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While some might scoff that you can’t grow roses in a temperate climate such as Warkworth’s, the recent rose show proves otherwise, according to guest presenter and radio gardening show host Tony Murrell. “What’s really come through is the confidence of home gardeners here to go out into their gardens, pick a bloom and be prepared to have it judged and critiqued,” Tony says. “Warkworth people have a lot of pride in their area and it seems that the Warkworth Garden Club is very supportive.”

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Pak’nSave planned for Warkworth The supermarket wars in Warkworth could be about to heat up, with grocery giant Foodstuffs inadvertently revealing its plans to build a Pak’nSave at Hudson Rd. The New Zealand-owned co-operative years ago, from AMP Capital. company called Warkworth Properties also owns New World, and is a bitter Supermarkets prefer to keep their (2010) Ltd. It had been valued at rival of Australian-owned Countdown, plans top secret, and have been known just $315,000 in 2002 when it was a which moved into Warkworth last year. to go to great lengths to hide their slightly smaller site. The sole director and shareholder of Foodstuffs is believed to have purchased purchases from their rivals. the 9.6ha block of vacant land on the Property records show the land was Warkworth Properties is North Shore continued page 3 corner of Hudson Rd and SH1 three sold for $5 million in 2010 to a

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Rose growers Tony said that overall, the standard of entries was very high and he complimented Warkworth on the very beautiful building the show was staged in. “This old Masonic Hall is just amazing particularly with this car crash of colours on display. “It’s lovely to see irises and lots of clean foliage, and not a lot of chemicals have been used because I have been sniffing.” Tony awarded the Sesquicentennial Cup for Best in the Show to Sally Greenwood, of Matakana. Other results: Campbell DÁrcy Cup (most points section A) – Di Jensen 1, Norma Miller 2, Lorraine Hatfull 3; Flora Reilly Cup (most points section B) – Ann Dewhirst 1, Billie Hurdley & Pat McFadden 2=; Candlesticks (most points section C) – Karen Gibbons 1, Robyn Foley 2, Di Jensen, Karen Carr & Sally Greenwood 3=; Helen and Henry Phibbs Trophy (most points section D) –Lynne Crump 1, Pat McFadden & Lorraine Hatfull 2=: Cruickshank Cup (best rose section B) – Billie Hurdley; Warkworth Garden Club Cup (most fragrant rose) – Norma Miller. Certificates: Champion exhibition

from page 1 rose – Di Jensen; champion decorative rose – Di Jensen; champion full blown rose – Norma Miller; champion large – Norma Miller; champion small stem – Norma Miller. Freda Holt Trophy (champion of champions rose) – Di Jensen; Pamela Eriksen Memorial tray (committee’s choice sections C & D) – Fay Illingworth; President’s Cup (sections C & D) – Kara Dudley; Perpetual Challenge Rose Bowl (most points in sections A,B,C & D) – Di Jensen 1, Norma Miller 2, Pat McFadden 3; Garden Competition – Pene Wiggins & Jane Dawson 1=, Tony Whincop & Peter Hewson 2=; Les & Gloria Wilmot and Springboard Community Works 3=. Wilkinson Salver for an aesthetic contribution – Warkworth & District Museum and the Native & Kauri Bushman’s Association. Hamilton Trophy (best garden seen from the road) – 5 Victoria Street and 35 Southgate Street; Plaque Award for best street – Rivendell Place. Special prize for first ever rose entry – Billie Hurdley; special prize, arrangement in a domestic teapot – Karen Carr. For more photos of the Warkworth Rose Show see localmatters.co.nz

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Pak‘nSave planned accountant Brian Anderson. Mr Anderson told Mahurangi Matters he was only a nominee owner, holding the property on behalf of its true owners. He said he could not say anything more, as he was under a confidentiality agreement. However, Foodstuffs has revealed its hand in a submission it made to Auckland Council’s draft Unitary Plan in June. The submission, from property manager Angela Bull, states that Foodstuffs has bought the property at Hudson Rd and wants it rezoned from future business to general business. “The site is very suitable for business development that will serve the needs of the increased population in the Warkworth sub-region because it is readily accessed from major transport routes and it sits within the natural boundary of the RUB which will be formed by the future route of SH1,” she argues. The submission also notes that

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Warkworth has been earmarked for an extra 3500 homes over the next 30 years, and suggests these could be developed “sooner rather than later”, as a result of the Housing Accord between Auckland Council and the Government. The Housing Accord only applies for the next three years. Warkworth has not yet been identified as one of the first areas to get the fasttrack low-cost housing. However, Cr Penny Webster told the Rodney Local Board last month that it would not be a bad thing if it were, as the special housing areas came with an added bonus — lots of extra infrastructure. She suggested it might be a good way of getting extra facilities for the town. Regardless of whether such areas go ahead, Warkworth already appears to have caught the eye of property developers. Oil giant BP has confirmed that it has bought the site known as The Grange just south of the town on SH1. A competitor claims there are access

issues at the site that might inhibit development. But BP spokesman Jonty Mills says it is too early to say what it will do with the land, if anything. Meanwhile, Z Energy is also eyeing the newly upgraded Hudson Rd intersection. Z Energy’s network development manager, Bryan Dustin, confirmed it was in negotiations over the site, but said nothing had yet been signed. “It’s just one of several sites we’re looking at,” he said. Mr Dustin, whose previous job was to find sites for McDonald’s, said he expected the plans would go ahead next year. Although they depended on passing trade as much as local trade, “when you look at what has been planned for Warkworth it’s going to be a growth area so that’s where the focus is at the moment.” Mr Dustin said he believed the motorway proposed from Puhoi to Warkworth was also prompting interest in the town.

An aerial view of the new intersection.

“It’s probably a combination of both, quite frankly. As Auckland is tending to get more pressure on housing and as people are looking more for lifestyle, they tend to move further out a bit, and having the ability to commute on a motorway makes it a bit easier.” Like some others in town, Mr Dustin has also heard rumours that Pak’nSave could be joined at Hudson Rd by other major retailers such as Farmer’s, Bunnings, and Harvey Norman in a retail park. “I’m not sure what the outcome of that is, but certainly if something like that went ahead, it would change the whole atmosphere of the place,” he said.

Wharehine congratulated for Hudson Road upgrade

Wellsford-based roading firm Wharehine has been singled out for praise by NZTA for completing the Hudson Rd upgrade to a “very high standard”, and finishing six weeks early. NZTA’s highway manager for such a thing for contractors. Auckland and Northland, Tommy Wharehine managing director Rob Parker, has congratulated the Gibson says he is proud of his staff. company for minimising disruption “We’ve been building and delivering to state highway and local traffic. quality local infrastructure since “Throughout the project, Wharehine 1955 with the highest honesty and received great feedback from the integrity, have a great team of 90 community for keeping the site tidy locals and families, and have always and for keeping people informed of strived to support the community,” what was happening. On top of this he says. they have completed the contract early and to a very high standard,” “Our clients include NZTA, councils, Kiwirail, and many private Mr Parker says. developers. Wharehine, along Local residents put on a shout for with Rhodes, Masons, and many the contractors on November 15. other smaller local contractors Spokesman Brian Arndt says the will continue to competitively, street party was a “joyous occasion”. expertly, and honestly construct “Over 60 people attended and a jolly our community for another 58 good time was had by all. We really years, without corruption,” he says, appreciate what Wharehine has done.” referring to the investigation that is He says NZTA staff told him it was currently underway by the Serious Wharehine staff turn on the traffic lights at the newly upgraded Hudson Rd intersection. Photo: Wharehine. the first time neighbours had done Fraud Office into roading contracts.

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OFF THE RECORD Tunnel vision During a discussion on the Unitary Plan, at a Warkworth Area Liaison Group meeting this month, it was observed that one improvement Council could make immediately was to start printing maps of Auckland that don’t finish at the Johnstone’s Hill Tunnels.

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My way or the highway I am responding to Bob Scott’s letter (MM, Nov 13) in which he criticises comments made by Mark Mitchell regarding the Puhoi-Wellsford anticipated motorway. One thing for sure is that Bob Scott does not live in Dome Valley – if he did he would not make the comments that he did. This man has no vision; he needs to observe the vehicles that actually use this road all year round and at all hours of the night and day. I do, and there are trucks, trucks and more trucks and a continuous stream of other traffic, not to mention the breakdowns and accidents constantly happening, erosion of the road, and vehicle numbers increasing with the growth and the migration of Aucklanders moving and travelling north — all of which more than justifies this motorway. It has to happen as there is no other economic transport alternative. Without growth this country is at a standstill. A lot of people do not embrace change for fear that their routine will be upset. I used to be like that but once change has occurred you forget the long drawn-out previous experiences. Warkworth will be a massive winner with the new motorway extension – more industry, more business because of the easier transport access, and

more employment for everyone, particularly our youth. Sylvia Taylor, Dome Valley Without the grandiose title of a “Road of National Significance”, the idea of a few billion dollars to put a major highway to Whangarei would be rejected immediately as being preposterous. Let me count the ways. First, we can’t afford it. National is gambling on no more surprises like leaky buildings, financial institutions going bankrupt, Christchurch earthquakes, a drought etc. What billion-dollar crisis next? National seems intent on garnering voters by borrowing money and by selling the family silver. And now we also have “Dams of National Significance”. At a meeting of affected persons at the home of Bob Scott about three years ago, I heard the engineer in charge of the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway say that they have no idea how to get through the Dome Valley, and over the Brynderwyns, and now NZTA have stated the road to Wellsford is on hold. The evidence suggests it was a con from day one. Of the seven “Roads of National Significance,” six are necessary seven days a week. Congestion in the Warkworth area is primarily Friday afternoon going north and Sunday afternoon going south and summer holidays and long weekends, and SH1 easily handles the traffic the rest of the time.

Will this motorway pay for itself ever? And where does the money come from? Perhaps selling more of the “family silver”. Over the years many have suggested the plan for SH1 should be to make safe the present road to Warkworth, via improvements, together with a bypass of Warkworth. First World countries tend to do this, and they also repair dangerous highways. We put up warning signs. My wife and I were totally shocked when told some three years ago that the motorway would go right through Perry Road. Now plans suggest that about 50 families will be inconvenienced by the 18.5km motorway. How can the planners justify 22 of those families on Perry Road, in less than 1km, and all properties and the Honey Centre will be affected by the prevailing southwest winds carrying noise and pollution. First there will be four to five years of heavy equipment, followed by highway noise forever. The valley just west of this valley is largely in forestry land and would cause far less grief and, considering multimillion dollar payouts, probably far cheaper. Each year, the traffic will continue to build en route and through Warkworth. If the motorway is completed, people in the general area may elect to continue to use present SH1 rather than go north, then west, negating the supposed time savings of

five minutes. Within years the traffic will be back to its present use level. We read that NZTA decided against upgrading SH1 so we will live with a “defective highway” forever. Oh, and expect an 80kph speed limit. Joe Anderson, Perry Road I have total sympathy for the unnecessary disruption to the lives of Bob and Jill Scott and others on the route of the hugely costly “Holiday Highway”. Bob’s letter (MM, Nov 13) shows clearly the lack of commonsense in this project. Some years ago planning was completed for a four-lane highway from Puhoi to Warkworth which would have provided fast, efficient access and would have provided the opportunity to build a ring road system for which Warkworth is particularly suited — a bridge and road south of Warkworth to handle eastern traffic, a truck bypass from McKinney corner to Hudson Road, and eventually a link from Matakana Road to SH1. All projections favoured this option. This would have focused on Warkworth as an important satellite town for business and job development. Political intervention at local and national levels and private ambitions resulted in a plan that suits no one. The proposed new highway will make Warkworth irrelevant and encourage growth elsewhere. For

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FEEDBACK continued all the cost and disruption of lives and the environment, is this what is needed when traffic volumes are falling and the cost/benefit ratio is the worst of all seven “Roads of National Significance”? And of course no one has considered the huge cost to ratepayers of the necessary changes to existing local roads to accommodate the highway. Elizabeth Foster, Whangateau

Footpath fury “Footpaths” – what a misnomer! The only thing that is very evident to anyone brave enough to walk along or ride a mobility scooter along either Snells Beach Road or Mahurangi East Road is that they have been designed to accommodate the cars that cross them to reach the road. I would be highly surprised if any repairs have been done to them since my days on Council in the late 1980s to late 1990s. So come on Local Board members — how about hopping out of your cars and going for a mobility scooter ride to see how it feels to have your kidneys darn-near rattled free? Betty Paxton, Snells Beach

Birthing Centre I have always known that the Warkworth Birthing Centre was good, but I didn’t realise just how much of a local asset it is. My partner Jo and I have recently had the privilege of welcoming our lovely baby Gracie into the world — thanks to the help of the Birthing Centre. From Danielle Kleyu’s superb ante-natal classes, to Lydia Miller’s excellent management pre- and post-delivery, but especially the long delivery process itself, through to the empathetic, caring approach to our post-natal stay, the Birthing Centre was simply excellent. I am not surprised that people from North Shore are queuing up to get

into “our” birthing centre; the word has spread. Thank you to all of the team, and I hope that this letter helps others in the community realise just what a jewel we have in our midst. Simon James, Moirs Hill

Pretty things Regarding your cartoon about the $46,000 that will be spent on public art along the Mahurangi River (MM, Nov 13), this is also a protest. What about the restoration of the Warkworth Town Hall? The majority voted for restoration, not a glass façade. We can also forgo the pretty things such as the Clock Tower embellishment, and the stainless steel fantails. Warkworth needs a town hall that can be used for ordinary functions. Please get this into action soon. Lorraine Hatfull, Warkworth

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FEEDBACK continued Business breakfast We are grateful for the local coverage that Mahurangi Matters gives all community initiatives but unfortunately your article about the business breakfast I hosted (MM, Nov 1) incorrectly stated the focus and purpose of this event. The Community Led Internship Programme (Clip) was the focus of the breakfast, being the first initiative of its kind in New Zealand. My offices and the Ministry of Education are working together on internship opportunities within local businesses for local school leavers. The breakfast event on October 18 was coordinated and hosted by my support staff as the launch for this initiative. Clip aims to provide real time vocational pathways for school leavers by providing them with post-secondary schooling opportunities to gain NCEA credits through internships with local business champions. While I was a member of the Rodney Local Board, it came to my attention that there are 14 organisations in our immediate area providing support for at-risk youth but very few supporting the majority of our school leavers in an exceptionally difficult employment market. We thank the 28 businesses and community organisations who signed on at the breakfast to find out more about how they could support this programme in 2014. We are heartened by the positive feedback received and the additional businesses that have signed up since the event. If any businesses are interested in finding out more about this local internship initiative, they can contact me on TraceyMartinMP@ parliament.govt.nz Tracey Martin, Deputy Leader New Zealand First

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I had read about the Kowhai Connection and decided it would be the best way to get back home then into Warkworth again later to collect the vehicle. What an absolutely brilliant service. Not only did they transport me between Warkworth and Sandspit but they delivered me to — and picked me up at the end of — the driveways of my home and the garage. The shuttle arrived at the arranged time and the driver was friendly, courteous and helpful. I will use the service again and absolutely recommend that others do the same. Jenny Thomas, Sandspit

Kowhai Festival On behalf of the Kowhai Festival Society, I would like to reiterate our appreciation for the support that the new owners of Warkworth New World have shown to this annual event. Warkworth New World owner/ operator Anna Carmichael has been proactive in continuing the sponsorship that the business has provided for many years. In addition to providing financial support, New World has this year taken the initiative by getting involved in the festival activities. Other local retailers also took the festival theme to heart this year by decorating their shop windows in the festival theme, getting their wares out on the street and embracing the event as a celebration of our community. Many thanks to everyone who contributed to the 44th Kowhai Festival and we look forward to many more. Murray Chapman, Kowhai Festival chairman We welcome your letters but letters under 300 words are preferred. We reserve the right to abridge them as necessary. Unabridged versions can be read under Opinion at www.localmatters.co.nz

The Clearwater prepares for her first taste of the Mahurangi River. To see more photos, plus a video of the launch, read this story online at localmatters.co.nz

Silt threatens scow’s future The restoration of a safe, navigable route up the Mahurangi River to Warkworth got a boost last month with the launch of the tug Clearwater. The 12-metre vessel was privately designed to run in shallow water. It built in Woodcocks Road over about can float in 800mm and has a bollarda year and will be used in conjunction pull of four tonne. with a 300-tonne dumb barge, which Peter says depending on Council is likely to be in the water next year. processes and consents, dredging in the Project coordinator Peter Thompson town basin could start next year. The says silt levels in the river are building Rodney Local Board has earmarked up so rapidly that it’s threatening the $31,000 towards costs this financial year and a number of property owners operation of the scow Jane Gifford. “The Jane belongs to the people of have agreed to take the spoil. NZ and a lot of the funding raised “The river and Mahurangi Harbour to re-build her was donated on the are the jewels in Rodney’s crown premise that she would be used for and shipping traffic creates a lot of a sail training ship,” Peter says. “We interest in Warkworth. The dredging would be remiss, as her guardians, needs to go hand-in-hand with wider if we didn’t ensure that she was kept catchment work aimed at reducing silt somewhere where she can fulfil that loadings getting into the river.” function. Cr Penny Webster, who launched “At the moment we can only work two the Clearwater, hopes that dredging, hours either side of high tide. If the combined with the ability to clear river isn’t dredged, then within five to post-1996 mangrove seedlings as 10 years, she would have to move to outlined in the Unitary Plan, will help to better manage the river. another base.” The pontoon, which the Jane ties up “The Jane Gifford makes a very to, is also in need of remedial work. important contribution to tourism in Peter estimates there’s about 2.5 the area,” she says. metres of fill to be taken out from The tug was named Clearwater after underneath it. the sloop that became the flagship for The new tug is driven by two the campaign to clean-up the Hudson Cummings 200hp engines and is River in New York.

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Te Arai development allowed to go ahead It could be as late as mid-January before Te Arai Beach developers can celebrate a decision by Auckland Council-appointed hearing commissioners approving their controversial coastal development at Te Arai. Te Uri o Hau and Queenstown proposal opposed the plan. Much developer Darby Partners were last of the opposition was based around month given the green light to develop concern for threatened shorebirds a 46-lot subdivision on a remote and including the critically endangered largely undeveloped strip of land, which NZ fairy tern. abuts the Mangawhai Wildlife Reserve. Te Arai Beach Preservation Society However, a spokesperson for the spokesperson Chris Wild said the developers says nothing will happen society was shocked but not surprised before the New Year, while the by the decision. “It is very grim times company waits to see if there are any for environmental protection in New appeals lodged with the Environment Zealand at present,” she said. Court – “not that we’re expecting any”. “Council ecological experts actually “Should there be no appeal to deal said ‘there is a high risk that any land with, the next step is to confirm the use change at Te Arai could contribute land gift with Auckland Council.” to the extinction of the nationally The proposal includes the creation of critical fairy tern or lower the chances a 172-hectare reserve. of this species expanding its breeding Te Uri o Hau Settlement Trust chair range along the Te Arai coast’.” Rawson Wright describes the decision No decision has yet been made on as “hugely significant for the hapu”. whether the decision will be appealed. “After many years, we can now proceed “We have recently had to provide with a development delivering an evidence to the Environment Court economic return to the hapu, which of poor environmental management can be invested into services and jobs to practices and resource consent support our 7000 members, while also breaches by the Darby Partners (75%) protecting the environment,” he said. and Te Uri O Hau (25%) joint“The gift of 172 hectares of the venture at Te Arai, in regards to water forest to Council is one of a number and earthworks consent applications of conservation measures which will for the proposed golf course. safeguard the environment at Te Arai. “So in the actions and proposals we It includes the entire beachfront area have seen thus far, we are yet to be and dunes, and the parts of the forest satisfied that the joint venture partners with the highest conservation values. are responsible environmental “The Council already owns 87 hectares managers – promises are easily made of land at Te Arai Point adjoining our but we need to be satisfied that they are forest. If the gift is accepted, a public more than empty before we feel secure coastal reserve of around 250 hectares that the outstanding environmental could be established – a significant values will survive into the future.” asset for the Auckland region.” The northern part of the Te Arai Plan Change 166 was the latest in a forest was sold last year to Los Angeles number of attempts by Te Uri o Hau financier Ric Kayne, who is building a to gain permission to develop its land, private golf course due for completion which it purchased in 2002 as part of late next year. a Waitangi Treaty settlement. The commissioners’ decision can Three-quarters of the 2255 be read in full with this story at submissions received on the original localmatters.co.nz

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Bob and I would go out gleaning on the farms. I remember one day he said to me: “God help me. I went to medical school for six years to learn to be a doctor and I end up picking pumpkins to get money for homecare.” The only brushes I’ve ever had with the law was when the local cop discovered we were selling homemade peach schnapps to raise money. Another time Bob and I stopped the traffic on the highway and made people pay a fine to get past us. And in the early days I was censured for helping to shower a client because you weren’t supposed to touch them then. You were just supposed to do housework. Nowadays staff are highly trained and give injections and everything.

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The big year in my life was 1997, when I eloped with my second husband and soulmate, Don Hawkings. He used to own Solway, the big deer farm, and built the Mobil station. He’s 84 now and he’s been in a wheelchair for the last four years with cancer and rheumatoid arthritis. In 1997 I was also awarded a QSM, made a JP, and it was also the year that Don and I and Roger Shaw set up SeniorNet. For the first 10 years that Don and I were married, I would take two months off every year and we would go overseas. We visited 59 countries. Another thing we did was adopt one of those dollar-a-day children through Save the Children Fund. When she was 7 we went to Thailand and met her. If you came to visit our head office, which had a turnover of well over $18 million this year in wages alone, you would find that nearly everything has been patched or donated. All our money has gone back into the

community. When we got left a couple of homes in people’s wills, we sold them and built the homes for the disabled and elderly in Mangawhai. But we could see what was happening in the health sector so we decided to merge with Geneva Healthcare to survive. We were offered over a million dollars more by another company, but the board felt Geneva would look after our staff and clients better. In 2010 I lost my first breast to cancer and I had a full-on anaphylactic shock on the operating table. I was allergic to the blue dye they use. When I came round I couldn’t talk. I could move a finger and I could blink and that was all. I was on life support and then a week later they deemed me strong enough to go back under because they hadn’t actually taken the boob right off. Six months later I had the other one off and then six months after that another lump came up. I think I’m healthy now. I coped mainly because of help from my daughter-in-law Karen and my PA Trudy Caldwell. On Anzac Day next year I will have done my six months as CEO of Geneva Northlink and I’ll retire. I want to work with the Warkworth Floral Art Society and join SeniorNet. I became a Jehovah’s Witness in 1965 and I want to spend time on that. I’m also planning to use my new

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Have your say on a pool for Rodney More than a decade after she began campaigning for a public swimming pool for Rodney, swimming coach Ruth Mills believes she is finally making progress. Auckland Council has agreed to conduct a survey that will assess the need for a North Rodney Aquatic Centre — a move Ruth is hailing as a major milestone for the community. Should the Council decide there is a need, the next step in the process would be a feasibility study, which would examine the cost, followed by a business case. “It’s so good it’s actually got out of the starting blocks,” she says. The survey will be available online until February 8, and Ruth is urging as many people as possible to take part. She believes a previous survey of sporting needs in the district conducted four years ago was flawed, because it was not independent. Several candidates for the Rodney Local Board mentioned the need for a pool in their campaigns this year, Children in Rodney are missing out on Learn To Swim programmes, like this one including successful candidate Beth at the Whangaparaoa pools, says Ruth Mills. Photo: Auckland Council. Houlbrooke, who is Ruth’s sister. But Ruth believes the Warkworth More than half the submissions to the Greg Sayers promised a pool on his Rodney Local Board’s local plan for Showgrounds site would still be the campaign billboards, and also proved 2011-13 asked for an aquatic facility most logical venue. successful in representing Warkworth, in north Rodney, which is defined She says Council staff told her they despite the fact that he lives in Arkles as including Wellsford, Warkworth, did consider including a 25m pool at Leigh, Algies Bay, Snells Beach and the Bay. an early stage. Puhoi area. Cr Penny Webster has previously been Although it is probably too late to cool on the idea, suggesting a targeted In 2006 this area had a population get a pool included in the multiof just over 20,000 people and the rate might be the only way to win population is projected to grow by 45 purpose building that is currently funding for an aquatic facility. being developed, Ruth says the per cent to nearly 30,000 in 2031. Swimming pools tend to come at a A 2007 Sport NZ study said that same engineers who worked on the huge cost for Councils, with losses aquatic facilities generally needed a Northern Arena have told her a pool is still feasible on the site. running into many millions of dollars population of at least 30,000. “The only downside was the lack of each year. Mayor Len Brown’s policy of making pools free for under-16s has laps are adequately catered for at the a wastewater system being in there, made them an even bigger drain on Mahurangi College pool, which is which would add to the cost.” the public purse, but Ruth notes it has open some mornings and evenings for Info: You can find a link to the also meant that children in Rodney those who want to exercise regularly. survey on www.localmatters.co.nz have even more reason to complain But she says children and toddlers are about missing out. missing out, and many are not learning What do you think? “One of my arguments is Councils to swim properly. There is also a rapidly Would you be prepared happily pay for libraries which have growing number of older people who to pay higher rates almost no income, and at least pools can would benefit from hydrotherapy. for a North Rodney offset some of that cost. And libraries Various sites have been suggested for a Aquatic Centre? might be good for wellbeing, but pool over the years, including a site at Comment at exercise is even better for wellbeing.” Snells Beach and large blocks of land localmatters.co.nz She believes those who want to swim to the south and east of Warkworth.

Briefs Hill Street update A representative of the NZ Transport Agency will be the guest speaker at this month’s meeting of the Warkworth Area Liaison Group. The NZTA has been asked to update the group on the Hill Street intersection, Mansell Road Bridge and associated projects. The meeting will be held in the downstairs meeting room at the Warkworth RSA, on December 4, starting at 7.30pm.

Lions event wins award The Warkworth Lions Club’s popular “Take a Kid Fishing Day” has been recognised with a Youth Activities Award at a recent Lions conference in Auckland. The next Take a Kid Fishing Day will be held in March.

Summer library programme Libraries in the Mahurangi region are running a “Dare to Explore the World” programme over summer, to encourage children to continue reading during the school holidays. Children who complete at least four challenges will get an invite to a party at their local library. The programme will begin at Mahurangi East Library on December 9 with an “Amazing Race” afternoon, beginning at 3.30pm.

Gallipoli ballot entries Northland MP Mike Sabin is encouraging all those who hope to attend the 100th anniversary of Anzac Day at Gallipoli in 2015 to enter the ballot. The ballot is open until January 31, and will be randomly drawn. Successful applicants will be notified in April and receive their ticket and another pass for a guest of their choosing. Both the applicant and guest will be required to pay their own travel and accommodation expenses. To enter the ballot or for more information, visit Gallipoli2015.govt.nz.

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Warkworth Showgrounds December 13 deadline for project gets a big boost submissions on motorway A $300,000 grant from the ASB Community Trust has given a huge boost to plans for a new hockey turf in Warkworth. The chairman of the Warkworth surrounding ground levels rising, as part Hockey Turf Charitable Trust, Brett of the current stage of earthworks,” says Illingworth, says the trust was thrilled Local Board advisor Francis Martin. to receive the money, and is now Mr Martin says the design has just tantalisingly close to construction. been commissioned for the next stage, Auckland Council expects to have which includes new netball courts and a platform for the turf sealed before a new playground, which will include Christmas. new equipment for older children. The trust has already raised around A concept plan and 3D montage $250,000 from the community, and is is expected to be presented to the now crossing its fingers that another Rodney Local Board this month. grant from the Lotteries Commission The physical work for the hard courts will enable it to achieve its goal. and playground is expected to start “It’s been a huge community effort, in February or March next year, and and we are a hell of a lot closer now, should be completed by June. thanks to the ASB,” he says. Auckland Council’s sport and The turf will be part of a multi-sports recreation project leader for recreation complex that is slowly taking shape at partnerships, funding and programmes, the Warkworth Showgrounds. Andrew Pragnell, has told sports The complex, which is being partly groups that the northern entrance to funded by Auckland Council, is one the reserve will be ready by Christmas. of the main projects for the region that Mahurangi College students have been has been backed by the Rodney Local invited to help design the entrance. Board. Meanwhile, discussions are continuing The old playground at the over the design for a multipurpose showgrounds was recently removed, building on the site. due to safety concerns. Mr Pragnell says a feasibility study Earthworks are well underway at the examining options for the building is site, and the contractor was concerned expected to be completed by March. that children were climbing over the Work at the site will stop over temporary fencing. Christmas and January, to minimise “The playground was going disruption for the annual Warkworth to effectively end up in a hole with the Rodeo, and A&P Show.

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Imaginations run wild at cook-off Whangaripo residents returned to their culinary roots on November 23 when they staged the inaugural Wild Food Cook-Off in the Whangaripo Hall. The result was a range of dishes fit for a medieval banquet – smoked swan wontons, peacock pie, venison stew, pissed pukeko and rabbit stew, elderflower sorbet and wild fennel scones topped with mulberry and mint jam. The only rule was that food had to be either wild meat or foraged. Altogether 22 dishes were presented on the day and judged by food writer Lauraine Jacobs. One of the organisers, Dianne Denton, says Lauraine was impressed by the effort people had put in to creating their dishes, their attention to detail, the range of ingredients they’d used and their presentations. The blue ribbon for best presentation went to Rachel O’Malley’s goat’s cheese and nasturtium ice cream on kawakawa shortbread, and Arcangelo Georgalli’s wild boar balls won the People’s Choice. A honeysuckle sorbet, presented in a dish made of ice, won the most creative Richard Denton fired up the barbecue to sizzle the wild goat sausages. ingredients prize, and smoked eel on The community was galvanised to for a screen and projector.” oat crackers with pickled beetroot and organise the day by “murmurs” from The other cook-off organisers were nasturtium salsa was chosen as the Auckland Council to “use the hall or Kathy Hunter, Kate Arbuthnot and tastiest dish. lose it”. Katherine Norman. The day included live entertainment by “We started looking for ideas and They thanked sponsors Gamegear, Girl Friday and old-fashioned games. thought we’d run indoor sports nights Oyster Shack, Whangaripo Buffalo “It was a great atmosphere and I’m during winter and summer movies. Cheese, Blanchett, Dr Hud, Leigh pretty sure we’ll do it again with a few We’ve purchased a satellite dish and Sawmill, Mitre 10, Leigh Fisheries and tweaks,” Dianne says. the festival was a way of fundraising Lothlorien Winery.

Diners in tears over duckling Dog owners are being warned not to allow their dogs off the leash at Warkworth Wharf after a duckling was killed in front of restaurant goers. Owner of Red Rice restaurant, Trini Sheard, says people were having dinner around 6pm one recent weeknight when a black dog disappeared into the bush and came out with a tiny yellow duckling in its mouth. The dog carried the small fluffy creature onto a grassy area outside the restaurant, let it go for a while, then picked it up and started playing with it, Trini says. “It was horrible to watch. Everyone started screaming and some customers were in tears. We opened the windows and shouted at the dog. Then we saw two dogs. They went away and came back but by then the duckling was dead.” Trini says she sees similar things happening every year but this was the most horrifying. “I’ve seen black gulls pick them up and fly away with them too.” An Auckland Council spokesperson says dogs should be on leashes in wharf areas. Breaches where a dog owner has their dog off a leash in an on-leash area can result in an infringement fine of $200 or $300. People should contact the Auckland Council call centre on 09 301 0101 to complain.

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New sculptures unveiled at Kaipara Coast Gardens More than 200 people attended the opening of Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens’ new exhibition on November 23. Cr Penny Webster officially opened the exhibition, praising the venue’s contribution to tourism and the local economy, and live music was performed by Jess Bailey and Ben Bradley. Exhibition 2014 is the sixth exhibition at the gardens and brings together 57 new works by 46 established and emerging New Zealand artists from Kaitaia to Invercargill. Local artists include Catherine Batchelor from Leigh, John Rawson from Wharehine, Cherrie James from Mahurangi West, Bou van den Bemd from Wellsford, Riki Waugh from Whangaparaoa, Robert Onnes from Red Beach and Nigel Lynam, John Mulholland, Jill Guillemin all from Warkworth. Video art has also been included for the first time, with a changing selection of video works being projected throughout the year. The first video is by Dawn Flower Alternative and looks at the issue of nuclear power as a form of electricity generation. Rival in the Ascendant, by Warkworth artist John Mulholland.

Carpark resurfacing pencilled in The small section of the surface of the Baxter Street carpark, which was closed for months last year, is failing. After enquiries from Mahurangi Matters, Rodney Local Board member Steve Garner inspected the site and contacted Auckland Transport. An Auckland Transport spokesperson says the original contractors will carry out repairs under warranty “at no cost to

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Art and fashion came together at a spectacular Brick Bay home to raise just over $5000 for Warkworth Wellsford Hospice last month. Kevin and Barbara Brown opened up their home on the edge of Sandspit Harbour for the Hospice Fashion Show. Guests sipped wine on the terrace while hospice staff modelled elegant and comfortable summer outfits by Jill Bryce of White Linen Design. Winners of the Catwalk Arts Mannequin competition were announced, with sculptor Virginia Henderson winning the judges’ award with her entry Bag Lady, and the public choice award going to hostess Barbara Brown for Robed in Rope. The mannequins were judged by artist Virginia Leonard and boutique owner Katya Maker, and the cash prizes were sponsored by Kip McGrath Education Centres Warkworth. A condition of the competition was that designers would donate their entries to hospice to be Hospice nurse Pru auctioned; this raised almost $2000 of the event FitzHerbert models total. An outfit from White Linen Design was also an outfit by White auctioned, raising $200. Linen Design at the Mannequin competition results: Judges’ choice Hospice Fashion Show in Brick Bay. ($350 prize) Bag Lady by Virginia Henderson; Public choice ($150 prize) and Highly Commended Robed in Rope by Barbara Brown; Highly Commended Masquerade Ball by Danielle Annand (student), Beautiful New Zealand by Jolita Webb; Merit The Dressmaker’s Daughter by Paddy Sullivan, The Sound of Music by Stella Clark (student), A Succulent Body by Brooke Wilson. Warkworth Wellsford Hospice is grateful to all who contributed to the fundraiser, including Mahurangi River Winery for donating wine, Noel Leeming and Barbara Brown’s the ANZ Bank for displaying the mannequins for entry, Robed in public voting, Mahurangi East Tennis Club for the Rope, gained loan of display screens, and Telecom and Northland the most votes. Waste for donating raffle prizes.

Hospice manager Kathryn Ashworth accepts a cheque from Toastmasters chairman Murray Chapman. To view a video of highlights from the night, see this story online at www.localmatters.co.nz

Battle of wits leaves a rosy glow Warkworth Toastmasters have raised $3,263 for Warkworth Wellsford Hospice by hosting a debate night as part of the annual Kowhai Festival. The Toastmasters pitted their most argumentative members against the local Rotary club and Mahurangi College teachers in two debates with moots made for humour – that “Romance is dead”, and that “Things were better in the old days”. Adjudicated by hospice advisory board chairman Darryl Soljan, whose wit rivalled the best of the debaters, both contests went to the invited teams. Toastmasters chairman Murray Chapman cried foul at Rotary’s tactic of handing out red roses to the women in the audience, thus proving romance is not dead – but failed to sway the result.

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Groynes damaged Judy Grimmer has taught at Wellsford School since 1972

Wellsford farewells ‘Nana Grimmer’ Teacher Judy Grimmer is calling it a day after 24 years at Wellsford School. A special assembly was held for the 65-year-old at four years at Warkworth Primary. the town’s community centre on December 2 with She returned to Wellsford School in 1993 and has her colleagues’ farewelling her to the John Denver been there teaching six- and seven-year-olds ever since. tune Leaving on a jet plane. She has seen four principals come and go recalls how Mrs Grimmer says she will be sad to leave behind her the school was poorly equipped when she started. “You year two pupils – one of her best classes ever – but had to make do whereas now schools are well resourced. is looking forward to visiting her son in Bangkok, I started working with chalk and pencils and now I’m swimming and catching up with friends she hasn’t working with computers, laptops and iPads.” seen for a while. The teacher has organised the 40-hour Famine each The Warkworth resident fondly known as “Nana year and helped fundraise for a new playground. She Grimmer” grew up in Tauranga and decided she says she has always enjoyed working in Wellsford, wanted to become a teacher at the age of 14. which is a “very family-oriented community.” “I was an only child and I wanted to have the joy Career highlights include an overnight stay with her of children around me. I missed that when I was class at Oruawharo Marae on the Kaipara Harbour growing up.” and a trip to Tiritiri Matangi. She trained at Hamilton Teachers’ College before Past students will recall her singing “are you spending two years at Morrinsville Primary and listening?” with hand actions to get their attention – another at Sunset Primary in Rotorua. they will know the response is “yes we are.” The year two teacher got her first job at Wellsford Mrs Grimmer says she has taught a number of School in 1972 when it was still at its former site, children that have gone on to do great things, and lived in the nearby teachers’ hostel with six including Tyra-Li Humfrey who has just been other women. It wasn’t long before she met Andrew named head girl at Rodney College. Grimmer, a sixth-generation Warkworth farmer, and Principal Dave Bradley says he calls her “Nana the two got married in 1974. They live on a 90ha Grimmer” because of the relationship she has with beef farm near the Kaipara Flats turnoff. her pupils. “She’s kind, caring, friendly, nurturing and Mrs Grimmer took time off to have four children nothing is a drama. She happily accommodates every – she also has five grandchildren – before spending child whether they’ve got challenging needs or not.”

Auckland Council has been criticised for its lack of interest in repairing the Omaha groynes, which sustained serious damage in a recent storm. OBC chair Graham Painter says a Council engineer has inspected the damage and reported that he doesn’t see the work as being urgent. “A summer cyclonic event will likely cause additional damage with consequences north and south of the groynes,” Mr Painter said. “An immediate repair will be much less expensive.”

Fence feasibility Auckland Council is looking at the feasibility of extending the western end of the predator-proof fence at the Omaha shorebird sanctuary. Omaha Shorebird Protection Trust co-chair Hamish Alexander welcomed the news saying that there was a lot of leakage at that end of the barrier designed to keep out rats, rabbits, cats and mustelids. He also expressed some frustration at dealing with Auckland Council, which has the sanctuary classified as a ‘sports field’. He said this had made it difficult to access any funding and as a result, members had dipped into their own pockets to fund recent rabbit control measures. He asked residents to keep their cats inside over summer.

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Eco-tourism is based on marketing and attracting visitors to an area’s natural values. It’s seen as a potential path to a sustainable economy, an alternative to resource extraction. Eco-tourism is often proposed as a solution to underdevelopment — one that protects the environment and provides much-needed revenue to communities. But isn’t eco-tourism an oxymoron; a contradiction in terms? Wikipedia says eco-tourism allows visitors access to “fragile, pristine, and relatively undisturbed natural areas, intended as a low-impact and often smallscale alternative to standard commercial (mass) tourism. It may be to educate the traveller, to provide funds for ecological conservation, to directly benefit the economic development and political empowerment of local communities, or to foster respect for different cultures and for human rights”. But even the most conscientious of visitors, in sufficient numbers, or with inadequate infrastructure, can cause harm to ecosystems, habitats and inhabitants. Commercialising places and cultures inevitably affects them, often for the worse. Research shows that good tourist infrastructure can mitigate the adverse effects of visitors, but what about the sometimes irrevocable damage from the making of the tracks, accommodation and other tourism facilities to begin with? We know that people who swim with dolphins or whales often have their lives changed and become staunch cetacean advocates. But what about the negative effects of people on whale and dolphin behaviour, which is now proven? What of the impacts of all the wellmeaning eco-tourists on an area’s peace and quiet — the very natural values sought to be protected and valued? Then there’s the effect on domestic economies. While we would hope that eco-tourism provides jobs and cash for resident communities, in many cases tourism ventures are provided by big overseas investors or tourism chains, with most tourism workers low-paid, and in menial and precarious jobs. Even in relatively well-developed countries like NZ where infrastructure is quite good and we market eco-tourism to milk every last dollar from over two million visitors per year, is it right to call it by that name? Are Abel Tasman National Park experiences really eco-tours when 800,000 others are visiting the same area every year? Many frontiers are now accessible under an eco-tourism advertising banner. Antarctica, deep jungles, shark-infested waters — visit them all with a local eco-tourism company. But aren’t these areas made less pristine, pure, quiet, and authentic, if we and the rest of the wealthy hordes visit them for a quick snapshot and to be able to say we’ve “done” Antarctica, or the Congo, or the Amazon? By visiting these places, spending our money, taking our expectations for Western conveniences (including McDonald’s), aren’t we corrupting the very values we seek to celebrate and explore? Because of the demands for infrastructure, and the impacts of visitor pressures on local environments and communities, sometimes the most environmentally friendly form of eco-tourism is to not travel at all.

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Eco Festival plans busy programme Workshops, guided walks, a mini eco-film festival, a community garden picnic and a clothes swap are just a few of the events being planned in the Mahurangi region as part of a month-long environmental festival next year. Ecofest North, which will run from March 15 to “If they ‘try’ being green, they might find they like April 13, will showcase the environmental work that it,” she says. goes on in communities from the Harbour Bridge The month-long festival is supported by Auckland north to Matakana and Leigh. Council and a sister festival, Ecowest, will run Matakana permaculturalist Trish Allen is concurrently in the western suburbs. coordinating a calendar of local activities and is keen Organisers would welcome involvement from any to hear from anyone who would like to be involved. not-for-profit groups, community organisations Planning is still in the early stages, but guided walks or businesses who may wish to list an event in the at Mt Tamahunga and Tawharanui, and along the festival programme, offer a talk or display, or help Omaha/Pt Wells/Matakana walkway have been support the festival through sponsorship, donations confirmed, as well as a clothes swap in the Matakana of goods or services, or assistance with publicity. Hall, picnic and music at the Matakana Community “It can be a challenge for community organisations Garden, and an event at the Leigh Discovery Centre. to reach a wider audience, so the festival will be an The Kaipatiki Project Environment Centre is excellent opportunity for these groups and local businesses to raise their profile with the growing coordinating the event regionally. Marketing coordinator Lisa Ridehalgh says the aim number of eco-conscious people out there.” is to encourage people to participate in a range of Info: www.ecofest.org.nz or contact Trish Allen at events, in the hope that they might adopt a more trishallen@xtra.co.nz; phone 422 9422 or mobile 021 203 4510. sustainable lifestyle.

A new weapon in the fight against kauri dieback is being trialled, with the community involved in designing a programme for Okura Bush, and Rodney landowners being asked to take part. Scientists, working with councils, DOC, Government and iwi, have been looking for ways to control kauri dieback for around five years. The disease, caused by a root rot pathogen (Phytophthora ‘Agathis’) has become a serious problem; bush areas of Auckland are now major disease zones, with West Auckland one of the worst affected areas in the country. Dieback can occur at any stage of growth, with kauri seedlings, saplings, juvenile (rickers) and old-aged iconic trees all infected and killed – the Ministry of Primary Industries declared the pathogen an unwanted organism under the Biosecurity Act in 2008. Until now, the focus has been on restricting the spread of the disease, which happens through contaminated soil. However for the first time a tool has been developed through the work of Dr Ian Horner, a phytophthora expert, and the adoption of techniques that horticulturalists use to fight the same pathogen in crops. The trials involve injecting phosphite (or phosphorous acid) into affected trees. This enables the naturally occurring fungicide to be translocated through the tree and into the roots, where the pathogen that causes kauri dieback first takes hold. Auckland Council’s principal biosecurity adviser, Nick Waipara, says initial trials in glasshouses and, more recently, in the Waitakere Ranges and Northland, have had promising results. Research is continuing and the trial is not yet ready for widespread implementation. However, Nick would now like to hear from any private landowners in Rodney who have kauri trees and would like to take part. He says a trial is also being designed for Okura Bush where dieback is established and of serious concern. If you have kauri on your land and would like to help with the trial, email Nick.Waipara@aucklandcouncil. govt.nz. For more information on kauri dieback: www. kauridieback.co.nz

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Jenny Shires completed the Auckland Marathon and raised $6000 for the children of late St Johns Volunteer and youth cadet officer Paula Claydon. The Snells Beach resident planned to complete the challenge before turning 50 and was spurred on by the death of the local hairdresser. Jenny’s aim was to set up a fund to help with the education of Paula’s children. Donation boxes were placed at cafes and businesses along with an article that appeared in Mahurangi Matters. Jenny says $6000 was pledged and $5000 has been received so far. The Give a Little Website raised $800, while the lion’s share came from donation boxes. “We ran a sausage sizzle at the Kowhai Festival with the help of Farmlands who donated sausages, onions, bread, gas and a trailer with a barbecue. The stall raised $400 and everything earned went straight to Paula. We also had a Jenny Shires has set up an education donation box there which raised $250.” fund for the children of former Snells Mitre 10 Mega Warkworth also helped Beach hairdresser Paula Claydon. PHOTO, marathon-photos.com with a sausage sizzle. Meanwhile, Point Wells couple Judy Jenny started her run in Devonport, and Steve Marshall donated 20 t-shirts travelling via Takapuna over the with the words “4PAULAS3” on front harbour bridge to Victoria Park, then that were worn by Jenny and her team 11km along the waterfront and back during the sausage sizzles and marathon. to Victoria Park. Jenny says the day of the marathon, She says she will open up a bank November 3, was “perfect” and she account and each of Paula’s three was in fine physical form. “I had to children will get $2000. “Two grand is taper off in the last two weeks so it was a drop in the ocean but it’ll give them hard to keep my head in a good space. a start and hopefully inspire them to The objective was to finish on the know anything is possible if you put day I started, preferably without an your mind to it.” injury. It took five hours and I ran the She says she is very grateful for the community support. whole way.”

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Sun reigns down on annual Wellsford Show Organisers of the annual Wellsford Show, which was held on November 23, are forecasting the introduction of a new event in 2014. Lynette Gubb says there’s a strong possibility that next year’s show will feature a wearable arts competition. “It’s important to keep the programme fresh with new ideas and we’d welcome hearing from anyone who has suggestions on how the show can be improved,” Lynette says. “At the end of the day, it’s a community event for the whole family so feedback is really valuable.” Lynette said the ice cream vendors did particularly well at this year’s show, thanks to the hot, sunny day. “Numbers were down slightly on last year, but there were a lot of other events on so that possibly had an impact. The pirates were a great hit, particularly with the children, and there was plenty of local entertainment on the stage throughout the day. “The Pony Club events were a popular drawcard and there were good entries in the beef, and calf and lamb, events. We really appreciate the continued support of our loyal trade exhibitors.” Anyone who would like to get involved in next year’s show can contact Lynette on 021 1168 437. More photos at localmatters.co.nz

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Around 600 people flocked to Snells Beach on November 17 for the final day of Warkworth’s 160th anniversary celebrations. The crowds basked in the sun and enjoyed the Tractorama event, which is held only once every decade. More than 70 tractors registered for the event, which raised money for Snells Beach School and the Mahurangi East Fire Service. Events included “the hen and chickens” (a large John Deere tractor pulling 12 smaller tractors), a children’s tug-owar with a tractor, raffles, and drag and modified tractor demonstrations. The Fire Service kept children cool with their fire hoses. Among the prizes awarded were for Best Massey Ferguson (Neil Stewart), Oldest Massey Ferguson (Bob & Christine Former), Most Original Tractor (Wayne Bosley) and Most Modified Tractor (Bruce Arthur). The Tractorama Trophy for People’s Choice went to the Allis-Chalmers owned by Brett Howlett. More photos at localmatters.co.nz

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Mahurangi Matters is inviting residents to share early photographs of the area. Although local museums hold impressive photographic libraries, which include collections by noted early adventurers such as Tudor Collins and Harold Marsh, there are sure to be some real gems tucked away in family photograph albums. “The photographs can be of local scenes or they may show people at work, playing sport or enjoying a social event. The older the better, but generally we are looking for images that show life in the area pre-1950.” Printed photographs can be brought into the Mahurangi Matters office at 17 Neville Street, Warkworth during normal business hours, where they will be scanned and returned immediately. Alternatively, high-resolution digital images can be emailed to editor@ localmatters.co.nz. Info: 425 9068.

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Ph 425 8723 • Fax 425 9526 Wayne 021 765 706 or Ian 021 977 729 47 Woodcocks Road, Warkworth

Email: autoglassww@xtra.co.nz

Snells Beach

MOTORS – 2008 LIMITED –

 425 5355

1 Hamatana Road - Snells Beach

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MATAKANA

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

The

Trellis Guy

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

Snells Beach • Warkworth • Orewa

• Custom made • Quality material • Quality workmanship

Also see Lance for your supply of Native and Landscaping plants

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

• Design & build • New homes • Renovation • Maintenance • Fences & decks • Project management • Alterations & additions • Shade & outdoor living areas

• Complete homes • Quality construction of small projects

ROOFING NZ

115

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

AWARD WINNING BUILDER

RICHARD WILCOCK

Auckland region house of the year 2008 For the construction of:

• Architecturally designed homes • New houses • Decks • Alterations • Fences

Phone: 027 4771 583 email: rwb@xtra.co.nz www.rwbuilder.co.nz 152M

New • ReRoofs • Cladding Specialists

NATHAN HOUSTON Ph: 09 422 2131

Mob: 021 220 5000

470 KAiPArA FlATS rOAd, WArKWOrTH126

Servicing Auckland - Rodney - Kaipara

Metroscaff Limited

- Residential & Light Commercial - Quick Stage - OSH Standards - Tube & Clip - Qualified Scaffolders - Reliable Service P 09 425 0300 M 027 4930468 F 09 423 0017

Covering Rodney in Long-Run Iron Local Quality Guaranteed

Matt Tickle Licensed LBP Mobile: 021356965 Home: 09 425 6311 Email: iron.man@xtra.co.nz

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

PHONE 0800 622 7929

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

CARPENTER-JOINER • Terraces • Alterations • New Housing

• Renovations • Maintenance • Small jobs a specialty

NEIL KOSE

CONTRACTORS Footings Hole Boring Landscaping

3.5T Digger 5T Truck

sales@metroscaff.co.nz www.metroscaff.co.nz

Phone 09 425 5491 • Mobile 027 275 1172

Bob Waata Mobile 021 634 484

MICK BERGER CONTRACTORS

R.K. PADDISON CONTRACTING LTD

Tiling & Waterprooﬁng

Phone: 09 422 0688 • Mobile: 0274 930 806

43 years experience

• Truck Hire • Metal Supplies • Bulk Cartage

Owner/Driver: Ray Dams ● Winching ● Bulldozing ● Driveways House Sites ● Landscaping ● Earthmoving ● Sub Divisions

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

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

38 Coquette Street, Warkworth Ph 422 3450 or 0274 955 566 • Fax 09 422 3451

Bricks • Blocks • Paving

WARKWORTH BRICKLAYING SERVICES LTD Phone Alan Berthelsen 021 780 170 • A/hrs 425 8252

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Pre-Purchase Inspections Moisture Detection Building Reports

COASTAL CONCEPTS • Electrician • Gates & Automation t. 09 422 2175 m. 027 497 0464 e. cc2004@xtra.co.nz

www.coastalconceptsltd.co.nz

Geron Building Inspections Qualified Builder Licensed Practitioner Member of BOINZ

(Building Officials Institute of NZ)

geron.north@xtra.co.nz 021 371 656 09 425 8588

T.T.E. DESIGNS ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNERS

Over 25 years experience in all aspects of residential design THOMAS ERRINGTON Dip.Arch. P: 09 425 0512 M: 027 453 2495 E: ttedesigns@ruralinzone.net W: www.ttedesigns.co.nz

Denis 021 945 498 Joel 021 422 592

dens@xtra.co.nz PO Box 193, Warkworth

Foundations • Floors • Drives • Paths • Digger & Truck Hire Concrete Specialists backed by over 30 years experience Established since 1984

JB’s No 1 LANDSCAPING SERVICES

MATAKANA

DRIVEWAYS • FLOORS PATHS • ASHPHALT

Sub-divisions • R.O.W’s • Excavations Phone George 021 2800 233 nzconcrete@gmail.com • www.nzconcrete.co.nz BASED IN MATAKANA

• Mowing – Residential & Lifestyle Blocks – We can mow anything • Gardening & Design • Hedge & Tree Maintenance FOR ALL YOUR GROUNDCARE NEEDS

0800 276 7726

Arcadia

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

HOME MAINTENANCE HANDYMAN Phillip Keesing Decks Ph. (09) 422 6036 Fences Mob. 021 045 0132 General repairs pjkeesing@gmail.com Clean ups All things considered General repairs covering a wide range of jobs around the house including decks and fences

JOHN BETTRIDGE P: 09 425 4086 M: 021 665 558 E: john.bettridge@jbsno1.co.nz

Landscape Industries Association of New Zealand Inc.

for complete quality projects

Specialising in:  STUMP GRINDING  Fine Pruning  Tree Removal  Hedge Trimming Ph Kevin on 021 725 757

Kurt Salmond

SERVICING HIBISCUS COAST TO MANGAWHAI

TOTAL LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION

Tree Care

• Landscape Construction & Garden Design • Specialists in Lifestyle Property Development & Maintenance

• Planting • Paving • Retaining WallS • FenceS • deckS • gaRden makeoveRS

• Lawns - contouring & seeding • Top soil • Retaining Walls • Driveways • Paths • Digger • Truck • Tractor

Phone Bruce 425 7766 a/h I take the hard work out of Landscaping

It's your day off and you are mowing the lawn? • Lawnmowing (large & small) • Hedges & Pruning • Gardening / Spraying • Section Clean-Ups • Handyman

WE CAN

DELIVER!

•Sand•Metal•Shell•Pebble•Scoria •Mulch•Garden Mix•Topsoil•Compost •Tirau Gold•Pine Chip•Cambian Bark

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

For all your property maintenance and small building projects Phone to discuss YOUR requirements 021 423 860 - 423 8619 a/h handyman@bruno.co.nz • www.bruno.co.nz

Insured and Guaranteed on any new service

Save $10

when you present this voucher

Call your LOCAL JIM 0800 4 546 546 or book online at www.jimsmowing.co.nz Franchise Enquiries welcome

MOBILITY SCOOTERS

Rodney - North Shore

• SALES • SERVICE • HIRE 09 422 2615

0800 022 884

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Furniture & Furniture Restoration | Carpets | Painters & Decorators | Water Pumps

R&B FURNITURE REFINISHING & RESTORATION ALNWICK ST EXTENSION, WARKWORTH ROBERTSON BOATYARD Ph: 09 425 7001 • Email: info@robertsonboats.co.nz

www.robertsonboatsnz.com

OUTDOOR FURNITURE Tables to order Chairs • Swingseats Benches • Umbrellas NZ made – quality built to last

French polishing • Repairs • Respraying • Upholstery Touch ups • Colour matching • Insurance quotes We also manufacture one-off furniture items from recycled or new timber Phone Grant or Lesley

25 Hibiscus Coast Highway, Silverdale (next to BP) Ph: 09 426 9660 • em: clipper.furniture@xtra.co.nz www.clipperfurniture.co.nz

23B Foundry Rd, Silverdale • 09 426 2979 www.silverdalefurniturerestorations.co.nz

Bradwood Kitchens

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

HANDCRAFTED BESPOKE SOLID WOOD KITCHENS

Leigh Decorators

@ FROG POOL FARM

Painting • Paperhanging • Roofs • Airless Spraying • Stopping (small jobs) • Repaints • New Homes

728 STATE HIGHWAY ONE, DOME VALLEY PHONE 425 9030 • WWW.BRADWOOD.CO.NZ

For your Free Quote and/or Consultation phone Gary HOME: 09-422-6695 • MOBILE: 021-024-44941 EMAIL: leighdecorators@clear.net.nz

FROM RECYCLED & NEW TIMBERS

Welch Painting & Decorating

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

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

Mark Welch

Sparkling windows is our business Ruth Murray • ruth.murray@clear.net.nz

021 106 5717 or 021 230 2626

0800 787 392 steve@purewaterservices.co.nz

www.purewaterservices.co.nz AUTHORISED AGENT

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

Ph Mandy 09 423 0005 or 021 507 463 Do you need a reliable, honest local tradesperson?

CARPET CLEANING

Emergency Flood Service Technical Experience 12 years Fully qualified and certified

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

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

H2O PUMPS • Filtration • UV Sterilizers • Softeners and Neutralizers • Iron Removal • Agent for Stallion Pumps

We’ll ﬁnd the right tradesperson for those jobs around your home and property. We’re local like you – from Puhoi to Mangawhai.

PROPERTY SERVICES & MAINTENANCE

Contact Linda Robinson e

09 422 9860 linda@localtrades.co.nz

m w

027 526 1146 www.localtrades.co.nz

YOU ONLY PAY FOR WORK DONE

‘Just one call and we’ll arrange it all’

WATER PUMPS New Pump Sales Service Installation

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

Water Treatment

LOCAL TRADES p

Certified Member of the Carpet Cleaning Association of NZ

(2007) Ltd

“If you don’t have a filter you are the filter” Call Steve today 027 478 7427 he’s your local

Interior/Exterior n Waterblasting n Roof Painting Airless Spraying n Plastering n Wallpapering Colour Consulting n Decorative Effects Qualified Tradesmen - Honest/Reliable

DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL

Pump & Filtration Services Water - Filters - Underbench - UV - Whole House • Water Coolers • Water Pumps • Sales & Service

A BRUSH WITH ART

EXPERT PAINTING AND DECORATING

Mob: 027 240 8330 A/h : 422 2678 • Fax: 422 2676

Bright Outlook

Window Cleaning

• Painting • Paper Hanging • Spray Painting • Water Blasting

LTD.

itchen Colours and Wood Finishes

Phone/Fax 425-5619 Mobile 0800 733 765

K & R PUMP SERVICES LTD

Pumping Systems

clean. care. repair. Owen Ward

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

WATER TANK & WATER APPLICATION CLEANING AGENCY Warkworth: Phone John or Annette Carr p: 09 425 7477 | m: 027 240 7791 | f: 09 425 7483 email: mobikair@xtra.co.nz

Mangawhai: Phil Lathrope 431 4608 | 021 642 668

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& DRAINLAYING

TV AERIAL & SATELLITE SERVICES Freeview Sales & Installation TV & FM Aerials

Mark Sim 021 102 4561 tplumber@xtra.co.nz

GAVIN BROUGH Ph 09 425 5495 Mob 0274 766 115

TTT Plumbing Limited TRIED – TESTED – TRUSTED

Digital Freeview Satellite Installation & Repairs

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

ABSOLUTE CONCRETE

WATER TANKS

GOING DIGITAL NOW

WARKWORTH PICTURE FRAMERS office & Internet services

COMPLETE CUSTOM FRAMING SERVICE

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

Phone 425 7257 | chris@copyworks.co.nz Argyll Angle, 58-60 Queen Street, Warkworth

David and Pat Little P. 09 425 8143 E. the_littles@xtra.co.nz 15 Coquette Street,Warkworth 0910 DAVID LITTLE GCF

water

Household Water Deliveries

09 4312211

0800 747 928

sales@absoluteconcrete.co.nz

mobile: 027 556 6111

IAN & SOLW TE S AY R fILTEREd A

WATER

0800 638 254 OR 09 422 3700

Beauty Therapy & Nail Creations for head to toe pampering

Good food that’s Gluten Free

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

Quality workmanship is the KEY aspect of our business. We are locally based and customer friendly. Our services include but not limited to: Locks rekeyed • Lost keys made and cut on site • Locks repaired • Home security appraisals • Locks installed • Garage remotes programmed

0800 SHORELOCK (746 735) Grant Clifton Registered Financial Advisor

Home Loans Refinancing Business & Development Debt Consolidation Home Improvements Personal Loans

021 440 143

Alison Wech

SNELLS BEACH

PHONE 09 425 5597

146M

LOCAL SECURITY COMPANY

0800 66 24 24 www.insitesecurity.co.nz

• Alarm & CCTV Installation and Servicing • Local Alarm Monitoring • Patrols/alarm Response • Free Design and Quotation PO Box 487 Warkworth

Come in for

FREE COFFEE Limited time, conditions apply

Countrywise Financial Ltd 523 Matakana Rd, Warkworth grant@countrywise.co.nz www.countrywise.co.nz

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

Spot X Cafe Monday to Friday 7am-3.30pm 50a Morrsion Drive Warkworth Phone 4222 541 • Txt 021 150 7366

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

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

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

ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS HERE FOR ONLY +GST* PER INSERTION

$48

Phone Cathy or Shona 425 9068 or email your advert to advertising@localmatters.co.nz *for a three insertion contract

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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Advertise your classifieds and church notices here for only

$2.95+GST per line or $8.85 per/cm+GST for boxed adverts.

ANNIVERSARIES

FOR SALE

HOmE mAINTENANCE

mARKETS

65th Wedding Anniversary

BEEHIVES Setup for hobby, beekeeper.

LAWNS - Contouring, prepping and laying. Owner/operator 25+yrs experience. For complete quality projects phone Bruce (09) 425 7766.

CHRISTmAS GIFT FAIR, book sale, Christmas shopping weekend at the Point Wells Hall, Fri 13th December 5-7, Sat 14 Dec 8-3, Sun 15 Dec 8-3. Bargains for all. Phone Charleyne 09 422 7438.

Phone 09 422 2044.

CARAVAN Anglo 15’6”, 4 berth with awning. Good condition. $6,800. Phone 09 423 8775.

CHRISTmAS TREES $30each @

Wellsford St Johns (opp McDonalds) Main Road, Wellsford.

ICONIC BOOKSHOP FOR SALE

Betty Peat & Roy McNeil

Open since 1989, this Warkworth bookshop is well known for it’s great prices, and HUGE range of pre-loved and new books. With great atmosphere and comfy chairs this bookshop is loved by all who visit. Do you love books and looking for a change? Phone Martin 0222 762 333

married in Auckland 12th November 1948. Congratulations Mum & Dad. You are amazing – we love you. From your children, grandchildren & 15 great grandchildren.

KUmARA PLANTS Organic red/ orange. 873 Whangaripo Valley Road. Phone 09 423 7079.

APPLIANCE REPAIRS

SCARECROWS Variety of types/ sizes. Ring Barbara 09 425 4400

A SmART REPAIR Service for F&P

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

FLIGHTS

mAINTENANCE Grading, Rolling & Metalling for rural Driveways. No job to BIG or small. Ph Bruce 425 7766.

Horse riding WarkWortH



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



Book Now 1hr $45 • 2hrs $80 Phone 09 425 8517 42 Kaipara Flats Road, Warkworth Google: Horse Riding Warkworth

FOR HIRE PUHOI CENTENNIAL HALL Capacity

of up to 200, reasonable rates. Contact Kathy on 422 0891 or puhoi.hall@hiko. co.nz

mINI DIGGER FOR HIRE with or without driver. Very competitive rates. Ph Don 09 425 8501 or 021 527 017.

FOR RENT GRANNY FLAT - WARKWORTH

$250pw, professional, good refs. Ph 09 425 0118.

STEVE’S mAINTENANCE lawns, hedges, waterblasting, rubbish removal, section clearing, property maintenance. No job too big or small. Phone Steve 029 770 7101 or 09 425 9966. Serving Warkworth, Snells, Matakana, Sandspit.

SCENIC FLIGHTS 30 mins $59; 20 mins $49; Min. 3 passengers. Trial flights $79. Gift vouchers available. GREAT BARRIER FLIGHTS. Special stopover up to 4 hours. Return $110. Min. 3 passengers. One way flights $115 each. Min 2 passengers. NORTH CAPE FLIGHTS $430 each.

Min 3 passengers.

Rodney Aero Club 425 8735 or Rod miller 425 5612

HOmE mAINTENANCE HANCOX UPHOLSTERY RECOVER SPECIALIST Antiques & contemporary styles. Recycling furniture for 41 years. John Hancox, 14 Bambro St, Ph 425 0934. HANDYmAN – THE mAINTENANCE mAN Your one stop fix-it-man. Phone Jim 422 3725 or 021 254 2048 or visit www.themaintenancemanjim.co.nz HANDYmAN SERVICES All building work to odd jobs. Fast & efficient. Phone Graeme 021 775 943. RETAINING WALLS Wooden retaining walls and fencing. Owner/operator 25+ years experience. For complete quality projects ph Bruce (09) 425 7766.

mUSEUm SUmmER mARKET 1st Saturday of the month, 8am, Old Masonic Hall, Baxter Street, Warkworth. Enquiries Warkworth 425 8391. PUHOI FARmERS mARKET, Last Sunday of every month, 9am-1pm, Last market of the year December 29th. Phone 0217 222 66. Next market 26th January.

PAINTING & DECORATING

Free Quotes

GREEN BEAR PAINTING - reliable, quality service. Phone 09 423 0155 (Matakana) or 021 063 2375. Bruce McCarthy.

Phone 0800 4 546 546

PHOTOGRAPHIC & DIGITAL

Large or Small, Mow/Mulch, Slash, Garden, Clean-up, Gutter, Hedge, Rubbish etc All work guaranteed!

PRESERVE YOUR mEmORIES

RAWLEIGH Products. Ph Pat 425 8851.

DRIVEWAYS

FITNESS

BRIAN’S PEST CONTROL SERVICES & mAINTENANCE treatment of spiders, ants, cockroaches, flies, & all pest problems commercial & residential. Ph 09 420 3449 leave message.

www.jimsmowing.co.nz TANK WATER TESTING Find out what bad-bugs are in your drinking water. We collect, test and report. Phone Simon at 09 422 9345 or tankwater@ xtra.co.nz WATER FILTERS Underbench filters & whole house Ultra violet filters – Kill and remove ecoli/bacteria. FREE site visits. Ph Steve 09 945 2282 or visit www.purewaterservices.co.nz WATER PUmPS Low water pressure? Get it sorted. Sales, service and installation. Work guaranteed. Steve 09 945 2282 ww.purewaterservices.co.nz LAWNmOWING & SECTION mAINTENANCE SERVICE Rubbish removal, weed control, water blasting, decks, drives, paths, fence painting & repairs. Warkworth - Matakana & Beaches. Jeff is reliable and punctual. Phone 027 425 7357 or 425 7357.

SPRING Chimney/Flue SWEEPS Safety checks - repairs - parts bird proofing - insurance receipts

Wood/fire sales & installations

SAFE CHIMNEYS for 38 YEARS

Phone 09 423 8945 Email: lynz.c@xtra.co.nz

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

PUBLIC NOTICES

Mahurangi College

HOST AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT?

Mahurangi College is looking for additional caring families to expand its Home Stay Programme. This involves a committed family looking after International Students from a range of countries for period of one term or longer. A remuneration is paid. Preference is given to families in Warkworth township, Snells Beach-Algies Bay, Matakana Village areas. If interested please contact the College Home Stay Coordinator: Kate Leslie phone 425 5629.

FREE JP SERVICE

Auckland Council service centre, Baxter Street, Warkworth.

EVERY mON, 10-2 & SAT 10-1

No appointment necessary. Service includes signing, witnessing, declarations, certified copies, immigration & marriage dissolution.

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KAIWAKA SPIRITUAL CENTRE Corner SH1 & Vipond Road Wednesday Readings 11th Dec 2013, 10am-3pm Tarot • Tea Cup • Healing Color Therapy • Numerology $30 per reading Julie • Dianne • Essy • Netty (MontHly Meeting)

Mocco

1999-2013

RURAL LEES SHEARING CONTRACTORS Excellent animal care and customer service. Lifestyle specialists. All Rodney. Phone Phil 021 358 626.

‘THANK YOU’

SITUATIONS VACANT

The Anniversary Committee extends a huge THANK YOU to the many sponsors, supporters and individuals who helped make the event such an outstanding success: All Rural Farming, Autostop Whangaparaoa, Brian Dawson, Bridgehouse Lodge, Daniel Hicks, David Burt/ Auckland Council Events, Gerry & Evelyn Brown, Implements Direct, Ian & Ramona Holt, Ian & Jenny Ferguson, John Deere, Kowhai Coast Denture Services, Jane Gifford Restoration Trust & Crew, Kerry Miller, LightSpeed, Local Matters, Mahurangi River Winery & Restaurant, Mahurangi Marine, Massey Ferguson, Mahurangi College Kapa Haka Group, Mahurangi East Fire Service, Mark Mitchell MP, Neil Carpenter/Barber, Nicks Market Place, Nick Scott, Councillor Penny Webster, Peter Thompson, RJ Services, Rod Miller, Rodney Times, Salty Dog Inn Management, Salty Dog Supporters Group/Committee, SG Digital, Snells Beach Autos Ltd, Snells Beach Dive & Fish, Snells Beach Motors, Snells Beach School, Steve Burrett, Stuart Bernie, Terry’s Boat Tractors, The Coffee Spot, Times FM, Todd Crook, Warkworth Anglican Church, Warkworth Brass Band, Warkworth/Wellsford Pipe Band, Warkworth Printing, Warkworth Vintage car Club, Warkworth Walks, Warkworth Taxi & Minibus Charters. Your valued assistance has been deeply appreciated. Dave Parker Co-ordinator

U3A WARKWoRTh ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

to be held at Totara park 10am Monday 9 December all welcome.

TV SERVICES Freeview, dishes, aerials, boxes. Sales, installation and repairs. Phone Gavin 027 476 6115.

One Day Creative Writing Workshop

WANTED CASH PAID Tools & Machinery, Shed & garage clearouts. All things considered. Call or txt 021 161 5139. FABRIC - Old vintage or retro. Phone 021 748 886.

Sunday January 13th 10am to 4pm Cost: $50 Suitable for new and experienced writers

WARKWORTH 160th ANNIVERSARY 8th to 17th Nov 2013

visit www.themaintencemanjim.co.nz TV SERVICES & SALES

TUITION

PUBLIC NOTICES

ClaiRVoyanCe

Saturday 14th December 2013 Guest Speakers: Mandy Horton Healing available & Cuppa $5 entry fee - All Welcome! 2pm Phone: 09 431 2120

Advertise your classifieds and church notices here for only

$2.95+GST per line or $8.85 per/cm+GST for boxed adverts.

ACCOUNTING WORK- PART TImE We require a person with basic accounting skills and MYOB experience. The work involves managing monthly accounts. Part time only,up to 8 hours per month. We are in the Omaha area. Phone 094227 057 or 0274 776646.

BARISTA 5 days weekly @ The Love Shack, Matakana. $22 hr for skilled person. Call Lindesay 021 644 337.

BUILDER Experienced for new house in Warkworth area. Weatherboard exp 021 728 928.

SALES CONSULTANT REQUIRED FOR FINISHING TOUCHES mATAKANA Must have passion for interior design, strong sales skills and weekend availability. Call Melisa 027 473 3638 or email: finishing.touches@xtra.co.nz

WATERING PLANTS PART TImE

24 yr old male looking to rent a 1 to 2 bdrm house. Willing to pay up to $250 pw. Also interested in rooms in an established flat. Email: georgefdriver@gmail.com or phone 0273623800

TV SERVICES & SALES FREEVIEW TV, Audio, Installation, Faults & Supply. Andrew 021 466 394 or 422 2221.

WORK WANTED

ALL FREEVIEW INSTALLATIONS Dish, Aerial, Additional Outlet .. THE TV mAN IS THE ONE! FREE QUOTE Call JIM THE MAINTENANCE MAN 021 254 2048 or

EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHER/ NANNY, Honest, reliable, trained, registered, with B.Ed. Excel refs. Phone Barbara 422 6342 or 0272 409 878.

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Nanny & More!

WANTED TO RENT

Contact Phillipa Reeve 09 423 0483 phillipa@evolucidy.com

Quality full-time local courses for nanny & childcare careers Call Amanda now for free info! 424 3055 nannyacademy.ac.nz

mOBILITY SCOOTER - mODEL CTmHS686, any condition. Phone 021 277 6835.

A workshop designed to support the release of creativity - to evoke, enable and celebrate your way of being with words.

2-3 days per week to water plants in pots at Omaha Flats. Contact Mark or Theo 09 422 9599 or 027 285 0199.

GUITAR LESSONS Patient & flexible to suit your needs. Ph Martin 422 3037.

SECOND HAND GOODS - Glenfield Trading wants to buy second hand goods. Servicing surrounding Warkworth area. Ph Graham on 09 443 6013.

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Ara Tūhono - Pūhoi to Wellsford Road of National Significance: Pūhoi to Warkworth Section Proposal

Publicly notified 16 November 2013

Notice of requirement and resource consent applications

The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) has lodged with the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA)¹ two notices of requirement and an application for fifteen resource consents (the matters) relating to the Ara Tūhono - Pūhoi to Wellsford Road of National Significance: Pūhoi to Warkworth Section Proposal (the proposal). In accordance with section 149C of the Resource Management Act 1991, the EPA gives notice of the direction of the Hon Dr Nick Smith, Minister of Conservation, and the Hon Amy Adams, Minister for the Environment, to refer the matters to an independent board of inquiry for a decision and also gives notice of the matters.

The proposal

technical reports and plan sets.

The proposal involves the construction, operation and maintenance of an 18.5km section of State highway, built to motorway standards, from the Johnstone’s Hill tunnels at the northern end of the Northern Gateway Toll Road, south of Pūhoi, to just south of the Kaipara Flats Road intersection with State Highway 1, north of Warkworth (see Figure 1 left, for location).

The application can also be viewed in hard copy at the following locations during their normal opening hours: • Auckland Council Civic Service Centre, 1 Greys Avenue, Auckland • Auckland Council Orewa Service Centre, 50 Centreway Road, Orewa, Auckland • Auckland Council Warkworth Service Centre, 1 Baxter Street, Warkworth, Auckland • Wellsford War Memorial Library, 13 Port Albert Road, Wellsford, Auckland • Pūhoi Town Library, Pūhoi Road, Pūhoi, Auckland • EPA Auckland Office, Level 6, Tower Centre, 45 Queen Street, Auckland • EPA Head Office, Level 10, 215 Lambton Quay, Wellington

The matters for the proposal consist of: • One notice of requirement for a new designation² and one notice of requirement for an alteration to an existing designation for the construction, operation and maintenance of a State highway. • Land use consents relating to bulk earthworks, roading, tracking, trenching and the placement and erection of structures (pipe culverts, bridges, erosion control structures and stormwater outlets) in, on or under both the Pūhoi and Mahurangi Rivers and their tributaries. • Water permits for the diversion of groundwater and stormwater. • Coastal permits relating to construction, demolition, use and occupation within the coastal marine area and mangrove clearance. • Discharge permits for stormwater discharge in relation to construction and access activities; site specific consent for the discharge of contaminants to land and/or water from an industrial or trade process (pre-cast concrete yard); consent for discharge of contaminants to air from a mobile rock crusher and for the discharge of stormwater within the Pūhoi and Mahurangi catchments from the operation of the built State highway. A full list of the consents sought is set out below.

Where the information can be viewed The NZTA’s notices of requirement and resource consent applications can be viewed on the EPA’s website at www.epa.govt.nz/Resourcemanagement/Puhoi. The application documents provide a complete description of the proposal, and include an assessment of the proposal’s effects on the environment supported by

How to make a submission Anyone can make a submission on the matters in writing in the prescribed form. Submissions must be received by the EPA no later than 5.00 pm on Friday 13 December 2013. You must send your submission to the EPA and to the applicant, the NZTA. You can make your submission online at www.epa.govt.nz/Resource-management/Puhoi, which will send your submission to the EPA and to the NZTA. Alternatively, you can print a submission form from the EPA website www.epa.govt.nz/Resourcemanagement/Puhoi, get a submission form from the locations listed above or you can request one by contacting the EPA on 0800 722 667 or puhoi@ epa.govt.nz. You can submit your submission: • by email to puhoi@epa.govt.nz (if smaller than 10MB), with the subject line: Submission: (your name), Ara Tūhono: Pūhoi to Warkworth Section Proposal; • by fax to (04) 914 0433 with the subject line: Submission: (your name), Ara Tūhono: Pūhoi to Warkworth Section Proposal; • in hard copy, on CD or on an electronic storage device (if larger than 10MB) either: • posted to the EPA addressed as follows:

Figure 1 – Proposal Location ¹ The Environmental Protection Authority is a Crown agent, responsible for a variety of activities including the processing of applications of national significance. ² A designation is like a ‘spot zoning’ over a site or route in a district or city plan, which allows a project to go ahead on the site or route, without a land-use consent from the relevant council subject to complying with the terms and conditions of the designation and any other consents that are needed.

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Environmental Protection Authority, Ara Tūhono: Pūhoi to Warkworth Section Proposal, Private Bag 63002, Waterloo Quay, Wellington 6140; or • delivered in person to the EPA Head Office, Level 10, 215 Lambton Quay, Wellington; or the EPA Auckland Office, Level 6, Tower Centre, 45 Queen Street, Auckland. You must also send a copy of your submission to the NZTA at the same time that you send your submission to the EPA. You can do this: • automatically if you make an online submission; • by email to puhoi-wellsford@nzta.govt.nz (if smaller than 10MB); • by fax to (09) 928 5501 with the subject line: Submission: (your name), Ara Tūhono: Pūhoi to Warkworth Section Proposal; • in hard copy, on CD or on an electronic storage device (if larger than 10MB) either: • posted to: New Zealand Transport Agency (attention Sonya McCall), c/o Further North, PO Box 9806, Newmarket, Auckland 1149; or • delivered in person to: New Zealand Transport Agency (attention Sonya McCall), Ara Tūhono: Pūhoi to Warkworth Section Proposal, at Level 11, HSBC House, 1 Queen Street, Auckland.

Assistance with the process Public information evenings to explain the board of inquiry process. The EPA will host public information evenings to outline the board of inquiry process. The details are as follows: • Date: Monday, 25 November 2013 • Time: 7 pm to 9 pm • Venue: Warkworth Old Masonic Hall, 3 Baxter Street, Warkworth. • Date: Wednesday, 27 November 2013 • Time: 7 pm to 9 pm • Venue: Pūhoi Church, Pūhoi Road, Pūhoi.

Friend of Submitter Trevor Mackie has been appointed as an independent ‘Friend of Submitter’. The Friend of Submitter will hold free sessions to help potential submitters to understand the board of inquiry/EPA process, including how to find information in the NZTA’s application documents. For session times and locations go to http://www.epa.govt.nz/Resourcemanagement/Puhoi, call the EPA on 0800 722 667 or contact: • Trevor Mackie • Hill Young Cooper Ltd, Level 1, 27 Chancery Street, Auckland 1143 • email: t.mackie@hyc.co.nz phone: 0800 372 848

Ministers’ reasons for direction Ministerial Direction to refer the Notices of Requirement and Resource Consents (the matters) to a board of inquiry Having considered all the relevant factors, we consider that the two notices of requirement and fifteen resource consents lodged by the

NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) relating to the construction, operation and maintenance of the Ara Tūhono – Pūhoi to Wellsford Road of National Significance: Pūhoi to Warkworth section proposal (‘the matters’) are a proposal of national significance. Under section 147 of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA), we direct that the matters be referred to a board of inquiry for consideration and decision. Our reasons are as follows: National significance We consider the matters are a proposal of national significance because: • The proposal will involve significant use of natural and physical resources, particularly as it will require approximately 189 hectares of bulk earthworks, including approximately 8.0 million cubic metres of cut material, 6.2 million cubic metres of fill material and 1.8 million cubic metres of surplus material. Approximately 2km of structures (including seven major viaducts and five bridges) are required as part of the proposal, in addition to two interchanges and 40 major culverts. The designation area is proposed to be 673 hectares and multiple areas of land will need to be acquired by the NZTA for the proposal from 46 landowners, including 18 Crown owned parcels. • The proposal is likely to result in significant and irreversible changes to the environment. It will extend through steep terrain requiring cut slopes ranging in height up to 60 metres with many being above 10 metres high and embankments up to 50 metres above ground level. The character of the predominately rural environment will change significantly as a result of the proposal particularly due to the earthworks and large structures required, until such time as the motorway becomes integrated into the rural environment when proposed mitigation planting becomes established and views are screened. Construction activities, particularly earthworks and vegetation clearance, are also likely to contribute to the release of large volumes of sediment across the two affected catchments if not adequately managed. The proposal will result in the exclusive use of this designated land for State highway purposes. This is a significant change to current land uses which includes rural activities, plantation forestry, private residences, rural residential subdivisions and businesses. • The proposal has aroused widespread public interest regarding its actual or likely effect on the environment including effects on visual amenity, landscape and noise, the proposal’s potential economic impact on Warkworth, safety concerns relating to the existing highway, access to Woodcocks Road and Pūhoi and the financial costs of the proposal. Concerns have also been raised relating to the need for the road and consideration of alternatives. This includes media coverage of the proposal with various articles published in the local, regional and national newspapers and coverage on nationwide radio stations. • The proposal is likely to assist the Crown in fulfilling its public safety obligations by providing

a safe, reliable, secure and resilient road as an alternative route between Pūhoi and north of Warkworth. The proposal is likely to reduce the effects of incidents on travel through the Pūhoi to Warkworth corridor, is designed to the latest standards and will result in more efficient movement of people and freight. • The proposal is likely to affect an area of national significance as the proposal is located within the Pūhoi and Mahurangi catchments, both of which are catchments of the Hauraki Gulf. The Okahu viaduct will be within the Pūhoi Estuary and the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park. Adverse effects on the coastal environment may occur as a result of discharge of sediment during the construction phase, particularly during high rainfall events and the construction of bridge piers within the coastal marine area. The discharge of stormwater from the motorway surfaces once it is operational may also affect the marine environment. The Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Act (HGMPA) 2000 recognises the national significance of the Hauraki Gulf and requires the HGMPA to be treated as a New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement under the RMA. • The proposal relates to a network utility operation (road) that, although physically contained within the boundaries of the Auckland Council, as part of the wider State Highway network and a section of the Ara Tūhono - Pūhoi to Wellsford Road of National Significance, is likely to extend to more than one region or district.

Direction to a board of inquiry We direct the matters to be decided by a board of inquiry because: • The Environmental Protection Authority’s recommendation that we refer the matters to a board of inquiry. • The views of the applicant and the relevant Local Authority, and the capacity of the Local Authority to process the matters. • A board of inquiry is a decision-making body consistent with that used for other Road of National Significance proposals (Waterview, Transmission Gully, Mackays to Peka Peka and Peka Peka to North Ōtaki Expressway, Christchurch Southern Motorway, Basin Bridge). • The board of inquiry process provides for a comprehensive assessment of the proposal within a time bound process. • The board of inquiry process will provide greater certainty for all parties as a decision is required within nine months of notification. Dated at Wellington this 8th day of October 2013 Hon Dr Nick Smith Minister of Conservation

Hon Amy Adams Minister for the Environment

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CHURCH NOTICES Publicly notified 16 November 2013

The matters Notices of requirement and resource consent applied for under Auckland Council jurisdiction Notices of requirement NSP 33/001

A designation for a project being the construction, operation and maintenance of a State highway, being the Ara Tūhono Pūhoi to Wellsford Road of National Significance – Pūhoi to Warkworth Section.

NSP 33/002

An alteration to a designation (Auckland Council District Plan – Operative Rodney Section 2011 Designation 401) for a project being the construction, operation and maintenance of a State highway, being the Ara Tūhono Pūhoi to Wellsford Road of National Significance – Pūhoi to Warkworth Section.

Resource consents NSP 33/003

Land use consent

The use of land for land disturbing activities, including earthworks, roading, tracking and trenching

NSP 33/004

Discharge permit

The discharge of stormwater to water as a result of activities undertaken by a highway network operator within the Pūhoi catchment

NSP 33/005

Land use consent and water permit

Use, placement and erection of structures in, on, under, or over the bed of the Pūhoi River and its tributaries for the purposes of a river crossing(s), pipe culverts, bridges and associated erosion control structures and stormwater outlet structures, and any associated diversion of water

NSP 33/006

Water permit

Diversion of groundwater

NSP 33/007

Discharge permit

The discharge of stormwater to water as a result of activities undertaken by a highway network operator within the Mahurangi catchment

NSP 33/008

Land use consent and water permit

Use, placement and erection of structures in, on, under, or over the bed of the Mahurangi River and its tributaries for the purposes of a river crossing(s), pipe culverts, bridges and associated erosion control structures and stormwater outlet structures , and any associated diversion of water

NSP 33/009

NSP 33/010

Coastal permit

Erection, placement, alteration, extension, removal or demolition of structures or any part of a structure that is fixed in, on, under or over the foreshore or seabed within the coastal marine area

Wednesday 18th December at 7.30pm Christmas around the World in Christ Church, Warkworth supported by the Kai Rhythmixs Sunday 22nd December at 5pm A New Zealand Christmas at St. Leonard's Matakana Christmas Eve 7pm Carol Service, St.Alban’s, Kaipara Flats 11.15pm Midnight Service begins at Christ Church Christmas Day 8am Christ Church, Warkworth 9.30am Christ Church, Warkworth 9.30am St.Leonard’s, Matakana 9.30am St.Michael and All Angels, Leigh

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NSP 33/011

Coastal permit

Occupation of part of the coastal marine area

Coastal permit

Disturbance including removal of mangroves in the CPA1 and use of motor vehicles in CPA1

NSP 33/013

Water permit and discharge permit

Augmenting existing culverts draining road side drains under State Highway 1 in vicinity of Hungry Creek

Water permit and discharge permit

Widening of Moirs Hill Road and increasing impervious surface by between 5,000m2 and 10,000m2

NSP 33/015

Water permit and discharge permit

Discharge from construction access through 1509 State Highway 1 (Lot 1 DP321568) from State Highway 1 just south of Perry Road into the alignment

NSP 33/016

Discharge permit

Discharge of contaminants to land and/or water from an industrial or trade premises being a precast concrete yard

NSP 33/017

Discharge permit

Discharge of contaminants to air from a mobile rock crusher

Sarah Gardner General Manager, Applications and Assessment Under delegation of the Environmental Protection Authority

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Holyname Catholic Church 6 Alnwick Street, Warkworth Sts Peter & Paul Catholic Church, Puhoi 425 8545 • www.holyname.org.nz

CHRIsTmAs CAROLs 2013 Tuesday 24th Dec - Christmas Eve Warkworth 6.30pm • Puhoi 8.30pm

CHRIsTmAs mAss TImEs 2013 Tuesday 24th Dec - Christmas Eve Warkworth 7pm & Midnight • Puhoi 9pm Wednesday 25th Dec - Christmas Day Warkworth 9.30am

There is NO MASS at Puhoi on Christmas Day

Thursday 26th Dec - Warkworth 9am Friday 27th Dec - Warkworth 11am Saturday 28th Dec - Warkworth 9am Saturday Vigil Mass - Warkworth 6pm Vigil Mass - Sunday 29th Dec Warkworth 10.30am • Puhoi 8.30am Monday 30th Dec - Warkworth 9am Tuesday 31st Dec - Warkworth 5.15pm Wednesday 1st Jan - Puhoi 9am Thursday 2nd Jan - Warkworth 9am Friday 3rd Jan (Anointing Mass) Warkworth 11am Saturday 4th Jan - Warkworth 9am Saturday Vigil Mass - Warkworth 6pm Vigil Mass - Sunday 5th Jan Warkworth 10.30am • Puhoi 8.30am

The Mahurangi MeThodisT Parish CoMMuniTY

wish you a Joyful & Meaningful Christmas and a Blessed and Fruitful new Year, 2014. We invite you to join us at any of our Christmas and New Year’s worship services of Celebration and Reflection:

Tuesday, 24th December

Undertake an activity, being the operation of the State highway

NSP 33/012

NSP 33/014

Warkworth Anglican Parish Christmas Services

7pm @ Point Wells Community Church (William St, Point Wells) Combined Parish Service of Christmas Carols, etc.

Wednesday, 25th December Christmas Day

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9am @ Snells Beach Community Church (325 Mahurangi East Rd, Snells Beach) Combined Parish Service

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5th Sunday Combined Parish Service 9am @ Snells Beach Community Church

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

Sunday, 29th December,

Tuesday, 31st December, New Year’s Eve

11pm @ Warkworth Methodist Church: (1 Hexham Street, Warkworth) Combined Parish Watch-Night Service. For further information contact Parish Office - Phone 425 8660 or Minister - Phone 021 0271 4099

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with Judy Waters, Warkworth & District Museum

Two Jane Giffords It was a privilege to be among descendants of Warkworth’s pioneer families recently aboard the scow Jane Gifford, enjoying a nostalgic journey up the Mahurangi River. It was a day for reflection, bringing to mind our forebears and the ships that brought them to New Zealand. Included in the group were a select few who were descended from the Scottish immigrants who came to Auckland in the sailing ships Jane Gifford and Duchess of Argyle. Robert Graham, a passenger on the Jane Gifford, kept a diary and entries detail their progress down the coast from the Bay of Islands and their eventual arrival at their destination. The pilot boat was their first contact and they received the news they had anxiously awaited. The Duchess of Argyle had been ahead of them but was stuck on a sand bank and so the two ships arrived in Auckland harbour together on Sunday October 8, 1842. Rain and strong winds caused some delay unloading and there were several young men waiting to view the single women as they disembarked. Such was the matrimonial market at the time that girls sometimes became engaged between landing on the beach at Soldier’s Point and arriving at Mechanics Bay where immigrant accommodation was available in raupo huts. Promised a land of milk and honey, the settlers found the bee was not much in evidence but the mosquito was very busy. Robert Graham described Auckland as lying in a hollow with houses built close to the beach. Every fourth shop was a grog shop and the streets were very muddy. A road led to Manukau and four miles along this road he found some cultivation of wheat and barley. There were cows wearing bells around

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their necks to indicate their whereabouts in the fern, which was everywhere. It was 20 years before these settlers came together again for a reunion, with those from the Jane Gifford wearing blue rosettes and their friends from the Duchess of Argyle wearing red. Celebrations were held to mark 25 years, 40 years, and a grand jubilee in 1892 to mark 50 years of settlement in the colony. A number of the families have links with the Rodney area. Robert Graham opened the first hotel and health resort at Waiwera in 1845. There were Jamiesons on both ships but it was Govan who came on the Duchess of Argyle, married Mary Cooper from the Jane Gifford and settled on the Mahurangi River. Their son George was later to captain scows, including the Jane Gifford. The Moores, Morrisons, and Wilsons were all families who made their mark in Warkworth’s history. Peter MacDonald was the schoolteacher with a long association with Kawau Island. The McBriertys settled at Mahurangi Heads, as did the Darrochs before moving their shipbuilding operation to Omaha. It was at the Darroch shipyard at Omaha that the scow Jane Gifford was launched in 1908.

BUY local – GIVE local Support local businesses and help local families this Christmas

Vouchers can be left at:

Mahurangi Matters,Warkworth • Franklins Pharmacy Warkworth • Woodys Winners Wellsford • Jaques Four Square Kaiwaka • Kakariki Health Shop Mangawhai • The Village Bookshop, Matakana • Countdown Warkworth • The Warehouse, Snells Beach • New World

Thanks to the customers of the following businesses who have donated:

Gull Matakana • Franklins Pharmacy • Woodys Winners • Jaques Four Square • New World Sushi Gallery at Warkworth Inn • Mitre 10 • Bewitched • New World • Warehouse Horseriding Warkworth • MTA Vouchers • Unichem Chemist • Postie Plus (Wellsford)

Readers – this is what you do:

Buy a voucher of any denomination over $10 from ANY local store and drop it in to a collection box OR post it to: BUY LOCAL – GIVE LOCAL, Mahurangi Matters, PO Box 701 Warkworth 0941

All vouchers collected for shops north of Te Hana will be given to Otamatea Community Services for distribution in Mangawhai, Kaiwaka and Maungaturoto. All vouchers collected from shops between Puhoi and Te Hana will be given to Warkworth Homebuilders for distribution to local families.

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE THIS CHRISTMAS

Thanks Ruth Mills!

Keep those gift vouchers coming in There’s a nice pile of vouchers stacking up as residents in the area continue to show their support for less well-off families in the district. Readers have until December 10 to add a voucher to the Buy Local – Give Local campaign. Mahurangi Matters is coordinating the Christmas promotion, in conjunction with Warkworth Homebuilders and Otamatea Community Services. It involves shoppers donating vouchers from any local store and dropping them in to the Mahurangi Matters office or one of the collection boxes in stores around the area. The vouchers will be distributed to local families before Christmas Day. They can be for anything you think might help a family – fuel, groceries, toys, electrical goods, clothes, entertainment and so on. For a list of voucher drop-off points, see the ad below.

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Instant fines coming for breaching liquor bans

Consider yourself warned: breaching liquor bans in the Mahurangi region could result in an instant fine of $250 from December 18. A change in the law has introduced Rodney Local Board member Steve Mr Martin says Omaha Beach the instant fines, giving Police an Garner says signs have been placed at Community Inc has provided full extra tool to combat problems with all entrances to Lucy Moore Memorial funding for the Insite service since Park but some people have complained last year. Prior to that the association drinking in public places. Many public places in the region they aren’t in the most visible spots. went halves with Council. “When it became Auckland Council they said have liquor bans, including Omaha, He says the issue is being addressed. Snells Beach, Algies Bay, Martins Bay, “It’s a positive for the town. It’s a good ‘this is a dangerous precedent to set’ central Wellsford, the Old Cement tool for the Police to use at times at and stopped it.” Works and Wilson Rd, Te Arai Point their discretion. The area it will be Mr Martin says his staff focus on applied to is appropriate.” Beach, and Lake Tomarata. creating a nicer environment for A liquor ban also came into effect in Some members of the community those on holiday. “Some years it goes central Warkworth in October, after believe the ban is an over-reaction, and absolutely nuts, other years it’s peaceful. being approved by Auckland Council. Mr Garner accepts that might be the It’s hard to judge what it’s going to be The ban is imposed from 5pm to 6am case now, but says a year ago there were like from one year to another.” People have complained the signs in seven days a week in Lucy Moore “elements” that made it desirable to have He says a common problem is people Warkworth aren’t clearly visible. Memorial Park, in Baxter St, in Queen a stronger enforcement option. Problems from outside the area allowing their St from Neville St to Wharf St, in also tend to come in phases, he says. teenage children to travel to the beach Liquor bans Wharf St, in the riverside reserve from Meanwhile, Insite Security has unsupervised. “They come up in party yy Liquor bans are in place at Omaha from 6pm to 6am, and at Snells Lucy Moore Memorial Park to Wharf resumed patrols at Omaha Beach. The packs, consume too much alcohol Beach, Algies Bay and Martins Bay St, and at the Baxter St carpark. company employs two people to run and issues start. It’s a mix of local and from 9pm to 6am during daylight imported talent.” Warkworth Police Sergeant Bede quad bike patrols on the beach and saving each year. car patrols on the road from 6pm to Haughey says the ban is a “preventive Insite have 23 staff covering the area midnight, seven days a week. y y Shopping and central areas in tool”, not a stick, and some people from Hibiscus Coast to Langs Beach. Wellsford, and at the Old Cement have already been given warnings. “We attend scenes of crime and Sergeant Haughey says Insite Security’s Works and Wilson Rd, have 24“Part and parcel of the ban is that disorder and elevate them to the Police presence at Omaha over the summer hour bans year-round. people are aware. It’s harsh to penalise if we feel they are a matter requiring has proved valuable to the Police. “It’s y y Te Arai Point Beach and Lake people who aren’t. It’s early days and their attention,” general manager extremely beneficial to us and the Chris Martin says. Tomarata have a ban from 6pm to we’re taking a softly-softly approach community. They attend noisy parties, 6am throughout the year. by encouraging people not to drink.” “It frees up the Police and we only gatherings on the beach and bonfires, However, he cautions: “We’ll soon know call them if we think it’s absolutely and that keeps us on the road where yy Central Warkworth has a ban from 5pm to 6am all year. who is aware and who has been warned.” necessary.” our main emphasis is.”

SummerSet FallS – love the liFe! Great people make a great retirement village. Nowhere is that truer than at Summerset Falls. We have a warm and welcoming community where the greetings are friendly and the smiles are genuine. We’re here to enjoy life – whether it’s the organised activities or just getting together for a cup of tea and a chat. There are so many things to do here – but it’s always up to you which activities you choose to enjoy. For more information on our lovely village, and the living options available, please call Steven Garner on 09 425 1202. You’ll find Summerset Falls at 31 Mansel Drive.

Open Day Thursday 12 December, 11am – 3pm Be here to view plans for our latest release of villas and look through the new care apartments in our Village Centre.

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GriefShare seminar on how to survive summer holidays

After Alison’s husband, Derek, died following a horse and carriage accident in San Francisco in 2009, she returned to Omaha and renewed her connections with Mahurangi Presbyterian Church in Warkworth. As she worked through her own grief, pressure to share, followed by she wanted to be able to do something afternoon tea and some time to relax to help others who were going through and chat. the same process, so she took a trip Participants will receive a free book back to California, where she was with over 30 daily readings which invited to review a programme called include insights and ideas on getting GriefShare with an old friend. through the holidays. Her friend kept saying throughout The course will be held on Saturday the course that she wished the course December 7, from 1.45pm to 4pm, at had been available when her own the Mahurangi Presbyterian Church husband died. in Pulham Rd in Warkworth. So when she got back to New It is open to anyone who is working Zealand, Alison decided to start up through the death of a loved friend or the programme in Warkworth. family member. With summer holidays looming, There is no charge to attend, although she is now facilitating a “Surviving koha of $10 is appreciated from those the Holidays” seminar for people who are able. struggling with the loss of someone Visit www.mahu.org.nz and click close to them. The one-off seminar will include a on the GriefShare banner for more video with interviews on grief recovery information and a link to a video. topics as seen from a Christian Or call Bruce Eirena or Alison Heckler perspective, as well as personal at Mahurangi Presbyterian Church on testimonies from people who have 425-8861 if you would like to learn experienced Christmas and holidays more or book a place in the seminar. after bereavement. You can also contact Alison on her There will be some small group mobile, 021-234-0885 or email her discussions, although there is no on alison@mahu.org.nz.

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Are we getting enough iodine? Symptoms of iodine deficiency are similar to thyroid issues, as iodine is a critical mineral in thyroid function. Some of the symptoms may include fatigue, cold hands and feet, “brain fog”, increased need for sleep, dry skin, thinning hair, hair falling out, constipation, and arthritis. Severe deficiency in iodine can lead to goitre (enlargement of the thyroid gland leading to a swelling of the neck). In very severe iodine deficiency, stunted growth and mental retardation can occur in children. There is great controversy around the subject of iodine and its optimal level. The recommended daily intake (RDI) according to the NZ Nutrition Foundation is 0.15mg. While serious deficiency symptoms are mentioned by the Ministry of Health and the NZ Nutrition Foundation, there appears to be a lack of information around the more common minor symptoms. Some medical and health researchers are of the opinion that this RDI is nowhere near adequate. In mainland Japan it is estimated that the average daily intake for a Japanese person is 12.5mg. This is about 83 times more than what the NZ Nutrition Foundation advises. This level is considered toxic by many health authorities. But in Japan there have been some interesting observations about the health benefits of ingesting so much iodine. There is now research linking low iodine to breast cysts and breast cancer — diseases that are not common in mainland Japan. Many of the health and medical specialists who believe that a major iodine deficiency exists believe that 12.5mg is a more suitable RDI. Some doctors specialising in thyroid care often use up to 50mg as a daily supplement with patients who are very low in iodine. There are tests to measure iodine levels such as urine and saliva, as well as assessing the thyroid with blood tests. Urine testing on its own is variable and often inaccurate, but it should be considered with other factors. This testing should be done with professional guidance. Although there is controversy around what an adequate RDI is, it is clear that there are deficiency issues in NZ. The NZ Nutrition Foundation and Ministry of Health both state that New Zealanders are typically low in iodine, which is why iodine is added to table salt, as it is in many other countries. Other dietary sources of iodine are in seafood, especially in seaweed such as kelp etc. However, to eat a sufficient amount to replenish low levels would require a huge intake of such food and is beyond the diet of most typical Kiwi seafood lovers.

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A boutique coffee roastery based in a Tomarata garage has again fended off the big boys to claim the title of New Zealand’s best espresso. Rush Coffee is the brainchild of former sparkie Hayden Prujean, a former operations director at Irwin Industrial Tools who decided in his early 50s that he wanted a new career. It was a programme on National Radio about the plight of coffee farmers that sparked the idea for his new venture, which he spent 18 months researching before he even began to roast his own beans. A perfectionist by nature, Hayden’s determination to buy the best equipment in the world, and to produce a premium product, has paid off handsomely. In its first four years, the company’s “Rush Espresso” blend has won three From left: Betsy, Hayden and Emma Prujean, with Betsy’s son Jack in front. gold medals and two silvers in the NZ He imports beans from 10 different proper business, and we can actually Coffee Awards. Hayden believes this origins, and tries to buy fair trade where have holidays and things,” he says. makes it New Zealand’s most awarded possible. He is currently selling about The brand has a loyal online customer coffee. 250kg a week, and all stock is guaranteed base, and is gradually expanding its retail His success is particularly remarkable to be no more than three weeks old. presence. He and his wife Emma are given the huge competition in the Although the little green beans have regulars at the Mangawhai Village Hall industry. There are now more than not made the family rich just yet, the market, and Rush Coffee is also sold 180 coffee roasters in New Zealand, business is steadily growing, enabling at various local outlets, including the many of whom are aiming at the top Hayden to recently hire his adrenaline- Molesworth Four Square in Mangawhai, end of the market. junkie daughter as marketing manager. the Matakana Four Square, and Market Hayden admits the business’ rural “I’ve kind of accepted that we’re going Provedores in Snells Beach. Hayden is location has proved challenging at to have to move off-site at some stage currently trying to persuade Warkworth and get it to the point where it’s a New World to stock it as well. times, especially for distribution.

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Warkworth business The Farm Butchery has won a national award for sustainable business. The company, which aims to bring meat to consumers “the natural way”, won the Restorative Impact Award at the NZI National Sustainable Business Network Awards. Director David Crabb told the judges he believed the current model of farming was broken. “Farming has become increasingly taxing on the environment, adopting an extractive and mining mode, as well as geared towards providing a food mix that is damaging to human health rather than beneficial or nutritional. It’s these issues that provided the impetus to The Farm Butchery.” The company had realised the power of collaboration, and now co-delivers with organic vegetable box companies, and collaborates with farmers market networks and Weston Price Foundation networks. “The impact is a slow rippling out of people touched by the idea and experience of the food itself and its advantages, meaning the company is likely to only go from strength to strength.”

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River Nile Linens has new owners, Jenny and Tony Bullock. They purchased the business from Shirley and Allan Moseley mid-October. Earlier this year Jenny and Tony decided to search for the right business to enable them to move to the Matakana area. They were delighted and excited with the opportunity to buy River Nile Linens, a boutique brand of luxury linen made and designed on the premises at 304 Matakana Road, supplying customers throughout New Zealand and overseas. Tony especially is excited about returning to the area he grew up in. For a number of years both he and Jenny owned a bach at Omaha and they are now looking forward to returning to the area permanently. Jenny is committed to maintaining the River Nile Linens brand as being New Zealand’s leading luxury bed linen manufacturer and supplier. She is also looking forward to putting her special touches on the showroom and introducing some new giftware lines. The experienced staff of River Nile Linens are staying on with the new owners, sharing their knowledge of many years in textile and design, thereby guaranteeing the highest

Dallas Honey and her husband, Steve, have bought and sold numerous properties over the years. So it seemed logical for Dallas to move into the real estate industry 10 years ago, after a career in sales and marketing for pharmacies, a residential building company, and a stint running her own business. “We’ve normally moved every two or three years, so we know how stressful it can be,” says Dallas. Their last home, in Auckland, was an exception — they owned it for 10 years. And they actually bought it twice. “We bought it initially in ‘96, then sold it three years later and moved on. Then it came back on the market. It was a really special house we’d always loved, so we moved back.” This time, however, the couple have said their final farewell to the house. Four years ago, they bought another property at Snells Beach, and have finally made it their home. Steve, who has worked in various countries as a manager of engineering projects, semi-retired in July, and after a three-month tour of Europe the couple moved north in early October. Dallas, who previously worked for Bayleys in Howick, has joined the company’s Snells Beach office, and she

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quality product and products that fit perfectly, ensuring customer satisfaction. Shirley and Allan are delighted to have passed their business on to such an enthusiastic and committed couple and have wished them well as they develop the business further. As expected, Shirley is keeping an eye on her “baby” during these early days for the new owners, as well as enjoying a well-earned retirement. Rumour has it she’s about to learn to play golf, and has an eye on a motorhome so she and Allan can hit the road, exploring New Zealand and catching up with family and friends.

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and Steve plan to work together. “We complement each other in our personalities and our strengths,” says Dallas. “We’ll make a great team.” They are both thrilled with the move, and Dallas has been enjoying walking on the beach each day. “I think it just offers so much, with the beaches, and the reserves, and the easy access to the north, and Auckland. The people are very friendly, and it’s certainly a more relaxed and quieter pace. People seem to have more time for you, which is what life’s all about.” Dallas is also keen to continue Bayleys’ strong involvement in the community, and is willing to talk to any local groups about potential sponsorships.

Dallas Honey and Bayleys – A proven formula Dallas is new to the Snells Beach area but she has a proven track record with over 10 years of experience and success in the Auckland real estate market. This makes her someone who will achieve the very best results for you. Dallas is a highly experienced real estate professional and, with husband Steve, will bring a fresh approach to real estate in the north.

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IRD gets tough on trusts The IRD is undergoing a major change, upgrading its information systems and bringing them into the 21st century. In an age where more information is held online than offline, many expect the IRD’s new system to be able to create links between declared income and undeclared taxable income. A recent Taxation Review Authority decision highlights the patterns and activities the IRD is increasingly turning its eye to. Trustees of a family trust established a pattern of buying a vacant section, building a house on it, and selling that house within a short timeframe. Over a nine-year period the trustees bought and sold 11 properties. Not all properties were sold at a profit. However, the authority determined that a clear pattern existed and was not persuaded that the trust purchased the properties without an intention to sell them. If the properties were acquired with the intention of resale and it was found on the balance of probabilities that the trust was in the business of constructing houses, then in the absence of objectively reasonable explanations for the pattern or behaviour, the amounts received on the sale of each property would be liable for income tax. Most people are unaware that in this situation a property owner should be paying income tax, and in separate situations ought also to pay a form of capital gains tax. This situation applies to all landowners, including individuals, or directors if a company has purchased the property. Where a landowner buys and sells a series of properties they should take extra care to receive tax and legal advice on the implications of doing so. While this case involves relatively short periods of time, the same principles apply if a property is purchased, renovated, and sold within 10 years. The law has always been interpreted this way. However, as the IRD acquires sophisticated technology these patterns of purchase and sale by a taxpayer are more likely to become exposed. The privacy previously afforded to trusts is being challenged on all sides by the courts, a review of trust-related legislation, and the use of advanced technology. More than ever it is important to ensure that your trust affairs are in order.

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As a schoolboy, Dean Sampson got a part-time job at his local tyre dealer in Browns Bay. He fell in love with the industry, and 25 years on he is now the proud owner of two tyre shops, in Albany and Warkworth. What attracted him to the business was the wide cross-section of people he deals with each day. “I saw it was a good people business,” he says with his trademark grin. He previously lived in Puhoi, and has been involved in a lot of sport and recreational activities in the Rodney area. His rural background means he is also aware of the important of supporting local businesses and the community, as well as the wider rural economy. When the opportunity to take over Duffs Tyres in Glenmore Drive came up, he grabbed it. “I saw it as an opportunity for growth and personal development, and to put some leadership in place.” As well as a stronger emphasis on customer service and efficiency, he has doubled the amount of stock in store. Because the store is independent, it stocks all brands. “We want people to be able to bowl in and get what they want straight

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While the phrase “always blow on the pie” may have entered Kiwi folklore, Matakana pie maker David Roberts suggests “don’t freeze the pie” might be just as helpful. David and his wife Mary-Anne are the new owners of The Dough Puncher, on Omaha Flats Road, which includes a lunch bar and an upgraded 18-hole mini golf course. “Freezing a pie changes the texture of the meat, which can affect the flavour,” David says. “Fresh is definitely best.” David has spent the past 30 years working in small and large baking facilities, where he’s had the opportunity to perfect his pie recipes. “I started as an apprentice in Mt Roskill when I was 15. Everything was cooked from scratch and I still believe that’s the best way. A good pie has to have a tasty filling and plenty of it.” David’s three brothers are all bakers; brother Stephen established Roberts Bakery in Warkworth, which still bears the family name. “I’m not sure where the cooking gene came from – my father was a fisherman from Awanui.” David worked with Stephen in Warkworth before he and MaryAnne packed up their six children and

The new owners of The Village Butchery in Matakana have taken a circuitous route to return to the place where they first met in primary school. Sarah Collings and Matt Watts were living in Perth when they heard that the previous owner Glen Osborne might be interested in selling. They’d recently become parents and were keen to return to NZ so their daughter Bella could grow up with grandparents and cousins. “The butcher shop was a bit of an institution when it was run by Wiri (Whitaker) so we knew we probably weren’t going to get another opportunity like this so close to home,” Sarah says. Both Sarah and Matt have family ties across the district, from dairy farmers to Sarah’s dad who was a truck driver in the area. Sarah’s mother Chris (nee Woodcock) has worked for many years at the Warkworth Birthing Centre. The couple attended Matakana Primary School and Mahurangi College, but didn’t start dating until they left school when Matt was doing his butchery apprenticeship at New World in Warkworth and Sarah was training to be a nanny. They travelled throughout Europe, Great Britain the United States, before heading for Brisbane where Matt managed a large retail butcher shop

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moved to Sydney where he oversaw the production of 16,000 pies a day for the Michelle Patisserie chain. When the couple returned to NZ, David went to work as a chocolatier at Chocolate Brown, owned by Steve McClean who, coincidentally, did his apprenticeship at Roberts Bakery. David and Mary-Anne say that The Dough Puncher will stock a range of freshly baked breads, as well as cabinets full of filled rolls, sandwiches, cream buns and slices. But their pies will be a real point of difference. With ingredients cooked from scratch, the current range includes steak and kidney, smoked fish, curry beef with chunky kumara and a “brekkie” pie filled with mince, egg, bacon and cheese. Coming soon will be a steak and oyster pie, and David’s own pepper pie.

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at Birkdale. It was the big money in the mines, in the Pilbara, that drew the couple to Western Australia where they lived for 18 months. Matt, who has also worked for Dr Hud at Kaipara Flats, says he’s not planning any immediate changes at the shop – he’ll continue to make his own sausages and salamis, do meat for spits, and butcher home kill and recreational catch. “We’re really keen to hear what our customers are looking for,” Matt says. “We’re getting a chicken supplier sorted and I’d like to offer fresh fish. I’m also open to getting some free range meat in, but it’s only a small shop so we’ll see what sort of demand there is for it.” And Matt’s tip for a top barbecue steak? “I like scotch fillet – that bit of fat through the meat is what adds the flavour.”

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Warkworth Santa ditches secondhand sleigh Santa will have an extra sparkle in his eye this year, as he parades his way through Warkworth on December 7. After years of using a borrowed sleigh, he finally has his own purpose-built vehicle, which has been taking shape in a large shed on the edge of town. “In previous years, Wellsford and Snowplanet generously lent us their Santa sleighs, but we decided it was time to build our own,” says Warkworth Area Business Association’s project manager, Nicola Jones. “We have several volunteers working on the design and construction, and lots of locally donated materials, so Santa will be riding into town in style,” she says. The final touches have yet to be It will also be a new face behind the made to Santa’s new sleigh, but beard this year, as the previous Santa Nicola Jones is confident the decided to retire because of poor crowds will be impressed. health. There were 31 floats in the parade last The Carla Talbot Dance Academy will this year has been fantastic, so there year, and organisers are hoping to get entertain the crowds with a display, are some great prizes up for grabs. close to that this year. and children on unicycles will also There will also be the traditional photos They are expecting a flurry of last- feature. with Santa afterwards, courtesy of The minute entries and are still keen to The parade starts from Neville Camera Shop, but this year they will be hear from anyone who would like to Street at 1pm, and will do two loops taken on the smart new sleigh. take part. through town — the second time A lolly scramble sponsored by the On the day, activities will get with prizewinning floats wearing their Bridgehouse will take place on the underway on Queen Street at midday, sashes so the crowd can cheer the reserve at Baxter Street from 2pm. and Nicola is encouraging families to winners. Children will also be able to get their get into town as early as possible. Nicola says the response from sponsors faces painted.

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Carlene Amos-Tolhopf (second from left) with Warakar locals who are managing the orphanage.

Puhoi garage sale fundraises for PNG orphanage supplies Carlene Amos-Tolhopf would like people to think of others less fortunate than themselves this Christmas. And she is certainly practising what she preaches, helping to set up an orphanage in Papua New Guinea and holding a garage sale to raise funds for it. The Puhoi resident spent 10 years living in the Wahgi Valley in the Highlands from 1983 to 1993 treating sick people, educating gang members and teaching prostitutes how to sew. She went back last year and worked with Anglicare to teach crafts to girls with Aids and met friends of hers who were looking after four people with the disease. “Their friends and relations had disowned them and people walked to the other side of the road to get away from them.” Carlene says many people don’t understand Aids or how it is spread and are afraid of getting tested. She returned to New Zealand and had a dream about a girl in the rain with mud all around her. “I knew I had to go back and start an orphanage,” she says. The professional dressmaker and beef

farmer went back in July and helped her friends and seven volunteers set up an orphanage at Blunts Village in Warakar called Na Ngal Kakant or “I love you” for 16 children with Aids. They learn to cook and garden and Carlene taught five of them to sew. “The idea is for the centre to become sustainable and stand on its own two feet,” she says. “I’m also planning to spend time with Papua New Guineans to show them they can’t catch Aids [through casual contact] and I’d eventually like to see the children returned to their relatives.” The children are aged between 2 and 15 and all sleep in the same bed together. It’s hoped there will be separate dormitories for boys and girls eventually. The garage sale will be held from December 7 to 8 at 844 SH1. It’s on the right heading north just after the Mahurangi East turnoff. Carlene will sell secondhand furniture, cooking utensils, clothes, plants, and art and craft. She plans to send a pressed wool bale full of blankets, duvets, pillows and jumpers to the orphanage. She says $100 would feed all 16 children for a week.

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CAROLS FOR CHRISTMAS Puhoi Hall Friday, 6th December at 7.30pm Warkworth Primary School Hall with Mahurangi College Junior Choir Saturday, 7th December at 7.30pm Tickets $20 • School children FREE Tickets available from Choir members, Maria’s Florists, Not Just Hats or at the door

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Community choir in tune Community choir the Kowhai Singers will present Christmas songs and carols at concerts in Puhoi and Warkworth this month. The concerts will take place at 7.30pm at the Puhoi Hall on Friday December 6 and at Warkworth Primary School Hall on Saturday, December 7. The programme will include a wide range of musical styles, such as “For He Shall Give His Angels” from Mendelssohn’s Elijah, “Shepherd’s Pipe Carol” by John Rutter, and an American spiritual arranged by Gwynn Arch, “What month was Jesus born in.” There will also be a selection of traditional Christmas carols, with audience participation encouraged. At the Warkworth concert, the Mahurangi College Junior Choir will also perform, directed by Jenny Eirena.

The choir will also sing with the Kowhai Singers in a number of carols. Tickets are available from choir members, or at Maria’s Florist and Not Just Hats in Warkworth, or at the door.

Inaugural award Mahurangi College pupil Alana Hathaway is the first recipient of the Basil Kirker Achievement Award, donated this year by the Kowhai Singers to the school. It commemorates the contribution of Basil Kirker to the choir, choral music and music generally in the Warkworth district. Basil formed the Kowhai Singers in 1984 and was its first musical director. The award is given to a student “in recognition of valued participation, exemplary dedication and outstanding contribution to choral singing”.

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How to avoid food poisoning The recent Fonterra botulism scare has given jam-makers the jitters, but Andrea Hinchco of Taste the Kitchen Shop in Warkworth says you should be alright if you don’t use a canning bath and stick to a reliable recipe. Botulism is the name of the type of food poisoning people get from consuming the toxin produced by active Clostridium botulinium in foods. Botulism spores can survive harmlessly in soil and water for many years. But when moist, low acid food is starved of oxygen and is warmer than 4degC in temperature, the spores produce cells that can multiply rapidly and produce a deadly toxin within three to four days. Andrea says most cases of botulism poisoning come from the use of canning baths in America. These are large pots with up to seven jars submerged in boiling water within them. People often don’t get them to the right temperature and that’s when things go wrong. “In New Zealand we use jars with lids. We do it differently so it’s less of a problem here.” Andrea says it’s best to process everything over boiling point to be safe. “Jars should be boiled at over 100 degC for at least half an hour. It’s important not to over-stew the fruit.” The shop owner says as the jars cool, the lids suck down. “If the seal is down

Andrea Hinchco of Taste Warkworth.

and there’s no sign of rusting, I’ll eat it.” She says it’s best to make enough for just one season. It is important to stick to tried and true recipes, as having the incorrect acidity can be bad. Andrea recommends newbies start with the book A Good Harvest. It includes traditional recipes from the gardens of Rural Women New Zealand and can be purchased at her store for $35. She also warns of the dangers of overloading fridges over the Christmas period, as they can struggle to keep the correct temperature. “That’s when you have issues, especially if food isn’t properly sealed or wrapped. Things like custards, potato and rice salads could end up with stuff growing on them.”

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Christmas carol nights planned Warkworth and Wellsford are set for festivities with both towns planning carol evenings. Warkworth’s Carol by Candlelight event will be held at Lucy Moore Park from 7.30pm on Friday December 6. Massed choir conductor Linda Gribble says Rodney MP Mark Mitchell will compere and local singer LouLou will be his co-host. “LouLou is no stranger to the limelight,” Linda says. “She won the talent show Rodney Live several years ago, she’s sung at Aukland’s Carols in the Park and made guest appearances at Warkworth Carols.” The singer will be opening for Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Matakana Country Park in February. Warkworth Rotary sponsors and sets up the event and Bob Campbell is the sound technician. “He ensures the Warkworth Brass Band and the Massed Children’s Choir is heard all over the hillside.” Primary schools involved include Kaipara Flats, Snells Beach and Warkworth Primary. “They have been practising hard since October to lead the hillside in song,” Linda says.

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She recommends people bring their own deckchairs, cushions or rugs and says song sheets and glowsticks will be provided for free by Warkworth Rotary. If it’s raining the event will be transferred to Warkworth School hall. Meanwhile Wellsford’s combined churches community carol night will be held on Saturday December 14 from 7.30pm at the Wellsford Community Centre. The event has run for several years but is being organised for the first time by the

new pastor of Church of Christ Marshall Cowan. Other groups taking part include the Anglican Church, Catholic Church, Cooperating Parish, Christian Fellowship, Community Bible Chapel, Living Faith Te Hana, Living Way Christian School and the Local Vocals. A backing band will accompany the singing. Mr Cowan says there’ll be a multimedia clip that explains the story of Christmas and students from Living Way Christian School will present a drama.

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Warkworth set to twinkle Warkworth’s CBD is a step closer to being completely lit up with Christmas lights. The community project is run by the town’s business association, which installed fairy lights along Queen Street, Baxter Street and Mills Lane last year. This year Elizabeth Street, Kapanui Place, Neville Street and Whitaker Road will be added to the list. Fairy lights, wreaths and bows will be installed on shopfronts and street poles and icicle lights will be installed at Kapanui Triangle. Climbing Santa motifs and rope light Christmas trees are also planned. Project manager Nicola Jones says a donation is requested from each shop and once enough money has been received, funds can be released. “We’re asking for $50 and businesses will get a mention on the sponsorship board outside Warkworth Tavern. So far $5500 has been donated but we need another $1000. We’re hoping to make it bigger and better each year so we need businesses to chip in. It’s up to them, but the groundwork has been laid.” She says Warkworth Business Association has received some generous donations from the public, including $1000 from a man at Te Kai Investments and $350 from another.

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Homebuilders will be the beneficiaries of this month’s Matakantata concerts.

Christmas concerts planned ‘Home for Christmas’ is the theme of Matakantata Choir’s two Christmas concerts this month. The programme will include a mix of traditional and contemporary songs, celebrating Christmas and family. The choir will be assisted by Lyn Dashper on violin, Mark Dashper on cello, Ana Williamson on piano and Colin Jarvis on blues harp. The group’s spokesperson Jenni Francis says the theme reflects the fact that proceeds from the performances will go to Homebuilders Family Services.

Money raised will help the service provide youth counselling, a Chrysalis Children’s programme, a boys’ programme, and life skills and parenting courses. The concerts are at Matakana Village hall, on Saturday December 14 at 7.30pm and at Mahurangi Presbyterian Church, 5 Pulham Road, on Sunday December 15 at 2.30pm. Tickets are available from Lee and Hart Pharmacy Warkworth and the Gull Service Station Matakana. They will also be available at the door or phone Jenni on 423 0094.

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localentertainment David Prictor’s artwork, Golden City. Melbourne’s Essential Theatre will hold its only New Zealand performances at Ascension.

Winery hosts summer Shakespeare Art goes on show “Shakespeare in the Vines” is returning to Matakana this summer, following last year’s sellout performances. Melbourne’s Essential Theatre has again partnered NZ, and the idea of our guests sipping wine among with Ascension Wine Estate to bring another one of the vines as the sun sets while enjoying a live performance of a Shakespeare classic was too good Shakespeare’s most popular plays to life. This time they have chosen everyone’s favourite to pass up,” says Ascension’s functions manager, Carlie Blanchett-Burton. rom-com, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The play, which is filled with romance, magic and Essential Theatre has been entertaining Australian mayhem, will be performed outdoors in the vineyard crowds with its Shakespeare shows for over a decade. with the actors surrounded by a relatively small It also performs the shows in wineries in Australia. audience sitting on picnic rugs and chairs. It will be It performs the plays as they were originally intended in Shakespeare’s day, by using an open-air stage from presented under the direction of Bert LaBonte. Two shows will be held, on Saturday January 4 and edge to edge, often positioning themselves amongst Sunday January 5, and they will be the only ones in the audience and including them in the proceedings. New Zealand. If the weather is wet, the event will Gates will open at 6pm, and the play starts at 7pm. The audience can bring their own seating and a be held indoors. “We were offered the opportunity to bring this picnic, or pay for reserved seating, including dinner. professional and innovative theatre company to Earlybird prices are available until December 6.

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Hidden away in the Morrison Drive industrial zone in Warkworth, six artists have been delighting in new ways to express themselves with colour. Timothy Ruskrudge, David Prictor, Susan Copestake, Kevin Fabian, Shane Sherman and Jenny Pound all live with IDEA services and attend the Vocational Service in Warkworth. They have been supported by local artist Leigh McIntyre-Lomas and have been working for a year with ink and dyes, each developing their own styles. Their work will go on show at Warkworth’s Queen St Corner Café & Gallery for one week from December 10, and all the pieces will be for sale. One of the artists, David Prictor, has previously been featured as part of a group exhibition in Helensville and also had a solo show of his paintings. This year David received a Judge’s Merit award for a piece entered in the Rodney Arts Awards.

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Auckland big-band Sal Valentine & The Babyshakes are bringing their own special brand of raucousness to Leigh this month as part of a tour to support their debut album. Led by band leader Ivan LuketinaJohnston, aka Sal Valentine, the 10-piece ensemble will play at the Sawmill on December 14. It is the final date of a four-centre tour that kicked off on Halloween in Auckland, with the debaucherous musical spectacular, The Deadbeat Prom. Given that the band includes a full horn and rhythm section, as well as backing singers Chelsea Prastiti and Rebecca Mason-Melrose, touring isn’t easy, but the band has already built up a loyal following from their high-energy live shows. The group’s debut album has been described as “upbeat and flirty”, and was recorded by Bob Frisbee (Street Chant, Panther and the Zoo), an engineer and producer who usually lives in Auckland’s punk scene, in just two days. The first single off the album is called Drink Until I Pass Out. For more information visit salvalentineandthebabyshakes.com

Youth band wins Warkworth RSA talent quest Four high school students who call themselves Haze have taken out the inaugural Warkworth RSA Talent Quest. The win finishes off a successful year for the band, which only formed this year. Its members – Rodney College students Mitch Levet, Jakob Young and Leah Mainland, and Otamatea High School student Jim Bokma – were regional finalists in the recent youth music event Smokefreerockquest. RSA manager Robbie Blair says there was nothing between the top four places. “Overall, the standard of talent was really good and we were thrilled with the enthusiasm of all the entrants, supporters and members,” he says. Winning acts shared prizes valued at more than $5000 as well as the offer to appear in RSA gigs at clubs around the district next year. The shows were compeered by Omaha musician Gary Pallett. Runner-up in the competition was Lou Lou, with Becky Moon placing third. Other finalists were Martin Rhodes, Ian Sturt and Manaia.

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This young Australian author travelled to Iceland on a Rotary Exchange where she first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir. She has used this story as the basis for her first novel. In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of two men. Agnes is sent to the farm of District Officer Jon Jonsson, his wife and their two daughters, to wait for her execution. They are horrified to have this woman in their home and the only person who initially wants to understand her is Toti, the young assistant reverend appointed as Agnes’ spiritual guardian. As winter approaches and the family is forced to work side by side, the tale of Agnes’ life begins to emerge. This beautiful novel portrays Iceland’s formidable landscape, where every day is a battle to survive, and asks how one woman can hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others.

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Violet Minturn grows up in Shanghai’s most exclusive courtesan house, the striking and willful daughter of the only white American woman to own such a place. Thoroughly American in race, manners and speech, she is shocked to discover that her father is Chinese. In 1912, when the Emperor is deposed and celebrations rock the city, a cruel act of deception separates Violet from her mother. As her mother returns to America without her, Violet is sold into a second-class courtesan house and forced to become a virgin courtesan. Determined to make the best of the situation, Violet determines to master the arts that will make her one of the most desired women in Shanghai. In this new way of life, the romance she seeks is an illusion, and seduction is nothing more than a transaction. But she never gives up hope of finding love and having a family of her own. Violet’s need to understand her past fires her quest to uncover the truth about her mother and the men – father figures and lovers – who have shaped her journey. Spanning 50 years and two continents, this novel is a deeply evocative story of the inheritance of love, its mysteries and betrayals.

Warkworth Lions raffle winners The Warkworth Lions have raised more than $8500 in their annual raffle. After six weeks of intensive selling, the winners were drawn on November 16. The first prize of a $2000 holiday package from Atlas Travel went to Ross Brackebush of Pukekohe, and the second prize of a $300 voucher from Mitre 10 Mega went to Rose O’Connor of Papatoetoe. The funds Lions vice-president Angela Taylor raised will go towards projects for youths. congratulates Ross Brackebush.

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Christmas snacks Why is it that every year Christmas seems to rush up and surprise us? I am feeling quite in control this year though, as I have already managed to finalise the numbers coming and the menu for the day — a real first for me. There is always a propensity to overeat on Christmas Day but we have had a major breakthrough in our household in this regard. Over the past few years we have cut our meals down for the day to two and our main meal of the day is a lot lighter than the Christmas dinners of our parents’ day. Christmas breakfast has become a real tradition and comprises a light meal of salmon, eggs and croissants accompanied by a good bottle of champagne. To appease our son (who prefers a full English breakfast and who doesn’t drink champagne) I always do some chocolate-dipped strawberries. See the following recipe for this year’s version. We then don’t eat again until the extended family arrives around 4pm when we will graze on a selection of tapas for a couple of hours whilst the men hover around the barbecue. It will be a butterflied turkey this year with plenty of preprepared vegetable dishes, and dessert is being organised by the next generation. There is much talk of a large croquembouche. Perhaps I’ll have a pavlova and fruit salad on hand in case of any disasters. I hope all of those who follow this column have a wonderful, relaxing Christmas with your nearest and dearest. Thanks to all of you who give me feedback each month on the recipes — I really appreciate it. Merry Christmas and very Happy New Year.

Finger Food Strawberries • 1 to 2 punnets of strawberries • 250g 70% cocoa chocolate buttons • 250g cream cheese • 1 tblespn icing sugar • 1 tblespn milk or a liqueur of choice • Slivered almonds, optional for garnish Wash the strawberries. Then slice off a small piece from the tip so that the strawberry can sit level on plate. Use a strawberry huller to remove stem, taking out enough pulp to fit cream mixture in. Dry the strawberries well with paper towels. If the strawberries are wet, the chocolate will not stick. Melt the chocolate in a double-boiler or microwave. Line a tray that will fit in your freezer with waxed paper. Dip the bottom half of each strawberry into the melted chocolate and stand it on the lined pan. Place in the freezer for about 5 minutes or until the chocolate has hardened. While the chocolate is cooling, make the cheesecake filling. In a small bowl, beat together the cream cheese, icing sugar and milk, until smooth. If it seems too thick, add a splash more milk. Spoon the cheesecake mixture into a piping bag with a star tip. Remove the strawberries from the freezer and pipe in the cheesecake filling. Top with a slivered almond and serve or refrigerate until ready to serve. Best eaten on day of assembly.

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Omaha golfers scored a trifecta at the Champion of Champion tournaments held recently, coming home with wins in the men’s and women’s events, as well as the team trophy. Play was held at Redwood Park and Muriwai Links, on Sunday November 24, and was open to all the North Harbour district clubs’ yearly champions. Harbour Golf executive officer Andrew Leventis said Omaha Beach Golf Club was the big winner on the day claiming all the major prizes. “The club’s course is on the up and up with some exciting times ahead when it hosts the NZ Seniors in February and also fields a championship grade pennant team next year, for the first time in the club’s history,” he said. Mike Leeper Omaha golfer Lynda Tate was the members Colin Nicoll and Beau popular winner of the top Silver Collis to win the team’s trophy. Division with rounds of 79 and 76 on the testing Muriwai links. Lynda is Other trophy winners at Muriwai a member of the upcoming women’s were Jane Moore (RNZAF) who won inter-provincial team. Peninsula’s the Bronze Championship, North big hitting Dayna McCormick was Harbour president Sandie Jennins second after rounds of 79 and 77 to (Pupuke) who won the Veterans Trophy, Sala Bishop (Warkworth) who finish one back. won the 9-hole section, and Muriwai In the men’s event, North Harbour Golf Club who teamed up to win masters representative Mike Leeper the Rosebowl Trophy. Other trophy (Omaha) shot rounds of 69 and 70 for winners in the men’s event were Luke a comfortable five shot win over junior Bickerstaff (Whangaparaoa) who representatives Sam Reese (Peninsula) won the intermediate division and and Mark Hutson (North Shore). Joshua Park (Huapai) who won the Mike also teamed with Omaha junior division.

It seems to be the time of the year in which excellence of all types is recognised. Harbour Sport has just been recognised at the NZ Recreation Association awards as the winning partner of the Outstanding Recreation Programme for the Bikes in Schools project. Wellsford Primary was the second Bikes in Schools project to be implemented in Auckland in March 2012. Bikes in Schools involves the creation of a bike track around the outside of school fields with pump and skill tracks included. Harbour Sport works with the school to have an appropriate number of new bikes and helmets funded. Teacher training is provided to ensure that all children are correctly taught how to ride a bike. With cycling becoming more and more topical, due to traffic and environmental issues, it is important that our children learn to ride in safe environments. For Harbour Sport and other partners to be recognised is a wonderful feeling, as it acknowledges the large amount of work in the background that is required for this project. As a region we are extremely lucky to have some of NZ’s most successful athletes. The Massey University Harbour Sport Excellence Awards is one of the pre-eminent awards evenings as there are many Olympic medallists and world champions nominated for awards. This year it was extremely difficult for the judges. For example, in the Sportswoman of the Year there were four world champions nominated, and the judge’s conversations must have been intense. There were many deserving winners but also many deserving nominations. Sport is played across our entire region and winners from the Rodney Local Board region were successful in two categories. Warkworth-based Core Builders Composites was acknowledged for its part in Oracle Team USA winning the America’s Cup by winning the Massey University Innovation in Sport Award. The North Harbour Stadium Sportsman of the Year was awarded to Wellsford-born and now Muriwai-based equestrian rider Jock Paget for winning the prestigious Badminton Horse Trials in England in May. The winners can be found at harboursport.co.nz but in my opinion being nominated and recognised by the entire sporting community is just as important as winning the award. All our athletes, coaches and volunteers work so hard to achieve their goals and for many it is an opportunity to thank the people who have helped them on their journey. Celebration of all types of excellence can be a humbling and uplifting experience and one I would recommend any lover of sport to experience if they can.

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Wed

Thu

Dec 4

2:33am 9:03am Tide 2:59pm Times 9:21pm

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0.3 3:23am 3.4 9:53am 0.4 3:51pm 3.3 10:14pm

5:56am 8:26pm

Sun

1:43am 2:14pm

0.2 4:13am 3.5 10:44am 0.3 4:43pm 3.4 11:06pm

2:45am 3:16pm

0.2 5:04am 3.6 11:36am 0.3 5:37pm 3.4 11:59pm

3:46am 4:16pm

Dec 9

Tue

Dec 10

0.2 5:56am 0.3 12:52am 3.3 1:48am 3.5 12:29pm 3.5 6:50am 0.4 7:48am 0.3 6:32pm 0.4 1:24pm 3.4 2:20pm 7:27pm 0.5 8:25pm 3.3 5:56am 8:30pm

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Dec 8

5:56am 8:29pm

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Sun

Dec 7

5:56am 8:28pm

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Dec 6

5:56am 8:27pm

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Dec 5

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4:44am 5:12pm

5:56am 8:30pm

Best At

5:40am 6:06pm

6:32am 6:57pm

2:45am 8:49am 3:17pm 9:23pm

5:56am 8:31pm

Best At

3.2 0.6 3.3 0.6

Wed

Dec 11

7:21am 7:46pm

3.1 3:46am 0.7 9:52am 3.1 4:14pm 0.6 10:21pm

5:56am 8:32pm

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Thu

Dec 12

8:10am 8:34pm

3.0 4:47am 0.8 10:53am 3.1 5:11pm 0.7 11:18pm

5:56am 8:33pm

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Fri

8:57am 9:21pm

Dec 14

5:56am 8:34pm

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Dec 15

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Dec 16

2.9 5:46am 2.9 12:12am 0.7 1:03am 0.8 11:50am 0.8 6:41am 3.0 7:31am 3.0 6:06pm 3.0 12:42pm 0.8 1:30pm 6:59pm 3.0 7:48pm 0.7

5:56am 8:34pm

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Sat

Dec 13

BOAT HIRE

9:45am 10:09pm

5:57am 8:35pm

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10:33am 10:57pm

11:21am 11:45pm

1:49am 8:17am 2:15pm 8:35pm

5:57am 8:36pm

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0.7 3.0 0.8 3.0

Tue

Dec 17

12:10pm

2:32am 9:00am 2:57pm 9:19pm

5:57am 8:36pm

Best At

0.6 3.1 0.8 3.0

Wed

Dec 18

12:34am 12:59pm

0.6 3:12am 3.1 9:40am 0.8 3:38pm 3.0 10:00pm

5:58am 8:37pm

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Dec 19

1:23am 1:47pm

0.6 3:51am 3.1 10:18am 0.8 4:17pm 3.0 10:39pm

5:58am 8:37pm

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Dec 20

5:58am 8:38pm

Best At

2:11am 2:35pm

0.6 3.1 0.8 3.0

Best At

2:58am 3:21pm

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