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Event organisers take weather in their stride While the Mahurangi district escaped the sort of summer storms that lashed places such as Nelson, the windy and wet conditions over Christmas/New Year presented some real challenges for outdoor event organisers. According to NIWA figures, parts of the district received double their usual rainfall average last month. The wet weather forced the postponement of the Warkworth Rodeo and one or two smaller events were cancelled. But overall, event organisers say audiences were very understanding of the inconveniences and just got on with enjoying themselves. Mangawhai Tavern owner Gillian Houser says the dismal weather over the Christmas and New Year period didn’t put a halt to any of the action at the tavern. “We had one of our best Christmas/ New Year periods in my four years of being here,” she says. “Numbers were at their maximum almost every night. “Events were sold out. Our hot spit roast nights on the deck with early entertainment were full and proved to be a great success. Families, young adults, mature adults and seniors were all here and all had a great time. Nothing had to be cancelled as we have adequate shelter outside. In some ways, the weather worked in our favour as more people were socialising inside

crazy weather Campers bore the brunt of the wet weather, but these young holidaymakers at Whangateau tried to make the best of it. More weather photos at localmatters.co.nz

instead of being on the beaches.” Managers of the Riverside Holiday Park in Mangawhai, Ian and Maree Thompson, say guests made the most of the wet weather while staying at the park and there was only one cancellation. “A few kids took their body-boards into the puddles and splashed about,”

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Crowds undeterred by rain Like many event organisers, Ascension Wine Estate owner Darryl Soljan is philosophical about the impact of the rain. “As a grape grower, you know that you to contend with and more cars get can’t do anything about the weather, bogged. The silver lining is that the you just have to manage the best you restaurant has been chock-a-block nearly every day.” can,” he says. Ascension presented an expanded Ascension also presented Shakespeare programme of entertainment this year, in the Vines, an outdoor theatre including hosting three big outdoor production by Australian company shows back-to-back over New Year’s. Essential Theatre, early in the New Year. The line-up included artists such as “The Friday night performance Shapeshifter, Jimmy Barnes and Fat was magic because the weather was Freddy’s Drop. perfect, but the Saturday show had to “We made a call just after Christmas be moved inside. We’ll definitely be Day to put up a massive 900sqm doing this again – the feedback was marquee in front of the stage. Overall, really positive.” I don’t think the rain really affected Darryl said the big events had given attendance numbers with most events the Ascension brand huge exposure being close to sold out. But, the fact through regional and national media, is, bad weather just makes everything and the venue had been a lot busier harder – patrons get wet, there’s mud this year, despite the rain.

Show goes on despite the deluge Concern for the safety of musicians at an outdoor event in Puhoi on December 29 forced organisers to relocate the show indoors. Audience numbers were well down on expectations at the Party in the Park Summer Series, which was held over five days at Puhoi Valley Café. Organiser Billy TK Junior says all shows were affected by the rain. “During the Jazz and Blues evening on December 29, when the rain really came in and it became dangerous for

the musicians, we stopped the show and asked the crowd if they would mind relocating into the cafe. The response was truly touching – within 10 seconds about 20 members of public were in front of the stage helping to carry our gear indoors. In 23 years of doing this I have never seen that.” Billy TK says he is definitely keen to do the series again next December. “It’s a ‘yes’ with caution as we need to work out what is best for the cafe and our guests and the performers.”

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and windy Warkworth rodeo postponement pays off Wet from page 1 Seahorses rather than broncos would have been more appropriate crazy for the Warkworth Rodeo’s scheduled carnival on January 1. weather Warkworth Rodeo Club secretary to 3000 people attended the Krista Fletcher says the arena looked event, about half the usual like a lake on December 31 when the number. In the past 30-odd decision was taken to postpone the years, the rodeo has only been postponed on one other occasion and event to January 6. “There was mud everywhere and the cancelled once. banks where spectators usually sit “The rodeo crowd are a pretty resilient was sodden,” she said. “Organising lot so despite the mud and chaos, the postponement was a logistical everyone had a good time. We were nightmare which involved hundreds extremely lucky to get good weather of phone calls and in hindsight, it may on the 6th and at the end of the day, you have to accept that there’s nothing have been easier to cancel. anyone can do about the weather; you “But, we think we have probably at just have to go with the flow.” least broken even by re-scheduling so Newly-elected Rodney MP Mark that’s definitely a plus.” Mitchell is used to safer seats than the The club estimates that between 2000 one he climbed on to at the rodeo.

Police cope well with holiday influx Policing of the many large events across the Mahurangi region over Christmas went well, according to Rodney rural sub area manager Senior Sergeant Glenn Adkin. “Planning for the events and the subsequent increase in traffic was completed in plenty of time,” he said. “Three extra police constables –Mark Wakefield, Simon Brown and Graham Bennett – were seconded to Mangawhai and supported officers Gough and Du Plessis in day-to-day duties. Extra officers were also brought in to assist with events at the Mangawhai Tavern.” Sen. Sgt Adkin said the arrangements

worked well and provided some muchneeded support to the local officers during the influx of holiday makers. He said the New Year’s Eve Highlife event at Matakana was policed by staff from Rodney, North Shore and Henderson. “The event passed off well with only two arrests made – one for drunkenness and another for violent drunken behaviour where a man was charged with assaulting two police officers. Thankfully, no police officers were injured.” Sen. Sgt Adkin said the weather took its toll and after midnight many people left en masse. “Most were well-

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behaved and in good spirits.” Overall, Police say there were no specific crime issues over the holiday period and drivers, in the main, were law-abiding. Police are still conducting road policing operations and every driver stopped will be breath tested. Their advice is to drive to the conditions. Sen. Sgt Adkin added that people were still leaving valuables on display in parked motor vehicles at local car parks and scenic spots. “This gives the opportunist thief the chance to smash a car window and help himself. Lock these valuables away out of sight.”

Silver lining for silver screen The wet and windy Christmas/New Year holiday period proved a windfall for Matakana Cinemas. Manager Dan Paine says takings are up about 15 percent on previous busy periods. “On December 29 and 30, and January 7, the phone virtually rang non-stop all day long,” he says. “The three cinemas can handle up to about 1344 people a day in the school holidays and we’ve been averaging on busy days around 1200.” Dan says Tin Tin and The Iron Lady were the two most popular films, followed by the Muppets.

So where do former and current Prime Ministers do their last minute Christmas shopping? Spotted at the Matakana Market on a surprisingly fine Christmas Eve were Jenny Shipley and John Key.

drains away. We have been completely booked out – as some guests leave, others who have booked in arrive. We have just cruised along; after all, what’s a bit of rain?” The estimated 6000 party-goers who attended the Highlife event, at the Matakana Country Park on New Year’s Eve, proved fairly resilient to the weather thanks to the pre-event efforts of organisers. The weather delayed work on setting up for the event and a small 15-minute aerial show was cancelled, but otherwise, the programme went ahead as scheduled. “It started pouring down on December 29 and 30 so we spent a lot of time weatherproofing the event rather than doing other things,” organiser Adam Bennett says. “A huge amount of money was spent on bringing in extra marquees, flooring, hay, gravel, sawdust and other equipment. I think we could have had a larger turn out if it hadn’t been for the weather. A lot of people didn’t make it because they thought it was going to be wet and muddy, but out of all the events in NZ on NYE our party was the driest and most comfortable. “Despite a few power cuts on the bars, which caused a few delays on drinks service, the night ran smoothly.” Adam says the camping was pretty wet and muddy, but Omaha Beach Golf Club volunteers did an amazing job of helping people out and looking after everyone. He says he really wants to return to the Matakana area this year but guests struggle to find accommodation. “Finding houses to rent has become a very big challenge for us as promoters. We seem to miss out on getting more of a mature audience as our older followers of the Highlife parties don’t want to camp and when they can’t find accommodation in the Matakana/ Omaha areas, they opt for alternative locations and events elsewhere.” The NIWA’s outlook for late summer, is that rainfall is likely to be remain above normal for all North Island regions.

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FEEDBACK What’s affordable? What an excellent, fair and balanced editorial titled ‘Council still on trainer wheels’ (MM 14 December). You have acknowledged the need to give the new Auckland Council a chance to find its feet (wheels). One perceptive and troubling reference of the editorial was made concerning the Council’s finances, noting that current financial management is being based on last year’s budgets derived from our Rodney predecessor Council. When the “real” figures for the first full 12 months of Auckland Council operations, based on actuals (not budgets) are revealed this

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time next year, a different and far less rosy picture will emerge. The Council long-term 10-year plan now being prepared is based on spend ... then spend some more. Under this plan, Council debt is scheduled to balloon to $8 billion which, according to my “back of the envelope” reckonings, will be at least three times the accepted NZ local government financial debtmaxima benchmarks. Our local board and northern ratepayers must seriously question if this plan is financially sustainable and affordable for our citizens. I fear the opposite. Larry N. Mitchell, Puhoi

Small cog The new Auckland City regime has forced us here in Rodney to become just another small cog in a very large wheel. As commented in your December 14 opinion column, the Mayor remains gung-ho and focussed on a rail system for central Auckland, direct contact with council officers has all but disappeared, the renewal of local contracts is not even being offered to local contractors to tender in many cases and the outer regions are being neglected despite the verbal assurance they are not. Permit costs are rising as the old

Auckland City price gouging system reaches us. Unfortunately, over the past year, the previous well-established contacts with Rodney district have not been established with the city, and now the ball has been dropped completely with the novice local Rodney board member Martin double-dipping as a Member of Parliament with Winston. History and experience show that each of these is a full-time job so I suspect we here in Rodney will suffer until the next election. We have no show until then. David Hanson, Omaha

Mangawhai mangrove removal challenged through court Mangawhai Harbour Restoration Society is headed to the Environment Court after mediation over the proposed removal of mangroves from the harbour failed. The society’s initial application in August 2010 evidence with around a dozen parties involved, was subject to public submissions in October that including the Northern Regional Council, year, attracting 243 in support, 42 against, and four Department of Conservation, the Forest and Bird neither for nor against. In April last year, a Northern Protection Society and the Fairy Tern Charitable Regional Council hearings panel of three independent Trust, with a view to an Environment Court hearing commissioners rejected the application, citing at a date yet to be set, probably in the second or concerns including potential impacts on marine and third quarter of this year. bird life, especially the endangered NZ fairy tern. “The basic issue is whether there will be any adverse The society’s solicitor, Clendons’ James Carnie, says effects from removing the mangroves. We say removal the society has appealed the decision and modified its will actually improve the harbour environment, but application, restricting proposed mangrove removal other parties have different views,” Mr Carnie says. to less than half its previous target by focusing only on The society will present evidence from a team of mangroves on the seaward side of the main causeways. specialists including a bird expert, marine biologist, The revised proposal also stipulates that no activities ecologist, sedimentologist, coastal scientists, will be carried out over the main bird-breeding season landscape architect, planner and historian in support from October to January inclusive. of its position. Mediation in September last year failed to reach a resolution and the society is currently exchanging Map courtesy of Northland Regional Council

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House sale funds skate park Supporters of the Mangawhai Activity Zone (MAZ) have their fingers crossed for some spirited bidding in a fundraising auction which will see a new threebedroomed, brick and tile house, go under the hammer next month. The house, located on a 650sqm site in Park View Waters on Estuary Drive, Mangawhai, was built ‘at cost’ by Orewa-based company Westmoreland Homes. Company owner Willie Hewitt says MAZ approached him about a year ago in the hope of securing a donation. “I felt I could do more than just write out a cheque,” he says. “What’s been really great about this project is that tradespeople and suppliers have come to the party as well. Without exception, everyone who worked on the house either discounted their services or materials, or provided them at cost. It just means that at the end of the day, there’s going to be an even bigger Simon Bennett installing new cheque for the Mangawhai project.” playground equipment at the MAZ committee member Julie Kehoe Mangawhai Activity Zone. says the committee is very grateful to those businesses who have contributed the activity zone has become the social their services. Money raised will be hot spot. spent on stage two, which will include “We’ve also worked closely with additional skatebowls, concreted Project Crimson to establish the pathways, seating, shading and ramps. three hectare area including bike and “Our aim is to build one of NZ’s walking trails. Safety signage has been premier skating facilities, capable of erected and a water fountain installed. holding international competitions in “It’s a huge success story; one of the future,” she says. best things that has ever happened in Since officially opening stage one last the area.” year, Julie says the area has been in If all goes to plan, MAZ hopes to see constant use. work start on stage two around October. “New equipment for the children’s The auction will be held on site on play area has been well received and Saturday February 25, at 2pm.

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North gets first glimpse of solar powered transport NZ’s only operating solar-powered vehicle passed through Rodney last month, on the final leg of its journey from Bluff to Cape Reinga. It was the Solar Fern’s first visit to the good about it and there are lots of north, and the support crew made toots and thumbs up.” an overnight stop at the Sheepworld The three-wheeled car is technically Campground, in Warkworth. classed as a moped and needs no special Project manager Rob Glassey said permission to run on the road. The two the purpose of the trip was to raise drivers alternated shifts, doing about the profile of solar car racing in NZ. two to three hours at a stretch. His team hopes to build a new car Driver Brent Thompson said the for the next World Solar Challenge in driver’s compartment was small but Australia, in 2013. They would also not uncomfortable. like to set-up an international event in NZ, as well as a model solar car racing “It’s a bit like lying back in a deck chair and is reasonably well ventilated,” he competition among schools. said. “The car doesn’t have any sound“The challenges of designing and deadening material so it is very noisy, building a solar car are a great way to but the helmet that we wear all the encourage young people to take up time has a built-in intercom and ear engineering and science,” he said. muffs which help.” Rob said Solar Fern had performed Rob said one of the key impediments well on the tour, incurring only one to achieving a better performing car flat tyre. Energy consumption was was money. better than expected and there were “We built everything on the car few electrical system problems. ourselves, even the parts. It took time The team was stopped twice by Police but was a huge financial saving. Our – once for a breathalyser test and the car cost around $30,000, whereas if second time on the Auckland Harbour you aren’t doing it yourself, the starting Bridge where they think the officer figure is around $100,000 to $200,000. was more curious than concerned “Leaders in the solar racing world about the vehicle’s road-worthiness. include Japan, the Netherlands and The Solar Fern weighs 200kgs, and is Michigan State University who five metres long and 1.8 metres wide. literally spend millions of dollars on The roof is covered entirely with solar their cars.” panels and it has battery capacity of four kilowatt hours. When fully charged, this But Rob is confident that NZ can enables the car to cover between 200 move into the top five in the world. and 300kms, but on a sunny day, when “We’ve had some racing experience the sun is continually recharging the now – we’ll be trying to secure some batteries, the car can do up to 350kms. serious sponsorship so we can improve It averages a speed of 50km/h for best the solar panels on the car.” efficiency, which can cause some mild The entire trip from Bluff to Cape congestion on the road. Reinga took 10 days and was “We try to pull over as frequently as sponsored by ESG Energy, Hubbards possible, but most drivers are really Cereals and Honda.

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Mahurangi Matters is pleased to welcome onboard a new columnist this month. Former Auckland Regional Council representative Christine Rose is well-known in Rodney for her environmental advocacy and support of sustainable lifestyles. Over the coming months, she will keep readers abreast of green issues as they affect our neighbourhood. If you have a question or comment for Christine, she can be contacted at christine.rose25@gmail.com

Predator protection overdue

This summer, spare a thought for sharks. Not because they’re a huge threat to us, but because of the threats we pose to them. NZ has 112 shark species in our waters, with 79 of these caught in our fisheries, including 28 that are listed as threatened by the World Conservation Union (IUCN). The great white is the only shark species protected in NZ. About Seven percent of sharks caught in NZ 24,000 tonnes of shark are caught as are killed just for their fins. Photo, www. targeted species in our waters each sffa.org.nz year. In addition, there are up to 840 tonnes of sharks killed as by-catch, compared with 91.7 tonnes of shark by-catch in Australia. About 100 million sharks are killed each year around the world. Most sharks in NZ are used for meat (the fish in our fish and chips). But seven percent of all sharks are killed just for their fins, with the rest of the body discarded. Shark fins are lightweight, and extremely profitable. A single whale shark fin, for example, can fetch $US700 a kilo. Sometimes sharks have their fins removed while the animal is still alive. Shark finning itself – taking only the fin and discarding the rest of the animal, is still legal in New Zealand, even though it’s illegal in America, Canada, South Africa, Australia and the European Union. Sharks play an important role in the ecosystem, as apex predators. They keep the sea clean of sick and dead wildlife and maintain an important balance in marine populations. They’ve survived five major extinctions and have existed for more than 400 million years. But up to 90 percent of shark stocks have been depleted, and this is increasing with more invasive fishing techniques and targeted shark finning. Once common species such as basking sharks are now never seen. Action is essential to stop this inhumane, wasteful and dangerous plunder. As signatories to UN Food and Agricultural Organisation agreements, NZ is obliged to develop a National Plan of Action for Sharks. This is due for review this year. At present, use of sharks takes priority over conservation and sustainability. A precautionary approach is overdue. We need more monitoring, regulation, data on by-catch and population size, and a population management plan, all based on international best practice. Other threats facing sharks need analysis and mitigation. Quotas need to be applied based on the population size and risks the sharks face. The amount of wasted shark product must be reduced; imported shark products should be assessed. We would demand better protection and species recovery efforts if these were warm, furry charismatic species. And though sharks pose very little threat to us, we are doing too little to mitigate our threats to them. So spare a thought for sharks this summer – not in the water, but in bowls of shark fin soup and in your fish and chips. Information for this article supplied by Shark Fin Free Auckland – www.sffa.org.nz

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A life without regrets is how John Phillips, of Kaipara Flats, describes the last 85 years. Born between the wars and raised on the outskirts of Warkworth, he is a fourth generation Kaipara Flats farmer who started out as a keen huntergatherer, only to wind-up a conservationist. Married for 60 years to Maureen, he believes the secret to his happy life was choosing the right partner – “she’s still my kind of girl”. He told Jannette Thompson that although he has no plans to retire, he has recently given up his life-long love of riding motorbikes …. Riding a bike used to make me feel 10 years younger, but the old body isn’t what it used to be and the rides started to make me feel 10 years older. Maureen was still riding on the back until about 10 years ago, but two artificial knee joints have slowed her down a bit too. She was on the back just a few days before we were due to be married, when we were hit by a car. She got out of hospital on the eve of the wedding and had to walk down the isle on crutches with her father carrying her bouquet. She was in plaster for five months so we spent the money we’d set aside for the honeymoon on buying a bedroom suite. All my days I’ve loved motorbikes and used to ride Velocetts; there’s still one in the shed that’s just one year younger than me. The Phillips family arrived in NZ on the Worldwind in 1859. My great grandfather Joseph, and his three brothers, bought adjoining farms around Kaipara Flats airfield. Not surprisingly, the place got the nickname Phillipsville. While farming was their main occupation, one of the brothers Isaac had spent some time on the Australian goldfields and for a while they took up gold prospecting on what became Mabbett’s farm. They got down to 170 feet, but the shaft flooded when they started tunnelling sideways. Apparently they were getting three to five pennyweights per tonne – I don’t know what a pennyweight is, but I imagine it was bugger all. My parents were Ernie and Nellie, and our family farm was on Kaipara Flats Road, not far from the intersection with State Highway One. The area was known as The Briars. I’d have to say that my brother Jim, now 92, and I had a very happy childhood. There were always plenty of kids around the place to play with and some of my happiest memories were of eeling in the local creeks and streams. They weren’t hard to catch and some of them were around 10lbs. Dad would boil them up and feed them to the pigs. During the Depression, what Dad didn’t grow, we didn’t eat. Most of it was great except for the maize, which he would grind up for porridge

– it was terrible stuff. Dad spent his last few years at Waioma Rest Home, at Whangateau, where they made a special area for him to garden. On the day he died, aged 94, he’d just planted 12 lettuces. Dairying was the mainstay of the district then. Our cream went to the Kaipara Dairy Company, in Helensville, by rail from Kaipara Flats. It was around 1939 before we got a milking machine – up until then the cows were milked by hand, twice a day, in our small four-bale shed. Dad had a run-off at Sunnybrook, about halfway through The Dome, with a two-bedroomed shack on it. That’s where we were on the night of July 22, 1931, when my mother became, the first person in NZ to receive an overseas telephone call. Her brother was a reporter on an English newspaper and he had arranged the call, presumably so he could be the first with the story. The arrangements were made by letter, which took about six weeks to arrive by boat, so no firm date for the call was set. It was already night when we heard Cyril Phillips coming through the bush calling out to us. Dad put me on his back as we walked in total darkness through the ferns and ti tree, and across a stony creek, to the road. The road, now SH1, was mostly clay with a bit of metal and Cyril had to put chains on the back wheels to get some traction. We finally got to the Warkworth Post Office where the postmaster Mr Ingham met us. We were tired and hungry, and the wait seemed to go on forever. At last the call came through and mother took it as father was very deaf. A Mr Stapleton, from the Empire Dairy Company, talked to her for a few very brief seconds about butter and then it was all over. The headlines in the English papers the next day read ‘Log hut phones London. Voice speaks from the bush’. Warkworth was full of interesting old characters in those days. The Azzy brothers – George, Peter and Dom – ran shops built of corrugated iron, about where Franklins Chemist is now. All three were bachelors and lived at the back of their shops. Mum said they

were Syrian. Dom was a hairdresser and tobacconist, who always smoked a pipe and was rumoured to be the local condom stockist. He owned a Nash coupe sedan, which was his pride and joy. Peter was the tailor and I remember he gave Mum a book of suit material samples which my brother and I spent hours removing from the pages. Mother then sewed all the patches together on her Singer treadle sewing machine, backed them with an old grey blanket and transformed them into very warm bedcovers for our beds. This was the 1930s when times were hard and there wasn’t a lot of demand for men’s suits in Warkworth so Peter moved on. George did boot repairs but doubled as the town bookie and made frequent appearances before the court. Another character was Tomas Creekdale Oak who ran the Streamlands Post Office and telephone exchange, and was also the Herald correspondent. He was the son of an old sea captain who was very fond of rum, but Thomas signed the pledge and always wore a blue ribbon on his coat lapel. He was a bachelor who loved trees and would cry if he saw one cut down, and yet earned pocket money cutting firewood. Even when he was old, he would never miss our Dome Valley Sunday School. He always gave each kid three lollies wrapped in brown paper. I guess

it encouraged us to attend Sunday School but he always smelled strongly of urine and unfortunately, so did the lollies. After I left school I trapped possums for a while; the skins were worth five shillings each. I was going to do an apprenticeship with Rodney Motors, but the war came along and there weren’t enough qualified guys left to train me. Mum and Dad sold the farm and moved to Ranui and I went to work in fruit research at the Oratia experimental farm. After Maureen and I were married, we decided we’d had enough of city life and we swapped our house at Ranui for Charlie Anderson’s farm here on Woodcocks Road. Both our children – Michael and Judith – grew up here. We started off with 23 cows and then built glasshouses and grew tomatoes for the local market. We had a go at table grapes and capsicums for a while, but stuck with tomatoes. Michael did an apprenticeship with Wilmots but then decided to go into goat farming so I adapted the cowshed accordingly. The market for goat’s milk promptly crashed and he went back to cows so we had to re-do the shed again. There’s still plenty of things to keep me busy – I still make some pocket money sharpening chainsaws and fixing lawnmowers – and retirement’s not in my plans in the immediate future.

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The last few weeks have been interesting as Councillors have spent many hours listening to submissions on the Auckland Plan. Many submitters have pointed to the fact that although they agree with a compact city and don’t want sprawl, they also want to maintain their style of living, leafy suburbs and wide open spaces. Comparing Auckland to overseas cities has always been a problem. We are different both geographically and in make-up. Many citizens, from many nations, come here because they like the way we live as compared to where they have come from. The myth that Asians, for example, love to live in apartments doesn’t ring true when you look at developments around Botany and Howick. But what people don’t understand about the Auckland Plan is this: It’s not a choice between two extremes. The plan advocates forcing people into ugly 1960s style high rise council flats as much as its opponents want to force people into bland 1960s style urban sprawl, all the way from Whangarei to Hamilton. It advocates choice in housing as Auckland expands. And that means an extra 100,000 homes built outside the metropolitan urban limit. It’s time to get away from the propaganda and focus on the facts. Hearing so many talk about public transport has also been interesting. According to some people, cars are a no-no, an evil that we should do everything to erase. Very few people think that any more roads should be built and somehow we are all going to live in this Utopia City and view the rural landscape from afar. Again that is not the case. The Auckland Plan talks about the importance of roads like Highway One north and the Onehunga-Mt Wellington link as much as it does about rail. That message doesn’t seem to be getting through. Sometimes it gets quite depressing. And when I point out there is much of New Zealand and Auckland outside the city limits, some people get a glazed look in their eyes and shrug. We do need to continue to sell Auckland to New Zealand as much as we do the rest of the world. Internal tourism is as much a part of our future as international tourism. Still, 2012 will offer its own challenges. We are at a crossroads as far as Auckland is concerned. At least with the uncertainty overseas, New Zealand and Auckland are seen as safe havens. Long may it be so. I wish everyone a great holiday and a successful 2012.

Work in progress for local contractors and Council A decline in work for local firms, since the formation of Auckland Council in November 2010, was the subject of a meeting in Warkworth last month. In attendance were representatives from a range of local businesses including Rhodes for Roads, O’Connor Planning Consultants, Wharehines and Mason Bins, as well as Warkworth Area Liaison Group representatives and Auckland Council officers. Liaison group member Richard Papworth says he felt there had been some useful discussion during the three-hour meeting. “It’s a work in progress and it comes down to working together,” he said. “Local contractors have been asked to provide Council with an action point summary of the issues raised at the meeting. There was also some discussion around Council establishing an in-house intranet system, with a database of local contractors.” Local Board members Tracey Martin and Steven Garner also attended the meeting.

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Volunteer brigades salute members’ service and dedication Years of dedication by members of the Wellsford, Warkworth, Leigh, and Mahurangi East Volunteer Fire Brigades were recognised at Honours Nights held around the district at the end of last year. Each of the stations honours nights 5yr medal for 17 years service – Shane was well attended by the community. Baker; 2yr Silver bar for 5yr medal Meanwhile, rural fire brigades including for 11 years Service – Reg Phillips; 2 Matakana, Puhoi, Ahuroa and Kawau yr Silver Bar for 5yr medal for 9 years Island now come under the governance Service – Trent Jones; 2 yr Silver Bar of Auckland Council and their Honours for 5yr medal for 7 years Service – Matt Night is being planned for sometime in Browne; 2 yr Silver Bar for 5yr medal for 7 years Service – Dave Galloway; the first half of this year. Auckland Council principal rural fire 5 year Medal – Paul Calkin; 3 year officer Bryan Cartelle says now that the Certificate – Kevin Derby and Bob rural stations are all part of Auckland, Goodin. The following honours are the rural fire team is looking at hosting awaiting gazetting by NZFS: 3rd Clasp one honours night for all the volunteer for Long Service Good Conduct medal for 35 yrs Service – John Cowpland; brigades to celebrate together. 2nd Clasp for Long Service Good “It is important that we recognise the Conduct medal for 28 years Service – hard work and huge contribution our Les Martin; 1st Clasp for Long Service volunteer rural fire brigades give to Good Conduct medal for 21 years their communities,” he says. Service – Richard Connolly, Scott “A special celebration that everyone Marchant and Steven Greenwood. can be involved in will be held soon.” Warkworth United Fire Brigades Association 5 Yr Medal – Adam Duffy, Scott awards were presented as follows: McMahon; Gold Bars – Gavin Noyer Wellsford for 29 years service, Allen Harvey for NZ Fire Service long service good 35 years service, Peter Connell for 37 conduct medal for 14 years service years service, Andy Tucker for 39 years – Des Hansen; 2 Yr Gold Bar for service, Allan Mather for 39 years Gold Star medal for 35 years service service, Murray Paterson for 41 years – John Cowpland. 2Yr Silver Bar service, Gary Aitken for 45 years service, for 5yr medal for 21 years Service – F Perkin for 47 years service; Silver Richard Connolly, Scott Marchant Bars – Joel Mitchell for 7 years Service, and Steven Greenwood; 2 Yr Silver T Hudson for 7 years service, Dan Bar for 5yr medal for 19 years Service Goodwin for 9 years service, Jane Watt – Lisa Greenwood; 2yr Silver Bar for for 9 years service, Tony Sanford for 11

From left, Warkworth volunteer firemen who received awards were Allen Harvey, Gavin Noyer and Adam Duffy. Deputy fire officer Shaun Pilgrim was the MC at Warkworth’s Honours night.

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Mahurangi East 2 Year Silver Bars – Doug Wyatt for 21 years service, Les Middleton for 15 years service, Jason Connolly for 15 years service, Dave McGoram for 13 years service, Trent Morley for 13 years service, Emma Thomson for 11 years service, Bruce Fleming for 9 years service, Bob Waata for 9 years service, Nick Davidson for 9 years service and Mick Fay for 7 years service; 5 Year Medal – Mike Gallagher and Matty Condin.

Leigh Chief fire officer Steve Paddison received a 2 Yr Gold bar for Gold Star

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The plug has been pulled on a marine radio base at Leigh, which has been operating for at least the last 34 years. Leigh Radio, operating on Channel 74, range of about 100 miles. was run on a community basis, with “It was either homemade or ex-army, some funding for administration from no-one was ever quite sure where it the Leigh Fishermen’s Association. came from,” Ron says. Association life member Ron Perry When Cora retired in 1980, Pam says the closure is a sign of the times. and Ross Kellian took over utilising “There’s less boats fishing out of Leigh a single sideband set and a VHF base and more people are using cellphones to set. A repeater was installed on Pakiri keep in touch,” he says. “Additionally, Hill about this time, which provided both commercial and pleasure boats are coverage from about Whitianga to so much more reliable than they used Cape Brett. Other operators were to be. In essence, the service has out- Leanne Davies, Elsie Douglas, Bev Holden, Glenis Penney and more lived its usefulness.” Ron says in the station’s hey day, lately, her daughter Lynette. the service was utilised by 50 to 60 “We’ve been very lucky to have had commercial vessels, but this has dropped some brilliant operators, who have to about 24 and the number of pleasure sounded the alarm for countless craft on the radio is also declining. The marine incidents, from boats sinking radio started on four schedules a day to fuel and mechanical problems.” when it was used mainly to coordinate Ron says the closure is the end of an fishing vessel arrivals at Leigh Wharf era and he is sad to see the radio go. and convey messages to families. “The new system isn’t as user-friendly Ron’s wife Jocelyn, who was the – some of the fishermen have had to service’s secretary for many years, learn to txt which isn’t easy with big, says in the early days, the radio was a wet hands.” lifesaver for the wives of fishermen. But it will mean the end of calls in the “Sometimes they were out fishing for middle of the night to set out in search five days at a time,” she says. “At least of a boatie in trouble. The area will, in we knew we could ring the operator future, be covered by the Great Barrier and know they were safe and get a service. message to them if we needed to.” Anyone interested in purchasing any One of the early operators was Cora of the radio equipment, power packs Johnston, of Matheson Bay, who used or fax machines, can contact Ron on a double sideband radio, which had a 422 6257.

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Sustainable design shapes modern Wellsford library The concept design for a purpose-built community library in Wellsford, situated in the War Memorial Park adjacent to the Albertlanders Museum, was presented to the Rodney Local Board last month. Construction of the $3.6 million “Inside, the library will be spacious, facility is due to start in May, with an lofty and filled with natural light estimated completion date of around through skylights and roof ventilation March next year. along the ridge.” Jasmax architect Roy Blok says the The building design incorporates positioning of the new library, along sustainable design principles including Port Albert Road, provides upgraded high thermal insulation and doubleand expanded carparking for both the glazing for winter warmth, and a library and the museum, together with rain-garden to deal with carpark a new plaza, which forms an entry stormwater runoff. court to both buildings. Mr Blok says the new library’s “The existing war memorial gates footprint will be nearly five times that flagpole will be repositioned on to of the current library. the plaza giving a generous setting for The larger area will include: ANZAC day celebrations,” he says. “The library is a strong simple gable yy More space for recreational reading and study form, which gives a gentle nod to the agricultural history of Wellsford, but yy Space for hosting events such as storytime for children and adult is essentially a restrained and wellbook groups mannered pavilion, and helps extend the town centre southwards along Port yy Dedicated areas for children, teenagers and adults Albert Road.

A view of the library from the park.

yy A dedicated digital media area yy Space for growing library collections yy Space to showcase local artwork. “The new library design will deliver vastly improved information technology including WiFi and more public computers.” The project team is working with artists from Te Hana, who are developing concepts for integration into the building’s design. The

concepts are based on carvings and will reinforce Wellsford’s historic link with the Kaipara Harbour. Roy says the concept design has been shaped and informed by feedback from Wellsford residents. “The Local Board is working closely with Auckland Council to deliver a high quality community asset that will become a source of pride and community heart in Wellsford.”

Boats gather for famous regatta Hundreds of boats are expected to descend on Sullivan’s Bay, Mahurangi West, on Auckland Anniversary Weekend for the annual Mahurangi Regatta. A large fleet of boats, led by members of the Classic Yacht Association, will race from Auckland to Sullivan’s Bay on Friday afternoon to kick start festivities. Some will take part in the regatta, which starts at midday on Saturday. The Jane Gifford will again act as the starter boat. Beach activities start at 11am on Saturday and include dinghy, kayak, open kayak, swimming, running, three-legged and sack races, egg throwing, and a sand sculpture competition. The sailing will finish around 4pm and the regatta prizegiving and dance will be held at the Scott Homestead, Scotts Landing. This year it is BYO, with no cash bar. The 18-piece swing band, Prohibition Big Band is set to keep the crowd entertained. If the winds are easterly, the venue will be changed to Scotts Landing.

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Rubbish – what rubbish? by Trish Allen

Remember the old days when there was a deposit on glass drink bottles and when you took them back you got money for them? As a kid I remember collecting bottles to get enough money to go to the movies. You never saw bottles being littered in those days because they were worth something. Well, perhaps it’s back to the future. Asking government to put in place leak. Throwing our waste, which schemes for refundable deposits on includes heaps of usable materials and drink containers and other compulsory resources into a big hole in the ground product stewardship for e-waste, is an outdated concept. Much of these batteries, and so on, is something wasted materials can be turned into that’s been put forward in the new new products, jobs, or better yet, not Auckland Council Waste Management produced in the first place. and Minimisation Plan, currently So what does the new plan propose? out for public submission. I have yy to get the 50 percent food and green been contracted by Council to raise waste out of the waste stream by awareness about the plan, but the views providing an extra small wheelie bin in this article are my personal ones. for weekly collection (paid for by The Plan is bold and visionary, with rates and a small surplus from the a long-term aspirational goal of zero refuse bin charge) waste by 2040. We all have a unique opportunity to have our say on a yy to collect a bigger range of recyclables by providing bigger wheelie bins for major resource management issue that fortnightly collection (paid for by affects us all. rates and a small surplus from the So why a new plan? Firstly, the refuse bins) government passed the Waste y y to charge every household for Minimisation Act in 2008 requiring fortnightly collection of refuse, the councils to have a plan in place stuff that has to go to landfill (no by 2012. And secondly, with the different for us, we already pay but amalgamation of the seven councils most Aucklanders don’t) across the Auckland region, we currently have seven systems for waste; yy to do away with bags and going to wheelie bins (this may not suit you if all different. Here in Rodney, we pay you have a long driveway and no towto dispose of our rubbish when we buy bar to attach your wheelie bin to) bags, but 55 percent of Aucklanders don’t – it’s paid for in rates and that yy to provide an inorganic collection means there is little incentive to of some sort – do we want the mess reduce waste. on our roadsides that a kerbside collection would create? Would a You may be shocked to know that drop-off point suit us better? Or, 65 percent of what currently goes would we prefer the booking system to landfill in our household rubbish that Waitakere currently has whereby doesn’t need to; in fact, it’s a resource. householders can ring up Council to Half of it is food and green waste, have inorganic waste picked up from which could be composted and 15 inside their property? percent is further recyclables. Imagine if we could divert all that from landfill. yy to set up Resource Recovery Centres where unwanted stuff can be Landfills are extremely expensive to dropped off – there it gets sorted, build, almost impossible to find new repaired, sold or dismantled and sites for, and ticking time bombs the materials recovered and re-used. for the environment if they start to

Auckland’s monthly rubbish – half of this could be composted.

Trish Allen, at the Matakana Farmers Market, talking about waste.

These are highly successful in places such as Nelson, Wanaka, Whangarei and Kaitaia to name a few. They create jobs. Some people are concerned about what will happen to the local companies who currently collect our waste. I’ve been told that there may be job changes for local contractors but not necessarily job loss. There’s much, much more in the plan – you can read it online or at the

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A proposal to paint a mural on the side of the Warkworth Library, facing the old Masonic Hall, has been put on hold indefinitely. The former Rodney District Council people in the town. had allocated $12,000 towards the “With no disrespect to the artist, what’s project and artist Sopolemalama Filipe suggested looks like a kaleidoscope Tohi was commissioned by Warkworth which has absolutely no relevance to Library staff to paint the mural. Warkworth’s heritage,” she said. However, at a meeting last month, On the issue of whether or not Rodney Local Board members vetoed the artist was owed a fee of $5000, the plan on the grounds that there had member Tracey Martin said the matter been little, if any, public consultation. should be referred back to Council’s Board member Brenda Steele said legal team. local artists, some with international She said the wider issue was the need reputations, had not even been among for Auckland Council to develop a the 20 artists short-listed by staff for transparent process when deciding consideration. what goes on public buildings. Member June Turner said she was very The board decided to defer painting disappointed by the process, which the wall until expansion plans at had completely ignored the feelings of Warkworth Library were decided.

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New body sets advice bureaux direction A new regional body is being proposed to administer Citizens Advice Bureaux (CAB) across Auckland. There are currently 31 bureaux in the of council-CAB arrangements when and all three bureaux received region, including one at Wellsford. it amalgamated. Funding for staff and accommodation assistance. A key role of the new regional body will operational costs across the region In terms of annual enquiries, Wellsford be to centralise funding arrangements total about $1.7 million annually and received 2273 in 2010, Helensville collectively, the bureaux rely on the 1607 and Hibiscus Coast 6103. from the governing body. Wellsford, Helensville and Hibiscus services of more than 900 volunteers. A report to a Rodney Local Board Coast bureaux will form one district Prior to amalgamation, Rodney meeting last month said that at least and collectively, will have one District Council supported Wellsford seven new potential CAB locations had representative on a central board. with $14,400 in funding, Helensville been identified, along with potential Auckland Council inherited a variety $14,400 and Orewa $20,400, rationalisation of some services.

Wellsford advice service meets changing needs The Wellsford Citizens Advice Bureau has been serving the Warkworth/Wellsford area, and wider rural communities from Puhoi to the Brynderwyns, for the past 25 years. The idea of setting up a bureau in the town was first mooted by Wellsford Co-op Church and the first of two public meetings to discuss the proposal was held in March 1986. The Wellsford bureau opened on 10 November 1986, in tiny rooms provided by Council in the present Wellsford Library building. It remained in those premises until the new Wellsford District Community Centre was built in 1994, after a fire gutted the old hall on the same site. Council provided space in the new Community Centre and the bureau relocated in December 1994. Today the service has 29 trained volunteers and two parttime paid staff. The service continues to make people aware of their rights and responsibilities by providing free confidential information, advocacy and a listening ear, no matter who they are or what the subject may be. Coordinator Heather Ede says the Wellsford office appreciates the time, energy and support it has received since its inception from Susan Tomas and Lou Densham. She says other volunteers who deserve recognition include chairperson Sue Mayne, Maureen Lambert, Chris Hoogerwerf, Lorraine Merton, Eric Parsons, Ian Gardner, Liz Mitchell, Margaret Lester and Phyllis Browne, who have all given at least 10 years service.

St Johns caring caller Everyone needs someone to talk to and sometimes a feeling of loneliness can intensify around the festive season. St John caring caller is a free long-term telephone service. The volunteer caring callers make a daily friendship phone call to those living alone to have a chat and check that everything is okay. St John is inviting people interested in receiving a free phone call to contact them. To find out more about the St John Caring caller phone 0800 78 5646 or visit www.stjohn.org.nz

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Health professionals, Rodney board member June Turner and media were last month given an opportunity to view a major new building under construction at the Summerset Falls retirement village in Warkworth. Marketing and sales general manager Tristan Saunders says that the new building will form ‘the heart’ of the village and will include a bar and café, theatre area, gym, library, hair dressing salon, administration offices and apartments, including An artist’s impression of the completed building. two care apartments. An outdoor bowling green is being developed alongside the building. A 40-bed aged facility providing hospital-level care, with respite care options, will also be a key component to the main building on completion. Work is expected to be finished in the second half SUMMERSET WARKWORTH - EXTERIOR COLOUR SCHEME of this year. Chief executive Norah Barlow says construction of the new building shows the village is really becoming a community. The second stage of development also includes 10 cottages and 14 riverside villas, which are being progressively occupied. The Summerset village represents a $70 million investment in Warkworth, which when finished will comprise more than 120 homes and employ between 25 to 30 staff. Summerset is the second largest developer and third largest retirement village operator in NZ, catering for more than 2000 residents in 14 villages. Summerset representatives, from left, Tristan Saunders, Sue Hough and Steven Garner, took June Turner, Warkworth is one of four currently under construction. Karen Williamson, Monica Donnelly and Trudy Caldwell on a tour of the site. More photos at localmatters.co.nz

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The media is presently awash with stories about prostate cancer and screening. These stories inevitably beg the question, ‘Why don’t we have a national screening programme for prostate cancer?’ It seems so simple – enrol all New Zealand men in a screening programme and away we go. However, as with most things medical, it is not that easy. I have no doubt that one day we will have some form of national prostate screening but there are good reasons why it may take a while longer to sort out exactly how this will look. Firstly, the PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) test – undeniably one of the most useful we have available in modern medical practice – is not foolproof. There are a significant number of false negative and false positive results when using the PSA. Other conditions aside from cancer may raise the level, creating artificial anxiety. So, while it is a great test, it’s not perfect. Secondly, what happens when a PSA test is confirmed as genuinely elevated? Typically, the next step is a prostate biopsy. This is a potentially uncomfortable test where a biopsy needle is passed via the rectum, directly into the prostate tissue, sampling several areas of the prostate. The test itself carries a small risk of bleeding and infection. Again, there are a number of false negative and positive results that may occur. If prostate cancer is diagnosed following the biopsy, then there is the question of what to expect regarding the progress of the cancer and whether to treat or not to treat. Prostate cancer does not behave in the same way for everybody. On average, the older one is, the more likely it is that the prostate cancer will give less overall trouble. Whereas in younger patients, there is more chance of aggressive prostate cancer. The latest studies support early treatment of prostate cancer, especially in younger men – ‘younger’ usually means 50s or so. However, it’s well-known that treatment itself may have unwanted side effects. As with every field of medicine, there will no doubt be improvements in the diagnostic tools and the treatment options. For the present though, it remains important to create the right kind of screening programme – one that maximises diagnostic benefit to some, yet minimises harm to the rest of the screened population. Meantime, most GPs are happy to offer a PSA test to male patients on an individual basis following appropriate discussion.

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Changing behaviours

Angela Crabb, Homebuilders – family support worker

Have you ever wondered why the same negative events happen to you or you repeat destructive or unhelpful behaviours that do you no favours in life? Or perhaps you experience anxiety or depression and are looking for strategies to help alleviate the symptoms? Learning skills that involve DBT (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy) can help you understand why this happens and cope with everyday pressures by either applying change or acceptance to the situation. DBT combines cognitive (mental processes) and behavioural therapy that include different methods from practices including Eastern mindfulness techniques. As life can at times be confusing and wearisome these skills can also assist in coping with distressing emotions and situations. The Homebuilders ‘managing emotions and decreasing stress course’, will focus on developing skills in emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness and communication. Learning these concepts will allow us to take control of our lives and improve the decisions we make so that we can participate with full awareness. When we have difficulty in our lives, this may be central to the behaviour difficulties we experience. Therefore, skills to manage these include identifying and labelling emotions, identifying obstacles to changing emotional states, increasing positive emotional events, and increasing mindfulness of current emotions. Distress tolerance looks at how we accept and find meaning in life. Hardship and pain are a part of life and cannot be entirely avoided so learning skills to tolerate distress by using distraction, self-soothing and improving the moment can support this period of difficulty. Mindfulness is learning skills to have control over our mind and use full attention to focus on one thing at a time. Learning to relax, breath and be calm in the moment may support us in making the right decisions and taking control over our lives. Lastly, communication skills enable us to obtain what we want in life while maintaining a relationship and maintaining our self-respect in the process. The areas of interpersonal skills that will be examined are active listening, healthy relationships, boundaries, how to say ‘no’ and styles of communication. Other than these core skills, we will also explore models that support us to make sense of ourselves and the world we live in. CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) models can help us understand the relationship between how we think, how we feel, and how we respond or behave. Once we identify and name our own internal processes, we are then able to make decisions on what behaviours we want to change. The eight-week course teaches these important skills. It will be a closed group and the first course will start on Wednesday February 15. It will be held at Homebuilders Family Services, 5 Hexham Street, Warkworth. Free childcare is available on the premises. This course will be repeated throughout the year so if you are unable to attend the February course register your interest for one of the later courses. Enquiries: Angela Crabb on 425 7048.

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lifelonglearning Ahuroa pursues alternative secondary school option Secondary students may have an alternative schooling option from next year if plans for Ahuroa School to gain special character status are approved by the Ministry of Education. Principal Melinda Bennett says the school has applied to become a special character composite school for students from Year 1 to 13, in order to preserve the school’s highly individualised teaching approach and allow students the option to continue with that style throughout secondary school. There will be no uniform or demand for uniformity, she says. “We value people’s individuality and tailor programmes to their passions and strengths. Different kids have different pathways to get to different places. We blur the boundaries between school, home and the community, making the whole community the learning environment and tapping into all kinds of resources. “The teacher takes on more of a mentoring role overseeing the programme, although core teaching staff will cover maths, reading and science.” Melinda says the system has arisen from serving the diverse needs of children, from those with special needs to those that are very bright.

Ahuroa principal Melinda Bennett hopes to offer the school’s individualised teaching approach to students throughout secondary school.

“Kids at both ends of the spectrum need something a little bit different.” Ministry feedback on the ideas has been positive ever since discussions began last March. The first official meeting was held in September and a formal proposal is being investigated. “They need to be confident that you’re going to provide a quality education within the model, framework or philosophy you’re aspiring to,” Melinda says.

Other key considerations are potential impacts on other schools and whether the same style of education is already available in the area. A roll cap of 120 primary students is proposed for the school’s current Ahuroa Road site and Melinda envisages the new secondary school would be on a separate Warkworth site, probably leased under the Ministry’s cash for buildings scheme and with a Ministry-proposed maximum of 400 students.

Melinda says Ahuroa School’s teaching philosophy has been endorsed by its roll growth from six students, when she started in 2005, to what’s expected to be 76-plus, with four teachers, by the end of next year, although she acknowledges the increase is fuelled partly by local development. “Everyone used to travel out of the area to go to school, but last year we got people travelling in.” She says the “special character” bid is not a commentary of the quality of other local schools, but reflects that every school has a slightly different approach. Before applying for special character status, Ahuroa had identified established Christchurch school Unlimited as operating in a compatible style and had sought to establish a satellite of the school. However, within a few days of gaining agreement to do so, the February earthquake struck, destroying their school and prompting Ahuroa to pursue its goal independently. Nevertheless, the school’s objectives remain similar and the Unlimited website (unlimited.school.nz) provides an idea of what is planned. To be open by the start of 2013, plans for the new school would have to be approved by April.

SeniorNet Warkworth Where the over 50s learn computer skills among friends Come to our Open Day

Thursday 19th January, 2.30pm-4.30pm Thinking about learning to use a computer next year? SeniorNet Warkworth offers a broad range of courses for absolute beginners onwards, using PCs or Apple Macs. Our very popular Monday workshops, mini courses and specialised two-hour modules provide stimulating instruction across a wide spectrum of topics. Membership in SeniorNet Warkworth will also keep you abreast of the rapidly developing IT world – so if you are 50 years or older just contact the Course Co-ordinator on 422 3728 and we will send you an information pack with all you need to know about joining us - our membership of the New Zealand Federation of SeniorNet Societies is your guarantee of high standards of tuition in a friendly, relaxed environment.

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lifelonglearning Homebuilders forms support group for challenged parents Homebuilders Family Services Warkworth is forming a support group for parents or caregivers of children with ongoing needs. A number of requests from parents facing challenges with their children, including health issues or developmental delays, have contacted Homebuilders asking them to consider coordinating a group to meet regularly at their premises located at 5 Hexham Street, Warkworth. Family support worker Liz Cole says if there is enough interest, meetings would be held quarterly and a range of guest speakers would be arranged. “Guest speakers are likely to include representatives from Rodney Health Trust (home support), Parent-toParent (children with rare conditions and Autistic Spectrum Disorders), Parent and Family Resource Centre in Onehunga (support and information for parents), Disability Resource

Centre in Royal Oak (aids, equipment and consumables) and the Taikura Trust,” Liz says. Liz and disability service coordinator Tess Williamson will facilitate the group. Tess says support groups are an efficient way to provide specialised information to a group with common interests. “Parents of children with exceptional ongoing needs often experience social and emotional isolation and are underresourced in practical ways,” Tess says. Liz says while parents suffer from financial, emotional, physical and time pressures, the worst pressure can come from people’s judgmental attitudes. The first group meeting will be held on February 17, at Homebuilders from 10am until noon. Info: Homebuilders 425 7048 and leave a message for Tess Williamson or Liz Cole.

Look out for children Preschoolers are the most at risk, but child pedestrians of any age can be hurt or killed on the road, particularly at peak times in the hours before and after school. All students return to school between January 30 and February 7. The NZTA and Ministry of Education are reminding people to slow down for students getting on or off buses – the law says 20 (kph in both directions) and to stick to the speed limit in school zones.

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This course looks at how we grew up as children and how this inﬂuences our ideas about parenting, the pros and cons of being too tough or too easy, ages and stages of development, temperament types, foundations and strategies for effective discipline, and effective ways to communicate to children. There are also lots of opportunities to share and learn as a parenting group and gain support from other parents sharing similar issues. Although this course focuses on ages 0-5 years all parents and care givers will beneﬁt from and enjoy this course. Monday 13th February 9.30am to 12pm WELLSFORD Duration: 6 weeks Facilitator: Brian Shires

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ABOUT OUR LEARNING COMMUNITY Manaakitanga – children are valued citizens and active participants in our local community where their work is visible and celebrated Whanaungatanga – forged relationships are the foundation of our learning community – parent/whānau involvement is valued Kura pēpi – our learning environment is purposeful – exploration, wonder and deeper thinking is provoked

Ākonga – as a community of learners children are recognised as rich in potential, active explorers of learning and teaching Kaupapa Māori, ako – our practices embrace and celebrate te reo me ngā Tikanga ā iwi – our unique bicultural heritage of Aotearoa Te Whāriki – He whāriki Mātauranga mō ngā Mokopuna o Aotearoa underpins our teaching practices inspired by Reggio Emilia pedagogy

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A new automotive course will deliver practical skills which will enable participants to move smoothly into an apprenticeship.

Put yourself in the driver’ seat A new automotive course aimed at 15 to 17 year olds, who want to get into the automotive industry, will be launched by Mahurangi Technical Institute this year. The 40-week fulltime course is fees-free and covers both theoretical and handson learning, with work experience in an automotive business. Students will learn basic workshop skills, engine repairs and how engines operate. They will also learn life and employment skills including basic literacy and numeracy. Automotive tutor Cedric Choromanski says graduates will gain

a National Certificate in Employment Skills, NCEA level 1 and first aid. This will equip them to move into an automotive apprenticeship. “This course will appeal to young people who learn by doing, yet are also keen to gain a qualification,” Cedric says. “It’s not about mucking around with machines. Good mechanics are organised, have customer skills, read, write and add up. That’s what this course is about.” The two intakes are in late January and late February.

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Mahurangimatters 18 January 2012 | 23 HIPPY graduates (back row, from left) Jennifer Manson, Kaylee Dingemans and Keysia Martin. Front row, Conway Vakatini-Harding, Ethan Sheffield, Paraone WikiriwhiHeta and Kaleb Ruka.

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Hippy celebrates graduation Nearly 100 friends and family members turned out to celebrate the first HIPPY graduation ceremony at the Wellsford School hall last month. For two years, parents and children have been working together on the HIPPY (Home Interaction for Parents and Youngsters) programme designed to help parents prepare their children for school. Seven children were presented with certificates recognising their achievements. Tutors Rosa Vakatini Harding and Casey Wikiriwhi Heta were also recognised for their hard work. The number of families enrolled in HIPPY doubles from 20 to 40 this year. Coordinator Carolyne Andrew says this is a wonderful acknowledgement of the how successful the programme has been already.

“Research shows that many children enter school with the skill levels of three year olds and this has a huge impact on their learning,” Carolyne says. “The programme is explained each week to parents in a method HIPPY calls role-play, by a tutor who has a child on the programme. The parents then take on the role of tutor with their child. Everything in the HIPPY programme is designed to prepare the child for school from literacy, numeracy, using a pencil and scissors, to problem solving and logical thinking activities. The programme is free, plus all materials are supplied.” The HIPPY programme is designed for children aged between three and four years who live in and around Wellsford. Info: hippy@ctcpho.co.nz or phone 423 6006 extn 6 or 027 444 0370.

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lifelonglearning Small Poppies opens new centre

From left, Seasons committee member Edna Dyson, support companions Ann Mansfield, Jean Scarth, coordinator Heather Free and committee member Jan Olsen.

Seasons offers after-school support for grieving children The Seasons support group for children who are dealing with loss and grief will offer after-school programmes in Warkworth and Wellsford from term one. Warkworth/Wellsford Seasons coordinator Heather Free says the after school programmes will be held at the Warkworth and Wellsford Anglican Church Halls. “We also offer programmes within schools and have been invited to run programmes at Snells Beach and Mahurangi Christian schools,” she says. “These programmes will run each term when there are sufficient numbers.” The Seasons programme is offered to students aged from five to 12 years. Heather says the support group is not a counselling service. Instead, it is

activity-based involving discussions, stories, poetry, arts and crafts, music, drama and celebrations. “Our first programme, which we ran in Wellsford last year, was very successful. We were all sad to say our farewells on the final session. We received good feedback from both the parents and the children saying they had a fun and valuable time with us.” Heather says while Seasons receives no funding, running on donations its receives from parents, businesses, and community groups, there is no fee for families attending and children won’t be turned away. “The more families we can let know about the service we offer, the better.” Info: Heather on, 425 7665 or email heatherfree@vodafone.co.nz.

The new early childhood education centre Small Poppies Kaiwaka is holding an open day on January 21, from 1pm to 3pm. The event will be an opportunity for parents and the community to view the new centre, behind the Northland Welcome Centre, and meet owners Natasha and John Lee, as well as teaching staff. The first Small Poppies centre opened in Ruakaka in 2007, with plans to eventually establish a third centre in Maungaturoto. “We cater for children from birth to school age, and our goal is to develop confident and capable children who can transition easily to school,” Natasha says. “There’s a strong educational focus in what we do. Children are a lot more capable and able to analysis information than most people give them credit for, and we try to encourage their resourcefulness and curiosity.” Natasha says the outdoor play area at Kaiwaka is a “massive” 800sqm, which has been developed to include a bike track, sandpit, stage, hill and bark area. “We allow rough and tumble play, and continually try to create a child’s

world, not just an environment that adults think looks neat and tidy.” Natasha is a qualified early childhood teacher and Kaiwaka will have the benefit of five other teaching staff, three of whom are also qualified teachers, as well as a cook. She says meals prepared at the centre, including a full cooked lunch, will meet Healthy Heart accreditation. “Parents can be assured that their children will receive all their daily nutritional requirements at the centre.” The new centre is to be licensed for 50 children and will open next month.

COURSES FOR TERM ONE 2012 Young Mum’s Educational Programme Monday 23rd January 2012, 10am-12.30pm, FREE Extension Young Mums Wednesday 25th January 2012, 10am-12.30pm, FREE Understanding Anxiety Thursday 9th February, 10am-12pm Computer Course Friday 10th February, 9am -11am, 8 weeks Art Therapy Monday 13th February, 10am -12noon, 8 weeks Healthy Relationships Tuesday 21st February 2012, 10am-12.30pm

Living With Confidence Wednesday 22nd February 2012 Orewa, 10am-12.30pm Art Of Being Gorgeous for Girls 8-12yrs Saturday 25th February 2012, 9.30am -3.30pm Career Planning & Job Search Workshop Friday 2nd & 9th March, 10am-12noon, FREE Yoga One Day Workshop Saturday 3rd March, 9.30am -3.30pm Jewellery Making for Girls 11-14yrs Saturday 3rd March, 10am-3.30pm Flax Weaving For Girls Saturday 24th March 2012, 9.30am-3.30pm

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8 Kaiwaka – Mangawhai Road, Kaiwaka • Community Open Day Saturday 21st January 2012, from 1-3pm Bring your preschoolers along to have a look! • Ofﬁcially opening February 2012 – Children birth until school! • Educational, fun & caring environment • WINZ & 20 hour ECE subsidies will be available • “Getting Ready for School” Programme for children 3+ years • All Meals included • Limited spaces available – enrol now! If you would like an enrolment application, or have any questions please contact: Natasha on 431 2842 or email: smlpoppies@xtra.co.nz PO Box 105, Ruakaka We are really excited about bringing Small Poppies to Kaiwaka and hope to meet you and your families and whanau really soon!!!!

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Alison Letcher is offering a range of sewing and craft classes in Warkworth, starting next month.

The Warkworth Bridge Club currently has around 70 members but is keen to welcome new players, with lessons starting next month. From left, club president Greg Payne, Jenny Robinson, Rae Garnett and Ginette Hawke.

Craft enthusiasts share age-old skills Bridge club invitation Old-fashioned craft skills are making a strong come back in the modern world, with many people wanting to either learn the basics or up-skill. Craft enthusiast Sharleen Greer is looking for people aged 14 years and over interested in participating in knitting and crochet evenings and weekend workshops at the Matakana Hall, from next month. Sharleen says she is able to cater for both beginners and advanced crafts people. “There has been a resurgence in interest in craft,” she says. “In the current financial climate, people are wanting to go back to basics and both mend and make things themselves. Craft is a great way for people to create friendships and socialise, as well as make something they can be proud of. “We’re also fortunate to be able to purchase basic equipment such as needles, wool and patterns locally.”

Sharleen currently hosts informal craft information evenings in the Matakana Cinema foyer on Wednesdays, from 7pm. All welcome. Meanwhile Alison’s Nimble Fingers Warkworth owner Alison Letcher is also offering both beginner and advance sewing classes from her shop in Argyle Angle, next month. Alison says the course will be tailored to suit the interests of participants. “From beading to quilting, dressmaking to table runners and placemats, cushions and bags, if the interest is there, I will hold a class for it,” she says. Alison says she can cater for up to four people per class, and all materials can be purchased from her shop. “I have a lifetime of sewing experience and enjoy teaching people how to sew. It’s a practical skill.” Alison says the classes will continue throughout the year.

Bridge is a game that can be played at any age, although those of more mature years tend to make up the majority of players. The Warkworth Bridge Club is offering a 10-week course starting in February for people keen to try their hand at the game. Club secretary and treasurer Nadine Stubbs says lessons will be held at the club, located on Alnwick Street Warkworth, at a time that best suits those interested. “At the end of 10 lessons, players should know the basics,” she says. “It’s a challenging game, that requires thought, like most other card games. Once you pick it up, it’s a lot of fun. “Although learning to play bridge can be daunting for beginners, it is one of the world’s most popular card games. It is played by clubs who participate in tournaments and is also played online.” Bridge is a ‘trick taking’ game, played with four players in two competing partnerships. The object is to win tricks for your side. Info: Phone Nadine on 425 8205.

Mike Pero Real Estate Ltd. Licensed REAA (2008)

Have a Happy & Safe Holiday Season from the team at Mike Pero Real Estate on the Matakana Coast and Warkworth We’ve had a great summer of listing new properties. Come and see them on your way to the beach or fishing, at our new office in Point Wells, right next to the dairy. And if you want to show your property off at this very busy time of year on the coast, call us now.

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The law with Nathaniel Heslop www.wynyardwood.co.nz Wynyard Wood Lawyers & Notaries This month, Mahurangi Matters welcomes on board new column, which will look at legal issues. The column will be written by solicitors from local law firm Wynyard Wood, located in Percy Street Warkworth.

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Most people are familiar with family trusts, gift programmes and estate planning, but there can be pitfalls when these arrangements are not administered correctly. From 1 October last year, you no longer have to pay any gift duty when making a gift by cash or by transfer of assets. It is now possible to transfer an entire asset into a trust in a single transaction, or if you are part way through a gifting programme, to ‘gift-off ’ the balance of the debt owed by a family trust. Although the law as it relates to gift duty has changed, other parts of the law remain unchanged and can trap people in an unintended or unforeseen way. The abolition of gift duty is likely to result in larger gifts being made, and the consequences of not considering all the effects increase accordingly. The appropriateness of forgiving a debt, in whole or in part, or of making a gift will depend on the circumstances of each individual. Trusts are coming under attack more regularly in the following areas: yy By creditors challenging gifts to a trust when they can show that, at the time a donor makes a gift, the donor is unable to pay their debts as they fall due, or the personal liabilities of the donor exceed their personal assets. If you believe you are at risk of a creditor claim and engaged in a gifting programme, you may need to obtain a solvency certificate each time you make a gift. yy Non-trading family trusts are not required to submit financial statements other than to trustees and beneficiaries. A trusts activities can, however, be examined by various agencies or challenged by a disgruntled beneficiary. Properly recording trustee actions and decisions is important to refute any future challenges. yy The Ministry of Social Development can look back at the entire gifting history of a trust. Your entitlement to a residential care subsidy may be affected if you have gifted more than $6000 per year. A failure to consider the impact gifting may have on your entitlement to assistance may jeopardise arrangements made from the commencement of the trust. Gifting is a personal matter, different for each donor and recipient. Care must be taken to ensure that unintended and unforeseen consequences do not eventuate.

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All Kinds of Blinds Choosing the right blinds and curtains for your home or business is a matter of balancing taste, budget and durability. That’s the advice of Vanessa Wardle who, along with husband Neil, has launched a mobile curtain service in Rodney called All Kinds of Blinds. “There’s a huge range of fabrics available, so it’s really important at the first consultation to try and get a sense of what the customer is trying to achieve,” she says. “Neil and I ran a home interiors shop in the UK for 15 years before immigrating to NZ for a better lifestyle. All up, we’ve had about 20 years experience in the business, which really helps when it comes to giving people advice and helping them to achieve the look they want.” The couple supply and fit blinds, curtains and shades, as well as awnings and shutters. They have access to fabric from leading manufacturers such as Warwick Textiles, James Dunlop, Rufflette, Santa Fe, Uniline and Maurice Kain. Free fitting is part of the service and they are also promising a turnaround

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Vanessa Wardle

time of two to three weeks. All work and materials are guaranteed. Vanessa says that while the monochrome look is still popular, new fabrics with bolder colours and designs are making a welcome return. “Neil and I love the business we’re in and we know that reputation is everything so we always go that extra mile to make sure customers are satisfied. We also provide a complete after sales service.”

Coastguard head appointed

Whangaroa volunteer Roly Linstrom has been appointed president of Coastguard Northern Region. Mr Linstrom has taken over from Joe Davis. The Northern Region covers from Thames to the Far North.

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After nearly 25 years experience in pool construction and maintenance, Shaun McClintock says opening a pool shop seemed like the natural path to take. Formerly based at home, Shaun and his wife Annie have opened Northern Pools Swimming Pool Shop, in Morrison Drive, Warkworth. They stock a full range of chemicals and accessories, as well as equipment such as covers and lighting, and samples of available pool surface materials. Shaun says business relationships built up over many years with suppliers has enabled the shop to purchase PQ pool and spa chemicals at reduced rates; savings which are being passed on to customers. “Free water testing and a valet onsite water service has become a large part of our business over the years,” Shaun says. Although the addition of a pool is, for most people, still a luxury item, the demand continues to grow. Northern Pools specialises in individually-designed in-ground concrete swimming pools, which are often part of a new home’s initial design. “When using any product that comes into contact with the ground, it has to be strong and durable,” Shaun says. “That’s why, after many years of building swimming pools, sometimes in very challenging site conditions, we use

Annie and Shaun McClintock.

concrete shells with the very best finish.” Shaun says his personal favourites are infinity pools, where the water flows over the edge into a catchment. He says water quality is a big consideration for pool owners these days, particularly for anyone with sensitive skin. This has lead to an increasing demand for oxygenation over chlorination. The process works by using copper ions as a neutralising base and oxygen to shock the water. Shaun says the result is something close to spring water.

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For free confidential and impartial information, advice, advocacy and support. Our service covers Warkworth, Wellsford and Mangawhai areas. Monday-Friday 10am-3pm. We have information on a wide range of subjects from Consumer and Tenancy Rights to Neighbourhood Disputes and Family Issues. Visit the Community Centre, 1 Matheson Road, Wellsford or phone 423 7333 or 0800 367 222. Email cab.wells@xtra.co.nz

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Holiday talk on investment

As a topic of conversation, investment is like sports. Everyone has an opinion and the strongest opinions often come from those who spend more time in front of the TV than out on the field. Practitioners, meanwhile, are wary of anything labelled a ‘sure thing’. Indeed, it’s one of life’s ironies that the people who know least about a subject can sound the most sure of themselves. In investment, these are the ones who hold the floor telling anyone who will listen that they have found the path to certain wealth. By contrast, some of the world’s most respected and seasoned investors strike a humbler tone, having learned from personal experience about the unpredictability of markets and deciding to focus instead on those things within their control. Take, for instance, the frequently heard line that smart investors should seek to time their entry points to markets and wait for the volatility to clear. We are hearing a lot of that right now as the European crisis dominates market attention. Writing about this in 1979 before one of the biggest bull markets in history, Warren Buffett said: “Before reaching for that crutch (market timing), face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear (and) you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.” Another line from the social philosophers is that the job of an investment expert is to spot the best market-beating returns and harvest them before someone else finds out. Asked about this in 2007, two years before his death, legendary investment consultant and historian Peter Bernstein said it was better to focus on risk than return. “The central role of risk, if anything, has grown rather than diminished,” he said. “We really can’t manage returns because we don’t know what they’re going to be. The only way we can play the game is to decide what kinds of risk we’re going to take.” A third perennial social conversation is the role of stock picking in investment success. The line here is that the key to wealth building lies in painstakingly analysing individual stocks and buying them based on a forecast or even a hunch about their prospects. Prompted by a newspaper reporter for his opinion on that piece of conventional wisdom, long-time Wall Street observer, Charley Ellis, said the truth was actually quite the opposite. “The best way to achieve long-term success is not in stock picking and not in market timing and not even in changing portfolio strategy,” Ellis said. “Sure, these approaches all have their current heroes and war stories, but few hero investors last for long and not all the war stories are entirely true. The greatest pathway to long-term success comes via sound, sustained investment policy, setting the right asset mix and holding onto it.” While that’s probably not the kind of message you are likely to hear from the instant experts who prop up barbecues, it may be a more durable and a more useful one. Alex Fowler’s disclosure statement can be viewed at www.localmatters.co.nz

Civil defence meeting for Puhoi Puhoi residents are invited to attend a public meeting to discuss civil defence, which will be held at the Puhoi Sports Club, on February 1. The discussion will be led by Auckland Council emergency management coordinator Donna Murray who is helping Rodney communities formulate Neighbourhood Response Plans, which would be activated in the event of a civil emergency. Plans are currently in place for Mahurangi East, Pt Wells, Omaha and Waiwera.

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22 Whitaker Road, Warkworth Phone 425 8535 1916 State Highway 1, Kaiwaka Phone 431 2123

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• Truck Hire • Metal Supplies • Bulk Cartage 38 Coquette Street, Warkworth Ph 422 3450 or 0274 955 566 • Fax 09 422 3451

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Beauty Therapy & Nail Creations for head to toe pampering

Alison Wech

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

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

FROG POOL FARM

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

DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL

EXCELLENCE IN FURNITURE

CARPET CLEANING

Recycled Matai

Custom Built Kitchens

NZ Made Solid Wood

Ph 425 9030 • Dome Valley 5 minutes past Warkworth

HOMEWOOD BLIND SERVICES John Homewood

Clean and Repair Verticals, Venetians and Various Blinds Remesh Screens  Replace Blinds Repair Curtain Tracks  Window Cleaning

mobile 021 274 1676 phone 09 422 0025 email jchomewood@hotmail.com

Emergency Flood Service Technical Experience 12 years Fully qualified and certified

Call FREE 0800 022 101 Mobile 021 456 429 Email: brocks@xtra.co.nz

Certified Member of the Carpet Cleaning Association of NZ

T +64 (0)9 431 4651 F +64 (0)9 431 4290 E mwielec@yahoo.com

www.100percent.co.nz

Furniture Wellsford

Best furniture deals with Dave everytime!

Phone 09 423 7302 149 Rodney St, Wellsford

WARKWORTH COMMERCIAL CLEANERS LTD Carpet & Upholstery Cleaners General Commercial Cleaners

Paddy & Gaye Webb Phone/Fax: Mobile: Email: Website:

09 425 6844 021 079 8578 padgayewebb@gmail.com www.wwcc.co.nz

A BRUSH WITH ART

EXPERT PAINTING AND DECORATING

Interior/Exterior n Waterblasting n Roof Painting Airless Spraying n Plastering n Wallpapering Colour Consulting n Decorative Effects Qualified Tradesmen - Honest/Reliable Ph Mandy 09 425 9007 or 021 507 463

25 years experience  Interior & exterior painting undertaken Wallpaper hanging and plastering specialists Contact Paul for a free quote

Phone 422 5516 or 022 657 8739  www.intercolour.co.nz

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itchen Colours and Wood Finishes Spraypainters of quality kitchens Lacquers, enamels, 2 pacs, clearcoats Resprays and Recolours

Leigh Decorators Painting • Paperhanging • Roofs • Airless Spraying • Stopping (small jobs) • Repaints • New Homes For your Free Quote and/or Consultation phone Gary HOME: 09-422-6695 • MOBILE: 021-024-44941 EMAIL: gary.robyn@clear.net.nz

LTD

Phone / Fax Gary 425 7669 Unit 21/30 Hudson Road, Warkworth115

Pool / Spa Valets Onsite Chemical Testing Water Chemical Supplier Pool Equipment Replacement Repairs & Maintenance Pool Refurbishment

Your Painter/Decorator with over 25 years experience serving all surrounding areas

Michelle Woolley

(09) 422 9524 • 021 952 338 Warkworth • Snells Beach • Matakana • Omaha • Leigh

AUTHORISED AGENT

HEAT PUMPS Supplied • Installed • Serviced h: 09 425 6776 m: 021 148 3845 e: kevin@abelinstalls.co.nz

www.abelinstalls.co.nz

WATER PUMPS New Pump Sales Serv ice In stal la tion

Pumps / Water Tanks / Filtration / Treatment Spa & Pool Shop / Pool Valet Service Water Blasters / Sprayers Hose & Fittings / Mobile & Workshop Service 31 WOODCOCKS RD - WARKWORTH - PH 425 9100

Pump & Filtration Services (2007) Ltd

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

Phone/Fax 425-5619 Mobile 0800 733 765

K & R PUMP SERVICES LTD

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

H2O PUMPS Water Treatment

Pumping Systems

• Filtration • UV Sterilizers • Softeners and Neutralizers • Iron Removal • Agent for Stallion Pumps

Owen Ward

Phone 021 771 878 • 24hrs 09 425 6002 Email: h2opumps@xtra.co.nz MoBILe eFTPos AVAILABLe

OUTBOARD MOTOR SERVICING Water lters - Underbench - UV - Whole House • Water Coolers • Water Pumps • Sales & Service

experienced boat builder - professional craftsman

0800 PURE WATER

our specialist services include:

“If you don’t have a lter you are the lter”

Available from:

Call Steve today 09 945 2282 he’s your local

MAHURANGI MARINE LTD

steve@purewaterservices.co.nz

330 Mahurangi East Rd, Snells Beach Phone 425-5806

www.purewaterservices.co.nz

ST E P H E N

J O N E S

P LU M B I N G

L T D

STEPHEN JONES

09 422 7618 027 494 5499

Maintenance  New Homes  Craftsman Plumber  Free Quotes  After Hours Callout  30 years experience 

Argyll Angle

58-60 Queen Street Warkworth

• Plan Printing, Colour & B/W Photocopying • Laminating, Binding, Fax and Scanning Service • Internet and Email Service

Phone 425 7257 or email: copyworks@clear.net.nz

simon adams tel 09 425 5243 mob 021 425 878

marine plumbing interior refits maintenance wooden boat restoration retrofitting scheduled servicing

Grace

Passionate about Print Solutions

Typing * A3/A4 Laminating * Binding Photocopying * Colour Printing * Design

Jo Dawson Ph: 021 741 750 or 09 425 6286 email: graceprint@mail.com

Digital Freeview Satellite

TV AERIAL & SATELLITE SERVICES

Installation & Repairs

Freeview Sales & Installation TV & FM Aerials

TV • Video • DVD Tuning Additional TV Outlets Phone David Redding 09 422 7227 or 0274 585 457

GAVIN BROUGH Ph 09 425 5495 Mob 0274 766 115

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Ben Gardner

Phone 09 431 4939

Mobile 021 431 493 or 021 778 177

• Household Water • Pressure Wash Down • Water Tank Cleaning • Vacuum Truck Available • Swimming Pool Fills and Vacuum • All Water Needs

water

Household Water Deliveries

& ESIAN SOLWA T Y AR fILTEREd

WATER

0800 747 928 mobile: 027 556 6111

0800 638 254 OR 09 422 3700

DRINNAN CONTRACTORS

TANK WATER TESTING

Household Drinking

We collect samples of your tank or bore water, have them analysed for microbes at an IANZ reg. laboratory. Our written report explains the results and makes recommendations.

clean. care. repair.

WATER

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

0800 GET H20 4 3 8 4 2 6

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

Phone Simon Breeze (09) 422 9345

tankwater@xtra.co.nz | www.tankwatertesting.info

Mangawhai: Phil Lathrope 431 4608 | 021 642 668

Warkworth FURNITURE REMOVALS • Specialist Furniture Truck • Packing & Storage • Caring Owner/ Operator • Carriers Liability Insurance Phone 0274 889 216 • Ah 09 422 7495 y dsa Lin ylor Ta

SNELLS BEACH

PHONE 09 425 5597

Mr CLIP

Good food that’s Gluten Free

18b Glenmore Drive, Warkworth 425 9593 • elocinfoods@xtra.co.nz www.elocinfoods.co.nz

146M

MOBILITY SCOOTERS

BICYCLE MECHANIC Shimano approved Fully equipped workshop Road Bikes Mountain Bikes Full Suspension BMX Bikes Parts & Accessories

Rodney - North Shore

SALES • REPAIR • HIRE Noel & Lyn Beale

• Mobile Sheep Shearing • Ram Hire • Alpacas • Goats Warkworth Phone 09 425 7104 Fax 09 425 7134 Mobile 0274 853 234

09 422 2615 or 0800 022 884

Matakana Bicycle Hire | 09 423 0076 951 Matakana Road, Matakana info@matakanabicyclehire.co.nz

EXPERIENCED NZ WOOL BOARD CERTIFIED SHEARERS (MACHINE & BLADE)

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Advertise your classifieds and church notices here for only 30c+GST per word for run-ons or $6.70 per/cm+GST for boxed adverts. BUSINESSES FOR SALE

FOR HIRE

MINIATURE TRAIN RIDE BUSINESS

PUHOI CENTENNIAL HALL Capacity 200, very reasonable rates. For further information phone Kathy on 09 422 0891 or email puhoi.hall@hiko. co.nz

Situated in Matakana. Would suit semi-retired mechanically minded person, mainly weekends. For details phone Ken 09 425 4082

FITNESS

TaOIST TaI cHI claSSES

FOR HIRE HALLS – The Shoesmith Hall (limit 120 people) and the old Masonic Hall (limit 100 people) are available for hire at reasonable rates. Contact the Warkworth Service Centre of the Auckland council on toll-free (09) 301 0101.

BEGINNERS claSS STaRTING Tuesday, 14th February, 5.30pm-7pm Scout Hall, Shoesmith Street, Warkworth Tai Chi is an ancient art that promotes holistic well being for people of all ages Phone Helen Howard 09 425 9237

FITNESS

Fitness League

1 hour ExErcisE class to thE BEst Music EvEr

movement is life Mondays 10am - Matakana Hall Commencing Monday 13th Feb 2012 Tuesdays 10am - Warkworth Methodist Church Hall Commencing Tuesday 7th Feb 2012 Teacher: Carol Wade (Bagot Stack Diploma) 09 478 9183 or 0274 751 463 Freephone 0508 224 687 www.thefitnessleague.org.nz Cost $6 per class • Annual Reg $15

FLIGHTS

SCENIC FLIGHTS $39, 20 mins;

$49, 30 mins. Min. 3 passengers. Trial flights $75. Gift vouchers available. GREAT BARRIER FLIGHTS. Special stopover up to 4 hours. Return $99. Min. 3 passengers.

NORTH CAPE FLIGHTS $375

each. Min 3 passengers.

Rodney Aero Club Ph 425 8735 or Rod Miller Phone 425 5612

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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Advertise your classifieds and church notices here for only 30c+GST per word for run-ons or $6.70 per/cm+GST for boxed adverts. FOR SALE RAWLEIGH PRODUCTS Phone Patrick 425 0448.

HOME MAINTENANCE available.

FREEVIEW INSTALLATIONS dish decoder complete from $450. Call Jim THE MAINTENANCE MAN 422 3725 or 021 254 2048.

HANDYMAN – THE MAINTENANCE MAN Your one stop fix-it-man. Phone Jim 422 3725 or 021 254 2048.

LAND FOR SALE 4.7 ACRES Northfacing in Warkworth, power, phone, water at gate, subdivision potential. Phone 09 425 5170.

SKATEBOARD DECKS

Blank decks made from 7 ply Canadian Maple. Three sizes 7.75, 8.0 & 8.125. Great pop, shape, concave and quality - hard to snap or chip.

Only $55 each including FREE installed grip tape.

Phone Noah (09) 815 2208 w/days or (09) 422 6000 w/ends

MARKETS MUSEUM SUMMER MARKET 1st Saturday of the month, 8am, Old Masonic Hall, Baxter St, Warkworth. Enquiries Warkworth 425 8482.

PHOTOGRAPHIC & DIGITAL PRESERVE YOUR MEMORIES

Videos, slides & old 8mm films all on to DVD. Ph TeTotara Video (09) 422 5710.

The Jane Gifford Story

HOBBIES & RECREATION

on DVD

from the Mahurangi Matters Office, 17 Neville Street, Warkworth ($1 from every sale is donated to the Jane Gifford Trust)

HEALTH TRUST CALENDARS

NOW ON SALE only $10 each

from Mahurangi Matters, 17 Neville Street, Warkworth. The calendars are a fundraiser for the trust, organised and photographed by Alan Boniface. HEALTH SERVICES

BOWTECH / BOWEN THERAPY

Contact Adele 0800 BOWEN 4 U (0800 269 364) STUCK AT THE CROSSROADS? Your first step is to call Optionz 09 4222410 or 021 711019 or email optionz@clear. net.nz for professional, understanding counselling and advice to help you move ahead. Appointments Saturdays and Sundays.

HOME MAINTENANCE WATER PUMPS Low water pressure? Get it sorted. Sales, service and installation. Work guaranteed. Phone Steve 09 945 2282 or visit www. purewaterservices.co.nz WATER FILTERS Underbench filters & whole house Ultra violet filters – Kill and remove ecoli/bacteria. FREE site visits. Phone Steve 09 945 2282 or visit www.purewaterservices.co.nz

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

FAMILY COUNTRY DAY OUT Sunday 5th February from 2pm Venue: Streamlands, Hereford Farm, Woodcocks Road Cost: $10 per family Events include: Clay Pigeon Shooting, Junior Motorbike Track, Entertainment for children & adults, and live music BYO Picnic - BBQs provided Organised by NZ National Party Warkworth Branch Enquiries to: Beulah 425 6545 or Barbara 425 8992 RODNEY STOPPING VIOLENCE SERVICES Providing programmes for men who need assistance to change abusive behaviours and attitudes and work on equality and respect. Held in Orewa and Warkworth. For enquiries phone 09 425 8130. We also provide programmes for women that are or have been in abusive relationships. Held in Orewa & Warkworth. Phone 422 2102 or 021 023 20297 Sponsored by Mahurangi Matters

TUITION

book NoW

BINGO, BINGO, BINGO! Come and join the fun, 1st Monday of month, Upstairs New Masonic Lodge, Baxter Street, Warkworth. 7pm. Proceeds to Warkworth Museum.

WARKWORTH LIMOUSINE

(White, not a stretch) available. See www.warkworthlimousine.co.nz or phone 425 5065

WarkWorth Methodist Cnr Neville & Church Sts, Warkworth Parish Office: Ph 425 8660 Sunday Service 10.30am Hall Bookings PH 425 8053 snell’s Beach coMMunity church 325 Mahurangi East Rd Sunday Service 9am The Minister will be available every Thursday afternoon Hall Bookings PH 425 5707 Point Wells coMMunity church Williams Cres, Point Wells Sunday Services 2nd & 4th Sundays at 9.30am Mainly-Music Programme Thurs, 10am-11am, during school terms. PH 425 8660 for furtHer information

5 Pulham Road, Warkworth Phone 425 8861 www.mahu.org.nz

www.holyname.org.nz

Holy Mass Timetable: WARKWORTH

PICTURE FRAMING

PUBLIC NOTICES

Mahurangi Methodist Parish

Phone 425 8545

Phone 425 8517 42 Kaipara Flats Road, Warkworth www.come.to/horseriding

PROTECT YOUR PHOTOS, PICTURES, HANDCRAFTS plus all Art by using “Plexiglaze”, the Ultimate in UV Protective Glazing & Reglazing for Clarity, Safety, Lightweight and cut to any size or shape. Orewa Picture Framing, Shop ‘E’, Cammish Lane, Orewa. Ph 424 8124.

N OT I C E S

CATHOLIC CHURCH

1hour $40 • 2hours $75

PICTURE FRAMING AND SUPPLIES We are your One Stop Shop for all professional Custom Framing, Reframing, Mat Cutting, Tapestries, Sport Shirts, Medals, Ready-made frames, Glazing, Repairs, Hardware, plus heaps more and all those bits and pieces, so visit Orewa Picture Framing, Shop ‘E’, Cammish Lane, Orewa. Ph 424 8124.

 C HUR C H

All Sundays in January, 2012 10am



Rodney North Harbour Health Trust calendars are now on sale

HORSE RIDING WARKWORTH 

only $12.50 each

PUBLIC NOTICES

TV SERVICES & SALES TV SERVICES Freeview, dishes, aerials, boxes. Sales, installation and repairs. Phone Gavin 027 4766115.

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

PUHOI

SS. Peter & Paul Church Sunday: 8.30am

TV TUNING. DVD’s / Sky / Video / Freeview etc. Phone 425 5431.

WORK WANTED EMPLOYER / MENTOR / WORK EXPERIENCE Sought by enthusiastic student of Adobe Creative Suite with intermediate level photoshop skills. Good team player and fast learner with associated skills in video & audio production & editing. Happy to trial. Ph 09 423 0116 or email rocka@ woosh.co.nz REID EQUESTRIAN ENGINEERING, Wellsford. Float rebuilds, horse truck conversions, etc. Dog kennels made to measure. Quality work. Ph Ron 423 9666.

VEHICLES PARK AND SELL Gull Snells Beach. Weekly rates. Great exposure. Phone 09 425 4092.

CLASSIFIED DEADLINE for Feb 1 issue is Jan 25 Phone 425 9068 to book your classified advertising

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Significant Natural Areas cause concern for landowners An Auckland Council request to undertake an ecological survey on 252 properties in rural Rodney has ruffled the feathers of a number of affected landholders. A meeting between landowners, However, many of the landowners felt including members of the Landowners the meeting should have been held and Contractors Protection before the letters were sent. Concerns Association, and Council heritage were raised about Council staff coming representatives was held at the on to properties, about what would Wellsford RSA, on December 12, to be classified as ‘significant’ and the discuss a letter sent in October. The implications of a SNA classification. letter sought permission for Council In a report presented to Council’s staff to access properties to undertake Parks Recreation and Heritage Forum the survey, as part of work on assessing last month, Natural Heritage principal Significant Natural Areas (SNAs). specialist John Sawyer and team leader Council heritage manager Noel Jenny Fuller noted that, while Council Reardon says there are 298 SNAs was legally able to visit properties identified in the operative Rodney for any purpose connected with the District Plan maps. The SNAs are preparation or review of statutory important for protecting watersheds plans, sites were only being visited and marine ecosystems, helping to with the agreement of landowners. conserve soils, prevent flooding, Where no permission was obtained, sequester carbon, shelter people and sites were being checked from adjacent wildlife, and for supporting native public land, where possible. species. Their report said that the Auckland identified environmental Mr Reardon said the purpose of Plan the Wellsford meeting was to start degradation as a critical challenge for a conversation with concerned the next 30 years. landowners and answer any questions “The plan highlights major they might have. environmental issues such as poor fresh “This survey is part of an evaluation water quality, declining biodiversity, process so that a schedule of SNAs sedimentation, degraded lake water can be included in the Unitary Plan, quality and the effects of animal and which will replace existing regional plant pests,” the report said. “Of and district plans,” he said. “While utmost importance in Auckland is the most of these areas have been surveyed, management of development to ensure not all the current information is that it does not occur at the expense correct. We felt the best way to get of the features that make Auckland accurate information was to talk to unique. An acknowledgement that nature and people are inseparable landowners.”

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Rodney landowners had plenty of questions for Auckland Council heritage manager Noel Reardon about their land being recognised as a Significant Natural Area.

is a strategic direction that makes it imperative to identify and protect Auckland’s significant natural areas.” Council is proposing a six step process to identify sites of indigenous vegetation or habitats of indigenous fauna that could be scheduled as SNAs in the Unitary Plan: Stage 1: Review all existing information about indigenous vegetation and habitats of indigenous fauna in Auckland. Stage 2: Confirm existing scheduled sites – yy Existing sites including PARPS (Existing and Proposed ARPS Sites); District Plan scheduled sites (additional to those already included in the PARPS Schedule); and QEII covenants. yy Select a representative selection of them for survey to ensure they are still significant. yy Where significant, carry over existing SNAs into the Unitary Plan. Stage 3: Identify additional sites using Gap Analysis – yy Carry out a desktop assessment using aerial photos. yy For sites that have the potential to be SNAs, write to landowners to ask permission for survey and carry out survey if permission is given. Stage 4: Develop criteria for determining significance of natural areas and apply to all sites to create a single Auckland-wide SNA schedule. Stage 5: Develop a regulatory and non-regulatory framework of rules

and incentives for the protection and restoration of SNAs in the Unitary Plan. Stage 6: Undertake further consultation with owners of SNAs prior to notification of Unitary Plan and then finalise the Unitary Plan SNA schedule. A first draft of a schedule of significant natural areas is expected to be complete by the end of March this year. After this (and prior to the legal notification of the Unitary Plan in early 2013) all owners of properties with areas identified as SNAs will be contacted to advise them of the proposed schedule. They will be given an opportunity to discuss this identification with the Council and asked for their feedback. A further opportunity for submissions on the schedule will occur once the Unitary Plan is notified in 2013. Meanwhile, at a recent hearing on Significant Natural Areas in the Waiwera area, Hearings Panel chair Alan Watson said that he believed Council could usefully investigate the provision of a package to landowners affected by SNAs that included information such as: yy A map of the SNA yy Relevance of the SNA to the landowner yy What Council assistance may be available through rates relief and other measures yy Pest control yy Fencing yy The uses that are permitted or that are limited within the SNAs.

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Lifestyler title belies business success Two Ahuroa women have defied labelling of lifestyle blocks as “unproductive”, by turning their 10.5 hectares into the base for not one, but four, successful business enterprises. Like most lifestyle block holders, global mate selection system, TGRM, Karyn Maddren and Susan Meszaros used in New Zealand by Ambreed both have full time jobs, in addition to and others. She is also a partner with managing the property. However, both two Australians in FeedXL, an awardchoose their sheep stud, Streamland winning horse nutrition software. Suffolk, as their preferred occupation. With no cellphone coverage at the The pair decided to develop the stud property, her work is largely reliant on 10 years ago, transforming a small flock their wired broadband connection, but into a specialised breeding programme Susan says it’s no obstacle to success which currently boasts close to 200 and she currently works almost entirely Suffolk and Suffolk-cross ewes and from home, liaising with colleagues lambs, grazed partly on leased land. The and customers in NZ, Australia, the project fits well with Susan’s geneticist US, Canada and the UK. qualifications and past experience of The internet and sites like Trademe, sheep breeding in Canada. She says also form a key part of the marketing Suffolks are 30 to 40 percent larger and communications for their stud than some breeds, making them good and their newly developed business, for meat production, but they have also Ahuroa Feed, centered around the been chosen for their distinctive, stately Pryde’s EasiFeed range of horse feeds. looks, moderate fleece and good nature. They also sell hay and straw and do “They’re very good mothers and horse diet analysis using FeedXL. milkers, and often have twins,” she says. As part owner of an optical laboratory, Initially targeting a market of Karyn combines regular commuting lifestylers, they were pleasantly to Albany with her share of the animal surprised by the popularity of the management duties. Weekends involve a multitude of stud-related jobs and black faced rams. there are also regular daily chores, “We’ve had no trouble selling rams. which currently include bottle feeding They go like hotcakes.” a number of lambs. The process With a PhD in animal breeding, Susan is kept economical and nutritious is managing director of a sophisticated by hand-milking two Saanen goats

Karyn Maddren and Susan Meszaros are doing business worldwide. See further photos with this story at www.localmatters.co.nz.

twice a day (and sometimes more) to produce around eight litres of milk. Their menagerie also includes two dogs, numerous ducks, chickens and a goose, rescued as a gosling and now bonded with a ewe that it won’t let out of its sight. Success of their current ventures has seen the pair recently purchase a nearby 68ha Ahuroa property where they expect to eventually increase their flock to include more than 300 pure -bred ewes. They also envisage open days to help others to master basic flock management skills. Susan cautions lifestylers against buying breeding stock from saleyards,

where it’s hard to tell if you’re buying someone else’s problems, like animals prone to disorders, or poor at lambing or mothering. Breeders, on the other hand, keep records of their animals and have their reputation at stake, she says. Susan and Karyn score their lambs from birth, collecting birth weights on lambs and rating the ewes for mothering ability. They take saliva samples to test for resistance to worms and DNA tests for susceptibility to foot rot and survival ability, crucial traits for flock health. However, there’s no secret to successfully juggling their multiple roles, which basically comes down to hard work.

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ü Metal Supplies ü Trenching ü Drainage ü Footings ü Driveways ü Bridges ü Landscaping ü Site Work ü Retaining Walls

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Ph/Fax 425 8269 or 027 290 8314

If you long for a successful Edible Garden, but don’t know where to start; or if you have tried but your garden is not growing as you expected ...

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Edible Garden Workshop

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• Chipping & Stump Grinding • Tree Removal • Shelter Belt Removal • Pruning & Dead Wooding • Land, Section & View Clearing • Arborists • Insured

We don’t just hang around 0800 TRIMTRIM (8746 8746) 021 619 728 • 09 431 5625 orangotang@xtra.co.nz www.treetrimmers.co.nz

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Gardening with Wendy Schick

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Colour counts

Lycopene is what gives tomatoes, watermelon, chillies, apricots and other red fruits and vegetables their colour. This pigment also acts as a powerful antioxidant in the body. A high intake of lycopene, in particular, has been linked with a reduced risk of prostate cancer. It is not produced in the body, so you can only obtain its benefits by eating foods rich in lycopene. It is better absorbed by the body when it is consumed in cooked tomato products, rather than fresh tomatoes. In one study, heat processing released up to 2.5 times the lycopene from tomatoes, making it more available and absorbable in the body. Also, because lycopene is fat-soluble, adding a little oil helps absorption too. With tomatoes and chillies in abundance at this time of the year, it is a great time to make use of them ready for later in the year. Tomato soup and pasta sauce with the addition of basil, in particular, are so easy to make and can be frozen and heated up when needed. In warm humid conditions, tomatoes invite a range of diseases, but you can grow them without chemicals, or at least minimise spraying, by paying attention to soil, water and feeding for strong vigorous growth and taking some preventative measures such as: yy Never remove tomato laterals on a wet or humid day and use clean hands. yy Remove lower leaves if they become diseased. Removing lower leaves also helps with air circulation. Use sharp, clean secateurs. yy Apply copper in a trigger sprayer or dab with tomato dust when removing laterals or cutting off leaves. yy Avoid overhead watering, which increases humidity and promotes disease. yy Apply water at ground level on a regular basis as plants will stress with irregular watering. yy Apply mulch to cut down on watering and slow weed growth. Weeds encourage disease. yy In wet humid summers, spray with copper to prevent disease. yy Plant good companions: basil, marigolds, calendula, garlic, chives and spring onions help keep tomatoes healthy. If you long for a successful edible garden but don’t know where to start or if you have tried, but your garden is not growing how you expected, then come along to our workshop and learn all you need to know. It will be held at Tumbleweed on Saturday February 11. The cost is $15 per person and bookings are essential.

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A one day conference will arm sheep farmers with knowledge from the country’s top experts. Image courtesy of Beef +Lamb New Zealand.

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A free one-day conference focusing on maximising sheep production on Northland farms will draw together some of the country’s best sheep expertise at Barge Showgrounds Conference Centre, Whangarei on February 23. High profile sheep and cattle vet Organiser Aaron Meikle of Beef and and national spokesperson for the Lamb New Zealand says it’s a unique WormWise programme, Trevor Cook, opportunity for sheep farmers. AgResearch Invermay researcher “These three gentlemen in a room and technology transfer specialist Dr together is an opportunity no sheep David Stevens and sheep researcher farmer should miss. They are practical Professor Paul Kenyon, will each and they’ll be there over a cup of tea to present alongside a variety of local talk one on one as well.” experts. All are welcome to attend the farmer Their specialty knowledge encompasses animal health, nutrition levy funded event expected to start at and management, including parasite 10.30am. The conference centre is on management, grazing lucerne, winter SH 14 – the Dargaville road on the grazing management of sheep, hogget outskirts of Whangarei. rearing, lambing, shearing policy and Info: Aaron Meikle aaron.meikle@ the effects of Body Condition Score. beeflambnz.com or 027 498 9703.

Dargaville days The Northland Field Days, at Dargaville, will be held from March 1 to 3. NZ Landcare Trust has already signalled its interest in being involved and will be coordinating a marquee for the Biodiversity Northland Forum. The theme for the marquee will be a celebration of the work carried out by Northland communities. Northland Field Days is the largest event held in Northland, and the second largest agribusiness event in NZ. More than 550 exhibitors participate, attracting in excess of 27,000 visitors over three days.

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When good dogs go bad

Did you hear about the local vet who on arriving home from a recent fishing trip (no fish again) carefully rinsed his two prized fishing rods and hung them on the clothesline to dry. After an evening out he returned to a bare clothesline. Panic. He eventually found both rods and reels savaged to within an inch of their lives by the family’s seven-month-old labrador pup. It must have made an outstanding effort to jump up for those rods. The incident brought to mind what a challenge it can be to bring a dog up through those “teenage” years. The chewing and destructive phase can last a surprisingly long time, sometimes up to two years of age in exuberant breeds such as bull terriers or labradors. Some years ago a friend left his English bull terrier pup in his then newish Lada car “just for a few minutes”. On his return, the whole dashboard, steering wheel and gear stick had been chewed to fragments. So much for robust Russian materials. Once the dog grows out of the destructive phase people commonly breathe a sigh of relief and black out the worst incidents from their memory banks. Strategies to reduce the problem include giving puppy plenty of exercise, and providing chewable toys and bones to provide an outlet for those tendencies. A securely fenced garden will help keep puppy from temptation. My own beloved dog has a chequered history of destroying valuable goods during her youth. Her worst day, but not by much, was when she was accidently shut in the tackroom with all my daughter’s horse riding gear for a half-hour of wild revelry. Her victims were riding helmets, horse blankets, and bridles. We were upset when she was missing and even more upset when we found her. Like any phase “this too will pass” and before very long you will have a calm mature dog asleep on the porch with only memories of the teenage years.

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Celebrity bullocks, Spider and Rusty, will be star attractions at the 136th North Kaipara Agricultural Association (Paparoa) Show on Saturday February 4. Spider and Rusty travelled to at least a dozen or so entries anticipated. Wellington last year to appear in Peter Also participating will be miniature Jackson’s movie The Hobbit due for horses and driving ponies, show release in December. They are part of horses, Western riding, show cattle, Ross Battensby’s team, which will be trade sites, bullock rides, agility dogs giving bullock rides at the show. and Kaipara Food. A show organiser Janet Poole says the For schedules and more info go to programme will include junior cattle www.paparoashow.homestead.com or sections, pet lamb competition, calf contact Janet at riverlands27@ubernet. and steer rides, calf club, shearing, side co.nz or 09 439 2420. shows, wood chopping, agility dogs The Paparoa Show is both a smoke and lawn mower riding. There will be free and dog free event. a pony/horse riders ring for those who want to have fun and entertainment will include the Blue Note Trio, plus a talent quest for singers and musicians. Extra small flocks “The emphasis is on being a ‘country’ $ 50 show,” Janet says. “There are a lot of 1st sheep lifestylers in the area and we’d love to see them involved. It’s a great $ 10 per sheep opportunity to show off hobbies and thereafter skills such as cooking, photography, vegetable growing or craft.” A harness-driving competition, in two classes – vintage and modern – is expected to create a lot of interest with

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Water system maintenance a must Protecting the source Adequate water supply is vital to stock health and productivity, and continual maintenance checks should cover the whole water system, from source to troughs. DairyNZ consulting officer Wayne Berry says the process should be tailored to the peculiarities of each farm. For example, piston pumps require a check of the leather washers and gland packing, while centrifugal pump checks should include actual flow rate (compared to specified rate), noisy bearings, and any water leaks from or around the pump. A bladder pressure check is generally adequate for modern pressure tanks, while steel tanks need to be bled of excess water annually or as required, since water-logged pumps turn off and on continually. Non-return valves and screens at the bottom of bores and wells should be inspected and pressure gauges checked for accuracy. Clean or unblock the hole in the stem if necessary. Delivery lines, including taps, joins and pipes, can be checked visually and flow rates assessed at key points. Poor water quality can block lines over time and these can be manually cleared with an air compressor or simply putting a barley sugar into the pipeline. Replace lines and joins as needed, ideally burying new lines 600 mm below the surface to protect them from damage. Empty and scrub inside surfaces of troughs and check valves and floats for damage or excessive wear and tear. Cracks in the trough walls can waste water and cause a bog around the trough, so either plaster with cement or replace the trough. Protect entry

A well-maintained farm water system will help to deliver healthy and happy stock. Photo: Nicola Topping / Real Image.

fittings (or goose-necks) from damage and ensure that the ground level around troughs is adequate to help protect equipment and improve stock access. Removing any thorny hedging and shorting fences from troughs will also keep stock happy.

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Workshop series addresses Kaipara catchment planning A series of farm planning workshops will be held in the first half of this year to raise awareness of catchment management issues around the Kaipara Harbour. The day-long events are being organised by the Integrated Kaipara Harbour Management Group. Project coordinator Leane Makey says the workshops are open to anyone interested in catchment management, but are pitched specifically at landowners. A farm planning workshop at Otamatea Marae and Hanerau Farm, near Maungaturoto, in November looked at farm planning and how it fits with restoring the health of the harbour. After a hearty lunch at the marae the participants headed out into the paddocks where Hanerau Farm manager Roger Taylor translated the theory into practice. Participants were shown the farm’s

foreshore fencing which prevented stock from accessing coastal waters and the tree planting programme to control stream bank erosion. There was discussion on pasture management to limit soil erosion and the opportunities for managing the steeper hillsides and gullies to limit sediment and faecal run-off to the harbour. The project has received government funding of $30,000 for the next three years and is also supported by participating government and community agencies and hapu. Five flagship demonstration sites have been set-up – on a dairy farm at Dargaville, a beef farm on the Otamatea River, two on the Araparera River and one near Parakai, South Head. Workshop dates and venues are expected to be confirmed early next month. For further information about the project, contact Leane Makey on 021 818 102.

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E. coli in freshwater. Some beaches have a history of excellent water quality and present a low risk to public health and do not require monitoring. In the Mahurangi area, these beaches include Goat Island Marine Reserve and Anchor Bay at Tawharanui. Some Rodney lakes are also tested for toxic algae where a potential problem exists. All levels at Omaha were deemed safe in the January 10 sampling. The Safeswim programme does not undertake to determine if beaches are physically safe for swimming or other recreational use. Test results are available on the Council website or via 0800 723 379.

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Clean drinking water plays major role in good health Water used for drinking, teeth cleaning, hand washing, bathing, showering, food preparation and cooking needs to be free from harmful germs and chemicals. So does drinking water for stock and pets. If your water comes from a mains supply, your water safety is monitored by Watercare. If your water comes from a water collection tank, it is up to you to keep your water safe. Tank water can come from various sources including rain off the roof, natural water from streams or lakes, a bore or a spring. Water supplies from all these sources can easily become unsafe. For example, roof water may be corrosive or may become contaminated from dust, agricultural spraying or bird or possum droppings. River or stream water and shallow bore water and springs may contain harmful germs or chemicals or be discoloured and unpleasant to taste, and bore water can be hard and corrosive. If you are unsure about the quality of your water, have it tested in a recognised laboratory. Water contamination can cause illness such as diarrhoea and vomiting, which can be particularly dangerous for infants, old people or people with damaged immune systems. To keep the rainwater roof collection system safe: yy Make sure the entire system is installed correctly yy Cover the tank to prevent animals, birds and other matter from entering. yy Roof areas should be kept clear of overhanging vegetation to prevent leaves and debris falling on to the catchment. Overhanging branches also give rodents, cats and possums access to the roof and allow birds to roost above it. yy Keep gutters clean

yy Tanks should be inspected every one to two years and cleaned if necessary, but tank cleaning should ideally be carried out by tank-cleaning contractors. Other ways to keep household water safe: yy Install a water filter or point-of-use device yy Disinfect unsafe water yy Water that is untreated or from mixed sources is often corrosive, so plastic pipes should be used to carry cold water. yy A backflow prevention device stops contaminated water from flowing back into the home supply. For a pdf copy of the publication Water Tanks and Safe Household Water, go to www.healthed.govt.nz/ resource/water-collection-tanks-andsafe-household-water

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Board joins Te Arai plan change opposition Opponents to the Private Plan Change have been given the support of the Rodney Local Board, which has also submitted against the proposal. The board believes the effects of the development could not be mitigated and any condition would be difficult to enforce. The board’s submission said ecological enhancement and protection of critically endangered species should be put ahead of any potential positives of development. “The generation of ‘activities’ that result from the development of land for residential purposes are incompatible with the ecological significance of the area,” the submission said. “Therefore, residential and rural residential Auckland Council was still counting submissions when Mahurangi Matters went development should be avoided in to press. However, a spokesperson said more than 2000 had been received. A date for the hearing has yet to be set. this area.” “Alternative locations for coastal area, as well as a key bird feeding area. neighbourhood reserves, road sealing living and development exist within “The focus for development should be and access to schools and so on, is the Auckland area and beyond; there on developing and growing existing likely, and may take finances away from is no need for development at this communities and ensuring their existing areas which require support.” wellbeing, rather than creating new The Rodney Local Board said it particular site.” supported the provision of reserves in The submission also noted that the communities. draft Auckland Plan specifically “The potential pressure on Council to the Auckland area, however, it did not identified Te Arai as one of 12 provide services to the development in support this provision as a trade off for biodiversity jewels in the Auckland the future, such as further cemeteries, development.

A bird with bravado

In 1888, Walter Buller described the New Zealand fairy tern as “tolerably common”. Today, with around 40 birds remaining, it is the rarest bird in the country. While many people are aware of these terns’ scarcity, the energy they expend in their fight for survival is less well-known. Weighing in at 70 grams, the NZ fairy tern is the smallest of all NZ terns. For a creature weighing less than half an apple, it possesses sizable bravado. A fierce defender of its nest and chicks, the NZ fairy tern can be found fighting off far larger birds. An approaching human is often met with dive-bombing and defecation from the birds. This time and energy spent on defence reduces the amount left for fishing and raising their young so keeping levels of disturbance low is critical. Sightseeing is not encouraged. Prospecting for nesting sites usually begins in October and the nesting season runs until February. There are only four breeding sites – Waipu, Papakanui Spit, Mangawhai and Pakiri. The Mangawhai Wildlife refuge site is the most-favoured with over

Fishing classic strikes again The 17th annual Kawau Classic Fishing Competition will be held on February 4 and 5. A $9000 prize pool is on the line, as well as a $1000 prize for the average weight snapper – open to senior fishers only. A total of 92 entries were received last year and just under $1000 was raised for the Kawau Coastguard. This year funds raised will go to Snells Beach School. Kawau Bay Fishing Club chairman Ross Brown says he’s hoping for good weather and at least 150 entries this year. “More entries means more fish are caught and that means more money for the school,” he says. Starting at 5am on February 4, the weigh in will be held from 3pm to 5pm at the Salty Dog Inn, Snells Beach on February 5. The fish will be auctioned on Sunday. Entry fees are $60 for seniors and $20 for juniors (14 years and under) and include a meal after entrants weigh in their catch. Tickets are available from the Salty Dog Inn, Snells Beach Fish and Dive, Wellsford Sport and Leisure, and Hunting and Fishing Warkworth. Ticket sales close February 3. Info: Contact Ross Brown 027 5648243.

by Anna Wild, Te Arai Beach Preservation Society www.tearai.org

half of the terns breeding there. NZ fairy terns are very particular about their nesting sites, requiring a large area of exposed sand with shelly patches. The colours of broken shell, such as the pink of scallop shells, aid in camouflaging the eggs and the chicks. The male and female take turns incubating eggs and catching fish. Their change-overs are frequent and the returning bird will normally bring a fish for the incubating bird as refreshment before it takes off to fish. After 21 to 23 days, the chicks begin to hatch. Nesting sites are roped off at least 50 metres from the nest though the chicks are intrepid and can outgrow these confines. For three weeks, they are frequently fed fish by their parents until they have learned to fly and then the fishing tutorials begin. This is where spots such as the Te Arai stream and lakes are important for the fairy tern, as they provide areas where the adult birds can teach their young to fish. Wildlife Service footage from the 1960s shows the fairy tern once nested from Pakiri right along the coast to the Mangawhai Wildlife Refuge. In more

Photo, Sioux Plowman

recent years, pairs have been sighted prospecting at Te Arai stream and if the area is left undisturbed, the birds may once again nest there. How you can help If in the rare instance you do see a fairy tern, stay low to the ground and watch where you step. If you are keen to watch the birds in a mindful way, consider volunteering with About Tern. Info: Jane Vaughan, 431 5828 or www.tearai.org.nz

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Old-fashioned games such as egg ‘n’ spoon and running races will be held at the Whangateau Domain on Sunday, January 29, as part of Anniversary Weekend celebrations. The Country Fair will be held in 114-year-old kauri-built hall. conjunction with the Whangateau A massive book sale will be held inside Harbourcare Discovery Day, which the building, while outside there will will give visitors an opportunity be stalls, quick-fire raffles, a coconut to learn more about the harbour shy and car boot sales. environment, both above and below Anyone who would like to book a the water line. The programme will stall or car boot space should contact include snorkelling tours. Lynette on 422 6057. The annual fair helps raise money Gates open at 9am and there is plenty for on-going maintenance of the of parking.

Bowls and a BBQ at Omaha The Omaha Beach Bowling Club is inviting both players and non-players of all ages to come down to the club on Friday afternoons for a game of bowls, followed by a barbecue. Bowls starts at 4pm and the barbecue around 6pm. Players are asked to bring their own meat and salad, as hot chips, plates and cutlery will be provided. Drinks available from the bar. Those interested in playing must submit their names by 3.45pm on game day. Info: 422 7085.

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Mixed bag of events planned for Rodney College reunion

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Former Rodney College students and teachers now living in the UK and Australia will be among the many guests expected to attend the school’s 50th Anniversary Reunion from February 17 to 19. The anniversary marks the year dance, which includes a buffet dinner (1962), when the secondary school in and light supper, are encouraged to Wellsford shifted from School Road to dress from their decade. its present site in Rodney Street. A combined church service will be held The celebratory events include in the Wellsford Community Centre sporting fixtures, wine and cheese, at 10.30am on Sunday and there will be activities around the community dinner/dance and a church service. There will also be school tours, afterwards including golf, squash and formalities and entertainment. On a tour of the area. The Wellsford Golf Saturday afternoon, all participants Club is offering a special green fee of will be invited to join in a range of $15. To book phone 423 8385. sporting contests and organisers are A 50-year anniversary magazine will encouraging people to bring their own be available for $13 for those who are gear for basketball (1pm to 2.30pm), not attending. hockey (1pm to 2.30pm) bring old All students from both Wellsford sticks, netball (2.30pm to 4pm), District High School and Rodney swimming (1pm to 4pm), and touch College are welcome to join in the rugby (2.30pm to 4pm). festivities by registering with the college. Those attending the Saturday night See advertisement opposite for details.

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Australian-based dub/reggae monster group The Red Eyes are celebrating their 10th anniversary with a NZ tour, which includes a show at the Sawmill Café at Leigh next month. The NZ Homecoming Tour heralds the prodigal return of NZ’s long lost sons El Witeri and Damien Charles, both formerly of Auckland. The two musicians’ musical roots were developed touring around NZ throughout the 90s before they remet in Australia and honed their alternative dub/reggae style. The band’s second album Red Army was a finalist for Best Blues and Roots Album at the Australian Independent Record Label Awards and lead singer El Witeri was a finalist for APRA songwriter of the year. The 2007 release Rudeworld and their two EPs Highplace and Prolific/My Kingdom have collectively sold more than 12,000 copies worldwide. NZ audiences will be among the first to

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So “how” do we go about getting this proposed pathway, from Leigh to Warkworth including Snells Beach, developed? Based on experience elsewhere in NZ, the answer is through a Council-community partnership in which each has a clear role and a shared goal. There are various models for who does what and who pays but the key right now is to establish a vehicle that can make it happen. In the local situation here, the community can provide access across private lands and several property owners are already involved in this. Council could provide access along public land whether on road verge, paper roads, certain reserve land and so on. This will all cost money but the Community has some avenues to explore to raise the funds for its part. These range from fundraising events such as last year’s successful Fruitloop which is being held again on March 3, through to applying for grants from various trusts and private/government funding agencies. For Council, the situation is a little more complex. There is a commonly held view that this spending on pathways is somewhat frivolous and really should be paid for by walkers/cyclists. This probably arises from the misconception that all roads are paid for by motorists through the fuel tax and road user charges, whereas cyclists and walkers pay nothing and therefore have no ‘rights’. There is some foundation to this belief because the state highways are funded by NZTA and NZTA does get its funds from those motorist charges. However, the remainder of roading work is determined by and funded by Council, albeit with some subsidy from NZTA. So this ‘other’ roading is actually funded in the main from rates. In this area of East Rodney, all of the roading east of SH1 is funded wholly or partly from rates. As such, it seems reasonable that some small part of ratepayer funding should be applied to routes that potentially benefit everyone. As this area continues to evolve from a largely rural one to a more heavily populated and visited one, the need for facilities such as footpaths and pathways grows and we need to continue to review where spending is applied. This is not to deny the need to maintain and improve roading but maybe to move the balance a little. There are also other funds that Council can allocate to such a project. That is, Council can choose to invest more into a pathway connecting our communities and quickly bring about the benefits outlined previously. We all know that Councils are pressured to fund many ‘pet’ projects yet control the rates burden, but using the model above, these pathways could be constructed with relatively minor Council funding. But it will require a significant amount of commitment to enable progress. To build on the great work done on pathways by various groups, I have proposed to the Local Board that we formalise a Council-community partnership.

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Courage, commitment, and comradeship are the essential ingredients needed in order to enter the Warkworth & Districts A&P Show military art competition on January 28. Clubs, businesses, families and friends are being invited to muster up a team of at least five members to compete in a series of stretcher races and other gruelling challenges starting at 11am on show day. Military Arts Club coordinator Max Carpenter says up to 24 teams are able to compete and the more participants the merrier. “Depending on the amount of teams, there will be a number of stretcher heats and elimination rounds held before a grand winner is found,” Max says. The winning team will receive a $150 voucher to spend at Stables Restaurant, at the Matakana Country Park. “While stretcher racing is a lot of fun, it is also very hard work. When the whistle blows people who have never entered a stretcher race before suddenly discover how heavy a person lying on a stretcher can be. A coordinated effort from the whole team is required to complete the 100m dash which has

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many obstacles.” Max says a good level of fitness is required if participants are going to race competitively. “A giant game of tug-of-war will be

held in the arena around midday. The rope is 200m long and around 150 people are able to participate. It should be an entertaining event.” To enter contact Max on 422 9944.

Warkworth will celebrate its country heritage on January 28 and 29, when the doors open on the 145th annual Warkworth A&P Show. Show secretary Marjorie Blythen says that there have been many changes in the show over the years, but the basic features of a traditional A & P Show remain. The main day for the public is Saturday, January 28, when gates will open at 8.30am. The show animals are always a huge drawcard and for many visitors, it’s a rare opportunity to get up close to champion dairy and beef cattle, alpaca and this year, dairy goats. Handlers are normally only too happy to talk about their animals and share their knowledge. Dog trials bring competitors from all over the North Island and shearers will be competing for points and prizes. Show favourite, the Puhoi Axemen’s Club, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. There will be vintage cars and croquet demonstrations, a large number of horse rings on both days, and Greg and Mandy Clark’s ewe racing and continued next page

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Programme overview sheep shearing displays, which include opportunities to ‘have a go’. A new event this year is the Military Arts Teams Event (see story previous page). The Mahurangi Kindergarten is back to run a mainly children’s programme of old-time entertainment throughout the day including sack, egg ‘n’ spoon and three-legged races. The indoor section of produce, flowers, art and crafts, preserves, baking and floral art will be housed in a large marquee. These will be judged, as usual, on the Friday with the exception of a few special classes, which will be judged by guest compère Te Radar on the Saturday morning. Hobby-type cottage industries will be selling a variety of homemade items in the marquee, which will also be the setting for hamburger and steak sandwich making competitions for teenagers and adults. A panel of judges including Te Radar will judge the competition with prizes supplied by Beef & Lamb NZ. The overall champion will win a dinner for two at one of Auckland’s top restaurants. Show Queen, Princess, Fairy and Pirate competitions will be judged during lunch and music from two live bands will keep people entertained. The Mahurangi Rugby Football Club will run a hospitality bar under the

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The short line-up in the 2009 breed show, from left, British Alpine, Sable and Saanen.

Goats groomed for big day out There are five breeds of dairy goat in NZ and all five are expected to be on display at the Warkworth A&P Show on January 28. Anglo Nubian, British Alpine, Saanen, Sable and Toggenburg goats will be judged by a panel of experts on their overall condition, how they lead, best udder class and breed type as part of the livestock section. Show steward Carol Plumpton, of Helensville, says she expects around six to eight exhibitors from the Auckland and Northland regions to attend with a total of around 40 goats on display. Carol is a former president of the NZ Dairy Goat Breeders Association (NZDGBA) and has 35 years of experience in breeding goats. She says no matter how long someone has kept goats, there is always something new to be learned. “Showing goats can be a captivating hobby,” Carol says. “The thrill of gaining a place with a

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Auction supports guide dogs Warkworth A&P Show guests are being asked to open their hearts and their wallets for a charity auction raising money for guide dogs. For the fourth year running, coordinator John Barnett has organised an auction of goods from local suppliers and businesses, with proceeds going to the Royal NZ Foundation for the Blind’s guide dog service. John says they have raised a total of $10,000 over the last three years and hope to top last year’s total of $3200. “Popular items last year included a weed-eater and Morris and James pottery,” he says. “I’m hoping the weather is better this year and brings

more bidders.” Auction items include accommodation and food vouchers, local wine, pottery, as well as sports and DIY equipment. All items will be on display and will be auctioned by Ben Kloppers. “It costs between $22,000 and $25,000 to breed, raise, train and match a guide dog to a blind or visionimpaired person. They are provided free of charge to those who need them so the Foundation needs all the support it can get.” There are around 300 working guide dogs in NZ all trained by the Foundation’s guide dog services. Bayleys Real Estate NZ is a principal sponsor.

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Little River sound heads to Matakana Glenn Shorrock – the voice of the legendry Little River Band – will team up with top Kiwi artists including Sharon O’Neill for a huge afternoon of rock at Ascension Wine Estate next month. Rock the Vines will feature some of the biggest rock chart toppers such as Words, Asian Paradise and Maxine, hits of a generation including all time favourites while Crummer’s signature sound was cemented in such as Cool Change, Help Is On Its Way, Home On a NZ pop history on the Netherworld Dancing Toys Monday and Reminiscing. No1 hit For Today. She has supported Ray Charles, Shorrock, as lead vocalist in Little River Band, boasts KD Lang, Paul McArtney, Michael Jackson and Sting. 25 million record sales and 13 top 40 US hits. He More recently she had the female lead role of the Killer Queen in Queen’s We Will Rock You. will perform with a full band. Meanwhile, Laing is New Zealand’s most Rounding out the quartet will be Debbie Harwood commercially successful female artist ever, with her who formed the Kiwi phenomenon When the Cat’s controversial song Glad I’m Not a Kennedy charting Away. She has both a gold album and number one single to her credit. internationally and being banned in the US. O’Neill’s name is synonymous with Kiwi rock, with Rock the Vines will be held on February 26.

Maungaturoto riders rev up and saddle up for school fundraiser Horsepower – both animal and mechanical – will be engaged for two major fundraising events for Maungaturoto Primary School next month. A horse trek will be held on Saturday, February 18, while the 4th annual trail ride will be held on Sunday February 19. The trail ride will feature open farm land, expert only and an expert only two-wheeler section. The ride will cover 35km across open sheep and beef farmland, which has a few sections of bush. For juniors, there will be two fully supervised kids tracks – one for learners and the other for more advanced riders. One of the organisers Nyree Alcock says there will be something for all levels of riding ability. The tracks open at 9am and close at 3pm. “The school thanks Don and Jackie McKay for the use of their farm for this major fundraiser for the school,” Nyree says. Info: Mark Flannagan on 09 431 8900. Meanwhile, the horse trek will be held at 265 Whakapirau Road, Maungaturoto, across open farmland with iconic views of Kaipara Harbour. Lunch will be provided to all registered riders and riders must provide their own horses. Registrations start at 8.30am with the ‘ride off ’ at 9.30am. Preregistrations are preferred. Info: Karina Allen on 09 4318 344.

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Soprano Elizabeth Marvelly will headline a stellar line-up during Variety Hour at the Bloom Family Festival in Matakana this month. Marvelly, who is a Variety – The Children’s Charity ambassador, will be joined on stage on January 21, by Massad, Abby Lee, Variety Voices and Katie Scott, and the Miss T’s. The show will be compèred by long-standing Variety ambassador Mark Wright. Aged 23, Marvelly has enjoyed a remarkable career to date, having first taken the stage at 16 with Sir Howard Morrison. Since then, she has performed in front of millions worldwide including performances at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall and the Sydney Opera House. She released her second album Home last year, which debuted on the top 10 albums chart in New Zealand. Rising star Massad will perform his hit single Tear My Heart Out. At 18, Massad is already an accomplished performer whose unique and fresh sound saw him chosen to perform to more than 350,000 at the Auckland and Audiences at the Variety Hour at Bloom this month will be able to hear one of NZ’s most Christchurch Christmas In The Park events. talented singers, Elizabeth Marvelly. Soulful and emerging talent Abby Lee started her song writing career at the tender age of 12, Local stars in the making Katie Scott and the and since pursuing her dream has found herself Miss T’s round out the line-up. Variety friend performing and writing for fellow musicians Bronwyn Turei, sister Kayla and Katie Scott will including Smashproof ’s Deach, Kayo & perform their stripped-back cabaret-pop show Brooke (from Illegal Banditz). featuring their distinctive three-part harmonies. Variety Voices is a group scholarship Bloom Family Festival will be held at the opportunity for talented young people to share Matakana Country Park, from January 20 to 22. the joy of rehearsing and performing together It is the largest festival of its kind in New Zealand at events, whether disabled or able-bodied, offering the best of Kiwi music, workshops, food facing challenges or not. and wine and camping options.

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LOCAL Artists brush up for Hospice MARKET Art to suit a wide range of budgets and tastes will be on sale at the Matakana School Hall on Auckland Anniversary Weekend, with the proceeds going towards a new building for Warkworth Wellsford Hospice. The sixth annual M-art-akana Exhibition opens with a preview from 6pm on Thursday January 26, and continues from noon on Friday to noon on Monday. More than 150 artworks will be for sale, with prices from under $100 to $1800. The majority are less than $500. About 30 artists are submitting work for the exhibition and sale. Most are from Rodney or Auckland, but some are from further afield, the most travelled being painter Esther Dexter from Wanaka, who is exhibiting at M-art-akana for the first time. Another newcomer is Janice Napper, who uses an eclectic mix of materials such as old vinyl records, perspex and polymer to create vibrant and humorous artworks. Several of the local artists specialise in painting familiar scenes, and Noreen Harvey’s watercolours and acrylic renditions of coastal locations are always popular. Other regular exhibitors include Pam Dun, Donna Massey, Jos Coufreur and Dale Tutill. Textile artists Julie Dowland, Val Waterhouse and Shirley Pygott will also have works for sale, alongside Jeanette Switzer’s Matakana watercolourist Noreen distinctively handcrafted jewellery. Harvey is one of 30 artists exhibiting in The preview evening is entry by M-art-akana on Auckland Anniversary donation, with refreshments including Weekend. wine from Omaha Bay Vineyard and hall will be open from noon to 6pm on cheese from Puhoi Valley Cheese. Friday, 9am to 6pm on Saturday and Bayleys Real Estate Warkworth is Sunday, and 9am to noon on Monday. sponsoring the exhibition. For more information visit: www. Entry is free over the weekend, and the warkworthwellsfordhospice.co.nz

Summer Sunday Eight of NZ’s top live acts will perform at the Summer Sunday event, to be held at Matakana’s Music Mountain on Anniversary Weekend, January 29. Performers include Kora, Fly My Pretties, Little Bushman, Tahuna Breaks, The Nudge, Electric Wire Hustle, AHoriBuzz & @Peace. Info: www.summersunday.net

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M Warkworth Craft & Produce Market @ the Mangawhai Domain, Sun 9am-1pm Warkworth Lions Club, Warkworth Wharf Jan 22&29, Feb 5&19, Mar 4&18 2nd Sunday of the month 9am-1pm “Twilight Market” Sat April 7, 3-7pm Stallholder and car boot sales welcome Live music & cafe, new and preloved Contact: John Frogley 09 422 3067 or goods - carboot sites available David Little 09 425 8143 Contact: Sue 0274 586 144 or W email toriamartin@hotmail.com W The Country Park Market Matakana Country Park Mangawhai Village Market 1151 Leigh Road, Matakana Mangawhai Library Hall, Saturdays 9am-1pm 45 Moir Street, Mangawhai Contact: Aileen 09 422 6337 or Saturdays 9am-1pm email aileenthomas@clear.net.nz Contact: Marita Draper 021 598 917 M

Matakana Village Farmers Market Puhoi Farmers Market W Fresh food and produce market Puhoi Domain 2 Matakana Valley Road, Matakana Last Sunday of the month Saturdays 8am-1pm 9am-1pm Contact: Michael 021 1414 308 or Contact: Phillippa Beagley 09 422 0009 email mihou@clear.net.nz or email danscape@clear.net.nz

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Auckland Anniversary Weekend

art in Matakana

Exhibition and sale for Hospice by Jos Coufreur

exhibition in Matakana

Matakana School Hall, Matakana A selection of fine art and crafts by invited artists

Preview: Thursday 26th January 2011 from 6pm Wine and cheese provided - entry by donation Open to the public (free entry):

Friday 27th Jan, noon - 6pm Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th Jan, 9am - 6pm Monday 30th Jan, 9am - noon Raising funds for Hospice and proudly supported by:

January 13th to 22nd 2012, 10am - 4pm daily

101 Pulham Road, Warkworth

Opening January 13th, 6.00 - 7.30pm

Mike De Haan, Biz Dempster, Helen Howard, Alice Lewis, Marianda, Karen Williamson, Judy Wood. Come and meet the artists and discuss their work. Artworks can be purchased using cash or cheque. Sorry, NO EFTPOS.

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Lionheart by Sharon Penman This is a fictionalised account of the Third Crusade led by Richard I against the Saracens who had captured the holy city of Jerusalem. Not only did Richard have to contend with the Saracens, the heat and strange diseases, but also a French King who did not have any sympathy for the cause and was doing his utmost to undermine Richard. On his journey, Richard gathers his sister, the Queen of Sicily, his mother Eleanor of Aquitane, and his new wife who is the daughter of the King of Navarre. He uses his mother as a stand-in while he takes his sister and wife to the holy land. In this gripping narrative, Penman reveals a complex Richard – a man remarkable for his power and intelligence, his keen grasp of warfare and his concern for the safety of his men, who followed him against all odds. (Reviewed by The Village Bookshop Matakana)

Tillerman Toad by Peter Durney New Zealand author Peter Durney has used the characters from Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows to recount a modern tale set on the English canals. In doing so, he has written a children’s story for grown-ups. The story starts with Toad in trouble again and being paroled into Badger’s care. As they head down the canal on a narrow boat, they hear that the wild wood is at risk from developers. Badger, Toad, Ratty and Mole need to join together with the animals from the wood to save it from the humans. This book is not a sequel to Wind in the Willows. It puts the characters from Grahame’s classic tale into a modern setting. Durney uses these well-known, beloved characters to explore modern day themes and societal issues. Among this he has glorious descriptions of woods, birds, animals and countryside which makes reading this book a delight. (Reviewed by Unicorn Bookshop Warkworth)

Poo Bum by Stephanie Blake

Open 7 Days Mon-Sat 9am-5pm • Sun & Public Holidays 10am-4pm The Village - 2 Matakana Valley Road • Matakana P: (09) 423 0315 • E: villagebookshop@paradise.net.nz www.villagebookshop.co.nz

Come in and stock up on your summer reading with our huge range of popular and hard to find books. With our extensive range of books you will find something for all members of your family. Bring the kids to play in the children’s corner, or sit back and read in one of our comfy chairs. Have a relaxing browse and enjoy the Unicorn Bookshop experience. • Huge range of Quality pre-loved and new books at great prices • New book orders welcome, with hard to beat prices • Book-search, we have access to a huge source of publishers from NZ and around the world • Also come and see our art including children’s illustrations • Book clubs and other groups, venue bookings welcome. 15 Neville St, Warkworth Phone 09 425 8521

Once there was a little rabbit who could only say one thing. The little rabbit is loved by his family, even though when they ask him a question, he answers very rudely. One day, he meets a hungry wolf. Will the little rabbit learn his lesson once and for all? This is a new children’s book from Gecko Press and it will appeal to young and old alike. (Reviewed by The Village Bookshop Matakana)

Eliot Jones, Midnight Superhero by Anne Cottringer

By day, Eliot is a quiet boy who likes to read and play with his toys, but when the clocks strike midnight, he is transformed into a hero. When he’s not showing off his super swimming skills or wowing the crowds with his expert-lion taming, you can find him assisting the Queen. But one day, Eliot receives an urgent message: a giant meteor is hurtling towards Earth. Will Eliot be able to save the world from destruction? This delightful children’s book takes the reader on exciting adventures with Eliot the super hero. It is a book that should be read aloud with fonts that call for crashing noises, loud explosions. Each page is illustrated with vibrant colours and the collage-style spread matches the tone of each adventure. My son loved looking at this book even after we had finished reading the story, as each page is a viewing delight and a worthy addition to your child’s superhero collection. (Reviewed by Unicorn Bookshop Warkworth)

Baldrock challenge The second annual Top of the Rock multi-sport event will be held at Kaiwaka next month. Participants can choose from the testing Baldrock Adventure Race which includes a 10km cross country run and a 14km mountain bike ride across Baldrock Mountain, or a five or 10km scenic walk or run. There will also be a 10km team run event. Last year, the inaugural event attracted more than 162 entries. Jeremy Smart took line honours in the solo run and bike, while Anna Berthlsen won the women’s solo run and bike. The race will be held on February 12 and the closing date for entries is February 7. Entry forms are available at www.kaiwakasports.co.nz Are you following us on facebook and twitter? www.facebook.com/mahurangimatters • twitter.com/localmattersnz

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Cuisine with Andrea Hinchco

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You say tomato

Nothing epitomises the taste of summer like a home-grown tomato. What flavour, what perfume and what colour! Is it a fruit or vegetable though? That depends on who you are asking. Botanists claim that a fruit is any fleshy material that covers a seed or seeds, where as a horticulturist’s point-of-view would pose that the tomato is a vegetable plant. Until the late 1800s in America the tomato was classified as a fruit to avoid taxation, but this was changed after a Supreme Court ruling that the tomato is a vegetable and should be taxed accordingly. Whether fruit or vegetable, tomatoes deserve to be treated with the utmost reverence using only the best of salts, peppers, oils and dressings to enhance their natural beauty. Basil is definitely a best friend, as is fresh mozzarella. As an accompanying vegetable dish or a course entirely on its own, this is the time of the year to really enjoy them. Initially, simply sliced with salt, pepper and good olive oil is enough but as the season progresses do try other ideas.

Tomato salad & basil cream dressing For 2 serves

This is one of my favourite recipes, reminding me of devouring Tuscan tomatoes on my first Italian trip. Serve tomatoes at room temperature drizzled with the ice cold dressing to give a slight sweet and sour flavour. Delicious as an entrée or light lunch. • 1½ tbsp white wine vinegar • 2 tbsps warm water • 75 ml cream • Pinch sugar • 50 ml extra virgin olive oil + little extra • 7 – 8 basil leaves, torn • 4 ripe medium tomatoes, cored & sliced • Maldon salt & freshly ground pepper In a mixing bowl, whisk together the white wine vinegar, water and seasonings to combine. Now whisk in the cream, olive oil and sugar until well mixed, then stir in basil. Lay the tomatoes on to a large white plate, very lightly season and spoon over chilled dressing. Trickle over the extra olive oil, garnish with freshly ground black pepper and some torn basil leaves and serve immediately.

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Motorcyclists views sought Kiwi motorcyclists are being asked for their views on a new guide being developed to help authorities make roads and roadsides safer for riders. The draft Safer Journeys for Motorcycling guide has been prepared with input from the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA), Motorcycle Safety Levy Advisory Council, road controlling authorities and the ACC. One of the aims of the guide is to reduce the number of fatal and serious injury crashes involving motorcyclists by providing consistent best-practice guidance for those who design, build and maintain them. NZTA chief executive Geoff Dangerfield says the risk of a motorcyclist being killed or seriously injured on NZ roads is 18 to 20 times higher than that of a car driver. “There is much more that can be done to improve safety for motorcyclists, and this guide outlines some practical steps that can be taken,” he says. The draft guide and submission forms are available on-line at www.nzta.govt.nz. The deadline for contributions is January 27 and it is expected that the final version of the safety guide will be available in March.

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Warkworth & District Museum Visit the Museum – see displays of memorabilia, furniture, photographs, clothing, machinery and buildings from our colonial past. Lots to see and do for all members of the family. Browse through our Gift and Souvenir Shop.

Open Monday to Sunday 9am – 3pm Parry Kauri Park, Tudor Collins Drive (Off Wilson Road, Warkworth) Phone: 09 425 7093 | Email: warkworthmuseum@xtra.co.nz | www.wwmuseum.orconhosting.net.nz

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy With an all-star cast including the current Academy Best Actor title holder Colin Firth, cold war spy thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy has been lavished with praise internationally for its dark and drab treatment of the spy-film genre. There is, without doubt, a place in the world for flashier spirit sipping MI6 agents, but here it is the stark realism. Thomas Alfredson’s skilful direction and an almost perfect ensemble cast that send the latest incarnation of the famous John Le Carre novel into the realm of multiple Oscar nomination favourite. This international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century. George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a disgraced British spy, is rehired in secret by his government, which fears that the British Secret Intelligence Service, aka MI-6, has been compromised by a double agent working for the Soviets. Gary Oldman pulls off a stunning performance, as well as the rest of the support cast that have the set the rumours flying about possibly three Best Supporting Actor nominations. Watch this space. An absolute must see for discerning film goers.

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The Descendants has set the box office alight in the US and has in turn just picked up the gong for Best Picture at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards ceremony; a major pointer towards Oscar favourtism. Set in Hawaii and directed by Alexander Payne (Oscarwinner Sideways) the film stars George Clooney as Matt King, an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to look at his past as well as evaluate his future after his wife is involved in a serious boating accident off Waikiki. The events require Matt to soul-search and attempt to make amends with his daughters while he grapples with the decision to sell or not to sell his long-held family land which had been passed down from Hawaiian royalty. With extremely high praise and top-notch press out of the States and George Clooney’s best-yet screen performance, we suggest that this is also one to put in the diary for late January.

Community funds dispersed Four Rodney projects will share just over $13,500 in grants allocated from the Natural Heritage Fund, by the Rodney and Hibiscus Coast Subdivision Local Board Funding Committee recently. They are: John and Martha Williams enhancement of bush lot covenants. for native planting on Omaha Valley A Rodney Heritage Fund grant was Road, Warkworth ($5000); Tomarata approved for the Warkworth Anglican Farms for fencing on Cemetery Road, Parish for re-roofing works on St Tomarata ($1000); Leigh Harbour Leonard’s Anglican Church, Matakana Valley Society for fencing on Pakiri ($5000). Road, Leigh ($3300); Landwell Ltd for fencing on Partridge Road, The committee also allocated $1281 from the Community Grant Scheme Wellsford ($4600). (legacy Rodney District Council An application from Landcare grant) to the Wellsford Promotions was deemed ineligible because the proposed project from Classic Baches Association for the Wellsford involved planting a covenant bush lot Christmas Parade. but the covenant was created as part A request from the Warkworth of a subdivision consent requirement Catholic Parish, for the Puhoi Church and funding from the Rodney Natural of Saints Peter and Paul, was ineligible Heritage Fund was not intended to because the church had received support the ongoing protection or funding within the last two years. Support the businesses who support Mahurangi Matters

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Veteran coach swings back into action

Juniors with the Mahurangi East Tennis Club will have the services of veteran coach Peter Dibley for the remainder of the 2011/12 season. Peter has decades of tennis and squash experience to his credit, both as a player and coach. In his youth, he was a member of the NZ Davis Cup squad, and played in England for two years gaining valuable match play and championship experience. “I played in the qualifying round at Wimbledon, but at the end of the day, I could see I wasn’t going to make it as a tennis champ,” he says. “It was during a London winter that I started playing squash and I found I loved it.” When Peter returned to NZ, Remuera was the only squash club in Auckland and it had just two courts. “The game was in its infancy, just about to boom.” Peter went on to represent NZ in the World Teams Squash Championships and his best world ranking was 16th. He didn’t return to tennis until he moved to Kerikeri where he bought a citrus orchard. Since then, he has claimed many NZ Masters titles in both tennis and squash. He was the NZ Squash Association senior coach for 25 years, regional tennis coach for Northland and a former member of the NZ Professional Tennis Coaches Association. A move to Snells Beach in 1990 brought his skills to Rodney, where he continued to coach, working with NZ titleholders such as Murray Lille and Robin Espie. Now 70, Peter said he still enjoys coaching any age group. “Good tennis players need some athletic ability and the capacity for hard work, but the right attitude is really the key to getting the most out of the sport. Fitness is a bit of an issue for juniors today, as I’m finding it harder and harder to get them to run around.” The Mahurangi East Tennis Club hopes that by developing It’s not just the rackets that have changed through the its junior section, young parents will consider taking up or years. Tennis coach Peter Dibley says he has noticed the returning to the game. Club secretary Judy Phillips says the fitness level of juniors is not as good as it used to be. club has a strong junior section, but tennis is a family sport Info: Peter Dibley on 425 6565 or junior club captain and they are keen to recruit across all age groups. Barbara Robbins on 425 5330.

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Bowls Warkworth held a successful Christmas Hams bowling tournament at the end of last month. Teams from Maungaturoto, Mangawhai, Wellsford, Leigh, Pt Wells, Omaha and Mahurangi took part. The tournament was sponsored by Guthrie Bowron (Warkworth). Results: Les Hatfull, Ernie Gidman, Cathy Parsons (Warkworth) 1; Graham Brockelsby, Rose Jones, Don Dunning (Wellsford) 2; Giles Boyd, Gay Roberts, Tony Teare (Omaha) 3; Ted Bird, Eddy Reitsma, Phil Hollis (Warkworth) 4. Pictured are, from left, Ernie Gidman, Les Hatfull, Cathy Parsons and Brian Guest, from Guthrie Bowron.

Fisheries researched over summer Research will be collected from fishers at commonly used boat ramps over summer to establish a better understanding of NZ’s fisheries. The Ministry of Agriculture and or saltwater estuaries, and what they Forestry together with research staff catch. from the National Institute of Water The findings from the research and Atmospheric Research and Blue programme are intended to improve Water Marine will be interviewing recreational catch estimates. Once recreational fishers returning to completed, these surveys will represent frequently-used boat ramps to collect the largest marine recreational fishing catch information. research programme ever undertaken The programme aims to measure by MAF. how many people do (and don’t) The results are expected to be released fish for recreation or food in the sea in June 2013. 1800 State Highway 1, Kaiwaka

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Sport with Ruth Mills, Coordinator

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Keeping in touch are Glen Osborne and daughter Ariana, for Global Pork Chops, in action with Cam Parker, of Low Key.

Kicking into swim lessons

Our community sport project looks set to hot up just like the weather, but luckily for local primary schools, they can keep their cool once school returns. Thanks to our partnership with Water Safe Auckland this summer, teachers have the latest water safety education tools at their fingertips. To supplement the work of community sport coach Tony Mordaunt, we are offering teacher support for the aquatics component of the physical development curriculum in Term 1. The aim is to empower teachers to confidently deliver swimming lessons to what can often be large and boisterous classes. With each school having its own set of issues and objectives, including lack of swimming facilities for some, every primary teacher in the district will receive practical advice on teaching swimming and water safety education including how it transfers to the beach environment, with particular focus on each school’s individual needs. Back on land, the Mahurangi RFC Bridgehouse Lodge Touch Module held at the A&P Showgrounds in Warkworth on Wednesday afternoons and evenings, will resume play on February 1 until March 29. Sixteen mixed junior teams and sixteen mixed senior teams, about 350 players, are well-supported by the community including Glen Osborne’s team Global Pork Chops, two college teams, Game Gear, Drinnan Water and AJ Drainage. Ian and Ramona Holt, from the Bridgehouse Lodge, have generously sponsored the Player of the Day prizes. Many sporting codes use the module to maintain fitness levels in the off-season, particularly joint organisers Mahurangi Rugby Club and Warkworth Netball Club. Another showgrounds event this month is the annual A&P Show on January 28. An exciting and unusual event will be the stretcher races. Enter a team of seven before January 25, win the final and the prize is dinner for the whole team at the Stables at Matakana Country Park. For more information and to enter your team, contact Marjorie Blythen on 425 8258. And while the weather is so good, why not start training for the Marvellous Mahurangi Tri 4 Fun Tryathlon on February 12, at the Snells Beach Reserve. Entry is open to anyone (as usual we’re not ageist and will welcome kids from 2 to 102) and this is a fun event – no previous experience necessary. Contact Ruth Mills 422 9762 or Bridget Farmiloe 425 4546 for details. Lastly, a huge thank you to all club volunteers and their families for their support throughout last year. It is people like you who are the glue that keeps the community together. If you or your club would like to join the Community Sport Project contact me at mahusport@gmail.com or 422 9762.

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what’s on January 2012

til 22 The Art of Seven exhibition, 101 Pulham Rd, Warkworth, from 10am-4pm. 20-22 Bloom Family Festival, Matakana Country Park (see ad and story p47) 22 Philipp Bruckmeier and friends, Leigh Sawmill Cafe, 3pm. 26-30 mARTkana art exhibition Hospice fundraiser, Matakana School Hall (see ad and story p49) 27&28 Mahurangi Regatta (see story p13) 27&28 Jade River Artists Exhibition, Old Masonic Hall, Warkworth (see story p48) 28&29 Warkworth A&P (see feature pgs 42-45) 29 Tuborg Summer Sunday Music Festival, Matakana Music Mountain. Info: www.summersunday.net 29 Whangateau Fair and Harbour Discovery Day, from 9am (see story p39) 29 Special Jane Gifford Excursion – Scotts Landing to Warkworth. Departs at 11am. Info: www.janegifford.org.nz 29 The Nukes, NZ’s original ukulele trio, Leigh Sawmill Cafe, 9.30pm. 29&30 Students of art tutor Elena Nikolaeva will hold an exhibition at the Mahurangi East Tennis Club rooms, Snells Beach, from 9.30am to 4pm. 31 Submissions close on Auckland waste plan (see story p14)

February 1 3 3&4

Civil Defence meeting, Puhoi Sports Club (see brief p28) The Red Eyes, Leigh Sawmill Café (see story p40) Classic Hits Winery Tour, featuring Gin Wigmore, Ascension Wine Estate. 4 Paparoa Show (see story p33) 4 Garage Sale Wellsford Co-operating Church, 253 Rodney Street, Wellsford 8am - 10.30am. 4&5 17th annual Kawau Classic fishing competition (see story p38) 6 3rd Annual Jackman Waterman Classic - Long Distance paddle race from Waipu Cove to Mangawhai Heads - Open to qualified lifeguards. For more information contact - Nick Williams (Surf Sports Director) - nickwill@xtra.co.nz 12 Top of the Rock, Kaiwaka Sports Assn. Info: www.kaiwakasports. co.nz (entries close February 7) 17-19 Rodney College Reunion (see ad and story p40) 18&19 Maungaturoto horse trek and trail rider (see story p46) 25 Mangawhai Activity Zone house auction, Park View off Estuary Drive, at 2pm (see story p5) 26 Rock The Vines, Ascension Wine Estate www.AscensionWine.co.nz

March 1-3 3

Northland Field Days, Dargaville. 20th Annual Lifeguard Longboard Nationals - Open to all current and past lifeguards from all over NZ and the world. Into its 20th year this iconic event has become a staple for the surfing core of the SLS movement and every year the event is treated to good. 3 Fruit Loop Fun Run/Walk to raise money for Omaha-Matakana walkway/cycleway. Info: www.matakanafruitloop.co.nz 10 Matakana School 150th Anniversary Celebration. Register at www.matakana.school.nz, Warkworth or Matakana information offices, email events@matakana.school.nz or call the school office on 422 7309. 10-18 Art in the Woolshed, Tawharanui Regional Park, 10am-4pm. Email your events to editor@localmatters.co.nz

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Mangawhai surfer leads NZ junior team to Panama A dozen of the country’s best junior surfers will travel to South America in April for the 2012 ISA World Surfing Championship and they will be led by former Mangawhai Beach Surf Lifesaving club captain Tony Baker. Tony was selected as team manager by Surfing NZ last month. He says the opportunity to manage a NZ-representative team is something he has always wanted to do. “It was a bit of a stab in the dark when I entered,” Tony says. “I didn’t expect to get the position. It’s an epic opportunity – a chance for me to make a mark on the world for surfing NZ.” Tony will be joined by team coach Jason Ruddell, who is a fitness coach from Whangarei, and team assistant manager/coach Warren Asplin, a rugby coach from Hamilton. Tony says the combination of their different knowledge and skills should give the NZ team a competitive edge. “The biggest challenge for us and our goal will be working as a team. Surfing is a fiercely individual sport but we are travelling over to Panama as a team unit and we are going to do better if we work together, support one another and essentially cooperate. The squad is going into a hot climate, and they will be jet-lagged. Maintaining

Former Mangawhai Beach Surf Lifesaving club captain Tony Baker will manage a team of 12 junior surfers travelling to Panama, South America, for the 2012 ISA World Surfing Championship in April.

a positive atmosphere and ensuring everything runs smoothly is what I’ll focus on. All the kids in the current squad know how to surf so it’s about having a strong mental approach to the event which means eating right, sleeping well and keeping a smile on their faces. The level of competition is

going to be very high.” Tony grew up in Mangawhai and has been surfing for 25 years, 10 of those competitively in national long-board events. He has travelled all over the world from the US to the UK and Australia working as a professional lifeguard and as a surf coach. He spent

18 months as the manager of the Surf Lifesaving Northern Region Academy, based in Auckland, and last year was the manager of the Northland Scholastics Surfing Team. He is the public relations liaison officer for the Mangawhai club. At present, the 22-member squad includes surfers from eight regions throughout NZ with Gisborne and Auckland, the most powerful surfing regions, providing seven and five surfers respectively. Surfers in the squad also come from Northland, Waikato, Coromandel, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki and Christchurch. Over the next eight weeks, the squad will be put through its paces at national events and training camps where the team will be cut to a final 12. Prior to the main event in Panama the team will take on the South African squad in the annual SANZ Trophy Challenge. South Africa are the current trophy holders. The World Junior Surfing Championships has been held in its current format annually since 2003. In earlier competitions, NZ has been one of the top surfing nations. In 2001, Jay Quinn of Gisborne secured NZ’s first World Championship in the Under 18 Men’s division. Last year the kiwi team placed 10th at the event, which was held in Peru.

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