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Te Arai: Weir threatens native birds page 3
Matakana cooks tell all pages 18-21
Growth plans accelerate pages 29-45
This haul of trash was collected in just half-an-hour on Omaha Beach by Zambia, Otis and Ziggy Neely, of Matakana. Their mother, Chelsea de Berry, said it highlighted the “outrageous” amount of rubbish that was out at sea, much of it broken down over time into small pieces that could be easily swallowed by wildlife. Their efforts to clear the beach coincided with the start of Plastic Free July, which challenges people to stop using single-use plastic like bags, drink bottles, straws, takeaway cups, cutlery and balloons, and opt for reusable or refillable alternatives.
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Development reshapes Mangawhai An elaborate plan to build a third retail precinct in Mangawhai was unveiled to a packed meeting at the Mangawhai Museum on June 23. The multi-million dollar development, called Mangawhai Central is proposed on 128-hectares of land, between Mangawhai Heads and the village, formerly known as Estuary Estate.
As well as around 550 dwellings, the developer Viranda Partners (see page 2) is promising to consider a medical centre, high school, supermarket, retirement village, recreational facilities, tourist accommodation and a light industrial area. Viranda chair Andrew Guest told the meeting that Mangawhai Central
would provide connectivity between the two existing centres, bringing people together with a collection of amenities, recreational facilities and housing options. Viranda hoped to have the necessary resource consents in place by April next year, with the first buildings ready to occupy in 2020.
Mr Guest said the hardest part of the project would be securing the capital so that the entire build could be completed within that timeframe. About 300 people attended the information meeting, where questions were raised about water supply and wastewater disposal, the involvement
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Mangawhai development of local contractors, congestion on Molesworth Drive and water quality in the harbour. Mr Guest felt the proposal had been well received. He added that the company was committed to openness and transparency, and further public meetings would be held as the project progressed. “We will keep the public fully engaged at all stages and where there is something they don’t want to happen, we won’t do it. “We will use local suppliers and workers where possible, and nothing we do will impact adversely on the harbour.” The prospect of getting a high school was well supported by the audience (see story on right) and there were requests for a pool and a cinema as well. It is understood that a tenant has been secured for the supermarket, but the name was not released due to a confidentiality agreement. Bayleys in the North will handle the sale of houses exclusively and Viranda is looking at setting up an office near Bayleys Mangawhai. Further info: mangawhaicentral.co.nz
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Mangawhai sections take a dive According to REINZ data, there were only 21 sections sold in Mangawhai in the first quarter of this year, compared to 31 during the same period last year. The median sale price was $302,500, which was 56 per cent higher than last year. The highest price paid was $1.2 million and the lowest was $190,000. Meanwhile, 31 houses sold between
January and March, compared to 39 in the same quarter last year. The median house price was $770,000, up 31 per cent on last year. The highest sale price for a house was $1.4 million and the lowest was $460,000. Top selling streets were Moir Point and Kedge Drive. Information courtesy, Bayleys Mangawhai
Secondary school idea dismissed “Currently, neither existing population levels nor the anticipated growth points to the need to establish a secondary school,” Ms Casey says. “This area is already zoned for two secondary schools – Otamatea High School and Rodney College. Both these schools have capacity available and the ability to grow, if required. “We are aware of the growth pressure at Mangawhai Beach School and are currently updating our analysis so we can examine the need for additional capacity there.”
The Ministry of Education has dismissed any suggestion that a secondary school will be built in Mangawhai anytime soon. Viranda chair Andrew Guest told a recent meeting at Mangawhai Museum that “they [the Ministry] want it to happen”. But Sector Enablement and Support deputy secretary Katrina Casey says that the Ministry met with the Kaipara District Council earlier this year regarding growth in Mangawhai and has reviewed the town’s population forecast.
Who are the developers? The Viranda Group is a 30-year-old property investment and management company, based in Takapuna. The chairman is barrister Andrew Guest who, according to the Viranda website, has been involved in more than 550
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Save Te Arai chair Aaron McConchie at the site of the controversial weir.
Anger flares over threat to native birds Auckland Council has served an abatement notice on developer Te Arai North Limited (TANL) following the construction of a modified weir that environmental groups say threatens the survival of New Zealand’s most endangered bird species. The Save Te Arai pressure group, the New Zealand Fairy Tern Charitable Trust and the Te Arai Beach Preservation Society complain that the weir on Te Arai stream threatens the New Zealand fairy tern, along with other birds such as the dotterel, Caspian terns, variable oystercatchers and pied stilts. Their concerns have been echoed by Council staff, who have noted the modified and heightened weir has the potential to impede the passage of fish and have adverse effects on fish spawning habitat. This, in turn, adversely affects the birds who depend on the fish for food. According to the Fairy Tern Charitable Trust, the fairy tern, with a population of just 35 to 40 birds, is especially at risk. Trust convener Heather Rogan says
the Te Arai stream mouth is one of the most important post-breeding flocking sites for the fairy tern, with at times, 50 per cent of the total population gathering there to feed and teach their young how to fish for themselves. “The importance of a reliable fishery at Te Arai for the survival of the NZ fairy tern cannot be overstated,” she says. Save Te Arai chair Aaron McConchie says in addition to the bird and fish threat, earthworks associated with the weir have narrowed the water channel, resulting in water flowing at a higher velocity, causing scouring downstream. Meanwhile, any flooding upstream is exacerbated as water is impeded because of the weir “choke point”. “All of the erosion problems we have had in recent months has only occurred after doing all this work. It’s clear human input has caused all these issues. We never had any issues in the past,” he says. Council compliance and resource consents manager Steve Pearce says the weir does not comply with Auckland Unitary Plan rules, nor does it have
a necessary resource consent. The abatement notice demands the weir either be removed or else TANL must apply for a retrospective consent. But TANL has dismissed the environmental concerns, saying claims of negative impacts on fish, birds and flooding are untrue. TANL spokesperson David Lewis says its ecologists have verified fish are able to cross the weir as they have for years and have photos of the fish passing through. He says TANL disagrees with Council on the appropriateness of the abatement notice, maintaining it has complied with planning rules. However, to resolve the matter it is open to reducing the height of the weir and securing a consent. Mr Lewis also dismissed a suggestion that the purpose of the weir was to prevent salt water travelling further upstream where a nearby pumping station extracts water to supply the Tara Iti Golf Club. “Due to our on-site storage capacity, we are able to manage our water take to avoid pumping any saline water,” he said.
The Northern Action Group (NAG) is committing resources to a campaign to make north Rodney’s case for leaving Auckland Council an election issue. The group has secured the services of political strategist and campaign manager Simon Lusk. On his LinkedIn profile online, Mr Lusk writes that he “specialises in third party campaigns to remove political opponents, especially at council level, and has a good network of potential candidates across the country”. Mr Lusk, who is based in the Hawkes Bay, is no stranger to Rodney. He was the campaign strategist for Rodney Councillor Greg Sayers at last year’s local government election, and Nicky Hager’s book Dirty Politics claimed that Mr Lusk and Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater were instrumental in installing National MP Mark Mitchell in Rodney in 2011, a claim that Mr Mitchell has strenuously denied. Mr Lusk attended NAG’s annual meeting held at Totara Park on June 26, where he spoke about the need for NAG to put pressure on politicians and bureaucrats who were stalling in the hope that the group would get tired and the issue would go away. He believed it wasn’t so much that Parliamentarians were against north Rodney leaving Auckland, but “they just don’t care”. The election was an opportunity to put pressure on them to get a commitment. Cr Sayers was the guest speaker at the meeting and gave a “warts and all” account of his first few months on Council, describing the frustrations of trying to raise the profile of some of Rodney’s issues such as road sealing. The meeting elected the following officers: Chair, Bill Townson, secretary Mona Townson, treasurer Trisha Pieterse, and committee – Chris Thoroughgood, Bill Foster, Barbara and John Maltby, and Lance Taylor.
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Targeted rates OK We would support a targeted rate for specific projects (MM June 14). The rate would have to be applied to properties in the area of benefit and could be used to raise loans, which would be underwritten by the targeted rate. Ms Houlbrooke’s suggestion that at the same time the transport levy over Rodney properties, for which we get negligible benefit, be abolished is fair. Of course, there is little chance that the Auckland Council would ever agree to relinquishing control to the local board or give up the revenue stream that they happily take out of Rodney. By far the greatest hope we have of gaining control over Rodney’s rates is to support the Northern Action Group campaign to form a separate Unitary Council for North Rodney. This campaign is entering a very interesting phase this election year and is not dead in the water by any means. John and Barbara Maltby, Point Wells
Back off Goff I read with dismay and alarm (MM June 14) Mayor Goff’s alleged ultimatum to Cr Sayers that there would be future consequences for Sayers and his constituents if he did not support Goff’s so-called “pillow tax”. Whether one agrees with the tax or not, Sayers was doing what he was supposed to do – representing the people that elected him. That’s democracy at work. Mayor
Goff’s response was an attack on it. It’s a bad omen. John Clements, Orewa
Salute to Sayers Fantastic to read that Cr Sayers is fighting hard for Rodney. It looks like he has a tough battle to get Mayor Goff to loosen the purse strings for Rodney. However, I admire the way he’s standing up against the Mayor and fighting so hard for us. It can’t be easy. Keep up the good work Cr Sayers. Alan Kendall, Snells Beach
Callous employers When the fire siren goes and the ambulance is on its way, our first thoughts are usually of our family and friends and hope it’s no one we know. But not so, apparently, to many employers. I was astonished to learn that most employers do not allow their employees, who are volunteers for these emergency services, to attend during their working hours. I wonder if the employer would be so reluctant if they thought it may be their house on fire, or their family in the crash? What sort of message is this sending to our up and coming young adults? Call me old-fashioned, but as an employer myself I would be honored to have such a community spirited employee, who spends their free time training to save lives instead of watching telly. Sarndra Urwin, Warkworth
Limiting speed We believe the current speed limit of 100kph on open roads is unsafe and should be reduced to 80kph, especially on State Highway One. From Warkworth to the tunnels, it is highly dangerous with its narrow winding roads, particularly at peak times, after dark and in bad weather. Can someone tell me why the speed limit on this dangerous stretch of road is 100kph, the same as the motorway which has two lanes and a safety barrier? Speed is the main cause of serious accidents, but the authorities and police don’t want to know. If they were serious about reducing our shocking road toll, they would reduce the speed
I have just read the article titled ‘Safety questions surround intersection’ (MM Jun 1). The problem is not the intersection, which is clearly and very visibly marked with Give Way signs, but driver inattention. The only thing I would add to this road issue is the large hedge, on the corner of Mansel and Woodcocks by Mitre 10, which blocks the view of vehicles coming out of Mansel Drive, giving drivers on Woodcocks Road no time to react to any careless driving. Nikki Amiss, Kaipara Flats
Competition winners Congratulations to Christine Domer who won a double pass to the Flavio Villani concert, compliments of Warkworth Music
Agricultural Show dates confirmed The next Warkworth A&P Lifestyle Show will be held on the January 27 with equestrian events continuing the following day. Chairman Allan Barber says closer to show day, the committee will be looking for additional coordinators for trade, entertainment and gate entry fee collection. “We were very encouraged this year by the success of being able to offer free children’s entertainment, which we hope to repeat, as well as the Silly Buggas Multisports Challenge. Following the show’s recent AGM,
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the committee members and structure were confirmed as follows: President, Mark Macky; vice-president, Genette Churches; secretary, Penny Webster; chairman Allan Barber; committee – Marjorie Blythen (cattle steward), Warren Churches (equestrian), Lorna Sanson (dog trials), Neil Sidwell (sheep shearing), John Sanderson (Puhoi axemen), Louise Graham (indoor) and Vanessa Barber (administration). Ian Ferguson remains as Patron and Jenny Ferguson will remain as Show Day Treasurer, with responsibility for prize money, gate receipts, cash floats and EFTPOS.
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Viewpoint Tracey Martin, NZ First MP martinmp@parliament.govt.nz
How is the Supercity working for you? In my June column last year, I remarked on Auckland Transport’s brilliant idea to offer local residents the ability to pay for their own road maintenance. The new policy would allow residents to fund the capital costs of sealing their road, including project design, consenting and construction. I asked at the time if these Rodney residents would then get a rates reduction. The silence was deafening. I guess not many of our locals took up this opportunity from AT because we now have our Local Board representatives trying to sell a “targeted rate”. This is not to future-proof our rural road. Oh no, this is just to pay for maintenance! So on one hand we have our local councillor telling us that he has managed to “hold back” rates rises, while on the other hand we have the chair of the Local Board advocating for a possible rate rise on Rodney residents only; on top of the 2.5 per cent for all of Auckland. I am not trying to blame the current elected officials representing Rodney. They are merely trying to work under the restrictions placed upon them by the rules set out when previous individual councils were dissolved to form the Auckland Council. Nor do I think that one should blame, as many do, Rodney Hide for the mess we now find ourselves in. Now I am not a fan of Mr Hide’s politics by any stretch of the imagination, but the mess we are now living under was all the National-led government’s idea. They took the Royal Commission report, mucked around with it, pushed the boundaries out all the way to Te Hana and rammed it down our throats. It is also the National-led Government who removed over $400 million of funding from rural roading over the last six years, which has led to the farcical situation we find ourselves in. We pay fuel tax when we will fill up our car, we pay roading tax via our registrations, we pay local government tax via our rates and we pay service tax (unfairly) on top of all these taxes. Now we are possibly looking at a “targeted tax” for our rural citizens, so they are able to drive down a decent road to get home. And they still tell us that we will be better off in the end. In closing, I just want to touch on another very serious issue. There have been several recent examples of delays in ambulance attendance, due to an insufficient number of available ambulances at certain times, and the single crewing of those that we do have when called to emergencies. I want to acknowledge those in our community who are doing their very best to provide care for those in need. But we cannot get away from the reality that these services are woefully underfunded, under-resourced and under extreme pressure in rural and semi-rural areas. I hope that all rural and semi-rural communities around New Zealand will make the sustainable and appropriate funding of emergency services a question for candidates and their parties as we head into the 2017 Election.
High-speed charger for Warkworth With strong trends showing rising electric vehicle (EV) use, Auckland energy company Vector will install a rapid electric charger at BP Warkworth within coming weeks. A rapid charger can charge a vehicle in about half the time a standard charger would take. Vector’s chief networks officer, Andre Botha, says new chargers are being placed in strategic locations based on popular routes and requests from the public. Figures released by the Ministry of Transport show a continuing rise in EV registrations across the country, with Auckland having the strongest concentration, and May being the highest month of registrations yet.
As I mentioned in my last column, an important part of the early works for the Pūhoi to Warkworth Project is the construction of the project’s Site Access Points (SAPs). Another of these points, known as ‘SAP7’, is being established on SH1 at Watson Road. This will be the main access for construction traffic into the southern sector of the project. Establishing the site access point involves closing the existing passing lane to create space for a safe right turn bay, wide median and wider shoulder. The passing lane will be closed for the entire construction period. These measures will enable construction traffic to enter and exit SH1 safely and with the least amount of disruption to the travelling public. For safety reasons, part of this work will be carried out between the hours of 9:00pm and 5:00am when traffic volumes are lower to minimise disruption. We will have ‘Stop-Go’ operations in place while we complete this work and there may be some minor delays. We ask you to please be patient when travelling through the work area to keep yourself and our teams safe.
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Board rubber stamps Greenways Plan Rodney Local Board unanimously approved a comprehensive Greenways Plan at its June meeting, which aims to radically improve walking, cycle and bridle connections between Puhoi and Pakiri and, at the same time, enhance recreational opportunities and decrease dependence on fossil fuels for transport. The dream of a world class recreational trail in the area was first floated by the Matakana Coast Trail Trust in 2014. The ensuing plan was prepared collaboratively between the trust and other community and trail interest groups and through public consultation. The backbone of the proposed plan is the already established Te Araroa National Trail, which runs from Cape Reinga to Bluff and through Rodney. New trails will be added and existing trails upgraded to realise the Greenways Plan. The plan will be reviewed on a regular basis as sections are completed. So far, the plan has identified an initial 29 priority routes that are ready to undergo further investigation and design. Now that the plan has been approved by the Rodney Local Board, the board will be ready to approve grants for feasibility studies and concept plans for individual routes. Matakana Coast Trail Trust chair and Rodney Local Board member Allison Roe says when major trails such as the Big Omaha Trail, The Mahurangi Coast Trail and the Snells Beach to Warkworth Trail are joined up, they will be of national significance, a huge attraction to tourists and a boon to the local economy. “It’s all about being free in the great outdoors on safe paths, and breathing in the most beautiful environments and scenery New Zealand has to offer,” she says.
From left, Sue and Jon Monk, Keith Edwards, Mark Spencely, Grant Crawshay and Brendan Wright clearing the planting site of gorse.
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She anticipates another benefit of the plan will be that cycle and walking trails will be incorporated as part of any new land subdivision, taking pressure off congested roads. She says the Greenways projects will be achieved through a “shared responsibility approach” where many stakeholders contribute, along with local businesses and targeted fundraising, to realise each element of the plan.
The call has gone out far and wide to volunteers that their efforts will be needed to help with a major planting day at Baddeleys Beach Creek on Saturday, July 15. The annual event is organised by the Baddeleys and Campbells Beach Landcare group, which would normally plant 200 to 300 trees. But this month, thanks to a grant from Trees that Count, the group has 3000 trees waiting to go in the ground. An organiser, Sue Crawshay, says the word has been put out to family and friends, and she knows of one group of 20 volunteers who will be coming from Auckland. Lunch will be provided. “The landcare group has been working in this area for about a decade,” Sue says. “The group has been busy forming a track along the creek and working like demons on removing gorse, woolly nightshade, convolvulus and tradescantia from the site, as well as trapping and baiting to remove weasels, stoats, possums, rabbits and rats.” So far this year they have caught 24 weasels, one stoat, 162 rats, 23 possums, four hedgehogs and 130 mice. Volunteers are asked to meet at the Baddeleys Beach Reserve at 9am. Info: Sue Crawshay 09 524 0414 or 021 929 029.
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Time to incentivise Despite widespread kerbside recycling schemes, and the (patchy) roll out of dedicated public recycling facilities across the country, especially in tourist hotspots, New Zealand’s roads and beaches are lined with rubbish containers. Plastic bottles wash up like a toxic tide, and potentially break down over time to litter the marine environment with ever smaller and more difficult plastic pieces. It chokes sea life and is mistaken for ‘food’ by all sorts of marine animals from fish to whales. Glass and plastic line our roadways, belying our clean green image, reducing visual amenity, and posing risks to animals and passers-by. Container rubbish is ugly, noxious, and seemingly a constant, intractable and problematic reflection on modern consumption. Plastic and glass drink bottles are a conspicuous reminder of the modern economy’s saturation with single use containers and our throw-away society. Despite home recycling efforts, New Zealand’s recycling rates stand at only about 25-40% of packaging waste produced. Recycling makes all the difference between a container becoming rubbish or a raw resource for reuse. If plastics, aluminium and glass are retrieved from the waste stream and cycled back into production, they can save energy, resources and landfill space. There has been high profile debate about banning plastic bags because of their environmental impacts, but increasingly there is also support for a container deposit scheme to encourage recycling of widespread plastic and glass containers. The NZ Product Stewardship Council (NZPSC) is petitioning the Minister for the Environment to reintroduce a bottle deposit scheme offering ‘cash for containers’. They have been supported by Local Government New Zealand, representing all the councils in the country. The NZPSC says reintroduction of such a scheme is ‘inevitable’ and just a matter of time. Across the ditch, some Australian states have container deposit schemes. So do diverse nations such as Fiji, Germany, Finland, Estonia, Croatia, Iceland and Israel. Ireland introduced its container deposit recycling scheme in 1799. But container deposit schemes face strong opposition from ‘Big Beverage’, who have received about $7 million in recycling grants from the Government since 2008. Coca-Cola et al spend millions around the world lobbying and taking legal action to prevent such schemes coming into place, even though the cost for producers is only about one cent per container. The virtue of container deposit schemes is that the buyer of the product pays at sale, potentially providing a disincentive to purchase (hence soft drink companies’ opposition?), but those who return the container are rewarded, and clean up the environment at the same time. Envision New Zealand, a community development business advocacy and environmental organisation, says 2400 jobs could be created from such a scheme here, potentially saving $36-40 million in clean-up costs, diverting an estimated 45,000 tonnes of resource from landfills per annum, and lifting recycling rates to 85-98%, generating pocket money and real funds for keen kids and community groups. ‘Cash for container’ schemes are another recycling programme whose time has come.
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Every week, Frances Wilson-Fitzgerald endures the long commute from her home in Matakana to central Auckland to coach promising singers to perform on the world’s greatest stages. But she refuses to take a cent in payment, despite being a mentor to some of New Zealand’s foremost young opera stars. On Queen’s Birthday, she was appointed Officer of New Zealand, Order of Merit. She spoke to Mahurangi Matters editor James Addis about her ongoing love affair with music and teaching.
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was at St Mary’s College in Ponsonby and started learning the piano when I was 12 – which is rather late for the piano. We did not have a piano at home, so I had to practice at the school. But during the piano lessons and even during academic lessons you could hear singing floating across the playground. Sister Mary Leo taught there. She became a Dame in the end and, of course, taught Kiri Te Kanawa and Dame Malvina Major. I got fascinated with the sound of those voices, and when I got sufficiently capable on the piano, about three or four years later, I accompanied someone singing like that, and then I just realised, “Oh my God, this is the most incredible thing”. didn’t sing myself, but I got a scholarship to study piano in London at the Royal Academy of Music in the early 60s. I was 19 when I went to London. I went by sea because as a family we couldn’t afford to buy the ticket for the plane. Well, I went straight to a student flat. There were three of us. I was in heaven. It was a great time, a really great time. I did miss my family though. I could not afford to go home for about nine years. Those were the days of letter writing and I wrote letters every week, including a big letter to my mother and father. Sadly, my father died of a heart attack within the first eight months of my being in London. He was very young, only 42. My mother said I’m not going to let you come home for the funeral. If you come home, I’m not going to be able to let you go again. That was very tough. had the scholarship for five years and then I started teaching piano. People who were really good at other instruments – fiddle players or bassoon players – had to learn piano, so I ended up teaching them. But in truth, the singing appealed to me the most. I ended up playing for singing teachers as an accompanist. I must have sat in millions of lessons from millions of singing teachers, so I really learned the craft. I’d listen to what the teachers were saying. You do this thing and you do that other thing, and the tone improves and the sound improves.
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There’s a breathing system to sort out and there are resonance chambers to sort out. They taught how to pay attention to diction and still keep the breath moving, and how to attend to the tongue so that it’s not always blocking your throat. It’s a major, major study. It takes years to become a great singer, it really does. And I learned that good accompanists help the singer – subtly help. They help colour the music and they reinforce what the singer wants to do. I was fanatically interested, and I had to be because it can be a hard life. hen in the 1980s I moved to America where I got to study with some of the world’s great opera singers of the last 50 years. People like Madame Virginia Zeani, Nicola Rossi Lemeni, Lucia Albanase and Renata Scotto. They were all exponents of what is known as the Bel Canto style of music
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– a very expressive style. Sister Mary Leo taught that style. And there I was learning it from some of the very best and that sound permeated through me. n the late 80s, I was employed by Indiana University as a vocal coach and later moved to New York as a freelance teacher in voice. Having been an accompanist made me a better teacher because I had got into so many famous teachers’ studios. And in America I was surrounded by great, great teachers. As long as one’s ears were like blotting paper you soaked it up, and mine were like blotting paper. n 2001, I co-founded the Auckland Opera Studio with my husband Stephen Fitzgerald and Dr John Peebles and his wife, Gillian Peebles, who live in Leigh. They are part of the board. You really can’t do anything
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without a board and without people to support you. This Order of Merit really belongs as much to them as it does to me. The idea of the studio is to train promising young New Zealand singers and give them the opportunity to perform at the very highest levels. I teach for nothing. Everything is free, otherwise the students would not be able to afford it. They come out of university and they are penniless, but with the right training they can have the hope of a brilliant career. In addition to teaching, we give them the opportunity to give recitals, such as our winter series at the Vivian Gallery. The last one of 2017 will be on July 15. We can’t afford to produce an opera every year, but we fundraise madly and put one on every two years. For students to make it, they must get good enough to win competitions. So they might go to Australia and win some of the big competitions there. Then staff in the overseas colleges – famous colleges – prick up their ears and they listen to these singers in a different way. They then use their influence to push those singers into good parts so that they stand out from the crowd. mong those I’ve had the pleasure to teach include Marlena Devoe, who performed in our very first winter series at the Vivian. She has since accepted a place at the Mediterranean Opera Studio – a very prestigious teaching institute in Sicily. She’s been chosen to sing the lead part of Mimi in La Boheme in Sicily. She is also in the final of the Belvedere competition in Moscow – the biggest competition for young opera singers in the world. Then there is Pene Pati, who is playing the duke in Rigoletto in San Francisco, which is the big tenor part, the Pavarotti part. On stage with him is his brother, Amatai, whom I’ve also taught. They are doing so well. Coming up in September, the studio is putting on Vincenzo Bellini’s Capuleti e i Montecchi (Romeo and
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Juliet) at the Mercury Theatre in Auckland. Fittingly, the two leads, Madison Nonoa and Filipe Manu, are boyfriend and girlfriend and straight after the performance they are flying off to take up year-long scholarships at the Guildhall opera programme in London. They will be joined by two other members of the cast, Fredi Jones and Benson Wilson. Hundreds apply for the scholarships every year, but only 20 are accepted. teach a lot of Maori and Pacific Island singers. They have a natural talent. I’ve no idea why. It’s a great mystery, and I love it. They seem to be more aware of what their body is doing. If I say, “Your tongue is really blocking your throat and the air is not coming up as well as it should,” they will sing it again and say, “Oh yes, I see what you mean.” o I listen to popular music? Of course, I love it all. I love Adele, I love Beyoncé. I can see merit in them all. Judy Garland is one of my favourite singers ever. Adele would have made a very good opera singer, but she is earning money and she’s happy and she’s making millions of people in the world very happy. She’s darn good. And Elvis? Who can beat Elvis? That very low sound in his voice, so gorgeous. I loved him. But opera is different. It’s a disciplined art. You have to obey what is on the paper. It’s a higher art form because the music is written by geniuses and it has survived two or three hundred years. They were great minds, and it takes great minds to perform their works.
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Group steps in to bolster Warkworth planning efforts Low Levels of detail (Specificity)
Potential commercial centres, possible school and community facility sites, and cycleways and walkways will be discussed at a consultation event at the Warkworth Town Hall on Sunday July 9. A group of planners, engineers and other professionals has prepared a proposal on the potential use of land in future urban areas in Warkworth and is seeking community feedback. The proposal is intended to generate community thought and discussion to inform a community-led spatial plan, which will be submitted to Auckland Council so it can be used for detailed structure planning and future zone changes. Group members Ian Hutchinson and Rachel Callender say the proposal aims to speed up the whole process, which is vitally important if Warkworth has any hope of developing in a coordinated way. “Just look around – development is happening all over the place at speed,” Mr Hutchinson says. “Our community is passionate about Warkworth, so we need to activate some serious discussion now if we want to have the planning framework in place to ensure Warkworth remains a great place to live.” Based on what is known about the area from the Unitary Plan’s land-use rules and what key agencies such as the NZ Transport Agency, Auckland Transport and the Ministry of Education are currently planning, the group’s proposal considers: • routes for arterial roads, cycleways, walkways and greenway trails • broad areas for residential, open spaces, and industrial land use • general locations for core community facilities such as schools and active recreational areas • general locations for future commercial centres • the interrelationships between all the above The group has been meeting with Council officers, elected members and various agencies, as well as working alongside a town centre community forum,
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to develop the proposal. “We’re hoping the community will rally and share this document far and wide so we get good feedback and can use it to get Council to bring forward planning for Warkworth,” Mr Hutchinson says. The document can be uploaded from the Talking
Warkworth and Warkworth community Facebook pages or by request to email wwspatial@gmail.com. Any community groups or organisations that would like a presentation about the proposal can also make the request via email. “As volunteers we want to reach as many people as we can so we’re asking for the community to get behind us and help get the word out,” Ms Callender says. The group expects the consultation to run until Sunday August 6. Members of the group are engineers Ian Hutchinson and Roger Thorburn, property valuer Steve Jack, surveyor Tony Hayman, communications consultant Rachel Callender, planners Burnette Macnicol and David Hay, and retired farmer and former councillor John Wynyard. The consultation on July 9 will run from 1pm to 4pm.
Mayor supports spatial plan Auckland Mayor Phil Goff has supported a community-driven spatial planning process, which is underway in Warkworth. At a meeting with Mahurangi Matters on June 21, Mr Goff acknowledged that the growth predicted for Warkworth over the next couple of decades would completely change the town. “The mood I detect is that while growth will bring some advantages, the Warkworth community does not want to lose the character of the town,” Mr Goff said. “I applaud the local initiative of well-informed and competent people to do that (Spatial Plan) work and, hopefully, work with Council officers.” Mr Goff said that while the rules of the Unitary Plan were more permissive, it was important to make sure that local people had the opportunity to
shape what their community looked like. “Creating a Supercity doesn’t mean people lose any influence over the actual design of how they want Warkworth to look and what they want to protect and preserve, and how they want to see the town develop. “I hope the Local Board and Ward councillor picks up and refers these sentiments through to us. That is important. I would also hope Council officials are responsive to those views and the sort of sentiments that are being expressed. I encourage the Warkworth group to maintain its efforts and get its voice heard.”
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School hangs pool funding aspirations on plastic peg
After three applications to establish off licences in Snells Beach failed, two have now been approved.
Snells liquor outlets to double Snells Beach is set to have two new liquor stores on Mahurangi East Road despite local opposition. The first application for an off-licence in the old Video Ezy premises was approved in March. The second, approved in May, will be established at the former Bayleys office at 334 Mahurangi East Road. Three attempts were made to open a liquor store at that site between 2009 and 2011, but all failed due to local opposition. Sri Venkataramana Holdings submitted the most recent application. A total of 32 submitters, including
Snells Beach School and Algies Bay Residents and Ratepayers Association, opposed it. Just over 40 submitters, including Springboard and Snells Beach Ratepayers opposed the former Video Ezy site application, submitted by Boutique Wines. Three petitions with 292 signatures were also presented against the application. There are currently two liquor outlets in Snells Beach at the Four Square and Super Liquor, both on Mahurangi East Road.
Jazz at the Sawmill Terry & Friends are returning to perform another informal concert at the Leigh Sawmill. The trio comprises Terry Hicks on piano, Barbara Hamilton on bass, and Colin Jarvis on harmonica. They will be joined by one or two guest vocalists playing classic songs from The Great American Songbook covering the 30s to the 80s. There will be no cover charge. Payment by donation only. They will be at the Sawmill on Sunday July 23, from 5pm to 7pm.
A small green plastic clothes peg has become an unlikely, but highly successful, fundraiser for Leigh School, thanks to a quirky virtual ‘buy and sell’ scheme that’s gone viral in the community. ‘Miss Peg’ was just another clothespin until early March, when David Crockett spotted her in a photo of a pile of bricks advertised on the Love Leigh Facebook page. He decided to buy the peg “because it was lighter than the pile of bricks” and then put it back up for sale on the same page as follows: “Good green peg … One owner, heaps of spring. I paid $5 for it … $1 for her, $4 for the school. If it gets sold all around town, it will be a very good peg. Any offers? Proceeds to Leigh School.” David’s daughter, Melissa CrockettJoyoue, then bought Peg and readvertised her and before too long locals were queuing up to buy Peg and spend some time with her. Wild adventures, much dressing up and many online photos have followed, with Peg spotted stand up paddleboarding, diving, playing golf and tree cutting, as well as attending weddings, parties, Matariki ceremonies and the Lions rugby match in Whangarei. She even had a go at reporting for Mahurangi Matters. All of Peg’s sale proceeds are going towards the $7000 total needed to re-seal and paint the lining of Leigh School’s swimming pool. Melissa
Peg at Mahurangi Matters: “It was clear she could grasp facts quickly, had a good grip on local matters and was tenacious enough not to let go of a good lead,” staff observed.
Crockett-Joyoue, who looks after communications for the school, says she originally thought selling Peg might raise about $50 if they were lucky, but by early July, more than $1750 had been made. “What I really like is that it’s the community that has really run with this, not just people connected with the school,” she says. “Leigh has such a strong community feeling, but also a sense of quirkiness, and that’s encouraging people to get inspired and involved. Peg’s movements takes a bit of managing, but it’s well worth it.” Info: Love Leigh Peg on Facebook
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Twenty groups share Rodney Local Board grants The Rodney Local Board has declined funding requests for fitness equipment at Omaha, a walkway at Snells Beach and a fitness trail at Coatesville, despite Board members supporting the projects “in principle”. At the Board’s monthly meeting last month, Chair Beth Houlbrooke said the Board was constrained by an Auckland Council finance policy around granting money for capital works. “It’s been challenged,” she said. “We set our budgets at the beginning of the year and we actively encouraged these types of applications but because of this policy, we will now be looking to other measures to support them.” One avenue of support being explored is the Board’s community facilities work programme. Omaha Beach Community Inc was seeking $10,000 for GymGuru exercise station equipment and installation, while the Snells Beach Ratepayers and Residents Association asked for $10,000 to help develop the Hamatana Road to Grange Street cycleway. As a result of the change in policy, the Board was able to increase the allocation to some groups over and above the amounts requested. This included the Buckleton Beach Ratepayers and Residents Association, which got $800 more for rabbit control, and the Warkworth District Museum, which got an extra $1000 towards the purchase of acid free storage containers. The total community grants budget this financial year was $269,000. A total of $146,690 was allocated under quick response grants round one, two and three earlier in the year, leaving a balance of $122,310. This was topped up with $46,000 from the Board’s Local Discretionary Initiatives Community Response Fund budget to give a total budget for this round of funding of $168,310. The Board received 43 applications totalling just over $283,000.
Local Board support for the Kowhai Festival Big Day Out is crucial to the event’s success.
Successful applicants were: • Kawau Volunteer Coastguard, $2190 to provide safety equipment for volunteers towards six pairs of reflective safety overalls and six Personal Locator Beacons • Royal NZ Plunket Society, $9824 for the upgrading of the Wellsford Plunket Room, including a new outdoor shade sail and a new heat pump for the main rooms • Rodney Neighborhood Support, $3407 towards the cost of the Rodney coordinator for the Safer Communities programme • Kaipara Memorial Returned and Services Association, $6302 towards the cost of a heat pump and the installation of curtains and window blinds, kitchen unit and audio unit • North Shore Hospice Trust – Warkworth Wellsford Hospice, $12,872 towards the cost of installing a CCTV security system in and around the new hospice building • Warkworth War on Weeds, $2396 for the Warkworth War on Weeds – weed amnesties project towards advertising, skip bin hire and weed disposal costs
• Forest and Bird Warkworth Area, $3200 to install interpretive plant signage • Pohutukawa Trust NZ, $10,000 towards the cost of labour and materials for the contracted hunters to carry a combined possum and wallaby cull on Kawau Island • Buckleton Beach Ratepayers and Residents Association, $1800 towards rabbit control on the peninsula • Muriwai Environmental Action Community Trust, $13,050 for the nursery • Kowhai Festival Society, $10,000 towards operational costs for the “Huge Day Out” • Rawinia Henderson Historic, $7965 towards the restoration and preservation of the William Sullivan’s Grave • Warkworth and District Museum Society, $4633 towards preserving important archival material through the purchase of acid free storage containers • Kaukapakapa Residents and Ratepayers, $20,000 towards the Kaukapakapa nature playspace equipment • Mahurangi Sport and Recreation
Collective, $12,000 towards the concept and design of the Mahu Bike and Skate Park • Punganui Station, $14,350 towards the cost of feasibility studies to join the greenways tracks and earthworks requirements for Punganui Station • Kumeu Brass, $10,000 towards architect fees, consent costs and the building of the band room extension for the bandroom building extension on Waitakere Road • Harbour Sport Trust, $10,821 towards programme delivery costs and subsidies for participants for the “Learn to Ride” school holiday programme from July 2017 to April 2018 • Riverhead Beautification Society, $8500 towards planting projects at Victoria Street Road Reserve and Wharf Road Reserve • Riverhead Community Courts Club, $5000 towards restoration work. Declined The main grounds for declining grants were that they did not meet the criteria or were outside the Local Board area. Requests from the following groups were declined: Vault Magazine, Connected Media Charitable Trust, North Rodney Blue Light, Anglican Parish of Warkworth for the Warkworth Wellsford Seasons for Growth project, Literacy Auckland North, Bays Youth Community Trust, Victim Support, Youthline Auckland Charitable Trust, Gecko New Zealand Trust, Rawinia Henderson Historic, Helensville Tennis Club, Hibiscus Coast Youth Council, Omaha Beach Community, Snells Beach Ratepayers and Residents Association, Coatesville Residents and Ratepayers, Auckland Youth Performing Arts Centre, Dance Therapy NZ, Raeburn House, Dress for Success, Project Litefoot Trust, Gymnastics Community Trust and Badminton North Harbour.
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Memorable yarns These stories were told to me by Lucy Moore, Al Hamilton, Mervyn Morrison and Frank Hudson – all old friends from the Warkworth/Kaipara flats area and all now deceased … During the First World War, spinster Phoebe Southgate lived in a villa, now 24 Pulham Road, Warkworth. Her bachelor brother, Walter, a carrier by trade, lived down by the bowling green. However, Walter drove his cart up the hill each evening to dine with his sister. When Lucy Moore and her sisters, Hilda and Beryl, were walking home from the old Percy Street school, they would sometimes call in to have a chat with Phoebe. This was well before electricity came to Warkworth. Phoebe was often to be found stirring a pot of stew on the Shacklock wood stove. A drop of moisture would tremble on the end of her nose, and the girls would wait on tenterhooks for the inevitable to happen. They were rarely disappointed! One time, Phoebe had hurt her leg and Mrs John Morrison, on hearing this, decided to pay a neighbourly visit. She found Phoebe propped up in bed with her legs stretched out in front of her. Mrs Morrison patted the nearest leg and said, “Oh, you poor dear! Your leg is as big as a bucket.” Great was her embarrassment when Phoebe told her that she was patting the wrong leg! Another pair of unmarried siblings, Walter and Bella Bowman, lived in the valley sweeping down from the base of the Dome. Walter once caught the evening steamer from Warkworth to Auckland. When the boat cleared the Mahurangi Heads, the seas became choppy. A passenger coming up on deck saw Walter emptying his stomach over the side. He questioned Walter about his reaction to the rolling vessel, and Walter replied in sepulchral tones, “I drank a gallon of milk today, and it’s a-a-all tu-u-urned to cu-urds!” One day, Fred Dill was driving from the Kaipara Hills to Warkworth in his Model T Ford. After turning onto the highway at the corner, now known as Keith Hay Corner, he saw the figure of Bella Bowman, clad in voluminous black skirts, walking along the side of the road. He pulled up in a gentlemanly way and asked if she would like a lift. Bella looked him up and down in a suspicious manner, then climbed in. She opened her bag, took out a small hand gun, and laid it on her lap. There was no mistaking the message she was sending. During the Depression, unemployed men would walk the highways and byways, looking for work. Fred was fixing a roadside fence on his Kaipara Hills farm when one of these men approached him and asked if he had any work. Fred asked him what work he could do. “I could help with the shearing.” “It’s not shearing time.” “ I could help with the lambing.” “It’s not lambing time.” “Well what time is it?” “It’s tupping time.” “Then I could help with the tupping.” Tupping referred to the period when rams are sent out to impregnate ewes. Fred always told this story at the annual RSA dinners, and it kept the local people in stitches of laughter for several years. When Arthur Hudson was clearing the bush on his Kaipara Flats farm he would employ Wenzl (pronounced “Wince”) Wech to pull out the logs with his team of bullocks. Wenzl kept his savings in a tobacco tin, which he would leave on top of a fence post while he was working. Arthur’s young son, Frank, would often take the notes out of the tin and count them, thinking longingly of the motorbike that he could buy with that sort of money. Somebody once convinced Wenzl that he should put some of his money in the bank to keep it safe, so Wenzl reluctantly deposited £5. Sometime later he went to withdraw the money and found that most of it had disappeared in bank charges. “I knew dem bloody banks was like dat!” Kae Hepana was an old Maori gentleman who lived for quite some time around Kaipara Flats. One evening, just on dusk, he and a mate were riding their horses home when they came to the Grave Bridge. They stopped and held a confabulation on whether or not they should cross the bridge, or ride home the long way. The trouble with the bridge was that a bushman had once been buried nearby after being killed by a falling tree, and at night time the kehua (ghost) came out. The result of the discussion was that they would take the risk and ride across so, said Kae, “We pulled our hats over our faces and we gallop. Hori Mighty, how we gallop!”
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Money stressed? There are many unforeseen events that happen in our everyday lives that can cause money stress, sleepless nights, relationship issues and, in extreme cases, depression or suicide. Usually these are one-off events such as a death in the family, serious accidents, illness and hospitalisation, marriage break ups, criminal convictions or job loss, but they have the potential to cause major financial hardship. These can impact your finances to the point where you feel totally stressed and don’t know what to do. Over the past 28 years in the finance industry, I have seen them all. In times of stress it is a natural reaction to ignore the problem or hide the problem in the hope it will resolve itself and go away. Unfortunately, this is the worst course of action you can take and can cause the issue to compound and cost you extra money, time and stress. Money stress is many different things to many people – it might be that you cannot pay all your bills on time, you might be behind with loan or car payments, you might have missed a mortgage or rental payment. So, what should you do if you find yourself in this situation? The first thing is to talk to someone trusted (family or friend) or get some good advice from a trusted adviser. Do not ignore the problem; it won’t go away. Secondly, if it is a money or budgeting issue (i.e., less cash coming in than what you are spending) then seek out the help of a budgeting adviser. There are a number in Rodney who offer this as a free service. Citizens Advice Bureau or familybudgeting.org.nz are a great start. They can help you plan a budget and help prioritise who and what to pay first. If you have loans in arrears or have missed mortgage payments, talk over options with the lender or bank you have borrowed from. They have obligations to help you under the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act. But you need to act quickly as there are time limits and limits on the number of missed payments you can get help with. See consumerprotection.govt.nz for full details of your rights. If things have gone too far and you have been issued with a formal demand, threatened with legal action or have had a mortgagee sale notice sent to you, then you need to speak to your lawyer for advice and speak to a good financial adviser to understand what can be done. Over the past 15 years I have saved over 100 people from losing their homes in a mortgagee sale. I understand how the banks and lenders work, and by providing them with a clear strategy on how to resolve the problem, we can usually get them to cease any action and work with us for a resolution. Having money issues can be a stressful time, but understand there are many other people in the same or worse situation than you. With some good advice and intervention, you can resolve these issues, get back on track and your finance woes sorted. You are the one in control!
Warkworth future on agenda Warkworth residents are being asked to join a conversation on what the town wants in terms of public space, heritage and revitalising the CBD. A community session will be held at the Warkworth Town Hall on Sunday, July 9, from 1pm to 4pm. The event is being organised in conjunction with a spatial planning consultation (see story page 11). The session is being hosted by a collaboration of existing groups and residents from Warkworth supported by the Rodney Local Board. Spokesperson Cissy Rock says local people have been saying that they want a chance to shape how the town and wider district develops, and they do not want to leave it in the hands of outside “experts”. The key points identified so far include: • A clean and usable river • Connecting the river better to the town with more places to gather
and sit • More amenities, activities and attractions along the river • Great networks of cycleways and walkways • Maximising space for people, not cars • Improving public spaces in the town and revitalising the CBD • Enhancing the special heritage and character features of the township and river. “We want to know what the community feels is most important, how they think it might happen and see if there are any opportunities to implement new community projects and initiatives,” Cissy says. “We are also keen for people to start thinking about creating a community vision for the town.” Info: Cissy Rock 021964884; Cissy@ communitythink.nz or look for “Incredible Warkworth” on Facebook.
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matakanadining The joy of food in all its guises is one of the things that makes Matakana tick and one of its principal drawcards for the thousands of visitors who flock to the region every year. Growing, sharing, selling, cooking, creating – from roadside stalls to restaurants, and market stalls to chefs’ kitchens, there are countless ways the passionate cooks and producers of Matakana share their knowledge and enthusiasm with the world. For a village its size, the sheer number and diversity of outlets focusing on food is phenomenal, and visitors and residents are genuinely spoilt for choice. From a dozen different street foods at the Saturday markets to coffee and patisserie at the many cafes, through to lazy lunches and degustation dinners, even the most fussy (or allergy-prone) eater will find something to suit their mood, palate and pocket. However, while the faces of shopkeepers and stallholders may be familiar in the village, it’s not often that diners get to meet who’s cooking in many of the region’s most popular kitchens. Their stories are just as interesting as anyone else’s in the melting pot of Matakana locals and migrants, so we decided to get to know a few of them a little better …
Atesh Ram, Plume Vineyard Restaurant and Cafe How did you get into cooking professionally? My grandfather was a local chef in a small village in Fiji and so I think it’s in my blood to cook. And I became a chef as I admired my mother’s cooking – I was her little helper. What are your most popular dishes? Modern fusion dishes with a touch of classic ingredients. What are the best and worst parts of the job? Best is the new menu planning with creative ideas and implementing it, and doing large numbers for a la carte in a short span of two to three hours! Worse is nothing so far, as I am still in the same industry and profession for 17 years. What inspires you – how do you decide on new menu items?
Being creative and seeing the “wow” impression on customers’ face is my inspiration. Do you cook much at home, or is it too much like work? I cook at home on my days off to have involvement with my wife and son, and sometimes even to compete with my wife! What is your favourite comfort food? My mother’s version of duck curry with dhal soup, roti and rice.
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Dan O’Donnell, Jin Jin How did you get into cooking professionally? It was a huge mistake, I wish I’d never done it … No, not really, it was because my family was involved in restaurants. They had a cafe in Vulcan Lane in Auckland in the late 70s. I used to get the bus after school from out west and made my pocket money there for the very first Space Invaders … I was destined to be involved. I did half my apprenticeship in Australia, in Kiama, south of Sydney, and my final years at AUT. We moved up here in 1998. What are your most popular dishes? Our roast pork steamed buns. And the Thai green curry. What are the best and worst parts of the job? It’s a fun industry, and you meet lots of interesting people. And being small has its advantages; you can hold back on staff and purchasing. Hospitality is a seven day a week industry, you have to turn it all around and do it again every day, that’s probably the worst – it’s every day. What inspires you – how do you decide on new menu items? The change of seasons more than anything, it gives you that something to be excited about, that next range of products that are coming in and
working out what you want to do that’s new, and bringing back old favourites. And you can have a crack at a few things you couldn’t get to last year. Do you cook much at home, or is it too much like work? I cook at home a little bit; sometimes, not all the time. If I do cook at home, it’s usually a family activity, so we might make lasagne and I’ll get the pasta machine out and the kids have a crack at it. What is your favourite comfort food? Noodles in broth.
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Lindy Neumann, The Tuck Shop How did you get into cooking professionally? I did a cookery course at the Cordon Bleu culinary school in London when I was 17. I think I’d had my name down for that since I was 13 and decided that was what I was going to do. I went on to do boardroom cookery and worked at a boutique hotel in Kensington. I married a Kiwi and moved to NZ in 1991 and worked in the head office of the National Bank in Wellington. Then, when we moved to Auckland, this was our bolthole and we eventually moved up here. What are your most popular dishes? Our burgers and our salads. What are the best and worst parts of the job?
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The best part is pleasing people with the food that you cook for them. The worst aspect is that it can be very stressful, having to get everything done. What inspires you – how do you decide on new menu items? Reading very current magazines and books; Pinterest is good, and the internet. And watching what’s happening in Auckland. Do you cook much at home, or is it too much like work? I love cooking at home. I’ll cook at home on my day off because I love cooking. What is your favourite comfort food? Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. Or maybe a roast chicken.
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Phuong Graham, Viet Q Foods How did you get into cooking professionally? In a roundabout kind of way. When we first arrived in NZ, I was nine and there was very minimal Vietnamese food available back then, so my Mum needed to learn how to cook all our traditional foods, and I grew up learning alongside her. I ended up getting my Bachelor of Technology and majoring in Food Science from Massey University. I worked in the wine industry for eight years, but then decided I wanted to do something that Vietnamese food! It takes me home. We I really loved, which was also flexible have dinner with my family once a week, and they inspire me with what so I could be there for my boys. they make for us for dinner. Also, What are your most popular dishes? because our customer base is all locals To be honest, they are all pretty much at the food truck, we chat to them all on a par with each other, it just depends and get feedback on what they want the on the week, but if I had to pick one, it special for the next week to be. Some would have to be the lemongrass chilli people come to the truck and say they’ve chicken with vermicelli in the truck been to Vietnam recently and tried this and then the rice paper rolls and pork dish and loved it, can I put it on the steam buns at the market. We have menu! So then I go off and check all my quite a different group of customers cookbooks, talk to my Mum and try my in the truck and at market; in the food best to get that on the menu. truck we get all local people who we see Do you cook much at home, or is it and catch up with every week, and at too much like work? the market we get more tourists and Yes! I love cooking and do it all the day trippers from Auckland. time, and my boys are big foodies, What are the best and worst parts of too, so I love cooking for them as they the job? are my biggest fans. It doesn’t feel like I think the main reason I do what I do work because I can cook anything I is I get to see people enjoy my food and want and not just Vietnamese, and I that is the best thing about my job. The also love baking. worst part? Probably the paperwork. What is your favourite comfort food? What inspires you – how do you Whatever my Mum makes for dinner! decide on new menu items? Actually, Mum makes the best duck I have always been a big foodie and a congee in1 the world, so I guess that’s Sawmill-Cafe-Anchor-Advert-220617-01.pdf 22/06/17 2:47 PM biased one at that, because I just love my comfort food.
Tim Higgins, Leigh Sawmill Cafe How did you get into cooking professionally? I really wanted to be a fighter pilot but I literally couldn’t fit into the planes. I was too tall and broad; I literally couldn’t move in there. And it was a fighter pilot or nothing. Cooking was my second love. I went to college and one day there was an opening in the best restaurant in town at the time, and that was that. I lived in Auckland for 15 years and we used to come and stay at the Sawmill, then moved up here nine years ago. What are your most popular dishes? Soft shell taco platters, our fish of the day, burgers, and lots of pizza. What are the best and worst parts of the job? Having service run smoothly. Every meal you have the chance to do it really right or really wrong, and
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Shoori Khosravi, The Hungry Elephant How did you get into cooking professionally? A passion for cooking runs in our family – my grandmother could make everything taste absolutely delicious, even her fried eggs, and my mum was the same. I travelled with my husband throughout Iran, which is a vast country with so many different influences, and we picked up an encyclopedic knowledge of different foods and restaurants. We ran a very successful, very avant garde restaurant in Iran for 12 years. We came to NZ in 2011 and I was so keen to try the lamb and dairy, but after a couple of months I couldn’t touch it, and started to be vegetarian, and then vegan, so I started to adapt Persian cuisine to vegan, and the results were fantastic. I started working at Wise Cicada (in Newmarket), then opened this business a year ago, and am now working on my own in the kitchen. What are your most popular dishes? People are very fond of our organic salads, and our soups and hot meals of the day. What are the best and worst parts of the job? Innovation – you can try new ideas and it’s really gorgeous in the kitchen. And when you see the smile on people’s faces it makes you so happy, it’s so rewarding. The most difficult part is the paperwork. What inspires you – how do you decide on new menu items? I love serving food to others and
knowing that I’m contributing to their health and vitality, and that makes me inspired all the time. I don’t ever feel tired! Do you cook much at home, or is it too much like work? My husband and I are both raw vegans, so it’s not cooking so much, but I love making food for everyone. Sometimes I fast, and my husband says I make the most beautiful food when I am fasting. What is your favourite comfort food? A sprouted bread, which I’m making in the dehydrator, made of buckwheat, and serving it with dehydrated caramelized onion, tomato relish and marinated shiitake mushrooms.
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New sponsor for fashion parade The annual Lions Club of Kowhai Coast fundraising fashion parade, normally sponsored by long-time fashion store Dorothys, which closed down last year, is set to continue with new sponsor Shadze of Lace. Shadze of Lace is a Mahurangi -based fashion label, established in 1985. The clothes range from casual through to special occasion outfits for women in sizes 10 to 22. Owner Tracey Paton says she was honoured the club asked her to be involved. Accessories will again showcase the range of stock at Not Just Hats. The parade will be held at Bowls Warkworth, Mill Lane, on Tuesday July 18. Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Entry is $15 and includes supper. All proceeds will benefit the Warkworth community. Tickets are available from Shadze of Lace in Elizabeth Street or by phoning Sue at Kowhai Coast Lions on 425 6161. Pictured going through the Shadze of Lace range for the show are Sue Bateman (left) and Tracey Paton.
Renowned soprano returns Internationally acclaimed lyric soprano Anna Leese-Guidi will be returning to Warkworth in July with the Takiri Ensemble – an exciting vocal ensemble of New Zealand opera singers. Anna Leese recently lived in Warkworth, where she led Mahurangi College’s Performing Arts Academy. Music lovers will also remember her performance in the 2015 fundraising concert for the Warkworth Town Hall, where she was accompanied by Stephen de Pledge. Anna’s impressive successes to date include her debut at the 2006 BBC Proms and a number of opera gala concerts with Jose Carreras. She has sung at Covent Garden, the Royal Albert Hall and has performed for the Canadian Opera Company, Opera Köln, Flanders Opera, Opera Holland Park and our own New Zealand Opera. Anna is now based in Dunedin. The Takiri Ensemble features talented New Zealand musicians – four opera singers and a pianist. Anna will be joined by experienced mezzo-soprano Maaike Beekman, who has performed widely in Europe and New Zealand. Tenor Cameron Barclay spends six months of each year touring the world as one of the Ten Tenors and baritone
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Robert Tucker appears regularly with New Zealand Opera. Kirsten Robertson is one of New Zealand’s most experienced vocal accompanists. She has worked with such greats as Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Dame Malvina Major. The programme will include solos, duos and ensembles by a wide range of composers. The first half of the concert will be devoted to the lieder of Schumann and Schubert, with eight songs from the Schwanengesang Cycle (Swan Song). In the second part of the concert there will be music from French composers Fauré and Ravel, and English songs by Arthur Somervell, Roger Quilter and Vaughan Williams. The concert, in the Warkworth Town Hall on July 16, starts at 4pm. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased at the door (cash/cheque only), or through the Warkworth Music website: warkworthmusic.org.nz. Entry is free for school students. Info: 09 425 6289.
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“My latest book accepts that retirement is a new phase in a person’s life and looks at what’s out there for retirees and reflects their thoughts and the people they meet.” Lois says living on Kawau provides the seclusion to write and some of the poems in her latest book were inspired by, or at least reflect, Kawau, Warkworth and the district. Meanderings is available from the Matakana Village Books and online at Amazon.
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In the 1920s, the richest people in the world per capita were the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. They had been forcibly removed from their tribal lands in Kansas to a rocky reservation in Oklahoma. The American Government was totally unaware that beneath this rocky land lay one of the richest oil fields in America. The Osage became extremely wealthy – they bought cars, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe. Then the killings started, with Mollie Burkhart’s family becoming a prime target. Over a period of five years more than two dozen Osage Indians were killed. They were poisoned, shot, blown up and hit by cars, and all for their money and oil rights. The tribe dubbed it “The Siege of Terror”. As the death toll rose, the FBI took up the case, the aptly named Tom White was asked to investigate the deaths. What he exposed in this non-fiction narrative is one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history to date.
The Husband Hunters by Anne De Courcy
Anne De Courcy is well regarded as a writer of social history, and this one is subtitled “Social Climbing in London and New York.” Starting in 1874, when Jennie Jerome – the first to be labelled a ‘Dollar Princess’ – married Randolph Churchill to 1914, more than 100 young American heiresses married in to the British aristocracy. They all bought huge wealth, glamour and sophistication to the ailing and crumbling British ruling class. Many of these young women had been extensively educated, often in France, and they had a freedom of manner and confidence in themselves that the English girls lacked. Based on extensive research, drawing on diaries, memoirs and letters, Anne De Courcy shows us the motives and attitudes of these young girls and their families, set in the social context of the times and revealing that husband hunting in England was much more than simply a case of cash for titles.
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Judd and Ramona Stratful, from Red Beach, and midwife Sue Wynyard, welcome young Indie-Rose beneath the wooden plaque commemorating the opening of Warkworth’s first maternity hospital in 1917.
From here to maternity in 100 years A century of specialist maternity provision in Warkworth was celebrated last month and, appropriately enough, the anniversary coincided with the birth of a baby at Warkworth Birthing Centre. Indie-Rose Stratful unwittingly chose to arrive exactly 100 years to the day after Warkworth’s first maternity cottage hospital was opened in the town, on June 19. Managing director and midwife Sue Wynyard put together a display showing the history of local maternity services to mark the occasion, from the early days of the cottage hospital, through the war years, when American soldiers had their own hospital where the birthing centre stands today, to when the hospital closed in 1990 and three
local midwives took control of their own destiny and began the process of establishing a stand-alone service for the community. Warkworth Birthing Centre opened in February 2000 with just one
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Warkworth Town Hall now has an emergency defibrillator and a CPR training manikin, thanks to an anonymous donation made in remembrance of local resident Susie Copestake, who passed away in April and whose funeral was one of the first events to be held at the newlyrestored hall. The life saving devices were presented to Warkworth Town Hall Restoration Trust chairperson Ilona Rodgers, Hall Engagement Coordinator Fiona McGeough and Trust member Tracy Martin MP by Warkworth St John chair Alan Boniface. This latest donation takes the number of defibrillators in Warkworth and surrounding communities to 35.
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Debating vaccination
Vaccination is a subject that often results in strongly divided opinions, heated debates and much controversy. So much so that when the recent Vaxxed movie was screened it was shut down in some places. The purpose of this article is not to scaremonger or express my opinion, but to help people to gather information so that they can make an informed choice with respect to vaccination. The movie Vaxxed describes the alleged cover-up of results by the CDC (Centre for Disease Control) in the US. The thread of the movie is weaved around the recollections of a supposed whistleblower who was involved in the alleged coverup of a link to autism. While I have no authority to comment on the validity of the allegations, there are some interesting other findings from the documentary that are harder to dismiss as just potential ‘conspiracy theory’. The statistics for children developing autism (in the US) has exploded exponentially. This is seriously alarming, whatever the cause. I use the word ‘developing’ autism as in all the reported cases where parents have come forward they watch their normally developing children regress with development. Many have video footage to back up these changes. Many parents (with autistic children) report seeing their children regress directly after vaccination. The children in these cases have had a fever followed by seizures which occurs shortly after vaccination. It is also interesting to note that in California there are attempts to make vaccinating children compulsory. Currently, in NZ, there is no legislation that makes vaccination compulsory and public schools/early childcare facilities are not permitted to refuse entry to children based on their vaccination status. However, if there is an outbreak of a disease (that can be vaccinated for) then the children are asked to stay away for a period of time. It should be noted that there is no compulsory reporting process with respect to side effects of vaccinations. So, if a child has a bad reaction, this may well not be recorded in any useful way. Also, vaccines do not have to be tested as rigorously as normal medications, so how we can be informed of any potential risks is hard to ascertain. I would like to repeat that I am not attempting to influence anyone’s decision about vaccination, but to assist in information gathering. Currently, the majority of all readily available information comes from the manufacturers of the vaccines, so obviously this is not part of a balanced information gathering process. As with any information, I suggest always assessing who is providing the information, how credible the source is and what their motives are. The latter being the hardest to establish. All I suggest to people is to do as much research as possible from multiple sources and make your own decision. A useful organisation for a view independent of the vaccination manufacturers is vaccinationinformationnetwork.com.
Ti Point link gone The removal of posts from the Ti Point vineyard last month marked the end of the wine label’s association with the Mahurangi area. The property on Ti Point Road was sold in 2015 and grapes are no longer being sourced from the vineyard. Brand manager Tim Hansen says like many wineries that start with a single vineyard, Ti Point has grown steadily and now sources grapes from multiple vineyards throughout New Zealand. The Ti Point vineyard was planted by winemaker Tracy Haslam’s family in 1993. “The founding vineyard was very small – 3.5 hectares, producing about 2000 cases per vintage – and since 2000, Tracy has been growing grapes in other regions in order to meet demand and to add other varietals to the range.”
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Local Lions leader inducted Heritage expert launches talks Wellsford Lions stalwart and Tomarata dairy farmer Frank King-Turner has two reasons to celebrate this month – not only has he become the new regional Lions District Governor, but his induction took place as part of the 100th International Lions Convention in Chicago. More than 42,000 Lions members from across the globe converged on the US city for five days of centennial celebrations from June 30 to July 4, including banquets, a grand parade and concerts by The Beach Boys and Chicago. Nearly 30 members from local District 202K were there to support Frank, who is now head of the biggest Lions district in the world, stretching from the Coromandel north to the islands of Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and American Samoa. His rise through the Lions ranks has been rapid, which he puts down to a background of service as a Salvation Army minister in the past. “I joined Lions in 2009 and have gone straight through the system,” he says. “When I arrived up here from the west coast of the South Island, it was a great way to get to know people in the community. “I joined and became secretary in two months, was secretary for three years, then vice president, president, zone chair, 2nd and 1st vice district governor, and now district governor.” He will spend his year at the helm
Frank King-Turner wants to boost Lions membership in his year as District Governor.
visiting many of the 79 clubs in the district, as well as trying to boost membership and get the Lions’ message of service to the community across. “For me, my motivational thing is getting younger people into Lions. We have all got older and while younger people are coming in, there are not quite enough,” he says. “We’ve almost got a generation that doesn’t know how to give to the community.” To mark the Lions’ centenary, the Wellsford branch will be providing a new path at the historic Minniesdale Chapel, near Port Albert, which celebrates its own 150th anniversary this year, as well as its regular fundraisers, the biggest of which will be the Roaring Truck Show in February. New members are always welcome. Info: lionsclubs.org.nz Wellsford)
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Mahurangi residents will have an opportunity to revisit their past on July 12 when Auckland cultural heritage specialist Robert Brassey delivers the first in a series of monthly lectures and discussions entitled Warkworth Town Hall Talks. The series is being co-hosted by Mahurangi Action Group and One Warkworth Business Association. Action Group secretary Cimino Cole says town halls have always been places where communities can meet and discuss issues pertinent to their area. “Now that we have a town hall again, it will be good to re-establish that role,” he says. “We hope the range of speakers will elevate the discussion and thinking on local issues.” Mr Brassey says few Aucklanders would be aware that an unremarkable looking bay in the Mahurangi Harbour was the site of first European settlement in the Auckland region, preceding the establishment of the town of Auckland in 1840 by several years. “The spar and timber operation was a collaborative venture with Hauraki Maori, in a region where no Europeans had previously been resident,” he says. “The station was not a financial success, closing in 1836 after only four years, as the supply of trees suitable for topmasts for British Admiralty battleships ran out. “The station is historically important because it represents the first sustained period of contact between Maori and Europeans in a region that had previously been decimated by inter-
Robert Brassey (left) and archaeological consultant Hans Bader recording foreshore structures at the site of Browne’s spar station.
tribal conflict. The site is important from an archaeological perspective, because it is, in effect, a rare ‘time capsule’ of life during this pre-colonial period, when Maori were very much in control.” In his presentation in Warkworth, Mr Brassey will discuss the eventful history of the Browne’s spar station and its manager Gordon Davies Browne, who eventually descended into insanity and religious fervour, and died an early death. He will also cover the archaeology of the station site and of associated places in the harbour. “This will focus on the results of some archaeological excavations that have been undertaken at the site – what we found and what it tells us about life at the settlement and the relationship between cultures.” Doors open at 5pm for a 5.30pm start. Anyone interested in helping to compile a list of speakers, or who has any suggestions of speakers who could be invited, should contact Cimino Cole on 027 462 4872 or editor@ mahurangi.org.nz
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Ahuroa / Warkworth 4 Komokiriki Hill Road
1.4897 ha
Grand Design Lifestyle
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Enter the park like grounds surrounding this premium country home with detached studio. You will feel expectation rising! First time ever to market as owners downsize from lifestyle dream. Fastidious builders own home has stood the test of time and recently passed a full durability assessment. Ascend the steps and open the front door whereupon the design, scale and presentation of this big, bold, beautiful home will amaze and enthral. Titoki Rise calls you to country living splendour. With approx 1.5 ha of grazing, fringed by a stream, this is a pastoral paradise of unlimited opportunity for grazing and growing in a horse friendly rural area. Warkworth is just a 15 minute drive away (approx).
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Snells Beach $849,000 Snells Beach $849,000 Sitting at the Top of The Bay Snells Beach $849,000 Sitting the Top ofsun, The Bay be sitting here till evening comes...... Sitting inat the morning You’ll Snells Beach $849,000 Sitting the Top ofsun, The Bay be sitting here till evening comes...... Sitting inatthe morning You’ll
this 4 bedroom home is elevated and warm with stunning views across Sitting themorning Top ofsun, The Bay be Sitting inatthe You’ll sitting here tillstunning eveningviews comes...... this 4 bedroom home is elevated and warm with across the bay popular Snells Beach. A full deckhere across the front means Sitting inatthe morning sun, You’ll be sitting tillstunning evening comes...... this 4 bedroom home is elevated and warm with views across the bay at popular Snells Beach. A full deck across the means summer barbecues over looking the bay as the sun setsfront after a day on this 4 bedroom home is elevated and warm with stunning views across the bay atbarbecues popular Snells Beach. the A full deck across the front means summer overback looking bay as the sun sets after a daytoon the sand. A fully fenced yard means a safe place for the kids the bay at popular Snells Beach. A full deck across the front means summer barbecues overback looking the bay as the sun sets after a daytoon the sand. A fully fenced yard means a safe place for the kids play. What are you waiting for come and watch the tide in! a day on summer barbecues overback looking the bay as the sun setsroll after the fullyyou fenced means a safe place waiting foryard come and watch the tidefor rollthe in! kids to play.sand. WhatAare the fullyyou fenced back means a safethe place waiting foryard come and watch tidefor rollthe in! kids to play.sand. WhatAare play. What are you waiting for come and watch the tide roll in!
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Snells Beach $650,000 Snells $650,000 Brick and Beach Tile Snells Beach $650,000 Brick Tile Here isand yourBeach opportunity $650,000 to purchase a brick, tile and cedar home in a Snells Brick and Tile Here is your opportunity to purchase a brick, tile and cedar home in a
great location. Down a private driveway the home sits on a sunny back Brick and Here is yourTile opportunity to purchase a brick, tile and cedar home in a great location. a private the sits on back section whichopportunity isDown fully fenced fordriveway children andhome pets. Setcedar on a a sunny single Here is your to purchase a brick, tile and home level in a great location. a private driveway the home sits back section whichhome isDown fully fenced for children & and pets. Set on on aGreat a sunny single level the 120sqm has three bedrooms one bathroom. indoor/ great location. a private driveway the home sits back section whichhome isDown fully fenced for children & and Set on on aGreat a sunny single level the 120sqm has three bedrooms onepets. bathroom. indoor/ outdoor flow to a lovely private deck and grounds. There is extra section whichhome is fully fenced for children &and Set on Great a single level the 120sqm has three bedrooms onepets. bathroom. indoor/ outdoor flow to aguests. lovely private deck and grounds. There parking for your Rental Appraisal available of $470is -extra $450pw. the 120sqm home has three bedrooms one bathroom. Great indoor/ outdoor flow to aguests. lovely private and&grounds. There parking for your Rental deck Appraisal available of $470is -extra $450pw. outdoor flow to a lovely private deck and grounds. There is extra parking for your guests. Rental Appraisal available of $470 - $450pw. parking for your guests. Rental Appraisal available of $470 - $450pw.
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Warkworth $795,000 Warkworth Home and Income $795,000 Warkworth Home and Income $795,000 Spacious 4-Bedroom, dual living space, dual bathroom family home. Warkworth Home and Income $795,000 Spacious 4-Bedroom, dual living space, dual bathroom family home.
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View by appointment View by appointment rwwarkworth.co.nz/WAR23882 View by appointment rwwarkworth.co.nz/WAR23882 Terrence Banks 021 412 183 rwwarkworth.co.nz/WAR23882 View by1612 appointment Terrence Banks 021 412 183 09 425 terrence.banks@raywhite.com Terrence Banks rwwarkworth.co.nz/WAR23882 09 425 1612 terrence.banks@raywhite.com Paul Gothard 021021 422412 738183 09 425 1612 terrence.banks@raywhite.com Terrence Banks Paul Gothard 021021 422412 738183 09 425 1608 paul.gothard@raywhite.com Paul Gothard 021 422 738 Warkworth Office 425 7959 09 425 1612 terrence.banks@raywhite.com 160809paul.gothard@raywhite.com Warkworth Office 425 7959 Bogue Real Estate09 2014 Ltd LICENSED 09 425 1608 paul.gothard@raywhite.com 021 422 738 (REAA 2008) Paul Gothard Bogue RealOffice Estate09 2014 LICENSED (REAA 2008) Warkworth 425Ltd 7959 09 425 1608 paul.gothard@raywhite.com Bogue RealOffice Estate09 2014 LICENSED (REAA 2008) Warkworth 425Ltd 7959
Warkworth $789,000 Warkworth New beginnings $789,000 Warkworth $789,000 New beginnings This near new, immaculate four bedroom home has been built to a very Warkworth $789,000 New beginnings This near new, immaculate four bedroom home has been built to a very high standard with a perfect finish. Spacious open plan living, great New beginnings This near new,with immaculate four bedroom home hasplan been builtgreat to a very high standard a perfect finish. Spacious open living, indoor/outdoor flow, designed with uncompromised consideration This near new,with immaculate four bedroom home hasplan been builtgreat to a for very high standard a perfect finish. Spacious open living, indoor/outdoor flow, designed with uncompromised consideration for modern family with needs. This home will work exceptionally well for both high standard a perfect finish. Spacious open plan living, great indoor/outdoor flow, designed with consideration for modern family needs. This home willuncompromised work exceptionally well for both entertaining & busy lifestyles. Conveniently located in a quiet cul-de-sac indoor/outdoor flow, designed with consideration for modern family needs. This home willuncompromised work exceptionally well for both entertaining & busy lifestyles. Conveniently located a quiet cul-de-sac with childcare, shops and local all withininwalking modern family needs. Thisthe home willcollege work exceptionally well distance. for both entertaining & busy lifestyles. a quiet cul-de-sac with childcare, shops and theConveniently local college located all withininwalking distance. entertaining & busy lifestyles. a quiet distance. cul-de-sac with childcare, shops and theConveniently local college located all withininwalking with childcare, shops and the local college all within walking distance.
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Warkworth $723,000 Warkworth Warkworth Winner!$723,000 Warkworth $723,000 Warkworth Winner! The outlook from this$723,000 property will win you over at first sight, with lovely Warkworth Warkworth Winner! The outlook from this property will win you over at first sight, with lovely
elevated views from the deck overlooking the township. Situated in a Warkworth Winner! The outlook from thisthe property will win youthe over at first sight, with in lovely elevated views from deck overlooking township. Situated desired location and walking distance tothe town, brickin &a The outlook from thisinproperty will win you over atthis firstprivate sight, with lovely elevated views from deck overlooking township. Situated atile desired location and the in walking distancewith to town, this brick home offers 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms open planprivate living, fully in&atile elevated views from the deck overlooking the township. Situated desired location and in walking distancewith to town, this private brick & tile home offers 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms open plan living, fully fencedoffers back double garaging withwith internal access. Vendors desired location and in walking distance to town, this brick & tile home 3yard, bedrooms, 2 bathrooms open planprivate living, fully are fenced back yard, garaging with internal access. Vendors are ready to move on, double so make the most ofwith this opportunity to secure. home offers 3yard, bedrooms, 2 bathrooms open plan living, fully fenced garaging with internal access. Vendors of this opportunity to secure.are ready toback move on, double so make the most fenced yard, garaging with internal access. to Vendors of this opportunity secure.are ready toback move on, double so make the most ready to move on, so make the most of this opportunity to secure.
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Sitting at the Top of The Bay Sitting in the morning sun, You’ll be sitting here till evening comes...... this 4 bedroom home is elevated and warm with stunning views across the bay at popular Snells Beach. A full deck across the front means summer barbecues over looking the bay as the sun sets after a day on the sand. A fully fenced back yard means a safe place for the kids to play. What are you waiting for come and watch the tide roll in!
View by appointment rwwarkworth.co.nz/WAR23941 Katie Boyle 021 733 858 09 425 1614 katie.boyle@raywhite.com Kimberley Gordon 0211 267 499 09 425 1605 kimberley.gordon@raywhite.com Warkworth Office 09 425 7959 Bogue Real Estate 2014 Ltd LICENSED (REAA 2008)
LARGE SELECTION OF BARE BLOCKS KAUKAPAKAPA, MAKARAU & WAINUI Ranging in size from 2.5 to 28 acres Priced from $495,000 Call Peter Now for additional details! View: rwwarkworth.co.nz/WAR23721 / WAR23729 / WAR23731 WAR23760 / WAR23768 / WAR23795 / WAR23844 / WAR23850 WAR23851 / WAR23866 / WAR23867 / WAR23872 / WAR23875 WAR23884 / WAR23890 / WAR23925 / WAR23957
Snells Beach $650,000
Brick and Tile Here is your opportunity to purchase a brick, tile and cedar home in a great location. Down a private driveway the home sits on a sunny back section which is fully fenced for children and pets. Set on a single level the 120sqm home has three bedrooms & one bathroom. Great indoor/ outdoor flow to a lovely private deck and grounds. There is extra parking for your guests. Rental Appraisal available of $470 - $450pw.
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Warkworth $789,000 View by appointment rwwarkworth.co.nz/WAR23882 Terrence Banks 021 412 183 09 425 1612 terrence.banks@raywhite.com Paul Gothard 021 422 738 09 425 1608 paul.gothard@raywhite.com Warkworth Office 09 425 7959
New beginnings This near new, immaculate four bedroom home has been built to a very high standard with a perfect finish. Spacious open plan living, great indoor/outdoor flow, designed with uncompromised consideration for modern family needs. This home will work exceptionally well for both entertaining & busy lifestyles. Conveniently located in a quiet cul-de-sac with childcare, shops and the local college all within walking distance.
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Warkworth $723,000
Warkworth Winner! The outlook from this property will win you over at first sight, with lovely elevated views from the deck overlooking the township. Situated in a desired location and in walking distance to town, this private brick & tile home offers 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms with open plan living, fully fenced back yard, double garaging with internal access. Vendors are ready to move on, so make the most of this opportunity to secure.
Snells Beach Office 09 425 5457 Bogue Real Estate 2014 Ltd LICENSED (REAA 2008)
Warkworth $795,000
Home and Income Spacious 4-Bedroom, dual living space, dual bathroom family home. Established neighbourhood that is handily located via a flat walk to both the shops and nearby schools. In addition to the freshly refurbished main dwelling comes the added benefit of a fully selfcontained 1-Bedroom unit, which could serve as your own accommodation, extended family or provide an income stream for you.
View by appointment rwwarkworth.co.nz/WAR23903 Mick Fay 021 544 769 09 425 1634 mick.fay@raywhite.com
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Wellsford $585,000
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RESERVE AT THE END OF THE CUL-DE-SAC This sunny, north facing, two storey weatherboard house is a great family home. The rural views extend from the living area out to the wide deck. Leading off the deck is a fenced back yard safe for children to play in. The house has potential for a 5th bedroom or man cave and storage space behind the single garage. Only a 4 minute walk to medical & shops. Call Now to book your viewing.
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Breath-taking views over the bush clad 3415m2 section to the Te Kapa Inlet and out to the Coromandel Peninsula this simply gorgeous home offers an outstanding, private lifestyle. Open plan living level with kitchen, 2 guest bedrooms, bathroom, media room, separate master suite. Complete with a 1 bedroom studio at bottom of the property. For Sale By Negotiation View ljhooker.co.nz/5EYHAY Wendy Milne 021 784 942 LJ Hooker - Warkworth 09 425 8589 Broadbents 2001 Ltd
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A lovely feel as you come into this cute 2 brm bach with timber polished floors and 3 sets of timber french doors opening from the lounge an d brm onto the spacious deck. Set above the lawn and bush, watch the birds in the trees and explore the bush with a track under the canopy. A caravan, included in the sale provides 3 extra beds. For Sale By Negotiation View ljhooker.co.nz/5E3HAY Wendy Milne 021 784 942 LJ Hooker - Warkworth 09 425 8589 Broadbents 2001 Ltd
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This flat is a good opportunity to get into the local real estate market. The floor area is 60m2 and includes 2 bedrooms with open kitchen area that leads out to an outdoor area. Currently returning $330 per week it is an ideal investment for your portfolio. Call us today to book an appointment to view. For Sale $389,000 View ljhooker.co.nz/5DXHAY Jennie Georgetti 021 389 236 LJ Hooker - Warkworth 09 425 8589 Broadbents 2001 Ltd
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Situated within easy walking distance to the Kaiwaka shops this home has 2 dble brms and a single brm, the master has an ensuite. Separate kitchen & lounge which has French doors leading to a deck enjoys peaceful rural views, a two bay carport, and is fully fenced with mature gardens including fruit trees, a sunny northerly aspect with privacy. For Sale $459,000 View ljhooker.co.nz/5DCHAY Craig Kenyon 027 485 6833 LJ Hooker - Warkworth 09 425 8589 Broadbents 2001 Ltd
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Capture the Charm of Iris Cottage
For Sale $660,000 View ljhooker.co.nz/59MHAY Warren Churches 021 186 9857 Mathieu Lennan 021 0291 6897 LJ Hooker - Warkworth 09 425 8589 Broadbents 2001 Ltd
For Sale $585,000 View ljhooker.co.nz/5DVHAY Roxanne Harrison 027 271 4875 LJ Hooker - Warkworth 09 425 8589 Broadbents 2001 Ltd
120m2 of spacious open plan living in a private sunny setting complete with a full wet room main bathroom and heatpump for those impending cooler winter nights. Would suit retirees or rental investment, totally low maintenance on a level section.
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For Sale $619,000 View ljhooker.co.nz/5CDHAY Warren Churches 021 186 9857 LJ Hooker - Warkworth 09 425 8589 Broadbents 2001 Ltd
For Sale $695,000 View ljhooker.co.nz/5CYHAY Craig Kenyon 027 485 6833 LJ Hooker - Warkworth 09 425 8589 Broadbents 2001 Ltd
Good sized 3 bedroom family home of 190m2, recently refurbished with a brand new kitchen, situated on the border of Kaiwaka Village. 4995m2, deck, large water tank and a large 2 car garage for all the toys.
This spacious home on 1.79Ha has timber floors throughout, country kitchen, three double bedrooms, a freestanding fireplace with wetback for those chilly winter nights and solar assisted hot water. Low maintenance Marley clad home, easy care gardens and a sealed driveway.
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When you are selling Real Estate Talk your biggest asset, you’ll want the best team in Real Estate to represent you; a team that is consistently at the top of their game! Mike Pero Real Estate Matakana Coast
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Recently we were fortunate enough to be on the Gold Coast; unfortunately, not for relaxation, but for education. Two days of sitting in a conference venue with 4,500 mostly Australian real estate agents and another day of sitting in a room with several hundred Mike Pero agents is not most people´s idea of fun; at least it was warm though! Conferences like this, where we learn from and associate with the best in the business from around the world, are an important part of "sharpening the axe" and making sure we provide the very best to our clients in terms of skills, ethics, technologies and systems. Aside from top real estate agents, we heard from a diverse range of speakers including the chief hostage negotiator from the FBI, an expert on Robots, a trend expert, a best-selling author, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and even a nutritional expert to keep us on our game! To wrap it up, our annual awards night saw our team take out 10 major awards plus recognition for being one of the first Mike Pero franchises to open. That makes it 6 years in a row that we´ve taken the lion´s share of awards, reflecting the quality of the work that we do for our clients.
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We´re not the type to rest on our laurels though. Watch this space!
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Here they are, selling coastal from Mahurangi East to Pakiri & inland from Warkworth to Kaiwaka. Stella Pearce (Client Care)
Rachel Rodden
Jodi Sterling
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Andrew Steens
Angela Wain
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Absent: Deborah Martin (Database & Telemarketing), Charlotte Orr (Social Media Marketing)
Angela Wain 027 493 6800 Matakana Coast
North Island Supreme Award Angela Wain - 1281 Whangaripo Valley Rd Whangaripo National 1st Place; Marketing Investment Angela Wain 4 2 Andrew SteensNorth Island Jason TopBown Support Person Jodi Sterling – Matakana 021 968 405 027 494 2600 Gorgeous Renovation Place; Best Presented Office Matakana in Tranquil Haven! Matakana Coast National 2nd Warkworth National 3rd Place; Marketing Performance Angela & Andrew Steens This cute 1950'sWain bungalow in a peaceful country valley has had a full refit, converting it into a gorgeous modern home, where every inch of the compact Sponsorship & Community Involvement Angela Wain & Andrew Steens design has been cleverly utilised to provide a surprising amount of spacious rooms. More than 1.8ha; enough flat pasture to graze 2 or 3 heifers or horses, plus a pond & recently planted wetland. Less than 15 min drive to either Matakana Village, Pakiri Beach or SH1 near Wellsford.
Congratulations to the Matakana Coast Mike Pero Team; Taking the Rick Law Lions Share of the National Ruth Perkin Awards for the 6th year running! 021 865 321 021 425 109 Warkworth & Omaha
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For Sale - $855,000 Angela Wain 027 493 6800 angela.wain@mikepero.com
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Andrew Steens, Brand & Territory Owner, Mike Pero Real Estate andrew.steens@mikepero.com A combination of winter, lower property prices in central Auckland, the upcoming election and a general lack of properties for sale have combined to make this a slower than normal real estate market in Northern Rodney. As a property owner, you do need to be extra vigilant in a quiet market to make sure you are getting the maximum price for your property. In times like these, good agents will still be listing and selling a lot of property, after all people still need a place to live and other people that want or need to sell. But there will also be agents that are struggling to get listings and make sales. Be wary of agents knocking on your door or phoning to say they have a buyer for your property. While a one-off introduction can result in a great price, there have been many instances of the opposite happening. In a "quiet" sale process like this, you are not exposing your property to the market so there is less competition between buyers to pay the best price. How will you know that the price you´re being offered is at the top of the market? By law an agent must provide a written appraisal of your property with supporting evidence for the appraisal price, allow you time to get legal or other professional advice (which might include a registered valuation) and have you sign a listing agreement; all before they introduce a buyer to your property.
Point Wells - 64 Harbour View Road Rare Section In The Heart Of Point Wells! There are almost no undeveloped sections left on Harbour View Rd; one of the most sought after addresses in the "Old End" of this iconic Kiwiana village. Create your own dream home on this lovely piece of land which even has an orchard of mature fruit trees in place. For Sale - $625,000 Angela Wain 027 493 6800 angela.wain@mikepero.com Web - www.mikepero.com/1163320
Without these checks and balances in place, you are at more risk of underselling your biggest asset!
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Here they are, selling coastal from Mahurangi East to Pakiri & inland from Warkworth to Kaiwaka.
Point Wells - 21 Waimanu Place Angela Wain
Andrew Steens
Jason Bown
027 493 6800 Matakana Coast
021 968 405 Matakana Coast
027 494 2600 Wellsford
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Rick Law
Daniel Schellack
Ruth Perkin
021 865 321 Warkworth
Sales Manager Warkworth & Wellsford
021 425 109 Sandspit & Snells Beach
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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. NORTH CAPE FLIGHTS $450 each. Min 3 passengers.
Rodney Aero Club 425 8735 or Rod Miller 425 5612 FOR SALE 15 LITRE BOAT FUEL TANK in good condition $75 ono. Green Old style metal fuel container 5 litres approx as is $50. Phone 09 425 7271. DRY FIREWOOD - GET IT NOW! 2m3 Pine - $175 ● 2m3 Hot mix - $200 Ph Chris 021 0256 4273 or 09 425 8575
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JUST NEED A HAND? If you need, section tidying up, hedges & exterior painting – small jobs, water blasting, rubbish removal, extra hand for furniture removal, house checks or property assistance if away or any small general job about the place- I can help! Phone Anton 0211338884
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BIKE FOR SALE 3 mnth old Bombtrack Hook 1 – size small, cyclocross/adventure bike. New compact Zipp handle bars put on last week, with padded tape. Price $2,100. PLUS, brand new Evoc bike bag for $440. For more information of specifics see here: bombtrack.com/bikes/hook-1-2 or gravelcyclist.com/bicycle-tech/2016interbike-bombtrack-hook-1-andhook-2 Phone 09 425 9252 or caitlinmarythompson@gmail.com
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PUBLIC NOTICES SICK OF YOUR OWN COMPANY? Take a break with the Warkworth Stroke Club. Each Wednesday 10am to mid‑day at the Catholic Church Hall. Morning tea, exercises, bowls & cards. Much fun had. Ring Barbara 09 425 9808 JUSTICE OF THE PEACE SERVICE DESKS A reminder to the public that the JP Service Desks are available as follows: Warkworth – at the Council Offices Monday 10.00 – 2.00
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If there is a long weekend, this is replaced by the following Tuesday from 10.00 to 12.00. Snells Beach – at the Library Friday 10.00 – 12.00 Warkworth RSA Fridays 4.00 to 5.00 This is becoming an increasingly popular method of obtaining Justice of the Peace services, and no appointment is needed. There is no cost. At all other times there are plenty of other JP’s available in the Warkworth/Mahurangi Area, either in the Warkworth Community phone book, or on‑line “find a JP”. Supported by Mahurangi Matters
MATAKANA INFORMATION CENTRE INC. AGM Thursday 3 August, 6pm at The Matakana Village Pub, Matakana Valley Road matakanainfo@xtra.co.nz Warkworth District High School
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We meet on the 2nd Thursday of each month at the Warkworth RSA basement meeting room at 10am. Friendly support from members Guest speakers Enjoy morning tea or coffee with us Contact: Robyn MacGillivray - 423 8273 Susan Tomas - 423 8424
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Nations flavour local poet’s work Travel to more than 15 countries over more than 30 years has provided the inspiration for Wellsford poet Terence O’Neill-Joyce’s latest publication, A Collection Of Poems. His 477-page work describes his experiences in places such as Fiji, Ireland, France and Turkey. “I like the way poetry can evoke imagery when describing your surroundings,” Terence says. This is his second book of poems; the first, Border Crossing, was released in 1972. Before retiring, Terence was involved with the recording industry, starting his own studio in Wellington in 1968 and working with artists such as Russell Crowe. He says he implemented the first custodial sentence for piracy ever in New Zealand in the early 2000s while chair of the Copyright Council. He released the book How to Get
Terence O’Neill-Joyce is well travelled and describes his many overseas experiences in his latest poetry book.
Started in the Music Business in 1982 and published a book by Jean Watson, a former partner of author and TV presenter Barry Crump, in the early 1990s. A Collection Of Poems is available from Paper Plus in Warkworth.
Regional fuel tax still on agenda Public Private Partnerships and a regional fuel tax will be vital to fast-tracking transport and roading improvements for a city that is growing faster than predicted, Auckland Mayor Phil Goff said in Orewa last month. Speaking to media just prior to a Hibiscus Coast & Bays Local Board meeting, Mr Goff said with 800 to 900 extra cars on Auckland roads every week, the city did not have time on its side. “It takes years for these projects to come to fruition so we need to bring projects like Penlink forward or we’re going to be gridlocked,” he said. Despite the generally negative response by Government to a fuel tax, Mr Goff remained confident that regardless of the outcome of the General Election in September, the tax had a good chance of being supported.
“The money raised from the tax will be used solely for transport projects and this should provide some assurance to Government that I’m trying to keep our spending under control. “I’m prepared to take the flack for putting a 10 to 20 cents a litre road tax across the whole of Auckland because my policy has always been that we need a better way to fund infrastructure than by rates or borrowing.” Mr Goff said alternatively the Government might decide, for example, to implement a road tax nationally and then allocate proportionally to areas where the tax was collected. “That might be a tidier way to do it. I don’t really care how it is done, but everybody has to pay their share. If we don’t, the city will grind to a halt.”
Locals put issues to police The first trial of Coffee with a Cop in Warkworth and Wellsford saw a number of locals bring issues forward to police. Around 20 people showed up to Peppers Café in Wellsford and 12 to Quince Café in Warkworth on June 22. Wellsford Police Sergeant Geoff Medland says the main concerns raised related to drugs and rural firearms usage, as well as family matters. “It gave us a chance to explain to the public how police are dealing with some of these problems already and give out advice,” he says. He believes bad weather may have prevented a larger turnout and is
looking at different session hours and moving the venue around the town. Meanwhile, Warkworth Constable John Williams says only minor issues, such as tenancy problems, were raised. “Most people were very positive about the community and its relationship with the police,” he says. “It gives the public another opportunity to connect with us, but I would like to think that people feel they can approach us at any time they need to.” No further dates have been set for the initiative, but Constable Williams says he expects to hold more sessions this year.
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Funding cut angers senior surfers
SeniorNet’s national chief executive Grant Sidaway joined the celebrations.
Founding members Shirley Shirley (left) and Wendy Hawkings were given the honour of cutting the birthday cake.
Current chair Brian Oakes and founding member Don Hawkings.
Neville Fursden was made a Life Member.
and long-serving tutors Judy Wane and Ken Winter. Neville Fursden, who now lives in Matamata, was made a Life Member in recognition of his contribution to the branch over many years. Mr Hawkings said Roger Shore should also be recognised for his role in initiating the branch, which started in Maurice Power’s former dental surgery and house in Baxter Street (where the skatepark is now
located) with second-hand furniture and computers from Telecom, as well as the odd dead rat. The first open day attracted 43 people, including two 90-year-olds who caught a taxi from Wellsford. The branch operated from the town location for three years before moving to Matakana Road where it was based for 15 years. More recently, it moved to rooms under the Warkworth RSA. Info: seniornetwarkworth.org.nz
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Candidates running in the General Election in September may face a funding challenge from SeniorNet. National pulled the financial rug from under the organisation two years ago when it re-prioritised adult learning. The organisation’s national president, Grant Sidaway, told a Warkworth SeniorNet meeting on June 8 that the change in priorities left seniors out in the cold. “We had a funding agreement for the previous nine years, which was worth around $400,000 annually,” Mr Sidaway says. “The money was distributed to the 74 branches nationwide and helped subsidise the courses so they were affordable. “The government wants us all to communicate with it via the internet but puts no value on improving the digital literacy of people over 50. I’d like to see this become an election issue.” Mr Sidaway was in town to celebrate Warkworth SeniorNet’s 20th anniversary, held at the Warkworth RSA. He congratulated past and present committee members and tutors on their achievement. “I’d like to clone Warkworth and replicate it throughout NZ.” There are now between 15,000 and 17,000 SeniorNet learners in NZ. Reflecting on the pace of technological change, Mr Sidaway said that in 1980 a gigabyte of storage cost US$150,000. By 1996/97 when the Warkworth branch formed, it had dropped to $198 per gigabyte. Today, one gigabyte costs one cent. Master of ceremonies at the luncheon was current chair Brian Oakes. Special guests included founding members Don and Wendy Hawkings and Shirley Shirley, first chairman Eric Brayshaw, long-serving committee member Garry Aitkins,
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Decision soon on fast-tracking Warkworth’s growth Substantial parcels of land identified for future urban growth in Warkworth may become development ready earlier than expected. Auckland Council’s Planning Committee was due to consider recommendations on a refresh of the Future Urban Land Strategy at its meeting on July 4. When the strategy was first released in November 2015, it envisaged land in Warkworth’s North and North East being development-ready between 2022 and 2026, based mainly on the constraints of water and wastewater infrastructure. Warkworth south would follow around 2027-2031, after Warkworth North and when key transport links were in place. However, Stubbs Farm developer Jamie Peters says some of the impediments to bringing Warkworth forward have been removed. “Watercare has announced a start on a new wastewater station and improvements to the water supply are also underway,” Mr Peters says. “Plus the Matakana Link Road has become a certainty and work has started on the motorway extension.” Mr Peters and business partner Mark Francis, both directors of Turnstone Capital, own nearly 50-hectares between Viv Davie-Martin Drive and Hudson Road, including the former Ryman farm, on the southern side of Falls Road. They are also in the final stages of purchasing 60-hectares on the eastern side of State Highway 1, neighbouring the Warkworth Showgrounds. “I think a lot of people are underestimating the
Pre-consultation with neighbouring landowners and interested groups is underway on the Stubbs Farm Estate development on Warkworth’s northern boundary.
impact that the new motorway will have on Warkworth,” Mr Peters says. “We’ve been bombarded by enquiries about the Warkworth project, coming from a range of sources, from developers to some business sectors. There’s a lot of interest from housing companies, in particular, who are actually pulling back from development in other areas where infrastructure is not ready. “Warkworth is also a very desirable area.” Turnstone hopes to have the first lots in its development on the market within four years, but first it has to prepare a Structure Plan as part of the Plan Change process. The plan, encompassing both farm sites, as well as other privately-owned land, is underway and the
Plan Change is expected to run in tandem with resource consent applications. Burnette Macnicol, of O’Connor Planning Consultants, says pre-consultation has been held with neighbours and those directly affected, ahead of full public consultation when the Plan Change is notified. A mix of housing is planned, including town houses and apartments to single dwellings, with lot sizes ranging from 250sqm to 800sqm. Other uses, such as a retirement home, are also being discussed. Mr Peters says he is encouraged by talks held with Auckland Transport over the Western Collector. “It makes sense for the road to go through our development to meet the Matakana link road at SH1. Using Hudson Road would be a disaster.”
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Watercare backs Wellsford water source despite trashing Watercare will continue to source water from the Hoteo River to supply Wellsford and Te Hana for the foreseeable future, despite a fierce attack on its quality from Wellsford’s representative on the Rodney Local Board, Colin Smith. Mr Smith says the Hoteo is prone to contamination from “every invasive crap you can think of ”, including untreated sewage, dead animals and cyanide used to kill possums. “Most people in Wellsford have filters on their water supply and when you cut them open they are black,” he says. “In summer when the water is chlorinated it stinks. It just about makes you sick.” Last July, Watercare took the Wellsford Water Treatment Plant out of service for several days after MCPA herbicide was detected that was above levels set by the Ministry of Health. Mr Smith says the dependence on the Hoteo is especially aggravating because there is an ideal source of water in the hills north of Te Hana. The water comes from two boreholes that were installed by the now defunct Albertland Cooperative Dairy Company, which formerly supplied millions of gallons of high quality water each week, both to the dairy factory and residences in Te Hana. In 2005, a fire at the factory destroyed the pumping system that supplied water to Te Hana and the Rodney District Council elected to connect Te Hana to the Wellsford town supply.
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Access to the bores was subsequently secured by seven farmers, who formed the North Albertland Community Water Supply Association to benefit from the water. Pumps at the boreholes are currently able to draw 90 cubic metres of water an hour, which is used to supply water for livestock on local farms. The water is not currently approved for human consumption, though Ray Hollis, director of the association, says the water is of good quality. Its distinctive features are a high calcium content and a slightly elevated temperature.
Mr Smith says Watercare should be negotiating with farmers to make use of the Albertland boreholes to supply Wellsford. “It’s better than bottled water. Millions of litres a day are going down the drain,” he says. But Watercare water supply manager Priyan Perera maintains the Albertland supply is simply insufficient to meet the needs of Wellsford. He says the Albertland boreholes have a sustainable yield of only 613 cubic metres a day, significantly less than the required 1,500 cubic metres a day. He adds that the existing water supply
network has been designed and constructed to operate from Wellsford reservoirs. Reconfiguring the distribution system to accommodate a change in water source would be complex and incur significant additional costs. Mr Perera says Watercare has been proactive in managing the potential risks associated with the Hoteo River water source and has installed processes to mitigate the risks. “Wellsford residents receive ‘Aa’ grade water treated at the Wellsford Water Treatment Plant,” he says. The Ministry of Health ‘Aa’ rating, indicates the quality of water is completely satisfactory and poses an extremely low level of risk. He adds water quality testing for Wellsford exceeds Ministry of Health standards and includes continuous monitoring of submerged devices that test if treatment processes are effective. Meanwhile, Watercare continues to search for new water sources to cope with increasing demand in Wellsford. It has identified a potential groundwater source near the Wellsford Water Treatment Plant and anticipates beginning testing on the quality and quantity of water available from the source in September. When the analysis of the potential new source is complete, Watercare will determine if it will replace or supplement water from the Hoteo River.
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Building climate heats up despite rising construction costs Mahurangi builders reflect on trends and challenges Willie Hewitt After working locally for 10 years, Westmoreland Homes owner/director Willie Hewitt is used to navigating the highs and lows of the building market. Although the company was established in Mangawhai building spec homes, it now builds between 30 and 35 houses a year for clients from Dairy Flat to Whangarei. “We’re absolutely flat out,” Willie says. “Last year we were getting a lot of enquiries that weren’t going anywhere, but this year the enquiries are serious and genuine.” Aucklanders, who are cashing up and moving north, are fuelling the building boom. “Two years ago an average home cost $450,000 to build. For that same home today, you are looking at over $600,000.” Some of the added cost reflects increased construction costs, but home owners are also spending more on their homes, putting in the added extras such as heat pumps, fireplaces and “fancy kitchens”. They are also building bigger, with 250sqm to 300sqm homes not uncommon. Willie says land prices in Mangawhai have risen sharply over the last 18 months, albeit that they came off a very low starting base.
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says one of the biggest issues builders are dealing with at the moment is the necessity of pricing plans for clients before consent has been issued. “They require a cost before submitting plans to Council for consent, but the problem with this is that there are often alterations made to plans by Council that require you to then have to alter the price you originally gave,” he says. “And sometimes the material costs have gone up in this time, too, and that requires re-pricing. “It is very difficult to get subcontractors to spend time on pricing something that may not even happen. We are all very busy so it has to be done at night and on weekends. People don’t understand the time that is involved in putting together a price.” Richard says material costs are continuing to push the price of a build up. “This can definitely limit the choices that clients have regarding the finish and so on. Consent costs also continue to rise and compliance costs, which builders have to pass on, are driving up prices. This includes things like scaffolding, edge protection, fall protection and hazard protection programmes.”
Richard Wilcock Richard Wilcock, of Richard Wilcock Builders, laments there are not enough skilled tradesmen around to cope with burgeoning demand. The Mahurangi East-based builder
July 5 Mahurangimatters 33 says trying to find skilled labour is impossible. “I know the plumbers and the electricians are having problems as well. I think it’s across the board.” So rather than recruit new people, Richard prefers to concentrate on maintaining a single reliable team of four or five old hands. He also finds having a single team means he can more closely monitor quality standards. But it also means that he has major challenges in meeting demand, particularly when subcontractors supplying things like trusses, frames and concrete are similarly struggling to keep up. “The lead times on all that sort of stuff is stretched out right now,” he says. If he were to receive a new job today, Richard anticipates he would not be able to attend to it until the middle of 2018. In addition to new homes, Richard also notes an upturn in demand for alterations, such as removing walls to create more space and improving insulation. He notes that building costs have gone through the roof, with steep rises in the price of timber, steel and concrete and the cost of complying with New Zealand building codes. But higher costs have not slowed growth. “I can see this area turning into another Whangaparaoa already, especially with the motorway coming through. It’s very good for business,” he says.
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Sandspit Road. Other refinements include making the entrance to Kowhai Park “entry only” from the intersection, removing one complication from a complex junction. Pedestrians would also benefit from a “Cross Now” signal during one of the light phases. Mr Williams says he anticipates the proposal could cost a mere $300,000. But he says even if his plan was implemented it couldn’t hope to cope
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A Fix Hill Street Now campaigner and former civil engineer has put forward a cheap, straightforward solution to fix traffic snarl ups at New Zealand’s most notorious intersection. Roger Williams describes his proposal as “Band-Aid” until more extensive roadworks take place, but would nevertheless provide some immediate relief for motorists who often find negotiating the intersection a hairraising experience. Mr Williams, who has 30 years of traffic engineering experience, suggests a series of linked lights that would ensure motorists would only have to give way to traffic coming from a maximum of one direction, rather than the current situation where a motorist must take account of traffic converging from up to five directions. The proposal would see three extra sets of lights. These would control traffic heading into the intersection from Elizabeth Street, Sandspit Road and traffic coming south on SH1. The lights would operate in four phases allowing traffic to flow freely from SH1, Elizabeth Street, Sandspit Road and Hill Street in turn. The linked nature of the lights means traffic entering from Sandspit Road with a green light would also have clear access to Hill Street and SH1. Traffic turning right out of Elizabeth Street into Sandspit Road would no longer have to dodge traffic converging from SH1, Hill Street and
with projected growth in and around Warkworth. “The urban growth is just going to be so horrendous. It’s not going to get through the intersection, full stop,” he says. He says a comprehensive solution would likely require an investment of at least $10 million and take several years, but his temporary fix would provide a satisfactory solution in the meantime. Media Relations Manager for
Auckland Transport Mark Hannon says Mr Williams' proposal will be forwarded to consultants currently looking at temporary options for improving Hill Street. Last month, Fix Hill Street Now filed a submission to parliament suggesting a permanent fix to Hill Street and arguing that it could not wait until the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway and Matakana Link Road are completed as the New Zealand Transport Agency has suggested.
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The two new classrooms are Leigh School’s first building upgrade since 1991.
Long-awaited Leigh School upgrade nears completion Leigh School will open two new classrooms this month, replacing rotting prefab classrooms, which had been on site since the early 1990s. The $400,000 upgrade was first discussed with the Ministry of Education in 2014, but due to a number of other school projects underway, work didn’t start until mid-2015. The rooms will contain modern technology and furnishings, and cater for students from Years 2 to 6. Leigh School spokesperson Melissa Crockett-Joyoue says the school chose to wait for new classrooms that would be customised to their needs, rather than use prefab rooms from another school. “We used the waiting time we had to *
plan what the new spaces would look like and how they would operate as classrooms,” Melissa says. The Ministry has funded the entire cost of the rooms, but the school is planning a number of working bees to meet the landscaping costs. Principal Julie Turner says teachers and students are both looking forward to moving into the new rooms. “They will free up space so we can refurbish the library and transform the senior classroom into a resource room,” Melissa says. She says the challenges of the new build were assembling the six parts correctly, as they came in reverse order, and transporting them over the oneway bridge in Whangateau.
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Architecture at its best
Rural life doesn’t necessarily have to mean rustic, as the recent Auckland Architecture Awards illustrated. Five of the most up to date and cutting edge dwellings that won housing awards were built in local country and coastal communities, from Mahurangi West up to Langs Beach. Judges said the building boom that has gripped Auckland in recent years was reflected in the number of award winners this year – 45 in 2017, compared with 32 last year – and that quality was extremely high across all 12 categories (commercial; education; heritage; enduring architecture; hospitality and retail; housing, housing alterations and additions; multi-unit housing; interior architecture; urban design; public architecture; and small projects).
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Inland House, Mangawhai Gerrad Hall Architects The judges praised the “playful and nostalgic mix of classic barn and vertical forms” and the way this modern rural farmhouse complex of three buildings near Mangawhai was arranged with the landscape, rather than on it. “Slow reveals and vistas have been crafted from an experiential understanding of moving across and through the site. Inside, layers of darkness and illumination provide deeply personal spaces alongside shared areas, an experience enhanced by the selection of materials.”
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Matakana House Glamuzina Architects & Paterson Architecture Collective
This holiday home on farmland just to the east of Matakana was praised for “one of the most architecturally exciting handlings of a corner seen in many years”, with judges declaring “the sculptural ease of the northern corner as it turns to the east is masterful both inside and out”. The control of light, the use of gradients, steps and rises, and provision of children’s spaces were also mentioned, with the design said to subtly revisit 1960s architecture throughout.
Paterson Architecture Collective, Steven Lloyd Architecture & Glamuzina Architects Three barn-like buildings, all timberlined and linked via courtyards and boardwalks, make up this property in Point Wells. Award judges applauded the home’s scale and arrangement of the three buildings as evoking a “village-like” feel. “Privacy and intimacy are created throughout the interior and exterior spaces of
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this home. The simple structural expression is enhanced with a range of timbers, detailed with unexpected delight.”
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Pukapuka Road House Belinda George Architects
This Mahurangi West property is architect Belinda George’s own home, completed in collaboration with her furniture maker husband David White and very much a labour love. The awards jury said the construction and placing of small and separate barn-like forms created “a charming and soulful home and workplace”. “An earthy and warm interior contrasts with carefully selected and framed vistas out to the working rural landscape. Light floods in at the gaps between the obliquely-arranged barn forms, emphasising the richness of the river timbers used in each contained and calm living area.”
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This alteration and extension was designed to enhance and update a holiday home at Langs Beach designed by Lillian Chrystall in the early 1990s. Judges said the design had successfully opened previously unused areas and aspects of the site, bringing “a sense of the theatrical” even to daily tasks and proving that, when done well, minor intervention could be as powerful as large scale redevelopment. “The addition is an assemblage of three inverted spaces, packed tightly, but each with an orientation independent
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The Matakana Botanicals building.
Judges sing praises of energy-efficient Matakana building A local businessman’s vision to create an environmentally-friendly and energy efficient commercial building has secured high honours at the prestigious New Zealand Commercial Projects Awards. Judges awarded a silver medal for the Matakana Botanicals buildings, which house the premium ‘bath and body’ products company. Judges praised the buildings, which comprise an office, café, store, still and honey house, for their emphasis on sustainability and energy efficiency. The buildings are the vision of
Matakana Botanicals owner Danvers Devereux and were constructed by Matakana builder Gus McKergow and the team at Customkit – a company that specialises in natural wood homes and other buildings. When he moved to Matakana, Danvers was faced with clearing a junkyard full of wrecks and rubbish and installing buildings that would showcase Matakana Botanicals natural products, made from renewable resources. To that end, he wrote down a list of requirements to make the buildings as green as possible. But he was also eager
for buildings that would ultimately save money. His list of features complete, he sketched some drawings of how the finished buildings would look. The green features include timber from regenerating forests, which retains heat in winter but is cool in summer; solar panels; LED lighting; and an environmentally-friendly septic tank system where worms break down waste, rather than having it cleared away with electric pumps. Danvers even went to the trouble of testing various paints on pieces of plywood in the sun – choosing those
which best reflected heat to prevent timber from warping. The buildings were sited to take best advantage of the sun, and solar panels charge a bank of lithium batteries. Energy is stored when the business is closed but can be utilized when it is open – an arrangement that has slashed power bills. “We generate 90 per cent of our own electricity,” Danvers says. The New Zealand Commercial Project Awards are organised by commercial contractors to promote excellence in building practices.
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Police encourage builders to upgrade security on sites Builders in Rodney are being advised by police to securely lock away tools and equipment following a spate of building site burglaries. Orewa Police Senior Sergeant Steve Pivac says shipping containers, in particular, are being targeted. “A $20 lock to secure $50,000 worth of tools and equipment just does not make sense,” he says. “A set of bolt cutters is all it takes to get access.” Sen. Sgt Pivac says police will publish a pamphlet specifically for builders next month, with advice on how to secure a site. The pamphlets will be available from local police stations. “There are a range of products that we recommend such as locks where the shank is not accessible, as well as some strategies to make it as difficult as possible for the offenders. Any disruption that can be put in place can go a long way to deterring thieves. “However, it is very difficult to stop a determined offender so selected DNA marking can help us trace tools.” Richard Denton, of RD Construction, and his workers, recently had a large amount of tools taken from a job at Glorit. “The thieves broke into an Americanstyle barn that was totally secure,” he said. “It looks like they removed a skylight and lowered a child on a rope through the hole and he has then
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Over 1100 cubic metres of concrete has been poured at the Oaks on Neville site to date.
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More than 2500 cubic metres of earth has been shifted from the Oaks on Neville retirement home development in Warkworth, as the first two apartment blocks start to take shape. The first of two underground carparks on the site is 60 per cent finished and discussions on the future layout of the heritage-listed hotel in Queen Street have started. Project manager Dave Stott says the plan is still to have a bar or family restaurant downstairs, with a residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; social area and meeting room upstairs. Under Auckland Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overland flow path rules, the hotel will also need to be raised about half a metre to avoid water damage. The sheer walls and steel framing for the first two retirement blocks are nearly finished and precast wall panels are about to go on after all consents were approved last month.
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A preferred stormwater drainage route down Neville Street has been confirmed and a permanent piping replacement for existing drainage is being installed. Resource consents for the third apartment block plus an underground carpark (on land where the former Price Cutter store was located in Neville Street) are currently being prepared. Mr Stott says one of the current challenges is negotiating temporary access for the tenants who will occupy the first apartments, ahead of permanent access off Neville Street when the third building is in place. The first two apartment blocks will accommodate 63 apartments, as well as a gym and pool for residents. There will also be parking for 100 vehicles, a cafe and eight retail shops. The first residents are expected to move in next May.
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LED lighting has been installed in both S-Block and the old gym as a more efficient and environmentally friendly option.
Major college rebuild of leaky classrooms nears completion A long overdue repair of leaky buildings at Mahurangi College will be finished this month after three years of construction. The school’s S Block is the fifth and final stage of the $6 million project funded by the Ministry of Education (MoE). The original finish date for the build was last November, but work was delayed for a number of reasons. Mahurangi College principal David Macleod says the builders have been good to work with though the delays have been frustrating. “We were forced to change our plans making it particularly difficult for our school show,” Mr Macleod says. “Like any big project, there are often delays and ours included waiting for consents and materials.” The S Block layout and appearance has remained similar, but a large amount of materials have been upgraded. New cladding has been applied, the roof redesigned and foundations stabilised. Previously, the foundation was subject to movement, which caused leaks, poor drainage from the rugby changing rooms and the elevator to jam. “It’s now a smarter facility for our students to use but most importantly, it’s watertight.” The elevator has been replaced, as well as water damaged framework, internal
cladding and ceiling panels. The Board of Trustees contributed funds to install LED lighting as a more efficient choice than the original lights. The only major change to the building layout sees the Year 13 common room turned into a dance studio, with dance now offered as a subject choice. “It would be nice to have the room as a dual-purpose space for dance and the senior students, but we are still looking at our options.” A number of other building projects are on the horizon to cater for Warkworth’s growth and improve the school’s facilities. The foremost is a $40,000 upgrade to the media department, which is awaiting funding for equipment. The old gym has been refitted with LED lighting and a school sporting honours board placed in the foyer. New windows to increase natural light are on their way. “We have an architect drawing plans to build a circuit room attached to the old gym and renovate upstairs into two classrooms, but are still waiting for the green light from the MoE.” Mr Macleod says the number of students is expected to double by 2030. To cover this growth, the school is looking at putting a second storey on its A Block. “But this will be a way down the track.”
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After 20 years in the aluminium windows and doors business working for someone else, a friend challenged partners Mike Joyce and Rhonda Matthews with a novel idea: Why don’t you two do your own thing? That thought really struck a chord, so when the couple learned that Rodney Aluminium was on the market, they leapt at the chance to make the business their own, renaming it Fairview Rodney and adopting the tag line, “Love your View.” Since taking over in January, the couple has charged ahead with improvements to their premises on Hudson Road, including the installation of new machinery, changes to the factory layout for improved efficiency and commenced an upgrade of their showroom. Fairview Rodney specialises in fabricating custom-made aluminium products either for new homes, or renovations or extensions to existing homes. The couple is putting all their previous experience to good use with a strong hands-on approach. Rhonda takes care of sales and on-site measuring for new orders, while Mike supervises the actual fabrication on the factory floor. It’s rare for an owner to be so directly involved with producing the finished product, but the couple sees this as a
After 40 years in the industry, John Merrick says it’s time to let go and is stepping aside as manager of Timberworld Warkworth, and he is planning an active retirement. As he puts it: “There’s a lot of golf and fishing to be done.” But before he bows out, he would like to thank all the faithful customers he has dealt with over the years. “They have been magnificent,” he says. Customers will be reassured the new manager is already a familiar face to many. Brett Hodgson has been with Timberworld for 10 years, much of it taking care of the store’s plumbing department. He admits there will be a bit of a learning curve as he becomes more familiar with the full range of Timberworld building supplies, which includes cladding, concrete and masonry, framing and hardware. But he has no apprehensions about his new role, given Timberworld’s capable and supportive staff. “It’s a great environment to work. The staff are a lot of fun. It’s like having a second family,” he says. He adds that exciting developments mean it’s a good time to be at Timberworld. The company is
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Boom fuels need for tradies Building is booming – and that means the construction industry needs plenty of tradies to keep up with the pace of development. But how do you get involved if you’re still at school or just starting out? The recognised route is via a Building & Construction Industry Trade Organisation (BCITO) apprenticeship. This governmentbacked body develops and implements industry qualifications in a bid to ensure the building sector has enough well trained, competent people. It manages apprenticeships in 14 different areas – architectural aluminium joinery; brick and block laying; carpentry; concrete; exterior plastering; flooring; frame and truss; glass and glazing; interior systems; joinery; kitchen and bathroom design; painting and decorating; stonemasonry; and tiling. Anybody can start an apprenticeship, but they do need a job in their trade of choice and a driving licence, and it helps to have some background knowledge and work experience. Local schools and colleges also do plenty to set would-be building trades on the right path. Mahurangi College careers advisor Marilyn Newlove says the school puts just as much emphasis on trades as it does on tertiary study, with a range of support, including careers expos, work experience, and the BCITObacked Gateway programme, which allows Year 12 and 13 students to get
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Speaker recounts Myanmar cruise Warkworth Men’s Fellowship Club, formerly known as Men’s Probus, has under gone another name change following its affiliation with the Rebus organisation. The club will now be called Warkworth Men’s Rebus (Retired Business & Professionals) Club. Guest speaker at last month’s meeting was Peter Armstrong (pictured), who recounted his five-day cruise along the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar. Peter is a pastor and English teacher, and has spent 28 days each year, since 2005, teaching English in Myanmar. The cruise, from Bhamo in the far north to Mandalay in the centre was on a local boat owned by a Burmese family. The father was their skipper and his wife was the cook. They visited many
small villages, including one dedicated to making pottery. They also visited an elephant training camp for the teak logging industry, saw rare Irrawaddy freshwater dolphins and went through picturesque river gorges. For more information about the Rebus Club, phone Bob Dye on 425 0089.
Lions bring music to Warkworth A community piano has taken up residence outside the Warkworth i-SITE in Baxter Street. The instrument is a gift to the town from the Lions Club of Warkworth to mark the international organisation’s Centennial Year. Members of the club were on hand to christen the piano with an old-fashioned sing-a-long. Club president Peter Henderson says the idea was to give the community something it can enjoy. “It’s on wheels so we envisage it being moved around the town on occasions,” he says. One Warkworth manager Murray
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Goose-bump heaven There was a bigger turnout than ever for the annual Winter Dip at Mathesons Bay on Sunday June 18. The swim is organised by the Leigh Business Community and is timed to coincide as closely as possible with the shortest day. Swimmers ranged in age from children to pensioners as well as a couple of dogs and a blow-up penguin.
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Mahurangi eyes finals spot with top tier qualification Mahurangi College First XV is looking to make the final for the second year running after securing a spot in the top half of the North Harbour 1B draw. The team bagged six wins and one draw in its first seven matches, while conceding just 17 points. Mahurangi College First XV assistant coach Jon Blyth says the team has played well across the board but will need to remain focused for the top tier round robin. “Because the format has changed and only the top two make finals, instead of four, there is little room for error,” Jon says. “We can only afford to lose one game at the most, otherwise we won’t be making the final.” Under this year’s system, Mahurangi and four other teams, including Westlake Boys High School Second XV, will go through to the top tier where they play each team once. “We have the advantage that we played the stronger teams away in the first round robin, which means we will play them at home this time.” Jon says the team’s main strengths have been defensive structures, scrummaging and turnovers at the breakdown. “Having 10 players return to the squad this year has meant most of our starting line-up are already familiar with the defensive patterns we use.
Turnover ball at the breakdown is a key strength for this year’s Mahurangi First XV.
Our forwards are really strong this year and we are getting a lot of ball at scrum time, even when the opposition put in.” Jon identified lineouts as an area to work on and believes the most clinical team will win the 1B Championship. Mahurangi’s first close encounter was against Westlake in a 12-12 draw, in which Westlake scored all its points
in the first half and Mahurangi in the second. “That was the first time we hadn’t controlled the tempo for the whole game, so we need to be able to adapt when our opposition sets the tone during the match.” Although it is a small squad, just two players have missed games due to injury so far.
“We have used our subs effectively this season with all seven going on in every match and having the desired impact. Discipline hasn’t troubled us either, with just two yellow cards in nine matches.” This will be put to the test when the squad plays three matches in eight days this month, including a midweek Hauraki Exchange fixture.
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Hurdles for showgrounds HOT FIRE DEALS on NOW! The development of Warkworth Showgrounds into a multi-sport facility still has several hurdles to clear before it becomes a reality, according to discussion at the annual meeting of the Mahurangi Community Sport and Recreation Collective. Around 30 people attended the meeting at Bayleys Warkworth office on June 26. Since last year, the collective has been working closely with Global Leisure Group (GLG), which compiled a feasibility report for the showgrounds development. Auckland Council sports partnerships project manager Neil Coventry said that some of their proposals had come in well over budget, including a $5 million gym sports complex. “There are a number of issues with their initial report – they haven’t hit the brief,” Neil said. “Because there was a significant cost for the report they will continue to work with the collective to refine it.” Cheaper options are being examined for the gym sports facility, including an extension to the Mahurangi College old gym. GLG also recommended the collective establish a skills-based board over the next two to three years to replace the current one made up of sports club representatives. However, collective chair Mark Illingworth said that process needed to be brought forward to ensure progress.
“A monthly meeting with club representatives isn’t moving us forward and leaves all the workload with a few people,” Mr Illingworth said. Membership of the board remained unchanged, although the departure of Mike Lewis, the Warkworth Association Football Club representative, left a vacancy. Positive news was delivered at the meeting, with Mahu Bike and Skate member Nicola Jones announcing that a $12,000 grant had been secured from the Rodney Local Board. The money will go towards concept plans to be drawn up by the end of this year for the bike and skate park, set to be completed at the showgrounds late next year. “We were absolutely thrilled because it covers the costs for both the bike and skate area designs, so we can take the entire concept to the public for feedback in a few months,” Nicola said later. Warkworth Cricket Club noted that it is in discussions with Council about getting a cricket pitch between the showgrounds fields one and two for night matches. Members of the collective board are Mark Illingworth, Ruth Mills, Gerard van Tilborg, Graham Buchs, Liz Davie-Martin and Toni BroughtonJohnston. Other members are marketing and communication officer Rachel Callender and event managers Nicola Jones and Cat Railey. The position of treasurer is yet to be filled.
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Positive finish to summer season The Omaha Beach Bowling Club has finished its season on a positive note with both membership growth and new equipment. The club wrapped up its in-house competitions in May with record entry numbers across the board. Club president Warwick Spicer says an increase in the number of permanent residents locally is the driver behind growth. “For the last two years we have had an all Omaha residents committee, whereas the club once used to cater mostly for Auckland holiday-makers.” In April, the club received a boost from the Pegasus Sports Foundation, which donated 10 sets of bowls valued at $7000 to encourage people to take up the sport. “It will be great to have modern
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From our
Congratulations to our Senior Open and our Junior A Open Underwater Hockey teams, who each placed 3rd in the North Island Regional Championships. Tauranga Boys won both grades. Trident High School in Whakatane came second in the juniors, and Glendowie College in Auckland came second in the seniors. Seven of our senior students have been selected to trial for the Northern Zone U18 Representative Team.
Issue 2 of VAULT Magazine has just been published. Well done to Claudia Munro-Boga, her editorial team and all contributors on another exceptionally high quality edition.
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David Macleod Dear Parents and Guardians
Congratulations to all involved in the very successful production of “Loverly”, a shortened version of My Fair Lady. Xavier Garneau-Roughan as Henry Higgins, and Eloise Williams-Mart as Eliza Doolittle, were outstanding, as was the acting, dance, music, costuming, staging and technical support. Thank you to our Head of Music, Mrs Wendy Sutherland, for her passion, energy and skill in directing the show and to all staff, parents and past students who assisted. A show to be proud of.
Congratulations also to Jack Rodgers who has just been crowned North Island Junior Motocross Champion. Another impressive title to add to his extensive collection (see below right). We enjoyed having our Head Boy from 2005, James Johnston, come back to speak with our Y13 students about his career in medicine. He is now a head and neck surgeon in Auckland and doing research into reducing use of antibiotics for tonsillitis. This year he has been flown, all expenses paid, to six medical conferences around the world, including London and Houston, to present his research and findings.
It was great to see our students get in behind two worthwhile causes recently, raising nearly $5000 duirng the World Vision 40 Hour Famine for Syrian refugees with a Mufti ‘Device Free’ Day, and over $4000 for CanTeen. In the latter, 11 of our students and one equally brave teacher, Mr Grant Waugh, shaved their heads at our Shave for a Cure event.
Best wishes to the band “Livewire”, who are performing their own composition at the Northland Rockquest Competition. Members are Aniwa Heke, Guitar, Vocals and Song Writer; Kaea Heke, Keyboard and Vocals; Nik Redwood, Drums; Mitch Whale, Electric; Nathan Strong, Bass. Also to Riley Popham, who is performing his original song at the Auckland Rockquest the following weekend.
David Macleod, Principal
11 students and one teacher raised $4000 for CanTeen.
Our Junior A Open UWH Team won Bronze at Regionals.
Jack Rodgers; North Island Junior Motocross Champion.
Achiever o f the Month
Friday 7th July is the last day of Term 2. The first day back in Term 3 is a Teacher Only Day. Students will start back on Tuesday 25th July.
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Mahurangi College Newsletter ISSUE 04: July 2017
LOVERLY A My Fair Lady Story
“Fantastic show! Congratulations to all involved. Loved it!” “The singing was fabulous. The costumes were awesome. Well done Mahu!” “An amazing show!” “It was so good! Great talent there.” Incredibly, after just 7 short weeks our 2017 School Production opened - to rave reviews.
Centre: Outstanding lead performances were given by Eloise Williams-Mart (Eliza Doolittle) (left), Jacob Bindon (Colonel Pickering) (centre) and Xavier Garneau-Roughan (Henry Higgins) (right). Costumes by Wendy Sutherland.
“We would like to pass on our congratulations to everyone involved in “Loverly” – a wonderful show. To see such talented energetic young people was inspiring and uplifting. Thank you all so much for a very enjoyable afternoon, you are all professionals and your community should be very proud of you.” On Friday 23 June Loverly, a My Fair Lady story, opened with a matinee performance for primary school students and Senior Citizens. After entertaining audiences during three matinees and three evening shows, our students are now celebrating their success with a well deserved weekend off. In Loverly, phonetics professor Henry Higgins attempts to transform a Cockney working-class girl into a cultured member of high society. He selects Eliza Doolittle as his subject. Higgins and Eliza clash, then form an unlikely bond. The well known and beloved musical has been sensitively updated by ex-pupil Mitchell Houlbrooke who also arranged the updated music for the show.
Although a team effort from well over 100 cast and crew members, standout performances were given by leads Eloise Williams-Mart (Eliza Doolittle) and Xavier Garneau-Roughan (Henry Higgins). Both Eloise and Xavier shone with their beautiful, effortless singing, considerable acting ability and energy that lit up the whole stage. Jacob Bindon (Colonel Pickering), Zach Pickett (Alfred Doolittle) and Caoimhe Lane (Mrs Pearce) also shone. Ascot Race Day costumes caused an audible gasp from delighted audiences. Director, costume and set designer, Wendy Sutherland, has been working on the show in the background since the beginning of the year. “It has been a joy working with such a talented, dedicated group of young people. They brought such a high level of maturity and professionalism to the whole show process. Our students stole the show, both on and off stage. Despite the number shows I have been privileged to be a part of, this was one I won’t ever forget.”
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Kingi Herewini hopes one day to make the All Blacks after his selection for the Northland Maori U18 squad.
High schools join forces to strengthen school rugby Rugby union has taken a step forward at Rodney College with the formation of a combined First XV and four players making rep teams. The school has joined with Otamatea High School to compete in the Northland Secondary Schools First XV Competition for the first time in at least a decade. After just two weeks of training together, the team played its debut match against Kamo First XV on June 21, losing 24-17. Coach Peter Hugo, who has worked with rep teams and Wellsford senior sides, was pleased with the performance. “In terms of a team that has just come together, it was an awesome performance,” Peter says. “The synergy was good between
players, something I thought would take a few weeks to build.” The squad has around 25 players at full strength so no trial process was required. “There are some high quality players in the squad, with strong ball runners and good decision makers. Team structure and mentality is something we do need to work on to avoid playing as individuals.” Peter says after competing closely in their opening fixture, the team is aiming to win the competition in its first season. “My goal from the start has been to win the title, but I needed the players to believe in that goal and I think they do now.” Trainings alternate between Otamatea and Rodney, and home
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July Snells Beach School Quiz Night & Auction, Mahurangi East Hall, 6.30pm, bookings essential. Info: Kim Love 021 48 22 68 or kim@thebusinessconcierge.co.nz 8 Te Whau Planting Event, meet at bridge Cornel Circle entrance to reserve, 10am-12pm, bring gloves, volunteers needed. Rain date Sat July 15. 9 Wellsford Country Music Club, Wellsford Community Centre, 1.30pm. Visitors welcome. Info: Iris Moraghan 439 4347 or 027 884 8280 9 Incredible Warkworth and spatial plan information day, Warkworth Town Hall, 1-4pm. Info: Cissy 021 964 884 (see stories p11 & p17) 12 Snells Beach Garden Circle meeting, Mahurangi East Community Centre, at 1.30pm. Speaker, sales table, competition entries and afternoon tea. Info: Barbara 425 5371 12 Town Hall Talks, A Bay Where No Ships Have Been: The history and archaeology of Auckland’s first European settlement. Warkworth Town Hall talk by Robert Brassey, 5pm (see story p28) 13 Worm farming presentation from a member of the compost collective, for all ages. Warkworth Library 11am and Wellsford Library 2pm. 15 Planting day, Baddeleys & Campbells Beach. Meet at Baddeleys Beach Reserve, 9am. Lunch provided. Info: Sue Crawshay 021 929 029 (see story p6) 15 Auckland Opera Studio at The Vivian Gallery, 39 Omaha Valley Road, 5pm to 7pm, $50 Info: thevivian.co.nz 15 Tree Detectives Walk for children age 4-12 years (accompanied by an adult). Explore Kowhai Park, Warkworth. 2-3.30pm. Info: Jo Rodgers 021 135 0183 15&16 Matakana Green Collective weekend, promote green activities in the Matakana region. Info: matakanagreencollective@gmail.com 16 Kaukapakapa Market, 8.30am-1pm: stalls, food & live music. Info: Sarah 0274 831 542 or sarah1@maxnet.co.nz 16 Takiri Ensemble featuring soprano Anna Leese-Guidi. Warkworth Town Hall, 4pm. Tickets $35 at the door or warkworthmusic.org.nz. Info: 09 425 6289 (see story p22 and ad p23) 19 Mermaid stories, singing and dance for children, Warkworth Library at 11am and Wellsford Library at 1pm. 20 Forest & Bird winter talks, Massey University’s herpetologist Manu Barry on NZ reptiles, Totara Park Village Hall, 5 Melwood Dr, Warkworth, 7.30pm. 21 Stories and games for juniors, Mahurangi East Library, 6.30pm. Youth games and movie 7.30pm. 21&22 Art’n’Tartan Wearable Art Show, Waipu Museum. Info: waipumuseum.com 22&23 Matakana Weekend Market, Matakana Hall, 10am-2pm. Info: Jacky 422 9221, mob 027 4353535; or jic@xtra.co.nz 23 Jazz at the Sawmill, Leigh. Terry & Friends. Terry Hicks – piano, Barbara Hamilton – bass, and Colin Jarvis – harmonica. 5-7pm. No cover charge (see story p13) 26 Alpha, Mahurangi Vineyard Church invites anyone interested in exploring life and faith, Wednesdays, 7pm at The Factory, 3/1 Hamatana Road, Snells Beach. RSVP. Info: 021 677376. 26 Warkworth RSA, “Believe it or not” quiz night 28 Puhoi Village Market, 9am-1pm. Stalls, plants, produce, art and craft and more. Info: 0274 27 0440 or email puhoivillagemarket@gmail.com 7
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Kaipara woman bags top bow hunting award Kaipara Hills resident Sarah Thoroughgood has become the first woman in New Zealand to win the coveted Bow Hunter of the Year award. Sarah, aged 23, has been bow hunting for eight years. To win the title, she drove 23,000km and walked 750km carrying a 60-pound bow. “I knew I was on track to win, but it was pretty surreal in the end to get the award,” Sarah says. Sarah won the award by dominating the most competitions in a 12-month period. She won the Small Game Shield, Small Game Variety Shield, Most Big Game Species Trophy, Best Deer Head on DOC Land, Best Prepared Skin Trophy, gained points from record-book sized pig tusks and a blue shark, and she was second overall in the fish points category. For the variety shield, she shot 23 different species of small game including a kingfish and mullet. But it was a ferret that claimed her the prize. “I never thought I would get a ferret, but one day I saw one within my range and shot it. It ended up being the 23rd species on my list, which won me the shield.” Only animals that have a running chance can be targeted under the New Zealand Bow Hunters Society rules. The addition of artificial light, laser sights and other technology is also not permitted. Sarah shoots her animals through the heart or lungs to avoid maiming. “If I see an animal, but it’s a difficult shot, I won’t fire in case I only injure it before it gets away. I’m a patient hunter so I can wait for hours before I get the right opportunity to make my shot.” At times, she has been able to kill two goats at once when they aligned. She has killed goats from up to 90 metres away. Sarah says there are a number of factors that go into making a good bow hunter. “One of the most important things is to understand
Top hunters, Sarah Thoroughgood (left) and her sister Rebekah.
the typography of the land, which can either give you or your prey a place to hide. “Technique is something you learn with experience, and the quality of your gear also has an influence.” She also studies animal behaviour and traits to strike when her prey is most vulnerable. “Pigs, for example, have great smell and poor eyesight, so you can get close in on them easily as long as you’re upwind. “When hunting tahr, it is difficult to get them during feeding time so I’ve learnt their routine and intercept them on their way to feed.”
Sarah shares her knowledge as an archery coach and works with a number of juniors, including her 16-year-old sister, Rebekah, who recently became a master bow hunter. Rebekah is the 123rd person to achieve this title, the 10th junior and first junior female master bow hunter. In order to achieve this she claimed five small and five big game awards, with her favourite kill a stag whose skin is now a living room rug. “I enjoy hunting with my sister,” Rebekah says. “We’ve had so many awesome experiences together across the country.”