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Evictions force loyal Warkworth Town Hall tenants onto the street The Women’s Centre Rodney is assessing the logistics and costs involved in relocating, following its sudden eviction from the Warkworth Town Hall.

The Rodney Local Board gave all town hall tenants and user groups their marching orders on December 19 after fears were raised about the safety of the building. The eviction was immediate for user groups such as the Celebration Centre and Shotokan Karate, with the Women’s Centre and barber given a non-negotiable deadline of March 31.

Board chairman Bob Howard says the board made the ‘safety-first’ decision after receiving a report, which outlined how the facility fails current Building Code requirements. The 100-year-old hall will close while Auckland Council investigates options to strengthen and future-proof the Category 1 heritage building.

Women’s Centre coordinator Colleen Julian says the suddenness of the decision has left the centre reeling.

“I think the board panicked and made the decision without fully realising the ramifications for a service such as the Women’s Centre,” she says. continued page 2

Inside this issue The Women’s Centre and the barber, who collectively have been in the town hall for 40 years, have until the end of next month to find new premises. Pictured are Colleen Julian and Rob Lockhorst.

Mahurangi Matters is running an online forum on the Warkworth Town Hall closure. Go to www.localmatters.co.nz/opinion to join the debate on what the future of the building should be.

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“Virtually a month was lost over Christmas when everyone went on holidays so now we’re left with just eight weeks to find suitable premises.”

The centre is looking at renting a house in Warkworth but will need a resource consent for a change of use, as well as numerous permits to meet Building Act compliance. Work will involve the installation of a disabled toilet and wheelchair access, which means re-concreting the driveway and widening doorways. Child-proofing the premises is another cost, which includes fencing the backyard.

“We can’t afford to close or not deliver the courses and services we’re funded to provide, as this could jeopardise future grants from our major funding sources such as Lotteries and the ASB Trust. Council is evicting us, but they are also making the job of finding new premises difficult. I can’t even get a definitive opinion from them on what we need to do and exactly what permits are required.”

Colleen says meeting Council costs alone will probably cost in excess of

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$20,000. On top of that will be the cost of fitting out the house to suit the centre’s purposes, new signage and advertising.

“Obviously we haven’t budgeted for any of this. In the past seven or eight years, we’ve spent about $10,000 upgrading the centre – it may not sound like much, but we operate on a shoestring budget.”

The women’s centre has been located at the town hall for 26 years. It handles more than 3000 enquiries a year and its services include subsidised counselling, a range of courses for women and young girls, art-based and computer courses, a successful young mothers’ programme which has recently been extended to include mothers aged 23 to 27 years, information, advice and referrals. It has run courses in Orewa and Mangawhai, and the Warkworth centre has lounge and library facilities.

Colleen says she finds it ironic that Council is evicting a group, which is providing precisely the services its own reports have identified as being important in Rodney.

Barber’s business faces closure Honorary hall custodian and barber Rob Lockhorst has been located at the front of the town hall for more than 14 years.

“My Dad Jozeph was the caretaker here for a number of years before me,” he says. “I think Council is making a big mistake in kicking us out before they know what they’re doing with the hall. It’ll probably just sit derelict for years while they make up their minds and everyone knows an empty building deteriorates a lot quicker and

is likely to attract vandals.

“I’ve looked at every ‘nook and cranny’ in Warkworth to find a place to relocate without success.”

Rob, who recently committed to building a new house, says he is feeling pretty desperate.

“There’s just nowhere suitable that I can afford. Council said they’d assist but I haven’t seen anyone.

“My customers have been very supportive and most say they find the eviction ridiculous.”

Previous stories at www.localmatters.co.nz:  Town Hall closes  Advisory Committee  Celebration Centre finds kept in the dark itself homeless  Women’s Centre in shock  Warkworth board  Rodney Local Board Risk members comment on and Assurance update closure

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Council procurement policies impact on regional parks Council procurement policies are in the spotlight as changes to Auckland’s security contracts raise concerns about consultation, ranger safety and local access to public contracts.

Warkworth’s Insite Security has provided security for seven Northern region parks for the past four years and owner Chris Martin is concerned that the changes will dismantle years of work and investment in an integrated system.

Auckland Council’s regional operations manager John O’Brien says changes to regional parks security were part of a wider procurement process rationalising security service contracts it acquired through amalgamation, simplifying administration and saving money in the process.

Council has opted for a single security alarm monitoring service and four area-based contracts providing “manned” services that meet all of its security requirements, including those of regional parks. It expects to transition to the new contractors at the beginning of April.

Mr O’Brien says the decision to re-tender is not a reflection on the performance of any of the previous service providers but took advantage of the fact that most existing security contracts were due to expire between July 2011 and June 2012.

However, Mr Martin believes that in the context of regional parks’ complex security needs the new approach will be more cumbersome, potentially more costly and less effective.

Current systems are closely interlinked including 24/7 live monitoring of the rangers’ radio system and predator proof gates, via alarm and CCTV, along with rapid response if necessary.

He says separating monitoring and response could cause delays with serious consequences, as rangers working in isolated settings without good mobile phone coverage can encounter threats of violence from park users, while if a predator proof gate doesn’t close predators can quickly decimate protected wildlife.

Local knowledge often enables Insite staff to resolve issues over the radio, or attend promptly, whereas operators at a central call centre won’t have the same understanding of local geography, he says.

Mr O’Brien says the new three-year contracts stipulate response times equal to, or less than, those included in the previous Councils’ contracts, as well as including performance measures that will be reported against, and reviewed monthly.

“Regional Parks’ staff will determine what services

Insite Security’s technical coordinator Aimee Whitaker monitors a regional park predator fence via CCTV while keeping in touch with rangers in the field via radio.

are needed within each of the parks to maintain an acceptable level of service and efforts were made to ensure existing local suppliers could continue to provide services as subcontractors.”

However, despite being asked to sub-contract for northern region manned duties, including regional parks by the new north area contractor, Icon Security, Mr Martin is critical of the procurement process.

Although he was informed of the whole of Auckland tender, he wasn’t informed of the revised plan offering contracts for four individual areas, despite having previously enquired about retaining services solely in his region.

He considers it symptomatic of a Council “blind spot” beyond the harbour bridge.

“They take a one-size-fits-all approach to everything and it’s having an effect on lots of businesses and families.”

In a letter to Council chief executive Doug McKay, Tracey Martin (no relation to Chris) says board members are still providing feedback on Council’s procurement policy and urges flexibility to recognise the distinctions between rural and urban needs.

Council’s desire for savings through aggregation

of services meant Rodney was being “starved of employment opportunities” as predominately small local suppliers were forced out of the Council contract market, she says.

While opportunities for sub-contracting work were given to unsuccessful tenderers, smaller companies, that didn’t tender for the large-scale jobs, were therefore not informed and decisions about contacting them were left up to successful contractors.

“We are pushing for some weighting either via the tender process or via a dollar percentage mechanism to ensure local input is built into the procurement policy of Auckland Council,” she says.

She also reiterates concerns about ranger safety and questions the level of consultation about changes to security arrangements with park management, who she says had not been consulted as late as the end of November.

Another local Northern region parks contractor, Greg Jones of Warkworth’s Laser Plumbing, says no changes have been proposed to his 24-hour, oncall contract serving parks from Long Bay to Atiu Creek, which represents a 30 to 40 year relationship, initially established with his father’s company.

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FEEDBACK Intimidating hoons My wife and I visited Warkworth last month for shopping and to have a spot of lunch. While my wife was purchasing a birthday gift for me, I was banished from the shop so I went and sat on a bench, just up from Hunting and Fishing. As I sat enjoying the peace and quiet, my attention was suddenly drawn to a group of eight or so youths, aged from 12 to about 16. I was shocked by their anti-social behaviour – swearing, spitting on the pavement and blocking the footpath. Then they proceeded to bang on shop windows and kick sandwich boards, all the while continuing the swearing and spitting.

Then a couple of the group picked up a bunch of coat hangers, which were in a box outside a clothes shop, and threw them across the footpath. The retailer did come out and asked them to pick them up. They then decided to skateboard up and down the footpath

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and the swearing continued.

Small towns have always had a small group of undesirables that ruin everything for the majority, and what a shame Warkworth has to put up with this. This behaviour just sticks out like a sore thumb. No doubt this group is well-established and congregate around the skateboard area. They were also heckling drivers using the turning circle by the skate ramp. Why does our society have to put up with being intimidated by hoons like this?

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Town Hall solution I understand that the Warkworth Town Hall is now closed completely and unavailable for any functions at all. I presume that this is because it is a danger to the public because of its

style of construction. I am also aware that it has a heritage classification and so, therefore, must be maintained in some form. The dilemma is that, if left in its present shape and form, it will always be something of an eyesore.

Perhaps the way forward is to maintain what is the real heritage – that is the special blocks – use them for a feature wall or walls, demolish the rest and rebuild on the same site a larger building which would serve the community for the next 50 years and would meet all the requirements of the current building regulations.

Unless there can be some agreement across the community as to how to provide us with a public building of which we could all be proud, I don’t see the Auckland Council being willing to invest say $3 million in refurbishing, and doing due honour to the pioneers who originally built the hall.

John Patrick, Warkworth

Matakana pupils remember early school days Former pupils and staff of Matakana School are being encouraged to write a few lines about their time at the school, for inclusion in a commemorative history booklet.

The school is turning 150 this year unveiling of a commemorative School. Organiser are keen to include and the occasion will be celebrated monument, time capsule, memorabilia a wide range of items in the booklet, and commemorated with a day of exhibition and cutting of an so are encouraging former pupils activities on Saturday March 10. anniversary cake are some of the many to write a few lines or paragraphs.

The day will start with registrations activities on the programme. There These should be posted to Kim Scott, in the community hall, and then will also be an anniversary dinner or at Matakana School 952 Matakana Road, RD5, Warkworth 0985. there will be an opportunity to visit BYO picnic. the area before the start of the official A commemorative history booklet Info: www.matakana.school.nz or programme. is being compiled of school day call 422 7309 for a registration form Planting of ceremonial trees and memories and the history of Matakana and programme.

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Gun-shy president Orewa Rotary appears to still be gun shy, eight years after the infamous ‘Orewa Speech’ was delivered there by the then-leader of the National Party, Don Brash. A recent approach

by Hibiscus Matters to attend a speech to Rotary members by NZ First MP Tracey Martin met with a rebuff from club president Nigel Rigg.

“In the past Orewa Rotary has been linked with politics and we prefer to take a neutral stance.”

In hot water A Sandspit marina advocate got pointedly hot under the collar about the presence of Mahurangi Matters’ reporters at the recent Environment Court hearing. His barrister even alerted the judge to the fact that the media were present and taking notes! In contrast, the judge seemed very relaxed about the matter, and offered to make a desk available if it made our note-taking easier.

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Rodney constrains spending to meet Council budget cuts Warkworth may have to wait at least another 10 years before planning starts on an aquatic facility.

Rodney Local Board chair Bob It provides for spending of $10.8 Howard says the project, estimated million on operational expenses and to cost around $22 million, is one of $7.1 million on capital projects – many that have been cut or deferred in about $1.2 million short of what the Rodney to meet funding targets set by board requires.

Auckland Council’s governing body.

Relationship manager Leslie Jenkins In its Local Board Plan, the aquatic says additional frustration arises from facility was allocated $20 million in the fact that some of the reduction in the 2013/14 financial year to assess the local board budget came about and construct the project. because of re-allocation of funding However, Mr Howard says there for local projects to Auckland Council won’t be money to deliver this project and its CCOs. However, Ms Jenkins in that timeframe, and the board says local boards are still largely in the was giving priority to sportsground dark as to which body is funding what. improvements and completion “It’s not as transparent as it should be, of the long-awaited Warkworth and the board will be asking for more Showgrounds redevelopment. specific information,” Ms Jenkins says.

Although the Local Board acknowledges “Part of the discussion that the board that it is facing a budget deficit, Mr needs to have with the governing body Howard says he is not in a position to is what they are working on locally – if give details on the level of the shortfall. we don’t know, how can we assess it On the original figures presented and ensure community involvement?” in the Mayor’s local board funding The draft Rodney Local Board proposal last November, other sources Agreement must be included in estimated that Rodney’s deficit was Auckland Council’s draft Long-Term around 59 percent or $9.3 million, Plan 2012-2022. The plan will open one the largest funding cuts of any for submissions from February 24 board in Auckland. to March 23, and the plan will be However, Mr Howard said Rodney adopted in June. never expected to receive everything Specific priorities identified in the it asked for and since November, board agreement include: had worked on meeting the Mayor’s funding allocation but was still eight yy Warkworth Showgrounds – requires $10.9m funding over 10 years but to 10 percent short. there is currently a shortfall of $7.8m The board was expected to approve the yy Community halls, and the draft Rodney Local Board Agreement Warkworth Town Hall in particular 2012/13 at a meeting on January 31.

The agreement will be consulted on yy Funding for local events through Auckland Council’s Long- yy Seal extension programme Term Plan 2012-2022 process, in Other priorities for the next 10 years, February and March. many of which have not been allocated At its meeting last November, the funding in the draft LTP, included: Rodney board agreed that it could yy Swimming pool/aquatic facility not adopt the draft 10 year budget for local activities as the information yy Multi sport facility provided was not accurate or yy Atlas site – no funding has so far been allocated to this project sufficiently complete to enable it to make a decision. yy Extend Warkworth Library

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Setting aside time to consider sea resources Keeping Kiwi kids The annual Seaweek event will be held next month and will consider the theme One Ocean – Too Much Love?

Turning the Tide.

Information distributed during the week will encourage Kiwis to explore the many uses of the seas around New Zealand, and the challenges of working sustainably with the nation’s vast oceanic resource – the fifth largest in the world.

Seaweek national coordinator Dr Mels Barton says that as an island nation, NZ relies on the sea for food, trade, transport, sport and recreation, tourism, and many intangible benefits.

“Our tourism economy depends on the perception of New Zealand’s environment as clean and unspoilt, and many of our special places are beside the sea,” he says. “Yet the quality of our marine environment is under serious threat and we may lose what we most treasure if we don’t change our behaviour.”

Dr Barton says oceans worldwide are affected by pollution, oil spills, resource depletion, over-fishing, climate change and many other threats.

“This year’s Seaweek theme will encourage us to explore our many uses of the sea, the conflicts between them, how what we do on the land affects New Zealand manages the sea. It is 11. Anyone wishing to organise an the sea, and ways to improve the something we all contribute to and event is invited to contact Dr Barton at mels@subliminal.co.nz or 021 213 quality of our marine environment. must take responsibility for.”

No one agency or organisation in Seaweek takes place from March 3 to 7779; or visit www.seaweek.org.nz

Sustainable management focus of Landcare conference The work of landcare groups around New Zealand and the role of communities in sustainable land and water management will be the focus of Landcare Trust’s conference at the University of Waikato Campus, Hamilton on February 29 and 30. A global perspective will be offered by Matthew Reddy, from the International River Foundation, while New Zealand insights include South Island farmer Doug Avery speaking about the award winning work of the Starborough Flaxbourne Soil Conservation Group in overcoming the challenges of dryland farming. North Island speakers include Whangarei Heads Landcare Forum representatives Helen and Todd Moodie. They will discuss kiwi recovery efforts on the Whangarei Heads Peninsula over the past decade where population estimates have increased from 80 in 2001 to around 400. Info: www.landcare.org.nz/conference

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A Wenderholm weta walk and a Seaweek snorkelling safari at Goat Island are two activities on the local Kiwi Conservation Club calendar next month.

The club is the junior arm of Forest & Bird and has been teaching Kiwi kids about New Zealand’s wildlife and wild places for the last 20 years.

Local coordinators Claire McDonald and Burnette O’Connor say new members are always welcome.

Children can join via the club website or contact the coordinators directly.

Last year local events included a trip on the Jane Gifford, an investigation of the night life of insects, a visit to regenerating bush at Tawharanui with ranger Maurice Puckett and snorkelling at Whangateau Harbour.

Members also did a beach clean-up, visited Tiritiri Matangi and went on a glow worm walk in Parry Kauri Park.

Events planned for this year include a trip to Rangitoto in April, a visit to the Leigh Marine Laboratory and participation in a bird survey.

Burnette and Claire will attend a club coordinators event at Miranda next month.

“We’ll be learning about migratory birds, as well as meeting other coordinators from around the country and being inspired,” Claire says.

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Estuaries are beautiful. Estuaries are where rivers widen and meet the sea, and because they are ‘ecotones’, where several ecosystems meet, they are naturally rich in biodiversity. But they have other significant values too. They are some of the last places of peace and quiet, where nature remains relatively undisturbed and undeveloped. They are the last refuges for endangered and shy birds. They are an important intermediate zone acting as a buffer and mitigating the effects of land-based activities on the sea. Some animals spend their entire lives in these rich estuarine environments, but many others rely on these places for key parts of the tide or life cycles.

Rodney’s estuaries are home to the region’s largest and healthiest cockle beds.

Estuaries are also breeding areas and nurseries for fish that go on to spread and populate wider areas. And some of the region’s rarest birds such as banded rail live in our local estuaries. At least 22 birds species are found in the Sandspit estuary for example – and most of them are either rare or endangered, and rely on this area not just for their own feeding and breeding but often also for the health of the species as a whole. The role of local estuaries in international ecology is important too. Our estuaries are vital flocking sites for the congregation of migratory birds as they rest and feed on their way to or from Asia and Alaska, in some of the longest migrations on the planet. So retaining estuarine habitats has implications far beyond just local concerns.

Estuaries also have sublime visual beauty. These landscapes are ever changing as the sea comes in and out, exposing or submerging sand and shell banks.

Reflections of bushy escarpments, the effect of light and wind on water, the swooping and calls of birds, plopping of fish are all things to sooth the soul.

Saltmarshes, sea grasses and glassworts all add colour and texture, as well as filtering nutrients from the land and providing habitat and food for the creatures who call these places home. Estuaries are important for human activity as well – fishing, coastal access, recreation, respite, are all more prosaic roles; Orewa estuary adds huge value to the town’s location, character and recreational needs.

But both incremental damage such as from sedimentation and significant singular threats such as marina developments put our estuaries at risk. How to balance human use with intrinsic and habitat value is a major challenge as pressure comes on for more access, more development, and as estuaries and other last nature refuges are the spaces of least defence. There’s a clash of values fought out in nature, between those who value these places for their own sake, versus those who seek to modify, use or destroy for some ‘higher value’ economic purpose called development. Estuaries are finite, and for local and global reasons they need better protection.

Walkway awaits volunteers A walkway through the taniko forest, at the entrance to Omaha and along the upper Whangateau estuary, has been pegged and is now awaiting some volunteer support.

Omaha Beach Community president Graham Painter says the walkway will be half metal, half timber, and a bridge by the 8th golf tee would be an integral part of the project.

“In the event of a tsunami, the walkway will be pivotal should evacuation be necessary,” he said. “We’re now just looking for interested parties to pick it up and make it happen.”

The taniko forest is in a scientific reserve, about 1.6 to 1.8km. administered by the Department of DOC’s work in the reserve to date has Conservation. Any work will need to mainly been pest management of pampas meet environmental and recreational and other weeds, possum eradication, track service standards. and some ecological surveying of fresh The total length of walkway will be water native fish/mudfish.

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Environment Court deliberates on Sandspit marina project Traffic and parking issues dominated day two of an Environment Court hearing into the proposed Sandspit Marina, held last month.

The hearing started on January 23 and and he felt the marina would not add Sandspit breakwater. increased traffic, disturbance from was expected to take six sitting days to to the congestion that already existed The proposal was originally rejected by construction and more boats refuelling. complete. at Sandspit during peak times.

Rodney Council on the recommendation Consent for the coastal works was Sandspit Marina Society is appealing If the society’s appeal is upheld, it of independent commissioners who granted by the former Auckland a 2010 decision by Rodney District plans to build a 131-berth marina advised that negative effects on the Regional Council and is not subject Council (now Auckland Council) to on the northern side of the existing environment were likely because of to appeal. decline resource consent for the landbased works associated with the project.

Opposing the marina proposal is the community group Save Our Sandspit Incorporated (SSOSI). The group received $38,000 from the Ministry of the Environment’s environmental legal assistance fund to help prepare its case, which included calling four expert witnesses on planning, traffic, landscaping and environmental aspects of the proposal.

In a prepared list of 13 issues, SSOSI questioned whether satisfactory public access could be maintained on site, while accommodating the applicant’s imperatives for parking, landscaping and the hardstand. One of the key The new supermarket in Warkworth is beginning to take shape. issues was also the adverse effects on amenity raised during peak parking times and whether the proposed completed in July and fit-out will take marina would have adverse effects on Groundwork for the new Countdown time,” he said.

Supermarket, in Neville Street “Foundation work involved sinking between 12 to 16 weeks. the natural character of the area.

Warkworth, is nearing completion 110 boarded piles down to a depth “There’s been plenty of interest in the During cross examination, traffic with construction on the new store of 12m. Nothing exceptional was five specialty shops in the complex engineer Dean Scanlon said parking at expected to start soon. uncovered while we were digging and we’re just working things through Sandspit was already close to capacity, with car and boat trailers parking Rainfall over the Christmas/New around, just plenty of water with the with some preferred tenants at present. on reserves and areas that would Year made earthworks challenging, unexpected amount of rainfall over “We will start recruiting for team normally be yellow lined. He said he according to a Progressive Enterprises Christmas.” members about six to eight weeks believed that all parking requirements spokesperson.

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Darryl Torckler spent a large part of this summer taking photos in the wave zone of beaches on the Hibiscus Coast and in the Mahurangi area, adding to the immense range of images taken in and around the sea for which he is best known. Darryl has won more than 100 major international photography awards, including the prestigious British Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition. His photographs feature in many books and magazines and he has also produced a dozen books on natural history, working with his wife Gillian. He spoke with Terry Moore about life above, and below, the water line.

I started photography early in life, and had a black and white Kodak box brownie camera. Right from the start my photography was linked with my love of the water. I was really interested in sailing and built model yachts. Once I sailed my model yacht from Torbay to Browns Bay between the reefs. It sailed really well, so I dug out my camera and took pictures of the boat, rowing after it in an 8ft tin dingy. I remember leaning right down to water level to take photos and something about that really connected with me. It made me determined to get a waterproof camera that I could take snorkelling and sailing so I bought a Nikonos II manual, which was the only waterproof camera available. I made a tripod from a beer crate and took it around at night taking pictures and started trying to snorkel and take photos. Some of the highest earning photos I have taken are the same sorts of subjects I was interested in back then in the early 1970s – people having fun in the water was a major theme.

It wasn’t long before photography completely took over my life. I read everything I could on the subject and, in order to improve my underwater photographs, took up scuba diving when I was 17. Finding a job at the Hanimex Film Company was useful, because I consumed a lot of film and also staff could borrow single lens reflex cameras for personal use. I couldn’t think past planning the next dive.

One thing that enabled me to get an edge in underwater photography was that I built my own equipment, such as a waterproof housing that enabled me to shoot seven rolls of film in a dive – it’s a museum piece since the advent of digital photography, but at the time it helped me produce work that was unique. When you’re taking pictures of sharks, whales or dolphins you often get very short windows of opportunity and running out of film at a crucial time is immensely frustrating. I also built a remote camera that is lowered into the water on a pole – ideal for photographs of great white sharks and I designed and made a ‘port’ that enables me to take split-level images, above and below water simultaneously. These ports are not made commercially and

I experimented before settling with my current system. I now have a lathe and milling machine in my workshop for making my own kit – I’m not as good as a real engineer, but I get by okay.

The edge I have now is more about experience – I can go on a one-hour dive, even in poor visibility, and come back with some great pictures, because I know how to make the most of what’s there. I started making a living from photography in the early 1990s, and it was really the only career I was interested in. At times I’ve worked in retail and wholesale, for camera companies, and also tried plastics manufacturing when I thought I should get a trade in case photography didn’t work out.

Keeping up with the rapidly changing technology is vital in my business. At one time you bought a film camera body for around $2000 and it would last for 10 years, but a decent digital camera costs $6000 to $8000 and I would be lucky to get three years out of it before I have to upgrade, just to keep pace. What was great about film was the ‘happy accidents’ that could occur and the excitement of seeing images on a lightbox, or in a darkroom, for the first time. However, programmes such as PhotoShop have also opened up creative possibilities. I enjoy doing things such as stitching images together to create a super wide-angle or creating composite pictures, which I’ve done a few times for books such as The Real-size Guide to the NZ Rocky Shore. I find it hard to delete images, and only trash things that are out of focus or unusable, so have around 165,000 digital files stored in my database – it’s around three terabytes plus backup discs. Technology has also changed the way people view photos.

Instead of photo albums, making books of images online is becoming popular with families. I imagine camera gear is going to get lighter and more compact.

Diving gear, on the other hand, has got more high tech, but not lighter – if it ever does, it will help me keep diving until I’m much older.

I haven’t dived everywhere in NZ yet, but have been to the Kermadecs, the Three Kings and Stewart Island. The Sub-Antarctic Islands are on my wish

list. I have dived all over the world, so it’s impossible to name a favourite location, but among the best are Goat Island Marine Reserve, the Poor Knights and Fiordland. The sheer volume of fish at the Poor Knights is impressive. A school of fish can be five metres or more wide and as you swim through the school, the fish move aside and then close up behind you which gives the effect of being swallowed up.

Those sorts of densities are hard to beat.

In nearly 40 years of diving, I have only been bitten once – by a yellow moray eel. I give talks in local schools and primary school children always like to hear how I was bitten and lots of green stuff came spurting out of my finger.

I was down around 12m, and at that depth red light is absorbed by the sea, so blood looks green. I have swum with whales, and many different species of dolphins and have seen some gorgeous marine life – it’s a fascinating place to take pictures in. On a dive in Tonga, a humpbacked whale calf picked me up on is pectoral fluke and carried me along. Although it was a baby, it must have weighed a couple of tonnes. I was wondering where its mother was and it turned out she was having a rest down below and when she appeared, they swam off together.

I have lived in the rural Puhoi district since 1996. Originally, Gillian and I were looking for properties in a town, after living in Auckland, but we were tired of burglar alarms, dogs and noisy

neighbourhoods. Gillian had family in Warkworth so we looked in that area. The house we eventually bought was a small bach surrounded by bush and waist-high grass. Living not far from the tunnels at Puhoi, we’ve seen summer traffic jams and unacceptable numbers of fatal accidents, so I’m looking forward to the extension of the motorway. The carbon footprint on the existing Puhoi to Wellsford road, which I call ‘the old goat track’, is much higher than it would be on a nice, straight, fuel-efficient road.

The current highway is also putting a stranglehold on tourism and commerce further north. There is a lot of negativity about that road around where I live, but there have been too many deaths because the old road was not constructed for the volume of traffic that uses it. Although the cost of construction for the new motorway is high, there is a greater cost to the community in not building it.

When it is time to retire, I plan to still be diving and taking photographs, but I also want to get into working with clay. I have been doing little sculptural art pieces and jewellery and working with clay feels natural. I did a course at Hungry Creek and am looking into getting a kiln. The process involves a fantastic transformation that reminds me of how it feels to make a photograph. I suppose it’s not surprising that several of my pieces look like marine creatures.

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Happy New Year everyone. I hope you have all enjoyed valuable time with family and friends and have recharged your batteries for 2012. It is a great honour to be elected your parliamentary representative for the next three years.

I will work hard to provide the leadership and strong voice required to promote our beautiful region and deliver results. The New Year commenced with some exciting news. I popped into my local Orewa dairy to be told that they had sold the $5 million dollar winning lotto ticket. The winner presented themselves a few days later, probably after spending hours checking and double-checking their numbers a few thousand times. Congratulations to the lucky local winner, what an amazing start to 2012!

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to support our local Warkworth Rodeo, and competed in the bullride. The target is eight seconds, I reckon I got to seven, but the kids are sure I only made it to five. Either way, it was a great day for everyone who attended. Well done to all the volunteers involved in organising such a successful event in our local calendar. Peggy and I recently attended the Omaha Surf Lifesaving fundraising dinner in Matakana. It was a fantastic evening and everyone dug deep to support this dynamic organisation, whose volunteers provide such an important service to the community.

While my family and I were camping up north we enjoyed some surfing. We witnessed a couple of young surf lifesavers in an IRB successfully rescue a woman on a boogie board caught in a rip. It’s at this time of year that we need to thank and acknowledge our Red Beach, Orewa and Omaha surf lifesavers who are out there everyday patrolling and saving lives. These local clubs are passionate about our local beach environment and understand the importance of water safety education in our community.

I am looking forward to a very busy and rewarding 2012. Combined with my constituency responsibilities, I am also sitting on the Commerce and Law and Order Select Committees. This will provide a great opportunity to make a contribution in areas that I am passionate about, including the economic development of New Zealand, and the safety and security of our communities.

My new Rodney Electorate Office opened in early January, and is located in Tamariki House, 7 Tamariki Ave, Orewa. Please feel free to drop in, or call on 09 426 6215; email mp.rodney@parliament.govt.nz. Please continue to take care on the roads over the summer period and I hope to see you during the year.

Mahurangi missing grants The New Zealand Community Trust is calling for grant applications from the Mahurangi area. Last year, the trust distributed $32.3 million to amateur sports groups and organisations during its last financial year, making the trust one of the largest funders of amateur sport in the country. However, none of the money came directly to any organisations or clubs north of Orewa and south of Mangawhai. The trust also distributed $3.7 million to community projects, $1.4 million in health and education grants, and $1.1 million towards the arts. Money in the trust comes mainly from gaming machines and most grants amount to $10,000 or less. The close-off date for submitting grant applications is the 20th of each month. For an online application form and more information, go to www.nzct.org.nz

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Community work motivates Rodney’s iwi liaison officer Rodney Police have appointed their first iwi liaison officer. She is Constable Vivian Clark who started work last month.

Sgt Mark Smith, who oversees the position, says the new role will strengthen the already good relationship between Rodney Police and iwi, and part of Constable Clark’s duties will be to develop that relationship.

This will also involve advising Police on Maori processes and protocol, a responsibility that was previously shared among relevant police officers in the region.

Vivian was based at Waitakere Police for nine years, working in the intelligence unit and prior to that, on front line duties and general police work.

She says the community side of policing has always been a strong focus for her.

“I enjoy working with people, problem-solving and being an ear for people who need someone to talk to,” Constable Vivian Clark.

Vivian says.

She has been working closely with “I also hope to serve as a role model for iwi liaison officers from the North young women who may be interested Shore and Waitakere, as well as local in working in the Police, in social kaumatua, and says supporting the work or with youth.”

Police family violence team, assisting Vivian is based at the Orewa with youth issues and being a conduit Community Constable’s office, in between Police and the families of Tamariki Plaza, but can be contacted victims of crime will be part of her role. through any Rodney police station.

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Council axes funding for model Omaha security service

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Omaha Beach residents are challenging an Auckland Council decision not to back an Omaha security initiative, which has been hailed by Police as a model of collaborative community safety.

Warkworth company Insite Security even though they were not consistent has been employed to provide added with the rest of the region. community security services for the She says Council already provides afterpast four years, but Council says it hours noise and dog control services, won’t provide a $10,000 funding and enforcement of open fires and contribution or renew warrants for the littering offences on the beach is not company to act on Council’s behalf, in currently part of Council’s emergency relation to a number of bylaw issues. after-hours service anywhere within Omaha Beach Community Inc. the region. The potential need for (OBC) president Graham Painter enforcement funding of those bylaws is says the service is largely community being assessed, and if deemed necessary, funded, with the $10,000 Council would be applied region-wide. previously provided representing “Warrants will not be issued to Insite around 30 percent of the cost.

Security as the types of incidents it He says Omaha faces the same issues wishes to enforce are either dealt with as other Auckland communities by NZ Police, covered by existing including crime, youth offending, Council staff or contractors; or are not liquor, litter and noise, but the services enforceable by Council at all,” she says. available to deal with them are quite Rodney Local board member Tracey different to those in urban areas.

Martin says an OBC application for “The scheme was initiated because funding under the community grants Omaha is a community within a rural scheme was turned down by the area where normal Police and Council board because it did not meet grant resources to provide an appropriate criteria, but she has personally written service are either stretched or don’t exist.” to Council chief executive Doug Mr Painter says for example, while MacKay requesting that the Rodney Council’s target time for noise control council legacy payment be honoured response at Omaha is 45 minutes, a and warrants renewed. recent call out took staff an hour and A former policeman and an Omaha 45 minutes to attend. resident, Insite Security owner Chris Council’s licensing and compliance Martin (no relation to Tracey) says his manager Carole Todd says because staff act as a “filter”, assessing incidents amalgamation occurred during the of public disorder in the first instance middle of the financial year, Council and either resolving them or calling initially honoured Rodney’s funding for police back up, saving police time. and warrant arrangements for Omaha, “Similarly, with incidents like noise

Council is refusing to issue further warrants to Insite Security’s Chris Martin.

control, instead of waiting for a Council officer who might be two or three hours away, we can go and get things settled down before it becomes a drunken melee on the front lawn,” he says.

In a letter of support for the service to Mrs Martin, Sergeant Bede Haughey, of Warkworth Police, pointed out that Insite Security recently received a Police Area Commander’s award for services to community safety, including its work at Omaha.

He said Warkworth Police recognised about four years ago that its resources could not cope with the influx of thousands of visitors to Omaha over

summer. Sgt Haughey said calls to Police had “dropped significantly” since the service was introduced because as ‘first responder’, Insite often resolved issues without the need for police intervention.

“We have enjoyed a close working relationship for several years and this collaborative approach to community safety is a model that other areas envy.”

Mr Painter says private security arrangements will continue in Omaha and the community group will continue to lobby for Council support.

“We do not accept that the matter is final.”

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New principal at Tauhoa helm Tauhoa School will welcome a new principal, Vivienne Goldsmith, with a powhiri at Puatahi Marae on February 3.

Vivienne comes from nine years’ teaching at Sunnynook School on the North Shore and replaces the principal for the past six years, Rosie Morton, who has returned to live in her home area of Port Waikato.

A Labour Party candidate for East Coast Bays in 2008 and 2011, Vivienne has also been an active member of the teacher’s professional body and union (NZEI) fronting Auckland’s World Teachers’ Day celebrations in 2010 and 2011.

She has had a long association with Scouting New Zealand, including being area cub leader and now associate leader for Mahurangi, and was North Shore Playcentre Association’s liaison convenor before she started teacher training in 2000.

While she brings plenty of teaching Tauhoa’s new principal Vivienne experience, including skills in Goldsmith. e-learning and mathematics curriculum leadership, to the new and computer facilities. role, she is a confessed “city slicker” “I am lucky to be the principal of a who is new to rural life and is looking school that boasts strong traditions, forward to experiencing her first Calf park-like grounds and yet has Club Day. a wonderful, modern learning She and her husband George and environment,” she says.

18-year-old son Richard have moved “My hope is to continue Tauhoa to the Tauhoa school house and she School’s strong traditions while also has two adult daughters. maintaining a learning and teaching Tauhoa is a full primary (covering years environment that enables all students 1-8) with around 55 students and three to reach their full potential.” teachers. It celebrated its 125th jubilee Anyone interested in attending the in 2004, had a major facelift in 2008 welcome for Vivienne can contact the and is up-to-date with wireless internet school on 422 5722.

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The long term costs of inefficiencies Compelling research shows that the majority of these newly retired investors, with substantial investments, will run out of cash flow within 16 to 20 years.

This result will naturally be disastrous for many widows who are now living into their 90s and even achieving their 100-year milestones.

Worst examples of financial inefficiencies yy Trusting bank advice and placing significant amounts of capital in low interest bearing deposits, which after allowing for taxation and inflation, give no real return. yy Secondly, when investing in growth assets, never having the ability to measure financial efficiencies on a risk, return and cost perspective. Research shows this alone costs investors 4-5% per year. Readers should understand that a 4% inefficiency with $1 million can cost in excess of $700,000 over 10 years.

Reason for these experiences My own observations show me that most individuals who have spent a lifetime developing the skills to succeed in their business, simply wish to start enjoying their retirement with their families and travel. The last thing they want to concentrate on is learning new financial skills that are essential in order to develop confidence in future outcomes. It is worth mentioning, they often find it difficult to find somebody they trust, so they feel comfortable with well advertised brand names.

What is the answer? We all know that there is no success in life without some effort. We see this in managing a family, educating children, business, sport and even making marriage successful. Achieving long-term financial security is no different – it takes some constructive effort.

The good news - There is no need to go back to school to spend years learning a new skill. Some excellent books are available which give investors an idea of the essential basics including how to achieve successful financial solutions and make investment service providers more accountable. Two I recommend are: yy The Investment Answer – Learn to manage your money and protect your financial future – only 85 pages. Daniel C. Goldie & Gordon S Murray.

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Are there any anomalies, such as capital acquisitions, that have affected profitability, or are the financial statements unnaturally appealing because the vendor has deferred capital expenditure and a purchaser will need to spend their money to refresh items? yy Does the business operate from home or from leased premises? If you operate from a leased premises, you may wish to renegotiate the lease to make sure there is a good amount of time to run on the lease or leave the negotiations to the purchaser. If you are buying the business, are you able to operate a business from your home? yy Do you have any employees? Who are your key staff and do they want to work for the purchaser? Remember that if you employ cleaning or catering staff they are in a special category with specific rights to elect to be employed by the purchaser on their current terms of employment. yy Do you want to continue being involved in the business? You have established and nurtured relationships with your customers, being available to endorse the purchaser and hand over those relationships can add value. If you are looking to acquire another business make sure you do not breach your restraint of trade obligations.

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Susan says concerns with skin issues on the face or neck make up the bulk of her enquiries. These are usually the result of ageing, and sun damage in particular, but can also be related to smoking, pigmentation and stress, which all contribute to the creation of wrinkles and folds. She also offers treatments for headaches including migraines, and excessive sweating.

Some treatments may require only a lunchtime appointment, while issues such as pigmentation and deep lines may require two or three sessions.

While in some cases the effects are immediate, in other instances the benefits can take three to seven days to be noticeable.

Susan says injectable treatments such as Botox and Juvederm can enhance

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the face naturally with aesthetic and natural-looking results.

“As we age, we particularly lose volume from the cheeks and lower face areas.

Treatments such as dermal fillers can achieve subtle and effective anti-aging effects that are even and very natural looking.

“The treatments are mostly painless and don’t leave any telltale signs of the work.”

Rodney Appearance Medicine also offers a range of skin care products or cosmeceuticals, which are supplied exclusively through plastic surgeons and specialists, and complement Botox and dermal fillers.

Top jobs and locations According to statistics from online auction site Trade Me, IT architecture is the highest paid profession in NZ followed by doctors and specialists, IT project managers, IT sales and presales, and sales managers. The highest paid location in NZ is Wellington City followed by Auckland City, Hawkes Bay (central), Taranaki (south) and Northland. Figures are based on job listings in respect of listing numbers, types, locations, stated salary and duration on Trade Me Jobs October-December 2011. Segments with fewer than 50 jobs were excluded.

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Classic Albatross no burden for Warkworth mariner

Greg Lees nears completion of his classic speedboat restoration.

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“Thirty years later it was up for sale and I had a mid-life crisis and I bought it,” he says. The result is another ongoing restoration job that he considers “an enjoyable hobby, that is a change from being immersed in boats.”

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He and wife Diane will tow it down with his 1968 AMC Ambassador, two door hard top, with a right-hand drive that makes it unique. The car was originally bought new, by customers of his father’s boat business and he often rode in it as a child.

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A boat that purportedly once towed a waterskiing Prince Phillip will be back in its prime for the NZ Antique and Classic Boat Show, thanks to Warkworth boat builder Greg Lees.

After eight years of working sporadically on the classic Albatross speed boat, Greg decided the show, at Lake Rotoiti, in Nelson Lakes, on March 3-4, would make a good deadline for completion.

The boat was made in England using equipment and skills developed in building Lancaster bombers during World War II. Only about 1200 of the notoriously light aluminium speedboats were built and they became extremely popular in the 50s and 60s. Well-known owners included Stirling Moss, Brigitte Bardot, George Formby, Prince Rainier of Monaco, Prince Philip and Jon Pertwee (Dr Who).

Greg says he bought his “on a whim” 25 years ago, after seeing one in action around Sandspit as a child.

The boat had been kept at a Lake Okataina lodge and, he’s told, Prince Phillip waterskied behind it on the Queen’s Coronation tour here in the early 50s.

The 3.9m vessel is built of aluminium with flush rivets, as used for aircraft construction at the time, techniques Greg faithfully used when reinstating it. Work included replacing the aluminium bottom, complete re-painting and re-wiring and reconditioning the motor – a Ford 100E flathead, which was standard for the boats and does nearly 50 km an hour.

The boat has seen plenty of family use, although it performs best on the flat water of rivers and lakes, where Greg says it’s like a sports car to drive.

“It accelerates fast, it feels like you’re in a little MG Midget.”

There are about a dozen of the Albatrosses in New Zealand and Greg will team up with a Rotorua friend who also owns one, taking the sister vessels down to the show together.

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Heart health needs major attention in NZ As the NZ Heart Foundation prepares to take to the streets for its annual appeal this month, promoting Kiwis to love their hearts and stay healthy, an epidemic of obesity and diabetes is putting the heart health of younger Kiwis at risk.

Statistics show a new wave of heart disease is appearing in relatively younger people, costing NZ more than it can afford in human cost, lost productivity and health service dollars.

Every 90 minutes a Kiwi dies from coronary heart disease, accounting for 40 percent of deaths in NZ annually.

The heart Foundation says the best way to maintain a healthy heart is to exercise regularly, eat right and be smoke free.

About one in two New Zealanders is obese or overweight, and obesity is a risk factor for a number of diseases including coronary heart disease, Just 30 minutes of moderate physical exercise daily, is one of the simple steps to stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, maintaining a healthy heart. osteoarthritis and some cancers. yy Have a “heart WOF”. Have a on most or all days of the week.

One in five New Zealanders over 15 regular heart health check with your Risk factors of heart disease include: years old smoke and it is estimated that GP or practice nurse. yy smoking • diabetes 5000 people in NZ die prematurely from • poor diet smoking annually – equating to around yy Quit smoking. If you smoke, yy high blood pressure quitting is the single most important yy high cholesterol 12 people a day dying from smoking.

• weight thing you can do to reduce your risk y y physical inactivity • stress Heart health is important and easy to of heart disease. achieve. Just follow these five simple There are some risk factors that you yy Take steps to eat more heart healthy can’t do anything about. These include: steps: foods. Choosing the right foods is a yy age yy Know your numbers. Know your great way of looking after your heart. yy ethnicity cholesterol ratio and blood pressure and find out how old your heart yy Be active everyday. Include at least 30 yy family and medical history really is. minutes of moderate, physical activity Info: heartfoundation.org.nz

Health prize pack In celebration of Heart Health Week, Mahurangi Matters has a healthy heart prize pack to give away to one lucky reader. The pack contains a 3-in-1-multi cooker, Heart Foundation approved recipes and tips, and a range of Heart Foundation Tick approved products.

Heart Foundation national nutrition advisor Delvina Gorton, who will be one of the competition judges, says the recipe must contain: yy A range of vegetables making up half the volume of the meal, yy Cuts of meat and chicken that have no fat (including chicken skin), yy Use herbs, spices, and vinegar, lemon or lime to add flavour instead of extra salt, yy Use healthy vegetable oils for cooking rather than animal fats.

To enter, send your best healthy heart recipe to Heart Health Competition, Mahurangi Matters, PO Box 701 Warkworth 0941.

The competition closes Friday, February 17.

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Stress therapy course offered for caregivers of disabled

Homebuilders Family Services Warkworth is offering a three-week stress reduction course for caregivers looking after a disabled family member.

The course is based on Dialectical The course will be broken down four modules including Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and into combines standard cognitive behaviour communication skills, emotional therapy and mindful awareness derived regulation skills, distress tolerance skills and mindfulness skills. from Buddhist meditative practice.

Course coordinator Angela Crabb says Angela ran several DBT courses last that while there is much satisfaction year and says she received some great in caring for a family member with an feedback from participants. ongoing chronic condition or disability, “The course is an abridged version of feelings of frustration and isolation can the DBT course, designed with carers adversely affect a carer’s wellbeing. in mind and would be of interest to “Caring for a family member who has an carers who would like to improve their ongoing chronic condition or disability skills and feel more control over their is a labour of love,” Angela says. “This lives. The aim is to help participants role often brings with it internal stresses to improve interpersonal relationships for the carer and external stresses from and learn practical skills that can be the needs of the person being cared for, applied in everyday living.” other family members and the wider Info: Angela at Homebuilders on social network.”

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Course cost FREE. A parenting course specifically for young mothers under the age of 22 yrs Young Mum’s Extension Programme – Wed 25th Jan, 10am-12.30pm, FREE. For young mothers 22-25 yrs to encourage positive parenting, behaviour management skills.

Computer Course – Fri 10th Feb, 9am-11am, $40, 8 weeks Basic word processing in Word 2010 on Windows 7, for women who have some computer knowledge.

The Art of Being Gorgeous Girls 8-12 yrs – Sat 25th Feb, 9.30am-3.30pm, $15 Girls enjoy a fun day discovering your inner gorgeousness & feel great about your self image.

Jewellery Making Girls 11-14 years – Sat 3rd March, 10am-3.30pm, $15 Create your own affordable and one of a kind jewellery while learning skills in jewellery making.

Flax Weaving 1 Day Workshop – Sat March 24th, 9.30am-3.30pm, $15 Would you like to learn how to create art from this versatile natural resource? The course includes techniques to make flax flowers, mats or baskets. If you are advanced a kite bag.

Yoga 1 Day Workshop – Sat 25th, Feb, 10am-3pm, $65 - Come along & enjoy a day retreat of yoga.

Career Planning & Job Search Workshop – Fri 2nd & 9th March, 10am-12pm, FREE Finding a career that is right for you is just part of achieving the life you want to lead.

Healthy Relationships – Tues 21st Feb, 10am to 12.30pm, 6 weeks, $25 How is your relationship with yourself and others? This course offers an exploration into enjoying ongoing healthy relationships in a supportive, small group environment.

Understand Anxiety – Thurs 9th Feb, 10am-12pm. 4 weeks, $32 This workshop will be an informative way of recognizing symptoms associated with anxiety.

Art Therapy – Mon 13th Feb, 10am-12pm, 6 weeks If art imitates life, then Art Therapy is the process that reflects, reveals and restores it.

Please contact the Women’s Centre to enrol 0800 237 674 or 425 7261 info@womenscentrerodney.org.nz • www.womenscentrerodney.org.nz

Less salt for a healthy heart While salt contains sodium, an essential mineral our body needs, too much sodium is unhealthy and can contribute to high blood pressure (hypertension).

Salt often appears as sodium on the nutrition panel on food labels. Adults should eat less than 2300mg of sodium a day, which is equivalent to about one teaspoon of salt. Info: heartfoundation.org.nz Are you following us on facebook and twitter? www.facebook.com/mahurangimatters • twitter.com/localmattersnz

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This course looks at how we grew up as children and how this influences our ideas about parenting, the pros and cons of being too tough or too easy, ages and stages of development, temperament types, foundations and strategies for effective discipline, and effective ways to communicate with children.

There are also lots of opportunities to share and learn as a parenting group and gain support from other parents sharing similar issues.

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Weight budgeting

Something we all need to budget for, in a figurative sense, is our weight, food and calorie intake. Currently, more than half of New Zealanders are overweight or obese. We all need to take care with food choices and portion sizes. For some, battling weight is a life long issue. We need to balance (or budget) our food (and drink) to the energy we use in daily activity. Most of us can significantly reduce fat intake. Being overweight significantly increases risk of early death and major diseases – heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and many cancers.

Weight loss is not just dieting – it is looking at our overall eating behaviour, physical activity and exercise routines. We must start with realistic expectations about what can be achieved, starting with small steps or changes. Effective weight loss should be slow, steady, and sustained.

Reducing our level of fat intake is a good start. Losing weight is more effective in a diet that is very low in fat and has moderate protein and carbohydrate. Fat has more than twice the calories per gram compared with other food types. Use lean meats, low fat dairy products and grill, bake, microwave or steam food rather than fry. High fibre foods help avoid hunger whilst not putting on calories.

Try to continue eating regularly as skipped meals can lead to excessive hunger then binge eating. Limit alcohol – one to two standard drinks per day for men, one per day for women and at least one alcohol free day per week for everyone.

Alcohol is high in calories and often associated with snacking.

Try and increase water intake. One to two glasses of water before a meal will reduce food consumed. Gradually and steadily increase physical activity and exercise levels. Start with what you know you can do, no matter how easy, and gradually build from there. If you try to do too much exercise too quickly, your programme will likely be doomed to failure.

If you feel you need further help or a medical check see your own family doctor – they and their nurses have a good repertoire for weight loss, eating behaviour change and exercise programmes. Diet pills have little or no place now and can have serious side effects. As part of a wider perspective of budgeting in our lives, think about food, eating behaviour, weight loss and exercise programmes.

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Recreational bid for Wellsford’s Corry block Lawn bowlers A delegation from Wellsford is calling on Auckland Council to remove the Corry Block, at the town’s northern entrance, from the market. extend invite The Wellsford District Sport and and would be designed in a loop. should at least be removed from the Recreation Collective wants part of the land to be set aside for a walk and cycle way.

In a presentation to the Rodney Local Board, delegates Wendy CrowJones, Julie Hawkes, Lynette Gubb and Salona Corringham, said existing roadways are windy and mostly metal, with no footpaths and no street lighting. This creates a serious danger to pedestrians.

They said there was no walking/ running/cycling track available in the area at present.

Their proposed walkway and cycleway would be constructed of fine metal suitable for walkers, runners and cyclists,

The collective is proposing that the walkway/cycleway be developed in the Centennial Park Recreational Area including part of the former Corry land.

In answer to questions from board members about the length and possible cost of the project, collective chair Wendy Crow-Jones said the first step was to save the land from sale.

“If we can do that, then we can cost it out but if the land’s sold, it’s a moot point,” she said.

While board members were generally supportive of the proposal, they said it would boil down to costs.

Member Tracey Martin said the block

list of properties on the market while the proposal was assessed.

Rodney District Council purchased the Corry farm nearly seven years ago to extend the recreational reserve and provide for industrial expansion.

However, the venture continually ranup against difficulties from Transit NZ in securing access off State Highway One. Rodney changed sections of the block in 2010 to accommodate the possible realignment of SH1 to the east of the Wellsford, as well recreation reserve and local reserve designations. The remainder of the land of about 34.5 hectares was earmarked for sale.

Creative teens urged to ‘throw out the rule book’ There is still time for creative teens in the Mahurangi area to enter NZ Post’s Creative Break competition, which closes on February 17.

Secondary students are invited to submit their best original paintings, sculptures, poems, songs or other artistic endeavours. Winning entries, selected by a panel of judges, will feature in an art show at the 2012 NZ International Arts Festival. Some of

the winning teens, with a parent or guardian, will be flown to Wellington for the art show opening.

NZ Post’s head of sponsorship Nicola Airey says anyone expecting a traditional art show may be in for a surprise.

“We deliberately left the rules wide open so the entries can range from the sublime to the ridiculous,” she says.

“We want the show to capture some of the inventiveness and adventure of

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youth, as opposed to being entirely dominated by the kind of students who get top marks in NCEA art.

“We’ve already received hundreds of incredibly varied submissions, and hope to receive many more before entries close.”

A selection of entries can be seen on the competition’s Facebook page – simply go to Facebook and search for: Creative Break.

‘You don’t have to be grey to play’ is the motto of a Mates In Bowls competition being held at the Mahurangi East Bowling Club, below the library in Snells Beach, starting on February 29.

Club spokesperson Judy Bull says social bowls is a great way to get outdoors in the evening at this time of the year.

“We hope the competition will attract some of the younger mates in our community; teenagers make great bowlers,” she says. “Players will have a good time and come away with a better appreciation of the game of lawn bowls.”

The competition will be played amongst teams of three on Wednesday evenings, from 6.30 pm onwards.

Play will run for five weeks, until March 28.

The cost is $10 per person per night and the club provides the rink, bowls, coaching and the use of the clubrooms and bar.

Mahurangi East club is the only one in the area offering Mates In Bowls, supported by Bowls New Zealand.

Info: Phone Judy Bull on 425 5303 to enter your team or visit www. matesinbowls.co.nz

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Driving changes ahead for Warkworth Changes to the restricted driver licence test and the give way rules will come into effect from February 27 and March 25 respectively.

The changes to the restricted driver licence test means Warkworth needs to be reassessed by the NZTA to see if its test route is able to support the more complex driving scenarios such as merging lanes, roundabouts and traffic signals, as required in the strengthened test. Applicants will have to travel to Orewa in the interim.

The changes being introduced to the Graduated Driver Licensing System (GDLS) are aimed at improving the safety of young and novice drivers.

NZTA spokesman Andy Knackstedt says young and novice drivers are most at risk during the first six to 12 months of their restricted licence phase – when they start to drive solo.

“Novice drivers who accumulate a higher level of supervised driving experience in the learner stage are Olive says professional driving lessons are important less likely to crash when they start driving solo,” he says. for learner drivers as students often take instruction Mr Knackstedt says 120 hours of supervised practice more seriously from a professional rather than from a parent. is recommended.

Adams Driving School managing director Olive “It’s also a good idea for learner drivers to be familiar Inglis says the new restricted test will be longer and with the test area beforehand.” more difficult.

Give way changes “The test will now take an hour compared to 20 Meanwhile, changes to the give-way rule come into to 30 minutes,” Olive says. “The first 15 minutes effect at 5am on March 25. will be spent making a general check of the vehicle before the test starts to ensure it has a current WOF The new give-way rule will require all traffic turning and registration, the indicators, brake lights and right to give way to a vehicle coming from the horn work properly, and the two learner licence opposite direction and turning left. plates are displayed correctly. If anything does not This only applies at cross roads, T-intersections and comply the test will not take place and will have to driveways where: be rescheduled.” yy both vehicles are facing each other with no signs or signals (neither vehicle is controlled) Olive says applicants are now likely to be asked to do a reverse parallel park. yy both vehicles are facing give way signs “The thought of this manoeuvre can be quite yy both vehicles are facing stop signs daunting for new drivers, but they need to be aware yy both vehicles are facing green traffic signals they need to practise this move.”

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Has someone gone out of their way to lend you a helping hand over the Christmas holidays?

A number of Good Samaritans were recognised for their selfless efforts last year and we are once again calling for nominations from the community.

Tell us about their good deeds and they will receive acknowledgement in Mahurangi Matters along with a gift hamper from Chocolate Brown, 6 Mill Lane, Warkworth. Send your nominations to editor@localmatters.co.nz (subject line: Sweet Appreciation) or post to: Sweet Appreciation, Mahurangi Matters, PO Box 701 Warkworth.

Kaipara seeks opinions Kaipara District Council is asking residents to cooperate with a telephone survey which got underway on January 27.

The survey is being conducted by the National Research Bureau, an independent research company offering specialised services to local authorities.

Residents are being asked for their opinions on Council’s performance.

Corporate services manager Barbara Ware says she hopes anyone who is contacted will take the time to participate. She says residents will be selected randomly and the survey is totally confidential.

Questions will focus on the services Council delivers.

“The results will form part of the Council’s formal reporting,” Ms Ware says. “They are also important in planning for further improvements to Council’s delivery of service.”

The survey is expected to be completed on February 12.

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

Fences - Gates - Screens Pergola - Trellis - Timber 1A Matakana Valley Rd Ph: 422 9550 Fax: 422 9635 115

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

The

Trellis Guy Snells Beach • Warkworth • Orewa

• Custom made • Quality material • Quality workmanship

Also see Lance for your supply of Native and Landscaping plants

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

CARPENTER-JOINER • Terraces • Alterations • New Housing

• Renovations • Maintenance • Small jobs a specialty

NEIL KOSE

Phone 09 425 5491 • Mobile 027 275 1172

AWARD WINNING BUILDER

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

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

Kitchens ▌ Bathrooms ▌ Entertainment Units Laundries ▌ Wardrobes and Offices From design to installation we’ve got you covered

Contact Neil 09 425 7017 or 021 070 0643 neiltcabinetmaker@xtra.co.nz Unit C, 19 Glenmore Drive, Warkworth

Calling all local tradespeople Are you looking for more work?

Why not join Local Trades Ltd

LTD.

LOCAL TRADES

PROPERTY SERVICES & MAINTENANCE

Calling all customers We’ll find the right tradesperson for those jobs around your home and property

You can trust us to find the right person for the job

Contact Linda Robinson p e

09 422 9860 linda@localtrades.co.nz

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027 526 1146 www.localtrades.co.nz

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

FOR ALL YOUR WOODLOT HARVESTING NEEDS 30 years local experience Be quick while prices are high

Phone EDWOOD

021 27 47 222 or 09 423 73 43

• slabs • flooring

• beams & posts • mulch

• panelling • firewood

362 Matakana Valley Rd, Matakana 0948

ph 422 7716 • fax 422 7717 matakanasawmill@xtra.co.nz

Roofing N.Z NATHAN HOUSTON Ph: 09 422 2131

Mob: 021 220 5000

470 KAiPArA FlATS rOAd, WArKWOrTH126

Long Run Iron Specialists New Re-Roofs & Cladding

Ring Matt on 021 356 965 A/hrs/Fax: 09 425 6311 Email: iron.man@xtra.co.nz

Servicing Auckland - Rodney - Kaipara

F. 09 423 0017

warkworthscaffolding@xtra.co.nz

PHONE 0800 622 7929

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

R.K. PADDISON CONTRACTING LTD phone 09 425 6431

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

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

General Engineering unit 5 • hamatana Road snells beach

• Truck Hire • Metal Supplies • Bulk Cartage

Owner/Driver: Ray 38 Coquette Street, Warkworth Ph 422 3450 or 0274 955 566 • Fax 09 422 3451

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Construction & Earthworks | Concrete | Brick, Block Layers & Tiling | Flooring | Electrical | Design, Architects & Surveyors | Lawn Mowing & Landscaping | Property Maintenance

MICK BERGER CONTRACTORS

021 2800 233

Phone: 09 422 0688 • Mobile: 0274 930 806

www.nzconcrete.co.nz

BASED IN MATAKANA

43 years experience

Dams ● Winching ● Bulldozing ● Driveways House Sites ● Landscaping ● Earthmoving ● Sub Divisions

DRIVEWAYS FLOORS • PATHS Exposed • Plain • Coloured Stamped Concrete • Cutting Residential & Commercial Sub-divisions • R.O.W’s • Excavations 135M

Bricks • Blocks • Paving

Astute

WARKWORTH BRICKLAYING SERVICES LTD

Craftsman Tiler | High Quality Workmanship Accredited Waterproof Membrane Installer Specialist in Epoxy Grout | NZQA Trade Certified

Phone Alan Berthelsen 021 780 170 • A/hrs 425 8252

Simon Bennett 09 431-5723 or 021 320-705 email: astute1@ubernet.co.nz 72 Cames Road, RD5 Wellsford 0975

Tiling & Waterproofing

TILING SERVICES

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

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

Carpet, Vinyl, Cork & Ceramic Tiles Installation Service Overlocking Service Free Measure and Quote sales@rodneyflooring.co.nz

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

T.T.E. DESIGNS ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNERS

ELECTRICAL SERVICES Residential and Commercial Electrical Phone 422 9589 • Mobile 021 679 483 Email: rob.vic@xtra.co.nz

Lamb & moLLoy Ltd SURVEYORS

Prompt, professional advice and service for all Subdivisions and Land Development Work

Phone Warkworth (09) 425-7393 R. Mather 021 425 837 • R. Molloy 021 779 964

23 Bertram Street - Warkworth admin@lmsurveyors.co.nz TOTAL LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION for complete quality projects

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

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

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

It's your day off and you're mowing the lawn?

• Lawnmowing • Hedges & Pruning • gardening / sPraying • section cLean uPs • rubbisH removaL • gutter cLeaning • Handyman

CALL FREE 0800 4 JIM JIM (546 546) or book online at www.jimsmowing.co.nz

FRANCHISE ENQUIRIES WELCOME

House & Garden Care

A complete house & property service • Garden Design • Gardening • Windows • Gutters • Property Maintenance • Raised Vegetable Gardens • Compost Bins • Climbing Frames & Pergolas • Pruning • Chainsaw, Fencing & Handyman Work • Garden Tool Sharpening

JB’s No 1 LANDSCAPING SERVICES

• Planting • Paving • Retaining WallS • FenceS • deckS • gaRden makeoveRS SERVICING HIBISCUS COAST TO MANGAWHAI

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

Landscape Industries Association of New Zealand Inc.

home & property maintenance General household carpentry and repairs • Decks • Stairs • Handrails • Fences • Doors • Letterboxes

Great service, rates & advice | Senior discounts One off or ongoing maintenance | Organic options for weeds & pests

Property maintenance for permanent or absentee homeowners

Phone Tim 021 857 433 or 422 9493

John Petchell 09 425 6962 • 0275 183 570 NO JOBS TOO SMALL

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Property Maintenance & Landscaping | Arborists | Retail | Health & Beauty | Furniture | Carpet & Upholstery | Blinds | Painters & Decorators | Heat Pumps | Water Pump Services

Arcadia

For all your property maintenance and small building projects

Tree Care

Phone to discuss YOUR requirements 021 423 860 - 423 8619 a/h handyman@bruno.co.nz • www.bruno.co.nz

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

12B Wood Street, Mangawhai Heads M 021 280 4008 P 09 431 4651 E mwiappliance@gmail.com

Martin Greenleaf

Grant & Jeanette Stewart

D.Ac., Bac.Ac., Acupuncturist Member of NZ Register of Acupuncturists

Owner/Operators

Registered ACC Referral Provider

100% MANGAWHAI ELECTRICAL 12b Wood Street, Mangawhai Heads

TREATS MOST HEALTH PROBLEMS Over 30 years experience

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

Lavender House

27 Lilburn Street, Warkworth 09 422 3729 or 09 480 2255 martingreenleaf@xtra.co.nz

www.100percent.co.nz

Beauty Therapy & Nail Creations

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

for head to toe pampering

Alison Wech

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

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

DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL

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

DS N I BL

Certified Member of the Carpet Cleaning Association of NZ

VENLUREE

since 1966

Best furniture deals with Dave everytime!

NGS

email: vlr.frank@yahoo.co.nz www.venluree.co.nz

FREE QUOTES CALL FRANK

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

NZ Made Solid Wood

Ph 425 9030 • Dome Valley 5 minutes past Warkworth

WARKWORTH COMMERCIAL CLEANERS LTD Carpet & Upholstery Cleaners General Commercial Cleaners

HOMEWOOD BLIND SERVICES John Homewood

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

Paddy & Gaye Webb

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

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

A BRUSH WITH ART

EXPERT PAINTING AND DECORATING

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

LTD

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

EXCELLENCE IN FURNITURE

Custom Built Kitchens

Phone 09 423 7302 149 Rodney St, Wellsford

Phone/Fax: Mobile: Email: Website:

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SECURITY DOORS • SHUTTERS • SCREENS Agents for • Supply • Installation FOR • Cleaning • Repairs

09 426 8079 021 2144 250

Furniture Wellsford

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

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

AUTHORISED AGENT

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

www.abelinstalls.co.nz

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

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Water Pump Services | Marine & Small Engines | Plumbing | Printers & Design | Computer Services | TV Aerials & Satellites | Water Supplies | Water Tank Cleaning

WATER PUMPS New Pump Sales Serv ice In stal la tion

Water Treatment

K & R PUMP SERVICES LTD

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

0800 PURE WATER

Owen Ward

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

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

simon adams tel 09 425 5243 mob 021 425 878

marine plumbing interior refits maintenance wooden boat restoration retrofitting scheduled servicing

steve@purewaterservices.co.nz

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STEPHEN JONES

09 422 7618 027 494 5499

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

PRINT

email: graceprint@mail.com

water

IAN & SOLW TE S AY R fILTEREd A

WATER

0800 638 254 OR 09 422 3700

DRINNAN CONTRACTORS

Household Drinking

WATER

0800 GET H20 4 3 8 4 2 6

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

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

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

Jo Dawson Ph: 021 741 750 or 09 425 6286

Ph 09 425 5495 Mob 0274 766 115

58-60 Queen Street Warkworth

Installation & Repairs

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

GAVIN BROUGH

Argyll Angle

Digital Freeview Satellite

Passionate about Print Solutions

Freeview Sales & Installation TV & FM Aerials

330 Mahurangi East Rd, Snells Beach Phone 425-5806

J O N E S

Grace

TV AERIAL & SATELLITE SERVICES

MAHURANGI MARINE LTD

www.purewaterservices.co.nz

P LU M B I N G experienced boat builder - professional craftsman

Available from:

Call Steve today 09 945 2282 he’s your local

ST E P H E N

our specialist services include:

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

OUTBOARD MOTOR SERVICING

Pumping Systems

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

(2007) Ltd

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

Phone/Fax 425-5619 Mobile 0800 733 765

H2O PUMPS

Pump & Filtration Services

Household Water Deliveries 0800 747 928 mobile: 027 556 6111

TANK WATER TESTING clean. care. repair.

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

Mangawhai: Phil Lathrope 431 4608 | 021 642 668

We collect samples of your tank or bore water, have them analysed for microbes at an IANZ reg. laboratory.

Our written report explains the results and makes recommendations.

Phone Simon Breeze (09) 422 9345

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

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Storage | Furniture Removals | Sheep Shearing & Services | Mobility Scooters | Bicycle Hire

Warkworth FURNITURE REMOVALS

SNELLS BEACH

PHONE 09 425 5597

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

Mr CLIP

• Mobile Sheep Shearing • Ram Hire • Alpacas • Goats Warkworth Phone 09 425 7104 Fax 09 425 7134 Mobile 0274 853 234 EXPERIENCED NZ WOOL BOARD CERTIFIED SHEARERS (MACHINE & BLADE)

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MOBILITY SCOOTERS

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

Rodney - North Shore

SALES • REPAIR • HIRE Noel & Lyn Beale

09 422 2615 or 0800 022 884

ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS HERE FOR ONLY +GST* PER INSERTION

$48

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

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

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

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

FLIGHTS

MINIATURE TRAIN RIDE BUSINESS

Situated in Matakana.

Would suit semi-retired mechanically minded person, mainly weekends.

For details phone Ken 09 425 4082

FITNESS

Fitness League

1 hour ExErcisE class to thE BEst Music EvEr

movement is life Mondays 10am - Matakana Hall Commencing Monday 13th Feb 2012 Tuesdays 10am - Warkworth Methodist Church Hall Commencing Tuesday 7th Feb 2012

FITNESS

TaOIST TaI cHI claSSES BEGINNERS claSS STaRTING Tuesday, 14th February, 5.30pm-7pm Scout Hall, Shoesmith Street, Warkworth Tai Chi is an ancient art that promotes holistic well being for people of all ages

Phone Helen Howard 09 425 9237

$49, 30 mins. Min. 3 passengers. Trial flights $75. Gift vouchers available.

GREAT BARRIER FLIGHTS. Special stopover up to 4 hours. Return $99.

Min. 3 passengers.

NORTH CAPE FLIGHTS $375

each. Min 3 passengers.

Rodney Aero Club Ph 425 8735 or Rod Miller Phone 425 5612 FOR HIRE SHOESMITH & MASONIC HALLS The Shoesmith Hall (limit 120 people) and the old Masonic Hall (limit 100 people) are available for hire at reasonable rates. Contact the Warkworth Service Centre of the Auckland council on tollfree (09) 301 0101.

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

FOR RENT WARKWORTH COMMERCIAL OR CLINIC SPACE AVAILABLE Single rooms or two stories near doctors rooms and shops.

• Pleasant environment • Highest quality, purpose built facility.

Email: lightway@xtra.co.nz

HEALTH SERVICES

RAWLEIGH PRODUCTS available.

Phone Patrick 425 0448.

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

HARMONY OF BODY MIND & SPIRIT

FOR SALE

SKATEBOARD DECKS

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

Only $55 each including FREE installed grip tape.

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

HEALTH TRUST CALENDARS

NOW ON SALE

Rodney North Harbour Health Trust calendars are now on sale

only $10 each

from Mahurangi Matters, 17 Neville Street, Warkworth.

The calendars are a fundraiser for the trust, organised and photographed by Alan Boniface.

The Jane Gifford Story on DVD only $12.50 each

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

Transformational Workshops (based on Louise Hay’s philosophies) Workshops in Warkworth & Waiwera.

Enquiries 09 422 3290 or email ingrid.lp@clear.net.nz www.harmonyofbodymindspirit.co.nz

HOBBIES & RECREATION

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

book NoW

1hour $40 • 2hours $75 Phone 425 8517 42 Kaipara Flats Road, Warkworth www.come.to/horseriding

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Teacher: Carol Wade (Bagot Stack Diploma) 09 478 9183 or 0274 751 463 Freephone 0508 224 687 www.thefitnessleague.org.nz Cost $6 per class • Annual Reg $15

SCENIC FLIGHTS $39, 20 mins;

FOR SALE

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BUSINESSES FOR SALE

HOME MAINTENANCE WATER PUMPS Low water pressure?

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

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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

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

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

PHOTOGRAPHIC & DIGITAL PRESERVE YOUR MEMORIES

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

PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICES

WORK WANTED

RODNEY STOPPING VIOLENCE SERVICES Providing programmes for men who need assistance to change abusive behaviours and attitudes and work on equality and respect.

Held in Orewa and Warkworth.

For enquiries phone 09 425 8130.

We also provide programmes for women that are or have been in abusive relationships.

Held in Orewa & Warkworth.

Phone 422 2102 or 021 023 20297

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

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Mahurangi Methodist Parish

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

PH 425 8660 for furtHer information

VEHICLES PARK AND SELL Gull Snells Beach.

Weekly rates. Great exposure. Phone 09 425 4092.

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Funding for local community groups The Rodney Local Board is now inviting applications for Local Board Community Funding – 2nd Round.

The Local Board Community Funding aims to assist groups to provide community activities, projects, programmes and initiatives that make a positive contribution within the Rodney Local Board area.

The final round of funding closes on 29 February 2012. Application forms and guidelines are available on the Auckland Council website www. aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/funding.

Applications should be lodged with Community Development and Partnerships, Auckland Council, Private Bag 92300, Victoria Street West, Auckland 1142, Attention: Funding Adviser – North.

SITUATIONS VACANT

MOBILE TRAVEL CONSULTANTS

 Tired of being tied to an office?  Looking for flexibility?  Have a great established client base?  Want to keep 100% of your commissions and be way more profitable?

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World Travellers Mobile is aimed at established travel agency owners and senior consultants who want the challenge of running their own “mini” travel business but without the shackles of hefty overheads and supply contracts.

Call me for a confidential chat it you think this may be you. (Please note, this offering is only available to those with established databases).

Lynette Giles, World Travellers Warkworth • P: 09 425 8009 E: lynette@warkworthtravel.co.nz

TUITION Find out more: phone 09 301 0101 or visit www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/funding

Phone 425 8545

www.holyname.org.nz

Holy Mass Timetable: WARKWORTH

PUHOI

SS. Peter & Paul Church Sunday: 8.30am

Sunday Services 9am & 10.30am

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WARKWORTH FLORAL ART CLUB AGM Matakana Hall, 43 Matakana Valley Road, Matakana. Friday 17th February 2012 at 11am.

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

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

Justice of the Peace are now on duty at Warkworth Service Centre, Mondays from 10am-2pm.

Annual General Meeting will be held on Friday 17 February, 10am at the Learning Centre, 3 Matakana Road, Warkworth.

For more information please contact the Secretary 425 8617 or email seniornetwarkworth@clear.net.nz

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Phone Gavin 027 4766115.

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

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cupid’starget Online dating catches on with mainstream New Zealand The number of people looking for love online continues to grow as Kiwis become more comfortable with the idea of finding a partner via the internet. findsomeone.co.nz started just over 10 years ago and was the first additional site in the TradeMe stable. Manager Rick Davies says the last decade has seen an enormous shift in perceptions around online dating.

“Most people now know someone who has tried it or met someone online, and they’re more prepared to give it a go,” he says. “People are also a lot more connected through phones and ipads.

“New Year is traditionally a busy time for the site, with lots of people making resolutions like ‘this is the year I’m going to find someone’, but this year there’s been record activity.”

Rick says site users come from all walks of life, from professionals to single parents. It gives people a chance to get to know one another over email before progressing to the next step. findsome has 300,000 registered users, with a slightly higher proportion of men than women.

“We certainly don’t see the so-

Honey, I love the way you tap those keys.

called ‘man drought’ phenomenon online. Men who perhaps feel a little intimidated by a first date, are often more comfortable meeting and getting to know someone over the internet.”

The further south you go, the higher the proportion of men online, with the South Island’s West Cost being particularly weighted towards male users.

Rick says findsome’s core demographic is aged between 35 and 55 years, with the average around 42 years.

“The age group reflects the site’s emphasis on being a place for people seeking a genuine relationship. We’ve

positioned ourselves as a high quality service and operate a trust and safety team around the clock. Every photo on the site is approved before it’s made live, and all profiles are also read to ensure the site maintains a certain standard.”

Rick says a community message board regularly records relationship successes and the regular newsletter always features at least one marriage of a couple who met online.

He says there’s no norm for making the first in-person date. Some arrange to meet for coffee quite soon after meeting online, while others take their

time. A couple recently announced their upcoming marriage on the message board – they’d been chatting online for more than two years before they met face-to-face.

Rick says new features are regularly added to the site. Overseas, one trend is to use locality searches to pinpoint other singles who may be within a kilometre radius of your current position.

“For instance, you might be at a football game. You can do a search and find there is another ‘single’ at the match. It gives you a chance to use the game to spark a conversation.”

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cupid’starget Care needed online, but don’t lose hope Kelly Ayres, of Warkworth, believes online dating can work for people, providing they are realistic that not everyone will necessarily be the right one.

“I met some lovely guys online who are still friends, but there were some weirdos too,” she says.

Kelly started online dating on sites that were recommended to her by friends.

“When I met my husband just over five years ago, we talked daily on computer and phone for a couple of weeks before we met. Our first meeting was dinner at my place, but he went to the house next door by mistake. When he did eventually find my house, I answered the door to find him waiting with a huge bunch of flowers and he wished me Happy Valentines, even though it was only February 13.

“My girlfriend was also present just in case it didn’t work out, but after an hour she knew I would be fine and left us to it. That was 2007 and we have been together ever since and we now celebrate Valentines Day on the 13th to mark our first meeting.”

Kelly and her partner are now married and have one child and another on the way.

Her advice to anyone thinking of online dating is to be careful.

“Be cautious about what you’re told and how much you tell them. Meet them somewhere public and let a friend know what you are doing and where. Just remember if it sounds crazy or too good to be true, it probably is. Enjoy yourself and know that you may kiss many frogs until you find your prince/princess, but don’t give up hope as it can happen.”

Whatever the origins, Valentines Day remains an occasion for partners to appreciate one another.

Lover’s day history steeped in mystery The origins of Valentine’s Day are varied and many.

Think naked Romans, paganism and whips, writes John Roach at National Geographic. “The lovers’ day traces its roots to raucous annual Roman festivals where young men grabbed goat or dog skin whips, and ran through the streets slapping young maidens, which was believed to increase their (the maiden’s) fertility.”

History.com gives a slightly tamer version of events.

One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men. Valentine,

realising the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When his actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death.

Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons where they were often beaten and tortured.

According to one legend, Valentine actually sent the first ‘valentine’ greeting himself. While in prison, it is believed that he fell in love with a young girl — who may have been his jailor’s daughter — who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter, which he signed ‘From your Valentine’.

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cupid’starget Sexes reach agreement on what constitutes romance When it comes to romance, whether male or female, kiwis seem to take a pretty relaxed and run-of-the-mill approach to the mating-dating game.

In a completely unscientific survey on the streets of Warkworth last month, Mahurangi Matters found that men choose a meal out at a nice restaurant or a picnic at a scenic location if they want to treat their partners to a little romance.

Luckily, these were the options most favoured by women as well.

Flowers also appear to be a grand romantic gesture. While some men said they would give their partners red roses, others said whatever was available would do. We asked shoppers for their views on how the opposite sex rated in the romance stakes …

Vic, of Snells Beach: “I couldn’t tell you if kiwi women are romantic. I’ve been married twice both to British women. If a woman asked me to do something romantic for her, I’d do it.”

Kara, of Warkworth: “Kiwi men can be romantic when they want to be. A candlelit dinner somewhere outside would be a nice romantic date.”

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Rob McLean, of Stanmore Bay: After a long pause – “All the women I know are romantic and pretty keen on Valentines Day. A romantic gesture would be to take her out to dinner and buy her some flowers.”

Peter, of Wellington: “My wife is rather romantic. If she asked me to do something romantic for her I would take her out to dinner.”

April, of Warkworth: “Generally Kiwi men aren’t very romantic, but lucky for me I found a man that is. I think a romantic date would be to go out on a boat, with lots of champagne flowing.”

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Stephen Daire, of Ireland: “I have been here eight months and I haven’t met one (a romantic Kiwi woman) yet.

If someone asked me to be romantic, I’d buy them red roses.”

Maggie Wilson, of Howick: “I don’t think men think about being romantic do they? A romantic date would be going to a nice restaurant and having a nice bottle of wine, or a picnic by the river.

Surprise me! Surprises are always nice.”

David Jenkins, of Auckland: “My wife is romantic. The night before our wedding day she left a card on my bed saying how much she was looking forward to marrying me and how much she loves me. I did something romantic for her the other week. She dropped her watch off the 7th floor of our apartment building and was very upset. That afternoon I bought her a new one, much to her delight.”

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Mike Thomas, from the North Shore: “Both my wife and daughter are quite romantic. My wife often surprises me with little gifts. If she asked me to do something romantic for her, I’d take her somewhere like Fiji or Hawaii, or I’d take her out for a nice meal.”

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34 | Mahurangimatters 1 February 2012 26 RODNEY COLLEGE REUNION – FEBRUARY 17-19

50 years on

Wellsford celebrates secondary school’s first half century on its generous 11-12 hectare site include a hall in 1968, a technology department, music room, clothing room and library in 1969 and a longawaited Olympic-sized, swimming pool in 1988 as well as a gym, whare and horticulture indoor growing complex.

Today, the school has around 25 classrooms, 40 staff and 330 students,

Past pupils throughout the decades will have plenty in common when they get together at Rodney College’s 50th reunion from February 17-19 and the registration deadline has been extended as word spreads.

Reunion magazine coordinator Jo Dawson says reviewing records to compile a snapshot of every year of the school’s history has been challenging but fascinating, highlighting longrunning school traditions, outstanding individual and team achievements, clubs and activities alongside cameos of past pupils and teachers.

She was impressed to discover the large number of long-serving staff teaching at the school for 25 years plus, who helped develop the school’s strong sense of community, providing a common thread among students across the years.

“Some of them would have taught three generations of the same family.”

Wellsford high school students were initially accommodated in two churches, with a paddock as a playground. They later joined with the district’s primary school students before gaining standalone secondary status as Wellsford District High School on the current site in 1962. Students and staff decided on the name change to Rodney College in 1970.

Facilities developed over the years

a level it has steadily maintained for a number of years. Around 40 staff preside over small class sizes and achieve a good academic record, consistently achieving NCEA results around 15-20 percent above the national average.

Principal Dave Ormandy says the college continues to be a close-knit school keen to retain and develop

links with its local community.

Celebrations kick off with a wine and cheese meet and greet on Friday evening and extend through the weekend with school tours, sporting clashes, a dinner dance on Saturday night, a church service and more. For registrations and information contact the school on 423 6030 or visit www. rodneycollege.school.nz

Former college pupils excel on national stage Rodney College has turned out some inspirational and diverse talents over the years, as these brief snapshots of a few past pupils testify.

Kelly Logue 1991-95

In 1999 Kelly became the first female strike jet pilot for the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Keen on flying, even while at school, Kelly put herself through 100 flying hours with the Kaipara Aero Club by relief milking and driving balers and tractors during the holidays.

Glen Inger 1977-80

In 2011 Glen was 47th equal on the National Business Review’s Rich List, worth an estimated $95 million.

In 1987, as a 25-year-old he left his Woolworth’s manager’s job and teamed up with, then small-time trader, Stephen Tindall, over 17 years helping

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grow The Warehouse from hand-tomouth cashflow to annual sales of more than $2.2 billion. He owns 39 farms and properties, his Journey’s End (Tapora) holdings include a 266ha forestry block and he and wife Joanne also own a $4.3 million Takapuna home and a resort in Fiji.

Greg Partington 1970-74

Greg created leading NZ advertising agency, Ogilvy, owns dairy farm and farm stay operation, Waitapu Farms in Tomarata and has made major financial and practical contributions to the college as well as sponsoring the local Hospice annual wearable arts show.

The Ogilvy Intern Scholarship funds the recipient’s university studies as well as providing holiday work and a job at Ogilvy on completion of their degree.

Rene Ranger 2000-2002 Rodney College’s first All Black, Rene played in the Northland U21 team, NZ Sevens teams and Northland Air New Zealand Cup before gaining selection for the Blues and Junior All Blacks on his way to All Black selection and three caps against Wales, South Africa and Australia. He currently represents Northland in the ITM Cup and the Blues in the Super 15.

Grant Edwards 1982-86

A Lincoln University graduate and Rhodes scholar Grant completed a doctorate at Oxford University. An Under-21 NZ hockey player, he also competed in two European Cup finals for Reading, and coached the Welsh men’s team and in the English National League. He returned to continued next page

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Helen TeHira 1988-92

Natalie Crook 1989-93

After completing a communications degree, Natalie co-hosted 91ZM’s Breakfast show with Marcus Lush.

She worked for TVNZ’s Breakfast programme, One News and Fair Go, and presented TV news in Newcastle. In 2009 she married former All Black Carl Hayman and they now live in France.

James Rolfe 2000-04

Former head boy, James completed law and history degrees at Auckland University and worked as a restaurant manager before being elected Wellsford subdivision representative on the new Rodney Local Board at the age of 24.

Suzanne McFadden 1981-85

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Lincoln University as a lecturer in Plant Science and in 2009 became Professor of Dairy Production. He is also a member of the Science Advisory Group for the Implementation of the Biosecurity Science Strategy.

Helen completed a BA before taking a position with the United Nations working on human rights in Philippines, Nepal, Panama and Palestine. She now has a position with Auckland Council.

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Sam Pinder 1992-96

Sam played in the college First XV and captained both the Northland Secondary Schools team and the Northland Under 19 team. He has a degree in physical education from Auckland College of Education, played professional rugby for the Glasgow Warriors and Scotland as scrum half, and now coaches the Causeway Bay Rams in Hong Kong.

Bevan Gibbs 1988-92

Bevan played in the NZ Men’s hockey squad and also excelled in cricket and golf. He was in the boys’ 1st XI cricket and hockey teams for three years running, as well as being involved in rugby, badminton and basketball. He achieved university sporting “Blues” in hockey and cricket and is now Hockey NZ’s regional development manager for Northland.

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Water and beehive donations change lives

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The Warkworth Anglican Parish is helping to support people in one of the world’s poorest countries.

Last Christmas, the parish donated 22 beehives and 37 units of water to the Republic of Uganda, in East Africa.

Vicar Jan Olsen says one unit of water represents $25 raised towards providing clean water.

While it may not seem a lot, Jan says every $25 worth of clean water is a lifesaver.

“This contribution helps to build a rainwater harvesting tank, which ensures a household of six gets safe water by improved sanitation and they no longer have to walk for miles to collect this essential of life. It provides them with a year’s supply.”

A donation of $20 helps to teach people in Uganda the skills of beekeeping so they can make extra money from selling honey. Honey from a single beehive, cared for properly, can earn a Ugandan family enough money to pay for school fees and medical expenses Warkworth Anglican Parish vicar Jan Olsen keeps count of the donations on the for a year. church wall.

The donations are made through the Christian World Service (CWS) gifting aid agency of former members of the Salvation Army, Society of Friends programme. CWS was established Conference of Churches in Aotearoa (Quakers), Christian Churches in New Zealand and the Uniting Church. by the then National Council of New Zealand.

Churches in 1945. It continues to be Supporting Churches include the Jan says the parish donated 45 goats to the official development, justice and Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, Uganda last year.

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Motorists are being urged to be careful around schools and childcare facilities, particularly around peak school pick-up and drop-off times, as the new school year gets underway.

Statistics show that the peak times for injury accidents involving pedestrians coincides with school start and finish times – 8am to 9am and 3pm to 4pm.

The Motor Trade Association says all drivers, not just parents, need to be fully aware of what’s happening around school zones, school buses and daycare centres. The rush to beat traffic and make appointments or start times can lead to drivers concentrating on their own needs at the expense of children, students or other road users.

No fishing for fire station Due to some changes within the Puhoi Rural Volunteer Fire Brigade, the Puhoi Fishing Contest won’t be held this year.

Deputy fire officer and previous contest organiser Steve Hunt says the contest may be back next year depending on interest to help organise the event. The Puhoi Rural Volunteer Fire Brigade needs around $300,000 for the new station and is organising a number of fundraising activities this year.

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Western countries and provides Valma says there is a modest joining members with opportunities for fee, with generally no further costs informative and stimulating social involved. Most group meetings are interaction, based on topics of interest. hosted by members in turn and are Warkworth branch chairperson Valma always held in the daytime.

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Dogs lead the way on Council bylaw review Boating safety A new dog policy and bylaw for the Auckland region is out for public consultation. reinforced The changes are aimed at harmonising the different rules inherited from previous councils and promoting responsible dog ownership.

The dog bylaw is the first new regional bylaw to be proposed since Council was formed just over a year ago and will replace seven bylaws and policies which Council administers across the region.

Among the recommendations is aligning existing seasonal start and finish times for dog access on beaches and parks. In general, this will not change whether dogs are allowed onleash or off-leash or prohibited on those parks or beaches, only the time those existing dog access rules apply.

On those specified beaches and adjoining parks Council is proposing: Summer – 10am to 6.30pm between the Saturday of Labour Weekend and March 31; Winter – 10am to 4pm between April 1 and the Friday before Labour Weekend.

On those specified parks: Summer – 8am to 6.30pm between the Saturday of Labour Weekend and March 31;

Winter – 8am to 4pm between April 1 and the Friday before Labour Weekend.

Other proposals include neutering menacing and uncontrolled dogs, and standardising dog access rules for Council-controlled playgrounds, sport surfaces, car parks and campgrounds, and roads and footpaths.

Submissions on the proposal close on

February 27.

The new policy and bylaw on dogs is planned to be adopted in mid-2012, and to be operational from October 1.

Copies of the full statement of proposal, summary information and submission forms are available from Council libraries, service centres, at www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/bylaws or by phoning 09 301 0101.

Adventurer racers head for Tawharanui The Kathmandu Adventure Series will return to Tawharanui Regional Park this month. The series consists of 10 races across Australia and NZ, and is designed for teams of two. Each race incorporates mountain biking, kayaking, trail running and simple navigation. Organisers say its great for beginners or the seasoned adventurer. It offers a range of fast paced, actionpacked courses and is for anyone game enough to see what the sport of adventure racing is really all about. Tawharanui was first included in the series last year. The race this year will be held on February 18. Info: www.kathmanduadventure.co.nz

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Coastguard is reminding boaties to be vigilant after responding to a high spate of distress calls during recent fine weather.

A range of incidents were reported, from medical emergencies to boats running aground.

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Check the local marine weather forecast before you go and expect both weather and sea state changes.

“We can’t stress enough the importance of boat safety checks before you head out to sea,” Northern Region Communications Centre duty officer Mark Leevers says.

In the last year, Coastguard’s 2224 volunteers bought 6996 people back home to safety and the Auckland based Communication & SAR Response Centre received over 100,000 VHF marine radio calls.

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Eagle rays – birds of the sea Article courtesy NIWA summer series

They fly like birds under water and create strange pits in the sand. Eagle rays are common around New Zealand’s coast in the summer months, when they come in to breed.

Like their larger cousins, the longtail and shorttail stingrays, they have a sting in their tail. Eagle rays appear to fly through the water, gracefully beating their large pointed pectoral fins like wings.

“This distinguishes them from stingrays, which undulate through the water,” NIWA fisheries scientist Bruce Hartill says.

Their bodies are wider than they are Eagle rays uncover their shellfish long – up to 1.5m across, with females prey from sand or mud by jetting larger than males – and tails longer columns of water out of their gills, than their bodies. Eagle rays get their leaving telltale excavation holes in the name from their protruding heads, sediment. Photo, Malcolm Francis. which appear eagle-like in profile.

“The males head back out to deeper “While eagle rays are not aggressive, water before the females, who stay they can deliver a painful sting with near the coast a bit longer to fatten up their tail. This is likely to contain a after pupping.” protein-based venom, as immersing Eagle rays belong to the group of the injured area in hot water appears cartilaginous fish, which includes to neutralise the pain.” sharks and chimaeras, whose skeletons Eagle rays are found in coastal waters are made of cartilage rather than bone. and estuaries around NZ and the south- They can detect their prey even when west Pacific, spending most of their time they can’t see them, using a well-honed in shallow waters down to depths of electric sense: jelly-filled pores on their 160 m. They are occasionally seen as far head can detect the weak electrical fields south as Foveaux Strait, but are mostly created by the muscles of other animals. found around the North Island, and Eagle rays use these electro-sensory as far north as the Kermadec Islands. organs to find shellfish and other prey They spend most of their time over buried in sand or mud. sandy and muddy bottoms, but are seen “They blast a jet of water out of their occasionally around reefs. Eagle rays are gills to excavate the sand around their generally solitary but will congregate prey, leaving telltale pits behind. You in shallow water during the summer can often see these pits in bays and months, when they come in to breed. estuaries at low tide in the summer “Females come into bays and estuaries months – they’re about a foot across, in early spring to give birth to live with steep sides. young. The young are perfectly “Their prey include scallops, oysters, formed miniatures of the adults, less worms and hermit crabs, and are than a foot across. crushed by strong, broad plates of “Once the females have pupped, the teeth. They consume only the meat. smaller males come in to mate in Eagle rays are not fished commercially, January/February. The males grip but are sometimes accidentally caught. onto the back of the female with their Fishermen tend to cut off their tails to plate-like teeth, leaving telltale round avoid a sting, or prevent them getting scars. They fertilise the female using tangled in nets. This doesn’t kill them, ‘claspers’ that protrude from the base but leaves them defenceless against their of their pelvic fins. main predators: orcas.”

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Popular picnics Organised picnics have long been enjoyed at this time of the year and though the mode of conveyance to such events has changed over the years, the formula of ample food and drink, sunshine and good cheer in a congenial location is tried and true. Many picnics became a part of the social calendar, eagerly awaited each year.

In the early 1920s, the children attending Warkworth school were taken to Waiwera each year for their picnic. An early start was essential as boats such as the Hauiti needed to leave Warkworth on the full tide. Parents and children would gather on the wharf as early as 7am and such was the popularity of the outing, that local businesses would advertise in advance the closing of their premises on that day.

With stops at the Cement Works, Red Bluff and Mahurangi Heads to take aboard more passengers, a full boat load would be landed at Waiwera, where swimming in the sea or hot pools was enjoyed and justice was done to an abundance of fruit supplied by local orchards. A cargo of watermelons brought by Capt. Emtage was especially appreciated. After races on the beach came the inevitable lolly scramble and then around 5pm a whistle would summon all aboard for the return home.

Times were changing and by 1928

Hauiti approaching Warkworth Wharf.

the venue chosen for the picnic was Dacre’s Claim, at Whangateau. This allowed the children from Ti Point and Big Omaha to join with Warkworth children in a programme of races and competitions. Motor transport proved somewhat unreliable as one bus broke down, a lorry ran out of petrol and two cars had punctures.

Railway workers and their families were one of the largest groups to hold an annual picnic. Two special trains, one from Helensville and the other from Maungaturoto, brought about 500 picnickers to Kaipara Flats in 1928 where a sports day took place.

Dome Valley settlers began meeting

for their annual picnic in the 1870s and for more than 50 years made use of the same place on Grimmer’s farm.

Visitors came from far afield making it something of an anniversary gathering.

An energetic committee arranged the catering and entertainment each year.

Lunch and afternoon tea were served and while the young people took part in activities, older folk could find a shady spot to reminisce and listen to gramophone selections. It was noted in 1926 that a number of motor cars had taken the place of horse transport but it was still the call of cows waiting to be milked that drew picnickers homeward at the close of the day.

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Art paints on nature’s palette for Tawharanui sanctuary Preparations are well underway for the Nature Abounds – Art in the Woolshed exhibition at Tawharanui Regional Park, from March 10 to 18.

The exhibition, held every second combination of beautiful beaches, year, is organised by the Tawharanui great art and sculpture seem to Open Sanctuary Society and all funds revitalise our visitors. When artists raised go towards current projects at reply with excitement about the the park. This year this will include exhibition the emotion has a rippling the upcoming saddleback release. affect. I can hardly wait to see the Art in the Woodshed is an opportunity artworks this diverse range of artists to view investment art, contemporary come up with.” and landscape painting, sculpture, For the exhibition, the Tawharanui ceramics, glasswork and photography woolshed is transformed into a gallery by leading and emerging artists. space. Larger sculptures are presented More than 70 artists will be on show outdoors in the pohutukawa-studded this year including many local artists area adjacent to the lagoon. All works such as Robin and Valerie Pendred, in the exhibition are for sale and the Janet Alldritt-Millar, Tineke Wilde exhibition shop offers smaller works and art and craft items for sale. and Barry Lett.

Long-time Tawharanui volunteer Good coffee and quality food are and art coordinator Alison Stanes available from The Coffee Kitchen. says visitors are encouraged to picnic The exhibition will be open from among the sculpture.

10 am to 4 pm daily.

“Art in the Woolshed has a magical Free admission, donations welcome. element of viewing art in a working Exhibiting artists are listed at www. woolshed,” she says. “The irresistible tossi.org.nz

This striking kereru by James Wright is one of many sculptures that will be on display during the weeklong exhibition at Tawharanui.

Dig in Planting Days at Tawharanui Regional Park will start in May and continue through to September. Public planting days will be held on Sunday May 6, Queen’s Birthday Weekend (Saturday and Sunday, June 2 and 3), Sunday July 3 and Sunday August 5. Additional planting days can be arranged for groups of 15 or more, which can include a sausage sizzle. Info: www.tossi.org.nz

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Richard Sparkes’ Tetrahedra sculpture frames visitors at the park.

Sculptures inspire creative messages Sola Rosa playing to an appreciative audience at the Bloom Festival.

Bloom extravaganza set to return Bloom festival organiser Francis Hughes says the inaugural three-day family fiesta, held at the Matakana Country Park from January 20 to 23, exceeded his expectations.

“What a ride!” Francis says.

“After close to a year of planning, it was fantastic to see it all come together and run as smoothly as it did.

It will definitely be back next year.”

Francis says around 4000 people attended the festival over the three days and thanks to the vigorous organisation from all those involved, everybody had a good time.

“It is a comfortable venue, everyone had a lot of room to move about which is an important safety aspect when children are involved. We’ve received some great feedback saying everyone had an enjoyable experience and that Bloom was the highlight of their holiday due to the wet weather impacting on so many other events.”

While it did rain on the Sunday, campers had a good two days of fine weather beforehand.

Francis said the most popular events were the Fuse Circus of Wellington performance on Saturday night and the fireworks display.

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The Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens has been busy over the holidays, asking visitors to record their impressions of the latest exhibition.

Curator Sally Lush says there have been some amazing entries, with people choosing very individual ways to express themselves.

“Some people are drawing pictures, while others have written short stories or left a photograph as a memento,” she says. “People are engaging with the project and responding to the exhibition in very creative ways.

“One person has written a poem but presented it in an unfolding spiral format and someone else has done beautiful drawings of fern leaves, peaches on the tree and a spiders web, all unsung works along the trail.”

Sally says the messages can be left at the gardens while visiting or emailed at a later date.

All the contributions will be sorted and the best will be published in a book.

Published messages will earn the author a free annual pass to the Sculpture Gardens.

The recently opened Exhibition 2012 features 63 selected contemporary sculptures, set along a one kilometre trail that winds through various examples of iconic New Zealand landscape.

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From left, Elke Metzler, Shiraz Smith, Jan Olsen, Helen and Eleanor Diaz, and Lisa Outwin are getting their voices ready for an evening of song on February 17.

Composer leads Warkworth women in song Wellington-based composer and choral leader Carol Shortis will be in Warkworth this month to lead an evening of singing for women.

It will be held at the Warkworth Carol is the director of Womansong, Anglican Church on February 17 a women-only group of singers based from 6.30pm to 9.30pm, and both in Newtown, Wellington and is the experienced and inexperienced singers assistant director of the Wellington Community Choir. are welcome.

Helping to organise the evening is As a choral composer, she has had co-leader of Kaipara Flats community works performed at international festivals and written new pieces for a choir Kai Rhythmix, Helen Diaz.

Helen, who met Carol through other number of Wellington choirs. singing activities, heard she was Carol says the songs are taught aurally coming to Auckland and asked if and are from various traditions and eras. she would include Warkworth in her “We sing folk music from the world’s itinerary. cultures including Africa, Asia and “Carol is a musical inspiration,” Helen Eastern Europe, as well having a particular focus on Celtic languages says. and music.”

“The way she embraces and supports women both learning to sing and Tickets are $20 if bought before the those with experience, is amazing. She evening or $25 at the door. replenishes people’s musical lives.”

Info: Helen Diaz 422 3225.

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Mangawhai Heads Surf Life Saving Club will host the annual Lifeguard Longboard Nationals on February 25. The event is open to all current and past lifeguards, and normally draws a strong field of contestants from all over NZ. The competition it into its 20th year and has become a staple for the surfing core of the surf lifesaving movement. Organisers are promising some entertaining surfing, with plenty good times both in the water and on dry land.

Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens needs your help to write a book Come and take part in a new project to produce a book that captures your experience of the sculptures in the new exhibition.

Draw a picture, write a poem, take a photo, get it to us and we will choose the best to go in a new book about the Sculpture Gardens and Exhibition 2012.

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Long lazy summer days often mean an endless diet of barbecues, green salads and crusty bread which while fantastic in December, all start to taste the same

by February. Having a husband with a passion for cooking over charcoal means that I seldom have to concern myself with the meat component of the evening meal so I am able to indulge myself with the preparation of the vegetables; a task I really enjoy.

Kumara are rated one of the most nutritious of all vegetables having a rich source of antioxidants; they are among the top three food sources for potassium and virtually fat-free. Being high in dietary fibre, and vitamins C, A and E makes them not only good to eat but also good for us. I love this recipe as it can be made well ahead, is quick to prepare and seems to have a universal appeal. Be careful not to overcook kumara as it will go to mush quite quickly and the flavour is really much better for being left 24 hours in the refrigerator.

Kumara, Cranberry and Pecan Salad • 1 cup mayonnaise • 2 tblsp brown sugar • 1 kg diced kumara, steamed • 1 cup pecans chopped • Salt and pepper to taste

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Screening programme promoted BreastScreen Waitemata Northland’s digital mobile screening unit will be visiting Orewa and Stanmore Bay over the coming weeks.

Women who have never had a comparison when a breast cancer can mammogram or who have not had be felt, it is on average two to three one for more than two years are being centimetres – the size of a walnut.” encouraged to take advantage of the The new digital unit will be based at free breastscreening appointments the Orewa Estuary Arts Centre on being offered.

214 Hibiscus Coast Highway until BreastScreen Waitemata Northland February 11, and at the Stanmore programme manager Moira McLeod Bay Community Leisure Centre, on says women aged 45 to 69 years are Brightside Rd, between February 13 entitled to a free mammogram every and March 3. two years.

Ms McLeod says the digital screening “Having a mammogram can save your process is much faster. life,” she says.

“All it takes is 15 minutes.”

“It can detect a cancerous growth as Unscheduled, walk-in appointments small as two millimetres, which is are available and women are also about the size of a grain of rice. By welcome to visit the unit to find out more about the breastscreening process.

Free digital mammograms are also the solution available at BreastScreen Waitemata 3 6 1 7 4 2 8 9 5 Northland’s fixed clinic at 2 Pupuke 4 2 5 8 9 6 3 7 1 Rd, Takapuna. The clinic is open six days a week, including Saturday 7 9 8 1 3 5 4 6 2 mornings and late nights Monday and 6 1 2 3 8 7 5 4 9 Thursdays.

9 7 4 5 6 1 2 8 3 For more information or to make an 5 8 3 9 2 4 7 1 6 appointment, call 0800 270 200, txt 8 5 9 6 7 3 1 2 4 the word ‘breastscreen’ to 4040 or email enrolments@bswn.govt.nz Free 2 3 6 4 1 8 9 5 7 transport is available to and from 1 4 7 2 5 9 6 3 8 appointments if required.

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When it comes to dressing up for the Matakana Fruitloop fun run/walk, anything goes.

Crazy costumes at the ready The madcap Matakana Fruitloop is back next month and organisers are advising would-be ‘loopers’ to register early.

Numbers are strictly limited for the secret glade at the base of the walkway seven-kilometre walk and run through track. private vineyards, orchards and olive The event raised more than $20,000 groves on Saturday, March 3. for the Matakana to Omaha Walkway, Event organisers, The Matakana from which a contribution was made Community Group, says Fruitloop to the Christchurch Earthquake 2012 will be bigger and better than Appeal. Proceeds this year will go last year with great bands, more wine towards the next stage of the walkway, tasting and fantastic after-match food from Takatu Road to Tongue Farm and wine festivity at the Matakana Road.

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Participants who dress in crazy Spokesperson Ras Sutherland says the costumes stand a chance to win some emphasis is on even more enjoyment great prizes. for everyone.

“The Fruitloop is a real community Last year’s inaugural event attracted event. We are especially grateful for the more than 600 walkers and runners generous support of local landowners despite the wet weather and and our silver sponsors – The Sound participants were enthusiastic about FM, Richard Wintle of Barfoot and the one-off opportunity to enjoy some Thompson, Turners and Growers, and of Matakana’s most stunning private Gull Matakana.” properties.

The Matakana Fruitloop will be held Carolyn Ward, of Auckland, said she on March 3, from 2pm, starting and felt like she was in Tuscany, while finishing at the Matakana Country Siobhan Hamlet, also of Auckland, Park. Entry costs range from $15 to $30. compared the maze-like hedges and Photos and updates are available at hidden houses to Alice in Wonderland. www.facebook.com/matakanafruitloop.

Local band The Ukulele Ladies was a To enter online, visit www. particular crowd pleaser, playing in a matakanafruitloop.co.nz

WALK - RUN - WINE TASTE 2pm, Saturday 3 March 2012 • Matakana Country Park A 7km charity fun run and walk through private vineyards, olive groves and orchards, with live music, wine tasting and spectacular views along the way. After the walk or run, the food, wine and entertainment will continue at Matakana Country Park.

All proceeds to the Matakana to Omaha Walkway Entries $15 to $30, enter online at www.matakanafruitloop.co.nz For photos and updates “like” our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/matakanafruitloop

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Triathlon and run/walk series kicks off with Mangawhai race Organisers of the annual Carters Mangawhai Triathlon are expecting a strong field of athletes to compete on race day, February 26.

Those interested in taking part in the 500m swim or 1.5km kayak, 17km cycle and 5km run, will need to enter before February 22 – discounted entries close on February 17. Participants are welcome to enter as a team, each member choosing their favoured discipline.

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Let us help you on your way with our annual Tri 4 Fun Tryathlon on Sunday March 11, at the Snells Beach Reserve. For anyone who has ever wanted to do a multisport, event but hasn’t known where to start, this is the event for you. Entry to this fun event is open to anyone – no previous experience necessary. The event could also offer a “training” opportunity for those who would like to experience the more competitive Weetbix triathlon series.

This year we have partnered with Auckland Transport as part of their summer cycling promotion. Bring your bike to the beach where we’ll have a cycle safety check clinic, a cycle obstacle course, and professional cycling instructors to help you hone your skills. You can ride your bike along the beach path, on the grass, or in the quiet streets around the reserve. Then have a go at the Tryathlon or just relax and watch the fun. We’ll also have a sausage sizzle and coffee van. Bring a picnic, your family and friends. We’ll have a full timetable for the day’s events in the next issue, and on our website www.sportsground.so.nz/mahusport The family bike day activities are free and open to everyone. Registration and a small fee are required to enter the Tryathlon. Funds raised on the day will be used to continue our Community Sport Project which sees our Community Sport Coach visiting every primary school in the district, delivering sports education and skill development and providing support and resources for teachers and club coaches. We are also working with Council to ensure there are adequate sport and recreation facilities for our community.

To make this event a success we need local support. Can you help with any of the following: yy Donate a prize or voucher for participants. We will be awarding 1st place in each age bracket, as well as prizes for best costume, effort, sportsmanship and spot prizes. It would be especially good to have a major prize that we could do a draw for at the end of the day. yy Donate your time to be a helper or marshal on the day. yy Can you provide drinks, fruit or any other type of food for selling to raise extra funds on the day? yy Do you have a talent or can provide some sort of entertainment so that we can make the day even more interesting after competitors finish their event? yy Can you help to promote this event through your networks?

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Puhoi’s winter sports muster calls for soccer and netball players The Puhoi Sports Club will hold its annual winter sports muster on February 10.

Preschoolers to seniors, with or bird discount – pay your fees or make without previous soccer or netball payment arrangements at registration experience, are welcome to sign up. to qualify.”

Club secretary Gay Murphy says Gay says the soccer competition caters she hopes to have enough players for both boys and girls. interested to form around eight soccer The club is also looking for anyone teams and four netball teams. interested in coaching or managing a “While we would love to expand, the team; no experience necessary. drainage on the field is currently a Puhoi soccer coach Simon Walters will serious issue which means numbers in run a coaches/managers meeting on teams may be limited,” Gay says.

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A roundup of sports activities and events in the district Squash

yy Warkworth Squash Club will begin ladies squash mornings on February 13. New players are welcome, come along at 9.15am. Cost for non-members is $10 per morning. Inter House Squash will start on February 15 from 6pm. Non-members are eligible to play. Cost is $35 per term. Info: Kaye Jackson 09 425 6965 or kayejackson@xtra.co.nz Karate/Kickboxing

yy Karate for all ages is held from Monday to Thursday from 6:30pm 8:15pm at the Warkworth Showgrounds. Mum’s Karate is held on a Tuesday morning from 9am to 10:15am. Kidz Karate, Tuesdays from 3:30pm to 4:30pm. Women’s Kickboxing is held Wednesday evenings from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Info: Andrew 425 4509 or 0220 988 310.

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yy A Mates in Bowls tournament starts at Mahurangi East Bowling Club on February 29. Register your team of three by February 25. Ring Judy Bull 425 5303. All details www.matesinbowls.co.nz (see story p21) Gymnastics

yy The Mahurangi Gymnastics Club starts again February 13 with regular classes on Mondays, and competition and rhythmic gym on Wednesdays. Phone Sherilyn Flay 422 3433. Meanwhile, Tiny Tumblers resumes Friday February 10, from 9.15am for under 2s, 10.15am under 3s, and 11.15am under 5s and mixed ages. Phone Polly Shaw 425 7905.

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Principal

Congratulations to:

• Eloise Docking for winning Dux at Senior Prizegiving last year and Nina Su for Proxime Accessit.

David Macleod

By the time our students return to school, on 1 February 2012, demolition of the old B and C block classrooms will be complete and siteworks for the new B block will be underway.

• Yrs 7, 11 & 12 Start • New students to Hall - Welcome 9.00 am

Thursday February 2

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Joshua Free, Deborah Rabey, Ellena Young, Stephanie Dumville, Vinisha Topiwala, Corey Riggall, Grace Mitchell, Lauren Mitchell and Louis Houlbrooke for all gaining significant Tertiary Scholarships.

Micha Balzat for his selection in the Junior Warriors.

Kayne Middleton, Lauren Mitchell, Ruahei Demant and Kiritapu Demant for their selection in NZ Secondary Schools’ Touch teams.

Our Board Chair, Mrs Tracey Martin, on her election into Parliament as a list MP with NZ First.

Board Member, Mr Stuart Henderson, on winning one of the top awards for financial services in Australasia.

Our Head Boy in 2005, James Johnston, for winning the top award in Medicine from Auckland Medical School last year.

Below are the plans for the new D at the entrance to the school – these were prepared by Jack Donaldson, a Y13 Graphics student who won the Board of Trustees competition prize of $500. The new design incorporates a roll of honour for the school and flagpole. We are still raising the funds for this project.

• Yrs 8,9 & 10 Start • Yr 13 Camp - return midnight

Thursday February 9

• Peer Mediation Training - all day

Monday February 13

• Yr 7 Camp week • BoT Meeting 6.15 • Yr 8 Wai Care Introduction

Tuesday February 14

• Yr 8 Wai Care Introduction

Wednesday February 15

• Swimming Champs - Competitors only • Yr 7 Parent - Teacher evening 6.30 - 7.30 - library

Thursday February 16

• Yr 9 & 10 Attitudes Speakers: Yr 9 X factor; Yr 10 Hardwired • Yr 8 Wai Care Introduction • Academic Blues evening

Friday February 17

• Inter-house Swimming

Monday February 20

• Gateway - Health & Safety Course

Wednesday February 22 • Athletics Day

Thursday February 23 • L3 Bio trip - Omaha • L1 Art Design trip

• Monday February 27

• Yr 8 Camp week • PAT Testing week • Gateway - First Aid Course

Monday March 5

• Class / Individual photos

Mahurangi College 50th Reunion and

Sesquicentennial of Education in Warkworth School Entrance Plans I am sure we will have another productive and successful year in 2012, if a little disrupted by all the building activity around the college site, but the long-term gain from this for our school will be immense.

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This year, our Year 13 students will start 2012 with some intensive outdoor education activities as they undertake their peer support training on Great Barrier Island. They leave for this from Sandspit in the early hours of Sunday 29th January and return late on Thursday 2nd February.

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At the end of last year all our Year 9 students were involved in the 17th Y9 camp at Kaueranga Valley for a full week of outdoor education activities.

This was again a wonderful and worthwhile experience for all involved and I would like to thank all the staff and parents who helped make it such a success. One of our staff members, Mr Ross Segedin, has been involved in organising all 17 of these camps.

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The expected student roll this year will be the largest ever for our school, at around 1300 students. This will include over 30 international students from various countries, with at least 12 from Germany, 11 from Japan and 2 from China. We enjoy hosting exchange students and international fee-paying students from around the world. They bring needed funds into our school but also enrich the school in many other ways. Some of our Kiwi students have built strong friendships with our International students, and later been to visit them as part of their OE.

Sunday January 29 • Term 1 Starts • Teacher Only Day • Senior Student Interviews 10.30 - 3.00

Tena Koutou Katoa

In the meantime, we have brought a number of prefabricated classrooms onto the school site, and the main school office for most of this year will be in a portacom situated behind the current administration block (alongside the new school auditorium).

important dates Tuesday January 31

Dear Parents and Guardians

Construction on the new school office, student services centre and classroom block is due to start mid March. The new classrooms will include a commercial kitchen, two new Information Technology rooms, a new Graphics room, 8 Mathematics classrooms and a room designated for research and inquiry learning.

The Student Services Centre will include two offices for our Guidance Counsellors, the Deans’ offices, a parent interview room, the First Aid room and the Nurse’s office.

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Year 7 Camp

Peter Snell Village/Shakespear Park

We are greatly looking forward to having your child in the Junior Faculty in 2012. One of the first activities they will be involved in will be going on camp from 13th February 2012 to the 17th February 2012. The purpose of the camp is for all the students to get to know their new classmates and teachers and feel more confident around each other when they return to school. The cost of the trip is $60 and covers the costs of the bus, accommodation, food and activities. The school office will be open from the 16th January 2012 for payment.

Parent help is needed.

Mahu Girls Attend Kiwi Release Three Year 8 girls were given the special opportunity to attend a Kiwi Release on Tuesday 23rd November, as a reward for being winners at the Auckland Wai Care Expo. Charlotte Terrington, Eden Scath and Eleanor Diaz caught the water taxi boat to Motuora Island then listened to a talk about the Operation Nest Egg programme. The girls stroked the three week old North Island Brown Kiwi chick before it was put in its burrow on the predator-free island.

The nationwide programme has been saving the Kiwi from extinction for the past 15 years.

Instead of only five percent Kiwi making it to

adulthood, now 80 percent survive. Three weeks beforehand, Chantelle and Ashley Maher, Katie Wright and Rhiannon Gill were also given the chance to go to a Kiwi Release because of their excellent Wai Care projects.

The Mahurangi College Wai Care programme is held every year in the second term. The programme encourages students to make a difference in the local community to raise awareness about the river and its wildlife. The standard was so high from Mahurangi College students this year that they won the major awards and top school overall at the Auckland Wai Care expo for 2011

Music Lessons

Students can learn an instrument (including voice) through the school. Instrument teachers are available for saxophone, clarinet, flute, piano/keyboard, guitar (electric and acoustic), bass guitar, drums, brass, violin, cello and voice. Lessons for flute, clarinet and saxophone are free. Numbers are limited.

Application forms can be collected from M1 or downloaded from the school website. Please return form to ‘returns’ in M1 corridor.

P.T.A News

We have raised $750 from The PTA have already started raising funds for our school this year. vely easy job, although deficlearing up after the concerts at Ascension Vineyard, this was a relati light work’ and we thank make nitely not a glamorous one! However, as they say ‘many hands for giving us the opSoljan Darryl to u thankyo everyone who came along to help us. Also a big . or 2012 y start f an earl g off to portunity to help us get our fundraisin nity to buy Christmas presOur Christmas Gift Fair, held back in December, was a lovely opportu $2,000. Thankyou to imately ents, the afternoon/evening went very well and we raised approx stallholders and all the to well, so event this Ingrid Buchanan and Katie Mitchell for organising those who helped out. g committee members due Unfortunately, at the end of last year, we lost 4 or 5 of our long standin missed. We, therefore, greatly to their children finally finishing school. These valued ladies will be second Tuesday of the the on held are s meeting are looking for fresh faces to join our group. Our taffroom at Mahurangi in the s eason), on the s ending pm (dep month (usually), at either 7.00 or 7.30 - depending on what we have College. We’re a friendly bunch and try to keep our meeting short ing at the school and to happen is to discuss! The PTA is a great way to keep in touch with what us. joining r conside please so meeting other parents and teachers at the school, 6.30-7.30pm in the from ry, Februa 21st y Tuesda on ’ Evening We will be holding a ‘PTA Social ask questions, put forward staffroom, for anybody who would like to come along and meet us, to come along. If you parents new ideas etc. Refreshments will be available and we encourage but have fundraising s, meeting monthly the g are interested but do not want to commit to attendin ing at a previous fundrais with helped have you s Perhap you. ideas, we would love to hear from is ideas as now the time that we school/club that has been successful, please let us know of your are looking for new fundraising ideas for the coming year. the best for 2012.

Thank you for your commitment to our school and we wish you all o.nz @xtra.c nhallam email: 4, 422209 Ph: Natasha Hallam (PTA Chairperson)

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Kids reel in the fun as well as the fish at the annual Lions Club event.

Juniors invited to catch a fish Children in the Mahurangi area are invited to join the annual Take a Kid Fishing excursion, on Sunday, February 26, organised by the Warkworth Lions Club.

Boats will depart from the Warkworth Participants need to bring their own Wharf mid-morning, returning to fishing gear, appropriate clothing, Sandspit Yacht Club around 1.30pm lifejackets if possible, and food and for giveaways, quickfire raffles and drink. Bait is supplied. prizegiving.

Registration is appreciated as it helps Last year, around 100 children took the club organise sufficient boats to part and the heaviest fish pulled in was meet demand. a 2.8kg snapper.

Registration forms are available at Club first vice-president Bruce Clegg Warkworth Sportsworld and Hunting says it’s a fun day for all concerned & Fishing, as well as Leigh, Matakana and is designed to give kids a day out and Snells Beach primary schools. on the water, as well as instilling some They can also be obtained by emailing good fishing practices.

Bruce at suelulu@xtra.co.nz “The kids have a whale of a time; for The club also welcomes enquiries some of them, it’s their first time on a from boat owners who are interested boat,” he says. in helping out on the day.

The day is open to children aged “They just need to have lifejackets between five and 12 years old, who on board and be a confident skipper,” must be accompanied by a caregiver. he says.

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See also Scoreboard (page 39) for sporting events

The Red Eyes, Leigh Sawmill Café. Info: www.sawmillcafe.co.nz Classic Hits Winery Tour, featuring Gin Wigmore, Ascension Wine Estate. Info: www.ascensionwine.co.nz 4 Paparoa Show, Paparoa. Info: www.paparoashow.homestead.com or contact Janet at riverlands27@ubernet.co.nz or 09 439 2420.

4 Garage Sale Wellsford Co-operating Church, 253 Rodney Street, Wellsford 8am-10.30am.

6 3rd Annual Jackman Waterman Classic - Long Distance paddle race from Waipu Cove to Mangawhai Heads - Open to qualified lifeguards. Info: Nick Williams (Surf Sports Director) at nickwill@xtra.co.nz (see story this page) 7 Fitness League, one-hour exercise class, Methodist Church Hall, Warkworth, 10am every Tuesday. Info: Carol Wade 09 478 9183.

12 Top of the Rock, Kaiwaka Sports Assn. Info: www.kaiwakasports. co.nz (entries close February 7) 12 Annual Matakana House Seagull Race, starts 12midday, Matakana Wharf. Tickets available from the Matakana House 422 9770.

13 U3A general meeting, Totara Park, 10am. All welcome (see story p29) 13 Fitness League – one-hour exercise class, Matakana Hall, 10am every Monday. Info: Carol Wade 09 478 9183.

14 Taoist Tai Chi Classes, 5.30-7pm, Scout Hall, Shoesmith Street, Warkworth. Info: Helen Howard 425 9237.

17 SeniorNet Warkworth annual meeting, Learning Centre, 3 Matakana Road, Warkworth, 10am. Info: Secretary 425 8617 or seniornetwarkworth@clear.net.nz 17 Warkworth Floral Art Club annual meeting, Matakana Hall, 43 Matakana Valley Rd, Matakana, 11am.

17 Womansong evening of singing for women led by Carol Shortis, at the Christ Church Anglican Church, Warkworth. $20 pre-paid, $25 at the door, women’s songs from around the world, taught by ear. Info: Helen Diaz 09 422 3225 (see story p35) 17-19 Rodney College Reunion (see stories pages 26 & 27) 18 Maungaturoto horse trek, registrations start at 8.30am with the ‘ride off’ at 9.30am. Info: Karina Allen on 09 4318 344.

18 Kathmandu Adventure Series, Tawharanui (see brief p30) 19 Maungaturoto trail ride. Info: Mark Flannagan 09 431 8900.

25 Mangawhai Activity Zone house auction, Park View off Estuary Drive, at 2pm.

26 Rock The Vines, Ascension Wine Estate, www.ascensionwine.co.nz (see ad p33) 26 Carters Mangawhai Triathlon, registration from 7.30am at the Mangawhai Boating and Fishing Club, Alamar Cres.

Info: www.northlandtri.co.nz (see story p38) 26 Take a Kid Fishing, Warkworth Wharf (see story p42) 3 3&4

The Jackman Waterman event puts lifeguards to the test.

Lifeguard race honours one of surfing’s living legends Lifeguards from Piha to Waipu will go head-to-head in a long distance paddle race like no other on February 6.

The third annual Jackman Waterman Lifesaving Northern Region lifesaving Classic, open to qualified lifeguards only, manager and MHVLS Lifeguard starts at Waipu Cove and finishes 12km Dean Storey decided to create an event later at Mangawhai Heads. Registration that would honour Jackman’s prowess is at 8am, at either Mangawhai Heads or as an all-round waterman.

Waipu depending on the swell.

“Storey, who is a top board paddler and Mangawhai Heads Surf lifesaving club has competed in the Molokai Race in public relations officer Tony Baker Hawaii several times, decided to link says the event is held in honour of with neighbouring club Waipu Cove to legendary waterman and long time create a long distance race between the Muriwai Lifeguard and big wave surfer two clubs. The event is one of the only Dave Jackman. long-distance open ocean races of its “Jackman made history by being the kind in NZ, something the Mangawhai first surfer to ride Sydney’s infamous Heads club is proud of. Dean holds the Queenscliff Bombora in 15 foot surf best time of one hour 32 minutes.” on a longboard in 1961,” Tony says.

Tony says the event hosts both board “Born in Cornwall but raised on paddling and canoe, and is growing in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Jackman popularity each year. Around a dozen relocated to NZ around 1963 and Mangawhai Lifeguards are expected has been based in Muriwai ever since. to participate. The event will finish He is an inductee to the Australian between 10am and 11am. Prize-giving Surfing Hall of Fame.” will be held at the Mangawhai Heads Tony says, in 2009, the then Surf Surf Club.

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Northland Field Days, Dargaville.

20th Annual Lifeguard Longboard Nationals, Mangawhai Heads (see brief p35) 3 Fruit Loop Fun Run/Walk to raise money for Omaha-Matakana walkway/cycleway www.matakanafruitloop.co.nz (see story p37) 3-11 Seaweek (see story p6) 10 Matakana School 150th Anniversary Celebration. Register at www.matakana.school.nz, Warkworth or Matakana information offices, email events@matakana.school.nz or call the school office on 422 7309 (see story p4) 10-18 Art in the Woolshed, Tawharanui Regional Park, 10am-4pm (see story p33) Email your events to editor@localmatters.co.nz

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Hunters introduce new dog breed The first NZ-born Deutsch-Drahthaar (DD), a German-bred hunting dog, were put through their paces at a training day in Matakana on January 10.

The seven 16-week-old puppies – three male and four female – came from Palmerston North and the wider Auckland region.

Collectively, they represent the introduction to Australasia of a new dog breed which, for more than 100 years, has been selectively bred in Europe specifically for its hunting abilities.

According to club material, the Deutsch-Drahthaar is the premier versatile hunting breed in Germany.

The selective breeding programme incorporates a series of versatile performance tests, a comprehensive physical examination, joint radiography and DNA testing for potential genetic diseases. Only dogs that Micha Mahler with two Deutsch-Drahthaar puppies. pass two tests are certified to breed.

The dogs are described as practical hunting dogs, Put simply, club member Micha Mahler says the not show dogs. More photos at localmatters.co.nz DD is a dog bred “by hunters for hunters”.

“It brings a much more ethical side to hunting “The decision to bring the Deutsch-Drahthaar to because the dog will find any wounded game.”

NZ was born out of a frustration by hunters to find The non-profit collective behind the DD’s good hunting dogs here,” he says. introduction to NZ imported their first dog last year “These dogs are bred to perform tasks by the foot hunter for an estimated $25,000. She was the mother of the on both land and water, and for all types of game. seven puppies in training.

They’re also extremely affectionate and intelligent.”

Meeting Germany’s rigorously controlled testing Micha says one of their primary characteristics is regime is one of the biggest challenges the group their even temperament. Being less excitable makes faces in its efforts to establish the breed in NZ. them easier to train.

“We’re currently in discussion with VDD, the “For instance, you might be stalking a deer along body responsible for overseeing the integrity of the a creek bed when you come across the nest of a breeding programme, to see if it can be adapted for protected blue duck. Normally, a hunting dog NZ and eventually, Australian conditions.” would flush out the bird, but a DD can be trained Lead trainer at the Matakana event was German DD to leave the nest alone. There is enormous scope for expert Ellmar Meder. He said the first step was to controlling what the dog will and won’t do.” teach the dog to ‘hear’. It was then possible to go on Micha says a well-trained DD can effectively to teaching it leading, heading, sitting, tracking, and eliminate the loss of game following the shot. hearing the commands of the whistle.

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Experienced hunter Grant Tipling, of Matakana, has been hugely impressed with his DD puppy. “These dogs appear to have far more natural ability and the challenge for us, as owners, is to learn how to develop that,” he says.

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