting • Gel Nails • Acrylic Nails • Manicures • Pedicures • Electrolysis • Make-up • Body Wraps • Massage • Spray Tans

COMPOSITE JOINERY Ltd

$2770

handyman@bruno.co.nz • www.bruno.co.nz

Say No to Leaky Homes

THE ULTIMATE ALUMINIUM

WINDOW AND DOOR FLASHING SYSTEM

• Robust, Good Looking and Durable • Specify Best Practice, Specify Flashman • The only Flashing System Guaranteed

Northland 0800 55 66 00 www.flashman.co.nz

CONTRACTING • 4 x 4 Truck & Digger Hire • Excavation • Earthmoving • Tractor & Ride-on Mowing • Lifestyle Property Services • Garden Design

09 422 9514 • 021 831 938 www.junglefix.co.nz

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Kitchen Colours

and Wood Finishes

Spraypainters of quality kitchens Lacquers, enamels, urethanes, 2 pacs, clearcoats Resprays and Recolours

Phone / Fax Gary 425 7669 Unit 21/30 Hudson Road, Warkworth

Composite Joinery Ltd 7 Glenmore Drive Warkworth 0941

Phone: 09 425 7510

We specialise in: • Vantage Aluminium Joinery • APL | Architectural Series • Metro Series

Fax: 09 422 2011

sales@compositejoinery.co.nz www.compositejoinery.co.nz

GROUND CARE LTD

• Mowing - Residential & Lifestyle Blocks • Garden Maintenance • Hedge Trimming

Don 425 8501 - 021 527 017

TOTAL LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION for complete quality projects

• Lawns - contouring & seeding • Top soil • Retaining Walls • Driveways • Paths • Digger • Truck • Tractor Phone Bruce 425 7766 a/h 021 055 4226 I take the hard work out of Landscaping

WARKWORTH LANDSCAPING LEADERS IN QUALITY LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION

Ph Jeff 021 368 552 www.warkworthlandscaping.co.nz

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LANDSCAPING SUPPLIES | MOVING/STORAGE | PAINTERS | PLASTERERS | PICTURE FRAMING | PLUMBING | PRINTING | PROPERTY MANAGEMENT | ROAD MARKING | ROOFING | SCAFFOLDING | SEPTIC TANKS

www.centrallandscapes.co.nz

• Screened Topsoil • Living Earth Compost & Garden Mix • Lawn Mix • Mulch • Bark • Pebbles • Stones • Sand • Drainage • Metal • Sleepers • Pongas • Grass Seed • Fertiliser • Weedmat bagged & bulk plus much more

FREE LOAN TRAILERS HOME DELIVERIES 7 DAYS A WEEK email: warkworth@centrallandscapes.co.nz 25-31 Morrison Dr WARKWORTH 09 425 9780

0800 TOPSOIL

WARKWORTH FURNITURE REMOVALS

WE CAN •Sand•Metal•Shell•Pebble•Scoria •Mulch•Garden Mix•Topsoil•Compost

DELIVER! •Tirau Gold•Pine Chip•Cambian Bark

183 SANDSPIT RD, WARKWORTH • OPEN 7 DAYS! Mon-Fri: 7am-5pm Sat: 7am-4pm Sun: 9am-3pm

SNELLS BEACH

PHONE 09 425 5597

STORAGE

• Specialist Furniture Trucks • Packing & Storage • Caring Owner/Operator • Carriers Liability Insurance • Local & Long Distance

Exterior/Interior/Roofs/Staining Husband & Wife team • harley.mcvay@xtra.co.nz

Phone 0274 889 216 | Ah 09 422 7495

Harley 021 0220 8727 or 09 423 9012

Your Painter/Decorator with over 30 years experience serving all surrounding areas.

trueblue

Leigh Decorators PaintingPainting Paperhanging Paperhanging Roofs Roofs Airless Spraying Airless Spraying StoppingStopping (small jobs) RepaintsRepaints New Homes New Homes

For your Free Quote and/or Consultation, Phone Gary Home: 09-422-6695 Mobile: 021-024-44941 Email: leighdecorators@clear.net.nz

A BRUSH WITH ART

EXPERT PAINTING AND DECORATING

Interior/Exterior n Waterblasting n Roof Painting Airless Spraying n Plastering n Wallpapering Colour Consulting n Decorative Effects Qualified Tradesmen - Honest/Reliable Ph Mandy 09 423 0005 or 021 507 463

Helping you with plumbing, drainlaying, jet machine & drain camera tplumber@xtra.co.nz

0800 171161

021 102 4561

TRIED – TESTED – TRUSTED

info@igniteproperty.co.nz

NZ

WANTED Value $395.00

021 446 064

trueblueplumber@mail.com trueblueplumber@mail.com

Rodney’s Independent Property Management company

& DRAINLAYING

Realty Group

gas & plumbing

Residential, Commercial Commercial & & Industrial Industrial gas gas & & plumbing plumbing Residential, services, Gas Gas repair repair & & installation, installation, Roof Roof replacement replacement & & services, repair, Hot Hot water water systems, systems, Burst Burst pipes, pipes, Roof Roof leaks, leaks, repair, Blocked drains, drains, Pumps, Pumps, Gutter Gutter cleaning cleaning & & repair, repair, Kitchens Kitchens Blocked & Bathrooms, Bathrooms, 24 24 hour hour emergency emergency service service – – we we do do it it all! all! &

BEN CLEAL Contracts Manager • New Roofs • Roof Repairs • Re-Roofs • Roof Inspections

Specialists in long-run roofing M:021 220 5404 P:09 422 2131 Free Phone:0800 649 324

E: ben@rightnowroofing.co.nz

www.rightnowroofing.co.nz

Julie Beaumont

ROOFING NZ New • ReRoofs • Cladding Specialists Covering Rodney in Long-Run Iron Local Quality Guaranteed

Matt Tickle Licensed LBP MacJimray Septic Cleaning Services are the Mobile: 021356965 Home: 09 425 6311 septic tank cleaning specialists in your district.

Email: iron.man@xtra.co.nz Residential to commercial, fast, reliable, professional service at competitive rates.

Servicing Auckland - Rodney - Kaipara

Metroscaff Limited

For your safety we have: • Experienced Qualified Scaffolders • Full range of Equipment • Including Alloy Mobile & Builder’s Props

PHONE 0800 622 7929

OMAHA - SNELLS BEACH - WARKWORTH - MANGAWHAI Member of Scaffolding and Rigging New Zealand

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Septic Tank/Grease Trap Cleaning Septic & Sewerage Treatment Systems

- Residential & Light Commercial - Quick Stage - OSH Standards - Tube & Clip - Qualified Scaffolders - Reliable Service P 09 425 0300 M 021 774 653 F 09 423 0017 admin@metroscaff.co.nz www.metroscaff.co.nz

Don’t let your septic tank become costly - service it now!

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SECURITY | SURVEYORS | TV AERIAL & DIGITAL | WATER LOCAL SECURITY COMPANY • Alarm & CCTV Installation and Servicing • Alarm Monitoring • Patrols/alarm Response SECURITY & INVESTIGATION • Free Design and Quotation FOR ALL OF YOUR SECURITY NEEDS

0800 66 24 24

DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL www.insitesecurity.co.nz PO Box 487

Warkworth

• New Alarms - Design, Install & Service

• CCTV – Design, Install & Service

• Panic Alarms

• Alarm Monitoring

• Fire Alarm Systems

• Rapid Response 24/7

• Access Control Systems

• Premise Patrols

• Rural & Urban Subdivision • Boundary Locations • Site Contour Plans • Construction Set-out

Rupert Mather 021 425 837 Graeme Smith 021 422 983 23 Bertram Street, Warkworth

09 425 7393 admin@wwsurveyors.co.nz

TV AERIAL & SATELLITE SERVICES

• Lockup Checks

Fully Licensed & Experienced Staff

Freeview Sales & Installation TV & FM Aerials

Call us now for a Free Assessment & Quotation

0800 66 24 24 extn 2

Digital Freeview Satellite Installation & Repairs

TV • FM Aerials • Tuning Additional TV Outlets Phone David Redding 09 422 7227 or 0274 585 457

ABSOLUTE CONCRETE

WATER TANKS 09 4312211

GAVIN BROUGH Ph 09 425 5495 Mob 0274 766 115

YOUR LOCAL SECURITY COMPANY

sales@absoluteconcrete.co.nz

PICTURE PERFECT TV

HOUSEHOLD & BULK WATER DELIVERY 09 425 0086 info@artesianwater.net.nz www.artesianwater.net.nz

H2O PUMPS

Water Treatment • Pumping Systems • Filtration • UV Sterilizers HOURS • Softeners & Neutralizers • Iron Removal Owen Ward

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021 771 878 • 09 425 6002 E. h2opumps@xtra.co.nz MOBILE EFTPOS AVAILABLE

Pump & Filtration Services (2007) Ltd

• Water treatment & Filtration • Pumps • Pool & Spas • Waterblasters 7days / 24hours Paul Harris

clean. care. repair.

WATER TANK & WATER APPLICATION CLEANING AGENCY Warkworth: Phone John or Annette Carr

p: 09 425 7477 | m: 027 240 7791 | f: 09 425 7483 email: mobikair@xtra.co.nz

M: 021 425 887 T: 09 425 0075 E: pumps4u@live.com

Mangawhai: Phil Lathrope 431 4608 | 021 642 668

www.mobi-kair.co.nz

Household Water Deliveries 0800 747 928 mobile: 027 556 6111

Pumps & Filters Water Treatment Spa & Pool Shop Water Testing Valet Service Water Blasters Tanks & Sprayers 24 Hour Mobile & Workshop Service 31 Woodcocks Rd, Warkworth 09 425 9100 splashwater@xtra.co.nz

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Shop hours Mon - Fri 8am-5pm Sat 9am-12pm

Advertise your classifieds and church notices here for only

$4.40 per line or $11.20 per/cm inc GST for boxed adverts.

APPLIANCE REPAIRS

FOR SALE

FOR RENT

FOR RENT

A SMART REPAIR Service for F&P smartdrive washers, F&P/Simpson dryers. Same day service 09 423 9660 or 021 168 7349.

RAWLEIGH Products. Ph Pat 423 8851

OMAHA Totally refurbished flat, as new. Self-contained with separate one bedroom. Mostly furnished, long term, no smokers, no pets, max 2 people. Includes SKY, water, power, $350 per week. Close to beach and shops. Contact Ignite Property Management info@igniteproperty.co.nz 0800 171 161, or 021 196 6391

BOARDER WANTED Would you like to live in a home within walking distance to Matakana Village? We have a room available in our home and we are looking for a boarder to share with us. Ph 021 808 985

DRIVEWAYS MAINTENANCE Grading, rolling & metalling for rural Driveways. No job too BIG or small. Ph Bruce 425 7766

MARKETS MUSEUM SUMMER MARKETS 1st Saturday of the month, 8am, Old Masonic Hall, Baxter Street, Warkworth.

Enquiries Warkworth 425 8391 www.localmatters.co.nz

Email design@localmatters.co.nz to book your classified advertising

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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

HORSERIDING

HOME MAINTENANCE & IMPROVEMENT HEAT PUMP INSTALLATION Phone Mark 0210424764 - Registered Electrician LAWN MOWING rubbish removal, hedges, small tree removal. WW & beach areas. Ph Jeff Hatfull 027 425 7357, 425 7357

SCENIC FLIGHTS 30 mins $69; 20 mins $59; Min. 3 passengers. Trial flights $90. Gift vouchers available.

GREAT BARRIER / OKIWI FLIGHTS. Special stopover up to 4 hours.

Return $130. Min. 3 passengers.

One way flights $130 each. Min 2 passengers.

STUMP GRINDING WARKWORTH Stump Removal, Tree Removal, Chipping. Ph 029 770 7101

NORTH CAPE FLIGHTS $450 each. Min 3 passengers.

WATER FILTERS Underbench filters & whole house Ultra violet filters – Kill and remove ecoli/bacteria.

FREE site visits. Ph Steve 09 422 3245 steve.reynolds@aquafilter.co.nz www.aquafilter.co.nz.

WATER PUMPS Low water pressure? Get it sorted. Sales, service and installation.

Work guaranteed. Ph Steve 09 422 3245 steve.reynolds@aquafilter.co.nz www.aquafilter.co.nz.

Rodney Aero Club 425 8735 or Rod Miller 425 5612 HOME MAINTENANCE & IMPROVEMENT HAVE YOU LOST PRIME? Or need your Freeview box tuned for the new channels? TV repairs, microwave oven repairs, Freeview installations.

Ph Paul 09 422 0500 or 027 29 22 04

COLLINS ELECTRONICS HAS MOVED

FIND A LOCAL TRADESMAN, SERVICE OR BUSINESS easily with the online Business Directory A-Z at

Phone 09 422 0500 or 027 29 22204 HANDYMAN Small jobs, carpentry, rubbish removal etc. All jobs considered.

Phone or txt Dave - 022 015 4032

www.localmatters.co.nz

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Temporary road closure Queen St (from Neville St to Mill Ln), Wharf St, Kapanui St, Baxter St & Neville St (from Warkworth St) will be closed and limited access to Neville St (from Warkworth St to Alnwick St) on Saturday 8 October 2016 from 6am until 4pm for the Kowhai Festival Huge Day Out.

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AGM - WARKWORTH HOCKEY CHARITABLE TRUST Monday 7th of November 2016 7:30PM at the Warkworth Fire Station

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Book Now 1hr $50 • 2hrs $90 Phone 09 425 8517

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Family Fun Scenic farm & forest rides Quiet horses & ponies • Birthday rides Lessons • Suit beginners & experienced riders & people with Disabilities Social, Language & School Groups

These closures apply to all except emergency vehicles. For further information please contact Auckland Transport on 09 355 3553.

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PLUMBER Semi retired for small jobs.

Point Wells 09 423 0193 or 027 490 2054 PLUMBER Maintenance work. New tap to new house. Matakana based.

Ph Steve 027 494 5499

SITUATIONS VACANT

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FLIGHTS

Advertise your classifieds and church notices here for only

$4.40 per line or $11.20 per/cm inc GST for boxed adverts.

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FILL IN THIS GRID SO THAT EVERY COLUMN, EVERY ROW AND EVERY 3X3 BOX CONTAINS THE DIGITS 1 TO 9.

Email design@localmatters.co.nz to book your classified advertising

BARBER WANTED HIS PLACE For the busiest and coolest barber shop in Orewa Beach. Must have minimum 5 years experience. Immediate start, phone PJ 027 240 4086 HAIRDRESSER WANTED FOR FULL TIME WORK Wanted for our salon in Matakana. We are a fun, easy going and professional group who have a real passion for what we do. We are looking for the right person to join our small and friendly team. Must be proficient in all aspects of the trade.

Please contact Triscia on 021 181 1163 HELICOPTER GROUND CREW FULL TIME Skywork Helicopters are seeking a physically fit person; • That lives in, or within a 20 minute drive of the Warkworth area, or is prepared to move to the area.

• That has a class 4 drivers’ license, with road ranger gearbox experience.

• With a current DG and first aid cert.

• Who is prepared to work flexible hours including weekends.

Please note: This role is strictly for a position as ground crew only (NOT pilots or aircraft engineers) Any interested candidates need to have their CV, including two work referees emailed through to: melissa@skyworkhelicopters.com by midday Friday 21 October 2016.

HOLIDAY MANAGER Join our team looking after our houses and our guests in Matakana and the surrounding area. Love meeting people, have great attention to detail, and a cleaning extraordinaire?

Email team@bachcare.co.nz OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG PERSON summer work in January 2017. Suit someone interested in the hair industry or who has already worked in it. Call Triscia on 021 181 1163

WAIPU LIFESTYLE

TAXI DRIVERS Nights and weekend Drivers required for Orewa, Whangaparoa and Warkworth areas.

Must have Min Class 1, P endorsement would be an advantage.

Call Warkworth Taxi and Bus Services 09 425 0000

TUITION

PLASTERING Solid. All exterior work, blocks, hardy, resurfacing, floors.

Phone 09 422 2034 RIGA BRICKLAYERS Licensed father and son team available to do your work in the Rodney area - 027 276 5269

Seaviews, pasture, bush, ponds, renovated 2brm cottage.

Re-roofed, re-plumbed, re-wired, polished wooden floors, lovely outlook. 5 1/2 acres / 2.2ha.

Only $450, 000 Phone Simon 09 432 0102

Quality local courses for Professional Nanny & Childcare Careers Start January or July Free info pack - Call 021 040 9311 Ashton Warner Nanny Academy nannyacademy.ac.nz (Stanmore Bay)

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

WORK WANTED

The deadline for our October 19 edition is October 12

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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SITUATIONS VACANT

Support Workers - We want YOU! • Warkworth/Snells/Omaha/Matakana

A Vision for Health.

• No experience necessary Geneva Healthcare are recruiting Support Workers to assist our clients with personal cares, home help and companionship.

If you have your own transport, drivers licence, and want to make a difference in peoples lives, apply today!

ESTABLISHMENT CO-ORDINATOR WANTED FOR THE OLD WELLSFORD LIBRARY (OWL) COMMUNITY HUB The purpose of this role is to establish the old Wellsford library building as a vibrant community hub that reflects the needs and aspirations of local residents. You will do this by working skilfully alongside the community involving them in every step of the way. The end result will be a locally owned and run community space that everyone feels proud of.

The ideal person for this role will have extensive community development experience and the skills required to support community led projects and initiatives in innovative and creative ways.

This is a fixed term part time position for 12 months.

For a copy of the job description please email sue.dodds@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz Closing date for applications is Friday 14 October 2016

Geneva Healthcare

We are looking for Volunteers for the 2016 Kowhai Festival.

Contact Shona Pickup 09 425 4330 or fill out the form on our website if you want to help! www.kowhaifestival.co.nz

CHURCH NOTICES

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Phone 425 8545

www.holyname.org.nz

Holy Mass Timetable: WARKWORTH

Holy Name Church, 6 Alnwick Street Saturday Vigil: 6.00pm Sunday: 10.30am

PUHOI

SS. Peter & Paul Church Sunday: 8.30am

MAHURANGI METHODIST PARISH Warkworth Methodist

Warkworth Anglican Parish Church Services Christ Church, Church Hill, Warkworth

Every Sunday 8am and 9.30am St. Leonard's, Matakana

Every Sunday at 9.30am

Snells Beach Community Church

2nd Sunday at 9am

St.Alban's, Kaipara Flats

1st Sunday at 11.15am

St.Michael and All Angels, Leigh

3rd Sunday at 11.00am

Phone 425 8054 or www.anglican-warkworth.org

1 Hexham Street, Warkworth Parish Office: Ph 425 8660 Sunday Service 10.30am HALL BOOKINGS PH 425 8053

Snell’s Beach Community Church 325 Mahurangi East Rd Sunday Service 9am HALL BOOKINGS PH 425 5612

Church office - 425 8660

DigitalWorld with Pauline Stockhausen pauline@thesocialcollective.co.nz

• Both Week day and weekend shifts available

Visit www.genevahealth.com or phone Becky on 0800 266 577 ext 9127 for more information

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5 Pulham Road, Warkworth Phone 425 8861 www.mahu.org.nz Sunday Services 9am & 10.30am

Know your audience Last week I spoke at a Social Media conference in New Zealand where business owners came from as far away as South America and Australia to learn about Social Media. Technology has made it easier to use live streaming for these sorts of events so smaller audiences can get information from leading experts from across the globe. Getting first hand information without having to fly speakers down to New Zealand is an attractive option.

I got the opportunity to interview Chocolate Johnny by live stream, a chocolatier from Sydney, who has grown his business using platforms like Periscope and Snapchat. He shared his journey on how he has built his brand using real time video from his brick and mortar store, and told us how customers from all over the world are now ordering his chocolate.

“Social Media can open up your business to the world,” he said. “It has made my little chocolate shop a destination and we have visitors from around the world detouring to the store just to visit and try out our Perfection Chocolates.”

Simon Young, from Syengage enthralled us with his take on WeChat. Simon has been an early adopter of WeChat which is one of the primary social media channels in China, where there is no Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. If your target market includes customers from China then using WeChat should be on your list.

“It’s a different kind of marketing, but as with all social media, it boils down to knowing your customer, what problems they are trying to solve and the journey they are taking. You should try to meet them at every stage of that journey,” Simon said. “Even though the WeChat app is different you are essentially doing the same across all social networks.” WeChat has a life of its own and is like no other platform. The app provides the ability for one-on-one messaging, groupchats and the exchange of money. Auckland is an international city and we have a large Asian population so it is not a platform to ignore if you have international customers.

All speakers talked about having a plan/strategy in place and also being consistent. Social media needs consistency to reach your goal. Wanita Flourie, from The Online Academy, shared how people consume information. Some people respond to audio over visual, and she stressed the importance of thinking about your audience and how they consume or like to receive information.

Video is becoming the preferred medium to use and using captions in your video helps get a wider reach.

One thing that came out of the conference was that technology is moving incredibly fast and what worked last year isn’t necessarily going to work for you in 2017. Paying close attention to your social media analytics and understanding your website analytics will help you navigate in the next 12 months.

Community patrol needs volunteers A new community patrol service in Mahurangi is looking for more volunteers.

The service started in April and operates between Te Hana and Puhoi, coast to coast.

Volunteer Ross Sutherland says it has about 18 volunteers, but holidays and other commitments means it is still short-staffed some weekends.

He says the support from the community to get the service up and running has been fantastic, but they still need another 10 volunteers to ensure its manned each weekend.

Patrols are focused on weekend nights, but there are plans to start daytime patrols during the summer peak.

The service acts as support for local Police and has direct contact with the local stations. Volunteers aren’t expected to deal directly with crime, but liaise with Police to prevent crime and assist in traffic accidents and other public support work.

Volunteers are expected to be available for one patrol every four to six weeks on a rostered basis.

Info: Ross Sutherland 425 8589 or 021 301339

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Mascot Private Hotel 1920.

MARKETPLACE Check out the selection of sweet treats from Poms Away.

All the action from the Pacific-Rim sailing event held at Algies Bay. Thanks to the Camera Shop for its sponsorship of our Then & Now series, looking back at how the district has changed.

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Two of Warkworth’s oldest buildings still in use were built by Charles Thomson around 1870. Located at the lower end of Neville Street, they were formerly the family home of the Thomsons and housed a bakery and the commodious Temperance Hotel.

Four Thomson brothers came to New Zealand in the 1850s from Campbelltown, Argyleshire in Scotland. Family papers suggest that Charles was a baker on the troopships transporting soldiers to the Crimean War and that Charles and Lachlan were the first of the brothers to emigrate.

The corner formed by Neville, Main (later Queen) Wharf and Baxter streets was the hub of commercial activity in the 1870s. Lachlan Thomson owned a store where Warehouse Stationery now trades and Bowen’s Store stood on the other corner, opposite Southgate’s hotel, which had been built in the 1860s.

In 1874, Charles Thompson was the contractor when a drain was dug from Southgate’s property to the river. It was sunk 10ft (3 metres) in places and heartkauri planking one-and-a-half inches (4cm) thick and well tarred was used to make a box drain. I wonder if that sturdy kauri timber still lies beneath the tarseal and concrete there today.

Captain and Mrs Ragg, who had sailed to New Zealand in the Golden City in 1864, purchased Thomson’s hotel and bakery in 1885. Like their predecessors, the Raggs ran a family business with the unmarried daughters helping their mother. Occasionally an advertisement would appear for a boy who could make himself useful. He was assured of a good home at Raggs Temperance hotel. Mrs Ragg kept pigs on the land at the back of the hotel.

It was announced in January 1915 that Mrs W Fleury had taken over the business and it would now be called the Mascot Private Hotel. Modifications had been made to provide smoking and sitting rooms. A few months later, an important sale of town property was completed when Mr Fleury bought the entire block with frontages on four streets.

Whatever future plans the Fleury’s had for their investment they did not eventuate. As William Fleury prepared to leave New Zealand with the Auckland Regiment of the Expeditionary Forces, Mrs Fleury was rushed to hospital where she died in November 1916. Her husband was killed in action in France on October 4, 1917.

Older Warkworth residents will remember Mrs Hughes who ran the hotel as Hinemoa House. She sold the land and buildings consisting of 16 bedrooms, one acre 25 roods to Roberts Electrical in 1942. Since then it has been known as Robert’s Corner.

The original Thomson home became a separate entity as Broomfield House when a Warkworth solicitor, Mr A G Broomfield, purchased it as his home and office.

Commercial interests over the years have altered both buildings significantly.

Only in photographs can they be seen as they once were.

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FE ATU R E

Tides are right for the 47th Kowhai Festival Travelling pirate variety show host Captain Festus McBoyle and his band of bilge rats will give no quarter when they sail up the Mahurangi River and attack Warkworth at the Kowhai Festival’s Huge Day Out on Saturday October 8.

The travelling pirate variety show is one of a host of performances that will set the tone for the ‘Pirates of the Mahurangi’ theme at this year’s event, which aims to get the young and young-at-heart dressed up in piratical fashion.

The date was chosen for the morning’s high tide for the canoe showdown, which will commence at 11am. It’s open to a wide range of paddlers, from novice to premiers, on anything from sea kayaks to stand up paddleboards, with races ranging from 2km to 20km.

A dog show, open to adult and child handlers, will be held on the riverbank with a best-dressed pirate category at 10am.

The giant waterslide will be providing thrills and spills for the kids from midday at Lucy Moore Park.

Music, food, local wines and the specially brewed Kowhai Gold Lager will be served up at the wharf car park.

Entertainment will include performances by The Drive, The

Photography exhibition More than 20 photographers from Mahurangi and Hibiscus Coast will exhibit works at the Bridge Club Rooms, Warkworth, on October 8 and 9. Glenys Wild from the Rodney Photographers’ Collective says they will have over 60 mounted prints. All the prints will be unframed and most will be for sale. The exhibition will run from 10am to 4pm on Saturday and 10am to 3pm on Sunday. A gold coin donation for Warkworth Wellsford Hospice is encouraged.

Kowhai beer fest Thousands of people are expected at this year’s Kowhai Festival.

Nukes, Sonare, The Warkworth Wellsford Pipe Band, Double Trouble, Warkworth Brass, Becky Moon, and Captain Festus McBoyle.

The Rodney Marine raft race will be held the next day, Sunday October 9. Homemade rafts which pass scrutineering will be racing under two groups this year. The ‘Youth Challenge’ is open to students, sports clubs and youth groups, whilst the ‘Pirate Race’ is open to all.

The Great Debate will be held at Ascension Wine Estate on October 13

at 6.30pm. The debate is in its sixth year and has raised over $15,000 for Warkworth Wellsford Hospice.

The Toastmasters, Rotarians and Warkworth Women’s team will be debating the finer points of free lunches and why glasshouse dwellers should not throw stones.

The festival will end with a screening of Taika Waititi’s film Hunt for the Wilderpeople, starring Sam Neil and Rhys Darby. The open-air screening for the movie night will be held at Shoesmith Domain on October 15.

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Tahi Bar in Warkworth is hosting an Ale & ’Arty beer festival on October 8 from 12.30pm as part of the Kowhai Festival.

Tuatara founder and owner Carl Vasta will be on site, along with a speciallycustomised Landrover, which has eight fully operational beer taps on the side.

Tahi Bar owner Ian Marriott will also be stocking craft brews from 8 Wired, Mcleods, Forbidden Cider and traditional hand pumped ale from Townshead Brewery.

The Kowhai pirate theme will be in force along with live music from The Dobros, The Grave Dohls and The Horribles.

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‘Dirt Road’ folk gig in Warkworth The Nukes

Ukulele festival selling-out fast The inaugural Warkworth Ukulele Festival will be held on Sunday October 9 at Warkworth RSA as part of the Kowhai Festival.

Warkworth’s own ukulele group, the Summerleles, will open the festival at 10am, followed by two bangolele solo acts at 11am.

Patron of the Kiwileles Trust, Kevin Fogarty, will hold a “woncert”, or workshop and concert, distributing song sheets to teach people a range of songs for an hour-long performance.

Uke duo North of Bombay will perform an original set at 1pm followed by a “woncert” by uke heavyweights, The Nukes at 2pm.

Concert organiser Sue Robertson says tickets for the event are almost sold out and the response has been incredible.

Sue started the Summerleles last year after putting out a call out in Mahurangi Matters to start a weekly jam.

There are now about 100 people who attend the weekly events, with about 30 people at each jam session.

Musicians meet once a month at the Old Masonic Hall in Warkworth and Sue says the support has been overwhelming.

The Summerleles are now called on to play a number of concerts.

They will perform at the Leigh Sawmill Cafe on November 13, from 3pm, and at the Selwyn Centre in the Anglican Church Hall in Warkworth on Monday November 7 from 9.30am to 12 noon.

Info: Summerleles 422 3023 or 027 200 3413 or email garysusan@xtra.co.nz

Mahurangi folk band The Dirt Road Orchestra will play a combined gig with “the roaming rhymester” Keith Levy as part of the Kowhai Festival.

The concert will be at the Old Masonic Hall in Warkworth on Friday October 14, from 7pm.

The musicians literary live life on the dusty road – three live on Krippner Road, near Puhoi, and one lives on Moir Hill.

Band member Menno Besseling says they met Keith, a travelling storyteller, through the Whangateau Folk Club.

“He lives in a bus and travels around the country, and he is a superb storyteller and performs rhyming poetry on the social issues of the day,” Menno says.

“We’ve decided to combine forces. He will perform a story and we will follow with a song drawing on the same feeling or theme.

“We’ve had a coupe of rehearsals and it really takes the show to a whole new level.”

The group plans to take the show on the road and play community halls throughout the region.

FLIGHT CENTRE NOTICING GROWTH IN WARKWORTH If you've been into the Flight Centre in the last 12 months, you'll have experienced the new environment they have in-store. The store was refit in September last year and is part of a nationwide commitment to upgrading the tired travel agency of old, into a more interactive environment - caring about creating a great travel experience from the moment you walk in the door, to the moment you get back from your trip.

It's also seen as an investment for the town, which has not only seen growth in population, but the shop has seen a huge growth in the number of travellers. There really couldn't be a better time to travel, with airfares for the upcoming Europe season at never seen before prices - the increased competition in the market is just great for people who are keen to get away for a holiday and have more money to spend when they're on their trip. Flight Centre has a lowest airfare guarantee too, so you know as soon as you're walking in the door, that you are getting the best available price.

In response to this growth, Flight Centre have increased their staffing levels. They have two new team members who have joined them. Charlotte who has moved from the Shore City store and comes with 4 years experience and also Rhiannon who has just returned from a big overseas adventure and is looking forward to meeting our wonderful clients in store.

The team are hosting an upcoming information evening on the 10th of October, they would love you to join them. It would be a great chance to meet the team and find out a little more about touring and cruising in Asia, which is becoming a very popular destination. Spaces are limited, so please RSVP to the store 09 422 3302 or warkworth@flightcentre.co.nz

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Jim Sonerson training for his epic six-hour ride for Warkworth Wellsford Hospice at the Kowhai Festival.

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An 83-year-old Warkworth resident will ride non-stop for six hours to raise money for Warkworth Wellsford Hospice at the Kowhai Festival Huge Day Out. Jim Sonerson, himself a cancer survivor, says he has one more charity ride left in him.

“I keep promising my wife that this is the last, but all the while I am able to do some good and raise some money I will,” Jim says

Jim’s first ride for hospice three years ago raised over $5000. He will be readyto-roll on his trainer bike at 9am in the hospice marquee on Queen Street.

Those that make a donation can guess the distance recorded on the bikes speedometer at the end of Jim’s sixhour ride.

The winner will receive two nights at The Heritage Auckland, compliments of helloworld Warkworth.

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Warkworth Music presents

MARIMBA AND PERCUSSION DUO Rhythm | Dance | Energy | Tango Experience the dynamism of this fabulous marimba and percussion duo

SATURDAY 15th October at 7.30pm Matakana Village Hall

Door Sales only - Adults $30 • Students Free • Info. Ph 425 7313 or 425 7015

Kowhai Festival Combined Church Service Oct 9th - 10am at Mahurangi College

Guest Speaker is Colin Chitty, Pastor, Causeway Church, Mangawhai Contact your local church for more information.

2016 A Festival of Fun for the whole Family in the Warkworth Region Coming soon! 2 to 16 October

2nd October

Warkworth Museum Open Day Historic Walk

9th October

Rodney Marine Raft Race Historic Cruise Warkworth Music Concert

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The Great Debate Ascension Wine Estate, Matakana

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Openair Cinema, Shoesmith Domain, Warkworth “Hunt for the Wilderpeople”

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Matakana hosts marimba percussion performance The largest marimba in New Zealand will be part of this year’s Kowhai Festival at Matakana Village Hall on Saturday October 15 at 7.30pm.

At about three metres long, the reverberant assemblage of wooden keys has a diverse range of sounds.

At the helm will be percussion duo Jeremy Fitzsimmons and Yoshiko Tsuruta. Jeremy is principal percussionist for Orchestra Wellington and has has been a percussionist with the Pink Floyd Experience.

Yoshiko has performed with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and is currently the timpanist for Opus Orchestra based in Waikato and Bay of Plenty.

They will perform a variety of music for two marimbas and other percussion instruments.

Their repertoire includes original works for percussion, and works from wellknown composers including Piazzolla.

Tickets $30 cash at the door, students free.

Mangawhai pastor speaks at festival service A combined church service will be held at Mahurangi College on Sunday October 9, at 10am, as part of the Kowhai Festival. The service will feature guest speaker Colin Chitty, pastor at Causeway Church in Mangawhai. Colin grew up in Mangawhai. He had his leg amputated after a motorcycle accident when he was 13 and says he came to terms with his disability through the church. He has been a dairy farm in Mangawhai for the past 32 years and speaks around the country. He became senior pastor at Causeway Church, along with his wife Anne, in 2005.

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Entries have opened for this year’s publicist Lois New says this year they Warkworth Rose and Flower Show, have broadened the criteria. and neighbourhoods are being “Our judges are going to include encouraged to give their street a spruce Matakana and there is no need to oss se Bell Jeff Montrose Sarah Wells Perkin for the Best StreetSarah award. Wells officially enter Ruth because they will be 425 0220 7131 7579 021 027 243 621 0333 3765 • (09) 425 7131 021 243 021 425 109 The event will be held at the Old judging from the street,” Lois says.0333 list Kaipara District Wellsford Warkworth Wellsford Sandspit & Snells Beach Masonic Hall on November 18, with 29 Mahurangi College won last year’s categories, including an arrangement Aesthetic Contribution award. This using driftwood and a teapot. also been to Ourcategory fees arehas 2.95% up toexpanded $390,000 Points, trophies and prizes will be on include Matakana. thereafter 1.95% + admin fee + gst. offer, including the much coveted Perpetual Challenge Rose Bowl The show is in its fifth year at the Old for the highest points scorer, first Masonic Hall. Organisers hope next year it will return to the renovated in 1941.

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BOOKREVIEWS

By Matakana Village Books

School holiday books How to Babysit a Grandpa

By Jean Reagan and illus by Lee Wildish

Every child needs to know how to babysit their grandpa. This is a wonderful book that turns the babysitting gig on its head. All the necessary information has been included, from telling grandpa not to worry – that Mum and Dad always come back home, to making sure the sunscreen is all over (even on the bald head ) before going out to play, to how to wake grandpa up after his afternoon nap. A wonderful book to read out loud and a must have for all grandpas of little ones. Highly recommended.

ISBN 9781444915884

Empire of Storms

By Sarah J. Maas

COURSES FOR TERM 4 2016 – WARKWORTH & WELLSFORD Personal Development

Pasifika Women’s Group

A weekly support group for women that encourages learning, sharing and innergrowth in a confidential and caring environment.

Facilitator: Heidi Downey.

Come and meet other women from the Pacific to connect, learn and share. Facilitator: Heidi Downey

Monday 10th October 10am-12.30pm 10 wks Free

Weds 12th Oct 10.30am-12.00pm 10 wks Free

Make time for you and relax in our friendly group. Meet other mums and stay connected and supported. For women with babies aged 1 year and under.

Facilitator: Sharmilla Sookdeo.

Young Mum’s Educational Programme

Free

For mothers aged 25 years and under who would like to meet other mum’s. Learn positive parenting, self-care, skills & strategies for raising healthy and happy children and much more.

Facilitator: Ashlee Prictor.

Clay Sculpture Workshop Sat 29th Oct 9.00am to 3.00pm

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Computer Training: Beginners, Basic & Intermediate Word & Excel

Mum’s Support Group

Thurs 13th Oct 10am-12.30pm 10wks

Tues 11th Oct 10am – 12.30pm 10 weeks

Cost $35

After an introduction to material and sculpting, we will build a birdfeeder and a coiled sculpture. Sculptures will be fired so they can be painted at a later date.

Facilitator: Judy Wood, Warkworth.

Fri 21st Oct, 8 weeks, 9.15am to 11.15am at Senior Net Premises, below the RSA, Warkworth Free

These courses are for women who are looking for work or wanting to upskill.

Facilitators: Senior Net, Warkworth Career Development and Job Search Sat 29th Oct

10am to 3.00pm

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A one day workshop for women returning to work or changing career, including creating a career plan and a CV, job search, interviews, assistance with clothing and much more.

Facilitator: Fiona Brading, People Architects Massage for Women: $55 for 1 hour Available on Tuesday afternoons by appointment.

Phone Lianne 021220326

Counselling: Low Cost Sessions Available by appointment with our qualified counsellors. Some conditions apply - contact the Women’s Centre

Christmas Donations: We will be collecting for our annual Christmas drive until mid-December. If you wish to support local families in hardship over this period, please drop off your gifts at our Centre or at Westpac Bank after 1st December.

Most courses run in Warkworth. Please check details when booking.

Bookings essential: Contact us on 09 425 7261 or 0800 2DROPIN (0800 237674) Email: info@womenscentrerodney.org.nz • www.womenscentrerodney.org.nz Follow us on Facebook at Women’s Centre Rodney 10 Morpeth Street, Warkworth • 9.30am to 2.30pm Monday to Friday

This is the fifth in the highly regarded Throne of Glass series. Maas has a huge following for the series with many considering this is her best so far. Readers are describing it as enchanting, spellbinding, and imaginative: “The long path to the throne has just begun for Aelin Galathynius. As the kingdoms of Erilea fracture around her, enemies must become allies if Aelin is to keep those she loves from falling to the dark forces poised to claim her world. With war looming on all horizons, the only chance for salvation lies in a desperate quest that may mark the end of everything Aelin holds dear.”

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Guinness World Records 2017 As usual, this book has an astounding number of new records and never-before-seen photos. There is a huge amount of information that you never realised you or your kids needed to know. This year there is also a special feature on space.

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Jamming for a good cause A young Mahurangi rock musician is taking part in a nationwide ‘buskathon’ to help fundraise for people with disabilities.

Mahurangi College student Riley Popham is offering to record songs for people for donations to support the StarJam Buskathon. The 13-yearold has a repertoire of over 60 songs, but will also learn and record new songs for a donation to the cause.

StarJam is a charity that works with young people with disabilities. The organisation helps over 350 people participate in musical workshops in Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, Hamilton and Tauranga each week.

The individual who raises the most money by October 31 will win a oneday recording session at Stebbing

Recording Studio in Auckland.

To support Riley’s Buskathon, visit givealittle.co.nz/fundraiser/ rileyrocks4starjam

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Cuisine Nicola Bolton

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Spring in to tea parties At last the sweet smell of spring is in the air. The to-die-for aroma of freesias means one thing to me and one thing only: tea parties in the garden. I love making sweet treats to be enjoyed with a cup of tea out in the sunshine. My most treasured of these sweets is my banana cake. It is such a winner it gets made at just about every birthday party too. The trick to it is over-ripe bananas. As the weather warms up, the amount of time my bananas can survive in the fruit bowl goes down. Like many of us, I am not a fan of devouring them when they are covered in brown spots. Once they hit the browning stage, straight to the freezer they go. Waste not, want not. I highly recommend you use the same technique because it’s these frozen brown bananas that make the cake. I must admit they look rather hideous when they come out and upon thawing their consistency is absolute mush, but they are the perfect baking ingredient. Good bye yucky brown banana, hello delectable banana cake.

Finally, a moist banana cake • ½ cup hot milk 250g softened butter • 3 cups flour 1½ cups sugar • 2 tsp baking powder 4 eggs • 4 very ripe thawed bananas, 2 tsp cherry or vanilla extract, peeled and mashed pure or imitation • 2 tsp baking soda Preheat your oven to 180°C. Grease and line a 23cm-diameter cake tin with baking paper, or if you’d prefer controlled helpings, prepare 12 muffin tins.

Beat your soft butter and sugar until nice and creamy/light yellow. Then beat in your eggs, one at a time. Add your vanilla or cherry essence (cherry is best in my book as it adds a little kick). Gently fold in your mashed bananas.

Dissolve the baking soda in hot milk and add to the main mixture stirring until combined.

Gently sift the flour and baking powder over your wet mixture. Like the addition of the bananas, fold gently into mixture. Do not beat them in as we want to keep the texture of the cake light.

Spoon the finished mixture in to your tin/s. Bake your cake for 45 minutes to one hour. Muffins should take about 20 minutes. Near the end of cooking time, frequently insert a skewer in to the centre of the cake. If the skewer comes out clean and the top of the cake is springy to the touch it’s done.

Allow cake to cool and greedily consume.

Thinking this cake would be even better with icing? Try chocolate or lemon.

Beat together 50g softened butter and 3 cups of icing sugar. Add 3 tbsp of lemon juice or cocoa powder. Continue beating, adding ½ tbsp of hot water until creamy. Spread over cake. Delish!

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Probus name change after trans-Tasman spat Warkworth Men’s Probus is undergoing a name change after the Australian headquarters pursued legal action to prevent unaffiliated clubs using the moniker.

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Once every three years, about 60 per cent of the population ignores the local government elections. Local politics and data seem boring, but we care when our recycling bin is too big or when we can’t park near work without getting a ticket.

Election time is a chance to talk more about what’s bugging us, hear from the people who want to decide how to spend ratepayer money, involve people in decisions, and how we can do it better.

At Mahurangi Matters, we tell lots of stories in print, online, via video and social media, and we look at issues and report back from Council and Local Board meetings.

We’ve pulled together our current coverage online, and you can find upcoming local election results at localmatters.co.nz/features/localelection2016 Gov Hack, but not as you know it As government and local government collects more data on its citizens, and we willingly give it away to corporations, we can also use it for accountability and innovation.

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It brings together coders, artists, academics and storytellers in a weekend-long hackathon using open government data. This year there were 429 projects created, 71 across nine locations in New Zealand. You can see them at govhack.org.nz One of the projects, My Life My Council, uses local government data to show what your council is spending its money on, and how this compares to others.

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William Henry Braithwaite

Hugh Scott

As the nation commemorates 100 years since the Battle of the Somme, Matakana resident Adrienne Miller has been searching the archives to uncover local soldiers killed in the battle.

Adrienne has been publishing photos and stories on the Matakana War Memorial Facebook page for five years and has found two Matakana soldiers – William Henry Braithwaite and Hugh Barr Scott – died at the Somme.

Private Braithwaite shipped off to France in August 1916. Just 30 days later, on September 27, he was killed in action during the Battle of the Somme.

Born on February 26, 1885, he was the only son of Joseph and Elizabeth Braithwaite, orchardists of Matakana.

His family tree includes many pioneer families in the area, including the Stacpooles, Carrans, Wilmots and Pulhams.

At 30, he was working on the family farm in Matakana and enlisted on January

11, 1916 with the 12th Reinforcements Auckland Infantry Battalion.

Rifleman Hugh Scott died on November 22 from a gunshot wound to the abdomen he received on the previous day.

He first arrived on the French battlefield in late April 1916 and was twice wounded.

The first time was on July 18, after which he spent several weeks recovering in hospital at Boulogne. The second wound on September 11 was more minor, but Hugh endured these wounds and the hellish conditions of the Somme before he was killed.

Hugh arrived in New Zealand around the turn of the century aged 20 and settled in Matakana, working on the farm of Henry Parkes. He is remembered at both the Matakana War Memorial and the Kingsbarns Parish Church, Fife, Scotland, where he was born.

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It’s the magic of bank fees. They simply just appear from nowhere and your hard-earned money is gone in a flash. Do you know how much you are paying every month for all those ATM and eftpos transactions? If I remember back to the mid 1990s, when eftpos and ATM’s were relatively new, the bank I worked for had a massive push to get everyone a plastic card and get customers banking electronically. Why? So that there were less branch staff required and the queues inside were smaller. The big sell was no account or transaction fees if you bank electronically. Well, as we all know, now those fees apply more than ever, no matter how you bank. The fees charged make up a huge portion of a bank’s profitability and the more accounts you have, the more you pay! I recently saw a customer for a mortgage and they had 15 different bank accounts spread across four different banks. A bank account for bills, one for each child, one for holidays, one for tax, etc. When we looked at their statements closely, more than $150 a month was going out in bank fees! Enough to pay the rates on their property.

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Latest grants announced Sixteen Mahurangi projects have been given a boost in the latest round of Rodney Local Board Grants.

A total of 43 groups applied for the grant, requesting $308,000 of funding. The Board granted $127,000 to a range of community projects.

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A man is travelling the country asking for everything from a pack of Timtams to a business class ticket to Nairobi and he wants you to give it to him.

Leo Stirling says he is exploring themes around generosity and human kindness for an upcoming book.

Everything Leo needs must be donated or funded by strangers.

“I believe our true human nature is to be kind to one another,” Leo says “We are not sure what we should give, so I’m very specific about what I ask for and it has a specific purpose.

“If I need money I ask for money.

Yesterday I was in Mangawhai and I asked for $720. I waited five hours, but a guy called James gave me $340, some other guys gave me $100, so I got there in the end.”

Leo says the $720 is to pay a medical bill for his daughter who lives in Nairobi. All the people that help Leo write their details in his scrapbook. He then adds a photo depicting their act of kindness.

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1 asking for 11 yellow balloons for a child’s birthday party, which he planned to give as a thank-you to a Mangawhai resident who gave him a bed the previous night.

Abandoning technology and using hand-written signs are also part of the experiment.

“Technology and social media are removing us from human interaction and creating degrees of separation.

That’s why I write on the sign, write in the book and ask for obscure things. You stopped to talk with me, so it works.”

Leo says that a homeless person asking for money creates doubt and cynicism and people become guarded. That then prevents people from giving and deprives them of the feel-good factor associated with generosity.

“The more people I give the opportunity to give and connect with me, the more I am helping them.

Kindness is a two-way street.”

When Leo has 150 acts of kindness he will write his book – on a MacBook Pro that naturally he will ask someone to donate.

Board lobbies for local focus The Rodney Local Board is calling for a local approach to Auckland Council maintenance contracts.

The existing maintenance contracts for Council facilities such as parks and halls expire next year and Council is developing a new policy.

It has proposed splitting Auckland into five service regions, with Rodney lumped in with Henderson-Massey and Waitakere Ranges.

But the Local Board is calling for Rodney to have separately managed contracts, with an emphasis on using local suppliers.

In the Board’s feedback, it said the proposed service zone would be well over 50 per cent of Auckland’s landmass and contractors would have to travel long distances.

It said offering more opportunities for local suppliers to do the work could result in quicker and more efficient service and create local economic development and jobs. Local suppliers would also have greater pride and ownership in their work and therefore produce higher standards.

The Board also called for greater flexibility to allow for community groups to take on maintenance work, a maximum contract period of five years and independent auditing of contracts.

A Request for Proposal for facility maintenance contracts is due to be published this month, with contract negotiations formally concluded in April. The new maintenance contracts will take effect from July next year.

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The former athlete recently moved to the Sandspit area with two children, one of which has joined the yacht club.

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Depth focus after disappointing season Three-peat for The Warkworth Men’s first football team failed to clinch the top-four season finish they desired, coming ninth out of 12 teams in the NFF Men’s Conference.

Team coach and centre back Cam Gray says there was a huge improvement in the team culture this season, but a string of injuries and a lack of focus let them down at times.

“The season started off really well, but the loss of a few key players really exposed the lack of depth in the club,” he says.

“When we lost our mid-field players Ken Lynch and Lee Draper, we were done for.”

Cam says a failure to breed younger players into the men’s team environment has been the club’s downfall.

To try and resolve this issue they will be doing talent spotting in January to select some players from older junior teams to join the men in pre-season.

Cam says the most enjoyable part of the season has been bringing a couple of young talents in Sam Stephens and James Woodall up to the first team level.

“Sam is a freak when it comes to football and is definitely one to watch, and James has gone from a fringe player last season to one of our most consistent starters.”

Looking to move forward, Cam will step down from his coaching role next season due to other commitments and hopes someone with some division one or premier experience will take up the job.

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Tyler Pride is one of the few young players to feature in the Warkworth men’s first team.

Cam also wants to start holding two trainings a week instead of one, but with a good portion of the team being older and having other commitments, this is not possible.

“We need the more experienced players who couldn’t factor two trainings a week into their schedule.

“Ken Lynch has brought real composure to the team this year, Rob Carty is one of the best forwards in the competition and we wouldn’t survive without keeper Simon Borich.”

Next season, the team will also lose forward Steve May, but will welcome Mark Borich and Gareth Southcombe and are in negotiations with a young talented centre back from East Coast Bays.

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“About halfway through the season some people just went into cruise control and lost a bit of focus because we lacked that.”

Cam thinks next season the side would not be over ambitious in trying for a top-three finish.

“We took points off the top teams in the league this season, but winning the league is about being consistent and you can’t think any of the lower teams are an easy beat.”

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“The cup can be a bit of a distraction from the league, but it’s great for some players to experience the different kind of football you get.”

Cam says despite not finishing in the league or cup where he would have liked, he has enjoyed every minute working with the team this season.

The Matakana Physio hockey team has captured a third Warkworth Women’s Hockey League title after an emphatic 9-0 victory over Team White.

The side had previously lost two games to the team and won just won against them in round robin play.

Despite the scoreline, Matakana Physio captain Monique Vujcich says the final was a well-fought affair.

“We just put away all the opportunities we had and made them count,” she says.

However, she does admit the competition needs to develop to become more challenging.

“That is going to happen over time as players become more experienced and the younger generations come through with their teams,” she says.

Meanwhile, in the Warkworth Men’s Hockey League, Team Rodney battled their way to a 6-4 win over Team Black after leading 6-1 at half time.

The sides were two-all in the round robin this year and shared the title last season with a drawn final.

Player Craig Radford says passing and teamwork were key to winning this season.

Also, a great performance from goalie Callum Blyde saw the side through a penalty shoot-out in their semi-final against Mahurangi College, which they won 5-4 in sudden death.

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Makos clinch ROSA comp The Mangawhai Makos football team has picked team play as its winning ingredient after taking out the ROSA open grade competition last month.

The side finished ahead of five other hopefuls, with 12 wins, one draw and two losses out of 15 matches.

“We really played as a team this season and let the ball do the work,” Makos captain Dustin Reif says.

“We didn’t necessarily have the best players, but in one match we won we had five different goal scorers, which really shows we used the whole team.”

The side lost three defensive players coming into the season and lost two of their first three games before going on an unbeaten streak.

“I think we were still trying to figure out how to fit the new players into the squad and make it as effective as possible, which caused our first two losses,” Dustin says.

He says brothers Hugo and Oscar Primbs proved to be their most valuable players, filling the two wing positions and allowing the Makos to play a wide game unlike other sides.

Owen Henchman and Harry Bennett were the teams top goal scorers.

“I never doubted we had the ability to take the title but it was good to play with a structure where individuals were not the deciding factor for our team.”

The side took out the title last season too.

Dustin says the open competition was better this year, with two more teams entering, but he is considering entering one of the Mangawhai teams into a bigger Northland or Northern competition next season.

He would also like to create more of a club culture at Mangawhai to help ensure more juniors filter through into the open-grade sides.

Fine finish at Algies

Algies Bay hosted the tightly contested Pacific Rim Inter-Schools Team Sailing Championships from September 26 to 28.

Competitors came from New Zealand, Australia and, for the first time, the Cook Islands.

Conditions were very testing and the open grade went down to the wire, with the fourth round-robin getting cut short.

Kristin School won the open grade, while New Plymouth Girls High School won the girls grade.

View a video online at localmatters.co.nz

New Zealand won the Pacific Rim trophy and the Inter-Dominion trophy for the best combined team scores by nation.

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From the

Whaia Te Iti Kahurangi, Maori Achievement Evening, was held on the 7th of September.

It was a lovely celebration of the academic successes of our Maori students, interspersed with some excellent speeches and musical items.

Last year our Maori students continued to achieve very well in NCEA. At level 3, our pass rate was 92.9% (13/14 students), compared to an average for Maori across all decile 7 schools of 63.9%. At University Entry level, our pass rate for Maori was 71.4% (10/14) compared to a decile 7 average for Maori of 41.4%.

Principal

David Macleod Dear Parents and Guardians

Congratulations to all the students in our Photography Club whose work has been displayed at the Estuary Arts Centre in Orewa over the past month. Community feedback on their exhibition InstaGran has been very positive. Their project has connected our offline generation with our online one through some great photography.

After doing well at the regional competitions, our senior and junior Underwater Hockey (UWH) teams both qualified for the NZ Nationals held this year in Wellington. Our Senior Open team, which won the nationals last year, was rebuilding and finished 8th this year. Our Junior Girls team however had a phenomenal tournament.

Despite facing significantly older and more experienced teams, they blitzed their way through to the finals undefeated. However, in an extremely exciting final, they met their match in Diocesan - a strong team that our girls have been improving against all season. The final score was 3-1 to Diocesan, placing our Junior Girls second with the Silver Medal for the tournament. A very impressive achievement. Well done to all the students involved.

Some of our Year 7-9 Photography Club students at the Estuary Arts Centre enjoying their successful photographic exhibition InstaGran.

Whaia Te Iti Kahurangi evening is an opportunity to celebrate the outstanding academic, sporting and cultural achievements of our Maori students at Mahurangi College. Congratulations to all our award winners, including those pictured above.

Our Junior Girls Underwater Hockey team having a team talk before claiming Silver at the NZ Nationals held in Wellington. Up until the very exciting final our girls were undefeated.

Mahu welcomes Jamie Craik

Jamie joined us as the Head of the Mathematics Faculty at Mahurangi College at the start of Term 2 this year, fresh from many years teaching and leading in the beautiful island of Jersey. He has in the past been a frequent visitor to New Zealand - and that other place across the ditch.

He is thrilled to be joining our school and is very excited about having a chance to experience the Kiwi life for real.

Jamie started his career as an Academic, researching the chemistry of biological nano-tools at universities in England and the USA. He then spent a few years at the cutting edge of drug discovery and manufacture with SmithKlineBeecham and Glaxo Wellcome in the United Kingdom. With two careers already under his belt, Jamie then moved in to teaching to reacquaint himself with his

childhood passion for Mathematics. He trained in farm schools in the south of Scotland before moving to the beautiful island of Jersey where he taught and led departments in a variety of schools. Jamie is a keen sailor and has been a reserve VɉJLY ^P[O [OL 9V`HS 5H]` JHKL[ MVYJLZ where he taught leadership and power boating. He also has a passion for devising and leading school trips and has had the privilege of leading trips to such far away lands as China, Spain and Guernsey. Ever the optimist he believes that there’s no such thing as a half full glass - all glasses are PUÄUP[LS` YLÄSSHISL Welcome Jamie, we feel Mahurangi College and our Community are extremely privileged to have you on board.

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Mahurangi College Newsletter ISSUE 06: September 2016

2016 Senior Ball

A very successful school ball was held this year at the Pulman Hotel in Auckland. The 200 year 12 and 13 students and 18 staff who attended all thoroughly enjoyed an evening of socialising and dancing together. Many thanks to the head prefects for their outstanding organisation.

Girls 1XI Hockey Record 2016 Season!

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This meant they scored an extremely impressive 43 goals in 6 games, conceding just one goal.

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Warkworth team seize championship The Warkworth 17th grade football team has taken out the Second Division Championship and managed second place in the Knock Out Cup last month.

The side won all but one of their league season games to finish three points clear of second-placed East Coast Bays.

“I’m really happy the hard work paid off in winning the championship. I knew we had a squad that could do it,” coach Gavin Webb says.

Gavin says the side set a goal of winning the competition. Beating East Coast Bays 5-3 in round two showed the team they could do it early on.

“They were the highest ranked team to drop down from division one, so beating them let us know we had the quality to compete for the title.”

Gavin says it’s pretty hard to be critical of the team this year, but would look to have them play wider next season with such good wingers and full backs available.

“We tended to go through the middle too much and look for a through-ball with our pace up front, but that’s where all the traffic is and against quicker defences we struggled a bit.”

He noted mid-fielder Ben Morley as a standout player this season and says his captaincy was very mature and analytical, always providing the right comments at half time.

Other players to make a big impact were defender Logan Ross, mid-fielder Cas Hannink and top goal scorer Luke Stevens.

Gavin says they were simply outplayed in the cup final, but that winning the league was more important to them.

He thanks the Warkworth club and, in particular, Lorna Lewis for assisting the team throughout the season and managing communications with the Northern Football Federation.

The Mahurangi College girls were lethal on the attack, with a positive 42 goal difference during their tournament week.

Complete dominance seals title A dominant display from the Mahurangi College girls first XI hockey side has seen them victorious in the Eveline Hankers Memorial competition in Stratford.

The side, coached by Gill Kearins, won all three of their pool matches before sweeping through three play-off games to take the title on September 2.

“It’s been an amazing season and the best on record for a while,” Ms Kearins says.

Mahurangi were decisive in the final of the tournament, beating Pakuranga College 7-0, with Tonya Botherway, Alex Nuemann and Shar Illingworth scoring two goals each.

Earlier in the event, Mahurangi downed Pakuranga 4-1 in their pool C clash, where they conceded their only goal of the tournament.

“The girls should be extremely proud to have shown that much dominance.

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Alex Nuemann came out as the tournament’s top goal scorer, finding the net on 11 occasions.

Mahurangi students Tonya Botherway and Kaleigh Morris were also second and third on the list, with 10 and eight goals respectively.

The team also came close to the double, coming second in the Supercity A1 Girls tier two competition.

Mahurangi passed Carmel College in their semifinal winning 5-2, before the final was rain-delayed.

Opposition Baradene College proposed a tie for first place, but Mahurangi requested the last game of the season be played out and they fell 5-4 in a very close fixture.

Ms Kearins says there is plenty of talent coming through the school looking towards next season, and places in the first XI will be highly contested with a strong second XI this year.

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October 5

Pest control presentation, Forest Bridge Trust coordinator Liz Maire speaking on the CatchIT Schools programme, Hoteo North Hall, 7.30pm

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Warkworth history talk, ‘Warkworth and the Yanks’, Old Masonic Hall, Warkworth, 11am

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Kowhai Art and Crafts annual exhibition, Old Masonic Hall, Warkworth. Open Friday & Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 10am-3pm.

Info: Sue Williams 425 5349

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Dirt Road Orchestra concert, Old Masonic Hall, 7pm (see story p26)

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Rodney Photographers Collective exhibition, Bridge Club Rooms, Warkworth. Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 10am-3pm. Gold coin donation for Hospice. Info: Glenys 0274 803 788 (see brief p25)

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Warkworth Town Hall restoration guided tour, 10am-1pm (see story p18)

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Local government elections close 12noon

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Free pest control workshop, Ahuroa Community Hall, 9.15am12.30pm

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Pirates of the Mahurangi Raft Race, Warkworth boat ramp, 2pm.

Info: kowhaifestival.co.nz/events/

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Wellsford Country Music Club open mic and resident band, Wellsford Community Centre, 1.30pm. Entry $5/$4.

Info: John 425 4041

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Combined church service, Mahurangi College, 10am (see story p28)

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Ukulele festival, Warkworth RSA, 10am-3.30pm (see story p26)

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Art workshop, upcycled/ recycled/ repurposed clothes with Joy Bell, 4 Alnwick St Warkworth, 9am-12 noon

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Showstoppers variety show, Warkworth RSA, 2pm. Fundraiser for Warkworth Town Hall restoration. Tickets $10.

Info: Glennys 0274 438 026

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Snells Beach Garden Circle, Mahurangi Community Centre, Betty Paxton Room, 1.30pm. Info: Barbara Carpenter 425 5371

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Warkworth Great Debate, Ascension Wine Estate, 6.30pm (see story p25)

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Open Air Cinema, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Shoesmith Domain, 7pm

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Tapora School Agricultural Day, 9.30am-3.30pm

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Warkworth Music Concert, marimba and percussion duo, Matakana Village Hall, 7.30pm. Tickets $30, cash only, students free. Info: 425 7313 (see story p28)

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Free pest control workshop, Leigh Community Hall, 9.15am12.30pm

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Kaukapakapa Village Market, Kaukapakapa Hall, 947 Kaipara Coast Highway, 8.30am-1pm.

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Art workshop, mosaics with Joy Bell, 4 Alnwick St Warkworth, 9am12 noon

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Inferno, fundraiser for Matakana Community Group’s Tamahunga Bridge project. Tickets $40, available from Linda at Premium Real Estate in Matakana

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Forest & Bird event, an evening on Climate Change with Wellington expert Adelia Hallett. Totara Park Hall, Melwood Drive, Warkworth, 7.30pm

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Matakana School Gala, Matakana School, 7.30am - 1pm. Info: matakanaschoolgala.co.nz

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Halloween party, live music at The Bridehouse. Warkworth Town Hall restoration fundraiser. Tickets from Mahurangi Matters and Mike Pero Warkworth (see ad p29)

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Warkworth RSA Friday 7th October

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The Mahurangi College boys’ football side exceeded their own expectations making the round of 16 play-off stage.

Goal keep Anatia Hampson was kept busy with a high calibre of opposition throughout the tournament.

Last month, four local high school teams pitted themselves against some of the country’s best at the annual AIMS Games held in Tauranga.

This year, 9600 Year 7 and 8 students competed in the tournament across 21 sports, including students from Otamatea High School and Mahurangi College.

Mahurangi competed in netball, hockey and football, while Otamatea competed in netball.

The Mahurangi College boys’ hockey side placed sixth out of 17 teams, playing seven matches across five days.

Team manager Angela Thomas says finishing one place behind Belmont Intermediate, who clinched first place in Harbour A grade this year, was a real achievement.

Striker and North Harbour rep Jordon Thomas

Otamatea’s netball team played in the B grade for the first time, finishing 57 out of 112 teams overall.

“The team did amazing up against some tough opposition, a lot of players played their hearts out and showed every skill they have learnt over the season,” Otamatea High School netball team manager Jodie Bennetto says.

The star players were Maia Fairburn and Poppy Scott, who were the gel in the mid-court, despite both being Year 7 and some of the shorter players at the games.

Mahurangi College netball competed in the D grade, finishing 100th overall.

Team manager Sandra Hawken says the tournament style and opposition skill levels meant the team gained plenty of valuable experience.

All in for AIMS games sporting event managed 23 of the 25 goals the team scored over the week.

Mahurangi College boys’ football finished 13 out of 59 schools after playing eight games over four days.

“Playing at that level for a long period of time was a bit of a shock for the team, but they learned to work as a team quickly,” Mahurangi College football team manager Leanne Barry says.

“The organisation of the event was absolutely phenomenal with no hitches and great officials in every game.”

Goal keeper Mathew Elder was the team’s outstanding player, only letting in four goals during the tournament and also dealing with a penalty shoot-out – the team won 5-4 to go ahead of Rosmini College in the final standings.