Mahurangi Matters_Issue 341_16 May 2018

May 16, 2018

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Motorway uncertainty infuriates landowners in limbo A government failure to commit to the proposed Warkworth to Wellsford Road of National Significance (RoNS) has left scores of property owners sitting on heavily devalued land that they can neither sell nor develop.

Initially, the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) was engaged in purchasing programme to acquire properties along the indicative

route of the RoNS. But property owners who indicated they wished to sell early say negotiations with the NZTA have stalled since the Labour-led government indicated its priorities had shifted away from RoNS toward light rail, urban cycleways and safety improvements on existing roads.

Property owners say they face the worst of all possible worlds. Selling on

the open market right now will realise only a fraction of the land’s value, since any new owner will still face the uncertainty of whether the RoNS will ultimately be completed by this or a future government.

Dairy farmer Greg McCracken, whose Te Hana farm could be divided by the indicative route, says while selling is not an option, neither is investing

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further in affected properties.

“Most business and farm owners are intent on investing in their business, either to sell at a good price or pass on to their children. But it’s pointless investing in my farm if I am going to end up losing it anyway to make way for a new road,” he says.

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Tide turns on North Rodney house prices The tide has turned on North Rodney house prices, which were heading for a million dollar average, but the market is still looking no brighter for first home buyer.

Last month the QV House Price Index showed average prices in the region had dropped for the first time since at least 2014 over a 12-month period, by a margin of 0.9 per cent.

In the three years prior to that decrease, prices skyrocketed an average of 14 per cent per year and were on their way to the million dollar mark.

They reached a record high of $994,136 in May last year, but that figure has since fallen to $977,649.

Hollis & Scholefield property valuation director Steve Jack says the market has levelled out since the start of last year and potential causes include tighter restrictions on bank loans and a change of government.

“A change to immigration policy by the Labour government inevitably affects the demand for property,” Steve says.

“Their recent announcement to end negative gearing next year will likely have an impact, too, on the number of properties being brought.”

He says demand will also drop as first home buyers are forced to look at property further afield.

“We are seeing a lot more people buy in areas such as Kaiwaka and Mangawhai because of the lack of affordability in North Rodney, where you won’t get much for less than $600,000.”

Steve predicts that the market will settle in its current position for a while, unless a big event occurs in the national or global markets.

“It’s not going to get any easier for people trying to get on the property ladder around here, however things often go in a 10-year cycle, so there could be a downturn at some point.”

Last time the area faced a financial

crash, in 2008, property prices fell between 10 and 15 per cent. If something similar occurred now average prices in North Rodney would dip to around $830,000.

Despite a drop in values locally, neighbouring areas have seen the upward trend continue, with Hibiscus Coast values increasing 1 per cent over the last year and North Shore by 3 per cent.

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Plan promises cash to fix Hill Street.

Mahurangi wins big under Land Transport Plan The newly released draft Auckland Regional Land Transport Plan has allocated about $1.3 billion to transport-related projects in the Mahurangi area of Rodney alone.

Rodney councillor Greg Sayers says although actual funding for some of these projects is still dependent on funding coming from alternative sources, such as the regional fuel tax and central government, the fact that they at least appear in the plan is something to celebrate.

Highlights of the draft plan include $29 million to fix the Hill Street intersection and quadrupling of the road sealing budget to $121 million.

“This is the largest amount of money ever proposed for helping to fix the Mahurangi district’s traffic problems.

It shows that Auckland Council is finally starting to recognise Rodney’s voice,” he says.

Cr Sayers says it’s the first time ever money has been proposed to fund work on Hill Street to manage current and future demand. Moreover, improvement efforts there will be bolstered by a further $51 million to realign Sandspit Road, which will also benefit traffic negotiating the intersection.

Other notable gains include: • $89 million for the Matakana

Link Road • $773 million to complete the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway • $30 million for safety improvements on the road through the DomeValley to Wellsford • $15 million for a Warkworth Park & Ride near the end of the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway.

• $68 million for the Western Collector – a two-lane road to improve connections in the western part of Warkworth.

• $2 million to upgrade the Matakana Bridge.

Cr Sayers will also advocate to get the Rodney Local Board’s transport budget tripled from $300,000 to $1 million to deliver more local projects like footpaths, pathways, pedestrian crossings and numerous overdue road safety improvements.

Cr Sayers believes Rodney’s big wins have come about due to community pressure to ensure Rodney gets a fair return for its rates and discontent over the Hill Street intersection.

“The money for Hill Street is definitely a reflection of the hard work done by many community groups, especially Fix Hill Street Now,” he says.

Cr Sayers says a shift in government transport policy with a renewed

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emphasis on health and safety has also helped – hence a move towards sealing unhealthy and dangerous unsealed roads.

The Regional Land Transport Plan sets out the region’s land transport objectives for the next 10 years and includes the activities of Auckland Transport (AT), the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA), KiwiRail and other agencies.

It is due to be ratified by Auckland Council’s governing body on May 31 following public consultation.

Cr Sayers says he will have no hesitation in voting for the plan.

Auckland Transport will introduce a new bus service for Warkworth in September.

The connector bus will take Warkworth commuters as far as Silverdale and from there they will be able to catch a bus into central Auckland.

The service will be part of the North Shore New Network – a revamped bus service for Auckland’s northern region.

Buses will leave from Warkworth half hourly during peak times and hourly at other times. The service will run seven days a week.

Buses will depart from the current bus stop on Baxter Street, near the Masonic Hall. There will also be stops on Whitaker Road close to State Highway 1.

The fare to Silverdale will be $3.30 (2 zones), to Takapuna it will be $6.20 (4 zones) and to central Auckland $7.50 (5 zones).

The Kowhai Connection, a bus service connecting Warkworth, Matakana and Snells Beach will be re-timetabled connect with the new service.

Auckland Transport spokesperson James Ireland says no additional parking will be installed specifically for the new bus service.

Long-time Cohen fan wins tickets Warkworth resident and longtime Leonard Cohen fan Gillian Bell was the lucky winner of the Mahurangi Matters competition for a double pass to see Imperfect Offerings. The concert, by a ninepiece tribute band, was played at Ascension Wine Estate on May 5.

Gillian attended most of Cohen’s New Zealand shows during his life time on tour and was thrilled to gain entry to the tribute show.

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Save the wallabies I feel compelled to write in over a couple of points in the article about the wallabies on the front page (MM May 2). Our family has owned a holiday property on the island for 23 years in Schoolhouse Bay. Obviously, over this time we have got to know a lot of the residents there. The majority in our bay are pro-wallaby, ourselves included. The paragraph about wallabies destroying native forests and bird life and competing with farm animals is incorrect. The island looks fine. We have plenty of bird life and there are no farm animals whatsoever on the island. The paragraph about some islanders feeding the wallabies is correct. We do take food over for them. They are beautiful creatures.

They have lived on the island for 150 years and we still have native birds and trees. The wallabies certainly should not be treated like rats. It is inhumane to poison theses amazing animals like you would a rat. Children love to go out with a torch at dusk and feed these beautiful creatures.

Janice Green, Snells Beach/Kawau Island

Rates scandal In your story “Appeal Court scuppers rate refund hopes” (MM April 18) you gave a mostly accurate account of the outcome of a Court of Appeal decision in favour of Northland Regional Council (NRC). Some

readers might be interested to know that we never sought to avoid NRC rates or get them refunded. We repeatedly offered to pay them. When we found the rates were all illegal (confirmed by the High Court and the Court of Appeal), we asked that the Council be forced to re-issue their rates demands with corrections. The High Court agreed with us. This would only have resulted in all their penalties falling away. It is also important to record that we never took the NRC to court. They went after us by standing like a gang alongside the Kaipara District Council, who were suing us (and over 100 others) to recover illegal rates that Parliament had fixed by backdated legislation.

Readers of your excellent paper who think they are living in a democracy are very much misled. You are to be congratulated, almost uniquely, for exposing the lawlessness of this country.

Bruce Rogan, Chair Mangawhai Ratepayers and Residents Association

Stop slinging mud The recent Parliamentary spat between local Rodney MP’s Mark Mitchell and Jenny Marcroft over their dialogue on the $4 million funding needed for the dredging of the Mahurangi River is symptomatic of what is wrong with our political climate at the moment.

Under our quirky MMP system,

Rodney has the luxury of five local MPs: Mark Mitchell, National, Tracey Martin, NZ First: Jenny Marcroft, NZ First: Marja Lubeck, Labour: and Kelvin Davis, Labour MP for Te Tai Tokerau. Extracting $4 miilion from the Government should be a political doddle for this collective cross-party power house, especially with Greens support, a given for this critical environmental project.

Cleaning up our waterways is the political flavour of the month. A word in a few collective friendly ears in Wellington should fix the funding problem promptly. My grandfather was the Warkworth agent for the Northern Steam Ship Company when their small ships from Auckland used to come up the river 100 years ago.

It would be wonderful to see them back again. Members of Parliament must never forget their primary role and responsibility is to represent and support their local people – party politics must never interfere with this.

Time for a collaborative local MP get together to support the Mahurangi River Restoration Trust to get the river sorted. Dredging mud from the river is a lot more effective and useful than slinging it around in Parliament. The community expects no less.

Bill Rayner, Director Grey Power Auckland Region (abridged)

Stephen Becket, Dome Valley (abridged)

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I object to Bevan Woodward’s comment that people who oppose a reduction in speed limits are being hypocritical (MM April 18).

Naturally, we all want a reduction in road deaths, that is a given, but the emotional blackmail resorted to by Mr Woodward is less than helpful.

As a traffic engineer, Mr Woodward would understand that while speed is one of the causes of road accidents, it certainly isn’t the only, or main one, and reducing speed limits will do little or nothing to alleviate that situation without aggravating other causes of accidents. Roads are designed and built to a standard where the speed that is to be travelled is part of the design calculation. The exception to this rule is the few roads that have been converted from ‘goat tracks’, where a lower speed limit normally applies. People who speed excessively ignore the speed limit deliberately and reducing the speed limit will do nothing to persuade these people to change that behaviour. Speed is not the sole factor in accidents. I would suggest that alcohol, drugs, inexperience and, most critically, impatience play the major roles. Reducing the speed limit will do nothing to improve the first three but will greatly exacerbate the last. Mr Woodward needs to go back to his drawing board and come up with better and more creative solutions rather than trying to use emotional blackmail. It is not only insulting but downright rude and adds nothing to the debate.

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Viewpoint Beth Houlbrooke, Rodney Local Board beth.houlbrooke@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

Tough choices As I write this column, I am aware that there is an elephant in the room. What of the Rodney Local Board’s Transport Targeted Rate proposal? At the time of meeting this publication’s deadline, the local board has not voted on the proposal. In fact, it has postponed the vote until May 24 to allow more time to consider the implications of the draft Regional Land Transport Plan.

Whatever the outcome, this has not been an easy process for us politically.

One would think that we have raised this possibility simply to make ourselves unpopular, but what could our motivation be?

We consistently hear that transport is a priority for Rodney, that the local board is “toothless”, lacks influence, and that our residents want more local decisions made locally.

You may recall where this all started. We have all been paying $114 on our rates bill as an Interim Transport Levy for the past three years. Many people believe that we have not seen any benefit from this rate, and that the money has all gone towards central city projects. So the local board asked: how can we ring fence the levy so that it is only spent in Rodney? The answer to that question is that the only mechanism that would achieve the objective of having 100 per cent of the money collected in Rodney, spent in Rodney, was via a targeted rate.

Whatever is decided, it has been a very useful exercise for a number of reasons. It has highlighted the constraints the local board has to work within – a very small footpath budget and only advocacy on road sealing and parking. It’s revealed that there are options open to us, if the public want us to use them. And it has given some very useful feedback that we can take to the Governing Body of Auckland Council to demonstrate the frustrations of our residents.

We have had one of two choices: not to implement a targeted rate and continue to work with an inadequate budget to address the long list of footpath requests, and a continuation of the current rate of road sealing; or, implement the targeted rate and finally start to see things happening. In other words, we have the ability to do something about this, make some progress, or still be talking about it next year and the year after, and again in three years at the next long-term planning cycle.

The decision may be unpopular either way, but do you want your elected representatives to be more concerned about their re-election, or to be courageous and seek the change they came into this job to make? In the words of another more famous (or infamous) politician: “We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

Ditch targeted rate, says Sayers Rodney councillor Greg Sayers is appealing to the Rodney Local Board to withdraw its planned targeted rate to fix Rodney’s Transport woes after what he says is poor public support for the proposal.

Forty-three per cent of public submissions on the proposal were against it, with 36 per cent in support.

However, 21 per cent of submitters partially support the proposal.

A council report to the Rodney Local Board analysing the figures says the combination of support and partial support therefore amounts to 57 per cent.

However, Mr Sayers says it is wrong to assume this level of support for the proposal, since much of the partial support was conditional on exactly how the money is spent.

Conditions included specifying where in the Rodney area money would be

spent or whether it should be spent on roads or public transport.

Given the inability to satisfy differing conditions, most responses should be counted as not in support.

“Put simply, people don’t want to be locked into paying an additional Rodney Local Board tax of 7.3 per cent extra each year and every year for the next ten years, when the rest of Auckland gets their basic Council services as part of their normal rates,” Cr Sayers says.

The Rodney Local Board will consider the targeted rate at a business meeting on May 24.

Board chair Beth Houlbrooke says board members will be keeping an open mind on the targeted rate until they get to the meeting and have had a chance to review all the available information. (See column above)

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Uncertainty on major highway could continue for decades.

“The road might be built within the next 10 years or it might take 20 years.

In the meantime we are stuck. We’re sitting around wondering what should be doing. It’s stressful.”

Mr McCracken’s sentiments are echoed by fellow dairy farmer Neil Jones who, at 64, says he does not have the time to wait for the next 15 to 20 years while the government makes up its mind.

Nor does he have the option of selling up right now and maybe losing “a couple of million dollars” because the government cannot tell him what compensation he might expect to receive for the 70 hectares of his land that could be required for the RoNS. “We have had a gutsful not knowing what is going on,” he says.

Brothers Mark and Brett Illingworth, who bought 50 hectares in Phillips Road just months before the indicative route was announced, say they have been treading water for the past two years waiting for a definite decision.

“It took us seven years to find the right piece of land for our dream of building an adventure tourism project,” Mark says. “We’re prepared to take the compensation and go, but we don’t want to sell if the motorway isn’t going through. Some landholders have already moved on, and I can only guess at how they will feel if it turns out their move was unnecessary.

NZTA should stop leading people on with letters that say nothing.

“Our kids are sick of us talking about it. It’s dominated our lives, we just feel

we can’t get any direction.”

Yet another property owner, who asked not to be named in case it prejudiced future negotiations with NZTA, says he was among the first to offer to sell his modest lifestyle block to NZTA to make way for the RoNS. Initially there was enthusiasm, but now every time he calls NZTA “it’s just a dead end.”

The owner, who is in his late sixties, says he’s desperate to sell and join his children, who live outside the area, but it appears he can neither sell to the NZTA nor on the open market, unless he accepts a knock-down price.

The issue was especially galling as several nearby properties had already been sold to the NZTA for good prices.

In a letter to affected property owners last month, the NZTA explained a recently released draft Government Policy Statement (GPS) on land transport would strongly influence which parts of the NZTA work programme would be progressed and when. The letter went on to say that the NZTA could not comment on future plans for specific transport projects, including Warkworth to Wellsford, until there was greater certainty about the GPS, which is expected to be finalised at the end of next month.

“We acknowledge the frustration that this may result in for communities and people affected by this project,” the letter said.

NZTA spokesperson Darryl Walker says around 90 properties are affected

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by the indicative alignment of the Warkworth to Wellsford RoNS. So far, the NZTA has purchased nine of these properties, representing 90ha, for about $9.4 million.

Mr Walker could not say whether the

NZTA had suspended its property acquisition programme pending greater clarity on government policy, but did say the agency normally sought to acquire land no more than three years ahead of an expected construction start date.

North left out in cold by government’s new direction Northland Regional Council’s transport committee chairman, John Bain, has vowed to carry on fighting for major improvements to SH1, despite the Government shelving National’s plans for a four-lane motorway north to Whangarei and the uncertainty over the Warkworth to Wellsford section.

“Northland has been left out in the cold,” he said. “We still believe that for economic, safety and resilience reasons, we need to have that four-lane highway and bypass the Brynderwyns and Dome Valley.” He is now pinning his hopes on increased regional road funding to address safety issues through

the Dome Valley and beyond, and says there is a solid case for Warkworth to Wellsford to still go ahead.

“It’s certainly doable and would be a boon to Northland people to make that road safer and more easily accessible,” he said. “I’m hell-bent to make sure that road is fit for purpose at the very least.”

Cr Bain said if the new motorway stopped at Warkworth, bypassing Hill Street would be a boon, but it would create a whole new set of problems.

“The fact is, you’ll come off the bypass and go straight into an 80km/h stretch of highway through the Dome Valley,” he said.

National promises continued backing of RoNS Rodney MP Mark Mitchell says if National is elected in two years time, the motorway project between Warkworth and Wellsford will go ahead. Mr Mitchell described the road as a critical piece of infrastructure. “Any delay in constructing it will cause uncertainty for property owners and the loss of a world-class main state highway for the people of Northland,” he says. “This road would provide increased safety for users and economic opportunities for the region.” Mr Mitchell says he has had a lot of feedback from people who will be directly affected by not having a new highway. “There is a high level of disappointment and anger around that decision.”

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Have you got your Motorway project timeline ducks in a row?

The indicative route for the motorway linking Warkworth, Wellsford and Te Hana.

March 2009 – National government Transport Minister Steven Joyce announces plans to construct seven roads of national significance (RoNS), including the Puhoi to Te Hana motorway.

March 10, 2010 – NZTA awards a 15-month contract for investigation work to determine the alignment for the motorway. The Warkworth to Wellsford leg is expected to be mostly complete within the next 10 years.

August 20, 2017 – National government Transport Minister Simon Bridges announces plans for $10.5 billion to be invested into 10 RoNS projects, including an addition to the Warkworth to Wellsford motorway from Te Hana and Whangarei.

October 19, 2017 – A coalition government between Labour, New Zealand First and Green is officially announced. It ends a three-term spell in government for National.

December 11, 2017 – Transport Minister Phil Twyford says in Parliament, “The Puhoi to Wellsford project is underway and will bring significant benefits to Northland.”

December 20, 2017 – NZTA informs Mahurangi Matters that it is preparing to release the indicative alignment for

the Warkworth to Wellsford project in the new year.

February 1, 2018 – NZTA informs Mahurangi Matters that it is working with the government as it develops a new Government Policy Statement on land transport. The government has signaled this is likely to include new priorities for transport investment throughout New Zealand, and will influence the timing and funding required for existing work programmes to proceed.

March 14, 2018 – Government Policy Statement on Land Transport released for submission.

April 2, 2018 – Jacinda Ardern makes public statements in relation to the GPS. “What you won’t see under this government is investment in a small number of dual-carriage highways, while local roads and safety, and other transport options suffer.” Transport Minister Phil Twyford announces that the 10 RoNS projects planned for by the National government will not go ahead. But will not confirm a definite position on the Warkworth to Wellsford leg.

May 2, 2018 – GPS submissions closed, release of final GPS expected

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He flatted in Moehau Street, Grafton, with his fellow ‘evacuees’, one of whom became his brotherin-law. He met Rosalind (Roz) Fenton in 1964 and they married in 1967.

The couple bought a 40ha farm near Orini, at Te Hoe, in 1979 in an attempt to quell Stuart’s frustrated farmer side. They had the farm for 12 years prior moving to Matakana in 1999, where they ran beef and a few sheep, and provided a home for stray dogs, ducks, pukeko and pheasants.

A number of references were made to Stuart’s enjoyment of a beer or two, with his daughter Rachel observing that his favourite beer was DB Green. “He was possibly the only person who kept it in production,” she said.

In recent years, Stuart supported Roz in exploring her whakapapa and encouraged her to develop her artistic talents, particularly in weaving and dying harakeke. Meanwhile, he was a regular on the sidelines of sports fields around Auckland when his grandchildren were playing.

He loved being part of the local community and for many years he and Roz were instrumental in the Warkworth Santa Parade and Wynyard Wood’s pirate ship float.

As a proudly fair man, he equally supported local drinking establishments in both Warkworth and Matakana.

Stuart died at home surrounded by his family. He is survived by his wife Roz, children Rachel, Fiona, Catherine and Hamish, and seven grandchildren.

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While at university, he stayed briefly at St Francis House in Grey Lynn, but along with a couple of mates, was asked to leave after contravening the alcohol prohibition rule. Their attempts to blame the smell of the alcohol on a bag of rotting apples

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A loving husband, proud father and grandfather (known as Puku), loyal friend, dedicated lawyer and diehard Mooloo supporter was how many remembered Warkworth lawyer Stuart Callender at a service held at the Matakana Hall on May 7.

There was standing room only as hundreds of family, friends and colleagues gathered to pay their respects.

The service, conducted by Anglican priest Ann Mellor, included a karakia by his grandchildren, several references to his beloved red bands and some quintessential Kiwi music such as 10 Guitars and Poi E. His friend and colleague Bod Eades described Stuart as a rare breed.

“He served everyone to the best of his abilities, and with integrity,” Bob said. “He was reliable, steadfast, honest, loyal and direct.”

His assistant at Wynyard Wood’s Auckland office for more than 20 years, Trisha Murray, also described him as a ‘big softie’.

“His loud laugh could be heard throughout the office and when asked how he was, the reply was inevitably, ‘Immaculate!’”

Stuart was with the firm for nearly 50 years.

Born in Pahiatua, one of five children, Stuart spent his formative years on the family farm at Orini in the Waikato. The farm remained in family ownership until his parents retired.

He boarded at Mt Albert Boys Grammar School (MAGS) where he later served as head prefect and played for the First XV. After school, he played for Grammar Schools’ Old Boys’ Rugby Football Club and Auckland University Rugby Football Club,

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Log’s waka credentials looking a little shaky, say locals Archaeologists might be paddling up the wrong river in their claim that an artefact found on the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway construction site is a partly completed waka.

Transport Agency’s senior manager of project delivery, Chris Hunt, says the discovery was made during piling work for a viaduct on the new motorway, near Billings Road, south of Puhoi, in mid-April.

A digger identified a wooden object under the surface of the inlet. The mud around the object was carefully removed exposing a large rectangular wooden object that extended across the excavation.

Clough and Associates archaeologist Dr Sarah Phear confirmed it to be a partially completed waka, but some local residents are not convinced.

Their theory is that it could be nothing more than a rimu log from the days when timber workers would send them down the river.

If this is the case, then it is likely to have the West brand somewhere on it and be shaped at one end with a notch for towing it. If it is a West log, then it would be around 150 years old.

However, a NZ Transport Agency spokesperson says the shape of the object is consistent with a waka.

“The stern has been shaped and the trunk hollowed out,” he says.

Even so, he has not ruled out the possibility that it could be something other than a waka.

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Locals are questioning the discovery of a partly constructed waka in Puhoi.

object is completely removed from the site and examined.

“The tidal location is proving a challenge to removing the object from the site and it could be sometime before a definitive identification can be made.”

At an earlier media conference, Dr

Phear said that no markings had yet been discovered on the wood.

Puhoi Heritage Museum coordinator Jenny Schollum says that in her opinion, it is more likely to be a waka than a log.

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She adds that logs were usually more refined than what was discovered so they could be sent down the river with little resistance.

Dr Phear did not wish to make any further comment at this stage.

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New centre seeks positive outcomes for youth in Wellsford

Mel Torkington says she has already received a lot of support setting up Te Waka Youth.

and use the space, attend group activities or seek support, mediation, counselling or therapies.

“This is their space. Their place for belonging and healing. In all our work it is really important that it is youthled. They will be the centre of all decisions that get made for and about them, and the space and the service provision is all part of that,” she says.

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Te Waka Youth is based in a cottage at the rear of Coast to Coast Hauora Trust at 72 School Road and is primarily aimed at young people aged from 11 to 26. The trust has provided startup funding for the venture, as well as premises that were previously used by North Tec for horticulture courses.

The new service is being set up and managed by social worker Melanie Torkington, who grew up in Leigh and is keen to fill a gap in youth support in the region.

“I’ve always been really passionate about Wellsford and the wider area and filling in some of the service gaps up here, making sure that all kids have access to the necessary support, services and life opportunities, regardless of isolated location or any other circumstances,” she says.

“There are a lot of amazing professionals in the area – public health nurses, teachers and principals, and other community workers – but youth-focused and centrally based service provision is a gap that has been recognised for some time, which has put a strain on many of these other roles.”

Melanie says Te Waka Youth has been designed and set up as a place specifically for young people and their families where they will always be welcome, whether just to enquire

young women’s empowerment group and a ‘Homework & Hang’ group after school. Young people will be encouraged to express themselves at a mural workshop or on blackboard walls and, in time, Mel intends to develop programmes in gardening, financial literacy, entrepreneurship and trade skills, utilising the community gardens, workshops, and potential market space on site, as well as local mentors.

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“Sometimes with teenagers, it’s just a matter of redirecting them,” she says. “You can’t stifle that energy and creativity. It’s about giving them awareness of their strengths and giving them an outlet, one that will result in the positive outcomes they want, not consequences that they don’t.”

The name Te Waka is inspired by the maori proverb “He waka eke noa” – we are all in the same canoe, without exception.

“We are not designed to exist in isolation, without others to prop us up and remind us who we are, when we need it,” Mel says. “From being local and having worked in this area, I know there are people who are disconnected from support systems, and others who have skills and excess resources who want to give back and share. It’s about building intergenerational relationships and also healing generational cycles, so that rangitahi are choosing the lives for their future families, not just sticking with ‘all they know’.”

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Christine Hannah and John McEwing believe the new community shop could become an important source of funding for many local organisations.

Opportunity shop a boost for local causes Op shop shoppers will be spoilt for choice when the Warkworth Community Shop, in Winsombe Mall, behind Bayleys Real Estate, opens for business at the end of this month.

Like the established Hospice Shop in Argyll Angle and the recently-opened Warkworth Museum shop in Baxter Street, the community shop will trade in affordable second-hand goods donated by the public.

All money raised will be distributed to local groups, causes and projects such as the fire brigade, St John, surf lifesaving and the Mahurangi Dredging Project.

Owners Christine Hannah and John McEwing both have many years

experience in the not-for-profit sector. They will provide professional management and business expertise, supported by volunteer staff.

“We aim to become a valued part of the community providing a quality shopping experience within a well-presented, modern, clean and welcoming shop,” they say. “It will be a place to donate goods, shop and connect with the community, and contribute to the community’s welfare, both financially and environmentally.”

John says grants will be allocated to applicants who meet the funding criteria.

“Potentially, we see the shop generating tens of thousands dollars a year, and this will all be spent on

things that benefit our local area,” he says. “We think we will be able to make a difference.”

The shop is now accepting donations of clothing, bric a brac, books, DVDs and CDs, and general household items. Donations can be left at the shop during business hours or a collection can be arranged by phoning 021 0261 3766.

Due to space constraints, the shop will not at this early stage be accepting large furniture items, beds or electrical goods.

The Warkworth Community Shop will officially open on Wednesday May 30, and will operate from 9am4pm Monday to Friday, and 9am-1pm on Saturday.

Rodney residents active in promoting, constructing and maintaining walking trails will gather to attend a trail leaders workshop on May 22.

The workshop is organised by the NZ Walking Access Commission and the Matakana Coast Trail Trust.

Guest speaker will be Kaye Parker, who became CEO of the Queenstown Trails Trust in 2009. Kaye led a successful competitive pitch to secure $2 million from the Government’s Great Rides initiative and raised another $4 million from the Queenstown community to create the most used trail in the country. She also successfully raised $26 million in 2016 from the NZ Government and two Central Otago trusts to link the four Great Rides in Central Otago.

This resulted in a 500km network of trails for locals and visitors. Kaye will take part in a discussion with representatives from Auckland Council, Auckland Transport, NZTA and local iwi on how to work together for faster progress in trail planning and development.

Time will also be set aside for local trail groups present to share what they are doing and how they can support each other to create “an amazing trail network”.

The workshop will be held at Plume Vineyard, Sharp Road, Matakana and starts at 9.30am. Those interested should email to reserve a place.

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Library cutting wedding cake to celebrate royal nuptials

Harry and Meghan take centre stage among the bookshelves.

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Royal wedding fans should head for Warkworth Library this Saturday, May 19, where staff will be celebrating the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle from 9am to 3pm.

Visitors to the library are being encouraged to wear a hat for the occasion and they can enjoy a slice of traditional wedding cake, which will be iced and decorated by acting community engagement librarian Katie Mitchell.

There are two special displays – one, featuring flower garlands, royal wedding publications and a poster congratulating Harry and Meghan, and the other of two mannequins dressed in wedding attire.

The stand-in for Harry comes from Warkworth Menswear and is known as Josh, while the (unfortunately headless) female is wearing library assistant Rachael Jamieson’s actual wedding dress.

Katie Mitchell says the idea was to celebrate the Windsor wedding with a bit of fun in Warkworth.

“We didn’t get an invite, so we decided to have our own small celebration,” she says.

Big Omaha residents battle to keep their loos to save estuary A quick response by residents at Whangateau may lead Auckland Council to re-think the proposed closure of two toilets at the historic Big Omaha Wharf.

The toilets were boarded up earlier this year due to health and safety concerns based on the deteriorating state of the small building, which sits out over the water.

Council went on to propose that the toilets be removed altogether and visitors be directed to use the facilities at the Whangateau Domain, a short drive away.

A meeting was held on site with community facilities officer Helen Biffin on May 4 so residents could express their views. Representatives of several local groups attended, as well as individual property owners.

Ms Biffin confirmed that the existing toilets were

well-contained and did not pose an environmental threat, but the cost of repairing the structure was the issue.

However, residents emphasised that without a toilet on site, the roadside and harbour estuary would become the receptacles for human waste. They said the wharf had a whole range of uses, from family gatherings to weddings. The boat ramp was a popular launching spot, people spent hours fishing off the structure, both day and night, and the wharf was a destination in its own right.

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Tennis courts crammed with second-hand goods will be a thing of the past.

End of an era for popular school gala Labour Weekend will be missing a major local attraction this year, as Matakana School shifts its fundraising focus away from its traditional Saturday gala to a new pre-Christmas after-school event.

The decision not to hold the gala in its usual format comes after a drop in profits over recent years, from a peak of more than $50,000 in 2013 to less than $25,000 last year, and less demand for some secondhand items. After much discussion, organisers have decided to change the old format and try something new.

Board of Trustees member Melita Campbell, who looks after fundraising for the school and is a professional event manager, says many of the old gala favourites will be retained, but in a different guise.

“We have been looking at it over the last two years and analysing the benefits and, after last year’s decided it was time to refresh it,” she says. “We’re going to push it back a month to November 23, on a Friday afternoon and early evening, and focus on the holiday time of the year, make it more of a Christmas market focused on the school field.

“We’ll have lots of our regular stalls, which we know people love, like our books, bric-a-brac, quality homewares, cakes and preserves, plus food and entertainment. And the kids will be really involved, making things and selling them.”

She says the idea is to make it more of a communitybased, fun event for locals that avoids a major public holiday.

“The gala has always attracted a lot of people from out of the area, but we want it to be more of a community event,” Melita says. “Galas have always been a lot of work, and we’re looking for ways to work smarter, not harder.”

The first Matakana School Gala was held in 1970, when the school roll was 196, and $3,400 was raised to buy books for the library. Since then, it has grown into one of the biggest events of its kind, with stalls, attractions and second hand goods filling the entire school and grounds, with crowds of bargain hunters queuing to get in before the gates opened at 7am.

The school’s annual Social Auction Night fundraiser will continue to be held, and is scheduled for June 29 this year with a ‘Vintage Glam’ theme.

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Volunteers’ Steve Harrison (left) and David Astbury are pleased to be back working on the Brick Bay tracks after a year-long wait.

“The message came completely out of the blue, but we’re really happy to have communication with Council again and got back into maintenance work early last month.”

The Sandspit Residents and Ratepayers Association (SRRA) member in charge of tracks, David Astbury, says it’s a positive outcome following a frustrating time.

“We do now have to fill out a health and safety form every time we carry out work on the tracks, but it’s a great result that we can get back to work and keep these tracks in good condition,” he says.

SRRA chair Greg Doherty says bureaucracy has gone wild at Council and it’s a relief they decided to get back in touch with the volunteers.

“There was no resurfacing

maintenance being carried out during the waiting period by the contractor and rain storms would cause the gravel to wash away,” Greg says.

“Letting the volunteers do this work as they have done for years doesn’t impact the taxpayer.”

Auckland Council head of operational management and maintenance Agnes McCormack says communication was maintained through the period but the request for gravel wasn’t realised.

“We are sorry that there has been a delay while we worked through this with our contractor. The agreement reached will continue to allow for safe community involvement in the track maintenance,” she says.

Volunteers were also pleased to hear last month that bridges and retaining walls on the track network that they are unable to deal with themselves, will be replaced starting in October.

“That infrastructure is 25 years old and we’ve had a number of delays on its replacement,” David says.

“The council doesn’t want to start the 12-week project until after the winter, but we are very pleased to hear it will be completed later this year, as it’s a fairly difficult job in places.”

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Volunteer firefighters paid a visit to Leigh School on International Firefighters Day to reinforce the role brigades, and particularly volunteers, play in the community. NZ First MP Jenny Marcroft introduced firefighters Mark Borich, fire chief Steve Paddison, Nick Torkington, Paul Smith, Mark Simmonds and Errol Murray to the students who took the opportunity to quiz the crew about their duties. “Do you really rescue cats out of trees?” one pupil inquired. And apparently, they do. As well as dogs off cliffs, cows off the beach and horses out of muddy drains. NZ has more than 11,000 volunteer firefighters who dedicate their lives to helping their communities by fighting fires, responding to medical emergencies, and rescuing animals.

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Volunteers turned their spades to the Brick Bay walking tracks for the first time in a year last month, following Auckland Council’s decision to let them continue maintenance.

There are 2.6 kilometres of tracks that connect Sandspit to Brick Bay, via Horseshoe Bay. They were constructed over 15 years by Leicester Trewin, starting in the early 1980s, and have been maintained ever since by local volunteers who resurface the network.

Volunteer Steve Harrison says after eight years of his group acquiring gravel from council to do the maintenance work, they suddenly had their supply cut off and were left in the dark.

“In April last year, the council contractor for the area changed from Recreational Services to Rhodes for Roads and, all of a sudden, we couldn’t get any response from Council,” Steve says.

“We would go through our usual process to apply for a gravel drop in the area, but nothing happened and no one got back in touch with us.”

A year later, on March 28, an email was received from Council asking if the volunteers would like six cubic metres of gravel for resurfacing work.

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Scenes were matched to appropriate records played on Arthur’s gramophone.

The programme could include slides of rapids, waterfalls and so forth to ‘The Skater’s Waltz’; ships and waterways to ‘Voices of Spring.’ In between sets he would play popular songs such as ‘Mother Machree’ by the celebrated tenor John McCormack.

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Engineer makes surprise return to manage major project Three months into retirement Matakana resident Robert Jones wasn’t expecting to receive a call to manage one of the country’s largest construction projects.

The engineer took over as Fletcher Construction project director for the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway last month, after Alan Orange retired from the role.

“The call came out of the blue, really, but I was very excited about the idea of working on this project,” Mr Jones says.

“It’s a bit ironic really, because I was chief executive officer for Fulton Hogan New Zealand and we previously bid for this project, but lost out.”

He is no stranger to motorway construction having managed the building of the Northern Gateway between Orewa and the Johnstones Hill Tunnels.

“Living in the area and having overseen the previous leg of the motorway made taking on the role an easy decision.

“Around 20 per cent of the 500 staff on this job I already knew from the Northern Gateway project and Alan had set things up well, so it was an easy transition.”

Looking forward, he says, that as with the Northern Gateway, weather combined with difficult topography are the biggest challenges they face.

“The climate in this area means the ground is often wet and we can’t use our earth moving machinery in these conditions.

“Earthworks make up the largest part of this project so we are looking forward to completing that stage.”

To help manage this they have analysed historical weather patterns and only allow for 120 earth work days per year in planning to account for any unforeseeable hold ups.

Prior to managing motorway projects in Rodney, Mr Jones worked in a number of countries, including on an alliance project in Australia that saw him selected to oversee the Northern Gateway.

“My father was an engineer so I guess I followed in his footsteps a bit and

did a building degree at what is now Coventry University after growing up in West Yorkshire, England.”

He picked up a cadetship from there and was given the opportunity to work on hundred million dollar builds in Trinidad and Tobago, and Africa.

“One of those jobs was the central bank that involved two separate 23-storey buildings.”

He later worked in Thailand, managing construction of another bank with a floor plan of 200,000 square metres and a shopping mall of 350,000 square metres. “It was in Bangkok I met my wife Marion, who is now involved with the Mahurangi East Community Library, Kowhai Singers and Kowhai Art and Craft group.” Another one of his big projects involved shifting a gold processing

Robert Jones is no stranger to motorway projects, having overseen construction of the Northern Gateway between Orewa and the Johnstones Hill Tunnels.

Sprightly senior to run to top of Sky Tower Stairs can sometimes prove troublesome for those getting on in years, but Maxine Rutherford, 68, refuses to be intimidated by them.

The Warkworth volunteer firefighter will join nine others from her brigade to tackle the Firefighter Sky Tower Stair Challenge to raise funds for Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand.

The effort will see Maxine and her team run up the 1,103 stairs to the top of Auckland’s Sky Tower wearing full firefighting kit and breathing apparatus weighing up to 25kg.

“I like a challenge every now and then,” Maxine says.

She says in addition to the heavy kit, the effort must be completed wearing gumboots. It will be the fourth time Maxine has taken on the Stair Challenge. She says she hopes to beat her previous time of 35 minutes.

Fellow firefighter Nicole Banks, who sadly cannot participate this year due to a foot injury, says training together for the Stair Challenge has been a great team building exercise and excellent for team fitness.

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“I remember getting on the plane where it was 30 degrees in Australia and landing in Mongolia to step out into minus 40 degree conditions, that was a real challenge.”

In addition to managing the motorway, Mr Jones keeps himself busy on the Infrastructure New Zealand Board that lobbies the government.

“One of our biggest issues is a lack of projects in this country meaning we lose a lot of engineers overseas, hence why we have a lot of young and very experienced staff on this build, but no one in between.” He has also been on the Camp Bentzon board for 12 years and gave advice on both the Sandspit Marina construction and Mahurangi River Restoration Trust dredging.

Members of Warkworth Fire Brigade’s Stair Challenge team. Front row from left, Maxine Rutherford and Kelly Andrews. Back row, Tania Wood, Nicole Banks, Nick McLean, Stacey Lemmen and Karl Yeo.

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The Accommodation Supplement is a weekly payment to help cover, rent, mortgage or board costs.

Changes, which came in to effect on April 1, mean that some people who previously were unable to get an Accommodation Supplement may now be able to receive it. It also means that many people, who were already getting the payment, will now receive more money each week.

We have seen situations where families have had their Accommodation Supplement increase by more than $100 a week and also people who previously had no entitlement to an Accommodation Supplement now receiving up to $50 a week.

The increase in payments have, in general, been most significant for people living in the Snells Beach, Warkworth, Waiwera, Windy Ridge, Algies Bay, Mahurangi and Mangawhai areas. However, the changes have also had a positive impact on many people in the Wellsford, Leigh, Matakana, Matheson Bay, Point Wells and Tauhoa-Puhoi areas too.

These recent changes mean that many people who had previously applied for the Accommodation Supplement and been turned down, may now be able to receive a payment. The formula used to work out if people are able to receive this extra money is quite complex. We recommend that anyone who is struggling financially should check if they can receive the payment, rather than just assume that they don’t fit the rules.

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New look displays on the way for Warkworth Museum It’s all change at Warkworth Museum, with revamped rooms, new look displays and behind the scenes systems upgrades all on the way.

Work has already started in the Wilson Room, just beyond the museum entrance, where a new ceiling is being built, the cobbler shop exhibit has been dismantled and new display cabinets and information panels are being installed.

Manager Victoria Joule says this is the first phase in a series of improvements that have come about following the museum’s participation in the Te Papa Expert Knowledge Exchange programme last year.

“We had Jamie Bell, the director of the National Cricket Museum in Wellington, visit for three days, essentially to review the museum and give us some guidance on how we can update our displays,” she says. “Based on his feedback, we are making a number of changes. We’re developing a strategic plan and engaging with all the volunteers on where we want to take the museum in the next five years.”

With display upgrades the main focus, volunteers are streamlining the museum layout, beginning with showcasing the region’s early history in the Wilson Room by bringing together Maori, boatbuilding, kauri wood and kauri gum artefacts. The second phase will be a revamp of the adjacent Tudor Collins Room to highlight the history

Volunteers Clive Burton, left, and Ray Jensen dismantle the old cobbler shop exhibit.

of the wider district.

As well as new display cases, improvements will include new insulation, air conditioning, a pale grey colour scheme, and information panels designed and funded by Te Papa.

The museum has also recently received a $5000 grant from Pub Charities to upgrade its computer network system

and centralise all its records on one database.

Although the improvements will be covered by general fundraising, grants and volunteer labour, the museum is facing a much larger financial headache outside in its grounds. A recent landslip below a shed will need a new retaining wall and resource consents, something that could cost

tens of thousands of dollars.

Victoria Joule says she and the museum team are looking into ways to raise the necessary funds.

“That’s going to be an interesting one,” she says. “A significant amount of money will be needed to raise money to fix that. And a lot of heritage grants are based around renovating heritage buildings, not the grounds outside.”

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Sustainable living Last year the Hauturu ranger’s 14-year-old daughter, Mahina Walle, did a case study on living sustainably on the island for correspondence school. I was so impressed with this essay that I wanted to share some of it. Mahina’s family have been permanent rangers on Hauturu since 2011.

Sustainable methods on Hauturu Power: A sustainability grant in 2009 allowed rangers on Hauturu to buy five solar panels. Four more solar panels were installed in 2011. The running of the diesel generator has been reduced to its three-monthly check or occasional use during winter. When we arrived in April 2011, almost everything requiring electrical power relied on using LPG gas – a non-renewable resource. Now, thanks to the solar panels and a large battery bank, our source of electricity is sustainable. Excess power is stored in the battery bank for later use. Because we have a high number of sunshine hours, we often produce more power than we can use.

Water: Our water comes from an underground spring and is stored in a tank on the hill above the houses. Because the water is clean, we do not add any synthetically produced chemicals. A solar panel was installed in 2009 to pump the water from the spring up to the tanks instead of using a diesel pump.

Sewage: A new worm sewage system was installed in 2014 to replace the old septic tanks. The sewage system on the island has tiger worms, which means the sewage is broken down and the liquid can be drained into the leaf litter where it is further decomposed. Using a worm sewage system reduces our dependence on synthetic chemicals. In fact, we only use biodegradable products in our sewage because synthetic chemicals kill the worms. When we are out in the bush we carry “poo pots”. Carrying poo pots in the bush reduces our destruction of nature by not leaving sewage in the bush and reducing the chances of spreading exotic weeds.

Heating: In winter, we burn wood on the fire to heat the ranger’s house and bunkhouse. Wood burners are more efficient than open fires and the wood we burn is from wind-falls that have fallen across tracks. Fires produces CO2, but because we are surrounded by native forest, the CO2 is absorbed by the trees, which then produce oxygen.

Food, clothing and consumer products: Although we buy food online from the supermarket and organic shop, we grow a lot of our food in our vegetable garden. We also preserve and freeze some of our garden vegetables to eat later.

My Dad sometimes goes fishing, and my younger brother occasionally free-dives for crayfish and scallops. We try to avoid using plastic or buying products with a lot of packaging. We also try to wear clothes made from wool and cotton, instead of clothes made from synthetic materials. We get second-hand clothes from our cousins or the op shop.

Living in a place like Hauturu, you need to be self-sufficient.

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The Old Warkworth Courthouse could be like so many old buildings across the country unused and merely a shell of their former glory. Having it as a base keeps it alive in the community and with links to the past in values and architecture is important so we are pleased to also be part of that.

Over the last year or so, this scribe has repeatedly reported on weight, dozens and loaves but the important part is the human side of the equation. The generosity of the donors, the time and enthusiasm of the volunteers throughout the chain and the people we help when the need is there-not to forget the foresight of those who set the scheme in motion.

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Mahurangi College’s newly formed peer mediation team.

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Mahu students ready to confront all forms of bullying More than 30 students at Mahurangi College have graduated from a “Leadership through Student Mediation Programme”, which aims to take an active stand against homophobia, violence, racism and all forms of bullying.

The newly trained peer mediators will work in pairs to set up confidential meetings and resolve differences between students in conflict.

School head of counselling Kerry Jenner, who leads the programme, says it’s important that mediators reflect the diversity found in the school and

includes students from varied ethnic backgrounds and transgender students.

“No matter what the conflict is about, we will have a mediator whose background and experiences will be a perfect match to help deal with the situation,” Ms Jenner says.

She says each student has completed two days of training and will have ongoing training to refine their mediation skills further.

Theoretical training was supplemented by games that encouraged team building and communication.

Students who have completed the initial training say creating understanding of where each party is coming from in a conflict situation is a major help in finding a resolution.

“Often you are dealing with students who are at a stage in development where they find it hard to see other people’s perspectives. Mediation helps teach them to see the reasoning behind other people’s actions,” says one.

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Students say that mediation can be just as helpful for the bully as for their victims by discovering what contributes to their destructive behaviour and what they can do about it.

Students have also been taught to look beyond the surface to discover the true nature of conflict.

“What a student tells you at first may not be the real story and you have to dig deeper to find the reality,” says one.

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No matter what the conflict is about, we will have a mediator whose background and experiences will be a perfect match to help deal with the situation, Ms Jenner says.

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for example, might really be related to underlying homophobic attitudes.

One student said he anticipated homophobia and cyber-bullying were likely to be some of the most common issues mediators would deal with.

Mediators encourage students to find their own solutions to conflict. This may mean that the parties agree that they don’t necessarily have to be best friends but will agree to say “hi” and be civil to one another.

Kerry Jenner introduced the mediation programme to Mahurangi College after training mediators in several other New Zealand schools.

The programme proved especially successful in Wellington, where schools began to recognise that mediation was changing the whole culture in the school for the better.

During a presentation to Wellington City Council, police officers commended the mediation programme for reducing crime among school students in the city.

American observers at the meeting invited Ms Jenner to come to the States to share her insights there.

Ms Jenner subsequently taught mediation skills in schools across northern California in a programme funded by the State Department.

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Experts worry technology harms children’s social skills The effect on today’s children of large amounts of screen time is not entirely clear, but has Auckland University of Technology academic Dr Erik Landhuis concerned.

Dr Landhuis is a researcher who takes a particular interest in psychological development.

He says a number of studies put the average media consumption for children between five and seven hours per day, and up to 15 hours per day if simultaneous consumption is counted separately.

This comfortably exceeds the recommended amount suggested by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The increased screen time can lead to problems such as obesity, difficulty paying attention, antisocial behaviour, reduced fitness through sedentary lifestyle, reduced sleep time and reduced social activity.

“The main things that concern me are the effect of media use on social development and social competence,” Dr Landhuis says.

“I worry that devices are increasingly replacing face-to-face contact between children and that may impede their ability to communicate effectively with others later in life.”

His other main concern is around

A modern lifestyle sees children using more and more electronic devices every day, but the future impact of this could be negative.

technology outsourcing people’s cognitive functions such as memory and attention. However, some critics suggest that this opens up more space for creativity and problem solving, an idea he is open to.

Dr Landhuis admits some media, such as Sesame Street, can be considered educational, improving language and social behaviour.

“The problem is most material available to children now does not fit

into the educational category.”

He has two daughters of his own, aged six and eight, and recommends parents using the Common Sense Media website (commonsensemedia. org) for advice on material. He limits his children’s screen time to three hours viewing per week and avoids letting them use smart phones or iPads.

He says it has become harder to minimise children’s screen time today because of the number of mediums

offering it and the use of technology in schools.

Wellsford School is one of many to incorporate technology use into its education programme, with a bring your own device policy for students in Year 4 and above.

Wellsford School principal Dave Bradley says that devices are a great way to engage reluctant learners and make available a huge range of resources, but management of their use is important.

“The overuse of technology has risks to health, wellbeing and social skills development, and the internet can be a dangerous place,” Mr Bradley says.

“Our timetables are carefully constructed to ensure students are still physically active during the day and engage in collaborative learning to maintain social development. They are also taught about cyber safety and the appropriate use of the device.”

Both Wellsford and Matakana School have signed agreements in place for children using devices.

Matakana School principal Darrel Goosen says the national curriculum requires the use of technology now, but schools must follow the guideline documents for its use set out by the government in 2015.

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Kate and William went with tradition and called their new arrival Prince Louis Arthur Charles.

Royal titles off the cards as baby names ‘Royal’ and ‘Royalty’ were both turned down three times and Duke, Miss, and Saint were rejected twice each.

Some of the more outlandish titles to be rejected, since the legislation was introduced in 1995, include 4real, V8, Eminence, Mafia No Fear and Lucifer.

Meanwhile, if you don’t want your child’s identity to stick out like a sore thumb, you might do well to choose Oliver or Charlotte. Oliver has been the top name choice for boys in the country over the past five consecutive years. It was used 314 times in 2017.

Charlotte has now been the number one female name choice four times since 2006. Last year it was used 277 times.

The most common girl’s name by year since 1954 is Sarah, topping the list 16 times, 14 of which were consecutive.

Michael topped the boy’s list a record 14 times between 1968 and 1989.

David proved the most used name in a single year, 1514 children received this name in 1963.

The most popular Maori names for 2016 were Maia and Nikau.

Most popular baby names in New Zealand for 2017: Boys, Oliver, Jack, Noah, William, Hunter, James, George, Mason, Lucas and Arlo; Girls, Charlotte, Harper, Isla, Olivia, Ava, Amelia, Mia, Mila, Sophie and Emily.

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While you are spoilt for choice when it comes to options, it’s important to know that over 50 names have been rejected by the Registrar-General in New Zealand.

In New Zealand, a name or combination of names must not cause offence to a reasonable person, be unreasonably long, or include or resemble an official title or rank.

Last year, ‘Prince’ came in as the most commonly ejected name, with four parents not getting their way.

There are just over 1.1 million children under the age of 18 in New Zealand – that’s about a quarter of the country’s population.

The majority of these children are doing well and achieving positive outcomes – they live in supportive homes and receive the care they need and deserve; they benefit from the protections provided in legislation to prevent them from harm, abuse and neglect; and they are able to access universal education and health care services that support them to develop to their full potential and live happy and healthy lives.

But, Children’s Commissioner Andrew Becroft says that unfortunately, a significant proportion of Kiwi children need extra support and services to enable them to thrive.

“We see the evidence of this in New Zealand’s poor rating in international comparisons of child health and well-being, and in our low level of investment in young children,” he says.

Statistics show that children in the bottom one-fifth of family incomes, compared with the top one-fifth, have three times more infant mortality and three times more hospitalisations. A total of 41,000 children are hospitalised for conditions associated with deprivation.

Maori hospitalisation is 17 percent higher than European and Pacific hospitalisation is 40 percent higher.

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A growing population and more financial pressures have seen steadily increasing demand for a Mahurangi service for parents of preschoolers who are struggling to cope.

Parentport North coordinator Di Julian says parents sometimes feel embarrassed to call the service and admit they need help, but such a feeling is misplaced.

“Parenting is one of the hardest jobs that you can have,” she says.

She cites the example of a mother with a toddler who recently delivered a premature baby. Her husband left her the week she got back from hospital.

“She has no family support and the baby screams from two in the morning until 11am. She is basically up all night and then has to be awake all day for the toddler. She is just exhausted.”

Di says a Parentport field worker can come in for a few hours and take care of such things as shopping, child minding, meal preparation, laundry, light housework or similar tasks that an overwhelmed mum might need to ensure she stays sane.

The service is free and 12 hours of help is available to any parent, grandparent or caregiver responsible for looking after preschoolers.

Di says assistance for grandparents is becoming more common, in some cases after children have been removed from parents because of their parents’ involvement with drugs.

Di says sometimes people worry the Parentport field worker will be a matronly

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“We’re non-judgmental and just help with the practical things. We recognise everyone is trying their best,” she says.

Di says many clients suffer from postnatal depression and they might need help looking after a child while they go to a counsellor or simply need some time out by themselves.

Isolation is also a big factor for many clients living in Rodney, especially where there is no public transport.

Parentport can help by delivering the shopping and saving client’s petrol money. Field workers can also deliver food parcels from other organisations.

Di says some families with young children are often barely covering their rent and when a field worker arrives their pantry is often bare.

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Cute family photo fundraiser for Plunket Professional baby pictures and family portraits at a bargain price are on offer in the latest fundraiser for Wellsford Plunket over the weekend of June 9 and 10.

Iris Portraits’ professional studio photographer Jacquie Stokes, who lives in Wellsford, will hold sittings at the Plunket Rooms on Saturday and Sunday, between 9am and 4pm.

Families or groups can book a half hour sitting valued at $150 for just $20 and everyone who participates will receive one $55 8” x 10” print free of charge.

Wellsford Plunket fundraising coordinator Tania Bishop says the event will be a great opportunity for families to get top quality photos at a terrific price in a relaxed setting, as well as raising money for zip track blinds to enclose the deck at Plunket.

Each photo sitting will take around half an hour and can include multiple poses or groupings of up to eight people, from the whole family to individual children. There is a choice of backdrops and props, and photos can be printed in colour or black and white.

In addition to the free 8” x 10” family print, individual prints, mixed photopacks, professional framing and layby options are all available.

Sittings can be booked by contacting Tania Bishop on 021 264 0424 or taniaannbishop@gmail.com.

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Support available for mums at a stressful time Having a baby is stressful by anyone’s standards, but there is support available locally to help mothers cope with the many challenges that parenthood can bring.

Rodney Women’s Centre in Morpeth Street, Warkworth provides several free services that are designed to address problems that women can face when they become mothers, such as isolation and anxiety.

Counsellor Bridget Farmiloe runs a support group for Perinatal Distress (PND), a term which covers ante and postnatal depression and anxiety. She says PND can happen to any mother, during the pregnancy or after birth, but with the right support most women can recover and go on to experience motherhood in a more positive way.

“Our group is an opportunity for women to meet others experiencing difficulties and challenges so they don’t feel isolated and can learn from others’ experiences,” she says.

The programme includes tools, tips and strategies to promote mindfulness, physical health, healthy relationships, making time for self-care, accessing support, plus managing anxiety and difficult feelings.

“Women can learn in a supportive environment and take home information to support their recovery at home,” Bridget says.

Ahnya Martin runs a Young Mums Group for mothers aged 24 and under who might feel isolated from other women their own age. She says the 10-week programme allows young

mums to network with other mothers, while exploring positive parenting, life management skills and strategies for raising happy, healthy children.

“It provides young mothers with the opportunity to increase support networks and decrease isolation, share parenting with young women around their own age, learn new skills, receive information about parenting and resources in our local community, and equips young mums with the ability to make healthy, positive choices for themselves and their babies,” she says.

Rodney Women’s Centre also offers free individual counselling for women with children under the age of 18.

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Trauma in babies

By Liz Cole, Warkworth family support worker

It is important we don’t underestimate the impact of experiences on babies.

Because babies don’t communicate with verbal language, we often make the mistake of thinking that they are not affected by their surroundings. However, babies’ brains are developing exponentially in early childhood and creating the building blocks for future learning. As such their brains are especially vulnerable to being impacted by negative experiences. Often the impact of these experiences is not seen until the child is older. We might see some behaviours that we consider to be naughty or autistic or ADHD, when in fact the child is simply expressing the impact of early developmental trauma.

Things that may cause developmental trauma can include separation from birth parents, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, physical illness, being placed in care more than once (even loving care), and having family violence in the home. These traumas result in children developing unhealthy coping strategies at the same time as stopping them develop ‘normal’ living skills such as emotional regulation and problem solving. Because brains are flexible and open to being re-sculptured, there are things you can do to help rebuild and repair the effect of developmental trauma on children’s brains.

What it requires is repairing interventions to be offered over a long period of time. There is no quick fix, but there can be great results if you stick at it.

It is helpful to understand that traumatised children need to go backwards in order to go forwards. This means you need to respond to this child at its emotional age rather than its actual age. Babies’ experience of the world is very tactile or touch based. This gives us a clue to what might be helpful. The traumatised child may need more cuddles, rocking and singing to, as this is what their brain has missed out on. Soft blankets, warm pyjamas, crunchy foods (carrot sticks), chewy foods, and a warm bath can help. Letting them dig in the sand or mud, having a tug of war and doing deep breathing together are also helpful.

The child’s behaviours may prompt you to be punishing. Get as much support for yourself so that you can remain calm, clear and kind. These kids need an empathetic approach to child rearing. It’s not easy work, but it is vital.

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Surprise, surprise, life begins at ninety Although she is legally blind and recently celebrated her 90th birthday, Matakana woman Edna Grummitt sees no reason why she shouldn’t continue to live alone.

Indeed, anyone foolish enough to suggest she might be better off in some sort of residential care will get little sympathy for the idea.

“In a home there’ll be all sorts of rules and regulations. I want to be free,” she says.

Edna was especially appalled to hear that some retirement villages forbid you to have a bottle of wine and a drink with friends in your room.

Given she enjoys a quiet glass at lunchtime most days, that restriction alone was never going to fly. These days, she must stick to reds, as she can’t see white wine and risks over-filling her glass when pouring.

After suffering from macular generation for almost 20 years, Edna now retains less than four percent of her vision.

But she finds that’s plenty of seeing ability to cook, clean, do her laundry and generally look after herself.

Edna says the key to success is making the best use of the sight she does have and developing a strong sense of touch.

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how hot her stove top is by waving her hand over the elements. So far, she has never had anything boil over.

“I don’t want the mess to clean up. If you do all the cleaning yourself, you’re more careful, aren’t you?”

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Often when her daughter, Janis, takes her shopping, Edna will spot the needed items before Janis, prompting her daughter to complain that her mother is supposed to be the blind one.

Edna says keeping fit is essential and keeping the house clean constitutes her workout.

“I still climb my step ladder once a

week and clean the tops of my units and things like that – but don’t tell my daughter I said that,” she says.

Edna also likes to keep mentally sharp and loves doing crosswords, using a video magnifier to enlarge the squares until they are big enough to see.

She adds that the magnifier also allows her to read her mail and write cheques to pay her bills.

Regular visits from family and friends means she seldom gets lonely.

“I’m fully occupied throughout the week to be honest with you.”

Edna says she never goes to bed without first having sorted out what she will do the following day, thereby ensuring she never gets bored.

Her other tip for a long and healthy life is remaining cheerful.

“If I can make somebody laugh once a day, I’m doing okay,” she says.

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Te Ha Oranga O Ngati Whatua and the Rodney Women’s Centre are also backing the call.

Centre manager Colleen Julian says a service to Wellsford would benefit many people. This would include the elderly and teenagers wanting to head to the North Shore or the city, especially if they want to access training opportunities.

“There are lots of people who either can’t drive or would far prefer to travel by public transport. And we know lots of women who are isolated. For example, if they are in a one car family which leaves for work each day. For all these people, access to public transport is really important,” she says.

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Local community organisations concerned about the lack of public transport in the Wellsford area, are calling on Auckland Council to improve the situation by linking Puhoi, Warkworth and Wellsford to the existing Silverdale bus services.

Homebuilders Family Services coordinator Quentin Jukes says everyone in Wellsford is going to be paying the Regional Fuel Tax and they deserve a bus service like everyone else.

“We want to help Council and Auckland Transport make good decisions about how to use this new funding,” he says.

He adds that now the new motorway from Warkworth to Wellsford seems unlikely to go ahead, it’s even more important to get buses on that stretch of the road to help reduce congestion.

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A thing of beauty The onset of autumn heralds the flowering of many orchids; glorious flowers that last for weeks, bringing delightful colour points to the garden. Although I’m not an orchid expert or an avid collector, this is a group of plants that attracts a devoted following, and I can easily see why.

Aside from the aficionados, many people consider orchids to be difficult; but I think this is more to do with how exotic they look rather than how difficult they are to grow. In fact, many orchids are very easy to grow. In New Zealand, cymbidium orchids are the most well-known. They are ideally suited to growing in our climate and are perfect for beginners. I grow mine in either terracotta pots in coir fibre (I prefer this to orchid bark, but either works well) scattered around the garden or as bare-root plants lodged in the crook of large trees.

Potted orchids are ideal for filling in temporary bare areas or cutting the longlasting flowers for putting in a vase inside. For cutting, a straight, upright stem is preferred. This is easily produced by tying the emerging stem to a stake. Employ liberal applications of slug pellets to prevent slugs and snails feasting on the emerging flowers. Cut the stem just as the topmost flower opens for maximum vase life.

I prefer to let the cymbidiums in my trees show off their flowers naturally, allowing them to gently cascade down from their perch. The glorious Australian dendrobium speciosum orchids can also be grown this way, producing frothy displays of white, cream or yellow blooms that fill the garden with scent.

One group of orchids I struggle with is the ethereal moth orchid (Phalaenopsis).

I’ve been determined to grow these in the garden all year round but with no success so far. A decent cold snap seems to send them into terminal decline and snails absolutely love them. I’m resigned to growing them in pots in shady spots over summer, bringing them inside as the new flower spike begins to emerge in autumn.

At the other end of the scale, the seemingly indestructible and gorgeous little crucifix orchids produce many months of colour, scrambling their way through surrounding shrubbery and over any solid obstacle with abandon, occasionally dropping an offshoot that will take root wherever it lands.

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention at least one of our (mostly tiny) native orchids, of which, surprisingly, there are over 160 species. My favourite, and the most commonly available, is the Easter Orchid (Earina autumnalis). This dainty little beauty is found throughout New Zealand. It is usually is smelt before it is seen, with it’s lovely perfume permeating the surrounding forest. Having orchids in your garden really does add the finishing flourish.

Spending up The total retail spend in Warkworth was up 8.2 per cent to just over $53 million during the first quarter of this year, according to a report prepared for One Warkworth Business Association. The total number of transactions increased 8.5 per cent during the same period, with a noticeable increase in shoppers from Auckland south. Overseas shoppers made up just over two per cent of transactions. In March alone, there was strong retail performance with total retail spend up 10.7 per cent compared to March last year.

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Bern Green has spent weeks working on the music that will accompany Sherlock Jr.

Live music breaks film festival sound barrier Silent movie buffs are in for a treat when the music documentary film festival Sounds on Screen shows Sherlock Jr at the Warkworth Town Hall on Sunday morning, June 3.

The 1924 classic, which features Buster Keaton as both lead actor and director, will be given a modern day twist.

Matakana musician Bern Green will accompany the 44-minute long movie, using a banjo and harmonica to provide an original set of sound effects.

“It’s not really a sound track – more like mood music,” he says.

Bern has been working on the music for a few hours a day for the past month or so, which means viewing the movie over and over again.

“The more I watch it, the more respect I have for the cinematography – it was pioneering stuff. There was no trick photography, so you realise that those stunts they were doing were real. It’s crazy stuff.”

Sherlock Jnr is a clever and charming story of a young movie theatre projectionist and janitor who gets into a tangle when he falls in love with a

pretty girl and then finds he has a rival in a devious sheik.

Bern, whose day job is a lawnmower contractor, learned to play the old time claw hammer banjo style five or six years ago by watching online videos. He also plays the guitar, mandolin and ukulele.

“Working with the movie has been a challenge, which is right out of my comfort zone, but I’ve really enjoyed it.”

The movie – one of 10 films that will be screened over the three-day festival – starts at 10.30am. For programme details see page 38 or visit soundsonscreen.nz

Secondary school students are being encouraged to start planning their entries for Showquest, a music, dance and drama event that will run in 10 regions, from Dunedin to Whangarei, starting next month.

Showquest will replace the popular Stage Challenge and is being run by Rockquest Promotions.

Event director Matt Ealand says Showquest is an opportunity for students to express themselves by drawing on their personal experiences and cultural heritage.

“They design and direct their own performances and can write and perform their own soundtracks as well,” he said. “Showquest is structured on a competitive framework, but the driving rationale, as with Smokefreerockquest, is to encourage participation, creative growth and teamwork.”

The first event will be held at Whangarei’s Forum North on June 20.

A national online final will name the top entry nationwide in September.

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Tour finale at Leigh for Hopetoun Brown Sawmill CafĂŠ favourites Hopetoun Brown are back in Leigh next month, this time bringing a seven-piece band for the finale to a national tour on Sunday, June 17.

The core band of Tim Stewart on trumpet, trombone, lead vocals and “stomping duties� and Nick Atkinson on bass clarinet, tenor sax and piano will be joined on stage by five special guests, all of whom perform on Hopetoun Brown’s recently-released album, Don’t Let Them Lock You Up. Long-time collaborator Finn Scholes will be on trumpet, tuba, vibraphone and the Sawmill grand piano, with Isaac Chadderton bringing a wide range of percussion, plus Alistair Deverick on drums, and singers Steve Abel and Sophie Burbery on vocals.

Nick Atkinson says Leigh is the last stop on a 36-date tour from Kaitaia to Invercargill and all points in between. “This Sawmill show promises to be a massive knees-up,� he says. “This will be a unique night of heavy parpin’ and stompin’ good times, with a truckload of exotic instruments and a pile of extra drums and horns. Expect tubas, vibraphones, huge clarinets, two of the best trumpets anywhere, along with bongos, saxophones, trombones, drums of all shapes and sizes and a bouquet of the finest tonsils hollerin’.�

As well as releasing their third studio album and embarking on their tour of New Zealand, Hopetoun Brown has performed at a number of major music festivals this year, including

Nick Atkinson and Tim Stewart have ditched the sailing boat that they used to get to their last Leigh show.

Splore, the Waiheke Jazz festival and WOMAD, where they dedicated a song to Sawmill CafĂŠ founder Grattan Guinness, who died in March. They appear regularly at the Sawmill, even arriving in town by sailing boat for their last appearance in January.

Tickets cost $25 from undertheradar. co.nz or on the door from 4pm on Sunday, June 17. The show starts at

4.30pm and families are welcome – children aged 12 or under get in free.

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Dancing improves brain power Organisers of a new Scottish dancing class in Kaiwaka say besides offering lots of fun, the dancing is also great for the brain.

Organiser Elaine Goldthorpe says everyone knows someone meeting the challenges of dementia or Alzheimer’s and, while we may not be able to entirely avoid these problems, we can still make an effort to keep our brain healthy.

To do this, Alzheimer’s NZ recommends trying new things, physical activity, mental activity and social activity. “Scottish country dancing answers all of these needs,� Elaine says.

Elaine says Scottish dancing encourages people to change partners and get to know other dancers in groups of six or eight. “It is quite obviously a physical activity but learning new patterns and movements within each dance provides mental stimulation, too.�

Following the dancing, Elaine says there will be a chance for participants to go out to lunch together and develop friendships.

The classes are held at the Kaiwaka Memorial Hall on Wednesdays from May 30 to July 4 and cost $5 for each session.

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Competition closes noon May 18.

Crash course in creativity Calling all would-be writers – the Friends of Mahurangi East Library is offering a one-day crash course in creative writing convened by Whangarei author Michael Botur on Saturday, May 26, from 10am to 3pm. From Inspiration to Publication will cover the whole creative process, with topics including voice, tense, character development and editing. It is aimed at giving skills and confidence to novices, and inspiration and encouragement to those who are already writing. The course, which will take place in the Betty Paxton Room at Mahurangi Community Centre adjoining the library, is free to Friends of the Library, $25 to non-members and students can join for a gold coin donation. To register, email mike@michaelboturwriter.com or Mahurangi.EastLibrary@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz, or call in at the library.

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my guitar before putting lyrics to it to make a song.

“I’m quite an introverted performer so I like a more relaxed listening audience that can connect with my music.”

The audience on Sunday can expect the full experience though, with a complete band of a drummer, bass guitarist, electric guitarist, piano and harmonising vocals on stage.

Erin will also have her new Fender electric guitar that featured for the first time on her new album.

“My music has certainly changed over time since having children and changing my guitar, but its essence is still the same. I’m enjoying being involved with my biggest passion again.”

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Northland musician Erin Cole-Baker will perform at the Leigh Sawmill Café on May 20, her first show after a break to raise her children.

The singer-songwriter was born on the West Coast of the United States, but moved to Whangarei with her family when she was six.

Her New Zealand and United States tour, which kicks off on Friday, goes hand-in-hand with the release of her fifth studio album, ‘Till the Feelings Right’.

“I’ve been wanting to play at the Sawmill for a while now, so it’s great to finally have it on my schedule,” Erin says.

She first picked up music playing the piano and performed in some jazz festivals in Northland.

“My Grandad was a classical violinist, my Dad played banjo and guitar, and my brother the mandolin, so I’ve come from a musical background.”

Erin writes her own music, which is influenced by genres such as bluegrass and folk.

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Charles Anderson will be the guest artist at an exhibition in Warkworth next month.

Kawau artists mount Warkworth show Snells Beach artist Charles Anderson, who paints under the name of Raeburn, will be the guest artist at a Kawau Bay Artists exhibition in the old Masonic Hall, in Warkworth, over Queen’s Birthday weekend.

Members of the Kawau Bay painters group are Jenny Arnerich, Colleen Kangwai, Lillian Fromont and Suzanne Williams.

Since retiring from a career in mechanical design and engineering 14 years ago, Charles has rekindled a childhood love of drawing which has developed into a passion for painting.

While he predominantly works in acrylic paint on canvas, he is also an accomplished charcoal and pencil sketch artist completing several commissioned

portraits for people.

He has won several awards, including first place in the Intermediate Category of last year’s Snells Beach Great Summer Art Exhibition and People’s Choice in last year’s Estuary Arts members’ exhibition.

“I have no particular style, I just paint what I enjoy,” he says. “I like experimenting with abstract forms and employ different techniques involving throwing paint at the canvas. I like to see the influence over the final result. I also enjoy portraiture, especially the challenge of capturing a mood or emotion at a particular point in time and bringing the person to life.”

The exhibition will be held on Friday and Saturday, June 1 and 2, from 9.30am until 3pm.

Doves, dogs and a giant rabbit will be starring at the Warkworth Town Hall this Saturday afternoon, May 19, when the Family Fun Magic & Illusion Show takes to the stage.

Illusionist Andre Vegas will be performing nine major illusions with the help of assistants Adriana and Elise, plus Ricco and Nacho the magic chihuahuas, and Chocolate Lips the giant rabbit.

Andre, who has appeared on New Zealand’s Got Talent, says the audience should expect “more than just a rabbit out of the hat”, with plenty of familyfriendly music, comedy and audience participation.

There is also the chance to win a magic set to take home, with every ticket purchased going into a prize draw.

The show starts at 2pm and tickets cost $20 for adults, $12 for children or $55 for a family pass, available from the Warkworth i-SITE in Baxter Street, eventfinda.co.nz or 0800 289849

Ticket giveaway Mahurangi Matters has a Family Pass worth $55 to give away. Simply email your name and contact number, with Magic Show in the subject line, to news@localmatters.co.nz by 3pm on Friday, May 18.

Queen’s Birthday Weekend – 1st-4th June Estuary Arts Centre 214B Hibiscus Coast Highway Orewa Preview and Auction Night: Thursday 31st May, 7-9pm, $25 per ticket (includes wine and hors d’oeuvres) Ticket sales: Hibiscus Hospice (09) 421 9180 or book online at www.hibiscushospice.org.nz Public Exhibition Dates Entry with a gold coin donation Fri-Sun, 1st-3rd June, 9am-4pm Monday, 4th June, 9am-2pm

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Come Scottish Country Dancing A fun and active way of keeping your brain healthy

This is a six week course for you to try it out & see if this form of dancing is for you.

Kaiwaka Memorial Hall, Wednesday mornings 10.00 – 12.00, 30th May until 4th July inclusive.

Suitable for all ages, come on your own or with friends.

Qualified Teacher. Wear comfortable soft soled shoes.

Absolute beginners or more experienced dancers welcome. $5 week includes morning tea.

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Riding roughshod over Rodney Is it just me or do others get the feeling Auckland Council is making voodoo dolls of Northern Rodney and sticking the pins right in? It’s certainly going to become very expensive to live in our neck of the woods. Tax upon tax upon tax.

I had to laugh when the Mayor came out in a Herald editorial recently doing the big “sell” for the fuel tax. He claimed that the tax for all Aucklanders was “fair” because basically the citizens that used the most fuel were generally using the most infrastructure! So sorry Your Excellency, but your argument has got more holes in it than one of my lace tablecloths. And here’s why: the average Aucklander travels around 9000km per year to carry out their basic day-to-day life. Someone like me, on the other hand, travels around 50,000km per year. Goodness me, even with a set of glasses on, I can’t see a lot of infrastructure around here.

Would the Mayor and our elected representatives care to explain this flawed rational to all the low income families who have been shoved out of the city due to housing affordability, and why it is they see fit to punish these people with the bulk of the fuel tax burden, along with a toll, when they have zilch other options other than to drive? And just when mum and dad thought they could still scrape together a few little luxuries for the kiddies in the shopping trolley – boom! – in comes central government to rip it out with their greedy little fuel tax.

Figures obtained by Councillor Sayers last year revealed that the lion’s share of rates in Rodney were being paid by the rural communities. These are the communities with the least and also the ones who have suffered through decades of targeted rates that never hit the target. So why are some members of the Local Board puffing their chests out like roosters and demanding we have another targeted rate?

Listen here you big bullies, the mandate at the last election was for Council inhouse cost savings, so may I suggest that instead of taking the cheats way out and taxing the guts out of your hard-working citizens, perhaps you could put the “screws” on Auckland Council to tighten its own family belt. Trust me, fancy statues on the waterfront don’t put food on people’s plates or seal roads. Targeted rates are like Band Aids on infectious diseases, put there only to appease the patient. The disease always spreads and a cure is never found.

This is 2018, and there are no longer any justifiable grounds to kick minority groups to the kerb or place greedy wants in front of basic needs. Through waste and mismanagement, local government politics now firmly sits on the dinner plates of every working-class family. As a writer, I am starting to hear unprecedented levels of community opinion on local government policies, and only a foolish politician would not recognise that it is us who hold the balance of power and the cheque book from which their wages are paid.

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Residents were invited to join a guided walk through Curry’s Bush, at the end of Wi Apo Place, off Matheson Road, arranged by Auckland Council.

Community park ranger Sinead Brimacombe said Council was organising the walks at local parks across Auckland to raise awareness and encourage residents to visit parks in their neighbourhoods.

One resident on the Wellsford walk said she had lived near Curry’s Bush for 25 years, but had never been in it.

About 20 people joined the 30-minute walk, which was led by Warkworth botanist Maureen Young, who pointed out mature stands of kahikatea, totara and puriri.

Curry’s Bush was named after early settler Phillip Curry, who arrived in

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Wellsford from Australia to work on the railway in the early 1900s. He married John Matheson’s widow, Isabella, and they had two daughters.

A similar walk was conducted through Kowhai Park in Warkworth earlier this year and Sinead says other walks will be held in the area later this year.

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Call for more responsible driving to combat rising road toll As the number of deaths and serious injuries from road crashes in the region continues to rise, Police say the community needs to take responsibility.

In the Waitemata District, which encompasses Rodney, the Hibiscus Coast, North Shore and West Auckland, 11 people were killed on the roads in the first four months of this year – four more than at the same time last year.

Eight of those deaths occurred in the Rodney/Hibiscus Coast areas.

Rodney area commander Inspector Bruce O’Brien says this is a community problem.

“The majority of people killed in crashes in Rodney and the Coast are from this area, and those deaths were all very preventable,” he says.

“We can’t police our way out of it.

All drivers make mistakes, but basics like not drinking and driving are still causing deaths.

“Unfortunately, there is an attitude on the Coast and wider Rodney where people think drinking and driving is acceptable if you’re not going very far.

We see this happening in the daytime – not only at night. We have even seen cases of parents picking their children up from school while intoxicated.”

This month Police will be a lot more visible, with enforcement stepping up, including at checkpoints. They are taking part in a national road policing campaign called ‘See something – Do something’.

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Rodney police are fed up with repeating the same old road safety messages, while the road toll continues to rise. From left, Snr Sgt Jason Homan, Acting Sgt Rosa Wallace and Rodney Area Commander Inspector Bruce O’Brien at a local breathalyser checkpoint.

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Inspector O’Brien says it’s important to note that every road death or serious injury affects the wider community as well as immediate family and friends.

This includes the emergency services who attend the scene and the Police who have to knock on someone’s door and bring them devastating news.

“It’s absolutely tragic, the amount of families that have been left devastated by these preventable crashes,” Inspector O’Brien says.

“Reducing the trauma on our roads needs a community-wide approach, everyone needs to play their part. It starts with individuals making the right decisions before they start drinking about how to get home safely, hosts taking responsibility, friends looking after each other and not letting their mates drive intoxicated.

Inspector O’Brien says there also needs to be a change in mindset about not speeding. The excuse, ‘I was only a few kilometres over the speed limit’ needs to stop.

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He added there was also no excuse for not wearing a seatbelt. Almost a third of people who die in crashes are not restrained.

“It is immensely frustrating that some of these messages, which are not new, are still not getting through, resulting in more deaths on our roads,” he says.

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The latest discoveries come just a month after the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and Department of Conservation (DOC) announced that – given the prevalence of the rust across susceptible parts of New Zealand – the fight against it was ‘changing gear’.

Announcing the changed approach, MPI spokesperson Dr Catherine Duthie said the wind-borne nature of the disease meant that despite an enormous national effort over the past year, which had seen more than 95,000 plants inspected and several thousand destroyed, containing the rust had not proved possible.

“We have signalled for a while the likely need to change gear from intensive surveillance and the removal and destruction of host plants to one where we look to manage the disease over the long term,”she said.

The Northland Regional Council (NRC) says over the past few days, tests have confirmed the presence of myrtle rust at several new sites in Kerikeri – one of the first mainland areas in New Zealand affected by the disease last year – and at Mangawhai.

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“With more than 50 infected trees in over 20 sites, covering six square kilometres in Kerikeri alone, news that the rust had reached other parts of Northland was disappointing, but not unexpected, given the ease with which it could spread,” Mr McElrea.

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This years’ honey dearth also meant I was left with less “stickies” to store. A stickie is a frame of honey after the honey has been removed. I prefer to cellophane wrap my stickies and then freeze them for 48 hours. The wrap protects the frames from ants, and by freezing them I kill any wax moth that might be present on frames. The damn wax moth can wreak havoc to combs in storage.

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Plastic clean-up operation seeks funds to move north A project to clean plastic and other rubbish out of the sea off the Mahurangi and Hibiscus coasts is making headway.

Sea Cleaners NZ plans to extend the operation it currently runs in Auckland and Northland to the local coastline and waterways, as soon as sufficient funding can be secured.

Founding trustee Hayden Smith says a clean up done in the Orewa Estuary a month ago demonstrated the need for the service.

“We only covered 300m of the estuary, but we took out 1200 litres of rubbish – almost a full trailer-load,” he says.

“Some of it had obviously been there for a long time.”

Among the material removed from the estuary was a plastic chair, a rusted computer, lots of plastic bottles and bags, a large amount of polystrene, road cones and tyres.

“Orewa Estuary is in a similar state to most of the urban estuaries we clean up,” Hayden says. “It’s important that Sea Cleaners target those areas close to population centres.”

Hayden started Sea Cleaners NZ in 2002 and since then volunteers have removed more than 5.1 million litres of rubbish from the Waitemata Harbour and surrounding waterways.

He also coordinated an expedition to the North Pacific Ocean to raise awareness of litter in the North Pacific Gyre, and has promoted the positive effects of working locally within

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He has more than 15 years experience on the water as a contractor to the Watercare Harbour Clean-Up Trust.

Last year Hayden was named Local Hero of the Year, in the NZ of the Year awards for his work in the community.

Based at Westhaven, Sea Cleaners provides a boat and skipper, and works with local volunteers on the clean ups. Using the boat gives them access to areas that can not normally be reached.

The rubbish removed from the water is recycled whenever possible, but Hayden says so much is contaminated by sand and debris that it has to be sent

to landfill. The team’s priority is to get it out of the water, where it can have a devastating effect on marine life.

Hayden says their operation on the Mahurangi and Hibiscus coasts will be fulltime, with daily clean-ups led by a paid skipper and access to the network that includes staff, and an administrative team.

Rodney MP Mark Mitchell, who first met Hayden in March, has pledged his support and is actively seeking funders to make it possible to bring the service north. He says around $300,000 a year is needed to cover the operation of the boat, wages for a fulltime skipper and associated costs.

He says the project could be part of a local plastic awareness campaign.

“The amount of plastic may not be immediately noticeable when you’re on the water or at the beach, but once you focus on it, it becomes apparent that we do have a problem,” he says.

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Omaha Beach Bowling Club life member Judy Crooks was given the honour of cutting the 25th anniversary cake.

Club hits high with anniversary The Omaha Beach Bowling Club celebrated its 25th anniversary last month.

The club has more than 50 members and is continuing to offer more playing times and formats of the game.

Club president Warwick Spicer says there were barely 20 members two years ago, but membership is now on the rise.

“More permanent residents in the area means more members, with an even balance of men and women,” Warwick says.

“We also had 10 new sets of bowls this season that are far better for beginners to learn with, so that was an attraction for the club.”

Friday night bowls was started over summer with around 20 to 30 players taking to the green each night.

“This proved a great success and got a lot of recently-retired couples competing.”

Shorter formats of the game involving fewer ends and special power play rules were also introduced.

“All sports are starting to adopt faster alternatives and we are doing the same with bowls, which seems more popular with people trying out the sport.”

Club championship results this summer season were as follows; men’s singles, Ian Hendry; women’s singles, Gay Roberts; men’s pairs, Maurice Hulme and Laurie Ohms; women’s pairs, Gay Roberts and Sam Hall; men’s triples, Brian Waterson, Terry Simpson and Tony Teare; women’s triples, Gay Roberts, Sam Hall and Fay Spicer; men’s fours, Ian Hendry, Brian Waterson, Tony Teare and Laurie Ohms; women’s fours, Gay Roberts, Val Hall, Joanne Ohms and Joy Finney; men’s junior singles, Rob Finney; women’s junior singles, Michelle Timmins; mixed pairs, Giles Boyd and Fay Spicer.

Trivial pursuit night Fundraising trivial pursuit night for the Mahurangi College Hockey Club, Mahurangi College Auditorium, June 30, 7pm. Tickets $15 from players or school office.

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Muddy mayhem for runners The Mahurangi College cross country competition was nothing short of a traditional affair this year, with plenty of mud, sweat and sunshine.

Running took place at the Warkworth Showgrounds on May 4 with a 2.25km course, run once by junior and Year 7 and 8 students, and twice by intermediate and senior students.

Josh Lambert proved the standout performer setting the fastest two-lap time (despite being in the intermediate age group), of 19 minutes and 25 seconds.

Senior boy Theo Newman achieved the second fastest two-lap time of 20 minutes and 7 seconds. He was followed by fellow seniors Samuel Twig and Matthew Willmot.

In the senior girls division, Lucy Rowe set an impressive time of 22 minutes and 59 seconds, with Nicole White

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Another Rowe was on form in the intermediate girls section, with Kate coming first in 23 minutes and 14 seconds. Following her was Shona Illingworth and Coco Bone.

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Other place-getters: First – Maia Collins Bowman, Matthew Bowyer, Grace Richards, Ziggy Neely and Sasha Jamieson; second – George D’Urban-Burgess, Nathan Strong, Kali Leprou, Tom Barnett, Lucee Illingworth, Tommo McGuire and Mahana Demeulemeester; third – Eli Hallam, Ty Connolly, Megan Maclachlan, James Fuller, Devin Lee, Sammie Le Bas, Niall Christian and Zoe Peacock.

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Professional Landscape Services • Accredited Horticulturist and LBP • Landscape Design, Planting and Horticultural Services • Landscape Construction - Decks, Pergola, Retaining Walls and more • Equestrian Arenas

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

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CLEANER Honest, hardworking cleaner available for regular work or on offs. Ph Rebecca 021 0825 8242

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

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Villa in Kaipara Flats 3 bedroom house, garaging and plenty of space, with large lawn, mower supplied. $470 per week References essential. Please email davinac@withersco.co.nz

FOR SALE RAWLEIGH Products. Ph Pat 09 945 0495

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GARDENER Reliable & Experienced . Available for all aspects of garden work.

Phone Martin 021 254 6660

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Callender, Stuart (Puku) He would have wondered why all the fuss, but to everyone who came to Stuart’s send off and the many more who sent heartfelt messages, thank you! Special thanks to Pam, Sally and the kitchen crew, Heather for the lovely flowers, Richard and Sue for serving, and his drinking buddies for stacking and packing.

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Matakana- Cinema Complex Tuesday 11.00-1.00 Snells Beach – at the Library Friday 10.00 – 12.00 Warkworth RSA Fridays 4.00 to 5.00 No appointment is needed. There is no cost.

At all other times there are plenty of other JP’s available in the Warkworth/Mahurangi Area, either in the Warkworth Community phone book, or on-line “find a JP”.

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HISTORIC HOUSE MUSEUM MANAGER

Couldrey House & Garden in Wenderholm Regional Park requires a Manager to join its small, friendly team of volunteers brought together by interest in local history and community. This paid contract Manager position is part-time and flexible, 10-hours minimum a week, involving thoughtful volunteer and stakeholder management, sound operational administration, strong communication outreach and a focus on events and fundraising. The successful applicant requires excellent written and computer skills (Microsoft Office is essential; social media is desirable) as well as administrative and fundraising experience.

A full position description is available on www.couldreyhouse.org.nz Letters of application with CV and two referees should be emailed to info@ couldreyhouse.org.nz.

Applications close 1 June 2018.

The deadline for classified advertising for our May 30 paper is May 22. Send classified advertising enquiries to design@localmatters.co.nz

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SITUATIONS VACANT ROYAL DISTRICT NURSING SERVICE NEW ZEALAND LTD

Steve Hawes, STR Automotive

SUPPORT WORKERS WANTED! Ideally, you will have experience working in the disability sector and with delivering personal care, domestic assistance, meal preparation, shopping and restorative activities to help make a positive change in someone’s life.

To be successful in this role you will need the following • have prior experience supporting persons with complex/high needs • are willing to work block shifts • have excellent communication skills • can build a rapport and can engage with our client • have a full Drivers Licence and your own reliable vehicle • hold New Zealand resident or citizen status If you are honest, reliable and seeking to make a positive difference in our client’s lives, we encourage you to get in touch with us.

RDNS NZ is a leading provider of home-based healthcare solutions for people living in their own home across the greater Auckland regions, Southland and Otago Districts.

Apply now or for more information contact Tamara on:

0800 736 769 titi@rdns.org.nz

are looking for a vehicle detailer/groomer Come and join the growing team at Warkworth Toyota!

Mon-Fri: 8.00am-5.00pm Vehicle grooming, light yard/showroom work.

Fun team environment. We are looking for a car enthusiast, someone with an eye for detail and a self-starter.

If this sounds like you, email your CV and cover letter to: Brendan@warkworthtoyota.co.nz BUSINESS FOR SALE RURAL MAIL RUN Based in Wellsford Very good business Ph 021 254 0715

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We may buy your garage sale items.

We also do deceased estates and downsize houselots.

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WORK WANTED REID EQUESTRIAN ENGINEERING, Wellsford. Float rebuilds, horse truck conversions, etc. Dog kennels made to measure. Quality work. Ph Ron 423 9666

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Pitfalls of an annual WoF Are you an owner of a car manufactured since 2000 and therefore enjoying the ‘luxury’ of only needing an annual Warrant of Fitness (WoF)? Are you perhaps guilty of neglecting the maintenance of your vehicle as a result and believe an annual visit to your mechanic is sufficient?

Some would call this a false sense of security. Let’s put it in perspective. If you are commuting from Warkworth to Auckland daily for work – a common situation for a lot of households in our area – you will average approximately 30,000kms in a year. That’s 30,000kms between your annual WoF and the last safety check completed on your car. This doesn’t account for any weekend excursions or summer road trips, and we know how much Kiwis love their driving.

Brake pads that were half worn at your last WoF are most likely to be close to or completely worn out after another 30,000kms. It’s most likely you will now be experiencing a brake squeak or shuddering when braking and could be risking expensive damage to your brake components.

Tyres that passed your last WoF may well have cords or steel belts now showing on the inside edge. However, they could very well still look fine on the outside edge and are thus invisible to the driver. We have seen many shocking examples of this and it seems to be increasingly common, putting many lives at risk unnecessarily.

Modern headlights are so much more efficient, so you could easily have one not working and not notice. It is just as easy to not be aware that your brake lights have failed. Obviously, any lights not working create a potential hazard for you as the driver and other traffic around you.

The quality of your last service is also an important factor to consider. Were you informed of work that may be needed before the next WoF? It is standard professional recommendation that regular servicing is carried out at least every 6 months or 10,000kms. Keeping it in perspective, that’s three services a year for the average Warkworth to Auckland daily commuter.

Based on what we are seeing at annual warrant checks, especially as the cars eligible for annual warrants continue to age each year, we cannot stress enough how important it is to have at least one service between warrants. A service is not only maintaining the performance of your car, it is also an opportunity for a professional set of eyes to carry out a safety check of your vehicle, giving you and your family more than a false sense of security.

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Mahurangi prepares for season with Seaforth exchange Mahurangi Rugby Football Club juniors will be better prepared for their upcoming season after taking on Seaforth Balgowlah in Sydney last month.

Twenty players, aged between 10 and 12, travelled to Australia to play the sixth exchange between the two sides. Team assistant Raymond Barnes says despite losing both games, the matches were hard

fought and a good experience for the players.

“The opposition was very well drilled in the basics, but our boys did well to stay in both games,” Raymond says.

“Looking forward it should motivate them to focus on improving both carrying the ball straight and hard, and tackling low with good technique.”

The team also had the opportunity to perform a

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“The boys put everything in to that performance and certainly made former All Black and Waratahs coach Darryl Gibson smile.” He says the exchange rivalry is popular with both sides. Seaforth will play at Mahurangi next year.

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Warkworth Lions Quiz Night (2nd of 3), Warkworth Bowls, Mill Lane, 7pm. Teams of 6, $10 entry per person at the door.

Proceeds to community activities. Info: 0274 776519 16 Albert Road Boutique, Mahurangi Kindergarten fundraiser, 13 Albert Road. New and pre-loved clothing sale. Tickets $10, including cupcake and beverage. Bookings essential on 425 7096 17 Forest & Bird winter talk series, Totara Park Hall, Melwood Drive, Warkworth, 7.30pm. Filmmaker Peter Young will speak about The Last Ocean, a documentary about the Ross Sea. 18 Pink Ribbon Rolling Breakfast, breast cancer research fundraiser, Mahurangi East Library, 9.30am.

Info: anne.dickson@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz 18 Kowhai Arts and Craft Open Day, Warkworth Showgrounds, 10am-2pm. Refreshments available. All welcome.

19 Warkworth Music presents TORU, Ascension Wine Estate, 5pm. Tickets at the door; cash or cheque only, adults $35, students free. Info: warkworthmusic.org.nz (see ad p37) 19 Family Fun Magic & Illusion Show, Warkworth Town Hall, 2pm. Tickets from i-SITE, eventfinda.co.nz (see story p39) 20 Community Planting Heritage Lane, off Melwood/Ashmore Cres, Warkworth, 9.30am-12.30pm. A Forest and Bird led project. Info: Roger 425 9127 20 Kaukapakapa Village Market & Pink Ribbon Breakfast, 947 Kaipara Coast Hwy, 8.30am to 1pm. Info: Sarah 0274 831542 or sarah1@maxnet.co.nz 20 Kaukapakapa Library cookbook display, vintage, classic and contemporary cookbooks along with a cornucopia of kitchenalia, courtesy of John Perry, Global Village Antiques 20 Erin-Cole Baker, Leigh Sawmill (see story p37) 21 Ukulele for Beginners, Mahurangi East Library, 3.30pm.

Info: May.Clulee@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz 22 Walking Track Workshop, Plume Vineyard, 9.30am (see story p14) 23&24 Monster Book Sale, Tui House, 32 Glenmore Drive Warkworth, 8am-4pm. All proceeds to Warkworth Wellsford Hospice.

Info: 09 425 9535 or email lesley.ingham@tuihospice.org.nz 25 Warkworth Grey Power meeting, guest speakers Tracey Martin & Beth Houlbrooke, Totara Park (see ad p32) 26 Atiu Creek Regional Park Community Planting Day, 8.30am to 4.30pm. All welcome. Transport can be provided from Warkworth and Wellsford, spaces limited. Info: info@cvnz.org.nz or 0800 567 686 26 Local Vocals Choir, world famous in Wellsford, performing free as part of NZ Music Month, Wellsford Library, 11am 26 From Inspiration to Publication, creative writing workshop with Whangarei author Michael Botur, Betty Paxton Room, Mahurangi Community Centre, 10am-3pm. $25 for nonmembers. Bookings: mahueastfriends@gmail.com (see brief p37) 30 Winter Words creative writing evening at Mahurangi East Library, 7-9pm. Gold coin donation, all welcome.

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Police Pink Breakfast, Warkworth RSA (see story p33) Kawau Bay Artists exhibition, old Masonic Hall Warkworth (see story p39) Sounds on Screen music documentary film festival, Warkworth Town Hall. Info: Sounds on Screen NZ on Facebook Hospice Art Exhibition, Estuary Arts Orewa (see ad p39)

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56 Mahurangimatters May 16, 2018

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Training with the Cook Islands team at Algies Bay for two days prior to the event may have been a defining factor in Mahurangi making gold fleet.

The Mahurangi College sailing team that bagged 10th place, from left, Rhys Niccolls, William Paterson, Devon Warden, Oliver Warden, Finian Taylor, Kate Niccolls and Janelle Milne. Absent, Ben Holland.

The Mahurangi College sailing team is clawing its way back to former glory days after finishing 10th at the Secondary Schools Team Sailing National Championships.

The competition saw 32 teams compete at Algies Bay, from April 21 to 27. Since the competition’s inception in 1984, Mahurangi has placed in the top three of gold fleet 12 times, but a string of poor results since 2015 has seen them far from the podium.

Last year, the team finished in 22nd place, top of bronze fleet but this year they were promoted to gold fleet during the repechage stage. Mahurangi College sailing coach Peter Warden says he is stoked with the best result in his three years of working with the students.

“It was an impressive performance by the team to move from bronze fleet up to gold and come inside

available and a number of support vessels provided by generous members of the community.”

Ross also praised the work done by local committee member Gay Noyer, who both organises the event and updates the website with current results for schools to view around the country.

For the second year running, Auckland Grammar School finished first overall, followed by Westlake Boys High School and Christchurch Boys High School. Those three teams will represent New Zealand at the Inter-Dominion sailing competition, at Algies Bay in October, where they will race against the top three secondary school teams from Australia.

Ross says there is also potential for the venue to host a world sailing event in 2021, but talks are in the very early stages.

Mahurangi sailors make comeback statement the top 10,” Peter says. “The sailors worked really well together and maintained their focus during the long delay periods due to a lack of wind this year.”

Conditions did provide a big challenge for the event organisers, but organising committee member Ross Sutherland says they were pleased with their management of the competition. “With sailing, you are at the mercy of the weather, so we were happy to still get through just over 400 races,” Ross says.

Algies Bay has hosted the event six times, including for the last three consecutive years, and will likely remain the preferred venue.

“The competition brings around $150,000 into the local economy, so there are a lot of places that would like to host it. However, Algies provides one of the cheaper options and also has 25 420 class boats

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